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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27. 18H1.
The latest from Washington is to the
effect that the National convention will
come to either Omaha or Minneapolis.
Either will be handy to South Dakota.
The German citizens of Sioux City
have recently felt called upon to hold a
public mass meeting and pass resolu
tions to the effect that the published
expressions of the Volksfreund. a Ger
man paper in that town, were so smut
ty. obscene and immoral as to be uufit
to be read in decent society.
So many different and conflicting in
terviews have been primed from time to
time purporting to be Senator Petti
grew's views on public affairs that it is
a satisfaction to run across one so evi
dently authentic as that reprinted today
from the pen of one of the best known
and most reliable political correspond
ents in New York.
Hon. J. S. Clarkson. at present presi
dent of the National Republican League,
has been chosen to succeed Senator
Quay as chairman of the National
Committee. With a western chairman
and a western location for the conven
tion the Republicans ought to enter up
on the Presidential campaign with the
most brilliant prospects and with the
liveliest enthusiasm.
Later returns from Chairman dough
of the central committee show Col. Jol
ley's plurality to be 3.100 instead of 2.
931 as reported by wire the other day.
The total vote was 30.63"), of which Jol
ley got 17.776 or 1.000 more than 5o per
cent, of Gamble's vote last year: Smith
got 14,616 as against 24.907 for Levitt
last year: and Woods 7,373 or 10,000 less
than were cast for Quigley last year.
As we have before remarked the Re
publicans had a good margin to go on
and therefore did not feel the urgent
need of turning out. The Independents
made a vigorous campaign and had the
undoubted aid of the Democrats in cer
tain localities, and yet fel: short 10.000
votes from last year: while the straight
Democrats realized it was a forlorn
hope and nearly two-thirds of them
staid at home. If there is any consola
tion for the third party in these figures
they are welcome to it.
We are advised that the World's
Fair Commission has begun a systemat
ic canvass of the state with a view to
raising the $50,000 which it has been
estimated will be necessary to give
South Dakota proper representation in
the World's Fair. Our candid opinion
upon this matter is that as the chosen
representatives of the people registered
their deliberate judgment to the effect
that this state does not need such rep
esentation, those of us who have some
pride and interest in the matter can
well afford to abide by that decision
rather than break our respective public
spirited backs in trying to raise the
necessary amount. This may not be a
patriotic view to take of the subject but
it strikes us as a logical one. However, if
the other counties are going into the
enterprise of advertising the state for
the benefit of a lot of fellows who re
fuse to lift their hands to help them
selves, Davison county cannot afford to
hang back.
The entire North west has reason to
congratulate itself upon Ihe selection of
Minneapolis as the place of holding the
Republican National Convention for
reasons of local pride, irrespective of
party: while for the Republican party
there is every cause to be gratified that
the wise men of the national committee
grasped so thoroughly the needs of the
situation as to give the great west this
recognition. The new states of the
Union are naturally Republican bjt
lack the discipline of years of participa
tion in national politics, and the stimu
lus of the proximity of the convention
will serve in a great measure to over
come this lack. As to the ability of the
Twin Cities to accommodate the con
vention there is no question whatever,
for the extensive hotel facilities of the
two towns will be handsomely supple
mented by the several summer resorts
within easy distance of the convention
headquarters. The Dakotas in partic
ular will appreciate the location to the
extent of turning out the greater por
tion of their able-bodied citizens when
the occasion comes. And this conven
tion promises to be at once the largest
and most important in many respects in
the history of the party.
If Charley McCoy wants to be gov
ernor of Oklahoma we hope he will get
there.
How would Polk and Loucks sound
for the third party ticket next year—if
the latter were eligible The attempted
boom for Ivyle would not be anywhere.
The question naturally arises, will
Minneapolis and St. Paul resume their
oldtime hostility in event the former
fails to secure the national convention
Mayor Palmer of Sioux City has
made another reform spurt, and has or
dered the gamblers and prostitutes of
the town to go out of business. But he
still has a warm spot in his heart for
the illegal saloon.
