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Defeated by the Japanese.
18,000 Chinese Engaged and
Routed by the First Army.
LONDON, March 3 -Tbe Hai Cbeog
correspondent of the Central News
telegraphs under the date of February
28 : "The First army to-day attacked
the enemy encamped between the
Liaoyang and New Cbwang roads. The
Fifth brigade entered the right wing,
rooted it and drove it back toward
Daifoon. The main colaron attacked
and routed the enemy at Chang Hoai.
The Sixth brigade marched aloog the
Liaoyang road, joined the main di?
vision, and with it occupied Tung
Yuentai and the immediate neighbor?
hood in the direction of the Liaoyang.
The Japanese loss was 10 killed and
82 wounded The Chinese left 150 dead
OD the field."
LONDON, March 3.-Official dispatch?
es received at Hiroshima confirm the
above report. The Japanese occupied
after the fighting, the entire district to
Saiyenti-Tafuton, and further move?
ments were projected for March 1.
The official Japanese reports of Feb?
ruary 28, said that the enemy bad
15,000, men and ten guns. Gen. Yih
was io command. During the action,
a second Chinese force of 3,000 men
made an attack on Hai-Cheug from tbe
eastward, but were repulsed without
difficulty. On March 1, Geo. Nodzu
reported from Hai-Cheog.
"The third divisioo began the ad?
vance at 8 a. m. The advance guard
engaged and repulsed 2,000 of the
enemy. Geo. Hayashi's brigade theo
joined the main division, which routed
the Chinese and captured Konsbinho at
noon. The advance guard theo drove
3,000 other Chinese from Saotisu. The
Japanese outposts oow guard Mairsu,
Loshofctao aod Kun Fan tea. The
Chinese retreated and, afterward the
final Japanese advance, their maia
body lay but a short distance from the
Japanese front. Throughout the
morning of the 28th it snowed heavily.
The storm bas not abated on March 1."
A Central News dispatch dated at
Seoul on March 1 says that the Corean
war minister and other exalted officials
have received permission, in response
to their own request, to accompany
the Second Japanese army throughout
the rest of the campaign in China
The will be attached to General
Noggi's staff. It is reported in Tokio
that the Chinese peace envoys will be
received at Simooosaki aod the negotia?
tions will be conducted there.
A Central News dispatch from Pekio
says that Li Hung Chwang, the head of
China's new peace missioo, is still at
the capital. He has conferred with ail
the conspicuous officials and most of
the European diplomatists.
There is a unanimous desire of men
of influence in Peking that United
States Minister Denby help the Chinese I
mission by acting as intermediary in
arranging for the meeting of the nego?
tiators and the course of procedure.
The care with which Li Hung Chang is
preparing for his duties gives the best
evidence of the earnestness of China's
purpose.
The government bas given abundant
proof io the last few days that it will
make a sincere effort to secure peace.
The Central News correspondent in
Chee Foo says that the Japanese are
advancing steadily upon New Chwang.
The Railroad Commission.
The railroad commissioners were io j
. .session nearly all day yesterday aod |
wheo night had come, they had not yet j
finished their work The trouble
seemed to be in formulating the reasons j
for not changing the freight rates on
fertilisers. What was the exact oause
of the delay was not given to the pub
lie
The commission did transact some
business, however. The most import?
ant to the public was the displacement
of Secretary Bartlett and the election
cf D^Arcy P. Duncan to be the secre?
tary of the board. Who ver Col. Dun
ran's friends are, they will doubtless be
pleased with this additional good for?
tune. Meanwhile, the whole com?
munity will regret that Capt Bartlett
did not get the place in which he has
dooe good service for so long a time.
The petition of the people of Dar?
lington asking that the Charleston,
Sumter aod Northern and the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroads be required to
run into a union depot in Darlington
was received. The commission de?
cided to continue the matter until the
next meeting when an ord?r in com?
pliance with the request of the Darling?
ton people will be issued.- The State.
The Southern Buys
Tbe Boute From Columbia to the
Land of the Skies.
