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VOL. XIX. PICKENS, S. C., TRIIRSDAY, AIUCTST 14, 1890 PATILLO'S PISTOL. THE CORONER'S INQUEST INTO THE KILLINC. How Iudo anid Pattillo Mj[ot--Hojthi Men . Scoc Weapons, and Sulbsoutentlv Look for Each Other-The Fat al Meetig. . AUOUS:A, Ga., Aug. 4.-The -coi dition of .r. L. H. Pattillo, who wias shot by Mr. J. M. Hudson on Satur day night, is now quite favorable. At tim inquest on the dead body of Hudson the following evidence was adduced: A Dr. DeSaussure Ford testified as to th post inortem examination. Mayter Griffin, a negro, testified that lie was walking along vhen his itttuition was attracted by ia gentle man coming down Broad street, an,1d turned round suddenly when a pistol was fired. He says Hudson fired the first sLmt. Ciesar Curry, another negro, swore that both fired at the same time. MR. MACAULAY TELLs THE STORY. M.E. Laulay was sworn and testified: "Betwoon 1) and 10 o'clock, Saturday night, I closed up the store and went down to the Chronicle to correct the proof of an advertisement. Mr. Rudiion accompanied me. He iad done so before. , He asked me whether I was going down the street. I said I had to get mty supper, frequently got, it, in five minlutes. Hudson said in that case, 'I will wait for yout' I went to the Windsor. Mrh Hudson avCcompanlied iw, (1d aft(r I had finished, ian but, iid walked down the si et, with A. A. Thomas and Htudsoji 'ithe corner of Jack son and Broar Pic'Jr. * Thomas left us there, an1d IHd?f9 - and I walked down Broad to the Chronicle ofice. When we got to tle stefs, [ Said to Hudson: "I am going to read proof. Will you go?" He said: "Yes." "When I got to the e iitoIal room1, we both wvalked in. 1 saw a gentle man sitting at a desk with his back to the door, whom I took for Mr. Casey. Seeing Mr. Mike WNalsh.night editor, at the other end of the ro1m,. I spoke to him, and turned to walk out. The one whom I had taken for Mr. Casey, got up and walked towanti mc. I, t4imn saw it 'was Mr. Pattillo. The proof-readeir asked me to) wait : little, till he had finished s:omuething, else. While we wore waiting Mr. Mike Walsh caie in, and told me to get my friend to leave and leave at once. I told Mr. Hudson to leave, and lie asked what was the matter. I told him to leave quick and go down the back stairs, and I would meet him later, at the Windsor. After re.4ing the proof, I asked Mr. Walsh what was the matter. He said Mr. Pattillo had asked him fur a pistol, and he hald told him lie would not giv6 him one if lie had one. 'Soon after Mr. Pattillo came in the comin posing room and walked right lehiind me, looked into the proof-reader's room, putting his hand on his hip pocket. He then looked amoig Jie printers, who were setting type. and asked mo whore young Hudson had gone. I told him I believed he Lad L gone home. Ho asked which way he wvent. This was I think, after 10 o'clock. I wont down the back stairs ten or fifteen minutes afterwards, and walked up1 Ellis street and turned through to Broad, where I saw Mr. Pattillo standing on the coirner of the sidewalk. Mr. Pattillo asked ine: "Well, did you get your ad fixed? and remarked that he was pretty hot up there. I said yes, and 'was glad lie could colmo out and get the fresh air, and then turned and walked oil'. He hailed me anid asked wvhy young Hudson had left up there. I replied because, as ho said, it w~as too hot for~ him. I then asked him if he wvanted to see H-udson, and lie said: 'Yes.' I said lie boarded up the street and worked at our store. 'You can see him any time.' He said: 'Yes. I believe so.' Ho then turned to the Chronicle, and I went up the' street. About Mr. Ferris, I met Hudson coming down the str'eet, and lie said: 'I saw Mr. Watson, 'who is at the Arlington, and who regrets missing us.' Hudson said lie was going down the street. I advised him not to do so, bult to return with mc as iPattillo was down the street and I believed lie was armed. lie r'eplied that he, toe, 'was armed and I asked him if' he was armed 'when ini the Chironuicle. He said yes, anid lie would not have left there, but did not wishi:to infinjge the rules. I then peirsuaded hmim to accomnpany mei, and we sat on chairs ini front of the Windsor enfe. Mr'. Thomas and Mr. H. (I. Cashin were in the party. The hatter invited us to take beer. Woe retuned, and sat in the chairs, when Cashin proposed arido on -thme ear's. Weu d(elined. Soon after Hudson got up, amnd saqid he was going to see a friend at thme Arhiugton. I tried to persuade him to 'femamn, but lie said it was neces for him to see hi, friend. He hid j,ust gone a short distance v.