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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-06
AN IMMENSE DEBATE.

A great debate is going on all over
the country: a thousand noble men
are at work, and the public mind is
more thoroughly agitated than 1t has
been at any time since the anti
slavery controversy in 1s56-6O. Mr.. E.
r. Lynch of this cty-a very able gen.
tenants conducting peoples
Party Column in The Progressive
Age, in which he says:
"The debate at Eden Praire last
Tuesday, between VIM. 4. Dobbyn and
Lawyer Tutlle ON the money question,
was complete victory for tine Popu-
list cause. Many Republicans came
out TO see their Goliath OF the gold
standard Stay the David of bimetal-
lism. 1t had been announced that
judges would be selected to decide on
merits OF the debate. The majority
OF the audience being Republicans
the decision was submitted to it.
Each debater handled the question
with rare skill and. ability; out Mr..
Dobbyn's arguments. and the facts
submitted by him, were so unansw er-
able that he captured the whole audi
ence, the verdict in his favor being
unanimous. After the debate one old
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-06
TAKE MOTTO K.

PLAIN FACTS FOR PLAIN PEOPLE.
The Matte nal Organizer OF "Uncla
Sans Nephews and Nieces," will lee.
ture, and show stereOpticOn views,
representing the present condition Of
the people and their future under
corporation rule; and the opposite
condition when the people rule.
There will also be presented.
BATTLE SCENES OF THE LATE WAR,
There will exhibit at the following
places at the dates given:
Delano, Tuesday. May IL, at p. m.
Cokato. Wednesday, Mayl3, at p. m.
Dassel, Thursday, May IA, at p. m.
Litchfield, Friday, May Is. at p. m.
Willmar, Saturday. May 49, ats p. m.
Benson, Monday, May IS, at Sp. M.
Morris, Tuesday. May 10, at s p. III.
Herman, Wed, May TO- at p. m,
Breckenridge Thur. May q, at 8. p. m.
Wahpeton, Tues, May %, at p. m,
PAINE & RUDE.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-06
MERE PERSECUTION.
BANK PRESIDENT ARRESTED

BANK PRESIDENT ARRESTED.
Newton, Iowa, April 29.-W. N. Jor-
dan. president of the defunct Jordan
Bank, of Baxter, which failed March
II, has been arrested for obtaining
money under false pretenses, and the
preliminary examination will be held
tomorrow. His bank was known to
have received several hundred dollars
in deposits upon tine day of failure. yet
only $500 was founn in the bank by
the assignee.
Another oracle of 'sound-money"
gone!
We wonder at the impudence of the
common people who dare to arrest a
banker. The idea Of one of our aris-
tocratic, ruling class being subjected
to trial. by jury of farmers, with hay
seed in their hair, and manure. on
their boots, is something very Of
fensive to every well-constituted in
tellect.
But never mind. In a few years
more they will restore the good old
system of the Middle Ages, when a
cleric could demand to be tried by a
jury Of clergymen. We will have bank
er juries, after while, for the trial of
bankers.
Our prisons are now crowded with
worthy representatives Of the money
lending fraternity, who would never
have been convicted if they had been
tried by juries Of their peers. They
even went so far, last Thursday, as to
hang gentleman, named Taylor,
down near Kansas City, Mo-, bank
er! He and his brother had law suit
with some third party, and they went,
in the middle OF the night. to the
house Of the chief witness, and by an
ingenious tale got him and his entire
family to get into wagon; and, in
lonely place, proceeded to murder
the whole outfit. One little girl es-
capped, badly wounded, and the bank
ers had to fly. They were at last cap
tured and convicted; one of them es-
capped again and the other was hung.
1t Is shame to hang men who die
tate the craftsmanship of 10000, 900 of
the most intelligent people in the
world. Why the murder OF that fami-
| ly was no more to them than the fore
closure Of a chattel mortgage. 1t was
simply business transaction in live
stock, which they made dead stock.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-06
4 WORD OF ADVICE.

