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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
CHARGES AGAINST RAUM.
he Pension Commissioner Makes q Very
ss-4s-,--e-,-;Weak Defense. .--.-..

Weak Defense.
The charges against General Rauc.
the Commissioner of Pensions, are, first,
that he has borrowed $685. 900 Or some
large sum Of money from George E.
Lemon, a claim agent doing business
efore his Office or upon his indcrse-
ment. General Raam does not ad NIT
nor does he deny this charge, but it is
probably true. He does assert, how
ever, that his private business relations
with Captain Lemon have no influence
whatever upon his official conduct, and
that Lemon as received no advantages
in the Pension Office that are not en-
joyed by other men in his profession.
Second, he is charged with soliciting
or allowing others to solicit sabscrip-
tions from the clerks in his department
to the stock of a company of which he
is president and one of the chief own
ers. This he denies and says that
if any clerks in the Pension Office
have bought stock in the corporation
referred to-which is refrigerator car
company-it has been done without his
knowledge or approval.
Third, he is charged with having
turned over to his son, John Raum, the
pension claims that were placed in his
hands for prosecution before he became
Commiss Toner, and with having given
these claims precedence over the cases
pending before the Office. This he
denies and says that the business his
son brings to the Office takes the same
course as the rest and is given no less
and no greater advantages. but all the
grist that comes to the mill is treated
alike.-WaShington Letter.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
A Remarkable Showing.

1t is estimated that Smiths Tonic Syrup
made by DIR. John Bull, of Louisville, KY,
is used in not less than eight hundred thou
sand families. In many localities it has en-
tirely taken the place of Quinine, having all
the good qualities of this drug and none of
its evil tendencies. Its use has a most ben
eflcial effect on the circulatory system and
mucous membrane. 1t instills life into
these important portions and prevents con-
gestion. 1t reduces inordinate temperature
and allays all feverish symptoms. 1t is a
true anti-periodic and will prevent or cure
IN malarial districts, where colds, fevers,
influenza, etc, are common, it is almost a
sacred duty to take Smiths Tonic Syrup
occasionally, as by this means the good
health of the family is preserved.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
HE GOT a CHEW.
a Busy Painter Conquered By . RemAr
ably Cheeky Tramn.

A Busy Painter Conquered BY . Remark
ably Cheeky Tramp.
There was a painter working at the
top of a long ladder on Fourth avenue
yesterday, when a tramp came along and
called to him:
Hey. you! got any of the weed about
you?'
swell, you've got cheek" replied the
painter, as he looked down and sized
the man up.
Gimme q chaw?''
mo, sir!''
''Does that go?''
'You bet it goes"
'.A1 right-here's another thing that
goes with it."
And he pulled the foot of the ladder
five feet outwards, while the painter ut
tered a yell of terror.
Hey, you! do you chaw?''
yves"
'Got any to spare?"
Lots
Throw 'er down.
The painter dropped his plug to the
ground and the tramp bit off royal
bite, placed the remainder on a stone
and went his way with a whistle in one
corner of his mouth and pucker in the
| other.-Detroit Free Press.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
DRIFT OF OPINION.

Quay believes in the early clos
ing movement as applied to the mouth
-Philadelphia Times.
-The tariff does not bring down
tho price of woolens, but it tErings
down the wooden mills.-Bangor {Me. J
Courier.
Assistant Postmaster General
Clarkson says he is not going te resign.
There are several more postmasters to
decapitate, and Clarkson is too thrifty
an official to leave his work hals done.
Madison (Wis.) Mail.
Whether Democrats majority is
700 or Z, 600 makes no difference to the
Republicans who want his seat IN Con.
gress. A wink from Quay and nod
from Dudley .overcomes a 1000 ma jority
in a twinkling. 1t beats buying Blocks
of Five.-s6t- Louis Republic.
Modern methods in our National
House of Representatives are fairly pre-
scented in this formula: ''You may speak
five minutes a pop, but must shut up in
a couple of days, for we intend to pass
the bill then, if we have to count a
quorumr' q! Temporal! o! mores!-
Cincinnati Enquirer.
"A Nebraska farmer jotted down
TIE tariff taxes on the goods he used for
a year, and made a total of S142. OF. His
other taxes, paid to county and State,
were only S76. 81. It's, perhaps, unnec-
essary to add shat he is now an ardent
tariff reformer. Go thou and do like
wise.-St Louis Chronicle.
At this &ime the genuinely good
policy of protecting American industry
is in danger, not from what the free
traders are doing, but from what the
Mckinley group,of so-calked statesmen
are doing to create and foster trusts and
to destroy foreign competition in the
home marketS-Philadelp Tele-
graph. tzE ezs H
-'Ever since 1. have been in the
Eost-ofios Department" says Headsman
Garrison, 81 have worked from twelve
to fourteen hours a day" Not even
Danton, Marat and Robespierre, work
ing on the cooperative plan and sitting
up kate nights to dispatch Unfinished
busiGess, ever accomplished SO much
between sunrise and enthusiastically
Eagle rsvss..r s--ty - ~Tse
@congressman Walker, a Massa-
chusetts manafacturer.s says that 1.-THE
workmea get every dollar of the in
crease of price On account of the tariff"
Why, certainly: The Magnificent town
houses, the country and seaside palaces,
the yachts and fast horses and the pur-
pie and fine linen generally OF the pro
tected wage earnefs are known to all
observers.-N.s Y. World. OK
Mr.. Blaine has confidentially in.
formed a friend in Maine that he shall
not he candidate for the Presidential
in 1892. This time ME-.
Blaine is undoubtedly sincere. Men
less experienced in politics and less
with the Harrison Administers
ton than he already see clearly that
there is no possibility of the election Of
, Republican in 1892 Chicago Herald
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
POLITICS IN IOWA.
Republicans Disgusted wisfs Their Party
and the Mckinley 6ill.

