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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1895-12-13
UNCLE oeLessY.
Two Characteristic stories OF the Genial
Ex-Governor of Illinois.


Ex-Governor of Illinois.
Think il was during the Cleveland
Blaine campaign that Ex-Governor
Oglesby of Illinois, "Uncle Dick, A" rs
he is Familiarity known, first made a stay
of any length in New York
He and companion had a sumptuous
luncheon. cred of course by the intro
ducer. who wound up by inviting the
governor to smoke The clerk at the ci-
gar counter handed ont some fine Havana
cigars Uncle Dick was about to take
one, when some thought arrested his
hand. and he asked:
Whats the price Of these?"
Twenty five cents, was the reply.
Holy smoke" calculated the govern
or Put 'em back Put 'em back.
quickr
but, governor. this is my treat.
said his friend
"Daren't do it'll DaIen't do it Put
EN- back -
"Yes, but governor
Il tell you l daren't do it. Why,
man, if they should ever find out in Il
hno;s that l smoked a 20 cent cigar in
New York, they'd turn me out Of the
church, and it would ruin me politically
forever Daren't do it, Ten cent cigars
are good enough for me in New York
and centers at home. "
UnC.e Dick always prided himself on
his success in campaigning when called
upon to reach mans vote through his
family pride.
On one of his tours he passed through
a country town in Illinois. when he
came suddenly upon charming group
"A comely woman with bevy of little
ones about her-in garden with high
picket fence in front of it. He stopped
short, then advanced and leaned over
the front gate.
Madam, said he in his most in
gratiating way, may kiss these beau
tiful children?'
Certainly, sir" the lady answered
demurely. there is no possible objec-
ton
They are lovely darlings," said I'm
Gle Dick, after he had finished the elev-
enth Il have seldom seen more beauti-
full babies. Are they all yours, marmi"
The lady blushed deeply.
"Of course they are-the sweet little
/ treasures From whom else, ,marm, could
/ they have inherited these impid eyes,
these rosy cheeks, these profuse curls,
these comely figures and these musical
voices?"
I The lady continued blushing.
by the way, marm," said Uncle
Dick, may l bother you to tell your
/ estimable husband that Richard J.
/ OSlcsby, Republican candidate for gov
ernor, called upon him this EVENING""
Alas, sir, ;" quoth the lady, 4 have
no husband.
But these children, madam-you
surely are not j, low"
= 1 fear you mistaken, sir, wher
you first came up. These are not my
children This is an orphan asylum -
Exchange.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1895-12-13
NOW FOR ACTION.

The commercial club. of Kan
sas City, at its regular meeting
Tuesday evening had presented Tor
its consideration and action the
set of resolutions published III last
Sundays ARDMOREITE.
In speaking of the meeting the
Kansas City World says:
"A communication from the
Ardmore, |. T., board of trade,
asking the support of the club IN
securing a townsite law, was re-
ferred to the committee on state
and national legislation.
We trust the committee in
charge will take prompt and favor
able action and we believe it will.
The merchants and business
men of Kansas City cannot fail to
appreciate our condition in respect
to the absence of this much needed
reform, and they likewise under
stand that anything tending to add
to substantially of Territory towns
tends to place their business with
our people on a safer basis.
We believe the commercial club
will lend its cooperative influence
in securing the legislation asked
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1895-12-13
A Lightn- .,honoErapher.
Business Man n you write short

Business MAN. n you write short
hand:
Applicant-Ies, sir.
How many words minute:"
81 never counted 'em, but the other
day, when my wife found IN my over
coat pocket "a letter which she gave me
TO mail last fall, took down every
word she uttered Us fast as she said
them.
You Il do Toronto Truth
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-01-26
THE TUNE PARTY.
An Entertaining rastlmc for an Evening
Indoors.

