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THE EOPLEOURNAL.VOL. PICKENS'1896. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.

Bryan's Campaign Speeches.AT ST. LOUIS, MO.

A Stirrinig andii! Paariotic Address at

the Natioial Assoclattion or DCmixo-cratic Clubs.A convention of the National Associ

ation of Di)mocratic Clubs was held inSt. Loui.-i last week, and Mr. Bryanwas invited to attend. He reachedthere on Saturday afternuon, and inthe evening lhe wats greeted by tn au-dieneu of 17,(100Ueuthisistic admirersat the Auditorium, where he spoko asfollows :

Mr. Uhairman, Ladies and Gentle-ment: Por just a little while IaIkyourIatte rtion. I dol't require a greatdeal of Vine to say all that I have tosay to you tonight. The club can beof more service now that it was in pee-vlios CamIpaigns because, this camn-pa[Lign is being run by the people them-selves. The club have adopted abutton which bears the likeness ofThomas Jelferson. (Applause.) [fyou had searched through all historyyou could not have found a mian morevorthy of being taken as your idealstatesian.A Voico--" Except Bryan."M. Bryan-Because, in all the his-

tory of the human race, there has neverbeen but one Thomas Jefferrson..A Voice-" You're another."M. rHryan-Of all the constructivo

statesiien of whom the world has everseen, Thomas J e fferson stands irst.A Voice-" And Bryan next."Mr. Bryar-At a time when this

Government was an experiment, heowrote that immortal document, wi ichdeclared that all mucn are created equal,that thiey are endowed with inatien-able rights, that governments ar1e in-stituted to prese've these rig hits, andthat governients derive tejr justpowers from the consent of the goveu-ed. In stating these four proposition'he stated the A pha and Omeuga OlDemocray. (Applause.)Men 1na1 ene books and men mayfill iibr aries With volumrues, but they

can never i mpiove upont ihat, statt.-ment, recorded in a few sentences andyet comrjehensivC, th1a thbis is a gov-erm ient, of the peole, for tie people,and by the pCople. Inl ily judgmlient,nio itatesina.' ever lived who s() ifhyunderstood hunan natire as Jlferson(lid. No one more fuliy understoi,the Catneity of the pcoplu for sell-governiimnt: no one miore fully uv.dfrstood the dangers to be gularded

1ie mathed the principles whCiibunderlie Dlemuoeanv and thientappiliedthose principles to every q ue.stion thataWii W.eu1rig Ihis time.Tn it.es L darwer w hiebh a guvern-

ment, hab to fear, when trusted in lu-man Iands i& favoritism. Favotritismiis the curse of all governments,(applause): at least among govern-mntts like o urs, and yet favori tismt isthe dangerous stengnIth, even in oUrgovernibeit, hecaube our government,is ad mi nistered tirouiglh huII)man beingsand human beings are human. Myfriends, if you would halzve a govern-mecnt to Jilt the ideal of I perfect gov-ernment, you must have a goveIlimentthat is no rspector of prersons, a gov-ornment which deals with eq ial hands,a government which gives to none,Which takes from none, and a govern-muent whIt clh inl the dammnistrt :.2n oflaw ani justce, treis ail alike mndpunishes the great viliianl as it doesthe pEt,ty scoundreil.

If you aLk me what is my h: gliestambition, I will saty that above all of-fices ttiat iilan Lands can give.above all honors Whichi ConflideceC Mndesteem can bestow, if I ecoud choosethe name by whicb I shiould be known,1I woulid have it this, tant I have (lonemy best to mauike the Govern mueunt whatThornas .1eierisoni dlesired it shliubl1 be.(Great applause.) Al y friends, govern-ment has 6 ri fted away froma the 01(1land mark. (A voice: "We han ye not,.")in ties of passion, Lin times tof sel lish-ness, the ins.triuental ities of govern-mlent haive bween tutrnted to piva'ite gainand govermment inusteadl of dealing outequli and exact justice, hase been a re-fuge of tose w io, hiavinug obtainedp~ositins, have used it, to enrich them-selves out. ol thbe toil and sweat, of theirfelhlow men.Behind the hbulnarks erected by our

0oonents, have been gatnueed everypublic enemy who preys upon the pco-ple, antd they can call to theirm aid bt,a smnalI portion oif then unjust gains.that they have wrung from the publicth rough viciouis legislation, but. a smallp)ortioni of those gains will be a cor-ruptiton fund, the like of which has neverbeen known before in aniy governmitent.oni the face of the earth. i Applauseand cheers.)A Voice-" If Mlark 1llanna-could only3

heair that."Mr. Bryan-Against, thiis enemiy sup-

plied with all thbe material that is sup-posed to be vialu able in such ai eon lict,against. thiis ene my, conifid entl, arro-gantI, and inusolen t, we have nothI igto opp)os except1~ the conmsencoes ini

sevont~y mliIno~of pieole. (A iliiause.)My friends, t~lhose wh1o live fi fty year:,fronmnowi, read inig the pages of hiit-tory, will envy those who hived ini thisday of such wonderful oipporities.As the Presidecntial nuom inec of the

Pe'ople's Alliance, I want to raiy toi youthat I do niot desire thme inuvol tuntarysupplort of any citizen oif thiis nation.We appeal to the wvill, we :iubmiit, ouricauise to the judgment, aind if 1itiametcutcd, 1 wanr, to feel that belhind meI have a majority of these pieole, ai!then, so hlp me God, l will carr~my ou0t,the plat~formn to the letter. (G reat apl-pilause and cheer~s.)Be not. discouraged by abuse, abuse

.has always beemn the lost, of thoset w hofoughti 'aanst, intrenched privilegcs.If you b~cormo ainnoyed, turn bacik tothe pages, of history and for everyname that is applied to you, you w ill Iin'idone equally severecippliedl to Jelfersoni.Alh, miy leids, may come nearer thanthat. Tlhat grleat spirilt yonderu (point-lng to ai portrait, of Lincoln), wvas asmtalignabntly tattacked by the aristo-cracy of wealth and would be as un-popular to-day in New York or. Botamong our financiers as Ja<,kson wasor ,JelYerson wvas in hIs day.

