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III HECK HANDS.
THE KANSAS CUT TIMES NEWS
PAPER FORCED TO THE WALL
BANKER COX IS RECEIVER.
Whm Application Hade by tha Ramlnf
ta Faper Company, Which Ilaa
Claim of About 00,00O Mr.
McDonald Retire From the
' Management Had Been
Losing 9500 a Week.
Kansas Citt, Mo., Sept. 23. Wiley
0. Cox, the banker, was appointed re
ceiver to-day of the Kansas City Times
Newspaper company by Judge Slower,
and took charge of its business at ll
o'clock this forenoon. , The appoint
ment was made on application of the
Remington Paper company of Water
town, N.'Y.
llarkless, O'Grady fe Crysler, attor
neys in this city for the Remington
company, received a telegram from 0.
S. and II. L. Hooker, the attorneys for
the Remington company in New York,
notifying them that a bill in chancery
asking for the appointment of a re
ceiver for the Times 'company had
been mailed and instructing them to
file it in the circuit court as soon as
it reached Kansas City. The bill ar
rived by the early mail from the East
and at 9 o'clock VVittcn McDonald,
manager of the Times, was asked to
come to the office of llarkless, O'Grady
& Crysler. He was handed the peti
tion to read, but as it covered twenty
pages of very close type-writing he de
clined to wade through it and was
content with Mr. O'Urady's explana
tion that it asked for the appointment
of a receiver because the paper was
insolvent; was in debt about $(50,000 to
his clients and getting deeper in debt
dally, and that it the paper missea
even one issue it would depreciate
greatly the securing of the bond
holders. Mr. McDonald said he had expected
the application for a receiver, and yet
he ! appeared to be surprised and
pained. He and the attorney discussed
several persons who might be ap
pointed receiver, and at last it was
agreed that Wiley O. Cox, president
of the Kansas City State bank, be ap
pointed. The decree authorized Mr. Cox to
take immediate possession of the busl-
...the officers, directors and
f the Times company, and all
er8ons, were enjoined irom at-
seizing, levying on or other-
interfering with any of the prop-
rty of the company or from interfer-
ng with the receiver in his manage-
l4
of the business.
Will McDonald said:
"I have simply this to say: The load
entailed on the paper before I took
charge of it was too heavy to be carried
with the business situation what it is
In Kansas City. That's all there is to
it"
Will McDonald, secretary of the
company, said the paper had carried a
UDdrj iwu jium uuuv i , iiii.i. iinu
struggled hard to get out. There had
I been a great improvement recently
Sand he believed the paper would have
come out on top if they had been given
a lew more months.
J Mr. (in wan Hskpd if he would ra-
itain Mr. McDonald in charge. He re
plied tuat he did not suppose Mr. Mc
Donald would expect or wish to remain
on the paper. Mr. Cox said the thing
had come to him unexpectedly and he
had not selected a managing editor or
a man to act in any other capacity.
Be said: "I will manage the paper
for the best interests of the creditors.
I am not a newspaper man, so I must
And a man who is to be put in charge
and a force of newspaper men to assist
him." ,
"What will be the political policy of
' the paper?" was asked him.
' "I ant a Democrat and you will not
find ma managing anything that is
not Democratic to the backbone," was
the reply of Mr. Cox.
Mr. Cox said further that in his opin
ion the success of the Times in early
days was due largely to the fact that
it was a straight out Democratic news
paper, and the lack of success in later
years might be due largely to the fact
that it had swerved in the faith.
It is understood that there will be a
complete turning over in the working
force of the paper, and that it will an
nounce to-morrow morning that the
paper is to be Democratic from stem to
tern.
The Times' plant, business, good
will, etc., is estimated to be worth
about $500,000. It has been running
recently at a loss of about $500 a week.
The receiver is instructed to pay out
of the income of the paper first the
salaries due employes and attorneys'
fees and rents which had been earned
within six months before he was ap
pointed and which were unpaid; sec
ond, he was to pay all the running ex
penses and the balance, if there was
any, was ordered to be deposited in
bank subject to the order of the court.
The receiver was authorized to issue
such receiver's certificates as might be
necessary to pay all outstanding
claims and from time to time to issue
such certificates, subject to the ap'
proval of the court, if it was neces
sary in operating the business: these
certificates to be payable in one year
from date and to bear 8 per cent inter
est from date of issue.
