Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 16, 1900, Page 3

HOR KANSAS CITY (NDICATIONS OF A BIG ATTENDANCE FROM THE NORTH STAR STATE. Two Train Loads in Prospect—Outline of Plans—The Demecratic Headquarters Train and Another of Lincoln Repub- licans—Political Gleanings of the Week. The Boer Reception— Truth About Oregon's Election—Twin City and State Points and Pointers — The Weekly Roundup far the Reform Press. Reform Press Bureau, St. Paul, June 11, 1900. Frevious declarations that there is to be a large attendance from Minnesota ; Democratic national convention, as tho Silver or Lincoln Repub- n gathering, same time and place have been more than confirmed to thi point by events of the past week. I looks now like the largest’ delega- tions, official and of citizens, that has | dependent, rather | paper ever gone from the state to a national | convention of any party. The follow ing is an outline of the arrangements: Commencing with the Democrati delegation, the state central committee | c y and alternates, will number 36, and all Democrats of the state or others who may desire to attend the convention, with the official party. Tho train will be made up of sleepers, tourist and other coaches, and will carry band, etc., | and bo appropriately decorated, and will be run and managed for the con- venience and comfort of the party, go- ing, coming and while,‘there. The sleepers and coaches will be used at Kansas City, so that there will be no necessity for securing hotel there, ex- cépt for meals. The train will be locat- ed within easy distance of the conven- tion hall. All of which accommoda- tion will be at the lowest possible cost, one price for the round trip to include all, which price and all particulars will be announced duly by circulars by com- mitteemen and through the city and local press. The train will run special, leaving the Twin Cities probably early in the afternoon of July 3, and arriving at Kansas City early in the following forenoon. Al arrangements for this train are in charge of the following committee, ap- pointed by State Chairman L. A. Rosing: J. A. O’Shaughnessey, chair- man, T. R. Kane, secretary, and O. A. Robertson, E. W. Murphy and Geo. 8. Canfield. The Silver Republican train comprises like arrangements as to sleepers, tour- ist cars and coaches, and will have a chair car, and with band, other music and decorations galore will, it is safe to say, maintain the Silver Republican cecord for political ‘*hustling.”” E. S. Corser, Minneapolis, has full charge of train and arrangements, under author- ity of the Silver Republican state cen- tral committee. The train will also run special, leaving and arriving in run a headquarters special train to | y the delegation which, delegates | ' i | i \ | if | 1 i daylight, and will be located in Kansas | City so as to be used for sleep- ing purposes, which is covered in the trip rate. All particulars will also be duly given out by Mr. Corser, who should be addre: New York Life building, Minneapolis. Mr. Corser and committee pledge 200 by their train. Minnesota headquarters for both Democrats and Lincoln Republicans have been secured at the Coates House. Speaking of the conventions, the pro- gramme of the Lincolns is in part -pre- Its membership, being a mas: ion, is expected to be upwards Senator Teller will be either temporary or permanent chairman, and the prayer will be offered by Rev. Dr. Horace Bigelow of Cincinnati, aud Dr. Howard S. Taylor of Chicago will fur- nish an original poem. The coming week will bring many details of the Democratic convention, now under consideration. Our friends everywhere should re- member the Democratic county and state conventions, the former called for each county on June 14, the latter June 20 at Minneapolis. The railroads have made a one fare round trip rate for the state convention. Congress has closed without passing the anti-oleo bill so much desired by the dairy interests, but it did not fail to provide for the armor plate and other army and navy steals. St. Paul fully sustained Minnesota’s patriotism and Americanism in her management of the state’s welcome to the Boer commissioners. Despite the fact that the railways refused rates, there was a goodly representation from the interior, and the Twin Cities turned out an immense audience at the St. Paul evening meeting, which was all that could have been expected as to en- thusiasm and spirit.. The Transvaalers took with them only the most pleasant recollections of the North Star state. And they were also satisfied that their cause and their distressed country have the sympathy of a great majority of the people of this state. It is safe to say that if it were made a matter of vote, {the Boers would be endorsed by at least 80 or 90 per cent. In the face of the almost unanimous sympathy of the masses it is surprising to many that the would-be leaders of the state Republicans have so persist- ently withheld any encouragement of the struggling South Africans. The real reason is however apparent. These leaders know that sympathy with the Boers is sympathy with the Filipinos, and they fear the inevitable