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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-09-14

The upper Ohio river has made q
record Tor itself in the way Of Il continu'
Gus spell OF extrsmslow water 1t was
in the frat week OF June that the biz
packets of the Pittsburgh and Cincinnati
Inns were compelled to lay up on aC'
count Of lack 81 water and not one
OF them, Keystone State or Hudson,
has turned wheel since, True, the
smaller packets on the upper river, in'
Guiding tho Lexington, O, II, Woods,
FaVoFite and Jennie George have man
aged TO make their trips, but there has
hasa no regularity or certainty. and
practically the river has been closed 10
navigation slnco June, longer than ever
before in the history Of steam naviga'
ton on this end Of the Ohio.
The Lexington il one OF tho lighto't
draught boats on tho river, but Captain
Cline tad to retire her, ana now her
successor, the 9, II. Woods, has also
been laid UP by low water, leaving but
two boats running, the FRvorlie in tho
MalRmoras trade and the Jennie George
in tho Liharty's CtariH2t0a trade. Both
Ihese boats are very small, having beon
brought here from the Big Sandy, noted
as stream with the smallest steamers
Of any inland stream in this country.
1t has not h0eR uncommon lately 10 SEQ
either OF these boats pulled up by
horse power over the shoals below Nc
Mschen.
Riyermen have tired OF predicting a
uavigablu stage Of water and are Fhtlo.
aophically waiting for the rise which ls
sure to come sooner or later. Though
the weather was threatening yesterday
nobody really expects there will no any
water before tho FIRST Of next month,
With the advent OF water the upper
river will DO thronged with boats. To
begin with there is S3,0O0,00O bushels Of
coal harbored at Pittsburgh ready for
shipment south By water. II all OF this
gets away in u week tho towboatmen
will be lucky. With an average Of 1907
00Obushels to q tow that means 30 tow
boats will go out OF tho Smoky City
with coal. In other words, the upper
river will DO nlmpst covered with tows.
Never before wastherO nearly so much
coal ready for shipment.
The new Virginia, ii ia announced,
will not DO ready to enter her trade be-
tween Pittsburgh and Cincinnati before
the first OF November. Captain Thomas
5. Calhoun, late oil tho keystone State
aud Iron Queen, has heeh slated Tor the
caplNinCy OF the new steamer, aud no
better choice could. have bean made, for
there Is no more popular commander on
the Ohio "Old Reliable Robert II.
Kerr, tate OF the Iron QReeH. will pre-
side in the office as chioi clerk. and tho
pilots will be Sanford and OlIum, trans.
ierred from tho Keystone State.
THE RIVER MARKS.
Pittsburga-River feet / inch aud
rising at the dam. Weather clear and
cool.
Oil City-Rivor foot and falling.
Weather clear aud cool.
Morgantown-River ieOt and sta.
tionary. Weather clear and cooler.
Warron-River three.seaths OF a loot
and falling. Weather clear and cool.
Greensboro-River G feet and station.
AIRY. Weather fair and cooler.
steubenYille-River foot inches
and stationary. Weather cloudy aaa
cool.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-09-14

THE MEANING OF
WOODS DEPENDS

On where you hear, them and what there is to back
them up. We handle words very carefully. We know
what our printed statements mean and we are ready
to stand or fall by their downright truthfulness Ours
is store that can afford to stand on It's past merits
with the assurance of doing better and better for
patrons fast possible in the years to If wo
make mistake now and then, be very that it is
mistake. and we are ready to right 1t with GOOD
CLOTHING: or FURNISHINGS or with money. No
customer of ours shall suffer for our error If YOU
DO NOT KNOW U.s. HERE Is AN EXCELLENT
OPPORTUNITY TO BEGIN.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-16

man law, and they were urged to let
that proposition stand by itself, and
when it was disposed of further legis-
lation should be had in relation to sill
YER. Following that, in March, 1894,
we had the seignorage BILL more legis-
lation i'm the interest of silver. And
how did that result? Democratic ayes
1855. and nays $50. The hour had come
when something should be done for
silver, and many of those gentlemen
who had voted against free coinage in
1898 on the seignorage bill voted in fa-
yor of silver. So that the vote was
Democrats 1875 to so, and when the bill
was vetoed the Democrats voted yeas
III, nays so.
Taking all these votes together, my
friends-taling the fatt that silver
was demonetized in a Republican Con-
GRESHAM l not justified in saying
that the establishment of the single
gold standard in the United States
was a Republican measure, and has
never met with the approval of the
majority of the Democratic party?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-16
SOME OF TIE VOTES.

