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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-30

We call the attention of woolgrowers to
the following letter. 1t will, no doubt, be
particularly interesting to such of the farm
ers of Van Buren, as propose to vote for
Yaple, the free-trader, or for Cleveland and
reform:
Office Of John CoasqIuS, Wool Commission Mer-
chant, Nos. iii e 4f9 RiUer street,
Troy, Net0 York, oct. Esd, 1884.
Mr.. A. G. GLDDEN. Paw Paw:
Dear Sir,-I have not as yet sold any of
your wool, for the reason that have not
been offered what considered it worth. AT
present the market is very dull, and what
wool is selling is such as holders are obliged
to realize on. After election 1 look for O
little better demand and more activity, If we
elect James G.. Blaine. Most of the mills
this way will shut down if Cleveland should
be elected. AS matters in this state look al
present, l think Blaine will have at least 3d.
600 majority. hope Michigan will do hall
as well Yours Respectfully.
JOHN CoNsALUs.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-30

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bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores,
letter, chapped hands, chilblains corns, and
all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles,
or no pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For sale by X. W..
Moves.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-09

reform will come with the change .he
,,eople will not make 1t unless backed
by some positive guarantee OF a specihc
reform policy. "Reform" is gooo
crv. but fortunately the Democratic
positiou destroys the force OF that
slogan. The Democratic party In con-
press has not shown itself committed
to civtl.service reform, and the leader
In the senate of the movement to Sc
cure reform Ia the civil service was re-
wsrded by ignominious defeat when
he asked vlndicstion. Not only was
he defeated, but his record as civil
service reformer was the club that was
used to break his head. Aud not con-
tent with this, the Democratic legisia-
ture that displaced him emphasized
its dspleasure with reform by putting
In his seat man whose sole recon-
mendation was fortune ofSl0. 100000,
acquired by questionable methods.
This record of the party will be an EN-
barrassing thing to confront, aud will
make the ''reformn yell sink to a very
mild whisper.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-09
The Indictment Troub,e.

There is frequent complaint nova.
days, and great deal of 1t in Texas, OF
trickster lawyers, incompetent officers
OF the law and juries that won't con.
Wet. Between these three evils, saw
the papers, the laws are eyaded or spit
upon and criminals escape merited
punishment. The complaint Is moi
without foundation. But in casting
around for agencies of a remedial ma.
ture 1t will occur to almost any man
who has been about courts and trials
70 any extent that an indictment that
VIII stand is something of sine qua
non to the vindication Of law and lus.
uce. The average indictment is very
IKE unto the average jury; they 70
wei together. They are alike unrelia-
Die and In the hour of need come nm 10
Vex and mock justice. The indict-
ment Is something OF relic Of barbu.
rism, as to the preservation of it's cir.
cumiocution, WEAKNESS and intricacy.
~ Is always drawn with great care:p
the county attorney imparts that fact
IN confidence to his intimate friends
OF boastA Of II on the street corners,
- altogether owing to the kind Of man
no y, secretlve or the contrary. Aud
no goes Into court fortified. as hi
supposes, by an Indictment that. will
's.lck." The shrewd criminal lawyer
looks after the indictment first--or
rather second thing, for his fee Is flrst.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-09
Wichita Falls Correspondence.

