Supplement
TO
THE DALLE CHRONICLE.
Miimni iM in . m.
IS NOT FOR BKYAN.
ECKELS TfcLLS WHY HE S AGAINST
THE NEBRASKAN.
El-Complrollrr of the tummy tinier
IkBMMtClmlMd wui Ttgtwii
UppuK the of Use Paine
cratic luiulidilv.
I did not imhh Mr. Bf7a i" f
and 1 do not intend to now. I thall op
pose his tu ition this year with nil the
v igor and ability I possess. I . not !'. d
that T could stund to my convictions by
remaining iiiitI passive iiud contsallap
myself with .-.imply v. Mini; against lii.n.
Hry.ui tlie I
No inane set forth in un platform, no
matter hoiv cunningly devised itu-.l ar
ranged, in this taatpalga cuu he niu.le
Iarainonnt to the issue of Mr. Bryan
himself, his erroneous views of public
Question.-', his numerous vagaries and Ma
deniousuiucd d -iic tu Bud popularity
and votes iu a never-absent appeal lo
class prejudices and supposed race btt
treds. I am still a Democrat, if bclicm g in
Democratic principles correctly interpret
ed and property enforced as all anno y
for good constitutes H ue I lemocraey ; hut
I am nol one if the nlteninces of the plat
form adopti d at Chicago fOWf yeurs since
and just reiillruied and re emphasized Ht
Kansas City are the rightful expressions
of what modern Democracy stands for.
Isms of Populism.
The many isms of Populism were ab
horrent four years sine- lo uiy sense of
what is safe and sound ill the Operations
of government and (he general well
being of til" people, because I viewed
them as being fundamentally wrong, ami.
being so. neither lapse of time nor er
rors of the party in power reconcile me
to their adoption or make it possible thai
i should support a candidate who not
only appro! es of them, but is their best
embodiment and moat vigorous liampioii.
I have not read all of .Mr. Bryan's
utterances: during the past four years,
but 1 have taken note of enough of them
to know that his views have not changed
on any Important ijucstion since 18B6,
and Lis determination to stir up class
strife is not less manifest. Throughout
all hid addresses, public and private, is
shown uniformly .111 apparent pleasure in
preaching the desirability of discord be
tweeu employ and employer, rlntj and
class. No appeal ever comes from him
which is got tinged with advice lo those
who must work to distrust those who
must employ.
Harmful to l.iihor.
Ail this is not only nil-American, but it
is unjust, unfair ami linrmful, most of all
to the laborer, for whose well being be
yond all others 11 is necessary that com
plete harmony bet wee a capital ami tabor
and not continual antagonism should ex
ist. The interests of labor are never in
such great jeopardy as when Intrusted
to a tuati who has the gift of orttiory
roiipied wiili unbounded political ambi
tion ami no kualaeaj ludgmenl or train'
km
No man is titled for the presidency who
day in and day out proclaims, in the
midst of a dentoast rated batter rendition
of affairs, (ha reverse to be true In order
to foment a discontent, which will gala
to himself and part a political advau
tage.
linnet .01 01- Kliiid.
Mr. Bryan, without the statesmanship
to analyze the conditions as they exist,
and tind remedj therefor, gives utter
ance to nothing thai would improve them,
but only to thai which would make them
worse and cause greater injury to the
great mass of the people, whose fate he
constantly bewails. I do not believe iu
the public value of any man who is. un
der any and all circumstances, a fault
finder and mere protester against all ex
isting order of tilings.
Mr. Bryan's friends insist that he is
nothing if not Intellectually honest and
fearless, II ranted that their contention
is true, (ht Inquiring public must then
he forced to conclude that he is either
woefully ignorant or willfully blind. At
no time tinea Ins coming into political
power has he made an economic predic
tion which lias not failed of fulfillment,
r laid down as truth an economic doc
trine wbioh iias not iu the course of quick
rents leen demonstrated to be an econ
omic fallacy,
Blstatlssj of Platform.
If he does not study grave public iiies
Jons in the light of past history and
present facts and human etpcrieii.es, but
only views them iu the glare of hi own
preconceived notions and (lame of his own
lery political oratory, be is uuauited cith
er to advise the public as t teacher or
guide them as a leader.
