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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-23

HAMILTON COUNTY when united
with Cuyahoga has heretofore held a
commanding influence in State con-
yentions of both political parties. But
Hamilton and Cuyahoga were out OF
control this time. The rural Democrats
went to the convention with their eyes
sot, and they could not be changed
This appears to be farmers year and
Gov. Campbell is in 1t. He will poll a
larger vote in the rural districts than
any Democrat ever polled, in the entire
history of Ohio.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-23

THE Cincinnati Enquirer is all right.
The Neal men are solid for the ticket,
and the Kline men will work for the
ticket. Every Democrat has his war
paint on, and victory is in the air. 1t
is true the Republican leaders are har.
monious, and so is our cemetery. What
they lack is life.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-23

SENATOR QUAY announces himself
as candidate for reelection to the
Senate. He will succeed if the Repub.
lican party carry the Pennsylvania
legislature, and why should he not. He
is fit representative of Doodle politics,
the spoils system and the moral decay
of his party.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-23

A PROMINENT Republican lawyer of
Cleveland, said to one of the Stark
county delegates In Cleveland, the
morning of the Convention: "I like
Major Mckinley personally, but can't
go his bill. IL you nominate Governor
Campbell to-day am going to vote for
him." There are probably 10000 Re
publicans in Ohio to-day who are think
ing of this very thing.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-23

THE Plain Dealer locates John Nc.
Namara in Stark county, probably be-
cause the Hon. John e. Monnot placed
him in nomination. Mr.. McNa-
mara is a resident of New Portage
Summit county.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-23

CHAUNCEY M. DEPEw's salary as a
railroad president has been raised from
$25, 900 to 100000 yea., but the men
of the throttle and brakes still work
for the old pauper wages. And yet,
outside of the Champagne item, every
one OF these men pay more tariff taxes
than Chauncey Depew.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-23

GOVERNOR CAMPBELL is many thou
sands of votes stronger with the people
of the State than he was two years ago,
and that he will be triumphantly elect.
ed there Is no room for the slightest
doubt. He will be reelected by larg.
er majority than he had over Foraker
two years ago. Newark Advocate.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-23

Col. JAS. II. NEAL, of Hamilton
Butler county, who was chairman OF
the Democratic State Executive Com.
mittee when Gov. Campbell was elect
ed, will serve again this year. Victory
is In the air, and Col. james will organ
ize 1t.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-23

THE next event in Ohio politics is the
Farmers Alliance Convention, which
meets in Springfield on the 5th and 9th
Of August. This convention will nom.
mate aState ticket. Sixty-eight coun
ties in Ohio have already selected del
egates to this convention, all commit,
ted to the third party.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-23

IT is announced that L. Burd Grubb
Rep.) is coming home from Europe to
run for Governor of New Jersey once
more. Bird grub is usually worms, and
Grubb probably anticipates being an
early Burd this time.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-23

THE Boston Herald says it is a pleas
ure to hear that United States Treas
urer Nebecker is not going to resign on
account of the trouble in counting the
money in the United States Treasury.
Nebeeker is a sensible man. He has no
money to count,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-23

WE want to tell you something. We
can name one county in Ohio where
Mckinley will lose more Republican
votes than Campbell will lose Demo
cratic votes, in all the 81 counties of
Ohio, outside of Hamilton county.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-23

Piles, sore eyes, cracked lips, chapp.
ed hands, and all skin eruptions, are
cured by DIR. Fenner's German Eye
Salve. Warranted to satisfy or money
refunded. For sale by all dealers.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-23

The thrilling news comes by wire
from Cape May that the President took
very refreshing sea bath yesterday.
This is well. Brother Wanamaker is
now very much in need of a cleansing
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-23

GEN. Ryan, in his speech nominating
Governor Campbell, said: "On behalf
of pure, unsullied Democracy, pre-
sent TO you the name of man who has
never yet met defeat-Hon. James L
Campbell"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-23

HON. 7. Z. PECKTNPAUGH, Demo-
cratic nominee for Auditor of State,
was given rOusing reception at Woos.
ter on his return home from the CleYe-
land convention.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-23

CAMPBELL has won his Bull Run
[CleVeland Leader.
Yes it is a bull run, and this Camp
bell has horns, besides having the
humps-on the bull.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-23

