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THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL. VOL. 6.---NO- - PICKINS; S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8 896 ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. Bryan's Campaign Speeches. AT LYNN, MASS. No Market for the Shoo Factorles When (he Farmers Aro Out of MIonley. 1"r. Bryan made a short address on Monday morning at Lynn, Mass., as ho was returning from the visit to Matine. ls rCmarks were pointed and appro priate as follows : Mr. Chairman and Pollow-Citizens Our opponlrents are all the time assort ing that the business men ougl'i to take an Interest in this campaign in order to protect their business inter ests. It, has always made inc indig nant that a few people in each commu. nity should assume to be the only busi ness mon in It, and should always in sist U)On thrusting their bUsilless in terests forward in preference to any body else's business interests. I have always believed that anyone who con tributed to i nation's prosperity, Who aded to a nation's wealth or to a na tion's greattness. Iwas a busiless Ialn. (Applause.) The iman With Sm1)al interests haS aItis much right to protect those sialt in terests by his hallot as the mani Wnth large business has the right to nrotect his interests by his hallot,. (App!hise.) I want to show you how theelmotey question concerns the various classes of people. I. want to Show you that you canillnot Separato the interests of tlhe wage earning classes from h e interests of the farming classes. You don't pro duce shoes or ornament.,, but for wer.. People caInOt wear Shoes until they are able to buy them, and they cannot buy shoes unless they have tie money to buy with : and they cannot begi) to buy shoes until they sell something they have and get the money. Now, you sell shoes to the people West and south. ,If you (rive (town the prices of all those things which the farmers produ'2e, so that, wIheI they sell their erlops they cannot, more than pay lobt, aond interests "nId tatxes, what money wil they have to IIuv shoes with? Are you goI toJ'a t the prosperity of LVn by m10a,0in more peopile o hawelooted ' (Crios of No, no. 1) Th wage-earners of Lynn will i idle until tlleo is a emanll]d lot m, rod uct-s ul tho fatories of , y1i111. There cann be no demaiid for tle 1,i-od uet as Iong as .you dlrive (ony up1 1) u's1 property downl. E.a'ling priesm:in h- trd times and hard tines have nUeve:r been aldv'Jnted in a platform 1.y any prIty, aIilt-uigh the re)L1) lean plat. form thi . year, w ithout di cetly saying so, promises- to coItinu hallId ttime's ani(d imakie t hem hardor. )o you deny that propi.?ition ? I want you to look at that plat formi. it dechlres a trold standaird la i ot d esirabloehlai t at party ploedges itself to gut rid of it. If the double stLandard is not m11ore, desir able thani the gold standard, why does tile Repu1lican party want to make any change ? If the gold standard is good, we ought to keep it, hut, wiben the lRuIpub liican pariy attempts to get rid of it, it admnits it is niot as good as bimetallism. But they promise, notwithstanding their desire to get rid of the gold standard, that they will keep it until other nations have lelped us to got ril of it. Ulntil thOn, they say, we must maintain the gold standard. (A voice, "Yes, but we won't.") No, I don't think we will myself. If we maintain the gold standard, we must maintain those things whiich are lceessarily attached to it. We must maintain this system of issuing bonds for gold wvhienever' we want, gold. When we issue bonds and1( buy gold we create a demand for goldl anid raise its pur chasing power~l thr'oughouit the wor'ld, but .we are contracting our eurroney h~y piling it up1 in the vaults at WalshI ington when it ought to be out dloin'a business atmong the people. You manu facturers andt merchants go to thle banks for money. The banklls tell you they are very sor'ry, but t hey cann~lot loian any mioire just no0w. Thlere can be no~ more money ini the & counitry thaln people per(~miit. If you make youri l aws sot you cirawll a pat- of youiir mloney ouit of eircuilationi and) lock it, lup, youi can't us'e it in yonI ur buiness, anrd have it ini thme vaullls at WahIiingtiun, botlh at theo ItI Iam timle. TJ.hat lok s plain enoug!h. yet there are linaniciers who go on th e the ory tha lt the more~i moneyi'' you takeI (ou)t oil ciricuilaitionl the more youl hiave left, in it. There are linancIoiers w ho actualtly r'e joice hat the issuie o)f bonds, and saidt it woulId trestore' coiiden'lce. TI'hey arei trying to runi bus iness in this ronnl]try with aL larger per cent, of con tidlene thani the amifoun t of mioney on hiand. And if they go oin, the pe(ole will have all the confidoence and no money. My observation has1 been that if a contIi deuce man comes into aL community, the mal&n who hats the least confidenLcet has the most moiney when the foilow goes out. SYou say, "I iam hungry."' TIhey say, I have got Ia reimedy ;just h ave co'n fIdence, and if you haive not had10 am fullI meal you will he juist asI well olf as ii you had." Yout say y'ou enn't gvet wok .hey say, " 'Julst have conidence, you wlhave work and it will he :0l You say, "WVio cannot find a marlkt for 0our shoes."' "Julst have con11fillenlce, the pteople will buy and they wvill TIher e is only one place where I think a cofidoeinc game won't wAork. YouI go to 010 of those men who is all the time10 talking about (c01. idenice andl