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THE IIERALU ADV
MlLllANK, 8. D.
W. W. Dow
ME,
Editor and Fttbl'
OFFICIAL PAPER OF CITY AND COUNTY,
FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1896.
For Preiijent
WILLIAM MiIvINLEY,
OF OHIO.
For Vioe-PresideDt—
GAKRET A. HOB ART,
OK NEW JERSEY.
"JNo one need be in any doubt about
what the republican party stands for.
It stands, now as ever, for honest money
and a chance to earn it by lionest toil."
—Wm. McKinley.
The selection of Mark Hanna as chair
man of the republican national com
mittee is a good one. Mr. Hauna con
ducted McKinley's canvass in a manner
lo win universal commendation. Of
course he had an advantage in having
the great mass of republican voters
enthusiastically in favor of his candidate,
but even with this advantage a bungler
might have made sorry work of it. He
cauie out of the canvass with the op
iiouents of his candidate luyal and en
thusiastic supporters ot the nominee of
the con mention.
The Minnesota state convention was
held at Si. Paul last Wednesday and
the following state ticket placed in
nomination:
For Governor—David M. Clough of
Hennepin county.
For Lieutenant Governor—John L.
Gibbs of Freeborn county.
For Secretary of State—Albert Berg
of Chisago county.
For »tate Treasurer—-Attgust T. Koer
ner of Meeker county.
For Attorney General—Henry W.
Ghilda of Ramsey county.
A "Bule or ltuin" Man.
Howard Press: Had Senator Petti
grew dominated the Huron convention—
us he desired and attempted to do
there would have been a walk-out of
eight delegates instead of one at St.
Louis last week, There is little doubt
that the senator has been planning for
two years, and possibly four, to deliver
tlie republican party of South Dakota
over to the silver miners. The first real
check he received in his attempt was at
Pierre during the legislative session ot
'&5, when, soon alter his re-election, he
attempted to commit the party in this
state to free silver, by the passage of a
joint resolution in favor ot the free,
unlimited and independent coinage of
the white metal. His failure to get the
resolution through fairly infuriated him
and rom that time he has abused with
out stint the legislature which honored
him with a re-election. His policy of
rule or ruin has cost the party more
votes in this state than any other one
cause. The party has lost nothlag by
(his withdrawal.
flenouces Populism.
W. E. Bauch in the Iiritton Daylight
or June 16: I have voted the populist
ticket lor the past six years, and I have
made up my mind after careful consid
eration that 1 have voted that ticket for
the la*t time. It has become evident to
my mind that the managers of that party
ure managing the party affairs for the
officers and '.he money they get out of
them, and I am thoroughly disgusted
with their dishonest methods. Here
after you will find me working and vot
ing in the ranks of the republican party,
the party that advocates protection to
the farmers and workingmen of this
country. am for McKinley and pro
tection. I am opposed to teaching the
rising generation to despise our govern
ment and everything else that stands lor
the advancement and betterment of the
conditions of the couniy, and that is
what the populist papers and leaders
are doing, and that seems to be their
whole aim. I am only an adopted
citizen of this country, hut I stand by mv
country's flag. I want no anarchy in
Ittine.
So«nd Money Declaration.
The following resolution, adopted by
the Boston Merchants' association on
March 15, is a sample of tho resolutions
raid declarations being made by differ
ent business interests in many parts of
the country:
Tti •solved, Thnt tho continued agitation for
freo coinage of silver btaiulu in tin- way of a
revival cf confidence and Imsinos.s prosperity
aa& results in »n normoua cost to tho people.
The interest j.uid on government bonds is
illy ii M^all part of tho cost. All persons en
l.s.irc 1 in farming, manufacture or trade,
viK)lhr producers or earners, are
vita'ly interested in securing tho permanence
of U. old standard value upon which tho
ljU£iir.«'sH of this country i.i transacted. It i.s of
i.rr^r r. import'-'-nco thr.t this question be im
u:d finally r.moved from the sphere
cf pMiitics. We dimcnd from each of tho j'riat
I»clil!-Tl parties n sincere declaration by its
cunvi nticn in favor of inaint !inint the poll
.f l.-d.srd, ho r.r, quiver,".! that it cannot bo
interpreted in two ways. Wo urge all citizons
i u .iiu in a vi^oror.s effort to bring about
the sel ection delegates to the political *on
Ycutiuns cf both parties who will pledge them
f}.''l\*i'.s to advocato eiear and distinct platform
'U',tcr :ncf9 in favor ko providing for tho
raui:.tenance of tl e gold standard that its nafe
ity lnll be freo from Lr.y shadow of doubt,
%.rd vho will not tolerate doubtful phrases or
'V: pr:'unions for tho nuke of securing votes from
cf the frc rcfaftge of silver.
