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Ladiei .walking' ht The 1 bat and a '.- Dra. 1 lnree"door The ' Miss Pear -Bert I from Belvi . Dr.lJ Homeopat M.Jei. . n .-. wore mro np, The S court haa 1 lti8K. -Earl I stole, we n . ; to ' pablicsehj TheD . . iheyever Sold allot Ifc&v as having attack of c " The ' have their, ! The t from the! ia the big) GENJARRISON'SVOIGE It is Heard in New York on the Vital Issues of the Great Campaign. PERILS OF POPOCRAT SUCCESS. A Stirring Address in Which Questions Are Handled in a Masterly Way. New York, Aug. 28. At Carnegie hall, Thursday night, an immense and enthu siastic audience gathered to hear the issues of the campaign discussed by ex PrcMdcnt Benjamin Harrison. Hon. Chauncey M. Deiew presided over the meeting. Both Mr. Harrison and Mr. Depcw were the recipients of sratious when they entered the hall. Upon call ing the gathering to order, Mr. Depcw delivered an address on campaign issues, at the close of which he introduced ex President Harmon, who at once entered into a discussion of the issues. He spoke at considerable length, being very fre quently interrupted by applause. Re ferring to his appearance as a campaign speaker he said it was due to his sense of the duty he owed to the country to combat the fallacies sought to be foisted upon the iteople by the Democratic party and its allies. Ho acknou ledged his re spect for the feelings which actuated the gold Democrats in occupying the iw-i-ition they do, but said they must not expect the Republican party to reorgan ize itself because the Democratic party had disorganized itself. The Demo cratic party had once more exhibited its capacity to be ruptured and a iwrtv that cannot be split was a public menace. hen the leaders of a party assembled n lonvcntion depart from its traditional principles and advocate doctrines that threaten the integrity of the irovprnmnnt the social order of our eoiiiniiiiiitiVs .-mil security and soundness of nnr I&mlSM Hi Ai - 1 Mi MMf MP IWM iff Hffil"L ML.( . Iff . , - r i i" m m ii sat x i - mvWmM Sm I II J peddler aln5 ? 3T2WsrNpiii flr xi iC y murmin, rgp54t3L l - js- - i ' v. " mmm mLZuZf Afjr. Bryan asserts that he Is opposed to foreign domination In our affairs. the finance, it ought to be --plit, and it digni nes uvcu when it d.os split. A bolt Irom any party is now and then a mot reassuring incident and was never more reassuring and never had better caue than now. The Republican party fronts the tiestruetionists and trumpets its de fiance to the enemies of "sound monev." It will light, however, without covering any of the glorious mottoes and inscrip tions that are upon its banner. Contin uing. Mr. Harrison said: "That is a leading issue of a cam paign which most agitates the people. In my opinion there is no issue' present ed by the Chicago convention more im portant or vital than the question they nave raided of prostituting the power and duty of the national courts and na tional executive. The defense of the constitution, of the Supreme court of the united States and of the President's power and duty to enforce all of the laws of the United States without await ing tiie call or consent of the governor of any state is an important and living issue m this campaign. Tariff and coin age will be of little moment if our con stitutional government is oerthrown. Uhen we have a President who believes that it is neither his right nor his dutv to see that the mail trains are not ob structed and that interstate commerce has its free way. irrespective of state lines and state courts, who fears to use our ancient and familiar power to re strain and punish lawbreakers, free trade and free silver will be appropriate accompaniments of such an administra tion and cannot add appreciably to the national distress or the national dis honor. (Apnlatise.) "The ntinospheie of the Chicago con tention was surcharged with the spirit of revolution. Its platform was -earned and its nominations made with ac eonipanjing incidents of frenzy that star tled the onlookers and amazed the coun try. The courts and the President were arraigned for enforcing the laws, and government by the mob was given pref erence over government by law enforced by the court decrees and by executive orders. There was no calm deliberation: there was frenzy. There was no thought ful searching for the man who from ex perience was most able to direct public affairs. There was an impulsive re sponse to an impassioned speech that se- " lected the nominee. Not amid such surroundings as that, not under such in fluences, are these calm, discreet things done that will commend themselves to the iudguient of the American people. (Applause.) "Xhey denounce in their platform in terference by federal authorities in local affairs as a violation of the constitution of the United States and a crime against free institutions. Mr. Tillman in his speech approved this declaration. It was intended to l,c in words a direct condemnation of Mr. Cleveland as Presi- . dent of the United States for using the power of the