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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-03-01

on July 4th, and recommended that
all congressional districts through
out the country do the same.
By Capt. Lloyd, resolved that the
spirit of United States Senator PEI
fer's letter to our convention is to
the point, namely: that the time is
at hand when the rule Of the money
power ust be ended and, resolved
that there is no help for the people
of this country until they vote the
control of the government out OF
the hands of the gold pirates.
In future, we will keep you better
informed on the course of events in
our neighborhood
JOSEPH SUTHERLAND.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-03-01

Can help us win our freedom
back
With ballot, pen or tongue
Can make the songs of liberty
Replace the serfs sad sigh,
For mercy's sake and Justice sake,
! say let's let 'em try.
If they can help us put to flight
The vuItures we are feedin',
If they can help us heal the hearts
That lie brohen, crushed and
bleedin' -
If they can help US save the
That Shylock is despoilin',
Where fathers, mothers, children,
In dark despair are toilin'-
If they can save the cotton fields
That dot the sunny South,
And save the corn crops from the
lien
That blights it worse. than
drouth-
If they can save our children
From the fate of chattel slaves,
And make our cities something
else
Than haunts of livin' graves
! say, if they can help us
These blessn's to attain,
Let's put the ballot in their hands,
From Texas clear to Maine.
EMMA GHENT CURTIS.
Canon City, Colo.
The above poem was written for
the Woman's day exercises at the
re cent meeting, of the National
Farmers Alliance, at Topeka.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-03-01
New York POpulists Celebrate
WashingtOn's Birthday.

Capt Geo. w. Lloyd, of New
Rochelle, sends the following cor
respondence relative to the celebra-
tion of Washington's birthday at
Yonkers, February 22d:
YoNKERs, Feb. %, '94.
EDITOR AGIrAToR The Peoples
party of the 18th congressional dis
trict held conference to devise
means for future action. Bro. John
Cahill, chairman Jos. Sutherland,
secretary. The accompanying cor
respondence was read and placed on
file:
Moved and carried, that we adopt
the Omaha and state platforms of
the Peoples party. Moved and
carried, that we try to get some
good speakers of national repute to
assist us in an aggressive movement
in behalf of our party, aud that a
convention for the nomination of
congressman for our district be held
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-03-01
LINCOLN, NEB., Feb. 6, '94.

LINCOLN, NEB., Feb. 6, '94.
G. w. LLOYD.
My Dear Sir: Your letter of re-
cent date received.
| hope you will be able to reform
New York, though |. myself, would
about as leave tackle Hades. We
young workers have an advantage
over you old ones. We will live to
see this movement succeed. We
will live to see the new day begin.
God grant that you may, too. l
would write more at length, but am
really too busy Give the fraternal
greetings of Nebraska Populists to
the meeting at Yonkers. Tell them
that seventy thousand of us in this
state are "enlisted for the war"
j. A. EDGERToN.
WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. II, '94.
GEO. w. LLOYD.
NV Dear Sir: Yours dated Feb.
18th, in regard to literature and the
meeting at Yonkers on Feb. 22d, at
hand. l will say that the national
committee will meet at ST. Louis,
Mo-, on that day, and of course |
will be compelled to be there. In
regard to literature, 1 will send you
some of Senator Aliens and Con-
gressman Davis's speeches to-day.
The committee here is considering
ways and means to prepare large
amount of very excellent and cheap
campaign literature for this year.
A list of same will be published in
the reform press in the near future.
Hoping that you will have good
meeting at Yonkers on the 22d, | am
Fraternally yours,
Il. E TAUBENECK.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. II, '94.
G, w. LLOYD, ESQ.
Dear Sir: / beg leave to acknowl-
edge the receipt of your favor of
recent date, with enclosures, and to
thank you therefor, but cannot at
tend the conference at Yonkers, on
the 22d.
Yours, respectfully,
w. A. HARRIS.
[Congressman-at-large from Kas.
Concluded on page ~
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-03-01
KANSAS AGITATOR.
Devoted to the interests OF
THE MAS ES.
A Fearless, Aggressive, Progressive
Advocate of All Reforms.
THE AMAZIN' RESULT.

