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TOM MAJORS' RECORD.
Bead (he Record of the Republican
Candidate tor Governor aa
a Legislator.
ALWAYS A FRIEND OF LABOR.
Vh* Lon( Lilt ol Bill* for Working Men
■ad Again** Combination* Sup
ported by Mr. Major*.
. Thomas J. Majors was a member of
the state senate of Nebraska In 1837,
and while a member numerous bills
were introduced whioh were of particu
lar benefit and Interest to all mechanics
and laborers of the state of Nebraska.
It has been charged that Governor
Majors is not the friend of labor. For
the purpose of refuting this charge his
legislative official rocord should bo pre
sumed to be the very best reoord to
show what the political history of the
individual was and is, and it oertainly
is better evidence than the mere idle
Street or newspaper gossip which Is
generally circulated against a candidate
before the election.
Read for yourselves. Judge of Gov
. arnor Majors from his past official life
and record, the truth of nil of which
you can readily verify yourselves by
reference to the official reported pro
ceedings of tho senate of Nebraska for
the year 1887, which are contained in
the senate journal, which is obtainable
at the office of the secretary of state,
or at any of the public libraries of tho
state.
TO AID MKCnAKICS AND DABOUKIIS.
Senate file No. (1, Introduced in tho
senate of Nebraska in 18,37, was a hill
for an act to aid mechanics and laborers
in the satisfaction of liens and to amend
section 4 of article 1, chapter .14, of tho
compiled statutes of Nebraska, entitled
’’Mechanics’ and Laborers' Liens," and
to repeal said original section.
Governor Majors, thon a senator
from Nemaha county, voted "yes" for
this bill.
Kimm iiuun law.
Again, lit the same session, senate
file No. 194 was introduced, being' u
bill for an act to constitute eight hours
a day’s labor, and to amend section],
chapter 90, of the compiled statutes of
Nebraska.
Governor Majors, then a senator
Irnm Nemaha county, voted “Yes" for
this bill.
Mechanics and laborers who resided
in Nebraska in the year 1887 know that
this law was enacted for them and
them alone.
lint you can go further and by an ex
amination of thesenato journal of 1887,
you will find that the interest of labor
ers and mechanics was further consid
ered, and that had the bill become a
law tliero would have been a remedy
provided by law whereby all contro
versies between laborers and corpora
tions could, have been adjusted by ar
bitration.
ABDITKATE ALD CONTROVKRS1K8.
Senate file 33. A bill for an act to
provide for the arbitration of contro
versies between laborers and corpora
tions.
This bill provided that any citizen of
the I nlted .States, resident of the state
of Nebraska, in the employ of any rail
road. telegraph or other corporation,
doing business in the state of Nebraska,
having a controversy with and foeliug
himself aggrieved by the action of such
corporation, its officers or agents as to
, the amount of his wages, the time of
the payment thereof, the hours of
labor, the severity of his labor, the nu
healthfulness or changes of his employ
ment. or the manner of his treatment
eould have suoh controversy and griov
ance settled and determined by arbi
trillion. That any employe being una
ble to settle his controversy with such
employer by mutual agreement and de
siring to arbitrate the same, could file
his complaint under oath in writing
with the county judge of the county in
Which he resides, setting forth therein
the name of his employer, and the par
ticulars of his demands, grievances and
controversy, and osking that the same
be settled by arbitration. The bill fur
ther provided for a hearing and the
issuance of a summons as in civil
actions, returnable in not less than
three days; that at the time of hearing
the plaintiff should select one, the de
fendant one and the county judge one
person, all citizens of the county, as
arbitrators to hear and determine the
controversy; the arbitrators to be sworn
to make a true award according to the
law and the evidence, under the direc
tion of the county judgo; that when
the evidence was concluded the arbi
trators were to be kept together under
the charge of an officer of the court
until the award was agreed upon,
award to be in writing and returned to
tho county judge who was directed to
enter the same upon his docket, and
then enter judgment in accordance
therewith, and that if the defendant
corporation failed or neglected to com
ply with the terms or requirements of
the award and final judgment entered
within tile time fixed by the county
judge, such corporation was to be
found guilty of an offense and forfeit
and pay not lesa than >30, nor more
than 5300, such forfeiture to bo paid
Into the school fund of the county, os
in other cases of misdemeanor, and also
be liable to the plaintiff for ail damages
sustained by him thereby.
