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and Inseparable. Now and Forever."
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DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET.
For President,
WM. JENNINGS BRYAN.
For Vice President,
ADLAI E. STEVENSON.
CONGRESSIONAL TICKET.
Fottteubernrt Congress Eighth District
V. R. M'OINNIS,
of Decatur County.
STATE TICKET.
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J. WFKWEe£aND, of WajneCdunty.
For Railroad Commissioner,
J. E ANDERSON, o( Winnebago, County.
For Electors at Large,
JOSEPH ElBOEOK.ot Polk County.
C. H. MAt'XEY, of Wapello County.
For District Electors.
First—F. B, MILLER, Washington*.
ec. nd—F. D. KELSEY. Jackson,
'i L4r0—JOHNELWANGEHi Dubuque.
Kouttb—M. J. CARTER, Winneshiek,
llftb—H. M. REBOK. Tama. .^i'i
Sixth—J. C. WILLIAMS. M«M»ka.«^rVl
Seventh-C. G. LOOHI8, Polk. Ar
-••r Eighth—M.B. MARINO, Appanoose,
Nlpth—J. J. SH AY, Pottawattamie.
Tenth—L. J. ANDERSON. Carroll,
k. 4 tenth—W. W. STOWE, Dickinson.
COUNTY TICKET.
For Auditor
GEO. CAKTW RIGHT
of High Point.
For Clerk of District Court,
ARTHUR E. MOORE,
of Decatur.
For County Attorney.
MARION WOODARD,
of Leon, Ai,
For Recorder, 'i~
CHAS. H. BROWN,
of Bloomlngton.
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For Membeil Board ofSunerviaors
WM.H. HAZLE'r,
of Center.
An able writer, once well known and
"popular as a contributor to the Wiscon
sin press say*: "We have slaughtered
30,000 men for no cause but their deter
mination to be free, and have erased
cilies and villages from the earth."
Hon. V. E. McGinnis, who'is a candi
date for congress against Peter Hep
burn In the eighth district, is making
many friends and many votes in his
manly, honorable canvabs throughout
the district. Wherever he has spoken
be makes an impression that bodes no
good for Hepburn's success. Every
voter can cast bis ballot for Mr. McGin
nis with perfect satisfaction, knowing
that he will make a congressman who
will look after the interests of the peo
ple and not of the railroads and other
corporate interests.—Bedford Free
Press.
WhHe every day brings with it re
vports of republicans and gold demo
crats who supported McKinley four
years ago but are now on the side of
f'Bryan, the way of converts, are com
pelled to rehearse the names of a few
s. gold democrats who supported McKin
ley ia 1896 and propose to do so this
year.- This is rather 'shallow politics.
It is Relieved that nearly atnilhon gold
^-democrats supportedMcKinley four years
*go, directly orindiiwtly. Nine-tenths
of these' democrats how support the
election of Wm.'J. Bryan and will vote
for him. ?!e silver ^publicans who
stood by Bryan in 18M, with few ex-
I captions, stand firm in\thelr devotion
the great Nebraska!
it a change of 20,000
lates would have eli
i, the chances of his
year are all that his friends
Considering
in si*
in in
ection ..this
Favorable reports of McGinniB
from all over the district.
come
A quarter of a million Inhabitants of
Pennysylvania are anxiously looking
lor, the Hanna-McKinley full dinner
pail. The Bearch will grow more vigor
ous until election day., Jhe working
man, oven though a pauper, can vote.
Do not forget this fact!
When our republican spellbinders
are denouncing the south for disfran
chising negroes by putting an educa
tional qualification in their constitution
they should be asked why in Porto
Rico an educational qualification is ap
plied. They should be asked why the
colored Filipinos are denied the privi
lege of self government on the ground
of alleged unfitness.
The Albany Argus propounds these
questions: How many of the average
people—not the trust magnates or the
protected barons, but t.he average men
—are more prosperous to-day than they
were in 1890? Are wages enough higher
to meet the advancing cost of liying?
