The American Bimetallist from Topeka, Kansas • 1

Hp THE AMERICAN BIMETALLISM VOLUME 1 NO. 9 TOPEKA, KANSAS, DECEMBER 17, 1896. CALL For FREE SILVER GOV. HARVEY'S WEDDING. Rmmm BIMETALLIST Entered as Second Ciass Matter at the Post Office at Topeka, Kansas.

Published weekly, $1.00 per year. 112 7 Rooms 2nd floor. Topeka, Kansas. A. J.

R. Smith, Editor Prop THURSDAY DECEMBER 17, 1896. ATTENTION, RAILROAD MEN! We hope any and every man who is discharged from the employ of any British corporation for political reasons, no matter what the excuse, will report the matter to tnis office, giving full details of the matter. Prompt and decisive action will be taken to protect American citizens in their right of suffrage. A charter allowing Englishmen to run a railroad, does not include the right to interfere with American elections.

In Kansas, at least, we can protect working men against such tyranny. This is our last fight unless wo win. Lawrence's reception to Leed3' was a real success. To the Free Silvar Clubs of Kansas: The leader of the gold standard forees has modestly admitted thai he won the national eenteat "with one hand on God and the other on MoEin-ley," and has served notice upon the friends of silver that they mast ex peet a war of extermination. We mast accept the challenge, and in ao oepting, remember that we are invincible in this state when united, and that oar people represent too high an order of intelligence to merely vote their 1 ikes or dislikes of Arkansas or Iowa.

I desire to call your attention to the set that the silver sentiment proved stroagest on Nov. 3 in the west and south, where the money question had been most thoroughly discussed in recent years. An equally thorough discission in all states west of the Alle-ghenies ought to bring te us the whole region. For the purpose of assisting in u-niting the friends of silver and in extending this discussion the free silver clubs of Kansas are invited to Bend delegates te meet in Topeka at 10 a January 12, 1897, in Hamilton Hall, to form a permanent state organization of silver eluba. It is rec-omended that eaeh free silver elub end one delegate for each 100 members or majority fraction thereof.

D. C. Tillotson, State Organizer of Free Silver Clubs, We have a letter from R. E. Heller urging the election of David Overmyer to the Ssnate, too lata for this issue.

Mr. Heller is on 1 of the true and tried populists A this county and his loyalty to pop ulist principles cannot be questioned. He regards the Allied Forces as constituting a single party and thinks the best man in either of the three former divisions should be chosen. It is certain that if David Overmyer were in the Senate Kansas would not need to blush. We would like the official roster of every silver club in the state.

The Spaniards are now trying to deny that Maceo was killed at all. It is victory or death; if the people dont win in 1900, their reduction to serfdom will be complete. The assassination of Gen. Maceo by Weyler will not be likely to advance the interests of Spain in Lois of people are talking about fighting for Cuba, who haven't sense enough to vote for OUR STATE OFFICERS. Chief Justice FRANK DOSTER Marion County.

Governor, LEEDY, Coffey CcuLty. Lieuten't Govf rnor, A HARVEY, Shawnee County. Sectary of atp, BUSH, Jewell County. Treasurer, HEFFLEBOW EE, Miama County. Attorney General, BOYLE, Bjuibon County.

Auditor, MOKRIS, Cherokee Countj Sup't. cf Public InstrnctioD, STRYKER. blood by Pinkertons, backed the militia of Pennsylvania and the courts of Pennsylvania and the United States; to Brieeville where hundreds of miners were murdered by state and national troops; to Wyoming, where a vast traGt of country was doomed to devastation and murder by a band of cutthroats organized by British capitalists, assisted by high officers of the state and nation, and upon the failure of the scheme, owing to the bravery of the settlers, the United States army was employed to rescue the cutthroats, take them to places of safety and turn them loose; to Kewe-ah colony in California, where a-trocities were committed by United States troops, which were never equalled by Spain herself and only paralleled by British troops in India. This list might still be extend ed. Even the fiendish and treacherous assassination of Gen.

