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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-10-13
DEMOCRATIC APPROPRIATIONS.
Tho Record Broken by the second Session
OF the Fifty Third Congress.

4E W sS0 st>o&44
of tho Fifty-rhird Congress.
Tho session just closed is a record
breaker in the matter of a~ppropria-
tions, which are $500, 900, 900, more by
ser, 00o, 600 than was appropriated by
the Fifty-first congress in its first ses-
sion, which has been advertised to all
the world as the "billion-dollar con-
gress," or the Reed congress-" Not
withstanding the democrats took from
the deserving soldiers of this country
S29, 000, 900 in order to make this show
ing, they now stand charged with
making the most exorbitant appro-
priations for sectional purposes ever
known in the history of the govern
ment. The river and harbor bill is in
creased more than S11, 900, 900. to be
expended largely In the south. The
diplomatic and consular bill, for the
support of exconfederates abroad, is
increased more than So, 900. The forti-
fcation bill, in order to find fat places
for democratic employees in coast de-
fensc construction, is increased $780,
600. The Indian bill, by which more
democratic employees are fed and
utAt btAaCNNs III NAOialiOH Oh
civil service rules and civil service
methods than under all other bills
combined, is increased S1,475, 900.
Anyone who goes to the agencies in
the northwest will find the agent with
all his family nicely housed and shell
tered under civil service, his bonds
men n the friends thereof carried
and taken care of, while all the old
familiar and tried employees of the In
dian school and Indian reform service
have been sent adrift. The post Office
bill is Increased s., 232, 900, most OF
which comes from northern peopp. as
the south has failed To pay its proper
tionate share of the expense of run
ming the postal department since the
establishment of the government. TO
the amoun of from So. Zoo, 900 TO So
0o0, 600 per annum. The naval bill is
increased 50, 228, 900, because the navy
yards have been used as places of ref
uge for democratic strikers, who 9TH
erwise must have had to march with
Coxey's army"
OF the reductions it is needless to say
much. They are found to be OF such u
character as TO take away employment
from worthy people who during these
stringent times are unable to find en-
ployment elsewhere. Two thousand
have been turned loose in the city of
Washington by reason of democratic
economy" and intriguing. BY the
time the campaign is closed, and the
people have assembled at the polls, the
investigation of appropriations in the
closed session Of congress will have
been so thoroughly made, and the
democratic claims SO punctured and
understood that it will be hard for
their orators to endorse them before
the pcople.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-10-13
LIST OF RESERVED PLAYERS
Those Who Have Been Claimed by West
ern League Clubs.

Those Who Have Been Claimed by West
ern League Clubs.
President Johnson of the Western
league has promulgated this list of re.
eerved and claimed players:
Acknowledgement Bolan, Rettger
stephens, *. Baker, Carey, Sharpe, 1'ay.
Tor, Flaherty, Long G~oodenough, Twitch.
FL, Klopf. Sold: Clingman. Claimed,
Parrott of Chicago and w. Summers OF
Toledo.
Kansas City-Reserved Stallings. Don.
Hernon, Hastings, Darby, Daniels. X. Me
Iarland. Claimed: John O'Brien, w.
King and j. Virtue.
Sioux City Reserved: McCauley. Holo-
han, ., Rourke, Camp, Kraus, Boyle, Gun
ningham, Killeen, Hogrieyer, Mari. Sold:
Hart, Stewart, Genins.
Grand Rapids Reserved: Rhines. Jones.
Parker, Caruthers, Eagan, Callopy,
Wheelock, Wright, +. Carroll, w. George.
Claimed: Foreman, Cody, Sweet, Breck,
inridge.
Detroit-Reserved Glenalvin, Borch-
ers, Harper, Pears. Everett, Earle, Cross.
York, &. Carroll, Gayle, Raymond, Cam.
pau. ,Jantzen. Claimed: Freeman.
Deadly, Crooks, Werden, Cody.
Indianapolis-Reserved Westlake, Phil
lips. Pepper, Shields, Mills, Roat, Henry,
lNuilf hibftf 'inN ,iiiillth. H. hughes,
j. Kirwin, b. Weeds, III. Senior, III. Speer'
d. Hill, c. Smith, w. Moran, johnson,
Pastorious.
Minneapolis Reserved: Hines, Hulen.
Burns, Wilson, Burrell, Parvin, Frazier,
y. Baker. Claimed: Tony Mullane.
Toledo Reserved: Carney, Connors.
inland, Hatfield, Gilks, Hughey, C. Frank
Claimed: {. Petty, Sippi, Luby, Flynn,
Uhlrich.
Crooks and Werden. claimed by De.
troit, played with Minneapolis the past
season. Manager Vanderbeck asserted
that the men signed contracts with
Minneapolis in which there was no
reservation clause, and that he has a
right to claim their services.
Manager Cushman of the Milwaukee,
club also claims Pitcher Tanning, Tan.
nahill and George w. Davies of Chi
eago and Intielder j. TRULY. .'Mil-
waukee will stick with the Western
league" said Cushman. The man who
is making the buster about entering a
new national association is Quin, who
owns the present grounds. President
Killalea has secured suitable grounds
on National avenue, and contracts will
o be let for the grand stand and
clubhouses."
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-10-13
DRIFT OF

