Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-06-25
Wheatland Wiggles.

School closes in district No. 172 Friday Jnne
26. after a most successful term under MISS
Halpin.
Ferdinand eau returned from Wisconsin last
Saturday,
last Thursday the sad news came that the
,gad matber of VIM. and Fred Habbach had
passed away. Deceased was born IN Gerimany
and came TO this country IN 1861, she always
had the appearance of being hale end nearly
until two months before her death when a very
sudden attack of paralysis ended her notable
career. She was 81 years old and leaves Two
sons to mourn her loss'
The pop league met as usual in the secret
halls-the barn of Lewis Dell. The first thing
i'm order was q pop caucus to appoint delegates
for the convention. They were instructed to
support all the principles of the party. specia!
weight being lain on the transportation ana
free silver clauses. The caucus was then dis
solved into a league, the object OF which being
information on late issues OF the day. The hrst
thing on the program was the reading OF the
constitution which was amended to suit the
society, one change being the number required
for a auorem. At first, it was decided that 81
should constitute a quorem, but 1T was hnally
reduced to 7 TO allow for the rapidly decreasing
ranks of populism. To prevent the fallacles, OF
the party being shown up, III was decided that
only league members could take part ia discus
sions. The speaker then announced that they
were now ready for discussion of any point de-
dash for his valise and got a handbook which
he explained contained all the frauds that the
pop party was accused OF. The speaker is a
very shrewd, clever and fluent speaker, some-
times called Webster No. 2, or the Wbeatland
silver-tongued orator. He defined populism
and then made a blow at the tariff, showing a
protective tariff would ruin the laborer aud
ruin the country all around. He finally came
to the logical conclusion that the country was
hard up because there was not enough money
TO run the government; also, that the chief
cause of the hard times was that men ran away
with government money. The applauding com
mittee two pops gave a hearty applause to
the remarks, and then he explained the benefits
of a free coinage of silver ID to 1. showing how
we conld take our silver bullion 70 the minis
and have it coined into any denomination de-
sired. In answer to the question who in this
country has silver bullion to sell7h he said the
large miners in the west had the bullion, and
that they would get the money and distribute
u amongst the people in this country, He
immediately changed the subject to prevent
further questions which would have been ask
ed. A lady then asked, what is a legal tend0r4
Almost out OF breath, he said, only gold coins.
a. pop member noticing his mistake, sprang 70
ms feet and said the speaker was wrong but
th&t the people were wrong, too. The speakers
knowledge of the silver questor, or in fact any
lsabJect concerning politics, Is very limited.
However, If he makes q good effort and studys
carefully, he will no doubt vote the Republican
ticket this fall. Before election the history OF
the pops will be a thing of the past in Wheat.
land and IT. viii go stEaight Republican.
BEN. ARNOLD.