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MM '0 DEMOCRAT PRINTING CO., FuDIiSliers. CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1894. Vol. XIX No. 24 FOR BUSINESS. HARRISON ON ELECTION. Let Us be Represented Missouri's slump. i Missouri Democrats will find difficulty in discovering particular I,ap'y r Perfidy and Dishonor Right reasons for the appaling slump in the ' Democratic vote of the State which ! At tbe Meeting of the Trns-MIssls-Hlppl Congress, Which Meets In St. Louis November 26th. Mr. J. A. Matteson, President of the Board of Trade of this city has re ceived the following' letter from the chairman of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress: ST. Locis, Mo. November 3d. 18!4, Dear Sir: In behalf of the Execu tive Committee of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress, I desire to call your careful attention to the accompanying notice of its next meet ing, which will be held in this city on the 26th inst It is earnestly requested that every State, county, city and buinesss organ ization, within the territory included in this notice, will appoint the full number of delegates to which it is en titled, and that as many as possible of those thus appointed will attend. I trust that the objects of the Con gress sufficiently commend themselves to your judgment, to lead you to com ply with this request within your juris diction. The time seems opportune, and the condition of business seems to warract a gatheringof those represent ing its various interests for consulta tion, and for discussion of those ques tions affecting the welfare and devel opment of this section of tbe country, i and for effort to increase reciprocal I trade among its people. By well con sidered and judicious action such a body can, without doubt, exercise a powerful influence toward securing such legislation as these interests de mand. It isexpectedthat at this session some plan of permanent organization will tie effected, by which the work of the Congress will be so carried on, after the adjournment of each session, as to secure the objects at which it aims, and without which it is useless to cxjx-ct the lest practical results. No effort will be spared on the pint of this committee to secure a large at tendance and to make this meeting the i mo.-t successful which lias been held. In this effort they confidently solicit your hearty co-operation in every way which your interest may prompt and your judgment dictate: and they will especially appreciate your endeavor to secure the Influence of your local press in creating favorablo public sen timent which will greatly assist them in their efforts. A special invitation has been extend ed to each United States Senator and Representative from the territory em braced in the call, several of whom have expressed their intention to lie present. A rate of one fare for the round trip has already been arranged from all points in Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and the Indian Territory and arrange ments are now progressing for the lowest possible rates from other points. The leading hotels have made special rates, and the people of St. Louis will extend a most hearty and hospitable welcome to all who attend. In order that each delegate may lie duly advised of these arrangements, it is necessary that the names and post office addresses of delegates should be sent in without, delay. Hoping for your early and favorable reply, 1 am. Very respectfully yours, II. R. WHITMOR. Chairman, eou-.lv Rebuked. Indianapolis, Ixd.. November ". has turned Missouri over to the lie- Kx-Presiden Harrison said regarding publicans and given them from eiht . 6 e,ectlon: '-It is the most extra- to ten Congressman. ; ordinary political revolution the coun- For years past the party organiza- ! tr" Das ever witnessed. Wherever tion has been drifting towards the t,lore was a fre ballot the vote of con downfall which occured on election fitlenc Riven in 1892 to the Democratic day. The revival of strength in the Parti' if one was given, has been re- CLEVELAND TO BLAME ; A HIGH LICENSE BILL. I The Temperance People Will Benew I risjii ui lueupeoing oi l lie Legislature. One of the lirstbills to be inirodueed the President ReSpOn- jvhen the new Legislature meets will be stringent nign license ana saloon Henry Watterson Holds j sible. He Forced the Wretched Wilson Bill on the Party With all Its Laby rinth of Trouble. r.ditor Henry Watterson, the leader of the tariff reformers of the Southern Democracy, holds Cleveland responsi ble for the defeat of the Democratic party in the elections. "Grover Cleve land," ho says, "was never a consist ent tariff reformer. When he became President of the United States it took is many j then ho ran away from it as soon as he and other privileged corporations was too wild or violent for a Dcmo- have ridden it to death. The splendid l"r;lt to mount, ( lasses were created fidelity of the voters has been abused to serve the purposes of unchecked greed of office and gain. The organi zation has been packed with corpora tion agents, the conventions have been dominated by them, the party primaries run by them, the Legislature filled with their subservient tools and con trolled by a dictatorial lobby. They and inflamed to outbreak and disorder In one State debauched currency and in another a Socialism that was near to anarchy were given a bed. Prop erty, especially mills snd factories, was invested and assaulted in one sec tion, and in anothortrustswere secretly coddled. The old doctrine that favors the levying of customs duties to the have not withheld their contnminating , limit of an adequate revenue was hands from the ermine of the courts, 'abandoned. A deiiciei:cv. to bo made Is it any cause for wonder that the ! good by bond issues, or by internal voters became discouraged, and when j taxes, v.as preferred to the 'incidental they found themselves betrayed by the ! protection" that adequate customs duty national leaders, as thev h:nl often would Hive. Tile silver nii'slinii v.