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The Senator spoke for over an hour.
Running through his speech were two
principal thoughts. One was this idea,
that Republican success had been achiev-
ed through the Ignorant foreigners"
result which the Senator resented in the
name of the native Southern population
which was more American"
The other central idea with the Sen
ator was the injustice of the unequal
distribution of wealth. Upon this he
dwet with almost the emphasis which
he gave to the Ignorant foreigners"
What has been the cause of this
great struggle?' the Senator asked. ''rhe
people are Us honest and as industrious
as they ever were. What, then, was
the matter? The last census report shows
that the wealth of the country was $685.
600, 900, 900, or about $1,000 to each fam
lily of five members" The Senator quot
ed figures to show the inequality in the
distribution of wealth. "Why was Mas
sachusetts SO much better off than Ar
kansas? Were they more industrious
and more deserving" He considered
that the Southern people rank fully up
| to. if not ahead of, the people in the
balance Of the country. The Southern
people are more completely Anglo-Saxon
than those of the other States and there
fore more American.
| AT this point the chairman of the Dem
ocratic national committee made one of
the most remarkable of this series OF
startling statements for Arkansas con-
sumption. He illustrated his assertion
that the Southern people are 'more
| American" than the rest of the country
in this way:
1T took the people of the combined
North and East four years to conquer
the Southern people, and the latter had
built for them a pension list that was
appalling"
The Senator's speech bristled with as
sertions intended TO incite the spirit Of
class prejudice. He said:
"A1illionaires and paupers grow on til,
same bush. When you make a million
aire you make dozens Of paupers."
The men who advocated the gold stand
ard the Senator described as mo better
than a vile thief"
The argument by which he led up t
this conclusion is interesting The Sen
ator said that in 1866; the national deb
amounted to $3.50, ,S39, ,O00." He show
ed chow many bales of cotton would hav,
paid this debt then and how many now.
Then he proceeded:
"The men who took the bonds theI
gave greenbacks worth about SOC in gold
Now they are paid in gold, thus doublin,
the burden upon the people. While IS,
100000 bales Of cotton would have pait
the debt when it was contracted, it woulC
take 100000 bales now to pay it, with
cut interest" Senator Jones said "tha
he who undertook to make the people pa.
more than they had contracted to pa!
was no better than vile thief"
THE rich Northern States" the Sen
ator said, ''yet after this sort of a contes
Bryan received more than million vote
in excess Of what Cleveland received il
i 1892. lie believed deynutly that Rrvai
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HALucINATloNs, HoBeoeLINs.
Senator Stewart Tells What AiIs the
Nebraska Colonel.

Nebraska Colonel.
Senator Stewart of Nevada. the stall
wart silver leader, will vote and work for
Mckinley this year. He is tired of Bry-
an and Bryanism and here is why he has
left the Popocrat fold:
"Mr. Bryan's unparalleled campaign
for the principles Of the Chicago plat
form and his insistence on the adoption
of that platform at Kansas City," said
Senator Stewart, induced the people to
suppose the campaign of 1900 would be
conducted on the issues of 1886. In this
way they were mistaken. An hallucina-
tiOn induced Bryan TO make war on an
army of ghosts and hobgoblins, which a
diseased brain created. His instinct,
which has formerly led him to consider
realities, departed. He sought his closet
in pursuit of phantoms. and strung to-
gether ten thousand words, which he
gave to the public at Indianapolis. He
omitted all mention of the issues of 1S9G
and summarized the paramount issue of
the present campaign i'll pledge to the
Tagal Guerrilas."
Whatever the direct result of Senator
Stewards secession from the fusion alli-
ance in Nevada, the rapid spread of the
Western revolt against Col. Bryans In
dianapolis program introduces an element
of doubt into the canvass in Nevada.
Colorado. Montana, Idaho and Utah
which was wholly lacking four years
ago. Put on the defensive in one and
all these former strongholds by an at
tempted change of issues, and gaining
no material strength elsewhere by the
sudden about face of his acceptance
speech, it is easy to see the stamp of
genuine inspiration on Mr.. Stewards
prophecy that the Nebraska leaders pres
ent "anti-imperialistic" cenvass is doom
ed to defeat.
