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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-19
The Miss ouri Force Bill.


The supreme council of the Farmers
Alliance at Ocala gave the force bill it's
first black eye and the republican sem
ate, not the democratic house, killed it.
But it was the democratic house that
passed the Oats bill, which was worse
than the Harrison force bill And il
was the same democratic house that re-
fused to pass the Bland silver bill,
while the republican senate passed even
a better silver bill 1t was the demo
cratic party in the state Of Missouri
that fastened a worse force bill on the
voters of this state than was ever the
southern ''force bill" by attaching the
three per cent. clause to the Australian
system of voting, for the purpose OF
continuing the democratic and repub-
lican parties in power by suppressing
the rights of the people at the polls in
behalf of the reform movement. But
the democratic party leaders are dumb
on the subject when the Missouri
s.force bill' is mentioned, and why?
Because it will not bear the light of in
vestigation. OF course we have no
hope of the republican party ever doing
us any good. But it is the height Of
folly, in the light of recent facts, to try
to make us believe that there is any
hope for relief through the democratic
party.-Marshal (Mo.) Alliance Watch
man.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-19

edge Of tactics continually pressing
his enemy into the defensive, never
wasting moment upon his opponents
opinions" At the last one held before
this writing the state organizer of re-
publican clubs, who is also editor Of
the Minneapolis Tribune, weekly edi-
.tion) was the challenger. TWAS before
town audience hall full, and lasted
all one afternoon and evening. When
the chairman put the question to vote,
the entire audience arose for DIR. Fish
and the peoples party; for Organizer
Smith and the republican party, not q
solitary vote!
That the institute is success, with
all its adjutant measures, seems like q
dream to the weaker alliances. It
o'ertops anything ever undertaken by
the old parties, and they win never be
forgotten in this state. They demon
strate the singular organizing and ex-
ecutive strength of the state lecturer of
task or peril.
DR.. Fish was born in New York in
1S45. He is of medium size, weighing
about 100 pounds, fair complexion and
blue eyes. 1t is difficult to imagine this
social, genial man, who is so fond of
young peoples and childrens society,
to be the author of the bisterest
invectives and most terrible phillip
pics ever used either in journal
ism or on the rostrum. His educa-
ton is profound, extending into
Sanskrit and Egyptology, and quite all
the modern sciences. He is the author
of textbook on chemical analysis, a
work on the Egyptian pyramids, ''Don-
nelleana" and various pamphlets, but
hekprobably never undertook a more
gigantic task than the conduct of the
Minnesota campaign for the peoples
party, although the wheat fight" has
made him famous. For three years he
has been ''in the saddle" campaigning
all the time, flying from hamlet to
hamlet, paying his own expenses when
necessary and often sleeping in sod
shantieS
Minnesota is proud of two men, Hon.
Ignatius Donnelly and Everett w. Fish.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-19
THE crisis IS COMING.

Strike It the Ballot Box, Mon, and Drivs
Out tho Horde Of Plutocratic RobberA
It IS coming.
The crisis il nearly at hand Now
comes the showdown between capital
and organized labor
The iron plutocrats have issued the
ultimatum: mo union men need apply.
To themselves they assign the exclusive
power to organize and Cypress.
Labor, they say, must not organize
for protection i
# they win this fight against labor,
what will become of labor?
Is there any half way house between
freedom and slavery?
Don't all answer at once.
VIII the honest yeomanry Of this
country bow their necks to the yoke?
Are they ready to bare their brawny
breasts to the piercing bayonets of
Pinkerton's army of cut-throats?
No! MOI! A thousand times no.
Better die protecting homes and
babies than live to see them starved to
death.
Strike at the ballot box, men.
Strike hard and clean out the tools of
plutocracy who have secured control of
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-19
The Homestead War,

Is it any wonder that humanity,
downtrodden by such shameless de-
vices, frightened, Infatuated, should
lose sight of the respect which is due
property and the law, and resist the
movement for its final subsection? The
Globe thinks not. The war between
the common people carrying their own
muskets and the millionaires who have
fattened on their labor is come at last.
God save the union from the shock
which will follow. We have planted
ourselves on lie for a quarter Of a
century, and the flimsy foundation is at
last giving away. Wealth acquired by
robbery has now to maintain itself by
the force of arms. The land of freedom
is turned into field of bloodshed, and
the air is full Of threats of vengeance,
because the oppressed are awakening
to a realization Of how they have been
cheated-St Paul Globe.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-19


