Chariton courier., August 17, 1894, Image 4

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THE CHABIFOH GODBIER,
C P. VAKDXV.EJl.Z4.and Prop.
KEYTESVTLLE, - MISS 0 URL
STATE DZMOCZATIC TICXXT.
For J a is 8opr Cort
FRANCIS y. BLACK,
of JmImd Count j.
For SUU 8a peris Undent of Pablie SrhooU,
WILLIAM T. CARRINUTU.
of Andmin Coast.
For Railroad and M'arthoo CommUeeioner
JOStril II. FINKS,
of Cbaritoa County.
For EprentatiTt la Congr.
Second District.
URIEL 8. BALL,
of Randolph County.
For Stat Senator SUth district
II, T. MLOTABAN,
6l SoUhan Connty.
COTJBTT LZMOCBAIXC TICXXT
For ReprcwntatiTt
T. P. SCHOOLER,
For Probata J ads
11. C. ULSTER
For ProaecatiBg Attorney
J. C WALLACE
For Clrmit Clerk
H. B. RICHARDSON.
For Consty Clerk
R. D. EDWARDS.
For Recorder of Deeda
H. II. SMITH
For Treaanrer
A. L. WELCH
For Preaidisji Jodga Cousty Court
LLOTD U. HERRING
For Sheriff
J1ME3 E. BEMPSET.
For Jadg Eaatern District
HENRY HATES
Forjudge Wee tern DUtrict
CUAS. E. ALLEN
For Coroner -,
DR.O. II. DEWEY
i
Actborities at Washington City
ore enaeaTonuK ium
"Coxeyltes." They recently procur
'wi tmnnort&tion over the Cbesa-
Swake &. Ohio road far sixty fire ef
! ..
them, whose destination was
City.
Texas fever has broken out among
the cattle in some parts of Kansas
'as a result of letting Texas catue to
zo mat am id mwwih v . -
5th last. The state quarantine
rulatlons exclude them between
'ebrnary 1st and December 1st.
Good authorities say the corn
I t r.n.ai with tha pTeentionoI
mt u.w f
few counties on the eastern border,
lm burned ud from Nebraska to Okla
homa. Fields which as late as twelve
Jays ago promised fifty to sixty
bushels per acre will not now pro
lan twenty bushels.
A hews pa per is like a bill of fare.
vr nn ncnon likes all It contains.
i
The DroDer way Is to select what you
'ike and leave what you dislike for
'jiose who have a taste for it. Don't
Ind fault with the entire menu be
muse yon can't swallow the whole
t. The greater the variety, the
picier the fare.
j Tu way the Monroe City Xevra
uU it: We have known girls to
I close to marry young men becanse
hey were poor and couldn't go with
'hem any place but to church or
Sunday school. Some of these girls
Are si tuns: up mguv u uui
feven sick children and waiting lor
I drunken husband to come
ome.
i 1 .
ft Tbce, the senate bill is Dot what
re desired la the way of tariff leg
ation, but it is the best measure
e can hope for from a sugar-coated
- p!il ikt. kill tm taw mnra
vorable. to the masses than Mc
iinleyism, and goes a long way to
Jard redeeming the Democratic
rarty's pledges to tbe people. Let
Lam nini taafnnil firm and a more
rcuvv..w
borough tariff revision is sure to
How. although it may not be dur
jg the present session of congress.
c -
(Governor AtCeld, of Illinois, on
fl ... t o.u tm t.lMTMinhM the
line iiu iuow.
'llowing to Hon. Wm. Springer,
ember of congress from the Spring-
Mid. HI- district: "Secure free sug-
f f II possioie. lun uu' v
u.MifitorMtMl In this. Free
i ituminous coal could only benefit
Vi TVIUIO v
England and the seaport towns
id help a few men who own the
."reign mines. The entire country
f
jst of New York cares notwng
out It, for our soit coal is now
. ia at BiarTOkiuLi
r'.i :ti nni Kcnpflt a email section
i. m niu vwj ...-
C m should not stand in ths way of
r jneaeure for the relief of the whole
OIntry. and It is vital that soms
fl be passed at once."
SENATOR COCXBELL refused to VOtS
for a rale ia the ten ate that would
do away with tbe fllibusterer who it
always bent ou tbe obstruction of
legislation, as was shown by tbe
protracted fight on tbe tariff daring
the past several months. The peo
ple hare this and some other things
against him, and while nobody seems
to impugn his motives, the decre
has gone forth that be must meas
ure up to tbe people's expectations
in the future or he, too, will go over
board at tbe expiration of his pres
ent term.
