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ALLIANCE STANDARD.
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Official Organ of Cass County and for
Senatorial District
SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 Per Year.
VOLUME 1.
LINDEN, TEXAS, TUESDA
Til* Populist. mule gain* In every
=r state Is the union.
" ■
BPvV Koor.it Q. Mills could not be
elected county attorney of his home
county.
ViiiAt does a Democratic or Repub-
lican promise amount to?
Oh. the bond-issuing Democracy'
Watch Culberson recommend a bond
lea ue also.
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Til* reform movement goes march-
ing on. and will triumph In Novem-
ber. 1896.
Ir tho politicians were a* honest as
they are Intelligent, the country would
be all right.
Bono slavery, industrial slavery
and financial slavery hate succeeded
chattel slavery.
Wr need some commoa-scn»e and
old-fashtoned honeatv in our federal
administration so bad.
•
Notwithstanding the Democratic
promises to reduce tho pension list,
it constantly increases.
Ji stick it tho very thing the Dem-
ocratic and liepublican loaders do not
want ombodied in the law.
Tiikiik Is some talk of impeaching
Cleveland. but nothing will Do done.
Tho sduthern Democrats arc too cow-
ardiy. _________
Th* Democratic administration has
added #1 MO.OOD.ODD to tho public debt,
$100,000,000 of which is bonds issued
and sold.
Ktkukal opposition to tho issue of
city, county, school precinct, state or
federal bonds. “Pay as wo go," and
bo free.
MODERN BUCCANEERS.
THE MOSTVILLAINOUS SCHEME
VET PROPOSED.
Xtllossl lUitin Mast la Balllmarr
■atl Propasa a Carraarf Plaa—Maasr
■a He IstaaA e Than mail BssG oa
“Paid I p Bank Capital.”
The system of banking proposod by
tbo recent meeting of the National
t'ankera' Association at lialtimore is
attracting general attention.
It should be studied with care, for
a most determined effort will be made
to secure its adoption at the coming
session of congress.
Prominent papers have been enlisted
in the interests of tho new propo-
sition, and tho effort will be made to
create public opinion in ita fvor,
while disguising ita real nature.
Their plan Is to provide a currency
- ££ vtdk&«*- .
i, jl on government bonds, but '
on "paid up bank capital"—such cur-
rency to bo guaranteed by the gov-
ernment.
This proposition of tho national
ranks might be commended for one
reason. It is the first honorable act
of the money power iu thirty years of
financial legislation.
For the first time in all these many
years the national bunks are sailing
under their true colors.
Kvery dollar of the money thoy
propose to issue will be as gold, be-
cause it will bo guaranteed by the
government.
Kvery dollar of It will bo as good as
greenback, if it is made a legal
.sailer; but it couldn't bn any better.
Kvery dollar of it will bring usury
to the money lords and impose an ob-
igalion on tho people in their capacity
as government.
For ail this what ure the people to
The Pcoplo’s party carried fifty j gain? They cannot possibly gain uny-
uuunties, according to the Dallas thing whatover.
For u scheme of robbery Httliing to
be comparod with tills has over been
devised in tho annuls of history.
It is simply astonishing that such a
stupendous steal should bo proposed
and public notice given of tho fact.
This is why wo sa‘y this Is moro hon-
________ i orabio than methods adopted in tho
Onkof (iov.-eloct Culberson’s great-!
est impediments will b« his complete j jt j# moro honorablo for a private
News, and made decided gains in the
others.__
Intkkkst and dividends absorb the
earnings of labor, rob tho laborer ol
all surplus, honco ha remains a la-
borer till too old to labor.
failuro to redeem his campaign pledges
and promises, especially about
finances.
, Tiikiik. aro Democrats who do not
believo it wrong to count out tho op-
position. They will find it quite dif-
ferent somo of these days. The count
out must stop.
Titr. tariff will now be sidetracked
by Mr. Cleveland und ho will take up
In his mossago tho subject of "free
ships." Anything to keep down the
money question.
Comikks* should ropoal ovory line
of law that can bo tortured Into au-
thorizing the issuance of bonds. If
It does not, Cleveland will issue more
bonds after March 1th next.
Tils; Republican party will do noth-
ing for reform, and in 1896 both old
frauds will bo wiped out. Some think
that tho stngle gold standard wing of
both tho old partlos will fuse in 1896.
To Till. Democratic leaders: You
stolo tho negro votes in Harrison,
Washington, Brazoria, fjrimes. Ilrazos
and Matagorda counties. They be-
longed to Makemson, but were count-
ed for Culberson.
Thk smoko of buttlo having cleared
away, wo find tho l'opulists have made
gains every whore—stronger then ever
before. Now for lH9(i. ilegin the
campaign now and never let up.
Truth must prevail.
Tiik people havo boon represented
in congress so long by bankers, rail-
way attorneys and other hirelings ol
monopoly that thoy seem to think a
farmer or mechanic is incapablo ol
serving a constituency with credit In
that body.
Gkokoia and Alabama Democratic
leaders and ballot box manipulators
aro competing for tho prize as the
perpetrators of election frauds, lint
the honest men among them have re-
volted. Thoy put it on too think and
there Is hopo.
