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and WIliamsburQ-J. NJ. Thomasson.
ASSESSORS
Lo,oer District-J. Michael Correr
Upper District-JOhn w. Legg.
SENATE AND HOUSE or DELEGATES.
State Sendte-William Haynes and
ThOs. L. Davies.
House of Dele9dtes--R. ID. Erwin
and L. Hickman Jarrett.
County Superintendent Alex. Thomp.
son.
COMMISSIONERS OF ACCOUNTS.
John w. Arbuckle, Jas. Withrow and
j. NJ. McWhorter.
NoTARIEs PUBLIC.
w. &. Walton, q. Z. Sydenstrlcker
James &. Mcpherson, Samuel Ii. Aus.
tin, 5. II. Turner. John NJ. Price,
Levi Claypool, Geo. II. Lewis, Henry
A. Robinson, Samuel X. Patton, John
w. Arbuckle, Perry w. Martin, Chas.
l.. Davis, Albert q Williams, 7.
II. Dennis, James Williams, Henry
Gilmer, Il. A. Sandige, Cyrus S. Larew
James G.. Mccoy, Washington Wallace
John 7. Harper, VIM. H. Shields, Da.
via "A. Dwyer, r. L. HurXthal, John
F. Caring, William E. Nelson,
j. w. Young, George Kirkpat-
rick, NJ. &. JamisOn, r. T.. Rodes, l..
J. Williams, A. j. Withrow, b. F.
Harlow, James w. Goodwin, Joel NJ.
Harris, Mason Mathews, ID. &. Rife,
John A. Baker, Lualzo Rupert, A. G..
Handy, Quin Morton, VIM. II. Burns
NJ. n. Humphreys, &. T. Smith, John
NJ. Summons, J. ). Wilkinson, J. a.
Miller, J. NJ. Skaggs, Geo. NJ. Harrat
and b. +. Burns.
TIME OF HOLDING COURTS.
Circuit Court convenes as follow &
Third Tuesday in April, fourth Tue
day in June, and the first Monday in
November.
The Commissioners Court will be
held four times year, viz: On the
first Monday in January, second Mon
day in April, first Monday in July, and
first Tuesday in October, respec.
lively. The July Court will be the
fiscal term.
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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-08
M'KINLEY'S ACCEPTANCE.
He Says 1t Is the Duty of the United States
to Maintain the Gold Standard.


The delay in the publication of Mr..
McKinley's letter of acceptance is ex-
planned. The country wondered why it
took Mr. Mckinley so long to write a
letter. 1t did not know he was writing
a book. The document is portentous,
appalling in length. We have had to
read it in the line of duty, but we can
not imagine anybody reading it without
compulsion.
The bulk of Mr.. McKinley's volume
is devoted to the two subjects of money
and tariff, the money question, under
stringent orders from Hanna, being
treated first, for which wrench to his
feelings Mr.. Mckinley has our deepest
sympathy.
The keynote of the whole production
is this one sentence, which would have
been more effective if not another line
had been added to it.:
"Until international agreement is
had it is the plain duty of the United
States to maintain the gold standard. 1"
There is no possibility of beclouding
the issue any longer. 1t has come hard.
but at last Mr.. Mckinley has succeeded
in shedding completely the old silver
skin that he wore up to 1890, and he
appears now in his new integument Of
gold, little tender yet to the touch,
but a rich, unlocked yellow through
out. New York Journal.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-08
THE PEOPLES INTERESTS.
Shall They Follow tho Lead of the Trusts
or Vote For Bryan and sewall?

snail Ihey FOLLOW tho Lead OF the Trusts
or Vote For Bryan and sewall?
On one side all the stockholders in
trusts and combines, all corporation
lawyers like Mr.. Cochran and Senator
Thorston, all the managers of corpora
tions like Mr.. Hanna, all the capital
lists like Mr.. Gould and Mr.. Sage, are
dead set against all efforts to arrest the
decline in silver, while, on the other
hand, small traders, mechanics, farmers
and workingmen shout themselves
hoarse for Bryan and silver.
Whose lead shall the plain people
follow? Has there ever been an occasion
when the plutocrats stirred finger to
improve the condition of the wage earn
ers? Have they ever favored an advance
in wages or a reduction III the hours of
work? Have they ever objected to in
creased duties C!, the accessories of life
which the common man consumes? Is
there a single instance in which rich
men as a class have favored an advance
in the price of the produce Of the farm?
These questions must be answered in
the negative. The rank and file of all
parties must conclude that their inter-
ests require them to secure the election
of Bryan and Sewall and to defeat the
election Of the syndicate candidate as a
disaster to themselves and their chill
dren. Kansas City Times.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-08
Mr.. REEDS SPEECH.
Resorts to Sophistry and Evasion to Com
bat the Free Coinage of Silver.

