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The free press., 1892-10-06

Rev. H. j. Harris, of HattIesburg,
filled Mr. Howell's place in the pull
pit of the Methodist church Sun
day morning, end preached most
acceptable sermon. In the evening
Mr.. Harris made a characteristic
talk to the Sunday school children,
and got next to their hearts in such
manner that it would not sul-
prise us If the boys do not some
day ''bone' him for game of ball
or knuckle down. II has Won
derfully pleasing effect upon the
minds of the little folks to meet old
people who have not forgotten that
they we're once merry school chll~
dren. 1t is hoped that Mr.. Harris
will find it convenient to favor this
church with another visit in the
near future.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27

The New York Recorder recently
published the following paragraph:
John Jarrett's resignation of the
Birmingham consulate will release for
campaign duty one of the most effec-
tive champions of protection to Amer
lean industry"
The Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph,
leading. paper, which reproduces this
statement, says in the same issue that
Mr.. jarrett is coming home to take COM
mand of combined capital engaged in
the iron and steel business Sin war to
the death" against the wage and other
demands of organized labor. In other
words he is to be secretary of the new
iron and steel association (which" the
paper states, "will open up the greatest
labor war of the past ten years" Fur
ther it is stated on behalf of the assOcia-
ton that has secured his valuable SER
vices:
mo half way measures are cOntem-
plated, but each and all of the demands
made will be urged and insisted on
That they will meet with most deter
mined opposition, both from the Anal
gamated association and the iron manu-
facturers, is certain, but the members
of the association have carefully weigh
ed all questions and are prepared to &C
cept all the consequences of the radical
demand. 1t is composed of the wealth
lest and strongest firms in the iron and
steel business; that it will maintain it's
demands there seems to be no question.
1t is the beginnidg of war to the death
between the manufacturers and labor
associations if the demands are not
granted. 1t inaugurates the greatest
struggle between capital and labor yet
had in this vicinity and will effect the
iron and steel industry of the United
States, and it is notice to the Amalga-
mated association that the manufact-
urers mean to dictate their own terms.
Many of our readers will DOUBTLESS re-
member the name of John Jarrett. Some
years ago he was secretary of the Anal
gamated Association of Steel and Iron
Workers, and it was he who opposed the
utilization of his association with the
American Federation of Labor.
John Jarrett was never more than a
hireling of the protectionist manufac-
turers, and it is quite becoming that he
should be prominent on the side of the
manufacturers in 'war to the death
between the manufacturers and labor
associations"
The manufacturers may regret having
invited the war'-Paterson Labor
Standard.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27
Who is The Fool

Laboring Man-Mr. Banker | want
to desposit 800 for year, what inter
est do you pay ?
Banker-If you will leave it the full
year [ will give you four per cent:
Laboring Man-All right, give me
the check.
Banker-Certainly, my noble fellow,
here tbs.
LabOring Man-Now | guess that I
can loan some money out here to a
farmer and at a good per centage and
as you are paying me 81 for the use of
my 800 [ will leave this check with
you for security, and [ want you to
loan me 500 on it at one per cent per
annum.
Banker-We don't do that kind of
business. You must think we are fools,
to let you have money and then pay
you for the privilege of doing so.
Laboring Man-Is that the name you
call fellows who do that kind of bust
ness? Why old fellow, that is what
Uncle Sam has been doing for you these
many years past. Do you mean to say
that he is fool ?-Arena.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27
IS IT TRUE?
Has There Been a Change of Sentiment
in Relation to Free Coinage of
SiIYer2

