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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-06

We surrender q large amount Of
space this week to the matter OF the
transfer of the GREAT WEST to the
State Alliance. The matter has rous-
ed the plutocratic press to an inten-
sity OF fury. They now have but
few friends among our workers, includ-
self one of their reporters, and the
fever OF their blood exceeds all pre-
vious exhibitions. They fume and
snort, and execrate and lie-perni-
ciously. Hold your level, We men of
brawn-don't let these old party hire
lings lead you to waver hairs
breadth in doing what is wise and
best IN your most earnest and solemn
judgment. Every statement made
against your leaders will be sure to be
at least tihged with falsehood. Let
every lamp be burning. ''Be sure you
are right-then go ahead"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-06
wIsDOMIs REQUIRED.
On The State Lectureship.

w
Since the annual meeting of the State
Farmers Alliance considerable discus
sion has arisen as to the wisdom of
some of it's acts and the effect of these
acts upon the Alliance.
Now as a orker in the Alliance and
who feels more for the future of the
Alliance than for self, l must go on
record for a strict compliance with
the constitution as adopted by the
Alliance. Most of the trouble arising
in the Alliance the past year grew
out of utterly ignoring the constitu-
ton by officers whose duties were out
lined by the constitution; knowing the
effect of such acts l cannot help hav-
ing grave fears as to the result of
having a member of the: Executive
Committee who was elected thought
lessly blythe convention III direct
conflict with the Constitution, one who
is not a farmer nor a member of
Subordinate Alliance, and who is APP
parently accountable to no one for
any position taken upon matters of
vital Importance to the alliances of
the state, in the meetings of the Exec
utive Committee.
| can see a threatening danger to
the alliances of this state arising from
this condition of things, and I feel it a
duty to call attention to it as even
nowit is essential something should be
doneto avert this danger. II the strug-
Cling farmer is saved from the dangers
that are now hanging over him, there
should be no wavering nor half way
position taken; we are surely now at a
point where right can be clearly de-
fined from wrong and the needs
of the times demands cham
pions of right. Fleeing this
| am prompted to write as do and
if possible have this constitutional
wrong righted. The only way that oc-
ours to me is to have the Executive
Committee declare the office of State
Lecturer vacant and appoint one who
is constitutionally qualified. 1t will
not do for the Alliance organization
to be carried away by the novelty of
having a lady for it's State Lecturer.
There may possibly arise a time when
a modern ''Joan of Arc'' is needed in
this cause, but it is not now and if
that time does come the "Joan" will
be farmers daughter whose life will
bring her fully in sympathy with the
farmers cause. HAMLIN V. POORE.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-06

AS will be seen by letter from Milo
Camp, Stevens County, Minnesota.
they are making move to establish
county Alliance paper at Morris.
This looks like genuine business. May
the project prosper, and it will Judging
from the way they are pushing mat
tiers. Let the Alliance all over the
nation take immediate steps in this
direction. Minnesota is waking up
Kansas is already in armor, and the
sword ofrighteous politics is drawn in
other states.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-06

of politics as it Island see how far
astray the Kansas Senator was from
the facts!
Now, Alliance men, are you going to
enunciate certain living moral ele-
ments, and stand or fall thereby. Oh,
it is easy enough to "stand" by moral
principles and political Righteousness.
But how about falling by them-year
afteryear until triumph comes?
Can gothrough the hot-bed ofleg-
islative office-getting, and not yield
your backbone up to caucus?
''Then, say you, 1--WE will not succeed
Well, if you cannot succeed by doing
right and sticking to it, how far off
Was Ingalls, in his now celebrated Girl
discences" from the attitude OF
politics to-day.
The fact is, Mr.. Ingalls, told an
awful truth-and fearfully unwelcome.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-06

Wewish to extend our thanks to the
National Economist for several bound
volumes OF the files of that journal,
and for other documents on the Sub
treasury bill. AS soon as our Grain
Documents are finished (about six
weeks) we will takeup the Sub-treasury
bill in an extended and thorough ex-
amination-the material being now
gathered for the purpose. We are
also preparing for an exhibit of the
robbery by the Pacific Railways, hay
ing collected over ten thousand pages
OF documents for that purpose.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-06

