The Peoples' Voice. (Norman, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, October 7, 1892 Page: 1 of 4
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THE PEOPLES' VOICE.
Lia/toor Is the Parent of Capital. Encourage Labor and You Build. Up Capital."
VOL I.
NORMAN. CLKVKLANIMU, OKLAHOM V T V. KIM PAY, OCTOKK.ItK |S<)L>.
XO 10.
THE ALLIANCE.
!
1 People's Advocate The day of our
4ellveranee seems to be fast approach-
^Df' Within the last seven months
new People'• party papers have
been started in the United Mates. I
Among them fifteen dailies iu tho
Hate of Colorado.
Chickasaw Messenger: A pro mi
nent Georgia Doinocral sa' s 'lom
Watson must be defeated iu the No '
▼embor election if it takes $1001000 !
to (jo iu Hoodie and ballot-stuffing
*1 the principal argument used
, t'tis campaign by the old twin
|Ai'tieii
COIN CURRENCY.
Antique lil«4« Advocated It; Hit- linn**
r. rv nnil ( Mllril I'logi-m-.
A noted Hetnecraiiu orator Is
Suu! u Mnytar the 1 The Standard Bearers
of
of progress; to win v>e must again bo-
oome the party of progress " lie then
proceeds to enumerate the several
things that he repai d'as progressive.
among them being - a sound currency
based on coin "
Dote that plank in the Democratic I
platform demanding the repeal of the j
state bamc money constitute Tlie Conditions oftlie Coiintrv Nnffl-
' Qill/d t Ixl I 'lii.i.m.. I.'.
People's I'm-ty.
AD11RESS THE I'KOPl.i: OK ST.VI I S
National View It cannot be ex-
pected that 412J. grains of silver will
be worth as much in the market as
bullion -24 J grains of gold—until wo
give 111" grams of silver the same
debt-paying power that we give iM
grains of gold as money by law. The
time has been, beforo when they
were equal iu the market.
independent: The old line Demo-
crats in l'loi'ida must look out for a
scorching at the forthcoming election.
In Horida the "kickers'* or Demo-
crats who favor the Ocala demands
came over to the People's party and
a consolidation of the whole Alliance
force of the state was at once effected.
The Republican* of the state have
refrained from making any nomination
and tho People * ticket will win.
••progressP" asks the Chicago Ex
press.
NN ho shall issue the currency he
does ii'U state. Its nature and volume
are matters which ho leaves to the
imagination of his hearers.
He would have "a sound currency
ha tod on coin," but the immortal
Jefferson, whose memory constituted
tho theme of his speech, declared in
favor of legal tender "treasury notes
bottomed on taxes.'*
Wo all know what sort of money
tho Democrat* who were a party of
progress" gave tho country during: its
reign—it was a "sound currency
based on coin" in theory, but iu
practice it was worthless, wildcat
money.
To become again "the partj of
progress'' and win will be t(U*eturn to
the old Democrat, wild cat, state-
bank money.
- io cling to the idea of coin money,
intrinsic value money, is to go back
l.vo thousand years and Imrrow a
custom of barbarians. And this is
w hat ho calls "progress!11
l or flftv years tho clvili/ed world
has practically discarded the use of
coin money in its ordinary trans*
actions of daily life—and yet hero is
an old Democratic fossil clinging to
Plow and Hammer; The old party
press is printing in (laming head line -
and with apparent great glee that
Lieulent ( olonet Stroator, who hung
Private lams up by tho thumbs, was,
nt a recent election unanimously re-
elected to hi. position. They do not j the "idea of busing currency upon
f !1,1,1 onv One offlror-t partlc- coin, and rallinc it ••pro-ress'"
ipato in tho election, and tint they Hum up your modern mower and
... .. 0 men that Mreat- restore tlio old scythe, and call it
i\ o would like to know how
eietit Cause for the Rise ni n New
'arty. A Free Ma I lot and it
l'alr Count the Last Hope
of Our Civilization.
Fmu< ola, Fla., Bept. if « **,
We.ver.ind Con. Field the People's
party candidate fop p esldent and
vice-president, have issued the follow-
ing address:
To tho People of the 1'nited States
Having been nominated respectively
for tlie oltlce of president and vice-
that tho light oT a free ballot and a
fair count are right* preservative of
all n/hts and upon then Inviolability
rest tho perpetuity " free inst t i-
tions and representative government.
