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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-10-31
QUARTERLY REPORT
OF THE
Auditor and Treasurer.

Following is the Auditors and Treasurer
Joint Quarterly Report for the quarter ending
sept. 30th. 1891:
The advocate., 1891-12-09
ANOTHER WAY TO LOOK AT 1T.

The fact is that the Peoples party has lost the
county officers and all the strength and prestige
that pertain to victory 1t has not destroyed the
Republican party and 1t reached the height Of
its power year ago Next year 1t will be in the
trough of irretrievable deieat.-CdpttdI.
"The fact is" that the Peoples
party did not have the county officers
to lose. Every officer elected by the
Peoples party is clear gain and
gain at the expense of the Republi-
can party. This cheap clap-trap
about Peoples party losses and ALI
ance "Waterloos" is very fiat in the
face of official figures showing a gain
in an off year of over 5000 votes in
the state. Republican papers make
q great noise about the number Of
officers they have elected, but the
people do not fail to observe that
they have to go to Peoples party
papers for election returns showing
the vote ofall parties. Neither do they
fail to observe the labored effort to
cover up and obscure the cote by a
constant blow about officers. The
Capital says the Republicans elected
277 county officers this year while the
Peoples party only elected 127. Last
year the Peoples party elected 324
and the Republicans II. This then
is clear gain in two years of 451 for
the Peoples party and clear loss of
that number to the Republican party.
At the same rate how many officers
will the Republican party retain after
next year?
The advocate., 1891-12-09

THAT Republicans must organize thoroughly
II they would sweep things next year, Is simply
stating common sense fact.-AtchtSOD Cham
ptOn.
Well, which is which, and hOwiS how. anyway
II "Kansas has been redeemed" from It's calami-
tous tendency, why waste energy organizing?
The brethren must still think that Kansas needs
further redemption. They must also believe
that the Peoples party is an active institution
although they exultingly declare that 1t is back
number. Don't figure too strongly on an $1,000
majority for Republcanism in 1S92.-AtloOOd
Times.
The Champion is too sensible a
journal to take any stock in such po-
litical rot as appears in the Capital
and some other Republican papers
claiming the disintegration of the
Peoples party; and too honest to
claim that the Republican party has
a wslk-awsy in 1892.
The advocate., 1891-12-09
AN OBJECT LESSON.
next year?

There Are Other Arguments in Favor of the
Treasury Plan, Besides Those of a FL
nancial Nature.
To the Editor Of THE ADVOCATE.
1t would seem as IL the stern logic Of
facts and illustration OF events should
prove to even its est earnest opponents
that the sub-treasury plan or something
like it, Is sorely needed. Leaving en-
tirely out of the question the idea Of
finance, or Of governmental Inauguration
and enforcement of the plan, the fact yet
remains that for the want Of the sub.
treasury plan or something like it, either
Of public or private management, the
farmers Of the United States are being
mercilessly and pitilessly robbed of the
greater part of the fair reward Of their
labor
From an exchange / clip as follows:
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, November A.-The
clamor for cars is becoming greater each
day, and each day the roads seem to be a
little worse off than the preceding one. The
shortage seems to be general and from
every part of the country comes the cry for
additional cars. Although grain is being
shipped from Chicago in immense quanti-
ties by eastern roads and steamship lines,
the mighty rush of grain that is flowing in
from western points keeps the shipping
channels at Chicago blocked up. An official
The advocate., 1891-12-09
QuIck and Comfortablo TrLp.

Two new trains have been added To
the already excellent connections east
that the Great Rock Island Route has
been Offering to Its patrons.
The Lake Shore s. Michigan South
ern has put on new train, leaving Chi
cago daily at 1890 a. M, and the Fort
Wayne (PennsylVania lines) one at
10:45 a. m.
These are daily trains, scheduled on
fast time, and arrive at New York city
next afternoon at o'clock, and via the
first mentioned Boston passengers reach
their destination two hours later.
The fast vestibuled express from Dem
YER, Colorado Springs and Pueblo, VIA
both Kansas City and st. Joseph, arrives
at Chicago at $50 a. M, daily, and the
vestlbuled express from Omaha and The
Iowa main line arrives at Chicago az
sos a. m, daily. John Sebastian, Cen
eral Ticket and Passenger Agent; u. S.
John, General Manager.
The advocate., 1891-12-09
DEMOCRATIC DEGRADATION.
GEO. G. WARD.
FrOm the SOuthern AllIance Farmer.

