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the first time that autographed tax re-
celpts have done good work for the Re-
publican party of Wilmington.

P''' ~ VI W umlugUOn.
John G. Gooden pays his commit.
ments to the Smyrna Record and Dover
Index in the DeIdwaredn:
The Hyperion curl stands ont :,
bold relief in the lines of that editor;ai
and no subterfuge of lies will avail -
divert public attention from that foot
The owners and editors of the 49,,
had not the nerve, the nanliness ~
come out in their own personal or,o' ~
ouy must needs hire this scuIIerv sEeef
anu sheaklng under the mantle Of the
young man of the Record. who has mo
reputation to lose, vent their snIean
upon those whom they dare not oPenI,,
assall through their own organ
Inc owners and editors ofthe L,5or
Ie3u dual life-another case of Dr.
Jekyli and Mr., Hyde. In their own
organ the Inder, they pose as DR. L. a.
kyll ;-suave,. grand. majestic oG,bIo
mentioned, so high that they cannot
descend, so they informed US in the
preliminary number of their paner 70
throwing mud or doing ANYTIME ibot
would nauseate or create a revulsion of
stomach IN the popular esteem q no
"HiIe souls spotless shirt fronts
In The Smyrna Record the annav
ana smnt-machine of the Jader thai,
assume the character of Mr.. HYDE =
mean mean' misery, murderous given to
sehSnaIIty, vulgarity, despicabilitv -
mean ana contemplate in politics in
morals and in religion" -
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The time for the National Conven-
tions of both of the great parties
when they meet to formulate their
platform Of principles and choose their
Presidential candidates, has been fixed.
the Democrats the 9TH of June at
st. Louis and the Republicans the 10Th
ofthe same month at Chicago. The
first thing in order will be the choosing
of the Delegates in the different states.
Delaware will most likely chose hers
in May.
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NEW WHEAT
MARRIAGES.

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Public Sale.

On Friday, March 2d.-Stock, Farm
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near Bear Station. w. J. Lank, Auc-
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NOTICE.

9 The farmers of the neighborhood of
smyrna will please meet at the Smyrna
Creamery on Saturday afternoon next, to
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NOTICE.

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against me will also present them to him
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GRAIN.
OFFICE OF

Philadelphia ! Smyrna Transportation :,aasr.
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For Dry Goods go to Cranor & Co.
62l Market street, Wilmington.
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Moving Day.

Tomorrow, March LIST, will be NOV
ing day for this part of Delaware.
There are probably about the usual
number OF changes in town but hardly
so many in country as usual
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16
The Danew Room.

The Depew boom is one of the most curl
Gus developments of the Presidential can
vass to date. To propose for the highest
Office In the land man devoid of expert
ence in lower offices would be of itself suf-
ficently odd, but TO propose such man
when he is the head of a great corporation,
in the present temper of the public mind,
almost passes comprehension. 1t is an
illustration of the purely material view
which the Blaine craze has produced, that
this very fact of his prominence as a cor.
poration representative is brought forward
by some of his advocates as a proof of his
strength, says the New York Evening Post.
Said one of the most prominent among the
younger class of Republican managers in
this city not long ago, after expressing his
own desire and expectation that Blaine
would be nominated, despite his letter OF
declination:
If Blaine is not nominated, Chauncey M.
Depew would be the best candidate. He
would have all the great corporations of the
country on his side, and that alone would
elect him" 1t would do the victims of this
astonishing delusion world of good to mix
among the "plaiu people, a little, and find
out what they think about this way OF
reaching the Presidency. The Minneapolis
Journal, a Minnesota Republican paper, says
that one of the Depew boomers, who recent
ly went to the Northwest from Albany, has
''retired considerably discouraged by his ex-
perience." The reason is thus stated by the
Journal: "Mr. Depew is doubtless very
honorable man in his personal and business
relations, but every railroad corporation,
every trust every stock exchange, every
coal baron, and every friend of monopoly Of
every kind in the country, would be ar
rayed in his support 1t would hardly do to
expect the people of the West to flock very
eagerly or very numerously to such stand.
ard"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16
MISSION OF DEMOCRACY.