Maceo has its counterpart in President Harrison's dastardly butchery of Sitting Bull. All these atrocities and many others were the work of the last republican administration of this country, for which our editors lie, our preachers pray, our politicians stultify themselves and our people vote. Any tears that any lover of the republican party may shed over the wrongs of Cuba are largely tinctured with crocodiles. Even if some'Spanish Sherman takes the last shirt from the suffering Cubans, the result is not so serious as if they had our rigorous climate There are more hungry, houseless, shivering people in New York city today, than the entire population of Cuba. Meantime, the women whom it is our duty to defend from being driven to poverty, prostitution and suicide, are the women of Kansas and the United States; the children against whose reduction to slavery it is our duty to fight are the children of our oion state and nation.

Lt. Gov. Harvey lias made the following appointments: Miss Isabella Cone to be Private Censor and Ward-in; L. D. Lewelling, Chairman Ways and Means; II.

G. Jumper, Cb'm'n Fees and Salaries; W. A. Harris, Ch'm'n Railroads; L. King, Agriculture and Irrigation.

Oak Mills township in Atchison county cast a solid vote of 72 for Bryan and Leedy. Herzog township in Ellis county casta solid vote of 100 for the same men. Every township in the state should have done the same. There is no good reason why a single man in Kansas should vote for the Prince of Wales and a gold standard. Our republican friends seem to be very anxious to have the Metropolitan Police boards abolished.

If we were not acquainted with these gentlemen, we might think they wantetl to reform their own work, but, as tho result would be to give them control of the police of this city, it is difficult to a-void a suspicion of self-interest. So many ex-policemen are now in the penitentiary that they could hardly run the police department without some help from the pops anyway. HOTEL D'AFRIQUE. The following will be delegates from the Tapeka Free Silver Republican club to the state silver conference: W. It.

Hazen, 1). C. Tillotson, J. II Stev ens, D. M.

Mitchell and C. E. Prfss the fight! The man who dallies now while our enemies are IN RE CUBA. A great amount of indignation is being expressed by the people and press of this country in regard to the horrid butcheries now going on in the island ef Cuba. A few calm serious words on that subject, therefore, may not be amiss.

Cuba is an island about the size of Kansas. It has about the same number of people, viz. a million and a half. About half of these are of African descent and the others of white, principally Spanish descent. But the races are much more mixed than in this country.

The Blacks were formerly slaves. Agriculture is carried on mostly by large plantat'ons. Most of these are owned by capitalists in Spain, England and New York, and operated by resident managers The staple products are sugar and tobacco. The surface of the island is partly level and undulating, and partly hilly and mountainous. It is naturally the richest island in the world.

The island has been under the dominion of Spain since its discovery by Columbus. The system of its control has been the usual colonial policy of all European countries, that is, plunder, under the forms of law. Taxation direct and indirect, has been applied, to the u'most limit, to enrich the government of Spain, and the capitalists who own the plantations and reside abroad. Out of the pittance allowed them for their labor by the capitalists who own the plantations, the people are taxed to support the government and army which holds them in subjection. Tariff duties, both on exports and imports, go to the Spanish government and the "profits" go to the capitalists.

These taxes and profits leave the laborers barely enough to support existancc. A recent well written article on the subject says: "Spain has fastened on Cuba a debt of over per cipita, and in addition, a system of taxation which wrings over $36,000,000 annually from tho island. The attempt of Spain to negotiate a loan of $250,000,000 with Cuba as a guaranty, was the immediate cause of the present revolution." If we proceed upon the theory that governments are instituted for the protection and benefit of the people governed, it is appar ant that the government of Cuba has been a failure; but if wo judge of that government by a comparison with others, the contrast is not so striking as might be imagined; and the people of Cuba have not much more cause for complaint than others. Take our own beloved Kansas for example. Kansas pays her share of the general government expense of over $500,000,000 annually.

Her own state expenses, about $2,655,072, annually. The railroads, owned principally in England, extort annually, according to their own reports, over above a 30-per-cent profit on their cost of operation and interest i original cost. The insurance companies, all practically owned in the east, take $30,000,000 more. The Banks, oil, coal, lead, salt and other trusts swell the grand total to least the same percentage of our land, two-thirds, is owned abroad. Our children have before them little if any better chance than the Cubans to own their own homes.

