The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1891-08-21

Hon. john YOU'VE BROWN will
be inaugurated Governor OF Ken.
tucky on Tuesday, September LIST.
DEMOCRATS could wish nothing
better than that ex-senator Spoon
or conld have his way; he wants
Harrison nominated on u platform
demanding the passage OF the
force bill
wHEREvER the ugly head Of
independentism shows Itself IL
should he dealt u smashing blow
with q club. The south In not
prepared for the disruption Of the
democracy.
JOHN SHERMAN is "sanguine
Of reelection This il his time for
being sanguine, for it will not lie
very long now before the voting
will he done to decide the result
without regard to his feelings.
In Fred Douglass wants all the
negroes pensioned, all he has to
,lO 10 to have ii put IN the Repub.
Iican platform aud arrange with
the q. A. II. for u divide. There
ought to be nosrouble abou, II.
The farmers alliance Of MARY.
's~nd in ssapIon ~ j1r1imoyc.. in.
I. dorsSl ~ OcmlN )tforih, zap.
proved the Democratic nominee
for Governor aud declared that
the alliance is not and cannot
become q political party.
REPRESENTATIVE MILLS, who
has been making speeches In Iowa
has returned to Washington. lie
believes Gov. BOies will be re.
elected, aud that the Democrats
will capture the Legislature. Mr..
Mills will 60 TO Ohio In October.
PRESIDENT LINnLEY, In his adj.
dress to the Farmers Alliance Of
Illinois, said the organization dab.
bled too much IN third party poll.
tics. IL the Alliance had more
ievel.headed leaders like Lindley
II wOnld be easier to forecast its
future
EX-SENATOR Bruce, of Missis-
sippl, opposes the scheme of nc
gro emigration to Liberia, and
says Bishop Turner is tho only
prominent colored man IN this
country who advocates it. Bruce
says the American negroes are
Americans.
PRESIDENT Polk, of the Farm.
ers' Alliance, speaking of the Ohio
campaign, SAID the organization
would direct its efforts to the de.
feat Of Senator Sherman. To get
the balance of power in the United
States Senate was the great aim
Of the Alliance.
Mr.. HARRISON will certainly
"decline u denomination" if he
finds lie can't get it. All the Har.
risOns have been too dignified to
stoop to pick up quarter IN the
street when 10y reason of the
hiring to IL they have become con.
need Of it undesirability.
MERE will be a farmer mai ority
Legislature-the Lower
tbut it is also n Democrat
DIRTY. Ii is composed of
r Democrats who in the main
u their seats after a fight with
Q third party, and they will have
10 federation for any candidate for
Speaker but straight Democrat.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONER
Roosevelt asks that 20 Office hold.
ers In Baltimore he dismissed be- |
cause of their participation In an
election campaign. We may now
expect that Iiea,lsman Clark sOn,
the Chairman Of the Republican
National Committee, will demand
Of the President that Roosevelt
be removed.
FRED DOUGLASS has written u
letter approving the scheme TO
appropriate 800, 900, 900 from the
United States treasury as pen
siOns for ex.slaves. What's the
matter with making the sum four
billions or four trilli0ns! 1t il,
however. too late in the day for
the Republicans, who once prom.
ised the negro 40 acres and %
mule.
RAW cotton is % per cent cheap.
er now than il was year or two
sgO, and Gotten goods are at least
3 per cent dearer. Tho difference
both ways is all on account of Me-
Kinley whose rascally bill bears
down the price of cotton aud
gives DOwn.East mill. owners q
chance TO clap an extra profit of
20 per cent. upon their cotton
goods.
PRESIDENT HARRISON passed
through New York, Wednesday,
ON his way to Bennington. lie
s"sO" oue icN SptcCucb tToin INC
roar end of his coach to the peO.
pie as he passed along. He in
formed them that this was - great
country and that our fOrefathers
were great men. 1t 10 just posi-.
ble that his hearers were aware of
these facts.
ALL the signs are to the effect
that Roswell u. Flower, of New
York, will he the Democratic can-
didate for Governor. lie is w0r-
thy the honor, having always show
ed himself to be a sincere and un-
swerving Democrat. lie is not a
member of either Tammany or the
County democratic organizations
Of New York city, yet he is the
choice of each.
Mr.. HARRISON may not be IN
the next Presidential contest, but
he will hardly get out Of il with