executive to brush out of the way every obstacle to the free pass age of the mail trains of the United States and the interstate commerce, and my friends, whenever our people ap" prove the choice of a President who believes he must ask Gor. Altgeld or any other state permission to enforce the laws -of the United States, we haTe surrendered the victory the boys won ;n lfeGl. (Applause.) "My friends, this constitutional ques tion, this division between the general and local authorities is a plain and easy one. A disturbance which is purelv lo cal in a state is a state affair. The President cannot send troops or lend any aid, unless the Legislature calls upon him for help, or the governor, if the Legislature is not in session. But when a law of the United States is invaded and broken, it is the sworn duty of the President to execute it, and this conven tion arraigns the President for doing what his oath compelled him to do Comrades for the great war for the Union, sons of those who went out to battle that the flag might cot lose its luster, will we consent after these rears (cries of 'Sol') that the doctrine which was shot to death in the great war shall be revived and made victorious in a civil campaign? (Cries of 4Xo!) "But the assault does not end there The Supreme court of the United States and the federal lower courts are ar raigned because they used the familiar writ of injunction to suppress violence, to restrain men from breaking the law! and that platform plainly means I will show you that it was o understood in the convention and in the committee on resolutions that the Democratic policv w mat wnen tne supreme court, exer cising its constitutional power and duty. - gave an interpretation to a law of the United States that was not pleasing to .Congress they would increase the num ber of judges and pack the court to get a decision to please them. (Applause.) "My friends, our fathers who framed this government divided its great pow ers between three great departments the legislative, executive and the judicial. It sought to make these independent, the one of the other, so that neither might overshadow or destroy the other. The Supreme court, the most dignified judicial body in the world, was appointed to interpret the laws and the constitu tion, and when that court pronounced a decree as to the powers of Congress or as to any other constitutional ques tion, there is but one right method if we disagree, and that is the method pointed out by the constitution to amend it to conform with our views. That is the po sition today. "You are to answer, then, my fellow citizens, in all the gravity of a great crisis, whether you will sustain a party who proi ose to destroy the balance which our lathers instituted in our system of government, and whenever a tumultuous Congress disagrees with the Supreme court and a subservient President is in the white house, that the judgment of the court shall be reconsidered and re versed by increasing the number of judges and packing the court with men who will decide as Congress wants them to. (Applause.) I cannot exaggerate the gravity and the importance and the dan ger of this assault upon our constitution al form of government. "I do not intend to spend any time in the discussion of the tariff question. That debate has been won, and need not be protracted. It might run on eternally unon theoretical lines. We had had some experiences, but they were historical and remote, and not very instructive to this generation. We needed an experience of our own, and we have had it It has been a bar J lesson, but a very convinc ing one. and everybody was in the school house when it was given him. A panic in 181)3 of most extraordinary character has been succeeded by a gradual drying up, less and less, until universal business dis traction and anxiety prevails over all of our community. I do not believe there has been a time, except, perhaps, in the very heat of some active iianic, when universal fear and anxiety and watchful ness, even to the iKmit of desperation, has characterized this" great metropolis as it does today. (Applause.) Men have been afraid to go away for a vacation. They hate felt that they must every day in this burning heat come to the city and watch their business. That is the situa tion. "What has brought it about? Gentle men, who is there to defend the Wilson tariff bill? Who says it is a good tariff measure? (A voice: "Nobody.") I don't belieto a candidate can be found to say that it is. Mr. Cleveland repudiated it. It was so bad that he could not attach his official signature to it, and it became a law without it. He said it was full of incongruities and inenuali- ties. What has been the result of that measure? It has failed to produce rev enue enough, supplemented by our inter nal taxes, to maintain the government. There has been an annual deficit ap proaching $30,000,000 every year, and the national treasury has been contin uallj" m n ?e JE embarrassment. Qur maliufacturels, left without adequate protection, have been successively and gradually