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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-13
HILL NOMINATED.
Empire State Democrats Com
 plete Their Work.
JONES IN SECOND PLACE.
Clinton Gray for Judge of the
 Court of Appeals.
ALL WAS DONE BY RECLAMATION,

Chairman Herricks Speech-The Plat form Indorscs the National Declarations, President Cieveland's Fisheries Message, His Course Concerning Contract Labor Laws, Demands the Passage of the Chi nese Exclusion Bill by the Senate. Con- demns Senate Hostility to House Labor Measures, Slaps at Trusts, Arraigns Re publicans for Seglecting to Provide for Taking State Census and for Consti- tutional Convention, Wants Home Rule for Cities and Convicts Self Supporting, SynIpathizes With Ireland, Indorses Governor Hil's Administration and Sends Greeting to Democrats in Other States-Work of the Convention in Detail. BUFFALO, Sept. 13.-The programme of tine state Democratic convention was carried out exactly outlined in their dispatches yesterday. Chairman Murphy rapped for order at l2:;}5 p. m. and moved that Hon. George Raines of Rochester be chosen tenn porary chairman, which motion was unani- mously adopted, with cheers In his speech he paid high compliment to David B. Hill as the commissioned leader of New York Democracy After the usual preliminary work, and the appointment of the commit tees, the convention adjourned to D. m.
 THE EVENING SESSION.
 The work of the evening session resulted in the adoption of a platform, which follows, and the nomination, all by exclamation, of the following state ticket:
 For governor, David B. Hill, of Elmira, Chemung county.
 For lieutenant governor, Edward F. Jones, of Binghamton, Broome county
 For judge of the court of appeals, Clinton Gray, of New York city and C. --..y.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-13
Nor Goyerpor. of Colorado

DENVER, Sept. 13.-Shortly after the re- assembling of the Democratic state conven- tion, Hon. T. M. Patterson was nominated for governor by exclamation.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-13
Increase in Yellow Fever.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept, 13.-Fifty nine new cases were reported. Ten deaths have been officially reported, among the victims being Rev. Thomas Smith, pastor of the East Jacksonville Presbyterian church, young Louis Fleming, Walter E. Poythess, Charles Sembler and Thomas Keys. The Citizens association resolved to extend aid to the people of McClenry.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-03-10
get out of bed and get drink of waite

get out of bed and get drink of water.
There, perched upon the foot-board,
was the monkey, staring him in the
face with hideous grimaces. He rub
bed his bleared eyes, looked again, and
horrible suspicion came into his be-
fuddled brain. Had his wife told him
the truth? Did he really have 'em
Finally, he seized his six shooter which
lay on table near, leveled it at the
creature, and said:
Now, old man, if you are mon
key, you're in bad fix; if you amt a
monkey, I'm in q bad FIX At the
same instant he fred, and the monkey
fell over in the agonies of death. His
wife, who had been watching the work
ing of her scheme, sprang up in bed
with scream, and Bill, turning to her
with broad smile of the most intense
satisfaction, said:
Little woman, congratulate me,
for have just had wonderful es-
cape. amt as drunk as I thought I
was, an theresa monkey lynn there on
the floor that'll never intrude itself
into the domestic felicity of another
happy family, an make gentleman
think he's got the jim-jams. '"-Ka7a-
sGs City Times.
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and seemed very much like herself
agains
In the afternoon she handed him q
letter.
ut was left here by messenger"
she said.
sit is from Mr.. Dillingham;" Lisle
replied, as he opened and glanced at
the letter. @He offers me ten Thousand
dollars for my yacht. He can have it. !"
@Lisle, will you buy another?" she
asked, the faintest apprehension sp-
parent in her voice.
"That would be Q folly" he said. II
am tired OF yachting. It takes me away
from home too much"
A pleased light filed her eyes, and
soft smile came to her lips.
The next morning he called to her to
come to the front door. There she saw
the prettiest horse her eyes had ever
rested upon.
Maggie, / bought him for you
Lisle said. @He's safe. docile, intslli-
gent I have other horses, but an
not sure that I would want ron 70 ride
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-03-10
Cha.ing MeteOrs.

