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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-12-10

"THE GREAT AMERICAN MEDICINE,
FREEDoM."-Mr. Schurz is the author of
that striking sentence: and, while much
that is good and great in speech IS a;tribut-
ed to him, he never said a better thing
The papers of the land have given the pre-
scription of the wise statesman to the peo-
pie of all the States, and they will not hes
itate to make wise use of it.; and their re-
ceut liberal use of it gives promise that
they will not fail to employ it when the de-
mand exists What saved US from repe-
tition of Reedism in the Fifty second Con-
gress? Freedom What will frighteu Nc
Knley mailman from the land? Freedom.
What will retire the grandson of his grand
sire to the shades of private life? Freedom
What will purge the nation of sectionalism?
Freedom. What will relegate Mr.. Post
master-General to the ''bargain COUNTER"
Freedom. What will restore q healthy
condition to the treasury? Freedom. What's
Dudley lodging? Freedom. What's In
CALLS afraid of? freedom. What do pen
sion sharks most dread? Freedom. What
is most apt to mash and mar the machina-
lions of cruel milliHnaires? Freedom. How
best to treat trusts? With Freedom. What
will win sweeping Democratic victory in
'92? A big dose of freedom, given from sun
to sun, on election day.
"Ciimes," poor Madame Roland exclaim
ed. "had been committed in the name Of
liberty, but freedom has wrought wonder
full cures. "-FarnYille Herald
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-12-10

HER MUSCLES BROKE HER LEa-While
sitting talking with her. children at her
home Is Paris, Ky, about noon enc day
last w,,k, Mrs. j. Harry Brent felt the
fexor muscles. of her right leg suddenly
and violently contract, and as she screamed
with pain the bone of the thigh broke just
below the hip-joint. A physician was sum-
moned, but before be could do anything to
relieve his patient her left leg broke in the
same manner. Her sufferipG. is intense,
and her death is hourly expected. She is
about 40 years old, the wife of wealthy
and prominent judge, and moves in the
highest society. Physicians there say the
case is unprecedented; that while bones
have been broker by muscular contraction,
there has always been some well defined
cause, while Mrs. Brent has been apparent
u well. 1t . is thought by her physician
that she is victim of muscular rheuma-
tism
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M. ODd OOd I LItj
ASSISTANT COMMISSIONERS.

BRING THE MATTER HoME.-Let US see
how Virginia is oppressed by the profig-
acy and prodigaIify of the Republican par
ty. She pays 81 per cent. of the taxes
levied for the support of Government. She
then pays 1888 in every hundred and So,
1873, 1884, in every hundred million raised
by taxation. She therefore will pay So,
666. $685. of the 5000, 900, 600 paid pensions,
and in round numbers $16,000,000 of the
nearly $780, 900, 900 raised to carry on this
most profigate Government, or ten dollars
per capita.
The former amount is more than twice
as much, and the latter more than five
times as much as we pay for State ex-
penses, including the public schools, the
three asyiums for the insane, our higher
education, the salaries of Government Off
Gals and Incidental expenditures. Yet Mr..
Harrison s. Co., SAY the people don't know.
Well, it is about time they were learning.
Judging from the GA, 600 majority in Vir-
ginia and the 600, 900 congressional MAORI
ty in the Northern and Western States, we
think Virginia has an inkling, and the
country generally some idea of "what is
what."- IVdrrenton Inder.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-12-10

The new reapportionment bill agreed
upon by the republican members Of the
census committee is based upon a represen-
tation of 356 members of the House. There
is to be member for each ia. 901 of popu-
lation. This, it is said, permits each State
to retain its present representation. The
gains by various States are as follows: Ala
bama, 1; Arkansas, l.; California, /; Colo
RADIO, 1; Georgia, 1; Illinois, 2; Kansas, 1;
Massachusetts, L; Michigan, 1; Minnesota,
2; Missouri, l; Nebraska, 3; New jersey,
1; Oregon, 1; Pennsylvania, 2; Texas, 9;
Washington, 1, and Wisconsin, /, or "a in
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CONGRESS-.

