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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08

Bland Allison act and under the
Sherman act. IJ actually bought
silver then. The u. s. coined
some of the silver into dollars, re-
serving the residue in the treasury,
decreeing hat every dollar coined
from this purchased silver should
be as good as every other dollar in
the u. 5. and that 1T should be a
full legal tender.
But under tree coinage there
would be no purchase. Here is
where our free silver friends com.
NIT a blunder-they speak of the
U. S. government as a purchaser
under free coinage. The u. S.
would merely stamp 4129 grains of
standard silver as a dollar and turn
1t over to the party who presented
the silver for coinage. The bullion
would be the property of the man
who owned it when it was present.
ed to the U. S. and the silver after
being coined into dollars would be
the property of the man who owned
the bullion. Uncle Sam would not
buy All ounce of silver
Public Opinion.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08
How Bryan Helped Farmers.

Farmers should, of course, vote
for Bryan because he has done his
very best to ruin them He not
only advocated free wool, but he de,
clared that if he could have his way
there would be no protective tariff
on anything. at cannot be justified
were his words in speaking on the
subject in congress. Wool illus
trates his way of helping the farm
ers. In 1892, under the Mckinley
act, the increase in the production of
wool over the previous year was
25,G06,S9S pounds. In 1894, under
Legislation that Bryan favored, there
was a decrease of 23,327,426 pounds,
In 1895, there was a further decrease
of 3~0,9l3,9S6 pounds, and this year
the production was 2l,S22,0lS
pounds less than last year. In three
years time the production of wool
has decreased f6,063, APO pounds. In
value, the sheep have declined $751;
100000 in the same time. This will
afford some idea of Bryan's way OF
helping the farmers and why Bryan
expects them to vote for him.-Phil-
adelphia Press.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08

In his Wheeling, w. Va, speech
Bryan sounds the keynote of hat
money when he declared that the
country must have plenty of money,
whose value can be created 10y legs
lative fat. Major Mckinley thus
demolishes the fat theory OF the
demagogue
I've must get over the idea, my fellow
citizens, if we ever had it, that there IL
any lererdemain in finances that con-
,yress nv it's mere breath can make some
thing out OF nothing that 1t a decree
hat SO cents worth OF silver shan oe
worth 100 cents. Congress can DO much;
II can protect the life and property OF
c;t;zens. az it should it can provide
revenue laws which will make the treas
ury easy and protect American prouuc.s
from the unrestrained competition Oh cue
old world. 1t can do that ana it mus.
do that. But it cannot. by lts mere
stamp. make a dollar worth U cents
ont ri n niece OF coin which sells IN every
market of the world for 90 cents. we
want for our country n dollcr worm u
dollar. The great senator from New
York, Roscoe Conkling, once said, ! t do
not believe that you can leglslate up the
vaI,e of anything any 0 than | DE,
lieve you can make all generals meru
by legislation. The continental eohgres =
tried legisIating values up by resort -
penalties, but the inexorable Jaws y
trade, ms Independent as the laws %
prayitation, kept them down.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08
The nain Issue.
Centerville Journal.


This government, just like a
private business house, must do
business on business principles. If
it is making money it is prosperous
but il its running expenses are
more than its profits, so that it Is
steadily running behind, it is only
a question of time when ir becomes
bankrupt. The Republican stand
point in this campaign is /: first, to
let the money alone, because the
money OF this nation as it has been
since 1878 is the best money in the
world, n form just as good as
another ; and second, to readjust
The business affairs of the govern
ment 80 that it will be able to do
business at a profit instead of a
continual loss. Those are the two
importan. issues in this campaign,
plainly stated. and no amount of
sophlstry or cunning exposition of
the ''crime OF 1878" can dlsplace
them or show the Republican po-
siti n thereon to be wrong. Keep
the main issue in sight.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08
A ROUND OF CONTRADICTIONS
The Popocratic Candidate Play
ing on One String.

