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41 THE BEST THOUGHTS iP <h <r. On reform Rubjects can only be ty; 4h found in this paper every week, ij/ 52 times for one dollar. \|/ ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. VOL. VI. NUMBER 43. THE NATIONAL' AT NASHVILLE. Patriotic Delegates From Many States Vote Unanimously For the Reorganization of the People’s Party. , THEY ARE ALL OF ONE MIND AND AGAINST FUSION. All the Leading Populist States Well Represented by True Men-What Will be Done by the Party in the Future-A Ringing Address to the People’s Party of the United States Which Calls Upon the Whole People to Rally to its Standard. NATIONAL REFORM EDITORS A Butler Defender Finds Hard Times— Every One Condemns Fusion. Nashville, Tenn., July 3.—National Reform Press Association met here yes terday and after a call of the roll which showed Texas represented by upwards of 50 editors, the body informally dis cussed the question of the hour and the future of Populism. A dozen states were represented and Wisconsin sent Editor Schilling of Milwaukee, who sprung the sensation of the hour by a few minutes speech defending Chair man Butler. It was a sensation and for such a hot day turned an informal talk into a siz zling, heated debate. Editor Schilling wanted to know what were the charges against Butler. A dozen were on the floor in a minute and the chair finally recognized Milton Park, he of the Southern Mercury and a stalwart fighter of old. Mr. Park fired so many questions and Buzz Saw Morgan filed so many char ges to be read that the meeting conclu ded to adjourn—it was the many against one—Butler was no more a name to inspire attention or even pas sing curiosity. To defend him excited all the antagonism in the nature of those standard bearers who had carried the banner of Populism through many heated campaigns and who had no lon ger anything but supreme indifference and in many cases contempt for the national chairman. . of tlic No’) for mist was partly a defender of Butler, but he early gave up the fight seeing that all were of one mind —anti-fusion to the marrow. The press meeting adjourned to meet Monday with the Conference, when routine business will be set aside and the future of the party discussed. A ROYAL BANQUET. Saturday, the reform press editors accompanied by the ladies of their party and under the leadership of the doughty McDowell visited the Nash ville Centennial Exposition. It was a hot, sizzling hot day, and many a Texas editor found navigation most difficult and staid in the shade. The thermom eter hovered around the 102 mark but the crowd “did” the Exposition in the conventional manner, The buildings, of which no accurate description could be attempted, filled with all that art, science, and enterprise can gather to gether and arrange into pleasing effects were thoroughly inspected. Promptly at noon, the forces were gathered together and in an open piazza of The Casino sat down to a royal banquet, tendered the reform editors by the Centennial directors. It was a banquet to be remembered and the cordiality of the Exposition management which had been empha sized by all Nashville on the day pre vious made the scene one worthy of mention. Seated at a half circle table with jolly Milton Park as toast-master at the head, Abe Steinberger on his immediate right and Harry Tracy on his left, there were scattered all down the line, “the boys” from all parts of the country. General Coxey at a table with the ladies sat behind Park, next to Stein berger, editor Baskin, of the Nashville American and one of the hosts, a bold thinker and a clever entertainer,direct ly facing Steinberger, Buzz Saw Mor gan was in reaching distance of Park. It was an accidental combination of heavy weights and to one who had read after all of them, the moment seemed auspicious. Polk, the “origi nal” Greenbacker, formerly publisher of the Indianapolis Sun, a little ways off, faced Vincent of the Non-Confor mist. Motsinger of the Referendum and Harbison of the Vincennes (Ind.) National Era were near the foot of the table. The same square determined jaw I could be seen on every sac had a quiet, pleasant smile for his next neigh bor but there was in the air, the very spirit of revolution. A conversation sprung up with Brad ley, the state chairman of Texas. It had the same ring, a determined steady tone —fusion now and forever must be stamped out. If there were fusion apol ogists they were conspicuous by their absence. “Death to fusion” uncon sciously found its way into all conver sation. The banquet wound up by several toasts and responses. Saturday night, nearly 30 of the press party left for Ruskin Tenn., where they will remain until Monday. [ Nashville, Tenn., July s.—The first ■ day of the National Conference has Peace and harmonious action is linguist) ed the day until just at dusk o of the local Tennessee delegation §§j%ertained the visitors by a hand to KgmMu'bt on the rostrum. The local were McDowell and Lindsley. THE PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER The weather has been very hot here so hot that even the natives complain and this is supposed by the charitable minded delegates to be the explanation, why delegate Lindsley accused Mc- Dowell of being a red headed sap-suck er and McDowell pictured Lindsley as a political buzzard. The delegates enjoyed the fight. Quietly it had been whispered around that one had fused last year with dem ocrats and the other with republicans and when it became necessary for both to get in the middle of the road boat, each wanted the other fellow left on shore. The Conference was called to order by Milton Park. He spoke briefly of the call and J. S. Bradley, of