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VOLUME XXXIX. NO. 125. TUESDAY. KANSAS CITYOCTOBER 13, 1896. TUESDAY. PRICE TWO CENTS.

FACTS FOR VOTERS

HOW TUB GANG DOSSES NOMINATEDTHEIR COUNTY TICKET.

MEN WHO RAN THE CONVENTION

NAMES THAT HAVE BEEX IDENTT-FIE- D

WITH ELECTION FRAUDS.

COWHERD AND HIS FRIEND MAY.

BRIEF ACCOUNT OF AX INTEREST-IN- GPOLITICAL INCIDENT.

The- Second' Ward Dou Kept in Oulceby the Ex-Mn- or nt a. Time When

He Waa Denonnced by UnionLabor Other Local Po-

litical Slattern.

Tho article In yesterday's Issue of theJournal in which a chapter of the electionstealing history of the sang- was given,caused consternation among the bosses andsub-boss- and their followers. Theyhoped that they would not be again calledto account for their rascality, in the elec-tion of two years ago, and that they wouldbe able to hoodwink citizens who are un-familiar with their.- - criminal records intovoting for their candidates. On the con-trary, all men in Kansas City who are inlavor of good government andl are deter-mined that the control of tho county officesheld by the gang shall pass into the handsof honest men, were pleased.

It Is an old and trite saying that "a man

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ALL PREVIOUS REGISTRATIONS ARE AND VOID.

Is known by the company ho keeps," andthe people of Jackson county, when ,theybecome fully convinced, as they will befcefore flection, day, 'that .tbe, candidates

tupoifth'eso-calle- d Tejnocratic(2Mmty'tIclPet were selected by the gang-bosse- whocontrolled the county convention held atIndependence, will elect the Republicancounty candidates by majorities' that willforever put an end to the reign of thebosses.

Notwithstanding the supreme court de-cisions that put an end to several of theelection, fraud trials, all of the men whoInstigated and the men who committed thecrimes against the suffrages of the peopletwo years ago are not yet out of therneehes of the law. of VotersCharles 6. Owsley and the men who com-mitted tlie forgeries of election returns arenot yet clear of the charges against them.For that reason they want a prosecutingettomey who will put an end to all theprosecutions, and they believe they havesuch a roan in Frank M. Lowe. They wanta man who will summon the "right kind"of juries should any of the cases come totrial, and they believe they have thatkind of a man In Sam Chiles, their candi-date for county marshal.

There are some peculiar features of thelate alleged Democratic county conventionto which attention has not yet been called,and wihch the public should knowabout. Here is one of them:

Frank B. Walsh, attorney for severalof the election thieves and for a number ofcorporations, was made temporary chair-man of tho convention. Mr. Walsh hasnever neglected an opportunity to line' upwith and defend the gang. At the timeFrank Cooper and Frank G. Johnson wererunning for the office of mayor upon, op-posing Democratic tickets, three years agolast April, and the latter was declaring inall his speeches that if he should be elect-ed John May and his gang would have togo, Mr. Walsh was one of tho leadingrpeakcrs of the campaign. Ho not onlyupheld John May In bcveral of his speeches,but ho on one occasion made an anarchis-tic address upon the public square.

Mr. Walsh was assistant city counselorunder Mayor Cowherd, who was theFtaunch friend of John May, and who keptMay in the office of street commissionerdespite the fact that the board of publicvorks. which had the appointive power,hat' appointed William L. Sheppard UTthatoffice. A case was made up and taken tothe supreme court, and the gang won, asusual, that tribunal deciding in f.ivor ofMa j. In its opinion it said that the casewar. one that could be decided either way,.nd, as the other appointments were made

by the mayor and confirmed by the upperhouse of tho council, the superintendent ofstreets should be appointed in the sameway. The decision caused great rejoicingamong the bosses and other members ofthe gang. Captain J. S. Cannon, who wasthen president of the board of publicworks, and who made the light upon May,was marked by the gangsters and theymade a fight upon him that resulted In re-tiring him to private life.

After his appointment by Mayor Cowherdwas confirmed by the upper hoiiFe and hefound himself securely entrenched in theoffice of superintendent of streets, JohnMay set about organizing a powerful ad-junct to the gang's election stealing ma-chine. How well he succeeded was told inthe evidence given in the Van Horn-Tars-r-

contest before the national house ofrepresentatives and in the election fraudtrials.