t|Now. let us see some OF the votes. In
December, 1876, we had a vote of the
House on free coinage. The yeas were
1G8 and nays SO. Tire Democratic
yeas were ia and the Democratic nays
were II. One hundred and twenty-four
Democrats favored free coinage in 1876
and seventeen opposed it in the House
of Representatives. Those were the
representatives who were elected by
the people and those are the represen-
tatiyes who speak the will of the peo-
pie in louder tones than any platform
made on any occasion. applause and
cheers.)
sIn 1877, one year thereafter, an
other vote on free coinage was taken.
The Democratic yeas were 81, Demo
cratic nays 10. Ninety-seven to ten
was the proportion at that time OF the
Democrats who favored the free and
unlimited coinage of silver.
ION the Bland-Allison law in 1875
the Democratic yeas were 122, nays
81. One hundred and twenty-five to
q were the friends of silver. On the
free coinage bill in 1886 the Demo
cratic yeas were 90, nays 10. The nays,
you see, were then increasing, but still
a majority of the Democrats stood for
the free coinage of silver.
SIN 1890 the free coinage Democrats
were 101, nays -. In 1890 the Demo
cratic party stood that way. In 1890
again the Democratic vote was 112
yeas, 20 nays, in favor of free coinage.
sin March, 1892, on a motion to table
free coinage bill, the yeas were 148
and the nays 147 / was speaker at
that time and voted with the nays and
that made tie, and the motion failed.
''In August, 1893, the free coinage
Democrats were 101, nays 1913. For
the first time in the history of the
Democratic party in 1893 majority
of the Democratic representatives in
Congress- majority of two-voted
against free coinage. They voted
against free coinage then because that
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-16
Essays for Next Editorial Convention.

Concord Times.
In pursuance with the provisions of
the by laws. President Stevens, Of the
North Carolina Press Association, has
appointed the following essayists for the
next meeting:
"Is Quality or Quantity of Circulation
the Desideratum for the Editor to Strive
70 2'--J. L. Ramsay, Progressive Far
mer.
1.-The Educational Effect in Com
munity Cf the Local Newspaper. g. l..
Abernethy, Beaufort Herald.
els Editorial Billingsgate Conducive
to Higher Journalism2"-J. D. Boone,
Waynesville Courier.
"Where is the Demarcation between
News Matter and Free Advertising2"--
J. 2. Kerr, Asheville Citizen.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-16

