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♦♦a♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ♦ ♦ Meet* 8, in Atlanta + ♦ Let evwry member come + ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. VOL. VII. NUMBER 10 IN THE LEGIS. 'o,. v '<f t Law Makers at Work on Mai.< Bills of Interest. NO TEMPERANCE CROWD IS THIS. The Gray Bill in the Senate and the Boyn ton Bill in the Houho Go Down in Defeat—Still Talking of Con victfl Leases. Decatur won the court house fight, in the house, Stone mountain falling just short of the necessary two-thirds majority. The senate confirmed B. B. Bower judge city court of Decatur county; F. R. Tarver judge Effingham county court; E. T. Shuriey, solicitor Warren county court. The Southern Bell Telephone Com pany got in its work in the Senate on Friday last. A bill had been intro duced placing telephone companies under the railroad commission Re presentative Howell of Fulton, is the Telephone Company’s Attorney. He appeared before the senate committe and killed the bilk Mr, Howell is also attorney for the Pullman Sleeping Car Company. A bill p’acing sleeping ear com), inies under the railroad commis sion fared the same fate. A bill has passed the bouse providing for a school census this year and every ten years afterward to be taken by the city and county boards of education. " is will secure for each county its rightful proportion of the public school fund. The house bill providing for the state’s purchase for every public officer and justice of the peace of the book “Georgia Form and Practice” was passed. The state purchased 4,000 copies. More pay and unlimited sessions is now the cry. Two bills have been pre sented in the house providing for a sal ary of 8250 per year for representatives and instead of for 50 days, sessions shall continue as long as there is any business before the body. Decatur has won the court house fight for good. All efforts for Stone Mountain have failed. Calvin of Richmond, has introduced a bill repealing the 10 per cent tax law on state banks. He wants the law tested and passage of the bill would secure a test case. Blalock of Fayette, introduced a bill repealing the tax on the capital of banks or banking institutions and tax ing the shares in the county where the bank is located at their market value. The legislature has a custom that is dangerous but is constantly followed. Representatives Boyd of McDuffie and Branch of Columbia called public at teptio'y to the T 9 is that of dispensing with the roll call and transacting public business while there is no quorum present. This was being done Saturday and a hot discus sion came up when Mr Boyd called for adjournment on account of no quorum. H»lf of the members were absent and the busine s being transacted was ille gal Finally the committee on elec tions was sent for, barely securing thereby a quorum. The house now holds two sessions daily from 9 a. m. to 1 p m., and 3 p. m. to 5 p. m. The house abolished the city com missions of Savannah on Saturday. A big fight will ensue in the senate Hon. J. L. M Curry and U. S. Secre tary of Agriculture Wilson have been invited to address the General Assem bly on Nov. 29. The special house committee has fa vorably reported the bill creating three new court circuits. Coweta will be cut into two, one composed of Coweta, Meriwether, Campbell and Fayette counties and the other of Carrol], Heard and Troup. The wire-grass circuit composed of Dooly, Wilcox, Irwin and Worth is a new circuit. Another makes Bryan, B illoch, Liberty, Mclntosh, Effingham, Montgomery and Tattnall ir—separate circuit, making a cir cuit of Chatham county alone. Lau rens will be taken from the Ocmulgee circuit and Glascock from the Northern and both added to the Middle circuit, which will be called the Ogeecbee cir cuit. Montgomery is from the Oconee and Bulloch and Tattnall from the Middle circuit. The addition of Lau rens and Glasscock to the Middle cir cuit will take their place. The Ogee chee district will be completed by the other counties now in the Eastern cir cuit, while Chatham county alone will form the Eastern circuit. This will make 26 judicial circuits. The convict question still hangs over the house and being now in order for the morning session will be discussed for some time yet. Every indication points to a continuance of the present lease system with a few changes. The state farm plan seems to meet with ob jections on all sides. The bill abolishing free tuition in the State University was killed in the committee Monday. This gives the University the first victory in its fight. Representative Henderson, (Pop ) of Forsyth, has stirred up the school commissioners. In a speech before the committee Saturday defending his bill for uniform text books, he said that, the school book trusts are in the habit of annually presenting 825 to 850 worth of books to the commissioners 11“ would not call it a bribe but it was on the same line of a