Resorts to Sophistry and Evasion to Com
! bat the Free Coinage of Silver.
Yesterday Mr.. Reed delivered great
speech at Old Orchard, Me. We say q
great speech advisedly, for it was great
in eloquence, in wit, in tone. 1t had, in
short, all the virtues which the recent
address of Mr.. Bourke Cochran lacked,
but shared with that unhappy burst of
rhetoric the evil of being delivered in
support of an unjust cause One cannot
defend falsehood with truth. Mr. Reed,
with all his brilliancy, could not sup
port the economic falsehood which lies
at the bottom of the theory of gold mon
ometallism without calling to his aid
sophistry, fallacy and evasion.
Nothing in Mr.. Reeds speech indi-
Gates that he ever heard of the apprecia-
ton of gold and the resultant deprecia-
ton in the prices of commodities and of
labor. To his farmer auditors he related
parable concerning the hard fate of
farmer who should let out a good farm
and receive it back half ruined, but he
made no reference to the plight of
tenant who, borrowing a farm for
space of time, should find that he was
expected to return farm of twice its
productive power. Nor did he treat in
any way of the effect of falling prices
Unlike Mr.. Cochran, he did not under
take to convince his auditors that cheap
ness is always a blessing. Perhaps the
fact that he was addressing company
made up largely of Maine farmers, who
have been brought to the verge of ruin
by the steady fall in the prices of farm
products, led him to believe silence the
part of discretion.
Here are the two fundamentals of
currency discussion-the appreciation
of gold and the effects of the falling
prices which it causes-wholly ignored,
or at most carelessly slurred over, by
leading statesman protesting to discuss
the vital issue of this campaign In face
of this apparent unwillinguess to treat
the subject scientifically, his vague gen.
civilizations about inevitable hard times
caused by lack of confidence and pros
perity already waiting to walk in when
the Republicans capture Washington
and throw open the gates will be dis
missed by thinking people as SO much
buncombe. New York Journal.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-08
COMPLACENT GOlDBUGS.
But the Farmers Are Getting Deeper In
Destitution,

The goldbugs so ON steadily with
their contention that if only the advo-
Gates Of bimetallism would cease their
agitation, and the congress Of the Unit
ed States were to signify it's intention
of pelPetuating the single gold standard
as the money system Of this country,
foreign capitalists would take us back
into their favor, would invest all the
money with MS we could want, and then
everything would be well. If we were
to believe any such rot, we'd be living
in FOOLS paradise that must inevitably
fall about our ears at an early date and
whelm the country in irretrievable ruin.
1t is no return of the foreign capitalists
favor nor any perpetuation of gold
monometallism that is to help us to our
salvation. We have been trying those
nostrums for over 30 years, and every
succeeding year has but landed the pro-
ducers of the country, who are in an
especial sense the creators of the coun-
try's wealth, in deeper and deeper pow
erty-in deeper and deeper desttution.
New Orleans Times-Democrat
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-08
Wealth of Boston.

With less than 10000 citizens of
voting age, Boston has property assessed
this year at nearly 81, 200, 900, 900.
This would make the average citizen of
Boston worth in the neighborhood of
$4,000, but, as every one knows, the
average citizen in Boston is as poor as
he is anywhere else. The immense
wealth of the city is held in the hands
of few men who have gained it by
their mortgages on the labor of the east
and the farms of the west.-St. Louis
Post Dispatch.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-08
THE DEAR DOLLAR.
Every Class of Labor Suffers From It--Not
So the Money Lender.


So the Money Lender.
Men who work for wages should re.
member that money not only buys
things, but that it has to be bought.
A dollar is bought by a workingman
with certain amount Of work. If dol
lars are few and workingmen plenty, he
will have to pay pretty dear in effort
for his coin. Perhaps he will not even
get chance TO buy it at all, either be-
cause there are not enough dollars to go
around or because he cannot or will not
pay the price. In such event the fact
that the dollar he doesn't get is one of
great value neither interests nor profits
him.
The shopkeeper buys his dollars with
goods. Ninety-nine out of every 100 Of
his customers, if he runs q city store,
work for wages, and if the DEAFNESS Of
the dollar destroys their power of pur-
chasing he will get fewer dollars to pay
clerks, and some must be discharged,
fewer dollars with which to buy goods,
and factories will be closed. Every class
of labor thus suffers by dear dollar.
Does the banker, the money lender
the man whose investments bringing in
interest outweigh all his other sources
of income, suffer from dear dollar? In
no way. He does not buy dollars with
work, with goods, with produce. He
lends dollar, gets back one which, I'M
der existing conditions, is sure to be
more valuable than the one he lent, and,
moreover, receives interest in money of
high purchasing power. His apparent
interest lies wholly on the side of dol
lar which is dear today and dearer to-
morrow. We say his apparent interest
because in fact the present system per-
sisted in will be harmful to the banking
classes as to others. The goose that lays
the golden egg may be slaughtered. All
securities are founded Oh the prosperity
of the nation, and policy which COM
pels the distress of the people will COM
pei the depreciation of the bankers Sc
curities.
The common people, however, will
get near the core of this currency ques-
ton if they remember that to get dol
lar they must buy it with labor if work
ingmen, with wheat and corn if farm
ers, with cloth or china if merchants.
The dollar which will exchange for
twice as much of these commodities as
did the dollar of 80 years ago is a dol
lar that costs them dear. New York
journal.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-08
M'klNLEY is MISTAKEN.
He Says Free Silver Won't Increase the
Demand For Wheat.


