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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-11-20
What Next .

Now that the smoke OF the recent bat
tie has cleared away, and in cooler mo-
ments the average citizen has analysed,
each for himself, the various causes which
led to the defeat Of the Democrats and the
success of the Republicans in the national
election, the grand consensus of popular
opinion must crv~talize into the convic-
ton that the explanation of the result
may be expressed in single word
MONEY!
Unlimited command of cash is what did
it
The protected manufacturers spent mil
lions of their ill-gotten wealth to carry
the election, and would have spent mil
lions more-just as many millions as
should have been considered necessary to
fasten upon the necks Of sixty or seventy
millions of free Americans the collars of a
serfdom, beside which the inhumanities of
Russian tyranny are but a fairy tale.
What are the Democrats going to do
about it?
Disband the party
Rest quietly under the disgrace and
odium OF defeat, and let the Republicans
enjoy another quarter of a century of OPP
preston, riot, plumber and unmolested
accumulation into the hands of the few of
the wealth which belongs to all
NEVER!
What is to be done, then
This is what may be done, if the Dem
ocratic leaders are capable of it,
Begin the campaign Of 1892 intmeoH-
ateiy!
Reorganize the National Campaign
Committee at once!
Don't wait until midsummer of the
year of election to begin work" Begin
right no,c!
Call on every voter in the United
States, Figure it up for yourselves, read
ers, and see how many of them there are)
who voted for Cleveland and Tariff Re
form to contribute one dollar to cam
paign fund.-
Use this fund in putting into the hands
of every voter-Democrat or Republican
in the United States such campaign
literature" on the subject of the issues of
the recent campaign, as will fully inforn
them thereon.
When the fund is exhausted, call for
another dolinr from every Cleveland and
Reform voter in the country, and keep
sending out the documents, telling the
people tie TRUTH Don't rely altogether
on the newspapers. Many voter can't
afford to read but one newspaper. Thou
sands do not read them at all; but if
these received through the mails, prop
erly addressed, from time to time, such
matter as is used during campaign, the
education of the public mind to a full
comprehension of the merits of the con-
test which is to come-inevitabIy- Your
years hence, will have been largely ac-
compli>hed.
Will the leaders see their duty?
II. Il -
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-Messrs. James Harden and e. \. Il.
Stevens have purchased the Barlow Cou'
rier-L.to rmaant from the Tatum Bros.
Mr.. Stevens will be editor of the paper
He is a good writer and will keep it up
to its past high standard. Mrs. Beulah
Stevens, wife Of the new editor, is writer
Of fine ability-a literary genius-and
has written some excellent poetry as well
as prose- We hope that Mrs. Stevens
will contribute to the columns of the Co"'
rier-I ntoru,ant.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-11-20
The Alabama Legislature met last


The Democracy of South Florida did
its part we'll in the election.
The Vestibule trains to FLORIDA VIII
becin running again on the 9th OF Janu-
airy.
-Hillsborough county polled the larg-
est Democratic vote this year ever known
in its history.
See our big FLoRIDIAN and Texas
,Sittings offer. Both for whole year for
only 81. u
Rev. O. A. Myers has withdrawn
from the editorial staff of the Key West
Equator-Democrot.
Preparations are being made to take
observations of the total eclipse of the
sun on January LIST, next.
1t is said that the people of the
United States spend annually for chewing
gum more than 81 100000.
Miss Alice d. Stockton is running as
the candidate of the Equal Rights party
for Governor of Massachusetts,
The Empress of Austria is thinking
of visiting the United States. We would
be pleased to have her spend season in
Tallahassee
A dental school for negroes has been
established at Nashville, Tennessee. 1t
is the first institution Of the kind in the
world
Hamilton Dsston was one of Phila-
delphia syndicate that scooped in $225,-
900 in election bets in New York City
Mr.. Disston's individual share of the win
nings is $4,000.
Hon. Joseph Chamberlin, member Of
the British Parliament, was married at
Washington, ID. c., on last Thursday, to
Miss Mary Endicott, daughter of the
Secretary of War This is said to be a
genuine love match.
The Monticello Conaitution will
publish 10000 illustrated and dcscrip-
tive pamphlets Of Monticello aud Jeff-r-
son county. Every citizen should take
an interest III the work and literally pat
ronize It's advertising space.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie says: We
can now look forward to our business
with great confidence" referring proba--
Lly to monopolists. Does he dream Of
another years profits TO himself Of 81 500,
900, while his employees get 90 cents a
day each --Surnnnuh .Netcs
-Surgeon-Generll John l.. Hamilton
was, at special meeting OF the trustees
held in Chicago last week, unanimously
elected to succeed the venerable DR.. y
S Davis as Editor of the Journal OF the
American Medical Association. He will
a,~um. charge Of the Publication Oh Janu
AIRY LIST.
More important than the reason of
Clevel tnd'S defeat is the duty Of South
ern Democrats for the future. What
Shall we do? There is but one answer TO
this question. Dfaw the Democratic lines
all the closer, and against internal divi-
sion or externel pressure, keep the party
ranks unbroken. - .IUtnta Constttutiou
The vote for State Senator in the
Fifth Senatorial District was as follows
In Wakuila county --Swearingen, 23l
CasSeaux, 246; Shepard, I. In Liberty
Shepard, 81. In Franklin county
Swearingrn, 356 CAsseaux, 1; Shepard,
o92 Swear Upu'S maturity over both
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-11-20

