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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-05-26
They Scored Willie.

The best people of Lexington and
Fayette county, Ky, including sever.
al hundred ladies, turned out few
days ago to the anti Breckenridge
meeting at the opera house. The
opera house was filed and five hun.
dred people were turned away. Res
olutions were adopted denouncing
Breckinridges morals and calling
on the people of the district to vote
against the silver tongued persua
der. When Harry c. Clay offered a
resolution denouncing Breckenridge S
morals and asking that Senator j.
C. S. Blackburn be asked to come
home and speak against Breckin
ridge, the audience went wild.
Resolutions by the women of Lex
ington and Fayette county which
briefly referred to the ex-star's
crimes and bitterly protested against
his reelection as a disgrace to their
sex, went through with a whirl
Resolutions passed by the men
were similar.
The women's resolution were as
follows:
Whereas, w. c. p. Breckenridge
has announced himself candidate
for re election to congress from Ash
land district, Notwithstanding his
confession under oath of fragrant
and habitual RIGHTEOUSNESS and hy-
pocrisy; therefore,
Resolved, First, that we, women
of Lexington and Fayette county,
Ky, do solemnly protest against bis
denomination as the representative
of this district.
Second-We believe that such an
Endorsement of w. C. P. Breckln-
ridge at the polls would be dis
grace to Kentucky, a shame upon
manhood, an insult to womanhood,
a sinful example to youth and a
menace to both society and the
home
Third-We earnestly implore our
fathers, husbands and brothers
to wipe out the stain that w. G. p.
Breckenridge has brought on the
fair fame of the Ashland district.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-05-26
A Very Expensive War.

The Atlanta Constitution says
The civil war cost the north $1,000
100000. The pensions since have
amounted to 81, 500,000,000.
But this is not all. At the pres
ent time, nearly thirty years after
the close of the war, 100000 more
persons are drawing pensions tha n
there were union troops in the field
at any single time during the strug-
gle, and 100000 applications remain
to be acted upon. Already, our pen
sion expenses exceed those of all the
nations of the earth
Where will it end2 What will the
war between the states finally cost
us?
In 1861 the total value of all the
property in the states that seeded
was $5,00O,0O0,O00. The New Or
leans Picayune suggests that in view
of the enormous expense of the war
it would have been more economical
if the north and south had settled
their differences ON cash basis. 1t
would have saved billions of dollars
and hundreds of thousands of lives
if the north had secured the emancs
patton of the slaves by paying full
price for the entire 1000, 900 of them.
When We get through paying for
it history will record the fact that
our civil war was the most expensive
conflict in ancient or modern times
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-05-26

The following Bulletin has been
sent out by the U. S. Department of
Agriculture relative to crops in West
Virginia, and covering the week end
ing May l4th:
General Summary-The week was
characterized by warm, sunshiny
days and cool nights, with a tenden-
cy towards droughty conditions. but
the weather was generally favorable.
Ground becoming dry, good rain
is needed, especially on uplands,
where vegetation is nearly at stand
still. While the nights were a little
too cool for corn yet oats, grass,
wheat and potatoes derived some
benefit therefrom. The excess in
sunshine was especially beneficial to
corn, wheat and gardens The dam
age caused by the storm on the af-
ternoon of 9th instant was greater
than at first estimated; grain, vege-
tables and fruits we're much injured
in some parts of the State by the
heavy local rains, hail and heavy
wind accompanying the storm. Light
frosts occurred in some districts on
the sth, did no damage. Light local
showers occurred on the 10th and
18th. Farm work is well advanced
although the season Is late. Sheep
being sheared.
Cereals and Grasses-W Wheat be.
ginning to head and is looking fine,
even better than at this time last
year. Weather too dry for oats, crop
not very satisfactory as to progress,
seeding completed. Corn is looking
well and is being cultivated where
up, planting is about completed in
most localities, in Others half done.
Cut worms damaging corn on sod
land Pastures and meadows doing
fairly well, stock on pastures. Rye
progresses nicely. Glover not look
ing as well as it might
Vegetables-Garden truck made a
good growth during the week but is
late, cut worms in some gardens.
Potatoes up and large enough to
work; bugs plenty, long, slim fly
is also doing some injury.
Fruits-Apples dropping badly,
also bloom on pears, plums and
peaches. Cherries still promise fair
crop, also berries; the latter in some
districts, promise a large yield.
White worms with black heads, work
ing on apples and on the limbs of
the trees. Small green worms o.
grapes are cutting off the ends of
vines.
Parkersburg, West Virginia, May
14th, 1894.
H. w. RICHARDSON.
Observer, Weather Bureau, Director.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-05-26
SHOULD COLLEGIANS WEDl
4 Number of Problems for the Matri-
monial Reformers to Solve.
New York Tribune


