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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1891-11-07
FoNsEcA is DICTATOR.

he Dsmurred at First, but Finally Com
sentsd-Only Temporary.
Rio DE JANEIRo, Nov. President
Dedora da Fonseca has been proclaimed
dictator. After the troubles in Rio
Janeiro last Tuesday between riotous
citizens and soldisry, in which several
of the former were killed, the chiefs OF
the army requested Fonseca to assume
the functions of q dictator, saying that
the emergency demanded IL. He ap-
peared to dernur for time, but at
length gave his consent. He then issued
decree relating the causes of disagree
ment between himself and the congress,
Wednesday the conference Of ministera
was held. AT its conclusion Fonseca
issued another decree in which be pro
claimed himself dictator. He said thu
dictatorship was to last until the politi
cal revolutions were at ar
end and lawmakers learned "
keep in progress with Republican ideas
A dictatorship, he added, was th1
very thing for the distracted country
He disclaimed any intention of prolong
ing il after peace had been restored
Teaegrams received from Porto Allegro
In the State of Rio Grande Dosul, de
clare that the authority of the dictatol
is not recognized there. This state i
one of the most prosperous and indie
pendent of all the states. 1t has a popu
1ation Of nearly 100000. The Republi
cans in it say that they viii not tolerate
q dictatorship and are demanding
armed opposition to Fonseca. 1t is Off
cially announced that the president ha
convened the nation to elect new repre-
sentatives at q date to be determines
upon later. The governors of the lead
| ing provinces have congratulated Fon
SEGA upon his success in maintaining
order.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1891-11-07

WASHINGTON, Nov. IA special from
Petersburg, Va, says that ex-senator
William Malone, of Virginia, met SEN
ator Quay and party on arrival at Pet
ersburg and accompanied the party to
Florida, where stay of fortnight will
be made. Senator Quay and his friends
greeted Mr.. Malone very warmly. The
senator expressed himself as well pleased
at the result OF Tuesdays election in
Pennsylvania.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1891-11-07
"a Blanche and Gregglans n atched.

SAN Francisco, Nov. THE Occi-
dental Athletic club has matched
George La Blanche and Alexander Greg
gains, middleweights, to fight on Dec.
~ for purse Of q, 900.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-05-20
REPUTATION.

Anent much that has been charged
by many of our republican contempor-
ares relative to the alleged antagonism
of the alliance people generally, and
the reform editors at their meeting
held at Hutchinson, particularly, it is
with pleasure that we append the ac-
ton Of the Seventh congressional dis
trict alliance convened at Great Bend,
May 9Th, on the above subject. After
the transaction of ordinary routine of
business, the committee on resolutions
reported. The third one of which reads
rs follows, and is a proper reflex of the
prevailing sentiment of the alliance
party toward the ex-soldier element of
the country:
Resolved: THAT we affirm our unreser yed
appreciation of the services of the old soldiers
of our country for their services in preserv-
ing the unity of this government, and while
deploring the fact that predatory politicians
have made the rights of the Union soldiers
partisan question in politics, we do favor the
passage Of service pension bill, and his pay
FOR service upon the battle field be SO paid IS
to make up the difference between depre-
ciated currency and the kind of money paid
the bond holders of the country
Alliance assembled at two o'clock,
president Fish IN the chair. On mo-
ton the president appointed the old
soldiers present to frame resolutions
expressive of the sentiments of the al
lance in reference to Fletcher Mere
dith's soldier resolution, which was
unanimously passed. 1t reads as fol-
lows:
kesolyeds That from what evidence can he
CLEANED, attributing OF the adoption of certain
resolution derogatory to cid soidjers and their
pensions to the reform editors In their meet
ing at Hutchinson, Kan, is as false as can no
ana is base fabrication from beginning to
end, and perpetrated by enemies OF farmer,s
alliance and bogus friends of the soldiers"
AS will be seen, the last above resoIu-
ton emanated from the old soldiers
themselves, and was written after a
full and complete investigation into
all the facts bearing upon the lying
charges made by those employed in the
interest of the dying swans of an obso,
lete political party, who would not on
ly rob the death bed of its last raw of
hope, but worship the devil and all his
imps, for The sake of perpetuating
themselves in powsr.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-05-20
THAT RESOLUTION.

