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Leads All
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; AND HIS :
Cornet and Sterling
BRANDS OF FLOUR
IARE THE :
Store open till the usual hours.
J. A. WILCOX & SON ,
we will receive within a few days an
elegant line of Ladies , Misses and Children's
Cloaks direct from the manufacturers ; also
Shawls and want you to look at our stock
before purchasing.
Wilt also receive a large stock of Shoes ,
Rubbers , etc.
Our new dress goods are now arriving.
For Hats , Caps , Ladies , Gents , and Child
ren's Underwear , Gents Furnishing Goods ,
Groceries , Flour , etc. , etc. Call on
] . A. WILCOX. & SON
NEBRASKA LOAN AND BANKING GO.
OF MCCOOK , NEBRASKA.
CAPITAL - $52OOO.OOe
FARM LOANS , CITY LOANS ,
LOANS MADE ON ALL KINDS OF APPBOVED SECUBITY ,
P. A. WELLS , TRCAB. AND MAQR.
CORRESPONDENT : Chase National Bank , New York.
put it m Tfte
( BEFORE.
Would you 'AFTER. '
Increase Your Business ?
INDIANOLA ITEMS.
Next Tuesday is election.
Vote for W. E.Andrews.
Vote for Harrison and Reid.
Vote the straight republican ticket.
A big day for patriotic people Friday.
Vote for the Johns , Allen and Gam-
mill.
Vote for E. M. Woods and W. K.
Starr.
0. W. Beck went to Lincoln Monday
to buy fireworks.
Indianola will feed one thousand
people Friday , free.
Prof. Carver has organized a nice
class in penmanship here.
Grand display of fireworks Friday
evening. The three giants , Andrews ,
Tate and Lansing. .
A Curtis business man says that
Frontier county will give W. E. An
drews a majority.
J. T. Gillispie , of Kilborn City , Wis
consin , who was formerly a resident of
this county , is visiting his old friend
and neighbor W..O. Bond.
Bodwell Murphy. By county judge
at his office on Oct. 31st , Mr. Clyde
Tilburn Bodwell' and Miss Frances
Ann Murphy , all of Red Willow county.
Married on Oct. 27 , at the residence
of Calvin Newberry in Danbury pre
cinct , by Rev. J. M. Crooks , Mr. Edward -
ward A. Ruby and Miss Edith V. New-
berry , both of Red Willow county.
If when money is plenty , farm pro-
dqcts are high , why were potatoes
worth $1.50 and corn $1 , two years ago ,
was money plenty then , if so , why did
this county accept aid ? Since the Mc
Kinley bill went into effect , a large
number of tin plate factories have
started and are now making over 40- ,
000 boxes of tin per week , and gives
employment to about 4,000 men , who
receive annually $2,750,000 in wages ,
is this a benefit or a detriment to our
country.
What Curtis Stood For.
In American citizenship Curtis stood
for the theory a little disputed as it
is rarely acted upon by those in power
that government , city , state , national ,
must not be for a ring , or for a faction ,
but truly and absolutely for the people.
He believed that in a political contest
there were no "victors" in the barbaric
sense ; and that , therefore , there were
no "spoils" to divide , but only duties to
distribute , policies to be carried out ,
and always the people to be served.
The death nf Curtis should not carry
dismay into the ranks of Ins comrades
and followers in the great cause of
good government in which his brilliant
abilities and pure fame were so com
pletely enlisted. It should rather give
new sacredness to that cause ; it should
enlist large numbers in the warfare ;
and be the occasion of greater and still
more effective zeal. His ideal of th.e
public service was not a vain and
cbimeral one. It was practical in the
truest sense ; it is attainable ; and upon
its accomplishment depends the very
ife ot the republic. From an editorial
article in the November Century.
A PLAIN TALK.
On a Plain Subject in Plain Lan
guage.
