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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-08
Ube Daily Light.
wED'sDAY, JANUARY 5, '96
He Wa. a Napoleon.

he was q Napoleon.
A respected citizen Of rural
hamlet, who was cognizant OF the
fact that he was a. long way from
home, and was celebrating &C
cordingly, walked into the corridor
of an uptown hotel one afternoon
recently and with rather uncertain
steps made his way to the desk.
He greeted the clerk with ELUSIVE
cordially, and then, grasping a
pen, wrote his name in such a way
that, had it been presented to his
bank attached To q check, in his
sober moments he would have Go
clared it forgery. The clerk had
often seen such cases and he knew
that the man who arrived at this
stage wanted little questioning,
and therefore assigned him to
room without any inquiry as to
price, location or number.
The citizen solemnly watched
the clerk with owl eyes as he
wrote the number Of the room
opposite the name on the register.
Then he carefully scanned the
number first from one side and
then from the other. 1t was "63."
He said solemnly: ~"S-s-sh Eat
won't do. Must have so'-thin'
elsh. 'Swont do"
The clerk looked at him quiz
zically and asked him what he
wanted. The guest replied with
an air OF mystery, such as is
attributed to Sherlock Holmes:
"Musnt have som'thin' else.
Civ me 10l, or Ill, or 3l3, or some
thing like zat."
The clerk took an inventory of
stock and saw that Ill was vacant,
and he assigned his mysterious
visitor to that room. This salts
fed the man Of mystery, and he
started off in an uncertain manner
to look for the bar. He found 1t
and spent most OF his day there.
Late that night when the clerk
was retiring he saw the bisulous
guest, who roomed in the ehame
hall with him, going to his room.
He stopped and watched the man.
ner in which the guest from the
rural district was making his way
and wondered vaguely why he
had asked for a room with a par
ticular number. He heard the
man muttering under his breath
as he wandered nonchalantly
from one side Of the hall to the
other, peering at the numbers on
the door. The inebriate was NUT
tering:
"Shixty-three. Never heard such
a thing. Won do. Shixty-three,
shirty-six. Must have 'em right.
Know wherein now"
The strange guest perambulated
up and down the hall, scanning
the numbers first from one side
and then the other. Finally he
located his room and he walked
up to it on one side and muttered
under his breath:
"Zat's all right. One Numbered.
eleven" Then he wanderded
down the hall and came back and
looked at it from the other side.
Then he muttered in a half salts
fed way:
"Must be it. Sail right"
Then he glanced up at the flick
ering light in the red globe mark
ed fire escape and gave utterance
to a prolonged "S-s-s.h L." as he
tried the keyhole. He seemed
highly tickled with his own acu-
men in finding the room. Sudden
ly a great light broke upon the
wondering clerk, and he ejaculat-
ed:
"Great Scott! Same coming
and going. That fellow is a Ma
poleon. No wonder he wanted a
room that read the same back
ward and forward. / wonder what
room he got into by mistake that
do hi m oh 10
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-08

K. P. Endowment, Life,
Safe and cheap insurance for
mem bers only.
T. b. JOHNSON Secretary.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-08

YOUR TIME HAS NOW COME
To get a handsome New Years gift
for a song at L. p. PECK's. 1927 tt
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-08
FREE COLUMN
In the:Sunday Morning Light

Persons wanting situations as clerks, la
borers, or other employment. are invited to
use our Sunday morning issue FREE of charge,
space allowed twelve to fifteen words: copy
to be handed in not later than Saturday even
ing, 8 O'Clock. Notices of Lost, Wants, Found
For Sale, etc., charged at rate of one cent
word. Other business notices in this column
% cents for three lines each insertion.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-08
FANCY SCROLL SAW WOODS.

Scroll saws, lathes, table and
pocket cutlery, fine carpenter tools,
and meat choppers and
specialties at j. c. Tips,
1l5 West Commerce street. II 81 If
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-08

HALF PRICE: $3.50 will buy brand new
pony cylinder press, size l9X21; speed 600
per hour. Cost price s93s. A SPLENDID in
yestment for job Office doing blank work,
book work or circulars. Address ''T. 3.
j." LIGHT office. l120tf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31
Can't Separate Them.

