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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-02-23
THE SPIRIT OF POPULLSM.

Every genuine political party has a
general aim and spirit which is of
more Importance than any specific
measure it may favor or approve. AS
the aim of the Populist party is to Sc
cure equal Opportunities" to all, its
spirit leads it to lend a helping hand
to those who are in need, to lift up the
fallen, and to sweeten life, generally.
1t is we'll expressed in this little gem
by an unknown author:
If any little word of ours
Can make one life the brighter,
If any little song of ours
May make one heart the lighter,
God help US speak that little word,
And take our bit of singing,
And drop it in some lonely vale,
To set the echoes ringing.
If any little love of ours
Can make one life the sweeter,
If any little care of ours
Can make one step the feeter,
If any little help may ease
The burden of another,
God give Us love and care and strength
To help along each other.
If any watchful thought of ours
Can make some work the stronger,
If any CHEEKY smile of ours
Can make its brightness longer,
Then let US speak that thought today
With tender eyes a-glowing,
So God may grant some weary one
Shall reap from our glad sowing.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-02-23

ION sober second thought it is pro-
bable the decision to call the Populist
state convention in June will be recon-
sidered and a later date fixed. To
spread out the state campaign over the
entire summer would be as great folly
as to begin the national contest of
1900 now by making nominations for
president and vice-president. The
last of August is plenty early enough
for the state nominating convention. -
Star and Kansas.
The ostensible reason for calling
early convention is to make ga long
and hot campaign" but it usually has
a contrary effect. Often the real
reason for hasty action is to enable
those who happen to be in charge of
the machine to name the delegates
which they cannot so easily do after
the people have.become aroused. The
nominations once made, interest SUBJ
sides for a while and it takes consider
able effort to start things moving
again.
THE MONITOR seconds the sugges-
ton for postponement of the state
convention until the latter part of
August or first of September. If this
be done the attendance at the primaries
will average twice as large as it would
in May or June, a better delegation
will, in many cases, be chosen, they
will make better nominations, and the
campaign can be made red hot fIom
beginning to end.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-02-23
A London dispatch dated JaI

A London dispatch dated Jan. %,
says:
"Lord George Hamilton, Secretary of
State for India, speaking tonight at
Chiswick, said he thought that during
the course of the next twelve months
the government might take steps to
establish a gold standard for India"
The Walcott commission gave the
British section of the Money Power
such score that it has evidently de-
cided to put India upon gold basis
and this ends all possibility of can in
ternational agreement with the lead
ing commercial nations of Europe"
1t also simplifes the situation, as the
international agreement idea will no
longer be factor in our politics.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-02-23
money party.

McKisson is butting his head against
a stone wall. He may prove that
Mark Hanna's agents bought votes,
but that will not take Mark out of the
senate. The only way to avoid such
things, seemingly, is to elect United
States senators by the popular vote.
The abuses of the present system are
constantly growing greater. The
election of senators by popular vote
would not only do away with such
scandals as the Ohio one, but would
lead to political alignments on newer
and better 1ines.-Peoria Herald.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-02-23
An Oil Tariff Law.

In the jargon of protection when
ever country is importing more of
| any commodity than the home pro-
ducers of that commodity like to see in
the market that country is 'inundat-
ed, FLOODED, !" "de1uged," "swamped''
with the import. Whichever word is
used it is understood that the country
is oppressively burdened and surfeited
with the commodity, in so much that
its people generally are on the point
of suffocation and in fair way to
perish if their government does not
come to the rescue and save them by
means of a strong tariff wall. Just
now America is ''swamping" the Eu-
ropean markets with cheap oil and oil
seed, especially cotton seed oil. The
fact is vouched for by a deputation
representing manufacturers and bust
ness men of certain departments of
France, who waited upon the ministers
of commerce. Their spokesman, who
is president of the customs committee
OI Tic CHdlnOC1 VI dOPutlCoS bOlo
ter Boucher that the "swamping"
flood of American cheap oil had caused
big break in the prices of industrial
securities. Therefore, the various in
terests affected, including the agricu1-
tural interests, were joining in the
request "that measures be taken to
prevent their common ruin" The
measurers referred to are duties, of
course, to begin with, to be followed,
we may be sure, by absolute prohibit
ton, if the interest affected think it
necessary to go to that length, and
they can bring enough influence to
bear.
Spokesman Graux said: "The Unit
ed States cannot object to an increase
in the duties, because they themselves
impose duty of seventy-three francs
on olive oil, while we only ask duty
from 20 to Is francs"
This evidently means that they ask
this duty on American cotton seed oil,
which is practically the only American
oil which completes with olive oil.
From this we learn the true state of
the case. Olive oil is used chiefly for
food. American cotton seed oil is of
fered as cheap and harmless sub
stitute. That it is substitute salts
factory to consumers is proved by the
"big break in the prices of industrial
securities which is obviously due to
big break in the price of olive oil.
The producers of olive oil, therefore,
ask the government to put on duty
so that they can extort higher price
from consumers of oil. 1t Is in France
precisely as it is in this country. The
producers are the ones who are being
swamped. Consumers are not COM
planning at all. On the contrary, they
greatly enjoy that kind of swapping.
The government is asked to interfere
for the benefit of producers at the ex-
pense of consumers. 1t is asked in
France to deprive consumers of the
benefit of American cheap oil and
save producers from common ruin"
This is just what we see here when |
congress lays enormous duties on wool |
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-02-23
Mr.. YAM IND THE DEMO-
CRATIC PARTY.

