People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1894-10-12


to buy him. Having failed to get
he position he wanted from us, and
having failed to get the 800 he
wanted from Judge Hines, he sold
his decayed and rickety lye-hopper
to the other side.
If they paid much for it they got
bit in the trade.
Gus Fite! Speak up, man, and
tell us all about Barlow.
Did the Negroes do it?
Charley Brand and Bill Simmons
say that was the troublein CIV lnnett.
Joe Terrell says there is where
the misery lay in Meriwether.
Joe James is busy in the prepare
ton of a map COPIED after Bill Flem-
ing's) which is intended to give to f.
Cleveland birds eye view of the
reasons why Douglass county, slip
ped from under.
Dick Howard and Bob Whitfield,
over at Milledgeville, are attending
divine services regularly, aud are
gradually getting used to the sight
Of the populist flag floating over the
Old Capital.
Think of this: a Judge of the
Superior Court of Georgia said in
public off you Populists were to
carry the State in the election do
you suppose we would be fools
enough to let you have it?"
And yet they say we have 70 po-
litical judges in Georgia. What are
the people to do when their rulers
talk this way and act in line with
the talk?
In a short while the bosses and
the people are going to clash, and
the bosses will be sorry they got on
the track. Rascals, who openly
brag OF their rascalty, cannot bull
doze this people always.
Observe how education improves
a man. The crude, unlettered pick
pocket flches your purse and goes
to the chain gang.
The educated politician passes
statute which taxes your money into
his bank and if be desires to do so
he goes to the legislature or 70 Con-
gress, or becomes Railroad Commits
sioner.
Nice systems we Christians have.
The rumor that Miss Dortch
OF Ahlledgeville has challenged Mrs.
Mary Ellen Lease for joint debate
lacks confederation.
We have not yet decided which to
congratulate.
Hon. W. Y. Atkinson, with that
carefully cultivated modesty which
makes Boykin Wright so mad, says
that the reason the dear old demo-
cratic bucket spilled so much Of the
water during the recent tote, was
that the campaign orators did not
follow his able advice on the silver
question.
Come now, Bill, don't be too hard
on the hoys. 1t isn't every cam
paigner who was born with your ca
pacity for straddling
If ever a chieftain fairly won the
title OF Billy Bawlegs, it is the Hon.
W. Y. Atkinson. a man who can
straddle the silver question so as
to win golden opinions from the
Journal and from the Constitution,
at one and the same time, is certainly
gifted with . wonderful pair Of legs.
If he keeps on improving in that
direction his pants pattern will have
to be cut out with circular saw.
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Speeches are good things, but
people sometimes remember the way
the speakers voted.
We mildly suggest to the Hon.
Billy Bowlegs that the growth OF
populism in our party is largely due
to the growth OF ropublcanism in
his.
When democratic congressman
follow the lead of John Sherman,
close up the minis, stop the making
of money, shrink the currency to the
gold standard, and thus bring cotton
down to FIVE cents aud wheat to
H., forty-fve, the people are in no mood
70 bo u,hoodio1 with snaaches