The tariff measure, known now as
"the senate Dill'which it is expected
will become a law, is easily shown
to be an improvement on the
Mc Kinley bill. It gives free wool,
lumber, hemp, flax and jute, and re
duce largely the duties on goods,
into which all of these materials
enter. The average dity on woolen
goods under tha McKinley law Is
98 1-2 per cent. This has been
reduced more than one-half. There
Is considerable redaction on all
scfaednles and the average on all
will be about 38 per cent, against 50
per cent, under the present law.
The llepnblican congressional
convention ol this district meets, at
Brookfleld, Monday week, Aug 27th,
for the purpose of nominating a
candidate for congress. The con
vention will be composed of G7
delegates, of which Carroll county
will be entitled to 12. Livingston 8,
Grcndy 10, Lino 10, Livingston 8,
Monroe 3, Chariton 8, Randolph
7 aod Sullivan
9 delegates. There will probally
be no contention over who shall
receive the enpty honor of the nom
ination, as the poor fellow will be
caught out in a terrific enow storm
Jon the Stool rsovember, ana win
not be able to scratch before 1001.
Bexjauec Eranklix was lately
whipped for stealing chickens.
Thomas Jefferson sent np for va
grancy, Madison fined for getting
drunk, Aaron Burr had his eye
gouged out in a fight, Zachary Tay
lor robbed a widow of her spoons,
John Wesley was caught breaking
into a store, George Washington is
on trial for attempted outrage, An
drew Jackson was shot in a negro
bar rocm, Martin Luther hung him
self on the garden - paling while
stealing a basket of vegetables, and
Napoleon Bonaparte Is breaking
rock for a three dollar fine in New
Orleans. What's the matter with
our great men's namesakes?
An "old timer" in tbe Democratic
party inquired of us the other day
when Senator Vest's time expired.
We told him his successor would
take bis seat on March 4th, 1897.
Whereupon tbe "old timer" said:
"I wish it was out now." Judging
from the tone of tbe Democratic
press, of Missouri, we believe a sim
ilar sentiment is endorsed by thou
sands of Senator Vest's former ad
mirers, lie has been assuming a
"bigness," so to speak, for several
years, that is far beyond tbe magni
tude of his party in this state, lie
is no longer the affable servant of
the people. To his constituents he
has become more like a dictator and
for this reason should be left at
home next time.
C. L. Shattcck, a Chicago live
stock commisbion merchant, was at
Kansas City recently waiting for a
belated Santa Fe train. He bad
this to say of tbe short corn crop
upon bis business: "Fewer cattle
will be fed," said be, "but those that
aie fed and marketed will command
a higher price. Those who feed cat
tle for market will be able to get
them at a low figure, because feeders
will want to reduce their stock as
much as possible. They can then af
ford to pay a little more for corn,
especially as tbe fat cattle will bring
a higher price. There's no doubt
about the corn crop being generally
short this yar, take It the country
over. 1 know a number of localities
where corn will yield only about ten
or fifteen bushels per acre that dur
ing the last few years have produc
ed sixty and seventy bushels. Then
tbeieisa corresponding difference
in the price. Corn will now bring
sixty cents a bushel in Iowa that
was twenty five and thirty cents last
year. This will probably lead tn;the
feeding of other grains to cattle. In
tbe South it is likely that cotton
seed bran will be fed largely, but
that is not profitable, as bogs can
not be fattened with cattle where
this feed is used. It is too heating
and kills them. There is nothing
so good as corn as a flesh maker
for cattle and bogs."
THZ ORXXX-ETED rRISS SPECTATOR.
The sensibilities; of the Salisbury
Ptvss-Spectat or have been shocked.
Its feelings have been lacerated,
and it whmeth like a whipped pup
or a hungry dog for a bone.
Two weeks ago, W. II. Bradley, of
Salisbury, took occasion to pay the
Courier a compliment aa to its relia
bility as a newspaper, and said this
was the only paper in tbe county
that had published a correct account
of the Meeks case, which was taken
from this to Carroll county on a
change of venue, and which was
tried at the recent July term of the
Carroll circuit court.
