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GHARW8R GQURlfiR. a r.TAXDim.u i KEYTESVILLE, - MISSOURI. Entered at lb Fwrt-Offlc at KeTtaaTilla. Mo., ecotxl-clA matter. ANNOUNCEMENTS. BATE. Wtataoeaira.laa.l 'iM--f,tSJ Tiimk atrkrtl la afc Ml pat joar ' ym krllMMoa7 to pay tor II Da la aalil --- T'- m rrrTTtr. VttnutkerM iaaaaaaa j. a. Straus mm a raadUMa for traaatlT ot 'aaHtaB mnnnXy aal Jrt ta tha aetka a taa lmo aratW party. riMirmii aYroaaar. Wt ara aataoctaul to aaaaaara 4. a. rotxrr a eaarfUata Kr aratiac attorT f Carl " e'r aLt to Ua attkoa ol tba P ociatte party. Wa ara aalborLid to aaaooraa i.e. vallaoi -a a eaadblata for pmaarallna; attoraay Ouu-itoa roarv al J-et to tia actioa ol tta Daarocratfe party. at rr. Vt ara aataoriarf to aaaoaoca 0- a. ADKaa . 1 a caarfkUta for bifl ! farita T abject to tba rnttinm ol tfca Dawoeratie par- Wa ara aataorUadT to aaaoaaaa , r. u. TKATm M taadbfato lor baritl ol CHta mmntj abjaet to taa actioa of taa IfrnocraU p-r-v.- - . Wa ara tkoriarf So aaaoaaa i. a. PKMrarr a a eatUata lor abwiS of aaritoa eoaatj ahjatt to tba aciioa at tia Dratorratir par-7- rasAacasa. Wa ara aatborid to aaaoaaea t co. aocaroa & MBilU.i tor tnMarvr of faarifta oanty aal4c to tba actioa el rih party. ITaaraaataorijad toaaaoaaca taa 1 a a-imniTt ladUata lor traaaarar of Oritoa aty aabjac to tba aexa i- - tie party. . w ara aathHrr4 to awaoarr obti MArrxaaaaKa ta!Mta lor tr ol rarioa to tba actioa 01 ' to- era tia party. ' avivsToa. - WaaraaatboHaMl.to aaaooara aLBirr r. iirwtTM aaraa.lM.ifcrarTryor!raHtoeaa- ty aai.jact to tba actioa of tba oBorrati ' ctt Jcooft ft ati a tMrraa:r. Wa ara aatborlaal to aaaoaaea aaeaadMatatora1car.f tba anaaty rrt flViritoa roaatjp lor tba aa t ara la irict -abart to tba artfc.a ol tba Draioeratie par ty. rrsur abmixttbato. va ara aatberbad to aaaoaaca) K V. Woo.ft a cim1H for tk otPr tf nahlla adatal. rtnrot'baritoa coaaty olft to tbaaa l hi ol tba Daaiocratia prty. vt ara aathorticd t" aniHMinco Two. E. SCacsbt ata a Candida ta for tba offlca of poMfe adoiln astratoroCCoarttonooontr. aubect to tba actioa ot tba icaiocrattc party. Wm. Clark, aged 14, and Annie 1 uuras 01 tnat amount anil be reaiucu. Davidson, aged 15. were married at It is also said Mr. Carlisle has gone to liberty. Ky., on Ftb. 13th. They ; New York to get "advice." It oc lave perhaps taken each other to 'curs to us that 'advice1 obtained at xaise. ' that metropolis has helped largely to j get the treasury into its present de- A CAKFXKSS small boy threw a pleted condition. -snatch into a mass of oily waste in a shirt factory, in New York, last Mon xlay that caused a destrnctive confla gration. There were t.o women in ah firtnrv thrr of whom were killed and many others seriously injured by . . r - , ... ' .jumping frora windows in attempting to escape with their lives. The tost-Dispatch says that Pete Peterson and Frank Crosby fouuht a ' a o-round fight in one of the down re sorts, of St. Ixuis. last Sunday, which does not siak wcB for the city as a law-abiding municiiulity. We wonder where the mayor, other civil officers nJ the nolice were that such dis- r - 1: .v..i.i k,. - . ,rwi ,);,n,;t r " ... this CTcat commonwcaltrji b Orviixk Siirlby. son ofCen.J.O Shelby helby. happened to a serious acd- Cc it at Kansas Jty on ine mgni 01 . , . 1 tfte iotn insu ncwU wulH8 ua the stqs of a car talking to a mena. The car started suddenly, and he fell, . t: .1 ..t - '"3 - o 1 nirinfT mmprnintF axil iik- ih-iuui 111 uul tnrust him under the wneeis 01 a roov- xijuan. laecarran over nis nana and so mutilated it that amputation wa. made necessary. t The Democratic central committee, 1 f Livingston county, met at ChDli- mth hst Mnndav and a creed noon ! April 4th as the day on which the I Kingston county primaries should be . held. Ine i itn of April was seiecxea . as the day upon which the county con vention should be held to elect dele rates to the state convention which meets at Sedalia April 15th to elect delegates to the national Democratic convention to be held at Chicago on July 7th. A late revival at Hamilton, in Caldwell county, is rqortcd to have dosed aQ the saloons in the town ex cept one, and that is kept by a man that was educated for the ministry. This shows that educating the head to the neglect of the heart is a dangerous business. A man whom we knew well, and who committed some of the most diabolical deeds during the late war, was educated for a minister, but he never preached nor did he ever make a profession of religion. There was a bank robbery at Rich ards, a small town in Vernon county, last Monday night- The robbers en tered the bank through a back door. The vault was blown to pieces with dynamite, and $900 in cash, all the money there was in the bank, was