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I! I 17 ID' A V PS-BURG SiPEK. a'O THEM THAT THEY GO FORWARD. VOL. VI NO 38 PHILLIPSBURG, KANSAS, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1884, Si 50 IN ADVANCE. it m ' t J,L A ,.11 , Vr Phillipsburg Herald. FCBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, BY BISSELL & LIGHTFOOT. EDITORS. Secret Societies. I. O. O. F. Phillipfsburg Lodge No. 165. ineetsevery Wed nesday. Visiting brethren cordially invited to attend. - W. W. Axdersov, .N. G. F, X, M. Dutches, Rec. ceo'y. A. F. and A. M. Phillipsbure Lodge number 184, meets every Fiituday on or before the full moon, visiting brethren cordially invited to atteftd F. T. M. Dutcher.ses'y. . 0. S.Lowe, W M K.of P. . . Cresent Lodge number 42. meets every Mon day evening. Visiting brethren cordially invit ed to ittend. David Mankke O.C. J. Jackson, K of R and S- G. A- R. Pbillil8burjr. Post number 77 meets Saturday after full moon, Visiting comrades always welcome. Frank. Strain, P C. W, Anderson , Adj, Church Directory. M. E. Church Rev, W. R- Allen, every alter nate Sabbuth at 11 o'clock A. M. and74 0 clock P. M. commencing May 6th 1882. rresbyteriau Rev. Theo Bracken every sab bath morning at 11 o'clock. Alternate evenings at 8. Union Babbath School Every Sabbath at 10 o'oclock a. m. , ..... Presbyterian Sabbath School At the church every Sunday at 10 a., m- Union Prayer Meeting Every Thursday evening. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. STATE OIF1 KAUSAS. Governor G. W. Glick! I,ieut. Governor D. W. Finney. Secretary of State James Smith. Auditor K. P. McCabe. Treasurer Sam. T. Howe. Supt. Tub. Instruction. ..H. C. Speer, Attorney General W. A. Johnston. Public Printer... T. Dwight Thatcher. ,T c c J. J- Ingalls. U.S. Senators p B plumb. PHILLIPS COTXZ5TT "ST. district Judge W. H. Pratt- State Senator Geo. H. Case. preventative W. H McBride Ci'k Diat. Court G. A. Spaulding. County Clerk J. W. Lowe. lleg'r of Deeds Ritner Smith. Treasurer .D. L.' Smith. Sherill. - .' Tohn "Woods. Supt. Pub. Instruction. ..C. A. Lewis. Probate Judge H C. Spaulding. County Surveyor W. B. Stubert. ttornev S. W. McElroy. Coroner O W Gaudy ( 1st Dist, i. iuouuou. Commis'rs 2d Dist, -J. H. Close. (SO. Diat,...'r. iu. liisiiop. Sunt. Poor Farm I. E. Dixon. . nutrip. Panrt sits the fourth Mou day in March and fourth Monday in Sentember in regular session. Commissioners Court sits the first Monday in January, the second JMon liv in Anril. the first Monday in July and the first Monday in October, its regular sessions. pi3:iXji,xP3SD3"criec3-- Mayor C. A. Lewis. Police Judge b ranK oiruiu Councilmen: J W. Lowe, S. C Cummings, Chas. Dickey, N. Poling and C. H. Lethugwell. Clerks C. W. Snodgrass. Treasurer G. W. Young. City Marshal B. b Deiph BUSINESS CARDS- C. BRUNER. Tim. - Slxop. Hoofing, Sheeting and Repairing promptly and neatly done. S- C. Cummings. Livery, Feed Sale Stable- Good rigs at reasonable rate?. Wm. Bissell. Real-Estate & Loan Agent- Business betore the U. fe. Land Of fice at Kirwin, acsas, and before the Department at "Washington, D. C, promptly transacted. Central House- E. ALBAUCH, Proprietor. PHILLIPSBUiJG. - KABSAS. Good sample rooms for commercial travelers. Feed stable in connection with house. McELR0Y 8c' MW. ATTORNEYS & COUNSEL ORS AT LAW. PHILLIPSBURG.. - KANSAS Furnish abstracts of title, mak col- ections, and tragsaet a general land and law bufsinesa. j JSi 33 it X r5z mxix r:xviii r.xvii r.xvx pt 7 t7: r in "T' 1 t l j S 3! ri - r o ' o "k s b 6 w I havfi a large list of lands for sale, of which the following is a partial des cription: o No 20. 160 acre3 choice laud, 2J miles from Phillipsburg. Sod buildings, 30 acres under cultivation. Good frame school house J mile from house. Terms, part time, if desired. Price, $850.00 No. 21. 160 acres good land. 4 miles from Phillipsburg. Stone huse, 30 acres under cultivation, one mile from school house. Good neighborhood. Part time, if desired. Price , $800.00. No. 92. 160 acres, 8 miles from Phillipsbnrg, 30 acres under cultivation, some buildings. Mostly smooth land, balance good hay land. Convenient to school. Price $600.00. No. 23. 280 acres, seven miles from Phillipsburg, 60 acres under cultivation , 120 acres of bottom land, 25 acres of timber, mostly walnut and ash, plenty of running water. Splendid farm for stock or grain. Good bargain. Price, $2,000. No. 24. 320 acres, 10 miles from Logan, good prairie lands, sod buildings, 50 acres improved. All farm lands or grass lands. Price, $1,500.00 . No, 27. 160 acres, 12 miles from Alma, 16 miles from Phillipsburg, in Gran ite township, 30 acres under cultivation, 10 acres of timber, running water. Part cash, part on time . Price $800.00. No. 28. 