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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10
The Democratic Party's Failure.

The final and utter collapse of the
democratic party in the presence Of the
grandest opportunities that ever came
to any political party in the history of
this nation is simply marvellous. No
party ever made greater promises, ever
had greater opportunities, or made a
more signal failure. Under the leader
ship of Grover Cleveland, who was
worshiped as party idol-raised to a
pedestal higher than his party, the
party has gone down in ignominy and
its strongest partisans scarcely have
the courage to defend it. Cleveland's
second administration has been char
acterized with stupendous incapacity
in every department of government.
The Fifty-third congress-which he
had on his hands, and the policy of
which he nodded with his own sweet
will, has already gone down in history
as the most venal and corrupt that has
ever assembled in our history. His
cabinet selections were either nobodies
or men plastic in his hands, the men,
bers of which might have been fourth
class department clerks for all the in
f1uence they seem to have with the
executive. The picture is not one for
partisan exultation. 1t is too serious
for that. There is a point at which
partisanism ends and patriotism be-
gins. While partisan zeal may prompt
a strong opposition there is naught but
humiliation in the hearts of all true
patriots when they see a party sink so
low and prove itself so hopelessly in
capable as the democratic party has
shown itself to be in the two years of
the present administration. All this
after thirty-three years of promises,
All this with an overwhelming ma
iority in congress backed by an execu-
tor of the party's choice! All this after
the most withering rebuke ever ad-
ministered to any party was given to
the republicans in 1892! What can the
rank and file in the democratic party
expect in the future by remaining in it?
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GOLD, SILVER OR PAPER.

Money is value created by law
Cernushi.
A legal-tender function is a better
basis for money than a specie basis.
Benjamin Franklin.
Gold and silver, constantly varying
In their own value, can never be made
a measure of the value of other things.
Adam Smith.
The theory of intrinsic value for
money has been abandoned by the best
writer's and thinkers. Coin is not a
safe basis for money-the base is too
small.-Encyclopaedia Britannica.
A shrinkage in the volume of cur
rency has caused more misery than
war, famine, and pestilence, and more
injustice than all the other bad laws
ever enacted.-United States Monetary
Commission.
[ wish all money of the nation
whether gold, silver, copper, or paper,
was issued by the government and
based not on the coin or other money,
but upon the credit and resources Of
the country.-Andrew Jackson.
l find that gold fiuctuated so per
cent during a single year of the late
war, while the greatest fiuctuation of
the greenbacks in any one year, as
measured by the same standard, was
only 91A per cent.-The Hon. Amasa
Walker.
There is plenty of evidence to prove
that on incontrovertible legal-tender
paper, if limited in quantity, can re-
tain it's full value, but there is abun-
dance of evidence to prove that gold
has undergone extensive changes
From 1909 to 1S49 it rose in value 145
per cent.-Prof. Jevons of Owens Uni
versity, England.
The entire amount of coin in the
country, including that in private
hands as we'll as that in banking insti-
tutiOns, was insufficient to supply the
needs of the government for three
months had it been poured into the
treasury. Foreign credit we had none
United States Supreme Court Deci-
sion, IL Wallace, page $40. (This was
reference to the war period)
Then, too, I would change the form
of these notes so that instead of being
technically, or in form, promise they
should have stamped upon them the
denomination, as gold and silver have,
beingto allintents and purposes money
and not a promise to pay in something
of no greater legal value.-Senator
Wright.
When it was once understood that
gold and silver are not wealth, but only
representatives of wealth, and that
money is of no value to nation except
to circulate its riches, all the old no.
tions of the supreme Importance of the
precious metals fell to the ground
Buckley's History of Civilization.
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How Do You Vote?

