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THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. OUR STATE OFFICERS OUR STATE OFFICERS A Splendid Set of Men for all Classes of Voters--Stanley Administration an Honest One. DESERVES THE ENDORSEMENT No Boodlers and Robbers in this Galaxy of Statesmen--Men Who Favored the Negro. VOLUME II. OUR STATE A Splendid Set of of Voters--Stan tion an H DESERVES THE No Boodlers and Robb Statesmen--Men Wh Speaking of the business man's administration, why not carefully scrutinize the present administration of Governor Stanley. Kansas has never had a governor who has given so much time to the actual business of the state as has Governor Stanley. His record will show a clear insight into the details of every department, and a consequent reduction of operating expenses. He has given to the business of the state the same careful management that he gave to his private business, which has resulted in great benefit to the taxpayers of the state. Behind him lie no wrecked business ventures and disheartened stockholders of visionary corporations. The German voters of the state belong to a class of sturdy, hard-working farmers, who are deeply interested in the financial policy of the party in power. The record of the Stanley administration, without any other inducement would have been sufficient to rally every German voters of Kansas about the Republican party. Add to the policy of the Republican party the popular personality of Hon. Harry Richter, the nominee for lieutenant-governor, and you will find a combination irresistible, not only to the large and influential German element, but to all classes interested in government based upon good, practical common sense. As a presiding officer of the senate Mr. Richter won the admiration and respect of all classes. In this campaign much is being said about the increase of the number of judges of the supreme court. This probably is very essential to the proper disposal of the state's business coming before this tribunal. It is eminently correct that the number of judges should be increased rather than the organization of temporary judicial makeshifts that have been tolerated in the past. Still the necessity of providing temporary outlets for supreme court cases has not been due to indifferent members of the court. The supreme court of Kansas has never gone wool-gathering on legal propositions. This is due in a large degree to the fact that the Republican party has furnished the largest number of members of this court and that Kansas possesses a splendid corps of lawyers. Hon. W. A. Johnson has proven himself a capable and painstaking official, and is entitled to the full vote of the party, which he will no doubt receive. In the service of the state no men have fulfilled their several duties more carefully and honorably than Hon. George A. Clark, secretary of state; Hon. Frank Grimes, treasurer of state; and Hon. George E. Cole, auditor. These men, by reason of their positions and the services they have rendered to our people, are so well known that The Plaindealer does not feel that anything it might say would add to their deserved popularity. Hon. A.A. Goddard as attorney general has sought to serve the state rather than his party. Possessed of splendid legal ability and training, before assuming the duties of his present position he had built up a large and a very remunerative practice. He had demonstrated beyond question that he was a lawyer and that the interests of the state were placed in the hands of a patriotic citizen, who was sacrificing his personal gain for the good of the citizens of Kansas. He has been on the alert during the past year to promote and protect the interest. He is deserving of the suffrage of the voters of Kansas regardless of party lines. The state of Kansas not only boasts of fine colleges and universities, but it has a public school system the equal of any in the nation. At the head of the department of education is Professor Frank Nelson, the silver-tongued Swedish orator. Coming from an element of our citizenship that boasts of its careful educational training, Mr. Nelson has sought to introduce the same high ideals into the thousands of schoolteachers of Kansas. His service to every citizen of Kansas in his efforts to improve our public schools is immeasurable. He has made a splendid record. The people of Kansas should see to it Mr. Nelson is retained. Some people had an idea that the insurance department would go all to smash when Webb McNall walked the plank two years ago. The wave of disgust at the antics of this insurance robber was sufficient to wipe him off the political earth, and placed that department in the hands of Hon. W. V. Church of Marion county. Mr. Church has made a good officer. He has cared for the interests of the property-holders of Kansas without holding up insurance companies with his gang of special examiners, and the state is not flooded with wild cat insurance companies, either. Judge Vance, in the Mail and Breeze, undertakes to defend himself and at the same time attacks Judge Hazen. We publish this week a statement, showing beyond question the popularity of Judge Hazen in the past. The best lawyers and citizens of Topeka and Shawnee county are supporting Judge Hazen. Lawyers like Colonel Rossington, Charles Blood Smith, Clifford Histel, A. B. Jetmore, A. M. Thomas, W. I. Jamison—are supporting actively the candidacy of Judge Hazen. One need not be surprised at the opposition of lawyers like Euler Vance and Whitmore. They belong to a class of men who cannot succeed in their chosen profession or any other business. In his letter Judge Vance denies that he is a perennial candidate. There has not been a republican primary in Topeka for the past fifteen years-that the judge has not seen that "he is in the hands of his friends" or that he wanted to register his protest against the administration. The republicans of this county have almost unanimously demanded the re-election of Judge Hazen, and they will register their protest against Mr. Vance and his gang of political kickers on the 6th of November. JUDGE HAZEN LED THE TICKET. Political opponents of Judge Haven are circulating a story that four years ago he ran considerably behind his ticket. The party, they say, having therefore had warning that he was not acceptable as a judicial candidate, in again nominating him not only invites defeat, but by disregarding the wishes of Shawnee republicans, so plainly expressed at that time, has practically released them from now lending him the party support to which he is entitled and to which he is in every way deserving. The facts are, however, that Judge Hazen did not fall behind the ticket four years ago, but led it by over 500 majority. The election records for 1896 on file in the county clerk's office show the vote on the head of the ticket in Shawnee county to have been: Morrill, for governor, 7,049; plurality 2,038; Edwards, for secretary of state, 7,139; plurality 2.119; Hazen, for judge, 7,414; plurality 2,657—or just 638 more votes over his opponent, Stebbins, than the other candidate polled against their's, and 275 more votes in the county than were polled by any other candidate. This effectually disposes of the story that Judge Hazen ran behind the ticket four years ago, and instead of TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 26, 1:00. THE NEGRO DISFRANCHISED THE FIRST STEP INTO A NEW SLAVERY CAROLINA BALLOT BOX SENATOR TILLMAN IN CONGRESS-"We do our best to keep every negro in our State from voting Honest Negroes who love their race from principle, STOP and THINK of a class of Negroes trying to sell the race out to Tillman and Bryan. If you vote for McKinley and a Republican Congress you will get a Supreme Court that will decide according to justice and not color. We will cut down Southern representation in Congress. indicating that he is unpopular and not the real choice of the party this year, offers the strongest evidence to the contrary, and proof enough that he will run ahead of his ticket this time. Vote for Mckinley and the Republican Party. TONKAWA, O. T., Oct. 19, 1900. Mr. T. W. Green, Jr. Mound City, Kansas. My Dear Friend—You may be surprised to receive this letter, but I write it in order that you can tell the people at home what it contains and have it published in the Topeka Plaindealer it you can, the reason the man should support McKinley and the republican party first, because the Bryanites are fighting his franchise even in the state of Kansas; second, Bryan cannot see his way clear to express his thoughts on the government, deriving its just power from the consent of the government; third, because Bryan belongs to the Tillman crowd. There are places here in Oklahoma where they don't allow colored people at all, yet they own property in these towns and pay taxes, and don't dare to build. The white people in these localities are for Bryan, teeth and toe nail; they yell for him, get drunk for him and fight for him. Perry. O. T., is all right, so is Guthrie and Oklahoma City, but Norman is death for the Negro. They howl down here for McKinley and the SENATOR TILLMAN IN CONGR Honest Negroes who love of Negroes trying to sell the r and a Republican Congress y justice and not color. We flag in the Philippines. Tell the boys it is different here, and at home most of the people call you "nigger" with two big G's. They can't tell the difference between "nigger" and Negro. They only learn their children two things—to love Bill Bryan and say "nigger." Most of the blacks in the small towns are afraid to call their lives their own. If there are any of the boys in Mound City who want to vote for Bryan just take up a small subscription and let them come here and stay a few days and they will be all right when they come home. I am at Tonkawa, O.T. When I first came here they said I could not stay all night; then they said I might stay if I would not move here. Try to impress on the people the meaning of this letter and of places where they wont let colored people live; that you will find the democrats in the majority, I am a better republican than I ever was in my life before. Hurrah! hurrah!! for McKinley and Stanley and also prosperity. Long