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The advocate., 1891-08-12

Believing that the industrial classes can
best protest and advance their financial and
business interests by organization and co
operation in the various branches Of trade
and commerce. and to accomplish this end
It is necessary to meet, discuss and inter
change views concerning the various enter
prises now before us for our patronage and
We, the undersigned members of the var
| iOus reform organizations, do hereby pro-
pose and call state business or commercial
convention TO be held at Topeka August 20,
1891, for the purpose OF an exchange of
views upon the Importance and necessity of
maintaining and building up the numerous
CO. cooperative associations now in existence,
or hereafter organized, such as insurance
companies, Ere, life and hail, the Mutual
Protective Association, the Kansas Alliance
Exchange Company, and other kindred or
CARNATIONS:
Such convention TO be composed of mem
6ers Of the Farmers Alliance and Indstrial
Union, the National Citizens Industrial
Alliance, knights Of Labor, Farmers Mu-
tual Benefit Association, the Mutual Pro-
tectiVe Association, the Alliance Mutual
Benefit Society, the Kansas Alliance Ex-
change Company, and all Alliance insurance
companies, elevator companies, or any
other reform organization, and each of the
above organizations, local, county or dis
triCt Alliances and assemblies are requested
to send one or more delegates to said con-
vention, and each and every member Of
such organizations, who feels an interest in
such convention, is invited to attend.
The president of each county Alliance
should be present or appoint someone to
attend, and az many sub Alliances and local
assemblies should be represented as posi-
bic. Reduced rates will be secured.
(Signed)
Officers of tho Kansas Farmers Alliance
and Industrial Union - Frank McGrath,
president; Fanny R. Vickery, vice president;
j. b. French, secretary; also w. A. PETER,
Senator; s. MCLallin, editor The ADvoCATE;
A. 8. Hackney, county secretary Harvey
county; p. M. Gilbert, Jefferson county; L.
/. Purcell, editor Free Lance, Burton; Mrs.
A. Y. Mccormick, Great Bend s. II. Sny-
der, national lecturer Citizens Alliance; A.
MOrrisette, county commissioner Cloud
county; G. s. McK lesson, clerk of court, Elk
county; B. 4. Kies, editor COmmoneF: +. M.
Watts, manager SedgwiCk County Exchange;
Jerry Simpson, Congressman Seventh dis.
trict; A. Z. Collins, Salina, Kan; J. M. Ne
vile, Anderson county; James Foley, chair
man judicial committees; E. H. Snow, state
printer; Horace Foster, business manager
Gazette, Hutchinson, Kan.
Officers Alliance Mutual Benefit Society
G. II. Flintham, secretary; DR.. II. A. War
ner, medical director; w. f, Rightmire,
president.
Officers of the Mutual protective AssoCia-
tiOn-J. A. Hammers, president; w. 8. Ross,
treasurer; DR.. A. Y. Mccormick, director;
Noah Allen, general attorney; Fred L.
Bailey, secretary and general manager.
The advocate., 1891-08-12
Appointments of the State Lecturer.

Brother Van B. Prather, state lecturer,
will speak at the following places on the
dates named, In the Seventh Congress
slOnal District. Please advertise the
meetings thoroughly so there will be
good attendance:
Pratt cOunty-Bawyer, August IA.
|, Pratt county Sawyer, August IA.
OOmanche cOunty-C -ColdWateT, August 10.
Clark cOunty-Ashland, August II.
The advocate., 1891-08-12
Alliance Encalmpments.

There will be grand Alliance en-
Campment held In each Congressional
district in Kansas as follows:
First district -HOlton, Friday, September IL.
NecOnd district Ottawa, Saturday, Sept 10.
Third dlstrict--Parsons, Thursday, Sept. IL,
Fourth district -EmpOTla, Monday, Sept. IA.
Fifth district Clay Center, Wednesday, Sept 0.
sixth district Be0it, Wednesday, Sept. 23.
Seventh district Hutchinson, Monday, Sep.
tember 2l; Wichita, Tuesday, September 10.
Hon. L. L. Polk, president N. F. A. &
/. u, and other distinguished speakers
will be present at each meeting and ad-
dress the people. Yours fraternally,
j. B. FRENCH,
Sec'y +. A. & /. U. of Kansas.
The advocate., 1891-08-12
KANSAS FARMERS ALLIANCE AND
INDUSTRIAL UNION,
Senator PefTer's Appointments.

