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VOL. VIII.
LINCOLN, NEBR., THURSDAY, March 4, 1897.
NO. 42.
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A Continuation of the Letters on
the "Fighting Issue" Con
troversy, SENTIMENT IN SILVER'S FA VOB
Senator's, Congressmen, Statesmen
and Distinguished Economic Au
thors Against Washburn.
8ENATOB WM. M. STEWART.
Whatever opinion I may have
entertained of the practice prevailing
among the Japanese to allow distin
guished criminals the privilege of execut
iug themselves by a disetnbowling pro
cess called kari-kari, I never supposed
that kari-kari would be adopted as the
platform of any political party in this
country. Why the populist party snouid
be called upon to commit suicide to grat
ify the usurers of Wall street has not been
fully explained. The only reason that I
have beard suggested by any one is the
fact that over six millions of voters have
joined in demanding more money
through the the restoration of silver and
and adopted the leading issue of the
Omaha platform of 1892. If the popu
list party is going to abandon its issues
as fast as it converts a sufflcent number
of voters to make success possible, the
charge, that the leaders 01 that party
are agitating for the lust of agitation
and nothing more, will be sustained. If
there are individuals in the populist
party who are opposed to the consum
mation of the reforms that party has
agitated, it must be because they fear
that their importance will be diminished
and tbev will be lost in the vast muiti
tude required to achieve success. In
other words, they would rather be big
men in little parties than little men in
big parties. Seriously speaking, if the
populist party subordinates the silver
question, the silver question will bury
the populist party, and such a sugges
tion is too rediculous to be entertained
a moment by practical men working for
practical results. Yours very truly.
Win. M. Stewart.
CONGRESSMAN KEM OF NEBRASKA.
All talk of retiring the silver issue is
folly. It is not something which can be
retired or brought forth at will like a
jack in the box. It is a living, vital prin
ciple that will not down at tne bidding
of any man or combination of men. Mr,
Washburn had just as well talk 01 pre
venting the rising 01 the sun as to talk
of relegating silver to the rear. I believe
in scien title money, but I know, and Mr.
Washburn ought to know, that the peo-
sle are not yet educated to that fact. It
is only recently, through the agitation of
the silver question, that they have begun
to realize that a scientific money is the
only true currency it will be largely
through this silver agitation. I should
like to know what authority Mr. Wash
burn or any one has for calling a meet:
ing to relegate silver to the rear. The
party at St. Louis in national conven
tion assembled declared what the princi
ples of the party are, and that must
stand until the party so assembled shall
declare otherwise. The logic of events
forced the silver issue to the front and
there it will stay until the same agency
retires it or until it succeeds. The free
coinage of silver will not ease all of the
ills to which we are heir by any means,
but it will ease some of them and is the
channel through which we may reach
solution of all. Trusting that the popu
list party may turn with a solid front to
the common enemy and cease tnis inter
nal warfare. I am, yours fraternally.
O. M. Kern.
CONGRESSMAN-ELECT KELLY OF SOUTH
DAKOTA.
It has lately come to light that
movement is on foot to switch the peo
ple s party from one of its mam issues,
the free and unlimited coinage of silver,
The prime movers of this scheme appear
to be Uen. Coxey of Ulno, tieorge X ,
Washburn of Boston, Mass., and Paul
Vandervoort of Omaha, Neb. It is not
my purpose to criticise the motives of
these men. They may be sincere, but in
the opinion ef those who differ from them,
misguided. Certain it is, however, that
they are doing and aiming to do just
what the money power of Wall street
and the world would pay them well for
doing, as is indicated by the very court
eous treatment of the movement by the
gold bug Boston Herald. As the move
ment is understood it is not a pew one,
for at least Mr. Vandervoort. If he was
correctly reported, his efforts were di
rected during the entire last campaign
against the combined silver forces of
Texas and other suitable soil for the
propogation of his ideas. If the free
coinage of silver was good doctrine, if it
was indispensiable to the well being of the
American people in 1892, when it was
embodied in our national platform, it is
no less essential now. No change in our
financial system, or in the condition of
our people has since taken place that
warrants the people's party in ignoring
what was then our leading principle,
The people are becoming poorer as day
succeeds day and the single gold stand
ard is the greatest agency in the accom
plishment of this fell purpose. To defer
relief until the voters can be educated to
the principles of scientific money means
the utter impoverishment of our people.