Thk Democratic and Republican
leaders can laugh at and belittle the
l’opulists all they want to, but it will
do no good. The Democrats and
Whigs laughed at the Republicans ten
yoars, but the Republicans won, and
so will the l’opulists.
Almost every mem):
has stock in a national bank or some
other trust-or mom poly, given him
for services rendered 03 congressman.
They uougo by saying: "I am the at-
torney of so-snd-so." There was a
time when lawyers were honest, and
somo of them aro yet.
Tiik Democratic adinlstration con
tinues to sell bonds. Under their con
struction of the law "coin" mourn
"gold," and the bankers present
“coin" notes at tho subtreasuries and
exchange them dollar for dollar for
gold with which to buy the gold
boDds. Great is Democracy und Re-
publicanism!
Tiik Austin Statesman, a Cloveiund-
t lark sheet, speaking of pensioning
old men who hare worn themselves
out in stato offices, says: "Perhaps it
would involve too great a cost to pen-
sion such men. as is done by somo
other monarchial countries." We did
nbt know before that this government
was a monarchy, but it is evident
that the Statesman thinks Grover a
king.__
It Curat Cnuvumptioa.
Cincinnati, Nov. 19 -[Special.]—
Depositions taken here in the case of
Dr. Amick vs. Reeves develop some
remarkable facts. It was shown that
the Amick Cberaica! company of this
city has supplied forty thousand doc-
tors with Dr. Amick's chemical treat-
ment for consumption, as much as one
thousand dollars' worth of sample med-
icines beisg distributed daily. Kach
I outfit and an In-
I as evidence
He asaods of reports
covering
craft to sail under tin) black ling of
the buccaneors than to raise tbo
national colors aud under the guise of
loyalty plunder the unsuspecting vic-
tims.
This proposition simply means
bankruptcy aud ruin for tho people
und uttor destruction of tho govern-
ment.
A moro iniquitous scheme could not
be suggosted and it infers a reliance
on credulity and iguoranco which is
astounding.
No set of robbers ever beforo at-
tempted to secure a law guaranteeing
thug) unrestricted right to uiundor,
with unlimited government protec-
tion.
The only security olVored tho gov-
ernment is the paid up capital stock.
What Is this .capital stock':’ It Is
simply nothing hut paper.
Under tho preseut national banking
system a certain per cent of actual
capital is required to conduct tho bus-
iness, hut under the now plan not u
dollar is required excopt the charter
fees.
Do you supposo paid up bank stock
is capital!’ '1 hero are railroads worth
$8i);)0 per mllo bonded for $86,000 per
mile, business enterprises that are
absolutely worthless are incorporated
and stocked at millions of dollars.
Watered stock is a familiar term,
but it has got to be thinner than
water. It’s as thin us air; nothing
whatever but gas.
How easy it will be for a gang of
Hvo buccaneers to organize a national
bunk with a million dollars capital
"paid up" provided thoy can biink
somo poor laborer out of enough to
pay for their charter.
it would be a fraud, would it?
Well, let's see. How much trouble
would it bo for this gang of thieves to
trade for a million dollars' worth of
mining stock and tho new company
be "innocont purchasers."
No fraud about that to far as the
law can see, but you can aeo it as
plain as day.
Anybody can see it.
A more damnablo scheme has never
been devised__Chicago Kxpross.
An Infamous Lite
"The president has watched the
course of the country's finances with
close interest. He has observed the
effects of the various experiments by
congress in dealing with the currency
problem. When ho applied hla mind
to their correction he started with
tho sound Democratic doctrine that
the Issue of money was not properly
a poernmental function." savs the
New',"io
commending The uaaker’s plan of
finance adopted by them at Baltimore.
The utteranoe is an infamous lie.
ulist precinct returns which werw
thrown out all over the state, make a
fair allowance for the ballot box
staffing which wa sdone In obedience
to the midnight telegrams sent out
from Atlanta by the “men who con
trol;1’ allow also for Populist voles in
those precincts where Democratic
managers refused to allow aa elec-
tion: nod It is perfectly clear that In-
stead of an Atkinson majority of 24,-
000 there was a Hines majority of at
least 10,000.
Georgia is a Populist state, and
every member of our party should
pledge himself, anew, to the work of
having the verdict written as the
great jury of the people said it should
be.
We must address ourselves, with
redoubled vigor, to tho task of smash-
ing tho corrupt ring which has
swindled the people out of their
choice (or governor—Atlanta Consti-
tution.
EDITORIAL OPINIONS.
Govcrnnont by Hfjiinction !’
popular yet.—Coalgate (I. T.) Inde-
pendent
There is no appeal from the rulings
in n "contempt" case by n subsidized
judge.—Typographical Journal.
Ballot-box stealers and staffers
should be deprived of the right to
either hold office or vote.— Dallas
News.
if the man with the empty larder
can get any consolation out of the re-
cent election he is weloome to It.—
Topeka (Kan.) Advocate.
••The Democratic party is not
dead," ttvs the Courier-Journal.
1’erbaps uoc, but it afeepeth mighty
hard.—Ft. I.ouis Post-Dispatch.
When the next Democrat a. platform
is built tho candidates rhould bo
spiked to it and the spikes bradded
on tho other sldo. — Brenhain Banner.
