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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-05-22
BRIEF ITEMS.

Miss Ida Robinson. who has been spend
ing a few days with her parents, has
returned to New York. where she goes
10 accept a position In the Lost. Strayed,
or stolen" Company. They will reheaTse
IN New York for three weeks. and then
60 70 Chicago. where they play ali sum
mer
The Laurel Club gave a delightful
s)iree ~ their hail last evening
The West-End Methodist Sunday school
VIII give their annual picnic at the
beautiful summer home Of Major Drewry
''Wostover" on Tuesday, June 10th.
Mr.. j. j. S8nctifer has returned home
from GorQonsvlll@. where he has been on
business.
Judge John IT, Ingram IS at Chesterfield
Courthouse. representing Watkins and
others I'm their damage suit against the
Atantic-COast Line
Mss Rebscca l.. Hudgins and Mr. r.
II. Baker. of Dlnwiddie. were married
Yesterday morning. The happy couple
left on the 1 O'Clock train for Petersburg.
Mr.. Bourne recently appointed Inspec-
tor OF Plumbing, was qualified al a recent
meeting OF the Water Commissioners,
and all that remains 10 be done now rs
the ratification by the CITY Council OF
his appointment.
Mrs. W {. Johnson. Of Williamsburg,
is visiting her brother Captain 5. j.
Brooks No. ZIG McDoncugh street.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-05-22
without Foundation.

ASHLAND. VA, May A.-(Special)-
Diligent inquiry reveals the fact that the
reported murder OF George Morris. near
the South Anna bridge, is without founda-
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-05-22
NEWPORT NEWS.
Competitive Drill Postponed-A Col
Iision-SiHrringe


NEWPORT NEWS. VA. May 2l.-(spe-
oial THE individual competitive drill be-
tween members Of the Huntington Rifles
for the Daily Press gold medal, was post
poned from last night until next Monday
evening. owing 10 the inclemency Of the
weather.
The disagreeable weather also necessi-
tated the pOstpOuement until next We'd
nesday OF the union services at the Meth
odist church for the benefit OF the Anne
MAN sufferers. Miss Mary Hamilton, OF
Washington. who is well known for her
charitable work throughout the East vii.
deliver an address on the atrocities and
depredations that have been committed
by the Turks and explain the necessity
for immediate action on the part OF the
charitable nations of the world locking
TO the relief OF the starving and suffering
unfortunates.
a COLLISION.
one OF the electric-cars belonging to the
Newport News. Hampton, and ola Point
Electric Railway Company. while return
ing 10 Hampton this morning az full
speed, collided with a horse and wagon
belonging to Mr.. u. W. Lane. and within
a few minutes after IL was necessary
10 destroy the animal. which was quite
valuable, in order TO relieve It's sunerlngs.
The wagon was not damaged beyond
having the shafts completely broken or.
Cook Bayard. of the Chesapeake and
ONO steamship Chickanominy, stumbled
down the galley steps Of the vessel late
last night, striking on his head. Or. c.
Il. Gillian was summoned and found the
injured man suffering from a severe con-
cussion OF the brain.
MARRIAGE.
Mr.. John Donovan. Of Yorktown. and
Miss Carrie Winder, OF Hampton. were
united in marriage yesterday afternoon
at the residence OF the brides parents.
The maid Of honor was Miss Fannie Win
der. a sister OF the bride. and Mr. y. !.
Rayfeld, Of Newport News acted as the
best man. At the conclusion Of the cere-
mony. the bride and groom left by train
for Lee Hall, Warwick county, where
they will spend a Few days before proceed
ing TO Yorktown, their future home.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-05-22
NIGHT SESSION.

