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The Dickinson press., 1888-04-07
NEWS FROM THE BALLOT,
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS THROUGH
OUT THE NORTHWEST.

hnights Of Labor Suffer "a Disastrous De.
ieat at %DubnHne, but Sweep Everything
Mt Mandan---The Liquor puestion Quite
AN Important Factor in Many Elec-
tions--Isesult of the Fight in Ohio.
DUBUQUE, Iowa, April 3.-Thc fusion
ticket. composed of Democrats and Re
pupllcans, swept the city yesterday.
george b. Bush, Republican, was elected
mayor by 3n majority. The entire flu
sion ticket was elected with the cxccp-
ton OF assessor.
MANpAN, April 3,-Ihe knights of
of Labor ticket swept things. Henry W.
Zoe. a member of that organization Is
elected, and the entire ticket wins . to /.
VI the fourteen officers elected nine nre
Republican.
STEELE, Oak. April 3.-The Demo-
Gratis elected w. A. Fridles as mayor,
hut u majority Of the council is Republic
can. Tie treasurer, clerk and marshal
are Democrats.
SAtlT STE MARIE, Mich, April 81
fi"n. George w. Brown, Democratic can
didafe, was elected mayor under the new
c.tN charter by ll5 minority, defeating
Frank Perry, the Republican candidate.
M~iNSEDAGo CITY, April 1.-THE char
yer eiec1lon in this place resulted in no
license by Is majority. lion. j. j. Eyga-
broad was elected mayor with n full tenn
perancc ticket.
LlTc1FlELD. April 3..-Thc election
here resulted in a complete victory for
The Citizens ticket over the Republican
and Prohibition tickets.
AHEKDEfa, OAK, April 3.-Thc result
OF the city election is regarded as a vic
tory for the saloon element. a division
among Republicans resulted in the cleo
ton of y. W Pratt lDemocrut) fo:.
mapnr.
SANKl",,, Dah., April 3.-Eight hum
'llcd and twelve votes were cast at the
city election. resulting in the election of
the Prohibition ticse..
VALLEY CITY, Oak. April 3.-At the
city election Monday the high-licensc
party t%riumplcd and elected their ticket
by Il majority Of . to I.
VALLEY CITY. OAK. April S-Thc high
license party anne ont winners with
sweeping maiorities.
l)"pGE CESrEE. April 1.-THE election
resulted in no license 10y IS majority.
The Dickinson press., 1888-04-07
Chicago Lire Stock

Hogs Receipts. 1900 head. Marke, slow
and 5Gloc lower: light. s5.1595.S5: mixed. sS,a0
as 40; rough packing. S5.15a5.e.5: heavy pack.
ing and shipping. $5.30@55,
Cattle-Receipts, 1850 head. Market we,.
stockers, s.. 10000.
Sheep-Receipts, 1000 head: market steady.
natives. s4.oodt6.0o: lambs, s5.Na6,M.
The Dickinson press., 1888-04-07
St. Paul Union stock Yard.

Receipts. . cars hogs and 3 cars cattle
Sales ruled about yesterdays prices and were
mad as follows:l
Hogs--Light. lS to 100 lbs average. al $50
15.l5; 20, to 2s9lbs veragc. AT <5lg5sa ~ m;xsd
AZ lbs average, AT $3.50; heavy. go lbs average
At $50. Closing steady.
~Cattle-Steady: Il head steers from Warren.
Mimi. sold by Nennnm & Fitzgerald to George
w. Wentworth. at $4:M. They averaged ! an
lbs. One car OF mich cows. shipped 10 CLARK.
OAK, on an order.
sbeep--Fam. Good to choice IT. Aooo
The Dickinson press., 1888-04-07

says: 'The i.mVOrtuut cvcut of the week
The Dickinson press., 1888-04-07

Interesting Items Briefly Chronicled for
Our Readers.
The Dickinson press., 1888-04-07

knights of Labor Suffer IA Disastrous Dc.
feat at Dubuque, but Sweep Everything
Mt M~andan--The Liquor 0ues,ion Quite
AN Important Factor in MANY Elec.
tions--sesult of the Fight in Ohio.
The Dickinson press., 1888-04-07

~ r':d his intention to call an extra
:" NJ in " few days for the purpose Of
&C.. mining what disposition Shall be
m';,'ie "i 'ie treasury surplus of IS, OOO,-
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23
w. C. T. u.


