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VOL. VII. JciS 17.
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THAT ST. LOUIS MEETING PROVES A POPULIST LOVE-FEAST.
Nashville Conference Committee Maps Out an Aggressive Cam
paign and Seventy National Committeemen Endorse it.
THE PEOPLE TO VOTE ON THE TIME OF HOLDING CONVENTION.
Coming National Convention Will be in Charge of the Middle-
Roaders—Cool Heads Save the Day at St. Louis and
Secure Strong Pledges From the National
- Conjjaattiee--A Great Day’s Work.
The die has been cast.
The river of doubt has been crossed and the true patriots who called the
Nashville Conference and later on insisted that the Reorganization Commit
toe should advance to the front and lav out the battle lines can now see the
dawn of a new day.
Light is breaking and the cloud of fusion is rolling backwards, sullenly,
slowly, but surely.
The traitors of 1896 can no longer parade their infamy before the silent,
yet suffering, discouraged, disheartened forces. The fight is on. The “boys
in the trenches’* have won the day and now—none but the true and the tried
will be on guard.
The meeting of the National Reorganization Committee at St. Louis on Jan.
IS, was in every way a success. In a single day, more great work for the good
of the People’s Party was consumated than has been done in the many months
previous.
It was a great meeting—and the results —beyond the hopes of even the most
earnest enthusiast.
In the Reorganization Committee meeting, there were about 100 present, rep
resentatives from nearly every state. Gen. Philips and Col. Peek were there
from Georgia.
It was no old party caucus, no gathering of a faction but a body of earnest
determined veterans who had braved every kind of political trials and dangers
and who had come together not to bandy words nor to waste time but to act.
Chairman Milton Park presided and Buzz-Saw Morgan the Secretary handled
the business with dispatch.
Among the members of the committee were a large number who are also
members of the National Committee. These took an active interest in the work
of the session.
A committee on resolutions and plan of action was first appointed, consisting
of the following gentlemen: Frank Burkitt, Mississippi, chairman; W. L.
Peek, Georgia; W. S. Morgan, Arkansas; Harry Tracey, Texas; Jno. O Zabel,
Michigan; L. D. Raynolds. Illinois; J. F. Willets, Kansas; JacobS. Coxey,
Ohio; Geo. F. Washburn, Massachusetts; Paul Dixon, Missouri; A. L. Mimms,
Tennessee ; and Jo. A. Parker, Kentucky.
From this committee a sub-committee consisting of Messrs. Dixon, Washburn
and Morgan were appointed to formulate a plan and Col. Burkitt was delegat
ed to prepare an address to the people.
After a protracted session a report was submitted and with few slight alter
ations was adopted by unanimous vote by the organization committee as fol
lows :
THE ADDRESS.
“To the People of the United States —The fusion movement consumated at
St Louis in July, and the inexcusable treatment of our candidate for Vice
Preolden tin me m&t loiibwed, gave rise to such dissatisfaction among
the rank and file of'the People’s party as to threaten the absolute dismember
ment of the only p'olitieal organization honestly contending for the social and
political rights of the laboring and producing classes of the country, who are
the sole creators of our wealth, who really pay all taxes, and who, in the
main, fight our battles in time of war.
Seeing our councils divided, our forces disorganized, and realizing that dis
content within the ranks of the gennine reformers over the non-action of the
constituted authorities of the party was growing to such an alarming extent as
to threaten the complete annihilation of the People’s party, the reform press,
ever watchful of the public interest, and always alert to serve a righteous
cause, essayed the unwelcome task of arousing our national committee to a
sense of the danger impending, and volunteered its assistance in the work of re
organizing our shattered forces.
Unfortunately, as we think, the patriotic endeavors of the press have been
unheeded by the legal guardians of the party’s integrity, and it became a ques
tion whether the broken fragments of the once proud army of reform should
remain a sort of adjunct to one or the other of the old parties, or whether an
effort should be made to raise its bedraggled standard from the dust and hold it
aloft as a sacred banner around which men who love principle more than polit
ical success, and who regard the public welfare as paramount to individual pre
ferment, might rally for the final contest between the people and plutocracy,
and which contest is to decide whether or not enough virtue and courage abide
with-us. te enable-us to regain for ourselves and our posterity a government of,
for and by the people, such as the fathers bequeathed to us
The reform press, at its meeting in Memphis in February, 1897, appointed a
committee with instructions, first, to communicate with the national committee
and secure its co-operation in holding a national delegate conference at some
time and place during the summer of 1897.