160 acres, 10 miles from Orleans, 18 miles from Phillipsburg, good timber. Prairie Dog Creek crosses the land and furnishes a good water power. Only a small amount of land in cultivation . Cash or part time. Price $650 . No. 29. 160 acres, one and one-half miles from Phillipsburg. Frame house , stable, well, and 40 acres under cultivation. All smooth land. One of the best prairie farms in the county. SDme orchard and forest trees. Price $1500 . THE HERALD! SuLToscxIToe for The HBRAtiD is the leading exponent of the Republican party in this cotinty. Largest circulation of any paper in North-western Kansas. S Pages. 3:3 COium t s. 4 Pajreo- The Herald is published in two forms: First, the Regular Edition, which contains eight pages, gives all the county local and editorial news, and also a general report of all foreign and state news. . Subscription, $1.50. Second, the extra, or Dollar Edition, of four pages, which gives all the county.local and edi torial news. Subscription, $1.00. Eexalci TOTd Offi.ce. LETTER HEADS. POSTERS. STATEMENTS. When ia need cf anythis in the above lice, givo us & call. iliio Tlxe lo-illips- 24 Columns CBERLIN CONVENTION. Hon . J. R. Hamilton knocked out of time on the 17th ballot by H. S. Gran ger, of Phillips couuty, but comes to the scratch with his coat off and sleeves up ready to go to work like a man for the nominee, and the whole Republican ticket. The Senatorial Convention for the 38th district-met in the school house at Oberlin, July 22, 1884, at 11 o'clock a. m. In the absence of the chair map, Jake Wilson, W. P. Dimmick, Secretary, called the convention to order and read the calf!! Judge Adams, of Norton county; placed A L Patchin of Decatur county, in nomination as temporary chairman ; Mr Patchin was unanimously elected. Frank Strain, of N Phillips county, placed A. Hemming, of Rawlins county, in nomination as temporary secretary ; he was unanimously elected. Hon John Bissell, of Phillips, county , moved that a committee of five be ap pointed on order of business. F W Brown, of Rawlins county, moved that a committee of one from each county and one at large be appoint ed on credentials ; carried. LH Thompson, of Norton county, moved that a committee of three be appointed on resolutions ; carried. The chair then appointed the follow ing committees : Credentials F W Brown, Wilson Adams, W H Dimmick , J D Greason , J A Hushes. Order and Rules John Bissell, J W Simmons, Jas Knight, J M Butters, J, D Greason. Resolutions L H Thompson, J L Troup , Albert Hemming. On motion of C A Lewis the conven-. tion adjourned until 2 pm. Convention assembled at 2 o'clock p m, committee on rules and regulations reported, report adopted. Commitee on credentials reported the following : Cheyenne County A M Brenneman; J D Greason , proxy. Rawlins County V H Dimmick, Thomas A Goodin, Albert Hemming, Fritz Brown, James McKnight. Norton County L II Thompson, W Adams , C L Emery, J H Wright, S H Me Vey, B S Miller, Amon Battler , J A bimmons, tt VY Ellis. Phillips County C A Lewis, Frank Strain, J W Lowe, Thomas Davidson, J J Wiltrout, A J Bowman, J W Ryan, J D Matteson, A Kennedy, J Li I roup, Amos Ewel, John Bissell. Decatur County A L Patchin, N W Strong, J W Butters, F P Eno, N A Knowlton, R A Reasoner, W C Ewing, J W Hughes, W W McKay, I L Peck. Committee on resolutions offered the following which upon motion of C A Lewis, who headed the Phillips county delegation, were adopted as read : Resolved, That we fully endorse the sentiments expressed through the plat form adopted by the Republican Nation al Convention at Chicago and the Re publican State platform adopted at To peka. Resolved, That we recognize in the nomination of John A Martin, as the standard bearer of the republican party of Kansas, an able and conscientious man, a brave soldier , an old and hon ored citizen of the State and an earnest worker in the causa of Republicanism ; and we congratulate the State Conven tion in presenting to the people of Kan sas such an elegant ticket as it placed in nomination at Topeka last week. Resolved, That we recognize in the Hon John ' J Ingalls an able and fearless . exponent of the rights of the people, and demand oi our Senator, nominated at this Con vention, to use all honorable means to secure his re-election to the United States Senate. Resolved, That we recognize in our Representative in Congress, the Hon Lewis Hanback, an earnest and indefat igable worker in the interest of the sol diers, of which the Republican party is so largely composed, and we pledge him our earnest support in the coming elec tion. Nominations next being in order , the roll of counties was called and the fol lowing gentlemen placed in nomination : J B Hitchcock and A M Marks, Deca tur county, J R Hamilton was placed in nomination by L H Thompson, in a neat and appropriate speech, followed by C A Lewis, who nominated H S Granger, of Phillips county. First ballot, Gran ger 