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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-11-24
Hawks Are AFRAID Of Hummine
Birds

p s u Is . { u
Notwithstanding their diminutive
size, pugnacity is one OF the most con-
spicuous traits OF humming birds.
Even kingbirds and the boldest hawks
are afraid Of them, being compelled to.
retreat before the impetuous assaults
OF the tiny warrior, whose boldness is
only equaled by the lightning-like
rapidity Of his movements, thus bafH-
ing any attempt at resistance on the
part Of the more powerful adversary.
The lance-like thrusts Of the needle
like hoax are usually directed at the
eyes of the enemy When two or
more individuals OF either sex happen.
near the same spot spirited and often
violent conflicts are almost certain to
ensue. Boston Transcript.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-11-24
TWO OLD PALS WERE THEY

ALT newsgirl, half
beggar that was
Mans profession.
She was a ragged
mite, picturesquely
clad in a faded cot
ton gown that drag
ged luxuriantly at
the heels Of her
dumping cowhide
shoes. Over her
head the inevitable
shawl, a dingy,
greasy article of I'M
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-11-24
FOR THE BOYS al ID GIRLS,
READING FOR
q III THE YOUNG PEOPLE.
Birds THANK giving Dinner--Vts y
Ions That Disturbed a Greedy
Young Sinners An After
noon Frollc-- Children
Need Sleep.
An Afternoon Frollc.


"Oh, dear, what can we do? asked
Ava, leaning two small elbows on
mammals desk. Can't you please
tell US something to play, you used to
when you were little, mammal
Cause we're 50 lonesome piped Ed
ma.
Poor little girlies! Mamma couldn't
help pitying them just g wee bit. II
was q, cheerless, windy day, and they
were just getting over the measles.
Why don't you swing?" she asked
brightly.
Ava wrinkled up her forehead and
twisted her mouth around.
''I guess-it makes us dizzy, she
said slowly.
cit makes me bizzy, dess too,
echoed Edna.
Mamma laughed. It was plain to
be seen that the doorway swing was
getting to be an old story. She
thought a minute, then she took her
silver thimble from her work basket
and stood up in the middle Of the
room. I
Both OF you go behind the door
and blind your eyes" said she.
"Shut 'em up?" asked Ava.
EYES," said mamma; "and when I
want you to look I'll say, Ready
Then she put the silver thimble in
one corner OF the window-sill, SO it
would be easy to find the first
time.
'Ready!' she cried; ''now hunt the
thimble." And then she held her
hand as high from the floor as the
window-sill was, and sang:
Little Biddy Bye
About SO hight
just exactly as she used to sing it
when she was a little girl.
Then how they hunted here, there
and everywhere except in the corner
of the window. 1t was Edna who
spied the thimble there at last, and
caught it up with a gleeful shout:
sHere be it! here be it!''
a Very well, said mamma, Laughing.
'sNow it's Edna's turn TO hide it. But
] want to use my thin bic; get some
thing else"
So Edna brought a spool Of twist,
and mamma fastened the end so it
wouldn't unwind any more. and then
Ava blinded while Edna hid the
.sthimble'' under the cricket cover.
!. Such fun as it was! The little girls
forgot all about being lonesome.
Once when Edna blinded her brown
eyes in mamma lap, mamma hid the
Eattnimble', in funny place. She wound
the little end of twist around one of
Edna's tier blu, tons.
#4 Little Biddy Bye,
Bout SO HIGH"
sang Ava, putting her hand over her
mouth. Look real sharp, Edna
But Edna could t find it, though she
looked every one Of the hiding-places
over and through; at last she had to
give up. And just then the twist un-
wound itself and dropped the spool.
Then how they laughed; but mamma
said Edna must pay aforfeit for giving
up.
..Molasses candy will be just the
thing" said she ':Run out in the
kitchen, and if Mary is done forming
she may make you some. =
ooh, goody!" cried the children,
both together this time; and away
they ran.
Visions That Disturbed Greedy
Young Sinner the Night Following
Thanksgiving.
It was Thanksgiving evening, and Tommy
bob slept,
While over his pillow Thanksgiving dreams
crept.
They whispered, the while he grew rigid
with fear:
Look out, for the ghosts Of the slaughtered
ore near.
~
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-11-24