Not merely comforts, but the necessi
ties of life are being more and more
controlled by the trusts. Is the wage
earner and the man on .fixed salary get
ting a hundred-cent dollar, or are the
exactions of the trusts clipping it and
cutting it down to half its former pur
chasing power? rfit
&& -m
If there ever was a time in the his
story of American politics when the
citizen should rise above party that day
is in the pending election. The thought
ful, patriotic citizen must see the dan
ger that threatens the republic, and it
is for him to decide whether he desires
this government to be preserved as a
republic or to be converted into a trust
governed empire. We have come to
the parting of the ways, and every citi
zen has a voice in determining the fu
ture course of our government. Shall
patriotism or party prejudice rule his
ballot? The result in November will
give the answer.—Escondido (Gal.)
Times. „,
The price ot flour has been advanced
by the flour trust from $2.15 to $2.75 a
bag the Bugantrust has raised the price of
sugar from 5 to 7 cents a pound, the
Standard Oil trust has adyanced the
juice of oil Irym 12 to 15--cents a gallon
*be beaf tro#t ha rniBed tjg^ prim
,j|r -ajf
per cent, has been made by the woolen
trust, of'50 per cent., by' the cracker
trust, of 30 per cent, by the shoe and
leather trust and similar exorbitant
advances in the price of their products
have been made by the broom trust,
and other combines that control arti
cles of prime necessity in the houses of
the poor.—Kansas City Times.'
Let'tSe independent voter compare:
the candidates. Wm. j, Bryan has'
been addressing audiences in every sec
tion of our country the past four years,'
and being a loyal and candid man, he
has not been forced to retreat, explain
or apologize for a single utterance. But
how is it with McKinley's official utter
ances? Why everybody knows that
the president has often violated pledges,
promises and official statements.
Bryan is a great leader and a peerless
statesman—McKinley is a corporation
tool, a vacillating servant of those who
scheme and work to deceive and rob
the people. Producers, wage earners
and honest business men, which candi
date will you cast your ballot for?-^Es
enndido (Cal.) Times.
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ii
It is none too early to begin the dis
cussion to to how to vote the Austral
ian ballot intelligently, and in accord
ance with the complicated law given us
by the legislature. If you want to vote
a straight ticket, across in-the circle to
the left of the name of the patty for
which you want to vote, will be a vote
for all the candidates on that ticket.
But if you want to vote for some can*
did ales on another ticket, you must
not make any cross in the circle at all,
but mark a cross in the square in front
.of every candidate for which you want
to vote. If you omit marking in the
square in front of any candidate, your
vote will not be counted for any man
for that office. You-must be particular,
therefore, to mark in front of every one
you want to vote for, from top to bot
tom of .the ticket.
The reason why the republican con
gress refused to repeal any of the odious
war taxes, though they declared all
Wars were over and the treasury was
running over full, is now apparent.
The Philippine war is as liyely as ever,
McKinley has another war with China,
in connection with the powers, the sole
design of which is to conquer and hold
CbineiBe territory troops -must remain
in the Samoa islands and in Cuba and
Porto Rico yet for an indefinite time as
long as we hold them as colonies in
fact. It will require at least 400,000
troojps to finish conquering the thous
and Philippine islands and to hold them
and the others, hence the war tax will
continue as long as imperialism jHll
continue till the people vote it down
in fact tbetax will have to b* greatly
increased.—Ft Madison ©jemocrat.^v
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GLOOMY FOR THE REPUBLICANS.
Speaking of the republican loss in the
Maine election, Louis F. Post, in The
Public, says the loss to McKinley and
the gain to Bryan are likely to be even
greater in the other eastern and middle
western states. But eyen at the rate
of change, Bryan would carry Illinois,
Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Maryland,
West Virginia and Delaware. Adding
these to Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississip
pi, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, which
are conceded to him, and we have a
Bryan electoral vote of 222. If, then,
we add the other states that he carried
in 1896, namely, Colorado, Idaho, Kan
sas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, South
Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyo
ming, we haye 45 more votes, making
a total of 207—more than a majority.
