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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-05-31
AN IMPROMPTU ADDRESS.
But Most Unfortunate Circumstance
Made 1t q Lamentable
.... Failure.

A hot presidential fight was just be-
ginning to crackle. One of the two
great political parties of sovereign
state was choosing delegates to the
national assemblage which would NOM
mate a candidate for the chief magis-
tracy. Upon the action of this state
much depended, and all over the coun-
try kilograms giving the first news of
the convention were anxiously await
ed, writes II. C. Pearson in Woman's
Home Companion.
The spacious hall of meeting was
early filled with the miscellaneous as
sortment of small politicians who usu-
ally form the bulk of such a gather
ing. They were fairly seething with ex-
element, caused by the knowledge of
their momentary Importance in the
eyes of the nation.
Presently the hum of conversation
arising all over the room was varied
by burst of applause which origina-
ted near the main entrance and spread
through the crowd like fire in dry prai-
RE grass. The cause was not far to
seek. The boss himself had arrived,
and his followers FASTENED to greet
him with the adulation which was his
meat and drink.
Hon. Horton Lloyd advanced down
the center aisle, his head and shout
ders thrown far back, his right hand
inserted in the bosom of his Prince AL
bert coat, sef-satisfed smile curving
the corners of his mouth. AS he pre-
pared to seat himself, well toward the
front, yet not upon the platform, cries
of Speech! speech!" came from the
four corners of the hall.
1t seemed a natural and spontaneous
outburst. but little gray man by the
side of the boss chuckled quietly as he
whispered to his companion: ''They do
that well, don't they?"
In response to the popular demand
the boss mounted the platform and
smilingly surveyed the audience as he
waited for the tumult to subside. "Gen-
tlemen,' said he, when at length he
was permitted to proceed, gentle
men, fellow-members of great po-
litical party (applause), assure you
that my heart is profoundly stirred by
the warmth of the welcome you have
extended me to-day. Great applause.)
I came here to sit among you and to
participate with you in the choice of
the men who will voice the sentiment
of our state at the convention which
will name the next president of these
United States. Tremendous ap-
plause.) I did not expect to be called
upon to address you to-day, much, less
did expect to be the cause of so great
| q demonstration as has just greeted
me. Had been forwarned / should
have forearmed myself by preparing
with care speech as well suited to the
dignity and honor of this body as lies
within my ability. As it is can only
talk to you from the depth Of my heart,
speaking as man to man, without fore
thought of preparation"
Here the boss hesitated for second,
as if to hunt for an impromptu inspira-
ton. There was an expressive hush in
the hall, broken suddenly by the shrill
voice of newsboy just outside the en-
trance: Evening Sentinel! Great
speech in full of Hon. Horton Lloyd at
the convention this afternoon! Even
| ing SentineIi"
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-05-31
MINI ESO TA NEWS.
For the Soldier.

The troops who leave Walker soon
for the frigid climate of Alaska will
be well supplied with reading matter
for some time to come. Miss Gratia
Countryman, secretary of the state
library commission, has sent them a
large box filed with books and the
latest magazines which were pur-
chased with what was left of the sol
diers' fund contributed to the Wo-
mans Council Library Committee dur
ing the time the state troops were en-
camped at Chickamauga.
The demand for reading matter
among the boys in blue is very great,
and Lieutenant Barrows, of the Thir-
teenth regulars, now in service in the
Philippines, has written friends in
Minneapolis to the effect that the
troops there are very anxious to be
supplied with something to read.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-05-31
Jury Conyicts on Second Trial,

Pottsville, Pa, May %. After q
hours elaboration. the jury brought
in verdict convicting Andrew Coras,
guilty of murder in the second degree,
and Joseph Souchowsky. John An
thony and Peter Stenkavage, Michael
Brosiuski, Anthony Machulus, guilty
of manslaughter, for causing the death
of Joseph Rowskoski last September at
William Penn. this county. This was
their second trial.
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Young People at Cincinnati.