l jest da hare it do beat all
The way that things is goin'.
I've concluded l can't always tell
Which way the wind is blowin'.
Now last November set out
To kill that suffrage fad;
The very mention of the thing
Made me roarin', tearin' mad.
| talked with Nancy Ellen
And tried to make her see
How she didn't need the ballot,
But she 'contradicted me.
Well, we that fought the measure
Soon found our cause a wreck,
And somehow now Pm kinderglad
We got it in the neck;
For them returns when they come
Jest knocked the whole Per-
simmon,
Cause every Greaser county
Went plumb ag'in the women
The Dagoes and the colored folks
Mostly voted ag'in 'em, too,
And the farmhouse people hus-
tied
To keep suffrage. from goin'
thro'.
After the count was over
| steod off to one side
And viewed the crowd I'd voted
with,
But it failed to swell my pride.
Well Nancy Ellen giggled
And kept a.tellin' me
How I'd voted with the Greasers
And sech like company.
At that time | commenced to see
How I'd fooled away my bliss,
For many feller'd made his vote
Win him a smile and kiss.
Now, why went ag'in it
Was because thought the
women
Ought to tend the house and gar
den
And do the churnin' and skim
min
And l thought if they got the
ballot,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-03-01

GAhN u hhNO y
They'd let their housekeepin'
go;
But kinder guess was off the
track
A half mile or so.
| was sartin women would for
get
How to make Johnny cake,
And lose all kind of interest
In roast and bile and bake.
But Nancy Ellen still roasts beef
That is good enough for me,
And the paddin' of her apple pies
Is the best l ever see.
In mighty tasty kind O. style
She cooks the stuff l tote her,
And she hasn't spilled batch o.
bread
Since she got to be voter.
| was sure a woman citizen
Couldn't make chicken pie,..
And if she could, she'd maybe
Feel to uppish for to try.
But, lawsy me last Tuesday,
When Ma was was here for
dinner,
The cookin was too extra
For any common sinner.
The panic has been mighty hard
Since we voted in November,
And such wisdom as my Nancy's
In no man can i remember.
She's made little money,
Does a mighty sight OF work,
And has kept her temper even
And her spirits bright and chirk;
And of late she's been a tellin'
How the people orter plan
For some governmental system
That would give the workin'
The fruits of his hard labor,
And protect him from the steal
in
OF the banks and corporations,
And from Shylock's double
dealin'.
There amt no use denyin'
That she talks good common
sense,
And knows as we'll as | do
How to work and save expense.
We men have run this nation
For more'n hundred years,
And our leadin' crops are mort
cages
And suicides and tears
And if Nancy Ellen and the rest
Of the women, old and young,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
Populist Enthusiasm,

Twelve thousand people turned
out to hear Gov. Waite at Topeka,
July IL. At Washington, Kansas,
1900 heard Gov. Lewelling a few
days later-the largest crowd ever
seen at political meeting in north
ern Kansas. The Butte Bystander
says last Wednesday tremendous
crowd met at Hutchinson and re.
nominated Jerry Simpson for Con-
gresham. "Never before in the
history of this State has such a
crowd attended a Congressional
convention" said the dailies. Last
weeks Ottawa Journal (Topekaj
gives ten columns, in fine type, to
letters from boiling Republicans,
who refuse to accept anti-sufrage,
silver-straddle platforms recently
made by the 6. 0. p. bosses. Friday
the Topeka Democrat, the last Dem
ocratic daily of Importance in Kan
sas, hoisted the Peoples party ban
ner, and on the same day the ven
cradle Charles Robinson, the first
governor Of the State, and Demo-
cratic candidate for governor in
1890, declared with tho Populist
party-but the associated press
fails to note such moves as the
above.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
GEO. A. M'LEoD,


Peoples party nominee for Probate
Judge and Superintendent of Pub.
lie Instruction, is an educated man
in the prime of life and has been q
resident of Alturas county for nine
years. For two years he was Dr..
Browns assistant in the Miners
Hospital, later, was for four years
engaged in the mercantile business
in HALEY, and latterly, during the
business depression, has been teach
ing school in the county, which
latter circumstance peculiarly fits
him for the position of Superinten-
dent of Schools, which is joined
with the Probate Judges Office.
Those who saw and met the gen.
tleman at the late Populist county
convention, where he acted as Sec
rotary, were much pleased with his
intelligence and the courteous and
business like manner in which
he performed his duties in the con-
vention, and will have no doubt of
his fitness to serve the county with
ability, integrity and business dis
patch in the duties pertaining to
the dual Office for which he is the
Populist choice, and he will poll the
full party strength. In the local
campaign now in progress Mr..
Mcleod acts as the secretary of the
county central committee.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
An Open Letter.