Demand For Wheat.
Mr.. Mckinley said to the woolgrow-
ers at Canton:
Free silver won't increase the de-
mand for your wheat or make single
new consumer. You don't get consum-
ers through the minis. You get them
through the factories. {"
Mr.. Mckinley is mistaken. We will
get just standard for measuring the
values of labor's products only when we
measure them by form of money that
is freely produced and freely coined and
incapable of being cornered. The sole
cost of such money is the cost of min
ing it, which is labor cost. All freely
producible commodities have this cost
in them and no other
But when the free prediction and
free coinage of one money metal are stop
ped, no money can any longer be meas
u1ed by its labor cost. 1t acquires q
monopoly value--i. @. value measured
by the force required to overcome the
monopoly. Monopoly value has no linn
its. 1t is force itself and not labor value.
AS measure Of value for commodities
it has no justice. Hence it is our minis,
after all, and not our factories which
make that just standard without which
trade stagnates. New York Journal.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-08
MONEY DEALERS A UNIT.
Party Lines Disappear When Their Trade
Is In Danger.
st. Louis Republic.


The Coast Soamen's Journal, the Off
ciai organ of the International Sea-
mems Union of America, grievously dis
appointed the Republicans this month
by not publishing an attack on William
j. Bryan's Democratic running mate.
The worst the Republicans can say
about Arthur Sewall is that some of the
captains of his ships, when far from
shore, where he could not interfere,
have been severe in enforcing discipline
among their sailors. No one ever ac-
cused Mr.. Sewall Of being labor crush
er like Mark Hanna. Instead of saying
one word against Mr.. Sewall The Coast
Seamen's Journal scores the Republican
platform. 1t heads its article "a Plat
form Joke, and quoting the plank in
reference to the American merchant ma
rine says: Considered intrinsically,
the foregoing plank of the Republican
platform is a paradoxical absurdity.
Considered in connection with the men
who drafted it, it is bowling joke. l"
With regard to the Democratic seceders
this paper says:
1.-The bolt of certain section of the
Democrats, accompanied by their news
papers, has done more good than their
votes or influence will be able to coun-
teract. 1t has shown that, no matter
what their minor differences may be,
when it comes to the primary question
Of controlling the medium Of exchange
the money-and by that means con-
trolling industry, the money dealers are
a unit. They constitute one party-the
party of pelf-with common instincts,
common ends and common means of at
tanning them. That this class has been
driven to reveal its identity and declare
open war is one good result at least of
the Chicago convention.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-08
A Day of Reckoning Coming.

The complacent goldbug may pirate
that everything will be right if only the
foreign capitalist restore to us the light
of his countenance, and such men as
Bourke Cochran may with brutal. ornel.
ty inveieh against the poverty stricken
farmer because, according TO them, he
proposes to pay hls labor in half price
dollars; but there is II day Of reckoning
coming for this United States if things
be not fundamentally altered. at the
very thought Of which the boldest may
quail. New Orleans Times Democrat.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-08
THE VITAL QUESTION.
Shall the People. Govern or Shall Money
BE the Sovereign Power?