We a c pilled to discover in the p lb-
lic mind of the southern Mutes
( through which we lino passed n w de
spieau l. s, of confideuco on the j art
; of the people in the integrity of t
iudges of elections In receiving the
ballots of tho people and counting
the ill for the candidates of thoir
choice. Wo think that this evil must .
bo corrected by tho intelligence mid 1 tiee-loving people
in ogrity of the people of the country stionld longe
Otnerwise seor.es o violemv and per-
haps. bloodshed m y follow these
efforts of parties in charge of the bal-
lot boxes to defraud tho will of the
voter. Thev wlil V id to a serious
< ol is on aud that qi i.klv. After ron-
l sultation with the People we bel eve j eminent in their
i it to be true, beyonu reasonable ques- And it further sc
tion, that the ira ority of the wh te j that th
voters or Vvo youth uro With the Peo-
ple s party in every Mate thus far
\ is tod un 1 t*Ui* an fo. mat ion lea's us
to lo .e <■ th. I Ua%i ' nine thing is true
in tho other slat s also. '1 he whl
who desire that the public domain
shall be sa m eJly held in trust for tlie
poople: all who desire that itiepib-
lie highways between the states shall
'•a render.* I subservient It) the popu-
I lar good, and tinatly, all wtio desiro
the resto ation of iraternity anion;
i tl:e poop e :nt'l the obliteration of
■ vsctiona. animosities should at ouco
rsgnrd it as the r conscientious duty
t ■ ali'ju them-elvc* under the banner
of the f'.iMt nidus ti !al and f alernai
tiovein 'lit It seems to uf to be quite
impossible that tho lib <rty and jus-
i f this c.motry
their ballots for
tiie corporations aud the money
changer*. It would teem impossible
that they sho Id make common cause
wiih the fair mindeu majority of the
people of the South who have rl?en
lip to demand jest 'je and good gov-
espective states,
is i|iilte possible
pr njucers and laboring peo-
ple of tiie CuifeJ Mash. 11 deliber-
ately go to tho | OtU in November and
cast their volos in harmony with the
corporation and money power who
have systematically robbed them for
cast ng their lot with ti and nurnum
bora ore continually inci-eatingi We
. . ., • , • - are In forme.' by u large number of
president by the national convan t Ion of lataUlfent and reputable people thai
the I eople * party whu h assembled In the recent Hate election in Al .-
at Omaha. July I. 1H! l>, we take this bama. Cunt. tiolli wu* chosen c« v-
yet
ma-
jor. ty tit '0,00 <'ounfy tickets
bkrou houtih-' state were t ouiited out
a(>tirv -cfi fi i in by the tame
tua'ushin.Y iw • hod^t We are inform*
' Ju ;i la ti.o state o ectlou wh'.« ii
edenrred n /.r';ansaB n tho .*th of
- , i ti ' i. niriuii; ii ati> i 11 > 11 >i:i i ( ll r: ill I u I
people (ti e cttving ihe old parlies uiul j ru many years: vote i i harmony with
method of formally notifying the ernur by «<-er 00 mnlor tv a.ul
public of our acceptance of tbe ftomi- huopporient w; h eAuntf* In bv n
nnl im.a ni.il nl i n f .1
nations and of our appreciation of tho
honot "jnferruM upon us hy ihe ac-
tion of tho convention. «n 1 if elected
will endeavor to faithfully ea-\ out
its demands in letter and .c pirit.
\\ e have been requested by
the nut on il lo iimittee to visit the
various states of ihe union, so far as
It should be within our power, and to ! the right of suffrage; that tho returns
address tho people upon the political were inaccurate: that at this election
situ a ion and issues presented in the tiiu 1 eople's party though polling a
platform We are novr in the dis- large vole in the state, wore den.eel
ohargo of that duty, having already representation iu the appointment of
ono or belli of us,v.sited lifto. n 'aif - ul-je* an I eounris-ioimiM bv whom
In the Jsorthwest and South, and if tho election was to be conducted, in
Sepietnber ; t lea?
voters ot that state were deprived ef
their (lispoilers who made war
ii; a nst their ri. ht to organize lor the
protection of tliemse \esand families.
