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VOL. l.
FOR ALLIANCEMEN.
Notes and Current Comment Regarding
the Great Reform Movement.
A SUBSTITUTE FOR THF, SUB TREASURY
BILL BEING FORMULATED-FREE DE
LIVERY FOR RURAL DISTRICTS.
Those who are now howling against
the “government ownership of the rail
roads” mver say a word against the
“owneiship of the government by the
railroads.”—Ex.
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The Pem sylvania Farmer (Meadeville,
Pa.l truly says: The farmers of this
country have more extensive, more com
pact, moie systematic and more ably
managed organizations than ever before.
Let ihem proceed to work now as they
ought, and the farnnrs of this country
can get the recognit on they deserve.
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Siyß the Southern Alliance Farmer:
To turn back, no, we would deserve the
contempt and scorn of the world; but if
we will stand brave and firm and battle
for our rights the world will respect us
for it, and plutociacy will tremble at our
strength. Don’t give one inch of ground
to the enemy. If you do he will demand
two. Stand firm, stand united, be a
unit in everything and the victory is
ours.
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The Missouri World says: It is stated
that the people of this nation about
twenty-five years ago, as a general rule,
owned their own homes. By the recent
(It 90) ceosus we find th .t thirty-one
thousnnd people own one-half of the
wealth of this country. Now, we would
ask how much of the wealth' will be
found in the hands of the masses of the
people twenty years hence, supposing the
ex sting systems are not changed ? Will
some expert arithmetician tell us ?
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The Al’iance Herald (Montgomery,
Ala.) says: This movement of the pro
ducers and laborers is for equal rights to
all and special favois to none. Every
man who toils for his daily br. ad,
whether in store, shop, office, furnace or
field, is equally interested. The success
of it means benefit for all. Its failure
means heavier burdens, more toil and
less profits to all. Buckle on your armor
and fight fqr your rights and your liber
ty, the protection of home and the free
dom of your children
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Tne following official notice, signed by
Marion Butler, president of the North
Carolina state alliance, was published in
the latest i sue of The Progressive
Farmer:
“I desire to have a conference with one
true representative allianceman or more
from each county in the state. At your
next county meeting elect one man to be
in Rileigh May 17th to meet in confer
ence with me. Elect your best anti-trust
member and empower him to act upon
his best judgement for you in a repre
sentative capacity on any matter that
may come up for the good of the organi
zation and the cause of reform.”
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The Missouri World (Chillicothe, Mo.)
says: Free coinage would be to the peo
ple what an oasis is to the traveler in the
desert—would temporarily quench the
famine and desolation around them. But
free coinage is not enough. If the powers
that bo fiud that the people are deter
mined to have enough money in circula
tion to carry on their business on a cash
basis, they would doubtless agree to per
mit their tools in congress to allow such
a measure to pass, for, through the
agency of the national banks, it would be
easy to contract for currency sufficient to
offset the increase of circulation that free
coinage would cause. Anew financial
system is the remedy. A slight sprinkle
will not break a general drouth, neither
will free coinage permanently allay the
general money famine. (
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The People (Paola, Kan.) says:
Strange, isn’t it? When a receiver is
appointed to take charge of corporation
property, as a railroad, the receiver runs
the road until the debt is paid; then
turns the property back to the stockhold
ers. But when a receiver takes charge
of the property of an individual wealth
producer he holds it until the mortgage
is foreclosed and sold and the rents gob
bled up; then he turns the property,
farm or factory over to the corporation
bidding it in. Why i,s this? Is it done
by virtue of law, or is it a matter of fa
voritism in 'he interest of robbery?
Reader, you are inter sted to know. Why
should law-made individuals fare better
than God-made indivi iuals? Why should
the law be in favor of corporations that
are without flesh and blood and consci
ence. and against humanity, the think
ing, acting and sentient beings?
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FREE DELIVERY FOR FARMERS.
