The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-09-10
A VIEW OF THE FIELD.
THE PEOPLE ARE GETTING TO-
GETHER IN EVERY STATE.
Activity and Room for More Activity
Within Party Lines and Without
Mckinley Prosperity OF the Invisible
SOrt-DemocratS and Popnlists.

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World-Herald a correspondent remarks
lpon the fusion revival in central Ne
braska, and especially in Buffalo coun-
ty, where the situation, he says, is
similar to the conditions that pre-
vailed in the summer of 1890.
Prior to 1890 Buffalo county was as
sclidly Republican as one can i'm
agine. During that memorable cam
paign the Republicans of the county
laughed at the idea that the alliance
would cut any figure in the campaign.
In kearney, the Republican leaders
laughed gleefully at their bright pros
poets n asserted that the alliance
movement consisted Of one part voters
and ninety-nine parts wind. One day
1t was announced that in the latter
part of August the alliance forces
would hold a grand rally on the banks
OF the lake in the northwest part OF
the city, and that the rally would be
preceded by a parade. The Re dElican
leaders smiled and said that the par
ade would consist of a few battered
wagons and a dozen or two calamity
shrlekers and ~disgruntled Office seek
ers. The day before the rally reports
came to the city that there were a
number of people camping out in the
country north. Wild guesses were
made as to the cause of this, but none
OF them were right. The next day
SHOWED that these camps had been
pitched by farmers, who had come 80.
80, Is and even 100 miles to partici-
pate in that alliance parade. The
streets Of kearney were filled with Re-
publicans on the day of the rally.
About l o'clock in the morning the
head OF the parade came down Central
venue. The parade went south to
the court house, doubled back, and
wound it, way to the lake. But over
the hill to the north still came wagons
and carts and carriages and buggies.
Reapers and mowers and c%ultivators
were in that parade. The farmers
kept coming until it seemed as if ev-
cry farm in Northwestern Nebraska
was represented. AS it kept winding
its slow length through the city the
faces of the Republican leaders grew
longer and longer.
The New York World forgets itself
long enough to print the following
editorial paragraph:
Nearly all of the gold discoveries
in the Klondyke region have been
made on Canadian territory, but there
is every reason to believe that discoy-
cries equally rich will be made on the
American side of the line. In either
case the land is public land and the
gold found on it belongs naturally to
the state which is the owner of the
II But both in Canada and in
the United States this valuable asset
OF the treasury, this common property
OF the whole people, is allowed to be
appropriated by the first %adventurer
who happens to be able to stake a
claim. We do not even get a decent
royalty out of it. AS a result of our
absurd mining laws Klondyke will
produce a few hundred millionaires
made rich at the public expense, while
the representatives of the remaining
seventy-odd millions of people in this
country are struggling and scheming
to devise new methods of taxation to
meet the necessary expenses of the
government
AS an evidence that the cause of free
silver is not dying out by the passage
of time and the Dingley bill (as was
hoped and expected by the monopolis-
tic gold bug press) attention is called
by the Grand Rapids Workman to
the monster bimetallic picnics being
advertised all through Michigan, to be
addressed by the brainiest and hest
informed men of the country. A series
of these picnics has already been ar
ranged for in Ingham, Eaton, Jackson.
Branch, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, Van
Buren,, and other counties are coming
into line. Our own county of Kent
will have at least six SO distributed as
to offer an opportunity to every citizen
within its borders to hear the doctrine
Of bimetallism expounded by apostles
of free silver having a national repu-
tation as leaders and great orators as
we'll. One of these picnics at Sparta
the 18th was addressed by ex-Gov,
John P. St. John of Kansas, and one
for the South End fair grounds the
18th was addressed by the Hon. Chas.
A. Towne. An interview with r. F.
McGarry and l.. X. Salisbury, presi-
dent and secretary of the Kent county