If he was unlit because of hit errone
ous views and economic heresies, to be
elected to the presidency in 181X1. he is
equally an until man now, for he boast,
with triumphant self satisfaction, that
-e stands to-day on all these questioni
exactly where he stood then, and to make
more manifest and clearly defined his po
sition he compels his party to blazon such
(act in a platform so constructed a to
accord with his views tud wishes.
Alliance with Croker.
I can conceive of nothing more pitia
hle than the sight of accredited dele
gates of a once great political party in
a national convention supinely surrender
ing their own views on a vitally Impor
tant economic BWOttloa at the behest of
a once defeated presidential candidate,
who only had brought that party into dis
grace snd disrepute, unless it be the sight
of that presidential candidate and to lie
nominee, appealing through his confiden
tial agent Richard Croker, Tammany dic
tator, to be his chief sid, trusted friend
and lieutenant iu the emergency which
confrmiic.1 him.
Heretofore Democratic presidential
candidate have gained public respect snd
strength by having the open enmity of
Tammany. Mr. Bryan, who more thau
any of them has hoatttd of his stand for
principle and hi integrity of character,
has done what Mr. Seymour. Mr. Til
den and Mr. Cleveland would not do.
He has ot nied an open alliance, offensive
and defensive, with Tammany, and that
too, at a time when that organisation la
anotvn to he thoroughly corrupt, snd a
constant menace to all the best interests
of good government.
Unity with 1'opulists.
Mr. Bryun hardly appesls to the
thoughtful ciliieii, with whom political
parlies ate only agencies for public good
tu the extent that Ihey stand Fof funda
mentally right principles and honest ad
ministration, when upon the one baud he
i- pre. cited by the I'opulista and on the
other by Tammany. The joining hands
with one constitutes nu offense against
-afely in governmental administration,
tin- alliance with the other an offense
agaiatt political decency, mskiug it
doubtful as to bis ability, 110 matter how
strenuously he might try, to secure hon
est! in the conduct of public affairs in an
administration over which he presided.
ft is not difficult to predict what would
be the outcome of uuy administration
based upon the socialism of Populism and
the rapacity of Tauiinany.
Heaftiriiiina of 10 to 1.
1 am told that not a few Democrats
who refused to saint ion the nominee and
platform of the Chicago convention will
aid the nominee presented at Kansas
City. 1 doubt if there are many who will
do so. Why should they? The same
candidate has been named, the same doc
trirt - me 01 need, only iu a more offensive
way.
It must not he forgotten that the re
I farming of the principles of the Chicago
platform was the replcdging of an Inten
tion, w hen opportunity is ufforded, to de
base the country's currency. It waa re
assaulting the Supreme 1 ourt of the
country. It means a realliance with the
cements of disorder, as against the prop
erly constituted authorities of peace, in
tegrity of property and person. It is the
announcing once more of a desire to get
into power that the sacred right of pri
vate contract under the guaranty of law
in. iv be abrogated. It is the acceptance
ot those elemenls of socialism which w ork
injury to both government and people.
In line, the rcitlirniat ion at Kansas
City was the re-usserl ing of the utter
ances made at Chicago, which, revolu
tionary then, are none the less so now.
A Ion ret at menace to the country then,
tiny art equally so now; and every man
THE
THE
Senator Tillman inConcrcss -
who stood out against them theu ought
not on sMm new issue, which does not in
mil degree lessen the dungei' of these for
bdrni, fail to denounce and defeat them.
I do not think that the fact that here
and there may be some elements more
conservative- iu the party than seemed lo
Im- the case ill I MM, makes any difference.
Mr. Brtan -still gives official voice lo the
party's views, maps out its campaigns
and writes its platforms. Mr. Bryan's j
intimates anil ad risers arc Hill 1 opuiisis
and self seekers, with the added coiitin
'geul of Tammany bosses. He has neither
us nor care for any man who is eon
scivatno in his views or careful ill his
utterance.
