JNO. T. BRHDY,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
And Dealer in All Kinds of
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware ui Biassonds.
Engraving on all Goods purchased of me
Free of Charge.
|3F“Sperial attention will be
given all kinds of Repairing
in my line, and satisfaction
guaranteed. Repairing of fine
watches a specialty.
solicit your trade and
invite you to call and exam
ine my new stock. Remember
the place—Sol Lewis’ Dry
Goods Emporium.
In Sol. Lewis’ Dry Goods Emporiumy
FORREST CITY, ARK.
.
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A Beaietiful Line of Bottled Goods.
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FORREST CITY, ARK.
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L. R. GROBMYER,
Proprietor of the
CITY MEAT 3IARKET
West Side North Washington Street.
Keeps Fresh Meats of all kinds and Gantio in season. Buys and sells Live
Stock, paying the highest Market Price for Hogs and Cattle. Your
trade and inquiries solicited.
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We are Sole Agents for the Old Canadian Rye
Whisky. Everything Urst-elass. and a share of the
public patronage is invited. Fair and courteous
treatment guaranteed to all.
MODEST CLAIMS OF SILVERITES.
Conservative t'.atlmate ot the Standing of
the Htatea.
We have on several occasion* directed
•ttcntion to the extravagant claims
made by the republicans of states and
electoral votes wherewith they expect,
or profess that they expect, to land
Hanna's man in the white house. The
claims have been uniformly so out
rageous that argument in connection
with them was out of the question;
the only way to treat them as they de
terred was to laugh at them.
Within the last two or three day*,
however, the representatives of the free
silver democracy have tried their hand
at the same business, and they have
compiled a list which, from its unmis
takable modesty and conservatism,
must challenge the respect of the re
publicans themselves. Here is the roll
of states with their electoral votes
which they pronounce to he "absolutely
safe" for the Bryan and Sewall ticket:
Alabama . 11
Arkansas . 3
California. 3
Colorado . 4
Florida . 4
Georgia . 13
Idaho. 3
Kansas . 10
Kentucky . 13
Louisiana . 3
Mississippi . 3
Missouri. IT
Montana . 3
Nebraska . 3
Nevada . 3
North Carolina. 11
North Dakota. 3
Oregon . 4
South Carolina. 3
South Dakota. 4
Tennessee . II
Texas . 13
T’tah . 3
Virginia . II
Washington. 4
Wyoming . 3
Total.M3
That is, without exception, the most
“likely" list that we have hitherto seen
compiled on the free silver side; the
■tatca that are claimed in it are. every
THE VITAL POINT.
Shall W# Vote for a tioeernment by
or • (internment by Money?
The American people will soon go
to the polls and decide the issues that
are now dividing them. The most con
spicuous of these issue*, the one about
vdhieh there is more writing and talk
ing than about all others, iathe money
question. But important as thnt ques
tion is, there is another of incalculably
deejier moment to this republic. The
supreme issue before the republic is:
' Shall this nation be ruled by it*
money or its men?
On the one side we have McKinley,
backed by the concentrated wealth of
the country. Every trust on which I
class legislation in the interest of the
rich and influential confers the privi
lege of taxing the masses for private
profit; every syndicate that has made,
or hopes to make, millions by raiding
the treasury of t.hie United States;
every combination of capital that sees
gain to itself in the contraction of the
currency; every rich man who has
come to think that the government
should tie run for the benefit of him
self and others like him—every one
of these elements is striving for the suc
cess of the republican candidate. The
accumulated wealth of the country is
working by every means, fair and foul,
for the election of McKinley.
On the other side we have Bryan,
whose only strength is his cause ami
himself. Bis appeal ia straight to the
people on the principles for which he
stands. Be asks no quarter from the
trusts. Be defies selfish wealth and
challenges it to exert, to the utmost its
jower to corrupt, to coerce and to con
fuse the issue by controlling the voice
of the press. Be. liega for no man's
vote who does not think it best foT the
country to give it to him. Be urges
the people to study the questions at ia
HAS IT COME TO THIS t
one of them, strongly bimetallic, and
there is not any reason to doubt but
that every one of them will help the
democratic ticket on its road to vic
tory.
Two things will be observed in the
list that are striking. The one thing
is that, contrary to all precedents in
such cases, a claim is not made for the
full 224 votes which constitute a major
ity of the electoral college vote; and the
other thing is that not one of the big
states of New York, Ohio, Illinois or
Indiana is claimed, although the com
mittee has good reason to believe that
all of the three last named w ill go for
Bryan.