During May's incumbency of the office ofsuperintendent of streets. In which he waskepi by the efforts of William S. Cowherd,mayor of Kansas City, aided by the bossesond the sub-boss- and all the other gang-- ,Ftrrs, the union labor element of the citydenounced him because he gave employ-ment upon the public streets to only suchmen as would spend the bulk of their earn-ings In his saloons and could be used inFluffing ballot boxes and otherwise aidingIn rolling up fraudulent majorities for thegang candidates.

At that time William S. Cowherd wasnot the friend of organized labor that, henow pretends to be. Never was any 'de-partment of Kansas City run as was thestreet department by John May under theadministration of William S. Cowherd.Judge Frank G. Johnson, the man whopublicly declared that if he was electedJohn May would have to go, was at that

time tho candidate of the union labor ele-ment. He has always been a staunchfriend of organized labor.

To go back to the county convention:Frank P. Scbree was permanent chair-man. He is attorney for the Rock Islandrailroad, and other corporations.

Finis C. Farr, who was an unsuccessfulcandidate for the nomination for congress-man, and who was attorney for a numberof the indicted election crooks, occupieda conspicuous place upon the floor of theconvention, and did some effective work forthe gang candidates.

The Second ward was ably representedby Mike Moran, John May's brother-in-la-

and three of John Slay's bartenders;George J. Pierce, indicted for electioncrookedness, and Charles Oldham, partnerof Lew BHIer, the gambler. They gaveChief Irwin a great deal of trouble inclosing up their place on Walnut street.At the head of the delegation, although nota delegate, was John May himself. Heworked with Sheriff John P. O'Neill, nowchief boss of the gang; Joe Shannon, firstassistant boss and general director of thegang's campaign; with ofVoters Charles S. Owsley, and others ofequally unsavory reputations In nominat-ing "Bob" Stone for sheriff; Frank M.Lowe for prosecuting attorney, andTnomas F. Callahan for county surveyor.

Aside from Joe Shannon, the Eighthward was represented by Charley Shannon,one of O'Neill's deputies; Jim Shannon,one of County Clerk Crittenden's deputies;Cassimer Welsh, Joe Shannon's private de-tective, who was sergeant-at-arm- s of theconvention; John P. Gilday, Judge J. Kd-g- ar

Guinotte's clerk and one of Joe Shan-non's most active workers; J. F. Leehy,another Shannon worker. Ed Flndley wasalso a prominent figure In the Ninth warddelegation and aided in making the gangticket. He is a well known friend of Lowe,Stone, Chiles and other gang candidates.

In the Eighth ward delegation. CircuitClerk Henry M. Stonestreet, who, likeSheriff O'Neill, County Clerk Crittenden,Judge Gulnotte, Collector "McCurdy andCoroner Bedford, is holding an office stolenby the gang, seemed to be the leader. Inaddition to holding his stolen office JudgeGulnotte was bondsman for several of theindicted election crooks.

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ordely delegates upon the floor of theconvention was J. Ray Samuel, who wasJohn May's private secretary whilehatodirous individual held the office of of

streetsHe--"wriVj'- a delegatefrom the Tenth ward and labored hard andsuccessfully for all the .gang candidates,especially for Stone and Lowe.

The leader of the old Fourteenth warddelegation was Aniy Gallagher, the manwho, two aays after the election twoyears ago, brought the ballot box fromthe notorious Elmwood precinct to the re-corder of voters' office. The box wasstuffed with fraudulent ballots.

MANY FACTS AND FIGURES.

Presented nt the Meeting: of the M-cKinley Club Last Night.

J. K. Cubbison, of Kansas City, Kas.;Colonel L. H. Waters and Jay H. Neff ad-dressed the McKinley Club last night atits headquarters at Twelfth and Walnutstreets. The Republican congressionalcommittee has selected the same place asIts headquarters. W. L. Kessinger pre-sided. During a part of the evening thePickaninny band played patriotic airs.

