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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-03-19
CLEVELAND A CANDIDATE.

Milwaukee, March 15.-General
E. S. Bragg, author of the famous
phrase, eve love him for the enc
mics he has made" has been urg-
ing Cleveland to make a public
avowal of his position regarding
the approaching democratic ma
tional convention. March 5, he
wrote a letter to Cleveland from
Fond du Lac, containing the fol-
lowing paragraph:
The danger to the public inter
ests which democratic failure would
involve seems now to require an
open avowal of your willingness to
submit to any service to which
your party and the people may as
sign you. Believing your useful
ness to the nation may be greater
now than ever in the past to carry
to victory the cause of tariff reform
and to restore the blessings of good
government to the people, l ask
you to say to the party and the
people that your name may be pre-
sented to the national democratic
convention as a candidate for its
nomination to the presidency; and
that you will accept the nomina-
ton if given, and again undertake
the duties of president if the people
shall, as l believe they will, choose
you for that office.
In reply Mr.. Cleveland writes:
March 8, 1892.
Your letter of the 9TH received. |
have thought might continue ST.
lent on the subject you present to
me. If in answering your ques-
ton l might only consider personal
desires, individual ease and com
fort, my response would be promptly
made without the least reservation
or difficulty. But if you are right
in supposing the subject is related
to the duty | owe my country and
party, a condition exists which
makes private and personal consid-
erations entirely irrelevant. My ex-
perience in the office of president
so impressed me with the solemnitv
Of the trust and its awful response
l cannot bring myself to
regard candidacy for the place as
something to be won by personal
strife and active self-assertion. II
have also an idea the presidency is
prominently the peoples office,
and [ have been sincere in constant
advocacy of effective participation
n political affairs on the part of
our citizens, consequently l believe
The people should be heard in the
choice of their party candidates.
md that they themselves should
make the nominations as directly
is consistent with open, fair and
ull party organization methods. I
I'm confident success is still within
'ur reach, but l believe this is a
lime for thoughtfulness and DELHI
not only as to candidates,
out concerning party action upon
questions of immense interest to
he patriotic and intelligent voters
If the land, who watch for an assur-
'nce of safety as the price of their
and support.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
"NOW THEk'LL BE A FIGHT,o
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-03-19
Estray Notice.

Taken up on my ranch, six miles west of
Caldwell, on ian. 20, 1892, an animal de-
scribed as follows: One red heifer, about 2
years old, branded - on left side, undercrop
on one ear and notch on other. Owner will
come, pay charges, and take animal away.
BOB VIsEL.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-03-19

Will be pleased public with the best and
est in Idaho day night with without driver
everything fed from sheep to elephant All stock en-
trusted to my care will receive the best attention
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-03-19
SILVER IN THE SENATE.

Washington, March Is. NOV
that there is no longer any posi-
BILE doubt of the passage of the FREE
silver coinage bill in the house, at
tention has been directed to the
probable state of the senate. Al
heretofore stated, there is every
reason to believe that the bill will
be passed through the senate az
certainly, though by no means SC
promptly, as through the house
Leading senators on both sides OF
the question as well as party poll
tics agree that while there will be
but little discussion over the tariff
the silver bill will be talked over
for weeks. Indeed, it was init.
mated by a leading democratic SEN
ator yesterday that his party
might find reasons to delay the
vote until after the nomination had
been made in June.
An analysis of the votes by
which the silver bill passed the
last senate makes it clear that un-
less some extraordinary revolution
of sentiment occurs to make the
senators 60 back on their records
the bill will pass by very safe
majority. The silver bill passed the
senate last year by a vote of 80 to
81, WIN % senators not voting.
Since that time there have been
very many changes in the senate.
Hampton of South Carolina, In
gals of Kansas, Mcconnell of
Idaho and Reagan of Texas are no
longer in the senate, but their sue
cessors have in each case an
nounced themselves as free silver
men, so that there is no decrease
in the affirmative vote. But of
those who voted in the negative
only the successors Of Edmunds of
Vermont and Spooner of Wisconsin
have announced themselves as be-
ing opposed to free silver.
A SAFE MAJORITY.
Mr.. Gibson of Maryland, who
succeeds Mr., Wilson, is on record
in the house in favor of free silver.
Senator Hill, who succeeded Mr..
Evarts, is still waiting to come to
the bridge before he crosses it.
1t is believed, however, that he
will vote for free silver, so that
there is net gain for the afiirma-
tive Of 4. Of the twenty-five sena-
tors who did not vote, being paired,
Brown, Moody, Pierce and Plumb,
who would have voted for free sill
Yer, are succeeded, with the excep-
ton of Plumb, by free silver men.
OF the twelve anti-free-silver men
Blair, Farwell and Hearst are sue
ceeded by anti-free- silver men
while Mr.. Brice, who succeeded Mr..
Payne, has not yet announced his
position. So that it appears when
the vote is taken in the senate
there will be 80 votes for free silver
and 30 against it, not including
Hill, Perkins and Brice, who have
not yet definitely announced their
position. Even should these three
gentlemen all vote against free sill
YER, which is not at all likely and
should Cameron, Henderson and
Paddock this year reverse their
vote to the negative side the bill
would yet pass the senate by safe
ma ority of six votes. OF course
the silver bills successful career
would end in the senate, for Mr..
Harrison's opposition to the bill is
too well known to require repeti-
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-03-19
No Change to St. Louis,

