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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-08-10
A Lost Soldier.
BY JAMES FRANKLIN rlTTs.

lHE records of the
various departments
at Washington show
|some very surprising
cases of mistaken
identity among sol
diers and o t II e r S
whore thcpersonalit.y
or identity has been
entirely lost through
the effactS of disease
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-08-10
A War Story from Texas.

EN-. Fl. commanded
the department. of Tex
as for some time dur
ing the war says a
writer in the Detroit
Free Press. He was
a pompous character,
His ch lie t pleasure
seemed to lie in the
direction Of q special
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-06
THE DOLLAR-A-DAY LIE,
Its Unqualified Denunciation and Death

Its Unqualified Denunciatfon and Death
by General Harrison.
In General Harrison's recent speech to
5000 railroad men who called upon him
in body, he said:
Early in the campaign people claiming
to speak for the laboring men, but really
in the employ of the Democratic party
managers, promulgated through the news
papers and by campaign publications that
were given without the Endorsement of the
Democratic campaign managers, but we're
paid for by their funds and circulated un-
der their auspices, number of false and
scandalous stories relating to my attitude
toward organized labor. [Great and pro-
longed cheering.l The purpose of all
stories was to poison the minds of the
wcrkingmen against the candidate of the
party that stands in this campaign for
the principles of protection to American
labor. Great cheering.] l have only
once, in all my addresses | have made to
my fellow citizens, alluded to these ma
licious stories, but now-and in the pre-
sence Of this great gathering of working
men-I do pronounce them to be
utterly false. Tumultuous cheering and
waving of flags and banners, which con-
tinued for several minutes The story
that | every said that one dollar day was
enough for workingman, with all its ac-
compartments and appendages, is not a
perversion of anything | ever said-it is a
false creation. | will not follow in detail
this long catalogue of campaign ISLANDERS,
but will only add that it is equally false
that anywhere, or at any time, | ever
spoke disparagingly of my fellow citizens
of Irish nativity or of Irish descent. Many
of them are enrolling themselves on the
side of protection of American labor, and
this created a necessity for the story.
want to say again that those who pitch a
campaign upon so low level greatly un-
derestimate the intelligence, sense of de-
cency and love of fair play of the Ameri-
can people. Prolonged cheers.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-06
Agaihss ontract Labor.

Closely connected with the subject of
the tariff is that of the importation of for
eign laborers under contracts of service to
be performed hare. The law now in force
prohibiting such contracts received my
cordial support in the Senate, and such
amendments as may be found necessary
effectively to deliver our workingmen and
women from this inequitable form of com
petition will have my sincere advocacy.
Legislation prohibiting the importation of
laborers under contracts to serve here will,
however, afford very inadequate relief to
our working people, if the system of pro-
tective duties is broken down. If the
products of American shops must compete
in the American market, without favoring
duties, with the products of cheap foreign
labor, the effect will be different, if at all
only in degree, whether the cheap laborer
is across the street or over the sea- Such
competition will soon reduce wages here to
the Level of those abroad, and when that
condition is reached we will not need any
laws forbidding the importation of labor
ers under contract-they will have no in
ducement to come and the employer no
inducement to send for them-Harrison' s
Letter of Acceptdnce
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-06
FREE TRADE.

