People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1895 — NOT DISCOURAGED. [ARTICLE]

NOT DISCOURAGED.

Tom Watson Says the Pops Are Just Beginning to Fight. In Wilkison county the democratic registrars struck off sixty populists who are entitled to vote; Jefferson some three hundred; in Columbia about the same; in Taliaferro at least 50; in Richmond they not only retained 1,200 illegal votes for Black but counted 1,000 of our ballots for him. We say it; and we will prove it. ... Discouraged? Bosh! Bosh!! Bosh!!! Let the other fellow get discouraged. His troubles are just beginning to commence. ... Courage, comrades! The battle is only begun. A generation of wrong cannot be swept away in a day. If your heart is not in this fight, the sooner you quit-the better: you will be a burden to us rather than a help. But if your heart is in it, then be of good cheer and press on. The world can never suppress a man who loves his convictions better than life itself, and who would stand disgraced in his own eyes if he did not do battle for the right as a mere matter of duty, reward or no reward. All that is worth having in the social fabric which shelters us is the fruit of sacrifice, of toil, of patience, of persistent adherence to noble ideas. We who are populists on principle cannot become indifferent. We dare not. We would sin against conscience to do it. ... Whipped? Not much. We are just beginning to fight.—People’s Party Paper.