People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-03

S10y PUBLISH EuCu W OOCS1FC OAC pow
pie. 1t does keep the wool over the
eyes of some of their party-other-
wise they would be in the ranks of
Peoples party. We do not mean to
say that all the wisdom and righteous
ness are in the Peoples party.
There are wise men, able fnanciers,
in both old parties whose genius as
rulers of the government has been
acknowledged the world over, but
their views as to raising revenue
and coming money and distributing
it among the people have orystalized
into iron-clad methods, and have run
in grooves so long and have been
warped and extorted by favors to
special classes = they have been
grand dictators 80 long they feel
they possess all the wisdom and the
inherent right to be monarchs OF all
they survey.
The aristocracy of the British
colony was grated on the shores OF
America were they eliminated
by the war of 1776. 1t still holds
sway in this country by many that
the right to rule should be entalled
from sire to son. Many employers
dictate the political views of their
employees, and should they fail to
dance to the music they must hunt
another job, or if they are not dis
charged they will receive the appro-
brium Of their bosses, such as no
intelligent free man desires to do.
And to find this state Of affairs you
need not go to Russia or Hawaii,
but right here in Georgia, and in the
Tenth district, and in McDuffie
county, and in democratic" Thorn
son!
PROSTITUTION OF THE PUBLIC PRESS
The freedom of the public press
to-day is both a blessing and a curse.
A blessing when it disseminates the
truth concerning men and the cur
rent events of the times; a curse
when it promulgates caricatured edl-
torials, reports based on rumor, cast
ing inuendoes on innocent men,
preiudioing the public mind against
honest men, especially those who are
| of different political faith. Take,
for instance, the Augusta
Chronicles report last October,
of Mr. WatsOn's StellayilIe speech.
Listen: GA Desperate Leader in a
Desperate Strait" etc. The people
have in their minds yet that false
fabrication. The above is the head
ing of that famous article. It was
placed on the first page. 1t was
! across two columns, in double-leaded
style. 1t SAID (the Chronicle) they
had it from ''reliable source" that
Mr.. Watson said so and SO. The
next week the whole fabrication was
placed on an old negroes shoulders.
See But it had sits effect" said a
Democrat. Yes, it did have an effect
such an effect as never to belie0e
aaythj1g that famous journal says
in reference to the Peoples party.
Did you, NJ I3isvd EDITOR Dit know that
there are sa sG who imbibe their
gauge xa[le'yj enomous Democratic
I jJ6ij6tTnaAs, ana fho believe that VIC
tory of the Populists meant ''short
tenure of land ?" They think that
success of our party would result in
something like the jubilee of the
Jews, when every fifty years there
was a general division, and land re-
verted to the original owners or their
heirs. They have never studied the
Populist platform, nor their own, but
get their opinions second hand.
BAD DAY FOR sTRADDLERS.
1t would have saved cloth if the
''fence riders" had hit the grit in the
beginning of the last campaign, as
their trousers had become wellnigh
threadbare going back and forth over
the fence. But they may find great
consolation in their soliloquy, ''ain't
we glad the last flop found us on the
big side," and then join in the party
chorus, "didn't we kill the wolf"
Such fellows, we imagine, possess
the same feeling as the man that
went to the other side Of the train
and kept it from turning over.
We congratulate the PEoPLE's
PARTY PAPER in having "Diogenes"
to give us the news from Augusta.
No other paper gives US the truth in
regard to the evidence in the contest.
Think you are strong advocate of
the Populist principle do you? Here
in McDufie, where there are three
or four Populists to every Democrat
(of the white voters, [ mean, we
rest easy, and don't mind being
nibbled at by the other party. And
right here let me say that majority
for the Populists, no matter how
large, never coerces, never intimi-
dates, never tramples on the rights
Of minorities. How striking the
contrast between McDufie and Rich
mand!!
McDufie, with an overwhelming
Popuist maiority-no threats (by the
Populists), no intimidation, no brib-
cry, no debauching with "essence,"
no repeating at the polls, no showing
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