In the United States Senate, Wednes
day, December 3rd, there was debate or
Mr.. Cameron's resolution in regard to the
site for tbs new government printing office
The resolution was referred to the com
mittee on printing. There was also long
discussion on the subject of the threatened
Indian war apropos of a joint resolution to
issue arms to the States of North and
South Dakota and Nebraska. The resolu-
ton finally went over, ard the election bill
was taken up and Mr.. Turpie spoke in op-
position to its passage.
The House passed the copyright bill by a
vote of 139 to 95.
The United States Senate, Thursday,
after lengthy debate, passed joint reso-
luton to Issue arms to the States threaten.
ed with an Irdian outbreak. Mr.. Pugh
spoke against the election bill.
Tha House took up the pension appro-
priation bill, aud MIR. Cooper, of Indiana,
made speech severely denouncing the
methods of Pension Commissioner Raum.
The session of the United States Senate
Friday was occupied with the election bill,
and Mr.. Gray made strong speech against
it.
The Ho lse passed the pension appropri-
alton bill.
but ilttie progress was maue on tno eieo-
tions bill III the United States Senate on
Saturday.
The proceedings of the House were brief
and without interest.
The election bill was again before the
United States Senate Monday. Mr.. Hoar
asked unanimous consent to have Friday
next fixed for taking the final vote On the
bill, but Mr.. German entered a vigorous
protest against the prooositiOn. Mr.. Gray
concluded his speech against the bill, and
Mr., Berry, of Arkansas, obtained the floor.
The House passed a humber of District
of Columbia bils; also, IA bill authorizing
the Secretary of the Treasury to refund SO
much of the tax collected o. tobacco which
shall be in the hands of dealers and manu-
facthrers January 1 as was abolished by the
recent tariff act.
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Miss Braddon, the English novelist,
lives in London, and, as Mis-. Maxwell, is
much courted and admired. She is tall,
dark, hurgry-looking woman with peaked
features and yellow skin, indicating long
hours of work, bad air and bad digestion.
She is, however, fine conversationalist,
dresses with lavish expense and wears jew
els that princess might envy. One much
talked of ornament is coronet for her
hair composed Of diamond stars, and a
pendant that would endow home for IN
successful writers contains d couple of per-
fectly magnificent square emeralds set in a
field of br;lliants. Stree her publisher be-
came her husband she has had an immense
income from her books by keeping all the
profits in the family.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-12-10

DESTITUTE FARMERS IN NEBRASKA
The commission appointed by Governor
Thayer, of Nebraska, to devise means for
relieving the suffering due to the shortage
of crops in Nebraska, has submitted re-
port showing an almost total failure of
crops in twelve counties, and that ten thou
sand families are in need of assistance
The Governor diecourages appeals 10 out
side States lest it lpjure the credit of the
State, but promises relief when the Legis-
lature meets. In Frontier county there
are eight thousand people, and q large
proportion of them are becoming desperate.
Wheat only yielded one or at most two
bushels to the acre. There are no vege-
tables. All the salable stock has been dis
posed of, and that remaining is being
killed. The animals are too small and poor
to furnish much food. Being new coun-
try. the people are mostly in debt. The
committee says that the restitution is
greater than that caused by the Johnstown
q BOD or the Chicago fire. Practically the
same story comes from Canadian county,
Oklahoma.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-12-10

A CINCINNATI REP UBLICAN ON THE
FORCE BILL.-ClNCINNATI, December g.
simultaneously with the message of Presi
dent Harrison comes promise CT CONVEX
sion on the part of one of the most pro-
minent of Cinclnnati's Republics Ms. Mr..
A. 81. Honsbell, member of the Lincoln
Club, ard hand. in, glove with Foraker,
Sherman, and Mckinley, has mace solemn
VOW that if the Lodge bill is passed in the
Senate he will thereafter vote the straight
Democratic ticket. Coming as this does
from staunch Republican, 10 a State
which has unfalteringly upheld the Repub-
lican party 10 national contests, shows that
the statement made by the press that the
Lodge bill is doing it's work for the Dpma-
ciacy in the North, has net been e.agssr
aseG.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-12-10