With the aggressions of c.tpital on
the one hand and the overthrow by
fraud of free election* on the other,
how is it possible for our civilization
to last? Toe new par y has its face
turned to tfio glorious future; its sub-
lime tniseion is to usher in an eia ol
fraternity : nd jiMico among raon. In
tho pretence of such opportunity tc
emancipate our country ir un m srule
of every kin i. let. party lines bo for-
jUaliHo i gotten, an 1 lot tho generous flamo of
a common patriotism nerve every
heart and move every soul.
jam kh ji. wmve
♦Jamis (i. l inn.
Who hns tlie olde
tour party or youi
(Texas) Peformer.
claim on ron.
children?—(ild<
are the same
or is.
tho privates would havo voted.
•progress
Hum up the reaper and restore the
old sickle, and call it "progress"'!
P Hum up tho steam threshing ma-
chine aud restore the old hand-flail,
and call it "progress"!
Hum up the improved plow and
restore tho old crooked stick, and call
j it • progress'1!
Hum up the railroad cars and re-
store the old stage coaches and canal
boats, and call it *progess"!
Tear down tho telegraph wires and
restoro tho old system of "mounted
couriers'1 and call it "progress"!
Destroy the spinning jenny and re-
store the old distal and spinning
wheel and call it "progress"!
Destroy tho cotton gins and r eturn
to tho old system of hand work, and
call it ' progress'!
Destroy all tho inventions of mod-
ern mochanism and go back to tho
Southern Mercury; General ,1. H.
Weaver, on commemoration day said:
• I answer standing reverently amid a
sea of gravos. where glory guards
with solemn round tha bivouuc of tho
dead, no North, no South, but a band
of brothers re-united in a common
brotherhood.
"Under the sod and the dew.
Awaiting the judgment day.
There are sigha aud tears fur the bit. •
There te.irs and sighs for the gray."
American Economist: A corre-
spondent of the Now York Sun quotes
a member of tiio Democratic national
committee to tho following olTect
"Cleveland. Uke Lincoln, gets the
credit of great candor and straight-
forwardness, but is, notwithstanding,
a most poetical politician. It was
ono thing to get tho Democratic noni- ! implements and customs of primitive
ination; it is anothe • thing to bo ! times, and call it "progress"'
elected. He had ui; instinct in 'MS, Stick your nose into the dead past
just as ho had in '02, that a free of barbarism and call it •progress:'1
trader cannot bo elected. And this , Swept on five tbout-and years in a
is tho reason why JMr. Cleveland, in I single generation in the matter of
wanton disregard of mugwump, "lion- , bought, science, art, invention and
esty," advocated the straddles of 18#S mechanism, and yet cling like a
and 1H! 'J. barnacle to tho "intrinsic value" of
money which had its origin when
Virginia Sun: The Pcoplo's party merchant princes transportei their
is the only party that has adopted the goods on camels' backs; when a dug-
platform of the Farmers Alliance; the ! out Wj * a palaco and a breech-clout
Farmers Alliance therefore adopts uns n full dross suit, and imagine
the ticket of the People's party. The 1,1,11 >"ou are milking 'progress " in
Alliance "imperatively demands unitv monetary science:
of action on tho part of its members Ah, Mr. Democrat, tho world is
in behalf of tho laboring classes." getting so far In advance of your
Such unity of action was unanimously j Democratic ideas of ' progress'* in the
decided by tho National Alliance to I matter of currency that you are like
be—vote for the Su Louis platform one with his eyes turned to the West
The only way to voto for that plat- looking for the sun to rise therefrom
form is to vote with tho People's party, simply because ho saw it sot there.
This is not tho fault of tho Alliance | The world has been making pro-
jrtitDt-c
Cl.Aii
"WE SO
LIM) AS THEY WHO WILL NOT SEE."
TKfc bill AT low.
V glance over tiie whole lioltl is full
ii encouragement fo every well wither
of tin* People's party. There is a*
much difli icnce between the old par-
ties and the new as bet we it a decre-
pit ami il\iug .d«l man ami a young
n/.i.. ;ejoicing iiuiils strength
rin' trail "Mississippi states are
moving with the tread of disciplined
veterans. Kansas proposes to keep
lo4r well earned reputation of being
the advance guard of this great move-
ment. In all the districts and in
even school house the peoph
pushing ahead. The ouly danger theie
is that tho immense power ot th
porations may corrupt men who will
attempt to lead (he people astra;
The Nebraska campaign is pushe
with vigor. The democrats are pra<
ticalL disorganized. In Minnesota
the Alliance forces are all now pulling
i'i harmony, Old the chances are \er
strong for carrying the slate. Th
desperate coiiditiou of the obi part It;
is shown in the putting out of a cir-
cular trying t«> implicate Mr. Lom ks
president < l the Alliance, with the
wheat ring of Minneapolis. The pro
position is «on absurd to accomplish
its purpose of calling back the demo-
; rata of the North and South into the
old ranks. The silver states are mov
ing like an avalanche. The action of
senator Stewart,of Nevada, in coining
out to the People's party linn removed
the last prop, and they are all coming.