An organized effort is under way
among farmers to secure from Congress
free mail delivery in country towns. The
Farmers’Alliance, Patrons of Husbandry,
and other orders are canvassing the mat
ter. Letters are being written to Con
gressmen in favor of the project and
petitions to Congress for free delivery
are being circulated in many parts of
the country. Farmers assert that a daily
mail delivery at their door will add per
ceptibly to the money value of their
farms, and will be worth still more be
cause it will keep them in touch with
markets and the outside world and rob
farm life of its isolation and monotony.
Postmaster General Wanamaker states
definitely for the first time that the ex
periments made bv the postoffice depart
ment for free delivery in farming districts
shows that the increase of revenue more
than Dais all the increased expense K#
believes that universal free delivery
would therefore be self-sustaining.—Ex,
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BE NOT DECEIVED.
“Let the people be not deceived,” says
the Progressive Farmer. “The free and
unlimited coinage of silver is right. It
is one of the demands of the Alliance.
Silver was demonetized through stealthy
fraud, It was a great and heinoua wrong.
Be it understood now and for all time
that ihe Reformers do not regard it as a
panacea for all our financial ills. We
know that as a measure for increasing the
volume of currency, it is totally
inadequate. According to Mr. Bland,
it would increase it only about $22,000,-
000, or 30 cents per capita. It is not
theri fore.itj this light, that we demand it,
but we dem n I it, as a means of robb ng
gold of its power to oppress. We value it
as a stepping stone to higher things. We
want free coinage of silver, but we want
much more than that, we want a suffi
cient vo ume of full legal tender monev
to meet the requirements of the legitim“<*
t>u neoo ... i. country, issued *>y the
government to the people at a low rate
of interest. We want this and this agi
tation must never cease until we get it,
for that is the only remedy for exist
ing cv'ls. With all true reformer* this
is the great and the greatest of all issues
before the American people.
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The People’s Aid Alliance Review
(Cincinnati, Ohio) says: Alliancmen
and all conm cted with the Alliance
should not in the least ' avi any feeling
of disheartement or think o' taking their
hand from the plow and io .king b;>ck.
Of course we will sometimes hear that
the “Alliance” is playing out here or
here, but do not believe such a thing!
It is a grand an I just cause, and those
who are striving to annihilate it, root
and branches, are the jealous ones and
dingers to the parties whence thfey ex
pect “b odle.” Shame on such men to
make our laws! We’ve had enough of
such. The progress made by the Farm
ers’ Alliance thus far has been satisfac
tory. The outlook is magnificent. What
is needed is a “long pull, a strong pull
and a pull altogether.” Let not one fall
out of thera- ks, but see to it that others
me brou ;ht in. Remember the old ad
age: “United we stand, divided we
tall!” Be firm; that will plant Alliance
principles firm yin the minds of the peo
ple. A plant of slow growth is some
times the best, but thus far the Alliance
plant has grown exuberantly.
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A •“SOMETHING BETTER.”
A Washington telegram says: The
Alliance democrats of the house are pre
paring a bih which they believe, when
perfected, can be adopted into a law, and
which will give the financial relief tne
present condition of the country needs.
It is in the nature of a substitute for the
.-ub treasury bill. The measure will be
introduced within a few days. It will
provide for the government issuing mon
ey to the states at 1 per cent interest
upon collateral to the amount of three
times the amount furnished. The respect
ive states can then lend this money
to its citizens at interest and upon col
lateral decided upon by the states.
The full details of the plan have not been
decided upon, but the general plan for
issuing the currency to the states is on
the same principle as the national bank
ing law. The general outlines of the plan
have been submitted to some of the best
posted and most successful financiers of
this country, as well as to men of legal
ability, and from all opinions to a large
extent favorable have been received. Tne
general plan it is agreed is good, but
those who are most interested are having
some difficulty in arranging the details.
However, they are advising with men
whose ability as financiers cannot be
questioned, and a practical measure will
come out of it.
COTTON FIGURES FOR MARCH
As Issued by the Department of Agri
culture at Washington.