Texas as temporary chairman and Jo. Parker of Kentucky were seated by unanimous vote which was afterwards made per manent. Chairman Bradley captured the Con ference, when he referred to the “mock marriage” at St. Louis, and stated that “we are here as plaintiffs in a divorce suit, since the groom has left our bed and board ” Each state delegation selected its own committeemen. The following were on credentials: John H. Cherry, Arkansas; E. J. Pemberton. Florida; W. L. Peek, Georgia; W. T. Carmichael, Indiana; J. O. Beebee, Iowa; S. C. Granbery, Tex; N. D. Spear, Alabama, R. [L. Crosthwait, Mississippi; F. W. D. Mays, Washington; W. F. Hougha wout, Missouri; John Briney, West Virginia; Samuel James, Jr., Ken tucky : A. W. Stewart, Louisiana; P. J. f ishDacß, umo; James M. Bur row, Michigan; H. J. O. Reed. Minne sota; L. Stebbins, Nevada; J. J. Stree ter. New Hampshire: G. E. Boggs, North Carolina; J. N. Arnold, Rhode Island, and Robert Schillings, Wiscon sin ; John Knox, Kansas. A recess for dinner being taken, the Conference reassembled at 1 o’clock and listened to an address of welcome by Ex-Governor Jno. P. Buckanan, of Tennessee. It was an impassionate appeal for harmony and conservatism. Delegate F. D. Wimberly, of Georgia, responded in a splendid manner. REPORT ON CREDENTIALS. The report of the Committee on Cre dentials was read by James W. Arnold, Secretary. The report showed that the number of delegates with the proper credentials was as follows: Alabama 38, Arkansas 15, Florida 4, Georgia 39, Illinois 24, Indiana 12, lowa 7, Kansas 2, Kentucky 9, Louisi ana 13, Michigan 12, Minnesota 19, Mis sissippi 7, Missouri 17, Nebraska 2, Montana 3, New Hampshire 1, North Carolina 2, Ohio 21, Rhode Island 1, Tennessee 13, Texas 80, Washington 1, West Virginia 2, Wisconsin 1; total, 355. No seats were contested. The chair ruled that the States could only cast the votes of delegates present. It was agreed that Kansas should have her full vote. Abe Steinberger was found to be the only delegate from that state having proper credentials. ADDRESS AND RESOLUTIONS. The Committee on Address and Res olutions (the important Committee of the Conference) was next selected. COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS. The roll was called by States and the following committeemen named : Ala bama, M. W. Howard; Arkansas, W. S. Morgan; Florida, F. H. Lytle; Georgia, W. L. Peek; Illinois, James H. Ferris; Indiana, N. H. Motsinger: lowa, J. O. Beebe; Kansas, Abe Steinl»erger; Ken tucky, A. 11. Cardin ; Louisiana, A. A. Gunby; Michigan, James E. Mcßride; Minnesota, Ignatius Louuelly; Missis sippi, W. P. Ratcliffe; Missouri, J. P. Dines; Nebraska, ; Montana, William Holden; New Hampshire, J. J. Streeter; North Carolina, E. E. Boggsi Ohio, J. S. Coxey; Rhode Island, J. N. Arnold; Tennessee. A. L. Mims; Texas, Harry Tracy; Washington, F. W. D. Mays; West Virginia, J. W. Shull; Wisconsin, Robert Schillings. Mr. Vincent, of Indiana, read a let ter from the Fourth Congressional Dis trict Committee of that State, asking their hearty co-operation m conducting the coming campaign. On motion the following Committee on Rules and Order of Business was named by the State delegations: Ala bama, L. 11. Reynolds; Arkansas, J. E, Scanlan; Florida, E. J. Pemberton; Georgia, W. W. Wilson; Illinois, A. A. Halford; Indiana, J. C. Smith; Ken tucky, J. H. Lucky; Louisiana, N. F. Naff; Minnesota, L. D. Foster; Missis sippi, J. J. Dermis; Missouri, Tim Hosmer; Ohio, A. J, Orr; Tennessee, J, H. McDowell; Texas, E. O. Meitzer; West Virginia, H. A. Altiser. Then followed all sorts of resolutions and motions, some against silver, some against fusion, all to the one point— that of getting rid of the present party executive machinery. Every delegate that spoke had a determined air, the appearance of a man who had come 1 direct from his people with most posi tive instructions. It was during the offering of resolu tions and speeches, that the Tennessee fisticuff came up. Milton Park, of Texas, gave the Tennesseeans a very badly needed re buke by rising to the stand and making his deep bass voice heard above the confusion. “If Tennessee has any dirty linen to wash, let her do it out side. We have come here to attend to business and let us do it.” The Conference then adjourned to 9 o’clock Tuesday. At night Hon. Ignatius Donnelly spoke to a large and appreciative audi ence. General Coxey followed in a short speech. Nashnille, Tenn., July 6.—The die is cast. The reorganization of the People’s Party nationally, has been ef fected by the unanimous and over whelming solid vote of the Conference which adjourned tonight after practi cally a solid 48 hours session. Not a moment has been lost, but constant dis cussion free and full has united every shade of difference among the dele gates representing by their 355 votes, the great army of straight middle-of the-roaders. After five hours of thorough discus sion, at the hour of 6 this evening, Chairman Bradley called for the vote. Amid deafening applause the unani mous vote was announced. Every one accepted it in good faith and all look forward to the new day for the Peo ple’s Party—a day of continued useful ness and warfare against corruption and wrong. Here is the address and plan: ADDRESS. TO THE PEOPLE’S PARTY OF THE UNITED states: Disclaiming any intention to dictate to the Populist voters of the United States, or any feeling of bitterness towards those who may have honestly differed from us in the past on matters of party policy, in the words of the im mortal Lincoln, “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firm ness in the right as God gives us to see the right; we submit to every patriotic citizen