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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-17

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-17
THE PEOPLES COLUMN.
Your w ants Supplied.

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-17

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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-19
Profit for all who Invest.

The greatest cooperative company
in this country is the Atlantic-PaCifc
Railway Tunnel Company, which is
an association of men and women
now numbering more than five thOus-
and persons. They have provided the
means to buy and pay for nearly five
million dollars worth of property in
Colorado, where at point sixty miles
west from Denver where they are
driving tunnel for railway and min
ing purposes straight through the
Rocky mountains, a distance Of five
miles and nearly five thousand feet
below the snow-tOpped SUBMITS of
the mOuntains) and are getting out
gold, silver, copper and lead by the
car load, and have here the greatest
mining enterprise In the world, and
one that will give employment
and profit to tens OF thOus-
andS of men. Any one who
has few or many dollars to invest
can buy shares or bonds of this COM
pany and receive interest promptly
on all they invest, and also their hon
est share of all the profts-and the
profits will follow for many
generations. To those who care to
know Of this great work, now in its
Twelfth year of progress, large illus
trated pamphlet will be sent to all
who send four cents for the postage
to Mark NJ. POmeroy, general mana
ger, rooms 46, World Building, New
York City. This is worthy the care
full attention Of all who wish to in
vest either little or much to the alb
solute certainty of profit.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-19

Mr.. d. O. Mills. of California, is a
large owner of New Idria mining
stock. Mr.. Mills is the father-in-law
of Whitelaw Reid, the Republican
nominee for vice president. The
president did not desire to injure Mr..
Mills, whose big barrel is expected to
be at the service Of the Harrison cam
paign committee. Hence an act Of
gross executive injustice in the veto
of bill that merely sent the case to
a court for hearing as to title.
Evidently the New Idria company
must be afraid of its title or it would
welcome the opportunity to have the
court pass upon it. Evidently. also,
there must be some justice in McGar-
rahanS claim, or it would not have
been unanimously passed by the able
lawyers of the judiciary committee Of
the senate. The president, however.
sides with the corporation as against
the individual, and all for the reason
that the father-in-law of his running
mate on the national ticket is large
stOckhOlder in the said corporation.
The act is eminently characteristic Of
Benjamin Harrison, who also espOuSeS
the cause of Wall street as against
the miners Of Colorado, the farmers
of the west and cotton growers of the
south.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-19
DOUBTFUL KANSAS.
A few Wise AnimadyersiOns Touching
the Situation by Our Democratic
Contemporary.
Sumner County Standard.

Sumner County Standard.
The state of Kansas is truly in the
doubtful list. Republicans may blus-
ter and blow and puff but the tariff
refOrmers and anti-fOrce bill people
are in the majority. hOOdOOing, guy
ing and roasting so common on the
streets of Wellington is working the
wrong way. Reputable Republicans
who received Democrats with open
arms last fall now offer mock sympa-
thy because they choose to unite their
strength with party which believes
in tariff being a tax. The Alliance
agrees uwith Preston B. Plumb
on the tariff question and force bill.
The Alliance is meek in its opposition
to McKinleyism when compared to
the Wichita Eagle of less than two
years ago. The Alliance demands no
more than did Hon. John ]. ingalls, in
a speech in the U. S. senate just be-
fore he became "a statesman out Of a
job" The people are not fools and
refuse to be deceived by bluster.
There is not Republican politician
or newspaper of state reputation in
the state of Kansas who at heart
favOrs the Mckinley tariff. There is
not a man or newspaper in the state
that has particle Of nerve who has
not expressed during the past two
years open opposition to such meas
ures. The Republicans will do well
to cement their own ranks. There
are many independent voters in the
Republican party right here in Sum-
ner county who agree with the Al
lance and Democracy on these two
vital issues and it will take hard work
to make them stick to party against
their convictions. The outlook two
weeks ago was thus summed up by
the smart young men Of the Kansas
capitol and is very good only that
during the same week the ten per cent
passed away;
Until something definite is done
! by the opposition the Republican
| leaders can only cement the republican
following. The great prOselyting pro-
cess cannot begin until it has been
fully decided whether there is any
thing to hope for from the Democrats
though the Republican politicians
are rapidly coming to the conclusion
that there is no use trying to convert
the average Kansas Democrat TO Re
publicansim. Soon after the Demo
cratic surrender the Republican lead.
ers claimed that 35 per cent. Of: tn,
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-19
E. n. WHITLAw. I
3t52 III. H. NELSON.