WICHITA FALLS, May Looming from Fort
Worth to-day the Fort Worth and Denver
City train spread the rails, going down the
grade near the race track at Fort Worth, and
1t was only by sheer gooi luck that the en-
tire train was not precipitated over high
embankment. There were nine empty freight
cars tlitched on this road, between the Mis-
souri, Pac fic june ton and Aurora, a few days
ago. and are now alongside OF the track In all
shapes. No one was hurt, and the only cause
assigned for the accident was that the train
was being run too fast. Last night about o
o'clock, while u cattle train that lad Just ar.
rived at the stock pen was waiting to unload,
the locomotive exploded It's boiler and was
badly wrecked, some OF the pieces beiu Z
blown some distance.
WICHITA FALLS, May 5.-The shipment OF
southern cattle to this point continues
largely, but the limited supply OF open range
near town has caused the grass to be graZed
very short. As the railroad has mads no
provisions, shippers had sitter make arrange
ments with men who have pastures near
here for grass. About 400 southern cattle
we're sold here the balance that have been
held here for week or two, passed for sale,
A herd OF young steers is being gathered In 9
pasture near town to be driven to Kansa,
The Wichita Land aud Cattle company will
drive 1000 beeves from here to some railroad
point north OF here this season, and thu
Stone Cattle company will drive s.0.0 heat
for shipment. Both companies d i've from
here because of dissatisfaction with some o
the officers OF the Fort Worth & Denver Cit,
railway.
The above specials are taken from
the Galveston News, which papel
essays to bea medium of reliable infor
nation. Does ii never occur to tn,
News that the references to the For
Worth & Denver railway are rather
hostile in character and suggestive of {
motive? Inquiry concerning thes
statements led to the information
that they are distortions. THE GA
zETrE cannot imagine the motive
perhaps the News is in position..t
ascertain what the motive is.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-09

ACCORDING to the tax rolls and data In the
comptroiler's Office, there are only fifteen
thousand bullionaires, little and big, and
when they buck up against three hundred
aud seventy-flve thousand Taxpayers who
are paying taxes to educate the children OF
Texas, when the school land should Yield
one.haif this revenue. they will find II the
liveliest roundup they ever engaged in. The
man with the hoe and the man with the
hand-saw are slow at figures. but when they
do see "pintp their spinal column gets aw.
ful stiif. When he gets Thoroughly aroused
the man with the hoe can turn up In more
different pla ,es and phases than ever did tine
wandering Jew. They Will be at the Hous
ton convention.-Dallas Times.
From the bowling about "barons''
and "kings" onSwould have though,
there were S75, 90 "baronso and only
1900 men with hoes. 1t would seem
after all, that II is the cowboy tbeint
the weaker party who needs protec,
ton, and not the plow-boy. The lat
ter is strong enough to protect himself
! But II 1t was not for political dema
gogues there would be no question 70
protection for either.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-09
PRINCIPLES Wanted,

A glance at the national Democratic
platforms for the last twenty-four years
shows variegated record. Nothing
but a temporizing policy appears,
whose purpose to catch the current of
present popularity has exasperated the
public against the time servers whose
chief object has been to get Office by
any means. In 1864 the party de.
clared the war a failure, and was
beaten. In 1865 it merely protested
against Republican war legislation,
and was beaten. There was no pre-
tense of a policy in 1872, and the ridic-
ulous Greeley fasco was the result.
The excuses of Republican plunderers
made possible the majority for Tilden
in 1876, which he was cheated out of
by the raseality of Republican return
ing boards and Republican eXecu-
tive. The party made faint show of
courage in 1880, but was so unaccus s.
TONED to battling for principle that,
after making the issue of a tariff for
revenue only" it denied the party
platform and fled from it, while its
leader shocked and Disguised the coun-
try by senseless assertion that the
tariff was local ISSUE" not proper
for national concern. That is the his
tory of the Democratic presidential
campaigns since 1850.
Not the party, but its incapable lead
ers are responsible for this disgraceful
showing. The same love of principle
governs the masses of the party now as
in the days of Jackson, and they would
support with enthusiasm any move
ment to carry the party back to the
pure principles of its earlier days.
They are sick and tired of selfish
scramble for the loayes and fishes, and
demand something to fight for. They
want to know in what cause they are
enlisted and in what behalf they are
contending. If it is to win offices for
the emolument of political chiefs, they
do not choose to exhaust themselves in
that effort; but if it is to uphold an
explicit and emphatic avowal of prin-
ciple, they are ready to enter the cam.
paign for victory, undismayed by the
long record of successive defeats. But
they will not fight for Sam Randall
and his squad of thinly disguised pro.
tectionists. 1t is time to make the
party captains understand this, and
make the fact plain to them that there
is Democratic party outside of Penn.
sylvania and Ohio. The best way to
impress this idea upon them is to adopt
a platform which shall declare an un.
, divided adhesion to the principle OF
low tariff taxes for revenue only. and
, let lur. Randall and his party take
whatever action they choose to-. Thew
are not the Democratic party.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-09