1t is not to Mr.. Bryan's discredit
as an orator that his speeches present
little variety, for he has only one
topic and makes from four to a dozen
speeches a day, but it is somewhat
~tiresome in trying to follow him to
come upon the same old round of
contradictions. When he is with
farmers or laborers, he rings the
changes upon his "cheap'' dollar
argument. 1t is his mission TO do
away with the dear dollar the gold
men have been boarding and substi-
tute therefor a cheap silver dollar.
But when he is with the silver men,
he tells them by establishing free
coinage, silver will be increased in
value to $1.29 cents per ounce, that
parity will be established and main
tanned. If this should be the case,
what would become of Mr.. Bryan's
cheap dollar !? The silver dollar
will then be worth, according to Mr..
Bryan, just as much as the 'dear'
gold dollar, and the farmers and
laborers, who, according to this same
authority, have been suffering from
dear dollars, must continue to suffer.
1t is hardly worth while, however, to
take MI. Bryan seriously. He talk
ed himself out of public confidence
in his New York speech, and has
been losing ground ever since, so
that six weeks before the election its
result is discounted, and the Fall
river and other mills are to be start
ed up on the assumption that Bryan
will be overwhelmingly defeated and
that the finances of the country will
be maintained on a safe basis.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08
From ncKinley's Letter of
Acceptance.

If there Is one thing which
should be free from speculation and
huctuation, it is the money of a
country.
Debasement of the currency
means destruction of values.
No one suffers so much from
cheap money rs tho farmers and
the laborers.
We are not Il nation of classes,
but of free, independent, aud hon.
orable people, despising the dema-
gogue aud never captivating to
dishonor.
1t is not more money VIC want
what we want is to put the money
we already have at work.
When money is employed, men
are employed.
We cannot inspire confidence by
advocating reputation and practic.
ing dishonesty.
1t is not All increase III the vol
ume Of money which is the need OF
the time. but III increase in the
volume of business.
Not an increase Of coin, but an
increase of confidence.
MOI moro coinage, but a more
active use of the money coined.
No open mints for the silver oil
the world, but open mills for the
full and unrestricted labor of Am
erican workingmen.
Government by law must first be
assured !; everything else can wait.
The spirit OF lawlessness must bt
extinguished by the fires of an I'm
selfish and lofty enthusiasm.
Every attack upon the pubic
faith, and every suggestion of thu
reputation of debts, public o
private, must be rebnkoa by al
men who believe that honesty il
the best policy, or VINO love thei0
country and would preserve unsul
lied it's national honor.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08
A Populist Statesman.

Senator Allen of Nebraska, one
of the pop guns, made a pretty
spectacle of himself on the train
down from Mitchell Friday after
noon. He was IN a state of beastly
i~ntoxication and repeatedly mussed
up the car sea in a disgusting
manner. When he reached Elk
Point, he was driven to the fair
grounds where he attempted to
make a speech, but the whIskey
was too much for him, and after
disgusting the assembled crowd, he
was bundled into u carriage and
hurried off to Ponca.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08
$50 Reward.

Inasmuch as it is being circulated
among the voters of this county by
certain INSCRIPTIONS politicians that
the Farmers and Merchants Bank OF
Webster and it's officers are sending
out in letters and notices TO persons
who owe notes at the bank, requests
to voters to vote the Republican
ticket and are trying bv other means
to coerce voters into voting the Re-
publican ticket, the Farmers and
Merchants Bank takes this method
of stating that the above statements
are absolutely untrue, and are known
to be absolutely false by the men
making such statements. The Far
mers and Merchants Bank, or the
officers thereof, have not in any
manner attempted to coerce any
citizen of Day County into voting
the Republican ticket, or any part of
it /; neither has the Farmers and
Merchants Bank, or any of the officers
or servants thereof, annexed to or
made a part of any of its motto es and
letters sent out to persons owing
notes at the bank a request to vote
the Republican ticket, or any part
of the Republican ticket. The
Farmers and Merchants Bank here
by offers : reward for and will pay
to any person the sum of Fifty
Dollars who will produce any evil
dence that the Farmers and Mer-
chants Bank, or any of its officers,
has ever attempted to coerce any
voter of Day County into voting the
Republican ticket, or any part of it,
and will pay a like sum to any per-
son who will produce any notice or
letter to any party in Day County
owing a note held by the Farmers
and Merchants Bank, containing a
request to such party to vote the
Republican ticket, or any part of it.
The Farmers and Merchants Bank is
not in business for political purposes,
and is willing TO accord to every
man the full right to vote just as he
pleases.
Dated this 9Th day of October,
1896.
DAVID WILLIAMS,
President Farmers and Merchants
Bank.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08
Government Won't Buy Silver