Two years ago it was a Democratic
landslide. It was a Republican up-
heaval Tuesday; the ground opened
and the Democratic party fell in.—
Greenvillo Banner. ,
By declining to vote Mr. Cleveland
soetns to havo regarded his own ad-
ministration, like tho Democratic tariff
bill, as unworthy of endorsement.—
Kansas City Journal.
Grover Cleveland ls“convincod”an-
othcr fifty millions Unitod States
bonds should be sold. Ho just koepa
on diminishing chances of Democratic
success.—Texas Farmer.
Cleveland, having become a mil-
lionaire since he entered the presi-
dency, needn’t feel very bad over the
defeat of his party. And ho doesn't.
—DesMoincs (la.) Tribune.
Tho now slavory idoa fits the
farmer class of tho United States, as
they, with their brother toilers, are
boing mado slaves as fast as time and
grasping greed, backed by law, can
force tho slavery.—Columbia (S. C.)
NUGENTS VIEW OF IT.
HIS REASONS FOR THE RECENT
POLITICAL SLUMP.
rrOHlSM Not
Fuinii.s—It Was a rota
of ronSStarx *•—TWO TorlW
hMalat os
Is Only s Qosstloa of
It Now Stood*.
Judge T. L. NngeuL In a recent
Interview with • Dallas News re-
porter, speaking of the late election.
Htid:
••The Immediate cause of the recent
political slump He pretty close to com-
mon observation. The Democrats
promised and failed to perform, or
performed In such a half-hearted way
that voters Ioet confidence In them.
This Is the general statement applica-
ble to the coantrv at large. gWm
election-was cloarly a vote of '
of confidence.” The
NOVEMBER 27. 1*94.
NUMBER 19.
S isstrw£?•(£«: short, but pointed.
‘ ' well. The deeper ques-j
all others is the labor i THE OOLD BOND ISSUE OUT-
STATE CONDENSATIONS.
RAGE AGAIN,
MUIIess of lalerasl Bur
1*1 Beads ta Bo
and there is s labor ques-
labor of brain and
fettered and enslaved by un-
and wrongful conditions,
of these conditions, felt
understood, produces all of
nt dissatisfaction among the
ma' aaa, particularly those who stand
•»ba base of the industrial super-
•Ir .eture. whose labor touches the Another fifty millions of bonds am
•granite and the clav.’ When the ordered to be iesued. another burden
ranee of this pressure 'is understood, of interest Is to be heaped upon the
lh$u it will be removed — and then j taxpayers.
destiny will unfold through the ra- ] The government again provides
AaotlMr Fifty
HmH
of Labor to Fmy, mmd Thmt
Ka*llBh Capitalist*.
-r-
;iny will unfold through the re-
deemed industries."
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Hew Css Trad* Revive?
nonsense to talk about a re-
, .uUSHRvi Wade.
,e ekM.llii ••.VKoitfa tSI'.llkMf* . ’ M W’
..■srwiarE
Clrttow- Wash----
Importance, should receive proper
treatment It was a campaign of
ever-growing promises, followed bv an
ad ministration of constantly dwindling
performances. The farmer! In the
south and west wore told of an eco-
nomic paradise in whioh they should
ever enjoy the happiness of reaping
high prices for their own products
and paying low prices for everybody
elso’t products. The tariff reformer
was In all his glory. He talked free
trade and diligently towed dolusions
while building great expectations In
the agricultural mind. When hit
greatest achievement proved to be a
high protective tariff bill differing
but little from tho •culminating
atrocity’ so vigorously denounced in
his platform, tho economic paradise
seemed to tho rural mind like a van-
ishing dream. The open hand was
extended to clutch anticipated
wealth, but It dropped beuoath the
paralyzing influence of 4 cent cotton
and 95 cent wheat. Of course tho
tariff reformer was no longer dn it,’
save where tho conceit of Democracy
existed in so malignant a form that
It could not bo affected by either
•rhyme or roaeon.’
"It goes without saying that only
widespread dissatisfaction could have
result'd from tariff legislation whOBO
burdens wore so distributed as to
arouse tho suspicion that tho trusts
wore its beneficiaries and tho (armors
its victims. Tho poor (armor, hag-
gard, worn with toil, niortgago-rid-
den, wrestling thoso twenty years
past with increasing debt and low
prices, naturally felt like striking
something, and his human instinct led-
him to lovol his blows very properly
at tho vast embodiment of sham and
pretence—tho organized national De-
mocracy, whose contentions had for
so many yoars sported with his wishes
and whoso leaders by a species of
word-jugglery framed to catch
-----J-XATjiiitf-'thlinA, .bad finalIv .succee
KniiUfit l’»r le*.
Wo see it suggested that a silver
party bo formed. Tho money power
is busy trying to dlvldo tho forces at
the People’s party. Stay In the mid-
dle of tho road. Wo havo two po-
litical parties in this country now.
KeformerA must not divide, ffthev do
it will bo to the interest of the money
power.
InoonsUtent.
More bonds to maintain tbo gold
reserve is tho cry, aDd when the gold
reserve is down again why issue moro
bonds — gold bonds. — Shreveport
Caucasian.