14, Hamilton 10, Hitchcock 10, Marks 3, Greason 1. Eighth ballot, Granger 14, Hamilton 12, Hitchcock 8, Marks 5. The remainder of the ballots varied but little from the eighth, except the 17th when Granger received 24, Hamilton 13, Hitchcock 1. After the nomination a committee was appointed to wait upon the candidates and invite them to the hall, where Mr Granger thanked the convention for the honor conferred in a short and very approprf ate speech, followed by J R Hamilton, who made a speech which was acknowl edged by all ' to be the best they ever heard in the county. He wsj frequent ly applauded and at the close of his speech was given three cheers and a ti ger. The following Central Committeemen were named from their respective coun ties : Phillips -J D Matteson Rawlins Jas McKnight Cheyenne A M Brennaman Norton J H Simmons Decatur JB Hitchcock After supper quite a crowd assembled in front ot the Oberlin House and list ened to some excellent music by the Oberlin band and speeches by J R Ham ilton C A Lewis and Horace Moulton, who made the boys a little speech and presented them a $10 bill to assist iu buying their new instruments, this was followed by Mr Granger with a like amount. DEMOCRACY'S DEATH STRUG GLE. The Democratic party seems incapa ble of coming squarely before the coun try on a clean-cut issue and measuring strength with the Republican party in the open field. Conscious that there is nothing in its history or motives that will commend it to the thinking, up right voter, it resorts to peurile trickery and catchpenny expedients to win the support it cs¬ hope to command on its own merits. Its candidates for the Presidency for a quarter of a century have been chosen solely on tbe ground of expediency, and its platforms during that time have promised anything and every thing that it was thought would capture votes. They have agreed in but one thing bitter abuse and misrep resentation of Republicanism. The history of the last five Presidential con tests show these facts clearly. In 1864 the Democracy nominated a. Union soldier McClellan who had been removed from his command for incapacity, in the hope of catching votes among Union men who might sympa thize with him ; and he was placed on a platform of tcpperhead" utterances Lincoln was triumphantly elected. In 1868 this scheme was reversed. The candidate was a copperhead" statesman, and the platform was made Union in sentiment thre years after the war was over, Seymour was beaten, and Grant entered the White House. In 1872 the whole party organization and its principles were surrendered to a crowd of Republican bolters, and Gree ley was made the nominee . The spec tacle was an amazing one to see a po litical party pass over the statesmen in its own ranks, men whose lives had been passed in the advocacy of Democ racy, to tae for its standard-bearer a man who had all his life been that par ty's uncompromising enemy an origin al Abolitionist , and one of the founders of the Republican party itself. The platform was made up of equal parts of abuse of Republicanism and general gush on all other topics . Grant was re-elected and Greeley died insane. In 1876 they nominated Tilden, solely because he had done some good work as a reformer of abuses in the Demo cratic government of New York, which abuses had become so outrageous as to make the party a stench in the nostrils of all honest men. They placed him on a platform which was nothing but a yell for 'reform" and an appeal for power. The hollowness of the cry of "reform" and the character of Tilden were both shown up clearly by a most astoundijg attempt to defeat the will of the people. For the first time in Amer ican history a set effort was made to buy up Presidential electors for money, and to reverse the verdict of election in entire states by the most gigantic treachery asd frauds . It failed, and the Democracy went down again in ig nominous defeat. In 1880, all new expedients being ex hausted, they tried the soldier dodge again, and nominated Hancock, simply because he was an Union Soldier with a creditable record ; and, because "re form" was a good catch-word, made it and a tariff for revenue only" their platform. The soldier dodge did not work as they expected , and thinking men repudiated the free trade heresy. Over they went one more, and 44 sat in the dust in the valley cf defeat, chewing the bitt;r cud of disappointment." And now in this year cf grace 18S4, the Democratic party comes once more to the front; lean and hungry as a wolf in midwinter, after its 24 years of ab sence from ofSce ; battered and bruised to the last degree from its numerous de- jeats; with Bone among it3 great nien of National reputation that it is willing to trust with leadership ; with no settled policy but a ravenous , insane desire for - . " j.