The March report of the statistician of
the department of agriculture was issued
Friday. It shows that the production of
cotton of the world exceeded the con
sumption more than a million aud one
half bales in 1890 and a further greatly
enlarged excess in 1891, glutting the
ma-kets increasing visible stocks during
the past year more than one million one
hundsed thousand b les, and reducing
the Liverpool price of middling upland
from 6 10 pence in January, 1890, to'
4 1-8 pence in January, 1892. It states
that in two years this country has pro
duced excess above the normal require
ments of more than two million bales,
and indica'es a heavy reduction as the
only possible remedy, otherwise the atr
riculture of the south will suffer worse
than the w. stern agriculture ever ha I *. It
declares that the cotton states must be
agriculturally self-sustaining, that new
crops must he introduced, as the agri
cultural population has outgrown the
capacity ot cotton to support it.
STRANGE EFFECTS OF GRIP.
Two Case* of Sudden Blindness At
tributed to the Disease.
A Vicksburg, Miss., dispatch of Fri
day says: Two eases of sudden blindness
resulting from grip have occurred here
recently, the sufferers being well-known
persons, and one a lady has consulted the
most eminent occulists in New Orleans
who unite in declaring her case hopeless,
and admitted that they were ignorant of
the causes that occasioned loss of sight.
The other is that of a boy, who was at
tacked by the disease and lost his sight
in a few hours. An operation, promptly
performed, has partially relieved him,
through as yet he can only distineui-h
light from darkness. His physicians
have hopes of his recovery.
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, MARCH 25,1892.
THE SOUTH IN BRIEF
The Hess of Her Progress Porirayei Id
Pithy and Pointed Paragraphs
AND A COMPLETE EPITOME OF HAPPEN
INGB OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM DAY
TO DAY WITHIN HER BORDERS.
The stockholders of the Roanoke and
Southern road on Saturday ratified the
lease of that road.
The negro exodus from Roberson
county, North Carolina, htis greatly re
duced the laboring force, and this is th
only county in that state thus affecte
this year.
Mayor Shakespeare was nominated for
re-election by the Foster allianco wing
of the democratic party at New Orleans
Saturday night. The McEnery wing bus
not made any city nominations so far.
The Kentucky democratic state com
mittee has fixed My 25th in Louisville
for the convention to name delegates to
the national convention in Chicago, June
21st, to nominate a candidate for presi
dent.
The interstate commerce commission
meets at Chattanooga, Monday, and the
local board of trade is hustling up evi
dence against the railroads, whose offi
cials are charged with discriminating
against Chattanooga.
The heavy pressure of snow on the roof
of the Methodist Episcopal church, south
at Hamilton, Va.. caused the girders to
give wav Saturday, and precipitated tim
bers and debris into the auditorium,
crushing the pulpit, pipe organ and
benches to pieces. Fortunately no one
was in the building at the time.
A Vicksburg, Mist., dispatch of Sat
urday says: George Nail, one of the
four persons who wrecked a Louisville,
New Orleans and Tex s road fr< ight
train at Redwood last December, in an
attempt to wreck and afterwards rob the
express, was arrested Friday after a des
perate resistance. Lewis L. Smith,
already in jail for the same offense,
broke down and volunteered a complete
confession of the plot.
A telegram of Satur lay from Austin, I
Texas, is to the < ffeet that the senate has
tabled the house resolution instructing
the Texas representatives and senators to
vote for free silver. A substitute de
claring tariff reform to be the paramount
issue wns passed, then reconsidered and
iuc v.hole business pul to sleep. Action
on the whole may be taken as a strong
expression of the senate favoring tariff
reform and Mills.
Monday the Chattanooga Union Rail
way company raised the fare on all their
lines to 10 cents, unless passengers pur
chased tickets at the town office. Dick
Henderson, a well known citizen, refused I
to pay the advance, claiming that he had
given the road a right of way through
his place, and that they had uo right to
charge him double fare under an agree
ment between himself aod the railroad
The conductor called in the fiiemnn and
engineer, and forcibly ejected him fp m
the car, and he now threatens to sue the
company. Much interest is attached to
his case.
MINERS RESUMING WQJpf
And the Backbone of llie tri^l
in England Broken.
