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VOL. VI. NUMBER 37.
FOR THE CONFERENCE.
Straight Populists Everywhere
Are of the Same Mind.
TOO STRONG FOR THE FUSIONISTS,
What Middle-of-the-Roaderg Say Concern
ing the Naghvllle Meeting-All Favor
and Endorse It—More Letters
for Cunningham.
Populists everywhere are waking up
and moving into line ready for the fray
of 1900.
Nothing proposed since 1898 1. » at
tracted so much favorable attention,
comment and action as the movement
to have the voters of the party rank
and file determine by their ballots
whether or not a conference should be
• held.
The initiative and referendum plan
■« not a theory. It is a practical success
-rty movements as well as for
legia’ation and on every side middle-of
the-roaders are waking to their duty
and speaking their wishes.
All over Georgia, the campfires are
being lighted, county after county is
calling for a state convention and if
chairman Cunningham is waiting for
requests before calling the convention,
the immense pile of communications in
this office, only a part of which are
published for lack of room is certainly
enough to convince.
Georgia is ready for state convention,
ready for the Nashville conference. On
every side the populists of the
state want it. Where are those who
oppose it?
These letters tell the story.
Paulding County for Conference.
Editor People’s Party Paper:
Enclosed find 10 votes from Paulding
county. We are 1,000 here for the con
ference. Respectfully,
J. B. Hurt.
Warren County Solid.
Editor People’s Party Paper.
I send my vote for conference and I
think I would be safe in saying that
every Populist in Warren county is
against fusion and in favor of the Nash
ville meeting. P. M. Hili.
Warrenton, Ga.
Kick the Traitors Out.
I vote for the Convention and I want
every traitor that was at the St. Louis
convention kicked out. I was at that
convention and more devilish trickery
was never practiced in any convention
by some of our would-be leaders.
D. D. Langford.
Dublin, Ky.
He’s for the Conference.
Peoples Party Papei.
Enclosed you my vote for
the party.
James G. Cooper.
India, Ga.
All Populists Here For It.
People’s Party Paper.
Enclosed find my vote for conference
and will say all true populists here are
for the middle of the road.
Yours truly,
H. W. Harper.
Land, Ga.
Wants a Grand Rally.
I approve of that great conference to
be held on the 4th of July next, at
Nashville, I trust we shall have a
grand body turn out on that day to
approve of Omaha Declaration of In
dependence. Your brother,
John Blakeley.
Newton, Miss.
Middle-of-the-lioaders Vote.
I inclose you the votes of the middle
of-the-roaders from in and around this
place, others I guess will be sent soon.
With best wishes and no fusion and
Tom Watson forever.
Respectfully yours,
J. P. Hunt.
Round Oak, Ga.
Charlotte, N. C., Pop Favors Conference.
Editor People’s Party Paper:
Enclosed find my vote for conference.
I am secretary of the Executive Com
mittee of the People's Party of this
county, and have been since the birth
of the party, when I left the Demo
cratic party and burnt all bridges.
J. P. Sossamon.
Johnson County Solid for Conference.
People’s Party Paper.
The Populists of Johnson county are
solid in favor of a national conference
of the party this year. We have always
■’’’"been in the-middle-of-the-road and ex
pect to continue there.
Dr. M. D. L. Peacod.
Valaparaiso, Ind., Pop. for Conference.
Editor People’s Party Paper:
I do not believe that there is a true
Populist in the United States ttiat op
poses the national conference, even the
fusionist up here say that they can't
see that it will do any harm.
Respectfully,
C. S. Barrett,
Harrig County Pop for Conference.
Editor People’s Party Paper:
I(send you a few votes for the con
ference. I don’t know a single Popu
list that is against the conference. In
Harris county we are all jn the middle
of-the-road to stay. You? i truly,
W. T Whitehead.
Mississippi Too.
People’s Party Paper.
I herewith enclose you my vote on
the national conference. If I am not
a middle of the roader I don’t know
myself. Since the St. Louis convention
last summer we don’t know where we
are at lam with you for the right
J. A. Massey.
Bog, Mississippi.
Johnston Station Pop Favors Conference.
Editor People’s Party Paper:
Enclosed find my ballot for the na
tional conference. Let us make a
united effort to organize the People’s
Party, purging it of all fusionists and
traitors, who are seeking its destruc
tion. For heaven’s sake let us not be
allured by the cry of “Free Silver” at
THE I>E IPLE’S PARTY PAPER.
the one great remedy for the evilk" .hat
are upon us. Let me entreat my Popu
list friends to remain steadfast in the
middle-of-the-road, if we remain a mi
nority party, till the millenium.
Fraternally,
T. J. Harrington.
New Mexico Speaks.
People’s Party Paper.
Inclosed please find my ballot for
conference. I was born in old Han
cock county, Ga., was in the Confeder
ate army 4 years. Always wanted
right and want it yet.