Winter is just before us with all of
its biting winds , cold , drizzling rains ,
sloppy , muddy streets , and sudden
changes of temperature. This will
cause at least one-half of the people to
have catarrh , colds , coughs , pneumonia
or consumption. Thousands of people
will lose their lives and tens of thous
ands will acquire some chronic ailment
from which they will never recover.
Unless you take the necessary precau
tions the chances are that you ( who
read this ) will be one of the unfortu
nate ones. Little or no risk need be
run if Pe-ru-na is kept in the house
and at the first appearance of any
symptom take it as directed on the label.
No one who values his welfare should
be without a copy of The Family
Physician No. 2 , a complete guide to
the treatment and prevention of all
climatic diseases of winter. Sent free
by the Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing
Company , Columbus , Ohio.
" 1 do not feel like supporting
any man who has treated the old
soldiers the way Mr. Cleveland has
treated them. By his insults he sent
Gen. McClellan with a broken heart to
the grave. I feel as the old soldier
docs. I tell you , sir'the , old soldier
will not vote for Cleveland. He can
not carry New York. " Says Gen. Dan
iel E. Sickles.
The above quotation is taken from
the remarks of the one-legged hero of
Gettysburg , General Daniel E. Sickles.
And again this brave general , at the re
union of his old Third Corps in Wash
ington last month , said : "You are
going home now , and there is some
thing I want you to take home with you.
Ponder it ; teach it to your children ;
tell it to your neighbors. It is the
truth , that the people of the United
States will see that no man is ever
elected to an office of profit and trust
in this country who opposes the pay
ment of pensions t" the soldiers of the
Union. "
Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria.
LEASING CONVICTS.
DEMOCRATS INDIFFERENT TO THE
RIGHTS OF WORKINGMEN.
Condition * In States Whore They Have
AVcolnte Control Show * Absolute Xn <
difference to Rights of labor The Con-
Tlct Lease System In the South.
[ Special Correspondence. ]
WASHINGTON , Oct. 10. The workingmen -
men of the country are finding in the re
cent labor trouble in the south a beauti
ful opportunity to judge of the real ani
musofttie two political parties toward
labor and laboring people. That the
Democratic party has been the foe of free
labor is a recognized feature of the earliei
history of thfi country , and that it is stil
indifferent to the interests of the labor
ing element must be apparent to any
body who stops to study the situation as
brought sharply into notice by the pres
ent condition of affairs in the south
Word comes from Tennessee that in spite
of the promises of the governor the con
ditions in regard to the use of convic
labor in competition with free labor have
not at all improved.
Absolute Control Showil Real Sentiment.
It is only in the states or localities in
which a party has absolute and undis
puted control for a long period that its
real attitude toward any element of so
ciety is clearly shown. Where the ma
jority is slender it is often necessary for
party leaders to hide their real senti
ments in order to continue their control.
But in the southern states , where they
have had enormous majorities and held
them constantly by their own peculiar
methods , they have shown their entire
disregard of the interests of free labor
and to the laboring element generally.
Convict Labor Leased In the "Safe Dem
ocratic" States.
Take the "safe" Democratic states of
the country at large as an example.
There are perhaps a dozen which have
been considered absolutely safe to the
Democracy under all circumstances ,
located of course in the south.
In ten of these twelve states they have
put convict labor into direct competition
with the workinginen of the state. In
only two of the safe Democratic states
has the party omitted to show its hos
tility to labor by failing to put convicts
in striped clothing into open competi
tion with the workingmen. Scattered
all over these "safe Democratic" states
are camps of convicts , worked upon
plantations or in the mines in competi
tion with the laboring men of those
states , and if the laboring people dare
protest , that favorite argument of the
southern Democracy , the rifle , is turned
against them.
Brutal Treatment of Prisoner * , .
The tales of horror which come from
these convict camps are shocking , not
only in the matter of their cruelty to the
convicts themselves , but to the working
people at large whose interests are over
ridden by a party which thus shows its
absolute contempt for their interest and
appeals. Prisoners are beaten , starved ,
threatened with death in order to force
them to perform heavy tasks and thus
increase the competition which their la
bor produces against the free labor with
which they are brought into competi
tion. These questions have been brought
to the attention of the authorities time
after time , but with no avail. Labor
leased for forty cents per day , and driven
to its utmost tension with floggings and
threats of death , is calmly put into com
petition with the working people at
large , and they are held in subjection
by the use of rifles and Gatling guns ,
while Democratic governors and legisla
tors refuse them relief.