A London cablegram sa>s: In accord
ance with the decision of the miners’
federation, at a meeting held Sunday,
nearly all the coal miners who quit work
on the 12th, with the exception of the
Durham miners, who are not members of
the federation, resumed work Monday
morning. In a few districts where the
miners are still idle, mine owners insist
that the men shall remove without pay
ment falls of earth that have occurred
during the week of their self-imposed
idleness. This the men refuse to do.
In other collieries there is some fric
tion in consequence of the federation’s
decision to limit work to five days. The
strikers in Durham who quit work, not
with any idea of causing an advance in
the price of coal, but with the intention
of resisting the threatened reduction in
wages, number 92,000. It is predicted
that in the London district there will be
a protracted struggle between the
men and employers. A large
number of miners are emigrating
to other mining countries, and
many of them are going to America.
Several of the mines in Durham arc likely
to be seriously damaged by the continu
ed inflow of water, the owners being un
able to obtain a sufficient number of men
to properly work the pumps. All the
Nottingham miners numbnng 23,000, re
sumed work at the usual hour Mmday
morning. Asa result *f resumption of
mining operations, the price of coal in
the district declined three shillings per
ton.
UNHAPPY MRS. OSBORNE.
Her Friends Fear that She Will not
Live 1o Serve out Her Sentence.
A London cablegram of Monday says:
The friends of Mrs. Florence Ethel Os
borne, whose sentence to a term of nine
months imprisonment for perjury, in con
nection with the great Pearl case, is of
too recent a date to require further men
tion, have good grounds for their fears
that she will not live to servo out her
sentence. Her condition has been such
that before her trial and after her con
demnation, she was confined in the in
firmatory attached to Holloway Model
j til. She is in a delicate condition, and
the disgrace she has brought upon herself
aud family has proven greater than she
can bear. To-day it is announced from
the pris that she is in a comatose condi
, tion.
DUN'S REPORT
On Condition of Business for Week
Ended March 18th.
Business lailures occurring throughout
the country during week ended March
18th, as reported to It. G. Dun & Cos.,
number for the United States 208, Canada
32; total 240, against 256 the week
previous. Storms, bad weather and bad
roads have much retarded trade during
the past week, reducing the movement
of grain and cur'ailing the retail tiade in
many cities; but, nevenheless, reports
indicate, on the whole, an improvement
in the distribution of goods and fairly
sustained the demand, in some branches
increasing for manufactured products.
There is no trouble anywhere about
money, even at the south the markets be
ing fairly supp'ied with a light but
rather better demand, while almost all
the most active are still met by an ample
supply.
Imports of merchandise show a large
increase over last year, for half of March
10.4 per cent. There also appears an in
crease in domestic exports for the two
weeks of March of about 6 per cent. But
vast supplies of some great staples have
produced phenomenally low prices during
the past week, particularly 6jc for cotton,
98c lor wheat, 46c for corn, sl6 for No.
I anthracite iron, and 28c for Ohio XX
wool. These low prices cause not a little
disheartenment in some branches of the
trade, although movements of products
continue active. Reports from interior
cities are generally more encouraging.
In great manufactures there is a general
activity, especially in cottons, though
print cio hs and prints move less rapidly,
but the demand for export goods is
larger. In woolens makers of ov*rcoat
iDgs and cloakings are happy, and the
movement in dress goods is unusual for
the season, while a stronger demand is
seen for higher worsteds, and a singular
concentration of men’s wear demand
upon cheviots
Sales of pig iron at low figure scontinue,
some makers even contraciinsj for such
prices for the whole of this year. Bes
semer ir.m at Pittsburgh has sold at $14.-
50; for No. 1 Alabama sls at Phi adel
pbia, and No. 1 northen at sl6 at New
York. The demand for bar iron is dull,
but for plates a ii' tie better, though
prices are demoralized. Coal is dull.
The treasury has been putting out sl,-
600,000 more money than it has received
i March, but some movement from New
1 ork to the interior is seen. The stock
market has not been such as to encourage
rmch foreign selling, but shows no such
\&ikftess as past shipments of secuiities
from abroad might naturally have caused.
