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Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-09-25
ZaCO Curiosity Shop.


The Waco Curiosity Shop is at 7O7
and III Austin street. The Waco Gu
rlosity Shop is the place to buy and
sell all kinds of secondhand goods.
They carry full and complete stock
of furniture, stoves, lamps glassware,
trunks, sewing machines, and nearly
every M ticle needed for housekeeping.
1t is the place that never tries TO hum
bug the people with so-called Cost
Sales, Moving Sales, or other devices
to deceive. 1t is the place where they
can and do sell goods at Il fair profit
so that there is no accumulation of old
time-worn goods. 1t is the poor mans
friend. The Curiosity Shop was start
ed less than three years ago with less
than small fortune, and II good name.
Since then it has sold nearly S12O,OOO
worth of goods. 1t has helped hum
dreds of people to furnish their homes
when they could not do so in any 9TH
er way. 1t has continued to grow,
make friends and prosper as no other
house in Waco ever did with same
capital.
Now let me tell you what the Curl
osity Shop is going to do. 1t is going
to have the best stock of new stoves,
furniture, trunks and general house
hold goods it ever had. 1t is going to
meet all competition and lead it when
we can. 1t will make special low
prices in new cook and heating stoves
and in the future as In the past, try
to make as many friends as possible,
realizing that it is by our friends we
live. Thanking ali for past f;.vors
and our prosperity, we are as ever
Waco Curiosity Shop.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-09-25

If you want "a good meal or good
bed, go to the Brunswick on Frank
lin street. Everything is neat as a
pin and irst-class.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-09-25

LAY on McDuff, and damned he he
who first cries hold, enough"
Waco Curiosity Shop.
Pinch pigs tail and he will squeal.
Somebody's tail must have been badly
pinched. Waco Curiosity Shop for
bargains.
Lord. but such advice. Are you
badly hurt? Waco Curiosity Shop
for dishes.
Don't go to secondhand stores
Did you ever! The Curiosity Shop
for lamps.
Old or secondhand goods shelf
wornl ut the Curiosity shop.
L mean what / say. Good second
hand goods are much better than poor
quality Of shelf-worn goods, and far
cheaper. The Curiosity Shop for
chamber sets.
Would have no trout BILE passing most
of that fresh stock, as secondhand
goods.
How the bird tlutters; must be bad
ly hurt.
Goods at the Curiosity Shop are sold
as second hand when they begin to
get shop-worn.
To defy competition is one thing, to
meet it squarely and bravely is an
other. Tell the truth and shame the
devil.
Can goods that are s or 10 years old
be new and fresh:
The Curiosity Shop sold more stoves
at retail during the last fourteen
months than any two stove houses in
Waco.
If there is anyone in Waco that has
any new goods to sell at secondhand
prices. the Curiosity Shop will buy
all that Is for sale.
To arrive in few days, a large stool
of kitchen, dining room and bed room
furniture. All will be sold low fol
cash or on enstallment.
Waco Curiosity Shop
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-09-25
CITY ITEMS.

Berwick Bay oysters, fresh, 25 cts.
per dozen at the st. Charles. Open
day and night.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-09-25
Removal.

Chas D'Andrea Il Son will remove their boot
and shoe shop from South Fifth Street to next
door east off, Jacobs. Taylor shop ON Austin
street.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-09-25

For first class Photos OF all styles,
call on Deane. Waco's high priced
Photographer. No cheap shoddy
work done.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-09-25
WACO. TEX AS. SEPTEMBER %. ISIS
To Cotton buyers.

Go to or telephone r. d. Hays at Waco Bull
ding Association. and insure your cotton.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-23

SATURDAY, JUNE %, 1888.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-23
The Freedmen's Bank.

