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St. Paul daily globe., 1892-09-18
"FARMERs' FRIENDS,
A Pair OF Americans Tried and
Found Wanting.

Found Wanting.
Mr.. Pillsbury has always been SUD-
posed to be the friend Of the farmer. as
has also senator Washburn, and the
effect of the book is to show that both
these gentlemen are entirely without
any consideration for the farmers well
fare, but have been all along, despite
their protestations to the contrary. work.
ing together and In effect, it not actually,
robbing the wheat raiser with very little
compunctiOn and much boldness. Mr..
PillSbury, it would seem. notified Sen
atOr Washburn when Farmer Arnold
wrote him regarding the profits in the
elevator business that Mr.. Arnold and
other farmers thought of starting a
farmers elevator at Larimore, Oak.
Notwithstanding Mr.. Pillsbury's state
ment to Mr.. Arnold that that there was
no money in the elevator business, SEN
ator Washburn, through his milling
firm of Washburn d Crosby, started a
$4,000 busiel elevator in Larimore. and
did a big business, in the face of the
positive assertion by Mr.. Pillsbury that
there were too many elevators, and his
efforts to discourage Arnold and other
farmers from starting All elevator COM
pany at that point. This fact is used as
evidence of the cooperation between
Piilsbury andW ashburn, and it is alleged
tnat the dalcu dnti-OptiOn Dill was
drawn in G. A. Pillsbury's office, and
that document, which created so much
discussion and excitement during the
summer session of congress. was a calm
and deliberate attempt OIL tine part Of
this milling combine in the. Northwest
to manufacture sentiment, having for
its object the demonstration that boards
of trade, through option dealing and
future selling, were running the farmer,
making it impossible for him to get
anything for his wheat, and reducing
the agriculturists of the country to a
condition little better than that of the
peasants and serfs. 1t is shown that
notwithstanding Senator Washburn's
criticism of the anti-option trading, and
his statements that 1t was running the
country, he had taken '..hler" on the
Chicago board of trade himself, and i'm
deal with Mr. Piilsbury had under
taken to corner the wheat market. Evil
dence is produced that he lost S3OO.0OO,
if not more, in this attempt, and that he
had to be tided over by c. A. Pillsbury,
Tom Lowry, the street car magnate of
Minneapolis. and Loren Fletcher, who
Is candidate on the Republican ticket
for congress from one of the districts
in Minneapolis.
HUGE POLITICAL SCANDAL,
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-09-18

Four Methods Under Which 1t
Was Shrewdly Conducted.
The four principal systems of robbery
practiced at the country elevators are
taken up and described Seriatim. 1t is
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-09-18
WHERE ThEI w.nL COUNT

The Damning Letters Are Placed
Side by Side.
The book, which is entitled "a Gil
gantic Conspiracy" places these letters
side by side with the letter written by
Mr.. Pillsbury to Farmer Arnold stating
that the elevators were losing money,
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-09-18
HUGE POLITICAL SCANDAL.

How the Republican Party Is Be-
hind the Great Scheme.
The Republican party in the state of
Minnesota is connected directly with
Continued ON Seyentla Pare
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-09-18

THE GIGANTIC ROBBERY,
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-09-18

'aliLssoaY EasEapoLE
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-03-31

cause it does use the peoples eourt to
promote q personal end The suits
against the whisky and other trusts
viii be held dangling over the heads of
the accused until November, afte<
which they will disappear from the
courts The scheme is ludicrously OBJ
vious. but it has a serious side What
right has the administration TO com
mence these prosecutions without seri-
GUS purpose to continue them? The
administration will thunder IN the
courts from Boston to San Francisco
merely to furnish campaign thunder
for stump orators. Thereafter the prose
cutions will die away, and the courts,
having been made to serve political
turn, viii be permitted to resume their
orderly process by an attorney general
who is in the habit OF collecting cam
paign funds for his patron. Harrison,
and, as politician, thinks even prosti-
tuition of courts fair. He is engaged in
sorry business Had he been honest
he would have commenced last sum-
mer. He begins now, that he may rec
ommend his chief at Minneapolis and
enable demagogy to shout itself hoarss
in the coming campaign-if, as seems
probable, Harrison shall be the nomi-
nee.-Chicapo Times
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-03-31