Sidney Willcoxon.
Nogal, Lincoln Co., N. M.
______ i
The Only Hope Now. .
Editor People’s Party Paper:
I have not heard any one speak
against holding the Conference. 1 '
think it is the best thing following the 1
press association, which has cheered
and encouraged the people so much.
So let the Conference come, the only
hope now. 11. B. Van met ;e. j
Glendale, Ky., May 17, '97.
State Normal School Votes.
Editor People's Party Paper:
Enclosed find two more ballots for (
the national conference There are a ,
few Populists here and we want pure (
Populist principles. Let’s profit now (
by the sad experience of the past, and
get pure and stay pure. This is the
only truly brave way to defend a prin
ciple. W. D. Wells.
Want Conference July 4th.
Editor People’s Party Paper:
I want to say hurrah for Burkett and 1
those other brave boys who issued the
call for a national conference on July <
4th. No true Pop wants to follow <
leaders who trade first with one party I
and then the other. It looks two much .
like McCune, Livingstone and others in 1
the earlier days of the reform move- <
ment. Let all the boys stand by Tom i
he is right and always lias been. <
Yours truly, <
E. A. Wilson.
We Must Line Up*
People’s Party Paper.
I send in my vote for the national 1
conference of the people's party, to be
held at Nashville, July 4th, 1897.
I hope all Populists will be prompt 1
in sending in their votes, for we must 1
line up for the coming campaign.
There are lots of us that did not vote 1
in the last election, simply because we <
had no candidate to vote for. 1
R. M. Cox. s
Bartow, Polk County, Fla. 1
]
A Change or Heart. ,
People’s Party Paper. <
1 was a delegate to the St. Louis
Convention and I voted for Bryan and
Watson, but I have met with a change
of heart since the democrats ignored us
so, during the campaign.
could get the vote of the delegates at
the present time you would find they
would be in the middle of the road to
day.
Respectfully Yours,
W. C. Deakin.
Susquehanna, Pa.
Disgusted With Them.
Editor People’s Party Paper.
I am disgusted from the very bottom
of my heart with Butler and his fusion
crowd. Nothing would please Coffee
i county populists more than to have a
, national conference, and I shall urge
. upon our county chairman to call a
i meeting at once for the purpose of
• electing delegates to the state conven
tion. We are middle of the road popu
lists and do not want any more fusion.
We are populist from principle and any
move that will again restore peace and
unity we heartily endorse.
Yours in the cause,
Dan W. Gaskin.
Douglas, Coffee County, Ga.
The Only Hope.
People's Party Paper.
A national conference is the only
hope. Without a reaction our party is
doomed. Where is the alliance, the
' parent of reform ? Will we learn
nothing from the past? We can’t
make matters worse. If the opposition
• wants an excuse to flop over to the
> democrats, let them flop, the sooner
i the better. Let us have another na-
■ tioual chairman. Reason and justice
demands it. There isn’t a populist in
Dooly lounty who oppose a conference.
If there is he is a kind of hybrid I
hav’nt met. It is either pop or no pop
here.
! Enclosed please find list of a few who
5 vote for conference.
Yours for justice,
J. B. Cunningham.
Vienna, Ga.
An Entire New Committee.
People’s Party Paper.
I heartily endorse the holding of the
5 convention to reorganize the party as
■ called for July 4th at Nashville, and
J that our delegates should go instructed
1 to elect an entire new committee, as I
believe that the life and usefulndss of
the party depends upon the removal of
Butler from the chairmanship and
that the removal of every other mem •
ber of the committee will assist in the
restoration of confidence among the
- rank and file of the party.
Every populist with whom I have
1 discussed this matter fully agrees with
- the foregoing ideas. I enclose ballot.
Yours truly,
J. J. Spears.
Brunswick, Ga.
Blocton, Ala., Pop Favors Conference.
a Editor People’s Party Paper:
F You will find enclosed my vote, for
Q the conference, I think we should line
e ourselves up for the fight, and there is
no other way, that will be more effec
tual, in my opinion than to keep in
the-middle-of-the-road. Let's have the
conference by all means, and declare
’• for Populist principles, and then stick
to them. Yours truly,
W. L. Pratt.
a
g Cherokee Wants Conference,
g Editor People’s Party Paper :
:- Yes, by all means let us have a na
e tional conference, and see what we are
£ and where we are. lam satisfied that
nine-tenths of the Populists of Chero
kee county are opposed to fusion.
However 1 fear there are a few Popu
lists who would be glad to accept an
office under McKinley, and still remain
Populist. 1 for one don’t believe this
can be done successfully with either of
the old parties.
Success to the People’s Party Paper.
Respectfully,
Thos. Bell.
Troup County Wants State Convention.
Editor People’s Party Paper:
Please find herewith my ballot for
the Conference and a demand that Mr.
Cunningham call the state convention
at the very earliest moment. If he
will not do so then let our ex-Chairman
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, call a conven
tion and I dare to say, it will be largely
attended.
