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SOUTHERN OREGON THE MAIL IS THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE AND PEOPLE'S PARTY OF SOUTHERN OREGON. ADVERTISERS Do yen study your beat inter com uud patronize tuts paper. It will be uyptcsiated by all Ue best farmers, from whom you get trade. A Paper Of, By and For the People! VOL. IV. MEDFORD: OREGON, FRIDAY, OCT. 7, 1802. NO. 40. SOCIETIES OF MEDFORD. K. of P. Talisman lodge No. SI, meets Mon day evening at 8 p. m. Visiting brothers al ways welcome. H. W. Skeel, C C. i. A. Whitmas, K. of K. & S. A. O. U. W. Lodge No. 98, meets every see and and fourth Tuesday in the month at 8 p. m. in their hall in the opera block. Visiting rothers Invited to attend. j. A. Whiteside, W. M. Q. F. Mebbwax, Recorder. I. O. O. f. Lodge No. S3, meets In I. O. O. F. ball every Saturday at at 8 p. m. Visiting brothers always Welcome. D. S. Yocnos, N. G. A.C NlCHOLSOJf. Rec Sec. I. O. O. F. Rogue River Encampment, Lodge Wo. SO, meets in I. O. O. F. hall the second and - aorta Wednesdays of each month at 8 p. m. W. I. Vawter, C. P. B. S. Webb, Scribe. Olive Rebekah Lodge No. , meets in I. O. O. F. hall first and third Tuesdays of each Month. Visiting sisters Invited to attend. Mrs. D. S. Yocnus, N.O. . A. C Nicholson. Sec A. F. A A. M. Meets first Friday on or be fore full moon at 8p. m in A. O. TJ. W. hall. N. L. Nakregan, W. M. J. S. Howard,- Sec. G. A. R. Chester A. Arthur Post No. 47, meets in G. A. R. hall every second and fourth Thursdays in each month at 7:30 p. M. 6. C Noble, Com. 1. H. Faris, Adjt. F. A. L TJ. L. L. Polk lodf 5 No. as, meets very Tuesday at 8 p. m. G.'S. Briggs, Pres. Epworth League meets each, Sunday even ing at 8:30. TJ. T. Lawton, president, Julia Fukie, secretarv. Toung People's Literary meets Friday even ing ef each week, under the auspices of the Bpworth League. W. C. T. TJ. Meets at Christian church every Monday evening at 7 p. m. Mas. A. A. Kellogg, Pres. MM. R. P. Hammond, See'y. T. M. C. A. Meets every Sunday at S p. m. at If. E. church. w. S. Hallt, Pres. M.E.RIGBT See. Secretaries of above lodges will please attend to corrections. Any society wishing to have a place in this directory will please hand in nec essary data. CHURCHES OF MEDFORD. Methodist Episcopal Church E. E. Phipps, pastor. Services every Sabbath; morning, II a. m.. evening. 7:30 p. m Prayer meeting at 7 -SO p. m. Thursday. Sunday school each Sun day at 10 a. m. E. A. Johnson, superintend ent. Epworth Literary Society, 7 JO p. m., Tuesdays. Class meetings every Sunday at close of morning service. Christian Church No pastor at present. Preaching first and third Sundays in month, aaorning and evening. Worship every Sunday morning. Sunday e hoot at 10 a. m . Prayer Meeting every Thursday evening. Presbyterian Churcn F. J. Edmunds, pas tor. Preaching at 11 s. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sun day school at 10 a. m. Y. P. S. C. K, 6:15 p. m. Baptist Church T. H. Stephens, pastor. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:: p. m. rrayer meeting every vteanesaay even injg Sunday school at 10 a. m The pastors of the different churches are re quested to attend to corrections. t E B. PICKEL, Physician and Surgeon ' Medford, Oregon. Office : Rooms 2 & 3. I.O.O.F. Bldg JB. WAIT, Physician and Surgeon. Medford, Oregon. Office: In Childers' Block. E, P. GEARY, 1 Physician and Surgeon. Medford, Oregon. Office: Cor. C and 7th sts, S. JONES, Physician and Surgeon. Office: Hamlin block, up stairs. 9 iR. O.F. DEMOREST, Resident Dentist. Makes a specialty of first-class work at reasonable rates. Office in opera house, . Medford.Or TIOBT. A. MILLER- Att'y and Counsellor-at-law. Jacksonville, Oregon. Will practice in all courts of the State. J H. WHITMAN, Abstractor and Attorney- At-Law. Medford, Oregon. Office in bank building. Have the most complete and reliable ab stracts of title in Jackson county IT7ILLARD CRANVFORD. Attorney and Counbellor- v -At-LawT Medford, Oregon. Office Jn Opera block. I USTIJJ S. HAMMOND, A t Attorney-At-Law. , Medfofd, Oregon. Office: I.Q.O.F, Biil4ing. Davis & Pottenger, -o Dealers Sn o- GROCERIES, CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, Claware, Wooflen & Willowiare. GOOD GOODS AND LOW PIRECS. GIVE TJS A. TRIAL Free Delivery to Any Part of the City. FIRST DOOR WEST OF FOSTOFFICE- BROPHY & MATHES, o dealers in o FRESH AND CURED 1 BEEF, PORK, MUTTON AND VEAL Constantly on hand! Sausages a Specialty. MEDFORD. : : : : . OREGON" artists' mm Call and examine our new stock of ArtisU Material. JPS. fl. SLI017 BR G0 DRUGGISTS OF MEDFORD. Night Bell on Door Prescriptions Compounded. STATIONERY" PERFUMES "A-DRUGS. :ons & -SUCCESSORS TO- ADKINS & WEBB, Dealers in SHELF AND HEAVY HARWARE. Stoves, Tin & Willow Warn. CYCOXE and