Cincinnati. May 2s.-At the Young
Peoples league of the New Jerusalem
church, E. A. Munger. of Chicago, pre-.
sided, and Frank A. Gustafson, OF
Olney, ILL.,, conducted the opening ex-
ercises. The per capita tax for the
year was fixed at 90 cents, and the
expenses of the president and secre-
tary ordered paid. ]. IT. Stockwell,
Jr., Of Philadelphia, was elected presi-
dent
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Attempted Murder.

Toledo, O., May 2s.-Charles Bartl-
ley. a real estate dealer of Chicago,
and owner of considerable property
here. attempted to assassinate his
stepfather. r. A. BARLEY. at the lat
ter's home on Grand avenue. but after
a desperate struggle was arrested.
Jealousy is said to be the cause.
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Application for Extradition.

Washington. May 2S.-The state de-
partment has received from the Brit
ish ambassador a formal application
for the eStradition of Count de
Toulouse Lautrec. now under arrest
in Chicago on a charge of swindling
and forgery committed in Montreal.
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bond Exchanwe.

Washington, May 2s.-The amount
of bonds so far exchanged at the
treasury for the new two per cent.
consols of 1880 is $2S1. 433, 700, of
which 6i.3Os,5OO was received from
individuals and institutions other
than national banks.
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NewA In Brief.

One of the dams on the Grow Wing
river went out recently, leaving a
large amount of logs tied up.
The Thirteen Towns Old Settlers
Association is perfecting plans for it's
first annual picnic, to be held at Offs
Lake, June 10th.
Yep Kim, the Chinese laundryman
at Plainview, and cousin to Yup Poy
of the laundry in Rochester, COM
mitted suicide by cutting his throat
from ear to ear. He died in few mo-
ments after the deed was done. Finan-
cial embarrassment and cruel treat
ment are attributed as causes.
A black fox was recently killed in
Polk county by Chas. Bell, of Chester
township.
A. w. Bjornstad, who served with
the Thirteenth Minnesota regiment as
captain of Company H, has been
wounded in the Philippines.
Charles A. Tullar, of Warren, a
prominent farmer we'll known all over
the valley, has been appointed mem
Der of the board of regents of the Uni
versity of Minnesota.
The body of an unknown man was
found in the lake at Duluth. It was
clothed in winter apparel, with cap
pulled down over the ears and skates
strapped on the shoes. It is supposed
the body was scooped up by dredges
fho% IN, ho ho~ 4
taken in the dump scow out into the
lake.
Mrs. Henry Henze, wife of wealthy
farmer near Rushford, committed sui
eide, taking poison first and then ty-
ing fifteen feet of rope around her
neck and the foot of tree and rolling
down a bank. Her reasons are un-
known. She was 40 years old.
Olof Peterson, merchant of Mar
shall, has closed up and made an APP
plication in bankruptcy.
The examination OF applicants fol-
appointment to West Point from the
first congressional district resulted in
Otto Davies securing first place. D
X. Frost and Mr.. Sanders, Of DIVA.
tonna, were almost even for second
place.
Mrs. Henry HenRessey, Of Winona
committed suicide by hanging. She
was choked to death.
A section Of the sidewalk of the
Sampson addition bridge in Crookston
gave way Sunday evening under the
weight of large number gathered te
watch the spearing of sturgeon in the
river. The abutment prevented al
least 90 people from being precipi.
tated into the river.
John Gilbert, of Fisher, has been
granted patent on land roller.
Beginning June /, the Northen Pa
cifc express will supPlant the Adams
N the ST Paul & Duluth road.
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Commits Suicide.

ST. Joseph, Mo-, May 2s,-Prof. Rob-
ert Wiziarde, young author and COM
poser who came to ST. Joseph sew
eral months ago from Kansas City,
committed suicide in his studio here
by cutting the arteries in his wrists
with a razor He left no note to ex.
plain why he committed the deed.
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Cant. McCarty Dead.