Candidate Bryan frequently
speaks Of the United States as a
buyer Of silver under his proposed
free coinage law. He declares that
nobody would take silver to any
other mint when the United States
is .'huying" silver bullion at $l.29
an ounce. Mr.. Bryan forgets that
the United States would not buy
an ounce Of silver under IL ire,
coinage law. 1t never did; it never
will. The only time when tho u.
S. government was a buyer Of silver
was when it coined silver under thu
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08
Bryan the Demagogue.
Letcher Blade,

Bryan is a demagogue. He says
In his speeches that free coinage by
this nation would give the farmers
u cheaper dollar to pay their debts
with, and also says that free coin
age would raise the price of silver
to S1.29 an ounce, or at a par with
gold. He knows, - everybody
knows,-that it could not do both.
He might as well say you can bake
apples In a snow oven. LIZ q silver
dollar is worth as much as a gold
dollar, it will be no easier to pay
debts IN silver than in gold. Bryan
knows that as we'll as any one else.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08


For Bro. Showerman's benefit, we
will state that a number of Wheat,
land township residents declare that
a resolution to attend no Republican
meetings was passed by the free sill
yer club of that township. 1t was
not denied by the club members
when inquiry was made at the time,
but they now qualify it by saying
they meant they would attend no
Republican meetings unless the Re-
publicans would attend the populist
meetings. There seems to be little
doubt that a resolution or agreement
of that nature was passed.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08
"Pop'' Independence.
I~roauois Chief.

No popullst paper has yet ex-
planned how the populists of this
state are to vote for their own can
didate for vice president. The
use no explanation has been
made is because none can be made.
Senator Pettigrew, the new boss,
simply traded the rank and file off
and no popuiist paper denies it.
The populists of this state are COM
PEELED to vote for Bryan and Sewall.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08
Bryan and the Old Soldier.
Sioux Valley News.

The old soldiers who support
Bryan have not a particle of self
respect. Bryan says the pensioners
are holding up and despolling the
government ; that the pensions
paid the old soldiers is not an hon.
est debt, etc. And should Bryan
be elected, it will be by the votes of
the very men he so deliberately and
grossly insults and who have not
the manhood to resent his insults.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08

Hon. Tom Watson, who is sup
posed to be running for vice presi-
dent, in a letter to Chairman Jones
of the democrat national committee,
warning him OF the danger Bryan is
in, has the following to say
"'The populist voters are dissatisfied
and suspicious. They feel in~stinctively
that the fusion policy which compels
them to vote for SewaIl is the beginning
OF the end OF the peoples party. They
feel that the principles they love are
being used as political merchandise, and
that the popuIist vote is being auctioned
off to the highest bidder. They suspect
that populism has been bought and paid
for, and is now being delivered to those
who bought it,"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08

The campaign of education of
which so much has been heard has
deteriorated, as far as local pops are
concerned, into a secret campaign OF
personal villification and slanderous
lies. Some of the pops now engaged
in m~aliciously circulating lying
statements about Republicans will
be sorry before the campaign is over,
If there ever was a foul nest, 1t is
the nest Of the Webster populist
ring which at present has the tax
payer of Day County by the throat
and is seeking to retain that hold by
every under-handed scheme that can
be manufactured. To retain its
power, no depth of villainy is too
low for this ring to descend to, but
the people are being awakened to
the fact and will rise in just indigna,
ton when voting time comes, and
literally sweep these eonsplrators
into the obscurity where they belong
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08

Mr.. Bryan tells us that low
prices are due to the demonstration
OF silver, but he did not always talk
that way. Before he became the
candidate of the big silver trust, in a
speech IN congress in 1892, he said A:
You must attribute it (the reduction
OF prlces) TO the inventive genius that
has multiplied n thousand times, in
many instances, the strength OF a single
arm, and enables Us to do today with
one man what fifty men could not do
fifty years ago. That is what has bro't
down prices in this country and every
where"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08

