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Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-17
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JAS. H. HARD & CO.,
Insurance,
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~ General Commission
Birmingham and Bessemer,
Alabama.
Our Office is No. 2OO7 First
Avenue.
Our Telephone Number is
6l3.
Our place of business is where
ever we happen to be-
Our hours of business are
when we are awake.
N. B.-We don't mind losing
sleep. 11-,e.,mo
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Our hours of business are
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The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27
NOT MIR. TELLER.

In asking the democrats to endorse
Teller for president, Taubeneck IL Co.
demonstrate that whatever part OF
their anatomy may have been neglected
their gall has not been left uncultlvated-
The INTELLIGENCER is willing to con-
cede that Teller is II great man,
honest and patriotic. We are Wiling
TO concede that his influence in the
coming campaign will he very strong,
but Mr.. Teller is not Il democrat. lie
does not agree with the great party on
but one principle. He would not be
the man for the party to nominate at
this time if he espoused all its princi-
pies.
The fight for constitutional money
has been made in the democratic party,
and il is nervy indeed TO ask, o that
the advocates of silver ave triumphed,
that the whole party machinery and its
millions of voters who have so unset
fshly made the battle for silver, be
turned over to the glory of a few
boiling republicans.
The doors of the party are open, and
if Teller, Taubeneck & Co. are moi
blind they can see in democracy's
triumph a panacea for the wrongs
inflicted on their people. If they are
true to themselves they will throw
their influence to the democratic ticket
nominated at Chicago. Mr.. Teller is
right on the money question, but the
democratic party stands for more than
honest money. The populists and
boiling republicans know that the
double standard a only come by
democratic legislation. If they wan
1t, and want it bad they know how to
vote to get it. But surely they don't
expect a great party to place them at
the helm just because Teller created a
little excitement at St. Louis.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27
HOW 1T HAPPENED.
The existing gold standard must be
Observation-Disclosures Platform.

The existing gold standard must be
preserved.-Republican Platform.
John j. Ingalls, says that ESQ dele
gates to the st. Louis convention were
instructed for binetalIism, 200 for
gold, and the rest for free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver.
Mr.. Ingalls, is good authority in the
republican party, but he said that,
with a gold platform and a London
banker for vice-president, those who
made the ticket would have to elect it.
He further stated that he did not I'M
derstand just what arguments had con-
verted Mckinley and his managers to
a gold platform.
Mr.. Ingalls, belongs probably to that
class who are $50 wise they will not
learn" 1t is a poor politician indeed
who cannot account for McKinley's
conversion to the demands of the gold
men. Major Mckinley wanted the
nomination, and he wanted it bad.
The Eastern tariff barons were afraid
of Reed. Morton and Allison never
had any show of being nominated.
The fight was between Reed and Nc
Kinley. Reed was with the %plutocrats
on money, but could not be bulldoZed
into "A general revision of the tariff.
Mckinley was wrong, according to the
money sharks, on finance, but suited
the tariff barons fine. Reed could not
be handled; Mckinley could, and
therefore the Canton major was
as the Wall street and tariff
baron nominee, and the ~platocrats
furnished the millions that it took to
nominate him. In turn for this Nc
was to have the nomination,
and the tariff barons and money sharks
we're to build the platform and own
Mckinley.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27
AGE OF PALMETTO TREES.
Some of Those In Florida Said to he MOI
Than 900 Years Old.

Some of Those in Florida said to he More
Than 800 Years Old.
1t Is a well known fact that some
trees live to a great age, the oak, elm,
cedar, hickory, etc, but the palmetto
trees of the south, and particularly
those along the Indian river, Florida,
are really a curiosity for their long
life. The older trees are gracefully
straight, about forty or fifty feet high,
having a diameter of eight to ten
inches, and so smooth that they look
as if they had been shaved with a car
penter's draw knife up to about three
feet of the green, spreading fan leaves,
which form a top without a single
branch.
These trees are said to be from 300 to
500 years old, according to their height
and are SO tough that they will bend
almost to the ground in n gale of wind,
then spring back to their normal posi-
ton again. Relatives of mine who
have resided on he Indian river for
the past thirty years say that the trees
have not grown more than six feet
during that length of time.
A curious fac about the cabbage
palmetto as it is called, is that it
grows only from the top, having a cab
bage like head which, when young, is
a palatable food for man or beast, and
if a rifle ball were to penetrate the
center of it, the tree would die. Any
amount of hacking Or girdling may be
done to the trunk, however, without
injury to the tree, as the nourishment
from the roots passes through the
thickly matted fibre the entire thick
ness of the body, to the head at the
apex of the tree.-N. Y. Herald.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27
THE CANDIDATE.