Yours for the right.
Joe S. Dames.
We Are Not Dead.
People’s Party Paper.
Enclosed find ballot for national con
ference. If I could cast one thousand
I would cast them all against fusion.
The People's Party of old Worth
Co., is not dead nor asleep, we are only
awaiting to be called into line by lead
ers we can trust. We won’t fuse with
any party.
Wishing much success to you and
your paper, I am.
Yours Respectfully,
David Champion.
Doles, Ga.
Hold the Conference.
Editor People’s Party Paper,
Enclosed find my vote on the confer
ence. I can see no reason why the
conference should not be held in July,
but many reasons for it, but not on
July 4th, as mentioned in the papers
for the reason that the 4th will be Sun
day. Am pleased to see that the vote
is so strongly in favor of the confer
ence, and think nearly every middle
of-the-roader is also.
Wm. T. Flynt.
Crawfordville, Ga.
Floyd County Fops Want Conference.
Editor People’s Party Paper:
Have written to Brother J. D. Cun
ningham (and mail today) notifying
him, that we, the Floyd county Popu
list are tired of fusion and therefore
want the “Conference” and requested
him to call state meeting and give us a
chance to assert our desires. I vote
for the conference July 4th. I am not
so accommodating as you are, I am not
hunting votes opposing the conference.
I only solicit Populist Party votes. We
are middle-of-the-roaders and when we
can’t be that, we are nothing.
Yours respectfuly,
S. J. Whatley,
Chairman Ex. Com. Floyd Co.
Waiting For the Bugle Sound.
ciParty Paper-
Enclosed find three ballots for .Na
tional Conference. Having been un
able to find one Pop in this (Jefferson)
county against National Conference at
Nashville July 4th, I will write Chair
man Cunningham by this mail inform
ing him of the sentiment in this sec
tion. We have been considering the
matter of calling a mass meeting in
this county, but have deferred the
matter until we know the date of the
state convention, thinking that as a
matter of course Mr. Cunningham
would call the convention. We are
middle-of-the-road Populists down here
to the core, only waiting for the bugle
sound to call us to action.
Louisville, Ga. J. J. Whigham
Alabama Comes In.
People’s Party Paper.
I take pleasure in sending you my
ballot for the conference. The mem
bers of our party in my county, Wilcox,
are very much discouraged. We are
not allowed to vote as we wish to. In
the last election for governor I voted
for Goodwin, but the next day one of
the inspectors bragged about throwing
away my ballot and putting in a vote
for Johnson.
Very few of us tried to vote in the
presidential election. We knew our
votes would not be counted as cast
What are we to do about it ? There
is no use to try to vote as long as the
democrats practice such pranks. We
think Tom Watson is the grandest man
in the United States.
Very Respectfully,
H. S. Jemison.
Lamison, Ala.
Favors Convention Meeting at Nashville.
Editor People's Party Paper:
I favor the Nashville convention, and
favor any practical method of electing
delegates that will curtail time and
cost, and give satisfaction to the party.
The executive committee should be
called together at once, that the neces
sary steps may be taken to carry out
the wish of the party. I think it un
necessary to require the people of a
majority of the counties at this time
the most busy season of the year tc
express themselves in convention favor
able to execute action, when it should
be known, that a very great majority
of the party favor the conference, and
desire to be represented.
L. L. Clement.
Louisville, Ga., Pop Favors Conference.
Editor People’s Party Paper:
Enclosed please find my ballot foi
national conference. Sentiment of the
Populist in our county, for said confer
ence is unanimous. A good many have
as individuals urged Chairman J. D.
Cunningham to call our State eunvun
tion. I have in the absence of oui
county chairman (off on business) this
mail written Chairman Cunningham
myself, as member of our county com
mittee, urging a call for said conven
tion.
Ever a “middle-of-the-road-Populist.’
T. H. Warren,
Member of Ex. Com. from 82 Dist.
G. M., Jeff. Co. Louisville District.
Seven Hundred in One County.
People’s Party Paper.
Enclosed find my ballot for confer
ence, I am county chairman of the Pop
ulist party in this, Franklin county
Arkansas, and we have seven hundrec
populists in this county and every on<
“EQ UAL RIGHTS TO ALL; SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE.”
ATLANTA, GEORGIA: FRIDAY MAY 28, 1897.
-of them to a man is a straight middle
. of the roader, and has been on his ear
■ ever since the St» Louis convention. I
i was a member of that convention and
i saw enough there of fusion and confu
i sion and democratic trickerv to last
f me the balance'oi life. In conety
sion will say that as county chairman
. of this county I will vouch for seven
hundred Butler ousting middle of the
road populists.
Fraternally yours,
B. L. Jones.
Ozark, Ark.
All Dead Against It.
’ People’s Party Paper.
