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Wilson County
Supe'r Court.
. Thomas Westray
and
W. M. Warren
vs.
Notice of Sum
mons and War
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GreenJL Brantley. J
The defendant, Green B. Brantly,
aDove namea will take notice tnat a
summons in the above entitled action
was issued against said defendant on
the 6th day of December 1S90, by the
Clerk of said Superior Court, the action
beine for the non-Davment of the sum
of Two Hundred and Fifty-Seven Dol
lars ana sixty cents, amount paid by
plaintiffs to T. J. Hadley upon One note
executed to him by said Green B. Brant
lay, as principal, and Thomas Westra
and W. M. Warren as sureties, which
said summons is returnable to the Su
perior Court of Wilson county at June
term 1891.
The defendant will also take notice
that a warrant of attachment was issued
by said Superior Court on the hth day
of December 1890, against the property
of said defendant, which warrant is re
turnable to said Superior Court'at time
above named for return of said sum
mons, when and where the defendant
is required to appear, and answer or
demur to the complaint, or the relief
demanded will be granted. This the
7th day of April, 1891.
A. B. DEANS, C. S. C.
F. A. & S. A. Woodard,
Att'ys for Plaintiffs. 4-9-6L
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BILL ARPS LETTER.
SOUTHERN BOOKS, ARP SAYS, SHOULD
UK USED IN OUR SCHOOLS.
Our Huokn Should be PabUsbed at Hume. ,
Some Extracts From Books Now In State ;
schools. j
Since writing a late letter on
Southern school books, my mail has
been flooded with pamphlets and re- j
ports going to prove that a State can
not safely publish or prescribe her
own school books. Ohio tried it and
came to grief. California tried it and .
fri- Incinrr 'i ntiartrfr nf a million ctf
the State's monev. abandoned the ex-
n0r!mpn Manv adverse renorts of
the State Superintendents have been J
sent me. They come from Appleton I
and Barnes, and Ivison Blakeman & !
Co. and Van Antwerp Co., all of
whom are interested parties, but are!
publishers of the highest respectabili-
tv. 1 he burden ot ail tnese is to ,
prove that the trustees of every school
should have exclusive jurisdiction
over the choice of their text books.
They are all opposed to State unifor
mity and give substantial and over
whelming reasons for it.
State uniformity means a series of
text books prescribed by the State
authorities to be used in every school.
But is there any good reason why art
association of the prominent and
leading educators in our State should
not meet together in convention and
examine, discuss and select a triple
or quadruple series of textbooks and
commend them to all the schools bf
the State, and at the same time give
preference to Southern publishers in
all cases where the public service
would not suffer ? There are half a
dozen series of arithmetics by South
ern authors, and two or more geogra
phies, and three series of spellers and
readers, and several histories, and
three of English literature, to say
nothing of latin and Greek, and as
tronomy and the higher mathematics.
Would it not be choice enough to let
the teachers or the school boards se
lect from these ?. Would it not relieve
the boards from embarrasment and
cause them to feel that they could not
make any grave mistake? I speak
for myself and our school board when
I say it would relieve us I had rath-
er trust the wisdom 01 our ueonna
teachers than all the school boards in
the State. One of the pamphlets sent
me is the very able report of the su
perintendent of public instruction in
the State of Virginia. While oppos
ed to State uniformity,, he says "The
common run of publishers do not fa
vor the professional cultivation ol
teachers. They prefer ihat teachers
should not be able to discriminate be
tween a poor book and a good one.
lhey know that there will be a great
winnowing out of the schoolbook trash
whenever it comes under the search
ing criticism of really competent teach-
ers. i ney Know tnat. tnere is yet a
large proportion of blind followers of
the text book that is put into their
hands and when they learn what is in
that particular book they want no
other, and to put them in a new book
is like learning a new branch of knowl
edge. i This class of dead, motionless
teachers is the Sargasso sea into
which text books float and stay, and
into this sea every bookmaker seeks
to float, his book.