THE man who claims to be superior
to the Almighty in managing the rain
fall, and the man who is not satisfied
with one Waterloo, both live in Can
tnn
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-23

The peculiar enervating effect of sum.
Ger weather Is driven Off by Hoods Sar-
saparilla, which"makes the weak strong.n
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-23

WHETHER the people of Ohio will pay
Mr., Mckinley that debt which the plu-
tocrats of the Union owe him remains
to be seen.-lN Y, World.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-23

II Gov. Hill comes to Ohio to help
Campbell, can Grover Cleveland afford
to remain on Buttermilk Bay? Hardly.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-23

THE g. o. p. organs occasionally wor-
ry their editorial noddles with pain
fully strained editorials on "Why
Wool is Cheap
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-09

legislation is to concentrate wealth in
the hands of the few"
eff a government contracted 2. debt
with a certain amount of money in cir
culatlon, and then contracted the
money volume before the debt was
paid, 1T is the most heinous crime a
government could commit against the
people. abraham Lincoln.
After twenty-seven years of expert
ence with national banks, it is now
with the people to decide whether the
picture drawn by our mustrious states
men and patriots has proved correct.
The following speech was made by
Gen. James B. Weaver, February 29th,
1888:
81 intend to tell what I believe to
be true, let it hurt whom it may. The
truth ought to be told, and told with
out apology. Sir, this country is now
within the grasp of a gigantic, cold
blOOded money trust, which limits the
money output, p~rescribes the condition
on which it designs to accept the cur
rency at the hands of the government,
determines the channels through
which it shall reach the people, and
the terms upon which it shall be
dealt out. l regard the situation to-
day as not presenting a contrast be-
tween the people and any executive
department of this government, but
a contrast between the people and the
non-political mOneyed .Oligarchy that
controls all departments and seeks to
control all political parties. Fifty
nine millions Of the peoples money
are in the national banks and they are
using it without interest, which money
has been wrung from them at the eX-
pense of their homes, at the expense
of thousands of hungry children all
over this country, who are halt-clad,
halffed and less than half educated.
It is true that one and all these trusts
that are to-day choking the very life
out of the people of this country are,
through their national banks, usingtO
a greater or less extent the government
money, and are using it to Cypress the
people. I say this is a public outrage
and a villainous shame. Here Con-
gress has been sitting for nearly three
months, and not half a dozen voices
have been raised against it; not a move
has been made to remedy the evil or
to rebuke the crime. On the con
trary, efforts have been made to ex-
tend the privileges of the banks. I
denounce it, and trust I shall be par
doned by my Democratic brethren for
my J~effersOnian and JacksOnian eccen-
tricities on this subject. I think we
have reached a time when the Demo
cratic party can afford to be demo
cratic"
On the fourth of November last we
threw out a few pickets and found the
enemy strongly entrenched behind the
national banks. Pass the word down
the line from Kansas to Texas for the
people to prepare three days rations
and be ready to move as one man in
1892. AS the post of danger is the post
honor, Kansas will be placed in ad-
vance, and Texas held in reserve to
support the "old guard"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-09

were appointed by the State Executive
Committee, at it's recent session, as fol-
lows:
First district, Prof. f. S. Blair Menola,
N. G.
Second district, Capt. E. A. Thorne,
Airlie, n. G.
Third district, DR.. v. N. seawen, VII
lanow, n. @.
Fourth district, Rev. P. H. Massey,
Durham, n. G.
Fifth district, J. B. Smith, Gull
ford College, N. g.
Sixth district, R. B. Hunter, Hunters
vile, N. G.
Seventh district, Hon. Augustus
Leazer, Mooresville, N. @.
Eighth district, DR.. L. N. Durham,
Shelby, N. @.
Ninth district, J. S. Bell, AsheviTa,
n. G.
These Lectures will be regular
authorized agents for THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER and other Alliance literature.
Parties who wish to secure a lrcts!Yer
willdo well to correspond withtheiI dis
trict lecturer. w. S. BARNES,
Sec'y N. @. f. S. A.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-09
THE M JUNE 9, 1891.