Republicans Disgusted wi.f. Their Party
and the Mckinley Bin
The Cedar Rapids Gazette. a leading
Republican paper of Iowa, publishes in
terviews with over one hundred repre-
sentative Republicans of that city with
reference to the protective tariff and
the Mckinley bill The result is de-
cidedly suggestive. Iowa is State
heretofore considered solid for high pro-
tective tariffs. Yet of the Republicans
interviewed by the Gazette not eight
per cent are in favor of the Mckinley
bill The Gazette says with reference
to this showing:
Remember, those men are Republic
ans, not Democrats or mugwumps.
They mean business That a few OF
them suggest even a higher tariff than
the Mckinley bill is no surprise. For
there are good many people who act
ually believe in prohibitory tariff.
But the general showing is powerful
knock at the Mckinley bill.
mo wonder there were i've boilers
among the Iowa Congressman on some
features of the Mckinley bill, and we
have most reliable information that if
the Iowa and many other Congressman
were not sure the bill would be trampled
to death in the Senate, they would
openly bolt the whole business But
Allison will tack it up. He is naturally
a low tariff man, although he got off
badly since the last Presidential nomi-
nation, as the managers of Iowa had
wrongfully led him into the belief that
Iowa was hot for high tariff. But he
has been home among his people since
then and learned a thing or two. Mark
these words, Allison will knock the
Mckinley bill higher than kite, and
come mighty near being nominated for
President in place of Mckinley, who is
fishing for the nomination with his pro.
lection bait"
Iowa is certainly not "hot for high
tariff" by any means. Neither are Min
nesota, North and South Dakota If a
close canvass were made of even the
Middle States the high tariff contingent
would be found weakening. The change
is becoming more apparent daily. Not
only Senator Allison, but many other
leading Republicans, with clearer vis-
ion than Mckinley, read the unmistak-
able signs of the times and are act
ing neutrality-suspicious. Journal
(Rep.)
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
beautiful Oklahoma.

Oklahoma has been placed under regular
form of government, and good land titles
are thereby assured. The Iowa reserva-
ton, joining it on the east, will shortly be
opened for settlement This will bring
about an increased immigration. Guthrie
and Oklahoma City, the two largest cities
in the new Territory. are reached only via
Santa Fe Route. Norman, Edmond, Alfred
local points on Santa Fe line. In travelling
to Oklahoma for sightseeing or business, be
sure to buy tickets via Santa Fe Route, the
only railroad passing entirely through
Oklahoma from north to south. Two daily
express trains each way.
Write for Oklahoma folder to G. T. Mich
olson, 6. P. & T. A, A, r. & s. F. R. R.,
Topeka, Kan.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
Are You Going to Travel ?

If so, and in whatever direction, or by
whatever route, have a suficiency of Hos
letters Stomach Bitters with you TheH,
you may bid defiance to sea sickness, brave
the influence of malarious climate or alb
rupt transitions of temperature, avoid dys-
pepsia, and the stomachic pangs begotten
of bad food and water, and counteractS an
unexpectedly developed tendency to consti-
patton, biliousness and rheumatism
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
TIBBEE, Miss, Oct. 6, 1856.

MeSSrS. A. 7. SHALLENBERGER & Co.
Rochester, Pa. Gents :-The bottle of
Shallenberger's Pills sent me in February
last 1 gave to W. G. Anderson, of this
place; a long standing case of chil1s and
fever. He had tried everything known
without any permanent good. In less than
ten days after taking your Antidote he was
sound and well, and has gone through the
entire season without any return. 1t seems
to have effectually driven the Malariocs
poison from his system.
Yours truly, V. A. ANDERSON.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
without she Peoples Consent.

