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anyway. And this suggests another
matter, namely, that the pending
statehood bill provides that every one
of the judges of the statehood elec
tion and all of the election com
missioners shall be republican, and
that their decisions shall be final. This
is the acme of partisanship.
G. W. T. Conrath, Bowling Green,
Ohio. Enclosed please find check for
$2.00 for my subscription to The Com
moner and the 4th and 5th volumes of
The Commoner Condensed. Before
closing I wan'c to give The Commoner
a plan to not only largely increase its
circulation but its sphere of useful
ness. I suppose it would be re
sumption on my part to point out J;he
gravity of the present situation to The
Commoner, its distinguished editor
and his able official family, but cer
tainly the recent trip and utterances
of our late lamented candidate for the
first office within the gift of a free
people were that his element will
stop at nothing to frustrate the re
forming influences within the party's
lines. Party history records no more
unworthy attempt to scuttle the craft
that refused to be steered by him into
the harbor of the capitalistic class
than our recent candidate has afforded
us. If they can't rule the democratic
party they have resolved to ruin it.
What more successful coup could be
designed than to sectionalize the.
party? His was no plea for Tiarmony;
harmony might spell success for the
democratic party, and thai his friends'
and political associates don't want.
They know that the Parker stripe
can't win as a candidate for the demo
cratic party. They know that a Jeffer
sonian democrat would ruin all their
schemes of robbery, so they scheme to
split the party and thus get a repub
lican president fayorable to their
ideas. To frustrate their plans will
require all devotion and self-sacrifice
that the rank and. file are capable of,
and as a means to that end I submit
the following plan for your considera
tion. Every man knows that wheri
he enters a barber shop 99 chances
out of 100 he has to wait from ten
minutes to two hours to get a chance
to be shaved. You know and I know
that we will pick up any paper, no
matter what, how old, or wtiat its
politics, and will read it to "put in"
the time. Now what I propose is this.
Let us start a "Barber Shop Fund,"
or, better yet, devise some means
by which we can as individuals or as
a body, see that every barber shop
has one or two Commoners every
week for the next two years. If we
can get 20,000 Commoners in barber
shops in the United States they will
be read by close to half a million men
overy week that very likely never
see a Commoner. I would do this by
asking some individual in' eacn town
or district to take up the worK. I
would send out cards for the barber
to sign agreeing that if the paper or
papers are sent to him by mail or
otherwise that he will put them in his
shop as he does other papers for the
benefit and convenience of his cus
tomers. I will be giau to subscribe
and pay for copies for all the shops
in my town that I can get to sign an
agreement to allow the papers in their
shops.
Mary E. Walker, M. D., N. P., Os
wego, N. Y. -All this talk about the
different "republican candidates for
the next presidency" is but a sleeve
laughing, for the one who is planning
I In all imaginary ways to be the same.
Everybody but the blind candidates
can see this, even the unlettered coun
try people.
I can not see a ray of hope for our
country without the help of woman's
suffrage and woman's influence. As
the first woman who talked the same
at Washington, D. C, and who started
going to the poll to vote I have the
deepest interest in the exercise of the
W. S. constitutional duties of the
women of America.
Senator Sumner and Chief Justice'
Chase told me personally that "my
crowning constitutional argument will
open the doors through which all worn
en will yet walk and vote." I do
not assert that Wyoming, Utah, Idaho
and Colorado, that have equal suffrage
through that argument, have all at all
times since the equal exercise of du
ties and rights of woman citizenship
come up, to the highest claims that I
make for women; for some of them
need educating as The Commoner can
educate, and instill the higher prin
ciples and duties of citizenship. Men
who take the Commoner ought to read
it aloud in the presence of women
whether they now vote or not, and
make them understand that their sanc
tioning right principles regarding na
tional affairs is a duty as well as
"raising men voters," if they consider
the same a "duty," as the "writers"
have Joined men in asserting.
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"A Patriot" Tho whole United
States is my country, and I raise my
voice in asserting that the action in
New York city regarding the raising
of tiaohey and fitting out of ships to
unseat President Castro when our na
tion is at peace with his government,
is an offense punishable wfch fine and
imprisonment; and if the laws of the
country are to be respected any more,
why are they not?
You Know N
that, if you haye fainting, smothering, weak
aim hunprry spells; if you have shortness of
hreath when walking or going up stairs; if your
heart is irregular, flutters or palpitates; if you
have pains around the heart, in side and under
shoulders, cannot sleep on left side; have dif
ilculty in hreathing when lying down, that you
are suffering from heart troubles, and that it is
liable at any minute to prove fatal.
Then don't delay. Commence at once to take
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This famous heart and blood tonic will cure
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of hreath. palpitation, smothering spells and
pain around heart. I took falx bottles and was
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JOHN K. TODD. P. M , Untopolts, Ohio.
The flrat bottle will benefit, if not, the druggist
will return your money.
Sam F. Hunt, Swanders, Ohio. In
The Commoner of April 27th I find
an article on National banus contrib
uting to the republican corruption fund
in 1896. Please inform us if Mr.
Arthur T. Sewell of Bath, Me., demo
cratic candidate for vice president on
Bryan ticket in said year, had his Na
tional bank to contribute also, and
oblige by answer in next issue of
Commoner.
(The Commoner is not in a position
to give definite answer to this ques
tion, although it is not probable that
any bank with which Mr. Sewell was
connected contributed to his defeat.)
VOLUME V OF
"THE COMMONER COMENSEIT
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A Political History and Reference Book for 1905
NOT SO STRANGE
. Markley Well, that's the limit!
Ascum What's that?
Markley Kidder was telling me
about a friend of his, named Hawke,
who always takes a cab whenever he
goes to look for work.
Ascum Yes. Hawke is employed
at night by a cab company to pick
up fares. Philadelphia Press.
FATAL THIRTEEN
"This talk about the number 13 be
ing unlucky isn't so foolish as some
people think."
"Nonsense!"
"It is, eh? Well, look at the peo
ple who lived in the thirteenth cen
tury every one of 'em dead!"
Cleveland Leader.
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