14 Mar 1895
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Newspaper
Bainbridge Democrat
Location
Bainbridge, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1895
Page
1
A jumble of late 19th century Georgia political chatter and national sentiment runs through editorials and dispatches. Topics include farming policy warnings, party alignment shifts, Georgia editors’ legal battles, Greek settlers heading to Savannah, and calls to boost domestic industry with Atlanta made goods. Reports touch on Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi influences, with Savannah and Augusta named among key locales.
The American Bi Metallic Party announces a platform on money. It opposes the single gold standard and calls for full coinage of silver and gold at 16 to 1 with silver legal tender for all debts. It urges government control of currency and payment of debts in gold or silver at the government’s option. It signs a list of committee members and outlines a provisional national committee and candidate.
The piece warns of a new wave of populist lecture campaigns after Congress adjourned, with a vast bureau planned to spread political literature across the South and West. It criticizes populist agitation, notes North Carolina’s Douglass resolution expungement, and details delegates for the Moneta ry Congress plus expectations of an international bi metallic conference likely to meet in Brussels. The author urges forewarned citizens to resist deceptive rhetoric and preserve the nation’s monetary parity goals.
In Decatur County Georgia the Executors E Wiel H Meinhard and P F Williams of the Julius Steininger estate petition the Ordinary to discharge them from administration and receive letters of dismission on the first Monday in April 1895, citing all persons kin and creditors to show cause.
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