the following address: In 1891 there was organized at Cin cinnati a great political party, whose principles were as vast an innovation upon existing beliefs as were the grand generalization of Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence an ad vance upon the ideas commonly held by the world in 1776. The latter proclaimed the legal equality of all men, and their right to liberty and happiness; the former de clared that government is a mere in strumentality, formed by all for the enforcement of the welfare of all; that labor of brain and brawn is the sole parent of prosperity, society and civili zation, That “wealth belongs to him who creates it, and that every dollar taken from industry, without an equiv alent, is robbery, that if any man will not work, neither shall he eat; that the interests of rural and civic labor are the same, while their enemies are iden tical.” These ideas are the natural sequence and supplement to the Declaration of Independence. Without them the words of Jefferson are a mere “brutum ful men.” The right to “pursue happi ness” is of no avail if men are prevented by misgovernment from attaining it Liberty is but an idle word if the human family are to be swept through poverty and suffering in bondage. Life itself is not worth having at the price of shame and degradation. The New World is no better than the Old World if the condition of the people is the same. We escaped from England in 1776 We are again her subjects in 1897. We are not permitted to pass laws neces sary for our own welfare, without her consent; and that consent cannot be had since she thrives by plundering us. Cheap production in the United States means cheap supplies for her citizens. Instead of a sovereign people, leading the world to higher levels of state craft and development, as the greatest, most powerful and most thoroughly educated Commonwealth on earth, we are dwarfed into mere provincials, toil ing to enrich our cunning masters, side by side with the starving Hindoo, the wretched Egyptian and the im poverished Irishman. The people’s party was born to live and not to die. It was created not to put a few men in office, but to give to all men that happiness guaranteed by the Constitution of the U nited States. The conditions which five years ago demanded the establishment of our or ganization, insist today, with ten-fold force, that it shall live as long as a single wrong exists unrighted on the face of the earth. To resist these evils, we organized in 1891. We meet in 1897 to renew the faith; to proclaim that the battle is not yet over; that it is just beginning, and that we will continue the good fight as long as God lets us live. While we have the largest toleration for all honest differences of opinion, and will welcome to our ranks all pa triots, we declare that those who think the party ought to die have no more place in its ranks than Benedict Arnold had in the Continental army or Judas Iscariot in the Christian Church. Fi delity to principle is above all other considerations, since such fidelity means the greatness and happiness of the human race. While we have nothing but kindly feelings towards the rank and file of our late allies, we do not believe that the question of free silver is in itself a broad enough platform for a national party. The remonetization of silver would, we believe, increase the price of labor and its productions by increasing the supply of money, and it is therefore a matter of the utmost consequence to all the people of the United States; but it must not be forgotten that the open ing of the mints to silver would.not de crease one iota the robberies of the cor porations, the usurers, the rings and the trusts. It will avail nothing to add to the value of labor and its pro ductions if the exactions of plunderers are permitted to increase in equal or greater proportion. As our Democratic brethren had not patriotism enough to adopt free silver until we had popularized it, would they not slump back to their first wretched state if the People’s party were to stop its missionary work? The democracy may be fit to assist in handling a single temporary side issue like free silver, but the welfare of man kind and the interests of all the ages demand the continued existence of the People’s party. Free institutions can not su'-vive its destruction. It has done “EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL; SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE” ATLANTA, GEORGIA: FRIDAY JULY 9, 1897. more for mankind in five years than any other party has accomplished in twenty-five years. All arguments have ceased against its principles; there is nothing left but misrepresentation. It is the only national party in the United States. It has eliminated the last lingering bitterness of the civil war. There is no fraternal blood on its garments. Its mission is education and peace. It will eventually make us one people, bound together by liga ments of mutual esteem and love from the lakes to the gulf. We call upon the whole people to rally to its standard. There is room for all and a heart big enough for all. Let dissensions cease. Close up the gaps and forward to victory. Let every Populist become a missionary to pros elyte the unthinking and convert the mistaken. Let us meet prejudices with facts, passion with patience and igno rance with intelligence. The fiat of God must be repeated—“ Let there be light.” We see our leading men traduced and libeledbecause they will not sell us out. We must stand by them. We see our newspapers boycotted because they will not assist in the destruction of the liberties and rights of the people. We must sustain them and spread their cir culation