PLATFORM BUILDERS.
A CONTEST OVER THE FINAN
CIAL plank:
The Platform as Finally Adopted—What
Is Said on the Money Question—Unal
LOp|iMk«U to Monometallism—
The McKinley Law Denounced—Ter
ritorial Admission Favored—No Third
Term* ,
The Democratic Platform.
Chicago, July 10 —At 10:53 Chair
tnan White dropped the gavel, the
buzz of thousands of voices gradually
^subsided and the delegates took their
seats. Vacant spaces in the black pit i
marked off with almost definite accur- j
•acy the territory of the New England j
; ^delegation which, with the exception !
•of a few stragglers, had not yet ar- !
a*ived. The New York delegation, J
•headed by Whitney and Hill were in ■
^tlieir places. The bulky form cf Bis- j
*sell of Buffalo was, however, absent j
At 10:55 o’clock the -Rev. Dr. Green
*of Cedar Rapids, la., the Episcopalian
■clergyman who had made the opening j
prayer yesterday, again prayed.
mr. Jones reads the platform.
Senator White handed the gavel to
Congressman Richardson of Tennessee,
a tall, slender man with a black mus
tache and scholarly stoop of the
shoulders, who announced that the !
committee on resolutions was ready
to report, and called to the platform
Senator Jones of Arkansas to make
• the committee’s report. Mi. Jones,
who has been in the thickest of the
silver fight since the forerunners of
the convention began to assemble in
Chicago, is a familiar figure to this
convention. He looks like a soldier,
and but for the fact that he was a
^ soldier of the late Confederacy,
might be a strong Presidential
possibility. He is a strong faced j
mat! with a fierce silvery mustache
and chin whiskers and 'white hair,
which fails to cover all of the top ot
his head. He adjusted a pair of gold
bowed spectacles and began to read
the financial plank of the platform.
Tne effect of the reading would have
been greater had »the Southern Sena
tor had a stronger voice. The silver
ranks raised a cheer when some of
them heard the words: “.We demand
„ the free and unlimited coinage of both
gold and silver,” and one enthusiast
-i demanded that the passage be re-read,
which was done. Senator. Jones de
clared that he was hoarse and, indeed,
his voice broke two or three times and
nearly failed him. The platform in
full is as follows:
PERSONAL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.
“We, the Democrats of tho Unite 1 States, in
National convention assembled, do reaffirm
. onr allegiance to (hose grsat essential princi
ple) of justice and liberty upon which our in
stitutions are f jundod, and which the Demo
cratic party has advocated from Jeff *r?«»n’*
tirao to our own—froedom of speech, freedom
of the prosfreedom of conscience, the preser
vation of personal rights, the equality of all
citizens before the law, and llie faithful ob
-servance of constitutonal limitations The
constitution of tho United States guarantees
to ovary citizen tho right * of civil an 1 religious
liberty. The Democratic party has always
been the exponont of political liberty and re
ligious freedom, and is renew? its obligations
and reaffirms its devotion to th -so fundamental
principles of tho constitution.
“During all these yours the Democratic party
has resisted the tendency of saltish interests to
tho centralization of governmental power, and
has star dfastly maintained that the integrity
•of the dual scheme of government established
by tho founders of this republic of republic.
Under is guidance and teachings tho great
principle of local self-government, has found
its best expression in the maintenance of tlio
right? of the States and it* assor ion that it is
necessary to confine tho general government to
the o -orciso of tho powo s granted by tho con
'Stitution.
THE MONEY QUESTION.
“Recognizing that tho meaty question is
paramount to all others at thi time we invite
attention to the fact that the federal constitu
tion mines silver and gold together as tho
monoy metals of the United Sraes and that
the first coin 'go law passed by Congress under
the constitution made tho silver dollar the
monetary unit, nndadmittel gold to free coin
age at a ratio ba?ed upon tho silver unit.
* Wo declan that the act of 1873. demonetis
ing silver without tho knowledge or approval
m of the American peoplo, ha? resulted in tho
appreciation of gold and a corresponding fall
in the prices of commodities produced by the
poople; a heavy in’roiso in the burden of tax
ation, and of all dobts pub h and private, the
•enrichment of the money lending class at home
and abroad: pataivsisof industry and impover
ishment of tho people^
NO GOLD MONOMETALLISM.
“Wo arc unalterab’y oppo>od fcn tho mono
metallism which ha? locked fast tho
prosperity of an industrious poo le in th? par
alysis of hard times. Gold monometallism is
an British policy, anl its adoption has
brought other nations into financial servi
tude to London. It is not only un-American,
but anti-American, and it can bo fastened upon
the United States only by tho stifling of that
spirit and love of liberty which proclaimed
our political independence in 1776 and won it
in the war of the r?volution.