ATLANTA, March 1.-The Constitution
publishes the announcement of the sale
of the Asheville and Spartaoburg ao l
also of the Spartaoburg, Union and Co?
lumbia Railroads to the Southern Rail?
way Company by Mr. John II. Inman
of New York. Mr. Inmau and his fam?
ily have for a long time owned the
controlling interest in these roads. The
contract price calls for the immediate
lyment of $2,000,000 in securities of
the Southern Railway Company and al?
so a large cash payment. The Southern
Company took possession of both these
properties to-day.
The "witch tree" of Nevada and
Southern California exudes or exhales a
phosphorescent substance which makes
every branch, leaf and section of its
bark visible on the darkest night.
Culture of Tobacco.
Mr. B. M. Brown, of Cam?
den, Gives His Experi?
ence With the Plant.
Editor Wateree Messenger:-I offer
the following for farmers who con?
template planting tobacco the pres?
ent year, and at the outset let me say
that better raise 4c. cotton than poor
tobacco. This being so, the aim of
the farmers should be to rai9e fine
tobacco, and the farmer or planter
who will not give his tobacco crop
constant and intelligent care had bet?
ter not plant it, for be will be sure to
fail in raising a paying crop.
Taking it for granted that the "plant
bei^'bas been properly prepared, and
the seed sown, and the cover put over
the Bed, the most important considera?
tion is the selection of the proper land
for raising fine tobacco.
1st. Select light gray or sandy land
with yellow sub-soil (not clay) with na?
tural drainage. This is very impor?
tant, for there is no plant with which I
have any acquaintance that will show
the effect of too much water sooner than
the tobacco plant. If the roots are
sobbed by too much water it will com?
mence to "French,M and then goodbye
to all your bright hopes.
Having selected your land, break up
flush with turning plows as early as the
latid is in proper condition to work;
then lay off rows three feet three inches
and bed out as for cotton; reverse your
beds two or three times before
j 1st of April. About 10 days be?
fore you are ready to "s^et out"
distribute your fertilizer and cover
with ''double foot plow." Wheu
your plants are large enough to trans?
plant finish beds by throwing two more
furrows with seven inch turning plow,
run roller on beds if dry to settle the
land. If there is a season in the land
knock off the top of the beds with a
board.
The beds are now ready to receive
the plants, which set thiry-four inches
apart if land is in fair state of product?
iveness; if thin land is used set plants
thirty-six inches on bed.
The plant is ready to set out when
the stalk is .the size of a common lead
pencil. Very small plants do not com?
mence to grow as soon after trans?
planting as those indicated *above, re?
plant as soon as possible in order to
have tobacco as near the same age. In
some instances the second replanting is
necessary. Don't wait for rain, but
set plants and water them. J pint of
water if properly applied wul save a
plant io the dryest weather. As sooo
as the plant shows signs of living stir
the land with the hoe, which hastens
the growth and destroys any young
grass that may have made its appear?
ance. Keep the land well stirred with
sweep; I never have used any other
D40W. Some planters use the turning
shovel, which may be necessary wh$n
the land has not sufficient natural drain?
age to take the water off rapidly enough.
As the plant leaves expand be careful
not to bruise them, for a bruised leaf
will be sure to show up in curing;
therefore it is to the interest of the far?
mer to select the most careful and trust?
worthy hand on the farm to do the
plowing These may seem small mat?
ters, but they will tel! when your tobac?
co is put upon the warehouse floor.
About the last of May or 1st of June
! the worms wake their appearance. Now
comes the tug of war. If you expect
to succeed there must be no putting off
uniil to-morrow, but be on the offensive
and continue there. Not only kill the
worms but brush the eggs from the
leaves. Now is the time the personal
supervision of the farmer or manager is
absolutely necessary. To destroy the
eggs that produce the worms it is only
necessary to brush them from the plant
to the ground; when they batch, there
being nothing for them to subsist on of
course they die. Some farmers have
the eggs mashed, which consumes time
and is entirely unnecessary. Come as
near completely destroying this first
army of worms as it is possible to do,
thereby lessening tbe next army, wbicb
will make their apearau.ee in about four
weeks after the first.
