Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 26, Petersburg, Pike County, 2 November 1900 — Page 6

ANOTHER NOMINATION SilYCT Republicans Notify Bryan ef Their Selection. A To Wkltk tlio Honlaee Replies at Ungtk Aceeptlac the Nominatloa an4 Thanks the Plata People. Tho following letter notifying William J. Bryan of his nomination for the presidency by the national silver republican convention has been in Mr. Bryan's possession for come time: “Mount Pleasant. Mich.. Oct 17.—Hon. William J. Bryan. Lincoln, Neb.: The silver republican organisation at Its national convention, held at Kansas City July 4 last, appointed a committee whose duty It Is to notify its presidential nominee ef such nomination. In performing that duty permit us to say that convention was made up of voters 250 of whom voted for Abraham Lincoln; 250 bore arms as union soldiers in our great civil conflict; many were soldiers In the late SpanlphAmerfcan war. and gave their best efforts tor the liberation of suffering Cuba. Four hundred were sons of veterans. We mention that as showing the fact that liberty fires burned In their lives as warmly as In the lives of their patriotic forefathers. “Learning as we do, that the great leader of democracy, Jefferson, wrote the declaration of independence, and the great leader of republicanism, Lincoln, supported, defended and applied It, both seeking In their efforts to establish and maintain government of equal rights for the people, we readily see why Jeffersonian democrats and Lincoln republicans may unite" and" should unite, and do unite now in their support’of one ticket for the welfare of our country.

“To us It Is no wonder that all the poUtlcal parties split In 1896 on the rock of finance. It was the struggle of the oligarchy of money -changers in opposition to the rights ot .the people. At St. Louis the aristocracy controlled and kept the party name—without it the campaign would have resulted differently. At Chicago the people controlled and kept the party name. We believe the rank and file of voters In all parties are faithful to the true Americanism embodied In the declaration of Independence, and when freed from party surroundings will support and vote for the man representing the rights of the masses. “From the patriotism of the republican party of 1856 and 1860 to the greed of the republican jrnrty of 1896 and 1900 Is a toboggan equaled only by the descent from the grandeur of Lincoln's lofty motives to the lust and greed of the present administration. “When we think one-fourth of 1,000.000 people own three-fourths of the nation's wealth, when sixty-four and three-fourths millions own only one-fourth—when 52 per cent, of the people own not even a home— we become alarmed. This showing alone ?ts enough to alarm the great mass of American voters. All who seek to have the nation kept in the lines of a republic must see it can only be done by not surrendering the control of the country entirely Into the hands of the one-fourth of 1,000,000; but that the executive and law makers must be representatives of the sixty-four and three-fourths millions. The plea of trade must never cover and hide the plea of human rights; for when we disregard the rights ot others, we are but schooling them and ourselves to disregard our own rights. We desire to stand by the principle ofv war only when waged for man’s liberty, and we declare that we have millions for defense, and millions more for development, but not a dollar for conquest. “Now, with the attempted gold standard, the seeking to destroy the greenback —the people’s money—the concentration of wealth In the hands of the few, the want «f reverenee for equal rights as set forth In the declaration of Independence, coupled with the attempt to destroy such rights, the recognition of human slavery under the American flag, the subjugation of a struggling, liberty-loving people—denying them the right of citizenship and compelling the relation of subjects, thus crushing out and destroying the equality of the people of a republic, the attempt to establish the rule of the few and the submission of the many, raises and forces upon us for our eonslderation the question of imperialism, end makes it the question for us now to decide. A subject must belong to an empire. A republic has only citizens. In an empire the few rule, the many submit In a republic 'equal rights to all, and special privileges to none,' are ever »j>plicable. “With this explanation we hereby notify you that at the gathering of Lincoln republicans in the silver republican convention, held on last Independence day, in Kansas City, you were made their nominee. “May we ask, as we believe in the rights •f free government that you, when elected ahd become president, as we fully believe you will be—that you remember with solicitude the cause of the great' common people, the sixty-four and three-fourths million tollers. The people for whom Jefferson lived and labored, and for whom Lincoln lived and labored as well. The people whose arm never tires, the people whose labor produces the wealth of the nation, and whose prosperity is the prosperity of all; whose devotien never ceases; whose patriotism never falters; who are ever ready to defend and protect; they who are the rock upon which our country may safely rest; they whose strength builds, whose loyalty guards, whose patriotism defends the trocha, filled with their blood, if need be, over whlch^their country’s enemy can never pass. “Now, sir, believing in your faithfulness, Integrity and wisdom to discharge the duties of such high office, we hereby tender you the nomination of the Kansas City silver republican convention, and most respectfully request that you accept the same, and become our candidate for the presidency of our beloved republic, and may your proudest plume be that you never deserted your country’s welfare. With great respect, we are. "SAMUEL W. HOPKIN8, Chairman. , “SAMUEL I, HALE, Secretary.

