The advertisements in the "Patriarch” are all wholesome.

They corrupt neither

"Mid' nor body.

Quack doctor ads and "Cuckold Mill” ads not published in this paper at any price.

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POPULIST STATE CONVENTION.

By authority vested in me as chairman of tho
cvecutive committee of the People‘s Party of Texas,
and in conformity to the request of the State execu-
tive committee, precinct conventions are hereby call~
ed throughout the State to be held at any time be-
fore April :30 prom, to select representatives to Coun-
tv conventions to be held on or before April; to sel-
ect delegates to Congressional conventions to be held
on or before May 10, and delegates to the State con-
vention to be held in the city of Dallas, June 9th,
pro}... at which time and place delegates will be
chosen to the People‘s party national convention to
be held at Springfield, lIl., July 4, ISO-I.

In precinct, Counties or districts where from any
cause the regular party officials fail. to issue calls
for said conventions, any Populist is authorized to
issue call for convention and arrange for delegates
to the, several conventions. Notice of meetings" and
names of delegates should be forwarded promptly
to me at Dallas.

MILTON PARKS. Chairman.

ON TO SPRINGFIEEP_.

Col. Felter Has Made Complete Arrangements for
the Convention. One of the Best Halls.

Editor Independent: It might be well to state
that l have full assurance from the adjutant general
of Illinois of the use of" the new arsenal at Springfield
for the People's party national convention, July -1,
5, (5. Should the delegates decide to remain longer
ample provision is made for that event. The arsenal
is a magnificent building with all modern improve-
ments. It will be nicely seated, arranged and de-
corated for the occasion. Hotel prices are from 81,26
to $3 per (lax. There are restaurants where good
meals can be had from 10 to 25 cents. I am acquaint-
ed with all the hotel proprietors and can say their
character is first class. All the hotels are within one
and a half to three blocks from the arsenal.

Every arrangement for the comfort and pleasure
of our Populist friends have been anticipated and
provided for while they are in the city. - Illinois
Populists will do the right. thing and do it nicely.
We are looking for a big convention. '

All reform papers please copy.

COL. J. S. FEL’I‘ER.

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Springfield, 111.

THE GREAT ISSUES.

We have at hand a copy of “The Great Issues,"
being a collection 01‘ reprints of seine editorials
from the Philadelphia American from 1897 to 1000.
The author of the articles published is the Hon.
Wharton Barker, who was the candidate of“ the
Middle-of—the-Rcad People party in 1900 for the miice
of president. The statesmanlike erudltion are as
pertinent today as they were four or eight years
ago, for, unfortunately, the economic situation has
been little changed—is even worse today than ever
before—and the prospects are not very bright for its
betterment in the near future. “The Great: Issues"
is a valuable acquisition to any political library and
ought to be read and studied by the great mass of
the common people. It is a book of nearly 400 pages
and is substantially bound in both cloth and paper.
It can be secured of the publishers at the following
prices: Cloth—one copy $1.00, ten copies, $7.00,
twenty copies $12000, fifty copies, $25000; paper——
one copy 50 cents, ten copies $4.00; twenty copies.
$7.00, fifty copies, $15.00. Address Wharton Barker.
118 So. Fourth St., Philadelphia, Pa.—Tlie Colorado
Commoner.

To the above we wish to add that every Populist
should read “The Great Issues” and we may go
further and say that every old party voter ought to
read it also, though it would be a little dangerous
to his present political faith, we believe, to do so.—
Vineland Independent.

Every thinking man in this country knows that the
only salvation of our political and social institutions
is to maintain the balance of the population on the
land.

They know that the public domain was the most
valuable asset of the people as a whole and their
most precious national heritage.

Why then has Congres allowed this great domain
to be stolen by the tens of millions of acres‘.’——lndus-
trial Tribune.

.- ~ nin'r'v» wv‘. v..-

CYCLONE DAVIS.

Cyclone Davis‘ great speech at the court house
last, Sunday on Bible defense of Prohibition was a
great effort and received the endorsement of every
man and woman. There is no doubt that these great
speeches are worth hundreds of votes in the election
today for prohibition—The Watchman, Clebourne,
Texas.

We have read the populist speeches of Cy—
clone Davis for scveial years with satisfaction;
we were one of the fcw populists of this city
who called upon him when he visited this city
SCVcl‘al months ago. Davis tCycloiic) did not
make a public speech here. i do not think that
he came here for that pruposc; at any rate, if'
he is a prohibitionist, he held his pcacc upon
this subject while licrc. '

Probably he was overwhelmed at what he
beheld here—a strong Populist city of 140,000
of a population, and 2:0 saloons in it, and the
two strongest Saloon Wards, were always the
two strongest Populist Wards.

This is a condition, which surpriscs many
people whose minds have been warped by pro—
hibition sophisti‘y—that “political morality"
and saloons are an impossibility. Scuttle has
demonstrated the falsification of this prohibi—‘
tion ideal, and it is worthy of remark that the
most strenuous disruptionists, and traitors to
the Peoples" party of this city were those who
stood ready to advocate prohibition and wo—
man suffrage at every opportunity. Clark Da-
vis, George Cottei‘ill, being the foremost of
their unstable associates the "bearded elicn‘nn—
ates.” Texas it appears would be a good place
for these people to congregate in. They might
exchange their material interest hcrc, with
some virtuous masculincs of Texas, this would
be a mutual exchzuxjc the masculine would be

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a valuable acqtigutm here, and the "bcarocd
etfeminatcs” would be in clover there, and if
these two distinctcharacters, and characterlcss
were separated in different sections of the
country, the world would soon learn a lesson

of value, as to which clement would make the

greatest progress in both morals and com~
incrce.