HOOSIER PUMPS, Etc Every article Claren do iM HOTEL. Ul. G. COOPER, Pfop., Medford, - Oregon. First-class Board liy tlie Day, Week or Mootli Centrally Located, West THE - MEDFORD - BRICK - YARDS, G. W. PRIDDY, PROP. 140,000 Brick on Hand. First Class Quality- Larae and Small Orders Promptly Filled, Brick Wotfk of All Y&nds Executed W!tj Satisfaction. Give Me a Call, . IEATS. IBLASCPOL BOOKS, cathcart, bears a guarantee. Side of the S. P. R. R. Depot. A. C.TAYLER, SHOEMAKER, ALSO THE LATEST STYLES Of Eastern Shoes. REPAIRING PROMPTLY DONe. OPPOSITE POSTOFFICK. HID W. GREEN. Suits to Order, $24 and Up. Pants to Order, $6 and Up. Satisfaction Goaranleefl. Corner of 7th and C St&. MEDFORD, - - - OREGON. S. ROSENTHAL THE R, OF MEDFORD, ORE., Has just received a large stock of fine CLOTHING and GENT'S FURNISHING GOODS also a 6 nes toe k of BOOTS and . SHOES Which he will sell as low as can be sold. Small profits and quick gales will be his motto. Call and see for vourself. S. CHILDERS Having- Ixmghl out 'Frank Galloway is now prepared to nil all order promptly. The Cheapest and Best Picket Fwnce made. Correspondence Solicited. Ad dress all orders to S. CHILDERS, Medford, - Oregon. 1.2 Mile East of Medferd. Fruit Trees, Grape Vines and Small Fruit. Choice Stock. Reasonable Rates CHUTE & CAMPBELL, PltACTICAI. WATCHMAKERS, Medford, - - Oregon. Watches, Clocks, Jowolry and Specta cles Repaired. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. HTGivo us a call. To All Shippers of Produce : M. E. Ballard & Go SM9 Cottage drove Avenue, Chicago, Ills. Goncral produce, eommtsslon merchauls and shipper. WANTS-Hutter, choose. Ekkh, Pottttoos, Annie. Onions. Cahbsco. Dried Fruits. Honns, Poultry, tlume. Veal, lleef. Mutton, Pork. Furs tildes, foils. Tallow, tioney, uocswax. iiroom Corn, foathcrs, Ginseng Root, Cider Vinegar, Flour, lluckwhcal, eto. fiT Send lor our daily bulletin. ROOFING GUM KLASTIC ROOFING FELT oosts only fci.OO per 1(10 square feet. Mukas a good roof for yours, and unyone can put It our hend stamp for sample and full particulars, (lUU EI.ASTK) ROOVINO CO., 39 ft 41 West Biioadway, New York. LOCAL A (J HINTS WANTKW- n Ainu TAILOR INI GREAT CLOT Uniyersal mm Fence MEDFORD NURSERY ALLIANCE AND TARTY ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT LOUCKS, OF THE N. F. A. AND I. U. It la the Iutjr at the Alliance to Vote In Support of IU "I'oIUIcrI Views," lint the Protective uml ICduculloual Orcuit Imttlon Allist lie I'erptjtuated. To the Members of the Fanners' Alli ance and Industrial Cniou: For years wo have been stndyiug po litical economy "the science of gov ernment'' from a strictly nonpartisan standpoint, the only correct method of arriving at the truth in politics. With unparalleled unanimity and etithn6iasm we have united on a series of demands which have been adopted, affirmed and reaffirmed by our supreme council, our state, county and subordinate Alliances. Last February at tt. Louis they were indorsed by twenty-one other great la bor organizations. These demands are the result of many years' patient study and discussion of the labor problem. We believe they are just aud essential. The time has now arrived to test whether we are going to be practical or not. The ouly way to seenre the enactment of these demands into law is through political action legislation. We have passed through the stages of discussion, resolutions and demanding. These are all preliminary and necessary to the final act of . voting. Unless followed up by our ballots all that we have done will have been in vain. The difficult- that now confronts as as an organization is that while we are a unit on onr demands we are not as to methods of securing them. We all must agree on the common sense proposition that the ouly way of secur ing them is to vote for them. Unfortu nately our partisanship in some caes has proved stronger than our allegiance to onr principles. When we first made our political de mands, we to that extent became a po litical organization. In doing so we did not become a political party, nor do I think we, as a class, ever shonld. So long as other classes and professions re main orgauized as classes or professions we, too, must perpetuate aud strengthen our organization. But having, as an organization, made certain political de mands, there was an implied promise that if they did we would support them; if not, we would oppose them. We have been met with the contention that this would interfere with our political free dom. Before taking the obligation we were assured that it "will not conflict with the freedom of your political or re ligious views." The Alliance has been an educator. Our demauds are our "political views." Instead of interfering with, we urge our members to stand by and support and vote for their political views. It is the only honest aud consistent thing we can do. If yon believe any other plat form of principles of more importance than ours, then they are yonr political views, and it is your- dnty to support them in preference to ours. Our de mands can only be crystallized into law through the medium of a political party. 