The difficulty over the representation
arose from the failure of the state sec
retaries to report the falling off in
membership, which has occurred in
various states—especially Texas
and Mississippi, where there is
great opposition to McCune and the
sub-treasury plan. This neglect was in
tentional. having been ordered by the
National league on account of the det
rimental effects such reports would
have on the order.
Thus reads the report of the proceed
ings of the recent Alliance gathering
in Indianapolis. If ever there was a
confession of weakness on the part of
the leaders of the organization, who
have finally succeeded in swinging it
bodily into politics, it is found in the
above statement, of a piece with the
general campaign of false pretense
with which the third party leaders
have tried to hold in line the rank and
file. Such tactics as this, coupled with
the intolerance exhibited in the sauie
convention in refusing even to hear
protests against the sub-treasury meas
ure. can have but one result and that
the total wrecking of an organization
which at one time promised the accom
plishment of satisfactory results to the
class in whose interest it was conceived.
Encouragement and VTi rn
Editor Bushnell in Dakota Farmer:
Wherever we have been during the
past 90 days we have found the same
general feeling of satisfaction among
farmers over the result of this season's
harvest and greater confidence in the
future outlook. We can see but one
probable danger ahead, and that is that
this year's success may lead to a great
reliance again on our staple crops, thus
leading once more to a rapid increase of
acreage that prices will again be forced
down. The recent years have been
weaning us away from the one crop idea,
and we should still keep in mind that
our best interests will be served by di
versifying our production in every pos
sible manner.
Money in The Leading: Xatiou*.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: The
statement which has just been isssued
by the director of the mint ought to re
ceive the careful and intelligent atten
tion of the gentlemen who are telling us
that the volume of the country's circu
lating medium is smaller than that of
any other of the great nations. In this
document figures are presented showing
that, at the latest period for which data
have been obtained, the stock of coin
and its paper substitutes in circulation
was, per capita, $18.33 in the United
Kingdom, $18.38 in Germany, $43.29 in
France am *25.30 in the United States.
These are the leading industrial and
commercial countries of the world, and
none of them equals the United States
in the amount of currency per inhabi
tant except France. That country leads
us, but the figures of its circulation
would be misleading without explana
tion.
Checks, drafts and the various other
money-economizing contrivances which
are so freely employed in the United
States and Great Britain are compara
tively unknown in France, [n the Uni
ted States, as shown by inquiries made
by the comptroller of the currency,
money is employed in only about 4 per
cent, of the dealings made through the
banks. 90 per cent, being effected by
the devices which we have referred to.
But in France in the great majority of
the business transactions the actual
money passes from hand to hand. The
conditions, that is to say, in this respect,
are totally and widely different in that
country from those prevailing in this.
Here $1 does the work that S2 or $3 is
needed to do in France, and does it
quicker, safer and cheaper.
There is not even the smallest parti
cle of truth in the assertion that the
supply of money in active circulation in
the United States is inadequate to meet
business requirements. No person
whose judgment on any important fi
nancial question lias weight with anv
reasonable being has ever made or in
dorsed such a charge. The men who
say that the country is behind England
or the other great commercial countries
in this respect have either never taken
the trouble to look at the facts when pre
sented in the papers, or are too ignor
ant to understand them when clearly
presented or too prejudiced to believe
them. Unhappily such men are still nu
merous enough, in the guise of free sil
ver or unlimited legal tender paper ad
vocates, to decide the elections in cer
tain states and influence legislation,
but their absurdities and follies are
quickly exposed when tested by the ac
tual conditions.
AMONG THE BRETHREN.
Editor Sage of the St. Lawrence
Journal was tied up with the rheuma
tism last week but says:
But be on the lookout for us after we
get over the attack—if ever we do. We
promise you a feast of startlers then,
with basso profundo accompaniment.
The Woonsocket News threatens to
swear to its circulation hereafter.
The Free Press savs Pierre has never
lost her nerve, which is doubtless true,
thanks to the untiring efforts of her pa
pers to keep a stiff upper hp.
