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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-03-23
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Kentucky Heard FrOm-NOw and FOr-
ever, Says the POpulits Here
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS at st.
Nicholas Hotel
Today.
About Go Present-Ben Keys Here
Resolutions Were
Adopted.

There were all told, IS present repre-
senting the various counties. They re-
manned in session until after o'clock
this afternoon. and the following Is a
copy of the official proceedings:
The district committee of the Peoples
party met the call of the chairman, F.
w. Graham, of Paducha, March 4, 1898,
and was called to order by the chair
man. The following committeeman
were presnt: Crittenden county, w. H.
Brown; Livingston county, Charles
Ray; Lyon county, C. Lady; Trigg coun-
ty, B. F. Maddox; Marshall county, ].
H. Ham; Ballard county, T. J. Desha;
Hickman county, F. E. Jewell; Galloway
county, B. c. Keys; Graves county, L.
Thomas.
The following were appointed COM
mittee on resolutions:
A H. Cardin, j. M. McGee, E. ].
Desha, w. H. Calvert, ]. E. jewell Said
committee made the following report:
We, your committee beg leave to re-
port the following resolutions:
1. We, the members of the commit
tee of the First congressional district
reaffirm our faith in the principles of
the Omaha and ST. Louis platforms, and
hereby pledge ourselves anew, to renew
the fight with increased vigOr and cour
age until every principle therein set
forth shall be enacted into law.
2. We believe the shortest and quick
est mode, enacting these principles into
law, is through the initiative and refer
endum. We see the necessity of such a
law, to prevent the passage of such bills
as the Goebel election bill, which, if it
becomes law, will deprive the people
Of their elective franchise and we ap-
peal to the people, irrespective of party,
to petition to the legislature to defeat
this obnoxious bill.
3. We further resolve that we are
proud of our little band of patriots now
in the general assembly of Kentucky in
the stand they have taken against the
Goebel election bill and urge them to
still continue to fight the bill and if
possible defeat it.
4. We suggest the 18th day of May,
1898, as being the proper time to hold
the congressional nominating conven-
tion and further recommend that dele
gates to said convention be elected by
county mass meetings, and that the
basis of representation shall be one vote
for every 200 votes and majority frac-
ton thereof, of the vote cast for B. C.
Keys in 1896.
We further recommend Princeton as
being suitable place for holding said
convention owing to the fact that the
counties above the rivers have never
had a congressional convention of the
PEOPLES party.
Special resolution:-A. H. Cardin was
appointed a committee to secure rates
to the convention.
A. H. CARDIN, Chairman
B. j. WESSON, Secretary.
The state convention Is to be held on
March Is, and the delegates will be Sc
lected by the various counties.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-03-23

De LONE, the Spanish minister to the
United States, wrote a letter in which
he said President Mckinley was a low
politician, and that Spain had no in
tentions of carrying out it's promises.
Every gold bug, cur organ in the Uni
ted States declared the letter a forgery.
De LONE admitted that he wrote the
letter and resigned The cur organs said
the letter did not amount to much, that
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-03-23
Quite COmplime e n tary.

Editor of The Representative:
Dear Sir: For the enclosed $175
please credit me on subscription account
past due and future, and accept my SIN
cere thanks for your kindness in con-
tinuing to send me the paper. The
Representative comes nearer being the
exponent of my own ideas than any
other publication l have ever seen,
Very truly yours,
ELLIS E. WOLFE.
Falls City, Neb., March 8, 1898.
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Ct T. h.d ad rot 90
xus this
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-03-23