Fill every custom house with gold
lars, every schoolhouse with paper
promises to pay. and what will it ben
eft you and me, unless we can get EN-
ployment to obtain some of it?" That's
the question Judge Woodbury. asks in
the oxford Democrat and he believes
the solution lies in an adequate pro
tective tariff. Naturally he does not
want sight lost of that issue. Fol-
that matter no Republican does. The
need of more revenue will not permit
it if he did. The opinions of Mr.. Me
Kinley and Mr.. Hanna, that the tar
if and the currency are issues that &c
hand in hand appeal to the common
sense of people. Mr.. Hanna says he
does not mean a high protective tariff
but one that shall bring the country
back to the prosperity of 1892. Good
wages, good times and good money &c
together for the good of the country
Mr.. Reed sees the close relation thai
exists and must exist between the tar
if and the currency questions, and
certainly no one can accuse him OF
riding tariff hobbies or being unsount
on the currency. Yet note this from
his speech at Alfred: IF ANYBODY had
the curiosity to see what l said of our
opponents in 1892. they will find thai
| did not venture any denunciatior
which depicts one-tenth of the evi
which has happened"
Greeting you this time with the
same frankness. 1 am bound to say
that the evil which has come to us by
an unwise revision of the tariff has
been greatly aggravated by one of its
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31
Free Silver and Customs.
Editors Kennebec Journal:

i<titoiS .NtlliltDtt JouiIidlt
l have not seen it stated what eff
feet free silver will have on our pres
ent tariff. Will you please inform one
Of the many readers of the Journal
what it will be?
If with the present tariff foreign i'm
porters are able to stop one third of
the wooden mills in this country.
couldn't they stop the balance if they
could pay the duties in fifty cent dol
lars?
In the case of a certain amount of
goods on which n duty of one dollar
is now paid. couldn't the foreign i'm
Sporter take his dollar and exchange
it for two silver dollars and import
double the amount of goods.
Respectfully yours,
One who believes our workmen
should have some protection.
If you will read the conditions print
ed upon the back of a silver certificate
you will see that this certificate is
receivable for customs taxes and all
public dues etc. In short silver is
now receivable for customs and not
only is there nothing in the Chicago
platform even intimatins that silver
will not be receivable for customs but
the very essence of the free coinage
proposition is to recognize no differ
ence whatever between certain
amount of silver. To declare that
silver would not be received at it's face
value for customs would be to discrm-
mate against the silver dollar, the
very thing free coinage is designed to
avoid When the silver 53-cent- dollar
reaches its level there will be nothing
to hinder the importer selling gold bull
lion in the American market for its
real value and getting a silver dollar
at its real exchangeable value not face
value. and using that silver dollar at
its face value to pay customs duties.
This would be practically cutting the
duties in two but it should be remem-
bered that the wages of the American
iaborer are also cut in two unless he
can secure an increase. And it is evil
dent that with duties reduced nearly
one half the employer cannot afford
to grant that increase and if la
Dor unions demand it beyond n
certain limit he will be COM
PEELED to shut down his enterprise
through inability to meet the demand.
whenever way you look at it the
wage worker is sure to get the worst
OIL II as ne always has and always will
Whenever currency is debased.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES loss of revenue
Had there been no deficit, then a hun
dred millions of borrowed gold would
have carried US through the crisis safe
and sound. AS it was, the constant
drain Of the deficit continually con-
founded with the redemption of gold.
has SO afflicted the Imagination of our
people that confidence cannot COM
mence until our revenues equal our
expenses"
Can an honest Democrat. differing
though he may from some of the above
conclusions. find therein any real ex-
cuse for not doing his utmost to
avert the perils that threaten the
country?
There is that in this from Mr. Reed s
lips that appears to very many who
not only have regarded themselves so
still: We shall certainly welcome all
men today. not that they are to be Re
publicans, for they will not be, but be-
cause they are patriots, for that they
must be-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31