The 26 states included in the above
table are to be supplemented by the
other four state*, of Delaware with
three vote*, Maryland with eight votes,
Minnesota with nine votes; and the
previous 203 votes which thedemocratic
committee pronounce to be “absolutely
safe” for Bryan, swelled by the 26 fur
ther vote* of the four btates just
named, which the committe pronounce
to be “reasonably certain” for the free
silver ticket, will give the 224 votes*
necessary to elect, w ith five to spare.
But while the committee give out
this list of states and electoral votes
as the list on w hich they expect to win,
they do not by long odds convey an in
timation, or even squint toward the
Idea, that these are all the states that
the democrats are likely to carry. They
contend that the Bryan ticket has a
thoroughly good fighting chance in
Illinois, Indiana and Michigan, and a
poorer chance in Ohio and Iowa. New
York, ow ing to the detestable treach
ery of Senator Hill, who cold-blood
edly but successfully “queered” the
democratic state convention, the com
mittee appears to have abandoned alto
gether, just as green-eyed i>oliticians
like Blackburn and Dorman have done.
But as New \ ork is not necessary
to democratic success, its loss may be
contemplated with equanimity; the
free silver ticket will win in a canter
without its assistance.—N. O. Tirnes
Dcmocrat.
-No candidate for the presidency
was ever maligned as Mr. Bryan has
been, but he lias not lost, his temper and
goes right ahead with his effective talks
to the people. The slanderers are not
accomplishing their object.—N. Y\
Journal.
-Every time another of those 1P90
free coinage letters turns up. poor Maj.
i McKinley cursoR the man that invented
! I*n and ink.—Albany Arjrus.
buc and then vote as their knowledge
direct*. His is a brave, a frank, a ra
tional, a manly and a truly American
appeal.
Bry an Bpeaks for the welfare of the
industrious many; McKinley for the
welfare of the opulent few.
Is there a thoughtful man in the
whole I'nited State* who does not
know that the greatest danger which
is threatening this republic is the
steadily grow ing power of conscience
less money? Does not every thought
ful man feel that unless the grip of
wealth upon out government shall tw
looaened we must ultimately have a
republic in naoue and an oligarchy in
fact?
Citizens equally honest differ sincere
ly on the currency question. Silver
men think the single gold standard a
potent cause of our industrial distress;
gold men think that bimetallism would
increase rather than lessen that dis
tress. But honest Americans should
be agreed in believing that a presiden
tial election carried by the trusts and
syndicates, under the leadership of
Mark Hanna, would be immeasurably
more disastrous and dishonoring to tine
United States than the retention or in
troduction of any monetary system.
Lve-ry oitizen before he goes to
the ballot box will, if he be intelligent
and patriotic, ask himself the vital
question:
“Shall 1 vote for government by men,
or for government by money?”—K. Y.
Journal.
-Mr. Hanna t>egan his career as tiM
manager of a political trust by saddling
McKinley with his syndicate; he fol
lowed this by saddling the republican
national conv ention w ith McKinley, and
crowned his work by saddling the re
publican t>arty with a crushing load of
millionaire finance committees. The
defiance of public decency and popular
sentiment Into which the syndicate boss
has led the republican party has never
been equaled in the history of politics.
The republicans realize their blundet
now. They would give much to be rid
of their mortgaged candidate and his
IKilitical reeeiveia.—St. Louis Republic.
-The Binghamton Republican
quotes an act of 1873 to prove that the
silver dollar in our currency lias a
“gold backing.” The sliver dollar has
been standing up since 1873. Prior to
1873 it stood up, too, but between these
two periods it had no standing in the
currency. What held up the silver dob
lar from 17'.)? to 1893?—Binghamton (M.
Y) Leader.
CROWLEY RIDGE INSTITUTE!
FORREST CITY, ARKANSAS
TEAOKBR9_—
High School. Mrs. C. R. Ross.
Intermediate and Primary. Miss Irsns Rrssrwin,
M usic. Miss Floy Ross. • |
Elocution and Physical Culture, Mrs. B. I. Adklni
Tbis is a Graded School, fully equipped for the thorough education of both mu,,
In addition to the Common School Branches taught In the Primary and Uiera>
diate Department*, clause* will be ■ustained in the Coliegiute Department, at ffll|**g
A'gebra. Geometry. Trigonometry. Physical Geography. Botany, Physic*. Cbtm|*try
Rhetoric, General History, Civil Government, Latin. Literature and Psychology
TUITION, per Month—Primary, 12; Intermediate. §2 50; Collegiate, 13 pJW,
bl* In ndvanee mile*' otherwise agreed.
Music. Art. Elocution and Modem Languages, at usual rate*.
Pupils enrolled last term..270. Term begins September 14, 1898.
For particular*, adore**
Mrs. C. R. ROSS, Principal,
Forrest City, Arkansas
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North Washington Street, Forrest City.
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