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The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25
PARTY FEALTY.

In 1892 the Atlanta Constitution
was opposed to the nomination OF
Grover Cleveland. But after the
Chicago convention its editor wrote to
the nominee pledging the Constitu-
tons support, and in reply received
the letter that follows:
GRAY GABLES, BUzZARD's BAY,
MASS, July 16, 1892. o.
/ Clark Howell, Ed: My Dear SIR
The receipt of y9pr recent letter has
gratifed me exceedingly. 1t has a
one of true democracy about ii, and is
~pervaded with the sort of democratic
frankness which is very pleasing.
l think the underlying principle of
party organization is what you so
admirably express as an acceptance of
the arbitrament of the national con-
v%ention.. On the other hand, 1t is as
fully the duty of one opposed to shut
his mind and heart to any feeling of
irritation or resentment that might be
allowed to grow out of opposition
based upon honest Judgment and Il
conscientious desire for party success.
L am not surprised, nouSn L am
gratified, by the announcement that
from this time to the close of the cam
paign your own service and the inval-
liable influence of The Constitution will
be devoted to the fight for democratic
ucces 1t honestly seems to me that
democrats who are not at this time
loyal to the cause are recreant to their
country.
Personal advancement of man is
nothing; the triumph of the principles
we advocate is everything.
Hoping that we may congratulate
each other on a glorious result in
November, | am, yours, sincerely,
GROVER CLEVELAND.
Thus it will be seen that Mr.. CleVe-
land has spoken on party fealty, and
that his letter is very applicable to the
condition of the present time.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25
Presiding ELDERS APPOINTMENTS
QUARTERLY MEETINGS.

Lexington District. Fourth round:
Longwood and High Point Cat High
Point), July 1926.
Lamonte Station, August 1-2.
Montserrat Circuit lat Oak GroVel,
August 80.
Columbus Circuit lat Black water,
August 1915.
Odessa and Marvin lat Odessa), August
% %.
Herndon and Houstonia Cat Rose Val
ley, August 1890.
Sweet Springs and Blackwater (at Sweet
S~prings), August 20 30, p. m. Quarterly
Conference, August 81, a. m.
Wellington Circuit (at MiIler's Chapel,
Jeptember So.
EImwood and Bethel tat Bethel), Sep
TENDER 1913.
Corder and Blackburn lat Corder), Sep
TENDER 1918.
j. Nj. Boon, p. e.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25
ATTENTION.. DEMOCRATS.

In pursuance to the action of tina
Democratic Executive Committee OF
Lafayette county, at a meeting on June
list, 1896, the democratic voters of the
county are hereby requested TO meet
at their various precincts on
SATURDAY, JULY %, 1896,
for the purpose of selecting delegates
to attend a county convention at Lex
ington, at IL o'clock a. M, Monday,
July 27, 1896, for the purpose of
selecting eight delegates to represent
This county at the state convention ut
Jefferson City on August 5, 1896. The
representation to said county conven-
ton shall be the same as to last county
convention as follows.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25
New Firm
New Goods

TO the Citizens Of Lertngton and Vicinity.
l take this means of announcing that
l have opened Il new stock of Groceries
IN the Meyer building, opposite the
~pOstoflice.
L came here to make this my perman-
ent home, and to do business with you
on business principles. | will sell you
nothing but good goods, at the lowest
possible prices. | shall do business ON
a strictly cash basis, which will enable
mt to make low prices.
l respectfully solicit Il call. Try me
once, and if | don't please you it Will be
my loss.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25
Respectfully,
r. L. LOCKWOOD
Notice to Bridge Contractors.
will let To the lowest and best bidder, on
SATURDAY. AUGUST $. IsgG.