cS-Under the new democratic free
trade scheme the Canadians will saw
their own logs into lumber and the
American workman must hustle else
where Tor his board.-Chicago Journal.
cS -American workingmcn who find
they are not as well oil under a moogrel
democratic tariff as they were under a
republican tariff can move out of the
country, you know.-Chicago Tribune.
sS-We have said good evening to
the Mckinley law and its unbounded
prosperity, and good morning to tariff
reform and ''perfidy and .dishonor."
If ''perfdy" should do as well by the
people as ''robber," the ''dishonor'
will be borne. The people are accus-
toned to- make the best of the situa-
tion.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
to The Wilson-Gorman bill now
having gone into effect, and the prom
Uses of the democratic party being full
filled, the farmers may now get ready
to sell their wheat at one dollar a
bushel, as promised in 1892. No fail
ure this time, gentlemen. Bring on
your wheat! The money is ready just
as soon as Mr.. Carlisle can negotiate
another fifty million dollarsl
t5- There is but one notable fea-
ture Of the Wilson-Gorman tariff which
is purely equitable. Southern demo
Gratis, in the framing of the bill, en-
deavored to tax everybody but them
selves. In view of the many mistakes
and errors which have crept into the
bill, it is not exactly known whether
they intended to insert the clause inn
posing a tax of two cents on every
pack of playing cards. This revenue,
which, according to the treasury esti-
mates. will amount to about two mil.
lion dollars annually. will come largely
from the south.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-10-13
THE DEMOCRATIC PANIC.
Widespread Financial Distress Resulting
from oyernmen Mismanagcment.

widespread IlnhuCtAl DlStTcSh hCbultlu&
from Governmental Mismanagement.
The democratic press and democratic
orators are straining in the use of
words and figures of speech to try to
hold before the people an apology for
the panic of 1893, charging this result
of the election upon the republicans,
who, they say, transferred to the dem
ocrats a bankrupt treasury. The re-
ports just published by the a%ppropria-
ton committees Of the houses of con
gress make a quite different showing
on this question. The panic was not
the result Of a lack OF money in the
treasury at the time Grover Cleveland
was inaugurated, but it was the result
of Grover Cleveland and his secretary
of the treasury not collecting a sufii-
cient amount Of money for the pur-
poses of defraying the expenses of the
government. The official tables fur
nished by the treasury department
show that on March i, 1893, there was
available cash in the treasury Sl24,-
600, 600 in round numbers, only S26, 00O,-
600 less than when Mr.. Cleveland was
inaugurated March 4, 1885. This of it
self is sufficient to show that it was
not the amoun of money found in the
treasury ut the time he assumed con
troll of the government that caused the
following disaster; but attention is
called to the falling off in revenues
under his present term. In order 20
make the comparison, note hat dur
ing the last year of President Harri-
sons administration the foreign COM
merce of this country reached the high
est point ever attained by the nation,
namely, 1851, O00, 900. In 1898, after
the democrats came into power, it
fell off to 81. ia, 600, 600, and in 1894 to
81, 81, 000, 600. Here is a falling off in
1898 Of sl43, Ooo, 900, and in 1894 of $780,
600. 600. This is where the democratic
panic and the democratic hard times
came from. 1t was the inability of
the democrats to manage trade. COM
merce, or domestic business, out Of
which revenues grow or are created for
public purposes.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-10-13
The Middle Ground.

