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annex Democrats and reporting
to the Times. get it daily,
and am very much interested in
the outcome. This correspond
ent says the Republicans, in
their convention, after going
back on the principle of prohi-
bition, which they claim to have
nurtured into the constitution of
Kansas, nominated a SUPPOSED
prohibitionist On their ticket,
and on this expect the prohibit
ton vote of the state, solid.
They ignored woman suffrage,
says the correspondent, as a bait
to catch Democratic votes, and
ignored prohibition to hold the
100000 whisky Republicans in
the state level.
This is about the phase OF the
case as viewed from abroad. At
home, in Kansas, the people will
catch on quick enough.
There was time in the his
tory of Kansas when the rank
and file of the Republican party
would have voted solid for a
brass monkey had it been the
nominee of their convention, but
that day has "gone glimmering
"a schoolboy's tale, the wonder
of an hour" 1t is sad to reflect
on the miserable condition OF
this country, brought about by
Just such subserviency to party
bosses and party spirit to the
|
unthinking, party-ridden people
who never for moment consider
that each one of them is an inte-
oral atom of this government,
and individually responsible to
the people-ALL the people-o1
this government, as they are in
dividually responsible to God fol
their sins.
Washington, in his Farewell.
Address to the American people
warned them against party spirit
as one of the elements to be mos
feared, and most reprobated, a:
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-07-12

S. S. HUNTER, of Lexington, N
c., writes: eve want to have a
change. Why not start boom OH
Senator Stewart and Tom Watson
for president and vice-president ?
They would make a team that
would clean up the pot"
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last week, but, although por
ton of it is little stale, the
letter contains many good things,
and we thought it best to pub
lish it.-ED.
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|
shore in this republic to-day as
we ever have been in our III
year run. There is but one pilot
that can keep the ship of state
from laundering, and that is to
cast out the Jonahs-the Repub-
lican and Democratic parties
and let the Independent People
pilot our ship of state. 1t is not
too lafe, yet there is no time to
spare. The next house of rep
resentatives must be packed with
two-thirds majority againgt
Cleveland and his administration
and this cannot be done through
the old parties. Judas-like, they
would deceive the very elect, but
their day of probation has pass
ed. The "ides of March" has
come to them as it did to Julius
Caesar.
The Peoples party embodies
the Democracy of Thomas JET.
ferson and Andrew Jackson, and
the Republicanism of Abraham
Lincoln, in its platform, and, fo1
that matter, the fundamental
principles on which this mode
republic was reared. The gooc
and excellent of both old parties
are retained and many things
added that become a positive me-
cessity, to-day, to prevent a wal
of determination between Capt.
tai and Labor. Thanks to the
exieencies of the times, the
brazen iinpudence of corpora,
tons, trusts and money sharks
on the one hand, and the deep
dyed poverty and misery of the
laboring classes on the other, the
people have been compelled te
| think, and now, in the fall, they
propose to act. The American
Railway Union, the largest body
of laboring men in this country
100000 strong and growing a
the rate of 1000 day, in oper
convention in Chicago, last week
under instructions from every
assembly in the country, en-
dorsed the Peoples party plat
form as a whole, and pledged
their order to vote that ticket
The Knights of Labor, which
Joined the union, also joined in
and every labor society or asso
citation in America will vote tn
Peoples ticket next fall. Lool
out for breakers! The old par
ties are on the reef.
But, l will get to the woman
suffrage part of this letter mex
week. | want to see them mar
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-07-12

(ITANTED-1oo. 900 PEOPLES PARTY
w Speakers for the presidentialcampaign.
How to educate them in time is the problem
The solution is found in
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The Coming
Climax in the
Docfsnioc IF America
Destinies of America