Please find inclosed my vote for con-
' ference. If there is a populist in
M itchell county who is not dead against
fusion with any party and is not in
favor of the Nashville meeting I am
not able to hear of him. This county
is in the middle of the road and solid
for conference. G. A. McElvy. • ,
Camilla, Ga.
The Right Ring.
I Editor People’s Party Paper.
I have just read and reread Paul
1 Van Dervoort's reply to Black in the
Chicago Sentinel, and wish to say it
las the right ring to it, and breathes’
the sentiment of the populists of this
section. We say down with fusion and
up with the banner of true populism.
Like W. S. Morgan, we had rather vote
a thousand times for what we want
and not get it, than to vote for what
we don’t want and get it.
J. J. Holloway.
Clem, Carroll County, Ga.
Hero Worship Dying Out.
' People’s Party Paper.
To my mind one of the most hopeful
1 signs of the times is the freedom with
' which our people’s party ■ voters criti
cise their leaders.
1 We began with a little hero worship
but it is fast dying out. It must d e
out, we must look at our leaders as they
are, not what we like to believe them
to be—something out of the ordinary.
If they are not men, in all that word
implies, let’s say so, no matter how
high up in our nation’s councils they
are. In fact I hardly know whether
we ought to use the term—leaders. We
really are the true leaders —the whole
people—we direct, they are paid to do
our bidding. This very independent
calling of a conference in direct oppo
sition to those empowered to do so,' but
will not, appeals to my American free
dom loving heart. It makes us be
lieve we have some of the pure blood
of our illustrious, patriotic forefathers
still running in our veins. Men who
dare to step out and do a duty they
feel they owe to humanity regardless
of consequences to themselves.
I reach out my hand to them all and
say, “God bless you.”
And I am not alone in this thought.
We procured some ballots from the
- IVIISSOUri VVOnu. auu wvvr «vu wuic
- vote of our township. In all the bal
) lots there was not one negative, and I
t believe lowa has many more men just
- as much in sympathy.
Irene Hillary' Beebe.
Wever lowa.
6 Straight from the Shoulder.
1 I send you my ballot favoring a na-
B tional conference. I am glad to see
8 our party again in motion in the right
1 direction. When our boys have the
1 courage to walk into a national con
e vention and demand that Marion But
e ler step down and out, and proceed to
e put him out, then I shall feel hopeful
for the future of our party. But until
that is done 1 shall never go to the
trouble and expense of going through
another such farce as the last cam-
P paign was with such men as Butler at
. its head. As a member of the State
Executive Committee 1 have written
e Chairman Cunningman requesting him
Q to call a state convention for the pur
fl pose oi electing delegates to the na
f tional conference.
tr In the meantime let each and every
e county in the state go to work and
elect delegates to the state convention.
Q Let us lose no time. If you fail in this
r move you had as well take off your hat
A to Marion Butler and his damnable
e methods and bid farewell to populism.
e L. G. Collins.
c Fought Against Fusion.
Q People’s Party Paper,
I enclose my ballot for conference.
Ido this as I realize that the sooner
the conference meets and the repre
sentatives of the true populists declare
against the fusion deals made in the
past, and irrevocably, if possible
against any and all kinds or degrees of
d fusion in future, the quicker the confi
dence of the members of the party, to
say nothing of others looking for some
’’ party ot reform which they may ioin,
e will regain the hope and trust that
*' they have regrettingly seen and felt tc
1 vanish by such fusion deals as meant
1 ‘ only the spoils of office and the repudi
a ation of the hope and trust for reform
e committed to and in the Populist or
-0 ganization.
As one of the first populists in North
d Carolina, I have fought against fusion
in our state, but alas ! with but little
success. Since 1894 it has become
honey combed by fusion, and through
it our vote of 50,000 for governor in
s> 1892 with less than six months organi
zation by middle of the road fight is
reduced to a vote of 32,000 for governor
r in 1896 and resulted in turning our
e last state legislature absolutely over to
the republican’s control That w "Jorth
e Carolina’s result of successful Fusion
*' as a state with republicans and nation-
I ally with democrats. Down with
ir fusion and all fusion leaders, or it will
is
down us.
II Abbott L. Swinson.
1 Goldsboro, N. C.
i-
» Teliafero County.
” The members of the People’s Party
of Taliaferro county are requested to
meet at the court house in Crawford
ville at 2 o’clock, p. m., June 15th, for
the purpose of considering the question
of holding a national conference at
Nashville, as suggested by the National
r _ Reform Press, and to elect delegates to
a state convention. Every citizen who
" favors a government of, by and for the
'I people, and will vote that way, is es
“ pecially requested to be present.
ie S. H. Rhodes, Chairman.