Mt 10 O'Clock IL. m, II contract for the CON
struction OF II Wooden pile bent bridge, about
sixty tGO) feet in length, on road leading east
Dover.
Also, ON same day and as soon after the
above letting as practicable' Will let for
Creek, about 81 miles southwest of Dover,
on road To lIiFginsNiilc, near Golfers place.
The repairs to same Will consist of placing
new wooden sub-tructurc under ends of iron
span and approaches and otherwise mcudirg
floor, NC, Sc.
Plans aud specifications for each of the
above lettings eau hU seen at time of let
ting.
Contractors will he required To give bonds
with approved security for performance of
contract and muintainlncc of bridge as the
law directs.
The right is reserved to reject any nr all
bids. j II. GRAY,
7-lS-td Commissioner
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

Judge VIM. Young will go into the
congressional convention with the solid
%''firsl, last, and all the time" support
of Lafayette, and this county will ask
Jackson as a reciprocatIon of past
favors, and as a solution of the con
gressional situation, to make his nomi-
nation unanimous.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

Senator Teller and his associates,
who left the republican party, put an
end 10 all charges of selfishness against
them when they announced their inten-
ton of supporting Bryan. Their bolt
was one for principle, and they are
carrying it out.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

Hanna (rchy) Is trying to get itself
abroad in the land. Whether or not
Hanna (rchy) will be on top four
years, depends upon the strength the
syndicates and trusts can exert in
national politics.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

Mr.. Cleveland has been twice hon
ored by the democratic party and twice
elected president by the democrats OF
the west and south, and it is safe TO
presume that if he were not in any en-
tangling alliances he would recipro-
cate by supporting Bryan and Sewall.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

The chief charge against Bryan is
that he is a young man. The consti-
tuition says that a man 35 years old is
old enough TO be president and the
constitution has been regarded as good
authority.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

Line up with your crowd. If you
a a robber tariff on a gold basis,
Mckinley is your man. But if you
believe that government is for the
governed, and not for the pIutocrats,
vote for BRYAN.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

A large two-story frame dwelling house
nine rooms-with barn and ~outhouses,
gas, electricity and water; on two lots in
residence part of Lexington, Mo. Price,
So, 500. Will sell on easy terms, or trade
for q farm. II. W. WINsoR, 7-25-4t
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

The fortunate candidates at Spring
field were those who failed to get
nominated. Leading forlorn fights is
not profitable, politically nor finan-
cially.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

Among the names of those contract
ing upon the ''illegal" buildings, we
find the name of
CYRUS OsBoRN!!!
One of the most fearlessly honest
men who aver lived.
OF all these pioneers, who took part
in the selection of a site and in planning
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

The fight this year is between the
advocates of a government of the peo-
pie, by the people and for the people;
and a government of Mckinley, by
Hanna, for the trusts and s~yndicates.''
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

The next president was given Il gen.
uine sold Missouri" ovation at every
point in his trip through the state.
Missouri wanted Bland, but she had no
objections to offer against Bryan.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25
Perfect Wisdom

Would give us perfect health. Because
men and women are not perfectly wise,
they must take medicines to keep them
selves perfectly healthy. Pure, rich blood
~Sarsaparilla is the one true blood purifier.
1t gives good health because it builds
upon the true foundation-pure blood.
Hoods Pills are purely vegetable, per-
fectly harmless, always reliable and bene-
fetal.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25
BATTLE OP LEXINGTON,

The committee on the annual celebra-
ton OF the Battle of Lexington is re-
auested to meet at the INTELLIGENCER
office on next Friday evening at s o'clock.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

you shall not press
down upon the brow of
labor this crown of
thorns. You shall not
cruelty mankind upon a
cross of gold" w. j..
Bryan.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

1t is a matter of small consequence,
whether or not the leaders at St. Louis
indorse Bryan. The people are going
to vote for him anyhow.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

Mr.. Bryan is not in favor of running
this government on-the European plan.
Are youP
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

It's Mckinley, Protection and Pow
erty; or, Bryan, Bimetallism and Pros
perity. Choose for yourself.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

1t is quite evident that the chaplain
of the state republican convention was
making his appeals to the galleries in
stead of the throne of Grace,
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

The democratic platform breathes the
spirit OF the Declaration of I%ndepend-
ence.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25
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DAVIS TURNED DOWN.
The Republicans Nominate Lewis for
Governor.

