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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-08-04
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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-08-04

HERE is the Winnebago-Independ.
ent Yon-Anderson idea Of Is to l, as re.
ported by the Britt Iri6une' IA Win.
nebago county farmer came into Forest
City recently and said: "A ban IS tC
Won man; Mester Ion Anderson hem
tai ma gonto got 18 dollars en- silver
vun efery gold dollar. A g0ntO get IL
dollars Won Won days work. A gontc
haw IS meals Won day en- bat yo fem
dollar got 16 kids we'd Won vafe. Ion
Anderson hem say s0.'"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-08-04

l.. M. MARTIN, state committeeman,
issued call Thursday for a conference
Of gold standard democrats, TO be held
at Des Moines August 4th, for the pur-
pose Of organization and to select q
representative to attend the Indianapo-
lis meeting, to be held August 7th.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-08-04

KENTUCKY seems to be doing its
share towards convincing Secretary
Carlisle of the wisdom of his accepting
any chance offered him to practice law,
anywhere outside Of that state, after
the 4th of next March.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-08-04

The cooperative idea seems to be
carried to an extreme by the twenty.
six Kansas women who are said to be
engaged in writing one novel. The
dialogue ought at least to be lively.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-08-04
Plead Guilty.

Many of our readers will remember
that last spring barn belonging to d
Mr.. Baumwart, in Military township
burned down, with its contents, and a,
that time it was supposed to be the
work of an incendiary. Thursday
night Sheriff Christen, Thos. Fleming
and d. d. Rosa, of Ossian, went to the
mans place and captured Gustave
Spinner, sixteen year old boy, who
was supposed to be in the act of at.
tempting to burn down some sheds be.
longing to the same man. He had q
bottle of kerosene in his possession and
was evidently bent upon burning the
remaining property of Mr.. Baumwart
They brought him to Decorah and Fri
day morning he was arranged before
Justice Gibson and plead guilty to the
charge Of burning the barn last spring
He was bound over to the grand jury
and his bail fixed at $8 900.
The August Midla,sd Monthly is an
"Outdoor Number" and comprises
interesting articles from well known
writer's. The announcement is made
in this issue that Col. John w. Emer.
son, of Ironton, Missouri, the old army
cOmrade of General Grant, will begin
his great work, "Grant in the West,''
in the October Midiand, and that this
work will run through the year and
the numbers of the coming year. II
will be illustrated with many valuable
portraits and views never before made
public. 1t is strongly endorsed and
commended by Col. Fred d. Grant.
The appearance of of"Granti in the West" /"
written by a western man and near
friend of the General, promises us
something really new and fresh,
and yet reliable, concerning this most
interesting personality in our war his
tory.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-08-04

The Democratic County Convention
has been called for next Saturday,
August Sth.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-08-04

ELABORATE arrangements are being
made for the grand opening ratification
meeting at Charles City August 18th,
the date Of the congressional con-
vention. Many prominent speakers
are expected to be present.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-08-04

QUEEN VICTORIA has entered upon
the sixtieth year of her reign.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-08-04

The Democratic state Convention
will be held August 18th.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-08-04

THERE were more silver dollars
coined in single month from 1878
to 1891 than in any one year prior to
that time, since the mint was
established; and during those years,
with two exceptions, there were three
times as many silver dollars coined
each year as the total previous output
of the mint was, the coinage in. these
two exceptional years being more than
twice as large as the total amount be.
fore 1878. There were S,O2l ,2ss silver
dollars coined from the establishment
of the mint to 1878, and 422, ,426, ,749
from 1873 to 1894, inclusive. The
figures coming from the report of the
director Of the mint can be relied upon.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-08-04

MARK MURPHY, of Murry and
Murphy's comedians, while not super.
stitious, believes in destiny and when.
ever he meets with an accident or some.
thing unforeseen or unheralded hap
pens to him he Immediately makes up
his mind that it is either good or bad
omen. While in New York, recently,
Mr.. Murphy discovered, as he calls it,
the most wonderful singing voice he
ever heard. The possessor of it was q
colored boy eight years Of age who can
sing soprano, alto, tenor or baritone.
His name is Charles Destine, and as
Murphy believes in destiny this boy
wonder will be one of the features Of
Murry and Murphy's comedians this
season. This is one of the early book.
ings for the coming season at the Grand.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-08-04
RAILROAD TIME CARD.
Chicago, Milwaukee 4 st. Paul Railway
DEBORAH Branch.