They would thus be incapable of helping
themselves. And it is upon this that the
sanguine hopes of, the money power is
based; hence the courtesies and sympa
thy and flattery of the Boston Herald
and its gold bug contemporaries. But
the scheme will fail. Party names and
partisanship and hatred have done the
work in the past; they must now relin
quish the field to reason. The people's
party has had an almost phenomenal
career. All its leading principles stood
the strongest test and must eventually
be enacted into laws. More than half
the people of this country are already
convinced that we are right, and are al
ready educated to a majority of our
principles, and are giving the others a
fair hearing, and we should have won in
the last campaign had it not been for
bribery and intimidation. Why then
should we abaudon any of our princi
ples? The demand for each of them comes
to us with increased intensity with ad
vancing time. Should we abandon a
cause as soon as a sufficient number of
our fellow men agree with us and it ap
pears that it is about to prevail? Are
we to be considered but a band of im
practicable theorists or visionairy
dreamers, floundering in unexplored ele
ments without rudder or ballast? If the
Boston Herald thinks so it is simply
reckoning without its host. Our inde
pendency we must and will maintain.
The great principles which the party
enunciated and propogated to an almost
successful end demands it. But that we
should spurn the assistance of such men
as W. J. Bryan and those who support
ed him in the grand and heoric struggle
to overthrow the minions of Wall and
Lombard streets, is a proposition little
less than diabolical in its nature, how
ever much we may condone the action of
the makers of it in the charitable belief
that it was a mistake of the head and
not of the heart. And I predict that Mr.
Coxey, Mr. Washburn and Mr. Vander
voort shall be able to appreciate in the
near future that there is to be no tem
porizing with the people's party. Let us
light the battle to a finish without re
ceding from a single point, and It is be
lieved that victory is not far off. The
money power smells the coming danger
and tries to divert it by dividing our
forces, but it won t work. J. L. Kelley.
CHAIRMAN STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF
NEBRASKA.
I desire to congratulate you upon the
course you have taken in the discussion
of the question raised by Mr. Washburn
of Massachusetts. To say that we shall
abandon any part of the platform
adopted by the people's independent
party at Omaha and reaffirmed at St.
Louis, is repudiation by the individual
or persons who delegate to themselves
the power to announce such change in
the future policy of the party. It is an
undisputed fact that, has been conceded
by all other political parties, as well as
maintained by ours, that the populist
party stands unequivocally for govern
meut issue of all money, whether gold,
Silver or paper, and that to be lr redeem
able, and that the same shall be good for
all debts, public ond private. The above
is a question that is settled by our party,
and for some one to imagine that he can
sidetrack or switch the party at this
time from the money question and there
by do the work of the monied aristo
cracy under the pretence that they are
working for the principles of the party
as promulgated from the first will not.in
my opinion, be successful in convincing
any great number of their sincereity, es
pecially after the close of the greatest
political contest that was ever waged in
this country. The great and live issues
of that campaign was money, the cry
among the people today is money, an
insufficient amount to transact business
is causing stagnation in all branches of
trade, bankruptcy, misery and in sol
vency has become common to all; all in
terests are suffering for the want of it.
