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® THIS PLACE MARKED (| Shows that your Subscription ® ® E? 8 expired or is about to expire (•) w Flease renew_at once. (®) ONF. FFk'Jfi YEAR. ?*7z VOL. VII. JciS 17. iSs' 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 Till? OLVYDI IP’Q O A T>riT\r O a I JnLJ& Jr Jtyv/Jrljo o ■Jrxv.riJL X < A J ryJtv. 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 W Wi 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 7 / l fl / 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. r® ®®@ ONLY 38 WEEKS To election day. What are you ® ® doing for the People’s Party? ® ® Write us nowt ® Om DOLLAR PBR K&AB. WHOLE NUMBER 382. THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD What Is Going on In All Parts of the World. 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.