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Do not miss your chance for HE KEEPS BEST STOCK OF CLOTHING AND DOT GOODS IN TOWN. SYNOPSIS OF I Congressman Davison's Speech, Delivered at Richmond, Oct. 3rd, 1898. Feu.ow-Citizexs: 1 come before you as.a candidate for re-elt-ction or as a candidate for a seat in the Fifty-sixth Congress. lhe late war with Spain has created lew and vital issues. Upon these is sues you must vote this fall, 'lhe bat lot 3ou cast will be the most import ant one perhaps of your life. It will effect not only your welfare but the welfare of this nation and the welfare and future condition of the whole hu man race. . his war was a war or hutujiihy and a war for freedom. No war of the same durawou has done as much for liborty ana for progress and for humanity. But we must take ad vantage of and utilize the opportuni ties c.-eated for us ty the blood and bravery and patriotism of our soldiers. Previous to tins war tlie power ul na tions uf the worli regarded us as a na tion of Yankee money-getters and shop keepers, and they did not have the res pect tor us as a nation that they now have. It has been said that the "thun der o: Dewey's guns shook the thrones f the Old World." Yes, and they awakened the spirit of liberty,of pro gress and of civilization throughout the worm. This war has demonstrated that we are a nation of patriotic brother?; it has forever healed the breach between the North and the South; it has given us new impulses; it has placed us in a position to become the greatest nation on earth, if we grasp and utilize our opportunities. And upon this you are to vote at the next election. The is sues of this campaign are so impo. t int, so vital, that individuality is obscured by them. Oat of this war grows the trreat Question of expansion. I stand upon a platform outspoken for expan . sion, outspokeu for sound money, out- bpoken against the lniamous uoeDei B 11. Wh it 1 mean bv expansion is this: Shall we annex Cuba, i'orto Bico and the l'hil'ppines.and reap the fruits of the victory of this war. I say, yes. My motto is, "We must follow the fla?, wherever thellig has been plant ed there it must ..stay."' This is our war cy, this our motto "Follow the Flag." With this question of expan sion the Fifty-sixth Congress will have to deal. It" elected I shall vote to an- nex every foot of the conquered territo ry. Porto Ilico is ours by conquest, 'lhe .Philipines ought to be and doubtless will be either by conquest or annexa tion. Cnba will come to us by annex ation but we must have all the con quered territory whether it comes to us by annexation or conquest. we must follow the trend of our destiny or the truidinjr hand of Providence. Ex pansion or annexation of territory has made this country what it is. e have expanded to the Pacific, now we must turn our faces to the east. We must place ourselves in touch with the Ori ent, with her more than five hundred millions of people or over one-third of the human race. We can only do this by annexing conquered territory. We then become one of the great world powers. We will command our share, of the trade of the east. ' 'J hen you will hear no more of over-production; we will be in touch with the mar kets of the world; we will get our share of their trade, then we will have our greatest prosperity. My friends, this will virtually settle the free silver question, this will settle for years, and perhaps forever the cry of hard times, because then our factories will be kept running, our labor will be employed in sunolvinsr the markets of the world with our products; and here is the se- j cret of the opposition of Mr. Bryan and every free silver leader to expan sion. Ihey know that expansion means the death knell of the tree sil ver issue. Now, my friends, this question of ex pansion perhaps is the greatest, ques tion of this century, it certainly is one of vital importance to vou and to the whole human race. Now let us see what it means. An expansion ot terri tory. It means an expansion of trade and commerce; it means an expansion of civilization and Christianity; ex pulsion of the church and of the schools, and expansion of free govern ment. It means an expansion of op portunities for our 3'oun;r men. It in Cuha, Porto Kict and the Philippines, railroads are to ba built and the coun try developed. Official and business positions will be created to be filled by Americans. I believe fiat expansion will settle the financial question in this country; that it will stop this free silver agita tion and disturbance of business rela tions, because an expansion o territo ry of course will mean an expansion of trade and commerce, and expansion of trade and commerce and the annex ing of the population will necessarily mean an expansion