. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. *arch;5, 18931 ffitp? ^veettev cmv gpfttt&mcm. 151 THE LETTER California Newap\p3r Man Who Played Seasational Part in the Greatest "Wheat Combine in the World. Tha great, wheat combine, through, which the prica of that product has gone up from 65 cents to a point above the dollar mark and became the subject of g03sip in the two hemis- pheres, owes much of its success to J. T. Flynn, a well-known P-iciii; Coast newspaper man who was at one time an edi- torial writer on the Biekdsr a^d Sportsman. A year ago last June he went to St. Louis as
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. *arch;5, 18931 ffitp? ^veettev cmv gpfttt&mcm. 151 THE LETTER California Newap\p3r Man Who Played Seasational Part in the Greatest "Wheat Combine in the World. Tha great, wheat combine, through, which the prica of that product has gone up from 65 cents to a point above the dollar mark and became the subject of g03sip in the two hemis- pheres, owes much of its success to J. T. Flynn, a well-known P-iciii; Coast newspaper man who was at one time an edi- torial writer on the Biekdsr a^d Sportsman. A year ago last June he went to St. Louis as a delegate at large to the National Bimetallic Convention, where he participated in the deliberations of that body and at once became prominent as an advocate of fusion. From there he went to Chicago, where he published a work entitled "The American Dollar/1 which was extensively circalated by the National Democratic Committee as a campaign document. For several months previous to the election he was asso- ciated with James K, Sovereiga, then the Grand Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, in conducting what was known as the Bryan Campaign Labor Bureau with head- quarters in Chicago. Being a forcible writer as well as a fluant speaker he scoi jumped into favor as a campaigner with such men as Wm. J. Bryan, Governor 8tone, Carter H. Hirrison, Governor Altgeld, Senator Jones and the other lights of National Democracy. He made more than 100 spaeches during the campaign in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indi- ana, Michigan, Kentucky and Missouri. After Bryan's defeat, on which he lost the profit of his book amounting to several thousand dollars, he took editorial charge of "The Gen'leman Farmer" magazine of Chicago, which was then ba'mg launched by the J. I. Case Thresher Co. In its columns he vigorously advocated the organiza- tions of the wheat growers throughout the South and West taking the ground that combination was alt that was neces- sary to fix the pice of that prod
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