We caution our readers to put no re
lance in stories about meteors whici
ONE very near those who were startled
them. We were fooled once, abou
lirty years ago. by one of these brill.
mt wanderers misplace. It passed right
yer the Litchfield fairgrounds appar
ntly, and struck the earth over OF
.hestnut Hill We were so fully con
inced that it buried itself in Litohfield
Ill that we cogitated upon the advisa
'lity of going over to unearth tn.
ming.
"Pshax. Joe," said the good old
lther, when we reported the matter OF
N arrival home, at was more likely
.undreds of miles away" at can't be
,ther," we replied; al. B. Grave.
aw it and said he should think it passet.
yer John 81. Hubbard's house, or al
EAST not farther down than the fair
rounds. Why, father, we heard It'll"
The next days New York papers
eakened our faith in our ability te
alculate on meteoric distance. The
anne brilliant sphere was reported By
alegraph rs having been seen by peo-
lie in Kentucky, and few days later 3
,estward- bound transatlantic steamer
ported having seen it 1900 miles oui
sea. Wiasted Conn Herald
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-03-10
Knocking Out q Faith Cure.

A Christian scientist, whose time wal
fully occupied in thinking about the
unreality disease, at So per think, once
treated highly unappreciative mar
for chronic nervous affection of Ia very
painful character. Under the glowing
promises of speedy recovery which
the healer made, the man came every
day to get his So worth of thoughts or
the non-existence of his complaint, and
all went we'll for several weeks AT
the end of that time, the pain continu-
ing with cheerful assiduity that could
not be disregarded, the patient grew
FESTIVE and intimated that, although he
had paid out $40. there was not cents
less pain than before. He also respect
fully submitted that a clear statement
of just about when the amelioration
was expected would be highly satisfac-
tory to him and his family, who we're
cramped by the daily depletion of their
funds. Then the Christian scientist
waxed wroth and said: ooh, you OF
little faith Know that you would al.
ready have been cured if you had be-
ieved me when I told you that your
pain was not real Pain and suffering
do not exist; they are merely fantasms
of the brain. There is no such thing as
matter" continued he, with so much
emphasis that it ratified some silver
dollars in his pocket, "none whatever;
the only real thing is thought All
this ID too subtle for your common
place mind. and hence 1 can do moth
ing moro for you; you had better go
and fill your coarse, unappreciative sys-
tenn with drugs" Then vision of $40
that had vanished and a pain that had
vanished not came before the mind of
that long-sufering man and he arose
and he took the Christian scientist and
he mopped the floor with him, shifting
him sore upon the head and back, SO
that when he was through COMPOSITIONS,
abrasions. contusions, incipient ecchy-
moses, and epistaxis were among the
phenomena presented by his Christian
countenance @There is no real suffer-
mg,s said the unappreciative man, with
whitening scorn. The "bruises on your
alleged head are entirely hypothetical:
the choking I gave you was simply an
idea Of mine, and a devilish good idea,
too; the pain which you feel j. merely
IN intellectual fantasy, and your nose
bleed Is only one of the ideal concep-
tions Of the cerebral mass. Believe
these things not to exist and they van.
ish Good day, SIR And the patient
departed -Medical V5sjt0E
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A TRAGIC TALE.
fSoms distance after the .Nikado.I
BIZ >. ALEX. SAVAGE,

The editor sat in his den. ira Ia,
With q look that was somber and Bads
With pencil in hand he did write, ira Ia
And column on column indite. ira In,
To be set by compositors bad:
TO have his words altered, his rhythm de-
stroyed,
Or twisted and tortured, and foully alleged;
Do you wonder "his giblets" was mad?
Ira la, la, la. la, ETC.
Do you wonder the editor laughed, ha. hal
When q stranger stepped out of the gloom;
A subscriber. perhaps in arrears, ira la,
Whose account had been running for years,
ira la,
And squatted right down in the Tooml
Ny name is Bill King from over the hill
For some ads see you have room.
Ira Ii, la. Ia, Ia, etc.
.'Tis the ads know that pay ira la,
Said Bill to the man Of the pen.
But then for a paper TO run, ira la,
It must sizzle and fizzle with fun, ira la.
And he snickered and giggled again.
Il have here poem, a sweet little thin".
It treats of the flowers that bloor' in the
1hope Tfs not written in vain"
Trs Ia, Ia, La Ia, etc.
BY the neck and the seat of the pants. ira la,
Bill was yanked down the hatch with q fling
And rollers and briers were made, ira Ia,
(At least so the devil has said, ira la)
OF the body Of poor Billy King.
And the editor seized his scissors and brush
And of to the caves Of tho mountains did
rush,
And wildly and loudly did sing
Ira Ia, Ia, la, la, etc
The devil he needs his pay. ira la,
But time did no editor bring;
He saw the whole snap at q glance ira L.
Struck match on the base of his pants, ira la,
And into the waste basket did fling. :
And now on the ruins, delinquents to fright,
Walk the devil and editor night after night
Singing bother the posies that bloom in the
spring.
Ira la Ia la Ia, ETC.
-GermantotpI Independent
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HIS BOarde1'S.

