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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-06-18
TIE NATIONS

After all that has been said and
done to reduce the nations income,
it appears that Uncle Sam still has
a cool 500, 100000 surplus, and
perhaps when the fiscal year ends he
will find that he has $500 900 more
than that. The public debt. less
cash in the treasury, is now only
81 ,459. PSI, 492. or nearly s92. 0OO. 900
less than it was eleven months ago,
and Congress done nothing to create
the expectation that the reduction
will be less during the year to come.
1t would require less than fifteen
years to extinguish the whole debt
were the present rate of payment to
be maintained, but the surplus
accumulates much faster than the
obligations of the Government ma
ture. The debt of England is now
lower than it has been before since
1911, and yet it is more thap double
that of the United States. and John
Bull reduced 1t only $2,ooo,ooO last
year. History furnishes no parallel
for our reduction of our public debt
from 1884, 849, 1926, its highest point,
in 1865, but as payment canaot con-
tinue at the rate cf SlQ0,00o,ooa a
year, something ought to be done to
the nations surplus by re-
the people Of a part of the
burden of taxes. That something
will be done only when q change in
the administration of the Govern
ment shall be effected by the election
of q Democratic President.
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SORROWS OF A PUd1L1SI'
A Professional Bruiser's Lanen'
and the Reasons THEREFOR
IN. Y. Tribune.1

IN. 7. Tribune.] :.
"Oh, yes, we have an easy Time.
/ said q prominent member OF Inc s4ug
ring brigade, whose face pore tn Us
scars of many hard fought battles ~
the twenty-four foot ring ana WIZ
| the gloves. to q reporter. 1--WE Only
| have 20 work from 7 in the evening
mill 3 or 4 in the morning, for from
SIS to S25 per week. Yes. we MAKE Q
regular business of it. We are hlreo
just like longshoremen or nod- a
riers. have our regular hours, do GER
tain work and get paid for 1t. You
Wouldn't think that it was
very hard work to get up on the
stage the re and spar for hve or zen
minutes time of an evening", u
that's because you have never t:lea
it. You think soft gloves don't hurt.
Well, perhaps they don't. See this
ear?" pointing to his left auricular
organ, which was knocked all out OF
shape, and was swollen to twice lts
natural size. "Well, that's one of
the results of this hippodrome spar
ring. It's all fixed, and we go in not
to hurt each other, but in the heat OF
debate we sometimes forget and hit a
little harder than we intend, and
then a black eye, or q cut lip, or a
swollen ear, are the results. Then,
you see, unless we keep our name up
as fighters We are no good n can't
get an engagement. so we have TO
get up occasional glove-fghts, and
get our names in the papers. In a
majority OF cases these fights are
fixed, aud while there is great talk #
$3.50 or $500 or some other sum a side
the fellows who fight get SIS or $40,
and the men who get up the fight
scoop the remainder. The fighters
are generally careful not to
hurt each other, but sometimes there
is a rivalry or some hard feeling
between the mer, anu then you get
genuine milling with = vengeance.
You have no idea how hard a blow
can be hit with a hard glove. They
are little more than a protection to
the hand, and I can give a good deal
more punishment with them than !
can with the bare knuckles. This
nose of mine was broken in a hard
glove fight that was intended for a
Joke but which turned out to be a
genuine fight before we finished up"
The aforesaid nose was entirely
minus a bridge and was tip-tilted at
an angle of forty>five degrees.
"Why don't / leave it Because
I was a fool and went into it, and
now late hours and irregular habits
have untitled me for anything else.
l haven't brains or education enough
for a reporter, and that's the only
business that requires the night
hours that I I'M used to. A good
sparrer is lucky if he gets $3.50a
night, and they run from that down
to 81 SO. Some OF the boys have
been talking of getting up a trade
union and striking for higher pay.
We ought to be pretty good at slrik-
ing by this time, don't you think
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THE REAL ISSUE.

