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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12
A. Better Outlook.


The weekly letter OF Henry Clews Of
New York, is very encouraging to the
business men Of the nation. He says
Financial affairs at this certre have
shown, during the week, the evidences
of recovery which were foreshadowed
in my last advices. 1t has been more
than once intimated in these letters that
the great alarm Of late months has been
produced rather by impending possibili.
ties as 10 matters of the very gravest
nature than by any decided probability
that the things feared would be actually
accomplished. We have now reached
a point at which the impossiblity ofthe
American people ever sanctioning such
suicidal policies as are Incorporated in
the Bryan platform is becoming each
day more emphatically evident. The
enormity Of the proposals has so deeply
aroused the selfrespect and the patriot
ism of our intelligent citizens that an
overwhelming defeat of the revolution
ary party has become self-evident
certainty to everyone who can read the
signs OF the times, or can discern the
temper Of the American people This
It's which is now working a marked
changed for the better in the tone Of
affairs in business circles"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12
Judicial Appointments.

The following appointments have re-
Gently been made by the president: :
John f. Garland for L. s. district Judge
for South Dakota, to succeed Judge A.
j. Edgerton, deceased, and Charles
Amedon of North Dakota, for L. 5. dis
trict judge for that state, to succeed
Judge Thomas, deceased. Judge Garland,
of South Dakota, was born in Oswego
county, New York, December IL; 1854.
He was admitted to practice by the
supreme court of Michigan. He settled
at Bismarck, y. d., in 1877, and in 1885
was appointed United States district at
torney for Dakota Territory by President
Cleveland. In 1883 he was appointed
associate justice Of the supreme court O.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

The thirtieth annual encampment Of
the Grand Army of the Republic closed
its session at st. Paul on Saturday, which
is conceded to have been one ofthe most
successful in the history of the organi-
zation. Following is list of the officers
elected for the ensuing year: Com
mander in-Chief, 7. s. Clarkson, Omaha
Nebraska; Senior Vice Commander, j
II. Mullen, Minnesota; Junior Vice
Commander. G. w. Buckley, Alabama
Surgeon General, A. T.. johnson. Dept
Of Potomac; Chaplain in Chief, Rev
Mark ID. Taylor, Massachusetts. Buffalo
New York, was chosen as the place fol
holding the next encampment.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

The, so called. speech of Judge Scott
in this place on Monday night won no
votes for Bryan so far as we have been
able to learn, Notwithstanding the fact
that he promised effective work in this
direction. The gold bugs of tlis place,
as he Is pleased to call them. still favor
mills rather than mints. and an honest
dollar with ample opportunity to earn
it, and they will continue to fight it out
on that line until the polls close. The
sheer fallacies of the windy judge fell
upon his sound money auditors like a
gentle shower upon the impervious
back of full grown duck. They
wouldn't penetrate-they wouldn't stick.
His work was manifestly too coarse to
be effective in Custer.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

The political situation in Pennington
county, IL reports are true, has recently
undergone very radical change. =
short time ago the silver craze was
raging to an extent that indicated the
largest majority for Bryan in November
that was ever polled for any candidate
Of any party in the history ofthe coun-
ty. A marked change is now said 10
have come over the spirit of the dream:
of the voters, and in the former strong
holds Of the silverites the tide is turned
and has, for the past week or two, been
lowing steadily in the direction Of
sound money. Hill City and keystone
are said to be among the places where
the change is most notable, and Rapid
City, which was considered few weeks
ago, pop proposition beyond redempsa
tion, is evidently now all right judging
from the following item which we clip
from recent issue Of the Journal:
The Mckinley Club of Rapid City
are daily expecting their second order.
of campaign buttons Already the clybf
has distributed over five hundred but
tons in this vicinity and there is a de
mand for more"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

The story comes by way of Cleveland,
says the Canton, Ohio, Repository of
recent date, that Mr.. Bryan has given
his approval to plan now well under
way to have both Sewall and Watson
withdraw as vice presidential candidates
and compromise candidate selected at
q joint meeting ofthe Populist and Dem
ocratic committees. The Withdrawals,
according to the Cleveland story are to
occur simultaneously within ten days.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12
Sound Money In the South.

A late New York special says: Maj.
j. +. Hanson prominent cotton mill
man from Macon, Georgia, said at the
Fifth avenue hotel tonight that there
are good prospects of sound money ge.-
ting big vote throughout the south.
There are enough sound money
democrats IN Georgia" ne said, to carry
the state for Mckinley if they would
only come out and vote. They are
still afraid of being read out Of
the party down there. But that tine
is passing rapidly and men will soon
vote according to their conyictions.
believe that thousands will vote for Me-
kinley anyhow and thousands Of Others
Will stay away from the polls. A secret
ballot this year would save the south
ron free silver. As it is several states
IN that section will give Mckinley ma
jor ties
IF felt that we were going to have
four years OF Bryan democracy should
close out and leave the south, for busi-
ness would be ruined"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