At the night session interesting adj
dresses were made by Rev. j. w. Morris,
Of Brazil. and Rev. Mr.. Tat, ~ Japan.
with Rev J. T. Cole, Of New York. acting
as interpreter. Mr.. Cole also spoke for
the American Church Missionary Society.
The present method Of raising the con-
tingent fund was voted the best.
i minority report by Rev. \. Goodwin.
advocating that those churches be eX-
cused which find Il impossible TO pay
all the assessment was lost.
The committee recommended that any
change OF name In the constitution and
canons Of the General Convention be op-
posed. and the present t.tle wherever &C.
curing be retained
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-05-22
smith. OF this place, performed the cere-

smith, or this place, peI'Oih"SH '"e Wv
mony.
Copious rains have fallen here during
the past four days. and farmers are
much pleased with the crop prospect.
There has been considerable hal here
and I'm some parts OF Edgecombe county
which did some damage.
The meeting In progress In the sap
list church. under the direction or Kew
J. T. Edmundson, has been one OF con
siderable interest. About forty persons
have professed faith, and dozen have
Joined the church
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25

the added capital of the farmers In tho
form Of farming implements and ma
chinerys was almost 100000. In other
| words, the total additional mortgage
debt Incurred by the farmers Of Mime.
sofa in these ten years was only about
two per cent. of the $177,000.00O added
to their wealth in the three items Of
lands, stock. and farming implements.
Finally, further analysis shows that
the mortgage debt on farms has largely
decreased since 1880 in all the older
counties, and that the increase is alto
gether due to the opening of farms in the
newer districts. and represents the
money borrowed for implements, ma
chinery, etc When they get at the facts
the people of Minnesota find they are not
so badly off as some of them supposed
they We're. 1t should be borne in mind
that the people of Minnesota are no
exception in this respect.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25

The country has something else to
listen to nowadays than TRADES against
the pensioners. Loyalty to country is
in too great demand to prevent slurs
upon those who responded once be-
fore when the demand was as great
and the sacrifice of those who re-
sponded much greater. We do not
respect a recurrence of the abuse of
pensioners in so fragrant a form. as it
has at times heretofore assumed. Not
only will the introduction of new issues
be responsible for this but also the fact
that the number of those receiving
their deserts from the government
must continually grow less. The last
pension report reveals a loss of "A ,093
pensioners from the rolls during the
year. There We're added 1854 new
ones together with the restoration OF
1878 who had been dropped. These lat
ter should not be considered as addi-
tons for they We're for the most part
dropped unjustly and should have re-
manned on the rolls. The whole num-
Der of pensioners on the roll June 80
| 1896. was 910,67S and the amount dis.
, bursed was sl3s, 761, a decrease OF
81 ,592, SIS as compared with the previ
/ Gus year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25
WOMEN PREACHING GOLD.
To Women in Cherry Hill. Little Africa. and
the Gas House Districts.

At meeting of the Harlem Women's
Republican club yesterday afternoon at
the residence of Mrs. Frances Parker
IS East 127th street. Mrs. Clarence
Burns, president of the West End
Women's Republican association. read
paper on the political missionary
work of women among the dwellers of
the east side. Mrs. Burns said she and
her coworkers found that the majority
OF the women in the poorer quarters
We're in favor of free silver, and for
the purpose of making a house to house
canvass among them to convince them
of their error the city was divided into
districts as follows: Cherry HILL Lit
tie Africa in the eighth ward, the wes-
tern gas house district, the eastern gas
house district, and the neighborhoods
where the Socialists predominant.
In every district, Mrs. Burns said, the
efforts of the women had been success
full, and everywhere the missionaries
were treated with respect.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25
What Helped Reduce Price Of Silver.
On. Y. Post.)

Those who want facts instead of gusts
of wind about the decline in the market
price OF silver find some telling ones
in n little pamphlet by Mr.. Cuthbert
Mills, How the Railroad has Cheap
ened Silver" BY the extension of rail-
roads to the West since 1860. and by
the consequent lowering of the rates
of transportation. he shows how it is
possible for the cost of production of
silver to have been so enormously
lowered in the past thirty years. With
the completion of the Union and Cen
trail Pacific, and especially of the Den
yer and Rio Grande almost wholly to
develop mining countryD the mine
owner got his freight charges reduced
about nine-tenths, as compared with
transportation by mule train. No Won
der, then that the production of silver
increased from 1900, 900 ounces in 1870
to $4,000, 900 in 1873, to 63, 900. 900 ounces
in 1892, or that the business still is car
ried on profitably at So cents an ounce.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25

