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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-07-06
THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE.
A Plutocratic Tool Upon q Single Col,
Standard Platform.

A Plutocratic Tool Upon q Single Gold
Standard Platform.
Mr. Harrison has many traits that
mark him as an astute politician and a
statesman. In public utterances he is
peculiarly happy. In all the speeches
he has made, as candidate or as presi-
dent, and he has made as many, per-
haps, as any of his predecessors, he has
never yet made a remark that could be
effectively assailed. His administration
has been quiet, mild, conservative and
clean, speaking after the manner of
modern politics It has been thorough
ly plutocratic. though, has strictly
adhered to the British financial pol
icy, and Wall street has been its
oracle. In this respect the administra-
ton has not held out a raw of
light or hope to the common peo-
pie for financial reform or freedom from
the gold power. The much talked of
international conference need not be
cited as a contradiction of this, for as
yet that means nothing and there is not
the slightest indication that it will
lead, or that 1t Is intended to lead, to
the remonetization of silver.
In this connection, 1t is interesting to
note the source of opposition to the
president in his own country. One
class Of his opponents are disappointed
political leaders who feel that the pres
ident has not given them their share
of the public patronage. In this class
may be mentioned Clarkson, Platt,
Quay, etc Another class antagonized
the president from principle, on account
OF his financial policy, his avowed oppo-
sition to the free coinage of silver To
this class belong Teller, Wolcott, Jones,
etc. What course the latter will now
take remains to be seen. The state
convention of Colorado adopted reso-
luton declaring that the republicans of
that state would not support a candi-
date or platform antagonistic to free
silver They have been given both, and
we shall see which is stronger in Color
ado, party ties or principle.
Upon the whole, the convention is
triumph for the money power, all that
the money power could ask, hope for or
desire. The platform offers nothing
new. Its financial declaration means
gold or it means nothing, and we take
it the republican party, as old parties
are apt to do, has missed an opportu-
nifty. 1t has smothered the strongest
available cry that it could have sent
among the people, that of Blaine and
reciprocity. V."-Progressive Farmer.
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COLORADO PoPuLIsTs.

The Peoples Party of Colorado Holds Its
state Convention to Select Delegates to
Omaha.
The peoples convention of this state
to select delegates to Omaha met at
Pueblo on the 18th ult., and was a large
and earnest one. After indorsinQ the
ST Louis platform, the free coinage
plank In italics, the following were ap-
pointed: L G. Berry, editor Industrial
Union, Montrose; jackson Orr, Denver;
D. D. Waite, editor Union Era, Aspen;
]. A. Wayland, editor Coming Crisis,
Pueblo; James Curtis, of the Royal
Gorge, Canon City; s. n. Thompson,
Durango; T. A Southworth, Denver; j.
S. McClelland, Larimer.
The following resolutions were unan-
imously adopted:
For the better protection of productive
labor against the injurious combination Of un-
that there should be placed upon the statute
books Of the state:
l. An eight hour law framed a. 70 compel
q general observance
z A mechanics lien law
An employers liability Law.
L An antf-child labor Law.
5. An anti-Pinkerton law.
g. A law forbidding the future sale Of any
coal lands by the state and providing for the
working by the state Of its own mines upon
such terms as VIII secure fair wages and hui
name treatment 70 miners.
And this convention solemnly pledges this
political organization 70 enact laws in accord
ance with the spirit of the above at the earliest
possible moment within its power.
The following resolution called out
an extended debate, but was finally
passed by an overwhelming vote:
Resolved, That We favor. and II given the
power VIII secure equal rights ~ the ballot
box 70 al citizens Of the state without dfstinc-
tion Of sex.
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NO. T..

