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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-09-13
The Prohibition Campaign.

The prohibitionists are going to
make things lively this fall, in New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
The campaign is to be fought by
such brilliant speakers as General q.
b. Fisk, the candidate for president,
Miss Frances Il. Willard, Rev. Thos.
X. Beecher, Rev. DIR. Richard Storrs,
Rev. DR.. Theodore Cuyler and Gov.
Neal Dow. The New York CORE
spondent of the Dallas News says:
"Gen. @. B. Fisk will himself shake
things up with oil his might and
main in his own state of New Jersey.
1t is his own personal doing that not
drop of alcoholic beverage, even 80
mild as beer, will bo sold oyer bar
anywhere along the Long Branch,
within twenty miles of seashore, to-
day. Law and order leagues, organ
lied by him, have kept the bar rooms
of Monmouth county actually shut
on Sundays this summer. Guests at
the hotels can only got drinks at
their meals or in their rooms. The
bars are not ostensibly but actually
closed. Fiek was the candidate Of
the New Jersey prohlbitionists in 'S5
and received 19,80S votes, Ho is
dead in earnest, and he has hit upon
q method of electioneering from
which he expects wonderful results.
He has for quarter of q century
been an ardent and active Methodist,
besides being famously connected
with the freedmen's bureau, the Fisk
University aud other religio philan.
thropic enterprises. He is therefore
thoroughly well known to the clergy,
and especially to those of his denom-
ination. He proposes that the Meth
odist pastors shall electioneer for
him. About the time that this dis.
patch is wired every Methodist pas
tor in New York and New Jersey will
have received brief circular contain
ing an appeal in Mr.. Fisk's own
words and in his name.
wWe would welcome every Chris.
tian agency, he says in this docu-
ment. christianity has no other
such foe in the pathway of it's pro-
gress toward the millennium as the
saloon that poisons myriads OF homes,
undermines the prosperity of nations
and saps the strength of races. The
American saloon is the cancer, the
blistering shame on the fair counte-
nance of our civilization, and for it's
overthrow in this fair land there
must be the combination Of moral
and political forces.
The Christian church ought to lead
in this great reform. 1t is her Pc
culiar province to do so. Is it not
BETTING that thoughtful citizens
pause and protest and strike hands
of political fellowship in movement
to save from destruction the flower
and fruitage of our national life, that
they announce in emphatic, unmis-
taxable utterance that they will break
from affiliation with political parties
weak enough to ignore or wicked
enough to resist measures looking to
the destruction of the rum powers
The day is come when the conscien-
tious citizen cannot and will not give
his suffrage to any party that licenses
or in any way protects the liquor
crime"
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-09-13
New Ysrk Star Syndicate Letter to the
Free Press.
New YoRK, Aug. 80, 1888.

New YoRK, Aug. 80, 1888.
President Cleveland's message on
the Senate's rejection of the Fisheries
Treaty is still the uppe-most theme
in political discussion. 1t is impos-
sible to oyerestimate the astonish-
ment and CONSERVATION which this
we'll timed bomb caused in the camp
of the enemy. 1t shattered the man
string Of their protection 6ddle-the
pro. English proclivities Of the Demo
cratic party as seen through protec-
ton syectacles. In the opinion of
the directors of the democratic cam
paign at the national headquarters,
Mr.. Blaine's rabid utterancesin point
will still further estrange the Irish
American element from the Reputi-
can party.
One of the visitors at headquarters
yesterday was Chairman G. L. Jewett
of the Indiana Democratic State COM
mittee. At no time since the Chica.
20 convention, Mr.. Jewett says, has
there been so much enthusiasm in
the Hoosier state for the democratic
ticket. He thinks the state is safe
beyond per-adventure. His commit
tee have organized the state thor
oughly by counties and rough poll
of the voters shows a material net in
crease of the democratic strength.
There was messenger of good It'd
ings from California also yesterday
in the person of ex.Gov. Stoneman,
who says that without any doubt the
| G. o. p. will hear something drop on
the Pacific slope in November.
Not since the memorable Tilden
campaign has so much literature been
dispensed for the edifcation of rural
voters as n the present campaign.
Besides the millions of tariff docu-
ments scattered broadcast through
out New York, New Jersey and Con-
nebticut, most determined effort is
being made to capture the half dozen
agricultural states of the northwest,
which are usually found in the repub-
lican column. Chairman Brice of the
democratic committee expressed the
utmost confidence in the success of
the party in three or four of these
northwestern commonwealth. This
work is to be put in charge of u spe-
cial b-committee.
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TO ADVERTISERS.
r,o Free Press Recognized by Geo. p.
,h0 PoWeII & Co., as Ahead as an
Advertising Medium.