Judge ThOman's Speech at the Recent
Banquet of the Iriquois Club I'm Chi
cago-A Mastery Presentation OF Demo-
cratic Principles.
Politics, as an institution of government,
has no promise or hope of a future unless
It's underlying principles are such that in-
sure stability and confidence under all exi-
gencles. The American scheme of govern
ment was so firmly planted that hundred
years have failed to change II; but its
strength and perpetuity, as a political sys-
TEN, are due to the wisdom, patriotism and
craftsmanship of Thomas jefferson. No
one doubts but that Hamilton and Adams
were sincere and honest in their opinions;
but time has demonstrated the fact that, if
their views had prevailed in the establish
ment OF the government, it would have
made US " the mere remnant of a nominal
independence"
Politics hundred years ago, as now,
was the arm of support and protec-
ton Of our Republic. There was we'll
established line of demarcation between
the Jefferson Republican and the Hamilton
Federalist, and all that we are to-day in
strength, grandeur and magniicence is due
to the fact that we have followed closely the
precepts of the father of Democracy 1t is
not the nursing of traditional sentiments, if
they are right, which causes retrogression,
for a fundamental principle is the index
and the fixed point from which progress
makes her start. The mariner sees q new
star by which he may guide his course, but
he never loses sight of the well-established
and reliable guides Of the armament. The
explorer may find a new passage into the
North Sea, but he does not destroy the
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16
Tho President and the Tariff.

The Presidents message was a strong
and earnest plea for the reduction of taxa
tion. The Treasury has accumulated and
continues to accumulate more money than
the Government needs, and Congress is
under constant temptation to squander the
growing surplus. In this connection the
President said; sit is not expected that
unnecessary and extravagant appropriations
will be made for the purpose of avoiding the
accumulation Of an excess of revenue Such
expenditure, besides the decentralization of
all just conceptions of public duty which it
entails, stimulates a habit Of reckless i'm
providence not in the least consistent with
the mission of our people or the high and
beneticent purposes of our Government"
The habit is almost fixed. The current
Congress has not yet passed appropriation
bills, but there is reason to believe that the
aggregate will prove to be excessive, as the
demand for every variety Of expenditure,
asserted with astonishing confidence, has
been unprecedented. A growing surplus is
a continuing temptation to extravaganza.
The need of tax reduction is not seriously
disputed. The method by which that desira-
bic end shall be attained is in controversy.
Thoughtful people agree with the President
that the internal-revenue taxes levied upon
the consumption of tobacco and spirituous
and malt liquors ought not to be disturbed
These articles are not absolutely necessa-
ries, and they can well bear the burden of
taxation. But the proponents of a continu-
ously high tariff, excessive now as it has
been for many years, and yielding for the
support of the Government only the money
collected at the custom-houses, while en-
abling domestic manufacturers to levy tolls
in their own behalf, are desirous that the
internal taxes shall be abolished as a means
of continuing their own special privileges
Dispose of the hundreds of millions of rev.
enue from this source, encourage Congress
sional expenditure, and the extra-offi-
cial bureau of oftaxation may be enabled for
the present at least to continue its raids
upon the consumers of the country. The
President recommending the retention of
the internal-revenue taxes would secure re-
duction of custom-house taxation, the taxa
ton imposed under tariff laws.-Chica7o
Times
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16
Some samnIs vatn.a

