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The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

We hereby reafirm our allegiance to the
Peoples party national platform adopted
at St. Louis in 1885,
We commend the State administration
for it's patriotic and vigorous defense of
the rights Of the people and its efficient
and economic conduct Of State affairs. We
commend the action OF the PopuliSt MEM
bers of the last Legislature In passing laws
that have saved hundreds Of thousands Of
dollars to the people OF Kansas We also
commend the course Of our Senator and
Representatives in Congress for their OPP
position to issuance of interest-bearing
bonds and the encrOachments Of corporate
power upon the rights Of the people, and
their Vigiant devotion to the interests Of
their constituents.
We demand that the initiative and refer
endum be embodied in our State constitu-
tion, and favor proportional representation.
We favor the public ownership Of all
public utilities and demand the public own
ership and operation Of all monopolles.
The State laws regulating stock yards
having been resisted, we demand that the
State of Kansas shall provide adequate
market facilities by purchasing land and
constructing necessary buildings, yards
and other cOnVenienceS to furnish the peo-
pie an open public market and under such
regulations as will prevent a combination
Of buyers and commission men from con-
trolling or regulating prices. Charges for
such services to cover actual cost Of op-
We demand that the State Of Kansas
shall provide insurance protection against
fire, lightning and tornadOes as a State
function, at cost.
These being in opposition 10 the existing
constitution Of the State, we demand a
constitutional convention to the end that
they may be made effectual and that other
defects that now exist in our State consti-
tuition may be remedied.
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We demand the enactment Of a freight
rate law giving to court of railway COM
mssioners, to be elected by the people, the
power to fix rates and classification Of rail-
ways and the further power to compel the
railways to make full reports with refer
ence to their business.
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Recognizing the great saving and bene-
fits to the people from the text book law
passed by Populist Legislature and put
into operation by Populist administration,
we favor its extension along the same gen
eral lines to include all text books and
school supplies as far as possible.
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We demand the enactment Of the follow
ing labor laws necessary for the public
veal: First-A law making County Clerks
offices free public employment agencies, the
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

J. G. Buchanan, of the Pittsburg Kan
san, and w. H. t. Wakefield, Of Mound
City, than whom there are not two more
advanced reformers in Kansas, are get
ting after the Republican editors Of the
State with sharp stick for their dense
ignorance about the issues in the Re-
publican platform. The Republican
press, and especially the editor of
the Capital, who is relied on to help the
Kansas City Journal set the pace, are in
a quandary. OF course they have their
instructions to talk war and nothing
else, or, as Tom McNeal Of the Mail and
Breeze, puts it, to set the eyes Of the
people on Washington and not on To-
peka. But it happens that the people
won't have it that way; they want some
pointers about Topeka. This is State
campaign, and because the Republicans
have no State issues except the odor OF
an old garbage heap it is natural that
they should want to use ammunition
from Washington. So they set about
abusing the volunteers from this State
and echoing the big political papers of
the East But the Republican small-fry
editors, including the editor of the Cap
ital, occasionally peep over the fence and
see great public issues about which they
know nothing. What can they say
against the unanswerable planks on pub
lie ownership, direct legislation, State
stock yards and State insurance, ETC.?
Not thing. Their feeble attempts be-
fore the orders came from Republican
headquarters to talk Mckinley only were
pitiful flounderings that contained as
many arguments for as against the Pop
ulist measures they attempted to deal
with. There is no relief for the Repub-
lican editors in the mandate from head
quarters, for there are stronger demands
from their subscribers that the unan-
swerable arguments Of the Populists be
answered, and the Republican editor in
Kansas is a sore and weary beast of
burden.
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

Free rural delivery is to be extended
to Kansas and other communities in this
country. 1t is estimated that between
4O,OOO,O0O and 45,OOO,OOO persons in the
country are Obliged to go to the post
Office or send some one for their mails;
the other have their letters and papers
brought to them. Like the public own
ership Of the telegraph, the United States
and the South American republics are
almost alone in doing without free mail
delivery to rural districts.
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

''Now, at last" says Professor Mar
shall, 1--WE are setting ourselves seriously
to inquire whether there should be any
sO-called lower classes at ALL that is,
whether there need be large numbers Of
people doomed from their birth to hard
work in order to provide for others the
requisites Of refined and cultured life,
while they themselves are prevented by
their poverty and toll from having any
share or part in that life" A rational
part Of that inquiry is the platform Of
the Peoples party of Kansas.
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

The Topeka Christian Citizens League,
representing thirty-fVe churches and
other religious organizations, said in an
address issued just before the Shawnee
county Republican primaries: 1--WE make
no attack upon Major Andersons re-
ligious opinions, if he has any, but we
fail to see how man who will thus gra-
tuitiously wound and shock the feelings
of Christian men should expect any po-
litical support from the church people
Of this county" If he has any? He
hasn't as many as that other Mulvane-
Leland property, J. Ralph Burton, which,
as everybody knows, has not any.
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