The tight Tor ''honest money within
the democratic party has been fought
and won. The party at Chicago will
not bend the knee to the Wall and
Lombard street bankers. 1t will not
surrender rs inalienable, inherent and
God-givcr principles to the plutocrats
for Il mess of pottage. 1t will go
b fore the people this year, as always
in the past, the champion of the rights
of the masses.
Never in the history of the nation
has 4 battle been waged more nnself-
ishly. The champions of constitu-
tional money have sacrificed their own
personal ambitions that they might
save the democratic party from the
humiliating surrender of its cardinal
principles. They met and orercame
obstacles that scarcely ever confronted
II people in a political battle. The
opposition had e unlimited, M
the entire party organization presented
an almost solid front against them. A
democratic administration used the
appointive power for all 1t was worth,
that gold, red, red gold might be
victorious. The metropolitan press,
with few exceptions, Bonded every
energy TO thwart the will of the party.
Federal appointees everywhere rallied
their friends and threw their influence
into the fight. The combined opposi-
ton of patronage, money and press
could not stem the tide. The battle
was the peoples and theirs Is the
victory.
The platform at Chicago is prac-
tically written. The only question
that is left for settlement is the ticket.
For a score of years MIssouri's cham
pion, Richard p. Bland, in eason and
out OF season, has led the fight for
honest money. When others lost
courage Bland stood at the throttle.
When others were willing to concede
the victory Bland urged another
charge. He was battling for the
rights of a people, and like the drum
mer boy at MareDgo, he did not know
how to beat a retreat. He has lived
to see the great party of Jefferson and
Jackson pass through its most trying
hours, and from the chaos of political
battle arise the same true champion of
American liberties.
Bland was ''Silver Dick'' of national
yea, observation-disclosures long be-
fore many who now aspire TO carry off
the honors were born to political life.
For his long and faithful services he
any reward the party can
bestow. He deserves any honor a
can give. He is the logical
He is a man of the people,
whose long years of public service are
not furnished by a single dishonest or
suspicious act. HIS record is as clear
as the noon-day sun, and he has
demonstrated that in public service
his character is strong, his ability
and his courage of the bravest
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27
AN IIL-EATEn DAY

A few days ago the correspondents
of The metropolitan press sent out the
statement that Mckinley was super
stitious, and was very anxious that his
nomination take place on some other
day than Friday. Oar course ii he
had been nominated on Friday, ssthe
hangman's day." Major Mckinley could
not have been elected. The same can
be SAID of him had his nomination
occurred or any other day. But the
apostle of the London bankers and
Eastern tariff barons had his way and
was nominated on a far more appro-
pirate day.
The republican press calls him
Napoleon. Well, there is some ground
for giving him that name, which may
not nave occurred TO our readers. On
the eighteenth day of June, 1915, the
battle of Waterloo was fought, and
Napoleon's retirement to obscurity
dated from that day. On the eigh-'
teenth day of June, 1896, the eighty
first anniversary of the battle of
Waterloo, Mckinley was nominated.
Our republican brethren can call him
Napoleon. 1t is the fittest name. The
Wellington Will be nominated at
Chicago, and Maj. McKinley's repub-
llcan followers can attribute their
Napoleonic Waterloo in November to
the s'fated day. of his nomination,
should they not desire to admit that
patriotism instead of pelt actuated tho
American voters.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27
MAJOR vANDIvER FOR SENATOR.