ask to borrow nyon'-,. ito says: 'What se curity havo you ?' You say, ' ill givom you all the confidence 'ou ,at. IHe will tell you he Is not I'oanin On confidence tIs year'. Why is~ It thoii linanciers arie so anlxious for yo to haveo contidence In) them when they don't havo any1 confldence In you ' They want security hand they toll you to get aL gIood name on your note or put up something saleable. The trouble Is that securIty that usedl to be good Is not good1 security any more through thle driving down of the value of security by the driving up of the value~ of money. There Is but only ono way to restore contidlence, aud that is to gh o confidence a basis to rest AT PROVIDENCE R. i. lie A (ocites Notlihig Revolutionary -An Hioncit Dollar D)oes Not UaRIgO its PurchasIng Powe or. A crowd of 15,000 people greeted Wmn. J. Bryan when ho reached Prov idence, Rt. 1., where he spoke as fol lows : " I do not come to preach to you a now gospel. The position which we take on the money question is an old position, not a now one. We are not hlying in the face of natural laws as our Opponents sometimes assert, nor are we trying to overturn the princi ples of political ecolnomiy. Those who advocate bimetallism are the only ones in this campaign who are telling econo mic truths and defending the natural laws of trade. When I define an honest dollar as an honest dollar which does not changO in its Iurhelasing power it may give to you a definition wliIh has been a sound definition amng all writers on political economy. When I give you that definition, I am simply giving you a definition which has been given to tbe world by that distinguished educator who lives in ,his city and who is an honor not only to the city and to th is State, but to the limldon. (Applause.) l'rofess or Andrews in at recent work en1ti,iled: ''An hlonest dollar," coml mnues tihe first.chaper with the words which I shall quoto: "It is alwrys as'suraled or admittcd that, the ideal sort of mnovey would be money with a un it having a steadfast general put ehasing pj)owr."' W hen Professor A I:drevs describes the ideal money as ia m11:>1ey whose unit is the steadfast, general or average of purchasing power, he pilanted hImself upon the o idi rock and all the financiers of this and other countries cannot prevail against the character of this definition. (Applause ) The pot has told us that " I honest man is the noblest work of God." We may sup)ilemnent this statement by adding that an honest dollar wherever it is found or made will be the noblest work of man, but my friends, the gold dollar which is )'aiieod today as the honest dollar, is not, the honest dollar, and those who love it ilost, love it because of its own dishoniesty as a dollar. (Applause.) An hlone t dollar it one wVlicl pre sIerves its I general purchasing power iron daiy to day and from year to year. Tn tbc dollar wiicli riscs inl pur ebaig powcr is just as dishonesit as the,, doi!ar which falls in purchasing power. If ono of our Western men advocat ilg bimitallism calls attention to the injustice of the gold standard they say that lie lacks education and when a learned man like Professor Andrews aidvocates bimetallism and donounces the gold standard with emphasis which cannot be surpassed, what do they say of it? *. Much learniuig hiath made him mad." Weasay that anybody wlo has a piece of gold sulicieit to make one dollar can have that dollar coined into a dollar. And the fact that any holder of Lrold bullion can at any time c:)nvert that bullion into money enables him to chargo for that gold hullion the mint price. The mint price for silver would be established the same as the mint price for gold has been establis3hed. Under free coinage at 1li to I a man who owns silver bullion knows that he can ta.<e it to the mint and have it converted into dollars of 100 cents of United States money. Some of our Opponents have been calculating as to how much money they could make under free coinage in buying silver at 50 cents and having it coined into 100 cents. If any of you held silver bullion would you sell it to anybody for half the market prie and let the purchaser make the prolit? The Repulblican piarty does not piresent any financial pohecy and say that they pr'opose that the policy will benehi, the peole. The Re~publicau party simply proposes to maintain the policy of their plat form andl that platform p~rofcsses to be bad, when it promIses to maintain that pob1eiy uintil foreign nations comoc to our relief. Hut my frieads, If you be lieve the United States government sht uld have a hinrancial p~olicy of its own, suited to its own needs, its own peCop le, ad miniiistered by the hands of tlihose who Jove lher, then youi enni only exprs yo'(S3'urselvyes wher, you act with those whno advocate himnetallIism at la to I Vi tlhout the aid or' consent of any oher inatI on u1pon the ouarth . If the Iinan mcirs who want Lthe goveirnment to issue hondstl so they can buy13 bonds, havo the right to keep the govern meueot issuing bonds all the timre, putting a dlebt upon the people, then you, the ieole, have to ho taxed to pay these handos. AT NEW~ IaOND)ON, CONN. .No Part. of I lie Coutrty EXClt1e01 fronm lie Benefits of Blrmetallsm. A stand had been erected at the sold icrs and sailors' monument, ad jareent t~o the railway station, and from this Mir. Hryan made an address an hour long to an audience of about 3,000 peopile. ieo was cheered frequen'tly ndl asked several q uestions b~y people ini the crowd :lIe said: in'. C2hai rman, [Ladios and Oentle me(~n-- I iam iniformed that I am speak ing oda inthecounty in whlich Lyman Trumbul a horn. When I went toi (Chicago as aL law student I found i a) place ini his olli'e, and for nearly two years was aissociated wvith him ui as a student, is associated with anm IIinstiiitor. A nil it is one of the friend shlips whliche I pr1'Izo, because the ac (pin ictan ce formedc~ thmen grew~ into at tach mentL, and when ho was call1ed from ear th no onie mourned hiis dopar Lurec more sincenrely than 1. 