Do you think that our revolutionary
fathers would have gained justice al
the hands of King George III. and his
mobiles if they had sat down and waited.
instead of agitating and organizing?
Do you think they would have made
any headway by voting and fighting for
men who believed in kingship? Not
much. 1t took lots of agitation to
arouse the sluggards among them, but
it did not take q tenth as much blood
shed by British hirelings as has al
ready been shed by monopoly hirelings
in the United States of Monopoly. So
long as men will vote for parties that
protect monopolies by law, so long will
the distress and horrors now prevail
ing continue. There can be no other
result. Every vote cast for the old
parties is vote to place the officers,
militia, army and navy at the disposal
of corporations to shoot down Ameri-
can workers who have been starved
into violence. To support the old
parties has just the same effect as the
support the tories gave King George Ill
Are you, a workingman, wise to sup
port those who live in kingly splendor
OF your toil?-Coming Nation.
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All for Creditors and Bondholders

The money question is the great
question under the present financial
system of IL government. The con-
traction of the currency brought with
it, by a law as inf1exible as gravita,
ton, falling prices. Low prices is an
other name for dear MOI ~ Debts
contracted when wheat was $1.50 have
to be paid when wheat brings only
30 cents-that is, the debtor, in addi-
tion to the interest, pays in labor and
its products three times as much as he
borrowed. Under such conditions the
power to purchase grows less and less.
The wheels Of industry are stopped.
Manufacturers have no market for
their goods. And men raise the cry
OF overproduction, when there are mil
lions of people in sore want of the very
articles these manufacturers would like
to sell, but which they (the producers
OF the country have no money to buy.
When the factories close then the
wages of the workmen stop and their
purchasing power comes to an end
also. But the bondholders of the
world collect their interest Is, 10. 20.
80 per cent, and when the interest is
not paid they take the property for
the debt.-The Age.
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LATE NEWS By WIRE.
Items of General Interest From An Over
the Universe.

Fredericksburg, Va. April 5.-Charles A.
Morgan, the Acquia creek train robber,
has been granted q further suspension
of the execution of his sentence.
West Palm, Fla, April 5.-A telegram
from Punta Rassa says the sloop Crusoe
with the Seigler party, arrived there at
6 o'clock this morning. all on board being
safe.
Dutch Flat, Cal. April Sat midnight
last night seven Chinese entered the store
of Yee Sang & Co., and after tying and
gagging three employees, opened the safe
and captured $1,7O0.
San Jose. CAL. April 5.-Deciduous
fruits were badly damaged by the effects
of last nights frost which was general
throughout the Santa Clara valley. April
cots are decidedly injured and some
peaches are killed, but prunes are unhurt
Salt Lake. Utah, April 5.-A report is
received here that J: H. Ericsson. prospect
rich vein of gold. About two feet of the
vein assays $3.50 to the ton, while six
inches of the vein runs over $4,000 per
ton.
here from Cuba announces that band
of 700 rebels, which has appeared in the
center of the Island, attempted to attack
the Spanish troops stationed on the south
coast. in order to cover the landing of
Maxine Gomez, who's said to be coming
south to Cuba from Hayti.
Los Angeles. Cal, April 5.-A well dress
ed man, half intoxicated, asked to be
locked up al the police station last night,
giving the name of James Bond. This
morning he died of appoplexy. Letters
found on his persons indicate that he
came from Colorado and that his name
was w. J. Noble.
Salt Lake, Utah, April 5.-The sixty
fifth annual conference of the Mormon
church convened in the tabernacle today.
There was a large number of represent
atives from every department OF the
church throughout the Mormon settle
ments in Arizona, Wyoming. Idaho, Col
orado, Nevada. Montana, Utah, New Mex
leo and Mexico.
Pueblo Colo, April Sin the federal
court today the jury in the case of N
II. Harbrough against United States Mar
shall J. A. Israel. brought in verdict
for the defendant. Harbrough was ar
rested during the American Railway
Union strike last July for abusing the Of
ficers and refusing to leave the prop
erty of the Union Pacific, Denver and
Gulf railroad.
Denver. Colo, April 5.-Delegates from
thirty prominent literary clubs in various
cities of Colorado. gathered here today
to form state federation, to be added
to the General Federation of Women 3
clubs. which now has members in Maine,
Massachusetts, Iowa, Illinois Ohio, Ken
lucky, New Jersey, New York, Nebraska
and Utah. Mrs. f. NJ. Ashley was elect
ed president of the Colorado federation.
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Twenty-seven Cents a Dav.