The railroads are doing a heavy business,
the earnings in February and in March
thus far exceeding last year’s by 13 to 14
Eer cent. Speculation in indust mhl stocks
as been stimubted by the Ala Sma com
bination, the reported purchase of
refineries, rumors of a copper alliance,
and the legal proceedings against a coal
combination i^PenDtmvania.
POSTMASTERS IN CONFERENCE.
Some Important Postal Legislation
Suggested by Them.
A Washington dispatch of Monday says:.
The cMlference of postmas ers of the
country with the general
here during the last few days will result
in improvement to the postal ser
vice of the country. The conference ap
pointed a committee to draw up several
bills to be presented to the committees
ot the two houses for action. Among
the new plans they have formulated and
presented to congress are the following:
To establish postal savings depositories,
providing that savings maj be deposited
in all postoffices designated by the post
master g' neral in sums of 5 cents or
more by the use of savings stamps, and
the subsequent conversion of s.id small
sums into certificates of deposit of from
$5 to SIOO. The bill will further provide
for the investment of such savings funds
in government, state, county, school
district and municipal bonds in the sec
tions where the money has been collect
ed. The depositors are to participate in
the earnings fiorn the investments lor all
sums left on deposit for six months or
more.
Another very important bill drawn up
by this conference is to provide for the
issuance of postal notes at all postoffices
in the country for sums of less than one
dollar free of cost. The notes are to be
redeemable at any office within three
months from the date of issue. This
three months’ limitation is placed up >n
them to prevent them becoming a circu
lating medium.
The conference also drew up a bill
providing for experimenting with the
postal telegraph. Als > for the experi
mental use of the telephone. They also
appointed a committee to examine into
the expense and advisability of using
pneumatic tubes in the larger cities.
Also a bill to prohibit purely advertising
sheets from transmission through the
j mails as second-class matter. Also to
I consolidate third and fourth-class mail
! matter.
Another bill, and one of the most im
portant of all, is the one providing for
the free delivery of mails in all towns of
exceeding five thousand inhabitants, or
where the postal receipts exceed five
| 'housand dollar-*.
TOBACCO SMOKE.
A Big Factory in St. Louis Completely
Destroyed by the Elaines.
The extensive tobacco factory of Lig
gett & M\ers, at St. Louis, Mo., took fire
in the six’h story, or “.-weating depart
ment,” Friday morning, and in an h ur
almost the entire upt er part of the build
ing was in flames. Several hundred peo
ple, men women and children, were em
ploy* din the factory, but all appear to
have escaped without injury.
THE POSTAL TELEGRAPH.
A Bill for the Establishment of the
Service Introduced in Congress.
Mr. Hopkins of I linoi**, at the request
of Posimaster-General Wanamaker, has
introduced in the house a bill to author
ize the establishment of a postal tele
graphic service and for other purposes.
The bill is a very brief one, consisting of
but five sections. It authorizes the post
master-general, upon the advice and ap
proval of the secretary of the treasury
and attorney-general, to contract with
any person, company or corporation
owning or opera*ing lines of wires
used for telegraph or other pur
poses, for transmission of cor
respondence. press dispatches and postal
money orders over the same between any
points de-ignated by him, at or in con
nction with the p >sfoffice under rules
and regulations prescribed by him, at
such rates per mess ige as m *y be agreed
upon by said contracting parties; not,
however, to exceed the rates * f similar
messages charged by such persons, com
pany or corporation. The charges for
the transmission and delivery of messages
is to be prepaid by stamp- The adver
tising an t letting of the contracts pro
vided for is to be conducted in a manner
prescribed by the laws relating to con
tracts for inland mail transportation,
so far as the same may be appliable:
In conducting the business, provided
for by the bill, no new or additional of
fices are to be created, nor any additional
clerks employed by reason or the same in
the postoffice department or in postof
fices, nor is any expenditures of money
to be made or contracted for beyond the
sums received for the delivery cnarge of
the message.