In an article under the above cap
ton the New York World refers to
the fact that the Mississippi negro,
Lynch; who presided temporarily
over the convention of the grand old
party, told his hearers In his opening
speech that 1.-THE loyal people OF this
country never will allow a president
to be inaugurated" whose title is
tainted by fraud.
The plain meaning Of this threat is
that on a cry of ''fraud" being raised
in any Southern State, on the bloody
shirt and Ku Klux 'dodge," in the
event of the election of q Democratic
President. the ''loyat people," which
means the negro Republicans of the
South and the robber Republican
omce-holders of the North, would
use force or fraud or plunge the coun.
try into revolution, if necessary, to
prevent the Inauguration OF the Chief
Magistrate of the nations choice.
We have repeatedly warned the
conservative element in theRepubli-
can party that the true issue to be
tried in this election will be, Shall
the majority rule? Not whether
a change in Washington is pol
itic, but whethor it is possible.
Grant no longer sits in the White
House with federal troops waiting his
order to deluge the halls of congress
with blood. The Republicans no
longer hold a large majority of the
states of the Union and could not so
easily seize on the president-elect and
thrust him into a federal fort. The
thre:.t to prevent the inauguration of
a fairly elected Democratic president,
on a bogus p~retense Of fraud, comes
only from an ignorant Mississippi ne
gro. But for all this it ia not mere
1t is uttered in the national
convention of the Grand Old Party
by its temporary presiding officer,
and it speaks the spirit of many des-
perate Republicans who would cling
to power by violence and at the cost
of revolution rather than be driven
from the public crib.
This is to-day the peril of the ma
ton. 1t a only be averted by driv.
ing the Republican party from power
by such an overwhelming vote a. to
crush at once any ATTEMPT at a repe-
tition of the crime of 1876.
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A Bod Robbery

Sunday evening two Euen' W" wi
Iurney and james Carney a.
The Homesiake tote! ana Sun" nr
pet sack, the belonging OF a' 'oa
They took the properly 10
spot, opened aud insp'"r
Among the contents oi l ps /
they found a razor wiz s,
brought with them Il siI'n lD.5
and offered it for sal. 1t 50 ~ 4,
that the man they Screw Oh:
probable purchaser, was 'I sai
whom the property btianset,dil . J
thieves We're given into Gu"
q hearing before Judge "st,ncei
Monday Turner was se. ,hjrIr
forty days and Carney i,G
Imprisonment in the cotuy id
to reside until the costs are ID
men were taken to Deer h ,ssu;D
day by Deputy Sheriff p ,ih,
Anaconda Review, June
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face boldly. It 10 now the turn OF
society. Will it condone the offense
to which he ~confesses, cover the
shamelessness Of his conduct With
the mantle of his wealth, admit him
still to its circle, sit with him In 90
cial gatherings, and solicit bis favor
at select receptions? We shall SEE
we shall sec If society has respect
enough for itself to rebuke an insult
to itself. It had been moe manly.
when cornered to this confession, had
the witness laid down half bis for
tune as the price of his denial, how
ever unjust the exaction.
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The Presidents Travel,

NEW YoRK, 1I.-President Al
received Shipping Commas
James G.. Reed and Corliellu,,
Bliss this morning 10 other eau eau
This afternoon he started tor nv
ton College to visit his son. :
President travelled in president \
erts' private car, 0: the Penns}N'
railroad. He will return tal'
ming aud has made arrangeinel.
leave for Washington on the !
night train.
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How a Commission was Won