EGnAUOF ESM0FB APPOINTMENTS
Hon. w. A. PETER, of Topeka, Kansas,
successor to the Hon. j. ]. Ingalls,, will
speak at the following places:
Fairfield, Saturday, August %.
Columbus Junction, Monday, August "a.
Muscatine, Tuesday, August 25.
Clinton, Wednesday, August rs.
Cedar Rapids, Thursday, August q.
MaEshallEOwn. Friday, August 28.
EldOra, Saturday, August 49,
Forest City, Monday, August 81.
Emmetsburg, Tuesday September /.
Sheldon, Wednesday, September 2.
Le Mars, Thursday September 3.
Sioux City, Friday, September 4.
Place and hour of holding meeting may
be changed by county central committee,
providing such change will not prevent the
speaker from making the next appoint
ment.
The advocate., 1891-08-12
Something New-ThrOugh Cars Between
sc. Paul and Kansas City.

Something New--T Through Cars Between
sc. Paul and Kansas City.
The traffic between above cities has 90
increased that the Great Rock Island
Route has instituted a new order Of
things, and has put ON their trains, q
through car between these points. The
cars run on this service are Pullman
combination chair Car and sleeper, and
are the embodiment Of comfort. The
price charged for this especial service is
but little, compared with the accommo-
dalton given.
See that your tickets read via the AL
bert Lea Route &c. r. I. & p; B. @. r.
& N, and M. s. st. L. Ry's.) Maps and
time tables sent on application. John
Sebastian, General Ticket and Passenger
Agent; E. St John, General Manager.
General Offices, Chicago.
The advocate., 1891-08-12
To County Committeeman.

Peoples party committeeman, In cOun-
ties having Swedish settlements, who
may desire Swedish lecturer to work in
such settlements, are requested to cor
respond with Nels Anderson, box 26O,
Topeka, Kan.
The advocate., 1891-08-12

We observe by an exchange that Con-
greSsman Oates of Alabama, fearing that
the Alliance viii capture the Democratic
party In that state and adopt the Ocala
platform, 10 urging his henchmen to be
ready, In case Of such an event, to bring
out a separate ticket-there is consistency
for you; a mere hint at independent
action on the part Of the Alliance Is
heralded Far and wide as an attempt to
disrupt the Democratic party in the In
terest Of Republicanism; but the old
barnacles who have for years fattened at
the public crib are ready at the drop Of
hat to start llttle-party-of their own,
should they lose control Of the "ma-
chine" The IndastrialiSt, (FloridG.)
The advocate., 1891-08-12
Appolntments of s. M. sOott.

Wa-Keeney, HugusC IA.
GrainGeld, August 10.
WinOna, August H.
Sharon Springs, August 10,
Colby, August q.
GOOdland, August q.
HOxie, August "a.
Hlll City, August rs.
PlainVille, August 2S.
Lincoln, August 20.
Phlllipsburg, August 81.
Norton, September
Oberlln, September 4.
Atwood, Sep ember7.
Bt. Francis, September 3.
The advocate., 1891-08-12
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
NATIONAL FARMERS ALLIANCE AND
INDUSTRIAL UNION,

President ......L L. 7. Polk, Washington, D. @.
Vice President. .B. vi. Clover, Cambridge, Kan.
Secretary. .....J. Fl. Turner, Washington, u. G.
Lecturer. ...........J. +. Willis, McLOuth, Kan.
The advocate., 1891-08-12

Use Halls Hair Renewer aud retain
the natural color and beauty Of the halr.
The advocate., 1891-08-12

