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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-09-03
New York Populi.ts.

Syracuse. N. Y. Sept 2.-The popu-
list state convention began here to-
day. A committee ives appointed TO
go 10 the democratic state convention
to try TO secure endorsement by Il OF
the democratic and populist national
platform and the nomination OF free
silver candidates for state officers. The
platform indorsss the Omaha and ST.
Louis platform and congra tulates the
democrats upon the action OF the Chi
cago convention.
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Springfield Mass. Sept. 3-The races
were good. but no remarkable' time was
made. Sanger, the local rider. made no
show in the races to-day. Bald did not
acquit himself as well as his admirers
expected. He qualified In the second heat
OF the half-mils open. but was not fac
tor IN the final heat at any time. In the
one-mle professional he won fourth
money and s35 represents his winnings SO d.
far at the Springfield meet. Tom Butter
Is the hero OF the day. The handicaps
were so heavy in the two-mile profession
al that the winners OF the prizes were
sure to win from the start.
one mile, 2:i0 class. PROFESSIONALISM. W.
Porter, Newton. Mass. won; W. J. Pei
fert, Utica. y. Y. second; y. J. Jenny,
Utica. third: time s:o4 as. Fifth and
anal. half mile. open professionalism
Butler won. Z. c. Bald. second. Tom
Cooper third: time. i:0l i-5 Sixth trial
for record: Time. 1:S2 3-S Professional.
one mile. intsrnational-rom Butler first,
Tom Cooper second. Arthur Gardner
third. E. C. Bald fourth; time. 2;o5 rs.
One mile. open, amateur. ina, heat-C. c.
Ingraham won. Ray Dawson second. Har-
rlson third; time. e:0s. Winner disquali-
fed for foul riding. Quad trial. half mile:
Time. SO rs. Two miles. professional.
handIcap-C. ]. Lewis (g70 yards) irst. @.
L. Bate ESQ yarls) second. G. B. Bowler,
Chicago uao yards). third; time. 40 So
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Cincinnati. Sept. s-Redwood. the
winner OF the fourth race at Newport
Tuesday and Supposed 10 be ringer.
was fully Identified to-day as the same
horse Of the same name that ran at
the Chicago tracks in 1898. After the
judges announced their decision all
bets were ordered paid.
Six furlongs-E.lsie d won Phe Mer-
chant second. Romance third: time.
1:16 Five and a half furlongs-Time
Maker won. Little Nigyer second. Ar
gonauta third: time. i:oSx. One mile
and 80 yards-Toots on Lebanjo Sec
ond. Springtime third: time. 1:47r.
Five furlongs-Turtls Dove won. Belle
Brambls second. Belle OF Niles third |:
time. l;0l 2-5 Seven furlongs-Moylan
won. Harry Shannon second. imp.
Skate third: time. 1:2sA.
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IN TOLEDO.
About 10000 People Hear tho Nominee
seeak on the Financial Question,

seeak on tho Financial Question,
Toledo. Sept. 2-Thizty thousand
people Is n conservative estimate of
the solid acres of humanity gathered
in High School square this evening 10
hear William J. Bryan deliver a cam
paign address. Forty thousand
would probably be nearer the correct
figures. The audience was very en-
thusiastic and at times Il became
deafening uproar. Mr.. Bryan was in
troduced by Judge Lenmon and con-
find his speech mostly to finance.
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William }. Bryan
5OC

