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' " . " - " ' .-a ' - f VOL. IV. LINCOLN, NEB., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER J, 1892. NO. 12. OVER E ITi Xolb Claims a Large Majority in Ala bamaA Contest Probable Ohio State Conven" tion. Startling Situation at Homestead Riots and Accidents Noith Carolina Populists. Kolb Writes a Letter. IN ALABAMA. The political situation in Alabama is very interesting. The c'aim . of ten thousand majority for Jones is no!; ac ceded to by the Kolb people who boldly assert that their candidate received a large majority. The following letter from Ko'b himself which was read in the Ohio people's party convention the Other day, shows the stand he takes: Ala., Aug. 13, 1892. Mr. John W. Hall, Editor of In dustrial UDion, Columbus, Ohio. My Dear Sir: I have been sbsent from the city for several days, find just returned this morning and found your favor of the 6th inst awaiting me. Glad our friends in the north and west feel such a deep inferest in our late election. I have had many letters from all sections of the country. There is no doubt as to my election by over 45,000 majority, and over 25,000 majority of the white vote alone. I re ceived a large majority of both white and colored votes. The news sent over the wires was a lie. Yet Gov. Jones is claiming his election by about 10,000 majority, but his claim is based solely on fraudulent vots in our fourteen black counties. They stuffed the ballots in these counties and gave Jones over 25,000 majority in them, when in fact by an honest count I carried them by over 20,000 majority. His friends know it and admit it, and now say that he can't afford to accept the office. The people will not submit to the outrage. They are mad and red hot. I am elected and intend to be governor. Very truly yours, P. KOLB. The Alliance Herald, the Alliance organ of Alabama, publishes what the Kolb people claim is a true statement of the vote cast showing that Kolb car ried fifty-seven counties in wh'ch he received majorities aggregating 51,012, and Jones carried nine counties with majorities aggregating 3,184. Tnis would give Kolb a clear majority of nearly 48,000. Public opinion in the state is so strongly with the Kolb people that Jones has been forced to declare in favor of a contest, and that he does not want the office unless he is fairly elected. Regarding the matter of a contest, the situation is peculiar. The constitu tion says that contes s for ttate offices shall be determined by both houses of the Genrtl Ass4 mbly "in such a man ner as may be prescribed by law." But the legislature has never passed any law prescribing any manner. Jones proposes that as soon a the next legislature meets, a law shall be passed preecribing the method of con tests. But Kolb and his friends demand that Jones, who is the present gov ernor, shall call a special sessioa of the present legislature, to enact such a law. They claim that Jones' plan will not provide for the present case Kolb has written an open letter to Jones de manding the special session. Meanwhile arrangements have been made for a joint convention of the Kolbites and the straight people's party for a joint convention at Birmingham, September 15, to nomi nate a Weaver and Fields electoral ticket, and a full set of congressional candidates. The condition at homestead. Special correspondents for reform papers paint a picture of the situation Homestead that is startling. The Carnegie company is trying to run tie mills with a force of non uni m men, manv of whom are entirely unskilled There are in fact only a few skit'ed workmen in the mills. I he works are surrounded and carefully rguarded to prevent any news of the real situation getting out, and a'so to prevent the hands from deserting". It is said that the inexperience of .the men has re su'ted in anumber of horrible accidents, the ruin of a vast amount of steel and much machinery: that a number of riots have occurred within tha mills; that the managers have b?en obliged to open saloons where the mf n can pet beer something never 'allowed before: and that the attempt to run the mills is a failure and a source ol immense loss to the company. There is doabtless much truth in these reports, but how much it is im possible to siy. Samuel Gompers, the head of the Federation of Labor, de clares the attempt to Jrun the mills a failure, and that the strikers will yet win. . IN NORTH CAROLINA. The People's party held the greatest convention ever held in the "Old North State" at Raleigh, August 16. Seventy-two counties were represented by 495 delegates. Marion Butler, president of the state alliance, was chosen chairman, and J. W. Denmark, of the Progressive Farmer, secretary. A full ticket was nominated, with Dr. W. P. Exum, of Wayne county, at its head for governor. He i3 a physician, also a successful farmer. He is an ex confederate soldier, and a very popular man. Tne other men on the ticket are strong and valuable men. The Omaha platform wa3 endorsed, and a ringing platform adopted. The elecion of the ticket is confidently pre dicted by the alliance papers of the state. So great is the danger to dem ocracy tbat Adlai Stevenson has been calltd to the s'ato to make five speeches, beginning September oth. in onio. The Ohio People's Party convention