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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09
GENERAL TOPICS.

The official count of California gives
Bryan one of the electors of that state.
~
The Populist State Committee ex-
pended 900 to make the recent cam.
paign.
Gov. Morrill's campaign expenses,
according to his sworn statement, were
SS75.00.
Gov. Leedy's election cost him $780,
so. Of this amount $367.SO was rail-
road fare.
Buchanan county, Missouri, proposes
to raise company of men who will 90
to Cuba and enlist in the Cuban Army.
About 200 men have expressed their
desire to go.
The electoral college meets on Janu-
airy 18th.
j. r. Burton will ask for the state
republican caucus nomination for U. S.
senator. 1t is not thought that he will
have any opposition.
So
The state printer will be elected on
January 10Th and the u. S. senator on
January 26th.
*x*
McKinley's popular plurality which
is generally reported to be Zoo, 900, has
reduced itself below 100000.
~
Congress convened on Monday, De-
cembeT 7th. j.
= ~ d
Edison is at work on an Invention to
remove blindness. He claims to be able
to bring about the wonderful result by
means of the X-ray.i
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09
JEasY s1nrson CONES 70 WOODWARD.

From Woodward News and Live Stock In
spector.l
Woodward people on Nov. 30th for
the first time saw live congressman
on their streets. Delegates to congress
and would-be-delegates have often
pushed the solid meadam of our streets
with their brOgans, but never until Jer-
~ came has the town held a real live
member of congress who has had a vote
attachment.
MIR. Simpson sold his beef steers re-
Gently and came to Woodward to buy
cattle to re stock his Barber county
ranch. For Jerry is cattleman as
we'll as congressman. Some people
have even intlmated that he IS a better
judge of cattle than of laws. But be
that as it may, his mission to Wood
ward proves that he knows good cattle
and his purchase of 800 COWS and calves
while here attests his practical know.
ledge of the business.
Vi course having the object of his Wis
1t in mind he did not fail to talk with a
representative of the Live Stock In
spector. In his interview he confided
the statement that he had done very
little since election but visit the depot
at the Lodge to get a. glimpse Of the
advance agent of prosperity" whom he
was told was coming on every train.
Pressed to a serious view of matters
he said he thought there would be good
money in handling cattle for several
years now. He claims that every indi-
cation reports an advance in prices ow-
ing to a scarcity of cattle on the farms.
He showed where the general market
for stock cattle has been improving
right along, little every year for the
past four years and argues that condi-
tions warrant continuation of this in
crease. He thinks there is furry of
excitement just now among feeders
which will not last. A stampede of
this nature breaks with the first
| drop in prices.
He then talked politics galore, and
proved that whatever may be said of
him he can never be accused of failing
to express himself on every subject.
He thought the senatorial fight In Kan.
| sas might develop a new man; thought
Mrs. Lease had been run in by some
one and suggested offering a reward.
Thought 1T was not necessary to name
the new party which is evidently com
ing as result of fusion, as the 1.-The
d-n fools of the country will give it a
name" Mr.. Simpson also expressed
himself on the national situation but
as this journal is strictly non-partisan
it does not care to reproduce them here.
Jerry" as he is best known defeated
Chester Long at the recent election by
majority of about 5000 votes and will
represent the Big 18th in the next con-
gress. He bases h is big victory on the
results of the series of joint debates
with Long where he had an opportuni
ty of talking to thousands of the oppo-
sition who were led by the papers to
consider him as a clown merely and
here had the opportunity and did prove
that he was more than match for the
brilliant Chester in statecraft.
MIR. Simpson will join the Barber
county contingent and take member.
ship in the Oklahoma LIVE Stock AS
ISOLATION to secure the best protection
for his cattle.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09

