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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-02
WHAT SEATON's LETTER MEANT.
Some Say 1t was In the Interest of John j.
Ingalls,.

Ingalls,.
The very latest thing that has hap
pened in state politics is the new con-
struction which is being placed on the
letter which was sent to all the members
of the legislature Immediately after cleo
ton by Representative John Seaton. of
Atchison
1t will pc remem bered that in this let
ter Mr.. Seaton urged the members of the
Legislature to refrain from making
pledges of any kind, and come up to To-
peka free to act in the best interest of
the party land the state.
Mr. Seaton said by making pledges
the members were likely to draw them
selves into position which would inter
fere with.good legislation
This Latter was at first construed to
mean thas Mr.. Seaton was a candidate
for speaker, but he Immediately an
nounced shat he was not a candidate for
anything and as he had previously told
Colonel Alex Warner he would be for
him for speaker it was agreed that the
letter was in the interest of Colonel War
ner for speaker.
The Copeland county politicians now
agree THAI they did not know anything
about Mr. Seaton's intentions, but Repre-
sentative Powers of Cowley county, who
is now in!town said to a STATE JOURNAL
reporter that according to his notion the
Seaton letter was the first regular docu-
ment of khe John j. ingalls, senatorial
campaign.
Mr.. Powers says he does not know any
thing about it but it looks that way to
him.
Another story is that John Seaton, Col.
Warner aud Mr.. Powers are the three
men who:are trying to make Ingalls, a
senatorial candidate in spite of his de-
claration that he does not want to GO to
the senate now but will be candidate
for his cl1 seat two years hence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-02

The reserve fund OF the Free Eaass Of
Israel is now $500, 600. The executive som-
niittee of the grand lodge asks the lodges
for permission to use the interest Of the
fund, amounting to $50, Ooo yearly X pay
death benefits. This would reduce gaxa-
ton So 40 per member per year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-02

The STATE JOURNALS Want and Mis-
cellaneous columns reach each working
day in the week more than twice as
many Topeka people as can be. reached
trough any other paper This il fact
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-02

OF Shows Pine Expectorant, guaranteed
cure for coughs. colds and all bronchial
troubles; Price 25c and 500 bottle. For
sale by all druggists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-02
For Ovhr FiftY Yeara

Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been
used for teethihg. It soothes, softens
he gums, aliays pain, cures collie Best
remedy for diarrhea. % cents bottle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-02

Winddw Glass at Holmes Drug Store.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-02
IT WON'T DO A THING.
That is Judge Doster's Somewhat
Hopeless View
OF THE COMING LEGISLATURE.

Says He is Not Informed That He Is
to be Voted For for senator-SoEiae
Other Political News.
Judge Frank Doster does not believe
John J. IDgalls will get any Populist
votes for United States senator at least
not this year.
Judge Doster spent New Years day at
the Throop where he was seen by
STATE JOURNAL reporter.
When asked about the statement cred
tied to Judge NJ. B. Nicholson by Hol-
ton paper 30 the effect that the Populists
will vote for Ingalls, and elect him sena-
tor II enough Republican votes can be
found, Judge Doster said: "There is
nothing in it. In the first place / do
not believe Judge Nicholson made the
statement and if he did he did not know
what he was talking about There will
be no Popalist votes cast for Ingalls, or
any other Republican this winter. That
is out of the question"
"Yes," said the reporter. at seems to
be generally understood that you are to
have the caucus nomination and receive
the votes Of the Populist members for
senator as a compliment for your SER
vices to the party. That is true. is it
not?''
mo, it is not true; at least know
nothing of it. Oh yes, [ have seem what
two or three newspapers have. said about
it, but no one in authority has approached
me on the subject and have talked with
no one about it,
Continuing, he said: "There will be
very little, if any, legislation accom-
plished this winter in the interests of the
people There may he, and probably
will be an appropriation made for irri-
CATION, but as to doing anything that will
help the people of the state, it won't be
done. The Republicans want the offices
and will not agree to any measures intro
duced by the Populists cutting them
down. and. on the other hand, the Repub-
licans will hardly introduce any or many
measures which our senators will en-
dorse.
II think there should be a reapportion-
ment of the state as to Judicial districts,
and although | have not gone over the
matter thoroughly it is my impression
that ten or eleven judges can be very
we'll spared. The bin for the doing away
of certain districts would have to be
made to relieve those judges whose
terms are about to expire, and the bill
could not take effect until the expiration
Of the terms for which the judges were
elected, as you can't legislate judges out
of Office
Judge Doster said he favored an ap-
preparation for irrigation, but would be
opposed 30 the bill prepared by the
legislative committee of the state irriga-
ton committee for the reason that
it places the funds in the hands
of the state board of agriculture. He
| says the board of agriculture needs to be
made state institution before it is en-
trusted with special appropriations OF
| that character, and it must further be
made nonpartisan board, which it is
not. before it can be what it ought
Judge poster went to his home at Ma
rion today, but will return on Friday to
attend the state conference of Populist
| leaders.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-02