1 am gladl to stand, there fore, among the p~eole a~mnong whlomi lhe was born, because in hlif Ii bIelieove that lie gave eviden~ice of ability, of eou rage andl of paltriotism --those three characn'ter'is-tics w hiic h coimbine to earn for am noan the love and grrati tude of his couinry men. - Today I leave Connecticut, I have been through the seveiral Now FNngland States, and only one, I believe, I have not be~on able to visit. I camne to New E~nglanid to preach the cause and de fend the Principles for which I stand at this time. (A pplause.) I camne be cause ther'e is no part of this country whore those who ad vocate free eoinaige are unwilling to pr...-- thercu. Thero is n part of this country whici is exe!uded from the benefits of bi mnetallismn ; there is no part of thhi country which we are willing to con cede to the gold standard. (Applause and iceers.) Thero is no State in this Union which will be benolitted by the maintenance of the present finan cial policy, and if in some portions of the Union the silver sentiment Is not as stroug as in other portions, it Is be cause those portions where the silver sentimont is weakost are the portiom where there has boen the least agita tion and discussion and study of tihe money questien. (Applauso and cries of " You're right.") You not only have lacked the opportunity of investi gating this question which some other portions of the country have had, but your papers have denounced it as a matter unworthy'of study, even if they have not insulted the intelligence of the voters by telling them that only a few people were able to understand the question anyhow. (Applause.) Some of the Republican platforms of the Eastern States have not only de clared against silver, but have de clared against agitation. When I find a man who is opposed. to thu discus sion of a public question 1 find a man who would foul more at home under u monarchy than he would in a Republic. (A pplause.) Agitation is nothing but discus-sion. (Applause and cries of " That's so.") And discussion is the only means by which tihe people can find out what is best. and remitedy a wrong. (Applause.) A man who denounces agitation, a mon who oposes public discussion of public questions, would have you suffer and not perit you to secure the only mneans by which relief can cone. My frienls, our opponents think that they canl destroy agitation by commanding it to keep still. They might as well try to sweep bIck the waves of the ocean. (A pplause.) You cannot speak agitation into silence. You cannot command it to he still and expect it to obey. Agitation is a result, not a cause. it is a result of a condition and that result must remain while tho condition remains. You have a con dition ; agitation follows as a con sequence and reform comes as a con clusion, and that is the Only way that agitation can he stopped, my friends. What d'oes the gold standard do for the merchant'? It has driven down the value of the goods upon his shelves, while it left his debts as big as they ov'r were. (Applause.) It has de stroycd tle .ability of p(3p0)l to buv goods, although the merchant's goods have been bought atnl are awaiting the coming of the customer. The gold standard has multiplied the number of failures and the gold standard is put ting the merchant under the complete domination of the man who holds his note, and he can close his store at any moment if he desires to exercise his right as an American free man to vote as he wishes on the money question. (Applause.) I want to lIy down thi proposition, that when you borrow money of a bank the banker has it business interfering with your politi cal rights, and the banker that does il ought not to be permitted to engage it the banking business. (Applause.) It there a banker who will dispute that. If thero is, then lie must be a man whc believes that the right of voting goes not with the citizens, but with the money loaned ; and the man who as serts that asserts that this is not a Delmocraecy, not a Republic, but ,a plu tocracy in which money, and. not brains or heart, rule in this country. (Great applause.) A voice-Where will we be when we get free silver? Mr. Bryan-Are you in favor of a gold standard ? The voice-I am. Mr. Bryan-Tell me why ? The voice--Decause I believe it is best for thle country. Every nation will accept a gold dollar for a dlollar. Mr. Bryan-Why ? I will tell you. Because of its value. The reason why our gold dollar and gold buliion ar'e worth thle same is because the law says that you can convert bullion into a dollar at the mint. rlThe v'oico-W'ell, how about silver ? Mr'. Bryan-When the laws are so, under' the free eoinamige of silver, that the htolde co'tf .silver' bullion can con vet, hiis silv erthi bullion in to dollars at the mint. thbat will lix a mint price foi' silver thten, as we have a iint priico for gold now anid' silver dollars will bhe wor th as tmuchl abroad as our gold( dollar'. (Great a' 1)plause