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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-26
WASHINGTON NOTES.

= w. H BIGELow, of Maine, formerly
special agent of the Post-ofice Department,
has been appointed postmaster OF the
United States Senate.
THE message of President Cleveland hav-
ing reference to the Pacific railroads in
vestigatlon was sent to Congress on the
18th.
THE Wheat Bounty bill introduced by
. Representative Landes proposes to reduce
, the surplus by paying a bounty of 25 cents
per pushel on all wheat exported to foreign
countries.
Hon. /. Q. c. LAMAR was confirmed as
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by
the Senate in executive session on the 10th.
The vote stood 81 to %.
SPEAKER CARLISLE was taken with a con-
gestive chill while at dinner on the evening
Of the 10Th. His illness, while serious, was
not alarmlngly so.
THE National Convention of the Ameri-
ton on the 10Th, with Congressman Wheeler,
of Alabama, president, in the chair, and
Charles L. Hill. OF Washington, secretary.
E. L. BRAGG, of Wisconsin, hassbeen con-
hrmed as Minister to Mexico.
THE Government of Por: ugal has notified
the Secretary of State that it has renouuced
the protectorate over Dahomey, which it
assumed by q treaty concluded in 1885, its
efforts to control the King of Dahomey
barous customs having proved unsuccess-
full. 1t declares itself absolved from all re-
sponsibllity for the future of the Dahom-
csc.
THE National Board of Trade began its
eighteenth annual meeting at Washington
on the 18th. Mr.. Frederick Fraley, oil
Philadelphia, in the chair. The annual re
port of the executive council was adopted
THE new Associate Justice, Hon. l.. .. G
Lamar. took the oath aud his seat on the
Supreme Bench at Washington on the 18th
THE Interstate Commerce Commission
will investigate the immigrant transporta
tion question In New York City February Q
TIE President has pardoned William H
Walters, convicted in Utah of unlawful
cohabltation, and has committed to tire,
months imprisonment the sentence O.
Thomas Henderson, convicted in Utah of {;
like offense.
THE accident to Mrs. John A. Logan las
summer has permanently injured hel
shoulder. She has lost much of her ole
time vivacity and energy.
The National Pure Food convention me-
in Washington on the 18th.
THE Senate in secret session on the 10TH
went to work on its calendar of treaties
Those of chief consequence were the Brit
ish, Russian and Dutch eXtraditon treaties
The latter was taken up first and finally
ratified.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-26

line Of opposition COW
cred the official and
political record of the
nominee, as well as
his age, business hab
its and legal qEalitica-
tions. 1t is understood
that no speeches were
made By the Demo
cratic Senators. The
voting began at three
o'clock, but was inter-
lupted and nearly an
hours argument i'll
terry ened before the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-26

final action. A ma
iority of the Judiciary
Committee having re-
ported adversely upon
his nomination, and
the Senate being SO
equally div 'ded polit-
ically much interest
naturally conferred on
the question of The
final result. 1t was
conc ee led that r d.
dleberger would vote
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-26
CONFIRMED.

The Senate Confirms L. Q. C. Lamar Assoc
ciate Justice OF the Supreme Court-VflAs
and Dickinson Confirmed.
WASHINGTON, Jan 17.-Yesterday was a
day of unusual interest in the Senate, as
il was generally known that the nominal
ton Of L. Q. c. Lamar as Associate Justice
of the Snnreme Court would come up for
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-05

frontier tributary country, and that il he
rules ola Quaker settlement were known
to be established here in Fair week this
city would doubtless be given wide
berth. At all events, the Board of
Police Commissioners and not Chief
Cuddy, were responsible for this lapsus,
if lapsus it were.
Take it for all in all, there has never
been greater fasco than this investiga'
ton, or rather persecution. Its whole
animus was to eviscerate the effects of q
conspicuous Democratic triumph in the
municipal election of last year. As fan
as we can see, Chief Cuddy entered upon
the discharge of his functions with an
honest intention of giving the city g
square police administration. For any
thing We have seen developed. he has
done so. If the only evidence that car
be produced against him is such as thai
disclosed at this ludicrous hearing O
Monday, whether he shall be bounced
or no, the sentiment of the people viii
be that he is the victim of a conspiracy
emanating from the Times Office anC
abetted by Democrats who ought to bs
ashamed of themselves. Simply tina
and nothing more.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-05