The first issue of the Kansas City
Times was printed September 8, 18fl4
At first it was not a financial success
and it went through different hands
and many vicissitudes till 1871, when
Dr. Morrison Mumford became editor
and owner. It was carried safely
through the geciral financial depres
sion of 1873. In 1885 it ranked
among the leading newspapers of the
country. It was a great factor in the
Oklahoma movement. . Dr. Mumford
lost contrel of the paper through nn
fortunate real estate investments
which forced him to mortgage the
plant and since then the paper hal
steadily declined.
Ex-Chief Justice Stuart of Oklahoma
is said to have resigned in order to
make the race for congress against
usy ox xexar
tachjrtg.
If
DUN'S WEEKLY REVIEW.
Wheat Advancd About Two Cent, and
Dropped s Cent.
New' York, Sept 23 . R. G. Dun &
Cot's weekly review of trade says: In
spite of gold exports wheat advanced
for some diy.s, in all nearly two cents,
mainly because a single speculator
bought, but on Friday fell about one
cent. Corn rose and fell in sympathy
with wheat, with as little reason.
Western wheat receipts for three
weeks of September have been 18,791,
660 bushels against 16,491,C2S last
year, while Atlantic exports (flour in
cluded) have been 3,941,603 bushels
against 7,021,980 last year.
Good reports of foreign crops, weak
ness of flour in Minnesota and large
exports of flour from this country, all
work against a rise in wheat, though
scarcity of contract grades may help a
speculative advance. Pork products
have been reasonably yielding, with
prospects of a large corn crop, but be
fore the close had a stronger tone.
The cotton market, lifting and falling
a fraction each day alternately, shows
no settled tendency, big stocks bal
ancing an undoubted but yet not
definite decrease in yield.
The cotton mills, which laid in
stocks of cotton below 6 cents, are en
riched by the advance in material,
and enabled to make frequent ad
vances in goods, which are sustained.
The present demand is dull, but there
are no reports of stoppage, and the
threatened strike at Fall Blver does
not come. The woolen manufacturer
is doing well in dress goods and
hosiery, but the demand for men's
woolens Is much restricted, and a few
mills have closed. Sales of wool are
smaller than last year, and for three
weeks only 17,133,470 pounds, of which
7,718,370 were foreign, against 24,672,
400 pounds in 1893,. of which 7,614,000
were foreign. Prices of foreign wool
are so low that purchases for export
have been made. The failures this
week have been 213 in the United
States against 210 last year and 32 in
Canada against 48 last year.
CARRIED OLD GLORY.
JEx-Confederates Clad In Gray Carry the
Stars and Stripe.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 88. One
of the leading features of yesterday's
events was one that caused perhaps
more comment, more enthusiasm, and
which will make a lasting impression
upon those who saw it, was a company
of Confederate veterans attired in their
tattered old uniforms of gray, carry
ing the stars and stripes. They formed
a part of the big parade, and as they
passed through the miles and miles of
streets they were tendered an ovation
that would have honored an Emperor.
Not one of those old war dogs was un
der GO, and yet they walked with a
firmness of step that would have done
justice to West Point cadets. And one
of them, the one next to the last color-
bearer, carried an olive wreath, an
emblem of peace and love.
BASEBALL GAMES.
Western League Standing.
. Won. Lost
fndlnnapolia. .. 7b 44
St. Paul 73 80
Kansas City. 72 SO
Minneapolis. .............. ...HI 59
Milwaukee 59 66
Detroit 58 67
Terre Haute 51 70
Grand Rapids 38 74
National League Standing.
Won. Lost.
Baltimore 80 ii
Cleveland 83 46
Philadelphia 74 58
Chicago 68 58
Boston 70 58
Brooklyn 67 57
New York 64 58
PitUbur f7 61
Cincinnati 57 58
Washington 39 81
St Louis 38 82
Louisville 33 92 .