Buys a Walking Cane. A campaign
souvenir both useful ana ornamental.
Everybody should get one.
Our Fall line of Ladies' and Gents
Watches attracts many buyers. The
assortment Is the best we ever had,
but II is the prices that catch.
1t will pay to price them.
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they have the aXfpl power Of life and
death; they are fe balance wheel OF
our system of :" government" And
the liberties Of the country in large de-
gree depend upon the equal and fearless
administration Of Justice. The judici:
airy. by their very tenure. should be lift
ed above the Influence Of party" In
this district, fqmposed OF Anoka,
Isanti, Wright and Hennepin counties,
two judges have1t0 be chosen this fall,
In place OF Judges Pond and Smith, who
go out In January. The four judges
holding over a1f pronounced Republic
cans. While Judges Pond and Smith
have taken no active part in politics
since going on the bench. They attend
ed strictly to their duties, giving gen.
eral satisfaction and establishing rep
utation for ability, integrity and impair
TALLY that entities them to be called
the peoples judges.
To show the public how certain inter-
ested parties are conspiring to defeat
these true and tried men, quote from a
leading daily of this city:
-Four hundred lawyers get together
and pull and haul for five hours, and at
the end of that time emerge breathless
from convention that has chosen a
couple of very staunch Republican
youths to sit on the bench of the largest
county in the state Not even the law
years who owned and controlled yester-
days convention will pretend that they
felt at the time that they were ennobling
their profession. They were simply
hustling for friends, and making the
welkin ring with personal and partisan
Thovy tn hot
are the people and that the judgships
belonged to them.
John Steele and David Simpson we're
the two young men nominated. They
were not chosen on account of any spe-
cial qualification, having neither ability,
age nor experience. They are simply
two political hacks, put up by a set of
scheming, unprincipled lawyers, who
have control of the Republican machine.
The Times" says: .e..s
IF the Republican party makes a
partisan fight over these judgships now
it will sow the wind, only to reap the
whirlwind hereafter The common peo-
pie, who are seldom consulted about
judgeships, are even today restful and
distrustful of the courts. Why? Be-
cause they have no confidence in the
methods by which the judges are put in
place. The destruction of our conf
dence in judicial processes is the most
serious blow that could be dealt to
American institutions, and curiously
enough the lawyers who have every in
terest in fostering the judiciary, are
it's worst enemies in their farcical con-
ventions for the selection of judges"
The issue is well defined. No mis-
take need be made. Every voter in
favor of an honest, fearless, experienced,
conscientious judiciary will cast his
ballot for Judge Pond and Judge Smith
at the coming election.
.4Ttl Hector Mclean.
Sept. IA. -;
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to 4 per cent, and some of the gold
monometallist bankers made q hand
some profit in selling the silver dollar
as full money. l understand from the
newspapers that one broker there made
nearly million dollars in selling silver
money.5See Congressional Record,
Appendix, 1893, p. 247.
That statement explains why and to
what purpose the bankers came to the
aid of the government in 1898, as they
had done in 1885, as mentioned by Sen
atOr Teller. 1t also proves that the
broker who made nearly a million dol
lars could not have done SO if appli-
cants for silver at the treasury, offering
gold payment, had been accommodated.
think l have made this case SO plain
that any person able to see that two
and two make four can understand it.
But, approaching that many gold bugs
are unable to do this, l offer another
very positive and simple bit of testi-
mOny.
In order to settle this very question
as to whether silver dollars could be
had from the United States treasury in
exchange for gold, Senator Teller ad-
. dressed an inquiry to Secretary Foster,
and received the following reply:
Treasury Department, Washington,
D. c., December Z. 1892 Dear Sir:
have your favor of Dec. 7th. l beg to
inform you that silver dollars are not
in law nor in practice exchanged for
gold, nor for paper that calls for gold.
Very respectfully yours,
CHARLES FOSTER
Hon. Henry M. Teller, U. S. Senate"
1t seems to me that ought to settle
the matter, even in the comprehension
of the simplest gold bug.
We may now come to the following
conclusions
First-Fractional silver coin gan be
obtained at the treasury in exchange
for gold at the option of the govern
ment, for speculative purposes, pro-
vided, it is said to be done for the pur-
pose of "rescuing the government in
times of peril. re-. y
Second-Silver dollars cannot be had
from the treasury in exchange for gold
for any purpose, or at any time.
In this connection, also, it must be
noted that there is no way for silver
dollars to circulate except when hostile
treasury officials, who do all they can
to discredit silver as money, choose to
pay them out in the running expenses
OF the government. Silver dollars are
legal tender on all United States bonds,
but they are never paid to bondholders.
So, after going all that can be done to
discredit and degrade the silver coinage
and to prevent the circulation of the
new dollars, then it is published in the
o10'ial reports of the government and
in the gold bug papers that the people
do not want them; that 1.-The dollars
are not in popular demand, though the
lighter coins should be freely circu-
lated" These are the facts that the
gold bugs have been trying to hide for
years. But the people are finding them
out now. Cordially yours,
JOHN DAVIS.
Junction City, Kas.
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THE REPRESENTATIVE WEDNESDAY. SEPT IS. 1896.

