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have no aristocracy OF wealth, but we
will have now. and forever democracy
consecrated to the principles of equal
and exact justice to all men. ZAP
plause)
You remember that under Gen.
eral Washington, Mr.. Hamilton
being his adviser, with the entire
democratic press against Washington
establishing national banks, enacting
class laws, creating funding sys-
TEN, patterned after everything of
Great Britain as far as possible. JEFF
ferson resigned from Washington's
cabinet and said, will fight 1t, will
fight it; it is wrong; It violates the
compact, the purposes of the pioneers;
it violates the spirit of the early set
tiers. l will fight it, and he went to
organizing the republican party. The
republican party, he proclaimed, is
antagonistic to the Hamiltonian doc
trine; is antagonistic to national
banks; is antagonistic to class legis-
lation; is antagonistic to the standing
army.
He made his fight before the
American people and he went down In
defeat. What did ~. JEFFERSON do?
Did he take that bait off his hook and
put on a new bait daughter and ap-
plause)? Did he say can not sail
in that direction, but l will sail along
in Mr.. Hamilton's direction? Did he
say, I will tell the people that was
wrong and that Mr.. Adams was right;
I take back all l said against Mr..
Adams, every word. l will now tell
the people l will do just what Mr..
Adams says he will do. Did he do
that? Did he change because he didn't
win out in the first fight? Why, were
his birds simply put out as expert
mental decoys to catch the people and
drag them in? No, no! Like all men
of principle from the first of time to
the present day, he stood by his flag
He stood by his platform; he stood by
his convictions, and he went up against
the enemy another time (applause)
and the next time the people having
seen that his convictions would bear
the test of adversely; that his con-
victions were not mere matter Of
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-02
THOMAS H. TIBBLEs. For vice-Pre.ident.

sage which said to us; Let us arise
and go back to the parties of our IA
theirs; let us again bring forth the
principles of true democracy, make a
fight for all the people. You are
democrats, you VIII never vote the
republican ticket. The south and west
ought to unite and they can not unite
in either of the old parties because
both are wrong; both are guilty. You
hate the one and hate the other. Then
what? Let us call in the knights
of labor, whose cause is common to us.
Let us call the western farmer and the
southern farmer Let us create a new
party. Let us create a new party, and
redeem the principles or this govern
ment to republican government. Let
us get out of the old parties. and let
us found the new populist party OF the
nation. (Applause.) We came. And
you sent eloquent men down to the
south; we sent some UP to the west.
l was in the room where the first or
ganization was made. saw it from
the time its cradle rocked until the
time it reached lusty manhood in 1896.
Never in my life have / seen such
devotion to duty; seen such consecra-
ton to principles. The zeal of the
crusader was in all our ranks; the
same purpose, north and south, east
and west; the boys of the civil war had
forgotten section, and political preju-
dices were forgotten. We buried all
the old luminosity and we dedicated
ourselves to the new party. But the
toll that it took to build up; oh, the
doubt and anxieties rs we saw it 60
ing out of our hands. We stood true
and firm. In any republican state
where the populists were drawing from
the republicans, they would say you
are simply an aid society for the DEM
ocratic party and you are paid for It.;
and vice versa with the democrats.
But hewing to the lane we went right
ahead with our principles until 1896
when we had two millions of voters.
We had 1900 newspapers. What then?
The democratic leaders had just been
through Cleveland's second adminis-
tration, and looked like frazzled chick
ems Just out Of cyclone Clevsland's
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-02