' “Wo demand the free and unlimited coin
•age of gold and silver at the pre-ent
legal ratio of 16 to 1, without
waiting for the a:d or consent of any other j
nation. Wo demand tho standard silver dollar ■
•shall b>a full legal ten lor. equally with gold. ;
for all dobts. public and private, and we favor |
esu-h legislation as will prevent tno d *mr>noii- I
ation of any kind of legal tender money by !
private contract.
“Wo are opposed to the policy end practice ;
of surrendering to the holders of the obliga- j
tions of the United States tho option reserved ,
by law to the government of redeeming such
obligation; in either silver coin or gold ceia.
AGAINST INTEREST BEARING BOffDS
“We are opposed to tho issuing of interest
bearing bonds of the United States in times of
peaco, anl cond 'inn the trafficking with bank
i: g syndi’ates which, in exchange for bonds
and at an enormous profit to themselves,
supply tho federal troaiury with gold to main
tain tho p >li *y of gold mo lom^tallism.
“Congress alone has the power to coin an I
i*suemono/, and President Jackson djclarod
that this power could not bo delegated te co
poratious or individuals. Wo therefore de
nounce the issuance of notos as money for na
tional banks as in derogation ol the constitu
tion, an l we demand that all paper which is
made legal tender for public and private debts
or which is receivrbla for dues to tho United
States, shall be is?nod by the government of
the United States and shall be redeem ible in
coin.
THE M KINI.EY LAW DENOUNCED.
We hold that tariff duties shou d bo leyiod
for purposes of rovonu\ such duties to be so
adjuttod as to operate equally throu*hout
the country and not discriminate betwoon
class or sec ion and that taxation
should be limited by the needs o? the
government, honestly and economically admin
istered. We denouh;e as diturbln? to bnsi
irss the Republican threat to restore the
McKinloy law, whi;h has bo *n twice con
domed by the people in national elections, and
which, enacted und*r th» faho plea of protec
tion to hom' industry, provsd a prolific breeder
of trusts and menepolies, enrichel the few at
the expea*? of tha many, restricted trade and\\
deprive 1 the producers of the great Amor lean !
staplei of access to their natural markets.
No TARIFF WORK—INCOME TAXES.
"Until tha money question is settled we are
oppose i to an • agitation for lur her changes
in our tariff laws e-.ospt such as are neces
sary to meet tha deficit in revenue caused
by the ndvors > decision of the Supreme court
on the income tax
But for this deci-ion by the supreme court
there would bo no deficit in the rov^nU9 under
the law passed by a Democratic Congrats in
strict purmanoe of the uniform decisions of
that court for no ary 1 jo yoars that cenrt hav
ing in that dacision sustained constitutional
objections to its enactment which had
been overruled by the ablest judges who
have ever sat on that bmch. We declare that
it is the dnty of Congress to use all the consti
tutional pvwer which remains after that decis
ion, or which may come from its reversal by
the court as it may hereafter be constituted,
so that the burdens of taxation may bi equally
an l impart! ill7 laid to thj end that woalth
may bear its due proportion of the expenses of j
the government. !
TO PROTECT AMERICAN LABOR. j
' “We ho d that the effloient way of protecting j
American labor U to prevent the importation I
of foraign pauper labor to compete with it in
the home market, and that the value of the j
home market to our American farmers an l ar- !
tisans is greatly reduced by aviciou9 monetary
Bystem, which depresses the prices of their pro
duct* below the co-t of production, and thus
deprives thorn of the me ins of purchasing the
products of our horn > manufactories.
HOLDING DOWN THE RAILROADS.
•The absorption of wealth by the few, the
consolidation of our leading railway syst'ms
end the formation of trusts and pools require !
a stricter control by thi Federal government
of those arteries of commerce. We demand
the enlargement of the powers of the inter
state commerce commission and such restric
tion* and guarantees in tin control of rail
roads as will protect the peoplo from robbery
and oppression.
■•We denounce the proflgate waste of the
money wrung from ttn people by oppressive
taxation, and the lavish appropriations of re
cent Republ can congrossea. which have kept
taxes high while the laborer that pays thorn
is unemployed, and the products of tho people’s
toil are depressed in price till they no longer
repay the coat of produ :tion. We demand a re
turn to that si mplicity and economy which be
fit* a demo?: ati6 government and a reduction
in the number of useless offices, the salaries of
which drain the subsSause of thi people.