About the richest note in politics we
have heard of for some time occurred
recently, distantly connected with the
legislature. Many will remember that
last March, young colored man
pitched into Mr.. Donnelly at the
State Meeting-and they will remem-
Der how Mr.. D. fairly turned his liver
white in his scathing reply, as. an old
time defender of the race!
Well, the other night a colored man
followed Mr.. D. to his room-came in,
sat down, and said, in a weak voice:
'.You don't know me, do you?-I'm
that colored man that spoke against
you last yearn'
"Oh," replied the Sage, curiosity
mantling his broad face. "And what
can do for your"
''Well-er-ah-I would like to have
you help me get a clerkship in the legis-
tature!"
Curtain falls to slow music.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-06

1t is time to roast that old chest
nut! Wherein the name of suppressed
grief and crystallized stomach-ache
will the capital be driven to? Every
state and county and township is
filled with beggars-beggars pleading
you to borrow their money Capital
is everywhere throat-high! Poor cap
ital-you couldn't drive it out with a
blow-pipe.. Put your legal interest
where you want it-and you'llfind the
same old dead horse curvetting around
in the same style. Capital leave the
country-Booh,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-06

Mr.. Bjorge, since the publication OF
the Circular Address, has been to the
GREAT WEST office twice, accompanied
by Miss Eva Mcdonald. to state that
he did not wish to sign the Circular
Address if the proposition of the
GREAT WEST were not a separate cir
cular. We wish to state that the
GREAT WEST has sent out no PROPOSE
tions. Everythingdone has been done
by the Executive Committee. The
Executive Committee requested the
proprietors to make a proposition.
Miss Mcdonald was, as usual, chief
spokeswoman for the subcommittee
making the request. We made, ac-
cordingly, the proposition, on request,
TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. That
circular\ was officially received,
and is officially presented for a
vote, by eight members, and Miss
Mcdonald not signing it. If the
''proposition" is not sent out by
the Executive Committee it is not
sent out at all. 1t would be impossi-
BILE to separate them anyway, as the
reception of the matter, and the earn
est comments thereon which follow it,
are the official work of an official
body, and they bear no relation to us
whatever after it has passed from our
hands. When the subcommittee Wis
tied us with one proposition, and re-
quested that if not satisfactory we
would offer one ourselves, over which
committee Miss Mcdonald presided,
with the distinct statement that cit
was written by Mr. Donnelly, but the
matter was suggested by the differ
ent MEMBERS we then supposed that
the whole movement was for the sake
of "harmony." And so it is under
stood by everyone, and was so under
stood by Miss Mcdonald until the
daily papers, whose employee she is,
directed her otherwise. And then she
flew around to different members, and
worked like a heroine, by arguments
and persuasion, to get up trouble
She failed utterly.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-06

). T. Williams has been confirmed
as one OF the railway commissioners.
We haveno confidence i'm Mr. Williams.
desire to limit the overmasterino
greed OF the railways. Mr.. Donnelly
and MIR. Hompe both voted against
his confirmation. The following was
the vote against him: Borchert.
Brown, Donnelly, Erickson, Crate.
Hompe, LaDue, Leavitt, Lommen
March, Probstfeld.
On Tuesday DR.. Mayo, of Rochester.
spoke earnestly IN the senate in favor
OF the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of the
cost OF Railway building. The oppo-
sitlon OF the lobby to this bill shows
how much honesty there is in the rail-
way construction lies!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-06

While the discussion as to the pre-
sent occupant OF the position of State
Lecturer is going on let it be distinct
ly understood that under NO CIRCUM-
STANCES WHATEVER would the editor
OF this paper be candidate for the
position if it were declared vacant.
Ii broken health and overwork did
not forbid it the attitude of the editor
to the present claimant would most
vigorously and justly exclude us.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-06