We see what purports to be a COM
munlcation in the last issue OF the
Cresset in which the Infamous Mere
dith resolution is assumed to be true
and with that as text, Veteran" pro-
ceeds to read lecture to the old SOL
diers in the alliance.
When that resolution was first pub
llshed, there were not wanting republI-
can papers IN this state that pro-
nounced the thing fake and impossi-
BILE; and would not open their col
umns to an article based upon so palpa-
BILE fasehood.
Here is the resolution as it was adopt
ed:
Resolved, That we pledge ourselves
to the support of every measure that
shall tend TO render justice to the old
soldier by way of service pensions and
the making of their pay for their ser
vice equal to that of the bondholder.
independent of party utilization, as we
believe soldier legislation should be
handled independent of politics; but
we condemn any and all movements of
old soldiers as political organization. s"
What is wrong with this resolution?
Where does it conflict with rule No. ",
of the Order, which is as follows:
mo officer or cOmrade of the Grand
Army OF the Republic, shall in any
manner use this organization for par
tlsan purposes, and no discussion Of
partisan questions shall be permitted
at any OF its meetings, nor shall any
nomination for political Office be made. -
1t was for violation of the rule above
quoted that Commander Collins admin
lister so scathing rebuke to certain
member high in the councils of the
order, at the recent state encampment.
The affidayits of a large number of
persons in attendance at the meeting,
have been published denying the Mere
dith resolution, and among them is the
affidavit of Mr.. Brady, reporter for the
Hutchinson News. Whenever the al
lance has spoken on the subject of
pensions, it has spoken with no uncer-
tain sound. 1t has never favored the
pauperizing OF the men who followed
the flag from Sumpter to Appomattox,
and faced death on two thousand bat
tle-fields; but has insisted on a service
pension and on making good the depre-
citation of the money in which they
were paid. AS for the agent to look
after pensions at the seat of Federal
government, it is not likely that po-
heal party out of ninety-one of whose
representatives, fifty-six are old SOL
diers, would act without due delibera-
ton.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-05-20
sPEokAL CoRREspoNDENoE.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 18th 1891.
The Barber county delegation arrived
at Kansas City in good trim. After a
refreshing sleep and a good breakfast
we took the train at 9:1O a. m. Sunday
and reached this city this afternoon at
7:30. About 800 delegates to the con-
vention at Cincinnati left Kansas City
by different trains this morning. There
were at least calculation $50 on the
tram which carried the Barber county
representatives and myself. Among
them are eighty-seven union and seven
confederate old soldiers who fraternIze
together just as they did when Lee sur
rendered to Grant at Appomattox.
Upon a ballot being taken on the
train $50 votes were cast, 247 of which
were in favor of third party. The at
mosphere is full of third party politics
and the people are awakening to real
ization that in the organization of a
middle party their only hopes for saliva
ton and deliverance can be obtained.
The trip has thus far been pleasant
one. All trains going east are crowded
to their utmost capacity and the largest
convention held for many years is an
ticlpated. Our train is handsomely
decorated and will run through to Gin
cinnati and return to Kansas City. All
the prominent alliance men of Kansas
are either on board this train or enroute
to the convention.
Yours hurriedly,
w. G. NJ.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-05-20

