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STAND BY THE PEOPLES PARTY. •
A " union labor" correspondent' and Nugent of Texas, Hotter of
has written a letter to the editor of j Michigan, and thousands of others
,ii of our leaders who have been driv-
llit' 1 .ig orn, in w uc 1 ie sajs.i r jjy persecution, and sometimes
"You have started in with a sub- j |)Ui]ets, to martyr's graves,—I swear
scription list not of Populists and j by their martyrdom that this paper
greenbackeri, but of labor reform-j and the Peoples party shall not, if
ers made up of Republicans and
Democrats. You may lose these by
opposing those parties as a populist-
ic journal, when ycu would retain
them as an independent journal."
To tnis plea the editor answers:
"Thanks for your letter. It is
received in the spirit you intended
it. We have lots of good friends
we can prevent it, again fuse with
anybody or anything until victory
is accomplished. If Bryan is a re-
former, the Peoples party is his
home. If Pingree is a reformer,
the Peoples party is his home. If
the signers to the Buffalo and other
minor conventions are reformers,
then let them come with a party
that for thirty years has by its votes
and its sufferings made a home
who think as you do about our pres- fur a|] honest reformers. It is the
ent course. I hey are converts of j jjiace for yOUr friend Robinson, and
two years' standing, and are entirely j for those who criticise us, not
out of patience with us because we j knowing our motives, not having had
do not drop our life work, our ex
perien'-e and knowledge of reform,
discontinue our warfare against mo-
nopolies anil trusts, and after years'
hard labor and suffering in the
cause of human liberty, bow our
necks to these one-idea reformers.
You believe in municipal ownership
and the initiative and referendum.
I voted twenty-three years ago for a
candidate for president who stood
on a platform that advocated it.
My friend Dr. Myers believes in the
unlimited coinage of silver. Twen-
ty live years ago I advocated that j COunty and precinct committees in
overy county and state in the union.
This political machinery can't be
duplicated with ten years' hard la
bor. Stand by it, boys, forever."
The Man with the Hoe.
on the platform, and voted twenty
three years ago for a presidential
candidate standing on free silver
plank. Now you think I must drop
all this and advocate only munic-
ipal ownership. And Dr. Myers is
sure I should drop it all and advo-
cate only unlimited coinage and di-
rect legislation.
" Col. Bryan thinks I should drop
all else and advocate non extension.
The Union Reform advises the Pop-
ulist to drop all and advocate "good
citizenship." Eltweed Pomeroy's
Buffalo party wants us to drop all
and advocate 'any old thing' to
beat the Republicans. A new party
is being formed in the west that
wants every issue dropped except
the in': issue of Col. Bryan and his
cruwn of thorns. Richard Croker's
Jeffersonian party in New York tells
us to abandon all and advocate an-
ti monopoly—but drops the silver
question at $10 a plate. The New
York County Democracy and Silver
Tammany combine wants us to
cling to the Chicago platform—ex-
cept the 16 to-i ratio idea, which
must be laid to rest. The working
men's party wants us to drop the fi-
nancial question and fight 'er out on
eight hours , or 110 sawdust.
And the labor unions want us to
drop ever) thing but the union label.
" My advice to Populists is, drop
all of these parties and go it alone.
If you are worth living, Clod in
heaven will see to it that you live,
and that the people come to your
support. I will not knowingly aid
in, or abet, another fusion or union
with any organization. The Popu-
lists, once called greenbackers, ad-
vocated as far back as 186S each
and every thing any reformer today
advocates, except some of the social-
ist and so called 'anarchist' reforms.
We voted for them all when we vot
"Well," she replied, "how is it
that the people have such a differ-
ent idea of socialism?"
'•Simply because," I answered,
"they take the funny papers serious-
ly, as well as the slurring quibs of
irresponsible and anonymous news-
paper paragraphers. They do not
think for themselves, or take the
trouble to find out the facts."
This young lady represented a
class of wage-earners—fortunately
growing smaller all the time, but
yet far too large,—who accept with-
out question the absurd allegations
of persons interested in suppressing
knowledge concerning all things
which are new, unconventional, and
which threaten to disturb enthroned
injustice. It is the duty of all to
seek diligently to ascertain the ex-
act facts concerning a person or
his belief before even forming an
opinion, and especially before ex-
pressing views or repeating words
which may be false and unjust.—B.