NO FEDERAL INTERFERENCE.
‘ We denounce arbitrary interference by Fed
eral authoritiee in local affairs as a violation
of the constitution of the United Statos and a
crime, against free institutions and we
especially object to government by injunction
as a new and highly dangerous form of oppro -
sion by which Federal judges, in contempt of
the laws of the State and the rights of citizens,
become at onje legislators, judge* and execu
tioners. and we approve tho bill passed at tho
last session of the United Statos Senate and
now pending in the House, relative to con
tempts in Federal courts, and providing for
trials by juries in certain cases of conte apt.
PACIFIC ROADS AND PENSIONS.
No discrimination should be indu ged by
tho government of the United States in favor
of any of it* debtors Wo approve of the re
fusal of the Fifty-third Congress to pas* tho
Pacific railroad fuuding bill, and denounce tho
effort of the present Republican Congress to
enact a similar measure.
Recognizing tho jest claims of deserving
Union soldiers, we heartily indorse the rule of
the present commie ions - of pensions that no
names shall be arbitrarily dropped from the
pension roll, and the fact of enlistment and
service should be defined conclusive evidence
against disease and disabi.ity before enlist
ment.
TERRITORIAL ADMISSION FAVORED.
Wo favor tho admission of the territories of
New Mexico and Arizona into tho Union as
states, and we favor the early admission of nil
the territories having the necessary popul ition
and resources to entitle them to statehood, and
whilo they remain territories we hold that tho
officials appointed to administer the govern
ment of any territory, together with the Dis
trict of Columbia und A1 iska, should be bona
fide residents of the territory or district in
which their dutios aro to bo performed.
Tho Democratic party bafieves in homo rule
and that all publi; lands of tho Unite 1 States
should be appropriated to the establishment of
free homes for Amo; i^an citizens.
Wo rejommond tnat the Territory of Alaska
be granted a delegate in Congr iai and that tho
g neral land and timber laws of the United
Statos be exteniod to said Territory.
SYMPATHY FOR CUBA—CIVIL SERVICE.
We extend our sympathy to the people of
Cuba in thei- heroic struggle for liberty and
independen o.
Wo are opposed to life tenure in the public
sf*rv ce. We favor ap; ointments based upon
merits, fixed terms of < flico, and surh an ad
ministration of the civil service laws as will
afford equal opportunities to all citizens of
ascertained fitness.
NO THIRD PRESIDENTIAL TERM.
We declare it to b» the unwritten law of this
ropublic, established by cust< m and usage of
one hundred years and sanctioned by the ex
amples of the greatest and wi estof those who
founded it and have maintained our govern
ment that no man shall b* eligible for a third
term of the Presidential office.
‘ The Federal government should caro for
and improve tho Mississippi river and other
groat waterways o: the republic so as to so jure
for the interior States easy and choip trans
portation to tide water. When any waterway
of the ropublic is of sufficient importance to
doman l aid of the government, such aid should
boextendel upon a delinit* plan of contin
uous work until permanent improvement is se
cured.
‘‘Confiding in the justice of our came and
the necessity of its sutces3 :'t the polls wo
submit the f >rogoiug docla-atirm of principle*
and purposes t > the considerate judgment of
the Amoricm peoplo. Wo invite the suppo t
of all citizens who approve them, and who do
siro 10 li ive them made effective through leg
islation for tho relief of tho people and the
restoration of the country’s prosperity. ”
The report for the minority was
read by J. H. Wade of Ohio, a former
reading clerk of the House of Repre
sentatives, as it was presented by
Senator David B. Ilill.
THE PLANK OF THE GOLD MEN.
‘*We doolaro our bellof that the exporimant
on the part of th i United States alone of fr >o
silver coinage and a change of tho existing
st-andaid of value, independently of th* action
of other great nations, would not. only imperil
o ir finances, but would r dard or entirely pre
vent tho establishment or. international bi
metallism. to "which tho efforts of the govern
ment siiould bo steadily directed. It would
pin jo this country at once upon a silver bosis.
impair contrastb, disturo budiess. dimmish
tho purchasing pow *r of tin wag03 of labor
and inflict irreparable evils upon our nation’s
com n *rco and industry.