applica- tion. And again has Candidate Van Sant turned his back on the Boers and\on those who do sympathize with them. He was invited to be present at the! out that it is ‘‘too late.” | | | | \ | state reception, as he has been invited on each separate important occasion of the kind during several months past. He was invited to Minneapolis, to the St. Paul pro-Boer meeting, to the .one at his home, Winona, etc., all of which he either ignored or gave a trivial, trumped-up excuse. He has not by his course strengthened himself with our liberty-loving citizens, especially those of foreign birth, who know what it is to stand up for country, and who have live sympathies with any people strug- gling for home and liberty. These will remember Candidate Van Sant. What's all this worry about the Box- ers in China; is not John Goodnow at Shanghai? Oregon election reports well illustrate the garbled information of the G. O. P. and so-called ‘‘independent’’ press. Democrats were ‘‘skinned,’’ or the op- position “‘staggered’”’ according to each rospectively, the ‘independent’ party exceeding its co- patriots in zeal and such election ‘lesson.”’ Now the fact is that neither class of had such information, by “freight”? or otherwise. It was only a ‘“gness’? by the ass ociated press, based on fragmentary returns ‘‘claim- g’’ 6,000 to 7,000 Republican major- , congressmen 2,000 to 3,000, and the legislature ‘*Republican.”” Now, Oregon has never been any- thing but Republican but once since 1872, and that was in ’92, when fasion carried by 811. The average Reopubli- can majority for the last five presiden- tial elections has been near 7,000, and was 15,00) in 1894. In the election of 1898, corresponding to this (for state officers and congressmen) it was 10,774, the two congressmen having~ above 2,000 and 6,000 respectively, while the legislature was 20 Republican majority in the senate, and 26 in the house, 46 on joint ballot. Besides there was a full complement of Republican state officers. The latest reports are that the state has gone Republican by about the usual figure, except that the legislature is largely reduced.. Considering the sheen and gloss of ‘‘expansion’’ in this coast state, and all that the national and state machinery, with supposedly copious showers of Hanna money could do, thera is certainly very little Repub- lican encouragement in Oregon. Our farmers who have been market- ing their wheat for the entire year to this point at barely 50 cents will have noted that the price of silver has for some time ruled at 60 and better, chas- ing close up to the market price of wheat. How few of them now doubt but that if silver rose to par, wheat would stand close to the dollar mark? Silver would rise by free coinage. Is the silver question then so dead, con; sidering the interests of our producers? Well does the party in the door (50- cent wheat), as the cartoon shows it, say to the party within, getting himself up for the G. O. P. campaign, *Peek-a- bco, papa, you can’t los2 me.” The way departmental business is done under the Lind administration is well shown in the adjutant general’s de- part;nent in cases of Spanish war claims by state volunteers. These numbered 500, covering every variety of case, un- der circumstances with which all sol- diers are familiar. They were all acted on by Adjutant General Lambert and filed at Washington May 2. The ad- jutant general presented them in per- son, and with such care and accuracy that before the month closed he received notification of the settlement of all with the exception of less than 30 referred back for various unimportant details. | Such casos often drag for years, causing no end of annoyance and often loss. General Lambert receives many com- mondations for his success in the mat- ter. ‘he local event of the weak politically has been the inanguration of ‘‘Honest Bob” Smith as mayor of St. Panl, the result of the handsome victory by the united reform forces of the Capital City. Twin City people feel better. St. Paul- ites have felt most keenly the bad name of their fair city under Republican mis- management, and look forward to sub- stantial improvement all round. And Mayor Smith’s retirement ad- mits ex-Governor A. R. McGill to his place as postmaster. Governor McGill is so fair a man politically, that’ his per- sonal recognition, even by an adminis- tration which heis believed to hold in no great respect, is highly gratifying to many. Of course this is not an “evening up’’ of the ex-governor’s old score with his party, but he can see what has happened to his predecessor, and gauge the thing up asa stepping stone, and take courage. Says the Minneapolis Times: “If Mr. Bryan were president and the Democratic party in power, tomorrow, they would do nothing practical to aid the cause of the Afrikanders, They would not because they could not, without in- volving this country in a war with Great Britain—an inconceivable price to pay.” If Mr. Bryan and his party had beenin power there would have been action at atime when action could safely have been taken, which would have saved these two South African republics. Bryan and his administration