An Entertaining PAstlme for an Evening
Indoors.
An amusing entertainment for a com.
pany Of people, young or old. gathered
In parlor, is what is called Tune
Party
Each member Of the company is sup
piled with slip Of paper, on which ara
twelve or more numbers, beginning at
one, and following in regular success
sion: each player is also furnished with
a pencil musical person must next
be seated at the piano, and supplied
with list bearing the same numbers
as those furnished TO the rest OF the
company, with the difference that OPP
posite each number is the name OF some
tune made familiar by age or present
popularity.
The person at the piano begins To
play. giving enough Of the first tune
to insure It's Identification by the quick
wittcd, and then passes with swift
meditation, and without pause, TO tho
tune whose name is placed opposite the
second number, and So on. until the list
a. completed.
The performer may be provided with
the list long enough before hand 70 al
low him 10 plan the method Of joining
the tunes one 60 another. and 50 pre-
vent hesitation az the time
The listeners must keep their ears
well sharpencd and quickly write the
name OF each tune opposite its number.
as IL is played The player whose lis
Is most nearly complete and has the
fewcst mistakes gains prize.
Simple as this may appear, 10 is sur
prising Go find how the name Of IA
miliar melody eludes the grasp OF rec
objection, and can not bc caugllt before
II has faded away into the notes Of the
next or the list. Most ludicrous mis-
takes are made, and AUD Lang Syne"
and the Last Rose Of Summer" have
been assigned 20 wrong places on the
lists OF old-time singers In perfect good
faith.
In one summer boarding-house, where
there was no good piano. this game was
played with great success on "A rainy
evening. the piano being supplanted by
the sweet voice OF one Of the guests.
who sang snatches OF the appointed
melodies ard wove them into one an
other i'm such slxillful way as 60 elicit
great enthusiasm, and puzzle her hear
erx quito "a we'll as the piano would
have done Youths Companion.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-01-26

cD- IL is perhaps not surprising that
n democratic administrator should
break down all round in the rore inn
portant functions OF government, but
II Is rather strange that 70 cannot even
gum a postage stamp correctly The
current stamps ure the worst Of their
kind. They are not up 10 tho standard
In color and won't stick This Is what
n nation gets which admits TO power
such nm imbccile ana at the same time
such ilagitious party, IL ought to be
dipped In the gum arabic Of it, unsuc-
ccssful philatelic experiments and hung
somcwhcro TO dry.-N Y. Tribune.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-01-26
DEMOCRATIC INCONSISTENCY.
Southern MaIcontents and Thor BeIIlg-
ercnt Tactics.

ercnt Tactics.
Fresh examples Of democratic incon-
sistency are found in the gubcrnatorial
elections In Alabama and Tcnncssce.
In the former state the face OF the re-
turns gave Mr.. Oates the goyernorship.
Mr. Kolb, the populist candidate,
charged fraud and asked for investi-
cation. Tho request was refused by
the democratic authorities, and Oates
was seated under guard Of the state
troops.
IN Tennessee he returns gave the
goyernorship 90 Mr.. Evans republican,
md the democratic legislature has de-
tcrmined TO constitute itself judge 4
the vote and investigate certain repub-
lean districts. Pending the report
Gov Turney, who was the democratic
candidate, will hold over, and at last
hc will bc declared elected.
So in Tennessee, the democratic par
" rejects what IL insisted upon In Ala
bama, simply because IL hopes 60 gain
something by following the contrary
course The best democrats and the
host democratic newspapers in the
state condemn the scheme, but the fac
tion i'm powernppearsw willing 60 90 any
lengths 20 prevent the seating Of n re-
publican governor. The Tennessee
democrats should remember the dis
astcr which came upon the New York
democrats VINO in 1891 pcrpctratcd
crime in the interest Of party domina-
tion.-Troy Times.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-01-26

TT President Cleveland and his dem
ocratic party Of tariff reform are
wholly responsible for all the trouble
now experienced In foreign trade, for
the idlcncss OF machinery. and for
hungry worlsmen- - Chicago later
Ocean.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-01-26

H-Thc bonds sold under the Clcvc-
land and Carlisle regime are advcr-
tiscmcnts Of the disgraccful tinlscring
OF this congress and administration.
They will be paid-but every last man
connected with the finsco will be dis
charged from further servicc-unlcss 10
be an odd man from back counties who
still votes for Jackson. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-01-26

lY The administration has n tariff
war on les hands, and IL hardly knows
what TO do with IL. Had the rcciproc-
ity system been continued 10 would
know precisely how TO handle Il; but IT,
threw away the weapon OF defense
which IL held, and now IL Is shaking
before the bulldozing undertaking OF
Germany and other countries. That IL
will submit is quite probable, and that
the continental countries, even II the
diiIercntial sugar should be repealed,
will continue their diifcrcntial war Is
also quite probable. All this comes Of
an incompetent congress and an incom-
pctent administration Cincinnati Ca
1ettc.
The advocate., 1895-06-19

