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Ex-Secretary Ettla Tells How Ex-
Congressman Arnold Was
Counted Out. C2
A STATE CONVENTION STORY.
The Machine's Efforts to Defeat Fu-
sion Will Now Be Aired in Court.
The Anti-Qunay Fighting Force Has
Engaged Counsel to Defend Its In-
terests—Seeretary Greist Comes Out
in His True Colors.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
Harrisburg, Sept. 11.—The opening
of the presidential campaigr
speeches of Bry:
terrible disaster on the Reading rail-
road and the threatened strike in the
anthracite coal regions have been so
many events to neutralize the interest
in state politics. But just as men may
come and go forever, so must state pol-
itics go on and the struggle of the peo-
ple against the bosses continue.
There were some racy developments
last week. Charles F. Ettla, for 16
years one of the attaches and secreta-
ries of the Quay state committee, told
how the machine had robbed ex-Con-
gressman W. C. Arnold, of Clearfield,
«% the nomination for congressman-at-
large. True to his associations Mr.
Ettla preserved the sceret of the ma-
chine leaders as lcng as he was con-
nected with the organization, but when
he found that Mr. Arnold more than
suspected that he had been cheated
and defrauded th® ex- retary of the
state committee told all the facts. They
are interesting reading for Republicans
who believe in the purity of the Stone-
Elkin-Penrose combination. Here is
what Mr. Ettla wrote and swore to:
WHAT ETTLA SAID.
‘“At the Republican state convention
which met at Harrisburg in June, 1898,
1 was elected one of the secretaries of
the convention, together with Carl Es-
penshade, of Juniata county. Amcng
the candidates of the party to be
chosen at this convention, in addition
to governor and lieutenant governor,
ete, were two congressmen-at-large.
There were three candidates for the
latter two positions, viz., Galusha A.
Grow, W. C. Arnold and C. A. Daven-
port.
“After the candidates for the other
offices had been chosen, and just before
the roll call of delegates for the vote
on congressmen-at-large had com-
menced. a number of dele s left the
Opera House. So great was the exodus
of delegates that there was an express-
ed fear among the officers on the stage
that there would not be a quorum left
to go on with the balloting. There was
a wait, therefore, of at least five min-
utes before the roll call began in hope
that some of the absentees would re-
turn. As they did not, the order to
proceed was given. As the call pro-
ceeded IT noticed at first that the order
of voting was Grow and Arnold, or
Davenport and Arnold. This soon
hanged to Grow and Davenport. What
attracted my attention to this was that
the number of responses was out of
proportion to the number of delegates
present. A great many responses of
‘Grow and Davenport’ were in the same
voice, and looking down among the
Philadelphia delegation I noticed that
twn members, one a Philadelphia se-
lect councilman and the other sitting
beside him now a member of the leg-
islature from Philadelphia, were an-
swering to nearly every call ¢f a name
whose owner did not respond promptly,
t imdicating that the delegate was
absent. J called Mr. Espenshade’s at-
tention to this and told him these men
were voting illegally for Grow and
Davenport. As they continued to an-
swer for absent delegates I told Mr.
Espenshade that T would not be a party
to such a transaction. It was so mani-
festly an attempt to cheat that I laid
down my pencil and ceased keeping
tally. The fraud continued to the end
of the balloting, and the result, ‘Grow
and Davenport’s’ nomination was de-
clared upon the tally kept by the other
secretary, Mr. Ezpenshade.
“I subsequently met the two men
who helped x rpettiate this fraud in
15s office of Senater Durham in Phila-
elphia, and told them tbat thoy were
LR for the dofeat of Arnold
and the nemination of Grow and Dav-
enport, and they did not the
charge, but treated it as a very good
joke.
“(8igned) CHARLES F. ETTLA.
“Sworn and subscribed to before me, a
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an and Roosevelt, the |
THURSDAY,
A do, everything a its
fusion and null will of th
| element in th blican party.
| Secretary of irei
| estimation of independ
| has stood better than
i called-leade has
| foot into view.
| The state epartment,
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power fo defeat
orders of Secretary Greist,
thus far to accept
| of the fusion
| Last year there
| these papers.
| is gone, ar
| ert Senden ass
| Esq
has ref
and file the paper
will he contest to un-
seat Dr. s from Leba
carried into court. Perjury,
chase of votes, the flight of guilty men,
have all figured in the efforts of the
machine leaders in ILeha
county to der 3
seat. All
chine have
| it is the
ized, demo:
| tion, and never again
| of Pennsylva be
ness such out:
as have been
dozen years.