would not have been engaged in the same kind ofa war that Great Britain has been conducting, to-wit, one against the Filipino republic. Thatis the meat in the coacoanut. If the United States had been doing right in the Philippines, in Cuba, and in Porto Rico, she could well have said something as to what England should do in South Africa. England would never have entered on the South African job, without first’ making sure that the McKinley admin- istration would keep hands off. Bryan as president could have saved the Boers,’ and there would have -been no war with England either. And none know this better than those who row point G.S.0. | FIFTY-CENT WHEAT. tS aes PROSPERITY PROSPERITY-* PROSPERITY PROSPERITY! PROSPERITY | Re an -—G PARTY IN DOOR: ‘‘Peek-a-Boo Papa, You Can’t Lose Me.” —Republished from the campaign of 1898. that then the volume of the govern- i T ment currency shall be enough, and nO more than enough, to maintain a staple price level. i The the multiple standard, and jin combination with a fixed par of ex- And the Money Plank for the jchange with silver using pointe Coming National Campaign. lear es amar result is the ideal As to Silver. | Some of the results which will flow from a stable price level, secured, as it will be, by fixed rules laid down by Shall There Be:More Than a|Congress, are as follows: * . ; 1. It will abolish the president’s dis- Reaffirmation of the Chi- cretionary power to er treasury cago Platform? money into Wall Street, and withdraw it, thereby controlling prices and busi- ness. 2. It will prevent speculators, specu- j lative banks, foreign bankers, and for- eign governments from controlling the money market, prices, and business. 3. It will prevent panics, falling ay cee and the consequent disorganiza- cs tion of industry from this source, . Now, that ‘the state pemeereee coa- | which our opponents characterize as ventions, as fast as held, make it cer- | overproduction and which now threat- tain not that Bryan Aakers head the|., society. national ticket by probably a unan-. al ‘ . imous nomination, but that there will = oe pet prey Se hres 1 be a step backward as to the Chicago! wnich to adjust prices fixed by law platform, discussion is turning largely Gustommunnd Ronipatition x . upon what, if any, specific declaration | “¢ i+ Will remove the money question there will be upon the questions, espe- oui politics. o cially touching free coinage. ee Since the Sioux Falls convention, the at ve soem er ee ee plank there made has attracted great | inaer which the country has come attention, and is generally received to greatness, a Sondition of real pros- with favor by Western silver men. perity for the iisinaek with oppor- This is especially true since it is em- tunity restored for raeraria? tar Anite! phasized that the free coinage declared try and labor, and with such restora- for carries with it a substitution Of |+i5, escape from evils which threaten such money for the notes of the ma-!1h. destruction of the republic tional banks. 3 ‘ The following is from Hon. Geo. H. Shibley, of New York, author of the Sioux Falls Plank, from a recent issue of the National Watchman: “4 At the national convention of the People’s Party at Sioux Falls, the money plank denounces in detail the Republican currency law of March 14, 1900, and then presents the following remedy: “We reaffirm the demand for the re- opening of the mints of the United States for the free and unlimited coin- age of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, the immediate in- crease in the volume of silvercoins and certificates thus created to be substi- tuted, dollar for dollar, for the bank notes issued by private corporations, under special privilege granted by the law of March 14, 1900, and prior na- tional banking laws, the remaining portion of the bank notes to be re- placed with full legal tender govern- ment paper money, and its volume so controlled as to maintain at all times a stable money market and a stable price level.” This declaration means that the People’s Party desires to repeat the money fight of 1896, and to apply the history of the past four years to dem- onstrate the correctness of the position then taken. In other words, the re- form parties declared that a stable price level was a just, and therefore an ideal system. Mr. Bryan repeat- edly said that this was the issue. In his speech of acceptance at New York, in 1896, he declared: “The interests of society demand a financial system which shall add to the volume of standard money of the world, and thus restore ‘stability to prices.’ ” Since 1897 there has occurred an in- flation of standard money, and it has set in motion the wheels of industry, just as we said it would do; and there has been enacted a law for an infla- tion of paper money through private corporations. The Sioux Falls platform demands that these “bank notes” be replaced, dollar for dollar, with silver Other Current National Polit- ical Topics—Our State Ad- ministratian. H. L. Chaffee, of the Minneapolis Commercial Salesmen’s Anti-Trust League, gives in the National Watch- man the following sixteen reasons why he is this year a Democrat: 1. Because a war that was com- menced in the interest of humanity, finally develored into a war of con- quest. 