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The Commoner. JULT 1, MM.' II Democratic Conventions LOUISIANA. An Associated press dispatch, un der date of New Orleans, June 20, says: Louisiana democrats held an enthusi astic convention at Baton Rouge to night and instructed for Judge Allbn B. Parker by unanimous vote. The delegates at large are Governor New ton C. Blauchard, 13. D. Kruttschnitt, chairman of the state central com mittee; S. D. McEnery and M. J. Foster. TEXAS. Under date of San Antonia, Tex., June 22, the Associated press says: The state democratic convention fin ished its business today. One of the strongest delegations ever elected in this state was chosen and instructed to vote for Judge Parker and to vote as a unit on all questions. A feeling of party unanimity and earnestness of purpose characterized the conven tion throughout. The platform adopted was short, embracing merely an enunciation of democratic funda mental principles. There was vigor ous and successful opposition to a mi nority report, proposing a plank de claring against asset currency and the control of money by national banks. On recommitment, the platform was made to contain the words: "We are opposed to mint currency and the con trol of the volume of money by the banking power." The platform in addition declares faith in; and adherenco to the funda mental principles taught by Jeffer son; repudiates and denounces the al leged usurpation of powers of con gress by Roosevelt and his violation of international law; commends such course as may tend toward peace and against war; condemns militarism, de nounces trusts and demands enforce ment of all laws against them; de nounces1 tho Langley act; favors' a tar iff for revenue and favors economical expenditure of public money. A motion that the delegates to St. Louis be instructed to place Senator Bailey in nomination for vice presi dent was ruled out of order. Senators Culberson and Bailey, Judge Regan, Hon. James B. Wells and Hon. T. D. Cobbs of San Antonio, Judge Howard Templeton of Sulphur Springs, Clarence Ousley of Fort Worth and ex-Congressman Thomas Ball were elected delegates at large with half a vote each. MINNESOTA. The Minnesota democratic conven tion met at Duluth, Minn., June 22. Concerning the convention the Asso ciated press says: The Hearst forces captured the temporary organization of the state democratic convention for This Testimony 17111 sorely Interest many, readers of this paper. James G Gray, Gibson, Mo., writes about Drake's Palmetto Wine as follows: I live in the Missouri Swamps In Dunklin County and have been sick with Malarial fever ana for fifteen months a walking skeleton. One bottle of Drake's Palmetto Wine has done mo more, eood than all tho medicine I have taken in that fif teen months. I am buying two more bottles to stay cured. Drake's Palmetto Wine is tho best medicine and fconio for Malaria, Kidney and Liver ailments I over used or heard of. I feel well now after using one bottle. A. A. Peldlng, Knoivillo. Tenn., writes: I had a bad case of sour Stomach and Indigestion. I could eat so little that I was "falling to bones" and could not sleep nor attend to my business, i used the trial bottlo and two large seventy-five cent bottles and can truthfully say I am entirely ??. I have advised many to write for a free trial bottle. J W. Moore, Montlcello.Mlnn., makes tho fol lowing statement about himself and a.neiRh ?5F ?osaysJ Four bottles of Drake's Palmetto wine has cured me of catarrh of Bladder and ir ia"y trouble. X suffered ten years and spent nunareds of dollars with best doctors and spe cialists without benefit. Drake's Palmetto w ine has mado me a well man. A young woman nerewas given up to die by a Minneapolis spe 51al.1t and ho and our local doctor said they coma do no more lor her She has been taking 5, a. Palmetto Wine one week and is rapidly recovering. rtMho "rafco Formula Company, Drake Bldg., feSiS? IiLiTrUI S8nd a trial bottle of Drake's f vS?tto Wme f ree and Prepaid to any reader Sml Is ww- A Jter or postal card i your pnjr expenw to eet this fre bottle. - the election of delegates to tho na-1 tlonal convention today, and it was expected that they would bo strong enough to instruct the delegation for their candidate. But at 11 o'clock to night the anti-Hearst forces aro put ting up a very vigorous fight, and tho chances appear to be about oven. The anti-Hearst element is believed to fav or tho candidacy of Judge Parker of New York, but have maintained that