And this takes no account of Kentucky,
which.Brynn lost in 1896 but."is quite
as likely lo curry I his yp8r, as he is to
lose any «1 ilit! siuu» he carred four
years ngo.
W:•
"W $o} TREASON!
though the dtry^wAs rainy and roads
muddy, there was an enthuMastic crowd
•preseht, and they were
the ^ttfeiidancXr by hea&hg the great
speech of .V. R. 'McGinnis, democratic
candidate for congress in this district.
It was a masterly and statesmainlike
presentation of the issues of the day.
The speaker read from the first republi
can platform of 1856, and showed the
diffetence of the party to-day from what
it was then. He made an elegant plea
for the rights guaranteed by the consti
tution and Declaration of Independence
to all men and showed this nation had
attained its great power because of
those principles of justice and liberty,
and that it would be a great mistake to
turn our backs on them now. He said
that the pages of history taught us that
all nations of the past had gone down to
ruin and decay from one or more of three
causes: concentrated wealth, centralized
government and colonial poBBessionB.and
warned the American people to be jeal
ous of their liberties for as Patrick Henry
said, "Eternal vigilance is the price of
liberty." Mr. McGinnis dealt with the
Porto Rican question, the Philippine
question, trusts and money,and also the
"prosperity question" on which question
the republicans base their sole hopes of
success. What "prosperity" there is,
was shown to be not of Hanna's or Mc
Kinley's making. On the trust question
the speaker showed the insincerity of
the republican congress on that proposed
amendment deal. After fostering trusts
and failing to prosecute any of them,
they hope to tide over this election in
question by proposing a constitutional
amendment, the last thing before cop
gre88 adjourned, knowing that nothing
could be done in that way to hurt the
trusts for three or four years. Mr. Mc
GinniB wanted to know whoever heard
of the Hanna-McKmley administration
wanting the constitution changed to do
anything else. They haye trampled on
the constitution in every other matter,
but when it comes to trusts they are
very jealous of the "rights of trusts" un
der the constitution. But that is not the
trouble. All the trusts are for Mckinley
and Griggs the attorney general is from
New Jersey'and the tool of the trusts.
The republicans brag about putting the
only trust law on the statute books.
Then Why don't they enforce it? What
is the use of a law when the executive
officers won't enforce it? If that law
was not sufficient they have had a con
gress and president the last three years,
why didn't they pass another? The
speaker appealed to the people who are
the jury in these matters to study them
carefully and to decide these questions
for themselves and then vote the way
which seemed right. 3:
The rieihor. A would like to puhlish
the speec^v^ Jdl, but space forbids, and
B^r. Mct^jjfcjiJ will be /in ihe county
again for traie to hear bim who did dot
get out to this meeting.r?Q.seeQla Demo
crat.
LEON, IOWA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1900.
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What of this?
Our government recommending the
abandonment of Pekin, withdrawing
our forceB from China taking down our
Hag from where il has waved?,
Treason! Treason!
Is not a solemn lenet of our creed of
patriotism, that "where, the flag has
once been put up it must never be
hauled down?" It seems that we have
heard a good deal of that kind of flag
rot as a reason why we must stay in the
Philippines. It has cost us five thousand
gallant lives, and ten thousand physical
constitutions—has this "musn't-haul-it
down" legend and here it has been
planted on the walls of Pekin after gal
lant fights and arduous eervice. But
now a pusillanimous somebody or other
is planning to haul it down and sneak
out of China.
Howl, ye flag fools! sound the alarm,
ye patriots to whom apiece of bunting
is the whole thing! Rise up in wrath,
ye shallow pates, to whom the stars and
stripes are greater than principles, the
shadow more than the substance, the
emblem everything, the real thing noth
ing. and the form everything, the taith
.nothing!
M'GINNIS' GREAT SPEECH.
:.4A ,Vs.
Thademocn
KooiS, ai
a mitHiMaof dollars in i806
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
LOSING HIS TEMPER.
It is a good sign that the republican
boss, Mark Hanna, is not only discour
aged by the progress of the campaign,
but is losing his temper and taking to
personal abuse an^| vilification of Mr.
