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People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-11-13
Mr.. Bryan COngratulates Mai.
Mckinley.

"W. J. BRYAN TO VIM Mckinney.
LINCOLN, Neb, November 5, -
Hon. William Mckinley, Canton, Q, &:
Senator Jones has Just informed me
that the returns indicate your cleo
ton, and | hasten to extend my
congratulations. We have submit.
ted the issues to the American people
and their will is law.
WILLIAM j. BRYAN"
In the sending Of the above tele.
gram, we think MIR Bryan has made
q mistake. There is no rule of DO
litieal etiquette which requires that
a defeated candidate of one party
should extend his congratulations to
the WANING candi ate of the other.
Even when the contest has been
bet we9n two members of the same
party, and the loser congratulates
the winner, we al understand that
the sin oerity oftle transaction is not
to be too closely scanned. No man
loves to be beatsn, even by a men,
Der of his own party, and no man
ever meant precisely what he said
wien ue congratulated an opponent
upon having downed although
no principle was in issue. In a con-
test, however, between one political
party and another, it seems to us
that congratulations are in bad taste
and should be omitted altogether.
Fol months past the country has
been stirred to its profOundest depths
over vital ues-irreconcileable and
trems, dous issues.
Mr. Bryan has been the leader OF
those people who said and believed
that Maj. McKinIeys principles
mean ruin and slavJry.
In every possible form Of words,
Mr. Bryan has denounced the deadly
"gold Standard" "British DONNA
tion,' Government by Trusts" seer.
poraion coercion" and the ruthless
greet of the money power.
With splendid men a. ability and
marvellous physical endurance, Mr..
Bryan has aasailed Mckinley as the
! candidate of the diabolical t,.gold
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-11-13

with. Then they ought to join it,
and become Democrats. In North
Carolina, Mr.. Butler finds both the
old parties good enough to fuse with.
Then he ought to divide himself AMI
join both. Or, if he can't do that,
he should fight neither.
But if Populsm has no fight to
make on either of the old parties
what excuse does it have for living
If both the old parties are right,
where is the need of third party?
If either of the old parties is right,
where is the need of third9
In other words, Fusion gives the
lie to the Populist accusation that
both the old parties are wrong. 1t
gives the lie to the statement 80
often made by Butler, Weaver, Simp-
son, PETER, Lease, Allen q Co., that
both the old parties were secretly
controlled by the same influences,
and that they were ''twins."
If Populism is ever to be heard of
again in national campaign, a
thorough reorganization should be
had, and the damnable heresy of
Fusion should be cast out, root and
branch.
No man should have a place on
our National Committee who is a
candidate for Office or the holder of
an office. The temptation for such
men as Butler and Breidenthal is too
great. They fad that they can
drive fine bargain for themselves,
in their respective states, at the ex-
pense of the national ticket, and they
barter the national ticket for the local
spoils. They forget that if they got
even congressman and state office in
Kansas and North Carolina, Popu-
lism would be hopelessly stranded
unless the national ticket prevailed
all along the line.
We believe firmly that majority
of the voters of this Union would
vote for our principles if they were
let alone and could vote as they
wished.
But We cannot command public
confidence under fusion leadership
which will trade principles for Off e.
Abolish the bargain counter, re
pudiate the fusion leaders, reorgsn-
ize the party, GUST the office-holders
from our National Committee and
PoYniiissm yet has future.
r. Z. w.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-11-13
What VIII We Da3

