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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-01-21
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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-01-21

New York, January l9.-wool steady and In
good demand: domestic fleece a:i4sc;' pulled 1ya
iCc; unWa,hed 15s2Sc; Texas lia17c. u5 -I
~ Ntttss Nt'-iN Leather. = ~
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NEW YoHx. January ls-Iead dull aud weak;
common a e0ai IS % sig as''f0'aEs-l :.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-01-21
6rArE AHD VICINITY. :
Recent DoinEs Of ,v7est vIrslniaus and
TN. IL Their AelEhbnrn. ~. A..

Asec7Hti Uu1HEs Oh "eSt VIrElhlRnS and
W.; IL Their AeiEhboFB. .Ns ~
Tie young men Of Rayenswood are work.
ing up military spirit in Jackson county
and propose forming q company :.
The public schools OF Union, Monroe
county, have been ordered 10 be closed by
the Board Of Education, on. account Of the
prevalence Of malignant scarlet fever. /
r. F. b. Conn, of the gieubsnvill, Herald,
while out sleigh riding Friday afternoon, had
the misfortune to losa a very fine horse that
he valued a. s.. 900 1t vas iakenwi.h very
severe hemorrhsee OF the lungs. :!
Some idea, OF the amount ,ot. email game
kiiledin iHampshfre county the past season
may be had from the fact that one firm shin.
ped to: Baltimore and Washington;1 ,2ls rab.
bits, 5i6 pertridges, As pheasauts and IS wild
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-24
THE WORK BEING DONE IN OHIO

COLUMBUS, o., Oct. Ex-Governor
Hoadly returned yesterday from a
campaigning trip, and his report is of
a most sanguinc character. He saws
that in the first place the state has
been growing steadily Democratic for
the past four years, and il is reasona-
bic to expect that this uuassisted
growth will insure triumph for his
party. He refers to the fact that four
years ago Ohio gave Garfield $4,000
majority, and the Republicans declare
that they lost but little of the German
vote, and have gained much of the
Irish vote. Yet most Republicans
claim at present about 10000 majority:
this, too, in spite Of the fact that
Blaine has been for three weeks hip.
podroming through the state in a
manner without precedent, using his
personal endeavors TO whoop up Ian
gushing Republican enthusiasm, and
in spite of the fact that Republican
money is being poured into the state
as it never was before, and in spite Of
the fact that Commissioner Dudley
and an immense force OF federal en-
ployes, whom the general public pay
for their services in their various de-
partments at Washington, are here
working day and night for Republic
can success. Not only is Governor
Hoadly confident Of Democratic yicto-
ry, but says he will not be at all sur
prised TO see the majority reach 10000.
Beacon, Oct. 18th.
We publish the foregoing as an evil
dence of the relative value of political
information from Republican and
Democratic sources. The Republican
estimate of the result is seen to be re-
markably accurate and rather under
than over the fact. But gall and worm
wood are not the elements that 60 to
make reliable political prophet. We
fear the Beacon's editor is Ineligible.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-24
E. A. SToRRS OR E. A. DORSEY.

The following extract from speech made
by ENERGY A. Storrs, of Chicago, hits more
than one candidate in this county who are
trying to play make-believe Democrats:
"Did you ever see washed out Republi-
can that had fallen into the Democratic par
| ty that ever Dragged about being Demo
crat! Renewed laughter.] He is always
proclaiming that he has been something
better-a Republican; that he has seen bet
ter days, like some of the gentlemen in the
old states laughter and applausel, a little
raveled suit at the edge and run down at the
heel, but with here and there marks to show
that originally the goods were valuable
Great laughter and applause. He was an
abolitionst, he says, when Logan was voting
the Democratic ticket. There is the place
where the Democrats and their allies agree
(Applause.] 1t is astonishing that they
speak about voting the Democratic tick
ct Hendricks voted that tick
ct once. Laughter. But is it, after all,
the real question whena man began to be
an apostle half as much as how long he
holds QUIT Laughter and applause. Who
began first? Judas or Saul of Tarsus? Ju-
das, l think. But think of him running
around in that Democratic region. of his
jingling those thirty pieces of silver he got
from the Democratic committee on that
day, as his price for his joining the party of
purity and reform, and claiming that he
was Christian long before the scales fell
from the eyes of Saul of Tarsus. Vocifer-
Gus applause and laughter. Logan did
vote the Democratic ticket, but the first shot
at Fort Sumter drove from him every spark
of Democratic faith, and in the flame and
thunder of battle he made himself the peer
less soldier of the war for the union Re
newed applause. Take from the history of
the country for the past twenty-five years
the solid achievements of John A. Logan,
and you make chasm. Applause. But
take from the same time the achievements of
his detractors, and there is no abrasion on
the surface
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-24
WHAT FREE TRADE DID.

Under the head What We Know
About Tariffs" Mr. Millington. of the
Winfield Courier, continues his per.
sonal recollectieDs of tariff workings,
which have been before noticed in the
EAGLE. In. this he describes the
situation in Illinois in 1S4e, under the
revenue tariff of 1876, when, as he
says, "the regular price of corn was
ten cents. Dressed hogs sold some
times as high as Sl.50 per hundred
pounds. Beef was lower. 1t was a
good COW that would sell for more
than ten dollars. Eggs were plentiful
at three to five cents per dozen, and
butter at five TO six cents per pound.
1, was only gilt edged butter that
would bring ten cents, even in winter.
A good hand could, in the harvest
field, get dollar day for his work
during two or three weeks when
there was pressure to save the ripen-
ing wheat. At other times fifty cents
a day for labor was fair price, and
but few could get it,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-24
DUB SCHOOL SYSTEM.

The readers of the EAGLE will re-
member several editorials, appearing
in this paper, a few months since, con-
demnatory of the present school sys-
tenn in which we set forth some glar-
ing faults of that system as evidenced
by The schools In Kansas. The editor
ials referred to brought us letters from
Philadelphia, Washington, and other
points and stirred up feeble defense
from two or three teachers in the
state through the papers.
When the tide is at full, II turns.
Our educational methods have been
growing in system and severity, If not
in perfection for many years; and the
demands upon the pupil have con-
sfantIy increased, uutil the necessities
for grading have become imperative,
and the peculiarities of the individual
are almost entirely ignored. II would
seem impossible 10 carry this further,
and any change now must be in some
other direction, At this crisis Que of
the brightest and most fearless of
American writers comes forward
with a strong argument against the
whole system, protest against the
grading and examining that takes SO
much of the vitality out of the eduea-
ton we are giving to the rising gcner-
alton. Edward Everett Hale, in The
November number of the North Amer
lean Review, makes plea for "Half-
Time..in Schools which every parent
and every school board ought TO con-
slider seriously.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-24
TELL THE TRUTH"

We are in receipt of the published result
of the investigation of the stories about the
private life Of Grover Cleveland, made by a
committee Of clergymen in the city of Buffa-
10, which action arose from the charge made
by the mugwumps that the story of Rev.
Ball was untrue, and that Ball had no partic-
ular standing. We cannot attempt publish
ing the pamphlet There is no call for its
publication in Republican Kansas. But the
story Of Maria Halpin has never been half
told. She was an innocent, trusting wo-
man, who wss seduced by Grover Cleve-
land, whom she expected to marry. But
Mrs. Halpin's is only one case. Some of the
Others could only be equalled by the Texas
cowboy in Wichita. before Wichita made
any pretensions to morality. Thirty
Ministers pronounce Grover Cleveland
of habitual unchastity. His rooms in the
third story Of business block have wit
messed some terrible debauches. We said
Maria Halpin was not the only one. The
pamphlet gives ten Others and says tina.
there are more if wanted. The evidence is
all in hand and none but the testimony of
reliable witnesses was accepted. Still and
Notwithstanding we have such hypocrites as
George William Curtis declaring day after
day, and insulting the ministers of this
country, with his pamphlets, which also de-
clares that ''this is campaign of morals
and not politics" and Cleveland is the leper
whom he sets up as standard for morals
in America.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-24
OUR NEXT REPRESENTATIVE.

Rodolph Hatfield, our next representative,
is making splendid canvass and an effective
one. He is bright and intelligent, the pos
SCISSOR of square head and an honest face,
and whenever he appears in his meetings he
is heartily received and roundly endorsed.
Since he became resident Of this city he
has kept SO close to his business and so hard
at work, that but comparatively few people
outside of the business and professional
circles know him, but as the candidate Of
the Republican party and in obedience to
the request of the party he gets out and
makes himself known. He is around telling
the people just what he will ss their repre-
sentative endeavor to do in. all good faith.
That he makes favorable impression and a
winning canvass is not surprising. Gentle
manly, intelligent, and quiet, we knew he
would succeed. However warm friends and
advocates his opponent may have. every
body comedies that Mr.. Hatfield would
make creditable representative from the
great valley county. He does not deny but
squarely affirms that he shall vote for the
resubmission Of the prohibitory law.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-24

A DISMAL TOOT.

The Beacon says the politics Of this
county is divided on prohibition and
anti-prohibition. May be the Demo
cratic party of Sedgwick county are,
but, barring a very few soreheads, the
Republican party are not divided on
that or any other question. This is a
year when men vote for fundamental
principles, principles that ivolve
the well-being of an entire nation Of
people. 1t is the privilege of the
Democratic party to distract the peo-
pie if they can with minor or side is
sues, but the average Republican is
neither dude nor a mugwump. The
Democrats crowed that they had the
Republican party divided on the
question of beer down in Ohio ; bu
election day proved to the world how
badly the tools Of the solid south were
deceived. So il will be in Sedgwick
county. There are half dozen Dem
ocratic assistants in the county who
are working might and main 10 make
Republicans believe that beer is the is
sue in this campaign. BY this course
they hope TO elect Dorsey-a 'Calven-
lied Democrat-and beat Kelly, who
was squarely, honorably and unani-
mouslv nominated by the Republicans
of two counties in delegate conven-
ton regularly assembled.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-24
IN HOT WATER.

Judge Martin has locked horns with the
commissioners of Shawnee county at Tope-
ka over the question of empanneling grand
jury. Martin is the most radical prohibi-
ZIONIST now in the state. Whether he is so
at heart or from policy time will determine.
In trials where men are accused of violating
one particular law he seems to go to great
extremes. The result is that the prohibi-
tionists are delighted; the liberals are nom
plussed and the dealers are in hot water. A
grand jury comes next thing to n vigilance
committee, its means for arriving at the truth
being unlimited. 1t is the war-engine Of the
courts, and while it is expensive and some
times oppressive, it is more in the interest of
the letter than the spirit of law, leading
rather to punishment than to justice. The
fur will fly at Topeka within few days and
we suspect that the Republican party will
suffer in the county of Shawnee. It is Mar
tins opportunity. He would hardly have
called grand jury had the election been
over with. But in that We may misjudge
him. We judge so from the fact that he has
said that he was doing more to make the
prohibition law unpopular than all tho other
Democrats put together
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-24
THE OTHER SIDE.

Yesterday The EAGLE published q
portion of letter from Edward Ev.
erett Hale Oh the political situation
written for the Philadelphia Press. II
was one of clearest and most con-
vincing political documents we be-
lieye ever written Hale is a states
man but not politician, and we wish
every Democrat in Sedgwick county
" ould read the Democratic half OF
that letter. We herewith give the Re-
publican half of it:
Edward Everett Hale in the PhiIa-
delphia Press: ''In the year 1860, the
people of the north, for the first time
since 1901, got possession of The ma
tional government. The people sent
into administration men who knew
the peoples life. The people, which
had governed states before and
brought them to high prosperity. now
assumed for the first time The govern
ment of the nation. The people ap-
piled methods unknown in the history
of the world before, aud achieved re-
suits unknown in the history of the
world before.
The southern rulers of the nation.
in countless whims and fancies, had
kept the currency of the country
doubtful, uncertain and in one ill.,
stance left the country without any.
The people, business like, and not
given to whims, established a national
currency, in which the furthest out
lost is "a well served as the city Of
New York, and the most ignorant
man in the nation cannot suffer by
banking insolvency.
The southern rulers had held that
internal improvement by the nation
was impossible.
The people built three national
routes to the Pacific, opened the
mouth Of the Mississippi, and Of this
last success the result is that wheat
-four is now cheaper in the eastern
cities, and indeed in the markets of
the world, than it has been since the
was independent.
The nation has opened up in twen-
ty-four wears six new states, which
have population Of 8 5000 people.
Ia the same time the south
ern states, with the single excep-
ton of Texas, have failed to attract
any considerable emigration to their
enormous tracts of waste and fertile
lands,
The nation has developed its manu-
industry in these twenty
five years, so that, for single in
stance, thirty men now can make as
much cloth as one hundred men could
make in 1868. The improvement ex-
tends into all lines of manufacture.
The outcome of twenty-five years
,nly Of government of the peo-
pie, for the people by the people, is
hat dollar will pay for more com
comfort in America now than il would
,ver buy anywhere since the world
began.
This is what happened as soon as
government was fairly
,ried i'm national affairs. 1t had never
,eer fairly tried before.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-24
QUITE THIN.

JIG. Mccoy, who travelled over the coun
try two years ago and made prohibition
speeches, and who is now blowing his kazoc
for the tattooed ticket, made statement the
other night in Union township, that wher
Sewers was elected probate judge he would
loan the money belonging to minors ani
turn over all of the interest to them, intend
ing in making the statement that the infer.
ence should be drawn that Jewett was peck
citing the interest. He says Sewers told hin
that he would do this. If this is q SIMPLE O.
the knowledge that Sewers has of the duty
ofthe probate judge the people ought to
know it.
The probate judge is not authorized I'M
der the law to handle any money belonging
to minors, or the estates of deceased per.
sons, and Jewett has never done so, and
this blatherskite and maligner of character
might have known it if he had any wish to
be fair.
Jewett has not only not handled the mon
ey belonging to minors, but he has Dor
rowed money over his own signature to
assist them in certain cases-and during his
official career no charge of any kind has
ever been preferred against him. He has
had business relations with many promi-
nent Democrats in this county, and none Of
them has ever thought for moment OF
preferring this kind of charge against him,
and many of them are supporting him, so
that the inuendoes of this Kazoo whistler
will have but little effect.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-24
A BENEFICIARY.

One of the first things that the great
foot-and-mouth-c cow doctor governor
did after being fairly seated after hit
election as II whisky champion, was to
appoint the author of "pauper schools
as regent of the Slate university
which institution is the head of the
public school system of the state. This
place directly and indirectly pays more
than the postmaster realizes from the
post Office of Wichita. yet this favor
lite, who is drawing his reward for
supporting man who cursed
him and his cause during the
var, now talks about the
editor of the EAGLE being "benef-
ciary." But his reward don't stop
there. This city, which is under the
rule of that party which made a cop
perhead governor of free state like
Kansas, gives its patronage entire,
and which is of great Importance, TO
the paper whose editor talks offs "ben-
eficiary." and who can't understand q
man who stands up disinterestedly to
fight for principles, involving the hap
piness and prosperity of sixty mil
lions of people.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-24
GOVERNOR CLICK.

The man who was elected governor Of
Kansas on the whisky issue, will arrive in
the city to-day, accompanied by number OF
prominent Democratic lights including VIC
suppose, his COW doctor and the commits
sioners. The governor will probably not
claim so much credit for his part in multi
flying law as he will claim credit for
things which he never did. 1t wouldn't
be surprising if he claimed the credit of all
the effective railroad legislation, although
the records are against him, MS also all the
credit for saving indemnity lands. 1t is
said that he has actuslly claimed these
things in some other places, and he may
make the Democrats believe it. That party
will suck anything coming from Demo-
cratic source. There are Democrats who
yet believe that the war was a failure, sim
ply because some of their old platforms say
so. 1t would be like Click to tell the Dem
ocrats here that the State was unprecedently
that migration WAS stronger
than ever, when in his last speech here he
labored until he sweat, to prove that the
amendment had blasted the
of this State and ruined imigra-
ton. Click is a cool one, but anything he
may say will no doubt be believed bv the
Democrats
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-24
A CALL FOR VENGEANCE.

