The Kansas State Alliance from Parsons, Kansas • 2

Tfes Kansas StaUAItae, A Low Lived Wedding. OUR COMRADES DEAD. That minister knew that the use of that falsehood was wrong, for IlMll The following Is'an extract from a poem com posed by Judge S. W. Taylor a personal friend, and foimer business associate of the Editor of this paper.

So bind on their gravestones your garlands, For they are your country's dead; And to water the loved land of freedom The blood of our heroes was shed, Bring them earth's tribute-offerings, flowers The white, and the blue, and the red. Though the mould of a cycle has gathered On the marble that marks where they sleep, And the waves of the sea hath forgotten The place where they sank in the deep, From the wild lurid decks of the battle, When death his full harvest did reap. Let the flag of their country droop o'er them On this day that we garland their graves; The flag that they bore through the South-land And that scattered the chains of the slaves; Let the bugle sound low for their triumph, O'er these homes of our slumbering braves. Drape the temple of Freedom in mourning; Let. us march to the drum's muffled beat, And honor today our dead comrades, Who knew no such word as defeat; Let the hands of Columbia's fair daughters Scatter flowers on their hallowed retreat.

The tempest of war's wild alarms Can never again break their rest, For its clouds have gone down the horizon Like the night's milky train down the west, And the sunlight of peace smiles upon them; These graves of our bravest and best. The soft sighing wind, like a requiem, Mourns with us today for our dead, While the flower-garland's glorious petals We are scattering over their bed; And the sunlight, so mellow, and mournful, Is kissing tha fields where they bled. When the charge shook the serried columns, And the cannon's dread missiles were hurled, Through the smoke and glare of the battle, Like the crash of a bursting world, They stood like the giants of legend, With the banner of freedom unfurled. O'er the land where our ensign of freedom, Is waving so grandly today, The white-wings of peace is suspended, And hushed the wild note of the fray; The flag spreads its folds o'er our millions Alike o'er the blue and gray. Our plains, our mountains and valleys, Re echo the patriots lays, From the lakes to where the magnolias Their towering branches raise; And dtfwn where the soft Bighing south-wind Yields the flag its fuil measure of praise.

Then crown our dead heroes with garlands, Twined with flowers of radiant bloom; Give them all of earth's beautiful offerings, To bless and brighten their tomb. Twine flowers 'round their gravestones-Fair flowers of rarest perfume. It has been from time to time predicted that a wedding, uot in high ifp, but the lowest lived wedding evei heard of, was likely to occur in the near future, but it was scarcely expected that it would occur as soon as it did. In tact there are a great many people who are not awnre that the event has actually taken place. Still it is a fixed fact.

The wedding has actually come off. The ceremony was performed at Cincinnati, Ohio, at the time aud in the Hall where the recent republi can League was held. There was neither Bride or Bridegroom. Both of the low contracting parties being hermorphadites. One parly was from the north and the other from the south.

One was republican in politics and the other was democratic. One was sent from the loyal states, the other from Charleston, South Carolina. They so nearly resembled each other, that no one has been able to tell them apart ex cept by the names they went by, and the places where they were usually found. So tar as their common aims and purposes were concerned, aud the common results of their actions were concerned they were alike. Their low cunning, their propensity to lie, cheat and de ceive, their servile obedence to their masters of Wall street, their treach cry to the best interests of the great mass ot American sub' scrviency to corporations, mouopo lies and Trusts, their love of boodle and in their reckless efforts to be tray the most sacred lights and in1 terests of the people, they were iden tical.

One had for a quarter of a century been parading under a banner of hate and sectional strife; the other hrd for the same length of time been equally as industrious in the same direction. One had during all of those years been campaigning with a bloody shirt for a banner, and the other under the flag of thelost cause. One pretending that the freedmen of the South were its im- meiatc wards, and the other continu ally agitating the question of ger eqnali'y." The one to secure the election of a candidate to presidency of the United States, aban doned its aforesaid wards, the poor and helpless freedmen of the south, to the other, operating as night riders and kfiklux. During all these years while they were ostensibly apatt in sentiment and name, then was an explicit understanding betweeu them, and it is only surprising that "they were not sooner publickly wedded. It was a terrible aflright that the farmers alliance and other reform organizations, gave the democratic hermorphadilc, that precipitated the affair and sent them rushing into each others poluted aud slimy em brace.

