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quarter Of q century have done SO much
to debsuch the government and mercl-
lessly rob the people. Under the teach
ings of Mr.. Scott the people have laid
aside partisan prejudices, have waxed
better, and are holding up their heads
higher and higher, and are coming more
boldly to the front. Yes, Mr.. Scott Is a
bold and fearless speaker, strikes out
from the shoulder and spares not polit-
ical rsscality In high places. Hsis doing
grand and noble work for the Amer
lean people. 1t is the duty of all liberty
loving people to stand by him and give
him their undivided, hearty and enthusi-
astic support, and join together to fol
low up his great work In pulling down
the strongholds Of plutOcracy and build
ing up government for the people, Of
the people and by the people. After his
admirable address, the speaker made the
welkin ring with his fsvorite song, "Good-
bye, Old Party, Goodbye" which was
greeted with three cheers and tiger.
He then laid the claims of the ADVOCATE
before the people, and received eighty
seven subscriptions. We hope to have
Brother Scott with us again this fall.
NC.
Ripley, Tenn, August 8, 1892.
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With an enclosure of $5 for the good
Of the cause, A. A. Mcdonald writes
from HarShaw, Arizona: "Nearly all
the people in this part of the territory
are ready to leave the old parties. II
there were some good speakers here they
could turn the territory over to the Peo
ple's party"
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LeavonwOrth County Alliance, Notice.
There will be special meeting Of Leaven,
worth County f. A. & 1. U. at Central sChoo
house, August 20, 1892. I have been in.
structed by the secretary of Central ALI
anoe to extend cordial invitation to all
members to come. They guarantee good
time and all you can eat.
o. w. B1ssBTT, County Secretary.
Jarbalo, Kas., August 8.
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A competent and reliable man or woman
in each and every county in Kansas to can
vass thoroughly the farmers in their re-
speOtive counties in the interests of the
leading agricultural journal of the west.
The right parties can secure renumerative
positions. Address the Kansas Farmer, To-
peka, Kas., for particulars.
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POLITICS AND ARGUMENT.
% the Editor OF THE ADVOCATE,


Last Saturday, July 80, at Window,
Mcpherson county, Kansas, the home
town OF A. w. Smith, Republican nomi-
nee for governor, there was a grand pic
mic. 1t was to be a non-psrtisan affair.
Mr. A. W. Smith was there, also Mr..
Lewelllng, the Peoples nominee for gov
ernOr. The non-partisan feature was
abandoned. Mr.. Lewelling spoke In the
afternoon. He was followed by A. W.
Smith.
Mr.. Lewelling presented in a forcible
manner the trend of the present public
policy Of the Republican party, and the
inevitable ruin that Is daily entailed
thereby upon the country. Mr.. A. w.
Smith followed, pralsing the thrift of the
Kansas husbandmsn, that In twenty
years has transformed a desert into q
blooming garden, depreCating the fact
that there should be, In view OF the bless
ings that We do enjoy, people that will
belittle the grandeur Of our achieve
ments, and raise the wall of calamity
howl. He urged upon the audience the
necessity of being Of q grateful dlspo-
sition, and bless the party that has &C.
cured unto the people 80 grand and glo-
rious and prosperous an era as we have
enjoyed the past thirty years, and Of
which the year 1891 was the crowning
glory, and this year comes one better and
gives the world 100000 bushels of the
finest wheat ever raised.
Mr.. Long, of Medicine Lodge, Repub-
lcan nominee for congress In the
Seventh district, then followed. He
spoke of what all parties agree In. He
made himself humorous, telling the peo-
pie that he knew Jerry Simpson better
than anybody else Then somebody In
the crowd spoke up and said, "That's
good; then you certainly know q good
thing" When he closed the people
were inhigh glee.
Then arose Mr.. Snider, of Klngmsn.
