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.lL .ir4l - -. s4- ? ST.-- Ck -it -aSpf "V' ri - V- '-- ? rf - & rST f:7 -fir- -JT" ,c- - "jr ' c$U K ? t" ohmhm JirariraL s i .- -. . . i -vi xv - . -t- ejs f. - - - ..J -.: '. '- ?."-.:.'" l,'M .' .. . !- . w- - e . VOLUME XXLI1.-NUMBER 29. ''. THE OTJD RELIABLE Columbus. - State - Bank ! (Qlittt Bank in the State.) Pays-InlBrest on Time Deposits . - .AND :r .. HaKes Loans on Real Errata ; .r ISs J?E3 SIGHT DRAFTS til ' Oa&ka, Chicago, New Yak ' afl Foreign Cemstrik BELLS.. "8TEAHSH7 tp . TICKETS BUYS Px00D NOTES 'nd Heljw Urn Cnstomcr8 whcn they Need Help, OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS t &EA7 .fDERGEBRARD. Fres't. B. H. HENRY. Vice Pres't JOHN STAUFFER, Cashier. M. BRUCGER, G. W. nUIiST. -OF- COLUMBUS, NEB., HAS AN- Autfiorized Capital of $500,000 3siid in Capital - 90,00f , OFFICERS: C. H. SHELDON, Tres't. II. P. IL OIILRICn. Vice Ttm. C. A. XEWMAN. Cashier, DANIEL SCHRAM, Iff Off). STOCKHOLDERS: C H. Sboldon, . J. P. Becker, Herman 1. II. Oehlrich, Curl Rienke. Jonas Welch, W. A. McAllister, J. Henry Wnnleman, H. M. Winslow, Gcorpj VV. Galley, B. C. Grey. VrankJCwtir, Arnold F. H. Oehlrich, Henry Luseke, Gerhard Loselca. fy Bank of deposit; interest allowed on time deposits; hay and sell exchange on United States ndEaropa,and bnyand sell available securities. We 6lxaU he pleased to receive yonr business. Wt CSSkft your patronage. 2SdccS7 .A. DTTSSELL, DEALEn IJf ma w mi. And ill Kinds of Pumps, :PI73iPS EEPAIBED ON SHORT NOTICE. Eleventh Street,. one door west of Hagel & Co's. GjaneS3-y COLUMBUS Planing Mill. TTehaTeJuet opened a new mill ok M street opposite Schroeders flonrinc mill and are pre. nLred to do ALL '.KINDS OF WOOD WOR! such as Sash, Poors, Blinds, Mouldings, Store Fronts, Counters, Stairs, Stair Bailing, Balusters, Scroll Sawing, Turning, Planing. BTEEL AND IRON ROOFING AND SIDING. ty AH orders promptly attended to. er address. CaUon HUNTEMANN BROS., jnlSm Colnmbns, Nebraska. PATENTS CaTeat and Trade Harks obtained, and all Pat ent business conducted for MODERATE FEES. OUR OFFICE IS OPPOSITE U. S. PATENT OFFICE.- Ve hare no enlwgcnciesi, all business direct, hence ire'can transact patent business in less time antl at LESS COST than those remote "from Washington. Send model, droning; or photo, with descrip tion. .We advise if patentable or not, free of .charge. Our fee not dne till patent is secored. Abook'ifowtoObtain Patents," with refer ences tactual clients in yonr state, county or town, sent free; Address C. A. SNOW 8k Opposite Patent Office. Washington, -COME TO- The Journal for JobWork OF ALI KINDS. COMERCIiL WE MR&A'fiT JJ1W&- All n" AT &Vifft. Christo orsska. turttei out to honor Thr p er ctonibus, buiF Catholic society of Wisner is , iingr a paraon.-ge t, oon county viUmake an exhibit at rl?falr-inl893. (r ; dlvor'co oourts of Omaha and " a naving1 a big business. . -n is to havo a saloon, the venae' , of liquor to pay $o0 a year. jj, eople of Elk City complain that .eir mail is often delavcd at the post- office at Waahuigton, Douplaa county, for twenty-four hours. They lay the blame to carelessness. The S-year-old eon ol David Ander son, who lives four miles east of Aih land, was killed in a shocking man ner, lie was leading a horse to water and tied the rope around his body. The horse ran away and dragged and trampled him so frightfully that when he was finally rescued he was dead. For some time past efforts have been made to establish a flouring mill at Emerson, but for soeie reason they always .ailed. The project now, how ever, is an assured fact. A stock com Paiy. with a capital of $25, 000. has oeen organized to b known as the Emerson Mill and Improvement com pany. It will no doubt be successful as there are the right kind of weil-to men at the back of it. As Mr. and Mrs. Joe Vogel were driving homo from Dodge, they had only gono two miles northwest when their horse, driven so a single buggy, became frightened and started to run. The buggy was turned over and both of tho old people thrown out. Jlrs. Vo gal being kiiied almost instantly, whiie jir. ogei receivea severe nurts ana bruises on the back of tho head and face. At Mr. Frank's dance last night says the Seward Reporter. George Fisher's team broke loose, run away and de molished his buggy. Schuyler Patrick and George got into Patrick's buggy to hunt the horses out they had not gone far until they drove upon a faiink upsetting their buggy throwing both out, Mr. Fisher's left shoulder dislocated. being Tho Congregational association of Xobraska, in session at Omaha, de cided to consolidate its two colleges at Crete and Neiich, provided those two institutions would agree to it. eligh has signified its willingness to abide by the decision but there is some doubt about obtaining the consent of Crete management to abandoning the school thero, and so there is as yet no positive assurance tnat there will be any union college. August llabe, the potato king of Cuming county, has harvested 1. 