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Christian Church.

Preaching lst and 3rd Sunday lat p. m.
and 2nd and 4th Sundays at ii a. IN.
PRAYER meeting Saturday night at Z
O'Clock. Sunday school every Sunday at
$50 a. N.
PHILIP JOHNSON, Pastor
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-08-15

,uNCENT L. SEXTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW,
VTazewell, Va. viii practice in the courts OF
tention paid to the collection of claims. Once In
Stras building
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-08-15
HHELD UP"
BY Lieutenant r. H. Jayne.

NVVVVVVVVVVVVV
From Good Literature" Reprinted by Per-
mission.l
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-08-15

I am prepared to execute, at Short
A notice and on reasonable terms, all
classes of iron work-horse shoeing, all
kinds of repairing, etc.
There is also connected with my estaD.
lshment a WOODWORKING Depart.
ment. under the control Of ]. b. Crawford =,
where he is prepared to Go everything per.
tanning to that branch
The representative., 1901-03-28

since Mr.. Mausfi6td uproduced Beau
Brummel" has theirs bsen q play in which
the atmosphere ofaIths period has been
more fully realize1s
Miss Gallatin hdx won the praise and
admiration of the press and public all
over the United S&tAs and Canada for
her wonderful ablqat5 with the sword.
Few women ever DecDme experts with
this weapon and fewer still ever get so
they can handle ~ 1t all. But in the
third act, when MISS aGallatin picks up
the sword of her fallen champion and
crosses it with thatoffSir johnson Wye.
who is endeavoring to make his escape,
the audience simply sits aghast at her
wonderful dexterity, expertness and
clever handling Of this weapon. This
is no bre-arranged stage duel, but on to
the death. So clever swordsman as
Mr.. Maynard is put to his wits ends at
times to keep Miss Gallatins dangerous
blade at safe distance
Both Miss Gallatin and Mr.. Maynard
have received several ugly cuts during
this nightly combat, but they both laugh
to scorn the idea of mock duel, as
each thinks himself .as clever as the
other and the whole pleasure of the con-
test would sink into insignificance il it
were all cut and dried for them.
The representative., 1901-03-28
SQUARE Up AND GET A PREMIUM.


Great events are fast approaching. The
old parties are realigning. New COM
binations will attempt to ge. control.
Reform is permeating the whole body
polite The general unrest is increas-
ing. Dinner pals are not full as expect
ed In June there will be conventions
of farmers The Union Reform league
will meet at Detroit. The Republican
press, after defeating Democrats, are
now trying to set them on their feet
again for another sham battle. The
trusts are making for government owner
ship of monopolies faster than all other
agencies combined. You will need pa
per- that is watching and reporting the
progress Of all these events.
II the DOnnelly heirs send collector
after you, after paying the collector don t
fail to send me by early mail 81 for the
coming year, and for the premiums we
are Offering You can well afford to
square up and pay year in advance to
get the splendid book "Home-Made Con-
trivances." Send no letters to the Repre-
sentative, but address all mail intended
for me personally to E. A. Twitchell. 632
Boston Block.
The representative., 1901-03-28
DOnnelly'S Estate Liable.

Mr.. Twitchell: AS l have been in the
fight for farmers rights since 1884,
can make some suggestions for future ac-
ton and furnish light on the work in
the past, it's success and failures.
You may print this and if your read
err: want further light on those subjects
will cheerfully give it to them.
AS organizer of the Alliance, l may
wake up some of the somnambulists.
The Representative does belong to the
Alliance took part in the meeting at
Minneapolis when it was born. Mr. Don
nelly, as president, had more supporters
than had, So his men for manager and
editor were eleeted-Eckford and the
other man of the Great West.
My choice was Secretary Stromberg
for manager and T. c. Hodgson for edit
or. Donnelly's estate is liable to the
Alliance for any profit there may have
been while Mr.. Donnelly was editor, al
though he was never hired as editor, only
as contributor, l. D.
This editor -in-chief was title by his
own appointment.
ERIC OLSON.
Sherburne, Minn., March %, 1901.
The representative., 1901-03-28
OUR FORUl1
Uses of Money.