Tie subsidizedpress and single stan
dard advocates are just now industri-
ously circulating the statement that a
"change Of sentiment" has recently
taken place on the silver question.
This is the excuse Congressman give
for the failure to pass the silver bill in
the House. If there is change, what
has caused it? A few months, or even
a few weeks ago, you could scarcely
find d man in all the great West, North
west and South who was not persis-
tent and determined advocate of the
free coinage of silver, not on account
of any special love for silver, or any
personal interest in silver mines or sill
yer bullion, but because they knew that
gold was owned and cOrnered by the
plutocratic millionaires, and that hold
ing to a single gold standard made
these men princes and rulers over u.s."
The people felt the need of broader
base for our mOney-felt the need of a
money freer from plutocratic control
They naturally turned to silver as the
money of the constitution, of the ear
Hest days of the republic and of the
fathers. 1t involved no experiment, it
was simply getting back into the chan
mel worn by eighty years of successful
use. 1t complied with the clamOr of a
few years ago for "hard money" It
afforded the least Objectionable plan
for an increased monetary base and a
broadened financial system.
Now, if there is change Of senti-
ment on this subject, what has made
it? Not single condition has chang
ed. In fact, there has been no change
of sentiment among the people in re-
gard to the justice of free coinage. The
indignation of the people, however, has
increased rapidly since the treachery
of the Democratic majority in its de-
feat of the Bland bill, and is crystaliz-
ing toward independent action to Sc
cure their rights and enforce their
Wishes National Economist.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27
CARROLL COUNTY.

Notice to all Peoples Party men in
Carroll county is hereby given that a
mass meeting of that party will be
held at the court house in Carrollton
at - NJ, on Saturday, May %, for the
purpose of electing delegates to dis
trict convention to be held in La
Grange June Sth, which will elect dele
gates to the Omaha convention.
A meeting of the executive commit
tee will also be held in Carrollton on
that day, and all members are urgent
ly requested to be present.
j. w. w. RUSSELL, Chm'n.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27
PEOPLES PARTY MASS MEETING.

A mass meeting Of the Peoples Party
will be held at the court house in Craw-
louisville. Taliaferro county, on Satur-
day, May 28th, inst, to elect delegates to
the senatorial and congressional con,
ventiOns.
Col G. G. Post and other speakers have
been invited and have promised to be
present.
We are going to give the democrats(D
a shove down the sleeps of time, and ere
the echoes of that meeting are lulled to
sleep they will be buried in the sea of
forgetfulness.
The issues of the day will be handled
with gloves off. Be sure and come out.
w. III. BAGBY,
Secretary Peoples Party Executive Com
mittee, Taliaferro County, Georgia.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27

All persons friendly to the People s
Party are invited to meet at tho court
house in Rome at II o'clock a. m. on
Wednesday, June l, 1892
Distinguished speakers will be present.
Equal time and fair show will be given
to speakers who are not in sympathy with
this movement of the people.
Delegates to several conventions will
be elected.
Come one, come all, regardless of party
lines or color, and let us reason together
in friendly way, touching vital doc
tries which are fast forming the basis of
a successful party-the only hope of
saving and perpetuating our institutions
from both anarchy and socialism.
G. w. FLEETWOOD,
Chairman Executive Committee Peoples
Party, Floyd County, Georgia.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27
FARMING BY ELECTRICITY,

engineering magazine Tor May.
Some of our rising young journalists
are finding food for amusement in bill
recently introduced by Senator PETER
of Kansas, providing for the establish
ment of an experiment station for the
purpose of determining if electricity
can be proitably used and applied as a
motive power in the propulsion of farm
machinery.
Now we would like to place ourselves
on record with the opinion, that if Con
gress would make as liberal an appro-
priatiOn for this purpose as it did for
certain idiotic experiments in "rain
making" not long ago, which served to
make that august body the laughing
stock of the civilized world, and the
business could be put in charge of some
such intelligent and technically trained
electrical engineers as those, for exam
pie, who have within a few years revCl-
utiOnized our methods of municiDal
sportatiOn, the ultimate result
would not be one whit less valuable to
the people of the United States than that
of the historic appropriation of $4,000
with which Morse's experimental tele-
graphlines were built from WASHINGTON
to Baltimore half century ago. OF
course, if the appropriation is made, the
chances are that it will be squandered
or stolen outright by some of the cleo
trical fakirs who are always on the look
out for such opportunities. Neverthe-
less we believe in Senator PETERS idea
and do not hesitate to predict that the
day is not distant when the entire labor
of preparing and tilling the ground, as
we'll as that of seeding, harvesting
threshing, and transporting the crops
to the nearest railway station, where
ever done on large scale, will be per
formed by electric moters, at cost as
much below the cost of animal-power
as the latter has proved to below the
cost of manual labor. The emancipa-
ton of the car-horse will be followed
at no distant day by the emancipation
of the farm horse, and the results of
the substitution, in the purely agricul-
tural districts of our country, will con-
stitute an industrial revolution of al
most incOnceivable magnitude.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27
CALLS FOR MEETINGS.
PEOPLES PARTY CALL.
Announcement.