Certainly. But why do you howl
und vote for a party that issues
bonds?
You list.
The people havo spoken is very
emphatic terms. Party pledges and
promises must not only be preached
on the stump, but practiced on the
throne—Greenville Banner.
New Senators
There aro twenty-four United States
senators whose terms expire on
March 4, 1895. Of thebe ten are
Democrats and fourteen aro Repub-
licans.
tisoritl* a |-opu!f«t Hi
Nobodv who is wi
facts can longer doubt that
pie’s party is in the
Georgia.
Mane a fair allowance for the Pop-
A Fronch statistician figures that
at the und of tho next century there
will bo 4)0,000,090 people in tbo
United Stales. There will be neces-
sary then some change in an indus-
trial system which, with only 65.00J,-
ui) in the samo territory, fills the
city streets with unemployed and the
country highways with tramps__
Chicago Times.
Will Gov. Hogg have tho honesty
to dociine his salary for governor for
the two months he has spent in mak-
ing political speeches, wholly to the
neglect of his duties at Austin? Will
our sweet, curly-headed “Chawley"
do the same for neglecting the duties
of the office of attorney general for
the samo glorious, ignoblo purpose?
Do the people of Texas elect officers
to boost the waning fortunes of the
Democratic party?—Heeville Picayune
(Dom.)
Nuch G Ullh.
There Is not a Democrat who con-
scientiously cast his vote upon prin-
ciple for Rosenthal that two years
hence would not bo gladly welcomed
back Into the fold__Galveston Opera
Glass.
Perhaps, but don’t talk about prin-
ciple. That a Democrat oould cast
his vote for Rosenthal for congress on
principle is ridiculous. Call it some-
thing else and lot it go at that; but in
mercy’s name don't mention princi-
ple—Houston 1’osL
Such gush! There Is no difference
in the two old party leaders, their
aims and objects being the same. As
to Democrats voting for Rosenthal,
Republican, there were thousands of
negroo* (supposed to be Republicans)
that vdffcd for Crowley; and whether
they voted for him or not their votes
wero so counted, so It amounts to the
same thing. The idea of the Houston
Post talking about principle is nause
ating. It ljat changed sides twice in
■ . . _ _____ _ .‘~‘—
t*oar Fellow.
Get the Populists strike a billion
dollars In greenbacks and make the
Giverpool cotton buyers a present of
it, amMt will raise tho price of cot-
ton.—Bowie Standard.
Poor fellow. The above is strictly
in keeping with Democratic intelli-
gence. If somebody could "striko”
the ordinary plute editor with a little
"boss" .u use he would do a good
thing for tho country. No Populist
desires a depreciated currency, but
all are patriotic enough to believe
that tho power, the sovereignty, the
will, the Hat of the people can and
does make money, and that there is
no other kind of money except flat
No Fotlttolaii.
The next nominee of the Demo-
crats for president, will come from
the west—Ga Grange Journal.
The editor of the Journal is not a
politician, but rather a trusting Mary
Ann sort of a fellow. There will be
four candidates for president Cleve-
land will be the candidate of the
Bankers, styled “honest money" can-
didate. The silver wing of the Re-
publicans will nominate a western
mao. The southern Democracy will
nominate independently. The prohi-
bitionists name a ticket But it will
be left for the Peoples party to name
the next president
*» hry iio lojetbe-.
on And an empty treas-
find the Democrats in
rsicana Truth,
go together.
cb his
.••ed»d(
of U
.1 bo Is there with money to spend
aod revive trade?
Can the laborer, whose products
mkve declined 50 per cent from last
year's prices, revive trade.
W ill employed labor, under reduced
wages, come to the front and help re-
vlvo trade?
If the consum rs have not the
money to spend to revive trade, how
how is trade to be revived?
Will tome one good at figures please
answer this question, and relieve an
anxious public?
Trade is dead, and will stay dead
[ profitable investment to the bankers
for money piled away in their vaults,
which solvent suffering debtors are
unable to borrow. Wall street takes
another hitch in the rope with which
the people and tha
gloats over the distress
finds the country and its
<
procure
gold to stow away In the treasury is a
burning disgraoe to the administra-
tion and an exasperating outrage
against tha oountry. With fifty mil-
lions of silver absolutely idle, with no
paper in circulation against it, with
nothing in existence that it can re-
deem—only waiting for tome presi-
dent who is not a slave to the banka
to sanction a measure providing for
its coinage, the head of the govern-
ment plunges the country in debt
fifty millions more to gratify the ra-
pacious demands of money sharks,
unmindful of the claims ot the pa-
tient and suffering people.
How long will the merciless reign
s » » I IVUtf STIH faIIO IISOIVIIOOO • V*K
until the people gat money by a rising of m0Dey c0„unue? How long will
(4 4 n rams? . • _ .... "
market It takes money to pay
debts and revive trade by the pur-
chase of articles on the market for
•ate.
If the farmer should receive 10
cents f«r cotton this fall, he would
have morn money than he had last
yeajr and hence could revive more
trade than he did last vear.
As colton is lower than it was last
yeajr, mil cotton seed one-balf lower,
wheat aid everything else the farmer
has to sell is lower, how is the farmer
to revive trade?
