The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1892-11-25
TIE HICKMAN COURIER.
CLEvELAND's majority in Ken.
tucky 10 42,0OO.

SbBNELhVD . udJOrt w hcu'
tucky 10 $1,000.
CLEVELAND has majority OF
4l5 900 Of the popular vote over
Harrison and Weaver combined.
THE rec0pvened General AS.
sembly starts in with something
over sl,3j0.00O in the vaults of
the State treasury.
MRS. LEASES candidacy for the
United States Senate has been
treated jocularly by the news.
papers, but It is now given out
that she is in dead earnest ana
that she may be elected.
If the new Administration will
provide a good husband for every
woman without such a conven.
fence there will be fewer rampant
Mra. Leases scurryiDg in the pc.
litical breezes. j ournal.
MRS. LEASE is charging Jerry
Simpson with having turned Dem.
ocrat because Jerry has declared
that he favors Democrat as Sen.
stor from Kansas, because the
Democratic helped them to carry
the State.
In 80 far as the Democratic vic.
tory has affected business, the eff.
feet has been very favorable.
Dun's and Bradstreet's Weekly
Reviews report unusually large
trading, with the general tone Of
business and industries remark.
ably healthy.
The latest demand of the Farm.
ers Alliance is that the Govern.
ment build railroad from British
America 10 the Gulf Of Mexico
through Nebraska, Kansas. Mis-.
souri,, Indian Territory and Texas. /
They want il IA an experiment TO |
prove that government ownership |
10 wise and inst.
The banner Democratic pre.
cinct of the country 10 Haynes.
vile. Lowdnes county. Alabama.
~ Ns~ p~~si1~-.>i-A .is.>s~s. 49,.
there and the vote was unanimous.
Cleveland received 567 votes,
whilst Harrison, Weaver and Bid.
well failed TO score q single vote.
The Boston man who wrote to
his Ohio agent to buy no more
wool II Cleveland was elected. is
likely getting ready to follow IIar-
per. 1t will be remembered that
in 1884 L. L. Harper, now in the
Ohio penitentiary, said il Cleve. ,
land was elected he would omit
business. He did quit business
aud was sent to the pen. J
ONE of the bene fcent results of
the Democratic victory is the
promptRess with which a number
Of Pinchbeck Protectionists who !
depend on subsidy for existence
are declaring their intention of
going out Of business. If they do
IL will be Q great relief to the
country. We need no business in |
this country which cannot support
itself. /
THE papers are already busy &
making up Mr. Clsveland's cabi. f,
net for HIM, and none are buster
than the Republican organs. Its
waste of time. Mr.. Cleveland 10
man Of his own mind, and will
attend TO that business himself at !
the proper time. He ia well enough
posted as to the abilities of the I
leading men of his party TO select [
a cabinet.
ONE Of the frst duties Of Con.
gress when it assemblies in DE. d
cember will be to ascertain the 4
exact condition of the United ,
States Treasury. For a year past
Secretary Foster has been playing u
q game Of hide .and.seek aud has y
juggled the figures to deceive the v
people. The time has now come O
to lind out exactly what the inan.
cial situation of the Government
IA, and IL can only be done by an
investigating committee OF the
House of Representatives. II
The way to get money TO pay
the enormous pensions now au- 8
thOrized is TO reduce every tariff
duty to the basis of taxation for s
revenue only. This will Increase :,
the revenue materially. IL it does y
not give enough money for the |.
purpose, however, the deficit ere. y
ated by the Harrison Radicals viii. [
have to he met by an income tax. :,
Or course there is no way of re. =
ducing the total Of pensions. .
"Once a pensiOner always a pen.
sioner" is the established rule Of
d
1T night be we'll says the Gov. @
IngtOn Commonwealth, for the Il
present House Of Representatives, Ia
IA its session this winter. to revive r,
he free wool aud other tariff re.
tuciiOus adopted by that body aud =
defeated in the Senate. In the al
ace Of the overwhelming verdict p,
II the people, many of the Repub. u,
lean Senators would not feel like :,
gain interfering to prevent that y.
measure Of relief. Such course e'
would give free raw materials a til
ear longer before the expiration III
f Mr.. Clevelsnd's term in which
0 show To the country the bene.
cial operation of the System. than ps
hey will have il we wait for the OF
ext Congress, aud that would be pr