Tariff
We have a copy ot "Tariff Facts,"
published by the protective tariff league^
containing facts ami figures relative to
protection, and a comparison of prices
and trade under the McKinley and
Wilson law. It is a comprehensive and
handy volume with a fund of informa
tion. Any person desiring the book for
reading can get it at this office and re
turn when through with it.
Note (lie Point.
"Farmers who are told that the low
price ot all their products is solely due
to a common cause—the decline in sil
ver—shoukl note that the fall in prices
has not been uniform, as it would be if
this theory were correct Commercially
speaking, corn is convertible into pork,
because a farmer can tell to a pound
just how much weight will be added to
bis hogs by feeding them a given quan
tity ot the grain. Hence the constant
ratio between the prices of these two
commodities. Until recently a pound of
pork would always exchange in the
markets for a pound of cotton, and
when the lnrmer sees that it now takes
two and a half pounds of pork to buv
one pound of cotton he should perceive
the fallacy of the statement that the
price ot'all his products is indissolubly
bound up with that obtainable for the
white metal."—New York Herald
Fcttigfrew Sized up*
Mr. Pettigrew is essentially a boss, and
by practice and inclination a plunger in
business as well as politics. Impatient ot
opposition and intolerant of restraint, he
could not abide the decision of the party
with reference to his especial hobby, nor
yet be content, like thousands of con
scientious believers in free silver, to ac
cept the many good things tho Republi
can partv has to offer and strive in the
meantime to secure the lareest recogni
tion for silver from the party that has
put upwards of 500,000,000 of silver dol
lars into circulation within twenty-five
years. The senator has not learned the
lesson of toleration, and respect for the
opinions of other people has little part
his make up. With his peculiar
mentality and increasing physical weak
ness, it was only a question of time when
he and the party which made him
should reach the division of the two
ways. It silver had not been the bone
of contention, it would have been some
thing else. As tar as the eflect upon
the party in this state is concerned, the
News believes the senator's final flop
will result in good. For nearly a year
and a halt he has been fighting the party
from within its breastworks. Now that
he has placed himself outside, his utter
ances cannot be quoted as coming from
a Republican, and there is no reason to
believe any considerable number will
follow his fortunes as a political guerilla
and a wanderer from the house of his
fathers.—Aberdeen News.
DEJIOCftACY'S DOOM,
Free Silver Declaration Likened to
a Dentil Warrant.
Philadelphia Times (deni).
The democracy has not a record or a
tradition prior to the present silver craze
that does not record heroic devotion to
honest money. For the sixty years be
fore its demoralization by civil war it was
the one party of the country that taught
and maintained the gold standard ot
value, and gold as the money of the
country, to which every other form of
circulating medium must be subornated.
It yielded largely to the greenback craze,
and later has been swept from its moor
ings in the south and west by the free
silver fanaticism that is today organized
against honest values, against the rights
of property, and that embraces in its
slimy ranks every shade of destruction
iste and revolutionists down to an
archists.
This is the issue that must be met and
determined at Chicago. Today the
chances seem largely against the suc
cess of the right, but courage vanquished
cowardice at fct. Louis and gave the re
publicans an honest money deliverance
that none can misunderstand and like
courage and earnest effort may halt the
tide of repudation that is now surging
against the democratic battlements.
With a declaration in favor of the gold
standard at Chicngo, the money question
would be entirely eliminated from the
great battle of 189G, and the patriotic
citizens of every laith pould be freo to
follow their own judgment in deciding
the important economic questions which
are go directly involved. If Chicago
shall falter in the support of honest
money, there will be but one party
the Held that the friends of national
honor and national credit can turn to
and all other questions must be subordi
nated to the supreme issue of maintain
ing public and private credit, thus assur
ing our commercial and industrial pros-%
perity. There are great issues which
should he considered in this struggle,
but which must be entirely overlooked
until the credit of the nation shall be so
securely established at home and abroad
that it will comuiaud the absolute
of every civilization.
Let the democratic leaders look iho
fact in the face that the Chicago battle
is one of life or death for the democratic
party. It cannot survive the degrada-
tion and shame of submission to repudi
ationists and destructioniste, and it needs
but to take a brave stand, and declare its
faith in the clear terms of Jeflerson and
Jackson, who are its confessed apostles,
to change the aspect of the national con
test in an hour, and assure an honored
and successful future for the party.
The crossroads have been reached lor
democracy—the roads which point to
dishoner and death, and to honor aud
power, and the highest tribunal of the
democratic party must choose between
them.
NATIONAL Ui:i( IIMCAN
IOIIM.