York and Brooklyn. It was not much,
for when only 16 he was back in the
country teaching others and learning
from them rather than from books
After a year or so of teaching he be-
came carpenter for a time; then he
learned printing, working at the case
in New York and Brooklyn, and editing
papers in New Orleans and Huntington,
L. I. In 1S47-4S, with his brother,
Jefferson Whitman, he went on long
pedestrian tour of the country, working
his way along by doing carpen-
ter's jobs = tramping it, one
might almost say. For two years the
brothers wandered about, down The Ohio
and Mississippi rivers, in Louisiana and
Texas during the Mexican war, along
the lakes into Canada, and down the
Hudson back to Long Island, where
Walt Whitman betook himself once
more to the printers case. In 1855
appeared his first and o most IA
nous book, ''Leaves of Grass, !"
a volume of rhapsodical poems, always
without rhyme, generally without
rhythm, dealing especially with inter
ests involved in American life and pro-
gress of time. The book called forth
great amount of praise and a still great
er amount of blame. At the beginning
of the war Whitman was living in New
York, but his brother George was
wounded at Fredericksburg in 1862, and
the poet went to the front to nurse
him. He remained with the army I'M
til the close of the war, afterward Civ
in his experience in two volumes
''Drum Taps" Qs65) and ''Memo-
randa Duringthe War" 1s67). At the
close of the war he obtained a clerk
ship in the interior department, from
which be was dismissed when his SUI
perior officer learned that he was the
author of 'Leaves of Grass" He oh
tanned a clerkship in the attorney gen
erals office, however, which he kent
until 1874. In February, 1878, he had
stroke of paralysis, resulting from the
exposure Of his army life, and went to-
Camden, NJ. He was recovering rapidly
when in May his mother died suddenly.
in his presence. The shock caused a
relapse, and he was Sncapacitated for
any work for many months
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-03-31
PAP-FED CORPORATIONS.
Republican Policy Involves Every Kind
OF Bribe-Gfving.

Republican Policy Involves Every Kind
: of Bribe-Gfving.
Republican policy involves every pos
sible extension OF the principle of gov
ernmentaI subsidies Where the indi-
rect bounty fails of its object. as in the
case of sugar production, the direct
takes the place of the indirect Where
tariff protection has crowded the
American sailor from the sea and de-
stroyed merchant marine subsidies to
ship owners are promoted by repub-
Ecans to remedy the evil of their own
policy. For years sthe Pacific Mail
Company has drawn millions from the
peoples industry in the form of de
rect subsidy. And for years this pap
fed corporation has accepted a bride
from another governmental favorite to
defeat the purpose of its grab Of pu bile
money. An empire of the public
domain and millions of money made
manipulators of the Pacific railroads
rich and powerful. and they have
turned their prestige to the overthrow
Of all competition by steamships subsi :
died by the government
So palpable have become the eva
sions of the law under which the Pa
cific Mail Company has drawn its sub
sidy that even q republican organ calls
for action by congress in the premises
The people pay 81. 200, 900 to the Pacific
Mail Company for specific service
This service has never been rendered,
and yet a party claiming to represent
the intelligence and honor of the ma
ton has sustained the fraudulent pay
ment. Every dollar paid to this COM
pany is fraudulently drawn from the
Golfers of bankrupt treasury.
Business men on the Pacific coast
may well ask themselves what reason
there can be for the payment of taxes
into fund thus corruptly used. And
when the next convention of monopo-
lists gathers for the nomination OF a
presidential candidate citizens, of all
sections will serve their own interests
and the nations honor by demanding
a distinct pledge of reforms now suIy-
gested by republican organs.-Chicas o
Times
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-03-31
THE CHINESE QUESTION.

