The Atlanta constitution., 1898-10-03
Rurv Them Out of Sight.

IT is to be hoped that no democratlc
voter will remain away from the polls
next Wednesday in the belief that, be
canse there is a prospect that the can
dfdates for governor and statehouse Of
ficers will receive an Overwhelming ma
iority. his vote is not necessary. There
is but one way to secure these over
whclming majorities. They are the
outcome of an enthusiasm which urges
every voter TO go to the polls with the
purpose of contributing to and partlcl-
patjne in the honors of the result. But
the result would be quite otherwise II
many voters, queted by their confidence
in the purposes of their netghbors,
should conclude that their presence at
the polls is unnecessary.
The campaign, thus far, has been one
of the most remarkable that ever oc-
Cured in the state-remarkablc, for one
thing. in the fact that it has been car
ried on bv candidates nominated directly
by the voters Of the party and not by
the politicians; and remarkable, for an
other thing, in the fact that the party,
having brought about all the reforms
made necessary by democratic progress,
has been able to make an unanSWefable
appeal to all democrats who have been
acting with an opposition party to re-
turn to the organization and take their
old places in its ranks.
What is more remarkable still, the
answer to this appeal has been 50 salts
factory to the democrats, and astonish-
ing to the popuiist leaders, that the lat
ter have been driven into a scheme Of
negro coalition so dangerous and dis
gusting that it will complete the dcmoIi~
tfon of the populist party in this state.
This scheme has for its purpose the uni
ficati0n of those populists who will stick
to their party under any and all cir
cumstances with the negro republican
party of Georgia. Men who left the
democratic party in Georgia because 1t
was not democratic enough to suit their
ideas of democracy are now asked by
the populist leaders to take hands all
round with the negro voters and support
republican principles and republican
candidates.
This proposition has had the effect OF
alarming the decent and respectable pop
Mist voters OF the state, and they have
seized on the opportunity to cut loose
from fellowship with the unscrupulous
men who conceived the dangerous
scheme Of negro coalition. And it is
we'll for them, their wives and their
daughters. that they nave done 50.
This same infamous scheme has been
tried in North Carolina, and it was car
ried out with a success fatal to the in
terests Of the people and to the happl-
ness and comfort Of the wives and chill
dren of the small white farmers. We
have received letters from women in
North Carolina detailing the miserable
conditions which the negro coalition
has enlailed on the families of the white
farmers. Not content with these re-
ports. The Constitution sent to that
state one of it's staff correspondents,
Mr. Frank Weldon, who not only CON
tirmed what had been said, but added
some details which our casual CORE
spondents had omitted to mention.
The attempt to fasten the hideous re-
suits of such q coalition on the white
farmers of Georgia should send to the
polls next Wednesday, in support of the
democratic candidates, every democratic
voter and every populiSt voter who has
self-respect enough to resist an effort
to degrade him. The INSCRIPTIONS lead
ers VINO, in connection with Hanna, are
trying TO fasten negro coalition on the
white voters Of Georgia, should be buried
out Of sight.