From the Irish World
u we ought to be gener us and give England
chance;
We should give her market her wealth TO en-
hance;
Let factories and workshops all go to decay
Manufacturing here no longer will pay
What matters 1t whether our workmen be fed
"hile our friends o er the ocean have good beef
and bread?
Then let us be generous-give England a
chance;
Let us give her a market her wealth to en-
hance.
Fellow citizens. ponder, consider, reflect.
Do you so love Great Britain Then / expect
WILL
And thus prove your attachment for England
Before casting your ballot pray you reflect;
II you so love Great Britain it's vain to object:
You VIII vote for iree trade-and you certainly
will
Be strengthening the sinews of England still.
Sons of old Erin, you at least should be told
Free trade means to England vast millions OF
gold.
viii you strengthen that power by word or by
vote,
That has held you SO long with her heel on your
throat?
Can you think of her cruel. her merciless laws,
Of the martyrs wno died IN iberty's cause.
VI the houseless and homeless starving for aid
Ana oe friendly to England and vote for free
trade?
Whe ere'er on this earth your footsteps may roam
Where'ere on this earth you are making yonr
home,
Q think of poor Erin, the land of your birth,
And think OF her people now crushed to the
Then vow by the heroes who died for the right
And VOW Dy the loved who have passed from
your sight,
That you'll ne'er raise hand to sid England's S
Till Ireland is free to make her own laws
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-06
Cleveland, the Veto Governor

| Governor Cleveland gained the support
of the New York capitalists and monop
olists while he was Governor of that State.
He vetoed every bill the Legislature
passed that was designed to improve the
condition of the laboring classes
l. He vetoed the bill establishing a De
partment of Labor.
2. He vetoed the mechanics lien law
bill, making the wages of the workingmen
engaged in the construction of buildings a
first mortgage on the property.
3. He vetoed the life and limb bill. max
ing employers responsible for accidents
happening from imperfect machinery or
imperfectly constructed buildings.
4. He vetoed the tenement house cigar
bill, lorbidding the manufacture of cigars
in tenement houses.
5. He vetoed the bill compelling the
elevated railroads of New York CITY to
charge only cent fares.
6. He vetoed the printers bill, recurring
ali the State printing to be done by union
workmen.
7. He vetoed the bill making ten hours
a legal days work for street-car employees.
8. He vetoed the bill abolishing convict
labor in prisons, although this proposition,
when submitted to the popular vote of the
people, was carried by majority vote of
$4,000.
8. Hevetoel the ehild's labor bill, provid-
ing for the inspection of factories where
children were employed, and prohibiting
the employment of children under IA years
of age.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-06
$4,000 Reward.

The Republican State Central Committee
OF California offers the above amount to
any person or person or persons who can
disprove any of the following propositions
$1,000 reward to anyone who can prove
that the Democrats did not claim that
Cleveland was not responsible for the IN
PRODUCTION of the so-called Scott exclusion
bill in the House of Representatives.
$1,000 reward to any person who can dis
prove the fact that the Scott exclusion
bill was repudiated by Democrats in the
Senate.
81 600 reward TO anyone who can show
that the Scott Chinese exclusion bill was
| not under the charge of the Republicans in
the Senate, and by them defended against
the attacks of Democratic Senstors.
$1,000 reward to anyone who will dis
prove that but for the energetic action of
the Republican Senators and Representa-
tives, and particularly those from the Pa
cifc Coast, the so-called Scott bill would
| never have passed Congress.
$1,000 reward to anyone who can refute
the statement that the final vote on the
Scott exclusion bill in the Senate was as
] follows:
| Against the bill-Democrats, Ia; Republicans,
l6. In favor of the bill-Republicans, Is; Demo
] Gratis e.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-06
FREE WHISKY.

The Democrats have libelously charged
the Republican to be the free whisky
party. This was done TO disguise the free
whisky intent Of the Democratic party.
Here is the evidence. Section 40 of the
Mills bin provides as follows:
That all clauses of Section SPA Of the Revised
Statutes, and I'll laws ameDdatory thereof, and
ali OF her laws which impose any special ia yes
upon manufactures o. ill>, retsl dealers in Ii
Quors, and retail dealers in malt liquors, are
hereby repealed
That section wipes out about 81, SOC, 900
of revenues from the liquor traffic, and
was intended to bribe dealers to vote for
the free trade Democracy. AT the same
time the Mills bill blots out most OF the
restriction upon illicit distilling or s'moon-
shining" which is directly opposed to the
interests of the lawful liquor dealer Talk
of free whisky Why, the Democracy is
full of it, and out in Indiana it has been
doing its best to keep voters full of whisky
free to consumers. 1t is fact that whoever
would promise to vote for Cleveland has
had in indianapolis for three months a free
ticket, good for all the liquor he imbibed,
the Democratic party footing the bill.
And this is the method of party that
boasts of "reform."
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-06
A Word for yoters.