While a society for the reform of
husbands is here urgently proposed,
and its need maintained by so re
speeted an authority as DR.. William
Draper, who asserts that the prevail
ing cause of domestic inquietude is
the indispensable egotism and self
ishness of the men, an intercollegiate
matrimonial bureau is quite as ser
iously urged among the students of
both sexes at the various seats of
learning. the general idea being that
highly educated people ought to
marry each other and hang up their
two academic diplomas together over
the marriage certificate. The plan
seems a good one, but has not yet
gone through its trial. II it turn
out well, and collegians continue to
espouse each other as the generations
advance, they will, perhaps, come to
be born learned, and to know Greek
and the mathematics by instinct or
accumulated heredity, as Darwin de
clares that the inferior animals in
herit the developed aptitudes oftheir
ancestry.
However this may be, the founda-
ton of the society, if it be founded,
will be of interest hey ond the schools
and every body will be curious about
its institutes and ordinances. Who
are to make the first conjugal ad-
vances, the girls or the boys? And
is the advance to be of a public and
official or private and individual
character? Many butterny and
honey bee Of conjecture hoyers about
this radiant aud fragrant flower of
promise, or breach of promise. but
it is useless To consider the subject
further until the constitution of the
society has been made public and
its precise aim and scope revealed.
If any husbands result from it, it is
to be hoped that they may not be of
the kind that DR.. Draper spoke of,
and for the abatement of whom the
reform association was founded.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-05-26
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THE GRAND ARMY MEETING.
Over $4,000 Veterans TO Parade at
Pittsburg September 1Ith next.

PIrTsBURG, Pa, May l4-Estima
ting with the Posts already heard
from as basis, it is considered Ger
tain that over $4,000 veterans of the
Grand Army Of the Republic will pa
fade at Pittshurg September 18th
next, during the 2sth National En-
campment. Pennsylvania will have
fully $4,000 in line, Ohio 6,000 to
1000, New York 1000 to $500, and
other States will be represented in
proportion Pittsburg and Allie
ghcny county will alone have be
tween 1000 and 5000 Free quar-
tiers have already been assigned for
over II 900 comrades, most of whom
are coming from far distant points,
and yet the encampment is four
months away. There will be 1000
mounted men in the procession, which
is expected to consume over eight
hours in passing a given point. The
decorations and Examinations will
be on scale of magnifcence never
before known in Western Pennsyl-
vania.
Letters received indicate that
there will be remarkable reunion
of veterans who have gone out into
the world from Pennsylvania, Eas-
tern Ohio, West Virginia and Mary
land, afording an opportunity for
the meeting of friends who have been
separated anywhere from a decade
to a generation past.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-05-26

Observer, Weather Bureau, Direeto
State News.

George Blackmore, who shot and
killed his father at their home in
Wheeling, to save his mother from
the brutality of the man he killed,
was discharged, at the hearing held
last week, on the ground that the
shooting was justifiable.
Russell p Hanna, a prominent
citizen and furniture dealer of
Charleston, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head
with revolver. In note left for
his brother he said: "Only do me
justice. Don't put this on whisky
or women" No cause is known for
his act
A young man named Tommy Shee-
dion, tailor by trade, was accident
ly drowned few days ago near Sis.
terviIle,
He was in bathing in Middle Is
land creek and it is supposed caught
the cramps. Several of his friends
tried hard to save him but could do
nothing and the young man drowned
in sight of a dozen of his friends.
Sheedion conducted tailoring es
Enlistment at Sistervile. He was
formerly of Bradford, Pa.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-05-26
Free Trade Converts.