11 is safe to repeat the assertion that
Mr. Harmon will not get a vote west
of the Mississippi, unless it be
Iowa. Our columns have much this
week of news from the South. Ala-
bama 's now in the lead. Georgia is
iu a tremendous struggle. OnSatur
day last Tom Watson bearded Living
stou in bis own district and it is a
light to the death between the old
men of the South ami the younger
generation. The supreme and over-
powering denire « f this new South is
1o get out from all the darkness and
oppression of (bis bouse of bondage.
There k no part of th« whole land that
equals the >outli in the intensity of
the revolution that )•* sweeping all o|
position. The action of the democrat*
iu Vrkausas is rousing the people in
every state to demand a supervision
that wiil insure a fair count. There is
the beginning of organized life in all
the eastern states. There is a great
deal more tban has appeared ou the
surface. There js a possibility of very
much more coming before the elec-
tion.
Tlie pot is boiling in Indiana. Both
the o! 1 parties are paralyzed. The
people are moving right out from
i inter both of tliein. Let all the peo-
ple take courage and go forward,
I A I lilt \ N K S IS EX 4 IT Fir.
We find the following dispatch in
tlie Indianapolis Journal
rino* sayim.K.
l our pi •Bitieuiial •lectori ou ihe
democratic ticket in Mississippi hav
resigned and joined tha People's
party. Southern Alliance tanner.
Atlanta. Cia.
M.-Kinley wa magnanimous enouah
to put gut* ou the fre* list. Thoee
who doubt the assertion will bo con-
vinced by looking over the schedule.
-Seuaca (has ) News.
sonie of the railroad men have said
they wanted negroas because the na-
grces do not organize and strike.
They are more submissive. Do yo i
see? Or don t you. Harber Co. (hs. >
Index.
I he liisto y of the republican party
from IMtil to IW >. received a good
shire of the republican speakers' at-
teation Saturday. A very good sub-
act for a history cla-s New Castle
Press.
Omaha (Texas) Truth Let us un-
loose tbe grasp of usury from th«
throat of Industry. We, the people,
must control the money supply and
slop the tribute being paid to non-
producing landlords.
Those workingmen who are in the
habit of striking for higher wages and
voting for lower wag*- aro bigger
fools thao Kansas republicans ft s
saying n good deal. Jeremiah, but it's
so.—The Acorn. Marshall, 111.
••I ast year when wheat wa* selling
for ninety cents a bushe1,' sav s the
Atehiton Patriot, ''republicans gave
the McKinley bill credit for if. Hut
now that it is but sixty cents n bushel
they keep awful q • I ne.Wi a-
flelil, Kas.
This is the year in which the old
timers are to bo besten all around.
J he great John I . was knocked out
by a new parly and the old nartiee
will get their knock out in Novem-
ber by tbe Peoole't party*-—Light*
Princeton, Ind.
Dallas (Texas i News We have
fived too loug in lexas ou machine
made democracy anyhow. We shnit
now procee i to vole our principle*
and opinioun straight. What's the
use of a man having a he«d of hi
own if his own party deprive him o?
the right to use it.
1 Ue republican party in patting the
Populists on the back In the South
and kicking them vigorously in Kan-
sas and Ihe Northwest. It is love's
labor lost on the one hand, and a
needless sacrifice of shoe leather on
the other. K. < Star.
