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DECORAH, WINNESHEIK COUNTY, IOWA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1896.
9MU Qfyiniiyn
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY.
By AKERS A GREEN.
Official Paper of the City of Decorah.
OFFICB—an WEST WATER STREET, UPSTAIRS
TELEPHONE NO. 15.
Election Returns.
The result of the election is so well
known to all our readers that any fuller
returns than we gave last week are un
necessary. But we append a list of
the states, showing the number of elec
toral votes given to McKinley and
Bryan respectively:
States. McKinley. Bryau
Alabama 11
Arkausas 8
California 9
Colorado 4
Connecticut 6
Delaware 3
Florida 4
Georgia 13
Idaho 3
Illinois 24
Indiana 15
lowa 13
Kansas 10
Kentucky 13
Louisa uu 8
Maine 6
Maryland 8
Massachusetts 15
Michigan 14
Minnesota 9
Mississippi 9
Missouri 17
Montana 3
Nebraska 8
Nevada ( 3
New Hampshire.. 4
New Jersey 10
New York 36
North Caroliuu 11
North Dakota 3
Ohio 23
Oregou 4
Pennsylvania 32
Rhode Island 4
South Carolina 9
South Dakota 4
Tennessee . 12
Texas 15
Utah 3
Vermont 4
Virginia 12
Washington 4
West Virginia 6
Wisconsin 12
Wyoming 3
Totals 277 170
Necessary for choice, 221.
Bob Burdette is Coming.
Thanks to the enterprise of the stu
dents of our High School, arrangements
have been made by which the people of
Decorah will have the chance of hear
ing this prince of humorists, the “Bur
lington Hawkeye Man.” His master
piece, “The Rise and Fall of the Mus
tache,” will be given, and as the title
indicates, is full of fun, but not only is
it funny, it is full of rare good sense as
well.
A crowded house should greet him,
and thus encourage the young people
to give us several other tirst class enter
tainments. We understand Robert
Nourse, Dr. Gunsaulas and Paul Du
Chaillu are being talked of tor later en
gagements provided this attempt is
successful. Tlie proceeds of the course
are to be used to assist in furnishing
the new school building.
Remember the time, Nov. 80th.
Tickets now on sale at Schrubbe’s.
This country has no room for a poli
tical party which seeks votes by preach
ing sedition. That there are rich and
poor in this country is, of course, true;
but the fact, known to all men, that
nine out of every ten rich men started
in life without money is unanswerable
argument showing that there is no
impassable chasm between the rich
and the poor.
In Chicago last Wednesday night
some three hundred silverites, believ
ing Bryan was elected, marched down
oue of the principal streets yelling for
Bryan. A platoon of police, who had
been sent to march with them, by mis
take dispersed the crowd. What tu
multuous times we would have had
Bryan been elected.
•
The college football players may ease
their minds; now that the more impor
tant business of electing a President
has been attended to the public will
devote some of its attention to the
chrysanthemum-haired young men,
who have been somewhat neglected of
late.
•
Home of the alleged labor leaders
have proven themselves to be very
small potatoes in the eves of the reul
laborers of the country.
—
Now let’s muzzle the calamity howl
ers and everybody help to push ulong
the business boom.
THE GREAT REPUBLICAN VICTORY.
It is but natural that those of us who
believe in the principles of the republi
can party should feel a sense of joy
over the outcome of the late election.
We do not mean by this that we should
indulge in loud ejaculations about our
success, or hurl abusive epithets at those
who believe in the principles so ably
championed by Mr. Bryan, their can
didate for president. There is a sense
of gladness, in the first place, because
the cloud of suspense which hung over
the business of the country has to a
certain extent disappeared; and, in the
second place, because of the victory of
sound finance and protection, two
principles under which our nation has
grown in prosperity and power.
The campaign just closed has been
in many respects the most remarkable
one in the history of American politics.
It certainly has been one of the hardest
fought. On one side were the forces of
sound money, led by the great Ameri
can statesman and son of Ohio, Wil
liam McKinley. On the other side
were arrayed three parties which had
agreed in declaring the money issue
the most important one. These three
parties nominated William J. Bryan,
of Nebraska, for president, who con
ducted a campaign the like of which
has never been carried on in this coun
try. For a time parties seemed to be
reut asunder. The young silver
champion from Nebraska was draw
ing to himself support from the forces
of republicanism. At the same time
thousands of democrats who were op
posed to bi-metallism were bolting the
democratic ticket. The people’s party
were fusing with the democrats on
electors in many of the states. The
situation was a peculiar one and the
result was impossible to foretell.
But the day on which the battle of
ballots was to be fought came in its
wake. The contest which had been
waged for four months was to be settled
in the quiet calm and secrecy of the vo
ting booth. The result Is known to
all. The verdict of the people was
overwhelmingly against free silver.
The people said in unmistakable terms
that they wanted to continue our pres
ent safe system of currency. They did
not want to try another experiment.
