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of twit or three planks It indorses Gov
Uoie administration reaffirms tho
Entiprohibition plank of lssl pledges
llm part to pass tin Australian
or other ballot reform measure
denounces the McKinicy tariff law indorses
the principle of tarifi for revenue only
rorommciiis state and national control of
railroads favors liberal persions for dis
ubliil t nion soldiers anil recommends an
ample and liberal appropriation for a state
exhibit at the World s fair
L imjii the silver question there was a long
dspute but the cominittie finally decided
to recede from the plat form of a year afro
and merely 1 ivor the free coinage of silver
upon a just ratio making it full legal
tender for all debts public md private
> i resolution linn II W Pusey was
made ptrmrucit i iiairniau
Formal reports of tho committe woro
t ieu received and adopted and nominations
for state Hirers declared in order
It was to Col Charles A Clark that was
allotted the honor of placing in nomination
Hon Ilorue Boies for aTcond term
As our candidate for governor iu tho
npproachiig campaign said ho there is
but one name in the hearts of Iowa Demo-
crats as there is but one camo on the lip3
of the delegates of this convention assem-
bled It is the name of our present fearless
and peerless chief magistrate Horace
Boies jlireat applause
By a unanimous ituudiug vote Governor
Boies was declared ihe ticminee for gov-
ernor amid the w lMest applause
Tho ticket wls compienil with Samuel
L Bestow of Chariton for iieutonantgov
crnor L G Kmneetif Toma county for su
premo juilco J B Kenoughpy for superin-
tendent of public instruction and Peter A
Dey for railroad ciiunissioncr
Situation In the Alliance Cauip
bpeclal to the Gazette
Jackson Hiss June 34 During a visit
here of Polk Livingston McDowell and
Willetts the liig Alliance lights some in
t restins developments came to the surface
relative to National Alliauce matters Tho
National Alliance legislativo council met in
Wasuiugtou lost February and created a
legislative committee consisting of three
members M L Ifall president of the Mis-
souri Alliance was one The function of
this committee was to formulate measures
growing out of tje Oeala demands to bo
presented to the Fiftv second congress
Hall from the inception of the subtreasury
measure has been one of its strongest op-
ponents He commenced the war against
the scheme and with his coadjutors has
succeeded in rganizirg a movement cover-
ing the entire Southern states As is
showu from the call of the meeting of tho
lutisubtreasury league at Fort Worth
ex Ji y 10 next this meeting tromises
o be larevh attended and an organised op-
position to the stibfeasury and Macune
Ism will bo definitely inaugurated
Polk has had considerable correspondence
with Hal ail vising him tc desist and very
recently submitted to him ono of two al-
ternatives either to cease bis opposition to
Ihesrbtroasury or tender his resignation
is a meinbr of the legislative committee
Hall was given until June 25 to make his
answer It is believed this is a decisive
stroke of pohev to frustrate the objects of
Hie anlisubtreasury league a Fort Worth
1ex and to mtluinco the less intrepid op-
ponents o the measure to steer clear of the
Fort Worth council Those who know
President Hall say positively lie will de-
cline 5o be coerced and give up his convic-
tions but on Mircontrary he will resign
ind light thesubtreisur > harder than ever
It is believe1 by many triat this will split
tho national lliance and an independ
atorgaii ah ion will grow out of the Fort
Worth meeting as a result with a more lib
eral policy in many respects ind especially
is to membership
CiiuptxIl anil Gray
Special to the Gazette
Kaxsaj Cut Mo June 24 Senator
Vest was irterviewed in this citv on tho
political situation which he 1ms been study
ing closely and said A good deal depends
pu the result in Ohio If Governor Camp
pell should boleelected governor he will
be tho Democrat nominated for president
Being elected governor ho thought the
Democrats would surely get the electoral
rote of Ohio McKinleys election over
Pampbell would give the nomination for
president to Cleveland Tim senator says
Gray of Indiana will be given his place on
the ticket and that Harrison will be re
pomlnated Ho does not regard Blaine or
Hill as candidates for the chief executive
FANNIN ALLIANCE
A Meeting Called of All Members Opposed
to the fcuhTreasury and Ware-
house Eiu
Special to the Gazette
Bonbam Fannix Couxtt June 23 The
following was issued today
A conference called To all members of
tho Farmers Alliance in Fannin county op
Sosed to tho subtreasiry and warehouse
ill
illBrethren
Brethren Believing as we do that Oie
adoption or indorsement by our order of the
Dcala demands particularly the subtreas
ury and warehouse bill will create strife
ind dissension among the brethren and will
weaken the order in Texas we deem it
proper to call a conference of all tho Alli-
ance men to meet iu Bonham on Thursday
July 21S91 to meet with the county Alli-
ance on that day and in the true fraternal
spirit of the order to discuss this measure
and to enter our solemn protest to its adop
tion as a principle by the order at its next
Itatc meeting in Dallas this summer
We view with alarm and forebodings the
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unAlliance spirit of proscription and de-
nunciation towards members who do not
and will not favor and indorse the sub
treasury and warehouse bill said pre-
scriptive spirit we believe originating in
the oreasts of leadere high in the official
ranks of the order such ideas being advo-
cated and promulgated by our official
organs the Southern Mercury of Dallas
and the National Economist of Washing
ton D C said paixsrs denouncing all mem-
bers of the order as traitors judases
etc who refuse to bow down and worship
at the shrine of the subtreasury heresy