It is a fortunate thing for the pec-
ple of Pennsylvania th at there are men
who can fight and w i I
of the anti-Quay cz 1
Senator Flinn of Pitts Shire ed
Van Valkenburg of Phil: Tn A. D.
Fetteroif of Montgomery, Senator Bay-
ard Henry and others are born fizght«
and the Quay machine is up a
the hardest proposition in a
tory. The noxt legi ture
ness the result of their
of the whole Republi
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DEAR BOY LETTER No. 3.
My Dear Boy—=S¢ William M.
Stewart has said
imperialism issue just
about the s«
what I me
say in this letter. So I send you his |
statement and defer ar remarks of
my own till some future time.
|
Mean-
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while, I take this opportunity to an-
swer your last epistle. {
“You say that you told Mr, Skinner |
that labor had never been more ade- |
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quately rewarded than dur
ley’s administration,
g McKin-
and that he re-
plied, “That is not true so far as farm-
ers are concerned. Before the demon- |
etization of silver I sold my wool for |
fifty cents a pound and my wheat for a |
dollar and a half a bushel.”
Yes, my son, your father |
those days. I |
Skinner district
remembers |
taught school i
the winter of
just before the aet whic
call the “crime of ’73.” 1 boarde 1 icl
old man Skinner all winter. He on
sell his wheat for a dollar and a half
and his wool for forty-five cents in |
1872. But 1 will mention facts |
which he forgot to tell you, and you |
may jog his memory a little.
some
the |
cause Skinner could not
oil. Oil was forty cents
afford to buy
a gallon. Now
in these days when the Standard Oil |
Co. is erushing the life out of Skinner |
he takes his oil can to the grocery and |
buys a gallon for twelve cents.
We used roasted wheat and burnt
molasses in place of coffee that winter
because coffee was forty |
pound. Now, the coffee
trust makes Skinner pay thirteen cents |
a pound for good roasted Lion.
We used home-made !
stead of sugar. Skinner bought just
six pounds of dirty- brown
sugar that winter and he paid a dollar
for the six pounds.
ful times, when
ve cents a |
insatiable
sorghum in- |
lookin
os
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in these aw- |
the sugar trust is |
grinding the farmers under its iron |
heel, Skinner gets sixteen pounds of |
nice granulated sugar for a dollar.
Mrs. Skinner had one
which she saved for Sunda
days she wore a linsey dr
her own hands.
Now,
calico dress |
s. On week |
woven by |
s twenty-two |
cents a yard and people spoke of its be-
ing cheap at that. Now, you can get
good calico at five to six cents. |
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Calico wa
The Bkinners rode to town in a big
farm wagon in those days.
ber hearing Skinner ask
buggy and, when he was told
was a hundred and forty
I remem-
the price of a
that
dollars,
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justice of the peace in and for Clear- |
field county.
(Seal) “DAN
Ex-Congre
remembered,
elector-at-lar
two weeks
disgusted with the machine.
cut leose from it forever,
which follow, imply:
ARNOLD'S STORY.
“T have stood always with the regu-
lar Republican organization,” said ex-
Congressman Arnold, “although for
two yearz and more I have been con-
vinced that 1 was defrauded by the ma-
chine out of the pomination for con-
gressman-at-large in the convention of
1888, just as other candidates ha
doubtless been deceived and defrauds
NIEL CONNELLY, J.P.”
man Arnold, it will be
resigned his position ag
ge on the national ticket
He has
as his words,
“I have had several meostings with
Mr. Eltla, who was one of the secre-
taries of that ccuvention, and he has
confirmed the opinion that I had form-
ed. I did not think it was the thing
for a good party man to expose the
treachery of parly leaders, especially
in view of my position as a candidate.
