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

suddenly and dangerously i'll, but he
did not know what alst7 him. lReas-
enable supposition ha: 10 that the
knowing Doctor of the Law had
taken an overdose Of Cleveland De-
mocracy, and then his learned stom-
ach (the seat of his information) fail
ed him when the hour for holding
the election came. None of the
commissioned officers could be found.
Well, what little these two resplend-
ent lights did not know about law
the Peoples Party did, and they be-
gan to hold the election as provided
for by law. The Democrats, seeing
that there was no alternative but to
come, concluded to rally their shat
tered forces, so they selected their
three most gallant leaders, the elo-
quent Butt Cut Goss and the no less
brilliant Ten Cent Frank Smith, with
that effulgent Ebert Ray, but the
Peoples Party, led by Messrs. John
S. Coward, Tom House and Lonk
Moon, got their scalps by a majority
of one hundred and ten. Yes, these
Democrats are exceedingly wonder
full reformers, and it seems that they
propose to begin the work of refor
nation by refusing to hold elections.
Oh, boys, you may die hard, but
nevertheless you have to die. This
is quite natural, for whenever the
new comes the old protest, and the
old fights for its place as long as
it has particle Of power. There
are intellectual diseases, the same
as diseases Of the body; Intellectual
mumps and measles still affect the
Cleveland Democrat part of man
kind. We are now having the same
warfare that there was between the
stage coach and the locomotive, but
the stage coach had to go. 1t had
it's day of glory and power, but it is
gone. In this fight we are the loco
motive, Bobby. You can leave the
town to keep from holding an cleo
ton, and, Devy, you can get too bad
off to come to town to hold one, but
this will not be a wee straw in the
current of the great Mississippi that
is spreading over this country with
its precious waves, and will have as
little effect on the great common as
the drying up of the Savannah would
have on the Atlantic Ocean. At last
the eaglelstic spirit of long-suffer-
ing people has been awakened, and
they have fastened their talons in
ubiquitous laws enacted by men elect
ed by the people to represent all
alike, but are controlled by central
lied lobby in favor Of soulless cor
porations. They will not desist their
manly protest until our government
is returned to its original purity.
Three cheers for the grand old
county of Franklin, the banner
county Of Northeast Georgia, The
Peoples Party elected their en-
tire county ticket, with the exception
of one office; and the boys in the
grand old county of Hart waltzed to
the front with a Peoples Party
sheriff and tax receiver. In our
county we didn't get single county
afIicer, but we, cot several Justices
Of the Peace, and scared Crusoe and
his Fridays nigh unto death. Just
before election day the Peoples
Party met and put out full ticket for
county officers intending not to say
anything about it until the morning
of the election, but some over jealous,
wholesouled Peoples party man I'M
Intentionally let the cat out OF the
wallet, and [ tell you there was a
hustling among the unterrlded. Cru
soc (the chairman) called his Fridays
| (the executive committee) together.
On assembling them he said: CHOW,
gentlemen, you know just after the
November election we hung the
Peoples party in efigy, shot it and
buried it, you know, but it is back
here now in the form of a ghost.
Times are immensely squally, and
something must be done. They
are two of you candidates for every
Office in the county, and one for each
office will have to come down. My
Fridays will adjudioate the matter. .
So the executive committee proceed
ed to ballot for candidates, leaving
the country boys high and dry on the
Ohio. AS usual, the courthouse
ring got it their way. CHOW the
people are murmuring, why are we
such fools ," The Democrats are
superstitious in spite of themselves.
Yes, we are back here to haunt you.
AS Mr.. Watson says, "what God in
tends to live gloriously refuses to die"
If Charles Darwin were living now
| think he would be able to find the
missing link in his evolution chain
in the luminous person of an Alliance
Democrat. He is the fellow who
says to the hungry man, /" Here is
luscious bowl Of soup-perfectly de-
licious, and and silver spoon to sip
1t with, but don't you touch it. He
says to the Good Templar, your reso-
lutions are all 0. K, they suit me
exactly, but you must vote for bar
keeper to have them enacted. This
is the logic of an Alliance Democrat,