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Smyrna times., 1896-11-18
Political Crimes and Their Danger.

When the tricks applied in Tennes-
see, Delaware, Kentucky and Virginia
are considered it is manifest that some
day the national issue will have to be
the question of honest elections and a
fair count. 1t is disgraceful that the
will OF the people can be stifed in anv
State by a set of rascally politicians
who have no moral responsibility and
who imagine that dishonesty in poll
tice is not dishonerable. Frauds in
either counting or reporting votes
should be made punishable with terms
of punishment and disfranchisement
In this line Philadelphia leads the rest
of the country and already several
unscrupulOus election afficers have
been sent to prison and directed to be
deprived of the right of suffrage for
four years. That is the only way to
destroy the evil, and the sooner such
men are made to understand that votes
cast shall be counted andrecorded, and
that the adjudication of election dis
putes must be settled by the courts the
better it will be. To-day the State of
Delaware is an object of scorn and
subject for criticism throughout the
length and breath of the land.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-31
Cutting Loose From the World.

We have financial policy made for
the American people and without ref
erence to other nations when we cut
the Atlantic and other cables, close
our ports, sink all our ships but those
which happen to be ironclad, stay at
home and receive all visitors at the
bayonet point. We can have it when
a Chinese wall, fguratiye or substan-
tIal, g1rds our coasts and New York
becomes what Yokohama was MANY
years ago. We can have a financial
policy of concern only to ourselves
when we can have sun which shines
for our exclusive benefit and when we
can turn-winter into summer and sum-
mer into winter. 1t would scarcely
have served Mr.. Bryan's purpose quite
as well to have remarked: LET us
have wheat raised by the American
people for the American people, Just
now it happens that the we are send
ing great deal of grain abroad. 1t
also happens that we are getting very
good prices for it. Foreign money is
coming here in large quantities Much
of it will go into the hands of the
farmer.-Brooklyn Eagle
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-31
Where the Farmer Comes In.

Farmers should be thinkers. They
should not accept the mere assertion
of any person with an axe to grind as
to facts which will materially affect
their interests. There is a sufficient
cause for everything which exists.
Nothing exists without a cause.
When conditions are unfavorable
they should inquire into the cause,
for unless the cause is known it is i'm
possible to remove it. 1t may safely
be assumed that results which have
always followed from given conditions
tions. If a class of legislation has
always proved injurious there can be
no reason for believing that it will be
beneficial in the future.
Legislation which builds up foreign
Industries at the expense of home in
dustries has always brought distress
to the farmer. He can now see how
legislation in favor of the foreign
wool grower has ruined the sheep in
dustrY in this country. Is it not GER
tain that the same class of legisla-
ton applied to other industries will
have the same result? The destruc-
ton of the sheep industry has, in its
injurious effects, gone further than
the farmer; so per cent of our wooden
mills are idle The working man has
been hit as hard as the farmer 1t
was a body blow to both.-Capital.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-31
A. B. Bills on railroad Freights.

The Logan Republican. a Populist
newspaper, has the following editorial
article in it's last issue:
''The more we investigate the plank
of the Hill City platform in regard to
railroad rates the more we become
convinced that the farmers of this
county are deeply interested in secur-
ing such an act as is therein demand
ed from the national congress. In a
nut shell, the proposition is this: We
have ports on the Gulf of Mexico from
which grain can be shipped to any
part of the world as cheaply as from
New York, but the railroads charge
as much freight for shipping grain
from Phillips county to Galveston as
they do from Phillips county to New
York, although the distance to the
latter point is more than twice as
great. The Hill City platform pledges
A. H. Ellis, the Republican candidate,
to introduce and vigorously prosecute
in congress bill to stop the outrage,
and to provide for rates to be fixed by
the interstate commission upon
freights in the territory contiguous to
the Gulf of Mexico, so as to give the
western farmer the benefit of the
short haul. Mr.. Ellis. himself, was
the author of that plank, and, as
everyone knows, he has heretofore de-
voted good deal of attention to the
matter of securing a deep harbor at
the gulf and cheap rates for grain, eS-
pecially from Kansas and Nebraska.
He is honestly in favor of this much
needed reform, and should he go to
congress would put his usual vigor
into the work of accomplishing it,
1t is just, and is due to the Kansas
farmer, and would save him at least
ten cents buShel on grain should it
become law. Mr. Ellis says that if
he goes to congress he will at least
put the members on record on such
bill, and if he does we believe he will
succeed, and in that event it will
make our farms Ohio farms, for they
will be as near to the seaport as those
of western Ohio
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-31
An Object Lesson.

