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The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-09-05
STOLE A SPEECH.
An Amusing Incident of the Presidential
Campaign of 1876.

| Campaign OF 1870.
Back in the campaign of 1876 1 was
making a tour of the west with Oliver
p. Morton and George Sheridan, one Of
the brightest speakers the American
platform has ever known, who accom-
panied him to do the funny business. :"
Senator Morton would usually talk for
an hour-a dull, turgid, heavy discus
sion Of the financial problem, followed
by an attack upon the Democrats of the
south for their inhuman treatment of
the negro. By the time he had finished
the audience would be soaked with wise
| advice and valuable information, but
every spark of enthusiasm would be
quenched. Then George Sheridan would
take the platform and wake them up.
For an hour they would roar with
laughter or sit with their mouths open,
fascinated by his flights of fancy. 1t
was rare combination.
One night, after we had been out for
couple of weeks, think at Fort
Wayne, Sheridan said: Senator, wish
you would let me speak first tonight. I
want to go out into the country with
some friends. Fl"
"All right" replied Senator Morton
cheerfully. "You arrange it with the
chairman of the meeting"
But when Sheridan took the platform
and began to deliver Morton's speech,
word for word, as the latter had deliver
ed it every night for fortnight, the
senator became very uneasy. He gave all
Morton's arguments against the infa.
ton of the currency and in favor of the
resumption of specie payments; he re-
cited all the statements concerning the
outrages in the south; he repeated all of
the personal "reminiscences of his exper-
fences as governor of Indiana during
the war, which the senator was accus-
toned to work in until the latter was
almost paralyzed with chagrin and
amazement, and finally, when he reach
ed point in the discussion of the finan-
cial problem where Morton was accus-
toned to compare Pompeiian gold coin
with a United States greenback, lie
turned to the astonished victim of this
practical joke and said in an undertone,
Lets have that COIN" The senator
AldhuSd Az ONNA % lAOLJ
when Sheridan had recited the eloquent
peroration which he always used at the
close of his speech and had taken his
seat, Senator Morton hobbled over to the
desk on his two canes and said:
II am the victim of a practical joke.
Realizing the gravity Of the issues be-
fore the American people, l came into
this campaign with carefully prepared |
speech, which l have delivered in Mr.. |
Sheridan's hearing so often that he |
has committed it to memory, and Ee has
delivered it here tonight much better
than could have delivered it. He also
is in the habit Of making the same
speech, and have heard it many times,
but lack his memory and could not
repeat it to save my life. will there
fore appeal to him not to punish you as
be has punished me, but to give us some
Of his stories.
Then the great statesman sat down,
thoroughly knocked out. Sheridan re-
sponded and spoke half an hour longer,
with his joke as his text, and after that
if any one suggested his speaking first
Senator Morton would tell this story
Chicago Record.
The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-09-05
Homemade Pruning Saw,

In many cases amateur fruit growers
do not care to go to the expense of
regular pruning saw for use among the
higher branches Of fruit trees. A handy
saw can be easily made out of any old
saw blade. 1t should be sharpened and
a hole drilled in each end. Then get
The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-09-05
EXPORTS OF APPLES.

snciea"o IN quantity and Quality--Eest
Known Varieties on the Other Side.
Each year the apple expectation to
Europe increases in quantity, quality
and value. Good winter apples, care.
fully selected and properly packed, al.
ways meet with favorable reception
and command good prices in Great
Britain and on the continent. Among
the best known of American varieties
The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-09-05
PRUNING SAW FOR AMATEURs

long hickory or white oak pole, as shown
in the cut, from American Gardening,
bend its top over, put wire nail
through both ends of the saw. The
natural spring of the pole will keep the
saw at firm tension. 1t will be found
very handy for cutting off the high
limbs both of fruit and ornamental
trees
The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-09-05
AYES HISTORY
OF ENGLAND.
A Royal Thumb Contributed to
Progress.
JAMES I, GARD AND JOB PRINTER.