Nevada silverites, what are left of
them, are bothered about the determine
tion of Senator Stewart to support the
policy of the administration. Suyeyor
General Kelly says: 81 think Jones will
go next" and Sam Davis, the acrobatic
humorist who conducts the Carson An
peal, is State controller and engages In
various occupations, meanwhile expresses
his ideas in the one sentence: The An.
peal will blister Stewart"
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DEMOCRATS UNFIT TO GOVERN.
Why Ex-senator w. A. PETER Is Sup
porting Mckinley.


In published letter issued at Topeka,
Kan, ex-U. S. Senator PETER Of that
State says one of the principal reasons
why he leaves the Demo-Populist party
Is that it is not fit to govern the coun-
try. His exact words are:
"The Democratic party is not fit to
govern this country under modern condi-
tions of universal freedom. Look back
upon the second administration of Presi-
dent Cleveland. Upward of $3.50, 600, 900
IN United States bonds were sold with
out special authority of Congress to pro.
cure gold for the redemption reserve.
Most of the bonds Were sold to or through
syndicates Of spectators at enormous
! profits.
"The Republicans were wiser. The
| war with Spain made large expenditures
necessary; Congress authorized the Dor.
rowing of money, and $200,000,000 of 9
| per cent bonds were sold to our own peo.
pie in sums of $25 to $500. This is the
fourth year Of the Mckinley administra-
tion, and not one dollar Of gold has been
bought OF borrowed. The treasury now
holds nearly, il not quite, $450,000, ,00C
in gold coin and bullion, and there is
plenty OF money in the country for the
| transaction of the peoples business"
On the Philippine question Mr.. PeffeI
says: The insurrection of Aguinaldo ano
his followers must be completely and per
mancntly suppressed before civil govern.
ment can be permanently established. lii
the meantime the President is exertinf
every effort to preserve order and protect
all peaceably disposed persons.
LAS before stated when one sovereign
power cedes territory to another, the al
legiance of the inhabitants is transferred
to the new sovereign. The same ac
which transfers their country transfer,
the allegiance of those who remain in il.
That is the language of the Suprem,
Court of the United States in the case O,
the American Insurance Company VS.
Canter, l Peters, 511.
Our national title to the Philippine,
is as good in law as the titles we holc
for our homes; and the allegiance of tn,
tilipinos to the United States is due tn,
same as that of the people of Alaska O
Hawaii or New Mexico, Arizona or Okla
homa.
"a commission of able and conscien
tious men, headed by Judge Taft of Ohio
an eminent jurist, is now at work in tn
Philippines, opening the way for FIRE,
government and collecting information
for the use of Congress when that bod,
takes up the work of determining tn
civil rights and political status of tn
native inhabitants as provided in tn
treaty.
I'VE got into the Philippines as an in
cident of war. We are holding them be
cause, after due deliberation, the Ameri
can people concluded that that was tn
best thing to do for the Filipinos and 70
ourselyes-n
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Kinley's supporters. These foreigners
comprised fully one-half of the number
Of votes received by Mckinley"
These are the words of the man who
conducted the Democratic campaign in
1896. The same man is the present chair
man of the Democratic national com
mittee. He owes his position to the wish
OF Mr.. Bryan.
The language quoted above was used
j, IN speech. 1t is no remembered scrap
of idle conversation. 1t was uttered in
no heat of discussion. 1t was deliber-
ate expression.
Hundreds of thousands of ignorant
Foreigners" said Chairman James X.
Jones of the Democratic national COM
mittee, "who came here taking bread out
Of the mouths of honest labor, voted at
the last election at the dictation of Nc
Kinley's supporters. These foreigners
comprised fully one-half the number of
votes received by Mckinley"
And then on this basis that the Re
publican party owed success in 1896 to
ignorant foreigners" Chairman Jones
proceeded to hold out the hope of success
in 1900.
"Can there be any doubt" he asked,
"as to which shall prevail the six and
one-half millions of intelligent Bryan vot-
rs or the three and one-half millions
ignorant foreigners who voted for Nc
Kinley?
1t will seem to sensible people almost
Incredible that the chairman of the
Democratic national committee could
make such statements in a public speech
( But the Honorable Jas. X. Jones did it
More than two months after the elec
tion of 1896 he uttered the assertion
quoted.