Nothing has pleased us more than
the resolution OF the Executive Com
mittee "setting down" on the St. Paul
Daily News for it's villainous assaults
on the Alliance. 1t is time that the
fraud was properly denounced. These
assaults have been particularly Of
fensive after Mr.. Donnelly's magnan-
imous burial of past issues at the
late meeting.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-06

There's an old dead horse on the
road travelling along at the ancient
gait as if it's carcas did not fill the
air with stencil. 1t is curious ami
NAL, and if somebody don't tell the
rotten brute to go bury itself under
an ash heap, the American citizens
will have an awful-a fearful epidemic
OF gullups on the diaphragm. Did
you never see the old horse? Well,
when you see dilapidated arsenal OF
woe on four legs and tail (''Listen
to my tale of woe!") inscribed, "Capi-
tai driven out OF the Country"-why
that's the hoss-hold your nose.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-06

Little Miss Winters, of Spring Hill,
Stearns County, will please receive our
thanks for the finest pair of wool
stockings, (which she made with her
own hands)which we have ever seen.
Oh, there are bright spots in an Edi-
tors life after ALTO keep their "soles"
warm.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-06

We are pleased to announce that
the Swedish Book Co., of Chicago are
about to publish a Swedish transla-
ton of Caesars Column. As soon as
it is out we will notify the Alliances
and keep them on sale.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-06

The Alliance can be assured that
they purchase NO DEBTS, as this firm
has none. Both the paper and the
Agency are alive, prosperous, paying
properties, and in no sense have we
sought this change. But it does pre-
sent means of binding together the
great body OF reformers, and prepar-
ing for the great battle for humanity.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-06

One of the most triumphant mo-
ments in the life of Mr.. Donnelly oc-
CURED Wednesday just before our
forms close. John Day Smith at
tackled him in the Senate. Mr.. Don
nelly arose and made the old hal
echo-and John Day Smith was ami
hilated by "the probe thrust into the
toad of republicanism."
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-06

DR.. Fish will lecture in the church.
corner 4th Ave. and Lake St., next
Sunday evening, on 1.-The Miracle" be-
ing an exposition of the Doctrine of
the AbsOlute.'
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-06

By letter to Pres Donnelly. from
John H. Rice, it will be noted that the
Cincinnati Convention is postponed.
The date will be fixed hereafter, in
May probably.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-06

Legislative matters look a little
dismal just now, but perhaps it is
well. 1t requires a threatening to
bring on a storm-and when it comes
then we feel the lightning stroke and
the publication that follows. On the
railway matters there is to be some
work done yet-or we miss our
prophecy.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-06

The National Economist is the Of
fetal organ of the National Farmers
Alliance and l. T., and is one of the
most valuable journals published in
the United States.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-06
The Pass Nuisance.

Mr.. Gildeas resolution to make the
reception and use OF a railroad pass by
member of the legislature or public
official, a criminal offense, came up
Monday in the House, and was
promptly voted down, by the follow
ing vote:
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-06

The "Decayed Chestnut" in the
senate, is getting healthy dose Of
indicated attention from the press OF
the state.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-06

A bill on canals in Minnesota was
introduced the same day by Marsh of
Minneapolis. We will refer to it at
length.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-10-02
1 THoUGHTFUL SUGGESTION.

Now that Mr.. Farley has signified his
intention of resigning the superintend-
ency of the portage road, on or before
Nov. 1st, it is in order for Mr.. Hugh
Gourlay to present his name for the va
cant position. He should present a
petition for signatures for petitions are
wonderful things-both as regards unan-
lmous expression, and the manner of
manipulating the names on them bv ex-
perts. Times Mountaineer.
Good! Now will Mr.. Michel please
draw up that petition and sign his name
to it. 1t will be as certain of success as
was his request of the Oregon delegation
ito get a job in the land office or his cleo
ton contest for water commissioner for
Dalles city, or his petition to the Oregon
legislature to be appointed railroad COM
missioner. But no. Come to think of
it, Farley won't resign. The board
would not accept his resignation so
We'll continue in the business of making
the best paper in Eastern Oregon till a
better job turns up.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-10-02

