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The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1892-05-31
Division in Kansas

A special from Kansas to the Wash
ington Post says: "That the Alliance
in that State refuse to 60 into the
third party. Mr.. John F. Willet,
State Alliance candidate for governor,
and at present national lecturer for
the alliance, published a letter in the
AU,ohce Tribune in which he
saws that he has discovered on his
return from the South an organized
effort upon the part of the fusion
fxers in the peoples party to down
him. He appeals to the Alliance mer
Of the State to cast off the schemer:
who are now running the people!
party.
S. W. Coombs, a member Of tn
State central committee Of the people
party, published letter in tn
ANiance Adrocate charging that th
majority of the committee had de
termined to force a fusion ticket upo
the party, and that members of CON
mittees who are known to be agains
fusion are not notified Of its meetings.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1892-05-31
Alb bandone

The Syracuse convention meets next
Monday. 1t is reported there will be
no contesting delegation sent to Chi
cago. This will prevent much en-
barrassment. When the New York
citv primaries Of the anti-Hill democ-
racy met last Wednesday it appeared,
that instead of 7e,439 names as claim
ed bv the committee as enrolled against
the Senator, there we're only iO,765,
and this number is disputed by Senator
Hills friends. 1t is hoped that New
York, after all, will appear at Chicago
in good order.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1892-05-31
Democratic Conventions.

THURSDAY democratic conventions
were held in the States of Tennessee,
South Dakota, Idaho and Kentucky.
In Tennessee the convention was tor
Cleveland from the start, and its dele
gates to Chicago we're instructed to
vote for him as a unit. In the South
Dakota convention the resolutions
adopted contain an endorsement OF
Cleyeland's administration and express
faith. The Idaho delegates are unin-
structed. In Kentucky three of the
four delegates at large chosen are ior
Cleveland
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1892-05-31
Democratic Duty and Opportunity


Is the title of an admirable and states
man-like article in the June number
of the Forum. We refer to it because
it brings in review, with admirable
clearhess and force, the plans and pur-
poses of the republican party to make
their party triumph of 1888 permanent
and perpetual. The article is by Hon.
VIM. F. Bayard, and he introduces it
by a quotation from the message OF
President Cleveland of December 9Th,
1888. in which is embraced one of
those pregnant sentences which stamp
the distinguished man as profound
thinker, with unequalled felicity for
terse expression. What conveys SO
we'll the idea of determined premedi-
tated tyrrany as this: s'But the COM
munion of combined wealth and CAPT
tai, the outgrowth of overweening Gu
pidity and selfshness;' how abruptly
the mask Of magniicense is snatched
from wealth! How dextrously and
eAectually is communism stripped Of
it's disguise and presented in its true
colors! No longer the communism Of
the low, the wretched, the base, the
turbulent, but the communism of the
rich, the prosperous, combining to gel
more, to control all, and to retain all
and that through the aid of Reeds au
tocratic rule, the tariff laws, and th'
force bill, measures still in the con
temptation of republican policy, ant
therefore justifying the warnings 0
such sagacious patriots as Mr.. Bayard
r.,.nD Serm
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1892-05-31
CO. Sinner.

The CHRONICLE is unwilling 20 be-
lieve that this gentleman has any inten-
tion of severing his connection with
his democratic associates. If reports
are true it appears that Col. Polk is
talking quite freely in Washington
City, but il should be understood that
every connection in which names are
used may not be authorized. Col.
Skinner wires US that call will be
right" Elsewhere will be found a
denial by ex-Congressman Thomas 9
Skinner that his brother, Col. Harry
Skinner, intends to join the third
party.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1892-05-31
Railroad Ownership.

