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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
TEN GOOD REASONS.
Mrs. j. Ellen Foster Tells Why She Ii a
Republican.

Mrs. j. Ellen Foster Tells Why She Is a
Republican.
am a Republican by hereditary in
Auence, past environments and pres
ent convictions. Because
1. The Republican party in the past
has stood for all that is liberal and
progressive in legislation.
2. The Republican party freed the
slave.
3. The pronounced and emphatic
legislation on moral questions has
come most largely from Republican
legislators.
4. The Republican party has always
been the champion of protection-pro-
lection to the citizen, protection to the
negro, protection to the ballot box,
protection to the wage-earner, pro-
lection to the wage-paYer, and now,
in line with past professions and per-
formances, it declares projection to
the home.
). The friends of the liquor interest
in the ranks of the Republican party
are few and far between.
6. The Republican party has stood
for the most advanced temperance leg
islation which the people demanded,
and in very many States has made
open declarations of enmity against
the saloon.
z. The Republican party deals with
conditions of the temperance work,
not theories. The IDEAL is not always
instantly attainAhis; it is better that
the majority of the great, struggling,
grooming mass sAstfd gain one inch of
altitude than that few should, by sep
arating themselves into "holier-than-
thou" party, attain supernal heights.
8. The Republican party by reason
of its powerful position in this country,
is able to consistently promise the re-
demption of its pledges, while the So
called Prohibition party, even if the
sincerity of its pledges be admitted,
can not, for many years at least, fulfill
any one of them.
9. The best types of American man.
hood are represented in the persons of
Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Nor
ton.
10. The record of the Republican
party proves it to be made up of men
out of whose brain and heart reform
have come in the past, and are likely
to come in the future. 81. Ellen Foster,
in Chicago Inter Ocean.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
THIRD PARTY POLICY.
New Light Thrown on the Methods Pur-
sued by the Party's Leaders.

New Light Thrown on the Methods Pur-
sued by the Party's Leaders.
1t is well-recognized fact that in
the Northern States the Prohibition
party draws most of its votes from the
Republicans, while in the Southern
States whatever strength it has is
mainly drawn from Democratic sour
ces. If the Third party, therefore,
made an aggressive campaign in both
Northern and Southern States which
are more or less doubtful, as, for in
stance, in New Jersey and New York
on the one hand and in Virginia and
North Carolina on the other hand, it
would seem to be clear that it's leaders
are actuated, as they claim to be, by
zeal for the cause of temperance, and
not by any special hatred of either one
party or the other.
The fact is, however, that the whole
strength of the Third party canvass is
being put this year into the Northern
doubtful States, or those which De-
mocrats think are doubtful while in
the Southern States that Republicans
class as doubtful no canvass at all is
made by the Prohibition managers.
In other words. the Third party is act
ing, in this campaign, simply and
solely for Democratic success. When
we say this we do not mean that the
rank and file of the party are actuated
by any such motive. The majority of
the men who vote the Prohibition
ticket do so from pure, if erroneous,
motives But the managers find it
easy to direct the canvass as they
please, and they do please to direct it
as we have said.
A confirmation of this view is af-
forded by an interview recently had
with Third party leader in Virginia.
and printed in the Harrisonburg Re
publican. When asked why the Prohi-
bitiouists were not active in Virginia
this year, this leader said: 1.-The Ma
tional Committee are making special
effort and spending their main strength
in certain States, New York, New Jer-
sey, Connecticut, Indiana, Michigan,
Illinois and Minnesota Our party
wants these States to go Democratic.
You see, if the Republican party loses
those States it loses the election and
goes to pieces. If it succeeds in this
election it regains firm power. Our
hope for 1892, to have any prestige in
that election. is to burst up the Repub-
lican party"
..You viii p,sbably not poll your
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
A GRANT COUNTY WAR.

