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THE DAILY CO-OPERATOR NO. 144 TOPEKA, KANSAS, MONDA FEBRUARY 17 1896. VOL. I. PEFFER'S RESOLUTION.

A FAILURE. Tiger Bill Tells Governor Morrill Some Palatable Truths. EX-GOYERNOR WAITE Strikes Straight From The Shoulder On The St. Louis Convention. SILYER'SENEMIES.

Silver Republicans Are Out in the Dark Woods Without Hope in the World. remedy for land monopoly or for corporate extortions in light, water or street transportation; no remedy for fraud in the ballot box and in election returns; no prohibition or regulation of the liquor traffic; no socialism or nationalism except the postoffice; no good roads or public inforcements at national expense; no relief from mortgage forclosures or tax-confiscatioiis; no relief from the constant increase in the purchasing power of money and cash securties, and the corresponding decrease in the value of all other commodities so that, as a rule, their market value is less than the cost of pro- a The Omaha Convention Founded Church On ranks of enterprising journalism should give such an item under the caption of news. I received a call to preach and consecrated my life to the "Master" when I made my first Populist speech in 1888. The Lord has abundantly blessed my labors in the vineyard of Reform. I have calls at the present time from 28 states, and with but little intermission my time is under contract for lecture dates up to the last day of next August.

I have no time to enter a new field no desire to change my vocation nor do I believe that my work is less religious than that of those who eschew politics. Your fearless, bright, newsy paper is deserving ot wide circulation. I wish you unqualified success. Fraternally, Will the Governor Abolish the Metropolitan System? Republioans Talk Silver And Yote to Kill It. THREE CHIEF PRINCIPLES WICHITA PEOPLE BELIEVE CALLED ON THE FIRST TURN.

Of Reform Land, Transportation And auction; no escape from pending bank- Finance, And Its Idea Was "Keep In A Mary Elizabeth Wichita, Feb. 15. The Middle Of The Road." Ringing Letter From Colorado's Ex-Executive. PICKED UP IN PASSING. Free Silver Men Force the Traitors to Show Their Hands, The Result Shows That Wall Street Has a Firm Grip On Congress.

The Yote in the House And Senate on the Free Coinage Bill, Populists True to Their Trust. They are Singled Oat for Political Effect And Will Maintain Their Rights At All Hazzards. Bill Thinks It Impossible to Enforce the Law in Wichita While That Feeling Exists and Told the Governor So. Other Items From the Peerless Princess of the Plains. Causes the Goldbugs Considerable Uu-aesineas.

They Don't Want an Investigation. In the United States Senate on February 12th, Mr. Peffer submitted the following resolutions Resolved. That a committee of fWe Senators, not more than two of whom shall belong to one political party, shall be ap pointed by the Vice-President, whose duty it shall be First. To investigate and report generally all the material facts and circumstances connected with the sale of United States bonds by the Secretary of the Treasury, in the years eighteen hundred and ninety-four, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and eighteen hundred and ninety six.

Second, To investigate and report specially what amount of available funds, classified, was in the United States Treasury and on deposit in other places, subject to the order of the Secretary of the Treasury at the time the bonds were sold orofferea for sale; whether there was or was not coin enough on hand to meet all coin obligations of the Government due at the time said bonds were sold or when they were offered for sale; what obligations were due at that time and the amount of each, stated separately what was the reason for any unusual withdrawal of coin from the Treasury shortly before bonds were sold or offered for sale, if such unusual withdrawals were in fact made, and by what persons or classes of persons and for what purpose or on what account such withdrawals were made; who purchased the bonds, in what amounts, and where, whether in the United States or in foreign countries, and in what proportions, and from what persons or classes of persons the gold was procured with which to pay for the bonds, what the bonds sold for, and what was the market price of our Government bonds at the time; and what effect the bond sales had on the credit and business of the people of the United States. Third. To investigate and report as to the manner of disposing of said bonds, by what authority, and what contract, advertisements, or proposals were made by the secretary of the treasury in relation thereto; what agreements or contracts, and whether oral or in writing, and Special to the Co-operator. WicniTA, Feb. IT.

Tiger Bill has been to Topeka again and was seen at his office rupicy ay a reuuuuuu in interest cnarges now greater in the aggregate than all earnings of labor no initiative and referendum or election of United States senators by the people; no foreclosure of the government lien on the Pacific railway. Indeed all reforms of every name and nature are held "held up" by the silver party in the name of the free coinage of silver. FINANCE. But it is claimed, the silver party proposes a complete and just settlement of the great financial question, which includes in ita proper adjustment all other reforms. The silver party intends no such adjustment.