Governor Majors, then a senator from
Nemaha county, voted “Yes” for this
_ bill.
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i ms bill passed the senate and was
sent to the house of representatives,
where it was reported for passage on
the fifty-ninth day of the session, and
•pain reported on the special roll of
the house for passage on the sixty-sec
ond day of the session, but was not
reached in the house before adjourn
ment
rsuRtors mortgages to be voin.
"While still a senator. Governor
Majors voted yes to pass senate file liio
—a bill for an act to make chattel
mortgages and bills of sale given to se
cure usurious contracts absolutely void.
This bill should have become a law. It
was aimed at short time loan agents
who were taking advantage of the
poor man's necessities to extort usuri
. ous rates of interest Senator Majors
was a warm supporter of this measure
to render all such contracts absolutely
void.
AGAIX8T POOLING PRICES.
Senate file 32, which also received
■s .
Senator Majors’ support, was a bill to
prohibit grain dealers, partnerships,
companies, corporations or associations
from combining or entering into any
agreement or contract to pool or fix
the price to be paid for grain, hogs,
cattle or stock of any kind, and to pro
vide punishment for so doing of a fine
not exceeding gi.ooo or imprisonment
in jail of county not exceeding six
months, or both, and also to be liable
to the party injnred in civil action.
TO PROTECT DEPOSITORS.
Senator Majors also voted for the
passage of senuto file No. 34, a bill to
provide for punishment of a person re
ceiving deposits in or cashing indebted
ness by uny bank or banking Institu
tion with knowledge of the insolvency
of such banking institution, and which
bill provided a penalty in case of con
viction of imprisonment in the peniten
tiary of not lesa than one nor more
than ten years.
ELECTION OP SENATOR BY DIRECT VOTE.
Senator Majors advocated and voted
for the passage of senate file No. 53,
which was a momorlal and joint resolu
tion relating to and urging upon con
gresa the submission of a constitutional
amendment to the United States con
stitution, submitting the election of
United States senators to a direct vote
of the people.
PASSAGE OF TUE INTERSTATE COMMERCE
LAW.
Senator Majors also advocated and
voted for senate file No. 11, memorial
and joint resolution urging upon con
gress the immediate passage of the in
terstate commerce law.
IN FAVOR OF TAXING SLEEPING CARS.
He also voted for the passage of sen
ate llle 103, a bill to tax sleeping cara
and dining cara
EXEMPTION OF POLL 01t LABOR TAX.
He also voted for the passage of sen
ate file 249, a bill for an act to exempt
soldiers, sailors and marines who wore
in the service of the United States dur
ing the war of the rebellion, and who
are now disabled, from poll or labor
tax.
VMifoiim freight and passenger
RATES.
He also voted for the passage of sen
ate tile 8, memorial and joint resolution
asking congress to establish uniform
freight and passenger rates on rall
rouds, and to prevent unjust discrimina
tion and extortion on lines of railroads
from Nebraska to Chicago and to com
mercial cities of eastern states.
NO ATTACHMENT OF PENSION MONEY.
lie also voted for the pussago of sen
ate file ‘.’OU, a bill to exempt from levy
and sale on execution or attachment
all pension money and property pur
chased and Improved exclusively there
with of the solders, sailors and marines
who were disabled in the service of the
United States.
THREE CENT A MILK BATE.
Ho also voted for tho passage of sen
ate file No. 4, a bill to fix tho maximum
rate of charges and to fix passenger
rates at three cents per mile.
In 18S9 Governor Majors was a mem
ber of tho house of representatives of
Nebraska from Nemaha county. Dur
ing this session many bills were intro
duced for the purpose of looting the
public treasury of tho state and a great
many members of the house who were
opposed to extravagant and unjust
legislation formed a combine which
whs known as tho “Farmers’Combine,”
whose object was to solidly oppose any
legislation which would in any manner
be termed extravagant and unjust to
tho tax paying people of the stato.
This combine consisted of republicans,
democrats and some independents. Mr.
Majors was chairman and leader of
this so-called “combine.”
