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Ik I mm. The Wealth Makers and Lincoln Independent Consolidated. VOL. VII. LINCOLN, NEB., THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1896. NO. 34 HOW OUR ALLEN FIGHTS He Pounds Populist Doctrine into the Pudding-Headed Gold Sags HE WANTS NO MORE SUBSIDIES The Senate Instructed in Sound Pop ulist Doctrine on Telegraphs, , Railroads and the Nicaragua Canal Hoar and Hale Bare Not Fight One day last week Senator Hale intro duced a bill and made a speech in favor of giving a large subsidy to some com pany to lay a cable to Hawaii, Senator Allem made a vigorous attack upon the whole scheme. Tbere were several sharp colloquies between him, Chandler, Hale and Hoar, in. which Allen forced them by his sharp questions to acknowledge that the government had a constitutional right to build railroads and telegraph lines and operate them. The following is a part of the discussion. It will be seen that Allen stands at his post and fights for every populist principle with the bravery of a lion and the perseverance of a saint Among other things Senator Allen said: I am decidedly in favor of the construc tion of this cable line, but I want the government of the United States to own it, and to control it and operate it. The senator asks me if I do not believe that it would be wiser and better for the gov erument, even if it owned such a line, to lease it to private parties under a prop erly drawn contract. I do not believe so. I do not believe it would be any wiser to lease a cable line that is used for postal purposes than it would be to lease the post-offices and the post-routes of the United States. Those were private enterprises at one time in the history of this country. 1 am told by those who are older than I am that they remember distinctively the time when in this coun try it cost 25 cents to send a letter from one state to another, and in some in stances more. The entire postal system of the United (states was a private enter prise, exactly as the old stage lines and stage coaches were private enterprises. Yet the government of the United States eaw proper to discontinue the postal service as a pri vate enterprise. Through its sovereign power the government took control of the postal service throughout the length and breadth of the land, and eventually it assumed control of the postal service emanating from this coun try and going abroad. Why was that done? Because it made the service more uniform and better, cheaper, and quicker. It was in the interest of the public that that was done. Now, if we give the money of this gov ernment to the Pacific Cable company or to any other private enterprise we are simply going into a line of business where we have sunk and are liable to sink in the next twenty years four or five hundred million dollars. The senator from Maine looks at me with some sur prise. I mean to say that the system of subsidizing Pacific railroads, for In stance, and the attempt that was made in this chamber to (subsidize the Nicar agua canal last .year will, before they are completed, if they beco,nie consum mated, cost this government $500,000, 000, if not more. The experience we have had in that line is not such, in my judgment, as to make it satisfactory to our people. Mr. Chandler Will the senator allow me to interrupt him again ? Mr. Allen Certainly. - Mr. Chandler I sympathize with a great many of the senator's ideas, but he seems to me to go wild in his differ ences from all the rest of the world, which seems to be the populistic func tion. The senator criticises the con struction of the Pacific roads. A great deal of time might be spent in censuring the method that was adopted, but the fact was that under that method rail road communication across the conti nent was accomplished in less than seven years. The senator from Maine will correct me if I am wrong. I say in less than seven years of the ten years that were allowed for that purpose that line was built, while if the government had undertaken to build the roads for itself the work would have probably dragged for fllteen years. Does the Senator mean to say, going back to that magnificent enterprise, that because hecan find fault with the methods that were adopted for building the Pacific railroads the government itself ought to have built the roads across the continent and to have continued to operate the roads for all time? Is that the Senator's notion about railroads? Mr. Allen. I have not opposed and do not now oppose or criticise the construc tion of the Pacific roads per se. I criti cise the method by which they were con structed mid the means employed. M" vandler. Does the Senator think ttu government ought to have built those roads itself? Mr. Allen. I certainly do. Mr. Frye. And run them? v. Mr. Allen. And run them. Why not? M:vJt is paternalism, is it? Yes, that is th repr.rtW'y trouble. There is the great buga-'Failnooo. have sh Mr. Chandler. Not for me. 38,6Jf Mr. Allen. Not for the Senator from -enr xew Hampshire, i am glad to near that 1 oniiliHm in crrnwinfT! it. in unrpjidiiic utc the Northeastern portion of this countrj Mr. President,, that is the only ohjeetior, that any man ever made in public or private, and I am glad to do the Senator from New Hampshire the justice of saying that at all times be has had the courage of his convictions in this chamber. Mr. Chandler T am not willing to join the populistic party quite