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Tell Clark Howell that he should have
been here: this is one of the few events in
life which a man cannot well afford to
miss"
Even Mary Ellen Lease, the ugliest as
well as the most eloquent woman in Amer
ica, marched around with all the jubilatum
of man celebrating his first victory but
still sufficiently alive to business to an
nounce that she had a new book in press.
p cents a copy
Chairman Allen plunged into a speech
in which he outlined the fact very clearly
that Mckinley was the mutual enemy of
all parties of the American people. He
said:
The gold power of Europe i'm the event
or Mckinley's election will fasten
chains around us which we can never
turn of. Wall street is working for
Mckinley. and even in this hall. as I
speak, there are men wearing badges
to which they are not entitled and who
are doing the work of Wall street
A voice: Name them"
Senator Allen went on:
DO not he afraid but that I have them
spotted. They have been here for four
days trying to educate the peopla.
Some of them went to Chicago for the
same purpose. Hin and Whitney went
there, but they found that the people
did lot want them and they slipped
back home considerably wiser than
when they went west. When this con-
VentiOn shall have done its work the
little spawn who have been here doing
tie dirty work of Mckinley viii 90
away equally fruitlcss. In this crisis
we are confronted with the question:
what shall we do am for the
middle of the road" in the sense that
are to keep right ahead in the pur-
suit Of our principles. We must not
stand in the middle of the road" and
let the procession pass by. We must
keep up with it if we would not be left.
Are We TO abandon practical sense i'm
political arairs2 The republican party
has declared for the single gold stand
ard. Mckinley was nominated here by
the same purchascable enthusiasm
which has been tried here and failed.
The gallery people want YOU to prOmul
gate wild platform and to put upon
il a man of straw who will accept the
nomination for the notoriety it win give
him. Every boodler with republican
money in his pocket is here CRYING out
boodler is stirring M the honest ia
matte with middle of the road"
Chairman Alien closed by a reference to
Mr. Bryan by name which again put the
hall into an uproar of enthusiasm. which
plainly shows that the tide has definitely
turned I'm the right direction.
one OF the conspicuous figures uron the
stage during these remarkable scenes was
Hon. John r. St John, of New York.
president of the national silver convention.
To Confer with Silver Men.
Senator Butler moved the appointment of
n committee of twenty-five delegates to
confer tonight or tomorrow with a confer
euca committee of the silver convention,
whose honored president now occupied a
seat on the platform. (Shouts OF NO! mol
ad ioumID
Mr.. Branch, of Georgia. moved TO lay
the motion on tie table. That motion was
voted down and Sen Tor Buffers motion
? 4 r
nooDIc are holding an angry pow-wOw at
the Southern motel They are quite agreed
that all men beside themselves are rascals
and that il is the fate of al great men not
arstff n CON u
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craue convention aitNouEh the demands
Tor admIttance were 50 few that al i've
minutes OF y there was no one i'm the
r-allorv hut the baua and on tho aoor
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H..'U''i5 'iSi'oi7
temporary CHAIRMAN Ne"iands and Mr-
Towne, of Minnesota, one of the boiling
republicans. appeared and took seats on
the pIatforrn accoroDaufed by slight ap-
pla,,se They were soon followed by Mr..
" p ST Holm. The ex-New York ma
.,,-.,t t,,,t-.r sl,+.3 rnr ,,..rroara,t chair
man
The only banner ln the nan outSlue OF the
regular decorations was carried by ths
minnesota deie.-ation ANA was intended to
...,,,...,,... +b. declaration of Herr Most.
,-, -. ,-..t.-+.l.,- T. r.,,-e-.
the Ne"
sents Most ana dt hiAtes sli''h''l7 4ai'~N
The right arm of Mckinley bears me Word
Trust ana that Of Most the word An
archz. - Across the top are the words
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existence tomorrow the next democratic
national convention would report plat
form on which Bryan would not stand.
tCheersl The peoples party had raised an
issue so universal, so great. so important
that Il split both the old parties in two.
daughter and applause)
Now this convention had met TO save
that issue or TO allow It to 20 down in
death. lie had faith that this conven-
ton would not turn itself into democrat
&c annex doud cheersl or into n re-
publican annex (more cheers, but would
md a way between them that was true
and right What. Senator Butler asked.
should this convention do? And he was
answered 10y one Of the California dele
gates. Mr.. Alfred Dagged. Nominate n
straight populist candidate on a populist
platform. without reference 10 what the
democratic convention has done" (Cheers)
Senator Butler went on:
While this party lives and God grant
thar il shall never die, because IL will
be ever needed as long as human lib
erty is threatened. IL must be true to
the mission which it was born 10 ac-
II this convention cannot follow it's
own teachings II Is unworthy to rep
resent the people. " hat IS your duty
today II is to indorse and approve
what is right and TO condemn what is
wrong. No other course is true popu-
ism The mission of the peoples par
~ has been To strike down what Is
wrong and TO hold zap what is right.
II You WAIVER in your principles then
Won become no better than the old
parties which YOU were raised to de-
Struy- I believe that this convention
is going 10 DO the wise thing. / believe
that il is going TO stand together. IL
Is no. going TO split. We have split
both tine old parties. We did IL on
- principle. but We, ourselves. Will
not Split. because we stand upon the
principle AMI are not going 10 be fool
ish enough to split upon details. III
We stand together and go away from
here a united hand of brothers. will
strip for tho fray and we VIII see next
November that the unions Of organ
lied capital and of gold monopolists
are stricken down in this country. We
VIII show You. too. that this young
giant Of the peoples party will come
out Of the campaign stronger than
We go into IT,
Remember thar You have accomplish
81 more IN four years than the old
PARTIES have accomplished In "A hum
drsd years. And remember. too. that
if We do our duty at this trying hour,
the time is not far distant when we
VIII Dee the majority party Of the coun-
Try
Senator Butler spoke Tor an hour. clos
in his speech AZ p. m. lie was congratu-
lated upon It by AIR Ienatius Donnelly and
other persons or the stand.
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on such varying forms that hut few be
Ueved in the ultimate success or MI
Bryan.
In my dispatches ] ventured the ASSET
80, chat BRYAN would lie nominated
sa,fnst all signs which seemed to say
nat he would De defeated II was un-
doubtedly true that the majority Of the
d.lerates were against his nomination.
More than that: a majority was commit
tel. as FAR as expression goes. 10 I'M "
,sl,t Tut on the other side stood the
.,s.,e., Of patriotism backed 10y Intelligence,
,,bi,.b made the existence of the populls'
marty possible. The party grew out oi h"
,rotest or the common people against the
abandonment OF popular issues by the old
...r,ie. one Of which. the republican. Was
,,,mpittcd 10 Doodle ~ comphelty' INC
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SENATOR ALLEN CHAIRMAN.
Spoke Eloquently for Triumph Of
Patriotism over Politics.