Jack Williams was a brave sergean'
of a regiment which undrilled anG
undisciplined had joined the army 0
the Potomac just as the terrible cam
paign of 1854 began.
Before the army reached Peters
burg Jack commanded his company,
| the captain and l%ieutenants. having
been killed. His gal!antry was SC
conspicuous that he was recon-
mended for a captaincy in the regu'
lar army.
Ordered before an examining board
at Washington, Jack presented him.
self dressed in a soiled, worn uni
form, with bronzed face and uncu,
beard.
The trim, dapper officers compos-
ing the board had never been urdel
fire or roughed it in the field; but
they were posted in tactics, and in
the theory of war.
Though shocked at Jacks unsOl-
dierly appearance, they asked him all
sorts of questions about engineering,
mathematics, ordnance and cam.
paigns. Not q single question could
Jack answer.
"What is an %echelon?" asked one
of the board.
Don't know" answered Jack.
"What is an abattis?"
"Never saw One."
IA redan?"
"You fellows have got me again."
replied Jack.
"Well, what is a hollow square,
sir?"
"Never heard of one before; guess
they don't have them down at the
front, do they?"
"What would you do, sir, if you
were in command of a company and
cavalry should charge on you?"
asked a lisping fellow in white kid
gloves.
do, you fool" thundered Jack,
II would give them Hail Columbia,
that's what I'd do"
This ended the examination, and
the report of the questions and an
swers, with the adverse Judgment of
the board, were sent to President
Lincoln,
His private secretary read the re.
port to him, and when he came to
the only answer that Jack had given
the president said:
Stop! read that over again."
THAT'S just the sort of men our
army wants." said the president,
taking the report and dipping his pen
in the ink-stand. On the back of the
paper he wrote in a clear hand:
"Givethis man a captains commits
A. LINCOLN"
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VENNOR.

uReng q. vennof, the weather
prophet, died at Montreal the sth
inst. Commenting upon it an ex-
! change says: His death will not at
. tract as much attention now as it
| would have done three or four years
ago, but there was a time when he
had mnny believers and when hum
| dreds of farmers timed their opera
tons by his predictions. He was a
man of education, having been grad
uated from the McGill University.
/ Much of his life was spent out OF
| doors, on the march and in camp.
| For eighteen years he was either
surveying Or collecting birds, and
had unusual opportunities for OBJ
serving the weather. The basis of
his predictions, he said, was largely
this experience. He believed also in
recurring periods in the weather at
ascertainable intervals. He had
made a study of weather charts for
nfty years back, and finally he be-
lieved that he had an intuition, which
he could not explain, that guided
HIM in his forecasts sort of "feel-
ing In his bones," such as many
other people have experienced.
There are, no doubt, periods in the
weather, recurring at irregular in
tervals, but people will differ as to
whether they are as~certainable or
not. Predictions made on this basis
must be exceedingly vague and gen.
eral, since, while the same sort Of
weather may recur at a certain period
the resemblance is merely 9 general
one. Vennor's best guide was his
knowledge of the habits of birds and
animals and Of the face Of nature
gained during his Icing life out of
doors, and if he had trusted more to
that and less to his iatQiti"ns and his
theory of recurrence, and made his
predict ms only so far as experience
justified him, his success would have
been even more remarkable, and his
fame would not have been eclipsed
by that of the daring and sensational
Virgins. Indeed, even with all his
he scarcely deserves to be
in the same class with that
impracticable hallucinator.
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THE ELECTORAL VOTE.