| sit here by warm hearth, sur
rounded by the comforts of home,-
citizen secure in many inestimable
rights.
How did l get them? Scholars
conceived them, poets sang them,
Orators spoke them, Warriors fought
for them, Martyrs died for them:-
and at length the statesman wrote
them into laws.
l can worship God as / choose
not as some other man ohooses-and
there is no wheel to break me on, as
there used to be, if my conscience
varies from the Kings.
| can vote as | please, and claim
a voice in the making of laws and
the choosing of rulers, and there is
no block to behead me on'-as there
used to be for those who could see
no "divine right" in the one man
power.
can put forth the strength of my
hand in any field of industry, and
whatsoever earn is mine, miae,-
and is not carted up to an emba tied
castle to feed some lazy lout of a
robber who calls himself my feudal
chief.
can think anything that comes
into my head, and, having thought
it, can speak it,-nay, speak it voci-
ferously to any assemblage of human
brethren who choose to hear; and
can attack the government and every
body connected with it for sins of
omission and commission, without the
slightest fear of being hanged for
treason, or of having the dragons
dispense the meeting, or Of being shut
up in prison as a riotous and sedi-
tious PERSONAL of which happen
ings would have occurred to me a
few generations ago, unless per-
chance, had tuned my tongue tO
the chant of the priest and the fat
teri,s of the King.
1t has not been long since 1t was a
crime to talk for the rights of the
common people! crime to assemble
and discuss grievances; crime to
say that the governed should have
voice in the government; crime to
claim liberty of speech and of Coz
science.
When think OF the awful pun.
ishments wreaked upon those who
dared TO denounced wrongs in the
olden days, when nearly everything
was wrong, | seek in vain for words
to express my profound admir- alton
for the cJurage of those who gave
their lives to the Cause of the Right!
No such heroism has ever been
shown on fields of battle as has been
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-11-13
SOLDIERS USE BICYCLES.
A Body of United States Troops
Ride 900 Miles,

The bicycle for military use is
now an assured success. It has been
given test by United States troops
in the far west that shows beyond
peradventure that, however pro-
blematical may be its advantages in
actual bs' tie, i. is already of vast
practical utility in various other pur-
poses of military necessity, says The
New York World.
This test was made by a detach-
ment of eight meu from the Twenty
fifth infantry, at Fort Missouls, and
was under the command of Lieuten-
ant Moss. The men chosen were
ordinary riders, and the bicycles
were the regular output of one of
the big standard concerns of the
east. The test was to be thousand
miles over common mountain roads,
with the riders equipped for such ex-
igenciss as might betall them in a
scouting or messenger run through a
hostile country.
Besides 1870 pounds of rations, the
party carried complete rough camp
ing outit-blankets, rifles, thirty
rounds of ammunition to each man,
extra tires and all the psraphernalia
of forced march. The average
weight of the wheels packed was
seventy seven and a half pounds,
The weight of wheel and rider rang
ed from 272 to 2O2 pounds each.
From Fort Missoula the party
wheeled to Fort Harrison and Helena
on bal mountainous roads and
against strong head winds. Never
theless, the whole distance of 1872
miller, including the crossing of the
main range, Was done in twenty
two hours of actual work, or at an
average rate OF six miles an hour.
From Helena they wheeled to the
National PARK, every portion of
which was visited. Then they ran
down the upper Yellowstone valley,
and turning up Trail Creek pass,
crossed the Bridger range into the
Gallatin valley, and wheeled to Bozs-
man through mud and storm.
From Bozeman run of seventy
two miles to Townsend was made in
one day. There the party was or.
dered home for spec ial duty.
The result of the march was a
surprise even to the strongest sup
porters of the bicycle. Lieutenant
Moss reported that both soldiers and
wheels had stood the journey re.
markedly well. The test was made
as thorough as possible and under
all conditions; they had ,iaaen In all
kinds of weather, through mud, sand
and dus, crossing mountain ranges
| and foTdiDg streams.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-11-13

An intelligent foreigner is said to
have expressed himself after the fol.
lowing fashion on the absurditles of
the English language: "When I dis
covered thAt if was quick was
fast, if | stood finn l was fast, if l
spent too freely l was fast, and
that not TO eat was to fast,I was dis
couraged; but when l came across
the sentence, the first won one one
dollar price l was tempted to
give 10 English an learn some other
language"
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-11-13

"These changes would have given
every one of the nine States to Bryan,
and, adding their 60 votes to the | CT
he got elsewhere, would have made
his strength in the electoral college
227-three more than he needed to
make him president.
alt is serious reflection that the
changing of only 1888 votes-as a
matter OF fact the change of 25,026
votes would have accomplished the
results all that stood between the
election of Mckinley and the election
of Bryan. We commend this rehec.
ton to the gentlemen who are throw.
ing up their hats and screaming them
selves black in the face with nonsense
about lsndslides and similar absurdi-
ties. MIR. Mckinley got tremendous
majorities in New England, New
York, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Michigan
and Illinois, but in the rest of the
country he has a mighty narrow
escape from defeat"
We clip the above from the Wash.
ington Post, and we simply remark
upon lit that, had the Democratic
campaign been so managed as to
enlist the full Populist support, Bryan
would have carried each of the States
named.
Take Indiana, for instance. A
change of 1000 votes would have
given it to Bryan.
The Peoples party has at least
$4,000 votes in Indiana; and Bryan
could have got them had the Popu-
lists been treated right. But with
true Bourbon bullheadness the Dem
ocrats tried to bulldoze the middle-Of.
the-roaders, instead of coneiliating
them, and the result was a smash-up
in which Bryan lost the State.
Again, take Kentucky. A change
of PSI votes would have given it to
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-11-13