thing on the political billboard And
as for men, it's ineXplainable vascilla-
tions can be best understood by COM
pairing it's utterances now and the action
of Dobbyn at the st. Louis convention
in 1896 with the fact that 1T WAS THR
FIRST PAPER IN MINNESOTA TO
RECOMMEND IGNATIUS DONNELLY
FOR THE POPULIST PRESIDENTIAL
NOMINATION IN 1896!
Dobbyn seems to be wonderfully fond
Of quoting history and, as Bill Nye
said Of himself, he has "a remarkable
recollection of events that never took
place. but is evidently short on real,
bona fide happenings. l want to drop
few hints for the benefit of him and
his small cOterie.
1t was not Ignatius Donnelly who
came before the committee on resolu-
tions at the Minnesota Peoples party
convention in 1894 and objected to the
stipulation of any ratio in the free sill
yer plank of our platform, urging as a
reason that there was "GOING TO BE
pan-Amerlcan INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE TO ESTABLISH A RAJ
ITO AGREEABLE TO THE UNITED
STATES, MEXICO AND CENTRAL
AMERICA, AND THE POPULISTS OF
MINNESOTA OUGHT TO WAIT AND
BE GUIDED BY IT'S DELIBERATIONS.
When w. j. Bryan was in your city
this winter he cheered the hearts Of
Populists all over the state by telling
them that "the Peoples party were pio-
neers in establishi the ratio of 16 to
IL Where would Minnesota have been
in that pioneer movement If they had
cut the heart out of the free coinage of
silver plank in their state platform in
1894? What effect would such a course
with it's $4,000 Populist votes, have had
upon the course of political reform all
over the United States? l appeal to
such men as Robert Schilling, Col. S. F.
swer to that question. And l want to
repeat that it was not Ignatius Donnelly
who attempted that thing. But if he
had and had prevailed upon the commit
tee and convention to have adopted free
silver without naming a ratio (Which Is
the gold standard idea of free silver I
believe plutocracy would have sent him
to the United States senate instead Of
Knute Nelson, or have given him any
other office or emolument and clothed
him in purple and fine linen. Why not?
Furthermore, 1 want to add that Mr..
Donnelly did not buy up the remains
of bankrupt gold mine ana, after en-
couraging the operatives to continue at
their stations for seven or eight months,
send them out, WITHOUT PAY to roam
over the state and seek remunerative
employment Of the honest farmers.
l do not care to give details, and will
not, unless compelled to by the continu-
ed assaults of Dobbyn and his co-work-
ers upon Mr.. Donnelly and others who
stand by the Omaha platform.
The noble men who composed the COM
mittee on resolutions referred to above,
know that l am not dealing in fiction.
l am neither a man -worshiper nor a
tailwag- g-the-dog fusionist | am willing
to acknowledge and forgive mistakes.
But justice to our cause and its leaders
demands FAIR PLAY.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-03-23

Read our advertisements. The prices
quoted are for reliable goods and we
know it will pay you to compare them
with the goods and prices of others be-
fore you make your selection.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-03-23

The initiative and referendum will be
the national issue in 1900. Bond and
Industrial Slavery" will be the compaign
text book. Price rs cents.
The courier., 1898-03-12
The Passing Show.
VILLA GATHER.


talk in New York, 'The Tree OF
knowledge" and ''The CO1querOrs, VI
are both pretty bad from every point
of view. l saw them both in one day
and about midnight l felt that life
was hardly worth the trouble of
respiration.
1t seems a trifie incOngruOus to en-
counter such piece as ''The Tree of
knowledge" at the Lyceum theatre,
the seat and stronghold of the mild
domestic dramas of Messrs. Belasco
and de Mile, but these are degenerate
days. The plot of the piece is about
asfollOws: Nigil StanyOn, while study
ing for the ministry, had fallen under
the-well, we'll be orthodox and call
it the 'spell'' Of female vampire,
Belle, her last name varied to suit the
occasion. After setting him merry
pace for some months, the lady left
him for some fellow with more money
and he threw up his high calling and
returned home to break the heart Of
his pretty little ward, Monica, with
his selfish and rather theatric re-
morse
While he is posing as blighted
being, bis best friend, Brian HOllings-
worth. marries and brings his wife
home. Nigil meets her and of course
recognizes the woman who shared his
past, the fascinating Belle. This lady
is portrayed by the large, large Julia
Opp. l really never saw an actress
quite so large. One might almost play
on Miss Arthur's well known sObri.
quet and call Miss Opp "a Lady of
Quandity." Yet her proportions are
not at all of the Lillian Russell sort;
she is wonderfully well made only
there is so alarmingly much of her.
She is handsome, and she is clever
actress. She has an uDgrateful part
to play, a woman without even the
kindly instincts Of animals, a woman
whose only task is to debase other
people as much as possible and whose
only grief is that she is not quite bad
enough to satisfy her own imagina-
tiOn, a woman who is only happy when
she can be actively destructive, like
some hungry acid which must be
up someone's tissues always
and grows more deadly and potent
by what it feeds upon. And Miss Opp
plays this woman well. She dresses
her, poses her just as she should be.
Yet when / have said that Miss Opp
is clever, think l have given her
her full mead of praise. What she
does she does well, but 1 never saw so
good an actress 50 completely lacking
in the power of suggestion, nor so
conscious that she was
acting well. She is self
but it is sort of trium-
phant Self-consciOusnesS which car
ries you with it. l kept feeling that
she was just putting up magnificent
bluff, such strong one that nobody
Jared call her. She is as totally with
,ut atmosphere and personal magnet
SIN as big scarlet tulip is without.
perfume. l doubt if she ever does
)etter work than she is doing now,
[ doubt if she will ever be anything
more than big, striking looking
woman, with aggressiveness and self
assurance to burn.
But to return to the ''Tree." Belle
luite enjoys the situation created by
he discovery that her sometime an.
lex is her husbands dearest friend"
This is SO thoroughly to her taste that
The courier., 1898-03-12