railroad giving a pass to a legislator. The speech cre ated a sensation in the house. A new school book bill has been in troduced. It gives authority for mu nicipal or county boards to buy direct or contract with other parties, to rent or lease volumes to responsible parties for use during the school term, and where two thirds of the qualified voters vote for it, to place in operation the free school book svstem The bill also provides that where voters approve it,, a tax shall be levied to cover purchase cost Any system if adopted will be in force for 5 years subject to repeal if a majority vote for repeal Sheriffs and county officers of other counties are using their influence to de- THE PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER feat the Brannan bill in the senate • whereby the officials of Fulton county 7 'll receive salaries in future instead ?s. At present the fees run way into the thousands and an allow ance of $3,0 >0 per year for each of the pincipal officers would save Fulton county, thousands of dollars i,annually Representative E N. Ennis of Bald win, whose seat was contested by the . Democratic candidate, Robt. Whitfield, although the Populist majority was a large one, will keep his seat, the com mittee having decided in h’s favor. The bills to give the Technological school $lO 000 and recommending that > a similar amount be raised by popular ' subscription to establish a Textile de- • partm ent has been reported favorably and will probably passs. ' Bills passed in the house: Giving • counties same right as corporations to r condemn property; establishing public 1 school system in Culloden; providing all nrxed flour manufactured in the ‘ state or imnorted shall be b-anded 1 both with the name “Mixed Flour” and ’ an analysis of the contents. ’ By a vote of 23 to 2, the Senate pass ’ ed the Starr bill leaving it to the jury ‘ in criminal cases to determine whether ’ sufficient time has elapsed for the voice ! of reason and humanity to be heard ’ after an insult. Senate bill passed, providing that children of the half blood on the ma ‘ ternal side shall inherit the same as the paternal side, prohibiting using steam I boders without a fusible metal safety ’ plug. ! The committee visiting the Cole City convict camps report that the 228 con ’ victs there are poorly clad and have 1 insufficient bedding. . POPULISTS ARE UNSEATED. Georgia Legislature Turns Down the Jef l ferson Representatives. > The house of representatives will now have two more Democrats on roll > call, representatives Salter and Wren ■ of Jefferson county being deprived of their seats by the committee on priv- i ileges and elections. • In spite of the fact that the house is Democratic by an overwhelming ma jority, it took a long and determined 1 fight to oust these two Populists. 1 Jefferson county is clearly Populist but in the recent state election the count showed only 16 maj irity for the Populists and the Democratic candi dates. Messers Polhill and Stapleton at once entered a contest. Fraud was alleged and Democrats have been busy since last October trying to sustain th* charge. The case has been in the courts and the struggle a hot one. The committee threw out one hun dred Populist votes, claiming illegali ty, so that the returns would show e ghty four majority for the Demo crats. Judge Gambrell had thrown out fourteen Democratic vote’ as being / illegal, cut. ! .ng down the -nejiriy t.r, seventy. The Democrats are jubilant. .1 GRAY BILL DEFEATED. . How the Senators Voted on the Latest Substitute. I The Gray bill prohibiting the sale of • liquors in less quantty than one pint failed of passage in the Senate last ’ week by a vote of 20 for and 17 against 23 being the requisite const tutional ! majority. Senators voting aye were: Allen At kinson, Brinson, Brooke, Castleberry, ■ Everett, Flewellen Flynt, Gray, Hop . kins, Kemp, McFarland, Starr, Stew art, J. A , Stro’her, Thomson, Turner, Walker, Witcher and Wooten. Those voting nay were Battle, Blalock, Car - ter, Comos, Cook, Dunwoody, Geiger. Golding, Golightly, Ham, Mann, Red . wine, Sheffield, Shropshire, Stewart, > T. D., Vanßuren and Walker. > Friends of the measure express sur prise at its defeat. j Culver who had voted for other bills i of the same kind was absent. Hudson ■ who had been against them was also I absent. Kilpatrick who had been vot s ing for them declined to vote, as also Wilcox who changed on the final vote I and declined to vote Stevens was out of the hall during the vote and West moreland was absent. “Had those , who were outspoken and apparently i sincere in their stand in favor of the bill voted for it on the final vote we . could have passed the bill” said one of > the Populist senators “Democrats s were afraid to shoulder the responsi . bility.” COMMITTEE MEETS. _ Executive Body of tlie Re-organization in ] St. Louis. 1 St Louis, Nov 28.