may the Republican party live, and may Teddy remember the Ninth cavalry. Mr Bryan is very much worried about the disfranchisement of the people of the District of Columbia, but while he was a member of congress he made no attempt to give the ballot to the citizens of the district. BRYAN VS. TILDEN DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM OF 1876 AND 1900 — SOME PERTINENT QUESTIONS BRYAN WILL NOT ANSWER. Burke Cockron Demands Re- peal of Constitutional Amendments. Hon. John D. Meikeljohn, assistant secretary of war, in his letter to Hon. W. J. Bryan 11th inst., propounds the following question to that presidential candidate, viz. "Will you give an explanation of the discrepancy between your platform this year and the one on which Tilden made his canvass?" "We, the representatives of the Democratic party of the United States, assembled in national convention on the anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, do re-affirm our faith in that immortal proclamation of the inalienable rights of man and our allegiance to the constitution framed in harmony therewith by the fathers of the republic." "As framed by the fathers of the republic, the constitution recognized clearly and provided that a slave es- THE NEGRO DISFRANCHISM THE FIRST STEP INTO A NEW SLAVE CAR BALLOT BOX ESS—"We do our best to keep every are their race from principle, ST race out to Tillman and Bryan. you will get a Supreme Court t will cut down Southern represen caping into a free state did not become free, and that he should be returned to his owner. Article 4, section 2. claims 3, the constitution as framed by the fathers, did not contain guarantees for the rights of our colored citizens provided by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments." "The Tilden platform of 1876 declared as follows:" "For the democracy of the whole country we do solemly reaffirm our faith in the permanence of the Federal Union, our devotion to the constitution of the United States with the amendments universally accepted as a final settlement of the controversies that engendered Civil War, and do here record our staddfast confidence in the perpetuity of the republican self-government to refuse adherence to the amendments to the constitution?" Believing that Mr. Bryan will fail to answer those questions and will completely ignore them, I will take the liberty to answer them for him, First: In 1900 the Democratic party in the Southern States began systematically to nullify and destroy the force of those amendments by adopting the constitution which disfranchised the colored population. When the Bryan platform of 1900 was adopted four states had practically nullified those amendments by the disfranchisement of the colored voters. Second: The Democratic party throughout the North through quiet --- work and occasional speeches of its most eminent advocates is seeking to create prejudice against the colored race among Northern people which will bring them to support a repeal of those amendments. In order to show you how this effort is received in the South, I will quote from the Louisiana Legislative Acts for 1900: ACT NO. 32-HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 6. WHEREAS, At the recent race conference at Montgomery, Alabama, the Honorable Bourke Cochran of New York State, in a brave and eloquent speech advocated the repeal of the Fifteenth amendment to the Federal Constitution, and lauded the Southern people in their generosity to the colored race." "Therefore, be it resolved, by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring; That we warmly approve the expressions of Mr. Cochran upon that subject, and heartily endorse the course he advises the nation to pursue in regard to the unjust Fifteenth Amendment. "Be it further resolved, that we profoundly appreciate this first effort in the movement to bring about a condition which means so much to the South and her institutions, and that as an expression of our appreciation, the secretary of state be requested to forward a copy of this resolution to the Honorable Bourke Cochran, duly attested by the respect ED RY INA negro in our State from voting TOP and THINK of a class If you vote for McKinley that will decide according to intation in Congress. ive presiding officers of the House and Senate. J. T. SANDERS, Speaker House of Representatives ALBERT ESTOPINAL Lieut-Gov. and Pres. of Sen. Approval June 27, 1900. W. W. HEARD, Gov of the state of Louisiana. A true copy. With the knowledge before the Bryan committee on resolutions of the nullification of those amendments already completed in four states and proposed in others, and of the crusade which is being silently urged against them by the Bryan party all over the United States; that committee and the convention, by the logic of those events, was compelled to silently ignore the amendments and stand on the constitution of the fathers. It did not dare rebuke its friends of the "Solid South" by reaffirming them as a "final settlement," nor did it have the courage to reiterate and reaffirm its resolution of 1868, that those amendments are unconstitutional, revolutionary, null and void. To my personal knowledge the Democratic party has favored race proscription persistently since 1846, whenever and wherever it believed public opinion could be diverted from its proscriptive policy by the discussion of other issues. Very truly, THOMAS T. TAYLOR, Lake Charles; La. Oct. 16, 1890. BREIDENTHAL'S DECEIT AN OLD BREIDENTHAL LETTER TURNS UP TO PLAGUE HIM. "Vicious Niggers" the Cause of Populist Defeat—Negro Democrats, Explain. TOPEKA, Oct. 19.—(Special.) One of the most effective campaign documents which has fallen into the hands of the republicans this year is a letter written by John W. Breidenthal, fusion nominee for governor, which made its appearance to-day. In it he makes a vicious assault upon the foreign residents of Kansas and also upon the colored population. As is well kown, Breidenthal's long suit is letter writing. It has got him into trouble many times in the past; it has got him into trouble again now. The letter which will cause him much embarrassment this campaign was written to a friend in Pennsylvania, in response to a letter in which the friend had evidently deplored the fact that Kansas went for Bryan and Populism in '96. Breidenthal's letter was dated December 19, 1896. That was just after the election, and he was free to express his real sentiments. He was so proud of his reply to his Pennsylvania friend that he had his stenographer make a number of copies of it and send them to his personal friends throughout the state. One of his friends was Dr. Anna Kuiberg, at that time a resident of 217 West Fifth street, Topeka, but now of Chetopa, Kas. The other day, in some unaccountable manner, she lost the copy sent her by Breidenthal, and it has come into the hands of the republicans. In the letter, Breidenthal gloats over the fact that the People's party is not made up of the "ignorant and vicious elements in our state, as, for instance, the colored population," "and again, the vicious foreign element." He says that Kansas City, Kas, is a "den of iniquity," and that the "vicious and un-American classes kept Bryan's majority down to 12,000." His denunciation of the colored population and the "ignorant foreign element" will not tend to help him in his canvass this year. After insulting the foreign element and the colored population, Breidenthal went on with some other observations in his twelve page letter to his Pennsylvania friend. He denounced the "iniquitous European financial policy which compelled Kansas farmers to sell corn at 10 cents a bushel," declared that people who think that prosperity can be restored by starting factories are densely ignorant; that it was absolutely impossible for the people of a gold standard country to be properous and happy, and then admitted that there is one decent and honest populist official in Kansas and that his name is Breidenthal. He insinuates that the other populist officials were all crooked. Extracts from this most interesting letter follow: "You and I know that a large majority of the sober, industrious home owners of Kansas belong to the Populist party; that that organization does not embrace within its membership the ignorant and vicious elements in our state, as, for instance, the colored population. which can be counted on as being reliable republicans; and, again, the ignorant foreign element. "Outside of the cities and towns Bryan had a majority of over 30,000 in Kansas, but the ignorant and vicious un-American classes cut down this magnificent majority obtained among intelligent people who reside in the country and rural districts, where the atmosphere is untainted with the poison and venom of such dens of iniquity as Kansas City, Kas, to a fraction over 12,000." "How long, oh, Lord, how long, will men who were given an inheritance fit for a king and who might be the most intelligent people on the face of the earth, continue to submit to the rule of the ignorant asses, instead of the rule of the intelligent masses? NUMBER 43. PETER H. H. HON. W. G. BROWNELL. Douglas county republicans have in their present nominee, W. G. Brownell, one of the ablest young attorneys of Kansas. He has served with great ability one term as county attorney and his re-nomination without opposition is a compliment to his popularity. His re-nomination is equivalent to election and Douglas county will have the continued service of an able prosecutor and a patriotic citizen. RIDGLEY GONE CRAZY- Poor, Poor Chairman Ridgely. He is so badly disappointed by the reports he is receiving from over the state, that he is having night mares. After reading Chairman Albaugh's figures on the Republican majority in Kansas, he cannot talk to a good republican without getting fighting mad. When approached by the manager of The Plaindealer for some facts concerning the colored voters, he began to pound the air, stamp his feet and shake his fist at the manager as if The Plaindealer was responsible for the knockout blows being daily dealt by Chairman Albaugh. He said that he did not care to talk to the manager because he was just like other "niggers," all boodlers and could not