1 00 bushels of tubers of largest size and finest quality. At $1 per bushel says tho Wisner Chronic.e. he will realize a handsome profit from the five acres cultivated in potatoes this season. It would pay his neighbors to learn the secret which enables Mr. Rabe to prow a fine crop of potatoes when a failure of the crop is general and the local market price is "out of sight." The grain elevator at the junction of Second and Main streets in Albion, was entirely destroyed by fire, and with it the water tank, windmill ana a freight car belonging to the F.. E. & M. V. Ry. The fire was discovered about 2 o'clock a. m. by Marshal Mc Eiliott, who Wits acting a9 night watch man, and the alarm immediately sounded, hut it was impossible to save the property although heip came promnViy. The elevator contained abrjat $'2, 500 worth of grain. St. Phiiomena hail, Omaha, Was I crowded to its fullest extent the other nijnt witn tne lrienas ana aumirers of the llev. Father Bruen to give him a farowell reception before his depart ure for Kearney where he goes to take charge of a parish. Vocai and instru mental music and impromptu speeches were the order, and the expressions of regret at Father Bruen's doparture from Omaha were many. Father Bruen was presented with a purse by the Young Men's institute. A freight train on the Union Pacific was wrecked at Haven, eight miies east of Clarks, and a number of cars were piled "up and completely des troyed. It was first thought that no lives were lost, but whiie the wreck ing crews were clearing away the de bris they discovered the remains of three men buried under a mass of limners and twisted iron. Tne bod ies were removed, but none of the aead men have yet been identified. Ii is supposed they were tramps steal ing a ride on the wrecked train. Seldom has tho approach of winter been met with the amount of worn in sight for mechanics as at present, sayo the Lincoln Call. On every hand is a large amount of building which is scarcely realized by the people of Lin coin until one begins to iook for help to do some work, then it is apparent that mecnanics are none too plentiful and that nearly ail are emuloyed. In addition to what is beinjr done in the city, the operations of the Bock Islanc road are keeping a larger number of iaborers than ever before employed. Mr. Cleland of Dodge count-, who accompanied the Nebraska advertising train, which has been absent from the state just four weeks, gives it as his opinion that this trip must prove of vast benefit to this state in the way of inducing immigration and capital to locate here. He describes the inter est taken in the exhibit by people in tho States visited as something re markable. He says, however, that the benefit will come to tho entire state, and not especially to tho ten counties that prepared the exhibit and footed the bills. O. D. Franklin, of Plant precinct says tho North Platte Era, sustained quite a heavy loss from fire on Monday afternoon. 3Ir. Franklin was in North Platte when the fire occurred, no one oeing at home except Mrs. Franklin. The fire was started by a spark from the chimney, and was discovered by a passing neighbor, but too late to save the building. A few articles of house hold furniture were ail that was saved, the building being totally consumed. Mr. Franklin had an insurance of ? GOO on his property, but that amount would cot near cover the loss. John Berry, a farmer iiving cine miles northwest of Juniata, committed suicide by shooting himself through he head. He haa served ten years m a penitentiary for killing a man in Iowa, and had threatened the lives of several citizens of that place. l&REAT SEAS OP FLAME LICKIXO VP $5,730,000 PUOVERTT. worth or .HUivaukcc Experience the iffoul Disastrous Conflagration 1 Illiin Her History The Platucs Vrgcd on by a Furious Wind Dynamite V.n ployed to stay the ISavajc of the Fire Fiend. A Great Fire lofe u Jimr.iuUcc. Milwaukee, Wfa., Oct. 29. This city last night was visited by the moet devastating fire in the citys history. Four lives were certainly lost ana pos sibly more. Conservative estimates place tho los3 at ?5. 