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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-04
The Luck OF Election.


When the mOmentous consequences
which have resulted from a particular
outcome of some Of our Presidential
elections are recalled, it is almost start
ling to realize that the decision really
rested with a small handful of voters.
In 1880, If 1O,517 votes IN New York
which were cast for Garfield had been
given to Hancock, the former would
have been, in all probability, to-day a
member of the Senate, and a great
national tragedy would never have been
enacted. In 1876, even taking the de-
CisiOns of the returning boards as Just
and true, IS votes in Florida transferred
from one electoral ticket to the other,
would have spared the country the dan
ger and the disgrace ola disputed election,
In 1872 Greeley's defeat was OVerWhelm-
ing. Ofthe 366 members OF the electoral
college but Sc were chosen in his inter
est; he was in a minority Of three quar-
tiers of a million in the popular vote.
And yet if in Alabama, Arkansas, Con
neCticut, Delaware, Indiana, New Hamp-
shire. New York, Ohio, Virginia, and
West Virginia only 1882 voters had
/ cast their ballots for the editor instead
of the soldier the former would have
/ been the victor. In 1868 the question
whether the Union should be recon-
/ structed IN accordance with the Radical
majority in Congress turned on the de-
/ cision of some 27,447 voters in the States
/ of Alabama, Arkansas, California, Con-
necticut, Indiana, Nebraska, Nevada, and
| Pennsylvania. If in 1864 81, 618 electors
In Connecticut, Indiana, Maryland, New
| Hampshire, New York, Oregon, and
Pennsylvania had looked at the political
| contest in a different way, the country
would have snapped horses while cross
! ing the stream" 1t is hard to realize
/ how altered would have been our whole
/ history if Lincoln had not been elected
! President in 1860, and yet if only Is, 103
/ citizens in California, Illinois, Indiana,
and Oregon had voted differently he
would have been beaten. In 1856 Mary
! land was the only State which gave its
/ electoral vote to Fillmore, and yeta change
] of 1915 votes In Kentucky, Louisiana,
and Tennessee would have thrown the
election into the House Of Representa-
tives, where, as 1t was then composed
] the chances Of the American candidate
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-04
Lives of Blaine and Logan.

The COMMONWEALTH has made arrange
ments with the publishers Of the elves
of Blaine and Logan" to furnish 1t at re-
duced rates to subrcribers of the WEEKLY
COMMONWEALTH. 1t is a book of 67S
pages, elegantly bound. Besides the
complete lives of Blaine and Logan, it
gives a short sketch Of the lives of all the
Presidents of the United States; a birds
eye view Of the Presidential Contest; ia
Dles of Presidential elections; qualifca-
tions of voters in every State; a list of the
Presidents and Vice-Presidents; Cabinet
Officers under each President; Com
manders of the Army and Navy since
the organization Of the Government;
Speakers of each Congress; Congressional
Representative of States from the first;
Supreme Court Justices; pensions paid;
balance Of trade; reviews; National debt;
political divisions of Congress; COnstitu-
ton of the United States; administrations
and mass of other political information.
1t is a volume that should be IN the
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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-04

is a Democratic principle, if there is
such thing as a Democratic principle.
1t is In every announcement Of Demo
cratic opinions, however it may be
masked In form and hidden under VERDI
age framed for purposes Of deception.
The quarrel between the Democratic
free traders and the Democratic anti-free
traders is simply upon the surface. They
all claim to be 'Etarif refOrmers." A
"tariff reformer' is a free trader in dis
guise. He means to reach thes same end,
but proceeds in a circuitOus course. He
sugar-coats and guilds the pill which
he asks the country to swallow. He
seeks to delude and to betray
the labOring men and the industrial
interests, and the means which he uses
are fine phrases, WOrdy duphcity and
double entendre. If the Democratic
party should ever obtain control of Con-
gress and elect a President, the first of
its victory would be the destruction of
the protective system Of the country.
Both the Free-traders and those mas
querading as Anti-Free-traders viii, in
the present convention, make concessions
and surrenders for the purpose of avoid
ing a rupture in the adoption of their
platform upon this subject. But all the
proceedings relating to the tariff are in
trigue. Both sides are insincere. The
platform will be framed simply to catch
votes. 1t will squint both ways, looking
directly nowhere. But the Democratic
party is a free-trade conspiracy, however
it may be disguised, or in whatever gilt
tering show Of false pretenses it may ap-
near
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-04
'.Just Like Garfield. %