Some time ago, the New York Jour-
nal printed long article, signed by
one of its leading editorial writer's, op-
posing the nomination of VIM. J. Bry-
an in 1900, but, fortnight (more or
less) afterwards, its proprietor, the
multi-millionaire, Hearst-announced
that he was not responsible tor it, and
that it did not commit the Journal
against Mr.. Bryan.
1t is, however, very improbable that
an editorial writer would have printed
such letter if he had not supposed he
was expressing the views of his chief.
Moreover, Mr.. Hearst's suggestion of
a change of ratio, and the Journals
connection with Tammany Hail,
make it probable that it will hereafter
more or less openly antagonize the
great leader of the Free Silver De-
mocracy-aud that its present temper
Using is due to the fact that it finds
Mr.. Bryan stronger in the east than it
supposed.
That the money power is making
desperate efforts to regain control of
the Democratic Party-or to emascu-
late it's no longer denied; and it is
meeting with degree of success that
may well alarm Mr.. Bryan's friends,
the chief reason being that so many
honest Free Silver Democrats are in
grained temporisers who do not real
ize that the approaching battle cannot
be won by strategy, but must be an
open field, knock down and drag out
fight, to a finish.
There are three things which the re-
form element in the Democratic Party
cannot recog nize, and see the potency
of, too soon. They are
First-With rare exceptions, all very
wealthy men are against every funda-
mental reform measure-and their
support can be secured only by such
concessions as will make it impossible
for the reform elements of other par.
ties to become Democrats. Moreover
the larger part of that class that take
a managing part in politics, are hood
lers, and have corrupting influence
in any party with which they are
identified
Second-The desire among the ad
vocates of economic reform ''to get to
gether' is so strong that, if the Demo.
Gratis of the central, western, and
southern states plant themselves
squarely and honestly on a platform
demanding equal opportunities for
all and special privileges for none, d"
and say to the Clevelandites, "Get
thee behind me, Satan," some way
will undoubtedly be found for a union.
and the great mass of the Populists
and Silver Republicans will again give
hearty support to Mr.. Bryan.
Third-But reform-geuuine reform
reform that aims to ultimately reach
the bed rocks the only basis upon
which it will be possible to unite the OPP
position to the Republican party; and.
if the Democratic party fails to lead
off in this direction, it will be unable
even to retain the majority of its
present members. Its very existence
therefore depends upon its acceptance
of the post of honor, and the sooner
and louder-it blows a bugle blast of
defiance to the money power, and all
its enslaving methods, the sooner will
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-02-23

and wooden goods for the benefit Of
producers, and when both congress
and state legislation combines to de-
prive consumers of the benefit of a
cheap and harmless substitute for but
ter for the profit of the buttermakers.
Minister Boucher told the representa-
tives of the olive oil interests that he
was true to protectionist doctrines and
works from this American competition.
And in saying this he let out the fact
that the persons really demanding pro-
lection were not agriculturists, but
capitalists who own works and manu-
facture olive oil. But while Mr..
Boucher was disposed to lend ready
ear to the plant of the capitalists, he
recognized the difficulty of satisfying
them without endangering the inter
ests of other capitalists. He does not
seem to regard the interests of the
mass of consumers any more than any
Quiet QOSS. buI ne Was
aware that other capitalists had a sur
plus for export and were largely de-
pendent on the American market. He
evidently feared that if France should
1egislate against American oil our
congress might respond with further
Legislation against French wines, silks
and argols. Therefore he warily told
the deputation that he could speak
only with great reserve, owing to
reciprocity negotiations now proceed
ing with the United States. If the
government of both countries-rather
of all countries-wou1d cease to look
at these acts of interference with trade
from the standpoint of the produces
only, and consider the interests of the
consumers as well, they would be on
better terms with one and another and
the people of all countries would be
much better supplied with the neces-
saries, comforts and luxuries of life.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-02-23

nerve to make it fit rallying place
for the reform element of all parties,
he will not be elected president in
1900.
If the Democrats who meet here
next week are wise, they will decide
here to let the dead bury its dead;
throw their prejudices and hates in the
coffin; plant their feet firmly on the
rock of human equality; set their faces
to the front and firmly announce that
they intend to hereafter move ever on
ward and upward.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-02-23