Do you know that the Union Pacific is now
running a Pullman Palace Sleeper to St.
LOUIS.
It's a fact. The sleepler runs from Salt
Lake City to ST. Louis via Denver and Kan
sas City and the Missouri Pacific Ry. Apply
to your nearest Union Bacife Agent for
accommodations in this car.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-03-19
MONEY FOR SALE.

The Caldwell Building & Loan asso
citation is prepared to advance money
on real estate upon the usual term
Apply to, II. II. STEVENSON,
Secretary:
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-03-19
CLEVELAND NOT THE MAN.
Henry Watterson Says That No New York Man
Need Apply.

| 0onry "atsorSon Gays bHSt NO NcW SOTk MAJ
| Need Apply
Henry Watterson recently called
upon Mr.. Cleveland to withdraw
from the race for the presidential
nomination. Mr.. Watterson said
the nomination of the ex-president
would be suicidal for the demo.
cratic party. Hill, too, he believed
had dug his own political grave in
! New York state, and he regards
the conflict there as practically
ifreconcilable. The party, he says,
must come west for its candidate
or seek him in Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania or Maryland. Mr..
Watterson gave his views at length
on the two questions of the tariff
and silver, and upon the subject of
the presidency said:
HE FAvORs SENATOR CARLISLE.
Il have never INDUCED myself
very much in ro-worship and
any good democrat whom the ma
tional convention may nominate
will suit me. If l had to put
man in the white house he would
be Mr.. Carlisle. l regard him as
the best equipped democrat in pub
lie life. He is able and honest.
He is sound to the core and has the
courage Of his conviction. Carlisle
aside, anybody will suit me if he
does not come from New York.
The factions there have made the
nomination of any New Yorker
impossible. Gov. Hill has killed
Mr.. Cleveland, and in doing so he
has, think, killed himself. The
must come west or 20
to Massachusetts, Pennsylvania or
Maryland.
eff we could not elect Mr.. Cleve-
land in 1888, when he was in the
white house, and when we had all
the outer forms and shows of har
mony in the state of New York,
what chance should we have
against the present vehement op-
position? Mr.. Cleveland made a
good president. In great affairs
he has many of the elements of a
great man. l am most sincerely
his friend. But l must contest,
and sometimes feel like resenting
the notion that he is our sole, our
only and most original Moses in
the matter of tariff reform. Mr..
Cleveland allowed three years of
his old administration to pass be-
fore he declared himself. When
other democrats were struggling
with the demons of darkness he was
passive and silent. When he did
speak out he spoke we'll, but he
was SO skeptical Of the issue he had
himself precipitated he sent Mr..
German and the late William L.
Scott to St. Louis with a cut-and-
dried platform ignoring his own
message, ignoring the Mills bill and
reasserting as the party law the
straddle we had made in Chicago
in 1884.
OTHER MEN AS GOOD AS CLEVELAND.
81 do not mean to impeach or
criticize Mr.. Cleveland in the least,
but he is no better than half a
dozen men who have an equal
claim with him to the public conf
dence. In the face of the New
York schism it seems to me his
nomination would be sheer suicide,
and | have so much respect for his
sense of dignity and honor that I
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-03-19

Locals ten cents per line for first insertion
Five Cents for each Subsequent insertion.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-26
Look Out For tho wires.