—The Executive Committee of the National Re-organi r zation Committee of the People’s Party r elected at the Nashville Conference on 1 July 4, met here today, 29 states beirg i represented. Chairman Milton Park t, presiding. Positive action looking to 3 the future of the party will be taken. Speaking of the meeting, Chairman Park says: j “We are opposed to fusion with any ; body or anything,” he continued, “and s want a straight fight, if we can get it. “The mission of the national organ j ization committee appointed at th<» j Memphis meeting of the National Re -3 form Press Association, last winter, is J not to supercede the People’s Party t National Committee, but to assist it I t -ecently wrote Chairman Marion But i ler tendering what assistance we could give. He received the letter but has not replied. We are still willing to co-opcate with Butler, if he desires it If he does not our course will soon be determined.” Among those present are: Chairman Park, of Dallas, Texas; Secretary W. t S Morgan, of Arkansas; Dr. B addon t B. Crowe, of Alabama, treasurer; Whar ton Barker, of Philadelphia, editor of I The American; William L Phillips, of s Georgia; J. M. Ferris, of Joliet, 11l ; B Abe Steinberger, of Kansas; H. M o Motts in ger, of Indiana, and A L. Har binson, editor of New Era, Vi> cernes, ’ Ind.; Gen. J. S. Coxey, of Ohio and others. n a Conference In S'Bslon. The North Georgia Dist'ict M E r Conference is now in session in Athens. >- The attendance is the largest for years. HERE IN OLD GEORGIA. Doingsofa Week Gathered in Brief Paragraphs. SOLID NEWS FOR A SOLID PEOPLE. Happening, of General Interest From Many Countie.—Crime, and Crimi nals—-What the Other Fellow Saw And Tell. Yon About. The “wets” won in Baldwin county in an election recently by 54 majority. The supreme court has decided that Tom Allen the noted Macon murderer must hang. Henry Nisbet, who it is claimed has murdered 9 people has been jailed at Macon. Col R. L Berner will run for con gress and not for Governor so says the Macon News. John Ryan Sr., for years Atlanta’s dry goods prince died at his home in this city Monday. Prof. Andrew Sledd, now of Vander bilt University, has been elected to the chair of Latin in Emory College. Rich, gold bearing ore has been found in Union county near Blairsville and placer mines are paying handsomely. The third annual horse swappers’ convention of Gwinnett county will be held at Lawrenceville on Nov 24, 25 and 26 Col. Samuel M. Carter died last Tues day at his home in Murray county and eight of his ex-slaves bore his body to the grave. Friday, while Mrs. James Faulkner of Cleveland was out of the house look ing after her cows her infant child crawled into the fire and was burned to death. The child was about eighteen months old. Win. L. Moody, for years a salesman for ths J. B. White Company of Augus ta, suicided in that city last week while in a spell of the blues. Moody’s wife bad left him the previous day and on her return for her personal effects, he fired the fatal shot. John Morrison shot and killed Char lie Roberts Saturday night. A large number of negroes attended the Rob inson circus at Covington and were re turning home. The shooting took place in Rockdale county, near the line of DeKalb and Rockdale. Both parties were negroes and whisky was the cause of the row. Thomas Davis, a farmer living 7 miles from Irwinton, was held up by two un known men and made to give up an express package containing $162, which he had just taken from the express office at Mclntyre. The men were disguised, having sack puileo over their heads. It is believed that the robbers are men living in the neigh borhood and knew Davis was expecting the money. Charies E. Hamilton, one of the larg est and wealthiest planters in Dooly county, died Monday afternoon at his country residence four miles east of Cordele. He leaves a wife and two < hildren. His widow had formerly lost two husbands, Hamilton by name who were brother and cousin to her iast husband. All th'ee of her hus bands died with the same malady, hemorrhagic fever. While sleeping in the caboose of the company’s tram road at Pitts last Fri day night, Charles Levnor, the machin i<-t of the saw mill of the Enterprise Lumber Company, was brutally as saulted by Joe Walker, a negro em ploye of the company. The assassin stole to the side of the sleeping man and fired a pistol ball into his ear. The wounded man is still living, but in a precarious condition. The negro was arrested and lodged in jail. Beynton BUI Dies. In the house Tuesday, the Boynton bill prohibiting the making or sale of liquors in any part of the state was lost by a vote of 74 for to 64 against, the majority not being the requisite cons itutional majority. Ex Governor Boynton, one of the most distinguished of Georgia’s legislators, defended the measure against a flood of questions. His speech was the feature of the ses sion in spite of the many interruptions which were seemingly planned to break down the popularity of the bill. Every