People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1894-09-21
THAT RESIGNATION.
WILL HONEST DEMOCRATS
SUBMIT TO FRAUD?
4 GREAT SENSATION /!
Was the Harris Letter. Chair
man Clay, Forced to the
Wall, Owns Up.
That Harris resignation was great

That Harris resignation was great
sensation.
Chairman Clay has at last acknowl
edged that Hon. Marion w. Harris, a
member of the democratic executive
committee at large, has resigned.
However, it was not acknowledged
until The DAILY PRESS placed the facts
before the public in such away that
denial was absurd.
Doubtless the public would never
have known that Mr.. Harris had re
signed had not THE PRESS disclosed
that democratic sensation. More than
likely democratic papers would have
suffered MIR. Harris successor to be
appointed without ever learning he had
resigned.
Not satisfied with attempting to keep
secret Mr.. Harris resignation, Chair
men Clay and Berner are distorting the
meaning of the paper sent to Mr.. Clay
by Mr.. Watson, into construction
which neither Mr. Watson nor MIR.
Clay ever thought of, until it was nee
essary for Mr. Clay to find some excuse
for his refusal to put his signature tc
the paper which he had promised to
sign.
TIr. Clay Desired to Sign.
Mr.. Watson was told that Mr. Clay
had expressed his desire to sign a pa
per, each acting as chairman of his
state party executive committee, re-
commencing to their respective parties
that there be division of managers
throughout the state.
Mr. Clay made the statement at two
different times that he would sign such
a paper.
Acting on this agreement, Mr.. Wat
son sent paper to Mr.. Clay which
simply recommended to their respective
parties division of poll managers.
When Mr.. Clay found that even the
honest people in his own party were
denouncing the party and DESERVING it
state by fraud, Mr.. Clay. after two
days deliberation, acknowledges that
Mr.. Harris has resigned because the
democrats refuse to recommend that
there be division of managers at the
polls. and gives the public such stuff as
the following:
Nothing was said and nothing was
done that could be construed in de-
cision by the committee that the popu-
lists should not haYe any election man
ayers That was not it at all. The
committee simply held that as q com
mittee it had no authority to provide
for managers of elections.
Then he delivered himself of the
following buncombe
THE committee took the stand that
the laws of the state are ample and
sufficient, and as all parties have here
tofore acquiesced in them and there
has been no cause for complaint as to
the fairness of elections in Georgia.
there was no reason for the committee
interfering"
The committee was not opposed to
the populists being represented by man
agers-not at all it simply held that
it had no authority to say who should
manage the elections"
How Mr.. Clay could distort Mr. Wat
sons paper into such meaning no sane
man viii be able to tell
MIR. Watson never, for single moment,
thought that Chairman Clay had the
power to divide managers mot at all. "
The men who control" have large
ideas of their power, it seems
Let any man read Mr.. Watson's paper
semitic Mr. Clay, and see if such mean
ing can be drawn from it.
Here it is: