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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1895-06-19
A Principle to Stay By.

The silver sentiment is growing every
day, and has already assumed magnificent
proportions. Bimetallists shoald not,
however, relax because they have pro-
crossed so far They must maintain the
ground they have already won and add
to it. The battle is on for series Of
years. The dispute about the money
system cannot be settled during the
present Administration, but those who
are for solid, metallic and safe currency,
which the silver men demand, as against
fiat paper currency, irredeemable in
anything, such as the gold monometal-
lists demand, must not rest.
No one who is ordinarily wise will
deny that the President OF the United
States has tremendous power in direct
ing the policy Of his party. He has an
army Of office-holders and men who ex-
pect Office. He has the benefit OF that
general disposition in party to stand by
its leader, even il he should go wrong
occasionally. He has the advantage in
easily controlling the ignorant element
In his party, men who yell for the leader
without knowing why they do it.
Mr.. Cleveland is using all his power
against bimetallism. He is on record as
warning his oftiee-holders against having
independent views or acting independ-
emily. All the appointments he makes
have in them the manifest purpose to
demoralize the silver advocates. Il
Let this not be encouragement. The
living principle must endure. The great
masses Of the people are not office-hold-
ers or ofiice-seekers. The frown of the
President or any other man has no
terror for the thoughtful millions. They
will yield to Mr.. Cleveland his rights to
hold his opinion, and they will demand
the right to hold their own. Let the
oilice-holders beware. They are marked.
The power that appointed them has
placed the brand Of groveling obedience
on them. The President has fixed it so
that no ofiice-holder can be silver man
without being in danger Of losing his
official head. At the same time he has
arranged the matter so that no Office
holder can be gold man or Indifferent
10 the question without being laid under
the suspicion that he is SO because he
wears collar. There may be among
the ofiice-holders many men who are
against silver honestly, and they are
entitled TO entertain their views and
advocate them; but everybody will think
they are merely acting when the wire is
pulled from Washington.
Let the honest sllyer-men pursue the
even tenor Of their way, but be no lag
CARDS. Let them not lay too much hope
in the promise Of international agree
ment. The President is against silver
on any terms. Success depends on the
long continued activity and vigilance Of
the free silver men, Cincinnati En-
quirer.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1895-06-19

orderly as IL has been OF recent years.
The boys who have grown up TO be men
here since his own youth, are generally
better behaved than were those who
came before him. They are less Of sava-
ges; and there is every reason to forecast
that those who are TO be the men of the
future will exhibit further and continu-
GUS improvement. They have better
chance for such advancement, because
the surrounding moral conditions are
improving.
Those conditions are shown by exper-
fence to, be more favorable for boys, so
far as the path Of virtue is concerned,
than the conditions prevailing in small
towns and villages and country districts.
The toughest, most depraved and most
hopeless type Of youth is to be found in
such places. The coarsest vice is rela-
lively more frequent there. The most
debased and besotted intelligence are
found there. As rule, the social friction
and variety OF great town tend to en-
liven and elevate youth from the country
who come under their influence. II is
easier for them to get the amusement
and recreation to which they are natu-
rally impelled, without resorting to
coarse dissipation and falling into de-
PRAYED companionship. They have a
far greater variety of occupations for
their leisure to choose from, and the
distractions that lead away from vice and
vicious meditations are far more numer-
Gus. They are amid temptations, Of
course, but wherever they grow up,
those abound outside OF themselves and
inside Of themselves.
The miracle, Mr.. Hewitt, is not that
any OF the boys OF New York grow up in
the path of virtue, if any miracle there
be, but that the human animal has
developed from the savagery of his
natural state into a creature SO usually
tame and self-restrained as he has now
become, and that he has made this pro-
gress OF his own motion, or as religion
teaches, under the supernatural guidance
of Heaven.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1895-06-19

Every person, big, little, old or young,
black or white, rich or poor, who has
ever used DR.. Bells Pine Tar Honey pro-
nounce II the best cough and lung rem
'edy on earth. It's true, too, so We guar
antee. For sale by Short & Haynes, Glow
export DIR. II. II. McMullin. McDaniels !
M. Meyer & Co., Buras A. Taylor, Ro-
setta,; KY. W. E.Brown, Irvington, KY,
A. A. Richardson, Garfield, KY; A. X.
Morris, Big Spring. XVI w. Q. Moor
man, GIendeane, Ky;P. sherron Bros.
4 Co., Kirk, KY: Horace Scott, Har-
dinsbure Ky.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1895-06-19
BRANDENBURG.