"Hence the prodigious importance
of putting into the hands of such
teachers only the most carefully se
lected books those of real merit and
of the most improved methods of in
struction. Such books are few, and
are the product of peculiar talent and
large experience in the instruction of
young children."
This extract seems, to settle it that
there are competent teachers and a
large proportion of incompetent ones:
that the latter are "not fitten to choose
their books and not fitten to get fit
ten ;" that the really competent ones
are the only class qualified for search
ing criticism. This is all that we have
contended for on that line a conven
tion of the best teachers to winnow
out the schoolbook trash and com
mend their choice to all the schools
of the State.
Now about publishing, let me say
the proposition is not for the State to
undertake it, but for the superinten
dent to encourage it wherever it is
practicable and prudent to do so. I
have before me a book called '.'The
Pearl Speaker," compiled by Profes
sor Graham, ot Clarksville, . Tenn.,
and published by the great publish
ing house -of the Methodists
at Nashville. It is gotten up in
good style and no money went North
tor paper or printing or binding. It
is having a large sale and deserves it,
tor besides the old standards it con
tains six speeches from that grand
Virginia orator, John W. Daniel ; five
from our peerless Grady, one from sessinS J"8 those puril, .hg, building
General William B. Bate, one from UUP qualities whicji the body craves,
frOCtor Knott, two frnm RanHnlnK
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Tnrkpr and olc i
from Dr. T. W. Lee. lohn B. Cordon
John Temple Graves, FatheT Ryan,
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tirecKinnage, nope, Dr. Deems. Col.
House, Henderson, Webb, Charlton,
HUliard, fcugenius A. Nisbet, Daw
son and Archer Anderson. And it
closes with speeches of Ben Hill, of
Georgia, and Dr. B. F. Ward, of
Mississippi, the two greatest defen
ders of the South and her people.
Now here are twenty -two distinguish
ed Southern orators whose eloquent
speeches have not been surpassed
and some of them not equalled North
01 the line smce the war and yet
not one of them can be found in any
Northern book. This book tvoifies
what we mean by Southern literature
and Southern textbooks. I have be-
tore me in paintul contrast another
j Speaker that until recently has been
used in our schools, and is a mixture
of old England and New England
not a Southern author or orator in it,
but it does insult us with a sickly
poem from John G. Whittier, who
calls our soldiers "the famished rebel
l 1 1 C. 11 T 1
uvuuc, iu "
ordering hlS Soldiers tO tire Upon an
old woman because she displayed the
J federal nag as they were marching by
The old crank nearly half the poe
try in his book is sentimental slush
about the downtrodden, crushed,
manacled, bleeding slaves of the
South.
Professor Graham has also had
published an admirable primary series
of arithmetics for the first three grades
pupils,
I see that Professors
Atlanta, and Ruth, of
Slaton, of
- Knoxville, have adored them and
pronounce them superior to all others.
.Where there is a will there is a
way.
" we can get one book pub isned
at home we can get others We can
--r jr
give employment to nunareas, yes,
thousands, of our boys and girls
whose willing hands are waiting for
work. Now, if the American Book
Company does not like this they
have a remedy. Let them bring a
1 . . t 1
liberal portion of their immense capi
tal down South and build a branch
publishing house, like they have done
in Chicago and Cincinnati. Why
not? What is the matter with the
South? Does she not always give
hearty welcome to Northern men and
Northern enterprise? The Equitable
Lite, ot New York, has set a good
example. It is building a mammoth
block in Auanta, that, when finished
and furnished, will cost near half a
milHon, and our boys will be working
there. The American Book Compa
ny are drawing their book pap
through too long a tube. Let them
bring their milk pots nearer to us, and
then they may suck away and be
welcome. The Appletons can do this
and profit by it. The Appletons have
long been favorites with our people.
They have always been kind and
tolerant. Their last "Cyclopedia of
American Biography" is a grateful
proof of their fairness and good will
towards the South. One ot the house
has recently captured or been captur
ed by one of Georgia's fairest daugh
ters. Now let him show his grati
tude, and come to a fair divide with
our section. Our poor girls and
boys can work in a publishing house
all the year round with but little fire
and less clothing. Our own rags will
make the paper, and they are better
rags than they used to be. They are
not so ragged.