Editor Representative: In my article
of the 14th inst. l said in my next i
would discuss the uses of money. In
this article, as in the one preceding it,
will come to the point at issue at once,
and discuss the uses of money.
OF course, the uses of money are so
varied that it will not be profitable at
this time to make but a few points, then
let the readers of your valuable paper
compare these conditions with others of
a similar nature. If they do this, per-
haps thy will find profitable and, per-
haps, interesting time for intelligent
mental exercises.
The uses Of money we will now dis
Guess, are:
First-It carries value in large and
small transactions. For instance, a
farmer in Massachusetts or Connecticut
has a farm in one of these states which
he desires to exchange for wheat farm
in Minnesota, or the Dakotas; but the
Eastern farmer cannot find farmer in
the wheat states who will exchange
farms with him, but he does find some
wheat farmer who would like to ex-
change his farm for an orange farm in
Florida. The Florida man doesn't want
to exchange for wheat farm, but does
want to retire from farming. Now,
those gentlemen have all fixed a price
on their farms in dollars, as cheap as
any other farms in their neighborhood; !;
or, perhaps, little cheaper. Now, how
are all going to make the transfer with
out loss to either? The Eastern farmer
cannot exchange his farm for stock,
goods or grain fdf the reason that It
will take too longato convert the stock
into dollars. the legal Unit. without loss.
Just so with the wKeat and orange farm
ers, who want to go into the merchantile
business. AS we fave said above, all
have agreed on the price of their re-
spective farms; in fact, each has con-
tracted for the purchase and sale of the
farms in their respective locality, all de-
pending upon the Eastern farmer con-
verting his farm Into legal dollars, in
which his farm afH the others named
have been measured. Now, the Eastern
man found party who wants his farm
and will pay the price asked. The next
question is, what kind Of currency will
the purchaser pay in?> II in bank notes.
the Eastern farmer knows if he accepts
them and gives up his farm, the wheat
farmer in the West, who has contracted
with him for the sale OF his wheat farm
may, on deliberation, become sick of his
bargain and make the excuse that the
bank notes are not money, and the notes
not being legal tender, back out. The
time of his refusal on the wheat farm
being limited, and very short, If he ac-
cepts them in payment for his farm and
tenders them to the wheat farmer, and
the wheat farmer refuses them in pay
ment for his farm. which he has per-
feet legal right to do. because they are
The representative., 1901-03-28


national committee, has suspended publf-
cation of the Tribune at Louisville, KY,
and writes us: Brother Twitchell: We
have been compelled to stop the Tribune.
but will run a monthly 16-page home
and family paper, The Home, with a
good lot of Populism in it. The Home
will be sent to you personally. Good
luck to the Representative. We need
it's work in our great cause. Yours truly,
10 A. Parker"
Brother Parker is an earnest reform
er, and hard-hitter,- and The Home,
although appearing but once month,
will be found loaded for big game; it
will make a good companion for Nor
gan's Buzz-Saw. In the busy season a
good monthly political paper covers the
field very effectually, except during q
campaign.
1t will be noticed that all these people
are at a considerable distance from
Minnesota.
The representative., 1901-03-28
A WISCONSIN LETTER.

The Hanley controversy has occupied
considerable of our space recently, and
we have felt that free discussion would
soonest lead to correct conclusions.
In this issue we publish letter on
each side of the controversy, one from
S. w. Powell, of Saltwater, Mimi, anu
one from w. J. Dunbar. of Cylon, Wis.
We have left this controversy almost
wholly to our contributors and while it
is probable that much more might be
said we think the straw has been pretty
thoroughly threshed. Mr.. Dunbar's de-
fense of Mr.. Hanley is commendable
for its warm and hearty enthusiasm
He undoubtedly believes that Mr.. Han
ley has suffered the trials and persecu-
tions Of Job. His appeal to Hon. P.
Fl. Rahilly clearly indicates that he firm
ly believes that in our next issue Mr..
Rahilly should both defend the ship sub
sidy bill and declare Mr. Hanley a mar
tyr in it's support.
IT Mr.. Rahilly should fail to fully vim
dicate Mr.. Hanley, Mr.. Dunbar would
probably conclude that he was in SYM
pathy with the ideas Of S. w. Powell, L.
C. Long, H. V. Poore, M r. Parks and
those who have arrayed on the other
side. For better information Of our cor
respondent, Mr.. Dunbar, we would state
that these four last named gentlemen,
together with Mr. Rahilly, are among
the most substantial successful and
reputable farmers, lin, Minnesota They
are all of them old residents of this
state, members of the old Farmers Al
lance, and have for years been thor
oughly acquainted with Mr.. Hanley.
The farmers will have a grand rally
here in Minneapolds1in June and will
then have opportunity to further ex-
press their minds and to act upon their
convictions. s. ~ .oilj 2
~5.a--3 t-,sfss = tn r. r.
The representative., 1901-03-28
OUR OLD FILES.