■rfM’i Acceptance utter. In response to the above notification Mr. Bryan on Friday, October 19, gave out the following letter; “Hon. Samuel W. Hopkins, Chairman, and Others, Members of the Notification Committee of the Silver Lincoln Republican Party: 1 am In receipt of your letter formally notifying me of my nomination for the presidency by the sliver Lincoln republican national convention held at Kansas City July 4 last. In accepting the nomination I beg to express my hearty Cpredation of the support given our ket by the members of your party in the campaign of 1896, and of the fidelity shown by them during the four years which have since elapsed. The evidence of confidence and good will manifested anew at the last national convention places nde under renewed obligations. There is a consistency about the human mind which leads an individual to apply old principles to new conditions, and I was therefore not surprised to find that those who left the republican party In 1896 on the money question are now opposed to It on the trust question, which has increased In importance since 1896, and upon militarism and Imperialism, the new questions which the republican party has forced upon the public within the last two years. "Your platform, of which you Inclosed a copy. In Ha declarations Is oo similar to the democratic platform adopted at Kansas City, that it Is not necessary for me to

Uk* up til* planks la detail. I inclose th« following documents, sad asks them a part of this letter: **L My speech at Indianapolis, la reply te the democratic notification committee, dealing with Imperialism, militarism and the resolution expressing sympathy foi the Boers. "2. My letter formally accepting the democratic nomination, covering other planlcs of the platform. “S. My speech accepting the populist nomination, dealing with those Issues upon which the democrats and populists occupy common ground. “4. My speech delivered in 8t Louis the 15th of September on the trust question. "These documents have already been widely published In the press of the country, and the members of your party are fully informed In regard to my views upon the questions covered. ! "In 1886 the money question was the question of paramount Importance, but the republican party, by Its disregard of tha principles of our republic, and by its advocacy of policies repugnant to the doetrine of self-government, has left us ns choice but to summon all lovers pf the declaration of Independence to the defense of that sacred document and the constitution framed In accordance with It. “In your letter you quote several appropriate extracts from Lincoln's speeches. I find In a speech by Lincoln in 1858 a defense of th<» declaration of independence, accompanied by a fervent and patriotic appeal to his countrymen not to abandon the principles therein enunciated. It Is so applicable to the present time and so In harmony with the references you have made to Lincoln’s words that I quote the following extract: " ’Now, my countrymen, If you have been taught doctrines conflicting with the great, landmarks of the declaration of Independence; if you have listened to suggestions which would take away from its grandeur and mutilate the fair symmetry of Its proportions; If you have been Inclined to believe that all men are not created equal In those inalienable rights enumerated by our chart of liberty; let me entreat you to come back. Return to the fountain whose waters spring close by the blood of the revolution. Think nothing of me; take no thought tor the political fate of any man whomsoever, but come back to the truths that are In the declaration Of Independence. You may do anything with me you choose, if you will but heed these sacred principles. You may not only defeat me for the senate, but you may take me and put me to death. While pretending no Indifference to earthly honors, 1 do claim to be actuated In this contest by something higher than an anxiety for office. I charge you to drop every paltry and Insignificant thought for any man’s success. It is nothing; I am nothing; Judge Douglas is nothing. But do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity—the declaration of American lndenendence.’