The atrocities of the Spanish army upon the defenceless Cubans, haye their duplicates in "the land of the free and the home of the brave." Cleveland's criticism of Weyler might be parried by a reference to Homestead, where American work ingmen wero butchered in cold inding us hand and foot, is a dast It isn't every day that we Populists can have an inauguration; and it is still more seldom that we can have one with a wedding attachment. But we are strictly "in the swim" this time. And the occasion will excuse a little exuberance without apology. Last Wednesday, Dec. 16th, at 9-45 A.

M. our Lieutenant Governor-elect led to the hymeneal altar Miss Isabella Cone, of this eity, as though he was wisely fortifying himself before assuming his official duties. The ceremonies were performed at the First Christian Church of this city, of which both the contiacting parties are members, by Rev. D. D.

Boyle, the Pastor. Promptly at 9-45 Mrs. J. W. Going began to play Mendelsson's wedding march and the bridal procession entered the church.

The two ushers came first, followed by the maid of honor, Miss Eucebia Mudge, of Eskrldge, and the best man, Mr. J. D. Harvey, the groom's brother- The bride and groom entered last. Rev, D.

D. Boyle met the party in front of a bank of palms and performed the Episcopal ring service. Miss Caroline Baum sang Millard's "Ave Maria." An informal reception was held and Mr. and Mrs. Harvey received the congratulations of their friends.

The bride was gowned in a granite clot of gold and green. A bolero jacket of Persion embroidery opened over a full front of corn-colored chiffon. Lace and green velvet were also used in trimming the bodice. She carried a bouquet of bride's roses. Governor e'ect Leedy was amoag the guests.

Mr. and Mrs. Harvey left on the noon train for Dodge City, where they will visit Mr. Harvey's brothsr until Friday, when they return to this city to reside. Both the bride and groom are real Kansas, Shawnee Co.

products. The groom was born in Madison Co. Nov. 24 1867, but came to Shawnee county with his parents in 1877. The family settled on a farm twelve miles south of Topeka, on which they still reside.

Studying in the district school and Normal at Emporia, the young governor began teaching and studying law. In 1892 he was chosen Secretary of the People's party County Central Committee. In 1893 he was admitted to the bar. In 1 894 he was Chairman of the Congressional Committee of this district, and in 1896, having built up a prosperous law business, he was com mated and elected Lieutenant Governor of Kansas, and husband of a lovely bride, who had herself come to this country in her early childhood. Her father, W.

W. Cone, was well known in Kansas, having been foi eight years Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society. lie was also connected with the Kansas Farmer. He reformed from this, however, and is now a prominent fruit grower and horticulturist of southern Missouri When he left Kansas. Miss Cone remained in Topeka, and has been for several years in he employ of T.

E. Bowman and Co. She has always been very popular in the ohurch circles with which she affiliated. The young couple may securely count on the best wishes of a majority of the people of Kansas, larger than that which called him into public life. The Free Silver Clab Dover is reorganized and has began the campaign for 1900 in good earnest.

The plutocrats will find they have undertaken a big job in attempting to eliminate the American farmer. Auburn has reorganized its Free Silver Clnb, and that stronghold of plntccraoy will be rescued from the burning before another election. Mr. Stewart, its president, has proven him elf one of the most suocessf al organizers in the county. The Journal has a great fake about what it calls a "split" in the "Triple Alliance." That paper haB been giving large doses of taffy to bimetallists bnt always counteracts it with dastardly lies.

The story, like many others in that paper, is puro fiction. Its nonsense about senator and state-printership are of the same nature. The three parties having similar platforms and identical candidates, will form one solid party for the iuture. ard and a traitor. This is specially intended for Chairman Cone, of San Francisco.

BANS. STATE UNION FREE SILVER LEAGUE. Kansas is probably the rnly Grover Cleveland is now posing as anti-trust man and is telling, through Attorney General Harrison, how these infant industries would have been wiped off the face of the earth had the fisherman been continued as President of this trust-ridden country Grover, like our Dennis, wanted more time, and like Dennis he has got i the time. Teoumseb(Okla, ocrat. state in the Union that pays for "mineral water" for its Railroad commissioners and "machine oil" President, Col.