| Mr.. Doyle is one of the most polite
and kindly of men. He has lovely
home in San Mateo, and, like great
::sa7 people who have lovely homes, he
does not always know what goes on.
One evening Mr.. Doyle arrived from
the city and his coachman was at the
station with his wagon. They drove
along home, and, as they came to the
gate leading into his preserves, burly
tramp stood leaning against the rail.
He did not move to open the gate, 80
the driver got down and opened it. As
soon as he did the tramp calmly walked
in and proceeded up the avenue,
"Who is that" asked Mr.. Doyle.
"He seems to be cool kind of Gus
toner"
"That, sir, is one of your boardera "
"My boarders! What do you mean ?"
Don't you know that you have ten
or dozen regular boarders at the
house? ?"
II didn't know it"
ooh, yes. They come regularly to
breakfast. They are very particular
and hard to please"
"Ten or q dozen men breakfast at my
house every morning! You just tell
the cook that if he gives any one of them
another breakfast I'll discharge him. I
don't want to turn away any poor devil
of starving man, but if anybody wants
meal you send him out to saw wood
for an hour. Then you can give him
as much as he can eat.
"There'Il be trouble, sir"
Next morning Mr.. Doyle was being
driven down to the train. As they
passed down the road two rather de-
pressed-looking individuals were seen
walking ahead.
"There go two of your boarders. sir: "
"Those dirty-looking fellows? Did
you follow my instructions this morn
ing?n
"We did, sir, and there was an awful
row. They were very angry, and we
thought there was going to be fight "
When they reached the two tramps,
Mr.. Doyle stopped his wagon and
spoke.
II am very sorry, gentlemen, was
compelled to issue rather stringent re-
gulations about breakfast at my place.
VI COuIbos ulu uOe u0au sA00 w.
should especially apply to you. gem
tlemen: but there are SO many who inn
pose upon me in that way, and -
mo need for excuse Nh. Doyle; don't
mention it
II understand you were not quite
mo, sir. did feel little annoyed
about it this morning, because it hap
pened had invited q friend of mine to
breakfast. and was trifle mortified
to find him treated in such an ungentle-
manly manner"
II am deeply sorry-but the wood
Eyes, we'll / would have been happy
to have attended to the wood, but had
. business engagement and could not
waik Good morning, mir, good morn
ing. San FrGncisc0 Chronicle
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TIE North China Herald says thu.
persons who doubt the barbsrity of
some of the Chinese punishments "naye
only to walk into the city of Shanghai
this morning, few minutes task, and
they will find one of the most revolt
ing of those punishments in full ope-
ration, and its infection applauded by
all the Chinese who know of it" The
criminal, one Koh, is . hardened
rufian, who has passed the greater
part of the last ten years in jail. The
specific offense for which he was being
punished was his habit of blachmailing
the new prisoners who were put in jail
With him. He was suspended in cage
about five feet high, with his head
through the top of . wooden collar, 50
that he could not reach il with his
hands. His feet, which were loaded
with chains, were 90 far from the bot
tom that he could only just touch il
when standing on tiptoe. Here he was
condemned to stand, without food or
water, just inside the outer gate Of the
magistrates yamen. the sport Of hum
dreds, until death put an end to hi
suferings.
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MENTAL CONFESSIONS.
BY FRANK HI. STAUFFER.