The republican state convention has
nominated Robert T.. Lewis, of Clinton,
for governor. The ballots for this
Office stood as follows:
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

Marcus Aurelius Hanna seems to be
making a speciality of st. Louis con-
Ventions.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

The ''BIg I%njun" gold men arc
making for the reservation. In an
other week they will all be in camp.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

Col. Van Horn has declared that he
is a silver man, and that he thinks free
coinage is necessary to the advance
ment of civilization In the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. If Col. Van
Horn really believes this, he cannot
consistently vote the republican ticket.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

The republican party in its platform
of 1888 said: "The republican party
is in favor of the use of both gold and
silver as money, and condemns the
policy of democratic administrations
in its efforts to demonetize silver" In
1892 the republican platform said
1.-The republican party demands the
use of both gold and silver as standard
mOnpv -
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

The INTELLIGENCER's ''roosters" are
getting in shape for November use.
They did not come through the last
two years in as good shape as they
should, bat Bryan's nomination started
them to eating and they will be in
most excellent condition in November.
Live, growing specimens from the IN
TELLIGENCER's poultry yard will be
the great feature of the first issue of
the INTELLIGENCER in November. Now
is the time TO subscribe in order to be
sure of a copy of that lively number.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

The gold craze is about ready for the
undertaken.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

MIR. Bryan's friends can find no
more appropriate answer 10 the charge
that he is a young man, than by
quoting Pitts reply to Sir Robert
WaIpole. In answer to the charge of
youth, Pitt said: ''The ~atrocious
crime of being a young man, | shall
neither attempt 10 palliate nor denv:
but content myself with hoping that |
may be one of those whose follIes cease
with their youth, and not of that num-
Der who are ignorant in spite of ex-
perience. Whether youth can be
imputed to a man rs a reproach, | will
not assume the province of determin-
jngi but surely age may become Justly
contemplate, if the opportunities
which it brings have passed away
without improvement"
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

The gold craze is dying out.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

$1.6Q A YEAR
The advocate., 1896-01-29

RAOym ~AN A~HJ A~AAANAS "a AAA~A5
women and children are put to the slow
torture Of nakedness and starvation.
But it has been heyday for the cred
itor class. A fall of 49, per cent. in the
prices Of labor, land and commodities
means an iptreGSe Of 50 per cent. in the
purchasing power of money.
ENORMOUS PROFITS OF THE RoTHscHILDs.
The five Rothschilds alone, who are
reputed to own s3,OOO,O00,O0O Of sscuri-
ties, have had about 81, ,5O0,OOO,OOO added
to the purchasing power Of their bloated
fortunes by 1t. The national debts of
the world, payable almost entirely in
gold, amount to $23,0OO,0O00OO; and
other public debts and the corporate and
private debts running through this period
Of falling prices, and which yet must be
paid in land, labor and commodities at
gold values, would probably swell the
aggregate Of such public, corporate and
private debts of nations having the gold
standard of prices to at least 50,000,00O,-
600. This rise in the purchasing power
of gold, or fall in land, labor and COM
modities, will be gain, therefore, Of
about $25,OOO,OOO,OOO to the creditors,
and an added burden OF about $25,OOO,-
100000 on the shoulders of the mass of
the people. The press of the world
almost wholly, and the pulpit and the
rostrum very largely, are, in effect, bribed
out Of the huge gains Of the creditor
class to hide this gigantic villainy from
the eyes Of men, while the workers, who
create the wealth, sinking under their
added burdens, sit like the helpless job
to be jeered at in their leprosy of want
and despair, their comforters telling
them there is no hope Of relief and moth
ing to do but curse God and die.
Men and brethren! Can this unparal-
leled robbery and torture of the people
be carried on by nations boasting of the
humanities of Christian civilization?
Will the masses stand like sheep to be
shorn, or like cattle drawn to the bull
ring to be slaughtered? A thousandth
part Of this cruelty and wrong, if perpe.
trated openly, would set the world ahame
with revolution. Are men so dull that
ordinary observation cannot discern the
yillainy? Do not believe it. 1t is plain
to the commonest apprehension when
stripped Of the lies, the sophisms, and
the dogmRtism of the venal press. The
masses have their own newspapers and
their unions, where the wrongs done
them are made plain as day. This great
wrong, infinitely greater than African
slavery, will grow more hideous as the
fog in which it strives to veil itself is
penetrated by the keen eyes Of suffering
but discerning men, and relief must be
given or the Avenger will come.
The country has been assured during
the excitement and distress caused by
this contrived fall of prices, that as soon
as we reached resumption prices would
rise and general prosperity return. Mr..
Speaker, the natural buoyancy of our
people, and the facilities for bank infla-
tion, may bring about rise Of prices and
revival of industries in spite of gold
resumption. But I assert, and am sure
events win verify the prediction, that, in
our condition of unexampled indebted
ness and taxation, gold prosperity and
cold raannnntinn cannot EXIST. We nnnst
The advocate., 1896-01-29
WAY BACK IN 1879
The Reasonable Schemes Of the GOIdItes
We're Exposed by Gen. Ewing
and Others.


