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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-15
cal leprosy Is entering our blood. II

cal lepr0sy Is entering our blood. II
we submit all is lost; II we rise in our
manhood and crush the enemy it will
give a new inspiration to mankind.
1t will be a new declaration of indie
pendeuce, broader and deeper than
that OF our forefathers.
"In every state the people are
aroused; they see their condition grow.
ing worse and they see the hope of
their children disappearing: they see
poverty, hanging over the future; they
see the black flag Of hunger floating
over some OF the richest sections OF
Gods earth and they are crying for
juctice, Ny friends, that cry willfree
the American people. Even If we
should be borne down again and again
the voice Of humanity will arise from
the dust and drive the money chang
ers out of the temple and the traitors
out Of the land. The Benedict Arnold
Of 1850 sleeps on English soil. Let
the Benedict ArnOlds Of this age make
their graves beside him."
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-15
number OF delegates:

The township primaries for select
ing delegates to said convention are
hereby called to meet at the usual
place of holding such meetings on
Saturday, August It'll, at s p. m. II
necessary for any cause to change
from this time, the committeeman of
the precinct will give due and suffi-
cient notice Of the same.
At each primary a committeeman
should be elected.
Arrangements will be made FOR
speakers-One in forenoon and one in
afternoon.
County Central Committee is called
to meet Immediately after convention.
V. e. SLEEPER, Chairman.
IVAN D. ROGERS, Secretary.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-15

John Sherman denouncing trusts is
one of the sensations in government
circles. He confesses that his law
against them was inadequate. Ifold
John lived in Kansas and was a Pop
ulist he would he ridiculed and
leered for his incompetency. The
Kansas City Times pictures old John
about right when it says; ellis de.
clared antipathy for trusts as made
manifest in the sham and inopera-
tive law he introduced against them,
and in the attitude of the party
which he has followed during his
halt century of public life, in its
fostering a tariff policy that has been
hrst the incubator of trusts, afterward
their nourisher, and is now their
purchased and willing servitor, it is
opposite 10 repeat what more than
half the voters in the United States
already know, that he is the main
instrument in the organization Of
the most gigantic trust of them all,
He is the grizzled Mephisto who en-
gineered the scheme by which the
dethronement, the disinheritance
and the enslavement of silver was
surreptitiously accomplished. John
Sherman is the political Judas Iscar.
lot who betrayed with a kiss the
people of this country into the hands
of the goldocracy of London and
New York. His traitor hand struck
down silver and erected in The land
the gold trust, in insatiate vampire
that has been sucking the like blood
OF our farms, our workshops, our
shipping and all the other ministers
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-15

Since the Sumner county commit
tee has taken the same action the
following from the Smith county
Journal will apply here: Candi-
dates for county offices in Jewell
county on the Populist ticket must
make public their intentions before
the nominating convention, accord
ing to a resolution passed by the
county central committee at the re-
cent meeting. Men who have the
best interest of the Populist party
at heart will heartily endorse the
move; it is protection against un-
worthy officials, and at the same time
in no way interfereS with the selec-
ton of good men to positions of
trust and responsibility. Men who
never contribute one cent to the sup
port of the newspapers come out &C.
casionally and say such a plan bene-
fits exclusively the publishers of
newspapers. Such is not the case,
although it is true that the man who
is successful and is elected to good
county office would contribute prob
ably hve dollars to the newspaper
OF his party-while the same news.
paper would in all probability spend
fifty dollars in cash and labor to Sc.
cure the same mans election. The
question is, should the people be al
lowed to know who the candidate!
will be some time time before the
convention, that they may have ar
opportunity to learn the good Of
bad qualities of the men who are tc
ask for the support Of the people
The Journal is Of the opinion tina
no harm can come of knowing some
thing of the men who are to be nom
mated before the convention dav.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-15
Ayers CathaTic Pills.
B0tkin on Pensions.