THE U. 3. TREASURY FELL BEHIND THAT MUCH
IN NOVEMBER.
Washington, Dec. 1.-The comparative state
ment of the receipts and expenditures of the
United States shows that during November,
1896, the total receipts were $25 TO- $780, and the
expenditures So, go 20. The receipts for the
| 1--WE months of the fiscal year amount to $751;
65O,4S9 and the expenditures $171 ,597 1886. The
deficit for the month of November is $S,O5O, O24
and for the five months $G9, .S46 as compar-
ed with Sl5,S69,3 37 for the corresponding five
months of last year.
Another prosperity dispatch is found
IN the following clipped from the Kan
sas City Star. This describes the kind
, of prosperity manufactured IN Ohio, the
home of the Napoleon of Protection
and Sound Money" 1t shows how WILL
ing the manufacturers are to increase
wages since Mckinley is elected:
MAY BE A MINERS STRIKE.
Columbus, o., Dec. Estate President NJ. d.
Ratchford OF the United Mine Workers ex-
pressed himself emphatically in favor of
Strike OF the P.ttsburg miners in case the OPP
orators refuse to grant the 6 cents advance
asked for. MIR. Ratchford says in case of a
o'iA>O hO VIII No. OuIS encourage Ll0 move
ment, but Will order Ohio out in sympathy if
such action Will influence the result In favor
of Pittsburg. The situation at Pittsburg is
unchanged
The following dispatch is taken from
the st. Louis Chronicle and it shows
since McKinley's election business has
revived" wonderfully: so wonderfully
that one of the leading firms of Chicago
suspended business on account of ''slow
collections and lack of business"
Chicago, ILL.,, Nov. 27.-Shon:nger, IVY g.
! Co., wholesale lace dealers, 27O Filth avenue
confessed Judgment in the Superior Court this
| morning for $4,000. Tue liabilities are said to
be between $4,000 and 100000, assets not
stated The firm attributes its failure to slow
collections and lack of business.
Here is recent dispatch which we
commend to all enthusiastic republi-
cans. In gold standard New England
the closing down of one establishment
has thrown 1900 people out of EMPLOY
ment. That's Prosperity for you with
a big Z:
Boston, Nov. 30.-The extensive plant of
| hoXDury Carpet company has shut down for
an indefinite period. Agents have made no
statement concerning the action. The plant is
the largest of its kind in New England. en-
ploying about 1,21O people,
We. could produce an almost endless
number of such testimonials without
any difficulty. Every paper we pick up
is full of such matter.
The most timid contention that the
people have any relief since the election
is simply preposterous. Such a claim
is disproved by all social conditions and
all press reports. And certainly the
pres, conducted by the agencies that it
is would not magnify the Ill condition
of business and tue masses.
No. if prosperity is any place it is in
celestial regions and has not yet lit;and
there are no indications that it ever
will light as long as McKinleyism pre-
dominates.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09

CERTAIN New York papers are call
ing on Kansas to secede from the Union.
Doubtless it would afford Wall street a
great deal of satisfaction if such an
event would take place. Kansas was
among the first states to agitate polIti-
cal reform and 1t is quite natural that
Piutocracy should endeavor to get rid
of her. While it is said in satire and
irony 1t shows what class of people the
Kansas election tramped on. Hurrah
tor Kansas! The rascals sneer at her.
therefore she is all right.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09

THERE is considerable talk
of a constitutional convention
to be provided for by the
coming Legislature. There
is no doubt but that our To-
cal constitution as well as
the national one, is sorely in
need of a revision but there
are also many other import
ant matters demanding atten-
ton. Taken all in all, this
promises to be one of the
busiest sessions of the legis-
lature the state has ever ex-
perienced.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09

j. STERLING MORTON, one of
McKinley's most hearty sup
porters and the present Sec
rotary of Agriculture, will
recommend the repeal of the
homestead law to congress at
this session. He says that
free homes is a ruinous agent
among the agricul t ural
lists off the country. j. Ster-
ling is an old fraud.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09