With ponderous weight he began, that
he was able to appreciate the efforts Of
the people as we'll as the Republican
nominee for governor. In spite Of the
seeming prosperity that is so potent to
the superficial observer, the prudent and
the careful can detect the cloven foot
under the garment OF prosperity. In
spite of the 100000 bushels of wheat
Of the finest quality ever produced In the
State,-at so cents bushel, cost Of pro-
duction as many puts tit leaves q
deficit Of the interest on 1926, 900 900 Of
indebtedness. But put It more favor
able, say cost Of production 40 cents q
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MONEY AND BUSINESS.

The immense accumulation of
money in the leading business centres
is at once an effect and a cause. As
an effect its explanation is compare
lively easy. AS "a cause its result can
be at best only conjecture.
The reason for the constantly increas-
ing stock of money now on hand in
banks is to be found in the business
situation, and can be summed up with
comparative accuracy in the two words
"dull trade" From no section of the
country are there encouraging reports,
save from our own industries of print
cloths. Foreign commerce continues to
reach high in values, but large portion
Of its increase is to be found in those
articles added TO the free list, thus indi.
eating that with the exception Of the
necessities of life trade in the great bulk
of articles is not this year ahead of last
year when we were just passing through
a commercial panic. II the reports Of
the clearing houses are considered, it
appears that the volume Of business
is still at low point. The total clear
ings for the month Of May amount to
1883 millions Of dollars as compared
with 4,735 millions of dollars last year.
AS compared with the figures for 1890
this years clearings are IA per cent. less.
Taking .Tanuary of this year as the
standard, there has been a constant de
crease for every month since. and the
past month as compared with January
Of this year shows decrease of 6lS mil.
lions or II per cent. In 1891 the CORE
spending decrease was only per cent,
while for 1890 the change was an in
crease OF 12 per cent. This continual
contraction OF the amount OF business
could not but affect the volume Of
money in circulation. The tendency
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THE cRANsroN ELECTION.

The election of town officers to-day in
Cranston is one of those contests where
only the active participant can decide
with absolute certainty which side he
may choose. The election will be not at
all on party lines, and for that reason it
will be of little value as a political
pointer. The new men feel that they
have cause for complaint against those
who have for years been the ruling
power in the Town Council. Their
charges of laxness and favoritism if
they have been fairly proved to the con-
stituency of Cranston are sufficiently
grave in their nature to warrant the de-
feat of the old ticket. There is no kind
Of business, whether public or private,
which can be carried on successfully
unless the most rigid rules and exact
systems are adhered to. Favoritism will
inevitable rebound to the discredit of
those who exercise it.
1t is claimed that the new men are
boilers and therefore not entitled to
party support. The boilers are those
who desert the party at times when their
assistance is needed on large national
or State issues; that was the condition
at the last spring election when certain
Republicans in Cranston worked against
the party. 1t i'll becomes those men
now to refer to the supporters of the re-
form ticket as boilers because they wish
to try more economical plans of town
government.
Whether they are boilers or not, how
ever, it is to be hoped that this evening
will see the contest settled amicably,
and that when broader issues are at
stake the party will be found with all its
members shoulder to shoulder.
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sterling qualities. But they have pre-.
cipitated crisis. They have made it
imperative for Mr.. Blaine to set his heel
emphatically, and in the sight OF men,
upon the lie that he was working In
secret to undermine the administration.
He has made himself simple citi zen.
If he is allowed to go in peace and quiet
to Bar Harbor he will go with more than
willingness, with gratitude. II he is
nominated Harrison will throw all his
splendid strength to give him big ma
jority. If Harrison is nominated Blaine
will take the stump for him. These are
safe prophecies. Such are the men and
such is the abiding strength OF Republi-
canism.
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No one has written more wisely and
more appreciatively of Mr.. Blaine of
late than Murat Halstead. In letter
to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
he says: "There are changes in Mr..
Blaine. He has changed in growing
command of himself; in gentleness OF
manner; in kindliness; in forgiveness of
enemies; in tender estimation Of those
near him. The changes are all becom-
ing his age, his fame and his dignity.