m?t at Massillion, August 17th. About 350 delegates were present. Dr.H. F. Barnes, editor cf the Plow and Ham mer, was made temporay chairman, and Hugh Cavanaugh, of Cincinnati, the great Knights of Labor leader, was chosen permanent chairman. The fol lowing ticket was named: Secretary of State Solon C. Thayer, Stark county., Judges Supreme Court E. D. Stark, Cuyahoga county; D. J. Payne, Wash ington county. Clerk Supreme Court W. R. Vai'es, Hamilton county. Member Board of Public Works Ja'ues Houser, Summit county. The Omaha platform wa endorsed and a larjre numoer of excellent resolu tions adopted. Dr. Barnes was made chairman and Caas. R. Marton of To ledo secretary of the state committee. A v!g rous campaign will be made. IN ARKANSAS. Friday evening, August 20th, General Weaver spoke to an immense audience at Little Rock, and great enthusiasm manifested. He will speak in that stite until September 3d. when he goes to Texas. General Fields is also in Arkansas, and is making a successful campaign. There is a fair show for success in November. MCKINLEY'S MODESTY. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ' The Philadelphia Times announces that Lieut. Col. Streator's term of ser vice has just expired and that the offi cers of his regiment will unanimously re elect him, to show their emphatic ap proval of his treatment of lams. If they do, that regiment will do well to re main always in Pennsylvania, -where the reign of plutocracy sanctions and upholds the infliction of tortures from which eVen chattel slaves were protect ed by the laws of every old slave State in this Union. A regiment so officered would deserve to be hissed out of en campments of regiments from other States officered by gentlemen. No Pinkcrton gang should be permitted to sneak into any encampment disguised as citizen soldiers. If what Streator did was not in obedience to law. he dis graced himself and his uniform. If it was in accordance with the law of Pennsylvania, then her militia service is a disgrace to the State, and with aU her wealth that State is a disgrace f iue union. Ensllhh as She I Wi ll. In a hotel on the top of the Rigi, the following announcement gives great satisfaction: - Misters the ven erable voyagers are advertised that when the sun him rLe a horn will be blowed." That announcement suffi ciently prepares the visitor for the following entry in the wine list: "In this hotel the wine leaves the traveler nothing to hope for." The Great Apostle of Protection Shrewdly Keeps Quiet in Colorado. Uocky Mountain News, Denver, Colo. Silver men are still laughing over,Bill McKinley's visit to Denver. The re doubtable champion went about through the State with the modesty of a sweet girl graduate. He didn't even like it when the band of the Seventh United States cavalry, which happened to be down at the templar reception tent, tooted a melodious salute as he pulled out for Colorado Springs. There wag no reception, no speech-making, no "hail to the chief business. : The foro roost man in the llepublican party, the tian who is the personification of that party, paid a visit to Colorado upon the eve of a presidential e!ectiont yet no notice was publicly taken of his visit by the partjr managers, and no mention -of . it would have appeared in the papers had not the News discovered the identity of the gentleman secreted within the recesses of the palace car "Nemaha." The whole affair is unprecedented in the history of the Kepublican party of this State and is guarded as a confession by the Harrison end of the goldbug com bine that it would not be safe to call a mass meeting in Colorado even when fo distinguished a gentleman as Mr. McKinley could be presented to it. Politicians of every strine admit that. n other color could be placed upon the erronious proceedings. It even stated, though with what amount of truth of course cannot be learned, that McKinley himself came here prepared to talk, if r.oc to a mass meeting at least to a select crowd at a dinner or something of that sort but the Harrisonian tailers here fell upon him and beseeched him to do nothing of the kind lest ho come to grief at the hands of the people like the Republican and its owner did at the last llepublican State Convention. A rebuff of that character could not be risked and therefore it was that McKinley, who Is above all else a public man and had been stumping Nebraska, came to Colorado and kept his mouth shut as tightly as a nickel in the slot machine when a.tin tobacco tag is dropped into it. , Governor McKinley arrived last Sun day, morning, drove around the city, skipped down to Colorado Springs, re turned the same night, slept in his car and left the next morning for Ohio, where, lie assured a News reporter : 'We haven't commenced on polities yet.' He needn't have been in such a hurry, it would seem. "The Kepublican State Convention has been set away back in September this year. Four years ago it was a month earlier, and the boys would have l'ked it even before that, so they could have longer to shout. Now they want to postpone the day as long as possible so as to stiffen up their backbones. The same cause which led McKinley to run away so precipitately when he found he wasn't wanted is also compelling the Jiarnsonian conorts to remain inhidirf as long as tney can,