that protection is as much a mistake
for them as was slavery for the south.
The democratic party, he says, is not a
free trade party. 1t is and will be the
conservative party, and new party
VIII accomplish the reforms necessary.
Tariff for revenue, he says, is not free
trade. The free trade party will have
no use whatever for the custom houses;
protection will have to be uprooted. as
slavery was, by bold radical action.
not little by little.
Speaking of the organization of the
next house, Mr.. Simpson said that he
supposed that the speakership would
go TO either Mills or Crisp, and that
both were well-balanced and brainy
and progressive men. AS to the alli-
ance members, they would, he said, act
together. Their number is not definite
ly Known but there will be thirty or
forty of them. he thought. They would
demand some concessions from the can
didate they supported, and if they
could not get these concessions they
would bolt the nominee of the demo-
cratic caucus. Simpson thought it
would be easier to get concessions from
Springer than either Mills or Crisp. He
said 1t was not the intention of the
alliance men to go into the democratic
OF republican caucuses, but that in the
event of either party. nominating for
speaker man satisfactory to them,
they would vote for him. If either of
the old parties did not nominate salts
factory house officers he intimated that
the alliance would herd alone and vote
for the candidates of their own selec-
ton.
In response to question about the
sub-treasury plan, he SAID that he was
opposed to class legislation of any sort,
but this plan he believe to be necessary
under present conditions to adjust
thing. Thus far there has been much
class legislation, and In favor of other
classes to the detriment of the farmer.
OF course, what he would prefer to see,
would be the abolition of all class leg
islation, but the farmers have as much
right to legislation expressly for their
benefit as any other class OF citizens.
There must be something done, he said,
to place the farmers on an equal foot
ing with others in this matters. He
thought that the discussion of the sub
treasury plan was good thing and it
might be necessary to adopt it under
the present condition of things. In ar
guing against it he said the monopo-
lists had exposed some of the weak
nesses of their own position; for the ar
gument against the class legislation
proposed on one was just as strong
against that in operation on the other.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-05-20
SAMPLES FOR THE WORLDS
FAIR

AS no one is as yet authorized to ar
range for the collection of samples for
the proposed display of Kansas products
at the Columbian exposition, and as
many of our finest fields of wheat, rye,
oats, ETC., may mature before an organ
ization can be secured, beg leave, very
respectfully, to suggest to those having
field crops from which good samples
may be selected to secure the same be-
fore harvest, cutting the straw as near
the ground as possible, and safely store
the same until such time as they may
be called for by the proper committee.
1t is confidently expected that liberal
premiums will be offered by the board
of managers, when selected, for samples
In the straw of the cereals named, and
as the outlook is now good for fine
crops the samples desired should be
secured as the crops mature. They
should be selected just before harvest
begins, and in quantity sufficient two
good-sized bundles of each variety Sc
lected from to meet the requirements
of the board when premiums may be
offered. Respectfully,
HENRY WoRRALL.
lAll Kansas papers please copy.1
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-05-20
JERRY SIMPSON

WASHINGTON, May 12.-Jerry Simp-
son, who has returned to the capital
from his eastern trip, says that he
learned great deal during the trip.
lie found that in New York state per-
haps 80 per cent. of the farms were
mOrtgaged for.moFe than they would
actually bring if sold now. They were
mortgaged when farm lands were high,
and many of them are now worth but
half what they were then. In New
England, he says, the people are rapid
~ becoming free traders. He predicts
that the manufacturers will discover
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-05-20

The Botkin Impeachment trial is de-
yeloping many remarkable specimens
OF human depravity. Judging from the
evidence adduced, there can be no
doubt that the Judge not only drinks
but pours, and that he was drunk at
Dodge City, Wichita and during his
trip through Texas, on which occasion
he not only disgraced the ermine he
wears, but the great state Cf Kansas
which he represents. And yet we find
that our republican senate has decided,
10y vote of fourteen to twelve, that
getting drunk while absent from his
judicial district is not an offense amen
able to our code of moral ethics. In
deed one republican senator went so
FAR as TO intimate that the Judge would
have to be drunk for at least thirty con-
secutive days before he would feel JUS
titled i'll convictIng him. But from the
outset 1T appears as though the trial
has been a mere political farce, and
every effort made to shield the g. o. D.
and It's fitting representative from re-
moyal from Office. A big red apple to
one shilling and six-pence that Botkin
Will not be impeached.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-05-20