I. Meet on tiold Haais.
If elected President the public must be
prepared to see Mr. Bryan as chief execu
tive and those associated with him as
cabinet counsellors construe every law
bearing upon the currency and the low
ers of the Treasury Department iu such
a manner as lo nullify as lest they can
it.s provisions in so far as they bear upon
the question of the iiiaintenan. e of the
gold standard. His Populist allies boast
that they seek power that 1 hey may briug
about the repeal of the existing laws ami
to this end they are Mr. Brian's cham
pions and defenders.
He can and will keep the country in a
state of ferment and uncertainty iu an
attempt to bring about the larger use of
silver as a redemptive money. The ex
periment Is too dangerous a one to be en
tered upon by any oil the grounds Ihst
the gold standard is so fixed In law that
it cannot Is? disturbed, im BMtter who
may be President or Secretary of the
Treasury. The law ought to Is- executed
with a construction favorable to it to
fully carry out its provisions and not iu
a manner antagonistic to them. It is
not a perfect law, but can be made so by
Its friend. It can lie made abortive by
its enemies once firmly entrenched iu
power.
Rrran and Recent War.
It will hardly do for any sound money
Democrat or Bepublican to ssjsjasjrl Mr.
Bryan because of a supposed better po
sition he occupies than Mr. McKiuley on
the nuestion of colonial nossessinns de
lff3g
r . '.irto:,v-vi au v -zzr iK-v i 1 - . sm.. mm .
spite his worst position on the question j Pc'ully in the face of proclaimed rear
nt Mas moneisrv standard i ho 1 Urination of the Monroe doctrine, which
Court, the enforcement of law and the
right of private contract. Mr. Bryan's
position ran hardly be aa satlsfsctory a
one on an analysis growing out of the
Spanish war.
He and his friends. In order to put the
administration to a political disadvan
tage, urged on the declaration of wnr
with Spain, and when ft was OTer Mr.
Bryan, personally at Washington,
through personal advice and solicitation,
brought Into line a sufficient number of
Democratic Senators to ratify the treaty
of Paris, despite the fact that It provided
for the purchase and taking sovereign
possession of Porto Rico, and the Philip
pines, without sny provision for giving
them any home government fhatsoerer.
The evils and burdens of the present mo
uieut growing out of the Spanish war
are to be laid at much at the door of Mr.
Bryan and bis party as at tbat of Mr.
McKiuley and his. His explanation of
bis reason for wishing the treaty ratified
is wholly superficial and does not bear
analysis.
Policy on I'hilippiuea.
I imagine tbat self-government will
come quite as readily through the admin
islratiou of Mr. McKiuley as through
that of Mr. Bryan. It will not come un
der either until the Philippines are fitted
fur it, property rights safe and personal
ones protected. I hardly believe Mr.
Bryan could do more than send a com
missi, .n there, as the President has done,
in order to take steps looking to sup
planting the military government with a
civil oue.
The country will not sanction the im
mediate abandonment of those islands to
disordtr and pillage. When a time comes
that there is safety in a constitutional
home government, only remaining within
the sphere of the influence of the Unit
ed States, and public sentiment is to this
end, it can be put down tbat Mr. Me
Kinley's administration will readily grant
it, for I believe it is generally admitted
that no one is more ready to put himself
in touch with public sentiment than the
President, or act in accordance there
with wilh more alacrity. If Mr. Bryan
means an immediate abandonment of our
control in the islands he must certainly
fail of support, for no thoughtful person
will sanction a policy which will make
the country ridiculous Iu the eyes of the
w orld.
Would .Not Trust Him.
If Mr. Brynn and his party had stood
out as they should have against the Span
ish war and had opposed instead of as
sisted in ratifying the Paris treaty, they
would be in a better position to confront
Republican plans and purposes, for they
would at least be consistent with their
action. As it is now, they urged the war.
but now wish to avoid the consequences
in order to gain political power by so
doing. As it is, I don t see that Mr.
Bryan is less of an expansionist, through
force of circumstances which he assisted
in creating, than is Mr. McKiuley. The
NEGRO DISFRANCHISED
FIRST STEP fMTO A NtW SLAVERY
'c do our best to fleep every negro
difference is certainly not groat enough
to make any man surrender his convic
tions on other great questions to accept
him upon one.