81, ,0S0 for each family Of fve-which is
enough to support family in comfort,
not in luxury, in either city or country.
That is, no family need starve, or freeze
or go ragged or shelterless, on an in
come Of s1,osO, which is what the
American people are earning for them
selves 1t is also fact that q city fam
lily cannot be really comfortable on much
less Far mers do not realize the real
cost of the support of their own fami-
lies, and are therefore inclined to think
that city workman is extravagant be-
cause he does not save out of his wages,
while that same city workman is
obliged TO use all he earns and then
often undergoes privations which the
farmer would think pretty hard.
Again some farmers say:
Two dollars day is enough for any
man to get don't believe in such
high wages; don't believe in unions
trying to get wages higher than 81 a
day."
No doubt 50 day would be good
wages in your neighborhood, and would
support a family in comfort You are
probably paying rs cents day, and the
man you employ does not starve.
Neither will he ever be rich, nor will he
be likely to own home Two dol
lars day will not support city family
of five in comfort. 1t will not enable
the laborer to buy home, or to make
provision for old age and sickness.
Ought we not then to sympathize
with the city laborer's attempts
through organization to increase his
wages? Without organization he would
soon be where the English aristocrats
have boasted of having their laborers,
'in the dust where they belong, with
an army to keep them there"
The interests of the worlds workers
are the same everywhere. It is only
the idlers who gain by low wages and q
starving people. When laborers re-
ceive high wages they oan afford to buy
more farm produce and pay better prices
for it. This makes good times for the
farmer, who can afford to buy more
manufactured goods, which makes good
times for the manufacturer, and the
cotton raiser, and the wool producer,
and thus the circle widens and industry
reviveS
Organization is the only hope for the
worlds workers, the only way in which
they can resist the coming slavery, and
all organizations should recognize this
fact and help each other all that lies in
their power. Is it not right, proper
and just that every man who labors
should organize, sgitate. and seek by
every honest means to obtain such a
distribution of the products of labor as
will give him what he really earnsP
Why should he be content with less?
If some one must go hungry, who
should 1t be, the workers or the idlers?
National Economist
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Don't wait Tor . club organizer.
Anybody can be peoples party club
organizer, simply by going to work at
forming club. Take piece Of paper,
write at the top. we. the undersigned,
hereby form ourselves into peoples
party club to be known as the - peo.
pies party club Then go around
among your neighbors and get signers.
Later on meeting Of the club can be
called = Missouri World
"a hired press and hired Speakers. =
control of wires and closing Of uswa
channels, will not head or this araat
agitation of the people against the yob.
berries oa trusts, combines and hnnlrn
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-07-06
WHITELAW REID.
A Traitor to Horace Greeley and the BIZ.
ter Enemy Of Organized Labor.

A Traitor TO Horace Greeley and the Bic.
ter Enemy OF Organized Labor.
During Mr.. Greeley's later editorial
years, Whitelaw Reid, the republican
candidate for the vice presidency, was
managing editor Of the New York Tri.
bune When Mr.. Greeley accepted the
democratic and liberal republican nom-
ination for the presidency in 1872, the
great journalist thought it proper that
he should vacate the editorial chair.
and he, therefore, made Mr.. Reid editor
1n-chief OF the Tribune. This frst
brought the latter gentleman's name
before the people, and because he had
apostatized from the republican party
and was vigorously supporting his late
chief, he was meroilessly caricatured
and lampooned by the republic press.
Once in Mr.. Greeley's place, that gen.
tleman was unable again to displace
him, and crazed by the result of the
campaign and the loss of his paper, the
child of his brain, a madhouse death
closed the great editors career.
Mr.. Reid has ever since held the edi-
torial chair of the Tribune and has
proved himself a brilliant journalist,
but one bitterly opposed to organized
labor. He has been at constant strife
with the printers unions, and the fact
that printer belonged to the union
was all the evidence required to set him
adrift to seek employment elsewhere.
In other words, the Tribune Office has
been what printers call ''rat Office"
one in which organized laborers cannot
find employment It is said this was
changed few days before the Mime
apolis convention, an action that looks
little like death-bed repentance
The most important public position
ever held by Mr.. Reid was that of min
lister to France under the present adj
ministration, in which he seems to have
made very acceptable and digni6ed
officer. He is in every sense plutocrstic,
and an unyielding advocate OF the gold
standard d--Progressive Farmer.
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A PALTRY EXCUSE.
The Democratic Party Claims 1t Never
Had a Chance to Do Anything.