other laboring classes fully two-thirds
of the 338 per cent left, it leaves only
about II per cent, including paupers,
to be deducted, or about 6 per cent. of
the population as the recipients of this
ST. per cent. increase of values and the
80 per cent. lost by the farmers. If
these facts are true, then the bulk of
this profit has passed into the hands
of individuals connected with corpora
lions.
Is it not time that justice and patriot
ism should combine to escue the peo-
pie from the harpies who r gnawing
their vitals? 1t is an error to suppose
that the people can be enriched by tax
ton, or that such an idea was enter
tanned by the trainers of the govern
ment. 1t must be clear to the thought
full that an overlooking treasury is in
opposition to the highest prosperity
Of the people, as that accumulation
must have been directly or indirectly
distracted from their pockets and con-
sequently left them poorer to that
extent. 1t is equally clear that the
true wealth and power of government
like our depends upon the individual
wealth of her citizens, on whom she
can rely in times of peace for support,
and in emergencies for aid to meet her
necessities.
A notable instance of this was the
subscriptions by French farmers at the
close of a disastrous war of 81, 900, 0OO,-
900 at short notice to pay the debt laid
upon their government by their con-
queror, Germany. On the contrary,
when in the late war between the
States, the Federal government was in
great distress, financially, with credit
rapidly sinking, the bankers opposed
and set at naught all legislation for her
relief, and used their financial power
to force her to sell her bonds at fifty
cents in the dollar and grant them
privileges by which they were enriched
to the injury of the government and
the people. They stand to-day "a
power behind the throne" from which
they can only be removed by the
united action of the people through
the ballot-box. The Ballot-Box! How
great its power for good or evil in a
government like ours! A power ''fall-
ing as gently as the snowflake on the
sod" Yet when directed by intelli-
gence and virtue, corruption shrinks
scorched" from its unholy position,
while these assume their rightful con-
troll. w. @. BIB, SR.
Montgomery, Ala.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-09
Poetry.
"LIKE HIS MOTHER USED TO
MAKE"
by Request.1

by REQUEST
Il was born in I~ndiany," says a stranger, lank
and slim,
AS US fellers in the res taurant was kind O. guy
in him,
And Uncle Jake was slidin' him another pun'kin
pie
And an extra cup o. coffee, with a twinkle in his
II was born in Indiany-more'n forty years ago,
And l hain't been back in twenty-and I'm
wOrkin' back'ards slow; "a,
But I've eT in every restaurant tWlxt mere ana
Santa Fee,
And / want to state, this coffee tastes like g1ttln'
home to me!
Pour us out another, daddy" says the Teller,
warmin' up,
A speakin' 'crost a saucerful, as uncle tuck his
cup
When seed your sign out yOnce r," he went on
to Uncle Jake
Come in and git some coffee like your mother
used to make
l thoue hit of my old mother and the POsey county
farm,
And me a little kid ag'in, a hangin' in her arm
As she set the pot a bilin'-brOke the eggs an
poured 'em in"
And the Teller kind o, halted with a trimble in
his chin.
And Uncle Jake he fetched the feIler's coffee
back, and stood
As solemn, fer a minute as an undertaken would;
Then he sort o. turned and tiptOed lords the
kitchen door. and next
Here comes his old wife out with him, a rubb1n'
of her specs
And she rushes for the stranger, and she hOllers
out, It's him!
Thank God, we've met him comm! Don't you
know your mother, Jim?"
And the Teller as he grabbed her says: You bet
I hain't forgot
But wipin' of his eyes, says ne "Your ~cofee's
james WhitcOmb Riley.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-09
BANKS AND THE SILVER BILL

Mr. EDTTOR:-WOuld the defeat of
the silver bill be a misfortune or a
blessing to the people? If we go back
to the years 1886 to 1910, we will find
the Democratic party, under the leader
ship OF John @. Calhoun, advocating
most strenuously the issue of legal
tender treasury notes, to supply the
deficit of currency caused by the fail
ure of the old national bank. The
Wings, who favored the revival of the
national bank, were in opposition, as
Stunning that the issue of treasury notes
was unconstitutional.
Mr.. Calhoun, in reply, said the bank
party were effectually stopped from
interposing constitutional objections,
because the issue of a bank by author
ity of the government, was the act of
the government itself-that a party
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-09
SCIENTIFIC.
THE RESULTS OF THE GEODETIC SURVEY
IN SAXONY.