750,000. Tho flames, which started in the Union Oil company's building. onKas. Water street; near Detroit, fanned by the furious gate, swept forward toward the Menominee river, and nothing could stay their resistless rush. Dyna mite was used, but with little effect Mighty billows of flames swept over felocKS of buildings, jumped acroa streets and leaped ovsr the riVei. Thousands of people vi&wed the spec tacle. All softs of conveyances were rushing about the Third ward loaded with belongings of people whose homes were in danger. The entire de partment was powerless-. Chicago. Racine and other Cities were asked for assistance, and by 10 o'clock tho firo fcieh from out of town were on band. More than eieven biocics of solid ter ritory, including much of tho most ex tensive wholesale districts, have been burned over. Nearly seventy bouses, two-thirds of which were frame rest aences. faded into smoke as tissue pa per. The loss is aimost inestimable at this time. It reaches into the millions. The fire ran diagonally from the ailey between Detroit and Buffalo streets to the corner of Erio una Jcuerson Streets. At that time the MenominRn river, with the big elevators and the great Kipp factories, jast across the ooraer, was less than a biock from the flro. away The fire started between 5:30 and 6:30 o'clock in the store by the Union Oil company, 225 East Water street. At the time three fires in other uOr tions of the city Were in progress." It was quite a time Oefore any response was gives to this call of fire. In a short time seven or eight streams had been directed upon the flames, when suddenly there was a series of explosions, scattering the burning brands in every direction. It was stated the fire was caused by the explosion of an oil barrel Thousands of people watched the fight between the firemen and reached the conclusion that it was not much of a fire, after ail, and went home Fifteen minutes later tho firemen be gan to feel the fire getting out of their grasp. They fought bravely, but it was-useiess. A gale was blowing fifty miles an hour, driving the scorching heat and smoke of the burning oil out into tho faces of the firemen, defying tho water of the Milwaukee river and seeming only to gain in power as the stream was emptied into its jaws. The flro gained a footing in the store of Dohrman & Co. It was then that it got beyond all human efforts. At 7 o'clock the big upholstery fac tory of the Bubo & Kipp company on Broadway, almost a fufl blocsc away, began to blaze. The fire had started with tho wind in tho northeast, but it had now veered to almost due east, and merchants In the business section of the east side eraw pr.itpfnl. Tr. had inmnnd nrrae the cfA . . J. ..!.,. Lin f v-. w 5 - 0u v uiuv ii uicr airt'Cu iinu ria.ii taken a newer grip in the big Uubb & Kipp factory. Five minutes more and jacoD uenaur iV Co. s wnolesale store on the east side ol Broadway, directly opposite Bubo & Kipp's was in flames. Chief of Police Jansen ordered his entire force to the fire and they as sisted in getting out tho furniture and household goods of tne luckless fami lies, who were forced to flee from the path cut out for the flames. Dozens of framo buildings along Milwaukee and Jefferson streets between Detroit and Chicago, as weli as those on Buffalo and Chicago streets, were iicked up as if they haa been but lines of paper. All the buildings were con sumed wiihin half an hour of the time the flames leaped over Broadway and started in the Weallaur biock. The loss is footed up at -5, 775. 000. Leading insurance men says the loss is about half covered by insurance. lly Rlaze in OevelaltU. Cleveland, O., Oct. 29 Two fire3 which occurred today within an hour in the heart of the city caused a prop erty loss of at least $250, 000. the loss of one life and the serious injury of half a dozen uersons. The I'ope is ot Well. Rome. Oct. 20. In despite of all denials. Pope Leo is certamiy not well and audiences have for the present been abandoned oc account of iilness. The pope has agreed to tne proposal to create the anniversary of the dis covery of America a religious festival in Colombia. The partial eclipse of the sun on Thursday was successfully observed in the east. News has been received from Barce lona of the fall of that city and the complete triumph of Crespo's forco in the state of Bermudez in the east, where the last determined opposition was made. Minister Patrick Egan has made public an open letter in which he re plies to the charges made against him by Wayne MacVeagh. whom he de nounces as a pettifogging renegade. The Wisconsin legislature received the regular democratic caucus aopor tionment bill and both houses will it is believed, pass the measure. Fifteen thousand Hamburg working men are idle and 8. 000 small trades men are on the verge of financial ruin. In the skirmish firing at Ft. Sheri dan John Scott, of the Sixth Illinois infantry, the youngest man in compe tition, made the highest score ever secured on the range 160 straight points. Dr. C. B. Holmes and Miss Betty Fleischmann were married at Cincin nati The bride will be remembered as the young lady who, a short time ago, broke an engagement with a Hun garian nobleman because he refused to become au American citizen. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, ih92. .11 rs. Lease's Kyea Are Opened. Chicago Inter-Ocean. The opinion of Mrs. Mary E. Lease, as given by her to a representative of the Inter-Ocean and printed in detail in today's issue, cannot fail to exercise a strong influence upon the Alliance people of the whole country but es pecially of those of Kansas and Ne braska, in which state she has a str- personal folio wine. "" Z ?uan living has done so mueh Id create., to organize, to inspire "the iVople's party" as Mrs. Lease has done. To great mental strength ana" to a wonderful power(of orn,tpr.y Bne has added an honestyJst purCoS that has caused her character to bo as highly respected as her ability has been greatly admired. Newspapers that, like the Inter-Ocean, have dis puted or ridiculed her conclusions have never questioned the integrity of her purpose.,, Mrs. Etiaso has persuaded hot-hell that the times were ripe for political revolution, and that every where, and particularly in the south ern states, there was a demand for the deposition of "the old parlies"' and an installation of a new party. As lo the south, at least, she is undeceived. She now knows that free speech, n. free vote, end a faiv eoutit oi'e denied as bitterly a?i'd as resolutely to the Peo ple's party as to tho Republican party in the southern states, and knowing it she is bold enough to say o. Tho polite General Weaver, as Pres idential candidate of this pariy. may condone the insults and the outrages perpetrated upon himself and the gift ed woman who accompanied him on his southern tour on tne piea that they were offered by "young rowdies and hoodlums, "' but the womanly hon esty of Mrs. Lease 6corns aii.such pal liation, and she emphatically declares that they were not the deeds of "young rowdies. ' but of weli organized leau ers of southern politics and society. Nor does she confine herseif to vague emphasis of declaration, she gives dates and names Of places and per tbns. She gives evidence that wouid pass in any court Had Mrs. Lease been a reader of and believer in the teachings of The Inter Ocean, she wouid have been spared much humiliation. For example, long before her visit tb Waycross. which is in Georgia, where as she says, "the trouble first began," Tho Inter Ocean published certain declarations of a body calling itself "The Democratic Club of Waycross;' one of them was to this effect: "We, the members of the democratic club of Waycross. de clare all persons not of our political faith to be enemies of society, and notify them that we shall act accord ingly." This was not the resolution of those whom the now polite General Weaver calls "young rowdies and hoodtums,'' but of men whom the clear sighted and courageous Mrs. Lease recognizes as leaders of southern opin ion. In Atlanta. Ga.. where the indi cations of violence were so threaten ing as to cause General Weaver to cancel all of his unfilled engagements in Georgia, it is but a short time since a mob protected by the police and encouraged by the Mayor burnt in etligy a United States otlijial who had obeyed the iaw governing civil service appointments. 15ut Mrs. Lease was an honest enthusiast, who believed that a better spirit was brooding over the southern mind. She thought, also, that at any rate the boasted chivalry of the South would bo strong enougu to prevent insuit to a woman. She now is disillusioned. Neither age nor sex can retain that cruelty which is the outgrowth of habitual contempt of iaw in the southern states. In no bar room of the vilest saloon of a North ern city would a womanly advocate of temperance be assailed bv such coarse epithets as the organized democracy of the South showered upon a womanly advocate of political reform. It was only partially." says Mrs. Lease, "because General Weaver had been a northern soldier that he and I were abused and insulted; it was main ly to preserve invioiate a solid south. A year ago General Weaver went through the south and was given a fair hearing, but there was no large third party then." This is truth. It was only when opposition to tho de mocracy through the agency of a third party threatened to become formida ble that its leaders were subjected to such persecutions as has been meted to Republicans for years. As to the so-calied democratic vic tory at the late election in Georgia, Mrs. Lease truly says that the major ity might as well have been made 170, 000 as 70.000; "they know how to count.' she says. This ieads her to confess that she is opposed to the unwritten but everywhere observed force biii of the southern demo crats." In no southern state is there wanting an .-unwritten force biil." car ried into effect by intimidating insults to women, by assaults with rotten eggs, by blows, and by murder when need ful. Mrs. Lease distinctly charges or ganized conspiracy to murder herseif and General Weaver. As a politician. General Weaver may seek to deny or to belittle these outrages. As a wo man, believing in goverment based on morality, and as a reformer seeking to destroy oligarchies, Mrs. Lease pro claims them aloud. She comes to a practical conclusion also from their open and frequent per petration. We give it in her own words: "Under these circumstances the election of Cleveland would be a practical indorsement of these things, and as such would be 'at once the shame and the danger of the Repub lic." Tltc Truth About Van IVyck. Lincoln; Oct. 0. 