-. Louis. Mo. July 3.-(Spccial) This
has been "a day 81 surprises In which The
Bryan cause once seemed 20 he lost. hut
from which they rallied. Ey lsi majority
ia q vote OF Isis delegates the fri~.rts OF
i,-,s2 v'"s 2, .s.. 81 n III 4. A..i
permanent chairman. The speech which
Chairman Alien made upon assuming con-
troll Of the convention solidifed the brEan
ranks Mr. Allen drew happy pafaLei
tween the political Napoleon % today and
dr.. great man whom he Stimulates. lie
said.
The great Frenehman made two fatal
mistake. which cost A.m his crown ana his
liberty Tho one was when he crossed the
Pyrer,,S into Spain. the other when he
marched into Moscow. Hs punishment
came when he met the allied forces under
Wellington"
The Illustration OF .sllIed forces" caught
th,. audience and even those who We're
fearful OF h-iu-s swallowed up by demo-
Gratis saw th, fight through different
Elassc~.
For nve minutes the cheering rendered
the speakers progress Impossible. Regain
.ug attention he saii
Somewhere In this broad land in the
great uorih in the cotton blooming south.
down by the rull. on the Pacific coast or in
the plateau ~ THE Platte. there may be
found today I'd Wellington who viii lead
the allied forces 81 the people on 10 victory
10 November.
For once the convention exhibited that
enthusiastic spirit which thrills from soul
To soul. and ara. epoch was marked IN the
popular history 81 America. These brave
mon WHO have gathered from an points or
the union. Sons of the soil and men upon
whose broad shoulders the integrity OF the
nation rests. ehrercd and marched and
went wild iu thc dclrium which moves all
great causes
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MAJORITY REPORT ADOPTED.
Populists Decide on Platform Planks.
Riotous Scenes in Convention.