There will be 4O1 votes in the next
electoral college, POI being a majority.
The electoral college is based on the
members of the Senate and the House
| One elector is allowed for each sena-
tor and representative, which brings
ID the total number as above stated.
The states which may be safely
counted upon to give Democratic ma
jorities next November are Alabama,
! Arkansas, Delaware, Florida. Georgia,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland
Mississippi, Missouri, New jersey,
Nevada. North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and
West Virginia. These STATES have
an electoral vote aggregating 1852. The
states in which the battle is to be
really fought are Connecticut with 9
votes; California with 8; Indiana
with ID; Ohio with %; and New
York with 36.
If the Democrats carry New York
and Indiana, they can elect their
candidate and have twelve to spare.
If they carry New York and Califor-
mia, they have five to spare. Ifthey
carry New York and Connecticut.
they have three to spare. Reduc-
ing the wole question to the ultimate
analysis, it may be said the Demo-
Gratis can win with New York and
either OF the following States. viz:
California, Connecticut. Indiana or
Ohio. That they will carry New
York, no matter who they may put
up against Blame, is conceded.
Blaine cannot carry New York. 1t
is an impossibility. His friends have
given up that State. They will
make their fight in the Pacific states
and in Indiana and Connecticut.
Now let US look at the situation
viewed from the last Presidential
election. Hancock had the votes of
New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland,
Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisi-
ana. Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri,
Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida. Texas,
West Virginia, Nebraska, and five
Of the six of California, making a
total of l55. He lost New York and
loaf the election. That year the cleo
toral college contained but 1863 votes.
Garfield received PA of them. Cali
fornia may be considered as certain
for the Democratic nominee as is
Georgia. It has a Democratic
Governor, and is now as much
Democratic influence as
she ever was. Notwithstanding
the assertions of the Republicans
that Blaine will carry the State it
can be carried by Thurman or
or Bayard, or any other
of the Democrats named for tho
Presidency. All the conditions are
for the Democrats to carry
it. The same may be said of Ohio.
While We are willing to concede
that State to the Republicans it is
really a doubtful State with the ,
chances of a Democrat, especially +,
carrying it by a large
majority. Hence, looking at the 6
situation from any standpoint, the ,
unbiased must be forced to the con- 9
that q Democrat will be our ,
lext President. The great opp"r. !,
unity of the party now presents t
tself. It will not be thrown away. O
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AS a democrat. .sr,'

son school in my y" ss'1t n&.Y,
myjudgment matuf e,5ly got
OF converse in public ~ 9sy aaa,.
earnest and deep stud a''s ID,
ty of purpose, which Hitbs
magnitude, affecting sope
OF the people, may i h sSey NJ
istence of free instit He ,thsI
constrained, We're il ttoa,, \
my life. in view of tine hue hs
undo what Jackson I .s aa5
coming from whatsoaSvn's vii
may, to say to you. Gem. M
seems a wisdom-indesd
for the further contiouu,'sa NJ
organization in this ,s sls
gency, and, therefore, u ,,as'
test | am with you, and di iel I
puC W u.s. we ought fl
gether against this grew
call upon all true men to v
us, either inside Or out.;s
case may be, of oths.a
organizations which NAV !,
feet other measures for h~'s
the country. thank VIZ ~
suggestions in the Other -. w
ward Which your organ;, ~
in the interest of labo,
sevation Of the lands Of ths /
the benefit of the people: M
OF agencies created by ths
ment to be used Tor the ON.
people,; tc regulate and con n
tenn of interstate commsr''
shall control and cheaper +,
p~ortation of persons, frpi,b,;:
telIigence, and to protect s1s
just rights and conflne Al !,
true duties, to the end II, "
may be in this country e "'
rights. equality of burdens y. q
of privileges. and equality =,
to all persons under the law i
the political rule of my HE u
/ have the honor to he ";
sonal esteem, very r%espeufn'
friend and servant,
BENJAMIN + D..
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TILDEN'S LETTER..

MI. Tilden's letter is still the theme
of many eastern journals and they
! seem to be in doubt whether to give
most praise to Its timeliness and wis.,
dom or to the e%arnestness and dig
nifty of its form. 1t Is conceded that
no American will doubt that in put
ting aside the duty which the people
would impQse upon him in spite of
his physical inflrmitiee, he Is actu-
ated by the higher sense of duty
which prevents him from attempting
a task to which he is unequal. The
words in which he does this have the
pathes that we might expect from an
old man who is honored by his
countrymen with their supreme con-
fdence but compelled to transfer
duty to younger shoulders.
MI. Tilden's letter, in itself a proof
of an intellect unimpaired, will long
be treasured by his oountrymen
as a specimen of American patriot
ism. Like Washington's farewell
address, it will be looked upon as the
wise counsels of a man who quits the
busy strife of politics to the regret of
all. Indeed. it is not saying too much
to credit him with even greater self
denial than that of the father of his
country, when he resolved to seek the
private station at Mount Vernon.
Washington had been twice presi-
dent of the United States. Tllden
never held the office to which the peo-
pie once elected him, and to which
they were resolved TO elect him again.
Under such circumstances the volun-
tary closing of a career so singularly
from mere sense of duty
to those by whom his decision will be
received with regret and acceded to
with reluctance, car only be regarded
as an exhibition of patriotic heroism.
of which history furnishes few exam
Piles.
But Mr.. Tilden has done his duty.
In doing it when he could have been
president in spite of his physical ALL
ments, he has set a high example to
the world-he has earned the proud
of being the first man
who had the courage to put aside the
promptings of ambition at the call of |
patriotic duty.
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Democratic Conventions