-k! been by the State leaders, they refused ; dealt with in the most iriv.-.ponsibl to go to the polls and longer sunnort ! manner. Knowledge Is Awakened. There never has been a Itme in the history of this country that the great majority of the votes did not believe in a Protective Tariff. They have sometimes been opposed to cerrtain measures embodied in a Protective Tariff bill; they have more often been deceived as to the nature and provis ions of a bill by its enemies. The latter was the case in 1892. There never was a measure passed by Con gress the provisions of which were so distorted and so misrepresented as the McKinley bill. But "Truth is mighty and must prevail." And how ever the McKinley bill was misunder stood at the beginning, however strong ly it was condemned in 1892, it is evi dent now, from the crowds that have' greeted Governor McKinley every where, that the beneficent provisions of the bill which bears his name have at last been recognized. Such a recog nition was inevitable. The unprece dented prosperity which followed the passage of the McKinley bill, the un precedented disaster which has follow ed the elevation of its enemies to power, are evidence so plain that the dullest can see their meaning-. That knowledge was awakened, we found, lartweek. 1 popular uprising of two years ago i cal'el and a vote of utter and final against McKinloyism in support of a ' repudiation substituted. The impo radical tariff reform platform was i tence of the Democratic party was re merely a temporary stipulation and it!yea,ea tho moment power was given to fell a victum again to the dry rot lt to deal witn national affairs. The which has sapped its vitality. The I insincerity of its platform-makers was resentment of the Democratic voters Gf ,exPosed when -be it enacted' took the the State against the Cleveland ad- Plaee of 'be it resolved. ' For thirty ministration and the Trust combine of i J'ears party expediency has lieen sub- the Senate was the decisive culmina- s,ltute1 "v ,he leaders for party prin- i him three tion of a long series of evils. .ciples. and expediency had ine party nas been controlled i,y sl :-- mere ere congressional dis- w:ls caught. In 1887. when he wrote clique of men who used it without !mc,s- kvery eccentric cross-current 1 that famous messa.re. he rnt an aoarml scruple to serve personal ambitions "f popular prejudice was followed as about it that ten davs later he nub- ana private interests. The railroads j were a gun stream. .o passion MUhed an interview in the New York Herald' taking the backbone out of the whole thing. Then he sent Gorman and Scott to the St. Louis Convention, in 1888, with a cut-and-dried platform that made the most miserable and cowardly straddle on the tariff ques tion ever invented. "Look how Cleveland acted in 1892. Wilson and Vilas went to Chicago as the jwrsonal representatives of this man. who pretended to be the pioneer the John the Baptist of tariff i reform, and what did they try to do? They tried to ram a protectionist essay jdnv.n the throats .of sclf-resjieeting I Democrats. They stole a plank out of the Kepubliean platform and wanted a Democratic Convention to indorse it. Finally, when he was elected President despite his apostasy to the principles of his party, Cleveland deliberately sat on the wings of every honest and able advocate of low tariff and forced the Wretched Wilson bill on the party, with all its labyrinth of trouble. "To this action of a Democratic IVesidont may lw chiefly ascribed the demoralized condition of the Demo- cratic party. No letter from Grover j Cleveland would have helped Hill in I New York. It was too late. The ruin j had already been accomplished. It was hard for Democrats to witness iineir Administration setting the pace of apathy in the campaign and refus ing to indorse the nominee, but that very result, was invited when they went to the most faction cursed .State in tb Union for a candidate. When in the national Convention two years ago I predicted that the Democratic party was marching from a slaughter house to an ojien grave. It seems that I was just a couple of years too soon. Tin last presidential victory for the Demo. cratic party was a mereaccident of the times. Cleveland ought never to have been nominated. Wo voted our can didate into the White House, but we voted our party into an irreconcilable lawsuit between implacable foes." "Now, who shall the Democrats nominate in 18iHi?" I asked Mr. Wat terson. "Oh, my lord, man," saidhe, "don't talk about that. What I am afraid of is the possible fact that it may make very little difference. A strong effort will be made in the next