“How harsh the contrast between the lofty sentiments expressed by Lincoln and the sordid, mercenary appeal now made to the people by the republican party! How great the chasm between the statesmanship which would sacrifice life Itself In defense of that immortal document which has been the model of (republics ever since It was promulgated, and the commercialism which would sacrifice every noble and holy purpose In pursuit of new markets, and would Indorse the doctrine that trade can be purchased with human blood—a doctrine advanced by those who want to give syndicates a chance to exploit distant coltrine advanced by those who want to give oniesl k-, “In response to the hope which you express, permit me to assure you that my political obligations are due entirely to the plain people, who ask no special privileges at the hands of the government, but demand only equality of rights and an opportunity to enjoy life,- liberty and the pursuit of happiness under the flag of a republic. These people, the nation’s wealth producers in time of peace and the nation’s warriors in time of war, have already done for me more than I can ever repay. Whether I am elected or not, it shall be my ambition to protect their rights and advance their interests by every means within my power. “W. J. BRYAN.” BRYAN ANSWERS MEIKLEJOHN Nebraskan Insists That the President Has Approved of Slavery In Sulu. William J. Bryan has made reply to Acting Secretary of War Meiklejohn’a letter in reference to slavery in the Sulu islands. In his letter Mr. Bryan says: "I am in receipt of your favor of the 6th Inst. In regard to the Sulu treaty. It is true that the president two months after the signing of the treaty sent to Gen. Otis the instructions which you quote. “You will note that the treaty, or a demand, as the president describes It, was confirmed and approved, subject to the action of congress, and the only exception that he made was that In regard to article 10, relating to slavery. You can but know, however, that since the president sent those instructions the republican party, with the approval of the administration, has adopted the theory that th*» constitution does not follow the flag. an& therefore, the thirteenth amendment does not interfere with slavery In the Sulu archipelago. “The Porto Rican law asserts the dootrine that the people of Porte Rico are beyond the protection of the constitution and can be governed by the arbitrary and unrestrained power of the president and congress. If the constitution itself cannot reach the West Indies, how^ can the thirteenth amendment find its way across the Pacific into Asia? The president does not repudiate article 13, which reads as follows: ‘The United States will give full protection to the sultan and his subjects if any foreign nation should attempt to impose upon them.’ “In view of the fact that the president la his letter of acceptance declares it dangerous for us to agree to protect a Christian republic In the Philippine islands, would it not be wise for him to withdraw the agreement to protect a Mohammedan Island?

i n© agreement uoes nov repudiate article 14, which reads as follows: 'The United States will not sell the island of Sulu or any other Island of the Sulu archipelago to any foreign nation without the consent of the sultan of Sulu.* "If we buy all the Philippine islands from Spain without the consent of Its inhabitants. is it fair to agree not to sell any of she SUlu islands without the consent of the sultan? In other words, is it more important that a sultan’s wishes should be considered than that the interests of the rest of the people should be regarded? “Very respectfully yours, "W. J. BRYAN." Mr. Meiklejohn in his letter upheld the president’s policy in Sulu and maintained that Mr. Bryan was in error in his statement that President McKinley had by treaty approved ot slavery on the islands. ;-Roosevelt’s attempted discrim ination between good and bad trusts is an absurdity. Any trust that imposes unfairly high prices is a bad trust. And, although some trusts may not exact all that the tariff permits, they cannot claim to be regarded as good trusts except on the theory on which Lord Clive 3ustified himself in a measure for plundering India, when he said: “Looking back on the opportunities 1 had, I am now surprised at my own moderation."— Utica Observer.

MOTHERS ARE WARNED. tryan Skowa How the Yoatk of the Load la Dlalaherited hjr the Traats. “I mm glad to talk to an audience composed so largely of women/' said IV. J. Bryan, in a recent speech, “for eertalnly in this contest the woman is as much interested as the man. Is not the mother interested in heT son? Is not the mother interested in making life worth something for her son? I wish that every mother in this land could study the trust question and learn her own conviction with it. She finds out about it when she goes to buy sugar and other articles controlled by the trusts and is told that the trusts have raised1 the prices. But to my mind that is the least objection to the trusts. If the trusts raise prices we can simply ! buy less, but when a trust monopolizes an industry and closes the door of opportunity against the young man and attempts to condemn a man to perpetual clerkship under monopoly and to servitude under a great monopoly, then monopoly strikes a severer blow than it does through the prices that it extorts. . “Mothers, what would you have your sons do? Would you have your boys go onto the farm? Why, you know that to-day the fanner takes more chances than any other man, and has less influence in the government, at least he is less considered by those who govern. Are you going to have your boys go among the laboring men and have but one ambition, and that to have a full dinner pail, end only to have that when the trust will let them have it.? Are you willing to let your son go into the anthracite coal region and take Hiis chances at less than $1 a day, with powder at $2.75 a keg? Are you satisfied to have your/fe<^y go there ? Do you want him to go info a store? Don’t