Last Saturdays mail brought me a
pleasant surprise-a letter, dear, kind
one from my mothers own cousin, A. ].
Alexander, OF Louisville, or Cousin jack
son as we children knew and called him.
He and his excellent wife are making
their home with their oldest son, DR.. j.
B Alexander, Third Avenue. The letter
brought up Past replete with hafiowed
associations and tender memories. Their
home was an ideal one OF true, Kentucky
hospitality in her very palmiest days
and in it comes to my mind vivid pictures
of my own and others lives when we
were all as happy as Songs upon the
waters" Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Moreman
have the old homestead, Col. Buckner
Mrs. Moreman's father having bought
it from Cousin Jackson and it is yet, as
then, lovely place. Cousin Jackson is
quite an old gentleman but his hand
writing and diction do not denote age
but clearness OF intellect and originality
OF thought. He says, 81 take great pleas
ure in reading your weekly interesting
letters in the News which i have taken
some years TO hear from my old friends
in Meade and Breckenridge and your
letter is the first we all read" 81 am
glad" he continues, " to see you are q
follower OF Buckner. Your honored
father, would know, have been for
sound money were he living-for such
men as Carlisle and Buckner are safe
leaders and may their wise counsel pre-
vail and old Kentucky redeem herself
next fall" He sends regards to all old
friends-Ahl how many have gone,
would be realized should the roll be
called.
The same mail brought me a letter
from Gems. b. Buckner himself sending
me fifty copies OF his currency views for
distribution. He says, 81 appreciate the
stand you have taken in the NEWS. /
am receiving encouraging letters daily
from all over the State" made quick
haste to send out the Generals "Views"
and many OF my friends said, "Since the
General has come out on currency We
will support him and we are hoping to
have a speech from him." Mr. James
Lewis has had letter from him but l
know of no appointment for this place
and can only hope we are on his list Of
appointments. l am frequently asked
"Why don't you declare for Representa-
tive as you are always for or against ?"
The time has not come-"Bide wee"
My most particular friend is a staunch
advocate OF Mr.. j. ID. Hardin and yet
she's sound currency and Buckner. That
doesn't matter under existing affairs oil
the party.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1895-06-19
ABOVE ALL OTHERS,

DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, In
every disease caused by torpid liver. or Inn.
pure blood For Dyspepsia, Liver and Bowel
arrangements, and Kindred ailments, moth
ing approaches II as remedy
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1895-06-19
Ny Bird and I.
Written by &. 1. c.

One evening of lonely day
In the early part Of May,
! sat beneath an apple tree
And a sweet birdie sang to me.
This was the burden Of his song
That he sang the evening long;
Swinging in the apple tree
love my love, and she loves me.
Oh, bird, do hush, I then did say,
Don't you grow tired, the live-long day
OF singing In the apple treel
Now stop awhile and talk to me.
lie rufFled up his little throat
And trilcd he forth another note.
Then stopped and seemed TO me to say
What do you wish to talk Of prayl
Sweet bird, I said, do tell to me
why you swing In the apple tree
; And sing Of love the whole day long,
Don't you know no other song
He opened wide his pretty eyes
And looked at me with great surprise;
ri tell you, but you know without,
There's nothing else to sing about
often, as fy along,
Hear you sing little song
AS about the house you move
Don't you sing of your true love
No birdie dear, never do
For have no lover true;
I've msny friends within my call
But no true love among them all.
Poor maiden. then he seemed to say,
I'm sorry for you this sweet day;
II had no true love small
don't believe I'd sing at all.
But will tell you what I'll do,
: / will find for you foyer true
II you, II tell me where to find
One that's suited to your mind.
Oh, sweet birdie, II you dc,
III always be friend to you;
Now raise your wings and fly away
And search for him in Iowa.
Union Star, May 4, 1895,
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1895-06-19