A County Seat Contest Leads to More
Trouble-Ulysses and AppOmattox at
War.
GARDEN CITY, Kan, Oct 19.-Latest re.
ports from Grant County are that Ulysses
received clear majority of 2,15O over all
competitors at the county seat election
Tuesday. The rival towns were Ulysses,
Appomattox, Golden, Shockeyville and
Spurgeon.
The residents of Appomattox accuse
General T. T. Taylor and Colonel J. A.
Grayson, of Hutchinson, who are members
of their town company and who managed
the campaign for them, of selling them
out, and a mob of irate citizens captured
them and threatened them with violence,
but the sheriff and posse rescued them.
Colonel Grayson, who was in this city
yesterday, said that the Appomattox
and Ulysses town companies entered into
articles of agreement that no doodle"
should be used, the forfeit in case of vio-
lation to be $4,000. About three o'clock
on election day, it is alleged, the Ulysses
people commenced using their money
lavishly to buy votes. This so enraged
the Appomattox people that they at once
seized General Taylor and Colonel
Grayson and put them under guard.
Threats of lynching were freely
made and they were forced to assign
to the leaders of the mob the agree
ment with the Ulysses Town Company,
and to give warranty deeds to all the
property they owned in Appomattox or
elsewhere. Not content with this, checks
aggregating $4,000 on every bank in
which the two were supposed to have
money were presented, and the prisoners
signed them without a murmur. They
made written acknowledgment at the sug-
gestion of the mob that their action was of
their own free will. At night, guarded
by nine friends, they went to Hartland.
where they boarded the train.
Payment of all the checks has been
stopped by telegraph and proceedings will
be commenced to set aside the deeds they
signed at the request" of their captain.
General Taylor is now at Larkin while
Colonel Grayson has gone to Hutchinson.
They consider themselves lucky to have
escaped with sound necks.
It is thought the mob has gone on to
Ulysses to make an attempt to collect the
SIC, 900 forfeit and war is feared.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
Delicacy of the Mexicans.

They are delicate in Mexico. They
have nice ways of putting things that
would in blunt language hurt the
feelings. You remember the young
lady who went to have a look at San
Quentin and got in conversation with
a prisoner, and wished to ask how long
he was in for in delicate way. She
asked:
"How long do you expect to be away
from home?"
There was a lady in the country
whose husband had been given four
teen days for a spree and fight. The
day after he was sentenced a city
friend called upon her.
s.And where is your husband?"
John? Oh, John went down to the
court house yesterday on some bust
ness, and / don't think that he'll be
back for couple Of weeks"
A friend of mine received a letter
from a lawyer in Mexico on some land
business few days ago. After somi
other information he wrote:
81 have written to Senor--
about the documents and am awaiting
his reply. He has not answered,
although there has been plenty of
time. 1 hear that he is in Jail, and
that, of course. handicaps him some
what. San Francisco Chronicle.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
THE SAVAGE WAY.
How the Indian Treats an Injury - Oh
Time Methods.

How the Indian Treats an Injury - Ol8
Time Methods.
The savage is emphatically the child Of
nature He lives close to nature, his only
education is gained in natures school
When the Indian receives an injury. he
does not seek cure in mineral poisons, but
binds on the simple leaf, administers the
herbal tea, and, with natures aid, comes
natural recovery.
Our rugged ancestors, who pierced the
wilderness, built their uncouth but COM
Portable Log Cabins and started the clear
ings in the woods, which in time became
the broad, fertile fields Of the modern farm
er, found in roots and herbs that lay
close at hand natures potent remedies for
all their common ailments. 1t was only in
very serious cases they sent for old sad
die bags" with his physic, which quite as
often killed as cured.
Latter day society has wandered too far
away from nature, in every way, Tor its
own good Our grandfathers and grand
mothers lived wholesomer, purer, better,
healthier, more natural lives than we do.
Their minds were not filled with noxious
isms, nor their bodies saturated with poi
sonous drugs.
Is it not time to make change to return
to the simple vegetable preparations of our
grandmothers, which contained the power
and potency of nature as remedial agents.
and in all the ordinary ailments were
eficacious, at least harmless.
The proprietors of Warmers Log Cabin
remedies have thought so, and have put on
the market number Of these pure vege-
table preparations made from formulas Sc
cured after patient searching into the annals
of the past, so that those who want them
need not be without them.
Among these Log Cabin remedies will be
found LOG Cabin sarsparilla," tor the
blood; "Log Cabin hops and buchu RENE
dy," tonic and stomach remedy; LOG
Cabin cough and consumption remedy"
"Log Cabin hair tonic" for Strengthening
and renewing the hair; Ga Log Cabin ex.
tract" for both external and internal appli.
cation; "Log Cabin liver pills." LOG
Cabin rose cream" an old but effective
remedy for catarrh, and "Log Cabin plas-
ters." All these remedies are carefully pre-
pared from recipes which were found. after
long investigation, to have been those most
successfully used by our grandmothers OF
I've olden time" They are the simple, veg
etable, eficacious remedies Of Log Cabin
days.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