Bryan. To keep the people In financial
distress promotes the interest Of bank
ers. 1t gives them such q splendid OPP
portunity to loan and reloan again and
again bank notes and the money of de-.
positors at high rates of interest. This
interest varies from to II per cent. At
per cent it is tax of $198, 000, 900 annu-
ally to support this system in supplying
the shortage in our money volume"
Verify the contrast between Mckinley
and Bryan is really battle between the
banks and the people.
Bankers want a monopoly of the
money lending business, and this is the
reason why they look with deadly hatred
upon anything which affects their bust
ness, as it would be effected by the free
coinage Of silver. or the payment Of the
public debt, or government loans to the
people on real estate security.
1t appears that DR.. Barth, a member
of the German reichstag, has come over
here to fight Bryan in, quiet way. He
says: Between the time of Mr.. Bryan's
election and the passage of any free
coinage law at least four months would
elapse, and during that time you would
have panic which would ruin the
farmers. Mortgages would be foreclos-
ed, loans called in, and great suffering
would result" DR.. Barth seems to have
forgotten that legislatures can suspend
the collection of debts when necessary.
The Nashville Banner admits that sill
yer bullion was at a premium of 8 per
cent over gold in 1873, when silver was
demonetized, being worth 81 81 an ounce,
and says, "if free coinage of silver now
would raise the price of silver the world
over from sc cents to 81 20 an ounce, all
of the boosted advantages of free coinage
would come to naught, for the simple
reason that when bar silver is worth as
much as coined silver it will not go to
the minis. The Banner is beginning to
learn what the Populist papers have
taught for years, that the free coinage Of
silver would be an insufficient remedy
for the financial distress of the country,
and perhaps the Banner will learn after
a while that what we need as a solid
basis for the nations prosperity is an
abundant supply of legal tended paper
money, issued by the government, and
loaned direct to the people on real estate
security at / per cent interest per an
mum. John Il. BeaSley.
Nashville, Tenn.
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NAMING A CLUB.
Editor Representative:

Editor Representative:
Dear Sir: My object in writing to
you is to inform you Of silver meet
ing that took place here last night, to
organize silver club. The organizer
was our village merchant, Valentine
Blatz. He is Bryan and Sewall man.
There were four or five names pro-
posed for the club A Bryan and Sc
wall man wanted it called Gold and
Silver Club" Another Bryan and Sc
wall man wanted it to be known as a
"Bryan and Towne Club" Another
Bryan and Sewall man wanted it
called "Bryan and Silver" saw they
were in favor Of Bryan and Sewall. [
wanted it called Lind and Towne
Club" There was not silver Demo-
crat who stood up for that motion.
VIM. Carson wanted it called Bryan
and Watson Club
There were twelve Watson men who
Watson.
They got fourteen names on the
list and called it the Bryan and Sill
YER Club" There was not Watson
man to sign the list. They did not
organize but laid it over until next
Saturday night. We are going to be
there with thirty Watson men and in
sist on calling it Bryan and Watson
Club"
But we have concluded to have you
instruct US and give us your advise on
it, we are out and out Populists.
Hoping we will hear Immediately
from you, do not fail and let US know
by mail before that time.
u wish you could inform us how we
could get German speaker in here, a
Populist l mean. 1t would do lots of
good.
1 understand this morning that
they will have a Democratic silver
tongued orator there next Saturday
night to help to organize.
wish you would try and post us
how we could have one there also, or il
you could send one. And oblige,
A. G. BARRETT.
Holdings Ford, Sept. 13.
ANSWER. We would suggest to our
friends not to quarrel over the Wat
son and Sewall question. Call it
''The Bryan CLUB Of Holdings Ford"
and get all the votes you can for the
ticket.
There will be two months between
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-16
OUR POPULAR AUNTIE.

The famous farcial comedy "Char-
ley's Aunt" that has proven such a
phenomenal success in America and
Europe, will be presen ted at the Bijou
next week. The fun Is fast and furi-
Gus throughout the entire play and
keeps the audience in a continuous
roar. The company is the same grand
organizat lion that appeared in all the
principal cities, under julius Cahn's
management,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-16
NOBLE WORDS FROM AN CID HERO.