dollar was worth cents more than
the bullion in gold dollar. That act
was passed without knowledge on
the part of the people, or OF the peo-
pies representatives, and never
heard it questioned in Democratic
circles until within the last year or
two. A great many strange things
have happened within the last year
or two, daughter and appiause) ana
one of those things is that we ma
men to-day Democrats, asserting on
the stump and elsewhere that the
act of 1878 was passed with the full
knowledge and consent on the part OF
the people and the representatives
who passed 1T. Permit me one moment
to call your attention TO that. MI
Thurman, OF Ohio, the noblest Roman
of them all, applause and cheers),
who fingers now upon sick bed at
his home in Columbus, O., stated on
the floor Of the Senate, There is not
a single man in the Senate | think,
unless perhaps a member OF the con-
ference from which the bill came,
who thought it pointed towards de
monetization.
MIR. Allison, n representative from
Iowa and a distinguished candidate
for the Republican nomination for
the Presidency, says: When the Sc
cret history of the bill of 1873 comes
to be told il will disclose the fact that
the house of representatives intended
to coin both gold and silver.
Beck, a member of the house from
Kentucky when the bill was passed,
said: The bill which demonetized
silver never was understood by either
house of Congress. | say this with
full knowledge of the facts Senator
HEREFORD, of West Virginia, says the
same. President Garfield, then mem
Der. said the same thing. Kelly, OF
Pennsylvania, says: i was ignorant OF
the fact that the bill demonetized sill
ver.' And so said Blaine and so sald
Voorhees,. President Grant, who sign
I ed the bill, did not know 1T.
"Now, when you consider the charac-
ter of the bill, it is not strange There
was no gold or silver in clculation at
that time We were on paper basis
1t was bill to recognize the mints;
there was nothing in its title showing
that silver was to be demonetized The
bill. which was in sixty-seven sections,
dealt with the counterfeiting and mint
officers, and notice was given to no
body that it dealt with gold or silver
so far as coinage was concerned. what
did the bill do? 1t absolutely demone-
tized silver.
THAT was in 1878. When the peo-
pie found out what had been done they
manifested their disapprobation. | can
turn YOU to the votes of your repre-
sentatives in Congress following the
passage of that law down to the Con-
gress which has just passed and /
think | can demonstrate from the votes
of the representatives of the people
that a majority of the Democratic
party from that hour to this has been
struggling to rehabilitae silver as IT
was when it was struck down.
Now it is of some consequence to
determine what party is responsible
for this and what party advocated its
denomination. The Congress that
struck down silver was Republican;
therefore / commi no Improperly
when I say that we went TO the single
gold standard as a Republican meas
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-16
RuckIen,s Arnica SaIye

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Price % cents per box. For sale by John
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-16
Wiz DEMONET

Now, why was it demonetized?
here can be but one reason. 1t was
% increase the value of gold dollar
Now, those who oppose silver say.
We oppose it because it is cheap,
because the bullion is cheap But in
1873, as | have told you, when it was
struck down. the bullion in a silver
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-16
Uses
Mexican Mustang Liniment
On his horses, ON his drivers.
RALEIGH. n. c., Feb. 8, 1895.

RALEIGH. n. c., Feb. g. 1895.
Lyon Mfg. Co., Brooklyn N. Y.
Gentlemen:-Haying seen Mexican nustang Linz
ment extensively advertised induces me to tell YOU
how useful 1T is persons In the livery
used 1t for past years my every
thing that horses subject TO- For sprans joints
do not think it has equal and for such things
harness gals rubs Is wonderful
once mad very fine driver who thrown from
rage In runaway and severely bruised about shout
ders and that think would able
TO get carriage again. remembered, however. what
Mexican Mustang Eminent did for nay case OF
bruises and had him It constantly and In
weeks he good driver ever and ache or
pain remained.
know you get tired Of receiving such letters but
thought would more testimonial useful.
ness Of Mustang Imminent truly
w II. LANCASTER
For 10 years In Livery and Transfer business
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-16

broke out. / could
not account for them
ana ny physician did
not seem to do rae
any good. The erup-
tions would spread
to the size OF 9 half
dollar, and the flesh
would become ulcer
A.ed nearly to the
cong I anaily de-
ei led TO try Hoods
So lille, and af-
Ter taking several
.tr -
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-16
Impure Blood
Scrofula Breaks Out in Running
Sores

The Poison Perfectly Cured by
Hoods 3arsapa.;Ila.
ga year ago a sore came on one of my
limbs. 1t spread, and soon four Others,
which proved to be as bad az the first,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-12
WOMEN VOTING IN UTAH.

The latest decision of the courts in
Utah denies the right of women to vote
In the coming election of state officers.
This reverses a previous decision by an
other court, and is made by the votes
OF two judges out of three, the third dis
senting. The ground on which it rests
is that woman have not the right to vote
in Utah until the state constitution is
adopted. But neither strictly speaking,
have men right to vote for state Off
GERS under a state constitution until that
constitution is adopted. The absence of
right to vote on the state constitution in
itself is clear enough; but it strikes us
that the voting for state officers under
it is different thing. No one has a right
to vote here except by sufferance. The
same constitution that authorizes men
to vote for state officers in Utah author
ICES women to do so also. ~ is hard to
see how, if men vote under it. women
may not as well. The court, in forbid
ding women to vote, practically inter
prets the constitution to allow them to
vote in every election for state officers
except the first one. Of course, the con-
stitution says no sucn thing, and to con-
strue it in this way is very much like an
absurdity-Boston Herald.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-12
..ALL THE PROTECTION THEY
WANT,