Richmond, Va, May as.-Capt. Page
McCarty, one of the principals in the
famous McCarty-Mordecai duel. is
dead, the result of long illness. The
duel, which took place here in the
spring of 1879, was one of the most
celebrated since the civil war.
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II. h. Blackstone Dead.

Chicago, May 90. Timothy B. Black
stone, former president of the Chicago
& Alton systems Of western railroads.
and probably the Oldest railroad chief
executive in America. died early in the
morning at his home, 2o3 Michigan ay-
enue. aged II years.
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Plague nj Manila.

Manila, May 2sThe government
corral at Manila has been quaran-
tined. There are four suspected cases
of bubonic plague among the team
sters who are living in filthy dwell
ings which will be burned.
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Companies Pay.

Because of the policy of refusing to
grant licenses to companies which
failed to comply with the Somerville
law, the state is enriched by $11,175.
While other classes of corporations
have refused to file articles with the
secretary of state and pay the re-
CURED fee, insurance companies, with
two exceptions, have qualified. The
two in question are expected to come
in under the law in a short time
In list prepared Commissioner
O'Shaughnessy figures that 22o COM
panies have been given licenses and
paid the fee asked. Had all corpora
tons, exclusive of insurance COM
panies, been compelled to comply with
the law, the state, it is estimated,
would now have an additional revenue
of about $4,000.
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votes to MAKE No Change.

Chicago, May %. = There was an up
roar at the morning session of the
Methodist general conference Satur-
day, during the controversy over the
amusement question, the result being
that the conference voted to make no
change whatever in paragraph 24s of
the discipline relating to amusements
of all sorts by adopting the minority
report.
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Satisfactorily settled.

Washington, May 2a.-Consu1 Cen
erai Stowe at Cape Town has report
ed to the state department that the
seizures of -four and provisions on
the three vessels, Mashona, Beatrice
and Maria, have been finally and sat
isfactoriIy settled.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-05-31
No New Cases Of Plague.

San Francisco. May 2s.-Dr O'Brien
secretary of the board of health,
stated to the press that no new cases
of plague had been reported to the
board of health. and that he knew
nothing OF the case reported to the
authorities in Washington by DR..
Kinyoun. the federal quarantine oh-
Ger at is port.
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Contract Awarded.

Washington, May 2s.-The secretary
of war has awarded the contract for
the construction of a breakwater at
San Pedro, Cal, to the California Con-
struction company, at its bid of S2,375,-
900. The original contractors for this
work failed in the performance of
contract requirements and their con-
tract was annulled
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To Co 10 Pekinr.

Washington, May 2s.-Lieut. Col.
John S. Mallory, Forty-frst infantry,
has been detailed as one of the Off
GERS to obtain military information
abroad. He will be designated as
military attache and assigned to the
American legation at Picking.
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Taylor to aui, kentucky ana Polite.

Cincinnati. May % \ dispatch
from Indianapolis says that it is
stated there by an officer of life in
surance company that William s.
Taylor. late governor of Kentucky,
has decided to abandon politics, re-
move from Kentucky and accept the
position of executive manager for the
insurance company with headquarters
at Indianapolis.
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To E.tabl,.h once in Honol.,.