Bryan says the Pittstfurg Post. In his
speech at Chicago, on Tuesday he talked
of "tearing the maek from the face of
that arch-hypocrite, Bryan," following
this up with a variety of falsehoods and
misrepresentations as tog'Mr. Bryan's
position and gloriUcalion of Hanna as a
friend of labor and a lifelong advocate
of the Interests of woningmen. Mr.
Bryan's daily speeches, w^iich are not
only listened to by tens of! thousands,
but in printed fortfn reach millions the
day after their'delivery fully' answer
the low and vulgar abuse of Mark
Hanna. M*. Bryan never descends to
anything of this kind. Its is left to the
Hannas of politics—the blackmailers of
trusts and the bulldozers of labor.
When Hanna vouches for himself as a
special friend of labors he ignores the
fact that such idle boasting is read in
Ohia, where his opm record and secret
acts are welt knofn^und where he is
recognized as the treacherous assailant
of the interests of-labor. We do not
regret the campaign nas assumed the
shape cf abuse of Bryan by Hanna. It
inviteB comparison1 between the two
men, and between Bryan and McKinley
who is merely a jumping jack in poli
tics for Hanna's manipulation.
In the collection of trust and monop
ly representatives Hanna got together
at Chicago for the purpose of fat frying
he gaye a yery blue account of the re
publican outlook in some of the western
states conceded to be decisive of the
presidential election. He,does not find
things, looking as be would'' wish in
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and even New
York he concedes to be^a danger point
lor the McKinleyites. The frankness
of Hanna is generally held to be a de
vice to draw funds from backward con
tributors. He.does, got find in the.
matter
of assessments. the ground as
plowing asfour yyars ago. In one
political
for
purposes, he admita h«
.haajieen able to
WUt, 135,000 thtej year. Wittr
Sto effrontery this slanderer of
Bryan posts himself with dollar marks
and admits lie is in politics to corrupt it
and .purchase an election.
POINTS WORTH
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REMEMBERING.
The democratic national platform in
brief, stands for:
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution of the United States.
Fair treatment ot Porto Rico, under
the constitution, observing faithfully
every pledge made to them.
Prompt and honest fulfillment of eyery
pledge made to the Cubans.
Independence and a protectorate for
the Filipino, the same as the Cuban.
Expansion for trade, but opposed to
seizing and holding territory which can
not be governed under our constitution,
No taxation without representation.
Government by consent of the gov
erned alone. "£.
The Monroe' doctrine in 'spirit and
letter.
Opposed to militarism and a large
standing army in time of peace as a
menace to liberty.
Unceasing war on private monopolies
and trusts in every form. 'iV"Lj-I
Enforcement of anti-trust laws, 1
Ttyiff for revenue only. j#
Enlargement of the powers of the in
terstate commerce commission.
An American financial system, made
by Americans for America, the free coin
age of silver and gold at the legal ratio
of 16 to 1, and all money, gold, silver and
paper to be issued by the government,
and all legal tender for all debts, public
and private.
Reduction of the public debt.
Retirement of national bank notes to
be substituted for government money.
Election of United States senators by
direct vote of the people.
Opposed to government by injunction
and the black list.
liberal.pensions to American soldiers
and sailors.
Government construction of Nicarau
gua canal.
Statehood for Arizona, New Mexico
and Oklahoma and territorial govern
ment for Alaska and Porto Rico.
Improving and reclaiming arid lands
ofthewest.
Chinese exclusion law.
Friendship with all nations entangl
ing alliances with none.
Graduated income ta
Sympathy with Boer republics.
Opposed to lavish appropriations and
war tax levies, :.
Opposed to ship subsidy bill.
Reduction and speedy/repeal of un.
necessary war taxes.
Many yoterg were ifooled and coerced
into voting the republican ticket in 1896
wiiy^tfldor Bryan this year.
POWDER
WW* POWDER CO.. NEW YORK.