Democratic National Convention to send the tariff issue to the rear and raise the strange banner of free silver. This may split the party in a thousands pieces or de stroy it altogether." "Could the Democrats win upon the issue of free silver? "Never. It would be a fatal step for the party to take. Yet wemust be pre pared to see the attempt made to com mit Democracy to that . financial heresy."' treachery? The Post-Dispatch finds ground of satisfaction and hope in the long-delayed popular protest, the need of which we have often pointed out. If it rids the party of the domination of the Salmons, Carrolls, Phelpses, Burks, Clardys and Bntlcrs the end will justify the heavy cost. Post-Dispatch. What It -Means. j The meaningof the lateclection is so , plain that no jierson of ordinary intel ligence can fail toumierstatul it. There are no local and sufH-rlicial reasons to account for a result that extends over the whole country with uniform effect. It clearly represents a general feeling, a sentiment due to conditions and ten dencies existing in ail the States. That is to say. thesame causes that operated to defeat Hill in New York operated to defeat Wilson in West Virginia, and to give advantages to the Republicans everywhere. The people of all sections went to trie pons wmi common impulses and purposes: and the verdict that they rendered is to lcj interpreted as a re pudiation of the Democratic party be cause of its demonstrated unfitness for the work of conducting the affairs of the Government. When they voted two years ago to restore that party to power, they supposed that it would honestly strive to deserve their confidence, and that it was capable of dealing with im portant questions in an intelligent and businesslike manner. In this expecta tion they were cruelly and shamefully disappointed. They have learned byex perience that they made a monstrance mistake in exchanging Republican for Democratic rule. This fact has been bronght home to them bv a serious and widespread succession of misfortunes: and it is impossible to make them be lieve hat such a condition of things would have ensued if the election of 1892 had resulted differently. There is no escape from the conclu sion that the Democratic party stands condemned by a large majority of the voters as a fraud and a failure. Its attempt to carry on the Government has gone to show that it is inherently and hopelessly incompetent. The ab senceof constructive ability is apparent in an ot its proceedings. Unas been so long pursuing a policy of negation.ob struetion anddemolitionthatit has for feited what power it may once have possessed to perform affirmative and profitable service. This is why the peo ple have risen up in their impatience and indignation, and repudiated it in such a tremendous andconclusive fash ion. They have discovered thata party i-: -i- i . 1 - . "Mr. Cleveland described th situa tion perfectly when ho said in his letter to Mr. Wilson. -They (the Democrats) are downcast under the assertion that their party fails in abilty to manage the Government A vast majority of our people believe in a protective tariff, never so much and never so strongly as now. They differ as to rates and schedules, but, not as to the principle. They lclieve in reciprocity as the first ! met hod. of getting foreign markets. o.ue iieue-.e in a progressive and American foreign policy. The work- prejr.diees in ingmen voted by their 1N2: Ibis year they voted their patriot ism and their love of home. The enormous fallingoff in the Democratic vote everywhere is not less specific in its meaning than the majorities. The great victory secured by the party of reform in Now York City should lie mentioned in the Thanksgiving Day proclamation. Perhaps it would have been if it had comeearlier. It gives the assurance that there is a reetierative power in robber-ridden communities under a popular form of government. "About Indiana, well, language fails me. I am proud of her." which has spent over thirty years in trying to tear things down is not equal to the task of suddenly reversing its habits and practices, and becoming a forceof practical usefulness. The party thus ascertained to be unworthy of re spect and support, and declared against accordingly, is not likely to regain the favor that it has lost. Its defeat this year means that itwillbedefeated again two years hence, and thenceforth kept out of power for an indefinite period. There is no such thing as a second trial in a caseof this kind. The people have spoken not simply for the present occa sion, but with reference to the future. also, and nobody now living can rea sonably expect ever to see another na tional Democratic victorv. Glohn- Democrat The l!uly of the House. (Congressman-elect Mosley will be the baby of Congress when he takes his seat. Norman A. Mosley was born on a farm in JSG in Johnson county, III. At the age of 20 ho came to Missouri and located in Stoddard county, where he taught school successfully for four years, winning an army of friends by his agreeable address and sterling qualities of head and heart. During the vacations of this jieriod he read law with assiduity. In 1890 he was admitted to the bar and he opened a law office in Dexter, where by sheer honesty, hard work and close applica tion to his profession he has built up a remunerative practice, so that