Appropriations not exceeding said
sums are made to carry out the objects
of the act. The provi-ions and all stat
utes prescribing punishment for viola
tions of the laws relating to postal service
are extended and made nppliable to the
service provided for. The bill also pro
vides that the postmaster-general by, and
with the advice and consent of the pres
ident, may conclude treaties or conven
tions with foreign countries for the ex
tension and connection of the postal tele
graph service, including interchange of
postal telegraph money orders between
them and the United States,
WHO COMPOSE THE SYNDICATE
That Furnishes the Cash to Reorganize
the Terminal.
A New York dispatch of Friday savs:
Mr. Budge, a member of the firm of Hall
garten & Cos., and one of the Richmond
Terminal reorganization committee, says
that the bank< rs’ syndicate to guarantee
the cash required for the consummation
of a plan for the reorganization of the
company as proposed by the Olcotf com
mittee would be composed of the follow
ing firms and individuals among others:
Ha'lgarten & Cos., Fust National bank,
J. Kenny Todd & Cos., Central Trust
Company, Lee Higginson & Cos.,
Lazard Freeres, Chase National bank.
Maitland, Phelps & Cos., Moore &
Schley, Oliver H. Payne, Spencer, Trask
& Cos., E. C. Benedict & Cos., Work,
Strong & Cos., Edward - weet & Cos., C.
J. Lawrence & Sons, Woerskoffer & Cos.,
I. &S. Wormser, Poor & Greenough.
The amount of the Richmond Terminal
syndicate subscription is $14,500,000
cash. That is, the company will issue
$18,000,000 4 per cent, bonds to the syn
dicate subscribers at 80, less a commis
sion of 2| per cent, cash and 2+ per cent,
in preferred stock . There will also be a
bonus of 35 per cent, in preferred stock,
so that the new 4 per cent bonds, with
preferred worth 50 should not cost sub
scribers much, if any, above 60.
PROVISIONS FOR RUSSIANS
Have Been Safely Delivered by the
Steamer Indiana.
A cablegram of Saturday from Libau,
Russia, say**: American steamer Indiana,
Captain Sargent, which brought to this
port the gifts of flour and provisions sent
by the Americans for the relief of the
Russian famine sufferers, has, since her
discharge been lying some distance off
shore. Frida* night she was towed into
tJWlhrbor by the Concordia and Vor
waerts. When she passed the jetty she
was greeted with loud and enthusiastic
cheering by a crowd that assembled on
the jetty. The steamer was received by
the communial authorities and a large
delegation of leading merchants of the
port. After she was moored a number of
orthodox Greek clergy proceeded aboard
of her and held thanksgiving service,
which conclu led with a formal and im
pressive ceremony of blessing the ship.
The following disoatch has been sent
to the mayor of Philadelphia by the
Relief Society: “The Russian Relief
Society warmly welcomes the dear
unerican brethren who arrived on the
Indiana, and prays you to transmit to the
inhabitants of Philadelphia the expres
sion of the society’s lasting gratitude.
God save America.” The dispatch is
signed by the leaders of the Russian So
ciety.
SOME DAY.
Perhaps some day a blizzard bold
Will come and permanently freeze
The man who talks of days more cold—
Yes, many times as cold as these.
—[Washington Star.
THE GENIAL CAR DRIVER.
Smith —Anew motor for increasing
the speed of horse cars has been dis
covered.
Jones —Has it! Well, the houe cars
don’t need it up my way. All I have to
do to increase the speed of the cars is to
signal to the driver with my umbrella
that I want to get on board.—(Texas
Siftings.