The mellowing of his character is not
due to weakness, but it is the fullness Of
his genius"
This is how the field marshal disposes
of Henry Watterson's silly and cruel
story that Americas greatest statesman
"is dying at the top" Mr.. Blaine is a
calmer, wiser, more philosophic man
than he of the white plume, who faced
:. the Confederate brigadiers" in Con-
gress and who stirred tens Of thousands
in campaign after campaign. He is the
Blaine of the old, ripened, quiet and
strong. He has the clearest political
vision of any man among us, made at
times almost clairvoyant by the ex-
trelie sensitiveness of his organization.
He is not now an aggressive man, but
he can act in great matters with unex-
ampled decision and energy, as when he
forced the reciprocity policy upon Con-
gress and gave this country one of It's
rarest, most splendid, and most prac-
ticaily useful examples of constructive
craftsmanship Mr.. Blaine is sound,
body and mind.
An issue which is raised against him
is his right to take nomination. Only
the dullest malignity can question the
sincerity of Blaine's letter of Feb. 9.
Only the most industrious ingenuity
can torture out of that letter anything
which establishes an obstacle to his now
yielding to the strong pressure of his
friends. Is there any candidate in the
field who would not have been in it had
the Clarkson letter not been written?
There is one; Gen. Alger. Is he COM
planning of Blaine? And if not Alger,
who else can criticise?
There is one thing and one only that
Blaine cannot afford to do. He cannot
allow the convention to nominate him
and then decline. He will not. He is
man of sense and justice. He has de-
cided and he will not go back from his
decision, slowly as he has been brought
to it by an overmastering demand.
And the result? 1t comes soon and is
controlled by sagacious and patriotic
men.
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would be toward just such a condition
as now exists-the banks with large sup
plies and unable to find outlets for them.
There is another feature in the situa-
tion which argues well for the future,
the lessering number of failures. Con-
traction of business is at times attended
by an increasing number OF failures.
The reverse is now true. Last week
showed only 1853 failures as compared
with 233 last year, 175 for 1890 and 201
for 1889. The percentage OF decrease
this year will be seen to be 30. This
fact indicates that trade, while limited
in amount, is nevertheless on healthy
basis and should from this time forth
begin to resume normal proportions, if
other factors do not forestall such re-
suits.
Those factors, unfortunately, do to
some extent exist. Under normal con-
ditions the abundance of money would
mean increased demand for stocks and
bonds, and the fact that this de-
mand does not exist is conclusive
proof that normal conditions are want
ing. Their absence is found in gov
ernment treasury with only 100000
available surplus, and expenditures ex-
ceeding receipts; in series of disastrous
floods, destroying over $5O, COO, 900 worth
of property; in the fact that we are just
entering upon Presidential campaign
which bids fair to surpass in bitterness
any previous contest, and lastly, in the
fight for free silver coinage, which is
not yet ended.
While such grave elements enter into
the consideration any forecast of the
immediate future would be useless.
Mercantile and industrial enterprises
are too sensitive to become settled until
the horison is more definitely cleared.
Meanwhile we must look for but little if
any improvement and continuance of
the same conservative trade as is now
at hand,
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SOUTHERN OUTRAGEs.
Politics Il the Real Cause Of Great Ma
jority of Them.

Politics Il the Real Cause Of y Great Ma
jority of Them.
Mr.. Hale G. Parker talks very sensibly
concerning the outrages upon colored
citizens who reside in the southern states.
