People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-03-05

SOU pdch 10 cdthp JuSG dlUer SIN
o'clock p. IN. Nov. (, 1895. This is get
ting it down fine. On and after six
o'clock, p. M. Nov. 4, 1895, Bryan ceas-
ed to be anything at all to our friend,
I ..FChe Nonconformist. 1t doesnot even
appear that Mr. Bryan has the poor
privilege of regarding his former lover
''in the light of sister"
Such sudden breaking off of tender
relations as this almost amounts to
levity.
But the date is important, and should
be kept in mind: up to six o'clock p. m.
Nov 4, 1895. Bryan and Sewal1 were
the chosen of The Nonconformist'
heart: after the minute-hand of the
clock passed that fatal hour,-six
o'clock, p. m ,-Bryan's eager eyes
might look ever so much tender pas
sion toward his former wooer, but
''The Nonconformist'' had nothing to
return, save the stony stare, and the
freezing words 81 don't know you"
"
The alleged Cotton Growers of Geor-
gia are gently agitating themselves,
and trying to work up the belief that
they need protection from Egypt-the
land of the Pharaohs, the mummies,
and other interesting relics. A duty
of five cents pound is to be laid upon
this alleged danger from Egypt. No
Pharaoh, or mummy, or Mameluke, or
Bedouin, or Arab, or Ethiop, is to be
allowed to devastate the cotton fields
of Georgia with his competitive inroads,
Congress is to be required to hasten to
the rescue, and snatch us from the
grippe of the Egyptians who are des-
polling us with yearly onslaught OF
$50, 900 sacks Of cotton.
| n
If Egyptian cotton really completes
with our Sea Island cotton, then the
proposed duty of five cents per pound
on Egyptian cotton is modest demand
that the American market be turned
over, absolutely, to'the growers of Sea
Island cotton, so that they can charge
the American consumers of their pro.
duct cts. per Id, more for it. In that
case the growers of ordinary short
staple cotton will be taxed to give a
special profit to the growers of the Sea
Island staple. A more unjust discrimi-
nation than this between the growers
of the two kinds of cotton cannot be
imagined
'Last month, the Rothschilds of Lon
don purchased the ''Tomboy," mine in
Colorado, paying 81, 100000 for it. They
now have invested $3.50, 900, 600 in mines
in this country. 1t is their purpose tc
buy other silver mines. After they
have cornered our silver, then what D.!
Put on your thinking cap and study ii
out. Daily Tribune,
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Here is a Democratic size-up Of the
Fusion policy of 1896, which is about
correct:
THE POPULIST AT MEMPHIS.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
''The resolutions adopted by the
Populist editors at Memphis fully bear
out what has already been said in
these columns with reference to the
state of the party organization. The
Il resolutions strenuously oppose all
fusion with other parties, and invite
the "boys in the trenches" who want
office TO come into the Populist organi
cation and work for it. Nevertheless
they also admit the existence of anoth-
er element who advocate ''mere com
promise measures for deceptive parti-
san purposes"
The Democratic leaders, by which is
meant the Popocrats, are charged with
having failed to carry out tho promises
by which they secured the Popplist
Endorsement Of their candidate for the
presidency, from which it is inferred
that no reliance is to be placed on ''old
party pledges" To this it may be
objected that the Popocrats did not
belong to any old party, but to new
one organized for the purpose of catch.
ing Populist votes; that they framed
their platform with a view to that end
that they nominated an avowed Popu-
list for the presidency; that they lost
their heads and nominated national
banker and a pr otectionist for vice
president; that they relied on the folly
of the Populists to nominate the same
ticket at ST.. Louis; that they were
right as to the nomination for the pres
idency, but wrong as to the vice presi-
dency. 1t is true that their candidate
for the presidency refused to recog nize
their candidate for the vice-presidency,
and to that extent betrayed them, but il
NAV also be said, in vindication of the
truth of history, that his intent to dc
so was foreshadowed before the nomi
nation was made, and the Populist
delegates would have known it had
they not been betrayed by some OF
their own leaders. They have only
their own folly and the treachery of
some of their own leaders to thank for
the deception practiced upon them.
They were forewarned. They should
have known that the Chicago conven.
ton was organized to deceive, and
that it's emisaaries to st. Louis were
meant to perfect this deception. AS
many of their cwn leaders not only
dictated the greater part of the Chicago
platform, but Joined in the deception
at st. Louis, it is folly for the Popu
lists to complain that the pledges Of
the old parties are not trustworthy. In
point of fact they were deceived by the
treacherous pledges, or assurances, of