O () ( Lucas Building, () () () () o 0 0 0 0 8 O O () () () SEE HIM "SWAT There is no hope of relief from the conditions that now cwse the American people, until both of the old parties have been destroyed. They are the willing and subservient tools of corporate power, and are utterly unable to perform a single noble and patriotic act. This is the sentiment that is breathed forth by every line and picture in Vox Populi, the illustrated Populist paper that is now producing such a political sensation throughout the United States, and from the columns of which the above cut is taken. . - () VOX POPULI is a 1 6-page publication, and mere than half of each issue is given ever to Pictures and Striking Cartoons. The statistical matter ef each single number is worth more than the subscription price for an entire year ($1.00). The circulation of VOX POPULI is general throughout the United States.'- Every leading Populist takes it In the campaign of l8g?-6 () it will appeal te the eye and the intellect in the nation. Whether poor or well - without VOX POPULI. Single copies scriber to the paper in which this, advertisement appears, who wishes sample copy, can get the same by stating that they are subscribers and sending 4 cent) in stamps to cover postage, etc., to VOX POPULI, St Louis, Mo. VOX POPULI and The Wealth Makeks, both oneyear tor $1.50. Address. The cccocococoooccococccocccoo HH3HHHH HILL'S POLITML HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. By Thomas E. HilL This Is a large octavo book of 450 pages, condensed by tabulation into a small book that it may be universally sold and circulated at a low price. . Its purpose is to clearly present, in a manner entirely non-partisan, the merit attaching to each party. Na partiality is shown in behalf of any political organization. Like the dictionary, it simply defines. It gives the best-known argument in favor of each, and leaves the reader free to choose which he will serve. It treats upon the important live issues of the time, and is an indis pensable work to people who would intelligently discuss the political situation. It is a very exhaustive compendium of Political Facts, and literally answers thousands of questions. To illustrate: What are Democratic principles? What does a single-tax advocate propose' If all tax was placed on land, what would be the tax on the farm! What would be the tax on suburban prop, erty, and how much on the acre worth two million dollar In the center of the city I i. What does a Republican believe! Why be a Republican and favor high pro tective tariff I What ate ? arguments for and against protection! What do the Socialists wantf What wouM be tbe condition If NsiatisMa principles prevailed! What do the Populists desire! If government owned and operated the banks, and banks never failed, and people never hid their money and all money came out and Into active circulation, and money was so abundant that Interest became low, and all enterprise started up and everybody had employment, what then! What do the Nationalists wantf Why nationalize the railroads, the coal mines and various Industries! What do the eipht-hour advocates pro pose! If working certain hours yields cer tain profit, how could working less hours yield more profit! How could women be benefited by voting! What started the financial panlo of 1893! Who commenced the tirade against silver, that resulted In the repeal of the Sherman law! 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How many Democrats, Republicans, and members of other parties have we had in each and every Congress! How many lawyers In each Congress! Whence originated the names of "Brother Jonathan," "Uncle 8am," "Loco-Foco," "Silver Greys," etc., etc. I What were the Issues Involved In the Missouri Compromise, the Monroe Doctrine, the Dred Scott Decision, Fugitive Slave Law, etc., etc I What of the biographical record of the great leaders In ourearly history. Including Washington, Patrick Henry, Hamilton, Webster, Franklln,Glay,Calhoun, Jefferson and others! What has thrown 'so many people Into Idleness of late years! Why so many trainpst What la the history of the Coxey move ment! When did the coal miners' strike begin and what was the extent of that movement! What are the facts abent the Pullman strike, the American Railway Union and the boycott of the Pullman caret What ae the remedies proposed whereby capital and labor may each have justice! See "Hill's Political History of the United States." We want yon to notice every new "ad" in our columns. They are put there es pecially for your benefit. SI 1 I BC PEOPLE S PLATFORM. Adopted by the Convention at Om aha Nebraska, July 4, 1803. Assembled upon the one hundred and sixteenth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the People's Party of America, in their first national conven tion, invoking upon their action the blessings of Almighty God, puts forth in the name, and on behalf of the people of the country, the following preamble and declaration of principles: Tbe conditions which surround ns best justify our co-operation; we meet in the midst of a nation brought to the vents of moral, political and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot box, the legislatures, the Congress, and