full vote in Virginia on that account,
will your
.'Oh, no. In the North we draw
most of our votes from the Republican
party, while in the South and here it
is the reverse. 1t won't do to get 700
many votes in Virginia, else the old
State might go Republican.
This interview, which comes from
the editor himself, sufficiently explains
the purposes of the Third party lead
ers. Incidentally, too, it throws some
light on the recent .'rainbow-chasing"
expedition of Colonel Brice, chairman
of the Democratic National Committee,
which was made to just the Western
States named in this interview as those
in which the Prohibitionists hope to
draw off enough Republican votes to
help the Democrats into power.-M y
Nail and Express.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
Humbert and His Cigar.

Here is a good story of the King OF
Italy. 1t is commended to the thou.
sands of Americans, rich and poor, who
are killing themselves by excessive
smoking. The King of Italy is known
for his temperance in all things, except
smoking. He is an exceedingly small
eater, and, as to drink, his guests may
have it in plenty, but his own favorite
''tipple" is water. His one great
weakness was a good cigar. In this
respect he had abused himself until
his nerves had begun to suffer; he had
asthmatic turns, could sleep but little,
and then had to be propped up by
plenty of pillows. Some weeks ago
his physician told him what was the
matter, and King Humbert said:
From this day forth 1 will not smoke
another cigar or any thing in the
shape of tobacco" The result has
been a most noticeable improvement
in his health. King Humbert is a man
of iron will, and no one doubts that he
will keep his pledge to the end of life.
Paris american Register.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
INVOICE RECEIVED JUNE S"
CLEVELAND N0klI MATED JUNE6n"
WHAT ENGLAND THINKS OF IT.

The main question at issue is English free
trade against the continental system Of pro-
tection.-Lond0B Sunday Times, july Is.
The American election is infinitely more i'm
portant to Englishmen than their own internal
politics just at this juucture. The result of the
American election will help TO decide many i'm
portant issues in Great Britain.-L0ndOR Sun
day Times. july Is.
President Cleveland shows that he is the
free-trade candidate in every thing but name.
The reservation is an important one for Amer
lean party purposes. The President feels COM
PEELED to characterize the attempt to brand
him as free trader as deception, but for all
that the electoral conflict nOlU in progress is q
conflict betaCeet free trade and protection and
nothing naOre.-LOndOn Daily Necs.
We may look to an impetus beng given to
our home trade that will go far 10 make up for
the depression of late years. -HaddiHgst0nstire
Courier.
Mr.. Cleveland has taken his stand on free
trade And on that broad question
Mr.. Cleveland's candidature naturally and
necessarily carries English sympathy.-LOR-
don Globe.
The electoral conflict now in progress is q
conf ct between free trade and protect on and
nothing less. The stone now set rolling will
not stop until it has broken the idol of protec-
tion to pieces.-LoEd0R Mems.
It may be admitted that large reductions in
the duties on imported manufactured goods
would produce great distress in many parts O.:
the United States. The free importation of
iron, coal and wool would be a great boon to
British producers. = II once the United
States finds herself on the road to free trade
she will hardly know where to stop.-TAs
Scotsman, December 10.
II President Cleveland should be able to
carry out his plan for admission into America
free of duty, one of the first effects which
would be produced on the English iron trade
would be the transferepGe Of much of the
enormous stocks OF pig iron in the Scotch and
Cleveland markets to United States ports.
Shipments OF hematites from Scotland and
from the west coast OF England would also in
crease. The iron-ore mines of Lancashire and
West Cumberland would be certain to do q
greatly enlarged trade with the United States.
The future course of events will be watched
with considerable interest by the British iron
trade.-LOndon CoiIiery Guardian December
10, 1857.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
Canadian Relations.

