People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-14
THAT LETTER.

The daily papers of the Demo
cratic persuasion have reproduced
part of letter from Capt. D. N.
Sanders to Mr.. Watson, being a con-
fdential communication of trusted
agent to his employer. Because the
letter would hurt and not help the
Democratic scheme Of campaign,
only such part was printed as suited
the purpose of the editor. The letter
was gotten by the meanest device ever
acknowledged by men claiming to be
honorable. No copy was kept by
the writer, and hence the reprint
from the Augusta Chronicle is &C
cepted as materially correct. Here
it is, reproduced and presented as
containing some practical suggestions
to the Peoples party men that the
Atlanta Constitution did not dare
give its readers:
DEAR CoLoNEL-If find your letter
on my table on my return from home.
| knew you were not at home when |
telegraphed for means to pay freight
on paper, but I did not dream that
the telegraph operator would do
otherwise than send the telegram to
your house, where it would be at
once opened.
[ went to Buck as a last resort and
borrowed the money from him,
stating explicitly that you were from
home, and | could not reach you in
tim8r1arpl answer my purpose. He
knows full well that it was done
without your knowledge.
The Telegraph asked us favor to
sell or lend them ten rolls of paper.
I could sell at small profit, and as
funds were scarce and we had sup
ply for several months, long enough
thought for it to be definitely deter
mined whether you would run the
paper permanently. would not
have sold without consulting you,
but the Telegraph was without pa
per to get out its next issue, and it
had done us a mean little trick.
was anxious to treat it generously.
From what I could learn on Sun
| day the TaliaferrO bows are not
hacked. They tell me that my pre-
cinct, which gave Peek a majority of
So out Of little over 100 votes
polled, will give you a dozen more
votes than Peek received. We can
get around some Of the bulldozlng
in this way:
Let tickets be sent to good men in
each county just a week before the
election comes. Some full Peoples
party and some with Harrison cleo
tors, and let these tickets be dlstri-
buted to good men in each militia
district and by them given to poor
white tenants, as well as to negroes,
who were bulldozed into voting the
Democratic ticket.
These poor devils who are afraid
of their bosses can put these tickets
in their pockets and receive tickets
from their bosses as before and
quietly exchange tickets and vote as
they desire.
1t is pitiable to think how many
poor men Of Georgia are reduced to
slavery. | learned from my wife
that few days before election, the
negroes in my neighborhood were
told that I had denounced the Peo-
pies party and declared for Northen
and Cleveland. Several of them
went to my wife to know if it was
true and when told that it was a
trick to deceive, they went off more
determined than ever to vote our
ticket.
l have about 200 more campaign
books than am likely to dispose of.
We are getting very few letters CIV
ing accounts of the election. From
what we hear, the amount of bribery
and bulldozing is beyond all calcula
ton, God help the people who are
selling their birthright for dish of
pottage. Get back into your own
district as soon as you can, and stay
there. | would as soon lose my right
hand as see you beaten. Yours, till
the end, D. n. S.