The Democratic Party Claims 1t Never
Had Chance to Do Anything.
Below we present the political make
up of congress, 1872 to 1892. The year
named which congress was elected.
Forty-third congress, 1s72-Repub-
lican senate, democratic house.
Forty-fourth congress, 1s74-Repub-
lican senate, democratic house.
Forty fifth congress, 1s76-Republic-
an senate, democratic house.
Forty-sixth congress, 1s7s-Demo-
cratic senate, democratic house.
Forty-seventh congress, 1ssO-Repub-
hcan senate, republican house
Forty-eighth congress, 1SS2-Repub-
lican senate, democratic house.
Forty-ninth congress, 1SS4-Repub-
lican senate, democratic house.
Fiftieth congress, 1ss6-Republican
senate, democratic house
Fifty-first congress, 1SSS-Republican
senate, democratic house.
Fifty-second congress, 1S9O-Repub-
lican senate, republican house.
In the senate of the Forty-sixth con-
gress there were 33 republicans, AZ dem
ocrats and independent David Davis)
who usually voted with the democrats
In the house there were 131 republicans,
$50 democrats and IL greenbackers
The democrats, therefore, had q clear
majority of 10 in the house. They also
had the help of every one of the 12
greenbackers on every measure intro
duced for the good of the people. The
a pledge to reduce the tariff, abolish
national banks, pay off the national
debt and establish free coinage of silver.
They at once elected S. J. Randall, a
high protective tariff advocate and a
national banker, as speaker of the
house. They did nothing they prom
ised. They did the very reverse 1t is
more than folly for them to say if they
had repealed any of the unjust laws or
passed any good one, Hayes would have
vetoed their action. If he had done this
the responsibility would have rested
on him and the republican party. 1t
was the duty of the democratic con-
gress to place itself on record in the in
terest of the people. But instead of
this it placed itself on record in the in
terest of the money power, the enemy
of the people. 1t has had control of the
liOuoC CNC1 oluCC 1919 Will TWO CACeD-
tions. 1t has always since 1850 had
enough in both the senate and the
house to block the passage of the worst
laws. Yet it has not only never stood
solidly for the people, but has vetoed as
largely in proportion to its strength for
the worst laws-such as the funding
act of April II, 1855, the rechartering of
the national banks in 1882, the pension
steals, land steals, river and harbor
steals, etc.-as the republicans. These
are the facts according to the congress
sional records. Judged by their past
record there is absolutely,no hope for
reform through either old party. We
cannot depend on the democratic party
even for tariff reform in the interest of
the toiling millions. Their platforms
the Mills tariff measure and their acts
in congress prove this. The peoples
party is the only proper home for all
patriots. Worth Exchange.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-07-06
THE OREGON ELECTION.
The Truth Carefully Concealed From the
People.

The truth Carefully Concealed From the
People.
Last week as soon as the special Civ
ing the report from Oregon, signed by
the chairman of the peoples party COM
mittee, was received by our office we
gave copies to both the Sentinel and
News of this city, with request to pub
lish. Neither of them did so. All these
daily city papers are making up for
themselves record of everlasting in
fanny. They claim to be newspapers.
They claim to be ready at all times to
give the general news dispatches, re-
serving only the right to lie and deceive
to their editorial pages. But we know
that their news columns are all fed
from the same plutocratie spoon They
are under a censorship as despotie and
Infinitely more corrupt than the press
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Morthlness ONLY Required.

A Chicago clergyman has recently
made the discovery that there are some
worlzingmen who have white hands.
He rightly estimates that the man who
applies brains as well as muscle to the
task in hand is worthy artisan The
American Federation of Labor recog-
lied this fact; it lays down no rule
that each member must have a certain
degree of hardness of muscle, or shah
biness of clothing. or possess the ac-
cident of skin or sex, but only that its
membership shall be worthy in all
things There is such latitude in its
requirements that it embraces all cali
ings and levels all distinctions; but Its
unity is so remarkable that it is the
mighty force it is to-day.-Midland
Mechanic
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-07-06
A Mistaken PARTY.

The democratic party seems to think
it has said all there is to say in refer
ence to the financial problem, when it
reiterates the stereotyped platitude:
We favor currency of gold silver and Of
paper, convertible into coin at the option of the
holder.
But one of Americas greatest states
men, Daniel Webster, declared:
When ali our paper money IS made payable i
specie on demand it win prove the most certain
means that can be used 70 fertilize the rich
mans neld BY the sweat Of the poor mans
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CHURCHES.