The adoption Of electricity as the motive
power on all the street oar lines in this city
and the increasing number of telegraph
telephone, fire-alarm aud electric light
wires calls for the exercise OF the greatest
care In hanging the wires SO that there will
be little danger of their coming In contact
with each other. or OF their falling to the
ground. A live trolley wire is extremely
dangerous. and 30 are some of the other
wires under certain conditions Last week
policeman received a very severe shock at
one OF the fre-alarm boxes, and, it is
probable that death would be the portion of
man or beast who should be so unfortunate
as to come into contact with live trolley
wire.
When the Belt Line, the first electric line
In the city was constructed. guard wire
was stretched just above the trolley wire
so as to protect the latter and prevent any
other wires from coming into contact with
it. This safeguard has been omitted in all
the other electric lines which have been
constructed since the Belt Line was built,
and even on the added lines OF that road
it has not been adopted.
A serious accident Is likely to occur at
any time from heavily charged electric
wires coming in contact with wires only
partly insulated. In northern cities the
most stringent regulations are being
adopted with regard to electric wires for
the protection Of the public, and it is emf
nently proper there should be such regula-
tions. Accidents from electric wires are Of
quite frequent occurrence, and unless means
are adopted to make these accidents very
uncommon, it is likely that a public senti-
ment extremely hostile to electricity as
motive power will be developed. Elec-
tricity has become a powerful factor in
promoting civilization, and will continue to
be unless there is failure to throw sufficient
safeguards around 1t.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-26
Too Slipperv.

Sea captains have many adventures and the
stories Of their wonderful escapes seldom lose
by repetition, says the Youths Companion.
Many years ago pirates cruised UP and down
the English channel, to the great peril of the
Davis, who was noted for his quick wit as we'll
as for his skill in navigation, that he was re-
turning from Ireland with a cargo consisting
mainly OF butter.
He had not been out very long when a pirate
was seen coming down upon him. In vain all
sails were spread; every moment brought the
pirate nearer.
The men were at their wits end, but tn 9 CAP
tain knew trick or two. He ordered his men
to take off their boots and stockings, and di-
rected that score OF butter barrels be brought
on deck
In a few minutes the barrels had been
knocked to pieces, and the butter was thickly
spread all over the deck and outside the ship
NOT rope nor spar that was not slippery.
Even without their boots and stockings the
sailors could scarcely keep on their legs
On came the pirate, not dreaming how
smoothly he was to be received. Capt. Davis
assumed an air of submission aud allowed the
enemy 20 come alongside quietly.
But Ia! when they jumped over, fully armed,
they slipped about and tumbled over each other
on the buttered deck like so many rats
One follow shot head-foremost down into the
cabin, where he was Immediately set down
upon by the boy; another slid across the deck
and shot out into the sea by an opposite port
hole.
Not one Of them could stand on his feet, and
as pirates are generally superstitious, an idea
seized them that the ship was possessed of the
devil. They hurried bsck into their own vessel
cast loose, and Capt. Davis got safely into
port at the expense OF few pounds Of butter.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-26
New York Is All Right,

The democratic leaders have no doubt
that the Democratic party will carry New
York next November Senators German
and Ransom, who returned to Washington
from New York on Saturday, stated in in
terviews that the New York democracy is
all right, and that 1t is In the fight to win.
There are no divisions In the party there,
and the campaign will be carried on with
genuine enthusiasm and with a settled pur-
pose to win success
The two senators said that while In New
York they heard the most favorable reports
from all sections of the country, and that
the feeling among those assembled there
was that Mr.. Cleveland was going to be
elected.
The men from the northwest said that
they were confident that Mr.. Cleveland
would carry Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,
Wisconsin and Nebraska. Senator German
remarked that the democrats might not
carry all of these states, but the fact that
the western democrats think they will
shows what hopeful feeling pervades the
party.
The fear that was entertained by some
that Mr.. Cleveland would not get hearty
support in New York has about disap-
peared. Mr.. Whitney has managed SO
adroitly that all differences seem to have
been healed and the campaign will be con-
Quoted with the utmost harmony in the
demscratio ranks
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-26
The Mis:letoe Rough.

