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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-09-10

Congressman Spencer has wlth-
drawn from the race 10 the seventh
district.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-09-10

One white man and two negroes
were hanged at Paris, Texas, ON
the 4th, ali for murder.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-09-10

Gen. Wade Hampton, of South
Carolina, and Congressman C. H.
Buck, of New Orleans, favor sound
money.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-09-10

An excursion train was wrecked
near English, Ind, on Sunday last.
Ten people we're fatally injured
and many others hurt.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-09-10

Judge Mayors has pretermitted
the September term of Smith Co.
circuit court.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-09-10

Mrs. T. NJ. Evans has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Mississippi
City.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-09-10

During fire which totally de-
stroyed the Opera House at Benton
Harbor, Mich, falling walls killed
Ii fremen and injured others.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-09-10

Freight trains coIlided Saturday
morning on the /. g.. R. r., near
Tugaloo. Engineer Quinn was kill
ed and the trains badly wrecked.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-09-10

The Cosmopolitan Magazine, pub.
llshed at lrviugton, New York, at
I'll w year, ls the cheapest thing
on earth. 1t is an elegant, first
class production in every respect
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-09-10

Train robbery is punishable by
death in Arizona.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-09-10
A Washington special of the 3rd
to the Picapnne saus.

A Washington special of the 3rd
to the Picayune says:
The nomination of Palmer and
buckaer Is pleasing to the admin.
lstratloD Democrats here. Geo. NJ.
Coffin, acting comptroller of the
currency, Is not only satisfied with
the new ticket, but he predicts it's
success. de says that while he is
aware some Democrats do not share
his views he believes conditions will
so shape themselves as to cause
the election of the Indianapolis cans
dldates. The officials at the post
office have been expecting to days
result and three of them were ask,
cd Monday night to name their
preference of candidates all replied
Palmer ald Buckney."
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-09-10

At Glencoe, MIMI. the people
were not pleased With the verdict
OF murder in the second degree,
rendered against two men who had
murdered their sheriff, and they
promptly lynched them.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-09-10
WANTED AN IDEA y who .s. can ~. thin. =.

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bring you wealth. Write JOHN WFHSh%1nHyI
66ukN q ~, Patent Attorneys, Waah1nStnn-
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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-09-10

| II you are feeling |
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! and generally tr
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have no appe,lle !
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-02
S1.OO A Year, in Advance.

wages of his employees fifteen per cent.
Many men employed at the great car
works have been living in other towns
where rents are lower but all workmen
will be required in future to reside in
Pullman and pay the rent designated.
The Alabama senate has passed Q bill
permitting women to practice law in that
state. 1t was hotly contested.
The Republican party will oppose the
admission of any new Western state.
Senator Allen, of Nebraska, is in the
Indian Territory investigating the trou-
bles between the half breed and full
blood Osages. Charges against Free
man, the Indian Agent were preferred
in the Interior department but he was
exonerated. The matter was afterward
carried to the senate.
1t has developed that there was one
spot that took no note of the recent pol
itical turmoil. Had this been known
sooner, doubtless it's population would
have been greatly increased by an influx
Of refugees from the clamor of pres
>idential election. This unique spot is
Carlton county, Georgia. 1t is COM
posed largely Of the OkefeenOke swamp.
The secretary of state has SO far been
unable to- learn of any election being
held there. A. r.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-02
POVERTY IN THE LAND OF
PLENTY.