Every voter in the State knows that
the labor organizations of California
have continuously opposed the employ
ment of convict labor in our State prisons,
upon any class of work in competition with
free labor. They have even gone so far as
to seek the removal of Prison Directors to
stop such employment. How then can
any member of these labor organizations
vote for Cleveland, after the recent pur-
chase by the Administration, and with
Clevelaud's sanction and approval, of 400
army wagons from Tennessee contractor,
who made the wagons with State convicts.
hired at 25 cents per day? There is no
denial of this fact There can be none.
| Cleveland does not even seek to explain it,
but with cold silence as good as says to
the workingmen of the country: Yes, /
purchased them because | could get then.
cheaper, and what are you going to do
about it?7 What ARE the workingmen of
| California going to do about it? Are
they going to condemn convict labor COM
petition at home and vote for a President
who patronizes it in Tennessee?
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-06

DEATH OF SENATOR CHANDLER.

In the death of State Senator Chandler.
not only Sutter county loses a valuable
citizen, but the State. This excellent
man was in every respect a representa-
tive of the best type of the agricultural
community. He was man of strong con-
victions, clear perceptions, and a lover of
truth and justice. He was especially
prominent in his championship OF valley
interests as against encroachments by the
descending debris of hydraulic mines.
Senator Chandler, by his upright life, his
clean character and his strong sense of
justice, together with his public spirit and
maniiness, impressed himself upon the
history of the State and won the respect
and esteem Of his fellow-citizens.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-06
Thosa Engiish RIankars.

An attempt is being made by Demo
cratic papers to explain away the damaging
and damning fact of Cleveland's response
bility III the purchase of English blankets
for the soldiers Of the American army,
and the black eye thus given to working
men in America. But the effort "won't
wash" Cleveland is Commander-in-C Chief
of the army, and thus has direct control of
every official composing it. The purchase
could only be made by his sanction, and it
had his direct approval. Every army
officer, and every person familiar with the
methods of the Government knows that
Cleveland is directly responsible for the
stab given to workingmen of America by
the purchase of these blankets, as if the
President had gone to England in person
and bought the blankets, and brought
them home in a Saratoga trunk.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-06
CONSISTENT pRoHIBIrIoNIsTs.
They Throw OFF the Temperance Mask
and Go for whisky Democracy.

They Throw Off the Temperance Mask
and Go for whisky Democracy.
The New York Democrat records the
fact that Funk & WagnaIls, publishers of
the Prohibition organ, the Voice, are men,
bers of a Democratic Club III New York
City, and pats the Prohibition party under
the chin after this fashion:
Funk & Wagnalls are the publishers and
editors of our esteemed ally, the Voice,
the effective organ of the Prohibition
party, aud the appearance of their names
in the Clevelend and Thurman Club list
shows that they have adopted the ideas
which the Democrat has steadily endeav-
ored to impress upon the minds of all
Prohibitionlsts from the inception of the
campaign, viz, that it would be far better
for our Prohibition friends to cast a full
| and direct vote for the Democratic candi-
dates, than to fritter it away on our own
men, whose election is impossible.
After all, the main purpose of the Prohi-
bitionists in the present campaign is the
| overthrow of the Republican party. In that
they are in complete harmony with the
Democracy. 1t is also fact that the vast
majority Of Prohibitionists believe in free
| trade. Here again their interests are in
unison with those of the Democratic party.
They can accomplish the results they de-
sire much more effectively by throwing
their united vote for Cleveland and Thur
man, rather than for Fisk and Brooks.
who stand not ghost of chance of cleo
tion. Our prohibition friends should also
vote for David B. Hill and Abram S. Hew-
lit.
For the reasons stated We are very clad
to see that such influential members of the
prohibition party as Messrs. Funk & Wag-
nails have adopted our views and are now
doing what they can for the Democratic
ticket. We trust their example will prove
! contagious, and that before election day
every Prohibitionist in the land will give
| full instead of half vote for Cleveland
and Thurman and Hill. The Democratic
party can be intrusted with the task of
regulating the liquor traffic, and in return
for prohibition aid will be willing to grant
much in the matter when the two parties
differ in opinion.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-06
REPU3L[CANs, DON'T PAIR.

