The morning news., 1892-02-06
THE TIME FOR ACTION.
MEETING OF THE STATE DEMO
CRATIC COMMITTEE CALLED.

W meet Mhrcn = IN Atiantas CHAIRMAN
Atkinson to-day issued the following call:
NEWMAN, GA, Feb. 4, 1s92-The mem
bers Of the state democratic executive COM
mittee are requested to meet at the state
capitol at Atlanta at 10 o'clock a. M. on
Wednesday. March 2, 1892, to determine
the time and place for the meeting of the
state conventions and basis of representa-
ton therein. and to take such other action as
may be necessary to further the interests Of
the party in Georgia. It is of the utmost
Importance to the party that every mem
Der Of the committee be present at
this meeting.
w. Y. ATKINSON,
Chairman democratic state executive COM
mittee.
The committee is composed as follows:
From the state at large-W. A. Little, W.
r. Mustiu, F. G. Tate, J. 7. DeJarnette;
alternates, Clark Howell, +. M. Ridley, o.
B. Stevens, p. W. Meldrim.
First District-POwling Whitfield: alter
nate, E. d. Graham.
Second District-J. L. Hand; alternate,
William Harrison.
Third District-B. F. Watts; alternate,
r. II. Brown.
Fourth District-Thomas Whitaker; al
ternaUe, u. 4. Williams.
Fifth District-Frank Rice; alternate, c.
NJ. Cander.
Sixth District-W ashington Desau; alter
nate, L. D. Shannon.
Seventh District-M. A B. Tatum; alter
nate, J. M. Mcbride.
Eighth District-W. II. Mattox; alter
nate, J. NJ. Smith.
Ninth Dlstrict-Lewis Davis; alternate,
E. W. Watkins.
Tenth District-Jemes Whitehead; alter
nate, G. H. Cohen.
THE CHAIRMAN INTERVIEWED.
In connection with the call for the meet
ing, Chairman Atkinson publishes an inter-
estlng interview on the political situation
in the state He says:
81 have called the committee together
earlier than heretofore because there was
more work for them to do. There is an or
ganized effort to divide the Democratic
party in Georgia. This threatening condi-
tion has not confronted us In the past Then
the national convention has been called two
weeks earlier
THE NEW POLITICAL MOVEMENT.
which has lately developed into a new DO
litioal organization, the Peoples party, has
not been formulated with the hope Of con-
trolling the white vote Of the state. but
with the idea that they will be enabled to
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publican party, and in this way snatch the
state from democratic control. Should
such scheme succeed, its effect will be to
put Georgia back twenty-five years. and
thus we will be confronted with a problem
that we fought Immediately after the war
when a few carpet-baggers aud scalawags
took advantage Of the demoralized condi-
tions and gave political supremacy in this
state to ignorance and vice"
"What about the difference in caste of
the reconstruction leader and the men who
are at the head Of the Peoples party"
There Is the threatening feature The
men who are now leaving the Democratic
party represent better element than the
crowd who headed the ignorant horde inn
mediately after the war, but the great ma
jority Of the Peoples party support in this
state Will necessarily come from
the Republican party, and this
element will give color to tho
entire organization. However, if the rank
and file Of these people, who are bone Of our
bone, and whose interests are identical with
the aims of the Democratic party In the
south, could realize the dangerous conse-
quences Of polcal division in this state.
believe many would refuse to follow further
the lead of these disruptionists. The Peo-
pies party may gain few local victories,
but these
WILL BE sHoRT-LIvED.
"They have no chance of doug more un-
less the Democratic party refuses to or
ganize and allows the elections to go by de-
fault. This, OF course, will not be DONE
am in favor of making the fight as vigor-
GUS as can be made through thorough
massing Of strength, asking no quarter and
showing none.
"The movement combines the greenback
element, which is very much stronger than
many suspect, the independent element also
potential in some places, and those who are
naturally with it as a result of the recent
agitation. These forces will give the Peoples
party a strong following in isolated locali-
ties. However, | do not look for the PEOPLES
party to have
A SINGLE REPRESENTATIVE
in the next congress. The democrats will
be in good fighting trim, and will be en-
couraged by their chances Of gaining con-
troll Of both brances OF congress and the
presidency.
There will be full delegation from
Georgia, but every democrat owes it to his
party to enter actively into the fight and
battle squarely for those reliefs that rest on
the Fundamental principle of free govern
ment. Our farmers are obliged to
see that the Democratic party
promises the only substantial relief
to the masses, and that it will do every
thing that can be done by good party gov
ernnent. They also know that it would be
folly TO throw away these chances for O
party that can exiet only as a local organi-
Zation. There are no people who can be
more interested in the moral, social, intel
lectual and material welfare OF the state
than the farmers who comprise the alliance
of Georgia. They know that whenever the
balance Of power is given TO that ignorant
element which now composes the Republi-
can party in this state, social life in the
country will become impossible, the value
of property will deteriorate, ,sand our state
government which is now controlled by
intelligence, will be in the hands of few
whites, and the large element to which /
have alluded.
KNOWING this, the solid element of the
farmers will in the main stay with the Dem
ocratic party. Many Of its members, who
feel like going with the third party on the
blush, Will, upon more deliberate thought.
refuse to turn against their best and truest
political friend. They know that the DEM
ocratic party has brought them safely
through The dark period Of reconstruction,
has guaranteed to them the rule Of intelli-
gence. and has never had an opportunity of
enacting O single law for their relief.
WHAT WILL THE COMMITTEE DO?
"As to what the committee will do am
not prepared TO say, | am only one Of
twenty-five members but think they will
consider the edvisability of issuing an ad
dress to the people advising them of the
perils that confront them and urging thor
ough organization in every county in the
state The deuOcrats of Gaoroia rn1st stand