DEBORAH Branch.
Passenger depot corner Water and Day
streets. Telephone 6oa.
Depart. Arrive.
". Paul, Mplis, SIOUX
City, Kansas City }fl0:l6 Q. m. t4:26 p. m
and st. L0uis)
Omaha, Sioux City,(
Cago 4 Milwaukee,
e. RnOqESsi TESai. c1MiiasH M$ssed 4 1900 p m. 'sa. m
sDaily. I Daily Except Sunday.
Burlington, Cedar Rapids Northern.
Train No. 50 passenger) leaves Decorah at
3:6 p. H., and No. 81 freight at $50 A. II.
No. 81 (Passenger) arrives ct 2:l0 r. ~, and
No s. (Freight) at 500 p. II.
The 8:26 eaaoanger makes close connection al
Cedar Rapids with through trains to Chicago
St. Louis. Kanas City, Omaha. st. Paul and
points beyond. All trains daily except Sun
J. NORTON. Gen. Ticket 4 Pass. ze't
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-08-04

THE Usage NeaOs suggests Miss Min
ME Murray, of the Nashua Reporter,
for the nomination on the democratic
ticket for congress-. She is the lady
who signalized herself at the Chicago
convention by waving a flag and start
ing the demonstration for Horace
BOies.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-08-04

ACCORDING to Commissioner Har-
ris' report Of the schools for 1884 just
issued, the total enrolment for that
period in educational institutions of all
kinds, was $4,000, 600, or twenty per
cent of the entire population Of the
United States. There was gain in
the regular schools of 5000
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-08-04
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

Oar w.s.. viii call for and Deliver Work
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-28
WHERE REFORM Is NEEDED.
From the Philadelphia Times.

From the Philadelphia Times.
The reproach upon the bar of Pennsyl-
vania is not so much upon it's want OF ieSai
knowledge or general equipment in prac-
ticing the profession as upon the methods
which have become disgraCefully common
by a number of the members of the bar OF
admitted ability. aud claiming respecta-
biliiy in their high calling who, as sworn
officers of the courts. habitually bring re-
proach upon the administration of justice,
and make il, measurably at least matter
of barter and trade. No convention or
judges or of the bar can correct these
evils by resolution fixing high standard
of attachments for admission TO the pro
fession. This stain that affects alike the
legal profession and the administration ot
justice in Pennsylvania, is wholly the re-
suit of the tolerance on the part OF the
judges in permitting the violation of
sacred obligations by an attorney and the
prostitution of his power to the perversion
of justice in her own sanctuary,
True. these wrongs are seldom clearly
presented to judges when sitting IN court,
but no such practices can be habitua!
without coming to the knowledge of the
judges themselves. and they should ne
prompt and resolute in correcting them.
The lawyer is as soemnly sworn TO per
form his duties with fidelity, not only Ia
his client, hut to justice, as is the judge
himself. and the lawyer who asks Tor an
unjust Judgment, knowing it to be so. 3
perjured alike in law and morals. That
there has been a gradual decadence OF the
bar of Pennsylvania in this regard Will
not be disputed by any intelligent observer
Of the general administration of justice,
but it is wholly the fault of the judges IN
tolerating what they know tObe an assault
upon Justice and a degradation alike of
the profession and of the courts.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-28
One.nan Power.

1t is significant of the tendency of
democratic government to transform
itself into one-man power that in the
draft of the proposed charter for Great
er New York, which is now under dis
cussion in the neighboring state. au-
thurity is centralized in the office of the
mayor. That official is to have power
to appoint all the administrative and
executive officers of the city except the
comptroller. who is rendered elective
by the people every four years, so that
the treasury and finances will constant
ly be in the hands of an independent
department. The mayor is to have SUI
pervisory control over the various de-
partments, and an enlarged veto power
upon the acts of the municipal assem-
bly,. His patronage and his power are
so great that he will in these particu-
lars be a dignitary second only in i'm
portance to the governor of the state
or the president of the United States.
The mayor is to be given absolute pow
er to remove at will every administra-
tive officer, irrespective of the pre-
scribed term of office, during the first
six months Of his administration. Af-
ter that he can make removals only on
charges, with the approval of the gov
ernor.
The mayors power, under this char
ter, in fact covers almost every con-
l,I nsh nf
ment save finances. In addition to his
other prerogatives he appoints the CEN
tral board of education. Wilcll has
charge of all school property and equip
ment in the community of 5000, 900 souls
embraced within the proposed limits of
Greater New York. as well as the five
sectional boards which supervise the
educational conduct of the schools. He
will consequently have greater prob
lens to deal with. and ones further out
reaching in their ultimate consequent
Ces, than came before the first presi-
dent of the United States. Well may
the Hon. Thomas Collier Platt look for
ward with satisfaction to the time
WI lIblIl DtlllHu lHt ScelltS, ne OF
some clever man of similar talents will
pull the strings which will operate this
massive mechanism of municipal au-
thority, while in national politics he is
fortified in the legislature and execu-
tive mansion at Albany and has title
in his own name to a United states
senatorship at Washington with the
prospect of ultimately naming his own
colleague.
There will, Of course. be the usual
Outcry against such Il focusing of re-
sronsiblity. We shall hear good deal
about bosses and "czars." But those
who have studied history will be we'll
satisfied 10 see the municipal govern
ment Of Americas foremost city so ar
ranged that when the taxpay ers thereof
neglect to vote into power a tit can
didate for mayor. they may themselves
shoulder the blame and suffer the con-
sequences.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-28