Recent events in this country,
with present conditions in the sen
ate at Washington, have made many
radical converts to tariff reform, or
free trade, whichever you please to
call it. The Coxey armies, with their
demands for work, wages and boun-
ties, 1t is seen are the legitimate and
logical following of those other ar.
mics, representing trusts and mono
poles, that made their way to Wash
ington, generally in Pullman palace
cars, and succeeding in writing their
demands in the tariff laws, from that
of 1864 to the Mckinley law of 1890.
That got what they went after. They
demanded that the taxing power Of
the government should be used for
their individual interests, and the
demand was conceded.
The people know that they voted
by overwhelming majority in 1890
and 1892 for tariff reform. The OBJ
stacles presented to the fulfillment
of the pledges then made-the weak
ness and corruption of congressman,
and especially Of senators-the lob
bying now going on at the capital
the obstruction and filibustering of
Republican senators, and the al
legged treachery ofDemocrats-afford
the most convincing proof of the in
herent rottenness of McKinleyism,
and of the dishonest methods neces-
sary to perpetuate the reign of trusts
and combines in the making of our
tariff laws.
Governor Tilden, when he was
waging his great battle for admins
trative reform in 1876, said that so
entrenched had the spoilers become
in the machinery of government it
would take a two-thirds majority of
the American people to resist their
Establishments and overthrow their
power, so as to secure any radical
measure of reform. 1t looks as if
this also held good as to tariff re-
form. There was no question what
the election of 1892 meant, when
Cleveland was victorious. Politi-
clans and manufacturers were agreed
there was to be radical redress of
the abuses and extortions of our tax
ing system, miscalled protection.
The fact Of delay, and possible fail
ure, demonstrates the power of the
trusts and combines the government
has fostered. The battle is not lost.
but it is harder one than was ever
dreamed of when the people were
shouting over their victory at the
polls. They will get there and in
force some time, and then woe to the
spoilers. AS Judge Black said to
the 8to7 electoral commission,
Justice travels with leaden heel,
but strikes with an iron hand" So
it will be on the tariff,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-05-26
A Tariff Reformer.

At the recent celebration of Gen
eral Grants birthday at Pittsburg
and other places the McKinleyites
had lots to say in praise of McKin-
leyism and in criticism of the Will
son bill. Possibly the orators of the
occasion had forgotten certain mem
orable words by General Grant with
reference to tariff duties and taxa
ton. Possibly they had forgotten
the following declarations in one of
his annual messages to congress
concerning what should go upon the
free list:
II will instance fine woods, dyes,
etc. These articles must be import
ed to form part of the manufacture
ofthe higher grades of wooden goods.
Chemicals used as dyes, compound
ed in medicines and used IN various
ways in manufacturing, come under
this class. The introduction, free of
duty, Of such woods as we do not pro
duce would stimulate the manufact-
ure of goods requiring the use of
those we do produce, and therefore
would be benefit to home produc-
ton"
Nowadays such talk is regarded
by the McKinleyites as treason to
Republicanism. In recent years the
political shepherds of Ohio have
made ringing denunciation of the
suggestion that woods of any sort
should go upon the free list-a sug-
gestion prompted, they assert, by
infidelity to American interest and
American institutions. In another
message to congress General Grant
went even farther. Hear him:
MANY duties now collected, and
which give but an insignificant re-
turn for the cost of collection, might
be RENTED, and to the direct advan-
tagc of consumers at home. | would
mention those articles which enter
into manufactures of all sorts. All
duty paid upon such articles goes
directly to the cost of the article
when manufactured here, and must
be paid for by the consumer. These
duties not only come from the con
sumers at honey but act as pro-
lection to foreign manufacturers of
the same completed articles in our
own and distant markets"
For similar utterances, President
Cleveland has been branded by the
MeKinleyites as working hand in
hand with foreigners and plotting
the destruction of American indus
tries. And the McKinleyites actu-
ally pervert the celebration of Gen
eral Grants birthday into day for
the propagation of the doctrine that
the tariff is not tax, and that tar
if duties are paid by foreigners and
not by consumers at home!.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-05-26
Helping A Highwayman.