598
590
62t
471
458
4'i2
323
648
582
551
546
640
525
524
496
324
80S
261
Kansas city. Mo., Sept 23. The trade in
Wheat was very slow here to-day, with good
grades a cent lower and low grades almost un
salable. Hard Wheat-No. 2, 5CV4o, No. 3, 65Moj No. 4,
40o; rejected, 8040o. Soft Wheat No. 2, 60
No. 3, COo; No. 4. 53c; rejected, 82o; no grade,
204330c. Spring Wheat No. 2, Ko; No. t,
52c; white spring, 47&
Corn No J mixeX J8o; No. 3. 26'43(
No. 4, 83c; no grade 24o; No. 2 white. 27tfol
No. 3. 270.
Oate-No. I mixed, 18o; No, 3, lTKos No. 4,
1415o; no grade. li13o; No. i white, 30at
No. 8. 18tt19c
Bran Weak, 4648o per cwt saoked; balk,
6o lesv
Bye Steady) No. 2, SCo; No. S, 83o; No. 4,
S1&.120.
Flaxseed September, 87o j October, 86a
Corn Chop Weak, 585So per cwt saoked.
:? Esrra Candled, lao per doi.
Poultry Hens.BHc; springs, 8K9c; roosters.
15c Turkeys, 7H8oj spring turkeys . over
8 lbs. 8S8tto; under 8 lbs not wanted in this
market Duoks, 5c; springs, 88Ko. Geese not
wanted 33ifeo; springs 7o; pigeons, 5c$l
per do.
Butter Extra fancy separator "so; lair.
15H16o; dairy, fanoy, hrm, 1415o; store
packed, trash. Ugllo; oi grades, 7$So.
Apples uooa supply on sate ana iraae siow.
1530cper ba; choice to fanoy, $1L50 pet
bbl.
Potatoes 18o per bu in car lots : fancy, 23o
per ba; 25a in a small way; sweet potatoes 200
240 per bum a small way.
Chicago Board of Trade.
CmoAQO.Sapt.28. The followinsU the-ranM
of prices of the grain and provision market oa
the board of trade :
QUOTATIONS
Close
High. Low Sept 21
Wbbat
(September... 57 57 57H
December.... 58 67 58
May W 62 t)2
COHN
September... 12 n 11
December.... itihi :i i8
May 28 Jf 18
Oats
September... 19 19 19
October. IS 1HS 189
May 10 '.0 0
POEK
September ... 7 85 7 85 7 85
October 8 00 7 85 7 90
Jaruary i SJ 9 80 9 8
Lard
September ... 5 80 5 60 5 80
October 580 580 580
January 5 V 5 75 i 11
Short Bias
September... 5 05 5 00 5 05
October 5 01 924 5 05
January 4 82 77 jj i9i
Close
Sept. 20
K8tt
58
2K
sen
- 28
29
19
MX
8 02
8 07
9 42
5 85
5 85
5 10
5 10
Live Stock.
Kansas Citt, Ma, Sept 13. Cattle He
ceipts, 832; calves, llo; shipped yesterday
z, catue, no caivea.
The market was nominally steady.
Hogs BecelpU, 3,440; shipped yesterday,
The market was ten cents lower.
Sheep Beceipta, 1,900 j shipped yesterday,
101.
The market was active and strong. '.
MULEY HASSAN'S TREASURE.
German' Physician's Account of th
Hoard of tha Saltan of Moroeeo.
A French journalist has brought ur
again the ancient story of the enormout
treasure held by the sultan of Morocco
The French ambassador to Morocco,
brought back to Louis XIV. In 1685 th
story that the sultan of that day, Muley
Ismael, kept at Mequinez, the favorite
residence of the sultan's, a treasure
valued at $30,000,000. Chenier, anothei
French ambassador, 100 years later re
turned with the rumors of the treasure
but It had shrunk in a century to about
$2,500,000, which is supposed by some
authorities to be about the ordinary
annual revenue of the sultan. The
legend of the treasure was still in sound
health fifty years later, for Graeber di
Hemso, a traveler, affirmed about 1834
that the sultan's hoard, called Bit-el-Mell,
was kept at Mequinez under the
guard of 2,000 negroes. It was believed
to consist of 200,000 pieces of money,
besides Ingots of gold and silver and
precious stones. The treasure house,
according to this traveler, was an in
cisure of massive walls, which were
exactly repeated within. In order to
reach the treasure it was necessary to
open five iron gates, secured with secret
locks, of which the keys were in the
Lands of the sultan or of his favorite.
