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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-13

There's widow in sleepy Chester
Who weeps for her only son:
There's a grave on the Pebeng river
\ grave that the Burmans shun,
And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri
Who tells how the work was done.
A Snider dubbed in the jungle
Somebody laughed and fed.
And the men of the First Shikaris
Picked up their Subaltern dead
With a big blue mark in his forehead
And the back blown out of his head.
They made a pile of their trophies
High as a tall mans chin,
Head upon head distorted.
Set in sightless grin
Anger and pain and terror
STAMPED on the smoke-scorched skin.
Subadar Prag Tewarri
Put the head Of the Bob
On top OF the mound of triumph
The head of his below.
With the sword and the peacock banner
That the world might behold and know
From Rudyard Kipling's Poem in Windsor
Magazine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-13
Heavy Fall of Rain.

WASHINGTON, Aug. PA remarkable
fall of rain occurred in this city to-day,
causing considerable damage. During the
ten hours previous to s p. m. the gauge at
the Weather Bureau showed a fall of 492
inches Street car traffic was interrupted
by the water in the conduits, short circuit
ing the generators, burning them out, and
in some cases setting fire to the cars. The
trolley road between here and Alexandria is
washed out and travel over it cannot be re-
sumed for several days. The peculiar fea-
ture of the storm was it's local character
nearby points reporting only a slight rain
fall
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-13

Washington Special in Chicago Post.
Mild surprise is expressed in naval circles
that Captain Sigsbee should be given COM
mand of the battle ship Texas The gen.
eral impression among naval people was
that he would be kept in the background.
Hard-headed old sea dogs have never I'M
derstcod exactly why Captain Sigsbee is
rated as a hero. They have insisted that
his famous dispatch after the explosion of
the Maine asking for a suspension OF judg-
ment until the facts could be ascertained
was an appeal to the secretary of war not
to hold him accountable out of hand for the
destruction of his ship. The popular con-
struction placed upon the dispatch was that
Sigsbee had asked for Withholding of pub
lie Judgment against the Spanish authori-
ties until they could have a chance TO be
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heard. This view was never accepted in
naval circles, although the popular concep-
ton of this dispatch was encouraged and
the captain lauded to the skies for his calm
ness and discretion and for his broad-mind-
ed grasp of the situation. He therefore ao-
pears as a man who forgot his own misfor-
tune in a desire to calm public sentiment
greatly inflamed against the Spaniards. and
thereby prevent war. possibly. His rein
statement in full favor indicates that this
estimate has now received full official sane
ton, and that if he was in any way to
blame for the loss of his ship the point will
never be raised against him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-13
CITY NEWS NOTES.

Dr. A. r. Benton, of Irvngton. viii fill
the pulpit of the Central Christian Church
tomorrow morning at 10:45 o'clock
Rev. VIM. Bradford will occupy the pull
pit of Meridan-street NJ. E. Church to-
morrow morning. ~
Rev. Dr. Coultas, pastor of the First NJ
E. Church, Morristown, N j.. and former
pastor of Roberts Park NJ. E. Church, OF
this city, who Is in the West on a short va
cation will preach at Roberts Park Nj. K.
Church Sunday evening.
Miss Emma Kahn, a02 Chestnut street,
suffered a broken collar bone Thursday
night, the result of fall from Garfield
Park street car. After being removed TO
her home DIR. T. Nj. Culver. was called and
found that her left side was also painfully
bruised
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-13
CASE OF YELLOW FEVER.
One Death Reported at Franklin, La
Quarantine Established.

JACKSON. Miss. Aug. 12.-An official re-
port having been received that one death
has occurred from yellow fever at Franklin,
La, DR.. John F. Hunter. secretary of the
State Board of Health, has quarantined the
State of Mississippi against the town of
Franklin and st. Marys parish in which
it is situated No passenger, freight. bag
gage or express will be allowed brought
within the State from that parish.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-13
Returned from Santiago.

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 12.-The transport
Berlin, from Santiago de Cuba, reached the
city to-day after three days detention at
quarantine. On beard are Colonel Charles
Dick, an Ohio Republican leader; Captain
McKittrick, who raised the flag over SAINT
iagO; DIR. GOodfelloW and Captain Mason
OF General Skaters staff. Colonel Scully
quartermaster in charge here. expects TO
get the Berlin away with Riches Texas i'm
muneS Tomorrow
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-13

ftlre + sseyed an ropssam tf marh
have peered into the wonderful even,s of
the present when he said, from Ills scat in
tho Senate. that 1.-The Pacific ocean, It's
shores. its islands and the vast region be-
You'd, will become the chief tneater of
events in the worlds great hereafter.
The star of empire moves westward still.
and ii is moving more swiftly than ever
now. while it follows the American flag.
Go to the Pacific coast, young man
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-13