2, Because the monetary bill passed March 14 may properly be termed an act to present.to the national banks a hundred million dollars. 3. Because. the action of Secretary Gage in depositing large sums of gov- ernment money in the Standard Oil Company’s bank was an act of favor- itism to a monopoly, whose annual profits are four times the interest on ihe national debt. 4. Because the administration has shown its subserviency to the trusts in agreeing to pay the armor trust not less than twenty million dollars this year in excess of a fair price. 5. Because for nearly four years the administration has done nothing to check the unprecedented growth of trusts. " 6. Because the Republican party stands for a high tariff, which is the bulwark, of the trust. 7. Because the ways and means com- mittee and subseavently Congress, with the help of the president, made an abject surrender to the Tobacco and Sugar trusts, in the passage of the Porto Rico tariff bill. 8. Because the Hanna ship-subsidy bill, which meant not only d steal of nine millions a year, but a monopoly to large vessel-owners, was withdrawn with the distinct understanding that it should be put through at the next session of Congress, provided the Han- naites were in power. 9. Because Cuba was promised inde- pendence, and it is now apparent that ‘the Republicans intend to break faith with the people of that island, just as they have done with Porto Rico. 10. Because the record of Governor Lind, in compelling corporations to power. who sincerely advocate the single gold 15. Because this election in 1990 in-| standard, the choice will lie between volves more than the supremacy cf any party. The result will determine whether this ccuntry shall permanent- ly depart from the fundamental prin- ciples of the founders of our govera- ment, who proclaimed equality of all men before the law. Whether the constitution and declaration of inde- pendence shall. follow the fiag. or whether we shall adopt the British imperial policy which teaches us that might is right. A policy which carries the flag to every clime, and by force of arms rules subjects without the con- sent of the governed.” A system which demands a large standing army with the evils which follow militarism and the corruption which attends a colonial policy. 16. And, finally, because in this con- flict between liberty and despotism which has been waged in one form or another for thousands of years, I see the same spirit that once stoed for-the divine right of kings, now manifest in a commercialism, which through menopoly and special privilege seeks to lay tribute upon the many for the benefit of the favored few, It is well known that the Minne- apolis Swedish paper, the Svenksa Folkets Tidning, since it came into ownership of Renpubiican bankers, omits no opportunity to oppose Gov- ernor Lind. But an instance of how the governor’s political enemies have to praise him when they speak in ac- tual candor, is furnished by the Good- hue County News, in reporting what one of the owners of the Tidning, Judge N. O. Werner, said in Red Wing, pan there recently. Judge Werner said: “LIND IS THE BEST GOVERNOR MINNESOTA EVER HAD.” Then Mr. Werner continued: “There is no denying that John Lind has made a good governor. He has been careful and painstaking and has not missed a detail of the state’s busi- ness. We have never had a governor who gave such close attention to every branch of the administration. His leaving the party was the greatest loss the Republicans have sustained in this state. He would have been senator before this if he had chosen to stay in the party. Governor Lind was never as strong as he is today.” That is Judge Werner, says the News, a Republican whose party loyalty is unquestioned. He spent Monday and Tuesday in Red Wing, his former home, taking counsel with Republican leaders here and talking freely with Republicans and Democrats both. He opposes Lind’s political tenets as cor- dially as ever, but he frankly declares his good opinion of his administration. Farm Stock and Home “Chop Feed”: Partisanship makes a heavier draft on belief than on intelligence! It’s kind o’ funny that a man can carry a mortgage that he can’t “lift.” As the authority and power of priv- iteged classes are weakened, the lib- erty of the masses is strengthened. One dollar spent by England for bread where ten dollars are spent for battle would make an incredible dif- ference in the sum total of the world’s present woe! Monopoly is the parent of wealth centralized in few hands; public own- ership of natural monopolies is the remedy for that dangerous disease, wealth centralization. If the constitution does not apply to our new colonies, what-right has Con- gress to legislate for them? Where does Congress find authority to legis- late at all except in the constitution? A group of American farmers were loading a car with corn donated to the starving peovle of India and at the same time praising England for her kind, tender, maternal care of the mil- lions