Believing it is the aim and object of a
few of tho leaders of the Alliance to com-
mit the order in Texas through its next
state meeting to a blind support and fol
lowing of this scheme and finally to aid in
the formation of a third party we urge
every member of the order in Pannin
county who loves its principles and is jeal-
ous of its future membership and useful-
ness to meet with us on tho day named at
the Alliance hall in Bonham and in that
true spirit of fraternal union let us discuss
and act on this matter and if possible pre-
serve the order from a step that will weaken
its membership and divide its counsels
Come and meet n ith us
W T Gass cxsccretary Home Alliance
W J Hood exleclurcr County Alliance
C M Wheeler Cottage Alliance C L
Wood treasurer Farmers County Alli-
ance Lee Love president Cottage Alliance
R C Bragg county lecturer and district
organizer S L Lyday James M Smith
FOSTERS FORECAST
The Next Storm to Leave the
Pacific Coast July 6
IS OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD
Storms for June to Ko Duplicated for tho
Next Twelve Months Hut Will lie
of Much Greater Forces The
Use of Plain Terms
Special to the Gazette
St Joseph Mo Juno 27 My last
letter gave forecasts of the storm wavo duo
to cross the continent from June 30 to July
4 and the next will be due to leave the Pa-
cific coast about July 0 cross the Kocky
Allegheny valley from the 7th to 9th and
reach the Atlantic coast about the 10th
The centerof this disturbance will enter
the Pacilieeojst about the north line of
California reaching the 40th deg of north
latitude in the middle of the continent and
pass into the Atlantic about the latitude of
Maine While it will bo a welldeveloped
storm center on the continent it will not
reach its greatest force until about the lOtli
or 11th when on the northeastern AUantic
coist Preceding and southeast of tho
storm center the weather will be quite
warm and following it cold for the time of
year Tho general average of the weather
will be much cooler than usual The rain-
fall will not bo general from this storm
wave but will be noted more for excessive
rains in small area doing some damage in
places by too sudden rainfalls while drying
winds will injure other localities
WEAIHElt AX1I SCI NCK NOTES
Although I try to use the plainest of lang-
uage and to convey my ideas by explicit
terms yot I am often misunderstood I
sometimes use a term like St Iouis meri-
dian mcauing of course a line drawn from
north to south across the continent through
that city but my readers often take this to
mean that the storm will strike that city
No fair construction of language can give
any such construction to the term which is
used only to itidicate the progress of the
stormwave eastward I usually designate
whether the storm center will take a north-
ern southern or middle route but readers
should not forget that a meridian extends
entirely across tho United State3north and
south
Many persons also misunderstand the
word storm A storm is any kind of a
weather disturbance iu which may occur
rain hail snow wind or electric displays
A storm is not necessarily destructive It
may be an ordinary rain storm hail storm
wind storm electric storm snow storm or
thunder storm When I predict any kind
of a destructive storm it will be in such
lanuuaire as will not oe misunderstood
By storm wavo is meant that general
weather disturbance that regularly crosses
the continent from west to east
tho effects of which aro in suc-
cession the clearest weather of the
period followed by a change ot wind to
some eastern point of tho compass then
warmer weather followed by the cloud
belt with precipitation not necessarily gen-
eral but in spots throughout the storm
center then a chango of wind to some
western point bringing cooler and clearer
weather It takes all these changes of
weithcr to constitute what I term the storm
wave
I often use another term tho storm
center This has reference to the low
barometer of the storm wave It is tho key
to all weather changes and requires from
one to two days to pass any given pointand
about five days to cross the continent from
the Pacific to the Atlantic coast At all
points north of this storm center the
weather will be cool and at all points south
it will be warm
My efforts are to givo tho dates on which
these storm waves and storm centers will
pass certain meridians or portions of the
country whether they will take northern
southern or middle routes and more es-
pecially whether they will be of great or
moderato force Another important and
usually successful effort is to indicate tho
periods of heavy rains such as occurred
during the first ten days of June I will
give tho next heavy rain period in my next
letter
Readers of these forecasts should par-
ticularly note the storms of June for those
to follow for the next twelvo months will
be of like but very much greater force
W T Fostek
AN INFERNAL MACHINE
It Is Exhibited In a Chicago Courtroom
One Drop of the Liquid Sets
Paper on Fire
Chicago III June 27 In the criminal
court today Judge Collins quashed all
counts in the indictment against George
Gibson of the whisky trust charging him
with conspiracy and those for having ex-
plosives in his possession The charge of
attempting to commit the crimo of blowing
up the Shufeldt distillery was taken under
advisement During the argument the in-
fernal machine which it is alleged was
found in Gibsons valise when arrested was
brought into court and exhibited to the
judee It consisted of a box containing a
brass tube into which a conical steel bullet
was fitted and beneath it was a string of
coil tow saturated with a colored liquid
There was a long slender glass vial ncarly
f ull of a colorless liquid To show its dan-
gerous character a single drop of it was let
fall upon a sheet of paper which spontane-
ously ignited and was instantly consumed
A IJenedlct in Trouble
Special to the Gazette
Alvoud Wise Couxtt Tex June 24