It was the custom In earlier times to
kill the guards that accompanied new
treasure lest the secrets of the treasure
house be divulged.
Others travelers have kept the story
Alive and from the manner in which
taxes are levied and public affairs ad
ministered in Morocco it is generally
believed that the sultan has great
wealth laid up. The later story of the
treasure comes from Dr. Rohlfs, a Ger
man, at one time physician to the
harem of the present sultan, Muley
Hassan. Dr. Rohlfs declares that the
treasure of the sultan is greater than
ever. Some have represented that, for
safety, the Imperial wealth is kept in
several places, part of It at Fez, part
in the oasis of Tafllet, and part of It at
other points In the empire.- Dr. Rohlfa
declares that the sultan's 10,000,000
German thalers, or about $7,500,000, are
At Mequinez, in a somber edifice which
the light of day never penetrates. The
custom of killing the treasure-bearers
is not kept up, and the guard Is not
2,000, but 300 negroes, who keep watch
In a living tomb. Dr. Rohlfs has seen
some of the sacks Inclosing part of the
treasure.
LOST FOR AGES.
Discovery of a Burled City In Turkestan
by a Party of Prussians.
In Turkestan, on the right bank oi
the Amou Dlara, in a chain of rocky
hills, near the Bokharan town of Karki
are a number of large caves which,
upon examination, were found to lead
to an underground city, built appar
ently long before the Christian era.
According to effigies, inscriptions and
designs upon the gold and silver money
unearthed from among the ruins the
existence of the town dates back to
some two centuries before the birth of
Christ. The underground Bokharan
city is about two versts long and is
composed of an enormous labyrinth ot
corridors, streets and squares, sur
rounded by houses and other buildings
two or three stories high. The edifices
contain all kinds of domestic utensils,
pots, urns, vases and so forth. In some
of the streets falls of earth and rock
have obstructed the passages, but gen
erally the visitor can walk about freely
without lowering his head. ' The high
degree of civilization attained by the
inhabitants of the city is shown by the
fact that they built in several stories,
by the symmetry of the streets and
square, and by he beauty of the clay
and metal utensils and of the orna
ments and coins.
Removing Ground Glass Stoppers.
The bothersome stopper will not com6
out It has become so fixed in the
mouth of the bottle that no amount ol
pulling or twisting will move it But
here are some satisfactory methods ot
removing It without all that Impatient
tugging. The most effectual plan is to
wrap a rag wet with very hot watei
Around the neck, and let It remain a few
seconds. The heat will expand the neck
of the bottle, and before the heat pene
trates to the stopper itself, It can be
easily removed. Or, wind a string once
r twice around the neck of the stopper,
and holding the bottle between the
knees, pull alternately one end and then
the other end, thus creating friction,
And consequently heat Or, a little
camphene oil dropped between the neck
and the stopper of the bottle will often
loosen it so that it can be removed In a
few minutes after applying It
Thinks He Is an Engine.
There is now in the county Jail at
Ann Arbor, Mich., awaiting a vacancy
In the Pontiac asylum, a young man
who imagines he is a train of cars.
He spends nearly all his time in imitat
ing the noises attendant on starting up
and stopping a rauroaa tram. Every
sound and movement he produces with
startling fidelity and detail. When
the officer found him he was on the
railroad track, and from his actions
was Just getting up steam. Soon he
said it was time to start ordered the
fireman to fill the tank with water and
the tender with coal, imitating every
act perfectly. Then he pulled out the
lever and started the train, running
so fast that it was necessary to head
him off with a horse. His whistle for
"down breaks" can be heard a mile.
He is about 17 years old.
Vienna's "Lazy Club."
One of the queerest clubs in the world
la the "Lazy club" of Vienna. It Is
aid to have a membership of 100, and
there are thousands waiting for admis
sion. No member ot this organization
an do anything for a living, and the
slightest suspicion of work that resta on
A member means his expulsion.
MISSOURI IS MOVING.
The Great Apostle of Free Sliver Declare
That Ho Gold-Bug Can Carry the State.