Let every delegate who goes to st.
Louis take an oath, before he leaves
home, that he will not be stampeded
by any camp-meeting excitement and
hurrah: and that he will stick closely
to the ideas which have grown up in
his mind during months and years OF
serious thought in the quiet of his
home. Let us leave the tOrch-light
and brass band business to the old
parties-for them they are an excel
lent substitute for reason and knowl-
edge,-which they will never possess.
Stand by the fundamental prin-
ciples of the Omaha platform;-not
the words-(for we are not fetish wOr-
shippers)-but the ideas and purposes.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-06
LINCOLN As A POPULLST.
(Appen. Cong. Globe, 37th Cong. End

(Appen. Cong. Globe, 9th Cong. End
SIS. p. ~
MONARCHY itself is sometimes limited
at as possible refuge from the power OF
the people. In my present position, /
could scarcely be justified were l to
omit raising warning voice against
this approach of returning despOtism.
1t is not needed nor fitting here that
general argument should be made in
favor of popular institutions; but there
is one point with it's connections not SO
hackneyed as most others, to which
ask brief attention. It is the effort to
place capital on an equal footing with,
if not above labor, in the structure of
government. 1t is assumed that labor is
available only in connection with CAPT.
tai, that nobody labors unless some
body else, owning capital, somehow by
the use of it induces him to labor. La
Dor is prior to and the Independent of
capital. Capital is only the fruit of la
Dor, and could never have existed
if labor had not first existed. La
Dor is the superior of capital, and de-
serves much the higher consideration
No men living are more worthy to be
trusted than those who toll up from
poverty; none less inclined to take or
touch ought which they have not hon.
estly earned. Let them beware of sur
rendering political power which they
already possess, and which, if surrend-
cred, will surely be used to close the
door of advancement against such as
they, and to fix new disabilities and bur-
dens upon them till all liberty shall be
lost
The above sentiment was voiced in one
of Lincoln's first messages to congress,
and was again expressed by him in an
address delivered to workingmen during
the fourth year of his administration.
Were the above sentiment to be uttered
today, it would be promptly pronounced
by the old party press and the corpora.
ton organs, "Populistic."
This plainly shows how the Republi-
can party has drifted from its early
moorings. Starting as labor party,
the friend of the colored laborer and of
white labor, that party is now arrayed
as the special political machine of the
oppressors of labor. 1t has become a
commercial agency of large capitalistic
interests. The Carnegies and tricks
and Pulmans, the steel trust, and sugar
trust, and coal trust, the interests
against which labor is compelled to bat
tie to maintain existence, are reliably
Republicans, and are beneficiaries of Re-
publican legislation and administration
everywhere.
The Lincoln Republican, therefore, vi
olates no principle when he bolts the Re-
publican party and allies himself with
the Peoples Party. Indeed, he must do
so in order to be true to his principles.
The same sentiments as those which
Lincoln expressed 80 years ago are to-
day voiced only by Peoples Party pa
pers and orators. No Republican orator
or organ, or platform, will have any
thing to do with such platform as that
which Abraham Lincoln laid down as
above, in his official message, as the first
president of the Republican party
Llncolnism is now represented in Pop
ulism. f. N. 8.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-06
FOOLISH IMPUDENCE.

We have received the following
note:
To The REPRESENTIvE
Cormorant MINI Apr. 80. 1895
Be kind and acoimdating and stop
the paper / do not want amy more
of your thrash S. Olson
Mr.. Olson is right. A man who
spell the name OF this paper rep
resenttve," and accommodating"
accommodating" and "any" amy"
and trash" "thrash;" and who does
not know what a punctuation mark
is when he sees it, is more in need Of
few terms in the primary school of
Cormorant than he is of reading one
of the greatest newspapers in this
country. The application of such an
undeveloped intelligence to the edi-
torials OF The REPRESENTATIVE
must be productive of disastrous
conseqde imperfect head
piece is in danger Of flying to pieces,
through the explosive power OF a
great thought, introduced into it too
suddenly.
Now why cannot such men as Mr..
Olson, such old party shallow fools,-
have some sense? It would be just as
easy, and just as effective, to say
''please stop my paper,"-as to go on
and insult one who has never harmed
him, but who has been trying to do
him good, according to his best lights.
What has Mr.. Olson got for trying
to spit in our face? He has set 100, 600
intelligent people. all over the United
States, laughing at him, as an ignor-
ant and insolent ignoramus.
We do not suppose Mr.. 0. ever heard
of the famous recipe for preparing Gu
cumbers. 1t was something like this:
take two large. handsome cucum-
bers; cut them in thin slices; chop up
some young onions over them; season
| with salt, pepper and vinegar; and
then-throw them out Of the win
| dow!"
We would give Mr.. Olson this recipe
| for preparing an impudent letter to
an editor
'Take a big sheet of paper, with
pen and ink, and go for him rough
shod; mock him, jibe at him, insult
! him, denounce him. Never mind the
writing, spelling or grammar. Let
yourself loose at him. Give him
Hades! Fold, place in an envelope,
| direct, stamp and then-put it in the
stove"
In this way you will get all the
salts faction that mean spirit can
derive from dirty act; and at the
same time you do not expose the bar
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-06
BETWEEN SATAN AND THE
DEEP SEA.