President Cleveland, in his letter Of
July, 1894, said: 1T is quite apparent
that this question Of free raw material
does not admit Of adjustment on any
middle ground" Once the president
was wrong. The middle ground is dis.
covered. 1t is that condition or place
where the democratic Gorman-W Wilson
tariff bill rests the place of perfidy
and dishonor, a condition Of inconsista
encies and crudities, as described by
Grover Cleveland in his own words.
The trumpet of democracy in the cam
paign now before us is to sound the
war-cry or rally in order to take the
Democratic party of this middle
ground, and place 1t on the assured
fsee-trade side Of the question, but for
the present the party occupies the
middle ground indicated by the great
leader. Grover Cleveland.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-10-13
WORSE THAN
The Democratic Party Deserving of Com.
plete Obliteratfon.

Inc Democrstic farty deserving OF Com
plete Obliteration.
From the letter Of President Cleve.
land to Mr.. Catchings, Of Mississippi,
bearing date August "a, it seems that
the democratic party is indeed a
meaner organization that its most bit
ter enemies have ever accused it of be.
ing. The president uses the following
paragraph in his letter:
The trusts and combinations-the commu-
nism Of ~pelf-whose Vaccinations have pre-
vented US from reaching the success VIC desery-
ed. should not be forgotten or forgiven. We
shall recover from our establishment at their
exhibition OF power, and IL then the question
is forced upon US whether they shall submit to
the free legislative will Of the peoples repre-
scntatives, or shall dictate the laws
which the people must obey. we will accept
and settle that issue as one involving the in
tegrity and safety OF American Institutions"
In a careful analysis of the forego-
ing n cannot avoid seeing a veritable
Jekyll and Hyde duality. The presi-
dent in this sentence arraigns the dem
ocrats of the senate as guilty Of machi-
nations and combinations deserving of
such terrible consequences that they
shall never be forgotten or forgiven.
The crime committed by these demo-
Gratis Of the senate is none other than
an agreement upon a schedule of rates
wnich divides among them the
equities, the sugar trust thrown in.
Perhaps no living person knows more
about how the combines and trusts
managed this dicker with democratic
senators than does President Cleve-
land himself. BE that as it may, how
ever, he understands that a crime was
committed, and he SO states in the
foregoing paragraph. We understand
the president, under the constitution,
has the prerogative of correcting
wrongs and preventing frauds from
being practiced upon the people
through legislation, in the right of
by the fathers Of the country. The
knotty problem to the reader of this
paragraph will be this: If the senate
is guilty of passing the law, how can
the president escape just censure for
allowing such an enactmentto become
operative, when he has the power by a
single stroke of the pen to send it
back to congress for correction, amend
ment. etc?
The infamies of the present tariff
law as it goes upon the statute books,
carrying with it a great crime and It's
consequences, the resulting indict-
ment must include the name of Grover
Cleveland as an accessory after the
fact.
1t was fairly TO be presumed that
Grover Clcveland's six years of execu.
tive authority would have taught him
the impossibility of fooling all the
people all the time, though he may be
able to fool a part of the people a part
of the time; but this letter, which is in
the form of an apology for his own
action in allowing this bill to become
a law, only shows him as deserving a
greater degree of condemnation, for in
it he presents a clear analysis of the
crime committed, and of the evil re-
suits which will necessarily attend
the execution of the democratic tariff
law.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-10-13
a DARK SPOT.
Record of the Democrats In the Recent
Tariff Liquidation.

Tariff Legislation.
President Cleveland in his national
apology for winking at the great
fraud which was eliminated on the
evening of August %, the record of
which shall stand as the dark spot in
the tariff history of the United States,
while feeling the sting of the infamy
of which he had become a copartner,
utters the following sentence:
II do not claim 10 be better than the masses
OF my party. nor do / wish TO avoid any re-
sponsibillty which, on account Of the passage
of this law, l ought to bear es a member OF the
democratic organization. Neither will per-
nit myself TO be separated from my party TO
such an extent as might be implied by my
veto Of tariff legislation, which, though dis
appointing, is still chargeable TO democratic
effort"
This confession of Grover Cleveland
is one Of the most marked among the
sayings of men who have been ex.
allied into high places by the suffrage
of the people. 1t is to be construed as
meaning that because Grover Cleve-
land has not the moral courage to
sign an infamous, disappointing tariff
bill, full of inaccuracies and crudities,
he therefore declares that he is no
better than the masses of his party,
or, in other words, he declares that the
democratic party las no man in ii
who is capable of rising above the in.
famous trickery of the trusts and com.
bines who barter with democratic sen
ators in tariff revision.
Oh, Shades of the Hermitage! Could
o voice from the unseen realms be
heard this day, it would bring to mind
that there was once a time when the
democratic party had in it one man
who dared 20 speak for the right in
the face OF a confessed wrong.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-10-13
A REGULARITY or WOMEN.
Why They VIII Cut a Nan Dead on Slight
Proyocation.

