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arts and manufactures and the necessa
ries OF life, not produced in this county.
shall come in free, and that all articles
OF luxury should be taxed as high as
possible up to the collection point.
Fourth. That in imposing custom du-
ties the law must be carefully adjusted
to promote American enterprises and in
dustries. not create monopolies, and to
cherish and foster American labor.
1t provides further that labor has
right to demand of the government to
establish tribunals to decide the great
controversies arising between labor and
capital.
When the reading of the minority re-
port was concluded General Butler again
arose and said: 81 claim it to be the
duty of the government to foster Ameri-
can enterprise and labor. | represent
here over 1.500, 600 laboring men. APP
plause.l have brought their condition
before you. ] ask for no gift for them,
bnt | ask if you take anything from them
do it in such IA way as to hurt them as
little as possible. Applause. Can you
do without them? | think not. If it
took these able gentlemen 36 hours to
find out what they wanted and frame a
tariff plank, how long will it take the
labOring men to understand it? The
committee spent all that time to say
what would mean one thing read one way
at one time, and another way when read
at another time. 1t does not mean pro-
lection. Col. Morrison is too honest to
bring it here if it did mean protection.
Yet it may be twisted to mean that. In
1880 you adopted a plank for revenue
only and lost; low you say for revenue
exclusively. What is the difference :?
This is no child's play, and success de-
ponds ON the action taken. Ii you can
not say to the workingmen that you
mean protection, God help you, for can
not. Laughter. Your platform says
that you won't cut down duties so that
labor will be injured. 1t nowhere says
that you will not discriminate against
the real interests of labor. Applause. ]
The Democratic party has held ever since
Jackson's time that tariff did afford
protection to labor. If Col. Morrison
does not believe it he rejects an old doc
trine. You cant change the doctrine in
one CANVASS
Col. WatterSon remarked that since
Gen. Butler had declared his inability to
support the party if the majority plat
form was adopted, the party would prob
ably have to threw itself upon a reliance
in God, to whom the gentleman had re-
ferred. LIughter.l lie eulogized the
platform, and claimed that if the conven-
ton selected pure and able candidates
they could be elected on that platform.
The minority report was rejected and
the majority adopted.
4 motion to adjourn was defeated. and
at midnight the first ballot was taken, as
| follnwS.
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American people 10 this kind OF wdr-
fare that they will listen TO it no longer
They indicated all the Republican
candidates by clecting them to the high
office for which they were nominated
and they Will repeat their virtuous IN
disnation by sustaining Blaine. The
Republicans should not throw away
their time and strength by medd ding
with this filth. Let the record of the
Democratic party be laid bare before
the people, and let the war be driven
into the camp of the enemy. The
party need not stop to defend Mr.
Blaine against liars and libclIers, fol
the people will take care Of his charac.
er and good name.
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DEMOCRATIC neWSDaperS

DEMOCRATIC newspapers and or
CANS" make great mistake in suppos-
ing that public opinion can be inhu-
enced against Mr.. Blaine by calumny
and abuse. They could say nothing
too vile and disreputablc of Lincoln in
1860 and 1864. They abused Grant
and ieered at Hayes. They sought to
destroy Garfield with their dirty 500
game, which they simultaneously plas-
tered on all our doorways, and they re-
sorted to crime by forging the Morcy
letter. According TO their interprcta-
ton of Garfield's course in the Credit
Mobiier and other business he was
more fit for the penitentiary than for
the White House. And now they are
opening their food gates of filth upon
Blaine. Do they remember that all his
predecessors whom they freely abused
were triumI;hoarIy elected by the peo-
pie? They have SO accustomed the
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CONGRESS ADJOURNED.