There are extant several complete files
of the Representative, and they contain
vast amount of valuable history in ad-
dition to very much entertaining read
Ing. |,
~ complete collection of Mr. Donnelly's
anecdotes and original expressions
Cleaned from the columns of-these files
would make a book equaled by few, if
any, collection of similar character IN
any library.
In these files may be found complete
history of the paper, a sort of autobio-
graphy. For the Information of those
OF our readers who may have entertain
ed the idea that the Representative was
Ignatius Donnellys personal property,
his paper, We quote from the files as fol-
lows, from an editorial entitled. "To the
Alliance" written by Mr.. Ionnally and
appearing on the front page Of the first
issue of the paper, published Wednesday,
April 49, 1893.
Mr.. Donnelly says:
Remember, brethren that this is your
paper 1t was established in consequence
CT the vote of the delegates assembled last
January in Minneapolis. You told the ex-
ecutive committee to go ahead and you
would stand by them and you pledged your
selves to raise about 81 900 of stock at S. a
share for each local alliance, and you agreed
to take 1000 copies in clubs as starter
Part of that money has been paid in but
a good deal of it has not been ard we need
It now to buy our type and material"
IN 80 ~
caption "A Great Family Mr.. Donnelly
says further:
The Alliance is a great family circle. Let
there be peace In the household. AS the
Irishman said. I'VE must have peace if we
have to fight for it.
The seeding will soon be done and the
pleasant weather will be at hand. Call
your local Alliance together. Organize an
Alliance Library company Make up a
club for your paper. FOR REMEMBER, 1T
is YOUR PAPER AND NO ONE ELSE'S;
take share of stock for S, if you can
The Representative made this, it's first
appearance. with A. l.. Stoughton as it's
editor and Robert Eckford as It's busi-
ness manager, and the files of the first
year do not show that Mr. Donnelly had
any other connection with the paper be-
yCuu ludC VI SPECTRAL COutI1DuCOr.
On April 25, 1894, appeared on the
editorial page of the paper the resigna-
tion of A. l.. Stoughton as editor and
from that date to July 4, 1894, Mr.. Eek
ford was editor and manager, with Mr.
Donnelly, as before, acting as special
contributor.
In the issue OF July 4, 1894 appears
this notice at head of editorial columns:
|, NOTICE-With this issue Mr. Ignatius
DQnnellys name appears as editor. This is
dche at the request of some OF the stock
holders, who think 1t would promote the
success Of tho paper. At the same time
Mr.. Donnelly will not assume responsibility
for any articles except those TO which his
initials are attached.
On July Is, 1894, w. w. Williams as
sumed editorial management. Robert
Eckford continued to be business man
ager and this issue Of the paper an
nounced that Mr.. Donnelly would sttll
The representative., 1901-03-28

"Why, what's the matter, daughter?
Been married but a brief month and
weeping so bitterly! Tell me what is
the trouble. Surely you and Jack haven't
quarreled already. have you?"
mo, mamma"
"And he hasn't gone away and left
you, I'm sure?"
"Oh, no; mamma! Jack wouldn't be
quite as mean as that"
Then what in the world can have
happened to make you SO miserable? :?
Is Jack in trouble-I mean, has he met
with any reverses?
"Yes, mamma, that's 1t! His reverses
When he was counting me he never left
the house till IL o'clock or after, and
now he's reversed that rule and never
comes home till about that time Rich
mond Dispatch.
The representative., 1901-03-28
Nut. for Masen to Crack,

Editor Representative: In your issue
OF March Il G. B. Maben asks: would
a paper bill simply backed by the credit
of nation, which is liable to go broke
at any time, be safe investment"
Question: If this nation, with 3,000,-
OOO, 900 Of a circulating medium OF ex-
change, gold silver and treasury notes,
receivable in payment of all public,
dues, backed by $4,000, ,O00, 900 OF wealth
and an annual production of $4,000 ,OO0,-
900 more from our mines, fields and for
ests, and protective tariff on all I'M
ports that need not exceed our export
tariff, how could our nation go broke?
Cannot Mr.. Maben see how the nation
The representative., 1901-03-28
OUR CIRCULATION Is NATIONAL.