This is what Bryan said at Dover.
Del: MY friends, divide society into
two classes. On the one side put the
non producers and on the other side
put the producers of wealth, and you
will find that in this country the ma
jority of the laws are made by the nom
producers instead of the producers of
wealth, and just as long as the non
producers make the laws just SO long
it will be more profitable to be a nom
producer of wealth." Now what does
Mr.. Bryan mean? Not what he says
surely. Is Bryan a non-producer? He
tolls with his tongue rather than with
hands or his brain and as his variety
of wind is not a wealth producer he
comes as near being q non-producer as
any one we can call to mind. But he
isn't making our laws now and the
producers of the country don't in
tent that he and others of his ilk shall
make them. If he shall lend his hands
or his brains to producing or assist
ing in producing wealth for the coun-
try rather than for the silver mine
owners be will in time have better
chance to participate in the making
of laws than he now has.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25
0n1ce laB MIddIe Seet. nd Nanno.

a preference for Bryan. In the Bur
lington shops at Galeshprg. ~ men
voted for Mckinley and p for Bryan.
OF the burlington engineers. pa are
for Mckinley and % for Bryan If
Burlington trainmen, 525 are for Nc
Kinley and % for Bryan: OF tracknlen,
l25 are for Mckinley and 81 for Bryan.
The totals among Burlington railway
employees, so far canvasscd, are: Me.
kinley. 1895; Bryan. ISL, giving the
sound money candidate clean ma
jority of l1ji
Other equally significant results are
those obtained in the Elein watch fac
tory, Joliet steel works and the big
furniture factories at Rockford. Out
of 500 skilled mechanics employed in
the Elgin watch factory 755 voted for
Mckinley. while only eight expressed
II preference for the free silver candi-
date and 81 are yet undecided. Bryan
therefore. gets Just one per cent. of the
vote cast by the watchmakers. At the
Illinois Steel Company's works al
Joliet Mckinley has 969 votes. Bryan
LOG, while % are classed as doubtful
No industries have suffered NOR.
heavily from the industrial depression
incident to three years of German tariff
and currency agitation than the &c
furniture factories located at Rockford
Many of them are owned and operated
by Swedish-AmercanS and are SPLEEN
did monuments to the genius and bust
ness enterprise of this nationality
Some of the factories are closed, wait
ing for the dawn of Mckinley pros
perity, while others are running with
greatly decreased forces. A canvass of
the employees of four factories that are
running gives Mckinley 271 votes and
Bryan % votes.
The industries canvassed represent
high grade of intelligent skilled labor
The expression of political preference
was secured bymcans of secret ballots in
which it was impossible for foremen.
superintendent or employers TO know
how any man voted. To cry "intmida-
ton" or coercion" to these men would
be resented as an objectionable affront
to their intelligence and self-reSpect.
No further proof is needed to demon
strate the fact that nearly 80 per cent.
of the skilled labor of Illinois is for
Mckinley. sound money and protec-
ton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25
Skilled Labor for M'Kinley.
Chicago Tribune.)

The poll of the employees Of mills. fac
tories and railway shops in Illinois
cities and towns taken by the CORE :
spondents of the Tribune adds con-
frmatory testimony to the many evil
cences already supplied by this paper
to establish the proposition that at
least so per cent. of the skilled labor in
this state is for Mckinley.
When a poll of the Crane elevator
works in this city, taken by means of a
secret ballot, showed that over 1000
employees We're for Mckinley and only
s. were for Bryan. even the most opti-
mistic shook their heads increduIously.
Secret ballots taken in the various rail-
way shops and other manufacturing
establishments in Chicago, the results
of which have been published in The
Times Herald, indicated condition of
political sentiment equally gratifying
to the friends of sound money and pro-
lection
With such preponderance of senti-
ment favorable to Mckinley among
Chicago shop men it was easy to prog
nosticate results in November, pro-
vided the favorable showing was main
tanned in the factories and shops in
other parts of the state. That the per-
centage of Mckinley adherents is more
than sustained in other towns is shown
by the canvass of 1882 employees in all
grades of productive industry.
Out of the 1925 employees in the 10
towns canvassed 1917 declared them
selves for Mckinley, 1881 are for Bryan
and 1884 are scattered between Palmer
and lowering or are noncommittal.
The most significant showing is made
by the railway shops. AT Aurora,
which is headquarters for the Chicago
division of the Burlington road, 565
employees in the Burlington shops voted
for Mckinley, while only u expressed
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25
Imaginary Versus Real Ills.

