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THE EOPLEOUR NAL. VOL. PICKENS'1896. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. Bryan's Campaign Speeches. AT ST. LOUIS, MO. A Stirrinig andii! Paariotic Address at the Natioial Assoclattion or DCmixo cratic Clubs. A convention of the National Associ ation of Di)mocratic Clubs was held in St. Loui.-i last week, and Mr. Bryan was invited to attend. He reached there on Saturday afternuon, and in the evening lhe wats greeted by tn au dieneu of 17,(100U euthisistic admirers at the Auditorium, where he spoko as follows : Mr. Uhairman, Ladies and Gentle ment: Por just a little while I aIk your Iatte rtion. I dol't require a great deal of Vine to say all that I have to say to you tonight. The club can be of more service now that it was in pee vlios CamIpaigns because, this camn pa[Lign is being run by the people them selves. The club have adopted a button which bears the likeness of Thomas Jelferson. (Applause.) [f you had searched through all history you could not have found a mian more vorthy of being taken as your ideal statesian. A Voico--" Except Bryan." M. Bryan-Because, in all the his tory of the human race, there has never been but one Thomas Jefferrson.. A Voice-" You're another." M. rHryan-Of all the constructivo statesiien of whom the world has ever seen, Thomas J e fferson stands irst. A Voice-" And Bryan next." Mr. Bryar-At a time when this Government was an experiment, heo wrote that immortal document, wi ich declared that all mucn are created equal, that thiey are endowed with inatien able rights, that governments ar1e in stituted to prese've these rig hits, and that governients derive tejr just powers from the consent of the goveu ed. In stating these four proposition' he stated the A pha and Omeuga Ol Democray. (Applause.) Men 1na 1 ene books and men may fill iibr aries With volumrues, but they can never i mpiove upont ihat, statt. ment, recorded in a few sentences and yet comr jehensivC, th1a thbis is a gov erm ient, of the peole, for tie people, and by the pCople. Inl ily judgmlient, nio itatesina.' ever lived who s() ifhy understood hunan natire as Jlferson (lid. No one more fuliy understoi, the Catneity of the pcoplu for sell governiimnt: no one miore fully uv. dfrstood the dangers to be gularded 1ie mathed the principles whCiib underlie Dlemuoeanv and thient appilied those principles to every q ue.stion that aWii W.e u1 rig I his time. Tn it.es L darwer w hiebh a guvern ment, hab to fear, when trusted in lu man Iands i& favoritism. Favotritismi is the curse of all governments, (applause): at least among govern mntts like o urs, and yet favori tismt is the dangerous stengnIth, even in oUr governibeit, hecaube our government, is ad mi nistered tirouiglh huII)man beings and human beings are human. My friends, if you would halzve a govern mecnt to Jilt the ideal of I perfect gov ernment, you must have a goveIliment that is no rspector of prersons, a gov ornment which deals with eq ial hands, a government which gives to none, Which takes from none, and a govern muent whIt clh inl the dammnistrt :.2n of law ani justce, treis ail alike mnd punishes the great viliianl as it does the pEt,ty scoundreil. If you aLk me what is my h: gliest ambition, I will saty that above all of fices ttiat iilan Lands can give. above all honors Whichi ConflideceC Mnd esteem can bestow, if I ecoud choose the name by whicb I shiould be known, 1I woulid have it this, tant I have (lone my best to mauike the Govern mueunt what Thornas .1eierisoni dlesired it shliubl1 be. (Great applause.) Al y friends, govern ment has 6 ri fted away froma the 01(1 land mark. (A voice: "W e han ye not,.") in ties of passion, Lin times tof sel lish ness, the ins.triuental ities of govern mlent haive bween tutrnted to piva'ite gain and govermment inusteadl of dealing out equli and exact justice, hase been a re fuge of tose w io, hiavinug obtained p~ositins, have used it, to enrich them selves out. ol thbe toil and sweat, of their felhlow men. Behind the hbulna rks erected by our 0oonents, have been gatnueed every public enemy who preys upon the pco ple, antd they can call to theirm aid bt, a smnalI portion oif then unjust gains. that they have wrung from the public th rough viciouis legislation, but. a small p)ortioni of those gains will be a cor ruptiton fund, the like of which has never been known before in aniy governmitent. oni the face of the earth. i Applause and cheers.) A Voice-" If Mlark 1llanna-could only3 heair that." Mr. Bryan-Against, thiis enemiy sup plied with all thbe material that is sup posed to be vialu able in such ai eon lict, against. thiis ene my, conifid entl, arro gantI, and inusolen t, we have nothI ig to opp)os except1~ the conmsenc oes ini sevont~y mliIno~ of pieole. (A iliiause.) My friends, t~lhose wh 1o live fi fty year:, fronmnowi, read inig the pages of hi it tory, will envy those who hived ini this day of such wonderful oipporities. As the P residecntial nuom inec of the Pe'ople's Alliance, I want to raiy toi you that I do niot desire thme inuvol tuntary supplort of any citizen oif thiis nation. We appeal to the wvill, we :iubmiit, ouri cauise to the judgment, aind if 1itiam etcutcd, 1 wanr, to feel that belhind me I have a majority of these pieole, ai! then, so hlp me God, l will carr~my ou0t, the plat~formn to the letter. (G reat apl pilause and cheer~s.) Be not. discouraged by abuse, abuse .has