yet. I am much more ready to take the senator from Nebraska into my party than to to join his. I say the paternalism of those methods would not deter me from adopting them. I do not think that I am in favor of such methods of govern mental intervention in public works. It is a question of policy. One method may be adopted in one case and another method may be adopted m another case, Mr. Allen Mr. President, the populi st party will not take the honorable sena tor from New Hampshire into its ranks and into full fellowship just yet. I think we prefer to take him, as a friend of mine used to say that the Methodist church took new converts, "for six months on suspicion. Laughter. We prefer him meet for repentauce for a time; and if he proves himself worthy and well qualified, we will at the proper time re ceive him into full. fellowship. Put I am glad to note the fact that light is dawning even in New fcngland, and it is not as bad a thing now as it used to be when I first came here for a man to talk of the doctrine of ownership of railways by the government. I have never heard a man upon the other side of the chamber or upon this side, and 1 never expect to hear one, who can offer a decent reason against those arguments. I understand that gentlemen hold up their hands in horror and say, ''that is populism;" "that is paternalism;" but you never undertake to define paternal ism. You undertake to scare thecountry with a word, just asyou do with the word "parity" and the word "fiat." No, Mr. President, I am in favor of this government owning and controlling this cable line for several reasons. In the first place, it would be cheaper, in my judgment, and directly in line with the policy of the government in owning and controlling the Post Office Department in all its features; and it would be direct ly in line with' the true policy of this government never to farm out to pri vate individuals or private corporations any of its sovereign power. We might just as well say that the decisions of the supreme court of the United States should be farmed out to private enter prise (and I presume they would, in many instances, be as valuable as they are now if they were) as to say that the sovereign power to control the mail ser vice of this government, or any feature of it, should be farmed out to private corporations. The truth is, we are, every day of our lives here, delegating sovereign powers to private corporations and private enterprises that theconstitu- tion places in this government to be exercised in the interest of the people, Senators seem to be bent upon having these powers delegated to private corpo rations. When it comes to the question of the power and policy of this govern ment to own and operate such lines by itself unaided, and unaiding any private corporation in a like enterprise, I believe it is the true policy and the potriotic policy for the government to own and operate them. In the next place, there is another se rious objection to the bill. Another great corporation is to be raised up, whose fangs eventually are to enter into the legislative and executivedepartments of this government, if not into the iudi. cial department, and one more enemy of free government is to be fed and encour aged by more liberal appropriations madt by congress. How long will it be until this Pacific cable company will plaoe in this chamber and in the other house of congress such servile tools as it wants to do its bidding in the form of legislation, and by that means stifle the cries and wishes of the people and enact legislation in the interests ot private enterprise and in such a way as to lay additional burdens upon the masses of our people? I do not believe that we should encourage enterprises of this kind where it is in the interests of the govern ment to construct the work and where it is conceded that we have ample power to construct it ourselves. Let me recur briefly to our experience with reference to Pacific railroads, for I do not want to be misunderstood upon that question. I admit that it was good policy to construct the Pacific roads, at least one of them, possibly all of them ; it was the proper thing to do ; but the originator of that enterprise, Mr. Asa Whitney, never expected it to be a pri vate enterprise. His first petition to congressiu 1846, I think, possibly in 1844, was to the effect that he was to construct the road out of a land grant to be given to him by congress, and within a certain time after that he was to turn the road over to the govern ment, and it was to be a great govern mental highway. That was his plan. I believe it would have been better policy, and that it would have been a great deal deal cheaper for this government to have made adirecfcapprbpriation to construct the Pacific railroads from the Mississippi and Missouri rivers as they have been constructed to the Pacific slope and to nave owned and controlled them today. We have a debt of $120,000,000 due us now. We have guaranteed bonds to the amount of $00,000,000, if not more, o per cent bonds, that we must make provision for at this congress subsidy bonds that were given to those roads. One of the strange things in the history of such transactions is that when the government of the United States had the hrst hen upon the roads for the subsidy bonds, through some kind of legerde- niain, I know not what, that lien was taken off and certain stockholders and bondholders were given a