We win consider II q personal favor q Owread-
ers win mention THn ADVOCATE When doing.
bl1lnnsB WIN cur Rdv9gsl1sEa
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different posts bearing the names of the
stocks, as .sst. Paul" missouri Pacific, !"
Union Pacific" A settee surrounds each
post, and brokers who are not trad
ing sit there. Some are read
ing newspapers. some are chat
ting, Others are sitting cross-legged,
hands in rockets, with Hstless air.
Others wander about awaiting orders. or
they stop each other and whisper mys-
teriouslv in the ear. Around the posts of
other stocks there is shouting and pushing
and noise rising into q shrek from some
broker excited by the rise or fall of quota
tons, and freeing his lungs in manner
that would interest Sioux Indian. The
general effect of the sounds is that of
a loud hum broken by shouts, groans and
shrieks. the ringing of telephones, the
cIinking of telegraphic instruments and the
rumbling of trucks and wagons along New
street Under canopy sits the chairman
of the board, Mr.. James Mitchell, with a
pink in his buttonhole, perfectly tranquil
amid all the hubbub, and close TO him
writes a secretary as composedly as he
would in his quiet library up town. Here
and there on the floor are little cages in
which sit telegraph operators, and every
few minutes uniformed stock exchange
reporter dashes up and reports transac-
all over the country. The floor is Uttered
with scraps of paper, and attendants pass
here and there sprinkling it with watering
pots TO keep down the cloud of dust that
would otherwise rise like the smoke of
cattle.
But who are these men whom we see be-
low in this famous rialto of stockholders
1t would be mistake to suppose that
the most prominent men in the financial
world of New York go to the stock ex-
change. Jay Gould is not a member. His
son, George ]. Gould was admitted Febru-
airy 26. 1885. A few days later he men
toned casually that he thought he would
go around to the exchange. His father
and Washington Il. Conner were then in
partnership at II Broadway. Mr.. Common,
on hearing young Gould's intention, sent
word to some of the Gould brokers:
George is coming around, give him a
good time" George got it. Anew member
usually gets it. The old members look on
with apparent disapproval while the new
conner is being initiated, but if he is hustled
in their direction they join in the hustling
with will. George had his hat smashed
and his coat nearly torn off his back, and
he escaped INTO New street out of breath to
repair damages at the nearest halter, tax
ing the initiation that his fathers partner
had arranged for him with the utmost
good nature. Edwin Gould is a member
He is sometimes referred to as bad boy
Eddy" because he used to "copper"
his fathers tips on the consolidated
exchange by going short when the
'old man" talked bullish, or ''long"
when his father gave out bear talk
and making money, too, much to the
amusement, it is understood, of his famous
progenitor. Russell Sage has been MEM
Der since 1874, but he seems to have taken
the seat merely to save expense in COM
missions. No one ever heard of his going
derbilts are members. Addison Cammack
and G. p. Huntington are, but they are
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checked spree viii certainly follow He
is informed, however, that he will be pro-
vided with reserve for emergency"
medicine when he leaves the institute,
TO be taken when he is threatened
with a recurrence of his inability TO
govern his appetite. The newly arrived
patient at the institute is told that he is to
be cured without the exertion of any will
power on his part. He is TO have all the
alcoholic liquor he wants to drink: de Is
given four-ounce bottle of good bourbon
whisky-or II his taste Graves it, some
other liquor-and told that the supply will
be repienished whenever he applies at the
institute. The only restriction Is that he
shall not drink any other liquor than what
is thus obtained. With morphine and OPP
ium victims the same rule is followed IN al
lowing them all the drug they crave. A
printed slip of the rules of the institute IS
given to every newcomer. IL states that
no patient is accepted for less than thr ee
weeks course of treatment. Borrowing or
loaning money between patients is prohib-
tied, as also is the exchanging OF the mum
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gogue, and at times metaphorically
applies the birch to his opponents in
the stock speculation. Richard Halsted is
there. Besides being an active broker he
is general athelete and fine musician,
playing on almost any instrument that
can be named. He has a collection of
paintings worth $4,000.
Finally that strange instrument of an
Gent Chinese warfare, the gong, sounds,
and it's hideous clamor speedily drives
every broker from the floor. 1t is o'clock
and the session is over for the day. Out
side on Broadway Addison Cammack with
square, resolute features, gray mustache
and cold gray eyes is sauntering
slowly toward the elevated rail-
road station. Roswell Z. Flower
energies from Exchange Court on
the way up town. He is bull on stocks
Russell Sage, looking like an old farmer in
city clothes. is coming down from the
Western Union building. He has control
OF more ready money than any man in the
United States. Alexander Z. Orr is hurry
ing down TO see ]. Pierpont Morgan about
funding the Indebtedness of the Union
Pacific. A young man of - with dark ewes