look over the House to select the man
who most fitly represented the American
people who toll, he would hardly have.
selected the man who had succeeded in
getting that bill through the House. He
had only succeeded because he repre-
sented the President more than any
other man in the Democratic party. It
was said of him (Mr. Scott) that he had
given ten times as much money to the
Democratic campaign fund as the Presi-
dent had given. He was able to do so.
as he was said to have made million
dollars out of the laboring men of the
country.
In this connection Mr.. Teller sent to
the Clerks desk and had read Scott's
autobiographical sketch in the Congress.
sional Directory.
The presiding officer, Mr.. Ingalls,
The Chair takes occasion to remark that
while it is undoubtedly in order to refer
to the acts of other Houses Of Congress
generally, it is violation of privilege to-
refer to the individual charac-
ter or to the acts or conduct of
the members of that body. 1t interferes
with the absolute independence which
ought to exist between the two houses,
and the Chair thinks that perhaps this
debate has already gone farther than it
should have gone. General parliament
ary law on this subject is so we'll defined
that the Chair thinks it unnecessary to
allude to it further.
Mr.. Teller-I will not address myself
further to member of Congress, but a
person acting in another capacity as a
member of the Democratic National
Committee.
Rumor says that this bill was prepared
for the purpose OF affecting the election
on the Pacific Slope. do not care
whether this legislation gets on the sta
tue book, because the Chairman of the
Democratic Committee, or member of
it, is anxious to make political capital.
l am for the legislation, and therefore 1
welcome it..
At the close of Teller's speech the
Chinese bill went over. After executive
session the Senate adjourned.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-05
The County Vote,

There will be an enormous vote cast in
Los Angeles county this year. Two years
ago the Great Register contained nearly
eighteen thousand names. There were
nearly one thousand more added for the
municipal election last December. AT
this date there have been nearly twenty
four thousand names placed on the new
register which will 60 to the printers
on the second proximo. Registration
will 60 on until about the end of October,
the additional names registered after Octo-
Der second to 60 in supplement. It is
generally conceded that the full number
OF voters will run to upwards Of twenty
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-05
An Eccentric Judicial Episode.


Doubtless all the judges of the United
States are very much interested just now
in the outcome Of the very peculiar epi-
sode in the United States Circuit Court,
whose details were pictured forth in our
telegram of yesterday. 1t was an incident
of such overmastering interest that COM
ment is naturally interrupted for mo-
ment. The spectacle of man, however
distinguished, rising in court room,
with knife eight inches long, which had
been concealed upon his person, in his
hand, is not specially invigorating to a
distinguished Federal Judge. Neither is
the incident of vigorous tongue-lashing
from beautiful, but somewhat splenetic
woman, calculated to make the judicial
pulses beat with measured and concord
ant rhythm. Judge Stephen j. Field
was obliged to undergo both
Of these somewhat eccentric experiences.
At his stage of life the heyday of the
blood has spent much Of its force, but
still such unparalleled excitations might
very we'll be supposed to be effective in
increasing its flow. After this lively
ebullition, the Federal Court might we'll
be pardoned for some incertitude of ac-
tion-might well claim some few minutes
for deliberation as to what should re-
dress its ruffled dignity and assuage it's
agitated nerves. In the old days of the
English common law the edict would
have gone forth that the right hand of
Judge Terry should be stricken off as an
amende honorable to the insulted majesty
OF the Court. The Federal Judges, how
ever, contented themselves with impris-
oning the male offender for six months
and the feminine offender for thirty
days in the County Jail Of Alameda.
The people of Fresno county, strangely
enough, consider that Judge Terry is the
injured party. We presume that if the
Judge had managed to insert his eight
inch knife in the jugular of one or more
of the Federal Judges no meeting would
have been thought necessary in Fresno.
The truth is that such gross infractions
OF judicial decorum ought to be rebuked
at least, if not punished, and that public
assemblies ought to be held very rarely
except in furtherance of law and order.
Judge Field is not the gallant man we
take him to be unless he very
shortly releases Mrs. Terry; and
not the magnanimous man he
is reputed by his friends unless he
manages, by hook or by crook, to set
Judge Terry at liberty about the time his
choler has had time to abate. Poor
Marshal Franks seems to have been the
worst abused man of the coterie, for he
is said to have had his ears boxed by
Mrs. Terry. But then Franks, being a
gallant Teuton, will not long bear malice
for injury endured at the hands of fair
lady. Take it for all in all, it was not
only an uncommonly lively but an unr.
commonly strange incident. We may
not soon see its like again. At least we
hope not,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-05