Washington, D. c.. July 10, 1897
HOn. j. D. BOtkiD OF Kansas is do
ing splendid work in securing PEN
siOns. He takes special interest in
that line and has large number Of
claims to look after. Among those
who have secured pensions through
his Influence are the following: Char
lotte E. Banfll, Garden City, So per
month and accrued pension, John L.
BransOn, Kincaid, IS per month, J.H.
Champion, Mound City. Sc per month
from 1891 and So per month from jan
uar, 1896, Lucinda HarrOd, Winfield,
IS per month from June, 1885,, Thos.
Higgins, Fort Scott, increase of 81 per
month, George II. B. Hopkins, Pres
colt, Sl2 per month, James r. Love-
lace. Hutchinson, 81 per month from
1865, 81 from 1889, Sc from 1880 and $40
from November, 1890, J.W. Stiffler,
Carthage. Mo, Sc per month from
March I, 1885, John r. TOwles ST. per
month from OCTOBER il, 1896, Han
nah Wilson, Winfield, Sl2 per month
from June 81, 1895, A. r. Wayne,
Mound City, So per month from Au-
gust, 1896, Julia A. Wade, Winfield,
IS per month, Josiah LOOMS. Basse-
vile $40 per month from August 2,
1890.
These claims however represent
only a mere beginning. More than
200 claims, most Of which had lain for
years in the dust of some pigeon hole
in the department, are now being
considered through his efforts, and
when adjudicated will add greatly to
the number of successful claims.
Besides this work in the depart
ment, Mr. BOLkin has already intro
duced about forty special pension
bills, and will he ready to push them
in committee as soon as such commit
tee is appointed.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-15
CALL FOR JUDICIAL CONVENTION.

BY virtue Of the authority vested in us by
the Judicial Committee Of the Peoples party
and OF the Den ocratic party OF the Nine
teenth Judicial District OF the State of Kan
sas, we do hereby call delegate convention
of the voters Of said district, to be held at
Wellington. Kansas, on
THE 14th DAY OF AUGUST, 1897,
for the purpose Of nominating a candidate of
the Peoples party and Of the Democratic
party for Judge Of the District Court of the
Nineteenth Judicial District of the State OF
Kansas, TO be voted for at the ensuing No
vember election.
The representation 10 said convention shall
be, from Cnwley county eleven I'D delegates,
and from Sumner county ten 10 delegates,
TO be selected in each county by delegate
county convention.
Every voter who voted for any OF the Bly,
an electors and who signifies his willingness
to support the nominee Of said Judicial con-
ventiOn shall be entitled TO vote 10 the pri-
maries to elect said delegates, and shall also
be elig Bile as delegates or candidates before
said convention.
The candidate receiving majority Of all
the votes cast In said convention shall be de-
clared to be the candidate of the Peoples
party and of the Democratic party for Judge
OF the District Court Of the Nineteenth Judi
cia district Of the state OF Kaneas. to be
voted forat the ensuing November election
The chairman and secretary Of said con-
ventiOn are authorized. empowered and di-
rected TO make and file the proper and neces-
sary legal certificate, that said nominee of
this convention is the nominee Of the Peoples
party and Of the Democratic party for Judge
Of the Nineteenth Judicial District of the
state Of Kansas. TO be voted for at the ensu-
ing November election.
W s. PILE, Chairman,
QUINCY A. GLASS Secretary,
Peoples Party Judiciary Committee Of Nine
tenth Judicial District.
JAMES I. HERRICK. Chairman.
JOSEPH 0HARE, Secretary.
Democratic Party Judiciary Committee Nine.
teenth Judicial District
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-15

to the diffusion Of wealth among the
people for so many years. John
Sherman, the chief architect Of the
gold trust, has had the hypocrisy to
stand III public place, to roll his
eyes, 10 elevate his voice, to raise
his hands and to anathematize the
tobacco trust, the nail trust, the wool
trust and all the rest of the brood,
when these are, in comparison with
the gigantic one for which he stood
sponsor in 10, as Insignificant as
are the greedy, spiny dogfshes that
swim in the wake Of the man eating
sharks in the qualities of activity,
voracity and destructive power when
compared to the remorseless mon
ster they follow.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-15
A Valuable Prescription.

Editor Morrison, Of WOrthington,
Ind, Sun" writes; "You have a
valuable prescription in Electric Bit
tiers, and l can cheerfully recommend
it for Constipation and Sick Headache.
and as a general system tonic il has
no equal" Mrs. Annie Stehle. 1925
Cottage Grove Ave-, Chicago, was all
run down, could not eat nor digest
food, had backache which never left
her and felt tired and weary, but six
bottles OF Electric Bitters restored
her health and renewed her strength.
Prices so cents and 81. Get a bottle
at F. B. Snyder's drug store. 3
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-15
The gold syndicate seems to be get.