-hen the firmng commencmmed. I saw the L ohkes, but cannot say 'who fired1 fus-t. ] heard no talking." THE sHO'Ts IREDi;i. __ "I only hear'd One shot at first. Then I think it was a lon ger' inter val between the first and 'second shot,s than between any of the oth ers." Policonman Baston testifiedl that he ran over to Mr. Hudson, 'who was .walking toward Mr'. Pattillo firing, knocked his arm douh, andi grabb)ed him, and called to Policeman Shea to arrest the other man. Ho did not know Hudson was wounded. lie laid him down on the :sidowalk, and he died at once. Policeman Shea swore he grabbed Pattillo while snapping his eipt: pistol. He arrested him and carriet him to the Arlington hotel. Whih going up the elevator. Shea Sayi Pattillo remarked that he liopell Hud son wits dead, and lie iaid he ha( loved the woman and married hei Itid she was a virtuous woman ai Wife. Thle jury returned the verdigt tha Charles Hudson-came to his deat) from a gunishot wound from a pisto in the bands of L. I. Pattillo, ai they further found that from wan1 of positive evidence, they were una ble to decide whether it was ii murder, manslaughter or justifiabh homicide. JUTE BAGCINC OUSTED. Gecorgi aI'rmurg top Use ''overing mtti of Cottonl. The farmers of Georgia will never use jute again. The next crop will be clothed ahuost totally in cotton bagging, and jute will be thrown clear away. The Alliance Exchange is busy continuously shipping cotton bagging, even at this early period, inl great quantities to the various Alli antees all over the State. and it orders are ilcreasing every day. Mr. J. 0. Wyimi, of the State Allianct Exclange. has shlippd ),00() yards of cotton bagging to the Alliance-s oA Georgia, and is busily occupiied filling IVW orders for the article every day. "It will be used exclusively thi season." lie maid. "and altlouglh jutt bm hi has ecomi Itbout onle-fourtil a11 costly as coltol lbggig, none 01 it. will be. (s"4ed. Thi would seenm stranige at 1iri:4. but, whil ni you con sider the IIItter you will lind that ii is tihe best )lanl fr fariiers to usc :thitn b l,v though it is : OLufo filis thle price of jute. It is selling for !I; cents a pound, 01 about 123 eenks per yard. Jute has gone down to 4 k-eiits a pound. oi & cents a yald. "The rca;ion that it is cheaper fo the farmiIers to cover I heir cotton with cotton bagging rather 1h:li with jutc is because the conson-.11ptiol of cotton is icreased considerably by using the cotton bagging. This naturally in creas(z, the keilmand forl cotLon, and Ienic1e isi pi'olitablt. to tihk, faIiers by miSi; thI jlee of .ton. If' that ris! is only lma - a e 1t the' d I. betveen the cost Of .ltit( iuil cottoul b:mn! i 1,cml tu-ntkrmutA. You cal st e. thereftre. t visaility of thc froner u: gcottonlal ng 1Jt0 Wil'l In o Ihe knowNII as a Covki for cotton ibre years "rom now. 11 will never be used again for this pur. po-e. Cottol agging has wvlippe" in the fight for all time. A imovelielit will be brou git beforn the imeeting of the State Alliance which is to be held in Atlanta soon to establish a cotton lagging factor3 in this State for the Alliance. Tl< im-atter has been talked of before, bui will be brought before the next. meet ing i business-like sape."--Ne York Timies. Unat(ered by 11ail Stone., MAcoN - Crr,-, Iowa, Aui,g., 7. --A Ic structive w\inid and hail storm,1 muek worse thia ilt first reported, swept over Lyons, Osceola, Dickinson, Em mett and Wimiebago Counties 01 Sunday. destroying nearly everything in its math. Many horses amid enttk( were killed, and memn wvho were out were badly cut b)y hail and several? are repor'ted seriously injured. Th< track of the storm was about four teen m'~iles wide, following eastwar( the south MinnesotaStateline. Hai] stones as large as lien's eggs fell tc the depth of six inches. The Ilax, wvhich was a heavy cr0op, was entirely ruined. Wheat and oats which wert in the shoc'k were so badly damaigedi as to b.e worth nothing. Several houses we':e blown down, and it would take thlousand(s of dollars to c'over the 'damange to the famersi(I' alonte. A Ilabid n)og 1 Cin cari est on. Cn.uu.1i:s'rox, S. C., Aug. u;. --Thme whole of King stre(et, the nmin thoroughfare of this ci ty, wasl: terrol' rized this afternoon by a huge wias till' which was sulfferinig fr'om rabiet and which ran a muck friom the up per to the lower end of the street The (log starltd out at two o'clock all hour when the st reet, is criowdet wvitli womni an md clinh i-in An et ruumiiig ove'r a miilte t hrough ithe st re he wva. linally' knocked on the hie:u by alnegtro andl suibseient.ly shot bis ai p)(hieemaniU. Hie had tbittenI1 a m a wvoman amid four chiildreni. Thi w'.otund'- in eh case were eatorizet and' the patienits are5 well but1 ar<S Ca.muior , Ga.. August 7.