All the "silver" talk about a government issue of paper money is The object of the silver movement will be fully obtained if either of the two old parties can be forced to put in the national platform the free coinage of silver. The difference in the 'bi-me-tallic" policy towards the two old parties, and towards the populist is marked The old parties can adopt the silver plank and retain every other principle of their platforms, but the People's party must strike out from its platform every other plank except the free coinage of silver! THE JONES SILVER PLATFORM. At the late silver convention at Washington, Senator Jones of Nevada read a carefully prepared platform, designed to be an epitome of "bi-metallic principles, to be endorsed by the double convention at St. Louis next July, and is to be the platform of the joint and several candidates for the presidency who may then and there be nominated. The main object of this platform was to cut out from the Omaha platform all the "isms and lunacies" which now prevent "bi-metall-ists" from supporting the People's Party, although that party is conceded to favor the free coinage of silver.

To get at the inside of the Jones' silver platform it must be considered in connection with the Omaha platform, it was designed to byyourrepresentative. He said: "I was not called to Topeka but wen there for the purpose of seeing Governoi Morrill and explaining the situation here. "I have always said privately that the reason the law could not be enforced here was because the people have no respect for the officers of the law. "That is exactly what I told Governor Morrill. I told him that I had made an honest effort to enforce the law here in Wichita, but that the people here honestly believed that Wichita was being made a scape goat to bear the sins of all the oppo In order that our readers may know the position of the three great parties on the silver question we give below the votes of the senate and house on the substitute for the bond bill, providing for the free and unlimited coinage ot silver.

The vote in the senate was taken February 1, and in the house on February 14. The bill passed the senate, ninteen republicans, twenty-two democrats and the six populists voting for the bill and twenty-seven republicans and thirteen democrats voting against it, as shown by the following: Republicans for Silver 18. Brown, Cameron, Cannon, Carter, Clark, Dubois, Hansbrough, Mantle, Mitchell, Perkins, Pettigrew, Pritchard, Shoup, Squire, Teller, Warren, Wilson, Walcott. Republicans against Silver 26. Al-drich, Allison, Baker, Burrows, Chandler, Cullom, Davis, Elkins, Frye, Gallinger, Gear, Hale, Hawley, Hoar, Lodge, McBride, McMillan, Morrill, Nelson, Piatt, Proctor, Quay, Sewell, Sherman, Thurston, Wetmore.

Democrats for Silver 24. Bacon, Bate, The g. o. p. politicians are busily engaged in nominating People's party candidates.

Go right ahead boys We are like the girl who permitted the ardent wooer to squeeze her hand. She said it did not hurt her and seemed to do him so much good. Ed Hoch continues to scorch Governor Morrill. "Lay on McDuff, and cursed be he who first cries 'Hold! Governor Morrill will be present at the big entertainment to be giveu by the "Boys brigade" of the First Presbyterian church Sunday school, Kansas City, February 20. Meeting of the Wyandotte Educational association at Kansas City, March 8, promises to be very interesting.

Co lean, the Fort Scott State bank defaulting cashier, is in the prison hospital of the penitentiary at Leavenworth. The Unireraalist Young People's Union are preparing for an entertainment at Hamilton Hall next Friday evening. Leavenworth revels in "fagot" parties. The young ladies are seated around the grate fire, and as each one in turn drops a tiny bunch of fagots tied with baby-ribbon on the coals, she is supposed to relate a story, which must be fiuished before the fagots shall have burned. It develops a sense of brevity in the young ladies, which prove an alluring faculty, as a prize is given to the person telling the best short story.

The Republican primaiies for the city of Topeka, to nominate city officers have been called for March 14 As women are not permitted to vote for justice of the peace and constable, but for all other city officers, seperate ballot boxes will be provided for men and women. Tom Anderson has considerable nerve to think for a moment that he can compete with Cy Leland and Capt. Johnson, as is claimed by the Capital. Governor Morrill and all of his appointees are at sition to the prohibitory liquor law in Kansas, and that while that feeling existed I could practically accomplish nothing. "I told him that there was no use in telling the people of Wichita that this administration honestly intended to enforce the law while police commissioners appointed by him in' Leavenworth and Kansas City and other places allowed saloons to run wide open.