If we suffer more from imaginary
than from actual ills-and there ought
to be no question but that we dot is
best that once in a while, at least, we
have the difference between the real
; and the imaginary pointed out to us
This campaign is doing just that for
the country. The essence of the Bryan
propaganda is that the country is suf-
fering terribly and that any kind of a
, change is to be eagerly sought after
on the ground that matters cannot be
any worse. This is the spirit of Popoc
racy. Without it that party could not
hope to successfully appeal to the
used as substitute for argument
Bryan deals in a few glittering gen.
| eralities, half quotations and. state
ments that can"be proved absurd but
through it all he breathes and fire.
quently gives utterance to appeals to
discomfort. If the ills do not exist he
| would have them seem to exist until
such time as he may think his pur-
pose served.
| In order to meet him it is necessary
/ to get at the facts and make them
public. OF course it would be impos-
sible to correct every error as he makes
| it and expose every false premise as
| soon as he has assumed it for he is SOW
ing a whirlwind of error constantly
! and no matter how many times his
false premises have been disproved he
continues to make use of them as if
they were the gospel truth. Probably
he thinks the same people never hear
him twice and the newspapers get tired
of following his mis- statements with
corrections. 1t is not possible to take
notice of other than some of the more
conspicuous falsities set afioat by these
demagogues. One Of these has Just
been exploded out in the state of Mime
sofa. A labor day orator out there de-
clared that during the decade of 1885,
80 the mortgage debt of Minnesota has
increased 297 per cent, while the wealth
producing element has only increased
81 per cent
| This being in line with the course of
the Popocratic campaign out West care
has been taken to get at the real facts.
1t is found from an exhaustive inyesti-
cation by the labor commissioner that
almost the entire increase in mortgage
Indebtedness during that decade was
from sl7,oOO,0oO in 1880 to $122 oOo. 900 in
1880 on city lots and from $1,000 900 to
$685. 900 on land not used for agricul-
tural purposes. Meanwhile the mort.
gage debt upon farms grew only from
sSf,oOo,o0O in 1880 to s39, O0O, 900 in 1890
while the value of these farm lands in.
creased $4,000. 600. nearly s27, 900. 900 he
ing added to the value of live stock and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25

although the price was S1.32 an ounce
in 1870. a mining engineer, Mr.. G. T.
Robin, has shown that the introduction
of dynamite in the place of black pow
der has greatly reduced the cost of sill
Yer mining. The average contract
price for driving tunnels was SIS a foot
with powder; with the advent of dyna-
mite ii dropped at once to SO or lower
Thus The real criminals who reduced
the price If silver We're the men who
built the railroads into the mining
country aud Introduced labor saving
and waste preventing machinery and
methods 1t is against them that the
BrSanite lghrnings should be directed
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25


that gentleman are well illustrated III
this quotation by the Louisville courier
Journal froma speech Bryan made four
years ago: "You must attribute 1t to
the inventive genius that has multi
piled a thousand times, in many IN
stances, the strength of a single arm.
and enabled us to do today with one
man what 80 men could do SO years ago.
That is what brought prices down In this
country and elsewhere" Now Mr..
Bryan says the fall in prices is due to
our monetary standard. The first
statement is as true as the latter IN
ference is false. Common sense tells
lis that,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25
eff Mckinley is defeated the Demo

