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plated. Neither do we think the
Democrats, who were present, knew
that such trap was to be sprung.
We have not yet seen the slightest
evidence tina the leaders of the
Democratic party of Minnesota desire
to abandon their national organiza-
ton. Why should they? 1t is now
arrayed on the side of free-silver, the
only question at issue. by them, in the
last campaign, II reaches from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. 1t is nearly
hundred years old. Why should they
throw it aside and fall into line be-
hind Mr.. Owefi's motley squad, few in
numbers and distfnguis he'd by cruel
lack of mental lucidity?
We believe that Mr.. Owens speech
and Mr.. Corser's resolution were two
pieces Of the same mechanism, that
were intended to dove-tal into each
other They were Owenesque. They
mistook the good feeling Of a cornwall
occasion for the deliberate Judgment
OF. two state conventions, called to
settle the destinies of great parties.
II some Populists united with some
Democrats and Republicans to glorify
the life and deeds of the illustrious
Lincoln. it followed, Mr.. Owen
thought, that the Democrats were
ready to abandon their organization
and the Populists to give up all the
great and cherished planks of their
platform, which are not yet endorsed
by either free-silver Democrats or
free-silyer Republicans.
Only a very shallow mind, and one
utterly unfit for leadership, could
imagine that mems legs could be en-
tangled, by jolly feast,i in the mes hes
of resolution, to the abandonment
of their principles
This whole business grows out Of
Mr.. Ovens realization of the fact
that he has lost caste with the Peoples
Party; and he seeks to destry the par
ty; and march a part of it's followers
off to some Cave of Adullam, where he
may rule, like David of old, king Of
small lot of bankrupt politicians.
But the party will not dissolve up
on the demand of his necessities.
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All. INDEED.'

The Pioneer Press of st. Paul says,
Feb. 2l:
The chances that a tariff will pass
at the special session to be called By
President Mckinley in March are de-
cidedy go d. But the complexion Of
the Senate makes it evident that the
RepuDllcan party, even with the aid
OF the gold Democrats, will not be
able to carry out any Of the contem-
plated measures Of monetary reform
during the life Of the next Congress.
These will have to be deferred till the
next succeeding Congress which me e is
In 1899, when there are good grounds
for expecting that the Republicans
aud gold Democrats will have cont troll
OF both branches of Congress-"
Which being interpreted means:
That the PlutOcracy does not dare
at once to uncover its plans for the
destruction Of the green backs, lest the
people rise in revolt in 1893 and drive
then out of power. Therefore they
pr pose to wait until after the 1898
congressional elections; and take their
chances OF getting up some humbug
scheme in 1899.
Ahoy piolulocu Iue peOplc SOou
times as soon as Mckinley was elect
ed. The good times did not come.
Then they assured them Of prosperity
with the advent of the new year. The
new year came without the prosper
ity. We are now within a few days OF
the end of Cleveland's term and the
prospect is dark indeed. And now the
Pioneer Iress tells us that there is to
be no financial reform for two years
more.
How long will the people stand such
humbugging9
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grows almost spontaneously, which
exports many millions of bushels OF
grain. has many million human beings
suffering untold agony because they
are hungry. And the same cursed
British system that is causing the
horrible famine in India is bringing
misery and starvation to many mil
lions in our own country. Yet the poor
starving wretches are led to praise
the hand that smiteS them in India
and to vote for it in America.-Schil-
ling'S Advance.
Too true, great man.
And is it not shameful that men
like yourself. who battle for a life
time to improve the condition of their
fellow men, are left stranded in priv.
ate life, while thingumbobS, without
heart, brain or onscience, are elevat-
ed to the highest places in the land:
There they:
Play such fantastic tricks be fore the high
heaven
AS make the angels weep"
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HORRIBLE CRUELTY.