THE New York Sun says of the mes
sage on the Fisheries Oppressed with
the news that the Chamberlain, British,
anti-American fishery treaty had been
rejected by the Senate, the most impor-
tant journal of the Canadian Dominion,
the Toronto Globe, thus braces up the
anxious Canucks
"Of course the situation would be not
only serious but alarming if there were
reason to believe that the people of the
United States will give the power to the
Republicans in November.
"Let the Dominion politicians read
Cleveland's message and learn that there
is Democratic President whose heart is
with his own country, and that the honor
and dignity of the Republic will not be
sacrificed so long as he bears the sword of
the Union.
"The Globe is right, however, in
one point, and that is when it predicts
that the Republicans will not get into
power through the election of November.
But neither will the English or the Cana
diaus.o
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-05
Campaign of Effrontery.

The Times is nothing if not menda.
ciously audacious. Its latest exhibition
Of consummate cheek is to say that the
Democrats have been accusing Garfield
of free trade" To refute this assumed
attitude of the Democratic party, the
Times has the supreme gall to quote the
following from speech delivered by
Garfield in the House in 1878:
I believe that we ought TO seek that
point of stable equilibrium somewhere
between prohibitory tariff on the one
hand, and tariff that gives no protec.
ton on the other. What's that point ol
stable equilibrium? In my judgment il
is this; A rate so high that foreign pro-
ducers cannot flood our markets and
break down our home manufacturers
but not so high as to keep them alto
gether out, enabling our manufacturers
to combine and raise the prices, nor SC
high as to stimulate an unhealthy growth
of manufacturers. In other words,
would have the duty so adjusted thai
every great American industry can fairly
live and make fair profits and yet SO low
that if our manufacturers attempted tC
put prices up unreasonably the competi
ton from abroad would come in and
bring down prices to fair rate.
1t is not often that controversialis,
tells a lie and then goes directly to work
to prove it. This is the case, however
with our esteemed contemporary. Il
goes without saying, that no Democratic
authority has accused Garfield o
favoring free trade. But if they
accused him of having taker
the exact position which the Democratic
party occupies upon tariff reform, the
quotation above from his speech woult
fully make out their case. Tersely
defined, Mr.. Garfeld's position, was {
tariff for revenue with incidental protec
ton, and so scaled as to prevent exorbi
tant prices by opening the door to foreign
competition when the prices
were so raised. If the Time.
will carefully read Mr.. Cleveland's
message, it will find that there is nc
great variance between his opinions and
those entertained by Garfield in 1873.
The fact is that every leading Repub
lican has in the past committed himsel
to the Democratic tariff reform doctrine
They are now eating their words ant
going back Of their declared principles
simply at the behest of a party and cam
paign exigency.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-05

THE HERALD office yesterday had the
pleasure of a call from that gallant and
brilliant young Democrat Reel B. Terry,
the Democratic candidate for Congress
in the Sixth Congressional District. Mr..
Terry has just returned from highly
successful canvass in San Bernardino
and San Diego counties, during which he
greatly advanced his own interests
and those OF the party. He left last
night on a canvass of Inyo and Mono
counties. In this young, ambitious,
eloquent and estimable gentleman the
people of Southern California will have
a candidate of whom they will be proud,
and who will see that our distinctive in
terests are we'll attended to.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-05
our County Ticket.