NEW YORK. Aug. 12.--The Times says:
News has reached this city of the death of
DR.. Gardner Quincy Cotton the dentist of
this city who, after a three months visit
to Europe, was about to return home from
Rotterdam. Death followed paralysis, trace
able told age and it's complications.
DR.. Cotton was eighty-four years of age.
1t was chiefly due to his part in the discov-
cry of the use of nitrous oxide as an anaes-
thetic and his defense in recent years of
DIR. Horace Wells as the one to whom be-
longs the credit of suggesting the use Of
the gas. that DIR. Cotton was so extensively
known BY means of numerous letters to the
public through the press and otherwise, DR..
Cotton contested the claims of DR.. w. T. G..
Morton as the discoverer of anaesthesia
DIR. Cotton is said to have held the world $
more than 100000 teeth were removed
through his efforts
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-13
Lazy NEGRO Bov Hanged.

SNOWFALL. Md. Aug 12.-Somerfield
Dennis. a negro boy. less than seventeen
years old. was hanged here at 1915 a. m.
to-day. He met his fate stolidly and with
no signs of fear. Dennis killed his step
father with a shotgun in January of this
year. because the latter whipped him for
laziness. He was convicted mainly, if not
entirely. on the testimony of his mother
and two younger brothers. who We're wit
neSSeS to the crime.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-13

MEXICO CITY. Aug. 12.-Yellow fever of
the worst type prevails at Merida and has
reached the interior of the States of Yucca
tan and Campeche. The heat is suffocating
The health Of the City of Mexico has not
been improved since the rains began and it
is proposed to adopt the cremation system
here on a large scale.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-13

RICHMOND. Va, Aug. 12.-Rev. DR.. j.
G. Johnston, president of the Virginia Con-
ference of the Protestant Methodist Church.
died at Abingdon to-day. His home was at
Mountain City, Tenn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-13
ADJUSTMENTS.


The Georgia Minstrels will close their
weeks engagement at the Park with per-
formances this afternoon and tonight.
Next week Dorothy Lewis and her COM
pany will appear at the Park.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-13

CHICAGO. Aug. 12-The manufacturing
plant of the American Cutlery Company
Nos. 173 to 1913 Mather street, Was damaged
SIS. 900 by fire to-day Five hundred en-
ployes were in the building. All were res
cued John Wolf, seventeen years old, was
badly burned
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-13
No BETTER.

Kansas City Journal.
Colonel Roosevelt and his Rough Riders
fought bravely. but from all accounts they
did not fight bit better than the colored
troops Of the regular army
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-13

LONDON. Aug. 12.-Mrs. Terriss. the
widow of William Terriss. the actor who
was stabbed and killed by man named
Prince on Dec. 16 last. died to-day of cancer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-13

Detroit Free Press.
This Is a splendid picture of you," said
the artistic caller TO Mrs. Parvenu.s
Yes. l had II painted by one OF the old
masters when was abroad
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-13

The American colony in New South Wales
through the United States consul at sydney
has cabled to Washington praying the gov
ernnisnt there TO retain possession of the
Philippine Islands.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-13

Only 221 New Cases of Fever on Aug.
1I-List of Deaths.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12-At 1:30 o'clock
this morning General Skaters report of the
health conditions of his troops at Santiago
on Aug. IL was received at the War Depart
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-13
Deaths on Aug. 1o-Hospital Steward H

DedlLS on aug. H-ftOSplldl OteWdIQ II.
r. Breiner, Ninth Massachusetts, typhoid
fever; Private Chamberlain, Company 1.
Thirty-fourth Michigan, pernicious malarial
fever; Private j. P. Lindberg, Company F,
First Illinois, typhoid fever.
Deaths on Aug. 11-Private Peter H. De-
Doe, Company e, Seventh Infantry, yellow
fever; Private Robert Boetther, Company
/, First Illinois, dysentery; Private Charles
Whiting, Company G, Third Infantry, yell
low fever; Private John Brackner, Company
u First lilia9s. yellow fever Private ,1i;
nois. yellow fever: Private Forest Cody,
Company G, Seventh Infantry, yellow fever;
Private John II. Shaw Company G., Seven
ty-first New York. pernicious malarial
fever; Private E. c. Kroupe. Company F.
Seventy-first New York. typhoid fever; Pri-
vate A. H. Leek, Company E, Twenty-sec-
ond Infantry, typhoid fever; First Lieut..
w. L. Elliott, Twelfth Infantry, malarial
fever remittent: Private E. j. Griffin, Com
pany H, Eighth Infantry, fever; Private III.
M. Davis, Company e, Second Massachu-
SettS. fever.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-13