Sillybub came into the club in a state
of great mental agitation, for Sillybub
had a sufficient mentality TO admit of
agitation, all reports to the contrary
Notwithstanding, says the Detroit Free
Press.
"Hello!" exclaimed a clubster. "What
is the matter. Silly, old boy?"
"It's dreadful, don't you know" he
exclaimed. 81 met Miss Meredith on
the street awhile ago and she cut Inc
dead"
The pretty Miss Meredith"
mo, the other one"
"What have you been doing?"
Nothing, so far as / am aware. don't
you know. We had a discussion last
night on the subject of female beauty
and during the course Of my remarks
merely said to her that she was not the
prettiest woman in the, world, and she
Immediately got up and left me-"
The other clnbstcr looked at Sillybub
in amaZement.
To-day she cut me dead on the street
and why should she do that?" Sillybub
continued. 81 am sure she is not the
prettiest woman in the world and ! am
sure that she knows she is not and So
does every body else, and because
merely stated a fact SO patent that con.
troversy is out of the question is tina,
. reason for her to insult me publicly"
Silly was getting very hot.
"Why," he went on, IF | should have
stated as positively that she was the
prettiest woman in the world everybody
would have said | was a fool, don't you
know"
Except Miss Meredith" added the
clubster. sententiously, "and everybody
will say you were a fool for making the
statement to the one person you should
not have made it to-"
This was a poser for Sillybub and be
sat down despairingly'to cogitate upon
In.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-10-13

and husbands of the rest vote for can.
didates whose policy has brought so
much mischief already and threatens
to deepen it if allowed to dominate the
industries of the country in the flu
ture? Can they be such noodles, so
utterly idiotic, as not to learn quickly
from this bitter experience that demo-
cratic rule means low wages, depressed
industries, and ficrcer competition
with European toilers and their prod
ucts? Surely a large proportion of the
workers who voted the democratic
ticket in 1892 will vote next time for a
restoration of the republican policies
which gave them full work at good
wages by providing a home market
for their products, and protecting that
market from undue foreign competi.
tion.-Chicago Tribune.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-10-13
STRIKES COUNCIL BLUFFS.
An Air Line Promoter Makes a Breezy
Bluff for 800.

COUNCIL BLUFFS. Ia, Oct. about
twenty-five prominent citizens OF Coun-
Gil Bluffs were invited to meet William
Dublin of Chicago at the office of w. j..
Jamison in the Masonic templeA
Mr.. Dublin represents the Atlantic
and Pacific Railway Construc-
ton company, and the scheme he
has to lay before the people of this city
was in connection with the plan the
company has had under way for the,
past four years, of constructing an air
line from New York to San Francisco.
He is making an effort to enlist the
sympathies of the people of the towns
and cities nea which the proposed
line Is 10 pass, and claims To have sue
ceeded well thus far. The line of the
o runs within a quarter Of a mile
of the northern boundary of Council
Bluffs, according To the surveys which
have already been made.
The road, SO Mr., Dallin says, swerves
neither To the right nor TO the left. 1t
passes through the city of Chicago, but
If any other citscs want to have il run
through them they must move. The
work of construction on the part from
New York TO Chicago is TO be con-
nected in 1895, and I o be finished in
is9S. The estimated cost Of this por-
ton is 1925. 600, 600. From Chicago to
San Francisco the cost will be
$500, 000, 900. A part Of his
scheme is to give the United States
government, il 1t proves agreeable ST
per cent of the entire stock, In consid-
Grafton of the government agreeing to
endorse the bonds of the road. He
wrote senator Cullom OF Illinois, re-
questing his assistance, and received In
return n letter in which he thought
he could read between the lines the
senator's willingness to do all he could.
Either steam or electricity will be used
as a motive power, as may be deemed
advisable.
After reading the prospectus Of tho
company, in which hundreds of millions
OF dollars were dashed off with tho
anne Rlibness that most men use in
speaking of 5 cent cigars, Mr.. Dallin
presented his proposition TO the people
of Council Bluffs. 1t was, that SEQ, 600
be pledged In cash, to be paid when the
line Is completed from New York to the
Missouri river in case it passes within N
quarter of q mile of the northern hOan-.
dairy of Council Bltffs. In addition to
this he wants $500 worth of stock sub-
ecribed for, TO be paid within thirty
days, To be used in carrying on the pre-
limiDary work, which is to be COM
pleted by December 20, 1894. He is
now on his way to San Francisco, and
will present similar propositions TO the
people OF the various places along the.
proposed route.
IL was decided that the best way out
of the difficulty. or into it, as the case
may be, was L appoint u committe Of
seven, whose duty IT shall be to inves-
tigate the matter. The committee cor.
sists Of Frank Trimblc. DIR. j. Ii.
Cleaver, William Moore. w. i. Jamison.
w. IL. Thomas andN. Il. Rohrer.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-10-13
Transportation Problem.