Populist representative voted for the measure. The roll call on the bill stood as fol lows : Ayes—Atkinson, Bates, Boyd. Berry, Branch, Bowden, Boswell, Baggett, Blalock Brannen, Bedgood, Brinson, of Burke, Boynton, of Spalding, Ben nett, of Jackson, Craig, Cole, Cook, of Oconee, Duffy, Dii'-ham, Deakins, Davi son, Ellis, Edge, Edwards Edenfield, Faust, Ford, Foster, Felker, Freeman, Grice, Hall, Hill, Hitch, Hawes, Hamby, Hightower, Henderson, of Irwin, Hen derson, of Forsyth, Henderson, of Washington, Johnson, of Taliaferro, Ka gler, Leard, Lott, Longley, Moore, Maddox, Meadows, Montfort, McDon ald, M Connell, McGehee, Nicholas. Nisbet, Oliver, Ogletree, Patten Pace, Quillian, Rutherford. Swift. Sell, Smith of Crawford, Turner, Thomason of Morgan, Thomas of Ware. Underwood, Vincent, Wren, Walden, Watkins, Whipple, Wilkes. Worsham. Total —74. Nays—Adams, Bush, B'own, Bussey, Black, Burwell, Rolfeuillet, Bynton of Calhoun, Cook, of Decatur, Calvin, Col lum, Clement, Charters, Chapman, Dod son, Dickerson, Dunean of Chatham. Duncan, of Houston, Duncan of Lee, Ennis of Floyd, Fogarty, Felder, Har , rell, Henderson of Colquitt, Henderson , of DeKalb, Jordan, Johnson, of Hall> Kiser, Knowles, Kendrick, Lance, Law, Morgan, Meldrim, Mansfield, Mullinax, McLaughlin, McDaniel, McKee, Mc- Larty, McDonough, Niles, Nevin, i Oakes, Paulette, Pearce, Rawls, Reid, Reece, Rawlings, R dding Rudicil, Slaton, Smith of Hancock, Taylor, Tim merman, Thomas of Clarke, Thomas of Pierce, West, Webb, Wight, Whitaker, . Wilcox. Total —64. No Populist voting against the bill. “EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL; SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE." ATLANTA, GEORGIA: FRIDAY NOVEMBER 26, 1897. I ROUSE UP YE POPULISTS! S Prepare Now for the Battle of Your Life in Old S Georgia and Win the Fight. ® The Populists of Georgia are more than one hundred thousand strong. Year by year our ranks are swelled by new converts who seeing the light dare to face X the enemy. The confusion of 189645 now fast fading away and new hopes are S budding and growing. Shall we allow victory so close at hand to escape us in X i8 9 8 ? <5 Every county in Georgia has held, is holding or should hold a “revival meet -0 ing” and send the glad tidings all along the line, cheering up the despondent and Wg urging the zealous to still greater efforts. Send in your calls and follow this by a good report of your meetings. Send in names of new workers with their address ® an! above all, organize! organize! organize! wg A lisle work now, a word here and a word there, a steady captain in this ® district and a “wheel-horse”' for that will do wonders. M ; x with this a full dose ® of literature regularly and with precision and the outlook will soon encourage 72 others. x Come into the fight now’ I Scatter your paper into every nook and corner of X your county —don’t worry about the next county —make yours solid or do your V best to keep the “skirmishers” back. Now is the time 11 outline your work for the coming year. Nleet soon and find out ‘‘who is who ! Chairman Cunningham has called the State Executive Committee to meet. § Let every member get there ! Let every district be represented ! Now is the X time to put in club work. Roll up the list. Every hour Will count. 8 STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. X The Executive Committee of the People’s Party of this State is herebv called X to meet at the Jackson Hotel, Atlanta, Ga., at 11 o’clock, a. m., December 8, X (the second Wednesday) to consider such business as may come before it. X J. D. CUNNINGHAM, Chairman. X J. L. SIBLEY, Secretary. AROUND THE NATION. Events of the Week in Our Sis ter States. U. S. REVENUES SHOW AN INCREASE. The Sultan and the Bicycle—New Orleans Preachers Prove Themselves True to Duty -Wreck in Arkansas— Boston Man Suicides. Frank Blair, a 7-year-old football player of Penn Station, Westmoreland county, Pa, died from rough treat ment at a make-believe foot-ball game some days ago. A landslide on the Duchesne river, upsr s>u. udou'ard Letblaere cojiAy, is reported to have killed 40 persons. The place is 45 miles southwest of Quebec. The sultan has forbidden the use of the bicycle in Constantinople on the ground that it is “immoral and danger ous to the state.” In Alabama the other day a young farmer and his wife had a spirited dis pute over a trivial matter. Rather than yield to her, he blew out h s brains. A Boston man who committed suicide in a hotel in that city the other d->y left a note for the landlord in which he apologized for the necessity of commit ting the act in his house. U. S Internal revenue receipts show an increase of 8761.323 for October of 1897 over the same month of 1896, and for the past four months 86,759.069 over those of the same period in 1996. Japan has demanded $2 000,000 of Hawaii for indemnity in connection with emigration affairs and sending a man of war to Honolula; The Queen of Spain