of our present banking and currency system along the gold standard Una Now if the Lower House of the Fifty-sixth Congress is Republican our whole banking and currency system will be reformed and a greater volume of currency created for the increased demands of trade and commerce and population, because of the thirty Uni ted States Senators to h'. elected this fall the Republican party will un doubtedly secure a sufficient number to make the Senate Republican, 'lhan if you have a Republican House with the Senate and President in accord on this question of expansion and finance you will see all conquered ..territory annexed, the expansion question car ried through both Houses and then will be our greatest prosperity and you will hear no more of the free sil ver cry. It will be argued that we must not annex this new territory be cause it does not adjoin or is not con tiguous. Electricity, steam and inven tions have made all the world next dcor neighbors and refutes this argu ment. This same argument was used against the purchase and annexation of the Louisiana territory when Mr. Jefferson bought it in 1SU3. At that time our country onlj- comprised a set tlement along the Atlantic coast about 230 miles wide and had a population of about four million and the Allegheny mountains stood as a great wall be tween the settlements and the west. The opponents of expansion of that day also said that one President could not govern so much territory, and you know the result It took Lewis and Clark more than two years to explore the Louisiana territorj', that now com prises the most prosperous part of our ration. In 1810 Florida, then a Span ish possession and territory, was in habited by Indians, desperadoes and marauders that were continually prey ing upon the adjoining States, when this Government sent Gen. Jackson to conquer them, this is what is known as the Seminole War. In less than three months Jackson forever conquered these Seminole Indians, white desper adoes and marauders. Spain seeing she could not govern the territory of norma sotu it to us. In 1830 Texas gained her independ ence from Mexico, and Texas was an nexed. All of you know that a'ter the war with Mex'ofthe Californias were annexed. You know how we bought .aiasKa ana oy tne last congress the Hawaiian islands were annexed and thus you see we have had expansion step oy step. ve nave Americanized all territory acquired. We can Ameri canize Cuba, Porto Rico and the Phil lpines andAmericanizQ them more rap- THE SUPERIOR. Steel. iHVame XMsc Drill. In offering the Snperior Disc Grain Drll to the farmers of Garrard county we do not offer them an experiment, but a SUCCESSFUL RE ALITY. Our Drill has been on the market two seasons and we have made improvements over the last two years that cannot i beaten NEW OIL CUPS IN DISC and a large single Steel Drag Bar. The simplest drill on the market A great many have been sold and every one has given perfect satisfatction. It is the ORIGINAL and only per fect Disc Drill made. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. The Superior will do perfect work in CORN STALKS or TRASHY LAND and can be put into the hardest ground. If you want the best Disc Drill made, buy the Superior. G. S. GAINES, Agt., Lancaster, Ky i lly and more easily than we nave our annexed territory in the past. It will only be a question of a year or a day. My opponent. Mr. Gilbert, stands on a 10-to-l free silver platform. This is his only creed. Upon the question of expansion and the living issues of the day his platform is as silent as the grave and he is as silent as his plat fo m. He knows that expansion is death to free silver. He has spoken all over this district and if he has ever touched this great question of expan sion or one of the live issues no human being has ever hear ! of it This is a campaign of is-sues and I repeat, issues so vital, so import int that individuali ty is obscured. I stan 1 for expansion of territory, and therefore expansion of trade, expansion of commerce, ex pansion of civilization and expansion of Christianity, the church and the school, and the reformation of our whole currency and banking system along the gold standard line. 1 stand for an honest dolla-, the American dollar, a dollar that is worth 100 cents the world over. My opponent Mr. Gilbert, stands for the free and un limited coinage of silver, and the Spanish dollar, a dollar, that is a fifty cent dollar the world over, or must pass for its bullion value only. President McKinley commands the respect and admiration of the whole world ft)r his conduct of this war. 1 must say that he has been our Moses since he took his seat on the 4th of March 1807. As you know, for the three years prior to that time our country had been passing through the