That very thing you see was pointed to as evidence Editor Daily Co -Operator. It is too late to lock the stable door after the horse is stolen. There is no question that the Omaha convention founded a new political church on three cardinal principles of reform land transportation and finance, and that if it had any single idea about it, that idea was "to keep in the middle of the road." Our national committee had a technical right to do what has been done, and if there has been such a change in political sentiment and conditions that the People's Party desires to follow the lead of the national committee, supplemented by the action of the sliver convention, then instead of censure, our committee is entitled to credit for wisdom and statesmanship. FUSION. By the joint action of our committee and the bimetallists, two national conventions are to meet in St.

Louis, July 22, 1896. The silver convention is to have a larger delegation than the populists. Colorado is to have 45 delegates to the People's Party convention, and about double that number to the silver convention. The number of delegates to the latter convention has been arbitrarily fixed, so that the silver producing states and those represented by the managers of the silver movement have entire control of its platform and ticket. States representing about one-fifth of the people of the United States will dictate the policy of the silver national convention.

At St. Louis, the People's Party convention will doubtless be called upon in the name of harmony and success, to appoint a joint committee with the silver convention to report for the adoption of a joint platform and ticket. Such was the policy of the St. Louis conference in 1892. in making the platform of the People's Party, but to that conference all reform organizations were invited to send delegates, but now the case is entirely different.

On the other hand is the People's Party, a political organization more or less perfect in every state of the Union polling at last fall's election about one and a half million votes, and this, notwithstanding in many states populist votes were fraudulently "counted out." On the other hand is a self-constituted body, like a chamber of commerce, no party record and no votes behind it a close corporation, dictated almost entirely by corporation and ex-corporation attorneys, and in the interest of corporations, as is evident from the fact that this silver party demands as preliminary to its support, that every part of the Omaha platform in opposition to corporations and trusts, shall become null and void. PARTY PLATFORM. The Omaha platform enjoys the high distinction of being the sole party platform in the past twenty years, that said what it meant, and meant what it said. The Populist pnrty is the ouly national party whose principles and record have been unswerving for the free coinage of silver, and it is remarkable to say the least that the party which makes the free coinage of silver the paramount issue, should commence operations bv destroy whether publicly and secretly, were entered into by the secretary of the treasury and any other person or persons with respect to the sale and purchase of the bonds; whether any officer of the government, or any person or persons for such officer, and on his behalf, and in his personal interest, and with his knowledge or consent, entered into any contract, agreement, or arrangement, directly or indirectly, with any person or persons, partnership, corporation, company, or syndicate, for the purpose of affecting the price offered for said bonds, or any of them, with the intent and expectation to receive commission or personal reward by reason of such contract, agreement, or arrangement; whether such contract or agreement had any and what effect on the price offered for the bonds, what the effect was, and who, if any person, profited b3r it, and to what extent." It there were a majority of populist senators in that body how long would it take that resolution to pass? Blackburn, Blanchard, Call, Chilton, Cockrill, Daniel, George, Gordon, Harris, Irby, Jones, (Ark.) Morgan, Pascoe, Pugh, Roach, Tillman, Turpie, Vest, Voorhees, Walthall, White. Democrats against silver 15.

Brice. Caffry, Faulkner, Gibson, Gorman, Gray, Mitchell, (Wis.) Lindsay, Martin, (Va.) Mills, Hill, Murphy, Palmer, Smith, Vilas. Populists for silver 6. Allen, Bu tier Jones, Kyle, Peffer, Stewart. All the gold of Threadneedle street; all the influence of Wail street could not for a moment move the Populist senators to prove false to their principles, false to their constituents.

The bill next went to the House where it met its death at the hands of the Wall street cohorts. There it lies buried and on its tombstone may be inscribed this epitaph Here lies a measure for the relief ot the men and women who by their toil have made this country all that it is; a measure that was intended to help those who have borne the heat and burden of the day, killed by those who toil not nei supplant. Sen. Jones carefully eliminated from the financial plank of the Omaha platform that clause which demands the abolition of private and corporate banks of issue; also the clauses which provide that government treasury notes shall be loaned directly to the people on real estate or other security, or, be paid out by the government for national improvements. Whatever construction the language of the Jones' platform might otherwise bear, we have a right to assume that his platform is opposed to the abolition of private and corporate banks of issue, or to government loans directly to the people, or to the payment of treasury notes for public improvements.