--illiani h,oonl andi his wife Emiily, ne(groes wer (iail ued here last ntight for pois ing13 Joe fibhis' fmtniily of teni net Igiroes, two oh whiomi are ihlad auni t hiree Imiore of whom are tdyingi.. ThIe\ put ra1 t oisn-O oini m'at am ilourm ii tended hor Tall is's family to t Each neensesi the other'i. I-'mily say: i}ooii didi it to gtet Tailhiss crlop. Bomtl is a brigh t ma ;ttto, ii aiu tift y y.ar; old andmi..~h agoechr Aithmia \ Jour\' oni Setiior' Vance, of Nor11Ithird na that lie woubi be defeat ed for r elh.t t ion becaus~e lie had declared aglh . the .sub-tr'easury'3 scheme. SeVa p)oliticimns gave thir enithuisiatstic (n (dorsemnent to the imeasure'( in hop of hemng chosen as Vauce's sucecessor Nowv time 'gtiod lmews comesi froi Nor th Carolina that thet attack 01 b e hsfallen that andl that heo wil be r-eleeled without ser'ious~ Op)Ic sit ion. (<.mutits all. Over the Stat arnosing hiin with groat onthun -IL is s'aid that a bunch of hung up in a sitting room or b) a room wil dc1i, i t ffles Tlt;E F-.DING FORCE BILL. E.nercgetic Protetts frojn the North laviag Strong Effect. -N WASHNGOo, D. C., Aug. 5.-.Mr. IHoar will return froi Massichusetts to find the prospect of passintg the force bill in any form through the Senate mo14're (ublious than when he left. The opposition to it grows all L the time in the Senate under the sinolous of the letters and telegraph lmessages which ev V Republican Senator is receiving . -- " , busi nless men inl the North m.i; Northern buiniiessi en inl the Su . replreslting ilthe uiiwisdom of eliact ing such legislation. Messrs. Hoar and Spooner, the sponsors of the bill in the Senate, re ceived such communications as the rest. Messrs. Quay and Cameron get, probably, more of the appeals from business mni than anv other Senators. As both o,f them are personally op posed to the force bill, they may possibly be eneouraged by the mes sa1gs froiml their constituents to comniv out and say so. But Blainle; influence is doing more thaln aliy other one thing to bury the (onittose force bill; not his direct oppmiition to it., so much as his st irring u the feeling of indepenid euee inl the Rlepuflblicaii party by his recipirocity appeals and by the inevi table revolt against Reclismil involved in the licessary oppositionl to a gag rule. The hlieral vot ( s mAl speeches of the Ves I Seitors are to be dir-ctly ctudited to B3lainw- work. E0vang-elist How-eln Sick. Mr. Henry Howren, the (x-journal is;t wN-ho has beel preachling teilper an1Co for Some11 tii thr'oughoit the South. is still very sick in Declitur. Wlien he stopped drinking he was. )f course, il ai most deplorable con dition, his nerves being completely shattered from the excessive use of whiskey. Ie began preaching oni temperance, but so much did he suf fer froi ne,rvousIIss that i took chloral to quiet his system. It quiet cI him at first, but gradually hi wVA forced to increase the quan tity u11t;Ie is iow in a critieua con t ion. ince being in Decntur Ie ha'A be.e1 I giv, a sinul doses of lie drug at regu la int vals hecause he seemed to su:i' o 1mich whelI lie did not use it, IroWinlg cIOl an11(d appearinlg at tiie to be in an Almost. dy3ing conditionl. )ne day when the ladies w-ho wore nursing him left him in the care of another lady w\ho was not familiar with the case, he begged for the ldoral bottle. It was given him, at which lie poured out and drank a tablespoonful. When the ladies re turned lie was in the saine bewildered state that lie was in when lie entered Walker street church. Mr. Hoi-lrn needs special treat init, for lie is now almost a physical wreCk, and uless soMethling is done for him his full recovery is conlsidered doubt ful.---Atlanta Journal, 2d. A Tragedy a11 Teln-Milt. 11111. At, the dlawl of Sunday morning V. 11. Alireis was killed in thi, house of T. D. Green. It is a strange and at, the Saue time revolting story. Domnest ic troubles anid infiehity were' the causes which led t.o the tragedly. T1hie crime was without witnesses, ex ceI)t those diretly initerested in its termiination. The victimi of the tragedy never uttered ai wOrd after the fat al shot was fired. Hie was in thle ('ast le of his slayer, lie was there with nod one except the wife of the slayer, and whether lie was there un decr invitation or not, ini view of the ciremiustanices connuected with the case; there seemus to have been provo cation for the killing. T. ID. Gireen, who lired the fatal shot, was suispi cious Of the intimacy of the man lie killed and his wife.-News and Con rier. Cunnintghtam Not a Candidate. Mr: George I. Cmmuiinghiam stated1 to a reporter of the Chairleston Sun at thjecustom house Saturday that inato1uial race, and was unwillinig that his name be used in any connmect ion with it. Said he(: "I have seeni it. in t imiat(ed ini severalh up (counltrmy papers, anid also ini the Sun. of my being the Itepuliicani (anldidalte againist Captain TPilman. TJhiis is altogether unsau. horized. I will not be piIt ed against himn. The fight for Governor is si rictly heat weeni thle D1 emoerat sof the St ate anid ihe Rbc1illicana should not d ip in." Th'le F"oice 111l1 to bie PusIhed(. WAsuixGoo, 7.