always beemn the lost, of thoset w ho foughti 'aanst, intrenched privilegcs. If you b~cormo ainnoyed, turn bacik to the pages, of history and for every name that is applied to you, you w ill Iin'id one equally severecippliedl to Jelfersoni. Alh, miy leids, may come nearer than that. Tlhat grleat spirilt yonderu (point lng to ai portrait, of Lincoln), wvas as mtalignabntly tattacked by the aristo cracy of wealth and would be as un popular to-day in New York or. Bot among our financiers as Ja<,kson was or ,JelYerson wvas in hIs day. Thoroe Is nothIng, my friends, which so inspirecs as truth, and those Who fight with the conseciusness that they are right,, light on with'perfect confl donco, and If they die, they die In the faith nxprnaand bv the poet, an ha wrote of those who full upon the battle field: Yea, though thou fall upon the dust When they who help thee turn b fear, Die full of hope and manly trust Like those who fell in battle hero. Another hand the sword shall wick Another hand the standard wave ; Until from the trumpet's mouth i pealed The blast of triumph o'er their graves. T1IROUAI1OUT TENNESSEE. E0nthusiastlc Crowds Mark His Cours l'lnrougli lie St ate. Great crowds greeted William J Bryan in his eight hours' journej th-ou1gh Tennessee to-day. Peopl thronged from tle surrounding countr to every station where stops Wer( ijaide. Mr. Bryan traveled in a specia train paid for by those accompanyin him. Arlington was the first stop afte: eaMving Memuphis and several hundrec people pressod around tno rear plat lori of the candidate's car to shakt hands with him. Brownsvillo camuc next and the crowd was large aMid fuli of enthusiasm. A tremendous crowd was at Hum bolt. It numbered 6,000 or 7,000, and was .packed around a stand that had been erected near the railroad tracks. A path way that had been kept for the candidate from the train to the stand was lined with young girls wearing Bryan and Sewall caps, white blouses asou white skirts, who waved flags and shouted a shriil welcome. There was w i !d cheering w lion l r. Bryan appar ed on tile speaker's stand, and le spole in part as follows : Fullow citizens : I was not expect, in 0 large a proportion of tho voters of this county assembled here when our train pulled in. This is one of the hirgest crowds that I havo found at so small a. town. 1 am very much grati lied to find the interest which is every where muanifest in this cause. It is an e- Nience hat the people are investi gating ard well may they investigat. 1. can not but believe that wlien the people undecrtand what has been go ing on under our present financial 1,oiicy, that they Will arise in almost unanimnous protest agair st it. We have beeui Isaintaining a goid standard, and inl order to lliintitiln that, thuy have is u a $22,000,U00 in bonds in the last th-Cee years to buy rold and maintain ,1hC policy, and tei enmd is not yet. For tile pre4ent- our financiers are furnish i ng golo, aid why ? L'ecaue they do ntow wanILt anotlier 1)011n issue belore the meection. That is the only reason. And yt.:, they are fu-inshing' more gold in such a way that under the present poilicy they can go down the day after election andl draw out every dojiar and force another issue of bond. (Ap platuse.) Under our present policy the bonded debt of this country does not depend uloll th1e will of the peopl;e. It is not determined by what they think is best, or by what they are willing to pay in terest on, but is determined by thoso financiers who. under the policy of the treasury departmnent are able to draw out gold and force an issue of bonds, amd then draw out the gold to buy the bonds with, andti dimaud another issue of bonds without limit-no end to it at all, becuse, my friends, when they is sued the first $s0,000,000, they drew out slS,000,000 of the gold to buy the bonds u ith, and when they issued the second k3s,0U0,000 they drew out a larger )ro port-ion than they had the first time. Tein they got what was called the [tothschild contract which, in my judg mI-nt, was one of the most infamous contricLt ever untered into by this govermtlent with private citizens. Th~at conltract, my friends, was bad, not iierely because it compel led tile petOp to piay ai large amount of inzter est which was necessar-y, not mer-cly Oecause bo~nds which ought to have been worth 119t at the time. were sole at 10-11. The contract was bad for these reasons, I say, bet worse for an other re-ason. TIhat cou raut was worse because it stip~ulated that a few fina c-iers were to take cnre of thle tr-easury of the United States in return for what, had been dlone for thleml. I believe that the peoplo of this counn tr-y, atctinug thrzough a government wfhich resp~ects their will andl protects their rig ht,ar-e strong enough to carry on this government, not only without the aid of syndicates, but in sp o o anyhling thtat syndicates can no to prevent it. TIhe Chicago pllatform does not pro p)ose to injure any, but it simply prmo pioses to prevenOt 1)eop)1 from injur-ing thejir fellow-men. We find growing upf over the country more tr-usts andl coimbinationis of wealth, and they are eominiing together, and are able to dIvey out tile hum bier competitors, and then, having decstr-oyed compel~ti tions thbey are able to prey upon society and get hack from helpless consumers msore than thley have lost by compIeti tion. I undterstandl that yout have had some exper-Iienleo in this State. Whlat was