Convention Hail. St. Louis. Mo. July "a
The populist convention was called TO or
der bv Senator Allen, permanent chairman
nj five minutes after 10 O'CLOCK fIay'f
was offered by Rev. MIR. Williams OF the
Irnion Methodist church of St. Louis
The report Of the committee on ruieS
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II. kyle, Of South Dakota, was one of the
most iubiant men on the stage
Telegraph The Constitution for me-"
said he. that by tomorrow night Bryan
Will he our nominee and the populists will
challenge the democrats into a contest
as no who will cast the biggest vote for
our common nominee"
ITS elorious!" cried Senators. Stewart.
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ER CONVENTION
ENDORSES BOTH
vi, St. John, Of NeE YOrEr i
Permanent Chairman,
BRhND SEWALL NAMED
Your Recitcs the Declaratsa
independence.
A WEEl GREAT DEAL OF ISlt@
The Ere, age People Indorse 81 E
andall by Acclamation--
Cation Proceedings.
BRhND SEWALL NAMtU
Your Recites the DeClaratea
independence.
A wEEl GREAT DEAL OF IkIt@

st. LOU July 22.-The nat
silver nrt,vention was oai'e'
AZ 1890 o.. today and ad}'" ''''
hours IA teineot in the mor"ii'7
The cond. governing enlie'i
silver convn. which IS hoi"'i'-
sions ia th,lsic hall OF f''
building. walmost a. flSo' o.'-
Chicago Old opening daT o.
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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1896-07-27
POPULIST
CONVENTION
Bryan Named for the Presidential
Candidate
ALLEN NAMED FOR CHAIRMAN
Elds an Eloquent Speech for III. Tri-
umph Of the Party.
GtOUGIkE FOR VICE PRESIDENT
Bryan aud Watson the Standard
Bearers OF the Populists.
POPuLETS ARE N A PECULIAR HUDuLE
Week Proved One OF Surprises-A
Number Of Disgraceful Scenes
Convention Proceedings.

ST Louis July THE populist conven-
tion vas caiIei TO order at 1c-sS o'clock by
ar Tauhcuecls. chairman OF tho national
committee. ana Rev W Il l. Smith. of
Tire Third Baptist church. of 81 Louis.
offered PRAYER.
Governor william :. Stone. - Missouri.
delivered am address of welcome. Hc Sail-
3r-- Chairman ana Gentlemen ~ the
Convention come to extend a genuine
ara hearty nel-~me Go those husritali-
tics us the state Co which 2 have the
honor 60 he rir executive officer Frec-
4ow e - r.an ~ r-iisiors. political
=. -
- ~ - -s.. ~ long as IA, exeEclss
81 mat free.lon does NOT disturb public
orser. or trench on tfe just rights or
Others. are cardinal principles Ia our
great government system
~ this state we seek IN give 70 that
has.e tlea JOS trst possible expression
we differ as o. fhe m"th"-s anu We
amer often ISIS to ro'i ies aud priu-
.-r.- h-- g. - e. q. Ievoutiy hoped
tnar an az u@ a~e ae-Uet'i lE love 81
country ana ug uuflees 81 the greatest
patriotism
yo- arc gentlemen. Oh crucial
period as este-u. De-. uos only ot party
HISTORY rgs 81 Maternal history IL
WON'T He u-f.eouIre - nee To make
any sa--..et.eu Whatever as To tle duty
OF tbs convention. gsn. however.
without improperly ssg that I hope
that every reatieuaa occupying "A Eeat
81 this zr,st Auft viI perform the Inn
rorrsut aul r-e ore .ie duty imposed
urou llm vith an .v- single 20 the
ruhI-- -uol- - rhe t,.s-1pmcrt ~ our
country ANA co. tho promotion ~ the
felicity ~ orr people ami the glory OF
the -ePa aii-
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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-14
RAISING The CALF.
The Digestive Organs Must Be Given
= Proper Consideration.