Hoods Sarssparilla gives great bodily,
nerve, mental and digestive strength,
simply because it purifes, vitalizes and
enriches the blood.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1895-06-19

New line Of ladies' belt buckles. as
sorted colors at Babbage's for Is cent?
each.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1895-06-19
Window Shades!

Do you want window shades2 We
have some that are slightly soiIed. They
are mounted on spring rollers The
best linen cloth--we are closing them
out for 90 and 70 cents pair formerly
went nom 90 10 $l.00. A rare bargain
Now ID your opportunity, 20 take advan-
ace. j. ID. b@npAez.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-27
PERSONAL.

Louis Dean, a big cattleman of Reno, is at the
Russ.
J.J Hebron, big cattleman Of Salinas, is
at the Grand.
JIM. Lathrop, a merchant of Newman, is at
the Grand.
Virgil Conn, merchant of Paisley, Or, is q
guest at the Palace.
A.. j. Bruner, an attorney of Sacramento. is
staying at the Russ
W. D. Keyser, leading merchant of Carson,
New, is staying at the Russ.
J.F. Devendorf, a real-estate man of San Jose,
registered at the Grand yesterday.
william Gillette, playwright and actor, is
back in town and staying at the Palace.
Admiral l.. A. Beardsee returned to town
yesterday and is quartered at the Occidental.
Bernard Distel :of Robleda Vineyard, Noun
tain View, Santa Clara County, is in the city.
R. NJ Green, merchant and mine-owner of
Oroville, was one of yesterdays arrivals at the
Grand.
Henry Hogan, leading attorney of Napa
County, is in town, attending to some legal
matters.
E. B. Thompson, editor of the Washington
Press, Iryington, Alameda County, was in the
City yesterday.
w P. McFaull. Deputy Collector of Internal
Revenue at Ukiah, came down yesterday and
registered at the Grand.
Tom C. Lane, superintendent of the Utica
mine, came down from Angels yesterday and
is staying at the Palace.
Colonel James McNasser, a prominent citi-
zen of the capital, came down from Sacra-
mento yesterday and put up at the Russ.
D. B. Lyman, superintendent of the Consoli-
dated Virginia mines, came down from the
Comstock yesterday and registered at the Pal
ace.
The Oakland Echo says that Gavin Dhu High,
brother of Bookkeeper Will s. High of the
Union National Bank, has retired as city editor
of the Los Angeles Record and returned to the
San Francisco Report.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-27
ONLY A DUTY.

The attitude of the Democratic members
of the Railroad Commission toward the
duties of their Office and their pledges to
the people opens to Commissioner Clark an
opportunity to serve the State, add to the
prestige of the Republican party and make
an honorable reputation for himself. One
OF the Democratic Commissioners shows
every evidence of an intention to serve
the railroad rather than the people, the
other aims at no more than reduction of
rates on grain. Commissioner Clark there
fore has only to perform the duties for
which he is paid in order TO force the hands
OF his Democratic colleagues and compel
them either to follow hi m in serving the
interests of the people or to stand confessed
as the tools of monopoly and the breakers
OF solemn pledges.
The plan of Commissioner La Rue to
reduce grain rates is good as far as it goes,
but it hardly goes far enough to be consid-
cred serious attempt to deal with the
real problem of transportation. Grain
shippers are not the only sufferers from
the exactions of the monopoly. Every in
dustry in the State is more or less affected
by it and some of them are seriously Grip
pied. To deal justly with the people the
interests of all must be guarded. 1t was
for this the Railroad Commission was
established. 1t is for this the mem ers of
it are paid. 1t is this the people expect of
them. 1t is this which they have hitherto
failed to do. And it is in the effort to per.
form this that Commissioner Clark has the
opportunity to serve the State, his party
and himself.
The grain schedule which Mr.. La Rue
has drawn up is a comparatively small
thing. 1t represents little or no work. 1t
could have been prepared in a half days
easy work, and yet on the strength of it
the Democratic Commissioner is making a
considerable reputation for himself. Much
greater will be the honor given to the
Commissioner who will devote himself
seriously to the task of revising every
schedule of freight charges and regulating
them in a way that will be just to all ship
pers. This is the work Commissioner
Clark should do. 1t is the work the Re
publican party expects OF him.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-27