How He Gave His Mite For the Advance
ment of neutrality-suspicious. Re-
ceives a Testimonial From His King.
Got 1t Where the Chicken Did.
The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-09-05

JAMES I CONTRIBUTING HIS MITE TO THE
ADVANCEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE.
job press in the early years of his reign
contributed royal thumb to this rest
less emblem Of progress and civilization.
The War Of the Roses having destroy
The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-09-05
CHAPTER XVI.

Copyright 1896, by J. B. LippincOtt Company. ]
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-26
HELP YOUR FRIENDS.

We desire to call our readers, atten-
tion to the advertisement of the
Hard Times Harness company, of St.
Paul." of which Mr.. H. A. Wallraff, is
president. The company advertises a
number of farm harness in this issue,
but they manufacture large number
Of styles which lack of space prevents
them from mentioning. Single har-
ness are made and sold by this enter
prising company from 81 up!
For $3.50, or $40, or SIS you will re-
ceive a good, servicea BILE single buggy
harness such as would cost you from
$40 to $15 and SIS elsewhere.
Mr.. Wallraff, the president of the
company,i is gentleman of means and
prominently connected with the Peo-
pies Party, and has agreed to give all
Of the net profits on the business, pro-
cured by his advertisement In this pa
per for an indefinite time, to a. d us inpro-
curing our own printing presses, and
in publis hing Scandinavian edition
Of this paper. He is one of the most
honorable men in the state and we
will vouch for any representations, he
may make. He will be recognized as
our St. Paul manager of local bust
ness.
The company carries a full supply Of
everything pertaining to the harness
business, whips, blankets, robes,
brushes and curry-combs: and orders
sent it by mall accompanied by the cash,
will receive prompt attention at
prices lower than the lowest.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-26

road attorney of st. Paul is a God
given statesman, of gigantic proper
tions. "fit to stand by Lincoln and give
directions
Oh wonderful power of money! It
is almost as 'great as brains, for it will
hire fair quality of intellect to do
1T service. 1t will make Jove get
down off his throne and dance jigs to
a hornpipe. And for enough OF it OK
eyed Juno will turn reprobate. At it's
command vice will assume the smiles
and graciousness of virtue; and virtue
will roll itself in the mud and look
dirtier and uglier and shabbier than
vice ever could.
1t would be curious, If one could
look into the next national Republi-
can convention, with the new photo
graphic machine, using the X, or
"cathode"rays, which penetrate Opaque
substances, to see through the pre-
tensions OF patriotism which sur
round the gathering. and behold the
INTERVIEWING lines of struggle Of the
great corporations. each striving for
power and greatness; while the ignor-
ant. fool multitude, stand, with open
mouths, ready to shout for the plat
form and the nominee whatever and
whoever it may be.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-26
BE FAIR AND JUST.

We are sorry to see that some Of our
good people are disposed to criticise
Hon. IL. Z. Taubeneck, chairman Of
the Peoples Party National Commit
tee, and to mutter suspicious against
him. They mistake his eager zeal for
the success of the party for desertion
of it's principles. For ourself we have
the most unbounded confidence in
him. We can never forget how he
stood out alone, in the Illinois Legis-
latnre, when both his Peoples Party
colleagues deserted him. and united
with the Democrats to elect
that singlc-standard advocate, Sena-
tor Palmer, to the United States Sem
ate; and in the midst of the trium-
plant uproar he laid his head on his
desk and wept aloud. That kind Of
man is no traitor. He may be wrong
but he will be honestly wrong.
This naturally enough--perhaps
properly enough-is time of fear and
suspicion;-every man is watching his
fellow. They apprehend that the
Peoples Partyi is going to be sold out
to the Silver;tes; and the Silyerites, on
the other hand, have dread that then
are going to be made Populists,
whether they will or not. This is a
temporary feeling. The conventions
of July %, will demonstrate that
there are honest and earnest gentle
men on both sides; and when they
have once agreed unon the Ga me- ticket
all jealousies and suspicious will dis
appear in one wild whirlwind of loyal
ty, delight and enthusiasm.
The people of the United States are
going to unite, eventually, in q
grand movement to destroy their des-
troyers; and there is no power on
earth can prevent their harmonious
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-26
GOOD.