Overshadowing every other issue in
volved in the present campaign is the
one supreme and vital question, Shall
the people themselves govern or shall
the attributes of sovereignty bo exer-
cised by the money power
Never before have the lines been
more distinctly drawn between the
masses on one side and the millionaires
on the other, In 10 respect is the state
ment more clearly illustrated than in
the campaign funds which the two
great parties have at their disposal.
Without limit almost are the resources
at the command of Mark Hanna. while
those over which Chairman Jones pre-
sides are barely sufficient to meet the
legitimate and current expenses of the
campaign.
| But, aside from tho indications fur
nished by these figures, the statement is
still further fortified by the showing
which the millionaire syndicates of the
east present. With the splendid aggre-
cation of wealth which these syndicates
embrace the Republican party isat pres
ent keeping open house.
Is it possih'' nvo" with the enormous
wealth which tho money power has be-
hind it, to purchase the intelligence and
patriotism of the American people? In
stinctively there are hundreds and
thousands in this country who will OPP
pose such an open and avowed purpose
as this, although, perhaps, they may be
ignorant Of the technical issues involved
in the campaign.
In resorting to the use of money, the
Republicans have Shown in manner
which cannot be mistaken the weakness
of their cause before the people. On the
other hand, the Democratic party. with
out the means Of buying votes or the
disposition TO buy them if it had the
means, is relying absolutely upon the
integrity and patriotism of the masses.
In the issue joined between the people
and the money power the victory is in
evitably.with the people Atlanta Con-
stitution.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-08
Gold In Silver Countries.

The statement has been made that in
no silver standard country does gold cir
culate. According to circular just is
sued by John G. Carlisle, Russia is on
silver basis and has $3. 80in gold and
81 cents in silver per capita. SOUTH
American states, silver standard, except
Chili;and Venezuela, have 80 cents more
gold than silver per capita, and the ma
tives,are counted in the population. In
dia ON a gold and silver basis has no
gold.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-08

When the laboring man goes to draw
his wages or the business man presents q
check at the bank, lie can be required to
take silver. But let him endeayor to pay
OFF his mortgage in the same money in
which he has been paid. and he will find
that gold is the only money of ultimate
payment when it comes to paying Off the
money lender.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-08
Either Hired or Mortgaged.

Speaking about hired men, what's
the matter with Mckinley? Mark Han
Ma bought up his obligations and holds
his notes for about 1920, 900, and he has
spent perhaps as much more in his in
terest. If Mckinley is not Hanna's hired
man, he is his mortgaged man, as Tom
Platt called him, which is much worse.
Memphis Appeal.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-08

The cause of existing conditions is clear.
The remedy is plain. 1t is for the people
themselves to determine whether or not
1t shall be applied, they can do by as
sorting themselves against the Tories. plu-
tocrats and oiigarohs. who declare that 1t
is folly for Americans to attempt action
without the consent of London.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-08

The present monetary policy of the
United States is very advantageous to the
interests of England, a gold monometallio
country, but 1t is utterly ruinous as re-
CARDS the foreign financial relations of the
United States and especially for its native
producers.-Cernuschi.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-08
What's the Row About?

Is not the habit of attributing every
petty failure in business, as well as the
big ones, to the silver craze" getting
tiresome as well as foolish? We haven {
free coinage of silver yet, and these Ca
lamity shriekers say positively that we
are not going to have. They declare that
Mckinley is going to be elected. What's
the row about, Observation-Disclosures En-
Ouirer
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-08

OF all conceivable systems of currency,
that is assuredly the worst which gives
you a standard steadily, continuously, in
definitely approaching. and which by that
very fact throws burden upon every man
of enterprise and benefits no human being
but the owner CT nxed debts in gold
Hon. A. j. Balfour. First Lord of the Treas
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-08

The United States produces about fve-
sixteenths of the silver bullion of the world.
England and her colonies produce little
silver. but have between one-fourth and
one-third of the worlds stock of coined
silver. In whose Interest is the price kept
down. the sellers or the purchasers?
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-08
Kentucky's Gold Farce.

The gold Democrats Of Kentucky
should have found some one besides
Billy Breckenridge to appeal to the
honor and conscience of the Democracy.
He has turned the political comedy into
a screaming farce. st. Louis Republic.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-08

Every 10 per cent that is added to the
purchasing power of gold is 10 per cent
subtracted from the earning power of Ia
Dor and from the property labor has al
ready earned.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-08
Not Democrats.

A few men who have gone out of the
Democratic party cannot be considered
the Democratic party, nor can the pur-
Joining of a good name keep the pur-
loiners from the political oblivion to
which they are drifting. Exchange.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-08
Keeps the Eat Sizzling.

In spite of Mr.. Hanna's supreme con-
fidence of Republican victory, it is to
be noted that the skillet is not allowed
to get cold for a moment. Chicago
Chronicle (Gold).
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-08
Hurting the Money Power.

There is not free coinage newspaper
in Chicago, and yet the people are over
whelmingly for Bryan and free coinage
The support Of subsidized newspapers is
hurting the money power worse and
worse every day. --Exchange.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-08

Exact Justice demands return to the
bimetallic standard. This can only be
done by opening the minis to silver as
money metal. To discredit silver by leg
islation inflames the divergence between
the relative value of the two metals. Par
ity cannot be restored by making silver
an outcast from the minis.