□ ‘Until international co-oporation amon:
leading nation* for the free coinage of -river
can bo secured, wo favor the rigid m intenance
of tho existing gold standard as essential to the
preserva'ion of our national credit, the redemp
tion of our publis pie !gos and the keeping in
violate of our country’s honor We insist that
all our paper and silver currency shall be kept
absolutely at a parity wit 1 gold. Tho Demo
cratic party i9 tho party of hard monoy, and is
opposed to legal tender paper money as a part
of our po manont financial system and w>
thereforo favor tho gradual retirement an 1 oan
collati nofall United States notes and treas
ury note*, under su*h legislat ive provisions as
will prevent undue contraction. Wo demand
that the national credit shall be leolutey
m lintsinod at all times and und*r all circum
stan. cs
THE PRESIDENT COMMENDED.
“The minority also feel that the report
of the majority is defective in failing to
make any recognition of the honesty, economic I
courage and tidolity of tho p^e-ent D'mocr itic I
administration and they therefore offer iho 1
fol owing declaration as an amondm nt to tho
majority report:
"We command the honesty, oconmic courage
of the United dates and fidelity of the prosons
Democratic national administrati in.
TO SOFTS* THE PLATFORM.
Senator Hill also offered the follow
ing amendments to the platform and
moved their adoption:
‘ But It should bo carefully provided by lew
•tthe same time that ear change in the mon
etary standard should not apply to existing
contract* ”
"Our advocacy of the indep’ndent free coin
age of silver being bated on belief that such
coinage will effect and maintain a parity be
tween gold and silver or the ratio of J6 to 1, we
declaro as a pledgi, of onr sincerity that it
snoh fret coinage shall fail to effeot such par
ity within one year from its enactment by law,
such coinage shall thereupon be suspended.”
WROTE THE PLATFORM.
Colonel Jones, Editor of the St, Loots
Poet Dispatch the Men.
Chicago, July 10.—Colonel Charles
H. Jones, editor of the St. Louts Post
Dispatch, is credited with the author*
ship of the platform. The document
was arranged and worded by him,
after consultation with Senators
Cockrell and Vest, and other leaders,
and his draft was adopted by the
committee on resolutions, after three
minor planks had been added and
some changes made in the wording,
which did not affect the principles or
spirit of Colonel Jones’ work.
Senator Vest of Missouri drew up
the plank on pensions. The expres
sion of sympathy with the Cuban
revolutionists in the .platform was
first brought forward in the form of a
plank written by Mr. James Creelman,
the newspaper correspondent, but
Congressman Snlzer, of New York,
modified the statement to meet the
▼lews of the leaders.
So far as the much discussed sug
gestion of a platform of one plank
declaring fot free coinage at 10 to 1
goes, it was never seriously enter
tained by the committee on resolu
tions. - r
BOLT IN SOUTH DAKOTA
Free Silver Hen Leave the Republican
Convention—Democratic Accession.
Aberdeen, S. D., JulylO.—Prom 7
o'clock last night until 6 o’clock this
moaning the State Republican con
vention was in session without a re
cess, considering the adoption of res
olutions indorsing the St. Louis plat
form.
The session was fruitful in dram
atic incidents, including a bolt of
twenty Sioux Falls delegates over the
gold plank, and the announcement by
Editor Tomlinson of the Sioux Falls
Argus-Leader, the leading Democratic
paper in the State, that he would sup
port the Republican ticket and plat
form.
The ticket nominated by acclama
tion is: R. S. Gamble, George I.
Crawford, congressmen; A. O. Rings
rud, governor; D. T. Hindman, lieu
tenant governor; W. H. Ruddle, secre
tary of state; K. G. Phillips, treasurer;
H. E. Mayhew, auditor; S. V. Jones,
attorney general; John Lockhart,
land commissioner.
OVATION FOR HILL.
The New York Senator Cheered for Ten
Minutes—Hla Speech Strong.
Senator Hill, the champion of the
gold standard men, ascended the plat
form at 12:30 o’clock amid a perfect
storm of applause. He shook the
hand of the presiding officer and then,
with a smile, bowed his acknowledge
ments to the shouting, gesticulating
crowd. Men were on their chairs
waving handkerchiefs, flags, and toss
ing hats in the air. The vast volume
of sound ebbed and flowed and would
To Coin More Silver.
■Washington, July 10.—On July 1,
the treasury held of the silver bullion
purchased under the act of July 14,
1800, 131,841,424 ounces, costing $118,
900,458, The coining value of this
bullion, in silver dollars, is gl7o,44l,
402. Since November 1, !893, 11,457,
491 standard silver dollars have been
coined, and it is said at the treasury
that it is probable that the coinage of
silver dollars will be increased to
$2,500,0o0 or $3,000,000 per month
after August 1.
Territories Go to Bland.
Chicago, July lo.—The delegates of
the territories held a caucus yesterday
and it was decided to go together and
support the same man for President.
