davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1894-01-29

s1n Fmuciscg, cal. January Ah iha
rcnl. VI wreck laa night 100 TIE rI'.
uiqA Of the ciiy on she San Fiaa2iat1 AMI
spH Hlttc ilae, HiE aiurai pl easrra arc
in he county hoWItli. s3yeu LuffA
uHd tarrn M he Receiving bOap.tsi = ~
thoe4h i've gHi DE s yHrl oHerB wore
more or lesa Injured. and we're Rken 30
thelr homes,
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1894-01-29
Mhl.I!!5!::.!k!Y PANIC.
1850 barrels fna tvo-s,amp Kensucrr
whisky for Sale in bond at
from zoo TO Co
Urn. e. KING G. co.
wholesale liquor and Cigar Dsaiars
Houston, rExAa
xed charsea ana dlgldcnda.

d1ctlaZ all fixed charges and diyidcnds,
SIG. f05
The report heyH the ngurcs do not jus.
ending june ~, isl7, brought dlaaster 10
the railways Tie luduNifiai depression
that followed after thn; duto must be
ascribed az the disaster witch placed many
roads aud properties IN the hands Of re.
celVpfH
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1894-01-29

Washington. January ~ alt e. rumnrcd
here that ~ T. cmndnu OF Buffalo win be
appointed nuhlln printer The repor, can
not be confirmed,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-20

ing no other regular Democratic municipal
ticket. has declined the nomination. OF it
self. this is an admission that Tammany
will be beaten if IL has not the influence
of HILLS decision as to what constitutes
the regular Democratic ticket for the city
and county of New York. With a new can-
didate for Mayor. Tammany will go into
the fight with no good will toward Hill.
and so handicapped with dissensions and the
Generalization Of the Lexow Investigation
that IL will not be able to put 10000 fraudu-
lent votes into the boxes TO hold its ticket
and Hill. Furthermore. Tammany has nom
mated candidates for Congress in every
district. and declines with emphasis all
overtures from the Grace Democracy for
a compromise. 1t now looks as If this
contention would throw into the hands OF
the Republicans three or four Representa-
tives in Congress. While a number of the
"anti-snappers" are joining Hill. the Fair
enid committee, whose candidate for Gov
ernor is Mr.. Wheeler. is pushing its or
ganization. The leaders claim that their
ticket viii poll over 10000 votes, but If it
only gets 10000 they Will be votes which
have been Democratic in the past. On the
whole. the outlook in New York for the
Republicans is excellent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-20
A HAND-TO-MOUTH POLICY.

A private letter from a prominent West
ern railroad man. discussing the business
situation, expresses the opinion that the
people have had enough of Democratic mis-
MANAGEMENT. Every State that brings in
a Republican majority from now on" says
and enable the farmers and merchants to
make plans for the future, which is some
thing we have not been able to do for the
past two years; we have simply lived from
hand to mouth" There are thousands of
business men and workingmen also who
will appreciate this statement. Everybody
knows what living from hand TO mouth
means. 1t means being in a state of uncer-
tainty and suspense. afraid to take any
risks or make any plans for the future.
providing only for immediate wants and
thankful to be able to do that. This has
been the condition of thousands of business
men and workingmen for more than a year
past. The effects of the threatened Demo-
cratic tariff reform policy began to be dis
counted very SCOH tue lhc I'll "a
1892, and from that time to the present
the business OF the country has been done
on a hand-to-mouth basis. Manufacturers
and workingmen, employers and employees,
capitalists and laborers, producers and con-
sumers, railroads, mills and mines. all
trades and all occupations, have been liv-
ing and doing business from hand TO mouth.
owing to the uncertainty OF business condi-
tons caused by Democratic threats and
agitation. And even now that a tariff law
has been passed under which there are
some signs OF a feeble revival OF business
the leaders of the party are threatening
further agitation and warfare on American
Industries. If the people are wise they
will elect a Republican Congress and put an
end to the policy that compels all business
to be done on a hand-to-mouth basis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-20
WHY WAUGH,s RESOLUTION WAS
STRANGLEDA