Mr.. Thurman celebrated his 18th
birthday last Tuesday.
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give ytutI ooUioIdOUIUn. uoUfOaio,
e., IL
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-11-20

United States 1t will pay you to examine my
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-09-14

When the committee came TO state before
the encampment the fact of the presidents
veto, the announcement was received by the
assembled delegates with applause, Kisses
and some Interruptions"
The report continues "Your committee
thereupon, after the veto, prepared new
pension bill embodying in degree all of the
general recommendations made by it. This
now makes provision for pensioning all
veterans who are now or may hereafter be-
come unable TO earn their own livelihood
The bill is similar in general principle to that
vetoed, but the Objectionable pauper clause is
omitted making this disability, not a de-
pendent bill"
Tho comrades who were delegates at St
Louis evidently did not accept tho conclusion
of the committee that the objectionable
pauper clause" was omitted. AS soon as the
reading was finished there was n cry of mo
debate No debated" and, although many at
tempted to speak, the vote was rushed
through and the report adopted The vote
was not unanimous.
The monthly pension asked for in this case
was to he SIP, whereas a fully disabled sol
der draws but IS at the highest. Tho pau
per clause Ill the vetoed bin was as follows
All honorably discharged veterans who served
three months, land who arc now or who may
hereafter be suffering from mental or physi-
cal disability, not the result Of their own
vicious habits or gross CaIsleaSncsS, which in
capacitatcs them from the performance of
labor in such IA degree rs to render them UNI
able to earn support, and who are de
pendent upon their daily labor for support
In the new bill rs reported by the commit
tee tho wording is: ''mental or physical dis
ability, not the result of tIair own vicious
habits, which totally iucapacita .es them for
the performance of manual laborn
There We're other measures in the i'll as
agreed upon by the committee. One GRANTED
II a month to widows OF veterans. ,.... her
pensions to war prison sur> ivurS. and others
certain increases in the pre- cnt p. ~ ion rates
As soon us the new hill was pul. shcd the
veterans began to critlcisc the policy oil send
ing back to congress bill quite as obiec-
tionablo rs the one vetoed, and which would
probably meet the same fate. How general
this feeling was may he seen from the fact
that at the annual encampments of the depart
nents of the Grand Army, Minnesota,
Illinois and New Hampshire alone indorsed
the bill termed by the committee the disability
bill. Other departments expressed prefer
ences for other bills, and the most popular
and important of these has become known
in the Grand Army and in congress as the
PER DIEM SERVICE BILL.
This measure will receive attention from
the veterans at Columbus While the ma
tional encainpment was acting, as has been
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-09-14

