People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-07-29

want TO force men INTO the Democrat
&c party, or into hell by shutting them
out from the gospel. When men be-
come so anxious for it to be noto-
rlous that they are men of power as
to post the church doors with their
names and, at the instigation of men
who have lost all feeling, break up
schools and thus add ignorance to the
burdens already upon the poor chill
dren around them, it is high time for
modesty to blush and for the good
people of HootenVille to enter their
protest.
Oh, Democracy of HootenvilIe
when we look over the list of voters
filed in the clerks office we find the
name Of a man who says he never
voted in your nomination-never
went to the polls-but was sick and
staid at home. Explain up. Has
your conduct made him ashamed to
confess he was with you, or did you
vote him by proxy? If one, how
many more?
J. May DUNCAN, Of Villa RIGA, Ca,
an aged and thoughtful man, makes
a suggestion relative to the Federal
Executive that is worthy of consid-
Grafton:
The dictates Of humanity and COM
mon sense admonish us, that a
change in our constitution is impera-
lively demanded. If it is polite to
have plurality in the judicial de-
partment Of government, it is more
so in the executive. Three presidents
instead one, one from each section of
the United States, holding office for
the term of nine years, this would
give us a more harmonious and stable
government. After the first election
let them cast lots which one would
60 out in three years, and which in
six years. At the expiration of three
years, an election in the States he
represents for a successor for the full
term of nine years, and so on three
years after for the second one going
out. This would confne the presi-
Dental election to one-third of the
country. Give each one salary of
twenty-five thousand dollars a year
and let him furnish his own house;
keep our present executive mansion
for their joint meetings, consultations
and all executive business. We have
been violating the constitution of the
United States in furnishing the ex
ecutive mansion free to- our presi-
dents. The second article of the
constitution says:
"The president shall, at stated
times, receive for his services a com
pensation, which shall neither be in
creased nor diminished, during the
period for which he shall have been
elected, and he shall not receive w3th-
in that period any other emolument
from the United States, or any of
them"
If a house rent free is not an emol-
ument, our photographers fail to
give it the proper definition. This
plan of election will confne the tur-
moil, confusion and dangerous ex-
element Of presidential elections to
one third instead of the entire coun-
try. In the Tiden and Hays cleo
ton there was an uncertainty which
had been elected. The commission
deciding in Hays favor so irritated
Tilden supporters that they were
ready to march TO Washington and
seat him in the presidential chair.
W. T. White, of Hickory Grove,
Crawford county, writes
1t is useless here to say anything in
praise of the Peoples Party Paper.
It's good work makes its praise uni
versal wherever it goes.
J. H. Boone, secretary, writes from
Hazlehurst, Ca:
A joint debate took place at Bax-
ley, July %, between S. A. Walker,
representing the Peoples Party, and
W. Y. Atkinson and w. w. Webb,
representing the Democratic party.
After the speaking the peoples
Party was organized by electiNg
S. A. O'Quinn chairman, and J. III.
Boone secretary, with an executive
committee consisting Of two mem
bers from each militia district. Peo-
pies Party folks feel jubilant, and
expect to roll up majority vote for
their party at the election. The
work of the State convention was
endorsed.
W. B. Townsend writes form
DahloEega, telling how Lumpkin
county acted last Saturday:
Many tillers of the soil and the
laboring class generally met here in
convention and elected delegates to
represent our county in the Gaines
vile congressional convention and