Fred J. Close Vice Mrs. E. H. Henry Sec'y, Dr A.

M. Eidson Gen. Manao'r, Maj. J. A.

Davis. Treasurer, J. M. Hart for the Bank commissioners, and yet eastern papers say we arc re- pudiatori. Ladies' Free Silver Club.

PrfuirW, Mrs. D. Ti loHor Vied Mrs. D. I.

Furbeck Secretary, Mies Grseia Hurt. Never before did a defeated candidate for the presidency stand quite so high in the estimation of those who supported him as does Wm. J. Bryan. He has continued to grow in popularity every day since he was nominated at Chicago.

Before the year 1900 comes around the voters will begin to see and realize what a great opportunity they let pass when they oould have eleeted so grand a statesman as their chief magistrate. Ca, 7 Center A dispatch dated New York, Deo. 15th, states that one man with a family hangs himself because he oould not sec are work; also a student kills himself because of his poverty, while a whole family consisting of parents and live children were found starving on aooount of inablity to get work We thank God that for the past twen ty years tee have voted a protest 6-gainBt the existing conditions, thab foroe such matters upon us as reel faots. and are innocent of the bloc 1 of our fellow man from such oausus. Pratt Co.

Union. When a country like the United States, abounding in all the elements of wealth, with abundent crops and in the full enjoyment of the blessings of peace and freedom from pestilence, is driven to the verge of bankruptcy, with all the national banks in its great commercial centers praotioally suspended, with its mills elosed, its laboring men in idlentes and famishing for the want of food, with the farmers unable to market their crops even at prices less than eost of production, there is something fundamentally wrong. One v.ould think the friends of an administration which permits convicts in the ponitentiary tocon-terfiet bank notes, using government machinery right along for two years, won'd be careful how they charged their opponents with "incompetency." Matt Quay, Senator from md formerly chairman of the Re-puplican National Committee, has discovered that "trusts in politics are a menace; to the peop'e and if continued will entirely wipe out ordinary bu-iness men and farmers." VVe congratulate him on his discovery, though Into. Read the Congressional lvmark8 of John J. Ingalls and Tom Ryan on our fourth i age in this issue, and then ask yourselves if the English language contains words too venomous to app'y to men who, knowing well these horrid facts, have deserted the cause of the people and joined the men they once denounced.

Brass doesn't always win The "Commercial Club," apparantly, has given up the task of crowding itself to the front, and dictating the inaugural reception. Even Topeka is sin felted with pretense. Let tin Governor be welcomed by his friends rather than by the slick schemers who want to give him taffy for the sake of a pull on the state treasury. Old Soldi' ks' Free Silver Club. President, J.

J. Miller Secretary, J. W. Heinecke. Cor.

Sec, Dr. A. M. Eidson Porui.iST Leagur. Prsiden, J.

M. Hsrt. Secretary, Oho. Wagner Silver Republican Club. President, W.

R. to Secretary, C. E. Purviaiii-e Free Silvi Flambeau Club. President, J.

E. AnderOL Secretary, Yni kr. NirthTipika Silver Club. President, J. J.

Morse Secretin, J. Q. A. Pejtoii. Fifth Ward Silver Republican Club Pnsidm, Sm Jonfs.

Secretary, J. A. Gjibmi Fifth Ward Independent Silver Club. President, Sam Secretary, Fi er. Auburn Free Silver Club.

President, J. W. Srewait. St'crtary, Dover Free Silver Club President, Ed Hew ins. Secretary, Wheeler.

Mr. Nick Chiles, the prominent colored politician of this city, has purchased the three story stone building at 116 7 th and will convert it into a holsterie that will in every thing, except size, equal the finest hotel in the city. The building is one of the best and will be fitted up with all modern improvements. This will make the house a geueral headquarters for that race in the state. Mr.

Chiles himself, has long been the political friend and associate of the republican leaders here, Gov. Morrill, J. K. Hudson, et. al.

He is of open hearted, generous disposition, and political opponents will not lack for courtesy at his hands. Subscribe for the Amkkican I3i- MICTA LLIST..