There is a highwayman," says a
Washington dispatch, manned I'm
certainty who is holding up the bus
mess men of the country, and he is
the most dread highwayman of all.
Anything in bushes is better than
uncertainty. When man cannot 90
backward or forward, when he does
not know to day under what condi-
tions he will have to work to morrow
he is infinitely worse off than if he
knows his business could not pros
per and that he would have to close
it out. There is undoubtedly wide
spread business stagnation, and
there will undoubtedly be a wide
spread political condemnation of this
condition"
And all the condemnation must
fall upon the Republican Senators
who are backing up this highway
robber in his business and helping
him to do his holding up.
But for notwithstanding and OBJ
struction of the Republican Sena-
tors the tariff bill would long ere
this have been law and the bust
ness OF the country would have been
restored to its normal condition.
The people Of the country know it
and the prediction quoted above,
that there will be widespread polit-
zeal condemnation of the party which
brought this condition about, will
certainly be verified, but the Demo.
Gratis will not suffer for it. They
have tariff bill which they are
ready at any time to vote upon. The
Republicans say they cannot pass it.
BE that as it may, they are ready to
vote and as soon as q vote is taken,
no matter how it results, uncertain
ty will cease. For keeping the
country in suspense, continuing the
stagnation that prevails in business
and preventing the return of pros
perity the Republican party, and it
alone, is TO blame
The Democrats are doing all they
can to settle the tariff agitation an d
settle it properly. The Republicans
are using every effort, and success
fully, too, to keep the country in
suspense, = Register.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-05-26
Sixty Million Bushels of Wheat-A
Bushel for Every Inhabitant of the
United States. The Kansas Crop of

Never in the history of Kansas has
that state had such bountiful crops as
this year. The farmers cannot get
enough hands to harvest the great
crop, and the Santa Fe Railroad has
made special rates from Kansas City
and other Missouri River towns, to
induce harvest hands to go into the
state. The wheat crop of the state
will be from sixty to siXty-fve million
bushels, and the quality is high.
The grass crop is made, and is very
large one; the. early potatoes, rye,
barley and oats crops are made, and
are all large. The weather has been
propitious for corn, and it is the
cleanest, best looking corn to be found
in the country today. Cheap rates
will be made from Chicago, st.
Louis and all points on the Santa Fe
east of the Missouri River, to all Kan
sas points, on August 80 and Septem-
Der 81, and these excursions will give
a chance for eastern farmers to see
what the great Sunfower State can do.
A good map of Kansas will be mailed
free upon application to Jno. j. Byrne,
1913 Monadnock Block, Chicago, H.,
together with reliable statistics and
information about Kansas land.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-05-26
The Collapse of Mrs. Lease.

Mrs. Mary Lease, the Populist
leader of Kansas, is a strong minded
woman, and she has proved her cour-
age in many a bitter political cam
paign.
But there are limits to human en-
duranee, and Mrs. Lease has broken
down at last. She is in state of
complete collapse. 1t seems that she
recently received letter from a
Minnesota crank who said that it
was his divine mission to kill her.
The fact that the man had sent SO
to the Wichita chief of police to pur-
chase wreath for her coffin, pro
foundly impressed her; and strong
minded and brave as she is. she has
since been in hourly dread of visit
from her enemy. She is afraid that
the fellow will in some way Slip into
her house at night and murder her
in her sleep.
Tormented by such apprehensions
the leader of the Populist crusade
now lies groaning and tossing on
sick bed, and unless something is
done to convince her that her life is
not in danger she may be driven to
insanity.
Strong men have been terrorized
in a similar fashion, and it is not
surprising that a woman should be
overcome by mysterious threats from
an unknown source. 1t would make
almost anybody uneasy to be threat
ened with assassination by an an
onymous crank, especially when as
an evidence of his determination he
puts up his money to buy funeral
decorations.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-05-26
Over Crowded Professions.