Once more we warn Republican voters to
beware of pairing" 1t was resolved at a
Democratic council held this week to Sc
cure all the "pairs possible. The policy
of this is clear; the Democracy cannot
win in Sacramento county, but it can gain
by an apparent decline of Republican
strength. The members of the party are
absolved by the Sachems from the moral
crime of violating "pair." Therefore
the Democrat will "pair" with the dis
tinct mental reservation that he is justified
in repeating the bargain. Don't pair. If
you are for your party at all, give it its
full manifestation of strength. By "pair-
ing you admit you are attached to the
Republican party, and would, without the
pair, vote for it. Do your full duty, there
fore, and let your ballot add to the sum of
the result
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-06
A Model Candidate,

The Indianapolis Journal says:
General Benjamin Harrison's person.
ality has been the prominent and over
shadowing feature of this campaign. His
speeches have given him national repu-
tation. He has stumped the United States
by telegraph. Without going away from
his home-almost without leaving his
door-step-he has addressed more and
larger audiences, and more varied in char
acter, than any other Presidential candidate
ever did. He has not sought publicity,
but publicity has sought him. His
speeches have brought him into contact
with the American people. They have
been read by millions the morning after
their delivery, and have been the subject
of breakfast-table comment from Maine to
California. Every speech he has made
and every sentence of every speech, has
been carefully scrutinized by his political
enemies for a loophole of attack. No
shipwrecked mariner ever scanned the
horizon for friendly sail more anxiotlsly
than Democratic purveyors of campaign
material have scanned these speeches for
something they could utilize. They have
searched in vain. General Harrison has
not made single bad break" or single
error. He has said the right thing, in the
right way, at the right time, and that con-
tinually. Every delegation that has come
here has gone away delighted with the
candidate, strongly impressed with his
personality and convinced that his speech
to them was the best of all Thus Gen
eral Harrison has grown upon the country
from the day of his nomination, and has
more than vindicated the expectations of
his friends. Undoubtedly we voice the
universal opinion of Republicans when we
say he is model candidate
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-06
THE SCOTT BILL DUE TO REPUBL1cASs

Can Californians afford to vote against
the party through which alone the Chinese
Exclusion Act became law. Remember,
when Democrats say to you that to Mr..
Cleveland is the credit for the law due.
that he never intended the bill to become
law. He instructed his party legislators
to defeat 1T IN the Senate, and they did
their utmost to do so. His object was to
put the onus of rejection upon the Repub-
lican Senate, but finding the Republican
majority only too ready to approve the bill,
ne was driven to attempting its defeat
himself. Hence it was that IA Democrats
voted in the Senate against the bill and Is
Republicans for it-all other members be-
ing absent.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-06
senator Stanford for Protection.
New YoRK. October "a lsss

New YORK, October "A. 1888.
The uc!fa'e OF the country is largely in.
rotved IN he coming election The Restriction.
act protects our citizens against The conlpeti-
fion of Gc Chinanq~ in our own te,ritory.
bm Of what draa is thar if their manufactures
con be imported Without restraint. / knos
personally our candidates weH. Theyar nle,,
Of The best character in mipate and public life,
clear-he1ded and able in ADMINISTRATIVE capac-
ity. II they are elected there ,ci1 be no disap-
pointment l hope may be proud 81, N.
wisdom Of our State IN the majority Il ,eiu re.
cord IN favor of Harrison and Morton.
LELAND STANFORD.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-06
A Happy Illustration.