--Senators Hawley and Manmdersoni say there is nmo trdth in the report that the force bill is to be abanmdonedl. They say that if anybody thinks that because the river amnd harbor bill was t.o be tazken up aon1 the 8th the force 1hill is be dr iopp~ed he is entitled to his~ opinion0 of couse bu. nt is sadily in (hrror. The river an hiarboi bill m to be taken uu and( iassd because the public wvorks to wh ichI the mouney is to be a plied are51 sffe ring for wani t of it Then 1s th am-itt bill will be passed. aft'r wich the foriCe bill will be ta kei up. Another thting which the Senator d14 id not. in ention is thati. lhe hil l is niot yet. coinletedl. S-eetor I l oar is out of towni and is niof (x -pe.ct -d back before next week. whu.n .it is hereh lby Senator Hloar an I his fellow consiraIors it thc:y wll hb Shir hill for 'onisidherationi. Ph~Iila 1d'elphin Tuns. A some leg, thes flesh a zmass of dis -ease, yet P. P. P. (Pricly Ash, Poke Root and P.otas-sium) achiieved won derful results, the flesh was purified ant~d the bone got sound, and my e uaith was established, says Mr. .1es Mfasters, of Savannah, Ga. THE CONDUCTOR ASLEEP. A Terrilc Wreck on the Louitsvillel Ne"w A atiaay a b DhIcsgi nrl! ronml. LoUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. :'.-Th ie Was another wreck on tle Louisville. New Albany an( Chici'ag-o rIailroAdk] this morning. Two men were kill( anld several seriously injured. About seven miles noirth of ied ford ind., and out-bound passeui r train from Chicago calile ill collitionl with a north-bound passenger train from Louisville. Several of the cars Were coimletlely telescopod. TIe' dead are Arthur Burns, of New Aibmn, eigileer of the soultl-boilmd train, and George Cole, of New Albany, firemian of the soith-bounld train. Both air. still umler the wreCk. It is stated that another 11anl4 was on the engine and that Ie is under the wreck. Nine were inJued. Co: ductor McDonald, of t lie south-bound trainl. says he and his eligilleer agreed to sidetrack at Luthrie, three miles north of the wreck, but Ie went to slvcp and diI niot wake fill tlie traiis struck. Engineer Bent says he was half maleep when the crash (almte, itil whenl lie did open his eyes he saw the baggage ear coming rigrit. thir,ugI the poi.01 cai and it struck him inl the forehead. stuming him for a imoimleit. Elngineer Mui5iiir says tht he was two ilinutes behind tiie, while he n1orthern tirain was about six hlours behind. Doctors were :wlnt out at 0nce( with a vieckiig trainl. and ithe woI\dcd were takilln to Bcdford anid New Alban.y. .11hn Tifod, brother of P'ostal Cl(rk Tilford. called on tlie slieiiff to arr.est. McDoialdt, saying: "I will kill him if you ion't." A New Albany rvpiort say:, that a pas seIger nmed Asheroft was killed. WAR IN MISSISSIPP:. Tie hilliag of an litor. the Caulse of it State svilator. Does tihe shlooting. M miis. Ten.. July :31 .-A special to the Commercial from Lula. Miss., says: All of Coahoina comoty. Mis sissippi, is in armus to night :I a re sult of the shooting of Editor Fire land Chew by State Senator John W. Clitrer. Cutrer is protected bY his frields, two luir11ed strIong. dl of whoml aro wvell m-med(. LIn hiis dying statemenit Chew said Cutrer had surprised him on the first shot, as he was slliking hninds with a frieind. a. sho,t hwice after wards. The lk Mt fire produced a imor tal wound. Cutrer fled to Clarisdale, a from there lie was taikei to Jolm1stown to be arraigned before iustive. Butree was given a ihearing and released oi .10,000 bail, being cliarged with shooting with intent to m11urder. Ile will now be re arrested oil it wiaiit for inurder. Should Chew's frields march oi Johnstown in ia body to-night. as they threaten to do, a bloody battlei will certainly follow, The tiagedy is tihle outcomu> of' tli at teipted rcimloval (if the oflicial re cords from Frier's Pointt to Clarks diale, oi thite main line oif the Louis ville, New\ Orleans and 'I'vxas rail road. Ctutrer is a young lawyer of abil ity. EdAitor Chiew was a luam of prom iso, and had scaricely reached his ma.. jority. ____ _____ THE LAW'S LICHTNINC. six iand seven o'clock this morning ini the basement of the State prisoni ini this cit y Williamu Kenmmiler wxas killed under thme lawi~ by the use of electri sity. On March 29th, 1889, lhe mnur dered his mistress, Tillie Zeigler, and his death today waus the replarationx for his crime. lie breakfasted lightly between five and1( six o'clock. Religious services were held, lie made his own