Thoroe Is nothIng, my friends, whichso inspirecs as truth, and those Whofight with the conseciusness that theyare right,, light on with'perfect confl-donco, and If they die, they die In thefaith nxprnaand bv the poet, an ha

wrote of those who full upon the battlefield:Yea, though thou fall upon the dustWhen they who help thee turn b

fear,Die full of hope and manly trustLike those who fell in battle hero.

Another hand the sword shall wickAnother hand the standard wave ;Until from the trumpet's mouth ipealed

The blast of triumph o'er their graves.

T1IROUAI1OUT TENNESSEE.

E0nthusiastlc Crowds Mark His Coursl'lnrougli lie State.

Great crowds greeted William JBryan in his eight hours' journejth-ou1gh Tennessee to-day. Peoplthronged from tle surrounding countrto every station where stops Wer(ijaide. Mr. Bryan traveled in a speciatrain paid for by those accompanyinhim.Arlington was the first stop afte:

eaMvingMemuphis and several hundrecpeople pressod around tno rear plat-lori of the candidate's car to shakthands with him. Brownsvillo camucnext and the crowd was large aMid fuliof enthusiasm.A tremendous crowd was at Hum-

bolt. It numbered 6,000 or 7,000, andwas .packed around a stand that hadbeen erected near the railroad tracks.A path way that had been kept for thecandidate from the train to the standwas lined with young girls wearingBryan and Sewall caps, white blousesasou white skirts, who waved flags andshouted a shriil welcome. There wasw i !d cheering w lion l r. Bryan appar-ed on tile speaker's stand, and lespole in part as follows :Fullow citizens : I was not expect,

in 0 large a proportion of tho votersof this county assembled here whenour train pulled in. This is one of thehirgest crowds that I havo found at sosmall a. town. 1 am very much grati-lied to find the interest which is every-where muanifest in this cause. It is ane- Nience hat the people are investi-gating ard well may they investigat.1. can not but believe that wlien thepeople undecrtand what has been go-ing on under our present financial1,oiicy, that they Will arise in almostunanimnous protest agair st it. We havebeeui Isaintaining a goid standard, andinl order to lliintitiln that, thuy have is-u a $22,000,U00 in bonds in the lastth-Cee years to buy rold and maintain,1hC policy, and tei enmd is not yet. Fortile pre4ent-our financiers are furnish-i ng golo, aid why ? L'ecaue they dontow wanILt anotlier 1)011n issue belore themeection. That is the only reason. Andyt.:, they are fu-inshing' more gold insuch a way that under the presentpoilicy they can go down the day afterelection andl draw out every dojiar andforce another issue of bond. (Ap-platuse.)Under our present policy the bonded

debt of this country does not dependuloll th1e will of the peopl;e. It is notdetermined by what they think is best,or by what they are willing to pay interest on, but is determined by thosofinanciers who. under the policy of thetreasury departmnent are able to drawout gold and force an issue of bonds,amd then draw out the gold to buy thebonds with, andtidimaud another issueof bonds without limit-no end to it atall, becuse, my friends, when they is-sued the first $s0,000,000, they drew outslS,000,000 of the gold to buy the bondsu ith, and when they issued the secondk3s,0U0,000 they drew out a larger )ro-port-ion than they had the first time.Tein they got what was called the[tothschild contract which, in my judg-mI-nt, was one of the most infamouscontricLt ever untered into by thisgovermtlent with private citizens.Th~at conltract, my friends, was bad,not iierely because it compel led tilepetOp to piay ai large amount of inzter-est which was necessar-y, not mer-cly-Oecause bo~nds which ought to havebeen worth 119t at the time. were soleat 10-11. The contract was bad forthese reasons, I say, bet worse for an-other re-ason. TIhat cou raut was worsebecause it stip~ulated that a few fina-c-iers were to take cnre of thle tr-easuryof the United States in return for what,had been dlone for thleml.

I believe that the peoplo of this counn-tr-y, atctinug thrzough a governmentwfhich resp~ects their will andl protectstheir right,ar-e strong enough to carryon this government, not only withoutthe aid of syndicates, but in sp o oanyhling thtat syndicates can no toprevent it.TIhe Chicago pllatform does not pro-

p)ose to injure any, but it simply prmo-pioses to prevenOt 1)eop)1 from injur-ingthejir fellow-men. We find growingupf over the country more tr-usts andlcoimbinationis of wealth, and they areeominiing together, and are able todIvey out tile hum bier competitors,and then, having decstr-oyed compel~ti-tions thbey are able to prey upon societyand get hack from helpless consumersmsore than thley have lost by compIeti-tion. I undterstandl that yout have hadsome exper-Iienleo in this State. Whlatwas if, thait you had1( a trust in, here ?Co~ttonl bagginug ?