It is of the greatest importance to
get your plants out early and push
the growth to maturity as rapidly as
possible to escape the August crop of
worms, which is more numerous and
! more destructive than those already
I disposed of.
I The worms I have been treating of
i is known as the Horn Worm, but
there is another and more destructive
little fellow called the Bud Worm,
which attacks the plant in the bud and
unless taken out will eDtirely destroy
every plant attacked. This worm is
very small when first commencing its
depredations and unless very careful
will be overlooked.
The riext important period is the
"topping," and this requires the roost
intelligent judgment up to this tittie
in the lite of tobacco plant, as you
may lose in fopping too low or you
may lose in toppiDg too high. The
great object is to have tobacco of "ood
size with plenty of "body" but not
"bony." No definite instructions can
be given for topping. To illustrate,
one plant might hear sixteen leaves
and the next would not do io top
higher than eight leaves. The vigor?
ousness of the plaut must be considered
and the farmer exercise his best judg?
ment. This is a part of the manage?
ment of the crop which is ou ly acquired
by experience and intelligent observa?
tion. As a general thing the time to
commence "topping''' is when the "but?
ton'' or seed vessel makes its appear
I aoce. lu a few clavs after topping the
fuckers make their appearance and will
be found where the leaf grows from the
, stalk. They must be kept off or broken
; off as sooo after they appear as possible,
j When tobacco is highly fertilized the
! sucker will appear before the topping.
Never let them get over an iuch long
if you cso prevent it, for what goes to
sustaio the sucker should go into the
leaf. If you are not an expert you will
oot detect the damage from the sucker
until your tobacco is taken from the
curing barn, wheo you will find you
have a large leaf with a desirable color
but DO "body'' and when sold will be
classed as "strips," wheo with proper
care you might have had a wrapper or a
nice waxy white lemon "cutter.v
Later 00 I will give you hints on
gathering, curing, packiDg, shipping
aod selliog. Will take pleasure io
answering any questions or giviog any
information to farmers that I may be
able to give, provided they ask pointed
questions and enclose stamp for reply.
The above is not theory bat knowl?
edge gained by three years practical
experience with tobacco.
Yours truly,
B. M. BROWN.
Camden, S. C. *
Farmers and Farming in the
Souttt.
A writer in the February number
of Lippincott, a Northern man we sup?
pose, undertakes to show that the
farmers of our country are sinking
gradually into ignorauce and
illiteracy. He thinks that the down
I ward grade is manifest that they will
: finally be estimated in the United
States as the peasantry of Europe
who farm as mere tenants. That the
farmers as a class may not be so high?
ly educated and cultivated as they
should be is true, but the Northern
writer takes a very limited, oue-sided
view of the situation. The West is
bad oft'and the farmers out there may
be so handicapped with debts, mort?
gages and interest as to be practical?
ly wage-earners only for the large
land owners But this is not the case
in the South to the same extent, and
by a very great" deal.
While it is true that the prices of
farm products have been steadily de?
clining for years under bad Republi?
can Legislation that has been ab?
solutely hostile to the great farming j
class, it is also true that the farmers
in the South are still independent
taken as a body, and are in no danger
of becoming tenants or of degenerat?
ing in the condition of European
peasantry. Farming bas had much
to depress it in the South, but it has
yet been able to make some progress,
and now that farmers are returning
to the good old way of raising what
they cousume-bread and meat-hog
and hominy and the other good,
toothsome things, they are better off
than Northern pessimists may think.
The Jacksonville Times Union has
the following pertinent statement of
facts :
"The census reports will show that
in the South, while the' agricultural
?age has vastiy increased during
! la.e years, the size of the farms re
; mains about the same, and that so
1 far from farming lands passing into
; the hands of a few, the number of
i small farmers is constantly growing,
and the pre emption of public lands
'. as homesteads bids fair to soon absorb
j this entire territory thus reserved.