Tho well known advertising agency OF
60 Rowell IL Co. of New York City, have
,asued an annual Newspaper Directory for
,,h;rtv wears or more, and these publications
Saye been generally recognized as authority
nS N the matter of newspaper circulation.
1.-the regular issues Of the Directory they
Ia included all the newspapers published
~ u" ,Se United States and Canada. Quite
saoontly. however, they have issued con-
sonsed list. It gives only tho best newspa-
uers "a advertising mediums, and hence is
pprsctically better, because more convenient,
han their larger Directory. Four-hfths OF
.ho newspapers of the United States are
,.r,ctcally counted out" by intelligent ad-
prsrtisers, who only want to know the best.
uonre the value of the work under notice.
TSs U nubishers in the preface we'll say:
..It sifts the wheat from the chaff. 1t di-
.oo,s the attention of an advertiser toward
n,ncrs which he should and ought to use,
and tends to intercept q portion of that pa
tronare @ which goes to publications which
.ost greatly in excess of any power to bene-
A. which they possess. 1t takes the general
nronnd, that the best Is the cheapest"
We need scarcely say that on this plan,
,ba FREE PpEss is given by this book (see
naoe 1881 as the advertising medium of San
Marcos and Hays county, it being Me onty
one on the list. We respectfully invite the
attention of advertisers, both at home and
abrond to this fact
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-09-13
Another Alleged Convert.

The Lafayette Courier printed
this item the other day:
''James Storms, OF Stockwell, an
old dyed-in-t -the-wool Democrat and
gallant old vet. of the heroic Seven
tieth Indiana, of which regiment Gen.
eral Harrison was the gallant head,
will support his old commander with
voice and ballot in the coming grand
charge on the old-time enemy, as he
valiantly supported him with bayo-
net and bullet in the grand and
bloody charges ut Resaca, Kennesaw
and Atlanta. Mr.. Storms was also
born and raised in the immediate
neighborhood with General Harrison,
and has always highly esteemed him
as citizen and statesman, as well as
soldier
Referring to the above, Mr.. Storms
writes the Lafayette Journal as fol-
lows:
81 want to say that this statement
is totally false and was printed with
out my knowledge or consent. !
hereby request the Courier to print
it's authority for making such state
ment. I was o soldier and fought
with General Harrison for three
years. I quote his military title be.
cause he entered the army colonel;
came home with q colonel's shoulder
straps, and drew only colonel's pay
while in the service. He was breveted
brigadier general after the war was
over. Harrison was not popular with
his soldiers, being proud, overbearing
and very selfish in his disposition.
am democrat and shall vote for
Cleveland and Thurman, Every fair
minded soldier must admit that the
soldier has Jared as we'll at the hands
OF this administration as under any
administrator since the war. 7 am
farmer and know the democratic party
is the farmers friend. Believing that
the interests of the entire country
demand the triumph of democracy,
remain, yours truly,
JAMES A. STORMS,
Stockwell, Ind, Aug %.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-09-13