But there have been other considera-
wuld not af- |
o he bought |
sighed and said that he
ford to buy. Two years
two new buggies, one f«
r himself
and |
| Mrs. Skinner, and one for the girls, |
Melinda and Maria. He got the two
| for a hundred and ten dollars, tifty-five
|
ago—he is so thoroughly |
| money
i a gallon of oil,
tions which have led me to decline the |
of elector-at-large on tha
My friends who went to Har-
rishurg to present my claims for the
nominaticn were betrayed by the same
men who defrauded me.
“I took my medicine, as many an-
other man has taken his under similar
circumstances, with the idea that possi-
bly I might have been mistaken. TI did
not desert the organization or its lead-
ership or proclaim my suspicions
abroad. I jogged along in the harness,
and was again a candidate before the
last state convention for the same po-
sition.
DONE WITH THE MACHINE.
“But the developments of the past
two years have convinced me that
nothing in the way of false pretense or
fraud is too mean or trivial for the
machine to descend to. Iam done with
the machirce. It is the mere wreck o
1 . Superb organization in untrustwor-
irresponsible hands. Its doom is
Quay and his
friends, have nothing to hope
the who control
)n at present
selfish
true
from
Rey
spec ening
own
stated in my letter of last week |
fusion movement has the bosses
thoroughly rattled and badly fright-
eued. The machine is doing, and will
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personal friends, |
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Po
dollars apiece.
When I got through teacl
school I bought me a new
clothes. It was a ready-made suit of
ordinary aud cost me
twenty-eight dollars. This summer 1
that |
suit of |
rather goods
bought a better suit from Dowd & |
Jeckley for twelve dollars and fifty |
cents. |
In those days Skinner sc a pound
| of wool for torty-five cents.
With the
he could buy I
pounds of sugar, or :
or one
cr two yards of
sold his wool for twe: its
pound. With the mor can buy
four and a half pounds « f sugar, or two
two and |
: |
five yard
of calico. |
and a fourth gallons of oil, or
a fourth pounds of coffee, o
Now it seems to me as plain as day-
light that the best m
ration for
is Hh amount of
re of rex
labor or f:
food or cle
you can get for them. I
for the labors of
a day when I
Judged by this standard, ne:
the workingmen, and espee
farmers, of
Ameriea, so
under McKinley’s ac 5
There has been plenty - |
everybody who wants to
folks have just been getting
church painted. They put me on the
committee to attend to the matter, and |
the hardest thing I had to do v to |
find a palnter, I
I went he
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very painter to whom |
engaged
the sonson. At
new a
him the job, a i
only has there been plenty of
but wages have been good and would | ©
buy more of the necessities and |
comforts of life than the wages of the |
| millions of us,
1 studied algebra that winter by
light of a home-made tallow dip be- I,
| the country
{ in 1892.
am best paid |
the most with the wages for the day. I t
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| 1896, “would destroy
Eu
puntp Star, |
SEPTE
laborer in the days of depreciated cur-
| rency after the civil war.
Meanwhile, everybody knows that
this prosperity has come about under
the Dingley tariff, under a gold stand-
ard, and under a Republican adminis-
tration. They know that the
Democratic platform dictated by Mr.
the «Dingley tariff
| and the gold standard.
My boy, it is simply astounding to
| me that any workingman, or farmer, or
| business man should think seriously of
voting the Democratic ticket this year.
Leaving out the requirements of pa-
triotism, self-interest ought to make
also
Bryan denounces
v | every man a Republican this year. A
the pur- |
supposition that the nation will vote to
| tear down our protective system and
precipitate a financial revolution is an
insult to the intelligence of the Ameri-
can people. Your FATHER.
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THe w orkingncn are understood to
be still calling for dinner pails, McKin-
ley size.
o -—— .
Dick Croker is now utilizing the
Hon. David B. Hill as a combination
punching bag and lawn seat.
As vsvar, the Democracy enters the
campaign mighty long on precept and
| dreadfully short on on example.
It is believed ht Mr. Bryan has
| turned out more perforated predictions
| than any other man in public life.
Ir is believed tht the Hon. George
L. Wellington is engaged in blowing
into the wrong end of his Waterloo.
Tur Hon. John P. Altgeld as Attor-
ney General of the United States would
be a fine thing for the anarchist in-
dustry.
Tue returns are not complete, and it
is not believed that Mr. Bryan has
| heard from all of his notification com-
mitteess.
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Yes, Mr. Bryan, we are ashamed,
that the Filipinos are
expecting aid from the Democrats in
this elect tion.