Al y friends what can be doiso in onething, can be done in alt things. It isonse Of the thinugs that we rejoice at inthis conted- that we (10 not have the51fshpot of any trus.t or' comibination ofsyndicates ol this countimry. (Chees.)

TJhreiei thsousanld deomonstrative peopie were at Mlfan and M\ackenzio hladevenl a btirgeri crowd, w hen Mr. B1ryanlspokeC to tibem) aL follows:

ft gi.vx sme a great dlel (If pleasuretoI becomo. aesjumted with so many ofthe A ne-iein peole. The onsly troubleI I lInd is that instund (of showing anyi-oldness, they arse apft to) overcome meiwith demssonstrations an~d mani fest~ations (of alsections. I w- ishs I had time topresent to you)1 the issues of this camnpaigus, as I look at thomil, andI yet iiwould be a waste of time dlown here.find1( that, ini Tenssee5tf it is like gilvi ngmled liine to those. who n to alreadly well.I Call botter save srengtli amnd employmy) timei talkIing to, plel in otiherpartsi of the coiuntry thlan in talking tcyou, my frienlds.

IFor the past, twsinty years or more,our governoment has been op~erated irimy judgmnlt,, in the intstst (If a fewpeOol n against the rights andI welfa43f0h great mass of tile peopkl

and nowv, whon tile pe5oplo are assorteing their righsts to prIopas 'tonsideration, we find that thosis who are in

trenhedehin tlcso uiwake, hlc

-heve been their hope in the past goneration, call us anarchists and socialists and disturbers of public order. Myfriends, as I look into the faces of thesepeople, I cannot believe that they areanarchists. [ do not believe you findanarchists out upon the farms anI p!antations and in the workshops. Ifyou were to send me out to find aun-archists, I would find them at the headof the great syndicates and corpora-tions, which think they are greaterthan the government and refuse to re-spect the law.

Mr. Bryan spoke from the rear piat-orm of the train to quito a large au-ditneo at liruntington. lie was present-ed by Senator Harris and in the courseof his remarks said : It was not verylong ago that the President assortedthe Monroo doctrine and you foundthat the gamiblers upon the stockmrket, the financiers of New York,who had been Mr. Cleveland's devoted

Iadmirers, exprested a doubt as towhether or not wo were in a positionto assert a foreign policy of our own,and the people of the South and theWest were the ones that promised tostand by him while he enforced anAmerican policy. (Cheers.) You cannot have an American policy as longas you have your financial system rest-ing upon a handful of gold. with for-eigners ready to pull it out from underyou at any time. (Applause.) Thegold standard is a tyrant in times ofquiet and has always been a coward atthe first suggestion of danger. (Greatapplause.)

AT THE HElM[TAGE.Free Coinage of' Silver is Not. anr Ex-

periniem-C'n(lorsed uyltlie H lstoryof'the Human Race.

Ladies and GCentlemen : It was mygood fortune to visit Nashville morethan a year ago when we were begin-ning the light which resuled in secur-ing the control of the Democratic con-vention. I remember with pleasurelily visit then and it gratifies me muchupon returning to find that the santi-ient in favor of the immediate restora-tion of the free and unlimited coinageof both gold and silver at the presentlegal ratio of 1i6 to 1, (cheers) withoutwaiting for the aid or consent of anynation on uarth has expanded untiltoday a Vast majority of the peoplo ofTen Cssee are arrayed under a doublestandard banner. I beg to thank theyoung mien who have opened this meet-ing with our campaign song--our bat-tlo hymn it might be called-for inthis light for the defense of the homesof this land. the humble as well as tilepalatial home, we well might take asour battle hymn that most beautifulof all songs, " LIone, Sweet Home."(Cheers.)Our warfare is in one sense aiggres-

sive, in another sense it is defensive.It is aggressive in the sense that weare asking for remedial legislation. Itis aggressive in the sense that we areinstbting that something shall be done,and it is defensive in the sense that weare fighting for out homes and ourpeople from thei invasion of a foreignfinancial policy. (Cheers.)As I passed through the street.s to-night and listened to the exclamationsof the people, I could easily believethat I was in a city so near that sacredspot, the U1ormitage. (Cheers.) I canunderstand why the people of this Stateshould feel so deep an interest in thecause which is being represented bythe Chicago nlatform, because, myfriends, we are fighting today the bat-tie that Andrew Jackson fought whenhe was in office. (Great cheers.) Wefind arrayed against us the same com-hinations, the same aggregations ofwealth, we meet the same intoler-an11eC that he met : we suffer fr'omhe-same abuise that hre sufferecd

from ; every ifnm is alpplied todayto the advocates of fr'co coinage thatwer'e apliedc to Old Hickory whenhe fought for the Amler'ican people.(Gret'L chee'rig.) It has been the lotof thnose who have esp~oused1 our causeto lie dleii~nouce and abused b~y thosewilo favor thre gold standard. ithias bee'n the lot of those who have de-fended the caus~e of tho coinmon p~eoleto he atsailedi by those who dlou bt thecapaicity of the people for self- govern-merit, arid wounld deny to them ther'ighit of eating the bread which theyear'r. (Cheers.)

