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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27
GLORIOUS VICTORY.
The Loyalty Of Maine to Harrison and
Republican Principles.

Ine Loyalty OF Maine 60 darr1SOn ana
Republican Principles.
"Have you heard the news from
Mainep" II not, then listen to the
shouts of 1888 that re-echo those of
1910. The State again has set the
ball a-rolling for another Harrison.
She has gone for Burleigh, and not
for Kent, but she has gone "hell-
bent all the same. She has given the
Republican candidate for Governor a
plurality of about 10000, and has done
it in spite of the bitterness and ugliest
fight on the part of the Democrats,
who have striven tooth and nail to
keep him down to about 1000. Had
they done that they would have gained
a practical victory. The Republicans
hoped that they would be able to put
their man 10000 ahead of his Demo-
cratic competitor. They would have
been satisfied with that, but they did
much better than they expected.
There has been a landslide, and the
causes which produced it will work in
New York and Connecticut The
Presidents letter did not help his
party; if any thing. it was the last
straw that broke its back.
At the Gubernatorial election Of 1884
the Republican plurality was 1900 on
total vote of 140.153. At the Presi-
Dental election on a smaller vote
Blaine's plurality was 2O.060. In Sep
@ap tAt ~
1876. the Republican plurality was only
1850. So this year bids fair to beat
the record. Congressman Reed, Ding
ley, Milliken and Boutelle, all Repub-
licans, are reelected. There was no
doubt as to any one except Reed, and
he has shared in the fruits of the gen
eral overturning, so that he will have
a larger majority than in 1886, when
he was 1,S26 votes ahead of his Demo-
cratic antagonist. The Legislature is,
of course, overwhelmingly Republican,
insuring the election of Republican
successor to Senator Frye.
The Democrats of Maine are a tough
lot. They have been banged and bat
tered by their opponents for twenty
five years until they have gotten as
gnarly and hard as pine tree knots.
They are past all hope of coE-
version, and they make 1t point
of honor to go to the polls, even
when they know that there is no
chance for them. They are an old
guard that will not surrender. Then
this year the State has been flooded
with money. The National Demo-
cratic Committee had even more than
they knew what to do with. They got
S150,000 from the President and his
Cabinet. They have the contributions
of Gould, Vanderbilt and the other
plutocrats. So they have poured the
cash into Maine hoping to get what
ever purchasable votes there may be
there. Then the Democrats have the
Federal offices, which they have not
held in a Presidential year sincs 1860.
There are thousand odd Federal
office-holders there, each one working
like beaver to hold on to the fat job
that he has. Each of them has been
the most Jealous kind of recruiting
officer. and has spent his own time
and that of the Government in seeking
to swell the vote of his party. And in
spite of it all Maine turns her back on
Cleveland, as she did on Van Buren,.
and is as loyal to Ben Harrison as she
was to his grandfather.-Ch Chicago
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27
MORE THAN A STRAW.