Wages of labor has been reduced on
all the railroads and In the manufac-
tories and shops. How is the wage
earner to kelp trade revive?
Who else is there to revive trade?
If tho tradesman cannot sell his goods
he won’t revive very much, will he?
As farm products go down and
wnges docllno. the power of tho con-
sumer is reduced and these Is less
consu mod.
This Is followed by a reduction of
tho prlco of goods, as the tradesmen
doslre to sell and trade being dull, he
bids for It by reducing his profits.—
Progressiva Farmer.
1
in leading him into the camp
enemies, the trusts.
"Gradually it has dawned upon his
mind that tho tariff question, as be-
tween tho old parties, Is purely a
question of schodulcs, and amid all
the din of campaign oratory he has
found out that only two views ot this
tariff question aro really honest, viz:
Free trade and protection, and that
tariff for revenue only, as the chief
mode of raising our vast and growing
public expenditures, is a delusion,, if
not a fraud. Is It strange that the
masses aro in a state ot unrest and
that they oscillate between the two
old parties in sheer wantonness of re-
sentment when expectations are not
realized?
“But tho juggling did not end with
the tariff question. To denounce pro-
tection as unconstitutional and then
bring in a bill with high protective
features—a bill continuing the sugar
bounty and framed, as Tom-Johnson
said, in tho interest of trusts—was
enough to drive the average tariff re-
form votor mad. But when to this
was added the Democratic record on
the silver question, the vast fund of
confidence in Democratio promises,
which (nr many years has remained
us one of the miracles of modern .pol-
itics, suffered an unexpected collapse,
and ae the vision of free silver melted
away the aforesaid votor proceeded
to punish the party whose lead-
ership had at last brought !-to
him a sense of bitter disappointment
He voted with the Republicans in
spite of the fact that their leaders
had indorsed the use of the army at
Chicago against all of his Ideas of
state sovereignty. Dissatisfaction
with Democratic failures on the silver
and tariff questions, and the belief
that Mr. Cleveland represents not the
people, but Wall street, caused {the
•lump. These were the causes which
operutod considerably In the popular
mind, although their effect was In-
tensified by the lnexci
the part ot congress _____^
poor legislation as was finally
on. There were other causes lying
deeper than these, causes that will
continue to operate in spite of the
frantic efforts of partisan leaders to
perpetuate a fast decaying regime.
The masses of the people as a rule
are governed more by impressions
than ideas; but Impressions in a tort
of ebaotio form carry tbe germs of
ideas. They prepare the way Jo,
the evolution of thought—In-
deed, constitute the mental
ground out of which thought springs
to blossom forth Into action. The
campaign has been fruitful in discus-
sions of great questions—vital issuejs
affecting fundamental social condi-
tions. These have planted in the
public mind a vast store of impre$-
sions, which, however nebulous at
present, must assume ere long defi-
nite shape and in the campaign of
1896 determine tbe political action iff
thousands of honest voters whose
ballots this year represented nothii
but tbe prevalent unrest and dlaa|
polntment. The tariff question
- " ^
for the present at least. The money,
iand and transportation questions re-
main. and until they are properly set-
tled there can be no rest for the An ~
ican people. Tbe displacement of
•question of schedules' must
room for them in popular thought,
xs they press themselves to the fi
it will be seen that in their solution
questions of monopoly and thef
qual distribution of
their only legitimate
settle these tnaue:
the
hai
trojul
two i
wnfrh
uny in me popular One |a ..
,heir effect was In- j , the lgat
ffRg1! lifter
5
A Nice Thing.
avlng lost congress and decimated
his party, President Cleveland does
Kot forget ids friends in Wa" ‘ *
rl'h't n0> '.bond issue of $60,000,000
will have no more permanent effect
in maintaining the stability of Mr.
I la relaud's joss, the gold reserve,
tha|n did the former Issue, nor would
issue of $500,000,000 of bonds
e any permanent effect
Without going into the economic
erijors at the bottom of the whole
juble, it is sufficient to point out
things. There is nothing in the
Id to prevent a banker from
presenting legal tender notes at
a sub-treasury, drawing gold therefor
and buying these bonds with the same
gold. Practically it Is taking the
gold from one end of tho treasury
building ami paying it at the other,
the banks by the opereration
Obtaining interest bearing bonds
instead of the legal tender
notes. Having the bonds, the banker
can desposit them with the treasury
and issue 90 per cent of their value in
his own bank notes, which he can loan
to oustomers for as much interest,
less one tenth, as he could have ob-
tained for the original legal tender, at
tbe samo time drawing interest on his
bonds. In the course of business he
will gradually exchange tbe notes of
his bank for legal tender notes, with
which h» can again draw gold, de-
pleto the reserve and necessitate a
Irish bond issue. The Wall street
banker is thus not only enabled to
peso as a statesman and a patriot,
willing to help the government by
'glrlng it gold, but is able to draw In-
terest twice on his Investment and
contribute to the maintenance of the
national debt, which Is the foundation
of bis banking system. — Denver
News. _
Th.jr Ara Too Busr,
There are many American citizens
who are “too busy" to think about
t|e country’s needs for or perils.
One is “too busy" chasing popular-
/ the ignorant.
