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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-01

The Missing Treasurer Believed to BE IN
s0ath America.

The Missing Treasurer Believed to he in
s0uth America.
PIERRE, 8. D., Feb. lit is now
generally believed that w. w. Taylor,
the defaulting state treasurer, is i'm some
South American state out of reach Of
extradition. 1t il definitely know that
he left Chicago about Jan. 8 and went
from there TO the home OF HIS parents i'm
Indiana. On Jan. 10 he was seen ON q
train between Memphis and Cairo by a
resident OF this city who knows him
well. On that date a telegram was re-
ceived here from the chief of police at
Memphis stating that a man
Supposed Co BE Taylor
was under surveillance i'm Memphis. A
man who had been closely connected
with Taylor in the mortgage Business, a
former resident of Redfeld, probably
assisted him at that time. Another tele-
gram dated the 18th, from Pensacola,
was receivad here, and a letter was re-
ceived by a friend of Taylor in this city
postmarked Pensacola q few days later,
but the authorities have only lately
heard of this letter. Under such cir
cumstances it is natural 30 suppos he
left the country by the southern coast.
Queer Hallucinatlou.
CANTON, s. d., Feb. THE board az
insanity has adjudged Rudolph CHA
myre, a middle-aged man, insane. Gala
myre has q Authorization that fhe girls
are making an effort to hang him. He
will be placed in the asylum at Yank-
ton
Valuable Horses Sold.
SPARTA, Wis, Feb. Fred Gross
has sold his young mare, Queen Tempo,
3, 2:2SI1, TO an Eastern gentleman,
through G. @. Weeks, for 1900. Mr..
Weeks has also closed a deal with w. IL.
Graves for his promising young ally,
Happy Lucy, ), 2:s9. Mr.. Weeks viii
ship these two mares to Boston i'm the
where he will prepare them for
the Eastern circuits.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-01
Hughes Removal Rnmorsd.

PHOENIX, A. IT,, Feb. I.-Rnmors are
rife that Governor Hughes ii TO BE- re-
lieved, and that Tile appointment lies be-
tweeue e. Governor zulick aud the Hon.
Thomas Smith Of this city.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-01
Another Rlg Drop.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.-The total
Withdrawals Of gold during the day
were -, 95i, TAO, OF which %, 775, 900 WINS
taken from New York, $I2f, TO from
Baltimore and $4,000 from Boston.
leaving the true amount Of the gold re.
serve at the close OF business at $44,45l,-
age.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-01
LEGAL TamnA Rahla.

Leeml TAme T@nl@.
Chicago. Milwaukee ID Se Panl Railway, which
took effect. Sunday. November n, 16ea;
TmAxMe aoama MAsT.
Passenger, No. 4, departs 1lt06 o. m.
Freight, Nd. "a. departs $50 q. M
Freight, No. "a, depaFss 8 90 ,. I'M.
TRAnM@ aOgm@ wR9Ts
Mixed, No, Sz, depaFts4:i0 pm.
TmAnx@ TNOgm TRN East.
Passenger, No. ., arFivee s:46 p. N.
Freight No. 7, arrives A:b0a. IN.
freight, No. e6, arrives B .bS p. IN.
TmAlMs RHOw "a wmeT.
Freight, No. 81. agfivee 10 :4b q. m.
All the above trains carry passengers; bni
heights only when passengers ere provided with
icke&e.
Passenger traime going east mako connection
nc Ryan Tor ail points south, and passenger train
going woet, at WOCnsOcket for Ill points north.
MADISON @ mm1sFOL LTHB.
Passenger going north. departs 3.B0p. IN.
Passenger from north arrives, 1880 o. m.
JN0. LARKIN. Local Agent.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-01
Dead Beneath the v AEON.

LITcHPTELD, Mimi, Feb. LIE. j.
Stark, q, prosperous farmer from the
town OF Acton, was found dead d little
ways from this city, pinioaed to the
ground BY . load OF bran which he was
hauling home. The fall probably
stunned him and lao lid until frozen TO
death.
Dr. Price.s Cfeaan 6aking Pewdsr
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-01

Bicycle riders in Southland, Austria
liza, are required to dismount % yards
from an approaching horse AMI draw
their wheels past
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
GOOD:

