The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1873-08-14

Milton than they now can.T-Mil.
| wsukee Sentinel.
a Detestable Political Fraud
The fraud now proposed to bo
saddled upon the country in the
shape Of a new party is not meeting
with very fattering success. 10
make it palatable to agriculturists,
it is called the 'anti.monopoly party,'
and the farmers party and the 'peo.
ple's party but glance at the per.
sonel OF any of the conventions lately
held, will show that, in nearly every
Instance, the meetings are run by
men who are unconnected with the
agricultural interests, or who, if they
are, are disgrace to their calling.
Such trouble and turbulence were
never witnessed before. A spectator
would know, from the rows aud bick-
erlnes and the fights, that it was nei.
ther Republican convention, nor
respectable gathering Of farmers he
was witnessing, but, though under q
new disguise, the same old ignorant
and disgracefui element that gave to
the Democratic party tho sobriquet
of the great unwashed, At Prince
ton, the other day, this was most alb
surdly exhibited. Now and then a
respectable farmer who had been in
duccl to join the movement, IN tho
hope that it was sincerely working
for the benefit OF Agriculturists and
not for greed and gain, wandered in.
to the convention, but he must have
felt like a lost sheep, when he looked
around at his companions, especially
at those who were prominently en-.
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order, and tho man selected TO act as
Chairman Of the Committee on reso-
lations days before assembling
The officers were selected in tho
same way, and finally the trickery OF
the mon having the thing in charge
became ro apparent that they were
compelled to desist from nominating
candidates, who had doubtless also
been secretly agreed upon, and the
convention adjourned without max
ing ticket. What miserable fraud!
What an insult to honesty! We had
hoped that the Democratic farmers
might unite with the Republicans III
this one matter, and do something
towards lifting the burdens that op-
press both equally; but if they re.
fuse to do it; if their party prejudic.
es carry them away aud make them
forgettul of even their own interests,
nothing remains but for the Republi.
can party to take up Its line OF march
once more, and not only carry out
the proposed reform without the as.
sistance it should command from tho
Democracy, but beat back the world,
the flesh and the devil, who are again
struggling, in the person OF the new
party movement, to gain possession
Of the government. Happily the
Republican party is strong enough; ;
and little more of this new move
ment will make it willing enough to
'go it alone with the old spirit aud
determination. Inter Ocean.
AT recent meeting OF q Wiscon.
sin farmers club, the relative profits
of COWS aud sheep came up for dis
cussion. One man kept % COWS on
a farm Of 115 acres and received
from $40 to $50 each from them eact
year, furnishing milk for q chees,
factory. He generally plowed from
25 to SO acres, moved about % acre.
and pastured SIS to so acres eacl
year. Another received last season
$3O,55 per COW for milk taken TO tn
factory and made 20 pounds OF but
ter each extra. lIo kept 20 cows OF
IS acres Of pasture, feeding grain ant
corn fodder in summer. Anothe
said he could keep 20 cows as easil,
as 100 sheep, but inasmuch as til
dogs killed about half the sheep ey
cry year, and the same grass fed L
COWS would yield as much again pro
, fit as il fed to sheep, the question or
peared onesided.
"You exhaust my PATIENCE" orie
q doctor to his wife. "You exhaul
, your patients worse that do" wa
. the reply
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