Nothing could serve more conclusively to
show the utter contempt in which President
Harrison and his party hold the will eff the
people than their present attempt to pass
the odious fraud and force bill through
Congress. If there ever was measure
condemned by popular opinion in elections
it has been that measure, and yet the great
est efforts are being made by the republi
can leaders to make it a law regardless of
the declared wishes of an overwhelming
majority of the people.
In England and France, and in fact in
other countries that cannot boast of being
as free as OURS, when tie ruling party in
power is beaten on any leading measure,
the members thereof step down and out,
and a pew election is ordered. But Harii
son and his party have no such respect for
the popular will, as declared al the polls,
and so far from stepping down and out,
throw defiance ir the very face of the PEG
pie, and treat their opinion with supreme
misunderstanding Adrdnce.
That is exactly what they are doing, and
it is exactly what we predicted they would
do before the election, aud that prediction
the Republican party do not wish the will
of the people 10 prevail, for in that event
the mission of that party would be failure
as 1t legislates not for the masses but fol-
favored and moneyed classes who furnish,
the Doodle with which to bride voters and
thus to control the elections and to keep
the Republican party in power. 1t is the
minority party, that got into power by base
corruption, and assumes to lord it over the
majority of the people. In the last Presi
DENTAL election the white Democratic vot
ers exceeded the white Republican voters
by million or more, and yet we call our
Government Republic which all writers
maintain can only be perpetuated by rest
ing upon thepi)lars of the virtue and intell-
igeDcs of the snffagans. The Republican
party, without the negro vote, would have
no show whatever. Should such party
be allowed to rule this country?
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National Farmers Alliance.

In the National Farmers Alliance Con-
vention in session in Ocala, Florida, on last
Friday, the st. Louis platform, with some
amendments, was unanimously adopted
Among the amendments adopted was one
recurring that all alliance officials shall
support the'same, with the Ocala amend
ments, under penalty Of suspension, and
that no candidate fer national office shall
receive the support of alliance membership
unless he pledges himself in writing to sup
port the st. Louis platform. Any subordi-
nate alliance not in accord with the plat
form will be suspended ut the will of the
president.
PRESIDENT POLK REFLECTED.
President Polk was reelected by accla-
nation and great hurrah. Mr.. Macune,
on the executive committee, holds over
Very few changes we're made in the OIL
GERS. Mr.. Willis, tf Kansas, who is the
candidate in his State for United States
Senator in place Of Ingalls,, was made
lecturer of the national body, which will
help him in the contest next January. He
displaees Benjamin -yrrell, of Texas. The
vote was SO to 48, majority of 16 fol
| Willis.
The colored peoples Alliance, on Friday,
passed resolution in very slim house,
urging on Congress to pass the Lodge
election bill and to let it apply to all sec
lions of these United States. This, it viii
be remembered, is directly contrary to the
action of the white farmers.
| In connection with the action Of the
coiored convention the correspondent o.
the Baltimore Sun says there was bit o.
political jobbirg which would possess some
amusing features if they could be brought
to light.
GEN. RICE's VIOLENT SPEECH.
Gen. J. II. Rice, of Kansas, who with
Mr.. Willets, the defeated candidate fol
Governor, is an aspirant for the peoples
nomination for United STATES Senator
against Mr.. Ingalls,, got the floor last
night on a proposition to improve the Mis-
| sissippi river, but took occasion to deliver
a violent political speech, in which be ssid
81 denounce the republican party as un'
worthy of existence. No man honors il
more for what it has done in the past than
l. 1t restored the national government,
and for thus give it all honor. Time has
corrupted it. The only ambition of its
members now is to scramble for loaves and
fishes. 1t had its origin in the highest i'm
pulses of human freedom and l gloried in
being one of its champions for nearly a
quarter of century, but now it has fallen
from it's high estate and has become a
prowling plunderer. 1t processes religion,
but it is an iufidel. 1t processes freedom,
but in reality is a treacherous tyrant. 1t is
a gigantic conspiracy to erect moneyed
| imperialism upon the ruins of free institu-
tons. It is the champ ion of trusts, monop-
olies and corporations to grind down the
| toiliDg masses"
The speech produced a profound sensa-
ton, and alliance men of both parties wish
it understood that his opinions are simply
those of an individual and not Endorsed by
the alliance as body.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-12-10