Senator Sherman has introduced bill to
appropriate 81 200, 900 to reimburse the de-
positors of the Freedmen's Saving and Trust
Company, Washington, for losses sustained
by the failure of that institution. The Re-
publican managers of that bank robbed the
institution and ran away with the money, and
the taxpayers of the country are now asked to
make good the stolen deposits. What right
has Congress to vote away the peoples money
to supply what was stolen by these Republic
cen thieves? The Freedmen's Bank was
chartered by Congress, but that fact does not
make the United States Treasury responsible.
When the States gave charters to State Banks
that failed, the State Treasures were not re-
sponsible. Congress gave the institution its
life, but that was all. 1t was no: a govern
ment institution. Congress is i'll no way bound
to make good this theft, and if the depostors
were white people instead of negroes, there
would be no effort to pay this stolen money,
and the Republican party would be up in arms
against it. But, as the depositors were ne
groes, and as a Presidential election is COM
ing on, and the Republican party wants the
negro vote, this grab must be attempted.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-23
Democratic Success National
Necessity.

The New York Herald, in q leading edito-
rial in answer TO 0 correspondent touching the
claims of the two great political parties, says
''If we readily admit it to have been fortp-
nate that there was a Republican party in 1860,
we as confidently assert that its inability to
recognize the entire country since the surren-
der ut AppomattoK is national disaster.
The highest political as well as moral duty of
those days was to eight with all our might; of
these DAYS it is to forgive with all our might
and TO forget for the sake of the future. Tho
party of continued revenge may hope TO re-
gain power by an appeal to our prejudices and
fears, but the folly of endangering the peace
of the republic for the benefit of a few politi.
clans is only equaled by the crime Of leaving
an unsettled quarrel to the next generation.
s'Tbe SUCCESS of the Democratic party is
therefore o NATIONAL necessity. Its failure
under present circumstances would be o pa-
tional calamity 1t has fallen INTO some grave
blanders-wby deny it2-bnt its firm faith in
the unity of the country isthe salvation of the
country. If il sometimes goes too far in the
right direction we must still confess that this
is better than going too far in the wrong di,
rection. In treating tie South with magma
nimity, and thus welding the broken honda
of union that is to last for centuries, it does
credit 70 the memory of the noble dead and
carries to their legitimate results the victories
won by our veterans. Those died and these
fought for . union that should be imperish
able. II, therefore, Republican seotiopaiism
would destroy the fruits Of their laborz, it is
fortunate for the people that the Democratic
party has damned up the mad tide of hostility
and adopted as its policy No North No
South, No East, No West, the good of the
whole without prejudice TO any"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-23
Away With Monopoly.

Combinations of moneyed men for the pur-
pose of specializing in the necessaries of life
are unbearable. The people bear rule in this
country, and if they will but assert their
power, they can correct these abuses. "Who
would be free, himself must strike the blow. "
If the masses submit, they will become the
slaves of the money power, and will have
nothing left to them but to obey the behests of
their aristocratic masters. Let them petition
for the enactment of laws forbidding trusts
and all other monopolies for putting up the
prices of the necessaries of life, and controll-
ing markets so that these sbarpers can fill
their own Golfers at the expense of the public,
Make it felony, and punish it accordingly. 1t
is not one whit better than highway robbery,
and he who practices it should be treated as
a robber. Il is time for the people to take
ihis subject in hand, if they would be deliv
cred from these rapacious sharks.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-23
The Majority Must Rule.

Edward Cooper, of New York, Stillson
Hutchins, of Washington, and perhaps others
of similar way of thinking. while supporting
Mr.. Cleveland, object TO some parts OF the
Democratic platform. it is simply impossi-
BILE to formulate such an instrument to suit
the different shades of opinion in the minds
of all. The man who insists upon his own
peculiar notions, without concession to any
one, is an impracticable, and unfit for asso-
ciate action and agreement with other men,
If he cannot merge his own individuality into
the mass of those associated with him, he is
unfit for such association, and ought to go out
and form party by himself, where he would
find no opinion in conflict with his own. One
of the cardinal principles of the Democratic
party, as enunciated by Mr.. Jefferson, is
absolute acquiesence in the decision of the
majority, the vital principle of republics. !"
He who cannot accept the rule of the majority
is not Democrat, whatever else he may be.
His self.will and unyieliing opinions place
him without the pale ofthe Democracy, whose
corner stone is-the majority mustrtile. From
that there is no appeal, says Mr.. Jefferson,
but to force, the vital principle and immediate
parent of despotism."
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-23
Governor Gray on the Outlook in
Indiana.