Never did party 60 before any com
munity with so supero ticket as the
Democracy of Los Angeles county has
presented to the voters in the present
year of grace. To begin we have the
judicial candidates in the persons of A..
w. Hutton, II. X. S. O'Melveny and w.
T. Hendrick-a trio of legal talent whose
distinguished ability would do credit to
any bench in the Union. The bar of
this county, with voice of wonderful
unanimity, bears testimony to the per-
sonal worth OF these gentlemen.
Then what really magnificent person
ality heads the county ticket proper in
Mr.. T. E. Rowan. For thirty years all
Los Angeles has known Tommy Rowan.
He came here in his youth, and by his
genial manners, his ability in all the
walks of life, his unquestioned integrity
and his really countless merits have all
won for him a place in the hearts of all
our citizens, regardless Of race, religion
or politics. A more popular or more
trusted man would be hard to find in any
city in the land. Who does not trust,
who does not respect this able. conscien-
tious man who has never failed in the
fulfllment of any public trust? He is
we'll fanked by General E. E. Hewitt,
the candidate for County Treasurer. Mr..
Hewitt is known to every man, woman
and child who has been in the county a
year. That is if the man, woman OF
child is wide-awake enough to know any.
thing. And who knows Ned Hewitt but
to respect and admire him? Honest,
faithful, competent to marked degree,
all who come in close contact with him
recognize his great merit. AS in Tom
Rowan's hands the peace of the county
will be preserved; so in Ned Hewitt's the
funds OF the county will b, easily found
when called for. So the list goes on. FL.
S. Parcels aspires to be County Clerk. II
he is elected there need be no anxiety on
the part of the citizens but that the func-
tions of the office will be we'll performed.
Intelligent, experienced, painstak-
ing to the last degree, Mr..
Parcels will see to each, most
minute duty Of his position. OF one
thing we may be dead sure, and that is
that he will not lend himself and his
high Office to any nefarious scheme to
deprive any citizen Of his franchise.
For County Auditor G. E. j. White is
most thoroughly qualified. He is fine
accountant, honest, faithful, industrious
and sober. But why multiply words
Let us take the entire balance OF the
county ticket, seriatim, as follows:
Senator, Victor Montgomery; Assem-
blymen, s. A. Waldron, A. R. Street,
w. M. McFadden; County Recorder,
George Hermann Public Administra-
tor, S. Levy; Tax Collector, Omri Bulls
District Attorney, j. R. Dupuy; County
Coroner, John L. Mccoy; County Sur
veyor, s. H. Finley; Supervisors, A.
Osthoff, ]. w. Venable, George Bes-
sonett; City Justices, 0. H. Violet, S. B.
Lockwood; Township Justice, VIM.
Crawford; Constables, Chas. Roberts,
R. J. Dominguez. And one can
apply to them all that has been
said of separate individuals, and
each word will hold good. 1t is an ex-
ceptionally strong ticket. 1t is strong on
all points, strong collectively and strong
in all its parts. It is winning ticket
for the intelligent voter wants able,
honest men in office.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-05

ALL along the line the Republicans are
on the run. They attack the Democracy
for tariff tinkering and straightway
the Republican senators set about
tinkering the tariff. They charge that
we are in league with England, and then
give Salisbury pointers as to how to treat
the Presidents Fisheries Message. They
not only defeat the convention with
Great Britain on the Fisheries, but they
have had the treaty with China rejected.
They are dragging all political seas for
votes, yet when they catch one gudgeon
they break their net in their unskillful
haste to land him. Mr.. Blaine says
trusts are all right, and Senator Sherman
says they are all wrong. Mr..
Blaine says free whiskey is an
immoral policy, but the Chicago plat.
form says it is an exigency of the times
not to be pushed aside, to make the Sc.
ductive tipple free, and the consolatory
pipe as free. No party ever won politi.
cal victory in America by backing and
filling, by halting between two opinions.
Better cut clear the issue, formulate a
policy, let the people know where you
stand, take your text and stick to it. That
is what our friends on the other side are
not able to do. The party has reached
the stage of positive decadence. 1t is
disintegrating for lack Of a principle. It
is falling into fragments. To return to
the military simile, the party is on the
full run, and only stragglers will be dis
cernible after the 9th OF November.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-05
CITY and Township.
A Shyster Arraignment.