To the editor Of the Hailey Times, and all
sch0na 1t may concern.
You have published certain
charges against the present board
of county commissioners in the
matter Of their administration of Of
fice.
For whatever purpose you may
have done this, and because Of the
use that is being made of it by 9th
ers, think it becomes you or them
to make answer to this letter.
/ ask, therefore, in behalf Of the
present board and also for the good
Of the new board which shall soon
be elected and must necessarily
meet the same and perhaps greater
responsibilities, that it be shown
how the business could have been
better done.
Let there be some specific cases
cited from the record-eCough of
them to make an illustration (gen-
eralities will not answer the pur-
pose), and let the answer show
what ought to have been done.
Certainly it must be proved that
they have erred through misjudg
ment, or with evil intent; or else it
is merely slur cast upon public
to influence opinion in the
election.
Anyone who, either publicly or
privately, makes use Of the charge
Of misdemeanor on the part Of the
county commissioners, ought to be
if he is able, to make an
open reply to this letter.
Truly and Respectfully.
/. 4. OsBURN.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
PAUL p. BAXTER.

Of Ketchum, candidate for County
Treasurer, appointed by the county
central committee in place of |. |.
Lewis, resigned, is SO we'll known
to the citizens Of Ketchum and
Alturas county generally, and is so
highly esteemed by all, regardless
of party lines, that the KEYSTONE
takes pride in calling attention to
his name, which has appeared on
the ticket since the Ketchum can
didates were made mention of. Mr..
Baxter is candidate that will Sc
cure every vote of his own party,
and even many of the unhappy
fusionists will secretly, if not open
ly, scratch their tickets in his favor
when they roach the treasurer" on
their doomed ticket. The money
of the county will be safe in Mr..
Baxter's hands, however little of
his own money his generosities and
charities enable him to keep.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
The Verdict Affirmed.

The United States Circuit Court
of Appeals decided last Wednesday
on a point of interest to miners,
says the Scientific Press. It was
an Appeal from the Alaska district
Court in the case of Patrick
Wheelan VS.. the Alaska Treadwell
Mining Co. While employed in
defendants mine on Douglass ISL
and plaintiff was injured by being
drawn through a chute. He was
breaking rock at the mouth, and
when the chute was drawn he went
with it. In the court of original
jurisdiction defendant moved for q
non-suit on the ground that
Wheelan's injuries were not caused
by any negligence on the part of
the company, but by the negligence
of the fireman, who, before drawing
the chute, had failed to notify
Wheelan, and that the fireman was
a co-employe. The lower Court
held that the fireman was in fact
representative of the company, and
negligence on his part should be in
terpreted as negligence on the part
of his employers. The Court award
ed plaintiff $295O and costs. The
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals last
Wednesday confined the decision :.
The Supreme Court of the United
States" it said, "has repeatedly declared
that master in employing servant i'm
pliedly engages with him that the place
in which he is to work and the tools and
machinery which are furnished him, or
the lnsrumentalitiss by which he is sur
rounded, shall be reasonably safe, and
that failure to discharge this duty ex-
poses the master to liability for injury
caused thereby to the servant; that it is
wholly immaterial how or By whom the
master discharged that duty, and that the
masters liability is not made to depend
in any manner upon the grade of service
Of co -employe, but upon the character
of the act itself and breach Of the posi-
tive obligations of the master.
ut was the masters duty in the present
case to provide reasonably safe place
for its employees to work, to keep the
chutes through which the quartz was
drawn in reasonably good condition and
repair; to employ competent persons in
the management thereof, and to notify
the workmen engaged in breaking rock
in the pit when the rock in the chute
would be drawn. Plaintiff, by the con-
tract of service, did not assume the risk
that this duty would not he performed"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
Captain Baxter Interviewed.