America, contains a story that is a
isniiicant object lesson upon the dis
advantages of silver as basis of cur
reney. An invalid veteran of this
country drew $4,000 pension money five
Tcars ago AMI went to Central Amer
lea hoping that the climate would ben
gift his health The currency there
was on a silver basis and gold com
manded premium. The veteran fin
ally gave one of the local banks $500
IF his gold for q certificate of deposit
of $4,000. of course in silver or its
equivalent, with per cent interest
Silver continued To depreciate. but the
veteran went on drawing interest on
his certificate for four years. Then
the bank gave him notice that it
could no longer pay interest, and fin
ally he exchanged his $4,000 silver GER
tiiicate for gold and gave it up. And
for that $1,000 certificate he got just
AllS1 in gold This story clearly and
correctly illustrates the instability of
~ silver currency. and the consequent
scaling down of values that would in
cyitably occur under free coinage
Facts are more convincing than theo-
i'ics and the above story represents an
1rtua1 nrcrtpr.pna
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31

The waning interest displayed by the
gold Democrats in the forthcoming
Democratic State convention, is a
see the folly of saying one thing and
meaning another, There is no dis
guising the fact that every vote for
the so-called Democratic State ticket
in Maine next September, will be
counted as an endorsement of every
un-Democratic iniquitous policy in the
Chicago platform.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31

1t is now in order for those would be
wise-acres who wagged their heads SC
knowingly a few weeks ago and re-
marked that Tom Reed wouldn't
much care how the election went" it is
in order for those individuals to apollo
gize. The slogan Mr. Reed sent on;
from Alfred, Wednesday, will go into
every hamlet in New England and
every state of the Union. It's evident
common sense will appeal to every in
terested person and will lay bare the
fallacies of the stuff the free silver
bureau has been disseminating 1t is
just the right kind of talk and Mr.
Reed has made it at just the right
time
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31
The Boiling Newspapers.
tBoston lferald.)

The number of newspapers that have
bolted the Democratic ticket for the
presidency is now reported to have.
reached nearly two hundred We doubt
if the public fully realize the signiii-
canoe of this demonstration. Nothing
like ii. we think. has ever been known
before in American politicS-certainIy
nothing like it in the previous history
of the proverhally faithful Democratic
party. Here are the elements Of disin-
tegration. if it is possible to produce
them. The places of none of these bolt
ing journals have been filed il will be
observed. by accessionS from the other
side, beyond the limits of few of the
smallest states of the Union. We see no
noting of accessions of any Importance
outside the press in any other quarter
than this limited one in point of numbers
There are plenty of rumorS of what is to
be. but how feeble is the figure they cut
in contrast with the solid facts above
t..I'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31

Il WAS TOLD IN 1880 BY TWO OF
THE MOST SINCERE AS WELL AS
THE ABLEST SILVER MEN, THAT
THE PURCHASE OF 4500, 900
OUNCES A MONTH WOULD RAISE.
SILVER TO RAR. AND WHEN WE,
DID BUY IT SILVER WENT DOWN
LIKE LEAD. SILVER MEN HAVE
NOT BEEN GOOD PROPHETS IN
THE PAST. "-Thos. Il. Reed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31

Tom Watson has a job on hand IL
he tries to reconcile the opinions of the
readers of his Populist paper to his
opinions past and present of Mr.. Bry.
an A few days before the Populis,
convention he was writing such head.
lines as this, Bryan Lacks Depth and
Breadth. and quoted approvingly ths
remark of Democrat that the hard
est thing Bill Bryan will have to con.
tend with will be the necessity o.
Keeping his mouth shut"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31
Are Now Calling for a Wheat Dollar.
CTribune OemD. Sioux CityD

The expressed Willingness of the gov
eminent to coin silver at Is to | effects
nothing further and is no more far
reaching than the transaction between
the government and the holder of bullion
The mine owner would take IA round disk
stamped One Dollar" in return for 20
cents worth of his bullion. He would
take this dollar" and pay his hands with
It. The real test of value would begin
its work when the third party began to
TO the fifth, and so on in exchange for
life's necessaries Then it would be seen
that the demand for 50-cent dollars did
not embrace a willingness to give 100
cents worth of goods for it. If
the government is really able to give 80
cents worth of silver value of 100 cents
why waste such magnificent power on a
product which amounts to only $50 600 900
q year in this country. when the hun
dreds of millions of bushels of wheat
could be declared worth 81 Il bushel to the
great benefit of our most worthy citizen
the farmer
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31