The occasion was no less serious than
an address before the Legislature Of Ar
kansas. Senator Jones had just beer
elected to his third term in the United
States Senate. On the Goth of January
1897, the Senator appeared before an in
y formal joint session OF his State Legisa
ture at the capitol in Little Rock. HI
returned his thanks to the people of Ar
kansas through their representatives, tht
Legislature, and then he proceeded to dis
russ the defeat of Bryan, speaking as thu
chairman of the Democratic nationa
committee and the head of the manage
ment Of the Democratic campaign. II,
7 said that he believed devoutly that Bry
an had been elected and was swindlet
out of the presidency"
He declared his belief that In 1900 tn
himetallic forces would win great vic
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WHY CORN PRICES ARE HIGHER,
Republican Policy Has Enabled the
Workers to Eat More.

In 1876 there was a record breaking
crop of corn, amounting to 2.2S3 ,975. 1t,5
bushels, The highest price. however
corn corn reached that year in Chicago was
ao@s cents per bushel, during the month
Of April. During no other month did the
price touch 80 cents. In September. at
1he height of the Bryan boom, it got as
low ,ao,. as i9h cents, and through the rest
VI iooo 1t ald not touch higher than 25Ib
een.s, ts the record for the second half Of
the year being made shortly after the an.
houhcement-of McKinley's election.
In 1893 there was the largest crop of
eorn since 1896, it amounting to 2.07S.-
,933 bushels, which was 205, ,731 .232
bushels, or about 8 per cent under the
crop of 1896. The Chicago price of corn
however, during. the whole of 1899 aid
not touch below 30 cents bushel, which
was only " cent bushel below the high
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Nor can we "repudi-
ate" the principle OF
self-governme,nt jn the
South, without weak
ening that principle
throughout the repub-
lie.
Yet Mr.. Bryan's par
ty has made millions
of citizens into Sub
jects," practicing gov
ernment by force
without the consent
of the governed"
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Bryan's manager, j. X. Jones, said:
Hundreds of thousands of ignorant
foreigners, who were here taking bread
out of the mouths OF honest labor, voted
at the last election at the dictation of Nc
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had been elected and was swindled out
of the presidency. He told how the rail
roads, the banks and the bondholders, ar
rayed against Bryan with campaign
fund the like of which was never before
seen in this country, and which was used
lavishly. Business men were intimidat-
ed by the threats of the money power.
The Senator said, with great pride, he
would never forget the liberal responses
from the people of Arkansas to the DEM
ocratic campaign fund"
Predicting that the Republican party
would drop the idea of the gold standard
and endeavor to bring about bimetallism,
the Senator said ''the McIlinleyites saw
the handwriting on the wall"
What has become of the promised
prosperityy' the Senator asked.
"Mr. Mckinley seems TO be advanc-
ing, but the prosperity is not coming
with him." Senator Jones said "the gold
ties had been put on notice" He believ-
ed "that in 1900 the bimetallic forces
would win great victory. Rising prices
always bring prosperity, declining prices
adversely. The repeal Of the Sherman
act had been followed by decline of 10
per ceHl III DIiceS. 1he Ndusc VI ~ W as
the striking down of one-half of the
metallic money of the world" Senator
Jones concluded by asserting his belief
''that the principles he spoke for were
absolutely essential to the welfare of the
country"
In the midst of the enunciation Of such
views as these the Senator accounted for
the election of the Republican ticket by
declaring:
"HUNDERDS OF THOUSANDS OF
IGNORANT FOREIGNERS, WHO
ARE HERE TAKING THE BREAD
OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF HONEST
LABOR, VOTED AT THE LAST
ELECTION AT THE DICTATIoN
OF M'KINLEY'S SUPPORTERS
THESE FOREIGNERS COMPRISED
ONE-HALF OF THE NUMBER OF
VOTES RECEIVED BY M'KINkEY.' :
On the day after delivery the Sena
tors speech was reported in Arkansas
Gazette, the principal Democratic papei
Of the State and the organ of the Demo
cratic party. From that report, the ac
curacy of which has never been ques
toned by the Senator, the above i:
| taken.
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Yes; and the South,
which has been af-
hicted by Democratic
rule, is paying "the
tyrant's cost" in pow
erty, disorder and So
cial insecurity. In
taking the liberty of
others 1t has sacri-
feed its own progress.
Verify, "the God who
reigned over
Babylon
Is the God who Is
reigning yet"
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tory This still makes 16 to 1 the para.
mount issue.
He reasserted his conviction that the
principles he spoke for were absolutely
essential to the welfare Of the country
That is 16 to /.