Harvest Excursions will be run via
"The North Western Line" c., St.
P, NJ. & 0. Ry., on August 80, and
September ~, 1892, from St. Paul,
Minneapolis and stations East and
North st. Paul to all points West
of and including st. James and
Sleepy Eye, Mimi, in Minnesota,
South Dakota, Northwestern Iowa,
Nebraska, Wyoming and the Black
Hills on the Chicago, st. Paul, Min
neapolis & Omaha, Chicago & North
western and Fremont, Elkhorn &
Missouri Valley Railways.
Harvest excursion tickets will also
be sold to Omaha, St. Joseph, At
Gibson, Leavenworth and Kansas
City and to all points in Kansas,
Colorado. Utah, Oklahoma, Arkan-
sas and Texas and to certain points
in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama
and louisiana.
Tickets will be sold at very low
rates and will be good to start on
day of sale and good to return with
in twenty days.
For rate to any particular point,
through car service or any informa-
ton call on agents of THE North
Western Line" or address
T. w. TEAsDALE,
Gent Pass. Agent, st. Paul, MINI.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-19
Generous Mr.. Frick.

Mr. Prick, in his testimony before the
congressional committee, stated that
296 men were employed in open hearth
department No and about 100 were
affected by the reduction offered. The
following reply has been prepared by
the locked out men of that department:
''There are 1872 tonnage men affected
by the proposed reduction. They pro
duce on daily average of twenty-four
hours 1856 tons of steel ingots. In
Shoeneberger's open hearth depart
ment at the same number of furnaces
as in No. 2, 1853 tonnage men are re-
quired to produce 1872 tons of steel in
gots. At one particular position in the
two mills the Homestead man would
receive s14. Is per ton. In ShoeDeberg-
er's he would receive $13. In Home
stead If any accident occurs to the heat
of the.s steel the. men get no pay for it,
while in Shoeneberger's they would be
paid by the day, be the steel good OF
had"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-19
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

If the plutocrats really want q rev
olution all they have to do is to 'spress
the button."-Indiana Union
The American labors to show that
Gen. Weaver has been most bitter en-
envy of the democratic party. Had he
not been the peoples party would never
have placed its banner IN his hands
Weekly Toiler.
-Workingmen, which will you do,
think or fight? One or the other you
must do soon. If you refuse to think
you will soon have to fight unless you
will consent to be slaves Spokane
Wash. Alliance Manifesto
1t is probable that the resistance of
the Homestead employees of Mr.. Carne-
gle to his reduction Of their means of
existence will fail Justice is with
them and the law is with him. They
can remedy their wrongs when they
choose by striking at the polls.
The Denver Daily News, the lead
ing democratic newspaper west of ST.
Louis, says: ''The fight the silver men
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-19
How's This!

We offer One Hundred Dollars re-
ward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Halls Cattarrh
Cure.
FL. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have Known
F. j. Cheney for the last Is years,
and believe him perfectly honorable
in all business transactions AMI An
ancially able to carry out any obi
cations made by their firm.
WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Drug
gists, Toledo, O.
WALDING KINNAN & MARVIN, Whole
sale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces Of the system.
Testimonials sent free. Price 75c.
per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-19
WHO KNOWS?
Is 1t Not Possible That Weaver's Chan
Are az Good as Any?