HE 9 o'clock
morning train
from the city
left Lii 8 l e
Denham a 1
the pretty lit
tie way-sta-
tion known as
Waldermere.
WIN q hing
of his hand to
several gen.
tlemen of his
acouaintance.
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HEIGHo! old age is stern and sad,
but not unbeautiful if we would guide
it wisely Try to keep little pity in
thy heart; in spite of all mad contra
dictions, try to maintain . small altar.
llama burning there - Ihonas CdrlviA
~ The age 0f SIS
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The friends who love and appreciat,
M for ourselves alone at fifty, who do
NOT value and appraiss us-in eommer.
cial point Of viev, can - eountod a
- 6ugoEs Of 90 had.
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GNS rectly behind him, each
endeayoring to shoot him before he
could draw his gun. He killed one
and mortally wounded the other, and
the two reports of the revolver seemed
almost as one. The marvellous feat
was the talk of the country for a long
time. Bill never missed his mark. l
have seen him take pistol in each
hand, and fire with right and left pistol
at can thrown in the air, hitting it
with both bullets. By the way, lheard
very funny story told on Bill some
time ago. II you remember. he mar
ried Mrs. Agnes Lake, widow OF Lake,
the circus man. Bill fairly worshiped
his wife, but despite his great love for
her she could never induce him to quit
drinking. He would come home full
OF bad whisky, and one day Mrs.
Hickok said to him:
Bill, if you don't quit this drinking
pretty soon you will actually begin to
see monkeys
Monkeys? said he. What do you
mean, little one?'
why, you know when the people
back East drink too much of the kind
of whisky they get back there they see
snakes; but this awful stuff out here
makes them see monkeys.
~Bill laughed ut her, and did not
give the matter a second thought, little
thinking that she had put up job to
break him of his Incorporate habits.
There was tame monkey in the town
Cheyenne, believe it was-and Mrs.
Hickok had induced its owner to loan
it to her for night. Bill came home
that night comfortably drunk, and
after he had gone to sleep his wife Sc
cured the monkey and chained it to the
foot of the bed. Then turning down the
light q little, she too retired and
awaited results. Bill woke up in the
night burning with thirst, and raised
up into sitting posture, intending to
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Wil' BIN.

shot, was he notfs
with the six-shooter
he was simply wonderful.
In my entertainment l
give an illustration OF 9
double shot he made ont
at Hays City, Kansas, In
the early days. when he
shot two soldiers, one In
front of him and one di-
rectly behind him. each
L. -LoeI l.n ho&ora ho
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1888-10-27

nopoly trust party, because both OF
them are wanting in sympathy for the
laboring classes" Tho document in
which this resolution is formulated
then proceeds to set forth sundry evil
dences of the fact alleged. Harrison's
votes in the Senate, on fourteen differ
emit occasions, against measures to
prohibit importation and traffic in
Mongolian serfs; his advocacy Of the
admission Of Asiatic pagans to our
citizenry; his attitude and participa-
tion, for five dollars day, as vol
unteer captain. of militia in the labor
trouble at Indianapolis in 1877, are cited
as among the proofs of his cutter dis
regard of the interests and welfare of
American working-men." The facts
that Morton is "a Wall-street money
shark, coparcener Of many greedy
corporations" a beneficiary of fraudu-
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WHISKY VS.. CLOTHES.