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"Men may dare to
do in crowds what
they would not dare
to do as individuals,
but the moral charac-
ter of an act is not
determined by I h e
number OF those who
join in 1t. Force can
defend a right, but
force has never yet
created a right"
Rights never con.
q | c t ; duties never
clash. Caan 1t be our
duty to usurp politl-
cal rights which be-
long to othersf'
There are degrees
of proficiency in the
art OF self-gOvern-
ment, but 1t Is a re.
Election upon the Gre.
ator to say that He
denied to any people
the capacity of self
government"
Once admit that
some people are capa,
BILE of self-govern,
ment and others are
not, and that the
capable people have q
right to seize upor
and govern the in.
capable, a n d yor
make force - b r Il t {
force-the only foun
dation OF government
and invite the reigr
of the desp0t. :"
Would we tread II
the paths Of tyr
amy,
Nor reckon the tyr
ants cost?
Who taketh another'i
liberty,
His Freedom Is alsC
lost.
Would we win as the
strong has e v e
won
Make ready to pa,
the debt,
For the God WHIT
rel 6 n e d ov e
Babylon
Is the God who Il
reigning yet"
"If we are to gov
ern { h e m withou
their consent and Civ
them no voice in de
termining the take
they must pay, W,
d re OF educate
them, lest they learl
to read the Declara
tion Of independence
and the Constitution
of the United State.
and mock us for ou
Inconsistency"
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While "the Demo
cratic party disputes
this d O C trine" in
words il is enforcing
it in practice in a
quarter OF the States
of the Union.
Very true, but in
what States where
Mr.. Bryan's party has
power to prevent 1t
do governments de-
rive their just powers
from the consent Of
the governedf" When
and where did 1t try
to practice this pre-
cepty
| Then Mr.. Bryan's
party IS an organized
fraud. for its supre-
macy In many States
has been obtained by
doing "in crow d =
what they would not
dare TO do as individ-
uals." Its right" to
rule is ''created" by
force.
OF course not. Yet
Mr.. Bryan's party is
"ustlrping p0lit ical
rights" of hundreds OF
thousands of Amerl-
can citizens.
True, the Creator"
never denied to any
people the capacity OF
self-government," but
! despots and ID @ m O.
Gratis always have.
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While Mr.. Bryan
was saying this his
party was using fraud,
force and legislation
to deprive a whole
race Of their political
rights, and establish
Ing "the reign Of the
despot" in this coun-
try.
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How true this is of
the practice of Mr..
Bryan's party for
thirty years. 1t per-
sists by fair means
and foul in Illegally
governing nearly six
millions Of pc opl e
without their CON
sent and IL dare
not educate them lest
they learn to read the
Declaration of indie
pendenee nd t h e
Constitution Of t h e
United States, and
mock us for our in
consistency"
e at Mr.. Bryan's elo-
nd the thirty years.
conclusively demon
things; either, that
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Then why does Mr..
Bryan's party resort
to force and fraud to
disfranchise the col
ored race In t h | s
country?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-06-08
A Twice Fallen Idol.

There are to be seen in Munich and
Vienna and probably in many other
places fragments of a meteorite that
has had rather curious history during
its comparatively brief residence on
this planet.
1t fell in 1858 at Duruma, In east
Africa. The natives regarded it as a
message from heaven and hastened to
pay it appropriate honors. With great
solemnity it was anointed with oil,
wrapped in costly fabrics, adorned with
pearls and installed in temple, which
had been specially constructed for II.
Thenceforth it was looked upon as the
palladium of the tribe, lent to it by
heaven, according to the priests.
In vain did European missionaries Of
fer tempting sums for the stone. 1t
was not to be had at any price.
But three years later the tribe was
attacked and almost wiped out by the
warlike NASSAU. Thereupon the eyes
of the survivors were opened to the
impotence Of their idol. they lost faith
in its divinity and soon parted with it
for cash.
Its fate was Identical with that of a
great many gods and idols which have
been promptly deserted by their wor-
shippers as soon as their uselessness
was proved.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-06-08
An Uncommunicative FIagman.