and chee ring.) N ow, myi friends. I (1( not object, to having cluestions asked. hieeautse if I am wriong oin this ~ que'sti (n, there is no-' hodly more anxious to hiid it, out than 1 amt. I~ut if I ami ti ght , and1( my fri end is wrong, 1 hope he will be as anxious to get right,1 as I aim. (G reat applause.) Quost-ions (10 tnot, hurn t. m y ftriends. We are glIadi to antswr questions, hiecauso thor'e is not a quettstioni that can1 be askfed by an adivoctt of the goldl stan dlardi that cantnot hO answeredl by ad voctots of free coluiage. ( Applause and cries of " Why donm't McKinley come out and1 answer some of thbom ?" A voice: Pe'ople here havo t.he im pr'ossion that when the free cointage of silvor' is broughtt into e Ifect they can take their silveor t~eaptts and1 coin themt into monetmy.' MIr. Bryan--The gentleman says that the peop)10lehave time imiprtession here that tunder free eelinage0 the peo ple can ta k silIvet' teapIots and thielir sil1veorw atr and haivo it convyertted in to monecy. It is tt'rte lthat undtaeri free coi nage that, any mart can mnt, titp a d1o1llt-r1I an haf's woth ot f spon and 1( have the s ilv er ro ied int1o one) dotllar~t tand twenty-tin te cets, if you have at man wilt is fool iitogh to do it,. (Great alplauso.) .N'ow, why will people1 r'efiuse to melt, up their silver platoy leeauise it will be worth tmor'e as silIvetr ptlato thlan it will be worth as silIvor' (101lats under~ free coinage. (Aplausiite.) A nd. my1 friends, you can depenid upon01 it that people will not do th intgs that are going to hutt, them if tltey know it. There is onto of the tigs that you cat base you recasotting upon t and inthU thati conneetion I ftrequietntly hlave peole ask tme, "' Wvoudnt it he1 posible fort' man to buy silver fomr 53 cents and havt it coined into a dollar and mane tilt dilference. (Laughteor and a voice "Whto is going to selil it?") TLhe gentleman asks a quttiottn .whli shows he undter'stands it. He says Who would sell It? Now, when yot cannot coin silver' you carn buy for 5~ cents the silver that is in a dollar, bul when van a. hae. h silver, coe for at dollar, then you cannot find any body who will sell you that silver for 53 cents. (Applause.) Now, my friends, I want the business men to got into their heads this on.o proposition, and without knowing that proposition, without understanding it, they cannot, expect to reach a correct conclusion on the money question. I assert that the business man de pends for success upon the farmers and the la-boring men. (Applause.) If you want business men to prosper you can not make them prosperous by making the money loanor prosperous, because business mon do not make their money omt of those from whom they borrow. They make their money out of those to whom they soll goods. (Applause.) And if the people cannot buy goods, the merchants cannot sell goods, and peoplo cannot buy goods until they have the money to buy goods with. (Applause.) And the way the people got money to buy goods with is by selling something which they themn selves produce. If tile farmer cannot got money for what he produces, how is he goimng to have the money to buy what other people have to soll ? A Voico-Start up the mills. Suppose you start up the iills how are you going to dispose of the things t which the mills produce unless peo ple can buy the produce of your mills ? FROM AL VAR TO JAIL. HIlls His Sweetiheart's Uncle alti in anl Hour Marries the Girl. One of the most deplorable and sen sational tragedies that ever occurred it, West Tennessee was enacted aitsomer vileo Tuusday night when J. if. Win frey, J r., shot and killed l'eter 1). Crawford, and within an hour married Crawford's niece. It seoms that Winfrey was an old sweetheart of Miss Sallic Weatlherley's, but recently she became engraged to Louis Burton of Somerville. Mr. fiur ton called on her Tuesdity night and was discussing their marriage, which n as to occur October (th, when Win frey was announced and entered the patlor. Hurton left in a few minutes, complaining of a severe headaebe. ile had not been gone long when Miss We.%therly entered her imother's roomI and kissed her godby, saying she had decided to marry Winfrey and was going away with him at once. Mrs. Weatherly attempted to per suade her not to do so. and failing in this called Crawford, who was out in the yard, talking to a negro. Craw ford cane and intercepted them at the gate and it is presumed attempted to keep the couplo from running off. Winfrey resisted and pulling his I)istol shot Crawford twice, both balls going through the heart killing him in stantly. Winfrey and Miss Weatherly both jumped into Winfrey's buggy and drove to Somerville, wheroe they were maried by liev. P. G. Throtrmnorton. Winfrey wits aI'ested soo after the marriage by Shoritf Hoswell. lie of fered 1,o resistance, saying ho had shot Crawford in self-defense, while Craw ford was beating hill. Winfrey's face and head are badly bruised, substan tiating his statement. Crawford, the dead man, was a brave old Confederate soldier. He belonged to the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth regiment of Tennessee volunteers, Chatham's brigade. Win frey is a well known young man of good family. TUE Diou U-IT IN TEXAS.