Under the Mckinley tariff Mexican
cattle when brought into this country
paid duty of SO per head: under the
Wilson law the ad valorem duty does
not amount, on the average, to ST a
head. The result is that whereas
only 2,036 cattle were imported from
Mexico in 1892, 227, 635 head were i'm
ported from that country in 1895, to
take the place of native cattle. In
1892 we exported 394, 6O7 cattle, and in
1895 only 289, $50.
That is the effect of the Wilson tar
iff generally. Under its provisions
we import more and export less of
farm products. And yet some deluded
farmers will vote for Bryan, who voted
for much worse tariff bill than the
one which finally passed. The Wilson,
German bill did not hit the farmers
hard enough to suit him.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-31

Free silver,lI never do, don't you see.
Free Silver'l1 never do, don't you see
Free silver'll never do. only for a shabby few
A repudiating crew
So they be-
Protection is our cry. so it is.
Protection is our cry, so it is
frotect1on Is our cry, and we'll shout it loud
and high,
For election it is nigh
So it is.
We're after Bryan's scalp. so we be-
We're after Bryan's seal D, SO we be-
Wer after Bryan'S scalp. and we'll make
him whine and yeIp
After POpuliStic help
Don't you see?
Now. Sewa1 he is sad. down in Maine
Now, Sewall he is sad. down in Maine
Now, Sewall he is sad, and Watson he is mad
And it makes awful glad
Out of Maine.
We'll vote for honest money, so we will
Wei vote Tor honest money, we will,
wen vote for honest mOney-uOt for Ma
braSka'S sOnney
But Mckinley and sound money
So we will.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-31

| oHO udy HlOTc VI campaigning dnO
then comes the victory.
*x*
During the month of September the
public debt increased 81, 800, 900: don't
you think we have had about enough
Democracy?
The Republican party is not hostile
to silver, and never has been. 1t is in
reality better friend of silver than
the Democracy.
Topeka millers have issued a circu-
lar urging the farmers to SOW soft
wheat. The circular is little late,
as nearly all the wheat has been sown.
*x*
1t is generally conceded by those
who are posted and have made study
of this campaign that Bryan is yirtu-
ally defeated. Now let us see to it
that Kansas has the right kind of
congressman.
Commenting upon the fact that
neither Mr.. Mckinley nor Mr.. Bryan
has any money, the Wicita Eagle con-
SluuCo d pun uidIl INDY aspire 10 any
thing in this country except, of
course. the vice presidency.
So
Now is the time to make a fool cleo
tion bet-show your faith in your party
and your lack of good sense. A wheel
barrow proposition or cord of wood
to saw are favorites, as usual, and are
very enjoyable-for the winner and
spectators.
So
Unless appearances are misleading
the Populist managers were wise in
sending the treasurer of the national
committee to see Tom Watson. The
Populist candidate for vice president
acts very much like a person who
wanted to be ''seen. Star.
50
Farmers of east Geary and Dickin-
son counties evidently have faith that
will be the next president,
and that the prosperous times Incl
dent to protective tariff will come
again. The Abilene Reflector notes
the arrival of $500 head of sheep, and |
states there are $4,000 more to come.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-31

A very remarkable story is told of
the wife of Thomas E. Watson. Popu-
list nominee for vice president. After
one of the battles of our civil war, a
richly dressed baby was found among
the dead and wounded. No parents
came to claim the child. They say
that father and mother had persisted
in the strife. 1t is not known whether
they were on the northern or southern
side. But southern soldier and his
wife took the child they had found
and cared for her as their own. The
years passed and the little girl grew
TO be a handsome and talented young
lady Then young Tom Watson,
farmer and lawyer, married her
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-31
Hated to Die.

