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X Cehtrsl T HE IME 1 V. C. IVY, Editor and Publisher. Render Unto Caesar the Things that are Caesar's, Unto God, God's, $z.oo Per Annum, in Advance. Vol. I DUNN, HARNETT CO., N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1891. No. 43, OFFICIAL DIRECTORY OF THE NATIONAL FARMERS ALLIANCE AND INDUSTIAL UNION. poik, President, North Carolina. p" h Clover, Vice-President, Kansas. f nl'urnei,Secretary-Tjeasurer, Georgia, j' .. U'illetts, Lecturer, Kansas. Executive Board C. W, MaCune, Chairman; A. U ardall. J. K. Tillman. , uii. iarv- Department H. C. Demming, Chairman; Uaac McCracWen. A. E. Cole. Committee on Confederation of N. F. A. and I. p Hen Terrell, Chairman, 239 North Capitol s rctt Washington, D. C; L. F. Livingston, of Ctforiria- R. F. Rogers, of Florida; VV. J. Talbert, ' Soulh'Carolina: 11. L. Louc.ks. of South Dakota. DECLARATION OF PURPOSES. Whereas the general condition of our country imperatively demands unity of action on the part of the laboring classes, reformation in economy, and the dissemination of principles best calculated to encourage and foster ag ricultural and mechanical pursuits, en couraging the toiling masses leading them in the road to prosperity, and providing a just and fair remuneration for labor, a just exchange for our com modities, and the best means of secur ing to the laboring classes the greatest amount of good; we hold to the princi ple that all monopolies are dangerous to the best interests of our country, tcn.lijig to enslave a, free people and subvert and finally oveithrowthe great principles purchased by the fathers of American liberty. We therefore adopt the following as our declaration of prin ciples: i. To labor for the education of the agricultural" classes in the science of economic government in a strictly non partisan spirit. .2. To indorse the motto: "In things essential, unity; and in all things, charity." 3. To develop a better state, ment ally; morally, socially, and financially. 4. To create a better understanding for sustaining civil officers in maintain ing law and order. 5 To constantly strive to secure en tire harmony and good will among mankind, and brothetly love among ourselves. 6. To suppress personal, local, sec tional and national prejudices, all un healthful rivalry and selfish ambition. 7. The brightest jewels which it gar ners are the tears of widows and or phans, and its imperative commands are to visit the homes where lacerated hearts are bleeding; to assuage the suf ferings of a brother or sister; bury the " dead; care for the widows and educate the orphans; to exercise charity toward offenders; to construe words and deeds in their most favorable light, granting honesty of purpose and good inten tions to others; and to protect the prin ciples of the Alliance unto death. Its laws are reason and equity; its cardinal doctrines inspire purity of thought and life; its intention is " on earth peace and good will toward men." ocala demands. 1. We demand the abolition of na tional banks; wedemand that the gov ernment shall establish sub-treasuries or depositories in the. several States which shall loan money direct to the people at a low rate of interest, not to exceed 2 per cent per annum on non perishable farm products, and also upon real estate, with proper limita tions upon the quantity of land and amount of money; we demand that the auiount of the2 circulating medium be speediiy iucreased to not lese than J50 per capita. 2. We demand that Congress shall pas such laws as shall effectually pre vent the dealing in futures in all agri cultural and mechanical productions ; preserving a stringent system of j.ro cedure in trials such as shall ecure th. prompt conviction and imposition of such penalties as shall secure the most perfect compliance with the law. 3. We denounce the silver bill re cently passed by Congress, and de mand in lieu thereof the free and un limited coinage oLsilver. 4- We demand the passage of laws prohibiting alien ownership of land, and that Congress take prompt action to devise some plan to obtain all lands now o ned by liens and foreign syn dicates, and that all lands now held by railroad and other corporations in ex cess of such as is actually used and needee by them, be reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only. 5. Believing in the doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none, we demand that our national leg islation sha 1 be so framed in the future as not to build up one industry at the expense of another. We further de mand a removal of the existing heavy tariff tax from the necessaries of life hat the poor cf our land must have. .We further demand a just and equita ble system of graduated tax on incomes. We believe that the money of the country should be kept as much as possible in the hands of the people and hence we demand that all national and State revenues shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the govern ment economically and honestly ad ministered. 