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

hereby reminded that the said Dem
ocrati, Party made distinct prom
iss to that effect in 1884.
Grover Cleveland ran his first race
for the Presidency upon a platform
which pied yed him to the gold and
silver "coinage Of the Constitution"
In his letter of acceptance of the
nomination, he expressly ratified and
endorsed the platform which his
Party had made.
After he had been elected upon
this public profession of faith, and
previous to his Inauguration, he
wrote the we'll remem bered letter to
Mr.. Warner expressing his sntago-
nism to the free and unlimited coin
age of silver, which aoaS 'the coinage
of the Constitution"
In this manner, the people were
completely fooled.
Why cant the same trick be worked
again? How can the Democrats
pledge themselves more plainly now
than they did in the national plat
form of 1884? How oan the candi-
date bind himself to the platform
pledges more sacredly than Cleve-
land did in his first letter of accept.
ance9
Immediately after being elected
upon a Bi-metallio platform, Cleve-
land passed over to the enemies OF
the people. The Democratic candi-
date for 1896 could do the very same
thing. How many times do you
want to get trapped before you will
be sonvinced the trap is there?
Doesn't the burnt child dread the
fire; and shall zee not dread it? Are
We going to walk up like parcel of
fools, and stuff our stomachs upon
the same old diet of decisions, lies,
frauds, vain hopes and silly expecta-
tons?
Are we to learn nothing from ex.
perience Is the lamp of the past
neyor to shed any light upon the
path? Are we to blunder forward,
year after year, making the same old
mistakes, believing the same old lies'
and trusting to the same old liars ?
B. NJ. Blackburn, the fearless and
indomitable editor of the Atlanta
Daily Commercial, denounoes Capt.
Evan P. Howell, editor of the At
lanta Constitution, for treachery and
trickery.
Mr.. Blackburn is a Democrat: go
is Capt, Howell.
II the Democrats fiud Capt. How
ell to be unreliable, what may we
Populists expectP Capt Howell,
you knov, is the free-silver leader
who wants us Pops to fling down
our arms, "return to the fold" and
trust it all to him. He'll get us free
silver, he says;-if we'll just lay
down our arms, and "return to the
fold"
But Blackburn says that the man
who puts any faith in Capt. Howell
is going to get old and'gray headed
before his time-promaturely soarod
and frost bitten.
So there you are, again.
Capt. Howell, you remember, is
the Democratic leader who invited
us Pops, with such great cordially,
to attend the Griffin Convention last
year. Our boys trusted him, went
to the said Convention, and were
treated like dogs. Yellow dogs, at
that.
And now the Captain wants us to
trust him some more.
Really, Captain, you are just too
funny.
awe must maze the foreigner pay
our taxes" says that won ierful lit
tie man, Mckinley.
In this pleasant, offhand manner
(having duly kissed tue females o.
the family the Republican candidate
for the highest office in the land IN
dertakes to blarney the voters.
The tariff makes the foreigner pay
duties before he can sell his goods
here: these duties pay our national
expenses partly, and therefore in
paying these duties at the Custom