As Oklahoma and Indian Territory
are instructed for Rland. this was a
clever turn in Bland’s interests. This
means that all the territories, with
thirty-six votes, will be thrown to
Bland.
leaders of thought.
There is in Milwttukfio & handsome
paper devoted to the game of whist.
There is one in this country devoted
entirely to trade marks.
A British newpaper recently experi
mented with making a poplar tree into
pulp, pulp into paper and paper into
a finished sheet, the whole process tak
ink twenty-two hours.
H. H. and R. B. Claiborne, brothers
issue the Oswego (Kan.) Times-Stan
dard. One acts as editor, the other as
business manager, and every year they
“shake the boys up” by changing
places.
There was wee on the Platte the
other day when the North Platte Tele
graph, a republican paper, published,
by reason of a mistake in the shipping
office, a column of democratic plate
matter.
The Valley (Neb.) Enterprise thus
playfully refers to a loathsome contem
porary: “W. A. Crane, the hired man
and carrion-eater on the warmed-over,
soft soap, semi-annual defunct sheet
at Elkhorn, is making himself very con
spicuous again since he emerged from
a complete wreck which he and his
fake factory recently fell into. But the
pitiful pleas of the poor imbecile for
help in the time of whisky famine
reached the ears of some tender-heart
ed citizens and the plant was bid Id
and then he was hired to run it.”
A man who crossed the Cascade
mountains, Oregon, by the military !
route March 20 last and May 1 found '
fifteen feet of snow on the summit on 1
the flfst trip and twenty feet the sec- I
ond, and May 1 it was still snowing. |
THE WINNING SPEECH
BRYAN’S EFFORT THAT CAUGHT
THE CONVENTION.
A Brilliant Oatburat That Swayed the
Great Crowd and Won Convert* to the
“Boy Orator of tba I*latte"—Eastern
Gold Men Ably Answered—Paramount
line Silver, and Kot Tariff.
Bryan’s Capturing Effort.
Chicaoo, July 10.—The speeoh of
Bon. VV. J. Bryan of Nebraska, which
•o nearly stampeded the convention
to him, and which put him fairly in
the race for the nomination for Presi
dent, was as follows:
“I would be presumptuous,Indeed,to
present myself against the distin
guished gentlemen to whom you have
listened, if this were but a measuring
of ability, but this is not a contest
among persona The humblest citi
zen in all the land when clad in the
armor of a righteous cause is stronger
tlian all the hosts of error that they
can bring. I come to apeak to yon in
defense of a cause as holy as the cause
of liberty, the cause of humanity.
(Loud applause).
“When this debate ia eoneluded a
motion will be made to lay upon the
table the resolution offered in com
mendation of the administration and
also the resolution in condemnation
of the administration, 1 shall object
to bringing this question down to a
level of persons. The individual is
but an atom—he is born, he acts, he
dies—but principles are eternal, and
this has become a contest of principle.
Never before in the history of this
country has there been witnessed such
a contest as that through which we
have passed. Never before in the
history of American politics has a
great issue been fought out as has this
issue, by the voters themselves.
“On the fourth of March, 1805, a
few Democrats, most of them mem
bers of Congress, issued an address to
the Democrats of the nation, assert
ing the money question was the para
mount issue of the hour; asserting
also the right of a majority of the
Democratic party to control the posi
tion of the party on this paramount
issue; concluding with the request
that all believers in free coinage of
silver in the Democratic party should
organize and take charge of and con
trol the policy of the Democratic par
ty. Three months later, at Memphis,
an organization was perfected, and
the silver Democrats went forth open
ly and boldly, and courageously pro
claiming their belief, and declaring
that if successful, they would crystal
ize in a platform the declaration
which they had made, and then began
the conflict with a zeal approachlug
the zeal which inspired the crusaders
Who followed Peter the Hermit.
Spread of the Silver UovemenU
“Our silver Democrats went forth
from victory unto viulory, until they
are assembled now, not to discuss, not
to debate, but to enter up the judg
ment rendered by the plain people of
this country. (Applause.) In this
contest brother has been arrayed
against brother, and father against
son. The warmest ties of love and
acquaintance and association have
been disregarded. Old leaders havo
‘been cast aside when they refused to
give expression to the sentiment of
those whom they would lead, and new
leaders have sprung up to give direc
tion to this cause of truth. (Cheers.)
Thus has the contest been waged,
and we have assembled here under as
binding and solemn instructions as
were ever fastend upon tbe represent
atives of a people.
“We do not come as individuals.
