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S6' 3 i o- hki 0-0 - 'J-..T!S.'. VOL. IV. LINCOLN, NEB., THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1892. NO. 11. WEAVER S COR 11T He Says Harrison is Out of the Eace A Solid West and a Solid Sonth Tor the People's Party. He Will Leave at Once for the South V. O. Stricter Talks of the Western Trip. General Weaver Interviewed. On Tuesday, August 221, Gene.raL Weaver arrived in Des Moines after his extended trip through the west. Speaking of his plans for the political campaign and of the outlook as ho views it, General Weaver said : "I shall proceed south, leaving this even ing to deliver an address before the state alliance at Moberly, Mo., and go from thera to Arkansas and remain until September 3d. Mrs. Weaver and Mrs. Lease will then join mo and we will proceed further south through Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, the Carolinas and Virginias, reserving the last twenty -five days of the campaign for Iowa and the northwest. The outlook is all that could be desired. It is daily becoming manifest that the industrial people in fivery section of the country have re solved to quit voting for the trusts, the pools, the corporations and the mony kings of Europe and America. The south is completely emancipated and will vote solidly for the people's party. You may count Colorado, Wyoming. Montana, Oregan, Nevada, Washington and California as carried by the peo ple's party. The republican party is practically out of this fight, so far as electing their national ticket is con cerned. This has become manifest during the last thirty days. They will have to regain the nine states which they lost in 1890, and in addition hold the group of states west of the Missouri river. It is impossible for them to do cither, and every sensible man knows that they are beaten now. "The people's party is not like the l'epubliean party, confined to the north ern states for its electorial vote3. Ojr organization is national. It is as broad as the flag and as sound as the nation's heart. We will proceed south and con test every southern state with the nom inees of the Chicago convention with a better prospect of carrying all of them than the democrats have of carrying any one of tnem. We are in this light to win and our column is in full dash." V. O. Strickler, who accompanied General Weaver on his tour, makes some interesting statements in an in terview published in the World-Herald. He says the change of sentiment in favor of the people's party has been remarkable, and especially in the cities. In many parts of Colorado the vote for the people's ticket will bo almost unan imous.- In Nevada he thinks only one elf ctonal ticket will bo put up and tho people will make it unanimous for Weaver and Field. Speak!ng of the latter part of the trip about which tho press has been al most silent, Mr. Strickler says: "We held rousing meetings at Los Angelrs, Faesno, Oakland, Sacramen to and San Francisco. The action of tho San BVancisco trades unions in passing a resolution pledging them selves to support the people's party candidates has had a tremendous lntlu enco in our favor in all the cities of the coast. 'We then went north, taking in Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Spokane, Helena and Butte. The recent strikes in the Coeur d'Alene country has chrys talized sentiment in our favor in that region. Tho laboring classes are with us unanimously in Montana. " Our can didato for attorney general there is Miss Eva Knowles. She went up to a mining camp near Helena to speak and had an audience of .250 voters the whole population or the camp wheras her republican competitor a itv evenings before at the same place could not get enough men together to speak to. Mrs. L:ase made such a favorable impression at Butte that the labor organizations otfered her $500 and expenses to return and deliver the address oa Labor day. She accepted. "We were greeted everywhere with brass bands, flowers, fruit and shouts, and the trip was a revelation to me." Van Wyck "Wants Orounse to Cross Swords With Him on the Stump. Tho Chairman of tho independent state committee received the following letter on Friday, Aug. 19: Wyoming, Neb. Aug. 18, 1892. To the Independent State Committee: Gentlemen In order that the claims of tho independent party, and issues between the independent and the republican parties may bo brought to the test of reason so that truth may bo confirmed and error exposed, Therefore: I request jou at once to confer with or write to tho committee of tho re publican party, inviting them to ar range for a joint discussion of the questions at issue between the two parties by Hon. Lorenzo Crounse, their candidate for governor, and your can didate for the same ottice. Respectfully yours, C. II. Van Wyck. Actinfr unon this rpntiost. the com mittee at onco issued a challenge to the republican atata enmmittpf " for thirty joint meetings between General Van Wyck atd Mr. Crounse. No