\\ u never iiesr of the police the
military, national tate or municipal
ottlcers taking their stand ou tho side
of labor in auy of its « ontesti. We
presume it is because they are wiae
enough to see that labor is always iu
the wrong. Hartford City Arena.
but the fault of tho two old partie
which refused to recogni/.o our
form.
gross real genuine progress—con
corning this matter of money, and it
has fo over discarded your idoa of "a
sound currency based on coin.1'
(General Snowdon. of Homestead i All tho political parties in christen-
infamy, writes: "To mv mind it is , dom: all the glib-tonguod orators in
very evident that the autho itios of Iho land; all tho subsidized news
tho state will eventually have to join paper* in existence; all tho hireling
in actual battle with anarchy and tlie preachers this side tho regions of the
commune. 'J he people may as well i ble-sed and tho damned; all tho in-
inako up tr.olr minds that tbe j I'-uonco of the combined money lords
eruption at Homestead indicates tho ' «nd fundholders of the wide world
presence of disease in the body politic can never again get tho people of this
which extends far beyond anything of civilized ago to adopt tho idea of
which they havo conceived, and. ! coin money!
instead of criticising tho efforts of , It is a relic of barbarism!
spirited and patriotic officers to It is a skeleton of the past!
preserve discipline in tho ranks of I It ia ^ ghost of an ancient gravo-
the soldiery, they should do every- vut'd'
thing in their paw or to uphold them. It is a corpse a carcass, a mummy
I believe the hour is not far distant wlrch c'viliz.ation laughs at and upon
when peace and order will have to bo which progress has forever turned
^ enforced at tbo point of tho bayonet, ber back.
As our fathers fought for in Tho monoy of tho futuro. tho money
>, 'dependence and the war of the ! genuine progress, tho monoy of an
rebellion was waged for the union. 1 enlightened civilization, the money of
ho, unless all signs fail, wo will have faith-in-mankind, the money of enter-
to fight for our home?, liberty and prise and commerce, is fiat paper
institutions in tbo not far distant money based upon tne credit of the
futuro.
i government which issues it.
Superior Citizen: Hon. B. Clark
Wheeler, of Colorado, a delegate to
the national Republican convention. I
and editor of the Aspen Daily Times
ott, populct
iho People s party returning for b s health. When he
^e vote, thoir ticket learns that Fairbanks has pre-empted
\ Vow lor« Trnui|)«.
A few more tramps will walk out
f' om Huflalo as a result of tho black-
listing of the striking switchmen, and
has forsaken tho g. o. p. and buckled tho monicd aristocracy that the Mo-
on tho People's party armor. In publican party has been twenty-five
leaving his old friends he made the years building will heave a sigh of
following public statement: I wont reliof and say that It is as it should
to Minneapolis and studied the situa-
tion thoroughly and well. I found
that candidates were preceded by ital that ha* been so bravely invested I They aro inoapable of d-aling
their strikers. J here was John L. iu railroads eo says '*ocIety." What j cerely with the vast problem i euvolv-
I^evv. Harrison's consul-general to would good old Abe Lincoln or An- K" *1 ■ '
be. Hotter mako a thousand tramps each other in ti;
• very month than intimidate the cap- j capitalistic and corpo it
health and strength are spared we Consequence ot these methods the will ' Ai ni tiro Pokto the "Oily Gam.
.n'«oud to continue the work until the of the legally .authorized voters of ni ,r of , ■ r dip omatic department,
1" 8ef* t i ,,ve >?'ln 8,lftLe ll!,s beon defeatc(,• 111,5 has thrown wp his fat job at Rome tc
reoened with marked oordiality. Ihe ouly thing that o r friends in that come homo and canvass for the re-
enthusiasm everywhere is without state have to gu dethem is in the few publican party. Jf liis b and *mils
parallel and extends to every part of counties in wnieh they were ah.'e to escape* quarantine at Fire island, il
hRV? v1"ili Vy COn" f0/f,e a" h°n<v\t-co nit,. In everyone will 80oii shed its benignant blan-
taot with the people wo havo become of these counties our vote ran fully dishmonts on the Hoosier hustlers,
acquainted with their wante and suf- up to expectation*. Jn \N ashington, Albert i,. has a voarning ambition tc
ferings and havo been brought f ce to in.!e; en ieuco. Wh.tc. Clarlr. Nevada, euc-eed Ttiruie in the Senate, and it
face with tlie manifold perils, which < raw ford, Scb "
sa seriously tbroatenod our civili/a white countio-.
tion and the overthrow of our popular po led an imiri
torero meat Wo wUhto express our loadtn? tho republican largoly and tho snatorsliip iviih a b:.Blc rolt'aod
judgment freoly ami without reserro, was about eq :;.l with tbe democrat*, a snap suit, tbe pereffrieatin? pilgrim
order that wo may ntnni acqu ttcd Wobeliero that a fair . ount wu |,J ,vi;l doubtless bo duly dUgu.ted.