greatest panic of history. A Demo cratic tariff bill had been passed in 1893, a Free Trade tariff bill that failed to bring revenue sufficient to meet the expenses of the Government; factories were closed down and the business of the country had been in a st.ite of dry rot. Mr. Cleveland's administration was forced to sell two hunderd and sixty millions of bonds in times of peace to meet the necessary expenses of the Government Immediately after tak ing his seat on the 4th of March, 1807, President McKinley called in extra session the Fifty-fifth Congress to pass a tariff bill After several months la bor and deliberation the Dingley Tar- in: nui was passed and became a law. This bill was not only for the purpose of bringing sufficient revenue to meet the wants of the Government but also protect and stimulate American indus tries, ivery wen lniormea person knows that times have improved; (and while times will alwavs be hard with some of us) for years we have not had better prices anl better times than we have had for the last vear. More debts have been liquidated, more mortgages nave been paid off than ev er before in the same length of time, 1'rospekitv IS iierk and the Dinwlev Bill brings sufficient revenue to meet the expenses of the Government. Now I want to call your attention to this tact: suppos- President McKinlev had waited until the regular session of Congress which did not convene until December to have had thi3 tariff bill passed. Then, this war coming upon us as it did would have crowded out this tariff legislation. The President has proven himself to be the man for the place regardless of politics. He ought to have the House and Senate in accord with him to carry out all of his expansion aad financial plans, ne has been tried, you can trust him. If you have the Lowar House Democratic you will have a House of obstruction, you win nave a nouse against progress you will tie his hands. This whole matter is with you.- Expansion and the gold standard go hand and hand you can not separate them. I havenot the time, to discuss in de tail the action of the War Concrress.but I want to call your attention to a few matters. While the Democrats voted for a declaration of war they also vo ted against nearly every War-revenue measure, ihey voted against the bond issue and wanted to issue greenbacks ana mty-cent dollars to p ly our brave soldiers tor hghUng the country s bat tles. But we passed the bond issue. the gold bonds as the free silver people can tnem ana we ata not place them in the hands of syndicates, bankers and capitalists as the Democratic adminis tration did, but placed them in the reach of the common people in bonds oi irom 52U to 500. The bonds issued by the Democratic party in time of peace were four and five per cent bonds. Hut these war bonds atrsreca' ting two hundred millions of dollars were three per cent bonds and were put in the hands of the common peo ple, and while only two hundred mill ions were soid there were offers made for over a billion, which shows there is plenty of monev in this nnnntrn seeking channels of investment. .Now, my friends. I want to sav a few words about the Goebel Bill, a bill passed by the last free silver Demo cratic Legislature, passed as a party measure though bitterly opposed bv some of the ablest and most conscien tious Democrats in the Legislature. I undertake to say it is the most infa mous bill that ever disgraced the nacres of legislation. This infamous bill was passed for the purpose of first defraud ing the Republicans and counting them out. Second, to perpetuate Dem ocratic rings and cliques in office. The authors of this infamous bill, realizing in their conscience the crime they have committed against the ballot and lib erties of the peopleare making the excuse and defense that good men are on the election boards. This is only done and said to quiet and appease the wrath of the people. How Boon these boards can be chanced and pack ed, to count ont or in any man or , set j of men, and when you appeal from Kidney Diseases ARE THE MOST FATAL OF ALL DIS EASES. FOLEY'S KIDNEY CURE Is a guaranteed remedy for all KIDNEY and BLADDER Diseases. this packed board you find another packed board at Frankfort, with no redress to the courts. They undertake to say this is like the Ohio law. 