Mr.. Thomas ]. Meighen. of Forest.
Vile, Mimi, sends us in $50 new sub
scriperS in Fillmore county, and will
send III 200 more in day or two
Many thanks. This must give us,
with what We had before, 1900 sub
scribers in that old and great county.
Some of these have paid for them
selves; others are paid for by Mr.
Meighen, and do not belong to our
party. We hope these latter will fair
ly consider the facts and arguments
we shall present, and not be con-
trolled by partisan bigotry against
their own interests. Neither must
they take offense on account of our
attacks on the old parties. We refer
to the great leaders, and the organic
ations themselves, not to the rank
and file. The voting force Of all par
ties is honest, and means we'll by the
country: and even the leaders are
oftentimes the slaves of circum-
stances. We should regard our politi-
cal parties as mere instrumen is to
improve our condition in life, and de-
sert them the moment they fail in
that particular. What would be
thought of the farmer who would buy
an inefficient self-binder or plough or
seeder because it had the word ere
publican" or Democratic" painted on
1t, and persist in using it even if he
lost his crop? 1t would be said that
such man was only fit for the st.
Peter or Rochester Insane Asylum.
None Of you, brethren, came into
the world with a party brand on you.
You are not slaves Of name, but free
men; and you must look out for your
selves. That is what God gave you in
telligence for. The most pitiful and
contemplate creature in the world is
two-legged, pants-wearing object,
whom political party can count on
to vote it's ticket, whether it's pur-
poses are to help or to wreck man
kind. Such chap is open to the .ob-
lection a woman made to a little man
who proposed to marry her. Il can't
do it, said she, you are a
'sQueedunk," "a 'squeedunk!' said
he, what is that" 1T is something
that is too big for monkey and too
little for man.
The old parties are full of "squee-
dunkS"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-26
IMMIGRATION,
YOU CAN'T IMPROVE HELL BY CROWD
ING MORE VICTIMS INTO 1T.

YOU CAN'T IMPROVE HELL BY CROWD
ING MORE VICTIMS INTO 1T.
Two hide-bound Populist papers in
South Dakota have refused to send
out the immigration supplements,
furnished free by the State Immigra-
ton Association, for reasons best
known to themselves. The average
Populist looks on any scheme to bene-
fit his state or country as directly hos
tile to his political welfare.-Minne-
apolis Tribune.
When the poor devils of South Da-
kota are selling their wheat for SO
cents. their barley for Is cents and
their oats for 10 cents per bushel, is it
"a scheme to benefit the country" to
bring in lot Of strangers, and set
them down among those same poor
devils, to raise more wheat, more oats.
and more barley, to sell at reduced
prices?
You have told the farmers all along
that they were suffering from over
production. What is the use then of
bringing in more producers to add to
the over-production?
Would it not be better to increase
the prosperity Of those already here,
and make the land a heaven, rather
than to add to the number of the
wretched in the hell tie people are al
ready suffering? He'll is no less hell
because it is over-crowded.
Remonetize silver, enlarge the cur
rency, reduce taxes and make the peo-
pie of South Dakota prosperous and
happy and you could not keep out the
swarming immigration With repeating
rifles and Maxim guns. Put wheat
back to one dollar bushel and the
wheat crop Of South Dakota would
double in one year without the help of
single newcomer.
There is no broad and philanthropic
purpose that can be subserved by add
ing to the population of the North
west at this time.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-26
YOU KNOW THE CAUSE.
YOU HAVE THE REMEDY.