TOpeka steam Laundry.
C25 Jackson. street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-02

To-day-it always happens sos
Begins the yearly tug of war;
For every man who took an oaGh''
Now wants to drink and smoke and swear.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-09-17
H ISSUE IN 1896,

Some of the old party papers are say
ing that the Issue next year will be the
tariff. That will be strictly in accord
ance with partisan management. The
old tariff skeleton that had ell the flesh
talked off it a long time ago, is thought
to be good enough to fool the people
with again. It would be r%ollicking fun,
however, to see the two old parties
lock horns on the tariff, says the Far
mers' Voice. They have both shown
themselves to be as alike on the Ques-
ton as two peas in a pod. The present
tariff law is a Democratic law, and it
stands for protection. indeed for about
as much protection as the republicans
would dare advocate. The time has
gone by when anybody thinks that we
need the re enactment of the Mckinley
law, and no party will assert that we
are in any such need. If the tariff bat
tie is fought owe again it will be a
hypocriticaI sham battle on both sides.
To go to the graveyard for a presiden-
tial campaign issue, when the money
question and the income tax are press
ing for solution, to say nothing about
other burningly live questions, would
seem to require more impudence than
even a practical politician possesses. But
mind yOu, gentlemen, you cannot fool
the people ali the time. You will take
up live issues or stand an extraordinary
chance of going to the cemetery with
your long since deceased issues. The
people are weary Of your antics, your
hypocrisy and your duplicity. They
abominate your methods and distrust
you, You will go into the campaign
handicapped at best, and common wis
dom ought to suggest to you that you
get on one side on the other of living
questions. II you are convinced that
the majority of u voting population
are idiots enough to sustain you in
your IF )rts to impoverish them by 60
ing on the side Of monopoly and Shy
locks, go there and fling your banners
on the outer walls. G. somewhere;
advocate something; show some signs
OF life and keep away from all four
year old corpses.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-09-17
MIDSUMMER WHOPPERs.

A gentleman was reading yesterday
in the New York Recorder about the
boss g~rasshoppers that live up in Sulli-
van county, N. Y. They are not only
Unsuitable, but omnivorous. The other
day, it is said, Farmer Jay McEwen,
while working in his rye field, hung
his vest, a new one, on the fence, and
in a few minutes the hoppers had eaten
t full of holes. Ga a neighboring farm
a man left a pair of new shoes out of
doors over night and next day found
that the grasshoppers had partly eat
en- them, utterly running them.
That's pretty good" said the gen
tleman, ''but they beat that in Texas.
Last year some railroad ran a line of
cars through Texas all painted greer,
and when the train stopped at the first
station in the grasshopper country, the
hoppers lit on the cars and ate them
clean down to the wheels"
This story is good, but the cock
reaches, or whatever you call these
guilty conscience insects that tear eff
in such confusion of face whenever you
discover them, are almost as bad al the
grasshoppers. They have eaten all the
lunch baskets of the Observers com
posing room force, along with their
contents Charlotte Observer.
In speaking of bugs and appetites,
the above is a very good production of
facts, but at a certain home in this city
the chinch or bedbugs have such raven
Gus appetites that they have, during
the past two weeks, eaten three pairs
of socks off the feet of one man and in
past two nights they have sucked the
blood out of loves dummy, which
was put in the sockless mans place
Concord standard.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-09-17
WHAT NONSENSE.