18U0. To ali Members of the Independent People's Committees, and-to the Vo ters of NebrasKa: It having become evident that Mr. Van Wvck has turned squareiy against the independent movement, and is using his influence to defeat the inde pendent candidates, we recommend that he be not invited to adrress inde pendent meetings nor given an oppor tunity to use his unfriendly influence. Geo. W. Blake. Chairman State Central Com. C. H. Piktle. Secretary State Central Com. At Port Jervis. N. Y.. three tramps robbed a milkman, but one of them was killed and the others captured. Walter Layne, a well known young ' man of Crawfordsviiie, Ind.. shot him self because his sweetheart went rid ing with a rival. Herman Truman, a depraved youth of Leadviile. attempted to blow uo his home with 6 namite- j CHIVALRY OF THE SOUTH WHAT nitS. LEASE HAS TO SAY AHOtlT IT. Her Famous Trip Through Dixie Ll. A k .ii visit andlEss- How the Fared Ballet Southern Gentlemen Brntnlly In tilted Womrn-.lfillH.ie f the Southern tVrss. at. j,ouis special corresponuonce ot -. . . . . . the Chicago lntercean. Mrs. Mary fc. LSaSb, tha Kaiisha woman, who has ; during the present political campaign ' become such a conspicuous figure, uw- I ing to her courageous attitude and the ' masterly manner with which she has ' been doing campaign work in the in- ' ferest ofahe People s party, passe ' tnrouch bu Louis las. .evening on ncr ...- way to Terre Haute to join General and Mrs. Weaver. She was at the Union depot, awaiting change of trains for two hours or more, and your cor respondent was fortunate enough to ceo her and talk with her. Mrs. Lease is a woman of remarkable strength of character, and the first characteristic that strlk'ds .one on" being presented td her is her indomitable will and appa rent determination to go through with anything she undertakes to do. irho is a cautious and careful woman, al most to tho degree of being sjisplciousj out once cuuvinceu miii. auu is 10 u fairiy treated, or that the person with whom she Is in conversation is as bon- est u. Fu. uu.. aa ..C SC.,, u-uu becomes as frantc ai:a as free as that of a child almost to the extent of be coming confiding. Mrs. Lease has but recently returned from the South, having just taken a brief rest of two days at her home in Wichita. Kan., endeavorinsr in sonio degree to recover from the effects of the ordeal through which she passed ifa tho Southern States an ordeal which, from her owh statements, must havo been terrible indeed. When first approached she was re luctant to talk for publication, ns she said tho Southern press had treated both her and General Weaver with such Unfairness, and the Southern cor respondents had sent broadcast such untruthful reports of her doings and sayings, that she had come almost to droud a newspaper man. She said there were many things she would like to see printed in the great cause of truth and justice, but sho was espec ially anxious to be convinced that what she said would bo printed just us she said it. While in this hesitating state of mind hc was asued if Senator X'euer naa spotten irumiuuy wneu ne declared that General eaver was a coward and hurriedly left the South beccause he was afraid to face the j righteous indignation of the people. Mtc Champions General Weaver. This question served as a match to kindle the flame of the lady's wrath. Her indignation well nigh got the bet ter of her caution, but not sufficiently bo as for one minute to cloud the clear ness of thought or in the lea-,t impede tho quickness of perception that are her most noticeable menial character istics. "No!" she said, with emphasis. "He did not speak truthfully, and he knows it General Weaver is not a coward; fear did not drive him out of the south. He is a courageous man, a brave, boid man, a daring man. between whom and the skulking paitroon Peffer thero can be no comparison." This answer served as an opening, and the correspondent was embolden ed to seek further information con cerning this remarkable woman's ex perience in the south. In order to ! lead up to the desired object the ques tion was asked: 'Mm. Lease, under what circum stances did you enter Upon the cam paign work in the south, were you em ployed by the People's party to go with General Weaver?" I was." she replied. "About Juiy 24 I received instructions from our chairman to cancel all previous da es, and be prepared to accompany General Weaver and party during the cam paign. These instructions were fol lowed by others from headquarters and I