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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-24

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WE wish that every farmer and day laborer
in this country would at once make himself ac-
quainted with the business in which each of
those delegates TO the Republican national con-
vention is engaged. We will say that if they
will hunt up the business record of each of
those delegates, they will learn something that
will startle them 1t is a fact that over 500 of
the 9Io delegates in that convention were made
up of railroad officials, corporation attorneys,
coa-oi magnates, manipulators of watered
railroad stocks, Wall street money gamblers,
bankers, with twenty-five or thirty of the
American representatives of the Rothschilds.
Now, what can the tllers of the soil--the men
who produce all the wealtt-expect to get in
a set of resolutions formulated by such an ag-
gregaton of legal robbers? But it is this class
of men who have, for the last twenty eight
years, adopted tile policy of both the Repub-
lican and Democratic parties.-Blue Mound
Searchlight.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-24
PEOPLES r.. .RTY PRIMARIES.

Primaries will be held at every voting pre-
cinct in Anderson county Kansas, on Saturday,
July 25th, at O'Clock p. m, to elect delegates
to Peoples party convention that will meet at
the court house in Garnett at one O'Clock p. III.
on Tuesday, July 2Sth, to select delegates to the
state convention and the fourth judicial district
convention, also the senatorial convention.
The townships are entitled to the following
representation: Reeder 5, Jackson 4, Putnam 8,
Walker 5, Monroe 3, Union 81 Washington 2,
Garnett, one for each ward (4), Lincoln 4,
Rich 4, Lone Elm s. Ozark 1, Indian Creek I,
Welda 2, Westphalia A.. Also in addition to
above one delegate at large for Garnett and one
from each township.
w. II. MELLEN, Chairman.
W. l. RRINCKI Secretary
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-24

ITEM in the Union, Minneapolis, Mimi:
'Mrs. Mary f. Lease, the famous orator from
Kansas, will speak in the grove at Plymouth
and Morgan avenues, north, on Sunday, July
10TH at 3 p. H., under the auspices of d. A.
70, K. of L."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-24

THE silver craze, as the gold men would call
it, has swept everything before it, and goldites
are beginning to beg for quarter. A few months
ago, they treated the slverites as though they
were set of lunatics but to-day their emissa-
res are ont endeavoring to effect compromises.
What change! The early part of this year,
with great big headlines, the gold-bug news
papers announced the death of the silver cause
They derided the leaders and rebuked the peo-
pie Now, they are, day after day, announc-
ing one state after another in the silver column,
and these announcements are in the ordinary
press dispatches, without comnent.-Ex.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-24

WE have a short oats crop; yet, the price Is
but and cents per bushel. The fax crop is
only medium, aud the price is about As cents
How about the law Of supply and demand?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-24

from each township.
w. H. MEI.LEN, Chairman.
w. J. BRINCKLEY, Secretary.
THE people of the country that | represen
have lost their reverence for gold. They hav
10 longer any superstition about coin Not
withstanding all the declarations Of the mono
metalists; notwithstanding all the assaults tha
have been made by those who are in favor o
still further increasing the value of the stand
ard by which their possessions are measured
they know that money is neither wealth no
capital nor value, and that it is merely the ere
alton of the law by which all these arc estinat
ed and measured. We speak about the volume
Of money and about its relation to the wealtl
and capital of the country Let me ask you
sir, for a moment, what would occur if the cir
culating medium were to be destroyed. Sup
pose that the gold and silver were to be with
drawn suddenly from circulation and melted ur
into bars and ngots and buried in the earth
from which they were taken Suppose that all
the paper money--silver certificates, gold GER
tihcates national bank notes, tire asury notes
were stacked in one mass at the end of .he
treasury building, and the torch applied to
them, and they were to be destroyed by fire,
and their ashes spread-like the ashes of Wyck-
liffe--upon the Potomac, to be spread abroad
feet? Would not this country be worth exactly
as much as it is to-day? Would there not be
just as many acres of land, just as many farms,
as many days Of labor, as much merchandise
and as much property, improved and unim
proved, as there is to-day Suppose
on the other hand, that, instead of being de-
stroyed, all the money of this country were to
be put in the possession of single man--god
and paper and silver-and he were to be moored
in mid-Atlantic upon raft with his great
hoard, OF he stationed in the middle of the Sa-
hara desert, without food to nourish OF shelter
to cover, or the means of transportation to get
away. Who would be the richest man, the
possessor of that gigantic treasure, or the hum
blest settler upon the plains of the west, with
dug-out to shelter him, and with corll-lneal and
water enough for his daily read?-Extract
from ingalls, last speech in the senate.
Mr.. PRESIDENT money is the creation of
LAW, and the American people have learned
that lesson; and they are Indifferent to the as
saults; they ale indifferent to the argument;
they are indifferent to the aspersons which are
cast upon them for demanding that the LAW of
the United States shall place the image and
superscription of Caesar upon silver enough and
gold enough and paper enough to enable them
to transact, without embarrassment without
hindrauce, without delay and without impover-
shment, their daily business affairs, and that
shall give them a measure of values that will
not make their belongings the sport and prey
of the spectators. = Extract from John J. In
gals last speech in the United States senate
ITEM in the Union, Minneapolis Mimi.
"Mrs. Mary f. Lease, the famous orator from
Kansas will speak in the grove at Plymouth
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-24

