Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-05-18
THE SITUATION IN GEORGIA.

The Great Reform is sweeping Everything
Before It-NothIng Can Turl the Tide
The People Thoroughly Awake to Their
Interests.
Mr.. George C. Ward Kansas City, Mo-
The situation in Georgia is watched
with eagle eye by every politician in the
land. The progress of the movement
throughout the west and great north
west is dependent upon the result of the
Georgia campaign. The daily press
throughout the country is doing every
thing in it's power to crush the move
ment. The politicians of both old par
ties are exerting every nerve to drive
the people back into the old organiZa-
tions. They are waving the bloody
shirt and crying negro supremacy in the
south, and in the west it is rebel brig
adler" These old threadbare stories
have fired the people long enough. Raj
lying at the cry of these demagogues
the people had forgotten their own
rights and for twenty years have been
robbed by those who pretended to be
their friends.
In the south these devices have ceased
to move the people. They are now
fighting for their just rights and moth
ing can side-traclz them. The bloody
shirt has been buried and it is impossi-
bic for the bully politician to resur-
rect it.
Georgia's political situation to-day is
this: A fight to the finish between the
people and the politicians. The masses
will win in this fight and the banner of
reform will waive over free and indie
pendent people once more.
Such men as Livingston and Moses
are trying hard now to drive the people
again into party servitude by popping
the party lash over them, but it is
futile. Failing in this line they at
tempt to convince the world by lying
that they have accomplished wonders.
Their cOpartnership with the associated
press gives them fine opportunity to
| get in their work. They send out from
| Washington dispatches like this:
| WASHINGTON April 21-Congressman Liv-
1ngston, who has just returned from Georgia.
says that when he reached that state he found
| that the peoples party movement was flourish
| Ing. He and other democrats who took the
stump against It, however, turned the leaders
| down in every debate and carried the alliance
people back into the democratic party. He says
| there is no further need for fear, as the demo-
Gratis will carry every district
This style of lying is an agreement
between the papers and the bloody
shirt congressman who desire to deceive
the western people and make them be-
lieve that the south will prove untrue
in this great strike for right, home and
freside
Col. Livingston deserted the people
with whom he had fought so manfully
and now seeks to drive them under his
dictates like czar. They will not
drive, and of this he is satisfied in his
own heart. His recent tour of his dis
trict was sufficient to convince him that
the great common people are in earnest
in their demands for relief and will not
follow blindly the leader whose party
insults them.
Georgia stands to-day overwhelm-
ingly for the great reform movement,
and In October will prove its faith by
its vote. The movement is stronger to-
day than at any previous period, and is
fast receiving accessions. Almost every
county in the state is organized and in
less than six weeks the machinery of
the new party will be in full trim in
every county and the fight will be on.
Have no fears about Georgia. She
will march to the polls hand in hand
with the west and restore this once
proud republic her former prestige and
independence and to the people their
! rights. The people, instead of the dol
lar, will be made supreme and the labor
err shall receive the full value of his work
in honest dollars.
VI. D. IRWIN,
Editor Southern Ali; nee Farmer, At
lanta Ga.