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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-10
WHERE is HIS PARTY.

Tom Watson in pathetic and pic
turesque article enquiries of MARY
Ann" Butler, chairman ofthe peoples
party national committee, what he
has done with that party. What be-
came of it in the recent election? How
many votes did it cast?
Did the populists win any glory in
Kansas? Watson says no. "They
went down in the slime of common
defeat with the democrats, disgrace
full defeat because the fusion between
democrats and populists was mere
corrupt bargain for the spoils ofOtfice."
In Nebraska the democrats walked
away with everything worth having.
The populists were snuffed out. Colo
RADIO once elected pOpulist governor.
This year the pOpulists were torn to
shreds and the democrats and republic
cans had all the glory and the rewards.
Where is the pOpulist party in Virgil
MIA and Maryland, once promising
fields? mot a grease spot left in the
PAM" says Tom. 1t was no different
in Kentucky or in Iowa. The demo-
Gratis have swallowed them up. In
1898, the year following the presi-
Dental election, the peoples party
polled two million votes, and was
strong aggressive compact whole
with a character of its own a well
defined programme. Where are those
two millions now? Swallowed up as
though the earth had opened. Such
humiliation has not been known since
the earthquake of Lisbon" This is
how Tom pursues his quest:
Will some Jealous Butlerite please
tell us what that eminent fraud has
done with the peoples party? Has
he lost it? Has he hid it? Has he
loaned it out?
We trusted him with it; it was in
good condition when he took it, and
now we ask him:
What have you done with it?
You are the last one that had it.
We want you to account for it.
In 1892 and 1894 we could turn to
the official returns of the election and
tell to a man how many pOpulists
voted.
Can you do it now? How many
populists voted in Nebraska to give
that supreme court judgeship to
democrat?
You don't know, and nobody on
earth does know.
How many pops voted in Ohio, in
Kentucky, in Iowa, in Virginia?
You don't know, and nobody else
does.
You are chairman of a once great
party, are you not?
How many voters are in your party
now?
You can't answer.
You miserable failure and fraud,
you must go back to the tables of 1892
and 1894 before you can even guess at
the populist vote. You can't, to save
your worthless lie, tell what the
strength of your party is today.
You are a nice fellow for chairman,
amt you? You're good pallbearer-
that's about what you are.
The Bryanites have made a fairly
complete job of extinguishing the Pop
ulist party by means of their free sill
yer folly, in which curiously enough
the Populists were never genuine be-
levers. Watson believes the Demo-
cratic bosses have got about all they
wanted out of the silver question.
They took hold of it for the purpose of
destroying the peoples party with it,
and with Buffers help and Aliens
aid they have pretty well done it.
ave look to see both wings of the
Democratic party come together, and
free silver the peace offering decorat-
ing the alter.n
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-10
OFFICIAL PAPER OF ALLEN COUNTY,
TOTE FAIR.