Lieut.. William NJ. Wood, Twelfth In
fantry, died at Santiago yesterday of
malarial fever.
James Hinchie. private Company NJ,
Thirty-second Michigan, died yesterday of
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-30
THE THIRD DISTRICT,

Our excellent friend, J. z. Lowe, Of
the Faribault Jeffersonian, who was the
Populist nominee for congress in the
Third district, received 1,22S votes. This
is creditable vote under all the cir
cumstances.
We are glad to know that Renville
county, where Mr.. Lowe used to reside,
gave him 531 votes, the largest vote in
the list; the second largest vote was from
Rice county, where he now lives-177
votes. Mr.. Lowe is a true and faithful
man, and ought to have been elected.
He is most respected by those who
know him best. I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-30

In the fusion states the Republicans
have gained IA congressman and every
one of these stands for the McHanna
administration, the.Sipgle gold standard
and money. rule: The greatest loss sus-
tanned this year by the forces of reform
was the state of Kansas. Under Repub-
lican rule the state was some years ago
brought to the brink of financial ruin
and throughout the nation was spoken
of as bleeding Kansas.
The Populists came into power and to-
day Kansas is the most prosperous state
in the union. But the Democrats work.
ed their fusion racket. drove half the
Populists into the Republican party and
the state has now gone back under Re-
publican rule The fusion fools have
done the same thing in the Minnesota
Seventh congressional district. The dis
trict is Populist by. a. good large ma
jority and Populists control most of the
county Offices, but in national and state
matters they fuse with Democrats, drive
all the manly independence out of their
party and. elect a. Republican congress-
man. We are glad to see those fusion
Pops take their medicine. The whole
state fusion ticket took it where tine
chicken got the az. g E. A. T.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-30
IS 1T PRACTICAL

Some Populists are now clamoring for
a new party to include the reform ele-
ments of all the so-called reform parties.
One important factor in such schemes is
usually over looked. They count upon
building the new party with the old
leaders left behind or relegated to the
rear.
It is a mistake to regard all leaders as
bosses. A man with the proper amount
of ability, dignity self reliance and ag-
gressive independence will have leader
ship forced upon him. Without leaders
men, like sheep, will flock around a
common center in both thought and
action and no progress will be made
Progress begins when some leader
branches off and those less independent
and aggressive follow We may all wish
for reform and for some movement new
or old that shall lead to that end, but
reform can never be reached with the
great leaders of reform each pulling Tn
different lines. Each of these leaders
has his followers, his admirers and his
defenders and it matters not where he
goes there they go also. If Chas. A.
Towne should announce himself a Popu-
list substantially the whole Silver Re-
publican vote of his district would vote
for Chas. A. Towne just the same. II
Altgeld, Byran and Pingree should join
a new party under whatever name their
present friends and supporters almost to
man would go with them. 1t is likely
that neither of these leaders could carry
his followers into any other old party on
account of prejudice, but such prejudice
would not exist toward new party.
This idea was the basis Of the propo-
sition submitted by T. ]. Meighan at our
June Is convention. This was the basis
of articles in The Representative last
March under caption Of New Deal."'
Such a movement has been considered
by nearly every prominent reformer in
the nation, but most of these PROPOSE
tons have ignored the necessity of con-
certed action on the part of all or nearly
all the party leaders. When the rank
and file of each faction get together take
their respective leaders in control and
command them to bury petty animosities
and get together on pain of giving up
!, their leadership, then will the leaders
begin to confer, then will the forces of
reform have chance to work for a COM
mon end, the overthrow of the dollar
and the elevation of man. E. A. T.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-30
ENCOURAGING.

An able letter in the Shoals, Ind,
Referendum, presents some intelligent
words of encouragement which should
be read in all parts of the country. We
quote the following:
The prospects for the rapid growth of
the Peoples party, in 'Davtsss county were
never brighter than they are at the pres
ent time. and if we only take advantage
Of the present situation, there is no doubt
but that we can add a great deal of strength
to our cause.
Fusion has been given it's death blow in
the election just past; nearly all the fusion
Populists admit this fact, and many of
them appear to be sorry that they ever
took part in it. The fusion leaders will
hardly undertake to organize another flu
sion party again. for the reason that the
past election showed very plainly that
there are too many" Peoples party voters
in DaviesS county, who do not intend to
allow the destruction of their party to be
accomplished by the schemes of old party
leaders
pies party is a fixture in this county, and
in all probab ility will take the place Of
the Democratic party, and before very long
too, especially II We push the WORK Of or
ganizing. With one of the old parties out
of the way, there is nothing to prevent a
new one from being elected The. prejudice
of the old party voters is what the old party
leaders depend ON to keep old parties in
existence. There are great many Repub-
licans who would vote With q" ftf6Fm party
il they were not afraid. of the .Qemocrats
being elected The Democrats vote their
ticket to defeat the ,RAlaahlioans. Dn.
Let all honest Populists of Minnesota,
without regard to past differences, get
together and present a united front to
the enemy in 1900, OF the omaha plat
form, "without-trimmiHgs% - .-E ID.
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National Plan of ORGANIZATION.

