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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-21
THURMAN AND DAVIS.
from . Speech Delivered by James
Garfield, October II, 1870.

from Speech Delivered by James 4.
Garfield. October II, 1870.
Now. what purposes has the solid
South in thus grasping power and
killing liberty? This! They are do
termined to make their old .'lost
cause" the triumphant cause. Who is
their leader to-day? By all odds the
most popular man south of Mason and
Dixon's line is jefferson Davis. OF
Mississippi. He is to-day their hero
and leader; and will give you my
proof OF it. DO you know that our
friend General Rice has been making
a great deal Of small capital out OF the
fact that he introduced an arrears of
pensions bills for soldierse You all
know what kind of bill that was. It
was bill granting arrears of pensions
to our soldiers; but it also granted ar
rears of pensions to all rebel soldiers
who had fought in the Mexican war.
We made a law that the name of 3
man who has taken up arms against
this country should be stricken from
our pension rolls. and he should re-
ceive no money out of our Treasury.
That law Mr.. Rice's bill repealed in
SO far as it related to the Mexican SOL
diers. and he knew and was told
plainly that that clause included JET
erson Davis as one of the PEN
sioners to be helped by that
law; and even in that rebel
Congress there were many Demo-
Gratis who could not quite be brought
up to the scratch to vote to pension
jefferson Davis; and hence Mr.. R;ce's
bill hung in the committee and was
not reported. Then Republican
member of the HOUSE moved to dis
charge the committee from the con-
sideration of the whole. He intro
duced n bill that did not have Jeffer-
son Davis in it, but had only our SOL
diers in it; and that bill. not Mr.. Rice's,
passed. But when that bill got to the
Senate Democrat moved to add the
Rice section that covered all rebel
pensioners under its provisions; and
then it was that Mr.. Hoar, of Massa-
chusetts, called the attention of the
United States Senate to the fact that
that amendment would include Jeffer-
son Davis, and he moved an amend
ment to the amendment that it should
not be so construed. What followed?
Immediately there sprung to his feet
our Ohio Senator. l blush for my
State whom 1 repeat it. Allen e.
Thurman rose to his feet and said:
1.-The Democratic Legislature OF Ohio
has instructed me to vote to pension
the soldiers Of the Mexican war, and
they did not instruct me to make
an exception against Jefferson Davis,
and therefore vote against Mr.. Hoar's
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-21
Brooks Rebel Sentiments.

Rev. DR.. Brooks has broken out
again. He now denies that he ever
said he had ''been a rebel. slave
holder and a Democrat. but. thank
God, had never been a Republican"
Mr.. Brooks is making things worse
for himself. The facts are sworn to
by the best Of witnesses. He has
good deal to deny beside the Decatur
speech. At the Metropolitan Opera
House. in New York. June %, in a
speech, he used this language. which
has been dug UP out Of the verbatim
reports Of the meeting made at the
time: lin that contest my distin-
guished friend (Fisk) and brother
who leads me- in this conflict was
on the side Of emancipation. He
was an Abolitionist; and / used to
hate an AbolitiOnist worse than l did
the devil. II there was any thing out
side tho neither regions that hated
worse than another it was an Abo-
litionist. Laughter And. while he
was fighting on one side. l was doing
all the praying, and all the exhorta-
ton. and all the entreaty. and a lille
fighting. Oh the other side" Tho last
few words differ from his rebel
speeches at the West In admitting
that he was rebel fighter. s'Thank
God" Brooks would undoubtedly be
better man II he possessed the virtue
Of veracity Of which he appears 70 bs
sstitute.-CxieoQo Jowrnok
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-21

men before him have sat down &c
hold d wake over the remains Of the
Republican party, and they have found
that it is the liveliest corpse they ever
sat up with, and that 1t is the soul and
spirit of its own funeral.
Chairman Hensel was one OF these
prophets. He sent the following dis
patch at The last Presidential election.
under the date-line OF Lancaster, Pa.
November 4: II have made canvass
of the State by telegraph"-(Ycs. he
did. and that canvass was struck by
lightning twcnty-four hours later)-
land l think the situation hopeful.
The Republicans may carry the State
by a small majority. but it is doubt
full" believe the small majority was
up somewhere near 100000 majority.
but still Henscl was right in thinking
his party had fighting chance. The
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-21
THE MORAL ISSUE.