The letter Of Commissioner Lochren to a
postmaster, suggesting that he could safe
ly assail the Union pensioner and practi-
cally Inviting him TO do so, throws a food
of light upon matters which have hereto
fore been mysteries.
consideration. last December. in the House,
Representative Waugh, of this State. of
fered a resolution which, among other
things, provided that a pensioner who Is
required to make a new case or lose his
pension should. upon his request, be fur
nisned the names of those who made the
The Democratic House promptly referred
the Waugh resolution to the on
invalid pensions. of which Augustus n.
Martin. OF the Eleventh Indiana district. is
chairman: Fyan of Missouri. Hare OF Ohio,
McEttrick of Massachusetts,. Baldwin of
Minnesota, Graham of New York. McDan-
mold of Illinois. Erdman of Pennsylvania
and Fielder of New Jersey. are the Demo-
cratic members. The resolution was pig
eor-holed" by Chairman Martin and was
never called up before the full committee
for consideration.
Why was a resolution so important to
the pensioner-one which would insure
him against the envious and malignant
towards who write thousands of letters to
injure pensioners every year. which have
been worthless because they are anony-
mous-strangled by Chairman Martin or
on the committee? Simply because Hok
Smith and his Commissioners do not want
their system of espionage and footpadism
interfered with. Representative Martin was
the agent of the Pension Bureau in the
House, while George William Cooper was
its spokesman from the North, and the
malignant Enloe. of Tennessee, was the
bureaus 6efamer of pensioners from the
South-Cooper defending it in a speech in
the House which he withheld for correction
and has not yet returned for publication.
posed this fair proposition TO permit the
endangered pensioner to be confronted by
his accuser. They are opposed to it be-
cause they are intent on using men who
are eager to injure pensioners when they
can do SO under the promise of security.
And this Lochren letter to the Ohio post
master shows why Chairman Martin slip-
pressed the Waugh resolution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-20
THE USELESS REpREsENTATIvE.

Clifford avenue is one OF the prominent
streets which those who live along it for
the most part desired to have improved.
Few streets in the city are so much trav-
eled. and none is in a worse condition.
Steps were taken to have the Improvement
United States arsenal grounds face upon
Clifford avenue. and the cost of paving that
portion of the street would have been S.
600. The officer In charge of the arsenal
recommended an appropriation for the
work, as did his superiors. 1t was in the
estimates of the War Department and was
approved by Secretary Carlisle. When the
estimate reached the ways and means COM
mittee of the House il was stricken out-a
fact which was learned from Representa-
tive Bynum. Why did he not exert himself
to have the appropriation made? If he did,
and failed, was such a failure creditable
to a man who had already served four
terms in the House, and, therefore, should
have had influence with a committee con-
IIOltu Dy liz w party. III PAOpdCiAAIy
is that Mr.. Bynum did not put forth the
effort with the committee which other men,
bers do when a matter affecting a local in
terest is before it. The truth about Mr..
Bynum is that he has been so consumed
with the hallucination that he has been or
dained to walk the higher planes of states
manship'' that he has devoted all his en-
ergies TO the study of imported economic
theories and holds that it is beneath him to
exert himself in behalf of the interests of
his constituents. An ordinary man, as Mr..
Bynum would regard him., would have
worked upon the members of that commit
tee until a majority of them would have
left the estimate of the recommending Off
GERS in the appropriation bill; but Mr.. By
mum prefers to devote himself to such ridic-
ulous theories as that a reduction Of duties
and wages in this country will cause a rise
of wages in Europe. No wonder people ask:
What has Bynum done for the Seventh
district 3'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-20
A CLEVELAND DEPRESSION.