before cur. fellowinon and our con- havo shown similar conditions While Albert was I ob-nobblng with
sciences touching the whole metier, throughout tbo stale. Ihe frauds ami NK,ors and exchanging couriesies
J he peoplo are in poverty. Their irregularities in tho state referred to. v it., .signaritas in tbe City of Ihe
•UDStnnce is being devoured by heart- though local, are yet matters worthy srVen Hills his wiiv rival has seen
less monopolists, trusts, noils and of serious voml-leraUon of the whole hi* men and stailed a thronSh")ine io
money sharks. Labor is largely un- I nlted States. I his deplorable . on- t,„. |,T 0f Austin (or .:t, s
employed and where work is obtain- diUon ol aflnira cannot be remedied .j(.,.sev (-(lv- tunncl Tlie smooth-
able the wages paid aro for the most 11 rum without. The solution must io,'ij-"'e I I'ortc- "f'.av throw h mself
part unremunerative and the pro- come from tli- people within the-o jni0 the br:-ach and have himself de-
duct* of labor not paying the costs of | states, supported by a heaithy p ib- ilverrd of the umal number of now-
prcduction. Jhis is a matter of lie sentiment every where and we be
serious concern to tho whole people, iiove it to be the duty of all people,
The leaders of the heretofore domi- ' without regard to section, to aland by
nant parties are everywhere control- j these noble people of tbe So ith who
led by tho great monopoly and money i have ri- n up to demand good gove n
centers and manifest, utter disregard ment and hone-t elections. After an
for tlie wants aud wishes of tho peo- experiment of many years it is ap-
!'le. 'The parties nre hostile camps parent tha neithe the republican
arranged on sectional lines and rep- I party nor the demo ratic party can or
resent the bitterness and cruelties of will accomplish the much desired
the past, ana havo spent their time end, to-vvit: the restoration of the bal-
lot to a fair and honest basis in all tlie
sta'cs of the un on. Jf the people of
tho whole country who desire honest
elections and tli • repeal of class laws
will rally to the sir-port of this great
industrial movement and place the
party in power under vvho-e banner
for years discussing tho issues of th
late war, which should lon£ since
I havo been allowed to pass from th 1
political discussion of the day. Not-
withstanding tho bitterness < \is'Jn_r
between the old parties they v e with
ed. t i
the
th i
K«.k< mi. Ind.. ."'epi. IJ. Tlie repnbli-
ui>. npfiied llic rumpaign her* Saturday
wiifi a routing ineetint'. linn • , NV. Kaif-
hnukv nf Indianapolis, delivered one of
tlie • >«f-t j peei-lie«« e\er lienid ill this
ouniy The speaker, in able ami enter*
liiiniriK in a 11 in* i', -honed the great advant-
in;c to all i la-.-e« of' tin American system
ol'protect :• ui to home industries, lionie
capital and home labor, lie also touched
on Mate i--'ie< turning the calcium light
• ui ihe gerrymander infamy, the work of"
the democrat it. legislature.
The gentleman alluded to above Is
evidently taking great interest in this
cairn aign. While on tho stump he
should explain some of the true in-
wardness of his program. If well
authenticated reports tie true he lias
mapped out a pretty wide field for his
v ulting ambition lie wanls to go
to the senate aud is willing to pay
well for Ihe privilege. The lepubli-
can exchequer is said to be much bel-
l r olT as tbo result of Mr. Fairbanks'
liberality, like all other contribu-
tes he is actuated by a lively senso
if favors to come. Senatorshlpe come
high, but millionaires must ha'e
th-in. Mr. l'air(o)banlca is also quite
e-gerto havo the gerrymander set
iside. pronouncing it an "infamy."
So it is, l;ut it uoes not appear that produce so much and get rich. D*-
Mr. I. < Hanks party has anything strov machinery; let the Held# yield
Deiter to ofl'er# It is hardly wo.-th v . eeds: shut down the mines; cut no
whiie to swap a democratic witch for more forests and voto tho republic
is unnecessary to stat • that he is not j i lepubliean devil, even to eet so fa-- j ticket. Solomon is not "in it
•mating a creature as 'Hanks into the John. -Milwaukee Advance.
senate. If tho people have to be I
•heated by legislative swindles, it L. ( one.°' Allen county
loesn't ease tiie pain to change the
ubel from one party of bunko-deal-
srs to another party of faro-hank
iloalers. It is Ash of one and flesh of
he other, and the triil of the aerpeut
s over them all. But Mr. Fareo'
'tanks has it in his power to mske
'limaelf very entertaining, even if he
convince anybody. He might
tell us what he paid for the News and
what he is going to do with it after
it fails to boost hiin into the senate.