There is story, more or less diffused, of
young bride, on her wedding day, playing the
game OF hide and seek, and concealing herself
In one OF these ancient carved chests of large
size, says the CornhfH Magazine. After she
had got in. the lid closed, and she found herself
unable to raise it again, or 1t fastened with a
spring and she was shut in. Search was made
for her in every quarter but the right one and
great perplexity and dismay were caused by
her disappearance 1t was not till years after,
when chance led 10 the opening of the chest
that the body Of the young bride was discovered
and the mystery of her disappearance solved.
The story is found In so many places that it
may be questioned whether il is true OF any
one of them. Rogers tells IL of palace in
hodena. The chest In which the poor bride
was found is shown at Bramshill in Eampshire.
the residence OF Sir John Cope. Another
similar chest, with precisely the same story at
tached to it, was long shown at MARVEL Old
hall between Winchester aud Bishops
The folk-tale of Catskin or Peau dane
represents the girl flying with her bridal dresses
from marriage that Is repuRnant to her, and,
as this tale ia found over all Europe, it may
have metsmorphosed itself into that of the
bride who got into a chest and died there.
In the 1celandic saga OF Half and His He
roes' that belongs TO the heather semi-mythic.
semi-historic period OF the Morse and Danish
kings, Hjorleif, King of Hodaland portion OF
tie Norwegian coast married Ringa, daughter
Oh Reldar king Of Zealand; and he sailed away
with her on board his ship. But she fell i'll at
sea and died, whereupon he put her body in
her chest" and threw it overheard. One day
King Reidar and his son were out fishing, when
the waves washed up the chest at their feet,
and in il they found the body of Rnga. Very
wroth they were, for they made up their minds
that King Hiorleit had murdered her. King
Reldar called to arms, and this occasioned a
murderous war, that resulted in the subiuga-
ton of Zealand under the sway of Hjorleif and
the death Of Redar. the moral of which story
is: Do not jump TO rash conclusions.
Gregory of Tours tells the story how that
Rgunthe, the daughter Of Chilperic "a. D. 1870,
was disobedient to her mother. The queen, ex-
asperated at the girls iusolence and defiance
she struck her with her f1sts-offered to show
her the contents Of her chest and all the treas
ures therein which had been given her by the
king. This appeased Rigunthe. The queen
raised the heavy lid, and the girl stopped to
look in and search among the objects therein,
her mother let it fall on her neck. She was
only saved from death by the serving-maid
rushing up TO extricate her. After that she
probably thought twice before offending her
mother In the German folk-tale of the "Ju-
niper Tree" the wicked step mother kills her
step son by this means. She bids him look in
the great chest for apples, then brings the lid
down on him and it cuts of his head, which
remains among the apples.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-26
BRIGHT BITS.