enemy again and put them to fight.
(Applause.) Then what? The ma
tional bank was put down; the bonds
were called in and cancelled, and
that grand democrat attached some
meaning to the wore, ior Uncle Sam
for the first and last time in his exis-
tence found himself out. of debt zap
plause), and so it renamed. The dem
ocrats remained in on principle, and
every national bond being paid for,
the national bank being destroyed,
the protective principle stricken out
of the tariff, this country really had
what the democrats said they ought to
have, a government Of the masses, in
stead of the government of the classes.
And SO it remained until the civil
war; until the polit.c,ans, north and
south, had SO maddened the people
with agitation, with the fires of class
legislation, that we could not settle
the slavery question as We ought to
have done; we could not free the ne
gro as he ought to have been freed by
fair and peaceable and legal means,
just as England had freed them; just
as France freed them; Just as South
America freed them, and as Russia
freed them. But on account of the
politicians of both sides. driving
the people to madness upon that is
sue, t took great civil war with
its millions of lives lost and millions
OF property destroyed before we could
do what reasonable statesmen ought
to have done without drop of blood.
(Applause.)
What occurred? The greenbacker
arose. The greenbscser, despised in
his generation, ridiculed, prosecuted,
out-lawed, but as true reformer as
ever breathed the breath of life zap
plause) what did he say? He said in
effect: You have given over your re-
publican government to the rule of the
moneyed king; you have ostracised
democracy, and you are plundering
the masses Of the people in the inter-
est of sordid few, and challenge
you to trial before the great Amer
lean people. The greenbacker OF 1876,
Peter Cooper and his followers Zap
plause). they were put out. Yes sir. I
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-02

ticed the freedom of conscience. l say
what the colonists did in the south at
Jamestown, the other cOIonists did
also at Plymouth Rock, and so these
two communities planted their stand
ards and proclaimed the sacred prin-
ciples of human progress and human
liberty. (Applause.) 1t was not their
purpose to establish a government like
that of France; it was not their pur-
pose to establish government like
that of England; not their purpose to
establish q government like Prussia,
or like that of Austria or of Russia.
No. they had had enough Of the privi-
legged few; they had had enough OF class
law; they had had enough OF corrup-
ton; they had had enough OF oppres-
sion, they had had enough of tyranny.
and they came here not to make a
government like those abroad, but a
government different from those
abroad (appplause), ana throwing off
the yoke of the king, the combination
Of church and state. the yoke OF the
nobility, the dictation of the priest,
they dedicated their energies to the
government Of all the people, equal
and exact justice to all men, and class
privileges to none. (Applause.)
need not dwell for moment ex-
cept to remind you that under these
splendid principles, with these SPLEEN
did beginnings how the colonies rose
into great democracy, great re-
public; because in the broad sense Of
the term the two words mean the
same, the rule OF the people, by the
people, and for the people. (Applause.)
The mother country endeavoring to
fasten her grip, her tax system, her
caste system upon us, We cried out,
liberty or death; and the soldier said,
liberty or death; and the statesman
said, liberty or death; and American
citizenship, men, women and children,
said liberty or death, ana they fought
and risked death rather than wear
the chain of servitude of the king Of
Great Britain (applause) against
whole people In arms. We won out
because we were united. We won out
because we were consecrated; we won
out because we were right. (Applause.)
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nothing but death could strike out OF
my heart. (Applause.)
How long has 1t been since our peo-
pie in the old world struggled with
conditions worse than these which we
have here today; it has not been SO
long comparatively since all this coun-
try was wilderness, and its every in
,habitant a savage. 1t has not been
SO long since it was given over to
the wild beast and the wild man who
came here. Go and trace 1t to the
jamestown in the south. or the Ply
mouth Rock in the east, and the an
swer is the same. 1t was the tyranny,
the oppression. the unbearable burdens
of the old world that drove those pion-
GERS out. The king, the priest, the
church. the state, tyranniCal. privi-
legged in power, and the individual
without power, without privilege, with
out freedom. King the source Of all
law; the priest the guardian of the
conscience; the church and state tax
ing the masses to the utmost limit
of endurance, and dividing the results
between them in tithes and taxes. No
freedom of speech; no freedom OF con-
science; no civil law or corporate;
everything centercd in the hands Of
the king and the nobility. Brave men
said these things are uncomfortable.
Brave men said. let us risk the saw
age and the wilderness in which he
dwells, and make us a new home and
dedicate 1t to the rights Of men. And
so they came, the bravest men known
to history; the pioneers Of the south,
the pioneers of the north; the pio-
neers OF the east who risked all the
horrors and all the suffering, and all
the dangers of that terrible situation
rather than live to be servants OF the
kings in the old world. (Applause.)
What did they intend to establish?
The very first assemblage that met
in the south at jamestown in old
Virginia.; the first assemblage In 1913
pledged that handful OF colonists to
the rights of trial by jury. representa-
tive government to make their own To-
cal laws. freedom Of speech, and while
they did not proclaim 1T, they prac-
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THE POPULIST SLOGAN