The Chicago Herald calls attention tn
copies of three veto messages by the Pres
ldent. These give fresh examples of tho
haste and waste of Congress in trying IN
get shut of a surplus which is needed in the
pockets of the Federal taxpayers-tbe
whole people.
The first case is that OF William H. Broker
shaw, who was drafted after the battle of
Five Forks. He Z" "fought'' till June 30
three months-or three months after tho
war was over. The day he reached the rem
devious at jackson, Mich, he was hurt I'm
scufiie. Eighteen years afterwards ne
had the happy thought OF asking for a pen
sion. The Pension Bureau refused it. Con-
gress grants it. The President vetoes il.
The second is the case Of Morris z. Man
tos. 1t has had three examinations by the
Pension Office-in 1882, 1883 and 1885. The
applicant attempted to influence witnesses
so the President says he is informed The
applicant has no trouble with his eyes that
has not been lifelong. The President yctoes
the act OF Congress because, In his judg-
ment, the claim lacks merit.
The third case is that of Hannah C. De-
Witt. The reasons which prompted the
President to this veto are brief, but to the
point. The act of which this is a duplicate
was already passed and.approved before its
present appearance at the Executive Man
sion- The pensioncr has been on the rolls
some months.
1t is this kind Of checlzing-off which a
profigate Congress demands Of the Chief
Executive. These are not vetoes-they are
merely locking of the doors Of the Treas
ury at night. What moral right has Con-
gress TO frltter away its time with these
wicked interferencesi Can not the Pen
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16
Democrats In Illinois.

IL tue Democratic party is ever to con-
vert Illinois to that political belief this
autumn seems the accepted time, says the
Bloomington Ly. In this State every
thing seems favorable to a political revo-
luton that shall carry the majority of
the voters over into the Democratic camp.
The great prestige of being in power is
with the Democrats, with the chances of
carrying the large floating vote that goes
with the tide The post-offices and other
Fedezal offices, conceded to be a great
engine for the conversion of voters when
properly manipulated, have been in charge
of Democrats. There are serious ruptures
in the Republican party of several of the
strongest counties which can not be
healed without leaving ugly scars. Nei-
ther the Republican candidate for President
nor Vice-President are likely to come from
this State.
The fight for the Republican Guberna
torial nomination has been and is becoming
SO intensely personal that numbers of the
defeated warriors will be tempted to 90 IN
their tents and stay there while the general
conflict is on. The extravaganza of Rcpub-
hcan management of State affairs now be-
ing exposed will be factor in aiding Dem
ocratlc ascendancy.
The greatest blow, however, to the Re
publicans in their effort to hold the organ
Hation intact is the loss of the lamented
General Logan and his clarion voice from
the stumb. John A. Logan's advocacy of
Republican principles was worth ten thou
sand votes to his party. A substitute for
that gallant leader can not be found in the
State.
Accepting these observations to be cor
rect the Republicans of Illinois will go into
the Presidential campaign at great disad-
vantage, and if the Democrats ever had a
tangible chance to win it is offered this
year.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16
A Compliment to Cleveland.

From far-off Oregon there comes a CRY of
regret that President Cleveland should
aspireto more economical Government.
The bill of the Ways and Means Committee
TO reduce taxation from 67 per cent. TO 45
per cent. Is marked as q bad and deceitful
prescription of legislation. 1--WE deprecate
this attempt of the Democratic Administra-
ton $50 rolls this Oregon, and hears no
sound save its own dashing.
what honest man sits IN the uppermost
room at this feast of Republicans in Ultima
Ihules Whom else can it be but Landaulet
Williams, one whom an evil fate once placed
In great political regard at Washington:
one whom kinder Providence black-ballcd
when his name was offered to fill the seat
OF Marshall, Jay, Taney and Salmon p.
Chase
He who officiated in the golden temple of
the second term, who thought salary grabs
and Santo Domingo, Pacific Mail and Credit
Mobllier were about the right ideas of ad
mlnlstration, this forgotten quantity in self
government resolves that the Presidents
policy and idea that tariff tax is robbery of
the people constitutes a piece of unpar-
alleled political dishonesty, having for solo
object the success of the Democratic party
at the next election"
Coming from Landaulet Williams this ar
rlgnment of the President for desiring or ex-
pecting to gain a reelection through salts
factory Legislation must strike all impartial
judges as one of tho most notable compli-
ments Mr.. Cleveland has received. Chicago
Herald
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16
Degraded Ohio Republicans