Captain P. P. Baxter of Ketchum
was in town last evening. The jolly
captain said he was going home
when the lights were turned out. !"
Mr.. Baxter came down to get five
cases Of headlight oil, but there was
none in town.
He pronounces the slight" yarn
told in Ketchum as false.
Mr.. Baxter after the big fire in
HALEY in 1889, contributed $25 to
the relief fund, and other citizens
there contributed literally also.
1t requires considerable gall for
anybody in HALEY to advocate put
ting Ketchum in county by itself.
HALEY News Miner.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
County Populist Ticket.

The KEYsroNE has made individ-
ual mention of Ketchum's candi-
dates upon the county ticket, in its
issue following the convention.
Since then data has been gathered
for further mention of candidates
upon the ticket.
A. WOLTERe,
of Haley, nominee for representa-
tive, is a man Of culture and force
of character. fitting him to represent
Alturas in the legislature with a
dignity and ability that will both
serve the interests and do credit to
the county at large, as we'll as to
his political constituency. His
alert intelligence and executive bus
mess capacity brought him 70 the
front as the chairman of the late
pc.ulist convention and also made
him the most fit successor of Geo.
A. Williams as chairman of the
county central committee in this
years campaign.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
GEO. CHILLINGWoRTH

The Peoples party nominee for
Assessor and Tax Collector of AL
turas county, is man every way
worthy of the confidence and esteem
of the voters of the county. He
has been a Woodworking, respected
miner in the lower end of the coun-
ty since the early days of Wood
River, a leading member and officer
of the Knights of Labor organiza-
ton and always jealous in the
cause of the people. He was a
pioneer and organizer of the Peo-
ple's party in Alturas county, has
been a continuous member of the
Populist county central committee,
and an earnest and intelligent sup
porter Of Populist principles. Mr..
Chillingworth will have the full
support of the party and will be-
yond a doubt make an honest and
capable officer.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
g. q. r. Tricks.

The Moscow Times Democrat
says word has been received at this
Office from reliable sources that II
is 4 schemes Of tho Republican
bosses to persuade transporting
voters to sign only their initials
when registering their names. Any
name thus signed Is not entitled to
q vote. Your first name must BE-
registered ia full. Do not register
any other way aud expect 70 yoto:
II your name j John Qniney Jon4s
write it John Quincy o. John ~
Jones: J. g. Jones viii not "a r.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13

American Folly.
AIS 0IUTEIY PURE

Barnum, the great Snowman, said
the American people like to be hum
plugged and did not object to pay
ing handsomely for thu privilege.
That this is not only true of those
who paid to see the woolly horse
and Fee Joe mermaid, but also of
sovereigns who elect men to manage
the affairs of the Nation cannot be
disputed. We allow ourselves to
be duped by politicians who, for
self-aggrandizement, place the peo-
pie at the mercy of the cormorants
of London and New York.
Commenting upon the folly of
permitting the Gold Trust, which
has it's headquarters in Lombard
Street, to control our finances and
industries the Mining and Scientific
Press, strictly non-partisan paper,
says:
1--WE might as we'll permit our
enemies to control our armies in
time of war as to permit them to
direct or control our finances and
industries in time of peace. We
let the agents of the Gold Trust
who contribute money freely to
elect Republicans and Democrats
to high places that they may have
influence in the White House and
the halls of Congress, whichever of
the twins may be in the ascendancy,
run the financial affairs of our Gov
eminent. We are willing to be
humbugged and pay dearly for the
privilege"
AS the Press says, the present
pressure shows how We are being
humbugged, and illustrates the fol-
ly of Uncle Sam in assisting his
rival and creditor, Johnny Bull, to
demonetize silver.
England buys from fifty to sixty
millions of silver annually to use
in her trade with India, China and
other eastern countries. When our
minis were open to free coinage she
never bought an ounce for less than
81 .29. Now she gets it for about
one halfprice. Every ounce will
buy as much wheat and cotton in
India as it ever would, but, the sill
yer ounce costing less, the cost of
these staples delivered in Liverpool
is reduced one-half through half
price silver. This regulates the
price of all wheat and cotton Eng
land buys from us, and these
staples form nearly one half of our
This is a lesson which farmers
should heed on election day. 1t
shows how they are being duped by
those who endeavor to keep them
within old party lines. Their pro-
ducts sell at one-half the prices
they would readily command if sill
yer had not been demonetized, and
The money which they receive for
hose products, at this present low
prices, will pay no more debts than
when wheat brought 1926 per
oushel. Are they willing to be
1umbugged and pay such ruinous
price to those who are deceiving
,hem?-Nevada State Journal.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
l. T. OSBORN. /.

