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VOLUME 3, NUMBER 30.
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Marlon (la.) Sentinel: The duty of
?750 on forolgn elephants was placed
in the Dlngley law to kcop out compe
tition with the :epubliean party.
Clinton (111.) Register: The re
publicans have Roosevelt nominated
for president and now have nothing
left to do but go' Cloveland nominated
on the othe- republican ticket the
gold democrat. -
Tiffin (0.) Advertiser:. President
Roosevelt is prolific with promises,
but barren with performances. Let
him do something to the trusts and
monopolies and thereby prove to the
public that ho is not all false pro
tonse. -Hoxio (KaB.) Palladium: Bryan's
masterly assault on G. Cloveland has
drawna deep and resounding reply
in dofonsNqf Grover from every re
publican paper.in the land. Cleveland
no doubt feels consoled that his friends
are so loyal. . -
Paragould (Arlc.) Democrat: That
joke about Rockefeller" praying for
anything ho wants was ' doubtless
started by the aforesaid gentleman to
offset tho circumstantial evidence to
the effect that when ho wants any
thing ho simply raises the price of oil.
Ol'ney .(HI.) Democrat: Josh Bill
ings Bald a man might mend his char
acter, but that the world would al
ways look at th. crack. Grover Cleve
land might como to the democratic
mourners' bench, but tho people would
not forget his star chamber bond 'deal
of 1893.
Marion (la.) Sentinel: Secretary
Hay says lie is "amazed" at the lat
est exhibition of Russian duplicity in
tho Manchurlan embroglio. The trou
ble with Mr. Hay's diplomacy is that
he lets the other fellow get in his
work before ho allows amazement to
seize him.
Jerseyville (111.) Democrat: When
Grover Cleveland's name was men
tioned as a presidential candidate In
a gathering of Now York democrats,
tho Idea was hissed loudly. Cleveland
would not know how little his party
thinks of him If he would not allow
nis name -mentioned as a presidential
candidate.
Monroe City (Mo.) Democrat: The
money question is a dead issue. Our
republican friends havo said so on
many occasions, and yet congress will
hardly be In session before some
financial legislation will bo proposed
by some leading republican and the
bill will bo directly opposed to the
interests of the masses and in the spe
cial interest of tho favored few.
Jerseyville (111.) Democrat: It Is
amusing to democrats to note tho
columns of editorials and cartoons,
that fill republican papers in an ef
fort to boom Cleveland for tho demo
cratic nomination for president. We
do not know of a democratic paper
that takes tho thought of his can
didacy seriously, yet wo note leading
republican papers tolling about his
great strength.
Lexington (N. 0.) Dispatch: A good,
safe man is what tho rank and file will
demand of tho next democratic na
tional convention. Men who have not
been true to th- party ought not to
expect tne convention to pay much at-
lon to their wishes in tho raW-
cf a candidate. To nominate a
man for president who has been faith
loss to his party would tend to dis
organize the whole army.
Savannah (Mo.) Democrat: By
reading republican papers in denounc
ing Bryan's financial ideas ono would
infer that our presont financial system
was all right However, we have read
in the last few days that our stren
uous president has expressed an earn
est wish to Senator Lodge that con
gress should take speedy action to
remedy our financial condition. If it
is all right, why does it need a rem
edy? Brandenburg (Ky.) Messenger: The
republican platform is bitter in its de
nunciation of assassination ana as
sassins, but never a word does it ut
ter of Governor Durbin's refusing to
surrender to Kentucky officials Tay
lor, a self-condemned criminal, In
dicted for -aiding and abetting the as
sassination of Governor Goebel. More
barefaced duplicity it would be diffi
cult to discover than is to ba observed
in the republican platform adopted at
Louisville a few days since.
Portsmouth (0.) Times: No right
.cause is, hopeless. It is written in
words of living light Truth crushed
to earth shall rise again. It may not
on the first effort, nor the second, nor
even tho third. .Low as has been the
ebb of tho fortunes of tho democracy
of the past two presidential elections,
it can and will rise if it will only be
faithful to itself and the people. Faith
does not consist, however, in adopt
ing any policy it is believed will win.
Principles lost are better than poli
cies won.
Preston (Minn.) Republican: The
prosperity howl, as it is developed in
the markets, lacks justification. Last
week cattle were sold in Chicago for
?5.40. In the corresponding week in
19D2, the price was $8.70 and meat
went up beyond tho reach of tho toll-
trust bosses to own both parties, but
the democrats have signified in two
national campaigns that they do not
want to be owned. If we must be re
publicans why not be in name as well
as in fact?
Millhelm (Pa.) Journal: Senator
Hanna and tho other "stand-patters."
"hand-offers" ' and "stand-guarders"
forgot to bring In the quantity of sun
shine and warmth ordinarily regard
ed as appropriate to tho month of
June. As a consequence the corn crop
is debilitated and not sumptuously
promising. There is the hope, though,
that prosperity may bo kept riding on
the waving wheat fields of Kansas.
Montlcello (Mo.) Journal: Oleve
landlsm and J. Plerpont Morgan are
inseparable. It was Cleveland who
gave Morgan such a boost by letting
him mortgage the national treasury
and it is Cleveland and Morgan who
are today the leaders of tin move to
reorganize the democratic party. It
is to be hoped that the democrats of
the nation will not let Morgan and the
reorganizers turn the democratic party
into an asset for the big trust manip
ulator. Vevay (Ind.) Democrat: There is a
certain irony about Senator Piatt's
suggestion that Senator Aldrlch be
nominated vico president. As Mr.