The Fairmont (Martin Co.. Mimi.
independent, makes a very abusive
attack upon us. A friend writes US:
This paper is owned by one A. L.
Ward, gold-democrat, with half a
million of money; he is the most mer-
CHESS money-grabber outside of H.
Dunn has introduced two bills for
him: One is to legalize Wards title
to piece of and)he foreclosed on. 1t
is Intended to save him the expense of
making another foreclosure by put
ting the state to the expense of pass
ing and publishing that law. The 9th
er bill allows some pompous individ-
ual to arrest some poor devil, who is
out Of work, put a ball and chain on
him, and set him to work on the pub
lie streets. 1t is an Infamous meas
ure-inhuman and tyrannical."
1t can be set down as rule that the
more cruel aud grasping man is in
dragging money out Of his debtors, the
more ready he will be to imprison or
hang the victims Of his atrocious
greed, when thu are too poor to be
self-supporting. The bill referred to
provides that 1.-THE officer having
charge of any prisoners may
use such means as, and no more than,
are necessary to prevent escape"
which would proba bly, be interpre ted
to mean that he would have the right
to shoot him if he fled! And this beau
tiful measure further provides that
the man who violates any village cor
dinance or by law may be kept in
solitary confinement and fed on bread
and water!.
Under this bill, if it becomes law,
man who seeks work and can not
find it, (and that is the condition Of
hundreds Of thousands, yes millions,
today. all over this broad landD, could
be disgraced and Inundated by being
put at work in "public Places" says
the bill, with "ball and chain," and
| murdered if he flies, or fed on bread
and water, in solitary confinement, if
he stays! And all this at the instance
OF money-lender. who has been in
strumental, with his fellows, in pro.
ducing the very tramps with which
the country now swarms. We are only
surprised that he did not provide that
their finger nails should be plucked
out, their eyes destroyed, their ears
cropped, their bowels taken out and
their bodies burned to ashes!
For what crime can be greater than
for poor man to seek work and not
be able to find it?
Let him hang his bello on a fence
| rail and walk off and leave it; and
thus remain d citizen who will not be
offensive to the usurious nababs who
| SO adOrn civilization.
The highest honor that long life
has brought us is, that we receive the
unqualified hatred and abuse of al
the cruel monsters of society who
have no other aim in existence but
ITO wiring
From the hard hands of peasants thei,
poor trash.
God grant that we may never de
serve the praise of such men. If we
do it will be great Indictment to go
| and hang ourSelf.
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If any Of cur readers contem plate
bullling.or need lumber this spring,
We advise them to buy Of the Il. l..
Stewart Lumber Co., Minneapolis,
whose advertisement appear on the
Sd page. They do not belong to the
combine aud sell at Wholesale prices,
Its to your interest and you will be
accorded the best attention if v he n
writing or calling you mention this
naDer.
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States unite to crush these Servile
enemies of Republican institutions,
and drive them out Of the country,
even as the Tories were driven over to
Nova Scotia at the close of the l776
revolution. And the best way to do
that is to increase the numbers and
power of the Peoples Party,
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THE REPRESENTATIVE will always
endeavor to be OF gene cal and reliable
information to its many thousands of
readers. The advertisers you see in
our columns are all, to our best knowl-
edge, reliable firms and professional
men, who desire your patronage.
Their prices ana goods are such that
it will pay to deal with them. If you
will kindly stand by US and give our
advertisers the preference you will
thus help the paper, more than in any
other way. The RErREsENTATIyE.
we are glad to announce, has now a
very large circulation, and increasing
every day from all parts or the coun-
try, and If you have anything to sell
or wish to buy, make it known through
our columns. You Will be surprised
at the results. 1t will reach the
masses through Ignatius Dounelly's
REPRESENTATIVE.
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WE'LL DESERTED.

We are glad to notice that our es
teemed friend, Hamin V. Poore, has
been elected lecturer for the North
west by the National lliance, at their
recent meeting. The honor could not
have been WorthlY bestowed.
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SPECIAL NOTICE.