-The At lanta ,Journal has interviewed Dr. J. Harvey Moore, who has lately returned from an extended tour in the South west, and he says there is only one s'iction out there wher good crops have been imaide and that is from Helena, Ark., up to southern Missour'i. There the land wvill make from half a bale to a bale of cotton to the act e, and from thirty-five to seventy-live bushels of whoat to the acre. In the fatmous black lands of Texas, whetro the tinest, crops in the world are prodluced, everything is almost a failure. IBoth cotton and corn are shorter there thtan they have becen for many years. No rain has fallen there since the ist of May, and ini somie sections there has .ocen no rain sine Ap~ril. This drought Is being felt more severely from Dallams lthrough to Waco and dowvn to Galvyes tot,. LIn the cettral Part of southern Texas crops are better thamt at any other p)oint in the State, but, that, Is saying little for it,. Dr. Moor'o says the peopile out in Texas say this is the worst season of drmought they have exp~erienced sincei 18604. Much of tile cotton that was pilanited in Apr)1il has never come up, tihe seed1 having ltaid itn the gtround to parch all th rough thle sutmmier, there beinug tnot enough moistur o to gcrmti nateo them. In sotme places w here the cottont camol up the plant, has never comoi to matutity, andI stands shrtivoled in the fields. Corn, which is always very tine in Texas, is adlmost a total fail ur ,'e 1.. year, and in many place the Iis Se tilted with little, hal f-grown statk:. thtat have dIriedi up in the suiminer sum. and rustle mourn fully ini the wVinid thtl hweeps across the barren waste usutally lilled( with vigorous corn -ttal ks, loaded' down with the golnct grain. ---One of tihe chief causes of the turn ig oif tim tidle of gold ftrom EuroNpe inito this country recently has beon the pheitinmnal l';uropean domand for A imericatn cotton. The resetrves of the Iiitish and Continental lillIs got almost to the lowest liguos Bon recotrd last, seaison, something liko 1,000,000 bales iess thatn in the previous year, and( it is to reiplenisht thieso (3xhaustedl .mill stocks that the fleet of tratmp steamors ats wellI as the swifter amnd stancher- craft, of the rogulatr transat 'antic lines,.is now loading at Amneti can ports with cotton for Europe. Thto extent and imupor'tance of the movement can lhe seen by glancing at the figures upi to dtett ail cotmparedl with 'Ihe shiip mitiuis two years ago, the r'ec.-o, ng year' of cotton eixporttatio~n, whent the gr-eat volumo of 6,'l26,000 bales went abroad out of anl American crop of 'J, 000,000t bales. L'tst season, Owing to the highter p rice, the foreIgners tooK< as little of our cotton as they could1( get alontg with. IEyen under these ciretntatinces they had etarried atway abiout -1,500,000 bales when the I-The only way by whIch the devil I can mnanage to carry on busines. is by lmaking sin attractive. AN INTERVIEW WITH GOVERNOR NORTHEN. ',' I0,11'iCA i SITUATION IN T1I1, NORTi'WESTIUN STATES. ie Bolieves thaat. Br1'yLn Will Carry lowa aml IMlinois-In1teresting Fea tures ol' tili Canm paign. Xtnita Journal. Goverinor Northen has just, returned roma Western tour of thro'eo ionths, kuiiring Which time he went, through leven States andstopped at 100or more .Owns and cities. Ile. made the trip oin immiigration hutiness, but took atd van ,n1g of tie opportunity to study the )olitical stituation. III order that h) nizht Lret at the fact,s better, ho went thout the politiel ieadquar'ters antd nixed with the icrowd-, inco'rnito, heard hoir strect discussions, sounded Imen f every class and eve'ry silade of pot itical opilliont, and took note of overy t'aw that showed which way tho vind blW. H1e lhas had some interet'st og experiences and comes back prob) tbly the best iosted Georgian who has )en West. lie tells what he founid mld rclates seine of his exprionces in ,e following Interview : "The West is not solid by any manner >f means," said he. '" I have never Celn such p11 litical coniditIons. PI arty ines are 0bliterated. f you address a nan as a Rl;ublicani he says: 'Don't speak to ine as a I epubl)ican vo are not known as Republicans or )cmocrats any mnore, but ats advocates if the gold standard or the silver stan lard.' "Old landmnarks are gone. You have o seck now means of mieasuriig forces, id when you do it, is so mixed that -ou can't tell anyth i na about it. Nothm ug short of ia count of heads will re 'al the result. They aro constantly >olling the trains and the people who ravel are usually gold standiard advo 'ates. The best result I saw was four -otes for Blryan out of 22 on a Sleeper. ' laboring man said, 'That's pretty ood for ia slceper, but wait till theo vo1k train comes.' " I couldn't get Lny satisfactory in orniation fron tile party headqua'rtcrs m cither side. There it was all .'rold or L11 Silver. The polliig of trains show tl notlihig. The bet method I could in(I w'as to take ) Catch eiclass or occu m tion Separateoly and question 1,bo nost intelligent men in that pursuit its o the sentillient of his associates. In ,h is way I tried to getat the senti mInt )f busilness men, farmers, meclianics md all the classes I could think of. Vhen I got through the evidence I iad collected was so conilictiig that I -ould not form any conclusion." When lowa was mentioned as a St ate which some Democrats and Pop ulists conceded to the Republicans, the Governor said : " On the contrary, I can give you just aS stiog evidence on tie other bIde. At Cdar Itlitls I tialled willi the cleric of tle court, a very intelli gent man. ' I know this State will gi fo' BryalI,' saidl he, 'and I Will show you why I think so. There is Clarence, ia town of 6.170 population, with a voting strength of about 125. Of this num her I personally know thirty-eigit Republicans who will vote for Bryan." Besides him sat a dealer in hats. ' I am a iepublican,' saidi he, 'and I shall vote for 13ryani. My partulr is a R,; publican, and he will vote for 3r'y3an. The Clork of the Court continued: ' in tihe last election the Populists Cast 1.' (100 votes in lowa and tihe IRpubli 1an majority was 40,000. 