People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — LETTER FROM WAITE. [ARTICLE]

LETTER FROM WAITE.

Ood Has Implanted a Principle of Justice In the Human Heart. < Hon. S. F. Norton—My Dear Sir: I have just returned from Texas and feel very much encouraged. That state is sure to vote populist In 1896; There is no election this fall, but already the silver democrats, realising that they have no show in the democratic party, are coming over to us in shoalß. I learned two facts which both Interested and encouraged me, as pretty good proof that the disintegration of the democratic party has set in all over the South. One was related to me by "Cyclone” Davis and occurred in his •congressional district. Davis was elected to congress by about 2,000 majority, but the returns and boxes were "doctored” and he was counted out. A hard shell Baptist minister lived in bne of the adjoining counties of this district, and his son was a candidate for some county office on the democratic ticket, and was declared elected, notwithstanding the populists had fairly carried the county. The old minister went up to the county seat and made the officials a short speech about as follows: "You all know me. I have lived in this county forty years, was in the Confederate army, and never Toted anything but the democratic ticket, bnt you know and I know that the democratic ticket was fairly beaten in this county at the late election. My son and I have come up today to tell you that he refuses to accept the office to which you have declared him elected. He will not take an office to which he was not elected. You may have degrees in crime. I have none. I believe a man who steals votes as wicked as a man who steals a horse, and we want you to know that henceforth we shall vote the populist ticket.” Ood bless the hard shell Baptists! The other was told me at Sherman. A leading populist in that vicinity had just received a visit from a friend from Georgia. They both formerly lived in one of the counties of Tom Watson’s district, and the Georgian was a democrat After other conversation, the Texan says: “How’s politics in Georgia?” “Oh,” replied the Georgian, "we counted in Governor Bill Atkinson and counted out Tom Watson." "Well, now, my friend,” said the Texan, “between me and you, what is your pri-vate-opinion of that style of doing business?” Said the Georgian: “To tell the truth, I am ashamed of it, and the fact is, the decent democrats of Georgia are abandoning the democratic party for that very reason." God has implanted dcpp down in the human heart an eternal principle of justice, else the people would be incapable of self-government. Yours truly, DAVIS H. WAITE.