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The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29
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JOB PRINTING
THE pLuTocaATIc RADICALS.
Measures for the Perpetustion of Sectional
Strife. fsf 81

Strife. t.s ~ ltt
Mr.. Edmunds, of Vermont, is the gen.
tleman who so recently showed his sim
cere regard for the welfare of the coun-
try by securing two cents a pound on
maple sugar from the Treasury for the
sap-boilers Of that State. Mr.. Hoar, of
Massachusetts,, is Senator who during
long legislative experience has never
failed to use all the power of his intel
lect to serve the ends of the Northeast
ern Commune of Capital" Mr.. Chand
Ter, of New Hampshire, is as subservt
ent tool of plutocracy as is Mr.. Hoar,
and he has moreover a record in connec
tion with the worst period of jobbery in
the navy which has fixed his moral
status so that no one Is at all in doubt
concerning it.
These three men constitute the. tri'
umvirate which is attempting to coerce
the Senate into passing the Davenport
force bill, under which elections are tc
be controlled by District of Columbia
returning boards, backed by bayonets.
Behind this bill is 1.-The American Pro-
tective Tariff League" the association
of monopolists organized to furnish the
fat fund of 1888 and to control money
and supply through Federal legislation.
1t is because of this demand for the
bill that Messrs. Hoar, Chandler and
Edmunds are so determined on its pas
sage. A strong sentiment has grown
up in the West against Northeastern
control of money, and the agricultural
States of the South sympathize
with it, while in the South
from year to year there is grow
ing up a stronger competition in
manufactured goods with the North
east. The result of this, if not checked,
win be more and cheaper goods in the
market and more money to buy them
with. The tariff prevents the agricult-
ural States from buying outside the
country, and the plutocratic States of
the Northeast have in so much mo-
| nopoly. But the tariff can not be used
to prevent Georgia, Alabama and Ten
nessee from manufacturing their own
cotton and other raw materials in COM
petition with the plutocratic States.
The only method by which this ''over-
production" as the Northeastern trusts
call every thing which cheapens the
neccssaries of life, can be prevented is
by reviving the old sectional quarrel on
the line of a manufactured race issue.
The plutocratic radicals are attempting
to do that for the South, while at the
same time they are trying to keep
money and supply controlled against
the West. When every thing else fails
them, when the West rises in a tre-
mendous revolt against them, it only
makes them the more desperate and the
more determined on returning board
and bayonet. Only through such means
can plutocracy maintain the control il
has usurped over free people.-St.
| Louis Republic.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29
NOTES AND OPINIONS.

The pudding-head leaders, who
have brought the Republican party to
its present forlorn condition, don't know
any thing and don't want to learn any
thing. Courier-J Journal.
Speaker Reeds remark that this
is time for patriots to keep their
mouths shut, taken in connection with
his impressive silence since the cleo
tions, leads to the inference that he con-
siders himself model patrfot.-Boston
Herald.
The first result on wages that has
occurred since the Mckinley bill be-
came law, in this locality, seems to
be reduction of ten per cent. in our
largest steel works. AS the Mckinley
bill has advanced the price of most of
the necessaries and comforts of life
from ten to twenty per cent, is the re-
duction in wages of ten per cent. in
the nature of compensation?-Pi
burgh Post.
1t looks very much as If President
Harrison and Secretary Blaine were at
tempting to initiate the policy of the
third land LAST Napoleon, who sought
to amuse the French with outside ques-
tions because the internal situation had
become intolerable. But have these
statesmen forgotten the National hui
initiation and calamities which followed
the Napoleonic policy?-Philadelphia
Times.
in the defeat of the force bill the
Democrats in the United States Senate
have earned the gratitude of the coun-'
try, and the people viii look with
equanimity on the crocodile tears. shed
by Mr.. Hoar and his allies. Not even
the food of oratory favoring legislation
for the benefit of silver-mine owners
will lessen the feeling of rejoicing at
the escape from the intended basis for
further investments by Dudley in
blocks of five.-Ghicago Times. 3st f.
THE Federal elections bill is
dead" says the New York Age (Rep.),
organ of the negroes. ''It has gone to
keep company with the Federal educa-
ton bill. The Republican party has
broken faith with the voters of the
country upon two or three measures
upon which it won the elections of 1888.
The best interests of the Afro Amer
leans have been cut to pieces in the
House of their friends. The treachery
of the Hayes administration has been
repeated under the Harrison admins
tration." stt thtst
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29
JiNGO JUGGLERY.
The Disturbing Element In the Republic
an Party.