Mr. Cubbison met with a warm recep-tion. He said: "They cry out that thecrime of '73 is the cause of our troubles.We contracted the disease, then, In 1873,and ,lt never broke out until last summer.Who were interested In silver when thatbill was before congress? Not Allen Thur-ma- n,

that rock-ribbe- d old Democrat, thenoblest Roman of them all, forfthe votedfor the bill; not Jones or Stewart, for theyboth voted tor it; not the senators fromOregon, nor these from California, for theytoo, voted for It. They say we haven'tdone anything for silver. Why, we have$609,000,009 of It as money y. and theUnited States is the third nation of theworld in the volume of its silver money.We have more silver money than all the na-tions of Europe put together, leaving outFrance. India stands first in the amountof its silver money, and there silver circu-lates at its actual bullion value.

"They had free coinage In India until1893. China comes next, and there slivercirculates for just what it is worth as bul-lion. The United States is third, but hereeverj- - silver dollar is worth 100 cents andas good as every other dollar, becausethere is a limited number of silver dollars,and the government stands behind eachone of them. Our friends say that theywant cheaper money. How cheap? Ascheap as it Is in Corea, or as cheap as itwas In tho Confederate states? Why, myfriends, since the Sherman law was re-pealed in 1893, we have coined $179,009,000 insilver. That's Mr. Carlisle's statement. Aman in Kentucky wrote and asked himif the government had quit coining silverand that Is what Mr. Carlisle told him.Our people are more interested In thiscampaign than in any other campaign sinceI knew anything about politics. The situ-ation is being narrowed down, and we arebeginning to know Just how we stand onthis money question. I tell you that Mc-Kinley will carry every state from the Da-kot- as

to the Atlantic seaboard. At thatChicago convention those people said:'We'll take our candidate for vice presi-dent from the state of Maine. She's beenvaccinated; Maine has. She was carriedby tho Greenbackers once, and it'll takeagain.' So they looked all around andfinally they selected that great man who

I was a banker and a shipbuilder, and had abarrel of money. Well, the grand old stateof Vermont, which is made up pretty muchof farmers, rolled up the biggest Republlc- -an majority in its history, andthey said: 'Never mind, wait till

I you hear from Maine.' "Well, theydid hear from Maine and when the returnsbegan to come in it was found that theircandidate for vice president hadn't carriedhis state and he hadn't carried his county

i and he hadn't carried his town and hehadn't carried his precinct and what was

I more, when the returns were counted itwas found he hadn't even carried his ownfamily."

J Colonel Waters, on being introduced,said: "If there ever was a time when a

I man ought to be a Republican It is in theyear 1896. Although called into existencenearly forty years ago the Republican

(party has controlled the destinies of thiscountry ever since and we are more nearlyone people than we have been for seventy-fiv- e

years. We have for our candidate forgovernor this year in this state the sonof an soldier, a man who

Continued on Third Fage.

CALLAHAN BACKS OUT

REPENTS OF HIS CHALLENGE TODELEGATE FLYNN.

BOUND TO TALK ABOUT SILVER.

FLATLY REFUSES TO DISCCSS OKLA-HOMA ISSUES.

Mr. Flynn Addrcaacs nn EnthuKiaatlcAudience at Mullinll, After Cnl- -

Inhan'a Hefuxul to MeetHim He Tnlka on

Free Homes.

Mulhall, O. T., Oct. 12. (Special.) Trueto the prediction made in Sunday's Jour-nal, Rev. J. Y. Callahan, the fusion candi-date for congress, appeared here just be-fore noon to-d- .and tried to run a greatbluff by sending to Delegate Flynn a chal-lenge to debate the national platforms andtho financial question, dividing the timeequally and avoiding local itues entirely.Mr. Flynn and his managers insisted, how-ever, that Mr. Callahan comply with theconditions of the challenge he himself Is- -

HON. DENNIS T. FLYNN,'If Oklahoma docs not look out for herself,

who will?"

sued in his speech there September 16. ThisCallahan refused to do, and finally, wheno.fferdr two hours' time to answer Mr.

jFlynn's acceptance? ;o'f. hlsf-challen-ge.backed completely down, declaring thatthequestion of free homes was not an issue inOklahoma.