My good, friend, Robert E. Park,
who represents the book trust, writes
me a kind remonstrance about my
former letter, but I know he will agree
to what 1 have said in this. He is a
Georgia "gentleman to the core, and
faithfully represents his employers,
but I know he agrees with that great
and good man, M. F. Maury, whose
maps and charts are know to all the
world. Maury said: "All hail the
day when the South will make her
own paper and ink and type, and
publish her own books and establish
her own literature, and be able to de
fend herself and her honor against
the slanders of her enemies." 1 It is a
shame upon our people that they will
countenance such a work as the En
cylopaedia Britannica," that says
The few thinkers of America born
South of Mason and Dixon's line
are outnumbered by those belonging
to the single State of Massachusetts,
and mainly by their connections with
the North the Carohnas have been
saved from sinking to the level of
Mexico or the Antiles." If, through
ignorance or careless inspection, our
people have disgraced their libraries
with this book, they should at least
neutralize the poison by sending to
Montgomery for Mr. Ogleby's answer
to that charge and his masterly vmdi
cation of the South. For the sake of
your children get that pamphlet and
seal it in the volume that contains the
slander. We must write our own
history aud establish our glorious
past before the civilized world. What
good will Colnmbian fairs do to us at
Chicago as long as such publications
are patronized at home and accredit
ed abroad ? Bill Arp.
"I Am So Tired
Is a common exclamation at this
season. There is a certain bracing
eftect in cold air which is lost when
the weather grows warmer; and when
Nature is renewing her youth, her
admirers feel dull, sluggish and tired.
1 his condition is owing mainly to the
impure condition of the blood, and its
failure to supply healthy tissue to the
various organs ofjhe body. It is re
markable how susceptible the system
is to the help to be derived from a
good medicine a this season. Pos-
I IX 1 C Sl
that tired teeungj restores the apoe
tlte P""" the Wood, and, in short,
1 - . - ... . . a
iiuuaiu) vitftiruus ncaim. lis inous
ands of friends as with one voice de
clare. "It Makes the Weak Stronir."
The only thingwhich beats a good
wife is a bad husband. Life.
CORSETS.
Down to a fine point
that's where the making of corsets has
been brought to.
Kabo for the "banes" it can't break
or kink. Loops of corset lace instead of
metal eyelets they :an ' t rust or cut the
laces. The Ball Con et for ease and com
fort; the Kabo Corset for unyielding
strength. Each is the best of it's kind.
If you don't think so after wearing
for two or three weeks, return it to us
and get your money back. -
A NEW PARTY.
IT IS CHRISTENED THE PEOPLE'S PA K
TY, AND HAS A BATTE CY.
'Down With the Money Power," I U
Shibboleth The tonveutlou Endorses the
St. Louis, Oeala, and Omaha Platforms
Arrangements to Name a National Ticket
Weaver Says the Republican Party is
Out of the Race in 18 92 Over 1,400 Del
egates Beside Themselves
with Enthaai- 1
asm Friends of Weaver and
Donnelly
Head the
Already Shouting for Them to
Ticket Donnelly's Speech.
Cincinnati. May 20. It is a
new party with a whoop. Neither
reason nor persuasion could prevent
it. It is a lusty infant in point of
1
untrs at least It was born at hiffh " "sm 1,eBrasKa- 94 i wasn
ungs ai least, 11 wab uorn ai , ;nCrtnn a nutria fv,i,,mi,;o a .
noon to-day and it was christened ajohio, 317; Arkansas, 6; Florida, 2';
few hours later. The name is an old j Indiana, 154 ; Iowa, 32 ; Kansas, 411 ;
one and it hasn't been a harbinger of Missouri, 73 ; Massachusetts, 8 ; New
success in the past. "The People K; Nh Dakota, 1 ; Texas 26;
,, ... , .. , . I
arty will be inscribed upon its ban- j
ners and its chief battle cry will be
'Down with the money power."
