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7 JERKY SIMPSON'S BAYONET, Call for State Convention. Missouri CkxForazo cent lub tee: Faeifie The price of paper has again advanced. It is now almost double what it was when the Bayonet was born. As we arc carrying no advertising, it bears heavier on us, than any other publisher. We do not propose, however, to allow the paper trust to interfere with our plans, and now make a new rate for the Bayonet, in clubs of five 25 cents until January, 1, 1901.

Single subscriptions 50 cents. Take off your coat, brother, and get to work. Go about A delegate convention of the Peo pie's of Kansas will be held in the city of Clay Center on Wednesday April 25th, 1900 convening at eleven o'clock A. M. for the purpose of elect ing1 eighty-four delegates and alter nates to the National Convention of said party to be held in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on May 9th, 1900.

The basis of representaiion at said convention is one delegate for each county and one additional delegate for each five hundred or major tion thereof cast for J. W. Leedy vxovcrnor at me election in ioyo. It is recommended that the county conventions for the selection of delegates to this convention to be held on Saturday, April 14th. The several counties will be entitled to representation as follows.

Allen 4 5 Anderson 4 Logan 1 Atchison 5 Lyon 5 Barber .2 Marion 3 Barton 4 Marshall 6 Bourbon 5 McPherson 5 Brown 5 Meade 1 Butler 6 Miami 5 Chase 3 Mitchell 4 Chautauqua 3 Montgomery 6 Cherokee 8 Morris 3 Cheyenne 2 Morton 1 Clark 1 Nemaha 5 Clay 4 Neosho 5 Cloud 5 Ness 2 Coffey 4 Norton 3 Comanche 1 Osage 6 Cowley 7 Osborne 3 Crawford 8 Ottawa 3 Decatur 3 Pawnee 2 Dickinson 5 Phillips 4 Doniphan 3 Pottawatomie 5 Douglas 5 Pratt 2 Edwards 2 Rawlins 2 Elk 4 Reno 6 Ellis 3 Republic 4 Ellsworth 2 Rice 4 Finney 2 Riley 3 Ford 2 Rooks 3 Franklin 5 Kush 2 Geary 3 Russell 2 Gove 1 Saline 5 Graham 2 Scott I Grant 1 Sedgwick 9 Gray 1 Seward 1 Greeley 1 Shawnee 9 Greenwood 4 Sheridan 2 Hamilton 1 Sherman 2 Harper 3 Smith 4 Harvey 4 Stafford, 3 Haskell 1 Stanton 1 Hodgman 1 Stevens 1 Jackson 4 Sumner 6 Jefferson 5 Thomas 2 Jewell 5 Trego 2 Johnson 5 Wabaunsee 3 Kearny 1 Wallace 1 Kingman 3 Washington 5 Kiowa 1 Wichita 1 Labette "7 Wilson 4 Lane 1 Woodson 3 Leavenworth 8 Wyandotte 9 Lincoln 3 J. H. CURRAN, TAYI.OR RIDDLE, Secretary. Chairman. People's Party Congressional Convention.

A delegate convention of the people's party of the Seventh congressional district is hereby called to meet in the city of Great Bend on Tuesday, April 17, 1900, at 10:00 a. for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Congress. The basis of representation in said convention, shall be one delegate-at-large for each county, and one delegate for each 300 votes, or major fraction, cast for John W. Leedy for governor in 1898; provided, no county shall have less than two delegates. Under this apportionment the counties will have the following number of delegates: 3 Lane .2 Barton 6 McPherson .7 Clark ........2 Meade.

2 Comanche 2 Morton 2 Edwards 2 Ness 3 Finney 2 Pawnee 3 Ford .......3 3 Grant 2 Reno 9 ..2 Rice 5 Greeley .2 Rush. .3 Hamilton 2 Scott 2 Harper 4 Sedgwick IS Harvey 5 Seward 2 Haskell ....2 Stafford 4 Hodgeman 2 Stanton .2 Kearney 2 Stevens 2 Kingman 4 Sumner 9 Kiowa 2 2 By order of the people's party congressional committee, in session at Hutchinson, Kansas, March 6, 1900. W. A. Aybrs, Chairman, Wichita.

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It is said that half a loaf is better than no bread, but we are of the opinion that this measure is worse than nothing. Instead of converting the inhabitants of the island into mendicants, they ought to be left frze to develop their natural resources and sell their products, to which end exportations, now in a state of stagnation, should be facilitated by means of free trade. What Porto Rico needs rather than degraded alms, which is insulting to human dignity, is to be able to sell its sugar and tobacco. But this would not suit the American producers of tobacco and sugar; it would run counter to the protected interests, which have great influence in the federal congress and McKinley, in order not to offend those interested, has found a way out of it by offering charity. Correo Es-panol, published at the City of Mexico.

Flag Worship. Flag worship is not patriotism; the love of justice is. Flag worship has caused millions to mourn. If your flag worship causes the shedding of a tear, you are a criminal. That nation will live whose flag worship and ideals are based upon justice and right doing.

A nation that departs from its ideals for material gain or aggrandizement has its days numbered. Behold the Roman Eagle it conquered the world and it vanished from the earth by reason of its eagle worship. You flag idolator, vrtio gave you the right to domineer over your dark-skinned brother, who is on this planet by virtue of the same law that you are and who has the same right to the use of the earth that you have? Does the strength of your mind give you a'right to rob your brother of weaker mind? You may answer me by saying that your actions are in harmony with manifest destiny; but manifest destiny is man-made, and when not coupled with right doing and justice, is a crime. Henry Smith, in Milwaukee Advance. it, the right way, and you can of your republican friends, to brethren.

Nominate a Senator. The question of having the dele gates to the state convention to nomi nate a United States senator, has been discussed by all parties and in various ways. The idea is an excellent one, and -if it should be adopted by the People's party, it would save' the wrangle over this office by the legislature in the event of that party having the power to select. A convention of about six hundred delegates, right from the people would come nearer getting the choice of the people then would a legislature of one hundred and fifty men, a number of whom do not belong with the majority party. It generally happens that a legisla- ure is nearly equally divided between he different parties and a bare major ity of the hundred and fifty elect sena- or.

It is an easy matter for politicians and scheming legislators to use certain candidates to whip other members into line under threats of opposing measures of interest to the individuals and in this way the will of the people is often defeated, and the most corrupt politician get the high and important office. When such a man is elected to office he feels that he does not owe anything to the people he represents, but that he is under obligations to the schemers who got him the place. If the state convention should nominate the man of their choice the legislature would be under an obligation to the people to elect that candidate and when once set in motion the plan to allow the people of the state to elect the senator would soon be brought about. It would be well for every pri mary or county Convention to instruct their delegates to vote for a candidate for. United States Senator to be pre sented to the legislature for election Barton County Beacon.

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