6. We demand the most rigid, honest and just State and national govern mental control and supervision of the methods of public communication and transportation, and if this control and supervision do not remove the abuse now existing, we demand the govern ment ownership of such means of com munication and transportation. THE GREATEST VICTORY. A Signal Defeat of the Bosses in Their, Effort to Dominate the Majority in the Speakership Contest. The greatest victory yet won by the Alliance was in the defeat of the Mills forces in the speakership contest. That the victory is due to the Alliance vote is shown by the fact that seven teen Alliance votes were cast for Crisp from start to finish, and without these votes behind Crisp, Mills could at any time during the contest have en joyed a boom that would have resulted in his election. A small but united force acting together within the party to which they belonged have been able to wield a balance of power and dictate who should fill the third office of the government. An office which is in many respects more important than that of Vice-President. This is a greater victory than the most san guine Alliance man hoped to achieve in the Fifty-second Congress. Why is the election of Crisp an Al liance victory, is a question every Al liance man should be prepared to an swer, because it will be denied by all politicians, both Republican, Demo cratic and People's party. The rea sons become plain as the issue in the contest is understood . The issue was plain and well defined. Mills stood as the ehampioh of the anti-free silver Democrats, who took that position either from choice or" for the purpose of averting opposition to Cleveland. Crisp stood as the champion of those Democrats who advocate the free and unlimited coinage of silver and rec ognize the fact that the money ques tion must be an issue in 1892. In other words, the party bosses those who manipulate the machine that dis tributes the campaign funds deter mined to elect a Speaker who would suppress all money legislation in order that they could conduct the campaign of 1892 on the single issue of tariff reform in the interest of Mr. Cleve land. But the people have become so aroused to the iniquities of the present financial system that they de termined to force the money question to tlv front as an issue and throw off boss rule. This issue properly and fairly presented would seem to give the people a vast advantage, because the free silver sentiment is greatly in the majority, but the tactics and methods of the bosses were superior ard came very near surmounting the advantage of superior numbers. Each :ide secured a champion of ability and great personal popularity; both had good records in Congress. Each came from a district in which the Alliance membership cast a majority of the Democratic votes. Neither had given any indorsement to the Alliance demands. Both were from the South. The greatest diplomacy was shown by the bosses in selecting a champion from one of the strongest free silver States, and thereby com pelling the whole eleven votes from that State to be cast in their cause. Another stroke of diplomacy on the part of the bosses was in the selection of their champion. They chose a man not only from a strong free silver State, but one with a long and good record upon -the money question, a man whose speeches for years has shown him with the people on the money question, and who stultified his eighteen years' record by his Austin speech before the Texas legis lature in April last, and in his more recent Ohio speeches, in order that he might lead this cause and turn the angry darts away from Mr. Cleveland. He sacrificed on the altar of his am bition the work of a lifetime, because now all his old speeches may be -used to condemn his present course. He was consistent in his tariff position, and embraced free trade the moment Mr. Blaine promulgated reciprocity. He was consistent in his position upon the Alliance war to the knife, no compromise. All this, aside from his ten associates from Texas, who of course were compelled by State pride to support him at all hazards, gave him his old-time money friends, his free-trade friend (headed by Henry George), and a strong personal fol lowing. There were valuable addi tions to the cause of the bosses to which they were not entitled, but se cured by good management. Had the Mills party succeeded in electing him Speaker, there is no doubt that the bosses would have at once inaugurated methods of intoler ance of Alliance heresy within the Democratic party as already attempted in Alabama and Texas, and Alliance men, under the combined influence of intolerent Democratic rules and the seductive smiles and persuasive appeal of the third parly men, would have found themselves fairly landed in an independent political fight in a very short time. There could be nothing but defeat in store for a movement born of such cause, because it would depend upon agitation as to the beauties of the new party and evils of the old. The new party may become necessary, but it must not be born out of time at the dicta tion of its enemy. Its adherents must yield devotion to it on account of principles they understand and in dorse, to make it succeed. With these bosses defeated the Alliance can pre sent its demands to the Democratic party, as it has