Clarkson of Iowa was the officiating Priest, and while the ceremony was being performed within the republican League, amid the gathered oath bound members thereof, not a dissenting word was heard. Not a single cliorge of rebel bugadier from the one side, or of a "nigger lover" from the other side. Harrison and Cleveland had previously agreed to be recognized as the par ties to give away the respective hermorphadites, and no murmer of objection arose from the spectators. A numerous and valuable array oi wedding presents in the shape of P. 0.

appointments and other feder al and. state patronage, will in the future be bestowed, if the Peoples party of America, will permit, which the contracting parties deem ex- tremly doubtful. It not believed by any intelligent being that the union of the parties will evei be able to produce progeny, but rather that one or both will die in the effort. Marysville, Ky, May 26. George Ennis and Charle3 Waldron, each about 15, of Alerdeen were drowned in the Ohio river yesterday afternoon They were boating, when the skiff was swamped by waves from the fer ry boat Gretna Green.

Ennis' body was recovered. siuce that time a higher federal court has declared that the decision, referred to Mas wrong and that no such result could follow its rendition and yet he declares from the pul pit that siuce that time he has vot ed for the candidates of and upholds and belongs' to that party. That same minister knew that the most strennous efforts were made by that party to re-elect to the high and responsible office of United States Senator, a man who is a sceptic in regard to Christianity, a man who snccringly proclaimed that the old Christ, and the old revelation were played out, that it was lime for a new Christ and a new. revelation, that the Golden rule and the decalogue has place in politics, and yet he declares from the saered desk on the Lords Holy Sabbath, and within the hmisc dedicated to the promulgation ot the gospel of that same Christ, that he belongs to that party. That same minister knows that for years his political party has continued its hold upon the government by, ap pioding toand keeping uli ve sectional strife and hatred, by awakening embit-cred memories, the result of the bloody strife of a quarter of a century ago, by waiving the "bloody shirt'' to spread the gospel of hatred, malice and ill will, rather than that of "peace on earth good will to man," and still he tell his flock he is a member on that party.

Well we concede his right to be a member of that party and with his motives therefor we have nothing to do, "Wo, have a quaint old book in our library, which contains some queer is two volumes often bound in one, and contains many different books and chapters. We sometimes peruse its pages and therein read such passage as the following; "Judge not that ye be not judged." It says som thing about "crucifying the Lord again and putting him to an open shame. It forbids the worhips of any object or thing except the "Lord God," and thereby indirectly forbids the blind partizan worship of a party noma. It forbids lying and deceit; denounces the taking of usury: commends those who eat their bread "in the sweat of their faces;" It pronounces a blessing on the poor; it has something rather uncomplimentary to say about the practices of the rich. The second volume has a good deal to say about a personage who was so poor that "he had not where to lay his head" and yet he went about among publicans and sinners, doing good and preaching the gospel of purity, honesty truthfulness, simplicity, brotherly love good will and peace, faith in and obedience to the word and will of God.

He had something to say once about the difficulty of rich men getting into Heaven, On one occasion ho found a lot of Bankers prostituting a house sot apart for the worship of his Father and he took a whip made of thongs and scourged and out the whole gang of boodlers. The scourged afterwards lied on him and killed him and like the republican boodlorB of Brother Carr's political party in Kansas, hung onto the offices for a while, but the poor, the meok, the humble and consistent followers of his, who survived him took up his cause and promulated his gospel from house to house, and although almost ninteen centuries have elapsed since that same old party to which the minister referred to now belongs, killed him, his gospel, is still proclaimed and practiced among the poor of many lands and countries. It is true that they are never invited through the colums of the papers published in their interest to come out on Sunday and hear the preachers who belong to the same old party that crucified him nineteen centuries ago, although thoee papers would publish the invitation gratuitously at anv time. By the way! Would it not be a good idea for some of the old party ministers to read that old work under the guidance of some one who would give them an honest interpretation of its contents? We would like to see how it would effect them. New Line Opened.

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WorUl. ASTON JVIKSLIKK, Gen, Tags. lieket Agt, PUBLISHED 1VIRY TIIXJBSDAY "'l BY THE STATE ALLIANCE PRINT'G CO. 1 mix TV EDITOR. ASSOCIATE.