lien prior to the government's lien. We voluntarily relinquish the first lieu upon those roads; we waived our right to foreclose upon the roads and reduce them to government ownership, and gave to certain moneyed interests in this country a first, lion, who now threaten to take the roads and leave the government without a penuy to pay the subsidy bonds or to recoup for the interest that has been paid upon the debt. It is not likely that the time will come within fifteen or twenty years when a like policy will be pursued with reference to this Pacific Cable Company ' it a is subsidized? I believed if we owned and controlled and operated a great transcontinental line of railway today we could squetle a hundred per cent of waterout of watfred stock. By fixing the rates of passenger and freight tariff upon that road we eould force every competing road in the United States to come to the prices fixed by the government of the United States. It would go as far as anything we can do, if not further, to bring about an ad justment of this great railroad problem. Mr. President; a railway is a public corporation; that is, it gets its power to go across your land and mine and to exercise the power of eminent domain be cause the government farms out to it the sovereign power. That question first arose in this Country in the case of Blood good vs. The Mohawk Itiver Railroad Company, when the old court of errors of New York was composed of a few judges and the Senators. It was a serious ques tion tor a great many years whether private corporation or a corporation in the nature of a railroad company could exercise the sovereign power of eminent domain and force itself across thepro- perty ol private individuals, .finally that position was sustained; thesupfeme court ol the United States followed it, uuu every court in uie union iouofs 16 today. Does any lawyer or any layman djbubt tnat it a railroad company gets a tight to construct a railroad in consequence of of the government farming out to it the right of eminent domain, there goes with that power, as an incident of the grant, the power to control the road that exer cises the right of eminent domain? Has not this government power, whenever necessity may bring about the occasion to exercise its sovereign power of eminent domain, to reduce every ccrporation of that kind in this country to government ownership? The same power that the corporotion exercises with reference to private property may be exercised bj the government with reference to the rro party of the corporation itself, it Is a supreme power that knows no limit but the limit of necessity and desirability. W hy not, tnen, own and control tpose railroads? Out in the state in which have the honor to live oats are being sold to-day for 11 cents a bushel oats as fine as were ever grown upon the face of the earth. It costs 16 cents of freight tariff to put a bushel of oats in market from Nebraska to New York 60 percent more than the farmer can get for it there. So with corn, wheat, and all other farm products, and with meat products. I believe they are taking from the state of Nebraska and Kansas and other western states every year $50, 000,000 to pay interest upon watered stocks. NO restraint is placed upon them by ' the state government. The state government has no power to place it upon the subsidized roads, in so far as they are doing an interstate traffic busi ness. No restraint is placed upon them by congress. They are at liberty under our laws to take a road that cost $25, 000 of honest money for its construction and to capitalize that road for $140,000 or $150,000 per mile, and by that means take profits from the grain grower and the meat grower of the states through which they run. It amounts to millions and hundreds of millions of dollars in the course of a year. Is not that a matter of sufficient importance to awake at least some slight interest on the part of congress? With reference to the Nicaragua canal I favor it. I want to see this govern- ment by tjie construction of a canal about i76 miles, cut off the 10,000 of travel around the Horn. But I shall never vote for the an interest bearing ob ligation of this government in aid of that or in aid of any other enterprise, It means the expenditure of $300,000,- 000 upon the part of this government before that enterprise is finally paid for nnder such a system. n heuever we can issue the money here and commence the constrution of the Nicaragua canal and pay for it as we go along it will have my vote. But when ever it comes to the question of issuing bonds and subsidizing some private cor poration that is to own and construct it and take profits while we pay the inter est and principal of the subsidy bonds. 