The gold syndicate seems to be get
ting in its work. Not long since the
Atlanta Constitution changed hands
and color, now the St. Louis Post.
Dispatch, an able free coinage ad-
vocate, has succumbed. There is
every indication that the fund left
over in Mark Hanna's hands after
paying campaign expenses has been
diverted in that direction, and that
the fund has been largely augmented.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-15

When the free homes bill passed
the senate some time since the VOICE
noted it and called attention to the
fact that Speaker Reed had threat.
ened the people of Oklahoma in his
speech at Wichita last fall with the
defeat Of this bill, unless they would
re-elect Dennis Flynn; and stated
that "we shall see what we shall see."
Well here it is. Reed has submit
ted to an interview in which he says:
The people of Oklahoma when they
defeated Flynn demonstrated to con-
greSS that they were not as much in
tereSted as congress had been led to
believe. Flynn was the originator
and champion of the free home cause.
His defeat can only be considered as a
declaration thai the people down
there care more for POpuliSm than for
free homes. Had Flynn been re-elec-
ted Oklahoma would have had a free
homes bill passed two months ago.
Had Flynn been in the house officially,
the bill when it came from the senate
would have been taken up and passed
unanimously, But congress cannot be
expected to fall over itself to give the
people what by their votes they de-
clared they did not want.
There never was a better ;llustra-
ton OF the political bully than in this
instance. The internal whelp tried
to hold up the people of a whole ter.
rltory and compel them to smother
principle, personal preference and
everything else-to give over abso.
lutely to him their political couvic.
tons, to surrender their sovereign
rights so laboriously gained by theil
toretathers and guaranteed to them
IN the national constitution-to cleo
Dennis Flynn to congress on pain O
having their much cherished free
homes bill sci aside. 1t was a spe
cies of bribery that would do credi
to any buccaneer that ever did bust
ness on the face of the earth. Blu
1t didn't work on the people of Okla
bona and Reed proposes to max,
them pay the penalty. Such is states
manship in these latter days Shade
OF Washington, Jefferson, Lincoll
and a long line Of patriots! VIVA
point have we reached on the road t,
our destiny as nation2 If the peo
pie of Oklahoma do not resent thi
hlgh-handed assault upon their liber
ties we miss our guess. In fact it /;
stated that Reeds bluff had a grea
deal to do with Flynn's defeat las
TALL Any man who suffers such shys
tiers as Reed to thus assault the lib
critics OF the people ought to be de
teated, land will be for all time to come
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-15

The Eureka Uni III quotes the de-
mands of large number of.Populist
papers that are demanding the re-
mOval Of L. D Lewellng from the
board of railroad commissioners. The
sentiment against Lewelling is grow
ing.-Garnett AgitatOr.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-15
BY LXMHN NHUCLE.
THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1897.

W, 7, Mcbride sends in bis an
nounctment as a candidate for the
nomination for judge Of the district
court just as we 90 to press.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-15

Rev. e. Acker, Of Whitewater, will
occupy the pulpit of the Lutheran
church at Perth, Sunday, July 18Th,
morning and evening.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-15
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
DISTRICT JUDGE.

am a candidate for the nomination OF
Judge OF the District Court for the Nineteenth
Judicial district Of Kansas, subject to the
action Of the joint convention OF the Populist
and Democrat parties TO be held at yelling.
ton, Kansas, August IA, 1897.
o.P. FULLER.
thereby announce myself Us q candidate
for the nomination OF Judge OF the Dlstr let
Court, subject 10 the decision OF the Popul Sc
and Den CORA, convention TO be held August
IA, 1891. W. T. MCBRIDE.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-15

Be sure you pillow fire guard round
your wheat. A good many disasters
have already resulted from fire in the
folds
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-15

N'NtubN NOuhNuNiOu W lut 1cO-
pies party OF Sumner county is called
TO meet in Wellington on
Tuesday, August 10th,
at 10 O'Clock a. m. for the purpose of
nominating candidates for the foil, W.
ing county Offices;
County Treasurer,
County Clerk,
Register Of Deeds,
Sheriff,
County Surveyor,
Coroner,
Commissioner, Second District.
The basis Of representation of said
convention will be one delegat:.at-
large from each voting precinct aud
one delegate for each ter votes or
major fraction thereof cast for Con.
gressman-at-Large j. D Botkin at the
November election in 1896. THIS an
portionment will entitle the rreriuct>
townships and wards to the lOiloH lng
number OF delegates:
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-15

