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You 1 J don't have to he always running to . a ilie sIioh wiiii the buggies and wagons ' you byy from us. < or coritsr vor know : That we keep HARNESS of all kinds. ( No better made than the best grades we keep in stock. Call and see for ' yuii r*f ii. ELLIOTT it CKAWFOUD. i March 15. 18!)! t, | Kodol K Dyspepsia Cure. Digests what you eat. Ifcartlflclallydlgests the food and aids Nature in strengthening and reconstructingthe exhausted digestive organs It is the latest discovered dige9tl ant and tonic. No other preparation a can approach it in e.ficiency. It in> stantfy relieves and permanently cures s* Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn, Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea. S1 ck Headache, Qastralgi a, Cram pa. an<| b all other laaultaotlmpwfect digestion. I\ ervporsSby K QrO?WIU4 0?.. Cb??o?a. | 1 AST E \ ^7" LANCASTER BRYANT REPLY TO BEL- i MONT. ?v- i lie Denies Tliat the Gold Demo- i orats are the Jeffersoniati i Element. Lincoln, Neb., April 10.?Colonel W. J. Brydfn on yesterday mailed his answer to the last letter received from Hon. Perry Belmont some weeks ago. The correspondence thus far has dealt largely with the rival Jefferson dinners to be held in New^York, but Mr. Bryan ignores that matter and devotes his attention to the differences existing between tiimeelf and Mr. Belmont, oi^ questions of Democratic party policy. His letter, 111 part, follows : Lincoln, April 8, 1899.? lion. Berry Belmont, New York.?Dear Sir: Upon my return to Lincoln I found your ^letter containing the original letter and postcript jiven to the press some days be Fore. 1 cannot (ind anything in my letter to which you can consistently object. You began your speech at Madison |iSquare Garden on August S, 189G, by saying it was time for 'plain speaking," and proceeded to accuse the Chicago convention t)f a "betrayal" of the Democratic party. In your Brooklyn speech j jn September 1, 189G, you Hpoke at the Chicago platform as "the strange element of the old party and the Socialists who masquerade as Populists." It seems that in using the words "betrayal" and "masquerading," I unconsciously fell into the style which you employed in 1896, but I*did not rellect upon the intelligence of the gold standard advocates by characterizing them as an "unthinking element." You ask first that I point out wherein your utterances are "unpatriotic, un-Democratic, unAmerican and in conflict with the Democratic creed as set forth in .Toflfaronn^u firof inoiiwiipal nrl ?. tress." We have no accepted itandard by which to determine whether a given opinion is patriotic or American, but we have means of determining whether in opinion is Democratic and in iccord with the teachings of Jef Feraon. I presume you uae the word Democratic in the party lense, otherwise that term would be as difficult to define as "patristic" and "American." The right to determine what is temocratic in party sense belongs to the Democratic party. The Chicago convention was more j purely representative than any j sther convention held in recent years, because the rank and filej jf the party spoke on public quos-> tions through instructed dele-' eates. The Chicago platform is | In toot onf hnrifofiua rtofinifinn ' t [)f Democracy as applied to ex-11 isting conditions. If a minority'' af the delegates to a national con- f mention representing a minority [>f the members of the Democratic paity has right to determine; what is Democratic, then each member of the party has a right to define Democracy for himself and to assert that he is a better Democrat than any oue else. Let me apply this principle to three questions upon which you have taken a position in the volumes sent me: First, standard money ; second R EN 6RMI-WRRKLY, r^C7SATURDAYr paper money ; third, income tax. Jefferson favored the double standard as against the single jold standard, and during his administration our nation had the free and unlimited coinage of sold and silver at the legal ratio if 15 to 1.. The ratio was changed [o 10 to 1 during .Jackson's administration. The Chicago platform pronounced against the goM itandard in favor of the return to the free and unlimited coinage if gold and silver at the ratio of 10 to 1 without waiting for the J iid or consent of any other nation. As a delegate to the Chicago convention you voted for a minority report which declared igainst independent free coinage in the ground that it would not inly imperil our finance", "but would retard ??r entirely prevent nternational bimetallism to which the effort of the governiient. should he steadily directed/1 \s a delegate to the Indianapolis convention two months later you mpported a platform which declared in favor of the gold standlrd without any declaration in avor of international bimetallism. You may be able to explain why the minority rejected <t ?I ndianapolis the plank for which it fought at Chicago. Mr. McKinley in 1891 chatged n a public speech that Mr. Cleveand, during his first administration, was dishonoring one of :he precious metals, discrediting lilver and raisiug the price of gold. lie insisted that Mr. Jleveland was trying to make 'money scarce, and therefore lear," and added "he would have ncreased the value of money md diminished the value of iverythiug else. Money the ziaster and everything else the lervant." If Mr. McKinley then inderstood the real purpose of he gold standard, as I believe he lid, who could think Jefferson sapable of advocating a policy which instead of securing equal ind exact justice for all makes 'money the master and everyhing else the servant?" Mr. Carlisle, in a speech in 1878, said: "The conspiracy to lestroy by legislation and othervise from three-sevenths in onelalf of the metallic money of the world is the most gigantic crime )f this or any other age." If Mr. Carlisle was then right, t : - i? . - *o x uuurto liO v>'flfl, III