In declrinrg in favor of bimetallismawe are' staniniirg upionl ancient gr'ournd.TPho free coinrage of silver is no experi-minit. it in endiorsed by hiistory of thehumarn race. It hras the sanction of allthe gr'eat, staitesmrin of this nationfrom the begi nn inrg of ouir conlstitultion-alI h istory dlown to 1873t. No per'sonwill assert, that thre Amnericarn peopleabandoned bimuetallIismn after a full aridcomUplete a issi~on. if you read tiherecords of tire ti me you i finrd thattile nlewspapers which are so quiick tograsp uipon airy iterm (of news arnd soready to spretad it beforo tire publI c(lid not undelrstarnd andi cxpllain thar,the law ol 1873h dtnmorietized silIvcer,closed the mints to thre coinage of thewhite mertaul and left tie withr gohld (onlyas uri aandrduio monrey-. l'over sincetirhat day we hiave bet'ni m-ek(inrg toi urndowharrt was done ini the dark. (Cheers.)

MIy friends tinat man wV ho talks about,0our nout nein-Cirg any mortie morey inithiis country is a cuir'iosity. I havoalwiays noticed that tire maii whottinlks we do not, rneed airy mornie rmoineyhappens to he the imarn whno hars threinoney. (Cheer's.) Let moe show youthat, our finanrciers themiselv1es ackk now-ledge ouri neetd of rmore rmorm-y. Ou rIinan~iciers r'ejoice at the( thouinght, Ofmuoney coinrg f 'rm abn'r. I f wehlave niouigh money in thh, contr'ynow why should we vwant ai single dtl-Ian' to coirro fr-om any other cour ntr'y '''

Do wo want too muchel monifey Itin hiscountry ? Nobodly wants too muchrI, weall want just eringh. My fr'iends,whenever we 'radmit, thrat we ought tohave any money come from abr'oatd, wead mit that there is rnot ernoughi her'eandl when we admit that thiero is notenloughl money, nowv then I assert that itis better to let tis country get, out ofour own mnoinrtains'the mloney thin tt gcabroad and borrow money to ha pidtaftei'wards in Interest. (Chours.)But the~y ask us how are we going

to get hold of tis money tAvon if theiris mnoro, It Is IL very easy questionIt, is true that you crannot, get mnonieuntil you have somethring to soll, bulit is just as true that ovmiry plroducelought to have something to aoll, an:~tho price he gets for what ho has t<soil, depends upon how mnuch monoa

to buy what he has to sell. (Choers.]When a man asks you how are yougoing to got any of this money uilesyou have something, let me give youa question to ask him. Suppose I havesomething to sol' ; how am I going toget anything for it until I find some-body with money to buy what I have tosell? (Great applause.) My friends,we havo lost somo Democrats in thisfight, but I am mighty glad that mostof those whom we lost were generals.We have not lost many privates in thearmy. (Applanso.) We might havekopt all the Democrats who aro goncif we had been willing to pay theprice they asked. If we had beenwilling to mako the Democraticparty the agent to fasten plutocracyupon the American people we couldhave kept every man who has loftus. But we have to chooso betweenthrowing overboard those who haveboon mill-stones about the neck ofDolmocracy and throwing over Demo-cracy itself, and we profer to saveDemocracy and let the aristUWat3 go.(Great cheerIng.) My friends, we haven1ot lost by it. It has beenl our gain.It is always true that those wh"o daroto do right are rowarded in the longrun, and the Democratic party is re-ceiving its reward-not cycn waitingfor the long run-it is receiving its re-ward right now for daring to do rightat Chicago. (Cheers.)We are drawing in our ranks those

who are in the Republican party for bi-netallism. They have como to us be-cause they sco now that the hope ofinternational bimetallism is a delusionand that it is used only as a coverwhile the leading Repuilicans aro at-tempting to fasten the gold standardpermanently upon the American peo-ple. And not only are we gathoringfrom the ranks of the Republicans, butthe Populists in their national con-volntion were willing to go outsidu oftheir own party lInes to nominate asthoir candidate for thel presidency,the man atready nominatod by theDemocrats and free silver Relpublicans.Here, where you still cherish the In m-ory of New Orleans-hero where youstill believe in the right of the peopleto go cru themselves--er where youaIe true to the traditions of the 1)mo-cratic party-I have no fear that youwill falter now in this supomo conflictbetween Democracy, in its broadestsense on the one side, and on the otherevery enemy of this country and overyman who would usc government, forthe purpose of privato gain. (Cheers.)

AT INDIANAPOLIS.

The Republican Annex Ticket Re-ceives a Proper Shaire of' Attentiion.The outpouring of the people at

Indianapolis was most extraordinary,and the crowd wis estimated at 60,000.The speaking was in thu State Housegrounds, and Mr. Bryan was introducedby Governor NIatthews. He said :This city enjoys the unique distinc-

tion of being the birthplaee and thedeatnbed of a so-called party. (Greatand prolonged cheering and laughter.)It calls itself the National DomocraticIn-ty when it does not expect to carrya single county in the whole Nation.(Cheers and laughter.) It cal 1s itself aDemocratic party when it was organ-ized for the express purposoof electinga Republican candidate fo- President.iGreat cheering.)