And today, my countrymen. II the
spirit Of our fathers is still to dwell In
the institutions which they estab-
lished, we have got to resolve once
more that we will make our fight, and
fight all along the line for the lib
critics which they bequeatned us Zap
plause), when independence was estab-
lished. Before the old eternal civil con-
fiict which takes place In every gov
eminent began in ours, as far back as
the historian can see there is conflict
in every organized society, Just as
inevitable as the conflict between right
and wrong. just as inevitable as the
conflict between light and darkness
what is It? The impulse Of the masses
toward liberty, and the impulse Of the
classes toward oppression, impulse OF
the few to monopoli<e the benefits Of
government, and the impulse Of the
masses to resist it, and have them
distributed so that all men may en-
Joy it. (Applause.) Two great schools
of political thought sprung up-Ham-
iltonian and Jeffersonian. You know
without repetition what Hamilton be-
lieved and stood for; also, what JEFF
ferson stood for. Hamilton believed
that the English government was the
best; that the few should always rule,
but despised the mob, calling it the
great beast, had no confidence in 1t.
no respect for 1t. no pity for 1t, no
sympathy with it. Put the govern
ment into co-partnership with the
rich; put the law making power into
the hands of the few. create an aris-
tocracy of wealth and privilege and
commence as nearly as may be, under
our laws, Of establishing what they
have in the old world. AS opposed
to that came Jefferson. believing in
the people, sympathizing with the peo-
pie, hoping for the peopfe, a cham
pion Of the people, and says to Ham
ilton and his disciples, all the people
fought for this; al the people prayed
for this; all the people are interested
in this; all the people shall have
share in this. (Appiause.) We shall
have no class legislation; We shall
have no special privilege; We shall
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-02

was . little boy then. / didn't under
stand how It was done then. under
stand 1t now. Laughter.) UNDER
stand it now. The newspapers sup
pressing something which was true,
and publishing something's which were
not true exaggerating everything
that would hurt and shrinking every
thing that would help. The politicians
saying to the people, don't start .
third party; get your reforms inside
of your own party. Yes. and will
do that for you. They did that in the
west with the republican greenbacker;
they did that in the south with the
democratic greenbacker; they thought
that The democratic party did it
and the democratic party thought
the republicans did it, and the
purpose was the same. to cut the
ground from under your feet and then
laugh at you. And SO they went their
way, the old greenbackers did and
Joined those who had followed the flag
of the lost cause and their principles
seemed buried forever; their hope O
delusion. But, oh, my countrymen, l
thank God the cause did not die.
4u0 6ICCuUoChCA bCCACo W uACp Ous
he didn't. He had sown the seed
broadcast over the land. The birds
took some, which is always the case;
the winds took some, watch is always
the case; and the rock and the sterile
soil took some, which is always the
case, but some fell in the fruitful soil
and sprung up in after years, and
made glorious harvest. (Applause.)
So the two old parties having side
tracked the living issue, having had
no further use for it, struck the green
back principles from their platforms,
and they went right back to the same
old stand, where they have been doing
business since the war. And II you
can imagine democrat or republican
doing 80 undignified thing, you can
imagine that the republican leaders in
the west, and the democratic leaders
in the south, after they got to Wash
ington, would have met one another
with a smile and might have done
this (indicating). (Applause.) They
went back to the ola stand; went to
doing the same old thing. National
banks, bonds, class legislation, trusts
and combines built up by both parties.
Then what? Down into the south
came the western farmer with a mes
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-03-29
Dividend
Coming

NEW YORK. March 25.-Some
leading officials OF the u. S. steel cor
poration including George w. Perkins,
chairman OF the finance committee,
and r. a. b. Widener, also of that
committee, were in conference with
]. p. Morgan today and the financial
district took il for granted that some
thing had been done regarding ths
next dividend on steel preferred. Ac
cording to director Of the corpora
tion the question Of maintaining Of
reducing the present seven per CEN
rate will not be determined much ID
aIyance Of the quarterly meeting mex
Tuesday.
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Resolutions Of Condolences.