CONGRESS has adjourned without
having distinguished itself as 4 legisla-
tive body. With an overwhelming
Democratic majority it set QUITO reform
the tariff and reduce the revenue, but
after spending many days in consider
ing bill that could not by any posi-
bility have got through the Senate, the
authors of the bill had the mortifica-
ton of seeing it laid to rest without the
hope of resurrection.
Another pet scheme of the majority
was the bill TO put Fitz- John Porter on
the retired list of the army. \ great
deal of time was wasted in the effort to
show that this dismissed officer ought
to be restored to his rank in the army,
but the bill was SO clearly an invasion
OF the prerogatives of the executive Of
flee that the President was obliged to
withhold his approval. The country is
not yet prepared to approve of the con-
duct of Fitz- John Porter at the second
battle of Bull Run.
The bill to pension the surviving sol
diers of the Mexican war was carried
through the house with a high hand,
but it involved a principle which, if just
in itself, should be applied to the sol
diers of the late war as we'll as to those
of the Mexican war. 1t would be a
manifest injustice to put veterans Of
the Mexican war who have arrived at
&c years of age on the pension rolls
and leave off soldiers of tie war for
the union who have arrived at the same
age. The Senate amended the bill SO
as to bring soldiers of the union army
within the scope Of its provisions, and
thus made it so distasteful to its friends
in the house that they allowed it to die
rather than concur in the amendments.
These were the three leading Demo-
cratic measures of the session.
\ tremendous onslaught was made
on the lard grant railroads at the OPEN
ing of the session, and from the num-
Der of bills introduced for the forfeit
ure of unearncd grants it might have
been supposed that every acre covered
by conditions that had not been COM
piled with was about to be restored to
the public domain. After all this fus-
illadc of FORGETTING bills one or two lit
tie grants have been repealed. The
big corporations still hold on to what
Congress gave them, and are not likely
to be disturbed in their possession with
in the present or the next succeeding
year. The forty-eighth Congress had
an extraordinary capacity for doing
nothing.
Beyond the passing of the appropria-
ton bills and few private bills, the
legislation has all been of negative
character. Several bills were intro
duced amendatory Of the pension laws,
which were intended to remove some
of the technical obstacles which stand
in the way of the prosecution of mer-
itorious claims. but none of them got
through both houses. The bill Great
ing a labor bureau is about the only act
of general legislation that has gone into
effect.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-07-12

At the organization of the Demo-
cratic National Convention at Chicago
on Tuesday when the band struck up
"DiXie," the entire assembly led by the
Southern delegations broke into up
roarious cheering, while the "Star
Spangled Banner" and other national
and patriotic airs were passed in silence.
Is not this somewhat significant?
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ROBERT RIDDLE, democratic eX-may-
Or of Pittsburg, who was defeated iii
February last for reelection by the
present Republican incumbent, is out
strongly for Blaine. He is large man.
ufacturer and wealthy man. He says
This eternal clamor among the Dem
ocratic leaders for free-trade has tired
me OUT
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FRESHMEN OUT FOR BLAINE.

Much comment and no little con-
sternation has been caused in the Dem
ocratic camp in Baltimore by the ex-
presslons of opinions in interviews pub
llshed with prominent lrish-American
citizens, men of foremost rank in the
various lrish-AmeriCan societies OF that
city. p. c. O'Conner, secretary of the
Knights of st. Patrick, who has always
been Democrat, says:
Il will vote for Mr.. Blaine if General
Butler is not nominated by the Demo
Gratis. With Butler the Democracy
would swim without him it will sink
and Blaine will be the victor after the
death. There is no other man having
any possibility of nomination by the
Democrats that | would vote for in
preference to Blaine. Blaine is thor
oughly American. and the American
people, as we'll as the Irish, are getting
tired of British tlunkeyism in this coun-
try. The Republican platform adopted
at Chicago is the best that has cvel
been put forward by either Democrats
or Republicans. Every plank is solid
The tariff, issue should not be brought
into politics at the present time, but
am in favor of 4 high tariff on foreign
goods. Every dollars worth of foreign
goods imported into this country is a
barrier against American labor and cap
ital. Free-trade Is detrimental to Amer
lean industry. We want 4 thorough
American for President, and the Irish
Americans say that it must be Butler
by the Democrats"
X. p. Gordon, president of the
Knights of St. Peter, said: flames G.
Blaine is my choice against the whole
field, because Of his bold aggressive
attitude while Secretary of State. The
American foreign policy adhered to for
years past, and carried by both diplo-
matte and consular agencies. has been
standing insult to millions of Ameri-
cans. Under Blaine administration
all this would be changed. AS an adop-
ted citizen of America | owe no slavish
adherence to any party, more particu-
larry that one controlled by the Bel
monts, Hcwitts, and other English
hypocritcs am satisfied that if Blaine
is elected his administration will be il,
marked contradi5tinction to the Eng
lish dudcism of the present one, and !
feel that the rights of American citizens
will be protected at home and abroad
p. +. Campbell, president Of the
Knights of st. Vincent, said: The
Republicans are making large gains
from the Democratic ranks. This
state upon positive knowledge of its
truth, having perhaps larger acquaint,
ance among the young men of Balti,
more than any other young man in civil
life. 1t is the first time for me, outside
of the Democratic party, and think !
am justified in doing SO when Demo
Gratis persist in sending men like Hew
lit, of New York, to Congress to betray
Irish affairs to the British ministers
Blaine will take care of our interests. >
Other prominent Instantaneous
made similar statements. Nh the Irish
societies arc expressing themselves
strongly in favor of Blaine and an adj
ministration that promises to make the
Republic respected as much abroad as
ii is rcvcrcd at home.
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GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