if it was big enough to justify aname, I would call it a stupendousfraud. But it is too small to be calledstupondous. (Laughter and cheers.) Iwill call it a transparent friaud.(Cheers.) It was the first political con-vention ever hold in this country wherethe membors of the conveltion nomi-natcd a ticket that they did not expectto voto for, and thu first place wheremen have received a nomitnation anddon't want to ho voted for. (Cheers andiauightetr.) The minority plank at Chii-cago opposed free coinage on theg round that it would i nter-f''rt withiternat'onal bitmetallIistn. (Lautghter.)y 'a ,o coul d be no clearor evidence ofhite-nded decuption than is found in thefact, that the mlinority at Ub icago whenthey hadi things all their own way,repud iated the planks they stood onthere and came out in favot- of a goldstandard instead of International bi-metall ism.My frietids, I am villing to meet an

open enemy in an open field and concedeto that enemy all thu rights and lpiv-ileges of open warfare, but when ouropplonents call themselves advocates ofsiioun money and want to faston u ponuts an unisound financial system, whenthey call themselves the advocates ofhonest, money and then deal dishonestlywith the American pteopile whetn theysay that they at-c members of a Deomo-cratic party, and yet employ speakkcrsandl openly say they are going to votethu R.epublican ticket, that party (loesnot dleser-ve to be treatedl like an openenemy in this camnpaign. (Great cheer-ing.)My friends, I have no criticism to

make of any tman who believes that theelection of the Chicago ticket wouldstroy this eoun try aund w ho in that,Ilief votes the I topublican ticket, but,my friends, to find a tman who wantsto olect a Rep~ulican ticket and thenhas not, the ecourage to bear the odiumof advocating it, is an entirely diltferentmatter. (Gr-eat cheotring.)

''Give it to lHynum," cried a voice Intire crowd.

''If you want to know what that dis-tingu ishod citizen"'-continued Mr.I iryan~l.

"'l'xtiniguished," camne from the

Mr'. Bryan :The gentloman suggestsextingu ished citizen. (Gr-oat cheeringand laughter.) ilut I will say dilstini-guishted, because he has a Past, whethr-er lhe htas any future or niot. (Laughterarnd cheering.)

if you want to know what he saidabout the gold standard, let me readfrom hris speech in favor of silver in18%r :'"Again the advocates of gold ap-prochutl uts with open hands and smiling~ountenances, but I fear with a daggerconea'iled beneaith their coat.''(Cheers.)

Ah, my; friends, lie understood thenature of the animral before he beganto anoniate with It. (Cheers arnd laugh-tir.) lIIe is right In his dlescriptiorn.TheL goldh stanrdardl never fought anoipen tighrt. My friends, instead of say-ing now that we will adopt bimetallismiami( dIve othber nartions5 to It, he saysthat we w il stanid by the gold standardand allow other nations to drive usaway frm it. (Cheers and laughter.I mirht quote to you what Mr. Bienmuni

quoted in that speech from Mr. Ingalls.Now, note the languago quoted fromSoinator Ingalls.

MPr. Bryan o not ed several p)aragraph1sfromt Mr. Ingalls, beginning: "No on-(luring fabric of national prosperitycnn be huilded on gold," and followedthe quotation with these roinarks:"Those aro the words of the distin-guiished Rlepublican Senator and thosewords are true. Gold is arrogant, ty-rannical in times of peace, and it.de-serts any nation in timo of war andnever is a friend when a friend Is need-ed. (Cheers.) And yet our oppolentsare insisting that, we shall maintainthis gold standard until foreignerscome to our relief."The rest of the speech wias devoted to

iL disciislon of the silver question onlInes familiar to readers of his proviousadd(IreSses. When lhe was nearlythrough, people in the udlienco call(dout: "[it Ilynui again," "Give it toCockran."'

THE SEABOARD HAS BEEN SCOOPED.THOMAS AN) RYAN AlE, TiE1

PUIlCHAS13.tS.

The Itate Warm W.11 Now Cease-The New System Will b)o FriendlyWith the Soitierni Railway.

Special to Atlanta Coistitution.Nnv YoRK, October (.-The news

flow through Wall street late thisafternoon that Thomas F. Hyan hadbought a controlling interest in theSeaboard Air-Lino system. It wassaid he paid $110 a share for a block of.1,000 shares, and thereby secured theneeded majority.Mr. Rtyan and his associate, General

Sai Thomas, are the holders of 49,-990 shares of the Central of Georgiastock, or they so stated to the Georgiarailroad commission a few months taFowhen that body was trying to discoverif the Southern Rtailway controlled theCentral. MeSbrAs. Ryan and Thomasalso own or hold in trust the PortIRoyal and Augusta railroad, whichthey bought recently at receiver'ssale.

If it turns out to be true that theyhave scooped the Soe.board. and thereare a number of corrobating circum-stances, the system is to be meorgedinto some of their other properties andwill be operated in perfect harmonywith the Southern. It is the under-standing on the street hero that Mr. J.Pierpont, Morgan is the real owner ofa!l these Southern properties. TheSeaboard's purchase, if made, wias totake it out of the tielid as a competitorand demoralizer of rates

Mr. Samuel Spencer, president ofthe Southern, charged recently thatthe principal owners ol the Seaboardhadaolfured to seil the property to him,and that he had declined to buy. Ithas been street talk for a long timethat a pool had been formed by Mr.lolffman and his friends to force theSouthern to buy. their stock. It maybo that the pool has succeeded.whether $110 was the price the pool

first asked is not known on the out-side, but as the stock has been above$50 and has been as low as $36ivi thinthe past few months, it is probablethat $110 was not considered a badprice. lRecont statements of theSouthern show that in its ret earningsfor tihe first ten weeks of the present,financial year, beginning -July 1st, tihesystem foil behind $190.000, or nearly*100,000 i month. TI is wits in a largemeasure due to the rate w.w n rett by Mr. Hloflman's 2.aagetthe Seaboard.

Mr. 1offman's re-election as prosi-dent of the Seaboard would be theusual movo in tihe event of the com-pany's salo to Mr. RIyan. In the lresentst~ate of pueblic mind in the South, iLwvouldl make mattters worse to openlyannIounIce that the Seaboard had beenboughit up by its competitors to get Pidlof competition.