Editor Representative.
l notice in the Representative kind
words of encouragement in relation to
my not having received the nomination
for elector at large at the late Peoples
Party state convention. While l fully
appreciate each kind word spoken, there
is no cause for regret at my not getting
the nomination, but great cause for re-
joicing at the wisdom of the convention
In selecting SO worthy and staunch a
veteran warrior of the Peoples cause as
James Dillon, Esq, of Ramsey county;
and am sure there is not one in Ramsey
county worthy to be called an Irishman,
or has one drop of Irish blood in his
veins, who will not give Mr.. Dillon his
support and vote, and thus drive the
English agents and traitors from our dis
tressed English oppressed country. The
honor to set in such a noble representa-
tive body of men as our late Peoples
Party state convention as delegate
from Wright county, is full reward for
any and all the efforts l may have made
for the party and our common country,
and as think of the worthy candidates
nominated at the convention it warns
the blood in MY old body, and I chuck
for my old political war club and look up
and down the street for traitors and
boodlers that 1 may rip their political
scalps from their imbecile heads to dan
gle from my war belt until the eve Of
election next. coming to a grand scalp
dance.
Be of good cheer, my countrymen.
predict that the wisdom of the nomina-
lions made by the Peoples Party will
bear fruit hundred fold on election
day. The platform adopted appeals to
patriotism and the youth and valor of
our land, and the young men through
whose veins flow the blood of patriots.
Warriors and statesmen, like warriors
of old, will lock their shields and charge
the hosts of treason with the battle cry
of Bryan and Watson, Lind and Bowler,
and Keys, and the names of the grand,
true candidates of the giant conventions,
and win a great victory for our COM
mon country and mankind at our next
election.
Trust the people. They will save the
republic. Allen G. Sexton.
Annandale, Sept. Z, 1895.
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THE JUDGES.
Words Of Praise for Smith and Pond-Let the
ho

Words of Praise for Smith and Pond-Let the
Matter be Discussed.
Editor Representative:
While public attention is being at
tracted to finance, tariff, trusts and
many other important issues. but little
attention in matter that should receive
the serious consideration of every per-
son desiring the election of able, tried,
impartial judges in this district. But
few people comprehend the duties and
powers of judge. A learned jurist
says: "They have to do with the dear
est rights of our citizens; no individual
is SO humDle that he does not have their
protection. and no aggregation of indi-
viduals is so strong that it may not feel
their power. No relation of life is SO
sacred that they may not enter into It;
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the date Of the election and the time
when the electors cast their votes. In
that interim some arrangement can
be arrived at satisfactory to both the
Watson and Sewall men. Don't quar-
rel and divide, but harmonic and
move together.
The best German speaker in the
Northwest Cor English either for that
matter,) is Robert Schilling, editor of
the Advance" Milwaukee, Wis.
Write him and get him to make you
some speeches.-ED. REP.1
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AN OLD FRIEND.

Does Not Like the Hacienda Breed Of Dogs.
Hon. Ignatius Donnelly:
+ Dear Sir: Doubtless you have forgot
ten many years ago, my name, but you
may recall something of men when say
that early in the '70s 1 was, as very
young man, associate editor of the St..
Paul Dispatch, when Harlan P. Hall ran
it, and that wrote up the Fort Smelling
fraud for the Dispatch, the New York
Sun. and other papers from data first
furnished by you.
1 again find myself following Were
you lead. I am the editor of little Pop
ulist paper as above.
But what l wish now to say, although
it may be of very little value to you, is
that I hope-hope- to God"-as
folks say-that you will down" the
crowd that is, or has been, trying to
crush you, and, with you, the Peoples
party.
We have much the same fight on hand
in California, only believe, If possible,
more villainous. We Populists have one
strong man, John S. Dore, who tells me
that he met you at st. Louis. and that
you did gloriously. l didn't need to be
told it. You couldn't help, with your
great big brain, and more than that,
your great big heart breaking in sympa-
thy with the toiling millions. But that's
all right. I'm not writing this letter to
give taffy to you, or for any other pur-
pose except possibly that a distant word
of cheer may do little good in moments
when things are kinder crowdin' on a
Teller"
/ wish that could make an appoint
ment for you to speak here one week
two weeks-from tonight. The cOnse-
quences would not be on your shoulders
We would have 10000 people drunk be-
tween eloQuence and wine just as long
as you would please to turn on the elo-
quence tap we would turn on the wine
spigot.
am subscriber to your paper; got
copy today, telling how those Penny
Press dogs tried to bite you. When the
Williams cur began to snap at you some
weeks ago, and you kicked him out of
your road, thought that that would be
the last of it. But recon that there must
be some very hungry little ours pretend
ing to be Populists.
We would sit down on them in Cali
fornia in short order. We have week.
kneed brethren here, but very few of the
dirty hacienda dog kind.
1 will send you my paper, which is
strictly in Observation-Disclosures
Yours, Mr.. Donnelly, Tor anything
can do. Geo. G. Mackenzie.
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THE INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM.
There Was Some Opposition at st. Louis, But
Plank Was Unanimously Adopted