obeyed." Mrs. Lease here seemed suddenly to arouse to the fact that she had a strik ing story to tell, and by her manner, evinced a willingness to teil it- So the correspondent ventured a further question: Did you or General Weaverinyour public addresses or private conversa tion, or by your action or conduct, say or do anything calculated to arouse antagonism?" "Most emphatically, no!" Mrs. Lease arose from her seat and took a few steps up and down the room in a manner that in a weaker woman would be calied nervousness; but in her it was but the evidence of agitation, born of her realizing sense of the wrongs inflicted upon her. As she pronounced the word No!' she paused and drew herself up to her full height, aimost six-feet, and squareiy faced the questioner. There was hon indignation in her voice and in her every action, and it blazed from her eyes in a look that burned like living fire as she reised her clinched fist and closed her firm mouth with a snap. "Did anything on your part in any way justify the discourteous treatment accorded you?' "No. sir: we both spoke in the be lief that all true reforms roust come from the higher impulses of the heart. We appeaitd to their sense of justice; their love for home, and the frater nity that should prevail among all men. General Weaver, particularly, always spoke with such Christian kindness that it moved rotny to tears. I think it wouid be impossible for him to speak harshly to or of any one?' The reports sent from, places in the south nave been somewhat contra dictory. Are not some if not ail of these reports exaggerated ?' Indeed they are not. On the con trary, ail the reports sent out or print ed in the southern cities were mild, in fact were colored, as compared with the reality." It was evident that Mrs. Lease was warming up." j:s it were, -and she J was Dy this time almost as willing to teil the story as the correspondent was to write it. the settled herself in her chair, and asked that some of her pre vious answers might be read to her that the might pass upon their cor rectness. Thetvshe iooKcd as though ready for the next question. It was: Where did the first trouble taKO place? " i nr fit-it to-.ibie was at Waycross.'" Mrs. Lease, please give me in de HkMHH tail a full account of your jxperlei- ces? ' The lady hesitated' for a minute, then said The first duirazfi 'ftosrinttinF sit Wnrcrnti in th southefh bart of GebfrflS. tre reeeived our first intimation of imoendidjjtroif - ble ag we aijTed from the train when we nntirod th nonntnlalfnrm and aide- walk strewn with circulars warning mob camo to the hotel and ordered us fivferyfe'n'e to keep away from our meet- J out of town. Here, as General Weav ings. This was for iho6' who flould cr's carriage drove along the streei .A Cm. tYnsa nrnn or.ul.3 not f.'Jnrf . M lnil;0 V1TT1A Ollt Oil tllQlr DOrClieS 1LAUI X ML UVU n UU WWUll . W .Wt i moCinrore tVflro etnt:on on tha rMd, to meet the people as they came into ibwh" anH tell thetn that an admission fee of 50 cents would bi exacted of them before they could enter th5 rfreet ing. This turned many of the coun try people and negroes back; and yet through the efforts of third partyites a fujr audience greeted ijs and accord ed us a respectf tii Keitrifl g. We con gratulated ourselves on having ha! a successful meeting; but after our peo ple left town the chivalric" demo cratic thugs emerged from their hiding places and plotted murder. Their pian was to waylay General Weaver as he boarded the night train. Our chair man, Mr. II. C. Reed, of Waycross, I who has since written mbro than ho dared to tell us at the time, heard of tho lawlessness premeditated, and seeking the Mayor, implored him for the honor of the South to do every thing in h(s power.io protect General Weaver and his party. The Slay of. several special police, Mr. Reed, and fifteen Alliance men remained at the , fl tfaa. n fal w Drocel u5 i .." . . ., w . ... We. unconscious of danger, had at the last moment decided to take a morning train; hence we escaped with our lives, not knowing that a gang of ruffians, who had made night hideous were waiting to assault us. We have since heard facts from our chairman. Mr. Reed, that would not have soothed our nerves if we had known then, at the time. From Waycross we proceeded to Albany; not without misgivings, how fever, as we had been informed that that place was the stronghold of or ganized democracy." Mrs. Lease paused for a moment, and eat quite siiil, as though her thoughts were, for the instants lost in retrospection. She Seemed briefly to review mentally some of the perils through which she bad passed, and thero was. for a second, a look almost of terror in her eyes. Then, gather ing hersely together, she resumed her composed demeanor and continued. The Honor U"n Georgia Uemorr.it. "Shortly after our arrival at Albany a turbulent, bowling, drunken