We had not recovered from the effects
of the experiment of 1892. So the Am
erican people concluded to dispense
with experimenting business for four
years at least. They concluded it was
better to have prosperity than business
depression; better to have work and pay
for it than idleness and starvation.
Republican success means a great
deal at this time. It means that the
capacity for labor will increase. The
factories will open and those men who
have been anxious to earn money will
now have the chance to do so. It
means that the money which has been
tied up in bank vaults will tie placed
out to do business with. The fear
that there would be a radical change
in our monetary system iuduced the
dealers in money to hoard tiie gold.
That fear is now dispelled. Men will
utilize their capital to move the pro
ductive energies of the country. In
stead of the dark cloud which, like a
threatening demon, has hovered over
the financial world for four years we
can see the rays of sunlight. The thick
mist of gloom has begun to dispel.
Hope once more shows her smiling
face.
The republican party has always led
the nation in the paths of prosperity.
It has always believed that American
industries should lie given preference
over those of other countries. It has
also always believed in a sound curreu
cy— the soundest on earth. When it
lias become necessary to issue paper
money, it has always provided that it
could be maintained at a parity with
gold. It has never issued any form
of money but what could be suid of it
as Col. Ingersoll so happily expressed,
“a representative which can stand be
fore the world and say without a blush,
‘I know that my redeemer lives.”’ It
is fortunate, indeed for the country
that tiie republican party triumphed.
Rosa Bonheuk leads the life of a
recluse in her chateau in the deptli of
the Forest of Fontainebleau, near Paris.
Site secludes herselt from ull, and it
was with the greatest difficulty that
the editors of the Ladies’ Home Jour
nal succeeded in getting a proposition
before her that she write her auto
biography for that magazine. After
nearly a year’s effort they were suc
cessful, aud once started on her work
the great i>ainter found so much inter
est in it that she made over a dozen
special studies and pictures of animuls
to accompany the text. The autobio
graphical article, with the valuable un
published drawings, will appear in the
Christmas Journal, together with por
traits of Rosa Bonheur as she works in
iter studio and home.
FROM A DEMOCRATIC VIEW.
Editors Public Opinion:
With your kind permission I would
desire to express through your columns
the sentiment of one who belongs to
the party that was defeated at the polls
last Tuesday, and beg to suggest some
of the reasons why bimetallism was
not victorious in the campaign which
has just closed.
In my opinion five principal reasons
may be truthfully advanced for the de
feat of Mr. Bryan and bimetallism, evi
dence of which it seems to nfie can be
adduced to prove that eacli one is
based uot upon mere opinion, but upon
actual transactions which occurred dur
ing the campaign. The first of these
reasons was the enormous amount of
money which was used by the repul»-
lican campaign managers. The great
corporations and banking institutions
of the country poured their millions in
to the committee treasury to accom
plish a republican victory. A gentle
man from Buffalo, N. A'., said to me
last May that the free coinage of silver
would not be adopted if it cost $50,000,-
000 to prevent it. With this threat up
on its lips the aggregated wealth of the
nation went into the contest determin
ed to win at any cost. W. K. Vander
bilt sent his cheek for SIOO,OOO, and J.
D. Rockefeller contributed $250,000.
With millions of dollars contributed
by the capitalists in whose interest the
gold standard is maintained the repub
lican committee perfected an organiza
tion which proved impossible to over
come. They employed the best talent
which could he obtained, and paid for
it the highest price, to speak to the
people upon the stump. The owners of
capital controlled the stock of almost
all the daily papers in large cities. So
the genius of able editorial writers was
drafted to do service to the cause of the
money power. The people may not
have all understood these facts, but the
time is coming when they will, and
their votes will crush from political
power the men who secure their mil
lions by assistance from the govern
ment and at the expense of the produ
cers of wealth.
The second reason was coercion on
the part of employers of labor. Men
who employed laborers told their work
ingmeu that if they desired work and
wages they must vote for Mr. McKin
ley, for the election of a free silver pres
ident and congress meant to them lack
of employment. In this rnanuer they
exercised control over thousands of vo
ters who would have cast their votes for
Mr. Bryau. This, too, in a nation where
all men are supposed to be free. The
stars ana stripes, which represents the
blood of countless thousands of martyrs
for freedom, was no protection to the
citizen in the exercise of his right to
vote according to the dictates of his
own conscience. Such a proceeding
was never surpassed in the very throes
of monarchy itself, and certainly nev
er in our country where we boast of the
priceless heritage of liberty.
The third reason was the action of
those so-called democrats who voted
for Mr. McKinley. There were thou
sands of them who voted the republican
ticket because they were opposed to the
the free coinage of silver. It will not
be denied for a moment that they had
a perfect right to do so, but they have
not the right to say, as they have said,
that the Chicago convention was not
democratic. The democratic party,
beginning with the illustrious Jefferson,
lias always held as one of its tenets
that gold and silver is the money of
the constitution, until Grover Cleve
land and his Wall street associates in
two or three national conventions rob
bed it of one of its principles. All that
is asked of these men is to continue to
vote as they see tit, but to cease their
attempt to frame the policies of the
democratic party, for they have no
right to foist the theories of republican
ism upon the platform of democracy.
