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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1892-11-24
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THE GOLDEN HARVEST.

The wealth Of nature, by the grace of God
A wondrous bounty yields,
There is the richness of the golden rod
That blooms beside the fields
And there are seas of golden grain,
And apples rich In color fall
While golden shines the light DER all,
The golden ears of corn are gathered now,
The golden fodder packed,
And here and there doth CLEAN the golden NOV
Where precious hay is stacked.
The riches of the world are vain
To buy the wealth of golden grain
To make the storehouse overflow,
Save the good Goa should will 1t SO.
So for this golden harvest let us give
Our thanks in heartfelt song,
And let us worthy of this bounty live
And in the worlds glad throng.
The deeds are goldcn-and it's right
That gold for gold should but requite
The mercy that our God bestows,
With which our measure overflows.
-FlaveI Scott Mines.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1892-11-24

FAD it, father? Yes, / can read it
if it will be any pleasure to you
to ear it; for my part | wish |
could never see or listen to one
g.in! It's just mocbery, pure
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-16
The Republican Platform.

The platform adopted by the Repub-
licans at Minneapolis is asweeping drag
net of glittering generalities. Every
thing within the range of political dis
putation is brought into it, most OF them
in a perfunctory way, and some sort of
indefinite promise given to enable the
Republican leaders to deal with all
shades of all questions.
The planks calling for local legisla-
ton to protect employees OF corpora
tions; declaring in favor Of the oppressed
of Ireland and Russia; denouncing trusts
and combines; demanding free mail de-
liveries; approving of the civil service
,ystem, the Nicaragua canal, the adm1s-
ion of territories as states, the cess1on
f arid lands to states and territories,
he Columbian exposition and temper
snce are all Just so much surplusage
for all considerate voters.
There are three planks in the plat1orn
which will attract general attention ane
he more carefully considered by lntelll
gent voters than even the leaders OF TN
convention anticipate. These are tn
planks in favor Of protection and reci
procity, and Of bimetallism and tn
practical approval and recommendation
nf the force election bill for the south
These questions are vital, and as IN
narty has made positive record on d
Of them they will be regarded as meas
ures which must stand CT fall with Tn
success or failure Of the Minneapoli
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-16

ONE of the Ohio Blaine boomers at
Minneapolis last week, Col. Conger,
voiced the feelings of thousands of
republicans in the following language
when he was asked If he thought
Reeds name would strengthen the
ticket. Said Conger: ~ am in favor
ofElliot F. Shepard. 1t would be a
superb combination of weakness and
imbecility. 1t makes no difference to
me who is second on the ticket; with
Harrison at the head the party won't
get enough electoral votes to give 1t a
respectable burial.n With such feeling
existing in Ohio, republicans may well
look upon the result next fall with
apprehension and doubt.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-16
Have You Seen Venus?
lsLuveaville Weekly Gasette.I


If have not, take look at 1t. 1t
is six times as bright as it will be a
few months hence. 1t is that planet
in the West which you see as you go
up Market street, hanging in the sky
like great cleaning lamp upon the
brow Of night. 1t is now at its bright
est. 1t is coming in on its curved orbit
between us and the sun. 1t is only
twentv.six million ofmiles away when
in line with the sun. Venus is our
nearest neighbor except the moon.
With telescope it is now o
beautiful crescent about like the moon
when five days old. 1t is so bright you
can see it In daylight. 1t is three times
as bright as the moon, its albedo being
so. Though it seems to move so slowly,
it really is moving twenty-three miles
per second. Its year Is only seven
months and half. AS it has an at
mosphere il is probably Inhabited; why
should there be air with no one to
breathe it? There seems to be oceans
and continents, also, with caps of ice
at the poles. AS its diameter is 7,70C
miles, its surface is about 95 per cent
of that of the earth, and the number
of inhabitants probably about AGO.
900, 900, as we have about 900, ,000, 900
AS the planets are about the same size
we must look to them as they do tc
us-like splendid star in their sky
They may be looking at US thest
nights with their telescopes, and pos
sibly some of them are trying to in
vent some way to communicate will
us and find out whether the earth i
inhabited, as some of our astronomer
are trying to invent some way Of com
municating with them.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-16