And ~ q they I'll vanished. and he wa,.
i alone.
: !.
Ton'mylbob has decided q greedy young
sinner &
Has to pay 9, g big price for Than wing
And that eating to live will make much
finer living
Than living to eat, as he did on Thanksgiv.
Golden Days
Birds Thanks giving Dinner.
Mamma was reading to Alice and
Nellie about the customs Of children
in other lands, and telling them how
they often fed the birds at Christmas
time. #l.8
6 I'll tell you what we will do, Allie,n
cried Nellie, when mamma had gone
upstairs with baby. s Let us give our
birds some thanksgiving. There are
the blue iaysI guess they will come
and tho moose birds--I know they
will and maybe the cross bills"
Let's do it." echoed Allie, and they
ran away to the great storero ON.
They were Laughing merrily as
they tied their bundles to the clothes
horse which stood on the veranda.
They will never dare to come here"
said Nellie. Then we must carry the
clothes horse out by the barn."
said Allie. So they pulled and
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-11-24

Shabby Ungented gent" (reading
g letter just received Ny dear old
boy come and join Us Thanksgiving
Day at an informal dinner. Russ
Sage, Rufe Hatch, Bill Wand erbilt,
Willy Wally and q few Others OF our
3bot will be there. You don e need to
wear full dress that same old suit.
will y da. Yours fraternally, j Az
GOULD. y3s A
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-11-24
Do not leave the turnips out too

IN Ireland there are 40, 600 mud
cabins consisting Of but q single room.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08

no longer anxious to be considered
in the field, and the men who a few
weeks ago were limiting that the
MOOrhead statesman desired the
earth are no longer opposing his
nomination.
Il haveno objection to Comstock's
nomination" remarked one of the
seventh district republican leaders
yesterday. There is no possible
show for republican against Boon.
and l don't know of a man l would
rather see beaten than Comstock.
He has grown rich in politics and can
afford to make a losing race; and,
besides, another defeat would retire
him, and l think it is time for him to
step aside and give some one else a
chance"
Halvor E. Boon, the man who will
in all probability succeed Kittel Hal
vOrsen is q man Ofabilitv. Heis pol
itieal organizer and manager of rare
skill, and is the man to. whom credit
is due for the overthrow OF the repub-
lican party in his own county.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08
The S VS.. the Man.

party existed the history this country
plain fully
feelings and their interests There
the political oday Both the old
organizations dominated by the
Whenever and wherever the growth the peoples
candidates Of the have combined
could demonstrate clearly their community
truth this
the old parties united pepetuae udaywe
evidence state In the
placed nomination their candidate
Judge whose ability
for the protection their under the
against the sdous
again the old parties will unite No
by either party will be- To place
his defeat but the the old parties will support
the district, nomination nomination.
In district
peoples a. E. The candidate
will endorse the nomination.
their political identity despite the fuss OF
the sham fight the tariff schedule
county, reliable the
putocrac element both parties will combine down
them fuseit will show the people
they the the puocracy
the real which they being
mstones We will treat them surprise
the votes counted next fall
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08

The character sketch of ''his hat
ship" Benjamin Harrison, candi-
date of the Plutocracy for president
of the o. S., which appears in July
number of the Review of Reviews, was
written by Gen. Thos. Morgan, close
personal and political associate of
TIE president, and gives the heir of
grandfather tile q very shiny coat
of whitewash. The August number
will garnish the stuffed prophet Of the
democracy with a like dress. As the
Review of Reviews is non-partisan
magazine and publishes these sketch
es on account OF their timeliness, we
may expect that the September num-
Der will contain faithful reviews of
the next president of the United
States who was nominated by the
people at Omaha last Monday, to-
gether with a galaxy of portraits OF
the leaders who have created the
new party and led it on to success.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08
Mr. Donnelly Replies to Mr. Tucker.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:


EDITOR GREAT VEST
OF vaciy has between Hon
and myself the the Uur bill
Bull Wright the legislature
Cottonwood county that Mr. Tucker charging
bill the
reduced the
forfeiture
bill and thus the what they asked
failure to take it up dishonest, corrupt
"a short horse curred"
Tucker Windcm whole oues-
ton. He says:
This BILL introduced by Mr. Bull intended
chap &C. General Laws OF 1879 striking the words
(6) and eight ~ in lieu thereof
Precisely That what stated The bill amended
the Usuy Law and other of the sections OF the BILL And
ton three of the bill is this provision:
Provided further that OF interest
not shall
constitute uSury"
passed bill
un-hunder without lightning declaration that the
eest should be eight per with unraed provision
the charge
penalty Of forfeiture OF principal interest.
regard Bull probably
the Mr. republicans reflect him
saul+s
Every grain passage
bill would farthng
Respectfully
roNNELLY.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08

