People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1894-10-12
The Democratic Press on the Result.
Glory Enough for One Day.

Glory Enough for One Day.
The Evening Bee, of Milledgeville,
9hows how thoroughly ill-informed
and unreliable democracy is by
bringing out its rooster on the even
ing of the election over these boast
ing words, which are about as near
the truth as democratic campaign
promises:
The latest dispatches bring cheer
ing news from over the state. At
kinson's majority will probably climb
above Northen's. Glory enough for
one, day. Eighty thousand demo-
cratic majority will be the result of
today's work.
Tries to Get Down Easy.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun, like
frightened child shutting its eyes,
tries to make itself believe that the
populist victory is not real.
We shall advise the populists not
to grow too hilarious over the re-
turns. They must remember that
they have not at all won victory.
The unexpectedly strong showing
that they made is not real, but will
prove to be fictitious. That is to
say, their strength has been artifically
magnifed by the unusual difficulties
with which the democracy has con-
tended.
Eats Crow Gracefully.
The Worth County Local faces
the music like little man:
The Pops get there-last Wednes-
days election was one of the closest
and most hotly contested ever held
in Worth county. The calm that
seemed to have settled over the
county for several weeks, broke forth
in thunder storm on that day.
Party feeling ran high, and the day
was marked by numbers of hot alter
cations, and a few personal en-
counters.
This is the largest vote ever polled
in. Worth, and only few behind the
number of total poll tax payers.
Nothing can be said against the
populist representative. He is q
good man, a lifelong citizen Of the
county, an industrious farmer, and a
man for whom we could have cheer
fully voted under other circum-
stances.
The Local, together with Worth's
democracy, has a large dish of crow
set before it. This it can eat grace
fully.
Glad it Wasn't Worse.
The Atlanta Journal, while it
cannot forego the pleasure of twist
ing the Constitutions tail, yet con-
graduates the goldbugs on escaping
complete humiliation
The state is lucky in that the pro-
fessed friends OF the democracy,
who have spent their time circulating
populist ISLANDERS against it, did not
succeed in altogether eliminating the
democratic majority.
Still Illustrating Facts.
The Savannah News tries to min
ify democratic defeat by falsely as
sertinp that the populists made no
gains:
The populists, however, do not ap-
pear to have increased their strength
In the counties in which they were
strong at the last state election. In
fact, in the Tenth congressional dis
trict, the district in which Mr.. Wat
son is g candidate for congress, the
vote in some of the counties is con-
siderably less than it was two years
ago.
Claims Fair Victory.
If the Cuthbert Liberal Enterprise
is correct in the following statements
it would seem that the democrats OF
Randolph county are not Of the Or
thodox sort:
"The populists cannot cry fraud
in Randolph county. We have met
them fairly and we are the victors."
Saved by tho Negro Vote.
The Fort Valley Leader fatty
contradicts the Journals assertion
that the ''nigger did it." when trying
to account for the democratic water
loo.
Yesterday was a quiet election
day, but the democracy did good
work for themselves and for their
party. The colored people seem to
have voted the democratic ticket
nearly and the populists to have re-
ceived very small modicum Of their
support"
A Rebuke to Ring Rule.
The Acworth Post piles it all on
Gober, Clay and Brown:
Ring rule don't go in Georgia. If
such men as Gober, Clay and Brown
continue to be appointed to respon-
sible positions which they are utterly
incompetent to fill, the democratic
majority two years hence won't even
be 10000.