/ ~ wv AAAtsa ~ - 49, 49,
The frGwn of Kings could not silence
them, For the curses OF Popes turn
them. Prisons could not quench
their flies, nor could the rack break
ought but their boneq. AS they
marchal to the block, they stepped
llghtlyr-ss pioneers leading the free
OF a graat future. As they mounted
the scafold, they rose, step by step,
proudIf, like copqaerors leading men
upwa,IG and onward.
Th@t names are lost-nearly all
OF thep but here in my quiet home
l sit, PIE legstee OF their heroic
work.
L laSmy hand on the Code of my
country, and every great leading
law init cost some brave man his
life. | am guarded round about
with guarantees and safe guards
all co1secrated with the blood OF
human sacrifice.
And do / owe nothing to anybody
for all this?
AMI to nurse the Slippered foot,
by my own fireside, in selfish ease,
and never stir forth to inquire how
fares j with my brother?
Am | to be deaf to the cry of hu-
man suffering, blind to the havoc
UrougH by bad laws cold-h arted to
the plea of the helpless weak
against the tyranny Of the oppressive
strongt
Am l to bask in the blessings
broughS me by the heroes of the
past, and care nought for the mis-
cries that may come UPON the child
rem who follow usH
God forbid
No man holds his life for himself
alone, but holds its splendid gifts as
trustee trustee who must come
10 an account, some day, with the
Most High.
Shall be cast down because our
efforts seem to result in so little?
Shall NOPE and fret because the
world decides against US at the bal
lot box?
Not unless history shows me that
maj orities are always right, and bal
lot boxes infallible.
The man who strives merely to
run with the biggest crowd is at best
sorry creal ture. The man who
strives to be hight, and to do right, is
after all the Only citizen who eau rest
nnoeF me lnllt comfort OF an 3p
proving conscienS5. '" NV
AS legatees of the patriots of the
past and trustees tor the present and
future, let US stand firm in defense
of the right. Let us preach its Cos
pei to whosoever will hear. Aud,
as mere matter of honesty and pa.
triotio duty let us speak as we be-
lieve, vote as we speak, and hold
aloft, always, the higher and better
ideals to which the human racs must
ever strive if it would move onward
and upward. r, E W.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-11-13
After the Storm

No manly man takes any pleasure
in saying 81 told you So"
Before the St. Louis convention
met, however, we warned our people
of their danger, and advised a
straight Populist ticket. Events
have proved that we were right.
Our party, as party, does not ex-
ist any more. Fusion has well nigh
killed it.
After the st. Louis convention ad-
journed there was just one chance
to save it. Sewall should have been
forced off the Democratic ticket by
the putting out of straight Bryan
and Watson tickets in each state
In no other way could the party
have been saved.
That policy, however, was not
adopted-and we know the regt,-
E ! gSlsieF sold the national canai-
date OF The Peoples Party for the
highest price they could get in each
state, and the result is that while the
fusionists have succeeded in getting
some local pie, the national organiza
ton is almost dead, Until the party
is recognized, no man with any self
respect will ever again accept a
PopuIist nomination for either place
on the national ticket. Hence the
fusionist had better make the most
of his pie, because he will never
again have another national nominee
to sell.
1t would indeed be a very con-
temptible person who would accept
our national nomination in 1900,
knowing from the experience of this
campaign that Butler will trade him
off in North Carolina, Bredenthal 81
Co., in Kansas, Pattison in Colo
RADIO, etc,
Consequently it may be accepted
as settled fact that The Peoples
Psrty will have to be e.organized,
or that it will never again have
national ticket in the field.
After the campaigr of 1892, we
could look at the returns and count
the strength of the Populist vote.
In 1894 we could do Likewise. We
knew just what our vote was. But
how can we tell today what the Pop
ulist strength is? Its vote has dis
appeared. Every vote cast for
Bryan and Sewall simply swells the
total Of the Democratic vote. Populism
has been rent and torn into three
factions; that which kept the middle
of the road, that which voted the
Democratic ticket, and that which,
out of resentment, voted for McKin-
ley.
Divided into three factions, in this
way, National Populism is almost a
dead letter-as party organization.
The sentiment is still there, the votes
are still there, but confidence is gone,
and the parry organization is almost
gone.
Just as the pie-hunter killed Green
backism by fusions with the enemy,
so Populism finds almost its death.
wound in the same ruinous policy.
Ii Democracy is good enough 20
fuse with, it is good enough to Join.
If Republicanism is good enough to
fuse with, it is good enough to join.
We lose our force asreformars when
we combine with the eVil-doers we
have Oeen denouncing, The mo.
ment wo c9ase to push our case
against both the old parties, we had
lust as we'll dismiss our suit.
In Kansas, the fu.ionists say that
Democracy is good enouph to fuse
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-11-13