Your committee appointed to formu-
late a plan for the future organization
and government Of the Peoples party.
realizing, the NECESSITY of preserving
party Independence and and wishing TO prove
that our party alone stands for direct
legislation through the Initiative and
referendum system applied to party gov
eminent as well as to the making of
laws, reports the. following rules on Or
ganization:
l. All delegate conventions of the Peoples
Party for making nominations and plat
forms are hereby abolished, and instead
thereof, nominations for office, platforms
and amendments thereto shall be made by
direct vote at the Peoples Party primaries
of the political subdivisions affected there
by.
2. The Peoples Party organization shall
consist of: A national committee of three
members from each state to be chosen by
the state central committee on each presi-
Dental year
3. A state central committee Of three mem
bers from each congressional district to be
elected by direct vote at the party prima-
ries on each election year.
4. congressional committee of three
members from each county in the congress
sional district, to be elected by direct vote
at the party primaries on each election
year.
s. A county committee of three members
from each township or ward, to be elected
by direct vote at the party primaries on
each election year.
6. National. state, congressional and
county committees shall perform the same
duties as heretofore, not inconsistent here
with, provide blank ballots for the referen-
dunn votes herein contemplated, and canvas
a ifxy IA a n ID
territories
Z. The unit Of organization shall be the
precinct club.
8. Any voter may become a member Of
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-30

that they were alike advocates Of free
silver: the Democrats then proceeded to
throw the free silver issue overheard
The result was that three-fourths Of the
Populists stayed at home and did not
vote at all, or voted squarely for the
Republican party. This has practically
put Democracy back where 1t was prior
to the national convention of 1896, when,
under the leadership of Bryan, they adj
vocated free silver.
The Populists, with their eyes open,
will again rally round their own stxld
ards, and the Democrats will never have
the power to seduce them by false prom
Uses again. I. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-30

the precinct club Of any precinct by SUBJ
scrlplng to our national declaration of prin-
clpies and our rules on organiza ton.
u ANY member of any precinct club who
snail propose fusion or cooperation with
either the Republican or Democratic organ
lzatlons in the makeup of q ticket through
conference committees or otherwise shall
upon conviction thereof by a majority vote
OF mis- club, be deemed, outside the party,
10. No person not member Of a nrec;nct
clup, and in good standing shall be eligible
10 membership on any Peoples PARTY com
mittee, or Peoples Party nomination for
any office.
IL. Each committee shall make prompt
report TO the committee next higher Of all
referendum votes and other matters within
the jurisdiction Of such higher committee,
and the chairman Of each committee shall
be deemed responsible for the prompt and
Ialtn1ul performance of the duties of his
committee.
L. State platforms can be changed only
upon demand Of a majority vote of the pre-
cinct club membership of any county, rat
flied by a majority vote Of the precinct club
membership of the state: and the national
platform can be changed only upon demand
of a ma jority vote of the precinct club
membership of any state ratified by a ma
jority vote of the precinct club membership
Of the nation.
49, No salaried official shall be elected a
member of any committee of the Peoples
Party organization, and any member of
such committee elected to a salaried office
shall be deemed to have vacated his position
on such committee
IA. All Peoples Party candidates for Of
fee and members of Peoples Party COM
mittees shall at all times be subject to the
principles of the imperative mandate and
may be recalled by a. majority vote OF
the league membership of their constitu-
ency.
Respectfully submitted.
JOHN o. label, Chairman.
H. B. FAY. M. D., Secretary.
Adopted in national convention, Cncin.
natl, Sept. 9Th, 1895.
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But WE ALL THINK ALIKE.

Our government is in the hands of cap
italistic consprators. They control the
money. They control the newspaper press.
They own the railroads. telegraphs, fac
tories, mines, ships mills, elevators stock
yards and millions of acres of land. Indeed
capital holds a mortgage on the country
and no doubt tens of thousands of capital
lists would be willing to use force; they
would rather convert our republic into a
monarchy tomorrow and put a king on the
throne of its runis than relinquish their
grip on labor-Rev. y. Ogesby, Richview
Ill.
The true remedy for all the sufferings
Of the people is to put few scalawags
into Office. AS soon as they ere COM
Portable, the whole population of the
world will have forgotten their sor-
rows. [. D.