1t is stated in our exchanges that there
are in the city of New York one hundred
thousand idle men, and that before the
Christmas holidays they will number
fifty thousand more. A very large pro-
portion of these idle men, it is said, are
willing and anxious to find work to earn
living for themselves and their de-
pendents. In the city of Chicago there
are as many more in enforced idleness.
All our great cities abound in mendi-
cants. Tramps and beggars infest our
highways. Finding no employment
they drift into the cities, hoping to bet
ter their condition. Poorhouses and
prisons are filled to overfowing. There
is nothing more debasing to a sensitive
man who wishes to earn his own living
than to be under the necessity of -Ark-
ing bread and clothing from the hand
of charity. 1t is no marvel if their man
hood is crushed out of them and they
become criminals. A single illustration
will suffice. When William Allen was
governor, poor but respectable citizen,
in returning to his miserable hovel after
seeking for employment for days in
vain, found his children crying for
bread. In fit of desperation he broke
into meat store and stole ham. He
was arrested for burglary. When
brought before the Judge he pleaded
guilty and explained why he had violat-
ed the law. He was made desperate by
the cries of his children for food. In
court he pleaded guilty and was SEN
fenced to the states prison for term
of years. Governor Allen being in
formed of the facts directed the sheriff
to bring the convict direct to the gover-
nor's office. After brief interview, and
having learned the character of the con-
demned man, the governor promptly
gave him pardon and sent him back to
his family.
Such destitution as now prevails
throughout our cities not only endang
ers the peace and safety of society and
requires householders to provide addi-
tional locks and bars, but furnishes avail
able material for corrupt politicians to
control elections. The party which con-
trolls the elections is the one who has the
largest corruption fund and uses it to
the best advantage. 1t is an object les
son that all the large cities gave at the
late election overwhelming majorities
for sound money, and it goes without
saying that the successful party had
money without limit, while the defeated
party was poorer than Lazarus. We
would not intimate that the defeated
party is governed by any higher rule OF
morality than the other. It's political
and moral honesty was enforced. Our
purpose in referring to the facts is to
show how poverty cheapens patriotism.
A starving man will sell his birthright
for mess of pottage." The rich pur-
chaser of the poor mans suffrage suffers
even a greater decentralization than the
victim of his avarice.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-02
TOM WATSON'S VIEWS.
After the Storm.

AlSSl lHC otol III
No manly man takes any pleasure in
saying 81 told you So"
Before the st. Louis convention met,
however, we warned our people of their
danger, and advised a straight POpulist
ticket. Events have proved that we
were right.
Our party, as a party, does not exist
any more. Fusion has well nigh killed
it.
After the st. Louis convention adj
journed there was just one chance to
save it. Sewall should have been forced
off the Democratic ticket by the putting
out of straight Bryan and Watson tick
cts in each state In no other way would
the party have been saved.
The policy, however, was not adopted
and we know the rest. Fusionists sold
the national candidate of the Peoples
Party for the highest price they could
get in each state, and the result is that
while the fusionists have succeeded in
getting some local pie, the national or
ganizatiOn is almost dead. Until the
party is re-organized, no man with any
self respect will ever again accept a
Populist nomination for either place on
the national ticket. Hence the fusion
ist had better make the most of his pie,
because he will never again have an
other national nominee to sell.
Consequently it may be accepted as
settled fact that the Peoples Party will
have to be re-OrganiZed, or that it will
never again have a national ticket in the
field
After the campaign of 1892, we could
look at the returns and count the
strength of the Populist vote. I'm 1894
we could do likewise. We knew just
what our vote was. But how can we tell
today what the POpulist strength is?
It's vote has disappeared. Every vote
cast for Bryan and Sewall simply swells
the total of the Democratic vote. Pop
ulism has been rent and torn into three
factions; that which kept the middle of
the road, that which voted the DEM
ocratic ticket, and that which, out of re-
sentiment, voted for Mckinley.
Divided into three factions, in this
way, National Populism is almost dead
letter-as a party organization. The
sentiment is still there, the votes are
still there but confidence is gone, and
the party organization is almost gone.
Just as the pie-hunter killed green
backism by fusions with the enemy, so
Populism finds almost it's deathwOund
in the same ruinous policy
If Democracy is good enough to fuse
with, it is good enough to join. If Re-
publicanism is good enough to fuse with,
it is good enough to join. We lose our
force as reformers when we combine
with the evil-doers we have been de-
nouncing The moment we cease to
oOaincf both tho old
ties, we had just as we'll dismiss our
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-02
THE LORD DID IT.
STARVED MILLIONS TO SAVE
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
Which illustrates the Limitations
OF OmnipOtence.