We are in a receipt of a letter which
among other things, says 'if you could heal
the calumny heaped upou yourself and til.
charges that the Republican party of Sedg
wick county is corrupt, made by the mel
who are travelling about the county in thu
interest of the mongrel gang. calling them
selves the Democratic ticket, l know you
would pour hot shot into them.
Our correspondent is assured that the
charges and calumn% do not give us mo-
ment's uneasiness. Those who know us de-
sire no defense, and those who don't know us
will some time, if they live long enough. The
editor of the EAGLE is not a candidate for
Office, nor did he dictate or suggest the
name of eingle candidate on the Republic
can ticket, but he is for that ticket and
that party, though EVERY Democrat in the
land should Willy him from one yevr's end
70 another.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-24
MON Ely.

A correspondent writes us that money is
being corruptly used by the Democrats in
certain portions Of the county to carry the
election and asking us to expose the matter.
He names one source which is supplying the
scads. Our friend need not be alarmed,
money cannot be used to any alarming ex-
tent among Republicans ofSedgwick county.
The Republicans of Sedgwick county are not
that kind. If the Democrats find it neces-
sary to hold their own men by the use of
money We shall not object. Its their own
business, own men, own money and own
party. Our friend will remember one other
thing and that is the man who can be bought
is not worth buying. A close election might
be now and then controlled by such means
but the party or men who use it will 60
down in the end.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-24
MAD DEMOCRATS.

Ne have not received the dreadful
particulars, but il appears from a dis.
patch published yesterday morning
than at Wichita. 'tbe speech OF Dr..
hrohn stirred the ire of a number of
prominent Democrats who went to
hear him with the expectation that he
would make prohibition speech. -
Tn question is whether the 'promi-
nent Democrats" got mad because the
Doctor did not make the speech they
expected, or whether they were 'riled'
at the speech he did make. We half
suspect the latter.-Atchison Champi-
on.
The Democrats rs party can stand
dead loads Of hypoentical taffy, but a
few ounces of unvarnished truth
breaks their back. The madest set of
men, politically, We ever saw, were the
Democrats who heard Ingalls, aud
krohn's speeches. They even went SO
far as to say that Ingalls, blackguarded
them when everybody ought to know
that Ingalls, is incapable of blackguard-
ism, that, in fact, all his language,
written or spoken is of the most ex-
allied type, clean and finished English.
The Democrats evidently thought
that these men came to Wichita TO
make votes. That was not the object
of the meeting at all. Wichita and
Sedgwick county have plenty of Re-
publican votes TO down the Democrats
every day in the year. These gentle
men came here in the interest OF prin-
ciple, to talk to men who hold, and
believe as the, themselves do; to take
the part taken by the preachers when
their churches get low spiritualfy,-io
revive the good work. Aud they did
it, and that's what ails the Wichita
Democrats. If hard truths are abuse,
then ingalls, and Krohn abused the
Democrats; if history is ribald lies
then Iugails and Krohn are guilty OF
Safeguarding the Democrats.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-24
A GOOD OFFICER.

Commissioner Steenrod, who made us o
short call yesterday, said that Capt. Murray
Myers was making splendid officer. He is
devoting his whole time to mastering tina
details and in getting proper understand
ing of all the laws bearing upon accounts
against the county, A bill once passed up
on by the auditor cannot be raised by the
board of commissioners, while it may be
lowered. 1t is the auditors duty to look up
the law covering every kind of bill against
the county and to know that every item is a
legal one. This not only saves the county
many dollar, but relieves the board OF
commissioners who otherwise would in the
short time allowed them, be forced to hurry
through them without SO critical an examin-
alton. Another thing about the Office OF
auditor. He is an appointed officer, there
fore free of any pressure that might be
brought upon him by electors were he regu-
larry elected. He is perfectly independent
of all such influences. We were pleased to
have so competent judge as Mr.. Steenrod,
and who is no partisan friend, say that Capt.
Myers was proving so competent and eff
Giant