CREAM OF THE PRESS. '
i
Extracts From Many Sources
on Subjects of Interest. ,
>■ ■ 1
pofith resp«r N GENT PRESS PICKINGS. 1
)' reason from v
w of his exit from tx 1
L a ,889, Mr. Cleveland anti 8v Earnest 1
tiers were busily engaged ori-u>f 1
Jr 1892. His part
to pose as_ t liable Shape.
ph’ l '- <
Z mwn in Texas, if a man calling him- <
st . a populist is caught advocating 1
iu ion he is branded as a counterfeit 1
back to the mints and reis- ■
sutd.” —Lincoln (Va ) Citizen.
the Macon Telegraph and the Au
gUU.a Tribune are still at it “hammer j
’yTftongs.” discussing the “whyness of 1
thv Therefore” but the world moves on, ,
to 1
t tys get harder, and death and taxes
ar,> jure to come to us all.—Guidon.
usion advocates ask if it is not bet- j
ter for Populists to fuse and get a few j
offices, than to stick to the middle of ,
the road with no prospect tor office
Vi d say no. Our mission is one of edu- .
cation and emancipation. If we fuse (
sacrifice all our influence as re- 1
formers. No greater calamity could ,
befall the American people. Let there ,
be no fusion. —Commonwealth.
GOT ENOUGH.
The populists of Oregon have declar
ed in emphatic language that they will
have no more fusion with democrats i
nor republicans. It will be the same <
with the majority of the States, if not >
ail.—Texas Herald.
WELL SAID. 1
Some people seem to think the Peo- .
pie’s party only exists in order to help
Democrats in the north and Republi
cans in the south get office. The stock
we have in the organization is not to
be disposed of in that way.—People’s
Messenger. (
■ THE SIZE OF IT.
Get yourself ready for the reorgani- ,
zation of the people’s party on the
Omaha platform. No more fusion for- i
ever. If either old party is good enough
to fuse with they are good enough to
join.—Farmers Review.
- HE WON’T NO MORE.
It will be some long weary months
before Marion Butler jumps Frank
luirkitt for another apology. He did
tliis act of foolishness last week, and
Ilrank simply wiped him off the face of
J>e Populistic earth, and used Butler’s
own words to do the job. —Girard
World.
I DIDN'T ,v.*-vr IT.
| Here, take my seat, , e ’-” said the |
(' .e boy on the car, as e su £ang from
l<nve nnd *d his hat.
he lady looked like a blush rose ; the
'bomen giggled; the father signaled the
onducthr to stop, and half a dozen
ijnen stood up while urging the lady to
'«it down. —Ex.
GOOD ENOUGH JOHN.
Bro. John D. Rockefeller, of the Oil
Trust, who exhorts as a side line some
times, said recently that a man could
not really be happy, no matter how
much money he may possess unless he
is a Christian. We expect John has a
private opinion that a man can’t be
much of a Christian unless he has lots
of boodle.—Progressive Farmer.
The plutocratic press is holding up
its hands in holy horror at Senator
Chandler’s proposition to seize the Car
negie iron works and finish the battle
' ships. These same papers would de
fend a draft to fill an army—seizing
human beings and sending them for
ward to be shot But property is sa
cred, and human life is not. —Plain
■ Dealer.
THEY won’t MIX.
One thing is certain: The Populists
and Democratic parties of this nation
can never be merged into one. A party
without principle, and with but one
object in view—spoils- can never gath
er to its folds the true men who have
made Populism a defiant and unyield
ing factor in American politics.
NO FUSIONISTS THERE.
The camp fires of populism are be
. ginning to burn and blaze on every
. rolling hill and beside every murmur
ing stream in grand old Texas.
Another fortnight and they will
flame from the Sabine to the Rio
: Grande. On to Nashville is the univer
sal cry. —Texas Truth.
i How He Did It.
If you w’ant to know how to get your
wife to mend your clothes, find the se
cret in the following domestic incident:
“It’s strange I can’t get my wife to
mend my clothes,” remarked Mr. Bridle
in a tone of disgust. “I asked her to
sew a button on this vest this morning,
and she hasn’t touched it yet”
“You asked her?” said Mr. Norris,
with a slight shrug of his shoulders.
“Yesi what else should I do?”
“You haven’t been married very long
and perhaps you’ll take a pointer from
me,” answered Mr. Norris, with a fath
erly air. “Never ask a woman to mend
anything. That’s fatal”
“Why, what do you mean?”
“Do as I do. When I want a shirt
mended, for instance, I take it in my
' hand and hunt up my wife. ‘Where’s
that ragbag, Mrs. Norris?’ I demand,
in a stern voice.
“ 'What de ye” want the ragbag for?’
she says, suspiciously.
“ ‘I want to throw this shirt away,
It’s all worn out,’ I reply.
“ ‘Let me see,’ she demands.
“But I put the garment behind my
back.
“ ‘No, my dear, I answer. ‘There’s
! no use of your attempting to do any
thing with it. It needs —’
. “ ‘Let me see it,’ she reiterates.
'■* ‘But it’s all worn out, I tell you.’