Deputy Sheriff Leslie and Constable Morris
of this place arrested Sam Riggs living
about six miles northeast of Alvord late
lasnnight on a charge of bigamy Riggs
slep in the calaboose here last night arid
was tarried to Decatur today to bo placed
in thAcounty jaiL He was married about
twejaars ago to Nettie Cook of Alvord
from ilhom he soon separated and on last
Sundanewas married to Alice Tipton
vrithou obtainlmj a divorce from his first
wife
5pi p i j g i
TEXAS TEACHERS
The Recent Meeting at Austin a
Pronounced Success
EARNEST INTELLIGENT WORK
Before Many Years Texas Will Xot be
Second to any State in the Union
In Point or Her Schools and
Her Teacher
Special to the Gazette
Austin Tex June 27 The state Teach-
ers association just held at Austin was a
pronounced success all around in the judg-
ment of some of the principal educators
who have been attending such meetings for
a dozen years In somo respects they claim
that it has surpassed any previous meeting
It may not have exceeded in numbers the
meeting held at Galveston a year ago but
the daily attendance at the sessions was
larger Many it is said who were not
teachers went to Galveston because of tho
low rates of transjwrtation and for the
pleasure of bathing in the gulf and many
of the teachers spent hours in the surf that
were stolen from their duty in the teachers
meeting It was not so here The hall of
representatives was crowded at each ses-
sion not by a listless careless audience
but by a lot of earnest and intelligent teach
ers male and female The hot weather ap-
peared to have no effect in dampening their
ardor whatever may be said of collars
They stood it bravely terrible as it was at
times and did not shrink in fortitude even
when a duli and nrosaic essayist had the
floor To tell the truth however there
was not a great deal of the dryasdust of
the pedantic and tho prosy about
the exercises To the average mortal not
up in pedagogics some things doubtless
may have seemed so but not to the teachers
themselves They understood and appre-
ciated what others turned up their noses at
While their pai > ers and discussions were to
the average layman what classical music is
to tho uninitiated thoy had often the flavor
of old wine to tho pedagogues themselves
There is nothing stranger in this than in
the fact that those trained in the mysteries
of thorough bass should come together
to talk and make music of a sort that is said
to be far better than it sounds Tis even
so with the pedagogue or tho schoolmann
Their discussion of educational topics text-
books and methods may not sound well or
inviting to others They are not meant
like music for tho general ear but for their
own and that is where thoy have the edge
ou the music makers The association is
composed in the main of the brains of the
profession Most of the trained and cult
ured teachers male and female of the state
belong to it Tho principal county and city
superintendents aro in it Tho presidents
and professors of our colleges academies
and high schools belong to it and also the
best and most ambitious of the teachers in
the public schools
One thing that struck the beholder and
him who listened attentively to the various
talks and discussions held was the growing
spirit of selfxssertion even independence
that was constantly and perhaps uncon-
sciously manifesting itself The teachers
spoke of their rights occasionally and of
the dignity and responsibilities of their call
ing They were evidently strongly im-
pressed with a full sense of each and of the
respect to which they were entiUed there
for Ono of them declared that the teach
crs were considered good and trustworthy
enough to be instructed w ith the important
charge of training the minds of the young
of planting in them the seeds of correct
knowledge and right conduct and of fitting
them to be a credit to themselves and an
honor to their parents and their country
but and tho speakers face showed some
shade of disgust at the thought but they
that is the teachers were not considered
good enough to advise a legislature con-
cerning the needs and requirements of our
public schools Becauso they did not raise
their voices in clamor for u textbook bill
they were not to be trusted Because they
were said to be unfriendly to it they were
venal and the paid emissaries of book con-
cerns It was strange was it not that men
who considered them venal selfish and
purchasable would intrust them with the
education of their children
Other expressions of a sarcastic or ironi
cal nature proved that somo of them at
least had it in for the legislature or the
solons that cast slurs on them at the late
session They felt pretty strongly when
touching ou such matters but were more
selfcontained that the solons aforesaid
Said one of them to the writer Just
think of it Here was the Democratic plat-
form of last summer voicing the demands of
the teachers for a six months school and
pledging the party to that mauifest duty
Not a word did the platform say about uni-
form text books That was not thought of
in the convention The Republicans who
met soon after in convention put a text-
book plank in fheir platform Now what
did the Democrats do when they met in leg
islative session last winter Instead of
carrying out the party pledge as laid down
in their platform of providing for a six
months school they ignored it entirely
and took up instead tho Republican idea of
uniform text books and wrangled over it
the entire session They showed far more
liking for the Republican platform in this
particular than they did for their own or
for the wishes of the teachers And yot
these are tho men that call the teachers
venal and purchasable By the same
process of reasoning what should we call
them
It was clearly evident that tho pedagogues
did not have an exalted opinion of legisla-
tive wisdom when it came to consider the
needs of the schools or the requirements of
our educational affairs They dont like
