Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-10-03
AFTER BYNUM'S SCALP
Farmer Stanley Wants Some Of
His Salary Now.
DECEIVED BY ELECTION 0RAT0RY.

and Stanley Thinks BY mum Should Make
Up the Difr.rence-The Farmers' Logic.
OF all the novel lawsuits that are an
nually begun in the rural districts OF
Hoosierdom none outranks in oddity the
claim for damages that Farmer William
Bartholomew Stanley, of Madison county.
Indiana, has brought against Congress
man Bynum, of his district.
Farmer Stanley puts his damages at
$500, which he will ask the courts to
help him collect from Mr.. Bynum on the
grounds that Bynum caused him to lose
tina. amount by saying in a speech deliv-
cred ut Pendleton in the last campaign
that wheat would sell at Sl.25 a bushel If
Cleveland were elec. Having implicit
faith in the "Grassburner," as Bynum is
jokingly dubbed at his home, the farmer
says in his com mplaint, that he went ahead
and planted in wheat ali the ground he
could spare on his farm.
The first year he refused to sell at s.
cents, and raised mere wheat, so as to
have his bins ovcrflnw:i nag when the price
should reach the promised $50. But
wheat WIS on he t0bogSau. and steadily
declined until he was forced to sell part
OF his crop l'r ~ cents n i'l-Hti sun NV :
ing in hope taa: ByII!m would make good
his promise and put the price of wheat up
TO the iuxurinUs 81 - notch. Stanley says.
lie held hack more than l.Dj bushels,
which he has now been forced to dispose
of at the bankrupt price of 45 cents.
Farmer Stanley does not hold that Con
gressman Bynum could put the price Of
wheat at Sl.2j if he chose. but he says that
Bynum's false representation i'll hold
ing ont the allurement of sl.23 in case
OF Cleveland = election was the uirect
cause of farmers all through Madison
county raising wheat at the expense of
other and more reInunerative crops ii'
believes he has put his damages at 4 low
figure. 81 300 being falr estimate OF what
he could have made by planting ,.her
cereals had not hyhuh come III the couh-
" preaching Il ialse Sou
MI. STANLEY Is now rampant fop'uis'.
lie Is n tan, raWponeo fioosier, VINO 'aiAs
IN metaphors ana can tell the coming
changes of the weather by the aches In MS
JOINTS lie was found In the once Oh Inc
Nonconformist, fopt!ist newspaper a
lew uays ago. MS iee' were oii 'he eu''o'
desk ana seEerai printers were Hs'ehihS
10 MS recilai oi MS wrongs.
TO END CAMPAIGN LYING.
'If God lets me live, and l amt got no
notice to the contrary" he said, chewing
the sogGy end of a Madison county stoga,
"Til have the law Oh Bynum. have made
up my mind to make him stand good for
the difference in my wheat crop, and if
there be any justice IN courts III win the
suit. This thing of politicians coming out
i'll the country districts and hoodwinkin'
the farmers with lies and promises jist to
git votes was all right back in war times,
when we didn' know nothing 'cept wha,
was told US.
"A farmer at don't know enough to get
In the house when it rains, Il body nat
'ly expects to buy gold bricks, or bet on
three card monte. But we been learnin'
since them days, and. d'yew know, con
slider a man who will stand mp and lie 10
the farmer to get his vote no better II
horse thief. can see why Bynum am
es guilty, er gutter, Tor that matter, as
man VINO comes TO my mouse ana sells me
a broken WIND ana spawned morse Tor
sound crltter. Inc court IL Purtect me IL
III swlndled III buyin Dad morse, ana
IL no more II ri2ht AT 1 pe pur.ected II
congressman gets me 10 plant HI my iarhl
IN wheat spectih 10 get Dig price ana
then the price goes uown 10 that poih'
where III ; cheaPer 10 Zee" IL 10 hoSs 'hah
10 haui IL 10 market.
never hid enough schooiiI "heh
was Il poy 10 hur' me- ana i never rea"
Ia" hoiie' b''' my yer "n' II e- sn"r =
eZ Zthree-year-oid vinegar ..iis me III" Is
Just common SENSE anu II IL am CON-
mon sense that oucht 10 nave uaihaSes
1or ioslh on my wheat crop theh 'heS
ain no sucn thinS as common SENSE III
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