Governor Gray, OF Indiana, was interview
ed in Indianapolis Saturday in regard to the
political outlook in that State. He saidi 81
shall aid in the organization of the Democratic
forces in this State with all the energy and
application am capable of. The fact that
was not the choice of the party for Vice. Pres
ident will have not the slightest effect upon
my actions. A mans private wishes ought
not to be placed before his party. made no
personal effort in my own behalf for the
vice. presidential nomination, solicited no del
egates and did no work for it. Our ticket
is strong one and the outlook is good. |
am not inclined to take roseate views of cleo
tons in Indiana until they are pas. and won.
1t is hard State TO carry, and whoever is led
into laziness by his hopes is unwise. The
impossibility of either party winning easily
can be no better shoyn than by the single
statement that in the last election 81 per cent.
of the States total vote was polled. That is
proportion which believe to be unpreee-
dented, and the percentage will not be far be-
hind this year. The name Of Thurman is O
strength with voters. The tariff question is
one of education, and Democrats, though
they have the right side of it, have the hard
side as we'll. Protection is word, the sound
of which appeals to voters self.interest. 1t
is an ABSTRACT term in which the Republicans
cloak fallacy, and the burden which falls
upon the Democracy in this campaign is that
we have to instruct the voter as to the real
meaning and the necessity of tariff reform"
Governor Gray Is cautions Father than enthu-
siastic. He says experience in elections has
taught him TO be So The Governor has re-
ceived from trusted friends in all localities
information as to the exact status of things in
their DISTRICTS, and it is said that he carries in
memory the actual vote, majorities, factional
differences, and different influences prevailing
in every district, county and town.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-23
Straws.

Three little incidents at the opening Of the
Republican National Convention at Chicago,
threw around it spice of novelty, at least,
and will serve to render it in some degree
notable First, a patriotic Wisconsin man
knocked down Republican for blowing his
nose on campaign handkerchief gotten up by
the Republicans, having the Stars and Stripes
in the centre, as an offset to the Thurman
bandana Secondly, the knock down and
melee that occurred in the Virginia delega-
ton, between the Wise and Malone men.
Thirdly, the irreverent applause inspired by
the opening prayer. These inauspieious be-
ginnings of the Chicago Convention foretoken
no good to the G. 0. P: which is believed to
be upon its last legs.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-23
Democracy and Labor.

The Democratic party, by its representa-,
tives in Congress, has placed itself in full
sympathy with the agricultural and labor ele-
ments of the country. Through the Commit
tee 90 Agriculture. and by and through the
indomitable energy Of its chairman, VIM. H.
Hatch, of Missouri, it has passed bill max
ing the Department of Agriculture an execu.
tive department, raising it to the dignity of
the first department of the Government.
Through the Committee on Labor and the
answering fidelity ofits chairman, Hon. Jno.
j. G'Neil, also of Missouri, it has made the
Bureau of Labor an independent department,
and will, 1t is expected, before the expiration
of the present Congress raise it to the dignity
of an executive department. This was the
work of the Democratic party in the interest
of the great laboring classes Of the country,
aud these classes are wise enough to know
and stand by the party that stands by them:
During the many years Of Republican control
no such measures we're enacted into laws, it
even formulated.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-23
Precept and Practice.

Precept and practice don't always agree.
"Protection to American Labor" shouts the
Republican Manufacturer and Miner, while
Chinese, Italians, Hungarians, and other
pauper labor of the old world is brought here
to compete with the American workingman,
because such labor can be had cheaper.
These foreign laborers will live on the crusts
fished from the slop-buckets of Americans,
and the wealthy monopolists don't care if the
American laborer is reduced to the same
level, SO that he can get his vote by shouting
"proteetion to American industry" But the
American mechanic and laboring man begins
to think for himself, and he will not fail to
see the fraud and deception which the Re-
publican high-tarif men are attempting to
practice upon him. He knows that tariff is
a tax, and that the buyer of taxed goods has
to pay the tax. That the tax laid upon goods
makes them higher, and instead of protecting
him it helps to hold his nose to the proverbial
grindstone of poverty and enhances the price
ofegerything he has to buy.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-23
Attention, Democrats.