YOU HAVE THE REMEDY.
Read this:
Sir Archibald Allison, in his history
of Europe, says:
1.-THE suspension Of specie payments
the use of an enormous amount of ir-
redeemable paper money.
The result was magical.
sit terminated in a blaze of glory
and flood Of prosperity which has
never before, since the beginning of
the world, descended upon any ma
ton.
''Prosperity, universal and unheard
of, pervaded every Departmental the
empire.
agriculture, manufactures and
commerce increased in unparalleled
ratio.
THE landed propritors were in af-
f1uence.
"Wealth to an unheard Of extent
was created among the farmers.
Our exports. imports and tonnage
more than doubled: and the condition
of the people was one Of eXtraOrdin-
airy prosperity.
'From 1897 to 1919 no financial en-
barraSS mentS Of any moment were ex-
nerienced, and in vain Napoleon
waited for the stoppage Of England's
financial resources.
But the resumption Of specie pay
ments in 1S19-the change of the
financial system from legal tender pa
per to metal money-was ruinOuS to
all the industries of England. The
distress became insufferable, and in
Manchester 60, 900 men, women and
children ASSEMBLE /, demanding blood
or bread; and many of the people were
killed and many were wounded by
British troops
Our experience at the close of the
civil war was an exact repetition Of
this. AS long as we had $67 per
capita of money in circulation our
prosperity and growth were bound
less. But the money-lenders came in,
as they did in England, and persuaded
the fool people that happiness was an
abnormal and dangerous condition,
and that they were only safe while
chained to the bloody chariot Of the
precious metals, and dragged through
the mire Of bankruptcy, with the road
strewn with the bodies of suicides
and starving men, women and chill
dren. And the game has been carried
on, in this nation, until we have less
than IS per capita where we had
$67.25; and England is covering the
land with mortgages. and the people
are becoming homeless, hopeless
tenantry.
1t were better if every plutocrat
was blown off the face of the earth
and the precious metals With them.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-26
4 SIGNIFICANT ADMISSION.

In the debate on Cuba, in the
United States Senate, last Thursday,
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, Re-
publican, speaking, we read:
The senator arfalyzed the "bloody
DEGREES" issued by Gen. Weyler, plan
of "desolation and extermination
that he may prolong the agony until
the island is solitude. And yet we,-
six hours away,-stand idly BY" AS
matter Of humanity, the senator ap-
pealed for action. "Our words of SYM
pathy for Armenia were mere words.
Those fearful atrocities had proceeded
while all Europe had not stirred. The
full. The money pOarer and the money lender
acre the real poWer of Europe, and ttis east
poacer ca,ed nothing for the slaughter of
Arnae1ia1,s. If tuat war goes on with
this bloody commander in charge, the
responsibility is on our shoulders. We
cannot avoid it,"
There was burst of applause from
the galleries as Mr.. Lodge concluded,
which the presiding officer stopped by
rapping for order.
This admits much that we have
been cOntending for. 1t admits the
tremendous power Of the Plutocracy
in Europe and its utter heartlessnes IS
as to human suffering. But why did
not Senator Lodge 60 step farther
and show that the Money-Power,
which controls Europe, now controls
the United States also; and that it is
as Indifferent to the bankruptcy and
ruin of millions of American citizens
as it was to- the murder CT the poor
Armenians? We have our Turks too,
but they wear silk hats instead of
turbans, and dwell in palaces in New
York instead of seraglios in Constan-
tinople: but one set Of scoundrels de-
serves the bow string as much as the
other.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-26
CUSH DAVIS BOOM.
THE UNION PACIFIC r. r. CO. FOOTS
THE BILLS,

THE UNION PACIFIC Il. r. CO. FOOTS
THE BILLS.
You can't trace back an old-party
political movement, Of any kind, in
this amiable country of ours, but that
you run plumb up against a railroad
company. They are the beginning and
the end of all things. We begin to
think our theology is all wrong, and
that it was a railroad company that
made the earth.
And now, as we learn very directly
"Cush' Davis, who aspires to the
presidency of the United States is or
ganizing"a boom, with headquarters
in New York, the funds to be furnish
ed by the Union Pacific Railroad
Company. for whose benefit "Cush"
made his famous report, to the United
States Senate. that the . Mon Pacific
Company should have one hundred
years time to pay its debt sto the
United States.a at per cent per annum!
Corporations are not ungrateful if re-
publics are. They know their friends
and stand by them. 1t was horrible
thing to propose that lot of poor
farmers, about to lose their homes,
under cut-throat mortgages, should
receive government loans, for ten or
twenty years, at three per cent per
annum; but it was very reasonable
proposition that gigantic Railroad
Company should have an extension of
it's debt for one hundred years at two
per cent per annum.
And SO Literary Bureau is to be
established in New York to boom
Cush's claims to the presidency, on
account Of his services to the Union
Pacific Railroad Company. They have
bought up the New York Mercury, a
prominent daily, Ga very appropriate
name-since Mercury was the thief
among the gods,) and have put our old
friend Sam Phillips, formerly con-
nected with THE REPRESENTATIVE,
in charge. Sam is good fellow per-
sonally, but soldier of fortune. And
another old friend, and good fellow,
Col. Plummer. of North Dakota, is to
go to New York and undertake the
task Of writing up the Minnesota
pigmy into giant You cannot
make silk purse out of sow's
ear" they say, but Sam and the Col.
will make the G. 0. P.'s greenhorns
believe that very small-potato rail-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-26