'Thei l'opulijts will Vote fo' Br'yant, am)i if tO dlefee bion of Republicans is in tho propor bion inldicated by the facts within m1y )ersonal knowledge, Iryan will casily ret the 5,000 or 6,000 Itepliblicans nece ~ssaury to change the result,.'" One of the miost interesting facts >r'ough t out by G overnlor Noirthoni's truly of thne sitiuationi is that JIllinois is ikely to go D~emoer'atic. lie did not1. 'each this coneluso u111 1nti IhIe hiad tudied the situation for' several wveeks. " I canvassed Illinois thor'oughly,"' aid he, "' andI wvas in dill'er'ent partiL oIf ,he State. The firist th intg that miade L dlteep Iimprei'ssionl on ime vits the1 l'op alist conivention at Springfield. I siaw t, andI It, was anf enthtusiastic i ndor'se nent of liryan. The McKinley paper' n~t Springhield said that tl~his meant a 'ictor'y for' Bryan inI Illinois, andt reC nar'kedl that It was strange the Repurrb icaiis haid oveirlooked sucht an impor-" ,ant fautor aLs this convention. Still I wals not conv ined, for' I knew ther'e vas aun immense popumlationi of woi'king nonr, anid that, the I~ipullicans were sanvassing thiis element w itLh tremend mrs ener'gy. I thought the labor vote vould give Mclin rley a mnajoi'ity in lii nois. Tis optinio l was~i chaitnged ont zabor' liay. T1hort' 'was ani iimes lemtonisti'ation antd 40),000 people went, mt. The R epub 1lican national com iiittoe adjoutried (out of r'espect foi' the >tcaisioin and starited ount to atttend the ~xercises. Th'Ien it, occiurredit to somfO >f them that tibey' lead r'ecei vedl no ,in - ,itationr to ho0 present,. Some one went ,O tihe imastei' of ceemon ies arid sug rested to him that lhe hand overlooked Ir. II ar.nail's comm i ttee . 'No,' sid( lhe, Mi'. Hlannia hats not, bleen inivited, nor' vill hie be invited.' If this incident s anty ridication of the sentliment ,f the workiigmuen of Illinois, it is imttpor'tant, for' if they go against Mchinley lie loses the Statte. It. is my oplinioni after what I saw that IBryan will carr'y liois(1."' Iin regard to fusion, Governor North' enl aid : " Un til r'cenitly K ansats arid Nebrast~kat weret regar'ded as satfo for IB'ryan, buitC coml 1icrntions connectecd withI fusion hav dLO Iistutrbhed matters very~ muchl arid the r'esult is not cei' talin." Thie G overnor' glavoi a picturesque1 des.-cripion ol tim struet deihates whIiich conIstitulto an inter'estinmg feature' of the W\es.tern campaign. "' TheI discus sions are continuous andt unmiinterrupt md,"' sid hIte w ithi a sile. " T 1hey knoltw rio Sunrd ays aund night tIs r'obbo~d ofI sh p. TIwo neighbhors will meet, on thme streett andi~ talk about gold and s il ver'. Tlhiey get aunimated and taulk loudr'. Onc oi' two othiers coime up1. 1 'eople see'd isputantst shaking their lingers or their fists at eachi other and( come to, see what,'s the matter. P.retty 50oon thme group i groiws to l10), atnud kee ps gr'owi ng till it blocks the tstreet. In II undlt'rds of V.a1ues the pol1ice forbade these d iscuse ions because they obstrucet ml thror'oug faIrtetm, bunt the y wer'e CIalled partians andi thle res~te'etioni we taken oIf. I saw a cro'lwd g ather about ~> o'clock and It lasted till I wont to bed about 11. The next mor-ning the hotel man told ino he drovo them away at o'clock. " The dIoputauts In these discussiol ar0 woll posted. If you evince anly intorest, a bystander will pull a wad of literitturo out of his inside po(lket and ask you to road it. Th dlscsiois are mostly good natured. There is head critcing sometimes, but general ly, whenl thiligs got warm tley guy each totheir ant laugh it off. \Vhen at fellow makes a po)int you will hear them say 'good boy,' and tho other side saty ' rats ! " At Minneapolis, Whtre the Jourinal waS displaying base ball Inews in an unusually attraetive manner, the timo betwoon bullotius was filled up with atrgument for silver or grold. The street was filled for a block and the diseusslon aiounted to al ofen Iair iss Ilecting. " I found tho n.ewspalipers very lih kwal," continted the G overnor. "Sil ver papers printd i a gold orator's SpeelI antI put in all th, ap)lause, and '-he ovation. The gold papers did the satie when a crowd wet, wild Over a silvor orator. That is iuny idea of the waty to1 run newspaper4S. And they had 10t11nomous sales. They sell their pa pers for a cent a copy and the circula .olons 11r0 enormu0. I sLtw at poor Wo man buying a paper for a cent. Tih boys eatrry imuenso bundles and don't have to curry tlhein long.'' IsiT ili lAIMICIS STIC. itatrit.Sttll'S I tleiatI to land le Wil'o Baleti 'otton-The Allianicec - hauM1ge Cam MIake Otter Arrange Col. 1). . I)iuncan. who tlrough the Alliance lxchatnge has been waging a vigoru0tis warfare against the cotton tie trust, is not d iscouraged by reason of tihe rfusa! of Charlest.on and \Vi! i gton )11 rIsses to handlo the wire b:led staple. e olieve be ecan make atrrangelents elsewherte in the inter (.