gan, at Grand Rapids; Of New York. at
Bath. Sandusky is to have also the Ohio
Soldiers and Sailors Orphan home, with a
capacity of l,4OO inmates Ohio has nearly
200 Grand Army posts.
The general council applied to Ex-Governor
Brown, OF Georgia, president of tho Western
and Atlantic railroad, for information about
the famous locomotive, the General" that
was captured in 1852 by band # Ohio men
known as railroad raiders. The governor
says that the engine is in order ard may be
had for exhibition by the G. a. Il. boys if
they Will call Tor Il at Chattanooga.
The reports Of the NOman's Relief corps
for 1887 show l5S3 local corps and a MEM
bership of jJ,3l0, The amouaJ expended in
relief during the year WAS S34,J.-; persons
relieved, 4,3j5; amount in general fund,
$780, i'll relief fund, 1922.
Tho Wells Relief corps and th> Vomans
Soldiers Aid society, auxiliary to j. &. Nc
Coy post, of Columbus, Will welcome she rep
resentatives of the w, r. c. to CoiuIubus. q
The Grand Army record of Iowa is good
example of membership At the close of
1887 there were 1876 posts, having a membere
ship of II, GAG Iowa will be represented at
Columbus by nineteen delegates; that is one
for each l 900 members and fraction of l,0O0,t
and one delegate at large. Department re-
ceipts for 1887 We're $6,3i9; expenditures,
S5,s3s. GEORGE L. KILMBfa i
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league, and Ohio, with Soldiers Aid soci-
ETY., all held that tho membership should be
restricted to the wives, mothers sisters and
daughters of soldiers, while the Union board
would admit all loyal women. In 1851 the
friends of the latter association in the Grand
Army presented the claims of the Woman's
National Relief corps to the national encamp-
ment at indianapolis, but failed to secure rec
ognition. In 1888, at the Denver encampment,
the corps became officially recognized, and is
now included in the programme of each
national encampment as "a feature of the
reunion, although the proceedings neces-
sarily are separate because the women are
not members Of the Grand Army, and the lat
ter convenes in secret session. 1t was this
fact, namely, that the members of the corps
cannot belong to the Grand Army, that led to
opposition to any official recognition of the
women by the order But as an auxiliary
corps in the relief work there is place for
the association, and the union is drawing
closer, as the corps becomes acquainted with
the necessities of the comrades which it can
attend to-
Since the recognition by the national en-
campment Of the Grand Army the corps has
made great progress. The first president was
Mrs. e. Florence Barker, of Massachusetts,.
The first annual report showed membership
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-09-14

Ohio posts of the Grand Army were organ
lied into department Jan. 80, 1861, and at
the end of the year reported 303 organized
posts. In tho first annual encampment after
its organization, that at Philadelphia, tine
department was represented by thirty-four
delegates, the second highest on the list Hi
nois the home of the order, stood first at
that date.
Tho officers Of the department at this timo
are Joseph w. O'Neall, Of Lebanon, depart
ment commander; John w. Chaplin, Of Co
lumba, senior vice commander; II. a. Pipn,
of MaSsillou, junior vice commander; f. a.
Kitchen, Toledo, medical director; Rev. r.
j. Sheppard, Bucyrus, chaplain; II. U. John
son, Ashtabula, historian. The last depart
ment encampment was held at Toledo in
April, after the selection of Columbus as the
place of holding the national encaMpment.
At this time Comrade O'Neall was elected
department commander, and in his first order
he said:
Comrades, this is Ohio's centennial year
1.-THE northwest centenniall The national
encampment will meet in the capital city of
our state. Ohio, now second in numbers
only TO Pennsylvania, ought no longer to be
satisfied to occupy the second place. We
belong ON tho right lat the headl; united
effort will give us that place"
Tho department Of Ohio has twice been
honorcd by the selection of a commander-in-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-09-14
G. A. r. MEMORIAL WORK.