closing up and putting out their fires. But not only has this pro duced such an effect, but It has practi cally .contributed to the financial depres sion that we are in. The maintenance of the gold reserve up to $100,000,000 by the government for the redemption of our notes was essential to confidence in the stability of our finances. When the government reserve runs down peo nle begin at once to say: We mav romp to a silver basis if gold is going out.' The reserve is generally down and this fear is greatly increased, but how can yon keep a gold reserve of $100,000,000 when you have not got $100,000,000 in the treasury all told? How can yon maintain this gold reserve for redemp tion of notes when you have an annual and continuous deficit and your income not equaling your deficit? So that, my friends, this tariff bill bas not only con tributed, by increasing importations, by taking away the needfnl support for onr own manufacturers, but it has contrib uted in the way of increasing the silver scare to bring us into the present condi tion of distrust and dismay which now prevails. (Applause.) "But I do not intend to follow that question further. I am quite as much opposed to cheapening the American workingman and working woman as I am to cheapening our dollars. iAp plause). I am quite as strongly in favor of keeping days' work at home as I am gold dollars. (Applause). "My friends, as a Republican, I am proud of many things, but I can snm up as the highest satisfaction I have had in the party and its career that the prospect of Republican success never did disturb business. (Applause). In con nection with this financial matter, do we all realize how important the choice of a president is? Do you know that, as the law is now. without the passage of any free coinage of silver at all, it is in the power of the President of the United States to bring the business of the country to a silver basis? All he has to do is to let the gold reserve po, to pay out silver when men ask for gold, and we are there already. It is only because the presidents of the United States that we have had. and the one we have now. have regarded it under the law as his public duty to maintain the gold basis, maintaining that parity between our silver and gold coins which the law declares is the policy of the government, and because he has the courage to execute the pow ers given to Eim by the resumption act to carry out that declaration of public law. I undertake, therefore, to say that if Mr. Bryan, or a man holding his yews, were in the presidential chair, without any legislation by Congress, we should be on a silver basis in a week's time. (Applause). "The silver question what is it? Do you want silver because you want more money, a larger circulating medium? I have not heard anybody say so. 3Ir. Bryan is not urging it upon that basis. If anybody were to seek to give that as a reason for wanting free silver he would be very soon confounded by the state ment that free silver would put more gold out of circulation than mints of the United States could possibly bring in in years of silver, and that instead of hav ing more money we would have less. (Ap plause.) With our six hundred and odd million of gold driven out of circulation we will reduce our per capita money of this country between eight and nine dol lars. So it is not for more money. We have an abundant supply of circulating medium gold, bilver, national bank greenbacks, treasury notes, fractional sil ver, no nave something like $23 per capita of our population. What is it. then, that creates this demand for silver? It is openly avowed. It is not more dol lars, but cheaper dollars that are wanted. It is a lower standard of value that they arc demanding. They say gold has gone up until it has ceased to be a proper standard of value, and they want silver. But how do they want it "Now, my friends, there is a great deal of talk about bimetallism and the double standard and a great deal of con fusion in the use of those terms. Bi metallism is the use of the two metals as money where they are both used. By a double standard they mean that we shall have a gold dollar and a silver dollar which will be a unit of value, by which all property and all wages and everything is to be measured. Now. our fathers thought that when they used these two metals in coinage they must determine the intrinsic relative value of the two, so that a comparison of the markets of the world would show just what relation one ounce of silver bore to one ounce ot gold; how many ounces of silver it took to be equal to one ounce of gold in the markets of the world where gold and silver were used, and they carefully went about ascertaining that. Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton gave their great powers to the determination of that question, and they collected the market reports and they studied with all their power that question, and when they found what appeared to be the general and average -"'""- aiue oi mese two metals they fixed upon a ratio between them. Now, what was the object of all that? Why did they lump it all? Because they fully understood that unless these dollars were of the same intrinsic value that both of them could not be standards of value, and both could not circulate. (Ap plause.) "As things are now tho silrnr Anllm-. that we have are supported by the gov ernment, and the government that sup ports this silver bullion has issued these dollars on its own account not for the mine owner and it has pledged its sa cred honor it would make every one of these dollars as good as a gold dollar (Great applause.) And that is a power ful support. Oar Populistic friends pro pose that the man who digs silver out of the mine may bring it to the mint and have it stamped and handed back to him as a dollar, the government having no responsibility about it. These men would reject with contempt the-proposi- uuu uiui lrev coinage was to come with a pledge on behalf of the government to maintain the parity of the two dollars. (Applause.) But this feeling is well adapted to touch the prevailing American bumptiousness and well adapted to touch that prejudice against England which many have, but can we do this thing ourselves? Is it a question wheth er wc will do it, or ask anybody's con sent whether we may, or ask the co-operation of somebody? Not at all. I tell you what this government can do alone. It can fix its money unit. It can declare by law what shall be the relative value of an ounce of gold and an ounce of silver, but it cannot make that last declaration good. (Applause.) It is unquestionably fully within the power of this government to bring this country to a silver basis by coining silver dollars and making them legel 'tender. They can do that. "This government might say you shall take one of these dollars, but it cannot say and enforce its decree if you should call out the regular army or navy and muster our great modern ships and the militia, and put William J. Bryan in command of them it cannot enforce the decree that one ounce of gold is the equivalent of sixteen ounces of silver. (Great applause and cheers.) Not only that not France and England and Ger many can do that unless the markets respond. (Applause.) We can of our selves, of our own wisdom, declare the nnit of value. We can coin silver free ly, but we cannot make sixteen ounces of silver equal to one ounce of gold un less it is. (Applause.) And it is not unless the merchants take it at that rate. "What is the next suggestion. It is, my friends, in the case of free silver, what is the financial and moral equiva lent of a declaration that 50-cent pieces are dollars. They might just as well pa 88 a law that 00 cents is a dollar. That would not make it so, would it? It would be a legal dollar; but it would not buy a dollar's worth of anything. What is the effect of that? The mer chant would take care of himself. "A man keeps a store down here on Broadway, and that law is going into operation tonight. He summons all bis clerks and buys 25 cents' worth of pen cils, and before he opens his store in the morning he has marked up his goods to the new scale. Ho can do all that. But there are great numbers of people, num berless people, who enlist our interest, and some of them enkindle our sympa thies, who cannot use the pencil. Take the work of man. He cannot go to the pay roll with a pencil and mark it up. He has got to consult somebody. He has to enter into an argument. He has got to get some other man's consent be fore he can mark up his wages. Then there is the pensioner, those that are re ceiving pensions from this government for gallant deeds done in the war, and others for the loss of beloved ones. He cannot take his pension certificates, and when it reads eight dollars make it read sixteen dollars. He must wait for an appeal to Congress, and a Congress that is populistic in character would be un sympathetic. (Applause). Take the men who have life insurance. Can they, where the policy reads $5000, make it $10,000? No. Can the managers of these institutions make it right with them? No. This policy coerces integrity.- '(Applause). MMy friends, the men surely do not contemplate the irretrievable and exten sive' character of the disaster and dis turbance and disruption which they are proposing for all of us in all our business affairs, great and simple. Take the la boring man; how full of sympathy they are for him. My countrymen, I" never spoke a false word to the laboring man in my life. (Great applause). I have never sought to reach his vote or influ ence by appeals to tliat part of his na ture that will pollute the intellect and the conscience. I have believed and I be lieve today that any system that main tains the prices of labor in this country, that brings hope into the life of the la boring man, that enables him to put by, that gives him a stake in the. good order, the prosperity of the country, is the pol icy inai suouiu ie our .mencan policy. (Applause.) I have resisted in many campaigns this idea that a debased cur rency could help the workingman. The first dirty errand