The Cleveland boom at Chicago
was engineered by Whitney the
Standard oil millionaire. How could
a man be SO stepped in hypocracy as
to sit and listen to the living lie put
forth in the democatic platform de-
nouncing trusts-when he represents
the most gigantic one on the record.
And yet there are working men. toll
ers. and producers who will vote that
ticket, will swallow the standard Oil
company and all the other monopol-
les without making wry face. Some
are to slavery born,-others forge
their own chains and glory in their
shame. Bretheren, wake up! "Be
not like dumb, driven cattle-be a
hero in the STRIFE"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08
aEMseR REFORM PRESS ASSOCIATION
Sr. PAUL, MIMI, JULY s, 1892.
State Convention Of the Peoples Party.


state convention of the peoples party Of the
United States, for the state Of Minnesota will be
held at 10 O'Clock m. July ID. 1892, in Market
mating candidates for the offices Of Governor.
LiuteDant Governor, Secretary OF state. state
Treasurer, Attorney General, Clerk OF
the Supreme Court, three judges OF the supreme
court. and nine electors Of president and trans
acting euch other business as may properly
come b fore it.
The said convention shall consist as follows;
1. One delegate from each local far mers alli-
ance in this State.
2. One delegate from each local labor organ
iZatiOn N this state which was in existance prior
to March IS. 1892.
3. One delegate from each county in the state.
4. One additional delegate from each county
cor each five hundred votes or mayor fraction
thereof cast therein for s. M. Owen for governor.
in 1890
S. The delegates from the counties shall be
elected by county conventions to be constituted
a. Three delegates from each local alliance
In said county.
b. Three del, gates from each local labor or
ganizaton in said county.
g. One delegate from each township in said
county
d. One delegate from each ward OF any town
or CITY in said county; or in the cities OF Mime
apoIis, ST. Paul, and Duluth one delegate from
each precinct instead OF each ward:
6. No proxies shall be admitted in the state
convention, but the same delegate from any To-
cal alliance Oh labor organization may represent
any other local alliance or labor organization in
present it.
z. The county alliances and labor organiza-
tions authorized to elect alternates who will
be empowered act In eaid state convention
only in case Of the absence of the delegate.
To facilitate the transaction OF business the
secretary of each local alliance and labor organ
ization and county conventions which has
elected delegates TO said state convention, is re-
quested to send the names Of the said delegates
at once with name OF the alliance or labor or
ganiz ton and the P o. address OF the delegates
to the secretary OF the executive committee Of
the peoples party Of Minnesota. Louis Hanson.
Sabin. CLAW county, Mimi. Mr. Hanson W II
thus be able to prepare roll Ct the delega, es
and save much time and expense to the men,
bers of the convention.
As funds will be very necessary to pay the ex-
penses of the convention and carry on the cam
paign work OF the peoples party and we have no
wealthy Rings Corporations to call upon,
each delegate is requested to collect contribu-
tions from the supporters Of the party in his
neghbo:hood and bring them to the convention
The list of contributors will be hereafter pup
ished in the peoples party papers.
THOMAS J. METGHEN
LOUIS HANSON, Sec'y. Chairman
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08

John F. Willets during the state
convention in Kansas, said:
81 have recently spent several
weeks in the South and all over this
country. I was asked by alliance
brothers if we we're going to fuse with
the democrats in Kansas. we are
fighting them down here as you are
fighting the republicans in Kansas
said they. For Gods sake don't
fuse with them Those are nv senti-
ments exactly" continued Willets,
'and l beg OF you to sit down on any
man or set of men who attempt to
fix up fusion schemes. Let all our
candidates, no matter what the re-
suit, carry the little white standard
in the middle OF the road, let those
candidates be true, straight men,
pledged to our principles, and We will
give them victory"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08
A Hopeless Crowd.