everywhere. We are engaged m the most desper ate battle ever wagedin the world. It is the conflict of the few armed with gigantic powers against the many. It signifies the exploitation of labor by the idle rich, so that those “who toil not, neither do they spin,” shall rob industry of its reward and leave those who produce all wealth without homes, clothes or food. The eight million far mers who have just perished of starva tion in Hindostan are not the victims of drouth alone, but of cruel misgovern ment also by their English masters, who so impoverished them that they had no resources to fall back upon when a failure of crops occurred. In their miseries we read our own danger; in their present we see our future, unless we possess more than Hindoo capacity to defend ourselves against the despoilers of the world. We ask all who are in deadly earnest in seeking reform to uniteowith us. For the mere pullers of wires and seek ers of office we have no place or pa tience. When humanity is sinking into the abyss it is of no moment whether the duty on calico is a half penny more or less, When we are utterly opposed to fu sion, and know that it has brought dissension in our ranks, wetrecognize the fact that many who favored it did so in the sincere belief that it was best for the country and for the party, but while holding these views, we declare that no convention, caucus or commit tee of our party, shall ever again bind us to any fusion agreement with either the Democratic or Republican party. We call the attention of the Ameri can people to the fact that the national banks under a Republican administra tion are now fast putting into circula tion a vast quantity of national bank notes, taken out on the $262,000,000 of Cleveland bonds, which, though adding to the burden of debt and reaching cir culation by high interest, furnishes an increased supply of money and a better pricing opportunity on the American markets. If prosperity, even tempora ry, comes to our people, it will be by this increased money supply—not by the Dingley tariff or any other tariff measure, as will probably soon be claimed by the Republican politicians. We believe that no reliance can be placed in the promises of those who control and manipulate the policy and action cf the two old parties. They have broken every pledge and violated every trust reposed in them by a con fiding constituency. With the anti election promises in favor of free silver still ringing in the people’s ears, the Democratic Legislatures of five States defeated bills to prohibit the making of gold contracts. With the suffering and dissatisfied rank and file of those parties, we are in hearty sympathy and will gladly welcome them into the People's party. We reaffirm the principles enunci ated in the platforms of our party in the full belief that when enacted into law they will produce universal pros perity. We reaffirm the previous declarations of our party in favor of the initiative and referendum and recommend thatthe People’s party adopt this system in all party proceedings, believing that the direct control of legislation by the peo ple themselves is the only remedy for corruption in party management as well as in the law-making power, by corporate wealth, now so universal in this country. We look upon this as the most important question now be fore the American people, since it in volves the continuance of free institu tions. PLAN. To the end of forming a more perfect and compact organization, extending the work of education, adding recruits to and preserving the autonomy of the People’s party, we recommend the adoption of the following plan: 1. The election by the conference of a national organization committee to be composed of three members from each State here represented, said mem bers to be selected by the several State delegations. In Statesnot represented at this conference, the national organi zation committee, here created, mav at their discretion provide for a proper representation on the committee. 2. The election by this conference of a chairman of the’ national organiza tion committee, whose duty it will be to push the work of organization along strictly Populist lines, and in the inter est of Populist principles and Populist candidates; to preside over all meet ings of the national organization com mittee and to perform all other duties usually incumbent upon such officer. 3. The election by this conference of an executive committee of five mem bers whom the chairman may nomi nate from the members of the national organization committee, whose duties shall consist in assisting in the work of organization and education, and who shall co-operate with the chairman in his efforts to preserve and extend the organization of the party. 4. The election of a National Secre tary whose duties shall be such as are usually performed by such officer. 5. The election of a Treasurer, who ' shall have charge of the funds of the organization and perform such duties as are made incumbent upon him by the Executive committee. 6. The officers of this organization shall hold their office until the time of holding the next national convention. 7. The National Organization Com mittee hereby created is instructed to look after the work of organization and education in each state, to reform our lines and to co-operate with the regular organization when in line with Populist principles. 8. We further recommend that in each township, county and state, the committees be looked after by the members of the National Organization Committee, and where necessary re organized by the election of members i who are in harmony with the party and its principles, and who are in favor of preserving its autonomy. 