THE wheat raisers in the West are
beginning to paw the earth and bel"
low because the National Cordage
Trust has put up the price of binding
twine. The wheat raisers are incon-
sistent. They send their Harrisons,
Allisons, Sawyers, Washburnes and
McKinleys to Washington to whack
the tariff up. The trusts are one and
all children of the protective tariff.
There wouldn't be any trusts without
a tariff to lean on, and there wouldt
be any protective tariffs ifthe farmers
did not vote for protectionists. The
way to get rid of the trusts is to stop
voting for high tariff Congressmen.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-16
HOWAND WHY.
Nothing New or Mysterious About It


Tw. L. Wilson in St. Louis Republic.l
When the late President of the
French Republic, NJ. Thiers, was re-
preached for taxing the people to
build up the sugar refineries, he is re-
ported TO have answered.: II do love to
see the big chimneys smoke" 1t is
precisely this feeling that is constantly
appealed to in this country in support
of our system of taxing the many for
the enrichment of the few. There is
an indefinite idea that there is some
thing grand, patriotic and meritorious
in the strong industries supported by
the tariff that lifts them above the plain
and weaker and unpretending indus
tries on whom the burden oftheir sup
port is made to fall.
The life of the farmer is one of
isolation and of almost daily toll. His
work in the main is prosaic; his sur
roundings generally unpoetic, and his
home at the best comfortable, seldom,
if every, splendid and luxurious.
There is little to fascinate the eye or
kindle the fancy. A great manufac-
turing plant is often sence Of wonder.
Its spacious buildings, its towering
chimneys, its gigantic engines, the roar
and clatter of ITS machinery, its busy
operatives-all these things stir the
fancy and fill us with admiration for
one of the marvels of modern civiliza-
ton. 1t is not strange as we gaze on
such scene and are impressively re-
minded that it Is creation of that
tariff that we fail to reflect upon the
means by which it was created. Yet
there is nothing new or MYSTERIOUS
about it. The palaces of rolalty, IT.:
parks and equipagas, its splendor and
magnifcence have, in other countries
and in other lands, been created in
exact y the same way, and that way is
by taxing the masses of the people anC
bestowing those taxes upon the
privileged few.
The poor peasant delving in the
field, lily clad and lily fed, is not 9
picturesque sight. The royal equipag'
dashing along the neighboring high
way is thing of beauty. But it i
the labor of the peasant that makes
the equipage and its splendor, and th'
power that gathers from the labor j
the power of taxation. In precisell.
the same manner every industry II
this country that cannot support itsel
and leans upon the tariff for supper
is the creation of taxes gathered iron
the labor of the country We may b
filled with admiration for its greatnes
and almost bewildered by its marvelou
machinery and abound;ng products
} but there is nothing more wondertu
) about its creation by taxes taken y
\ law from the people than about tn
f splendor Of king created by simila
taxes on the people.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-16
'Tis hard to believe II,
Yet who can deny it
Truths that 50 glisten !
II seems that the Driver went
From here intently bent