Resolutions Of Coincidence.
At regular sleep OF Red Cloud
Tribe No. 1 OF the Improved Order Of
Red Men In Worm Moon, sth run
and on the 25th sun, q. $. ID. Az. In
the hunting grounds Of Las Vegas.
reservation OF New Mexico. the fol-
lowing resolutions were ordered draft
ed, spread, presented and published:
Whereas, Our beloved Chief and
District Great Incohonee, Francis NJ
|Clnte, whose bow and arrow having
been broken; his Totemic Bond can
celled and Tomahawk buried by the
Great Spirit, rendered him no longer
able TO follow The hunt with bis tribe
Oh the great trail of life; did on the
18th sun In Worm Moon cross over
Itho foot.log spanning the river Of
death and pass into that Great For
est where the Great Sachem of all
Red Men preside. there to pitch his
Tepec and klndle his fire In Charity,
Love, Peace, Freedom and Friend
ship. Therefore be II.
4 Resolved, That this Tribe sincerely
lregrets his untimely taking away and
THAT we viii ever cherish his memory
land kind words OF counsel, which were
as clear and as bountiful as the guid.
ling star at night Ia 10 all Red Men.
Therefore be II further.
i Resolved: That we also tender 70
lhls beloved ones our sincere and
heartfelt sympathy In this, their hour
Of sad bereavement and commend
them for consolation TO that Great
Spirit TO whom all true and well tried
Red Men bow In humble submission
Resolved. That the Charter OF this
Tribe be draped In mourning for the
period of thirty suns In token Of our
esteem and respect.
Fraternally submitted,
G. BAILEY,
SAUL RosENTHAL.
j E. McELROY.
\ THOs. Il. BLAUvELT.
Committee
Red Cloud Tribe No. 4 3.i25
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Central Com
nittee Meeting

The republican city central com
mittee met yesterday in the Offices q
c. G. else.
There were present A. T. Rogers,
Jr., C. c. Gise, H. W. Kelly, John
Clark holding proxy for Maloney; q.
C. Pittenger, s. b. Davis, Jr.. d. +.
Forsythe, holding proxy for Q, y.
Gregory, d. c. Winters and I. o.
Blood, holding proxy for r. d. Glib.
bons. A. I. Rogers, Jr.. chairman
Of the committee, presided.
The committee first discussed the
proposition Or fusing with the demo.
Gratis, the republicans to select and
place iii nomination a candidate Tor
mayor, and one member from each
ward for the city council and tht
school board and the democrats q
nominate all other candidates.
After full discussion, all present
expressed themselves al favorable Y
the idea. In the course of the dis
cussion a question arose as 70 how Lhf
different candidates should be placed
lin nomination; whether they b
| named by republican primaries u
each ward or should be placed Y
nomination by the committee. Ate
d somewhat acrimonious discussion
on this point Mr. c. c. Gise moye'
that the republicans fuse with ~
democrats, the republicans TO nom
Innate d candidate for mayor and on
member from each ward for the cit.
lcouncil and the school board an,
THAT the nominees for the Offices a.
|ioted ID the republicans be named y
lthe committee and no primaries b
lheld. Mr.. s.. H. Davis offered . sui
Istitute motion providing that the rs
lpublicans place in nomination eand
ldates for mayor and city treasure
and one member from each Ward ~
lboth the city school board and cit
council and that the republican non
lination for these Offices be placed !
nomination BY regular republican pr
|maries called for that purpose.
The substitute motion of Mr.. Dayi
was voted down by vote Of thre
10 Ave and the motion of Mr.. Gis
was carried by the same majority.
The majority and minority Of u
committee further disagreed on th
question Of the nominee Of The r
publican party for mayor, the forme
fayoring Doctor Oney and the latt'
Dr. Goodall.
On motion Of Mr.. Kelly, the con
mittee adjourned.
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SAGINAW. Mich. March 29,- The
Saginaw river continues 70 rise and
the same general flood conditions ex.
ist about the city as yesterday
day. The water is somewhat higher
than yesterday, and IL inflicting more
loss 10 merchants and factory own.
ers whose places OF business are par.
TALLY submerged and closed Between
Saginaw and Bay City the ice Is over
two feet thick In places and dynamite
has little effect In clearing the chan
mel. Down river reports today tell Of
much suffering from exposure.
Ohio Out Of Bounds.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. March 20
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FLOOD SITUATION
STILL SERIOUS