the idea of being snubbed and despitefully
used by men who are but illinformed in
matters wherein they hold themselves to be
experts Either they know but litUe as
one of them said about their profession
and are therefore unworthy members or
they are fitted by their knowledge special
knowledge to speak for it and voice its
wishes its demands They should bo cred-
ited with a knowledge of its requirements
at least equal to that of the average law-
maker
From such sentiments as those that es
caped at odd times during tho session the
reader can see that the pedagogues did not
fear to stand upon and maintain their
rights and tho dignity of their calling
When struck upon one cheek they did not
turn the other Not much They used to
doso a few years ago when as one of them
said they took vhatever was vouchsafed
them with thanks and were afraid to S3y
that their souls were their own But not
so now They are learning to bo courage-
ous and selfreliant to feel the spirit of
independence Miat should accompany every
honorable calling They are profiting by
the organized movements set on loot a few
years back and feel a new accession of
strength every time they hold a meeting
There was nothing oldfegyish about the
men and women that read papers or aired
their views on pedagogical or educational
matters at the Austin meeting There
were no mossbacks among them They
talked as familiarly about the principles of
Pestalozzi and the methods of Frcabel as
the most thoroughpaced Bostonian would
do Most of them perhaps teach in town
or city schools and are as modern in their
ideas and culture as their brethren and sis-
ters of the North They have caught the
spirit of progress and evolution abroad and
know that to succeed they must advance
Hence their meetings and friendly discus-
sions which can not but be benuficial and
improving
Another thing that can ba said of this
Austin meeting is the entire absenceof any
even the slightest friction that to some ex-
tent marred the work of other meetings
Everything passed off smoothly and harmo-
niously and nothing but the best of feeling
animated the entire membership The state
meeting is growing in interest numbers
and importance and before many years it
will be said of Texas that her teachers and
her schools are not inferior to those of
Kansas or any other state
SPREADING THE NEWS
The Flmt Train Load of Sew Wheat Out
of Texas Decorated
Special to tho Gazette
Dexisox Gbatsox Cocxtt Tex June
27 The first train of new wheat to be
shipped out of Texas this year passed
through here at 1145 to day Tho con-
signment consisted of twelve cars loaded at
Gainesville and en route to St Louis The
cars were all decorated with streamers of
red white and blue bunting and numerous
flags The cars were all equipped with air
brakes and tho run will bo made from
Gainesville to St Louis in twentysix
hours which is a litUe faster than regular
passenger train time A decorated engine
was in waiting when the train arrived here
and in a remarkably short space of time
the engines were changed and the train
sped on its way
THE AMERICAN HOG
FRANCE AND GERMANY WILL
WELCOME HIM
Attention Being raid to Uncle Sams > avj
and Its Ability in Case
of War
The American Hogg
Special to the Gazette
WAsniNrTOx June 27The American hog
will be victorious The interdiction against
his introduction into Germany and France
as a meat product will soon be lifted so
says Senator Paddock of Nebraska who
has been here during the past few days
Part of his business at Mie capita was to
make inquiry at the agricultural depart-
ment of the status of the hog question and
ascertain if any advices had been received
from Europe in regard to it Ho was to-
day informed by Dr Salmon of tho bureau
of animal industry that unofficial advices
had been received indicating the abolish-
ment of the present strictures against
American pork in both Germanv and
France
I think you can state positively said
Senator Paddock to me Uiis afternoon
that the interdiction will be removed in
both Germany and France not later than
October 1 It is simply impossible for those
governments to maintain their opposition
to American pork
Unclo Sams Navy
Special to the Gazette
Wasuixgtox June 27 Forthe firsttime
in the history of this country we are to
have a series of naval maneuvers involving
problems of actual warfare as presented in
the attack of one of our great maritime forts
by a foreign naval force and its defense by
tho American navy For years past Great
Britain France Italy and other European
naval powers have annually practiced sim-
ilar maneuvers sometimes as in the case
of Great Britain at a heavy expense but
the results have been so important as to
justify tho expenditure In the case of the
United States there has been since the
war no naval force adequate to carry out
the maneuvers of any value
The squadron of evolution was formed
with such a purpose in view but until re-
cently it was not sufficiently numerous to
undertake the solution of the larger naval
war problems and its operations were
limited to great gun practice and fleet
evolutions With the recent aijditioas to
the naval list however this obstacle has
disappeared and Secretary Tracy has pre-
pared a scheme to carry out his views
which will be given effect at once The
first movement will be to attach tho dynamite
cruiser Vesuvius and tho torpedo boat
Cushiug temporarily to the sq uadron of
evolution and orders to that end have al-
ready been made out Admiral Walker
has also been directed to prepare imme-
diately a programme of maneuvers for the
summer and early autumn which will dis-
pose of the forces under his command to
the best advantage and confer practical
training on officers and men under condi-
tions following as closely as possible those
of actual warfare It is intended that the
maneuvers shall follow as soon as may be
convenient
It is exjiected that the doubleturreted