The Chamberlain Democrat says:
A good Democratic daily that can be
received on the same day that it is Dub
lished is greatly desired in this section
of the state.
W. T. Drips, late foreman of the
Sioux Falls Press, now o*vns the Kim
ball Index and will take hold Dec. 1st.
The Kimball Graphic with justifiable
self-complacency says that with four
papers that town will have about three
more than it needs. Tinan has just
added a $100 type-writing machine to
his outfit, and will doubtless soon sport
a stenographer. 5
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The ownership of the Artesian Advo
cate seems to be in much doubt. Doug
las claims he will hang on to it while
R. E. Dowdell says he will own it soon.
The Aberdeen News is devoting a
part of its time to the development of
the sugar beet industry in that section.
i.K
Without licpe himself the Plankin
ton Standard man is charitable enough
to say:
Rev. Wheeler is assisting at an M. E.
revival in Mitchell. It is hoped that
his eloquence will save from the "wrath
to come" the editors and the honorables
in that city.
1
The Madison Leader thinks that the
Republicans cannot expect to win a nat
ional campaign next year on a week's
spurt as they did this year. And the
Leader is right.
The Parker New Era is having
trouble with its county commissioners
who refuse to allow its printing bills.
Editor Weeks comes to the front with
the Kimballite, the fourth paper in his
town.
The Howard Press makes the follow
ing keen point which will be apprecia
ted by the fraternity all over the state:
The World's Fair Commission of
South Dakota is out with an address
"To the editors of South Dakota news
papers." asking for a great amount of
gratuitous work. The request is all
right and the commissioners may rest
assured the editors will do their share
—and more—cheerfully. But The
Press is also in receipt of a 20-page
pamphlet of which 10,000 copies were
issued and the work bears the imprint,
"Brown & Saenger. Printers." This
firm. Brown & Saenger, is one that at
tempts to cut the heart, figuratively
speaking, out of the newspaper job
printing offices and can in no way aid
the commission in the manner reques
ted of "the editors of South Dakota
newspaper."
We hope the accomplished editor of
the Pierre Capital will get sufficiently
rested before long to resume work on
the editorial page.
A Pure Baking: Powder.
A baking powuer that can be depend
ed upon to be free from lime and alum
is a desideratum in these days of adul
terated food. So far as can be judged
from the official reports, the "Royal"
seems to be the only one yet found by
chemical analyses to be entirely with
out one or the other of these substances,
and absolutely pure. This, it is shown,
results from the exclusive use by its
manufacturers of cream of tartar speci
ally refined and prepared by patent
processes which totally remove the tar
trate of lime and other impurities. The
cost of this chemically pure cream of
tartar is much greater than any other,
and it is used in no baking powder ex
cept the "Royal," the manufacturers of
which control the .patents under which
it is refined.
Dr. Edward G. Love, formerly analyt
ical chemist for the U. S. Government,
who made the analyses for the New
York State Board of Health in their in
vestigation of baking powders, and
whose intimate knowledge of the ingre
dients of all those sold in this market
enables him to speak authoritatively,
says of the purity, wholesomencss, and
superior quality of the "Royal:"
I find the Royal Baking Powder com
posed of pure and wholesome ingredi
ents. It is a cream of tartar powder,
and does not contain either alum or phos
phates, or other injurious substance."
Prof. Love's tests, and the recent of
ficial tests by both the United States
and Canadian Governments, show the
Royal Baking Powder to be superior to
all others in strength and leavening
power. It is not only the most economi
cal in use, but makes the purest, finest
flavored and most wholesome food.
The Knd of the Show.
The big pow-wow at Indianapolis,
held In the interest of the numerous
gentlemen who want the farmers' yote
to help them to the offices, has ended
exactly as everybody knew that it must
and would. The people's party has cap
tured the Alliance, the men who oppose
the sub-treasury scheme have been
snubbed, and there will be a division in
to two wings, each as bitter against the
other as either can be against any out
side opposition. This is a good thing
all round. For. while it multiplies
third party organizations, an'l there
fore makes more offices to go around
among the numerous anxious candi
dates, it helps to demonstrate more
clearly to the farmer the motives of
those who assume his name to con-jure
with, and it removes any ])ossibility
that the third party movement will
play a prominent part in next year's
election.