M'GINNIS AT SHENANDOAH.-
Thursday night the sound of music
and- the tread of hurrying feet an
nounced that the political campaign
in Shenandoah had opened in earnest
and democracy in the person of the
Hon.,V. R. McGinnis unfolds to an
attentive audience the principles advo
cated.
The opera house was packed. Ham
ilton's Juvenile Band furnishe4 the
music. Prominent members of the party
occupied the stage.
Mr. McGinnis is an entertaining
speaker. Every utterance is measured
with seriousness and calm judgment.
His declarations are terse and efleclive.
The''issues are stated and then estab
lished by an abundance of evidences.
The speaker considered the Philippine
question, imperialism, the trusts and
the money question in the order
named. The position taken by the
democratic party on the same was
clearly and definitely ontlined. We
would gladly repeat the noteworthy
declarations made upon each question
but there were so many deserving of
mention that greater space than this
issue will permit would be necessary.
We would say to those wtio failed to
attend that they missed a good political
treat.
Mr. McGinnis is making a clean and
effective campaign. Scorning to stoop
to an abuse of the opposition and hav
ing the manhood to laud their worthy
efforts and their virtues, he is gaining
admirers on every occasion and wins by
bis personal bearing as well as by his
deep and earnest advocacy of bis party's
principles.
Quite a number of ladies were present
and evidenced a deep concern in politi
cal affairs by their close attention. The
campaign opened nnder encouraging
auspices. Let us keep our shoulder to
the wheel and let the opposition wait
for a November surprise.—Shenandoah
World.
THEN AND NOW.
iV^he repn^c^n jcanj paign text ttgok
for 1892 (pages 157 to 159,) gives the
following as the -position of .the re
pubHtan. party at that time "on the
quesiildB l^ftimetalism:
"Mir~ trnMr^iflPi are bi
metalists. They wantDoTh" "uacraey
metals used, because they believe both
are needed to sustain the world's com
merce. The republican party honest
ly and intelligently answers their
wishes. President Harrison is a bi
metalist, as his official papers and
speeches show. The republican plat
form declares for bimetalism and in
that respect faithfully represents
the course of the party. The re
publican policy seeks a. broader
monetary basis. The world's com
merce expands so rapidly—the volume
of paper currency and of various credit
substitutes for money, which must
be supported by the specie basis, has
become so vast—that scarcely any can
be found to deny that commerce and
industry would be safer if the entire
stock of $3,711,345,000 gold and $3,
939,571,000 silver in the world (see es
timate of Director of the Mint Leech,
Table A.), could be freely employed
as a foundation, instead of only a part
of that amount. As matters stand in
the great commercial nations of the
world, the credit system and the com
mercial exchanges now rest upon the
stock of gold as the only basis. A
bimetallic system would render the
commerce and industry of these na
tions safer and more healthy. Serious
losses and great risks are incurred
through the constant .disturbance of
exchanges between gold-using and sil
ver-using countries. Even in Great
Britain, where gold monometalism is
worshiped as it is nowhere else, the
greatest statesmen and the most pow
erful boards of trade are at their wits'
end to discover some way of escaping
Uie frightful losses in commerce with
the east which have this very .year
involved great banks and firms in
ruin."
The money plank of the republican
party adopted at Philadelphia June 21,
1900, states:
"We declare our steadfast opposi
tion to the free and unlimited coin
age of silver. We renew our allegi
ance to to the principle of the gold
standard.
The anthracite coal trust expects to
reap $5,000,000 in clear profits from the
advance in prices. In the meantime
2,000,000 men, women and ctjildren are
to be starved into submission by the
trust. Here is an object lesson for the
American people which of itself should
determire the present political conflict.
Mar£ Hanna wants money and wants
it bad. The coal barons should be in
vited to a feast. That -increase of one
dollar a ton ought to make a respectable
campaign fund, even if it does represent
UiuuMMrblood and human tears.
Perate
REPORTER SERIES VOL. XXVI. NO. 6t
TEST VOTE FAVORS DEMOCRACY
Bryan Will Carry Chicago by 74
000 Plurality According to
Poll Made by -Sworn
Canvassers."
Bryan will carry the city of Chicago.