"In the South the mortgage system
j is largely of the chattel or crop lien
i character, the land itself being com
I paratively unincurabered. And
j further than this, the climatic ad
I vantages, wonderful versatility of
Boil, p'id the variety of products pos?
sible, render the farmer self-support?
ing, and the only causes which can
bring him to a state of servitude are
? his own thriftlessness and profligacy.'''
The South under favorable laws,
! with fairly remunerative prices, would
I rush forward in the line of progress
j that would excite admiration and
I astonishment. In most of the South
j the farmer can work out of door6
; eleven months, or more, in the year.
; Labor is cheap, lands are abundant,
; climate is delightful, every thing is
propitious but low prices by reason
i of vicious and stupid legislation. The
Southern farmers would greatly pros?
per if tocaceo, cotton, corn, wheat
etc , fetched two-thirds as much as
j they did a few years ago -Wilming?
ton Messenger.
Going to Africa.
300 Negroes Will Sail From Sa?
vannah Saturday.
MEMPHIS. Tenn., March 4.-The
?rst movement of Southern Degroes to
Africa will begin Thursday next under
the auspices of the International Mi
gratiou Society of this city, when a
special train will leave Memphis for
Savannah via Birmingham aod Atlanta.
Three hundred negroes from Arkao>as.
Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama au;i
Georgia have arranged to g<>. The
African Steamship Company, which i
co-operatiog with tho International
Migration S ?eiefy, will run a steamer
from Savannah to Monrovia, sailing on
fthe Otb. The committee of negro
ministers who went to Liberia in Jan?
uary to investigate that country write
back glowing letters and the negroes
are excited over thc idea of returning
o the J ) a r k Continent. Many are
drepariog to go during the year.
Hood's Pills cure jaundice, biliousness, sick
headache, constipation and all liver ills.
Stands to the Rack.
Senator Tillman is in Down
Right Earnest.
From The State.
AUGUSTA, GA., March 1.-Seeing
ex-Governor Tillman passing through
Columbia to-day en route to his home j
at Trenton after his Northern trip, I !
bearded the train and came through :
with him, with the object of securing j
bis views on the new political conditions
I which have developed during his ab
sence with regard to the coming Coo
! Btitutional Convention 6ght-Irby's
manifesto, etc. The Senator talked
freely for the press and paid his re?
spects to Senator Irby in a bold man
! ner.
When asked about, his Northern trip,
in the interest of the Woman's College.
Governor Tillman said : "We remain?
ed three days in Washington and then
made a flying trip to Baltimore on Sun?
day evening, going on to Philadelphia
that night, where we made a thorough
examination of the methods of work
i and the organization of the Drexel In
I st i tate, one of the finest industrial
j schools in the United States. Tuesday
we examined .the Pratt Institute, in
Brooklyn, N. Y., another very fine
institution of this class. Wednesday
we started to tbe college for teachers in
the upper part of New York city,
another very fine school. Altogether,
I thiok we have obtained many valua?
ble ideas as to our own college at Rock
Hill. I returned to Washington yester?
day morning, finished my business
there and left for home last night,
while Governor Evans went on to Bos?
ton with Professor Johnson to examine
the Massachusetts school of technol?
ogy "
"What do you think of the outlook j
for an extra session of Congress ?"
"There appears to be a desire on the
part of the leaders of both parties, in?
cluding the President, to avoid if pos?
sible an extra session. The Senate is
uow holding night sessions to try to
dispose of the appropriation bill, and j
unless something unexpected occurs,
there will bc no extra session, at least
that is the impression I got.'1
"Have youseen Senator Irby's inter?
view, and if so, what do you think of
it?"
"Yes," said the senator, "I have
seen it ; I read it io Washington yester?
day and was considerably surprised, as
when we parted with him on Sunday
he gave no intimation of any purpose to
antagonize the effort for an adjustment.
There are in it some errors of fact
which it is not necessary to particular?
ize, and some uncharitable and un?
reasonable assertions and deductions.