Truths that 50 Rlisten
II seems that the Driver went
From here intently bent
On beat'n--but, listen:
There is nothing more melancholy
In life than the finding Of any mean I
ness in a great man, or one aspiring to
be great. The "Dr." Driver belongs
TO the latter class and it becomes our
melancholy duty to submit what is
claimed to be true, and which II true,
Is certainly a piece Of llttleness that
even the serfs of Hungary might we'll
repudiate.
1t is alleged, and the authority is
from headquarters, that the dr."
despite his boasted Bostonian origin,
his superior learnin', lis adherence
of all things mundane, his grandilo-
quence. his isolated position in the
clouds, so to speak, his studied effort
to create o line of demarkation be-
tween himself and that herd, "the
people,n his Spartan bravery in de-
flying what he claimed to be a howl
ing, seething horde of ten thousand
rebels, his omEipotence in being able
to look straight through the heads of
all humanity, and thereby power to
sway the largest and most mixed au-
dience, the smoothness with which he
delivers his stereotyped lectures, his
good republicanism and penchant to
again lick the South simply because,
to an uncharitable and warped vision,
it can be done,-despite all these en-
nobling qualities which friends as
cribe, the Doctah, the pulpit politi-
clan, left Napoleon and failed to set
tie his hotel bill! (Our contempo-
rary near the canal will here note
the use of the exclamation point, the
astonisher-in fact, two of 'em.)
Words are weaker than boarding
house coffee in expressing our sorrow
and grief, our shattered spirit and
shuddering heart-the heart we read
about-at receiving and communicat-
ing such intelligence. And if it
serves US thus,-we, who never did
think that the Doctah amounted to an
itinerant tinker's outfit outside his
sphere-how must those who have
been building pyramids of praise ov-
er his memorial harangue, take it
Certainly nothing less than the hus-
band took it whose wife ran away
with a handsomer man, videlicet
''rather tough like" Or, in the Ian
guage of Moore, they are sadly with
the girl in Lallah Rookie who saith:
Twas ever thus since childhood hour,
I've seen my fondest hopes decay;
I never loved tree or flower
But twas the first to fade away.
The fade away" looks as though il
might in the case of an emergency
be the rhythmical term for jumping q
board bill. And the late statutes oi
Ohio pro---but emotion pure and sin
cere triufnphs. and, overcome by it,
we can proceed no further. The reader
will kindly stop with US at this point
and not think too harshly of the
Doctah, formerly of Boston, but now
of he metropolis, Columbia City.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-16

ticket.
The force bill was beaten by a Re
publican senate that was then n stronger
nartisan body than il is today or Is like
iy TO be during the next administration.
That issue viii be dead weight on the
party in the coming contest. The plank
on bimetallism Is very adroit straddle
Of the silver issue.
What the Minneapolis convention calls
protection is simply protection OF mo-
nopoly and of oppression to labor. The
Mckinley bill needlessly taxes the neces-
saries of industry and of life, and its du-
ties are levied without any regard to the
differences between wages abroad and
at home. They are levied solely for en-
ployers, not for workingmen. They
protect capital in some instances enor-
mously, but no actual protection Is
given TO labor.
Under such tariff reciprocity is sim
ply a contradiction of the principles OF
the party. Reciprocity is either free
trade or fair trade, and if separated from
an unjust tariff policy it would greatly
aid the industry and trade of the nation.
The platform on this point is simply a
snare, and the farmers Of the west and
the working people of all sections seem
pretty thoroughly to understand it.
The time was when national platforms
meant something, but they are general
ly now regarded as meaningless; mere
tubs to whales or bats to gudgeons, and
they have ceased to be accepted as an
honest expression of what party will
do if successful in gaining power. If
platforms were intended to mean
what they say, the Minneapolis plat
form might be summed up as bundle
of contradiction and absurdity; but as
they practically mean just nothing at
all, it is of little consequence what is
put into them or what is omitted
Philadelphia Times.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-16

THE Aroostook (Me.) Republican
makes mention of diary now in the
possession of Rev. Mr.. Moore, of
Boston, and written by that gentle
MANS great-great-grandfathe in 1868,
at which time the latter commenced
his sixty years labor as a minister in
Portland, Me. The good man recorded
In the diary how ono Sunday his
opening prayer lasted for an hour and
a quarter, and then remarks that he
was wonderfully sustained through
out" AS 1t was the custom in those
days for the congregation to stand
during all Of the prayer, the Republic
can would like to know what sustain.
ed him.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-16
ACCORDING to the Ohio Expert

ACCORDING to the Ohio Expert
ment Station, a new pest has come to
worry the farmers of Ohio. 1t is called
the clover leaf weevil and is a new
pest of the clover in this State, and
mas been reported several times from
Lake and Portage counties. 1t has
been at work in the clover fields of
New York for several years and has In
that time been gradually pushing its
way westward. The beetle measures
over four-tenths of an inch in length,
is of an oval form and of brownish
color, The application of ordinary in
secticides is Of no value except such as
will poison the clover and render it
useless for hay. The only safe means
of destruction is by moving and burn
ing the clover in the fall or by fall
blowing.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-16
Harrison, The Little And Reid,
The Millionaire,



