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THE PEOPLE MUST PAY PLEASURE TRIPS OF DEMO¬ CRATIC OFFICIALS. Public Office a Fat Snap — llypocrlny of Self-Styled Reformer*'—Junket low* of Cleveland and III* Cabinet- StnuneleHH Neglecu of Outlet*. Waahington special; When Grant was president the democratic press made a great outcry over the use by the ;vife of Attorney General Williams of a government carriage. Each mem¬ ber of the cabinet is allowed an equip page for official purposes, and it has been the common practice, and is yet, to use this official conveyance for social purposes. Nevertheless, during the Grant administration the democrats made an awful to do about it. 'J'he scandal was magnified to such propor¬ tions that the sobriquet, “Landaulet Williams,” became a catchword in pol¬ itics. It pushed the attorney general inio political obscurity. Times have changed. Not only has Mr. Cleveland all the carriages he and ills family and friends can use, with blooded horses to draw them, for pub¬ lic and private functions, but a war ves¬ sel is actually assigned to his service and called the "president's yacht.” Magnificent railroad trains are fur nlshcd to him free of personal cost, and when lie goes a-flshing a lighthouse tender, wnich Is supposed to supply oil to signal stations along the Atlantic coast, is taken over for his accommoda¬ tion. This is a “reform era,” let us bear in mind, when our officials are "conse¬ crated.” And yet there Is an extraordinary condition of affairs to-day at Washing¬ ton. The government is without head, arms or oven a tall. Nearly every of¬ ficial executive officer Is absent on a Junket, Not only are the cabinet offi¬ cers and the assistants of cabinet of¬ ficers cavorting around at government expense, but chief clerks, chiefs of di¬ vision, private secretaries and even stenographers have followed the illus¬ trious example of the chief magistrate and are having a good time on the dead¬ head plan. To transact any affair of Importance la Impossible under such conditions. Understrappers are in the saddle, proud of the novelty of power, and reckless In tho exercise of trust which should always be usod with cau¬ tion and sense. When Attorney Gen¬ eral Williams’ wife used a carriage of tho department of justice to go to re¬ ceptions and to do her marketing, at least It could be said that the wheels of tho government did not quite ceuso revolving. Secretary of tho Navy Herbert, under pretense of making a tour of inspection, is “doing” tho summer resorts on the dispatch boat Dolphin, entertaining his friends and causing the consumption of government powder In receiving and answering tho salute of seventeen guns which a cabinet officer receives. The Dolphin carries at sea seven officers and 108 men, and consumes an average of 273 tons of coal every three weeks. The •‘tour of inspection” la all poppycock. All this expense Is being had simply to give Secretary Herbert and his son a good time. The assistant secretary, Mr. McAdoo, is also Junketing. As a mombotj of con¬ gross front New Jersey, Mr. McAdoo was eloquent In denouncing republican extravagance and republican Junketing. McAdoo, as a democratic official, has Junketed and cruised in our finest men of-war to all points of the compass. The treasury department presents a most extraordinary spectacle In illus¬ tration of the aphorism that “public office is a private snap." Sailing over the waters of the great lakes is Secre¬ tary Carlisle with bis whole family. Among them are his son, ills son’s wife and the son’s children to the number of three, who are attended by a nurse. They, too, are "inspecting.” The as¬ sistant secretaries of the treasury, dur¬ ing the last two summers of tho Cleve¬ land administration, have frequently gone upon little trips to sea, and with¬ out the slightest compunction of con¬ science have ordered revenue cutters and lighthouse tenders around from Baltimore to Washington by way of the Chesapeake bay and the Potomac river, to take them over the water for a Sunday's sail. These things would not be comment¬ ed upon so much were it not for the pretensions of the persons to superior virtue. Yet there has never been such an exposition of hypocrisy and deceit, of public plunder and the gratification of personal comfort without personal cost as under President Cleveland. Cleveland uses lighthouse boats and free railroad trains. Cleveland leaves his post of duty whenever his toe hurts or his head aches. Cleveland orders a naval officer or a cabinet official noted as a good story teller to Join him on his Junkets and entertain him. Cleveland rewards these favored individuals with choice assignments. He has an army officer to prescribe bromidia for him and locks himself up in sullen seclusion when the humor seizes. He has guards at