When great parade was made about
the transgressions of the Democratic
Chief of Police, the HERALD really sup
posed that there might be something in
the racket, at least to the extent of a
semblable presentation of some sort oi
evidence. We had no idea that the
whole thing would filter down into the
proposition, ann ounced by Councilman
Lowell, viz, that they had the votes tc
bounce the Chief and that they proposed
to bounce him.
This is the old proposition OF might
against right.
Where such brutal fellows as Lowell
miss the thing is that they
make no allowance for people O)
who have conscience; (2) for that
other class who can be arrested in con.
templated wrong by a strong condemna-
tory public sentiment. This last is gener.
ally based on the innate sense of fair play
which will erect itself in any question
on which it is proposed to do wrong to a
man simply because you can.
The whole arraignment of Chief
Cuddy, as far as it has gone, is mere
leather and prunella. Not single charge
against him has been thus far within the
lines of ad instability in anycouIt of JUS
tice. All these charges emanate from
disgruntled subordinate officers. In
every instance the Chief was promptly
responsive. and he was found tc
be within the purview of the
law applicable to such cases. 1t is
an evidence of the high efficiency
and level-headedness of the Chief that
with police force disorganized by the
known hostility to its Chief and of al
least one member of the Board of Police
Commissioners, only three or four mem.
bers of the Police force appeared as his
accusers, and the Chief was con-
spicuously right in every instance in
which he had controversy with his
subordinates.
The only allegation that merited seri
ous attention in all the Council proceed.
ings of Monday was that which charged
that the gambling games were allowed
to run during Fair week. As to this
charge Chief Cuddy stated that the mat.
ter was introduced at meeting of the
Board of Police Commissioners, which
consisted of Mayor Workman, President
Of the Council Humphreys and
himself, and that they all agreed
that these games had better be allowed
to run. President Of the Council, John
F. Humphreys, was present at this
declaration of Mr.. Cuddy, and he en-.
tered no protest as to its truth. We are
therefore justified in accepting the old
adage that silence gives consent, as far as
Mr.. Humphreys is concerned. This de-
parture from the Chiefs rule of sup
pressing the gambling games was prob
ably founded on the idea that Los An
esles il really the center Of great
rI.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-05
M~TunT,,,,srn.rr, . rr,

- THE ILLUSTRATED HERALD is now
on hand at this Office and for sale at the
extremely low price Of Is cents each, or
eight copies for 81. The current numbe,
has vast amount of fresh statistical
matter of great interest regarding this
section. The ILLUSTRATED HERALD OF
1888 is by all odds the best medium
through which to make known to those
at distance all the varied attractions
and industries of Los Angeles and of the
semi-tropics generally. If you want to
keep up the boom send q copy of this
splendidly embellished publication to
your friends in the East.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-05

The Republican party tinkered with
the tariff time and time again. But you
may wear your rue with a difference. In
all their tinkering they let the necessa-
ries of life bear the full burden OF the war
tax, and made all the reductions on lux
uries, incomes and other trifes which
only the rich enjoy. They object to the
Mills bill because it takes the tax off salt,
and leaves it on diamonds.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-05

How beautifully at one, Republican
leaders are on all public questions! Mr..
Blaine, down in Maine, says trusts are
private affairs with which President
Cleveland, or any other citizen has no
concern. Meanwhile Senator Sherman
is pushing forward bill in the Senate
whose purpose is to regulate trusts of all
sorts. There are no differences of policy
among Republicans
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-05

EIGHT years ago Pasadena had seven
hundred and fifty inhabitants; South
Pasadena had perhaps dozen, and Fair
Oaks had perhaps half dozen. This
year these three precincts have two
thousand voters.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-05

REPUBLICANS blame the Prohibition
people for leaving their camp. Yet they
proclaim for taking the revenue tax off
whiskey, which would reduce this abomi-
nation Of the cold water people to
twenty-five cents a gallon!
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-05

The Eapress, having been foiled in it's
programme of railroading Chief of Police
Cuddy out of Office, and indignant that a
Democrat should have a fair trial, raises
cry of "Boss Buckley" Should the
fool killer put in an appearance in Los
Angeles we are very much afraid that he
would find his hands full in the office of
our esteemed contemporary.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-05

Persons intending to spend the summer at
eanta Monica can be supplied with the DAILY
or WEEKLY HERALD by applying to our agent,
9. B. Hall, who, by special arrangement, is able
to deliver the papers to customers at an early
hour.
Passengers on the early morning trains COM
ing from Pasadena and Santa Monica will find
the HERALD by applying to the newsboys.