The August Arena contains the sec
ond installment of Mr.. Reeds Brief
for the Plaintiff in the interesting
discussion of Bacon VS.. Shakespeare.
Whatever may be said Of the abstract
merits Of the case, no one can fail TO
be impressed by the ingenious and pow
erful array of evidence thus far added
in behalf OF Lord Bacon as the author
Of the plays. Perhaps the most start
ling as well as the most interesting
disclosures, however, are yet to come.
In the September number Mr.. Reed
will answer objections, not only those
that have been brought forward in
previous public discussions of the sub
ject, but Others advanced in his own
private correspondence with scholars
and literary men on both sides Of the
Atlantic. Other leading papers in
the August Arena are by United
States Senator James H. Kyle, Hon
Geo. Fred Williams, NJ. c., Hon. Wm
T. Ellis, NJ. c., Gail Hamilton, Mary
A. Livermore. Louise Chandler Moul
ton, Helen H. Gardner, Frances E
Willard, Mrs. Gen. Lew Wallace
Frances E. Russell and the editor o.
the Arena. In addition to these pa
pers. there is brilliant symposium
on WOmen's Clubs in America, t
which eleven leading American wO
men contribute.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-19

Under the head of "a Model Ad-
ministratiOn" the Monitor offers the
following:
The present administration is daily
demonstrating its ability to meet the
emergencies of the times and dispose
satisfactorily of every question aris-
ing in such business manner as to
advance national interests and COM
mand the respect Of the world. 1t
has not only been clean, but patriotic
as well. 1t is an administration of
large capacity. Its business energy
has been the most pronounced of any
administration in the history Of the
republic. In this respect it represents
the genius of the people. 1t moves
with them and for them in developing
and sustaining the highest expecta
tiOnS in our national life. Its achieve
ments make a record which, as it ap-
pears on the pages of history, will
mark one of the brightest eras in the
history of the republic. 1t will be
known as the golden era of true
Americanism; and will be an inspira-
tiOn to good citizenship in all the
years to come.
Is this one of the 'models"-related
in the Denver Neoos:
A few days since congress did tardy
justice to one William Garrahan,
passing a bill ordering his claim
against the New Idria Mining COM
pany sent to the court of land claims
for adjudication and adjustment.
The matter has been before congress
many years, and as it was a fight of
one man against a rich and powerful
corporation it has dragged along from
one session to another until McGarra-
han has become an old and wOrn-Out
man. 1t appears that twenty or
more years ago this New Idria CON-
pany by chicanery. fraud and the
prostitution of official influence beat
McGarrahan out of certain property,
and the latter appealed to congress
for redress. When hearing was f.
nally obtained the senate judiciary
committee made a unanimous report
in his favor, and the same was passed
by the senate without dissenting
vote, and by the house with practical
unanimity. The bill did not carry a
dollar of appropriation, but merely
authorized the court, whose members
were appointed by President Harrison
himself, to investigate the merits OF
McGarrahan's claim against the New
ldia company.
This bill the president has vetoed
and no small amount of indignation
has been expressed at Washington
over the act. The reason for this act
of executive injustice is easily found
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-19
An Automatic Eagle.

Wichita has an automatic eagle.
By dropping a little flattery in the
slot you can see its tail feathers
spread and watch the old bird strut
and swell with pOmpous pride, and
find amusement in its loud, bOmbas-
tic screams. But tdrop'a few adverse
criticisms in the slot and you will be
entertained with the frOth and foam
of impOtent rage and multipliciOus
verbOsity and see the prismatical
scintillatiOns Of empty effervescence.
KRATs.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-19
Profits Of Grape Growing.