touches even the ' ermine of the bench. The people are demoralised; most of tbe states have been compelled to isolate the voters at the polling places to prevent universal, intimidation or bribery. The newspapers are largely subsidized or muzzled; public opinion silenced; business prostrated; our homes covered with mortgages; labor impover ished; and the land concentrating in the hands ' o! the capitalists. The urban workmen are denied the right of organi sation for sell-protection; imported pau perized labor beats down .their wages; a hireling army, unrecognized by bur law, is established to shoot them down; and they are rapidly degenerating into Euro pean conditions. The fruits of the toll of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes forafew,unprecedented in the history of mankind, and the pos sessors of these in turn despise the re public and endanger liberty. From the same prolific womb of governmental in justice we breed the two great classes tramps ana millionaires. The national power to create money is appropriated to enricn bondholders; a vast public debt, payable in legal tender currency, has been funded into gold-bear ing bonds, thereby adding millions to the burdens of tne people. Silver, which has been accepted as coin since the dawn of history, has been de monetized to add to the purchasing pow er of Rold, by decreasing the value of all forms of property, as well as human la bor, and the supply of currency 1b pur posely abridged to fatten usurers, bank rupt enterprise, and enslave industry. A vast conspiracy against mankind has been organized on two continents, and it is rapidly taking possession of the world. If not met and overthrown at nee it forebodes terrible social convul sions, the destruction of civilization, or the establishment of an absolute despot ism. We have witnessed for more than a quarter of a century the struggles of the two great political parties for power and plunder, while grievous wrongs have been inflicted upon tne suffering: people. We charge that the controlling iufluencs dominating both these parties have per mitted tne existing dreadful conditions to develop, without serious effort to prevent or restrain them. Neither do they now promise us any substantial reform. They have agreed together to ignore, in the coming cam paign, every issue but one. They pro pos to drown the outcries of a plundered people with the uproar of a sham battle over the tariff; so that capitalists, corpo rations, national banks, rines. trusts. Watered stock, the demonetization of eil-" er, and the oppressions ef tbe usurers may all be lost sijrht of. They propone to sacrifice our homes, lives and children on the altar of Mammon; to destroy the multitude in order to secure corruption funds from the millionaires. Assembled on the anniversary of the birthday of tne nation, and niied with, tne spirit of the grand generation of men, who estab lished our independence, we seek to re store the government of the Republic to tne nands 01 "tne plain people," with whose class it originated. We assert our purposes to be identical with the purpose of the national constitution: "to forma more perfect union, establish justice, in sure domestic tranquility, providefor the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty ourselves and our posterity." We declare that this republic can onlv endure as a free government while built upon the love of the whole peoplefor each other and for the nation; that it cannot be pinned together by bayonets, that the civil war is over and that every passion and resentment which crew out of it must die with it; and that we must be in fact, as we are in name, one united brother hood. Our country finds itself confront ed by conditions for which there is no precedent in the history of the world. Our annual agricultural productions amount to billions of dollars in value, which must within a few weeks or months be exchanged for billions of dollars of commodities consumed in their produc tion; tne existing currency supply is holly inadequate to make thisexchanire. The results are falling: prices, the forma tion of combines and rings, and the im poverishment of theproduuingclass. We pledge ourselves that if given power we will labor to correct these evils by wise and reasonable legislation, in accordance with the terms of our platform. We believe that the powers of jrovern- ment in other words, of the people- should be expanded (as in the case of the postal service) as rapidly and as far as the good sense of an intelligent people, and the teachings of experience, shall justify; to the end that oppression, in justice and poverty shall eventually cease in the land. While our sympathies as a party of re form are naturally upon the side of every proposition which will tend to make men intelligent, virtuous and temperate, we nevertheless regard these questions im portant as they are as secondary to the great issues now pressing for solution; and upon which not only our individual prosperity, but the very existence of free institutions depends; and we ask all men to first help us to determine whether we are to have a republic to administer, be fore we differ as to the conditions upon which it is to be administered; believing that the forces