The Maryland and Delaware delega
tions were in very undesirable locations
in the convention at Chicago. They we're
so far in the rear as to be beyond the Wis
ion of the charm IN. So much noise anG
confusion existed that only man with
a voice like fog horn could make him
self heard.
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Fort Eighth Congress Adjourned.

The first session of the Forty eighth
Congress Was brought to a close at
o'clock on Monday afternoon, all of the
appropriation bills having passed. The
aggregate amount of the appropriations
this year is $1S6, AT. In announcing
the adjournment of the Senate. Acting
Vice President Z !munds INDUCED in
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FOURTH DAYS PROCEEDINGS.

The convention was raped to order at
1890 o'clock \. yesterday morning,
and after considerable los-rollins, in the
midst of the greatest excitement and
disorder, the second ballot was taken,
resulting in the nomination of Grover
Cleveland of New York
The vote was as follows
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-07-12

TIE Democrats will miss Tiden's
barrel more than they will the sage
himself. The bunghole has been plug
gcd for the season.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-07-12

OUT of sixty-two counties in the state
of New York, but ten are Democratic.
The slums of New York city rule al
the rest of the Empire state.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-07-12

iiti'hi" hN.
Whole number, so; necessary for IL choice,
al.
At LOO \. NJ. yesterday (Friday) the con-
vention adjourned until 10 o'clock A. NJ.
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Hendricks, of Indiana. moved to make
the nomination unanimous, which was
done. and at about two o'clnck the con-
vention adjourned until o'clock p. NJ.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-07-12

The Democratic platform is every
thing to everybody. 1t is like the old
woman's apples, IF you like them sweet
they are sweet, and if YOU like them
sour, they are little tartish.'
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-07-12

WELL, the only difference is the Re
pubrcans will be put to the trouble of
burying 4 live man instead of a corpse.
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ORPHANS COURT.
THE Stated Meeting Of the Orphans,
- Court Of Cecil county will be held ON the
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DENTISTRY.

DIR. " B. SMITH,
PORT Deposit, MD,
Having removed his Office to the Brick Build
ing, near the Railroad Depot. is now prepared to
do all kinds DENTAL WORK. in the best and
most approved manner.
Hs-All PATCHWORK guaranteed for one,
and FILINGS Tor five years.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-14
Coming Events.

Services in st. Johns Episcopal
Church next Sunday morning and even
ing.
\ sunday school concert will be given
at the Presbyterian Church on Sunday
evening, Aug. 18th. All are invited.
Prof. Greenwood will give talk to
the teachers at the court house Mon
day evening, August 18th. Subject
1.-The Child" All are invited.
DR.. Bowers will deliver lecture on
utility which may be Futility," on
Thursday evening at the Lutheran
Church, instead of Wednesday evening
as formerly announced.
The b. b. Society will give a supper
and social in Armory Hall next Monday
evening, Aug. 18th, for the benefit of
Co. K, K. S. NJ. Supper will be ready
at six O'Clock, and every one is invited
to visit the hall and enjoy good meal.
Efforts will be made to make the affair
pleasant and profitable.
The Carey Creek people will give a
basket picnic at the Walnut Grove
School House, l ID miles south of
Illusions ranch, on Thursday, Aug. p.
An interesting programme, consisting
in part of speaking, music, singing and
games has been prepared for those who
may be SO fortunate as to be present.
Music by Abilene Brass Band. All are
cordially invited.
\ Cleveland and Hendricks club will
be organized at the Tennessee school
house, Hope township, on Saturday ev-
ening the 10th inst. Speakers have
been secured, and a goodly number eX-
pect to attend the meeting from Abb
lene. There should be large turnout.
The democratic nominees are very pop
ular in this county, and will poll a large
vote.
All members of the Cleveland and
Hendricks club of Chapman, Kansas,
and all democrats, are cordially invited
to be present on the BOland Lawn at
O'Clock, P. NJ, (prOmpt) for the purpose
of attending the grand democratic rally
to be held the same evening at Abilene.
Per order club.
J. H. SPRATT, L. j. FOLEY,
President. Secretary.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-14
Excursion.