MAJOR NANDlf ER fOh OIt'
The senatorial convention last Thurs
day nominated Mai. Charles Vandiver
for state senator. This compliment to
Lafayette by her two sister counties is
appreciated and will be re%ciprocaLed.
Mai. Charles VanJiver is Il man of
high character, and is Il democrat of
/ the best type. lie will ably, fearlessly
and impartially represent this district
in the next state senate. Maj. Nandi-
yer will be elected by the old time
majority. lie will rise above the
internal differences in this county. His
position on the local issue is clear, and
that there may not be any m%isunder-
standing about it a representative of
the INTELLIGENCER asked Maj. Van
diver if he would use his influence to
change the status of the courts of this
county should II petition be presented
to him. His answer verbatim ct
literatum was: al nave endeavored TO
make my position plain on the court
house question, and here Teiterate the
oft repeated declarations that any
change must depend upon ii vote in The
county TO be advocated by me-"
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27
-
ARE THEY

The next few weeks will divulge the
sincerity or the insincerity of the
populists and the boiling republicans.
They have for the last two years
been laboring a%ssiduously for free
coinage. They have claimed that IN
the double standard, j. e.. free and
unlimited coinage of both silver and
gold at 16 to l, was the panacea for
all the serious grievous Ills inflicted by
thirty years of republicanism and the
gold standard. They have preached
silver in season and out of season.
The country Will have an opportunity
this year to witness the sincerity of the
s'pops" and boiling republicans. The
democratic party will declare for free
coinage at IL 10 l, and they will nom
mate a man for president whose record
is in accord with that platform. There
will be no ifs nor ands about it. 1t will
be a straight out fight in which the
great democratic party will take its
place with the masses and against the
classes. If the populIsts are sincere
they must stand with the democrats
and not permit themselves to be used
as a tool for republican victory. If a
democratic president is elected we will
16 to l. If he is not elected the
country as far as the masses are con-
cerned will have gone to the demnitiOn
bowwows.
1t is probable that Il democrat can be
without the populists and
boiling republicans support, but with
the support of these two parties the
will win.
If the populists are sincere they will
have nc ticket in the field.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27
A Pointer to Voters.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, June 25.-
State treasurer Lon V. Stephens mailed
today to the American Exchange
Nation bank of New York City, the
states fiscal agent, a check for $446,-
445, $99,445 of which sum is to pay
the s%emi-annual interest on the out
standing bonds of the state, due July
L, the remainder 1887 900 to retire
337 Missouri, Hannibal and St. Joseph
6 per cent bonds. Upon the payment
of these bonds the bonded debt will be
reduced to ST, O97 900, only $1,000 of
which bears 6 per cent interest, the
remainder bearing SO per cent. Dur
ing the administration OF the treasury
by MI. Stephens, "a ,428, 900 of the
state debt has been paid.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27

The democrats of Missouri have
made a brave, uuselfish and successful
fight for ''honest money" and the
t~ime-honored principles of the party.
The fight is over, but the men who
made it are not going to be forgotten
when it ONE to distributing the
honors. Among the fearless workers
who we're first on the field and the last
to leave it in the fight for silver was
Lon V. Stephens. When the roll is
called of the delegates in the state o N
vention on the gubernatorial candi-
dates, 1t will be seen that Missouri
democrats reward patriotic efforts IN
their behalf, and that Lon V. Stephens
will be melted out a reward for the
enemies he has made. Fighting for
the people pays best after all. Lon
Stephens is wealthy, and could have
amassed as much fortune out of a gold
standard as any man in Missouri, but
he preferred a home in the hearts of
his people, and he got it.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27
John Powell,
Franklin Avenue is selling
John Powell.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTRRS.