G. w. Whiteside, old settler and
old soldier, also Republican nominee
for probate judge, died at his home
six miles north of ingalls,, Kan, on
Monday last and was buried in the
cemetery at Cimarron by the G. A. r.
at his request. During his failing
health, his one wish, often expressed,
was to live until after election, and
during his last illness he begged the
physician to save his life until he
could cast vote for Mckinley.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-31

In an article contributed to ssThe
Arena" in 1895, Bryan said, referring
to the panic of 1898, that sit is the
storm rather than the calm that tests
the strength of the ship, and we can
hardly afford to adopt a currency sys-
tenn which will add to the confusion
just at time when good money is
most needed " The necessity for good
money is quite as great now as it was
then, and a large majority of the
American people are going to vote
for it,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-31
They Harmonized.

That Mr.. Bryan's declaration that
the value of dollars depends on their
number should be applauded by his
hearers is accounted for by the same
explanation as that given for the pop
ularity of sensational preacher with
his congregation: His nonsense suited
their nonsense.-Boston Transcript.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-31
POPULAR SONGS.

|
our subscribers we publish two of the
most popular songs which have been
sung several times at different meet
ings by the Wa-Keeney Republican
Glee Club:
BILLY, THE WONDERFUL BOY.
| (Tune-..When Johnny Comes Marching
Home
When Bryan went east to make a. his speech,
His throat was sore and he could not screech.
Too bad, Too badl
So he read them off twelve thousand words,
Which drove the people out in herds
And they all felt sad for
Billy, the wonderful boy.
He found New York was not the place
To blow. To blow.
They put the brakes on his fiery pace.
The people they up to snuff
And know when they have got enough
And they all felt sad for
Billy, the wonderful boy.
ny 'o' Indeed? indeed
The reason now is very plain.
They knew that Tom would turn him down
With his cross of gold and thorny crown"
Billy, the wonderful boy
'Tfs true. 'Tfs true.
Prosperity then he did raid
That he would make the people think
That free trade was the missing link
And they all felt sad for
Billy, the wonderful boy
The people now will make their speech,
Don't fret. Don't fret.
They'll talk quite plain to this young peach
You bet. You bet
He'll think free silver's overdone
When he's laid out sixteen to one"
Then we'll all feel sad for
Billy, the wonderful boy
With free trade 1--WE won't do thing
Oh, MOI Oh. mol
Well give our money an honest ring.
That's SO. That's so.
We'll open our mills instead of mintS."
And give our labor a ''1ead-pipe cinch-.'
Then we'll all bid farewell
To Billy, the wonderful boy.
Prosperity then will return.
tbs clear. It's clear
Mckinley will he in the firm.
To steeri To steer
The ship of State in channels true.
Her flag unfurled, red, white and blue
Then well all feel safe with
Mckinley at the helm
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-31
They Can't Be Downed.

They Can't Be Downed
There is no use trying to down an
enthusiastic free silver advocate His
theories are so constituted that every
thing which happens simply strength
ems his belief in them. If gold goes
abroad, it is because of the wild
scramble for the metal resulting from
the demonetization of silver If gold
comes this way, it is because the gold
standard conSpiratOrS are trying to
bolster up shaking financial system
by borrowing money from Europe
That is one of the theories. Another,
from no less an authority than Mr..
Bryan, is that foreigners are hasten
ing to invest their money in anticipa-
ton of the good times which free sill
yer is expected to bring to this country.
If wheat is low. it is because silver is
cheap. If wheat goes up, it Is be-
cause England can no longer buy
wheat in India with cheap silver. or
else because Mark Hanna is putting
up the price merely for political effect.
The money market is tight. not be-
cause of the uncertainties involved in
=
city of money, or else because the
gold conspirators are deliberately put
ting the screws on the business COM
munity to coerce men to vote against
Bryan.
If any European authority on finan-
ceS or economics expresses the opinion
that free coinage would De disastrous
to the United States, the conclusion
is that England wants to keep Amer
lea enslaved to the gold standard. If
a foreigner says favoring word for
free silver. it is held up as the most
positive evidence that Europe is only
waiting for America to take the in
itiative so that the old world may fol-
low in the footsteps of the new in
gaining the inestimable industrial
benefits which silver will bestow on
all people. Bankers, as a class, are
against free silver because their inter-
ests are inimical to the people But
when a banker here and there-like
Mr.. st. John or Mr.. Sewall-rise to
proclaim his faith in free silver, he is
hailed as man who recognizes that
bankers, as well as farmers, are to be
benefited by the election of Bryan.
Millionaire Mark Hanna is a pluto
GRAFT, plotting against the interests of
the people. Millionaire Hearst is a
splendid example of a broad-guaged
financier, who realizes that the way
for rich man to prosper is to make
the people prosperous. When straw
votes here and there show great Nc
k1nley gains, they are without sig
nificance, for various readily discov-
cred reasons. When they show
majorities for Bryan, they are proof |
that the country will be carried for |
free silver. Great demonstrations for |
sound money are the result of coer-
ciOn and the lavish use of money. |
Great crowds at free silver meeting |
are evidences of spontaneous enthu- |
siasm for Bryan. And so the contrasts |
may be carried to an indefinite length. |
Kansas City Star.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-31
SHERIFF'S PROCLAMATION
OfTime of Holding Election National,
State. District, County and
Township
STATE OF KANSAS !