Among the bills defeated by tho
efforts of this "combine” was one to
appropriate 820,000 to pay for the ex
penses of sending tho Nebraska Na
tional Guard to New York city to assist
in the celebration of the 100th anniver
sary of the inauguration of Washing
ton. A strong effort was made to pass
this bill, but by the efforts of iir.
Majors and his friends it was deleated.
PROHIBITING POOLING ON LUMBER, COAL,
ETC.
Governor Majors while a member of
the houso of representatives voted for
the passage of House Koll No. 0. a bill
to prohibit lumber dealers, coal dealers,
persons, companies, partnerships, cor
porations or associations from entering
into any contract or agreement, or
combining to pool or fix the price at
which lumber, coal, goods or stocks of
any kind whatever should be sold, and
to provide punishment for violations of
same.
The bill was of special interest to the
working classes of people in this state
and wes for their protection against ex
tortionate prices for all such articles,
and was a bill that particularly inter
ested the farmers of the state.
FAVORED PAYMENT OF WAGES ON PUBLIC
BUILDINGS.
There had been many complaints
that tho general mechanics' lien law
then in force was inadequate to protect
mechanics and laborers who worked on
public buildings, therefore House lloll
42 was introduced and its passage fa
vored by Mr. Majors. The bill was en
titled “An act to secure the payment of
mechanics' and laborers’ wages on all
public buildings,” where the provis
ions of the mechanics' lien law does
not apply.
Governor Majors, while a member of
the house of representatives, favored
the passage of House Boll No. 131.
TO PROTECT EARNINGS OF LABORERS.
A bill for an act to provide for the
better protection of the earnings of la
borers, servants and other employes of
corporations, firms or individuals en
gaged iu interstate business.
This is the law which protects rail
way and other employes from having
their earnings, while working for rail
way companies or other persons garni
sheed by collection firms in other states
and has been a very beneficial law for
workingmen working for corporations
in this state.
MAXIMUM RATE BILLS.
He supported the passage of House
Roll No. 45, a bill for an act to regulate
railroads, to classify freights, to tlx
reasonable maximum rates to be
charged for the transportation of
freight upon each of the railroads in
the state of Nebraska, to increase the
powers and further define the duties of
the board of transportation and to pun*
ish violations thereof.
He supported the passage of House
Roll 45, a bill introduced by Hon. C. L.
Hall, (now Judge Hall of the district
court of Lancaster county), which was
the most direct and clean cut rate re
duction bill ever before any session of
the legislature, and the only one befor
a eeuion in which Mr. Major* had a
rote.
It wm a maximum rate bill, substan
tially the same as the ‘'Newberry BilL ”
The bill was introduced and read the
first time Jan. 8, lt.89, and passed the
house (of which Mr. Majors was a
member), March 20, 1889, but the bill
failed in the senate. (See house jour
nal session 1889, page 1843.)
FAVORED THE IRRIGATION I.AW.
He voted for House Roll 385, which
became a law, entitled “an act to pro
vide for water rights and irrigation,
anil to regulato the right to the use of
water for agricultural and manufactur
ing purposes. ’’
UNITED STATES MILITARY POST.
He voted for the passage of House
Roll 433, granting the consent of the
state of Nebraska to the purchase or
condemnation by the United States of
a tract of land in Sarpy, Washington
or Douglas counties for a military post
and reservation and ceding jurisdiction
thereof to the United States.
WARRANTS DECLARED “STATE SECURI
TIES.”
When the legislature of 1890 conven
ed it was ascertained that a large sum
of money had accumulated in the state
treasury to the credit of the perma
nent “school fund.” It amounted to
several hundred thousand {.dollars, and
because of the failure of the "Board of
Educational Lands and Funds” (con
sisting of the Governor, Secretary of
State, Treasurer, Attorney General,
and Commissioner of Public Lands and
Buildings) to find suitable investment
for this money, it was remaining idle
in the state treasury, and of no use to
any one except the state treasurer.
The constitution of the state provides
“that the school fund should not be in
vested in anything, except in United
States securities, or registered county
bonds of this state.” The board had a
short timo previous decided that state
warrants drawing interest were not
“State securities” within the meaning
of the state constitution. At this time
there was a very large number of state
warrants held in New York and Phila
delphia, which had been endorsed by
the state treasurer, “presented and not
paid for want of funds,” and these
were under the law drawing seven per
cent interest. To save this interest to
the school fund Governor Majors, then
a member of the house of representa
tives, on January 10, 1889, introduced
the following resolution, House Boll
107:
“Whereas a question has been raised
as to the proper interpretation of the
constitution of the state of Nebraska.