A commission composed of Murray
Shipley, chairman, Cincinnati chamber
of commerce; w. j. Atkins, for Cleve-
land chamber of commerce; J. F. OgIe-
vie, for Columbus chamber of COM
merce; w. H. Porter, for Toledo cham
Der of commerce, has been investigat-
ing the condition of the coad miners in
the Hooking Valley (Ohio) district and
in recent report to Gov. Mckinley
declare that the average wages of these
coal miners is 27 cents a day!
Mind You, this does not come from
calamity-howling Populists, but from
representatives sent out by the cham
bers of commerce in the leading cities
of Ohio. 1t -noElikely that this COM
mission has reported the condition of
the miners any worse than really ex-
lists and, therefore must conclude that
the report is true.
Think of it! Twenty-seven cents a
day! The magnificent sum of $1.62 a
week! A princely income of $S4.24 a
year! Support family on this! Think
of the luxuries family can indulge on
an income of such magnitude
Seriously, friends, what do you think
of this? Is it not astounding to think
of such conditions being imposed upon
workingmen in free America? We
say imposed, for it is the avarice and
greed of the coal operators that force
these men to work for worse than star
vation wages.
If this ~oS an isolated case some
excuse might be found for it. but labor
all over this country is gradually be-
ing pressed to that point The cupid
ity of the capitalistic classes on the
one hand and the stupidity of the
masses on the other are making such
conditions possible.
Oh,why will not laboring men arouse
from their lethargy and shake of this
incubus Of capitalism? Why be slaves
when they can so easily be freemen? ?
Why do millions drink the bitter dregs
Of poverty, misery, sorrow, and woe
when they only to be men-brave,
courageous men-to throw it all on?
Such conditions are the results of
wrong voting and in no other way can
they be removed except by right vot-
ing. So long as laboring men vote for
candidates and measures suggested by
capitalists so long will labor be in the
tolls, as now.
We have been voted into these anom-
alous conditions and the ballot is the
only peaceful remedy to lead the peo-
pie out.
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FIFTEEN CARS PILED UP.
Four Killed and Fourteen Wounded In a
Smash-Up in Illinois.

SmaSh-Up In Illinois.
Alton, Ills, April 5.-A fearful wreck
occurred this morning at Wood river
bridge, on the Chicago and Alton cut off
about a half mile north ofEast Alton.
A long heavy freight train was coming
down grade when the middle of the
train bulged out and fifteen cars were
piled up on top of each other. Four
men were killed outright and two fatal
ly injured. None of them are known,
but are supposed to be tramps who
We're stealing a ride. The injured
men were brought to a hospital in this
city. An inquest over the remains of
the dead Is now being held at East
Alton. The wreck was caused by the
train being too heavily loaded behind,
and when the brakes were put on the
front cars, the weight behind was
thrown on to a fiat car in the middle
of the train, crushing it to atoms and
wrecking the other cars.
OF the four killed those who have been
identified are David Heffiey of Water
town. Wis, and Frank Hareman of
Philadelphia. Fourteen were injured
more or less seriously. The train
wrecked was a south-bound freight.
All who were killed or injured were
tramps. Among the injured was VIM
fred Garrison.
tramps, most of whom had just quit
work on the drainage canal near Chi
cago. The accident occurred on Wood
river bridge seventy-five feet above the
water. There is a down grade there
and the engineer applied brakes to the
front cars as is customary. In the mid
die of the train was an empty fiat car
and back of this a number of heavily
laden box cars. When the air was ap-
piled, the heavy cars forced the tlat
car off the track, and in an instant
fourteen cars went over the bridge.
The scene following was one OF heart
rending distress. 1t was yet dark and
chaos reigned. The injured were
brought to hospitals here.
Alton, ILL.,, April 5.-Two unknown
killed in the Wood River wreck were
tonight identified as Charles Bell of
Springfield and Henry Blitz of New
Orleans
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A BLACKMAILING SCHEME.
What a Great Democratic Paper Sa ,
of the Bond SwindIe.