if, thait you had1( a trust in, here ? Co~ttonl bagginug ? Al y friends what can be doiso in one thing, can be done in alt things. It is onse Of the thinugs that we rejoice at in this conted- that we (10 not have the 51fshpot of any trus.t or' comibination of syndicates ol this countimry. (Chees.) TJhreiei thsousanld deomonstrative peo pie were at Mlfan and M\ackenzio hlad evenl a btirgeri crowd, w hen Mr. B1ryanl spokeC to tibem) aL follows: f t gi.vx sme a great dlel (If pleasure toI becomo. aesjumted with so many of the A ne-iein peole. The onsly trouble I I lInd is that instund (of showing any i-oldness, they arse apft to) overcome mei with demssonstrations an~d mani fest~a tions (of alsections. I w- ishs I had time to present to you)1 the issues of this camn paigus, as I look at thomil, andI yet ii would be a waste of time dlown here. find1( that, ini Tenssee5tf it is like gilvi ng mled liine to those. w ho n to alreadly well. I Call botter save srengtli amnd employ my) timei talk Iing to, plel in otiher partsi of the coiuntry thlan in talking tc you, my frienlds. IFor the past, twsinty years or more, our governoment has been op~erated iri my judgmnlt,, in the intstst (If a few peOol n against the rights andI wel fa43f0h great mass of tile peopkl and nowv, whon tile pe5oplo are assorte ing their righsts to prIopas 'tonsidera tion, we find that thosis who are in trenhed ehin tlcso uiwake, hlc - heve been their hope in the past gon eration, call us anarchists and social ists and disturbers of public order. My friends, as I look into the faces of these people, I cannot believe that they are anarchists. [ do not believe you find anarchists out upon the farms an I p!antations and in the workshops. If you were to send me out to find aun 3 archists, I would find them at the head of the great syndicates and corpora tions, which think they are greater than the government and refuse to re spect the law. Mr. Bryan spoke from the rear piat orm of the train to quito a large au ditneo at liruntington. lie was present ed by Senator Harris and in the course of his remarks said : It was not very long ago that the President assorted the Monroo doctrine and you found that the gamiblers upon the stock mrket, the financiers of New York, who had been Mr. Cleveland's devoted I admirers, exprested a doubt as to whether or not wo were in a position to assert a foreign policy of our own, and the people of the South and the West were the ones that promised to stand by him while he enforced an American policy. (Cheers.) You can not have an American policy as long as you have your financial system rest ing upon a handful of gold. with for eigners ready to pull it out from under you at any time. (Applause.) The gold standard is a tyrant in times of quiet and has always been a coward at the first suggestion of danger. (Great applause.) AT THE HElM[TAGE. Free Coinage of' Silver is Not. anr Ex periniem-C'n(lorsed uyltlie H lstory of'the Human Race. Ladies and GCentlemen : It was my good fortune to visit Nashville more than a year ago when we were begin ning the light which resuled in secur ing the control of the Democratic con vention. I remember with pleasure lily visit then and it gratifies me much upon returning to find that the santi ient in favor of the immediate restora tion of the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver at the present legal ratio of 1i6 to 1, (cheers) without waiting for the aid or consent of any nation on uarth has expanded until today a Vast majority of the peoplo of Ten Cssee are arrayed under a double standard banner. I beg to thank the young mien who have opened this meet ing with our campaign song--our bat tlo hymn it might be called-for in this light for the defense of the homes of this land. the humble as well as tile palatial home, we well might take as our battle hymn that most beautiful of all songs, " LIone, Sweet Home." (Cheers.) Our warfare is in one sense aiggres sive, in another sense it is defensive. It is aggressive in the sense that we are asking for remedial legislation. It is aggressive in the sense that we are instbting that something shall be done, and it is defensive in the sense that we are fighting for out homes and our people from thei invasion of a foreign financial policy. (Cheers.) As I passed through the street.s to night and listened to the exclamations of the people, I could easily believe that I was in a city so near that sacred spot, the U1ormitage. (Cheers.) I can understand why the people of this State should feel so deep an interest in the cause which is being represented by the Chicago nlatform, because, my friends, we are fighting today the bat tie that Andrew Jackson fought when he was in office. (Great cheers.) We find arrayed against us the same com hinations, the same aggregations of wealth, we meet the same intoler an11eC that he met : we suffer fr'om he-same abuise that hre sufferecd from ; every ifnm is alpplied today to the advocates of fr'co coinage that wer'e aplied c to Old Hickory when he fought for the Amler'ican people. (Gret'L chee'rig.) It has been the lot of thnose who have esp~oused1 our cause to lie dleii~nouce and abused b~y those wilo favor thre gold standard. it hias bee'n the lot of those who have de fended the caus~e of tho coinmon p~eole to he atsailedi by those who dlou bt the capaicity of the people for self- govern merit, arid wounld deny to them the r'ighit of eating the bread which