The Digestive Organs Must BE Given
Proper Consideration.
It is of the utmost Importance
whether the calf is raised for the dairy
or for the butcher that it's digestion be
kept in perfect condition the first year
of it's existence, so that it may become Il
profitable animal. To do this it is
necessary to feed carefully and keep the
calf supplied with sufficient quantity
of food to make it quiet and satisfied.
1t is desirable, of course, to keep the
calves pushing ahead, but it is best to
make haste slowly. In your eagerness
to show growth, do not overfeed, or you
will upset the digestive apparatus and
check development for q time at least.
Determine the destiny of the calf, and
feed accordingly. If a heifer, and you
are raising it for dairy purposes, do not
feed too much fattening food. If the
heifer once acquires the habit of put
ting everything on her back it is prac-
tically impossible to induce her to
change in favor of the milk pail. Cows
are just as much creatures of habit as
men are, and we all know the diff ulty
of reforming our ways. Therefore,
train the heifer in the way you wish
her to go. Give her such food as will
promote rapid growth. Bone and
muscle are the points to be aimed at.
A fat heifer is apt to divert into flesh
the food intended for the production OF
milk. Therefore, cornmeal, timothy
hay and other carbonaceous foods are
to be eschewed. Oats, clover hay, wheat
J,roD OTTO will do much IN cfim11la re
milk production. A few carrots OF
other roots will give the occasional zest
required by the appetite.-N. Y. World
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vehicle, whether propelled by steam or
naphtha, by hitched-up quadruped or
bestriding biped.
Our consul further suggests plan
for road improvements; or, rather, for
raising the money for road improve
ment. 1t is the French plan, to wit, a
wheel tax. In France all carriages are
taxed. Those with seats for one or two
persons, SO year lin round numbers);
those with seats for three, SIS, and for
four, $50; while bicycles and tricycles
are taxed So each. These taxes are pay
able monthly, in advance, and must be
paid before the vehicle is allowed to go
upon the road. A fine revenue is thus
obtained. No doubt a similar system in
this country would also fill up the state,
county or township treasury. But we
don't want it. Such a tax would be par
ticularly vexatious and annoying.
We don't need it, either. Our ordi-
nary system of taxation is sufficient.
We spend enough money-or its equiv
alent-on our roads now to make them
as good as those of France. The trouble
is we don't spend it in the right way.
Our labor is misdirected. At some sea-
sens of the rear, when farm work is less
pressing than usual, the farmer works
OUT his road tax. Generally it isabout
the worst time of the year for the roads;
hut that doesn't matter. He takes his
horses and pillow and scraper, plows up
some burrows in the gutter between the
wagontrack and the sidewalks, and
scrapes the earth up into the middle
of the road. That makes the road rough
and lumpy. You must drive over it at
a walk, as over a newly plowed field. If
the weather remains dry it gets dusty;
if rain comes on it is mass of mud.
in course of time it gets worn down
fairly smooth and hard; and then it is
time to work OUT some more taxes,
and scrape up some more .sods and
loose dirt again.
That is what road-making has meant
in most country places, and what it still
means on thousands of miles of high
way in the most highly improved states
of this union. If instead of that the
same amount of work had been given
for the last 25 years to laying drains
and making telford, or macadam, or
even good gravel roadways, we should
to-day have network of roads all over
these states on which any kind of We
hicle could run with ease at any time of
year. We need no carriage tax, nor
gold watch nor silver spoon tax, but
only an intelligent and systematic APP
plication of our ordinary revenue to
the making of loads on a scientific
plan.-N. Y. Tribune.
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must necessarily depend upon complex
conditions, and it is not often that the
one is selected that offers the least re-
sistance to traction.
The kind of material at hand, its
durability, the kind of traffic to be ac-
commodated, all enter into the ques-
ton of selection.
The use of material that will insure a
permanent, smooth surface, wet or dry,
and unaffected by frosts, besides being
obtained at reasonable price, is to be
commended.
While the results given above are
approximate, as the exact tractive force
varies over the same road, probably
every day in the year, and very prob
ably no two roads are exactly the
same, yet they are fair average and
believed to be reliable for basing COM
mathematician Phillips, C. T., in
Rural World. - -
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ROADS NEED MOISTURE.
Shade or Fruit Trees Provide 1T Durin
the Dry Season.