What a Great Democratic Paper Sa y
of the Bond SwindIe.
We presume that the cuckoos who,
against their own convictions, may feel
themselves compelled to defend Mr..
Cleveland's gold bond scheme, will
claim that if the scheme had been in
dorsed by congress, it would have re-
suited in a saving to the people of
$16,O0O,000 during the next thirty years.
The answer to this is that the whole
scheme, in its intention and concep-
ton, was in the nature of blackmail-
ing operation in the interest of the ele-
ment that is growing rich out of the
increased purchasing power that the
single gold standard is comforting on
the money they are boarding. The
representatives of the people refused to
permit their constituents to be black
mailed, and that Is the end of the mat
ter so far as this congress is concerned.
The alternative proposed to congress
by Mr.. Cleveland may be very simply
stated. In effect he said: You gentle
men seem to be opposed to the single
gold standard. Very well. If you don't
accept it for at least thirty years, l
propose to levy an additional tax of
$16,OO0,000 on the people that they
would not have to pay if you would ac-
cept gold monometallism for thirty
years."
That was the ultimatum, and if con-
gress had accepted it, that body would
have gone down to history as the most
Infamous assembly of representatives
that ever pretended to represent the
people.
To save $4,000 900 in the course of
thirty years, the peoples representa-
tives were asked to indorse a scheme
that would have tied the country to
gold monometallism. The country has
already lost untold billions by the op-
erations of this system, and while $16,-
100000 might have been saved by &C
cepting the blackmailing conditions
proposed to congress, the people would
have lost billions in the further shrink
age of values and prices and in the
general depression of business occa-
stoned by making gold the only unit of
account and measure of value.
The Constitution regrets that there
was even one Georgia congressman
ready to indorse this scandalous propo-
sition, and, at the same time, thanks
heaven that there was only one. With
the sole exception of Mr.. Turner the
representatives of the people of Georgia
in congress stood by the interests of
their constituents and by the prin-
ciples of their party. This fact shows
that all the efforts that have been made
to induce Georgia's representatives to
indorse the financial views of John
Sherman and the republicans, have
been futile.=Atlanta Constitution
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Roth ren the rrntA

Scratch a democratic Office holder
and you scratch a monopoly tool;
scratch a republican Office holder and
you scratch a monopoly pimp. The
people argue of the merits of the
two factions when the republicans de-
nounce the democrats as liars and
thieves and when democrats denounce
the republicans as thieves and liars
and both sides telling the TRUTH
Free Trader.
That's right brother, and there is no
notes there, either. Nothing but great
big beams that stick out so plain that
the way-faring man, though a fool,
may not err therein. -~he two old par
ties are hotbeds of corr option and every
vote for them helps to warm the hotbed
and propagate more corruption.
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manded the closest attention Of the gener-
ally boisterous House Of Representatives
and won applause from millions Of people
in all parts of the country.
He declined to run for reelection as
Congressman, but over 50 900 voters of Ne
braska declared their preference for him
as United States senator in the election Of
1894. As the legislature was, however,
Overwhelmingly republican, the big vote
was only an empty honor.
He does not, however, entirely retire
from public Life in leaving Office, as he has
become editor-in-chief of the Omaha World
Herald, which is one Of the largest and
most progressive of western newspaper.
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THEY FAILED TO TERRoRIzE.
Three Bad Men Come to Grief at the Hands
of Enraged Citizens

Kansas City, April 5.-A special from
Perry, o. T.. says: From the mail
carrier between here and Saltwater
news was received of a fight at Cush-
ing, o. T., yesterday. Charlie Wilson,
Charlie Moore and Jack Sims, des-
peradoes, rode into Cushing heavily
armed and proceeded to terrorize the
citizens by raiding several stores.
The town organized posse to resist
the outlaws In the fight Jack Sims
was shot in the head and killed. The
other two were arrested and lodged
in jail.
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THEY CONTROL LOMBARD BUSINESS.
Directors of the Coneordia Loan and Trust
Company Elect Oficers.

Kansas City. Mo-, April.-At a meet
ingof the directors of the Concordia
Loan & Trust company, which controls
large majority Of the business of the
Lombard Investment company, held
at the Office of the company in Kansas
City, Kan, today, Charles S. Fairchild
of New York was elected president and
Sanford B. Ladd of Kansas City vice
president. Mr.. Fairchild is president
of the New York Security & Trust COM
pany and was secretary of the treas
ury during Mr.. Cleveland's first ad-
ministration. Among the directors are
Messrs Whitney, Fairchild and Ladd
former receivers of the Lombard COM
pany, with Mr.. Hagerman, who is now
sole receiver
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STATE BOARD no DEAL WITH.
Kansas City Board of Health Dismisses
Charges Against Mrs. Baird.