tarily to the shearing racks with their
fieeces. Whether the transients be dealers
in shoddy. snide jewelry. bogus bankrupt
cies. gold bricks or any of the rest of the
standard lamb-catching specialties. they
sell nothing which somebody does not buy.
There can be no sale without purchase,
no catching of suckers without suckers to
catch. Most of the combinations In trade
against which people complain have been
built up by the people who have permit
ted themselves to be fooled by the halt
of cut prices. 1t is the same with people
who allow themselves to be buncoed by
the wandering sharps. ordinances which
serve to shut out these sharps are good
things. but the complete remedy is in the
sufficient growth of common sense to en-
able people not to be imposed upon by
them. Meanwhile the best thing local
dealers can do to hold and enlarge their
trade is TO continue to deserve 1t, and 10
discourage any tendency among their
number to palm OFT on customers SoolS
which are made no better by being sold
by them than by the nomadic fakirs.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-28
FOrecasting the Next Cabinet.

According to Walter Wellman. whose
predictions heretofore have proved more
than ordinarily accurate. the cabinet
which Major Mckinley has selected in
his own mind, subject to change
through unforeseen contingencies, Is
as follows, the secretaryship of the in
terror not yet having been decided up
on:
Secretary OF State-JOHN SHERMAN,
of Ohio.
Secretary of the Treasury-NELSON
DINGLEY. of Maine.
Secretary of War - EX-GOVERNOR
WILLIAM r. MERRIAM, of Minnesota.
Secretary of the Navy-CORNELIUS N.
BLISS, of New York.
Attorney General-NATHAN GOFF, of
West Virginia.
General - HENRY &.
PAYNE, of Wisconsin.
Secretary of Agriculture-JUDGE WAY
MIRE. of California.
With the exception of the last one
every name on this list is we'll known
for ability and experience in public
affairs. for high personal character and
for meritOrious party service. Judge
Waymire is said by his more intimate
acquaintance and indorsers to be fully
qualified in each of these respects for
cabinet honors. but he is not widely
known.
Unless unexpected emergencies shall
arise during the next four years, the
cabinet departments upon which will
fall the rpoct octipp danond, x-;lJ Ia.
the state and treasury secretaryships
and the attorney generaship While
opportunities for brilliant service will
not be lacking in each Of the other de-
partments. the success or failure of the
Mckinley administration will. in the
ordinary course of events, be largely
determined by the quality of work d-
rected to be done in these three offices.
The generally conceded assignment of
Chairman Dingley of the house ways
and means committee to the secretary
ship of the treasury is received with
such manifest public favor as to re-
quire little to be said i'm explanation
of the choice. Mr.. Dingley is a man
very much after the president elects
own heart-honest, studious. conscien-
tious and patient: not given to bitter
prejudices. but firm in line of duty and
high-minded in political habits and am
bitions. He has opponents, but net
enemies: he would as the successor of
Mr.. Carlisle not only prove an able
and conscientious finance minister along
Republican lines of policy. but also a
genuine helper to his chief and q strong
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-28
WANAMAKER'S METHODS.

Harrisburg Letter, Pittsburg Dispatch.
The prediction is confidently made here
that Wanamaker's name will not be pre-
scented to the caucus. 1t Is quite certain
that If the millionaire merchant become
aware of the mass of evidence that E.s
accumulated in regard to the operation
of his agents, little of which is yet known
to the public. he would hesitate to IN
vite the criticism of which he Will un-
doubtedly be made the target when mat
ters grow red hot at Harrisburg.
1t is asserted by one eminent legal gen.
ueman who has been informed in some
what specific manner of the character
of this information that if it were pos
sible for the great merchant TO compass
his election at Harrisburg presentations
would easily be made which would be an
absolute and effectual barrier in the way
of his taking his seat in the senate.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-28

