People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-07-10

point to calamity too dreadful to
contemplate but which nothing can
avert"
For thirty years plutooracy has
been forging the chains and Stacking
US under first one and then the other
of the Republican and Democratic
parties and we, the masses, have
been relied upon to do the bidding of
these corrupt parties but never under
either Of them, before this, have the
leaders in convention had the bold.
ness to declare in their platform for
a single gold standard. Always be-
fore now they have used a straddling
or bimetsllic platform and thus
been abe to deceive the masses.
Mr.. Editor, l confess that this to me
is the darkest time l have ever seen
in my life and that this presidential
year is laden with more evils than
any year in the history of my ooun-
try. 1t seems to me that our Popu.
list leaders, some of them from St,
Louis, have made wild and wretohed
mistake in hastily issuing an address
| to us to surrender our cause into the
keeping of the free silver boilers of
the st. Louis convention. This man
Taubeneck l fear is not o fit chief to
run Populist affairs or he would have
waited until our St. Louis convention
met and taken counsel from all our
friends there assembled.
That address in debating who our
convention should nominate was pre-.
mature and uncalled for and cannot
do us any good and only harm fear
1 hope may be wrong and that the
Chicago Democrats may justify them
and not me in this opinion. We can
not trust Democracy's candidate on
any kind of a platform and 1892
proves this truth. If Senator Teller
is the right man to head the reform
movement, the Democratic conven-
ton at Chicago will not nominate
him.
There never has been a time so
ripe with promises of trump for
the Populist cause as this. Old and
lifelong Democrats and Republicans
that l never have had much hopes
of seeing leaving and disguised with
their leaders have come to me of
late and told me they were ready,
anxious and waiting for our conven-
ton at St. Louis to put out a ticket
and platform; that they were dis
gusted with their parties and they
were willing and anxious to help US
elect a president, congressman, etc.
Then where is the need of us run.
ming off wildly after set of men who
have manifested no desire or inclina-
ton for our cause. Senator Teller,
l belie7e, is good man but if he
wants to run az our candidate he and
his friends have adopted ia their ad-
dress to the people strangs way OF
showing it.
The vacilating and warning Pops
are shooting off. their mouths too
early and their muddy opinions
thrust upon us can at least accomplish
no good.
The maj tyrs and victims from the
Democratic and Republican misrule
and oppression can not and will not
be lead by them back into their old
party slaughter pens to be again and
again deceived, betrayed and misled
by promises they know they never
will consumate. May God forbid it
and heaven protect us from this ig
nominious surrender is my hope and
my prayer.
l do not believe the Republicans
can elect Mckinley on Hanna's gold
and high protective tariff platform or
that Democracy can elect president
on any sort of platform and the
only hope I have is in the Populist
reform forces not being bought by
oddities and induced to waver and
surrender. j. G. B. ERWIN.
Attention POpulists!
A mass meeting of the Populists
of Fulton County is called for Satur-
day, the 18th of July, at the Court
House, for the selection of delegates
to the Populists State Convention,
/ and cuoh other husinpsa az may,