there was doubt as to its constitu-
tionality, they would give the benefit
of the doubt In favor OF Its sovereign.
This is necessarily the case, because II
they should decide against the SOW
ereign and In favor OF the servant, or
give the benefit of doubt In favor OF
the servant, they would soon have
their servant occupying the seat of
their sovereign. A sovereign Is one
who does as he pleases, without &C.
countability to any one. Cooley says
the English parliament can divest
vested rights, because It Is q sovereign,
and the Tories and their descendants
in the United States say the same
thing of congress. They say 1t Is a
sovereign, and that the people are Its
servants.
The Tories and their descendants
say that congress, In peace or war, can
issue greenback currency and make 1t
legal tender for all debts past, pres
ent and future. A sovereign Is one
who does as he pleases without ac-
countability to any one, and opposed
to the constitution or a constitutional
form of government. Or, IL you have
a constitution, let 1t be as near none as
possible and that literally construed
so that we may make it mean all things
to all men. The Wing party and their
descendants believe In a government
and laws made by the people and
for the people and executed
by officials of their own choosing.
They believe that in all countries
where the people are q party to the
constitution and laws, and that they
are executed by officials of their own
choosing, that people is free, call them
by what name you may. They believe
that government Of equals, a govern
ment of free people, must necessarily
have constitution, which must be
strictly construed, and that the Off
cials or agents can do nothing except
authorized by the constitution; that all
the powers not granted to their agents
or officials are reserved to the people.
Hence they say congress has the right
to declare war, which necessarily i'm
plies the right to borrow money oil
{ issue greenback money, or any other
kind of money, to carry on the war tC
a successful termination.
But when the war ceases, the right
to make anything but gold and silver
legal tender ceases. The power Is
not granted in the constitution; it is
therefore reserved to the people. The
Tories have always held that congres:
has the right to make greenbacks 9
. legal tender; the Wings and their de
scendants have always contended tina
we could not adopt England's con
/. struction of law and constitutions
8 because their parliament is theil
sovereign, and the people are their ser.
8 wants. But here it Is "ladies change
and cross over" The people consti
tute the sovereign, and congress an6
the courts are our servants. This last
+ decision on the greenback question i.
in violation of the constitution of thu
United States, and can only be de
, Tended on the theory of the Tory
r party. 1t does seem to me that of lat,
the judiciary of the country are max
ing Falstafls of themselves by approx
ing of the decisions of the highe
courts in England upon these grea
> questions. A. b.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-09
MaXey and Culberson.
BoSHAM, May !, 1884

BoSHAM, May !, 1884.
To the Editor of the Gazette.
We thought that your cross timber
correspondent at Montague had been
perforated and riddled sufficiently by
the "other side" but it seems that he
is doomed to shot in the back from
his own side of the house, and in the
language of the hackneyed but truth
full quotation, is ready to exclaim:
Lord save us from our friends" If
he is not willing to cry "peccavi"
your sulphur Springs correspondent,
ros, and 1t would hardly be necessary
to hang his carcass very high to save
the meat from spelling.
The adroitness of "R. M. H.n is
amusing, if not commendable. After
giving his unruly friend an outside
whipping in good spanking for his
uncalled-for arraignment of Gen.
Msxey, he winds up with the COM
fortiDg assurance that "all efforts upon
the part of the enemies of Gen. Maxey
or the friends of Judge Chenoweth to
get up an arrangement or feeling be-
tween Maxey and Culberson and their
friends will utterly fail, and that
those partisan newspaper scribblers
had just as well save their fabers, etc.,
Your Sulphur Springs partisan scrib-
bler' goes further, and confidently
predicts that Culberson will be tri-
umphantly elected to congress next
November. dlshing out in the
wind.up n very large-sized saucer of
tally by saying that Maxey and Gull
berson are both able men, and that
Texas cannot spare either of them.u
We give our friend down in Hop
kins credit for what is his due, but
would suggest that his opinion of the
probable result of the congressional
race in this district appears to be as
strongly biased as Culberson's cross.
timber partisan. III he will take the
trouble to canvass Fannin, Lamar,
Red River, Bowie and Delta counties,
the voting end of the district, he will
not only have his confidence in the
triumphant election of his favorite
shaken, but absolutely destroyed. Col.
Chenoweth is not only the peer of
Coi. Culberson as an orator and
statesman,. but majority of the
people In the counties believe that he
not only has the ability but the indus
Try and will to represent them when
he gets to Washington, and will not
confine his efforts to making stump
speeches every two years, and then
quietly subsidiDg until the next cleo.
tion stirs him up to make another cam
vas3.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-09
Col, Tom Murray.