THE POP ULISTS HOLD THE BALANCE
OF POWER IN THE KENTUCKY LEGIs-
LATURE, AND CAN NAME THE NEXT
SENATOR-THIS INSURES A FREE
SILVER MAN TO SUCCEED BLACK
BURN.
Louisville, Ky, Nov. 8.-The Even
ing Post says that the general assem-
bly, will be a tie when it meets, and the
election of a successor to Senator
Blackburn is matter Of conjecture;
the Democrats having 68 votes and l
Democratic Populist vote making a
total of SO. The Republicans will have
IS and Republican Alliance vote max
ing a total of SO. The republicans claim
that the lieutenant governor, Worth
ington, will have the decisive vote,
thus insuring them the senaLorship.
This is an error, however, as the lieu
tenan governor, as presiding officer of
the senate, cannot vote on joint ballot.
This is the old-party way Of putting
the thing. There are no democratic
Populists" or Alliance Republicans. I"
The fact is the Populists elected two
members of the Legislature and they
hold the balance Of power. We hope
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13

cocoa-nuts; now they steal their
wheat and oats and barley and pota-
toes.
A good government is something in
vented by civilized man to hold in
check the beast rapacity of barbaric
man. The present age is trying to
disentangle its legs from the past.
Here is a passage from a recent Cos
pei discourse by sSam" Jones:
I'VE have more millionaIres than
men nowadays. God never made but
one man and one woman, and they're
scarcer now than they was then.
Ever see them little, little fellers?
FellerS that can see through a key
hole with both eyes, and they amt
cross-eyed, nuther. Why, some of
them little fellers can have fly perch
on their nose and paw them in one
eye and kick them In the other! Lit
tie fellers! My! my! my! but there's
lots of pieces of people goin' round !!
Ia ruther be some kind of dog, myself.
than no kind of a man. I'd ruther be
good 'possum dog than no count
white man"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
THE ELECTION IN OHIO.
VERY LARGE GAINS.

Mr.. Coxey deserves all honor for
making a canvass of extraordinary
energy and ability. His paper, Sound
Money" of Nov It'll, says:
Sound Money comes to it's readers
this week freighted with good news
for all men regardless OF party. We
have met the enemy and they are
ours, because So, 600 true and tried
men have withstood the sneers and
contumely of monopoiy's bosses and
dared to express their true sentiments
at the polls. Mid the carnage Of po-
litical defeat we offer to the Demo
cratic hordes of Ohio our sincerest
sympathy.
They have lost their votes. Herded
together like sheep in the shambles
they have been led to the slaughter
pens of villainy and sacrificed in the
interest Of the vilest gang of pirates
that ever scuttled ship or cut a
throat"
We extract the following items
showing the growth of the Peoples
Party.
Norton, o. gain over last year Sc per
cent. Paint township, Highland coun-
ty, gain 100 per cent over last. Bu-
cyrus, Is per cent increase. Delphos
gain 600 per cent. Scio, increase from
Ii to 68; Hancock county, gain Of $50;
McComb, gain 100 per cent; Pleasant
town, Logan county, three fold in
crease; Bloom Center, more than
doubled; Portage county, Coxey 900
gain Of $50; South Precinct, Harrison
county, gain of 81; William county,
HOO votes-increase of 100 per cent; in
Montgomery county, the increase was
1922; ETC., etc. A great many Popu-
lists, for some reason, refused to sup
port Mr.. Coxey, but Notwithstanding
that fact he made large increase in
the total vote Of the state. Good for
COxey.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
1T IS DEEP-SEATED

In military stables horses are known
to have pretended to be lame in order
to avoid going to military exercise.
A chimpanzee had been fed on cake
when sick. After his recovery he Oft
en- feigned coughing in order to pro-
cure dainties. The cuckoo, it is we'll
known, lays it's eggs in another birds
nest, and to make theSdeception surer
it takes away one of the other birds
eggs. Animals are conscious of their
deceit. as is shown by the fact that
they try to act secretly and noiseless-
ly; they show sense of guilt il de-
tected; they take precautions in ad-
vance to avoid discovery; in some
cases they manifest regret and repent
ance. Thus. bees which steal, hest
tate often before and after their ex-
ploits, as if they feared punishment.
A naturalist describes how his monkey
committed theft; while he pretended
osleep the animal regarded him with
hesitation, and stopped every time his
master moved or seemed on the point
of awakening.
All of which goes to confirm the
Darwinian theory of the descent Of
men from monkeys. Mankind, as the
Bible says, is "prone to wickedness as
the sparks fly upward" The gold.bugs
are simply the outcrop of millions of
tricky, thieving, animal ancestors, ex-
listing during past ages. Formerly
they stole each Others bananas and
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
DIOTN.