“ ‘Now, John, you give me that
shirt!’ she says, in her most peremptory
, tone.
, “I hand oyer the shirt.
. “ ‘Why, John Norris,’ she cries, with
■ a womanly triumph, ‘this is a perfectly
good shirt. All it needs is ’ And
then she mends it.”—Farmers’ Voice.
WALL STREET’S INTENTIONS .
Mr. Machen Interviews a Banker on the
Money Question. y
The Atlanta Journal gives the fol
lowing interview between Mr. Machen,
a railroad contractor and a New York
banker: y
“I was talking' tvith him about reg
istering some bonds for a proposed new
railroad,” said Mr. Machen, “when he C
remarked, “If you do begin any new
(instruction now you had better take
a refrigerator car with you, for I pre
dict that capital will make it warm for
you. Capital won’t permit any new
development —can’t afford to until the
financial question is satisfactorily set- v
tied and the cats and dogs now on hand
are worked off.”
“Are you not putting out any money fl
now?” s
“No, except on call. We are piling e
it up and putting the bars around it
tighter than ever. There never was a
time when we had as much money and a
as much stuff as we have now. We
are obliged to keep the npQ&ey here to 1
protect these securities- We can’t af
ford to let you put down new rails at c
S2O a ton that cost an average of 170. g
If the money goes out into the country t
for new development there won’t be
enough here to take care of our securi
ties. We have to take care of these
gamblers because we have got their *
stuff. All the banks are loaded down j
with loans on railroad securities and
the world has unloaded op as. ’
THE MONEY PLAN. I
“Don’t you think it was unwise, from t
a selfish standpoint, to call six millions i
of the American people anarchists?” I
asked. t
“Yes, that was unwise, and capital is ,
getting it in the neck because of that.
It scared the Europeans and made j
them unload our securities. But we
are not going to take that risk any
more. Give the Debs people forty-eight 1
hours’ start again and there’s no telling 1
what would happen. We are going to ’
have things fixed this time. It was an 3
expensive luxury electing a president
the last time. Instead of the tariff, f
congress should first consider the cur- J
rency question. The New York bank- ,
ers were assured that any reasonable j
plan suggested by them with anything s
like unanimity would be adopted.
“So far we haven’t been able to agree
upon a plan. Financiers differ on some (
points, but the general idea is to issue 1
a thousand millions of low-rate gov- *
ernment bonds, at 2 or 2X per cent 1
interest as a basis for national bank
circulation, take up all the greenbacks ]
and other paper, and leave nothing but
gold and national bank notes, and ]
make the bonds redeemable in coin, as (
a sop to you silver people. We will
keep enough silver on hand to give a
man who wants bank notes redeemed
I a cart load if he calls for it. After he 1
t cart load he won’t want <
“What will you do abotit all the rail
road securities you have loaned on?”
“We are going to have government
ownership of railroads. The govern
ment is the only purchaser we can put
them to. It is the only power that can
make the investment stable.”
“How are you going to agree on a
value for them?’ ”
“ ‘The operations of foreclosure are
rapidly sealing them down to a point
where the first mortgage bonds will
represent the actual investment.’ ”
“ ‘What is going to become of the
stockholders and the junior security
holders?’ ”
“‘The watchword of action with
them must be ‘devil take the hindmost. ’
You know these gamblers on the stock
exchange don’t, as a rule, buy for in
vestment.’ ”
LARGE ARMY WANTED.
“In further conversation he said:
“ ‘We need an increase in the stand
ing army sufficient to protect property
and check the restless ambition of
backwoods nobodies.
“ ‘I believe it would be better to put
it to 100,000 men.
“ ‘The country would be better off if
the currency question was left to the
financial people, because of their supe
rior intelligence on the subject, and as
they are the custodians of funds of
widows, orphans and people who hold
them to a strict accountability as trus
tees, there should be a higher law to
protect them than applies to everyday
trivial affairs of life.’ ”
“Why,’ I said, ‘that’s leading to mon
archy?’ ”
“He said: ‘Monarchy is not a buga
boo to me. Though few will admit it
I believe that a majority of people with
large property interests feel as I do.’ ”
“I said : ‘I am perfectly charmed
with your frankness, and feel sure you
are as honest as audacious, but if I
were in your place, and suffered like
you do, I’d go home and take a dose of
liver pills and read the Scriptures
afterwards till my liver got right. If
the care of money made me as bilious
as it seems to have done you, I’d give
up the place quick.’”
The foregoing is the substance of a
conversation Mr. Machen had with
friends in private. A Journal repre
sentative heard it, and the next day
went back and asked permission to
publish it Mr. Machen said he didn’t
care, except that he would not be will
ing to mention any names, as it was a
private conversation. He said the gen
tleman is a clever fellow, who was per
haps oppressed with his responsibility
and talked much more freely in private
than he would in public.
“I don’t believe, however,” said Mr.