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President,
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measly posterity to the end of time.
And we can have no reform in gov.
eminent unless it is based on reform
in the hearts of the people. A base
race will have base conditions and
base government will end only in ruin.
1t can nave no other termination.
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THE HORRORS or TWO con
IINENI,S.

Nothing like the horrible famine ia
India has occurred during this cen
fury just think of it! A tropical
land, where little shelter and nc
clothes are necessary, where fruit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-12-27
THE PARIS EXPOSITION.
Preparation For Worlds Fair of
1900 Well Under Way.
WANT TO MAKE IT "BxQUIs'

Many Novel Features Adopted. but No
VIII Add to the Permanent GIOries of
Paris-United States Wen Represented.
The great exposition which the
French are to open in Paris in the
spring of 1900 will be wholly unlike
anything of the kind ever held any
where. Magnificent, impressive, in
SPRING" are the things we said about
our Worlds fair. The French do not
want to say that about theirs. They
take their pleasure less seriously. 'sEx-
quis''-pronounced "exkeeze, " with a
lift of the eyebrows and two handed
gesture-is what the French want to be
able to say about their fair.
And "exkeeze'' it undoubtedly viii
be.
In size of buildings, in extent of
ground and in general grandeur it will
not compare with the ephemeral White
City on Chicago's lake front. But in
beauty of detail, in novelty of idea and
in careful finish it viii excel it There
will be an artistic harmony of the
whole. You will see no crudities- There
will be no unsightly board fences. no
bare patches of ground, no dishguring
features Of any kind, either within the
grounds or in their immediate vicinity.
Neither will it be temporary. Most of
its beauties will be substantial glOries
which Parisians will enjoy for years to
come. These will be its distinguishing
characteristics
In the very location of the site the
French have shown that they are capa-
BILE of planning and executing a bold
enterprise. It is not to be hidden away
in some inaccessible corner of the sub
urbs, not showed out on the edge Of the
city's bedraggled outskirts, but plump
ed down right in the heart of Paris
trees, lawns, big buildings and all
True, large part of the site was occu-
pied by the exposition of 1889, but a
big slice On the other side of the Seine
has been added to this, an addition
which has required the tearing down
and remodeling of a big chunk Of
ground that has been occupied for other
purposes.
According to the general plan, the
grounds are to be divided into four
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- RashfnI Lover.