all they seek is to send an unlnstruct ed delegation to the national conven tion. Tho "antis" aro being led by Congressman John Lind and other men who have in the past boon ardent supporters of William J. Bryan. The leaders of tho Hearst forces are also strong Bryan supporters. The convention was called to order at 11 o'clock this morning, but pur suant to an agreement an adjournment was immediately taken until 2:30 in oit!er to await the arrival of the Ram sey county (St. Paul) delegation. The contest between tho opposing elements in 1he convention was precipitated im mediately upon the reassembling of the convention, each side nominating a candidate for temporary chairman. ILe Hearst people named Major J. M. Euv,'ler& of Minneapolis, while C. D. O'Brien of St. Paul was the choice of the anti-Hearst contingent. The roll call showed Bowlers' election by a vote of 457 to 404. After the election of a temporary chairman adjournment was taken until 7:30 tonight, when tho contest was renewed. For a time it looked as though Hearst sentiment would rule in every thing and it doubtless would have done so had it not been for a speech of Congressman John Lind, who turned a crowd of excited delegates who clamored for an instructed dele gation into one which expressed itself when the vote came as opposed to in structing for Hearst or any other man. The anti-Hearst men secured three of the four delegates-at-large and will get an even break on the district dele gates. The delegates-at-large are: John Lind, Minneapolis; L. A. Ros ing, Cannon Falls; H. L. Buck, Wi nona, and C. D. O'Brien of St. Paul. Resolutions declared for a reaf firmation of the Kansas City platform and laud William J. Bryan as the greatest democratic statesman of the day. VERMONT. The Burlington, Vt, correspondent for the Associated press, under date of June 22, says: The democrats of Vermont, at their state convention today, declined to instruct the dele- iio TmHrnml convention to vote for the nomination of Judge Par ker for president, Due just ouiujc ad journment a motion was adopted giv ing expression to the opinion that Judge Parker was the most available candidate. L , , . The delegates were instructed iu u as a unit on all questions, but were not bound outright to vote for the New York man. Four democratic conventions were held in this city today, as follows: One was to select four delegates-at-large to the national democratic con vention; a second was to nominate a state ticket, and the third and fourth were district conventions to chose the district delegates to the national con vwtllon. Before the delegates assem bled the indications were that the only contest would be choice of a fourth delegate at large. Several of the candidates were said fnni Tiwirro Pnriror for the nresl- aency, but the prevailing sentiment was against any instructions. By agreement John D. Senter will suc ceed himself as Vermont member of the national committee for the next four years, thus terminating a contest for the place. The state delegate convention met .o n-nA nhnan Tilllfllin MflV Of St. IJohnabury, B. A. Bullard of this city, C. W. Melcor of Barro and J. F, Burke or west Rutland delegates-at-iarge, and adopted a platform which criti cised tho national administration and favored tho continuanco of tho high license local option law in this state. No reference was mado to presidential candidates. The delegates then, without any for mality, proceeded to name state offi cers as follows: Governor, Ellis noner, Wilmington; lieutenant gov ernor, C. L. McMahon, Stowo; treas urer, A. J. Sibley, Montpelior; secre tary of stato, C. D. Watson, St. Al bans; auditor, J. E. Walsh, Pittford. After thc3o nominations had boen mado the convention was thrown into an uproar by a motion of Mayor J. E. Burke of this city to instruct tho dele gates to tho St. Louis convention for J. B. Parker of Now York. Tho ma yor was barely able to finish. The motion finally was voted down by a largo majority. At tho two district conventions, be sides selecting two delegates to tho national convention from oach dis tiict, F. L. Graves of Colchester and H. B. Howe of St. Johnsbury were nominated for congress from tho First and Second districts respectively. NORTH CAROLINA. An Associated press dispatch, under elate of Greensboro, N. C, Juno 21, says: Democrats of North Carolina today nominated the following ticket: Governor, Robert B. Glenn; lieutenant governor, Francis D. Winston; asso ciated justices of the supremo court, W. A. Hoke