1 shall oppose it, because 1 do not be lieve that this government as a matter of policy should issue the bonds and incur an endless debt which fature generations will be taxed to pay. Stick To Your Principles Bat be Liberal. Stick to your principles, boys, but hold out the hand of fellowship to every man wno is ready to help mankind out of the abyss; and who proves his sincerity by breaking loose from the two old rotten parties. The man who joins at the eleventh hour will be just as welcome as the man wno commenced work at the first hour. Be big-hearted. We are not fighting for personal ambitious, or for prejudices, but to retorm the abuses that are ruining the American people. Every man who fights on the side of humanity is our frieud, we care not what he may have been heretofore, or what mistakes he may have made. Shoulder to should er, boys, and move down upon theenemy in solid column, with the stars and stripes flying over us. Ignatius Donnaly. The Oratba Judges The Omaha Judges in spite of all the criticism they have received, continue to be in contempt of the people as will be seen by the following sentences recently pronounced by them. . James C. lsh is senteuced bv Judge Fawcett to fifteen months in the peniten tiary for the crime of manslaughter, which was originally characterized in the complaint filed by the county attorney as murder m the first degree. A few weeks ago a man charged with writing libelous paragraphs in a village weekly in the little town of Gretna was senteuced by Jndge Scott to twelve months in the penitentiary. About eighteen months ngo a man was convicted of appropria ting to himself a cloak belonging to his employer, who owed him more than the cloak was worth. The man is now serv ing a sentence imposed by Judge Scott of five years in the penitentiary. PARTIES The Free Coinage Men Bolt Both of the Old Organizations THEY ABE COMING TO THE POPS They Call a Convention to Meet at St Louis on the Same Date the Populists National Committee Selected Come Home Ye Wanderers The American Bimetallic League held a convention in Washington, D. C, Jan. 22. The following account is furnished to the American public by the Press As sociation liars. The part in quotations and the call lor a convention to meet in St. Louis at the same time as the peo ples' party convention meets, are true. Other parts must be taken cumgrano salis. It must be remembered that the mem bership of the Bimetallic League is made up of men of all parties, republicans, democrats, populists and prohibitionists. A very large number of learned men be long to it scholars, authors, econo mists and professors in universities. The populist membership in the league is probably greater than all the others combined. It will be seen that they have made their presence felt. Washington Jan. 23. The conference today resulted in an animated discussion of the financial situation and the policy to be pursued by the friends of silver. During the discussion considerable feeling was aroused by some of the remarks made by General Hatch of Missouri, in which he stated in effect that if the popu lists of Kentucky had done their whole duty the election of Mr. Blackburn to a seat in the Unitad States senate would not be a matter of doubt. General Field of Virginia and others made heated re plies. Mayor Turner of Lansing, Mich., and Senator Stewart of Nevada also ad- ,i .1 4-1. : The committee on resolutions, of which Senator Jones of Nevada is chairman, submitted its report, consisting of an un usually long preamble, and ending with the declaration: "That over and above all other questions of policy, we are in favor of restoring to the people of the United States the time-honored money of the constitution gold and silver not one, but both the money of Washington and Hamilton of Jefferson and Monroe of Jackson and Lincoln, to theend that American people may receive honest pay lor an honest product, the American debtor paying his just obligations in an honest standard and not in a standard that is appreciated 100 per cent above the great staples of our country, and to the end, further, that silver standard countries be deprived of the unnatural advantage they now enjoy in the differ ence in exchange between gold and silver an advantage which the tariff legisla tion alone cannot overcome. "We, therefore, confidently appeal lo the people of the United States that leav ing in abeyance for the moment all other questions, however important, even mo mentous they may appear, and sunder ing, if need" be, all the former party affil iations, unite in a supreme effort to free themselves and their children from the domination of the money power a pow er more destructive than any which has ever been fastened upon the civilized men of any race or in any age. And upon the consummation of their desires and efforts we invoke the gracious favor of divine providence." 1 he report was widely and loudly ap plauded as it was read, and the confer ence seemed to be filled to the fullest ex tent with enthusissm. It was read by Senator Jones, chairman. At the con clusion there was a big demonstration. The delegates aroRe to their feet aud cheered loudly and called for Senator Jones. He spoke for about ten minutes and his remarks were vociferously ap plauded. APPORTIONING DELEGATES. The following is the report of the com mittee on organization: lhat a convention of the qualified voters of the United States who believe in the principles this day enunciated by the conference aud who are willing to subordinate party allegiance and fealty to those principles and to support the nominees of the national convention provided for by this conference shall be held at the city of St. Louis. Mo., on the 22d day of July, 189G, at the hour of 12 o clock noon, lhat the apportionment t3 such convention shall be one delegate for each senator and representative in the United States congress from the sev eral states and one delegate for each del egate in congress from the several terri tories, and additional delegates for the several states and territories based upon the silver strength as ascertained from the American bimetallic union. The number of delegates apportioned to each state and territory shall be as follows: Alabama 40Nebraska 61 Alaska ii NeYada 16 Arizona 6 Nw Hampshire 6 Arkansas 80 New Jersey 12 California 45 New York 41 Colorado 70 North Carolina 70 Connecticut , 15North Dakota........... 