Among the Mulvane-Leland posses
sions are ]. r. Burton, the Topeka Cap
ital, County Attorney Jetmore and Tom
Anderson. Three of these are situated
at headquarters in Shawnee county, and
the western part of the State would be
much better off If the other had never
been further away from the Capital office
than the Bank of Topeka.
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

With the initiative and referendum in
force II the people really wanted law
it would not be tied up in the courts by
technical constitutionality. BY their de-
cisive vote it would become law Of the
land equal to the constitution as far as
the courts are concerned. The initiative
and referendum would destroy the power
of the corruptionists to hold up legisla-
tion inimicable to their interests, there
fore they do not want it.
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

A Chicago paper tells Of Mrs. William
Astor's first entertainment of the season
at Newport, dinner in honor of Count
Turin, at which 1.-The famous Astor gold
service was used and was much admired
by the count" Parallel to this dispatch
in another column of the same page the
paper tells of R. H. Perkins in a nine
line local notice. Perkins came to Chi
cago spent several days there and COM
mitted suicide; "his money was nearly
exhausted, and he became respondent
because of failure to get employment.
What does the count think of that?
What do you think of it?
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

A conference of considerable interest
will be held at Saratoga Springs, N. Y,
on the 10Th and Goth of this month. 1t
has been called by the Civic Federation
of Chicago for a consideration Of the flu
ture foreign policy of the United States,
and the call is signed by governors,
mayors, presidents of leading colleges,
lawyers, bishops and other prominent
religious men, presidents of banks and
boards of trade and representatives Of
labor organizations. twill beattended by
men from all sections of the country and
by representatives of all shades of opin-
ions on public affairs, It will bring
forth an extremely interesting express
sion Of public opinion as to what course
the United States should take ON ter
ritorial expansion.
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

A crying need in Kansas is the placing
of the State Institutions educational,
charitable and neutrality-suspicious. the
reach of partisanship. This is a prob
lem which requires craftsmanship, but
1t can and will be done if some Of the
citizens who are able to rise above party
will take hold and work out a plan.
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

In order to strengthen the home and
family side of the paper the Advocate
and News has arranged to publish regu-
larly each month a department Of lit
erary notes and page Of special inter-
est to the women of the family. The
present months installments will appear
next week and the week following.
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

The United States Patriotic Almanac
gotten out by the railroads to educate
the people, quotes freely from Alexander
Hamilton. Hamilton said, HE who owns
my sustenance owns my moral being"
but that trulsm did not get into the U. S.
patriotic railroad almanac. 1t is too
much of an argument for the public own
ership Of public monopolies.
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

In Weir City there is merchant who
came there some years ago with stock
of goods that, report says, could have
been slowed in the hind quarter of a
small box car" He did not truckle to
the truck stores, and the truck stores
tried to freeze him out. But he was de-
termined as he was honest, and to-day
he has as large place as all the COM
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

The Republicans are unable to show
that the administration they want to
put into Office has any definite plan in
view after getting in power other than
drifting along in the interests of the
corporations and money influences. They
don't need any plans, for they do not
expect victory for their candidates.
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

The Philadelphia Record says that
while Cuba offers inducements to those
who have capital, it is the worst place
on earth for the man without funds"
OF course; it is for the capitalist that
we are taking Cuba away from Spain.
1t is the duty Of the working. man to stay
at home and pay the war taxes.
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

II has cost the government more for
transportation for the soldiers than it
has to feed them to date. That is one
reason why some people believe in tho
public ownership Of public utilities.
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

Two great steps in reformation have
been accomplished in securing religious
freedom and political freedom. The
next great step will be the establishment
OF industrial freedOm--it Is coming fast
land with that there will be full reallz-
alton Of the other two.
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

pany stores of the town put together,
and he gives full weight at decent prices
in spite of the prosecutions and men
dacity of the coal companies. He is an
American of the 1776 stamp
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

"It is a pity" said General Garcia a
month ago. that the government Of the
United States did not recognize us
sooner and let us do our own fighting.
We are sorry to sacrifice your soldiers.
It is a great pity" And Garcia is not
the only Bryan man.
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

Direct legislation would benefit even
Mark Hanna. 1t would have prevented
him from becoming a convicted boodler,
for it would have taken away from him
any opportunity for corrupting legisla-
tors,
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

Now that General ]. X. Hudson has
gone to war there seems to be no OBJ
stacle to sentencing Judge Cassius Gaius
Foster to retirement on full pay for the
rest of his natural life.
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

Read over again our article in this
number about the record Of the Populist
administration of Nebraska. The fig
ures are absolutely correct and abso-
lutely unanswerable.
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