and round features, comes out of build
ing at No. 1876 Broadway, where he has
been at hard work all day as any dry goods
CLERK and with instructive frugality directs
ms steps TO the elevated railroad
station rather than take carriage to his
home. 1t Is George j. Gould, who has
been swapping his fingers In the face of
Wall street, after having been, it is said.
badly bitten on the short side of stocks.
His fathers manners are more quiet and
courteous than ever before. The hand of
iron Is there, but the glove of velvet is
there, too. George, on the contrary, is
open and defiant almost to recklessness,
verltabie Prince Rupert on the stage of
the great theater of finance REX.
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good deal of money this year in sugar,
cordage and granger stocks, generally as
bull, but now and then in turns on the
short side.
Around the Rock Island port brokers
are climbing over each other to sell that
stock because they have just heard that
Mr.. Gould has Threatened to bring grain
by q new connecting link of railroad to
the Gulf, and that it will cut down the
earnings of the Rock Island. Nathaniel
s. Jones has just bought LOCO shares of st.
Paul. He is a shrewd trader on a large
scale, man of quiet, reflective manners,
a thinker rather than a talker, yet cour-
teous when he speaks.
Henry Allen is selling Atchison. He is
well known in New York and Chicago.
Charles ]. Hudson is trading in sugar stock.
He is slender, why, nervous and wealthy.
He used to be cashier for Henry Clews.
Mr.. Clews, by the way, seems to keep a
college for the education of rich men.
Charley Johnes, now in retirement as ILL
fated as Prince Charles Stuart of his
tory meeting sudden Culloden, made a
million as room trader, after serving as
an office boy for Henry Clews. The high
pressure of Wall street. burning the candle
at both ends, wrought his collapse. Louis
Schepp, the millionaire chocolate manu-
facturer, who seems as unable to let stocks
alone as Mr. Pardredge is to resist the
allurements of the wheat pit in Chicago,
has Just bought 1000 shares of Atchi-
son. The Wormsers are by the Missouri
Pacific post, bidding up that stock. They
wear enormous collars, high felt hats and
used to sell clothing in Sacramento. Alfred
De Cordona is selling st. Paul. He used
to employ carrier pigeons to transmit
communications to his home. The birds
carried thin slips ofpaper containing stock
quotations.
Mr.. Louis Bell has just sold 1000 Mis-
souri, Pacific. He is supposed to be opera
ting in sympathy with Jay Gould and Ad-
olson Cammack. Years ago he was always
ready to match coins for $500 or $1,000 at
any time. He is one Of the leading board
room traders like John d. Slayback, Jacob
Kirkner and others equally well known in
Wall street. He is wealthy and has fine
place at Oyster Bay, Long Island.
These are only few of the men less
famous than others widely known, and
yet all of them have had an eventful his
tory.
But there is Henry Clews, who has Just
hurried on to give some directions to his
representative, although he does not go to
the exchange so much as formerly. He
directs his business from offices in the
Mills building. He is as quick and bright
as ever. John Clews is one of his repre-
sentatives, and James Blanchard Clews is
another. There is Jacob Kirkner, who
is a room trader, as distinguished from
the broker. who merely trades for
others. He used to be peda-
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lect to follow instructions. A stoutlv-
built middle-aged man evidently of ample
means, but an utterly fallen victim to the
liquor habit, arrived at the institute not
long ago, accompanied by his sister. They
took lodgings remote from the other pa
tients. He was given the usual four-ounce
bottle of bourbon to put in his pocket
against the first eager craving for the
stimulant. His sister, however. persuaded
him TO destroy the liquor and watched
him with solicitous care that he got none
elsewhere. After two days of this re-
straint the man was the victim of delirium
tremens and his sister was denied further
partnership with the institute in treating
him. A majority of the cases that present
themselves at White Plains for treatment
are men who are seriously DESTROYS of rid
ding themselves of an appetite that is
dragging them TO ruin, and they follow
the routine of the institution with docile
confidence. They drink from their pocket
flask when they feel as if they must drink,
and hope for the time when they can re-
turn the bottle untouched and un-
desired. With some of them much
courage is required to go on with the
treatment after the first few experiences
with the hypodermic syringe. During the
entire period of the application of the
remedies, few complain of disagreeable
sensations. The eyesight is affected, the
mouth gets dry, the taste for tobacco,
almost disappears. there IS an ltcnlng SEN
sation over the entire body, and the desire
for water is very great. To many, how
ever, the treatment is a pleasant tonic
from the beginning, and the enforced rest
and absence from excitement shows visibly
in the improvement of their general con-
dition. A close companionsnip often
grows up between the patients who are
thrown together at the hotel, and few
come to the institute for treatment who
do not succumb to this sociability and
throw off the feelings of restraint and fear
of publicity.
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bered bottles of internal remedies. The use