The Pre., to the Rescue.
The national committee declined and the press committee was then reluctant
ly forced to consider the second clause of their instructions, which was to take
steps for the assembling of a national conference at such time and place as
they might deem advisable. In obedience to these instructions, the committe,
failing to secure the co-operation of the national committee, met in Girard,
Kan , on April 15, 1897, and issued an address containing a call for a national
conference to assemble at Nashville July 4, provided the voters of the People’s
Party, to whom the question was referred, should approve the same. The peo
ple did approve the call, and in the face of every obstacle presented the Nash
ville conference was attended by delegates representing a constituency of 875 -
000 earnest reformers who indorsed the Omaha platform without reservation.
We submit to a just public that the proceedings of that conference proved
beyond controversy that the chief object of its originators was to inspire the
“boys in the trenches” with renewed courage to fight the battles of the great
common people, and we maintain that it did infuse new life and hope into the
hearts and minds of thousands of our disgusted and despairing comrades.
A ringing address was issued, proclaiming unswerving allegiance to the Pop
ulist creed and declaring unequivocally against fusion with either of the old
parties in future, and a national organization committee was appointed and
specifically instructed to cooperate with the national committee in every and all
movements they might along purely Populist lines.
These instructions it has been jut purpose to faithfully execute and we de
plore the fact that no opportunity has been given us to carry them out.
Did But Its Duty.
Under such conditions such as these the executive committee of the national
organization committee, impelled by the peinful knowledge that no rallying of
the reform forces could be attained and no accrument to our party strength
could be hoped for, until a reassuring policy was outlined and boldly proclaimed
by one or the other (or both) national committees to whom the people at home
looked for advice and guidance, met by the appointment in the City of St. Louis
on November 23, and after mature consideration issued a call for this meeting
of the full committee and invited the national committee to a joint conference
January 12, 1898,
Why the national committee as a committee should have chosen to ignore this
polite invitation to a joint conference with us it is unnecessary here to discuss.
It has been the purpose always of this committee to be courteous to the na
tional committee, and our supreme desire has been at all times to promote the
harmonious eD-operation with said committee, that factional differences might
be obliterated, our party prestige regained and our organization restored to its
once splendid estate. If we have failed to take any fraternal step to secure this
much desired end, it has been an unintentional omission, which we would dis
dain to palliate or excuse by quibbling. This committee feels confident of its
ability to show that it is no fault of ours that the national committee is not
present as a body to-day, but it does not choose to waste valuable time in
wrangling over question s of official ettiquette.
An Open Avowal.
We avow it to be our sincere purpose now, as ever before, to promote in every
honorable way the reform movement on true Populist lines, and we deem the
issues too momentous and the dangers threatening free government too immi.
nent to allow us to pause to consider personal grievances or affronts, or to per
mit wounded dignity, real or imaginary, to overs hadew patriotic duty.
Under present conditions our beloved organiz ation is slowly but turely dis
integrating, and our comrades who have valiantly fought by our sides so long
that they might have equal opportunity and be compelled to bear only an equal
share of the burden of government are clamoring for aggressive action.
Having in vain importuned those who assume to be our superiors to permit u 8
to aid them in the grand work of reorganizirg the People’s party, that it may
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accomplish its glorious mission, we now appeal to the people, the true source of
all political power, and submit to them the determination of the following
propositions :
Six Broad Propositions.
1. That township and county conventions be held in every state not later
than the last Wednesday in May, and that state conventions be held not later
than the first Tuesday in June, 1898.
2. That at said conventions the following propositions be submitted to the
People’s party:
A. Do you favor a national convention being held pending the campaign of
1898, for the purpose of promoting the welfare and future policy of the party?
B. What date is your choice for holding a national convention for nominating
a President and other candidates—July 4, ’9B ; May 26, ’99, or February 22, 1900?
3 That at the state conventions delegates to the national convention be elected?
4. That the basis of representation for such convention be two delegates from
each state and one additional for each 2000 largest actual Populist vote or major
ty fraction thereof, cast in 1892 or since.
5. We request that on the second Wednesday in June, 1898, the National Com
mittee of the People’s party convene and carry out the instructions of the refer
endum vote.