The outrages are crimes, and crimes Of q
very cowardly and cruel sort. They are
aggravated by the cowardly falsehoods
uttered in the south, and by the north
ern allies of the south, in mitigation of
them. The falsehoods are to the effect
that the southern negro Of the male kind
is murderer and ravisher by nature,
and that prospect Of the ordinary pun
ishments of hanging according to law,
or Of lifelong imprisonment, are not suf
ficient to deter him from enjoyment OF
his favorite brutalities. If there be shame
in southern politics these falsehoods will
not be repeated, for there is not news
paper published in the south that has not
borne strong and frequent testimony to
the almost infinite magnanimity of the
negro race in the hour of its supreme
dominance. There was time when the
negro race could have depopulated the
south of whites. During all this time
what the south calls its "docility," but
what the world calls its magnanimity,
was eminent. The southern negro often
protected the southern white woman
when other protector she had none. His
tory has written it thus. Southern his
torians have written il thus. JEFF Davis
has testified thus. If the southern negro
were not a voter he would not be muir
dered by southern white men. This is
the whole truth Of the matter. Negroes
are lynched in the south, partly to ter
rify the colored race, but quite as much
to keep warm the cruel fires OF race ha-
tired among the large class of ignorant
whites. Every lynching of a negro di-
verts the attention of the great taxpay-
ing body of southern voters from the
questions Of finance, and concentrates it
on the bugbear of NEGRO supremacy"
Politics is at the bottom of nine out Of
every ten cases of southern outrages
upon negroes.
But one crime never justifes another.
Mr.. Parker protests against the foolish
advice Of some colored residents Of the
north, that their southern brethren
should retaliate with dynamite upon
their white oppressors. The southern col
ored people must suffer and be strong
for awhile longer. The end Of their OPP
preston is not far off. II took years to
educate the nation to knowledge that
slavery was vicious folly. But the
years did educate it 20 that point. They
will educate it TO the point of demanding
that human life, white or black. shall
be as safe in Mississippi as in Maine, and
that votes shall be cas-. as freely and
counted as fairly in the one state as in
the other. God and time never fail to
redress wrongs. Patience and the press
will bring justice to pass. The true
policy OF thssouthern negroes is to make
their wrongs known, to agitate for re-
form by constant. truthful and calmly
stated stories of the murders and MAIN
ings inflicted upon them. II is difficult
to be calm in stating such stories, but
calmless is strength Of the godlike order.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
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BLAINE AND HARRISON.

Mr.. Blaine's resignation Of his port
folio as Secretary of State has stirred up
the alarmists of the press to predict a
split in the Republican party. The SEN
sationalists are beating drums out of the
energy Of their ignorance. They do
not know the men.
There is not an individual who has
access to well informed political circles
at Washington who is not aware that
the personal relations of the President
and his Secretary have been from be-
ginning to end without ripple of dis
cord.
Mr.. Harrison is too able man not to
feel and to express marked appreciation
of Mr.. Blaine's genius. Mr.. Blaine has
given to his chief consistently loyal SER
vice. On questions of public policy
they have almost without exception
agreed. When they have differed it has
been with the courtesy of men who re-
spect each other. The stories of affronts
put upon Mr.. Blaine from the White
House are absurd on the face of them.
Mr.. Harrison's Cabinet have worked to-
gether for the public interest in honest
and honorable cooperation.
Mr.. Harrison is one of our ablest
Presidents. He has without doubt ex-
pected and has more than deserved a re-
nomination. Mr.. Blaine has been for
years his party's idol. Cheated by Bur.
chard's blunder in 1884, cheated again
by his i'll health in 1888, his friends have
impetuously refused to defer to his
plainly expressed wish for retirement
and have forced him to the
front against his will. The stu
alton has been tense necessar-
lily. But both Harrison and Blaine are
rare nen. The NEWS does them no
more than simple justice in its belief
that, left TO themselves, there would
have been little Of embarrassment, little
strain. But over jealous friends of both
and the eager tongues Of the opposition
have filed Washington with ill-natured
gossip almost intolerable 10 a man Of
the temperament Of Mr.. Blaine. II is
again nothing but scant justice TO Presi-
dent and Secretary to go forward in
security that the chatterboxes have not
touched their regard each for the others
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when the nomination was made the irri-
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fAhAh LINES Al NEWEORAs
The General Assembly has adjourned
and the record Of its work brings out no
especially prominent feature save the
strict drawing Of party lines ON all ques-
tions Of Importance.