The Disturbing Element In the Republic
an Party.
An Oregon friend of Mr.. Blaine Is
quoted as saying, by authority, that the
Secretary sis not advocating reciproci-
ty for a Presidential boom, but only
for the good of the country" This
alleged confidant of the Maine poll
tician's ambitions adds that "Spain and
Spanish-spealSing countries annually
consume 1900, 900 barrels of flour not
produced in their countries, the duty on
which is S.. so barrel"
This may not have any political bear
ing, but it sounds remarkably like the
sentiment of that letter about ''single
bushel of wheat or single barrel of
pork" which beyond question was a
powerful political factor in the contest
between ''the Man from Maine" and
his ambitious and bumptious rival, ex-
Gear Reed.
The Blaine spokesman concludes by
saying that ''the United States could
furnish every one of those barrels of
flour, if they got the chance. You can
put it down that Blaine won't run in
1892" This is a clear case of mon
sequitur." To attempt to construct so
strong a platform for Blaine for the
mere purpose of announcing that he
won't stand on it would be sort of
nonsense in which astute politicians do
not indulge.
If the Republican platform for '92 is
going to be the Blaine platform of
partial free trade through optional rec
iprocity, it is hard to see how any other
than Blaine himself can stand upon it.
President Harrison clearly could not
without an absolute surrender to his
Cabinet officer. If the President should
make that surrender, he would surely
ALLEVIATE the Mckinley elements as
represented by the declaration of the
officers and organs of the Protective
Tariff League and the Manufacturers
Club.
With respect to principles, as we'll as
with regard to possible candidates, the
condition of the Republican party is
one of seemingly hopeless discord and
disorder.-N. Y. Star.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29
CONDENSED TELEG RAMS.

The output of ore, lead ard zinc, in
the Webb City, Cartervlllc, Carthage,
Galena, Zincite and Oronogo districts of
Missouri for the past week is valued at
e6s, ,9O7.7s.
SUEY YoUNG, the eighth wife of Brig
ham Young, is dead. There are seven
left, including Amelia Folsom, the
favorite.
SIXTY cases of smallpox are in the
pest-house at Houston, Texas, and while
trade has been paralyzed the fear is
groundless. To prove the efficiency OF
vaccination, not a case has developed
where the patient was vaccinated within
ten to fifteen years, and these only had
a varioloid form.
A JOINT resolution has been adopted
by the Indiana Legislature asking Con-
gress to suppress the dressed beef trust
and repeal the Mckinley bill.
Bob FORD, jesse James slayer, had
another shooting scrape in Walsenberg,
CAL, on the 23d, in which he was slightly
injured.
THE miners of the United States have
just completed their plans for the great
est industrial battle ever inaugurated
in America. The conflict between the
miners and the mine owners for eight
hours will take place on the 1st OF May,
and will involve 150, 200 men.
MRS. MARY RUNANE, 100 years old,
died at Scranton, Penn, on the 2Sd.
She retained all her senses up to the
century mark, and then became blind.
She was born in Ireland. She leaves
five children, twenty-one grandchildren
and thirty great grandchildren.
ALL the Chinese laundrymen and
laborers have been driven from the
towns of Western, Athena and Adams,
Oregon, by mob. At Milton one China
man refused to leave, and was dragged
for some distance with rope around
his neck.
THE annual Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church of Alabama met
at Edwardsville, on the Esd, with Bishop
Sanders presiiing and about 100 dele
gates in attendance.
THE business failures occurring dur
ing the last seven days number, for the
United States 331, and for Canada ~; or
q total of $50, as compared with total
of All last week and 4os the week pre-
yious to the last. For the correspond
ing week Of last year the figures were
s3s, representing EOS failures in the
United States and 4S in Canada.
THE village of Seayille, KY, was
almost totally destroyed by fire on the
esd.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29
THE RESULT OF OPPRESSION.
The Outcome OF a Tyrannica: System of
Merciless Exactfon.

