People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-09-18

W IiIC DcODIC Va ClCh IOCuIk~
ty, to cooperate with the state and
aid us in completing and perfecting
our common school system until the
state is able of itself to run an eight
month school, you will accomplish a
great work for the children of Geor-
gia."
Speaking of the colored college at
Savannah, he says: 81 had the pleas
ure of attending the commencement
exercises of this institution, and was
highly pleased with the results of the
work of the students. | respectfully
recommend that this school be opened
to both males and FEM g, and that
greater facilities be afforded for the
training of teachers. We have as
sumed the obligations and properly
assumed it, to educate this class of our
fellow citizens. l earnestly recon-
mend that large part of the work OF
this state institution be devoted to the
training of teachers, who may go out
and take charge of the colored schools,
and that the state make ample provis-
ion to enable this institution to afford
the ample facilities to fulfill it's mis-
sion.
"There is every reason, after seeing
what has been done and what is prom
Used, that the colored voter should see
to it that the party that has done and
promises to do still more, should be
given an opportunity to do so. Re-
member, that the education of your
children is thing that should be care
fully looked after. Remember, that it
is your duty to your child to vote for
it's interest. Be manly, and do this.
FREE BALLOT.
The Popnlists are appealing to the
colored voter and asking his support
on the ground that they favor free
ballot and fair count. Or course they
favor this when the ballot is for them.
The truth is, that they are willing that
the cOlored mans vote should be cast
and counted when it is for them, but
how is it when that vote is against
them? How is it when that vote is for
| Mckinley and Hobart, and not for
Bryan and Watson? The fact is. that
they are for the free ballot and fair
count for their own candidates.
If the Populists want the c0lored
vote, why do they act so strangely
/ about it? If they are more favorable
to Repubicanism than they are to
Democracy, why did their national
convention, which met at St. Louis,
endorse and nominate william j.
Bryan, who is Democrat, and who had
also been nominated by the Democrats,
ms. end of Mr.. Mckinley, a Republican,
whom the Republicans have nominated
for the presidency?
C0lored voters, do not be deceived.
The Populists want you to vote for
/ them, and that is all. Every thing they
have done goes to show it.
Why don't they be men and come
ont squarely and give you the political
rights they say you are entitled to?
Governor Atkinson says in his message
to the legislature:
81 congratulate you upon the pro-
gress made in the Improvement Of our
election laws, and advise that you con-
tinue in this work until every imper-
/ lection is corrected"
Hence, we see that, all things con-
| sidered, both parties claim to be in ia
vor Of a free ballot and fair count.
! The POpulists, however, claim that
they are more so than Democrats. We
! all know that many of these same
| Populists were once opposed to the
negroes voting the Republican ticket,
ana were notin fgrvor OF their voting
| for Republicans. 1t is sad to think of
| it.
And the Populists are Just as much
/ opposed t9day to your voting the Re
| publican ticket as they were fifteen
years ago. But when it comes to vot-
ing for them, they say they are in IA
vor Of free ballot and fair count. COL
ored voters, remember that they want
nt,, ti,,t, "a y
| Vote with those men who do not try
| to deceive you! Vote with those men
who are fighting lynchiug! Vote
with those men who are in favor of
and helping 70 school your childreni
Vote with Jh0ee men who help you ia
your time Of need, ana are not ashamed
of you! Vote for that man that has
stood up at all times to keep negroes
from being lynched like brutes! Vote
for w. \. Atkinson, and his ticket.
Help him n his work Of getting in
nocent negroes out of that horrible
place-the Georgia Penitentiary. lie
has done much for tina race; he PROM
ises to do more. He is big whole
souled man, and we ought to see that
he is elected. If you defeat him, there
are some poor ConVicts whose hearts
WIN NC SiNueltGs 1eip nun HGlp
them! 1t is duty to yourselves and
to your race. He is in favor Of 4 free
ballot and fair count, and has said
so. Give him your vote; yon could
not do better.
CONVICTS.
All good people in this state will re-
j0ice to know that blow has been
struck at the present system of leasing
convicts to private individuals. This
system has brought more suffering to
the c0nVicts than they ought to en-
dure, aud has been the cause of the
early death of many, that, but for cruel
AID inhumane treatment, would have
been alone. Terrible whipping and ex-
posture in the coal mines nave resulted
in deadly consequences to these un-
fortunates.
Recently Governor Atkinson sum
moned some of the convict essees be-
fore him, and in the trial that took
place in the capitol, evidence was pro-
duced to show that the treatment of
conyiGts in some of the camps is fear
full. Some had been whipped until they
were mass of blood: others were de-