People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-07-15
How He was Weaned.

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party, will be read with WHEEL
ing by many good Georgian
WHY LEFT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Well, it was because [ became con-
WINGED that the National Democratic
party was bidding for the vote of
New York and New England, and
seemed to think they had life lease,
on all Democrats in other localities,
regardless of their protest; when
Gold Basis Bayard and National
Banker English declared that the.
party was the friend of the National
Bank | thought they only expressed
the opinion of few Eastern Demo
Gratis who were a detriment to the
party. When Randall and few
others declared the Democratic party
was party that believed in pro-
tecting the manufacturing industries
of this country / thought that they
would surely be rebuked by the
Democratic party.
When under a Democratic admin
istration the sixty millions Of idle
money was turned over to the Ma
tional Banks, without interest, to be
loaned to the people at rates from
to 80 per cent; when Mills intro
duced measure into Congress that
allowed the Secretary of the Treas
ury to pay a premium of % per cent.
on Government Bonds, thus bank
rupting the Treasury Of Gold 50 that
when other bonds would be due that
there would be an excuse for funding
them, thus costing the Government
S7O,O00,0O0 in premiums paid on
bonds; we became disgasted and
said the Democratic party merrited
defeat And when the new oTgani-
cation sprung into existance which
brought the Republican from the
party be had so faithfully followed
we concluded the time had come
when the great common people Of
all parties were going to unite to
overthrow the old parties that looked
alone to the State of New York to
select the President. And since all
that time we have watched for any
sign Of reformation in the Demo
cratic party and see it only stultify
itself on the silver question as it did
IN the lower house of Congress In
the last session.
When | saw the great Democratic
Party Convention at Salina declare
for free silver and for Cleveland, the
avowed enemy of silver; when l saw
the great Democratic party IN Ma
tional Convention at Chicago adopt
the unit rule to keep an expression
of that Convention from going cut
as to who might be the choice Of all
the delegates and to smuggle an ex-
preston of the free silver sentiment
of that Convention; / concluded that
the Democrat who will still look for
the Democratic party to place itself
On record as in favor Of the common
people against the moneyed interests
must be one who will confess that he
has not studied the record Of the Dem
ocratic party or one who hopes to
receive a personal benefit from the
party. Therefore we are more de-
termined to stand with the new or
ganizatlon which declares for equal
rights for all and special privileges
for none. AS there will be but one
party in the field advocating those
principles ever held dear by Demo
Gratis we think there can be no cues
ton as to where the honest Demo
Gratis Of this great country can be
found in the coming contest, battling
for the principles Of Jefferson and
Jackson AS to the Democrats of
Kansas, even though they were fight
ing alone to destroy their veteran
enemy, the Republican party; there
IS but one place where they could ex-
pect to put their ballots to make them
count, because vote for any other
than the Peoples Party in Kansas
will be a vote for the Republican
party.
We believe sincerely that the same
power that directed the nomination
of Harrison and framed the Mime
apolis platform also directed the
of Cleveland and framed
the Chicago platform. But we do
not believe that the rank and file Of
the Democratic party can be carried
by any set of leaders, no matter how
shrewd they may be, into the Repub-
lican camp. They will prefer to meet
the rank and file of the Republican
party on the St. Louis platform
where they will be as certain to over
come both old parties as right is GER
tain to prevail over wrong. The
majority of no party are ofioe-seek-
erS and hence do not vote for selfish
motives, but for what they believe
to be the best interest Of county,
State and Nation as a whole.