to-day he is justly regarded as one of the brightest and brainiest young attor neys of Southern Missouri. a regulation measure. The citizens of St. Louis who proposed such a meas ure six years ago. and saw it defeated at last for lack of only one vote, have never given up the fight, and are ready now to ask the General Assembly for a law fixing the minimum license at $1,000 a year, for county and State purposes, and as much more for city purposes as local authorities may see fit to impose. The dramshop code now provides for a minimum license of $600, of which $100 goes to the State and $500 to the county, but the towns and cities assess an additional license. the amount being fixed by the local Council or Town Board. In several cities the annual license collected, for all purposes, is $.'1000; thirty-two sa- loons pay more than $3000, while near ly 200 pay from $1200 to $2500 a year, St. Louis saloons only pay the $000 license and the Excise Commissioner's fees, which, together with the ad valorum tax, amounts to about $20 a year, to which may be also added the internal revenue license, which is $25. The city gets $500 from each saloon and the State $100. The billwhichwill be presented by the high license people will provide for a better petition for dramshap license, and will seelc to cut out every man known as a pugilist or the associate of lewd and disreputable persons:every dive keeper, and every man who has a criminal record. It will provide for three Excise Commissioners for St Louis and Kansas City, with a salary instead of fees, and the thorough po lice inspection of dramshops. It also stipulates that no dramshop shall be run in connection with a grocery or other business, and that no dramshop keeper shall be eligible to any public office while holding a saloon license. The main object of the proposed meas ure is to weed out low-class saloons. eliminate the saloon from politics, and put all dramshops under the strictest local control. The committee having tho matter in charge will make a canvass of the State, and will place, before the Legis lature the most complete and particu lar information which can be obtained about the dramshop business. The contests made heretofore have paved the way for the present movement, and will enable the friends of the measure to make a more effective light. Many of I ho more prominent members and Senators are put, down as strong t- n peranoe men, and tho loaders of the tight will bo selected from among the best men of both parties. Glolie-Dem ocrat. EXODUS OF NEGROES. to Itc- 1 housands from the South move to Liberia. - New York. November 12. The steamer Kansas City, which arrived here this afternoon from Savannah, Ga., brought among her passengers twelve negroes, old and young and of both sexes, the advance guard of an African colonization scheme now on foot in several Southern States. The plan originated, early this year, in the mind of Bishop Turner, who is now traveling through the South. It was formulated and put into shape by Jeremie Millan, a white man, of Birm ingham Ala., who founded what is known as the International Immigra tion Society. The plan of the society was not new by any means, but this particular scheme seems to have had a large following from its inception. The society is said to number 4000. To-day's advance guard were mem bers of a committee appointed by the society to go to Africa and arrange for the reception of a large body of negroes that will soon follow. Presi dent Cheeseman, of Liberia, it is said, has promised the colonists land and farming implements. It is asserted that 4000 Southern negroes are now congregated in New Orleans, Mobile, Savannah and Charleston, ready to start as soon as the committee gives the word. The first big lot, number ing 500, is expected to leave this port early next month. The Liberian Con gress will welcome them, and Presi dent Cheeseman has written letters to the promoters of tho scheme urging tho negroes to come. The advance guard which will sail on Wenesday, is in charge of D. II. Johnson, an in telligent negro, of Hot Springs. Ark. He says he should not lie surprised if 10,000 negroes left the South within a a year. The Landslide The appended table shows the Re, publican and opposition pluralities i the States named in 1892 and tho Re publican pluralities in the same State in 1894. according to latest estimates. None of the States mentioned are i the Southern section: ISitt. 1S!U. Hop. lcm and Pop. Hop. Heed ltejolces. Portland, Me., November ". Ex Speaker Thos. B. Reed says of the election: '-It is a little difficult, with wires down and very scanty returns, to speak definitely of the result, but enough seems certain to assure the country the peace it so much requires. The rest of the country seems to have been moved by the same causes that moved the Eastern States. Democrats everywhere, either by silence, or by action, seem to have helped to par tially save the Union from the follies of inexperienced and injudicious men. I say partially, for we shall be fortu nate, indeed, if business does not carry the scars of the last eighteen months a very considerable time. If the over turn proves as complete as now indi cated, the country is much to be con gratulated, and especially we Repub licans should make a judicious use of our victory." Dandruff is due to an enfeebled