Kelley gloats over the fact that a
small audience attended Mr.. Sears,
speech IN Kidder township by dis.
playing in large headlines, Oscars
gets a frost" AS an immense and.
fence OF 2 gathered in Butler twp.
to listen to the seductive e]loouence
OF Hons Pldcock and Kelley, IT il
perhaps appropriate to retaliate by
declaring Kelley gets AN iceberg.
"Ihere are Others" Kelley.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08

For the benefit of Mr.. Kelley, we
will state that we do know what we
are talking about when we state
that a cowardly puke approached
Mrs. Lease TO attack Syverson and
Others. We presume the article in the
Herald is intended for a denial that
Kelley himself was the puke. Well,
he was not the one referred to, but
the fact that she inquired of Kelley
on the way to the opera house as to
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08

A few weeks ago, the Reporter
published an article wherein wa'
gi.en the following quotation no
Congressman Towne's famous Tree
silver speech ::
And here it oecuFs TO me 10 ca', -
tiou TO the fact that mintS 40 nor, ,;on
systems OF free coinnge, purchase pu', co;n
nor do they e%xchapge, nccrF'arth,
Of n metal for bullion Of the o.ne' hat
have seen on this floor in~dIcailonS that
some gentlemen appear 10 'h'nN
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08
Gall of Some Folks.
Washington Times.

The fellow who has the gall to
stand up and tell those within the
sound of his whiskey smelling
breath that bryan is the Abraham
Lincoln of today" ought to be hit
with a brick and knocked stiff. He
is a worse traitor than the copper
heads we're during the war.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08

now On until election day,
[Itsc,;a,'s between the principle Of
h, '0a and the promises OF free
[ted ahi the people of the
Dros1" a.es reject protection with
Ma perliy that always has at
! Tor the sake Of trying an
u,au' VITA silver together with
ng OF the ran,rest free trader
Ii S " in the presidential |
E. Well, hardly
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08

''n urlgsby Is out IN a letter
ng That Candidate Lee admit.
! = speech that the pensions
I veterans would be cut by
M aver, y When these gentlemen
49, webster, it was Grigshy
aaue the admission, supple
es !. ny the statement that
|sp.s soldiers should be patriotic
|'sa 10 stand the cut.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08

si09S' Bryan was elected to
S'ess on promises of the unex-
p,u Prosperity that would come
ifso trade to which he stood
MI. He now expects to reach
n. ute House on a repetition of
\ trade.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08

lae difference between the Nc
Lucy and Wilson tariff bills
A'hley burned in efigy in Blrm.
Aaal' England ; Wilson dIned
slned by the Liverpool cham
Of commerce.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08

me Republican party offers pro-
a0n and prosperity-the demo
party offers free silver and
l1lses' Which are you going to
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08

* CURRENT TOPICS. ~
CJ a.
Teller's Handspring.
DeSmet News.

Senator Teller owns ap that he
is proprietor of "a silver mine, tho
it is not now being operated.
That's the rub. He wants to be In
position to operate it, and hence
his present position.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08
County,

1850 A@s II Ia a VI LApt tA
County.
|~Register OF Deeds
i. CT. KNOTT, OF Bristol.
Treasurer
DC. KIDDER, of Kidder.
kSherif-
JAMES G. RATHBUN, of Andover
f~luditor-
+, OF. sLETTEN, of Union.
/ Clerk OF Courts
i. III LANGLAND, OF Highland.
fstates Attorney
JOHN II. LUND, of Webster.
superintendent of Schools
l. ELMER SYVERSON, of Egeland.
fVounty Judge
|COrOner-
FSureyor-
JOS. ALLEY, of Webster.
Justices Of the Peace
Up. RElLANDER, OF Kosciusko.
F.W. HARRIS, of Webster.
NJ. REAFORD. of Waubay,
lCOnstables-
J.H. BOND, OF Andoyer.
A.WOLFE, of Racine.
.L.PAUL. OF Waubay.
fELlA RONDELL, of kosciusko.
commissioners.
sad District
NM. &c. MOORE, of Raritan.
~
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08

fad District
Mr.. &c. MOORE, of Raritan.
I'D. LEE, of Highland.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08
Our Ticket.
National.
COngressiOnai

