People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1895-10-11


1896 opens we will be veterans in
stead of raw recruits. We have had
some valuable experience with the
Law, aud we will use it in 1896.
(8). We have demonstrated beyond
all dispute that the purpose of the
Democratic party in Georgia is to
get rid of the vote Of the poor white
man and the negro. This fact will
not strengthen the Democrats.
(9). We have demonstrated that
the nine Populist counties belong to
us of right, because after all the
efforts of the Democratic Registrars
to cut down our lists to a minority
standpoint, we still held our ground.
These are the net results of the
election as we see them. All the ad-
vantages are with us, and we are in
better trim for the Contest before
Congress and III better trim for the
great fight of 1896 than we were
after the November election of 1894.
AS examples of the manner in
which the Democratic Registrars did
their work we will cite @ case from
Jefferson:
A Registered voter (white) was
summoned to Louisville to show
cause why he should not be stricken
off the lists; there was Tax Execu-
ton against him;he proved by his own
oath and by that of the officer who
held the Execution, that it had been
paid off in full before the voter regis
tered; the officer was then asked to
make his entry to that effect on the
execution and he refused; where
upon the voter was stricken off
although both he and the officer still
persisted in swearing that the execu-
ton had been fully paid.
We could give hundreds of cases
just as bad.
In Washington and McDuffie and
Glascock counties the Registrars did
their work impartially; in the other
counties partisan passion and pre-
JUDGE swayed every decision they
made.
In every speech of the campaign,
from start to finish, the Populist
nominee was good tempered and par
liamentary. While necessarily severe
in reviewing the frightful record of
the Cleveland administration and its
fat cuckoo, MIR. Black, yet never once
did the Populist overstep the limits
of propriety or dignity in his illusions
either to Mr.. Black or his party.
The Populist nominee made twenty
one speeches and travelled over most
of the District in buggy, meeting
the people in the old fashioned soci-
able way. Mr., Black made no
speeches over the District and con-
fined his labors, principally, to hotel
dinners and hotel-verandah CONVEX
sations.
Only thrice did he break his golden
standard silence once to abuse the
Augusta Democrats who had demsad-
ed honest Registration, and once to
abuse he Populists of Augusta for
being poor, and once to denounce
VIM. Walden to the people of Wiki
inson county.
In this latter speech, delivered two
days before the election, Mr.. Black
said he would have accepted joint
discussion if he had been asked.
Sorry we didn't know that sooner.
We had committed the mistake OF
believing that on sone question, at
least, Mr.. Black would be consistent
He had violated the agreement of
1892 by refusing to give us joint
debate in each county he had stated
in the newspapers, in 1894, that he
would decline to accept an invitation
to a joint discussion and in his let
ter of acceptance in 1895 he had sail
he would not make public canvass.
Consequently we thought he meant
what he said.
Mr.. Black now says he would have
met US if we had asked him.
Very we'll: 1896 isn't so very far
off, and if the Lord spares us, and
the Peoples Party dominates us, Mr..
Black will certainly be asked.