STATE OF KANSAS
TREGO COUNTY. -
Know We. that I. G. W. Lynn, sheriff of
ity in me vested do by this Proclamation
give public notice that on Tuesday, the 3rd
day of November a D. 1896. there will be
at that Time are as hOilOwS:
NATIONAL TICKET.
Ten Presidential Electors.
STATE TICKET.
One Governor.
One Lieutenant Governor.
One Secretary of state
One Auditor of State.
one Treasurer of State
One Attorney General
One Superintendent Public Instruction
One Chief Justice.
One Judge Court of Appeals, Northern de-
partment Western division
One Congressman large
One State Senator.
One Congressman 9th District
COUNTY TICKET.
One Representative
One Clerk of the Court.
One County Attorney.
One superintendent of Schools.
One Probate Judge.
One Commissioner 1st District
One Commissioner I'd District.
TOWNSHIP TICKET.
Two Justices of the Peace.
One Clerk.
One Treasurer.
Two COnSta bleS-
one ROAD oNerseef Tor each Road District
The votes of election for said offices will be
received at the polls at the usual voting
places in each township in said county of
TregO and state of Kansas.
In witness whereof have set my hand at
my Office in Wa-Keeney. said county this
18th day of October 1896
Sher1n OF Trego county, Kansas
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-31
Short Fables with Morals.
From Minneapolis oKasJ Messenger

From Minneapolis (kas9 Messenger
A Populist hen laid five eggs. One
was direct legislation egg. another
was a government ownership egg. the
third was an anti-monopoly egg, the
fourth was a sub-treasury egg, while
the fifth was a free silver egg.
,'Oh, what lovely egg said d
Democratic hen that happened to be
passing by.
(which one?" inquired the Populist
hen.
"Why. that perfectly elegant free
silver egg. Isn't it beautiful"
well, really, had considered it,
responded the Populist hen, ''the
smallest and poorest egg of the lot;
but now that you speak of it, / don't
know but that it is quite a superior
article"
''Oh, it is lovely
''Let me see,' inquired the Populist
hen, haven't you laid some eggs OF
this kind occasionally, yourself?.
"Ye s, indeed"
''But they never Matched, did they?'
mo. l wish that you would let me
set on this silver egg"
So the Populist hen consented, only
on condition that she should set on
the free silver egg with the Demo-
cratic hen After awhile the farmer
came out to the hen house and in
CURED: "What are you two dunn fools
doing, sitting on one egg?"
''Trying to hatch it, both re-
sponded.
''But the other eggs will spoil,
won't they?"
Il never thought of that" said the
Populist hen, and the Democratic hen
said to herself: Il have slipped free
trade egg into the nest that will hatch
if L can only keep the Populist hen
on the nest long enough. Her free
silver egg will not hatch anyway. It's
pretty, but it's rotten"
A Candidate Sewall, who was look
ing around for an office, met a Popu-
list voter, and accosting him said:
will you not?"
''Why should / vote for you?" in
quired the Populist voter.
Because L represent the masses in
their strife against the monopolies."
But you are a monopolist, are you
not?"
Yes, but l represent the other side.
L also represent the protest against
the national banking system"
''But you are a national banker, are
you not?"
eyes, but 1 represent the protest,
anyway. l also represent the people
in their warfare against organized
greed"
''But you are a little in the organ
lied greed line yourself, are you not?"
Il may be, but 1 should like to have
your vote. anyway"
The Populist voter said he would
think about it, and if you will put
your ear to the ground you will hear
the low, rumbling sound which de-
notes that he is thinking.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-31
HONEST MONEY.