The work of the Grand Army will not
cease even though every needy veteran
should be made comfortable for life by pen
sions and suitable asylums 1t is maxim
that war is an educator, but it cannot be
called so unless its lessons are well digested
and handed down. In the excitement of war
the noblest lessons are lost To the Grand
Army has been committed the task of per-
petuating some of the nobest memories ever
associated with a great war The civil war
found the republic a scattered national
collection of peoples not a people. A COM
mon cause united them for struggle short
as compared with a lifetime: but in
that struggle nation came to life in
mems hearts, the spot where nations should
exist. The men of Maine, those of the
praires and those of the mountain empire:
the citizens of towns and the yeomanry Of
the vast provinces; those who spoke in va
ried tongues and held different ideals, came
together at the old camp fire on the field.
The influences of that association have been
to weld the states in sentiment, to show
common desire among all the citizens for
free and independent people ruling and
reigninS through intelligence and law.
These lessons the soldiers learned together at
the front. But i'll the busy world of every
day affairs men lose sight of these things.
The memorial work of the order is lust be-
ginning; that is, the formal collecting and
setting up of mementoes. Like all works of
the kind, this has but small beginnings and
is slow in progress The posts in the vicinity
of battletields have been noted for wears as
the pioneers i'll collecting trophies and relics
The Gettysburg post has a hall of its own and
some of the choicest relics from that field
have been placed in its care The post at
[ n
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-09-14

Stated, upon this question of pensions
at st. Louis, tho Union Veterans union
were in annual council ut Cleveland, and
among the measures presented there for ap-
proval was n service pension bill. Service
pensions have been granted to tho veterans
of past American wars, and there has been
feeling among veterans at large and in
the grand army as well, that a general
service pension law would do away with
relief to needy veterans and DO an econom-
zeal way for the country TO discharge its OBJ
legations. Massachusetts has presented n bill
in congress for some seasons past giving
every veteran So a month service pension.
New York has advocated service pension,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-09-14

"''1r'1H' IN Union, and has
a full gallery of notable portraits of Ohio's
Celebrated men.
In the capitol ample room has been set
apart for the general headquarters of the
national encampment and for all of the state
departments as WELL and this will bring
all the headquarters officers and bureaus to-
gether. The Metropolitan opera house will
be used for the business meetings of the
national body, where nearly thousand del
egates and officers, besides the visiting COM
rades willassemble for legislating and for the
annual exercises and elections. The arrange
ments made by the general council for
the success and comfort of the camp in
clude separate state camping grounds,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-09-14
SOLDIERS HOMES.

Another measure for the relief of veterans
is the maintenance Of homes for soldiers, and
in these the Grand Army have an active in
terest. One of the attractions for the veter-
ans from distance who will visit Ohio on
the occasion of the encampment will be the
home at Dayton, sixty odd miles from Column
bus, known as the Central Branch National
Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. This
institution, tho largest Of the kind in the
Union, was established soon after the war,
and in 1872 accommodated over 1000 soldiers.
Since that time many have been transferred
to branches nearer their homes, but fresh ar
rivals have sweled the list to over G,00O, ac-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-09-14

the department of Iowa indicates the stand
ing of the corps in the opinion of the vet
Grams:
Resolved, That we heartily recognize the
Woman's Relief corps, an able and efficient
auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, whose missions of mercy and loyal pre-
ceptS merit our earnest commentator.
The corps in California report $1,000 ex-
pended in direct relief and 500 turned over
to posts of the Grand Army for disbursement.
The local associations in that department,
under the leadership of Past National Presi-
dent Mrs. Elizabeth Darcy Kline, are rails
ing funds for a home at San jose for the
widows and orphans of soldiers. The national
president of the corps for this year is Emma
Stark Hampton, of Detroit. The present
membership is estimated at 10000.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-09-14