A PANIC brought on because the American
people decide that they want to manage their
own finances evil be frught with disastrous
consequences, " shrieks Wall street. So it will
for Wall street. A large number of Wall
street gold gamblers may find themselves peek
ing through prison bars There are more forms
of treason than taking up arms against the
government Topeka State Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-24

THE Kansas City Gazette wants to dispose of
the silver question by relegating it to the var
ious congressional districts. How would it be
disposed of here in the Second district where
we have candidate who is a national banker
without a platform? Unless something is done
to let the people know that Mr.. Harris knows
something the financial question, he is 60
ing to be short of votes. i -LawrenceWorld( Rep.)
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-20
A plea for savannah.

Waycross, Ga, Sept 1S.-Editor Morning
News: Sometimes those on the hill top
have a better view of the city below and
see clearer the causes that produce strife
among the busy crowds of the city's
streets than those amid the throng. And
SO to us who do not live in Savannah, bu.
read the Morning News each day before
noon, the controversy about your sanitary
arrangements appears Insignificant com
pared to the moral pestilence that your
saloons create. SO accustomed has Sa-
vannah become to the tainted atmosphere
that she does not realize the danger and
sends out the ringing cry: 1--WE believe
in local option" The expression of this
sentiment, Mr. Editor, does not deceive
any one i'm the higher, purer,
moral atmosphere of the 1O5
counties in Georgia that have
banished saloons from their midst II the
roof Of your house was burning and your
children sleeping peacefully beneath, you
would welcome any and all aid for their
rescue II is possible that these counties
might be satisfied with local option them
selves. but for the fact that the thirty
seven counties where saloons are allowed.
thrust their traffic into dry counties IN
the form OF blind tigers. When demo-
cratic primaries in dry counties are car
ried by whisky II is time for the majority
OF the native population OF sovereign
state to rise in Indignation and make
laws strong enough TO protect all the
people in all the state, even the helpless
children Of your city. Neither yellow fe-
yer and smallpox combined have destroy
ed as many lives in Savannah as your
licensed saloons Nearly $1,000 sleep IN
Laurel Grove to-day; probably four thou
sand died Of those dread diseases, but
a very much larger proportion have died
of drink. Let all who have lived In sa
vannah the past twenty years make n
retrospect. and recall these victims among
their own acquaintance. Some Of the
grandest characters and finest intellects
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-20
AN VICTORIOUS VICTORY.
BY the HON MRS. HENNIKER.
Copyrighted. 1896 by the Hon Mrs, Henniker.

why it was, Mrs. Joliffe flung her arms
tenderly round her husbands neck. and
kissed his hot cheeks. There seemed TO
her pathos about him which had never
struck her before.
Raymond, darling" she said, 81 don't
want to dine out or go to any more balls
or parties. l am much, much happier alone
with you, old boy"
He looked puzzled, then he laughed.
Hou silly old Trix! Why, you had the
success of the evening The general
himself made you sit on his left. And |
heard Lady Quinton ask who that lovely
girl was with the golden hair. and the
penclled eyebrow. Yes, that was the ex-
pression!'
1 don't care. I.want always to stay at
nome with you" And she laid her fair
head against his sleeve AS Beatrix Joliffe
walked slowly up the narrow stairs to her
little room overlooking the sea she heard
the sound of carriages coming home from
the Government house party. She sighed
and took out beautiful lilac orchid from
the lace folds in front of her dress. Trix
loved flowers, and had always felt. even
IN chlldhood, as If she We're intlicting bod
lily pam upon sentient being if she left
one 10 Wither. But to this particular spray
she was unmerciful and flung it far out
OF the open window. And there it Law m
on the doorstep until the posfman picked
1t up on the following morning and carried
1t on-all Drowned and dusty as it was
to touzled haired lady who sold tobacco
In street round the corner.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-20