toilet, and was cheerful, cool and withlou t apparent dread. Hie ent.ered the death chambiler aiboiut indf-puast six. 1Hle assisted ini preparing hmiuself tor death, lie was placed ini an ordinary chair by the wardeni who iinroduced hiimi to those presenit. lie made a few brief farewell rem arks. '.I here were no prayers ini tIhe denithI room. The mnan wazs'tvidenmt l eodo ev tenisioni. uie de()d(iiev His vocewil peakinig had no tre(mior. lie submit t ed to the st raps qiuiethy. H e dlireel ed the adjustimnt of the elc(trodes. lHe made a sug gestion to the v ardeni and ibially sat in the deathi chir Iahout a tremior. A con vulsioinimarked the appl ica tion of the electric current. H e was sid to be dead1( ini seventeen sec'onids andit the currenit was stopped. Later it was resumaed, and ini thin teen miniutes from the first stroke lhe was declared de(ad. The flesh of the b)ack was burneod, also a sp)ot upon01 the top) of the head. An autopsy was begun three hours after dleath and its disclosures notedi by all the doctors presecnt. The miroscope later must deterineli the exact conidition. liIn lie IDemoc ratic Coun ty C on venitioni of Che(t'(rfie'ld, "Onl miotioii of' W. 1) Craig sc'hoohnasmuters anid I rial juistices for thle severalltownships we're reqIuiredl to go before the peo l)le mind I:e nondnuated by the primiar.v plan as the countly treasurer alid aulitor no0w are." Thlat 5 ('arryinn~ the inIiuIy sys-t<mi jdetty' far, amid paitha pol~it i(s ini the schools too. The homew,ife who pass lhen pie I. nlies for hakinig powdV et does inot rea~ lize thiat she is conitibutinig to onei of th o profitabl idustries: m lized 40t $100,000, cleared $1,000,000 last year and it is estimated that its profits this year will rench $2,000,000 WASHINGTON STATE GRANGE. The 'atrosn of Itusbant(ry I'uinilig Alitiacdt i W ihington. Last week vas Orange wook in Wash ington. Tho State Grango met at La Cmos. amid waoi noted for the amount of work done and for the harmony that prevailed. OThe Patrons of Washington are abreast of tho times. Tho literary ox ereises were of tho best. Politically they airo unitod as one man on all ques tioR affecting our interests except tho tarill, and thuro is not much differ'ne there Tho worc of thl s, ai wP all completed. Tho sisters bad all the time asked for for their work and all were happy. Among thoso from abroad wero lro. Cressy, treasuror of California Stato Grange; Bro. John Simpson, worthy lecturer of Oreon State Grang, and Sister T. I. Hillory, Oregon editor of the Rural 'ress; lro. linbrio and wifo and son and his wife, and they woro all delighted at tb fraternal fooling and life in the State Urango of Washington. Last .1 uly thero wore only three small Oranges in Washington; vow thero are thirty or thirty-one, and if nothing hap pens there will bo a largo increase in number of Granges organi.ed and also in nImbership. The Stato Orange at tho closw qf its business had i pictilc at Fourth PlaLn, and Judge lare, of lill1sborough, Ore., addressed the peopln upon tho subject of Co-operation and tie plan adopted at Ilillsborou.irl, whoro the 'atrons havo: s,Loro and ai a bank, anid I do not know. but think, they a:lo htvo other enterprises thero. The 1'atron.s of this county have just opeIId a store at Van. coliver. an11id will, no doubt, at an eorly day o-i-n '1hrs r. otier poiatA. Tell tho Puitrons of the East that t1m P'atron,4 of tho West are i)t wok as they never woro bforo.--Co. National Grango Bul, letin. lronliers Aheatd. Who Kansas Commoner comes to tho front and hoists the danger signaL It Says: "There is one great dager monacing the Farmers' Alliance-juAt one. If it escapes that it is good for years of use fulness. Otherwise its time is short and its labors are vain. The danger is di. ruption -divisiof--lack of unity in pur pose and action. The efforts of tho polio ticians who are menawed by it will bo di-*rtd to crca,ting di.rd in the ranks. If they can divlde iL they can defeat it; if it remains true to itself and stickS resolutely tq)gether, all their attempts will fail dismally. 