Just what beat Bryan is subject of
some discussion; but, according to the
very pious president, Francis D. Carley,
of the Monetary Trust, located on lower
Broadway this city, the Lord performed
stupendous miracle, extending over
the whole world-and this was what Sc
cured the election of Mckinley. We
quote below the opening paragraph in a
column advertisement that appears in
the Philadelphia Times, Nov. Is, signed
by the presidents name:
"'God said, Let there be light and
there was light. Unnumbered centuries
have passed since the clouds and mists
were lifted which left the moist earth
exposed for the first time to the shining
surface of the sun. During the summer
of 1896 God saw that evil men had COM
bined in vain attempt to defeat His
plans in the United States, and He again
changed the phases Of the sun. He
hung different climates over all parts of
the earth, and readjusted the world S
crops. Almost Immediately the hungry
nations began to buy our products, and
burdened the buoyant messengers of
ocean with gold for our coasts. That
gold arrived in the hour of crisis If
ever special Providence did come to this
planet, it came on behalf of the United
States during the period which termin-
ated on the evening of the third day of
November; and even worldly men, here
tofore without religion in their souls,
now stop in pious meditation, and glow
with gratitude when they think of the
miracle which has just rescued this re-
public"
This is very devout view of the case,
but one feels a little regretful that the
Creator found it necessary to send
drought and distress over wide areas of
Russia and India in order to secure the
defeat of Bryan. After this soul-en-
trancing introduction, the advertisement
goes on to inform the reader what stocks
are the best ones to invest in, that now is
the accepted time, and the Monetary
Trust is willing to act as the medium.
Trust in God always comes easy when
things are going our way; but we do
wish He would send the fool-killer down
on lower Broadway before the next ad-
vertisement of the Monetary Trust is is
Sued
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-02
M'KINLEY'S ELECTION.
The Marvellous Results it Produced
in Iowa.
The Very Wells Filling Up-Confidence Re-
stored and the Wild Geese Going to
Winter in Mexico
[Winterset Revie W. ]

[Winterset Review.]
Scarcely had the sound of the last tick
of the telegraph instrument died away
when business began to spring up in this
city,
The Citizen National bank paid out
$40 in gold Thursday morning and as
soon as this became known confidence
was at once restored. Hudson Criss
gave orders to grease every buggy wheel
in his livery stable, and Emery Alexan-
der sawed wood with both hands in
stead of one. Van Hosen had about
ten cords of wood sawed the same day
the bank resumed specie payment.
Milt. Knight patched the plastering in
a neighbor's kitchen and Lafe Utter set
several new panes of glass. John Ben
ge set the feed mill going and ground
seven bushels of buckwheat.
In the Review Office the business man
ager promised the purchase of new tin
dipper and to have the towel washed.
One good housewife purchased an extra
pint of milk and made a pumpkin pie.
AL Price sold several extra bags of
peanuts and three extra Sandbaggers on
the train to Des .Moines.
John Frankelberger set their electric
SOASO AAAA1 6OAAS 6AOuAO OuC II Y
pounds of coffee extra for Saturday
trade.
Marshall Casteel hadsa soup bone for
Sunday, and the Reverahd Acheson used
gilt edged hymn book and pounded
the pulpit until the dust flew like the
red fire in the Republican jollifcation.
Joe Shannen burned several extra
bushels of coal in the court house furn-
ace and tidied up the sky parlor for re-
freshments Saturday, when Congress-
man Hull was to make post prandial
speech.
Sherman Catterin indulged in stick
of licOrice rott.
The street commissioner filled up two
or three mud holes and tackled down
several loose boards in lside walks.
All the wells are filing up with water.
Bootleg whiskey however has down.
ward tendency, while butter was slight
ly firmer. The hens will commence lay
ing in the spring if the Mckinley tariff
is restored, otherwise they will loaf, that
is, set around.
Several threshing machines are at
work in the country and there is brisk
demand for saw bucks.
All delinquent subscribers to the Re-
view will now walk up and settle and
pay a few years in advance
The wild geese will spend the winter
in Mexico now that confidence is re-
stored.
Several poor families have new shoes
all around and money to bet on cleo
tions.
One local politician, who is good for
ten or twelve votes, has a new suit of
clothes, and several pensions will be in
creased.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-02
WATSON THE MOSES.