has pardoned the Competitor prisoners and they are now en route to New York. At one time they were about to suffer the death penalty and but for the intervention of the U. S. Consul and minister Taylor at Madrid would have been shot. Thirty-one people were injured in a wreck near Williford, Ark., on Thurs day night last. The train was derailed on a trestle and turned over the em bankment. Several will die from inju ries, The New Orleans papers announce with much satisfaction that the minis ters of the city, with one single excep tion, have remained at their posts throughout the yellow fever visitation; and in the case of the exception the absence was not voluntary, but com pulso y. Protestants, Catholics, and Jewish rabbis have not for an instant swerved from the straight path of their duty and the constant attendance upon the people of their charges. The attorneys for Theodore Durrant have made a new move. The condemn ed man now stands convicted of the murder of Blanche Lamont. No dis position has been made of the addition al charge of the murder of Minnie Williams. A document filed with the district attorney gives notice that on Friday next the attorneys for the ac cused will appear before Judge Bahrs and demand that a time be set for the trial of the Williams case in the same manner as that of Blanche Lamont. District Attorney Barnes takes the po sition that the Williams case cannot be forced to trial. A TERRIBL E FIRE. The Greatest Blaze In Loudon Slnee the Year 1666. London, England, had a fire last Fri day that wiped out $15,000,000 in prop erty in less than 5 hours Many his toric buildings were destroyed and whole streets of warehouses were gut ted A hundred thousand or more watched the flames which were only stopped by an open square on one side and broad streets on the other. “The best meal that can be given to a regular tramp is a leaden one.” —The New York Herald, (Dem.) A BIG RABBIT FARM. Walton County Man C’aims he is Making it Pay. Billie Lamb of Winder has a 12 acre farm in Walton county stocked with several thousand old field hares. He has sold a lot of 3500 for $437 50 and still has several thousand on hand. Mr. Lamb says that the northern mar kets pay 25 to 30 cents each all around at Winder. The animals breed very rapidly and are kept at a small cost. A DYNAMITE FIEND. Wrecks a Mill and Doing Great Damage to Crops. Some one placed a charge of dyna mite between the mill rocks of Simons -d;li at WxigLlaviße. Ga., s-fsw higffitr ago. The explosion destroyed the dam, the water causing great damage to crops. The mill house and gio caught fire and burned down. The losr will reach $5,000 The Sultan Apologized. The Sultan of Turkey has sent his apology to Austria and has ordered the Austrian flag saluted. Toe Vali of Adina and other Turkish officials have been dismissed and full indemnity will be paid for the indignities offered an Austrian merchant and the Austrian embassador. Best Go«-s Down. Judge Emory F. Best of Georgia who was Commissioner of the U S General Land offic ■■ in Washington, ha been transferred to an assistant attor ney’s position. Ex Congressman F ank W. Mondell of Wyoming being his suc cessor. Ex-Bank President Pardoned. The President has pardoned Ex-Pres ident Fo'som of the Albuquerque Na tional Bank who has been doing time for falsifying the bank statements. Burn Kemueky Toll Gates. AU the toll gates in Jessamine coun ty Kentucky were burned a few nights ego by a party of masked men. Publi“ sentiment favors free toll roads and the roads will be kept free in the fu ture. Thanked the Judge. Tom Cyrus, the Allan a negro who murdered a negro woman in this city last summer, was sentenced to hang Tuesday by Judge Candler. Hethank ed the judge when his doom was pro nounced and now desires an early exe cution. O’Brien Quits Army. Lieutenant Miehael J. O'Brien of the U S. Army stationed at McPherson Ba* racks, who was prominent in a post court mart al last summer involving considerable scandal has resigned. Capt Romeyn who was tried for slap ping O’ Brien resigned some time ago by permission of his superior officers. Pardons Another Embezzler. President McK'nley has pirdoned Fred W. Griffin, the assistant cashier, who embezzled SSO 000 from ths North western National Bank of Chicago and who was serving a 5 years term, having confessed his guilt. He was a society leader. Coup*r Gohs Down. The U. S. Court has decided that Couper, the late assistant postmaster of At anta, cannot retain his office but that Sravthe, the new p ostmaster can appoint his assistant regardless of civil service laws Found Clayton’s Assassin. Luther Atkins of Pitts. Ga , claims he can locate ’he man who assas inated Hon. John M. Clayton of Arkansas in 1889, while the Clayton-Breckinridge contest was in progress. A reward of 85,000 is still open Cotton at Ton Cents. A bale of “Jackson’s Limbless” cot ton weighing 496 pounds pici-ed from the Jackson farm near Atlanta, sold Tuesday