Did you ever ask a fagman q ques-
tion about some other subject than one
connected with the railroad? The flag
man, always smoking pipe, will set
his teeth hard on the stem, will look up
the road, then down the road, then up
the road again. He will not look at
you. For two full minutes he will not
give any indication that he has heard
your question or that you are in exist
ence. He will then look up the road
and down the road again. This time
he may take his pipe from his mouth,
but he will not look at you. He will
work the tobacco down into his pipe
with his forefinger and look up the
road again. Still he will not look at
you. He begins, however, to give a
faint sign that he has heard your ques-
ton. A minute later, looking down
the track, he may ask you to repeat
your question. You want to know
where John Brown lives. He looks up
the road again. takes several strong
pulls on the pipe and gazes long and
earnestly down the road. He has not
as yet looked at you.
"Phat Brown is it" the fagman
may then ask.
"John Brown"
''It's Jerry Brown you wantT
"No; John"
'Is he wild the Big FourY'
"No."
Still the flagman continues to look up
the road and down the road. He takes
the pipe from his mouth. never looking
at you, never giving sign that you are
in existence, and says, IF he isn't wild
the Big Four, how the mischief should
know i'm m?'-Indianapolis News.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-06-08

''T don't know" I murmured iK be-
wilderment "Ive been walking all
night, lodging Beers, looking for you
and the duck, and at last thought, or
at least hoped, was on the road for
ward"
my case," he said weakly. 81 near
ly ran into the farmer looking for you
and pumpkin-did you come away
without a pumpkin ?-then I sat down
under tree with club l picked up
to bash the Boer with if he came both
ering me, and just as the moon was
finally eclipsed the tree or something
fell on me, and l didn't know anything
more until l woke up here. I believe l
thought | was somewhere near johann
nesburg. am horribly stiff and cold,
and my neck's broken, think, by that
tree that fell. Did you get that pump
kinT'
looked at him, conscience stricken.
II lost the bally thing" chartered,
for l shivered cruelty.
"Th-then," said the trooper, chatter
ing as badly, 'we-we'll broil the duck.
w ait llA get II, anu we IL Cl6dr OUT Oh
this neighborhood. It's t-too warm for
us here"
In one sense it was, but In another l
felt would never be warm again.
Before the trooper could move /
clutched him and dragged him back,
and we sank down in some long grass.
From the house came the towheaded
boy, and the constituencies rascal was
as bright and cheerful as if he had not
been the source of all our woes. He
had some corn in his hands for, appar-
emily, the ducks, but that boys eyes
missed nothing. He saw the dead bird
on the bank; he picked 1t up and ran
with it, yelling, back to the house. The
trooper and caught at each others
hands like lost children and fed togeth-
er, hungry and heartbroken.
The sun was well up when we less
ened our pace and listened for the
sound Of the big Beers pursuing voice,
but it did not come, and we sank, ex-
hausted.
This is beast of countryv' said
the trooper.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-06-08
Prefer Asuse to sIlenee.

"That there is an actor on earth who
does not peruse the articles and news
paper criticisms concerning him is past
belief" writes Franklin Fyles in The
Ladies' Home Journal. "Only here
and there one makes any such pre-
tense. An estimable and conspicuous
actress said publicly that she never,
never looked at anything printed about
herself. Privately, on that very same
day, she wrote to a journalist to pro-
test against something he had pub
lished. However. the attitude of the
majority is dignitied. in this matter. A
minority send mutual friends to ask
for kindness, employ so called press
agents and do not finch at notorIety
If they cannot have fame. The excuse
put forward for such conduct is that
publicity Is the actors breath of life.
Dion Boucicault once wrote to critic,
Praise me if you can, but abuse me
rather than let me alone He once
owned up to the authorship of pub
ushed letter violently assailing his own
drama of 'Formosa.' His aim was to
stir up au interest" s...
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-06-08
The Dublin Lord Mayors Pom,

The lord mayor of Dublin maintains
degree Of pomp and circumstance far
greater than that of any other civic
dignitary in the United Kingdom, out
side Of London, says the London Chron-
icle. His official residence Is stately
edif1ce, with ample accommodation for
entertaining, including "the round
ROOM" vast chamber constructed
when the city entertained George w.
The equipages and powdered footmen
Of his lordship would do credit to his
brother official in London. The lord
mayor receives e $4,000 a year, but 1t
must be remembered that $4,000
year in Dublin goes farther than 1t
does in London. The chief magistrate
has enjoyed the title of lord since the
time of Charles II. By far the most
distinguished holder of the office was
Daniel O'Connell.