Mr.. Barnum has the effrontery to
affirm that he still believes the Morey
letter to have been genuine. A Demo-
cratic journal represents him as saying,
when asked when he began to suspect
the letter to be a forgery: 81 never began
to suspect it at all. I am not convinced
yet that it was a forgery. It was Just
like Garfield. Those were his senti-
ments." To this he adds the gratuitOus
impertinence Of quoting Senator Logan
as saying, after the letter appeared, that
he believed that President Garfield had
written it. This monstrous calumny
General Logan Indignantly repudiated,
asserting that he never made any state
ment OF the sort to Senator Barnum or
anybody else. This dishonest reference
to Senator LOgan's belief in the genuine
ness Of the letter shows that Senator Bar
mum stands ready to do to-day what he
did four years ago-to have recourse to
foul means to bolster up an infamous
forgery.
The Chairman of the National Demo-
cratic Committee refuses to do justice
even to the elected, murdered and buried
Garfield. He stands resolutely by the
forgery, the responsibility for which
everybody now knows was assumed by
the Democratic National Committee. He
is not convinced that it was a forgery.
Indeed, he has never begun to suspect i
at all, although in October, 1880 ae
was sending confidential agents 81 g.st
the country to manufacture evidence to
sustain it, employing them under assum-
ed names to forge signatures to hotel
registers, to falsify evidence and to hire
professional perjurers. His confidence
in the MOrey letter remains unimpaired.
cit was just like Garfield" And the
Democratic press shares Senator Bar
NUNS suspicious and confidence. The
Brooklyn Eagle, for example, disgraces
itself by saying:
But what neither Mr.. John I. Daven-
port, or Mr.. Hadley, or General Garfield
has yet succeeded in establishing is
this: that the sO-called MOrey letter was
not written at Garfeld's instance, and
that it was not signed by him precisely
as appeared on the face Of it. That the
envelope was a cOncOctiOn it required no
feat of photography and solar illumina-
ton to disclose; that other addresses had
been written on it, some of them coming
quite near home to the finder of the
fraud, mattered nothing. It has not yet
been proved to the satisfaction of the
people that to the foolish letter in ques-
ton, setting forth his well known and
characteristic views, James A. Garfield
did not aftiX with his own hand his own
signature.
The Democratic press can always be
depended upon to support the regular
political managers of the party and tC
swear to all their lies and fOrgeries, even
when conviction stares them in the face
Senator Barnum still believes-Or says
he does-that the Morey letter was
genuine. at was Just like Garfield
Those were his sentiments" The Eagl,
likewise believes-or says that it be-
ieves-that the letter was signed pre-
cisely as appeared on the face Of it, and
that it set forth CHS well-knOwn and
characteristic views"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-04
A CHEAT.
Commonwealth.

commonwealth.
1t will not do for laboring men, manu-
facturers or any industrial interest to be
deluded. The out-and-out free traders
have been defeated by the maneuvers of
more adroit politicians and by sharper
management in the present Democratic
Convention. But free trade is by no
means defeated while the Democratic
party cherishes a hope Of ultimate victO-
~. The Democrats now masquerading
as anti-free traders are not protectiOnists
from principle. They have no genuine
sympathy with the industrial classes.
They are simply engaged in a series of
cunning movements to secure partisan
advantage. The spirit of free trade ami
mates the Democratic party. Free trade,
or theories looking to free trade are in
all their State platforms. They appear
in different DISCUSSES and with some
cloudiness of expression. But free trade
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-04

A pretty young woman, with fair
banged hair, attracted considerable at
tention in lower Broadway the other
sunny afternoon. She wore q silk dress,
which changed to a different color every
way it was looked at. Her hat was bell
shaped, and was profusely trimmed with
punches of flowers, on which rested sew
eral butterflies and beetles. A large
bronzed owl, with diamond eyes, fast
ened a bow at her throat. Stitched on
her blue silk parasol was an enormous
peacock feather, and a handkerchief, car
ried in a tiny belt, was embroidered with
birds and animals.
Pacific coast papers complain Of irreg-
ularities and delays in transcontinental
mails. When some changes are made,
it is said that letters viii 90 from New
York to San Francisco in five days.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-04
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THE main element in the composition
Ofcranks is selfesteem. In nine cases
out of ten when a man deserts the Ordi-
nary methods sanctioned by custom, and
sets up his own opinions and plans
against the majority of his fellows, it will
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Not receiving acknowledgment Of his
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a murderOus conclusion. The same prin-
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his pedantic course. He imagines HIM
self better than his party, cleaner than
his life time associates, more perfect than
his fellows. He sets himself up as an
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Women are not only justified, but ex-
hibit the most exalted virtue, when they
do depart from the domestic circle and
enter on the concerns of their country
of humanity and Of their God.-JOhn
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GRAND REPUBLICAN RALLY AT
JUNCTION CITY.

Colonel Martin, Senator Ingalls, and Other
Noted Speakers Take a Hand-The City
ThrOnged and the Meeting a Great Sue
cess-A Not Very Enthusiastic Meeting OF
Democrats at AtchisOn.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-04
without a Scar

Is the way that Veterinary Carbolisalve cures
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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-04

Thousands, yes, millions, Of bottles Of
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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-04

Two young ladies of Sardis, Miss,
had lots Of fun one day last week. They
beggars and scooped the town for SO in
cash and something to eat and drink.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-04

She was little known beyond her
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around i ner that SON, pure hg mt the pre-
stood till 1t is notwithstanding
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-04

Most of their faults women owe to US
whilst we are indebted to them for mos
Of our better qualities.-Charles Leme
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Women is the poetry Of the world in
the same sense as the stars are the
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that rule the destinies Of mankind
HargTaVe.
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ment, of which love is the bow and mar
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We meet in society more attractive
women whom we would fear to make
our wives.-D'Harlevill
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Rascal! That word on the lips of a
woman, addressed to a darling man,
often means angels.
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Who takes an eel by the tail or a wo-
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Of all heavy bodies, the heaviest is the
woman we have ceased to love.-Le-
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How many would laugh at the funeral
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