at 10 cents per pound Jack son claims he will get. 18 bales from h s 6 acre plat. The lint feels like lamb I wool and measures one and one-half * inches in length. TO HELP COTTON. The Growers to Meet in Atlanta in Early December. OP INTEREST TO ALL FARMERS, All Interested in the Cause are Asked to Co-Operate and Attend the Conven tion—A Meeting Open to All Cotton Men. The cotton growers of the south are being urged to organize and do some thing to break the system that has brought cotton raising to such an un nrofitable basis. President Milborn, of the South Car lina Cotton Growers Association has j ast issued this call: “Columbia, S C, November 19, 1897 —To the Cotten Growers of the South : It a large and enthusiastic meeting of he cot’on growers of tbesta’e of South ’’arol na, wherein all sections of this state were represented, it wss resolved that every state in the south be invited >o send delegates to a convention to be ■ailed to meet in Atlanta, Ga., Decem ber 14 1897 The purpose of this con vention is to organize the cotton grow ers of the south, thereby securing unity of action in the marketing and sale of this great staple ; also to devise wsys and means by which we may be able to break and throw off the shack les of business slavery that now binds us. “With foreign exchanges dictating the price, we can only exnect ruin and distress in the future. We can achieve Independence only by organization. “With a view of securing an exchange of ideas and perfecting an organization which it is hoped will result in good. I have been instructed to call a conven tion of delegates from all the cotton growing states to meet in Atlanta, Ga., on the 14th of December, 1897. “All who are interested in this cause, are most earnestly requested to co-op erate. The govern ts of the cotton growing states have bem asked to se lect delegates and all state organiza tions interested in the prosperity of he cotton growers are request’d to name and secure the attendance of delegates at this general convention. J. 0 Wilbokn, President South Carolina Cotton Grow ers’ Association.” The convention promises to be'a suc cess and prepara’ions are being made to entertain a large body. PENSION ROLL BOOMS. Takes Another Spurt Upward Under Re publicans. Secretary Bliss of the Interior De partment reports 2u0,000 pension claims awaiting adjustment half of which will be finally admitted. The roll will be increased from five to seven mil.ion dollars. There are 177,178 Indians living on 177 reservations approximating 23 mil lion acres. Fi’e tribes are civilized 200,0C0 whites have settled in Indian rese vations bv their consent, but are tenants by sufferance. The Secre’ari favors a government for the enti'e ludian territory that shall recognize all its inhabitants as Amer can citizens Regarding Alaska, he recomme ids extending the public land laws to that di trict Creating ne n land offices, grant ng rights of way for railroads and trail lim s and general develop ment along the line pursued in the states. Flzhtlng fur Time. The interstate commerce commission wi 1 hear on Dec 1 applications of railroads waiting an extension of time to equip their cars and engines with safely appliances. The commission reports that only 17 per cent have put automatic safety couplers on all their cars although the time expires Jan 1, 1893 The report shows slow compli ance by the majority w th the. la v pas sed by Congress several v> ars ago. Relief will never cotne through either of the old parties, they have out lived their usefulness. —Reformer, Tex. RICH OLD MEXICO. Mrs. Reed Writes of the Varied Valuable Resources. A VERITABLE TROPICAL KLONDYKE. The Nation that Defies the Gold Standard and Has an Abundance With Which to be Independent and Most Prosperous. A list of the attainable products of Mexico would suggest the wealth of the Incas, for her mountains are a uni versal world in themselves and every kind of product is possible to her soil and climate. The marble and onyx of Mexico have a reputation for exceeding beauty, while her iron ore ranks high in quali ty and is plentiful. Lead also in abun dant, as are tin, quicksilver, cinnabar, alumn, bismuth, naptha, a phalt, salt beds, and sulphur from the crater of Popocatepelt. For several hundred years Mexico’s chief wealth came from her silver mines, and the output from them is still enormous and profitable, despite the great depreciation in the value of that metal of la’e years. This depreciation has in fact work'd for Mexico’s advantage to the extent of stimulating a sea’ch for the m re valu able sister metal, with the result of opening up many profitable go d re gions heretofore unknown. The “Klondykes of Mexico,” as a recent trave’er writes of them, are at present the Ysqui Indian country in the state of Sonora, and tbe placer mining and the gold veins of the Sierra Madre del Sur in the state of Guerrero in all of which places the “finds” are reported to be exceedingly