An official OF the PHILADELPHIA mint
says that 1t is Impossible to get SO, OOO,-
600 silver dollars that are in the mint
IN circulation. There is not a manufac
turer, a merchant, a working man or
a farmer in the cyUatry who will not
take these dollars. What is the diff
Guilty then in getting them into circula-
ton? Simply because this bull-headed
government will not pay them out,
saws the Farmers' Voice
TIE people cannot go to the mint and
get them for the asking. But the gov
eminent can pay them out in the set
Element of it's debts and they will take
care of themselves after they are paid
out. The government is engaged in
the work of maintaining the parity
between gold and silver" It's method
of doing that is to lock up the silver,
borrow the gold and circulate it; and
if things go on in this way much longer
there will be an awful disparity between
our debts and our ability to pay them.
Our obligations will be to our resources
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-09-17
HON. 0 H F. DILLON.

Few more significant deliverances
have teon made lately than the follow
ing from the address of Judge Dillon,
before the Bar Association. He is one
of the ablest men in the Union. and re-
signed a United States Circuit Court
iudgeship to become leading counsel,
at a high salary, to certain large rail
road companies.
IF we are blind to history and to
duty, if we idly drift and do nothing,
then with an overcrowed population
pressing with augmenting force upon
the means of subsistence, with the
hopeless separation of the rich and poor
into distinct, hostile and incommunica
BILE classes without common interests
and Common sy mpathies, and with the
growth of a prOletariGt armed with the
ballot in one hand and a gun in the
other, the prediction of LaSalle, the
great orator of German iconolastic So
cialism, may come to pass-may within
the next century come to pass, even in
this goodly heritage of ours: The God
dess of Revolution, after the lapse of a
certain time, will force an entrance
into our social structure, amid the con
vulsiOns of violence, with wild stream
ing locks and breZsn sandals on her
foot ~
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-09-17

third, it gives as good a course in Fog
lish, mathematics, etc AS others;
fourth, it gives a student the benefit of
military discipline; fifth, it gives prac-
teal training, as well as theoretical
knowledge.
Too many have an erroneous idea of
the college. They imagine that it is
simply a manual labor training school.
This is not the case. 1t not only gives
the manual labor training, but in ad-
dion gives a broad and thorough gen.
eTGL education.
It educates a boy for his life, makes
and fits him for positions of usefulness
and responsibility, as eVidenced by the
large number of it's graduates who
have procured good positions soon af-
ter they graduated.
AS mentioned in The Caucasian, two
of the graduates are on the Wander
bilt estate and now they want a third
one.
How does the expense compare with
colleges generally9 By consulting the
reports it will be found that a student
holding a county appointment can go
through on $68, board included. If he
is not a county student he pays a small
additional fee.
Considerable work is given to the
needy students and many are thus en-
abled to pay one fourth, or one half of
their expenses. This of itself is a good
educator as it teaches them habits of
industry and ~frugality. Too much
can not be said in praise of this pratt
cal education given, along with the
thorough collegiate u
Let the farmers of the State rally to
the support of their college and give it
all the encouragement it so richly
deserves, and thus carry to a still
higher point the brilliant success it has
already won.
The best endowment they can bestow
upon it is their bright, intelligent sons
who wish to be farmers. Send them to
college and allow them to take 8dvan-
tage of what the government and State
has so bountifully provided.
This college has not, does not, and
should not antagonize any other in the
State. It's mission is different a0d will
always be different. In fact, instead
of damaging others, it will Indirectly
stimulate their growth.
If the farmers wish to be on an eqlal
ity with others, let them educate along
their special line. Education should
be their watch word. It is the open
| sesame to progress and advancement in
every department of life.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-09-17
HAS ONLY 81

TIE following is a copy of a letter
received a few days ago by Mel.
Enry, manager of the Roanoke Rap
ids Power Company, from a man at
Whlteville, N. O., and is as follows:
Manager Roanoke Rapids Co,
Sir:-I am a man of a family of az
children and would like to move to
your place if I can get work for me-
and my children. I am a mechanic.
a q can do some of anything, carpen
ter, brick work or blacksmith In
fact L am an all-round man. FIR a
terences refer you to Dan McRakin.
book keeper for the North Carolina
Lumber Company. Can give you all
Ihe references you want. Can prove
myself. Please let me hear from YOU
Yours to serve,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-09-17
JUDGE LATHAM ON SILVER.