Sealed proposals will he received ut the
office of tne city Register until noon
MONDAY JULY -. lS9G,
for bids to furnish the city of Lexington with
coal for the term of one year, at the CITY Hail,
Calabouse and Engine House i'm Old Town
when ordered. ana in such quantity as needed
by the propcr Office. The coal must he good
and fresh from the bank and free from dirt or
any other foreign substance. Bids must state
the price per bnshcl and must bc accompanied
by "A good and sunic cnt bond for double the
amount of fuel to he consumed. and "A copy OF
this advertisement state nature OF bld ANA
Bills will only he paid when there is money in
the treasury, after claims have been audited,
numbered, registered and in rotation. Blank
contractors bonds can be obtained AT the city
Registers office. Address bids Ia Mayo or and
Councilmen. scaled, and state ON outside of
envelope what the bid is for and deliver all
bids to me. The city reserves the right to
reject any and MI bids. LOUIS GitAIH,
CITY Rpni~tsr.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27

On May 10th the INTELLIGENCER
registered the opinion that the silver
men would have 5GS delegates in the
Chicago convention. Our gold friends
said we were crazy, and our silver
friends asked us why we did not claim
the whole business and be done with
it. The latest and most conservative
estimate is that the silver men will
have $40 votes in the convention. The
INTELLIGENCER will wager a years
subscription TO n load of dry straw that
it did not miss its guess on May 10th
ten votes.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27
L n.,r cure all liver ills, bilious
1000 = tIllS ness, headache. 25 cents.
u\ybat vas the na,ure of the GOLD

"What was the nature of the goldP"
1.-The PARTICLES" was Mr.. Woods
reply, ''were coarser and less flaky
than they exist IN nature. They seemed
10 have been filed or scraped off a
nugget"
"Who is Hankins?"
"My understanding is that he runs a
general store at his home. He was
accompanied here by a German farmer
whose name was Leslie, or something
of that sort. Both were apparently as
honest as the day is long.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27
PRESIDING ELDERS APPOINTMENTS

PRESIDING ELDERS APPOINTMENTS
QUARTERLY MEETINGS.
Lexington District. Fourth round:
Higginsville Station, June 27-2S.
Lexington Station, June 1929.
Malta Bend and Grand Pass Cat Malta
Bend), July 40.
Waverly Station, July So.
Dover and Providence (at Dover, July
Hip.
Lexington Station, July IL, p. m.
Knob Noster md Dresden (at Dresden),
July 1919.
Warrensburg Station, July 1920.
Longwood and High Point lat High
POINT, July 1926.
Lamonte Station, August IL.
Montserrat Circuit (at Oak Grove),
August SO.
Columbus Circuit lat BlackwaterJr
August 1916.
Odessa and Marvin (at Odessa), August
22-23.
Herndon and Houstonia (at Rose Val
ley, August 1890.
Sweet Springs and Blackwater Cat Sweet
S~prings), August 1870, p. m. Quarterly
Conference, August 81, a. m.
Wellington Circuit lat MilIer's ChapeD,
Jeptember So.
Elmwood and Bethel tat BetheD, Sep
TENDER 1918.
Corder and Blackburn Cat Corder), Sep
TENDER 1918.
j. Nj. Boon, P. E.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27

Mrs. Strongmind-Men think they
are good reasoners, and yet every man
judges all women by his wife.
Mr.. S.-Women don't reason that
way.
II should say not"
"No. indeed. Every woman judges
her husband by the worst things she
hears about other women's husbands"
IN. Y. WeeklV.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27

The strength which comes to us from
eating nourishing food is better than
stimulation, because it is new strength.
The health which belongs to a strong
body, well nourished by proper food
properly digested), is the only heath
that is lasting.
The difference between Shaker Digestive
Cordial and other medicines is simply
that it helps nature to make strength
1t does not profess to cure sickness,
except as that sickness is a result OF weak
ness caused by food not properly digested-
Shaker Digestive Cordial will relieve
the pangs OF Indigestion and make thin,
sick, weak people as well as if their
stomachs had never been out of order.
1t is a gentle aid to the digestion OF
natures strength maker, food.
All druggists. Trial bottle, 10 cents.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27
PARMERs,