Utah to statehood will come in the nature OF
great impetus to her industrial development
alt goes without saying" continued MI. BECK,
shat Utah is for free silver AS far as kho"
nothing has been done as yet toward tne
organization of an independent silver party
but should independent action become neces,
sary, as to me seems highly probable, II VIII
notrequire much time to break the old parry
lines and mass under the standard OF ne"
party. The silver element comprises the very
best men of the old parties, and we shall DC
able to put up a pretty strong fight when the
time comes. Colonel Isaac Trumbo is almost
sure to be one of Utah's first Senator's HIS
popularity, aside from political issues, would IN
my opinion give him the place. He is young.
energetic and ambitious. Utah could have no
ADLER representative at the Nations capital.
For many years he has been identified with the
development of this Territory and his work in
the Republican party amply attests his ability.
He has a clean record and combines with
practical business tact q natural taste for
politics and thorough comprehension OF the
great problems OF finance and government that
will eventually give him high place in the
councils of the Nation
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-27

may entertain doubt. 1t is evident that
if all responsibility is disclaimed and that
if all concerns are kept unlisted there will
be an absence of that confidence which is
necessary to the conduct of stock specula-
ton.
Wall street realizes that something
must be done. But. is there not posi-
bility that something besides a lack of con-
fidence may be contributing to the ruin of
stock speculations, and that wave is in
motion which carries moral ripple on
the side furthest from the brokers? Is it
not conceivable that human energies can
be better employed than in this form of
desire to secure money without earning ii?
Stock speculation in New York has been
steadily declining for years, and we must
find some reason for the fact other than a
lack of confidence in the concerns which
throw out shares as bats to avarice.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-27
CLEVELAND TACTICS IN IOWA.

The resolution of the Nebraska Demo-
cratic Convention approving the declara-
tions made by Cleveland during his first
term of Office against the 'pernicious ac-
tivity'' of Federal ofice-holders in trying
to control party conventions, and urging a
renewal of that policy, was by no means
adopted without sufficient cause. The Ne
braskans had seen what was done by Office
holders IN the Democratic convention of
the neighboring State of Iowa, and had
found there ample justification for an even
more direct attack upon the methods of
the administration.
Evidence of how the goldbug- Cleveland
wing of the party carried the State con-
vention in Iowa is now being made public
by the real leaders of the party who found
themselves so surprisingly beaten there.
The Fort Madison Democrat explains it
thus:
s'The scheme was this: 1t is well known
that ordinarily less than half of the dele
gates appointed in counties attend State
conventions. This fact was this year
taken advantage of in every county unin-
structed by an order from some source !;
the Federal officials, or the bankers, at
tending to it to secure the proxies by hook
or crook secretly. if they could not openly.
and either giving the proxies to single
gold standard men or voting them in lump
themselves. This completely changed the
character of the convention. At a very
low estimate silver would have won in the
convention three to one if the delegates ap-
pointed by the counties uninstructed had
been present"
As an illustration of the extent to which
the scheme was worked it is said that from
the county of Lee there were elected
twenty-four delegates to the convention,
instructed for free silver. Twenty of these
stayed at home and gave their proxies to
the Postmaster of Keokuk, one of the lead
ing Federal office-holders of the county,
who cast them for the gold standard. This
is sample of the way the thing was done.
OF the 1912 delegates elected to the conven-
ton less than 500 were present, and the
proxies of the absent ones were in the
pockets of the ofice-holding brigade.
Tactics of this kind can win in conyen-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-27
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