Ordinarily this fact would not be a
subject for much congratulation, but in
the light of existing conditions unwaver-
ing party loyalty was duty. The Repub-
lican majority in the House is small, too
small for practical purposes under all
circumstances. The Democratic min
ority went to Newport with the avowed
purpose of deferring the Inauguration If
possible, and in any case of obstructing
any legislative inquiry into the methods
of election to which they had resorted
in various districts. 1t was bitter par
tiasan minority bent upon bitterly par
tisan purposes. The only way to en-
force the will Of the people declared at
the last election was by firmness and
determination that proper legislation
should be carried on at all hazards. The
Republican majority has stood solidly
together and insisted on not being de-
layed in It's discharge of the business
presented. 1t has simply done its duty.
Had party lines been less rigidly drawn
the session at Newport would have been
fruitless, and the Republicans are to be
congratulated on the common sense and
energy that made it otherwise.
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WHAT THEY SAY OF HIM.

We make our bow to Gov. ID. Russell
Brown and congratulate. We also thank
ex Gov. Ii. w. Ladd for the wise and
thoughtful administration just past.
Pascoag Herald.
II the new governor Of Rhode Island is
as handsome as the pictures of him that
have appeared in the newspapers, even
tho democrats ought to be satisfied with
the result of the recent election.-Narr
gansett Times.
1t was something of an innovation to
see the governor of Rhode Island on
horseback in the election parade. Still it
looked business like and it pleased the
multitude. Newport Mercury.
1t is Gov. Brown, II you please. Rhode
Island Pendulum.
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FLOWERS FADED BOOM.
He Sacrificed His Chances by subservi-
ency to tho Bosses.

He Sacrificed His Chances by .subservi-
ency to tho Bosses.
The news comes from Albany that the
foundations of Flower presidential
boom are being laid at the capital and
that Mr.. Hill, at the proper time. will
make him his political legatee. The re-
port is in all probability true. Senator
Hill must see by this time what is as
plain as daylight to every one in the
country-that he is out Of the race. Some
votes will probably be cast for him on
the first ballot-that is, If he allows his
name to 60 before the convention at all
but after the first show OF hands he
will weaken on every roll call until he
drops out altogether. The fact that Mr..
Flower carried the state last fall by a
plurality of nearly &c, 900 is pointed to as
O strong argument in his favor. There
is nothing in il. Mr.. Flower would be
one of the very weakest candidates that
could be nominated. The confidence Of
tho respectable members of his own
party, which he enjoyed six months ago,
he has forfeited by his subserviency to
Croker, Mclaughlin, Murphy and Shee-
han. At their command he has signed
bills he should have vetoed, and he has
otherwise totally ignored the interests OF
the masses. The signing Of the Huckle-
berry railroad bill was an outrage. He
never raised q hand pass the anti
telephone bill demanucd by the board Of
trade and transportation and the leading
~ A..
lyn. Mr.. Flower had great chance,
but he has thrown it away.xxNew York
Recorder.
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In the State of Rhode Island
the NEWS stands second in
circulation, first in Influence
and representative character.

THE Rhode Island delegation reached
Minneapolis at 2 o'clock this morning,
after delay of some hours at Chicago.
The NEWS is the only paper which has a
correspondent with the delegation, and
its readers will receive the fullest,
freshest and most reliable information.
rs well of the work of the convention as
of the part played by the home dele
gates, who will within the next three
days help to nominate the next Presi-
dent. Read the NEWS.
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SENATOR DAVIS Of Minnesota has said
- wise word as any man on the politi-
cal situation. "The Republican party
has always been intense in support of
its candidates after the nomination" is
his comment, although the preliminary
campaigns have threatened to swamp
everything. II was 30 when Lincoln
came up for denomination. The oppo-
dtion 70 him was the hercest ever known
= the history Of the young party, yet