Sen. Jones in his platform has not only omitted the means specified in the Omaha platform, but he has provided no means whatever for the circulation of his government cur that the prosecutions ip this city were prompted by a vicious motive. "I am candidly of the opinion that the police commissioner system as a means of enforcing the prohibitory liquor law is a fiat failure and I so stated to the governor. I told him the law would have to be enforced by home rule or it would never be enforced at all." "What will Governor Morrill do about it?" "Well, he has taken the matter under advisement and while I cannot tell what he will do I believe that inside of a week he will abolish every board of police commissioners in the state." "And in the meantime what will you do?" "In the meantime I will continue right along doing my duty and try to convict every man who violates the prohibitory liquor law but I hardly hope to succeed very well." He says he told Morrill that the administration should at once inaugurate a war on the joints of Kansas City, Atchison, Leavenworth and Topeka, or else that it might as well call the war on Wichita off Mr. Campbell says that it will do no good to make war here so long as the state authorities make no effort to make war in other towns of the state where the prohibition law is violated more openly.

He says the governor told him that he would take the matter under consideration. Cy Leland has been here and scattering promises promiscuously to secure supporters. If he can deliver the goods doubtless he will be elected It is current report that the politicians have promised Morrill that the Wichita IT WERE FAR BETTER That a Mlllfetone Be Hanged Abont the command of Leland. Mr. Anderson will find the entire goldbug crowd arrayed against him and might as well bow to the powers that be.

There was a spirited contest between the larger cities of the State for the honor of having the State convention of the People's party. It seems foolish to contend for the convention of a party according to the Capital and Journal tha" is dead. The Topeka State Journal wants a receiver appointed for the government. Dan't be too rash in the matter. That is the trouble now.

The government has been in the hands of and English receiver for the past thirty years. The stockholders will meet next November and elect a business manager who will put affairs in shape and on a paying basis. And he will not be a Republican tool of Wall street nor a democratic tool of Thread-needle street, either. Mrs. Clara Daniels, colored, who lives at 316 Taylor street, took a dose of morphine last evening.

Drs. Buckmasters and Lindsey were called in and this morning she is resting easy. Mrs. Daniels was married a short time ago and does not seem to oe satisfied with her choice. The old Kansas Avenue bridge has His Neck and He Be Cast into the sea.

Editor Daily Co-Operator: rency. We have therefore the further right to assume that no other means are intended than the present national bank system, or some state bank system substantially as provided for in the late national democratic platform. Indeed a national bank bill now receivable for Presumably for the purpose of strength ther do they spin, yet Solomon in all his glory was not arayed like one of these killed at the dictation of English money lords, aided by American allies. Here 184 republicans and 31 democrats men who are supposed to be sent to congress to legislate for the interests of the people sat on the bill, smothered it, killed it. Blue, Calderhead and Long, three defam-ers of Kansas and her people, were in the mob.

May their names go down the corridors of time along with those of Judas and Benedict Arnold. May the cries of ening his own chance for republican nomination for congress our A. H. Ellis causes to be published frequent reports of an alliance with, himself and the dem ocracy of the Sixth district using the name of Judge Gilkerson of the Court United States taxes and in one sense a government issue, if made a legal tender, i (and to this, national bankers will not object) or, a state bank bill on the Baltimore 1 plan, redeemable by the government, if made a legal tender, would fill the bill of 1 Sen. Jones' government currency notwithstanding such national bank and state bank bills would also be the promissory notes of the banker, and therefore the widow, the moans of the orphan and the groans of an oppressed and burdened people haunt them by day and remain with them in their slumbers.

There were of Appeals as the democratic part of the combination, seemingly depending on Judge Gilkerson's judicial position preventing a public denial of such rot. I believe I am sufficiently acquainted with the democracy of the Sixth district to say that it were better for a democrat in 58 democrats, 2d republicans and of course, the 6 populists, who voted for the ing the only national party that is in favor yielding him interest on his debts nnncpntmn wi i fnnnrae nis aamimsira bill. .1 w- more eueuues iuau auy oiner one tnin? in tion, if he will lay down and give Wichita Now what further excuse can any sil this district that he have a millstone hanged about his neck and he be cast in Topeka. Home Rule." If Morrill will perform ver republican have Tor remaining with a C. W.