It seems to me unfortunate that the
chairman of the Democratic State
executive committee did noe see proper
to join in our effort. If I understand
j the situation in South Carolina, we
; must have mutual coocessions.and make
I due allowance for the prejudices and
j feelings that have been so deepiy!
i aroused, io trying to adjust our politi- j
cal matters so as tc prevent a struggle .
between the majority of the white peo
I plc on one side and a minority, in |
! alliance with the negroes, on the other, j
Aud any man who cannot rise above ?
his personal feelings at this juncture \
will be unsafe to foliow."
"Io this connection ? notice in this j
j morning's papers an interview with i
j Congressman Wilson, which, boiled
! down, means that we must have a
i fight and that it cannot be prevented.
I have great respect for Mr. Wilson's
judgment, but it seems to me he has
ignored the only factor of any prime
j importance in the case-that is, the
j uegro. The people of Spartanburg can
with all saftety, have a fight, for the
whites outnumber the negroes two to
ooe in that county. They have never
understood the necessity and impor?
tance of tbe Constitutional Convention
with its one overmastering purpose of
getting rid of the oegro in politics, be?
cause they have never suffered from j
negro domination as the middle and
lower counties did during the recon?
struction period. If Mr. Wilson bad j
taken a broader view and considered
the entire State he could not dismiss
j so flippantly this vital issue. If the
j condition were throughout the State as
i be pictures it, there would be no need
tor a convention at. all. I realize as !
he does that the people will settle ail
j these matters, either at the primary
or ar the general election. What I !
j had hoped to do, and what I still j
: hope to see done, is to have the white ;
I people uoite in the primary and have ,
: all abide by it. Then the whites will
; present a united front to the negroes
, io the general election. If Mr. Wil- j
; son's idea prevails that a fight is ine?
vitable and best-which I deny-then
i a large uumber of whites will not go j
into the primary at all, and if their
anger aud passions shall prompt them
j to lead the negroes to the polls, we I
! can easily imagine, when we reinem- j
. ber what, occurred at the last State '
election, that the State will presenta,
spectacle alike disgraceful to both fac
I tions, and no matter which wins, there I
will he woumts to the body politic that
will tioi heul for a half century.
"To prevent this I am willing to
sink all personal feelings, al! personal
ambitions, all considerations of vindic?
tiveness, or revenge, and make such
concessions as are just and proper If
Senator Irby and Mr. Wilson shall suc?
ceed in forcing \ fight, I still hope that
their cooler judgment wiil show them
that it is neither patriotic nor wiso to do
so I have faith io the patriotism and
good sense of the masses who are in
! terested io no man's political fortunes
j sufficiently to take such dreadful risks. .
This is not an ordinary Srnre election
and cannot affect ei'her Mr. Wilson
or Senator Irby. Il the Reform move?
ment cau't live without a perpetuation
of strife and bitterness), then ir ought to
die. I do not believe any such stui?
myself. I have always relied ou irs
principles and the wisdon of the pol?
icy which has been pursued. Our peo
pie have been educated tn politics to
know what their rights are and they
will always sustain their rights when
properly presented to them. >enator
Irby charges that he bas been betrayed.
I for one deny having taken him into
consideration wheo arriving at aa
agreement with.the Barnwell committee,
and the Reform movement is stronger
to-day than it bas ever beeo."
When fold that the opposition to the !
scheme of the ultra-Conservatives was i
that they did uot wish to subscribe to
the conditions proposed io the Hemp
hill coofereoce, Senator Tillman said :
"That's not at all surprising because
DO one expected them to be reasonable
Their programme all along has been
rule or ruin, aud I would join Irby in
a battle for the cootrol of the conven?
tion by the Reformers alone if that idea
prevailed generally among the Antis.
We will never have a Constitutional Con?
vention with my conseot which will
disfranchise the poor and ignorant
white man aloog with the oegro. As
I have already said ooce before, the
practical men on both sides must get
together aod hold down the extremists.
In concluson, Senator Tillman said :
"There is ooe other poiot io Mr. Wil
80Q;s ioterview which I think worthy
of notice ; that is that the plan outlined
by me bas failed already, because the
Spartanburg Herald, the Greenville
News and The Columbia State have re?
fused to eodorse it. 1 thiok he will
find that ju?t the reverse will be fouod
to be true I did oot expect uoaoimous
consent, least of all from those sources
-io fact would doubt my owo saoity
aod hooesty of purpose if I received
such baokiog."