Shade or Fruit Trees Provide 1T During
the Dry Season.
To keep good roads in good repair,
moisture is often the one thing de-
sired. The four months of continuous
drought last summer was trying to all
kinds of roads. Sand roads became al
most impossible, gravel and dirt roads
dissolved into dust, and stone roads
Eanifested strong tendency to dis
integrate on the surface for want of
moisture to cement the binding ma
terial with the stones. But where the
surface of stone roads is part of
shaded avenues, there was none or lit
tie disintegrating, reports Road Com
missioner Budd, of New Jersey, thus
emphasizing the experience and prac-
tice of European rosd builders that ma
cadamized roads should be set with
shade or fruit trees, so that the silent
forces of nature may steadily provide
the moisture that is needed without ex-
pense, besides adding beauty to the
landscape, and pleasure and comfort to
the traveler.-American Agriculturist.
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FRUIT FOR THE FAMILY.
How to Have = Fair Variety All the Yea
Around.

How to Have = Fair Variety All the Yeas
Around.
The question is often asked: s'What
shall 1 plant in order to obtain full
supply of fresh fruit for a family the
year round?" 1t is difficult to give q
precise list, as in some seasons the crop
may be many times greater than in
others; and again, some will bear album
dainty and others fail in the same sea-
son. The following, however, wilt
serve as an approximations
The earliest fruits, about the first
of summer, will be the Strawberries.
A selection of the most productive
sorts, well cultivated, with the runners
kept cut off, will afford about one quart
a day from each square rod for a month.
Three or four square rods will, there
fore, give an abundant supply for q
family. Four or five hundred plants
will be sufficient for this extent OF
ground. These will be followed by the
earliest cherries, and by currants, rasp-
berries and gooseberries. Two dozen
bushes of each of the four best sorts OF
currants, the same number of raspber-
ries and two dozen of gooseberry will
if well cultivated, furnish an abundant
supply. One dozen cherry trees will be-
enough. Two or three dozen bushes Of
the blackberry will supply quart a
day for some weeks toward the close of
summer. Apricots, early apples and
early pears, and few of the earliest
plums, will commence the season of
abundance which, with the later varie-
ties of these fruits, will last till near
winter. Winter apples and pears, and
all the good keeping varieties of the
grape, will continue the supply until
spring. Long-keeping apples, if placed
in good, cool fruit-room or cellar, will
continue until the commencement OF
the new supply of strawberries
Farmers Voice
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OF NATIONAL INTEREST.

The improvement of Roads Is by No
Means a Local Issue.
There is not man, woman or child
III the land that has not a personal
interest in the question of better roads.
There is no article produced, imported
or exported, the cost of which is not
in some degree affected by the char
acter of the common roads over which
it is transported from the field, the
u,ine, the mill or the shop to the user or
consumer, and the worse the roads over
which it is transported the less it
3 ields the producer, and the more it
costs the user or consumer; and the
loss thus borne year after year by the
entire people of the nation is so enor-
nous that it cannot be reasonably APP
proximated. 1t costs less to transport
commodities across the continent by
rail, or from continent to continent by
water, than it does over a single mile
of our common roads during nearly half
the year. q
Bad roads do mot pay. When the
people realize this,s the Question be-
comes national one.-Wm. Il. Rhawn,
in Southern Cultivator.
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Observation-Disclosures
TERRIBLE MONEY WASTE.
Labor in Road Building . Misdirected
All Over the Country

Labor In Road Building Misdirected
All Over the Country.
In recent report on the horseless
carriages of France the United States
consul at Havre says that ''as solid,
smooth roads are quite essential to the
successful use of the system, it will be
necessary, before it can be proftably
applied in the United States, to bring
our roads to the condition of European
highways" That is unquestionably
SO; for proof of which observe the ex-
I'erience of a horseless carriage which
had to be shipped by railroad because
the highways were in too bad condi-
ton for it to move on. And that was
in New York state, too, and in the best
part of it. We do need better roads,
not only for horseless carriages, but for
horse-carriages as well, and mule
wagons, and oxcarts, and every sort of