VY. rf. vAMrBELL, iuanugor. H5ntere4tti Fort office fct Parsons Kan NOOUd-ClMI mtttw.l Tbi Enforcement of the Laws. "In Iris sermon on temperance Sunday evening at the Baptist ehuroh Rev.

II. M. Carr spoke as follows in regard to the enforce mont of the law; While we have no open saloons in tarsons, it is saiu mm. me wiw sale ol Intoxicating drinks has been and is openly and notoriously pre valcnt. Our present city adminis tration was elected upon a platform which pledged the administration to the enforcement of the laws.

voted for our present city officers; first, because they represent the poh tical party to which I belong, and second, and especially in this case, because oi ine auove nameu pieuge. Quite a number, probably enough I .1.1 to decide the election, voted for this administration who would have vot ed difleremly the. pledee had not been made, and we earnestly trust that the just hopes and expectations of the law and order lowing people ot our community will not be disap pointed. The pastors ot the other churches also preached on the question of the law." Sun. Just bo.

That minister ought to have known tnatthe party he be longs to and for the candi dates of which he voted, has been making just such promises, for the purposes, of securing the VUIC9 uuu niu vi iujuioicid, manipulating the votes of their con gregations, to place men in office who have always claimed to be imnn nam tomncraiiro men lvffVP election and who have invariably and purposely violated their pledges utter their nnrnnaa tins linen attain a. aiie mmisier wnose sermon I the Sun quotes from, very well knows that that same party to whom which votes and lends his influ- ce burnt in effigy St John, the truest and most consistent temperance advocate Kansas has ever had, beams he chosed to exercise his onstitutional right to be a candidate in '4 for Tresident of theU on the prohibition ticket, instead of laboring to continue the party power which has by it subserviency to the rule of monopoly and corpor-atiens produced more poverty, snf-ferinc, degredation and crime, than all other causes combined in this country. That same minister knows that the leading rers of the party with which he affiliates and for the nnM i tvlnrfi he voles, noured all the anathemas and vials of wrath ot which they were possessed, upon the devoted head of the leader and apostle of prohibition, for exercising that legal right, as well as did the leaders his party also, That same minister ought to know that only last fall the papers and public speakers of the party which he proclaims from the pulpit that he is a mem ber of, proclaimed throughout the entire State of Kansas, that which they kaew to be a falsehood, for the sole purpose of continuing in office a lot of political corruptionists, who assume to be the leaders of his party, vhsthatin discharging a jointist who had prosecuted a writ of habeus corpus, before a federal Judge, a son-in-law of the- leading brewer of tWiatate, the whole criminal code of Kansas in relation to prohibition ii well our constitutional prohibition of the liquor trafic, had been abrogated and set aside, and this too when every man is supposed to know and those leaders did know, that the writ of habeus corpus is a personal riglit and privilege which only individual, who in vokes its use. TAKE- -TO- DIIICAGO, NEW YORK, BOSTON PHILADELPHIA, 1 MONTREAL, ST. PAUL And all points East and North.

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Berry. Saturday night of each week at 8 o'clock is the time fixed for regular meetings of the Alliance, and the the Patriarch's Ha'I, over the Boston Shoe store is the place ot Organization of the Citizens Alliance. According to previous announcement there" was public speaking on the street at the junction of Central and Johnson avenues, after which a lodge of the Citizens Alliance was organized. The meeting was organized by electing Mr J. Jones, of the first ward chairman, who introduced Mr.

E. Osborne of Fort Scott, one of the State organizer of the Citizen Alliance. Mr Osborne at once proceeded to deliver an able and convincing ad dress, setting forth some of the many wrongs resulting to the industries of the from class legislation, showing that the old parties wsre directly responsible therefor and pointing out the remedy. He proclaimed the glad tidings of the birth of the Peoples party of the United States, the failure of the old parties to disrupt the party, as they had hoped to do at Cincinnati, and breiflly explained the purposes and principles of the Citizens Alliance, and invited all desiring to affilhate with the order, to the hall where an organization of the order would be effected. After Mr Osborne had concluded his remarks, the audience called for Mr Utly and he for a few minutes ad dressed the people in an able, eloquent and conservative manner, every word of which was truthful and to the point.

He of course endorsed the new party and plead for the right9 ot the people. After he had concluded his short address, a portion of the audience repaired to the hall where the Citizens Alliance wa duly organized with thirty members. A full set of officers were elected and the Alliance placed in full working order. The officer are as follows: Pres. J.

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