answer has yet been received. RHUS PEOPLE An Immenso Crowd Listen to Dech and Van Wyck at Aurora on Saturday Great Enthusiasm The Banner Meeting at Osceola Nearly 5,000 People Hear Van Wyck and Green at York on Saturday. Hamilton County All Right, . Aurora, Neb., Aug. 22, 1892. Day before yesterday wa a field-day (a Weaver and Field day), for tho inde pendent party of this county. Tho republican party cot their congress- matt tho night before our rally and hold a non-partisan reception, asking every body to attend. They got out about 150 people. The next morning wagons and car riages began to roll into town from all directions and though work was push ing and the roads dusty, tho town was filled as never before, even at the time of tho land-slide two years ago. The business men of tho town evi dently feel much. more friendly to the movement, as they decorated their places of business, and many of them attended with their wives. Van Wyck rnd Dech were tho speak ers and each was in his happiest vein. The crowd cheered and applauded vig orously, although it was so lirge that those on the outer edge did not know what they were cheering about until afterwards. Hamilton county would havo been p'cascd and proud if her choice could have been the congressional nominee, but Mr. Dech was received with tho greatest enthusiasm, and tho Polk county gathering is so far tho enly ono in tho state that could compare with that of day b3ro.re yesterday for attendance. Tho displays were very fine. All wondered where so many largo and beautiful flags camo from, and banners with qnaint and laughable devices could be seen on all fides. Tho Phillips delegation had a banner with a picture of a Union and Confederate soldier burying a hatchet and a blocdy shirt. There was a fine crayon drawing of a railroad bridge over the gulf of ruin on which a train of laborers, farmers, mer- chunts and miner was being drawn by an enaino named Weaver. Harrison and Cleveland were both chopping at the bridge, but Alabama had lasoed Cleveland and the noose cast by Ne braska was just dropping over the head of Harrison. Carnegie's pets, a mobof Chinese and Italians, and "Carnagie's Protectors," a lot of tho worst looking ruffians ono could imagine, attracted a good deal of attention. A representation of the tor ture of lams stirred up tho old party Ites, and from the way they flinched it was easy to seo that they were ashamed. ' A cart with a poor hor30 covered with chattel mortgages had a shark just A ready to take in tho farmer cccu pants. A see-saw placed on the-, backs of a farmer and laborer bore , Harrison and Cleveland with their high and low tar iff banners and their twcedlodoo and tweedledum platforms. A carriago of calamity makers and a load of calamity howlers proclaimed tho increase of tho debts of the county and state and ,the decreaso of assessed valuation in the -former. We omit to mention many of tho bast ones from lack of spaco and time,. but it is sufficient to say that no such display ever appeared on our streets. The re publican and democratic papers got together and will unite to minify. tho . meeting, and agrep pa the number of teams in the parade, but they know they are not truthful and what is bet ter tho crowd was so largo that tho people of tho county will all know it, too. Their lies will deceive no one here, and unless they aro effective abroad, will recoil upon their own heads. The republican paper opened a Mc Keighan campaign against Dech this week but he did not answer it in kind. Indications are that this county will come up with a larger independent ma jority than ever before. THE BANNER MEETING. Tho srreatest meeting of the vpar n far, occ urred at Osceola, Polk county, August itn. xno people camo with wagons and teams in processions miles in lencrth. Flacs in ereat profusion and banners with all sorts of davira ' and mottoes were to bo soon on every hand. A careful estimate daces tli crowd at from 8,000 to 10,000. The fairground was filled to overflowing. Music was furnished by two brass bands and an excellent glee club. Professor Koark, tho great Oregon blackboard orator, spoko first, enter taining and instructing tho people in his inimitable fashion, until Hon. W. H. Dfch arrived. Mr. Dech was re ceived with a perfect storm of applause. ue spoK;e lor about one hour in his most eloquent strain. In the eveninc Mr. Dech snoWo to a large crowd in the court house. Polk county has placed herso!f at the head of the procession, and proposes to stay more. , GREAT MEETING AT YORK. A crowd that is estimated at r. 000 assembled at York, on Saturday the 30th. General Van Wvnk annl i diately after dinner, as ho had to tako the train for Aurora, where ha snnk a later in tho dav. The nnonlfl wem greatly pleased with the ' general's speech and York county will roll up a big majority for him'. - : W. L. Green followed Van Wrnk anil of those present pronounce his speech the finest thev ever heard. Tn t.h evening M. V. Roark sooke to crowd in the city. r j