All citizens of Whitfield county
who are in sympathy with the Peo-
pies Party and will support the St.
Louis platform are requested to meet
at the court house in Dalton, Satur-
day, June 4th, at 10 o'clock, to elect
delegates to the Rome convention
and for any other business that may
properly come before the convention.
All who are with us are earnestly
requested to turn out and bring your
friends along, too.
l also urge all fair minded men
who believe in equity and justice to
unite with us and help us in our
struggle for equal rights to all.
THOMAS Cox,
Ch'mn p. p. Ex. Com.
Southern Alliance Farmer and all
other friendly papers please copy.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27
SEVENTH DISTRICT.

The chairmen of the executive COM
mittees of the different counties Of the
seventh congressional district, together
with the members of the state executive
committee in said district, are requested
to meet in Rome on June 9Th in con-
junction with the convention which is to
elect delegates to the Omaha convention
(as suggested by our state secretary, for
the purpose of perfecting q permanent
district organization and for other pur-
poses.
I suggest that the members of both
bodies make the Armstrong Hotel the
place of rendezvous as we arrive in the
city, for the purpose of forming acquaint-
ance and consultation.
II. d. HUTCHINSON,
Member State Executive Committee.
Greenway, Ga, May Is, 1892.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27
DEKALB COUNTY.

A mass meeting of the Peoples Par
ty of DeKalb county is hereby called
to meet in the court house at Decatur
on the 26th day of May at 10 O'Clock
A. NJ, for the purpose of electing dele
gates to the State and District cOnven-
tions. Also to consider ACCESSIBILITY OF
nominating candidates for all other
offices, and whether it shall be done by
primary or otherwise.
The county executive committee
the Congressional and Senatorial COM
mittees to meet at same time and place
A full attendance desired.
T. Y. NASH, Chm'n.,
w. P. LANDLORD, Sec.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27
DOUGLAS COUNTY.

A mass meeting of the Peoples Par
ty is called to meet at Douglasville on
the fourth Saturday, 28th day, of May,
for the purpose of electing two dele
gates to Gubernatorial convention, al
so delegates to Congressional conven-
ton of fifth Congressional District,
which meets at Atlanta June 8th, at
noon, and to elect four delegates to
represent the fifth District and eight
delegates from the State at large to
the National convention which meets
at Omaha July 4th, to nominate candi-
dates for President and Vice-Presi-
dent the United States.
W. FL. Nally, Pres,
W. A. Baggett, ST., Sec.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27
Mass Meeting Called.

The executive committee of Dooly
county calls mass meeting Of all
friends of reform in Vienna on May
both, at 10 o'clock a. M, for the pur-
pose of electing delegates to attend
the district convention which meets
in Fort Valley on the 9Th of June.
Good speakers will be invited to
address the meeting.
All citizens in sympathy with the
Peoples Party are invited to be
present. S. E. LAMB, Sec'y,
J. G. THURMAN, Chm'n.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27

The two old parties have their
orders, from the gold bugs, to ignore
all financial issues and make tariff
the on ~ issue. Congress is trying
hard to follow instructions but such
pressure is being brought to bear
through the demands of the senti-
ment of the people that word comes
from there to the effect that wher-
ever the old threadbare question OF
tariff comes up no enthusiasm what
ever is manifested. The members
go to sleep in their seats, have bust
ness in the cloak room, get out a
dime novel to read. This apathy is
only natural when we consider there
is no intention or desire to effect
anything except to kill time and fool
the people, and is about the way the
people are beginning to feel on the
subject. Finance is the question
and if the old parties are bound to
ignore it the people will seek redress
through another Peoples
Defender.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27
Our National Bird.