Why tho Tariff Question Il OF Greater
Importance Than Prohibition.
The tariff question is not merely 8
matter of finance or political economy.
at the bottom it is mora! question Of
the greatest importance. The stand.
ard of labor In any country to largs
extent determines and fixes the stand.
ard of morality that the laboring classes
Of that country can attain.
Wages and morality have q closer
relation than many good people in
agine. Where labor is degraded, a
high standard of morals such as OBJ
tains among the wage-workers of the
United States can not be looked FOR.
Degrade country's labor and you de-
grade woman. Adopt q fiscal policy
which will certainly depress wages to
a low level, and you increase crimes
and introduce a whole train of social
evils.
A policy which will cut down the
wages of the father will of necessity
bring about an increase of child labor.
1t will take the children from the
schools and put them into the mills,
mines ard factories at an early age.
Adopt it in this country and, as the coun-
try fills up and men begin to crowd one
another in the lower walks of life, we
shall see the hopelessness, ignorance.
reproductive recklessness and lack of
ambition that characterizes European
populations, reappear among the Ia
boring classes of the United States to
take the place Of the intelligence, hope
fulness. independence, judgment and
ambition that now belong to our work
ing people. There is not working
man or woman who is not vitality con-
cerned in the outcome of the tariff dis
cussion and the impending election on
which it hinges, as a moral issue.
Third party orators assert that their
party presents the only moral issue
now before the people. They claim
for their party a monopoly or trust of
the conscience of the country. But on
its moral side, the tariff issue is of
far greater Importance, for it embraces
in its scope not only the question
whether by depressing wages drunk
enness shall be increased, but a wrong
of the tariff issue may
bring about host of other evils big
with disaster.-Aurora (Ill.) Beacon.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-21
AN UNHClY SCHEME.

Democratic Dirty Work in Iowa Which
May DO Tried in Othor States.
The minions of darkness are always
more vigilant than those of light We
are informed by reliable persons. who
say they positively know. that money
has been furnished by the saloons or
tho Democratic party to a few MEM
be-s in Iowa of tho Women's Tenn
perance Christian Union. to secretly
ascertain what women, who are MEM
ters of the Union, will act with them
N the interest of tho third party
movement. and revo;utionizc the State
Woman S Temperance Christian Union,
and at the approaching State conven-
ton GUST Mrs. Ellen Foster and put e
third-party woman in her place. Tho
women in the scheme are furnished
money to pay the yearly dues OF all
members who will act with them, and
then, when the time comes to elect
delegates to the State Woman's Tenn.
perance Christian Union, to object to
those voting who have not paid their
dues. In this way, the scheme is to
work a sharp game and elect all dele
gates who favor third party in the
whisky interest. This movement i.
inaugurated all over the State. The
messengers in this mischief are active
in Des Moines. and letters have beer
received from other parts Of the State
sounding the alarm. II the true anG
good temperance women in the State
are warned in time. they have the
spirit and the true interests of tenn
perance at heart sufficiently tx
squelch this dirty scheme in the bud
Look out for them. and be on hand
with dues paid and tho soul full o.
good resolutions, ready for noble
work. The enemy is encamped about
you. bushwhacling, and the friends
Of temperance and the home must b
active.-Des Aoines Register.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-21
FUNNY BOB BuRDETTE.

The Humoriss's Recent Address to His
Ncighbors ut Bryn MAwr, Ia.
Some years ago. when James G.
Blaine was nominated in Chicago, Carl
Schurz pulled out his watch and said:
LET US note the time of the Repub-
lican party'H death" Then he rose
and went out and knitted the man at
whose table he had sat, whose salt he
had eaten and whose bread he had
broken. He has his reward. He is
drawing his salary. NO doubt. for his
work as reformer, but he differs from
Judas in not having self-respect to go
out and hang himself in thorough
bre0 manner. don't know where Mr..
Schurz Is tonight, but / know where
the Republican party is, and it ia by no
means dead. If Mr.. Schurz is earning
his salary by holding his watch in his
hand and waiting to mark the hour
when the Grand Old Party dies. he Is
working hard for his money. Other
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-21
DRIFT OF OPINION.