Hugh Harlan has been appointed
postmaster at Milan, vice F. Shore,
removed. Capt. Nugent was an ap-
plicant for this office.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-15

Judge Samuel w. Case OF Ottawa,
has been appointed superintendent Of
the Hutchinson reformatOry to sue
ceel Orie Morse. Judge Case will
take charge of the institution the 18th
OF August.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-15

A. c. Lambe'S refusal Of the stew
ardship of the Olathe deaf and dumb
asylum has been filed by the appoint.
ment Of L. LageTStrom of Saline
aonntu
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-15

c. Z. LOckman of South Haven,
came up Tuesday morning and left
in the evening for visit to friends
in On ,ha and Southwestern Iowa.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-15
STATE OF KANSAS.

A''''''-s's''ss.s ...........tlS3 U,2 N
STATE OF KANSAS,
SUMNER COUNTY. IS
/ N. K. MCLEAN, cashier Of said bank, do
solemnly swear that the above statement Ia
" sru sd 70 the pest OF my knowledge and beIef
NJ. K. MCLEAN, Cashier
day Of July, 1897. WIS ''H
FAM. LYMAN NAUGLE, Notary Public.
Commission expires On the 18th dav ~ n a.
cember, 1905 VI
oorrect-Attsst: F.K.ROBBINs,
President.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-15
POPULIST COUNTY CONVENTION

A delegate convention Of the PEG.
pies party OF Sumner county is called
to meet In Wellington on
The age-herald., 1897-09-22

to Baltimore. As attorney-general in Jaeksons cabinet he was involved c7n- tlnueusfy in the bitterest party a.rife And il was not a lit Ie surprising to see that this was Taney's right element. In- deedi his stnbitieus spir3 looked out or a meek countenace that was delusiye. He recalls Dis aen without his sheer. He has little reputation as a stateman, though it might have been different had his early aspirations been fruitful. He Sesms to have been drawn toward Jack son by the magnetism that is in humani- ty. He had found at last honest appre- cia.ion. Jackson, rough and unlettered was In need of just such a man as Ta- ney. He filled the bill exactly. He was tahe only member of the cabinet who stood with the president against renew irg the charter af the United States bank and helped prepare rhe veto mes sage. Fancy was twice practically re- jeeted by the senase-once as secretary of the treasury and again as associate justice, when acton was postponed. He got into Marshalls place by the siin Of his teeth and in face of the most ve- helment opposition by Clay and Webster. He had the eecenttfeity, if not the su- pfenlacy, or genus.
 Fancy died after twenty7eight years of service. There was. no controversy as. to Chaseis confirmation, He was then just from a successful administra- tion of the treasury dsparIment in the most trying time of the nations history He had had upon his hands a great war and had exhausted the resources of the New York banks to meet it's demands He then threw himsslf upon the peo- pie of the country for credit and issued the g9eenback. This and the national banks later enabled Lincoln to keep his armies in the field. The exhaustive work of supplying funds for the war broke Chass's health, and his remaining nine years as a jurist were hardly suf- ficient to make name that would have been possibla with the long time of Fancy or Marshall.
 Waites nomination to succeed Chase passed the senate without a dissenting vcte. He divided honors fairly with Thurman in the courts of Ohio, and the latter, after reaching the senate, was largely instrumental in his confirmation. The fight was between Thurman and Sumner. Thurman, if less imposing than the Massachusetts senator, told the plain truth about Waite bsing an es- timable man and a lawyer of mark, and his d fense prevailed. Sumner with drew his opposition. That made two chief justices straight from Ohio, but the time of both did not equal that of Fancy or Marshall. Fuller has already served as long as Chase, and is only 55 years old. The prestige of the cplleg:s stands back of him for three genera tions. He is the fourth head of the su- preme court embraced within Fields long tsrm, which began with Fancy. In estimating the ability of the eight chief justices of the United States the thought occurs that John Marshall is the only one without a college course.
 T.C.T.
The age-herald., 1897-09-22
HILL, OF MISSISSIPPI,
Says the Hogansvile Affair Is Not Characteris-
 tic of the South