A DONATION OF 100000 TO THE UNI.
vERsITY OF VA.-The will of Daniel B.
Fayerweather, the millionaire leather deal
er. filed in New York Monday, gives $780,
600 to the University Of Va, $4,000, 00c to
other colleges, AID 800. 900 to hospitals in
New York.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-12-10

SENATOR TURPIE's MOTHER BURNED
DELPHI, IND, december Mrs. Mary
Turpe, over ninety years old, the mother
of the Hon David S. Turpie, United States
Senator from Indiana. was accidentally
burned to death at, heI home, near this city,
yesterday. She had been living for the last
thirty i've years with her son, Robert Tur.
pie. Yesterday be stepped out to transact
some business with neighbor, leaving
her alone in the sitting room, in which an
open fire burned. He returned within BALI
an hour end found bis aged mother lying
dead near the fireplace, with nearly all of
her clothing burned and her body fright
fully disfigured by the flames. Robert
Turpe is greatly Frustrated by the sad &C.
currence.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-12-10

Among the new inventions seen at the
mechanics fair at Boston is a method of
making ice By simply dropping few crys-
tails in water, the secret of whose compo-
sition is only known to the inventor. Not
only is the ice made in remarkably short
space of time, but ice cream is also manu-
featured and eaten by those who stand and
wait
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-12-10

A BIG DEMOCRATIC PLURALITY.-Clerk
Mcpherson, of the House Ct Representa-
tives, has just had printed the unofficial list
of members elect of the next House, show
ing IS republicans, 254 democrats, s Far
mers' Alliance. One district (twenty- eightb
New York; is set down as uncertain, AID
one Second Rhode Island) is marked va.
cant. The democratic plurality over the
republicans is 146.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-12-10

The latest variation of the copjnrers' boz
trick, performed by Mr.. Hertz ia London,
manacies man and padlocks him to q
board, and then suspends him in mid-air.-
Curtains are then drawn around him, but
not reaching within several feet of the
ground. In few seconds woman is
found in the place Of the man, and the man
himself is in the audience.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-12-10

BAND OF WEST VIRGINIA ROBBERS
BROKEN UP.-A despatch from Grafton,
W. Va, Decsm Der S5b, says that the or.
ganized band of robbers who have been
operating in Eastern West Virginia, West
ern Maryland and Que or two of the south
ern counties of Pennsylvania for years past
is about broken up. Five OF tbs members
of the baud ara in the West Virginia peni
tentiary and ten more are under arrest.
George Frey, their leader, now in prison,
has made full confession.
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ship which covers all parts of the continent.
One of its missions is to take the bloody
shirt cut of politics and destroy sectional
lem.
Then poor Ingalls, occupation's gone.
Edmunts and Hoar will have positively
nothing to talk about Foraker will drop
into tie soup with a splash and the other
republican bosses will hardly think life
worth living Y. Herald.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-12-10

Mr.. John Hanson of Danville, Inc, is
the largest living man in the world. He
stands feet inches in his stockings, and
weighs 907 pounds. 1t requires 40 yards
OF Cloth to make him suit of clothes, coat,
vest ard pants.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-12-10

When President Harrison prowls around
Washington TO hunt up Christmas presents
he will find out that the consumer pays the
tax and not the importer.-N. Y. Herald.
Ii this experience should be confined to
the President, it would not be so bad, but
every poor man is made to pay an ad-
ditional tax in the same way. When he
stfinds out that the consumer pays the tax
and not the importer" as he has hereto
fore been taught by the advocates of a
high protective tariff, he will not be SO
easily imposed upon, and will know how to
vote in future when that question shall be
an issue. Experience is dear school,
but it teaches its dullest scholars to com
prehend it's lessons, one of which s that a
high protective tariff is tax on the many
for the benefit of the few.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-12-10

William Miller passed through Dallas,
Texas. Thursday, in the custody of a sher-
if Ell route to the Indian Territory, where
he is wanted for horse stealing. Miller had
preacher aud had just closed a sermon when
arrested By the officer. The congregation
WAS aStnundpd
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btauntot, Spectator.
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1890.
The Force Bill.