D0The Presidents anxiety for ad.
ditional authority to retaliate calls to
mind the original fighter, who backed
into the crowd and told them to let him
loose SO that he could lick the other
fellow.-N 7. Press.
SAs between President Cleveland
$4,000 check for his own campaign
fund and Levi p. Morton's $4,000
check to load vessel with food for
Ireland, the latter appears to the best
Chicago Journal.
HJ-H Mr.. Cleveland really believes
what he now says about Canada S man
fold iniquities during this fisheries
difficulty down deep in his heart what
q chump he must think himself for
recommending such u milk-and-water
thing IS a treaty when the medicine
wanted was r-r-r-retaliation.-I Toronto
World.
@"Just see me wallop Canada!
Hand me q club-no, not that one, a
bigger one. &c. Cleveland. But the
Senate and the people are asking why
he hasn't used the club which was
placed in his hands q year and a-half
ago. If the Senate now gives him a
bigger club he will lie right down be-
hind it, just as he did behind the
other and hide. As u buffer Mr..
Cleveland swells up very large--Detroit
Tribune.
DCOmrade James A. Underwood,
Northumberland Commanding tho
Crippled Union Soldiers Association
of the United States, in general orders
No. Is. says: ''As the Commander-in-
Chief of the q. A. r. has ordered that
you shall not wear the G. A. K. uni
form at any political meetings, or
argue for your rights, hereby order
that you cut off the G. A. R buttons
and put in their stead the old eagle
buttons, and light for your rights to the
last"
hOThe recent labor troubles in
Paris, which were only subdued by
the heavy batons Of the police. are
peculiarly suggestive to American
laborers. The strike was declared be-
cause the individual employers refused
to pay the increase Of wages which had
been granted by the Municipality OF
Paris TO the navvies employed by the
city. That increase. which the city
granted and the employers refused.
was from foui.penee to sixpenee per
World.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-21

expenditures under Democratic Adj
ministration have been foolish, cor
ruptly extravagant. yet parsimonious.
S.iaginess where liberality should pre-
vail. profuseness where economy
should rule, injudicious. if no: corrupt,
appropriations tor Democratic dis
tricts and unjust refusals of appropri-
atoms for Republican districts have
been customary. The President gives
u flippant and insclent veto to bill
appropriating sum for public
building at Sioux City. and approves
bills appropriating like sums for pub
lie buildings in the greatly inferior
towns of Brownsville, Texarkana, Ash
vile, Statesville and Tallahassee.
The inferior towns are in Southern and
Democratic States; the superior town
is in a Northern and Republican State.
Such discrimination savors Of corrup-
ton.
The expenditures have been niggarG-
IL toward disabled soldiers of the
Union, or toward the widows and
orphans of such. and toward National
defenses, and profuse as to the enlarge
ment of creeks in sparsely settled re-
gions of the South. To dishonesty
swell the appearance of q surplus the
River and Harbor Appropriations bill
suffered a pocket veto last year; to
placate the voters Of districts ex-
pectant of grants a like bill. for a much
greater amount. has been approved this
year. Mr.. Becx's defense OF the Adj
ministration was feeble. 1.-The in
creased appropriations OF this year."
he said. ''are accounted for by the De-
ficiency bill. the River and Harbor bill.
and expenditures for coasts and arma-
ments." But whose influence sup
pressed the passage of the Deficiency
bill OF last year? Who gave a pocket
veto to last years River and Harbor
bill? The President. And why? That
a dishonest showing as to tho surplus
might be made. Besides which. Sem
ator Beck does not meet Senator Ali
sons chief charge. The force of the
Iowa Sena tors Indictment does not go
SO much against Democratic expend-
itures for this year rs against Demo-
cratic expenditures for the first four
years Of Democratic return to power.
The unanswered charge Of Senator Al
lison is that this Democratic Admins
tration is closing its term with record
OF expenditure which is S95. 600, 900
greater than that Of the last Repnb-
ican Administration. and tho Demo-
cratic excess has been useless to the
Nation. corrup:ing in its political in
huence. and sectional in its applica-
tion.-ChicGoe Inter Ocean.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-21
DR.. JOHN A. BROOKS,