9. We urge upon the members of this party the necessity of more thorough and vigorous plans of education and organization than have been in vogue the past two years. To that end we heartily recommend the co-operative and club plans perfected by the com 1 mittee appointed for that purpose bv i the National Reform Press at Memphis , of which J. H. Ferriss, Joliet, Hl., is the pi esent Chairman. 10. The National Organization Com mittee shall provide for the manage ment of the committee here consti- tuted, the initiative and referendum and imperative mandate, and we recom mend that the first national convention of the People’s party shall adopt the same as a governing law of the party in its entire organization. 11. The National Organization Com mittee of the People’s party, chosen by this conference, shall have full power and authority to call a national con vention of the party, or to submit any question to the voters of the party on the referendum plan whenever they may determine that the best interests of the party require the same. The Conference elected the following as the National Organization Commit tee : Alabama—J. H. Harris, Zell Gaston, Iverson E. Watson. Arkansas—A. W. Files, J. E. Scanlon, W- S. Morgan. Florida—F. H. Lytles, A. P. Baskin, C. C. Post. Georgia—Gen. Wm. Phillips, W. D. Hawkins, R. W. Mays. Illinois—J. H. Ferris, L. D. Reynolds, G. W. Wyckline. Indiana—N. H. Motsinger, T. B. Rodgers, J. H. Allen. lowa —J. O. Beebe, A. W. C. Weeks, Alli Reed. Kansas—J. F. Willets, Abe Steinber ger, 1. V. B. Kennedy. Kentucky—Jo. A. Parker, Samuel James, W. B. Bridgeford. Louisiana —N. F. Naff, J. C. Rockett, B. W. D-iley. Michigan—Jno. O. Zabell, Jas. E. Mcßride, Robt. Blamkuber. Minnesota—J. B. Dukes, J. C. Hauley, L. D. Foster. Mississippi—Frank Burkitt, S. M. Hollinsworth, R. Brewer. Missouri —P. J. Dixon, J. H. Hill, J. K. Thomas. Nebraska—L. Stebbens, H. M. Stew art, John O. Wyzer. Ohio —A. J. Orr, P. J. Fishback, Robt. B. McCammon. Rhode Island—Jas. Arnold, ! Tennessee —A. L. Mims, W. B. Mc- Clamahan. B. G. West. Texas—Chas. Jenkins, E. W. Kirk patrick, E. O. Meitzer. Washington—A. P. Tugwell, R. H. McLean, F. W. D. Mays. West Virginia—H. Z. Martin, J, W. Shull, H. A, Altizer, Wisconsin—Robert Schilling, C. M. Butt, Wm. Munro. THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. The following were selected as the Executive Committee: Milton Park, President W. S. Morgan, Secretary. G. B. Crowe, Treasurer, Gunby, of Louisiana ; Peek, of Geor gia ; Donnelly, of Minnesota; Stein berger, of Kansas; Bateman, of Maine. NOW TO WORK. The Committee will get to work at once and take steps to perfect the or ganization in every state. Every one is pleased and hopeful and enthusiasm not before seen marks the face of every delegate. The day Has been spent ui consider ing the report of the Committee on address. Nearly all of the delegates leave for home tonight. At the close of the session, three rousing cheers amid enthusiasm were given for Hon. Thos. E. Watson. Raynolds, of Chicago, moved that the Populists of lowa contending for their party receive the endorsement of this convention. On motion, by Howard, of Alabama, that all middle of the road Populists everywhere be included, was carried amid enthusiasm. All are of one voice—that the party is now on the road to a safe anchorage. Austin Holcomb. Back in the Fold. The news that comes from Atlanta, that Col. James Barrett has announced his return to the Democratic party, will not create any surprise here. Mr. Barrett was at one time one of the leading Populists of the county. Being an expert politician, with a large acquaintance with men all over the state, it was easy for him to work him self into prominence in a party com posed almost exclusively of nonpoliti cians. Mr. Barrett had been chairman of the county and district executive committees, and was twice the nomi nee of the party for state Commission er of Agriculture. Latterly Mr. Barrett had fallen into disfavor. When the last state ticket was made up he was not one of the candidates, and he was also retired from the chairmanship uof the party. The efforts that have been made to re instate him in defiance of the plain wish of the people are matters of re cent history. How a ing was called at Gracewood, which, though it refused to elect him on the executive committee, yet yielded suf ficiently to send him as a delegate to the state convention. Here he failed of the support he hoped; to receive, none but Mr. Carter favoring him, through whose effort he was allowed to be seated, and the final disposal of him left to the people at home. Having thus failed in being sustained by the state convention, and knowing that the people at home were solid against him. Mr. Barrett did just what everybody expected he would do—re turn to the Democratic party. In announcing his return Mr. Bar rett takes occasion to make some state ments which he cannot substantiate, but that is natural. From now on he may be looked upon to be most active in fighting the party which he can no longer use but he can do the people’s cause less injury as a known opponent than he did as one of its leaders. Colonel Barrett has been a load for the party to carry, and we are glad that our friends on the other side will now shoulder the burden. We com mend the Colonel to their kindest con sideration. He is a good, clever fel low, whose only fault is that he talks too much and too anarchistic, and that he nets mad if he is crossed or disap pointed.—The Augusta, Ga., Tribune. Six per cent interest is heavy enough for the farmer to pay if he must bor row money, but when it comes to pay ing a tax of from twenty-five per cent to one hundred per cent on about eve rything he consumes he may regard the interest he paps-as about the only bargain left for him to enjoy. <-' a/ ; ar Rapids Gazette. i I ALL OVER THE NATION. 