link of peace between naturally con-
iicting party elements.
1t has been the wish of many Penn
sy!ranians that the attorney general
ship might, be proffered to AMI accepted
by ]. Hay Brown, of Lancaster. Mr..
Brown, to be sure, has not expressed
nor encouraged such expectations HIM
self; but those who are aware of
his very unusual ability in directions
which point to that position as offering
the largest scope and incentive have
nevertheless cherished the hope of his
appointment But il the choice of the
president t-elect should fall instead ON
his other friend and longtime colleague,
Judge Nathan Goff. there will be no one
who could question either the political
fitness of the selection or the power of
Judge Goff himself to do effective and
aggressive public service.
We come, now, to the most important
position within the bestowal of our
presidents; place which has in recent
years risen to n plane of Importance
second, perhaps, only to one other sim
liar position in civilZation-thc secrc-
taryship of state. 1t may be that at
this time larger weight of RESPONSE
bility rests upon the man who super
vises the diplomatic conduct Of Great
Britain's foreign affairs than presses
upon the chief cabinet officer at Wash
ington; but at the present rate of
changes in International politics it may
not be long before the relative rank will
be reversed.
There is reason to believe that Major
Mckinley has found more difficulty in
filling this position satisfactorily than
any other or than all the others, in his
cabinet. The review of its require
ments, which we reproduce elsewhere
on this page from the Philadelphia
Press, will suggest why he has weighed
the problem carefully and with recur-
ring anxiety. In many respects Senator
Sherman is the ablest statesman i'm the
nation, as he is also the most eminent.
But his special field of study and
dChieNtIiltit mas iai ~ uo Will hliui'eS
rather than with the broad prob
lens of diplomacy. Only within very
recent years has he directed close atten-
ton to foreign affairs He has, beyond
all question, the ability and the eX-
perience to make Il great state secre-
tary, provided also he has the physical
strength and the diplomatic tempera-
ment. If there We're now within call
man like the Blaine Of 1856, how it would
simplify matters both for the president
elect and for the nation!
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-28

The recent street-car strike at Bos-
ton, on the day before Christmas, when
interruption Of the facilities for travel
was most kneenly felt by the public
was not only. if the facts are correctly
setforth, without cause but was also ac-
tually vicious. Still we doubtif the COM
pany officials, after the men saw their
mistake and repenteG of it, will mend
matters by taking the men back only
to discharge them by degrees as public
opinion cOols down. The best way to
get along in this world. in all lines of
business, is to live and let live.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-28
Wanamakerism Up TO Date.

OF all the untrue assertions which
contest for United States senatorship
in this state the falsest is the
statement that those who Op-
pose John Wanamaker do SO in
a spirit of antagonism to religion. 1t
is true that Mr.. Wanamaker has So
adroitly traded on his reputation for
tanctity that many religious citizens ac-
cept him at his own valuation and look
upon opposition to him as being equiv
alent to irreverence. But when the
facts as to his recent political operations
shall be fully established--and one by
one they are coming to the surface
it will become plain to men of clear
judgment that religion can receive no
better service than to be relieved of
such assembling champions.
Mr.. Wanamaker has said on different
occasions that he had not spent and
would not spend a cent in the senator
ial contest corruptly. Yet it is in evil
dence that lieutenants bearing his Gre
dentials have offered brbes right and
left. in such prOiusion as to suggest
more than an innocent connection be-
tween them and the Wanamakcr mil
lions. Since the proof of their nefariOus
work has been put before the people,
there has been no sign of population
or disclaimer from Mr.. Wanamaker
hut, on the other hand, he is about to
Ink arms with them in a grand march
to Harrisburg, with the avowed pur-
pose of capturing the Legislature with
all that that phrase implies.
Asked to explain the significant at
titude of the newspapers in which he
grows sporty and offers Il thousand
dollars to charity for proof that he
has ever sought to muzzle the press.
Yet all this time Senator Kaufman.
of Lancaster county. Wanamakers
right hand helper in the senatorial con-
test, and billed to be one of the front
row participants in the forthcoming
advance on the state capital, stands
publicly convicted on his own confess
sion of having bought the insertion
in many papers of Wanamakerish edi-
torials at from SO to S25 apiece.
Finally. when emissaries in his in
terest are hauled up in court charged
with circulating anonymous scandal
against his rival for senatorial honors,
this man who poses as an eXemplar of
the Christian virtues says no word
in disapproval of their contemplate
work; lifts no voice of protest
against the attempted conversion of
church organizations by false rep
resentations into mechanisms for
the forwarding of his political
ambitions; and even has the hardihood
to arrange to speak in public as the
representative of the morality of the
commonwealth. Exposure of sham is
an unpleasant duty, but Wanamaker-
ism has rendered its performance nee
essary.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-28

The fire which destroyed st. Stephens
Episcopal church in Wilkes Barre on
Christmas morning could probably
have been checked with slight loss
when the fire companies first reached
the scene had the water plugs not been
frozen. AS it was. the firemen had to
wait several hours before they could
get water in sufficient quantity TO
make an impression on the flames. 1t
is to be hoped that this public lesson
will not be lost
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-28

Several hundred good columns of
American newspaper space have lately
been occupied with stories of how the
Princess of Chimay, who was formerly
Clara Ward, of Detroit, ran OFF with
gypsy. Now that it is clearly under
stood that she has done this and that
the gypsy is willing, suppose we give
the subject "A rest