His Attempts to Destroy the Eject OF .
Damaging Statement.
There is IA screw loose somewhere.
DIR. Brooks is reported differently in
different places. At Decatur, ILL.,,
sworn affidavits from men who heard
him set forth that he did say that he
had been a Shareholder. rebel and a
Democrat. but thanked God that he
had never been Republican. Two
or three days later he was at Bloom
ington, ILL.,, and was reported there as
having admitted that he said so at
Decatur. but explained it by saying
that he said it ''facctiously." The i'm
preston DR.. Brooks now seeks to make
is that he was not rebel" All rebels
were not officially connected with the
military nor civil servics of the South
ern Confederacy. Some of the most
bitter ones were found in Southern
pulpits. They were either Union or
dis-UniOn men. Union Democrats who
held pulpits in the South all through
the war were mighty scarce.
But it isn't necessary to dwell upon
this subject We have evidence from
his own lips that he was not Union
Democrat. When he was nominated
for Vice-President at indianapolis
May 81, he was called upon for a
speech. He responded. and in the
course of his remarks he said that
although once a Confederate he was
now a Union man." (Most people arc
now.) We refer the reader not to any
Republican partisan report. but to the
Associated Press report:
The difference between a "rebel"
and a Confederate was not visible
to the naked eye during the war, and
We rather think that the people even
now generally understand that rebel
was Confederate and Confederate
was rebel.
We will now call upon Prohibition
organs for little testimony. On July
10. 1888, the Center, Michigan's Prohi-
bition party organ. contained an edi-
torial headed Vice-President Brooks"
in which was republished an extract
from speech by Mr.. Brooks in Mime
sofa as reported by the Minneapolis
Prohibitionist. That extract from Mr..
Brooks speech contained these words:
Il want to say here. to-day. in your
hearing as regards myself, am a
Southerner: was what was called
rebel during the war, but was never
soldier in the Confederate service. l
was not a chaplain, as has been stated
by some of the opposition papers.
He was simply a ''rebel" or ''Confed-
crate" preacher. He is now a candi-
date before the people for Northern
votes. The reader will draw his own
conclusions.-DctrOH Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-21
usEFu, AND SUGGESTIVE.

If meat exhibits signs of turning"
put it q. once in hot oven for half an
hour.
-Mead-Three pounds Of loaf sugar;
pour three pints OF boiling water over
it, add one pint OF molasses, one quarter
OF pound Of sassafras, one ounce OF
tartaric acid; 20 be bottled and used as
syrup with soda
Cream Cheese-Take a pint OF
cream which has stood untouched for
twenty-fOur hours since skimming; tie
it up in muslin bag. and let it hing
two or three days, according to the
weather. until it ceases to drip. Then
turn it out. shape it, and lay it between
straws sewed together, with light
weight on it. 1t viii be fit to eat in q
few days.
"A hOuse-keeper driven to despera-
ton by foul-smelling geese feathers
plunged her pillows into boiler Of hot
borax water. After soaking four hours
they were pressed as dry as possible
and hung by the end upon the clothes
line. 1t took them about two days to
dry. during which time they were fire.
quently shaken and turned. The re-
suit was very satisfactory.
yellow is Il color that gives tone TO
all other colors. II you gather bou-
quet in the garden and do not include
bit of yellow it often seems to lack
brightness. Add yellow rose. or a
spray OF calliopsis, or a nasturtium.
and the change is as great as that
which takes place in a landscape when
q burst Of sunshine breaks through the
clouds which hare been hanging above
it. There is an instant suggestion of
warmth.
Dessert Crullcrs.-One egg, a cup
of cream slightly sour. half cup of SUI
gar. "a pinch of salt, q teaspoonful of
rose water, or a little grated rind and
juice OF q lemon, II preferred. a tea
spoonful of soda and one of cream of tar
tar. and -four enough for a dough just
firm enough to bear handling. Roll in
to balls between the hand and fry in hot
1u1 III u uccp hcltlc. 11sili ldrU anu llsill
beef suet are good proportions for the
frying kettle. Eat with liquor sauce.
Blackberry Sirup.-Express the juice
from the desired quantities Of berries.
For each pint OF this juice take one
pound OF brown sugar. one pint of
water. and boil to n thick strip. When
done, mix the blackberry juice and
sirup together and boil for twenty
minutes. stirring constantly. Take of
the fire and add a wineslassful of
brandy for each quart Of strip. When
perfectly cold, bottle and cork down
tightly for use. Another recipe: Two
quarts of juice Of blackberries, one
pound of loaf sugar. One-half ounce of
nutmeg, one-half ounce of cinnamon,
one-half ounce of cloves and One-fourth
ounce OF allspice. Boil all together
for short time, and when cold add one
pint Of proof brandy.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-21
THE ACTUAL. SURPLUS.