This broad but truthful atatecoent
of Mr. Bradley's stirred up the
green-eyed monster in the Iress
Spectator office, and it proceeded
to arraign Mr. Bradley in terms of
scathing ridicule for going back on
hit ''home papers."
The Press-Spectator claims that It
gave a correct account of the result
of the trial of the Meeks case, bnt
that h not true. The P, S. was
right in stating that tbe case result
ed in a hung jury and was continued,
but it was wrong when It stated
that Meeks bad been, released on a
f 2,500 bond. We do not believe
this mistake was Intentional, but it
made the P. S's. account of the case
incorrect. It was wrong Just as
Mr. Bradley claimed. Then where
does the "rot" of which the Press
Spectator indignantly speaks come
in? A case of jealousy on the part of
the P. S. is so plain tbat even those
who run may read and understand.
We know nothing of Mr. Bradley's
financial standing with the Press-
Spectatortbut we do know that
had every one of our subscribers
contributed as much to the support
of the Courier as has Mr. Bradley
that we would have enough money
to pay all of our debts and
have considerably more than
enough left to buy the Press-Specta
tor a much needed purgative.
Tha Haw TaxlS Law.
The senate bill which the caucus
action, barring a presidential veto,
insures as the law of the land in
place of the McKinley bill, provides
the following rates of duty upon tbe
great staples which have been the
bones of contention:
All raw sugars, 40 per cent, ad va
lorem; sugars above No. 1G (refined)
1-8 percent, additional; sugars pro
duced in bounty paying countries,
one-tenth per cent, additional to
these rates. Hawaiian sugar is still
free under the reciprocity treaty.
Iron ore, 40 cents per ton; pig
Iron, $4 per ton; iron or steel rails,
7-20 of 1 per cent, per pound.
Lead and dross, 3-4 of 1 per cent,
per pound; silver lead bearing ore.
the same duty on the lead therein.
Tobacco for wrappers, $1.50 per
pound unstemmed, $2.25 stemmed;
cigars and cigarettes, $4 per pound
25 cents ad valorem.
Coal, bituminoBS and large slack,
15 cents per ton.
Precious stones, set and unset, 25
per cent, ad valorem; set, 30 per
cent; uncut, 10 percent; glaziers' and
miners' diamonds, free.
Logs and sawed lumber and tim
ber (save tropical woods) and wool
are free.
Tin plate, 1 1-5 per cent, per
pound after October 1st.
Under the internal revenue sections
of tbe bill, playing cards are taxed
two cents a package. An income
tax of 2 per cent, on incomes above
$4,000 Is provided for; also a tax on
corporations of 2 per cent. Wbieky
is taxed $1.10 per gallon and the
bonded period fixed at eight years.
There is good authority for the
statement that the president willnot
sign nor veto the senate tariff bill.
but will let it become a law without
his signature under the ten days'
provision of tbe constitution.
Pullman, the sleeping car king.
had planned for strikes in advance
of tbeir coming. lie owns ths
town of Pullman, streets and
everything pertaining thereto.
Ills workmen are his tenants
as well. lie let tnem enjoy tneir
strike to their heart's content.
When he wanted tbem to go to work
again be gave them notice to do so
or they would be evicted from his
tenement houees. This he had a
perfect right to do under the law, as
during tbe strike tbeir rent bills were
unpaid. Seeing their hopeless and
helplees condition, tbeir families
bordering on a tar ration, the poor
fellows accepted tbe inevitable and
reported readj for work. They have
learned by sad experience that a
strike is more disas.trou j .to a poor
employe than It is to a rich employer.
A collision between two pas
senger trains on the Santa Fe,
between ITurdland and Gibbs,
in Knox county, last Sunday,
caused the death of two train
men. Several passengers werfe
injured and the engines and ex
press and baggage cars com
pletely demolished.
Champ Clark does not seem
to think that Ex-Gov. Francis
nor Governor Stone will either
stand any show to succeed Sen
ator Vest in case that gentle
man voluntarily retires in 1S9C,
from the fact that ex-governor
are not built the senatorial av
lie says that no man ever
politically survived an election
as governor of liiSSOuri.
A. Cv .Walls, who was ap
pointed deputy U. Smarshal
by Gen. Jo Shelby, but whose
commission was revoked on Ju
ly 7th, continued to exercise
the functions of his office in
Kansas City during the recent
strike, for which he was ar
rested by the state's authority,
tried and found guilty of fraud
and sentenced to thirty days in
jail. His time is up, but he
will still have to answer to Un
cle Sam under a similar charge.