TIE Mckinley tariff bill increases
the taxation of the people snost griev-
ously.
It vas passed by the vote Of 1876 Con
gressmen from fourteen Northern
States. who represent 1856, $50 voters,
or &c. 900 each -tsG
It was opposed By sorty-sevea Demo
cratic members from Che same fourteen
Northern States, who represent s, o74.-
165 voters, or IS. 40S each.
It had majority of seventy-ni1e Re-
publican votes in the Congress BY tn g
0eSenty-nine Republican members, from
AeNenty-nine districts, representing only
S.95s votes each.
1t was passed, and it could only be
passed in opposition to the will of the
people by the shameless Republican
gerrymander of the North. through
which the Democratic voters of thirty
eight Congressional districts have been
robbed of their representation in Con-
EreSs.-N. Y. World.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

Sir NoueIs Free, will be sent by Cragin &
Co., Philada., Pa, to any one in the U. S. or
Canada, postage paid, upon receipt of %
Dobbins' Electric Soap wrappers. See list
of novels on circulars around each bar.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

The Washington Post Rep.)
thinks that the Senate ought to take
into consideration the protest of the inn
porters against the tariff bill. 1t adds:
"a defective or grossly unfair tariff law
passed by the present Congress would
be a great boon to the Democratic
party"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

RELIANCE may be placed in every repre-
sentation made by Maher & Grosh, Toledo,
O., whose ad. will be found elsewhere in
this paper. No risk in sending them
money; they will do exactly as they agree.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

LABOR is honorable; always excepting,
Or ienoyamus~olasse TX KAN IN Mirrors. 0koe
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

EVEN when q rattlesnake manages to
keep its head all right it is liable to get rat
tied at the tail.-N. o. Picayune.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

1T is only when man begins to dictate
his letters that he finds out how poorly he
can talk-Puck.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

A M PRIEST, Druggist ShelbyviIle, Ind
says: <'Hall's Catarrh Cure gives the best of
as it cures every one who takes it-' Drug
Gists sell it, Csc.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

You hardly realize that it is medicine, when
taking Carters Little Liver Pills: they are
very small; no bad effects; all troubles from
torpid liver are relieved by their use.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
\ DOUBTFUL COMPLIMENT.
Skr& Asrrison's Acceptance of That Cap
May Cottage.

Sire MsrYisnn's Acceptance Of That Cape
May Cottage.
Mrs. Harrison is the proud possessor
Of q cottage at Cape May, which was
gift from some Philadelphia gentlemen.
The gift was surprise to the amiable
mistress OF .he White House, but she
was not sufficiently surprised to decline
acceptance OF tie deed to the proper
".
On the face q it this is /. private
transaction, witch which the public has
no concern. But when we dive beneath
she surface we observe e point that is
Of public interest, and it is Of that we
propose 20 speak.
If Mrs. Harrison were not the wife of
che President of the United States would
she to-day be the owner Of the Cape May
cottage?
The good old .ady is pretty we'll ad-
Sanced in life, and according to her own
statement this is the first piece of real
estate she ever owned. If she had con-
tinue2 TO live in indianapolis, as the
wife OF plain Lawyer Harrison, would
ever 10 have occurred to Mr.. Wanna
maker and his friends TO present her
with home at 8 famous summer re-
eOrt?
The point that the public is interest
ed ia is the indirect method these Penn
eylvaniA protectionists have adopted in
bribine the Chief Executive of the Ma
tion. The Chief Magistrate of this
great country has no right to allow
him self 90 10 placsd under obligations
70 any individual This was the view
shat Andrew johnson took of it when
some sdmiring friends presented him
With s.span of horses soon after his in
:suguration. he thanked the donors but
declined the gift.
- the present OF the Cape May cot
9sge was intended al an expression of
good will for Mrs Harrison, the donors
took q most inopportelne time to mani
fest their kindness. She neededit more
before she became tina mistress of the
White House than she does now, and it
would come IN better place to her after
General Hancison's s5G, 600 salary has
0Aen stopped
There wouk, be no gnaund for criti-
eism if she had received the gift either
before OF after her residence in the Elk
ecutive mansion. But as things now
stand. it was . very doubtful compli-
nsent. Caesars wife should not only
be pure, but above suspiciCn.-St. Paul
Globe.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