IN DEMOCRACY’S DEFENSE, Bry»» ui >U Party Ar* •Incdiil to MalataU itkePrlaelplci of the Coaatltntloo. Senator Jones, chairman of the democratic national committee, baa replied to many attacks which hare been made upon William J. Bryan recently. Republicans hare declared that Mr. Bryan if elected president would arbitrarily nullify the law which makes gold the standard of the United States money. They have also declared that if Mr. Bryan was elected he would pack the supreme court with democrats and populists. Senator Jones says: “It has been the fashion for the republicans for some years to denounce democrats as anarchists, revolutionists, etc., but all fair-minded men will admit that at this time the republican party seems to have a monopoly of revolutionary suggestions. We see a secretary of the treasury in an effort te disturb the busiiness of the country for political effect, suggesting that Mr. Bryan, in case of his election, would deliberately evacle the law, with a pur* pose as unstatesmanlike and> unpatriotic as his own in making these suggestions. Fortunately, Mr. Bryan has been before the public long enough for everyone to know that tricks and false pretenses are not among his weapons, and suggestions of this kind excite contempt. “But worse than this is the fact that other men who should despise such pretenses affect to believe that in case Mr. Bryan is elected, he will pack the supreme court for purposes of his own. Can it be possible that the men themselves actually contemplate such revolutionary methods in case Mr. McKinley is elected?? If they do not find this danger in their own minds, it is

THE “MUM” CAMPAIGN, ~

you know that to-day the trust is hemming the storekeeper about? Don’t you know that the trust is shortening credit? That is laying upon the retailer all the chances of business? Don’t you know that the trust is todiay compelling the merchant to agree | not to sell any but trust-made goods? | Would you have your boy go into a big factory, that to-morrow the trust-may come and bankrupt him? Would you have your boy have stock in a trust? The big stockholders will freeze him out before the year is over. What will you have your boy do? Will you have him a lawyer? Why, the law business is gravitating toward the offices of the large corporation attorneys, and the other lawyers are clerks in their offices. What do you want your boy to do? Is it not time that you were thinking? Is it not time you were using your own influence to take this government back and place it on its old foundation and make it again a free government of the people, by the people and for the people, in which the humblest citizen may aspire to the highest reward in the political world? Is it not time that you mothers were thinking, and if an economic question cannot arouse you, is it not time that you were studying the army question?” To Correct Trust*. In his Madison Square speech Mr. Bryan outlined his trust corrective. To place on the free list every trust-made article. This would be compensation in part, at least, for the multitude the trusts have thrown out of employment. To require trusts to take out a license and submit to scrutiny in every state in which they Operate and in which they were not organized, scrutiny being presumably exercised in the state of their organization. These measures, he believes, will end industrial despotism which puts a trust price on every finished product and on every article of raw material entering into a trust product. He would squeeze the water out of the stock. After that process there would be, he thinks, honest corporations. Intelligent men may differ about the efficaciousness of Mr. Bryan's trust corrective. At least all will credit him with the brains to define a corrective and the courage to apply it if the people grant him the power.—Chicago Chronicle, -Finance, trusts, expansion, militarism are the themes, history is the lesson and fidelity to the constitution the duty, and it is because William J. Bryan has proven the great honesty of his soul,the dignity of his manhood and his loyalty to the faith of the fathers of the republic that he has found such place in the hearts of his countrymen.—Buffalo Times. —The administration has already spent $180,000,000 in pacifying the Filipinos, and as long as the people are willing to cough up it proposes to continue its good work of pacification.—Denver Post.

