People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-23
COL. c. C. POST.
HIS VIEWS ON THE EDUCATIONAL
CAMPAIGN.
Keep the Alliance at Work as a Con-
serVator of the Liberties and
Rights Of the People.
DAYToNA, Fla, Dec. 10, 1892.

four hours after leaving your hospit-
able dwelling, and found Mrs. Post
hanging on the front gate and gazing
down the street through the gloam-
ing. She said she was watching for
me. We had fish for supper.
Since my return have harvested
my crop of Irish potatoes, planted in
September soon after my advent to
this place. There was nearly water
bucket full of them. Several were
nearl y as large as hen eggs, and in
some cases [ got as many as three
smaller ones out of the same hill. |
was afraid at one time that there
would be more than the bucket full,
which would have necessitated my
making a second trip to the patch,
but luckily about one-third of the
hills at the farther end of the patch
did not have any potatoes at all, so [
was not obliged to return.
The cut-worms have also done me
quite favor during my absence in
Georgia by eating off about one hun
dred of my cabbage plants, thus OBJ
waiting any further necessity for hoe
ing that much of the ground. I
should have regarded this as loss,
but that the colored man that |
brought down here with me has re-
turned to Georgia, thus leaving me
to hoe my own garden. He left be-
cause there was more water here than
he could see any use for. He could
have stood the river, which is three
fourths Of mile wide, although some
of its inhabitants, as the porpoise and
sharks, rather staggered him, but the
ocean, between which and the river
is but bare half mile of land, was
too much for him. He could not un-
derstand what kept the waters Of the
ocean, which he declared stuck up
above the land like mountain, from
letting 60 and sweeping over the
whole country; and he fed for safety
to the hills of old Georgia, where he
was born.
Perhaps he was wise. Who knows?
If Professor Buchanan's prophecy
comes true, and the whole Florida
coast takes drop of a few hundred
feet in 1900, going down like the lost
continent of Atlantis, the hills of
Georgia will be mighty oomforta-
BILE place to be in comparison, in spite
of Bourbon Democrats and the low
price of cotton.
And speaking Of Bourbons and low
prices, reminds me of my promise of
to give you in writing my views of
the situation and the work to be
done, which was, in truth, the purpose
for which [ seated myself at my
desk and took my pen in hand.
That I was not able to get down to
business on first sitting down, but
instead wandered off into the extrav-
agencies of small talk, is due possibly
to the exhllarating Influences of the
sulphur water which we have to
drink here, upon a man accustomed
for years to the cool, clear and
healthful waters of the springs and
wells Of the Georgia hills.
Dropping pleasantries and coming
down to the serious affairs of life and
the situation of the country, the party
and the Alliance, I see no reason for
Encouragement, but, on the contrary,
much to congratulate ourselves and
our people upon, and to rejoice over.
We did not accomplish all that we
hoped, but we accomplished a hun
dred fold more than our enemies said
we could do.
They said the West would not
stand true to the promise made to
overthrow the Republican party.
There are nine States in which we
elected the Governors and State
house officers. Our enemies said we
would not get an electoral vote tor
our candidates for President and vice
President, and we will have thirty
electoral votes. They said we wonld
lose every one of our thirteen repre-
sentatives in Congress and the SEN
a:e, and we have increased their
number to thirty. They said we
would make no showing whatever in
the South, and they were compelled
to resort to all manner of frauds to
prevent the carrying of several OF
the Southern States for the party of
the people and the princip Piles of the
Alliance. They said we would turn
the South over to negro domination.
We compelled them to appear before
the country IN their true light-not as
patriots, not as statesmen, not as true
men jealousy guarding the rights
and privileges of the white race, but
as politicians simply, using the negro
to overthrow the will of majority
of the whites in order to put them
selves in position to enjoy the spoils
of Office.
The victory which they gained by
such practices is not victory. The
defeat which our principles suffered
from such cause is not defeat, and
the sober second thought of the peo-
pie will so decide and so declare at
future elections as surely as God is
God.
My advice for the future can be
given in single sentence: Appeal
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