government expense galloping before his victoria. He has policemen ia uni form to protect his greatness at Wood lov, and secret service detectives to guard his slumbers at Buzzard's Bay. Cleveland, in fact, works the govern ment for all It is worth, and however prodigal he may be in the abuse of his privileges, he enjoys the supreme satis faction of knowing that no other presi dent of the United States ever soared to such heights of imperialism. The American people do not grudge their public servants such comforts ami fa cilities as the equip men* of the public service affords, but they do object to the canting, sniveling claim to s itltii 0* i which accompanies the actual practic e of preying on the public pur The secretary of war Is no exception to the general run of the Cleveland offi¬ cials. He has Inspected military posti while working at the third-term boom for Cleveland. The secretary of agriculture, who, ir> a spasm of economy, cut off the supply of seed from the farmers, has vibrated between Washington and Chicago tr. scatter his financial ideas an 1 preserve his oiucial scalp. The postmaster-general, for the first time in his life, rides to his lunch, from and to his homo and to the the¬ ater in a government conveyance. He "inspects” post-offices and travels hith¬ er and thither at government expense. Even his assistants, a Jot of youthful unknowns, have government convey¬ ances at their command, and imitate the treasury assistants in seeing which can muster the finest coupe and livery for exhibition on Sunday morning at Archie Bliss’ Overlook Inn. Hoke Smith has neglected the public business to such an extent in campaign¬ ing for his cdection to the United States senate that the confusion in which the Interior department is to-day ought to create a public scandal. The attorney-general of the reform administration has been in office less than two months. Jt did not hike him long to become Inoculated with the spirit of picnicking which afflicted his oider official associates. He is now spending a vacation at Nantucket for the benefit of his health, which must have been sadly Impaired by the over¬ exertion of drawing sixty days’ salary. The great secretary of state, Olney, is at Marlon, Mass,, just opposite to Gray Gables, and within the radius of the “president” at Buzzard's Bay, while ex Consul Waller languishes in prison at Marseilles. Looked at from a practical point of view. It may be that all the absenteeism and junketing and dead-beating Is a saving of money to the American peo¬ ple. While Cleveland and his official puppets are off fishing, electioneering, "resting” and "inspecting,” they are, doubtless, doing less harm than if they were here. But the principle of the thing is what the people are looking at. It is a fraud, a petty, pecksniffian larceny. Tho Tho Rnm-rn'ronuhnc Roman rep ihl c lasted l sled . nearly . . 500 yeais, and the e vil strife resulting from th . I ate poverty of the plebeian c ^m 1 Julius made himself Caesar dictator, at the he ^ and- o jabmred t le a or harmony and th « gilding up of Rome. The people were content with this state of affairs until tho jealousy of Cassius and Brutus ended Caesar’s Sss than a hundred years after the assassination of Caesar, a socialistic carpenter of Judea, by the name of Jo bub, began to teach the''rights of man" and universal brotherhood. The com niou people themselves joined in derid ing him as a crank, and he was hanged as an agitator and seditious fellow. His ideas spread, however, until tho Em peror Constantine professed Christian Ity and made the churches what they are to-day, club-houses for the well-to do and the socially inclined. Franco entered upon a revolution and started a republic, as did the American provinces of Great Britain. The repub Ho of France was crushed once and again by tho people themselves, with Napoleon at their head. The present republic is yet scarcely old enough to vote. The American republic still exists, in name at least, but with a president who vetoes the acts of the people’s repre sentatives and a supreme court which declares the laws of congress “uncon stltutioiial” and rules by injunctions sending to prison at its own pleasure fo, “contempt” and “conspiracy.” “The rights of the people are trodden under foot, are they?” Yes, the rights of the happy-go-lucky people thai laugh and sing and cry and toil good naturedly on, stopping scarcely Ion? enough to cry, “Hang him! Crucifj him!” when some foolish reforme! tries to champion their cause. The democrats, the Populists, the so clalists, as political parties, are ail split into fragments. The gold stand¬ ard will go on over the wreck of busi¬ ness and of wages, and If a few hot¬ heads revolt Grover will crush them out and be declared dictator. The people, the great liberty-loving American peo¬ ple, will joke about the affair, and think the overthrow of the American repub- 11c as good as Barnum's circus,—Th« Cincinnatian. Kumihn Methods. Eugene V. Debs writes from u ' Woodstock Jail as follows: “I am familiar with the oft-quoted maxim: “ 'No man e'er felt the halter drawn With good opinion of the law.’ “It has been said of every martyr from the first time that a thumb-screw was ever applied by the inquisition u waa said of every victim broken up on the wheels, disjointed upon the rack or burned at the stake. It has beer a handy excuse for tyrants in all ages and is as current now as when tht beasts of bigotry first lapped the in noeent blood of their victims. I know with what gusto corporations and theii ormlned sycophants and all their brooc of degenerate creatures regard the im prisonment of the officers of the Ameri can Railway union, and yet it is not law nor the administration of law thn; called forth our protest, but the abro ; gation of all law and the substltulioi of iron-cl^d despotism. Innocent men unstained by crime, we appealed to thi courts and to the constitution for pro tection, for guaranteed rights. We ap pealed as American citizens to the su preme court of th^ nation. As wel | might we have appealed to the man? man-eating tigers in an African jungle Our destiny was imprisonment, and i j tells the story of the final triumph o Russian methods of government in th< , United States of America.” ; • "!* m ; < '•mm f'G>. iwj fj * , 'A, : c J&uO wm §01 m rang % it if-e! m for wiarls m i \ ?v **». j f§ ' W/ 'it mmB-'w m, t =. m fci ®KKi 4ft, Q...- m jh ?1 trrr* S5 'A /^Uun far*"" IL 2k S< m -VMW) Q'at Vo m , o e q i iff Ip fiiRtTt s* W. m l*v s n / D wSj) m v.0 s i° ing Hi W - &■ -rrr v .; £hf ©.111 £3 ■> i SN\. silSPisi Hr gSgpA. / 'ks if o h r^ J| )i - JB •VI Ttiil fflii -'V J\l 7-. * t 'i bV/iTJc/v Hr.srotf ^ "soon o Money" WHAT THE GOLD BUGS ARE DOING FOR UNCLE SAM. HERE’S A CORKER. POINTER FORDEMOCRATIC FREE SILVER CONVENTIONS. rom Watson Toll* the Koy* What Is Necessary In Order to Make It a Grand Success—Harmless I’astlme for Off Years. Inasmuch as there are quite a num her of cities yet left in which no dem o cratlc f ree -silver convention has been held, and it being highly desirable that everybody should know how to conduct 0116 of these innocent affairs, we hereby publish a recipe which has been tried by a number of the best political cooks , n tho country> arid which may be re Bed on to furnish you a pleasant polit leal pudding-warranted to sit lightly ^ stomach ’discomforts. and guaranteed to ere ate n0 lnternal ‘ q , . nf f rP(J masses over ' . . . as well as ^ ^ paases distribut ed which advocates free-silver ^er anTX- a I vorta the men who vote g • 2nd. Secure the attendance or a ,f senatorial fossils who may be sa e y relied op not to do anything i ■am, I* lostle 1611 whtse the moss easy on movements their backs, w and ^ to whom the passing of a linging r lu t i om or two, seems the climax o ?° R ical dar ug. Harris of Tennesseee may be counted on. He’s safe. He won’t do anything rash, He will vote for a reso.ution ‘demanding” the instantaneous coinage of silver. Will meet you next week vote for another one, If you want It- Will meet you next year, and vote for another one. No matter how strong Y™ P“t your resolution you can t scare Harris. He is warranted not to he afraid of any resolution the English language can hold. After voting for the resolution, Harris will then go to s * ee P Invite some brilliant orator who can reasonably be expected to have in enough to carry his own vo te, and let this orator come t0 the conven ’ tion loaded with a speech against Cleve land. The bitterer this speech is, the bet ter. It doesn't hurt Cleveland, and it Immensely relieves the free-silverites. A speech of this character is well-nigh equivalent to the reopening of the mints to silver. 4th. Invite Lon Livingston to attend, so that the moral character of the as semblage may be at once pitched to such a high level that no carping critic will be encouraged to make disparaging remarks. 6th. Read a letter from Billy Bryan to the effect that “There is not room enough in this country for two repub iiean parties.” This somewhat care worn and fatigued statement of Billy’s is an eminently true saying, and its gloss cannot altogether be rubbed off by the disagreeable fact that the two republican parties are still in our midst, and that Billy continues to belong to one of them. 6th. Read a letter from Hon. Rich¬ ard Bland stating that he has now got to the forks of the road, and has sat down on his coat tails a leetle to the democratic side of the fork. 7th. Introduce some resolutions about the “crime of 1S73.” Make ’em hot. It will please the boys. Intimate that you will hurt somebody if some¬ thing ain’t done to help