People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-14
STEADY MEN, AND FORWARD!

Dld you JON TINS movement Tor a
holiday campaign, thinking that there
was no work to do and no trials to
bear
Did you merely want an Office,
and did you choose our side simply
because you thought it the strongest
side?
Were you only sore-head, seek
ing vantage ground from which
you could best wreak your ven
geance on the Democrats for having
slignted you?
If SO, my friend, you will at once
leave us-and you will be better off,
and so will we!
But if you enlisted in the war for
good reasons; if you became one of
us because you honestly thought
this country was badly governed, its
laws shamefully unfair, its people
suffering from unjust burdens, and
liberty itself well-nigh extinct under
the crushing despotism Of class rule,
then, my brave comrade, you are
fuller of fight to-day than on yester-
day.
You now know that the Demo-
cratic leaders have deceived you,
Knocked you, and defrapded you.
You now know that every species
of force and corruption which tn 3.
told you the North practiced as
against Democrats, they, the Demo
Gratis, have practiced against you.
Your presidential candidate and
his aged wife were shamefully in
suited. Your speakers have been
silenced. Bribery of the most fla
grant sort has been practized under
your eyes by the men who de-
nounced Quay and Dudley; whisky
has been copiously measured out
around the polls by the good Demo
cratic apostles of prohibition !; pistols
and knives have been used to drive
our workers away from the polls,
and the victory which in many coun-
/ ties we won in spite of these meth
! DDS, has been taken away from us
on fimsy technicalities by Demo
cratic managers who have for twenty
five years denounced the same acts
when committed by Republicans.
All these things you have seen.
They will sink deep into your
minds. If you were with us from
principle before, you will be with us
now = more earnestly than ever,
more aggressively than ever, more
hopefully than ever, for none of us
can think that the people of the
South are going to tolerate the infa-
nous plans which have won the
Democrats the State, election.
The preliminary brush with the
enemy is now over. The Novem-
Der election looms up ahead.
Bend down to the task, men, and
work as you never worked before !
The Peoples party sentiment is
here, and it is here to stay.
Help to organize it. Help to get
it into fighting shape. Help to
infuse life and purpose into it, The
individual voter must be taught that
we will protect him in the exercise
of his franchise. He must be made
to understand that this is an issue
upon which depends his future, his
home, his liberty.
Comrades, show that you are
worthy Of a place in our ranks.
Show that you can be constant, and
brave, and true. Show that you can
throw off the gloom Of repulse and
compel victory by your indomi-
table pluck. Remember that 40 re-
form movement ever went to success
save through the grim ordeal of re-
peated failure. Remember that
those privileges which we hold most
dearly to-day cost the blood Of the
brave men who struggled for them
through years Of Encouragement
and defeat.
Here is one man who means to
fight for the sacred cause until they
fold his exhausted hands over his
breast.
Who will follow? T. E. w.