Some of the scenes in the. Conven
tion hall to-day have been genuinely
picturesque. There was the burst
ing of a volcano of enthusiasm that
was worthy the birth of a new party
in its inspiring intensity. It made
unanimous for the time the conflict
ing sentiments of the self-constituted
delegates who have come here to
overtnrow with the day's noise the
work that the parties of Jefferson and
of Lincoln have been some decades
in perfecting.
But, whatever the result, the fifteen
hundred people who comprised this
odd political gathering have had a
good time. They have given the
people of Cincinnati all the fun that
was promised them, and so far no
body has been hurt. They succeed
ed in keeping the inevitable fight off"
the floor of the Convention. It took
place in the committee, and a bitter
one it was. It lasted all night and
was renewed again after a brief re
spite. The Committee on Resolu
tions, whose duties involved deciding
the question of immediate political
action, sat until 5 o'clock this morn
ing without reaching an agreement.
The effect of Col. Livingston s great
struggle with the leaders in caucus
had been partially offset by the an
gry assertions of Capt. Power and his
friends that the eloquent Georgian
was here as" an emissary of the Dem
ocratic party. They begged the del
egates not to listen io his seditious
appeals for delay.
When it became evident that noth
ing could prevent the mass of dele
gates from making some sort of a
declaration in favor of a new party,
efforts were made to restrain the ac
tion to as tew steps as possible. Af
ter another session this morning last
ing until after noon it was decided to
create and name a party, but to refer
all further action to the Conference of
February,. 1892, which has already
been called by the officials of the
Farmers' Alliance, the Citizens' Alli
ance, the Knights of Labor, and mi
nor organizations. But it was also
decided to recommend that, in case
the Conference at February 1892,
does not make nominations, the Na
tional Committee of the new People's
party shall at once call a National
Convention lor the purpose, to meet
in June.
That is the substance of the recom
mendations subsequently ratified by
the Convention. The effect has
been a mighty interesting budget of
political gossip. The leaders of the
new movement and those, too, who
are here who are not in sympathy
with the radical action taken, deduce
some strange conclusions from their
observations of the situation as it has
developed. They all argue that the
turn of events has left the Republi
can party utterly without hope in the
campaign of 1892. Even Livingston
of Georgia has been amazed at the
strength of the new party sentiment
in the West and Northwest here in
dicated. I,t is urged that nothing
. . a 11 .
out a startling coup a etat will give
the Republican party even a fighting
chance next year. For some time
the Alliance and other third party
people have been trying to find out
what tnat move win be, tor they are
satisfied that the Republican leaders
realize how desperate in their situa
tion. They think they have discov
ered the secret, and possibly their
idea of what it is is not as absurd as
it appears.
They expect to see Cleveland the
candidate of a combination of Re
publicans and Eastern Democrats,
They are looking for a lot of politica
miracles in tne next year, ana tnis is
the greatest of alL The idea was
suggested at Alliance headquarters
in Washington last week, and it is
talked about here to-night by severa'
. a 1 e -
01 tne leaders ot tne new party and
by Alliance men outside of it. In
their intense hatred of "Wall street,'
the third party ieople are ready to
believe any story about the machina
tions of the "money power," which
they think Mr. Cleveland more than
any other man represents. They
don't attempt to explain how he
could get Republican support with
his free trade ideas. They haven'
touched the tariff issue in their plat
torm, and so they think the country
at large will drop it.
It was after 10 o'clock when the
temporary Chairman whacked his
desk in the main hall with his iron
hammer. The religious character of
the gathering was made manifest by
the frequent "amens" from the floor
during the delivery of a long prayer
by a Nebraska clergyman and the
chorus of responses at the close.
The Kansas Glee Club sang some
more tunes set to Moody and Sankey
music, and then the Convention gird
ed itself for the hot fight which ev
erybody felt was upon them. They
were feeling so good natured that
i they went down into their pockets to
make up a fund for Capt. C. O.