that a dirty dollar docs is to cheat the workingmen. (Applause.) "My friends, a cold statistical inquiry, non-partisan in its character, was made by a committee of the Senate in 18DO and some following years. The commit tee was composed of Democrats and of Republicans, and they set out to study as stahsiicians the relative prices of com modities and wages at different periods in the history of our country. This in vestigation covered the years of the war. It showed how prices of goods went up and in what proportion labor advanced. Goods' went up rapidly because the pen cil process is a quick process. Wages went up haltingly and slowly, because the employer has to be persuaded and the pencil won't serve. "Now. I have here a memorandum of some of those facts resulting from that investigation. Labor in one period ad vanced 3 per cent.; goods, the things the men had to buy out of their wages for their families and their living, ad vanced 18 per cent. Through another period the laborers' wages advanced 10 per cent, and the price of goods ad vanced 49 per cent. In another period the wages of the laborer went up 25 per cent and the prices of merchandise ad vanced 90 per cent In another, peri od the laborers wages went np 43per cent, and the price of goods 117 per cent Now. these statistics are the result of a solid scientific inquiry made by men of both parties to deter mine what the tmth was, and the truth they found that the enormous disparity between the advance of the cost of liv ing and the advance in wages falls in ex actly with what we would conclude in advance. Laborers, men who work, whether with head or .hand in salaried positions, would do well to take these facts to heart and settle the question after that broad, deep inquiry to which Mr. Bryan invites you, as to whether you want to enter into another experi ence such as you had during the war. when wages advanced so slowly and tediously and the cost of your living moved on so swiftly. "I have sketched very hastily some of the evils that will result from this change to a debased dollar a contrac tion of our currency by the exporting of our gold and a readjustment of every thing. Now, who will get any benefit? Well, the man who owes a debt that he contracted upon a gold basis and is able to pay it with a 50-cent dollar. He and the mine owner who gets an exaggerated price for the products of his -mine arc the only two people, or classes of people, that I can see that would have any bene fit out of it They make a strong ap peal to the farmer. They say it will put np prices. Well, in a sense, yes. Nominally, yet. Really, no. If wheat goes from 50 cents to $1.20 the price has been increased, you will say, but if the price of everything else, bas gone np in the same proportion, a bushel of wheat won't buy for the farmer any more sugar or coffee or farming imple ments, or anything else that be has to purchase. "It invokes the idea that this govern ment of ours shall pay not only its debt of honor but that they pay the interest on its bonds and the circulating notes J in a debased currency. My country- men. this country of ours, during the I troublous times of the war may have had severe trials, but these financial questions are scarcely less troublous than those. Does not every instinct of nride. does not every instinct of self- interest, does not every thoughtful, af fectionate interest in others, does not our sense of justice and honor rise up to rebuke the infamous proposition that this government and its people shall be come a people of repudiators?" (Pro longed applause and cheers.) CAMPAIGN NOTES. One of the anomalies of this cam paign, is that the business man whose wisdom and experience is sought for by farmers and laboring men in their private matters, is considered by many of them as an unsafe adviser in political matters. The issues of this national election are business issues. The question is. how can the industries of the nation be re vived? It would seem as if the judgment of the men who manage the industries should be consulted. It is an odd spectacle to see a free sil ver orator who never did a day's work in his life, who has had no experience in managing business affairs, who has never organized or managed a labor em ploying industry, who has never paid a laboring man a dollar for work, and who never evolved a practical plan which resulted in giving employment to unem ployed people, delivering an oration over the "fallen ruins of a dead industry," telling how it can be revived. m It took Bryan and the other Democrat id orators two and a quarter years to pass the Wilson bill, although they had been telling the American neonlo for thirty years that they knew the tariff question all by heart, and were agreed as to what they were going to do. How long will it take these same Democratic free silver orators to pass a free coinage bill? And what will happen to the coun try in tne meantime.' The Democratic orators talked tariff reform thirty years before they got the consent of the American people to put their plans into