Since the nomination of Hon. 81. e,
Boon for member Of congress in the
7th district the republican nomina-
ton there goes begging. The situa-
tion is summed up in Tuesday g press
dispatches as follows:
THE nomination of Hon. 81. E.
Boon. Of Otter Tail county, for con-
gress by the peoples party Of the 7th
district, has knocked the wind COM
pletly out of the republican politi-
clans Of the district, and a general
exodus to the rear has commenced.
Ex-C Congressman S. g. Comstock is
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08
DARLINGTON PHELPS,
The Banker Who Masquerades Alliance Clothes
New Scheme Which he Thinks is '1Out Of Sight,

The BANKER who MaSqueradeS Alliance Clothes
a New Scheme Which he Thinks is tout Of Sight,
Phelps Minneapolis the front the
Minneapolis Tribune the OF Humo These the
the Tribune:
combine brief and without political
dates and and then adjourn and
will d
Mr. Phelps supplements his general scheme with plan which
to the platform viii
believes the alliance can
the state There he Of the
must M be gsfn WANTS be the candidate for
has second he persuaded
the bs bin For the office
Years experience now and would
B Fsf ass es
THE COMING CONVENTION
Asked the Alliance
old
falling into line and getting ready elect delegates the state
snon that ready to take up the they left after
fair The peo
portonl for that There will delegate each
But the big does make much
BY political
different Their candidates their placed
tickets through the aid OF G IT. bother to get these petitions
greatly This condition aa Donney and his political
awakng the facts them line with the old alliance
Mr. Phelps pleased with the prospects having
Erwin his side during the campaign Hs said Mr. Erwin would doubt
less be the principal speaker-Ninneapolis Tribune
The alliance the great Minnesota
Joker Phelps proposition. Let's he wants
1st The Governor who appoints the railroad
3D. The Lieutenant Governor who appoints the
3d. The Attorney General who manages the prosecution of
tresspass against the commonwealth.
The Joker have had assistance evolving this
cunning suggests Exrpub
railroad commissioner Jimbaker.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08

Complaint comes to us from Swift
county that the GREAT WEST did
not publish a report sent to us OF
the proceedings OF the meeting of the
Swift county alliance and that we
are accused of refusing to publish
these proceedings without pay. Ii
those of our friends who find oc-
casion for such complaints will bear
in mind that there are more than
1,4OO sub-alliances in the state and
that within few weeks these have
nearly all held primaries and sent re-
ports to us and that within the same
time county, legislative, and con-
gressional conventions have been
held, it will be apparent to them that
the columns of one newspaper are in
capable of holding them all. We
have "boiled down" and condensed
the reports into paragraphs to make
room for more of them. Such as
have not appeared have been omit
ted for sheer lack of room. The
claim that we have ever demanded
money or refused to publish proceed
ings without money is unqualiaedly
false and cannot be substantiated in
q single instance.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08

The Pioneer Press is wriggling,
twisting, and squirming in the
throes OF agony. 1t is trying to get
out of paying the lawyers their legal
fees for defending it in the famous
Donnelly libel Suit. Our readers all
remember that Mr.. Donnelly came
out victor over that villifying and
pernicious sheet. 1t now appears
that the concern, determined to get
satisfaction from some source,
proposes to beat its attorneys,
Messrs. Flandreau, Cutcheon and
Squires, out of $4,000 due them in
fees. AS has been stated in the
GREAT WEST, that monumental lie
which the P. P. uttered against
Hon. Ignatius Donnelly will cost
them a hill of "gelt'-from nine to
twelve thousand Tablespoonful
they PONY up and pay their hon.
est debts. 1t is the very irony OF
fate" that Flandreau Cutcheon and
Squires haveretained Cy. Wellington,
who conducted MIR. Donnelly's libel
suit, as their attorney against the
Pioneer PRESS. The notorious Bill
King should again rush TO the as
sistance to the P. P. in this it's SUI
preme hour OF financial need. He
Shouldn't orto, leave his pal'' in
such sorrv perdicament.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08

The Colorado delegation to the
democratic national convention are
outspoken and emphatic in their de-
nunciation the atplatform adopted at
Chicago on account of it's attitude
toward silver. J. j. Donovan, one OF
the stalwart democrats of that Estate,
in an interview said:
II don't believe that Harrison will
et more than Is per cent of the re-
publican votes OF Colorado, just be-
ause Of the silver plank in the Min
bapolis platform. That adopted by
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08
NOTICE