IT. M. "Wycoff, Democratic
candidate for superintendent of
public instruction, in Kansas,
naa a rougu experience in
Atchison, last Sunday night.
While walking along the street
some one threw a rock which
struck him on the head and
felled him to the earth. He re
covered in a few minutes suffi
ciently to walk home, though
bleeding -and in a suffering
condition. It is only a surmise
as to who threw the rock and
for what reason.
Arthur Landers, a boy 16
years old. employed by the K.
C. Cable company to ride the
"help mule" on the Prospect
avenue horse-car line, met with
a painful accident last Sunday
In endeavoring to mount his
mule he slipped and fell, his
shoestring catching in the hook
used to hitch the singletree to
the car. After dragging the
boy two blocks the mule was
caught in time to save the lad's
life. He was picked up uncon
scious and bleeding, but was
thought not to be fatally injur
ed. gressman Wilson, of West Vir
ginia, "is between the Ameri
can people and the sugar trust.
It is a battle in which the trust
has taken the people by the
throat, and it wiil never end
until we throw off the grip."
If this is true we need a little
more of the kind of blood that
coursed through the veins of
our revolutionary sires. "We
want more patriotism and less
selfishness among our national
legislators. Bribe-takers and
members of oppressive trusts
and corporations, who have got
ten rich by their ill - gotten
gains, must be sent to the rear
in legislative councils.
At West Indianapolis, Ind..
last Sunday night, Marshal
Perry, with a force of depu
ties, broke up a Populist meet
ing and arrested the leaders. It
seems the Populists had been
holding a continuous meeting
r i J -v . i
iur several uays. iut uaviug
the fear of God nor respect for
the law of man, they held their
meetings on Sunday in their
tent having a seating capacity
of D00. where they talked fiat
money, government ownership
of railroads, etc. For this in
fraction of the Sunday law
they were arrested and held in
durance vile. This is the par
ty Chariton county Populists
have found that is pure and
undefined. "What think ye of
it over ia Indiana?
J. N. Beacon, of "Watonga,
Oklahoma, suicided by the pis
tol route Aug. 13th. He was a
banker and had invested funds
where he could not realize up
on his investment in time of
need.
The effect of the passage of
the tariff bill on the whiskey
trade was shown in Louisville,
where 170,000 gallons were
taken out of bond within one
hour after receiving the news
of the passage of the bill.
Senator Peffer's pension bill,
which provides that where a
pensioner is a Worthless persOP.
and a drunkard, or has de
serted and abandoned his fam
ily and no longer aids or con
tributes to their support, his
pension shall be paid to his
wife, is based on reason and
justice, and has been recom
mended for passage by the
committee on pensions. The
bill provides, of course, that
the wife shall be of good char
acter, but this may be safely
assumed, especially in the case
of a good for nothing husband
WISE MEN DIFrEE.
That was a mean trick play
ed by the editor of the Louis
iana Press on Col. Filley recent
ly. While the Col. was near
ing the climax of a labored ef
fort to show how the country
was being rushed to ruin by
the Democratic party, the Press
man rose tQ a question of priv
ilege and quoted the following
utterance of the Republican
governor of Pennsylvania: "To
be candid, I don't believe the
depression in business is the
result of Democratic policy.
This wave of business depres
sion was coming and it is only
the good fortune of the Repub
licans that the Democrats got
in power in time to be caught
by it. It is one of - those peri
odical depressions that regular
ly affect the country, and noth
ing could have avoided it. I
don't believe the Democrats or
their. policy have anything to
do with it. It would have come
anyhow, and if Harrison had
been elected it might have been
worse." And the audience, re
minded thus forcibly of the
proverbial saying that wise
men differ, fell to reflecting
upon the subject and forgot
that Col. Filley had been speak
ing. During the contest for the
Democratic nomination for gov
enor of Alabama, that "strong
anti-Cleveland sentiment," of
which one hears so much, was
concentrated against Mr. Oates,
who was the personal friend of
the president, and was in some
way nobody knows exactly
how supposed to represent
him. Mr. Oates was easily
nominated. Then it was loud
ly declared that he would be
overwhelmingly defeated at the
polls, and that Alabama would
gladly take opportunity to show
its dislike of the administra
tion. According to reports Mr.