Power, the man who called the Con-
vention and by his individual work
got most of the delegates here.
Then the Committee
on Creden-
tials reported there
were r ,4 1 8 ac
credited delegates present from 32
States. The apportionment of the
ueirgaies among the states exposes
at a glance the unrepresentative char
acter ot the whole Convention.
Here is the list by States :
Alabama, 2 ; California, 2 ; Connect
icut, 1; Illinois, 88; Kentucky, 59;
Louisiana; ? ; Michigan, 11; Maine, 2 ;
North Carolina, 1 ; Rhode Island 1 ;
West Virginia, 13; Pennsylvania, 8;
avium vrtiuillld, 1, 1 C11I1C55CC, o , mm-
nesota, 30 ; Oklahoma, 3 5 Wyoming 4 ;
Colorado, 3. Total delegates, 1,418
There was a hot row following the
announcement by the local Chairman
of the Reception Committee that a
reception would be given at the Belle-
vue House this evening, and that the
delegates were also invited to visit
several factories where among other
things, they would be filled up.
A delegate named Groom, of Wis
consin, assumed, as did many others,
that this meant an invitation to a
brewery, which is in line of business
ofthe Chairman of the Entertain
ment Committee, Mr. Burkhauser.
There was a tremendous hubbub
for a few minutes, and it looked as
though there would be violence be
tween some of the struggling dele
gates. Finally a Kansas delegate
explained that an invitation to a
broom factory was meant, and he
added ; "If you want to get drunk
on brooms you can go there."
The Committee on Permanent Or
ganization reported Senator Pefter,
of Kansas tor President and W . S.
Morgan, of Missouri, for Secretary.
There was a long list of Vice
residents, &c. No sooner had the
report been read than there was more
trouble. Mrs. Helen M. Gougar ot
ndiana, protested against the use of
her name as a vice-f resident.
She said : "I am a sober Prohibi
tionist and a member of the National
Committee of the party. Until you
repudiate liquor in every form I
won't allow the use of my name."
Senator Peffer took the chair with
a very short speech. "This gather
ing" he said, "is of more importance
to the people of this country and to
the entire world than any which has-
convened in this century. We are
here to undermine and dispose of a
power that is crushing the necks of
the people of America and ofthe
world." . i
A colored delegate from North
Carolina was presented as the only
negro delegate who had come with
credentials and he had exhausted his
resources to get there. An appeal
was made to the house to raise
enough money to send him home.
There was a lively scene in front
of the platform for a few minutes
while a perfect shower ot com pour
ed in. The delighted darkey got
money enough to send him to Eu
rope if he wants to go.
The Committee on Rules made a
report with a joker at the end of it,
which the Convention did not see at
first. There was the usual provision
for the taking of votes, &c, and then
a rule provided for the choice of a
National Campaign Committee,
which, of course, carried with it a
commitment to the new party idea.
E. Gerry Brown, of Massachusetts, a
member of the committee, finally ex
plained that while the Committee on
Resolutions had been struggling in
vain all nignt witn tne new party
problem the Committee on Rules had
quietiy brought the issue to the Con
vention by recommending a National
Campaign Committee. "Men know
what that means," he declared, amid
a great burst of enthusiasm. "If
you don't want a new party you
have no use tor a National Commit
tee." The question was put, and it
was carried with a tremendous shout.
The Convention went wild. Men
and women alike shouted till they
could shout no longer, and thus, just
as the noon bells rang, and almost
unanimously the Convention declar
ed in favor of abandoning the old
parties and starting out under a new
political banner. The Convention
took a recess to await the action of
the Platform Committee
After dinner Chairman Ignatius
Donnelly made he report for the
committee. He presented it by say
ing:
"The committee has concluded its
labors with practical unanimity. On
the question of organizing a new and
distinct party in the United States
this committee is a unit. Great
cheering.! The only difference of
opinion has been over unimportant
matters. The committee has per
formed a great work. Two alterna
tives were presented to it one to
proceed without regard to any prev
ious movements in the same direc
tion ; the other was that we should
not divide the friends ot reform, that
we should place this gathering in
harmony with this vast movement of
the people which is to find expres
sion in February, 1892; that we
should say to those who have called
that Convention that we are heartily
with them ; that if there is any failure
of that Convention to place a Na
tional ticket in the field, the Nation
al Committee of this Convention
should take steps toward that result.