they ear'r. (Cheers.) In declrinrg in favor of bimetallisma we are' staninii rg upionl ancient gr'ournd. TPho free coinrage of silver is no experi minit. it in endiorsed by hiistory of the humarn race. It hras the sanction of all the gr'eat, staitesmrin of this nation from the begi nn inrg of ouir conlstitultion alI h istory dlown to 1873t. No per'son will assert, that thre Amnericarn people abandoned bimuetallIismn after a full arid comUplete a issi~on. if you read tihe records of tire ti me you i finrd that tile nlewspapers which are so quiick to grasp uipon airy iterm (of news arnd so ready to spretad it beforo tire publI c (lid not undelrstarnd andi cxpllain thar, the law ol 1873h dtnmorietized silIvcer, closed the mints to thre coinage of the white mertaul and left tie withr gohld (only as uri aandrduio monrey-. l'over since tirhat day we hiave bet'ni m-ek(inrg toi urndo wharrt was done ini the dark. (Cheers.) MIy friends tinat man wV ho talks about, 0our nout nein-Cirg any mortie morey ini thiis country is a cuir'iosity. I havo alwiays noticed that tire maii whot tinlks we do not, rneed airy mornie rmoiney happens to he the imarn whno hars thre inoney. (Cheer's.) Let moe show you that, our finanrciers themiselv1es ackk now ledge ouri neetd of rmore rmorm-y. Ou r Iinan~iciers r'ejoice at the( thouinght, Of muoney coin rg f 'rm abn'r. I f we hlave niouigh money in thh, contr'y now why should we vwant ai single dtl Ian' to coirro fr-om any other cour ntr'y ''' Do wo want too muchel monifey Itin his country ? Nobodly wants too muchr I, we all want just eringh. My fr'iends, whenever we 'radmit, thrat we ought to have any money come from abr'oatd, we ad mit that there is rnot ernoughi her'e andl when we admit that thiero is not enloughl money, nowv then I assert that it is better to let tis country get, out of our own mnoinrtains'the mloney thin tt gc abroad and borrow money to ha pidt aftei'wards in Interest. (Chou rs.) But the~y ask us how are we going to get hold of tis money tAvon if their is mnoro, It Is IL very easy question It, is true that you crannot, get mnonie until you have somethring to soll, bul it is just as true that ovmiry plroducel ought to have something to aoll, an:~ tho price he gets for what ho has t< soil, depends upon how mnuch monoa to buy what he has to sell. (Choers.] When a man asks you how are you going to got any of this money uiles you have something, let me give you a question to ask him. Suppose I have something to sol' ; how am I going to get anything for it until I find some body with money to buy what I have to sell? (Great applause.) My friends, we havo lost somo Democrats in this fight, but I am mighty glad that most of those whom we lost were generals. We have not lost many privates in the army. (Applanso.) We might have kopt all the Democrats who aro gonc if we had been willing to pay the price they asked. If we had been willing to mako the Democratic party the agent to fasten plutocracy upon the American people we could have kept every man who has loft us. But we have to chooso between throwing overboard those who have boon mill-stones about the neck of Dolmocracy and throwing over Demo cracy itself, and we profer to save Democracy and let the aristUWat3 go. (Great cheerIng.) My friends, we have n1ot lost by it. It has beenl our gain. It is always true that those wh"o daro to do right are rowarded in the long run, and the Democratic party is re ceiving its reward-not cycn waiting for the long run-it is receiving its re ward right now for daring to do right at Chicago. (Cheers.) We are drawing in our ranks those who are in the Republican party for bi netallism. They have como to us be cause they sco now that the hope of international bimetallism is a delusion and that it is used only as a cover while the leading Repuilicans aro at tempting to fasten the gold standard permanently upon the American peo ple. And not only are we gathoring from the ranks of the Republicans, but the Populists in their national con volntion were willing to go outsidu of their own party lInes to nominate as thoir candidate for thel presidency, the man atready nominatod by the Democrats and free silver Relpublicans. Here, where you still cherish the In m ory of New Orleans-hero where you still believe in the right of the people to go cru themselves--er where you aIe true to the traditions of the 1)mo cratic party-I have no fear that you will falter now in this supomo conflict between Democracy, in its broadest sense on the one side, and on the other every enemy of this country and overy man who would usc government, for the purpose of privato gain. (Cheers.) AT INDIANAPOLIS. The Republican Annex Ticket Re ceives a Proper Shaire of' Attentiion. The outpouring of the people at Indianapolis was most extraordinary, and the crowd wis estimated at 60,000. The speaking was in thu State House grounds, and Mr. Bryan was introduced by Governor NIatthews. He said : This city enjoys the unique distinc tion of being the birthplaee and the deatnbed of a so-called party. (Great and prolonged cheering and laughter.) It calls itself the National Domocratic In-ty when it does not expect to carry a single county in the whole Nation. (Cheers and laughter.) It cal 1s itself a Democratic party when it was organ ized for the express purposoof electing a Republican candidate fo- President. iGreat cheering.) if it was big enough to justify a name, I would call it a stupendous