AND lie FALLS BACK ON FILLED
CHEESE"
Congressman Tawney has our pro-
found sympathy. He is in an uncom-
Portable fix, between the money-lend-
ers who are pulling him over to the
gold standard, and the rebellious peo-
pie who are dragging him across the
line to the frce-silver side; ard he
can't open his mouth for either fac
tion without hurting his future pros
poets; and SO he devotes his great
powers to the question. Of "filled
cheese!' The bankers have no inter-
est in the cheese question. and so he
can let himself loose with safety. II
McCleary now would take up the is
sue of spoiled prunes; aud Loren
Fletcher the mighty question of
chicory-coffee; and Towne the issue of
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-06
THE DANGERS OF FREE-SIL-
YER.

The Progressive Age says:
"There were more business failures
the last three months sthan in
three months in the history Of
this country. Gold standard times.
our readers will understand. Will
Carlpsle explain the present financial
ruin about US and abandon the role Of
the prophet OF evil?"
These outcries of the money-lend-
ers, that Free-silver will ruin the
country, put us in mind of the story
of the fellow who was being carried in
a cart to the gallows to be hung. 1t
came on to rain. The culprit said TO
the hangman, BE kind enough,
friend, to hold your umbrella over me
carefully, for i don't want to take
cold" l, D. =.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-06
Twenty Thousand Circulation.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, March 81 1896.
This is to certify that the total num-
Der OF papers printed this day for The
REPRESENTATIVES, is 10000 copies.
r. E. LINKFIELD,
Supt. Mechanical Dept. Penny Press.
Sworn and subscribed to before me
this 3lst day Of March, A. D. 1896.
[Seal.1 w. LEE MOORE,
Notary Public.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-06

the same condition. The wealth that
should have been their children's
they generously turned over to other
mems children. Now when I touch
them with this stick hear them roar:
-'Hurrah for Mckinley and 'Hurrah
for Cleveland" Take them down be-
low and let them discuss the tariff on
birthstone of all eternity. Keep them
warm. Don't let them take cold, for
they are valuable to the universe"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-06

sanded sugar, and Kiefer the subject
of adulterated beer, and Eddy the dis
cussion of wOrny acorns, and Heat
whole the study of perfumes We
might get back something for the
forty odd thousand dollars year they
cost us. l. u.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-06
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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-06

dreadful doom on yourselves and your
posterity forever?
Think it over! Isn't it too much to
i've Tor the triumph Of political
,arty which is neither your father nor
sOur mother? I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-06
POPULISTIC ENGLAND.

II The Representative were to advocate
the adoption in Chicago, St. Paul, or
Minneapolis, of the municipal system
which is now adopted in nearly every
important city of Great Britain, the cor
poration organs of the Northwest would
go wild. They would shout, "That is
just the kind of impracticable radicalism
that the Peoples Party is always cham
pioning."
We are, therefore, highly pleased to see
the Minneapolis Times review the sys-
tenn of municipal ownership, as it pre-
walls in London, Glasgow, Manchester
and other British cities, in the following
terms of editorial approval:
"Just now the city of London is, per-
haps, one of the most interesting the
aters of socialistic experiment in the
world. OF course, the word socialistic
is used in (its restricted sense, as) covering
projects to extend the principle of munic-
ipal ownership to large variety of pub
lie services, such as street transportation,
lighting, and the like, which have hither-
to generally been left to private capital
and enterprise. The common council of
London has now almost absolute juris-
diction over all the local public services
that minister to the daily wants of a
population of $685. 06. Its annual
budget amounts to about $110,000,000
Following are the leading items of this
enormous yearly expenditure:
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-06

re ness of your mind, and the naked
ness Of your soul to the astonishment
OF an Implying world.
Go to school. Olson! Go to school!
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-10-07
OF importance to Pupils.