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
Mt. Vernon.
Charles Boisen has bought the T. E.
Chantry farm of H. H. Garey for $1,400.
Rev. and Mrs. Wood drove to Park
ton Friday, returning Saturday.
Geo. B. Kelsey shipped three cars of
hogs to Sioux City Thursday night.
Thanksgiving will be appropriate!
observed by services in the M.
church at 11 o'clock, aud the Ladies'
Aid society wiil give an oyster supper
in the vestry of the church in the even
ing. There will also be a dance in the
school house hall.
There was a dance out at Henry Kil
burn's Friday. Those who were in at
tendance from town report a good time.
Mrs. E. E. Burns is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. J. M. Pease, of Mitchell.
Mr. and Mrs. S. Dwight, of Mitchell,
and Mr. and Mrs, H. Dwight spent Sun
day with the Hoppock family.
Mrs. Jas. Corey and family left Tues
day for Mason City, Iowa, where they
will make their future home.
Mrs. A. A. Truax is visiting her pa
rents at Bridgewater.
Anton Koch's brother from Wisconsin
is here on a visit.
Mrs. H. H. Garey visited Mitchell
Tuesday.
Prof. Eno carries a very pretty nose
of late while snowballing, some of his
pupils rather got the best of him. Try
again, Prof.
Mrs. H. L. Bras and family and Mrs.
C. C. Bras and family of Mitchell, re
turned home Sunday.
•Miss Lillie Haynes attended the
Swedish concert at Mitchell Tuesday
evening.
"Several of our Mt. Vernon boys are
in Mitchell on the jury this week.
John Chantry shipped two cars of
hogs to Sioux City Tuesday evening.
Baker.
School house No. 3 will close Friday
as Miss Nellie Olson can get a school
nearer home.
Will Bielfeldt returned home last
Monday from Ashton, S. D. .He stated
the best wheat went from 12 to JG bush
els per acre.
Union.
Gotlieb Sharra is the father of a 10
pound boy. He is proud about his boy
as it is the first boy.
Lots of new buildings are going up in
Union, both barns and granaries.
Badger.
A very pleasant entertainment was
given at the Peck school house last
Friday evening, nine orators contesting
for the Demorest medal which was won
by Miss Alta Swartout. There was
also music and recitations by the schol
ars of district No. 1.
Miss Flora Burke is teaching in Blen
den township.
No Tariff Smashing: Now.
New York Sun: We should suppose
that a fair minded free trader would ac
knowledge the truth of these words of
Major McKinley:
"I am convinced that the judgment
of our citizens does not approve the con
stant agitation of the tariff issue in the
face of the fact that it can accomplish
nothing. It must surely be apparent to
all alike that the conditions without
which effective legislation is impossible
do not exist. The Republican Senate
and Republican President are bulwarks
against which free trade forces dash
powerless and, with no immediate pros
pect of a change in these conditions,
t.he only result of continued agitation is
to disturb business and retard enter
prises which the new law designs to en
courage."
Nothing in the way of tariff legisla
tion can be accomplished by the Demo
crats until they have the Presidency
and the Senate and the returns from
Ohio indicate that they are not likely
to win the Presidency and the Senate
by agitating the tariff question. The
tariff as an issue is useless, so far as
practical results in legislation is coi
cerned. For the present the Democrats
might just as well discuss the laws of
gravitation as the McKinley bill.
The Fifty-second Congress can injure
the chances of their party in 1892 by
advancing to an attack upon the tariff
question, hut they can do nothing to
bring about a readjustment, and until
the workings of the law of 1890 are
thoroughly understood there will be no
basis for a new settlement. The coun
try will not follow the tariff smashers
in a leap into the dark.