Ho might tell us what he know§
about the inside of gerrymander suits.
and if so. why? if fie has had any
talk (in his sleep) with judges, the
substance thereof would make a nice
interview iu the paper which, to all
,1'itside appearances, is now run only
1 y "Mr. smith. ' if Mr. Smith
i.nown what he is here for by this
time it might as well be explained.
Let Hlinks, I .. quit wasting his brilll-
I snt talents on such prosy topics an
the tariff and explode some of the
••scoops with which his hide «s now
hockfu'. As von have now become a
i newspaper man. Banks, with an F,
you should know that it is tbe first
rule of jo it ualisui to print a good
ing when you get it For a man
you-fee-it and now-you-don't-soe-it
speeches, but he will badly be able
t i upset ti e
mice and men
Indiana politic
•well- ;.iil scheme*
which already co
i like a net work-
The iimn who i
upon tlie earth is
ilij
ml
isl pay rent to live
i slave; the mail
upon another for
r ler to s •<
i a slave. TI
t. The divoi
m tloir right
art Ii an I its r<
is the fundamental crime
humanity aud the prime < nil
injusti- e. inequality and ►•lavei
. who ions
i < inpayment
means cif life is al
| l. i l is the tyrant
'.« i fie ph- fr
re the
• land-
tlie
There will be two o- three presi-
dential candidates ne.\t November
who had better ta^e a lessou from
John I.. Sullivan in the philosophy of
defeat. He wept, not because i o was
beaten, but because his friends had
put up so much money and lest. Age
of Labor, Chicago.
With the boomb thrown by the Pin-
kertons at llav market mas«acre in
hicago. the attempt to blow up the
Vincents in Kansas by tbe g. o. p.
finishing with Hergam and Trick play-
ing battle in secret only drawing
blood for etlecl. is it not lima for
voters to wake up. Labor Tribune.
Carthage, Mo.
Watson stood solid for eight, days in
the house, demanding that the rights
of the people should be heard. He
stood up for a bill that would * have
benefited every man who produces
wealth in the land. It was the sub-
treasury measure. — Southern Farmer,
Atlanta, (in.
The secret is now out. Sherman
has told us how. to piosper. Don't
ica n
People's party candidates for the leg-
islature, Is making a line <aina*s and
somebody on the other aide ha i bet-
ter get out the biggest hammer to be
found when repairing his politica.
fences .lust now Carl does not re-
quire over five hours sleep a night.
1 t. *Vayne Herald.
Thomas C. l'latf, who owns a ma-
jority of the republican party in New
York, is president of the lennossee
Iron and Coal Company, which eir
ploys the convict.labor in 'Tennessee,
i he company lease- tf.e pr soners
from the stale, aud tl.e president ex-
presses a willingness to cancel the
lease. Advocate. Topeka. Kas.
< larendon (Texas) Traveler: 'ihe
man that believes th ■ people should
have free and unlimited coinage of
silver aud then votes for Cleveland i*
like the young man that always went
to church with his old maid aunt be-
. an-e be was too ba hful and too cow
ardly to ask for the company of a
beautiful young lad.v.
London, who draws a salary of -f
000 a year, and nearly doubles that
amount in perquisite* and his sou.
and Michener. aud tho son of United
States Attorney - General Miller, to
secure the nomination of Harrison.
drew Jackson say, were they alivei'
Faulkner County Wheel gives tie
reformer, of Texas a iouble action 15,eDab,?,1th?^ 10 C*\ny,0n,
sham battle, while tho work of rot
ed by the growth of the last quart
, a century. I pon the great economi
| questions of the age they are i cacti
I cally one in purpo-e, differing jus
II not jOi
u parti*.