''Polling places are indecent For the
simple reason that women are excluded
froulthem. a smoking-car is an unpleasant
place of resort for the same reason. ]aiee-
tions will continue to be characterized by
vulgarity and violence until husbands and
wives, brothers and sisters go forth to-
gother to vote.
IF woman we're to vote, she would be
eligible to public office" Perfectly true.
Every human being has a right to do what
ever lie or she can do well, public affairs
not excepted. No woman could be elect
ed to an important Office unless there was
a general conviction that she had a peculiar
fitness for its duties.
The fundamental principle of woman
suffrage is this: Every human being has a
right to work out his or her " destiny,
subject only to those restraints of society
which are applied to all alike.-BeU Thistle
Maca&te, IN Toronto Globe.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23
How I'm Kansas.

A temperance millennium has not been
established, it is true; but On the other
hand, nine-tenths of the drinking and
drunkenness of former years has been
abolished. Further, the temperance SEN
timent is steadily growing in this State,
growing steadily aud firmly. Tens OF
thousands OF men now go to bed every
night sober and self-respecting, who went
to bed every night four or five years ago
soaked with liquor. Thousands of women
and children, hungry and in rags five years
ago are now comfortably clad and sit down
every day at the tables provided with all
the necessaries of life.
Four fifths of the people of this State,
knowing that what we assert is true, have
resolved that they will not return to the
old order of things. The open saloon in
Kansas has gone, and gone to stay
Atchison Champion.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23

The ". j. Press wants the MONITOR to
cease calling itself an Independent local
newspaper, because it espouses the prin-
ciples of prohibition and the party that
advocates them. Bro. Press, we esteem
that fact one of the glories Of our indepen-
lent position. We understand that the
word independent as applied to Journalism,
and to MoNITORGAL journalism in parti-
cular, to mean that we don't depend upon
any political party for permission to live
and work. The MONITOR is not owned by
the Prohibition party, neither by the Re
publican nor Democratic parties. 1t don't
have to pass around its dish for political
pap of any kind. 1t advocates Prohibition,
not because the Prohibition party does,
but because it believes it right and it sup
ports the Prohibition party and candidates,
because they advocate Prohibition, and if
they turn their backs on Prohibition, they
have no hold on the MONITOR to enforce it's
allegiance to them any longer. We don't
stop to ask whether Prohibition is popular
or not, or whether we %mightn't get more
subscribers or advertisers by advocating
something else. And as in the matter of
Prohibition 50 with all else that we choose
to take a hand at, We are just independent
enough to say what we think on matters
and things in our own way and time.
That's our style of Independence. What
the Press wants us to be is neutral. The
Lord forbid! We have seen some speci-
mems Of neutral journalism in our time
and to our mind the only thing that can
match it for general obaoxiousness is the
other extreme of hide-bound partisAnship
that blinds the eyes to everything bat
party supremacy and puts policy ahead of
principle every time, and on occasion dons
the livery of Heaven to do service for the
devil. From both such and all such may
we be saved And the MONITOR will CON
tinue to be as it las been in the past, an
Independent local newspaper, and We'll
venture that our esteemed exchange, the
Press, finds, from time to time, some
mi shty good reading mi withal.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23
the presidential, Election.

The q~uadrennial humiliation of women
has again been upon them. Their political
superiors, the male paupers in some States,
and the drunken and worthless men in all
the States, ave had an open door to go in
and help shape the destinies of this coun-
try for the next foar years. But the good
wives, mothers and daughters, women like
ever they go, the educated women, gradu-
ates of colleges, professional women, ply
~sicians, lawyers, ministers, are all ranked
politically below the least valuable man.
Every mans mother counts for less in this
republic on election day than the bloated
drunkard or the lowest debauchee. Do
good men like to have it so?-Lucg Stone.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23

A large delegation of Good Templars
from Woodstown Lodge, No. 1903, went up
to Jefferson, Gloucester county, on We'd
nesday night to visit the Good Templars
large there. A very pleasant time was
enjoyed.
The quarterly session of District Lodge
No. VII was held last Tuesday at Ped
ricktown and was largely attended, every
lodge but one in the District being repre-
scented. The exercises were more than
usually interesting. The Grand Chief
Templar, J. Graham Humphreys, of Lake
wood, N. j., was present at the afternoon
session and gave valuable and efficient aid
and instruction. The Order in the Dis
trict is reported in good condition and ag-
gressive work is contemplated in the for
nation of new lodges in places where none
now exist.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23

