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gallant fight that they secured his nomination. He will be 

 the next Governor of Tennessee, and the rights of the people 

 will be secure in his hands and protected so far as he has 

 the power. With such men as Hon. John P. Buchanan 

 in the Gubernatorial chairs, and in the National and State 

 lyegislatures, monopoly and corporate greed would soon 

 receive their death blow and intolerable burdens lifted 

 from the shoulders of the producers. 



J. H. BRAMMIER. 



J. H. Brammier, President of the Colorado State 

 Alliance, was born in Cedar county, Iowa, on the loth 



day of November, 1851. 

 He received a common 

 school education, in 

 both English and Ger- 

 man, after which he 

 attended the Wilton 

 (Iowa) Academy. In 

 1870 he moved, with 

 his father, to Mills 

 county, Iowa. He was 

 raised on a farm and 

 has been engaged in 

 that, occupation all his 

 life. He was a mem- 

 ber of the Grange and 

 took an active part in 

 /. H. Brammier. wna t is known, in 



Iowa, as the "Anti-Monopoly" campaign of 1873. In 

 March, 1874, he was married to Miss Maggie A. Traucht, 

 of Williams county, Ohio. His wife dying in 1883, he 

 was was again married in 1884 to Miss Emma M. Dan- 

 ford, of Henderson, Iowa. In March, 1887, he moved to 