A gentleman who has but recently
come to town reports to the REGISTER
that he has been urged to join the
crusade for city ownership of the gas
plant and the following reasons given
why he should do so:
l. If an anti-ownership council is
elected there will never be any OppOr-
tunity to vote on the bonds.
>. The election of an anti-owner-
ship council would absolve the gas
company from the decree of the court
and
3. The company would then imme-
diately put in metres and advance the
price.
Being a new conner the gentleman
referred to was of course staggered by
these declarations. And they are GER
tainly enough to stagger anybody
who does not know that there is not a
word of truth in any of them. Con-
slider them one at a time:
/. The law expressly declares that
when a petition bearing two-fifths of
the names of the qualified voters of
the city is presented to the city coun-
ell praying for a special election for
the purpose of voting bonds to buy
the gas plant, the council shall call
such election. There is no way for
them to avoid it or delay it. The
mayor and every member of the cOun-
Gil may be violently opposed to city
ownership, and yet an election could
be secured through them just as GER
tainly and just as promptly as it could
be secured through mayor and cOun-
Gil everyone of whom was in favor of
city ownership.
2. The election of an anti-owner-
ship council would not in any degree
alter or annul the decree of the court.
This is the most preposterOus claim of
all. Did anybody ever hear of de-
cree of any court which was to hold
good if certain election went one
way, but was not to hold good if the
election went another way? Did any
body ever hear of a city election over
ruling district court? Surely such
a declaration does not need serious re-
futation.
3. A city election cannot over rule
the decree of the court, hence it fol-
lows that no matter how this election
goes the gas company cannot advance
its prices, either by the substitution of
metres or in any other way unless the
court orders it TO do so. The decree OF
the court fixed the prices we are now
paying, not until such time as an anti
ownership council should be elected,
but for all time; and if the company
should attempt to change these prices
it could not only be enjoined from
collecting its bills, but would be in
contempt of court and liable to severe
punishment. There is only one way
in which this company can by any
possibility advance its prices, either
now or at any time in the future, and
that is by appealing to the district
court and convincing it that the
present prices are too low to be re-
munerative. To charge that the COM
pany would advance its prices OF its
own accord in defiance of the court is
to add the charge of idiocy on the part
Of the company to that of Iawlessness.
And to charge that the prices would
be advanced by order of the court
without good reason is to charge that
Judge Stillwel would be either fooled
or corrupted, and one is as unbelieV-
able as the other.
The leaders of the city ownership
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-10
STILL IN THE PROCESSION.

And with full complete and varied assortment of Hol
iday Goods, both useful and ornamental Suitable for
presents for all classes people and at prices fit Every
bodys pocket book Our Holiday line consists in part of
Fancy and Novelty Dishes in Queensware and Glassware
Albums, Toilet Cases, Neckte, Handkerchief and Glove
Boxes Dolls Jewelry Silverware Toys etc, etc.
With Each purchase of 10 cents and up we give ten
per rebate Coupon So 90 face value same emitting
holder to beautiful Bronze Clock Free Before making
your Holiday purchases it will pay you call and look
through our line, confident of ability to
please patrons both goods and prices Soliciting
continuation of the liberal patronage heretofore Extend
ed to and Wishing all Merry Christmas and Happy
New Year. We Remain Yours for Business
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-10

Catarrh, like scrofula, is disease
of the blood and may be cured by
purifying the blood with Hoods
Sarsaparilla.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-10
Our Fresh Meats

Are exactly what you want
in that line and you can have
any cut you order delivered
promptly to any part of town
at the lowest living price.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-10
Embracing
the Opportunity.

That is one name for it.
Another name for it is get
ting exactly what you want
when you want it and at the
right price.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-11-12

The Weyler plan for paeifying the
coal miners in Pennsylvania has met
with the general approval of R.epub-
lean MISUNDERSTANDING Kansan.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-11-12
The Rabbit Problem Solved.

The yexed question of the extermi-
nation of the Australian rabbit, which
has hitherto constituted the chief
problem that has confronted every an
tipodean administration, has at length
received a satisfactory solution. There
is no longer n necessity for invoking
the services of great scientists such
as the late DR.. Pasteur and Professor
Koch to devise means for their exter-
mination, for the invention of the cold
storage rooms on board ship has led to
the Dummies being exported in a re-
migrated condition to the omnivor-
GUS market of the mother country.
Rabbit pie is a favorite dish in the
United Kingdom, and the rabbit which
could not be successfully canned for
transport and preservation is now leav-
ing Australia for England at such a
rate that soon there will not be a single
one of them left in the antipodes.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-11-12
H SAME GAME HERE
IS BEING PLAYED IN
INDIA.
Foreign Ownership OF All Our Public
Utilities and Foreign Domination of
Wall.