Argonia Clipper
Grapes are decidedly the surest
fruit crop raised in this section of
Kansas. We have never heard of a
failure. Mr.. II. W. Allen, who lives
on farm adjoining Argonia, has a
vineyard containing One-and-a-half
acres that since the third year from
setting has yielded an income of 800
per acre. He set 1000 vines to the
acre at a cost Of three cents each, be-
ing one year old from the cutting.
He received a fair crop the third year
and since that time has received a
yearly income of slOOper acre as above
stated. He has been at an expense
Of s65 per acre for posts and wire.
The posts, being cedar, are expected
to last ten years. Mr., Allen has sold
his grapes from three to five cents per
pound.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-19

disappointment Hoover publish
ed a card in the Monitor last week de-
nying that Mrs. Carson had declined
the Peoples party nomination two
years ago at his solicitation. That
report was at least current, but there
is not enough in the point to contend
for. The fact remains that Mrs. Car
son refused the good offer of the peo-
pie, whether by the advice of Mr..
Hoover or not. Mr.. Hoover also
claims that he visited every school in
the county during his term Ofoffice,
and cites the records of the Office to
prove it. Mr.. Hoover must know that
his records are in bad repute. They
showed that teachers first grade Ger.
titicateS were issued to several parties
in pursuance of regular examination,
which said certificates have since
been revoked on account of unmis
taxable discoveries of fraud and con.
niyance.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-19
Big Events at Kansas City, No., August,
1892. One Fare for the Round
Trim.

Kansas City will don a holiday at
tire during the latter part Of August.
Two important meetings will be held
within her gates; Supreme Lodge.
Knights Of Pythias, August 23rd, and
German Veteran Association, August
20 to "a. To encourage travel the
Missouri Pacific Railway will sell
tickets from all points on its lines to
Kansas City at one fare for the round
trip. For further information in re-
gard to dates Of sale, limit of tickets,
etc, call on or address the nearest
ticket agent.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-19

The whole front page of Tuesdays
Chicago Herald was taken up with
strikes and matters pertaining there
to. One flaming headline told of the
Switchmen's strike in New York. an
other referred to the labor troubles
in Tennessee growing out of the con-
vict labor; another related Of the
strike Of machiniStS in indianapolis;
another gave an account of the burn
ing in etfigy Of Colonel StreatOr and
Gen. SnOwden by masked militiamen
in Chicago, because of their inhuman
treatment of Private IamS. Verify.
there is genial ~ feeling between
labor and capital in this country.
There seems to be a good deal of bot
tied up wrath under the surface,
which is liable to terminate in a
mighty upheayal that will deluge
this country in ruin if the warnings
are not needed.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-19

R. L. Davidson, rising young at
tOrney of Wellington. the law part
ner of Judge Herrick, has been placed
on the state Prohibition ticket for
Attorney General in place Of R. H.
who pecame the Abraham
Republican candidate for
congress against Gov. Humphrey in
the Third district.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-19

We are unable to keep track of the
labor troubles this week. The switch
men of the Lehigh Valley, Erie, n.
Y. Central and other eastern lines
are on a big strike, placing freight
traffic at a StandStill all over New
England. As a result incendiary
fires burned about 200 cars at Buffalo,
and the militia was called out to
quell the trouble and guard the prop
erty. The strike iSSpreading to other
cities and roads. In TennesSe a con-
tiict ensued between coal miners and
convictS guarded by state militia in
which several lives were lost. Gov.
Buchanan convened the legislature
some time since to amend the laws
governing convict labor, but they ad-
jOurned without accomplishing the
result and the state is suffering by it.
The Homestead trouble is still on and
there are numerous smaller strikes all
over the country.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-19

Daily Mda: Mr.. j. II Martin and
son Edward and sOn-in-law, Henry
Stremme, are here from Flanagan, Ill.
Last fall Mr.. Martin purchased 1000
acres Of Sumner county farming lands
through Frantz, Rem & Co., and will
leave his son Edward and Mr..
Stremme in charge while he returns
to Illinois to settle up his affairs and
arrange for removing to Kansas next
spring. On the land Mr.. Martin
bought there is 80 acres Of corn now
matured, which will more than pay
for the land upon which it was raised.
Mr.. Martin is a successful farmer OF
the thOrOugh-gOing, conservative class
and Sumner county always welcomes
such citizens.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-19
Published.