Judge Latham, of Richmond, Va ,
recently sent his views on the demone-
tizatiou of silver and it's effects, to the
New York Herald for publication. We
make the following extract:
Under the monometallic system
the few have been enriched at the OK
q of the many. The farming and
iaboring elements have suffered most.
Generally where there has been an ia
crease of wealth 1t has been in the
cities, where there has been a falling
off in the rural d sEIiGts. :
From 1879 TO 1880, the decade in
which silver vas demonet'Z ID. there
was q depreciation of the actual vaII1na
of all property IN the State of New
York TO the amount of $l92 81 1854 In
the following decade, from 1880 To
1890. New York had begun to gather
the fruit Of demOnetiz atom. and DrOn.
erty values, instead of deDreciatinG
were increased g 268. 7O1 991, These
figures are taken from the statistical
abstract furnished by the department..
since this period Of decentralization
property values all over the South and
west nave been falling off, until in the
years lo93-94, as shown bv the reports
% oHlclal assessments, in thirty one
oaS " Iorty-three States there was an
80 loss, while In twelve States there
~e;D gam of 1886, 600. 900. OF this
Of No%%,uEO wv, 900 occurred in the State
of tSn 1ork, themoney-lendin9 centro
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-09-17
ALLIANCE -REoRGAN1zRD.

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
SPARKMAN, N. G.
Tar Landing Alliance has reorganized
and commenced work. We had, to
commence with, twenty-five members
We organized on the 9Th day of july
with the following officers: L A jones,
President; J, W. Jones, VIce-Presi
dent; G. T. Walton, Secretary A I.
Brown, Lecturer; E M. Bradley,
Door-keeper. We have since elected
other officers, Chaplain, Steward,
Treasurer, etc.
I wrote to you about it onc before.
I did not know whether you heard
from me or not.
I wrote to Bro. T. Ivey for a blank
bond and got it, and will forward it to
him soon I have not got my sureties
yet. We want to get straight and get
to trading through our State Business
as soon as we can.
Yours, etc,
G, T. WALTON, Sec.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-09-17
n. r. P. A.
EDITORIAL NOTES

Friends, you can do nothing without
reform papers. Push their circulation.
Work as though your house was atire.
Senator Mills, of Texas, has re-
nounced silver and joins the goldbugs.
Good Let all the traitors take a stand
at once.
County Treasurer M. G. Clay, of
Ironton, Ohio, is short in his accounts
$I8. 900. We presume that it is sound
dollars.
Some say that there is no rest for the
wicked. Yet the editor of this paper
and the editor of the Charlotte %
server are each taking a rest" QIeer,
isn't it,
Recently we stated that the Coming
Nation" had suspended. We thought
our information was correct. We are
informed that it has not suspended,
and that the rumor probably grew out
Of the fact that the former editor re
tired. We cheerfully make the correc
ton.
Capt. S A. Ashe, former editor of
the News and Observer, has written
and published a book of 100 pages, en-
titled, Familiar Chats on Free Coin
age" The book is a valuable addition
to the silver literature, and very read
able. The price is % cents. We hope
the Captain will not hesitate to vote
as he writes in the beautiful hereafter.
Gold is still going to Europe. Two
million dollars in gold was shipped to
Europe to-day" is almost a daily dis
patch from New York or Washington.
Let is go. Take every dollar you can
find Then strip the gold eff the tor
of the new library building in Wash
ihgtOn and take that too. The quicker
it ali goes the better fer us. Gold, a.
it j. now managed, is a curse to this
country. Away with it!
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-09-17
GoLD-ocRAcY AND IFS