Kansas City MO, April 5.-The city
board of health declined this afternoon,
after conference with the state board
of health, to dismiss the case against
Mrs A. J. Baird, the Christian Science
doctor, arrested a week ago. The
charge against Mrs. Baird was that she
practiced medicine without registering
with the board of health, as required
by law. Mrs. Baird attended and cared
for H. NJ. Bosworth, who died two
weeks ago of diebetes.
The object of the local board of health
in dismissing the proceedings is to give
the state board an opportunity to deal
with Mrs. Baird under the state law.
What will be done is not fully decided.
but it is known that members of the
board have been investigating the case
with view of Furnishing her for GRIM
inal negligence.
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A Woman's Wfles.

"Let me have a 2-cent stamp,
please" said the dapper youth.
"We're all out of stamps" said the
pretty postmistress, "but we have
some lovely postal cards for a penny
each"
And manlike, he bought dozen."-
RrOOklvn Eapla
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CAPTURED BY INDIAN POLICE.
Two Fugitives from Justice Put Up a Goo
Race In Eastern Oregon.

Pendelton. Ore, April 5.-The Parr
boys accused of horse stealing, and
who have been fugitives from justice
have been caught by Indian police after
a long and exciting chase. The PARIS
were discovered on the reservation and
when detected escaped on their horses
towards the mountains. The chase
was kept up until the deep canons Of
the Blue mountains were reached when
the fugutives abandoned their horses
and continued their fight on foot. When
their pursuers were within a hundred
yards of the PARIS, they turned at bay
and emptied their revolvers at the Of
ficers who were unhurt and who there
upon easily arrested the outlaws.
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rents for catarrh that
Contain Mercury

as mercury will surely destroy the sense Of
smell and completely derange the whole
system when entering it through the mu-
cous surfaces. Such articles should never
be used except on prescriptions from rel a.
table physicians, as the damage they VIII
do is ten fold to the good you can possibly
manufactured by F. j. Cheney & Co,
Toledo, o., contains no mercury, and
taken Internally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces Of the system.
In buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure yog
get the genuine 1t is taken internally ana
made In Toledo, Ohio, by +. j. Cheney q
Co. Testimonials free.
F Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per pottie.
Halls Family Pills, 25c.
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An Orator Editor.

Among the retiring members Of Con-
gress perhaps one Of the most remarkable
is Mr.. w. J. Bryan of Nebraska. During
the four years of his career he has proved
himself natural leader of men. In the
fight for lower tariff, and particularly
for free silver coinage, his eloquence com
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BaptIst young People Adjourn.

Kansas City, April 5.-A special from
Lawrence says: One hundred delegates
Of the Baptist Young Peoples union
from the three associations comprising
eastern Kansas. are in attendance al
the convention now in session here
This morning an address was delivered
by eRv. F. l. Wilkins Of Chicago. The
convention adjourned tonight.
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Mistress ION the second day to new
cook)-Kathi, just be 50 good as 70
lend me five marks
Cook faside)-IIa. ha. Inat why
she said yesterday that the COOK IN ner
ilv.-Der Schalk.
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FELL UNDER THE WHEELS.

Jesse Lee, Colored, Loses His Life Trying
to Steal q Ride.
Beaumont, Kan. April 5.-(Special)-
This morning as accommodation train
No. %, was pulling ont on the Anthony
branch, two negroes undertook to board
the trucks Of one of the coaches. One
succeeded in getting under all right,
but the other one. Jesse Lee, lost his
hold on the truss rod and fell across
the track. Two wheels passed over
him. There were eight buns in the
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Very Evident.

Flypps-Do you suppose scribble
gets paid for his jokes?
Flopps-He certainly must. They
show of themselves that they can't be
written for fun.-Buffalo Courier.
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A festive grandson can spend more
money in an hour than self-denying
grandfather can make in year