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gn*'ig»*jg g«jg • J A GOOD WATCH You c*n get one free—Send In 8 0 two yearly dollar subscribe™ 8 S to thia paper to-day. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. 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- J PP4NCR Mr. Watson’s Btoby of Fbancx, £ best dollar book printed—free f for two yearly subscribers. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER 349. 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.