tempting. The name Klondyke being associated with freezing, famine and exorbitant prices, is something of a slander on these wild sections of Mexico when they each possess an ideal climate all the year round, fertile and cultivated soil inexpensive living and no hard ships of any nature connected with the mining indust-y. Before the Spanish conquest it ap pears that Mexico was finely timbered, and indeed the hot lands still contain forests of mahogony, ebony and rose wood, the devastation of the conquer ors beu g chiefly in the oak and pine lands of the higher plateaus, which they denuded of trees with no apparent reason other than a fancy to make their new country resemble the untim bered plains of their native Castile. The range of vegetable products is from the indigo, rubber and vanilla of the coast, on through coffee and cotton plantations, sugar-cane and rice fields, to tbe corn, wheat and beans of the h’gher altitudes. The maguey plant, o' Agave Ameri cana, yields the national drink, pu’que. besides a valuable fibre. There are many medicinal plants, all varieties of fruits in abundance, tropical and semi tropical, many of the most deli eate kinds growing without planting or cultivation. It is only sinc° Mexico has been wrested from the Spanish, the French and tbe Church that her natural re sources have been in any degree devel oped. The tranquility of the present g'v ernment and the apparent permanenev of the republic have encouraged indus trial effort among themselves and at traded to the country much foreign eanital in the fields of agriculture mining and manufacturing The ttothschilds are large and steady pur chasers of gold property, the English have gone into coffee raising and the Americans into railroading and a little of everything, Mexico herself leaning to manufacturing. These investments have been remu nerative, as in any growing and pros pering country, but e’pneiallv SO here where every foreign dollar makes two in Mexico money and where labor is cheap and plentiful. Owing to internal development and good business management of finances. Mexico is not only unembarrassed fi nancially, but has a fine surplus in her treasury with a constant increase of receipts over expenses. The recent rise in the rate of exchange has only served to still further cut off importations of foreign goods and to start more Mexican manufactures and enterprises the policy that first made Mexico self-sustaining and prosperous. It is without the pale of possibility that Mexico’s indispensible mineral stores will ever be refused a market abroad, but even in so unlikely an event, and should her present large exportat ons of coffee, sugar and tobac co cease, and her gold reserve for meet ing the interest on her gold bonds be exhausted—should all these improba ble events trsnspire, Mexico still has a natural gold supply to meet her ne cessit’es from her inexhaustible and rap dly increasing gold mines. The nation that treads on gold and whose rivers run nuggets of the yellow metal need never fear the straa<alat ing lasso of the money power. Mexico has prosnered and continues to prosper, on a si ver basis, while eve ry gold sta n dard nation in the world ii witnessing acute distress among its laboring classes, and a greater or less paralysis of all business not connected with the money-broker’s. The senti rnent in Mexico is for bimetallism and independence Fortunately for his country, the twenty years president is not a mere politician seeking office and fortune. He has them both in his hands for 1 ife, and is free to work sole ly for the upbuildi g of his country Neither is he a timid ma”, nor of small mental calibre, and his coadjutor. Secretary Limantour, is a financier of whom any nation might well feel proud. Therefore we feel safe in saying that there is little likelihood that Mexico will change her present successful fi nancial policy Secretary Limsntour states that they now have in the treas ury suffi dent gold to meet the interest on their bonds for a period of three years, even at the present excessive rate of exchange When, a number of years ago, the ► YOUR PAPER NEEDS YOUR HELP Z ► Raise a club for 1898. < ► all together A ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER 375. Mexican treasury was short of, funds for meeting the interest on the nation al debt, the secretary of the treasury, Jose M Liman tour, contributed all of his year’s salary, and every government employe ten per cent of his year’s earnings to meet the deficit. Referring to this act of patriotism and to the now threatening aspect of the gold standard, President Diaz hajt said in his recent message to congress, ‘ should the necessity arise, Mexican patriots know how to maintain the integrity of their country. Emma L. Reed. Not So Dead. People’s Party Paper: Inclosed please find the names of seven yearly subscribers to your good poper. May its circulation be exten ded until it reaches the home of every patriot