1 t And What the Great World is Talking of To-day. T r VERY LATEST NEWS IN A NUTSHELL, r i r Kentucky Criminal Escapes Summary 3 Punishment—Pope Mf'g. Co. Lead the Cut in Wheels— A malga f mated Iron Workers Strike—Other News. ’ The Norfolk and Western Railroad has made a big cut in the scale of prices paid in their shops. On some classes of work the pay has been reduced fully 50 per cent. The en will accept the reduction rather than go out on a strike. The conference of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and Manufacturers at Pittsburg has failed to agree upon a scale of wages and seventy or eighty thousand men will go out on a strike in consequence. Tol Stone, who assaulted Miss Stone, a teacher near Glasgow, Kentucky, was given seven years, the limit of the law in that state for the crime with which he was charged. He was at once put on trial for the crime of arson, the limit for which is 20 years. There was a strong disposition to lynch Stone but he was protected by the presence of two companies of National guards. The Pope Co,, Bicycle Manufacturers have announced a cut of 25 per cent in the prices of wheels. This cut will likely not only be met by other compa nies but we may look for the SIOO bi cycle to be catalogued next year at SSO. Not only does the American wheel need no protective tariff to hold a monopoly in this country but it is rapidly gaining the ascendency in the open markets of Europe. Horace L. Chapman has been nomi nated by the Ohio democrats to make the race for governor against the pres ent incumbent, Gov. Bushnell who had been previously renominated by the republicans. If the democrats succeed in capturing the legislature, McLean will succeed Hanna in the Senate. The , whole power of the administration will be exerted to hold Ohio, as failure to do so will be a turn down for McKin ley. Mark’s home will also be freely tapped. The democrats are already charging that Hanna will colonize a . large vote by starting up the idle fac tories by importing laborers from oth er states who can be relied on to vote , right. W, D. Ryan, secretary of the United Union Workers of Illinois, has addres sed an open letter to Senator Mason of that state calling his attention to the fact that a coal miner can earn at | ' present prices only uAoixt JC.OO a ,?cek, an amount utterly insufficient to pay ’ rent and purchase food and clothing for his family. He asserts that there are today more hungry mouths among the coal mines than in the whole of Cuba, and that poverty is destroying lives among the miners as fast as the Spaniards are destroying the lives of Cuban insurgents. The point of des peration has been reached and the miners in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia and Kentucky to the number of 300,000 or more, have been notified to be ready to quit work. Whether these men will sit down quietly and starve as the East Indians are now doing remains to be seen. The Ungallant Irish. A Dublin dispatch says : “At a meeting held near College Green in connection with the jubilee a black banner was displayed bearing the statement: ‘“During Victoria’s reigh 1,500,000 people have starved in this island, 3,000,000 have been evicted, and 4,000,- 000 have been compelled to emigrate.’ ” The above headline, over the Dublin dispatch quoted, appears in the edito rial page of the Chicago Tribune of June 23 last, on which that paper com ments as follows: “There have been deaths in Ireland from famine. So have there been in India. But Queen Victoria was not re sponsible in either case. The great Irish famine was due to the fact that the inhabitants of an overpopulated island, whose sole industry was agri culture, depended for food almost ex clusively on the potato. When that failed for two years frightful suffering ensued. Why the Queen should be at tacked on her jubilee day for something she had nothing to do with is ‘not ap parent. It does not smack of the usual chivalry of Irishmen.” The inscription on the bla'"k banner is not an “attack” on the Queen’s per sonality, but a statement cf certain facts in her reign. It states that dur ing Victoria’s reign 1,500,000 people have starved in this island, 3,000,000 have been evicted, and 4,000,000 have been compelled to emigrate.” No man will deny the truth of these state ments; and if Queen Victoria is not per sonally the cause of the terrible crimes involved in the ghastly statistics cited, she at least stands for the government which is responsible therefor; and for this reason Irishmen would have been wanting in selfrespect, and they would have deserved the contempt of the world, had they in the recent jubilee failed to express the sentiment they feel for the alien power that has im poverished and assassinated so many millions of their race, and that holds their motherland still in chains and degradation. The Queen’s jubilee was simply an occasion for England’s glo rification, and for the extension of her rule and empire. That Englishmen should rejoice on the occasion is quite natural, and that Anglicised Americans should catch the fever is not strange; but outside of the Anglican circle there is no cause for jubilation. The Tribune’s stricture on the Irish national spirit that recently asserted itself is in effect an apology for and vindication of English rule in Ireland, : It admits the terrible facts written on the black banner, but it says no one is to blame. Neither England nor the of England is resposible. What, ; then, is the cause of the evil? Simply the island is “overpopulated.” There