Mr. Flynn then took the platform and ad-dressed an immense audience for threehours. He first took up Callahan's attackon his work for free homes, and by therecords proved conclusively that the state-ments that he had not introduced a freehomes bill during his first term in con-gress and that it was the Lacy generalfree homes bill and not the Flynn bill thathad passed this congress to be absolutelyfalse, as were also other statements madeby Mr. Callahan along the same line inhis speech of September 16. He answeredall of Callahan's statements most effect-ively, giving him such a scoring as no po-litical candidate had ever received in Ok-lahoma. The assembled thousands cheeredthemselves hoarse and waved hats, flagsand handkerchiefs at every opportunity.

Mr. Flynn reviewed the entire history ofhis work for froe homes, telling of how thefirst bill was killed by lying recommenda-tions against it by Hoke Smith; how, aftera long fight in the present congress, thebill had been put through the house, withonly two Democrats and one Populist vot-ing against it. and of tho work it took toget It favorably reported In the senate,where It was ready to bo taken up at thenext session, and Mr. Flynn assured nilthat, whether elected or not, he wouldsee It enacted into a law before the 4th ofMarch next. If it could not be gotten

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REV. J. Y. CALLAHAN,The man who aspires to be a statesman

from Oklahoma, but who refuses to dis-cuss Oklahoma issues.

through in any other way, It would be putthrough as a rider on the Indian appro-priation bill, and for once Grover will becompelled to sign a bill favorable to thehonest settlers of Oklahoma.

Mr. Callahan and his committee, said Mr.Flynn, desire to discuss only the questionof free coinage of silver, but thl3 was aquestion of much more vital Interest toOklahoma, for It would keep hundreds ofpoor settlers from losing their homes andsecure to the territory over $150,000,009, ac-cording to Senator Cockrell. The coinageof all the silver in the world by the UnitedStates would only give a per capita in-crease of $46 per head, while the passageof the free homes bill would secure toOklahoma a saving of $60 per capita forthe entire territory. Is not the saving ofthis $130,000,000 to the people of Oklahoma,he asked, of more vital importance thanthe increasing of the per capita circula-tion in New- - York or Virginia, or any otherstate a few dollars?

Mr. Flynn continued: "If Oklahoma doesContinued on Sixth Page.

Socialist "The reason that I'm a Bryan man is because I want to cut down the wealth of these plutocrats."Worklngman "Yes, I've thought a bit about that, but it strikes me a good deal like biting oft one's nose to spite oneaface."Socialist "How's that?"Worklngman "Well, I'll tell you. Just suppose, for instance, that a man whose Income Is $10,000 a year has its purchas-ing power cut down to $3,000 by free silver; he can worry along very nicely, can't he? But how about the fellows whose in-comes amount to only $600, or even $300? If free silver cuts the purchasing power down to $000, or $13), it will squeeze thempretty hard, won't it?"

GALE ON THE COAST.

ANOTHER HURRICANE ALONG THEATLANTIC.

WIND AND WAVES WORK HAVOC.

GREAT DAMAGE DONE FROM BOS-TON SOUTHWARD.

Direfnl Reanlts of the Storm nt ConeyIsland, Ilrlshton Beach and the

Other Seanlde Reaorta TheTides Hijrner Than

Ever Before.v

New York, Oct. 12. A "veritable hurricanehas swept over this section of the countryyesterday rand wind blowingwith terrific farceT"reacbJng, at SandyHook, a velocity of seventy-fiv- e miles anhour last night. The tides rose to a heightmany feet greater than has been seen foryears, and the waves all along the Atlan-tic coast swept in with a force that car-ried everything before them, and did dam-age to the amount of many hundreds ofthousands of dollars. Sandy Hook andpoints along the Jersey coast felt the furyof-th- e storm most of all, but Coney Isl-and experienced, so far as has yet beenlearned, the most direful results. Thebeaches were swept clean, pavilions wereoverturned and carried seaward; bathinghouses and board walks everything notfar inland on the famous island were tornup and plied high beyond the coast line,or were carried out to sea.

At Brighton Beach tho stone walks infront of the big hotel were under water,and toward the end of this afternoon thefamous Seidl concert hall was inundatedand partially carried away. The well keptlawns in front of the Oriental hotel andManhattan Beach hotel were laid wasteand the lower portions of the hotels flood-ed. Innumerable small buildings were sim-ply picked up bodily and carried away bywind or waves.