The silver question is only a part of this
live question, and by pushing it we simp
ly advance to the front one of the great
cardinal interests of our party. And
while it has been made a party issue we
are glad indeed to know that at this
time there is a stronger sentiment in
favor of the free coinage of silver than
has been since the time it was admitted
to the mints. The only way we can ac
count for the wonderful growth in senti
ment on this question, is because the peo
ple have given it more consideration and
the information gained, as a result of
their investigation, has established a de
termination on the part of those making
this study to demand it. To refuse the
right to coin both gold and silver on
equal terms, is denying to the people a
constitutional right that is so clear that
no man who has a legal reputation
offers to dispute our claims, but by force
and chicanery they have destroyed its
use as money. In making the advance
step in this matter we believe it places
us in a position to lay before our friends
who have not studied other questions of
reform, as advocated by the populist
party, who have become friends of silver,
we advocate there are other questions of
equal importance to the people as that
of silver, which is demanding the atten
tion of all patriotic thinkers. To state
that government ownership of railroads
and telegraphs is an absolute necessity,
as we believe, and the question is of such
importance to the people that we cannot
resist the thought. We call attention to
this one problem and ask all those who
are carefully studying the money ques
tions to investigate the questions above
referred to thoroughly. That the people
must take advance steps on these ques
tions as they have on the silver ques
tions and demand that injustice shall no
longer be practiced in this form. Active
agitation of those who vote can right
the wrong that exist here as in the
money question. It is a duty we cannot
evade. To study the principles as out
lined and taught from the first by the
populist party causes one to rejoice that
he is a member of that party. We would
place the matter in this way: That the
populist party is the advance school in
economics, and as soon as those who are
studying these questions see the necessity
of reforms they are advanced by becom
ing full fledged members of the populist
party, which admits them to the highest
standard of reform ever advocated by
any party in this country. Yes. Brother
Edgerton, you are right, and we are glad
(Continued on page 5.)
BILL
Senator Marion . Butler's Protest
Against the Loud
Postal Bill.
CREATE A NEWSPAPER TRUST.
It Would Rob the People Along Star
Eoutes of Half the Benefits
of the Postal System.
Would Kxclud Cain's School. '
The deficit caused by enormous
amounts paid to railroad companies
for carrying the mails. The rate
paid the railroads is not only too
high, but they are paid for more
mail than they haul The govern- 5
ment should own its own postal cars
and pay no more for having them
hauled than the express companies
now pay for like service. This would ';.
stop the deficit and turn it into a '
surplus, and would retain to the
people all the benefits they now en
joy from the postal system and en
able thent to secure one cent letter
postage without any increased cost
Senator Butler will offer his substi
tute for the bill and make a minority
report from the senate committee.
From Congressional Record, February 22.
AMENDMENT OF POSTAL LA W8 .f - ,
Mr. Chandler. I ask permission to
make a report, which ought to be made
tonight. . v ,
; The presiding officer. If there be no
objection, the report will be received.
Mr. Chandler. I report from the com
mittee on post offices and post roads
with amendments the bill (H.R. 456G)
to amend the postal laws relating to
second-class mail matter. It is the bill
known as the Loud bill. I submit a
written report, which is brief, and which
I ask, therefore, may be printed in the
Record. The senator from North Car
olina (Mr. Butler) will submit tomorrow
a supplemental report. I also submit
the testimony which accompanies the
report.
Mr. Butler. 1 desire to correct the
statement of the senator from New
Hampshire (Mr. Chandler.)
The Senator from New Hampshire, in
making the report, stated that I would
file a supplementary report. I wish to
correct that statement (I am sure it
was an oversight on the part of the Sen
ator from New Hampshire) by saying
that I will file a minority report, fori
do not concur at all in the report of the
committee and am opposed to the re
port made.
Mr. Chandler. I did not say what kind
of a report it would be.
Mr. Butler. I want to have it under
stood distinctly that it is a minority re
port and in opposition to the bill.
Mr. President. I would not detain the
senate now, at this late hour, were it
not that this majority report has come
up from the post office committee, of
which I am a member. I am opposed to
this bill. I do not concur in the report
made by a majority of the committee.
I am preparing a minority report. If
that report were ready and could go in
to the Record on the same day with the
majority report, I would be content to
wait till this bill should be taken up for
action. The minority report will not be
ready before tomorrow. I cannot allow
the majority report to go into the Rec
ord today without stating briefly some
of my objections to this mischievous
measure.