few others in Congress made on the Re-
publican resumption-gold basis-credit
strengthening-h honest money schemes
which had then recently been launched,
and the effects of which were just be-
coming visible. Following is an abstract
Of speech made by Gen. Ewing in Con-
gress on February %, 1879. The reader
will see that it is almost as strong in it's
denunciation Of the money power as any
thing Of the present day. It sounds al
most like a prophecy, and when one sees
how conditions have kept growing worse
In the same direction during all these
seventeen years he wonders how the peo-
ple's patience has endured it,
The business on the Speakers table
was the bill (H. r., No. SO5) to repeal all
that part Of the act approved January
IA, 1875, known as the resumption act"
authorizing the Secretary Of the Treas
ury to dispose OF United States bonds
and redeem and cancel greenbaCk cur
rency, returned from the Senate with
amendments.
Mr.. EwING said
Mr.. Speaker; No argument has been
presented to impair the reasons gave
in the opening of the debate this morn
ing for the adoption Of the amendments
proposed by the Committee on Banking
and Currency.
The resumption to which the country
has at last been brought is simply and
purely gold resumption. All prices have
been forced to or below the gold level,
and cannot rise above it without upset
ting gold resumption. The limited guam
tity Of silver permitted to be coined can
have for long time no considerable
effect on prices.
The reason the scheme for gold re-
sumption has SO profoundly agitated our
politics for several years past is that it
necessarily involved great and perms-
nent lowering Of the prices Of labor and
property, great business stagnation and
distress during the period Of falling
prices, and an immense increase OF the
burden OF debts and taxes. The discus
sion, which did not fully begin until after
the resumption law had been secretly
concocted and forced through Congress
in 1876, has been befogged by
CRAFT OF THE MONEY POWER
playing on the ignorance, the prejudices,
and the thoughtlessness of the people.
To the great holders Of money securities
Of this debt-ridden world the gabble
about "honest money" "public faith, "
and the thousand sophistries with which
legislation in their interests is obtained
or supported, are merely their tools Of
trade. Their anxiety about the kind OF
money a people may use goes no further
than to have affairs so managed that
great public and private debts shall be
made in a cheap currency and paid IN
a dear one. They have played that trick
on England, the United States, and other
nations, until they have filled the world
with princes and paupera
Mere humanity would have dictated
to the manipulators of this scheme oI
gold resumption to attain their end by
the more direct method Of having a law
enacted which would not have shrunh
the currency or lowered values Of labor
and property, but would merely have
The advocate., 1896-01-29