At Far Rockaway, the fury of the galewas Indescribable. Those houses whichwere built on piles in sand were washedaway, and those higher up, which foryears have been out of reach of tho high-est tides, were to-d- flooded. Along theJersey coast most of the damage done wasto piers and brejStwaters. Preparationshad been made, as forewarnings of thestorm had been given some days before.As yet vers-- little damage to shiDDlnir hasbeen reported, for, on account of warnings, many craft delayed sailing, and oth-ers that had cleared returned for a safeanchorage.

At Sandy Hook, where even tho breath ofa breeze can bo twisted into a gale, lastnight's blow was a howling hurricane. Itwas a fearful night for the observer, nndfor all who had reason to venture withinsight of tho seas. Tho waves broke high-er than ever before, and at one time theold tower, which incoming and outgoingships 6lgnal, shook and tottered as if itwould be blown over. This was towardsmorning, when, it is estimated, the galewas speeding along in the vicinity of seven-ty-five miles an hour.

The storm was the most devastating that'has visited Sea Isle City since the greatstonm of 1SS9, which was accompanied by atidal wave. Tho streets were Hooded, andmany hotels and cottages along the nar-row strip of sand between Townsend's andCorson's inlets were wrecked or badly dam-aged. Last night the seai attacked thebeach In front of the. Brunswick hotel, thefinest structure on that portion of thecoast. To-da- y it completed Its work.

Early in the afternoon the front of thebuilding began to sag. It dropped loweras the waves beat up against it, and inthe middle of the afternoon the structurefell in, a mass of ruins.

North of Sea Isle City the fronts ofmany of the cottages have been under-mined; some of the cottages have alreadyfallen and others are ready to fall. Manycatastrophes must come when the sea re-sumes its pounding at high tide.

Life saving crews have been on the alertsince the storm began. They have beenable to do little in the way of averting thedamage, and have been required to do littlein the way of saving life.

BI(C Coal Mine on Fire.Shamokin, Pa, Oct. 12. A fierce fire israging in the coal region workings of

Righter & Co.'s Mount Carmel mine, and alino of pipe was laid to tho burning mineto-d- in order to extinguish the flames.The lire has been burning since Saturdayand the vein is thirty-fiv- e feet thick, soconsiderable apprehension is entertained bythe officials and workmen as to the out-come.

Chicago Street Car Accident.'Chicago, Oct. 12. An electric car on the

Madison street electric line, while going ata high rate of speed, jumped the track nearFifty-secon- d street, crashed inta a. trsal

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and rolled over on its side in a ditch. Ofthe passengers on the car, eight were seri-ously Injured.

GUARDED BY MILITIA.

Second Sherburne, Minn., BicycleBonk Robber In Danger ot

Being; Lynched.Fairmont, Minn., Oct. 12. The second

Sherburne bank robber is guarded by themilitia here grave fears of anattempt at lynching being entertained bythe authorities. The young desperado givesas his reason for not divulging his namethat he has a praying mother and sisterof very high connection and repute, andhe will never allow them to stand thestigma of such a crime. He is the coolestman in Fairmont although thereIs great danger of him dangling at a rope'send before morning. The county officialsat 8 o'clock ht called out fifty mem-bers of Company D, and have them stationed inside the jail enclosure. A reportwas received from Sherburne that a mobwas forming there to march on the jailhere, but officers declare they will not sur-render their man. On the street a greatdeal of excitement exists.

The bandit .has confessed. In addition tohis previous admissions, that he and thedead robber, who was his brother, flreda barn at Heron Lake, Minn. .a week ago

y, with the idea of robbing the bankduring the excitement. Owing to the carethe cashier took to lock up the funds, theplan failed. He says they broke into ahardware store at Sherburne and stoletheir revolvers and bicycles.

A Mason City, la., special says that thedead robber known as J. D. Salr, has beenidentified as Jesse Lake, who clerked inthat city last May.

PARDONED OUT TO VOTE.

Two Missouri Convicts Get TheirFreedom.

Jefferson City, Mo., Oct. 12. (Special.)Governor Stone restored Butler and BurtBarker to citizenship. They were releasedDecember 13, 1SSS, after serving five yearsfor burglary and larceny.