For the first time since the civil war
the American people have witnessed the
calamitous consequences of full and un
restricted democratic control of the
government. It has been a record of
unparalleled dishonesty, dishonor and
disaster. In administrative manage
ments it has ruthlessly sacrificed indis
pensable revenue, entailed an unceasing
deficit, eked out ordinary current expen
ses with borrowed money, piled up the
public debt by £202,000,000 in time ot
peace, forced an adverse balance of trade,
kept a perpetual menace hanging over
the redemption fund, pawned American
credit to alien syndicates and reversed
all the measures and results of success
ful republican rule. In the broad effect
of its policy it has precipitated panic,
blighted industry and trade with pro
longed depression, closed factories, re
duced work and wages, halted enter
prise and crippled American production,
while stimulating foreign production for
thejAmerican market.
Every consideration of public safety
and private mterest demands that the
government shall be rescued from tho
hands of those who have shown them
selves incapable of conducting it with
out disaster at home and dishonor
abroad, and restored to the party which
for thirty years administered it with
unequaled prosperity and safety. And
in this connection we heartily endorse
tlie wisdom, patriotism and the- success
of the administration ot President Harri
son
We renew and emphasize our alle
giance to the policy of protection as the
bulwark ot American industrial inde
pendence and the foundation of Ameri
can development and prosperity. This
true policy taxes foreigu products and
encourages home industry and it puts
the burden of revenue on foreign goods
it secures the American producer it
upholds the American standard of wages
for the American workingmen It puts
the lactory by the side of the farm and
makes the American farmer less depend
ent on foreign demand and price it
diffuses general thrift, and founds the
strength ot all on the strength of each.
In its reasonable application it is just,
fair and impartial, equally opposed to
foreign control and domestic monopoly
to sectional discrimination and individ
ual favoritism.
We denounce the present domocratic
tariff as sectional, injurious to the public
credit and destructive to business enter
prise. We demand such an equitable
tariff on foreign imports which come
into competition with American products
as will not only furnish adequate rev
enue for the neccessary expenses of the
government but will protect American
labor from degradation to the waure level
of other lands. We are not pledged to
any particular schedules. The question
of rates is a practical question to be
governed by tho conditions of the time
and of production, the ruling and un
compromising principle is the protec
tion and development ot American labor
and industry. The country demands a
light settlement, and then it wants rest.
W e believe the repeal of the recipro
city arrangements negotiated by the
last republican administration was a
national calamity, and we demand their
renewel and extension on such terms as
will equalize our trade with other na
tions, remove the restrictions which now
obstruct the sale of American products
of our farms, forests and factories.
Protection and reciprocity are twin
measures of republican policy, and go
hand in hand. Democratic rule 1ms
recklessly struck down both, and both
must be re-established. Protection for
what we produce free admission for the
necessaries of lite which we do not
produce 'reciprocal agreements of mu
tual interests which gain open markets
for us in return for open markets to
others. Protection builds up domestic
industry and trade, and secures our own
market lor ourselves reciprocity builds
up foreign trade and finds au outlet for
O'tr surplus.
H'e condemn the present administra
tion for not keeping faith with the 6Ugar
producers of this country. The republi
can party favors such protecti n as will
lead to the production on Am u i an soil
otall the sugar which the American
p#ple use and for which the pay other
countries
more than 8100,000,000 an
nually.
To all our product*, to those ot the
mine and
the shop
A e i a n
can
PLAT-
tbe full Text of tho Republican
Plaltorm as Adopted at St.
J.otiiM la!t Wri'h is as
i ullow
The republicans of the United States,
assembled by their representatives in
national convention, appealing for the
popular and historical justification of
their claims to the matchless achieve
ments of thirty years of republican rule,
earnestly and confidently address them
selves to the awakened intelligence, ex
perience aud conscience of their country
men in the following declaration of facts
and principles:
the tield as well as those of
and the factory- to hemp, lo
trust. wool, the product of the great industry,
sheep husbandry, as well as to the fin
ished wooleus of the uiill-we promise
the most ample proiection.
We favor restoring the early Ameri
can policy of discriminating duties lor
the upbu.lduii! ot our meichant marine
and ttie piotection ot our shipping inter
ests in the foreign earning trade, so that
ships—the product ot Ameri­
labor, einplojed in American ship
yards, sailing under tho stars aad stupes,
ar.d manned, officered and owned by
Americans—may regain the currying of
our foreign commerce.
The republican party is unreservedly
for sound money. It caused the enact
ment ot tho law providing for tho re
Hiimption of specie payments in 18»),
Hince then every dollar has been as good
as gold. We aie unalterably opposed
to the free coinage of silver except by
international agreement with the lead
ing commercial nations of the world,
which we pledge ourselves to promote,
and until such agreement can be obtain
ed the existing gold standard must be
preserved. All our silver aud paper
currency must he maintained at parity
with gold and we favor all measures de
signed to maintain inviolably 'heobliga
tions oi the United States and all our
money, whether coin or paper, at the
present standard, the standard of the
most enlightened nations of the earth.