In a recent interview ex-Conjrress-man
Richard P. Bland, of Missouri,
said:
'I do want to see the democratic
party organized and free silver win
the day. Nine out of ten people in the
country want it, and they are not go
ing to be backward about asking for
it and getting what they want. There
are enough free silver men in the state
to handle it with ease, if the forces
are organized and their work made ef
fective. It must be organized or we
will lose Missouri. We want men in
position who are for free silver and
who cannot be intimidated or over
persuaded, but intend to demand what
is right and stay there until they get
it The democratic party is not going
to vote for Wall street again,"
It has always been believed that the
republican party was anything but a
free silver party and, since the Penn
sylvania republicans have held their
state convention and adopted a plat
form, there is no longer any doubt but
that the republican party is for the
gold standard. It follows, then, that
Mr. Bland's statement is equivalent to
an assertion that if the democratic
party does not come out for free silver
the populists will carry the state of
Missouri.
Some idea of the prospects as
to the democratic party declaring
for free silver may be derived
from the following press report
of the democratic state convention
held in Nebraska on September 5 by
what is known as the "sound money"
wing of the Nebraska democracy.
For instance, we are told: "When
State Chairman Euclid Martin, of
Omaha, called the second Nebraska
democratic state convention to order
631 enthusiastic delegates greeted him
with applause, encouraged by an en
thusiastic crowd of visitors. It was
considered quite significant in the
light of recent developments that 631
out of a total representation of 634
delegates should be present when the
convention was convened. Many of
the pioneers of democracy of the state
were present and contributed to the
dignity of the occasion with their
counsels. Every utterance in favor of
a national currency in which gold was
the basic principle was as vociferously
cheered as the mention of free silver
in the convention of the other wing of
the party last month."
Speaking of the free silver demo
crats of Nebraska and the convention
they recently held, Chairman Bibb
said:
"A few weeks since there was held
in Omaha an alleged democratic state
convention. It represented nothing
more, 'nothing less, than the shadow
of populism. They called themselves
16 to 1 democrats. Sixteen to one
would be sixteen populists to one dem
ocrat You never knew a democrat to
go nosing around populist soup houses.
You never knew a true democrat to
crawl at the base of a populist lunch
counter. This Omaha gathering was
not democratic. They have gone
astray, but like the prodigal son they
will, come back." ,
And, following closely upon a sim
ilar declaration made by the Ohio
democracy, this platform was adopted
by the democrats of Nebraska:
We Indorse the national democratic platform
ot 1893 and the Interpretation placed thereon
by the president, and we declare ourselves un
equivocally and unreservedly lor that metalllo
money as the standard mintage, the bullion
and mint value ot which are approximately the
same; the purchasing power in which, regard
less ot government mintage. Is the least fluctu
ating in all the markets of the civilised world.
We insist upon this policy as especially neces
sary for the protection of the farmers, laborers
and property-owning debtors, tne most ae
fenseless victims of unstable money and fluctU'
ating currency. Free coinage of silver at 16 to
1 means a poorer money and less of it; It means
less wages for the laboring man and less actual
money for the business man; it means Dan
ruptcv for all save the mine owner.
We recognize the issue and reissue of our
treasury notes as a serious menace to the
stability of our national finances, and we favor
the retirement of all treasury notes at the
soonest possible moment, with proper and safe
euarantees for maintaining the necessary vol
ume of currency, which shall be devised by a
competent and non-partisan currenoy commis
sion.
Here you are, Mr. Bland. The regu
lar democratic convention of the state
of Nebraska declare for the gold stand
ard and the retirement and destrue
tion of the greenbacks. Cold comfort
there. .
Ther Die Hard.
The "sound monev" (srold-busr) ele
ment are fearing the effect of the sil-
n.crit.atinn and are usins every pos-
kIKIa schpmfl to counteract the result.
well knowing that a great mass or tne
nonnln don't think for themselves.
They have now made arrangements to
- . . - . .. AA M
furnisn "goia-Dug" piate maner iree
tn nil naners that will use it. They
also have prepared a lot of cartoons
showing jackasses ana moniceys wnn
eminent silver advocates' heads on.
That's all right They die hard, but
1 V4l
they will soon see wnose snouiaers ine
jackass head Is on. Humanity.
Trna Conraea Needed.