12 Releware 8 Ohio 1 40 Klorlila M'OWahoma. 10 Georgia 6!oreon 17 Idaho 10 Pennsylvania .... 46 Illinois 60 Khods Island 8 Indiana 49 South Carolina B Indian Territory 6 South Dakota 15 Iowa 8:. Tennessee 24 Kansas 60'Texas 70 Kentucky 25 Vermont 8 Louisiana. ... so Virginia .. 40 Maine 9 Washington If Maryland o w(st Virginia 12 MnsMachusetts.. 21 Wisconsin 15 Michigan 84 Wyoming 15 Minnesota so! New Mexico. 9 Mississippi 1... 2:". tltuli on Missouri 45iDistrict of Columbia. 4 Montana... i. lsl That this conference appoint a provis ional national committee, consisting of ouo member from each state and terri tory, said committee to possess all pow ers usually possessed by national com mittees of political parties; said commit tees to Berve until the holding of said national convention; said committee, or the portion thereof appointed bv the conference, shall have full power to fill vacancies, whether from the failure of this conference, to appoint a full commit tee or from death, resignation or other wise; said cotnmjtteeshall haveits head quarters in the city of Washington, D. C. CONDITIONS TO ADMISSION. The mode of selecting delegates to said national convention shall be as pre scribed by the national committee, sub ject to the following regulations: All delegates shall be selected at public con ventions or at public meetings to be held either in the several states at large or in the several counties or districts of said states as the committee may pre scribe. No person shall be eligible as a delegate to any such convention, or shall sit as a delegate in said national convention,' who is not in favor of the declaration of principles this day enun ciated by this conference and who is not willing to subordinate party allegiance to the advancement of such principles and to support the nominees of said convention. The national couimittce shall proceed at once to organize the several states and territories for the suc cess of this movement. The national committee so far elected is as follows: Arizona, M. W. Brennan; Colorado, I. N. . Stevens; Connecticut, Joseph Sheldon: California, George W. Baker; Idaho, John P. Clough: Iowa, Amos Steckle; Illinois, George M. Em ery; Kansas, A. C. Shinn; Maryland, Gilbert T. Smith; Massachusetts, George C. Hill; Michigan, J. U. llamsdell; Mon tana, W. II. Sweet; Nebraska, G. L. Laws; Nevada, George S, Nixon; New Jersey, Mortimer Whitehead, North Car olina, B. F. Keit; Ohio, Henry T. Niles; Pennsylvania, R. E. Difendorfer; Tennes see, J. H. Acklin; Virginia, A. G. Wedder burn; Vermont, Joseph Battel; District of Columbia, C. J. II illy er. On motion, Dr. J. J. Mott, of North Carolina, was unanimously elected chair man of the national executive commit tee. Dr. Mott has always been a repub lican, and for a number ol years has been chairman of the state committee of North Carolina, and was vouched for by a number iimong them Senator Butler as one of the best organizers and most indefatigable workers in the United States. A committee on finance, one from each state, was selected. Altera number of other speeches the silver conference adjourned. , THE SILVER REPUBLICANS. They Beg the Gold Boga Not to Pat Them on a Level With Plgtatled Chinamen. Washington, Jan. 23 The republican silver senators signed a declaration which is intended to be used in the coming cam paign as the demand which the silver men will make for a plank in the national convention. In the preamble itis recited that the present financial system en dangers the industrial prosperity of the United States, which is threatened by China and Japan as a result of the de crease in the value of silver, and the dif ference of exchange between silver and gold using countries. It is therefore re solved that the signers favor the free and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, for the purpose of obliterating this difference of exchange, which is de clared to operate as a bounty on, the ex port of products from silver using coun tries to gold using countries. It is also resolved that they favor a tariff which shall equalize the difference in the cost of labor between this country and the coun tries of Europe and Asia. It is the pur pose of those who are circulating the declaration to get all the republican sil ver men in congress to sign it. Stand Up for Nebraska We know that the people are leaving this state by hundreds, leaving, in what seems to ns, to be a vain hope of secur ing relief. They have been taxed and taxed and robbed and robbed till even hope is gone, and instead of trying to better their condition by exercising their privilege as voters, they allow themselves to be whipped into line, cast a vote for the same old gang and strike out to start again in a new country. They hope to better their condition and we honor them for it, at the same time we believe that the same conditions will confront them wherever they may go. The condition surrounding the laboring man cannot be changed by changing lo cation. Itis no respecter of state lines nor of drouth lines, but is a condition of the body politic which can be changed only by removing the cause. We believe in standing up for Ne braska, but we cannot