People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-09-04
Yellow Stone Kit versus Gov. w.
Y. Atkinson. Charge,
Plagiarism.

Two years ago, when the Atlanta
Constitution denounced w. Y. Atkin-
son as the Yellow Stone Kit of Geor-
gla politics, it Is safe to say that even
Atkinson's political opponents were
surprised at the bitterness, and it was
thought injustice, of the attacks, for
it was then believed that the CON-
parison had been made because of
the personal resemblance. But of
the two men, recent speeches COM
pared with those made by Yellow
Stone Kit show that the men are
alike as to method and purpose.
Last Sundays Constitution, in its
leading editorial, credits Gov. Atkin-
son with the following language used
recently at Greenville:
"You talk about where is your
wandering boy tonlghtH' I could find
my boy easier by looking for him in
the saloon than / could find him if
there were a hundred blind tigers
hiding around"
The Constitution of Nov. %, 1887,
credits Yellow Stone Kit with the
following:
care there any mothers here? Yes.
"Then listen; whe there were bars
here you knew where to find your
boy. How is it now? Liquor is sold
everywhere. Can you find your
boy ?"
"No we can't" yelled an old
negress.
Gov. Atkinson may put himself in
easy touch with q certain element of
society-may gain some votes-by
assuming that his boy will necessarily
be found at either blind tiger or a
saloon, and that therefore the only
question of moment is the ease with
which he would find him. But in
the name of our own boys we protest
against the liquor question being con
sldered from such superficial and
selfish standpoint. SRch an argu-
ment might come from Yellow Stone
Kit but not from the Governor of
Georgia. We also protest against
the assumption that the Populists
will enact any law that will increase
the number of blind tigers. The facts
and figures clearly show that the
cities and counties now selling liquor
through the saloon monopolies have
more blind tigers than the counties
that have prohibition in any form
whatever.
1t is well known that parties who
run blind tigers, take the precaution
to secure license from the Federal
authorities to protect themselves from
the United States courts. The fol-
lowing figures taken from The Motive
of July 10th, 1896, show clearly that
the barroon and saloon is anything
but protection against blind tigers:
The total number OF U. S. licenses
issued to the dry counties show an
average of three liquor sellers to each
oounty-or three blind tigers.
The total number of U. S. licenses
issued to acet counties show that there
is an average of twenty-five liquor
sellers in each county, and when the
number of licensed saloons is de-
daeted it leaves an average of four
teen d}ind tigers to every acet county.
The figures are to IA.
If Gov. Atkinson should look for
his boy in dry county he would
have to go to three places.
If he looked him up in wet county
he must go to eight saloons and four
teen blind tigers.
Which will Mr.. Atkinson take?
Which will you take?
Gov Atkinson tries to claim that
he favors prohibition by favoriug
local option. But every barroom
keeper in Georgia favors the Same
kind Of prohibition. They all declare
for local option because they know it
means a monopoly for them. There
is not line in the Populist State
platform that intimstes that the dis
pansary system is to be forced on any
dry county. No one knows this
better than W. Y. Atkinson, yet in
this Yellow Stone Kit speech at
Greenville he insinustes that such is
the case. In spite of the tremendous