Before another issue of the MONITOR
reaches our readers Thanksgiving Day
will lave CONS and gone, celebrated like
It's predecessors in different manner ac-
cording as the celebrants be thankfully in
clined or the reverse. Most ofthose whose
pockets will admit thereof, and there are
few in these days who caNnot indulge in
the luxury, will regale themselves with
turkey and the usual trimmings, while
Others will be thankful for something less.
In looking over the past year he IS GER
tainly an unfortunate wight who cannot
see something over which to felicitate him
self. If you cannot rejoice over unusual
worldly prosperity, remember that that
does not make up the sum OF human hap
riness. Many a man who reckons his in
come in ) figures would gladly exchange
it for the robust health Of the day laborer
that would enable him to enjoy a small
fraction of it. BE thankful that you are
alive. Be thankful that you are well. Be
thankful that you are cut Of Jail, or what
ever your lot aud however desperate the
outlook, be thankful that it is no worse,
for it might easily be.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23
rne Foo, ana Ills Money.

The workingman who puts his money
| into the saloon keepers till is a fool. tie
mortgages his property and the well-being
| of himself and family, beyond redemption.
! He puts himself under a power that uses
him to step upon; and that takes the man
hood out of him.
We need say nothing against the saloon
keeper; We need to indulge in no TRADE
against rum; nor to preach against the
drinking of intoxicating liquors on moral
grounds; nor to say a word about prohl-
bition or license; it is enough to point to
the spectacle of the w~orkingman's deliy-
ering himself over to q degrading life,
where the brute is developed in him and
his ennobling qualities are suppressed. 1t
is the degradation of the man that is so CON
spicuous; he throws himself away, and for
nothing. After his hard days labor he
goes to the saloon and in an hour he has
nothing to show for that labor-nothing
but stupidity or a drunken fight, or crime
committed.
The workingman who can make no bet
ter showing than this for the expenditure
of his days wages is a fool, yes, worse
than a fool, for the w~orkingman has re-
sponsibilities for his conduct that the fool
has not.
The workingman may as we'll say to his
fellows: "Let's work hard every day for
ten years and see how rich we can make
the saloon keeper on the corner; we will
then make him a Doodle alderman so that
he may become richer" Yet this is what
is lone in many of our cities in this coun-
Try, though the w~orkingmen may not plan
it beforehand.
What worse could a workingmsn do
with his earnings than to spend them for
drink?
He might better throw them into the
river or bury them in the ground, for
then there would be no tyrant ruling over
him.
Wages well cared for will return a vast
amount OF happiness to the workingman.
Is it better to own a home, or to be in the
clutches of the saloon keeper. Is it better
70 ndNt HlOicf idlu ny u IdIHJ udys VI
to be sunk in wretchedncss and poverty?
The saloon keeper receives you in well
come when o have money, and kicks
you out when it is gone. 1t takes you a
man and makes you a beast, 1t consumes
your energies and thrives, while you de-
part a beggar.
1t is useless to quote the figures of the
nations annual liquor bill; to this work.
men contribute millions, that many de-
prive themselves of comforts, and never
get near enough to a luxury to know
what it is like. They part with millions
that might be invested in homes, in the
education of children and in securities.
What many a workmen suffers from to-
day is a want of savings. By these he
might elevate himself; he might be a
lender instead of a borrower; he might
become an employer, as well as employed;
he would buy cheaper for cash than he
does now for credit; he would be happy
in temperance, in a good home, in having
promising children. in the respect he
would receive from the public, in the con-
fidence he would have in his manhood.
Above all. he would not be making a fool
of himself by dumping his wages into the
saloon Work and Wages.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23

Some of our esteemed Republican con-
temporaries still keep banging away at the
Prohibition party aud the Prohibition or
gans, and seem to enjoy the fun amazing
ly, while the Prohibitionists don't seem to
mind it. One would suppose that the E.
r. C's would grow tired Of it sometimes,
but, bless you, it's their stock in trade. 1t
is the most convenient thing in the world
for them when ideas fail and the compos-
ing room bowls for copy to give a turn to
the crank and grind out a lot of rot about
the Prohibitionists, of greater or less
acidity according as the mind of the editor
is more or less unbalanced over the election
returns. It's pretty much all Of a kind.
The same old straw that's been threshed
over and over for the last four years. The
Prohibitionists have got over paying any
attention to it a long time ago, and pursue
the even tenor Of their way, gaining new
acoessions and doubling their vote about
every four years.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23
objections 10 NM Suffrage An
SyerPI.