Oates seems to have had a
pretty easy time of it all
around. This is usually the
way of it. The politicians are
loud in their boasts of the
manner in which they are go
ing to defeat and humiliate the
president and his followers,
but when the matter is left to
the people for arbitration, Mr.
Cleveland comes out on- top.
Less than a year ago Mr. Mor
gan, of Alabama, was fulmina
ting against the president and
representing his state as in a
condition of violent hostility to
the administration, but to-day
Mr. Morgan is very glad to
climb upon the presidential
band wagon to insure his re-
nomination. What is true of
Alabama is true of every Dem
ocratic state.
Staats Bill or No tiling:,
Was the agreement of the conferees
of tbe two houses of congress, where
upon the lower house last Monday
passed the Wilson bill with its 634
amecdments as made by the senate
The lower house did this not be
cause the members endorsed the
amendments, but, because, evident
ly, it was the best the senate would
do; and also because of the prob
ability that if the bill, as amended,
went into the possession of the sen
ate again it would defeat any and all
attempts at legislation upon the
subject of th tariff.
Ihe vote lor the pasesage of xfo
eenate billing notlge 8t0oo for
185; aga'fsVt, 103. Thirteen Demo
crats bf the house voted againstJ the
V senate measure. They were in favor
of continuing the flcbt in order to
get something better. After the vote
was taken, in accordance with in
structions given by the Democratic
caucua.Mr.Wileon.cbairman of ways
and means committee, Introduced
separate bills making coal, iron orer
barbed wire and sugar free of tariff
duties. All these bill passed the
lower house by mafontie ranging
from 75 to 80. This course has
completely vindicated the lower
house and laid all the blame for de
lay and unacceptable legislation at
tbe door of tbe senate.
The agreement of the lower house
to have free coal, iron orer barbed
wire and sugar, will give the senate
another opportunity to show its
hand, and"we shall see what we shall
see."
After being lampooned by the
Missouri Democratic press pretty
severely for bis shortcomings in
working tor thorough Democratic
tariS reform and his attack upon
President Cleveland urging Demo
crats in congress to redeem party
pledges. Senator Vest, in tbe dis
patches, is said to be working with
might and main to get at least two
of the free trade measures through
the senate that were recently passed
In tbe lower house. "Better late
than never," but the eenatsr will
realize that it would have been bet'
ter for him never to have been late
As big as he has been of late, he,
doubtless, has concluded tbat he ia
not much larger than the party that
made him a into senator. Doubt
less some parties who said bard
things against Senator Mackay for
voting for Sam Grover for. U, S.
senator as against Col. Vest, would
now be willing to apologize if they
had an opportunity.
It is said that the aristocra
cy, as well as the church, in
Germany, oppose free schools
and as a result there is nearly
a collapse in the educational
interests of that country. Tho
enormous expenditures by the
empire for military purposes
have reduced the public school
fund to such an extent that
teachers are employed at star
vation wages to the detriment
of the masses.
s In Nebraska a man was con
victed of theft and sentenced to
a year's imprisonment. A new
trial was asked for, but the
man had served his term and
been discharged before the su
preme court decided he was en
titled to a new trial.
Since the tariff bill passed con
gress, there have been all sorts of
speculations as to whether the presi
dent will sign it, veto it. or wait ten
days and suffer it to become a law
without his signature. We have no
idea he will veto it, but to show his
disapproval he may possibly let the
ten days pass without his signature.
At the late Democratic Drimnrv
election, in Callaway,two of her beet
citizens were candidates for represen
tative. Dr. Tate, and Nick Thur
mond. Tate was the winning candi
date, though either one of these
gentlemen would have reflected
credit upon his constituents.
Two masked men held up a train
last Monday on the Lake Shore rail
road, near Whiting, Indiana, and
robbed the conductor and brakemen
of $200 and other valuables. Tbe
robbers made good tbeir escape.
Frank McAcley and Thomas
Austin are being held for the gr.ud
jury, in Scott county, in a bond of
$1,000 each, under a charge of help
ing two prisoners to escape from jaiL
Nlar Shelby ville. III.. Isaac Copiln.
a wealthy mTt w- killed by an,
infuriatf.l .. Aa,. 13tb. The
animal wd lielio.ued, but by actual
force crushed the man to death.