IIIH UOaunciation of the gold standard, who can believe Jefferson capable of being a party to such a crime ? After the election Mr. Me Kinley sent a commission to Europe to Recuro international aid in ;etfing rid of the gold standard ind a Republican congress appropriated money to pay the expenses of the commission. The commission failed because of English opposition, and English opposition was duo to the opposition of English financiers. Jefferson Democrats must have a better reason for submitting to the gold standard than the fact hat the English financiers favor t as a means for raising the purchasing power of their money. I bave selected these three questions because they are important, &nd because your position upon them has been clearly defined. Your speeches abound in expressions of confidence in the gold standard, your correspond TERP APRIL 15, 189a Absolutely Makes the food more de ence wiih Mr. Warner sets forth | your opposition to the income tax, and a newspaper item, quoted in your hook, gives you credit for drafting that portion of the Indianapolis platform which related to tli retirement of the greenbacks and the substitution of bank currency. Your prophecy that "a law to praveut wi^a flini?rs an 1 stl j ary earners from demanding and securing payment in gold dollars would not be a winning issue" evinces a tender solicitude for the laboring man. I might sug gest that bimetallism alarms you more than it does the wage earners. It was not the employes who were frightened at the specter of free silver in 189G ; neither did the laboring men share your desire to add to the privilege of the banks. On December 20, 1997, a year after the election, the Federation of Labor adopted the following resolutions: "Resolved,That we declare ourselves most positively opposed to the Gage financial bill recently introduced in congress by the secretary of the treasury. It is a measure that if adopted as a law will only .the more firmly rivet the gold standard on the people of the country and perpetuate its disastrous effects in every form. "Resolved, That we pronounce the Gage bill an undisguised effort to retire our greenback currency and all government paper money with a view to the substitution of national Jbank notes in their stead, and thus fasten the national bank system for years upon the American people." I am not willing to believe that you are more interested in the laboring men than they are in i themselves, or that you know better than they what is |good for them, Yours srulv. W. J. Buy AN. Dr. Knit's Cough Syrup is a a true friend to all suffering with coughs or colds. This reliable remedy never disappoints. It will cure a cold in one day and costs but 25 cts. fA LYNCHER'S AWFUL STORY. I Man who Fired Baker's House Tells ot the Plot. Greenville News. Charleston, April 12.?District I Attorney Lathrop put up his strongest witness this morning in [ the Lake City lynching case now being heard in the United States circuit court here. J. I*. Newhara, by his own admission one of the two men who set fire to the Lake city post office, told the story of the crime of which Baker and his family were the victims. Nowham is now em ployed by the government in Washington and while he stated on the stand to-day that he could neither read nor write he display% ? RISE "" ""NO 8 m ftAKINO ^ Powder >URE licious and wholesome OCR CO., HEW YORK* ed more than ordinary intelligence. He told his horrible story clearly from beginning to end and though the attorneys for the defence made every possible effort to tangle and confuse him, he stuck to the essential facts as he had first stated them in a manner which must have left an impression on the jurors. Nevvham said ho had been invited to a meeting at Stokes'store in Lake City on the Friday night prior to the lynching. lie found there the defendants Strikes Goodwin, Epps, Lee, VVhittaker and Singleterry. Stokes said they had to kill Baker hut tho meet ing was not large enough to act then. They agreed to meet Monday night and carry out their purpose. Members were assigned to go out in the county tocollecta crowd for that night. The party met again Monday. lie remembers that Stokes, Goodwin, Lee, Epps, Webster, Ward, Alonzo, Kodgers and Singleterry were present* They went to the post office. He and Lee were assigued to set fire to the house while the others remained in front to shoot Baker wheu the lire forced him out. Lee started to back out but was finally prevailed upon to go on. They poured oil on a pile of shavings and the some on the sides of the house. Lee stuck a match to the place and it blazed up. As the fire climbed to the roof he heard the cries and screams of the people inside. Then the shooting began, and he and Lee turned and ran. They afterward met the members of the original party at ? _ i ; 1 L a uci^iiuuiiii^ cuurcu. This is. of course but au outline of the story which New ham told in the great ordeal. In it all but three of the prisoners at the bar, Kelley, Clark and E. Rogers, are directly implicated in the conspiracy and murder alleged in the indictment. The second witness sworn was M. If. Springs, a white shop keep er ol Lake City. lie swore that on the day of the lynching Stokes asked him to help kill Baker that night, but he refused to do so. While Springs was being cross examined 111 the afternoon Juror Murphy was taken sick and court adjourned till to-morrow morning I at 10 o'clock. Last Formalities in the Restoration Take Place. Washington, April 11.?The condition of war which lias existed between the I'nited Slates and Spain since April 21, 1898 terminated to-day when the last for malilies 111 the restoration of peace were performed by the exchange of ratification of peace treaty. Co-incident with this President McKinley issued his proclamation declaring that the war was at an end, and the appointment of Bellamy Storer was determined upon as United States minister to Spain. I