NUMBER 81.
Campaign Folly,

What contrasts the public men OF
America exhibit in their relation 10
party affairs. Washington never
made set speech. Jefferson, when
nominated for president, retired TO
his home, and declined to even write
letters, fearing they might be used
TO influence voters. The same was
true of Madison, Monroe, Jackson,
Van Buren, and, indeed, Of oil presi-
dents up to 1910. They held the
dignity OF tho place above the tricks
of partisans. At q later date we have
Cleveland, Governor of New York,
refusing to leave the executive office,
or make speeches, or write letters.
He made dignity superior to ambi-
tion in 1884, just rs he is now doing
in 1888. He stands by his great
trust, declines even needed relaxa-
tion, does no travelling about, makes
no speeches, entertains no politi-
clans, or INDUCES in correspond
ence. The dignity and decency Of
republican government is carefully
preserved.
Clay and Harrison were first to set
the bad example of itinerant and
roaming candidates. -Four years ago
Blaine, in q magnificent palace COR,
rushed over the land, making frantic
appeals at o, cry station, and prom.
ises on his return q repetition this
season for the modern Harrison. He
is now at home receiving brigades
of office beggars, who are rushing
down on him like famished wolves on
a carcass, each with little postoffice
route agency or.something similar in
his eye. The usual dose of fiatu.
lence is administered to each fresh
swarm. All are told how he loves
the laboring man, 80 much 30 that
he is Mortified that any one should
want to reduce part of their taxes.
1t does him good to see the sponta-
neous outpourings of the people,
furnished with free passes, multiplied
in number by the addition OF cipher
or two by the reporter, and all pant
ing with the enthusiasm of new
sensation. His speeches arc pre-
pared ahead of time. He may 60
out rs show with Blaine in due sea-
son. But it would not pay'-Mil-
waukue Journal.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-09-13
Is IL Right

Is it right to build churches to save
men and license shops that destroy
them?
Is it right to license q man to sci
that which makes man drunk anC
then punish a man for being drunk?
Is it right to license man to make
paupers and then tax sober men tc
take care of them?
Is 1t right to license q drink shop
to teach vice and then tax people fol
schools to teach virtue.
Is it right to derive n revenue out
OF traffic which no decent man de-
fcndsl
Is it right to teach your boy not to
drink and then vote to license place
where he may be taught to drinki
Is it right to teach your boy to be
honest and then vote to license place
where he may be taught to gamble'
Is it right to toaoh a boy to restrain
his passions and then vote to license
a place where his worst passions will
be inhamedl
Is it right to take care of your own
boy and vote TO license place which
will ruin your neighbours boy?
Is it right to preach justice and
charity and then vote TO license q
thing which robs the widows and or
phans Of their breadl
Is it right for you to go to the polls
and vote without having having stud
led this thing seriously and carefuilyi
-Casselton Blizzard.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-09-13
Ayers SarsapariIIa,
PREPARED BY
DR.. J. c. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Druggists. Price 81; six bottles, $s
A Good Medicine Which every Family
Should be Provided With.

There Is no medicine so often needed
in every household as good reliable
liniment such as Chamberlain's Pain
Balm. Hardly week passes but some
member of the family has need OF il
for some ailment. A toothache OF
headache may be cured by it. A touch
of rheumatism or neuralgia quieted
The severe pain of burn or scald
promptly relieved, and the sore healed
In much less time than when medicine
has to be sent for. A sprain may be
promptly treated before inflammation
sets In, which insures cure in about
one third of the time otherwise re-
quired. Cuts and bruises should re.
ceive immediate treatment before tho
parts become swollen, which can only
be done when the Pain Balm Is kept on
hand, A sore throat may be cured be.
fore it becomes serious. A trouble.
some corn may be removed by apply
ing 1t twice day for week or two.
Ouinsey and glandular swellings may
be suppressed before matter has begun
to form in them. Boils are often the
result of an injury and may be prevent
ed by timely treatment. A lame back
NAV be cured and several days of valu.
able time saved. A pain in the side or
chest relieved without paying doctor
bill. When so much pain and suffering
may be saved by the trivial outlay OF
Fifty cents, it is certainly surprising that
any family would do without such a
remedy. The fact is, few of those who
have used Chamberlain's Pain Balm are
willing to be without it.
A Kansas City travelling man says
Cham berlain's Pain Balm enables, him
to earn 81 200 per year. 1t cured him
of neuralgix with which he had been an
almost constant sufferer.
A. H. Elliott oS South Cedar, Kansas,
SAYS: "My father Sho lives near me
was thrown from b'>gSr, and nearly
killed, Chamberlain's Pain Balm saved
his life"
Mr.. VIM. Wcstlake, prominent
farmer and stock raiser near Avoca,
Neb., was so badly injured by being
thrown from sulky, that he could not
raise his hand to his head, by using
Chamberlain's Pain Balm, he entirely
recovered tho use of his arm in two
weeks time, which enabled him to ex.
hibit bis stud of horses at the fair and
they took the first premium.
L. 0. Birmingham Of New Boston
III. sprained his back so badly that he
could not cut off a stick OF wood,
Chamberlain Pain Balm CURED him In
one day.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-09-13
How Homes are Wrecked.

