People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1895-09-20
GIVES THE REASONS WHY
HE LEFT
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Good Sunday Reading For Hon
est Men Who Wish to
Vote Right.

Walsh, Harris, Gordon and others
have declared it our duty and their
intention to stand by the national
and state nominations whether they
be in favor of, or opposed to, the free
coinage of silver.
End. Very nearly all our Demo-
Republican leaders declare we must
sacrifice principles to perpetuate our
party.
3rd. On all leading financial
measures the party is SO divided
against itself that there is positively
no hope of its ever becoming united
so as to be able to enact laws benef-
cial to the masses on any leading
reform measure.
18th. On financial measures it
adopts straddling platform SO as to
draw the voters and befoul the po-
litical air with false promises.
5th. Such cowardly and treaoh-
.erous leaders dominate and rule it to
such an extent, that it is virtually,
politically damned and has lost
nearly all its honest and intelligent
supporters.
9th. By the cunning hypocrisy
of such leaders it stands and delivers
our country and us body and soul to
trusts and the money changers Of
Europe and Wall Street.
7th. Except in name it is Repub-
ican and carries out John Sher-
mans financial measures better than
the Republican party could do.
8th. In this section, the South, it
resorts to fraudulent measures to
maintain its power and keep the Of
fees.
9th. Although plac d in power
on it's promises Of reforming repubh-
can abuses and extravagances, it has
increased these wrongs and oppres-
sions and come nearer destroying
liberty and independence than any
other party ever intrusted with po-
litical supremacy in America.
10th. 1t has so contracted our
currency as to bring wanton priva
ton, hardship, and desolation upon
the agricultural and laboring masses,
for the enrichment Of the greedy
avaracious money classes, and for the
benefit of this class has impoverished
our country by issuing interest bear
ing bonds to enrich money lords and
enslave us.
18th. Upon trumped up plea of
contempt of court and without a
trial by an impartial juryit has in
generated free men in American
jails, and a raneker, more inhuman,
and bitter decree has never disgraced
our judicial annals and no blacker
blot upon American jurisprudence
ever was recorded than the late Fed
eral Income Tax case which smacks
of venal decision favoring money
devils.
18th. In utter violation of con-
stituted State rights, and over the
earnest protest of the Governor of
Illinois, it invaded that State with
national troops in the interest of mon
ey kings in time of peace.
18th. 1t is destitate of national
honesty in that it refuses to teach
and proclaim the truth that paper
money issued by the government and
made legal tender is better than
either gold or silver so long as it is
issued in limited amount not above
the solving OF it's subjects.
18th. 1t has dishonered the name
it has assumed by crimes against the
human race, and is a great political
stencil that smells to high Heaven
with political depravity and prostitu-
tions in favor of money mongers aud |
their tools.
18th. Its leaders who are seeking
to rescue 1t from the grave in which
it slumbers, are a set of political
bushwhackers who are keeping up
fire behind bushes and cliffs in Or
der to blind and bewilder the people
and prevent them thereby from