DENVER, June l1.-Ihe !
cratic State convention was d.
Pueblo this afternoon. Hon. y
Wilson WAS elected chalr1ah.
evening was occupied in pef''tf
organization. Al this hoaI' :
the convention is still Ill 50
with no immediate prospect "
journment.
New ORLEANS, June H.,
Democratic State convention II.
bed at Baton Rouge JG-;iay',
w. Ogden was elected presl'eu,n, NV,
pledged the State for any nnlpDG
any platform that may be ad'P'
the Chicago convention.
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THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM,

To characterize the platform adopt
ed by the Chicago convention as II
mass Of glittering generalities. doe
not fully it. Its glarlng incon.
sistencies with thepractice ofthe party
suggests its christening as "clap-trar
of republican professions" Against
the platform itself the people car
place the lamentable fact of republi.
can practice. As the World truly
observes, the promise Of a settled pro
tective tariff with full rights to the
laboring man is Offset by the reality
of a constantly changing protective
tariff for twenty-four years, marked
by favoritism towards special classes
and monopolies and injustice to the
masses.
Against a pledge to promptly and
effeotually suppress the system of
polygamy within our territories"
stands the fact that for twenty-four
years. under q party which claims
almost autocratic power for the CEN
trail government, the system of poly
gamy has flourished and increased.
The sentiment that the reserved
rights of states should be guarded
with jealous care stands in juxta>
position to years Of efforts to ere to
an overshadowing centralized power
at Washington.
A platform which declares for re-
strictions on the abuse of power by
railroad corporations is met by
twenty-four years Of corrupt favorit-
ism of railroad corporations at the
expense Of the rights of the people.
A canting claim of good work per-
formed and yet to be performed IN
the cause of civil service reform by
the Republican party, adopted by a
body a clear majority of which are
office holders and notorious Office
seekers, stands confronted with the
attempt of two-thirds of the party to
out an administration pro-
nounced "wise, conservative, patri-
otto and successful" and to put q
tainted or untried administration in
its place.
The declaration that 1.-THE public
lands are a heritage of the people of
the United States" is made in the
face Of the gift OF the corrupt sale of
hundreds of millions of the public
ands to grasping railroad corpora
The demand for the restoration of
he navy to its old.time strength and
Efficiency comes from q party which
Keeps Bill Chandler and Roach q tthe
lead of the navy department and
'quanders or steals the naval appro-
'riations.
Finally, the desperate bid for Ohio
comes from a party which for twenty
our years has had the power to legis-
ate as it pleased for that State, and
which has too long pulled the wool
yer the eyes of the sheep-raisers of
he country.
The people should read the Repub>
lean platform of to-day in the light
f Republican practice during the
asst twenty odd years. The declara>
Ions and demands made in that doc
ment are cant and clap-trap. Had
he party done its duty in the past
here would not exist the grievances
of in the Republican
latfOrm.
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When the committee Ie1y0.
end of the bills Randall nlV'i'n "a
dltioEai section to his PfV:"'
against political assessments
MIR. Cannon made d poiHt ny
ameEdTaOnt was not III Nas' !
the rules. .a
Mr.. Randall admitting fnas
an open point, expressed Iesl.v
the point mad been made, aoop:
the judgment Of the people va
nOIi:icai assessments had ecu"
on to an outrageous properties
Mr.. kasson argued that Ties
ment was Objectionable not
being against the rules, but as
against good policy.