SIOUX FALLS, 5. d., Oct. 6.-Ths
Shippers and Producers association,
recently organized at the suggestion OF
the Sioux Falls Manufacturers and
Jobbers' association, has issued n me.
mortal address to all the wholesale and
retail dealers in the state urging them
To begin an active campaign to secure
at the coming session of the legislature
sone favorable railroad legislation.
Both the republican and democratic
state platforms contain planks favor.
ing "A maximum rate law and the ad
dress calls on all interested TO see
to it that no one is elected 20 the
legislature who will not stand directly
ON this plank Of the platforms. 1t is
suggested that the members of the
association in every county secure the
personal and written pledge of every
candidate for the Legislature to the eff
feet that if elected he will do what he
can TO cur the passage OF such a law.
Attention Is called To the benefits Iowa
Interests have received by temperate
and wholesome legislation on the trans.
~portation question and 1t is argued
that similar results can be secured
for South Dakota IL similar eff
forts are made. The subscribers say
that they ask that no injustice be done
the railroads, but insist that justice he
done the people. Attention is called to
the fact that the present railroad com.
mission in the state is a practical non.
entity inasmuch AS the commission is
not clothed with power to enforce its
DEGREES, 1t is urged that suitable
legislation be passed giving powers to
the commission and To that end the CO.
operation Of all dealers, wholesale aud
retail, and all citizens interested In the
growth Of the state is solicited. Con.
Guiding the address says: 1--WE desire
that you furnish all possible data con.
eerning the rates from your
town furnished for your whole
salers and jobbers in comparison
So far as possible with cities
and jobbing centers outside the state.
We will endeavor TO see that each city
Of the state has a strong aud very
large committee at Pierre at the proper
time to help put this matter before the
legislature. This association expects
TO put in every day from now until the
legislature meets in preparing statis-
lies of all the matter mat will be nee
sssary TO convince our representatives
hat the relief demanded is Justice and
lothing more"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-10-13

The fight will probably come off in
New Orleans. 1t will attract thous-
ands OF men and may break al records
on the size of the gate receipts. Fit
IN is so anxious to make the
fight a certainty hat he is willing to
make anything like liberal concessions
In every respect. Corbett, as cham
pion. will not lose many tricks. how
ever, in debating terms. 1t is possible
thai the winner may take the entire
purse and stake. That will depend on
Corbett. As great battles have result.
ed in the last few years, the betting on
this contest should not be overwhelm.
ingly in favor of Corbett.
Corbett's fun over the Olympic clubs
series of resolutions claiming the cham
pionship for Fitzsimmons is the most
interesting happening in the contro-
versy and his telegram in reply thereto
has developed u brightness and vein of
humor In the champion which no one
ever credited him with having.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-10-13

SIOUX FALLS, 5. d., Oct. 6.-The SUI
preme court in the case of Joe Kirby
rs the city Of Sioux Falls has decided
hat the building inspecting ordinance
$ unconstitutional on the ground that
t leaves with the inspector and with
him alone the right to decide whether
DR. not any building complies with the
ordinance. Kirby argued that were the
Inspector SO disposed he could estop all
building BY refusing to issue permits
Or could compel all builders to use one
sort of material. The fight is OF long
standing. Kirby was arrested six times
while making Il few repairs to his resi-
ience.