'J hat is absolutely false. The Ohio law is a fair one My opponent, Mr. Gilbert, stands for the Gojbel Bill. Get the bill and read it: read the whole ofSen ator Bronston's speech against it and think lor yourselves. Force bills and Southern election bills pale into insignificance incompar ison to this measure. When this bill was on its passage in the Senate, Sen ator Charles J. Bronston, one of the ablest Democrats in the State and partisan at that, opposed it, and I quote from his long argument against it, winch is before me. He said: "What an oligarchs', what a machine. ao soon as this General Assembly ad journs three commissioners are to be chosen by party prejudice and inflam ed passion, to subserve selfish, ends and gratify personal ambition, who will have absolute and undisputed con trot oi every election held lor any purpose in the state." Now I want also to call your atten tion to the infamous gerrymander of this district. The Constitution re quires Congressional districts to be re apportioned or redistricted every ten years or after eyery census so as to have each district equal as near as pos sible in population. When Kentucky was apportioned after the last census bya Democratic Legislature and this maue a ueinocratic district, it compris ed the counties of Anderson, Boyle, Garrard, Jackson, Jessamine, Laurel, Lincoln, Madison, Mercer, Owsley, uociccastie, Shelby and spencer, thir teen counties. In 1S83 or 4, tha Demo crats were fearful that the district might become Republican though it had giyen more than 1.50O Democratic majority at the previous Congressional election and thereupon they added the counties of Owsley and Laurel to the neavy Kepublican Eleventh Congrei sional district. The Eighth district with its eleven counties continued to go Democratic until the election of lo'Jl), when it gave me a majority of a,4bi. when this iree silver Leisla ture met they determined to defeat me for re-election to Congress. They could not wait until after the census of 1000 was taken to re-apportion the state, out regardless of mstice. resrard less of population, regardless of the rights oi the people, they deliberate lagerrymandered, or you might truth fully sav stole Jackson county from this district and added it to the Elev enth, leaving this district with ten counties. They did not even have the fairness to add on any other county. They could have added on the adjoin ing county of Clark or Marion and thus equalized the population, but as I re peat, they did it deliberately, regard less oi the constitution and rights of tne people, it was suiuctent for them to know that Jackson county had giv en a Kepublican majority of 1,328 in 1800, and she had to go. I submit it to a fair minded people, will vou in dorse such conduct as this? I predict that you will not. No party has ever Jong succeeded by such unfair and in- iamous conduct, it they have the right to take one county outthev have the right to take nine out and leave the district with one county. It will always be the pride of mv life that this great district made me a member of the Fifty-fifth Congress the Congress that will be known as the "War Congress" a Concress that nasn- ed the Dingley tariff law. During the two long sessions of excitement, labor and responsibility, with a new admin istration and the pressure for office and place, I have made some mistakes, eyery member has, because we are only human; but I was in my seat and voted upon all the important questions 1 mat came oeiore the House. Voted as I believed for the best interests of the whole people. I am opposed to the present Civil Service law and have used every effort in my power to have it repealed or modified. I have every reason to be lieve that the President would have long since modified it, but for the trreat burden of duty imposed upon him by the war. In the future I ex pect to continue my fight to have it repealed or modined. An Administra tion is responsible to a country for its conduct while in power, therefore the offices should be filled by men in sym pathy with it. politically. President McKinley has been com mended by the whole world for his statesmanship and patriotism in the conduct of this war. But, for the h at few weeks the yellow journals and Democratic politicians have been throwing mud and attempting to malre Plattfcrc CUBAN OIL cum iHlllvl 3 Cuts, Burns, Bruises, Rheu matism and Sores. Price, 25 cents the people believe that the President and Administration are responsible for typhoid fever in the camps, and that tne soldiers were badly treated. Every sensible and well-inforraei person knows that in all wars sickness kills more men than bullets and that war means death, sickness and hardships. Never was a country so unprepared for war, and never was an army raised and equipped in so short a time. Nev er was an army so well fed, so well clothed; and never did an army do bet ter or more effective service in a short space of time. To say the soldiers were badly clothed, badly fed and mistreat ed is mere rot and slander, as investi gation will show. I preferred not to make this race on account of ill health at this time of year, but my party generously gave me a renomination and endorsement. It is customary to return