DID you ever hear of a
bankers convention resolving
against the gold standard or
an aggregation of bondhold-
ers and coupon clippers re-
solve against national banks!
No, and you never will. They
are members of the same fra.
ternity. They make their
millions by plundering the
producing classes and the
prevailing financial system
enables them to do their ne
farious work.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09

BY way of information we would like
to know in what particular locality that
Mckinley prosperity is TO be found.
We are told that it has been spread
broadcast all over the country since
McKinley's election but we fail to see
any evidence to substantiate this asser-
ton.
Not long since we put In a few mill
utes in making an attempt to find who
was being blessed with this great pros
perity OF which we read so much IN re-
publican papers but outside of the Cres-
set editOr-the man who pays 371 cents
per day for labor-our efforts were flu
tile. But we found a considerable
number of editorials and press dispatch
es of the following nature. We glanc-
ed over few papers hastily and took
what we saw first
Here is prosperity Item taken from
recent issue of the Kansas City
World:
The sudden cold snap has driven the army
of unemployed to the city hall in quest Of work
and assistance. The ices of the mayor and
superintendent of streets are crowded daily
with impecdnious men, ogi lg in years from
20 to CO. all deslcous of Ee.,:1g employment on
the streets o in ,tber departnen 8. Winter
is always the duest t me, for this labor, and
every applicants tJrned sway with the words
mo work. The stories that many of them
tell OF want. hunger and suffering would soft
en- heart of stone. = s
Hero is lother from the same paper.
1t shows how prosperity has stuck the
commercial circles Of Kansas City:
Warrants were sworn out in Justice Ebert
court today for the arrest of twenty-fou- mer-
chants who are delinquent ON last months; H.
| cense. ..-r -.. -s-
The following is taken from the To-
peka Capital, the notorious gold stan
dard sheet which told US how idle labor
would be employed after Mckinley IS
election. This is the way it was done:
Between forty and fifty men employed by
the Santa Fee il the yards at Argentine were
| temporarily lad off yesterday. Most of them
were track and section men.
We now introduce in evidence the
following headlines to an article which
appeared in the Topeka State Journal
one day last week. 1t shows how badly
the laborers of st. Louis are afflicted
with prosperity:
TO FEED 5000 POOR.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09

NUMEROUS factories which started
up" since the election, merely as a
bluff, have already closed down. When
the masses have no money with which
to buy the manufacturers product
there is no use of manufacturing.
There is an abundance of manufacture
ed goods on hand and people are freez-
ing and starving daily because of the
need of them. but present conditions
are such that they have no opportuni-
ty OF getting them. If the consumer
can buy, the manufacturer can manu-
facture; tariff or no tariff.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09

WHETHER Senator PETER is
reelected or not, his record is
without a blemish or a scar.
He has made one of the
ablest representatives of the
peoples interests that ever
sat in the Senate. He has
done his whole duty and al
ways proved himself honest,
conscientious and straight
forward.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09

The gold standard demo.
Gratis are organizing to con.
troll the party at its next ma
tional convention. With
them it is rule or ruin the
party. One thing is sure il
will not rule. Even if it cap
lures the convention it can
not deliver men and the PEG
pies party will get reinforce
ments from such a proceed
ing.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09

The cold winter winds are
giving the fellows who voted
for Mckinley and sound
money an opportunity of
thinking how nice it is to
have an honest dollar'while
they and their families are
tramping the streets half
clothed and fed on what they
can beg.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09

If the present congress
does not retire the green.
backs, the next one will.
Turn Uncle Sans financial
business over to the gold
spectators and national
banks exclusively and the
people will "be ID sure
enough.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09

LYMAN NAUGLE, editor of
the Wellington Voice, has
formally announced his can
didacy for state printer in
the columns of his paper.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09

UsURY is as great a crime
as stealing outright. No
government has a moral right
to uphold and protect it, yet
that is what is done by a ma
tional fostering of banks.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09
OFFICIAL PAPER of BARRIER GO.