1t has been the custom for christian
nations to christen their war vessels
by breaking bottles of intoxicating
liquor over their bows, but when the
Japanese cruiser was launched at Phil
adelphia a dove was liberated instead.
Which method is the more civilized,
the christian or the heather?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-02-23
George Vanderbilt carries 81, 600, OOC
of life insurance.-Exchan

NCOARC Olll Pl,OOO,OOO
of life insurance.-Exchan
1t is dollars to doughuuts that this
large insurance costs Mr.. Vanderbilt
but little. A Philadelphia insurance
solicitor once told the writer that he
had been informed by John Wanamak-
err, that he never pays anything for in
surance-that giving a company the
right to say he is insured by it for
800, 900, more sor less, is worth more
as an advertisement than the amount
of the premium. Nor is such dis,rim-
ination confined to multi-millionaires.
Leading men are given special rates
almost everywhere, and are settled with
more promptly. These facts, which
are notorious are strong arguments in
favor of state insurance.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-02-23

On February 4th, an order was issu-
ed reducing the shop force on the I'm
ion Pacific 10 per cent. One hundred
men we're discharged at Omaha, and
173 at other points. This is not the
wave of prosperity that Senator Thurs
ton told our people would result from
the election of Mckinley, but it is ex-
actly in line with the prediction Of the
Silverites.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-02-23

Senator Morgan's statement (Which,
when denied, he said he could Prove)
that President Cleveland once favored
the annexation of Hawaii and intend
ed to ultimately recommend its admis-
sion if he had been permitted to first
restore the deplaced queen, suggests
the inquiry why some men always
wish to do the wrong thing first and
the right one 1ast-if at all.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-02-23

One of the kilograms sent to Mark
Hanna after his election to the SEN
ate was unique-but the report that he
had it framed and hung in his parlor
has not been verified. 1t was from
Senator Chandler of New Hampshire
and read: 81 congratulate you on the
latest victory for sound money. How
much?"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-02-23

y
whe1ming and glorious will be its
triumph.
Since the election, Mr.. Bryan him
self, has not been so aggressive as he
should have been, and it is that fact
which has encouraged the go1dites to
try to wrest the control of the party
from him. We are glad to note, how
ever, that he appears to be waking up
to the danger ahead, and, in a late
letter to the New York Journal he
said:
"The Democratic party could have re-
1896 if it had consented to meaning
less platform, but it preferred to lose
some members of the body rather than
have the whole body destroyed. Re-
generation did not come too soon. The
gold Democrats were rapidly making
the party rival of the Republican
party for the favor of trusts and mon
opo1ies. If the Chicago platform did
AOlAlhS C4SS ~ 0AONS 4AOLh lhC POI
those who had been manipulating the
party for private gain and using the
government for public plumber. There
are many of the deserters whose return
rather than add strength, and there
are millions of Democrats who ould
not surrender a single line of the
Chicago platform because of real an
that platform. The party can win
more votes by steadfastly standing by
the right than by weakly compr omis-
ing with error, and those who profess
attachment to the Democratic name
rather than to Democratic principles
will always require watching. The
Democratic party has put its hand to
the pillow, and, unless I mistake the
spirit which animates the members, it
will not look back.
This has the right ring-as far as it
goes-but Mr.. Bryan does not yet ap-
pear to appreciate the real gravity of
the situation. Apparently he is not
aware of the fact that, while he has
been talking about silver, the most of
those that voted for him in 1896 have
come to realize that the Importance of
that question is small in comparison
with that of some others-and they
will not be cont>nt to fight the next
ba tile on that issue alone.
| What is needed now is a leader who
makesit clear to all men that he is in
favor of any and all measures that
may be found necessary to secure
Equal Opportunities to Al1''-no mat
ter what party nor how many parties
may have to be sacrificed. He will
not be required to take specific posi-
ton upon many of the measures that
are proposed for relief-nor to say in
what order they shall be brought to
the front-but the voters must be con-
WINGED that he will not diminish his
efforts to improve the conditions of the
masses until no man can truthful1y
say, ''the laws or the government pre-
vent me from securing a just share of
the product of my own labor
There is no man in the nation, in
deed no half dozen men, whom so large
part of these voters Tin all parties)
desire to support in 1900 as Mr.. Bryan;
but they are not man worshipers, and
they already begin to fear that he is
not enough of an Andrew Jackson for
the present emergency. His future is
in his own hands-and that of the
Democratic party, also. If he contin-
ues to confine his efforts mainly to
''harmonizing' the Democratic party, |
by inducing anti.reform elements to
remain in it, instead of strainiug every |
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-02-23