to the Republican party, and insist on no dodging, but a careful consideration and a direct answer, and when they shall say by a majority of the party, your demands are not in accord with the principles of our party, it is time to go into a new party, and do it with American vigor and enthusiasm. The victory, then, is that they have been defeated in their effort to abuse the Alliance into a fight, and that they must go on record on the principles involved as presented by the Alliance. There is no disguising the fact that the great fight of the people up to date has been to obtain recognition of the fact that the finance question is an issue. The managers of both parties have, by every possible means, avoided it and sought to confine the issue to a strictly tariff fight. There is a danger to the special privileges of concentrated wealth in a money fight that does not attend a tariff fight, and it is the ef fect of those very special privileges that is goading the people to throw off the yoke of financial oppression. The bosses of each party are afraid of the other on the money question. The people have presented and de manded the only just position on that great issue. The bosses are afraid of that because it will offend concentrated wealth, and thereby de stroy the possibility of millions for the campaign fund. Neither the Democratic nor Republican party has a financial policy or history that can stand before the intelligent demand of the people to-day. It: is a com plete route of the bosses for it to now be recognized as the issue by the de feat of Mills. In support of this view the following significant clipping from the Dallas (Tex.) News, is pre sented. The News is a Simon-pure Democratic Mills and Cleveland pa per, edited with great ability and fairness to all sides, and published this editorial before the contest. It now seems to have been almost pro phetic: The defeat of Mr. Mills for the speaker ship as the pecuharlyrecognized champion of tariff reform on lines of free trade would place the Democratic party on the steep road to political bankruptcy with respect to next year's contests for the presidency and for congress. Such a virtual repu diation of the tariff issue would be an em phatic invitation for the cause of the free and unlimited coinage of silver to assert itself to the utmost as a basis of Demo cratic alignment. But the Democratic partv has never been further apart on any single question than it is on the silver question. It is an issue upon which there is no apparent prospect of reconciliation and united efforts to accomplish some distinct political purpose, and not to gratify personal avidity for the fruits of a predatory partisan victory. For the Democratic party, internally disagreed upon the silver question, to go to battle with the Republican parry, practically a unit upon that question and prepared to force it to the front as a leading issue, would leave the Democratic party as now constituted, should it" shirk the tariff is- f sue, without any true political equipment I for either defer se or aggression. Hav ing: come to such a plight, with internal i differences on the stiver question persist ing and possibly widening, it would either fall into elementary disintegration under force of these differences or would undergo the worse fate of moral disso Iutio 1 under force of a conscienceless and greedy mechanical unity as a party of spoils. This is a frank admission that the Democratic party is not equal to a contest with the Republican party upon the money question, when the record of- the Republican party upon that important question is simply a list of crimes against the productiye interests of the country. No stronger evidence could be adduced that the crowning necessity of the day is the introduction of the money question as an issue, and since the Farmers Al liance has secured this end by the de feat of Mills, and they have; the only clear cut and well defined financial plank that offers justice to all pro ductive interests in the nation, it fol lows that they have indeed achieved a great victory. But Crisp? Well, Speaker Crispjis not much of a factor in the situation. He is an able man, too broad to be partial for or against a man on account of his position in the speakership contest. It is not believed that he will show Alliance men any favors, nor that he will in any way discrimi nate against them. He is expected to be fair and just to all. The victory is not in securing Crisp, but in whip ping the bosses of both parties, and securing supremacy fo: the fishes; of the people by makirg the money question the great issue in-189 2. 