At the meeting OF the school board
Monday evening Prof. Lenkerd was
granted permission to denote all
scholars who get behind in their studies
by absenting themselves from school.
The directors claim that there are too
many pupils who are granted permission
by their parents to stay away from
school just whenever they are inclined
to do so, therefore, the scholars who
absent themselves from school and get
behind in their studies can expect to be
put hack into lower rooms.
The board also passed resolution to
the effect that all pupils coming out Of
families where they had typhoid fever
would have to get certificate from a
physician before they will be admitted
to the school.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-10-07
Protection of the Public Health.

State Supt. Schaeffer says: 81 am of
the opinion that the Act of Assembly,
approved June Is, 1895, entitled AN
Act to provide for the more effectual
protection of the public health, in the
several municipalities Of this Common
wealth, is intended to be general law.
There may be some question as to II
direct application of the compulsory
feature of the act to townships, mas
mush as there is no provision made,
under existing laws, for the organization
of local Boards of Health outside of the
cities and boroughs of the Common
wealth: but at the same time it Is
advisable for all school boards to take
such measures as, in their Judgment
may be necessary TO prevent the spread
of contagious aud infectious diseases in
the district over which the directors
have jurisdiction. / think that the
directors ought to have reasonable
discretion in the matter and should
have the right to exercise their own
good judgment as to the necessity of
the case. If contagious diseases are
prevalens in the neighbOrhoOd or if
there is danger OF the spread of con-
tagion from contact with other locali-
ties, the directors ought to sake every
precaution to protect the schools even
II the law did not require them to do so.
They may close the schools temporarily,
II necessary, until the danger is over.
1t is advisable for school boards, without
relinquishiEg any of the powers confer
red upon them by law, to cooperate
with the local boards of health twhere
there are such boards, If an emergency
should arise requiring promps and de-
cisive action on the part of the local
authorities. 1t requires anceasing
vigilance and systematic efforts of the
part of every body concerned, to main
tain proper sanitary regulations in con.
nection with the schools and homes,
and school directors cannot be too
careful in guarding against the intro
duction and spread of disease, which
endangers the health and lives of the
children"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-10-07
Shot An Old Citizen.

Detective Frank p. Adelsperger,
whose business II is to hunt people who
disobey the civil laws OF our land, and
he generally gets the ''game" that he
goes for, occasionally likes to HE away
to the woodland and hunt smaller game.
Last Friday forenoon Mr.. Adelsperger
was in the woods near Kline's when a
pheasant flew up and Adelsperger shot
at IT, He was Mortified TO hear some
one cry out from behind a clump OF
bushes just in front OF him, and he was
not comforted much to find Daniel
Sharp, of sassafras fame, with blood
flowing from numerous places on his
head, face and neck. Mr.. Sharp was
gathering wild grapes at the time and
Mr.. Adelsperger did not see him until
after a portion of the shot that missed
the pheasant had been buried in the
old mans flesh. Mr.. Adelsperger took
Mr.. Sharp home and called two doctors.
They found Daniel feeling as comfort
able as could be expected under the cir
cumstances, and not dangerously iujur-
ed. Mr.. Adelsperger felt very badly
about the accident, but he was not to
blame for 1t.
Daniel Sharp is one of the oldest
citizens of this section, he lived
here when the site whereon Reynolds
vile is built was bowling Wild
erness, the wild beasts were numerous
and the Red man and his toma-
hawk were not strangers. Mr. Sharp
has outlived the three score and
ten limit. He is eighty-four years old
II Mr.. Adelsperger had blown out
his flickering lamp of life, he would
have removed Responsibilities sure
harbinger of spring, for it has been Mr..
Sharp's custom for many years to dig
up sassafras root in the very early
spring time and peddle it out to the
citizens of Reynoldsville, and when he
appears with sassafras over his shoulder
it is sure sign that spring time has
come.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-10-07
Council Meeting.