The real purposes of this measure do
not appoar on its face. Its real purposes,
or at least its effects if it should become
a law, are far-reaching and dangerous.
The gold ring, the monopolies and trusts
already control theavenuesand agencies.
They filter and control the news that
appears in the daily press each morning.
They now seek through this bill to close
up as far as possible the only other
avenue left free and open. This bill is
seeking to run the gauntlet of congress
under false pretenses.
The friends of this bill, known as the
Loud postal bill, come to congress under
the guise of reform and economy and
ask you to pass a bill. A bill that will
do what? A bill that will cut out of the
mails a large part of the literature that
the people today receive, desire to re
ceive, through Hie mails at second-class
rates. A bill to do what? A bill to de
prive the people who live along the star
routes of one-half of the privileges which
they today receive from the postal sys
tem of this country; a bill intended if
not intended,1 that would be the result-
to cut out from the mails all standard
works now published in cheap form with
paper covers; that is, the works of
Dickens, Scott, Hawthorn, Washington
Irving.tand hundreds of others which
are now being published in cheap form
and are going through the mails at sec
ond-class rates. liven Webster's nn,
abridged dictionary today goes to peo-
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pie oui iu me country in cneap form
with paper cover.
Coin's Financial School and books of
that kind have gone through the mails
to possibly every post office in America,
and more are going. This bill cuts all
these books out of the mails. Is that
the purpose of those who favor this bill?
The man who lives in a city can buy
them at a news stand. The man who
lives in the country and who relies on
the postal system to bring him in touch
with civilization is dependent upon the
mails to give him the benefits that the
man who lives in a city or who rides fre
quently upon a train is not se dependent
upon. The professed reason for this bill
is reform and economy, but those who
come and ask you to pass it in the inter
est of economy are those who vote for
more subsidies, those who vote to take
IMAMS
more millions out of the treasury of the
government than any other class of men
in the senate and in the house. And yet
in the name of reform and in the name
of economy, they eorue here and ask you
to pass a bill that robs the people of
half the benefits they today get from the
postal system.
Mr. President, the bill would be in
famous in its results if it should pass.
If the people of this country knew what
is in the bill, there would be such indig
nation from ocean to ocean as has not
been sen for twenty years. The Ameri
can people will not tolerate such a meas
ure when they kuow what is in it and
what will be its results.
I will present a minority report to
morrow, and if those who profess to
want reform mean reform in the inter
ests of the general public, if those who
profess to want to stop the deficit in tho
postoftice department mean that in good
faith; I can point them to a way to ac
complish that result. I can show how
the postoftice department can save from
$10,000,000 to $12,000,000 a year,
and the deficit now is but $8,000,000.
You can save $12,000,000 a year by
simply paying the railroads for the mail
actually hauled and at the contract
price, and no more. The government
pays the railroads for a great deal more
weight than the roads really haul. It is
the fault of the government that this is
done. Besides, the contract price is en
tirely too high. During the last twenty
years freight rates have been reduced
about 40 per cent, yet the government
is now paying the same rates that it did
twenty years ago. Why do not those
who are so much concerned abont the
deficit iu the postoffice department turn
their attention to these big leakages
and gros abuses? Let those who pro
fess to favor ecouomy and reform cor
rect these abuses. '."
Mr. President, we today not only
pay the railroads nearly $30,000,000 a
year to haul the mails, but we also pay
them rent for the cars in which the mail
is carried. Why pay rent for cars when
we pay freight charges? Besides, the
rent we pay for cars each year would
pay for the cars in a year or two. Why
not own our cars and pay the railroads
a fair price to haul them? These are the
reforms needed. They will stop the de
ficit and not rob the people of any of
the blessings they now enjoy from the
postal system. These changes would
result in such economy that the post
office department would have a surplus
instead of a deficit ."' ' "
. Bat, Mr. President, if the people must
be robbed of one of the greatest benefits
Lot-Ike; postal system to etop a small de-
neitol $M,OOO,O0C, then I say, let tne
deficit stand. There is no way that the
money could be expended that means so
much for. the benefit of the general
public.