moo gathered in and arouna the hotel. The Democratic chairman came and offered us the use of the opera house free, and assured us 'on the faith of a Georgian1 we would not be molested nor our meeting interrupted. Yet, notwith standing the gentleman's honor was at stake we were frequently interrupted in the vilest manner. A plot had been laid to shut us in the opera house and at the conclusion of our addresses we would be compelled to listen to a ti rade of drunKen abuse from a negro hired by the chivairie democracy to demonstrate their ideas of social equal ity. At Columbus another storm was awaiting us. A reporter of the At lanta Journal, who had made a spe cialty of collecting affidavits in regard to General Weaver's war record at Pu laski, and who had followed us pei sistently to incite rowdyism, was at the meeting, and, as usual, attempted a disturbance. Enough of our people were present, however partially to suppress it, but we suffered a great deal of indignity. Leaultt:; Ilcmorr.it Take a Hand. 'At Macon the trouble culminated. This time not the hoodlums of the city, but the leading citizens in the Demo cratic club, as was shown by a notice sent out the previous week, prepared to show their strength at our meeting by disturbances that wouid suppress free speech. At 9 p. m., when our meeting was supposed to be under fuli headway, the Democratic club, 500 strong, with banners flying and bands playing "Dixie." marched into the very midst of our meeting, the speech was drowned by the frenzied yeils of a mob who were ready for any deed of violence, incited by the democratic leaders, to laugh at lawlessness and clap hands with murder. After tho mob had become unmanageable bad bombarded the hotel with rotten eggs, assaulted Mrs. General Weaver, driven our party from the balcony, and pressed into the hotel until tho proprietor was concerned for his building and the safety of his guests the chairman of the democratic ciub. Mr. Atkin son, accompanied by the principal of the Macon University, and Dr. Heidt. M. 11 pastor, implored me to address tho mob if only for five minutes, that the odium might be lifted from their city. The university professor assured me that their young men had heard naught save democart ic talk for twenty years. Mr. Atkinson has since stated that but one bad little boy threw but one good little egg. which happened to strike Mrs. Weaver. An unqualified falsehood! as from sixty to eighty eggs were thrown while we were on the balconv. But falsehood would natur ally go with egg-throwing and ballot stuffing. The Allan ta Programme. "At Atlanta Congressman Tom Wat son held at bay the night before the date of our meeting a brutal and mur derous mob, and barely escaped with life. Wo iearncd that extensive prep arations had been made for our meet ing. Turkeys were in readiness to be lowered on the speaker; tomatoes, cab bages, and eggs in profusion, and along with all, dire threats of armed men; and the democrats openly boast ed that they 'wouid not permit Yan kees and foreigners to disturb their institutions.' Our chairman was not permitted to make even an announce ment. Threats were freely made; pan- I demonium reigned, and General Wea- ' ver decided to cancel all dates in I Georgia and leave the state." as Georgia the oniy Mate in which you were offered violence?" --.w. ?- iu.uwU IUU....J.-UU. iselve, anew. t0 lhe preservation of meeting at Richmonc. Va.. ana at common juglicc and lhe main-enance Greensbo rough. . C. the laaies . . ifoertv waiting room of tho Richraand & Dan- . y" ville railroad was invaded by the ' The American Bible society liav scinns of the old eiaveholding aristo- '"g learned from experience that cracy that disrupted the country thirty the 8,000,000 Sunday school children years ago. and tnat now comprises the within the scope of its influence care Young Men's Democratic club. Inso- nothing for tracts and leaflets has de :ent 6taring, insulting remarks, vicious 2:ded to try the effect of giving an y:ils for Cieveianu. una vile remarks entire Bible to every 3-oungster that 10 hearing of M. Weaver nd my- will accept one. ..v r .. . .... ,... i self constituted our treatment from' the . chivalry thefC. The policemen and I 1 1 noticed them in tee room were un able or unwilling to cope- ith tho mob, and they joined in the rtfeisness and lausrhed approvingly. At Pulaski,- Tenfl., notwithstanding the presence ; of the police and thirty-fivo deputies aonolafefi n the special request of tho ' National Democratic f.OmmtttCO. the I . . - ...u.vu w.-w .- , i and SDa a him and hissed At At- wa ex- lanta, the capital o! Georgia, it thought necessary to put on sixty tra police while wo were there. If Cleveland i Elected. 'Di,th9 fact that General Weaver was a Union" fflhlisr influence or cause tho disturbance?'