His plurality is likely to be more than
74,000 votes, or one-fourth greater than
McKinley's in 1896. The Chicago AmeT
icau has made a great poll of the
votfers. The returns leave no doubt
that the.Democratic presidential ticket
will sweep the city. A revolution of
opinion has followed the McKinley ad
ministration. The facts are at hand
The figures, it is believed, are sound.
The vote was taken upon greater
scale, with greater care and with the
observance of better and more intelli
gent methods than ever before employ
ed in a similar work. Fifty canvassers,
carefully chosen and sworn as to the
accuracy of their figuies, reached more
than 60,000 voters with this inquiry:
"For whom will you vote (or
President."
This Is the result: For Bryan,
30,660 For McKinley, 20,436.
Total, 51,096. Bryan over Mc
Kinley, 10,224.
The estimate of Bryan's majority is
made by comparison of this vote with
the vote of Bryan and McKinley in this
city in 1896 and the estimated vote for
the coming election. The presidential
vote of Chicago in 1896 was divided be
tween these candidates as follows:' Mc
Kinley, 201,074, Bryan, 114.770. Total,
345,844. McKinley over Bryan, 56,304.
A comparison of the American's bal
lot with the vote of Bryan and McKin
ley in Chicago in 1896 would indicate a
majority for Bryan over McKinley of
74,720. The total vote of 1900 in Chi
cago for all presidential candidates ie
estimated at 374,000. By comparison
with -this estimate Bryan's majority
over McKinley would run considerably
over 74,000. Indeed, that prophesy is
upon a conservative basis.
The American's ballot is of value in
connection with the New York Jour
nal's recent poll, taken from week to
week for two
monthB,
indicates that
McKinley's plurality of 24,000 in that
city in 1896 will be exchanged to a great
plurality of nearly 70,000 votes for
Bryan. Unless all signs fail, the great
centers of population in this country
will roll up a tremendous tidal wave of
votes for Bryan on election day-
A WORD TO.DEMOCRATS
Reports-multiply tj
last d«s-
'trusts Hffi_e
m.on*yjMflPK(itrolling
the indus-
jli^^P^ountry, propose to adopt
again the methods used before for the
coercion of the people by bringing on,
just prior to the election, A Panic."
This done, and it can easily be done
by the industries and financial agencies
which Mark Hanna typifies, the cry
will be raised by republican newspapers
and speakers that the panic is wholly
due to apprehension of the democratic
party at the polls and that only by Mc
Kinley's re-election can prosperity be
regained. No long political memory is
needed to recall the success with which
this game was played to force the re
peal of the Sherman purchase law in
1893. True, in accomplishing their ob
ject, the financiers nearly bankrupted
themselves and might have wholly
bankrupted themselves had not a su
pine and unfaithful secretary of the
treasury and comptroller of the cut
rency allowed the New York banks to
yiolate eyery portion of the National
bank act and to continue in business
for weeks while admitting bankruptcy
by refusing to pay their depositors.
To-day after four years of McKinley
ism the monopolists of money and of
industry are vastly stronger than they
were in '93 or '96. in '96 individual
employers coerced their workmen by
declaring that they would shut down
their plants if Bryan were elected. To
day one man sitting in a gorgeous office
on Broad or Wall streets, New York,
can send alike notice to the thousands
of employes of twenty or fortv formerly
inde'pendent factories now welded into
one trust under his control.
In '96 the banks were an organized,
coherent and conscienceless force for
the coercion of their customers. To-dav
there are fewer small banks and more
big ones. The process of consolidation
has proceeded there as in other indus
trial enterprises
bo
that again a word
spoken from New York at the behest of
the few men can shake the financial
system of the entire nation.