difficult to conjecture where there distempered imaginations find a pretext for it. “I repeat that there is nothing in any democratic utterance upon which this false pretense- of a fear of attack upon the supreme court can be founded. The construction put upon the expressions in the democratic platform of 1896, which were perverted and misconstrued as a basis for such charges, was unwarranted and untrue. No such purpose has ever entered the mind of any democrat, but, on the contrary, the leading idea with democrats everywhere is to return to the principles of the constitution/^ the United States and to faithfully administer the law’s as written.” OPINIONS AND POINTERS. -If Mr. McKinley is reelected ft will be by the men who couple their support of him with a frank admission that they are sorry to feel obliged to giye it.—N. Y. World. Zf—Capt, Richard P. Leary, U. S. N., should be employed as a republican spellbinder. Speaking of citizens who oppose McKinley’s Philippine policy he says: “If I had my way I would hang every one of them.” |This is an admirably accurate expression of the spirit of imperialism.—N. Y. World. -Roosevelt told his apdience at Covington, Ky., the other /light that “every intelligent man foresaw that there would be trouble inMhe Philippines.” William McKinley has testified that he “never dreamed” there would be trouble in these islands. Consequently, according to the logio of his running mate, William McKinley cannot be “an intelligent man.”— Boston Globe. v -We have spent upward of $200,000,000 in the Philippines, sacrificed the lives of 3,000 American boys and ruined the health of 18,000 others, and all for what? For the privilege of selling to the Philippines the beggarly amount of $1,080,149 worth of American goods. .The value of the goods we have sold them since the battle of Manila would not pay for the powder we have burned over there. Is the game worth the candle?—Omaha World-Herald. -He has said there are no trusts to be regulated or suppressed, and, consequently, the republican party does not intend to attempt to regulate or suppress them. He denies the truth of the party’s platform, of Candidate McKinley’s and Candidate Roosevelt’s common belief in respect to trusty There is none, he asserts. Burchard’s blunder, which defeated the republican warty when so great and popular a statesman and leader as James G. Blaine was its candidate for president, was insignificant compared with the stupendous blundering of Senator Hanna.—Philadelphia Ledger.

Tfci Im( Prmrlytlm for Ckllto jp3 FVrer is a bottle of GaoTFs Timm Chill Tonic- It is simply iron sad quinine ia •tasteless form. No euro—no pay. Prics^Oc. Bacrvy m Factor. wh9 w«ta, hut the fellow who hustles does not hare to wait •o long.—St. Louis Sur. Other people don’t amount to much when you use yourself as a standard of comparison.—Chicago Daily News. TOiile thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.—Shakespeare.

Jell-O, The Hew Dessert, ; ileases all the family. Foar Savers:—Lem* m, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. At :w grooem. 10 eta. Try it te-day. Bdfcurna.—"Does he get any ret ami from tis poetry?** “All he doee get.’’—PhikI delphia Evening Bulletin. Dra are fast to na> ighVwaahing and rubbing. Bold by all ~ ' A man is known by the company he keeps** ! 3Ut * woman is never herself before com- | ?any.—Detroit Journal.

A Noted Knight Templar Owes His Health to Peruna.

Colonel T. P. Moody, a prominent Knight Templar, is well known in every city in the United States west of Buffalo, N. Y. as a Jeweler’s Auctioneer. In the city of Chi- j cago as a prominent lodge man, being a! member of the K. T.’s and also of theMaTBe cut shows Colonel Moodv in the costume of the Oriental Consistory Masons, 32nd degree. In a recent letter from 5900 Michigan avenue,' Chicago, 111., Mr. Moody says the following: “For over twenty-five years I suffered from catarrh, and for over ten yeans I suffered from catarrh of the stomach terribly. ** I have taken all kinds of medicines and have been treated by all kinds of doctors, as thousands of my acquaintances are aware in different parts of the United States, where I have traveled, but my relief was only temporary until a little over a year ago } started to take. Peruna, and at the present time I am better that I have been for twenty years. “ The soreness has left my stom< ach entirely and l am free fron indigestion and dyspepsia anc will sffcy to all who are troubled with catarrh Or stomach trouble of any kind, don’t put it off anc suffer, but begin to take Perun c right away, and keep it up until you are cured, as you surely wil. be if you persevere. “My wife, as many in the southwest c& t say, waa troubled with a bad cotwh an 1 bronchial trouble, and doctors all over the country gave her up to die, as theycoul i do nothing mose for her. She began takin; Peruna with the result that she is betternc! t than she has been in years, and her coug i has almost left her entirely. The eorene< i has left her lungs and she is as well as sb » ever was in her life, with thanks, as she say , to Peruna. Yours very truly, T. P. Moody. Catarrh in its various forms is rapidly b !- coming a general curse. An undoubted rec edy has been discovered by Dr. Hartma . This remedy has .been thoroughly test* i during the past forty years. Prominent m< a have come to know of its virtues, and a: e making public utterances on the subject. 1o save the eountry we must save the peopl t. To save the people we mast protect the n from disease. The disease that is at once tl e most prevalent and stubborn oft cure iscitarrh. If one were to make a list of the d iff ere it names that have been applied to catarrh n different locations and organs, the rest it would be astonishing. We have often pu > liShed a partial list of these names, andtlie surprise caused by the first publication of it to all people, both professional and nenprofessional, was amusing. And yet r;e