Calvin Hood, the Emporia banker, is
again holding out his leg to be pulled.
He would be very appropriate guber-
Material nominee for the hocus pocus
money party.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-02-23

Slaveocracy was blighting curse
to the South, but goldocracy is still
more whitening curse to the entire
Cancasion world.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-02-23


10 cases each Lion, Arbuckle, Ak
and lowering Coffee,
10 pkgs CSC.
One thousand pounds California
Hams,
&C lb.
One thousand pounds Sugar Cured
Hams,
TIC Id.
One thousand pounds of Salt Pork,
sc lb.
Five barrels nice white Lard,
sc Id.
Five drums Java Blend Coffee,
2Oc Id.
Three hundred sacks of California
Granulated Sugar,
10 lbs for SI.oo.
Five hundred pounds California free
stone Peaches,
sc ID.
Fifty bushels of hand picked Wis
consin Navy Beans,
II lbs 25c.
Ten barrels Wright's pure Wiscon-
sin Buckwheat Flour,
II lbs 25c.
New Lima Beans,
s lbs 25c.
New black California Prunes,
7 lbs 25c.
Mixed Bird Seed,
lb pkg &c.
Fancy bright California evaporated
Apricots,
3 lbs 25c.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-02-23

Genuine Populism is the Golden Rule
applied topolitics; modern Republican
ism is the Rule of Gold applied to poll
tics.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-02-23

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Kaw Valley, lib Marrowfat Peas.
s cans 25c.
Is boxes Silk Soap.
10 bars 25c
Klondike Parlor Matches,
pkg IL boxes &c.
Good Sugar Drip table Syrup,
gallon 2oc.
Large California r ,isins,
6 lbs CSC.
so pals Jelly,
$50 pail.
Columbia Oats,
sc pkg.
| California evaporatcd Pears,
sc lb.
| 10 cas- gallon Peaches,
2OC can.
! When you buy Flour from us you
always have the satisfaction of know
ing that you are buying it at less
price than if you bought from any
other grocery in the city.
Scotch Oats,
4 pkgs 25c.
Proctor & Candles Lenox Soap,
10 bars 25c.
Mail orders shipped promptly.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-02-23

the struggle end, and the more over
whe1ming and glorious will be it's
triumph.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-08-06

criminal, repentance belongs 10 his fell
low man.
Obi interested minds iE the cause OF
the nation, where does our government
stand? While we hear silver tongued
orators pirate about our glorious, glor'
ious country, while we believe them
and Join our whole strength in landing
their victories, is it not dangerous to
lose sight of the fact that Judas Isear-
lot is among us? Past history tells us
that powerful nations have fallen I'M
der the whiting blasts of his treachery'
Shall we not profit by their fate? Until
every citizen of our land is able to say
in perfect truth that his all absorbing
interest is in the welfare of the govern
ment. Our country is in danger, with
out a central nucleous around which all
must revolye, all must be weak Our
interest is flame in war. We know
that the alliance of the English speak
ing nations could face the world in
defiance. Financier, politician, office
holder and private citizen, alike, are
spurred to action. Let these conditions
exist in peace, and may the morn of
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-08-06
i'd convention as follows:
Washington. .....6.

The County Central Committees are
hereby requested to perfect all arrange
ments for primaries and county con-
ventions for the selecting of delegates
to the said State Convention. 1t is
recommended that the said county
conventions be held not later than the
Bird of August.
The State Central Committee is here
by called tOmeet, at Boise City, Idaho,
at 8 o'clock p. M, on the 10th day of
August, 1898, at Republican aeadquar-
tiers, for the purpose Of passing upon
the credentials of delegates entitled to
seats in convention effecting temporary
organization. Delegates are requested
to have credentials at headquarters on
or before August 10Th, 1898.
JOHN T. MORRISON,
Chairman Republican State Central
Committee.
Boise City, Idaho, July 5, 1898.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-08-06
Republican State Convention.

Pursuant to the authority of the Re
publican State Central Committee, and,
in accordance with their action, notice
is hereby given that the Republican
State Convention will be held at Boise
City, Idaho, on the 18th day of August,
1898, converting at IL o'clock a. m.
At said convention a Republican
platform of principles will be an
nounced, new State Central Commit
tee elected, and candidates will be nom-
mated for the following offices:
Representative in Congress.
Justice of the Supreme Court.
Governor.
Lieutenant Governor.
Secretary of State.
State Auditor.
State Treasurer.
Attorney General.
Superintendent of Public In
struction.
Inspector of Mines.
District Judge for each of the
five Judicial Districts of the state
the delegates from each district to
make the Mt mination for their district.
The various counties of the state are
entitled to delegate representation in
said convention &c foIIOuc.