It is sometimes disgusting to see how
many people, working for some one,
will submit to injustice and extortion
turithniit. ntterinc a word in protest
How they will approach their employer
or foreman as if tney were entering a
divine presence, and stand with meek
and reverential mien before a man
who, shorn of his official title, would
Vmt their eaual. probably their in-
fofinr in moral worth. Producers need
not expect to be respected until they
have courage enougttio respect mem
selves. Exchange.
ui. n.Mfit Item of xDenso
Ask any business man, what is his
greatest expense, and he will tell you
i ia T.t. Half the wasre earners of
the cities pay as much rent for a de
cent place to live as tney pay wrvm
riH to live on. Every dollar of
rent charged for a building, over and
! above interest on the cost or lmprove
1 ...nt, and the productive value of the
a th tribute the tenant has to
pay to the owner for speculative profits
I and Inflated values arising irom, iuu
'peculation. --Humanity.
POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.
There is only one way in which '
capital and labor can ever be made
friends, and that is by letting labor
own capital. Star and Eansan.
Interest rewards the wrong man.
It is the borrower rather than the
lender who should be compensated, if
he preserves the property borrowed
and returns it as good as when he got
it Star and Eansan.
"Government currency, nothing
but government currency, good every
where and for everything put this,
and this only, on our banner, then
close up and fight it through," said
WendeU Phillips in 1878. .
Gold is not money. Neither Is sil
ver nor paper. It takes the govern
ment stamp law to make money.
Take away the stamp and they are
commodities pure and simple, the same
as wheat or corn or leather. Clay Cen
ter Dispatch.
When the great army of laborers
In this country see that the cause of
their" poverty and distress is the op
pression of a few idle schemers who
assume the right to rule and live upon
the toil of others there will be a revo
lution in this country at the ballot
box. Tarkio (Mo.) Independent
The law of remuneration under
capitalism and the competitive system
is not governed by the amount pro
duced, but by the number of workers
seeking leave to produce. This is why
capitalists oppose state employment of
the unemployed. It reduces the num
ber of available workers and increases
the remuneration. Coming Age.
How much do you owe the old
party anyhow? Does it hold a life
time mortgage on you? What hope
for better times does it hold forth that
you should continue to support it?
Why not mix common sense at the
ratio of 16, to 1 of partyism together?
A dose of that kind in 1896 would make
a new man of Uncle Sam. Missouri
World.
Mr. Eckles, of the United States
treasury department, has gone to Eu
rope "for recreation." That phrase
may catch the gullible, but a new issue
of bonds is the real object. When
American officials crawl to Europe it
is time to haul down Old Glory and
run up the Union Jack. The United
States is nothing but a cringing, ab
ject dependency of the Bothschild oli
garchy. Appeal to Keason.
According to the news sent out
from New York 5,000 bankers are pre
paring to enter into a formidable or
ganization for the protection of bank
ing interests in this country. The ma
chinery has already been set in motion
for the perfection of the organization
prior to the meeting of the next session
of congress. The combine propose to
more perfectly control the volume of
currency than they now do.
Combination cheapens production;
there is no doubt about that. The
larger the combination the more cheap
ly it is possible to produce the neces
sities and comforts of existence. The
greatest possible combination is a com
bination of all the people. With such
a combination everything man needs
can be supplied with less effort than
now. The co-operative commonwealth
is the outcome to which everything
points. Star and Kansas.
I do not want the union of church
and state, but I do declare that if the
church of God does not show itslef in
favor of the great mass of the people
as well as in favor of the Lord, the
time will come when the church as an
institution will be extinct, and Christ
will go down again to the beach, and
choose twelve plain, honest fishermen
to come up into the apostleship of a
new dispensation of righteousness,
man ward and God ward. Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage.
-Has anybody heard of a gob' -bug
paper, either republican or democratic,
that has advertised or offered for sale
the Harvey-Horr debate? We haven't
For some unaccountable reason tne
Sound Money club has also overlooked
it in making up its list of literature
for gratuitous distribution. What do
you suppose is the reason of this?