tak en away. There was no clue to the robbers un'cs they were three stran gers who robbed a man of his watch at Fort Scott, beat their victim into insensibility and went thence in the direction orRichards. H. E. Taubenkck, chairman of the national committee of the People's party, has come to St. Ijouis to remain until after the national convention of his party shall have been held. He talks glibly about the fusion of the Bi metallic league and the People's party which convene in St. Ixuis On the aAwatA 4 vaA la ft 11r rW miuc uj. wh.wujhhwiuhu6.i hj$ hai when he says the combination ... m . ... . , w . "tVJ al victory this year. It seems this new party, that is to be, is to have but onc piaa in its national platform, the . .. .. . , free and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio ol 16 to 1. This is good enough as far as it goes, but the idea of a political party succeeding in this 'rYMintrv in a national ramrviltrn on a . ... single lolibcal idea would be unujue anH a nrvr ilnarture to av the lrat. It is given out from Washington that the new issue of bonds with which to buy gold to increase the gold re serve to the maximum is not accom plishing the purpose for ahich it was intended, and that the administration has come to the conclusion that its I latest calculations have miscarried and that it is useless to attempt further to keep the supply of gold in the treasury to the standard heretofore maintained. It is estimated that of $111.000000 in gold, which the last sale of bonds (should have produced, hardly two- .a a 4.a. a a a TUB TRUTH HAS RISEN. In 1892 the Courier opposed the nomination of U. S. Hall for congress in this district for the reason that we knew him to be a scoundrel, unworthy r .i. c 1 . r of the confidence or esteem of any respectable citizen. We learned of his corrupt, unscrup- a . a a a UIOUS mcUloas in hl5 canvass- no' hesitate to denounce them ; lu jHAin anu vigorous EJigiisn. r 1 - 1 1 . i" 1 In the first place he told us of ccr-' uuu a IansuT- that Mansur n- -! -J L . 1 ed iooco in (luthne, Oklahoma, P'op which. Hall said, had been given him as a bribe for using his iMansur s congressional mfluence in lnnhnT tVu tmnnrif ;nl fOl 1. i ' IhomaatCuthrie, and assured us that 1 'he (Hall) had the certified copies of thc deeds to such property owned bv! 0,1. Mansur. ' IatCT whcn timc for h;m to produce the proofs of Mansur 's offi- corruption, he was forced to ac- knowledge that he did not have them. . . . a. . a w.a aw a 1 a. . pcTcr iuu iuiu uiciu anu couian cgcii them. Caught in the meshes of his own .landerous net. he then called upon to stand by him and t)ld that he was not the originator of the infamous charge against his oppo- nent for congressional honors. We now remorsefully admit thai when Mr. Hall first told us of the charges against Col- Mansur we be-1 ucvea mm, uui wncn nc aouiunicujjcu that he had lied to us, we could no j . Congressman Talbert, of South Car longer favor his candidacy for con-! olina, defended his state and facetious- gress, and exjjosed his infamy, in the next issue of the Courier and fought ' him to the bitter end, and made it so exceedingly warm for him during the campaign that he willingly and know ingly committed perjury by swearing that he never told us of the charges against Col. Mansur Hall, however, had the majority with him, and was twice nominated and elected to congress, notwithstand ing the awful record of crime he made lor himself during his first campaign against Col. Mansur, and at earlier !criods in his life. Knowing so well his own infamy and that a majority of the people had endorsed him, it is not strange that he should regard his constituents as heathen Chinese or lower animals, who never change. When he stumied the district in his camjttign against Col. Mansur, he told the people in every speech he made of the beauties of the free and unlimit ed coinage of silver, and how the sin gle gold-standard was bringing wreck and ruin on the farming classes of the country. At the state convention at Kansas City in May, 1894, Hall made a cuk 00 sjeech, in which he seemingly favored the financial policy of the of the Cleveland administration, and held that a state convention had no right to pass resolutions touching on national issues. His speech created a great howl among his free silver con stituents there at the convention, and who were largely in the majority, and seeing that a storm was brewing for him among the free silver element of his district, and and the fact that the congressional convention was not quite a month ofT, Mr. Hall arose and said that his speech in the morning had been misinterpreted, and that he was still for the free, and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. Murmurings