6. That a committee of five be appointed for the purpose of taking a referen
dum vote of the members of the People’s party by ballot on the above proposi
tions, and to perfect and put in operation a plan by which such vote may be
taken, and through which future propositions may be submitted to the people.
And the same committee is hereby intrusted to begin at once taking the ballot
on the above propositions, and report result by May 1, 1898.
The refendum committee appointed is as follows:
Messrs. Dixon, of Missouri World; Tracy, of Texas, Southern Mercury; Ray
nolds, of Illinois, Chicago Express; Motsinger, of Indiana, Referendum, and Mc-
Gregor, of Georgia, People’s Party Paper.
The place for the next national convention will be either Louisville or Cin
cinnati.. This will also be determined by the referendum votetaken at the same
time.
The following rules were adopted for the government of the National Organ
ization Committee:
1. Any measure proposed by not less than three members of the National
Organization Committee of the People’s Party shall be submitted with 10 days
by the chairman, by mail, to the members of the committee, and in case a ma
jority of the committee vote for same, it shall be the decision and act of the
committee, and the committeemen shall vote within 10 days from the time the
proposition is mailed to them.
2. Any officer of this committee may be recalled by a majority of the com
mittee. Such recall may be when the committee is in session or by petition
duly signed.
3. The National Organization Committee shall submit to a vote of the Peo
ple’s Party any proposition when petitioned to do so by not less than 10,000
members of the party.
Good News This.
Forty states were represented in the meeting of the National Committee
(Butler Committee) which followed and seventy delegates responded either in
person or by proxy.
These unanimously agreed that the national committee should be called
to meet early in June, 1898, and that the referendum vote as to the calling
of the convention will be mandatory upon, them and that they will abide abso
lutely by the result of said vote.
The committeemen then passed the following resolutions :
“Resolved, That we, the members of the national committee present, indorse
the action taken by the organization committee and recommend that its provis
ions be carried into effect, believing that such action will harmonize all differ
ences in the party. ”
And Now To Organize.
Each member of the state committees on organization by resolution of the
conference is required to actively push the work of organization to carry cut
the purposes of the November meeting as well as those of this meeting.
Gen. Philliu? and. Col. P«ek. rpLi-ned brwo. Ibis- Bctlv express them
selves as satisfied that the patriots are now in charge and that the miserable
deception of 1896 can not be repeated.
NOT DEAD NOR SLEEPING.
Populism In Georgia will Yet Surprise the
Croakers.
It is said by some (Democrats of
course) that the Populist party is dead.
Just let them wait until the next elec
tion, and they will be treated to a gen
eral resurrection. Thousands of peo
ple, who been pinning their faith to
the two old parties, have lost all hope,
and numbers of them will vote with
the pops in the next election. Let our
delegates act with wisdom, and a due
amount of conservatism, and the pros
pects for a Populist victory in Georgia
were never brighter. A few more ses
sions like the past session of the Geor
gia legislature, will convince all unbi
ased minds that Democracy stands for
deception and wins, only at the pie
counter. No legislative body in Geor
gia ever surpassed the last one as a do
nothing body, except to feather the
nests of a few slate performers. When
the Savior approached the maniac who
was possessed of so many devils before
casting out these devils, he permitted
them to enter into a drove of swine.
Now, when those hogs plunged into the
sea and were drowned, what became
of those devils? I think they must
have entered into some of our political
demagogues; they refused to enter
them all, because they feared, disgrace
When a man speaks or preaches to
feather his own nest and save his sala
ry instead of saving his people, he is
going to the devil, and when either of
the old parties win the devil grins with
satisfaction.
The Populist party may be dead, but
I am certain there are scores of Pops in
this section who will never cast anoth
er vote for Democracy. When we have
been abused, cursed and branded with
every epithet, that the average Demo
cratic politician could apply, then steal
from the Populist platform the only
good thing in theirs and expect us to
come sneaking back like a whipped
cur. No, sir, we are not going to do it
Our demands are just and they know
it. Lots of Democrats would vote with
us if they were not ashamed. I say to
all such, it don’t matter how mean you
have been, if you want to reform and
be a gentleman, we will let you vote
with us. Any man, who has not back
bone to vote his honest convictions
ought to have been born an eel worm.
lam sorry for these policy fellows,
they can’t see any good in anything
except fusion. This deponent will
take no fusion in his and will oppose
fusion at all times and under all cir
cumstances, and will be satisfied with
nothing less. Put the ball in motion
and the boys will be ready to answer
at roll call. They are sawing wood
but doing lots of thinking, 4 cents cot
ton has driven the darkey from Mc-
Kinleyism and he will vote for the
Pops next time, except those who can
be bought.
