People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-02-24
Hcan scheme precipitated the armed
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lican scheme preoipitated the armed
Repu blicans' insurrection.
Now that peace has been declare
it should be borne in mind that tn .
Populists have carried their pom
and have wrung from the Republl-t
cans solemn pledge to cease all
further attempts to modest or attempt
the extinction of the Popullst House.
The compulsory vao&tion OF Repre-
sentative Hall may not be pleasant
to the personal feelings of Populists,
but It is the price the Populists pay
for believing that Republicans played
no part Of loyalty or OF respect Tor
law or official oaths.
When the Governor found himself
confronted by the sheriff OF Shaw
nee county aud a horde of drunken,
rufianly deputies said to be largely
from Missouri--prosent, he also found
that the militia of the State, on whom
he had to rely, were almost to a man
stained through and through with
treason. The commanding officer
was the first to make known his con-
tempt for his official oath and that he
would not obey orders from his supe-
rior officer. Hence, when it is said
that the Governor has made terms
with power which but short time
ago he termed a lawless body, he
frankly admits it, and says he did 1t
just as the union men at Fort Sum-
ter recognized Jeff Davis or the loyal
people OF Lawrence recognized Guam
trell.
The disloyalty Of the present mill
tia tells the whole story. Good Re-
publican authorities privately admit
that for the past two years the mill
tia has been weeded, recruited. and
doctored to this end. This fact ex-
plains the nefarious conduct of the
Shawnee county sheriff. The Con-
stitution of this State says: "The
Governor shall be Commander in
Chief and shall have power to call
out the militia to execute the laws,
to suppress insurrection and to repel
Invasion"
But the partisan sheriff, perceiving
that the governor was helpless in the
midst of a cowardly and disloyal mi
litia, raised an army of deputies,
many of whom were the most vicious
and depraved characters, filed with
rum and continually talking about
hanging the Popuist leaders. Backed
by this motley crew, the sheriff de-
MED the governor the powers con-
ferred on him by the constitution,
and under threats of bloodshed and
assault upon the statehouse and the
governors feeble force, compelled
him to treat with the lawless and
treason infected Republicans.
Although treating in the face of
such adverse circumstances, the Pop
ulists have not surrendered one es-
sential.
So far as Representative Hall is
concerned, many Populists and Pop
ulist papers advised weeks ago that
the Populists vacate Representative /
Hall and retire to where they are
now going. Had they done so, Pop
..laiisst legislatiognsWoua pc much
farther advanced than it is now. !
Beyond the indignity, the vacation
Of Representative Hall amounts to
nothing, and the unmasking of the
Republican treason, perjury an9
general lawlessness richly compen-
safes the Populists for all the indig
mites they have suffered.
What the Populists must not sur
render in the Populist House. This
is vital. Whether the Republicans
have abandoned their intentions to
forcibly strangle the Populist House
remains to be seen.