Think of it $32,000,000 paid to the
railroads each year for what mail they
carry, while the whole mail star-route
system of the country costs only a little
over $5,000,000 a year.
Mr. President, enough can be saved on
what is paid the railroads in two years
to buy every telegraph line in the coun
try and establish a postal telegraph in
connection with the postoffice system.
If you want reform, if you want econ
omy, if you want to make both ends
meet and at the same time benefit the
public, that is the way to do it. The
facts are too plain and positive to be
denied or even questioned. A postal
telegraph would mean that all the ave
nues and agencies of information would
be open and free to all alike.
Mr. President, that bill and I address
my remarks now to the republican side
of the senate will close down many en
terprises, like the republicans say a re
form bill will. The bill will close down
prosperous book firms. It will close
down legitimate enterprises that are to
day in operation. It will throw people
out of employment. It will put the boos
business in the hands of a smaller num
ber than those who are now in it. How
can any man who says be opposes
the reduction of the tariff because it
throws labor out of employment favor
this bill unless he can show better
reasons for its passage than are in it?
Mr. President, it goes further than
that. This bill is hard upon the country
weekly newspapers. The bill robs the
editor of the countrv newspaper of his
only chance today of adveitising his
paper and increasing his circulation. It
robs the man who wants to start a
paper, who has little means, of the only
chance to build up his paper and com
pete with papers that are already estab
lished and have plenty of money behind
them. The bill robs them of the sample
copy privilege, which today is the main
resource that the country editor has to
advertise his paper and extend his circu
lation. 1 dare say that if the bill passes,
your newspaper, the Silver Knight (turn
ing to Senator Stewart) will be crippled.
You have built up your circulation chiefly
by sending out sample copies. The
profits from your paper would hot justi
fy you in putting & man on the road, to
pay railroad fare and hotel bills to get
subscribers for your paper. You must
depend upon sample copies largely.
Mr. President, the bill will create a
newspaper trust, as well as rob the peo
ple of half the benefits today that they
get from the postal system.
' California.
Do you want to own an irrigated farm
in Southern California. I have more
fruit and alfalfa land tbaa I can take
care of, will sell in tracts to suit. Price
of land per acre $25.00 to $35.00 on
easy terms, title perfect. For further
information, address,
L. C. Tilghman,
43 Llanos, Los Angeles county, Cal.
Small Prices for Vehicles and Harness-
The Elkhart Carriage and Harness
Manufacturing Co. Elkhart, Ind., have
for 24 years been selling their goods di
rect to consumers at factory prices.
Horse owners should send for large, free
catalogue that will save them mooey.
THE
Reform
press
Two Meetings Held, One at Kansas
City and the Other at
Memphis.
NEW ASSOCIATION FORMED,
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Frank Bur kit t President of Memphis
End J. B. Sovereign of the
Kansas City End.
At. Ksnwu City,
About forty editors were , present.
bight states and two territories were
represented. Following were' the dele.
gates present from Nebraska: Warwick
Saunders, Columbus Argus; George L.
Brown, Hastings Jourdal; J. B. Barry,
Greeley Citizen; F. 8. Mickey, Hebron
Champion; J. A. Edgerton, Lincoln, In
dependent; J. F. Albin, York Democrat;
J, W. Tanner, Fullerton Post; J. W,
Edgerton of Grand Island and J. V,
Wolfe of Lineoln,
Meeting was called to order by A. Ro-
zele, secretary of the national reform
press association. Leo Vincent of Okla
homa was elected temporary chairman
and M. V. Carroll of Missouri temporary
secretary. ",Jv
Many of the members wished to pro
ceed at once to form a permanent or
ganization. This was opposed by a
majority of the members, they desiring
to hear from Memphis before organizing.
The entire Nebraska delegation fought
for delay. Debate on this proposition
occupied the entire day. At night the
members were the guests of the Kansas
City Times at the Ninth Street theatre.