of reform this day organ ized will never cease to move forward un til every wrong is righted and equal pri vileges established for all the men and women of this country. We declare, therefore, UNION OF THE PEOPLE. First, That the union of the labor forces of the United States this day con summated, shall be permanent and per petual; may it spirit enter into all hearts for the salvation of the republic and the uplifting of mankind. Second, Wealth belongs to him who creates it; and every dollar taken from industry, without an equivalent, is rob bery. "If any man will not work neither shall he eat." The interests of rural and civic labor are the same; their enemies are identical. Third. We believe that the time has come when the railroad corporations will either own the people or the people must own the railroads; and should ths government eater upon the work of own ing and managing the railroads, we should favor an amendment to tbe con stitution by which all persons engaged In the government service shall be pro tected by civil service regulations of ths most rigid character, so as to prevent the increase of the power of the national administration by ths use of such addi tional gonernment employes. FINANCE. We damand a national currency, safe, sound and flexible; issued by tbe general government only; a full legal tender for all debts public and orivate; and that witnont tne use 01 banmngcorporations; a just equitable and efficient means of distribution direct to the people, at a tax not to exceed 2 per cent per annum, to be provided as set forth in the sub-treasury plan of the Farmers' Alliance, or some better system; also by payments in discharge of its obligations for public improvements: We demand free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at ths present legal ration of 16 to 1. We demand that the amount of k cir culating medium be speedily increaseojto not less than 50 per capita. We demand a graduated income tax. We believe that the money of ths country should be kept, as much as pos sible, in the hands of the people; and hence we demand that all state and na tional revenues shall be limited to the necessary expenses of ths government, economically and honestly administered. We demand that postal savings banks beestablished by the government for the safe deposit of the earnings ot the people and the facilitation of exchange. TRANSPORTATION. Transportation being a means of ex change and a public necessity; the gov ernment should own and operate the railroads in the interest of the people. The telegraph and telephone, like the postofflce system, being a necessity, for the transinissionof news, should be owned and operated by the government in ths interests of the people. ; LANDS. The land, including all natural re sources of wealth, is the heritage of the people, and should not be monopolized for speculative purposes; and alien owner ship of land should be prohibited. All land now held by railroads and other corporations in excess of their actual needs, and all lands now owned by aliens, should be reclaimed by the gov ernment and held for actual settlers only. RESOLUTIONS. The following resolutions were offered independent of the platform, and were adopted, as expressive of tbe sentiments of the convention: Resolved, That wedemandafree ballot and a fair count in all elections, and pledge ourselves to secure to it every legal voter without federal intervention through the adoption by the states of the unperverted Australian secret ballot system. Resolved, That therevenuederivedfrom a (rraduated income tax should be appu ed to tbe reduction of tbeburdenof taxa tion now levied upon the domestic m dustries of this couutry. Resolved, That we pledge our support to fair and liberal pensions :o sx-Union soldiers and sailors. Resolved, Tha we condemn the fallacy of protecting American labor under the present system, which opens our ports to the pauper and criminal classes of the world, and crowds out our wage-earners and we denounce the present ineffective law against contract labor, and demand the further restriction of undesirable immigration. ttesoived, That we cordially sympa thize with tbe efforts of ore am zed work ingmen to shorter the hours of labor and demand a rigid enforcement of the exist ing eight-hour law on government work. and ask that a penalty clause be added to said law. Resolved, That we regard the main tenance of a large standing army of mercenaries, known as the Pinkerton system,.as a menace to our liberties, and ws demand its abolition, and wecondemn tbe recent invasion of the Territory of Wyoming by the hired assassins of Plutocracy, assisted by Federal officers, itesolved.. That we commend to the thoughtful consideration of the people and the reform press, the legislative sys tem known aa the Initiative and Keleren dam. - , Resolved, That we favor a constitu tional provision limiting the office 01 a president and vice president to one term, and providing for tbe election of the senators by a direct Tote of the people. Resolved, That we oppose any subsidy or national aid to any private corpora tion for any purpose. H. E. Taubeneck, Chairman, Marshall, Illinois. J. H. Tcrnrr. Secretary. Georgia. Lawrence McFabland, Secretary, New 1 one. M. C. Rankin, Treasurer, Terre Haute, Indiana. Notice our cheap clubbing rates with The Prairie Farmer" and "The Picture Magazine." Send in your subscriptions. Tou will want good reading matter for the family during the long winter even fogs. Errors of Youth.! SUFFERERS FROM Kervons Debility, YontMal Indiscretions, Lost Manhood, BE YOUR OWN PHYSICIAN. 