Lexington, Mo., Oct. 12. (Special.) Thonews of tho restoration of Butler and BurtBarker to citizenship was received here to-day with little or no surprise. It has beenunderstood for some time that this wasgoing to occur, as it is said the Barkershad promised to vote for Bryan and Steph-ens should the governor again give themtho right to vote. The Barkers were sentto the penitentiary for aiding in the holding up of a Chicago & Alton train.FEDERAL COURT AT SPRINGFIELD.

The Caae of Swindler J. R. Bell toCome Up Thia Term.

Springfield, Mo., Oct. 12. (Special.) JudgePhilips to-d- began a six days' term ofthe federal court. In his instructions tothe grand jury, in referring to the factthat he had received a. number of lettersfrom preachers asking him to see the liq-uor laws enforced, the Judge) said that ifthe parties paid federal license, so far ashis jurisdiction extends, they could sell onSunday, to minors, all night, and so on.except to Indians. The most importantcases to be tried are of cedar timberthieves, from White river, and that of J.R. Bell for counterfeiting and personatinga federal officer.

DOUBLE ST. LOUIS TRAGEDY.

Yonng Man Fatally Shoots nis Swee-theart nnd Himaelf.

St. Louis, Oct. 12. Philip Zlmmer, aged21, and a blacksmith, attempted to kill hissister, shot his sweetheart, Celia Dletz-man- n,

in the abdomen, and then put a bul-let through his own heart, at Mis3 Dletz-mann- 's

home. Zlmmer's action can onlybo accounted for on the supposition thathe was Insanely jealous of the girl he shot.He had been going with he for three.years and was madly in love. Zlmmerasked her to marry him and leave the citybut she refused. Miss Dietzmann will die.

Two Convicts Pardoned.Jefferson City, Mo., Oct. 12. (Special.)

Governor Stone y pardoned Hugh usand Henry Stewart. McManuswas

sentenced at the July term, 1894, of theSt. Louis criminal court to eight years inthe penitentiary for burglary and larceny.The governor considers the punishment ex-cessive. Stewart was sentenced by thocriminal court of Jackson county at theOctober term. 1894, to five years In thepenitentiary for robbery. Judges Gantt andBurgess of the supreme court recom-mended his pardon.

Reward for a. Murderer.Jefferson City, Mo., Oct. 12. (Special.)

Governor Stone y offered a rewardof $300 for the arrest and conviction of thepersons who killed Matthew Clark, on Sep-tember 5. 1893.

Two Indian Executions.Guthrie. O. T., Oct. 12. Charles Had-wcr- th

and Henry Welsh were executed atWewoka. In the Seminole nation, for mur-der, Sunday. This is the first Sunday exe- -

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STEINBERGER'S KM.FORMALLY OBJECTS TO TUB KAN-

SAS FUSION TICKET.

DECLARES IT IS FRAUDULENT.

PURPORTS TO BE FOR WATSONWHEN IT IS NOT.

Was Gotten Up "to Deceive and Mis-lead the Members of the People's

Party" Mr. Stelnberfcer Pro-tests Against the Use of

Wataon's Name.

Topeka, Kas., Oct- - 12. (Special.) Thefusion fellows are not to have a monopolyof the protesting business by any mannerof means. This afternoon Abe Steinberger,secretary of the middle-of-the-ro- com-mittee, filed a protest with the state elec-tion board against the certificate of the of-ficers of the Populist state convention, whofalsely certified that the Democratic elect-ors were for Watson for vice president,when, as a matter of fact, they are forSewall. Mr. Stelnberger's protest reads asfollows:

"I, Abe Steinberger, as a legal elector ofthe state of Kansas, and as secretary ofthe middle-of-the-ro- Populist state cen-tral committee of Kansas, hereby respect-fully object to the certifying by you, assecretary of state, of the persons nameda? electors on a certificate of nominationfiled in your office on September 19, 1S96,and purporting to have been signed by A.W. Dennlson as chairman and O. W. Hen-d- ee

as secretary, of a People's party dele-gate convention, held at Abilene, Kas., onthe 5th, 6th and 7th days of August. 1896,for the following reasons,:

"The certificate is false and fraudulent,and prepared with the fraudulent Intentand purpose, on the part of those by whomIt was gotten up, to deceive and misleadthe members of the People's party In thestate, by pretending that the personsnamed for electors are In favor of Bryanand Watson for president and vice presi-dent of tho United States, when, as Iswell known, and as said A. W. Dennlsonand O. W. Ilendee, and all those who hadany part In getting up said certificate, wellknew, and as we charge tho fact to be,the persons whose names appear on saidcertificate as candidates for electors werethen and are now members of the Demo-cratic party, belfevlng in Democratic prin-ciples and antagonistic to the principles, ofthe People's party; that said persons aredesignated on the certificate of nomina-tion, filed by the chairman and secretaryof the Democratic state convention, asBryan and Sewall candidates, and as mem-bers of the Democratic party, and reference Is hereby made to said Democraticcertificate of nomination for verificationhereof.

"Certain other persons having beennamed as candidates for electors, by thepetition of electors1 of this state, stylingthemselves middle-of-the-ro- Populists,for whom tho undersigned speak, and saidpersons being in favor of the election ofBryan and Watson, respectively, as presi-dent and vice president of the UnitedStates, the said ticket so nominated beingdesignated as the Bryan and Watson tick-et, I protest against the fraudulent use ottho name of Thomas E. Watson, who isour candidate, for the purpose of perpe-trating a fraud upon the voters of thestate who desire and Intend to cast theirballots for Bryan and Watson, and not forBryan and Sewall."

A RECRUIT FROM POPULISM.

S. C. McFadden, Formerly Prominentin Calamity Council, Takes

the Stamp for McKinley.Topeka, Kas., Oct. 12. (Special.) Tho Re-

publican party of Kansas has gained anImportant recruit in the person of S. C.McFadden, of Chanute, Neosho county,who will take the stump for the Repub-lican ticket. Mr. McFadden is an old-tim- eengineer on the Santa Fe railroad. Fouryears ago he was the Populist nominee forstate senator against Colonel John C. Car-penter, and has been regarded as one ofthe strongest campaigners the party hashad in Southeast Kansas. To the Journalcorrespondent Mr. McFadden said to-da- y:

"My conversion to Republicanism has'been entirely upon the money question. Ihave been studying finance for severalyears now and I am driven to the con-clusion that free silver means a debaseddollar. I approached the subject from thestandpoint of a wage-earne- r. I am a rail-road engineer, on dally wages, and if freeBllver means anything at all it means thatmy wages will be cut square In two unlessI can discover some means of increasingthem just in, proportion as the dollar losesIts purchasing value. I see no such chance.The platform of no political party haspointed out the manner by which we rail-road workers can Increase our wages. We

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MR. COOK IN TROUBLE.

DEMOCRATIC CHAIR3IAX1 WEARS A.WORRIED LOOK.

HEAVY DEBTS AND NO MONEY.

ALL BECAUSE LON STEPHENS RE-FUSES TO COUGH UP.

Before He Was Nominated Mr. Steph-ens Thought He Conld Stand

Now He Thinks 1,000Is About His Share of

the Expense.

St. Louis, Oct. li (Special.) One whowants a perfect picture of a man wearinga worried look should take Chairman SamCook, of the Democratic state committee,or any one of bis associates. The worriedlook has been doing duty for several days,but it was not until this morning that thereal cause leaked out.

The state committee is in debt, and noth-ing is in sight to relievo the pressure, be-cause Lon Vest Stephens has broken hispromise and absolutely refuses to con-tribute the amount for which he pledgedhimself the night before he wa9 nominatedat Jefferson City, August 5. This is thestory told by a prominent silver man. to-day, who, although not a member ot thestate central committee, la next to all ltadoings.

For quite a while before the state con-vention met at Jefferson City last August,it seemed to be a cinch that Stephenswould recelve-th- nomination. Forty-eig-hthours before the delegates were to assem-ble a good sized boom developed for JudgeJames Gibson. For a little while. GovernorStone and his little man Stephens werefrightened. The night before the conven-tion, as many will remember, .the Gibsonfollowers turned tall and fell over eachother In getting h.to the Stone-Stephe- nsband wagon. This, of course, settled thematter and everyone admitted, what fol-lowed, that It was simply the question ofa roll call and Lonnle would be declaredthe nominee.