are too many Irishmen in Ireland. This is the explanation of the murder ous famines and the wretchedness of the country which men in the English interest have ever offered; and if Irishmen would only adopt this expla nation, or, at least, acquiesce in it, they would oblige England ever so much. “Thou canst not say I did it!” cried the enraged but fearful Macbeth when the spectre of the murdered Ban quo, pointing to his gashed and bloody throat, appeared at the royal banquet. Macbeth, indeed, had not with his own hands assassinated Banquo, but he was responsible for the crime, and he knew he was responsible. The Tribune man well knows that England, with all that Queen Victoria stands for, is responsi ble for the monstrous crimes that were inscribed on the jubilee black banner. Were overpopulation the cause of Ireland’s ills, then depopulation ought to be their cure. The cure has been tried, but it has not worked well. In the early years of Victoria’s reign the people of Ireland numbered more than eight million; they now number some thing over four million, and yet the percentage of pauperism, according to English statistics, is greater now than it was sixty years ago in Ireland. The Tribune says that Ireland “has neither coal nor iron,” and therefore it cannot be a manufacturing country. “It must be an agricultural country.” With cheap words like these quoted, words that are not the expression of careful and honest investigation on their own part, but are lightly borrow ed from mouth to mouth, wrHers like the Tribune man dispose of Ireland’s economic possibilities. The fact is, Ireland’s natural resources have never been explored, and it is not consistent with the time-honored policy of Eng land that those resources should be de veloped. But even if Ireland had nei ther coal nor iron, the absence of those minerals would not necessarily binder man ufantnres. New Y ork state has no coal or iron to speak of, yet manufac tures abound The same is true of the New England states. But New York and New England have what Ireland has not —a government friendly to their interests, which are warmed into life by friendly legislation. The Tribune admits that “the manufacturing indus tries of Ireland were crushed by un friendly (English) legislation. There was such legislation once, but that was many years ago.” But the effect of a bad law does not pass away with the law itself. The evil spirit of that “un friendly legislation” is still doing its work of ruin in the English interest. “Possibly the Irish in Ireland,” says the Tribune, “would be more thriving if they consumed less liquor.” That’s it. Those English-interest men will have any explanation but the right one for Ireland’s wretchedness. The Irish i W<><-lfi wi n hardly be nceus-?d of trying J to promote the consumption of liquor. | We could heartily wish that our coun trymen at home and abroad, and other people as w’ell, consumed less liquor ;” but we have no pat’ence with the cant ing crew who are forever Hinging this charge at Irishmen, which serves to divert attention from the prime cause of Ireland’s misery—alien misgovern ment. The Tribune’s suggestion is quite as applicable to England and Scotland as it is to Ireland. According to reliable statistics, the expenditure for beer in Great Britain in 1893 was £88,627,000. In Ireland it was but £6,291,000. In England the amount spent on whisky is £1 9s. per head; in Ireland the amount spent is £1 6s. 6d. head. In Victoria’s reign the consump tion of whisky, brandy and beer in England has grown from six hundred and ninety-three million gallons a year to one thousand and fifty-four million gallons a year. The drink evil is even greater in Scotland, and its disastrous effects on its victims are even worse. The annual deaths from drink per thousand population in Ireland is 56, while in Scotland the number of deaths per thousand population, and resulting from the same cause, is 60. The Tribune did not see fit to print for its readers and invite comparison on these statistics. Posssibly it did not know the facts; if it was aware of these figures and purposely withheld them it was even more culpable, for in that case it could have had but one end in view—England’s vindication and a moral verdict against Ireland. The conviction that this was the object of the article on “The Ungallant Irish” it is hard to resist, when the writer says: “They (the Irish) contribute to the im perial revenues fifteen million dollars a year on account of spirits, and then complain of being overtaxed.” This charge is as dishonest as it is irrele vant. The Irish complaint of over taxation is made on general grounds, and the complaint is justified by the finding of a British Royal Commission which was appointed to investigate the matter. The sum total of which Ireland has been robbed by this over taxation, according to the Royal Com mission, runs up to the sum of five hundred million dollars. If this amount of money would be thought enormous in the richest country in the world, what would it mean in so poor a coun try as Ireland, which, made poor by “unfriendly legislation,” is filched of that which even in her poverty she has been able to create? And yet, although England out of her own mouth has been convicted of this stupenduous robbery of Ireland, no intelligent man who is familiar with the ways of Eng land dreams for a moment that Eng land has any notion of making restitu tion for her great and long continued thefts. She wants no court of arbitra tion that would determine matters of this sort. The Chicago Tribune concludes with this unworthy sentence: “The Irish would display more tact by displaying a little enthusiasm over the woman if they eannot over her reign.” That is, it would be good policy for the Irish to play the part of the hypocrite. The brigand power of which Victoria is the representative has wrested from Ire land her material wealth; it has not, thank God, been able to take from Irishmen that sense of manhood which has characterized them in every age and under all climes. —The Irish World. A POP WANTED-*- 4) At every post office—One who 41 means business—Who will hns- 4) tie for this paper. Write today. ONX DOLLAR PER YLAR. WHOLE NUMBER 355. PERT PRESS POINTERS. J Late News of General Interest from Many Sources. POINTED PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS. > What Earnest Populist Workers Have to Say—Editorial Thought of the Lead ing Reform Papers Conden sed Into Readable Shape. A corporation is without a soul and with very little principle.