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TWO KILLED AND SIXTEEN INJURED; A Sooth Bound Passenger Going at t High lUte of Speed Crashed -Into a Uva Stock Train, Ketoltlne; in Death and Destruction The , , Engine Struck Full Head.on Seventy Cattle Killed. 1 ' Guthrie, Ok., Feb. 19 The most disastrous railroad wreck known on this division in many years occurred at midnight Saturday on the Santa Fe at the curve known as "Deadman'a Cut," five miles south of Guthrie and a half mile north of Seward. It was caused by a terrific collision between the south bound Santa Fe passenger train and the north-bound stock ex press and was due, it is said, to the engineer of the freight placing a wrong construction on his orders. Two men were killed and sixteen in Jured, seven seriously. Seventy head of cattle were killed and $40,000 worth of rolling stock was destroyed. The dead are: Charles Upleby, engineer freight train, of Arkansas City. Patrick Coldron, fireman on pas senger train, of Arkansas City. Injured trainmen A. llahn, Pur cell, legs crushed; Mail Clerk iiutch lns, Topeka, Kan., head badly cut; Express Messenger It. D. Deagle, body badly bruised; Passenger Conductor Edward Kitchen, of Arkansas City, hand mashed and body badly bruised; James Moorman, of Arkansas City, freight conductor, arms broken; Bag gageman Oeorge Neville, Newton, Kan., badly scalded; Roadmaster McKinney, Wichita, Kan., terribly bruised; A. ' J. Graves, of Purcell, freight brakeman, arms dislocated. Passengers injured Harry Trower, Kansas City, cut in neck and face; L. B. Weidenheimer, Fort Worth. Texas, badly cut on face and body; .Mrs. Agatha Hardy, St Louis, Mo., face cut by glass; Associate Justice Scott, of Oklahoma supreme court, bruised; John Hock Ardmore, cut by flying pieces of glass; ex-District Clerk K. L Collins, of Enid, legs badly bruised; Bridgemen John J. English and II. A. 6prow, bodies lacerated. The stock train had been made tip at Purcell and Engineer Upleby had received orders to sidetrack at Sew ard and wait for the south bound pas senger. According to the stories told by his brake men, the orders were misinterpreted and the train of eigh teen cars loaded with Texas cattle owned by Harry Trower passed Sew ard at a flying rate. As soon as the passenger engineer sighted the freight rounding the curve at Dead Man's cut he Immedi ately reversed his engine, bat he was too late. The crash was a terrific one. Both engines .struck head on and were completely demolished. Both the engineer and fireman of the passenger jumped the former es caped but the latter, Pat Coldron, was caught in the flying debris and scalded. His death agonies were awfuL The mail and baggage ears of the passenger left the track and were smashed, but luckily the coaches kept tbe traeir and , the passengers were bnt slightly hurt The messen ger and baggagemen, however, were severely hurt. ' Six cattle cars left the track and almost every head of stock In them were either killed or injured. It is estimated that seventy head of cattle were killed. Immediately after the wreck trainmen walked to Guthrie and took a yard engine to the scene of the wreck. The killed and wounded were placed on board the coaches and the train was brought back to Guthrio at 2:50 o'clock yesterday morning. Freight Engineer Upleby remained with his engine and was horribly mangled while his fireman, A. ilahn, jumped and escaped with a broken arm. The scene at the wreck is terrible. Engines, cars, rails, ties and dead cattle are jumbled together in an un recognizable mass, with the bellows of dying cattle adding distress to the scene. Both engines were totally de molished and all togetbsr the loss of rolling stock will reach $40, 000. SHOT IN HIS CELL. A Mob of Maeked .Men Kill a Kerr Murderer at Kingston, Mo. Kingston, Mo., Feb. 19. About 2 o'clock yesterday morning a mob of masked men, supposed to be negroes from Hamilton, surrounded the sher iff's house and jail here, caught and bound Sheriff Goldsworthy, whose deputy was away, took the keys from him and gained entrance to the jail corridor with the avowed purpose of taking out and hanging George Tracy, a negro who shot and killed his wife at Hamilton, in this county, on the morning of January 3o. On the inside the mob were nnable to get into the steel cell in which he was confined with two other negro prisoners. Tracy crawled under his bed, and the mob began shooting through the bars of the cell door, and succeeded in putting six bullets into his body, killing him instantly. The sheriff made all the resistance he could but was overpowered. The two prisoners in the cell with Tracy escaped unhurt Tracy was a bad character aud had lately served a jail sentence here for shooting a negro man. He had some years ago lost both his legs just below the knee, be ing run over by a train which he was trying to board to escape some Kan sas officers. IwentyOoe