The Representative has, since it's first
year, enjoyed the distinction of being
a paper of national circulation We
have subscribers in nearly every state
in the union, besides sending copies of
the Representative to Alaska Honolulu,
Ireland, France, Norway and Germany.
Our distant subscribers still continue
with us as warm friends Of the paper and
supporters of the cause it represents
Nearly every mail brings us renewals
from these distant friends, and warm
words of Endorsement for the work the
paper is doing.
Mr.. d. H. Fisher, from Entricken, Pa,
renews, asks for our premiums and says:
"The Representative suits me to IT. :"
Hon. S. w. Williams, of Vincennes
Indiana, Populist candidate for gov
ernor, writes us personal letter, in
which he deplOres any quarrel with the
Donnelly heirs, asks for statement of
the situation and says: 81 want the Rep
resentative to go on
j. Mr.. Williams will be remembered by
our readers as one of our most interest
in9 contributors and we should be pleas
ed to publish further articles from his
pen.
Tom Brennan, an old subscriber from
Sweetwater, Tenn, renews his subscrip-
tion, asks for our premiums and says.
Think | like the paper better since
ycur return, am sorry l can't send you
a list. but l am the only Pop in this
county. Yours truly but very lonesome,
Tom Brennan"
From Gillespie, ILL.,, subscriber writes
and from his letter we quote:
e. A. Twitchell. Dear Sir: you are
at last helping to accomplish what
have long desired to see, viz. the de-
struction of party Midroaders and fus-
ionists have alike opposed. II there
had been one-half the time and money
spent in education that has been spent
intrying to build up party. 1t would have
been much better. All reforms must
come through education. The first work
OF Christ was to tear down party and
sect and build up the brotherhood of
man. Make a partisan of any
man and he is not competent to sit on
case.. l indorse every word of the
Omaha platform. After the
death of Mr.. Donnelly. when you took
charge of the Representative, you stated
that the paper would be run independent
OF party, then hoped there might be a
general getting together of reformers.
When we get sense enough
to get together there will be some hope
Tor the people. Respectfully yours, JOS.
F. Clark
From the state auditors Office, Helena.
Mont. We have letter from which we
quote: Il inclose assignment and hope
you will be able to keen the .paper GO
tng. feel that tie Popuif tarty was
never in 90 good shape Tor growth as
| now and hope you will be able to keep
NJ the neht Yours truly. ]. H. Calder
head
Hon 10 4. Parker, chairman Of our
The representative., 1901-03-28

continue to act as special contributor.
This arrangement continued till Feb. 27,
1895, when we find in the issue of that
date the following notice over Mr.. Don
nellys signature:
Notice-With this issue of the paper the
undersigned takes charge OF the editorial
department OF The Representative.
We have nothing to complain of as to
the management of the editorial depart
ment by Col Williams, he Is an excellent.
able gentleman; but he is now on the stan
Of the Minneapolis Tribune: and az we
find we have little more leisure upon our
hands than we expected, we will take
charge of the editorial department for the
present. We propose to push the paper TO
the utmost and make 1t the best reform
journal in the United States We hope
every Populist in the Northwest will CO.
operate with us to that end
IGNATIUS DONNELLY.
1t will be noticed that at this point
Robt. Eckford. and w. w. Williams both
stepped down and out at the same time.
Mr.. Donnelly assigns no other reason
except that he Unexpectedly had lots OF
time on his hands.
1t was, however, generally understood
that the true cause of these changes was
row in the Representative back yard,
with Eckford and Williams on one side
and Ignatius Donnelly on the other.
Mr.. Donnelly won out and the other
fellows got out, and this was the method
and the only method by which Ignatius
Donnelly ever acquired title to the Rep
resentative.
Can Stan Donnelly claim any better
title than his father had? Hardly, while
we are in possession by order of the
stockholders and each week WELD the
pen. Is STAINS benefit derived from hold
ing up the papers mail equal to the liza
bility he incurs for such interference
with the papers business? There will
be milk found in the cocoanut at the
close of the inning.
The representative., 1901-03-28