Machen, “that he would object even to
the publication of his name, as he is a
man who generally speaks out what he
thinks.”
Got it Down Right,
The “address to the People’s Party”
issued by the populist senators and rep
resentatives in congress says there
“must be concentrated action and an
avoidance of all entangling alliances to
insure success.” A careful perusal of
the address would impress a “true
blue” Populist with the idea that it
was issued in the interest of a continu
ance of the present “entangling alli
ance” —judging from our own impres
>ion.—Tulare Valley Citizen.
ALL OVER THE NATION.
And What the Great World is
Talking of To-day.
VERY LATEST NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Chicago Man Doctors His Wife With Cold
Lead—New York’s Governor Vetoes
Inheritance Tax—Chicago Man
Gets a Job in China.
Mrs. Nellie Dawson, 25 years old,
was shot to death in Chicago by her
husband while she lay sick in bed.
Within the last year eight bicylists
have been run down and killed and 35
seriously wounded by vehicles in differ
ent cities.
The New York sweat shop tailors
and tailoress to the number of 1200, are
out on a hunt for McKinley’s prosper
ity.
Gov. Black, of New York, has de
clined to approve the bill imposing a
graduated inheritance tax upon es
tates.
Albert King, the bank messenger,
who disappeared from Boston with
$30,000 in cash on Tuesday of last week
has been arrested in Farmington,
Maine. All the money was recovered.
An Ohioan, Silas Wardling, shot his
mother to death because she demanded
the return of a log chain he had bor
rowed of her.
Li Hung Chang, the Chinese states
man, has offered a Chicago man a sal
ary of $6,000 a year for five years to go
to Hong Kong and establish a free de
livery postal system for the city.
At Fort Wayne, Indiana, three work
men were engulfed in a quicksand and
lost their lives. A fourth man was ex
tricated alive but he was so badly in
jured that he is not expected to live.
In Uruquay, the rebels seem to be
getting the better of the government
troops. In the past week a large num
ber of troops have crossed over into
Brazil to get out of the way of the in
surgent General Lamas.
Attorney General McKenna, has ren
dered an opinion that the secretary of
war has no authority to authorize the
erection of the Catholic chapel on the
military reservation at West Point
The United States District Attorney
has nol prosed the case against ex
postmaster Armour, of Memphis, upon
payment of the shortage due the gov
ernment
The New York prison, known as the
Tombs, is being torn down, prepara
tory to the erection of a larger and more
commodious structure on the same site.
At iiew a UltetT.
year old boy, William K. Ross, hanged
himself while his parents were at
church. He was a cigarette smoker,
and it is thought he killed himself
because he could not wean himself
from the habit.
On Saturday of last week six small
boys, residents of Chicago, ventured
out upon the water upon a raft of their
own construction. A panic soon seized
them and they jumped from the raft,
only one making his way to land.
It is now reported that the investors
of the defunct E. S. Dean Co., may get
at least, a part of their money, not be
cause of any compunctions of con
science on the part of the thieves who
formed the company, but because of
the number of prominent people mixed
up with it, and who cannot afford to
have the matter investigated.
Senator Joseph Earle, of South Caro
lina, is dead. It is probable that Gov
ernor Ellerbe will appoint Congress
man McLaurin to fill his place until
the legislature meets next winter and
elects his successor.
H. O. Havemeyer, president of the
sugar trust, went on trial before Judge
Bradley on Tuesday for refusing to an
swer the questions of the Senate com
mittee while investigating the sugar
trust scandal at the last session.
Engineer Netties, of the Washington
& Columbia road became crazy from
a blow on the temple from a rock
thrown at his train, by some miscreant
a month ago. On Sunday night he
secured a carving knife and almost
severed his head from his body. The
wretch that threw the rock has never
been discovered.
On Monday morning the bodies of
Henry Pressley, a white man, and an
unknown negro were found badly
mangled on the track of the Southern
railway, at Athens, Tenn. They had
evidently been run over during the
night.
The president has approved the
finding of the military court dismissing
Capt. Henry Romeyn from the army,
but in view of his long and meritorious
record he modifies the punishment from
dismissal to a reprimand. Capt Ro
meyn has been released from arrest
and next week will be retired from
active service under the age limit.
Ernest Slade, white, Silas Parker,
Eras Parker, Sylvester West and John
Lenchan, colored, are i.i Camden, Ala,
jail, charged with the robbery and
murder of Mike Sellers, colored, at
Possum Bend. They are suspected of
having murdered Sellers for his money,
$165, and then throwing his body in
the river.
I
The discussion of the tariff bill was
opened in the Senate cn Tuesday by
Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island, His
will likely be the only set speech de
livered on the Republican side of the
house. As consideration of the bill
progresses a number of amendments
will be offered. The majority will en
deaver to secure to vote inside of three
weeks. The democrats will not resort
to obstructive tactics and will even
have a few of their number stay away
when it comes to a vote if it becomes
necessary in order for the bill to pass.
