The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-06-09
POSTS PEOPLES PARTY.
They Had a Mass Meeting Tuesday.


the court house Tuesday. They had with
them Col. C. C.'Post
Mr.. J. d. Perkerson was made chair
man and DR.. Sewell secretary. Chairman
4 Peterson called for nominations for dele>
gates TO go to Rome Wednesday to nomi>
nate delegates to go to Omaha to nominate
President. Some one swiftly nominated
NJ. l. Green, j. d. Perkerson, j. d. Gun.
ningham and ". P. Baswell. They we're
elected.
Gubernatoral delegates elected were 7.
J. Hardage, of Big shanty, D. c. Moon,
J. T. Pace and S. F. Mayes In another
column Mr.. Mayes has a card declining to
serve
The Chair called for nominations of
delegates to the Congressional convention.
This seemed 20 disturb the serenity Of two
or three and they said they thought the
delegates first nominated were congress-
onal delegates. The chair said not. The
pre,arranged delegates for this purpose
had been precipitated nnder the wrong
head. But after little juggling it was
decided tina; the same delegates act for
both national and congressional purposes.
AT the heel Of the meeting Mr.. j. D.
Cunningham drew from his pocket set of
highly eulogistic resolutions of Mr.. John
A. Sibley for third party candidate for
congress. They were adopted.
For two hours Col. Post, the apostle of
third partyism, spoke in u cold deliberate
way. He began by reading a letter from
Douglasville citizens, who at one time
wanted him to return to that place and
live. He then read a resolution from some
lodge endorsing him. This prompted Mr..
John Sibley to jump to his feet and he
moved that all endorse Post. This was
done by Posts sympathisers. Then Col.
Post proceeded to discuss what he called
oasic principles. To sum it up, he wanted
free trade, no foreign or domestic tariff,
but an income tax. He wanted National
Banks abolished and sub treasury enacted.
DE wanted tree coinage of silver and gov>
eminent ownership of railroads.
He seemed to discourage our Southern
farmers from diversified agriculture, and
rather left the impression that he wanted
the Southern farmers to continue to raise
cotton and buy their corn and wheat from
their third party brethren in the west, thus
defeating the very object OF making the
farm self"sustaining He tried to show
that diversified farming in Indiana had
the people. On the con-
trary it was their salvation. If they had
been forced to buy elsewhere all that his
own figures had shown they had raised,
they would not now be one of the most
states in the union.
He thought railroads were stealing prot
It's hauling corn at 10 cents per bushel, 20
cars paying them $1,000, the expenses to
be deducted theretrom. 1t is strange if
this is the case why there are so many
in the hands of receivers.
When questioned by Col. Moss as to the
soIuIeE Udch peHSlOH graz, COl fOSt de-
MED it was 'plank" but said it had been
passed as a resolution" We can see no
between tweedledum and twee>
dledee, The resolution was much the &C.
ton of that body as anything else they
did and carries with it as much force
as a plank in the platform. 1t shows the
sentiments, intent, spirit and purpose of
its authors and adopters, and that is all
that the platform can do. A resolution in
the Legislature carries with its passage as
much binding force as bill, even to the
of money. In all fact
that soldier pension resolution, which Gel.
Post admitted was passed, is alive, and
part and parcel OF the platform, politi>
cal principle advocated by those who
passed and promulgated it and is being
used in the north and west to catch votes.
IT means further burdens on the South
and more money for the Federal soldiers
in the North and West.