The much mOOted report Of the
Relief Committee was published in
Tuesdays Daily Mail, after having
been passed upon by the city council
at called meeting Monday evening.
The committees report reads as
follows:
THE COMMITTEES REPORT.
To the Mayor and City Council:
As members OF thecommittee appoint
ed by your honorable body at your last
meeting to audit the accounts Of the
cyclone committee, we herewith submit
the following report. We present you
with an itemized list Of all receipts and
disbursements, as shown by the books
OF said cyclone committee. After re-
peated reiusals by the clerk Of cyclone
committee to turn over books into our
possession, We at last obtained posses
sion ri them, and have tried to make
careful and thorough investigation OF
the books and accounts. We find that
there was received as shown by the
books oi the cyclone Committee the sum
total OF S16,035.S3, as shown by item
lied list attached to this report; that
there has been paid out OF SAID fund as
shown also by ltemized list attached to
this report the SUN total OF SIG, ,014.37,
leaving a balance still on hand OF
S2l .46.
We find that il our opinion the state
ments made by members OF the cy-
clone committee, that they had ina num-
Der oil instances been grossly deceived by
parties who had by cyclone insurance
received payment from insurance COM
panies for all possible losses; and. .by
other parties who had by misrepresent-
alton to the cyclone committee as to the
extent OF their losses and ability to bear
same,-we find all these statements
made by said committee, both publicly
and privately, fully borne out by our
examination OF the books. The dis
bursements made during the first few
days show that the committee used in
nearly every case proper care and judg-
ment; but as the receipts swelled into
thousands OF dollars, those who had
had their wants relieved and in some in
stances losses fully satisfied, came for
ward the second and third time, while
other parties whose losses had not been
serious, whose ability to bear their loss
es must have been apparent to the COM
mittee, now come to this committee and
receive sums sufficient to obliterate the
stains from their carpets, re-varnish
their furniture, replace the few shingles
OF their roofs and bricks from their
chimneys, and still be able to take a
pleasure trip in palace cars to the
Rocky Mountains, where in their cool
and inviting recesses their wonderful
nerve will undoubtedly receive new
strength and vigor.
Your committee have not the time
and do not desire to take up individual
cases Of what we believe to have been
unwise disbursements OF this fund. We
do however recommend the printing OF
the entire list that the people OF this
city, whose judgment is certainly better
than that OF few individuals, may de-
eide and render their own verdict in
their own way, feeling fully satisfied that
every worthy and proper person relieved
by this fund will in no way be injured,
while the undeserving will receive the
public condemnation they so richly de-
serve. w. X. SAVAGE,
p. H. d. CLEVELAND,
L. L. Brown.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-19

work published elsewhere, will doubt
less be read with interest. The list
of recipients from the fund contained
the names of some people whom the
public were surprised to find in that
attitude. The committee in the
main, however, We have no doubt per-
formed their duty to the best of their
ability under the circumstances.
The public should make due allow
ance for the difficulties under which
they labOred. That they were i'm
posed upon in some instances is not
denied. That they performed their
duties as well as any other committee
would have done. will neither be de-
MED. They accepted a trust in Sery-
ing which was anything but agreeable,
and it is not to be wondered at that
they failed to give satisfaction in
every instance. The principal part
of the work was done when excite
ment and uncertainty reigned SUI
preme, and had a very disOrgnizing
effect. At such time they were an
easy prey for the unworthy and insin-
cere. We recommend that every one
take charitable view of the matter
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-19
A Rare Bird.