IT is blow for blow when the hackers
of prize fighters are boasting.-N. o. Pic
ayune,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
Beauty off "Drawbacks.,


tectionist mill some times argue that
their complicated system of draw
backs" is quite as beneficial to the peo-
pie as free raw materials could be. And
Mr.. Mckinley is very much in love with
his scheme providing for the repayment
of 80 per cent. Of the tariff taxes on i'm
articles for exporta ton.
But why should there be this dis
elimination? That is what it comes to.
A manufacturer makes two cloaks. One
he sells in the United States A part of
the price, which the consumer pays, is
the duty on the imported goods which
has gone into it's manufacture. He sells
the other one abroad, and as he gets
back 80 per cent of the duty which he
has paid on the imported wool, he can
afford to and does sell it at lower price
than he gets for the home-sold article.
Such is the protectionist idea of fair
ness. This is what they give us when
we ask for free raw material. And who
gets these rebates after all? The for
eign consumer gets some of them--but
not all.
Mr.. Cultivate, of Ohio. showed that
the rebate On tin-plate last year reached
Ill, of which amount the Standard Oil
further that if the McKinleyites had
their way this same monster would get
in drawbacks something like s., 900, 600.
Besides all this. drawbacks are of
very little practical value to the manu-
facturers. The raw material can not
always-or indeed usually-be followed
t. -
is absolutely impossible to identify it
Even Mr.. Mckinley must know this.
So that drawbacks either have no eff
feet at all. or when they are operative
they discriminate in favor of foreigners
and of the rich and prosperous. We
have thus one more case of the big fish
eating up the little ones.
I'm recent speech at Richmond,
Mo-, Congressman Wilson, of West Vir-
ginia. said: my chief ground of OBJ
position to projection lies in the thought
that when party or people put taxa
ton on the household goods of my
house, my food and my clothing. to 60
into the pockets of another man and not
for the maintenance of the Government,
my liberty is infringed upon. NV
blood tingles and 1 feel that will fight
the battle to the very last With tho
hand of a party people going into the
pocket of one citizen to enrich another
citizen the liberty of that citizen van
ishes- It is fight of principle as we'll
as fight for progress and prosperity.
This protective idea is not only a system
that builds up corporate wealth to prey
upon the people. but it Is war against
your children and against my children
to produce that classification of society
such as exists in England to-day"
Wherein does protective tariff
benefit the Western farmer? Does il
increase the price of his corn, his wheat
his oats, rye or any other crop? Not at
all On the contrary, it increases the
cost of bis farm machinery, his plows
and every thing used in producing these
crops
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

COMPETITION begets enterprise and enter
prise has induced a grocer to advertise
genuine horse-radish, fresh from the
horse. "-Binghamton Leader.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

TIE man who carries ballot In one hand
and a fve-dollar bill in the other today
should carry a ball on one leg and a chain
on the other to-morrow.-AShland Press.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

The reason most poets think to no pur-
pose is that their thoughts are idyl
Observation-Disclosures Press.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

SMITHS Tonic SYRUP is giving universal
satisfaction in this place.-Jn0. II. bingham,
AcKinstey, Terds.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

THERE is notion which finds Judgment
in many minds that success in going through
the world is commensurate with success in
going through the nhabitants.-Jury.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

Wherein does a protective tariff
benefit the Western farmer? Does il
increase the price of his corn, his wheat
his oats, rye or any other crop? Not at
al. On the contrary, it increases the
cost of bis farm machinery, his plows
and every thing used in producing these
crops.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03


we allow ssls per cent for export and Is per
cent. to large home DEALERS
''One of the largest exporting manufactur
ers of paints and varnishes makes the fol-
lowing very important statement. We NAV
say that the heads of this concern are or
election. very strong Republicans and pro-
tectionists. Their political and politico-
economical views appear to have been
very greatly mod lifted by the practical work
Ing of the trnst protection policy now in
force, and by the threatened increase in the
tariff:
We used to make a discount for export
&ker than for the home trade, but the
trusts have completely destroyed the ex-
port trade in paints and varnishes. To give
an idea of the injury trusts have done us
you viii readily see. Linseed OIL to-day Is
selling IN England at "a cents per gallon we
are paying 81 cents per gallon to the trust.
This is a difference Of 80 per cent. in favor of
the English manufacturer. White lead is
selling in England At cents per pound; we
are paying 6lt net, making difference of so
per cent against Us. We can not buy our oil
in England as there 10 e tariff of Is cents per
gallon On OIL; thus With freight, insurance
and other charges, 1t brings the price of oil
the slightest fraction over the price charged
by the trust They are nov talking OF rails
ing the tariff On linseed OIL This will enable
the trust to again raise their price it. As
an illustration OF the injury this trade il re-
ceiving, we can assure you that if the Me-
Kinley bill were to pass and could be guar
aReeed to us for ten years, we could make
thousands of dollars each gear by removing
our plant to England, manufacturing there,
and importing the goods, indeed, at the
present time there are many articles we can
buy, paying all charges Fl importation, and
put into our show rooms at less money than
we can manufacture. This Is particularly
true in the case of chrome yellow and other
preparations in which white lead and lin
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-20
THE LEADING KNIGHT.

*Not included in totals; no clearing house
al this time last year.