Mr'. I Lyah went, down to Portsmouthlast night on one of the bay boats withG. 13. M. Harvey and some friends froumilaltLimiore. Diispatches from Norfolkintimate thabt Mr. lRyan got in sonmemissionary work before the meetingabnd arrmanged the deal for the block of-*,0GO shares. lie was working handin glove with Mr. Jlohni Gill, who hadbeen managing the Baltimore end ofthe campaignm, dIireeted toward1 theacqui remnent of the Seaboar'd. Thecomramon stock of the Seab~oard andRoanoke consists of 10,587 shares of aparP value of $1 ,05S,700 and the guar-anteedi and prefer-red make a total of$1 ,:02,900.

11, is julst poible)1 that the Scaboard(system and the Central of Georgia willbe consolidated, though It is moreproblel that it wvill be mergedl withotheor ityan and Thomas lpoerties andIhandled for the )pesent as5 a separa'ltesystem.

It is said that the~ou iir manago-=ment of the Seaboard will resign with-in thirty (lays.

Thne Sale to TIhomas andI Iyan InFu~mlly Conflmedic:-WVhat, the NewDeal Meansi.N msw -Yon)s, October. 7 .-T-Lhomas F.

Itya,inrepl t a i nquiry from ar epresenitative of the Associated Press,said( that lie wou ll not deny tihe reportthat,. lhe had bought for himself alndOthers a miajori ty of the stock of theSeabhoard 13(InRoano)ko railrmoad.The Seaboard and lIoanoke owns5 a

control ing interest in tihl variousr~oad~s that compllosO the Seaboard Airine. Mr. I yani andI General Thomas

have made other purichases of railr-oadproperLy in the South recently, i nclutd-inga the Il'ort l.oyal and Augusta, and''rt, IRoyal and Veostern Carolina and1(have conisoliated the two hines 11ntoone systlm, the new company operat-mig as the Charleston and WesternCarolina.

Th'le implortabnce of tihe transactionlies in the assurance of peaceful read-justme1.nt, of the relations betweon theSouthern ra&ilway and certain of itscompeti~tors, w ho have hoonr respon-

hbic for rical dist~lurbance in rated.I lyan and Thomas areC known to have

been operating together in Southbernri'lrioadsh for some ime. GeneralThomainc built the East Tennessee,which~is flow part, of tihe Southern.

.\l. Nyar, is a Souithern man and avery clo''e friend of Will iam C. Whit-ney. Hyan andit T1hiomas hold a con-troIinug nter-est in the Central. Ithas beeni intimated by MI r. Spencerthat the Souithetrn, whih bIs the sute-nasmr of the West Point Terminal.

has a benef(I1cil inl'Cest in the Centraland has determined to have that in-t.3ro3t closed out and the money paidover to tle Southern.

If this takes placo andll Ryan andThomas have obtialned tihe SeaboarI'dAir Lino it means tih creation ofanother great system of railroads run-ning into this section under distinctownerships, but controlled by men whoare entirely in touch with each otherand who will conduct a friendly coim-pot ition for business.

It is also belloved that ite Thomas-Ryan lines will work in clovo connec-tion with the Louisville and Nashville,practically a joint operation. TheSouthern comprises the ol ENtast Ton-nessee, tihe Richmond and Danville,the Georgia Southern and Florida.and the Georgia Midland, and thissystem will be the great competitor ofthe other.Th is would create two groat systems

touching nearly every part of thesotth easte rn States.Ryan and Thomas and Morgan and

his associates are jointly interestod ina -roat 11ny other enterprises. Soloigi as the two systmcis are controlledon the one side by Ityan and Thoitasand on the other by Morgan nd hisassociates, competition between themwill not be carried to tihe extent of ratewars but, will be upon thoroughly con-servat ivo hues.

Oin the otier hand a theory is pre-sented that Ityan and 'Ihonas merolyrepresent Morgm and his associatesand that the real purposo i§ to consoli-(late both systems, while they are ap-atrently separato. If tlhe sale has been

accomplished it )ias buon through theagency of GnrICI .lohn1 Gsill of Haiti-more, who is well known in Atlanta.He was forI a long time the friend of'resident Ilolman and wIts Ia close

friend of John N. Robinson who pre-ced ed Mr. Iloilman as presient, of theSealoard.General Gill's trus, company was

tIs teo for th01 (eorg ia Southern andiPlorida. It Is now trustee fo ' thebonds of the Georg ila, Carolina andNorthern.

It has nicti known for soietimo it,he considered the extreme courso ofMes.rs. loffnan and St. John unwiseand1( ruin!ouls to the l)roperty. I is ad v icenot having been heeded by these gen-tlemh1e11bi is suppmosod to hl'tvo formedan alliance with Rtyan and Thllomas andset iimselIf to work t.o obtain control ofthe stock or the SeLboard for t1hle pur-pose really of protecting tle property'ag-tilst the extremo I-thods that arebeinglused by Messrs. Ilol'lliall and St.John.lIf he has in fact obtained controlof the property there is no questio-1that his i5)Ociates are Messrs. Rtyanand Thomas and that i, further align-ment.oithlhr in the direction of 11n in-dependent systemil, having friendlyrelations With the Southern or as anlaIdjiict to the Southern, will he Carriedout.

TIlI ANCESTIRY OF BIYAN.