be relied upon." "Well, Mr. Ridgely, you expect a large per cent of the colored vote, don't you?" "No, I don't, and furthermore, I don't care." He is so wrapped up in hatred for the Negro, that he has become "Tillmanized." He don't care for the colored vote. How can any self-respecting Negro vote for such a party? He looks like a man who ought to be managing a campaign in Alabama or Mississippi, where he can curse and abuse Negroes as his party is doing in those states today. If you think democrats believe in what is right when it comes to a colored man, just "visit Ridgely. He has a sly, wolfish look and a bearish grin. One would think he died on sour pickles and crab apples. How he came to be selected for a congressman is a conundrum. If it was for ability, he fooled his constituents. If it was for looks, he must have kept hid from a majority of them. How he came to be selected for such a position one reason only can be assigned, and that is that his party knew that defeat was sure, and that a man well balanced would not accept any such position under the present circumstances. He will never know the difference. Bryan is holding his peace regarding the course of the southern states which have adopted constitutional amendments discriminating against Afro-American citizens in the exercise of the right to vote. He will leave to the supreme court the duty of determining whether by this action the states have violated the constitution of the United States. With the possibility that some of the present justices may be retired and their places filled by such men as Altgeld and Tillman it is easy to infer what decision would be reached. Twenty-eight millions of dollars is a great sum. That's what the Afro-Americans who hold government positions have drawn during the administration of President McKinley. The Plaindealer. Published at Topeka, Kansas, Shawnee county, very Friday morning by The Plaindealer Pub- lishing company, 114 E. Seventh street. Entered at the postoffice at Topeka, Kansas, hawnee county, as second class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year, by mail..... $100 Six months, by mail..... 75c Three months, by mail..... 50c NICK CHILES, - - Business Manager J. H. CHILDREN, - - Editor. FRIDAY, OCT. 26, 1900. [In order to insure publication of matter in the current issue, correspondence must be in this office not later than Tuesday] FOR PRESIDENT WILLIAM MCKINNLEY FOR VICE-PRESIDENT THEDDORE ROOSEVELT STATE TICKET. For Governor, W. E. Stanley. For Lieutenant Governor, H. E. Richter. For Associate Justice, W. A. Johnston. For Secretary of State, George A. Clark, For Treasury, Frank Grimes, For Auditor, George E. Cole, For Attorney General, A. A. Godard, For Supt. of Public Instruction, Frank Nelson, For Insurance Commissioner, W. V. Church, For Congressman at Large, Charles F. Scott, For Congressman First District, Charles Curtis, For Congressman Second District, J. D. Bowersock, For Congressman Third District, George W. Wheatly. For Congressman Fifth District, W. A. Calderhead, For Congressman Sixth District, W. A. Reeder, For Congressman Seventh District Chester I. Long. For State Senator, John T. Chaney. For Representative, 37th District. J. B. Simms, For Representative, 38th District. H. C. Safford, For Representative, 39th District. E. D. McKeever, For District Judge, Z. T. Hazen. For County Attorney, Galen Nichols, For Probate Judge, W. E. Fagan, For Clerk District Court, A. M. Callaham, For County Superintendent. S. F. Wright, For County Commissioner, Silas Rain, POLITICAL NOTES. In the rush of campaign, while the kickers inside are making a fight on some of the regular republican nominees, A. M. Callahan, the republican nominee for clerk of the district court, is making a quiet but satisfactory canvas for re-election. Mr. Callahan has made a good officer and will find very little opposition to his re-election in November. Very vew people had heard of Prof. S. F. Wright until he began his campaign for county superintendent of schools last spring, but everybody is hearing him these days. He is making a thorough canvas of the county and will come pretty near knowing every man, woman and child in the county by the first of November Mr. Wright will make a worthy successor of Mr. Stout. He has given eminet satisfaction at the Nickle Plate school. Much talk is being indulged in these days about Judge Z. T. Hazen. He has proven himself twice one of the strongest republican nominees; when he made the race in 1896, he polled a larger vote than any other man on the ticket; he will do so this time. ROWDYISM. Last week Col. J. M. Brown spoke at Jordan's hall in Tennesseetown. Col. Brown has spoken there before, but on this occasion something so entirely out of the ordinary occurred, that The Plaindealer cannot avoid publicly expressing its condemnation of such ruffianly conduct. It may be all right for Colorado toughs to throw stones and otherwise brutally assaultd the vice presidential nominee of the Republican party, because such inhuman practices coincide with results as seen in Texas, Louisiana and Georgia. Kansas is a republican state and Topeka especially so. We boast in this city of our schools and churches. We claim to be a civilized community, and we are. The attempt to break up Col. Brown's meeting was an outrage on public decency. The Negro least of all America's complex population, ought to undertake to interfere with free speech. That belongs to Tillmanism. Every man has a right to his political beliefs, and a similar right to hire a hall and expound said beliefs without interference. The Negroes of Tennesseeetown, in the shadow of Doctor Sheldon's church, and among whom he has labored so long and with such admirable results are not a gang of ruthless vandals and political barbarians. They can hear Col. Brown and "possess their souls in patience." They have heard him scores of times when he was skinning the "rebels who chased him from Cohoma county." They realize the inconsistency of instantaneous conversion, and are no doubt nauseated with the babblings of this political acrobat. Col. Brown can go through Tennesseeetown any day or night without carrying carrying concealed weapons. Herein lies the insult, however, to every intelligent and self-respecting Negro resident of Tennesseeetown. There is a well defined suspicion in the minds of many that Col. Brown and Price Thomas hatched this bit of deviltry as a grand stand play. The idea of it becoming necessary for a man to go armed into the homes of people who have been his friends for years. Republicans, democrats and populists have been holding political meetings in Jordan, s hall for the past ten years, and tae first time that a political speaker found it necessary to go armed into the house of the friends, who twice cast their votes that he might draw $10000 from our public funds. The remark of Col. Brown when the first stone was thrown is prima facie evidence to the Plaindealer that the plot to disturb the meeting was hatched in the fertile brain of Price Thomas, George Clark, S. B. Isenhart and Col. Brown, and they hired the toughs to go out there and throw the stones. Col. Brown manifested the same bravery and rare coolness befitting a man of his calibre, that he did at San Luis when told of the insurrection that occurred during the stay of the Twenty-third in Cuba. He simply made an ass of himself and insulted the Negroes of Tennesseeetown. Bishop B. W. Arnett, Cyrus W. Field Adams and Dr. J. E. Lyon are members of the republican national advisory committee, with Senator Depew, Senator Platt, Col. Myron T. Herrick, Col. Frank O. Lowden, Thomas Lowry and other leading republicans of the country. The Afro-American race is always given recognition by the Republican party. The national democratic committee started a "Jim Crow" department away from the main headquarters for the purpose of catching the Afro-American vote, but J. Milton Turner and the others in charge began fighting among themselves and even this was abandoned. The democrats have given up all hope of getting any appreciable percentage of the Afro-American vote. While President McKinley and other republican leaders hesitated, in the unprepared condition of the country, the voice of the Democratic party was for immediate and unconditional war; but when the Spanish war was over and only the rightful authority of the government was to be main- tained over its newly acquired possessions, the attempt to maintain it became, to democratic minds, an evidence as in 1864, of imperialism. Appreciating the superior services of the Afro-American troops in the recent war with Spain, President McKinley decided to increase the number of regiments in the regular army, and on the 8th of September, 1899 issued an order for the organization of two new regiments of infantry, to be composed of Afro-Americans. The democrats protested against this action, but to no avail. These regiments are now on duty in the Philippines. Bishop Turner says that he cares nothing for Bryan's financial policy because the money is all made and handled by white people. That may have been true once upon a time, but under the McKinley administration the Afro-Americans have handled $28000000 in payment for their services as office holders. The Afro-American planters of the South have also handled their share of the $50000000 paid for cotton produced in that section. The hoodlums who were arrested on the charge of burning the Afro-American school house in New Orleans have been released "for lack of sufficient evidence." New Orleans is in democratic Louisiana. The rioters in Akron have been indicted. Akron is in republican Ohio. "I know nothing about other states, but I acknowledge openly and boldly in the sight of God that we did our level best to keep every Negro in our state from voting."