The Chinese Minister at Washington Be
Heves This Government Is Acting in Bad
Faith With His People
WASHINGTON, March e2-Mr Tsui
Kwo Gin, the Chinese minister, has
RE9oared a letter to the secretary of
state urging an early response to the
various communications that the
Chinese government has sent to this
government with reference to the re-
striction of Chinese immigration Ow-
ing to the continued illness of Mr..
Blaine the letter has not yet been sent,
but there is little doubt that it will be
forwarded to the state department
within a very few days
The Star prints an interview with
the minister in which he says: Fer
several years, in fact ever since have
been in this country, 1 have been en-
deavoring to secure better treatment
of my people at the hands of the
United States To this end have for
warded a number of letters to the state
department stating our position in the
matter, but as yet have received no
satisfactory answer
eff the United States wishes to put
stop to Chinese immigration it should
be done by means of a treaty with nv
agree to a treaty providing for the adj
mission and then to override it by an
act of congress is hardly acting In good
faith One side has all to say and the
other side is not considered at all By
your constitution you encourage immi-
grafton and insure fair treatment of all
alike, and yet your treatment of the
Chinese is Inconsistent with the consti-
tuition and the principles laid down by
George Washington"
There Is one question I would like
to ask yors". said the reporter. IF the
United States puts further restrictions
on Chinese Immigration will China ex-
clude Americans from her territory?'t
The answer was a long time in conn
ing and was diplomat one.
at seems to me that Americans
should consider the situation and with
draw from China of their own free
will will answer your question by
asking You one Suppose that the
American minister in London should
say to the Chinese minister: You keep
away from the American legation
house, don't want you here do you
think the Chinese minister would visit
the American legation any more? And
do you think the American minister
would expect much of a welcome at
the Chinese legation? You may draw
your own inferences
1.-THE American people are talking q
great deal about reciprocity just now.
They should remem Der that reciprocity
works two wavs8
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-03-31
Clippings

The late Mr.. Sturgeon received into
his church over &c. 900 memb ers, first
and last, and founded over fifty chapels
IN different perts of London.
jaw Gould's SO, 900 Contribution, says
the Chicago Times, was about one five
thousandth part of his income. If a
man with an income of s., 600 year
should make a contribution of forty
cents to the church he would be poak-
ing an equal sacrifice, but would not
get any glory.
Two hundred and twenty-four wine-
growers from the Rhins region will ex-
hibit at Chicago.
1t makes no difference how worthless
a man is. his mother thinks it no sacri-
lege to delude the best girl in the
world into marrying him
Rev. Charles f. Parkhurst whose
recent attack upon the municipal mis-
government of the city of New York
has caused such sensation, Is the sue
cessor to Dc. Crosby as president of the
society for the prevention of crime and
one Of the most eloquent and trenchant
pulpit orators In the big city.
Few people are aware that Mr.. Spur
geon was never ordained He began
and ended his remarkable ministry a.
q lay preacher.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-03-31
HARRISON'S METHODS.
The Willy Executive VIII Use the Power
of tho, Courts.

The Willy Executive VIII Use the Power
of the Courts.
President Harrison SIS an a&ute poll
tiGian.
! Wh&n he eWas a candidate for the
presidency in 1885 he sant ms law part
ner. DIR. Miller. to Chicago Is collect
funds wherswttb to carry Indiana. and
he received i've thousand dollar re-
spopses from such patriots as Samuel
Allerton ana George NJ Pullman He
is now powerful as ehias executive and
, is no longer un1er thu NECESSITY of
; begging money Contributions. but he
remains the acute Politician, for he is
candidate for reelection and is still
using his law partner, Mr. Miller. who
is now, through his favor. attorney gen.
eral of the United states
It is cheap politics t. harvest ap-
plause for commencing suits against
alleged combin In 1883 Miller gos
no money out of one Phil Armour. who
is said 20 be- connected with a dressed
beef com bine. But, nevertheless, some
capital mar be made out of him by
theory that he is violating the Sherman
law against trusts Such prosecution
will be good enough Morgan, until
by the board Mr.. Miller, the law
partner of Harrison. was formerly coll
lecting money for campaign purposes
As attorney general he is now collect
ing campaign capital of a different
kind. Hence this talk OF prosecution
under a law as open as sieve.
Besides attacking Armour and his
associates the law department as man.
aged by Miller is said to be after
trust alleged to be making and vending
biscuits in restraint of trade Here is
more capital Any Investigation of the
New York Biscuit Company win show
that it has cousinship with the Dia-
mond Match Company. Concerning
the8 Diamond lSatch Company the
supreme court of Michigan once had
something to say uncomplimentary OF
one Russell A Alger. VINO aspi-es to
represent republication at Minneapo-
lis as an opponent of Benjamin Harri-
son. Touch the New York Biscuit
Company and vou touch the Diamond
match Touch the Diamond match,
and. presto! You have Alger revealed
The attorney general is az mighty
shrewd camp aigner for Benjamin Har-
rison. his patron and law partner. He
is playing a,tutely for a certain amount
of unthinkiog popular applause. But
while this nay make the groundlngs
laugh it cannot but make the judicious
grieve. For It involves necessarily the
prostitution OF the machinery of justice
for personal and partisan advantage
Does anybody suppose that these
prosecutions are meant in down right
earuestness and singieness Of pur-
poser It Is brutum fulmen, campaign
thunder not altogether harmless BE-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-03-31
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.