and congress down through all grades
of the service, the evictions, psuper-
ism and beggary all point to the fact
that the present regime, the present
system will soon fall of their own
weight. The enlightened Christian
conscience of the American people
will not permit these conditions to con-
tinue to grow worse many years longer.
Late in life Wendell Phillips said
that over and over again he had been
compelled to learn that while he
was often in hurry, was often impa-
tient, God never was; that in his own
good time these things would work
The advocate., 1895-06-19
HISTORY REPEATs.
Something About the New Parties Of Other
Days.
BY WILLIAM sTRYKFR.

article Vilifying, abusing and ridicul.
ing the Populists and the Populist
party. It is their main stock in trade.
Does not this sound very much like
them9
"With this view, that is to divert
suspicion, Nero inflicted the most ex.
dulsite tortures on these men who, un-
der the vulgar appellation Of Chris
tians, were already branded with de-
served infsmy. They derived their
names and origin from one Christ, who
in the reign of Tiberius had suffered
death by the sentence of the procura-
tor, Pontius PLATE. For q while this
dire superstition was checked, but 1t
burst forth again and not only spread
itself over Judea-the first seat of this
mischieVous sect-but was even intro
duCed into Rome, the common asylum
which receives and protects whatever
Is impure, whatever is strocious. The
confessions of those who were seized,
discovered multitude of their accom-
plices and they were all convicted, not
30 much for the crime of setting fire to
tho city, as for their hatred of human
kind. Some were nailed to crosses,
others sewn up in the skins of wild
beasts and exposed to the fury of dogs.
Others, again, smeared over with com.
bustible materials, were used as torches
Ia illuminate the darkness of the
night"
This you will find in Swinton's Out
line History of the World, p. 1913. 1t
lsa quotation from Tscitus, one of the
greatest Roman historians; himself a
contemporary of Nero. 1t shows very
nicely how histories have been written.
The fact that the Christians were poor
and did not at that time have any share
In governmental affairs was sufficient
cause for placing them in this light in
history. Had it been some sect or party
that never came to power and promi-
nenCe, we would all follow the lead Of
tho historian in agreeing in the verdict
passed by the wealthy and influential
of their time. Notice the terms sp.
Piled to the early Christians: Vulgar
appellation, branded with deserved in
fanny, impure and strocious, hatred of
humankind. This of the sect which
Wag gathering to itself all of the purest
and best people of their time, of the
people who saved the ancient civiliza-
tion from complete wreck and over
throw, Of the true followers of the per-
feet teacher. The place Of the ruling
classes was the same then as it is now
and always has been, the same as the
old party press has used against the
Peoples party and as it will continue
10 use. One of the greatest Of modern
historians, Ridpath, in his Universal
History, Vol. w., p. 40, says:
''The ruling classes always possess
the means Of information and the pro-
cesses by which it is distributed. The
newspaper Of modern times belongs to
the upper man. The under man has
40 voice; or, if having voice, he cries
out, his cry is lost like shout in the
desert. Capital, in the places Of power,
aizes upon the organs of public utter
ance and howls the humble down the
wind. Lying and Misrepresentation
re the natural weapons of those who
The advocate., 1895-06-19