Is “too busy" erecting a
Jw iumi stay dissolve la
a day.
the cries of the suffering millions go
unheeded? The power which closed
the mines In Colorado, which robbed
the property of the country of half Its
value, which bankrupted merchants
shut down manufactories, turned
homeless upon the streets countless
workmen and carried famine to the
once happy homes of the land, holds
ihe helm ofthe ships of state and runs
it upon the reefs of gold monometal-
lism.
There is a day of reckoning. Not
Republican victories will settle the
score. The people must and will, not
far In the future, assumo the power
which Is theirs and which Is now be-
ing used to their destruction.—Den-
ver News.
Yes, and such outragos will con-
tinue until the people regain their
senses, abaudon their party preju-
dices and elect a Populist adminis-
tration. No good thing can oome
from tbe Dcmoorata or Republicans.
Soma are “too busy" giving circu-
lation to lies and misinformation.
Others are "too busy." like Nar-
cissus, contemplating their own
shadow in water.
One Is “too busy" talking claptrap
about a political party to get a plum.
Another is “too busy" listening
aod wandering what a "smart man'
Uudl.j'. O.l'.
Mr. Khitok: In tbe Dallas News
of the 17th I note the following In aq
interview with Hon. J. G. Dudley,
chairman of the Democratic state ex-
ecutive committee: "While Judge
Nugent's vote has Increased soine-
MGjsg like 50,000, a close inspection
v ihe returns will. . i. {.haPop-
list party has really gained very little
strength within the past two years.
The reduction In the Republican vote
of moro than 80,000 shows where the
bulk of Nugent's increase came from."
It is amusing to see how prone Dem-
ocrats are to joking, especially
about political matters. Get’s
see how the vote stands —
as found in the News; Harrison
county, hoavy negro majority gave
Culberson 4962, Nugent 169, Makem-
son 109; Washington, heavy negro
majority, Culberson 2853, Nugent
831, Makemson 8824; Brazos, heavy
negro majority, Culberson 1176, Nu-
gent 701, Makemson 1711. I cite
these three counties as indicative of
how the negro vote went. It will not
do (or Mr. Dudley to say that the ne-
groes did not voto the Democratic
ticket, (or U they did not, then the
Democratic judges stole their votes.
Now let us compare three white coun-
ties; Wise, Culberson 2172, Nugent
2283; Goliad, Culberson 496, Nugent
628, Makemson 348; Comanche, Cul-
berson 1393, Nugent 1689, Makemson
64. The truth is, the Democrats were
forced, in order to keep up appear*
ances, to rely, as In Georgia. Arkan-
sas and Alabama, upon the colored
contingent, while the Populists have
made gains in every white county In
tbe state. Poor old Democracy! Your
demise is certain In 1896.
B. Watchful.
HsHWl.fl Pr«M
A Bravlarr of DtUf
Varies
At Fort Worth recently Harry Sea-
man, for throe years. a well known
locomotive engineer on the Fort
Worth aod Rio Grand railway, sui-
cided at hie home on DaggtU avenue.
He waa In a room talking with hie
wife at the time. He was out of
work at the time and despondent.
Getting up he took a double-barreled
shotgun standing near by, stepped
into an adjoining room and almost in-
stantly hts wife heard a loud report
and rushing Into tbe room saw her
husband lying on the floor dying with
a terrible wound in tbe loft aide. A
full charge of shot had entered just
below the riba. Death was instanta-
neous. Seaman had only recently
lost his position. A letter found on
his psrsott told of hla Intention to
'—*" n account of his prospective
xtit XML—.-iwi i
eul‘
• nm»e»4 1
The estimate for the maintenance
of the adjutant general’s department
for the two years ending February 28,
.1897, calls for$139,620. Of this amount
$80,000 is for frontier protection and
suppression of lawlessness; $50,000 Is
for defraying the expenses of the
Volunteer Guard when called into
service and for annual militia camp
of Instruction. A reduction of $200
per year in the salary of the adjutant
general's chief clerk is contemplated.
The appropriation for this department
for the two years ending February 28,
.1895, was $133,520.
At Houston one day during tiie re-
cent races at the second heat of the
first race M. F. Jones of Fort Collins,
Col., owner and driver of the famous
trotter Fid Marsh, fell from his sulky
dead. Dr. Mattlce of Dallas mounted
tbe seat of the sulky and drove Fid
Marsh sthrough the race, winning
second money. When Jones fell from
his sulky the hor# ran away and ran
around the track, where he was
caught by Mounted Inspector Master-
son.
Quite an excitement occurred at
.Temple recently over tbe reported
Kidnaping of a girl from Baylor col-
dego at Belton. A woman by the
name of Wells was arrested, charged
with complicity. It appears that a
'woman went to the colloge at night
and called for the girl, saying that
her mother, who lives in Belton, was
.sick. The two entored u carriage
near by and went to Temple. They
then took the night train for Waco.
A party composed of Messrs. J. P.
Mathington. J. S. Kosiowskv and U
W. Gibson of bt Gouis and W. H.
Brooker of San Antonio recently vis-
'lted Brownsville to make a proposi-
tion to the citizens of that city to
construct a railroad connecting It
with the railroad systems of the state.
The bonus oi $60,000 raised to secure
the Corpus Cbrlstl railroad will prob-
ably be offered for this road.