In the city of New York
100000 men are out of en-
ployment. They have pros
perity there in great big
chunks.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09

The Presidents message has been is
sued. We will eudeavor to publish it
next week. If our readers haye the pa
thence to read 1t, it is more than we
shall expect.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09

SALVATION ARMY PREPARING TO GIVE
A BIG CHRISTMAS FEAST IN
ST. LOUIS
The following dispatch to the same
paper shows how Mckinley, confidence,
and prosperity served the u. S. treas
ury during the month of November:
DEFICIT is SMILLIONS.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09

AFTER March 4, 1897, there will be
numerous statesmen out of Job-par-
tIcularly among them are Grover CIeve-
land and Chester L. Long.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09
The Kansas City Daily World.

The world" leads In news
The World leads in enterprise.
The World" leads in popularity.
The world" prints all the news without
fear or favor; no matter whom IL hits, NO mat
ter whom ii offepds.
The "World" gives the market reports bet
ter than any paper in Kansas City.
The World" is printed seven days In the
week-ten and twelve pages day and twenty
four pages on Sunday.
If you want The World We will have it
sent to you for Shopper year or A.OO for three
months.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09
THE orr1cIAL FIGURES.

The Topeka Advocate last week pub
lished statement of the official figures
OF the recent election taken from the
records of the State Csnvassing Board,
which we herewith reproduce. being a
matter of interest and information.
The figures are absolutely correct and
can be relied upon:
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09
Notice Of Appointment.

State of Kansas, Barber county, S.:
In the mater of the estate of James C..
Fullerton, late of Barber County, Kans.
Not ce is hereby given that ON the 10Th day
of Oct, A. ID. 1896, the undersigned was, by
the Probate Court of Barber County, Kansas,
duly appointed and qualified as administrator ix
of the estate of James C.Fullerton late of Bar
Der County. deceased. ALI parties interested
in said estate will take notice and govern
themselves accordingly.
SARAH E. FULLERTON, Administrative
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09

n u q LORRAINE CHAPTER, No. 20.
VI Lis Ns Regular Communications first
and third Monday eveningsin each month.
MRS. NJ. DELISLE, W. NJ
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09

DELPHIA LODGE, No. 40, K. of P, meets ON
Monday evening of each week, at the X. of p
BALL Visiting Knights in good standing invi-
Led 10 attend. G. A. HIBBARD, G. c.
DICK WILSON, X. of r. & S.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09
Medicine Lodge 0meers.
SOCIETIES.

CYPRUS CHAPTER No. So, X. A. NJ, meets
in Masor ic Hall every I'd and 4th Thursday.
Visiting brethren cordially invited.
CHESTER /. LONG, n. p
G. L. BRAMwELL, Sec'y.
The advocate., 1896-08-05

the former because q person who inherits
no wealth does not start level with one
who inherits, say, a million dollars or
more; and it violates the latter because
a person who inherits wealth C'the heir
apparently obtains it without any pro-
ductive effort Of his own, and is thereby
given an unfair advantage in the race OF
life over one who inherits nothing. The
author enforces his argument from many
points Of view, and with a great wealth,
Of pertinent facts and illustrations; and
he anticipates and answers many OBJ
jeCtions. He is the proprietor of the
"El Dorado County Republican," OF
PlaCerville, Cal, and he writes with all
the ease and point OF veteran Of the
press, and with O closeness Of reasoning
and On absence Of mere windy rhetoric;
that make his treatise q most agreebls'
contrast with much Of the economical
literature which is nowadays intended for
popular consumption. Price, cloth, $1.25S
paper, so cents. For sale by all booksellers
or sent postpaid on receipt of price by
the publishers. Arena Publishing Com
pany, Copley Square, Boston, Mass.
The advocate., 1896-08-05
Other Reforms VIII Follow demonstration
of Silver.