The Issue Between tho Two Parties
Stated in Few Simple Words.
The issue between the two great
parties in this campaign is SO simple
that child can understand it. Cheap
clothes VS.. cheap whisky. That is all
there is of it. The Democratic party
favors cheap clothes, the Republican
party favors cheap whisky. The DEM
ocratic party opposes cheap whisky;
the Republican party opposes cheap
clothes. Stated thus plainly it will be
seen that the question is not political
or an economic one-it moral one.
Whatever mans views may be about
protection and free trade he must, if
he have ordinary sense or honesty,
own that the tax on whisky, which the
Republicans propose to repeal, is a
most righteous tax. Mr.. Blaine him
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lent schemes, like the French guano
syndicate in Peru, and parvenu aris-
ts.cs-at, who seeks to Obliterate the
marks of his humble origin and early
occupation of q maker and vender of
shoes, are cited as proofs that place
him on the same offensive platform.
It is to be said of these facts that
they are the strongest evidences that
the indictment brought in by the Indi-
ana trades associations against Har-
rison and Morton is true bill. It is
perfectly certain that both are men of
narrow ideas, and an ample lack of the
broad views and right moral basis OF
character which bring men OF merit
into a sympathetic fellowship with
men whose opportunities have not been
equal to their own. Their style and
quality are those of thrifty but not
overscrupulous shopkeepers. quick to
drive q hard bargain, to see the ears
of a speculation with gain in it, to
exact the last farthing, and to realize
an interest in humanity only as a pos
sible means Of their personal aggran-
dizement. These marks are very per-
ceptible in the public careers. so far
as they have had any public career, or
both They are both. politically speak
ing, men of narrow gauge. little I'M
derstanding, and little account
The Indiana labor associations invite
organized labor in other States to CO
operate" with them in opposition to
these candidates Of the monopoly
trusts, taxed necessaries, free rum.
and the new slave trade, and there is
not any reason to doubt that both the
organized and the unorganized labor
viii do it with will. Chicago Globe.
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self thought so when he wrote his
paris message" in which he said,
speaking of the whisky tax, that it
involved moral question, and that 30
long as there was whisky to tax he
would tax it. Mr.. Blaine was right,
and he was right when he said that to
remove the tax on whisky would be to
increase its consumption enormously.
This is what the Republican party pro-
poses to do. It says to the American
people; 1--WE will keep up the tax on
the thread and needle of the poor
woman who is paid starvation wages
for making shirts; upon the slate
pencils of the little children; upon the
shovel and pick and red shirt OF the
poor fellow who lives upon what
wouldn't be enough to keep self
respecting horse; upon lumber and
hardware and crockery and glass
and wool and salt--in short. upon
every thing that the people need,
but we will do all that we can to in
crease the consumption of whisky
enormously and so to increase vice
and misery, and poverty and crime and
insanity and death among the people
of these United States"
That is the issue There Is no get
ting away from it. Mr.. Harrison him
self has expressed fear lest coats should
get to be too cheap. As an "unin-
structed political economist he can
not favor cheap coats. Free and cheap
whisky is more to his taste. Such be-
ing the case 1t is certain that neither
that wretched thing, state pride"
nor social, or business, or religious
pressure can influence the people of
Indiana to give their Endorsement to
the monstrously cruel and wicked plat
form upon which the Republicans
must fight this campaign Harrison's
personality is, relatively. very small
factor in the problem. He is the free
whisky candidate, and vote for him
means a vote for free whisky. He
must stand upon his platform. It is
impossible to disassociate one from the
other. The man who attempts to
make the distinction is simply trifing
with his own conscience. We have no
doubt that upon this issue Indiana viii
be carried by the Democrats. We be-
lieve it, because we know that her
people are an honest, moral, tenn
perate, God-fearing people, and that
they always vote their convictions.
II they do this in this campaign-as
they will-they will make 1t impos-
sible for Mr. Harrison's political
friends to redeem the pledges that they
made at Chicago.
Down with monopoly taxes!-IS-
diGnapol;s Sentinel.
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The State Federation OF trades and
labor unions of Indiana held its fourth
annual session in Indianapolis recent
ly. Emil Levy, of Evansville, wss re-
elected president and John p. Aanni-
gan, Of Lafayette, secretary and treas
urer. The delegates present took ac-
ton regarding the political issues Of
the day, and adopted series q reso-
lutions condemning the policy Sf legis-
lation since 1861 with reference to the
bonded debt Of tho Nation, opposing
all laws which tend to transfer the bur-
dens of excessive taxation to the con-
sumers and laboring CLASSES, and de-
claring they "can not support the oan-
didates OF the Republican party for
President and Vice-President because
both Of them are wanting in sympathy
for the laboring classes."
The resolutions charge General Haa-
rison with commanding q company Of
soldiers during the strike OF 1877 ITO
shoot laboring men down after having
refused to attempt q settlement by
peaceable means" Morton is spoken
Of as > Wall street money shark and
. shsrer in the unholy gains Of many
greedy corporations that have cruelty
oppressed their employees. The resolu-
tions also refer to General Harrison's
votes on tho Chinese bin while in the
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DOWN ON BEN-LEvl.

what Indiana's Working-Men Think Of
the Republican Candidates.
The trade and labor societies of In
diana have driven strong nail In the
political coffin Of the son of his grand
father in that commonwealth. At q
general assembly in indianapolis they
formally resolved that they . can not
support the candidates" Of the mo-