The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-04-14
A KICKER KICKS.
An Unpleasant Controversy Forced
Upon us.
Marietta Apr It'll 1892.


published in your paper, passed by the
Forlorn Nineteen of the Peoples PARTY
without a dissenting vote aud requested
them published in your paper,
In your notice last week of the Peoples
Party meeting, you head it snearingly,
Post Peoples Party, and in an other place
in your paper you denounce Pickett as
disorganizer and whisky advocate And
Post as Carpet Dagger, Infdel andi Re-
| publican. So you class the nineteen that
were in that meeting with those gentle
| men.
Now you claim to be a gentleman and
say you are willing to deal fare with us,
let's see if you are willing to allow the
other side to hit few ticks.
do not wish to attact any mans char
acter, but I think little comparison
might be very wholesome just now,
| do not know how you voted two years
| ago, but do know you were running a
| democratic paper in Cobb County
and in the 7th Congressional Dist, and
that there was running for Congress in
this District a man (who has been life
time disorganizer and has given the DEM
ocracy of the Seventh District more trou-
BILE than every republican in it, against
/ the regular Democratic nominee, And
there was also during that same season
a Northern man who is an vowed re-
! publican who ran both as republican
and as democrat in Cobb county, and
if you ever raised you voice, or wrote a
| single line notifying the People of Cobb
County and of the It'll congressional dis
triet of the danger of the Democracy be-
ing lost and going to the Devil / never
/ heard of it.
| Now Mr.. Editor can't see the necessity
of kicking up such racket about the
farmers of cobb county leaving the dem
ocratic party, for contend that they
haven't left it, they simply took it with
them in TO the new party and changed
its name, land left the boilers of two years
ago to organize an other Third Party
=. c., B, SEwELL Secty
| 81 Cobb co, Alliance,
In order to demonstrate to DIR. @. b.
Sewell that we. are willing to deal fare
we publish the above brilliant effusion
just as he wrote it, spelled itand pune
tuated it; therefore we can't be charged
! with changing it, twisting it, or warp
ing it 49, = n 49, ss.ssssss-ss,
President Livington in his Jonesboro
speech said ''The Alliance has no right
Ito NEEDLE in politics. Every county
alliance and every sub-alliance which
| taken action on the st. Louis platform
'has forfeited its charter. That's the
constitution, and all I've got to do is to
''write it, That is what your Alliance
President says.
| Because we said that Pickett was
| disorganizer and whisky advocate, land
we can prove IT'D and Post was carpet
Dagger, Republican and an infidel in
religion, land Congressman Livingston
says it is true,) DIR. Sewell thinks it is a
reflection on the ''forlorn nineteen
We can't see how the learned doctor can
put such reconstruction on our language.
What we said was intended to show that
Post and Pickett were not such leaders
as Democrats ought to follow, or third
partyites either. This and nothing more,
and we repudiate Dr. Sewelrs construc-
ton as one of his harmless vagaries.
1t is stated in the Macon Telegraph
this week that parties from Washington
said that Tom Watson said he had no
idea that Post had such an unsavory
political record and that he POST must
be relegated to the rear. Now, you don't
suppose Watson is trying to reflect on
you and the nineteen too, do you, doc
tor? Oh, no, not at all. 1t just shows
that Tom Watson is not willing that
Post should be put forward as leader
in the Third Party; Post having been a
Republican who fought Samuel j. Til
den, General Hancock, called the ex-
Confederates traitors, voted for Beast
Butler for President against Cleveland.
and subsequently was a supporter of
Streeter against Cleveland; Streeter be-
ing an advocate of the force bill, and
tried to defeat Palmer for Senator in the
interest of the Republican candidate.
y And by the way, doctor, while you are
holding up your hands in holy horror,
saying that we never ''wrote a single
line notifying the people of Cobb county
and of the It'll Congressional district of
the danger OF the Democracy being lost
and going to the Devil with a big D.
you never heard of it, we want to saw
you ought to take the oURNAL and keen
posted, and not rely upon your neighbors
by borrowing, then you would not be
guilty of doing us such an Injustice.
Our files will show you are decidedly off.
We never did vote for DR.. FELTON, for
Congress. Can you say as much? If
DR.. FELTON, ''has been life time disor-
ganizer and has given the Democracy of
the Seventh district more trouble than
every Republican in it, las You saw
above,1 are you not as guilty as DIR. Eel
ton? Didn't you aid and abet with your
extensive influence and vote in making
this arch ''disorganizer'' give us more
trouble than every Republican in it?
Those who live in glass houses should
not throw stones.
And didn't you vote for Streeter for
President against the regular democratic
nominee, Cleveland, and thus persisted
in being a disorganizer and ''bolter?" |
If you had been DESTROYS of seeing trou-
BILE kept down and Democracy succeed.
you would have shown your faith by
your works. A tree is judged by the
fruit it bears. By going off into the
Third Party it seems you want to aid in
giving more trouble in Cobb county and
in the Seventh Congressional district.
oh, consistency thou art jewel.
We have nothing to say against the AL '