It may also be fairly doubted whether
a man with so ma ay erroneous ideas as
to the conduct of the domestic affairs et
the nation can tic trusted to have right
ones when it comes o managing our
foreign properties.
As to Porto Klco.
As to the question growing out of the
Polio Kican lariff, I baHare the admin
istration made a Bans! egregious error, but
ns Democracy is now constituted and con
trolled it stands for nothing so far as a
tariff policy is concerned. -Ii has aban
doned all the advantages of its position
on this question, by advocating in its sil-
ver policy the very worst kind of prol
liou. Mr. Bryan stands responsible for
making it a party unable to manfully
advocate 11 Democrat h- tariff doctrine.
It is to lay under Mr. Bryan's leadcr-
snip, a puny empnasi.ing a Desire tor
special privileges and class legislation, ap-
pealing for the support of every element !
of discontent by. falling 111 wilh ami ad
vocating the particularly special leglsia-
tion which such clement stands for. Its
demagogy is manifest on every hand
Msisiiist the Hncr Issue.
What thoughtful ami inquiring person
can possibly believ.. that either Mr. Bry
an or the delegates Si Kansas City are
really deeply solicitous to the extent
which it is made to appear that they are
a to the alleged wrongs of the Boer In
South Africa .' Is 11 not manifest, through ;
the thin disguise of a love of human
freedom, rights and republican form of
government, that Mr. Bryan and his f,.l
lowers hope for the Herman aud Dutch
vote as a determining factor in the clc.
tion because of racial atrilia'ions with 'he
Boers ami .1 supposed race prejudice
against lireat Britain, ami not he Canst
Ihe question or (he integrity of the Boer
republics is so dear to them?
It is absurd that the great question
wilh which we hav lo do alTecliug (he 1
vital interests of the I'nited States shall
is- arse looked la a debate upon how Ureal
Britain shall conduct it.s own affair, es-
means, propeny itiicrpreteii. mat lUei'"-1 - " . " n " n caii.iniaie tmPiing
people of the Dai ted States shall attend
to their own affairs and let Kuropeim na
I tions look after theirs.
Coufldence In (fermun.
Having voiced such a sentiment, the
Kansas City convention, under the in
spiration of Mr. Bryan, immediately pr.
ceeds, for political effect, to express a
wish to Interfere with a Kuropcan gov
ernment in a matter strictly Us own. I
riiink such politics cheap, and nnsiate
manlike, quite beneath the dignity of any
great party or leader.
I shall be surprised If sny Herman vot
er, heretofore the bulwark of the conn
try, against every assault upon the in
tegrity of the country's currency system
- ' and protesting against any debasement of
th- rnsutri'i co.u. will aiu suj aw
such a proceeding because of a belief in
any injustice done by Great Britain to
some affiliated race ten thousand w..i
away.
If Mr. Bryan was a statesman and not
a mere declaimer, and dealt iu a states
manlike munncr with American prooi. nis.
we would not I treated Iu the floods of
petulant fault-finding and appeals to pre
judice which are manifest in all that he
snys, but would have instead suggested
solutions, g.n.uided upon principles, and
in accord with the fucts of uauouul bi
tory and national experience.
Distrust Ills Wisdom.
I am sure the American people rightly
distrust the wisdom of one who thus far
in life has been a living expression iu
every address he Has made of that best
definition of the essential elements of
stump speech, namely, to claim every
thing and denouuee well.
I am not unmindful of the fact that
there are many conditions In this country
requiring careful, thoughtful and states
manlike dealing with. There are many
evils to which labor is subject that need
to be remedied. Likewise there are tunny
prejudices unjustly entertained against
capital, but in neither instance can they
be dealt with to the good of all by any
oue who brings to them none of the ele-tut-Lts
of a statesman and all of those
which wholly make up the successful
stump speaker and campaign orator.
Where Remedies Me.