O. Flower, in The Coming Age.
In Kansas Coyote Style.
The next time a corporation, free-
pass Democratic politician invites
you into a Demo, primary to stultify
your mar.hood, ask him if he ever
heard the story of how the Kansas
crow "did" the coyote.
A Kansas crow, which had fast-
ened onto a hunk of cheese, was on
a limb with it in his mouth, when a
j Kansas coyote came along and be-
t;an to bestow glucose on the crow
| Who has not seen lilin, with his bent I
buck, distorted hands, shiipeless limbs, in large quantities, just like the said
countenance transformed by deep-lined legacy
of hopeless toil—every Item an indictment
HKuintt present economic condition*? hi one
of hi* greatest paintings Jean Francois Millet
sketches "The Man with the Hoc," as only Mil-
let can do. McClure's Magazine for May pub-
lishes tlie picture, and also by permission the
poem,—author's name not given.]
Through this dread shape humanity betrayed.
I'lundered, profaned, and disinherited,
Cries protest to the Judges of Hie World,
A protest thai is ulso prophecy.
O masters, lords, and rulers in all lands,
Is this the handiwork you give to God, [ed?
This monstr'us thing distorted and soul quench-
How will you ever struighten up this shape;
Touch it again with immortality;
Give back I lie upward looking and the light:
itebuild in it the music and the dream;
Make right the immemorial infamies,
l'ertldious wrongs, immedicable woes?
(> masters, lords, and rulers in all lands,
How will Hie Future reckon with this Mail?
How answer his brute question in that hour
When whirlwinds of rebellion shake the world?
How will it be with kingdoms and Willi kings—
With those who shaped him to the thing he is—
When this dumh Terror shall reply to (iod,
After Hie silence of the centuries?
our experience—thus failing to fully
understand our course. I act as I
do because I am convinced the gods
do move me, and the spirits of Lite
martyred dead surround me.
14 Eugene Debs has already de-
nounced the new party movement.
Its instigators are impractical vis-
ionaries, or political adventurers
who get up a new party every four
years to sell to the trusts. The Peo-
ples party lias two national commit-
teemen in each state, a state com-
mittee, congressional committees,
Not So Very Dangerous 1
One morning last December Prof. |
Frank Parsons, accompanied by i
Mayor Chase, called at our editor-
ial rooms. The mayor had just re-
ceived a strong congratulatory let-
ter, signed by every prominent Kan-
sas state official, from Chief-Justice
Doster down, excepting the govern-
or, and the professor was anxious
that I should see the document and
politician slathers taffy over the vo-
ter. "You are a little the smoothest
bird in the state," said the coyote,
in a winsome tone of voice. "A
bird that is handsome as you are
must be a singer from away back."
But the crow, instead of opening
his mouth to respond to the compli-
ment and at the same time drop the
cheese, as the coyote had expected,
first carefully laid the cheese uo in
the fork of the tree, and then turn-
ing to the coyote chuckled in a low
chuckle as he remarked: "You
thought you'd work me, you lantern-
jawed son-of-a gun, but if you ever
get roe to drop any cheese around
where you are, it will be after I've
ceased to be onto my job."
You will be the cheese ahead,
| and the politician will be some
cheese out. See ? Play crow on
j him every time.—Mercury.
ed for I'tter Cooper in 1876 We ! also see the newly elected mayor. I
voted fur them all when we voted was much pleased with Mr. Chase,
for Weaver in 1880. We voted for
then" all when we voted for Butler
and West in 1884. We voted for
His earnestness, sincerity, intelli-
gence, disinterestedness, and pa
Us Rich Americans.
Frequently one sees the boastful
statement in jingo papers that this
is the wealthiest country in the
world. Maybe so; but just where is
it—who has it ? In 1890, after an
exhaustive investigation of the new
statistics, the census experts arrived
at the following estimate:
families own $3:1,(100,000,000
1,375,000 families own si,000,000,000
5,500,000 families own 8.300,000,000
5,500,000 families own two,000,000
Number families, 12,500,000; to
Streeter and Cunningham in 18S8.
We voted for them again, and for
them all, when we voted for Weaver
of Iowa and Field of Virginia in
1892. In 1896 we allowed ourselves
to be crucified for 'success' on the
Chicago platform on the Democrat-
ic cross of coin redemption. Before I the newly elected socialist mayor of
that time, in 1895, we had thirty-| Haverhill. I replied in the affirm)
members of congress, twelve ol alive, whereupon she exclaimed:
"Why! He doesn't look
tience were very refreshing. After tal wealth. sixty-five billion dollars;
my callers had left, a young lady j"avera8e" per family, $5,200; per
who was substituting for my secre-1 caPita' aljuut $1,040. But it may
tary at the time, asked, with some-i be n°ticeii thal eleven-twelfths of
thing more than curiosity in her ithe pe0pl! Poss«s only about one
tone, if it was possible that that was
seventh of the total wealth, or, for
them, say a per capita of $163 ! Do
you catch on?
them in the senate, and in half the
states the Peoples party was al-
ready t.ie second largest party.
Then the money power concocted
the scheme to have the Democracy
adopt a sop from our principles ami
uominate a free silver candidate,
thinking to capture 11s through fu-
sion,— knowing that fusion means
death to all reforms and reform
parties.
'• But the Easter morn of our
resurrection is arrived, and from
Maine to California the cry goes
forth, ' \V'e are reunited ! '
" In the name of the honest green-
backers and Populists who have
gone to the ' beyond' : In the
names of Lowe of Alabama, Chase
and Murch of Maine, Delamatyr of
Indiana, B. S. Heath of Illinois,
Hasseliine and Ford of Missouri,
VanWyck of Nebraska, Freeman,
Cooper and Hopkins of New York,
Kelly and Carey of Pennsylvania,
Wendell Phillips of Massachusetts,
Duncan of Kentucky, Chambers
dangerous character."
1 asked what she meant,
plied:
And Uncle Sam Pays the Bill.
" 1 The alleged investigation of army
She re- 1>eef ^ the war l,ePartment has end-
1 ed, with the following conclusions:
"I thought socialists were rough, lst> ",at shiploads of beef furnished
burly, savage and ignorant people." ''ie army by the Armours, Swifts et
I took down from a rack of pho- al > became so rotten that it had to
tographs hanging in my office por- thrown overboard; 2d, but the inter-
traits of Dr. Alfred Russell Wallace, esls l'le infant packing industry
the late William Morris, Edward be proteced and aided; hence,
Bellamy, and some other prominent 3^1 nobody, except Providence, is
socialists of our time, and asked her! particularly to blame; 4th, therefore
if any of those gentlemen looked 'he packers will not be required to
dangerous, explaining at the same : stand the loss, and your Uncle Sam
time who they were; and I contin- w'" PaJ' 'he bill.
tied: "Does Prof. Parsons look like si . t-, , . .
a dangerous character?'' P^' ent riead and Write.
"You do not mean to say that ^ hen we hear an Imperialist ig-
Prof. Parsons and these persons are noramus denouncing the Filipinos
socialists?" she exclaimed.[j blood-thirsty savages and canni-
"Yes." I replied. "They have all j ^als whom it is our mission to civil-
avowed their allegiance to the ten- Jlze w''h guns and beer, it reminds us :
ets of socialism." 'I hat 200 Filipinos are sent annually
to the great universities of Europe ;
that they have 200 colleges and tech-
nical schools; that they have over
2100 public schools; that the educa-
tional privileges are equal to both
sexes; and that 62 per cent, of the
natives can read and write—which
is a higher per centage than our last
census gave to South Carolina, Geor-
gia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama
or New Mexico. If our expansive
Imperialists would read more and
hurrah less, they might know more.
What is a "Rebel?"
By what right the Imperialists ap-
ply the term "rebel" to the Filipinos
doesn't appear from the dictionary.
U. S. allegiance has never been ac-
knowleged by them, hence it is im-
possible that they can have rebelled.
They are no more rebels, in fighting
for possession and independence of
their own country against a foreign
invader, than would be the Mex-
icans if we were to wage a war of
conquest against Mexico. But the
Imperialist is too full of gush, glory
and boom-boom to have room for
dictionary or grammar.
What Are Laws For ?
"Lynching can only be stopped
in one way," says the Guthrie Lead-
er, "and tthat is to stop the crime
that leads to it." The trouble is that
mobs have lynched for all sorts of
crimes, and in many cases on mere
suspicion. The way to stop lynch-
ing is, first, to hang the lynchers,
and second, to tax the lawless com-
munity a round sum in damages.