Nearly every populist paper m tne
country is offering it for sale or as a
premium for subscribers. There's
something strange about it
A spirited correspondence recently
appeared in the London Times on the
subject of the alleged disastrous ef
fects of gambling in wneat on agricul
ture. Several letters charge that deal
ers make fictitious contracts in Liver
pool and teleeraph their prices to Chi
cago, and that Chicago in turn tele
graphs them back after tne Liverpool
market has closed and that then these
fictitious prices appear in the news
papers of the next morning and fix the
price which farmers are to receive for
their grain.
In a recent interview John Sher
man, discussing the part he played in
the demonetization of silver, said: "It
was auite an undertaking when I
agreed to shape legislation on this line
in 1873. I can forgive the democrats
now for what they said about me and
what they were pleased to call my
great crime. I have lived to see their
leaders swallow their words, and to
day there is not a stronger and more
outspoken defender of my course than
vou will find in President Cleveland's
state papers and the speeches of his
cabinet officers. It is hardly necessary
for me to say a word. Of course it is
gratifying to me."
I never believed so much in a re
publican form of government as I do
to-day, for the single reason that any
other style of government would have
been consumed long ago. There has
been swindles enacted in this nation
within the last thirty years, enough
to swamp three monarchies. The
democratic party filled its cup of in
iquity before it went out of power be
fore the war. Then tno republican
party came along and its opportunities
through the contracts were greater,
and so it filled its cup of iniquity a lit
tle sooner; and there they lie to-day,
the democratic party and the repub
lican party, side by side; great loath
some carcasses of iniquity, each on
worse than the other. Be v. T. DeWitt
Talmage.
THE STATE PLATFOKM.
We, the people's party of the state
of Nebraska, in convention assembled, do
put forth the following platform of prin
ciples:
We hereby reaffirm the principles ol the
Omaha platform.
We declare ourselves in favor of strict
economy in conducting the affairs of the
state government in all its branches.
We believe the judicial anairs of the
state should be conducted on the princi
ples of justice and honesty, without par
tisan bias, and in the interests of the
people.
THE EESOLUTION8 AS PASSED.
Resolved, That we favor the principle
of the initiative and referendum in mat
ters of legislation.
Resolved, That we are opposed to any
religious test for admission to office or
for membership in this party.
We invite all reform and progressive
organizations and persons to to unite
with us, and deprecate any act which
tends to give prestige and continued ex
istence to division of reform forces.
Resolevd, That if the policy of the gen
eral government in reducing the volume
of money is continued we must in justice
to the taxpayers demand the reduction
of all salaries of state and county
officers. .
Resolved, That this convention most
heartily endorses the position of Governor
ilolcomb in reference to the penitentiary
contracts and his efforts to administer
the affairs of the state in an economical
manner.
Resolved, That we express our sincere
thanks to the mayor and citizens of Lin
coln for their courtesy to the delegates,
and visitors at this convention.
Populist Handbook. V
A Populist handbook has just been
published and is now ready for distribu
tion. This is the most complete and
valuable Populist campaign document
we have yet seen. It gives the whole
history of Republican rottenness in a
nutshell. No campaign speaker or com
mittee can afford to be without it. Fol
lowing is the table of contents:
The Asylnm Steals,
History of the Boodler's Trials,
Penitentiary Cell Honse Steals,
The Impeachment Trial,
State Land Steals,
Failure ol the Capital National Bank,
Suit Against Ex-Treasurer Hill,
Hilton's Defalcation,
Legislative Appropriations,
Deposit of State and County Funds,
The Attempted Printing Steal,
The Half Not Told,
The Maximum Freight Rate Law,
Nebraska's Populist Governor,
Tbe Gang Dies Hard,
Patriotic Inaugural Address,
, Ludden's Relief Commission,
Churchill Called Down,
Bold Theft of Spoils,
Sugar Bounty Veto,
Another Steal at tbe Pen, N
Sample Republican State Officers,
The A. P. A. In Politics,
Omaha Fire and Police Muddle,
What the People's Party Has Done for Ne
braska.
Facts on the Silver Question.
Invaluable as a work of reference for
campaign speakers. Splendid campaign
document to put into the hands of doubt
ful voters. Contains two of Judge Max
well's most famous opinions.
The book retails for 10 cents. One
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Further reductions for larger orders.
Send all orders to the author,
J. A. Edgebton,
' Lincoln, Neb.
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