Why, as individuals, we might have
been glad to compliment the gentle
man from New York (Senator Hill),
but we know the people for whom we
speak would never be willing to put
him in a position where he could
thwart the will of the Democratic
party. ^Jheera) I say it was not a
question of persons; it was a question
of principle, and it is not with glad
ness, my friends, that we find our
selves brought into conflict. with
those who are now arrayed on tlio
other side.
The gentleman who just preceded
me, Governor Russell, spoke of the
old State of Massachusetts. Let mo
assure him that not one person in all
this convention entertains the least
hostility to the people of the State of
Massachusetts (applause), but we
stand here, representing people who
are the equals before the law of the
largest citizens of the State of Massa
chusetts. (Applause.) When you come
before us and tell us* we will disturb
your business interests, we reply that
you have disturbed our business'inter
ests by your course. (Great applause
and cheering.) We say to yoi that
yon have made too limited in its appli
cation the definition of business men.
The man who is employed for wages j
is as much a business man as his em
ployer. (Continued cheering.) The j
attorney in a country town is as much
a business man as the corporation
counsel in a great metropolis. The
merchant at the cross roads store is as
much a business man as the merchant
of New York. The farmer who goes
forth m the morning ami toils all day,
begins in the spring and toils all sum
mer, and by the application of brain
and muscle to the natural resources ‘
of this country, creates wealth, is as I
much a business man us the man who j
goes upon the Hoard of Trade and bets '
upon the price of grain."
“The miners who go a thousand feet
into the earth, or climb 3,000 feet
upon the cliffs and bring fortli from
thoir hiding place the precious metals
to be poured in tho channels of trade,
are as much business men as the few
financial magnates who. in a back
room, eornor tho money of the world.
“We come to speak of this broader
class of business men. Ah, my friends,
we say not one word against those
who live upon the Atlantic coast, but
those hardy pioneers who braved all
the dangers of the wilderness, who
have made the desert to blossom as
the rose—those pioneers away nut
there, rearing their children near to
nature’s heart, where they can mingle
their voices with the voices of the
birds; out there where they have
erected school houses for the educa
tion of their young, and churches
where they praise their Creator, and
cemeteries whero sleep the ashes of
their dead—are as deserving of the
consideration of this party as any
people in tills country. (Great ap
plause ) It Is for these that we speak.
We do not come as aggressors. Our
war is not a war of conquest. We are
fighting in the defense of our homes,
our families, and posterity. (Loud ap
plause).
“We have petitlcned and our en
treaties have been disregarded. We
have begged and they have mocked,
and our calamity came. We beg no
longer; we entreat no more; we peti
tion no more; we defy them. (Great
applause and confusion of the silver
delegations). The gentleman from
Wisconsin has said that he fears a
Robespierre. My friend, in this land
of the free, you need foar no tyrant
who will soring up from among ths
people. Whaf we need is an Andrew
Jackson, to stand aa Jackson stood,
against the encroachments of aggrand
ised wealth. (Great annlause).
Democracy Carter New Conditions.
“They tell us this platform was
made to eateh votes We reply to
them that changing conditions make
new issues; that the principles .upon
which rest Democracy are as everlast
ing as the hills, but that they must be
applied to new conditions as they
arise. Conditions have arisen and we
are attempting to meet those condi
tions They tell us that the income
tax ought not to be brought in here;
that it is a new idea. They criticise
ns for our criticisms of the supreme
court of the United States My
friends, we have not criticised. YVe
have simply pointed attention to what
you know. If you want criticisms,
read the dissenting opinion of the
court. That will give you criticisms
(Applause.)
“They say we passed an unconstitu
tional law. I deny it. The income
tax was not unconstitutional when it
was passed. It was not unconstitu
tional when it went to the Supreme
court the first time It did not be
come unconstitutional until one judge
changed his mind, and we can not *.e
expected to know when a judge will
change his mind. (Applause, and a
voice, ‘Hit ’em again’.) The Income
tax is a just law. It simply intends
to put the burden of government
justly upon the backs of the people.
I am in favor of an income tax. (Ap
plause).
McKinley—Napoleou— Waterloo.
Mr. McKinley was nominated at St.
Louis upon a platform that declared
for the maintenance of the gold
standard until it should be changed
into bimetallism by an international
agreement. Mr. McKinley was the
most popular man of the Republican
party, and everybody three months
ago in the Republican party prophe
sied his election. How is it to-day.
What—that man who used to boast
that ne looked liked Napoleon
(laughter and cheers), that man shud
ders to-day when he thinks that he
was nominated on the anniversary of
the battle of Waterloo.”