Fear of taxation will keep many
men from murder.—Wichita Beacon.
Henry Clay was an Anarchist!
When a Populist says, "I think
that the telegraph should be exclu-
sively under the control of the na-
tional gove.-nm nt," his Rcp.H.lican
friend denounces him as an "an-
archist." Yet Henry Clay, who oc-
cupies a high place in Republican
ancestor-worship, used that very
sentence to express his belief, away
back in the '40's.
Jerry Turns Missionary.
Notice has been received that
Jerry Simpson, Frank A. Peltret and
1!. E. Kies will start a new paper at
Wichita, about May 8th, to be called
"Jerry Simpson's Bayonet." It will
be a "reform" paper along Simpson
lines, which probably means seroi-
1 Jemocratic.
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Another "Free Silver Victory."
Another silver Dem. legislature
has elected a gold standard nation-
al banker for U. S. senator—Talia-
ferro, from Florida.
Federation of Women's Clubs.
The lirst annual meeting of the
Oklahoma and Indian Territory Fed-
eration of Women's Clubs will meet
at Norman, on May 17. 1* and 19. with
the following program :
WEDNESDAY .
;i::i0 p. in.—Present at ion of credentials and
ilues.
3:45 p. in —Call to rder.—Invocation, by Mi>.
(J E. Ferguson, Norman, president W. < . T. I",
of Oklahoma.—Music.—Address of welcome,
by Mrs. A. 11. VanVleet, of the "Coterie,"
Norman — Uesponse, by Mr*. Ida Iiirkey, of the
"Aahenu'utn," Ki Keno,—Address, by Mrs. Sol*
v. \ n Douglas, Oklahoma i ity, pres'l Oklahoma
and Indian Territory Federal ion ol Women's
Clubs —Roll call.— Keport of officers.—Ap-
pointment of committees
8:30 p. m.—Reception by the "Coterie" to
delegates and uuestn at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. I). R. lJoyil, Kim wood Place,
THURSDAY.
7:30 a. in.—Music.—Invocation, by Rev. J. Q.
Durfey.— Five-minute reports of Federated
Clubs.—Add re H8, by Mrs. 8. R. Peters, pres't
Kansas Social Slence Federation.
1:30 p. m.— Music.— Address, "Art," Mrs.
Roland Munlock, Wicbita, Kansas.
•J:30 p. in.—Report of Committee on Civics. -
Paper, "The Social Structure," Mrs. E. K.
Boguc, Stillwater. Discusxon: Mis. .1. II. Par-
ker, Kingfisher; Mr-. Annette Hutne, Anadui-
ko; Mrs. Daisy Fm/.ier. Watonga; Mrs. Marion
Rock, Oklahoma City
3:45 p. in—Report of Committee on Kduca*
tlon — Paper,"Education." Mrs. S. II. Harris,
Perry, Diocassion: Mrs. Gafford, Shawnee;
Mrs, Hightower, Paul's Valley; Mrs. M. Mc-
Murtrey, Purcell: Mrs. F. Ilogan, Wynnewood.
4:45 p. m.—Report of Committee on Litem
ture —Five-minute talks on literature.—"Whi.t
constitutes Cood Literature?" by Mrs. Fred
Warner.—"Is tlie Novel an Educator?" by Mi*.
, Cut brie.—"What Shall Our Roys and
Girls Read?" by Mrs. Ewing, Kingfisher [TI e
paper of this department to be read in the
evening.]
8:00 p. in.—Music.—Paper, •Some Thoi glits
about Kiel Ion," by Mrs. Kugt-ne Hamilton,
Chickasha.—Paper, «Scotland and ||« r Great I
Writer*," by Mr*. K. Aaliton, Oklahoma City.
—Au original story, by Mrs. ||. D. Toler, Wieh- ■
tta, hanna*.— Music.
FRIDAY.
0:00 a. m,—Visit the I ntver |ty.
1:00 to 8:00 p. mi.—Farewell.
>1 uiticlpal Flection.
I.ast Monday wan election day in |
Norman and it proved to be one of j
the hardest fought election** ever i
held in the city. There were two
tickets in the field and the friends of
both tickets worked like heavers 1
from early morn until the polls closed
at ti o'clock. The biggest vote in the |
history of the city w as polled, the
vote being ino larger than the vote
| cast in any previous election. The
i result of the election was something
of a surprise to both aides in the con-
■ lest. It was a (log-fall, with thedein-
1 ocrats securing ;i little the best of it
on city olllcers and in the ward olli.es
■ both partii"s broke even, each elect-
ing three trustee:-. lielow we give a
tattle of the vote bv wards:
Dentistry.