(Tune-.Here's to Good Old Wines. Drink
Her DOWN.
We want an honest dollar, SO we do
We want an honest dollar, so we do.
We want an honest dollar. and for 1T we will
boiler,
If we have to burst our collar
Now, will you?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-31
CHORUS.

Potatoes they grow small over there:
Potatoes they grow small over there;
Potatoes they grow small, and they ripen in
the fall.
And they eat them tops and ali. over there
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-31
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.

One day more of campaigning and
then comes the victory.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-31

The Republican party is not hostile
to silver, and never has been. 1t is in
reality a better friend of silver than
the Democracy.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-31

During the month of September the
public debt increased 81, SOC, 900: don't
you think we have had about enough
Democracy?
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-26
THE CZAR'S CORONATION

All the crowned heads of the old
world. together with all their courts
and retinues, are getting ready for the
coronation of Nicholas H.. car of
Russia. The event will take place at
Moscow on May 2e.' II will be the most
costly and most gorgeous pageant of
the century. All told 500, zoo, 900 will be
expended. The preliminary festivities
Will begin on May 49, and the official
programme will not be ended until
June Z. There will be balls, banquets,
receptions, dinners, fetes of all sorts.
The nightly Examinations will be the
most brilliant that the electricians can
conceive.
History" says a writer In the New
York Journal, supplies no parallel
with which to compare the splendor of
the coming coronation. The magma
ton is dazzled. stunned by the brilli-
ant prospect Moscow looms before the
wondering eye like some fairy city.
The mere catalogue of feasts throws
the luxurious tales Of banquets set
forth in The Arabian Nights into pale
and ignominious shadow. There is no
exeSgeration In this statement.
The browning days OF imperial Rome
can alone furnish a precedent for this
fairy feast The board will be spread
for royalty itself. none but princes and
princesses OF the blood being admitted
to this sumptuous repast Looking
n AZ
the finest drapery. sparkling with mar
wells Of the costliest glass, loaded with
massive gold and silver plate. set with
viands such as none but the rulers OF
the earth may ever hope to eat. washed
down with wines uncorked only for the
delectation of royal palates. the Comte
de Monticello will be the admiring
spectator of unique company
Ranged about the table with his i'm
perial guests he will see a line Of men
clad in brilliant military uniforms.
their breasts glittering with orders and
decorations. and beautiful women i'm
robes Of costly stuffs, cleaning with
priceless jewels-women who hold I'm
their small white hands the power to
set the vast armies OF Europe flying
at each others threats"
Meanwhile. in all this barbaric SPLEEN
dor the great white car won't be a
fraction 50 happy or comfortable as
the average Montana miner Night
and day. despite the elaborate precau-
tons taken for his safety. he will be
constantly haunted by fear of bombs.
or poison, or death by some other sud
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-26
READ 1T.

Read the Standards special dispatch
of this morning. in which the opinion
of the St. Paul Pioneer Press is ex-
pressed in regard to Montana's trade
relations with jobbing houses in Min
seapolis and st. Paul
The fact TO be kept in mind is that
the controversy kept up by this recent
utterance in the St Paul organ is one
which was started in Ainnesota-it
didn't start in Montana. The assump-
ton Is the so-called twin cities" are
boycotted by Montana. That is not
true. Trade throughout this state sim
ply made up its mind TO leave these
two cities alone: Montana does not
have 20 boycott anybody.
The fact remains. however. that.
owing 10 the vicious hostility OF the
Pioneer Press and some Of its compan-
ions in ST. Paul and Minneapolis. the
conclusion Of Montana merchants was