Among the few things which the Demo-
cratic stump speaker is insisting on 18th
great persistence is that the bushes and
Industrial depression is of Republican
origin. OF course, not even Governor Mat
thews attempts to give a logical reason
why a panic which comes nine months
after a general Democratic triumph can be
charged upon a Republican administration
whose years were years Of increasing and
permanent prosperity. In his message to
Congress in August. 1898. Mr.. Cleveland, in
speaking of the panic. said:
With plenteous crops. with abundant
promise of remunerative production and
manufactures, with unusual invitation TO
safe investment. and with satisfactory as
surance 10 business enterprise, suddenly
financial diStruSt and fear have sprung up
on every side
The New York Herald, which has never
been accused of friendliness for the Repub-
lican party, in an editorial in July, 1892, eX-
pressed the following opinion:
All the evidence at hand shows that this
is going to be a bad. sad year for the
calamity bowler: There VIII be
lence or bewail the country's universal and
exasperating prosperity. The bust
ness OF the country is in a provokingly
healthy and flourishing condition.
New industrial enterprises for manufacture
ing iron. cotton and wooden fabrics are go
ing into operation in various sections. and
while the margin of profit is small, bust
ness is on a solid foundation. The
country is so large and parties are so small.
compared with the influence of the CON-
mercial institutions OF the Nation, that the
success OF this party or the defeat Of that
one can no longer be regarded as a disaster
or a threat OF disaster to national pros
perity.
In this last opinion. designed to help Mr..
Cleveland, the Herald was wrong, but it
expresses the general sentiment of the
country regarding the condition of business.
All the trade journals during the summer
and fail OF 1892 expressed the same opinion,
not only regarding the unprecedented pros
perity Of the country, but the said founda-
ton upon which IL was based.
In view OF these opinions from non
Republican sources. let us assume that
President Cleveland was correct In the fore
going quotation. that suddenly" in june.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-20
A BROKEN

For many years past the Treasury De-
partment has been in the habit of issuing
an official document containing. with a va
riety of other statistics. a statement show
ing the annual receipts and expenditures
of the government during every year since
1856. The report for the last fiscal year,
ended June so. 1894. discloses the surpris-
ing fact that for the first time in twenty
seven years the expenditures OF the gov
eminent during that year exceeded the re-
ceipts. This has not happened before since
the last year of the war.
Examining the statement In detail, II is
found that the excess of revenue over ex-
penditure in the first year Of James Blu
chanan's administration namely, the fiscal
The next three years. being the last three
Of the Buchanan administration, show a
large annual excess of expenditures over
revenue. This was during a time of pro-
found peace and while the Democratic con-
spiracy against the government was being
Y orked up. Those who had control of gov
eminent affairs were too busy plotting the
dissolution of the Union to give much at
tention to the management of national
finances. When James Buchanan went out
of office the public treasury was empty
eminent had to pay Il per cent. a year for
a loan
The first five years after the Republican
party came into power. namely. from 1861
TO 1866. inclusive. we're years Of civil war,
and although the revenues of the govern
ment. as soon as the Republican financial
machinery got in working order. were
very large, the expenditures were still
larger. In each year from 1861 to 1865 there
was an excess of expenditures over rev.
enue. owing to the enormous outlay neces-
bellion. But the statement shows that the
first year after the close OF the war the
revenues exceeded the expenditures $751;
s.2os. and from that time till 1898. inclu-
sive. the balance was on the right side.
During this entire period. twenty-seven
years of which was under Republican rule.
and all OF it under Republican financial
legislation, the expenditures OF the gov
eminent never once exceeded the revenue.
At the same time the public debt was re-
duced from sa.ssl. $50. 2s5 in 1865 to s~5s5.o37.-
100 in 1893. the latter being Secretary Car
lisle.s figures
IL was reserved for a Democratic admin
istration TO break the splendid record of
twenty-seven years and compel the Amer
| lean people to contemplate the disagreesbIe
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-20
United

In Wales the workmen have agreed to
make fifteen or twenty sheets extra to each
box. which is a concession of Is per cent.
on the above wages. These facts. which APP
pear in the Pittsburg Dispatch, are ac-
companied by the statement that in the
larger mills the labor is reduced nearly one
fourth by improved machinery. Another
serious discrimination against the Pittsburg
plate manufacturer is by the railroads.
There is not a city in the interior, west of
Pittsburg, to which the American railroads
do not carry imported tin plate at a much
less rate than they carry the Pittsburg
product. Even to Cincinnati from New
York the foreign rate per box is nearly
4 cents less than that accorded to Pitts
burg. To most cities the discrimination in
favor of the foreign plate maker is not less
than 80 per cent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-20
CROWDS EVERYWHERE.
Harrison Welcomed by Thousands at
Warren. Button end Decatar.