/ AN01GsA OON@ANt gAeAa
losses by profitable business, the natter
would have kept on growing richer, anC
the furies Of vagsbondage, starvation
and insanity, born of the stagnation Of
falling prices, would not have beer
turned loose to desolate every industrial
center Of our land.
A fall Of prices necessarily makes al
current business Improbable, il moi
ruinous. Capital shrinks from business
when prices are falling, embarrassment
and losses to traders and manufacturers
follow, labor loses employment, and the
industrial energies Of the people are i'm
paired.
But the descent from the paper to the
gold level of prices carried with it moi
only this enormous loss Of production
from business stagnstion, but also meal
culable losses to taxpayers and debtors
by the fall Of values Of everything by sale
Of which money is realized to pay debts
and taxes.
These causes combined have made the
four years of preparation for resumption
the darkest era in our industrial and
social life--a period that has stripped
millions Of their hard-earned savings
turned hosts of willing laborers into vag.
abonds, filed the gazettes with bank
ruptcies, suicides and sheriff's sales, and
crowded our madhouses, asylums and
jails with the victims Of a law more dia.
bolical than msD's inhumanity to man
ever before enacted or enforced.
Mr.. Speaker, the advocates Of gold re.
sumption tell us that great industrial
distress prevails in Great Britain, Ger.
many and other nations as we'll as in the
United States, and therefore insist that
resumption cannot be the occasion of ouI
trouble, but that it must come from
some worldwide cause. One says it il
providential; another that it is the re.
suit of devilish spirit Of communism in
the wage classes; while Prof. Jevons, 6
high priest in the temple Of science, de-
clares it is the result of the malign infu
ence Of spots on the sun, which he says
return at periods approximating the re
currence Of great fsmines and panics
But it seems to me hardly philosophical
or fair to put the blame on the working
men, or Divine Providence, or the sur
spots, or the Old Nick, if an adequate
and obvious cause be apparent.
The New York Public, a strong gold
resumption paper and the best authority
on prices in the United States, in itt
issue Of the 18th of December last, refer
ring to it's former articles showing the
fall in the gold prices Of commodities il
the New York market for several years
past, says:
"Our examination of prices has nov
been greatly extended. We have before
us tables covering the prices of over SOI
articles, which represent over four-hfth
in value Of all articles entering into com
merce or consumption in this country
The approximate correctness o
the following ratios, reducing quotation
to gold, may therefore be affirmed
namely, 800 in 1860 equals in purchaa
ing power sl26 in 1864, and sl24 in 1873
and S8l.67, November /, 1878. Tn
ShrinkGge IN the Average gold U0lue O.
commodities (ercIuSiUe Of all stocks o.
bonds and of aU re0L eStnte) from .J00
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-12
PocateIIo Pugs.
tspeclal TO The Herald.

tSpeclal TO The Herald.
POCATELLO, Ida, April 1.-THE
Palace meat market was entered some
time during Thursday night and the
cash register rif1ed of it's contents. The
same night the clothing store of
Church & Co. was broken into, but
nothing was molested. The thieves
were evidently after money. The
young lads who robbed the store of
Bean Co., on the night of April 4,
were suspected and young Holling,
one of the three boys, was accused of
being implicated in Thursday night S
robbery. AT first he denied all knowl-
edge of the affair, but after being sub
jected to the sweating" process yes
terday acknowledged that Soule. Knoll
and himself had planned the second
robbery, but that he had weakened,
the two former doing the job. All eff
forts to locate the young criminals
failed, and it was learned today that
the boys had boarded the south bound
passenger train yesterday morning and
were put off at Brigham. The lads
were not punished for the former rob-
berry but were allowed to go with a lee
ture, their parents paying all costs.