Bryan returned to his home at Liz
coin, Nebraska, few days ago, and FIVE
or six thousand people turned out to
hear hin speak. 1t was not large as
sembly for city of the population of
Lincoln, and the ovation rendered him
was not as great as might have been
expected under the circumstances.
Mckinley is speaking nearly every day
Pa his little home town in Ohio TO as
large assemblies az this which are
largely composed of visitors who travel
snpdreds of miles to hear him--but,
they hear something when Bill talks.
Sound sense, able argument and whole
some truths figure as the basis of his
remarks He does not indulge in
ETHEREAL platitudes and wind to charm
the masses, and WOO them to belief in
absurd and mistaken theoi les.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

The pops are making a great ado over
the sudden conversion Of Jesse K. Grant
known to fame as Buck" to free silver
and populism. But Buck" married a
daughter Of silver baron in Colorado a
few years ago. and since that time has
been true to the interest that furnishes
him with grub and good clothes. He is
the same Buck who got his father into
the clutches of Ferd Ward and other
Wall street pirates who stripped him to
the skin and left him penniless on the
verge of the grave. He is a model pop.
the black sheep of the family.-Lincoln
Journal.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

The republican campaign in Mime
haha county, says late Sioux Falls dis
patch, began last night with a speech
at Hartford by Judge Dillenbough OF
Ohio. The famous orator, who has for
the frst time left the democratic party,
is speaking for Mckinley, A special
train carrying $50 men with torches and
music went out from this city. On Sat-
urday the republican county convention
will be held. In the evening Hon. Ben
Butterworth will speak in this city.
From this time on q most energetic
campaign will be made. To day the
populists admit that the city of Sioux
Falls is against them, and that the coun.
ty is close. The republican leaders. on
the other hand, feel confident that they
will carry both.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12
eHLL.
For Free Silver Senatorial Convention
at Hot Springs, Sept. 21st.

OF Il req SA4FST otnbLOTldl
at Hot Springs, Sept. 2lst.
To the free silver voters Of the 4lst
Senatorial District composed Of the
counties of Fall River and Custer, by
virtue Of the Temporary Senatorial
committee.
Notice is hereby given, that the SEN
atorial Convention in said District shall
be held at the Court House in Hot
Springs. S. d., on the 2lst day of Sep
tember, 1896. at = o'clock p. m., for the
purpose of placing in nomination a cam
didate to represent said district in the
Senate of the State of South Dakota. and
for the transaction of such other busi-
ness as may properly come before id
convention.
The committee recommends that the
basis Of representation be as follows !:
rwenty-one delegates for each of the
counties composing the ilst Senatorial
district, being one delegate, as near as
may be from each precinct and ward
within the two counties, said delegates
to be elected by the county conventions
of Fall River county on the 18th Of Sept.
and Of Custer county on Sept. 18th, 1896.
BY order Of committee.
THos. Fl. WELLS, A. l.. SPRAGUE,
Secretary. Chairman.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

Neal Dow, the we'll known Maine
prohibitionist, has declared for Nc
Kinley. He says: "The proposition OF
the populists and other silver men is
this: That congress enact bill making
SO cents in silver equal in value to 100
cents in gold; that SO cents be COM
pulsorily received as full payment for
100 cents in gold. That, if accomplish.
ed, would be lie. cheat and fraud.. ]
don't see how honest men could consent
to that, much less propose it. Ifsdopt.
ed the country would be in panic
while it continued"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

If John Sherman is really a worse
traitor to his country than Benedict
Arnold ever was, as intimated by Judge
Scott in his speech on Monday night, it
would be interesting to know how long
It has been since his honor found it out
The information is made doubly desir-
able on account of his having only re-
Gently quit the republican party with
which he had been identified for forty
years.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12
Ballard's Snow Linement.

Mrs. Hamilton, Cambridge. Ills. says
had the Rheumatism so bad could
not raise my hand to my head. Bal
ards Snow Lirement has entirely cured
me. take pleasure in informing my
neighbors and friends what it has done
for me. Chas. Handley, clerk for Lay
& Lyman. Kewanee, Ills, advises Us
Snow Liniment cured him Of Rheumat'
ism. Why not try it? 1t will surely
do you good. 1t cures all inflammation
Wounds, Sores. Cuts. Sprains, etc. Price
30 cents. Sold at Jones 4 Cos dtuG
store
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12
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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

The following mplimentary mention
of the CHRONICLE, appearing in last
weeks issue of the Whitewood Plain
dealer, is highly appreciated, coming, as
il does. from paper whose merits have
given it circulation which exceeds
that of any other published in the Black
Hills: "The CUSTER CHRoSIcLE, one Of
our best and brightest Black Hills ex-
changes, is l6 years old. The CHRONICLE
is spicy. patriotic, and republican, al
Waysv
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

The Lincoln Journal says: "The
Vermont election has pretty much ban
ished the specter that has haunted east
ern commercial circles. To use Mr..
Bryan's elegant and felicitous simile, it
has "ringed the nose" of the free coin
age "hog" and demonstrated that the
eastern pasture is not for his fattening.
The result is very pronounced revival
of business and the feeling that the
worst is over and that capital will not
have to stay in its hole, after all, until
the 1th of November"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

The Rapid Journal says: "Sturgis
has organized Mckinley club with 100
members. As that place only polls $40
votes at an election, it will be seen that
the chances are bright that the republi-
cans in that city will not this year be so
hopelessly in the minority as they have
been in former years"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12
|. -Four years. ago We were gpr0spsrous.