I'roilinenit ai. SiceseCiu InILanvanild Polities.

Geo. II. 1iHarris in Denver Times.'Th4e elmen t Of popuIaritwy w ii Ich

characterizes a namino that, has beenlionored at, home and10 1has also beenmado conspicuous by thbe acknowledgedrovereelue of foreign nations, i in it-

i a sulliciont proof of tile popularcStocimI nal(d appreciation of tile meritsand actual worth of the individual whobears tho name.Bryan is by it) 111enS a comm12on

name. TIoiro are vOry mILy nami1(esthbat ILpeaslmlo r1-43 fre(umly in tiledirectory lists thanl this nlam(1 (os.Yet there are but, very few namnes thathave boeen1 more prominent ill tile po-liti hIIIIIistory of ouil natiOll, that aLvLeVi* cived aL greater degreo of distine-

tlion or ha ve had a more honorablemenLi on by the Amiterican people. Theservices of men beari ng tihe name ofIBrya~n wiho haIve held1( positions upon01the supreme'L11 ench101, Or VIwho have filledcabjiniet10poi tiOne, and11 haIve b)uon sentLaLs .1mbassadt~tO'.s L,) ford in courts, haveb~een recognJ~I iztel and1 just11 ly)pprciaItedl,bothl at homec and abhroad.

two dlivisionIs in the I ryan1 faiIly. TheL~hIcnlom1111inatedl(1(anida1t e for presi -

dleztial honor-s (came1( from the faiily of

liryanls who1 first settled in Virginia.Th is branichl of tile famiily, liko all thoother desce'ndant~s of the iBryans, werelargely incol ined to the iegal professionIand the Ltie of Judl~ge I ryan1 has been

of con111n(on (ocurrence. lI1arly in tileforties Henrlly I ryan, of Oloan, N. Y.,moved his family froml thait town toI taeine, WVis., wherilo hoe IsLtablished aL

NI r. I ryan wasL tile Iirst mauyor' of the,ci ty of I tanine and1( was also judge ofthe couni ty cou r't, of Itacino County. T1he1H01. .John1 A. Bryan, of Meonah, Wis.P

stud iedl law w ithm hiis brother', the late,udg. Henry I ryan, and became in

1:ourseb1 of Lim11on01( of the most, promni-n2e nt men1 (of Ihis dlay. Ju :lgo John A.Biryani held( aL cab1inet position an~d wasaLIso a miiin ister to Soth~i America. Cor'-n11elLia ryan, a dlauighter of the lateJohn A. Bryan, was the first wife ofox-Governor Wi'el ler, oIf Cal iforniaL. Her11brother., Clhas. A. ry3an, d istiniguihledh~ imself in thle legal lprofession1 and1( be-como1( one of the formlost lawyers ofCaltI forn)ia. Chaus. A. Bryan has( boonk no1wni to receiv as a compen0111C~..ation forat sinhgle pI! (a in bhal11f of the Maiz'op-paI claLimI mJ~ay LIhousands~i of dollairs,sti ci ent, to plaiee anyl 0(orinary ma11n in(com1for'taio~ 1"~i$i-ntinces foIr life.MI r. C::as. A. Bryan dIied very suddenlyaL f.w year's ago ill Nevada. Whilecatling dinner01 aLL aL hotel (on1 (lay hoaWcidet~lLy1 swalllowed IL bonoc, whlichpr1oduce(1: tra1lngul ation, cauisinrg (leathwithbini a very short Lim111. The twobr-othi:rs (of the Chicago liryanis havoalso0 ideni tled4( themnsel vs with prom-inint Jpositions at WashIington, D). C.One of tube brotherls wast first assist1-

culiari chiaraterelistics in th~e Bryanfamily w hich: establlish beyond dloubttheO r'oationsip of this remairkablefamily. Th'ie full face, a robust, consti-tttin, keen porlIctivo facuiIlties, llo-man nose, lips closely prossed, indioat-ing persHoveranL1ce, and11 indomi table will,an ulntiri'ng dlevotionl L) dlomlestic rela-tions, faithful and honest in everyposition of life, uipright a~nd can~ldid inall buisin'os tra~nsacotionsl, friendly andconf1(1idig In all positions' of honor andtrust,.The J acksonian Deamocracy perme-

ted the views (If ali1 the Bryanu andimIwanearl inanornonatd In iho life of

every descendant. Nearly a half cen-turv ago, when John A. Bryan was arcsIdent of Ohio, and estab ished thetown, which still bears his name, theprecedent becanme establishod and hasabnost urivers4ally remained true to itsorivinal principles, that there was nota lryan that ever sulfored defeat,whellver a man of this name under-took to obtain a public office.Such was the determination and per-severance of these men that it wasthought unnessary oftentimes to makeany contest of election or Lo show anylight by nominating a candidate enter-taining dilferont political opinions.Some four or ilvo years ago the writer'swife, who is a cousin of the Ion. W. J.Bryan, had occasion to write him whenhe was a ,nember of Congress from Ne-braska. The closing sentence of Mr.Bryan's letter, which he wrote in replyto the letter sont him, indicates thecaliber and staying qualities of theman. He said that on account of hisaxtremo views upon the silver questionat that time he stood almost alone, and

was very unpopular at Washington be-causo of the stand ho had taken uponthis (Ilestion.Glancing backward from the presentcondition of things, it is not diflicult toimagine the trying position in whichthis man was placed at that time, tIght-ing for a principlo that he knew to beright and ono that was for the best in-