From the Southern Alliance Farmer.
In another column we give our read
ers a nauseating dose from the Kansas
papers, irrespective Of party, that fur
nish conclusive proof Of the Democratic
Republican coalition in that state and
Nebraska, to defeat the Alliance.
II you would throw ton OF ipecac
into hades it would not vomit forth more
treachery, hypocrisy and corruption than
are found among the leaders Of the two
old parties. The Republicans have sold
themselves to the protected manufac-
turers, and the Democrats belong to the
gold bugs of Wall street Both parties
are striving for the same end-the en-
sIavement of the toiling millions for the
enrichment Of the favored few; and as
The advocate., 1891-12-09

was conclusIvely shown in the western
elections, If it becomes necessary u
overthrow and crush the political
power of the people, these old enemies
will bury differences, combine their
forces, and unite upon and support one
ticket.
The Jeffersonisn Democratic q? move
ment in the Seventh Georgia district
was the first outcropping Of this feeling,
and from the Empire state Of the south
1t has spread to the northwest.
In the hatred Of politicians and pluto
Gratis against the Alliance, all past differ
ences are forgotten, and enmities OF 8
third of century, even famed by civil
war, are forgotten in mutual hatred Of
struggling people. We see Bourbon
Democrats and Radical Republicans
clasping hands across the chasm Of sec
tional hate and working hand in hand, in
order to defeat the Alliance and re-en-
slave the farmers.
And we also see so-called Democratic(Y)
organs in Georgia growing over the vic.
tories (?) their party has won, and exult-
ing over the downfall (?) of the Alliance;
and yet not one of these papers has had
the self-respect, manhood and fairness TO
expose and condemn the unholy and In
famous coalitions their party has formed
with Republicans.
Brother Alliance men, what does this
showY Why it shows that the Demo
cratic press Of Georgia are condoners Of,
and sympathizers with this villainous
conspiracy, and that they would rather
see the Republican party triumph than
the peoplel Secretly they gloat over the
degrading ends to which their party has
stopped to overthrow and discourage the
Alliance movement, and II II becomes
necessary to defeat us they will join
hands with the Republicans in Georgia
in 1892.
After reading this story Of shame from
Kansas, do you now feel pride in being
called DemocratH Study that record,
and then tell us what is the difference
between the two old parties? The
Democrats have Joined forces with the
Republicans to defeat the Alliance, and
lost sight OF the Issues that divided them
so long. The truth is, that the leaders
of both parties have become so vile and
corrupt, and are so linked together by
selfShness and greed, that 1t will take
first-clasS political chemist to separate
them.
If you call that crowd Of political
smAlgamatorS in Kansas, and the high
klckerS who brought out DR.. FELTON,,
DemocEats--in the language Of Ben Hill,
il we ever were a Democrat we dldn't
mean to be.
The advocate., 1891-12-09