J. B. Brazier.
Lumpkin, Ga.
Likes Repair Outfit.
People’s Party Paper.
I have received your practical repair
outfit and am well pleased with it.
R. C. Cribb.
Tenn, Ga.
“EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL; SEE IAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE"
ATLANTA-, GEORGIA: FRIDAY JANUARY 21, 1898
THE BEST VARIETY,
Splendid Endorsement ot Jackson African
Limbless Cotton.
We, the undersigned Committee, ap
pointed by the Interstate Cotton Grow
ers’ Association, held in Atlanta, Ga.,
December 14, 1897, to investigate and
report on the Jackson Limbless Cotton,
beg leave to submit the following
report:
After a thorough and careful exami
nation and investigation made of the
cotton in the field, which we visited in
person, and carefully looking into the
matter, we unhesitatingly pronounce
it the best variety of cotton ever grown
in the South,
From what the Committee learned
from a conversation with Mr. Jackson,
it seems that the cotton, with careful
cultivation, will yield three bales per
acre easily, and the evidence of such
fact has presented itself to us after
said investigation.
The cotton itself is absolutely with
out limbs, the bolls maturing on little
prongs two or three inches long, known
as “fruit spur,” with no other limbs ;
there being from two to five bolls on
each spur. The stalks in the field, ex
amined by us, are from four to ten feet
tall, according to the fertility of the
soil, and fruited from the ground up.
We found on a great many stalks,
bolls which contain five and six pods>
which we consider very unusual, the
size of the bolls being very fine aver
age ; the lint and staple being fine and
silky, an average of one to one and a
half inches.
It is the opinion of your committee
that no cotton of this variety has ever
been grown in the South before, and
is of superior quality to anything we
have ever seen grown.
The land upon which the cotton ex
amined was grown, is ordinarily red
gravelled upland, well manured
Wm. P. Calhoun, Chairman, Ga.
Richard Cheatham, Committee, Mis.
When your Committee visited the
Jackson farm the following gentle
men, members of the Atlanta Conven
tion from the States designated under
their names, accompanied your Com
mittee, all being practical farmers, and
endorse the above report, as evidenced
by their signatures.
M. T. Leach, North Carolina
John E. Bbadley, W. J. Bradley,
South Carolina,
Populists of Pike County.
A mass meeting of the People’s party
of Pike county will be held at Zebulon,
Ga., on the first Tuesday in February,
1898, to elect delegates to the State
Conventicn of the party to assemble at
Atlanta in March next; also for the
purpose of appointing executive com
mitteemen for the county, and for other
lawful business.
Wm. S. Whitakeb,
C. F. Butleb, Chairman.
Secretary.
Terrell County Meeting.
A convention of the People’s Party of
Terrell county is hereby called to meet
at the Court House, Dawson, Ga., at 10
a. m. January 29, 1898, for the purpose
of electing a new executive committee
and to transact such business as may
properly come before it. All true re
formers are earnestly requested to be
present. M. G. Statham,
Chairman.
THE POWER AND USES OF MONEY.
An Able Review of What it is, What it Can do and How Affected
by the Statutory Law.
SEVERAL BROAD PROPOSITIONS FOLLOWED BY ABLE ARGUMENTS
An Easily Understood Discussion to be Read to Your Neighbor.
The Best Campaign Material of the Year to Circulate.
Concise, Clear Statements That Can Not Be
Met by Old Partyites.
H. H. Hogan.
Thia article I dedicate to posterity, well know
ing that the people of the present age are
too bigoted to either understand or appre
ciate its Cachings.
(Continued from last week)
Anomalies of Money.
First—To redeem a gold piece, erase
the stamp; to redeem a greenback,
pay it, which can only be done by the
sovereign.
Second—While bearing the seal of
the sovereign money can never be made
the personal property of an individual.
Debts of the Sovereign the Best Money.
Third—l have shown that the debts
of the sovereign serve equally as well
as his wealth for the purposes of mon
ey. Why not use his debts alone for
money, and forever free us from the
blasting, blighting, withering curse of
gold and her full sister in infamy, sil
ver ?