fraud. But it is too small to be called stupondous. (Laughter and cheers.) I will call it a transparent friaud. (Cheers.) It was the first political con vention ever hold in this country where the membors of the conveltion nomi natcd a ticket that they did not expect to voto for, and thu first place where men have received a nomitnation and don't want to ho voted for. (Cheers and iauightetr.) The minority plank at Chii cago opposed free coinage on the g round that it would i nter-f''rt with iternat'onal bitmetallIistn. (Lautghter.) y 'a ,o coul d be no clearor evidence of hite-nded decuption than is found in the fact, that the mlinority at Ub icago when they hadi things all their own way, repud iated the planks they stood on there and came out in favot- of a gold standard instead of International bi metall ism. My frietids, I am villing to meet an open enemy in an open field and concede to that enemy all thu rights and lpiv ileges of open warfare, but when our opplonents call themselves advocates of siioun money and want to faston u pon uts an unisound financial system, when they call themselves the advocates of honest, money and then deal dishonestly with the American pteopile whetn they say that they at-c members of a Deomo cratic party, and yet employ speakkcrs andl openly say they are going to vote thu R.epublican ticket, that party (loes not dleser-ve to be treatedl like an open enemy in this camnpaign. (Great cheer ing.) My friends, I have no criticism to make of any tman who believes that the election of the Chicago ticket would - stroy this eoun try aund w ho in that, - Ilief votes the I topublican ticket, but, my friends, to find a tman who wants to olect a Rep~ulican ticket and then has not, the ecourage to bear the odium of advocating it, is an entirely diltferent matter. (Gr-eat cheotring.) ''Give it to lHynum," cried a voice In tire crowd. ''If you want to know what that dis tingu ishod citizen"'-continued Mr. I iryan~l. "'l'xtiniguished," camne from the Mr'. Bryan :The gentloman suggests extingu ished citizen. (Gr-oat cheering and laughter.) ilut I will say dilstini guishted, because he has a Past, whethr er lhe htas any future or niot. (Laughter arnd cheering.) if you want to know what he said about the gold standard, let me read from hris speech in favor of silver in 18%r :'"Again the advocates of gold ap prochutl uts with open hands and smiling ~ountenances, but I fear with a dagger conea'iled beneaith their coat.'' (Cheers.) Ah, my; friends, lie understood the nature of the animral before he began to anoniate with It. (Cheers arnd laugh tir.) lIIe is right In his dlescriptiorn. TheL goldh stanrdardl never fought an oipen tighrt. My friends, instead of say ing now that we will adopt bimetallismi ami( dIv e othber nartions5 to It, he says that we w il stanid by the gold standard and allow other nations to drive us away frm it. (Cheers and laughter. I mirht quote to you what Mr. Bienmuni quoted in that speech from Mr. Ingalls. Now, note the languago quoted from Soinator Ingalls. MPr. Bryan o not ed several p)aragraph1s fromt Mr. Ingalls, beginning: "No on (luring fabric of national prosperity cnn be huilded on gold," and followed the quotation with these roinarks: "Those aro the words of the distin guiished Rlepublican Senator and those words are true. Gold is arrogant, ty rannical in times of peace, and it. de serts any nation in timo of war and never is a friend when a friend Is need ed. (Cheers.) And yet our oppolents are insisting that, we shall maintain this gold standard until foreigners come to our relief." The rest of the speech wias devoted to iL disciislon of the silver question on lInes familiar to readers of his provious add(IreSses. When lhe was nearly through, people in the udlienco call(d out: "[it Ilynui again," "Give it to Cockran."' THE SEABOARD HAS BEEN SCOOPED. THOMAS AN) RYAN AlE, TiE1 PUIlCHAS13.tS. The Itate Warm W.11 Now Cease The New System Will b)o Friendly With the Soitierni Railway. Special to Atlanta Coistitution. Nnv YoRK, October (.-The news flow through Wall street late this afternoon that Thomas F. Hyan had bought a controlling interest in the Seaboard Air-Lino system. It was said he paid $110 a share for a block of .1,000 shares, and thereby secured the needed majority. Mr. Rtyan and his associate, General Sai Thomas, are the holders of 49, 990 shares of the Central of Georgia stock, or they so stated to the Georgia railroad commission a few months taFo when that body was trying to discover if the Southern Rtailway controlled the Central. MeSbrAs. R yan and Thomas also own or hold in trust the Port IRoyal and Augusta railroad, which they bought recently at receiver's sale. If it turns out to be true that they have scooped the Soe.board. and there are a number of corrobating circum stances, the system is to be meorged into some of their other properties and will be operated in perfect harmony with the Southern. It is the under standing on the street hero that Mr. J. Pi erpont, Morgan is the real owner of a!l these Southern properties. The Seaboard's purchase, if made, wias to take it out of the tielid as a competitor and demoralizer of rates Mr. Samuel Spencer, president of the Southern, charged recently that the principal owners ol the Seaboard hadaolfured to seil the property to him, and that he had declined to buy. It has been street talk for a long time that a pool had been formed by Mr. lolffman and his