The Decay of Democratic Power and
Strength in Arkansas.
In 1884 the Democratic plurality in
the State of Arkansas was 46, 1856; in
1886 it was SO, $50; in the election just
held it is estimated to be $1,000, after
all the methods of counting" and
suppression known to the Bourbons of
that State have been applied for its
unlawful increase. For time it was
believed at Democratic headquarters
that the State was lost to the briga-
diers lately in command. 1t is not the
Republican party, though it is the
leaven of Republican principle, that
has been reducing Democratic MAORI
ties in Arkansas, and that threatens to
annihilate them.
1.-The Wheel" is a secret society
operating in some OF the Southern
States, much as the Changers once op-
Grated in the Middle States; in Ark
ansas its demands are
l. Consolidation of the National and
State elections, and rigid and severe
laws for the protection of the purity
of the ballot-box.
2. Protection to farm products.
8. State improvement by taxation.
The Wheel" being a secret So
ciety, decided to make no political
nominations, but it addressed the Dem
ocratic convention of the State of Ar
kansas, requesting it to emhody the de-
mands enumerated in its platform.
The convention politely refused to do
so. The convention of the United
Labor party did do so, and THE
Wheel supported the ticket and plat
form of that party with the effect al
ready noted.
Whatever organizations of farmers
or laborers have formed, they have
expressed themselves with great clear
ness upon the issues of purity in cleo
tons and protection to home indus
tries. 1t has been thus in Iowa, Illi-
nois, Tennessee, Missouri and Arkan-
sas. The resistance of the Southern
brigadiers to the demand for consol-
idation of State and National elections
is explained easily. They wish to keep
State elections out of Federal
supervision; they desire fraud and
force to 60 unchecked. The de-
sire of the farmers and laborers is
very different; they desire full and
free vote and fair count. The in
dustrial forces can not operate with
freedom in the presence of electoral
fraud. The plain, common people,
the citizens who work for living, are
DESTROYS of protection to home in
dustries, and such increased demand
for labor and of the food which labor
requires as public Improvements be-
get. The monopolists, whether they
be the planters of the Southern tier,
with Roger Q. Mills at their head, or
the coal barons of the North, with
Scott, of Erie, at their head, are in fa-
vor of legislation that makes labor
cheap, and the farm products which
feed it cheaper.
The well-nigh successful effort Of
The Wheel in Arkansas is some
thing more than political straw; it is
plain manifestation of the hostility
OF the agricultural and laboring peo-
pie to the Democratic policy of free
trade and to Democratic methods of
advancing that Chicago Inter
0cedn
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27
A TALK ON TRUSTS.
| Combinations That Have Been Formed
Under Cleveiands Administration.

Combinations That Have Been Formed
Under Cleveiand's Administration.
If Mr.. Blaine cares to investigate he
will learn that one of the most
arbitrary and absolute trusts in this
country is the coffin trust. An under
taker recently stated to the writer
that the coffin trust, composed of all
the manufacturers of collins and cask-
eta of the better grades, had fixed the
retail prices of those articles, and no
undertaken could buy their goods if he
cut the price one penny. This trust
was formed two or three years ago,
and it has fattened on the bones of the
dead, and the tariff has nothing what
ever to do with its creation or power.
He will discover that the most
gigantic trust in the world is the
Standard Oil trust, which is in ne way
affected by the tariff.
He will discover that the whisky
trust exists in all its glory-without
regard to the tariff.
He will learn that with one or two
exceptions all the trusts now in force
in this country have sprung up since
Grover Cleveland became President,
the Standard Oil and whisky trusts
being about the only exceptions.
He will learn that wheat corners,
and corn corners and pork corners
ex!a. aud that they are trusts as
arbitrary ss the sugar trust whenever
their manipulators see fit to create
them.
He will learn that the great railway
trunk lines form trusts to pool their
earnings, fix rates of freight and pas
senger rates, with pool or trust COM
missioner to determine the relative
rights and shares of the several men,
bers, and that they have no connection
with the tariff, and can have no such
connection.
He will learn that the silver mine
owners have trust which influences
Congress and controls legislative
bodies, and that to this silver trust we
are indebted for an unwieldy mass of
silver coins in the Treasury vaults
which the people do not need and
which the Treasury can not use to any
advantage whatever.
And the more he investigates the
more he will be convinced that the
trusts which Congress is just now wor-
rying over are of small concern COM
pared with those it has studiously
passed over in silence.
If some legal means could be adopt
ed to break them all down the people
would be greatly benefited. but the
man who holds the tariff responsible is
an ignoramus, be he in the White
House or in the halls of Congress.
They flourish like green bay tree
under the administration of Mr.. Grover
Cleveland-fiourish as never before.
and yet a half dozen Democratic
Houses of Representatives have gone
without any effort whatever to discover
ways and means of destroying them.
Il Fl. Mack.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27
THE VANISHING SURPLUS.
The Foundation Knocked Out from Under
the Democratic Position.