real one-not Gilbert and Sulliyan's)
four dwarf trees-two oaks and two pines
the ages of which are from four to six
centuries apiece.
/ The Princess Bismarck is a hypochon-
driac, though not of the first water, be-
cause she never drinks any, preferring
champagne, which she believes is the
one medicine that keeps her alive. She
is tall, angular and parsimonious, and is
always nervous about her failing health.
Though tie late General Pickens of
South Carolina was the youngest Con-
federate colonel, the youngest Union
soldier to attain that rank, it is stated, /,
was Colonel Billy Hobson of the 18th
Kentucky infantry, who was promoted
from major to colonel Immediately after
the battle of Shiloh. He was then under
%, and at the close of the war he was a
full brigadier, though then only 26
General Pickens was 25 when he was
made colonel of an Alabama regiment.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-10-02
GENERAL PERSONAL MENTION.

Fred May, who once enjoyed an unen-
viable and unsavory notoriety in New
York, was prominet figure in the in
surgent army in Chill.
The suicide of Balmaceda took place
on the very morning after the expiration
of his term of Office, which legally ended
last Friday, although he was practically
deposed by his defeat at Placilla.
Rudyard Kipling's works have been
translated into Swedish, and the young
author is rapidly transIating Swedish
sign that the Swedes appreciate his
works.
George Francis Trains new series OF
lectures are triumphant failure. No
one can listen to the eloquent tramp
without coming away wonderfully i'm
pressed with the elegence of the lecturer
clothing.
w. d. Wyncoop, mining expert oi
Denver, is about to proceed to Africa to
look for the famous King Solomon's Is
mines for an English syndicate. Per
haps the best part of them exists in a
book that Rider Haggard wrote.
Judge Pruden of Ohio, who has been
making an extended tour of Alaska,
says he thinks the natives of that land
are of Chinese or Japanese rather than
of Indian descent. They have many oi
the pronounced mental characteristics
of the Mongolian race, while they beaI
absolutely no resemblance to the typical
western Indian.
Mrs. Brown Potter seems to have had
some pleasant experiences in the course
of her professional travels. The Nizan
of Hydrabad, she says. gave fete in hel
honor, and she also stated to have re.
ceived as presents from the Mikado lths
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-10-02
A Queer Ha11ucination.

There is very good story, which has
the somewhat unusual merit of truth,
which has been told again and again in
the dispensary, as illustrating the power
of imagination. A lady, who was other
wise quite rational, was troubled with a
horrible feeling that snake was gnaw-
ing away her vitals, as she explained it.
Efforts were made to convince her of her
error, but without avail, and it was
finally decided to hunor her out of her
trouble. A small snake was secured, and
one day she was, told the necessary oper-
alton would be gone through to relieve
her of her trouble. Chloroform was ad-
ministered and when she revived a
scratch made while she was asleep was
carefully bandaged up, and the snake
was exhibited as evidence of the superb
ority of her diagnosis over that of the
physicians. Her joy was painful to wit
ness, and she went away thoroughly
cured.-Interview in St. Louis Globe
Democrat
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-10-02

The farmer is the most important man
on the American continent today. Ii
one is to believe the platforms of either
of the two great parties all legislation is
aimed for his benefit. Democrats are
sscreeching themselves hoarse in the en-
deavor to prove that a protective tariff
rs the farmers curse while republicans
are scarcely less Jealous in the effort to
convince him that protection is the pan
acea for all his ills. All the arts of
demagogy are resorted to catch the
farmers vote, for after all, that is the
most important thing that all parties
are looking after. Meanwhile the farmer
is doing heap of solid thinking on his
own account and the old parties would
give barrels of money to know just
what he is going to do.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-10-02
IN EXPLANATION.