In consequence Of the change of the
place OF meeting OF the state conven-
ton of the peoples party from Mime
apolis to St. Paul. the meeting OF the
executive committee of the state
farmers alliance will be held at the
Merchants Hotel st. Paul at 10 a. m.
July 10Th, instead OF at Minneapolis
as heretofore announced.
We are also informed that T. j.
Meighen, Chairman OF the peoples
party executive committee has called
a meeting of the committee to be held
at the same time and place.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08

this convention is q little better, but
not much, and l don't believe that
our candidates can poll a much
larger proportion of democratic
votes. The third party is bound to
carry the state. 1t would be bad
politics for us to attempt to carry
the state on the straight democrat
issue, for that would only increase
the chances of the republicans. We
do not think the convention treated
us fairly."
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08

The Omaha train that conveyed
the st. Paul delegation to the
Omaha convention was held up by
masked robbers Friday night be-
tween St. James and Kasota juno
ton. The robbers secured nothing.
They were certainly not up in poll
tics or they would never have tackled
a delegation of peoples party men in
the hope of securing swag.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08
l.. G. Long.

L. c. Long for Congress, on the
peoples party ticket! Who is Long?
lis the question asked, and which we
shall briefly attempt to answer. MIR.
Long was born in this country andis
about 4S years of age. He came to
this state with his parents, at the
age of eleven, settling in Mobiles ccun-
ty, where henow resides. At the ear
~ age of seventeen he enlisted in the
civil war and served his country we'll
during it's most trying period. He
was a republican during the early
days OF the party of Lincoln, Seward
and Chase. In later years, when the
party that freed the black slaves be-
gan to give aid and support to such
Legislative measures as has rapidly
tended towards making the once free
tOiler OF America as much of serf to
multi-milliOnaires and an unjust f.
nancial system as was his black bro
ther of the South, before the war, g.
slave under the plantation rawhide,
MIR. Long Joined the opposition. He
was presentat the birth OF the ALI
ance and has helped nurseit until it has
become the gigantic organization
that will this fall, place him in Mr..
Lind's chair in congress. Mr.. Long
has not an extended acquaintance
throughout the district, which is ac-
counted for by the fact that he is
farmer who has preferred to. stay at
home and attend to his daily duties,
rather than to be q seeker for office.
Although a man of much ability
and a, good stock of information
which he uses to good advantage on
the platform, he has always been con-
tented to be a worker in the ranks.
Even at the convention, when his
name was mentioned he made an ear
nest speech asking the convention to
select some other candidate. he is
man taken from the obscure and
unpretending ranks OF the great COM
mon people, against his own will and
expectation, brought out to lead to
victory cause in which he has been
a contented and earnest worker.
Here is an honest man whom we can
all support and whom we can elect if
We but do our dLty.-Western Guard.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08

Press reports from Philadelphia
under date of June 20, state that a
body of PinKerton detectives were
sent from that city to Carnegie steel
works at Homestead Pa, and that
800 more Pinkerton men would leav
on the following day to assist in
compelling submissiveness of the
5000 employees to Carnegie's shear
ing process which scales down their
wages from 20 to so per cent.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08

There is little fear of Whitelaw
Reid fooling the typestickers, by his
closing act OF employing union print
ers in his shop in New York. Typos
are too smart chaps to be blarnied
into voting for such a plutocratic
nabOb as Rat Reid. The Rat and the
Hat are sure to scat, in November
NEXT
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08

Mr.. J. M. Milholland, of Beatrice,
Neb., says. There never was a time
in Nebraska when the people OF Ne
braska were in such good condition
to be converted. They seem to be
stunned by the old party nomina-
tions, and don't know which is which
if the name was taken away. We
the people are in it in Nebraska.
Count us in on the Omaha nOmi-
nees.''
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08
600 Co0verts!

At the Kansas State Convention
last week a club of republicans from
a large inland city, 600 strong, left
the convention, tore off the republi-
can badges and replaced them with
peoples party badges. This news set
the Omaha convention wild!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08

The detection from the democratic
party is great. The unfulfilled prom
ises that stand against them On the
silver. the tariff and other important
questions is IS q mill stone hung to
it's neck. which will bring to the peo-
pies party hosts of voters, who see
things an thew are.