WHAT THE REPUBLICANS WANT AND DO
NOT WANT.
The opinion entertained by many that the
emphatic popular condemnation Of the
Force Bill, as expressed by the people in
the November election, would have the ef-
feet of preventing the Republicans in the
Senate from making any further effort to pass
it, was based upon the erroneous idea that
they had some regard for the wishes and
rights of the people. 1t is power, however
obtained, they are after, and the will of the
people is the last thing they want-it is that
which they most dread. As the Irish pri-
soner, when assured that the court would
see that he had justice, replied, 'Bajabers
that is just what I don't want" so the Re-
publicans might say, and by their actions
do say, that the will of the majority of the
people is just the thing they do not want.
What they do want is to rule, as they are
doing, in violation of the will of the people.
As the Louisville CourierJournol says,
from the first to the last the whole Lodge
election bill, known as the Force Bill, is in
tended to deprive the people of the power
to regulate elections. Chief Supervisors
are selected by judges who are nearly all re-
publicans and hold office for life. The
democrats may come into control of both
branches of the. Congress, but the Judges
remain till death removes them. For fur
Their security the Chief Supervisors are also
appointed for life. Thus the republicans
seek tc create sort of political mortmain
that will hold the elections in dead hand,
even after the party itself has given up the
ghost.
What sort of party is this that assumes
that only its appointees, with powers that
last as long as they live. can conduct an
election honestly or certify its result in ac-
oordance with the truth? 1t is the same
party that stole Presidency under the
pretext that it was compelled to do it by its
unalterable attachment to the right OF local
authorities to certify results, especially if
they happened to certify what all..men know
to be a lie. 1t is the same party which has
recently stolen State, and which at this
moment is engaged in stealing another.
This is the.party which now proposes to
take charge of our Congressional elections
and run them according to its peculiar
methods for at least life time. 1t is the
wolf that proposes to watch the flocks Of
the people with the utmost fidelity as soon
as the local watch.dogs are put to death.
Under such leaders as the President, the
republican party has but one policy to
which it is steadfast, and that is to defeat
the will of the people and to disregard their
interests. 1t has received q warning by
which it does not seem inclined to profit
Since it cannot be reformed, it must be de
stroyed, and the sooner the better for the
tranquility and prosperity of the country.
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The Republicans say we ought to give
this Mckinley bill a fair trial. If it works
we'll then we shall know it's good thing.
If it doesn't work well we shall ell be salts
fled that it is bad.
1t is the old query over again regarding
the difference between mushroom and a
toadstool. First eat the fungus. If it kills
you it is toadstool; if it doesn't kill you it
is a musnroom.-N. Y. Herald.
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Republicans Disregard Public Sentiment

Republicans Disregard Public Sentiment.
During the last campaign we took occa-
sion several times to express our dissent to
the opinion which was entertained by the
majority of the Democratic press that
democratic victory in the November cleo
ton would have the effect of preventing the
Republicans in the Senate from passing the
Force Bill. We believed, on the contrary,
that the Republicans had no regard for pub
lie sentiment, and that, SO far from Demo-
cratic victory's lettering them from de-
termined effort to pass it, thatsit would be
considered stronger reason why they
should do 80. The action of the Republi-
cans in the Senate proves that the view we
entertained was correct.
Before the election there were s or 10
Senators who were opposed to passing it.
We don't hear of any opposition from them
now. They care nothing for the wishes or
opinions of a majority of the people, but
are after securing lease of power by any
means they think will effect that end with
out any regard to the wishes or rights Of
the people, and even in open defiance and
violation of them. As the New York Sun
says, 'there is little need of any further ar
gument on this subject. This bill is simply
a revolution. Its one purpose is to con-
tinue the dominant party in power, and to
this end its promoters are willing to destroy
local self.government, to overthrow the
rights of citizens and communities, and to
change republic of free elections into
concentrated party despotism.
The scheme should be resisted determin-
eddy, unyieldingly, uncompromisingly, by
by every Democrat. If necessary every
means of delay and obstruction should be
resorted to in Congress. The mischiefs
that are sure to arise from such political
revolution are SO great and 80 grave as to
overshadow every other question.
Whatever differences of opinion may
exist among Democrats concerning other
subjects, let there be unity and cooperation
concerning this. Preserve the liberties of
the people! Put down the Republican
conspiracy to destroy them"