I. T. OSBORN,
Commissioners for the Third Dis
trict, was selection that must meet
the hearty approval of the citizens
OF the county regardless Of party.
His we'll known high character,
combined with his long residence
and practical Identification with
the farming and material, as we'll
as spiritual, interests of the county
make him q man that commands
the trust and esteem Of people of
all interests in the county, and will
ensure, with his associates on the
board, an honest, economical and
conservative management of the
county, at this difficult period of
its affairs.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
STERLING TUCKER,

candidate for Constable of Ketchum
precinct, is young man who has
grown up with US and possesses the
respect of all in the community. He
has already served in the capacity
Of Deputy Sheriff of Ketchum pre-
cinct under Sheriff Mcpherson,
with credit to himself, and satisfac-
ton to the public. and his election
will be unanimous in the precinct.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
Washington Basin.

Geo. q. Blackmon, who has been
working and developing his silver
lead ore mines on Fourth of July
creek for the past six years, con-
Guided, when the snow went off this
last spring, to let them rest for the
present and devote his attention to
prospecting for gold in Washington
basin. 1t was very wise conclu-
SION, for after several months dill
lsent search be succeeded in dis
covering groupings that appeared
70 resemble just what he was look
ing Tor and eager to find. He inn
ineolately commenced working on
Hand after sinking a ten-foot shaft
was rewarded by finding a man.
Moth gold ledge, twenty-five feet
n'ao. He brought several sacks of
sae ore TO Ketchum last Sunday to
uaVe assayed, several of which were
;uaoe and averaged $25 to the ton
"a y gold and IL per cent silver.
s sea y. OF the assays went as high as
tol In gold to the ton. It will be
..0 as the Vanity mine. There
d;s now enough gold properties
sas. in that section to war
nm I'M. . some i' enterprising man to pu,
,pa : ~ mil. The lodges are all wide
ns.,; .ne ore free milling. Several
pa;sies ! IN Ketchum are thinking OF
mug nna there this fall and others will
N. 4Tpu,otedly follow in the spring.
mai. n;lackmon is on the River now
ysns;..nls Preparations to work the
ass u'sy during the winter, and be
he u ua,., a KEYSTONE reporter that
6rs, soulo have a 20O-ton dump oil
snow ass gold ore by the time
sprino WV, vi, have disappeared next
opens si VINE" NJ this locality is fairly
bsns asa up it will be Of infinite |
s"es Hul be drawn frono ~.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
GEO. w. RICHARDS.

of HALEY, candidate for Clerk and
Recorder is too we'll known to the
voters of the county to need more
than the mention of mis- name. He
is insured the full support of his
party for the important position he
stands for on the ticket, for it is
we'll known that no one left in the
county has had the experience or
knowledge of the county affairs and
the duties pertaining to the position
of Recorder and Clerk that Mr..
Richards has, both in Alturas
county and as Recorder and Clerk
for two terms at Idaho City before
coming to Wood River.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13

Many of the citizens Of Rainsville, In
diana, are never without bottle Of Cham
beraip's Cough Remedy in the house, -
rays Jacob Brown, the leading merchant
Of the place. This Remedy has proven
Of so much value for colds and Group in
children that few mothers who know its
worth are willing to be without it. For
ssle by Frank J. Stone, Druggist.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13

John, nominee on the fusion
ticket for Clerk, made the KEY
STONE pleasant visit last Tuesday.
Mr. John, socially, is a very pleas
ant and agreeable gentleman, but
politically he is on the wrong side
of the fence.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13

The Democrats and Republicans
have fused in Alturas county. The
Populists are somewhat plentiful
over there, and may be able to over
come the coalition. A fusion. of
that sort is likely to drive not few
Of the old liners into the Populistic
ranks.-Boise Democrat.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
wn. WALKER,

for Commissioners for the FIRST Dis
trict, is a miner of good standing,
who was one of the pioneers of the
party in the county, and served on
the county central committee. He
is earnest and intelligent and will
make q good officer to stand for
the interests of economy in county
affairs.