The masses in Europe are poor and
dependent because the classes own the
iand II the railroads an. the money
ana the laws, says the Appeal to Rea-
SON In these great free ii4ited States
VINO w these things? Is it the
masses! Not much, Euro pean noble
men w hundreds Of millions OF our
pest land, w all the land granted TO
railroads, w the best mines, own the
control OF the coal, Oil. the breweries.
ulstllleries, cotton congresses. packing
houses, stock yards and all other great
INDUSTRIES and no American can use
these things except on conditions i'm
posed by these noblemen. They give
'he orders that their American allies
ana confederates issue. This is done
to deceive the American public and
nave them believe that Americans are
operating these industries. The same
game has been and is robbing the peo-
PIE OF india and causing pestilence,
famine and crime. Americans are be-
ING fooled and robbed just as easily
people Oh lnula, ana by Cue4I
own number who have taken part of
lhe booty to aid in the looting Of the
nation. DO not think for a moment
That all the wealth accredited to the
Morsans, Rockefellers, Vanderbilts,
C~arnegles, and hat class belong to
thenn-the greater portion of their
holdlngs belong to foreigners through
tne bank of England, just as was
SHOWN to be the case in the estate of
Tue late A. T. Stewart. 1t was bank
VI england money hid under his name
that made him suddenly burst out in
mercantile glory. When his estate
was settled his wife got only five
unions or so of the sixty millions he
was accredited to be worth. 1t is true
with all these greater fortunes of to-
day' 1t is the cunning manner il
winch European capitalists control ma
lions and rob them. And the great
american citizen goes about in search
or work, too ignorant and p%rejudiced 10
see now and who is SHINING him.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-11-12
Military Slavery.

Inc American volunteer soldier h,
his valor and endurance is s,nnose1
to have abolished slavery NAM vears
ago. The old vets, evidently, have
beer deluded, for a considerable NJ !,
still remains in quarters where ona
would least expect 1.-THE government
service. The case of Private Ham.
mond at Fort Sheridan reminds rs
that, i in the regular army, even TO this
day, there prevails a system of bodi,v
punishment that hardly had it's eona1
In the days Of the slave driver and
the ~Diacksnake." Hammond. for 70.
tusing to work when in tho o,,,rd
house for some petty offense was
dragged from the guard-house to head.
quarters by a rope tied to his faat
Inc superior officer justif1es his tro,t
ment and says there will be M invos
tlgation. The man who would nndor-
go such treatment and not kin son,e
n before the episode ended !.
menace to free Observation-Disclosures
Labor World.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-11-12

was only little less of a brute than the
man he was ch%ampioning.
And I'll act for this gentleman"
said a tall man, who had been sitting
unnoticed since he reached the place,
a few hours before, with the mail-car-
rier. He had a long, black beard, his
hat was slouched. and his coat collar
turned up so hat but little Of his face
could be seen, but there was that in
his voice and bearing that convinced
the lookers-on that he was no ordinary
person.
AS the stranger took his place be-
side Arthur, who acknowledged the
offer by a courteous bow, he drew from
under his coat two revolvers and he
held them with the peculiar grip of a
man VINO knew how to use them.
Arthur Lyons, like all civilized men
Of sense, a opposed to duelling, but
he knew that if he did not fight this
fellow under the rules of the so-called
code" the chances were he would be
shot down like a dog, and he we'll
knew that in such an event there was
no law to punish his murderer. He
knew that he was not a good shot with
a pistol or any other weapon, for his
life had been spent at college or at
hard work where he had neither need
for nor opportunity to acquire the
doubtful accomplishment.
Red Sniyely was VIGOROUSLY the best
pistol shot in the mountains. He had
been known to send the bottom of a
tin box Swimming into. the air and then
to draw his pistol from his belt and fire
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-11-12
overthrow the Curse of Gold.

Fair the crown the Cause hath for
you, well to die or well to live.
Through the battle, through the tan.
gle, peace to gain or peace to
give"
All, it may be! Oft there seemetb in
the days that yet shall be.
When no slave of gold abideth 'twiy,
the breadth of sea to sea.
OFT, when man and maids are merry
ere the sunlight leaves the earth
And they bless the day beloved, all toe
short for all their mirth,
Some shall pause awhile and ponder on
the bitter days of old.
Ere the toll of strife and battle over.
threw the curse of gold;
lhen 'tWlxt lips of loved and love,
solemn thoughts of us shall rico
We who once were fools and dreamers
then shall be the brave and wise
WILLIAM MORRIS.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-11-12