monitor Miantonomah now at New York
will be completed in time to take part
Thcro will be but one torpedo boat engaged
so that a f uU demonstration of the efficacy
of this class of offensive vessels cannot be
thoroughly demonstrated but all arrange-
ments have been made to supply her with
fish torpedoes which will thus be given
their first trial in American naval opera-
tions
Tho proposed evolutions will bo of large
practical results The defects of the new
ships if they have any will be revealed
and their actual capacity as offensive and
defensive will bo demonstrated
Among the results of the English naval
maneuvers were the revelation of startling
defects in the system of coaling engino
construction and marine design which
have since been followed by notable changes
in tho English navy and it is presumed
that valuable results will follow Admiral
Walkers maneuvers
maneuversm
THE IOWA STORM
Damage Done by Hail Lightning
Gasoline KxploslonA Sereral
Fatalities
HotSTEtx Iowa Juno 27 Yesterday oc-
curred another most disastrous storm
Lightning and hail in abundance have done
considerable damage in this section to crops
and cattle The district stricken by hail
is three miles west of here and is
three miles wide and ten miles long
Barley is almost totally destroyed and
wheat and oats are damaged At Cushinc
and Correctionville houses were flooded and
two children were drowned At Correc
tionville lightning struck and killed Charles
ICinne Two miles from here tho barn
of It Leachard was struck and
two horses killed A school-
house here was struck and bauly damaged
Tho Brown sehoolhouse was carried away
and is a total loss Tho Rogers mill near
Quinberry was washed away No trains
have arrived here since Tuesday To add
to the terror of the people two
gasoline explosions occurred yesterdayono
at F Grosskeruths and one at C B
Schueskeltz The latter was fataL The
scene is indeed one of desolation and ruin
Hogs cattle and horses in large numbers
are seen floating down tiie river
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A PIG ELEPHANT
A Freak of Xatnre Reported from San
Antonio
Special to the Gazette
Sax Antonio Tex June 26 Eli
Sander of Atascosa county has brought to
town a singular mistake of nature It is a
pig in the form of an elephant It is one of
a litter of nine The other eight were per
fecUy natural The elephant pig is of the
usual size but has the skin of the elephant
tho feet of Uie elephant the flap ears the
tusks and the color It has but one eye it
is appearantly healthy and suckles ill the
usual manner The eye is where the nose
and mouth should be The trunk is about
two and onehalf inches long The tusks
not more than a half inch It is now four
weeks old
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THE FORT WORTH GAZETTE
DE3T0CKAT PUEKSHINO CO
DEMOCRATS AWAKE
One Thousand of Them Meet
in Convention in Iowa
30IES AND ENTHUSIASM
Hie Parly Declares for Free Coinage of Silver
to Fay All Debts Due by Us
I Split Imminent In tlio National Alliance
as a ICesult of the Iort Worth
Convention Vest on
tho Tlskrt
lorra Democrats
Ottcmwa Iowa June 24 What Is
probably defined to be the most decisive
rampaign ever waged for political supre-
macy was opened tbdav at 10 a in when
Chairman Fuller rapped to order 1000 of
the most enthusiastic Democrats ever as-
sembled in convention in the state The
campaign is decisive because it is con-
ceded by both political parties that as
Iowa goes in the coming election so it will
piobablv go iu tho presidential election
Should the Democrats carry the state and
reelect Governor Boies the claim of Iowa
as a pivotal state in the great national cam
jjiigu of next j car will be too we estab
lshed to be disputed even by the Itepubli
cans Die Democrats have one i > oint of
vanage Governor Boies will bo renomi
nated by ac iainaliou while thorn is > sharp
rivalry for the Hepublican nomination and
lonie bitterness may be engendered in the
ranks of that party
After the address of welcome and a
speech by the temporary chairman and an-
nouncement of various committees the con-
vent ion took a recess
Immediately after adjournment the com-
mittee on resolutions went to work and soon
blocked out a plat form with the exception
FORT WORTH TEXAS THURSDAY JULY 20
WAR SAYS 0ATES
Democrats Must Fight the Alli-
ance Right and Left
HE ADVOCATES A WALKOUT
The Knights are Against Us Says He of
Grandfather Fame We will Not Yield
Foster Would Give Way to the Knight
of Labor but Harrison will Not
Show the White Feather
to Them
Oates on the Alliance
Special to the Gazette
Washington June 24 Representative
Oatcs of Alabama one of the most pro-
gressive thinkers iu the South believes too
many concessions have been made the
Farmers Alliance by both Republicans and
Democrats CoL Oates is aggressive He
wants to make a firm standand tight the
new movement on every issue Democrats
he thinks have greatly underestimated
not only the strength of the movement but
the tenacity of purpose of Miose who aro
leading it The Democratic party has
nothing to expect from tho Alliance he de-
clares and should therefore contest the way
of every foot of political ground
In an interview today Mr Oatcs says
Too many of our people are trying to
make friends with tho Alliance folks iu the
hopo of holding their own hereafter They
but deceive themselves The Alliauce
folks are not fooled but our i > eople are
compromised Tho fact is just this We
have got to tight tho Alliance right and
left with all our might or it will get the
best of us iu the South No man can be-
lieve in the subtreasury and land loan
scheme and claim to be a Democrat The
lilies must be drawn sharply and at once
The Alliance is now in the minority out it
is organized well and our people are
weakening themselves by cutting shy of
the fight What we must do is to organize
against the Alliance and beat it out of ex-
istence If we do not it will beat us
though we are in the majority