THE RESULTS OF THE GEODETIC SURVEY
IN SAXONY.
The first serious and intelligent at
tempt to determine the size and con-
%figuration of the earth was made in the
18th century, and attracted universal
interest in consequence Of a serious
dispute between D. Cassini and New,
ton, the former of whom argued, from
his measurements, that the earth was
egg-shaped, while the latter, on purely
theoretical grounds, commended that it
was a fattened ellipsoid. For the set
Element of this and other important
questions, the great survey was begun,
and participated in, one after the other,
by all the great civilized nations. This
survey was facilitated by the adoption
of the meter as the unit Of measure
ment.
This survey was known at first as the
survey by degrees, because it was based
on the plan of starting with the meas
urement of a meridional degree of lati-
tude, or the measurement of a degree
of longitude in a prescribed parallel
circle.
From these surveys the size and
form of the earth were arrived at with
approximate accuracy.
All the surveys up to date demon
strate that the earth is substantially a
revolving ellipsoid with a polar depres-
sion of 1929. The actual deviation
from this form due to mountain and
valley bears the same relation to it's
general form, as the agitated zeal
bears to it's fiat surface in a calm.
These conclusions are confirmed both
by the swing of the pendulum, and by
observation of the effects of the earth's
attraction on the moon. If the oceans
were connected by canals, and free
from all disturbing influences it would
constitute the level surface, called the
"Geodetic surface" by Listing in con
tradistinction to the earth ellipsoid, the
dimensions of which are to be deter
mined by the measurement of degrees.
Geodetic and ellipsoidal surfaces
generally vary a normal line drawn
from any actual point of the earth's
surface on the geodetic, and another on
the %ellipsoidal surfaces would not gen
rally run together but form an angle
with each other, known as the normal
variation of the given place. 1t was
first sought to explain the variation of
the normal line by ascribing it to the
influence of mountains, but in the
Great Trigonometrical Survey of India,
in the immediate neighborhood of the
Himalayas, the normal line showed no
deviation, while in some places, in
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-09
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM FROM
1910 TO 1860.

ReSOLUed, That Congress has no
power to charter a United States bank;
that we believe such an institution one
of deadly hostility to the best interests
of the country; dangerous to republi-
can institutions and the liberties of the
people, and calculated to place the
business of the country within the con-
troll of a concentrated money power,
above the laws and the will of the peo-
pie"
Since 1868 both political parties have
Wed in their interest in working for
the national banks.
81 believe that banks are more dan
gerOus than standing armies"
This institution is one of most deadly
hostility existing against the principles
and form of our Consultation. I deem
no government safe which is under the
vassalage of any self-constituted au-
thorities, or any other authority than
that of the nation or it's regular func-
tionaries. What an obstruction could
these banks be in time of war! They
might dictate to us the peace we should
accept o. withdraw their aid. Ought
we to give further growth to an insti-
tuition so powerful, so hostile?
Thomas Jefferson Jackson, in his
farewell address, speaking of the
United States bank, said:
"The immense capital, the peculiar
privileges bestowed upon it, enabled it
to exercise despotic sway over the
other banks in the entire country"
"The bank is in the field, enlisted
for the war, a battle-ram-nOt to beat
down the walls of hostile cities, but to
beat down the citadel Of American lib
erty; to command the elections and
elect a bank president by dint of bank
power. The bank is in the field, a
combatant, and a fearful and tremend-
Gus one in the presidential election. If
she succeeds, there is an end of Ameri-
can liberty, an end of the republic.
The president of the bank and the
President of the United States will be
cousins in the royal sense of the word.
They will elect each other; they will
transmit their thrones to their descend
ants. Thomas H.. Benton, IN Z. s..
Senate.
"Place the money power In the
hands of a combination of a few indi-
viduals, and they, by expanding or
contracting the currency, may raise or
sink prices at pleasure; and by pur-
chasing when at the greatest depres-
sion, and selling when at the greatest
elevation, may command the whole
property and industry of a community,
and control its fiscal operations, the
banking system concentrates and
places this power in the hands of those
who control it. Never was an engine
invented better calculated to place the
destiny Of the many in the hands of
the few, or less favorable to that equal
ity and independence which lies at the
bottom of our free institutions. John
G. Calhoun, IN u. S. Senate.
This was the danger which Daniel
Webster foresaw when he said:
Liberty could not long endure, in
any country, where the tendency of
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-09