Horn who runs a planing mill on his part of the contract there is no doubt the sea than to attempt to deliver the This rotten principle oi not only our present financial system, but the financial system of the world is making millionaires and paupers faster than any and all other causes combined, and its destruction is a thousand times more important than the free coinage of silver, but is designed- party that talks silver and votes to kill it? of silver. SILVER BOTH A NATIONAL AND LOCAL ISSUE. The Omaha platform makes the free coinage of silver a national issue and so it is but in the silver states, silver is also a local issue, because the free coinage of he will be endorsed, otherwise the convention will set down on him. democratic vote to a republican candidate and I know that no democrat shares in Van Buren street is announced as a can-didate for councilman in the Fourth ward WEALTH BEFORE CHRISTIANITY. against Col.

Burgess and A. H. Noocey, in this sentiment with more feeling than Judge Gilkerson. J. G.

Slonecker has announced that he MRS. LEASE DENIES IT. As to Mr. Ellis, more than one thous silver will at once appreciate of silver bul-! ly ignored by Senator Jones, although it lion to its coin value, which will be of is only by the resurrection of the princi-vast, immediate and peculiar local benefit pies of Jefferson, Juckson and Lincoln as will be a candidate for judge of the Appellate court in this district. Sue la Not a "Preacher" In tbe Gen- and democrats voted for Mr.

Baker to secure his defeat in 1894 and if the repub eral Sense of the Term. This pleasant weather is a blessing to Editor Daily Co-Operator. everybody except plumbers snd coal men to the abolition of private and corporate banks of issue, that our national liberties can be preserved. THE JONES PLATFORM DISHONEST. A few days ago the dispatches to the Rev.

F. Tyrell Reads a Paper On "Social Reform." At the meeting of the Ministerial Association at St. Louis, February 13, Rev. Tyrell read a paper on "Social Reform" in which he asserted that it took money in this age to become a christian; that financial standing counted for more in the church circle than did the true christian spirit. He arraigned the fashionable church members who simulate Christianity while iu church precincts and at other A lamp explosion caused a fire in the Co Operator said Mrs.

Lease had given licans are determined to force his candidacy again, I am confident there are three thousand more who will make special effort to see that there is no mistake about his defeat in 1896. to the silver 'producing states. The "bimetallists" have a scheme by which their own delegates are to control the national ticket on the sole question of silver, and they propose to force that single issue. GRAND BI-METALLIC "FREEZE OUT" To producers, robbed by the extortionate rates and unjust discriminations of the railroads, this silver faction says: There barn of Mr. K.

Lang at 412 East First street last Saturday evening. The fire de With the democracy of the 6th District On this great financial question the people ask bread and Senator Jones gives them a stone. There is an elaborate attempt in his platform by the use of ambiguous language to induce 'green backers' up politics and had consecrated her life to religious work and would preach yester day at Wichita. It appears that the story is a fake pure and simple as the following letters will show. Editor Daily Co-Operator.

Mr. Ellis is especially persona non grata. Very Truly Tully Scott. Oberlin, Kan. can be no relief for any evils of railway, to support, as in harmony with the princi- places and times schemed how by tricks of legerdemain and Napoleanic financial devices they could secure other people's In your issue of February 13th you trust or telegraph monopoly, no relief for Ples' an organization just as nostne to me partment responded to the alarm.

Damage about $65. J. L. Carter having quit the Chesterfield hotel, Mrs. Simon Greenspan will take charge and run it herself in the future.

Mr. Carter is connected with the Aetna Loan Association and will spend his entire time in the interest of the com-pany. See the Court scenes, Judges and gea-tlemen at Court, Tuesday night. honor me by prefixing the title of "Rev." money; that while therewere some legili poorly paid labor: no co-operation of actual circulation of the legal tender note, working men for aid or defence; no rem- I and the abolition of private and corporate to my name, and make the startling A lady was heard to sav that the singing mate transactions on change, four-fifth3 of the old plantation melodies by the banks of issue, as is either of the two old parties. Senator Jones has an individual of it was gambling, pure and simple.

announcement that I nave received a "call" to preach. Iam surprised that a ladies quartette. Tuesday mgnt, was dy for arrest without warrant, trial without jury or government by injunction; no remedy when a corrupt supreme court lifts the burdens on the poor, no Darker that has made for itself in a com right to take the Omaha platform Delsarte Drill, Japanese Drill, Hamilton worth more than the whole price of ad mission. ii a i i Ann I paratively short time a place in the front Continued on fourth page.) nan lueauay uiguc. fiw iu cuaiuuiea I.