Compare This with Republican Methods.
This could not happen in any but a
solidly Democratic community. At least
it does not happen in any other. There
are twice as many "safe Republican"
states at the north as there are "safe
Democratic" states at the south. Yet
there is scarcely a single one of the cer
tainly Republican states which permits
convict labor to be brought in any way
into competition with the laboring ele
ment. Convicts are worked in prisons ,
and care is taken to select for them em
ployment in the occupations which will
bring them as little as possible into com
petition with free labor or skilled work
men , and prevent their personal contact
with any.
Convict camps and convict competi
tion with the laborer are things un
known in Republican states , and only
prevail in states where the Democracy
shows its true colors by the enjoyment
of an enormous and absolutely safe ma
jority. And the more absolute the ma
jority the more absolute in this regard
of the rights of the laboring man. In
ten-twelfths of the solidly Democratic
states leased convict labor is put into
competition with the workingmen of the
communities. Ten-twelfths of the states
of the Union which lease their convict
labor are solidly Democratic states , for
there are but two states outside ofTthe
solidly Democratic south that have even
a modified form of convict lease system.
Seen In National Affairs.
Not only has the Democratic party
shown its indifference to the rights of
labor under slavery and under the con
vict lease system , but also by the words
and votes _ of its officials at Washington.
When the Mills bill was before congress
a Republican amendment proposing to
exclude from the United States goods
manufactured by convict labor was de
feated by Democratic votes. A similar
section in the McKinley bill was almost
solidly opposed in the vote by the Demo
cratic members of the house. Mr. Cleve
land while governor of New York vetoed
the bill abolishing convict labor in pris
ons , and while president vetoed the anti-
convict labor bill in 1886 and again in
1688 , and in his message to congress in
1888 recommended the employment of
government prisoners in the manufac
ture of such articles as are needed for
use by the government , thus proposing
to put them in competition with the
workingmen of the country.
O. P. AUSTIN.
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Free ! Free !
In order to increase our cash trade we
will give away the following1 list of presents
to our cash customers ,
FREEFREE ! !
1 Gold Watch , worth $100.0O
1 Gold Watch , worth 75.00
1 Gold Watch , worth 5O.OO
1 Lady's Gold Watch , worth 75.OO
2 Silver Watches at $25 each 50.OO
6 Magnificent Oil Paintings at $25,15O.OO
6 Magnificent Oil Paintings at $25 , 90.OO
100 Books , standard works of English
and American fiction , bound in
cloth and gold , at $2 - 200.OO
118 PllESENTS WORTH - - $790.0O
We carry the largest stock of
Hardware , Stoves , Tinware , Harness ,
Saddles , House Furnishing Goods ,
in Red willow county.
And we meet all competition and go them
one better. Call and examine these pres
ents and price our goods "before "buying' .
W. C. LaTourette.
FALL
e
I wish to announce the arrival of my
Fall and Winter Stock of
CLOTHING ,
GEMS' FUENISHING GOODS ,
HATS AND CAPS
o | $10
Sooba4uiPU cwi
C. W. KNIGHTS , PROPRIETOR.
F. D. BURQE1SS ,
PLUMBERSTEAM FITTER
NORTH MAIN AVE. . McCOOK , NEB.
Stock of Iron , Lead and Sewer Pipe , Brass Goods , * .
Pumps , and Boiler Trimmings. Agent for Halliday. ,
Eclipse and Waupun Wind Mills.
KALSTEDT , THE LEADING TAILOR ,
Has just received a fine stock of
FALL AND WINTER SUIT
INGS. Call and see him , two
doors south of the Famous ,
while the assortment Is com
. _
plete. - - - -