Tho Telegram Is gratified TO notice that Col.
Tom Murray ef Mckinney is mentioned for
the Office of lieutenantgovernor OF Texas.
There is no man In the state better qualified
TO Ill the position or In fact any position,
He is honest, able and courageou,; he was a
gallant soidler.of the confcderacy In tho late
war and Is now q patriotic citizen OF Texas.
Ifhe wants the position he should have 1t
-Cleburne Telegram.
And II he wants 1t not much work
should be needed to secure 1t. Col.
Thos. II. Murray is thoroughly iden-
tilted with Texas, thoroughly quail
fed and an old-time wsrker In Demo-
cratic harness. But. does he want II.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-09
Two Party Traditions.
WAXAHAcHIE, NAV A.

WANAHACHIE, May 4, 1881.
To the Editor OF the Gazette.
The officials and courts of this dav
by a liberal construction Of the con.
stitution of the United States, are at
tempting to make themselves the
sovereign and the people their ser.
wants, when in fact and in truth the
people are the so, ereign and the Off.
Gals and courts are our servants or
agents, and they have limited. specific
and definite authority given them hy
the constitutions of the United Stot ~
ana me respective states, which saw TO
.ne olllclal, whatever power you lind
mere granted to you, that YOU can do
anu nc more. For all the powers not
mere delegated to you are reserved to
Tue states or to the people thereof.
1 hope to offend no one, but will
state the fact that in the bepinn;na
ana before our constitution was formed
there existed two parties In the col.
o.nies, to-wit, the Wing party aud The
Tory party. The Tory party was for
the king. They desired what tbav
called a strong government, central.
,nsu power IN the government, In the
Eing and parliament. They believed
that parliament was the rlgbtGnl SOW.
ereign and that the people We're 1T ;ss
servants. And from that dav IN thfs
these two great parties have existed ,n
me United States and we know tham
ny their tracks, which are as plain and
unmistakable as If engraved on stone
You may go back to the days Of Tan'.
day. ~ VIC Plesent
Our officials and courts and wo,la-
Dc statesmen are aping the Enoi;sh
courts and officials, who claim tho,
parliament Is sovereign. Our eonr,s
ana officials Of the Tory school conten ND
that congress Is our sovereign ma M nj,
80 as the English parliament, and that
the people are its servants. And n a -
q fact thatin England, when a lega,
question comes before the hivhe,
courts that affects the people On ON "os
side and the officials or pariiamant nr
y, re other side. the people insistI NJ,
mat the law Is unjust aud opnress,vss
anu unconstitutional, the col,rfs ,n
england would necessarily and rI.,.t
iuiiy decide In favor of tSn;,
sovereign, and In favor Of 'I ths
cons'itutionality OF the law or vi ~
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-09

If there Is a sure flaw in the tndlct-
ment he gives himself no further con-
Germ, 1t IL not worth while to see that
&C rtain witnesses are on hand or the
right kind OF jury In the box. And
at the proper time the shrewd GRIM
inal lawyer proceeds, with GOODNESS
that is scientific, to find the flaw and
pick the indictment to pieces. He
flnds word misspelled, a 1T" not
crossed, an app indicted or a comma
where period ought to be. In short
he succeeds in quashing the indictment
and his clients case goes over until
another grand jury meets, when the
county attorney will try his hand
again on second indictment. In the
meantime an important witness may
die or skip the country, the prisoner
be bailed, or some other fortuitous turn
of affairs. Everybody has seen this.
Everybody has seen indictments set
aside and rascals escape justice because
of trivial defect in the Indictment,
that ought not for n moment interfere
with the course of law and Justice
We have no objection to society ere.
forming" the criminal lawyer to the
extent that he. may need reformation
or bringing sheriffs and juries up to 8
conscientious and intelligent concep
ton of duty. But while the reform i.
going on let 1t also comprise an in
dictment that will stick. Otherwise
the remedial measures will not be nea
as effective as they might be.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-09