One doesn't need to be a protectionist
to understand that for the present the
advantage of situation and logic is with
Major McKinley and the Republicans.
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The Secret of Fine Pastry.
Is wholly in using Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder:
The only pure Cream Tarter Powder sold on the market
Other brands contain either ammonia, alum or some other
adulterant. Ammonia or alum powders dry out, make the
dough too porous, leaving a bitter taste, etc.
No agency has assisted so much toward perfection in
cookery as Price's Cream Baking Powder. Its ingredients
are siir.p'e and so blended as to exist in exact chemical pro
portions, so after use there is never any excess of either left in
the food. Iience there can be no impurities whatever left in
the finished food. No-bitter taste, no taint of ammonia, but
food raised with Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder partakes
of the natural sweet flavor of the flour and keeps moist and
fresh for days. This powder possesses qualities peculiar to
it alone. No other makes such delicious,.pastry. No other
contains the white of eggs.
Office and Private Duty.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: The
inscription upon the monument of the
late Henry W. Grady—'He Never
Held or Sought a Public Office''—is cal
culated to teach an erroneous lesson,
and so convey a false impression as to
the duties and responsibilities of Amer
ican citizenship. It is not true, as the
inscription implies, that a man does
best who avoids official service under
all circumstances. Mr. Grady was an
excellent man, but there was nothing
added to his reputation by the fact that
he remained all his life in a private sta
tion. Our form of government includes
the idea that every citizen has a right
not only to accept an office, but also to
strive for it in an honest and reputable
way. Some of our greatest men have
sought political promotion, and the
country has not looked upon such con|the
duct with disfavor. That kind of am
bition may be abused, but the ambition
itself is not wrong. It is the duty of
every citizen to hold himself ready to
act in any public capacity to which he
shall be chosen by the people. The
more capable he may be, the more
reason there is why he should not de
cline. Such men as George Washing
ton and Abraham Lincoln did not deem
it necessary to remain in private life for
the purpose of having the fact inscribed
upon their monuments that they never
held or sought a public office. When
the civil war broke out the man who
was finally to lead the federal armies to
victory asked for a position and was
started upon his splendid career by a
modest appointment Irom the governor
of his state. These cases are except
ional, to be sure, but the principal is
the same as that of less noted ones.
We cannot afford to accept the theory
that a man does himself more honor by
declining office than by accepting it.
That is not in accordance with the
spirit of our political philosophy or the
example of our wisest and best citizens.
The professional office seeker may be
disparaged and discouraged with per
fect. propriety, but that is a different
thing from teaching that officeholding
is discreditable and that a man should
shun it as he would any ordinary source
of contamination. Mr. Grady did not
entertain such a view, and it should
not be proclaimed on his monument.
What's In a Name
A stranger stepped into the land office
Monday forenoon and inquired if the
Receiver was in. The base ball season
having closed he was and he stepped to
the counter.
"Are you Wheeloek':"' asked the
stranger.
"I are." was the reply. "What
might I call your name
"R. U. Wlieelock." {,
"Yes, I said I was," said R. W. "but
what might I call you
"R. U. Wlieelock, I said," replied the
stranger: "I called to see if you had
any of my mail."
•I are Wheeloek" again answered the
Receiver, who began by this time to
wonder what ailed his caller," but I
don't see what that has to do with your
mail."
A sudden light illumined the situa
tion as the stranger threw out his card,
which bore the name "R. U. Wheeloek,"
and R. W. hastened to assure him that
if any mail went wrong because of the
similarity in initials he would see that
it was straightened out.
l'crsonal Liberty Defined.
F.ditor Warnock, in the Jamestown
Capital, thus defines personal liberty:
It is no argument against the prohibi
tion law that men send to Minnesota for
whisky and drink it. This is no viola
tion of the law. If a man thinks his
"personal liberty" requires that he
pickle himself in rot-gut and make a
spectacular fool of himself by getting
drunk, he does not violate the prohibi
tion law by doing so. That law does
not interfere with such "personal liber
ty" in the least. If in his drunken
foolishness or devilish mep.nness or both
he disturbs the peace or infringes upon
the "personal liberty" or somebody else,
other laws will take hold of him, but
not prohibition law. It is one of the
most liberal.laws in regard to personal
liberty there is in the statute books.