Railroad Ownership.
Beferring to this subject in his re-
cent speech at Asheville, ex-Judge
James II. Merrimon estimated that it
would require an outlay of $2O,OOO,-
100000 by the government to pur-
chase the railroads. This sum is larger
than all the silver dug out of the earth
within 500 years. which is estimated
at $14,Ooo,OOO,OOO. In 1890 the
railroads Of the country owned 26.. "a, "
miles of completed road track, ub;cb "
from the operation of the ssouds thr,
receipts amounting to Sly is III tn
Says the Elkin Courier: ) Mr.
"Take this and put it beside ne e &C
tual valuation of property in all North
Carolina and you will see wha, is the
poverty of this State and it's people.
Take these mere earnings Of the rail-
roads for year and consider the ac-
tual banking capital in this Sts:e and
you will see better how foolie2, how
impracticable it is to talk Of buying all
the railroads. The banking capital of
this whole State is less than eig gh: M,
lion dollars
Such is the character of the pecuni-
ary burden the St. Louis platform and
resolutions would place upon the already
bended shoulders of the staggering in
dustry of the country. Such IS the
platform upon which Col. Polk and
HE third party followers stand.
They expect the democrats of North
Carolina to vote the third party ticket
in order that such monstrous legisla-
ton may be enacted. They cry out
against oppressive laws and high taxes
while advocating doctrines that would
hopelessly oppress every industry and
bankrupt the whole country. Besides
there are nearly 100000 men en-
gagged in railroad work in this country.
1t is probable that many of these dc
the work of two men. Ger.
tainly if the government should
buy the railroads it wcaid
require 100000 snen to do t,xs 2 . :
reaso.sssa.ss m sas ,bX !: & rr,n tie an.
thority to appoint more than l 100000
office holders how would it be posi-
BILE to arrest the dangerous tendency OF
such a power? The party invested
with it could easily perpetuate indef.
nitely its term of Office. Aside from
the pecuniary burden, which would
prove intolerab}e and unheard of in all
history, that the St. Louis convention
would impose, the principles involved
are dangerous.sacom every standpoint
to our form of government, and if car
ried into execution would destroy con
stitutional liberty and erect upon tn
ruin centralized government, de
structive of the rights of the States
and with q virtual dictator at it's head
The Omaha convention may 60 ste]
farther still. We await it's actor
with some curiosity.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1892-05-31
Congressman Cheatham

The Washington Post refers in very
high terms to Congressman Cheatham's
recent speech in the House in favor of
appropriating 100000 to collect sta
tistic showing the progress of the COL
ored race durg in the pastthirty years.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1892-05-31
.HI.tory Repeats Itself,

And so does Hoods Sarsaparilla in the
remarkable cures it is continually ac
complishing. If you will give this med
icine fair trial it will do you good.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1892-05-31
The "F orce Bill.


1t is not to be disputed that if the
republican party is successful in it's
present endeavor to regain control of
zEongsrsa it vii, 4 enact into, a~af fha
bill to regulate elections, commo.ily
nC5RgfsstthPfaiiii thPfa iiF9s5ifi 99s5ifirSll, rSll .. ,nur~nn,
is close fr1en Of the President and a
leading republican in the House of
Representatives. He made a speech
on Wednesday and we clip from the
Conqressionol Record the following col
loquy:
Mr.. Patterson, Of Tennessee: l wish
to know whether you still adhere to
the "Lodge bill:''
Mr.. johnson, Of Indiana: indorse
the "Lodge bilp' personally, and would
advocate and vote for such measure
if it were brought in here today. l am
simply expressing my belief as to the
opinion of the President and the Re
publican party.
Mr.. Patterson, of Tennessee. Would
your party do the same thing:
Mr.. johnson, cf Indiana. / believe
my party would do the same thing; and
if my party would not do that thing
should feel ashamed of it; l should
feel that it had abandoned the high
position which it has heretofore occu
pied in the eyes of the civilized world
Applause on the Republican side.
The above should be very interest
ing reading to those men, who have
heretofore called themselves democrat
but who are now, by means Of thir'
party, endeavoring to deliver the Stat
and the country to the foul embrace
of the republican party.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1892-05-31

Hoods Pills act easily, yet efficiently.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1892-05-31
4 Comedy o. Errors.
The National Rcononsist saws;