"WOman's strongest influence is that
which she exerts in family life" 1t is
strong, certainly, but it is not always good.
Many homes are ruled by weak, or silly,
or narrow-minded, or nervous women, for
whom the discipline of a larger life would
be the best tonic imaginable SIN a
pretty large experience Of real life" says
Frances Power Cobbe, 81 have failed yet
to find a single case in which a woman
who has exercised public spirit, even to the
admirable and conscientious daughter,
mother or mistress of a household" A
woman would neglect her home for the
sake of passing a bill quite as readily as
she would ''forsake an infant for a quad
ratio equation"
"Woman's influence at home would be
weakened by giving her the ballot" On
the contrary, it would be strengthened.
Men know very we'll that as regards the
knowledge of public affairs, many women,
by reason of their restricted lives, are in a
state Of ingnorant simplicity. Let any wo-
man try the experiment Of Offering a sug-
gestion upon any course of political con-
duct to husband or brother, and it is sure
to be greeted with a superior or indulgent
smile. While woman is contemptuously
excluded from political duties, her advice
and influence at home must always remain
at the minimum.
bad women will VOTE On this point
T. w. IIigginson says: Dad women will
not vote openly as bad women; for vice in
women, by instinct aud policy, conceals
itself and passes under another name. Tie
worse women are, the more they will conn
terfeit virtue when they come to vote, rely
upon it,"
"Politics are necessarily degrading
Then why not advise good men to quit
voting?
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23

Take the Third party platform and, with
outchanging any other word init, substitute
''Repubiican'' for Prohibition" and not
one of the Prohibition leaders nor onc-half
of the remnant of the picturesque party
would support it.-As5my Park Journal.
Well go you on that. You begin. Let
the next Republican National Convention
adopt a platform verbatim like the Prohi-
bition platform of 1888, simply changing as
above suggested, and see how much sup
port the Prohibitionists would give it.
But bless your heart, what a scattering
there would be among the Shed. Shocks
and the Estee's and the free-whiskey-high-
icense-any-thing-to-ge t-there followers OF
the G.. O. p.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23

to make. They are the biggest
bargain in bed blankets we have
ever had the good fortune to show.
1874 all wool, 6Hlb, white blank
cts, $3.50. Sold last year at s..
Red twilled, blue twilled, and
plain red hannels, medicated and
non-mcdicated. Everything for
skirting underwear for Ladies,
Gents, Misses, Children and Boys.
Quilting Cotton, by weight, at
II to IS cents per pound. We have
all needed articles for making quilts
and comfortables.
The best assortment OF dress
goods we ever had yet. Excellent
dress plaids at 10 cents. Double
faced, Illuminated wool trlcots, yard
wide, 25cts, former price 37Hcts.
Everything in this way new and
cheap. Additions and new goods
coming in on every train. You
can't get wrong.
Large purchase of ladies' WOODEN
skirts and skirting by the yard. Is
long wooden shawls just opened;
good warm ones as low as $500
each. Ladies', Misses and child
ren's coats, New markets and jack
cts. Additions made to stock every
day.
We buy our Black Cashmeres di-
rect Of the importers, and can give
you lower than city prices-bring
samples. 40 in, all-wool, SOC, bet
ter, So, 90, 65c. 40 in. Black Hen
rietta Cloth, 75c.
Yard wide all wool suitlngs,
brown, cardinal, navy blue & green,
&c. All wool Tricots, 40 cts, sold
last year at 50. Fall stock OF Dry
Goods in every needful variety.
+. B. HUMPHREYS & Co.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23

We havn't any quarrel with those Pro-
hibitionists who fell from grace (Prohibi-
ton grace during the late excitement. 1t
was a time to try mems souls and spinal
columns. We are ready to welcome them
back to the party. We know they are
sorry and we don't want to add reproaches.
Come back, brethren, and read the
New Era regularly. 1t is just splendid
diet for growing back bones.-New Era.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23