The Foundation Knocked Out from Under
the Democratic Position.
In his message last December
Grover Cleveland threatened the coun-
try with dire disaster if the surplus
went on piling itself up in the United
States Treasury. He wanted it put
in circulation, and he demanded of
Congress that it should forthwith re-
duce the revenues by cutting down the
tariff, the mode he indicated being to
destroy the protective feature of the
latter. 1t must have been a most dis
agreeable surprise to Cleveland when
he found that his bugaboo, with which
he hoped to brighten voters, had been
destroyed. and by his own party, too.
The Democratic stump orators and
the majority of its papers are keep
ing absolutely silent upon the matter.
They realize that it knocks the props
from beneath their position. Thur
man certainly knew that the surplus
is practically gone, yet in his Toledo
speech and elsewhere he repeated the
old statements about the enormous sur
plus and pictured the horrors that
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27

would follow if the tariff wasn't cut
down IN order to reduce what has
now no real existence.
In order that our readers may I'M
derstand the matter clearly We will
present the figu-es-which car De veri-
fed by any one from the Congressional
Record and the official statistics of the
Treasury. The following appropria-
ton bills have been passed by Con-
gress and are now laws:
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27

b%Vermont leads the van. The
great Republican gains show How
strongly the Free-Trade issue has
moved the American indignation Of
the intelligent farmers, artisans and
manufacturers of that State of school,
houses and churches, where pure and
unadulterated. old-fashioned Ameri-
canism plsvails.-M r Mail and ES.
press.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27
Total to date g.

The understanding is chat there arc
other subscriptions promised which
will swell the amount to $4,000, 900,
which will be the most prodigious
campaign fund ever raised in this or
any other country.
Five hundred thousand dollars will
pay the legitimate expenses of the
campaign.
What do the Democrats expect to do
with the remaining two million?
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27

Add the different totals together and
we have the sum of S42S, 269, $50. SO.
The Secretary of the Treasury esti-
mates the ordinary receipts for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1889. to be
1888, 200, 900. which, however. does not
include the postal revenues, estimated
at $57, 563. 900, and making a total of
$40, 563, 600 of estimated income, and
giving a surplus of only $12, 293. 479. 45
for the year.
The Presidents plan of campaign is
based on the constant accumulation of
the surplus. Here is clear proof that
the surplus is not accommodating, but
that the Democrats are spending the
revenues as fast as they come in. The
foundation is knocked out from under
the Democratic position. Toledo Blade.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27

%Boss Brice's fear that Cleveland
will be known as the Doodle candidate
Is well founded.-Rochestsr Democrat
end Chronicle.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27

R@Of all the products of the farms
OF this country over 80 per cent. is
consumed at home Production went
to work and built up home markets.
Detroit Tri6unA
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27
The Corruption Fund.

The Democratic Campaign Fund con-
tinues to grow in significant way that
bears no promise of an honest election:
The list now stands:
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27

Respectfully inform all who intend
building in Manchester and vicinity
that they are prepared to furnish
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-12-01
Humor Of the Day.


The warmest season-Cayenne
pepper.
A lump sum-The coal dealers
profits.
A rank deceiver-A visiting for
eigner with sham title.
The billy goat wears beard be-
cause he is a goat himself.
What is the board of education 7
The schoolmaster's sningle.
What sticketh closer than BROTH
er? A postage stamp, by gum.
fla young lady's maiden aim is
successful, she has no maiden name.
Writing for the magazines is a bus
mess that always brings big returns.
1t is probably the attention paid it
that makes the weather vane.
What is the difference between an
engineer and school teacher2 One
trains the mind and the other minds
the train.
What is the difference between q
soldier and q pretty woman? One
faces the powder and the other pow
ders the face.
Day is not easily discouraged. AL
though it breaks at its very start, it
keeps right on just the same as If
nothing had happened.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-12-01

A New England genius has recent
~ discovered cheap method of dis
solving zinc by combining it with
hydrogen and producing a solution
called zinc powder. This liquid, if
applied to certain woods, will render
them absolutely fire proof, and at a
low cost. The discovery will revo-
lutionize fire insurance and immense
~ decrease the loss by fire. The in
ventor is bungling chemist who &C
cidentally discovered the solution
while making experiments for anoth-
er matter.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-12-01
News and Notes for Women.