—Senator Tillman in a speech delivered in the senate of the United States, February 24, 1900. The democrats of the South say that the Afro-American is unfit to travel in first-class cars and they have passed laws providing special "Jim Crow" cars for his accommodation. No republican legislature has ever passed a separate car law. It seems that some Kansas democratic politicians to make capital of the obsolete section of Oregon's constitution prohibiting the Afro-American in Oregon has as many privileges as any white man, and has always had. Bryanism pure and simple is the paramount issue, and that means Till manism, Altgeldism, free silverism, anarchism and all the other deadly isms which threaten the very existence of the republic. Bishop Turner says that he believes that Bryan will stop lynching if he is elected president. Bryan may be willing to do so, but will Tillman, who will be the power behind the throne, allow it? Some of the Negroes who are oociferating and threshing the air about Stanley's neglect of the Negroes, will do well to read Breidenthal's last letter. Black men, before you vote the democratic ticket, remember that the people who burn your brothers at the stake in the South are democrats. The southern democrats always dominate in the national democracy. Pitchfork Tillman would rule in case of Bryan's election. The 34 Afro-Americans who are employed in the Savannah (Ga.) post office draw salaries amounting to $34, 40 per annum. Democratic newspapers publish column after column of matter slandering the Afro-Americans. Rally on the center; touch elbows; clutch arms; charge all along the line, and victory is ours. The W. H. Club held its weekly meeting at the residence of Ed Lancaster and was most royally entertained. Although but a few weeks old, the club is the most influential and highly recommended of any of the colored clubs of Independence. Respectfully, KANSAS CITY ART CLUB. One of the beautiful scenes of society was witnessed by those who attended the reception of the Alpha club, in honor of Mrs. H. B. Parks and Davie Burdett, Tuesday, Oct. 16, from 3 to 6 p. m., at the residence of Mrs. I. F. Bradley, 400 Haskle avenue. The home was decorated with potted plants and art work in club colors. Those who attended are as follows: Mrs. H. B. Parks, Miss Davie Burdette, Mrs. Ella Williams, of Topeka; Mesdames L. E. Morton, of Austin, Texas; A. M. Ward, of Topeka; W. L. Grant, W. M. Alphin, M. E. Weston, of Burlingreen, Ky.; David Turner, J. R. Calhoun, E. A. Wilson, J. C. C. Owens, J. W. Braxton, Anna McBeth, Miss Stella May, of Kansas City, Mo; Mesdames M. W. Hodges, of Leadville, Colo.; A. J. Lee, S. Mobily, A. V. Arrivel, of Qwensburro, Ky.; Lucy B. Earley; Misses L. V. Ashton, Mary B. Jordan, of Topeka; Mesdames Alice Ealam, O. D. Porter, of Bolengreen, Ky.; Anna Cox, Ben. Stevenson, Eliza Lanna, Millie Harris, of Lexington, Ky.; S. H. Thompson, J. S. Fields, John Lang, of Kansas City, Mo.; Maggie Mack, Maggie Nealey, Nellie Sharp, of Topeka; A. Moppins, M. L. Graves, W. F. Scales, I. G. Oliver, Taylor Jackson, J. L. Dyson; Misses Elizabeth Swell, Anna Stevenson; Mesdames E. I. Lee, John Wilson, Florence Reed, S. S. Dilbert, Bert Cunningham, D. Scott, R. Drake, T. W. Phenix, Hattie Gamble, Rosa James and I. F. Bradley. All expressed a pleasant time. Mrs. Parks will leave for New York City and Miss Dovie Burdett for Chicago. MRS. J. L. DYSON, Pres, MISS A. M. STEVENSON, SeV'. McPherson McPHERSON, Kas., Oct. 22.— Mr. Nick Chiles. Sir and Manager of the wonderful Plaindealer:—Mrs. M. J. Cox spoke here Saturday at the white Baptist state convention. She spoke on "Home and Foreign Mission," and was highly appreciated. She was also entertained by some of the most wealthy white people in the city and also by Mrs. T. T. Languns and husband. Meeting old friends of hers, of course she had a very pleasant oldfashion time. She leaves here for Hutchison, Kansas, where she expects to do some good work for the missionary cause. Dunlap. Local branch of Afro-American league held a grand republican rally and its first annual banquet here tonight. T. G. Macon and D. E. Henderson of Emporia made able speeches in behalf of the republican principles and policies. Rousing time was had. The C. M. E. conference convened Wednesday. Bishop Isaac Lane, L. I. D. presided. The prominent ministers are Dr. Bullock, financial agent; Dr. Phillips, editor Christian Index, both of Jackson, Tenn.; Dr. Patton of Denver. There are fifty ministers in attendance. The conference will close Sunday night Bishop Lane is founder of Lane college, Jackson, Tenn. On last Tuesday evening at the C. M. E. church Topeka's literary society was ably addressed by our talented young friend, Mr. will Hall. Mr. Hall made some very interesting remarks, and all who heard him had a rare treat. As a writer he is considered among the best. At present he is engaged in writing a series of articles for the Howard Magazine. BISHOP HOOD ON ISSUES. BISHOP HOOD ON ISSUES. How a Self-Respecting Afro-American Can Be an Honest Democrat Is Beyond My Comprehension. DEMOCRATIC PARTY STILL OPPOSES RACE The Democratic Party Is Responsible for Every Enactment for the Oppression of Afro-American Race from Fugitive Slave Law to North Carolina Disfranchisement. When I was set apart to the office of bishop, the then Senior Bishop J. J. Clinton took me aside and told me that it would not be well for me to continue to take an active part in politics. I have tried to follow his advice, but have had sometimes the experience of which Bishop Moore once complained. Some one said that he as a bishop ought not to middle with politics. The bishop said the trouble was that politics would not let him alone. When politics quitter bothering him he would quit bothering with politics. In this year of grace politics seems to have much to do with the bishops. Several have found it necessary to deny the statement that they have become democrats. So far as I know, no public statement to that effect has been made respecting myself. But as I have traveled attending to my Episcopal duties I have learned that a report has been circulated that Bishop Hood has turned democrat. And I have found my people much excited over it. And I do not blame them for the feeling manifested. For the Afro-American who forsakes the interest of his people at this time deserves their contempt. They are not ignorant respecting political conditions, as some profess to think. They understand the situation and know how to vote. Neither are they indifferent, as some would make believe. It is true that large numbers in some sections failed to vote, but it was not the result of indifference, but because they were not permitted to register. There never has been a time in which they were more anxious to vote, and if they had been permitted to do so ninety-nine out of every hundred would have voted against the amendment. The multitudes which are now leaving North Carolina, many of them at a great sacrifice of property, is an indisputable evidence of the widespread discontent. The democratic party is responsible for every enactment for the oppression of the Afro-American, from the passage of the fugitive slave law, the sum of all villainies enacted about 50 years ago, down to the latest act of disfranchisement in North Carolina. It has also opposed in the national congress every measure proposed in the interest of the Afro-American race. With this record in view, how any self-respecting Afro-American can be an honest democrat is a mystery beyond comprehension. No democrat in North Carolina who knows me would believe me sincere if I pretended it. I should lose their respect as well as my own. Besides this, I do my own thinking, and there is not an important plank in the democratic platform to which I could honestly subscribe. I believe in protection to American industry. The tendency of the democratic doctrine is toward free trade, to which I am unalterably opposed. I believe in a dollar worth 100 cents. The tendency of the democratic policy is toward a dollar worth only about 47 cents. I know they claim that by legislation they can make 47 cents' worth of silver equal to 100 cents; but I do not care for a metal dollar which needs that kind of help to make it go. I want the standard of value to rest upon a dollar which stands upon its own merit. The gold dollar is such, and therefore is the universal standard of values. I believe in expansion, which was once a democratic doctrine when an outlet for the extension of slavery was desired; but even in that a falling from grace is now witnessed. I might mention other points of difference, but think this sufficient to show that I could not be an honest democrat, even if I had a grievance against the opposite party—which I have not. I do not care to deal in personalities, hence I need not to say much about candidates. But I may remark that I have seen nothing to change my very high opinion of President McKinley. Perhaps it may be said that he has had a better opportunity than any. Admitting that, it still remains that he has been fully equal to his great opportunity. Even his opponents praise his Chinese policy. But how could he have had a hand in that important matter if he had scuttled out of the Phillipine islands, as some claim he should have done? I think it must be admitted that the delegations of the powers of the C. O Johnson, formerly a gent's furnisher of Topeka, now of Denver is visiting in the city, headquariers at 602 Kansas ave. RUBBER STAMPS, SEALS, STENOILS ETC. Largest and Best Equipped Stamp Works in the State. Send for Circulars and Prices J. C. DARLING, Topeka, Kansas RUBBER STAMPS, SEALS, STENCILS ETC. Largest and Best Equipped Stamp Works in the State. Send for Circulars and Prices J. C. DARLING, Topeka, Kansas MISS NELLIE HICKS Is at the Industrial Institute. Music lessons—Terms $1. per month. Parents should take advantage of the opportunity for their children. FOR RENT—Unturnished rooms at 112,114 East Seventh street.Call at THE PLAINDEALER office. the Kansas saving Investment company CHANUTE, KANSAS. Authorized Capital, 700,000 Stock solicited by correspondence. Genera- and financial agent, J. S. H School Books Tablets, Pens, Inks School Supplies at Kellam's, Kans Satisfaction Guaranteed I. W. B. GRANT & COL. JAS. BECK The Capital Coal WHOLESALE AND RETAIL ment company, colored E, KANSAS. Hospital, 700,000. Indence. General solicitor and J. S. HALE. Books ens, Inks and all applies at N'S, 711 Kansas Ave 'Phone 313 COL. JAS. BECK Coal Co. AND RETAIL CHANUTE, KANSAS. Authorized Capital, 700,000. Stock solicited by correspondence. General solicitor and and financial agent, J. S. HALE. Tablets, Pens, Inks and all School Supplies at Satisfaction Guaranteed 'Phone 313 I. W. B. GRANT & COL. JAS. BECK The Capital Coal Co. Miners and Dealers in Osge City Shaft, Leavenworth, Pittsburg and Hrd Cola, 7th and Santa fe R. R. Crossing TOPEKA NSAS PACKING HOUSE MARKET, Wholesale and Retail. Fresh and sugar cured Meats. MDT BRO'S :: : 306 E. SECOND ST. KANSAS PACKING HOUSE MARKET Wholesale and Retail. Fresh and sugar cured Me SCHMIDT BRO'S ::: 306 E. SECO GLAZING. B C Duke. KANSAS PACKING HOUSE MARKET, Wholesale and Retail. Fresh and sugar cured Meats. SCHMIDT BRO'S : : : 306 E. SECOND ST. WASHED Collars.....2c Cuffs.....4c Shirts.....8c Ladies' and Gent's Woolen Garments laundred without shrinkage. CAPITAL HAND LAUNDRY, 111 East Third Street. Telephone 790 and the wagon will call for your bundle. The---- Kaw Valley brand of MINCE MEAT MANUFACTURED BY Chas. Wolff Packing Co. Is made of the very best and strictly pure and - - - - healthful ingredients. Your Grocer keeps it; - - buy some; it will make the best MINCE PIES you ever tasted. - - - 406 Kansas Avenue. 