a short time after the fire promi-
nent insurance agent of this city placed
Il risk in Il San Francisco company for
which he is agent and was surprised
shortly after to receive notice that the
policy must be cancelled. Writing to
headquarters for information as to the
cause of this action, he received the fol-
lowing reply: "For several days after
the big fire there were telegraphic re-
ports in the San Francisco papers, sent
from The Dalles, asserting that there
was an evident concerted plan on the
part of unknown incendiaries to burn
the balance of the city. Coming as
these did right from your town, you can
easily understand what led to the can
collation. of the policy Thus we have
another illustration of the truth that a
newspaper or correspondent who never
misses an opportunity of giving his own
city black eve can do more to pull a
town down than ten good papers can eff
feet in an effort to build it up. The
committee selected by the mayor to in
vestigate the origin of the various fires
have, as our readers may remember,
given in an elaborate report, the fruit of
much patient labor, and they were not
able to trace any one of the four fires to
incendiarism. And this opinion the
whole city, with few exceptions, fully
endorses
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-10-02
Murder in the Air.

AS Sixth avenue elevated train ap-
preached the Eighteenth street up station
yells broke upon the ears of the passen-
gers.
With others rushed to the windows
overlooking the east side of the street.
A crowd was fast gathering on the side
walk. When the train stopped at the
station number of passengers got out
to learn who twas being murdered"
AS I reached the spot the crowd was
gazing intently at dentists sign. Just
then the yells ceased, and man came
out of the doorway with this announce
ment, 'She's only having her tooth
pulled. New York Herald.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-10-02
The Queer End of Snake Fight.

One of the most exciting contests ever
witnessed occurred at the depot of the
Georgia Midland railroad
The contest was between Ernest Low
er's pet king snake and little green
snake known as garter" The snakes
were about of equal size and length, and
it was hard to tell for half an hour who
would prove the victor in the contest.
After racing around the cage for some
time the king snake caught the green
one about six inches from the head, slip
ping himself around his adversary and
getting his mouth closer and closer to
its head. The green snake the while
kept its mouth wide open as if in an eff
fort to get its head too large to go into
the king snakes mouth and thereby
thwart its effort to swallow him. This
effort proved futile, for soon the head
and about six inches of the green snake
were in the stomach of the king. At
this point of the game another and more
stubborn contest took place
In the cage are two wires-one run
ming perpendicular and the other hori-
zontal. Twisting itself around the per-
pendicular wtre, the green snake tied
itself into various hard knots Mounting
the horizontal bar, or wire, the king be-
gan the work of unfastening the coils of
the other by continued pulling and swal-
lowing.
When the feat was accomplished, with
the exception of about half foot of the
tail, it looked like the king snake would
be defeated, but with some maneuvering
the tail was united, and the job of swal-
lowing was completed.
After finishing the task the king snake
looked wonderfully pleased, and raced
around eying the spectators for some
minutes.-Cor. Atlanta Constitution
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-10-02

The stories of the great distress and
suffering in Russia, for lack of bread
may be all very true, and it is quite
likely that they are, but the Press dis
patches grow SO pathetic while relating
them and they come SO frequently and
with such affecting detail that one can
scarcely avoid the suspicion that some
gigantic scheme is being hatched for the
purpose of "bulling' the grain market.
Whether this suspicion should be well
founded or not it remains true, and past
experience proves it, that the grain gam
blers are up to anything so they may
skin one another.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-10-02

had entered all the fruits he had re-
ceived from this county asa County Ex-
hibit.' The judges chosen were "three
of the oldest and most experienced
wholesale fruit dealers in Portland, !"
and the result was as stated above. This
is no surprise to any old settler here.
We knew we could lick creation on
fruits. Now other folks are beginning
to see 1T too.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-10-02
How to Clean a Plaster Cast.

A correspondent of leading scientific
journal says that bust or statue can be
most thoroughly cleaned, provided it has
not been painted, oiled or waxed, by in
verting it and filing it with water free
from iron. The water is then allowed
to filter through the plaster. After the
fltering has been kept up for sufficient
time and the outside surface occasion
ally washed with water and soft brush,
the plaster is allowed to dry. 1t is then
found that all the dust has been wiped
out of the pores of the cast, which is
thus restored to its original whiteness.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-10-02
of Subscription.

Corner Second and Washingtc" Streets, The
Dalles, Oregon.