The faulty Of the reigning party had !
perfect expression at Minneapolis. II
the reception given the ticket at Toledo
indicated the manner IL was received
the country, It's foredoom-
ed to defeat. AS the figures announced
TO the gathered crowd before the bull
letin board disclosed the success of
Harrison, IL might have been the an
nouncement Of the death Of a promi-
nent man. Not a word, not a suspic-
ion of a cheer, not an intimation ofen-
thusiasm. Nor does the second name
on the ticket serve to strengthen the
cause. Reid is simply the son-in-law
off. o. Mills, and several times O
millionaire, that is all. In pursuance
of the policy of the small man from
Indiana, Reid was sent to France to
exploit his wealth and thus created by
the man he now joins in candidacy,
During the last campaign, as we'll as
that of Blaine four years previous, the
New York Tribune, of which Reid Is
the chief owner, was the bone of con-
tention, and afforded the heaviest
burden the Republicans bore. Opposed
to the Typographical union, united
labor everywhere demanded that its
rights be recognized by the paper,
which was among the warmest sup
porters of both Blaine and the Indian
pigmy, and there was no more burning
feature of campaigns named than the
position of the paper, the name OF
whose editor now appears on the Re
publican national ticket. What effect
this will have on the pending contest,
of course must be decided by future
events.
That Harrison's victory is bread
and butter success is clear. Without
the support of those who have been
admitted to the public crib, he would
have failed of even q respectable fol-
lowing at Minneapolis. His nomination
came from states which cannot, under
any circumstances, be expected to give
a Republican elector. He is essentially
the candidate ofthe customs house and
the post office, as we of Toledo know
as well. He is a cold, ungenial, unim-
passioned, fsh-blooded man, whose
friendship never touches the point OF
humanity and who has made more
personal enemies than mas been pos
sible for any preceding president
That we have escaped humiliating wal
in at least two instances during his
reign is not to be disputed, and that
the escape came because he had in his
cabinet the great commoner, Blaine
is as evident as that Chile and Italy
had just cause for provocation.
What will be done at Chicago next
week will have greater effect on Har'
rison's re. election than what he has
done. The Republican ticket is essen
TALLY that of the monopolist and golC
worshipper of the east, while west ant
south the CLINT of silver holds many
admirers. These are afforded no com
fort by the ticket and platform named
last week. What, if any thing, will b'
done at Chicago for them and for tht
toiling millions who are ignored by
the elevation of Harrison, remains t.
be seen.
With the cold apathetic reception
for the result of the Minneapolis con
vention the opposition have oppertuni
ty to make headway next week, ant
can unquestionably name the winning
ticket at Chicago.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-16

IT was we'll that Senator German
called attention to the fact, which
seems to be entirely overlooked by
some overimpetuous people, of the
impossibiIity of the Democratic
majority in the House making radical
curtailments in government expendi-
lures as long as the Senate and Execu.
tive remain Republican. What is
needed is an entire change of system
which can only be brought about by
placing all branchesof the government
under Democratic control.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-16

FUNNY, isn't it? The states that are
relied upon to give a Republican
majority in the electoral college voted
against Harrison. The little man was
renominated by the votes of the
negroes and ofiiceholding delegates
from the south where the Republicans
clnnot hope for a single electoral vote.
'Fluence, boys, 'fluence. In nomi-
mating convention 'fluence always
counts for more than brains.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-16

THE Post acknowledges the receipt
of an inseresting pamphlet containing
extracts from the public utterances OF
Governor Boies of Iowa, urging his
nomination for President bys the
National Democracy. The indications
are that Governor Boies will receive
more than 100 votes on the first ballot
at Chicago, and thus be very for
midable candidate. He was born in
Ohio and lived here during his boy
hood.-Columbus Post.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-16
Sewer Letting Notice.

