The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1890-07-04
POLITICAL BREVITIEs


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POLITICAL BREYITIEs.
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FREE coinage and low taxes will
he the leading issue in the next
campaign and the West aud South
VIII join hands aud fight Wal,
street to the bitter end. The
bloody shirt and Federal election
laws will avail nothing.
THE grangers Of Texas are run.
ming Hog for governor of that
State. IL seems to he n hog and
hominy question with the farmers
OF the Lone Star State. The can.
didate has his bristles up and
there is great amount Of saueal.
ing heard from that quarter.
REPRESENTATIVES, Connell, of
Nebraska. has introduced n bill
that should place him at the head
OF Treasury raiders, if not In nm
insane asylum. He proposes to
give a pension ranging from a. to
sl2 a month, with bounties from
300 to $500, TO every ex.slave in
the South.
1T is said that the Democrats
will not rely 50 much OR tariff lit
erature in the next campaign, but
viii! send agents 81! through the
country with samples oi impos.ss5o;
and home manufactured goods aud
show the people by actual conpari-
son the iniquity of the Republican
tariff.
JUDGE J. II. TiNsLEY, me new
Republican candidate for Clerk Of
the Court Of Appeals, ssys that
he believes he can win, arr is run
ming for no other purpose. He
says of course he wants and eX.
poets the Endorsement o his par
ty through the State Committee
as its nominee and does not wish
TO be understood rs rinning as
anything but Republican in par.
~ harness.
Mr.. LEHLBAcH, of New jersey
astonisbed his Republican col.
leagues in the House, one day last
week, by making speeci in OPP.
position to the Force BilLaDd an.
nouncing that he would lot vote
for its passage. He opposed the
bill on the ground that each State
should regulate its own elections;
and he made the bloodyshirters
of his own party squirn by de-
claring that there were about as
many frauds on the ballo in the
North as in the South.
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The Hickman Courier contains
a call upon Judge b. II Walker
to become a candidate TO rep.
resent Hickman aud Elton in
the Constitutional Convention.
Judge Walker was q faithful, con.
servative Represeniativ, IN the
last House, more regukr IN his
attendance perhaps, fhsn any
other member, aud if elected TO
the Convention would doubtless
exhibit the same qualities in that
body. 1t is not known II he will
accept the call.-Frankfort Cap
j ital.-.- /
THE California Democrats are
preparing to nominate q candidate
for United States Senator in open
I party convention. The Illinois
Democrats have set an example
which will soon be followed by
the party in all the States. Wheth.
er they win or lose this election,
the Illinois Democrats have made
themselves felt in the political
history of the country. II the
Illinois Republicans had been able
to assert themselves against mil.
lionaires and bosses the reform
would now be assured.
PIERsoN ID. SMITH, one of the
largest land owners of Nebraska,
and heretofore q staunch Repnb.
licaD, told a reporter in Chicago
that owing TO the iniquities of the
Mckinley tariff bill, he will vote
the Democratic ticket next fall for
the first time in his life. Invest.
CATION among EurOpe's laboring
classes has led him TO believe that
while they receive less wages,
they live better, have better health
and are otherwise as well of as
American laborers. The only class
worse OF than American employees
of manufacturers, he says, are the
farmers Of the far West, who have
been neglected and almost ruined
under protective system for
Eastern manufacturers alone.
THE supervisors and enumera.
tors of the census were selected
for appointment by the Republi-
VI" pohbSidhos uhu tue bNlutUCc
is strong that they have in many
instances been worked quite as
hard by tho Republican machine
as by the Census Bureau. A dis.
patch from Kansas City to the
New York World, sass: "When
the census enumerators Of .Rau-
dOlph County, NO., reported for /
work last Monday morning each
was presented with space for !
name, age political aiIllialiou and
post Office address of each voter
In each census district. On the
back Of this little book, one of .
which was seen by the cores.
pendent, is the suggestive title,
"List of voters, township, post
Office, Randolph County, Mo, re.
turn 10 chairman of central com. ,
mittee." '