A fellow from indianapolis named
Yandes, went out west to investigate
the silver craze" and had not been
there week before he partook so free
ly Of ''the cup that both exalts and in
ebriates' that he had serious case Of
delirium tremens and had to be sent
home. AS soon as he had sobered off he
began Falstatfian tale OF how he
roas ted the ''silverites,' but it con-
tanned so many inaccuracies that his
closest friend only smiled as he talked
and hurried him off to Keely insti-
tute as soon as possible, where he is
supposed to be still in solitary confine-
ment or has been pronounced idiotic.
Exchange.
Why of course he is incurably idiot
ic. That is the natural condition of all
advocates of goldbugism who are not
making money out of it.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
WHERE OUR MONEY GOES.

London, Oct. 28.-The Daily Tele-
graph has been interviewing shop
keepers regarding the amount of
money that American tourists have
spent in England this summer. The
merchants say that while the number
of people coming to London from the
United States is increasing yearly, the
visitors are largely composed Of "trip
pers," who do Europe on $3.50. It is
admitted however, that hundreds of
wealthy Americans spend thousands
Of pounds in Europe. This class pend
900 in jewelers. store and Re-
gent street tailor sold $4,000 worth to
one customer, including suits, hats
and boots. Jewelry seems to have
been the chief article purchased.
Shopkeepers say that the royal arms
exhibited over shop door is worth
large sum Of money in buyers from
the United States. One merchant
of Wales wears" sell rapidly during
the American season.
According to the Pelican, upper b.
hemiaS latest craze is gorgeous
opium den near Park Lane, which is
also, the paper says, attracting many
of the highest society people, includ-
inc young matronS whose names are
household words.
Observe, my friends. how it works.
The old parties humbug you, and the
newspapers blind you, and the fruits
of your hard labor are stolen from you,
to enrich lot of snobs, and thingum-
jigs, who go over to England and spend
your money in that fashion. And the
''royal arms" attract them! Spirits Of
George Washington and Thomas JEFF
ferson have pity on US! And they
want hats the same as the Prince Of
Wales wears! Bunker Hill and Lex
ington and Concord and Yorktown list
en- to that! And they have opium
dens too, where young matrons" 60,
whose names are "househOld words!"
And do you know, bretheren, what
the old party press is maintained for
throughout Minnesota? Simply to d.
vide you and deceive you, so that the
robberies may go on, and the Prince of
Wales hats may be sold. and the orgies
of the opium den and Oscar Wilde
may continue And why should you
not sustain these things? Isn't that
what God made you for?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
OUR FIRE WARDEN.
HOW TO STOP FIRES-THE COMING
HORROR.

HOW TO STOP FIRES-THE COMING
HORROR.
A letter from County Auditor Glea-
son, OF Polk county, received yester-
day, ontained an account of fires that
nave done great deal of damage in
that district, that were started by
sparks from passing LOGON olives.
Another report came into the fire
warden's office from Thomas Doyle,
chairman of the board of town super
visors of DWELL, a little town near
Fergus Falls, in Otter Tail county,
where prairie fires are raging. Not
outstanding all the precautions that
nave been taken by the state warden,
these fires are started carelessly by
farmers on their stubble fields and al
lowed to spread to prairie and woods;
they Will prove very disastrous this
fall, because everything is very dry Just
at this time.
Gen. Andrews reports that his
agents throughout the sta te are very
earnest In the performance of their
duties. and that the tOw1 supervisors
who, according to the law, are board
of'fire commissioners In each town, are
very faithful in performing their du-
ties.-St. Paul Dispatch.
Is it not surprising that with the
General and his agents all at work
there should be so many fires? It
would seem as if the General ought to
sit down at once on every fire in Min
nesota the moment it is started. And
ii this cannot be done let US have
deputy fire warden at the elbow OF
every farmer who ploughs stubble-
field, and of every man or boy who
goes hunting in the woods; and let one
sit on the cow-catcher of every loco
motive that traverses the state, pre-
pared to hop off and squat on the first
spark.
That old fraud, Andrews, has been
hanging around the Legislatures for
years, introducing bills for the estab-
lishment of new offices, as useful as
the fifth wheel of wagon; and he has
had the impudence to name himself
in the bills as the first occupant of the
office! He is as near nothing as man
can be and survive. Death will take
so little from him that he will be dead
six months before he finds it out.
And now he has, at last, quartered
himself on the state; and he will be
clamoring for deputies to stop fires,
until the thirteen millions of taxes
the people now pay annually in this
state will not be a flea-bite to the
burden Of hungry politicians, Of the
Andrew stripe that will be piled on
the back of the suffering pc ople.
1t would be cheaper to hang such
fellows than to support them.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
OUR JUDGES.