believe that that consists in standing up for a boodler gang that has for the last twenty years lived and prospered opon the tcil of these same honest men they desire to "Pike & Tlack" yet a little longer. Nuckolls County Herald. Wh ile you are not busy, suppose you get up a club of subscribers for this paper. Send us three yearly subscribers with f 3 and we will send you this paper free for one year. Tuition at the State University is free. It is simply the 12, 13, 14, and 15th grades of our public school system. Write for catalogue. Send us 15 cents and we will send you a copy of Coins Financial School. Patronize those persons who advertise in this paper. PKOGRESSIVE BOODLE Bepublioans go for the Publio Funds as an Indian goes for a Buffalo TEE WEANING OF THE THIEYE3 It is Awful Hard on Them and They Bawl Like Bull Calve The Pop Governor Stops the Pap Lincoln, Jan. 28, 1896. Editor Independent: You doubtless have noticed how skill fully the ring republicans play progres sive boodle. They go for public funds as Indians once went for wild buffalo and seem to have no more twinges of con science in pocketing a thousand dollars than the red man had in slaying a hieffer calf. And the game is not confined to one department of the government but it covers city county and state. During the last week the supremecourt hasxjonflrmed a judgment against Lan caster county of 2,500 in favor of Greene & Van Duyn, for services refunded for funding some county bonds that had be. come payable. The republican papers have had considerable to say about the pleading of the two county attorneys in the case, but not one of them dared to tell the whole truth about the claim. A year ago some $350,000 of oar county bonds, bearing a heavy rate of interest, become payable. The state treasurer bad a million or tbere aboute, of school money in his bands drawing no interest at all foronr schools. Yon see it would not answer for the county commissioners to negotiate the loan with the state treasurer, for then the steal ing would not be legal. So Greene & Van Duyn were made the thieves by proxey. The job was done up to (he Queen's taste, $2,000 were paid, and now $2,500 more with costs. Now it would take seventeen angels to convince me that Greene & Van , Duyn did not agree to divide that money among the state officers, county commissioners and themselves. And if what the republican papers say is true, perhaps the County attorneys get a little sniff. Some time ago a colored man was tried for his life and as a progressive step in the boodle liue the county commission ers had four or five high priced lawyers to criminate him aud three or four high priced ones to clear him, all paid out oi the tax payers money of the county. The . lawyers all helped to elect the "ticket" and of course must all have a job. Now there is another colored man to be tried and the progressive game will re quire eight or ten on one side and five or six on the other. We will waitand see. The same game has been played in letting our city jobs, lighting, funding, and other jobs. But the most bare-faced progression is in permitting the gamblers to run in violation of all law, charging them a licence fee of one or two hundred dollars a month, all for the private bene-, fit of the city officers. They do not dare to take quite all the reservation money, yet, but they are progressing that way fast. . The same game has been played for years all along the line and it makes no difference, the players are re-elected with out; a scowl. It was played when some stone was wanted for the penitentiary. Instead of the state officers advertising for bids and letting the quarry men furnish the stone, a stink finger man bought the stone and sold them to the state at an advance of ten to fifteen thousand dollars. Then withoutdoubt the money made was divided among the , state players. That is the reason why such a fuss is made about the manage ment of the penitentiary. The game don't progress with a pop governor iu the road. Now don't be too hard on them. Calves always ball when weaned. II. W.Hardy. NOT THE "THIRD PARTY" Bnt a Party Having a Splendid Show to Elect a President Omaha, Jan. 27. Editor Independent: We hear a great many people speak oi the peoples party as the "third party" not realizing that the peoples party is either the first or second party in about half of the states of the union. A careful review of the fact shows that if proper judgment is used at St. Louis on July 22 the peoples party stands a splendid show of electing the president at the coming presidential election. The repub lican party is the third party in Ar kansas, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and honors are about evenly divided between the three parties iu Louisiana. The democratic party is the third party in Minnisota, North Dakota, South Da kota, Nebraska, Wyoming. Montana, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Colorado, Kansas, Idaho, with honors divided in California, Utah, and the remainder of the territories. The electoral vote of Tennessee is very likely to be carried by the peoples party this year. The two old parties have fully shown their ina bility to deal with important economic questions. Iet good judgment and hon esty prevail at St. Louis in July and the result will very likely be surprising to the most ardent advocates of the na tional reforms. D. Clem Deaveb. AH druggists sell Dr. Miles' fain W. . - ' - '..L; i