In every Democratic convention for it
is in these conventions that the Alliance
seeks to get control a resolution should he
offered condemning the subtreasury scheme
as unconstitutional and undemocratic If
this resolution is voted down the conven-
tion is an Alliance and not a Democratic
convention and Democrats should with-
draw and hold a convention elsewhere
This plan of separating Democrats from the
Farmers Alliance should be followed by
every state in the South
CoL Oates has made a good fight against
the Alliance in his own district and lias
easily routed its leaders Several of his
colleagues from Alabama express a very
wholesomo respect for the organization
however The Georgia delegation in the
next house will have a majority of Alliance
members CoL Oates is greatly interested
in the fight the Alliance people are prepar-
ing to make on Senator Gorman and ad-
vises strongly taking the field against the
farmers in a straightout fight neither ask-
ing nor giving quarter The only way to
whip the Alliance he says is to tight
them from the word go
aftekthe kniohts
The struggle of he Knights of Labor to
force the government to restore plate print-
ers and the bureau of engraving and print-
ing is being magnified as much as possible
by Republican politicians here tor the pur-
pose either of giving a special air of hero-
ism to the refusal of the secretary of the
treasury and president or else for paving
the way for an advertisement of a great
concession to the labor element when tho
final surrender comes Secretary Foster is
disposed to be all things to all men and to
get along peaceably when he can do it by a
little goodnatured temporizing The presi-
dent however has taken a hand in the
fight aud unless he is frightened out of it
will insist on barring out the insubordiuate
Knights He feels reasonably certain that
no matter what may happen in Ohio this
fall the Knights of Labor are going into the
third party movement next year anyway
and that he will simply be showing the
white feather to no purpose if he yields to
them
To Kxperiment for Italu
WAsniNOTOK June 24 The agricultural
department is about to commence experi-
ments for tho production of rainfall by ex-
plosions A trial was made last evening by
a balloon with explosives being sent up into
the clouds Subsequently a heavy rain fell
whether from the explosions or not remains
to be determined
THE DELUGE
THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE
STATE OF IOWA INUNDATED
Immense Damage Done to the Kailrcad >
A Number of Lon Bridges Washed
Away Traffic Snapended
More Than at First Keported
CniCAGQ III June 25 Advices received
at the headquarters of the Chicago and
Northwestern railway this morning indi-
cate that the destruction bv a cloudburst
in Iowa yesterday is more disastrous than
was supposed From the damage to its
line reported to headquarters it appears
the deluge covers at least portions of the
counties of Sioux OBrien Clay Plymouth
Cherokee Buena Vista Woodbury Leesac
Monon Crawford Carroll Harriso n and
Shelby covering a territory throe counties
in width along the western border of tho
stite and five counties in length Tele-
graph lines in this territory are greatly de-
moralized and it is next to impossible to
get accurate information of losses Several
of the general officers of the road left for
the scens last night and are making strenu-
ous efforts to penetrate into the devastated
region Their reports show that the main-
line of the road the Northern Iowa divis-
ion is demoralized from Linn Grove to Al-
ton a distance of forty miles That the
Moville branch from Moville to Chollen
fortyfive miles is in the same condition
and that the Onawa branch from Onawa to
Ida Groves fifty miles is also in bad shape
These line aggregate a length of 135 miles
and are entirely blockaded by the carrying
away of bridges and washing out of road-
beds All traffic this side and beyond the
points named is being carried by round-
about lines
On the main line from Linn Groves to
Alton the bridge over Waterman creek 230
feet long was carried away and ten other
bridges five on each side of Waterman
creek are useless or practically carried
away One bridge 190 feet long near Paul-
ine is gone also two smaller ones at Water-
man creek The track and tics have been
carried a quarter of a mile from the road-
bed It has been impossibleto learn much
in regard to the damage on the Moville
branch The same conditions obtained on
the line between Ida Groves and Onawa It
is reported that the bridge over Maple
river has been badly washed cut This re-
gion where the flood was most severe is
traversed by numerous branches not only
of tho Northwestern but also of the
Illinois Central and Milwaukee and St
Paul and the main line of the Chicago St
Paul Minneapolis and Omaha roads No
reports of damage to their lines have been
received except from the Illinois Central
whoso line from Cherokee to Onawa which
runs along the Sioux river is blockaded
and officials who left here last night have
cot been able to get across the swollen
> i l MSg gfi J lfS
river to Cherokee which is on the west-
side of the river It will take several days
to put the line in condition for the resump-
tion of traffic
Alliance Love Feaht
Special to the Gazette
Cousicaxa Navarho Couxtt Tex
June 20 The Farmers Alliance of
this county had a reunion and love
feast at Uie city park today
but convened more particularly to
hear the discussion of Alliance interests by
R W Coleman of Dallas editor of the Mer-
cury The speaker discussed at length the
subtreasury bill andapjurcutlyexiKmnded
its principles to the satisfaction of his au-
dience A large and enthusiastic audience
was present
A PROMINENT MAN GONE
Col John I nraily Pied at ilomton Yet
trnlay
Special to the Gazette
Hocstox Tex June 2f Col John I
Brady ono of the oldest wealthiest and
most progressive citizens of Texas was
stricken with apoplexy yesterday and died