The fourth reason was the continued
cry of republican orators and editors
that tlie cause of the financial panic
was the defeat of Mr. Harrison in 1892,
when they themselves knew the real
cause to be lack of money in the world.
They also, in addition to this, fright
ened tlie people by the application of
abusive epithets, such as “anarchists,”
“repudiationists” and “popoerats” to
the advocates of bimetallism. They
used the high sounding but meaning
less phrases “sound money” and an
“honest dollar” to prejudice the voter.
There was no limit to their sway of rid
icule aud vituberution, while the advo
cates of silver coinage were compelled
in their upi>eal to the people to bear
upon their lips tlie fetters of truth.
There is a fifth reason. Many repub
lican voters who believe in bimetallism,
hut who feared tlie the financial strin
gency would be* longer prolonged if we
were to wait for the passage of a free
silver bill than if we were to elect a
republican administration and obtain a
No. 38.
temporary relief from the long siege of
depression which has paralyzed busi
ness. They, however, can be counted
upon to cast their votes and influence
for bimetallism at future elections.
These, in my opinion, were the five
principal reasons for the defeat of Mr.
Bryan, reasons had they not existed,
would have secured for him a sufficient
number of electoral votes, and elected
a silver congress.
But the cause of bimetallism is by no
means dead. The battle has just be
gun. The forces of free coinage are
stronger at this uiomeut than they
have l*?en since the ruthless and sur
reptitious striking down of silver in
1873. The year 1900 will record a vic
tory for the money of the constitution •
From this day every believer in that
principle should spare no effort in ad
vancing this great cause of humanity,
a cause that is right and just.
The voice of a grateful people rises in
one accord in praise of that dauntless
champion of the producing masses,
William J. Bryan. He has won for
himself in this contest just laurels of
fame. The toiling yoemanry of the
United States, as well as of the world,
will crown him, not with costly dia
dems worn by kings, but with that
other greater crown, the affection of
their hearts. Yours respectfully,
Wm. H. Hughes.
»
Cemetery Improvement Association.
Report of treasurer for 1896.
May 18th, Balance on hand $ 93 37
Received on Lot Tax 123 50
“ Digging of Graves 25 00
“ Extra Work • 26 00
“ From Road Fund 33 84
Total $3Ol 61
Paid Sexton $l7O 00
“ Ass’n Expenses 15 00
“ On Flower Beds 30 00
•* Extra Work 15 85
Total $230 46
Balance on Haud s7l 16.
Uncollected Bills 15 00
ANNA CADWELL, Treasurer.
Monday, Nov. 2 1896—The Women’s
Cemetery Improvement Association
held the last meeting for this year at
the residence of Mrs. E. W. Hoyt.
The season’s work was found complete
with the exception of a few bills yet
due the association. Mr. Olson proved
to be a most efficient sexton, and un
der the direction of the ladies, made
many improvements. The .eetuetery
is in the best condition it has ever been
left at the close of a season's work.
This has been a very prosperous year
for the association, owing to the great
er interest manifested by the public in
the good work. More money has been
received than expended. Although a
new association has beeu formed by
the gentlemen for continuing the work,
yet the ladies will not disband as an
organization until atter the annual
meeting on the first Mouday in April,
1897. Then funds on haud will be dis
posed of, and all business of the asso
ciation completed. N. 8. Merrill,
Secretary.
Petit Jurors.
Below is the list of petit jurors
drawn yesterday, who will be re
quired to serve at the next term of
the District Court for Winneshiek
County, which convenes in this city
November :10th:
Calmar
John Welsh.
Anton Moe.
Theodore Estrem.
Nels Bakke.
Andrew Flaskerud.
Anton Kaihle.
Washington.
Frank Huber.
Burr Oak.
Wm. Maleomb.
C. E. Rollins.
Chas. Brittendahl.
Hpillville.
John Crba.
Decor ah.
Geo. Penningtou.
Alex Kirkland.
Wm. C. Meyrlck.
Jackson.
Frank Krumui.
Springfield.
Andrew Estrem.
Ole Thompson.
Highland.
J. S. Falkedahl.
Hesper.
Helge Jacobson.
Nicholas Richert, Jr.
Theodore Thorson.
Lincoln.
G. A. Bakken.
Milton O. Libby.
Pleasant.
John Stoskoft.
Glen wood.
Nels O. Bruvold.
Canoe.
Arthur Mclntire.
Military.
James Cahill, Br.
Freemont.
John Nolen.
Frankvii.le.
Martin Ask.
Sumner.
Albert E. Olson.