the country. Bounce Carlisle. Bounce Sherman. Bounce Rothschild. Bounce Wall street. Invite Dan Voorhees to help you abuse the Shyloeks. Say nothing against the democrats who in 1S93 shut the mints to silver. Put the world on notice that the down-trodden people are relatives of yours and that you are going to make it a personal matter If the John Sher¬ man policies are not cast overboard. But avoid all unpleasant reference to the democrats who closed the mints in 1893. Some of them will be present, and it would be bad manners to per¬ sonate them. 8th. Tip a wink to the gold-hug democrats; they will understand the wink to mean that you are not so madly mad as you seem to be. but that, on the contrary, there are indications of a well-defined method in your mad¬ ness. Let it gradually ooze out of you that if the Cleveland crowd will just recog¬ nize your rights in the distribution of political soup you will not wholly hard¬ en your heart against them. Let it be felt that your devotion to the dear old democratic party ia very deep and very tender, and that, if your affections are braced and encouraged by a goodly mess of pottage, you will remain a while longer in the compan¬ ionship of the Wall streeters—leaving your relations, the oppressed people, to shlft for themselves, Democratic free-silver conventions of this type are peculiarly appropriate in the summer time and in an off year in politics. Not being quite so stiff and formal as a Chautauqua, nor yet so full of levity as a spelling-bee, it is a welcome diversion to a large and grow ing assortment of elderly ladies of tho male persuasion who, without some such physical and mental exercise, might he driven to darning socks and mending dilapidated umbrellas. Wo wish these ancient people well. Sym pathetic tears moisten our eye3 when ever we read -hat old man Isham G. SSnof SamTknd ?he°^J*222 patgy Walsh of Ge0 rgia, have once more met> somew here or other, and grit t0( j their teeth at the administration, ^ cour se Livingston would grit his teeth a ] S0 jf ue jj ad an y. x ot having any he can only applaud while phe oth erg gr|t a more harmless pastime than this could never he invented. It ought to he encouraged. witll tllat end in y j ew we have wr it ^ out thljj rec . pe _ SQ lhat nll demo . cratlc f ree . s ii ver conventions hereafter may be certain to follow in the tracks of their illustrious predecessors. T. E. W. TILLMAN AND BUTLER. They Speak to Three Thousand People at Concord, N* C. Senator Ben Tillman, of South Caro¬ lina, and Marlon Butler, of North Caro¬ lina, spoke to three thousand people at Concord, N. C. They both made strong free silver speeches of about two hours each. While not flatly coming out in favor of a new party, there was a strong squint that way in the speeches of both. They both advocated getting together of the silver men of all shades of opinion to nominate a president in 1896. Senator Butler was asked after the speaking concerning the meeting of Senators Harris, Turpie and Jones, of Arkansas, in Washington for a silver conference, and said; “I understand that the men who are engaged in the silver conference at Washington have said that they will stay in tho democratic party even if it nominates a gold bug for president. If this is true, then they are not honest free-silver men, but, on the other hand, are the most valuable and effective agents of the gold bugs, for they can get silver men to vote the gold-bug tickets, that all the gold bug-men in the country cannot persuade to do.” CO OZ ADVICE. Wendell Phillips Talks to the Wotk lngmen of This Country. My advice to workingmen is this: If you want power in this country; if you want to make yourself felt; if you don t want your children to wait long years before they have bread on the table they ought to have, the opportunities In life they ought to have; if you don t want to wait yourself, write on your banner so that every political trimmer can read it, so that every politician, no matter how short-sighted he may be. can read it: “We never forget. If you launch the arrow of sarcasm at labor. we never forget. If there is a division In congress and you throw* your vote in the long scale, we never forget. Y'ou may go down on your knees and saj : I am sorry I did the act. And we will say : It will avail you in heaven, but on this side of the grave—never.” So that a man, in taking up the labor question, will know that he is dealing with a hair-trigger pistol, and will say: I am to he true to justice and to man. otherwise, I am a dead duck.