-—
Wirn his paramount issue and his
back number running mate, Mr. Bryan
makes a fire exhibition of the art of
going backward.
at a hard
T is no joke or dream,
cold fact that many of the Filipinos
think that Aguinaldo is running on the
ticket with Bryan.
2 —-—— .
Ture Democratic campaign managers
are not the least bit opposed to the
policy of claiming votes without the
| consent of the ginimed
ee
So rar the gentlemen in charge of
e Democratic spellbinding have been
1able to announce any appointments
for the Ton. Grover Cleveland.
rei
“Ie voted for Bryan in 1896” is be-
coming quite a common form of intro-
duction for the speakers at the Repub-
lican meetings in Kansas this year.
— .
Ir will be perceived that Governor
Roosevelt is not going about the coun-
try apologizing for his views of Demo-
cratic encouragement for r the 7 Tagals.
SEE
Axoxa Mr. Bryan’s many exploded
predictions is the one of 1896 which
| threatened the country with four years
more of hard times
feat.
in case of his de-
ed
Tie growth of the Southern cotton
industry during the past three years is
an emphatic answer to the calamity
predictions of the politicians of that
section.
Tie onres show that the farmers of
paid $825,000,000 for the
fun of electing a Democratic President
It is doubtful if they will do
s0 again.
—
Ir, as the Democrats affirm, the
Dingley bill is the mother of trusts, it
ist be admitted that quite a large
of children was born
their mother.
before
Cavirorzia’s trade with the Philip-
pines now amounts to $2,000,000 a
California didn’t send a single
gate to the Indianapolis gathering
malcontents.
month.
dele
of
————
lite Democratic managers have re-
| quested Mr. Altgeld to confine his re-
{ marks to
German, but the German
| voters will understand the gentleman
in more ways than one.
—— =
Joux M. announces
that he will east his vote for McKinley
and Roosevelt this year. The old sol-
way to ac-
GENERAT Paver
dier understands the best
complish a desired result.
=
all the predictions
vain man than Mr.
, emulating the example
a less
» parrot, come to the conclusion
that ™ ad talked too much.
~~
tz Democratic leaders in Congress
were least bit apprehensive
“militarism” when they were
engaged in that the United
States go to war to free Cuba.
~~
not the
about
urging
Toxes has not given up
It will be recalled that
ampaign manager didn’t
ight 1S96 for several
: voling was over
EE
“pn standard,” Qeclared Mr.
Minneapolis speech in
the opportunity
Is Mr. Bryan depending up-
on the votes of the idle this year?
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cold
Bryan in his
to work.”
Tie imperial dominion of Tammany
Hall over the gesting of the city of
New York is liberty for all
ribute to their un
the tax receipts.
dged to
cess to
-
XN T. Morac ax resents the
lea that the Democrats can make
iti-imperialism” a paramount issue.
He holds that there are too many
Democratic expansionists like himself.
MBER 13, 1900.
rc rem rr eon
oh a
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Job Printing a
Specialty.
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NO. 38
CrarrMax Haxxa has not been com- |
pelled to attempt an explanation of |
connection with trusts for the
reason that, unlike Chairman Jones, he |
is not a beneficiary of such organiza- |
i
|
ver before in the history of Presi-
il campaigns have the supporters
+ candidate been asked to believe
that the platform means the reverse of
says. The Democrats argue
yan will not do anything to ad-
the cause of silver, as he has
ised to do. They are also being
‘inced that he would not retire the
u;
simpie | of
tions.
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Tue election of Bryan would be an |
endorsement of Goebelism, Red Shirt- |
ism, Tammanyism and all those un- | army from the Philippines as he has
lawful methods employed by corrupt | promised. Such an anomalous condi-
politicians for thwarting the will of the | tion should not beget confidence.
people. rr
——— Ir Mr. Bryan cared to be candid he
Ir Bryan is so thoroughly convinced
could discourse more learnedly upon
that he sees the dawn of empire, and
| the art of accumulating wealth than
nothing can prevent its establishment | any of the other candidates in the field.
except his election, why does he not | Mr, Bryan is the wealthiest candidate
threaten to emigrate in the event of | before the people to-day and he has
his defeat? | made his money since the inaugura-
ee | tion of the politics against which he
| declaimed so vigorously. Yet Mr.