NHRISTIAN.-Preach every Sunday at
~ IL o'clock, II. m, and 1880 p. m. by Elder
j. Is. Nicholson. Prayer meeting every We'd
nesday night. Sunday school at 10 o'clock Il. m.
every Sunday. Pastors residence at the par
sonage study at the chapel,
METHODIST EPISCOPAL.-Servicese every
GN4 Sunday at :OO Il. m. and 30 D. m Srn--
day school every Sunday at 10 a m. PRAYER
meetinA every Thursday evening nj T.a0
Strangers invited. J. NJ. ARCHER. Pastor.
DRESBYTERIAN.-Se Services ev everySundav nt
Z IL Il. IN. and 80 p. m. Sunday School at
10 a. IN.
~ ATHOLIC CHURCH Services once every
~ month in the Gobielle building on North
Mai1 street. REV. o. HARA. Pastor.
GERMAN BAPTIST BRETHREN-Holdr reg
u Ilar services ut Minguua, Barber county,
the second and fourth Sundays in each month.
At Forrest school house on the second Sunday (;
Cedar Greek school house on the third Sunday.
BY Elders Shamberger, Smith and Neher.
GT MARKS MISSION.-Sunday School at
~ $3.50 o'clock on every Sunday afternoon, in
the g. A. Il. hall. Children please come.
pAPTIST.-Preachlng LIST and3rd SundayII a.
- m and at 500 p. m. every Sunday. sun
DAY school at l0o'clock, a N. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening OF each week. Rev. w. A
Cain, Pastor. Residence on Cor. Lincoln Ave.
ana Cherry Streets.
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CIRCULATION.

The Index" has, and can
prove the largest circula-
tion Of any paper in Bar
Der county.
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DELPHIA LODGE, No. 40, X. of p, meets ON
Monday evening of each week, at the h. of z.
hall. Visiting Knights in good standing inVi-
ted to attend. }. NJ. LAHBY, Z. q.
n. NJ. HOUCHIN, X. of Il. u 5.
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u. s. Hall, of Missouri, who tried 20
hard to get mp great anti-subtreasury
movement last year, has been rewarded
with democratic nomination for con-
gress Alliance,
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@ " LOREN EDWARDS CAMP, No. 152
OI Y 5. of ", meets on LIST and 3d Satur-
day evenings of each month, in their hall on
North Main street.
J. u. RoMG, Commander.
l. III. WILLIAMS, Adjutnut,
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X D ELDRED POST, No. ia, meets
VI n M 2d & 4th Saturday i'm each month
otthe court house ia Medicine Lodge, at p. NJ.
All comrades cordially invited.
l.. Il. WILLIAMS, Post Commander.
JOHN W. UPPERMAN, Adjutant.
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A. 0. U. W. Ess!. Sss'$ "a LSase Sas 4,S SG $ay ss
night. 4. NJ. BYERLEY, NJ. w.
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Is YouR TINE ouTs

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SOCIETIES.

n n q LORRAINE CHAPTER, No. 30.
W. liz NS Regular Communications, first
and third Monday evenings in each month.
Mrs. FRANCIS ELLIS, W. NJ.
MAMIE V. . o BRYAN, See.
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NAoMINo. 81. .REBECCA DEGREE. l. o. f
Meets the I'd and 4th Wed. nights, each month
Mrs. II NJ. ALLEN, n. G,
MRS. AUa. SCMIDT, Secy.
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ENSIGN ENCAMPMENT No. 62, |. o. o. F
Meets first and third Friday of each month
Visiting Patriarchs cordially invited TO attend
s. l.. ALLEN H. 7. q. Il. HARRIS, G. i.
w. T. ROUSE, ). W. j. &. w WAl.STAD, ).
The Jersey City news., 1892-02-10
M'LAUGHLIN ASSOCIATION.

Preparing for the Annual Election of
oficers-Judge Knapp's Death.
At the regular monthly meeting of the
Dennis Mclaughlin Association last
evening, President Minihan appointed the
following as Nominating Committee, to
report ticket to be voted at the annual
election of Association officers the second
Tuesday in March:-M. j. O'Donnell, M.
S. Connolly, w. H. Quinn, j. j. Mooney,
M. W. Herrick, w. r. Cook, Superin-
tendent c. P. Smith, j. j. Donnelly !,
j. &. Sweeney and A. J. Cochran. The
committee will meet Monday week, and
will probably, as already told in iHE
NEWS, report the following ticket:-For
President, Police Commissioner John p.
Feeney; First Vice President, William
Foley: Second Vice President, Pierce
Flemming; Financial Secretary, George
Richter; Recording Secretary, William
Obergfell; Treasurer, Street Comm is
sioner John Madden. No opposition is
expected d.
sThe Association, at the instance of As
sistant Prosecutor Noonan, adopted a
resolution expressing regret over the sud-
den death of Justice Knapp, and ad-
journed after receiving into the fold
twenty-one new members. A large ma
jority of the members announced their
Intention of attending the ball of the
Robert Davis Royal Pioneers in Woods
Hall tonight.
The Jersey City news., 1892-02-10
HUGE RAILWAY DEAL.
Jersey Central and Lehigh Valley
Absorbed by Reading.