State.
40. RlNGSRUD, OF Union.
ELieutenant Governor
DIT. HINDMAN, of Marshall.
k|Sscreiary Of State
ii. RODDLE, of Brookings.
KlRKG. PHILLIPS. of Pennington.
luditor-
H. MAYHEM, Of Sauborn.
|supt. Of Public Instruction
FRANK CRANE, of E~odingtou,
lr0FHey General
S.V. JONES, of Turner.
Hand Commissioner
ia. LOCkHART, OF Grant.
Railroad Commissioner
GEG. A. JOHNSON, of Dawson.
N. p. BROMLEY, of Sphinx.
DIV. McFADDEN, of Custer.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08
legislative.

CD. SCHULTZ, of Racine.
] representatives
PAUL ZAFFT, of Waubay.
ANDREW Il. HEMMAH, of Liberty
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-09

man, nor uneducated. His father, Judge
Augustus R. Wright, was prominent
figure in the Georgia life of his day,
and the family has always been one Of
means, with connections rather aristo-
cratic than plebeian. Seaborn Wright
is a college graduate, with the bearing
of tragedian. He has clean-cut face,
long, wavy black hair, and the bearing
of typical southern orator. His great
est force is his eloquence, which is of the
fervid, ringing type brought into ma
tional prominence recently by Candi-
date William j. Bryan.
Mr.. Wright lives in a handsome home
in the north Georgia city of Rome, and
enjoys fortune of a quarter of a mil
lion dollars. His wife was Miss Moore,
of Atlanta, and they have a. family of
four bright and interesting boys. Sea-
born Wright has always been a dissent
er in political affairs, and his only serv-
ice in Office was when he was elected to
the state legislature several years ago
as an independent democrat. His fad
is prohibition, and his campaign will be
waged chiefly ON that issue; an issue
which is expected to focalize the
strength of the rural districts, which
really preponderate in Georgia politics
His friends hope that by combining the
populist and prohibition votes, he will
be able to defeat his democratic op-
ponent, Gov. William Y. Atkinson, Who
is candidate for reelection. The pop
ulist nominee is only SO years old. His
younger brother, Moses Wright,whow
elected to the last legislature as dem
ocrat, will oppose him in the coming
campaign.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-09
TICKET NOMINATED.

Congress-Geo. H. Noonan.
State Senator-Thos. F. Winthrop, en-
dorsed.
Floater-W. G. Robinson, (endorsedO
Legislature-Dr. G. ]. Starnes and j.
w. Light.
District Judges. ......................
District Attorney-A. ]. Evans.
District Clerk-Jno. B. Walter, en-
dorsed, but left to committee.
Sheriff-To be filed by committee.
County Judge-Otto Staffel.
County Attorney-W. d. Elrod.
County Clerk-F. E. Grothaus.
County Collector-T. B. Johnson, (en-
dorsed, but left to committee to fill)
County Assessor-Dr. Max Lindner.
Treasurer-George Heuermann, re-
commended to committee.
County Surveyor-Chas. RumpeL.
Hide and Animal Inspector-Sam.
Rogers.
County Commissioners:
Precinct, No. &c. A. Duerler, (rec-
omended)
Precinct No. 2-Joe Beckman, re-
commended to committee.
Precinct. No. 3-Ben Mauermann, re-
commended to committee.
Precinct No. 4-Frido Real.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-09

that she has been through ySdr pocb-
ets,N and you cannot proye< that she
has doRe so. You can prevent such oc-
currences fn4utnrs-by placing our pat
ent protection pockets in your clothes"
Aside from this claim, others are made
for locked pockets. The manufacturers
say that they will prevent pocket pick
ing, and that their universal use will
force every criminal who practices the
art to turn his attention to some other
line of business.
There are no locks on the locked
pocket, or at all events what might be
called lock is keyless. They work
with spring by combination which
is secret to all but the wearer. If locks
with keys are desired they can be en-
ployed, but the danger in such an event
would be that the key might be locked
in the pocket, and man would have to
go to Z locksmith if he wanted car fare.