she is blessing with her rule! William J. Bryan has-opinions and the courage to defend them. William McKinley also has opin- ions, but lacks courage and neve: sticks to them. % Bryan has faith in the people and stands up for their rights. McKinley has no faith in the people and sacrifices their rights at the de- mand of the trusts. Bryan opposes imperialism and works for freedom and a republican form of government. McKinley champions imperialism and works for an aristocracy of money at the exnense cf the people. Bryan opposes the trusts which rob the people, enslave workingmen and kill competition. McKinley fosters and protects the trusts regardless of the people and uses all his influence to make the rich richer, which has also the result of making the poor poorer. Bryan has a practical plan to re- strain the trusts and if elected presi- dent he will put it into execution. McKinley has no plan to restrain trusts, and if he did have such a plan the trust managers, who own him bedy and soul, would not allow him to en- force it. Which of these two men would best serve the people 2s president of the United States? There is no choice between them. Bryan stands for all the people de- sire in the way of justice and protec- tion. McKinley represents the trusts and imperinalism and ignores the peo- ple. McKinley, with whom they agree only on one question, and Bryan, with whom they disagree on a single ques- tion. The choice will lie between a man of platitudes and a man who says what he means and means what he says, between a man _ whose ear is “tuned to catch the slightest pulsation of a pocketbook” and a man who “lis- tens to the heartbeat of humanity;” between a man of whose policies none but the trusts can be certain and a man whose principles the world un- gerstands. Those who choose McKinley cannot separate the man from his cant.” Those who choose Bryan cannot separate the man from his candor. Those who choose Bryan cannot hope that he will abandon the policies thought out for him by others. Those who choose Bryan need not expect him to abandon the principles he has thought out for himself. It will be McKinley and an empire; or it will be Bryan and a republic. If an empire resting upon gold is preferred to a republic resting upon gold and silver, then let us begin the erection of the imperial temple—the temple that shall testify to the correct- ness of European prophecy that gov- ernment of the people, by the people and for the peonle shall perish from the earth. New York Journal: The most im- portant question which the Republican party has to face at present is not the planning and planking of a Hanna platform. It is an easy matter to howl against the trusts without meaning it, and to fill a platform with deceptive cant and rant about the blessings supposed to follow the flag and the splendid pros- perity of our satrapies. | The Republican platform, as we have learned from experience, is built of empty words and broken promises which can be written on a typewriter in fifteen minutes. This does not worry the Republican party. The question which is causing sleepless nights is how to cover up the utter raseality of the administra- tion. It cannot be hidden by a bom- bastic platform. The public cannot be deceived by rosy speeches. Hanna leads the administration like a red ox with a brass ring through its nose. As the ox, McKinley, is irre- sponsible, except within the limits of his rope. It is Hanna first, last and always, and for all the scandal and rascality connived at and covered up the peo- ple will demand an explanation. Here are a few of the things that voters will do well to make an espe- cial study of between now and elec- tion day: The Alger embalmed beef scandal. The financial collusion between John D. Rockefeller and Secretary Gage. The tariff oppression of the Porto Ricans. The United States army outrages on the Coeur d’Alene miners authorized by William McKinley. Thefts, murder and mismanagement in the Philippines. Postoffice rascality and ment in Cuba. The Hay-Pauncefote treaty by which we are to build an isthmian canal while England commands it. Tattooed and daubed with such a damning record, the Republican party will find its platform a very minor consideration with the people. embezzie- Tammany Croker on Bryan: “I am for William J. Bryan with my whole heart. He is far and away the ablest man that we have in American politics this day. He is a wonderful man. There is no man to compare with him anywhere or to put alongside of him. He is a fine character,-a man of high principle and of tremendous energy. “Mark my words: When William J. Bryan is elected he will Work eighteoa” hours a day in order to carry out in spirit and in letter every plank in the Democratic platform. Hitherto other men have regarded the platform drawn up at their convention as a ladder on which they mount to power, and which they kick down a3 soon as they get to the top. “Mr. Bryan is not a men of that sort. He does not want to be elected for purposes of vainglory and love of position. He thinks, and I agree with him, that if he is elected he will do his country good. He will be able to