We apologize because we have not
been able to cover all the interests in
the minds of men here to-day. I
believe that a few planks in one in
vulnerable platform will avail more
than to try to include many issues,
some of them doubtful. The shorter
our platform the longer will be our
muster roll. When we have taken
possession of both Houses of Con- j
I gress and of the White House, as we
shall do, then it will be time enough
1 to decide on the details of legislation.
Great applause. We are here not
j so much to proclaim a creed as to
erect a banner under which the
I marching hosts of reform can rally.
Therefore we proceeded to include
the St Louis platform of 1889,
Cheers and the rebel yell, the Oca
la platform of 1890, and the Omaha
platform of the Northwestern Alliance
of 1 891." The platform was then
read as follows :
Your Committee on Resolutions begs
leave to submit the following :
1, That in view of the great social,
industrial, and economical revolution
now dawning upon the civilized world,
and new and living issues confronting
the American people, we believe that
the time has arrived for a chrystalliza
tion of the political reform forces of our
country and the formation of what
should be known as the People's party
of the United States of America.
2, That we most heartily endorse
the demands of the platforms, as adopt
ed at St. Louis, Mo., in 1889; Ocala,
Fla., in 1890, and Omaha, Neb., in
1891, by industrial organizations there
represented summarized as follows :
a The right to make and issue mon
ey is a sovereign power to be maintain
ed by the people for the common bene
fit ; hence we demand the abolition of
national banks as banks of issue, and
as a substitute for national bank notes
we demand that legal tender Treasury
notes be issued in sufficient volume to
transact the business of the country on
a cash basis without damage or espe
cial advantage to- any class or calling,
such notes to be legal tender in pay
ment of all debts, public and private,
and such notes, when demanded bv
the people, shall be loaned to them at
not more than 2 per cent, per annum
upon non-perishable products, as indi
cated in the Sub-Treasury plan, and
also upon real estate, with proper limi
tation upon the quantity of land and
amount ot money.
b We demand the free and unlimi
ted coinage of silver.
c We demand the passage ot laws
prohibiting alien ownership of land,
and that Congress take prompt action
to devise some plan to obtain all lands
now owned by alien and foreign syndi
cates, and that all land held by rail
roads and pther corporations in excess
of such as is actually used and needed
by them be reclaimed by. the Govern
ment and held for actual settlers only.
d Believing in the doctrine of equal
rights to all and special privilege to
none, we demand that taxation, nation
al, State, or municipal, shall not be
used to build up one interest or class
at the expense of another.
e We demand that all revenues, na
tional, State or county, shaH be limited
to the necessary expenses of the Gov
ernment, economically and honestly
administered.
f We demand a just and equitable
system of graduated tax on income.
g We demand the most rigid, hon
est, and just national control and su
pervision of the means of public com
munication and transportation, and if
this control and supervision does not
remove the abuses now existing, we
demand the Government ownership of
such means of communication and
transportation.
h We demand the election ot Presi
dent, Vice-President, and United States
Senators by a direct vote of the peo
ple. , 1 hat we urge united action ot all
progressive organizations in attending
the Conference called for rebruary 22,
1892, by six of the leading reform or
ganizations.
4, 1 hat a National Central Commit
tee be appointed by this conference, to
be composed ot a Chairman, to be
elected by this body, and of three
members from each State represented,
to be named by each State delegation
S, I hat this Central Committee shall
represent this body, attend the Nation
al Conference on February 22, 1892,
and. if possible, unite with that and all
other reform organizations there as
sembled. 11 no satisiactory arrange
ment can be enected, this committee
shall call a national Convention not la
ter than June t, 1892, for the purpose of
nominating candidates lor President
and Vice-President.