San francisco. May %. Collector
of Internal Revenue Lynch is making
preparations to establish an Office in
Honolulu. the Hawaiian islands hav-
ing been added to the district of Cali
fornia. The internal revenue laws go
into effect in Hawaii on June IA All
deputies at the Honolulu Office viii be
selected from the citizens of Hawaii.
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and countries against the convictions of
plain duty" Is our constitution such
a perversity that under it congress can
legislate for the oppression OF foreign
peoples, but is powcrlcss to legislatc for
the protection of our own? Such logic
will not appeal to the American voter.
CONGRESS CAN THROTTLE
TRUSTS.
With absolute control over interstate
commerce, with absolute control OF the
power of national taxation, congress
has the power to drive every trust that
ever existed into oblivion Congress,
by proper legislation, regulated the
transportation of commodities manu-
featured by prison labor among the
states. Isn't it absurd to say that it has
not the like power to regulate the
transportation OF trust products? When
congress saw fit to abolish the issue OF
paper money by state banks it put a
tax OF 10 per cent on the issuance OF
such notes, and state bank notes came
suddenly to an end. Thank God the
Kansas City convention did not stand
terror stricken before this anaconda
threatening the future OF the American
people! In language that cannot be
misconstrucd or misunderstood it said
in its platform:
Private monopolies are indcicnsiblc
and intolcrablc. They destroy compcti-
ton, control the price Of all material,
and of the finished product, thus rob-
bling both producer and consumer.
They lessen the employment Of labor
and arbitrarily fix the terms and condi-
tons thereof, and deprive individual en-
ergy and small capital Of their oppor-
tunity for bcttcrmcnt. They are the
most efficient means yet devised for ap-
propriating the fruits of industry to the
benefits of the few at the expense of the
mary, and unless their insatiate greed is
checked all wealth will be aggregated
in few hands and the republic de-
stroyed.
THE dishonest paltering with the
trust evil by the Republican party in
state and national platforms is conclu-
sive proof of the truth Of the charge
that trusts are the legitimate product Of
Republican policies; that they are fos-
tered by Republican laws and that they
are protected by the Republican admin
istration in return for campaign sub
scriptions and political support.
eve pledge the Democratic party to
an increasing warfare in nation, state
and city against private monopoly in
every form. Existing laws against trusts
must be enforced and more stringent
ones must be enacted providing for
publicity as to the affairs of corpora
tons engaged in interstate commerce
and requiring all corporations to show,
before doing business outside the state
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tariff OF o5-Ioo cents, practically two
cents pound, and that the price of
raw sugar is usually about two cents a
pound, you can readily sec how this
grievance could be removed by putting
sugar on the free list. And l ask you,
earnestly and canddly, why in the
world should this not be done? 1t was
good Republican doctrine when l was a
Republican; why is it not good doctrine
now, as well as common sense? 1t
would save the American people hun
drcds OF millions OF dollars and bring
additional comforts to the table OF every
American home; but the sugar trust
controls the administration and it cam
not be done.
THEY WANT THE EARTH.
But these interests, these privileged
classes, are not content with our own
country. They want more worlds to
conquer. They want to control popu-
lations that have less power of resist
ancc than the white racc--lands where
their dominion may be complete, and
so, taking advantage of the conditions
growing out OF the Spansh-Amcrcan
war, they are now cndavoring TO cstab-
lisl imperialism by fastening upon our
institutions colonial system and a
large standing army. Our people know
intuitivcy that there is menace and
danger in this new departure. To over
come this feeling they appeal to the pa
triotism, to the national pride and to the
sclfshncss of the people They say that
the glory OF our flag and the prestige
of our name demand it. They say that,
besides, there is money in it. This lat
ter they rely upon as their most con-
vircing argument. Did the Spanish
people find imperialism profitable? Did
their colonial empire tend to the up
building Of their industries, their trade
and their progress? On the contrary
T; it had the opposite effect. From being
the most powerful state of Christcndom
the most enlightened and in many re-
spects the most progressive, before il
embarked in the venture of colonial en-
pire, its power, its resources and its pco'
pie had been dragged down to the low
est depths of degradation before We
forced it to abandon the system. Shall
we disregard the example of Spain and
adopt the very system that destroyed
her power and impoverished her pco
pie?
Nations can grow and expand, a.
ours has, to their political and eco
nomic advantage. But such nationa
! growth always has been, and Away:
will be, through the occupation and ac
QUESTION Of territory, not already occu
pied by dense population, and by thu
planting therein Of the expanding ma
tons own people and its own irsttu
tons. Such was our expansion ovcl
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The appropriations for the year end.
ing june 80, 1000, were made on a basis
OF a military force which has been
greatly exceeded by the exercise OF the
authority conferred under the act of
March ?, 1850. and the raising cp.ip-
ping and transporting to the Philippines
OF additional troops and supplies 1t
will therefore be necessary to ask con-
gross for deficiency appropriation OF
about Ssh 100000, bringing the total
amount OF the appropriation for the
current year up to about the amount
Of the estimates which have been sub
mittcd for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1901"
The appropriations for the year end
ing June 80, 1899, embrace the cost of
the Spanish war and cannot be con-
sidcrcd. But the last two years show
the requirements for the impcrialistlc
peace Adjustments. From the totals
given should be deducted $35,ooo.ooO
per ann,m on account OF river and har-
Dor improvements.
This leaves tho annual expense OF the
present army establishment i'll round
numbers $3.50, 900. Add to this the
annual cost OF the naval establishment,
which is in round numbers $75,ooo,ooo,
and we have a total expenditure. Tor
army and navy and for the instrument
talitics Of war, OF $225. 900 600, and this
in times Of peace! These figures dc not
include expenses that may be incurred!
in the Chinese difficulty. These arc the.
appropriations for imperialism on a
peace footing. This sum OF $225,ooo,-
600 is SO immense that the ordinary l,u-
man mind can hardly grasp it. Let U.S.
express it in the leading products OF the
Northwest. According to the last re-.
port of the secretary of agriculture, the
states of Minnesota, Iowa. Wisconsin,
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OF their origin. that they have no water
In their stock and that they have
not attempted to monopolizc any
branch of business or the production OF
any article OF merchandise. and the
whole constitutional power OF congress
over interstate commerce. the mails and
all modes OF interstate communication
shall be exercised by the enactment OF
comprehensive laws upon the subject Of
trusts.
Tariff laws should be amended by
putting the products OF trusts upon the
Tree list to prevent monopoly under the
plea OF protection.
The failure OF the present Republican
administration, with an absolute con-
troll over all the branches OF the ma
tlonal government, to enact any lcgis-
latlon designed to prevent or even cur
tail the absorbing power OF trusts and
illegal combinations, or to enforce the
antitrust laws already on the statute
books, proves the insincerity OF the
Understanding phrases OF the Rcpubi-
can platform.
Corporations should be protected in
all their rights and their legitimate in
tercsts should be respected, but any at
tempt by corporations to interfere with
the public affairs Of the people or to
control the sovereign which creates
them should be forbidden under such
penalties as will make such attempts i'm
possible
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net purchasing power of the commod
ties produced.
WILL BRING SERFDOM.