A meeting will be held at the Court House
in Westminster on this Saturday evening at 3
o'clock, to organize Democratic Club, aux
iliary to the National League of Democratic
Clubs, which will hold a national convention
in Baltimore on the 4th of July next. Dele
gates will be appointed to represent the club
in that convention. The club will elect
president, vice president, recording and
corresponding secretary, treasurer and an
executive committee. Report of the organi'
cation to be made Immediately to 4. b;
Whitney, Secretary of the National League OF
Democratic Clubs, Baltimore, Nd.
The members of the League are pledged to
maintain Democratic principles and oppose
all class legislation; to labor for a reduction
of the tariff as laid down by the President IN
his last annual message; to support the civil
service policy of the present administration;
to oppose trusts and other monopolies; and,
as far as possible, to reclaim and preserve TO
the people of the United States their public
lands. In other words, the League supports
boldly and aggressively the present policy Of OF
the Democratic party. Each club of 100
members or less will be entitled to send hive
delegates to the National Leagues clubs OF
lOl to 800, seven delegates.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-23

The Republicans have not yet decided to
wipe their feet with the Stars and Stripes, but
they have decided to dishonor the flag by
wiping their noses upon it. This comes about
by causing pocket handkerchief to be man
ufaetured with the Stars and Stripes in the
centre of it, to offset the effect of Thurmans
bandana, which has been adopted by the
Democrats. A Wisconsin patriot knocked a
man down in Chicago for dishonoring the flag
by blowing his nose uponit This shows that
the Republicans hare Numbered in the very
opening of the campaign. They have run
against the rock of patriotic pride. They
have given cause of offence to the men who
are ready TO shed their blood in defence of
their country emblem, and who cannot stand
still when they see it dishonored.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-23

An unseemly and irreverent occurrence
took place at the opening of the Republican
National Convention at Chicago. While Rev.
Frank W. Gunsaulus was offering prayer, he
spoke of Gen. Sheridan as ''that great SOL
der, the captain of our armies" When the
prayer was ended, the word amen became
the signal for storm of hand clapping. 1t
surprised the little minister so that he turned
around to see what occasioned it.
The N. Y. Sun says he also informed the
Eternal Power that he was filled with graft
tude for the courage under which the ban
ners of the Republican party had gone forth
to conquest &c. We are happy to say that
no such partisan prayer was delivered on the
other side at the Democratic Convention in
st. Louis.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-23
A Bad Simile.

From the baltimore Erening Ne,cS.
Judge Thurston, the temporary chairman
of the Chicago convention, was not only I'M
fortunate in stamping upon the toes of the
Blaine men in his oratorical cavortings, but
pranced as recklessly upon the truth of his
tory. In his fine peroration he affectingly
described James, Earl of Douglas, as throw
ing the embalmed heart of Bruce among the
attaching Aoors, and following it to victory.
He said;
when Robert Bruce, King of Scotland,
lay upon his dying bed, he requested that his
heart should be taken from his inanimate
body and borne by knightly hands to the
Saviour's sepulchre. After his death James,
Earl of Douglas, undertook the sacred mis-
sion, and with the heart encased in a golden
casket set out upon his pilgrimage to the Holy
Land. On his way thither himself and com
rades were set upon by great host of Moorish
warriors. Though they fought with all the
valor of mortal men, they were borne back
ward By sheer forge of numbers, and their
overthrow seemed certain. when Douglas,
drawing from his bosom the priceless oasket,
cast it far out into the midst of the oneoming
hosts, and cried out: ''Lead on, heart of
Bruce, we follow theei'' and the knights of
Scotland, never defeated while following a
Bruce, pushed forward and won the day.
Let this convention find a Douglas for our
Bruce. He will take the soul of our great
leader into the golden casket of his love, and
with it lead us on to certain and splendid
victory
All of which sounded very well, but unfor-
tunately for it, history says that Jameg Doug.
las was killed by the Moors and the relic was
returned, since barbarians did not set much
store even by such king of hearts, and it
was afterwards buried with Bruce's body in
Melrose Abbey. The smile was a misft for,
If the convention should find Douglas to
ttake the soul of our great leader into the
golden casket of his love- as the original
Douglas did the heart of Bruce the fanatical
Democrats, like the cruel Moors, may fall
upon Douglas and his casket, defeating and
Staying him in the battle, preventing the sem
balmed soul'' from reaching the Holy Land
of the Presidency and compelling it to be
buried with its owner in the State from which
ambitiously started. Judge Thurston may be
well up in railroad law, he is little loose in
his history.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-23