"Therefore, be it resolved, That
state warrants, when endorsed by the
state treasurer, ‘presented and not paid
for the want of funds,' are state securi
ties under the meaning of article 8, sec
tion 9, of the constitution of the state
of Nebraska.”
On January IS, 1880, Mr. Majors of
fered the following'resolution:
“Itesolved by the house of represen
tatives of the State of Nebraska. That
the supreme court of the state are
hereby requested to furnish this body
with an opinion setting forth whether
or not state warrants drawing interest
are state securities undor article 8, sec
tion 9, of the state constitution.”
The resolution prevailed, and the
supreme court rendered an affirmative
decision, by reason of which thousands
of dollars was saved to the permanent
school fund.
WOULD-HERALD COMMENDS MAJORS.
The Omaha World says Majors saved
the state 831,500 a year interest alone
by the introduction of the foregoing
bill.
From Omaha World, January 21,1889:
"Tom Majors introduced a joint resolu
tion the other day which seems to have
attracted slight attention considering
the importance of the subject. There
is an idle school fund in the state ag
gregating about three-quarters of a
million dollars. There are also unpaid
state warrants aggregating a similar
amount drawing interest at 7 per cent.
The constitution says that the fund
may be used in the purchase of United
States government bonds, of county
bonds registered, or in the purchase of
state securities. The question is. Is a
state warrant a state security? If so,
Mr. Mujors and his followers are in
favor of applying the idle school fund
to the defrayment of the warranted in
debtedness, and thus saving to the
state in interest an annuity of 532,500.
The resolution aimed to declare the
; slate warrant a state security, but as
! the matter, after investigation, seemed
j to rest with the interpretation of the
] constitution, and as it appeared that
I the legislature possessed no jurisdiction
; the resolution was withdrawn, and an
| opinion solicited from the supreme
j court. If that tribunal shall decide
j that a state warrant is a state security
I and the money of the school fund shall
j be used to call in the warrants, the
bunks of Nebraska will lose a pretty
! penny, and the state treasurer, who re
| ceieves from the banks the interest on
j state deposits, will have to curtail his
i personal expenses for a few thousands
| a year. ”
! AGAINST A PRISON CONTRACT.
Majors was in favor of the repeal of
| the act extending'the "prison contract”
i from Stout to Mosher. The Omaha
World of January 23, 1S89, says: "Kep
resentative Majors of Nemaha intro
duced a very innocent looking bill. It
simply provided for the repeal of chap
ter 86 of the session lawsof 1887. Turn
ing to this chapter a little surprise
party is presented. Chapter 86 is the
bill passed by the last legislature ex
tending the VV. H. It Stout "prison
contract” to C \V. Mosher. Mr. Majors
said to your correspondent that he
thought this act would cancel the con
| tract; that the measure was a most in
| iquitous and corrupt measure, and the
| state could not too quickly endeavor to
right the great wrong, lie thought I
something could be done.
The Herald, Omaha, Friday, March
! 22. 1889, says: "House Roll 244 is
Majors’ bill repealing chapter 86 of the
session laws of 1887. This affects sec
tion 48 of the law as it stands in the
i compiled statutes, which provides for
! the extension of the contract of C. VV
| Mosher for the care and labor of the
; convicts in the state penitentiary. By
, this contract 40 cents per day is paid by
i the state for the care of each convict.
; The contract was originally made to
\V. H. B. Stout, and was by him trans
ferred and assigned to Mosher.
Majors' bill seeks to destroy the act ex
i tending this contract ten years beyond
1 the time it was originally to run, which
l was to October. 1889”
This bill was indefinitely postponed
I by the bouse upon report of the com
1 raitlee on March 23, 1389.
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REPUBLICAN DOCTRINE.
MR. HOLMAN.
Th« Indiana Objector In tbe Boll of Coon*
Ml RrprcMBtatlro.
For many years the Hon. Wm. 8.