'erfoet harmony in an organization 6o large and so v idl-.pread may be dii. eult butt i is e ntih A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and th Alliance is weak in proportion as ther6 is contention or insiibordination in itS memb! ersqh ip." Already is t1o State organ at loger heads with the Stato business agent and attmnipting tA) tmniren his character and belittle him in tho estimation of the Brothorhood. But as it is known that the organ Is running a co-operativo busines or it.s own "tho nigger in tho wool pile" Is readily discovered, and the occasion for its courso of conduct plain. Wo hopo to 4vo no more of thihl but ratier that the brethren dwell to gether in unity and e(-operate ono with the other, a; becon:es them. It wonid not le iroper for tie State business agent to discuss ublivy every time an oppor. tunity is aflorded hiti the conduct of .ho editor of the Stat organ, and it is "qual ly hniiproper for tihe latter to at temnpt to smireh tine character of the fo-mntr. If any tIhing is wrong there ill1 come a time to tell it,-Rural V oeld. More Money. . T1heo National Grange is on rocord throu gh all the years of its history in favor of a plenrtiful suply oif money for' the use of all the people of our country and against, the con tr'ol of money by a few special classes wvhor have it in their power to depress tihe price of land and till Its produent-si and the products of otheur labor as well. lBy a vote' of imnore than threo to one the Natiornal Grannge, at its last session, v'otedn for ftree coinage of silver. Ilowever mucrh farmers, in their sev eral organizations, arid laboring men in heirS, may' diffier upon other matters, it is a gomd sign thtat, without excep t ion, all thle farm tr', I ain>rers' and work iingtmen's soci''ti es ini thre Untilted States hnave plaiced thle free coinage of silver iti their Nartionial platforms, :nni have r''eorded'r themrel ves squarrely tin the bile ofi mtrie mionry anid nio riddlo If this f;amiers' or'ganiization shnould ace i;topl inot hinyt mtore, itlhasproved anid is doing rmore to sei peopille tor thinking for thQamselvos in st(ad oif allonwi ng, oth~enrs to thiink for thnemn than any other, society in exist ence. Go where you tray you will find the masse : talk inrg intelliigenxitly utpen subljects t.hat a few ynears aigo( ioy woro wiholly ignorant cf. 'They rno longor look to pairty bnosses Ior their opritions, butt nt udily fot ti e mselveys.*-Western Yes, thre fa nrmers arc at school ini thou sandls of ;r'anges till uip andl diown the lBrother TIrimrble, secr-etarry (of the Na toaGringo, repota 12 tnow Grangoe this year. . aIn,((tg At ter I .e-gratn I n. E-'x-S-na tor V'ari W yck, of Nebiraskta, :wii?ng for the Nautionial Alliancre arnd thle State Alliance (of Nebraska, 1.3 in WashIingtori for the punrphose' of facili tat i ng the piassago, -of the Cuornger i1l to pievyent auiltor~a tion of a rd anrd theO Ithitterwoith bill1 agaInst (dealing in farmtin rg produ cts for gaminlg puir poses. Mr. Van Wyck has hadm confor ences with tihe representativos3 in c'hargo of thre mneasres a ndn they havo assur ted hibn tihait if tihe hi ll'i can bo re :ebled on t he cale nidar they will un doubtedl y bre pas;-d. ile has consulted wvit Li l- i'aker Ileed, who o x piresses the holiOf that the bills will be roaohed and memtbersi of tire Committee on agri mirlture have arstirred him that ovatry thing possiblo will bo done to get the billsanon the tatuten book FARMERS' ALLIANCE. OPEN THE WAY. How to Mllke the Con re. men1'11 of the Jowlnt Smuth Vote Rtight. Wi]l you pardon a word froi one oil the "retired list," relativo to tho new l'eople's party? This is a movement of vast imijortanco if it can be mado suo cesSfui. Lot tho report go out after election that. the vote of Kansas has beon cianged from a plurality of 82, 000 for the high-tax and high-priced money party of 50,000 majority for the l'eoplo's party, and the effect would bo felt not only at Washington but at the capital of every civilized governmont on h the globe. It would bo worth moro to I the cause of labor and the people than . a thousand strikes and labor riots, t becauso it would demonstrato the power of the hallot in t righting wrongs. And the wrongs a would be righted. Such a voto would t put every Congressman in the entire d West and South to work for Westvru and Soutathiern intrests, instea-l of Wall v street and Pittisburgi. Tho l'eoplu's s party would not have to wait for relief I till their own ieibers took their seats. m but they would find the work well ad- a vanced before March 1. tt. Such being its imuportance, no mistak's should c bo made. The People's party should be 1 no closo oommunion1 party, but as broad s in its invitation for voters and co-work era as the name would imply. Lot all the people he made welcomo who a' stand on th- platform of the industia ii vl%asse adopted Ait St.. Louis. One ro.iolution or r expression at the late on(07ivention has a r bad look. It, ig to tw IT1 e t that no a nloiivnee of tie l'eo ph 4 party shoud1(l ' necept the no,11in.1tii of any other n pvrty. Thi liks too narrow for a Pvo- ( plu's party. or for the emorgenvy. If, when a ticket Ahall have lwen selected s of good and true men who stand orect t on the St. Louis platform, the Union t Labor pnrty chooes: to boring out its v maclihin and in4orze the ticket , must L candidates t reat then withli dliourteyN and rejvct their nomination? So of tho , Demoinratic