land. We will furnish it for one year,
with our REPRESENTATIVE for one
year, both for SIPS; regular rates for
both e a year. Or to old subscribers
we will furnish the Guthrie paper
alone for sixty cents. Give it trial.
A new country, in process of settle
ment, is always interesting to a
thoughtful mind. 1t is a paradise
until tine money-lenders and ring
thieves get in to it. We have an i'm
preston that the Garden of Eden
was originally region where every
body could get a home, for nothing:
and that the devil was the primeval
banker who loaned money on mort
cages. 1t may be that Eye wanted a
seal-skin coat and persuaded the old
man to cucumber his farm. Or it
may have been that Eve worked her
finger nails to the quick while Adam
blew 1t all in at the nearest groggery.
Or there may have been a wheat ring
in the neighborhood and neither Of
our original parents were to blame for
the mortgage. But we cant imagine
the devil without mortgage some
where.
Let the theoloyians depict a new
helh where everybody Is hopelessly in
debt. and wheat worth but fifty cents
bushel; while the coal combine has
got possession of the fuel and poor
devils are freezing; and lot of viii
famous imps, calling themselves the
q. 0. p. and the ID. O. p, are going
around, making stump speeches, and
assuring the poor wretches that they
are in heaven! But hold on! Or some
one will swear we are describing Min
nesota!
You can't scare anybody in this state
with the threat of hot fire. But
debt! All that is hell indeed!
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-26
STILL THEY COME.

Still the new subscribers are pour
ing in. They come from all parts of
the nation. In Colorado the People s
Party State Central Committee is
making a special canvass to place THE
REPRESENTATIVE in every house in
the state. In Montanta we have near
ly reached that point already.
Next week we will give an abstract
Of the new subscribers during two
weeks. If the zeal of our friends does
not flag we will soon have a subscrip-
ton list such as was never before
heard of in the Northwest: and for
the first time In the history Of the hu-
man family the poor and oppressed
will have universal mouth-piece and
REPRESENTATIVE.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-26
LET US HEAR FROM YOU.

We get a great many encouraging
letters as to starting a Scandinavian
edition of THE REPRESENTATIVE.
Hon. II. P. Bjorge, Of Underwood,
writes us, February IS, that the Re-
form League of that place, at their
last meeting, resolved to subscribe for
% copies of the Norwegian edition as
soon as started.
We have also received the following
letter:
HON. IGNAT1Us DoNNELLY:
Dear Sir:-After coming home and
seeing the people in this vicinity, |
can promise you fifty and upward sub
scribers for a Norwegian edition to
TIE REPRESENTATIVE. Your truly,
PETER EvENSON.
Jackson: Mimi, Jan. %.
Henry johnson, Morris, Mimi,
writes us, February l. III Scandi-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-26
BEGINNING TO REALIZE IT.
Special to the Disnatch

Special to the Dispa tch.
Miller, S. D., Feb. 11.-Clubs are be-
Ing organized in the rural townships
upon nonpartisan basis. something
like the old Alliance plan. They are
being started or organized by Popu
lists, and it is thought that they will
take a political turn later on. This
indicates that there Is lively cam
paign ahead. The fall OF Taylor and
Kellam has stimulated the Popullsts
beyond measure, but it is not believed,
by those who have studied the matter
carefully, that they will hardly gain a
vote on that account at the next cleo
ton.
OF course mott But while you are
fighting and stealing the Populists
are educating the people; and you
cant play the Demo-Rep. combine on
them in 1896 that you played in 1894.
The truth is mighty and must pre-
vail.