Brian has lost all his money does moi
tend to stimulate her interest in rustic
simplicity and loves young dream.
cannot fancy human being more
Odious than this Belle i'm the scene in
which she learns of her husbands
financial embarrassments. Miss Ops
father keeps 'tiive" down on the
BOwery, by the way, and l fancy she
doesn't see things through the rosy
glasses Of sentiment anyway. 1t seems
almost too fatally easy to her to be
common.
Well, when life got really too
mOnOtOnOus, one hot afternoon when
there was nothing else interesting to
90, just TO amuse herself. the fair
Belle tells her boy husband that she
has been another mans. Conceive
that, if you can! The boy simply goes
daft. After his rawlings have grown
mOnotOnOus and have ceased to amuse,
Belle advises morphine and gets him
hopelessly bound to the drug. But
even making morphine fiends soon
loses its charm, and Belle hies her
unto the ever fruitful tree of knowl-
edge again for 4. new variety of ex-
periences. When a woman goes snake
hunting the serpent usually turns up
This time he comes i'm the shane of
Mr.. LOTUS ROupell, who tells Belle
that he doesn't love her and has no
illusions about her, and they think
they will suit each other excellently
and prepare to flee.
Nigil StanyOn discovers the Mot,
and on the night of the elopement
goes to the house to save his friend.
he tells Belle she shall not go to her
lover who awaits her, and attempts to
keep her by force. Then follows one
OF those abominable wrestling matches
which seem to be in vogue i'm New
York theatres Just now. Brian, the
husband, returns and demands the
meaning OF this extraordinary scene.
Miss Opp shelters; herself in his pro-
tecting arms in the most approved
manner and gasps out: Don't let
him speak! He will poison your mind
against me, Brian-there has been a
shadow between US all these months
l knew it, but was helpless. / told
you some of the truth, but not all
Once almost confessed. Do you re-
member?''
Il told you-that before l met Won.
thief had stolen from me all that a
woman holds most dear. / told Won
SO much but no more. didn't tell
you the name of the man."
'Tell it to me, now," pants Holl-
ingsworth.
Il keptit secret in mercy to you,''
she says
"Tell me the man."
.'Nigil StanyOn, she cries. ..,Thera
is the thief
You may think that even this plav
could not sink any deeper into the
mire OF nauseating melodrama than
this-but it did. After Nigil leaves
them Belle twines herself about Moor
little Brian, who is shorter than she
by half a head, and reduces him toa
state of abject and maudIin alteration
then fills him up With morphine. and
when he is asleep, signals to her lover
and softly and silently elopes! Yes
just like the unfortunate Bakerman
in the Hunting of the Shark" she
Softly and silently vanished avav
And never was heard of ao,;c -
The courier., 1898-03-12