of discontent, growiug out of Hall's speech at the state con vention, came, from all over this dis trict, and when the congressional con vention met at Milan in June, 1894, it looked for a time like an effort would be -made to nominate some one else for congress as Hall was no Ion- 1 ger considered sound' on the silver question. But a telegram was sent to him at Washington by one of his admiring friends, who was a delegate to the Milan convention, ana brought the cheering reply from Hall that he was then, ever had been and ever expected to be the unflinching friend of the free and unlimited coinage of silver. This telegram resulted in Hall's being re nominated and re-elected to congress. A little over one year from the date of the Milan convention, which renom inated the wily Randolph statesman (7) for congress, found Hall making gold bug speeches and opposing free silver. After much "study and research he claimed to have discovered that the f ee coinage of silver would bring de struction upon this country, but said as his constituents favored free silver he would vote for it in congress. Iast Thursday he had an opportu nity to redeem that pledge by voting I for the senate substitute 1 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 . bill for the house bond bill, the substitute provid ing for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, but Hall again showed his cloven foot and voted nay, against the wishes of an overwhelming majority of his constitu- ents and contrary to the pledge he made them within the just few months, which places him in the light of a com mon liar, and a man unworthy of be- ihcmost favorable of lief even under the circumstances. I The Colrikr tried hard to point The Col'rikr tried ' IWru-rifir vntrt nf lh -nnr) ' " congressional district, to Hall's true character four years ago, but truth was then crushed to earth, but has now risen to blight and blacken and make forcvcr r r - . . the name of U. S. HaQ. A BIT OF HISTORY. a recent debate in the in a recent debate in lower house 6f congress over a bill looking to the impeachment of Mr. Ilayard our accTcditcd ministcr tQ lhc court of St. James, for treasonable utterances m Am Kv him In a tr-Y, V a m.J. I T j " v 1 111 England, there was some very sarcas- tic.nuon,toheson,edend . of South Carolina and other southern states by a sprig of a congressman namca ujutcix, rrom .Massachusettt. : ly remarked that he believed his state j had done right 35 years ago, and that he would have fought under her ban- - ner. This declaration to the Massa- chusetts man was like shaking a red rag at a Mexican bovine of the mas culine persuasion. He fairly frothed at the mouth, and had the South Car olinian's words taken down as though he intended to have him impeached. The main body of congressmen had too much sense to get mad or humor the youthful solon by taking the mat ter seriously. The incident has been pretty exten sively noticed by the newspapers of the country, and the Memphis Appeal has dug up a bit of history going to show that people who live in glass houses ought never, for their own good, engage in the jiastime of throw ing stones. During our last war with En,land..in 18... a similar incident to the one above narrated occurred in the lower house of congress, in which Hon. Josiah Quincy, of Massa chusetts, figured. Owing to their fear of loss of power in congress, many New England people were bitterly op posed to the purchase of Louisiana. The incident occurred while the bill for the admission of Ixjuisiana as a state was pending and Mr. Quincy arose from his seat and uttered these words: "It is my deliberate opinion that if this bill passes the bonds of this union are virtually dissolved, that the states which compose it are free from their moral obligation, and that, as Ft will be the duty of some, definite ly to prepare fo" separation, amicably if they can, forcibly if they must. Mr. Quincy was promptly called toPress Price ol an commoditX ier. but the house ofrenresentatives. wh,ch they may Please to attack 1 am order, but the house of representatives, by a vote of 56 to 53. the New Eng . land members voting with the. major ity," decided that a congressman from Massachusetts had the right to preach ue doctrine of, secession. . .The difference between Quincy and Talbert is about tnis: Quincy made hit statement to influence legislation against, the admission of Louisiana as a state, while Talbert merely express ed, a sentiment, and that concerned no one but himself. COL. JONES WINS HIS CASE. "The famous injunction suit, brought by Col. C. H. Jones, editor and man ager of the St. I ouis Post-Dispakh, against the New York World Publish ing company, the sum and substance of which is Joseph Pulitzer, was decid