OTTAWA, Ont, Oct. 19.-Hon. j. A. Chap
leau, Secretary of State. was banqueted
last night by the W orkingmen's Conserva-
tive Association. He ridiculed the idea
of annexation, and said that the
Englishmen and true French Canadians
would never permit it to take place.
Canada was destined to build up great
nationality. He denied that they desired
to bully the A mericans. Sir John A. Mac
donald said there is no danger of war be-
tween Canada and the United States. He
felt hopeful of satisfactory settlement
of the fishery question Canada is in
critical period and must be cool. II the
new treaty can not be negotiated Canada
will revert to the treaty of 1918.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

These tables are as strictly accurate
and impartial as they can be made.
The wages given are those actually
paid to operatives employed in various
classes of labor specified, and in fig
uring the averages the pay of superin-
tendents and foremen are carefully ex-
Guided.
Here then are the figures. The av-
erage pay per day received by $780,
499 persons in the forty-five occupations
enumerated was $1.S5 in 1880 under
protection. against $1.322 in 1860 I'M
der low tariff, an increase during the
twenty years of 80 Clio per cent.-Troy
en- " Times.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

B6-About a year ago Allen G. Thur
man said to reporter of the Boston
Globe: q will never run for a politi-
cal Office again. My day is gone" We
do not in the least question the truth
of that last remark, but Mr.. Thurman
ought not to let slip the chance that a
letter of acceptance would give him of
explaining why he has in less than one
brief year changed his mind about
running for political Office Chicago
Tribune.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
OF internal revenue the report saws:

OF internal revenue the report says:
Your committee have considered numerous
suggestions for the repeal CT all internal rev.
enue taxes and the abolition OF the entire in
ternal revenue systems, but they deem the
adoption Of this course at present both i'm
practicable and unwise, not only because the
repeal of these taxes would create a large an
nual deficit, but for the further reason that the
taxes levied on distilled spirits used as bev-
erage and on beer should be retained, and the
legislation to pro ect American dairy products
from fraudulent limitations should be enforced.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
WAGES IN AMERICA.
How Protection Has Raised the Pay of
American Working-Men.

How Protection Has Raised the Pay of
American Working-Men.
Under the shelter of protection the
American people have advanced in
wealth until they stand first in all the
world. This advance has not been at
tanned at the expense of the many and
Injured to the benefit of the few. All
have shared in it. Wage-earners es-
pecially have profited. Below we ap-
pend tables computed from reports
contained in volume Xxx. of the tenth
census, prepared in 1880. The exhibit
is convincing one. In 1869 we had a
low tariff. In 1880 a protective tariff
had been in operation nineteen years.
Now make the comparisons:
WAGES IN 1850 AND 1850.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
TIlDEN AND CLEVELAND.
Why Mr.. Randall Has Been Slaughtere
by the President.