Congressmen at least a second time, and I am de sirous of being a member of the next, or Fifty-sixth Congress. Should Mr. Gilbert defeat me he will be befo c you two years hence .asking for a re election and endorsement of his stexv ardship. If elected I promise to make a more efficient member than in the past, because my experience will be of great benefit to me in the next House. Brilliancy counts for but little in Con gress; experience and service are everything. The little State of Maine with four members of long service wields more influence in Congress than any state in the Union, and Mr. Speak er Reed is the only brilliant man in the delegation. The others are potent and influential because of industry and long service. The boys behind the guns have done their duty well. Now as citizens and voters you have duties to perform. You must say by your votes whether the American flag shall stay where your soldiers placed it or be hauled down as an American flag was in a cer tain place by a previous administra tion. It is the opinion of the best in formed minds of the world that we should annex this new Island Territo ry and thus become the most powerful nation in the world. The eyes of the world are on the United States. But the world knows we can not expand and achieve greatness and prosperity under the silver or Spanish standard of money. Spain has tried it and cheap money makes cheap men. As anx:ous as I am to be returne I to Congress I would rather be defeated representing the issues of Expansion. Sound Money and Protection, than be elected on Mr. Gilbert's platform of Free Silver and the Spanish standard of money, and against national greatness and prosperity. This is a critical time in the Nation's life; we either move for ward or backward. I have faith and confi lence in the judgment and patri otisra of the people. The issues are vital and the people must pass upon tnem. win Mitel Ira nut Co., Give your Stomach a Rest. ELECTRDFDIBE The trouble with most sick people Is that In their anxiety to get well they try first this nos trum, then that, until the poor stomach rebels and calls a halt. There's a better way. What the body needs is oxygen more oxygen. The Electropolse is simply an instrument which, when applied to the ankle or wrist for a short period each day, polarizes the body and ena bles it to take ou oxygen more freely. The Electropolse cures without medicine. One Instrument las's a lifetime. Send for descrip tlve book and read wcat noted people say about the Electropolse. Miss Clara Baktox's Letter. Constantinople, February 21, 1896. Dear Sirs: When in London the other day I received two packages from the United States embossy, each containing ou Electropolse: today I received your kind letter. Please al low me to thank you heartily and gratefully for the splendid little machines. As you re member, I am not an entire stranger1 to the virtues of the Electropolse, and will take great pleasure in passing yonr offering to afflicted humanity. Very sincerely yours. CLARA BARTON. OF LEXINGTON, KY. Over $115,000.00 Paid in Maturities. Over $40,000.00 Reserve and Surplus. The Following Coupons Eedeemed July 1898: Name. Address. Cost. Rev. J. II. Stanley, Lexington, Ky f 9.50 Climax Printing Co., Richmond, Ky 9.50 J. H. Baker, Lexlngtog. Ky jo.50 J. Baker. Lexington, Ky 10.50 Newport News Syndicate, Newport News Va 10.50 Newport News Syndicate. Newport News, Va 10.M Newport News Syndicate. Newport, News, Va 10.50 Newport Vews Syndicate, Newport News, Va 10.50 M. J. Forston, Paris, Ky 950 Ilattle Jacobs, Cincinnati, O 850 Patrick and Mary Fox, MaysvIIle Ky 9.50 E. L. Denhard, Louisville. Ky 8,50 C. D. Doll, Louisville, Ky 8.5o F. H, Norton. Lexington Ky qjq F. H. 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C. Smith, La Grange. Ky 41.50 ValenteSentney, Lexington, Ky .. 41.50 Mis. J. D. Armstrong, Lexington, Ky 41.50 Paid. ; 20.66 20.0; 22.23 22.33 22.25 22.25 22.25 22.25 20.06 17.44 20.06 17.14 17.44 20.06 30-06 17.44 20.06 17.44 17.44 ' 15 00 15.00 15.00 17.44 17.44 17.44 17 44 17.44 17.44 15.00 15.00 1257 1257 1257 1257 12.57 1257 1257 1257 1257 1257 144.00 144 00 144.00 i.a-oo 1:9 00 141.0J 141.00 141.00 13S00 132.C0 12G.0O 1:5.00 117.00 117.C0 132.00 6150 129.00 126.00 126 00 126.00 126.00 120.r0 120.00 123.00 120.00 117.00 120.00 117.00 117.00 117.00 Total $1,668.25 $4,415.40 Profit Over Cost $2,747.15 A SMITH BOWMAN, Secretary, For particulars call on J..C. Hemphill, local .apt, Lancaster, Ky. Skin Diseases. For the speedy and permanent cure of tetter, salt rheum and eczema, Cham berlain's Eye and Skin Ointment is without an eqnal. It relieves the itch ing and smarting almost instantly and its continued use effects a permanent enre. 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