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

SO difficult to place as Office seeker or
Office holder, who wrote an elaborate
and comprehensive platform, but who
in the eyes of some of his own friends
made an objectionable blunder in not
declaring as plank mo. !" 81 am not
related either by blood or marriage to
the great and only w. Y, but am sim
ply friend of the family of the men
who control"
We have at last reached that most
interesting period of Democratic ls
iocn, when tine kettle stands on It's
hind legs and declares the pot is black,
when the tail of the kite, that has kept
the whole thing floating, declares that
the stick, paper and Irvine, deserves to
be kicked sky high.
Like q coachwhip, realizing that the
skin which has protected him is over
run with parasites, and is q stencil in
the nostrils of the people, he adroitly
attaches it to what he believes is g.
twig of popular sentiment and un-
blushingly crawls out brazenly de-
claring to the people, there lays your
serpent ''Im only q snake in the
grass"
Can you give hundred thousand
majority to "Brer Fox?" who lay SO
low in 1894 and 1896, who snugly wrap
ped in the cocoon of silence during the
winter of his party's discomfort, now,
| believing that his season and hour has
come, would break from his surround
| ings and appear as the attractive and
gaudily bedecked butterfly of reform.
If you say to me that he did not run
with the hare, can you deny that he
| held with the hounds?
If he did not go through the mire
and shadows of political corruption,
he basked in the sunshine of Office OBJ
tanned by such methods and buttered
! his bread with the spois.
Talk to me of Populists supporting O.
candidate who for years remained
silent, but now has become outraged
because his party was seduced into
nominating w. Y. Atkinson; yet lifted
no voice of complaint when the voters
of this state were ravished of their
franchise and his party's nominee was
declared the Governor
| Talk to me about supporting a can
didate with cotton at five cents and the
tax rate out of sight, and whose only
remedy is tinkering policy of stop
ping leaks. l say to you that the hour
demands man with enough force and
backbone to thrust his fist into the
bunghole of extravaganza and hold it
there until the tax rate of the state is
reduced, at least thirty three and a
third per cent.
1.-THE men who control" have many
political scalps dangling at their belts
it will be interesting to note if the next
one taken shows evidence of having
covered bump of deceit as well as a
bump of conceit
There is but one opportunity for the
Democratic ticket to have a hundred
thousand majority in the coming cleo
ton, and that is for their convention
to endorse the candidate we shall to-
day nominate.
The roll call was dispensed with and
the districts sent up their nominations
to the chair.
During the morning, the various con-
gressional districts had held meetings
and the nominations and platform had
been thoroughly discussed, so that
upon the opening of the convention,
the usual confusion displayed in large
gatherings was almost totally avoided.
The committee on order of business
reported at / o'clock
Settled Down to Business,
The election of 8 temporary chair
man and secretary resulted in Hon.
John A. Sibley being chosen for the
first named place and Mark d. Irwin
for the last.
Upon the announcements of the choice
of the various districts for committee