favored for little girls.
Miss E. T. Wragg, of Charleston,
S. O., is an expert engrayer.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is
spending the winter at Omaha, Neb.
A Detroit factory is building a
$l700 organ for the Queen of Por
tugal.
The ST. Louis Higienic College of
Physicians and Surgeons has a wo-
man as Dean.
The Empress of Japan is said to
be learning the piano-forte, under q
German master.
American women have been grant
ed patents at the rate of two week
so far this year.
Mrs. Richard Stillwagon, Of Flush
ing, Long Island, is l04 years old
and in good health.
Frances p. Willard is elected Pres
ident Of the Worlds w. C. 7. U. for
the next Two years.
There is rumor that Walt Whit
man Clubs will be fashionable in Bos-
ton the coming season.
In England the poorest working
girl would not carry cotton um-
brella She must have silk.
DR.. Harriet Jones has charge of
the women's department of the In
sane Asylum. at Weston, w. Va.
Paris is said to be full to overflow
ing with ladies from all parts of the
world seeking the latest fashions.
Russian styles are coming into
vogue. Many Russian wraps and
gowns gre coming over from Paris
this season.
Miss Louise Curtis, of New York,
was for years the leading manufactu-
rer Of Masonic and Odd Fellows
regalias
There are no great changes in jew
elry this year. The newest pins are
the brooch rhape of our grand
mothers.
Miss Clara Barton, President Of
the American Red Cross Associa-
ton, has given $1,000 to the yellow
fever fund.
Rebecca Collins, aged eighty-three,
has been minister in the Friends
Church, Philadelphia, for sixty-fve
years.
The new pale grayish green known
as reed green, combines effectively
with white, and will figure largely in
dressy toilets.
The Marasi Maraski Society, a Vi
emma association of artists and art
students, las decided to admit wo-
men to its membership.
There are twenty-five students at
the Madison Square School of Act
ing, New York City, who aspire to
be Juliets and Parthenias.
Some Of the new Directoire coats
are made with three deep coachman's
collars, large, square side pockets
and deep gauntlet cuffs
Black ribbons are used to trim felt
hats of all colors. Sometimes few
loops of white or colored ribbon are
set among the black loops.
Boston teaches the girls to cook at
the cost of one and three quarter
cents per girl per hour. Philadel-
phia expects to do it at a cost Of one
cent.
Novel skeleton bonnets, somewhat
after the fashion Of the open work
beaded bonnets, are made of fine
feathers mounted upon swire frame.
A. pretty hat trimming of small
ostrich plumes is made of feathers
about three inches long, set upright
on band which is placed around the
crown.
Skirts OF cloth or cashmere for
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-12-01
Public Sale.

will cell at public sale, as agent for Mrs.
George S. Flick, in Miss BoArman's building
on public square, near II. L. Doll Co.'S.
hardware store, on
Friday, October 10th, 1855,
at o'clock, p. m, all her household and
kitchen furniture. nonHsting of Bedsteads,
Bureaus, Tables, Grains, Queensware. sc.
TERMS-On all "a over $40 credit of
months will be given. the purchaser giving
neg otiable note, payable at National Bank of
MartinscErg Ten dollars and under, cash.
ol2 J. Il. SMITH, Agent.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-01