Jryan is selfish enough to decline to
1
Tur enemy’s country is moving west-
ward much faster than the center of
population. In four years it has gone
from New York to Indiana, and by the
end of this year even Nebraska will be-
come the enemy of political fads.
ay :
| give the Republican administration the
proper credit for his good fortune.
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Tre Democratic apology for free sil-
ver is that it is way down toward the
tail of the platform as though that
were evidence that they did not mean
it. If they do not mean it, they are
trying to fool the country with a false-
hood, knowing it to be such. If they
do mean it, in the event of securing a
Democratic house and Bryan’s election,
they will not delay in commencing to
tinker with the tariff and trifle with
the financial policy of the government.
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Uxper the present administration
the Urited States is sending coal to
Newcastle, cotton to Manchester, iron
to Russia and machinery to all the
world. The Democrats promise to stop
this business when they get into power.
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Every Democratic editor is hard a
work trying to convince his readers
that the 16 to 1 plank of the Kansas
City platform doesn’t mean anything.
But he doesn’t attempt to account for
Mr. Bryan’s persistency in forcing its
adoption.
Ieee is another sentence from Mr
Bryan’s speech of acceptance which
Las a decided application to those
Southern states where disfranchise-
ment of the negro is practiced: “Once
admit that some people are capable of
self-government and that others are
not, and that the capable people have
aright to seize upon and govern the
incapable and you make force—brute
force—the only foundation of govern-
SN
Mayor Vax Wyck’s ice trust divi-
dends, according to his own sworn
statement, amounts to $35,000 annually.
It was his brother “Gus,”
heavy stockholder, that
anti-trust plank of the
platform.
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who is also a
drafted the
Kansas City
THERE is one proposition that the ment and invite the reign of the
free traders cannot answer, and do | despot.”
not understand; it is the enormous -_———
and unprecedented increase of our ex-
port business. All of them said that
kind of thing was impossible under a
Bryax has a peculiar sort of logic.
Before the convention he insisted and
commanded that a 16 to 1 plank be
protective tariff. inserted in the platform, saying that
rr the reaflirmation of the Chicago plat-
As tne campaign advances it be- | form was not sufficient. Now that
comes more and more evident that the
friends of good government, true pa-
triotism, sound money and protection
to American interests are uniting to
oppose those who stand for the reverse
of these civic virtues.
nothing was said in the Kansas City
platform about the income tax, he de-
claves that the indorsement of the Chi-
cago platform covers the question per-
feetly. Such trifling may be thought
shrewd, but it is neither good. politics
TE nor respectable statesmanship.
Tne Hon. Fa Fred W Williams has
been up in Maine and Vermont warn-
ing the voters of the presence of “the
empire.” An inspection of the elee-
tion returns from these two states will
show how much of a prophet George
Fred is considered in his part of the
country.
Mr. Brvax did not close his prediet-
ing department when he received the
election returns of 1896. After his de-
feat he issued an address in which he
said: “Before the year 1900 arrives
the evil effects of a gold standard will
be even more evident than they are
now, and the people, then ready to de-
mand an American financial policy for
the American people, will join with
us in the immediate restoration of the
free and unlimited coinage of silver at
the present legal ratio of 16 to 1.” Has
anybody noticed a great rush at the
realization entrance of this prediction?
re
ie
Ix 1899 ten staple crops were worth
upwards of $323,000,000 more to the
American farmer than in 1895. Add to
this increase an advance of $633.000,000
in the value of live stock, and there is
a round billion of dollars that has been
paid in prosperity dividends by the Re-
publican party to the farmers for the
single year of 1899.
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“Wirar I denounce,” said William J
Bryan when a Congressman, “is a pro-
tective tariff; it is false economy and
the most vicious political principle
that has ever cursed this country.”
Since then the Gold Standard was the
most vicious, and mow Imperialism is
the most vicious principle that ever
cursed this country.