I believe that more of the remedy lies
without the pale of euac.ed legislation
th"n within it, aud that neither labor
nor capital it neueClsd by nublic utter
ances on the platform, iu legislative hulls
and through the columns of the press to
the effect that there is an irrepressible
couflict between them
I do not believe any man benefits bis
country by beiug a preuchcr of discon
tent, 'strife between classes, social and
political pessimism, financial disorder and
continuous financial gloom, despite sur
roundings and widespread prosperity, und
therefore I do not believe in Mr. Bryan.
There are some things iu President Mc-
K. nicy's administration and official acts
I am not in accord wilh. I do not accept
in our State from voting
Bepublican doctrines as against pure
Peg. IK raljt ones, rightly interpreted and
incorporated into the administration of
public affairs. Bui as between ICcpuh
Itcanism and Populism, tillered through
the channel of Bryanism, I prefer Ib pub
IKa n ism.
I eiiic Mis Democracy.
There is no Democratic doctrine pre
sented this year and no Democratic can
didate. Mr. Bryan was first named by
the Populists Ill-cause lie Is-st ttOftd for
Populisiic doctrines. c was only in
dorsed by the convention at Kansas City,
culled umler alleged Democratic auspices,
becan-e Bryanism, Populism and Deinin
racy as now msde up are si inmyiuoiis
terms.
Tile comhiic-d forCeS of the elements of
discontent of the country having gathered
ill one fold and found without a di-scnt-
ing tutee I iiindola'.e mi 10. ii! -1
lo respond with an equal degree of satis
faction to each one's peculiar ism. it
seems 10 me tile part ot ivisdoin to meet
I hem iu another election, ami again 1cm
onsirate thai the electorate of (his conn-
Iry iu every critical lime always stands
ready to do lliat which is wise putting
down the wrong thing and Ottttlaa sn the
; right.
To Vote lor McKiuley.
I am goiug to vol- for President Mc
Kiuley. ami do whatever I consistently
can lo aid It his election, not because I
favor all his policies or approve of all his
poiitieui lies, out iieeiinse uiuler all ex
isting condition I believe the affairs of
the country will be better off 111 his hand
than in. those of Mr Bryst
I hope some time to see the Democratic
patty re-created, advocating Democratic
candidate and Democratic piim-iples.
but il cannot be more than a disturbing
force in the country's daily history until
it rid ilself of a leadership which lias
brought it to its present low estate snd
ceases making itself the lyingin asylum
of ihose elements of discontent which
if once entrusted with gorem Mental pow-
er would work injury at home mid !os f
Igadlng abroad.
Advice to lie mix rata.
It can lire under defeat without com
plete snd ultimate destruction, but a vie-
mo views in yir. myall ami a platform
pledging the party lo carry mil the things
advocated at Chicago in istn;. nnl in
Kansas City this yesr. would Work such
n -iill to the country that ii would pqag
out of pnfrtletl power at a recurring elec
lion, without the smallest minorities to
do it honor.
"t'nwcpt. Illihoiinreil and Ullsiipg,"
The Democrat who wishes to save hi
parly's future will only aid that end by
defeating Mr. Bryan and burying hi
platform lis ultimate rcsirrcnce tn p,,w.
er and prestige lies in the independence
of Democrats who are such on prima,,;,.,
and not through expediency.
JAM ICS II. Kf KKI.S
ASSENT OF GOVEILNKD
ARMY OF A MILLION VOItKS
DISTRANCHISEQ IN SOUTH.
o,..,uuicui by rnrca lassssasjd by
the I ciuocrata at Home, While lbtjr
Pcnuuaie kepublicau Ailmiu.ilra
tiun iu Our Lolouic
(from the New Vorg Times.)
Four yeurs ago, iu the so-called Deuio
cratk roaveatioa at Chicago, Senator
Beujamiu It. Tillman of South Carolina,
in offering u resolution tu dcuuuuce IftO
admiuistratiuu of President Cleveland,
n.ade an attempt lo couvert the cou.cn
liou to his view that the campaign about
to bogiu was a sectioaal one, iu wnnn
the South aud West were to be combined
by a common sen ti meat agaiust the North
aud East, tp overthrow those sections and
make their' financial opiuious odious, and
to destroy iheir domination iu future
national financial legislation and opcia
tiuus. Tillman has learned something sin. e
tbat day, wheu be was deservedly his-cd
und hooted iu a convention otherwise
none too sane or sensible, and tLe uienl
ed rebuke administered by Senator J. K.