CEALED PROPOSALS. will be received by the
- the Clerk of the Village Of Napoleon, Ohio,
at the Office OF the Clerk, for the construction OF
sewer in Central Sewer District in Napoleon,
Ohio, according to the plans and specifications on
fle with the Village Engineer up to noon, on
July llth. 1892, The bids must be for work and
material stated separately with the price per lineal
foot.
Bids will be received for brick and for tile OF the
option Of bidder.
Bidders must uee the form of bid prescribed by
the Engineer and be accompanied by bond
in the sum Of $500, with sufficient surety, that the
person will enter into contract Ii his bid 10 ac-
ceptcd.
Council reserves the right to reject any or all
bide, or TO accept any part Of any bid.
By order Of the Council.
D.. MEEKIS0N, Mayor.
Napoleon, o., June Hh, 1s92.A.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-16

When Gov. Mckinley grasped the
gravel to preside over the Minneapolis
convention he launched forth on a
laudation of the republican policy OF
high protection, dressed in suit OF
clothes made of imported cloth, sewed
together with imported thread, bound
with imported braid, imported shirt,
collar and cuffs, an imported tie, fancy
imported suspenders, beautiful silk
imported underwear, and feet covered
with imported leather. While the
major was faultlessly dressed his laund'
ed principles were sadly out of join
with his covering.-Cleveland Rdi,
Dealer.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-16
The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Is the recognized leader among the
Democratic newspapers of Ohio.
Every person who wants to keep
posted on the political issues of the
day, State and National, as viewed
from Democratic standpoint. should
read the Plain Dealer. We have made
arrangements with the publishers OF
the Weekly Plain Dealer which
enables US to club that paper with the
DEMOCRATIC NORTHWEST for $l.So a
year. Sample copies of the Plain
Dealer will be mailed to any address
on receipt of a postal card request to
the Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio. tt
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-16

THE Democrats of the Third judi
cial Circuit met in Lima on last week
Wednesday and placed in nomination
for Circuit Judge Hon. James Fl. Day,
of Celina, to succeed Judge Beer. Mr..
Day received 315 votes, Judge Beer
1853, and Judge McCauley 81. Necessa-
ry to choice 270. After the vote had
been announced county after county
asked that the nomination be made
unarimous, which was done.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-16

MURAT HALsTEAD sometimesstumb-
les upon something that is so mani
festly true that it is accepted by every
body. One Of those occasions was
when he said of the Blaine-Harrison
resignation letters: "What they have
said to the public is not what they
have said to each other" What they
said to each other would probably not
look we'll in print, at least not in a
respectable family newspaper.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-16

THE Colorado Indians now manu-
facture Indian relics and curios in
large quantities, and are making lots
of money selling them to wealthy
"tenderfoot' visitors to the Centennial
State. Who dares to say the Indian is
not becoming civilized?
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-16

In an interview at Chicago on the
18th, Gen. d. Ihrie, now of Tacoma,
Wash. and Gen. Grants inspector
general aide.de-camp during the war,
and at present worlds fair commits
sioner from Washington, said rs per
cent. OF the voting republicans in the
State were for Blaine, and were great
~ disappointed at the defeat of their
favorlte. He thought the Democrats
had q good chance of carrying the
State next fall, although 1t Is usually
republican by from 5000 to 1000.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-16

A NEW material for paving is now
being introduced in London. 1t is
composed of granulated cork and
bitumen pressed into blocks, which
are laid like bricks or wood paving.
The special advantage of the material
lies in its elasticity. When used for
pavement il gives soft tread which
is exceedingly pleasant, recalling the
feeling of q carpet.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-16

If all the promises made at the re
publican convention had to be kept
the number of office-holders would
have to be quadrurled, Fortunately
for the country none of them will be
kept, as after the 4th of next March
the distributribution oflederal offices
will be in democratic hands.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-16

A NEWSPAPER is always printed in
u rush, says the New York Sun. There
is always something in it that should
be left out; something left out that
should have been put in. 1t is some
times too quick to act, but with ali its
faults and shortcomings there is more
education in bright newspaper than
there is in any novel. You will find
the brightest boy on practical, sensible
everyday questions is the boy who
reads the newspapers.