--j.! i power : wita no asw expeiieci at cauu it enters on the campaign which will be its last National contest, if again de feated , with a combination of two old expedients, which have failed when used singly . It has secured an obscure leader, a third-rate lawyer, without ex perience in National affairs; because he is recommended by a lot of Republican free trade soreheads, would be leaders, and Pharisees: and because he, like Tilden, "reformed" some glaring abuses in his own party. The exper ience of 1872 did not warn the Demo crats of the futility of yielding to the wishes of renegade Republicans nor that of 1834 of the impossibility of mak ing the people believe that the Demo cratic party would ever really favor re form. They have placed this unknown nobody on a platform that again calls for free trade. This alone would defeat them, even had they a strong candidate. The suit will be the same as it has been in the years that are past. The Demo cratic party will go down to rise no more in National politics : and over its last resting place the epitaph will be written , "Died of lack of principle." Toledo Blade. ELEVEN REASONS. A young reader asks why he should be a Republican. There are many rea sons, but the following are a few : L The past twenty-three years, under Republican rule, form the most glorious and the most prosperous period in the history of the country. The grand suc cess of the party in the past is the strongest reason for trusting it to meet th future needs of our country. II. Past success has been due to the right purposes and true wisdom of 4,500,000 Republican voters. These voters have not changed in character intelligence, or beliefs. No other body of citizens has shown itself entitled to such confidence. III. The Republican party trusts the people absolutely, as no other party ever has. It has had the courage to serve the best interests of the people, with faith that they have' the intelli gence and patriotism to appreciate such service. Thus it has represented and obeys , not the large landowners at the South, nor the political tricksters or "bosses" of corrupt cities, nor the theo rists, nor the millionaires, but the peo ple. IV. It has always protected labor. The abolition of slavery remoyed com- petion of unpaid workers, and elevated all labor. The homestead law crave every industrious man the power to sup port himself and famdy witkout depend ence upon any employer, and so fixed a limit below which wages cannot be de pressed. At the desire of labor, the Eight-Hour law has been passed , and ihe importation of coolies prohibited. Above all the party has defended labor by a protective tariff . V. When goods made by pauper labor abroad can be sold here without paying for admission to this market. the danger is that our own will become pauper labor also. The republican par ty makes foreign goods pay duty, and so builds up home industries and a home market for farmers. Ihe Democratic party has constantly tried to break down that system, VI. The Republican party protects the civil and political rights of all citi zens. In its youth, it refused to deprive adopted citizens of rights. It gave civ il and political rights to colored citizens. It is the only party that has always re sisted attempts to control votes or elect ions by fraud, fear or force. VII. It has done more than any oth er party to protect citizens when abroad. Led by Mr. Blaine in Congress, it caused Great Britain to give up the claim that British-born citizens still owed allegiance to the British crown. It is pledged to make American citizen ship a safeguard in all lan'ls for every citizen who goes on a lawful errand. VIII. It upholds the public faith. No other Nation in history has ever met a great debt as honorably and rapidly as this Nation under Republican rule, in spite of Democratic opposition. Hence no other has higher credit. IX. It has given this country, ia spite of constant Democratic hostility, a better currency than any other Nation enjoys. Defeat of the party would open the door to the old Democratic currency to thirty-eight kinds of paper issued at will by wild-cat banks. X. It honors the soldiers who caved the Union by putting down a Democrat ic rebellion. It has granted large pen sions, and has enacted that Union sol diers shall be preferred in the choice ot civil officers. It names for Vice-President a soldier-statesman, against Hen dricks, the copperhead and daraagogue. XI. lis candidate for president has exalted ability and great experience, is one of the foremost statesmen of the age , and was selected as his chief ad viser by President Garfield. Against him the Democrats have named a man of no experience or knowlelge of men, who never, had force enough co ciaks people know or care what his opinion were , and who was nominated by cor rupt rins of which be vould be tba tool. Isw York Trilcxo.