1T is not the value of the metal of
which dollar is composed which gives
it its value as money, but the fact
that it is dollar and that it is legal
tender.-Bangor Commercial-Wil the
Commercial please inform us why, if
the above assumption is correct, the
government should not stamp copper
cents into dollars. instead of taking
fifty cents worth of silver from use in
otherspurposes, to perform a function
that could be just as we'll performed
by cents worth of copper, paper
leather or clam shells? Why make
the price of silver higher to the poor
people. who would like to buy silver
spoons, by making it into money
when something worth only hun
dredth part as much would do as we'll ?
Is that treating the people right and is
it not encouraging the most senseless
extravaganza? But perhaps the Com
mercial means something the meaning
of which is not apparent, when it men,
tions the fact that it is dollar. =
Please explain.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31

Gratis. true to their principles. have cut
themselves loose from their degenerate
party. While some of them seem de-
termined to vote for the Republican
ticket. others are endeavoring to set IN
a third or rather fourth ticker
though they know that the choice must
be between Mckinley and BRYAN
Their idea Is to support Mckinley in
directly, in order to preserve their
principles and to bring into being
new political power. This would Ger
tainly be the right thing to do, were
IL not Tor the imminent danger that
sueh demonstration would help Bry-
an more than Mckinley. The danger
must be looked square In the face
without prejudice: whoever recognizes
it. whoever refuses to take any respon-
sibility in the matter, must vote out-
right for Mckinley.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31
II Not Free Silver II Would Have Been pom.
uI;en,


Courier dem. Bolt). Connellsvlle)
The Chicago platform is not Democrat
ic doctrine. therefore no Democrat is
Obliged to support il. William Jennings
Bryan Is not Democrat. therefore no
Democrat is Obliged to support him for
the presidency. Neither can he eXncct
such support from sound money Demo
Gratis in view of the fact that he publicly
declared before the meeting of the Chi
cago convention that nothing in heaven
above. on the earth below or in hell be-
Meath could make him support a gold
standard platform. Had free silver not
prevailed in Chicago. Bryan would not
have supported the nominees of that con-
vention. He would have been in ST
louis adNocatius ponulism
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31
PRESS COMMENTS.
Both Platforms Must Be Wiped Out.

Rocord Cpcm. Eoiil, Philadelphia
BY the sinister alliance Of i'opuhsm
and pseGdo-Dcmocracy the issue Of this
campaign has been reduced to the sim
Hest term. The presidential candidate.
itraddling the platforms of these tNo
.}arties is an exponent Of the worst
crimes of them both. No citizen will he
able to discover any good in the ont
platform TO Condone for the evil that is
in its companion. The monsters of DO
preciated currency and Repatriation ana
of communism ANA anarchy are assocI-
1ted as never before in these two plat
forms. and the people have thus an OPP
portunity of strangling them at The No
Npmbtr giptfi0pS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31

A New York gentleman has offered
to bet 10000 gold dollars against 5000
will not be elected President of the
United States. He says he knows bet
ting is "a fools argument so the nat
ural Inference is that he wants to clear
up $1,000 in November. His name is
Louis Lombard of Lombardale, North
BAY N Y
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31
Mckinley Will Get the Votes. Anyway.
Crimes CDem.-Bolt). Philadelphia

In addition to the large number Of
Democratic voters who would be taken
from Bryan by third ticket. there
are from half million to a million
sound money Democrats who will vote
in the most direct way in doubtful
states to defeat the Chicago repudia-
ton candidates. We believe that Nc
kinley would receive quite as many
sound money Democratic votes where
he needs them, with sound money
Democratic candidate in the field. as
would be given TO him if no such ticket
We're presented,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31
Wise Counsel.
(Staats Zeitung. Dem.)