—IS ended Phillips. Over 3 000 delemtes were present at the Pan-American Congress of Religion in Toronto. There were Frctesiants. Roman Catholics and Jews. bounties. Ttity were hungry. lonely, sad and weary, and were praying for A place where plenty would reward labor, and bring again the rose of health to the cheek of loved ones. This spot was a paradise, and why go further? Oh, cruel fate! Oh, fiendish! For shame upon society and government, for these honest men remembered with a sigh that It was somewhere written, “thou shalt not tarry here, for this beautiful world ‘belongs’ to another." The train had trudged nearly two whole days and camped three nights on the wild, uncultivated land, “belong¬ ing” to one man. How came the absent man of ease “to own” and keep from cultivation this garden of the world? By what right are these poor, weary children of God pushed from this va¬ cant spot on His footstool, to tramp farther, they know not where, to find a spot on which to live or die? Oh, thou direst curse that ever damned the world; that sent virtue in want, beggary and starvation; the blushing maid to unspeakable shame; the dimpled babe to lean want and misery; that polluted the saintly lips with a curse; that ever drove in inso¬ lent haste the helpless innocents from cottage hearth into winter blast, that filled the prisons with criminals, the church with hypocrites, the judiciary with hirelings the legislature with knaves, and snatched the promise of God from nature’s hand and forged it into a lie; thy name is Monopoly. It is said, “Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm,” but the imbecile old dunce has given his possessions to a few of his idle sons, the sharpers, and left the balance to wrestle with life as best they can, in a “world already oc cupied.” MONOPOLY CURSED. A TERRIBLE ARRAIGNMENT OF OUR CIVILIZATION. How the Good Gifts of Heaven Are Thwarted by Monopoly—-Five Hun¬ dred Men Own Half of the State of California. From “The New Crisis,” by Capt. Bell: Half of California, including more than three-fourths of the best ar¬ able and pasture land, is owned by less than 500 men. Traveling once in that paradisiacal country, where nature seems to have halted in awe of the great Pacific and emptied out her precious load of all that could happify a world; so rich the soil, so bountiful and lux¬ uriant the fruit and vegetable world, so varied the climate and pure and healthful the air, that it seemed I could hear the gods whisper from the snow¬ capped mountains and the tropical val¬ leys, for man to come and eat and drink and be happy, as plenty defied exhaustion of her stores. Driving up a valley so rich, fertile and beautiful, I halted in wonder, and stood in silent amazement, beholding the enchanting scene. On one side the bold mountain stood grandly erect, with snow-capped summjt that, li,ke a .crowned giant, fleecy ‘guarded the fairy land, and the clouds that floated majestically oYer from the sea stooped to kiss the fair cheek of the generous king of the west. The mountain’s brows were hung with fruits and vines, from which hung great festoons of ripened grapes of nature’s kind. The forests were silent except for the music of the birds and the sweet purling rills; the grass uncropped, except by the timid deer and antelope; the soil un¬ broken, except by the track of the freighter's lonely team, and the lone¬ some world of beauty seemed to sigh* for some to praise and enjoy. The smiling valley was nearly as wide as that of the Nile, and as fertile as that of the Po. Thirty miles from a human habitation, I came upon a train of sad, weary, slowly-trudging emigrants. The teams were jaded and every step of the weary animals was a silent pro¬ test against the pleading driver for an onward movement. There were seven teams with seven families. The men were sad,' sturdy, honest and brave¬ looking pioneers, with browned cheeks , worn and dusty clothing; and a look and word of subdued kindness showed them honest and true. There were seven wives and mothers, from the bride of a few months to the gray¬ haired dame, w'ho lived again for her children’s children. And, oh, what a sad, weary, hopeless looking group they were as they moved like ghosts about the camp-fire, preparing the frugal meal. Their eyes were deep and slug gish; their cheeks were brown, but sunken; their forms were bent and their arms lean and weak. Tired na ture had chased away womanly mod esty, pride and loveliness. The with ered breasts of almost savage mothers were unblushmgly , exposed, . and , scrawny babes were vainly trying to gather .. from . the .. dried-up . . . fount , . the .. means of .... life. What looking children! ..., , There were twenty. Were a smile to come that way, the pouting faces would frighten it away, never to return. Na ture opened her acres and seemed in glee to cheer the hearts of those new comers. The rustling trees said, “come to my shade, and rest until you build a habitation.” The fertile soil said, “plow me up. and quickly I will fatten the sides of all the wearv colony,” and the fruits