An actors repertoire of stories and yarns Is
almost as inexhaustible as that of the CONNER
cial traveller. Yesterday afternoon Maurice
Barrymore, now playing at the Columbia
Theater, entertained a few friends at his apart
ments in the Clifford, and in the course OF the
afternoon related the following incident, which
occurred during the famous Currey trial in
Texas some years ago:
"Well," said Mr. Barrymore, "this little yarn
is simply an appendant to the Currey trial. OF
course you all remember how Porter was killed
and wounded in the arm by that desperate
Currey one eventful night in Galveston, Tex
Currey met us, you know, in restaurant and
picked quarrel. Porter and I did not wish
any trouble with the man, but he was per-
sistent in his efforts for fight. and the result
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-27
A CHINESE CITY.

Quinsan lies at the end of spur of the famed
Grand canal, which is next to the great wall,
the noblest work of the Chinese. Pagodas are
not common in China. You do not see one in
every day of travel, so remember that one is
on the lone mountain that dominates the ap-
proach to the city. The outside town, such as
lies by every gate to every city, is place where
painter could spend year to better advan-
tage than in most painters resorts in Southern
Europe. Rows of white walls, heavily rooted
with black tiles, face the water. The corners
of all the roofs are turned up and some have
double corners. A few roofs, no less pictur-
esque, are of gray thatch, and few walls are
black or gray or blue, or even dark red.
Fancy the gorgeousness of the scene, with the
people crowding there in new blues and faded
bluesl Bamboo balconies push out to the
waters edge, and carry idle women and men
in pretty clothes looking at us. The open
shops disclose workmen making shoes or cof-
fins or cooking the wonderful bean curd-
foundation of q hundred dishes. AS the heart
of the place is reached it becomes picturesque
beyond description High stone walls shut in
the water, and on these rise houses OF white
staff with cumbrous Jet roofs, and the most
ornate, the most fanciful windows, paned with
glossy inside scales of oyster shells. Stone
steps lead down to the water. and each bears q
woman washing clothes or r1ns1ng lncquered
wooden pots. Sunfowers and pumpkin vines
in bloom peep over the walls of the houses, and
beside the walls of the stream are innumer-
able boats tied to carved dragons heads, crabs,
grotesque faces and pretty carvings of many
sorts cut in the granite.
At all the doorways are tall and often hand
some men in long silk coats ana silkeu half
breaches bound tight around their ankles At
the windows are the round-faced, full-lipped
women. On and on we float. And presently
we discover the long low walls Of Quinsan.
made ever famous by the valor OF General
Gordon Under the interminable low walls of
what we call Roman brick are plantations of
sunflowers. and then more white and black
houses. They face another tumble OF boats OF
every fashion. from the stately cargo and chop
boats to the rows of slender express boats,
waiting, like omnibuses, for passengers for 500
Chow and Shanghai. The dyers' shops hang
out long strips of blue cloth; a bridge is draped
with colored stuffs hung there to dry; an enor-
NOUS. vermilion banner floats from boat
that, like hundreds beside 1T, is orange-toned
beneath its sheen of Ningpo varnish.-From
Everyday Scenes in China, by Julian Ralph,
in Harpef's Magazine for August,
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ton, but they do not always win with the
people. The Democrats of Nebraska were
right in condemning them, and there is
reason to believe that many stalwart DEM
ocrats of Iowa will refuse to yield to them.
At any rate one of the staunchest of them
is quoted as saying:
The late State Convention then, not
having been honestly and fairly consti-
tuted, but completely debauched by fraud,
trlckery and dishonor, Democrats are not
IN honor bound to support its action, and
many thousands of them will not"