1 lay down three common sense prop ositions: I. It is always necessary to follow np a political party, after tbey have promised, to compel them to keep their promises. 2. It is very improb able that nuy political party will en act onr demands into law unless they first promise to do so. 3. It is ut terly ridiculous to exect a political party to enact onr demauds into law so long as they are fighting them. The man who has sufficient faith to believe that they will has enough to remove a monntain; but faith even of that kind will never move a political party. They live on and are moved by votes. Our first duty as citizens is to examine well the promises of all political parties as contained in their platform of princi ples, and to follow it up by their record to learn which political party is our party. Oue political party having adopted onr demands, it would bo in' direct con flict with our obligation to ask you to support a political party that has not done so. Worse it would be asking yon to vioiate the sacred right of franchise, which should.be guarded as the ark of our covenant. As an organization we are in houor liound to snpport our prin ciples. As citizens it is our duty to voto our principles. Our order is . on trial. We have reached a point where we aro certain to lose some members, and it is wise to consider the situation carefully. To push on aggressively and in earnest we will lose Alioso who love their old party bondage Letter than our principles. To be weak or vacillating at this critical time will insntre the loss of the earnest, aggressive membership, who are honest ly advocating our principles as of para mount importance to that of any politi cal party. No true Alliance mau can hesitate which course to pursue. Ad mitting a loss, which we must, which method will insure us the greatest gain? Unquestionably the honest, manly, con sistent course of voting as wo talk, re solve, demand and pledge. Experience in the state elections, where we have voted for our principles, has demon strated that our gains have more than balanced onr losses in numbers and strengthened us immensely in prestige and influence A fow mny bo led away with the idea that because a political party has adopt ed our demauds our efforts should now Ik) concentrated solely for the party. This would be a grave mistake. We must perpetuuto and strengthen our or ganization as a bulwark of our princi ples, present and prospective; a tower of strength to aid the party adopting our demands, uud a terror to the party fighting them. In other words, we must remaiu independent" of aud superior to political parties, Our ouly hope end safety is in perpet uating and perfecting our orgauizution, pressing forward consistently and per- sistuutly uutil viotory is assured, Fra-. ternnlly, H. L. Loucks, Prwjtlpi't N, F, A. and I. U. Weaver uud Field. Where .ire-they? They are not at Loon Lake or liuzzard's Bay lolling around in luxuriant idleness with their mouths hermetically sealed by a national com mittee that is run by Wall street money aud represents Wall street's interest. No, indeed: no such useless tasks devolve uiion them. They are fighting manfully for the rights of the great common peo ple who now feel the hand of oppression in this country, and for the freedom of a posterity that will have a right to hold tho present generation responsible for the lilK-rties bequeathed to them by the revolutionary fathers. If every voter in the nation could hear Weaver deliver one speech, Cleveland and Harrison might pool their issues and stay ft Loon Lake and Buzzard's Bay all their lives if they chose, because they would have no public business to interfere with their lazy and selfish occupation. General Field, the gallant old soldier, has one leg buried on tire battlefield of Slaughters Monntain, on the 9th of Au gust, He is kale aud hearty and apparently in possession of all the fire and vigor of the prime of lifeV He makes his appointments at a long dis tance every day, and stands on oue leg for a 2J j hours' speech without fatigue. He is a wonderful campaigner, and car ries conviction to the hearts of his audi ence by-his evident candor and sincer ity, while he convinces their minds by bis sound arguments and his great store of facts and information. National Economist. Tired or Such Prosperity. In a recent address delivered in Omaha W. L. Green, of Kearney, Neb., "brought down tho house with the fol lowing remarks: in Iowa the mortgage indebtedness has