said, “pluck and eat, for the gods ^j have provided for the children of en .. With prospects so chaming why were these people sad? Why did they not re joice, like the pilgrims of old, or the multitudes in the oriental tale, when they found a like country? They were searching for homes, for a place on which to build a habitation, where they could cultivate the soil, sow crops, and rest at even, under their own “vine and fig tree.” Why were they sad and helpless? For ten leagues there was no habitation. and why not bless God and go to work? They were hunting homes in a world where nature placed them. They were hunting a resting place on God’s foot stool, where they might humbly toil at His feet and praise Him for His NOTES AND COMMENT. Gov. Stone says: “If the next demo¬ cratic national convention declares for gold monometallism and nominates a president upon such a platform, the party will not carry a dozen states.” Then the democratic party will not carry a dozen states, for no democratic national convention is going to do any¬ thing else but declare for a gold stand¬ ard and nominate a man that favors it. Of course, the platform may be a straddle, in order to preserve harmony, but the candidate will not he. All of the eastern and middle states are un¬ compromisingly in favor of a gold standard, and about half of the states in the south and west that have held conventions this year have declared themselves in favor of the same pol¬ icy. That the next national demo¬ cratic convention will give free silver a black eye is as certain as any future political event can be. It is apparent now that the gold wing of the demo¬ cratic party is assisting the republic¬ ans in carrying out John Sherman’3 financial policy. The free silver men In the democratic party are doing some very vigorous kicking now with their ■tongues, but after the, next democratic national convention they will fall in line and assume the role of assistant republicans to the assistant republic¬ ans. It’s now perfectly plain that the meet¬ ing of free silver democrats (so called) at Washington was only a movement to check the stampede of voters from tho democratic party. The three leading characters of that meeting were Sena¬ tors Jones of Arkansas, Turpie of Indi¬ ana, and Harris of Tennessee. They; were reinforced by such political tum¬ ble bugs and blatherskites as Lon Livingston of Georgia, who climbed into prominence on an Alliance ladder, and then kicked the ladder out from under him, and Dan Voorhees, who en¬ gineered in the senate the repeal of the only silver law we had on the statute hooks. All these men assert that free silver is the only thing that can ever restore prosperity to this country, and that the present gold standard system is ruinous and leads to the hell of pov¬ erty, yet they declare that If their party succeeds in committing itself to such a policy in the next national convention they will vote with the party and thus indorse It In fact they are simply act¬ ing in the role of stool pigeons and bunco-steerers for the Jew brokers of this country and Europe. It requires no keen foresight to see that the trend of events in this country points to a monarchy. The recent ut terances of Minister Bayard at a ban quet in England in which he made the declaration that it required a strong man to govern the people of this coun try is only one of the straws which in dicate the direction in which the pollti¬ c f> 1S .^ 10 ™ b !, sp f c h Mr. Bavard t said: The President of the Un ^ ted States stands in the midst of a self-confident . and . oftentimes .. violent . . . people, , and . it .... takes a man such as Mr. Cieveianaio p leyeland to govern KOVern mem. them ” Now .w as as a a matter 0 lac w en e ' e au undertakes to ‘govern’ he g people of th!s country he is out ot the bounds of Jurisdiction. It is the general sup P ositlon that P e0 P ! f of th } s c ° un ?* S° vern themselves , Although v they fall far short of it in fact, our plan of gov eminent is constructed upon this prin ci P ie - As a matter of fact the people are governed by political machines con trolled by men who have usurped the rights of the people and subordinated them to their own selfish greed. That ^ r> Cleveland has for more than two years been actually governing this country no one will have the temerity to deny. He has subordinated his party machinery, and even violated the laws of the land and the spirit of our insti tutlons to accomplish his designs. Hia ordering the troops to Chicago and bribing congress with the patronage at his command were not only flagrant vio lations of law, hut were grave enough offences against the constitution to de mand his impeachment. The logical result of such conduct on the part of the chief magistrate of the land can bo nothing short of revolution. W. S. MORGAN,