By LESTER C. HUBBARD. 48o pages OF new
ammunition for the great reform movement.
The textbook for the Presidential cam
paign of 1892. Paper. 50 cents: cloth. $50.
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night session of the House should expire by
limitation at 1870, putting it within the power
of the House to sit until the presence of a
quorum could be secured, if desired, had no ap-
parent effect upon the attendance when the
House assembled after recess. There were less
than three-score members present.
The House drifted into a discussion of the
need of a general bill to pension the widows of
soldiers Of the war of the rebellion who have
married and subsequently, been again widowed.
That such bill had not already been passed,
Representative johnson, Of Indiana, declared
was a reprsach to Congress-
Representative Stallings of Alabama said
that such a bill was pending on the calendar.
The Committee on Pensions had instructed a
subcommittee of which he was a member to
draft bill to pension all the widows of soldiers,
sailors. and marines in the Indian and Mexican
wars at the rate of S12 month, provided they
had reached the age of 81 years
Upon the question of reporting favorably to
the House bill to restore to the pensiou-roll
the name of Louisa B. Hull, widow of the class
described, the vote by tellers was 80 to %.
There being no quorum the House, at 1920
o'clock, adjourned, having accomplished no
business whatever.
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The Aged Veterans.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: I am Just in
receipt of the report OF the New Jersey Soldiers
Home at Kearny, N. j. The total number of
benefciaries for the year ending Oct 81 1893
was $40. Discharged during the year 301,
summarily discharged II, dishonorably dis
charged 2, died 40; total 1863. Number remain.
ing Oct. 81, 1693 All. The average age of those
dying during the year was 65.47 years. and of
the All inmates Oct. 81, 1893, their age average
was 62.76 years.
Several newspapers. especially the New York
Times, seem to think that majority of the
pensioners are frauds, and that in many cases
there is no disability caused by their exposure
and privation which they had to endure during
their terms of service. In looking over the
report find that consumption claims 80 diar-
rhea 22, disease of the eye 90 general debility
126, heart disease 80. hernia 6S, rheumatism
l7S, wounds Ill, and paralysis "a; and so on.
Undoubtedly these diseases were contracted in
the line of duty, as we who served three years
or during the war know that the frequent ex-
posture to which the soldier was exposed led to
the diseases which l have named. And now
at the ages named above the effects of such ex-
posure beg II to tell upon them; and yet there are
newspapers that call them frauds. / remember
well the medical examination / had to under
20 in order to wear the blue in February, 1862
and others had to undergo the same ordeal
then, and passed as sound men, and now to be
called frauds it makes ones blood boil.
/ served my three years, as did many of these
poor fellows in our New Jersey Soldiers Home
and how must ii be with the thousands scat
tered over the country, who are trying to earn
their own living, and probably support a fam
lily besides and who are trying to avoid gong
to a Soldiers Home or the County House2 Their
ages will probably average nearly as high as
those in the Home. The infrmities of age are
upon them, and with paltry pension of from
81 to $40 per month they are struggling for the
necessaries of life.
1t is too bad, and yet there are many who
made application for pension years ago and
their cases have not been reached yet.
WARREN c. HURsH Co. G, LIST N. ]. Cav,
Layton, N. j.
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CONGRESS-.
Abstract of the More Important
Proceedings OF Both Houses.
TUESDAY. JuNE s.