today He was born in Maryland sixty
one years ago but has resided here since
ISoij He was president of t he Magnolia
belt railway and by virtue of having vast
interests in enterprises where Northern
capital is invested is well known in all
money centers
A POLITICAL TRICK
Playing Fast and Loose
Silver Men
cream by its corroding the mi
OtS < li > 3 Kti pB5 viS 5a
with
DISINGENUOUS FOSTER
The Coining or Silver llullton th Trice to
be Paiii for Votes in the Coming No-
vember Election It wi
> ot Work
A Political Dodge
Special to tho Gazette
Wasuixgox June27 The result of yes-
terdays cabinet meeting to discuss the
silver question is a nice little political
dodge The coinage into standard silver
dollars of 2100000 ounces of silver monthly
is to be susjiended for about four months
and during that time the trade dollars re-
deemed and melted into bars under tho act
of 1SS7 are to be made into standard dollars
and a lot of uncurrent fractional cpin is to
be recoined into dimes and quarters This
may be good jKilitics from the point of view
of the administration but its puriwse is so
plain that he who runs may reid The sil-
ver men may confidently be counted upon
to raise a rumpus over the cessation of bul-
lion coinage and to threaten all sorts of re-
prisals upon the party re ponsiblc About
four months from now will be the eve of
the fall elections Having coined up the
trade dollars the administration can grace-
fully yield to the demand of the silver men
and resume the coinage of bullion and say
to the silver men that their votes are ex-
pected in return for resumption This is
the only explanation heard here for Secre-
tary Posters assertion that it will take
about four months to coin the trade
dollar bars A littlo more than 5000000
of these dollars are to be recoined
For a long timothe mints seem to have had
no trouble to coin 2000000ounces of bullion
into more than two nnd a half million
standard dollars every mouth Secretary
Foster docs not explain why it will now
take four months to coin > 000000 But
tho fact that elections are to be held in No-
vember explains why it is officially an-
nounced that the secretary finds it to be his
duty to adopt this course under the para-
graph in the last sundrj civil appropria-
tion act which calls for the recoinage of
trade dollars into standard dollars as soon
as practicable The act of March 3 > 1S7
also calls for this recoinage and the aver-
age man finds it difficult to understand how
ono law is any more mandatorythan the
other For over four years the law has
provided for turning trade dollars into
standard dollars or fractional coinage but
only about Sl000000 have been so used
Now it is suddenly discovered that the re-
maining 35000000 must be coined at once
even to the stoppage of bullion coinage
and although it must be donu as soon as
practicable four months are to be devoted
to the work This enables Secretary Fos-
ter to announces that the matter of the
coinage of silver bullion into standard dol-
lars is not now a practical question and
it gives tho admistration something with
which to dicker with the silver men when
their services are most needed There will
be plenty of material for the financial chap-
ters of the future history of Harrisons ad
ministration
A Cadet to Appoint
Special to the Gazette
Gainesville Cooke Cocntt Tex June
23 Congressman J W Bailey has been
notified that there is a vacancy in the naval
academy at Annapolis for this district and
issues the following call have this day
been notified by the navy department that
the resignation of the cadet representing
this congressional district at the naval
academy was accepted on June 17 lsJl and
that the vacancy thus occasioned must be
filled by July 15 1S01 I therefore announce
that a competitive examination will be held
at Decatur Wise county on Saturday July
10 ISM The applicant passing the exami-
nation will receive the appointment and
the applicant standing second will bo ap-
pointed alternate Applicants must not be
younger than fifteen years nor older than
twenty The examinations will consist of
questions in arithmetic and algebra in
English grammar geography particularly
of our own country history of the United
States and in reading writing and spelling
I regret that the examination mast be called
for such an early day but this course is im-
perative as the name of the appointee must
be reported to the secretary of the navy by
July 15 J W Bailet
Fifth Congressional District
KILLED ATSHILOH
Professor Beuoo Killed it If Alleged by
Oneol Ills Farm Tenants
Special to the Gazette
Kemp Kaufman Couxtt Tex June 25
News has just reached your correspon-
dent of the killing of Professor Beason by
one of his tenants name unknown List
night at Shilob a distance of five miles
Full particulars could not bo ascertained
but it is alleged that previous to the killing
thoy had somo difficulty overthe crop and
last night while Professor Beason was re-
turning from his pasture he stopped at a
well near the tenants house for a drink
and while drinking was fired upon and
killed instantly The man is under arrest
and will have a preliminary trial in Kemp
tomorrow
Poisoned hj Ice Cream
Correspondence of the Gazette
Chico Wise Cocntt Tex June 24 An
Ice cream festival was given near here last
night by the Ladies aid society forthe
benefit of a church building There were
some twentyfive attendants and this
morning some serious cases of cholera mor
bus are reported Almost every one of the
participants have been attacked by this ail-
ment It is thought to have resulted from
letting the ingredients remain too long in
the refrigerator thereby poisoning
Weekly Quimriav
VOL XIU NO
THE CLOVEN HOOF
The Administration Virtually
Stops Coinage of Silver
THE WILY MAN FROM MAINE
He is Getting Robust and Looking After His
Reciprocity Measure Ben May Go
rollcy of the President In the Appoint
raent of the Xowr uilge of the
Circuit Court of Appeal