Objectionable to LiZzy Chamberlain by
his disgusting attentions, so much so,
indeed, that she dreaded to venture out
unles~ accompanied by he. Gather or
Arthu: Lyons.
On one occasion the latter told Red
Snively very emphatically that his
conduct was disagreeable TO Miss
Chamberlain, and that it must be
stopped, and this was laid with such
calm emphasis that the bully was not
left in any douht. as to. the young
mans meaning, nor of his letermina-
ton to enforce his request.
In addition to its many other uses
the Great Western was the postoifice
at which the weekly-more often the
monthly-mail was delivered.
One rainy afternoon after The mail
had come in, Arthur Lyons went UP to
get the ever-welcome letters and pa
pers from the east.
While he was leaning against the
damp bar waiting for the man behind
it to look over the addresses of the
parcels that had come by post. he felt
a heavy hand on his shoulder, and at
the same time he heard Red Snively
that meant mischief:
Come, Lyons. join me and We'll
drink to the health of the beauty of
Fairplay."
AS Arthur shook the fellows huge
hand from his shoulder, he said, very
quietly:
Il do not drink"
You don't, eh?" sneered Red Snive-
ly
Il do not
Then I'll drink for two
h barkeeper handed Red Snively
a bottle and a glass. Half filling the
latter, he raised it toward his lips. but,
stopping as if he had suddenly changed
MS mind, he shouted, with an oath:
No gentleman ever drinks alone!'
and with this he threw the contents of
the glass into Arthur Lyons face.
The unexected explosion of a bomb
could not have caused greater con-
than did this unwarranted
act. Men laaped from the tables and
sought places Of safety, for such all in
suit they felt must be followed by i'm
mediate shooting.
Red Sniyely expected to use his pis-
tol, for he drew it, but before he
could fire, Arthur Lyons seized the
arm that held the pistol with his left
hand, and with his right he planted a
blow between the ruffian's red eyes
caused him to fall as if a bullet
mad beer sen through his brain.
No more fighting here" shouted a
of men. rushing in between
and the nan whom the land
Of the Great Western was helping
from the floor. "If there's to be
shootin' let it be done fair and square
outside under the rules of the code, and
not in a crowded bar whar innocent
men may get popped over
Il agree to that!' reared Red Snive-
~, who had now recovered himself.
Landlord, you'll act as my second"
III do that and take your place if
you go down." replied the lanlord, who
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-11-12
What Will He Don

II the Morgan syndicate buys in the
Union Pacific railroad under the terms
OF its agreement with the government
1t proposes to capitalize the road for
5000, OOO, 900.
IN other words. the astute bankers
n hnanciers, who are managing the
syndicate think that the road has now
or Will have an earning capacity worth
$2OO, 0OO, 900; that it will carr dividends
on that amount Of capitalization. 1t is
now earning enormous profits on the
capital represented in it's stocks and
bonds.
President Mckinley is confronted ny
a plain business proposition. The road
is worth every dollar of it's indebted
ness with millions added as clear profit.
The Morgan syndicate offers to pay
the government 500, DOC, 900 less than its
mortgage calls for. If the scheme of
the syndicate, which has been ap-
proved by Acknowledgement McKenna,
is c~onsummated the government will
d to the great profits of the syndi-
cate $40, 900 900 of the peoples money
as a free gift.
Under the scheme proposed the terms
of the sale are such as to bind the
government to this sacrifice. All other
bidders are cut out. The government
is estopped from saving itself from
loss. 1t is the game of heads I win,
tails 0 lose" 1t is a clear steal of
$50, 900, 900 from the people.
The government is not under the
necessity Of submitting to these robber
terms. President Mckinley has the
power to prevent the consummation OF
the deal. He can have the sale post.
poned and effected under conditions
which will enable other bidders to Of
fer a price which will secure to the
government all of it's dues. He can
have the road bought in by the govern
ment and resold to advantage.
If the president accepts the propo-
sition of the Morgan syndicate he will
give his full and free consent to the
robbing of the people. But he will do
more. Back of the scheme is said to be
4 corrupt political deal by which the
Morgan syndicate contributed 81, OOO.-
900 to the campaign fund OF he Re-
publicaon party in the assurance that
this scheme would be approved and
contaminated by the administration
What other Interpretation could be
placed upon the presidents approval Of
the syndicate's looting proposition, but
that the president consents to and con-
hives at the corrupt deal?
What will the president do? Will he
demonstrate the supremacy of Boss
Hanna and the money power. with
which Hanna is in alliance, in the
counsels of his administration? win
he stand for the interest of the Morgan
railroad combine or the interest of the
| people?
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-11-12
How Alfred Curbed tho