Aldrich is the most ardent of "stand
patters" and is the personal represen
tative of the Standard Oil company on
the floor of the senate his nomination
by the republicans would be singular
ly appropriate. We would be able to
keep the- president "in line" and would
eliminate Cummins and other heretics
from tho fold of the elect.
Boulder (Mont.) Sentinel: "The
danger of "a big stick" is not hard to
discern. It means the education of
hundreds of brainy men in ttie "art
of war." Once educated and enrolled
as army or navU officers, there is no
ing classes. The ?3.30 drop in tho SSSfe J?. fEf:. l?L SS J"S
price or cattle nas not caused a
change In the price of dressed meats.
Why? A trust controls the purchas
ing and selling price. The law of sup
ply and demand has been set aside.
Kill the trusts that prosperity may be
equalized.
David City (Neb.) Press: We are
beginning to hear of an occasional
'sound' money" democrat around these
regions who wants the party to get to
gether on a platforn of "good money."
A democrat who voted for McKlnley
in 1896 and 1900 ought to stay right
with the "good money" party until
ho gets what ho wants asset cur
rency, branch banks and all. Repub
licans are pledged to give us good
money. They have coined more sil
ver than was ever coined before in the
same length of time, and silver is still
a legal tender for all debts. Wo have
tho same old greenbacks that were
made a part of tho money of tho coun
try forty years ago. Silver has been
good money all over tho world for
3,834 years, and wo do not 'know how
much longer. Tho only way to get bet
ter moneyfrom the standpoint of
Grover Cloveland is to redeem silver
In gold and fill its place with asset
currency, based on watered trust
stocks. Wo don't need to reorganize
the democratic party to do that Those
who want that sort of arrangement
win cio won to stick to Mark Hanna.
without war 'and the result will be an
insistent pressure for war from them
and their friends, a pressure which
Russia has long experienced to her
own detriment and which threatens
every nation which "carries a big
stick."
Rock Rapids (la.) Review: It is
time that the republican policy of
feeding Wall street with a bottle reg
ularly and giving it the services of a
wet nurse frequently should be given
a sufficient rebuke. Our republican
friends prate about tho excellence of
their financial system, and yell in our
ears "republican prosperity." The
kind of prosperity, and the financial
system that depends for success upon
the variations of a stock ticker and
the reckless speculations of a bunch of
criminal gamblers s not a good, nor
a lasting, nor a stable system.
Staunton -(Va.) Spectator: New
Jeffries are springing up in various
parts of our country in the shape of
United States judges. Men are im
prisoned at their sweet will. Who can
tell how far this unwarranted grasp
ing of power may lead. There are
many who pretend they do not see this
trend of affairs, and those who do, aro
called alarmists, often anarchists.
When Laurennals said to the people
of down-trodden Europe, "In the bal
ance of eternal right your will out-
weighoth the will of kings, for it is
It would no doubt bo pleasant for tho-1 th6 peoplo which makes kings, and
kings are made for the people, not tho
peoples for kings," he breathed a doc
trine which must soon in America be
reproclaimed, for we m are wandering
away from it with appalling rapidity.
Waukesha (Wis.) Dispatch: The
asset currency scheme is said to have
the backing of the "financial inter
ests," which it would appear are not
altogether and entirely satisfied with
our present monetary conditions not
withstanding the possibilities it has
afforded for the present wild era of
prosperity.
Two Rivers (Wis.) Chronicle: Gro
ver Cleveland has finally made a pub
lic and emphatic announcement that
he will not again bo a candidate i'or
the presidency. The announcement
and the emphasis were unnecessary.
His mission now is, he says, to do all
he can to Induce the party to "return
to sound political principles." The
party has no need of returning to
sound political principles. It never
abandoned them. He, as an individ
ual, abandoned them, however, when
he became the tool of the Morgan bank
syndicate.
Monmouth Spring (Ark.) Democrat:
Republican papers are giving all tho
aid they can to the Cleveland demo
crats in, their efforts to capture the
democratic party. They denounce
Bryanism, declare that it disgraced
and ruined tho party and that with
the overthrow of the Kansas City
platform and its pernicious principles
the party may get back Into power.
Then the next day the same papers
will declare that the people hayo had
enough of democracy, Cleveland soup
houses, and hundreds of thousands
out of work, when it was Impossible,
though a man might be worth thou
sands in property, to borrow a dollar,
when hundreds of thousands had to be
fed by charity, when the alms houses
were filled .with paupers and the asv
lums, with tho- insane. They declare
that 'that vis what Cleveland and dem
ocracy did for the land, but they are
very anxious oiTthe odd days to havo
that same Cleveland returned to pow
er and declare that if the 'democrats
will only put tho old stuffed prophet
back into leadership they have every
chance to win. Did any man ever be
fore see such puerile twaddle in any
publication anywhere in the world?
Information Wanted,
Information is wanted concerning
Frederick Meier, who disappeared
from his home near Caroline, Thomp
kins county, N. Y., on April 22, 1901.
Meier was 5 feet 6 inches in height, of
robust form, and at the time of his
disappearance was about 71 years old.
He was bald; wore. full gray beard;
had scar over right eye and at base of
left thumh. Meier was well posted, had
traveled extensively, and spoke sev
eral languages, including German and
Encllah. Ho was born in Wesel, Ger
many, and came to America during
the civil war; served four years in the
German army and three years in the
union army; was a member of com
pany B, 109th N. Y. Vols., and a pen
sioner; said to havo been seen m
Owogo, N. Y., April 23, 1901. Meier
left a wife and four children who
earnestly solicit information which
may aid in returning him to his fam
ily. Address Mrs. Frederick Meier,
care of Mrs. George Smith, Slatervllia
Springs, Tompkins county, New" Yoru.
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