not legal tender. the time is now tod
short when he makes his tender in
payment on the contract for him to go
t. city or town and exchange his bank
notes for treasury notes. or coin. He Is
thus liable to great loss. Knowing this,
when payment is made to him, he looks
the package over carefully to see that 1t
is rendered gold or silver coins, it's great
bulk and weight is serious objec-
ton and would require mus
cular man to transport it to
its final destination. II he accepts
treasury notes. full legal tender, in pay
ment for his farm, he can place them up
on his person so as not to incumber his
lccomotion; nor be any more inconven-
lent to him than half-dozen old letters.
He may have more than required to pay
for his wheat farm, If so he has, his cur
rency ready for all emergencies.
Now he tenders to the Western wheat
farmer the treasury notes, legal tender,
for his farm, which he cannot refuse,
but accepts them, and hastens to make
the payment in full for his orange farm
in Florida and the orange farmer hast
ems to the larger cities to purchase the
merchandise which enables him to sue
cessfully start in the business he has
selected All parties to the transaction
have exchanged and carried their wealth
from the extreme end of the United
States to the other, with the utmost con-
venience and all have bettered their con-
dition. Nor has any one party to the
transactions been in position to lose
one cent at any time during the trans
actions.
No monied institution has been called
upon for assistance in making the trans
fers. The manner of these exchanges
will apply to all business transactions,
large and small, in the United States
This is cash payments.
Any other course would be credit or
barter, in which the parties to it are
liable to loss.
II the business had been done through
banks commissions would have been
charged for the use of their credit, or
the bank might fail before the deal could
be completed. So it is easily seen .how
important it is that the government
should issue all that circulates as money.
It's uses in all transactions of >busi-
ness are so important and necessary to
the success Of the masses that it is a
crime against the people for the govern
ment to legalize any system that enables
the money sharks to prey upon the peo-
pie
In our next we will continue the dis
cussion of the uses of money, how it
benefits society, provided it is issued
by the government direct to the people,
a full legal tender, in volume sufficient
for the business wants of the people on
cash basis, and how the people are handi
capped by the present bank system
contraction and legalized credit, by
which business is now done
A. II. NELSON
The representative., 1901-03-28
AGAINST HIS FATHERS WISHES.

Editor Representatives:
The last days work of Hon. Ignatius
Donnelly was devoted to The Representa-
tive which together with other circum-
stances and facts shows that he regarded
the mission of The Representative too i'm
portant to be suspended. So l think that
Stan. Donnelly is acting contrary to his
deceased fathers will when he is trying to
suspend the paper.
Let us stand by the paper which our
hero labored hard to establish and
maintain. We need it now more than ever
to express our views.
S. A. STEVENSON.
MI. Stenerson is right when he says
I'VE need it now more than ever to ex-
press our views"
During the three years and more that
we have been with the paper, our readers
have never before taken so much inter-
est in the Forum and contributed so
freely to it's columns. This frequent
and wide interchange of ideas is one of
tho first requirements to make a paper
OF this kind interesting.
In this respect the Representative is
unique, no other paper in the union like
it; no other paper published anywhere
in which the readers of the paper take
such active part in making the paper
spicy and entertaining. The Represent
ative was Ignatius Donnelly's pride, his
delight, his joy, and on the night of his
death almost the last words he uttered
were, IF am not able to go to the Of
flee tomorrow, see that the paper comes
out on time"
Our readers know the rest. Mr.. DON
nelly never again went to his office. In
a few brief hours he was dead and on the
following day we took up his work
where he had laid 1T down, and have
continued it ever since.
Stan Donnelly trying to suspend the
paper! Oh, pshaw, he is just holding
our hat while we publish the best reform
paper in the Northwest
Stan ordered all the letters addressed
to the Representative to be sent to him
over in st. Paul. He gave the same or
der as to our 500 echanges. He evident
ly intended to BAG the whole thing and
have Populist paper all to himself.
My exchanges are now nearly all ad-
dressed to me personally instead of to
the Representative.
Patrons of the paper are now address
ing all letters to E. A. Twitchell.
In Imagination Stan thinks he is still
holding up the Representative, In reality
he has got down to the position where
he is just holding the bag while we do
the rest.
The representative., 1901-03-28
At the BIjou

The play of Nell Gwynne." which is
soon to be presented at the Bijou, is not
only genuine surprise, but one of the
greatest comedy treats the theater has
known in years. Alberta Gallatin as Nell
is not only magnificent, but is actually
the veritable madcap who fairly twisted
King Charles around her thumb. She
does the same with her audience, and
soon has them. all laughing as merrily
as school children. No actress this sea
son has won such general ovation
from the public and the severest of crit
les wherever she has appeared. Not