The Farmers Alliance is the product
of indignation and despair-indignation
at the merciless exactions imposed on
the agricultural interest by the Repub-
hcan party and despair that the other
great National party would ever be able
to obtain the supremacy ard right the
wrongs perpetrated by its powerful adj
versary.
That this indignation was originally
well founded is beyond question. 1t is
doubtful if the all-important industry
of agriculture was eyer subjected in
any country, except, perhaps, in feudal
France Just before the Revolution, to so
many crushing burdens as the Repub-
lican party heaped upon it in this.
1t is also beyond question that the de-
spair of the Democratic party ever COM
ing into power was also originally well
founded. Those who organized the Al
lance saw nothing between them and
eternal spoliation but the unaided
strength of the farmer.
Since this vista was presented times
have altered. The policy of the Repub-
lican party has been changed only tc
intensity ii, and the indignation which
was originally justified by that policy
has now more justification than ever.
The relief that party pretends to give
is merely illusory; the burden has in
reality been grievously augmented, and
the hypocrisy which seeks to sugar over
the superadded wrong is fresh motive
for new detestation.
But on the other side of the picture
there has been genuine and decided
change. There is no room now for
despair as to Democratic supremacy
and the permanence- of that supremacy.
The Republican party has had its day
and must go. The exigency which
called it into existence is long over,
The great party Of the future In this
country is the Democratic. .partyrand nc
depressed popular interest ever hooked
10 that party in yain.-N. y. World.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29
An oMINous YEAR.
What the Close of the Year 1890 Hss
Revealed.

The record of the Republican party
for 1890 is one that the party would
gladly expunge from its annals. 1t
commences with the dictatorship of
Speaker Reed in the National House
of Representatives, and closes with
desperate and insane effort in the Sem
ate to impose upon a free people bayo-
net rule at elections. The proceedings
of the Republican majority in Congress
have been characterized by usurpation
of the most reckless description, disre-
gard for the choice of the people by
unseating legally elected Senators and
Representatives, shameless extrava-
gance to the extent of seriously en-
barrassing the Treasury, the passage of
bill outlawing importers, and the in
famous tariff bill, which has caused
such disastrous disturbances in the
channels of business, the exposure of
frauds in Government departments, the
attempt to place the force bill, the sub
sidy bill and highly dangerous fnan-
cial bill on the statute books.
The year 1890 is also memorable for
the grand uprising of the American
people on the fourth of November,
which almost annihilated the Republic
an party, and taught political despera-
does that there was power unsafe to
defy. Quay, Platt, Mckinley, Reed and
all the bosses that strutted so insolent-
ly and confidently on the political
boards for the first ten months of the
year, are now objects of contempt and
derision. In American politics, there
fore, it may be seen that 1890 was a
most notable year. The Mckinley tar
iff law has had the immediate effect of
increasing prices and cutting down
wages, of stimulating the creation of
trusts and adding to the long list of
business failures The close of the year
found the Secretary of the Treasury in
a dazed condition of mind as to the out
come of the financial situation, and Re-
publican fnanciers in Congress tinker
ing with bill that is likely to compli-
cate the situation still more. It was,
indeed, a very ominous year for the
party and Administration that entered
upon it with such confidence and in high
spirits Argus.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29


ne armers' Alliance and Labor or
nilatlons' delegates in conference at
asnington adopted resolutions calling
,ne abolition of National banks as
AS Oh issue, and demanding the issu-
az OF legal tender Treasury notes in
iacient volume to meet the needs of
business of the, country, without
ne or especial advantage to any class
edllng; fayoring Government loans
.ne people at two per cent. upon nom
snaoie products and also upon real
cue demanding free and unlimited
Euage OF silver; the prohibition of
en ownership of land; favoring a
Suuated income tax; National control
- supervision, and II this does not re.
ose existing abuses, then Government
E;irop ;iLershlp of the telegraph and the
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29

DURING mass the other night ma
MAC calling himself Patrick took pos
session OF st Paufs Cathedral, at Pitts
ourgh, Pa, held the worshipers in ter
ror all evening and at the next morn
lngs early mass was especially violent.
At 10 o'clock it was decided that he
should be removed, and two policemen
led him to the front gate. Then he
picked the two men up as if they had
Oeen boys and dragged them back into
,ne church. He was finally removed
oy detachment after holding the
cathedral for hours. ..-
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29
Benny's boom.