In his speech before the recent
tion, Judge Brewer took occasion to
lambaste the shyster lawyers. He
said in part:
GA growing multitude are crowding
in who are not fit to be lawyers, who
disgrace the profession after they are
in it, whO in scramble after liveli-
hood. are debasing the noblest of pro-
fessiOn into the meanest of vocations,
who, instead OF being leaders and
looked up to for advice and guidance,
are despised as the hangers-on Of
police courts, and the nibblers after
crumbs which a dog ought to be
ashamed to touch"
We endorse every word uttered by
the corporation judge but beg to in
Quire: Why didn't you have some-
thing to say about the political bunco
steerers who reach out and secure
safe sittings on the judicial wool
sack? Show us lot of rascals who
deserve more contempt than Judge
Miller of the District of Colum bia.
Judge Kicks Of Ohio, Judge Woods Of
Chicago, Judge Dundy and a choice
boquet Of other judicial tools who dis
grace the bench and deny justice.
Be fair, Judge Brewer, and hit the
big shysters as we'll as the little ones.
The Road.
And did not Judge Brewer himself
obtain his place on the Supreme
Bench because he had proved himself
the servile tool of the railroad corpo-
rations? And why should the big
skunks inconvenience the little
skunks? The little skunks have not
yet got their growth, but they do
evil according to the measure of their
opportunity and capacity. Give them
oh
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
AN OLD FRIEND,


We found in S. H. Peterson, the
father of that prominent business
man, f. H. Peterson, of Minneapolis,
whose advertisements appear regular
ly in THE REPRESENTATIVE, an old
friend, who fought, bled and died"
with us, in the old Autobiography
times, and is revived sufficiently to
support the Peoples Party now. He
voted for us three times for Congress,
and we were elected each time; and
nothing could testify more strongly to
Mr.. Peterson's intelligence than that
fact; or to the wisdom Of the people of
Min nesota at that time. But that
was before the corporations got in
their work, and before popular intelli-
gence had shrunk to it's present low
level
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
STOCK SUBSCRIPTIONS.

In 1893, when The REPRESENTA-
TIVE was started, large number Of
persons were good enough to subscribe
for one or more shares of stock, at S.
per share, but the hard times, and
hail and drought were too much for
them. and they we're never able to pay
up, even with the best intentions in
the world. We would kindly inquire
whether they can do anything now?
We would suggest that if they do not
want the stock they can send us the
money and list of names of go per-
sons, at cents a piece, to whom we
can send the paper for three months.
Some local alliances failed to pay up.
Let them collect now and remit and
take it out in subscriptions to the
paper, Send to sensible men of the
old parties or to lukewarm men of our
own.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13

The New Ulm Review denies that
exsCongressman John Lind has any
idea Of accepting a Populist nominal
ton for Congress with Democratic in
dorsement. "Mr. Lind is free silver
man. to be sure" adds the Review,
"but he is also Republican" But
when Republicans take up with Popu-
listic fads they can hardly be surprised
at rumors connecting them with Pop
uliStiC nominations.
That is gentle hint for John to toe
the line or he won't get any cake. We
much mis- take our friend Lind if he is
going to be controlled by any such
threats. The Populists and the Silver
Republicans and Democrats can sweep
that district two to one, and it looks
as If they would get together.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
REMEMBER THEM.

The Jamestown IN. d. Alert says
among farmers in all parts of the
state there is determination seen to
hold their crops for better prices.
Farmers are storing grain on their
farms instead of putting it into ele-
vators, which is about equivalent to
selling it, for it goes at once into the
visible supply. Per contra, word comes
from South Dakota that agents of ag-
ricultural machinery concerns are sue
ing farmers on notes and compelling
them to sell their crops at present
low prices or see their property fore
closed. This probably accounts for
the present large receipts.
Brother farmers, remember every
firm that drives you to the wall in
these hard times, and never deal an
other dollar with them as long as you
live. Talk these things over in your
Alliances and boycott the wretches
who have no pity on your miseries.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
VERY TRUE.
The Penny Press saws:

The Penny Press says:
Let every advocate of the Stree COIN
age of gold and silver" remember that
the issue involving the monetary
question was not presented in a single
state except that of Mississippi. where
the "Silverites" won "hands down.''
In every other state both the Demo-
Gratis and Republicans declared for
''single gold standard" Had the adj
ministration kept out of Kentucky,
and allowed the Democrats to have
worked upon "a free coinage plat
FORM" Harding would have been
elected by 10000 plurality.
Exactly. What's the use of two par
ties with one set of principles? When
two men ride the same horse one must
ride behind. Republicanism and De-
mocracy are both astride the same
gold-standard horse; and Republican
ism mounted the beast first. The
Democracy is the "Me too party. 1t
says amen to the Republican creed
and then tries to pretend it is a separ-
ate party.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13

road building IL, ~ the main, passed.
Certainly IA new riyalsin the great
Held comm3nded ~ tho two compan-
les tn question win appear in our gen.
GRAFTON.
81 have hitherto looked With disfa-
yOr upon governmental ownership OF
railroads. as Ihave feared the effects
OF the consequent cenJralfation of
power, nor have / looked with favor
upon paternalis IA in Government: but
when perceived the unmistakable
evidences of . conspiracy against the
welfare OF my state, having for its OBJ
ject the consolidation, under single
head, of all the railway facilities upon
which q large part Of the people are
dependent, and menacing their prop.
erty for generations to come, 1 am
forced to admit that governmental ounce
ship may become OF necessity, the only
arenue OF escape for a free and enlightened
people,"
These are pregnant and most sigrf
icant utterances, coming from She
chief law officer of the state. They
concede all that the Populists have
demanded. General Childs is an hon
est, able man; and the more he inves-
tigates this question the more clearly
he will perceive that government
ownership is the sole and only way out
Of the muddle. 1t is useless to de-
nounce railroad combinations under
existing conditions. 1t is inevitable.
From the Allan tic coast to the Pacific
ocean our railroads are practically
one. There is no competition. II one
great road was built and bonded tol
actual cost. and run to pay the interest
on that cost alone, it would, in six
months, wreck every railroad in the
United States; but it would lie ave mil.
lions of dollars in the pockets of now
plundered people. Suppose Mr.. Childs
wins and the courts finally declare
that there can be no direct legal con.
solidation of the N. P. and the G.. n,
what is to prevent the Hill party from
buying up, in Wall street, majority
of the stock Of the N. P, and thus
controlling the road? But if the bogus
stock is not wiped out, in the pending
legal proceedings, rates would have to
be fixed high enough, on both roads, to
pay the interest on $4,000 or $4,000 a
mile of debt, and that means ruin to
a whole group of states.
Tackle that question, General
Childs. Squeeze out the watered stock
of the bankrupt concern and you will
be the guardian angel Of half conti-
nent. But if you do not do it the Peo-
pies Party will yet accomplish the
task.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13

The government pays annually $780,
600 for mileage to senators and con-
gresSmen, going back and forth from
their homes to Washington City. This
was adopted before the days of rail-
ways. Is it not about time to abolish
it. and adopt new order of things? A
man can travel now for three cents
per mile. Why should we pay these
fellows 10 cents per mile or more than
three times what it costs them to
travel? -Weatherford (Texas) Leader.
Don't be mean. What's the use of
grudging these fellows their little
100000 of mileage when they pass
such good laws and give us such great
prosperity as we are now enjoying-ac-
cording to the gold-bug sheets.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
STILL THEY COME.

The accession of Col. Plummer, Of
North Dakota, to the ranks of the
free silver advocates, takes out of the
Republican party and into the ranks
of the peoples advocates one of the
most eloquent and effective stump
orators in the country. The free sill
yer advocates and Col Plummer
should both be congratulated
Yes; the Colonel was one of the Re.
publican trump-cards year ago, and
the idiots went wild over him. Every
day increases the rush of the free sill
YER torrent.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
THE FARMERS ALLIANCE

Committee will meet at Hotel Bruins
wick, corner Of Hennepin avenue and
Fourth street, Minneapolis, Nov. goth,
at 2 p. M, where ample accommoda-
tions have been provided for, at the
following rates: $3.50 per day, two in
a room, for all Alliance members. The
committee room will be on the second
floor. 1t is large, we'll ventilated, con-
venient and easy of access. The aged
and infirm can take the elevator.
Those in the prime Of life can secure
admission by ascending one fight Of
stairs. By order of the President.