Is 1t Not Possible That Weaver's Chances
Are as Good as Any?
The final wind-up of the silver bill
was reached on last week in the house,
and clean Knockout was the result
After all the platform resolutions, be-
fore and after conventions, the voice of
the people is not regarded, and Wall
street reigns supreme. The question to
take up the Stewart bill was killed by
the following vote: Yeas, 1856; nays,
1874. Democrats voting yea, 11S; peo-
pies party, 10; republicans 8; total, 1856.
Democrats voting nay, 81; republicans
voting nay, 60; total, 1854.
It is pleasing to note that every peo-
pies party man was true for the meas
ure. 1t is also gratifying to note that
the per cent. of democrats voting for
the bill was greater, by far, than our
republican brethren. Why is it that
republicans have gone back on such
platform statements as were adopted
in Topeka in 1890, which were as fol-
lows:
''The practical operation of the silver
act, now in force, recently passed by a
republican majority and opposed by a
democratic majority, in both houses of
congress, is rapidly increasing the value
Of silver. is good step in the right di-
rection; but we, the republicans of Kan
sas, demand the free coinage of silver,
measure strongly opposed and vigor-
ously denounced by the late democratic
administration, led by ex-President
Grover Cleveland"
And on January 4, 1891, the Topeka
Capital said: ''Stop your windy
speeches about the election bill Pass
the Plumb measure for the free coinage
Of silver, and give the country one or
two hundred millions more of paper
currency.
And yet after all this pretense to re-
lieve the people, only eight republicans
voted for the bill Oh, how they honor
the late Plumb, and the fight he made
for free silver! But, Wall street said,
'No," and they make the laws not the
people. How long; oh, Lord! how long?
-Emporia Kan. Tidings.
The vote of these free silver demo
Gratis and republicans in the face of the
terrible pressure that must have been
brought to bear upon them would seem
to indicate that they are true friends to
the cause of the common people. In
case the election of a president should
be thrown into the house, and the re-
publicans, including the eight who
voted for free silver, should support
Harrison, the free silver democrats and
populists would yet have a majority OF
thirty-four over the anti-free silver or
Cleveland democrats We shall see
what we shall see. Who knows what
we may see? GEORGE c. WARD.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-19
A Political BoYcott.

The Ventura (Calo Unit publishes a
most pathetic letter from one Benjamin
A. Rice, of Hueneme, that state. Mr..
Rice has been refused the privilege of
releasing land he has brought under
cultivation, and on which he has
erected a humble home His landlord
gives these good and sufficient reasons
for desiring to be rid of his tenant:
Rice went to Los Angeles last fall as
a delegate to the state convention of
the Farmers Alliance and also to Mont
alvo to make a stump speech, and he
goes to church, and want man to
stay at home" Let our grand old
parties pass some more resolutions OF
sympathy for the evicted Irish tenants
Of cruel English landlords. Wang uard
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-19

will make against Cleveland and Harri-
son will be earnest, intelligent and sue
cessful. Colorado is not gold-bug
state, and this the people will prove in
November"
The force bill is a species of politi-
cal slight of hand or legerdemain pro-
posed by eastern democrats (?) through
eastern republicans in the interest OF
the money power. 1t won't work. The
people of the west and northwest
pledged the south at Omaha that il
shall never become a law.-Southern
Mercury.
The question is, shall we keep a
standing army to compel labor to obey
the commands of corporate capital OF
starve, and force the farmer to foot the
bill? Carnegie and the old parties, by
their acts, say yes. The peoples party,
no never. Every man must answer for
himself. What say you?-Brookfeld
(Mo) Union.
Labor builds palaces and lives in
novels. Labor builds palace cars and
rides in the smoker. Labor weaves
Administer and Moquette carpets, and
lives on bare floors. Labor makes silks
and satins and wears cottonades and
calico. Labor raises sirloin steaks and
belly.-Arkansas Farmer.
These protectionists who are al
ways talking about property rights, and
against paternalism, are always calling
on the government to help them accu-
mulate property, and then when they
get more than they can handle, they
want the state and national govern
ments to help them take care of i.
That is paternalism with vengeance.
Exchange.
Gen. Weaver seems likely to utterly
side-track Harrison and throw the cleo.
ton of president into the house where
it is supposed Cleveland would be
elected, but it is possible some of the
democrats in the house may be switched
over into the nearer through train.
Everything political as well as atmos.
pherical has a chaotic outlook.
State Reflector.
u. s. Hall still says he is an alli-
ance democrat. Ha, ha! The idea.
Might as well speak of Christian in
fidel. The two are opposite. The time
has passed when any allianceman can
conscientiously belong to either of the
old political parties. There is nothing
in the alliance constitution to prevent
it, but there is something in the educa-
ton he has received in the alliance
which drives him far away from either
of them.-Torch of Liberty.
1t might, however, be prudent TO,
this same banking power to reflect upon
the fact that no matter what political
influence may be brought into play,
President Harrison may be expected to
veto any and every form of free coinage
which is not international in its scope,
and that the next president, be he Mr..
Harrison or Mr.. Cleveland, will equally
protect .he country against any merely
national free coinage. For five years,
therefore, the country is safe against
this danger; and, at the expiration Of
that time, the heresy will have found
its destiny in the tomb Of exploded pop
ular fallaciea Henry Clews' Wall
Street Review.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-19
Advice to Carnegie.