The Prohibition vote in the State, was
the national ticket the gains were notable.
The whole number cast was 776G, while St.
John in 1884 received G153. The Prohibi-
ton vote was larger than Cleveland's
plurality. In the matter of the vote for As
sembly there was considerable decrease, as
there was four years ago. In some spots
it was less. but in others about the same.
The vote according to the counties was as
follows: Atlantic, 953; Bergen, 81; Burling-
ton, $50; Camden. 4S1; Cape May, 1865;
Cumberland, 843; Essex, 1853; Gloucester,
319; Hudson, 213; Hunterdon, 4s1; Mercer,
373; Middlesex, 2GS; Monmouth, 4S6;
Morris, 536; Ocean, 106; Passaic, 2e3; Sa-
lem, 273; Somerset, 1875; Sussex, 100; Union,
254; Warren, SOC. The largest vote in At
lantic came from Hammonton. Here the
vote has not varied much during the past
four years. In 1884 the vote was 81; in
1885, SO; in 1886, 81; in 1887, Sc, and this
year 81. Burlington rolled up the vote
COilSiueTdUiy. II ISh ) VOC was ooO greater
than narrison's plurality. The gain was
169 votes. In Camden there was a slight
increase. The increase in Cape May was
from 121 to 165 votes. Cumberland coun-
ty, with its three dry towns of Bridgeton,
Millville, and Nineland, made q good cold
water show ing. In 1884 st. John received
$40 votes; this year Fisk polled s43, an in
crease of 200. In Mercer the jump was
from 279, cast in 1884, to 373. The gain
in Middlessex was 101. In Monmouth st.
John received 354 in 1884, and Fisk this
year 6S4. The increase in Salem was small,
being only %. In Warren the increase
was 81,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23
A Kew song OF sfxpemce.

"sing Il song of sixpence, bottle full of rum,
Lots of people praying let thy kingdom
Gomez
When the polls are opened voting straight for
sin,
Isn't this q funny way to bring the kingdom
in.
King in amazement sees the license votes.
Devil in the corner signing license notes:
God and home and country pleading all in
vain, Z.
Got to save the party, set EN- mp again."
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23

To our National candidates, Clinton Is.
Fisk and John A. Brooks; to our Congress
sional candidate, William II. Nicholson;
to our Legislative candidate, Walter ).
Springer, the MONITOR, in behalf OF its
Prohibition constituency, desires toextend
congratulations upon the manly stand
taken by them in tic late canvass, and
thanks for the honest courage with which,
in face Of greater obstacles than the party
ever before opposed, they bore the banner
of Prohibition in the fore front of the
battle.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23

AT French's Hotel, Woodstown, between the
hours of II and 3 O'Clock, TO wit, at 2 O'Clock,
p. M, all the following real estate:
No. l-All that valuable farm and premises
situate in the township of Pilesgrove, within
q a mile of Sharptown, on the main road lead
ing to Salem, adjoining lands of Edward Hum
phreys, James T.. Pancoast and others, con-
tanning 100 acres, more or less. The buildings
are in good tenable order, and the land is in II
good state of cultivation, under good fencing,
and contains an apple orchard and other fruit
trees.
No. 2-The homestead, being r house and lot
of land in Sharptown, containing 4 of an acre
of q more or less, the improvements are a
good frame dwelling house, with 7 rooms, and
Il well of excellent water in the shed, also II
good barn, wagon shed and other necessary
outbuildings.
No. 3-AlI that hohseand lot of land adioin-
ing No. =. containing Il of an acre of land,
more or less, the improvements are q good
dwelling house, BOW in the tenure of Edwin
Royal, JT.
No. AL that lot of land adjoining No. .,
containing Il ofan acre of land, more orleSs.
No. ga lot of land in said village, on the
east siue of the street leading to The County
Almshouse, containing 2t-l00 of an acre Of
land, more or 1ess.
Yorketown, adjoining lands of Christian Reg
ner. Jesse } ohnson and others.
Also, Will be sold at same time and place, the
undivided one-half of the Wheat growing on
No. ], to be gathered and threshed by the ten
ant, and one horse-shed at the NJ. e.. Church,
at SharptoWn.
Any person wishing to view the above
premises viii be shown the same by calling
on c. b. Robinson, one of the executors, in
Sale positive. Conditions ut sale, by
CHARLES b. ROBINSON,
GEORGE W. ROBINSON,
JOHN X. KEEN.
Dated October %, 1883. Executors.
nONoS-Dt
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23

A workman, when speaking at a tenn
perance meeting, excused himself FOR his
dress. But said he, 1--WE come in my
best trousers. And this is why they are
my best: One holiday ! asked my wife to
bring me my best trousers; and what do
you think, she brought the pair | daily
wore. It's my best l want, wife, said l.
Well said she, Il call these the best, you
earn all the money in these; the other pair
are your worst, for when you put them on
you spend it,"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23

An interesting case will be heard this
term of the United States District Court,
which began on Monday in Trenton. John
J.. Mason, of Vineland, the inventor of the
Mason fruit jar, has sued the Consolidated
Fruit Jar Company for $75, 900 for royalties
due. He owns twenty-one patents, and he
charges that he has received no moneys for
five years.