The Re publicans of Ohio have once again
Endorsed John Sherman as a candidate
for the Presidency. Once again the dele
gates to the National convention are known
to be favorable to somebody else
From q gathering guilty of such manifest
insincerity as this a platform like that
adopted at Dayton was to have been expect
ed. 1t may truthfully be said that not a
proposition contained in that deliverance is
more honest than the attitude of the party
relative to Sherman As the Endorsement
of the Senator is intended to deceive people
elsewhere, so the declarations embodied in
the platform are devised with the idea of
bamboozling the voter. There is not an
honest idea in the entire production.
Presided over in its temporary organiza-
ton by the discarded and discredited Keifcr,
playing false to the greatest Ohio Republic
an since Chase, and adopting, with loud
blare of trumpets, platform noticeable
chiefly for its cheap plays on words, the
Dayton convention has not been a gathering
creditable to any body or any thing
e0oo Herald
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16
AIgor to the Rescue.

And has it come to this in eight short
years that Michigan, which, according to
Roscoe Conkling in 1880, any Republican
could carry, is not safe from the Don Dick
inson conspiracy to seize it unless Algcr
shall be made the Republican Presidential
candidate! So, indeed, it would seem if
veracity may be predicated of the voice of
an organ The leading Republican journal
OIL the State AYERS, says the Chicago Times.
that 1T is just as important to retain
Michigan in the Republican column as it is
TO win back New Jersey or Indiana. The
way TO do this is TO select Michigan's candi-
date as the nominee of the party for Pres
ident. With General Alger as the candidate
there would be no doubt about Michigan
And If Alger is not tho candidate Don
Dickinson may seize the State and overturn
its Republican form of government. AS
Alger saves Michigan, so Rusk would save
wisconsin. And there appears to be no
body at all to save Minnesota. These be
perilous times. With nobody more formi-
bic to hurl into the breach than an Algor
or a Rusk, there is danger that the con-
spiracy OF the people to maintain their seiz-
ure of the Government may succeed. Here
after we may look forward to nothing moro
inviting than chaos and reduction of tax
es. Ii Alger, now, were only larger man,
the country might be saved from the igno-
miny OF a smaller tax rate.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16
As Corrupt as Ever.

1t can not be said that the Republican or
ganization has been making progress since
it began to look to Ohio for leadership. In
fact, Its reactionary tendency and the
loosening Of its hold on public confidence
dates almost exactly from that time. Its
earlier financial policy, says the New York
Time, was marred and disfgured by the in
huence OF the Ohio ldea,r and Ohio has
been the stronghold of sectional bitterness.
IL appears now as the first great State in
which the Republicans absolutely refuse to
recognize the necessity Of reform in the
tariff or, indeed, in any direction, except in
the regulation Of the suffrage in some other
State. OHIO, in short, has come to stand for
the least promising tendencies Of the Re-
publican party.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16

Ar- Moody told one of his large audiences
IN LOUISVILLE that man came TO him to get
ald Tor charity in which he was in
.efested- DE said that he mad heard that Mr.
Moody was getting sl00 a night. Rfr. Mooiv
told him that If he got 500 night he would
give q Geo TO his charity. Mr. Moody went
on TO say TO the audience that he was not
after money He said: "You needn't pay
me a penny il you don't want to. If YOU
can ind any committee either IN Europe or
america that ever got my services by offer
mg money III give 81 900 to you God de-
1yered me from love OF money when he
took me from my business. have my fail
mgs but thank God, 1t is not love Of money.
we want you, not yours We want your
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16
SHERMAN,s DEFEATS.
a Long Record of Them-His Persistent
Efforts to Gain the Presidency In Former