To THE PEOPLES VOICE: | have
some inclination for ornitholOgical
investigation. have recently had
my attention directed to an eagle in
this neighborhoOd. 1t is a peculiar
species. A veritable rara aris. II is
a trtbryd, partaking of some of the
characteristics of the eagle, the par
rot and the peacock and is a HERNIA
phrOdite. 1t is an old bird. 1t has
scared, Screeched and screamed so
long in this community that. to the
old settlers, its peculiarities have be-
come commonplace and its idiosyn-
cracies pass unnOticed. But for the
newcomers it is a thing of much in
terest, as none can have seen else
where any bird just like it. 1t is
harmless. 1t does a great deal of
high soaring and vOciferouS screech-
ing, but its beak is worn smooth by
continuous pecking and its talOns worn
smooth by barnyard scratching. So
few fear its impOtent ire or are moved
to respect its furor or surly buster.
1t has the wOrd-imitating prOcliv-
tiles of the parrot and, like the pea
cock, it will revel in ecStatic delight
when it can wallOw in the spume and
Slush of redOlent fattery. 1t labors
under the delusiOn that it made, and
is the guardian of this community.
1t is superannuated eagle. Its ex.
istence is not necessary to the pros.
perity of this commonwealth.
KRATs.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-19

There is much significance in the
great mass meeting ofall the railroad
brOtherhOOds held at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, last week. The associations of
engineers, conductors brakemen, tel
egraph operators, ladies auxiliary
were all well represented, and the
principal business discussed was the
the formation of grand consolidated
order of railroad workers of all kinds.
Great enthusiasm was shown over the
idea, and committee will report a
plan to the next general meeting.
If the consolidation is formed, it is
safe to predict, within year after, a
general railroad strike in resistance to
the systematic policy on which the
great lines have entered-of crushing
the unionS.-NeoC Nation.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-19
THE VOICES ANNIVERSARY.

The VOICE is two years old today.
With this issue it closes its second
volume. 1t was said to have been a
! child born Of shot winds" and 'ca-
iamity" destined to have only a tenn
porary life. We predicted that the
foundation had been laid for new
political party, which was destined to
play an historical part in the history
OF the world. The wonderful ad-
Yancement in civilization had given
rise to new conditions which demand
ed new methods Of governmental
more vigorous national policy in our
home affairs. The Old;parties belong
dominated by the enginery of Op-
preston and corruption, the pOliti-
Clans Swayed by that conservatism
which comes from past success, could
not be forced out of the beaten path
way to give the people relief. Our
only hope of perpetuating our natiCn-
al life, prosperity and progress lie in
absolute independent action, vigorous
and aggressive.
How well we prophesied and sue
ceeded one reeds only to take a look
at the situation. When the VOICE
first appeared we were prOmiscuOus
-smass of people who did not know our
own strength. The election Of that
year was our first victory and it was a
great one. The new ideas spread like
wild-ire all over the country and now
at the end of two years time we find
ourselves at the threshold of a ma
tiOnal campaign in which we, as a
party, are at least able to divide hon
Ors eQnally with the two old parties
and with fair chance of knocking
the perSimmon." During all this won
derful progress it has been cOntinu-
ally heralded by the enemies of the
young giant that the movement was
disintegrating and going to pieces"
Its present magnitude stamps the
falSity of these puSilanimOuS thrustS.
So much for the party the VOICE
represents, now for the paper. We
have at all times done the best we
could do with the means at our COM
mand. We have had no sinecures to
sustain us. Every step we have taken
forward has been by "hard knocks"
and against difficult odds. Once our
outfit was practically wiped from the
face of the earth by the cyclone, but
by the good grace of our friends and
friends of the cause, we were partially
assisted to our feet and expect in less
Than half decade to be sailing along
peacefully and pleasantly under a
POpuliSt administration. We are
thankful to our friends and the peO-
pie in general for their support and
shall try to merit it more than ever
in the future.
We have few names on our list
who are in arrears. We assure them
that a liquidation of the same would
be of ineStimable benefit to us just
now. And to those whose subscrip-
tions expire with the close of this vol
ume, we hope they may not be slow to
renew.