People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-17
Washington County Notes.
DAvIsBoRo, Ga, March Is.


To the Readers of THE PEOPLES PARTY
PAPER:
Seeing correspondence from vari.
Gus sections of the country, I have
decided that a few lines from old
Washington county might be of
some interest to subscribers from
other section Of the State. I will
first give brief account of how the
different elections went in our
county in the recent campaign, and
this will at once show the fraud
practiced by some of the leaders of
the Democratic party in our county.
In the State election in October
we gave our representatives, Messrs.
w. T. Atkins and j. A. Smith,
handsome majority of about 375 in
the county. In November we gave
Mr.. Watson about 700 majority, after
the Democrats threw out seven of
our country precincts, which they
did through the managers at some
precincts being Democrats; and to
show it was a cut-and-died plan,
they refused to sign the tally sheets
in some instances, and in others they
kept but two sheets, which they
knew was a violation of law. They
did this at the precincts where our
largest majorities were given. Weaver
also had quite as large majority as
Mr.. Watson, but in spite of the
Democratic Bosses we piled up this
majority for our gallant Tom, and
had it not been for the Augusta ring,
the counties in the old Tenth Dis
trict would have showed the Demo-
Gratis under so deep in the National
election they would have been
ashamed to ever put man out
against Mr.. Watson again. The Au-
gusta ring is all that saved the Bosses
in the Tenth District.
But now, notice the difference in
affairs from the time of the national
election to the county election in
January. We nominated full
county ticket, feeling sure of victory,
and the Democrats went to work
the old county officers-as you all
know there was no change in the
candidates last fall with the Demo
Gratis, they let every man run who
had been holding Office, [ suppose
thinking they were stronger and
could make a better race. But the
old county officers went to work,
ordered whisky and distributed it
throughout the county, and also, [
am informed, they used lot of
money to buy votes, and Of course
the Peoples party candidates did not
indulge IN this rottenness to anything
like the extent their opponents did
and they were defeated by the Dem
ocrats from 200 to 800 majority in
the county for all the Offices except
coroner. Our man was elected coro-
ner by about $50 majority. How
ever, the negroes put out a man for
coroner and this put three men in
the race for that office. The Demo
cratic paper printed in Sandersville,
our county town, has admitted since
the election that the Democrats were
certainly surprised at being elected
after seeing how the two previous
elections had went, and of course it
was done by bribery, misrepresenta-
ton and other schemes which are
natural diseases which affiict the
ssdear old Democratic party" when
an election is on hand. This, how
ever, is not fair showing for our
county. Go to the two elections
preceding this and you will see how
the boys stand in old Washington.
There has been some talk about
the citizens of our county petition
ing to our Ordinary for an election
on the whisky question, since the
county election, and it is certainly
amusing to see the steps taken by
these same Democrats who were
elected by votes a great many OF
which were influenced by whisky.
They are kicking with all their might.
While I am opposed to the sale, L
can't help but notice the difference
in the attitude of our Democratic
officers SO soon after handing the
Jug around in their buggies, bidding
for votes with the stuff mean enough
to make man fight his great-grand-
daddy. They did agree with their
peerless gentleman when they wanted
to be elected by doing as he did, adj
vocatlng whisky while candidates,
and after being elected they put q
man on an equal with dog for doing
as he sees fit, and signing a petition
for the whisky election, which is a
God-given int. If they had fol-
lowed the example of their peerless
gentlemen of Augusta, they would
not only sign the petition, but would
cast their vote for it.
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