1 r . ! t, THE ALLIANCE CONGRESSMEN. The eyes of the nation are turned, toward those members of Congress who were elected by an Alliance con stituency during the organization! of both Houses, in order to note what position each would take in regard, to the political parties. The position of such members has been complicated by the fact that the Supreme Council at its recent session passed a resolu tion requesting Congressmen to stay out of a party caucus unleis the Alli ance demands were made ktest of ad mission. This was erfectly satisfic ! tory to Congressmen who belong ' to the People's party, because the de-: mands have been incorporated in the platform of that party; but some of the Alliance Congressmen belonging; to the Democratic party were the refe ular nominees and were elected by that party, and largely by voters who reside in cities and towns and do not belong to the Alliance, and the Dem ocratic party has not Jet endorsed the Alliance demands, and therefore they could not at this time make them a test of admission to the Detn ocratic caucus. I In this emergency a small band of brethren, nine in all, headed by Hon. Thos. B. Watson, of Georgia, as their candidate for Speaker, immortalized themselves politically, and made tracks in American history which will never be obliterated by refusing to go into tfie caucus of either party, and by hoisting the independent ban ner as a nucleus for the great reform hosts to rally to. Each one of these men is a hero; each has served .his constituency according to their de sires and wishes. Their names are: Thos. B. Watson, of Georgia; Ben Clover, of Kansas; Jerry Simpson,jof Kansas; John Davis, of Kansas; J. G Otis, of Kansas; William Baker, j of Kansas; K. Halrerson, of Minnesota; O. M. Kem, of Nebraska, and H. A. McKeighan, of Nebraska These men can go back to their constituen cies with the full consciousness J of having done what the people who elected them expected them to do, and they were fortunate in havingthe request of the Suprene Council har monize with their obligations to their constituencies. j i The balance of the Alliance con tingent in Congress have also made history of which they may be proud and their constituents grateful. Th$y, too, did just what the people who elected them expected to be done; hut they were compelled to do it in the fice of a request not to do it by the Suprehie Council. This required courage and devotion to the cause of the people, and they too can go home and re ceive the plaudits of admiring and thankful constituencies,because in dis obeying the Supreme Council as to method they have made a gallant fight for principle and achieved the great-1 est victory for the Alliance that Jias crowned its banners to date, and tiey have opened the way for the triumph of the cause of th people. ' j The relations between Congressmen and the Supreme Council is one thing, and their relations to their constitu encies is another, and they may be de pended upon to meet their obligations to each. When the Supreme Coun cil again meets those Congressmen who have been able to comply with its requests will receive due acknowl edgment, and those who have not been able to do so, but have neverthe less achieved a great victory for the principles involved, fare sumptuously as well. There should be no word of censure for either, as this is a matter of method, and the Order will say, " In things essential unity, in all things charity." Let every member gird up his loans for the money fight and the principles involved in the demands. The anti-sub-treasury coterie, after adopting some high sounding resolu tions condemning the Alliance for going into politics and declaring their purpose to make an effort to bring it back to its original status of a non- political organization, have appointed a delegation of twenty-five to attend a session of delegates from the con federated orders that is to meet Feb ruary 22. It is rather doubtful if this contingent of Democratic hypocrisy .be admitted." Notice appears in the partisan press that the national anti-sub-treasury meeting that was called to meet at Memphis December 15 has been de clared off. This farce of repeated failures has become rather stale, and the Democratic party is no doubt get ting weary of broken promises. What the next movement will be is a matter of no consequence, as the Al liance will continue its work of edu cation regardless of such minor inter ferences. Every Alliance Congressman who was elected as an advocate of the Ocala demands will stand by those demands at all hazards. They will not go into any party caucus on any question opposing these demands, be cause no party has any right to make such measure the subject of caucus agreement. Again, every individual member has a perfect right to stay out of any caucus he may choose. From the annual report of the Fifth Auditor of the treasury it appears that the expenditures for the consular serv ice have exceeded the receipts for the fist time since the year 1866. The expenses show an increase of $63, 112 over those of last year, and the fee's show a falling off of $61,510. The consular fees collected during the yea amounted to $978,142. The falling off was under the head of invoice an currency certificates. The decline in the amount of invoice fees would seem te indicate that there have been over 22,000 fewer dutiable importations of foreign goods into the United States in the year covered by the report than in the preceding year. According to the report there were paid to the States under the direct tax act during the year $11,477,715. Speakership Contests. Letter of H. H. Smith, clerk House of Repre ent atives There have been thirty-one Speak ers of the House of Representatives since the