That night telegrams went back and
forth between the two meetings.but with
no very definite results.
Tuesday morning a committee of three
was appointed to formally communi
cate with the Memphis meeting. ;
-Grand Master Workman Sovereign of
the Knights of Labor, Congressman
Gunn of Idaho, and J. A. Edgerton of
this state Were appointed. .They sent
the following dispatch: J
"Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 28. The pop
ulist editors assembled at Kansas City
send a kindly greeting to their brethren
Assembled at Memphis. We are not in
favor of creating a rival organization,
but are anxious to promote and preserve
peace and harmony in our ranks. We
favor a continuance of the policy undr
which our party has made such rad
arrirlpa A phnnira of toctipa mrh Auriu
been outlined by some of our promi nt
members would, in
OUr judgment be
ruinous, and would force the organ Ja-
tion of a rival- press association, b led
discord iu our ranks, and might posi ply
lead to the destruction of the peo jo's
party.: ' I '
"For the welfare of the cause we ive
at heart, let us contrive to pursue the
program laid down at St. Louis until the
same is changed by national conven' Jon.
"What will be your test of meiier
ship , . . 1
"Will members who join theorgnt
tion in Memphis be required to sevj
connection and co-operation witj
silver forces in opposition to the i
adopted by our national convent! h iu
St. Louis?
Does your proposition to em
your officers to expel any member
advocating the cause of any otner
mean that any member is to be exl
for advocating co-operation with
free-silver forces?
"In conclusion we desire to repeat
we desire unity, we desire to joiui
you so that there might not be two
ring organizations; but it must be I
a basis alike honorable to populist
all sections; on a basis of loyalty
the principles of the people's party;
basis of support, and not antagol
to the people s party national org;
tion.
"J. R. Sovereigj
"James Gunn,
"J. A. Edoebtoj
"Committei
The reply to this, received at
four o'clock in the afternoon, was al
lows:
"I'o Messrs. sovereign, Uunn ana
gerton.
"Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 23. Gi
men: The National Reform Press i
30-
3r
are ciation, now in session in this city,
dially reciprocates your expressed
to 'promote and preserve peace and
ar-
mony among all genuine populist
.to
ted
the end that we may present a
front to the common enemy. To a
in
this much desired result we know ni
rale
or guide for our action other th
the
constitution of this association,
sich
reads as follows:
I
Three articles of the constitutio
.fere
here quoted relative to membershi
and
the telegram was signed by all tl
Offir
cers of the association.
Ibis was so plainly an evasio
ihat
another telegram was sent, sig
dby
tnairman Vincent, asKing for of
trect
reply to a direct question. Thi
also
was met by evasion.
A permanent association wai
then
effected. It was opposed by sev
3.1 on
the ground that it would widen the
each
already formed. Among those '
opposed it were J. V. Wolfe, F. S
o so
Pck
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ey and J. A. Edgerton of this sti:
was finally decided to organize, lif
ever,
with the understanding that eves
thing
possible would be done to unite t
associations.
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The name of the United Reform
Press
low.
Association was Adopted. The
ing officers were elected.
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President J. R. Sovereign, grand
master of the Knights of Labor and
editor of the Journal of that order.
Vice-President J. M.Gass,Des Moines,
Iowa, Farmers' Tribune.
Secretary-Treasurer Warwick, Sun
ders, Columbus, Neb., Argus.
Executive committee Frank Crichton,
Clanton, Ala., Banner; M. V. Carrol L
Lamar, Mo,, Industrial Leader; G. Al
Griffos, Pond Creek. Ok.. News: A. C.
Talley, Greenfield, Mo., Southwest News;
Congressman-elect James Gunn, Boise,
Idaho, editor Boise Sentinel.
The following resolutions were adopt-'
ed:
"In organizing this association we de- .
plore any tendency to divide into fac
tional differences the forces arrayed
against plutocratic elements, but we go
still further and state it as a part of the
organic law of the association to recog
nize the absolute necessity of forbear
ance, toleration and liberality in our
words and actions with all natural
friends, to the end that we may be united
for all practical intents and purposes.