filled forever. It
op'e of ttie South
teprt
at nra 1 ri
,the pat
rhts
tin
t tin
i 1 lli<
Will
shotted weapon, and we wish to add
to its effectiveness bv statins: ed- "Ji ' . .. , ■
I got into their precincts behind their j itrrially. that a few days before ho 1 meantime the farme
forccs. I saw an delogates to that vetoed the people's relief bill, ho took
convention l_'.i officeholders sent by a $10,000 breakfast with thegovernor
Harrison from tho South, and more of Massachusetts, a Republican: Keep
than sixty addit onal officeholders j it before tho people that Grovor
from the North. Others were promised Cleveland vetoed a bill to provide
offices as a consideration for their -ced for the drouth stricken poople of
Support and when that failed they j fifteeu of the counties of west Texas,
had fIOCt 1)00 with which to buy when ouly fid 000 had been appro-
votes. It was not the peoplo who j printed by congress for the starving
ore ttmro to nominate a president, people, aud with the same bill he a|T
, but Harrison s hirelings. I am going proved a private pension ill for Mrs.
!e b« with tbe People's p«rttv ! '-nut for *• OoO s ye- idling lif*- t
a tic pa
'.is tin
tain tli at
nile with
party a 11 cm
bery and spoliation proceed unabated the c important mat •
All who desire tiie revival of busi-
| planters, north and south, and vv ..:o n• h; ail who wish for tho return of
earners everywhere, proscribed, ma - prosperity toour country; all who ite-
I treated, brought into competition re to re.i ;ve tho depressed im?us-'
with convict labor and in many in- tries and wage worker . all who de-
stances shot down bv hired moreen- sire an adequate increase of < ur c;r-
aries acting under orders of arrogant rency and tho freo coinage of si 1 - • •
corporations who have unblushiugiy all who desire tbe abolition of bank'
n as equal 1
the Creator
ullest iiieasure of
the pro luct of his own toil by e.\a« t-
iiig the hast tribute possible i"er the
support «>f nationul organi/.ation v liile |
allowing no tribute to be exacted from j
one to the cnrichiiient < f another.—
Advance, Milwaukee, Wis.
Tho political boss is alarmed. He
can't understand why the common
people decline to enthuse at his
speeches on high tariff'and low tariff
and tho bloody shirt as in tiie good
Don i be deluded by the tlme-wom
chestnut that a vote for Weaver and
Held is a vote thrown away. As
i , , . ... | nether of the old parties stand for any-
11,11 : " -iiL" " h«t UI km«tt th* oommon
| people, a vote for either Harrison or
eveland is a vote thrown away.
who has s<> many stray items locked i
bad reporting not to fire them off be- j
ore tbe other fellows get a whack al
Lliein. — Non. Con.
A special agent of the National
Bureau of Labor Statistics, who had
jin-t returned from an official investi-
gation of labor in Fcnnsvlvania, iu a
Whenever you vote with a gang that
are only after offic* and plunder.your
Tole is worse than thrown nwa\
New Lra, Iowa.
usurped the functions of government' of issue and tho constitutional control old days of yore. It is hart for him
and presumed to act
These corno* ation
its stead, i of tho great instruments of com mere
doiiiluale the j by the goveriiiueir. of tho I'nile
daily press and control the lines of j state all v. i:-.) de I 0 th t ;'.«t lav.
daily communication with tbo people. I of fa\atiou si.iii lie.>, .tar pdjust
A still greater privilege We hold I ed to the proiv • < v of t:-e • ' v a'
to bolievo that the farmer has ceased
to worship at the shrine of party pre-
judice, '-where knaves ever minisioi
and fOo s ever ];ueel." (ia/--
Auroru. Mo
i lie defeat of the silver bill, ( en-
.uiversition i reported as giving nt- Weaver telegraphed President I
i-um r to th" f.ill.iwiiiii -Shoivmc l'olk "lb* water* uf th* K«.l
•wing ••show me
j pla« p in Russia where the people are
miserable and starving, and I will
match il in Pennsylvania. Show me
a community in Europe where the
poor have lost all hope ami are only
waiting for death to release them from
tluir sufferings, and I will match it
iu Pennsylvania."—Pittsburg Com-
moner.
have parted Speak to the children
of Israel *hat they go forward.' I h#
answer catre: 'see Kxodusxiv., 13,"
which reads. "And Moses said unto
the people, Fear ye not. stand still
and see the salvation of the Lord,
which He shall show you to da v.
for the Kgyptlans whom \e ha\«
seen to-day y* shall see theiu no mor*
forever."
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