1t is more than probable when the
general roll is called for reorganiza-
tion of the Populist party, or rather a
counting of heads among those who will
constitute it in the future, many who
claim to be Populists but who proved
themselves otherwise during the recent
delivery to Democracy will find them
selves stripped of the necessary qualifi-
cations. 1t is practically certain that
the affairs of the party will never again
be intrusted to the bunglesome officials
who came so near disrupting it during
the last campaign. In speaking of the
future of the party, L. G. Bateman, who
was the Populist candidate for governor
of Maine and who is in close touch with
the middle-of-the-road element, is very
emphatic in his opinion that fusion win
hereafter not enter into the calculations
of Populists. He says that Bryan nnd
his issue are done for. Had he boldly
planted himself upon the full Populist
platform he would have had a future.
He is lost. Daniel Webster made the
same blunder so years ago. We shall
demand the utter overthrow of the
whole metal basis system and the estab-
lishment of purely scientific paper cur
rency based upon the entire wealth of
the country. We shall demand the gov
ernment ownership of the railroad, tefe-
graph and telephone lines. l look to see
with the passage of silver bill by the
Republicans, the silver Democrats unit
ing with the gold wing of the party and
going back to their old position of the
opposition party-only this and nothing
more. The populists are the coming
party. Watson will be our great leader
four years hence. The present fusion
managers have made a mess of it and
are thoroughly discredited by the frank
and file who will have nothing more to
do with them. Some of them will 20
into the Democratic party. and the rest
will be sent to the rear. Their policy
has been tried and found sadly wanting.
These men will never lead our party in
to disgrace again.-Chicago Sentinel.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-02

receipted for? The presumption is that
the distinguished contributors will re-
ceipted for? The presumption is that
the distinguished contributors will re-
ceive appointments helpful in a social
way. Mr.. James J. Van Allen was ap-
pointed minister to Italy and he gave
only $4,000 four years ago.
1t has been suggested that the rewards
for contributions to the campaign fund
Oh the Republican National Committee
be distributed as follows:
One of the Vanderbilts ($25O, ,OOO)-
Ambassador to Great Britain.
J. P. Morgan ($100, 0,000)-Secretary of
the Treasury.
w. Bourke Cochran (services worth
$500 ,000)-Minister to France.
George Gould $3.50, 0,000)-Minister to
Italy.
Levi P. Morton ESQ., OOO)-Minister to
Russia.
Morgan G.Bulkeley ($1 200, ,OOO)-Unit-
ed States senator from Connecticut.
Andrew Carnegie (?)-Consul to some
Scotch city.
M. S. Quay (?)-All Pennsylvania pa
tronage.
0. H. P. Belmont $50, Minister
to Germany
Roswell P. Flower s25 ,OOO)-Consul
General to London.
Coils P. Huntington ($5OO, ,OOO)-In-
terstate Commerce Commissioner.
Mayor Strong ($5O0) - Minister of
Japan.
Theodore Roosevelt (?)-Secretary of
War.
Russell Sage ($5)-Minister to Monaco.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-02
DEFINE THEIR POSITION.