4
All the rivers in southern Indiana
are pouring their floods into the Ohio
forcing that stream out Of its banks.
While the river Is getting into the
coal mines around Petersburg. causing
heavy loss and throwing the rninls
out Of work. The Wabash river is
giving farmers uneasiness ana the
crest Of these two streams is expect
ed to meet In Gibson county today
or tomorrow. The only danger point
above indianapolis Is at Lafayette
where the water has undermined q
high railroad embankment AT Bvsns-
vile the river is one foot above the
danger point and still rising.
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Military Officers Think First Big Land Engage
ment Will Be Delayed For Monthes
CARS SUBJECTS cock sURt.O VICTORY
No More Doubt Of Ultimate Outcome Than il Case u he War
Between Beer and Britain

TIEN TSIN. March 2S.--ln course
OF q conversation today the Russian
military agent here said be did not
expect serious engagement between
the Japanese anu Russian land forces
for two or three months and that Il
was very improbable that the Japan.
ese would attempt to land at New
Chwang or in the vicinity.
Bloody skirmIsh.
SEOUL, March pa report has
reached here that fifty Japanese and
a houndred Cossacks were killed and
wounded In skirmish which has oc.
cured between Aniu and Tingju.
The above dispatch probably refers
to the engagement reported last week
as having occurred March 2s but In
which no Cossack losses were men.
toned,
French TrIcolor Floats.
ITEM TSIN. March ga French
man named Kreaular, an employee 81
the Russo. Chinese bank, has been ap
pointed French consular agent at New
Chwang. He has hoisted the French
flag over the bank building. 1t Il
considered probable that this 10
forerunner to the movement to q!
the tricolor over all the Russian gov
ernment buildings at New Chwanp
Russia Must Win.
sT. PETERSBURG. March 2s.-
Forecastlng the. war in the "a
east Novosti declares there
no more doubt as TO who will be th
eventual victor than there was at tn
commencement of Greco Turkisf
Spanish.American or Boer war. "Fo
Japan, the war is life and deaf
struggle" continues Novosti. "Sh
places everything on one card. Ft
Russia II Is really d colonial war an
even defeat would leave the empiI
not greatly affected, while succei
would be sure TO mean a great stir
| ulus TO the Russian colonization
Manchuria, where 1t Is reasonable
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MoNTEFIoRE CONGREGATIONS ~
The Passover Festival commences 70
morrow evening with the setting o.
the sun and terminates on the follow
ing wednesday evening with the set
ting of the sun. Services will be held
in the Temple tomorrow evening a
$50 sharp and Thursday morning a.
10 o'clock The sermon VIII be preach
ed on Thursday morning. Subject "Th'
Significance of the Passover Festival
All are most cordially invited 70 a.
tend our services.
DIR. M. LEPK0vITz, Rabbi.
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w. Il. Simmons Of Weiser, Ida, died
In this city last night upon being TAX
On on the train. He was bound TO
Silver City and had . return ticket
to his home town. As he approached
the high altitude Of the Ration noun.
tains his condition became worse and
between Ration and here he lost con-
sciousness He remained unconscious
to the time OF his death. The con-
ductor Of the train telegraphed 70 this
city and arrangements were made to
remove him at this point. Scarcely
had this been done when the y =
spark Of life faded away and he died
sitting In i chair on the station p'st'
form. Undertaker Deafth took
charge Of the body. In respcnse "a
an inquiry he received this morning
q telegram from Idaho saying the
man had no living relatives as fai
as known. The body will be buried
here.