Georgia ever produced have been cut off
in early life, and breaking hearts left to
mourn. The flower of her young manhood
went forth when wars alarm sounded
through the land, and laid their lives
a willing sacrifice on the altar of. their
country. War hath slain its hundreds,
but alcohol its thousands Seventy five
per cent. of the crime is the direst result
of your saloons, and still you protect and
license them. If it had been possible to
save the men and boys of Savannah VINO
have died, directly or Indirectly, from
drink since the war, their lives, their tai
ent, their enterprise, would have made
Georgia far richer far greater than that
portion of the population that worke cd
their death and eternal ruin. The swarm
that would leave your city If the saloons
were closed, you can well spare greater
numbers would take their places, native
progressive people, who dare not now take
their children into the atmosphere of sa-
looms. The capital consumed in liquors
would be invested in legitimate entor-
prises that would give employment and
bread to many worthy people, suffering
now for both. Local option has done all
1t will ever do for Georgia, because the
negro vote and purchasable white vote in
cities viii give a majority against the
better classes. The financial question is
insignificant compared to the LIQUOR traf-
porarily embarrass a country so rich IN
domain and creative wealth; but this
curse is blighting the heart and life of
the nation
Beautiful, historic savannah! Twice in
century has she been besieged and ca
pitulated to brave legions that thundered
at her gates:
mot like lamb TO slaughter led,
But with lions monarch tread,
She marched unto her battle bed,
Savannah, Savannah
Now, alas! she is in chains and sees
them not, her foes are within. sapping
the life blood of her strength and filling
her homes with anguish The open sa-
looms are the nets that are drawing the
feet of her innocent children to destruc-
tion; behold their victims in her hospi-
tails prisons, alms-houses and desolate
homes. If saloons must run. boys and
men must be furnished to supply their
trade. On they come. bright, joyous lads
so full of future promise now, the cherish
ed babe cooling in its cradle to-day; these,
fathers and mothers of Savannah, are
what you must give to maintain the liquor
traffic.
Beloved city, take couragel Your for
eign foes and recreant sons are strong,
but you are Georgian, your veal is ours,
and your bleeding heart sends a throb
to the remotest bounds of the state.
For years thousands of brave men and
pure women have been praying for deliv-
erance from this awful curse like Corne
Illus of old, their prayers and their aims
have gone up like a memorial before God.
Tho hour is at hand when deliverance
draws near, and In this tidal wave of re-
formation who shall be found fighting
against God and home and native land?
A Daughter of Georgia.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-20
RaiIroading Under Two Standards

From the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Those who live and do business on the
Rio Grande have become accustomed to
the growing difference In the standards.
They carry Mexican money in one pocket
and American money in the other. They
pay the barber on the north end of the
river in American money and the cigar
dealer on the south side in Mexican
money The stranger feels his way to an
understanding of the conditions through
a series Of strange experiences. He finds
himself asking twenty times a day In the
ordinary transactions
American money or Mexican money!
Thereby he reveals his tender feet The
resident never asks that question. II he
has any doubt about the kind of currency
expected in payment, he puts II in this
way Gold or silver?"
Ordinarily there is no question. The
agent In the railroad depot at Laredo,
when asked the fare TO New York, re-
piled:
$500"
How much to the City Of Mexico?"
1899 co."
If the traveller en- route puts down a 800
Mexican banknote for his ticket to New
York he finds that $3.50 means $3.50 He
receives in change $7.20 In Mexican money
Asking for American change he get $3.50
or whereabouts. He has his ticket to New
York and $3.50 to show for that beauti-
fully printed 500 Mexican banknote.
II the traveller going TO the City Of Mex
leo offers a 500 American banknote for his
$3.50 ticket he is at first puzzled when
the agent returns 5000 Recollecting
that In Mexico he must do as the Next
cans do, he asks for Mexican money in
change and he is more surprised when
he leaves the window Of the station car
rying his ticket to the City OF Mexico and
$1,000 in exchange for his 500 American
banknote.
traveller northward bound and the Mexl-
can traveller southwark bound, returning
to their respective countries. will find
that $500 TO New York and $500 TO the
City OF Mexico mean other amounts
greater or smaller. In week the COM
paratiye value Of the two dollars has va
ried cents az the border
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-20

His Approved Remedy do you
do when your wife has the headache, Bev-
erlyT"
81 take home a couple Of theater tick
cts. "-Chicago Record.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-20

In advertisement will be just what shall not
plausible phrases to confuse misead public We shall
make statements clear
stalk right the meeting and put earnestness we can
into words
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-09-23

In their early spring convention,
Van Buren, County democrats en-
dorsed Grover Cleveland and his adj
ministration in positive terms. Mr..
Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle
have come out squarely for the dem
ocrat nominees, Palmer and Buckner,
and in opposition to Bryan and his
popocratic platform. We have no
doubt that many of the men who en-
dorsed the president in the spring
will follow his leadership now.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-09-23

that day to this have not reopened
their minis to free coinage.
When the United States can legis-
late out of existence the unalterable
laws that regulate the commercial
values of all commodities, gold and
silver included, it can safely enact
free coinage without regard TO the
commercial value of our money
metals. Until then, commercial and
coinage ratio must be identical, il
coinage is to DO free and unlimited,
or else free coinage will surely mean
a monometallism of the cheaper
metal.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-09-23

looks very much as though il was a
cuckoo endorsement of the populistic
utterances of the Chicago platform
and vain grasping at a forlorn hope
of getting the plums of office.
succeed by principle if we can,
in spite of it we must" would be an
excellent motto for Van Buren, dem.
ocracy.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-09-23
Which Kind Of a Van Buren, County
Democrat