level country, considerable deviation
is found, thus rendering it evident that
mountains, if a cause, are not the sole
cause of the deviation.
The Importance of investigating the
causes which determine the irregular
normal variation on different points of
the earth's surface elected from Gen
eral Lieutenant Baeyer in Berlin, in
1861, an exhaustive document urging
a careful degree survey for Middle
Europe. This was taken in hand, and
has since been participated in by the
principal non European States, becom-
ing an International survey, under one
organization represented at present by
eleven consulting members.
What principally concerns the king
dom of SaxOny is, that the Iabors of the
Great international Survey were here
first brought to a close, and published
under the title, "AStrOnOmisch qeO-
datische Ar6eiten fur die Europuische
GrGdmeSSung I'M Konigreich Sachsen,"
an important work of 1, 525 PIP, in large
quarto with fifteen photographic plates.
The work in Saxony was begun under
the auspices of three commissioners,
each of whom devoted himself to a
special department. DR.. julius Weis-
bach took charge of the geometrical
levels, DR.. Karl BRUINS, of the astro-
nomical and pendulum observations,
and Prof. August Nagel, of the trigo-
nometrical survey. But by the death
of Weisbach, in 1871, and of BRUINS,
in 1881, the whole labor finally de-
veloped on Nagel, aided, especially in
the astronomical department, by Prof.
DR.. Albrecht, a former pupil and CO.
labOrer with DR.. BRUINS.
The labor was a formidable one, the
trigonometrical survey alone involving
10, 743 observations of direction, the
locating of so, 972 objects with the tele-
scope, and 2O3, 1888 readings of the in
strument with the microscope; to say
nothingof the enormous labor involved
in the calculations.
That Nagel's labors we're conducted
with the utmost possible exactitude is
best demonstrated by the report of the
chief of the Italian survey, General
Ferero, on the unavoidable errors in
the triangulation of the several coun-
tries, that of Saxony, $3.50 Of a Sec
ond, being the smallest.
Earlier Saxon surveys were not suf1-
GENTLY exact to be of any use in the
new survey, and as a consequence the
Saxon Geodetic survey started with an
independent base line, 8908, 647 meters
in length, the several survey points SO
in number, being fixed with durable
stone pillars, as were the survey points
of the second order, numbering 1872;
and every possible precaution was
taken to ensure the exactitUde and o r
rect handling of the instrument.
In the Saxon survey, so far as has
yet been determined, the meridional
normal deviation calculated from
Grossenheim as zero, ranges from 4.29
seconds Freiberg) to 4.O1 seconds
Kapellenberg) the longitudinal varia-
tions range, however, between 1878
seconds Rapellenberg) and O,155 sec
onds Mathematical SALON. at Dresden.
Prof. DR.. G. Hoffman, IN Die Natur,
Halle, April.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-09
Chm'n Elk. Committee.

The small amount of cash in the
hands of the State Business Agent, and
the increasing business of his Office,
render it necessary that the above
orders should be made. County Agents
should always send in cash for full
amount of bills not later than twenty
days after receiving them. Prompt
ness in these matters is very necessary
and will greatly oblige,
Fraternally,
w. II. WORTH,
S. B. A. n. @. f. S. A.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-09
RALEIGH, N. c., Jan. 9, 1889.

RALEIGH, N. O., Jan. 3, 1889.
1t is hereby ordered by the Executive
Committee Of the North Carolina Farm
ers' State Alliance, in session in Raleigh
this day, that the State Alliance Bust
ness Agent shall, on and after Febru-
airy LIST, 1890, fill orders only from
County and Sub-Alliance Business
Agents when cash for the full amount
of the bill shall accompany the order.
Except orders from such County ALI
ance Business Agents as shall have
filed their justified legal bond with the
Executive Committee of their County
Alliance, and the State Business Agent
been duly certified of the same under
seal of the County Alliance.
S. B. ALEXANDER.
Chm'n Elk. Committee.