Harrison by the aid of his oficehold-
ers triumphed in the organization of the
Indiana Republican State Committee.
and his boom" for reelection is now
well started in the Hoosier State. BY
what means this, virtuous statesman
hopes to accomplish his denomination is
revealed by this remark. credited to a
member of the committee who is heart
and soul for the President: s'You all
know that we carried the election by
the use OF 'boodles in 1855, and that we
lost il in 1890 because itcould not be
used TO advantage and because of the
new Australian election law. We must
have chairman who is smart enough
to get around that law, and it must be
got rid of somehow And the State so
prolific in Dudleys. which gave its elec-
toral vote to- Garfield for Dorsey's
s'soap" and was won for Harrison with
Dudley's .:bloAlxsof fsesa gave to Har-
fison as - hdux Achates nne john r..
Gowdyswho. ID istobe hoped is .snart
enough,atoviolatelaw and steal - Stats.
l-Ghieago Times
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29

NJ D. PIcKERING, chairman of the
eoeration Of Commercial Travellers AS
H. Uciapon OF America, appeared before
.ae mouse Committee on Commerce re-
en'iy and in behalf of IS, 600 drummers
mch ne represented strongly urged a
soraole report upon bill to permit
airoads to give reduced rates to COM
eicial travellers and carry an extra
ount OF baggage for them free of
aige. The committee with but one
s0enting vote-that of Mr.. Lind, of
hiuhesota-a authorized Mr.. Mason, of
1o,s' to report favorably bill of the
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29

a DELEGATION of Grand Army people
was before the House Invalid Pension
committee recently. 1t consisted of
ueneral Veazey, commander-in-chief G.
a h.; Colonel Blue, of Kansas chair
man OF the pensions committee of the
~ a. H. and Colonel Emory, of Wash
ngton' Their purpose in appearing be-
.ofe 'he committee was to make argu-
ments In behalf of a bill providing for
: service pension for the benefit of the
|iarge class of soldiers, aggregating pos
Sioiy 100000, whose cases are not passed
py the act of June last.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29

The collector of customs at De-
troit Mich, has been informed that
fish caught in nets or other devices
belonging to American corporations or
Individuals only are entitled to the
privilege of free entry. Fish caught in
nets or other devices owned by COM
pany chartered under the laws of Cam
ada and composed principally of foreign
stockholders are subject to duty, not
withstanding the apparatus may be op-
Grated by an American citizen.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29

LONDON dispatches say there appears
to be no foundation for the rumors
which were circulated recently to the
effect that some large financial houses
were in imminent danger of serious
difficulties in consequence of the uncer-
tainty of Argentine finances.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS.
A Crime Crowded Life.

JACKSON, Jan. 23.-Eugene Story. the
murderer, outlaw and jail-breaker, who
was killed at GALLON, La, yesterday,
while only 27 years old, has an eventful
history. He was q perfect terror to the
neighborhoods in which he lived, At
tala and Holmes Counties. His most
fiendish act, however, and the one for
which he was sentenced to hang, was
the brutal and unprovoked murder Of
ii. Kindfellow, in Holmes County, in
November, 1889. Following the muir
der, Story was with great difficulty ar
rested, as he had many friends, the na-
jority being of his own class, but,
strange to say, he had few influential
ones. A long trial ensued, Story being
defended by able counsel, which re-
suited in his conviction, and he received
the death sentence. He was placed in
a brand-new iron cell in the Holmes
County Jail, which was guaranteed as
being proof against all attempts to
break. Only few nights after the SEN
tence some of his friends broke the Jail
open, tied the jailer, pried the door OF
his cell off its hinges and released him.
So quietly and effectually was this ac-
complished that no one in Lexington
knew of it until the next morning, when
they found the jailer gagged and bound
and almost insensible. The whole
county was infuriated at the bold es-
cape, and every possible step was taken
to effect a recapture. 1t was said that
Story had hidden himself in the wilds
of Attala County, and, surrounded by
his friends, defied arrest. The rewards
offered for Story's capture, dead or alive,
amounted to $4,000, and a prominent
citizen of Holmes County says he will
augment this amount with $500.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29