The young men who contemplate
entering upon a professional life be-
cause it seems to offer large returns
and plenty of leisure, will find much
food for thought in the following ar
ticle from the Pittsburg Dispatch.
"ln discussing the claim for eonsid-
Grafton of the professional unemploy-
ed some of our contemporaries notice
the assertion that there are over four
hundred competent journalists now
on the payements Of Paris, and as
sert there is dreadful similarity in
the number of the same calling &C
tually on the streets of New York.
This is in illustration of the gener-
al assertion that there are innrmera-
BILE lawyers, doctors, architects and
other professional men who cannot
find employment. The assertion is
advanced with an apparent idea
that the dissatisfaction of working
men at their lack of employment is
unreasonable
The deduction is false one in the
first place, and, in the second place,
the assertion is far from being true.
We no not believe that are so many
competent journalists out of employ
ment in Paris; we know there is no
such proportion in this country
There may be great many men who
imagine they are competent journal
lists, aud are not, and, perhaps, an
equal number of men of good abili-
ties whose habits are so unreliable
that they throw away their chances.
But we hazard the assertion that
even at the present time thorough
ly competent, reliable newspaper
man will, in nine cases out of ten, be
able to find steady newspaper en-
ployment within thirty days of com
mencing vigorous search for it. A
very good reason for thinking so is
that in a comparatively recent time
six newspaper workers of varying
degrees of ability, but all of them re
liable men, have gone from Pittsburg
to the Eastern cities, most of them
to New York and have all found EN-.
ployment.
1t is probably indisputable that
the legal and medical professions
are overcrowded In the former.
even an industrious and able Young
lawyer is liable to spend years of
subsistence on clerkships and chance
notarys fees before he can command
and regular practice. But in all
these professions the great mass of
the overeroa ding is composed of
those who adopt them with the idea
that they afford an easier way of
getting living than productive la
Dor. Those who select profession
from motives of Incidence have no
ground for complaint if their purpose
is attained to degree surprising
their desires in that the leisure thus
obtained affords no subsistence.
When an industrial condition pre-
walls in which those who are desir
Gus OF laboring in the great produc
tive industries cannot find employ
ment it is evidence of something alb
normal. But that conclusion does
not follow in the case of overcrowd
ed profession which are overcrowed
because to many shortsig hted youths
appear to promise life of eIe
CANT leisure"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-05-26
Don't Break Ranks.

A disguised voter, who signs him.
self IAN ExDemocrat," writes The
World that in his opinion the perfor-
nance of certain Democratic Sena-
tors in connection with the Tariff
bill is enough to make an honest
man who voted the straight Demo
cratic ticket feel ashamed of himself
for having done so, and adds that be
himself will never vote that way
again.
We can understand the state of
mind OF our correspondent and even
sympathize with him, but, all the
same, this is foolish talk. Admit.
ing that the present Democratic Sen
ate is as frying pan for honest
tariff-reformers, what can they gain
by jumping into the fire? Perhaps
our exasperated friend, who now
thinks he is an ex Democrat, has an
idea that he will be a Republican.
Does tariff reform lie that that wav?
Suppose it be conceded that a few
unfaithful Democrats have BETRAYED
the Wilson bill to the Protectionists
and disappointed the masses of the
Democratic party. Is that any rea-
son Why genuine Democrats should
deny the faith and forsake the only
political organization that is com.
mitted to tariff reform and through
which only, under existing condi.
tions it can be secured?
This is not the first time in the
worlds history that good cause has
been set back by the weakness and
corruption of men chosen to advance
1t. Nor will it be the last. The
present crisis is grave and the craven
way in which it is being met is dis
couraging. But there is no reason
why Democrats should give up in
despair. On the contrary, there is
every reason why they should stand
firm.
Even if the battle of reform has
to he fought over again, the fact that
1t was twice won 80 thoroughly he
fore the people is full of encourage
ment. If necessary it can be won
over again, even though one incident
OF The fight be the sending of re-
creants to the rear. Democrats
should close up their ranks and con
front with undaunted spirit the old
foe and all his fresh allies World.