"Ihe State democratic convention OF
the Old North State was also held las,
week. and it seems that the capture Of
the democracy by the members of the
alliance has been TO some extent at
least failure, but the organization of
the peoples party was no, failure.
The democratic delegates go TO Chi
cago uninstruc,ed. Ii WAS expected
they would go with the alliance de-
mands in their platform, and in the
event they could not get the same into
the national platform they would boil,
and 60 to Omaha. This was what
Alliancemen were expecting to hear,
but nothing has appeared in the papers
which will Justify such an expectation
any longer
Upon which it is only necessary TO
remark, that while there was no pur-
pose by the alliancemen in the late
State convention to capture the democ-
racy, there was ne failure; and while
the organization of the third party is
ostensibly accomplished, practically it
was a failure. The democracy and
the alliance harmonized throughout
with the purpose to work together to
the common end Of defeating the re-
publicans; therefore, these made no
failure. The third party worked to
use the alliance as cats paw to de-
feat the democracy, and was therefore
disappointed. Thus the Economist is
wrong when it says the third party
was not a failure. We care nothing
for whom they send to Omaha. Their
forces are as visionary as those Of Fal.
staff. They fail in all the elements OF
party strength-numbers, confidence,
enthusiasm and the justice and ration.
! ality of their cause. Henceforward
the third party is mere bag of wind,
brut,4ns fulnaen, bodiless shadow.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-10-14
WEAVER IN GEORGIA.
The Treatment Accorded Him There VIII
Give Him the state in November.

The Treatment Accorded Him There viii
Give Him the state in November.
According to dispatch Gen Weaver
refused to speak in Atlanta Friday. He
had seven appointments in the state
The first three were filled. At Albany
and Columbus the bourbons hired
toughs to engage in most disgraceful
proceedings. At Macon rotten eggs
were thrown, one of which struck Mrs
Weaver on the head. Gen. Weaver,
after comforting with friends, concluded
not to fill the last four appointments,
and wrote letter to Mr.. R. D. Irwin,
chairman of the peoples party execu.
tive committee, giving reasons
The democrats of Georgia, instead of
meeting him with speakers, have re-
sorted to tactics that are a disgrace to
civilization. Gen. Weaver is a gentle
man, and his speeches have all been
conservative and instructive. One of
them was published in this paper re-
Gently
While these proceedings will cause
all honest people to blush with shame
to think that any element of people in
any section of the land of the free"
where freedom OF speech" and "of the
press" has been the motto for years,
should disgrace themselves, yet the
friends of reform will shed no tears.
The action of those Georgia toughs and
their hackers will undoubtedly carry
that state for Weaver. 1t will have
powerful influence on the conservative
voters of every state in the union. 1t
means thousands of votes TO Weaver
where they might have went to his OPP
ponents The republicans, by false
doctrines, have driven the masses
from them in the west. The
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-10-14
THAT'S THE STUFF.
lie Who Would be Free Himself Must
strike the Blow-GOd Hates a Coward.
paaI 4ba f,lIo,vi,-r d;cratoh olinna1

lie Who Would be Free Himself Must
strike the Blow-God Hates Coward.
Read the following dispatch clipped
from the Memph Tenn Toiler:
LITTLE Rock Ark, Sept. '9!-L X Tay.
lor, Editor Toiler: Estimates are worthless
Alabama repeated Forty thousand disfran.
thised Democrats stealing everything.
). B SUTLER Sec. State Com.
Do you think it is true? If it is we
are glad of it Allow us to repeat. we
are glad of it. If forty thousand voters
in Arkansas have allowed themselves
to be disfranchised, then they deserve
to be disfranchised. Do not misunder
stand us; we mean what we say. We
are getting heartily tired Of the weak
ly, sickly, Mandy PANTY, milk and
water sentimentality that condoles
with people who allow themselves to
be robbed of their natural and consti-
tutional rights.
The man who will allow himself to
be kicked ought to be kicked The
men who will allow themselves to be
trampled on deserve the trampling.
Men who will allow themselves to
starve should be starved. The men
who will allow themselves to be
whipped into line and vote and yell for
a system that makes vagabonds of their
boys and prostitutes oftheir girls ought
to suffer all the pangs which such a
condition entails. For the boys and
girls and the women, who have no
votes. we are sorry, and we will keep
right on working for them, but for the
men who will allow themselves to be
robbed of their votes after they were
cast, we are not sorry any more.
Every party to an election has a
natural right to have a man on the cleo
ton board in every precinct If a stat
ute law denies that right, the statute
law is revolutionary, and should be set
aside by force if necessary. When po-
litical parties, by bad laws, seek to per-
petuate their lease Of power they be-
come revolutionistsa and should be treat
ed as such. God helps those who help
themselves" Political machines will
not be ousted if chicanery will save
them. If honest men with a popular
majority on their side, allow themselves
to be robbed of their rights, we have no
sympathy to waste on them. Minority
parties should not allow such state of
affairs.
Don't be counted out. You have
rights, it matters not what the law may
say These laws were made by the
parties you are opposing They were
made for the special purpose of keeping
you down and robbing you of your
natural rights Therefore, these laws
are revolutionary. You are not the
aggressor. The parties that enacted
these bad laws are the aggressors; they
are the revOlutionists: they are the enc
mics of the state and humanity. You
have no right to the offices unless you
are elected, but you have right to say
that the votes shall be honestly counted
Don't be counted out.-Cincinnati
Herald.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-10-14