At the close of newspaper interview
in relation to the Craftsmanship of the
republican national committee, ex-
Chairman Clarkson touched Carnegie up
in the following style: 'Carnegie's vast
fortune has been made by his working
men and he has written much about
the responsibility Of wealth. Now il
his opportunity to sustain his reputa-
ton as a philapthropist His work.
men must be right in their contentious
There have been no such commissions
in business as could possibly make
these great reductions necessary. Mr..
A. Carnegie should settle the difficulties
at once and be generous to those men.
He has discussed the beauties of CO.
operation in magazine articles and he
should now put his theories into prac-
tice"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-19

nearly every branch of government.
Drive out the hook-nosed Shylocks
whose glittering gold has perverted and
destroyed the democratic principles Of
Jefferson and republican wisdom of
Lincoln.
Drive 'em out.
Drive 'em out at the ballot box.
When that fails. then and only then
will you be justified in declaring war;
This scheme of public plundering, tax
eating currency contraction has reached
the end of its rope.
It must stop now.
A peaceful victory we hope and pray
! for, but victory it must be, even
though the long roll once more be
heard in the land to awaken down.
trodden, tax-ridden people to arms.
There is an end to all things.
We have arrived at the end
When it comes to struggle between
organized monopolies and trusts with
their edicts to organized labor unions,
the unions will win.
Plutocracy might as well take heed
now and assist in preventing the spill
ing of blood.
Whitelaw Reid's nomination upon the
tail of the republican wing of the gold
party ticket is direct challenge to
fight.
Cleveland's nomination upon the dem
ocratic wing of the gold party ticket is
another slap at the people who cry out
in anguish against the further rule of
the money power.
The turn in the road has been
reached
Down with monopoly.
Down with trusts.
Down with the Carnegiea
Down with the Reds.
Down with the gold party, and for
the sake of home and the republic crush
Harrison and Cleveland, the two men
above all men who stand as fgure-heads
for the Shylocks.
God pity the laboring men of this ma
ton if the fight now being waged by
the old party campaign fund raisers
succeeds Road
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-19

complete remedy for the hardships now
being imposed by the republican and
democratic parties upon all classes OF
wealth producers in the interest of the
money power. That remedy is a con-
stitutional and peaceable one and re-
quires at the hands of the workmen
that they throw down the Winchester
and take up the ballot
Until every effort and power in this
direction is exhausted, the peoples
party will stand by the constitutional
power of the state to enforce obedience
to the public will in accordance with
existing forms of law.-Lamar ONO
Industrial Union.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-19

At Quitman, Ca, last week a
joint discussion was to have been
held between Coils. Post and Peek,
for the peoples party and du Bignon,
Turner and Hammond for the DEM
ocrats. The democrats did not show
up. The p. p. speakers held a large
meeting. The democrats tried to
break pp the meeting, and after
wards tried to assassinate the two
speakers As it was, Peek was
struck with a rock. The peoples
party men stood by Post and Peek.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-19

"A consignment Of full blooded
'snigger force bills has been received
from democratic headquarters by the
local committee, and will shortly be
turned loose in Barton county. Keep
your children in after dusk. -Industrial
Union.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-19

Gen. c. 81. Van Wyck was nomin-
ated for governor on the independ-
emit ticket in Nebraska, at the state
convention, held last, week.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-19

The Homestead workman should
first learn how to use ballot before
he takes up Observation-Disclosures
Union.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-19
NEW METHOD OF CAMPAIGNING.