serve the people, and he will be a governing president, not a mere lay- figure, whose movements are governed by wire-pullers. He is a man of con- viction.” Sioux Falls Press: Is it not significant that in two con- tinents men who love liberty better than life are waiting for Bryan to be- come president of the United States ir the hope that then the American re- public will be a republic? Albert Lea, in common with sister cities in Southern Minnesota, has re- cently received an instructive object lesson on the Trust question. The Al- bert Lea Tribune (Rep.) has the fol- lowing to say with regard to it: “A dog-in-the-manger policy in the commercial world was never more boldly demonstrated than it is being at Albert Lea today and the cracker trust is the demonstrator. By the or- der of the cracker trust thousands of dollars worth of valuable machinery coins, silver certificates, and full legal pore government paper money, and hat the volume of this government currency be ‘“‘so controlled as to main- tain at all times a stable money mar- ket and a stable price level.” That was our position four years ago, “tis our position now, and the events of the past four years have demonstrated that we were right then, and therefore, are right now. And we have this additional advantage: Our opponents have admitted the quantity theory by passing a law for “more money” and all that we have to do is to ask that this paper money, issued through private corporations, be re- placed with standard money—metallic money under free coinage—and that such portion of the bank money as re- mains shall be replaced with full legal tender government paper money and that henceforth the volume of the pa- per money shall not be left to acci- dent or the bankers’ self-interest, but shall be scientifically regulated. This means that an index number of aver- age prices shall be constructed, thus measuring the height of the price level; that each week or possibly each day, a new measurement shall be made, and bear a just share of the burdens of taxation, and because the success of the railway and warehouse commis- sion in reducing freight rates on grain from one to three cents per bushel has demonstrated the wisdom of voting the Democratic ticket in Minnesota. 11. Because the administration, through ‘Secretary Hay, adroitly changed a proposition “to mediate” under the Hague treaty to interven- tion, thereby defeating the purpose of the treaty, and throwing the entire moral influence of the government upon the side of Great Britain in their criminal aggression in South Africa. 12. Because the whole administra- tion has been Hannaized, until the spirit of commercial greed and political corrpution has permeated our system of government as manifest. 13. Because I am opposed to anarchy or a system which sows the seeds of anarchy. . 14. Because none of the reforms such as “postal saving ‘banks,” “elec- tion of U. S. senators by the people,” or “postal telegraph lines” have any show of success, so long as the pres- ent administration is retained in | Omaha World-Herald, in the New The people are going to elect a presi- dent next autumn. Will they put a friend or an enemy in the White House?—Chicago Democrat. used in the manufacture of crackers was destroyed in this city yesterday afternoon and was sold for scrap irom to local junk dealers. The machinery was that which was used in the cracker factory formerly owned by C. A. Ran- som and which was purchased by the trust for the express purpose of remov- ing it from the field of competition. Not only has the machinery, which is the best manufactured and is prac- tically new, been destroyed, but the tust refused an offer of several hun- dred dollars for it. Rather than sell it and run risks of having it used in the manufacture of crackers, even on such a limited scale as would be nec- essary, its owner, the trust, sent its agent, F. J. Royer of Mankato, te the city Wednesday and by his orders every part of every machine in the building on East Williams street was smashed to pieces and rendered value- less. The pulleys and belts were shipped out of town. The trust could have sold the machinery for at least $500. Chas. Jorgenson, proprietor of Hotel Albert, made the trust an offer for the machinery. He purposed Editor Richard L. Metcalf of the York Journal: — In the campaign of 1900 the Demo- eracy will follow a man whose rise from obscurity to a position of emi- nence has been due to his sincerity, his ability, his firm adherence to truth and his consistent” attitude toward fundamental principles. Against him are arrayed all the forces that operate for class advantage. On all questions but one all men of the Democratic party agree with him. On that one question he represents the sentiment of ninety per cent of the Democrats. On that question he stands—as he has stood on all questions—the uncom- promising champion of the truth as he has learned *the truth. Men may urge him to yield his convictions, men may plead with him to deal in plati- tudes, but the urging and the plead- ing will be in vain, So far as concerns the Democrats| the machinery in a bakery.” oF j Hts —— a |