Last year while Rudolph Rossin was
on a visit to his native home in Ger-
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£ best dollar book printed—free
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many, he was taken sick and died. He
willed that his body should be cremated
and the ashes sent to St. Louis and
preserved until his next birthday May
23, 1897, when they were to be emptied
into the Mississippi river from the
Eads bridge. On- Sunday the ashes
were emptied into the river according
to his dying request
International.
The last detachment of Greek **.oops
occupying Crete have embarked for
home.
Edbem Pasha has notified the Greek
officers that he is empowered to nego
tiate the terms of peace direct with
the Greek government
Several riots occurred during the
recent election in Hungary. At Bos
myacze tre troops were ordered to fire
upon the citizens, killing fourteen and
wounding thirty.
Four persons were killed and almost
twenty wounded by the explosion of »
bomb at a fire works display at Nantes
France, on Monday.
It is now reported that
Aguirre, an American citizen in the
insurgent army, was not killed in bat
tle, but was wounded and captured by
the Spaniards. When his American
citizenship was ascertained, he was tied
to a horses tail and dragged through
the streets of a village till he was dead.
Count Ito, ex-Premier of Japan de
clares that his country does not want
Hawaii and would not accept it as a
gift, partly because the island is too
far away to be of value to Japan and
partly because Japan desires to keep on
good terms with the United States and
this government would look at Japan’s
acquisition of the island as an un
friendly act.
The debate in the Spanish Senate
over the passage of Senator Morgan’s
resolution according belligerent rights
to Cuba waxed so warm that the duke
of Tetuan slapped the jaws of Senator
Comas. The duke at once tendered his
resignation as minister of foreign af
fairs as a preliminary to the expected
duel. After deliberation the seconds
decided that no duel was necessary, as
the provocation had been mutual.
The powers have addressed a note to
the Porte, declaring that Turkey would
not be permitted to retain possession
of Thessaly and must not exact a
greater indemnity from Greece than
115,000,000 francs.
In interfering in behalf of Greece,
Russia declares that she is more inter
ested in protecting dynasty than in
saving the Greek nation from the re
sults of their defeat. King George may
deserve protection because he was
forced by the people to declare war,
but the people should be allowed to
kick the prineei . Constantine and
'l3ic’’nuru3s-ouk<s£ kL j.
- 2.00
, After the Tetua,’ w> ty aas difficulty in
the lobby of the Senate chatn-
’ ber the liberals , sed to attend
’ further sessions of the Senate until the
Duke was dismissed from the ministry,
but after a conferedce between the
premier, the president of the Senate
and Senor Sagasta, it was agreed that
the incident should be settled by the
duke announcing in the Senate that he
intended no slight or offense to the
liberals.
The Liberal Senators have refused to
accept an explanation from the duke of
Tetuan and will continue to absent
( themselves until he is dismissed from
: the ministry. It is not improbable
that the affair may result in the over
( throw of the Canovas ministry.
The phlegmatic German legislator is
• fully up to the American congressman
■ when he gets his blood up. On Mon
day, those who opposed the edict
making the Ceich language the official
i language of Bohemia, cut up all sorts
of didoes in the Reichsrath. Having
, exhausted all parliamentary methods
, of obstructing business, desks were
overturned, books and inkstands were
thrown at those attempting to speak
. and the performance wound up with a
promiscuous scrapping bee.
A sensational trial of Van Fausch,
t formerly commissioner of the secret
: political police, is now going in Berlin,
, Von Fausch is charged with giving in
. structions to have the report published
, that the ear troubles from which the
: Emperor was suffering was from a
• cancerous growth and was inherited
from his father. The German consti
tution requires that the wearer of the
' crown be sound in mind and body.
Hence the circulation of such a rti*agp- — 1
was calculated to do mischief.
The One Iggae.
There is one issue now before the
American people which overshadows in
importance all others. It is not the
. money question. It is the question of
self-government. It is the issue of di
rect legislation. It is the proposition
that we adopt the system of the ini
tiative and referendum. It is the pro
position that we avail ourselves of a
prerogative we have never held —the
right of a majority to rule. It is a de
mand for a direct vote of the people on
all laws which affect their liberties
and their happiness. It is an appeal
for a true democracy, a call for the
formation of a true republic.
Compared with this there is no other
issue. Until this is met. and the peo
ple have affirmed their right to rule,
they will not govern—they will be gov
erned, and they will deserve to be
governed. There is no sovereign voter
to day. We are a lot of deluded asses,
who periodically march to the polls
and vote for men who trade on our
suffrages and deliver us as bond slaves
to the men who place bribes in their
hands.
You can pass no law looking for
monetary reform until you have af
firmed the right of the majority to rule.
You might carry the election by five
million majority and you would win
nothing but some offices for men who
would promptly sell you out. If you
don’t believe it, read the history of
your country.—New Occasion.