ed in Judge 7 Valiant's court, in St lxiuis, last Monday in favor of the plaintiff.' The -points in this case seem to be about these: Mr. Pulitzer was the founder of the Post-Dispatch but after publishing it for several years he pur chased the New York World and moved to New York and gave his time and talent to the publishing of that paper. Under the arrangement made for conducting the rost-Dispatth the pa per never prospered to Mr. Pulitzer's liking, and for the purpose of reviving its prosperity he contracted with Col. Jones to become its editor and . man ager, at the same time selling him $80,000 worth of stock in the paper. , This new deal caused the Post Dis- pateh to grow and prosjer as never before, and everything went along nicely until Col. Jones became a cham- pion of the free coinage of silver. This did not suit Mr. Pulitzer as he was an advocate of the single gold standard. To get rid of a prominent ! newspaper in Missouri that advocated e free ina2e of Iver, there was a 'movement made to sever CoL Jones' I connection with the Post Dispatch and send him adrift before the termination ! Of hlS five-year COntTacL I hC in- . . . . . JuncUon ,ult was brouSht DX Co- Joncs to Prcvcnt &c aciomplishment of this object. As there was nothing b concerning his ad- vnrirv ftf IllintAillSITl CiT anV OthT Itllt. he claimed that he had fulfilled his contract and that there was no grounds for his removal, and so the court de ' cided. Ato r the voters of the Second con gressional district get through wiJi .-Gladstone Hall, he ought to be g!ad if he isn't stoned to death. . crtarr LesueurS Sensible Words, . !. one of ine best all-round officials the state of t' ? . , for re election and that one candidacy iuiuuuii ccr na.u, in a recent inter- j - view denies that he is having anything aSe" which ,ed him to do t. or talk to do with making gubernatorial slates, aut the 'cowardice (without iden- says he knows absolutely nothing ficaUon or specification) that resides - about Mr. Seibert's candidacy for gov- in OSQ Trho do not do likewise, or ernor or what he intends to do. ; talk about the Chinese and the lower The secretary says he is a candidate animaIs as being typical of those who is about all he can attend to. He also says that he worked to bring the ' s to the gentleman's reference to two factions of the state committee to- people "feathering their nests," I do gether. and that having been accom- not know just what he meant, but I plished he felt the committee was com- venture to say that if the feathers are petent to take care of the interests of to be had for the asking or for the the party without interference on his plucking, the gentleman, if he is-part.- j around, will get his full share. Among other things Mr. Lesueur said the following: I believe the very best possible fight should be made in Missouri, as everywhere, in behalf of the white metal. I am opposed to any straddles or amuiguines m me piauorm 10 ue and that the senator has written that adopted at Sedalia on April 15th. friend a letter modestly and respect Missouri should speak its sentiments fully declining the use of his name in ! " . ' am " l1 bee". ,8" in iaor 01 me tree anu unumueu coin- to have consented to fc, made age of silver at the ratio of 1 6 to 1 , 1 race would have shown the without awaiting the interventin or co-;be as much of a CTank as Matd operation of any other country on ; who urged him to become a earth. I desire to see the full reha-1 It begins to look now though bilitationofthe silver dollar, and its : Democratic party , in Missouri, is be restoration to the position it occupied coming afflicted with a lot of poliridans before it was stricken down by the act who are posing, not as candidates, of 1873. I believe this country can but as candidate hunters. Whether as successfully lead in remonetization these gentlemen have an ax to grind, as it did in demonetization. I have as shown by their officiousness. or no fear that the remonetization of sil- whether they have constituted them ver will find existing the disparity be- selves guardians of the weal of the tween the two metals which has been party. for party,s g0od,fwe are un forced by its demonetization. When abje to say. To all such we want to I reflect that four or five leading men, j there is no use of worrying over simply citizens, merchants, specula- this matter in advance of the time tors, gamblers, if you will, can in any jllie state nominating convention will of our great cities, by united effort, de-' see to it that a winning ticket is put m w n,cn I"ca:c lu aiutLK- 1 u,u amazed that everybody does not real- ue max a is me nammenng process 01 unfriendly legislation and inimical ex - ecutive authority that has beaten down uie price 01 