long as literary examination is not
the prerequisite to the possession OF a
theatre ticket, theatrical managers
acknowledge the obligation that they
are under OF putting play on which
is complete and self-explanatOry. Ru-
pert Of Hentzau opens with the reap
pearance OF the king who wore the
coronation robes, who felt the holy
oil trickling on his fOrehead-the real
king Of the queen of Ruri6ania. The
king who was never crowned by love
or priest is assassinated, the corona
tiOn king, Rudolph Rassendyl, is
forced, in order to save the
queen from gossip to assume and
to act the king once more,
before he knows the uncrOwned king
is dead. Well. he has played the part
SO many times that when the news
comes that the legitimate heir to the
throne OF Ruritania is dead, his il
legitimate British cousin will have to
take his place i'm order that black
scandal darken not the lives of Sapt,
Fritz VOn-Tarlenheim and Queen
Flavia. The story has the rapid ac-
tion Of The Prisoner of Zenda and
comes very near causing lovers to be
late at the tryst, students to be late at
lectures and innumerable suppers
wait while the head of the house finds
out how Fritz secured the letter and
how many were killed in the attempt.
DuMauTier's posthumOus criticism of
the three most famous contributors to
Punch are finished i'm the March Har
per's. His friendliness to readers is
more than ever apparent i'm these
critical notes of himself and his pre-
decessors. The type is warm with
kindness and goodwill to us and to
those he writes of, and the iutente
easily reaches as far as the central
plains of North America.
Scribner's contains the first INSTALL
ment Of the second part of Walter
Wyckoff's experimental studies called
''The Workers." Mr.. Wycoff was a
peripatetic seeker for work i'm Chicago
during the winter of 1891 when rows Of
hopeless laborers slept at night on the
marble floors of the corridors of city
and government buildings. He says:
"a new phase of my experiment is be-
gun. Hitherto l have been in the
open country, and have found work
with surprising readiness. Now 1 am
in the heart of a congested labor mar
ket, and am learning, by experience,
what it is to look for work and fail to
find it; to renew the search under the
spur Of hunger and cold, and of the
animal instinct of self preservation
until any employment, no matter how
low in the scale of work, that would
yield food and shelter, appears to you
the very kingdom of heaven; and if it
could suffer violence it would seem as
though the strength Of your desire
must take that kingdom by force.
But it remains impregnable to your
attack, and, baffled and weakened,
you are thrust back upon yourself and
held down remOrselessly to the cold,
naked fact that you, who i'm all the
universe are Of suDremest importance
to yourself, are yet Of no Importance
to the universe. YOuare superfluOus
being. For you there is no
part in the play of the worlds activ-
ity. There remains for you simply
this alternative: Have you the physi-
cal and moral ualiti los Chich fit roll
The courier., 1898-03-12

the society cOntemplates. Under the
incubus, however, Of twenty Vice
Presidents General it is difficult fol
the mind which has never been
trained and strengthened by flights
outside the ranks, to conceive how
the society can be Of permanent and
actual usefulness.
War between nations will be
an overwhelming disaster to one
side or the other or even to
both. The Maine explosion is sufi-
c;ent indication of the total destruc-
tion that mines and torpedOes will be
able to accomplish in maritime war
fare. II the impending war between
our beloved country and Spain is de-
clared, it will be the first time in his
tory that explosives and engines Of
such energy have been used. One
shot well directed, one mine, or one tor
pedO exploded in the right spot at the
right time will explode the magazine
and the ship and every soul on board
will be blown to atoms of flesh, tim
bers, and fragments of metal. Such
awful and sudden destruction of our
seamen as well as of the innocent and
brave Spanish tars, is what makes
those in authority on both sides Of the
ocean hesitate before signing the death
warrant of thousands of those who love
life and whom God loves equally. If
Spanish citizens blew up the Maine
without the knowledge Of Spain,
Spain will and must make adequate
material restitution. She cannot pay
for the clean limbed sailors, whose
splendid discipline and courage yielded
not to panic even in the moment Of
death, but she can pay to their fami-
lies a sum equal to the earning capac-
ity of each man i'm an average lifetime,
plus pension for the superannuated.
But to the men whose activity is con-
fined to moving with the sun i'm win
ter and the shade in summer on the
corners of Eleventh and o, whose feet
are planted on the comparatively
harmless sidewalks of this bucOlic
town and not upon the deck of a bat
tleship which contains thousands Of
pounds Of powder and high explosives,
these suggestions for rendering bill
of damages to Spain will be denounced
as unpatriotic. Although the advan
tages are not all on the side Of peace,
the horrors of total annihilation
which would attend maritime war
today is giving pause to the delibera-
tiOns of the administration which i'm
the DAYS of shoot and run they would
not have had.
The advantages of war are that it
unites country divided by petty
partizan hatred, and kindles patriot
ism; it stimulates the heroic virtues
of which the signs have been almost
obliterated by centuries Of peace, but
it does this at tremendous cost.
During this prologue of war the
country needs be thankful that no
jingo sits in the presidential chair
but a man conservative and careful
of the best interests of the country as
well as jealous of its name and honor
among nations.
The magazines of the month Of
March are unusually entertaining.
Because of the universal interest i'm
Hopes sequel to the Prisoner
~ Zapda uuur r,,nainu in MacCuusoS
The courier., 1898-03-12

The magazines of the month Of
March are unusually entertaining.
Because of the universal interest in
Anthony Hopes sequel to the Prisoner
Of Zenda now running in MacClures
that magazine will probably have the
honor Of emerging at the end of the
month with dogs'-eared leaves and
very dirty covers. In spite of the
misgivings acquired from the expert
ence of many sequels, Rupert of
Hentzau takes precedence Of all the
magazine literature of the month. 1t
is said that rights of dramatizatiOn
have already been sold, but this story
will be a most difficult story for the
stage to tell. Most dramatized stories
depend upon the assumption that the
audience has read the story and that
is why most Of them are failure. So
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-10-11
Riotous Soldiers Suppressed.