Money Never Pays Debt in Full.
Fourth —It is a full legal tender for
all debts, and while the person paying
it over has paid his indebtedness in full,
and is relieved of all future responsi
bility, the person receiving it is not
paid, in the full sense of the word, and
never will be till he parts with the
money for some commodity having
worth or value, no matter what. The
only exception to this is when money
is paid by the subject to the sovereign,
then it is a full and final payment.
All Trade is Barter.
Fifth—All home trade is a barter
transaction in which money can be
used, but all foreign traffic is entirely
a barter transaction where values or
worths have been given over and
values or worths must be returned,
money being of no force or use.
Money an Instrument of Utility.
Sixth—A trade where money has
been promised and paid differs, in no
sense from simple barter, except that
the utility of money has been called in
to effect the exchange of values or
The Sovereign Did Not Give B a Value for
His Wheat.
Seventh —When the sovereign in the
exercise of his autocratic powers arbi
trarily forced a twenty-dollar green
back upon B in full payment for twen
ty bushels of wheat he in no sense ten
dered a value, but he really did ap
point B an officer of his own, and em
powered him, equally with himself, to
exercise one of the highest attributes
of sovereignty. B's warrant of office
was the greenback ; the power delega
ted to him was to cancel or execute
debt whenever found in the realm of
the sovereign, without other process of
law, to the amount of twenty dollars.
So long as he held that greenback so
long could he exercise that power, but
when he forced it on D in payment for
the sugar he parted with his warrant
of office, and, by receiving that war
rant, D became an officer of the sov
ereign, invested with all the powers
originally conferred npon B. At the
moment B transferred the greenback
to D, that moment he paid D in full for
the sugar and received his pay for the
wheat. Here, through the instrumen
tality or utility of money, B has bar
tered his wheat that he did not want
for an equal value of sugar that he did
want. The transaction would have
been the same had gold been used,
although the conditions would have
been somewhat changed. It will be
here observed that every person in the
possession of money is an officer of the
sovereign, the money in his possession,
whether of gold, silver or paper, being
his warrant of office, and when he
tenders and forces money in the pay
ment of indebtedness he exercises a
power more arbitrary and autocratic
than can be done in any other manner
by any person in the State, the chief
executive not excepted. How quickly
is the Sheriff disarmed and his process
of execution against property rendered
null and void by a tender of money,
without other process of law, to the
amount of the indebtedness.
Money in Use a Proceis at Law.
Eighth—While money in realty is an
engine, instrument or implement of
utility, in use it is undoubtedly a pro
cess at or in law.
The Debts of the Sovereign, When Used for
Money, Cannot be Hoarded.
Ninth—The sovereign who circulates
his wealth for money places himself
and his subjects at the mercy of bad
aid conscienceless men who have it
in their power to rob his subjects to
almost any extent they may choose by
defacing, deporting or locking up in
their vaults, as they did on the 12th
day of March, 1893, the most of the
money belonging to the sovereign, by
which foul deed they have already
robbed the people out of thousands of
millions of dollars, and God only knows
when their greed will be satiated,
while the sovereign who would circu
late only his debts for money would
place it beyond the power of any body
of men, however vile, to inaugurate a
panic and rob his subjects, as his mon
ey could only be destroyed or locked
up at a direct loss to those who might
undertake it.
The Use of Gold and Silver for Money a
a Relic of Barbarity.
Tenth —The automatic system of
money, of which we have heard so
much in the past year or two, is not
worthy of one moment’s consideration.
The autocracy on a piece of paper
making it money differs in no sense or
degree from that upon the gold piece
making it money. Money exists no
where in nature and iron has a thou
sand times more claims to be called
a precious metal than gold. Money is
of far more importance to man than a
mere value. What the biood is to the
animal organization and what the air
is to the blood, money is to the en
lightenment, civilization, prosperity
and happiness of man in this life and
the life to come. With money adequate
to his necessities his possibilities are
almost illimitable; with it entirely
taken from him he sinks into a vege
tative state of existence, with none of
the moral attributes that characterizes
man from the brute. The use of gold
and silver for money is not in conso
nance with the progression of the age
in which we live, but, as constitu
ted and practiced, our system comes
from and is a relic of barbarity where
things are swapped of equal values.