WILL DN1Nd SENrDOM.
1t needs no argument to convince you
that the continuation of this condition
OF affairs will rapidly reduce the mass of
the America people to a condition OF
absolute serfdom. Will you have that
condition or will you not: 1t is for the
people to answer at the polls. Hanna
says:
However, if the trusts are menace
to the country, what party better than
the Republican party will give you re-
lict?" This is great comfort and might
carry some weight were it not for the
fact that the Republican party has been
in absolute control of every power of
the government during the last four
years and is today. If it were DESTROYS
OF destroying the trusts and protecting
the people, why has it not done so? To
this the Republicans answer: I'VE pro-
posed a constitutional amendment and
the Democrats would not help to pass
1T. We are helpless; we can do moth
ing What was the aim Of that con-
stltutlonal amendment and what was its
purpose? The aim and effect OF that
proposed constitutional amendment
would have been to deprive the states
OF every vestige of power that they now
possess to protect the people against
the oppression of these combinations.
Its purpose was to defer action upon the
question upon plausible pretcxt until
Hanna had had an opportunity to
again call upon the trusts for the cxi-
gencies OF this campaign. Every citizen
knows that 1t takes years and years to
bring about an amendment of the con-
StitutiOn Is our constitution such n
failure that it vests congress with no
power to protect its own people against
oppression? To admit that, is to admit
that it is lamentable delusion. The
very men who argue to this effect insist
that the congress Of the United States
has the power to govern other peoples