Tt: -XTnasi -.ropni-t of. the Texas
A Good Definition.
What Is meant by free coinage? a
contempary asks. The demand of the
'n-ee silver coinage men is that silver
be restored to the same right that It
had as a money metal from the foun-
dation of the government down to
1873, when It was deprived of that
right by fraud and stealth, and that
it again be coined at the mints on the
same terms with gold. This is, prac-
tically, all that free coinage means,
and the demand is in the interest of
every farmer, workingman or pro-
dneer la—tha country.— De.Muines
Tribune.
Toll tho Troth.
The Populists were snowed undor
in both Colorado and Kansas by large
majorities, in favor of the Republi-
cans.—GaGrange Journal.
“Tell the truth.” While the Re-
publicans elected their tickets in both
i abr
ttSf?
ing this fact, the Populists increased
their vote In both states over two
ears ago. Oh, the Pops are dying!
states, it was done with D-e-m-o-
a politician is. si c-r-a-H-c votes; and, notwithstand-
Some are “too busy” raising corfff ,nif thli fact tho PoouUl)t8 lncreaied
and hogs to care what becomes
other men’s liberties.
Others are “too busy" thinkl
about dead issues and the dead past
ham anything about the perilous
present.
And last, but not least, some are
••too busy” trying to save souls for
tbe next world, and making no effort
to save them in this.—Virginia Sun.
"Not la It.”
The crows fought, says the fable,
and tbe buzzard swooped down and
gobbled up the pie. And to it will be
with the Democrats and Populists —
the Republicans have gobbled nearly
everything In sight Neither Demo-
crats nor Populists have reason to
feel encouraged in Texes, for in the
national campaigns we are not "in
lL"--Itasce Mail.
Political
some of the Democrats in
helping Republicans to
•ere get
shape in
er states by tbe stfpe kind of Re-
—
What Thar* 11 Do.
The new congress means a tingle
gold standard—the retirement of the
geenbacks and wiping out of silver,
if the gold-bugs demand it; a large
increase of goid-boods; the repeal of
the income tax law; the enlargement
of the standing army. Anything
more? If this is not enough, prepare
your petitions, send them on to Wash-
ington and let them thunder In the
nation’s legislative halls—Indiana-
polis (Ind.) Nonconformist
Wa Will Mol.
The people of America cannot live
under English systems and financial
policies. The matter has been tested
and It won’t work. If four-fifth of
tbe people of Knglacd are willing to
live paupers for the benefit of ooe-
flfth, they are at liberty to do it; but
Americans would prefer to fight
rather than submit to such slavery.
They are about ready to begin now
—Wabash Exponent.
Trunk railway, as received by the
comptroller, shows that for the year
ending October 1,- 1894, that com-
pany’s earnings were $69,589.68. and
operating expenses, exclusive of in-
terest and dividends, $65,626.47.
At Houston recently a wreck In the
Southern Pacific yards exploded an
oil tank anil fired flfteon or twenty
cars of cotton. Five cars uf lumber
and a switch engine were also de-
stroyed. The engineer aod firemen
are missing.
Richard K. Fox is still at work try-
ing to Induce Wag Harding, George
Bubear, Wingate, Haines and Barry
to go to America to row In the inter-
national regatta to be held in Anstin
under the management of Captain
Crotty.
A sharper swlndlH a negro out ol
$103 at Dallas recently and escaped.
The negro had just received the
money In payment for four bales ot
cotton.
The next legislature will bo asked
to “monkey" with the city charter ol
Fort Worth again. City governments
are costly experiments.
The Corsicana and Southwestern
road It now on a stand still, grading
having stopped until some futher de-
tails aro perfected.
The city council of Fort Worth has
•levied a tax of $1.55 on the $100.
The taxable values of that city foot
up $19,767,510.
An effort will be made to pass
practical fish and oyster laws at the
coming session of the legislature.
San Antonians eat speckled trout
caught In tingle lake, Colorado coun-
ty, near the town of Kagle Gake.
The coait counties of Matagorda,
.Calhoun and Brazoria are rapidly set-
tling up with white people.
The sidewalk question has an abid-
ing place in the mind of the Green-
ville people j*M£_nC”’ ,u u
The movement of cattle ana i-
over Texas railroads is the largest
known for years.
Sportsmen living near streams and
lakes are now having great fun shoot-
ing duoks.
The governor has the appointment
of nineteen good, “fat" offices.
Rev. A. J. Harris, the “cow boy"
preacher, is holding a meeting at San
Antonio.
The People's party state executive
committee met at Waco a few days
ago.
G A. Furr has been jailed at Fort
Worth, charged with forgery.
The Populist carried Anderson.
Hon. J. H. Reagan's county.
Columbus is a pretty place, and
Calorado it a rich county.
Governor-elect Culberson is on tbe
dodge from offioe-eeekers.
There is again talk of extending
the Cotton Belt to Dallas.
One huodred capitalists of Chicago
aro visiting Texas.
The oltizetiflkf Palestine wear
“golden" slippers.
Dallas real estate is becoming more
active.
Burglars are numerous in Corsi-
cana.
Beeville is a thriving little city.
Robbers are active at Denison.