100 more engines could be used to advant-
age on that system alone. A dispatch from
Burlington, Ia, says that 500 cars Of grain
crossed the Mississippi for Chicago yester-
day, and this is but fair sample Of what
the other roads are doing.
The members of the railway commission
of South Dakota started for Chicago yes
terday to plead with railway managers to
relieve the state from the car famine it is
now experiencing. Over 100 written COM
plants from different points are recorded
on the books of the commission, all arriv-
ing within ten days. Many towns report
that they have stopped buying grain, hav-
ing no cars.
The railroad officials are advising farm
ers to store their grain for while as a 30
luton of the problem. The farmers, how
ever, need the money, but already IN many
cases they have been obliged to haul their
grain home after taking il to the station.
The result is the farmers, having no chance
to sell, are short of money, and in some in
stances pressing obligations are causing
much trouble. Instead of being confined
to the roads and shippers the difficulty aris-
ing from the short car supply is beginning
to affect the entire western country, and
unless relief is given soon the gravest re-
suits are expected. The Burlington has
issued orders to suspend the loading of all
grain for Chicago owing to threatened
blockade at that city.
Now want to remark right here that
no amount of manipulation of, or legisla-
tlon concerning our financial system, nor
any increased volume Of perfectly fexi-
BILE and elastic currency; (such as the
land loan and savings bond plan would
supply, can by any means remedy the
evil conditions depicted in the above and
foregoing clipping.
It Will be observed that the money,
such as it is, in volume and value, Is
ready with which to pay for the farmers
wheat. The farmer Is ready and anxious
to sell, although the fact that he sells
upon such glutted market, for por-
ton of such a small, unelastic and in
flexible volume Of money, is indisputable
evidence that he is being robbed. And
yet, owning and possessing breadstuffs
upon which the people of the United
States and many millions Of the people
Of other nations must live and subslst,
such breadstuff Is worthless drug upon
his hands, and he, in the possession Of
great wealth Of intrinsic value, must be
annoyed and harrassed by his creditors,
not being even allowed the privilege of
selling his wealth at such prices as will
give the speculator and grain gambler
what little margin of profit there may be
derived from his labors
What then does the farmer need In
this extremity? The answer Is simple.
II he is out Of debt he needs only storage
room for his wheat. If he Is In debt and
his debts are pressing him he needs not
storage room only, but an advance of
money to enable him to meet the press
ing demands against him and thus be in
a position to hold his wheat. Desperate
diseases require heroic treatment. Ma
tional problems cannot be left to indl-
vldual solution. Now I am convinced
that under the land loan plan Of the
Alliance there would always be a
sufficient volume Of money outstanding
to fill any demand upon 1t for productive
The advocate., 1891-12-09


Of county, state or national cooperation
must be put in force to the end that the
people collectively, shall help the farmer
out of his dilemma.
l know perfectly well, ,thatifthe farmer
were only out of debt, he could hold his
wheat without assistance and be free and
independent. But he Is not out of debt,
and even If he can fund his debt under
the land loan plan at 2 per cent. interest,
it will take him considerable time TO
get out Of debt In the mean while, Mr..
Anti-sub-treasuryite, what are you going
to do for the farmer? l address this
question to those who, though advocat-
ing the land loan plan, are opposed to
the 'non-perishable product" feature OF
the sub-treasury plan. Those who op-
pose the land loan plan, also propose to
do nothing either for the farmer or any
one else, but 80 far as they are concerned,
will suffer humanity to be offered as q
sacrifice upon the affairs of the false gods
'intrinslc value" and "specie basis"
around whose affairs are even now the
bones Of a stiaed and slaughtered hui
msnity of these many centuries past
Like those Of whom Paul wrote eighteen
hundred years ago, there are many even
in these days who choose to "believe q
lie and be damnedp' In the meanwhile,
what's to be done for the farmer while he
Is getting out Of debt?
Now do not misunderstood me. I
have the utmost faith in the land loan or
land currency system, reinforced with
the postal savings bank inter-convertlble
savings bonds. I am positive that were
the farmer out Of debt and restored to
his normal, natural condition, that the
reserve or surplus savings of the people
invested in savings bonds drawing one,
or one and one-half per cent, would be
instantly converted into each as soon as
1t was manifest that 1t could be used in
the channels Of trade or commerce, 80 as
to pay two or two and one-half per cent,
thus furnishing an elastic and a flexible
volume Of currency that would auto
matically adjust itself to any additional
or extraordinary demand for its use
such as moving or handling the crops,
But | am almost as surely convinced that
were the farmers out of debt, as class,
(so that the necessity would not exist for
them all to sell their products at once,
at any sacrifice, 30 as to pay pressing,
urgent demands( that there ,oouId be no
extraordinary demand for money to
move the crops, as the grain would then
be sold as the demand for consumption
called for 1t day by day, week by week,
and month by month, In about the same
quantity for each and every day, week or
month.
But 1t is present existing conditions we
have to deal with, and again ] ask If the
sub.treasury plan is discarded, what are
you going to do for the farmer while he
is getting out Of debtH
GEO. G. WARD.
Kansas City, Mo.
nEM0rQATIC DFGPADATION
The advocate., 1891-12-09

Knight Templar emblems and society
badges. Write for catalogue.
JAoCARDs, Kansas City, no.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1891-01-03
Ought to be a GOOD Indian.