- Partially, no doubt; oSS the im-tiolHno- mntiva was to Dreserve Iflrio- 1. Vn mrtMA am.ltl fAnni'd WpUPT1 ! sp'oiifi In the south a year ago and was accorded a ncarla. This year he is the standard bearer Gl a new move ment that threatens their" disintegra tion and the political destruction of the enemies of free speech and ballot." What, in your opinion, would bo the effect of Cleveland's election?" Confronted, as we are. by a con dition of affairs so appalling in the south that it appeals to the patriotism o.' every American citizen, the elec tion of Cleveland would, all thee facts being known, bo a matter of as tonishment, as it would bo a practical indorsement of these things., and ns such would bo at onco the shame and danger of the republic"' "In your opinion, then. Weaver can not hopo tot Car.y any of the southern states?" If we could get a fair count under federal supervision we might. Tho farmers aro with us. but the negroes wiil bo intimidated and tho white voto counted out. The Georgia democrats might have had 170.000 majority as easily as 70, 000. They know how to count. Their moral perceptions are so blunted that they do not seem to know how viciously wicked they havo become. They resort to lawlessness, murder ind fraud. They rejoice in high-handed wickedness, in villainous artifices and in every wicked device and combination by which the demo cratic party can be served and saved. They are an organized appetite. Their sole conception of party is an organi zation that acquires and distributes ofl'ces. What the bourbon democracy of tho south has not learned of ways that are dark and tricks that are vain. Satan never taught the children of men. Honrot I'lcctloiiK Obsolete There has not been an honest elec tion in the South for years, "continued Mrs. Lease. "After the negro had been enfranchised the democracy started out with tho proposition that it was right to count out his vote, and they havo followed that up with the idea that it is right to count out any political opponent. Democracy holds power in the south by fraudulent vot ing. They openly boast of their abil ity to havo a fuil count, and whiie cryinr out against a force biil they have fastened a force biil of the most dangerous descriuiion unon the dco ple." "You have been speaking of Geor gia; let me ask what was tho general attitude of tho democracy throughout the south?' -Its general attitude toward us was intolerant and bitter. The people car ried their hatred to such an 'extent that they refused us a building or other piace in which to speak; denied us admission to the leading hotels. They can't stop here, ' was tho reply given to our committees who sought to engage us quarters. Some places the proprietors could scarcely treat us with civility, and they, and members of their families, donned Cleveland badges in our presence to show their contempt for us as their guests. South ern chivalry is a myth." .ittl.ttdc ofihe S.'ii.liem Press. "What was the general attitude of tne Southern press towaru yourself and General Weaver?' In reporting our meetings the press was vindictively false to a marked de gree. 'J hey carried personal and po litical hostility to tho bounds of savage warfare. They sought to incite prej udice against me by calling me a Yan kee and a disciple of John Brown, un til I found it necessary, in order to allay this prejudice, to ask the chair roan of each meeting to introduce me as an Irish woman. Tho fell spirit of slave-holding, intolerance has found its iast entrenchment in the South and guards its despotism by that same spe cies of lawlessness that brought about the frenzy of Sumter and th6 despair of Appomattox. To enterminate this spirit, every loyal citizen should come to tho rescue, and make the question of free speech, free vote and fair count tho paramount issue of this cam paign.' Is it not possible that the Western democrats will object to your candid expose of the methods of their breth ren in the South?' Possibly they may, but I feci that it is ray duty, however disagreeable and difficult; my privilege, however exacting, to expose, and by exposure defeat, if possible, the men and meth ods which have overthrown through out the south the most sacred fran chises of the constitution. This is no: my cause alone not the cause of any political party it is the cause of every law-abiding American citizen; the cause of tho whole country for there can be no reform brought about on the economic questions, and no permanent prosperity for the south and nation; no inseparable union; no stability for society; no order, law or justice nothing worth having in gov ment without honest and pure elec tions. And I for one will never cease my efforts on the rostrum and through the press until it is just as safe for General Weaver or any union soldier to tahc in the south as it was for Colo nel Livingston to talk in Kansas. 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