Hon. Mr.. CHAPLEAU, Secretary of
State for Canada, in an address deliv-
cred at Kingston, Ont, said that it was
impossible to have free trade with the
United States and at the same time dis
criminate against England Canada
was however, prepared for freer trade
relations with the United States. He
was in favor of full reciprocity with the
United States in natural products.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29

A BILL has been introduced in the Ar
kansas House to pension all ex-Confsd-
crate soldiers or sailors, residents of
the State, at the rate of SIS to 500
per annum, according to disability. 1t
is proposed to levy tax to pay for this.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29

"OLD HUTCH" Chicago's celebrated
grain speculator, it is said, has lost S19,-
OOO, 900 in twenty years and has decided
to retire from business. He has enough
left to keep his family from the poor
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29

THE Moslems of Central Asia are pro-
testing to the Czar against the expung-
;nu from the Koran, in Russia, of thir-
teen verses ordered out by the official
nress censor.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29
Death Of Mrs. McTyerc.

Mrs. Amelie Townsend McTyere, relict
of Holland N. McTyere, senior Bishop
of the Methodist Church South, died at
Nashville, Tenn. Mrs. McTyere was a
relative of the Vanderbilts.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29

SEVEN thousand dollars was found in
sbe hut of a hermit on the banks of the
connecticut river. The miser died re-
Gently in squalor, and the find of prop
ertv is a surprise.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29

a5E Milwaukee Whist Club has de
fsb IN 70 issue an invitation to all rep
Eaole American whist clubs to a whist
sresS to be held in Milwaukee,
|Pr,i Il to II, to organize an association
american whist clubs, to conside,
p ADOPT Q code Of whist laws.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29

By the breaking of dam near Nor
ristown, n j., the old bell foundry that
was used as an office when the first
telegraph message was sent to Boston,
in 1885. was destroyed.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29

nr,,xouENr subscriptions to the
u,onnt of 81, 800, 600 viii be sued for
o. .ho Worlds Fair managers.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29
CURRENT COMMENT.

r. has been finally decided that five
,nildings of the Worlds Fair viii be
,"oated on the lake front
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29
Drained with a siedge Hammer.

At Lafayette, Ga, Nehemiah Evitt,
merchant, was induced to go to his stors
late at night by two white men. He
was found later, dead, having been
Drained with a sledge hammer.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29
-Four Children burned to Death.

In Thomas County, Ga, Richard Love
and wife went to church, leaving their
four children locked in the house. The
house burned and the children perished
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29

o,-rrx NATALIE refuses to negotiate
oh tbe Servian Regents and insists on
s.sl;nc with ex-King Milan.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29

THE colony of Western Australia
opened its first Parliament at Perth on
tio Goth. and Sc, 900, 900 was asked by
tbe Governor for railways and public
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29

THE Minnesota Senate has adopted a
memorial to Congress asking for the
nossare of a law prohibiting gambling
+ orain and other food products.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29
Result of Going Home Drunk.

City Attorney Warder, of Chat
tanooga, Tenn, went home drunk, shot
and killed his son-in-law and danger
ously wounded his daughter. He was
fatally shot himself.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29

RrssrA has protested, through its
c.rman agent, against the harboring
and employment of Nihilists by the
puIparian Government
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29
Assassination.

William Meacham, a prominent citi-
zen of Troy, Tenn, was shot, perhaps
fatally, by some one unknown the other
evening. 1t was clearly a case of assas-
sination.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29
Mrs. Davis Ill.

Mrs. jefferson Davis, who recently
went to New York to revise proof-sheets
of her book now in press, ''The Life of
jefferson Davis" was reported quite i'll
few days ago.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29
strnck Oil.

Oil was struck the other day at Moul-
tom Valley, Northern Alabama. The
precious stuff was found at depth Of
almost sixteen hundred feet.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29
Killed by 3 Jealous brother.

At Shelby, n. c., Erastus William
son, who was to have married Miss
Areliah Thompson, was killed by his
brother Charles, who was jealous.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29
A Family Poisoned.

Lily White, colored, aged seventeen,
has been arrested at Louisville, KY, on
the charge of poisoning Peter Whitel
her father, his wife and his uncle and
aunt, Daniel Frazier and wife. Frazier
and wife died. Poison was placed in
their coffee.