All Necessary Employees OF an InsoIvent
Firm Preferred Creditors.
CINCINNATI, March 25.-The circuit
court, with three judges on the bench,
decided a case the gist of which is that
all necessary employees of an insolvens
firm are preferred creditors 50 The case
was that of William Lewis VS. the as
signee of the Cincinnati Chair Co,
which had been taken up successfully
by Lewis on appeal from the probate
court and the common pleas court
Lewis was travelling salesman for the
insolveut firm, and he got both salary
and commission The decision reversed
the finding of the lower court
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-03-31
The Canadian Pacific strike.

WISSPEe. March s3--The new
feature OF the strike situation was tho
strike at midnight by the trsinnen on
the eastern division, from Fort VIII
liam to Chalk river. making :. 500 miles
of road over which the strike now ex-
tends
Some further disturbances was re-
ported at Rat Portage Monday night.
but at all other points. as far as can
be ascertained, every thing was quiet
At Fort William there has been very
little trouble, and the yard staff, which
had gone ont with the striking train
men. have nearly al returned 10 work.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-03-31
A Fieht yyfth G.rxa.

CORPUS CHIsTI, Tex, March go
Capt McNeirs company of rangers has
had a fight with Garza's band of revo-
lutionists near Benefits ranch and
Robert Dougherty, one of the rangers,
was killed The sheriff s posse also
had an engagement with the outlaws
near where Glover was killed and
killed one OF their number and
wounded another. This information
was sent out from San Diego. and Is
reliable. The United States troops
were only withdrawn from that section
few days ago, when the revolution
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-03-31
The Chicago BoodIine Case.

CHICAGO, March 23--State's Attor>
ney LoDgenecker is inclined to go slow
in the matter of further Doodle indict-
ments. He said that having thrown
seven. il. was a matter of certainty
that the dice of justice would land
the proverbial eleven The states
attorney protested against too
much of sensation being made.
and stated that unfortunately no evil
deace had been obtained against tina
bribe-givers, or, in aldermanic phrase,
the ''stuf-producerS-" There were
hopes, however. that confession from
some of those caught In the tolls might
lead to something startling.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-03-31
WALT WHITMAN.
End of the Author of sLeaves of Grass
Sketch of His Life

End of the Author of "Leaves of Grass"-
Sketch of His Life.
CAMDEN, n. J., March 2S.-Walt Whit
man, the poet, died at his home here
Saturday.
Walter, or Walt, Whitman was born
at West Hills, Long Island, May 81,
1919. His father, whose name he bore,
was farmer, and the boy, the eldest
of the family, was brought up with
slight knowledge of even the few re-
fnements obtainable in the country
sixty years ago. He was strong and
sturdy, a good rider and swimmer,
fond OF outdoor exercise, and impa-
tient of all the amenities of life.
What book education he had he re-
ceived in the public schools of New
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-03-31
Blaine as . Warwick.