effect. When at last the people consented to let them try their tariff reform, it took those orators two and a quarter years to agree upon the exact wording of their tariff law. In the meantime, while they held the coun try in suspense, the industries of the na tion became paralyzed from doubt and uncertainty. If it took these tariff re form orators two and one-half years to make a law after thirty years of study, how long will it take these free silver orators to make a law after only five years of study? And if these two and one-half years of dispute and uncertainty on the tariff paralyzed the industries, what will become of these industries if another series of free silver speeches is hurled against them, seeing that these industries are more afraid of free coin age than they were of free trade? The crop now in the fields of Nebraska would underordinary conditions be worth $100,000,000. If the laboring men of the country were at work there would be a demand in the East for this crop. In every town of Nebraska the process of loading this crop into cars would be going on all over the state. As fast as the cars were loaded sight drafts would be drawn on Chicago, New York. Baltimore and other market centers and by means of these sight drafts the bal ance of credit would be transferred from the East to the West Every bank in every Nebraska town would be easy, money would be plenty and we would call .that good times. Good times will come to the Western farmer when the Eastern laborer goes to work, and not till then. What would it avail the Western farmer to see trainloads of sil ver bullion passing through the country on its way to the Eastern mint to be coined, if the factories in the East were still idle, and the people out of employ ment. Would the mere coining of these Western silver dollars make a demand for bread ard meat? The demand fof Western food must originate in the Kast, If the West unites with the South in forcing upon this country a policy which frightens the East, how will Eastern la lior be employed and how can it buy Western food? "It is because it is." says Bryan. Whoever heard a statesman use such words? That was a veryadroit campaign wail Chairman Jones issued for funds. The silver kings will see to it that Jones haa all the money he needs, but he considers it strategy to make "a poor mouth" all the same. Rev. Dr. McArthur of New York sweetly says that the free silver move ment consists solely of "lungs, lunacy and larceny." When Bryan had a chance to help the farmer he did what he could to dowa him. He voted in Congress for free wool. That alone hit over 2,000,000 of American sheep raisers. It is an insult to the poor man to say that silver is the poor man's money. Ai poor man is entitled to as good money as the rich man. The old soldiers will rally once more. It will be on November 3, and M cKiakK will be the color bearer. Every President of the United States has been cither a lawyer or a soldier, or both. The people are swarming to hear Me Kinlcy. Bryan travels about the country; to find audiences. The duty of every man is to make M income equal to his expenditures and it ia the same with a nation. a And the Democrats are now complaia ing that the Republican plan of canpaiga educates too much. The Hamorons Side. In storming the citadel it begins t look as if Tom Watson was to be left "outside the breastworks." Bryan has been fishing too. It beat all what an inborn penchant Democrat! and Popocrats have for fishing. It it safe to say that what Mrs. Lease and Helen Gougar advocate, the real of the country better steer clear of. The managers don't seem to know where to place Bryan so as to do tfca most good. He might take a sea voyage Bryan is quite a talker. Ho ran win np his vocal organs and go off and leave tuem aim no stoppage will be noticed. Bourke Cockran is also something of talker himself. Dixon Star. The Badge or Free Trade. Ob, times tbey are hard, and money la scarce. We're lowing the future askance; And thousands of workmen, all Idle and poor. Wear a patch on the scat of their pant pants, pants. Wear a patch on the seat of their pants. Abandon protection and hard times win stay. Our troubles will nnlr rnhnncn- Aud millions of people will wear the new badge. A patch on the seat of their pants, paataj pouts A patch jn the scat of their pants. There's many a man who wanted a change! ou can spot him the tery nrs: glance. There's a look that Implies when you gaM in bis eyes Kick the patch on the scat of my pasta pants, pants, ' Kick the patch on the seat of my pants. Scranton (PaJ Tribune. ' A Popaliat Seller. A resident of Poughkeepsie a few days ago received a letter from a friend ia Nebraska in which it is shown what the mental caliber is of some of the be lievers in free silver. The Nebraska who wrote the letter heard a Pnnnliat explain the meaning of lti to 1 to a group of attentive listeners. He said that if Bryan should be elect ed he would sell his grain this fall and demand payment in gold. Then he would go to the mint and receive $1600 in sil ver for