It has been proposed lately to or
nament the tip of the flagstaff used
in the regular army of the United
States with the representation in
metal of the bald eagle, which is the
emblem of our republic. The Stats
of regimental standards now termi-
nate with pixies. The eagle has al
ready done duty in this way upon
the standards of other nations, and
particular y upon those of Rome and
France. The American eagle, how
ever, is of a different variety from
the eagle of France and the Roman
republic. It is of an American va
riety-the "bald" or white eagle.
The ordinary name of the bird is a
misnomer, 1t is not bald, but simply
white headed, the feathers on the
head and neck of the adult speci-
mems beng snowy white.
The honor of first naming this bird
as the emblem of the United States
belongs to John j. Audubon, the
naturalist, whose name will be for
ever associated with our bird life.
He called the bald eagle the "Wash-
ington eagle" because, he said,
washington was brave, as the eagle
is. Like it, too. he was the terror of
his enemies, and his fame, extending
from pole to pole, resembles the
soarings of the mightiest Of the
feathered tribe. IF America has
reason to be proud of her Washing
ton, so has she to be proud of her
great eagle" The bald eagle, with
wings extended, or ''displayed prop
err" as it is called in heraldry, was
made the emblem of the United
States in the year 1885.
Benjamin Franklin did not approve
the choice. The bald eagle, he de-
clared, was very evil-disposed bird,
who would not earn an honest living,
but got his livelihood by violence,
deceit and rapine. He did not con-
slider such a creature the worthy en-
blem of people who had CALAMITY
driven out of their country all kingly
birds of prey. Franklin's critical
Judgment did not prevail. It is true,
as he declared, that the bald eagle
lives chiefly by violence and theft,
swooping down upon the osprey, and
snatching from this industrious bird
the fish that it has just caught But
the eagle, on occasion, can take fish
out OF the water with great skill
The eagle is, moreover, a bird of dig
nifty as well as of bravery and beauty,
and its strong attachment to it's
young and to its home certainly
recommends it as an American en-
blem.-Baltimore Sun.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27

The Johnnys now are coming,
Glorious day!
South and North uniting
In array.
The battle line is forming,
Blue and Gray!
Behold the charging column,
Clear the way.
tits sweeping on mistaken,
For the fightl
It's power is augmenting,
Day and night.
To catch the tide oncoming,
1t will pay.
It's missions debt relieving,
Watch and pray.
j. r. LIN Dakota Ruralis
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27
McDUFFIE COUNTY.
THOMSON. Nav Z. 1SQ

THOMSON, May Z, 1892.
A convention of the Peoples Party
of McDufie county is to be held in
Thomson court house on May 26th, for
the purpose of electing delegates to
the Gubernatorial, Congressional and
Senatorial Conventions, and to trans
act other business.
j. II. BOYD, Chm'n.,
JOE. DEMEDIcIs, Sec.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27
Mass Meeting.

All citizens of Crawford county
who are in sympathy with the ST.
Louis platform, and who favor indie
pendent political action, are re-
quested to meet at the court house
in Knoxville on Saturday, May 28th,
at 10 o'clock a. NJ, for the purpose
of organizing Peoples Party.
Signed by J. W. STRAND,
B. F. kennedy,
JOHN MCGEE,
AMI ITTITTv OTuEpC
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27
NOTICE
W. A. Baggett, sr., Sec.

There will be mass meeting Of the
Peoples Party in Jefferson on June 4th
at 10 o'clock a. m. for the purpose OF
electing delegates to the Gainesville con
vention and to attend to other matters OF
Importance to the party.
A. S. VENABLE,
Chairman Executive Committee Peoples
Party, jackson County, Georgia.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27
AND FIFTY OTHERS

All members of the Peoples Party
of Dooly county are requested to
meet in Vienna at 10 o'clock a. m. on
May 80 for the purpose of electing
delegates to the District Convention
which meets in Fort Valley on June
8. Good speakers will be invited to
address the meeting on the issues OF
the day.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27
Johnson county.