- of tihe farmers, and %H he ai zs is that they be not, weatry inl the light. lIe tatlked as follows to at reporte r: I am sorry the News alnd Courier ennl't : ee it, wa-y Ovlea to hlpl usr outin I ths igt.Asthiba i) at te1att~or of mu11ch fitntial important.e ats we-li as of "mil. princile, it maly not1 bW alliin W1It,oagin state sine of the facts eoUneetetl with thi v cottoni tic busi ness. " As is tow known, in the early oring the tntire oilucti on of lat hoop cot. toll ties atssed into the hantd, of one' and thu sate parties. i was in mosi ble tO obtain prices fromua any I:aum fac~turerV 01r ~imort r Of hoop00t1o ties un til the I ast, of J uly, w len tcottoln was rtaid)i(Iiy being ''lrvestod. 'Ihe priceus then g ivn were I l.30 pe.:r bundle by the car load at the ports and june titnatl or Compt.etit veu pointm This meant at least $1.50 per btitndle to Iti averIge consumer ttn the cottoni I ara'tms o Soutih Caroli nat. ThlcS sItm Lie Lies wtV)'t -iolht h., son t (roli (;t cetis to cents pel bund IC. ve ry one k liow thl i tit , .re was no busiless reason why thi exotri itnt advanteio should liav bec inattde in tle price of these ties. It wa: simply a welI devised seheie to rol the CottOnl faLrmer (out of at certati um of lloley by tataing advtaltrtge wh:t, they considertd his dire necessi. t ies. " The1 Alliance orgaii zatiojn dtcieti that they wouldI not, stmhiit to this rob. bery if they onIl possibly avoid it, and they went to work to find some soubstitouto. As tIrCt' businSs I' atgtill I was instructed to see what coul he done. Now, I am1 well a awre tt I htre tre certain rul les and regllations, also clstotals of adll trados, that have to be re..spectetd. I knew the matI-er of comprel inlg the exporte otton was it VeryA ili)rtaIt fator in ti market jgVive tdte tconlsidetration. With ttahis viewV. iln 0n'dnd, I htadt a balo piakedl w'it~h wire andt shipped01 to Chtarleston. I wont niiystelf to suo it. 1)omp1 ressedt1. anld whtile thte wire was not, woriketd ats easily jtr as riLap idiy ae thet htooptj ties, it ,va utsed andit theOilt) superinhedent, of thbo compri~less satid if tlhe wvire was mole batrge.r atnd softer' and~t some better waty of fastening the tie, Ito tlttttght, it coauldl be used(. I was oflieial ly notitled lay the Charleston Cttoni exehanige that the et~oton baled witht wir wouhd he conisitderedl a gotod delivery. Ot the faith of tlihis anou011 nment I h avo re commiandelll d and utrgedl the uIse oIf the wire tits instead otf the coutton tie trust's 11latt hoop tie. In add ititon to) the attion takon lby thbe Cotton ex chlangte, M1 v. I11. I". Hrlomeir no~tilted mec that ha is old fi rtm, I'. WV. WVage'r & Co., would ret.ceive andt handle all the cott ton b~alud wi tlh w irl' ties att the sameit pricea paid( for tha ao t eottan. " Nw, I suppo)(se, we arl' notti lied thtat Charleston W'~ill noti retiv e the w iru-pallckted batls ( excep)t t t d5isount. I am al Mo nottiliedt th1at Mes)58r.,. Sparutift & Sont tat Wi lmtington will not nott ate cepat, tI.b w irletad als. I (Its irle to saty t~h is t~t thbe farmlers oft the S-tiate, 1 no hope yotau will not al low youlrselvyes to lbe11) bullozed taut oif yourii posi tion in thtis llnaitt~e' bay the action of either Chlures.on tor v Wiin lgtoni. lDon't ate t. :pat any dodduction or discount oni yourll ctittont becauts . it is baledl w it,ha wlire anld if yo~u will halId yourt c otton' Iong e.nough~l toa give mnc tlime to make ar will got, tevery blatlt hantdtd withltout any dIltisount. I h ave w r It~ten to somtle buies fr'itends I ha~ve in N'.orfoalk, I orItsmot~~h andit llatltor, and I hte lieve tw t ca gett o.1. itton handtlled if Charb-stt'tn unla Wilmaington cantii~ atfor toa~ i doa it. "Alil I ask tat you far'mcrs who havte en t~ered thf is Iigh lt, atnd inlstrulcted lie t~o act, for' you, is to ntow staaid by nit.. Don't. iv up a.t Pitt i5 jun rctuo '. I have ordere'd fori you~ atl Ilyl00 bundles upj to todlay. Th'ils moatnstboe baiiing of 53i,Oi00 bal .. of ctattoan. 'i'Te Cintcinnrati \.Vire cotmpanuty haii .-old soveral thiousand bla t es, I dIoin't kanow exatctly hiow miatny, buit, I amn siattisfitd that there has laeeni at, leat, tics enough ordered to batle 75,00 baales. Now we will turn this ctotton th rough one ra i'roatd channtel anud toa onel por't, andi~ we can make it initer'esting fort some1 peoll who catn lie induced to handle ovt' wiroc-batled cot-ton. I repeat, don't, got rattledi be cuse yotu see It stated in stone pape~tr th at the w irie 1,ies wont' tli hetncetad. "Itn 893 Nor ftolk coutton e1 xporterls sutnt a matn to my farmIi iln Union coutnty atnd bought liy crop atnd that of my neighbhot's, 8350, haltos v. ciighIed at our gins, anid w'e deliveed it 'tt thoerest thepjot.( Gi met a lit Lie timo1 to contsumt main thn arr'angcement~s and I ao-air r'epeat we will get all our wired bales of cotton taken care of without allow hig Sprunt & '.Son of Wilmington, N. C., to rob You out of 30 cents per bale, and withojut worrying Mr. Huger and i11.3 I'01111 jiP s ill Cli tlt'i-4ton.fl "We tro will ing toost.and by our own . peo'le when they stand by us. If wo tot 1 t inake the cotton. will tie Col pre5 havel any to mack ? Then when tt- Si se ind ad(1mit thatt tin1 olltr'apeous ex tortiln is bein g cou nitted upon us Wihy shtou11 they not, nike. som little sacit lie" to help us out. y \Ve ean and will timl tlhtos who will do it if you all st al togeth e . ftl'r a littl w elilV. I wait. to addL this : Fle interior' mar'kets have Stood by the f(a'mer. in thir. Ii-2t;: the' ivC ordrted tile Wire ties fto' them anid have aided uts ill in their power, and you .hust stand byN