Gall things to all men" is typical
of democracy and anything to secure
victory" is the essence of democrat
ic faith. But never has the aptitude
at rapid coat turning been better ex-
emplifed than in Van Buren, County
during the past few months.
There was democratic county
convention held April IA last. From
the only democratic newspaper
in the county we find that the follow
ing resolutions were then and there
adopted, and there is no record that
there was any protest against them:
1.-THE democrats of Van Buren, County,
in convention assembled, believing in
the cardinal principles of the demo
cratic party as enunciated by Thomas
jefferson, and believing that these
principles have been promulgated by
the present administration, and further,
that the democratic party will place in
nomination as candidate for president
of the United States a man whose
every sympathy and uttcrance is AM
eDican and who is ever vigilant for the
protection and welfare of the Ameri-
can people. Now, therefore, be it
'ReS0lUed, That we endorse the pres
ent administration and lend our untir.
ing efforts TO the democratic party in
its endeavor to enforce such principles
as shall prove most beneficial TO the
great mass of the American people"
So, in April last, the democratic
party of this county believed in the
principles as enunciated by Thomas
Jefferson. Let us see if they are
honest to their own standard Of true
democracy. When deciding upon
the ratio for our first gold and silver
coinage law, Mr.. Jefferson said:
Just principles will lead us to dis.
regard the legal proportions altogether;
10 inquire into the market price of gold
in the several countries with which we
shall be principally connected in COM
merce, and to take an average from
them"
In the labors of finding the correct
commercial, and hence the equitable
coinage ratio, Mr.. Jefferson's chief
co-worker was Alexander Hamilton
Let us see if he does not likewise
shed some light on the money ques-
ton. He says:
There is scarcely any point in the
economy of national affairs of greater
moment than the uniform preservation
of the intrinsic vdlue of the money
unit. On this the security and steady
value of property essentially depends
If, in April, the Van Buren, democ-
racy believed democratic principles
had been promulgated by the pres.
ent administration" it is but fair for
us to look for the evidence there.
also.
AS to Grover Cleveland himself, his
actions are even more potent than
his words, and since the democratic
party has been feeding on the husks
of populistic principles we have but
to GO to the very democrats who in
April voted to "endorse the present
administration" to find the very bit.
terest abuse heaped upon it. How.
ever, we have selected few senti.
ments from the administration lead.
ers, and give them here:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-09-23
Electric Bitters.

Electric Bitters is a medicine suited for
any season, but perhaps more generally
needed when the lsnguid, exhausted feeling
prevails; when the liver is torpid and slug
gish and the need of a tonic and Alternative is
felt. A prompt use of this medicine has
often averted long and perhaps fatal bilious
fevers. No medicine will act more surely in
oounteracting and freeing the system from
malarial poison. Headache, Indigestion, Con-
stipation, Dizziness yield to Electric Bit
ters. SOC and 81 per bottle at Longwell
Bros. drug store. II
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-09-23

f. l.. GOODALE.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-09-23

Mr. Sewall is national banker and therefore
out of touch with his people. Mr. Sewall is rail
road king and therefore out of touch with his peo-
ple Mr.. Sewall is bondholder, and therefore out
of touch with his people. And make bold here
to say that Mr.. Bryan himself has laid down the
rule which, if carried out will take Mr.. Sewall off
the ticket He said in New York in public
speech that candidate running upon platform
should not only indorse every plank in that plat
form, but should indorse every sentence and every
word of it. Apply that rule to Mr.. Sewall and
Mr. Sewall would get off while stepped on. Mr..
Bryan must have meant that let him deny it if did
not. That construction has been put on it by dem
ocrats 1t is the only construction that can be put
on it. Mr. Sewal does not stand squarely on
the platform Let Sewall scoot and Watson ar
rive Tom Watson Rop,tst Candidate for Vice P,esi-
dent.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-09-23
&. L. GOODALE,
UNDERTAKEN,

/ desire to announce to the peo-
pie of Paw Paw and vicinity that
| am engaged in the undertaking
business in Kalamazoo and will
be pleased to promptly attend to
the calls of any Paw Paw friends
who desire my services, without
any extra charge. Telephone or
telegraph at my expense day or
night.
Ell. GOODAIF.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-09-23

WE are very glad the Courier has
found out where our good old Uncle
Cyrus stands, and would be pleased
to have our contemporary tell us
The most definite information we
have yet seen is an unqualified
ssstraddle."
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-09-23

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