and truth seeker in the nation. The Populist party in the statu is not dead by any means, some of the Poos may be a little bit demoralized and discou-a'ed, but when once again the ere at Peonl ’s Party is united as it will be, and tbe lines are again drawn be tween right and wrong, between the great plain people on the one side and privileged plutocracy on the other, every true Populist will c me into place, and fall into line on the side of ’ru’h and right, as truly and as uner ringly as the magnetic need'e trem blingly settles to the pole Tbe fusion oill administered to the Populists last 'all was a drastic, bitter dose, but thanks to tbe editor of tbe People’s Party Paper and many other true and nob’e men, it failed to do tbe deadly work expected of it Stupefied fused, confused and bewildered for a time, the "Pops” are at last awakening to a realization of the situation as it really is. We will reorganize, reestablish ourselves as it were and put our house in order for the work that is to come. We must succeed! We will succeed I b it success comes to tho«e who earn It; to succeed we must reorganize every where, in every state, in every county, in everv precinc’; to succeed we must be constant of purpose and above all things we must be united, this togeth er with energetic, faithful, good work will accomplish wonders. Let us try it; let us get out of this bewildering fog of fusion and confusion into the clear morning light of true Populism, such as is set forth in the Omaha and St. Louis platforms, unfurl our banner • to the breezt and shoulder to shoulder in solid phalanx march to victory; looking n°ver backward unto the past fusi-n and confusion, but ever forward until well deserved and well earned success shall erown our efforts, which it will do as sure as God reigns and the love of liberty yet lives in the hearts of the people. Fbank V. Hogan. Tacoma, Wash. Straight Talk This. In so.rrow and regret do I deplore the necessity of your article addressed to Mr. J. P. Brooke and your editorial in last week’s PPP. but most heartily indorse every word. I wrote a personal appeal to Carter, Strother, Golden and Castleberry a few days before the legislature met; be cause I was informed that they would not likely support the ai ti-barroom bill. In that appeal I tried to show them the inconsistency of not support ing it, and the great damage to the party that would inevitably result from such a course. I said to each of *•' them that in my judgment, the failure on tbeir part to support that bill and the neglect or refusal of the party to incorporate the same or similar plank in principles and tactics would d harm I can never again vote a democratic ti *k et, though that party p’-ofesses to adopt every principle of the People’s Party. Ist. Because they have exhausted the catalogue of abuse upon me and my co-work >rs. 2nd. Because I have no respect for a man or par'y that will not do right, u itil forced to do right. 3rd Because I have no confidence in a man or partv that will abuse another as we have been and then prefers to adopt our principles for the sake of the spoils. 4th, Because the infamous methods employed by that party to retain its hold upon the spoils fatigue the con tempt of a gentleman. I remain as ever your devoted friend and well wisher. James J. Gbebs. Crawford, Ga. Quit Them Now Boyzt The brave, lion-hearted People’s Party men of the south, who quit the hypocritical and deceitful democracy, and who have been maligned, socially ostracised and, in some instance, mur dered for standing up for the grand principles of the Peoples Party, are yet in the fight and propose to stand by their colors until victory perches upon their banners. These men—the patriot c Southern Populists—appeal to their brethren in Kansas, Nebraska, lowa and elsewhere to tear loose from any alliance or fusion with Democracy and march hand in hand with them in westing the reins of government from the hands of both tbe Republican and Democratic leaders. Ara thev asking more than they have a right to expect? Let every true People’s Party man take counsel with his conscience and an swer the Southern boys’ appeal by re solving to henceforth refuse to enter into a fusion deal with the Jim Jones Democracy.—Missouri World. Last fall New York State gave Mo- Kinley a plurality of 268 469. Last week a Democrat was elected judge by 5» 000 The Democrats ignored the Chicago platform and got together on Judge Parser, who is anti-silver. The point will be seen by tbe Democratic post office brigade. The next Demo cratic candidate for president will likely be selected with the view of car rying New York. Those Democrats and Republicans who really favor fre silver and greenback will have to conae to tbe People’s Party. With the Dem . ocrat c p r'y oc upying its true posi tion the progre-s of the People’s Party will be swift and victory will not be longer delayed than the next national i election.—Missouri World.