friends to force the Southern to buy. their stock. It may bo that the pool has succeeded. whether $110 was the price the pool first asked is not known on the out side, but as the stock has been above $50 and has been as low as $36ivi thin the past few months, it is probable that $110 was not considered a bad price. lRecont statements of the Southern show that in its ret earnings for tihe first ten weeks of the present, financial year, beginning -July 1st, tihe system foil behind $190.000, or nearly *100,000 i month. TI is wits in a large measure due to the rate w.w n r ett by Mr. Hloflman's 2.aaget the Seaboard. Mr. 1offman's re-election as prosi dent of the Seaboard would be the usual movo in tihe event of the com pany's salo to Mr. RIyan. In the lresent st~ate of pueblic mind in the South, iL wvouldl make mattters worse to openly annIounIce that the Seaboard had been boughit up by its competitors to get Pidl of competition. Mr'. I Lyah went, down to Portsmouth last night on one of the bay boats with G. 13. M. Harvey and some friends froum ilaltLimiore. Diispatches from Norfolk intimate thabt Mr. lRyan got in sonme missionary work before the meeting abnd arrmanged the deal for the block of *,0GO shares. lie was working hand in glove with Mr. Jlohni Gill, who had been managing the Baltimore end of the campaignm, dIireeted toward1 the acqui remnent of the Seaboar'd. The comramon stock of the Seab~oard and Roanoke consists of 10,587 shares of a parP value of $1 ,05S,700 and the guar anteedi and prefer-red make a total of $1 ,:02,900. 11, is julst poible )1 that the Scaboard( system and the Central of Georgia will be consolidated, though It is more problel that it wvill be mergedl with otheor ityan and Thomas lpoerties andI handled for the )pesent as5 a separa'lte system. It is said that the~ ou i ir manago-= ment of the Seaboard will resign with in thir ty (lays. Thne Sale to TIhomas andI Iyan In Fu~mlly Conflmedic:-W Vhat, the New Deal Meansi. N msw -Yon)s, October. 7 .-T-Lhomas F. Itya, inrepl t a i nquiry from a r epresenitative of the Associated Press, said( that lie wou ll not deny tihe report that,. lhe had bought for himself alnd Others a miajori ty of the stock of the Seabhoard 13( In Roano)ko railrmoad. The Seaboard and lIoanoke owns5 a control in g interest in tihl various r~oad~s that compllosO the Seaboard Air ine. Mr. I yani andI General Thomas have made other pur ichases of railr-oad pr operLy in the South recently, i nclutd inga the Il'ort l.oyal and Augusta, and I ''rt, IRoyal and Veostern Carolina and1( have conisoliated the two hines 11nto one systlm, the new company operat mig as the Charleston and Western Carolina. Th'le implortabnce of tihe transaction lies in the assurance of peaceful read justme1.nt, of the relations betweon the Southern ra&ilway and certain of its competi ~tors, w ho have hoonr respon hbic for rical dist~lurbance in rated. I lyan and Thomas areC known to have been operating together in Southbern ri'lr ioadsh for some ime. General Thomainc built the East Tennessee, which~ is flow part, of tihe Southern. .\l. Nyar, is a Souithern man and a very clo ''e friend of Will iam C. Whit ney. Hyan andit T1hiomas hold a con troIinug i nter-est in the Central. It has beeni intimated by MI r. Spencer that the Souithetrn, whih bIs the sute nasmr of the West Point Terminal. has a benef(I1cil inl'Cest in the Central and has determined to have that in t.3ro3t closed out and the money paid over to tle Southern. If this takes placo andll Ryan and Thomas have obtialned tihe SeaboarI'd Air Lino it means tih creation of another great system of railroads run ning into this section under distinct ownerships, but controlled by men who are entirely in touch with each other and who will conduct a friendly coim pot ition for business. It is also belloved that ite Thomas Ryan lines will work in clovo connec tion with the Louisville and Nashville, practically a joint operation. The Southern comprises the ol E Ntast Ton nessee, tihe Richmond and Danville, the Georgia Southern and Florida. and the Georgia Midland, and this system will be the great competitor of the other. Th is would create two groat systems touching nearly every part of the sotth easte rn States. Ryan and Thomas and Morgan and his associates are jointly interestod in a -roat 11ny other enterprises. So loigi as the two systmcis are controlled on the one side by Ityan and Thoitas and on the other by Morgan nd his associates, competition between them will not be carried to tihe extent of rate wars but, will be upon thoroughly con servat ivo hues. Oin the otier hand a theory is pre sented that Ityan and 'Ihonas meroly represent Morgm and his associates and that the real purposo i? to consoli (late both systems, while they are ap atrently separato. If tlhe sale has been accomplished it )ias buon through the agency of GnrICI .lohn1 Gsill of Haiti more, who is well known in Atlanta. He was forI a long time the friend of 'resident Ilolman and wIts Ia close friend of John N. Robinson who pre ced ed Mr. Il oilman as presient, of the Se aloard. General Gill's trus, company was tIs teo for th01 (eorg ia Southern and iPlorida. It Is now trustee fo ' the bonds of the Georg ila, Carolina and Northern. It has nicti known for soietimo it, he considered the extreme courso of Mes.rs. loffnan and St. John unwise and1( ruin!ouls to the l)roperty. I is ad v ice not having been heeded by these gen tlem h1e11 bi is suppmosod to hl'tvo formed an alliance with Rtyan and Thllomas and set iimselIf to work t.o obtain control of the stock or the SeLboard for t1hle pur pose really of protecting tle property' ag-tilst the extremo I-thods that are being lused by Messrs. Ilol'lliall and St. John.lIf he has in fact obtained control of the property there is no questio-1 that his i5)Ociates are Messrs. Rtyan and Thomas and that i, further align ment.oithlhr in the direction of 11n in dependent systemil, having friendly relations With the Southern or as anl aIdjiict to the Southern, will he Carried out. TIlI ANCESTIRY OF BIYAN. I'roilinenit ai. SiceseCiu In ILanv anild Polities. Geo. II. 1iHarris in Denver Times. 