Lexington KY, Oct. 1l.-As a result
of the killing of a private In the
Twelfth New York regiment by Provost
Guard Kitchen Sunday night 300 or 400
members of that regiment formed u
mob last night and seized a train at
Camp Hamilton, with the intention Of
coming to town on it and raiding the
county Jail for the purpose of taking
Kitchen out and lynching him. Cen
eral Wiley and Colonel Leonard sup
pressed the mob by the most radical
and prompt action. The outbreak was
not unexpected. and the Jail was heav.
lily guarded. The provost guard in the
city was also doubled, and things are
now quiet. 1t is believed that the
prompt measures that were taken pre-
vented what promised to be a serious
nnpHipt
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-10-11
Voorhees, Resignation Delayed. !.

New York, Oct. 11.-Governor Voor-
hees, of New Jersey. did not resign as
senator from Union county president
of the senate and acting governor to-
day, as had been announced. He will
probably hold office until next Tuesday.
The reason Of this change Of plan Is
that there are several matters relating
to state institutions which will have to
be attended to by the acting governor
between this time and the installation
of the governor elected in November.
Speaker Watkins, of the assembly, de-
clines to exercise any Of the rights Of
governor unless something unforeseen
and pressing occurs. During the COM
ing week Governor voorhees, will trans
act all the business of the office to be
done between now and January next,
and then Mr. Watkins will take hold
and fill out the term.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-10-11
ITEMS FROM
new CASTLE.
Correspond Of the REPUBLICAN
NRw CASTLE. Oct.

C0rfo6p0nQeDce OI tne hhPuBLICAN
| NEW CASTLE. Oct. II.
| The attorneys, who had charge Of tht
HoIschumaker sale were surprised yester
day when bidders did not put in All appear
ance. A six room brick dwelling on Nortf
Second street with lot lS1l5D feet was
knocked down to Joseph Bacon for $500
| The home property was bought In OF ", 500
Division No. 8, Ancient Order Of Liber.
ians, are making rapid strides forward. Al
| the meeting on Saturday night nine mem
bers were initiated ana five proposition
cards received.
The grand Opera house has been engag-
ed for ball to be given on Thanksgiving
eve, Novem ber 49, the committee In charge
being William S. Martin. Frank Pagan,
James F. Dougberty. Peter Toner. Archie
Watson and Peter G. Madden.
The wedding of Miss Bertha Matthews
and Frank Forrest Fritz will take place
tomorrow evening at tho home Of Miss
The ceremony will be performed by Rev
r. Irving Watkins. Miss May Matthews
will be bridesm maid and John Fritz will be
best man.
A letter was received here yesterday
from Mr5. = In Pedrick OF Lancaster de.
nyinR the report that she died some weeks
ago. The report of her death was given
out here BY relative who received letter
to tina. effect.
The funeral of Corporal Edgar Brown
Whitnack will take place to- morrow after.
noon. Tho pail bearers will be the four
corporals from Company H. The floral
offerings will be handsome.
Henry Brockson and son spent yester-
day In Dover.
Miss Wheeler, Of Washington, D. G., Is
the guest Of New Castle friends.
Friendship Conclave No. 81 Adhesive
Mogullions is making arrangements to
attend reception by Wilmington No. IN
on Saturday evening. O,tober 22d
Charles X. Whann, of Wilmington, was
here last evening to see property owner
who owns store on Market street In Will
mington. Mr.. Whann will engage in the |
Wholesale egg and butter trade.
Howard Morris Of Chester had narrow
escape from drowning on Sunday. The
row boat attached to the yacht Kerven
broke loose and Morris jumped over board
to capture it. he reached the boat it
sank and he was lett in curious predlca-
ment. The yacht finally hove to and saved
the man from drowning
The New Castle Shirt factory has been
sold to Mr.. Pyle, Of Wilmington, and a
leading shirt manufacturer Of Philadel-
phia. The factory will resume operations
on Monday next.