At the suggestion of a coincidence
between McKinley’s nomination and
the fate of Napoleon at Waterloo, the
silver men showed their appreciation
of the point by a yell and an uproar
which for twenty or thirty seconds
prevented the speaker from proceed
ing. At length, when things calmed
down a trifle he resumed as follows:
"Not only that, but as he listens, he
can hear with ever-increasing dis
tinctness, the sound of the waves as
they beat upon the lonely shores of
St. Helena. (Cheers.) YVhy this change?
Ah, my friends, is not the change
evident to anyone who will look at
the matter. It ia no private charac
ter, however pure; no personal popu
larity, however great, that can pro*
tect from the avenging wrath of an
indignant people the man who will
cither declare he is in favor of fasten
ing the gold standsrd upon this peo
ple, or who is willing to surrender the
right of self-government and place
legislative control in the hands of for
eign potentates and powers (Cheers.)
(Applause.) You come to us and tell
us that the great cities are in favor of
the gold standard. I tell you that the
great cities rest upon these broad and
fertile pranes. liurn down your cit
ies and leave our farms, and your cit
ies will spring up again, as if by mag
ic. But destroy our farms and the
grass will grow in the streets of every
City in this epuntry. (Loud spplause.)
“My friends, we shall declare
that this nation is able to leg
islate for its own people on every
question, without waiting for the aid
or consent of any other nation on
earth (applause), and upon that
issue we expect to carry eveiy
single State in the union. (Applause.)
1 shall not slander the fair State
of Massachusetts nor the State of
New York by saying that when its
citizens nre confronted with the prop
osition is this nation able to attend to
its own busin»ss—I will not slander
either one by saying that the people
of those states will declare our help
less impotency as a nation to
attend to our own business. It
is the issue of 1776 over again,
when our ancestors, 3,000 000 strong
had the courage to declare their inde
pendence of every other nation upon
earth. Shull we, their descendants,
when we have grown to 70,000,000, de
clare that we are less indedendent than
our forefathers? No, my friends,
It will never be the judgment of the
people. Therefore, we enre not upon
what lines the battle is fought. I!
they say bimetallism is good, but wo
can not have it till some nation helps
us, we reply that instead of having a
gold standard because England has it,
we shall restore bimetallism and then
let England have bimelalism because
the United States has it. (Applause.)
if they dare to come out and in the
open defend the gold standard as a
good tiling we shall fight them to the
uttermost, having behind us the pro
ducing masses of this nation and the
world. Having behind us the commer
cial interests and the laboring in
terests and all the toiling masses, we
shall answer their demands for a gold
standare by saying to them, you shall
not press down upon the brow of labor
this crown of thorns. You shall not
crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."
(Great applause.)
NOTES OF THE DAY.
The ropes on a first-class man of war
cost about $15,000.
Every British soldier costs his coun
try $400 every year.
Nearly 10 per cent of the recipients
of the Victoria cross are military doc
tors.
In proportion to Its size the horse
has a smaller stomach than any otheT
Quadruped.
A TRIP TO GEKVEB
AND WHAT CAMB OP IT.
Experience of a Bed Willow Conntj
School Teacher—One of (be Veteran*
Who “Marched With Sherman to the
Sea” Tells How He Hu Keneflted.
From the Courier, Indlanola, Neb.
A few days ago a request came from
parties interested that a representative
of the Courier visit the home of J. B.
Pickering, in Gerver precinct, and In
vestigate the case of his daughter.
Miss Laura V. Pickering, a well-known
school teacher of Indlanola, Neb. Ac
cordingly the editor himself deter
mined to investigate, and securing a
team took a drive into Gerver precinct.
We arrived at the home of Mr. Pick
ering about X o'clock, and when we In
troduced ourselves and made known
our business we received a cordial wel
come.
After dinner we Informed Miss Pick
ering that we came all the way from “5
Indlanola to find out how she happened
to need Pink Pills for Pale People, etc.,
etc., also suggesting that she certainly
had no use for them now, or her ap
pearance was deceptive, as she looked
the picture of health. She laughed, and
said that she was feeling quite well at
present, and that we should have been
there at dinner time in order to have
made a note of her appetite.
"From childhood,” said Miss Picker
ing, "I had been a great sufferer from
rheumatism, and could get nothing
that would effect a permanent cure.
Two years ago while visiting in John
son county I was taken with a severe
attack of this disease. A neighbor lady
who had been cured from paralysis by
the use of Pink Pills persuaded me,
much against my will, to give them a
trial. I had never taken any patent.
medicines, and was opposed. to any
thing of the kind. However, I consent
ed and commenced improving at once.