The Protective Tariff League has
been sending out circulars to manu-
features asking their views as to the
working of the present tariff, all, OF
course, with the purpose of getting
evidence against it. What THE repnes
are only the league knows, and 1t Is
not likely they will be published for
general distribution. But 1T got one
reply, from the Doe River Wooden
mills which has been published. Ii
the rest were like it the league cannot
he blamed for not spreading them
broadcast. Here is the reply:
"Gentlemen: In answer to your cir
cular and cards, we will say we are
paying the same price to the same
amount of hands that we did in 1880
that is, in dollars and cents-and at
the same time our hands are buying
40 per cent more with the same money
than they did in 1890.
I'VE HAVE ALL THE PROTEC-
TION WE WANT IN FREE WOOL.
1.-THE DOE RIVER WOOLLEN
MILLS
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-12
UTAH AND THE SENATE.

The Democratic convention in Utah, in
addition to nominating candidates for
the supreme court and for representa-
tive in Congress, designated two men
as candidates for the United States SEN
ate. In case the Democrats shall carry
the legislature the voters understand
that ex-Delegate ]. L. Rawlins and Moses
Thatcher will be elected to the Senate.
This is an excellent rule, and one which
until we get an election of senators by
direct vote of the people.
The Democrats, it is said, have some
hopes of carrying the new state and Sc
curing the legislature. The territory was
formerly Democratic but in 1892 the Re-
publicans elected the delegate to Con-
gress by a plurality of 2,S06, nearly 1000
votes being cast for a Liberal candi-
date. Last year the Republicans plur-
atty was 1921, and they controlled the
constitutional convention.
The Utah senators. who will take their
seats at the December session, cannot
greatly affect the balance of power In
that body there will be 80 Democrats
counting two senators from South Caro-
lina-42 Republicans (without Dupont. OF
| Delaware, whose right to sit will be
challenged) and 6 Pepulists. If Dupont
should be admitted the Republicans
would have 49, or two short of a major
! ity without Utah. Should they get the
/ two from Utah, and Dupont, they woult
/ still lack one of maior.Ey, as the Sen
| presiding officer is a Democrat.
The Democrats cannot control, ever
! should they carry Utah, without hell
| from the Populists. and this, II they arr
wise, they will not seek.-New York
! World.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-12
MORMON WOMEN.

The Boston Journal of September Z.
contains the following fling at the
women of Utah:
That decision of the Utah supreme
court that women cannot legally vote
in the coming election is a bitter
Democratic disappointment. The
tariff reform party was depending
upon the help of the solid body of the
Mormon women. Nothing can now
apparently prevent "a Republican tri-
umph."
The desire of the Democrats OF Utah
was that all the women of Utah,
whether Mormon, or non-Mormon,
whether Democrats or Repub,i-
cans, should have the opportunity
of exercising the elective franchise at
the first state election. Our advocacy
of woman suffrage has never depended
upon the question whether it would
be an advantage to the Democratic
party or a disadvantage to ie Our
great regret is that the women of
Utah, regardless of party, will not be
able to vote in November
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-12
WORK OF THE OGDEN CONVENTION

The Utah Democrats have not suffered
the grass to grow under their feet since
the admission of the state into the I'm
ion has given them the right to put a
state ticket into the field. The Demo-
cratic state convention. which was held
at Ogden on Thursday, not only nom
mated candidates for governor, secre-
tary of state, encouragement and three
supreme judges, but also designated can
didates for the two seats in the United
States Senate and the one seat in the
House of Representatives to which the
state is entitled.
The three principal planks of the plat
form, separation of church and state, free
coinage of silver and woman suffrage,
are doubtless popular in Utah, but the
two last named will not commend them
selves to the voters of either party in
the older states
OF the candidates named, j. T. Caine,
the nominee for governor, and j. l.. Raw
Inns. one of the candidates for senator.
both of whom have served as territorial
delegate in Congress, are the only ones
with more than a local reputation. 1t
may be taken for granted that the par
tisan control of the new state is still de-
batable, and the Democrats are early in
the field with their bid for supremacy
Philadelphia Times
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-12
HAMILTON FAVORED GOLD.

