The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-25
PROSPERITY WAVE.
FIRST POPULIST HEADQUAR-
TIERS FOR 1900.
Bryan Fishing and Hunting-Mark
Hanna's Medals-McKinl
New Summer Mansion.


Peoples Press Bureau, st. Louis, NO.,
Nov. 24.-The Hon. Thomas Watson's
letter OF acceptance, which was not re-
ceived by Chairman Butler until after
much delay, is at last given to the pub
lie. insufficient postage was the reason
assigned for the non-appearance of the
important document. When the letter
at length arrived, Chairman Butler re-
fused to make it public unless Mr.. Wat
son would eliminate portion that was
considered dangerous, at that stage of
the presidential campaign. This Mr..
Watson refused to do and the letter has
remained in obscurity until it appeared
in The Peoples Party Paper, at Atlanta,
Georgia. Mr.. WatsOn's extreme ideas in
regard to fusion were objected to by
Chairman Butler and his advisors.
The Venezuelan arbitration has, after
an infinite amount of red tape, been
placed in the hands of a commission,
composed of two representatives of Great
Britain and the United States each, and
the King of Sweden.
The recent meetings of the Knights of
Labor has been of great interest. Sec
retary-treasurer Hays, in his report, ex-.
posed the violent attacks made upon the
order by clique, known as the New
York Triangle" composed of some of the
leaders of the Socialist-Labor party,
when they failed to get control
of the K. of L. Among other measures
the organization pledged itself to try to
get before the next congress-, is the
establishment of Postal Savings Banks.
w. J. Bryan, in company with several
friends, has gone to Taney county, Mis-
souri,, to spend ten days hunting and
fishing. From the time he left his home
he was greeted with the same enthus-
iasm that he met everywhere before the
election. Although he has not so an
nounced, it is generally understood that
Mr. Bryan will, about the 1st of January,
publish a book on Bimetallism, to be sup
plemented by his biography, written by
Mrs. Bryan, and a history OF the recent
EeaIapaign. n.--1----~--., ---5s.
A bill has been introduced in the legis-
lature of Alabama, seeking to make void
all contracts calling for payment in gold
or any other currency than the legal ten
der of the United States.
The Leader, of Canton, S. D., states
that ballots were printed in the Russian
language and men employed to do the
marking, in Mcpherson county, at the
recent election.
Carroll D. Wright, in his recently pub
lished census report, gives the number
of unemployed at 1928, ,730.
Mark Hanna recently gave gorgeous
banquet to his Wall street adherents and
admirers. All of the toasts proposed
were boQuets for the chairman and he,
in turn, distributed compliments and
twenty dollar gold medals, as souvenirs
of the occasion. Mr.. Hanna, in his
speech with that delicate tact(?) that
characterizes every utterance of the
great "Cannibal of Labor" told how one
of his hired "spell-binders" had, said,
mr. Hanna stands with one hand on the
Almighty and one hand on Mckinley,
and he can't be beat"
The leaders in the silver cause will
meet in Washington, immediately after
the convening of congress.
The vote of Mclean county, Kentucky,
which gave Bryan 454 majority, was
thown out, thus giving to Mckinley a
plurality in the state, of $40.
A Peoples Party paper at Topeka,
Kansas, sets forth, in a two-column ar
ticle, an eastern plan to ruin Kansas, as
an object lesson, against POpulism.
The war in Cuba goes on with renewed
horrors. Spain has sent to Gen. Weyler
200, 900 men, and the command to crush
the rebels or resign in the near future.
The Cubans are believed to have only
about 1000 men poorly fed, clothed and
armed. Spanish ladies of rank sold their
Jewels, it is said, to raise money to pro-
vide troops, while Cuban women are
fighting in the ranks. Owing to the pos
sibility of trouble with Spain the Sec
retary of war has ordered the southern
ports and their means of defense looked
into and in some cases steps have been
taken to render them less open to at
tack.
The first Populist headquarters for
1900 have been formally opened at Lin
coin, Nebraska, on the ground floor of
the Lincoln hotel.
The farmer element will predOminate
in the Nebraska legislative bodies. But
one gold democrat was elected to either
branch of the house.
At Republican ratification at Hot
Springs, Arkansas, Nov. IA, General
Powell Clayton recklessly hurled invec-
tive at the south and west He said:
These states are arrayed against pro-
gressand prosperity. l say that most
of the states that cast their vote for
Bryan do not have honest election meth
ods" The generals rancor is due to the
fact that he was pretty severely called
down by Hanna because not only the
whole state gave Bryan majorities, but
Cloyton's own precinct made Its majority
three times as large as it had ever been
before.
among the signs of the wave of pros
perity having arrived CD we note the
following. The Chicago & Alton rail-
road has reduced it hours of employ
ment to the men in the shops; the work.
ing butchers of Chicago are on a strike
against a 25-cent reduction in their
wages; all street car companies in tAe
cities have greatly reduced their pay
rolls; prices of both wheat and cotton
have declined within the week; groceries