“TO SILENCE LYING TONGUES BE
JUST AND FEAR NOT!”

Allurders, suicides, and divorces; three of the
greatest crimes known, are so common in Sc—
attle that they scarcely cause comment.

It is true, that the worst crime of the thrcc‘
is legalized and is the cause of a large per cent
of the other two, that are not yet legalized.
But we shall find a justification of legalizing
them before long. "Extravagant Education,"
lying tongues, "\Voman's Clubs" and Dr.
Matthews ought to find a way to lcgalizc all
three. This would make them respectable.

“"6 know of a case in this city a few wccks
ago, where a divorced couple went to a protest—
ant church to get married and the minister rc—
fuscd to marry them; they went at once to
Dr. Matthews of the Presbyterian church of
this city, but the “thrifty" Matthews had no
scruplcs about the matter. lie was after his
fee. Why he cvcn dispensed with a portion of
the marriage ceremony in order to please the
“woman in the case". and this too in face of
his church authorities back cast who are de-
cluring against such conduct.

Dr. Matthews is: a knavel

There is so much"chcap gab"bcing publish-
cd throughout the "Reform Press” about gov—
erning this world by that beautiful ideal of
"love", that the word duty is lost sight of en—
tirclv and with disastrous rcsults.
knows as much about “love" as the civilizcd
what does the know

The szivagc

man dots. but
about duty?

“Love" is common to the savage and the
civili'ch alike. but duty is the highest order of
civilimtion. 'l‘lic barbarian constantly sccks
his "ampules" tfrom timc to timct a in Dr.
Matthews. Cumtux?

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FIVE CENTS

CHARACTERLESS AMERICA!

There are 78 National Governments in the
world. I‘licrc are 0 Emperors, i4 kings, ,2
queens, 21 presidents, 5 princes, 7 grand dukes
and the other so heads of governments are
made of Amcers, Rhan's, Rcdives, Mikados,
Sultans, .\laharajah‘s 51121115, and Boys. And
the I'nitcd States Congress represents more
territory and greater wealth than 21in one of
them, and the L‘. 5. Congress also “1’1‘0591 s,

as a whole, a more intellectual body, in the fig“- \\~

gi‘cgzitc, than “ny one of flu; i, and they are
the most cl 4. sum-N- { Li‘j', or all of them.

flow long can a government progress, and
maintain. a prestige among the governments
of the world without character? Our characrer
abroad, as compared with other nations, will
compare favorably with the best of them, but
character at home is lower than the worst of
them. \l'c are a "goodly apple rotten at the
there is not a Rcaclistag or a Ministry
or a Council, or a l’arliamcnt, or a Rcichsrath
of a kingdom, or a congress of the .21 Republics
of the earth, that prcscnts such a sorry spec-
tacle to the world today as the present Cnitcd
States Longrcss.

core."

There is not one—not a single one—~of the
whole 75 national governments of the whole
world except ourselves, that would have liti—
milizticd themselves, and recognized, by their
own acts, tlicir incompctcncy, or their own
standard of innnoralit} if you please, or their
inner luck of judgment, and inability to govern
as to give car, and official recognition to 400,-
000 gallavanting jades in relation to momen—
tous affairs in government.

V. lat would thcv (other gov l""";-.',?‘..r$

They would have :-.~t thosc
presumptious, undomesticated, woiiiaiis club
representatives home to their families!

They world'havc said: “Send your hus—
bands, fathers and brothers here; for they are
your representatives. This would represent
tdignity), character, authority. It would also
show ”masculine virtue," and not cffcminate
subordination to the undomcsticatcd, "rostrum
hunting" pctticoat; that is urged on, and on, to
disgraceful prcsuniptions and insolcncc, (mis—
taken by them for dignity) by “bearded cl‘fciii—
inatcs" who are unworthy to wipe the shOcs
of a “virtuous masculine," and who would
feign have the world belicvc that virtue is a
matter of sex, and that woman has a monopoly
of it. in my vigorous efforts to rc—cstablish
the sterling character of American ancestry, l
have the encouragement of all good people
generally, and of no less a man than President
Roosevelt particularly. Listcn to him:

"There are plenty of sCoundrcls always
ready to try to belittle reform movements or to
bolster up existing iniquitics in the name of
Americanism."——l’rcsidcnt Roosevelt in his
cssav on Reform Methods in Politics.

"The stoutcst and truest Americans are the
very men who have the least sympathy with
the 1H.01)lC who invoke the spirit of American—
ism to aid what is vicious in our government
or to throw obstacles in the way of those who
strive to reform it."—Prcsidcnt Roosevelt in
his essay on Reform Methods in Politics.

\\'c are in good company. Cumtux?

thd you say.“

”Equal rights to all and special privileges
to none" is a quotation from Thomas jefferson.
\‘ill the lying "bearded cffcminatcs" dare tell
us that he meant this excellent idea to apply to
"\\'omzin’s Suffrage"?

Take the prominent Populists out of the
Democratic Party of Seattle, and thcrc will be
nothing but a “frazzle” left.

The Mike \\'right Cigar is one of the most
famous cigars in the market. Mike \Vright
still makes that offer. See ad. in this paper.

I do,

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