OF bllNoI1 81 tneIo WAS no CRIME OF
1884.
In 1853 Congress reduced the
weight of the minor silver coins by
10 per cent. and limited their legal
tender power to sums of less than
$500. The weight was reduced to
prevent their expectation. But the
minis were not closed to the free
coinage of silver. The right of the
owner of silver to take it to the mints
and have it coined into standard sill
yer dollars was not denied. The
free coinage of neither gold or silver
was suspended by the act of 1853
and 80 there was no crime OF 1858,
The free coinage OF silver was never
denied until 1873.
There is no paper money issued by
the British government. Tia Bank
of England issues notes, but the
smallest denomination is 95 (S25.0O)
Of course such notes are practically
never received by wage.earners in
payment for their services. They
receive their pay in gold and silver
coins, largely silver, but gold is n 1t
withdrawn from circulation in Eng
land as it is in America. 1t Is in
general circulation. So it is also in
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-11-13
majorities elsewhere

Total Mckinley ma jorities so, 500.
Now, suppose there had been these
changes from Mckinley to Bryan in
the different States respectiyel,
The morning times., 1896-04-19
WERE GREAT WHEN YOUNG.

kaulbach, al seventeen, was pronounced
the first artistic genius in Germany.
Kant began his philosophical and meta
physical specuiations before the age OF
eighteen.
Goethe had produced Il conside rable num-
Der of poems and several dramas before
he was twenty.
Raphael showed his artistic abilities
at the early age Of twelve, when he was
widely known as an artist in oil.
Michael Angelo, at the age Of sixteen,
entered an artistic competition with the
bcst-known artists Of his time.
Ben Jonson wrote Every Man in His
Humor,'' considered by competent critics
10 be his best play, ,attwenty-two. at
Coleridge is said TO have begun work on
the Ancient Mariner when he was about
fourteen years of age.
Prince Eugene exhibited military talent
al the age OF thirteen.
Mozart was comp oser OF q cnata before
he was six; at nine he produced his first
mass.
The morning times., 1896-04-19
Hard Trials for the Reporters.

If there are to be many more Boer wit
nesses in the jameson trial, the hard
worked reporters will have to apply for
the services Of a special interpreter. Yes
terday they were left to make the best
they could Of the name OF place which
came trppingly off the tongue of Bouwer,
the Boer witness, but for which the ordi-
nary signs of stenography offer no equiva-
lent. In the dispositions the name appears
USs Van Uithoouis WiDkehspruit. The near
est the Evening Standard reporter got to
it was Van Nit Hookiswinkle SPRINT the
Globe gently modified this to Van Nit Hoor-
swinkel, while the Sun simplified it to
Van OudtshOorn's, and the Evening News
boldly made one fearsome word of it, thus;
Nanoudtscha wanswinkel. The rest OF the
reporters fenced gently with it, or. like
prudent men, declined it altogether. Lon
don Chronicle.
The morning times., 1896-04-19
Hittnu the Inns