-
The Sound currency" committee of
the Reform Club of New York, have
presented their report, which shows
the efforts they are making to bolster
up the %goldocratic financial ideas.
The committee reports that they
have arranged meetings and furnished
speakers, printed ove l., 500, 900 pam
phlets on Sound Money" and furnish
ed "broadsides supplements" for IN
sertion in local papers of the South
and also West with a circulation Oh
22O, 80, and 'plate" matter, which mas
been inserted in 500 papers with an
aggregate circulation of 724, 469. Inc
number of documents issued as either
pamphlets or broadsides since the De-
ginning of the year IS 6'IO| 'uOO.
Sketches and cartoons have Roounded
in their publication, intended to pop
ularize. More than two thirds of this
enormous out put has been intended
not as answers to arguments not
reasonry, but has been ridicuIe and
abuse of those who have reason and
Justice on their side, while not a third
of it has been of a statistical or serious
such as an honest presentation
facts.
This report shows that this commit
tee is editing the Cleveland Goldocrat-
ic organs Of the country, and doing it
free of cost to the organs.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-09-17
TRUE OR FALSEP

One of the first declarations Of the
Alliance was for the restoration of sill
yer to its proper place in our monetary
system. We have faithfully striven
to educate the people to see the i'm,
portance of this demand of the Al
lance, we have stood by it, fought for
it and worked for it, and in every
legitimate way have endeavOred to
show, to convince the masses that the
restoration of silver to its proper DO
sition was bound to come or the masses
of u people, the producers and la
borers~ generally, would be reduced to
slavery. IL was coming aud cur teach
ings were not false, nor In vain, the
eyes of those who have done and said
everything in their power to bring
our teachings to naught, have at last
opened. They are beginning to see as
we see as we have said for years, they
are deciding that s)me step must be
taken and taken at once, to bring
about this restoration of silver. A con
vention has been called, the call is to
all men of all parties, who honestly
believesin these doctrines we have been
teaching for seven years, to meet in
Raleigh September % 5h, 1895, to dis
cuss this matter in a o partisan
spirit and see if some plan "a not be
devised whereby the honest money ad-
vocates can get together under one
banner and carry North Carolina
solid in the next general election, in
favor of this the main plank in the
Alliance platform. There is a tide
in the offairs of men" it is said, (which
taken at its fl )od leads on to fortune"
The high tide in this Alliance move
menG is now upon US. Non-pertisans
of the Alliance and those who have
hitherto affiliated with all the old
parties, and have earnestly sought the
objects for which we have so earnestly
labored and prayed for these long
years. Your time has come now,
show your faith by your works and by
your presence at the convention. Do
not say every signer OF the Call was
of a certain party" it's a trick" IN
have nothing to do with it." Don't
think of these things come right along
Or send your best men to represent
you. If there is any trick in it it viii,
out, ard woe betide the trickster. You
are sincere yOu will remain so. The
signers of the call are either sincere or
they are not sincere. The convention
will know which before it ~adj0urns.
And the man or men who show the
white feather will be remembered.
Let's all be on hand or send a strong
delegation l. will t do for the Al
Iianc3 to lag at this point. L9t who
soever will, come, and let US show to
the world that we are ready to appear
end encourage any movement which
looks to the securing Of our demands.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-09-17

as 16 to 1 in the course OF time at
present rate of speed toward national
bankruptcy. The government with its
silver ia like a nan with $1,000, 900 In
money and 50, 900, 900 in debts, but who
should refuse to pay out his money,
and vet should worry over the prob
Ion Of getting his 81 900, 600 in. circula-
tom Either the heads of u authori
ties are as thick as ten pin balls o they
think that the heads of the people are.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-09-17

Surely this "alL round man" with
his interesting little family of 81 child
rem should be able to find employment
IN the fast growing town of Roanoke
Rapids. 1t only requires a few fam.
lies this size to populate a town. He
should be encouraged by all means
We Withhold the name of the writer
Weldon News.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-09-17

Now is the time to push the circula-
ton of reform papers.