'Phone 52 M. M. S. POULTRY FENCING. M.M.S. July 21, 1896. Trade Mark. Feb July 6, 1896. Saves so per cent. of the cost of the completed fence. Write for catalogue of our Poultry, Garden, Lawn, Farm and Hog Fences, Gates, etc. Union Fence Co., De Kalb, Ills. + Practical glazier. Glass cutting and fitting a specialty, Estimate given on colored, Plain and bent glass. Leave orders with the A. B. Whiting, Paint and Glass Co., Topeka Educational and Industrial Institute. Non-sectarian, co-educational, practical education of the Negro youth. Courses: English, normal, industrial, music and business. Tuition $1.00 per month each department, $1.50 per month literary and industrial courses combined; board, room, light, fuel and tuition, $7.50 per month. For further information, address Don't forget to ask your friend to subscribe for the PLAINDEALER WANTED—Thirty colored boys to form a concert orchestra between the ages of 11 and 15 years. Call on W. L. JACKSON, Paiweoy Toraxa Test No.% meets ist. and 3rd Saturday afternoon of each month at No, 905 Nerth Kansasavenue. Mrs. Ida M. Jordaa,Q 1M., Muss Anna Reyneid,C. E, Macepota TAWKIKAGE No. 93, U.K. T. Halleos . Kansas Avenue. Meets ist and 3rd Thursdayn ofeach month. Mrs, Tda3f, Jordan, G1 Mrs Sarah Walker, C. MACEDONIAN LODGE No. 5, GOODSAMARI- TADS and DAUGHTERS of SAMARIA, meets sece cond andfournh Friday evenmgs of each month at 5 evclock, at113 EaseSeveath street. Vasting Samar apsare always welcome. W. E,Jacksos, Chief, ‘Awan Lawson, Recording See. PRARLYg s/f eee ete frst a8 third Wednesday afternoons at 5 eelock at itz Fast Sith aseet Mes SLUMS CO RMA G We Kewnuictt: ® The Sewing Circle met Wednes- day with Mrs. Sportsman, Mr. and Mrs, John Page are the proud parents of a fine girl. Mr and Mr:, Hatcher are the proud parents of a fine daughter. The Oak Leaf club met Wednes- day afternoon with Mrs. M. Chiles. ‘The Handel club will meet Mon- day evening with Mrs. O. A. Taylor: The Capital City Whist club will meet Friday evening with Mrs. R. J. Buckner. E. W.Cabbell, a furniture dealer of San Diego, Cal. is a visitor in the city; he is thinking of locating here. Hon. Thomas Ryan, assistant sec- retary of the interior, is in town; he will remain until after the election. C. F, Clinkscale and N. Sawyer were called to Chillicothe, Mo. on account of the death of their brother and uncle, Mr, and Mrs. John Parker cele- brated their tenth anniversary Octo- ber 11, at their residence, 1124 Lo- ‘cust street. Mr, and Mrs. M. Barber entertain- ed friends at dinner Wednesday in honor of the eightieth birthday of their mother, Mrs. Sophia Barber. Mr. and Mrs, Robert Rowland are visiting their parents this week. They will return to Colorado Springs next week. They are looking pros- perous and fine. We give but an abstract of the C. M. E. conference this week. A full and complete report will appear next week together with a brief historical sketch of the church. Miss Ogeal Wilson has returned from Joplin, Mo., where she says the young men are just as nice as can be. She will leave for Chicago soon take a course in music at the Chicago conservatory. Rev. J. M. Webb of Texarkana, Arkansas, visited Miss Mamie Wor- rall, 715 Polk street this week. He was also entertained by the Phillips sisters at their residetice on Eighth street Monday. Mr, Albert Barton of Washington, D.C., an employe in the Interior de- partment, is home visiting his family. He is troubled with rheumatism. He will vote the straight republican tick- et, then return to Washington, D. C. He is an old fighter at the polls. Dr. W, H. Hudson of Atchison has been made one of the pension exam- iners of the state. He received his certificate of appointment this week. This is the way the republicans of Kansas take care of their friends. Mr. Harry French of the Kansas Mutual Insurance company is the happy “papa” of 3 10-pound bounc- ing baby boy. “Papa” smiles from morn till night, and probably he will «change from smiles to frowns when baby learns how to cry. Good luck, Harry; bring around the cigars. Prof. A. I. Reynolds of this city has been honored by the A.M. E. church conference in session at Cape Girardeau recently. He was appoint ed one of the trustees for the Wilber- force university of Ohio. Prof. Rey. noids is a member of the Lincoln in- stitute faculty and one of the best Negro teachers in the state, and he will prove a valuable man as a mem- of the board of trustees of the univer- sity. Political meetings are being held nightly in all parts of the city and county. On Tuesday night another rousing political meeting was held at Jordan’: hall in Tennesseetown, Ne stones were thrown nor revolver: flashed. The speakers for the even. ing were J.S. Dawson of Hill City, Representative Ed McKeever, and N. J. Washington of Speed, Kansas Mr, Washington was the only Negrc speaker for the evening, but he gave those present some pood advice on ‘ANOTHER BAND CONCERT. NOV, I. “ To the Citizens of Topeka: On behalf of the members of the Twenty-third Regiment band, I desire to thank the good people of Topeka for their very generous support of our band in the past and the many words of encouragement received from all classes. The entertainment to be given by the band in the Auditorium on November 1 is for the purpose ot purchasing new uniforms and we respectfully solicit your patronage. Any donations the citizens desire to make prior to the concert will be thankfully received by me at the rooms of the Commercial club or by any member of the band and faith- tully accounted for. “GLO. W. JACKSON, “rand Master, ” Since the organization of the band by Prof. Jackson for the concert in the Auditorium, the band has made ‘wonderful progress. ‘The fact that they took part in the opening of the Auditorium has been published in nearly every paper devoted to the intezest of the colored people. Prof. Jackson has had a great many letters irquiring about his band from all parts of the country. Rev. D.D Cole.and wife and little Jessie Todd are visiting his neice, Mrs. Alice Jackson, 721 Filmore street. He isa minister of the Wes- leyan Methodist church, also a pros- perous farmer. He owns 190 acres in Jefferson county, has 7o acres in corn this year, at a yield of 40 bush- els per acre. Heis a prominent pol- itician and staunch republican. His oldest son is now in Paris studying music, and he had three brothers in the Cuban war, one now in the 24th infantry. He'd like to trade some Wyandotte county property for prop- erty in this city. A Colored Man Talks. Mr. Editor: 1 beg leave to insert a few lines in your paper in reply to an article re- cently published in the Courier Guard concerning the emancipation celebration at Dunlap, Kas., Septem- ber 22. I was present and heard Rev. Grant’s speech from beginning to end, and as I was acquainted with the majority of the audience there, and could note from the expressions of their faces and from the frequent bursts of applause given while Rev, Grant was speaking, how they appre ciated his talk, I feel safe to say there was no indignation felt or shown over any remark made by the speak- er. Iam sure the people at that cel- ebration and the intelligent classes of Negroes all over the country will agree with Rev. Grant in denouncing the action of Bishop Turner. Bishop Turner and the other bish- ops mentioned in the Guard may be intelligent men, but they are not showing it by taking the stand for Bryan against the interests of their own race. I wonder it the editor of the Guard knows the A. M. E. con- ference of Kansas and Nebraska which recently met at Fort Scott, Kas., also denounced the action ot Bishop Turner? I don't know about these democratic bishops’ heads be- ing “in a soup barrel,” as mentioned by Rev. Grant, but there must be some such influence at work to in- duce men who have stood at the head of the A. M. E. church for a great many years and bee auxiliaries in the uplitting of their race to take a stand for the wrong side now, For I don't believe any black man can be a true democrat at heart who knows the past history of the Negro in America; or realizes the present treat- ment of the Southern Negro at the hands of the Democratic party, name- ly: the mob or lynch law, disfran- chisement and oppression of every kind possible to make the black man. aninferior being. But I need not dwell upon these things for they are known all over the country. Now, a speaker can say one thing and the wrong construction can be put upon it and make it appear alto- getherin a different light. The Cou- tier-Guard criticised Rev. Grant se- verely about the expression “we did not care about imperialism and these things so long as we had a full dinner ‘pail.” I think Rev. Grant's mean- ing was misconstrued. I do not re- member hearing him speak in the way the Guard published it. He is too smart a man to make such a re- mark, for he knows better. I cer- tainly did hear him say that every black man should own something, and that every boy should have some- thing, if only a pig. He distinctly emphasized the facts that we should educate ourselves, accumulate wealth and get all the other requisite quali- fications to make us a race among other races. Does this kind of advice froma man sound like he thought all we wanted was “a full dinner: pail.’ “yw: 48) ee 000 , ee MEAN oe Se oe its | Does it not look strange that he would make two expressions, one contradicting the other? I want to say here I saw the above statement made by Rev. Grant par- tially verified while I was in Hutch- inson attending the reunion. Iam very much pleased with the way the colored people are getting along there. L also visited Kingman to see my lieutenant, S, T. Palmer, and made the acquaintance of two black men who are doing business in the city. T cannot renember their names, but | one of them is in the livery business; Jowns his own bar on Main street, which extends back the full length of the block, runs two hacks and has good horses ani buggies, etc., owns five houses and rents four of them, has a bank account, and only had Fs when he landed in Kinginan 14 years ago. I visited his place. ‘The other one owns a restaurant on the main street of the city, has good trade, doing well and has some bank account, I mate inquiries about the farmers and found they were doing well. | In Hutchinson nearly all own their own homes, and have good houses, too. Mr. Raymond, whom Istopped with, and who is the father of Rev. Gold Raymond, pastor of the Baptist church of Council Grove, owns nice property in town has an eight-room house, carries an insurance of $1200 or $1400 and has a bank account. He has only lived there six years. Mr. Walker lives in the country and handles hogs on a large scale; also horses, He is doing well, and is known in that section as “Hog Walker.” Mr. Taylor owns a half section of land, 15 head of cows and deals largely in wheat. He has 3000 bushels of wheat on hand now. Several own good farms and have just paid out. They have all worked hard, had a hard struggle to get through, and have accumulated what they have since the war, for they have all been slaves. They have good schools out there, and white and black go together. I simply insert these things to let you know what some of our folks are do- ing and that we are not satisfied sim- ply with ‘‘a full dinner pail,” but that we are trying to act upon the advice given us by Rev. Grant. While I am talking, I wish to say to my people of Morris county that some are doing very well, others are trying to do, while a great many are absolutely doing nothing. ‘To this class I wish to say, whether you ac- cept it or not, own a piece of proper- ty some place. If more of our peo- ple would get out in the country and try to gain a foothold there we would be much better offasarace. The white man got his wealth tilling the soil and so must we. But if you wil: cluster up in towns and cities, own your own homes. I have diverged somewhat from the subject I started u;on bunt as these thoughts came up z1d Thad an opportunity of speaking them, I took advantage of it. Iwill not comment on the ctiti- cisms on Mir. Miller’s speech as pub- lished by the Guard, only to say that a great many things he said in favor of the Negro were not mentioned at all. Mr. Miller is able ty defend himself if he desires, or if he thinks it is worth the time. Jacon Wricuer, Four Mile. Kas. Ws. Tecumsen Vernon, A.M. QUINDARO, KANSAS, Practices in alt courts. Special attention given criminal cases. W- I. JAMISON ATTORNEY-al-LAV/ Office, 17 W, Filth St. WESTERN UNIVERSITY QUINDARO, KANSAS, JEPARTENTS, Theological, Norinul, Preparatory, State Industrial and Musical, ADVANTAGES, Tastiscters from Leading Colleges, Good Water, Ex ‘ecllent Drainage, Healthful Chmate, School term of nine months, begins Sept. 10, goo EXPENSES: Per month, Board §5 50.Tuntion and Room Rent §2 00 Industrial Training FREE of charge. For furthee particulars and Catalogue, Address, ee, mm 00D HEALTH a Every Bottle You Take of BEAUCHAMP’S BALSAM OF PINE Means Better Healh, It Makes Better Blood, Purer Blood, Richer Blood. ‘Te will create aad maintam good health. ‘At will build up thesystem, tone up the nerves: ‘and strengthen the muscles. ‘Thu great Blood Purifer and Nerve ‘Remedy is far superior to any other knows remedy for the curing of any diseases arising, from itspure blood, such as scrofula, exysipe- as, canker, salt rheurs and skin diseases. Sold by all leading druggings. =" The closing rally at Lane chapel C. M. E. church will take place Sun. day, October21. Revs. J. M. Brown and J. M. Rivers of the Missouri and Kansas districts, respectively, will be present in the afternoon at 3 o'clock. The union service will be held under the auspices of the Colored Minis- ters’ union of Topeka. Our sister churches are cordially invited with their pastors to be present and assist ‘us in this, our efforts to meet our con- ference the following Wednesday. ‘Come one, come all and help us; let us have a high day in Zion. Rev. Wilson of North ‘Topeka will preach his last sermon for this conference year at night. PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO TIE CONSTITUTION. House Joint Resolution No, 4, Retating to Justices of the Sapreme Court. He rewled by the Legntature af the Stite of Kaness, thothirds of the members elected to cash house thereof Loncurring therein: Secrioe 1, The fillouins priporyeon to amend the constitution of the stite 14 hereby submitted to the qualified electors of the state for theit ap- prosal or rejection, sie" Section 2 of article 3 of the constitution of this state 1 hereby amended 30 as to read Sesion 2 ‘The supreme court shall ousist of seven justices, who shall be choven by the e~ lectorsof the state, ‘They may sitaeparately an two iyssions, with ll power 1 reach division to determine the eaves arugaed tobe heart ty anh dnision, Three justices shall Lonsttate 4 qorum in each divssion and the concurrence of thece shall be necenary to a decie ton. Such cases only as may be ordered to be heard by the whote court shall be convdered by all of the justies,and the concurrence ot four justices, shall be necessary toa deusion in easessoheard. ‘The jntice [who senior in continuous term of service shall be huefjustce, andan casetwo or more have conusously sened during the same period the senior in years of these shall be chiefusine, and the presiding justice ofeach division shall be selected from the judges a¢ signed tothat divasion in ike manner. The term of office of the justices shall he ix years, except as here- inafter provided. ‘The juices in offiveat thetime this amenilment takes effect shall hold their offices for the terms for which they were severally elected and unt their successors are elected and qualified. As soon as practicable afterthe second Monday in January, 19, the governor shall appoint four justices, to hold theit offies uatit the second Monday m January, 1903. At the general election 1a 1goz there shall br elected five justices, ane of whom shall hold his office fortwo years fone forfour years, and three for ix years. At the eneralelection n 1904 and every six years thereafer ‘two justices shall be elected, At the general election 101906 and every sx years thereafter two justices shall elected. Atthe general electionin 1968 and every six) ears thereafter three justices shall be elected. SHC 2. ‘Lh propositon shalt be submitted tothe slectors of this state at the general election of repre~ sentatives in the year aqoo for their approsal or rejec- tuon, The amendment hereby proposed shall be de- ‘ugnated on the oficial Uallot by the following. tile: +The judicial amendmeat to the consttution,”” and shall be voted for or against as now provided by law under such ute. Sve. 3, This resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after ns publication sn the statute-book, “Approved March 4, 189 T hereby cemnfy that the foregoing 152 true and wr. ect copy ofthe original enrolled resolution now on file in my office, and thatthe same took effect by pubhica- buon in the statule-book May 94,1890. GFO. A. CLARK, | [vean) Secretary of State. When in Emporia Stop at The Blue Front Restaurant, We have opened a first-class restaurant and lodging house and offer the fol- lowing rates: Board per day Sr, per week $3, normal students $2; two ina room, meals 15 cents and lodging 25 cents per night. Call on or address P. B. Moore or Mrs. P. B. Moore, 711 Commercial street, ‘Emooria; Kansas; — Profitable A Profitable | . Way to See : - The West - ‘ ; : ; Is to join one of the person- ; : ally conducted California 7 excursions of the Santa : Fé Route. Congenial — ; companions are assured. Special conductors relieve : ; you of all care and con. : tribute materially to your ; E enjoyment, s r No extra charge. ; Inquire of : : T. L. KING, , - Topeka Agent, ) the Atchison, Topeka SSanta Forty. | OFFICE HOURS. BOI AM 310 § Fe Me Cc. SUMNER SUNDAY. Puystcian AnD SuRGEON ‘Calls Promptly Answered. Telephone 558. orrior novzs: to 20 a.m. tobe M 0. A. TAYLOR, H. D. Puysicran ann Surcron Calls answered day and night. Tele bone, 696. 226} KaneasAve: ee George Klien & Co | MAKERS OF ‘High-Grade Buggy and Team Harness. «Repairing Promptly Executed... 718 Kansas Ave. Topeka, Kan a rtuning Hous Por NICE, CLEAN Booms, Rooms by The Dy or Week. BOS BLVPEST, | KAWAS CITY, Ho. Quit Clothing Business We announced ten days ago that we were going to quit the clothing business. Our announcement was greeted by the public beyond our expectations. We were not prepared to take care of the eager buyers, and wish to apolsgize to those who were turned away, We have added several more clerks, and are now prepared to wait on everybody who. comes. As yet our large stock is unbroken, and you can buy two Winter Suits for the price of one, or an Overcoat and a Suit of Clothes for the price you would have to pay for- either, as the prices below will show, This is a positive Quit-Clothing-Business Sale; no. fake. Every word we say is true. We don't ask you to believe us; come in and convince. yourself. You don’t have to buy. Everything in the Clothing Line SO;.D AT 60c ON THE DOLLAR Everything Marked in Plain Figures One Price and No Deviation Don't buy anything until you attend this Quit Clothihg Sale at Fisier's SUE AND’ Crotuine Co., 118 E, Sixth St. This is no fake advertisement, but a Gexcive Quit Crotuine Sate, Everything Must Go Nothing Reserved Men's $19.80 Finest Worsted Suit, NOW. 2 oe cece eens coerce enon cone S3T-8S YOUTH’S SUITS, ages 14 to 19. 