A brief disprtch in yesterday'f
Daily News throws another high
light on a social evil which, while it
works untold misery, is almost en-
tirely disregarded or ignored. A
prominent citizen of Kansas City ap.
plies for divorce from his wife and
the mother of his children-on the
ground of confirmed and incurable
drunkenness. The unfortunate wo-
man admits the justice of the action,
and only pleads in extenuation that
she contracted the love for liquor
by taking it at first as medicine.
The physician who SO prescribed
it has heavy account to render at
some bar, either here or hereafter.
And there are numbers of Others
equally culpable in every community.
Here in Chicago hundreds of homes
have been desolated through this
medical crime, which is not limited
to prescribing whisky, but all forms
of stimulants and intoxicants-either
chloral, hasheesh, morphine, bro
midia, etc.
The dipsomaniac is bad enough,
but the slave of the opium habit or
chloral is infinitely worse. There Is
nothing too degrading, no trick or
art which human ingenuity can invent,
no crime, even, too monstrous, to
which the devotees of these internal
drugs will not resort to obtain the
stimulant, narcotic or intoxicant,
And in immensely the greater proper
ton they have been led to their ter
rible fate by the prescription of the
family doctor.
A writer in the September number
of the Popular Science Monthly, de-
scribing how the opium habit is ac-
quired, suggests certain means of
preventing the spread of that form
of this social evil. We would extend
his suggestion SO as to include alco-
holic liquor, as well as opium, and re-
qulre that no prescription calling for
any of these agents should be filled
more than once by druggist without
having the physician specifically re-
new the prescription. This would
undoubtedly do much to check the
spread OF these enslaving and insidu-
GUS habits.-Chicago News.
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coI mot included IN the ADORE last, .tur-
nished at propOrtiOnate rates, or or
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free of charge and postage prepaid I"
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The many losses caused BY fSIlares. robbery OF
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Iy necessary to send considerable sums by pOs'A'
order, registered letter or drsh.
Tbs safe arrival Of all PUBLICATIONS guarantees
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nubIister has been oais
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-09-13
Too Late in the Day.

AS we have passed the day when
the American people can longer
be humbugged by the plea that the
tariff is necessary for the encourage
ment of "infant industries" the pop
ular dodge to-day is to assert that
protection is necessary for the indus.
try and protection ofAmerican labor.
If we ask how this can be we are told
that the tariff encourages the pro-
tected industry, and these protected
industries encourage the unprotected
industries; that protection bnilds up
the factory and iron furnace, the fac.
tory and iron furnace give employ
ment to workingmen and create de-
mand for the farmers productions.
A grrphic illustration of how this
plea works is given by Henry George
in one of his recent works. He says;
"Imagine village of say hun
dred voters. Imagine two of the vii
layers to make such proposition as
this: 'We are desirous, fellow citi-
zens, of seeing you more prosperous
and to that end we propose this plan:
Give us the privilege of collecting q
tax OF five cents day from every one
in the village. No one will feel the
tax much, for, even to man with
wife and eight children it will only
come to the paltry sum of fifty cents
day. Yet this slight tax will give
our village two rich citizens who can
afford to spend money. We will at
once begin to live in commensurate
style, We will enlarge our houses
and improve our grounds, set up car
riages, hire servants, give parties and
buy much more freely at the stores.
This will make trade brisk and cause
great demand for labor This in
turn will create greater demand for
agricultural productions, which will
enable the neighboring farmers TO
make greater demand for store goods
and the labor OF of mechanics. Thus
shall we all become prosperous.
There is in no country under the
sun a village IN which the people
would listen to such a proposition,
yet il is every whit as plusible rs the
doctrine that encouraging some in
dustries encourages all industries. OF
that tariff for the benefit of the
manufacturers benefits the working
men or farmers. Tho only effect it
has is to increase the cost Of their
living.-San Antonio Times.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-09-13