Colonel T. P. Moody, of Chicago, H*4 Catarrh Twenty-fire Years and Was Cured by Penina. have never enumerated all of the disease* which are classed as catarrh. It must be confessed, however, to see even this partial list drawn up in battle array is rather appalling. If the reader desires to see thislist, together with a short exposition of each one, send for our free catarrh book. Address The Peruna Medicine Co., Coiumbu* Ohio.

GOOD IMITATION OF S1JRF, It Wm Only the Housemaid's Broi.m ' on the Stairs, However. “So you have gone out on the north eh >re to live, have you, old man?” said a No.th side young man to a friend who had gi>ne with his family to Kenilworth to spend the summer, relates the Chicago Chroni Se. “Yes, we have taken a house for the simmer close to the edge of the hake and I ell you it is bully, immense. It is great, for he old man has improved' in health out th ?r* till he is getting as frisky as a schoolt oy. He said' before we moved that if he cc ifd only get where he could hear the surf w ten he woke up mornings that it would do ] dm a world of good. The first morning after we got there he woke up about five o’clock .nd called out to mother, who was still asleei: , “ ‘Say. ma, do'you hear that surf con ing in on the shore? Isn’t that the gram eat thine you ever heard?’ “Ma protested that she didn’t hear my surf and1 wasn’t listening for anv. Fat her sighed and went to sleep again, lulled by the music of what he declared was the sirf. The door of his room was open and he t imply heard the swish of our HttSe housema id’s broom oveT the carpet downstairs. She tens up early every morning to do the fi out rooms and her broom makes the finest mitation of the surf you ever heard. “Now, if pa wakes up when ft isn’t sweeping day and kicks because there isn’t atiy surf on ma just steps to the speaking t ube in the next room and tells Martha to s* eep up a little surf and father is soon as .eep again.” DID THE HANDSOME THINa. A Marrying Minister Who Fount. Na Fnnlt with Gambling Phrases. In a volume of reminiscences just published entitled: ‘The Wealing Day ii Literature and Art” a minister relates hi s experience with two weddings in the ame town on the same day, one in the morning, one in the afternoon. “The first wedding fee I received was $10.” he says, “a very large remuneration for the {dace and people. After the second wedding the beet man called me into a private room and thus addressed me: ‘“What’s the tax, parson?* “ ‘Anything you like, or nothing at ill/1 answered. (I have frequently received- 10thing.) ‘Now/ said he, ‘we want to dc this thing up in style, but I have had i o experience in this business and do not xnow what is proper. You name your figur?/ “I suggested that the legal chargi was two dollars,” j “ ‘Pshaw/ he said. This ain’t legal. We want to do something handsome.’ “ ‘Go ahead and do it,’4 said. Wher .upon he reflected a moment and then ask< d me how much I had received for the wedding of the morning. “ Ten dolfars/T replied. “His face brightened at once. Here was h solution to the difficulty. “ ‘I’ll see his ante*’ he remarked, ‘raise him five dollars and call.” Whereupon he handed me $15.” It is said that an ordinary brick vreighs about four pounds. Nevertheless, th * man who gets hit with one imagines it to weigh about four tons.—Norristown Herald.

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