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A., Topeka, Kas. -_— Missouri: | | is Pacific Pc | i Aan Route THE GREAT_——== : SOUTHWEST SYSTEM, Traveling the States of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado,Cansas, and the Indian Territory. | Five (5) Daily Passenger Trains are run on thisline ! in each direction, between Kansas City and St. Louis. The Famous Hot Springs Of Arkansas Are reached ONLY by this NES H.C. TOWNSEND, G.P.&T.A., ST, LOUIS, MO. E. NIPPS, Agent, OPEKA, KAS. A, MM. THOMAS, Arrorney-aT-Law, Phone, 299. 413 Kansas Avenue, Rooms 4 and &- Topeka;Kan. > etal. a een The republicans will make the town noisy next week. The boys may expect a great time. The Toussaint Literary and Social circle, the leading circle of the city, gave an up-to-date banquet at True Eleven hall Tuesday evening in honor of Mrs. Nacy Brown-Mitchel of Chyenne, Wyoming; Mrs. Emma Covington, Misses Lena Nelson and Lula Bowen. The hall was darkened with colored lights and beautifully decorated. Every body looked their best. The music and repast filled every to ecstacy every desire. Go to V. Frank One Price Clothing Store, where you can get a good Sunday shirt for 50 cents; suits for from $4.00 up. He lives up to every guarantee; has no tricks to catch trade outside of the cheap prices he has marked on his goods where every body can see for themselves. Wm. Porter departed this life Monday evening, after a long illness. He leaves many relatives and friends to mourn his death. E. J. Ingram, the blind broom maker, purchased one-thousand pounds of broom corn from a Missouri farmer last week. George Irvin's trade is still booming. He has learned valuable lessons by experience and his present good management and success proves it. Did you ever try a meal at his hotel? some of the best men in the city say his meals are excellent, and on the otherside his soda pop is just as good. Dr. W. H. Hudson has, through the assistance of his many white friends, been appointed examining surgeon of the Bureau of Pension. A great many white and colored old soldiers have been to his office to congratulate him and the success of the colored people in getting a representative on the board. The doctor feels much pleased at the kind words received from the people generally. Only one Negro man demanded twice to see his commission before he could congratulate him. poor fellow! The doctor has his hat off to all whose good wishes were extended him. The Racket has just secured a nice line of blue and red socks to go for a dime. You Are Tired OF "Perfect Fit and Low Prices" They have labeled all sorts of clothing. We are tired of them,too These can convey no idea to you of our fine goods. We merely say, See and Know. Each year's lessons go to the making of better clothing. The makers tell us we are over-particular on many points, that our demands make added carefulness that customers will never know or appreciate. But we know they will—we know that Goodness Tells. Men's Fine Suits and Overcoats up to $20. Columbia Clothing C'mpany. Happenings during the Week in that thriving Little City . . . There is quite a similarity between Shawnee county politics this year. The campaign in Atchison county is becoming intensely interesting. The colored men of the county are almost unanimous in their support of the republican national and state ticket, but there is a revolt among them against the local ticket. The colored voters of Atchison are men of more than ordinary intelligence and they feel very keenly the action of the republican county convention in nominating W. F. Guthrie for county attorney; a man who, although a republican, has never been known to be the friend of the colored race, but, while a member of the Atchison city council, made a special effort to defeat the ordinance which repealed the odious poll tax. Mr. Guthrie at that time knew that this ordinance affected the colored people more than any other class of people, and that they were the least able to bear this unnecessary and arbitrary burden. His opponent for this office, W. P. Waggener, is the ideal of the colored people of the county. They all regard him as thoroughly competent for the position and above all as their tried and true friend. He has defended colored men charged with crime without compensation, and has aided and assisted the colored people in all of their church work, and has never failed to assist them when called upon for assistance. As a result, the colored people of the county are unanimous in their support of W. P. Waggener. This paper, as a republican journal, approves and endorses their course in supporting their friend. We do not regard it an evidence of disloyalty to the party for the colored people of Atchison, in this particular emergency, to support a man whom they know to be their friend. An argument is being made that it is improper for a colored man to scratch the republican ticket. There is nothing in such an argument, because if the democrats four years ago had not scratched their tickets for president, McKinley would not be president today. It is also a notorious fact that the white republicans not only claim to have, but do exercise the right to vote for men and not for party, whenever the party so far forgot itself as to nominate a man who does not represent the best interests of the party. We unhesitatingly call upon all of the colored people of Atchison county to give W. P. Waggener their cordial support, and in doing this, we believe that we are advancing the interest of the Republican party, and especially are we promoting the interest of the colored people. We are for the Negroes. The colored man has got to learn the lesson of staying with his friends on local issues. The man who contributes most to the comfort of the voter is the one to whom the voter owes the most. 4 The children are talking about licking another teacher that they say was so mistreated a few weeks ago. We advise the mothers to not indulge them in any such doings. The new Masonic lodge is doing well. Even beyond expectation they are minding their own business and building up their craft; you will hear from them later. If you read the Colored Magazine at 15c. a copy, call at I. P. Stevens' Book Store; all standard novels; nice, yet cheap picture frames. Fred. Shackleford and wife had a nice collection of ladies to tea Wednesday afternoon in honor of Mrs. Nancy Brown-Eitchel. Rev. A. M. Ward and wife are in the city everything straight, preparatory to moving to Topeka. They are guests of Mrs. W. H. Hudson. We are the headquarters for work shirts, overalls, duck coats, rubbers and oveshoes, gloves and underwear. The Racket, 709 Commercial street. The True Eleven will have its first sermon preached Sunday at their hall by Rev. W. L. Grant. Go and hear for yourself. George Barton, the leading druggist of the city of Atchison, built up his trade by sticking closely to business, keeping first-class goods and selling at as lower prices as any and much lower than many. Hon. Paul Jones of Topeka made a political speech in the court house Tuesday evening of last week. It was heartily appreciated by a large crowd of enthusiastic listeners, who, with a unanimous vote, declared him to be one of the ablest speakers of the state. He has converts here who never attended the "mourners' bench;" and any colored man who will vote a democratic ticket the 6th of November and claims that he did it from a principle, after hearing such an address, should look up the meaning of the word "principal," for it is evident that they do not know it and never took time to find out. Misses Goss and Robinson are in the city attending the bedside of their cousin and sister, Miss S. Waldon, who is improving slowly. Miss Rich of Medicine lodge is in the city. Rev. Lee is on the sick list, also Father Gothard. The Tabernacle church gave a flag entertainment Thursday evening of last week. Every one had an enjoyable time. 10 LADIE KERSEY JACKETS WO $15. Each, Gold To Do you want a new jac interest you; they are all ne lined and cost $15. at other st of All Wool Jackets at $1.98 less than most stores ask for. 10 LADIES' KERSEY JACKETS- $15. Each, Go Here Tomorrow $6.98. Do you want a new jacket? If so, the above should interest you; they are all new, strictly up-to-date and satin lined and cost $15. at other stores. We have a Large Line of All Wool Jackets at $1.98 to $3.98 each, that are about 1/3 less than most stores ask for. Underware Dept. Ladies' Union Suits, Fleeced Ladies' Jersey Ribbon Vests Misses Heavy Fleeced Lined 20,000 Pr. of Shoes in the select from at from 83c to $2. LADIES' FINE TRIM 25c to 75c each, worth from 7 Ladies' Union Suits, Fleeced Lined..... 19c Each Ladies' Jersey Ribbon Vests Fleece Lined..... 15c Each Misses Heavy Fleeced Lined Union Suits..... 25c Each 20,000 Pr. of Shoes in the SHOE DEPARTMENT to select from at from 83c to $2.50 a pair. LADIES' FINE TRIMMED WALKING HATS at 25c to 75c each, worth from 75c to $2.50 each. Salvage Dept. 10 Doz. Boys' Heavy H Quality.....100 Ladies' Fleece Lin ity.....200 PAIRS MEN'S M $2.00 to $4.00 a pair, choice 1,000 Pairs Men's and Goodyear Welt, Hand Sewed Choice While They Last... 500 MEN'S LAUNDRY New Line of Goods. Good 17, at Lake Ca 10 Doz. Boys' Heavy Fleeced Lined Union Suits 75c Quality..... 39c Each 100 Ladies' Fleece Lined Vests and Pants, 25c Quality..... 15c Each 200 PAIRS MEN'S MISSMATE BOOTS worth from $2.00 to $4.00 a pair, choice.....