WHERE are you going my pretty maid?"
Going amilking, sir, she said;
May go with you, my pretty maidf
There's a calf there now, kind sir" she said.
Detroit Free Press.
TIE style OF writing that you do must be
very hard work"
Herbert-Well, it is; but what made you think
of IL?
Gladys-Why. 1t makes me tired to read it.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
women.
Amelia-In what way
Attalie-BecAuso It is the easiest place for one
TO get husband and the easiest place to get rid
OF one.-Netc York Herald.
"I'H going to write book on How to Live
on Nothing Year p"
ut can't be done"
ut can: have a recipe"
"What is it,"
Marry a rich girl. "-Brooklyn Life.
AT a small town in Kent a gentleman en-
ployed carpenter TO put up partition, and
had II filed with sawdust to deaden the sound.
When il was completed the gentleman called
from one side to the carpenter on the other:
Smith, can you hear me?" Smith Immediately
answered: mo, sir. TIT Bits.
YOUNG MARRIED LADY had gone to the mar
ket to buy goose. She was a long time in
making up her mind which to choose, for none
of the birds seemed 70 suit her. At last the
saleswoman lost all patience excuse me
ma'am'" she said sngrily, but your midland
can't have been half so long in choosing you -
Eiiegende BtdttsT.
YOUNG MAN lat the fair)-what do you charge
for bunch OF violetS!
Sweet Girl-S3
Hem! III take one Of course. Here's the
SO.
Dear me! They are all gone. Here, Jennie
Run around to the florists and get another
bunch of violets. Here's 10 cents.-Street d
Smiths Good NeGS.
UNCLE JoHN-wel, my little dear. suppose
you bought lots and lots Of pretty things with
that money l gave you?
Wee Niece Gust from shoppingl-Why, no
Uncle John, only one. IL took every bit of it to
buy my doll an opera glass.
well, declare! Why did you buy your
doll an opera glass?"
"'Cause she hadn't any."-Street d Smiths
Good News
yez sittin on that hydrant for?
Uncle RUDE from Squashtown(-rm jest
holdin' 1t down, Mister Officer.
"Holdin' it down Fwhat fors"
"a teller told me as how the thing would
blow up eff didn't an asked me to take care
on it while he went ter find some o the taown 8
selectmen or suthin he took my grip with
him SO 1t wouldn't git wet ct the water bust
out suddenly. boston NetcS.
RAGGED RoBERr-what luck did yer have in
that there restaurant?
Modify Mike (sadyl-I got er big meal Their,
regular spread, but had ter pay all tn money
had fer it. Amt cent left fer drinks.
Ragged Robert in disgust)-Psy Why didn't
yer dead beat 1t, an let EN- send fer peelce-
man. as yuh said yuh would. Yer wouldn't a
got more'n ten days.
Moldy Mike (pathetically) But they wasn't
Roin' ter send for a perlceman. They was goin
ter send for stomach pump Life.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-26
Cartar's FootnrintA.

Col. Thomas H Carter-he must be a colo
nel-is spoken Of by the Illinois, Iowa and
Montana papers as a typical western hustler.
man who knows the value Of sand, !"
whether it Is the kind In which great men
make footprints to leave behind them, or
the kind that the westerners call farms and
mortgages as the occasion presents itself
Col. Carter had considerable experience In
the latter kind Of sand during q short resi- =
dencs IN Iowa ten years ago. And a num-
Der OF Iowa farmers shared the experience
with him, TO their sorrow, according to the
Burlington Gazette. Carter was book agent
In those days, peddling q work called "Foot-
prints of Time" Going out among the
hardy tillers Of the Iowa soil be brought all
Of his eloqusnce to bear upon them TO prove
that existence without ''Footprintsn was
empty and vain; TO attempt TO raise crops
without copy in the house was madness
and the future itself was cIouded unless
their own individual footprints were
directed by the ones his book told about.
He talked the work up 30 smartly that
many of the farmers were charmed
They actually quit work at the
old homesteads and besought Col
Carter-he is surely nothing less than a
colonel-to let them help him sell some
Footprints" Certainly; nothing would
give him more pleasure; he would sell them
county rights to peddle the book, and they
could go right ahead and grow rich. But
the would-be book agents had not the
smount Of money he charged for county
rights. Nothing easier arranged in the
world; they could give him all the money
they had and he would take mortgages on
their farms for the balance.
And the infatuated men-quite a number
OF them-really gave him mortgages for
county rights to peddle books, left their
farms, aad had the luck that might be sup
posed. Their venture was a fat failure.
But not one Of Carter's mortgages failed.
Every one was iron-clad, and as fast as
they became due they were fereclosed. That
is the first public record of Col. Carter-his
title is proved-as real estate dealer.
Whether or not his experience In this bust
ness fitted him for the office of public
land commissioner under the republican
administration is an open question. But
he left Footprints" indelibly impressed
upon the minds OF certain Iowa people.