On Tuesday the Democrats of York county,
Pa, held their convention, and passed reso-
lutions indorsing Cleveland and Thurman and
the platform, also asking Congress to pass the
Mills tariff bill. Hon. Levi Maish was unan-
imously renominated for Congress, l. c. Del
lone, of Hanover, J. L. Shillite, of Warning
ton, NJ. J. McKinnon, of York, and Fl. A.
Haines, of Windsor, for the Legislature.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-23

Obstructing legislation by refusing to vote,
leaving the House without a quorum, is the
game which the Republicans have been play
ing on the tariff BILL If the Republicans had
the majority in the House and the Democrats
resorted to similar tactics, they would be
squelched in the most summary manner. The
Democrats will subject themselves to deserved
censure for their mistaken leniency towards
the opposition. Possessing the power they
hesitate to use it.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-23
Down With the Trusts.

Capitalists and monopolists are combining
everywhere in heartless speculation in the
necessaries of life, enhancing the price to con-
sumers, and fleeing the people There is
the Standard on Trust, the Railroad Rings,
the Coal Monepolists, the Sugar Trust, the
Rubber Trust, the Steel Rail Trust, the Cot
ton Seed Trusts, aud host ofothers not here
enumerated. Law must restrain these public
robbers, or force ultimately will. The masses
will not consent to remain the victims Of these
rapacieus sharks
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-23

Protection" is a misnomeF. 1t implies
superiority elsewhere. The superiority oyer
any great industry of ours does not exist upon
the globe. 1t implies infants here and adults
elsewhere. Such is not our reputation. 1t
implies that amid competition universal,
where the fttest survives, We shall perish.
But it is everywhere else believed that when
ever we shall release ourselves from bad laws
and enter that competition unmanaeled, rivals
will be distanced, and our primary established
in the markets and commerce of the world.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-23

We publish on the first page of this issue
the speech of Hon. Knute Nelson, of Mime
sofa, on tariff reduction. 1t may be remarked
that Mr.. Nelson, who Is Republican, made
his campaign on tariff revision, and was elect
ed by over 40, 900 majority. His speech, then,
may be taken as fairly representing the Re-
publicans of Minnesota. We call special at
tentiou to it, not only as strong argument
for tariff reform and reduction, but as show
ing the sentiment of the Republicans and peo-
Pile generally in the great Northwest on the
leading issue ofthe campaign.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-23

In cities where red Gags are used to indicate
smallpox or other infectious diseases, bandanas
will be embarrassing, if they do not ca4se panic
Baltimore american.
Our knowing city cousin is informed that
the yellow flag, and hot the red,is used to
mark infection. For a panic among Repub-
licans there is nothing like Thurman ban
danna. 1t has more marked effect than the
shaking Of red flag at bull.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-23
An Opponents Tribute.

From the -4lJa1y Express, Republican.
There is certainly no living representative
of the Democracy who has rendered that
party better, truer, drawer service than ex-
Senator Thurman. During his long career in
the Senate he came to be regarded as the type
of the highest order of Democratic statesman.
ship. A sound lawyer, an able debater, a
profound constitutional student and an honest
man, he stood by his party and defended it
in its darkest days.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-23

The National League of Democratic Clubs
which is to assemble in Baltimore On the
Fourth of July. promises TO be the greatest
outpouring of Democrats ever seen in this
country Clubs are rapidly organizing all
over the country, and it is estimated that not
less taan twenty FIVE thousand people will be
nrasant