The fact that Mr.. Blaine has ap-
parently resigned all pretensions &c
the presidency has by no means re-
moved him from the field of politics
There are large number of am bilious
leaders in the republican party who
would give a good deal to know just
what the secretary is thinking about
The rumor that he is to resign his po.
sition in the department of state and
to take another coaching tour has been
revived and with it the usual specula
tons MrsBlaine on a Coaching tour
Is more of an anxiety, if possible, than
Mr.. Blaine at home, and with the ex-
perience of the last convention in
mind the competitors for presidential
honors are disposed to keep an eye
upon him. Mr.. Blaine taking in Scot
fish scenery, with his hand on onr end
of the cable and his faithful bench.
men at the other, is not an object cal
culated to soothe the suspicious of a
candidate, even if the secretary is pro
fessedly out of the race In other
words. Mr.. Blaine as q Warwick Il
. shade more formidable. If possible.
than Mr. Blaine Is an ayoued csndi
dAse.-Chicsgo Globe
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-03-31
DEATH OF A JOURNALIST.

DIR. Morrison AIu1sford, Late Editor of the
Kansas City Times, Passes Away.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, March 2s.-sDr.
Morrison Munford, for nearly twSntSs
years the owner and editor of the Kan
sas City Times, died yesterday after
noon at 1920 at his residence in this CITY
at the corner of Eighth and Vine STREETS.
from pneumonia, after an illness of fiv,s
weeks. He was conscious to the last.
and his death was painless and peace
full.
Dr.. Munford had for years been slf-
ferer from pleurisy. During tbs past
winter the attacks of this malady hal
been acute and frequent. He was sev-
eral times confined to the house by
them, and venturing out again before
quite recovered induced a return Of th,s
ailment. In January last, after partieu-
larly severe visitation, he left his home
in a storm, bent upon important bust
ness, and upon his return was confined
with a violent attack of the grip. It
was early in February before he
had even partly recovered strength
from this last assault, but tbs pro-
jected issue of his newspaper, the
World, stimulated him again to venture
out of doors under unfavorable condi-
-tions and about February 90 he was
seized with incipiG1t pneumonia and
his physicians peremptorily ordered
him to keep within.
For three or four days he was able to
leave his sleeping room. but as his symp-
toms developed greater severity he was
compelled to take to bed. Gradually he
grew weaker. His condition required
little medicine intended to combat the
disease, but his system refused to assim-
ilate food, even when offered in concen-
trates. At times he exhibited a
high temperature-1O4 degrees one day
But it was lack OF vitality which pre-
vented the successful ministrations of
his faithful nurses and family physician.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-03-31
PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS.

-CommiSsioner Raum has been
sharply criticised by Secretary NOZZLE
for favoring congressman in pension
eases But Raum' hide is too thick 90
mind little puncture like that Bal
timore Herald.
1.-THE republican party does moth
ing by halves" was the proud asser-
ton of one among the banquet orator S
OF course not. 1t insisted upon stealing
the vice president as well as the prerIi.
dent in 1876. Detroit Free Press
When a political party is in a
hopeless minority it is prone to nomi-
nate some rich man who will afford
good plucking for the party managers
Steve Elkins is slated for the repub-
lican nomination for governor 6 West
Virginia.-Chicago Times
The Indiana republican eonven-
ton declared that the country had
prospered under President Harrison's
administration. Perhaps it meant the
big crops. It could not have referred
to the excessive number of business
ailur4-Louisville Courier-Journal.
MIR. Steve Elkins is not working
his sealskin war scare with any great
degree of enthusiasm az present He
has it loaded, however, and when he
gets close enough to November to see
the whites of the patriotic voters eyes
he will let it off.-St Louis Republic.
Summed up in a sentence Mr..
McMillin's speech was an elaborate ex-
posure of the unnecessarily high rate of
duties levied by the Mckinley bill. and
Mr.. Dingley's as elaborate a defense of
it as could be made under the circum-
stances Press Rep.t.
The Indiana republican conven-
ton, which assembled for the benevo-
lent purpose of choosing Harrison dele
gates and passing resolutions eulogistie
of the administration. was not exactly
a love feast An attempt by a nalcon-
tent to express his opinion of the
president was interrupted by mingled
cheers and misses. and cries of: Throw
him outrr and shouts of approval The
convention dsbanded in confusion. and
one considerable delegation went home
boasting of its ability and purpose to
defeat the republican ticket in thu
state this fall Yet the Indiana malcon-
tents are unreasonable. They attack
Harrison, and doubtless show BOD
cause for their hostility but they are
wholly unable to suggest a candidate
to take his place. The republican party
is confronted with Hobson's choice
this year.-Chicago Times.