People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-10-09

Ills OF the DOuy pOlltlc unJll you pun
out at least enough paper money of the
government to take the place of the
greenbaclS money they burned up. Re-
store what you have taken away from
the people, and then the people will
have what they used to have, a good
government. Mr. Bourlze Cochran says
Bryan wants to take something from
somebody and give it to somebody Ii
horse thief has got my horse l don't
think l am doing an injustice to the
horse thief to take my horse back.
(Applause.) The classes have stolen
from the people under the form of law
an undue proportion of the amount OF
wealth produced in this country and
the object of the Populist party is to
restore the stolen goods. applause
A Union of the West and South.
Now fellow citizens we don't look
for any help from the east or north.
Why? Plenty of good people up there
who will agree with us as o principles
but the money power controls the east
and north. That was shown in the
Maine election on Monday last. Zap
plause.) Well then where must we
look? To the south and West
Your interests are the same as
ours. Your interests are agricultural
just like ours. You have banks
and you have railroads, but they are in
| the minority in the South and West
They do not control as in the North
and East If this country is to be
saved, we should look to the South and
| West. The South realizes that we can
not win this fight alone, and our friends
of the West ought to realize they can
not do it alone. A community of in
terest ought to make community of
/ principle. And l am here from the
South to tell the people of Nebraska,
that the people of Georgia are ready to
pledge their lives, their fortunes and
| their sacred honor that if tbs West will
stand by the South, we will not stop
this fight until we secure The overthrow
of class legislation After the bottom
of the ship has been cleaned of her
barnacles she will once more walk the
waters like a thing of life. (Applause.)
1 am here to say to you people that we
look upon you as our brothers. The
hatreds of the war ha fe passed away,
! (Applause) The dead past with US has
buried it's dead; new generation has
sprung up to whom the war is nothing
but a memory.
The Grimes of '93 and rs.
We have q Democratic crime of '93 to
match the Republican crime OF '73. We
have a Wilson bill that was so bad that
Cleveland would not sign it, to match
the Mckinley bill. (Applause) One is
the echo of the other, and we never had
a reform administration which was SO
utterly antagonistic for us in the South
as was the administration of Cleveland.
(Applause.) We say this: We said to
them the old parties would do the same
thing if they got chance. They were
nominated by capitalists and bond
holders. This is protection for class
legislation, We have an obligation IN
on ourselves. We have built up party
| right in the middle of the road. We
have said to you people in the West,
you get out of the Republican party
and we will get out of the Democratic
party and we will have new party in
which there is no war prejudice.
| believe, fellow citizens, that four
years from now it will be the only re-
form party in the United States. ZAP
plause.) am here to ask you Populists
to stand by your colors, am here to
tell you to perserve your party organi-
zation. Don't trust the Democrats too
far. (Applause.) I beg you to remem-
Der what occurred to the Greenback
party. beg you to remember that the
Greenbacl1 party died by being poisoned
on false promises. False promises of
the Democrats in the South, fal.e prom
ises of the Republicans in the West.
Isn't it so? That's what they did. And
if ever the Populist party dies it will be
on account of our losing sight of the
movement for which our party was
formulated, Let us stand by our prin
ciples; let us keep our eye on the star
OF duty; let us fight for every principle
in our platform, and let us remem Der
that it was our party that compelled
the Democratic party to adopt the
Chicago platform. (Applause.) Letus
remember that they didn't do it with a
good face; they made a very wry coun-
tenance over it, that it tasted bitter to
some of them. They have not got the
bitter taste out of their mouths yet.
l " ant you to remember that there are
thousands of free silver men who mean
to stand with us.
Traitors Tying Bryan's Hands.
But there are sound money men in
Bryan's own party who are scheming
right now to tie that mans hands so he
cannot keep the pledges he is making
to the people. German, according to
the morning papers, is being put in
charge of the campaign. Who is he?
Is he a man after your own heart?
Don't you know that he is a Mckinley
man on the tariff question, and a gold
bug and a corporation man? In our