prohibits the judges of election from in
any manner assisting the voter
in preparing his ticket. except
on the condition of physical disability,
such as being unable to use a pen
or pencil For them to assist voter
who is unable to read is a criminal Of
tense. II this law applied to the whole
state it would cut down the total vote
about one-half. but the democrats had
an eye to their own majorities in enact
ing such law and they made it apply
only to counties of more than $4,000
population. 1t therefore applies only
to the four counties Of Knox, Hamilton.
Davidson and Shelby, or to the cities of
Knoxville, Chattanooga. Nashville and
Memphis. The first three cities are re-
publican and Memphis is very evenly
divided between the two parties. and
was before this law went into effect.
Knoxville, Chattanooga and Nashville
have had wonderful prosperity since
the war and all are manufacturing
cities with large laboring populations
These are republican, and this new law
was passed to make voting for them as
difficult as possible and next to impos-
sible. b means of it the democrats
were able to count out the republicans
in South Chattanooga and Nashville
and to swell their majorities in the
country.
With all this machinery applying
only to republican cities, the democrats
do not feel entirely safe in Tennessee.
Buchanan had plurality of 81, 900 two
years ago, but since then there has
come the split in the democratic party.
The peoples party is well organized in
every county in the state and is very
strong in western and middle Tennes-
see where democratic majories have
been the rule. The alliance has a
membership of more than $1,000 in the
state, and should these farmers vote for
Buchanan it would wipe out the demo
cratic majority of two years ago Four
years ago Gov. Taylor's plurality was
only 1900, and that gentleman now
admits that the Dorch law has only
given them a plurality of about 80, 900,
which may be entirely overcome by the
vote for Buchanan. Gov. Taylor re-
fused to make any estimates of demo-
cratic pluralities in November. Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-10-14

democrats are doing the same by
false promises and disgraceful con.
duct in the south. Vance truly
said: THE democratic party can al
ways be depended upon to act the fool
at Just the right time" If Thomas JEFF
ferson could only come back and see
the party that he started! Let us be
thankful that the great and good man
is spared the humiliation.
Weaver will I'll his appointments in
North Carolina. There is a small ele-
ment here who would like to mistreat
him, but his friends will see that he
has fair show. North Carolina will
not be disgraced by the action of
toughs. The small element of idiotic
bourbons here cannot get enough fol-
lowing to disgrace the state. Raleigh
On CO. Progressive Farmer
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-10-14