IF Mckinley is defeated, the Demo-
cratic party will take the rascally
judges by the threats and teach them
that there is yet liberty in this land -
me above remarks were made by Mr..
Tillman in a speech at Philadelphia,
the same Mr.. Tilman, who with Mr..
Altgeld dominated the Chicago con-
vention and the construction of the
Chicago platform, as Mr.. Hill told the
New York state committee Tuesday
evening. Yet this is the platform every
line OF which Mr.. Bryan says he ap-
proves. Enough said?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25

The freshets of last spring so COM
pletely changed the river beds that
guides are almost as much at sea In the
rapids as are novices with the paddle
Old channels are completely choked up
with rocks deposited by the ice and
new channels. if any there be. have not
yet been picked to any extent. Two
boats We're sent up the ST. John and
lower Allegash early in the summer for
the purpose of making new channels.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25

John Boyd Thacher isn't the solder
to unite the gold. silver, and dynamite
elements of the, New York Democracy
with Tammany's tin and Dave Hills
brass, Think what an ass he was to
imagine he could!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25

It's been nearly a week now since
the Popocrats referred to the election
in Arkansas. The Democratic loss in
that state of about % per cent since
1892 is not a matter which they care to
talk about, except to those who are
ignorant of the result
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25
Try Aliens FOOt.Esse.

A powder to be shaken into the shoes.
Az inns season of year your feet feel
you have aching feet. new or tight shoes.
Try Aliens Foot Ease. 1t cools the feet
ana makes walking easy Cures swollen
ana sweating feet. blisters and callous
spots. Relieves corns and bunions OF ali
pam and gives rest and comfort. TRY IL
To-Day At druggists or shoe stores. By
FREE. Allen s. Olmstead, lie Row Il
!. sept4. eOd0w4w
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25

One of our Maine papers suggests.
by its arrangement of Mr.. Bryan's
picture, that the portrait would really
adorn a testimonial of some patent
medicine, were it not that it has figured so
prominently in advertising what is
commonly known to be a quack nos
trum. Familiarity called the free silver:
cure-all."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25

if Mckinley is elected the free silver
senators will not block tariff bill.
This looks as if they expected to get
enough of the free silver crusade by
that time
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25

The recent remarkable silence of
George Fred Williams has been broken
by his shrill cry of stop thief mean
ing the Democratic state committee
Won't they make his political funeral a
gorgeous one, though!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25
Can't Get Any Lower.
IN V Sim \

John G. Sheehan has practically called
ilron John Boyd Thatcher to retract his
letter to Mr.. Danforth or get off the Pop
ocratic ticket Why shouldn't Mr. Thach-
er obey the order? He will only have to
stultify himself once more. and when a
man has gone into that business he might
as well keep on in the qualification. He
can't get down any lower than he is now
lie can't be any more observation-disclosures
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25

report from Yellowstone park an
nounces that the geysers there are
weakening. The Great American Gey-
ser, however, is still spOuting and is
expected to reach it's climax ats Bath
tomorrow evening. Surely the inspira-
ton won't be lacking
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25

When November comes, if your mine
boss serves notice on you that if You
don't vote according to his wishes, you
will have to look for work elsewhere,
you will serve notice on him to go to
hell: and, what. is more, if necessary,
send him there-Tillman addressing
Pennsylvania miners.-How he and
Altgeld and Bryan are simplifying the
campaign!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25

The New York Democrats are hope
on the free lunch, free rum" cause,
which Thatcher says is the great issue
at stake
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25

If every bucket-shop lamb should
. bleat and the courts come to the rescue,
recently. it would be gratifying to
most people: not that the dupes de-
serve sympathy but because the bucket
shops deserve extinction
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25

Mr.. Bryan has decided to lie abed
more. No one ought to object to his
lying there; it's when he'sup and about
the objections are in order
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25
PRESS COMMENTS.
One Of the Bryan Boys.


General Coxey. who paid $4,000
for stallion before he organized the
Commonweal army, has traded the
steed for $25 nag and IS to boot And
now Coxey is bowling for more
money!"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25

Cries of retire are rife in Popo-
the ear, though, in the thunder tones
of the country's caA upon the Popo-
cratic party to retire.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25

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