The devices which were tried so sue
cessfully in '93 and again in '96 will not
improbably be attempted again. If it
succeeds, there is no reason why time
after time our national elections should
not turn on the whim of a few million
aire monopolists. That would be equiv
alent to the end of the republican form
of government. It is for the people' of
this nation to prepare to meet this line
of political warfare. Let them bear in
mind that though there was promised
an immediate era of prosperity after Mc
Kinley's election, there followed a per
iod of multiplied bankruptcies checked
only by natural and not political forces
The financiers may threaten and
the trusts bull-doze, but they cannot
permanently crush down the industries
of the nation without themselves falling
beneath the ruins. Their worst will be
done prior to the election. If the people
take the reins of government into their
bands, there will be no opportunityufor
successful repetition of the effort to co
erce a vjrhole nation,
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Phone 22.
IT IS POSSIBLE.
New York is the most independent
state in the Union. Beginning "frith
1872 we have at once this pieture of in
dependent voting:
1872—Grant (President) 53,524. Re*'
publican.
1874—Tilden (President) 50,317. Dem
ocratic.
In 1875, 1870 and 1877 the state con
tftiued to go democratic. In 1879 a
split in the democratic party, with Rob
inson and Kelly both running for gov
ernor, gave the republicans 42,777 plu
rality. The republicans carried -the
state in 1880 for Garfield by 21,033 plu
rality. Then came the revolution
as shown in these figures:
1881—Secretary of State—130,222.
Republican.
1882—Governor—192,854. Demociat
ic..
1883—Secretary of State -18.
publican.
1884—President—1,047. Democratic.
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The rer son was the people resented
the interference of the federal govern
ment in the Cleveland-Kolger campaign
of 1882 and recorded their resentment
in a plurality of 192,854 for Cleveland.
Then the republicans won again, and
then the people, attracted by Cleve
land's candidacy for the presidency,
gave the democrats a plurality in 1884.
In 1885- this plurality increased to
11,000 in 1886 it was 8,000 in 1887 it
was 17,000. Then came the notable
.illustration of independent voting on
election day, 1888:
Harrison (President) 13,002. Repub
lican.
Hill (Governor)—19,171. Democratic.
In 1889 and 1891 the democrats car
ried the state. In 1892 Cleveland's
plurality was 45,500. From 1893 to 1896
the republicans carried the state on the
silver issue. Now compare the results
in 1896 and 1897:
1896—McKinley (President) 268,400.
Republican.
1897—Parker (Chief Justice) 60^889.
Democratic.
Is there any more remarkable exam
ple of independent voting than New
York? Is it not more encouraging to
Mr. Bryan? New York voted against
him on the silver question. Its history
shows that with that question out of
the way ill may easily vote with him.—
New York World.
Col Hepburn, of this county—when
herfr—republican candidate for con
fffiBfrpin this district, said in Osceo
la,
1"tr£pendenc^—tkicuwent
except the Bible ever written—was
"good rhetoric, nice to listen to, but it
was impracticable." When the Decla
ration of Independence is not good
enough for a congressman he ought to
be put on the retired list. Mr. Hep
burn, we will retire you November 6.—
Shenandoah World. ss
The republicans think it impudent
for Mr. Bryan to condemn our Philip
pine policy while his partisans in the
south are stamping out negro suL'rage.
The Baltimore Sun, (gold dem.) says
"It is the essence of hypocrisy for the
republican party to condemn negro
disfranchisment, while it is ridine rough
shod over the political rights of the is
lands acquired from Spain."
There are according to the Balti
more Sun, 1,000 names on the member
ship roll of the German-American
Democratic association of that city,
nearly every one of whom voted for
McKinley in 1896. Maryland will roll
up a big majority for Brybn in No
vember and the Sun is doing grand
work in the cause.
The republican bosses are scared, and
badly scared, and well they may be.
To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it fails
to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on
each box. 25c.
Don't Make
a Paint
Mistake.
The many years' oxpe
ieuce we have had in han
dling paints is worth much
to us and just as much to
you. We buy paints with,
absolute knowledge us to
quality and prices. We
know there is nothing bet
ter made than the goods
we handle, and we(are in a
position to make bottom
prices. By buying close
and selling close 'we are
able to match the prices
often askpd for vastly
ferior goods.
We want to furnish^eVery
thing you will need in the
paint line this season.
W. E. MYERS & CO.
A.
Druggists.
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