10 those of our republican brethren
who seek to belittle the alliance move
ment, and proclaIms il a dead issue,
we take pleasure in commenting the
following facts and figures as mighty
interesting reading at this particular
juncture: Ohio has $4,000 alliance
votes and is organizing rapidly; Wiscon-
sin has over 300 alliances; West VIr-
ginia has 1873 alliances and growing
fast; Pennsylvania has over 200 ALI
ances and is organizing five a day, A.
900 having joined in one day; Kentucky
has 2,4OO alliances, with over 100000
members, and sixty new charters were
granted in March; North and South
Dakota have double their membership
III the past SIX months; Iowa has fifty
county organizations and the state will
be fully organized soon; Minnesota.
Nebraska and Kansas have each added
third to their membership since the
November election; Illinois and Indi-
ana are fast catching up with the pro-
cc3sion. The southern states are solid
and New York aud New England are
organizing very rapidly; they will get
there. Yes, the alliance is dying-for
tight at the polls.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-05-20

Referring to the reckless extrava-
gance Of the fltty-first congress, 1t is
with pleasure that we commend the
readers of the INDEX to the following
opinion thereon by Ex Senator John ID.
Henderson, of st. Louis, who was chair
man of the republican national conyen-
ton, in 1883: "As republican think
the extravaganza of the congress just
adjourned was an outrage upon the par
ty and the people. However the ap-
preparation may JUSTIFIED, the fact that
they reached billion dollars is OF itself
appalling. No such enormity of appro-
priation has been voted since the war,
and occurring in a time of profound
peace as this is, and when the greatest
economy was demanded, no excuse can
be offered for this extravaganza. The
republican in congress must have pro-
ceeded upon the theory that they were
not coming INTO power again for about
400 years. Their closing days remind
ed me very forcibly of the closing days
OF the democratic congress which went
out on March 4th, 1861. AS a republi-
eau feel that the comparison is odius,
but in most respects it is just. | hope
that il we have another congress, Soon,
1t viii devote itself to methods of econ
omy, different from those observed by
the 5lst congress-"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-05-20
First Published May 20, 1891.
eHERIFFs SALE.
No. 1869.

No. 1869. First Published May 20 1881.
eHERIFFs SALE.
STATE OF KANSAS, COUNTY OF BARBER, Sc.
Mrs. NJ. W. CnAmplin, plaintiG.
Willis A. Jones ct. al, defendants
DY virtue of an order of sale, issued out of
II the district court sitting In and for the
county of Barber. state of Kansas, in the
above entitled action, and to me directed,
will, on
MONDAY, THE 22SD DAY OF JUNE.
1891, at two O'Clock in the afternoon of said
day. at the front door of the courthouse in said
county, offer for sale at public auction and sell
without appraieement, to the highest and best
bidder for cash in hand, to satisfy said order of
sale. all the right, title and interest whatsoever
OF the above named defendants, and each of
them, and OF al persons claiming under them
in and TO the following described tract, piece
and parcel of land lying and situate in said
county OF Barber, to-wit:
The south haff = of the northeast quarter L
ana the northeast quarter of the northeast
quarter i and the southeast quarter i OF the
northwest quarter of section TWENTY-FIVE ..
township thirty-one 81, south. of range fifteen
Is. west, together with all and singular the ten
ementa, hereditaments and appartenauces
ing.
Given under my hand at my ONCE in th e civ
OF MedicineLOdge in said county, this 18th (iay
OF May, 1891. ]. W. DOBSON.
30 Sheriff
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-05-20

PostmasterGeneral Wannaker, has or
dered that all postmasters shall refuse
to pay all money orders drawn in favor
of the Pacific Portrait Company of New
York and st. Louis, until further no.
tice. All persons who have recently
sent money to that company should go
To the postmaster who issued the order
and make application for duplicate
payable at the local office.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-05-20
ThOrOughbreds For Sale.