For Dental work go to Wor-
ley, over Citizens bank. Nor-
man. Teeth extracted without
pain.
New Bath Rooms.
I wish to announce that t
{ ak have uist put in new b; th-
Jr A x room* which arc tittnl with
***"•■ eveiv ■ onvciiii'iK■
My barber shop lias recently been
furnished with new furniture, and
handsomely relitted.
Mill
I Police Judge,
j W ll kins
! Iteldeii
Mur-li il.
| Mitchell
Sunt it, h rank.
Clerk,
i Harbour
Minor.
Treasurer.
Ch-
en!
in :ti
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471 . ti)
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34 W
l.ind-ay
! Con-table.
Halley
May.".
I rustee - Ward I
Phelps
Met <>i inleU.
Trustee—Ward 2.
Furry
Fox, D. i;
Tnis —Ward :i
Wallace,
, McCoy.
Trn-tee Ward 4.
Bible, (i. C.
> iturford.
Tiu-tee—Ward
tirigsby.
I Kyiuiolt
Trustee—Wan I ti
1 Davis
I Scott
j llehleii and WllkliH tied on vote for Police
Judge, receiving SJ0U votes, each.
I The defeat of Smith. Synnott, and
! Willi ins tying vote with Belden, w.is
hardly thought probable, though the
election of 1'helps, Wallace, Bailey
1 and Harbour was feared by the sup-
j porters of the citizens ticket. YVil-
j kins and Mitchel were the only men
I the democrats feared losing in the
j race. The result surprised both sides
in the contest, but the democrats feel
the pangs of disappointment most
iseverely.
R L. RISINGER.
ICE!
The thermometer and your
" feelings " unite on the fact
you must now have Ice—it is
0 as much a necessity, these
days, as it used to be a luxury.
O I am sole agent in this city
for the Clearest, Cleanest, Coldest,
1'urest and liest Ice that is made.
Delivered anywhere in town, by
GUY COX.
TL. '* ti"' santa I e. t he aver*
1 lie OcSl temperature iIm in« tlie
tourney is lens than
t hat lor t lie Maine pc
M Pali fornix ,lt >om l,°"" '• ,lM'n
to ^ailiornia t he 1 nrs lue so coi11fortable,
ftUlgue is acan elj noticeable. Pullman paiaoe
and tourist uleejiers and tree ehair ears on all
( alilornia trains.- It. J MOItCAN, Agent Nur
mail, Okla.
% Arc You
| interested J
« in California? * J
Sec lor your*ell il all that i*claim *
ed for itn climute and opportune ?
ties is true. 41
l lie SANTA Kl ItolTK wili make *
very low round-trip rates in late *
June and early July, on such liber- ^
at conditions that you may nee
not only « allforuia, but any other **
portion of the great We*i. Many £
hours sin rtei to L s 1 ngelM ft)an m
any other route.
II. J. MOIII. A V Agent Atchison,Topeka
At Santa Uuilvvnv. Norman.
# # * « <♦ # v a * #
MILLS & WIARD
FURNITURE
NEW.
2d-HAND.
Brass and Iron Beds.
Bedroom suits as low as $7.50.
All kinds of Picture Frames made to order.
See our $1.50 frames.
Full line of Undertaking Goods.
Cash paid for 2d-hand goods or new goods ex-
changed for them.
Wheels bought, sold, rented, and repaired
It always pays to see us
before you buy elsewhere.
V. •-Tr
Invites the attention of
the farmers of Cleveland
county and Chickasaw
Nation to their line of
Farm Implements and
Machinery. ::::We ask for
a careful inspection of
our implements, as we be-
lieve they are the best to
be found on the market, and we guarantee our
prices to be as low as in any of the surround-
ing towns for similar goods, if not 13 wer.
See our specialties in Cultivator Shovels
and Lister Tools
We arc also agents for Binders, Mowers,
Headers, and Nichols-Sliepard threshing ma-
chinery.
Let us give you prices
on all kinds of Grain
before you sell....
Tlie Cy'Williams Grain and Implement Co.
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