format on of the govern ment in 1789, not including the five Speakers pro tem. who have served out unexpired terms or over ten days and these Speakers have been chosen from, fourteen States in the order following, viz: Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachu setts, North Carolina, Kentucky, South Carolina, New York, Virginia, Tennessee, Indiana, Georgia, Maine, and Ohio. From Pennsylvania Frederick A. Muhlenberg, Federal,' in the First and Third Congresses; Galusha A. Grow, Republican, in the Thirty-seventh, and Samuel J. Randall, Democrat, in the Forty-fourth, (second session), Forty fifth and Forty-sixth. From Connecticut came Jonathan Trumbull, Federal, in the Second. New Jersey, Jonathan Dayton, Fed eral, in the Fourth and Fifth, and Pennington, Republican, in the Thirty-sixth. From Massachusetts Theodore Sedgwick, Federal, in the Sixth; Jos eph B. Varnum, National Republican, in the Tenth and Eleventh; Robert C. Winthrop, Whig, in the Thirtieth, and Nathaniel P. Banks, Republican, in the Thirty-fourth. North Carolina Nathaniel Macon, National Republican, in the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth. Kentucky Henry Clay, National Republican and Whig, in the Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth Sixteenth and Eighteenth; John White, Whig, in the Thirty-second and Thirty-third, and John G. Car lisle, Democrat, in the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth and Fiftieth. South Carolina Langdon Cheves, National Republican, and James L. Orr, Democrat, in the Thirty-fifth. New York John W. Taylor, ad ministration, in the Sixteenth and Nineteenth. Virginia Philip P. Barbour, strict Constructionist in the Seventeenth; Andrew Stevenson, Democrat, in the Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty sec ond and Twenty -third; Robert M.T. Hunter, Whig, in the Twenty-sixth, and John W. Jones, Democrat, in the Twenty-eighth. Tennessee John Bell, Democrat, in the Twenty-third, (second session) and James K. Polk, Democrat, in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty 'fifth. Indiana John W. Davis, Demo crat, in the Twenty-ninth; Schuyler Colfax, Republican, in the Thirty eighth, Thirty-ninth and Fortieth, and Michael C. Kerr, Democrat, in the Forty-fourth. Georgia Howell Cobb, Democrat, in the thirty-first. Maine James G. Blaine, Republi can, in the Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-thirdand Thomas B. Reed, Republican, in the Fifty-first. Ohio J. Warren Keifer, Republi can, in the Forty-seventh. From this it appears that Kentucky has had the Speakership during twelve Congresses, or twenty-two years; Vir ginia, seven Congresses, or fourteen years; Pennsylvania, four Congresses and part of another, or nine years; Massachusetts and Indiana, each five Congresses, or ten years; Maine, four Congresses, or eight years; New Jer sey, North Carolina and Tennessee, each three Congresses, or six years; South Carolina and New York each one Congress and part of another, or four years,! and Connecticut, Georgia and Ohio,' each one Congress, or six years. Henry Clay resigned the office of Speaker twice, viz.: On January 19, 18 14, in the Thirteenth Congress, and October 20, 1820, in the Six teenth Congress, and Andrew Steven son, of Virginia, resigned the Speak ership June 2, 1834, in the Twenty third Congress, and Michael C. Kerr died during the summer recess of the Forty-fourth Congress. Mr. Clay was succeeded in the Thirteenth Congress by Langdon Cheves, of South Carolina, and by John W. Taylor, of New York, in the Sixteenth Congress, and Mr. Steven son was succeeded in the Twenty -thi d Congress by John Bell, of Ten nessee. Michael C. Kerr, of Indiana, was the only speaker who died in office. He was succeeded by Samuel J. Ran dall, of Pennsylvania. George Dent, of Maryland, in the Fifth; John Bell, of Tennessee, in the Twenty-third; Samuel S. Cox, of New York, and Milton Sayler, of Ohio, in the Forty-fourth, and Joseph C. S. Blackburn, in the Forty-eighth, were the only Speakers pro tempore who served over ten days continu ously. There have been a few Congresses in which the organization of the House was delayed th ough inability to elect a Speaker, notably ,in the Twenty sixth, Thirty-first, Thirty fourth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses. The delay in the Twenty -sixth Con gress grew out of what was known as the "New Jersey Contest," in which the five Whig candidates had certifi cates under the seal of the State, while the five Democratic candidates con tested their election on the ground of a miscount in one county. It was dur ing the organization of this House that John Quincy Adams was appointed chairman of the House on account of the refusal of the clerk of the preced ing House to put any other motion than to adjourn. Mr. Adams pre sided as chairman until the election of Robert M. T. Hunter as Speaker on December 16, 1839. In the Thirty-first Congress the House was not organized until De cember 22, when Howell Cobb; of Georgia, was elected Speaker on the sixty-third ballot by a plurality vote, receiving 102 votes to roo for Robert C. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, and 20 scattering. After, twenty ballots (covering eight days) Thomas Jeffer son Campbell, of Tennessee, was elected clerk. ' In the Thirty-fourth Congress the most notable struggle of all as to organization occurred. The House was anti-administration, but was com posed of such discordant elements that a union was impossible, and it was not until February 2, 1856, that Nathaniel P. Banks, of Massachusetts, was elected on the 133d ballot by a plurality vote. In the Thirty-sixth Congress an organization was not secured until February 1, i860, when William Pen nington, of New Jersey, was elected Speaker, receiving 117 votes, the ex act number necessary, on the forty fourth ballot. John Sherman, of Ohio, was the caucus nominee of the Repub licans, and on several ballots needed but two votes to elect him, but the refusal of Henry Winter Davis, of Maryland, and Humphrey Marshall, of Kentucky, to vote for Mr. Sherman on account of his indorsement of "Helper's Impending Crisis" pre vented his election. It is an inter esting fact, however, that the . com mittees selected by him during the contest were accepted by Speaker Pen nington and announced shortly after ward without substantial change, ex cept that Mr. Sherman was made chairman o. the committee on ways and means. Until the Thirty-seventh Congress there was no law regulating the organ ization of the House of Representa tives, but under the practice the clerk of the preceding House called the Representatives-elect to order and presided until the Speaker was elected. That Congress passed the act of March , 1863, which required the clerk of the preceding House to make a "roll of the Representatives-elect and place thereon the names of all persons, and of such persons only, whose credentials show that they were regularly elected n accordance with the laws of their States, respectively, or of the United States." In the Thirty-ninth Congress that act was amended so as to permit the clerk to place upon the roll onlv the names of persons claiming seats as Representatives-elect from States which were represented in the next preceding Congress. In the revision of the statutes in the Forty-third Congress the original law was restored as section 31. There have been several "stormy scenes" in the organization of the w s - House of Representatives notably in the Forty-first Congress, when attempts were made to "amend" the roll ot the clerk. McFherson. then clerk, refused to .entertain such mo tions, holding that it was not compe tent for the Representatives-elect not yet qualified to Instruct the clerk in the nerformanre of n rlnrv Jmnnc1 f v mrm m- J m SWWWV upon him by law, which ruling wasJ followed by Mr. Adims in the Forty fifth Congress.- There are eight vacancies on the clerk's roll, occasioned by the deaths of Messrs. bpinola, of New York; ord, ot Michigan; Gamble, of South Dakota; Houk. of Tennessee, and Lee, of Virginia, and the resignation of Messrs. Boody, Flower, and Rus sell, of New York, Their successors, except to General Lee, have been elected, but, as the clerk has not re ceived the proper certificates of their election, their names are not on his roll, and they will not participate in the organization of the House, except possibly in the case of the New York members, the board of State can vassers having expedited the canvass as to their election. In any event they will undoubtedly be seated as were Messrs. Cummings and Payne in the last House on the returns of the board of county canvassers, duly cer tified by the Secretary of State immediately after the election of a Speaker. Under the almost uniform practice. however, members-elect who have not received their formal certificates par ticipate in the caucus of their respec tive parties when there is no Question or contest as to their election. Population of North Carolina. Census Report. The population of the State in 1890 was 1,617,947, in 1880 1,309, 750, an increase of 218,197, or 15.59 PCT cent during the decade. In 1881 Durham county was formed from parts of Orange and Wake counties; Vance county was formed from parts of Franklin, Granville, and Warren counties. Part of Clemmonsville township has been taken from David son county and added to rorsyth county since 1880. In cases where parts of counties have been taken to form new counties the population of the original county according to the census 01 isso is given. Uf the ninety-six counties in the State twelve show decreases. In some instances this is due to a decrease in area. Those Kansas People's party men lose no time. The Lantern (Fort Scott, Kan.) says: Forty-eight thousand Kansas Demo crats have discovered they hold the bal ance of power in that State. Fool like, they joined with the Republicans this year to defeat the People's party. They claim to have done it for the purpose of forcing the People's party in 1892 to listen to them. It is like the yellow purp that barks at the elephant and wonders why the mountain of flesh does not notice him. Next fall the People's elephant will step on the yellow Democratic cur and smash him into the ground. A Demo cratic fool is the cussedest fool on earth. i
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