This being settled, Stephens went to SamCook that same evening and asked him tocontinue as chairman of the state com-mittee. To his surprise, Mr. Cook hesitatesand finally came out flatfooted and toldhim his objections. Mr. Cook plainly statedto the choice of the convention and Gov-ernor Stone that It would be almost anImpossibility to elect the bank presidentcandidate, unless he were given $20,000 withwhich to perfect a school district organiza-tion. He contended thai there were about7,000 of these districts in the state, ahdtwo men would be required to each dis-trict, or about 11,000 in alL- -

"Some of these men," said Mr. Cook tothe attentive Lon Vest, "will do this workfor nothing, but there-ar- jothers who willexpect dally wages; Now according to myestimate this will require $20,000."

Mr. Cook had not the slightest donM,but that Mr. Stephens was honest when'he (Stephens) stated that ho understoodthat condition ot affairs, and furthermorepledged that the $20,000 would be forth-coming without the slightest expense tothe state committee. In other words, Mr.Stephens assured Cook that he was per-fectly willing to pay $20,000 in order togratify his great ambition of being gov-ernor of the state of Missouri.

It might be mentioned that the govern-or's salary is $5,000 a year, with mansion,fuel and gas furnished. So It can be seenthat the four years' salary would amountto $20,000, and still Mr. Stephens wouldhave house rent, fuel and gas as velvet.

Mr. Cook left the conference with thambitious Lonnle. and in less than an hourword was passed to the different lieuten-ants that the money had been promisedand that the original programme of Ste-phens for governor should be carried out.

The convention passed Into history, ashas Stephens' undignified and incoherentspeech at the Waverly Methodist camp-meeti- ng

of September 17. But that is an-other story.

Relying upon Mr. Stephens solemn pronvIso that he would give $20,000 to the cam-paign fund. Mr. Cook went to work on hisschool district plan. He hired men in cer-tain sections ot the state, promising topay different amounts per day. This wasall very well for a while, but after a whiletho canvassers commenced to ask for pay.It was then that Mr. Cook remindedBrother Stephens of his promise, and sug-gested that a part or all of the $20,000should be paid. Mr. Stephens sent a draft

for $1,000. Furthermore, he refuses togive another cent. Ignoring his promiseand claiming that he should not be taxedany more than are Alex. Lesueur andJames Selbert, whose assessments, were$1,000 each. As a consequence. Mr." Cook.Is in debt to the amount of about $10,000,with only Mr. Stephens onpromise to make it good.

PALMER TICKET FILED.

Gold Democratic Nominees Go oa theOfficial Ballot In Missouri

Without Protest.Jefferson City, Mo., Oct. 12. (SpectsJ.)

Arthur Lee, of St. Louis, to-d- filed withSecretary of State Lesueur tle nomina-tion of the sound money Democratic tick-et. It was filed under the name, "Palmer-BuckY.- er

National Democratic Ticket," andunder that name It will appear on the off-icial ballot. It was made by 'petition. 1.000signatures being required. Secretary otState Lesueur, after an examination to seethat all the legal requirements were com-piled with, uied the nominations, there be-ing no protest, although one had been ex-pected from Chairman Sam Cook, of theDemocratic central committee.

Wednesday is the last day for filing cer-tificates of nomination with the secretaryof state. Several are delinquent yet. Neith-er the Democratic nor Populist state tick-et has yet been filed.

STRAW VOTE OF RAILROADS.

Secret Ballot Scheme la Proajress atSrdnlla.

Sedalla. Me-.-, Oct. 12. (Special.) A se-cret ballot Is In progress in this city which.When concluded, will show the preferenceof Missouri Pacific railroad men for pres-ident. A ballot box has been placed intho office of Yard Master Grow., and Inorder that It cannot be discovered how thomen voted, the ballots are not numbered,but each man registers when he depositshis vote, tho registration preventing otherthan employes of the company on the di-vision between Sedalla and St. Louis fromvoting. The ballots will be counted on the20th.

Bis; Silver Rally at Mexico.Mexico. Mo.. Oct. 12. (Special.) The

Democrats tried themselves here to-d-although the weather clerk was againstthem. The speakers were "Private" JohnAllen, congressman from Mississippi, and

Champ Clark. A largecrowd was present. There were about 600farmers on horses and several thousandon foot, but they would not march becauseof the mud. Allen csoke at the ooera bouu

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