The object and purpose of the prohibi
tion law is to do away with the liquor
seller and his saloon. Under its opera
tion the liquor saloon has gone out ot
existence in this state and the liquor
seller has been reduced to a very small
blind-pig down cellar among the rats
and mice with visions of the county jail
constantly flitting before his eyes.
The prohibition law is all right it is
the people who run up against it that
are wrong—see? If a man runs up
against a brick house and stuns his "per
sonal liberty," it isn't the fault of the
brick house is it
RcpubUcans Vermis Reformers.
Vermillion Republican: It is strange
that a Republican Board of County
Commissioners should be necessarv to
protect the county against the «v.
cessiye charges of reform pape
for county printing. Yet such i*
case in Clay county. And the«e
same commissioners belong to the cor
rupt Republican party, so called by the
reform papers, which lead many of their
readers to believe that every Republi
can is corrupt. To accuse is one thing:
practical application of reform is anoth
er thing. With one hand drawing out
column after column purporting to
champion the interests, of Clay county
farmers, and with the other attempting
fraudulently to gain possession of their
hard-earned money stored in the coun
ty treasury for necessary expenses.
These brilliant illuminaries may be ap
parently cheap, but it will be discovered
that the lights for the unenlightened
will receive support in one way if not
another. Theory and practice do not
always go hand in hand, even among
reformers.
Reciprocity :in Protection.
Yankton Press: Tha Democratic press
is fond of asserting that reciprtwity
means nothing more or less than '•free
trade." Even that excellent indepen
dent Democratic paper, the Sioux Falls,
Argus-L-jader, has assisted to the ex
tent of its circulation in spreading this
sentiment. Republicans hold that reci
procity.is protection of the most valua
ble kind, and in support of this position,,
we quote from the "Review of Re
views," a non-partisan international!
magazine, which holds:
The reciprocity policy is upon thu
most rigid lines of protection, and
bears not the faintest reserablanco to
the free trade policy. Protection de
clares that ordinary articles of consump
tion that we do not and cannot well pro
duce should be admitted free. The rec
iprocity idea is that the countries from
which these articles come should in re
turn allow our wares—those which do
not conflict with their home products—
to enter their markets with special ex
emptions. The whole system is one de
signed to encourage our industries and'
foster our commerce. The free trade1
system would arrange tariffs and levy
taxes with the sole purpose of provid
ing the necessary public revenue, and
would keep hands off of industry and
commerce, leaving all those matters to*
private volition.
"Will Close Tlieir Stores,
Tho undersigned will close their- w
Specuve places of business tomorrow at
12 o'clock and remain closed during the
day:
MITCHELL DRY GOODS Co..
L. BECKWITH & SON,
C. C. CHAMPENY,
Jos. HARKER,
P. T. MCGOVERN,
A. GANNON,
SMITH & CONYES,
JACOB BECKER.
The National Convention Settled.
Special to
THK REPUBLICAN:
ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. 24.—The
next Republican National Convention
will be held at Minneapolis, June 7.
On the seventh ballot of the National
Committee the vote stood: Minneapo
lis 29, Cincinnati 35, New York 8.
JI:: AMERICAN PRESS ASS'N.
South Dakota Laud Offices.
Huronite: Hon. W. D. Harlam.
special agent of the United States land:
department, speaks in very high praise
of the management of the South Dakota
land offices. *\r
For Sale.
A good quarter of land partly im
proved. Located very near Ethan.
Can give favorable terms. Inquire of
or address W. S. TOBEY, Mt Vernon.
Wardail is All Right Now.
Watertown News: Wardall now has
a character. It was giren to him b}
the Alliance convention of
sixty-fi^e
men who recently met at Huron.