Jones possibly convinced him that sec
tionalism is us hopeless an issue as ;c
cessiuu to divide the country. But he
was still a mau of impulse at Kansas
City. It- stored to favor after a civilining
ordeal of four years of service in the
Senate, he helped to prepare a plalXorm
exKising his party to the charge of gross
inconsistency or insincerity.
To TUtmaa was assigned the lak of
reading the platform. He do. s not lack
dramatic sense, and he has a large voice.
With prodigious volume and vehemence
he rolled forth the refereuce-, iu the
Opening phrases to "the inalienable
rights" of men guaranteed by the Declar
ation of Independence aud the Constitu
tion. As a sweet morsel he mouthed the
language of the declaration thut govern
ments must "derive their Jnst powers
from the consent of the governed.'" "Any
other government," he shouted with so
norous Intensity, "is tyranny, and to im
pose upon any people a government of
forct is to sustain ihe methods of impe
rialism." The case of the Porto RlcaBO
was described us appealing "with pecu
liar force to our justice and magnanim
ity." These sentiments were prepared and
emitted by Mr. Tillman for application
solely to the question of imperialism and
the conduct of he administration in en
dea VOCing to deal srith the new problems
that vex the country. But they seem to
have a more interesting meaning, us up
plied to Southern States, than they would
as Interpreted only to denounce aud em
barrass the administration in its effort to
establish free governments iu the Phil
ippines, Cttbn and Porto Rico.
Alabama's population iu IMhi was I,-
DlSttllT. there were upon the common
calculation of one voter iu five, 302,202
voters in that State iu lSHii. Alabama
gave to all candidates for President 109,
II.".'! votes, Bryan receiving l.'t(l.i!07. Lou
isiana's population in IKIKI was 1 ,1 1S.5D7.
The State was entitled in 1SIHI lo al least
22.t.l".n votes. Ii cast 102,040, aud Bry
an had 7T.I f Ml of these. Mississippi bad
l,280,WM population ill ISiai, and pre
sumably 257,020 males of voting age. Iu
1S!M! thee were cast for President iu
Mississippi 70,.'rl.'i voles. Bryan getting
53,860. North Carolina was reported in
1800, 'ii the census of thai year, as hav
ing 1. HIT. III? population. The Stale cast
331,210 voles iu the presidential contest
of 1M!m;, or a little more than the reason
able ratio for 189ft South Carolina,
with a reported population in I8!m of
1,151,14ft and with not lass thau 230,000
voters, cast for all condidatea in I8M
08,007 votes, ami 58,708 of them went lo
Mr. Tillman's man. Bryan.
Winn became of the fJOO.OOO rotes thai
appear to hnve been listing from Ihe
election returns of Alabama. I.otiisiann,
Mississippi and South CsrollUH? Were
thes,. 1(00,000 Voters to be governed, -til
case Mr. Brian was chosen or defealed.
without their maaent, thus subjecting
them to the "tyranny" referred ft by the
Democratic platform'.' Have those miss
ing voters been since found and required
to give .their consent to the election of
Uepreseatt tires in Congress iu order thai
they should not bo taxed without nation
al representation, fairly secured? Or has
their CO no ell I been obtained lo new re-
strieiious of the suffrage? Mas there liecn I
shown any tendency in any of those
Slates lo exchange 'the methods of im
perialism for those of a republic?"
HOW have Alabama, Louisiana, Missis
slppl, North Carolina ami Souih Carolina
qualified themselves to reproach the ad
ministration for imperialism? Have not
three of those State formally and com
pletely and tin two others by progressive
Step undertaken to deprive some 009,
O'XI of the governed" of the opportunity
to give or withhold that consent guaran
I I n a right I nding to the Demo
cratic application of the Declaration of
Independence, and laeartd by Ihe Cofl
ttltntton ?