Wheo I asked the Senator if he was
willing to take the stump against the
Irby and Wilson forces if they brought
about a fight, he replied: "If the issue
is presented in such a way as lo re?
quire it, I will take the stump. I have
already said this and it was no Pick?
wickian utterance. It was said in down?
right earnest."
Senator Tillman was then questioned
as to the proposed National Reform
movement aod replied he had heard
nothing of it in Washington to amouot
to anything, as such movements ema?
nated from the people and not from
such men as were in Washington.
He declared that the movement was
coming aod added with great emphasis
that it was "Not a long way off either."
?E. J. WATSON.
Desperadoes in Georgia.
Young Men, Refused Admittance
to a House, Murder a Girl
Within.
SAVAXXAII, Ga., March* 4.-A spe- j
cial to the News from Thomasville, j
Ga., says that oo Saturday night at 10 i
o'clock, at Ochlocknee, in this county,
three meo visited the house of Lora ;
aod Mary Farr, two youog womeo of ;
doubtful character, and demaoded ad- ;
mittaoce. The womeo replied that !
they had gooe to bed aod would not
get up. The meo began to batter
down the door. Lora Farr seized bea
pistol aod emptied it ioto the door ;
Three balls passed through the door,
which was finally toro down. Lora
was seated on the bed reloadiog her
weapon wheo ooe of the meo emptied
a shotgun ioto her side, makiog a
fearful wouod two iucbes across aod
killiog her immediately. The sister
screamed for help, when the men
sileoced her by threatening to shoct
ber. They then left. On the charge
of the surviviog sister, Pope McCloskey
and Belton Jones, two youog meo,
have been arrested and lodged io jail.
The coroDer's jury rendered a verdict
of death at the hands of Pope McClos?
key, Belton Jones and aootber party,
name uokoowo, as accessory. AH coo- ;
cerDed are white.
Scores of Quaker families io South
ern Peoosylvaoia have preserved the
marriage certificates of their aocestors
for many geoeratioos, signed, as is the
Quaker custom, by all the guests of the
ceremooy.
AD authority on bridge architecture
says that the loogest bridge in the
world (not takiog ioto consideration
the famous Lake Ponchartrain trestle- :
work) is the Saratova bridge across the
Volga, leDgth 4,872 feet.
The temperature of the planet Nep
tuoe is believed to be about 900 degrees
below the zero of Fahrenheit, while
that of Mercury is much too high to
admit of a possibility of air-breathing
animals inhabiting it.
The winds which for a number of
days blew up the Niasara river bad a
curious effect on the falls. The Ameri?
can falls had but a mere shadow of
their usua' flow, and the water in the
hydraulic canal feil over a foot without,
however, interfering with the mills.
As a result of the examination of
4,000 eyes. Dr. Miles of Bridgeport,
Conn., found that G5 per cont, re?
quired glasses. Tin* women und girls
tar exceed the men aod boys The
period during which the people have the
m'>>r trouble with their eyes is between
'20 and 30.
The biue-bird is hailed HS .I harbinger of
Spring. 11 is also a rf minder tbat a tdood
puritier is needed to prepare thesystera for the
debilitating weather to come. Listen and vou
will hear the birds singing: "Take Ayer's
Sarsaparilla in March, April, May." i
In Silvers Cause.
Silver Democrats to Organize
and Capture the Party.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-Represeo
tative Bryan of Nebraska abandoned at
a late hour this afternoon, his inten?
tion of securing a conference of the
free silver Representatives and Sen?
ators with a view to issuing a call to
the democrats of the country, laying
down the proposition that a majority
of the Democrats favor the free and
unlimited coinage of silver, and calling
upon this majority to take control of the
party organization.