The .Fish Institutes" Of Minnesota Ars
Doing . Great Work.
There may not be many things new
under the sun, but certainly DR.. Everett
w. Fish, state lecturer of the Minnesota
alliance, has inaugurated method
which is new and remarkable. It re-
quires a little nerve and dash to set thu
method in motion. A county attorney
who was known to have a great hostil-
ity to DIR. Fish once heard group o,
village people denouncing the doctor
and the peoples cause.
''Wcll," said the attorney, 81 will say
this for the doctor, no man ever called
him a cowardr'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-19
NOMINATED For CONGRESS.

susqucianna. Penn. Aug. ls.-At the Republican
Congressional Conference, held nj Iunharno'k yes
terdny, Myron H. Wright, Of Susquehannl. Wa nom
mated by accams Ion for the third crm for Congress
man the XVIII District. composed ~ the counties
II snsquchanna. Erudford, Wyoming aud Wayne.
Troy y. " Aug. Isl. Wesley Jones. of Chat
nam Columbia County, was this afternoon nominated
Tor congress BY the Prohbluousts Of this CQ-.--css
District
Ist Congress District to-day nominated George NJ
Bussum for Congress the first ballot. Mr. Bussnm
is ono Of the most popular Republicans In the eastern
part of the state
HiloM, Mis- Ang. ls-1hc Democratic Convention
~ the With Congress District yesterday rcnonlnaed
T. s. otccliac.
Port llurOn Mich. Aug. 1s.--The Republicans Of
tho With Congress District to-day nominated for
congress Phillip L. wi1on. OF sanac County.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-19
TIE DELAWARE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION

Dover Del, Aug 1s.-rhc Republican State Con
yentIon was called to order at II II. m. by General
wilson, chairman Of the State Central Committee.
After short speech from the Chair. recess was taken
;or the holding of the county caucuses. The con
yenti0n re-nssembrd ut u 30, and after efeciing
a temporary organization and naming tue usual com
mittccs took n recess III > o'clock. The electoral
ticket as named IN the county caucus WINS; New
castle Colonel Henry A. Dupont, Kent Joseph H.
whitaker; susscx, Joshua Marvel. Mr. Marvel. hay
Ing been decided Ineligible. being National bank
director Thotnas curry substituted In his place.
After d-lny convention got down tn
business with rush. The Rev. j. :. Wills was
nominated for Congress by acclamalon. amld cheers
and great enthusiasm. The electoral ticket COM
prlsing Messrs. Dupont, Whitaker and Curry was
informed and the Committee on Resolutions reported
platform warmly ndorsing Harrison and Reid and
Che MuHnnl''r bin. tnd denonncing Democrats
maladmnsliallon In National and local affairs sena
tor Higgins h"inE called OH spoke briefly. The con
vrnilun tirn adjourned
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-19
MIR. REID IN CHICAGO.
WELCOMED BY PROMINENT REPUBLICANS AND
TALKS Apotr THE CAMPAIGN.


Chicago Nng. ns-The Republican NlceNresi
dentinl party arrived here at II % o'clock TINS
uorninc having been delayed hy freight wreck
during the night. They were Immediately trans
ferrcd TO special the Chicago and Alton road
and started FOR springfield to attend the meeting OF
the state Republican League Clubs. Mayor wash
hurne United states D.strict-Attofney MichrlSt ).
Frank AIdrich and other distinguished citizens Joined
the party here.
Mr Reid looking remarkably well ana he
s..med I'm the best Of spirits. He was immediately
tnken aboard the special train where he talked over
IN. pollucal situation with Mayor Washburne ana
nosc present lie said ave must keep down this
f.,Iing OF ov.r-conndence, which Republicans are
u,anifrsting. wo have got hard Eight on our
hands. sut Will certainly win. ovcrconIdehce
sometimes means apathy. Tho Republican party
never fought 10 well Us when II was saed There
IA splendd organization IN Newiork. and complete
harmony prevails
Two minutes later tho train started with nearly
100 prominent Republicans Oh board. Mayor wash
burnc who was unable to go TO Springfield lehpcd
OF the train and Joined those who were cheering
and waving thsir hats at the departing tain.
Mr. Reid viii he Chicasos sne't tomorrow he
win leave Springfield late tonight after tho big
dc,nons ,rauon there IS over. and arrive III we clV
al 80 tomorrow morning. lie Will lie III thc cry
All dny ana u lie decides 10 remain over 10 hs't
reception In his honor Will lie held ~ one oi te
large clubs.