6, That the members of the Central
Committee for each State where there
is no independent political organiza
tion conduct an active system of pohti
cal agitation in their respective States
The committee also reported dis
tinct from the platform these resolu
tions :
Kesolved, I hat the question ot uni
versal suffrage be recommended to the
favorable consideration of the various
States and Territories.
Kesoiveo, 1 nat wnue tne party in
power in 1869 pledged the faith of the
nation to pay a debt in coin that had
been contracted on a depreciated cur
rency basis and payable in currency,
thus adding nearly $1,000,000,000 to the
burdens of the people, which meant
eold for the bondholders and depreci
ated currency for the soldier ; and
holding that the men who imperilled
their lives to save the life of a nation
should have been paid in money as
good as that paid to the bondholder
we demand the issue of legal tender
Treasury notes in sufficient amount to
make the pay ot the soldiers equal to
par with coin, or such other legislation
as shall do equal and exact justice to
the Union soldiers Of this country.
Kesoiveo, tnat as eight hours con
stitute a legal day's work for Govern
ment employees in mechanical depart
ments, we believe this principle .should
be further extended so as to apply to
all corporations employing labor in dif
ferent States ot the Union.
Resolved, That this Conference con
demns in unmeasured terms the action
of the directors of the World's Colum
bian Exposition1 on May 19, refusing the
minimum of wages asked for by the la
bor organizations of Chicago.
Kesolved, 1 hat the Attorney-General
of the United States should make
immediate provision to submit the act
of March 2, 1889, providing for the
opening of Oklahoma to homestead set
tlement, to the United States Supreme
Courtr so that the expensive and; dila
tory litigation now pending there be
ended.
The meeting called for Gen.
Weaver, of Iowa, who made a sig
nificant speech. - He said : "We
have reached a period for action. I
thank God that after fifteen years of
talk the time has, come for us to
make the fur fly from one end of the
land to the othen I want to say
that the battle for free institutions and
the liberties of this people will be
waged in 1892 between the candi
dates whom you name and those
whom the cohorts of Wall street
nominate. Now, the Republican
party is practically out of the fight
in 1892. They were left in a forlorn
condition last November. The only
part they can play next year is to act
as the miners and sappers of the oth
er party.
"Mind, now, what I say. Mr.
Cleveland, when he wrote his anti
silver letter, did it deliberately, as I
happen to know. He did it against
"the protests of many of his friends.
It had this effect, to consolidate the
money power in his support. The
plutocracy in 1892-4 will make the
battle under his leadership. They
are playing a shrewd game. The
great work to be done is that of or
ganization and preparation."
Before taking a vote there was an
other great fuss over prohibition. A
California delegate moved to put in
a plank condemning the liquor traffic.
It was not done.
The report of the Committee on
Resolutions was then divided. The
1 a
piatiorm proper was adopted unani
mously with a lot more enthusiasm,
and the resolutions also submitted
Went through with practical unan
imity.
Senator Peffer then yielded the
chair to Gen. Weaver, and last hour
was spent in making up the National
Campaign Committee. Taubenek of
Illinois, one of the "big three, who
stood out so long in the Senatorial
contest in the Illinois Legislature,
was made Chairman of the National
Committee.
Another big mass meeting was
held to-night at Music Hall, at which
Ignatius Donnelly was the principal
speaker.
The enthusiastic people who went
crazy for two hours this afternoon are
already talking about their candidate
for President, there is really quite a
jealous feeling between the friends of
Ignatius Donnelly and Gen. Weaver,
who want to see their leaders go to
the White
York Sun.
House in 1893. New
A Humane Negro.
Elias Edwards, an industrious and
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miles from New Berne, walked to the
city after his buggy which had been
repaired at Mr. J. H. Waters facto
ry, and then walked back home pull
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this, he said, to give his horse a rest,
so that he would be ready for a big
day's work. Edwards attracted
much attention as he trotted out of
town at a lively rate, strapped to the
buggy by plow lines. He started at
2 p. m. and said he would be home
by 9 p. m. New Berne Journal.
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