Miller &Benedlct have received a car
load OF Shorthorn bulls from Sedgwick
county for their trade here, which they
will sell at low price. They are out
of the best herds in Sedgwick county.
They also have few choice full-blood
and high-grade uolstein bulls and heif-
ers for sale. 52-2t
MEDICINE LODGE STOCK FARM.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-05-20

The Itata finds it a very easy thing
to evade the United States navy, in the
shape OF the Charleston. 1.-THE present
tariff administration continues in the
country very long the United States
will not even have the Charleston to
represent the navy. Protection does
not protect the navy. 1t is intended to
to protect the monopolists.-Beacon.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-05-20

Baby Mckee is once more in his glo-
ny, since the dispatches inform us that
his playmate, little Bonnie Harrison
who during the last fortnight has been
junketing around the country in charge
OF his goOdy-good Chaperone Johnny
Wannamaker, has returned to the
White House at Washington.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-05-20
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY.

Texas has inaugurated movement
for the purpose of raising 100000 by
subscription for an exhibit at the
Words Fair, at Chicago in 1893. From
this, the inference is quite plain, that
there is nothing small about the Lone
STAR state, except its republican MIN
nr,t;aa
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-05-20

The small number of the ELITE who
enjoyed the Inequalities and dinner
recently given in New York in honor
of the author of the Mckinley bill -
were jointly worth five hundred mil
hon tS50O,O0O,OOO) dollars. These are
the kind Of 'cranks" who are always
clamoring for protection. and are daily
robbing the people through the infa-
nous protection tariff laws, at present
existing in this country.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-05-20

GOV. Humphrey has remembered the
grand old party in making the nomlna-
ton of the state board of public works
by selecting the secretary of the repub-
lean central committee as a member.
The only qualification he had for the
place was that he had worked for the
party and for Humphrey at the last
election. There is too much partisan
ship and too litole every day business
in the affairs of Kansas.-Beacon
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-05-20

Boyd, the ousted governor of Nebras.
ka, will contest the legality of the rul.
ings OF the supreme court of that state
before the supreme court of the United
States, and the latter court has signi
fled its purpose 10 advance the case OIL
its docket, to hear, and decide whether
man is entitled to occupy, upon a
mere technicality, an Office WHICH the
sovereign people of state have declar.
ed belongs to another person.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-05-20
BOARD OF EQUALIZATION

To Whom it May Concern:
Take notice that the Board of County Com
missiOners of Barber county. Kansas, will
meet at the county clerk Office, in the city of
Medicine Lodge, on Monday, June LIST, 1891.
and sit as Board of Equalization, to consider
and equallze the assessment returns of 1891.
At the above time aud PLACE, ali pefsont ap-
grieved may attend and show cause why the
assessment of their real or personal properly
should be modified or changed by said board
Witness my hand and official seal. this 10th
day of May, 1891. W.. ROUSE.
u. 50 County Clerk.
F. E. REED, Deputy. 52-2t
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1891-04-02

LITTLE BUT BRAVE.
The Sort OF Wife Ono Pioneer Out
Washington Possesses.

The Sort oi Wife Ono Pioneer Out in
Washington Possesses.
In the backwcods of Baker river lives
the braveSt, most industrious and most
courageous little lady in Skagit County,
says the La Conner wash Mail Her
husband is 4 man of limited means, and
often has to leave home 20 earn money
to support them while they are hnprov-
ing their home.
This being the first year, their place
Is not self-s..staining, and in such cases
bis wife stays al home entirely alone.
All tho company she has is Winches-
ter rifle and q thrce-pound axe. Every
morning, after she does her housework,
she takes her three-pound axe and goes
to clearing, choppinE and burning
brush. She is determined to have u
sclf-sustaining and profitable home, and
when her husband IS at home she shoul-
Gcrs her axe and goes to the clearing
with him, in spite of his protests against
it
Sho says she can chop to the heart of
G tree nearly ID quickly as he can. This
lady only weighs l05 pounds, but she
has ton Of ain5iEioa and staying quail
ties. She WIS rocked in tLo cradle of
ease. raised in the lap OF luxury, is well
educated and the life sho is now living
Is entirely foreign to her. She has had
no experience IN rcugniHg it, but she is
not one OF the kind that sits and whines
over past loro. She has strong arms, a
bravo heart and willing mind, and is
determined 30 sprmonnt the worst diih-
cIitics ard rcap . reward