Dignify gold and silver as you will in
their present use of money, in the end
it is but a dollar’s worth of gold for a
bushel of wheat, cowrie shells for fish,
and only differs from barbaric barte r
in this : when an equal value in gold is
tendered for the thing bought it must
be taken in payment, whatever may
have been promised.
Money Was Never Intended to be Property.
Money is not, and it was never inten
ded it should be, property over which
a person can obtain absolute possession
and control, but it is made for the use
of and belongs to the whole people, and
a person holding more than SI,OOO of it
for which he has no use for a longer
time than one year should by law for
feit it, and be subjected to fine and im
prisonment. Here an exception should
perhaps be made m favor of bankers,
but under very different laws from
those now controlling banking institu
tions.
Fiat Money Pure and Simple.
I have erroneously been called a
Gieen backer. As people generally un
derstand the word 1 never was one Tout
for a great many years I have advocat
ed the demonetization of gold, silver
and all other metals, and the use of
paper alone for all transactions in
which money can be used. It would
differ from the greenback in this:
there would be no exceptions either on
its face or back, and something like
the following:
< T SIOO »
I > This note is a legal tender for, and $
II must be taken in full payment of, all w
I > debts to the amount of One Hundred w
I > Dollars by every cltizeu of the United ®
I J States, and will be received for all gov- ®
I > ernmental dues to that amount, ©
I I UNCLE SAM. ®
Now, mark, on this note there is no
date of issuance, no time set for re
demption, no redeemer named and no
payment promised, and still the pay
ment of this note so unpromising is a
thousand times better assured than
would be a note of hand given by the
Hon, Francis G. Newlands for SIOO for
value received, payable one year from
date.
This mandatory decree of the sov
ereign, this purely fiat money, without
value in the substance upon which it is
stamped, is virtually the note of hand
of the whole people of the United
States to an individual, and its imme
diate payment can be enforced against
any one of them, or against the sov
ereign himself, as, for illustration,
suppose that I, an individual, have
worked for my sovereign (the whole
people of the United States) in any
capacity, say as a soldier, till I have
earned SIOO.
With the proper vouchers I take my
time check to my sovereign and de
mand my pay. In payment he hands
me out one of his fiat money decrees
for SIOO. It so happens that I owe the
sovereign just that amount for an
eighty-acre tract of land, and I proffer
this same note in payment, which is at
once accepted, and I get a deed for my
land. In this transaction not the com
mercial value of one cent has passed
between us, but by it and through it
I am placed in obsolute possession of a
valuable tract of land. What more
could have been done had I received
and paid out gold ? Suppose that Ido
not owe my sovereign, of what am I
possessed in this same piece of paper ?
I really hold the warrant of my sov
ereign to cancel debt —and a debt must
exist before money can be of force —
wherever found in his realm to the
amount of SIOO.
Wliat Should Be Done.
Have we sacrificed our liberties to
Mammon, Bacchus and Venus that we
cannot regain them ? I do not know,
but if we ever do have them restored
to us it can only be through the follow
ing means : Let our first act be to de
monetize gold, silver and all metals
used for money. Let the money of al)
denominations be issued direct to the
people, and made of some substance
without value, say paper, in quantitiei
sufficient for all our needs, about SSO
for each man, woman and child in the
United States. This will at once and
forever extract the venomed fang.*
from that hydra-headed snake callee
Wall street. He will still exist, but
how shrunken will be the dimensions
of his importance ! Instead of being a
monster so I uge that the earth careens
over on edge just under bis center of
gravity, he will have become a harm
less little wretch of the fangless order
With his millions and millions of gold
he can do more harm than a farmer
with his millions and millions of bush
els of wheat.
The Government Should Hoard Gold and
Sliver.
The general government should hoard
gold and silver, not for their value, but
in case of war, pestilence, plague or
famine they might be the only sub
stances possessed by our people that
they could send down into Egypt to
buy corn, and so long as barbarity re
mains on earth and kings rule any
part of it, so long will these two sub
stances bear values for which fools
will barter anything, even their souls.
I would not only work every gold and
silver mine in the United States, but I
would trade with foreign nations our
every production for silver except
gold. They should be hoarded as a
storehouse of safety for our whole
people, and they should be only dis
posed of by, through and with the con
sent of the whole people.
What Shall we do to be Saved.