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Tiere is scarcely a business man,
there is no man who was in the enjoy-
ment of a moderate income, or no
man who was a mechanic or laboring
man who did not feel the disastrous
effects of Democratic rule from 1893 to
1897. If this class of citizens realized
to-day that the return to that same
Democratic rule is almost sure to
plunge them into the same troublous
times there would be no apathy nor
possibility of Bryan's success. The
great difficulty is in convincing con-*
tented men that there is a possibility
of danger ahead. Everybody realizes
that in 1892 the same difficulty arose,
and the result was four years of Dem-
ocratic disaster, four years of hard
times, which were feit by every man in
the ¢otntsy.
Ix his Topeka speech of acceptance
Mr. Bryan neglected to allude to the
manner in which his North Carolina
Democratic supporters put on their red
shirts and beat his North Carolina
Populist friends out of the recent elec-
tion. Mr. Bryan understands that the
less his friends know of each other the
better it will be for him.
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Tie anti-Goebel Demonmats of Ken- Ir Bryan were elected President
tucky will support the Republican [there is not a bit of doubt that he
nominee for Governor, and many of | would construe it as a proper endorse-
them, remembering Mr. Bryan’s un- | ment of his 16to1 ideas. He would
qualified indorsement of (oebelism, | say that the end had justified the im-
perialistic means by which he imposed
his will on the builders of the Demo-
cratic platform, he being indeed “wiser
than they knew.” In his inaugural ad-
have declared their intention of voting
for McKinley and Roosevelt. The
prospect for a general political house-
cleaning in Kentucky this year is ex-
cellent. dress he would say that the will of the
z re. people as expressed at the polls was
Tur Des Moines Leader, an anti- | that the gold law must go, and the
imperialism” organ in Jowa, says: policy of free silverism be ushered in.
“Let it be granted that imperialism | Ile
will slay its hundreds; 18 to 1 would | Congress the imperialistic methods by
slay its thousands. Let the November which he won in the Democratic Com-
news be that Mr. Bryan is elected. and | mittee on Resolutions at Kansas City.
although it may bring gladness to the | When Congress had done his bidding,
far-off Filipinos, as to the struggle for | and free siver was accomplished, how
their liberties, it will bring despair and | would humbugged Honest Money Dem-
a short larder to the feel about their own share in
and working man.” | the dishonest work of making present
~~ 100-cent dollars worth 42 cents? They
| would undoubtedly feel “like 30 cents.”
would then proceed to impose on
American business |
ocrats
Uxwress there is a free ballot and a
fair count and an acquiescence in the |
results of elections, a Republic cannot |
live. In South Carolina there is not a |
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Perricrew, who addressed
the delegates to the Sioux Falls Con-
vention as “Fellow Populists,” now
states that he is a Bryan Democrat,and
{ by making such a statement he fails to
make a bit of sensaticn, nor stir up a
ripple of anger in the ranks of the
Sioux Falls Populists. This is because
there is no popular disposition to split
hairs over the technical differences be-
Cuarres W. Fexwick. a soldier in | tween the pie biting wing of the Popu-
the Philippines, has written home to | list party and the Democracy under
his Democratic father at Bryan. It only stirs up hard feeling to
Saline county, Missouri, and declares | dispute which it is that has really swal-
SENATOR
free ballot. In Louisiana there is not
a fair count and in Kentucky there is
not acquiescence in the results of eleec-
tions. Yet the party whose strength
in Congress depends on such methods
is now posing as a friend of freedom |
and the savior of free institutions.
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Herndon,
that the election of Bryan is the one | lowed up the other in its attempts to
hope of the followers of Aguinaldo. | swallow pie. J. Sterling Morton, who
The letter says there is no telling how | is an unswallowed remnant of the old
much longer the bushwhacking war- | Democ racy which Jefferson founded,
fare will last if the encouragement to
the natives from the United States is
to be kept up. He further ASpress
very contemptuously the wish that Mi:
Bryan himself might have them toc
with, for if he had he would
his tune.” ‘This is in line with the last the a
letter on the subject by the 15 of Nebr:
eral Lawton. The troops in the Philin- was four
pines know where to place the respon- | the t
sibility for the prolongation of
323s that the Bryan Democracy is an
“undi gested mass in the uneasy stom-
es 4H h of 3. sionally, how-
Oce
pop! ili
res Ht Mr. Mor-
After the
ecome cleared
state con-
a and Kansas it
there were vis
sixteen pieces of
head to every one piece of
re evider
late Gen- {:
d that
ts about
their | Popul
service there. | Democratic tail