The above demands contain nothinl
new and untried, nothing impractical
and will embody all that It would b.
wise to undertake during one admins
trstion. These points once gained, th,
rest will follow easily, if the results
Justify our expectations.
Let US not for a moment be led to
believe that any change of program
short Of abandoning everything w
are contending for will lead the oppo
sition to sbate their ridicule, Villifca
tion and abuse and attacks upon oul
leaders. AS q rule, those who are ed
ucated and are inclined to take the
side of right and justice and of the
common people are led by ridicule Of
bribery to sacrifice their convictions
and oppose the cause they at first sc
ably defended. They then become the
most abusive Of all. Two noted ex-
smples Of this are Major Hudson, the
editor of the Topeka Capital, and Sec.
retary Carlisle, who have both sold
their birthright for a mess of pottage
and are to-day what WhitelaW Reid
said the editors of metropolitan papers
are-"intellectusl prostitutes. 1t ia
only the few who have courage and
manhood to face bribery, ridicule and
abuse and lead in the struggle for JUS.
tice and right. Recently was shown
a letter written in confidence to q
friend. 1t was one of the most Vigor-
GUS arraignments of the iniquities and
injustice of the present day, one of the
best brief arguments for Populism il
has been my good fortune to read.
The letter closed with these words
"These are my honest sentiments as
wish you, my trusted friend, to know
me. Read the article marked in the
paper sent you to-day and see how the
world knows me. My family is ex.
pensiVe. draw a large salary as ed.
itor of this paper and for writing such
articles and cannot give it all up, az
l must if l would express my honest
sentiments.
The article was one of the most vi
triolic attacks on the Populists 1 ever
read and the paper ono of the leading
papers in the South. Well do the
monied interests know that the cause
of the common people is lost if the
character of the few leaders who re.
main true to their convictions can be
blackened, or If in any way the people
can be led to distrust them. History is
full Of examples like the lives of the
Gracchi in Roman history. Space here
will not permit further reference to
them or to others; but suggest a study
of the lives of those two noble Romans,
to those who are inclined to give toe
much credence to the efforts of the
enemy to blacken the character of
every person who becomes prominent
in the Peoples party. The competi-
tive system as at present operated, the
concentration of wealth in the hands
of a few, the organization of new
trusts and combines and the perfect
ing of old ones, the drunkenness, H.
centiousness, debauchery, bribery, and
crime practiced in all governmental
affairs from president, supreme court
The advocate., 1895-06-19

and see If the parallel between the
struggle they Waged and the one the
masses are wsging to-day against cor.
porate tyranny whose plant tools both
old parties are, is not very close indeed.
A new name or new organization
will not fare any better at their hands
than has the Peoples party. So soon
IS any party or individual becomes
dangerous to their class and It's priYi-
leges, their batteries of Vilifcation,
lying and abuse will be turned against
it. Any change will be a change to
suit the enemy, and an acknowledge
ment of the weakness of our cause. 1t
is true that many who are fully con-
Yinced Of the justice of our cause and
who may have been at one time with
US were persuaded to vote the old-party
tickets last fall by the bad name given
our party by them and for fear of ridi-
cule; but no change Of name will ObVi-
ate that difficulty because one of two
things must be done; either abandon
the principles for which we contend,
which is not to be entertained ak all, or
adopt new name with the same prin.
ciples. The attack would then be made
with renewed Vigor, and we would soon
be in a worse condition than now in the
estimation of the timid ones. Minor
changes will, without doubt, be made
by the next national convention. More
Importance will be given to the ques.
tion Of finance. An American system
Of finance, with stress upon American,
not only in this plank, but in all 9th.
erS, will be adopted. Three things only
need be included. Free and unlimited
coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to l.
Abolition of national banks, and an
issue of greenbacks not beyond GER
tain amount, but sufficient to do the
business of the country on cash basis.
Another plank that will be included
is government ownership of railroads
and telegraph lines. Those few spe-
cific demands, while they do not in
clude our whole program, will be as
much as it would be wise to undertake
In four years, should we be given
power. With a platform practically
limited to the few specific demands
mentioned, we would be free from
charges made against us of being
visionary, impractical, etc. Outside of
the United States, more miles of rail-
road and telegraph are controlled by
governments than are controlled by
private parties, and always with less
charge for service rendered, better pay
to employees, and with a profit to the
government operating.
In no country where it has been
tried has it been given over to private
parties, or will it ever be, any more
than the postofice. With government
ownership of railroads, most monopo-
lies like the Standard Oil would be inn.
possible, for they are built up by dis
elimination in freight rates, as are
most of the large fortunes of to-day.
No one thing is feared more to-day by
the corporations than a campaign
waged on the government ownership
Of railroads. There is no valid srgu.
ment on the other side. The position
Of those defending private control is
absolutely untensble, and they know
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-09-12
Sam Jones, Opinion.