Holman, of Indiana, has posed in the
houso of representatives as the “watch
dog of the treasury; falling heir to that
title when the original “watch-dog of
the treasury”, Hon. Elihu K Wash
burn, of Illinois, retired from congress
in 1809.
He has for years been known as the
great “objector” of the house of rep
resentatives, and while it is undoubted
ly true that during the long period of
his congressional service he has pre
vented the passage of many private
claims that possibly should not have
had a favorable report, it 1b equally
true and beyond all question that he
has objected to and prevented the ’pas
sage of hundreds of as honest, just and
meretorious claims as were ever pre
sented to congress.
Every speaker of the house of repre
santatives, from 1801 to date, from
Oalusha A. Grow to Charles F. Crisp,
has known the inconsistent and hypo
critical character of Judge Holman’s
opposition to private claims and has so
expressed himself either publicly or
privately, none with more positiveness
and vehemence than Speakers Kerr,
Randall, Carlisle and Crisp, all sturdy
democrats. His “wobbling” and tricky
course in this regard was fully exposed
in the 51st congress by Speaker Reed,
and has from time to time been venti
lated by the Washington correspond
entsof leading democratic papers. For
a few years past, Judge Holman has
changed his tactics as to private claims
He has always been “willing to wound
and yet afraid to strike.” And so has
instigated and invited other members—
usually ipen of no character or stand
ing—to do the “objecting,” while he
would privately furnish the reasons or
arguments against the bill. There are
today on the files of congress, or on its
calendars, hundreds of just and meri
torious claims which have been “ob
jected” to, congress after congress, by
Judge Holman, who as the record will
show, has passed or assisted in passing
scores of unworthy claims, involving
hundred of thousands of dollars.
lie has specially posed as theenemy of
“war claims.” particularly of that class
which asked for property destroyed
in battle or by the lawless and wanton
acts of troops, or as a milisary necess
ity. All this class of claims under the
recognized piinciples of international
law and never paid, for the reason that
no obligation to pay for property so de
stroyed is recognized as existing. A
few such eases, as for instance college,
university and school buildings,
churches, hospitals, etc., have, as a
matter of grace and public policy been
made exceptions, but they have been
placed entirely on that ground.
The bill was H. R. 7992 for the relief
of J. and O. P. Cobb & Ca, and appro
priaieu xne sum oi ®a,44i.uu to pay said
claimants for certain barges and flat
boats loaded with hay, which were des
troyed by a U. S. gunboat by order of
General iiayle during the Morgan raid
of 1883 to prevent said hay from being
used by General Morgan’s command.
Judge Holman passed a bill through
the house of representatives of the 38th
congress paying for both the hay and
barges, but the senate—liberal as it is
—refused to pay for the barges which
had been contracted for by the govern
ment. Even the senators did not ask
payment for the barges and flatboats
which were the private property of
Messrs. J. & 0. P. Cobb & Co. The bill
in question had not been reported by
the very liberal war claims committee
of the house, though constantly impor
tuned by Judge Holman so to do. On
the contrary the records of the com
mittee show that the sub-committee re
ported it adversely to the full commit
tee and that by the special request of
Judge Holcom it was “laid over” for
the present session. The request was
made by Judge Holman immediately
after the reading of the journal on
August 37, the day before the final ad
journment, when there were by actual
count, made by an officer of the house,
but twenty-seven members present, a
count by tellers some time later, on a
public matter of importance, showing
the presence of but eighty members,
compelling the withdrawal of the
measure and the adjournment of the
house. Judge Holman pleaded long
and earnestly with Messrs. Marsh of
Illinois and other members to with
draw their objections, but in vain. Not
a single member of the committee on
war claims was present, there was
great noise and confusion in the hall,
the clerk read rapidly and indistinctly
and if most any other member than
Judge Holman had preferred the re
quest it is probable that the claim
would have “slipped through.” Hut
Judge Holman is so obnoxious to mem
bers by reason of his insincere, tricky
“““ wuioc ill respect to
private claims, that no request of his
for unanimous consent is ever granted.
He stated in prefering the request that
it was “a great many years since I have
asked the house to consider a private
bill. ” W hy then this urgency in the
closing hours of a session with but
twenty-seven members present—not
one being a member of the committee
on war claims—to pass a bill which had
not only not been reported favorably
by said committe, but which instead
had been reported unfavorably by a
sub-committee and “laid over" for the
session, as a favor to Judge Holman?