1t is rumored that w, J. Costigan, the
professional lemon peel and portable
vinegar factory of Ottawa, is fighting
Governor Leedy. The caustic Costigan
will be deodorlzed by the Populst ma
jority next November.
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

We are prepared to furnish any
amount of literature on campaign sub
jects, and our revised list of books and
pamphlets will be published next week
Watch for It.
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

Because a measure has a place in
party platform It does not follow that
It should be fought by the party's enc
mics.
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

The little King of Spain, who has the
measles, would feel about as bad II he
lived in this country.
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03
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The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

These are harvest days for Spain as
we'll as for other folks.
The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

We hereby reaffirm our allegiance to the
Peoples party national platform adopted
at st. Louis in 1896
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-10
A Gladstone-Depew Anecdofe

Mr.. Gladstone was no laudator tempors
acti. Mr.. Depew tells characteristic story
of him which brings this out. 1t was din
ner party at Lord Rosebery's. Mr.. Glad
stone raised the question at which period OF
the worlds history one would choose to
live. He went over all the great epochs-
Egypt, With her wonderful civilization;
Greece at her prime, with her wealth Of
learning her simplicity and her beauty;
Rome at the hour of her greatest strength
when she was mistress Of the world; Italy
at the time Of the Renaissance, and so on
down to today. "If I had my choice OF
them ALL" he said, II would select the pc
riod covered by the last fifty years. because
it has been the half-century of emancipa-
don" This is exactly what we should have
expected Mr.. Gladstone to say. An age in
which he had seen the bounds Of freedom
growing wider and wider before his eyes, in
which he was privileged, to lend material
aid to the expansion of the forces of human
ity and civilization. was sure to attract the
sympathes of his noble nature. The Vic
torian age will yet be the diamond age OF
the worlds history and the fame of Its
greatest statesman will be one of its bright
est gems.-Pall Mall Gazette.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-10
THE FOURTH EXPEDITION
Brig. Gen. Otis Will Probably Go to
Honolulu-Seventh Will Not

SAN FRANCISCO, July 9.-Until the
Honolulu program Is definitely settled Ma
| jor General Otis can make no Roadway
either in this matter or in regard to getting
off the transports Peru and City of Puebla.
The troops announced to go to Manila in
| these steamers are six troops of the Fourth
cavalry, two batteries of the Sixth artillery,
Ave companies of the Fourteenth infantry,
| sixty men of the Third artillery and some
recruits for the hospital corps, signal corps
and Eighteenth infantry. 1t was intended
that the Peru and the City of Puebla should
sail on Monday afternoon, but 1t will prob
ably be later in the week before they depart
Major General Otis stated tonight that the
First New York volunteers, to arrive here
on Tuesday, would probably proceed to Hon
olulu for permanent station there, and that
1t was possible that the Eighth California
regiment might also be located on the Ha-
waiian islands. 1t was originally intended
| to send it to Cuba. The Seventh California
will probably be sent to Manila with the
fifth expedition 1t has received the last
of its equipments, andtis ready for orders to
depart at any time. Rubber ponchos and
shelter tents were furnished today.
Affairs may be so shaped that Gen Otis,
will accompany Rear Admiral Miller on the
Philadelphia to Honolulu, and after the
Stars and Stripes have been hoisted. pro-
coed to Manila in another vessel. He will
be accompanied to Manila by Brig. Gen.
Harrison Gray Otis, who has received in
structions to be prepared to sail any day
Admiral Miller stated tonight that he
expected to sail for Honolulu on the Phil
adelphia about July Goth. He characterized
as improbable the report that the Ben
nington is going to the Ladrone Islands.
In compliance with Instructions from
Major Gen. Otis, orders have been issued
from the headquarters Of Brig. Gen. Otis
requiring that no passes be issued to en-
listed men allowing them to remain out
of their quarters later than 10 p. M, except
for important reasons and with the ap-
prevail Of the brigade commander.
Lieut.. Col. E. c. Little of the Twentieth
Kansas has been i'll for about two weeks,
and the probability Is that be will be re-
tired for disability, though this will be
very much against his wishes. He is a
prominent lawyer Of Abiline, Kan, and was
United States consul general in Egypt un-
der the administration of President Har-
risOn,
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-10
SICK and WOUNDED
ALL ABLE TO BE MOVED TO BE
SENT HOME
The Worst Cases Will Be Put on the
Hospital Ship Relief-BIanco's
Reply to Admiral Cevera