increased f3,UOO,000 per year. This is prosperity, is it? McEiuley says that a mortgage is an evidence of prosperity. I bad one or two of these evidences of prosperity, and I went home and told my wife about it; bnt, do yon know, in spite of all 1 say to my wife in spite of McKinley's statements in spite of all the Republican campaign literature I have taken home, my wife insists that she wants to get rid of that evidence of prosperity? When McKinley was in Nebraska he had said that he had a mortgage on his house, but he was to blame, as he put it there himself. A highwayman meets you in adark alley, and holding a revolver to your head says. "Money or your life." You give np yonr inouey. But you alone are to blame. You did it yourself. Of course yon put the mortgage there yourself. You had to do it to preserve the lives aud happiness of loved ones. Fillioa- the Chasm. In introducing General Weaver, the chairman of an immense People's party meeting at Dallas, said: We are nearing a crisis that will put to a crucial test the conservatism of every man iu this nation. The capacity of man for self government is on trial. Yon today are confronted with 1.000,000 tramps begging for subsistence, 2.000,000 laborers on a strike, and five states in this union in open revolt with militia in the field to compel obedience to law. There are causes for this. The war is over; we are living in a period of pro found peace. There ought not to be any sectional hate, bnt as men and wom en we ought to come together and work for one great government. There ought not to be a bloody chasm. We have commenced to fill np that chasm. We have put Ingalls in it and have put Sher man in it. and by November, with God's good grace, we will put Roger (j. Mills iu it. A Bis Chance In North Dakota. A New York dispatch savs: "Senators Hansbrongh aud Casey have been in New York together two or three days with Alexander McKenzie, of North Da kota, aud have had "repeated conversa tions with Chairman Carter and other members of tho national Republican committee regarding the campaign .in North Dakota and other northwestern states. McKenzie has promised the committee that North Dakota will give an old time majority not only for the national, but tha( the state and legisla tive tickets will be successful." It is possible that Alex McKenzie can no longer deliver North Dakota to whom he pleases. There has been a big change here, as Alex will see when the returns are all in. North Dakota Independent. Sick and Dejected. Tho Jones crowd are sick and dejected over present ills and future prospects. They would like to uudo many things which they have done and do many things which they have refused to do. There is no health in them. Twenty counties iu Alabama can control the state under tho present election law, should tho probate judges, clerks and sheriffs of those counties conspire to ac complish that result. These counties can count enough votes to defeat the re mainder of the state in any election. The little, petty despotism thus en throned will have to tremble and fall to pieces under the demand of the people for their rights and liberties. Alabama Alliance Herald. Mr. lHalne "Indorses." Mr. Blaine's letter followed fast upon the lengthy deliverance of his late chief. But the curious render will find therein no word specifically commending Ben jamin Harrison, candidate for re-election to the presidency. One single sen tence iu praise of the ticket of Harri son and Reid would have outweighed, in the iniud of the perturbed Chairman Carter and his associates, all that the ex-premier finds to say in praise of Mc Kiuleyism as tempered by reciprocity. Boston Globe. Oet papers from the south if you wish to learu about how the People's party is dying iu that country, Weavor is obliged to speak three and fonr times a day in the some town to reach all the people who desire to hear him. It is one Fourth of July celebratiou all the time. -O'Neill (Neb.) Tribune. AN ALABAMA IIEV0LT. HONEST. CITIZENS WILL ftliHT THE JONES GANG'S METHODS. ' A Llfeloas; Democrat Denounces the scoundrels Who Hare DIB-rmeed Ills.