The lip-biting habit will mar the prettest
face ever turned out of natures workshop
All the cold cream, lip salves, and gly-
cerine lotions introduced upon the toilet
table will not remedy the parched cracked
appearance due to continual iip-gnawing
process. Not until the habit is entirely
broken up is there any hope of a change.
Girls frequently drift into this ugly prac-
tice through a foolish vanity that prompts
them TO wear their dimples' all the time.
Others bite their lips from nervousness, and
sometimes, If girl has pale, colorless lips,
she viii try 10 vivify them by an occa-
sional pressure with her teeth. After
time, however, she nibbles away uncon-
tiousiy, and by and by her mouth loses
its pretty curves, becomes rough and puffy
looking, and all the charm of her face is
Rone.-NeW York World.
The morning times., 1896-04-19

what was that you called me?" asked the
vanquished when he began to realize that
he was still alive.
Il said 'DomiIfus vobiscum'-'May the
Lord he with YOU
"Well, he wasn't with me; but il you'd
just talked United States I'd have bought
a small bottle, for you're the first feller
that ever gave me that kind of boost
After this I'll do little investigatin' when
a prize-fighter in disguise let's any Dago
gibberiSh fly at me-
The morning times., 1896-04-19

hastily trying to d Some translating which
his excited opponent mistook for note
Of defiance. A
The priest waried and ducked until CON
vinced that there was no chance for arb
tration or peacefuE settlement, and then
he waded in. He was handy man with
both fists In commission. He was broad
Shouldered, deep of chest and full OF la tent
ginger that rapidly began to work. He
was very busy and efficient parsonage
for few minutes, IA the end of which the
huge Westerner. who wears the belt in his
section, was one of the most artisticalIy
whipped men that -; appeared west of
the Mississippi in many day.
The morning times., 1896-04-19
DOMIN Us yoBISCUM.
Collision in Which an Athletic Priest
and Westerner Mix Up.
a

"Dominis vobiscum," said an athletic but
absent-minded priest who collded with
big Westerner on q st. Louis street the
day auer Kansas had declared for Me
Kinley. filling the man Of the plains with
joy and mixed drinks.
You're another rOared the layman as
he let 60 from the shoulder at the fresh but
surprised face of the good father, who was
The morning times., 1896-04-19
Wonders of Science.

Il wonder how those weather men know
tbatit is going to rain
They know just as we know-by leaving
their umbrellas at home. Chicago Rec
ord.
The morning times., 1896-04-19

The One Condition.
Samos-Smile, and the world smiles with
you
Brimley-Yes, If you've got the price
Town Topics.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-11-28

E. L. Buckingham, an old time
Nevadan, died in San Francisco, on
the 18th of this month, after short
illness. He was aged 70 years, and
leaves a wife who was with him at
the time of bis death.
Mr.. Buckingham was familiar
figure in this State. For many years
he resided in Virginia City and was
engaged in milling. After leaving
the Comstock Buck" as he was
Familiarity called, came to Dayton
and was employed in the Rock
Point mill while it was run by ex-
Governor Stevenson, and also while
it was under the management of
Evan Williams. When the mill
closed down for good "Buck" moved
to Carson, securing the position of
Seargent-at-Arms of the Senate. At
the close of the session, or soon after,
in 1886 or 1883, he was appointed
night Waterman at the Carson mint,
and held this position until couple
of years ago, when he went to San
Francisco to reside.
A letter to the TIMES from a friend
in San Francisco, states that Buck"
has left with him some papers that
would tell more about mint affairs
than the outside world ever dream
ed of, and that the failing of Heney
and Jones was but the catching of
the small fish in the dirty puddle.
During Buckingham's time as night
watchman he was in a position to
know quite bit of the workings of
the gang after dark. 1t is rumored
that the reason he left anything be-
hind to tell tales is because those
who were implicated in The steal
ings failed to keep the promises
they made him if he would keep his
mouth shut during the Heney and
Jones trials.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-11-28
M Jason Valley Items.

Miss Bessie Penrose, of Gold
Hill, is visiting in the valley.
Miller is feeding 500 head of
beef cattle on the Gold Hill ranch.
w. r. Penrose is clearing off 80
acres of sagebrush land to put into
wheat.
Dick Fricke is going to give up
the Gold Hill ranch and move to
Jacks Valley.
Peter Pirazzo lost twelve head of
young cattle last week within "a
hours, from blackleg.
Miss Mamie Stewart, of the Ho-
tel Lovejoy, has new bicycle, and
rides it very gracefully.
Mr.. VanEtten, of Carson, rode
to Wabuska on a bicycle last Sun
day in four hours and a half.
Miss Annie Sullivan, the Wabus-
ka school teacher, spent Thanksgiv-
ing day at her hame in Virginia
City.
Gov. Sadler's $50 span of horses,
now owned by Doc Benton, broke
out of pasture in Washoe Valley
last week and returned to Mason
Valley, the home of their birth.
Grass must have been short in
Washoe, or maybe the animals
were ashamed of the price paid for
them.