A prominet lady in Chattanooga, Ten
uessee, is the sister of Red Cloud, Sit
ting Bulls right hand man, and tells a
romantic story concerning her brothers
career. When three years old he was
stolen from his parents, who then re-
sided in Wisconsin on an Indian reser.
vstion in the northern part of the State,
and all track of him was lost for eigh-
teen years, when he was found among
The red men, having been brought up by
them. He had forgotten his own name,
but remembered that of bis father and
his dogs, and his Identification was com
plete. He remained with his family a
few weeks. speaking English imperfect
", but French fuently. But all his
sympathies were with his adopted tribe,
and he Joined the Sinux TO the grief Of
his parents and brothers and sisters, and
has since then been to all intents and
purposes a semi-savage.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1891-01-03
Brigham Young's Lawyer on Nor.
mOnlsm.


monism.
C. W. Bennett, a lawyer Of Salt Lake
City, who was the attorney for the es.
tate Of Brigham Young. in a recent in.
terview said: Although Brigham
Young was a fanatic, he was e most just
man, and ne left his property to be
equally divided among his eighteen
wives and their children. His nine
teenth wife, Analiza, whom he never
lived with because she deceived him, he
left nothing. He never recognized her,
and always claimed to have but eigh.
teen wives. His estate when l came to
settle it up, l found to be worth 81, 200.
900. A great many people thought his
fortune would amount to much more
than that, because it was believed he
had q large amount with the Bank of
England. This was not true, however.
"Polygamy lourishes as much to-day
as it ever did" he continued, "and it is
increasing every year. About 1000 be-
levers Of the faith are imported anDu-
ally, most Of the number being Scandi.
uavians.
"There are about 10000 Mormons in
the north of Mexico, at Chihuahua and
other towns, and if compelled those in
Utah will go to Mexico. The Mexican
Government owned Utah when it was
settled by the Mormons and Utah re.
NAMED a Mexican province until the
treaty OF lS47."
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1891-01-03
WILL MAKE NO DIFFERENCE.

With no idea of making any threat,
but simply to state a manifest fact, we
tell the Republicans 10 Congress that if
they fail to do what is right regarding
silver this Winter, all the credit Of do.
ing the right thing will be given the
Democrats next winter, and in 1892 it
will be liable to cost the Republican
party the electoral votes Of California,
Oregan, Nevada, Washington, Idaho,
Montana, Wyoming and Colorado. II
the party can afford to ignore these eight
States, why then it can continue to fritz
ter away the rest Of its day of grace be.
tween now and the Fourth Of March. II
it can not afford to lose those States then
it should at once get to work and do
what the people of every Congressional
district in the United States are expect
ing il will do.-Salt Lake Tribune.
The Republicans in Congress will do
nothing. The Democrats next Winter
win &c everything. But all that viii
make no difference in the mining States
in 1892. They will go on voting the
Republican ticket all the same. The
Republican party destroyed silver in
1873. Republican editors and stumpers
admit that that was the greatest crime
the century. But not n Of them
holds his party responsible for it, or
ever thinks Of lodging the blame where
il belongs. And so IL has been IN forty
In Congress since 1878. Practi.
cally all Of the Republicans have stead
lily and uniformly voted against silver
and practically all Of the Democrats
have voted for it. But all this has never
made the slightest difference, II the
record can be construed to mean any
thing the Republicans in the mining
States do not care a fig about silver.
They manifest a deeper interest in the
pig iron of Pennsylvania. The mining
States are richly deserving Of all the
bad treatment their leading interest is
receiving at the hands of Congress. So
long as they help to keep both houses of
Congress in the hands Of their enemies
they ought to be punished.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1891-01-03
NO HELP rOx sILvER.

No one can have noted the dispatches
from day to day and the reports Of pro-
ceedings in Congress and out among
financial seers and not have been i'm
pressed with the fact there is no intention
on the part of the Republican leaders
to have . free silver coinage bill passed.
They have not expressed their fears in
words, exactly. but they have manifest
ed the conviction that the party cannot
become just now responsible for a meas
ure that will bear with it such a weighty
problem, and the solution Of which the
financial prophets have not yet worked
out.
The above 10 from the Sacramento
Record Union, one of the leading Re-
publican papers of California. There
can be no question about the correct
ness of that journals prediction. There
will be nothing done for silver by this
Congress or any other in which there Is
q Republican majority. The Republi.
can party is the enemy Of silver and has
always been. II destroyed the stand
ard dollar in 1873 and has steadily re-
fused to restore ii ever since. The
Window commodity bill Of last July
was not intended to benefit silver, but
was passed in the interest Of spectators
and thieves. in and out Of Congress. and
to deceive the people Of the West into
voting the Republican ticket in the Fall
elections. II was a political and specu-
lative bill and not an honest silver bill.
The men by whose votes it was passed
in Congress were either ignorant or dis
honest.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1891-01-03