SIBONEY, July 8. 9 p. m, per Associated
Press dispatch boat Cynthia, via Port An
tonic. July 9, 10 a. m.-(Copyright, 1898, by
the Associated Press) Orders have Just
been issued by Surgeon Lefarge, who is in
charge today, that all the wounded and sick
soldiers who are able to bear removal shall
be taken to Hampton roads by the steamers
City of Washington and Olivette, which
will leave tomrrow Saturday.
The bad cases among the wounded and
sick will be put on board the hospital ship
Relief for better care. This will clear out
the hospitals here Of all but the minor
cases.
Through the courtesy of Rear Admiral
Sampson, Admiral Cervera was enabled to
communicate by wire with Captain General
Blanco at Havana, saying:
According to orders, the fleet sailed out
from Santiago on the morning of Sunday"
The imprisoned admiral then recites the
destruction that followed and tells of the
courteous treatment he has received at the
hands Of his captors.
Captain General Blanco in reply referred
in general terms to the will of Providence.
1t is now known with reasonable certain
ty that neither Pando nor any Of his forces
has reached Santiago.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-10

en- have no right to tamper with love or
matrimony. 1t Is best for themselves and
best for the human race that they should
not. 1t is not hard matter for men and
women to preserve their health if they
wish. 1t is far from impossible for them
to restore it after it has been lost. That
being the case, the modern Cupid is right
in looking with disfavor upon matrimonial
matches between sick men and unhealthy
women. Ill-health in a woman is generally
the result of some weakness or disorder of
the distinctly feminine organism that is
slowly sapping her vitality. At first,
little pain and slight indispositions which
seem to her quite uninportant They grow
steadily worse until she suffers all the time
from burning and dragging sensations, and
occasionally has to take to her bed Fin
ally they completely unfit her for wifehood
and motherhood. Dr. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription is an unfailing remedy for all
ments of this kind. 1t acts directly on the
delicate and important organs concerned
In maternity and makes them well and
strong. It transforms weak. sickly, nerv
Gus invalids into healthy happy wives and
mothers. Medicine dealers sell 1t. No hon.
est druggist will recommend a substitute.
"Since I wrote you we have had a baby girl
born to u.s." writes w. R. Malcolm, of Kuoebcl,
Clay Co. Ark. MY wife took Dr. Pierce's Fa:
voritc Prescription during the expectant period
and until confinement and she had no trouble
to mention. A stouter, healthier child was never
born. ,Our child will be one year of age on the
9Th inst, and she has not been sick day. Has
not had 80 much as the collie"
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-10
THE SPANISH VERSION
EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE
CRISToBAL COLON REPORTS
Fought to Finish But Were Out
Unanswered and Out-Fought at
Every Point-oregon Did,

GUANTANAMO, July s, per Associated
Press dispatch boat Cynthia, via Port An
tonic and Kingston, Jamaica, July 8, 1920
q. m.-(Copyright. 1898, by the Associated
Press.) Lieut.. Adolphus Kentros, the ex-
ecutive officer Of the Spanish cruiser Girls
tobal Colon, has written to Spain an off,
cial account of the movements Of Admiral
Cervera's squadron in the fight.
| The Colon came out last, at full speed,
and tried to escape the Brooklyn and Ore
| gon, but was compelled to beach 60 miles
west of Santiago at 1:15, and not at 2 o'clock,
as stated in Admiral SIMPSONS report.
The translation of the letter by the ex-
ecutive officer, Kentros, is as follows:
about o'clock the squadron got under
| way, the ships one cables distance from
each other At $3.50 the 1nfanta Maria Te-
resa cleared the entrance to the harbor
without receiving any fire until she had
passed Ell Moro. The Vizcaya felt the fire
when at the head of the entrance, as well
as the Cristobal Colon, and it is certain
that the Almirante Oquendo opened fire
while within the channel.
"When clear of the entrance, the Cristo-
bal Colon went ahead at her maximum
speed. The Infanta Maria Teresa at $3.50 a.
M, when hardly clear of the entrance, was
seen to be on fire in her after part, and in
q few minutes afterward was headed for
| the beach.
After an hour later the Almirante Oquen-
do was seen to be on fire, and she, too, was
headed for the beach at the same point.
"The Vizcaya and Cristobal Colon con-
tinued the fight. The former, about II
o'clock seeming herself overhauled by the
Brooklyn, Unanswered as if to ram, and
without doubt at that moment must have
| received the projectiles that started the fire
on her, and she was seen to head for the
beach in order to strand herself.
1.-THE Cristobal Colon alone remained,
staying within range, but a few moments
later she observed the Oregon closing up,
and later the same with the other ships.
1.-THE projectiles of the Oregon began
reaching us at l p. M, and that, together
with the fact that 1t was impossible to fight
with the after guns on account of the Colon's
lack of large caliber pieces, and the certainty
of being overhauled by the whole American
squadron in few hours, left no other rem
edy than to run ashore in order to avoid
useless sacrifice of life.
1.-THE admiral made no signals while at
sea, instructions for forcing the blockade
having been given the captains at meeting
which took place on the morning of the pre-
yiouS day,