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COL. POLK EULOGIZED.
Peoples Party Delegates
Hold Memorial Services.
GRESHAM is STILL The FAVORITE.
The Stranded Steamer City
of Chicago.
GREAT DAMAGE DONE BY CYCLONES.
Senator Sherman on the
Silver Bill.
GREAT DAMAGE DONE BY CYCLONES,
THE PEOPLES PARTY

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| Permanent Chairman-Services to
| tho Memory of the Late Colonel
POlk-Addresses Eulogistic OF the
| Dead Champion of Reform Made by
General Weaver, Editor McClune,
| Ignattus Donnelly, r.. ". Powderly
| and Others-Judge Gresh am Still the
| Candidate of an Aggressive Faction.
OMAHA, July 3.-The committee on per-
manent organization last night chose Hen
ry Loucks of South Dakota for permanent
chairman of the peoples party convention
by an almost unanimous vote. Loucks is
looked upon as the originator of the move
| ment for Independent political action
which has eliminated in the foundation of
the party. Two years ago he was candi-
date for the governorship of his state and
received over 25, 200 votes.
The vast assemblage which attended the
second days session of the peoples party
afforded striking proof of the respect in
which the memory of the late Colonel
Polk is held by the supporters of the
movement which he was instru-
mental in founding. The session
was devoted to addresses eulogis-
tic of the dead champion of reform.
Though the speeches contained many in
spring sentences as to the future of the
fight in which the Independent party is en-
gagged, the recognition of the loss which the
party has sustained in the death of its leader
seemed to be the one thought which filed
the minds of the delegates and rarely was
there a departure from solemn silence
which gave to the gathering more the air of
church service than of a great national
convention. After prayer by Chaplain
DiHenbacher, the opening address was de-
livered by H. L. Loucks of South Dakota.
The speech was marked by sympathy and
feeling which caught every member of the
vast audience. "Brother Polk, :" Mr.. Loucks
said, "was the man whose place cannot be
filed. He was the one around whom all
hopes conferred. He died martyr to our
cause from overwork."
Editor McCune followed. He said:
''Those who knew our lost friend best
loved him best. The noble soul, the mag
nifcent brain, the wonderful oratory of
l.. L. Polk were given to the cause of our
movement He devoted himself to the
destruction of sectionalism which had fos-
tered by these corrupt politicians who
ruled this land in the interest of those by
whom it was robbed. The cause which
Colonel Polk led meant freedom of labor,
here Tomorrow" declared the speaker,
amid the rousing cheers of the audience,
she would have been selected to bear your
banner aloft. Let us keep in view the
example of our lost leader and determine
that we shall not lag behind until the
cause which he chsmpioned shall be carried
to success"
Mrs. Todd of Michigan paid touching
tribute to the memory of the deceased
leader. She said his attitude towards the
debauchery of the present system of gov
eminent gained for him persecution and
villainous SANDER. She said he was cruel
fed as the savior of the people.
GENERAL wEAvER's TRIBUTE.
General Weaver summed up the public
life and deeds of Colonel Polk. He loved
his race, he declared, and despite the fact
that he had full knowledge and complete
understanding of the great wrongs under
which the people Of this country were suf-
fering his faith rose superior to all difficult
ties, and he felt certain of the ultimate
triumph which is certain to come
to movement which shall free the
down trodden people of this nation. The
sentence received with the 1oadest and
longest chorus of cheering was quotation
from the dead reformer. 81 am standing
full glow of the coming sunset. Behind
me are the shadows of the track, before me
lies the dark valley. When mingle with
its dark waters l want to cast one inger
ing look upon a country whose government
is of the people, for the people and by the
people. The name ofColonelPolk, )" the speak
er concluded, twill remain for ages monu-
ment of power in this country and great
bulwark against the surging tides of hatred
and political luminosity. May we cherish
his memory and may we see that his fam
| cared for" This reference to the family
of the deceased was received with a favor
able response.
| IGNATIUS DoNNELLY'S EULoGY.
A speech marked by solemnity and
earnestness by Mrs. Lease was followed by
the most eloquent eulogy of the day-that
of Hon. Ignatius Donnelly.
"a great man." said Mr.. Donnelly, "has
fallen. We erect to-day over the dust of
our dead friend and brother monument
more enduring than brass or marble;
monument of affection and honor His
| great heart was in this work. If he move
among us invisible at this moment he will
little regard the honors we pay his mem
| DRY, but he sees the vast vista of the
future and the uncountsble millions of
| other nations whose faces are to be
wreathed in smiles or distorted with agony
| we succeed or fail" Mr.. Donnelly then
touched upon the character of Colonel
Polk and called upon the audience to look
to him as their examplar. A fitting epitaph
over the tomb of the departed leader, he
declared, would be the lines of the Quaker
poet Of New England:
Large Drained, cleareyed-of such as he,
| Shall freedoms young apostles be-"
Delegate Gillette of Iowa spoke of DR..
Delamater and Delegate Young of Wash
ington, D. c., paid tribute to the mem
DRY of Colonel Polk.
| PowDERLY's REMARKS.
In response to loud calls T. v. Powderly
also eulogized Colonel Polk. "No senti-
ment of mine," he said, lean add one sin
gle gem to the crown that now sits upon
the brow of our dead brother. He has
gone to that kingdom beyond the clouds
where tongue of calumny cannot reach
him and where the dagger of the assassin
cannot touch him. And even his enemies
will say of him now the words which
they should have said of him in life."
With singing of "Sweet Bye and Bye
the gathering dispersed.
| FOLLOWERS OF EDWARD BELLAMY.
Two hundred delegates to the peoples
party convention, who are followers Of
Edward Bellamy, had meeting to-day
!: Major Henry VIM of Massachusetts, pre-
! sided. Nearly all the states and terrific
ries were represented.
DIR. Tucker of Ohio declared that Ohit
: was rapidly passing into the hands o.
nationalists, and the time was not far dis
tsnt when they would dictate terms to tn,
old political parties of the state. He STATED
that last week in Cleveland 10000 voter
=. adopted resolutions asking the city coun
u Gil to declare the street car franchises O
n the city forfeited, that the cars might b
; run by and for the interest of the citizens
William Penn Rogers of California de
- clared that in his state most of the peopl
were socialists, and this remarkabl
reformation had been brought about by
careful study of Bellamy's book.
Mr.. Pyne of Connecticut saw NO othe
q way out of financial difficulty than to &C
cept nationalism. Mr.. Pyne thought tn
T. peoples party was the coming party. ]
was then infusion of new blood, it mean
- honest government for the people and
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