The answer may possible be found in
the response made by Judge Holman
to Mr. Marsh of Illinois, who asked
why he (Holman) objected to sending
the case to the court of claims. Says
Judge Holman: J
“Sending the case to that eourt would
involve time and expense, and mv cli
ents are too old and too poor to bear
that”
It may seem incredible that Judge
Holman should thus publicly advertise
his attorneyship, but there is the lan
guage in the Record of that day’s pro
ceedings, page 10,407, lines 4 and 5 of
the first column.
Comment is unnecessary, for no lan
guage could do the subject justice.
Wilson Among the Lords.
The Honorable William Wilson, the
father of the sugar trust tariff, who re
cently made a show of himself in the
presence of the nobility of Great Brit
ain, took occasion at a banquet given
by the lords of London, to belittle his
own country and his own people. A
prominent paper of his own state—West
viryiaia, says of him: “No American
public man of any party has ever mmd«
such a spectacle of lumself as Mr. TV il
son has If anything' were needed W
defeat him besides his rf<;ordJ?. c??s
press, he has furnished it himself j ^
career a fortnight ago in Kng * n
A prominent democrat of nia k
state said of him a few days ago- ,
at the spectacle. On the one
Wilson isPbeing lauded and boostedan
banquetted in Oreat lintian * ,
he has attempted to do, hnd w
promises yet to do in the wav .
ing tariff; and on the other hant,
ican reduction of wages every
strikes misery, starvation aiidtlie'vor
is sent from your great city of I ittstra 8
today that every tin-plate Ki““fict"
er in the United States has shut down
on account of the reduction of duty on
tin plate, throwing thousands of work
ingmen out of employment, and the
great loss turning into other channels
millions of capital invested. .
This is the man whom the democrats
propose to elect in the second \\ est Vir
ginia district to be again placed at the
head of the most important committee
of the lower house of congress.
SUGAR SCANCAL.
Some of the Reanlts of the Passage of the
Democratic TarlfT Raw Seen from
the Standpoint of a DIs
Intereated Obaerver.
After the Brice-Uorman bill had
passed the house the prediction was
made by many prominent democrats
that the price of sugar would not ad
vance. The reason given was that the
sugar trust law, like the sword of Dem
ocles, was suspended over the trust, and
*twas but a slender thread that held it
in place. They ai gued that if the trust
udvanced the cost of sugar to the con
sumer, and thereby injured the demo
cratic party, the senators would be in
a retaliatory mood in December and
would fire the sugar pop-gun at the
trust. In their war on it they would
have the active aid of many republican
senators, who will never forgive the
trust for the part it played in selecting
.Mr. Cleveland in 1892. The populists,
too, would have to vote for the sugar
pop-gun bill, in obedience to the de
mands of their constituents which would
pour in on them after sugar had gone
up a cent or two. Such were the com
forting assurances with which many of
the democrats bore down the republi
can predictions that the price of sugar
would advance. And there was much
plausibility in the argument.
But sugar has advanced, and the
cause of it furnishes one of the most
infamous chapters that has ever dis
graced the annals of American politics.
It should be published far and wide for
the purpose of confounding the schemes
of the trust and the democratic party.
One of the most puzzling problems
that the democrats have had to con
front in the organization of the cam
paign which is now in progress, was
the question of raising funds. An ef
fort has been made to compel the sugar
trust to again subscribe a large amount
towards the carrying of the present
election, but it is currently reported
that the Havemeyer syndicate has
asked to be excused as they had
already contributed a very large sum
and have not yet reaped any direct
benefit from the democratic success of
1892; and if they should be compelled
to subscribe again to the democratic
campaign fund the price of sugar
would have to be advanced at once, in
order to help them to maintain their
business upon anything like a paying
basis. It is not generally known what
the result of this conference was bv
the public; but it is currently reported
that the committee convinced the trust
that it was their duty to subscribe fur
ther to their campaign fund and let the
price of sugar go up if necessary.