He decided, instead, to circulate the
call among such of the House Demo?
crats as favor the free coinage of sil?
ver, with a veiw to securing their en?
dorsement. About twenty gentlemen
had signed at the hour of adjourn?
ment. These were representatives of
fifteen States, Mr. Bryan's purpose
being to wideo interest in the call as
much as possible. A number of Demo?
crats declined to sign, for one reason
or another, but Mr. Bryan believes that
in the end a very considerable number
will affix their signatures to the paper.
A copy of the call will also be circulat?
ed io the Senate to-morrow. It is pre?
sented only to Democrats and not to
Populists or free-silver Republicans.
Mr. Bryan believes that if this mat?
ter be squarely presented to the Demo?
cratic voters of the country, the effect
will be seen in the party organization in
future campaigns, and that it will re?
sult in giving the control of the party
machinery to men who really represent
the majority-namely, the free si.ver
element.
The cali is addressed "to the Demo?
crats of the United States, and reads
as follows :
We the undersigned Democrats, pre?
sent for your consideration the follow?
ing statement : We believe that the es?
tablishment of gold as the only mone?
tary standard and the elimination of
silver as a full legal tender money will
increase the purchasing power of each
dollar, add to the burden of all debts,
decrease the market value of all o:her
forms of property, continue and inten?
sify business depression, and finally., re?
duce the majority of the people to finan?
cial bondage.
We believe that no party can hope
for enduring success io the United
States so loog as it advocates a single
gold standard, and that the advocacy of
such a policy would be especially fatal
to a party which, like the Democratic
party, derives its voting strength from
those who may without reproach be
called the common people, and we point
to the overwheming defeat of the party
in 1894, to the opposition aroused by
the veto of the seigniorage bill, and to
the still more unanimous protest against
the issue of gold bonds as proof that, the
Democratic party cannot be brough1; to
the support of the gold standard bolicy.
We believe that the money question
will be tbe paramount issue in 1896
and will so remain until it is settled by
the intelligence and patriotism of the
American voters. We believe that a
large majority of the Democrats of the
United States favor bimetalism and
realize that it can only be secured by
thc restoration of the free and unlimited
coinage of gold and silver at the present
ratio and we assert that the majority
have, and should exercise, the right to
control the policy of the party and re?
tain the party name. We believe that
it is the duty of the majority and within
their power to take charge of the party
ornanization and make the Democratic
party an effective instrument in the ac?
complishment of needed reforms.
It is not necessary that tbe Demo?
crats should surrender their convic?
tions on other questions in order to
take an active part in the settlement
of the question which at this time ear
passes all others in importance.
We believe that the rank aod file of
the Democratic party should at once
assert themselves in the Democr&tio
party and place the party on record
in favor of the immediate restoration of
the free and unlimited coinage of f old
and silver at the present ratio of 16 to
1, as such coinage existed prior to 1373
without waiting for the aid or consent
of any other nation, such gold and sil?
ler coin to be a full legal tender for all
debts public and private.
We urge all Democrats who favor
the financial policy above set forth to
associate themselves and impress their m
views upon the party organization ; we
; urge all newspapers in harmony with
the above financial policy to place ic
at the head of the editorial columns
and assist in the immediate restoration
of bimetallism.
The signatures to the call were not
made public, but it can be stated that
Evans P. Howell, editor of the Atlanta
Constitution, while in the city to-night
signed the document and said the
Constitution would take up the fight
1 on the lines laid town in the cail. Tbs
Omaha World-Herald, of which Con?
gressman Bryan is editor, will also en?
dorse it.
Twenty years ago Pr. E. ll. Detrey
of Meadville. Penn., wrote a b.iok
proving that the wav to be heakhv
was to go without breakfast. The
cutt bas lived si noe then. and. accord?
ing to thc New London (Conn.) Dav.
there are more than ene hundred per?
seus in that town who eat no break
las: .
"A crick ;n the back", a pain under the
shoulder-blades, water brash, biliousness ?od
constipation, ?ire symptoms ot disordered sto?
mach, kidneys, liver, and bowels. For a!!
ailments originating in a d?rangement of
these organs, take Ayer's Pills.