'Th4e elmen t Of popuIaritwy w ii Ich characterizes a namino that, has been lionored at, home and 10 1has also been mado conspicuous by thbe acknowledged rovereelue of foreign nations, i in it i a sulliciont proof of tile popular cStocimI nal(d appreciation of tile merits and actual worth of the individual who bears tho name. Bryan is by it) 111enS a comm12on name. TIoiro are vOry mILy nami1(es thbat ILpeas lmlo r1-43 fre(umly in tile directory lists thanl this nlam (1 (os. Yet there are but, very few namnes that have boeen1 more prominent ill tile po liti hIII IIistory of ouil natiOll, that aLvLeV i* cived aL greater degreo of distine tlion or ha ve had a more honorable menLi on by the Amiterican people. The services of men beari ng tihe name ofI Brya~n wiho haIve held1( positions upon01 the supreme'L 11 ench101, Or VI who have filled cabjiniet10 poi tiOne, and11 haIve b)uon sentL aLs .1mbassadt~tO'.s L,) ford in courts, have b~een recognJ~I iztel and1 just11 ly)pprciaItedl, bothl at homec and abhroad. two dlivisionIs in the I ryan1 faiIly. The L~hIc nlom 1111inatedl(1( anida1t e for presi - dleztial honor-s (came1( from the faiily of liryanls who1 first settled in Virginia. Th is branichl of tile fami ily, liko all tho other desce'ndant~s of the iBryans, were largely incol ined to the iegal profession Iand the L tie of Judl~ge I ryan1 has been of con111n(on (ocurrence. lI1arly in tile forties Henrlly I ryan, of Oloan, N. Y., moved his family froml thait town to I taeine, WVis., wherilo hoe IsLtablished aL NI r. I ryan wasL tile Iirst mauyor' of the, ci ty of I tanine and1( was also judge of the couni ty cou r't, of Itacino Coun ty. T1he 1H01. .John1 A. Bryan, of Meonah, Wis.P stud iedl law w ithm hiis brother', the late ,udg. H enry I ryan, and became in 1:ourseb1 of Lim 11on01( of the most, promni n2e nt men1 (of Ihis dlay. Ju :lgo John A. Biryani held( aL cab1inet position an~d was aLIso a miiin ister to Soth~i America. Cor' n11elLia ryan, a dlauighter of the late John A. Bryan, was the first wife of ox-Governor Wi'el ler, oIf Cal iforniaL. Her11 brother., Clhas. A. I ry3an, d istiniguihled h~ imself in thle legal lprofession1 and1( be como1( one of the formlost lawyers of CaltI forn)ia. Chaus. A. Bryan has( boon k no1wni to receiv as a compen0111C~..ation for at sinhgle pI! (a in bhal 11f of the Ma iz'op paI claLimI mJ~ay LIhousands~i of dollairs, sti ci ent, to plaiee anyl 0( orinary ma11n in (com1for'taio~ 1"~ i$i-ntinces foIr life. MI r. C::as. A. Bryan dIied very suddenly aL f.w year's ago ill Nevada. While catl ing dinner01 aLL aL hotel (on1 (lay ho aWcidet~lLy1 swalllowed IL bonoc, whlich pr1oduce (1: tra1 lngul ation, cauisinrg (leath withbini a very short Lim111. The two br-othi:rs (of the Chicago liryanis havo also0 ideni tled4( themnsel vs with prom I inint Jpositions at WashIington, D). C. One of tube brotherls wast first assist1 culiari chiaraterelistics in th~e Bryan family w hich: establlish beyond dloubt theO r'oationsip of this remairkable family. Th'ie full face, a robust, consti tttin, keen porlIctivo facuiIlties, llo man nose, lips closely prossed, indioat ing persHoveranL1ce, and11 indomi table will, an ulntiri'ng dlevotionl L) dlomlestic rela tions, faithful and honest in every position of life, uipright a~nd can~ldid in all buisin'os tra~nsacotionsl, friendly and conf1(1idig In all positions' of honor and trust,. The J acksonian Deamocracy perme ted the views (If ali1 the Bryanu andi mI wanearl inanornonatd In iho life of every descendant. Nearly a half cen turv ago, when John A. Bryan was a rcsIdent of Ohio, and estab ished the town, which still bears his name, the precedent becanme establishod and has abnost urivers4ally remained true to its orivinal principles, that there was not a lryan that ever sulfored defeat, whellver a man of this name under took to obtain a public office. Such was the determination and per severance of these men that it was thought unnessary oftentimes to make any contest of election or Lo show any light by nominating a candidate enter taining dilferont political opinions. Some four or ilvo years ago the writer's wife, who is a cousin of the Ion. W. J. Bryan, had occasion to write him when he was a ,nember of Congress from Ne braska. The closing sentence of Mr. Bryan's letter, which he wrote in reply to the letter sont him, indicates the caliber and staying qualities of the man. He said that on account of his axtremo views upon the silver question at that time he stood almost alone, and was very unpopular at Washington be causo of the stand ho had taken upon this (Ilestion. Glancing backward from the present condition of things, it is not diflicult to imagine the trying position in which this man was placed at that