party. If, when the Demno- t cratW ind that every plamnk of the St. v Lioui.; indtritiil platforii is taken from 3(,iTerson,Jaki , Calhouin, Ben- I ton, and t1h fountdc., of their party, Oy ,0houh1il decide to in- C dorse not only tle l'eople's plat form but tlb ticket also, aid operaUte tIir LVrty minry for it-' election, iuist the nominvos repel them? So of disafft-etmted mti i ers of thi 0. A. Ib1 If their po.tS see fit ollicially to jo in thlet processin of the Iioile for the poolde, nut they be inmulted and ordered out of the column? A.o, thore are ,;vores of Ib 'ulican new:raters that disagreo withi the plutWlrati. Wal street policy of Congress, aiJ should they, for the pu rpose of administering a robuke, fall into line, must they be repulsed? In 1S54 Congress romoved all the bar riers to the progress of black slavery, and it started out on its march via Kansa:; to Ylunker 11111 ionument; and a few Ien, in 1S54, '55, '51, concluded they would keep it out of Kansias. Thoso iin were of all i.arties and shades of opinion. Somo wero Yaunkov and :i ome wer Lib- I ]larn-hurn'er )ocrat;, somi wv(r Lih erty party or Freo-Soil iton antd some Abjolitioist:, but all wer for a frr% Stato in Kansas. They tcepted thI sitiation an1i.d adtedtt a li tform w i th ongr one p.lank,mune iily-i'ree State. No quiestoins were askid as to paty 3 a flu li ationis, and atll werte equ al ly wi l Conmo it the c~omn T:nin ion t ale. S, now, when't K :ansas prtopo is to chietk the advanis of whiiite sla v iy, 1-t al I whio will j oin thIe artny ', of itl u ti r fr'eedomn he weictune' ini this first atal most unxportant encmi.ounater'. - ti Rlobi sion, in KCanisas Farin:er. t A COMPARISON.t The Qustion of Nattitia Lonniau to etwt I Fn rntat'rs. T.lako two men at thle close of the war'. Oneo huxys a farmi for $1i 110,; the other buys Goh ver n menit bonds' for Stlo. 000. 1 bothi iare in v's tmiientIs; thle faim i andi thne bond. I oth r'eprieseat va;l ue,t tand have a btiy ing and .w lig pirico).t Trho mioney3 ini thet limits, witlomt any~ 11abor2 of the t hotlder, hias pa id a miuchi larger in 0t'et th~an ha is the ironey inii the atverag~e farm,i: with allt the hiard work of ht farinimi: andi his fatuily. TIhose fatvored few, thii' sjieiatl clasq "'of the ptc otli" who owni thet hands, canr take. thle I teduy :ma..y :I.0 ' They atre safter than I t h.- ThI who~~J oni th . hotnl. th. (t\ven11nt -loansj aniL asi :nid leniiii, loan.1 tim Govern menOt miioney' to the futrn -rs antd others: "'of the pe ide at (I. S. 1(0, 123 or muoror~ per cenit. initerest. Now t, why noit lot the farmer haive the: samou chiantci withI hiis proper'ty-? If thet bank loians the mooney ob)taine'd, prinit.ed, mnado antd furnishied by the Oovernfm(ent to ia farmer( ont his note, andt if lie fails~ to paty it, don't they take isi farm, if niecessar'y' in toy State-New Jersey--for iimny years past, '00 State has loaned its school morw ~ to farmers, wvihth their fatrims as security, and wW.h entire suc Cess and satisfactiont. In Englatnd at nlumiher of years ago government loanied large stums of montey on long titno, and at very low interest, to farmera, for the purpose of tile dralnintg their lands. Tiow mnany hiundr'edlsof millions of dol lars ha.s our G3ovetrnont loaned to an othecr class '"of thetnroonlo" to holu them bul!. raxjroaas tnar. are now too oiteni used to oppress the farmner It simaply makes a difference who is doing it. Senator' Stanford's step was in the i'ight diroction. Thle wori mtovesj andt the farmers { are awakening and commemncing to move with it, New ideas are comning to tho front. "all citiEtons shoutld be eq uaJ bofore the law," aays our National Constitu-1 tion. and that means finance laws, tariff laws and all laws. Lot us think on these things. -Mortimer Whitohoad, Sec. National Grange. THE P96PLE6' PARTY. Iatters titait will Iood Careful and Vig 11ant Watching. The nam indicntes thy genoralmake of an organization forming about the I-ariers' Allianco and Industrial Union as a nucleus. There will be sugges tions fron the outsido and also through friends on the inside to add somo side issues to the Peoplo's platform. This matter will need careful and vigilant watching. The platform agreed upon at St. Louis is broad enough to build a party on. It could be made mowo ipecific and to that extent improved; )ut there should he no change that vould take any part away or add any hing foreign. What has been added by ho Stato, with suggestions made by ho Emporia union meting, are quite ufficient for a comprehensivo declara Ion of what at least ninety per cent. of issatisflod people want. As to candidates, that is a matter of cry great importance. A candid-ato is omotimnes equal to the party's platform. [e may have been so closely idontified