each $100 in gold, and with that silver he would pay off the mortgage oa his farm. He admitted that some of his neighbors did not explain the mean ing of 1G to 1 in the same way, but ha was quite sure he had the right under standing of it. Such a story seems almost too absurd to be true, but it may be assumed, log ically, that a man who thoroughly : nd honestly believes that the carrying out of the financial policy laid out at Chi cago will believe anything else that would reveal itself to normal minds " once as nonsense. Albany Express. Not in a Hundred. , Bill Uryan fooled the voters In eightcen-nlnety-two; The promises he made us Brought soup to me and you; Again he would encliant us By singing hopeful tunes; . He fed us soup too often He cannot feed us prunes. Another. The original and picturesque rcasoa given by a Hopper to Popocratic silver ism, residing in this county, is that "the price of steers went down while John If. Stull wqs a state senator." Warren (OJ Chronicle. Danger in the Other Foot, Syracuse Standard: Bryan is trusting to the left hind foot of a rabbit. Let hia look out for the right fore foot of an ele phant. The Real Thing. If it is true, as reported, that your Uncle Benjamin Harrison is going te make a Pullman tour, the country will soon be treated to an exhibition of real platform work from a real artist. 5? HE CAN'T GET AROUND IX. ' 31 r3 .' ,-r - JQYWTrSS&BtpVimwj. Te Ladies nrifl have postponed B aaaaieT a beaatifal hoaie. H Jarfr MaoGoU, the repebticaa caa- ; . dideto far g9raaor,wk is tiac votes theke4ectioaofaakeramatU later is the m evarydaj, was ia the city Moaday. aeason. The society are conteaaplatiag Get as of those IottIj rmsl's hair jotaiag the masks! Jupaifeat of the 4-:" walkiaw haia. the latest atria, sew oa Woaaaaa elafc ia body, yrpnsisg to '' - -- -.-. ?- - - "-- ariii anniatr aa tan aimaear ltratsKaL SOLUMBUS, HEIR. We regard the te our dtaliaga an Udofer of War t - Fair Prices. s expected to be feud a irst- G G I CO., Real Estate Jl MJ&mL A lliAo ED ABOUT IT? W GROCERY, FRESH GOODS AMER'S, iiemtk Street, pesite Backer's Bars. lea's Motto Fulfilled ! ibuy as cheap as aaother, aad a ehild as good nosey, which aasaas oar Uacle gold they are eqaaL too, with as. Twenty-seven yean of protec tion (1865 to 1893) decreased our public debt $1,747201.878- Three years of free trade (la!fJ to 1896) increased our public debt $262,329,630. gmthuMM JftHtfM. taa AdrectiaMMata aadar tkia head ave liae each inaartioa. 1UM.SCHU.TZ BMkeakeoUaad aaoaaiathe v baat atvlaa. aad aasa tali taa van f .. - . ... - . Za c. as atoektaat ibaateeatadiataa SS-tf Tuesday at thetii COLUMBUS MARKETS. irnanlatiiMtir'TarnrT" "iaT aftraooa,aad are comet aad reliable aBAIH.BTO. WlU W BOsaC ROW Psaftliott vOCaa XUV HJfV Fioariaweib.lota raoaeoB. iMiiwr EfCwa "X)assiO0Bp LIVKBTOOK. argaagaOCa) gFaUaB09PBa Fatataara.., aOSOVTa. ll M .aM6te a ttSMStt Sise ia gsasastt attftixis PROBATE NOTICE. Ia the matter of the estate of Brldeat Marray. Notice is aaraby givea that the creditors ef aid deceased will ant the adadaiatraler ef said estate, before a, eoaaty Jeda ef Platte coaaty. Nebraska, at the eoaaty eoait moss la said county, oa tbe2tth situ U of 1 day, lortae parpossoi preeaauaa- laatrejataaa forexaauaaUoa.adjastBMBt aad aUowaaee. Six months are allowed for creditors to preeeat their claims, aad oae year for the adanaiatrator te settle said estate, from taa 24th day of 8ea4aav her.1- Dated September 1st. A. D. 188& J.N.KruA-f. SsepSt Coaaty Jadee. aotttieal Biatter for whatever it aaay be worth. The Sigaal is deaaocratic, and while not just exactly pleased with the sitaatioB ia which it tads itself politi eatty this ysar, it eaa he relied apoa as bored ia his speech, bat has aa air of fraaxneaa aad naeerity ia what he says. He spoke at great leagfa, bat aothing itially aew, aad, trath to say, his a real dissppoiBtaaeat to both his aolitieaj toaads aad SBt'byhe'prestdUMr apuit ot piugie , mast be earaest, true aad steadfast. Sahseribe for Tax JorourAi. any day. Fifty easts will gat yoa the paper for the aest tares Maths, 1L60 for the aaztyear. ened haananity haa BoVlonfrTjeToretnia, found a way of at least preventing the spread of this destractive disease, which has already been the means of loss to fanners amoanting to many hundreds of taoaaaads of dollars. a IS HI i ae te ic te aV St Btav-bUaCaved. First National Bant COLUMBUS, NEB. )-attilSttrfM)IN,IM.II A-ANDEIfflON.Pres't, J. H. GALLEY. Tiea Prast, O.T.aOa-H.CaaaJar. JACOB GBJ08EN. A. B. MILLSJL G. ANDERSON. P. AXDWMOH, J.F.BE8NEY. -BICYCLES !- Ouaha bas adopted the French sys tem of recording aad identifying crimi nals. The BMSsareaseats are saeh that it is claiaaed there is absolstely no to Gerrard -Wheel -Works, Ageats, KAMBLEB, EAGLES aid IBEALS. seer- -fjmXMLBT C8TIRE8. M AT IVaVI lejehj-r CeuaBse, a aaTJs5 . BaM'1"- Baa Hpwl ' ' Bam -iv1-., - - .- aam-af.iL '" - - v - KayriL ' C - i ' . ' - "v v - aBBBaie J ' -- ". - i jev-"' " .J.-. " .ir "-! -. . , r - . - -aP" ' . 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