There is no gain without loss.
The accumulation of wealth by the in
dividual leaves the remainder of the
people less prosperous. The abolition
Of millionaires is greater question
than was the abolition Of negro slavery.
Omaha Tocsin.
George Tillman, of South Carolina,
brother of the governor, but standing
in with his enemies and bucking against
the alliance in a second primary, is
beaten by Talbert Tillman's own
county, Edgefeld, gives Talbert 200
majority.-National Economist
The way to preserve intact a gov
eminent by and for the people is to ex-
ercise eternal vigilance over the acts of
the law makers. This is exactly what
the Legislators fear, and betray the fact
in imploring the producers to keep
out Of politics Missouri World
All the bankers, trusts and monop-
olies are satisfied with the old parties
and their management The laboring
men ought to be-they can look for
ward to bright future for themselves,
and realize that their sons and daugh-
tiers will be servants" for the rich class
whose fortunes are stolen from the la
Dor of the country by the most infamous
laws ever enacted in even a barbarous
country Yes, the workers of the coun-
try should be satisfied if the plutocrats
are.-Coming Crisis.
President Harrison, in his letter of
acceptance, endeavors to convince the
masses of the people, the poor, that the
cost of living (moSt of it farm prod
ucts) has decreased, then convince the
farmers that value of their products
has gone up! Mr.. Harrison is no fool
himself, but must presume that farmers
and mechanics both are woefully igno-
rant Time was when these producers
were economically asleep. They have
one eye open now, and such contradic-
tory statements will not so easily capt
ure their votes as of yore.-Exchange
-Leverett Leonard addressed 5000
people at the fair at Maryville, Mo.
His speech was received with the wild
est enthusiasm. Mr.. Gillette, Viewers
partner, said after the speech: That
was as able and convincing argument
as ever heard" Messrs Gillette and
J. Weller Long also addressed the as
sembly in the interest of the peoples
party. They were heartily received
An excellent glee club was present 1t
was great day for the peoples party,
and yet hardly line appeared men
tioning it in the dailies. This is free
country. Free. as Gen. Weaver says, in
spots and for certain people. indie
pendent Waterman.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-10-14
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

Whoever says Powderly is support
ing Or will vote for Harrison tells a
willful falsehood Powderly is for
Weaver, first, last and all the time.
Any chump can vote ticket be-
cause his father did, but it takes read
ing to cause a man to leave old associa-
tons and cast his lot with the reform
ers,-Coming Crisis.
After all it is peoples party su-
premacy" that is disturbing the dreams
of southern democrats with plutocratic
tendency, rather than negro suprem-
acy."-Progressive Farmer.
in commenting upon President Har-
rison's letter Of acceptance Whiteiaw
Reid said: THE feeling awakened in
Wall street by this message to the Amer
lean people was truly remarkable"
Under the California law it takes
$4,000 signatures to have the names of
the peoples party electors printed on
the tickets. But our friends say its no
trouble at al! to get Unconditional
Advance.
in our cartoon week before last, en-
titled "The Decoy Ducks" a mistake
was made in the amount given as the
yearly wages of section hands on rail.
roads. 1t was given as $S95.9S II
should have been $500
The government ownership Of rail
roads is one Of the principles of the
peoples party to which the republicans
object The railroad ownership of the
government as practiced by the repub-
lican party is what the people object to.
Clyde Voice.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-10-14
LABOR'S QUERY.

public have to thank the granger poll
tician and the Farmers Alliance"
That this is all a lie, we propose to
prove from railway authority. We
quote from the work of Mr.. A. B. Stick
ney, chairman of the board of directors
of the Chicago, St Paul & Kansas City
(now Great Westerly railway, entitled
"The Railway Problem" He says,
page rs:
During the whole course of so-called
granger legislation, no legislature has
established by law nor has any railway
commission promulgated, schedule of
rates so low as materially to reduce the
revenues of the companies, had the
companies adopted the schedules and
enforced them as a whole-Page Sc.
The truth is-and it is time the invest
ing public should be told the truth-it
is not the so-called granger law nor
the interstate law, nor the acts of CON-
missions, which have reduced the rates
of transportation to the present I'M
profitable level, but the mismanage-
mont OF the companies. Page 81: The
truth of the conclusion in regard to
rates will appear by comparing the
average rate Of the principal Illinois
lines with the commissioners tariff.
The average rate per ton per mile for
the past year on the Chicago & Alton
was nine and two-tenths mills:
on the Illinois Central ten and
three-tenths mills; on the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific nine and seven
tenths mills. The lowest rate on the
lowest class (coaD of the Illinois CON-
miSSioners for the longest haul is six
and one-half mills, and if this tariff had
been applied to all the business of these
three companies, it is probable that it
would have increased their earnings
from so to 40 per cent"
The railway managers are thus shown
to be cowardly, trying to throw the re-
sponsibility of their Encouragement on
the Farmers Alliance, and are aided
and abetted in their efforts to prejudice
railway employees and others against
the "grangers" by the monopoly organ
which has the gall to pose as defender
of the people against monopolies.-
Iowa Farmers Tribune.