Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-31

wrong tApplause). Any other course is OF
tIuc Populism. (App!ause). The mission of
this great par has been to strike out what is
wrong and to hold up what is right, AMI wo
have appealed to patri tism to rise abov tho
party to do this, an our appeal has brought
forth 2,OU,OJi of patriots. and there are ?, no..
0)J mora patriots coming whcOping into our
camp (Applause) Lii ten. l will ie you
what you will find VIII, you get home. Ihave
been down on the oil plantation at homo
waerc was raised. ! i've with ban | of
farmers representing al three political parties,
and thej wero at the train AMI shook
my han when left The way thos, men felt
Il about the way the great American heart
fc is to-day (Applanse) They sal /, Butler
let us rise to that patriot c position that will
make us have tho conf len;c and respect of
everv honest man in the old parties who has
not jo!ned us (Appl'u-e) Il ever we lin
aaoth 'r vot, We must grin it by being consist.
ent applause } Their. IL not MAJ in tli,
hall WIN, If he will so to his room tonight and
get down on his knees and pray to tho
Almighty God to take all the preju lie, and all
the partisan feeling out OF his heart. and ask
HIS all to do as true Popu ought to do,
but wi rise lying IL is my duty t. stand by
what have thought In tho past AMI let it lead
wher1 it ma.
VIII Not Split.
MY friends, ther, is 1T nun in tho Popu-
list party tn It love it more and ha moro
eau 20 to be revcnged arainst the old parties
than L. There is danger o, those patriotic
enou I'll to leave the old party bccom ng prcju-
diced to such an extent as TO be controlle by
our feeling. instead of our hearts an reason
believe that thi convention is going to do
what is wisest. / believe it il going to stand
tog .ther. 1t is MT going to split Appause)
H'w can It'll We spill. both OF tho old parties,
ano W, split them on pr nciple. Great ap-
piausc We cannot split becaus, We all
stanl for the same principles. (Applause).
An 1, OF course, party that has raised up
great principle apd split tw1 old parties is not
going to b, foolish enough to allow itself to
split ON metaod and detail Applause). We
stand together aud we will go home from hero
united band of brothers. T lis part; is going
TO stand ready to hit them nj take their hon.
est m m a every mistake they maxi. We are
willing to approve e7orythng right they do,
and we will cond mn them when they blum
der. or when they Lctray us as they
have in tho past, (Appaus,) Remember
that YOU me PEOPLES patty men that you have
accomplish I'd more in four years than the old
parties have accomplished in hundred.
(Grea. applause and cheering. Rcmem ,er that
if W. do our duty at this hour, tn, lime /, not
far distant when W. will be the majority party
in Ameri a. Great applause and long and
continued cheering
THE CHURCH MILITANT.
1t Is mentioned as remarkable CO.
incidence that the men just elected
bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
church, chaplain" McCabe and Rev.
Earl Cranston, were born at Athens,
o. 1t is a further coincidence that the
late Bishop E. r. Ames was born in
the same county and within ten miles
of the town.
At the closing session of the Congre-
gati0nal association held at Aurora,
H., resolutions were adopted, deLounc-
ing war as contrary to the spirit Of
Christ, and favoring the arbitration of
all international difficulties by per-
manent international tribunal of arbi-
lrstion.
The delegates to the twenty-second
annual convention Of the Illinois Chris
tan Sunday School association at
Peoria, H., passed resolutions strongly
denouncing the liquor traffic au1 pledg-
ing the support of the association TO
all efforts for its suppression.
1t is said that there are 1893 clergy
men in Boston, only thirty-one of whom
receive $4,000 salary and over per year;
seventy-nine receive between $1,000
and $500, while the balance come
under the latter figure.