The regular monthly meeting of town
council was held Monday evening, with
President Stone in the chair. Members
present: Coping, Hickman, Spears,
Hoffman and Ritzie. Minutes of pre-
vious meeting were read and approved
Ezra ID. Hartman appeared before the
council and asked council to give him q
building permit free of charge because
he had made some repairs on Jackson
street. On motion it was refused
Burgess Robertson reported fees col
lected for fines and licenses $500.
On motion bills amounting to $500. 80
were ordered paid.
Chairman of street committee report
ed the alley between Worth and jack
son streets to be in bad condition.
Mr.. Coping, who had been in charge
of the circulating of the petition to re-
move the voting place of the first pre-
cinct to hose house No. 2, reported
that Judge Reed had granted the re-
moval. and also that the water company
had granted the borough permission to
put the city water into hose house No.
2, no charge to be made for the water
used for said purpose.
There being no further business, on
motion the meeting adjourned.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-10-07
Excursion to Canton.

Arrangements have been made to run
an excursion train to Canton, Ohio, to-
morrow, Thursday, Oct. Sth, to
accommodate all those who want to
visit Major William Mckinley, Republi-
can candidate for President, at his home
and hear him make a speech. The
train will leave Dubois at $3.50 A. M,
Falls Creek 100, Reynoldsville 7:40, and
Brookville S:15 A. M. Train will stop
at all stations between Dubois and Red
Bank, and will arrive at Canton about
400 p. NJ, where the excursionists will
remain four or five hours and then start
on the return trip home. Fare for the
round trip from stations east Of Brook
vile $3.50, from stations west of Brook
vile $500. Hon. John w. Reed, presi-
dent judge of Jefferson county, will
accompany the excursion and make the
Introductory address at Canton. Ed.
A. Carmalt, Chairman Jefferson County
Republican Committee, received the
following letter from Major McKinley's
private secretary, James Boyle:
''six delegations booked for Oct. 9Th,
but II your delegation desires TO come
ON that date Major Mckinley will be de.
lighted TO receive them"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-10-07
Haw,horns.Koehl Nup,ials.

AT 4.30 p. M. on Wednesday, Sept.
30th, at the home of Philip Koehler, In
West Reynoldsville, Miss Louisa Koch
ler and Prof. Claude X. Hawthorne, Of
Oil, Pa, were united In the holy bonds
of matrimony by Rev. James II. Jel-
bart, M. f. pastor, OF Stanton, Pa, Of
whose church the groom is member.
Miss Lizzie Koehler sister of the bride,
and Mr.. Glenn A. Millren, cousin OF
the groom, stood up with the contract
ing parties and the ceremony
was performed in the presence
OF the two families and few i'm
mediate relatives and friends. After
congratulations the entire party sat
down TO a feast of good things to eat.
The wedding presents were beautiful,
valuable and useful, consisting of side
board, silver tea set, dining table, set
of china dishes, dining room chairs,
silverware, &c, &c. The young couple
left that evening, amid "A shower of rice,
on the 1852 train for Brookville and
from there to Summerville and then TO
Prof. Hawthorne's home at Oil. In
three or four weeks they will go to
housekeeping at Summerville. where
the Prof. has been elected principal Of
the schools.
The bride was one of West Reynolds
ville's fairest and finest young ladies',
she is good christian lady and was
faithful worker In all the departments
OF the M. f. church, Of which she was
a member, and will be greatly missed
In the church. Louisa has host of
friends in Reynoldsville who wish her
the fullest enjoyment in the new life
she has entered. Prof. Hawthorne,
who was principal of the West Reyn-
oldsville schools last winter, is very
nice young man, full Of the spirit of
progressiveness, who will no doubt
make the best OF this life. THE STAR
wishes the young people abundant sue
cess as they travel life's pathway to-
gether.
Those present from out Of town were:
Mr. and Mrs. James +. Hawthorne, of
Obi, Mrs. DIR. J. X. Brown, OF Summer
vile, Rev. and Mrs. j. X. Adams, of Big
Run, o. C. Jones, of Oil, Rev. and Mrs.
j. III. Jelbart, of Stanton, Pa.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-10-07
Naturalization Court.

Judge John w. Reed held naturaliza-
tion court in Brookvile last Thursday
and about two hundred foreigners were
made citizens of the United States.
Each person was put through rigid
examination before the oath of alle-
glance was administered to them.
About thirty from Eleanora drove to
this place in time to catch the 7:40 train
Thursday morning for Brookville to
become citizens. A few from Reynolds
vile and West Reynoldsville were
naturalized.