II hate to see boy tumbling to
hell, but it cuts me TO my very soul
to see any daughter of America step
ping over boundary lines. tell you
right now Sam Jonss loves fast horse,
one that can trot it in 2:o4, but !
want slow woman-fast horse, slow
girl, you understand.
"Heaven has nothing better or finer
than modest, sweet, retiring, pure
girl. How different they are from the
heady, glddy, goddess kind! You've
got that kind in Baltimore, too. They
won't hear Sam Jones preach at all.
Hes too vulgar They'll dance
around on ballroom floor four or
five hours in a dude arms, and yet
they say that Sam Jones is the vul
garest white man they ever heard of.
"Where do you get your cigarette
pictures? What are those pictures
that we see pasted on the walls and
fences in every City2 Nine out Of ten
OF these are indecent piCtures-are the
pictures OF women. Is it possible that
women are leading the immodesty Of
the age3 And do you know the
people get their cues largely from
pictures?
"Tights have budded and blossomed
into boomers. First the women wore
them on the arms and called them
pulled sleeves, but now they've gotten
lower down. | don't care if every
other woman or girl in America were
to wear boomers, if it were the moth
er of my children, God knows l
| wouldn't want her to wear them.
Other mems daughters may put them
on, but God knows | don't want to
see my children wearing them.
was born, bred-and buttered in the
South, and believe in modesty with
women. And if you call boomers all
right, then Adam and Eve were dress
ed up all right
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-09-12
TOBACCO'S "DIVINE" QUALITIES
Colonel IngersolI's Eloquent Euiogy
of the Popular Narcotic Plant.
GChicagO Inter Ocean. |

(ChicagO Inter Ocean
At the banquet which closed the
fourth national convention Of cigar
manufacturers in New York, not
long ago Robert G. Ingersoll elo-
quently extolled the virtues of tobacco
as follows:
"Now, then, it is delight to speak
on subject every one understands.
We all understand the divine plant. l
have loved it all my iife-since l was
&c years old. At that time a man
named Wyckoff, the greatest liar l
ever met, gave me chew of this Cav
endish pigtail. Strangely though, l
liked it at once, and five minutes after
my first taste l had plug of my own.
use it now and defend its use against
the moral advice of parsons and the
physical advice of medical men.
"Something in the human brain
Graves the leaf. If you want to ava
ken the mind of the savage, who has
no clothes except climate, increase his
wants. Give him taste of tobacco,
and he will hunt for iron and dig for
jewels or gold to get more of the plant.
"There's too much hypocricy about
the use of tobacco. Thousands use it
and lie about it. l want you to use it
and defend its use, because it adds
something to the value and happiness
of life. In spite of the thunders of the
pulpit and the anathemas of physicians
its use is increasing, and that is be.
cause the brain of man Graves it.
"What would..we do without it? Think
of waiting for a train without tobacco!
What would those do who add value
to life by spanning the world with the
rainbows OF fancy without tobacco!
All use tobacco and are the better fol
it. Have the courage of your happi-
ness and defend its use.
"There is another point I want te
make. Tobacco is luxury. Let u.
cheaper all luxuries. Labor pays al
the tax in the world. Then let labor
reap some of the benefit. Give the
working man tobacco as cheap as pos
sible. The idea is to let the poor devi
work now and smoke in the world te
come. We want him to smoke now
No luxury should be produced by suf
fering. The men and women who
make cigars should be we'll paid.
| hope you manufacturers in these
days of trusts will organize trust fol
the sole purpose of paying your work
ing people we'll. Then there will be
an added favor to every cigar.
Tobacco is and always will be ar
emblem of peace. When tobacco
tastes good to man he may be surf
he is we'll. For my part, l would
rather 60 without corn than tobacco
Now, finally, let me exhort you to make
the best cigars you can. Give us goo6
| goods.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-09-12
The State Records.
| ASheyille Citizen |.

Judge Walter Clark, of the North
Carolina Supreme Court, has now in
press the first volume of his estate
Records" and publication will be fol-
lowed short time hence by the sec
ond volume of the same. This work
is to be the documentary history of
the State from the adoption of its first
Constitution in December, 1916, until
January, 1890, and covers the i'm
portant and interesting periods of the
formation and ratification of the Con-
stitution Of the United States. The
title estate Records is therefore
we'll chosen as contradistinguished
from the "Colonial Records" of which
the "Records" are a continuation.
The Calonial Records in ten volumes,
the excellent work of the late Col.
VIM. l.. Saunders, cover the period Of
our Colonial history, from the first
permanent settlement OF Carolina in
1862 to the erection of the State
government in 1916. A complete in.
dex to the Colonial Records, a valu
able and much needed work, is now in
course Of preparation by Prof. Stepher
B. Weeks.