El Paso is improving slowly.
Tbe railroed commission has grant*
ed the Houston and Texas Central
authority for the adoption of a rate of
7j cents per hundred pounds on stavq;
bolts in carloads from all points on
the Gulf. Beaumont and Kansas City
railway to Houston, affective Novem-
ber 30, 1894.
Tully Walker, colored, stole some
goods recently at I-on* view, carried
them home and hid them in some
fodder. When arrested he begged to.
be allowed to get his hat He stepped'
in the house, got his pistol and shot
himself through the heart, dying in-
stantly.
Miss Emma Zabel. the young iady
who shot and killed Cbas. Burke tho
other night in Austin, was given an
examining trial, and bound over to
await the action of the grand jury
under a bond of $50, the evldenoe
showing that the killing was justifia-
ble.
Tbe Midland (air will be held De-
cember 12, 13 and 14 and will be
If devoted to • stock. \
agricultural and horticulture* i ntf'h-
esta of western Texas. There will be
racing contests of various kinds and
other entertainments.
An ordinance granting the Anthony
Telephone company a franchise on
tbo same terms as that granted tbe
National Telephone company has
passed the city council of Austin.
This will give that city three tele-
phone systems.
P. Gevyson & Co. of Harwood, Gon-
zales county, and P. 1-evySon of Gon-
zales each made an assignment re-
cently to Judge F.verett Lewis as
trustee, liabilities not given. Assets
about $38,000 In tbe two stores.
A dead negro waa recently found in
the seed room of the National cotton
mills at Houston. He was a strsnger
and the inquest revealed nothing to
explain his death or his presence in
the seed room ot the mill.
Jeff D. Bland and P. G. Ferguson,
the newly elected sheriff and consta-
ble ot Orange, have Issued a notice to
the effect that hereafter the Sunday
(law and the gaming law will be
strictly enforced.
Rev. Thomas Dixon of New York
oity recently delivered his famous
lecture. “F'oola or the School of Ex-
jrjiTBPf”. i **—
auspices of tnsr —. __
tlan association.
Gov. Hogg has commuted the sen-
tence of Francisco Reyes, oonvlotod
of tho murder of Fix-Sheriff Hornsby
of Travis county, to imprisonment lor
life, and Reyes has been taken to
Huntsville.
Thomas Owens has filed a suit
against the city of Houston for $10,-
000 damages, growing ofit of the fact
that on Octobnr 8 plaintiff stepped
into an uncovered sewer and broke
his leg.
At Sherman ecently J. H. Moore
was given an hour In prison for offer-
ing to sell a bale of lost cotton he
found on the right of way of the
Houston and Sexsi Ufifltflti
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In a recent altercation near Bowie,
Montague county, betwoen James A.
Dix and John A. McBride, the former
was shot and killed. Dlx was a sol-
dier under Stonewall Jackson.
Recently at Halltnger, Runnels
county, Kufe P. Wilson, committed
suicide by shooting himself In the
head. He had been drinking heavily
for some time.
Miss Hcenie Parker of Filkhart,
Houston county, while helping her
father clean a hog a few days ago,
was badly burned by her dress catch-
ing fire.
If. P. Mayo, dealer in staple and
fancy groceries at Paris, made a deed
of trust to T. J. Record on his stock
of goods and several traote of land.
Diphtheria does not abate at F'ort
Worth. While It Is not epidemic
there are many cases and some deaths.
J. H. Davis, Populist, will contest
the right of D. B. Culberson to a seat
'in the F'ifty-seveoth congress.
Bernheim & Block, drv goods mer-
chants of Commerce, Hunt county,
have made an assignment.
A hawk was killed the Other day at
Rockdale that measured 4 feet 9
inches from tip to tip.
Bishop Narez of 8an Antonio died a
few days ago Hls funeral procession
was a mile long.
Sherman is still the headquarters
ofthe League of American Wheelmen,
Texas division.
The Woodr.en of the World have
organized a camp at Hutto, William-
son county.
A car of homeseejrers recently
visited Van Znndt county from the
old states.
The federal district court is now in
session at Waco, Hon. John B. Rector
{(residing.
Rain is badly needed in most parts
tli. state: ton drv to nlow in many
i.v _ aa will
give a Th. to the
poor.
Some wicked person recently rob-
bed a saloon keeper at Navasota of $9.
There is no end to the oontests for
loeal offices in the various oounties.
Grass Is fine, stock fat, bnt rain is
muoh neodrd in Victoria county.
Tho happy music ot wedding bells
is quite common In Texas now.
J. R. Gough oi McKinney is a can-
didate for speaker of the house.
Ducks “world without end" in
Wharton county, to they say.
The lumbermen haYe recently held
a conference at Beaumont.
J. D. Lowery, grocer at Big Sandy,
Upshur county, has failed.
The water supply of Dallas and
Gainesville is low.
Cotton is about all picked in Wil-
liamson county.
The divorce mill at Galveston has
plenty of grtsL
1_ N. Wright, a merchant of Hous-
ton. has failed.
The opera bouse et Belton burned
down recently.
Burnet has an amateur dramatic
company.
GreenriUeites are grunting with
the grip.
Houston wants to be made a port oi
entry.
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