People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-07-07

Who ruined her
Pat Calhoun and his Wall street
gang-aided and abetted by Lovely
T. Livingston, and some other nice
men ''of influence"
What did they do?
They gobbled up the property,
signed away its liberty and its life in
guaranty contracts, plundered it of
its revenues, and then turned it over,
helpless and shattered, to meet the
creditors to whom it had been be-
trayed.
Was there no law against this raid
Of the New York brigands
OF course there was. The consti-
tuition Of the State declared against
such methods.
The statutes of the State were
hostile to them.
The Legislature of the State was
armed and equipped with full power
to rescue this grand old piece of
favored property from the clutches
of the hyenas that were rending it
in pieces.
Did the Legislature have the mat,
ter called to its attention?
Certainly it did!
By speech, by resolution, by ap-
peal every possible effort was made
to arouse the Legislature to the
gravity of the situation. But to no
purpose. The combination against US
was too strong. The Wall streeters
had made themselves irresistible. All
the newspapers were on their side.
All the leading politicians were on
their side. All the Rail Road law
yers were on their side. L. f. Liv-
ingston, President of the Farmers
Alliance, was on their side.
In vain did a few unpurchasable
men plead for law and for honor!
In vain did Clarence Fl. Ellington
stand like hero, in the Senate, and
endeavor to have the laws of Geor-
ola enforced - her constitution re-
spected and her property protected.
He was overridden and defeated
by Calhoun, and Livingston, and the
Rail Road lawyers who were in the
Senate.
One of them was the Hon. Tom
Cabaniss, who is now in Congress.
With ONLY responsiveness, the Cal
houn gang carried all their plans to
success.
Who does not remember the sweet
talk of Pat Calhoun /?
Who does not remember the rosy
things he promised to "dear old
Georgia
Who does not know how he rode
around in his palace car with Living
ston and Moses, convincing the peo-
pie that Calhoun was a broad-minded
statesman, of unbounded benevo-
lence, while "Tom Watson was an
inoendiary, wishing to stir up strife
between the people and the rail
roads ?"
Well do we remember it.
Now comes the proof of the pud-
ding. Now comes the time when
events show who was right.
The Court decides that the mag
nifcent system of railways known
as the Central is ruined. It must be
put up and sold at sheriff's sale!
Why?
To pay off the debts Calhoun's
crowd saddled on it.
What condition was the Central
in when Calhoun, John Inman and
that crew, took hold of her?
She was one Of the finest proper
ties in America.
In what condition do they leave
her?
A water-logged wreck-helplessly
driven through the black sea of liti-
cation.
The Wall street pirates plundered
her, scuttled her, and are now doing
all in their power to drive her to the
bottom.
Many home in Georgia is made
desolate by these results. Ruin faces
many man who has fancied that his
fortune was perfectly secure.
Gradually we learn that the rob-
Der most to be dreaded is not the
paltry thief who enters the dwelling
at night and loots it of handy valu-
ables, but the smooth, polite, per-
snasive rascal who observes all the