United States Marshal John L
Rankin arrested recently in Hays
county, one ]. ". jenkins, a notori
Gus counterfeiter, who is wanted at
Louisville Kentucky. The Marshal
had been corresponding for some
time with the United States Marshal
at Louisville in regard to jenkins,
bat was unable to locate his man until
very recently. When he arrested
jenkins he claimed that he was not
the man wanted, but upon examin'
ing his house and private papers the
Marshal found an abundance Of ties
timony going to prove that he had
the right man. jenkins had settled
in the country about twelve miles
from San Marcos and was masquera-
ding as a preacher. The Marshal
left with his prisoner for Louisville
Lagrange Journal
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CHURCH ES

notwithstanding at the Methodist
Church every sabbath, Rev. ". II. H. Bggs' Pastor
sunday School at Q a.. m. Singing at O'CLOCK p m
Prayer Meeting on wednesday. Young Mems pray
er meeting on Monday night.
BAPTIsT.-Prssching st the Baptist Churen
every SUNDAY. Rev. W. n. Beverley, pastor
Sunday School at ESQ q. m. Young mems prayer
meeting Tuesday night. Congregational prayer
meeting Wednesday night.
PREsBYTERlAE.-Servie And aud 4th Sundays
each month. pastor. sunday
School every Sabbath at $50 an. PRAYER Meet.
Ing every Thursday At 1850 p, m. All are invited
70 attend.
CHRlsTIAS.-Elder Pastor
Sunday school Al IN. A eordisl sngitAtion eT-
tended 70 all
PROTESTANT EPIscoP AL.--Rev.J ] Galbreath,
Pastor. Services the and and 9th sundAya 10 eaen
month sunday school evsrF Sunday.
CATHOLIC. Ath Sunday in each month.
rev Fsther smith Pastor.
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BoiIs and CarbuncIes,

which defy ordinary treatment, yield to
Ayers Sarsaparilla after comparative
ly brief trial.
Mr.. c. X. Murray, Of Charlottesville.
Va, writes that for years he was af-
flicted with boils which caused him
much suffering. These were succeeded
by carbuncles, OF which he had several
at one time. He then began the use OF
Ayers Sarsaparilla, and after taking
three bottles, the carbuncles disap-
peared, and for six years he has not had
even pimple.
That insidious disease, ScrOfula, Is
the fruitful cause OF innumerable COM
plants, Consumption being only one OF
many equally fatal. Eruptions, ulcers,
sore eyes, glandular swellings, weak
and wasted muscles, capricious appe-
tite, and the like, are pretty sure indi-
cations of scrofulous taint in the
system. Many otherwise beautiful faces
are dishgured by pimples, eruptions,
and unsightly blotches, which arise
from impure blood, showing the need of
Ayers Sarsaparilla to remedy the evil.
All sufferers from blood disorders
should give Ayers Sarsaparilla fair
trial, ~ avoiding all powders, ointments,
and washes, and especially cheap anu
worthless compounds, which not only
fail to effect cure, but more frequently
aggravate and confirm the diseases they
are fraudulently advertised to remedy.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-09-13
Five Thousand Dollars . Day.
TDenver News. |

II I had five thousand day. Jimmy Blaine
Like Carnegie smelling with cash,
I'd shout for Protection for him and for me
Till nay eyeballs broke out in rash.
I'd build castles in Scotland instead of ''il
SPAIN"
Drive landaus instead of a dray-
Oh, I'd make angels weep at the swell
would cut,
If had FIVE thousand day.
II had five thousand day, Jimmy Blaine
I'd buy up the organs and sing
OF the blessing Big Taxes bring Labor, ant
roar,
Whilst spread eagles had half wing;
No "strikes" and no "lock outs"-no sixty
cent miners
Would spoil with their disoord my lay
I'd make High Tariff beat Heaven in glory
If had five thousand day.