Washington, Sept 21.--Judson Lyons, colored, candidate for the Augusta, Ga, postmastership, was among the callers at the white house today. The shoot
 ing of the colorsd postmaster at Hogans
 vile, Ga, was the subject of much com msnt among the representative colored men who called on the president One of them, National Committe eeman Hill, of Mississippi, who was postmaster at Vicksburg under the Harrison adminis- tration, said that the Hogansville incl dent was in no ways characteristic of the attitude of th= people of the south. The racial feeling had been largely over- come, he said, and such as existed was confined to the smaller communities. The appoin ment of colored officials, h. said, would not lead to any general op- position, so long as the men named were capable of conducting public business.
The age-herald., 1897-09-22
THE DECATUR COMPRESS.
MT. VcOrheis Talks at Length on the Cotton
 Question.

Special to The Age-Helald.
 Decatur Seps. 21-Work on the pant of the Decatur Colnpress company is practically completed, and active opera tions will c5nlme-lee the latter part of this week. This is he laig st and mast powerful compress ever erected in ihe south, having Goea1 pressure of 5,OOo,- 900 pounds and an easy capacity of 10oo bales per day.
 In speaking Of the outlook for the cotton trade, MT. Lucien voorheis, the proprietor of the Compress Manufa tur- ing company cf New Orleans, sa q that this company would easily do business this s6ascl of 45,C00 balss, inc.ud ng cot ton of the railways in transit, river cot ton and the local trade. The two latter sources, lie said, would amount to 10,- 900 bales this season, as the two cotton buying firms eff Johnson Nesbit 6 Co., and Smith & Coueh1an, which represents one of the largest combinations in the south, had buyers out in every direction and the Decatur merchants would soon wake up and discover that a cotton mar ket had been created here under their very noses without the movement of hand on Their parts.
 When questioned in regard to the sue cess of the cylindrical bale press, MT Vcorheis grew very warm in his ex- planatlon as to why the round bale pro- cess would never be a succ sss, and went into at much length. The main facts of his argument were that the cotton thus packed perverted the prop;r sampling of the cotton Iby the buyer, and would thus not find an easy market; and also that the comb ration cf compressas and buy CTS the south practically controlled the market and would not encourage the press to the de'tliment of the various congresses already established.
 He also said that the main drawbl ok to ,he success of the round tale press was that it could only be operated in press ing cotton right from the gin which in itself was it's greatest drawback.
 The two firms above mentioned are represented here by Messrs. J. w. Knight and J. T. Jones. MT. Knight, when seen and asked to give his esti- mate of the business expected this sea- son, was more conservative than Mr. Voorheis, but said the outlook was very bright.
The age-herald., 1897-09-22
HUNTSVILLE HAPPENINGS.
Robert Preston's Preliminary Trial-An Illicit
 Still Raded

Special to The Age Herald.
 Huntsville, Sept. 21.-Robert Preston, charged with murder in the first de- gree, was given "a preliminary trial in the county court yesterday and was bound over to the next grand jury. He made bond to the amount of $1,500. Preston killed Simpson, white farmer, last week at Plevna, and in the trial he entered a plea of self-defense
 Deputy Collector John E. Logwood and Deputy Marshal James Soelton raided an illicit distillery near Coffey's Mill, in Jackson county, and destroyed an eighty gallon copper still, together with a large amount of bser and sing hngs The establishment was the prop erty of Pat Tate, white farmer, who has operated it in defiance of the reve- nue men for several years. Tate escaped to Georgia.
The age-herald., 1897-09-22
WAS IT ANARCHISTS2
Bomb ExpIodes as Emperor William Arrives at
 6uda Pest.

London, Sept. 21.-A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Vienna says: It is re- ported that as Emperor William, who arrived today to visit Emperor Francis Joseph, was leaving the station at Buda Pest an explosion was heard which was followed by thick cloud of smoke The crowd took fright, broke through the military cordon and swarmed around the imperial carriages. Emperor Fran cis Joseph was greatly agitated and shouted to the police to keep the people back. Some arrests are reported, but owing to the silence maintained by the officials it is difficult to ascertain de- tails of the affair. The Nous Wiener Journal was confiscated this evening for publishing kilograms as to the oc- currence.