Are the people aware how this mon
strous combination at the capital is to
fatten upon the toil of the common
people for the next three years. Forty
or sixty millions at least will be gath
ered from the pockets of the poor,
while the democrats will go on profes
sing and declaiming to be the friends
of the toilers and the enemies of com
bined capital!
inc present campaign on the part of
*” wi'l be waged on the
boodle line. They expect to buy
with money what they cannot other
wise control by party prestige. Such
districts as Mr. Wilson's, in West Vir
gima; Mr. Bynum’s, in Indiana; and
, rilc?y s,\ ln New York, in reward
for their fidelity to President Cleveland,
nbf, f"rnished with all the sugar
boodle they need to ensure their re
election. Surely the glory of the de
mocracy has departed! The hmh
sounding phrases of “reform,” of “hon
nest admmistration” and “fair dealing
with the masses” are to all intents and
ThTmasbTf meaninS]ess sentences.
1lsk °f democracy has at last been
pushed aside and its true character is
made known. Spoils, both public and
private, by which demagogues have
fattened, is no longer a mystery of the
inner chambers of Tammany and like
organizations. They are I
belong t°thf public.STecmn°monnpaenod
fMm§m
time to make no for the "
of money, as thev eS • lhe use
campaign as thev^hn running- their
do, without they iS r/e8 tried
money in the hone nf ^ltlnate use of
victory by the unric;,feCU/ln? a Sreat
who have seen the foil people
democrats to eet inie^ °f al'°'vlnff the
the country has ho „ ,iP°Wfr' dy which
ands of mfllionsb a'nd^he* Bd- °f tbous’
Poor and suffering ones We8°f ‘u®
most indifferent to ?,“es, . Te set the
prosperity of the nast lnkl^f how tfae
a?ain. Let each ffivfdnJ* restored
woman during the nevt^ 1 and
they are reminded ' aS
tamed in this short* u tllin£s con
cratic perfidy and 1 -ChaPter of demo
sweeten their enffe ®®' and as ‘hey
factoried and sold as° W nV tke sugar
cle of commerce bv a“ •! !'?OUen ani
! of “boodlers” a'n/a” illicit combine
ians. resolve that ,u ^°uratui Politic
j come when the nee^® l!mf, must soon
1 from the thraldom of*.h®}1 ^ released
I homes shall arain heth®triUSland the
independence Lch ™ad® happy by
1 orab'le employe » ♦“* found hon
wages. P t at remunerative
juffa^sTit?
thyediXaad COUrt®V flow
four track SERIES
etchi,
The Unexampled Offer of the t
Central. **
Art lovers will And one of th. v.
gains placed before the public i,"*1
month in the offer of the Passe* J!',1?
ment of the New York CeutrS^Dj
merely nominal figure a collect!™
ings, which hayeljecome famous 2,
the country as the “Four-Track o 111
The titles of the etchings aw>>T?'“'
tagton Bridge,” “Rock of
at
Falls,” “Old Spring
“Rounding the Nose, Mohawk
“No. 9S»9 and the DeWitt ClinL'Ji
Empire State Express,” “Hor^sL
' UwkJ
Niagara,” and “Gorge of
River.”
These etchings are all prints
plate paper, 24x83 inches, and thn °f
of any objectionable advertising ,
renders them suitable for traH *
hanging in one’s office, library or^°*
Copies may be secured at the oi
B. Jerome, General Western n.
Agent, 97 Clark St., Chicago, for S**
each, or will be mailed in stiff tuW'
from injury, to any address, forsS
cents each, or any two of them (/> “■
dress, for $1.80, or any three or
dered at one time to one addrea.
cents each, in currency, stamps a™ 1
postal money order. 1
The Whlehness of it.
Philadelphia Inquirer: A n,
newspaper which always endear
use clear and simple language saw
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and passes through alternate emS
dominance and subsidence.” %
positive last summer that sonJ
was the matter with the old dam,
we had no idea that matters were
rious. It is to be hoped that the*
dence will yield to treatment an*
hothei
and those ako,
l become
should kno*
Dr. Pierce's
vorite Present
robs childbiiti
its torture, te
and danger
both mother
child, by aiding Nature in prepariiJ
system for parturition. Thereby "M
and also the period of confinemttl
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the child. During pregnancy, itl
vents "morning sickness’’ and j
distressing nervous symptoms i
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Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. jL
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