The line must be sharply drawn. Pos
tive characters of the Jackson kind
must come to the front. No straddle
platforms will be tolerated. The plat
form must declare against national
banks as banks of issue and in favor of
the government issue of an increased
amount of full legal tender paper money
redeemable only in the government rev.
enue, by being made receivable for taxes
and duties on imports.
Free coinage of silver, not for metal
redemption of paper money but to pay
off the bonds in coin.
A grand rush Of the people must be
made to obtain cofftrol of both branches
of congress and constitutional amend
the people a graduated income tax law
so that wealth may be compelled to bear
it's share of taxation.
The Initiative and Referendum sys-
tenn of making laws must come as the
only safety of future generations from
the corrupt influence of money over the
venal class of lawyer-congresses which
the people no longer can trust to do
their legislation.-The Referendum
Populists should not be discouraged.
The Peoples Party vote this year is
larger than before cast.
All Populists have to- do is to keep
in the middle of the road.
The cause of REFORM is right, and the
right will eventually prevail.
The money system advocated by the
Populists is the only means of bringing
justice to the masses.
When the people have suffered suf-
ficiently from the robbery of redemp-
tion money, they will sdopt the true fin
ancial system.
When the laborers and producers dis
cover that they are being robbed year af-
ter year, they will conAe over to party
that is friendly to tEefe classes.
Let the Populists keep the faith and
stand by their guns.f Reason will as
sert itself in due timt.f
Now, with charity to each other and
sharp eye on the place hunters, let
us all unitedly and vigorously push the
grand work of educating the people
not in bimetallism, for the double specie
basis is only lesser fraud than the
single gold basis, but in the true science
of money; money the creation of law;
paper money, the money of progress and
intelligence. Let us show what great
blessing government railroads would be
to the people and how they would cut
the claws of plutocracy. Let light shine
upon the land question. Land mono
poly is already casting its blight in sew
eral parts of the union, and only awaits
the time when large bodies of land will
be more profitable to the plutocrats
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-02
THE OLD OLD STORY.

An Anthropoid once asked Crow
(Some hundred thousand years agO)
To seek the fates and let him know
When times would mend, and so and so.
The answer came, (the bird was slow
"For four years more your cake is
dough-"
The Anthropoid has dropped his tail
Instead he swings dinner-pail,
And Uncle Sam now brings the mail;
Great printed sheets that tell tale
OF high old times, plus cake and ale
In four years more, if crops don't fail.
CA grey-haired yarn, but nowise frail.)
The Crow is dead, the Fates are dumb,
No hearse was theirs, no fife nor drum,
No funeral pile, no wake, no rum,
What odds while anthropoids still hum
Of luck to lend and time to bum
Some four years more, or so, to come.
Sam FOnograf.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-02
GLASGOW STREET RAILWAY.

Municipal ownership of street rail-
ways is demonstrated success in many
cities Glasgow, Scotland is brilliant
example. The first annual report and
balance sheet of the Glasgow corpora
ton tramways department for the peri
cd from July /, 1894, to May 3, 1895, has
been published, and shows the following
results:
Gross income, traffic receipts. e226,-
414; gross expenditure, G2O2 ,2O9; profit
for eleven months, G24,204.
The committee reports that the finan-
cial success which had attended them
during the first eleven months is beyond
their most sanguine expectations, and
they do not know that any other tram
way undertaking has hitherto been able
to pay all interest working and general
expenses, and maintenance and begin
writing down their capital account with
in a year of starting operations and
they owe much of their success to the
introduction of half-penny fares and
half-mile stations. No less than 80 per
cent of the tickets sold were half-penny
tickets.
This official report is an object lesson
and no mistake. A half-penny means,
in terms of United States money, one
cent Remember that Charging but 1
cent fare for over 80 per cent of the
fares, the street railways of Glasgow
were able to save, as net profits, over 10
per cent of the gross receipts.
If the present street railway barOns of
ST. Louis cannot be coaxed into granting
the people 3-cent fares, suppose the citi-
zens, through their municipal govern
ment, take hold of the street railway
business and give themselves 1-cent
fares. Why not?-St Louis Evening
Journal
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-02
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS.

The advantage of postal savings banks
is so apparent that it does not admit
of dispute. 1t insures the depositer alb
solutely against loss, and at the same
time gives every citizen that saves a di-
rect interest in the perpetuation of his
country and it's institutions. The Dis
patch ventures the assertion that with
in five years after the. estab-
lishment of. such repositories, prac-
tically all the small hoardings Of Amer
lea would be attracted to them, and the
federal government could secure quite a
revenue by becoming a money lender on
large scale to nations less favored than
our own.-ChicagO Dispatch.