A despicable little creature the
other day said to the editor, ''You
third party fellows are going to ruin
this country. You have made the
money-lenders specify in their notes
that payment must be made in gold"
We said if the scoundrels were do
ing that we hoped they never would
be able to collect a dollar of it.
After mature reflection we are rather
glad to learn this, for it will, we be-
lieve, open the eyes of the gold
ites.-Indiana Globe.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27

A Peoples Party mass meeting
will be held in Oglethorpe, Macon
county, on June 4th, to select dele
gates to the Congressional and State
Conventions. Let all in sympathy
with the reform movement turn out.
W. t. CHRISTOPHER,
Chm'n Elk. Com.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27

A decreasing volume of money
and falling prices have been and are
more fruitful of misery than war,
pestilence and famine. They have
wrought more injustice than all the
bad laws ever enacted. U. S. Money
Commission.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27
PEOPLES PARTY PAPERS IN GEORGIA

Farmers Light, Harlem, Columbia
county.
Farmers Friend, Waynesboro,
Burke county.
News and Allianceman, Jackson,
Butts county.
Banks County Gazette, Homer,
Banks county.
Hinesville Gazette, Hinesvllle,
Liberty county.
Enterprise Record, Gibson, Glass
cock county.
The Allianceman, Atlanta, Fulton
county.
Southern Alliance Farmer, Atlanta,
Fulton county.
The Enterprise, Gainesville, Frank
lin county.
The News, Ball Ground, Cherokee
county.
Peoples Party Paper, Atlanta.
Farmers Herald, Wrightsville,
Johnson county.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27

1t is coming time of year now to
begin to settle your mind on your
choice of parties to vote with. If
you are in favor Of larger supply
of money, an increase of silver coin
age, checking of alien landowner
ship, a restriction of the power of
corporations, a lowering of the rates
of interest to small borrowers, a re-
duction of taxation, and of good
times generally-if you are in favor
of all this really, truly and at heart,
you will vote with the Peoples par
ty. 1t is the only party that holds
to these principles. We must have
better prices for the products of the
farm or quit the business. We must
have freer money system or prices
will still go down. The Peoples
party offers the only remedy for hard
times-more money and better
prices. Then why hesitate mo-
ment as to where you will cost your
vote ?-Alliance Liberator.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27
Military COnspiracies.

Secretary Elkins wants an early in
crease of the regular army to $4,000 men
and the immediate establishment of
closer relations between the national
and the state troops. His experts" have
told him that strengthening of forces
was still more necessary in the western
than in the eastern states, and his fellow
pIutocrats have assured him that no
support would be Withheld from the war
department by either of their Doodle
parties. Our authority for this state
ment is no less a parsonage than Bro
ther-in-law Shepard, of the Mail and
Express, who, as everybody knows, is a
personal friend of Elkins and the jour
nalistic mouthpiece of the Vanderbilts
Rayner, of Maryland, in his speech
on the tariff bill, in the house on the
18th said: 81 challenge you at this
moment to eliminate the issue OF
revenue reform and to give me a
SINGLE definition that will distinguish
the two parties, the one from the
other"
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27

Be careful you Peoples Party
cranks or you'll have law yet that
will enable farmer to borrow money
on an equality with the poor banker,
and then the country will go to the
demnition bow-wows. See Gin
cinnati Herald.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27
The Important Thing.

The important work to be done
just now is to put Peoples Party
papers in the hands of the people.
SO persistent are the efforts of the
opposition press to misrepresent the
true condition of the movement and
the men whom circumstances have
made prominent in it that especial
effort on the part of those who be-
lieve in our principles is necessary
to prevent many from being deceived
and misled.
Put the truth and the facts in the
hands of the people, and the cause is
safe. There is no way Of doing this
so successfully or cheaply as to get
subscribers to our reform papers.
Every county committee, every ALI
ance, ought to see to it that every
voter is at least solicited to sub
scribe, and when any one is really
too poor to do so, those better able
should subscribe for them. 1t is the
best investment that can be made,
and will do more to keep our friends
in touch one with another than any
thing else that can be done.
Remember that our 10 cents for
eight weeks offer is still open.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27
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"The Alliance is dying" Thirty
six new sub-alliances were organized
in Iowa week before last. Let 'er
keep on dying.--Ex.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27

The Peoples party are not only
"Marching through Georgia" but
they are walking all over the Demo
cratic party in that state. You can
hear the Democrats squeal clear to
here.-Clncinnati Herald.