time, tIght ing for a principlo that he knew to be right and ono that was for the best in terests of the American peoplo. Like other heroes and great thinkers, Bryan lived in advance of his time. Still the great mass of thinking people are be ginning to appreciate the services which the Hion. W. J. Bryan has ron dercd then during the past live years. The desire for popularity is universal. Every one thirsts for popular esteem and the good will of their follow man. This element in man's character takes its origin in widely different motives, In1d is soldom satisfled unless called forth by noble impulses or generous thoughts. Thre are common, every day petople whom the world admires, because they unselfishly leave a home of comfort and luxury for the purpose of llinistering to the wants of the sick and unfortunate. The gallant fireman who braves the dangers of a burning house to save the life of some helpless innmate is regarded as a hero and we acknowledge his bravery. So it is ih all spheres of life. The mIan or woman wlt), from a generous impulso, risks danger or death for others, or who from a similar impulse beoomes the subject of suilerin Y or in con venience that others may b1onefilt ed tompels the homage of every cogni zant heart. We receive the world's esteem only as we pay for it in advance and even then our sacrifices will avail little or nothing unless they are made without relerence to the object of gain ing p)plarity. A good deed or a per sonal sacri lice for others, in order that it ny merit approval and approbation, shiou il be the spontaneous offspring of an unselfish, chivalrous heart. Such triais of magnanimity, personal sacri l1ce, generous and noble Impulses as are revealed to us in the life of W. J. Bryan cor mand our1 admiration on ac collt of his, ilipulsive atd uncalcuating genierosity, his unsworving devotion to a CILus that ho knows will benefit makl mikd ; the colsciontious regard for the rights of others ho has closely ad here( to for a numbor of years before the )eOpilo began to realize the stupon diouis ell'orts lie was putting forth in their bohalf. Another Smart Womian. My husband is poor hut proud and he does not want ein to work, as I have nothing to do I get ritlo., nnd at lotr reading In your papor irs. Itussell'1 exirioieo soiling self-heat ng flatilroll I colid 11141 I would try it. I wrote to .). F. Casey & Co.. 8t. Louis Mo., and they rt 1dm11 fill% Noseely that I felt vry much on co)uraiged. As soon a.s I got liuy 50amplo1 Iron I sin rti od 41ut. ane1l sold 5 I rons t ho flrst day clear lng $I'r. I have not sold less thaii 8 any day since, and1( 0114, hy eaid I- , 1 no0w have $r26 e~i, lenr moey, andli my lhsband d1os not know I inave beren working at all, but, I am af.raidl ho will be' intd wheni I toll himw. liave I done right . or .'heid Ii I illt work antd lonvo him to sitryggle a1lone1. A N ANXioUs \Vtyg. \4 Iu are dloing just right, your husband shouilld bl pru iIl of you1, go abendiu anld show ,the wolrldl what, 11n energetic woman can do. '111u1t sel r heati ing ironi mlust be a wonderful sol 1r. n45 we hear of so many that nrc suo (Iedin I s1 elhinig it, I loW Tio STroP A NlEWSPAPERtl.-The following, fromi one of our ekchanges, so fully and early expresses our views onl the subjoot that we copy it without commlent: " You have an undoubted right to( stop a nlewsimapor when you feel disposed, upon the payment of all arrearages. And when you discon tinu~e a palpor, (10 s0 maInfuly. Don't be' o spiteful as to throw it back to the piostmraster' with a contemptuous, '1I dlon't want it any longer' and have 'refused' written on the ma'gin, and have the paper returned to the publish er. No gentleman ever stopped it in that way, no matter if his head is cov ered with gray hairs that should be honorable. If you do not longer wish to receive a newsp~apor, write a note to the publisher' like a man, saying so -and ho0 sure that all arrearages are p~aid. This is the way to stop a news A Chance to Make Moneoy. I hmve rnado1( $l,t40 eleanr mney m187 (lays and altltde to my13 househo111ld dulties besides0, and I 11hink t his Is doing splen~did for a woman un expe riencel inl buoslis. Aniyone can sell what. everyonae w&:tIs to buy, and every famIly wnnl ts a laish washer, I 'lon't canvass at all* Jleople( ('(ome 4or Nondt for the Washer, and (ivey) washer I hat goes oult sells t wo or three morI~e, as I hey dlo Ihe work Ito perfootlon. YOU (?nnl wash and)4 dry'3 the dislhos in two minutes, I 4am1 gol ing to de~voto my13 whol4e timo to this lbusinless nIow, andli 1 am1 sure I CInn clear $5 000t ai year My sster and br(othler have started in buosiness iad are1 doling sleI)hd. You can get comletle lnst ructlins and14 hundreds of testi mnlials byv addlressIng tho Iron Ulty Dish washer (Co,, StatIon A, Pittsburg, Pas., and it ~ou dion't make lots If money it's your own nt. Mrs. W. H. NO,ll ANb MONICY.-" The financial situation has caused considerable re search on the subject," remarked the cheerful idiot to his p~astor the other day. "I su ppose," lie continued, "that you have made a study of the moneys of the Bible?" " Oh, yes," replied the minister, blandly. " I am familiar, to be sure, with the Biblical coins." ''1 infer that paper money was used at the time of the flood ?" continued the idiot, sparring for a chance to make a home thrust. "What as d ou rto this conch~, " Well, we r'oad of where the dv brought the green baok to No a