The parties have placed their can
didates in the field. The Republicans
nave nominated Mckinley and Ho-
bart; the Democrats. Bryan and Sew
all. and the Populists, Bryan and Wat
son. The Democrats as well as the
Popuiists have abandoned the position
which the founders of the Union took
III order to bring the legal state into
accord with Republican Institutions.
government standing on the Demo-
cratic and Populist platforms would
destroy the foundations of public and
private credit, as well as the whole in
dustrial life Of the nation: it would
on the one hand. weaken the power of
the federal government, where the
power IS necessary, and on the other
increase the power where the Increase
is not allowed in our political system.
ana where our government would be
unable to perform the functions i'm
posed upon it.
Under these circumstances, Demo-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31

IF THEY BLIINDERED ON BUS
MESS WITH THEIR BEST MEN
PRESENT, ARE; THEY GOING TO
BE A SUCCESS ON FINANCE
SENT?"-Thos. Il. Reeds pertinent
question concerning the Democratic
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31
THE RICH MINE OWNER AND HIS PUPPETS.

IRA NSFERER OF HAY. MORE
HAYRACKS WILL NEVER MAKE
MORE HAY. BUT MORE HAY WILL
Is SURE TO GET THEM-Thos =.
Reed
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31

IF THIS NATION HAS THRICE
AT THE POLLS CONDEMNED THIS
BETTER ARE WE NOW GOING
TO PLACE 1T IN POWER WHEN
1T HAS GOT WORSE?"-Thos. b.
Reed
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31
FOR GOVERNOR.
LLEWELLYN POWERS
OF HOUl1ON.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
For Representatives to Congress.

First District
Second District-NELSON DING
LEY, JR., of Lewiston.
Third District-SETH L. MILL
KEN OF Belfast.
Fourth District-CHARLES A. BOU-
TELLE Of Bangor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31

WHAT WE WANT is NOT MORE
MONEY, BUT MORE CAPITAL
MONEY ALWAYS COMES WITH
CAPlTAL. WE HAVE MONEY
NOW, MORE THAN WE CAN USE
LING IDLE. WE HAVE JUST EX
foRTED A LOT OF IT. MONEY is
iHE TRANSFERER OF CAPITAL.
~ A HAYRACK AND HORSE IS A
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31

Who but Mr. Reed could have en-
ly, the utter senseleSsnesS OF looking
to the party organization, that had
caused the disaster and not repented
to repair the disaster by a scheme that
repels and is driving out of that party
its most intelligent men?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31

Four fires have been reported to the
town clerk of Warren since January
These were the burning of George w
Browns block, Feb. 10: George Bur-
Sesss barn, Feb. u: David Peters
house. June TO- and a barn belonging
to the Congregational Society, June q.
Estimated aggregate damage to build
ings and contents, $500; insurance
paid, $4156.55
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31

For good luck go to Rockland. at
least that would seem to be the moral
of this story of a Rockland lad who
wanted to go to the ball game and
had no quarter: He had no time to
earn it, he would not borrow, neither
would he steal in over the fence. but
he was determined to go. Something
within told him that everything was
all right. With head bent down. his
Keen eye covered considerable ground
around him. Each step was bringing
him nearer the grounds but he never
lest hope. Just as he was turning the
corner of Park and Broadway his eye
caught the glitter Of something bright
in the gutter. He fished it out and To-.
and behold it was bright, new silver
quarter. The boy went to the game
and the Rocklands won. This is true. -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31
There Is No Honorable Solution Possible.
eagle Dem. BolU. Brook,

VI1TEIT VI7TIT. -I'UItT' bT0UhTNT,
We shall have to wait to see how the
complication of one PopuliSt candidate.
for President and two Popuiist eandi-
dates for VicePresidcnt will unraVel it
self. but there is no solution of il which
is consistent with honor, none which will
tend to harmonic the deranged forces.
and none which will commend itself
either as suitable or as sane to the judy
m"nt of men of reason ana of RESPONSE
biliiN in The limited Sintns
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31

1t didn't require any second sight
or skill in deciphering cryptograms
for Ignatius Donnelly to conclude, as
much and is standing over a powder
,,aa