Folks hung up the mistietoe. Iwuz standin BY
An Mary lookin at me, with twinkle in he1
eye,
An when she stood right under it felt my
feelin's stir,
But when il comes ter mistletOe dunno What
it's ferl
("Come, joint Come, Johnl
II you wait. you Il miss her.
Mary s at the misrletOe.
An some one else IL kiss heri')
That's the way they holiersd, fer all O. then
they knowed
That I'd been lorin Mary half year afore il
showed;
That I'd writ my love in letters ia a album
book fer her,
But when il comes te- -listletoe L d1nno what
it's ferl
("Come, joint Cine, Johni
If you wait, yoc I miss her
Mary at the -nlstlerce,
An seine &c el5e'll kiss herl')
That's the way they aollered, an a Teller from
the crowd
Jest took the inTz=zs5o- an slnacked her lips
so loud
That my hear it g-se a1sss-. @zt 'twrz or
away from he,
Fer when it ccEss ter mistletOe dunno what
it's feri
('sshame. Johni Shame. joint
Told you that you d miss heri
Mary left the nistletoe,
An John Il never kiss hertz
Atlanta Constitution.
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grand sections which will be ingenious
" united, yet which will be distinctly
individual. The palace and its accessory
buildings Of the Champs Elysees, to-
gether with the Esplanade des InvaIides,
will constitute the domain given to
sculpture, painting and art in its higher
branches. One of the banks Of the Seine
has been reserved for the exhibit of tho
city of Paris, while the other will be
occupied by the buildings of the various
foreign nations. The Trocadero, with its
subordinate buildings, will house the
exhibits of the French colonies. The en-
tire Field of Mars will be occupied by
the industrial exhibits, which are ex-
pected to rival anything ever shown in
this line. The principal entrance will
open directly on a great boulevard which
will be carried over the Seine by mag
nificent new bridge 1917 feet wide. This
will be the widest bridge in existence
and will be one of the features of the
exposition grounds.
The way in which the exhibits will
be classified is to be another distinctive
feature. In most expositions the arrange
ment has been made a sort Of com petit
tive show in which each country Wed
with the others in presenting a tumble
of products But the French do things
differently This time, as before. they
will classify the exhibits according to
their nature, purpose and usefulness
without regard to their origin
NJ. Alfred Picard, who as commits
sioner general of the exposition is busily
directing the carrying out of these
plans and who organized the executive
forces of the enterprise, is an expert
enced engineer and a prominent public
official. He has held important positions
in the state council and is an officer of
the Legion Of Honor.
The manner in which the question of
expense has been met is particularly
French Of course money and lots of it
was required to begin with. The city
contributed 81, 600, 600 and the state
like amount. How do you suppose the
rest was raised? By begging people to
buy stock? Not at all. The exposition
managers Just went to work and got up
a big lottery. The tickets, which sell
for about 81 each, entitle the holders to
20 admissions during the fair, including
admission to several exhibits not cover
ed by the single admission ticket and
participation in all the lottery drawings
from the date of issuance. The prizes
are numerous, running all the way from
500, 600 in a few capital prizes down
issued over 2, 500, 600 have already
been sold, and the rest viii be gone
long before the two years are up. Ev-
cry Partisan who can scrape together
20 francs has invested in the hope Of
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being one of the fortunate few. In this
way the S21, 900. 600 necessary is being
raised without difficulty, although the
method is one which many Americans
will censure. Fer the running expenses
of the fair the gate money collected
from tourists viii more than suffice.
For a time it looked as though the
United States would cut no figure at all
in this great exposition of the century s
end. We were about the last Of the civ
ilized nations TO respond to the invita-
ton to participate So when Major
Moses P. Handy went over as our rep
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resentative to accept and secure space
he was sadly handicapped. The poor
exhibit which we made in Paris in 1889
had prejudiced the French against us
But Major Handy had not been a news
paper man, politician and chairman
of the bureau of promotion and publici-
ty of the World fair for nothing. He
introduced the ruff1ed Parisians to that
great American institution known as a
Jolly" and he hypnotized the exposi-
ton directors into granting for the
American exhibit more than 200, 600
square feet Of space instead of the
107, 600 originally offered, and that
where space is almost as valuable as on
Broadway.
More than this, he obtained for
American artists the assurance that this
time their pictures would be hung on
the first floor instead of being poked
away in back room up stairs, as at the
last exposition He also secured for
American railroads the privilege Of run
ming their cars on some of the regular
lines, which will be a fine object lesson
to the Europeans and a good advertise
ment for Us.
As yet I have not been able to de-
termine what is to be ''le grand clou, -
Many features have been suggested and
spoken of in this connection, but none
really seems to fill the bill don't be-
1ieve Messieurs les Directeurs them
selves know what it is to be as yet. In
1889 it was the Eiffel tower. That
crowning feature of the former fair is to
remain, but it can hardly be featured
again. The Parisians want something
ralx nd vi cPt
it
Hundreds of ideas have been submit
ted, but most Of them have been i'm
practical, bizarre or wholly ridiculous
a few have been adopted, but it is not
clear yet that any of them will take the
place of the tower or Chicago's Ferris
wheel. Perhaps the huge globe which
is now being built will do this, but I
doubt 1t. 1t is to be monster Tepresen-
tation Of the earth "a feet in diameter,
with a surface area of 1900 square
feet It is to be inclosed in a circular
building, around the walls of which
will run a series of galleries for specta-
tors. The globe itself will revolve slow
". It will be a novelty certainly, but
not great one.
From a glance at the scores of reject
cd designs you would almost think that
every lunatic IN France had been set to
work. One man proposed to build
cable car air line which would run from
the top of the Eiffel tower to the Yer
CABLES. Another man wanted to erect
along the banks of the Seine life size''
scenery representing mountains and
cities of foreign countries so that guests
might take a trip around the world IN
GO minutes while seated on the deck of
o river boat. Dozens of schemes calling
for the digging Of shafts into the ground
for unheard of distances and utilizing
them in various ingenious ways were
also sent in Another man proposed to
destroy the city Notifications, which
cost millions of dollars, and substitute
an immense sea fed moat which would
be crossed by a drawbridge mile or so
long.
The Eiffel tower figured in many of
the schemes. One genius proposed that
it be remodeled into a female figure Of
France. Another suggested that a
mountain of rocks $50 feet higher than
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He was describing the game.
81 thought had a clear field, - he said.
when suddenly he tackled me
what do you mean by thaUf' she asked.
"Why, in this case he caught me around
the waist with both arms, and couldnt
make him let go.
''But why, she inquired, with a sigh,
why under those circumstances did you
want to make him let go?'' Then she add
ed after a pause, you men ava queer
creatures. ''--Chieago Post.
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''Shem,'' said Noah decisively. train
ing the animals is all right, but please
don't trust too much to their intelligence.
Awhile ago you sent one Of the apes down
to the hold for q bucket Of coal, and just
now
Shem snickered audibly.
II found him trying to scuttle the
ark. New York Press
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Placing the Blame.