The veteraus ot the union army de
serve anil should receive fair treatment
and genorous recognition. Whenever
practicable, they should be given the
preference in the matter of employment
and they are entitled to the enactment
of such laws as are best calculated to
secure the fulfillment of the pledges
made to them in the dark days of the
country's peril. We denounce the
practice in the pensions bureau, so reck
lessly and unjustly carried on by the
present administration of reducing pen
sions and arbitrarily dropping names
froir the rolls as deserving the severest
condemnation of the American people.
Our foreign policy should be at all
times vigorous and dignified, and all our
interests in the western hemisphere care
fully watched and guarded. The
Hawaiian Elands should be controlled
by the United States and no foreign pow
er should be permitted to interlere with
them the Nicaragua canal should be
built, owned and operated uy the United
States, and Ify the purchase of the Dan
ish islands we should secure the proper
and much needed naval station in the
West Indies.
The massacres in Armenia have arous
ed the deep symputhy and just indigna
tion of the American people, and we
believe the United States should exercise
all the influence it can properly exert to
bring these atrocities to an end. In Tur
key, American residents have been ex
posed to the greatest dangers and
American property destroyed. There
and everywhere. American citizens and
American property must be absolutely
protected at ml hazards and at any cost.
We reassert the Monroe doctrine in its
fullest extent and we reallirin the right
of the United States to give the doctrine
force by responding to the appeals of any
American state tor friendly intervention
in case of European encroachment. We
have not interfered and shall not inter
fere with the existing possessions of any
European power in this hemisphere, but
those possessions must not on any pre
text be extended. We hopefully look
forward to the eventual withdrawal of
the Euorpean powers from this hemi
sphere and to the ultimate union of all
English speaking parts of the continent
by the free consent, of its inhabitants.
From the hour of achieving their own
independence the people of the United
States have regarded with sympathy the
struggles of other American peoples to
CLOTHIN
•'^SSS-:
free themselves from Bum.
nation. We watch with dJ
uig interest the heioic hwt]j',
ban pan iota against crufltv'-"
sion and our besst Jit|,os
full success of their deteri*
for libeity. The governiaen
having lost control ot Cuba
unable to protect the prone
of resident American citizen"
ply with its treaty obligation'
liove the government
0fiie
States should actively use it"
and good officers to restore
give independence to the j*,
The peace and security qI
and the maintenance of its i
lluence among the nations ot'^
demand a naval power ec
wiih its position and respoi,,
therefore favor the comic
nient of the navy and aconi',,
ot harbor and seacoast defei -n
For the protection of the on:
American citizenship aad u
of our workingmen against ti...
petition of low-price labor,
that the immigration laws!).
enforced, aud ho extended us
from entrance to the United
who can neither read nor wiiti
Tne civil service law wsy
the statute book by the
parly, which lias always sust-u*
we renew our repeated deeli.r,,
it shall be thoroughly and h,»
forced and extended* when
able.
We demand that every citia
United Statea nhall he allov-,
one free aud unrestricted bi
auch ballot shall be counted
ed aa cast.
We proclaim '^ur unqualifi-.
nation of the uncivilized at'!
practice, well known as lvn
killing of human beings n.
charged with crime, without
law.
We favor tho creation of
board of arbitration to settk
differences which may arise i
ployers and employed engage
state commerce.
We believe in an immedijiv
the free homestead policy of:
can party aud urge the pas-.,
grets of tho satisfactory fret
measure, which has already
house and is now pending in
We are now receiving the
largest and most complete
assortment of
MENS and BOYS CL
Ever displayed in
n
Wo favor the admission of fh
ing territories at the earliest i
dale having due regaul to tr.t
of the people of the terntori-b
United States. All the h'u-r
appointed tor the territories s
elected from lona fide resul :.
and the right of self-govemm
be accorded as far as prac'.
believe the citizens of Al«--*
have representation in the it
the United States, to the en 1
ful legislation should te (ivi
sympathize with all wise aiM
etforts to lesson and prevent
intemperance and promoter
The republican party ism
rights of monen. Protect^,
can industries includes
tunities, equal pay for etjun
protection to the home. W
admission of women to wiil-r
usetullness, and welcome It'
tion in rescuing the countrj !r
cratic and populistic mif-i
and misrule.
Such are the principles ai.'
the republican party. By I-1'
we will abide and the-"
we will put into execution,
them the considerate judjr,,
American people. Confiih'
tho history of our great ptri\
justice of our cause, we
platform and our candidate?:
assurance that the election
victory to the republican part
periiy to the people of the
Milbank,
and we are selling these
goods at prices lower
ever. We have all sizes
and various styles and
qualities, and can suit your
taste and fit you to a
nicety.
If you want anything in
the clothing line don't fail
to call on us and examine
this new stock of
than
and SUMMER
It is no trouble but a
pleasure to show these
goods, and you aae invited
to call- and
examine
whether you buy or tlo
not.