"While we favor principle above party,
yet we, as a press association, counsel
the preservation of the peoples party or
ganization, and at the same time favor
a co-operation with other friendly bodies,'
locally or otherwise, to the end that the
peoples party organization may be more
beneficial. We hold ourselves in readi
ness to affiliate and consolidate with the
National Reform Press assoeia tion when
ever that association shows a disposi
tion to indule that spirit of toleration
and liberality which we accord them,
and to this end we recommend that the
executive committee of this body place
itself in communication with the consti
tuted authorities of the National Re
form association, and to take such other
steps from tinw to time as may be neces
sary to accomplish '.he desired end, sub
ject to written approval of the major-1
ity of the members ot this association.
"We hold it is not the function of a
press association as a body to go into
the business of either deposing the regu
larly constituted political authorities or
reorganization of the party."
A resolution was also adopted prais
ing the national executive officers ot the
party for their conduct of the last cam
paign. It was decided to hold the next meet
ing of the association at Omaha, Ne
braska, Feb , 22, 1808.
After the adjournment the editors vera
the guests at a banquet of the Board of
Trade.
t ' ' At Memphis.
There were abont 150 editors present
here. President Van der Voort delivered
an annual address in which be declared ' .
that he would not be a candidate for re-
election, that he was going to move to ;
Texas and begin over again. Among '
other things he demanded the : resigna
tion of the national chairman and secre
tary of the party and in case they did
not resign he demanded that they be de
posed. . -Tfcelfrw MjL"wre elected for
iuDuutg year; - i.-.. am
"Frank Rnrkitt. nnwifent 1C5W-V:
(ftnffirm Prfwanunoiatinn- V W ft IW
viee-president; J. A. Parker, recording
secretary treasurer; John H. Boyd, cor
responding secretary; James K. Ferrlse,
P. J. Dixon, E. S. Peters, N. H Motsin
ger and G. E. Keatler, executive board.
The resolutions adopted were radical,
but no notice was made of Van der
Voort's demand or of Washburn's plan.
Both were allowed to sleep in ilenee.
A committee was appointed to white
wash Van der Voort as no one appeared
against him.
It was resolved hereafter to hold meet
ings iu May instead of February. Asso
ciation then adjourned.
A UANKRUP1 CY BILL.
Dudley Smith of Douglas County Urges
one. 1
The following resolutions were unani
mously adopted by the house of repre
sentatives on Saturday of last week urg
ing the passage of a bankruptcy bill in .
congress.
A resolution. Whereas, It is the sense
of this house that there exists urgent
need of bankruptcy legislation and
Whereas suh a bill relating to bank
ruptcy is now before congress, there
fore be it:-- 'yr
Resolved, that our Senators, Allen and
Thurston be requested to support the '
passage of such a measure before the
present congress adjourns and further
be it
Resolved, that the t " ,'k be instructed
to send copies ot these resolutions to
Senators Allen and Thurston.
Smith, of Douglas.
We are certainly in need of a measure
of this sort, as many of our . best busi
ness men have been thrown out of busi
ness owing to failures brought about by
conditions over which theyhad nocontroL
The bankruptcy bill would relieve them
from deficiency claims and enable them
to again start in business. There is ne
reason why a man once failing in busi
ness should be prohibited from ever
again establishing or reopening in some
profitable enterprise simply because he
had been unfortunate in a previous ad
venture. THE FARMER'S ALLIANCE.
National Council Condemns the Infam
ous Loud Bill. i
The supreme council of the farmer's al
liance completed its labors at Washing
ton, D. C, February 28. Resolutions
condemning the Loud bill and the arbi
tration treaty were passed. Officers for
the ensuing year were elected nS follows:
President, Mann Page of Virginia; vice
president. & Vincent of Indiana; secre-:
tary-treaeurer, V. P. Bricker of Penn
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