Texas to Oft One
Trull tn < el One
Special to the Gazette
Washington June2t It is generally un-
derstood here that the nine now judges ol
the circuit court of appeals to be appointed
by tho president will be taken altogether
from the bench That is to say it is I rtsi
dent Harrisons intention to promote judgei
now in service rather that to select outsid
er This belief is founded on trustworthy
information as is a o the further report
that the president wilt appoint Kepublieani
exclusively to tuc > e positions The chancei
are that Texas will be honored in the nam-
ing of one of the judges and that Miii luck
man will bo David E Bryant now judire o
the Eastern district of that state He it
known to stand very high at Washington
and his appointment would be iu line wit
the policy of promotion that the administra-
tion has decided to follow
Ulaine All Kicht
Special to the Gazette
Washington June 20 A private lctta
received here todaj from a member o
Blaine s immediate familj at Bar Harixm
declares the secretary of state to bo in bet
tcr health than at any time sinco last win
tcr He drives and walks dailv in al
weather and is leading a life largely out ol
doors iu order to build up his strength fo
tho future calLs that might be made upoi
it Blaine continues in constant communis
cation with his department and is directing
arlairs quite as much as if he was actually
in Washington
All important matters are referred t
him as itaual aud they aro attended to b
him as thoioughly as ever He is just now
particularly interested in tho practical re-
sults of his reciprocity arrangements witt
South and Central American republics and
is preparing to have the manufacturers oi
the United States fully informed of the pe
culiar requirements of the market he is
making tor them He is also preparing the
case of the United States in the Bearing
sea matter to be submitted to arbitrators
as soon as they are agreed upon in tha
hope that the affair will bo in a fair way to
final settlement by the time congress meets
Although none of the family are in Wish
ingtou tho Blaine residence here is not
closed but everything is kept in readiness
for his reception iu case any national com-
plication should demand his presence
IIAUUISOX AND SILVKK
The president appreciates the fact that
tho silver sentiment in his party is very
strong and that if it is alienated the party
may be wrecked in a number of the big
Western states The dominant seutimeni
in the party in such states as Ohio Indiana
and Illinois is against free coinage but
there is enough free coinage sentiment to
leave the IJepublieans in the minority if the
coinage element deserts them The presi-
dent hopes by appealing to party fealty to
prevent the passage of a free coinage bill
through the senate If he can escai > e tho
necessity of a positive declaration on tho
subject he believes he can be reelected
but he realizes that a veto of a free coinage
bill will make success doubtful in all tho
Pacific states und in half of the Wostern
states If he should withdraw under such
circumstances tho party would still bo ablo
to nominate an opponent of absolute free
coinage provided his opposition was not
plainly declared
Mr McKinley who voted for the Bland
bill and for the silver measure of last sum-
mer would be a good candidate of this
sort or perhajs Senator Allison or Gen
Alger Even Secretary Blaine would bs
able to conceal his views sufficiently t
keep the silver men in line The necessity
lor the withdrawal of the president iu cas
he is compelled to veto a free coinage bilL
has been openly discussed between him aiii
his intimate friends and is by no meaus t
matter of pure speculation The president
has naturally not committed himself abso
lutcly upon the subject and the glamour o
another term may blind his eyes to tin
danger as the time for the nominatim
draws near He is supremely anxious at
present to escape the necessity of facinj
the free coinago matter but it is almos
certain that it will pass both houses uulesi
the Democratic leaders in the house decidt
to postpone the subject untilrafterthe pres-
idential election
A TERRIBLE STORM
Wind and Rain Along the lllin
ois Central in Iowa
EIGHTPEOPLEREPORTED DEA
From Storm Xake tu Lemurs Fift
Six Miles All Town Dam-
aged A TwelveInch
Water Fall
Watebloo Ia June H Keports wen
received this morning by the lllinoit
Ccntral officials of a terrible wind and rain-
storm last night along the line of the road
from Storm Lake to Lemar3j a distance ot
liftysix miles All towms aro
damaged considerably Four persons were
drowned at Cherokee and four at Correc
tionville Tho depot at Calumet was blown
down and damage to town property is re-
ported Sutherland a small town on tht
Calumet and Northwestern railway fifty
five miles from Calumet was wiped
out over forty buildings being blown
down Wires are down and it is impossible
to get details except through reports sen
the officials of railroads Twelve inches oi
water fell last night in the Cherokee raUey
Illinois Central train No 2 which loft her-
at 1050 p m is still at Storm Lake and
the trainmaster says theres no prospect of
moving it for twentyfour hours
The Illinois Central railroad bridge about
200 feet long across the Little Sioui
at Cherokee went down under tin
rush of the flood this afternoon to-
gether with several houses in the Lowei
part of tho town The reports of th
drowning of four persons at Cherokee and
four at Correctionville are confirmed
DELICATE OPERATION
Successally Performed Upon a TenTear
Old Boy at Whltcwricht
Special to the Gazette
Whitewbiobt Gkatson Couxtt Tex
June 24 An operation was yesterday per
forny on the tenyearold son of Cris
at this place The doctors cut into
tha bladder and made an inscision into it
and took from him a gravel or stone weigh-
ing 700 grains and about as large as a snail
hen e g
t < ai y a sSis S ri V iSilwj
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