an the Senate, the sugar schedule was COM
pleted, the Democrats majority carrying out
its program on every point. The fight for the
greater part of the day was over the proposal
to postpone the time when the repeal of the
sugar bounty is to take effect from the LIST of
July, 1894, to the LIST of January, 1895. 1t was
carried, 80 to 81.
Then various amendments which were offered
by Senator Henderson (Neb., r. to continue
the sugar bounty till 1905, to continue it with
annual reductions Of one-tenth of a cent, to
continue it TO the producers of beet and sorghum
sugar only, and to reduce it to one cent pound,
were severally voted down with slightly varying
majorities against them, Senators Allen and
Kyle tPop.), and Senator Hill voting now on
one side and now on the opposite side.
An amendment for free sugar was offered by
Mr.. PETER Kan, P.) and was rejected-yeas
Is nays 37-and one offered by Mr.. Allison
(Iows, R. to make The sugar duty 60 into effect
with the passage of the bill, was rejected-yeas
80, nays SO. This was the closest of all the
votes. Senators Kyle and PETER (P.) Joined
with Senator Hill in supporting the amend
ment.
Finally the amendment of the Finance Com
mittee, or rather the Jones modification of 1t,
was agreed tO-yeas 80, nays %, and with
few minor amendments to the other paragraphs
the sugar schedule was completed and the
tobacco schedule reached. The bill provides
for duty of 40 per cent. ad valorem on ali
sugars. with additions where they are above
No. 16 Dutch standard, and this duty is to 60
into effect on the 1st of January, 1895.
In the House. the Committee on Rules by
Mr.. Catchiugs Miss, d.. reported an order
limiting debate on the bill to repeal the State
bank tax to to-day's session, the vote on amend
ments and the passage of the bill to be taken
Immediately upon meeting tomorrow The
resolution was agreed to. and the substitute of
the Committee on Banking and Currency for
the original Brawley bill applying only to GER
tain violations of the law in certain Southern
States) and the amendment of Cox (Tenn., d.
to repeal the tax law outright were formally laid
before the House for consideration.
The discussion was vigorous one, resulting
finally in formal division of time between
the two sides, Mr.. Harter (Oho, d. to occupy
an hour in favor of the repeal of the State bank
tax, and Mr.. Dingley one, r. to control an
hour in opposition to the report
The discussion was continued by others with
out conclusion.
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OF course any good rider viii agree with me
that the latter method is far preferable. A
gaucho is an invaluable companion, for q
party may be out for several days and only
the experienced plainsman can find drop
of water in that desolate region.
The gaucho will find mud puddle which
has stood since the last rain In some remote
corner where no one else would think OF
looking. Should he come to one which is
dried up there is nothing to do but to ride on
to the next, trusting to find water there.
This necessitates tremendous rides to escape
a terrible death, and renders it imperative to
have several horses in order 10 change
mounts from time to time. There are sec
tions of the waterless country where even
the most experienced camp men hesitate to
venture. Not infrequently when the risk is
taken, a skeleton bears silent witness to the
hardiht cd of the adventure.
The immense quantity of vapor brought
from the boundless expanse of the South
Pacific by the prevailing winds of these latl-
tudes is stopped by the Cordilleras, which
run parallel to the west coast of Patagonia
and flows back whence it came. This makes
the west coast so moist as to be scarcely
habitable, and leaves the eastern shore dry
that one must keep close by the rivers.
FROM the Negro W tue oiuta VI uA 1"''0is, on
The eastern side of Patagonia, distance of
600 miles or thereabout, there is not an aver
age yearly rainfall of seven inches, and parts
of this tract have much less. The reservoirs,
accordingly, cannot be relied upon, and at
best they are literally mud puddles where
horses, dogs, and men are on equal footing.
At few well-known points between rivers
there are wells and even tiny streams-as,
for instance, in the Gulf of San Matias, where
are the remains of a Spanish settlement
abandoned long since, and on the Valdez
Peninsula, where small colony of Spaniards
was destroyed by the Indians in the last
century. Again, not far from Ninfas Point,
on the south side of New Bay between the
Rio Negro and the Chubut, are wells where
the whalers and sealers of these parts were
used 10 water ship in days gone by. To the
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increase those rates to 30 and 40 per cent. was
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on uncleaned rice. enc cent, and on rice flour
and rice meal one-fourth cent pound, and on
paddy three fourths cent pound. Agreed to-
After consideration of minor paragraphs the
Senate adjourned.
In the House. consideration of the Indian
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The suspension of the requirement that the
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THURSDAY. JUNE 1.

In the Senate, the progress made was so little
as to cause Mr.. Harris, who has the parlia-
mentary charge of it, to rise at p. M, and.
with grim ghumor. say that he was 80 much
gratifed by the fact, that throughout yester-
day and to-day two small paragraphs of the
agricultural schedule had been disposed of
that he would move to proceed to Executive
business. The whole day was spent in dis
cussing the paragraph as to duty on wheat,
oats, ETC., including an apparently unimport-
ant amendment to reduce the duty oat-
meal from 90 per cent. to Is per cent, and the
paragraph was not completed at the adjourn
ment.
When the tariff bill was taken up set speeches
on the agricultural schedule were made by
Senators PETER Kan, P.), Galinger IN. H.. RI
and Carey (Wyo. r.. 1t was nearly o'clock
when Mr.. Carey finished his speech.
Dir. Aldrich K. l., r. then addressed him
self to discussion OF the paragraph putting a
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corn or maize, corumes oats. rye, rye flour,
wheat, and wheat -four. and of Is per cent. on
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ton.
The discussion lasted for six hours, and then
the committee amendment to reduce the duty
ON oatmeal to Is per cent. ad valorem was
agreed to-yeas, 30; nays, "a.
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