Judge Wells, in the Carson Tribune,
asserts that the vote upon the Constitu-
,ional Convention was not constitutional
that the county clerks had no constitu-
tional right to receive or certify to the
votes; and that there is no constitution
al power in the State to canvass therein.
There are lots Of other things connected
with the matter which he says are I'M
constitutional, and If he is correct, il
appears to be somewhat a matter Of
doubt whether our present constitution
itself is constitutions l.-Virginia Chron-
icle.
A clear majority of all the people have
declared that they want a convention,
but "the powers" have decided that
they shall not have it. That about set
ties it. Nevada is the worst bulldosed
State In the American Union. Majority
rule counts for nothing here.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1891-01-03
UNCLE SASS BALANCE SHEET
Enn ugQ0.

The United States during the year
just closed exported Of gold about S7o..
600. 900 and Of silver about S35, 900, 900.
For the same period we imported Of gold
about $50, OO0, 900 and Of silver about
SIS, 900, 900. This shows a clear balance
against us in the movements Of the
precious metals Of s70,00O,O0O. We
have used the word "about" in the
above statement for the reason that the
figures complete have not been brought
down to the close Of the year. They
are, however. approximately correet.
The statement shows where the money
goes. And our money drifts away from
us in spite Of = high tariff, while the
claim is made for that system that it
possesses the merit Of keeping our
money at home. As . matter Of fact it
does not prevent the average American
from buying what he wants abroad. For
the year ended October 81, 1890, the ex-
ports Of merchandise from the United
States were $500, 675, $40, while our
imports for the same time were $751;
324, 233, making an excess OF exports
over imports of S43, 35l, OH; that is to
say that we sold to all other countries
more than we bought from all other
countries merchandise to the value of
the last named sum. Still we lost $780,.
600, 900 of our gold and silver, but just
how the Bureau Of Statistics at Wash
ington does not explain. II would seem
that if the balance in general trade was
forty odd million in our favor all Of our
money should have remained at home
and we should have added to our stock
and been richer by forty odd millions.
There must be something wrong in our
system Of political economy when we
out trade all the rest Of the world and
yet grow poorer in ready cash. Ii is
widely asserted that figures won't lie,
but it cannot be denied that they are
wonderfully mystifying at times. We
frankly confess that we are unable to
strike q correct balance between Uncle
Sam and the rest of the universe for
1890. He seems to have made money
with his left hand and thrown it away
With his right. Or possibly his head
bookkeeper at w ashiukten docs not nm.
derstand the business,
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1891-01-03
WHAT THE FORCE BILL MEANS.


The Force Election bill means two
things and only two things. They are;
l.. The employment Of 300, 900 OF
more of Federal partisan officials al
every Presidential and official election,
and the expenditure Of from $40. 0O0.-
900 to SIS. OOO.O 900 Of public money,
chiefly to reward partisan desperadoes
in the South.
2. The certiication of Presidential
and Congressional election returns by un.
scrupulous partisans, paid by the Gov
eminent to invent and execute fraud,
and such returns to be conclusive as TO
the right Of the holders to be qualified
as President or Congressman.
Never since the grotesque political
madness of the Lecompton leaders,
when the old slavery Democracy was in
it's dying throes, has there been such
monumental political madness as that
exhibited by the Force Election bill
leaders; and il they shall succeed in en-
acting the revolutionary measure the
Republicanism that has made the Ma
tional annals so lustrous will die I'M
unhonored and unsuDg."-Phila-
delphiA Times.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1891-01-03
A Wonderful Example.

In the village of Waterheim, Ger
many, a peculiar case Of religious frenzy
has been developed. Christmas day
Barbara P6ster, an unmarried woman,
% years old, horribly mutilated herself
and appeared before a large number Of
people who had assembled at her home
to participate in q religious ceremony.
She was CHASTITY in appearance. and the
police with drawn swords had to cut
their way through q crowd of peasants
to reach the woman to arrest her. She
claimed that she with her wounds was a
wonderful example Of the crucifxion Of
Christ.