state of the skin. Hall's Hair Renewer quickens the nutritive functions of the skin, healing and preventing the for mation of dandruff. The Mistakes of Voters. All voters are presumed to be intel ligent, but the kind of intelligence that counts in an Australian ballot election nowadays is not merely the result of education. It is an amusing but a significent fact that a very large per centage of the ballots incorrectly marked and therefore thrown out by the judges of election are made out by men of prominence men who would ridicule the idea of such mistakes, but who nevertheless proceed to make them. Of course, ignorance is a great drawback to legal voting. These is no excuse for these errors in voting. If a man does not know bow to make out his ticket the judges of election will show him and think nothing of it It is no disgrace on the part of the voter to ask how to scratch his ticket to make it a legal ballot, but it is a disgrace for the intelligent, educated voter to lose his vote when the ticket of the man who can neither read nor write goes into the ballot box a legal ballot. States. Plur'ticb. Plur'tioa. I'iur'tips Colorailo U.Kbt i'O.uxi Connecticut !i,:;7 15,W4 ltlabo 1,WI 3,0U0 Illinois.. M.iKiS HXI.OKi Indiana ,4! 00,000 Iowa. 22,!i'i 70,000 Kansas .',sT0 311,000 Massachusetts .T,7 fu.Ono Maine H.HS7 40,000 Michigan. ... 30,412 loo.ooo Minnesota 23,157 flO.000 Montana 1,270 l'..ooo Nebraska 4,T7 S.OflO New Ham.... 3,M7 12.SS4 New Jersey I4.S74 Sn.OHO New York 45,51s l.V,0oO North Dakota. isl 6,000 Ohio 1,072 140,000 Oregon , 107 ' 16.000 Pennsylvania. 03,747 2Xi,noo Rhode Island. 2.KI7 7,0iW Sooth Dakota. S.344 12.000 Vermont 21 ,&u :iO,o Washington.. 6,(i.V IO.Ikki Wisconsin B,7o 60, 000 Wyoming 732 3,300 Total 240,117 12S,5!( 1,2U3,433 The Republican gain in these States since 1802 is 1.181,795. No words can add to the emphasis of these figures, They do not lie. Now, let us look at the South. The table below is ar ranged like that of the States already given: 1S92. 1S04 Dem. Uep. States. Pluralities. Pluralities Delaware S04 1,200 Maryland 19,44 3,0A9 West Virginia.... 4,174 9,0no North Carolina.. . 32,605 11,000 Tennessee an, out s.uoo Missouri 4,40 5,000 In the table no account is taken of the Republican gains in the Southern States which at the election gave Democratic pluralities, nor 'even of the Democratic reaction in Texas, where the opponents of the Democratic party claimed to have gained 160,000 since 1892. New York Mail and Express. Summer Colds. Under the heading of which belong Hay Catarrh, Nose Catarrh, Hay Asthma and Hay Fever, are positively cured by Humphreys' Specific "77." For sale by all druggists,, or sent pre paid upon receipt of price, 25c. Address Humphrey's Company, New York. Mrs. Joseph Pulltizer. Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York World" married his wife in Wash ington about sixteen years ago. and the circumstances of his meeting her were characteristic, of tho man. He onceived such an admiration for her, on seeing her as ouj of a company of young ladies who were all strangers to him. that he sought her acfiuaint- tnee, in order that liemight ask her to bo his wife. Her family were then liv ing in the suburbs of Washington, arid they have kepi, their home there. They were Virginia peonlo. who were not i verse to having it known that they wore relatives of Jefferson Davis. It was a iortunato day lor tae family when the eldeit daughter became Mrs. Pulitzer. J. P. was worth only about $20,000 at that time, for it was before he had located in .St. Louis, but three years later he began to be a rich man. and before 1S5 he was able to spend S50.0UO a year for "pcrsonalexpenses. "' Sineo theft they have spent most of their time in Europe. Mrs. Pulitzer's brother, William L. Davis, became associated with tho management of the New York "World" when Mr. Pulit zer went to Eurojie, and has enjoyed a large influence and income in that po sition. Ho is now a man of independent fortune, and has figured as the bride groom in the wedding held onWednes- day at Secretary Carlisle's house in Washington. The young lady to whom he was married. Miss Mattie Thomp son, is a protege of Mrs. Carlisle. Mrs. Pulitzer and her mother were present on the occasion, but for rea sons that are obvious .Mr. llilitzer was not there. The attacks which tho "World" had been making upon Mr. Carlisle would have rendered such a meeting a littleembarrassing, jierhans. Louisville Post. They CoaldnU Make the KilHe. The two o'clock train Monday even ing brought to this city a young couple from Carbondale, Illinois. They were on their way to Jackson for marriage license. They got a rig from a livery stable and away they went to the county seat. There they met the man who issues the papers that make young people happy but he declined to write up the papers for this young couple. They were too young to go into business for them selves, and late in the evening they returned to this city disheartened and downcast. They took the first east bound train and returned to their daddys. Bednced Rates. On account of the annual meeting of the Horticultural Society of Southern Illinois, at ML Vernon, I1L, the Chi cago & Texas Railroad will sell tick ets November 20th to 23d for $4.45 for the round trip, good to return until November 25th. H. R. Whleh, Ticket Agent