IL the national Democratic conven-
tion does not declare for tariff reform
it will be forced to resolve itself into
a Tilden gathering, and Tildenism
will be substituted for Democracy in
the coming campaign. Whether
successful or not, this means reor-
ganization of party lines in the future.
All loyal Democrats who wish to pre-
serve the organization as it stands will
insist upon tariff reform as distinc-
tive issue and the nomination of some
man in known sympathy with that
issue. The fight for tariff reform mus
come, and the sooner it comes the bet
ter for the people.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-09

The secretary of the treasury has
called an additional SIC, 900, 900 in Unit
ed States bonds and after June 20 in
terest on them will cease. The gold to
pay them is in the treasury vaults and
holders of the bonds can get their cash
any day they want it. 1t is signifi-
CANT Illustration of the timidity or con.
servatism of capital that not infre
quently u bondholder whose holdings
have matured elects to let his money
remain in the government vaults for
months before calling for it. Hi.
bonds cannot depreciate in value, and
although his money is not drawing
interest 1t is where it will be absolute
ly safe while he looks around anl
finds another safe investment.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-09
A Warning to a Negligent City.

The San Antonio papers publish the
that Maj. J. r. Smith,
U. S. A., medical director of the de.
partment of Texas, recommends the
abandonment of San Antonio as a mil
itary post and headquarters of the de-
partment. The grounds on which this
recommendation are based are the
high death rate in the city, growing
out of the lack of sanitation, sewerage,
etc. 1t hasn't been great while since
the property owners of the Alamo
City went to the polls and voted down
a proposition to invest money in sew.
ers. They were warned then that
this action might possibly prove more
detrimental to the interests Of the city
than they supposed. 1t is only sur.
mise, of course, as to what weight Mai
Smiths views will have with the wal
department, but San Antonio coult
not have greater blow at her pros
rerity than the withdrawal of the pos
and military headquarters from there
The military establishment has helped
to make the city what it Is. The gov
eminent disburses vast sums of money
there every year, every dollar of which
is spent in San Antonio. Beautiful
government buildings have beef
erected at cost of probably more thai
u million dollars. Theelement of mil
itary life there gives a zest and charm
20 society and attracts hundreds G
visitors from the best .classes of societ
all over the country. San Antoni
,, knows what ''the post is and il
value. 1t would be sad day for he
, were she to lose it. II Is to be hope
the medical director will net be inf,
!, entail enough TO secure acquiescene
In his recommendation, but the CT
cumstance ought to be q warning [
Q the San Antonians and wake them u,
/. No city the size of theirs can afford /
be Indifferent to or negligent of san
, tary matters.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-09

In some respects Rockwell county
can claim to be the banner county of
the state. It's Jail has had but one oc-
cupant within the past two years, and
his sentence was imprisonment for a
trivial offense for one day only. The
population of the county is about 1000,
but even with this small number of
inhabitants the utter absence of crime
is remarkable. "How do you explain
it ?n somebody will ask. We cannot
do so. The prohibitionists say,
though, that it is because liquor has
not been sold in Rockwell county for
nearly three years.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-09

No BETTER man could be found for
president OF the United States than
John G. Carlisle. But he cannot be
considered. He Is south Of the Ohio
river, aud All the virtues and graces Of
= god could not remove the Northern
prejudice against him. II the Ken
lucky Democrats really want a
thoroush-going revenue reformer who
IL also available, Wm,~R. Morrison Of
illinois u their man,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-09

IT sounds strange to hear of men be-
ing imprisoned in this country for
debt, but under the laws of New
York such a thing is not only possible,
but it occurs, and men are now in du-
rance in that state whose only crime
is the non-liquidation of debts. 1t
would seem that New York, so pro-
gressive in all else, would have wiped
this relic of barbarism from her statute
books years ago. 1t disappeared in
England many years ago, and the
English are usually the slowest people
on earth to change laws or customs.