CAMP FIRE TENT, SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA.
stitute the belt where the bronze badges of
fraternity, charity and loyalty are to be met
with in every assemblage of men in the ma
turity. In 1880 the camp was held at Day
ton, and since that time Minneapolis and st.
Louis have been the places nearest the center
that have had encampments Columbus is
also near the birth place of the order, for it
originated in Indiana, having it's first en-
campment in indianapolis in 1866 The sec
ond successful encampment after the order
was organized throughout the nation was
held in Cincinnati in 1860.
The places and dates of national encamp-
ments since 1866 were as follows: 1866, In
dianapolis; 1868, Philadelphia; 1869, Cincin-
natl; 1870, Washington; 1871, Boston; 1872,
Cleveland; 1878, New Haven; 1874, Harris
burg; 1875, Chicago; 1876, Philadelphia
1877, Providenco; 1878, Springfield, Mass. ;
1879, Albany; 1880, Dayton; 1881, Indianap-
oils; 1882, Baltimore; 1888, Denver; 1854,
Minneapolis; 1885, Portland, Me ; 1886, San
Francisco; 1887, st. Louis. There was no
national encampment in 1867, as the change
of time threw it forward into 1868, when it
was held in Philadelphia Jan. 10, IL and II,
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of less than 1000 and an expenditure for
charity of 1920. At the st. Louis conven-
ton last year the report showed that $57 900
had been czpen led that year for relief to
over 12OOO persons. In the convention there
werc over 1000 members Of the association
and 800 delegates
e The organization Of tho Womans Relief
corps is similar to that of the Grand Army
The National corps has a president, keeping
up national headquarters. Each state Tor
in some cases two states forms a depart
ment, having also headquarters and a presi-
dent with full staff. Tho local organiza-
ton is called corps, and is named in honor
of some soldier or friend of veterans, The
corps acting with Parmalee Post, G. A. R.,
of Guilford, Conn, for instance, is called
Parmalee Corps. The work done by the
corps is relief to needy individuals and
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-09-14

where there will be
tents pitched ready
for occupation the
first day. These
grounds will be il
Illuminated by cleo
trio lights, will be
cared for and
guarded by the
general committee
and will be sup
piled with plat
forms for open air
camp fires. There
is to be likewise a
monster tent, hold
ing, it is estimated,
l5.0O0 to %. 00O
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-09-14

NATIONAL SOLDIERS HOME, DAYTON, o.
the recommendations to congress, made by
the board i'll the last report, are additional
houses, or enlargement of the branches, or
encouragement OF the establishment OF state
homes, OF appropriations for outdoor relief
for those soldiers who cannot be admitted to
existing branches. Tho board cnforces its
proposition by arguing that 1.-THE survivors of
the war are growing Old, their disabilities
are severor, and the number who are unable
to support themselves is for these reasons
rapidly increasing"
The total number now in the homes is
about 1900. The congressional committee
having the matter in charge recently re-
ported a bill to distribute $3.50, 900 annually to
the states to encourage state soldiers homes.
The different state homes are directly modi-
fled by the state enCampments of the Grand
Army, which usually supplies some members
of the state board, and appoints a visiting
committee to report on the condition of the
men in the home at each annual encampment.
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stanch Grand Army man, and is naturally
a representative one. While yet a boy the
present governor became soldier by enlist
ing as a private in an Ohio regiment He
earned promotion gradually, until he became
an officer ON the staff of Gen. Slocum, com
manding the Army of Georgia, At tho end
of the war Foraker completed his education,
which had been interrupted by his service,
and has made his way to his present high
position by winning promotion soldier fash
ion-that is, by attention to duty
The executive board or general council
having in charge the arrangements for the
coming national encampment is composed Of
eighteen members, with comrade A. G.. Pat
ton, of Columbus, chairman; c. d. Firestone,
vice chairman, and Alfred l.. Lee, secretary.
The first circular of tho council was issued in
February last, and after announcing the
details for committee work, which Includes
besides the important item of finance, the
preparations for parades, camps, reception
barracks, decoration, illumination, boarding
transportation and places Of meeting, the
managers showed their understanding Of
their task by giving the following summary Of
the outlook for the encampmeut: The indica-
tions now multiply daily that the attendance
at tho twenty -second national encampment
will by far exceed that of any such encamp-
ment yet held. The central situation Of
Ohio and her capital, geographically, to-
gether with the low rate of fare already as
sured on all the leading railway lines, will
facilitate such a reunion of the veteran
civilian soldiers of the republic as, in point
of numbers and spirit, has never been
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lar features of the
encampment. Mil
waukee is in the
field for the en-
campment for 1889.
Gen. Curtis will
probably carry ma
tional headquarters
to New York state
for lSSS-S9, and the
veterans think that
the encampment is
due there a b on t
the same time.
The S older $
home of the state
Of Ohio is at Sam
dusky. of NIichi-