Other Reforms Will Follow Reconciliation
of Silver.
Gordon Clark, last April, wrote to
the SilDer Knight:
81 have said that | stand for ultl-
mate sound money-a dollar that shall
be deed to values, like deed to Q
house. And 1 know how to institute
such money when the time comes. But
you see why we must remonetize silver
first and foremost In order tD get any
thing else. Give me this, and can
keep the people Of the United States
from starving, while they think out,
and work out, all other reforms. But
good workmen in Asia get 20 cents q
day; good Workwomen get 10 cents;
and throughout the whole Orient small
products are measured by a coin of
one-tenth of a cent. With silver de-
monetlzed, Asia buys 1t at so cents on
the dollar, and doubles the so cents by
coinage. Thus she reduces her 20-cent
wages to 10, her 10 cent wages to 5,
and all her products in the same pro-
portion, relatively to ours. If the
farmers and planters, the msnufactur.
ers and Workingmen Of the United
States have got to compete with such
q level of prices in the markets of the
world, too ultra reformers, while dream
ing Of the millennium, may be hitChed
to the estates of American gold.bugs,
and sold as serfs with the land, as their
ancestors were sold with the feudsl
possessions Of Europe"
The advocate., 1896-08-05

lowing modest and sensible reply. al
appreciate both the nomination and
the unsnimity with which IL was given.
I do not consider it as a personal COM
plimeht to Mr.. Sewal and myself, but
as an evidence that the delegates as
sembled are willing to make the res
torstiOn of bimetsllism the paramount
issue Of this campaign, and are willing
to support the Chicago ticket regard
less Of differences upon minor ques-
tions."
The advocate., 1896-08-05
Ratio Between Gold and Silver.

The following is taken from q work
entitled "Silver and Gold," published
In 1895. The figures and statements
are correct:
"The relative value of the precious
metals compared with one another or
with the values of other property can
not be ssCertsined by cost of produc-
tion. War, which was always in
progress somewhere, was the great dis
turber of prices. There were sudden
changes of ratio following the con.
quests of Alexander, Julius Caesar,
Cortez and Pizsrro. And this was
caused by the movement of large guam
titles of the metals from place to place
by the conQuering armies.
"Wlth the decline of the Roman
Empire, gold went east and trade with
Europe fell off until revived by Arab
merchants during the seventh century.
Afterward the Venetisns opened trade
with the Oriental nations, taking to
Asia slaves, weapons Of war, grain,
ship and other timber, and iron,' and
got in return gold, gold dust, silver,
spices, drugs, sugar and other COM
modities.'
"Gradually, as commerce spread, and
until the discovery of America, the
ratio between the values of silver and
gold grew to IL to l. The English
mint ratio In 1882 was lie to /. In
North Germany in 1903 it was 1880 to
/. The commercial ratio in England
in 1887 is given at 14.94 to l, and it did
not reach 16 to until 1908, when 1t
was 1903 to l. 1t never Wentsbeyond
these last figures, except in 1918, when
it reached 1926 to /, until 1875, when
1t was 1859 to l, and has not been be,
low that SINCE"
The advocate., 1896-08-05
Call OF Fourth District Convention.

The Peoples party Congressional
convention for the Fourth Congress.
Sionsl district Of the State Of Kansas is
hereby called to convene at Emporla,
Kss., on the 18th day of August, 1896,
for the purpose Of nominating q Candi.
date for Congress In said district. The
convention will consist of 1913 dele
gates, SpportiOned among the several
counties of the district as follows:
Usage 10, Coffey IL, Marion 8, Wa.
baunsee z, Butler IA, Greenwood 8,
Morris 8, WoOdson 8, Chase 5, Lyon
l6, Shawnee "a. AS soon as delegates
are elected In any county, the County
Chairman will please send q copy Of
credentials to the Chairman of the
Congressional committee, at Topeka.
A. M. HARVEY,
Chairman Congressional Committee.
E. +. HUDSON, Secretary pro tenn.
The advocate., 1896-08-05
HOw's This7

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