and George H. Brown, jr.; state auditor, B. F. Dixon; treasurer, B. R. Lacey; secretary of stato, J. Bryan Grimes; superintendent of edu cation, J. Y. Joyner; commissioner of agriculture, S. L. Patterson. Tho delegates-at-large to the national con vention are Julian S. Carr, Locke Craig, John E. Woodard and E. J, Hale. A resolution was passed In structing the delegates to tho na tional to vote as a unit on all ques tions coming before them, but other wise the delegates will go unin structed. A resolution demanding di vision of the school fund between the races on tho basis of taxation was killed by an overwhelming vote, tho democracy of North Carolina thus placfng itself on record as favoring tho education of the negro and ottering him equal facilities with the white. Deprived Finance The purpose of Depraved Finance and Remedy for Trusts is to show how tho resources and wealth of the United States have in largo measure been corraled and placed under the control of bogus capital stock and mortgage bonds, and charged as- real money to the nation, for which the working pro ducers on our farms and in our indus tries have to find dividends and inter est regularly forever, by increased work and sacrifice, and often by lower wages. Examples of the doings of trust makers are given in detail, showing the amounts of bogus capital created, and how the providing of dividends for It have increased prices for the necessaries of life, and have reduced tho consumption of products at home, and have reduced exports for abroad. The effects of increased prices for commodities, shown in the wholesale prices of the United States treasury to be 58 cents upon the dollar, since 1895, in reducing consumption and in diminishing exports, are shown, and that tho oppression of the people is in proportion to the creation of bogus capital charged as real money, and the book shows from the United States census of 1900 that not only are the American people oppressed by having to provide regular dividends for a capital which never existed, but by providing yearly revenue for this bogus capita they aro creating a A Boon to Farmers' Wives OM Why not save half the standing- lifting wanning? Make your dairy work twlco a3 easy twice as profit , able. Our friends call tho Tubular Cream fioparator tho "Easy Way."1 Try it. Catalog J-228 describes It. The Shirplts Co Chicago, III. P. M. Sharpie WhI CkMlir. fa, bogus capital aristocracy, more nu merous in 1900 than in any other coun try, and more costly than any other non-producing class ovor recorded in history. This class produced mostly by the creation of bogus capital, and tho charging of it as real money, con sumes with unexampled extravagance, and disclaims all work. Owing largely to these conditions, in 1900 71 cents of every dollar of this country's wealth and resources havo been grasped by nine persons in ov 2ry hundred of the population, and since the year 1900 tho creations of bogus capital stock and mortgage bonds upon the industries, railroads and other resources of the country have been so large, that about 20 cents more of every dollar of the country'H wealth have been appropriated by tho same illegitimate and oppressive means. .In other words, during tho last fifty years about 90 cents of every dollar of the resources of this country have been corraled by a few, and the means of doing so have mostly- been tho charging of bogus capital as real money, until there is now in existence In this country about $30,000,000,000 claiming regular yearly charges for Interest and dividends, which are no more legitimate than a charge upon tho moon. This large amount of debt created by the imaginations of stock jugglers as charges upon our coun try's resources, upon the means of production and distribution, as if real money or trading equivalents had been given in exchange. Because of this enormous fictitious debt upon the re sources of their country, the American people obtain the least of trading com modities for a dollar of all countries of the world, although the Industrial worker produces more for the least by means of labor-saving appliances and long hours and high speed than the workers of any other country. The Remedy for Trusts shows that tho United States will never be a tol erable country for all who are not rich and that the republic will never do justice to its people until all tho thousands of millions of bogus capi tal charged as real money Is extin-. guished by a special mandate from the ballot? box 1 4 i i, i -,