The schedule only allowed a two-minute
stop at Warren, but General Harrison gave
the thousand or more people gathered there
the benefit OF all the time the men in charge
of the train would spare him. The country
people had come together in considerable
numbers for so small a place. and they gave
a royal welcome TO the party.
Bluffton, count seat of Wells, which has
been returning e Democratic majority as
far back almost as the memory OF man run
meth. turned out a crowd large enough to
justify a Republican majority next month.
The stand for speaking had been erected
In the courthouse yard about a mile from
the station. and considerable time was
taken in driving to and from. Blunton has
one of the most architectural courthouses
In the State, and the several thousand peo-
pie under the shadow OF the massive tower
that arises from one corner Of the building.
with the pretty flags fying from the stand.
made an attractive sight. Friday q great
many people came TO town from the coun-
try expecting to hear General Harrison, but
the postponement Of the trip on account Of
the funeral of a relative OF General Harrt-
sons had not been generally made known
and a good many went home disappointed.
The crowd would have been even larger
had II not been for this circumstance. Aft
er speaking for twenty minutes. during
which time there was marked attention. the
party was driven back 10 the station.
Fast time was made TO Decatur, the next
stop. for the train was forty-five minutes
behind the schedule.
AT Decatur two thousand people had
gathered on a large common near the rail-
road. and from a stand at one edge OF IL
the statesman spoke. dwelling on the causes
sAa
the results OF the nervous condition OF the
country on account OF the threats OF Dem
ocrats who had control OF both branches OF
Congress and the presidency. From De-
cstur to Fort Wayne the train came with
out a stop.
During the trip General Harrison spoke in
all to nearly thirty-iye thousand people. his
speeches making a total In time occupied Of
ever two hours.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-20

A leading express company has closed its
money and valuable package business in the
Indian Territory on account of the fire.
quency of train robberies, which they at
tribute to the negligence or incompetence
of the territorial authorities. AS it has
been but a few days since a train was
held up and robbed of a large sum almost
within sight of the Washington monument.
and but a little while since another train
was looted within a mile or two Of the
capital of California. this reflection on the
authorities of the Indian Territory seems
rather unjust. The fact is, recent expert
ence has shown that it is almost impossi-
BILE to guard against train robberies under
present conditions, and instead of trying
to throw the blame on local authorities
railroad and express companies should
adopt better means Of protection.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-20
MARION takes THE CAKE,
General Harrison Welcomed by 1O,-
. enthusiastic People.

Marion is an interesting field for the
study of tariff effects, ana when General
Harrison began his address on the tariff
there the Inhabitants were quite willing
and ready to take his statements for gos-
pei truth They had passed through the
fire of experience. and many of the glass
workers VINO had given little heed to the
warnings of Republican speakers. several
years ago were ready to admit that they
had taken TO a delusive idol--Democratic
tariff reform. During the period of pro-
lection the glass works had been running
on full time and the men had been making
good wages. But with the coming of Dem
ocratic -times-presto, change-and the de-
spair of hand-to-mouth living was upon
the people. During 1898. when the tariff
tinkers began their planning to tear down
the country. one thousand men probably
were idle during much of the year in Ma
rion. The manufacturers did not know
what to do. with all sorts of threats bud
ding in Congress, and they shut down half
OF the time. The present year showed no
Improvement, and when the Gorman-Brice
mongrel became a law wages were Topped
off 221s per cent. Even with this. employ
ment has been given men only at irregular
periods. Recently Senator Voorhees, spoke
at Marion and made the astounding state
ment that wages were just as good as they
had ever BEEN
How about our 22Is per cent. cut"
shouted a workman from the audience.
Il viii come 10 that presently" answered
the Tall Sycamore" He has not come to
it yet, for he finished his speech without
referring 10 the matter again. These are
the conditions General Harrison found when
he arrived in Marion yesterday, shortly
before l o'clock A COMPOSED
Of Judge T. ST. John, James Childs, w. Z.
Hogin, Austin DeiVolf. Capt. Albert Boley.
T.. r. Sanders and Fred Wilson accom-
panied the party from Kokomo TO Marion.
When within the suburbs of the seat OF
Grant county the whistles of the place set
up a salute.
The reception at Marion was one to bring
joy 10 the hearts of Republicans enthused
in the cause OF their party. 1t was a gala
day for the enterprising little manufacture
ing city. Two brass bands were at the
street crossing awaiting the train. together
with a lumber Of carriages. one with spot
less white horses for General Harrison and
ex-Mayor George Moore, who introduced
him to an audience CT ten thousand people
at the courthouse. "A thousand or more
about the steps of the car. walt
ing ID get a glimpse OF the eminent man.
/. and as he alighted one joyful colored man
grasped his hand and wrung il TO his hearts
content. A procession was formed, with a
brass band in the lead and the Stewart
Estep Glass company's workingmen as an
escort 10 the ex-President's carriage Ev-
erywner was TO be seen the significant
words. Twenty-Five and a half per cent.
off," and frequently the words went up as
a cry from some spectator. All the glass
workmen had little cards in their hats
with the legend that told OF the cut in
wages-a legend only as the word is used.
for the cut was a stern reality. There
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-20