-' , Old Party Eight Uandred Sic Pledged to See m r'alr Coont The War Orer. A special correspondent of the New York Press gave a graphic account of the opening hours of the Alabama state convention of the Jeffersonian Demo crats and People's party, who met in joint session at Birmingham. Follow ing is a portion of the report: ' The joint convention of the People's party and the Jeffersonian Democrats, who supported Kolb in the recent elec tion for governor,, met this morning with between 700 and 800 delegates, representing every county in the state. There were not half a dozen colored men among them. The wool hats, care less dress, slouching gait and sunburned faces indicated the Alabama farmer, who tills his fields with his own labor. Nine-tenths of them were representa tives of the class from which came the rank and file of the southern army dur ing the rebellion. Many of them had worn the gray uniform; some had empty sleeves; others walked with a limping step. Like all new bodies they were slow in getting down to business, and like all southern crowds they wanted to hear somebody make a speech. Weaver and Field, the People's party candidates for president and vice president, entertained them in an open air meeting in the mid dle of the day. One had worn the gray, the other the bine. It was proof that the war was over and that a new gener ation had grown np with new interests. The band played "Yankee Doodle" and ' '-Dixie" by turns, and Weaver was cheered even louder than Field! Mrs. Lease, of Kansas, also spoke. Then the convention came together again in the opera house and dainnan Bowman was called upon for a speech. He is a tall, broad shouldered, lean waisted natiVe of the south, the born leader of a popular movement, eloquent in speech, handsome to look at and quick on the trigger. He has three bal let holes in him, and the reputation of being ready to take chances on more. . Much of his speech was devoted to local issues. - " He pointed ont that Democratic pol itics in Alabama for twenty years had consisted in keeping the same old ring of politicians in office, who did nothing and cared nothing for the interests of the common people of the state. He touched upon the incidents that led np to the independent candidacy of Kolb against Jones for governor, and showed bow, even by the official count, which was manipulated by the Jones men. Kolb carried all bnt three or fonr of the white counties in the -state. Today," he thundered, "they have Thomas G. Jones perched upon a stack of stuffed ballot boxes from the black belt counties and call him governor of Alabama. "The organized Democracy of Ala bama have been caught with the stolen goods in their possession, and they will never be forgiven unless they acknowl edge the theft and surrender the plun der." He said four-fifths of the negro vote, where it had a chance to be cast and counted, was for Kolb. He declared that Kolb had been elected by a tre mendous majority, and challenged the head of the Democratic ticket to cal the election inspectors of five counties into a room and ask them to tell the truth about the count. If it did not show that the ballot boxes had been staffed and miscounted enough in these counties alone to reverse the whole majority claimed for the Jones ticket, he would agree to withdraw all contest! and accept the count. He de ferred going into details of the election frauds until later in the proceedings, bnt mentioned one conscience smitten election inspector who had' voluntarily confessed to Captain Kolb in the presence of witnesses that at his polling place, which had been returned as giving Jones 400 majority, the vote had really been 355 for Kolb and 43 for Jones. By such nefarious practices as these, the chairman's speech' declared, the or ganised Democracy had made enemies ont of those who had once been their brothers. They would beg no longer that these things should not be done. They would see to it that they could not be done. "There will be another election in November," he cried, "and we will have a full congressional and electoral ticket in the field against that of the organ ized Democracy. How many of you will be willing to serve as United States supervisors and deputy marshals to see that it is not counted out? As many as are willing stand up." The delegates did not merely rise up They sprang to their feet, S00 as on man, waving their hands and shouting, "1, 1, 1." After the tumult had subsided, pointing his finger at a group of Demo- . cratio politicians in the gallery, -he con tinued: . "Take warning by what you have seen. Heretofore you have had to deal with poor, half blind negroes at the polls on election day. These are white men like yourselves. From now hence forth and forever the free white men of Alabama mean to throw off the shackles of ballot bos stuff ers and election thieves. "Let them try the old game in No vember and they will be indicted under the laws of the United States, and native white southern citizens of Alabama will go into the jury boxes and convict them." Such a denunciation of election meth ods in the south, such a menace to Dem ocratic supremacy in Alabama was never before thundered from the lips of one who had been born and bred among them and never voted a Republican ticket in his life. In the list of new papers given in Newspaperuom for August there are S3 Democratic, 87 Republican and 47 Peo ple's, The summary for the last three months is. Democratic, $7; Republican, 3. and People's, 135.