Company X, Sd Regiment, X. S. NJ,
will have an excursion from Abilene to
Clay Center, Tuesday, Aug. 10Th, 1884.
This is to be the eventful excursion of
the season and should be taken i'm by
every one wishing to enjoy a fine car
ride and see the beautiful city of Clay
Center. Ample accommodations will be
provided and everything done for the
comfort of the guests. The train will
leave Abilene at 7:30 a. M, Detroit 7:45
a. m, Chapman s a. m. Returning,
leave Clay Center at 6 p. m, giving
plenty time to view the sights and par
ticipate in the pleasures of the day. A
car will be provided for lunch baskets
and the OnlyeXpense is the small amount
of the fare. Several cOrnet bands will
attend, and the noted Dispatch band of
Clay Center will participate. Fare for
round trip, from Abilene and Detroit,
SIPS; Chapman S1.00; children under
twelve, IS cents. Tickets will be sold
by members of the company and at the
various prominent places in the different
towns. Tickets should be secured, if
possible, before the morning of the 10Th
to save confusion.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-14
Senator J. J. ingalls,.

This great agnostic and sarcastic Kan
sas senator arrived in Abilene on Tues
day afternoons train from the east. He
was taken in charge by MeSsrs. j. r.
Burton and w. S. Stambaugh. The
presence of the distinguished gentleman
was soon made known, and it was found
necessary to turn Hon. J. r. >Burton'S
law office into an informal reception
room. The senator was afterwards
driven about the city, and he expressed
himself as highly pleased with Abilene's
beautiful drives, residences and the
many evidences of rapid growth and
enduring prosperity. In the evening
the Abilene band serenaded him at his
room. The senator acknowledged the
honor in a short but pleasant speech.
Later on. he attended the musicale at
the residence of J. ii. Mahan, Esq. He
left for Salina Wednesday on the special
excursion train.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-14
IMPORTANT TO LADIES

AT the earnest request of several la
dies we have decided to add to orr Dry
Goods and Millinery business, Ladies
Tailoring and Observation-Disclosures.
We have secured the services of Miss
Thomas-fOrmerly with Bullene, Moores
Emery & Co., of Kansas City-to take
charge of this Department, and with
Der superior knowledge of the art we
feel confident that we can please all the
ladies. This department will be in
running order about the first of Septem-
Der. Ladies wanting fall dresses made
will find it to their advantage and
pleasure in having a neat, well made
and perfect fitting garment, by calling
upon US.
\. Z. BISHOP & co.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-14

We will have our usual amount of
reading matter next week.
The special passenger, starting from
Kansas City and carrying people from
all along the line to the state republican
rally at Salina, passed through Abilene
about O'Clock instead of eleven as ex-
pected. Our Abilene crowd had te-
dious wait at the depot. There were
thirteen passenger coaches. There was
one entirely empty coach and the others
were not all full after the Abilene del
egatiOn. numbering about 80 uniformed
club men and about IS others, had Sc
cured seats. If the other parts of the
state didn't show up better than the
eastern. there could not have been more
than 1000 strangers i'll Salina yesterday.
Samuel G. Owen, National Bank EX-
aminer of Lincoln, Neb., was in the
city last week to make the yearly eX-
animation of the First National Bank
of Abilene. And it is with pleasure
that we state that the bank passed the
inspection and secured Mr.. Owens I'M
qualified endorsement as to its sound
ness. The assets of the bank were
found to be perfectly safe and tangible,
and its sOlvency was firmly established
by the thorough examination of InSpec
tor Owen. In this day of shaky banks,
we are dOubly pleased to write down the
First National Bank of Abilene as a
strong financial institution, worthy of
the confidence of the people.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-14
The Cream Aqitator.

Have you seen the Cream Agitator
that CAMP Bros, Agents, are selling
in Abilene and throughout the county?
1t is the only success that has ever been
put before the people. 1t is simple and
easily cleaned. In fact with it churn-
ing is made pleasure. The best evil
dence of it being a success is that two
agents sold in seven days IS Cream Ag-
itators, and all giving perfect satisfac-
ton. 1t churns butter from three to
ten minutes. As we have proved it to
be a success we want 80 good men to
engage in canvassing in the different
counties. Big money guaranteed. Will
be in Abilene for 20 or 80 days, where.
we will take pleasure in giving partic-
ulars to the business. Can find US at
the Continental Hotel.
Respectfully,
CAMP BROS.