OF the national ledger. History repeats
itself. and the disastrous record Of the
last year of Buchanan is duplicated in the
second year of Cleveland. In 1894. for the
first time since the war, the long line
which shows an annual excess of revenues
over expenditures is interrupted by a
blank, and there appears an entry of &c.,
500. 260 excess of expenditure over revenue.
The facts carry their own moral.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-20

The annual report of the COMMISSIONS
OF the General Lanu Office shows that al
though the public domain is nothing like as
extensive as formerly the government still
does a considerable land business. During
the fiscal year ended June 80, 1894. an ag-
gregate of 10, 4O6. 100 acres were disposed OF
for g, S2I. The sales and receipts were
considerably less than during the previous
year, owing TO the business depression. The
report shows a total of 6o6.0 i0. 313 acres Of
public land still open to entry in 25 differ
ent States and Territories. including all the
Western and Northwestern and several
Southern States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-20

The Democrats In New York city are
having a great deal OF trouble, n il is
Increasing as the days pass Upon his
nomination for Governor, Senator Hin be-
san TO make overtures to the ant-Tam-
many leaders. assuming that Tammany,
wksch really nominated him. would stand
by him in any event. As a condition of
supporting him. Mr.. Grace and the anti
Tammany leaders insisted that the ticket
they support for city and county onicials
shall be printed on the regular Democratic
ticket. the same as Tammany's- To this
the Tammany leaders nave taken excep-
didate for Mayor. seeing tina be was not
% have Whatever prestige there : in hnv-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-20
From the way the Democrats are pouring

From the way the Democrats are pouring
money and speakers into Chairman Will
sons district they are evidently alarmed.
They have reason to be. Mr.. Wilson's plu-
years ago was only 1857. and he had bare
ly a majority Of all the votes cast. If the
percentage OF Republican gains in the dis
trict Is anything like as great as it has
been in other States that have voted Mr..
Wilson viii be Ndefeated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-20

Chairman Gowdy, of the Republican State
committee, received a letter from a bust
ness man in this city in response to a re-
quest for a contribution for campaign pur-
poses. in which the writer says:
Please accept this comparatively small
contribution TO the campaign fund. If the
last eighteen months of Democracy had not
ruined a SIS, 600 business for me and left ii
in nearly the condition 1t was when 1 took
hold of it you would receive something a
great deal larger in the way of a contribu-
ton from me. l note what you say about
placing whatever / give to my credit on
your books. Instead of that just put it
down. please, from an lawfully sore Re-
publican"
The writer Of the above letter is not in
politics. but a young man who took up an
enterprise useful to the business of the city,
which prospered by energetic management
while business was good, but which has
been set back by the Democratic paralysis,
Scores of business men in indianapolis
could give similar experiences.