Why waste hypocritical platform senti
ment on the people of Porto BlcO be
cause they have "a government without
Iheir i 'in ami taxation without rep
resentation," when 000,000 voters in four
States, all Democratic Slate, arc depriv
ed of the right to consent, and about
USJ,000 altogether, if we consider Vir
ginia, (ieorgis, Florida and Tennessee,
ure in like manner subjected to "tyran
ny." Mr. Tillman's platform also de
clares itt opposition to "militarism" for
the reason that "il means conquest
abroad and intimidation and Oppression
st home. It meant the standing army
that ha always been fatal to free Insti
mtiius." What apology does Senator
lillinan offer to the -landing army of
l.iXKi.txs) rot en disfranchised in South
e.n Slates' Were "intimidation and Of
restlon at home" praciic.,1 to bring
shout that result, peculiar onlv lo oue
ection of the country? l(. , ,..
(lit, on ,,f these silenced voters "eppeiil
wilh iieruliar force to our justice and
magnanimity ?"
f.ubor I'rnepernns In New Vorh.
Iu New York Stale the Bureau of La
in Statistics shows that the number of
'inp!o)e. , :itva of the largest factories
in Ihe Slsle has Increased in the last
three years by :,0,3'Jl. or IH.7 pel M
while the increase in waget is 21,400 -804.
or IM per rent.
Wtmm n Mis (Jrest 'ttll.
Wages of employes conected with the
xlnppiiig on the ;M.st .akM Bav, (,,,,
g' in rally tdvinceij.
RYAN'S SOLILOQUv"
i I Is..! I. ,i t .. .
Ifavur FrIrrTr.";
I Uonor Proa Trad, ana V.
tu fact. I .hall p V '
That bring, me 4utJ 'n, or
I preach "the consent of the g
.7IJ "rk Imperial .w.V
4VC. " ians tu iu v a.,
WUu stands oo m, platform ,
I kuuw I'm a talker tr ,
Aud gifted wild -gair
II mailers u.tr h..- I ..
-Tl
ui War Hmm.
I m sure of th Kd, solid satbl
I favor Kipanaion" and tsx
-' wu I wisu lo JIIMi-y
Aud believe in the riot ,,f
If they vote fur me oftu
" i shtitr
- I ireo
i ll promise ail thlnr if .i. ....
-
And do what I ph-ase ,. .
I favor all virtue In ,dHc 1 t
Hut wink st tough Tamuiar,, ,t4.
1 know I'm a Blower ud Aria.
By hiding my Ixtreu ui Toali
ltealud Au'l Imperial humbug
1'hat Aiuu, Ilka rre s; .-. g
But ihe rarujer and Vllur duD '
rhat my Antl-Impi rial , Ian tid
Is a 1'arameuui I'ram, just pel .
A Dictator, l'-n hold to uiy party
I furee them to do whit 1 think
And sitll to the trough ! , , ,a' th,
But can 1 induce Ihvm lo driakj
And when Ihe election Is over
If I should the White House sine.
I ll turn aud twist with the KaliblaT
Bamboozle and fool tba iu tgalal
JUH.N A. JOYCE, Washington, D C.
fcaWinti Jl arnVataWfcsl VAaVsxxai.
"Dear Boy" Letters?
My Dear Boy-In your last letter,,,
say that old man Skinner, yonr emploi.
er, snys that he "do. sn't see wfc
fanner can be thinki. g uf to vu;e ,
McKiuley w hen the trusts ure mb
ing tht life out of the farmers and tL I
country is drifting right into imperiiii-a
every day."
You w ant to know how to answer bin,
Well, I will tell you what to say to h;u
and then i have u feu words to it; ;
you.
Ask Mr. Skinner if he remembers that
in lN'.hi lie sold that sorrel mare that u-
to work on the nigh side wilh old Jim
for $d"i. thnh him win-inp the wm
wasu't a better horse than tbat bay thm
he sold to t'rawford the other d.ir f,r
$80. Remind him that he Mid til
in 1886 for 1-1 cents and t but he sold this
year at '2i cents, I kicked Oh t tteti
because he didn't gel 30,
tlcutiy suggest that he sold a couple if
steers in 1800 for JjUtJ." per hundred, sr. t
that they were as good as tln.se ayjiad 1
fellow s that lie sold la-.t week for $5.10.