—People’s Paper. Populism will never die until the last spark of manhood is dead among Americans.—Reformer. The first motto the People’s party ever had was “keep in the middle of the road,” and it is a good one yet.— People’s Paper, (N. C.) It is the men who upset the political churn that don’t want a conference. They evidently think that the less said about it the better,—People’s Paper. Under government, state and munic ipal ownership of public utilities, the cost of operation limits the price, while demand regulates the supply. - Constitution (Tex.) The Honorable Bob Fitzsimmons says he can trace his genealogy back to biblical days, and the wicked Post thinks he must be a descendent of the Hitites. —Facts. In New York city, near Wall street, there are 2,000 inhabitants in a single block, and not one bath tub in the block. This is the model civilization which we find in the great stronghold of “honest money.”—Journal of the Knights of Labor. We might as well try to cast out satan through be-elzebub as to try to tret reform througli the Democratic party. Any party that refuses to give free and honest elections can not be depended upon for reform.—People’s Advocate. Apparently there is no law in this country strong enough to catch and hold a trust magnate. Searles, like Havemeyer, goes free. But Debs went to jail and Coxey’s people had to keep off the grass.—Johnstown (Pa.) Demo crat. A Mobillian, who is paying twenty dollars per annum for the use of water from three taps, mentioned the matter to a friend from Atlanta, and the latter assured him that his bill in Atlanta, for six taps was about sixty cents a month, or less than $8 per annum. In Atlanta the water-works are owned by the city.—Mobile Register. While the democratic papers are re galing their rejiders with articles on what hey are pieaseu io term the split in the Populist party, the democratic politicians are wondering whether they will be able to get enough of white wash to cover the spots laid bare by the Blalock committee.—Tribune. A fusionists and a middle of the roader may be equally honest but there is this difference—the middle of the roader is tired of any more foolishness with either old political party. He has been fooled often enough to get his eyes open.—Times Democrat An exchange says it would like to ask Professor Barnard, the aeronaut, who is sailing around through the clouds over the Tennessee centennial, if he can see in the dim distance from his point of vantage any mark, sign or token of the approach of the McKinley prosperity wave.—Facts. While Ohio and Kansas Populists are engaged in trading principle for a chance at the pie counter, Colorado is placing principle before office, and laying the foundation for a movement that will force their principles to the front.—Denver Facts. Dr. Carl Peters, the German explorer of Africa, which cruelty so shocked the world when it was revealed a year or two ago, has been tried on those char ges and dismissed from the Imperial service. It speaks well for the human ity and integrity of the German courts that even the influential friends of this man could not save him from just pun ishment.—Farmer’s Light. One by one they’re coming to their senses. It’s been a hard fight but right, will win. The “Twentieth Cen tury” falls into line and last week says: “The alliance of last year has proved all that Tom Watson of Georgia pre dicted, and the only way to keep out of difficulty hereafter is to avoid even the appearance of evil. A party that fig ures only as the tail of a kite lacks dignity and importanee. It cannot expect to be taken seriously in any circumstance.”—Chicago Express. Florence Nightengale, who has just celebrated her 77th birthday, is ill and not expected to recover. She has-lcag an invalid, and will leave at her death a magnificent memorial of her achieve ments as a pioneer in the work of nurs ing the sick and wounded on an organ ized plan in the shape of a nurses’ home at the close of the Crimean war, the horrors of which she did so much to alleviate. —San Diego Vidette. The only way to purify the law mak ing body is to adopt direct legislation. By this means the people will rule and the legislator will become the servant and not the master of those who elect him. Indignation meetings and threats cannot control the corrupt men elected, as has been demonstrated in Chicago this spring. The only way is to let the people say whether they want the laws or not. Then any party can get con trol, it will make no difference, as the people will have the final say.—Taco ma Sun. Passengers of the Pacific mail steam er, City of Pora, report that yellow fever broke out on the steamer a few days after leaving Panama for San Francisco. The ship’s surgeon called it tropical fever, but the passengers claim it was genuine yellow fever and that a dozen people died of it and were buried at sea.