OF tobacco in any form for fifteen minutes
before and fifteen minutes after office
treatment is forbidden. and cigarette
smoking and gambling is declared punish
able by instant dismissal. Baths are pre-
scrlbed at least twice a week. Profanity
and boisterous conduct on the streets or at
the hotels of the village are offenses pun
ished by expulsion.
The patient begins his treatment with
hypodermic injection into the left arm of
some of the pink fluid, which contains the
bichloride of gold. He is then given No.
of the internal remedies, which he is told
Is strong nerve tonic. 1t resembles the
whisky In It's color and consistency, but
tastes much like quassia, and Is said to also
contain the bichloride. The remedies are
prepared in Dwight, where the secret of
their compromising is also preserved. The
numbered remedies are in eight-ounce bot
ties, a teaspoonful in water every two
hours being the prescription. Six days
usually exhaustS a bottle, which are num-
bered up to five. The entire course of
treatment for alcoholism lasts from three
to four weeks; that for the opium and
morphine habit a week or two longer.
The cure is declared to be an utter elimina-
ton of the unnatural appetite with which
the patient Is afflicted. The men usually
return their bottles of whisky untasted for
the first time in three or five days after
treatment has begun.
At the hotel in White Plains, where the
Kelley patients are lodged, the DAYS pass
somewhat monotonously. The men, for
the most part, sit around the piazzas and
wait for the hours to come when they are
to go up the street to the office for hypo-
dermic treatment. Poker and other games
of cards, with stakes however small are
interdicted, and the patient cautioned
against all forms of excitement. If the
new arrival for treatment is without power
to take care of himself, even under the
hope held out to him and the liquor al
lowed him to 'taper off" with, he is
placed in charge of an attendant who is
himself a graduate of the institute'-one
who has been successfully treated These
attendants, who are never without TASKS
of alcoholic liquors in their pockets, are, it
seemed to the writer, an important part of
the remedial agencies of the place in the
examples they furnish of tie recovery
from the uncomfortable appetites their
patients are still afflicted with.
Often cases are brought to the institute
of men or women accompanied by relatives
or friends who. in their attempt to expe-
dite the helpful results of the treatment,
do much injury from a misunderstanding
of the prescribed processes or willful neg
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never seen there. So is Philip ID. Armour,
by the way, but he has never been on the
floor, or if he has it was only for few
minutes, and the fact was not generally
known. Some of the younger wags of
the exchange Vt the time of his cleo
ton in 1885, decided that if he showed
himself there they would put him
through lively course of sprouts. Most
of the men usually seen at the stock ex-
change are the rank and file. The Won
Moltkes of speculation usually keep in
the shadow preparing Sedans for their
4. III. Combs is there buying or selling
for Addison Cammack or Jay Gould. He
is known as the Little Giant" of the
board. AT his heaviest he weighs 12S
pounds. He has been on the street thirty
years, and has been a member of the stock
exchange for twenty-five years. When
he was only Is years old he was on the
mining board with power of attorney for
big operator. Heis now selling Missouri
Pacific.
ly partner of Jay Gould. He is under
the medium height, slightly built and
moves with quick, nervous manner. He
got his great start in life Just after the
panic of 1869. The famous Colonel
Jim" Fisk and Jay Gould engaged in
1869 In a gigantic gold speculation. in
which they advanced the price to 100 on
Black Friday. just twenty-five years ago.
Young Common was at that time clerk
for Belden d. Co., who acted as brokers on
the speculation, and in fact Fisk was
special partner in the firm. The
panic on Black Friday, when
men in Wall street acted more
like lunatics than rational beings. will
not to be forgotten as long as any of the
men who were on the great stage of life on
that day remain. and it will be an interest
ing part OF the history of Wall street. The
corner In gold was broken by sales of the
yellow metal by the government Suits
followed. in which Belden a. Co., Con-
nor's employers, were defendants. Their
defense was that the books of the firm had
disappeared, and they were unable to pre-
pare an answer to the complaint. Did
| young Common take those books over to
Jersey City and keep them there2 Ger
tainly he disappeared about that time
Did he force Jay Gould to take him
into partnership on the strength
of this service, with the alternative of ex-
posing the contents OF the books in court
That is Wall streets belief. He made it
is believed, COOL nervy play on the chess
board of finance, and Jay Gould was not
in a position to checkmate him. For years
they were in partnership in the dingy
brown stone building on Broadway.
through which thousands pass daily TO
take the elevated railroad trains at the
Rector street station. He is faultlessly
dressed, is a member of the Union League
and the Lotus Club, and affects the society
of artists and literary men.
There is Edmund Clarence Stedman, the
poet, as much at home in Wall street as on