1t was the noted jeremiah Black
the foremost lawyer of the last gen.
Grafton, who dug up the fact. in an
address before the United States sn.
preme Court, that King Alfred .sthe
greatest OF revolutionary heroes and
the wlsest monarch that ever sat on
a throne = was Obliged. to hana
Iorty-nve judges in n year for Re.
1uslng to give his subjects a tria, BY
jury"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-11-12

11.:ina.
In Australia, tropical Asia and Az
RIGA true mama is found on a kind Of
blue grass. 1t appears in masses as
large as a marble on the lodes of the
stems. Nearly three parts consist Of
mannite, which, though sweet, is not
sugar. The mamma also contains a
ferment which has power to decom.
pose cane sugar without evolving cal.
bonic acid or any kind of gas.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-11-12
POINTS FROM THE PRESS.

POINTS FROM THE PRESS.
The Weyler plan for paeifying the
coal miners in Pennsylvania has met
with the general approval of R.epub-
lean MISUNDERSTANDING Kansan.
Sangulne people are confident that
before the new year $25 600, 900 in gold
Will come to America from Europe in
for grain and other food. SUD.
plies exported. But next year the army
or American tourists, who largely sub
slst from the business of coupon-clip-
ping, will spend three times this
amount III Europe, and then the gold
will go back again.-East Oregonian.
our strength grows u Of our
weakness. Not until we are pricked
II stung and sorely shot at, awakens
the Indignation which arms itself with
secret forces.'-Emerson,
The Bethlehem, Pa. Iron and Steel
WORKS made a 10 per cent cut on the
wages OF It's employees which went into
eHect the LIST inst. The makes
the queer statement that bv thus re-
ouclhg the wages it hopes to be able
TO keep he men at work STEADILY.
irooaply If the company would pay
aolhlns 1t would be able to keep the
men at work double shift right along.
what a wonder it is that the goldbug
statesmen didn't think of using that
logical argument in the recent cam.
palgn.-Bessemer Indicator.
Sno" me a bit of land which men
are not permitted to occupy, and | will
Sho" o a poor house and a potter'S
held, tenanted by men who were sober
ana women who We're virtuous. Show
me a real estate agents sign on a va
cant lot, This lot for SALE" and l will
you within a stones throw of it
d woman breaking her back over a
sewing machine to get thirty cents a
Jay; and if you will sit down with me
patiently l will make YOU admit that
II vacant land We're not held out of
use women would not be worked too
much and paid too little: that is. I will
make you admit hat there is a rela-
ton OF precedence and succession be-
tween the monopolized land and the
half starved sewing woman-such a
relation as is commonly called cause
and effect.-TWentieth Century.
1t seems that nothing can be done to
prevent the sale of the Union Pacific
in October. The robbers who are in
terested captured the Cleveland I'D
ministration and the Mckinley admin.
istration seems to have been a part of
the purchase, SO we are to have the
United States robbed of $2S, 900 900 at
n swoop andsif the same course
should be pursued in the Central pa-
cific case another steal of $40, 900, OO0
will be added to it by the same crowd
Clay Center Dispatch.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-11-12
FRONTIER DUEL.
BY Maj. Alfred r. Calhoun.

HE plaques of the
mining camps in
the fal west were
the bul les and des-
peradoss who, ig-
noring honest in
dustry, lived by
gambling. or even
worse.
h e fellows al
ways go armed,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-11-12

This years pecan crop in Texas is
unusually large.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-11-12

Our strength grows out Of our
weakness. Not until we are pricked
ana stung and sorely shot at, awakens
the Indignation which arms itself With
secret forces. '-Emerson.