The Jersey Central and Lehigh Valley
railroads have passed under the control
of the Reading. The Reading guarantees
the payment of dividends up to per
cent. on both Jersey Central and Lehigh
stocks.
The dividends will be, it is said, on a
sliding scale for several years. To secure
this guarantee Reading puts In trust
securities enough to cover the amount
needed each year, which is about 81, 500.
600.
Neither property has been leased to
the Reading, because that is against
the law
Control of the Reading has passed into
the hands of the Drexel-Morgan interest.
and this is supposed TO be the keynote to
the transaction.
The executive officers of the Jersey
Central and Lehigh Valley are to have
conspicuous recognition in the reorgani-
Zation. This combination will control
nearly so per cent. of the coal trade.
The Delaware, Lackawana & Western
is not involved in the deal, except so far
as that COMPANY agrees to cooperate in
governing trade and prices.
1t is understood that the Pennsylvania
Railroad has assented to the agreement
abandon the Southern Pennsylvania
Railroad scheme.
Those who should know said this morn
ing that the combination means higher
prices and better results all around for
the trade.
A meeting of the Presidents of the coal
companies was held in Philadelphia yes
terday. They refused to affirm or deny
the truth OF the report of the consolida-
The Jersey City news., 1892-02-10
A Dishonest Royal Council.

On the occasion of the Empress
Eugenie's visit to Cairo in 1869, Nubar
Pasha was presen ted by Napoleon III
with valuable watch richly set with
diamonds. This watch he was in the
habit of LAYING before him on the table
during the meetings of the council
which were generally held in the even
ing. AT one of the sittings the electric
light suddenly went out. When it was
turned on again Nubar's watch had dis
appeared.
The Pasha scrutinized the faces of his
colleagues one after the other, but not
one WINGED under his gaze. At length
he said:-"Gentlemen. the watch that,
according to my custom, l had lying here
before me has been removed. The door
is locked on the inside, nobody has en-
tered the room IN the meantime and no
body has gone out. attribute the loss
| of the watch to a bad joke or a fit of ab-
straction on the part of one of you gentle
men. | will now turn out the light once
more, feeling convinced that when it is
turned on again the watch will be found
| in the usual place"
The light was then put out. When it
| shone brightly minute later, not only
was the place where the watch had lain
still vacant, but Nubar's beje welled ink
stand, present from Victor Emmanuel,
mad also vanished. Nubar Pasha never
saw these articles again.-NGtiolldl
Zeitung.
The Jersey City news., 1892-02-10
FRANK STOYEKEN KILLED.

Struck by a Central Train While visit
Ing Friends In Bayonne.
Early last evening Frank ]. Stoveken,
the we'll known grocer. of No. 15911 Lin
den avenue, Jersey City, met with hor-
rible death under peculiar circumstances
at Bayonne. Mr.. Stoveken came to that
city with his wife few hours before, and
went to the Bayswater House on New
York bay. About seven o'clock he went
to call upon another friend living near
by, leaving his wife at the hotel. In re-
turning to the hotel he took round
about road TO avoid the Centre street
bridge and muddy streets.
When he reached the East Forty ninth
street station of the Central Railroad OF
New Jersey, west bound freight train
was approaching. The engineer blew
the customary alarm and Mr. Stoyeken
stopped. He stood upon the passenger
platform, along the easterly side of which
the train came laundering by and was
caught by an unusually wide car. which
tore his clothing and swept him under
the passing car wheel The body was
terribly mangled, in fact literally torn tc
pieces.
The body was removed to Speer's
morgue in this city aud notice was sent
to County Physician Converse.
Mr.. Stoveken was forty-five years old
and leaves a widow and two children.