'suver, ramer. .man any natural cause. I wish to see this pro cess reversed.' De Armond Again Scores Hell. U. S. Hall, the. miserable apology for a congressman from this district, um.i..t..u iV -i'v ,1113 time, uui is poor now. ue maac er house of congress last Friday to the and lost his fortune on fine horses. Is. excoriauon he received at the hands insane upon all subjects except the of Congressman David A. De Armond, horse. He talks intelligently concern of the Sixth congressional district of ing the fine trotters that he has owned. Missouri, but Hall's course being that and driven. At one time he owned of a traitor, his remarks were illy re- fa finest livery stable in New ' Yorkv ceived by congress and were worse later in New Orleans, and lastly in St. than loathsome to his constituents. I Louis. He has been married three After Hall had concluded De Ar- u'mes and is the father of 20 children, mond again proceeded to score him eight of whom are living. He never as follows: ' drank liquor in his life, neither did he He did not feel, he said, that any-; smoke or chew tobacco, thing the gentleman has said had j 1 struck him. but he folr, !? one of the I representatives from Missouri t..at when . the newest convert from that state to the doctrine saw , . so-called sound money . . projer in making nis : platform, to class the Chinese people from the East Indies and the depths ! of America and the lower animals in the category of those who did not ' change their opinions, that perhaps it might not be inappropriate to suggest that there might be changes of opinion which did not evidence tremendous exaltation among those referred to. I Chinese neonle ' As to the income tax business, he or criticize anyone who has assisted in said that the gentleman had al- the administration of our municipal lowed himself to be paraded as the affairs, but we do believe that the author of the bill, when he knew he $ Coo paid out in", salaries could be was not. 'He said he had been in- more profitably expended in the build formed and believed that eight sena- ing of sidewalks, in street lamps and tors who had voted for free coinage, macadamizing our streets. continued Mr. De Armond, 'had said , .L ...., I they believed it would brinsr bank- ruptcy and ruin to the country. He did not identify them; he did not name one; he never will do it. If eight sen ators, or one senator made any such remark, he merely did what the gen tleman himself does not and will not dare deny that he has done. The gentleman talked about Gladstone. I might, if I had chosen, have com mented uon the exquisite modesty that resides in my colleague when, in talking about his own conversion, his own elevation, his own progress, he thrust into such close connections that I little incident about the change in the 1 opinion of Mr. Gladstone. (Great ! laughter.) Any man has a right to : c ange his sion was opinion. But my impres- and it has been greatly ' strengthened that when a man changes i . . -"-J -"J- ' ,1V- u6'"- "-t,LU praic at me nrsr rmrvrrnnirv shnnf f v. ttv... do nt change when he does. (JLaugh-- (Laughter and applause.) It has been given out in some or the papers that a close friend of Sena tor Vest has written to him urging him t0 become a candidate for governor. that connection, as we might well sup- 'pose he would have done. - For him ; the field, and will show there necessity of drawine a candid: is no necessity of drawing a candidate out ofcongress for gubernatorial honors. jThere is pIenty of other matcrIal to ' draw from just gQod just avaaable as any of our congressmen , or either of OUf senators Peter McGivino is th Mt in St. Louis, being 105 years of .age- He recently became insane and was ' this week admitted to the citr insane-' asylum. He has been very wealthy inV Tried and Found Wanting. Keytesville has tried being a city of me 4m uass ior a number ot rears. , , , long enousih SUrelv to determine tn- , ' 4i cia QU'inftrfaa rC l y- over a lllaSe orSanion. And so far as we are conrned we have reached the concJusln hat whatever of benefits, if. any, that can be credited to the 4th cIss cty organization over the village muniapahty s-stem, to say the least, ey are very expensive, We ar nt going to find fault with u mw-iir e mere make these suggestions that our people may consider the ques tion of abolishing our 4th class city government, and return to the village system under which we' were formerly organized. 1 I UL Ml -.1 . v "" ",c """""e sieps u that desired end? Letter List. The following is a list of letters re- maining uncalled for in Keytesville post-office on Feb. 2 1st, 1896: Mr. Leland Andere. Mr. Thomas Coppock. Mr. J. II. l ord. John l orsyhe. When calling for the above letters p'case say "advertised.'. Jno. Chivers, P. M