$1.00 Pair 500 MEN'S LAUNDRED PECALE SHIRTS, All New Line of Goods. Good Line of Color in Sizes 141/2 to 17, at 25c Each Lake Cash Store, ATCHISON, KANSAS. Hutchinson. Mrs. Essie Wright has returned from her visit with her parents, Mr. Douglas and wife, of Winfield, Kas. Last Sunday was quarterly meeting, and it was a great success in every capacity. The Tabernacle Baptist church is having lots of trouble about their deed to their lot which was made to the wrong person, and now this person refuses to give it up. The Odd Fellows gave an elegant supper Thursday night of last week which was a success. The Mandoline club, which was a portion of the Lyons Street fair, has returned, and reports a large crowd and a fine time. Misses' Prucilla and Grace Martin passed through the city last Sunday evening on their return home from a visit with friends in Peabody. Hidus Harden and Anna Brown are reported to be married soon. Hiawatha. The social given by the ladies of the Second Baptist church Wednesday night of last week, was quite a success. The money will be used for making improvements on the church. Anna Cobbs and brother, James, who have been in Topeka for the last ten months, returned home. They report a very pleasant time. Owing to the inclement weather, Sunday snrvices were not very well attended. The Hon. Charles Curtis addressed a large audience at the Armory hall Saturday evening, and the Hon. Mr. Littlefield on Thursday, All who heard these men certainly appreciated the opportunity. The young men of this city have organized a club. They have now fitted up a room in town for the meeting. All who wish to enjoy themselves should attend these meetings. Mrs. Sarah Green is on the sick list. S' S÷ ÷ RTH Here tomorrow $6.98. market? If so, the above should be, strictly up-to-date and satin ores. We have a Large Line to $3.98 each, that are about 1/3 Lined..... 19c Each Fleece Lined..... 15c Each Union Suits..... 25c Each the SHOE DEPARTMENT to 50 a pair. IMED WALKING HATS at 5c to $2.50 each. Fleeced Lined Union Suits 75c 39c Each Red Vests and Pants, 25c Quality 15c Each ASSMATE BOOTS worth from $1.00 Paid Ladies' Missmate Shoes in L. McKay and Machine Sewed 50c Paid RED PECALE SHIRTS, AN Line of Color in Sizes 14½ to 25c Each sh Store, WORTH Prof. Hermes Maxey has become the leading pianist of the city. Leavenworth. The recital rendered at the Sunflower Baptist church, S. 5th avenue, Sunday afternoon under the auspices of Mrs. J. Middleton, was witnessed by a large concourse of people. Every one present was very highly pleased with the exercises. Much credit is due Mrs. Middleton for her untiring efforts and the arrangement of the program. Some of the best talent in this city participated, and acquitted themselves well. The free will offering amounted to $14.27. Mrs. P. L. Taylor, mr. and Mrs. Jerry Lee and Rev. King visited Platte City, Mo. Mrs. Eliza Graves and Mrs. Dyson of Kansas City attended carnival here. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Lee of Central City, Col., visited their sister Mrs. Quinn in this city. Mrs. J. J. Watson of Council Grove visited relatives and friends here. Mesdames Henry and Alpha Slater were guests of relatives and friends here. Mrs. Susan Anderson and son Bernard of Leadville, Col., were guests of Mrs. W. B. Carter. Mrs. mattie Hodges has returned to Leadville, Col., after a two weeks visit with Mrs. Evelyn Wake. Rev. Clark from Nebraska is preparing to move his family. The members of A. M. E. church are proud of their new pastor. Mrs. A. Taylor entertained Mrs. Susan Anderson Monday with a five o'clock dinner. Mr. O. A. Harris and wife entertained Friday evening with cards complimentary to Mrs. Hodges of Leadville, Col., Mesdames Slater and Henry of Wichita. Prizes were taken by Mesdames Anderson and Slater. The host and hostess proved themselves quite skillful entertainers. Evelyn Wake entertained Saturday evening in honor of Mr. Hodges of Leadville, Col., The most enjoyable feature of the evening was the photographbh contest. Prizes were taken by Mesdames Carter and Hodges. Hattie Dimmery of Lawrence spent a pleasant visit with her son and daughter, Rev. J. Middleton and wife, last week. Dr. C. M. Moates of Leavenworth, Prof. W. T. Vernon of Western university, Quindaro, Kas. and J. T. Middleton of Yale, were the political speakers at Turner's hall last Thursday night. We would like to give notice through your paper of the eleventh annual meeting of the InterState Literary, which will convene in St. Joseph, Mo. the latter part of December. The exact date will be announced after the meeting of the executive committee. The citizens of St. Joseph are preparing to give the association a royal reception. St. Joe is the most progressive town on the Missouri river, and her hospitality is proverbial. It is hoped that towns represented heretofore will send full delegations and that new towns in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and the West will become interested and send delegates. Any regularly organized literary society, reading or art club is entitled to membership. The association is in its eleventh year. It is a legitimate institution and a credit to the race. It should receive the support of every intelligent Negro of Kansas and the West. The membership fee is $1 for old societies and $1.50 for new societies. Address letters of inquiry to Mrs. W. E. Gray, cor. sec'y, 1025 Parallel St., Atchison, Kas. or Miss Lillian Jackson, 714 N. 24th St., St. Joseph, Mo. Hot Shot from Hunter. Friend Nick: Since my-return to Southwest Missouri and the duties incident to my position as 'developer' of the budding intellects of this growing section, I have not had opportunity to enjoy the privilege this hour affords. I have read with pleasure, however, that you have been unceasing in your fight for the supremacy of republican principles and the utter annihilation of that renegade faction of the race who are so boldly and shamelessly advocating the hellish tenets of Tillmanism and democracy. But if we pause for a moment and revert to the history of the past, we will not be so shocked and surprised, for in every age every race has had its traitors; always an Esau willing to sell his birthright for a mess of pottage—a misanthrope willing to sacrifice the lives and liberties of the many to obtain his own selfish ends. You know I have always maintained that politics was business—new conditions developing new issues; that a Negro should not be a republican simply because his grandfather and father were, but that he should intelligently weigh the rival claims of the respective parties, and subscribe to the principles of the party which in the completest and broadest measure guarantees to him the fullest exercise of his manhood's rights, and vouchsafes national industrial conditions under which he can enjoy the greatest degree of domestic and commercial prosperity. In the campaign of 1900, there is such a wide divergence of principles, that he who runs may read the signs of the times, and a fool, though his insanity has reached the superlative degree, need not err in reaching a decision compatible with judgment and common sense. We, here in Southwest Missouri are not afflicted with the parasite, "black democracy;" and it is the pride of the Negroe of this section that only one Negro in all this fertile region has the temerity to espouse mobocracy and disfranchisement, and this is a Negro who was sentenced a few years ago for the monstrous offense of stealing a hog. People down here cannot understand how any Negroes in the state which gave humanity freedom and John Brown of Osawatomie —free Kansas, can stultify the memory of his godlike heroism with a hellish alliance with the fiends who done him to death on the scaffold. We are "standing up" for new Missouri and a republican regime down here and hope when the Ides of November have passed, to have enrolled Missouri in the republican column and to have returned two republican senators to congress. Wishing you and The Plain-dealer success I am Yours, CHAS. S. HUNTER. Elwood Laura Walker and Etta M. Brown are two industrious pupils in our public schools. The former, assisted by the latter and her mother, gave an ice cream social last night for the Sunday school, which was a success in every way. If the parents of this place would give the children more encouragement to do good along this line there would be many intelligent boys and girls of our race. Mrs. A. A. Hughes, Sumner and little sister, returned home last Tuesday, after spending the summer in the territory. Rev. J. R. Ransom held quarterly conference here last Monday night. Rev. Brown, the new pastor of the A. M. E. church is doing some good work with his members. He is a good speaker and a very intelligent gentleman. Prof. E. Branch is doing campaign work for the Republican party in this county and state. Prof. Branche is an excellent speaker, a scholarly and refined gentleman. The party leaders of this state should see that he is given a good position in this state. I have received many inquiries about Jefferson county politics and how the people expected to vote. Immediately after the convention, tings seemed very doubtful, but since the truth has been told about the success of the Republican party, both national and state, the people have opened their eyes and will give the national and state administrations a large majority. There are two representatives to elect in this county from the 4th and 5th districts. The fight is a very hard one for each district; but the republican candidates will be elected in each district by a small majority. According to Mr. Tompkins' figures, and he is a man who figures very close, Mr. Griffin of the 4th district will receive a majority of about 40. I have not as yet figured on Mr. Wilson's majority in the 5th district, but he will be elected without a doubt. All of the county officers will be re-elected with the help of the colored vote, and I can here say that my people will vote for that party (the Republican) which knows nothing but prosperity, and under whose administration the Negro has received more appointments than another. We expect to bury the populist party so deep that Gabriel will have to blow his horn seven times seven before they can be resurrected, and then we will only hear the faint cry, "Here I am." C. B. BRYANT. Jetmore. The Harris brothers gave a swell reception in honor of their cousin, Emma Lyman. T. P. Moore and S. T. Owens transacted business in Weir City Tuesday. Mrs. P. Moore gave a nice dinner in honor in honor of Mrs. Lanan of Garden City. Mrs. S. T. Owens visited her sister in Dodge City Monday. Mrs. Stamp was over to Dodge City Wednesday. O. L. Board and wife spent Sunday with S. T. Owens and wife. Lue Neal visited Mrs. Owens Sunday. J. W. Green is talking politics on the streets now-a-days. Lodge Notes. 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