a Long Record Of Them-His Persistent
Efforts to Gain the Presidency In Former
Years.
1t seems little less than cruelty for the
New York Tunes TO give resume of John
Sherman's Intellectual attempts to lift him
self into the Presidency by his boot-straps.
But when honest John causes the report to
be sent out from Washington that he has
advices assuring him OF 3l2 votes out of
necessary al in the Chicago convention. it
may be well to recall that we have heard
the like before. While John was Secretary
OF the Treasury, and leading spirit of the
Hayes Administration, says the Chicago
NelOS, he set up as pretty an array of pins
for the Presidency as ever adorned politi-
cal alley. He used the custom houses and
internal revenue officials all over the land
TO force the selection Of Sherman delegates
IN the Chicago convention of 1880
While he was attracting general atten-
ton to his shrewd financial policy he was
lubricatmg the delegate machinery in vari-
Gus States with promises of favors to be
bestowed when he entered the White
House. Especially in the Southern States,
whence no Republican electoral vote could
De expected to come, promises for those
who could be so influenced, and threats for
recalCitrant Republicans fell thick and fast.
When the first ballot was taken in that
memorable convention, Sherman's hopes
were quickly dissipated. He had mustered
93 votes, 81 of which came from Ohio, and
the remainder principally from the South.
His vote ran up to 119 on the thirty-second
ballot, and then the desertions to Garfield
began.
With the defeat of 1880 Sherman's chances
OF ever reaching the Presidency became
practically nil. If, with the patronage and
power Of the Treasury and the Administrs-
ton at his command, he could not develope
more strength than he did, what could he
hope without these advantagesa In 1884 he
was indiscreet enough to test his strength
again. Outside of Ohio he managed to get
Just five votes, and as his own State only gave
hum % OF its Al, he was able to make the
magnificent showing of 80 in total of $40
delegates.
To any other candidate than Sherman
this would have been discouraging. But he
only spit on his hands, took fresh hold on
Ohio, and started Immediately for the race
of 1888. Being somewhat crippled by his
encounters with the two preceding conven-
tlons, he thought it wise to get long start
His emissaries have been all over the
South scattering fresh promises among the
Republicans, who are hungering for the
restoration of their party for the sake of
the offices. Sherman has the advantage of
knowing just where to touch the Flanagans
of the South.
Unfortunately for Mr.. Sherman there is
one popularity of the Flanagans, whether
they hail from the South or the messy banks
of the beautiful blue Miami canal, they go
where there is the best prospect of loaves
and fishes. So they abandoned Sherman
for Garfield in 1880; so they deserted Arthur
for Blaine in 1884; and so they will leave
Sherman in ba 1,Y,.c
whoever may be most likely to carry the
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16
An Old-Time Jubilee.

The first great papal jubilee which VIC read
Oh was celebrated by Pope Boniface VIII.
S.ne magnanImous sinner, as he is called in
nistory), IN the year 1900. The pilgrims who
came that year amounted to 100000, and
eye-witnesses state that the crowds were so
great in the streets of Rome that lots of
people were trodden to death, and to avoid
greater accidents the Saint Angelo bridge
was divided in halves, lengthwise, so as to
separate those who went to Saint Peters
and those who returned from it, The his
torlan Niliani, who lived at that time, saws
that the money collectors at Saint Peters
mad TO rake up the money which the pilgrims
gave during the mass, and this collection
amounted to $1,000 gold forms (ailin copper
1iecesA IT.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16
rlgurin- ON hn r.nturn.

1 saw an Illustration of pathos on the
hard pan, today, said GIilispoon to Daily
w-'g, as taey hing their clothes on the hat
rack then entered the dining-room for din
w hat wss itsr
passed. yca en- Clark street where you
stood shiyerinS in your summer clothes and
ioos&ng CT tae warm, handsome, marked
down winter styles in fashionable tailor's
window"
mere was nothing pathetic about that
mere wouldn't have been only youwere
genuy whistling, In the Sweet By and