why Mr.. Randall Has Been Slaughtered
by the President.
When Mr.. Tilden was alive he was
the real leader of Democratic opinion.
He impressed his views on Mr.. Randall,
Mr.. Converse and other Democratic
leaders, and they are embodied in the
tariff plank of the platform Of four
years ago. Because Mr.. Cleveland has
made wide departure from that plat
form and the views of Mr.. Tilden, Mr..
Converse has decided to support Har-
rison and protection on the stump and
at the polls.
The sole excuse for Mr.. Cleveland's
departure from the attitude of Tilden
Democracy is the alleged menace of
the surplus revenue. But Mr.. Tilden
foresaw this issue and put his views on
record. To show the wide divergence
of the Tilden and the Cleveland De
mocracy it is only necessary to COM
pare the following quotations:
TILDEN CLEVELAND.
In considering the Diverse plans have
state and management been suggested for the
of the public revenues. return Of this accumu-
the subject involves thelated surplus to the peo-
questions whether welple and channels of
shall extnguish theltrade Some of these
surplus by reducing the devices are at variance
revenue, or whether we with all rules of good
shall apply the su<plusj finance. Some are de
to payments on the pub we some are absurd
lie debt or whether weland some betray by
shall seize the occasion their reckless extrava-
to provide for our sea- gance the demoralizing
coast defenses, which influence Of great sur
have been too long neg-lplus OF public money
lected. upon the judgment Of
I am Of the observation-disclosures.
that the latter is par
amount necessitywhIch,
ought to precede the re-
duction OF the revenue,
and ought also to pref
cede an excessive rap-
idity in the payment OF
the public debt
For standing by the Tilden views,
Mr.. Randall has been slaughtered by
the Cleveland Administration. It is
not surprising that such friends and
followers of Tilden as ex-Congressman
Converse. should refuse to vote for
Cleveland Sentinel
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
Internally Brutal.

ST.. LOUIS, Oct. 1S.-In Carondelet Tues
day night number Of vicious street boys
took Freddie Groman, an inoffensive child
aged six, and after subjecting him to all
manner of malicious indignities, tied him
to a COW, which they chased with dogs.
The result was that the little boy was
bruised to insensibility, and scarcely any
hope of his recovery exists.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
Blaine at Chicago.

CHICAGO, Oct 19.-Hpn. James G. Blaine
remained in his rooms at the Grand Pacific
Hotel yesterday and received no callers.
He will remain here till Saturday evening,
when he will address a meeting at Battery
d armory. Local Republicans are making
preparations for a great demonstration on
that occasion.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
Thurman at Perm.

PERU, Ind, Oct. 19.-The Democrats
gave a barbecue at this place yesterday,
the occasion being the visit of Judgs
Thurman and party. Despite bad weathe,
many thousands were present and listened
to Thurman's views of the tariff and tbs
Democratic party.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

sThe Senate proposes 10 reform
the tariff, while the House proposes
to destroy it. That is the real issuA
and the voter who can't see ID Shouts
consult an occulist without dalad.-
Philadelphia Press
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
sGT oo- laoI> Droffu

81 may look pretty rough now,
SIR" remarked the tramp, "but I've
seen the time when / had only to reach
out my arm to pick up handful of
diamonds. Swell, here's a quarter,
but you should have looked out
sharper" 81 did, sir; but the fact is
they were watching me too close."-
jewelers. Weekly.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
Mark the Contrast.

There was a certain
solemn and awful day
in her history in 1852,
when President Lin.
coin had called for.
900, 900 more" and her.
loving husband. who.
has Just returned from
a three months service
at the front, was called
into the ONCE of the
great war Governor,
Oliver p. Morton, who
saw him passing by.
and said to him: ben.
these are discouraging.
days. / don't know
what We are going TO
do with so many trea-.
sonable elements TO
contend with in our
State. Slowly and
tentatively he con-
tinued: Gould you
raise a company and go
out at its head to slim
ulate others by your
example, The young
man did not hastily
promise, but walked
thoughtfully homeward
into the presence OF his
wife, Rugged his little
boy and girl with more
than usual tenderness.
and said: Carrie, thel
Governor wants me to-
go back to the front
Can you and the babies
get along without me
for q little whilel
again:" Mrs. Harrison,
like the patriotic
woman she was, said,
with q blanched face
and choking voice:
"Yes, Ben, We will tryl
to get along somehow,
il the country needs
you"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

SCENE, UFFALo,
TINE, 1862. - Grover
cleveland. a strong.
lusty young man of
twenty-five, unmarried,
with no family depend
ing upon him for sup
port, also hears the ap-
peal of Lincoln, but
gives no response, not
even q word of sympa-
thy. The draft follows.
He locks his office door,
walks down the docks
and hires o poor sailor,
who goes as his substi-
itute. and afterwards is
allowed to die in the
poor-house.