It seems to me that the time has
come when the people should cry aloud
with one voice : “What shall we do to
be saved ? Do you still have faith in
your party leaders, still believe they
are the exponents of the principles
you profess? What legislation have
they enacted to longer justify that
faith I Will you still let your preju
dices trammel your intellects till you
shall have become bondmen in name,
as well as bondmen in fact? For
twenty-five years you have seen such
laws enacted that the infamous rich
have become richer and the honorable,
upright, patriotic yeomanry yearly
growing poorer, till today nine- tenths
of the ranches and farms throughout
the United States are mortgaged for
more by far than they will bring in
gold, and in the hour of their owners’
distress you see the demon Cleveland,
with his Democratic and Republican
cohorts of hell, charging down upon
them to forever drive them from the
heritage of their fathers. What can I
say to arouse you to a sense of your
danger ? Can you not understand that
your goddess is dethroned, and that an
almost dictator of the realm of dark
ness is formulating decrees and ruling
over you ? That the public press, that
at one time was supposed to be the
prlladium of our liberties, has now
become the most potent engine of their
destruction ? That justice has grown
deaf as well as blind, and that all too
frequently her arbiters make her de
cisions a subject of barter ? That our
offices are sold to the highest bidder
for gold ? That trickery, treachery,
knavery and downright scoundrelism
in politics are the highest recommen
dation for offices of honor, trust and
emolument ?
Weyler’s Successor.
Captain General Blanco, Weyler’B
successor in Cuba, has been in control
of the island before and left an unsa
vory record. During the insurrection
which began in 1879 and was known as
“the little war” fully 1,500 men were
put to death by his orders and without
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CAPTAIN GENERAL BLANCO.
the shadow of a trial. Blanco was cap
tain general of the Philippine islands
from 1894 up to December, 1896, when
he was superseded by General Polavie
ja. He was charged with weakness, in
competency and leniency.
The Discoverer of Osteopathy.
Dr. Andrew T. Still, the originator
of the new healing system known as
“osteopathy,” which is causing no
small sensation in the west, is a unique
and interesting character. He is a Vir
ginian by birth and a physician by the
same token—that is, his father was a
doctor, and so were a half dozen other
y
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DR. A. T. STILL.
members of the family. Dr. Still served
during the war as an army surgeon and
afterward settled down to the practice
of his profession in Lawrence, Kan. At
that time he was an allopath of the old
school, but in 1874 he discovered “os
teopathy” and has been teaching and
practicing it ever since.
Washington, Jan. 14 —Mr. Seaton
Perry, for many years one of the lead
ing drygoods merchants of Washing
ton, committed suicide here by shoot
ing. He for some years had been a
sufferer from insomnia, brought on by
nervousness, the result of close applica
tion to his business. Last summer he
took a long vacation and this seemed to
improve his health considerably, but
more recently the attacks of sleoplMs
mm netarned.
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What Is Going on In All Parts
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SHORT SOUTHERN STORIES.
Thomasville, Ga., Jan. 17.—Benja
min Butterworth, commissioner of pat
ents, died here.
Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 18. The
city council has resolved to build.a new
waterworks plant.
Greenwood, S. 0., Jan. 15.—Benja
min Ounningham, a prominent lawyer,
died here,
Brunswick, Ga., Jan. 14.—Judge
Sweat has sentenced ex-Express Agent
Mabry to two years’ imprisonment
Marietta, Ga., Jan. IS.—Will Allen
and Al Mullins, charged with murder
ing Callie King, have been acquitted.
Raleigh, Jan. 15.—John Graves, on
trial for the murder of Henry Wall at
Forestville one year ago, has been
acquitted.
Montgomery, x Ala., Jan. 14.—A deal
has been closed by which Alabama will
secure another fruit colony. It will be
located in Morgan county.
Macon, Jan. 18.—R. S. Dennington
is on trial here, charged with complicity
in the murder of L. W. Halstead at a
10-cent circus in Macon last April.
Mobile, Jan. 14—Frank Morse has
been arrested here, charged with coun
terfeiting. In his possession were $2,830
of counterfeit $lO silver certificates.
Memphis, Jan. 14 —Rev. E. A. Ram
sey, pastor of the Fii;t Pre. byterian
church and one of the best known di
vines in the south, died here, aged 46.
Atlanta, Jan. 17.—The 4-year-old
son of N. L Heard, a rai vay watch
man, was burned to death .. hile play
ing with a fire in the yard of his home
here.