A few days ago the Tribune under
took at length to criticize Judge
Powers speech as chairman of the Og-
den convention and during the course
of the article asserted that Hamilton
was the gentleman who made the silver
dollar the unit OF value" From the
works of Jefferson and Hamilton, Cit
ing volume and page, we proved that
this was incorrect. Then the Tribune,
in lamentaTbly lame article, attempted
TO show that its first assertion was
correct. This The Herald also denol-
ished by absolute proof from historical
facts and the writings OF Jefferson and
Hamilton. Now what answer does it
attempt to make to all this? 1t is this:
1.-THE Herald published this quotation
from Hamilton:
Contrary to the ideas which have
heretofore prevailed in the suggestions
concerning q, coinage for the United
States, though not without much hest
tation, arising from a Difference for
those ideas, the Secretary is upon the
whole strongly inclined to the opinion
that a preference ought to be given to
neither of the metals for a money
unit -
"That was exact bimetallism The
Herald published that and in the same
article unblusningly says that Hamil-
favored silver. What is the use of try
ing to do anything with journal Df
that kind? This is all the worse on the
! part of our contemporary, because the
very measure proposed by Hamilton
! fixed the unit in silver which was the
unit Of values in our country up to
! 1871
| The comment of the Tribune here is
as dishonest one as was ever made,
and made for the dishonest purpose of
leading its readers to think that we
based our assertion that Hamilton
favored gold as the money standard, if
either metal We're to be preferred to
the other, on the sentence it quotes
alone. Our assertion that Hamilton
favored gold, were one metal to be
chosen over the other, was based on the
very next sentence following the one
above quoted and which reads:
Perhaps, if either were to be pre-
ferred it ought to be gold rather than
silver"
Then Hamilton set forth reasons why
this should be so, and we quoted some
of them. And they were taken from
his works directly. and not second
hand from some speech or pamphlet
Let the Tribune answer this question
Did not Hamilton favor gold as the
money standard if it was to be based
on one metal?
Then let it answer this: Did mo-
jefferson favor making the money
unit one ounce of pure silver or one
ounce of standard silver?
Let it answer these questions frankly
and honestly. If it will not, what i:
the use Of trying to do anything with
a journal of that kind?"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-12

enough. But the plumbers in the selec-
tons for district judges in this judi
cial district is simply appalling to Re
publicans, while it is really astonishing
to Democrats. The manner in which
the nominations were brought about
is ventilated even by the. Tribune
which shows that it was a piece of
paltry trickery, and was manipulated
by some of the lowest class of cheap
political wire workers.
Propositions have been made by some
decent Republicans for what they call
non-partisan judicial ticket. That
sounds very well. The principle of it
is all right. But what is the purpose
Of it? We think it is too late in the
day to spring anything like that on
the Democrats of this district. They
are not likely to bite at any such bait
The Republican nominations for both
the supreme and district judges suit
the Democrats well enough. If they
cannot put UP vastly superior men for
district judges, as they have already
done for supreme judges, they deserve
to be beaten in the approaching cleo
ton.
If the people of this district want
such men as the trio named to sit on
the bench and try the important causes
that will come up for adjudication in
this part of the new state, they ought
Of course to vote for them. The bar
will not do so certainly. Lawyers want
men of judicial acumen and of the
judicial mind and habit for such a
high position. Men that are merely
ordinary or less than ordinary attor-
neys ought not to be raised to such an
exalted place even if they are strong
and extreme partisans, and against
whose personal character nothing is
alleged.
The duty of the Democrats is to
nominate three thorough lawyers of a
judicial turn of mind, and who can be
depended upon to decide according to
law and equity, being familiar by
experience with both the principles and
practice which ought to govern courts.
Thls the Democrats can do next Satur-
day. If they fail not in this, the Demo
cratic judicial ticket will prevail in
this district, as We believe it will in
the state for the Supreme bench. Let
no mistake be made. Nominate good
sound, able men of judicial calibra,