There Was Some Opposition at St. Louis, But
Plank Was Unanimously Adopted
Hon. Ignatius Donnelly:
Dear Sir: In reply to your commune
cation just to hand in relation to the
dunn" and the issue as to the action of
Mr. S. M. Owen in relation thereto,
have to say that in our large committee
on platform there were many do not
know Mr.. S. M. Owen was one of
those, but Mr.. Schilling I became well
acquainted with, he acting as secretary.
Some member introduced at the joint
meeting Of the subcommittee the ref
erendum plank, but do not know who
it was; then some member opposed it on
the ground, as near as I can recollect,
that the platform was being overweight
ed, and the people not yet ready for its
adoption. l did not recognize who the
speaker was, and his remarks were brief;
there were dissenting words from Mr..
Schilling and others, and quickly arose
and spoke almost exactly as follows: II
wish to earnestly support the insertion
of this plank. We are all in the middle
of-the-road, according to my best judg-
ment, of that feel sure; but have no
ticed that a very large number of our
fellow delegates are wearing white silk
badges, on which are inscribed those
special words, 'The Road"
and on the top Of the badge are the
words, 1.-The Initiative and Referendum"
That principle is very dear to them, as
it is to the Populists generally, and I
sincerely hope that, in the interests of
harmony, the cause of progress, and the
rightfulness and necessity of the plank,
that it will be emphatically adopted"
The question was then put and the plank
sustained unanimously, or so nearly that
1 cannot recall hearing any negative
vote Very truly and respectfully
yours, "A. II. Noon.
Orc Blanco, Pima Co., Ariz., Aug. 20.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-16
HOW'S THIS!

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that can not be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo,
Ohio.
We, the undersigned, have known F.
J. Cheney for the last Is years, and be-
lieve him perfectly honorable in all bust
ness transactions and financially able
to carry out his obligations made by
their firm.
West & Truax, wholesale druggists.
Toledo, O., Walding, Kinnan & Marvin.
wholesale druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken Internal
ly,acting directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces Of the system. Price, 75c
per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Tes-
timonialS free.
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their reach. Good bye, faithful David
CloueE for fifteen minutes. / will dis
tribute plenty of yellow campaign liter
ature, newspaper articles. tariff taffy
and catchy things to my devoted Imps
running my Minnesota campaign"
But for good and not evil.
Yours truly,
F. C. GRISWOLD.
September 18th, 1885,
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Ripans Tabules.

Ripans Tabules.
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Ripans Tabules cure flatulence.
Ripans Tabules cure dyspepsia.
Ripans Tabules cure torpid liver.
Ripans Tabules: for sour stomach.
Ripans Tabules cure constipation.
Ripans Tabules cure liver troubles
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-16
Ripans Tabules cure nausea.

Ripans Tabules cure nausea.
Ripans Tabules cure headache.
Ripans Tabules assist digestion.
Ripans Tabules cure biliousness.
Ripans Tabules cure bad breath.
Ripans Tabules: one gives relief.
Ripans Tabules cure indigestion.
Ripans Tabules: gentle cathartic.
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ourFOrunn.
4 FEW SIMPLE RULESREAD AND BE
GOVERNED ACCORDINGLY.

We are so crowded with letters. many O..
them excellent and most interesting. that,
to give them all a hearing. we are con,
strained to quote the following from Sound
Money.-Ed. Rep.
Write on one side of paper, beginning
the first page about the middle of the sheet.
~ Be BRIEF
Always sign your name to your article
though you may write over a non de plume
Be brief.
Do not try to cover the whole range OF
reform in one letter.
BE brief and to the point.
Letters of 300 words on one point, properly
condensed, will cover almost any subject.
Be brief
Shoot at the mark-not In the air. Aim
at something and hit 1t.
Be brief. Boil down and quit when you
are DONE
Again we say. be brief.
In other words we say-be BRIEF!