The Farmers Alliance OF Lafayette
county will meet at Glenmore school
house, two and a half miles south and
west of Myrick. at 10 O'Clock n. M, on
Saturday, July 4th, 1896, with closed
doors. vt II o'clock doors will be opened
to everybody. Plenty of provisions on
the ground for all. Ladies' invited. Will
be speakingin the evening.
w. A. MCQUEEN, Pres.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27

w. G. McCausland's name and
works will live IN the hearts of the
people of this county long after the
Higginsville Leader and those who
edit it have been forgotten. The
L .ader has made itself q stencil in the
nostrIIs of the majority of the people
of this county, and Its TRADE on Judge
AlcCausland only serves to lift him
higher in the esteem and favor of the
people of this county.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, Oss
LUCAS COUNTY.

Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he is
the senior partner of the firm of f. j.
Cheney IL Co., doing business in the city
OF Toledo, county and state aforesaid, and
That said firm will pay the sum of One
Hundred Dollars for each and every case
of catarrh that cannot b. cured by the
use of Halls Cathrrh Cure.
SEAL a. W. GLEASON,
Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Send for testi-
monials, free.
Il. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o..
G9@Sold by Druggists, Zoe. 6'6ml
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27
NOW FOR CHICAGO.

Below we give a list of states that
have already elected their delegates to
the Chicago convention and the number
of delegates for and against the free
coinage of silver. The list is a correct
one and speaks for itself. The total
number of delegates in the convention
will be 9lS:
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27

Mr.. Isaac p. Ryland was in the city
Wednesday in the interest of Maj
James X. Waddill's candidacy for
governor. Maj. Waddill has many
friends in this county, and MIR. Ryland
added more to the list. Should Wad-
dill be nominated he would make an
excellent campaigner, as he is an
orator of much power, and one of the
ablest men in Missouri. He is a
~sixteen-to- one-er.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27

At a. recent republican conven-
ton there was a disagreement
among the colored delegates as to
whom they should select rs chairman
of n committee. They were told 10
retire and select a chairman. When
they returned they reported a disa-
greement. Asked why they could not
agree one of them said: 'sWell, suhr,
| want to be de chairman, and so do all
de others.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27

ingalls, says free coinage would be
all right if 1t had been originated by
republicans. But as it is democratic
doctrine, it is all wrong. This rot is
characteristic of Ingalls,, who is the
canes demagogue living.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27

Republicans have the reputation OF
sticking to their party, right or wrong.
But Kansas republicans are dropping
away from the gold bug republican
platform, and some of their news
papers are coming out squarely for
free coinage.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27
Fired.

Employer-What's your name2
New Office Boy-Dey call me India
Rubber.
'How did you ever get such a strange
name?"
me farder give it to me cause l git
bounced SO often. "-Philadclphia REQ
ord,
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27

Gold standard for the Eastern bank
ers, protection for the Eastern manu-
facturers, and soup for the West and
S ,uth. That's what McKinley's elee-
ton would mean.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27

The next congressman from this
district should come from Lafayette
county. We believe tha. Judge Will
ham Young could lead the hosts to
victory in November.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27

1t is gratifying indeed for the free
coinage editors to know that all the
crow has been consumed by their
golden contemporaries, and that none
was left for them.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27

OF course the democrats will draft a
platform at Chicago, Notwithstanding
the fact that they are going to nomi-
nate Bland, and that he is a platform
within himself.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27

The INTELLIGENCER is o in the
fight, but it does not mind saying IN
confidence that it believes that Lon v.
Stephens will be the next governor of
Missouri. The political ''pints'' of the
compass are all ''pinUing'' that way.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27

Maine sends W o delegates to Chicago
instructed for 1G to 1, Delaware sends
two and Maryland sends four. The st.
Louis cyclone don't compare with it.
Hurrah for Blandi
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27

Col. Swope has given Kansas
Cityans over a thousand acres of land
to breathe in. But Kansas Cityians
''must keep off the grass"
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27

Public opinion forced the republican
party to take one side or the other on
the money question, and it took the
wrong side, as was expected.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27

Mark Hanna, having shown his
ability 10 write checks for Mckinley,
has been elected to write them for the
national ticket.