CLEVELAND’S LETTER
Wherela He Gives His Views in Begard
to the Presidential Nomination*
A dispatch from Milwaukee, Wis.,
says: Gen. Edwards S. Bragg, author of
the famous phrase, “We love him for the
enemies he has made,” has been urging
Ex-President Cleveland to make public
an avowal of his position in connection
with the approaching democratic presi
dential convention. He wrote a letter
to Mr. Cleveland from Fon Du Lsc, con
taining the following paragraph:
“The danger to the public intererts,
which a failure of the democratic party
would involve, seems to me now to re
quire an open avowal of your willing
ness to submit to any service to which
your party may assign you. Many en
tertain fears th it you may decline lurtber
public duty, which none but you can
eff dually remove, and your voice will
be ever heard with benefit and effect. I
believe your usefulness to the nation may
be greater now than ever in the past to car
ry to victory the cause of tariff reform and
restore the blessings of good government
to our people, and as your fellow-demo
crat and fellow-citizen, I ask you to say
to your party and people that your name
will be presented to the national demo
ciatic convention as a candidate for ita
nomination to the presidency, and that
you will accept the nomination if the
convention shall make it, and again un
dertake the duties of president, if our
party shall, aa I believe it will, choose
you for the office.”
In reply the ex-president writes as fol
lows:
To Hon. Edward S. Bragg:
Dear Sib—Your letter of the sth in
stant is received. I have thought until
now that I might continue silent on the
subject, which, under the high sanction
of your position as my “fellow-Demo
crat and fell>w-citizen,” and in your
relation as a true aud trusted friend, you
present to me. If in answering your
questions I might only consider my per
sonal desires and my individual ease and
comlort, my response would be promptly
made, and without the least reservation
or difficulty. But if you are right in
supping that the object is related
to the duty I owe to the country
and to my party, a condition exists which
makes such private and personal consid
erations entirely irrelevant. I cannot,
however, refrain from declaring to you 1
that my experience in the great office of
president of the United States has so im
pressed me with the solemnity of the
trust and its awful responsibilities that I
cannot bring myself to regard the candi
dacy for the place as something to be
won by personal strife aod active self-as
sertion. I have also an idea that the
presidency is pre-eminently the people’s
office, and 1 have been sincere in my
constant advocacy of an effective
participation in the political affairs
on the part of all our citizens. Con
sequently, I believe our people should be
heard in the choice of their party candi
dates, and that they themselves should
make the nominations as directly as is con
sistent with an open, fair and full party or
ganization and methods. I speak of these
things solely for the purpose of advisiug
that my conception of the nature of the
presidential office, and my conviction that
the voters of our party should be free in the
selection of their candidates, preclude the
possibility of my leading a pushing, and
self-seeking canvass for the presidential
nomination, even if I had a desire to be
again the candidate. Believing that the
complete supremacy of the democratic
principles means increased national pros
perity, and increased happiness of our
people, 1 am earnestly xnxious for the
success of the party. lam confident that
success is still within our reach, but I
believe this is a time for democratic
thoughtfulness and deliberation, not
only as to candidates, but concerning the
party upon questions of immense interest
to the patriolic and intelligent voters of
the land, who watch for the assurance of
safety as the price of their confidence and
support. Yours v* ry truly,
Grover Cleveland.
IT IS NOW SENATOR MILLS
The Texas Legislature Unanimously
Elected Him to That Post ion.
A dispatch from Austin, Texas, says:
Horace Chilton has addressed a letter to
a caucus of bis friends, announcing his
withdrawal from the race for United
States senator, thus leaving the field clear
for R. Q. Mills to pass from lower to
upper branch of congress. Senator Chil
‘ton assigns as his only reason fr with
drawing that he finds the total vote of
his friends in the legislature will not be
sufficient to elect him, and he dots not
want to embarrass those who would stand
by him.
There was joint balloting in both
houses at noon Tuesday.
A8 there was no opposition to Mills,
the balloting consumed no time. Every
reference to Mills and the calling of bis
name was the signal for the wildest ap
plause. At 3 o’clock he was nominated
for senator unanimously, and his election
assured. Milis was escorted into the hall
of representatives by a committee. The
ihouse went wild when he appeared. All
during bis speech he was wildly and rap
turously cheered. He is first man ever
unanimously chosen to the United States
senate from Texas.
GOING PREPARED.
(Mamma explaining to her little girl,
aged 5, that everything she does and
s *ys is written down in a large book in
heaven.)
L. G. asks—And all the naughty
things too?
Mamma—Yes, dear.
L. G. (pensively)—Then I think I’ll
take a piece of india-rubber with me.—
[Loadon Truth.
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