After taking them four months I was
fully restored to health and quit tak
ing them, only one occasionally when
I felt the least indisposed. I have never
been troubled with rheumatism since.
When I arrived home I persuaded
father to try the Pink Pills for his
trouble.” “Yes,” said Mr. Pickering,
"she had such faith in the pills that she
thought they would cure me. You see,
my trouble is chronic. I was in the
army about three years. Marched with
Sherman to the sea, and was in many
a hard-fought battle. I have suffered
with a distress in the stomach ever
since that time, and am now getting a
pension on that account. I laughed at
Laura for thinking Pink Pills would
help me, but to please her I gave them
a trial, and they helped me wonder
fully. I think if I had taken them in
time they would have cured me. I
would not bo without them In the
house, and after eating when I feel
bad I take one and am benefited at
once. I know a number of old soldiers
who are afflicted like myBelf, and they
say that nothing helps them so much
as the Pink Pills, but,” said Mr. Pick
ering, "one should be sure to get the
genuine article. Not long ago I was
In Indlanola and went into a drug
store there and Inquired for Dr. Wil
liams' Pink Pills. The druggist in
formed me that he did not have them,
but had a much better pill for less
money. He persuaded me to try a box.
I did so and have that box yet, with
all Its pills except the first dose. I will
not take a substitute another time. Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills is the only patent
medicine that we have ever had in the
house. We are not the only people In
this neighborhood wh6 use these pills."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain. In
a condensed form, all the elements
necessary to give new life and rich
ness to the blood, and restore shattered
nerves. Pink Pills are sold by all deal
ers, or will be sent post paid on receipt
of price, 50 cents a box, or six boxes for
12.50, by addressing Dr. Williams’ Med.
Co., Schenectady. N. Y.
Trans-MlsslssIppl Invention*.
Amongst the Trans-Mississippi in
ventors who received patents the past
week were H. V. Conway, Boone, Iowa,
fence tightener; W. F. Davis, Water
loo, Iowa, cylinder for explosive en
gines; Peter Muller, Table Rock, Ne
braska, hoist and dump for grain and
coal; Ole C. Olsen, Jackson Junction,
lows, hame fastener; and .Jacob A.
Rose, Omaha, Nebraska, sand box for
street cara
Amongst the noticeable inventions
issued is found a patent for a sweat
band for hats which is nothing more or
less than a pneumatic hat band, the
band being in the shape of a hollow
air-inflated corrugated belt, which ac
commodates itself to the irregularities
of the wearer’s head, the device being
patented to Joseph E. Frick and G H.
Stoner of Fremont, Nebraska. A New
York man has invented a fruit handling
machine which sorts and packa The
large balloon sleeves worn by women
has created the necessity for a sleeve
adjuster and Mra Sarah Lee of Chic
ago has invented a skeleton wire affair
by means of whieh the dress sleeve is
nicely adjusted. Au Indiana man re
ceived a patent for a mechanical bee
feeder. A curious invention is that of
a car fender which is in the form of a
rotary elevator supposed to carry the
obstructions encountered upward and
deposit them in the car. A Montana
inventor receives a patent for a weed
puller.
Free information relative to patents
may be obtained in addressing Sues &
Co., United States Patent Solicitors,
Bee Building, Omaha, Nebr.
irrigated Farms In the Milk Hirer Valley.
Room for many farmers on ditches
already constructed in the Milk River
Valley of Montana and plenty of
chances for colonies to locate on free
land and establish ditches of theirown.
Ditches can be made at little expense
other than labor with plows and scrap
ers, and there is no stony ground, just
pure soil. Groves along the river and
coal in the adjoining pasture bench,
lands. Finest opening for irrigation
farmers in the Northwest All the
staple crops produced. Markets in the
mines and good shipping facilities east
and west, via Great Northern Railway.
Write to Thomas O’Hanlon, Chinook,
Mont, for further information.
This country, to people who have
not looked into the matter, does not
figure as a large owner of floating*
property outside of war vessels and
those attached to the revenue and
lighthouse service, but a recent careful
estimate shows that on one part of the
Mississippi river the nation owns over
1,000 craft of different kinds. That is
the stretch between New Orleans and
Cairo, and the value of the vessels and
their outfit for riprap, revetment and
levee work does not fall much below
£6,000,000. When the work is rushing,
there are at least 10,000 men employed
on the vessels and in connection with
the tasks assigned them.—Exchange,