People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-27
CORRESPONDENCE.

AUGUSTA, GA. Jan. II, 1898

AUGUSTA, ga, D an. L 4, 1850.
We People of Richmond county
hear very little of the progress of
our cause in other sections of the
State, for the reason that very few
of our people read the one-sideded
Democratic papers-and when they
do they can find out nothing about
our party except that we have been
routed at every point, when we know
that such is not the case.
| want to ask our friends through
out the State of Georgia to give us
the news from their county and sec
ton through the columns of THE
PEOPLES PATTY PAPER. Let us
know how your county went in the
January election; what vote the
Peoples party polled, and what the
Democrats polled. We are ANXIOUS
to know, as it will encourage our
boys in their fight against ringsters,
robbers and repeaters in this county.
Everybody knows we did not
carry this county in the past cleo
tions, and don't expect to carry it
soon, on account of the methods en-
ployed by that greatest OF frauds,
the Democratic party OF to-day.
And [ am satisfied that if the bulk
of the people in the country who
are calling themselves Democrats
cOuId see into the workings of these
city rings they would leave their
party in disgust. All we ask them to
do is to investigate for themselves.
What do you think of hiring low
down white men and negroes to re-
peat at the rate of two every five
minutes This is done in every
election in Augusta.
Right here / will ask the reader
to calculate a little. Here is the
proposition
Suppose we have five hundred
whites and negroes who vote once
every two and a-half minutes, how
many votes will they poll in eight
hours (the time the polls remain
open)? And what chance has a
party that does not nor will not re-
sort to such damnable practices to
win?
But we can assure our friends
throughout the nation that we intend
to keep fighting as long as there is a
repeating, vote-buying, bulldozlng,
intimidating, job-lashing Democrat
in sight.
They say we are dead. Well,
just let them think so, for we are
the liveliest corpse you ever saw.
Kicking? You can bet we are kick
ing worse than a young Georgia
mule-and you all know how he
kicks.
You say we did mighty poor in
the last election. Well, so we did !;
but we didn't 90 into the field until
one week before the election, and
very few of our people had regis
Gered, so we did not expect to accom-
plish anything. We can afford to
wait, for the time is not far distant
when the best element of the men
who now vote with the Democratic
hlpmiag will fn4 cut that wo are
after the right and are not trying to
get office for ourselves.
Friends, give us the news. We
have several strong Peoples party
clubs IN this city, and are growing at
every meeting-meet every week lat
that. Boys, write us a letter once
in awhile, and we will read it to our
club and write one to you in return.
Keep up the good work. We
have two years now to organize, so
let every man pull off his coat and
go to work, for our cause is just, and
our hope is strong. Let there be no
laggards in our ranks, but let us
press forward and stand by our
grand leader, Thomas E. Watson,
looking forward to the time when
our beloved America shall be freed
f:-9G-a the baneful influence which
now controls us.
SnAs @. READ, Jr.,
Pres. Fifth Ward Peoples Party Club