ith soino particular movoment as to uggest his platform without its beir resented at all. Men who, fron any ause, have 1oeome objctionablo to argo elasso of votors, should not bo ot up ws candidates of the POople's arty. Thi is a movement in which a ,roat many pvrsons will unite who have ormerly been far apart, and their >resent unliting is based upcn thO 4asonable holief that to advocate vcossary reforms does not require ny violence to opinions on issubs past. 1he Republican party was made up of leni who had dilYered widely on many .stionjs; they enm.111o together in oppo ition to the proposed nationalization of lavery. So here, this movemont among hie worhiig l.eople Is in oppositiol to be onerolehilments of the Money Powor, very day bwe:omin,(r more apparont and angerona. Our platform is all right; tIs iitirely sattsfaetory to the masses. f our cawilbhats aN 4 ually satisfac 01ry, elnlies of th movemont ill 1 to that extent disarmed, nd frinds will bb strengthened n thvir purpose. Men who havO sel mu,jchl in oflie could serve this ause better a- vorkers than as candi lates, and the mitmi who is known as a 'Chroif'.. tlulci-seeker" is not a good alb-tor of vot(l. Ien of eonvietion3, men of character, 1111 of eouirago and steadiness of pur Ios u(qn wio are narnestly and active y in sympathy with tho people's move mwint, ire the mein needed now. WO ln not aord to fritter away our op lortn inite3s with incompetent, or unIt mveniz as our color-bearori. Success with good lin will land us far ahoad'Che ilrst step.-Kausas Farmc. CAUSING TALI. 31ut nrfore cemmiaining- Wialforthe Xe RIMtltA. ho Farmieri' Alliance of the country Is (oing one tiing at least: it is causing ots of talk inl newspapor circles, and is ivilng the peoplo of the country an la of what the poor,over-worked rarm r is. Ono of the ideas advanted in the ornation of the Alliance was to fight rusts and njoiiopolies of every descrip Ion. If there is a bigger trust in the otintry than tho Farmors' Alliance we vould liko to havo itpointodout. They lot only want to control businoss, but f they were given the opportunity, hey would make a laughing stock of hie Country by passing nonsensical aws that would bring choas upon he country where order now exists. Yo are not opIposed to the Farmers' tilianco because the membership is lade upl of farmerms, but becauso it aikes a wrong viewv of matters and ate (empts to control trade and business brough the boycott and other institu lens of a similar kind.-Intorstate I roecr. ]hldo you timo, gosd friend,. Do not. e opposed to the F'arnmors' Alliance bo. auso of this or that, too soon Just that is the "wrong view of matte~rs" or ho "'right control of trade4 will not >0 dete'rmiinIed In the future by your p5o dixit, or ours, and much less by lie laws of tradoe as heretofore prae iced by your grocery mian. You mnay ochi pooh the farmiers' movement as ou please, liut your business dependa poni the farmerm' well-being and not a their Ill-doing. Youm can afford to Id the work rather than discount 16. 'he F'arnmers' Allianco is hero to etay. -Rural World. Examlpie is het ter than precept. The allrer arte orking out their own sal ation with a l(v(ilheadednes.s worthy f al praise. F'ollowv it up, brethren. 'le Capl Cuiltivator' says: "'If one can uidge fromu retsit, the farmers moan ulsinCss this year, and intend to make hiollselves heard. in Stoddard County hecy went into the township meetings, lected fariiers to county conventions;--. urgalnized it to suit thmeiuaolves, seect d farmeIrs to1 the State convon lonm, and elec'ted a conitral coulmmittee, omposed enltirel y of formers. A onltlemanar wh~o was pretsent at the (.n1ventionl at lBloom filid last Satur fYIltay'iormd ut that, tile falrmlors came hero with thlelir p1lans laid, and could lot be Iindutced to dlviato fromi thorn a >articleo, and1 tihey Illrried It out to the ot,ter. 'This shOWS whait farmers can to w~heni they undertake to use the power they poes This Is the plan weO have ailways advoentOd, and If the farmors of thIis. and all othior coun ties iil do) a.' th 'uarmers of .Stoddard did, they ennl centrol affai rs, beca uso they are1 ill the miiajoit*y in bo0th parties." ".what w~ill thme lIarvomt no?" Farmers hlave universally gono into tme ateni've cuiltivaitioni of a new crop thi. Seas~n. Thle golden grain of ul(t right.s to all and spcolat privi egos to nono1," has boon sown broad atst throulghouit the land; and that it is fallen on fortile soil is clearly bown by tho wondertahl growth soon on vory hand. The Alliance and In ustrial ent tivators are doing good vorkf, anid politicians are anxiously in uiring; "Whlat will the harvest be'?" -The h and that rooks the oradle is the and that goes throughm aman's pockete the woe, sma' hours. e0.