The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-01
EXCHANGE FL ASHES.

boy orator Of the Platte. Over the
picture are the words: ''In God We
Trustp Under the picture are
words: "For the other Forty seven
Cents" The sound money men
haye got lot of these bIttons, and
they are going around having fun
with the popocrats, pinning the
bnttons to their coats and in other
way s making them conspicuous or.
nsments.-Picayune.
The printers dollars-where are
they? A dollar here and dollar
there, scattered over the country
miles and miles apart-how shall
they be gathered together? Come
home. We are wanted. Come in,
so that the printer may send you
forth again to do battle tor him and
vindicate his credit. Reader, are
you sure you haven't a couple of
dollars sticking to your trousers !
Feel down and see if we are not
right.-Fayetteville (Ark.) Sentinel.
Three months from today there
won't be a "free sllver'' paper 10
the South. They will die as easy
rs Billy Bryan will be defeated
BrOokhaven Citizen.
What IS bimetallism This ia
question not iufrequently PROFOUND
ed. We answer Bimetalllsm strict
ly defined, means the free and uns
limited coinage of both gold and
silver into coins of full debt-pay-
ing power. Not the nero use of
the double standard, but the actu
ally open minis on the terms above
given. You might cut this out and
paste 1t in your hat.-N. 0. Item.
In announcing for office a Georgia
candidate who evidently desires to
make his record plain, says: 81
never was in the war, meyer Lollered
at the surrender, and never killed
in anybody that let me alone, and
the only thing I know about the fin.
ancial question Is this: | need
money."-Ex.
The populist vote in the United
States would be confined to the
, criminal class if it could be gener-
ally brought to the knowledge of
our people that the first attempt to
apply socialistic doctrines, among
which the doctrine OF atEe ism has
such a prominent place, in the last
, century ended in the Reign of Ter
ror, and in this century in the an
archy, rapine, aud destruction of
the Paris Commune.-Truxton
Beale in National Recorder.
A poor, oppressed wife sought a
divorce the other day because her
r husband never gave her more than
= fifty cents at time. A fifty-cent
4 hus band isn't worth much more, it
n seems, than fifty cent Organized
dollar. New York Herald.
n The man who religlously closes
r his eyes and asks Gods blessing
upon the morning meal and then
growls and grumbles at his wife
all The time he eats because the
9 yiands are not quite to his epcu-
Z. rean taste, should either take some
0 thing to regulate his liver or in
dulge in short season of private
prayer TO regulate bis heart.-Meth.
odist Recorder.
While the sacred rites of Bap-
tism were being performed at
Friendship last Sunday morning a
very sensational occurrence took
place. Rev. Gibson had immersed
% candidates. and while in the act
of imnersing the Both, and last, a
large channel catfish ran up the
good brothers. trousers and pro-
ceeded to horn him in an unmerci-
f full manner. At this point the Ger.
emory was cut short with 81 bap-
tie you," and general rush was
made to rescue the reverend gen
tleman from his peculiar predicas
} ment.-Pontotoc Sentinel.
Bryan serves notice that he inc
tends to "give no quarter to those
! democrats who refuse to vote for
him. Bless you, Bubble, they are
not only not going to ask You to
give them any quarter, but they
don't propose that you shall give
them any 5Oacent dollars. -North
Mississippi Democrat
A great political party is in very
bad shape when it is deemed neca
essary to fuse with populists in or.
der to achieve success. The fact.
of Willingness to fuse with this
dangerous political element affords
good reason for the defeat of the
party that attempts it.-Vicksburg
Post.
President Cleveland's telegram.
read at the notification meeting In
Louisville warmly indorsing the
indianapolis ticket is an unprece-