Patron Gust finding standing room on
Al overloaded street carl think this
company should be stopped from overload
ng its cars this way
COMMUNICATIONS, sir, the company
ion'e overload them. It's the people git
in on after the cars is full. York
Weekly.
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"What a lovely toboggan," exclaimed
the visitor. 'fWas it a present, Miss
Oliver
What's the matter with your" replied
the maiden as she tossed her chewing gum
to the ceiling and caught it in her mouth
on the rebound. ''That's not tOboEgans
It's a shoehorn. See?'-Chieago News.
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Willing To Arbitrnte.

The father actually wept. young
man, - said he, you are asking me to
part with my dearest treasure. F"
Say said the young man, elf you
really feel that bad over it, I am willing
to compromise by taking the dowry and
letting you keep the girl. Cincinnati
Euouirer
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The Cheerful IDIOT.

''I wonder how the English came ts
adopt red as a color for uniforms?" aske0
questions
Perhaps twas done, " said the cheer,
full idiot, Sin defiance Of the papal bull. f"
indianapolis Journal
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"And if I marry you, then what's
asked the heiress.
Why" replied Penniless, with sudden
energy, 'sthen you will be my wife. -
Philadelphia North American
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Nothing serious, hope?'' asked the
eyclist as he contemplated the prostra0s
form Of his first victim.
Oh, no, - said the doctor Gust lit
tie run down. That's all. Pick Ne Up
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A Man Of Anairs.

"Have they nominated man Of af
fairsP''
I believe 50. There IS talk particular
" of an affair with an actress '-Deer--
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the tower should be built alongside Of
it, with lake and other pleasant fea-
lures on its top. He proposed to take
visitors from the top of the tower to the
artificial peak by means Of a balloon.
An electrically illuminated Niagara
falling from the top of the tower was
one Of the milder suggestions.
But the exposition directors are level
headed even If every crank in France
has turned inventor, and the work Of
building the exposition goes steadily
and calmly onward G. 7. BAXTER
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To WHOM MY ooNcERN.

NOTICATO WHOM IT MAY CON
CERN-Be it known that my petition is
on file in the office of the probate court
of Shawnee county, Kansas, asking for a
permit to sell intoxicating liquors at 124
East Fourth St. in the Second ward in
the city of Topeka. Kansas. and the hear
ing Of the same is set for Monday. %
m, January 10, 1855
NJ. A lunches.
Topeka, Kan, Dec. g 1897