terests of the American peoplo. Likeother heroes and great thinkers, Bryanlived in advance of his time. Still thegreat mass of thinking people are be-ginning to appreciate the serviceswhich the Hion. W. J. Bryan has ron-dercd then during the past live years.The desire for popularity is universal.Every one thirsts for popular esteemand the good will of their follow man.This element in man's character takesits origin in widely different motives,In1d is soldom satisfled unless calledforth by noble impulses or generousthoughts. Thre are common, every-day petople whom the world admires,because they unselfishly leave a homeof comfort and luxury for the purposeof llinistering to the wants of the sickand unfortunate. The gallant firemanwho braves the dangers of a burninghouse to save the life of some helplessinnmate is regarded as a hero and weacknowledge his bravery.So it is ih all spheres of life. The

mIan or woman wlt), from a generousimpulso, risks danger or death forothers, or who from a similar impulsebeoomes the subject of suilerin Y or in-convenience that others may b1onefilt-ed tompels the homage of every cogni-zant heart. We receive the world'sesteem only as we pay for it in advanceand even then our sacrifices will availlittle or nothing unless they are madewithout relerence to the object of gain-ing p)plarity. A good deed or a per-sonal sacri lice for others, in order thatit ny merit approval and approbation,shiou il be the spontaneous offspring ofan unselfish, chivalrous heart. Suchtriais of magnanimity, personal sacri-l1ce, generous and noble Impulses asare revealed to us in the life of W. J.Bryan cor mand our1 admiration on ac-collt of his, ilipulsive atd uncalcuatinggenierosity, his unsworving devotion toa CILus that ho knows will benefitmaklmikd ; the colsciontious regard forthe rights of others ho has closely ad-here( to for a numbor of years beforethe )eOpilo began to realize the stupon-diouis ell'orts lie was putting forth intheir bohalf.

Another Smart Womian.My husband is poor hut proud and he doesnot want ein to work, as I have nothing to doI get ritlo., nnd at lotr reading In your paporirs. Itussell'1 exirioieo soiling self-heat ngflatilroll I colid11141 I would try it. I wroteto .). F. Casey & Co.. 8t. Louis Mo., and theyrt1dm11fill% Noseely that I felt vry much on--co)uraiged. As soon a.s I got liuy 50amplo1 Iron Isin rti od 41ut. ane1l sold 5 Irons tho flrst day clear--lng $I'r. I have not sold less thaii 8 any daysince, and1( 0114, hy eaid I-

,1 no0w have $r26e~i,lenr moey, andli my lhsband d1os not knowI inave beren working at all, but, I am af.raidl howill be' intd wheni I toll himw. liave I doneright or .'heidIi illt work antd lonvo him tositryggle a1lone1. AN ANXioUs \Vtyg.\4 Iu are dloing just right, your husbandshouilld bl pruiIl of you1, go abendiu anld show,the wolrldl what, 11n energetic woman can do.'111u1t sel heati ing ironi mlust be a wonderfulsol 1r. n45 we hear of so many that nrc suo-(Iedins1elhinig it,

I loW Tio STroP A NlEWSPAPERtl.-Thefollowing, fromi one of our ekchanges,so fully and early expresses our viewsonl the subjoot that we copy it withoutcommlent: " You have an undoubtedright to( stop a nlewsimapor when youfeel disposed, upon the payment of allarrearages. And when you discon-tinu~e a palpor, (10 s0 maInfuly. Don'tbe' o spiteful as to throw it back to thepiostmraster' with a contemptuous, '1Idlon't want it any longer' and have'refused' written on the ma'gin, andhave the paper returned to the publish-er. No gentleman ever stopped it inthat way, no matter if his head is cov-ered with gray hairs that should behonorable. If you do not longer wishto receive a newsp~apor, write a noteto the publisher' like a man, saying so-and ho0 sure that all arrearages arep~aid. This is the way to stop a news-

A Chance to Make Moneoy.I hmve rnado1( $l,t40 eleanr mney m187 (lays andaltltde to my13 househo111ld dulties besides0, andI 11hink t his Is doing splen~did for a woman un--expe riencel inl buoslis. Aniyone can sellwhat. everyonae w&:tIs to buy, and every famIlywnnl ts a laish washer, I 'lon't canvass at all*Jleople( ('(ome 4or Nondt for the Washer, and(ivey) washer hat goes oult sells two or threemorI~e, as I hey dlo Ihe work Ito perfootlon. YOU(?nnl wash and)4 dry'3 the dislhos in two minutes,I 4am1 gol ing to de~voto my13 whol4e timo to thislbusinless nIow, andli 1 am1 sure I CInn clear $5 000tai year My sster and br(othler have started inbuosiness iad are1 doling sleI)hd. You can getcomletle lnst ructlins and14 hundreds of testi-mnlials byv addlressIng tho Iron Ulty Dishwasher (Co,, StatIon A, Pittsburg, Pas., and it~ou dion't make lots If money it's your ownnt. Mrs.W.H.

NO,ll ANb MONICY.-" The financialsituation has caused considerable re-search on the subject," remarked thecheerful idiot to his p~astor the otherday. "I suppose," lie continued, "thatyou have made a study of the moneysof the Bible?""Oh, yes," replied the minister,blandly. " I am familiar, to be sure,with the Biblical coins."

''1 infer that paper money was usedat the time of the flood ?" continuedthe idiot, sparring for a chance tomake a home thrust.-"What

as d ou rto this conch~," Well, we r'oad of where the dv

brought the green baok to No a