People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1898-03-18
The Convention Opens.

The fall of the gavel in the hand of
Chairman John d. Cunningham at II
o'clock announced the opening of the
largest Peoples Party State Conven
ton ever held in Georgia
Every district was well represented
and much enthusiasm was displayed.
Chairman Cunningham's opening re
marks were we'll timed, and were
cheered to the echo.
Inc GaIl cries we're packed and cheer
ed equally with the delegates as Chair
man Cunningham raped the ''men
who control and ''the machine"
Mr.. Cunningham said:
Brother Delegates, Tt was so conf
IDENTIFY expected that this convention
would prove the death of the Populist
party, that the chairman of the State
Democratic Executive Committee has
called it to meet in this city tomorrow,
presumably to act as our pail bearers.
If any of those gentlemen, in their
zeal to lead the procession, have come
day ahead of the funeral, one glance
at this body must convince them that
this occasion gives no opportunity for
crepe, sack-cloth and ashes or the
shedding of crocodile tears.
We say to them do you wait for us to
! act to know the will of the people
Don't hang on the outskirts of our en-
campment hoping to see break in our
! ranks for one or the other of your ma
ny candidates and thus determine for
yourselves which one it is best for you
to pull for. I tell you voice the sen
timent of every true Populist in this
State, when say you have none in the
field that politically is not well worth
the killing.
Do not CLEAN the fields of political
wisdom and justice, from which we
have reaped Populist principles, hop.
ing to create from the husks and straw
we discarded, Democratic policies and
Democratic promises. If in the future,
as in the past, you prefer to serve your
party rather than your people or your
God, turn again to your original meth
DDS, grease the joints of your political
heelers with the oil of 40 be Joyful
and line their pockets with the dimes
and dollars of our daddies, devise new
mechanisms for your ballot boxes
revise your registration lists and coach
your registrars. Rewrite, and if posi-
BILE, make more damnable your infa
nous rape circular. For I put you OF
notice now that in 1898 you have got tt
meet the same brave united, umcompro
missing foe that in the past you defraud
ed but could not honestly defeat OF
destroy.
HUNDRED THOUSAND MAJORITY,
1t has been declared that the Demo
cratic ticket must be given hundred
thousand majority this year.
Are you Populists going to give it ?
/ If you do not it will never be given
because if they get it from the nigger
they have got it to buy.
BERNtR
Can you give it to their Young Ma
poleon," who fought the Populists 81
long and hard that he is practically
converted to their belief and policy
He is against the railroads. He il
against the trusts. He is against tht
corporations. He is against every
combination, even that of Solicitor
and Judges" 1t would seem from thu
lreports of his speeches that he is agains
everything, whether it be in the heav
ems above or the waters under tn,
earth, but not against the whisky rims
and ballot box suffers that flourish
upon the face of the earth. You dar,
not give him hundred thousand ma
jority, for fear that with the blind yea
of a new convert, he will fail to tempe
his justice with mercy.
ATKINSON.
Or can you give hundred THOUSAND
majority to that other Democratic can
) didate of unfortunate name, who it i