The old man runs a huckster wagon ii
lo Nelsonville and cls product to t!.
miners' wives. A-k him if he remem
ber, that four years ago h womuD wotid
come out lo the wagon and sny
"Can you let nu- have a peck of po'l
toes and trust me till John gets work;"
Remind him that the same woiuis
COmet out BOW and says: "Hive me tint
doaea of eggs and two pounds of butter.
What are those peaches worth? I'll ts.
u basketful of them Hive tne a pea
of those tomatoes. How much does n
all coine loV Here's your money. Wto.
are you going to bring ill some ten!? Join
likes veal for breakfast."
Ask him if he doesn't ini thai oiotl
n cy has been paid mil as 'jjrJ ll
working men during the past yeartattit
any other year in the history of the Hock
ing Valley, Ask him whether a coa-M-trable
part of this moiic) hasn't loud
its way into his capacious pm-k etbook
Remind him thai he i.dd nu- that whrn
ever i he Mayhew farm : put upforule
ho intends to bid on that upper eighty
that joins his, ami that he bis made
enough money iu the last two yen's t
pay for It.
And then gently suggcsl mat he Ml
not appear to be suffering niiU'h from
Imperialism or trusts either Tell bits
that perhaps he had Is-tter let wet
enough alone. Tell him mil It vote M
what he doewli'l want I'ell aba till
when trade is good and lmiu- aar
denct strong and healthful, it is not U
to tear the w hole thing don n bf flrbj
the idmJuiatratlon Into untried tan
I think that this is the only kind if
argument that will I h old uiso Sti
ller, but you. my boy, lime i large'
soul. I want In say sol thei thiagt
lo .1 oil.
My boy, thank God Hint you lire
country prosperous si h e ami honorrJ
abroad, and never so perotll
honored sr. 'low.
When yon come to ' 'bi M tr
member tbat the naiimial credit
reached its highest Mint, thai Ihe wot'
of American laborers has gained ita high
est reward, and thai the glory of Ao''
can arms on land and sei lia b"c
widely BMlatalned onder th war'
thoughtful, palriotic adininisfrttktl
William McKiuley.
ReaaO taber that hi adiiiinitrttMI '
carrying out the pajgHpleii snd v"'
the RepnMleaa pai rj
Itememlier that the hi I t fo"'
eratlons of American .nldlert rum
your reins, and then vote so that yo
will not be ashamed of "' 'J'
day after election. Vol It KATW
'rui Masrtgfagrsa ami 'sittaa
In 1WM) the farm
State of Kansas uooui '
mm of 24O.00O.00. much id n V
the exorbitnnt interest f I- I'
.l.,.i ... IMWI to Ic - '
000. certainly remarkable VrL,
the prosperity of the farn ' f f
ent rates of interest on haaasl
loans are the lowesl tvei knowo.
Prosperitr I'roof in Mooej "
Postofflce stalisli.s " ' .
Prom June SO. IS:.:. ' " "
ibeie was a gain of 7'"'
b.-r of motif) order- issued. l
value increased by .V.. " ''-,i.
average aniiiniit of en. Ii .1 1,1 ' ,
to $7.44). This is tnothe prtoj '
existence of McKinle.i .t .spenlf-
,abor In Ml. hla
,r kthati1
Labor Commissioner
Wig's
hill
hi is in his 1X!K rep." '
,!....;, I...1 Ineru.i.e over til"-'
It!.
an average of ntore than " l ,
crease over IK7. The grcitesi I ! ,(lf
the fnct Hint all idle lab... it new;
employed nt reiiiuaerslive wages-
slue i W....I. M ' No"r' Msj
Sheep are higher than '"' ' ..n
and worth about double wbal
four years ago.
Wliut Cnws Arc ,rJ
The lotnl value of t
da ir.i man's milch rows
gi . iter l ban in tflfi
farmer '
M v'
reot