People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-23
Burke County Acts

AT a meeting of the citizens of Keys
vile, Burke county, Ga, the blowing
resolution and address to the people of
Georgia were adopted by rising and
unanimous vote:
Resolved, That we reassert and deter
mine to stand by the st. Louis 'EDeclara-
ton of independence" and upon the
Omaha national platform of principles
and demands unmoved and immOvable
as the eternal mountains.
g. That the duplicity, cunning, venality
and corruption of the Democratic party
as body, and the abyssmal depth of
folly, falsehood and fraud that it has
managed to place between itself and
every semblanc9 Of truth and honesty,
as manifested by its superfend-like and
malignant abandon in the late elections,
is enough to condemn it to the lowest
dungeon keep of perdition, cursed and
condemned forever of God and man.
Waving it's record for the last thirty
wears, false and faithIess to every prom
ise void of a single redeeming feature,
utterly bereft OF that broad and lofty
craftsmanship that inspired the fathers
of the revolution, and which still lives
in the breasts of the ''Sohs Of Liberty
the Democratic party broken into con-
tending faction, arrayed against each
other, with no bond of union but the grow
cling greed for the ''loaves and fishes
is impotent to rise to a comprehension of
the political situation and overthrow
the powers that are rivettipg upon us
the letters of slavery, and threaten the
life of the republic.
3. That language fails to express our
boundless and unmitigated indignation
at the frauds committed by the Demo-
cratic party in the late elections, and the
high handed, criminal measures prac-
t;ced to suppress and defeat the choice
and will of the people and degrade the
State Of Georgia. That the ring that
radiates from Waynesboro, with its base
and ignCble spies, hirelings and under
strappers, appointed in each district to
do its dirty work, with no other reward
but the free franchise to pick the dung
. hill for spoils, have suppressed by fraud
the voice of a majority of the white
voters of Burke county, and the almost
unanimous vote of the cOlored people
and have made representatives Of these
creatures who wear the badge of theiI
shame, and daily with chains of ignoble
servitude to their masters, and thus have
forced upon Burke Representatives in
violation of her choice and will. They
are usurpers, and if they have no
crossed the Rubicon of political truth
honor and justice and burned the bridge
behind them. and have reached poin
where conscience no longer disturbs anC
the voice of reason can no longer bt
heard, we cali upon them to resign tn,
seats which they have desecrated, max,
restitution to the State of the money
which they have drawn, and retract
their steps to Burke county, that they
may no longer be disgrace to the State
to Burke county, and to their relatives
their wives and children.
4. That our indignation knows NJ
bounds at the evident premeditated
scandalous, scoundrelly and damnabl,
frauds perpetrated in Augusta to defea
the will OF large majority of the PEG
Pile of the Tenth congressional distric
in order TO disgrace the seat in Congress
now occupied and honored by the gal
liant, able, courageous, peerless states
man aud orator, Hon. Thomas 6. Watson
by that weak brother and servile tool O
the city and whisky ring of Augusta
Mai. j. G. @. Black. We call upol
Brother Black to come down and out
resign his pretensions to an office t,
which he knows he was not elected
dismount the whisky barrel and look a
his saddle to make clean, good, hon
est confession, and by a consistent lif
horta Ter en1eavor as far as he may b