Fred Douglas in his mastery speech at
Liedertafel hall, gave the best illustration
of the folly of the Prohibition party move
ment we have yet heard. Prohibitionists.
he said, admit that their great aim and
object is the destruction of the Republican
party. They do not look for any help for
themselves or the temperance cause from
the Democrats, but By breaking up the
Republican party they expect to absorb
the greater part of the Republican rank
and file into the Prohibition party and
then moYe on to success.
Mr.. Douglas said this reminded him of
movement in certain Vermont town
to build new Jail. The people met and
resolved
l. To build new jail
2. To build it of the material in the
old one.
5 That the prisoners should be kept in
the old Jail while the new one was being
built, and
4. That the new Jail should be bnilt
upon the site Of the Old one-B 60lo
Commercial
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-06
VOTE THE TICKET.

In this Presidential year it Is necessary
that Republicans stand together. Vote
the ticket, Republicans, and let there be
no diminution of Republican strength by
division.
The end to the overthrow of the Demo.
cratic party is reached only by the COM
piete triumpi of the Republican party
and this is rounded and full only when
Republicans are united and present com.
mon front to the common foe. This is
best done by voting the ticket as nomi.
mated.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-06
Those so!dier-warmers.

When CIevelands Administration re-
Gently purchased cargo of blankets in
England for the American army, simply
because they could be purchased there
lower, on account of the lower wages paid
for labor in England, direct stab was
given to every laborer in this country
What do American voters think of it?
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-06

humble but that he has some influence
with some other human being. In to-day's
contest let every Republican give of his
time and energy to the cause, and see to it
that his neighbor votes, and votes right.
The election of Harrison and Morton we
consider assured. but over confidence has
caused the loss of battles ere now.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-06

Mr.. CLEVELAND has pilloried Sackville
West because he told the truth. 1t was
base ingratitude on Cleveland's part West
deserved punishment for interfering in
American politics, but that Cleveland
should haste to deliver the blow, was most
nnkind
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-06
NEVER TOO LATE TO WORK.

A writer in the North AmericY, Reriea
SAYS, "The party that wins an election be.
fore election day, is in some danger" Very
true. 1t l. never too laIe to work. To-day
it is still time, Republican, to bring to a
right view of his duty your doubling OF
careless neighbor. There is no man SC
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-06

THE recall of Sackville West cannot
blot out the fact that he advises English
men in America to vote for Cleveland, be-
cause it would result in benefit to the
mother country" That is to say, the in
terests of America are nothing, the interest
of England.is everything.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-06
LELAND STANFORD.

CANNOT voters understand why the
Democrats are making such desperate eff
forts to retain power? 1t is because the
South is not yet safely in the saddle ;
Northern industries are not yet crushed
down; the freedman of the South is still
deprived of the full exercise of his politi-
cal rights. Republican success means fair
play, protection, continuance of prosperity.
establishment of the rights of the freed
man, the overthrow of Bourbonism and
the Southern chivalry; the exclusion o.
the products of Chinese labor; the integ-
rity of the homestead laws; the payment
of the national debt, aed the pensioning Of
the disabled veterans of the Union cause.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-06
SAN FRANCISCO AGENCIES

This paper is for sale NJ The following places:
Joseph p. Wiseman, No 697 Market street,
who is also sole Advertising Agent for san Fran
cisco; The principal News tands an Hotels,
and at the Aarketstreet Ferry.
ef- Also, for sale ON all Trains leaving and
coming into sacramento.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-06

The RLooRn- UsIDN rs the oniy paper On.
he coast, outside Of 5o,. sJn,lcisco. that re-
csives the full Assocsatsd Ress dispatches fran,
al parts Of the Dortd. Outside Of San Fran
cisco, ii hos m eonpe itor IA 4.oi'v If ,li3a-
szs, IN It's home and general circulation
Gsroa.gaoul s!be coast.