Yean In the Pen. Little Rock, Ark., Feb. 19. Jack McGuire, who murdered Jacob Woads in this city last March, has been found guilty and punishment fixed at twenty-one years in the peniten tiary. McGuire confessed the crime to his sweetheart the day after the murder and it was her testimony that convicted him. The case was tried in Perry county on a change of Tenue. Dr. Darls, teeth on gold platea, 11th 0. an MADGE YORKB SHOT. A Well Knows A e tree foully Ver de red la Iler Room. Philadelphia, Feb. 19. Msdgs Torke, a soprano singer with ths "Baggage Check" company, was shot and almost instantly killed last night st Zeiss' hotel in this city, by James P. Gentry, a comedian of Collier's "Back Number" company. Gentry escaoed, and up to a late hour had not been captured. "Baggage Check," and Manager Cooper said that it was generally un derstood that Gentry and the girl were engaged to be married, and no motive for the deed other than a Hi of jealousy can be imagined, TELEGRAPHIC NEWS NOTES The whisky trust ized. will be reorgan The Brooklyn trolley strike hai been officially declared off. Fort Scott, Kan., saloons and gam bling houses have been closed. Eugene V. Debs says that his coo spiraoy trial will never be resumed. Frank Evans stabbed Ed Martin to the heart at Hot Springs, Ark., over s trivial matter. ; Great preparations are being made at Lawrence, Kan., ' for the state G. A. R. flnnftmnmAnt. Sevellon A. Brown, for a great many years chief clerk of the state department, is dead. It is not likely that congress will do anything with the Pacific road question this session. ; . The Florence and Cripple Creek raidroad has been sold to a Boston syndicate for $2,000,000. The United States is prosecuting George Lydick at Duluth for the theft of 2,300,000 feet of lumber. Congressman Bland will go on a silver lecture tour in Colorado and other Western states in April. Democrats in the senate are appre hensive that some of the appropria tion bills will not get through. Chief Justice Horton of Kansas de clares that he has no intention of re signing his piace on the bench. A new dynamite gun has been tested which throws a projectile of 2,000 pounds nearly nine miles. . The Republicans of Moborly, Mo., have nominated a full city ticket for the first time in the city's history. Dominick McCaffrey, the once well known pugilist, is in a New York hos pital suffering from blood poisoning. Hon. C N. Clark, who defeated Congressman Hatch, thinks Missouri can be safely counted as a Republican Btate. Admiral Ting, Commodore Liu and ureuerin viiaujj, imnese, kuiuu tnem selves because of the defeat at Wei-Hai-WeL Two Covington, Ky., boys, Charles. Ansory, aged 9, and Louis Bosom, aged 10, skating on the Licking, fell in and drowned. : It is announced that Hon. W. L. Wilson has been tendered by the re gents the position of president of the University of Texas which offer he has now under consideration. - . . As a result of the grand jury inves tigation, Isaiah H. Bradbury, a negro politician and fixer, has left Kansas City, and his whereabouts are un known. He is wanted by the author! David Wetzel, one of the mo st dis tinguished ministers of the Christi an church, died in San Francisco. He hod been pastor at several points in Illinois, at Hutchinson, Kan., and Oakland, Cal Thin or gray hair and bald heads, so displeasing to many people as marks of ace. moy be averted for a long time by using Hall's Hair Rsnewer. MINERS COOPED UP BY FIRE. Six Men Fatally Horned Little Hope for Six Other I'oor Fellow. ' Ashland, Pa., Feb. 19. In West Bear Ridge mine at Mahanoy Plane a gang of men were driving an air course when they broke through into a breast containing a large volume of gas. ' This was ignited by their lamps and an explosion followed,' setting fire to the timbers, thus shutting off me means oi escape. Six men have boon taken out all of them, it is feared, fatallv hurt Six men are in the mine with but little chance of getting out alive. ANOTHER JAPANESE VICTORY. Fifteen Thousand Chinese Repulsed by General Nortsu at Hal Cheng;. Yokohama, Feb. 19. A disDateh from General Nodsu. commander of the first Japanese army in Manchuria, dated February 15, Bays that 15,000 Chinese, with twelve guns, attacked Hai Cheng from the Lao Yang, New Chan? and Jinkao roads. Thpv wara repulsed, leaving over one hundred dead. The Japanese loss was five killed or wounded. THE HOME COMPANY WINS, Granite From Llano County, Texas, to Be Used In Kansas Clty'e Building. Washington. Feb. 19. Secretary Carlisle awarded the contract for the construction of the Kansan C.tv federal building to the Dugan Cut Stone company of Kansas City on its bid of 8318.000. cranite from T,1anr countv. Texas, to be used. Ha di rected the contract to be made out ai once. WALTER BAKER & CO. The Largest Manufacturers of PURE, HIGH CRADE COCOAS AND CHOCOLATES On this Contlnsttt, hart nestved HIGHEST AWARDS from tbe great Fi EXPOSITIONS la Europe and America. tJalfln ths Dutch Process, no Alka lies or other Chemicals or Ijet sie uaed In inr of their nremra&me. Their delicious BREAKFAST COCOA is AeolaMv pare and soluble, and costs Urn aum ess a a cta SOLO BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE, nill WALTER BAKER ft CO. 0CSCKE8TER, 1X1