Savannah, Jan. 15.—Nicholas Moro,
the Greek who killed Patrick Scully
several weeks ago, has been acquitted
in the superior court of the charge of
murder.
Atlanta, Jan. 18. —Attorney General
J. M. Terrell is out in a card to the pub
lic announcing his retirement from the
race for the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination.
Selma, Ala., Jan. 18.—Will H. Harri
son of this place committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head with a re
volver. No reason can be given except
despondency.
Columbia, S. 0., Jan. 13.—General
John Bratton of Fairfield died at Winns
boro of heajrt trouble. He wae for
many years prominent in public affairs
in this state.
Louisville, Jan. 17. Three men
were seriously and two fatally burned
as the result of a boiler explosion in
the Fernoliffe distillery at Logan and
Lampton streets.
Ala., Jan. 18.—An-'
uiew‘ouußsey; a voLlou uiu. employe,
died here from drinking wood alcohol,
and N. D. McKehen is not expected to
recover from a dose of tb r same liquor.
Pensacola, Fla., Jan. 18.—Herbert
Seeley killed Alice Caro, the girl to
whom he was engaged, and then com
mitted suicide. Both parties were well
connected in Warrington and in this
city.
Miami, Fla., Jan. 18.—The condition
of Joseph F. Smith, of the Bureau of
American Republics, is practically un
changed. It is not true that he has suf
fered a relapse, though he is still a very
sick mau.
Thomasville, Ga., Jan. 17.—Captain
John L. Finn, one of the wealthiest and
most prominent business men in this
o'ty, committed suicide here by shoot
ing himself. Whisky, it is said, caused
the rash act.
Cartersville, Ga, Jan. 14.—Hamp
ton Milner was loading a large log on a
carriage, when he lost his footing and
fell over a saw. His body was cut
nearly in two. There is little hope that
he will survive.
Milton, Fla, Jan. 14 —Hon. 0. J.
Perrenot, president of the state senate,
is dangerously ill at his residence here.
Last week he had an attack of hemor
rhage of the lungs, but seemed to be
slowly recovering.
Sylvania, Ga, Jan. 18.—The Post
office here was entered during the night
and about S4OO in money stolen. The
safe was blown to pieces with some kind
of an explosive and has the look of the
professional about it.
Key West, Jan. 18. — A rumor has
reached here from Havana that the au
tonomist leader, Rafael Fernandez de
Castro, had been killed in a duel by
Martin Rivero, editor of La Discussion.
The rumor is not confirmed.
Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 17. —Hon.
James B. Simpson, recording secretary
to Governor Johnston, and perhaps per
sonally the most popular man in the
state, died here from the effects of con
sumption. He was 40 years old.
Asheville, Ala., Jan. 18. —Jackson
Phillips, one of the most prominent cit
izens and pioneers of this place, died
here, aged 80 years. He was the father
of the Phillips brothers, prominent mer
•hants of Asheville and Gadsden.
Savannah, Jan. 14—The total re
ceipts of cotton at Savannah since the
beginning of the season, Sept. 1, 1897,
has passed the 900,000 bale mark, and if
the receipts keep up, as is expected, the
million mark will be reached in a few
Weeks.
Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 17. —The
grand jury now in session has found a
true bill against Ben Osborne, the
would-be assassin of Dr. T. O. Poweil,
superintendent of the Georgia Lunatic
asylum, for assault with attempt to
murder.
Savannah, Jan. 18.— The trial of Cap
tain Oberlin M. Carter, United States
army, before aoourtmartial of 18 United
States officers, uegau nere. General
Elwell S. Otis is president of the court
martial, and Colonel T. F. Barr judge
advocate general.
Hawkinsville, Ga., Jan. 15.—G. D.
Mashburn & Co., have failed for $40,-
000. The heaviest creditors are the
Hawkinsville Bank: and Trust company
ami the Lathrop Oil Mill company. Low
prices of cotton was the cause, and poor
collections brought the crisis.
Mariana, Fla., Jan. 17.—Sheriff j.
A Finlayson has returned from Clay
ton, Ala., where he went after Dick
Cane, a negro, who escaped from the
jail at this place 22 years ago. The
prisoner is wanted for a murder com
mitted over 24 years ago. Dick escaped
after hie trial and conviction. As he
was escaping Sheriff Finlayson put sev
eral buckshot in his body.