What Senator Anisen Knows About DEM
ocratic Extravaganza.
Senator Beck is the spokesman OF
the Administration in the upper house.
and he fixes the actual surplus at 500,
OOO,OO, Mr.. Cleveland, it is presumed.
asserting thereto. Senator Allison
is one of tho Republicans eninensiy
correct in details and generalities IF
National finance. and he fixes the ex-
penditures under Mr. Cleveland's Ad-
ministration at sos. 900. 900 in excess Of
those Of the Garield-Arthur Admins
tration. and Senator Beck is unable
to make denial in behalf of Mr.. Cleve-
land.
We are getting at the truth Of sur
plus and expenditures very fast and
very correctly nowadays. Tho sur
plus has hover been threatening; the
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-21
THE FISHERY MESSAGE:
Its Political Purpose Plainly Evident
q Great Religious Journal.

Its Political Purpose Plainly Evident to
Great Religious Journal.
The President is evidently fond of
startling the country by strokes of
audac;ty. His tariff message was an
audacious stroke, much praised for its
boldness by free-traders. The Presi-
dents vanity was touched, and he has
made second attempt to draw public
applause. But the same trick can not
be successfully played twice. It was
bold, undoubtedly, to limit. contrary
10 custom, the Presidential message on
the assembling of Congress to single
question. Whatever credit was due
to the courage of the conception Mr..
Clevelaad has had and enjoyed; but
the audacity of the Fisheries message
is rather calculated to excite disgust
than admiration. 1t is not COUP de
naaitre. but coup de theater.
In the first place it bears every mark
OF collrsive generalization. It was
clearly fOreseen that the Senate in the
exercise of its constitutional preroga-
tive would reject the treaty because it
was not careful adjustment of the
rights of both parties, but a surrender
of our National interests to Canada.
Politically, the effect of the rejection
of the treaty which the Administration
claimed as a triumph of diplomacy,
would tell strongly against the Demo-
cratic party and its candidate. How
eouid that effect be averted? BY a
sudden change of front, reasoned
the President. His Administra-
ton has justly been arraigned
for betraying the cause OF
our fishermen in the negotiation of a
VIGOROUSLY one-sided treaty; the treaty
having been put away by Republican
vote, he would suddenly appear before
the country as the champion of our
outraged fishermen, and would in his
zeal for their rights go far beyond
their most Jealous advocates in the
Senate. Congress had clothed him
with power to retaliate against Can
ada He would ask for additional
power in that direction. This is the
design of the message, and that Demo
cratic leaders were in his counsel is
evident from the fact that both in the
House and Senate Democratic MEM
bers were ready with bill to grant
the power asked for as soon as the
reading of the message was ended.
The h .ads had been together in con-
sultation. and the message and the bill
were the result.
The message has tone of insincer-
ity that is strange enough in our Presi-
Dental documents. 1t is hard to be-
lieve that the President asks for addi-
tional powers with serious intention
of using them. We may do him an in
justice in this, but the message makes
just this impression on US. 1t Is 80 OBJ
viously intended to make weight In the
Presidential canvass and retrieve the
effects of poor diplomacy that it is
scarcsly possible to judge y u any
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-21

~Cleveland's FREQ trade message
was In the nature Of q feeler. It WA
part free trade. part revenue and q lit
tie protection. His message ON the
fisheries question partakes Of the nat
ure Of . political speech. Statesman
ship 10 not made mp OF thsss qualities
-CSieGgo CxrreSk
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-21

Cleveland to Canada privately
You needn't mind what ! say. I'm .
candidate for reelection. and I've got
to put . bold front on this thing or NJ
goose Is cooked. 1ttbuneL
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-21

other hight. II ssx..ss Us rs speci-
men of very small politics We hopo
tais country may be spared the humili-
alton of another such document from
our Chief Magistrate.-N. l. hide
.,c1o1e,,t
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-21
About How II Stands.

With abject and proflse apologies t.
the baking powder companies, ths
Jonrnc! would offer the following dia
gram showing the relative chances 10,
election Of the various Presidential
candidates:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-21
Harrison
Cleveland
Lockwood

It would be a pleasure to place the
long mark opposite the name Of Mrs.
lockwood. but m answering fidelity
to the truth compels contrary course.
-NebraSka State journal.