THERE 10 no sentiment 10 this question
OF wool market for Texas. IL ie bust
ness pure and simple. That wool lie go.
ing 10 be marketed Just where the wool
growers find 10 most TO their advantage
to market IL. or this bold, unadultera-
ted fact San Antonio must take due no.
tice and govern herself accordingly. III
she makes as good terms as Galveston
does, she retains her supremacy AZ q
wool market. III she does not, she drops
behind and Galveston takes her place.
This 10 the whole matter In an egg shell.
What will the bstcbing be?
THIS Is convention day, and all the
southwest section OF the state Is 10 the
city by It's representations. What the
day may bring forth no one knows. The
transactions OF the convention alone
can develop what the minds OF the dele
gates may conclude to the best for the
Interests OF southwest Texas. Railroad
extensions and cheap rates for passen-
gers and freights and the opening up OF
Arkansas Pass will be the principle
things considered together with the best
means Of inducing Immigration.
TEXAS courts magnanimously declare
that you cannot convict q newspaper
concern Of running q lottery business
award OF such prizes being determined
by drawing numbers. 1t is devoutly
to be hoped that this wonderful act Of
clemenoy has not strained the purcher-
ing strings OF Texas courts. 1t Is re-
freshing to note that newspapers have
even that much privilege accorded them
10 this state. By and by under the
beauties OF democratic legislation We
may look for state censorship OF the
press.
The measures for the restriction OF
Chinese immigration as proposed In
congress grow more stringent. A CON-
summation most devoutly desired.
When restriction 10 pushed to the
extent OF complete expulsion 1t will be
better for this country.
The minority report OF the Reading
commission charges the company with
misleading the miners by q spe 'ious
agreement which the workmen did not
understand. The report insists upon
the necessity OF immediate action on
the part of government. The majority
report lie pronounced more justification
OF the company under such contract and
is protested against.
CULBERsoN gets down to fine work In
his definition OF polygamy In the bill by
him reported from the judiciary COM
mittee Of the house Of representatives.
"Polygamy shall consist Of marriage re-
lation by contract, or in fact, between
one person of either sex and more than
one person OF the other SEX" The bill
prohibits polygamy as thus defined and
makes 1t the duty OF the United States
to enforce the laws for Its suppression.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-01

out the facts concerning soil, climatic
changes, prevailing wind currents, ma
tive grasses, adaptability to fruit or
grain culture, amount Of water fall, ir-
rigating possibilities, topography, min
eral deposits, sand, gravel OF stone beds
and quarries-and AL else needed to
give prospective settlers a correct i'm
preston OF the country. To this might
very properly he added statistics OF
values Of real estate, educational faoili-
ties. area OF purchaseable land, rates OF
taxation and all else connected there
with These matters should be clearly
and briefly stated and certified to by
competent authority, as the basis OF all
advertising for immigration.
The LIGHT is decidedly Of opinion that
these statistics and this information can
be more directly, correctly, speedily
and economically secured through the
local journals OF this southwestern dis
trict than through any other channels.
This matter Is cordially commended
to the consideration Of the convention
for Its action. Let the various county
journals OF southwestern Texas be en-
ployed to compile the Information
sought and publish the same In their
weekly issues, forwarding to the head
quarters OF the convention bureau copies
Of such publications. Some remunera-
tion should be made for such service de-
pending for its amount upon the extent
and value OF the services rendered. In
no case would Ii be more than mode
rate per cent Ofth amount that 1t would
cost to send a special agent over the
ground while the results would be much
more satisfactory. Cover the ground
this way first. Collect from each local.
ity the information thus compiled and
published In the local papers OF that To-
cality and put this matter into the hands
of publishing committee to edit, ar
range, abbreviate or add to as might be
deemed necessary and issue the
result in such form as would
appear most suited to answer
the end designed, and commit
the same to some wide awake expert
enced and thoroughly practical man for
distribution in such sections OF the
country as would be most likely to re-
turn results.
This scheme would neoessitste the
raising Of sufficient amount OF money
10 meet the demands of the several
local journals, which would be the
smallest part of the expense, and pay
for the compilation and publication OF
the 100 900 copies Of the matter thus OBJ
taiDed, together with the expenses OF
distribution. When once accomplished
there would be nothing left undone In
the way Of advertisement. The ground
once covered in this manner would be
covered once for all and no further
work would be necessary. The facts
could all be presented at once, and In
connection with them all the additional
data concerning railroads, deep water
at Arkansas Pass and whatever else was
deemed OF interest to those who would
dIsire to examine into the prospects and
advantages OF southwestern Texas.