them. tay to them tt you will n'ot al low tlesu 2M0 cotton buers of Sprunlt 4:, ,4)!, of W'ilnliugton UPI dock yolr cotton 30 cents per bale IecaILse youii haVe telr ll, to hale it with wire ties t " The cotton tentst ha]lve grottonl uneasy andt hativO reId uced Lbh prit-e *- CeIts 11r hitunidle, that is at port -1.22 pm- I-miN die, but, tibeso bluyetrs stay t.hey l' are go ing Io nake a deduttciotn of ,3) cent a bale otr *1 50 Ier hnIIidei of ties. \Vhto get the 2S cents ? " Sou th Carolin farmers have taken the initiativo in this fight, and I he lile you will nlot give it up. I don't, feel at, liberty to state at this timo all I know, but theo is at vast am11louint, mytore of itoley invV4eed inl the wir'o business than ill th hoop tio busi netSs, and the wiro manu factu r'es have asured mo Lnat in tie futuro they will st.and by us If we intend to use the w Ie. Some of them aro now it. wor'k ont a machine to be used at the comlipress t) fasten these wire ties. 'A few yeatrs ago nio amumoniated fertilizors wre ritnufactured outside of tie ports. Hli If of South Carolina's cornsntptioni will be manufactured in tI inrtertior for' tho next crop. The e~cessity will (!stablish several coi pre 1s in the Inte'rior to compress thI next (ottoi ro, which will be RHiAI)Y FORt D)EATIVS CA A Stranlg Story item Calli'rinia As '.'o a Nev C-ustomti. Sanl Fralwttisc1 Call. Ther'e ar at least, 200 1people) walk in the' streets of Sain Fraucisco, ill q(Iodtl ha.'ilth tid likely to live ttuany u's, who litae already alr'Ilinge(l tho di- 1.ails of t.heir funerals. They havo Setd t.he cofillin: inr which they will b I butr'ied itand patid cas.h for the same, well as for the bitritai plat, hearses, N'eatrly every undertaker in tho.eity hiasj severajl conitracts of this kind, and a)l of thei arc made by people who atre stppoed LtI o bein irational framnos of tlind. Ago seems to out no figure, (irl. soie of tire contracts ar signed by tol'ti in tht%. pti rioe of life, who aire noted fill' thrIti it Iche rtness and good dispo tionTs. e hIve amliply provided tfit their' funl''tts to assiu.-- themselves tirt they will have decent intermteit. The I ndrtakers think it nothing out of the wa, but look U poI it as sensible forethought. Aid, according to sto'ies t )1(d, it has proved so in many Case,,. ln wit'lhout families havo dropped dead ott the Attreets, and had it' not bee for teir aanles Vithp thle 'it e r'take r, thoy wo Id havc been;bi r'iedl in L1,he pou1tt'er's fild. iO pe'olo havo Imado 111.1raige Inentrs for the mrtinttest details of their' funie rals, even to tite adiver'tisemnents in tle new:)papers. There are a few peu pIe who have nt, been content with so leeti rng their collins, but havo had thom serr, Lo their hroie's. Such cases aro rare, hrowever'. "Yes5, I hnvi e a good( rttary Contracts oif Lthat, kini:l,"'sa id Unrder'Laker iet'~zler, ra gr'eat mnarty eases thbey have pr'oved toi he gootd Liiihmgs. It is a sensible tin tg lot' ar.ybodiy to do wvho has not a famrtily to look after thorm when they at'c gone. .I have'l codllins in thos~e cases there," saiii l IwI trinLi rg, "tltbat were contract (:d fort at, h'ast, six yetarls aigo, and paid for at'i the i time. Iturmay be six or six-. teeniyears, hefuote they ai'e wanted, bit whnthowner' necds thtem they will be ready, antd I will fulfill every part of the eorttract. It is riot, so long ago since I fitlIfilled a conitracet of this kind after I had the contract for seotral years'. WA'hen the tmat made it he looked r'eady to die, and nio doubt torighlt Ito wvould( live Onily a few rmoniths. In this caiso the casket was a line tine antd li piaid caish for it. He talsto muade atrrangemienits for the grave, llamr51, ca"r'iages, shroud and every littli detaiil. lie loft, letters saying thtat I wiould be hris iundot'taker, and, of eoiursi, I was notilied at once and did all I aigr'eed to. .' "hut thet'e are cases wher'e f have to uindl out,1 abiout the per'son's death my self. I talways keep wattch of those events, of coiurtse, aind as soon as I know of ia ease I have beetn paid for I go at onie tal attnto n it I. In mforo0 thant onecao Icinoas a sitrtpri'so to poor relati ves, wh Io were almiost craz/y wvon dr'itng how thbey wet'e going to bitt'y thteir dead. "All k inrds of pL'oplei make those con trtaets--rich arid pooir, sick tand well. Sitr thrink Libey arc going to die soon artd somte at'e pr'eparirtg for a thing a lmng way oil'. Somretimies both are r'ighit, and~ stmetimrte just the r'overso itappenus. \ out cart t oi el aniythinag abtoutt it. If ti tian is goitig to dlie on a ceritaini day lhe is going toi die, and if lie isn't, iwhiy, lie won't. That, 1 think, i.- te r'eason tihat ttitny people want o) lie Ptrepared fot' death whon it does --Tiiere is ai vitizen rosidling near Roinrsonr Creek, Ky., who has a dog whou. actutally (hatchies fish andl supplies his tmatster's fuamily with thema. The dog will divo uindoer thio ledges of rocks arnd bt'ring out catfish that will w'eigh fr'om two to five pounds. When suck cirs are shioaling he has boen kno~vn to ctchel fromr twenty toi tdirty a day. The dog is a common ciur. There Is no American boy, however por however humnble, orphan though be mtay' bi, that, if hte have ai clear head, a trute heart, a strong arm, IMay . nut r'ise through all the grades of society and, bOcomo tho, crown, the Iglory, the pillar of the Stato. -U nles a mnau's walk c'oirespond8 with his t 1lk, his lifluenco for good Is9 not likely to be groat.c*