People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1894-09-28
FiYe.Cent Cotton.


substitute democratic legislation for
4 the Sherman act, inquired whether the
farmers of the south would be COM
PEELED by the constantly increasing
value of money, based on gold, to sell
their cotton crop at cents pound.
The inquiry appeared to worry some
of our goldbug contemporaries. They
protested against such suggestions.
The Charleston News and Courier de-
clared that the idea of scent cotton
was preposterous, and it made other
remarks characteristic of the profound
! ignorance that the average goldbug
brings to bear on the discussion of the
money question. But the farmers of
Georgia woke up yesterday morning to
discover that scent cotton was in plain
view. They woke up to discover that
1.-THE crop on which they place their
main dependence has fallen in the last
four years nearly 6 cents a pound.
Meanwhile we have what the goldbugs
call "sound money! and everything is
all serene for those who get their in
comes from bonds or from fixed sala-
ries.
The above, which is clipped from
: the Constitution, belongs to that
class of literature which is de-
nounced as calamity-howling. But
it is the literal truth for all that.
That q great paper, stating so
truthfully the real condition of the
people, clear-sighted and indepen-
dent enough to point out its real
cause, should yet lend its support to
the party which produced it and Is
pledged to its continuance, is one of
the things of the present campaign
which more than anything else
shows the power Of the "men who
CONTROL"
The Constitution supports the
democratic party with Mr.. W. Y.
Atkinson at the head of its state
ticket, man whom it declared unfit
for the position, who is understood
to be the enemy of Atlanta, and who
boastfully declared that he would
run the worthy man who opposed
him for the nomination out of the
race and then wipe up the earth with
the Atlanta Constitution. People
did not believe that he could do
either, but today General Evans,
after having been beaten by trick
cry, is engaged in making speeches
for the man in whose interest it was
done, and the great Constitution in
abiect humility, is crawling upon its
knees whipped into the implied con-
fession that it traduced the ''ring,"
and laboring for the elevation to the
highest Office of Yellowstone Kit
statesman.
In national matters it is the same.
While deploring the condition which
cents cotton means to the south,
and while pointing out that it is due
to the ssre-establishment and ratifca-
ton of the single gold standard"
lhe Constitution supports the party
which stands pledged to the contin-
nance Of this policy SO ruinous to the
south. The peoples party is the
only party which stands pledged to
the re establishment of the double
standard, as is freely admitted by
the journal and other straight out
goldbug papers. The democratic
party is committed to the single gold
standard and the effort to make the
people believe otherwise is but a
campaign trick to deceive the
voters.
TIE DAILY Press has shown how
the republican state platform of Ne
braska and the democratic state plat
form of Georgia are the same; how
the democratic state platform of
Maryland is most'pronounced single
gold standard instrument; that the
ssmen who control' the democratic
party in Georgia favor the gold
standard and consented to an am
biguous.and befogging expression of
their views in the state platform only
for the purpose of misleading voters.
If the party in this state favored free
silver coinage an unequivocal de-
mand for such action would have
been adopted. The district plat
forms favoripg the free silver coinage
at the ratio of 16 to l were so passed
only for the purpose of deception as
appears at once when on that plat
form Major Black is nominated in
the 10th district, after having voted
for the unconditional repeal of the
purchasing clause of the Sherman
bill, tie only law under which silver
could be coined at all.
That a paper like the Journal,
which advocates the single gold
standard should support the demo
cratic party can be easily under