- ouLL .Ls4Ess sgo Re.s AsSe uprosperous.
The monetary standard YVES the same
then as now, but our tariff policy was
different. Then we had protection, now
we have tariff reform as exemplified by
the hodge e-podge Wilson German bill.
Whether or not our financial system
can be improved, it is plain that our first
requisite is to return to the protective
tariff policy, the policy which gave US
prosperity in the past. That comes first,
as Major Mckinley said in his letter Of
acceptance.=
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

1t would be interesting to know how
much gold is now being boarded in the
United States by the advocates of free
silver. The author Of Dollars, or
What puts it very pertinently when
he says: "In practice these people APP
pear to know the difference between a
dollar mark and real dollar-between
a gold basis and silver basis; but in
theory the money of the constitution"
is good enough for anybody, and gold
standard is Infamous.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

Tom Carter, Montana's brainy sem
ator, who has been, and is still strong
believer IN free coinage, has announced
himselfa supporter of Mckinley. He
wisely contends th free silver coupled
with free trade is not thing to be de-
sired, and that in his opinion it is ad.
Sisable to stay with the republican
party and aid in accomplishing the end
aesiTed, upon the moro reasonable plan
outlined in the St. Louis platform.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

The sound money democrats have not
yet decided upon the course they will
persue in the present campaign, says the
Bee. This much is certain, however
that the Nebraska sound money demo.
Gratis will leave nothing undone to de.
feat Bryan and free silver.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

The terms of twenty-seven U. S. SEN
ators expire on the 4th of March next.
Their places will be filed by new men
elected in the interim. and it would be
interesting to know just what the effect
is going to be upon the silver status OF
that august body.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

Vice Chairman Apsley, Of the republi.
can congressional committee, who has
been making tour of political observa-
ton in the far northwest. reports the
outlook very encouraging. He says
Mckinley will surely carry the Pacific
coast by a large majority.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

The Whitewood Plaindealer says
"The populists and democrats of Law
renee county went together" this year.
This is done to save the expense Of two
funerals. Both will be buried in one
tomb"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

Bourke Cochran, the we'll known New
York sound monev democrat is billed
for speech at the Coliseum in Omaha
on Monday night next, where seats have
been arranged for 10000 people.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

The decadence Of populism IN Clay
county, S. d., where that sentiment
formerly so strongly predominated, is
indicated in the following Vermillion,
S. d., dispatch of recent date: ''The
republicans of Clay county never stood
a better show than this year. They
have complete organization and are
gaining strength every day. In the city
of Vermillion, with total vote of 500,
236 are enrolled on the Mckinley club
lists. In one ward, with total vote Of
l60, 100 are for Mckinley, twenty-seven
for Bryan and thirty-one decline to ex
press themselves. Gains are reported
from every precinct and the republican
managers think they are very conserva-
tive in claiming the county by 200
majority. In 1894 the populists elected
full legislative ticket"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

Theories of cure may be discussed at
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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12
Republican County Conven,,on

The republicans OF Custer County, South Da-
kota, will meet In delegate convention i'm the
town OF Custer City, South Dakota In the Court
House, on saturday, September 18th, 1896, at 2
O'Clock p. m, sharp, for the purpose Of placing
IN nomination candidates for officers az follows T:
one Member Of the House Of Representatives.
One Register of Deeds,
One County Sheriff,
One County Treasurer,
One states Attorney,
One County Auditor,
One County Judge,
One Clerk Of Courts
One County Assessor,
One County Superintendent OF schools
One County Surveyor,
One county Coroner
one County Commissioner for the first COM
missioner district,
One County Commissioner for the second CON-
missioner district,
One Justice of the Peace for each precinct in
the county.
The committee recommends that an alternate
TO each delegate be elected, and that no proxies
De allowed, and that the delegates or their alter
mates present at the convention be empowered
10 east the full vote Of their precinct
The committee further recommends that the
several precinct primaries for the election Of
delegates TO said convention be held on Satur-
day, september 5th, 1896, between the hours OF
and o'clock D. M
The basis OF representation for each precinct
shall be one vote for every II votes, or major
fraction thereof, cast for Hon. c. H. sheldon for
governor In 1894. The precincts will be entitled
To delegates as follows;
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

Galena is the banner free silver town
Of the Hills. The craze in that place,
in marked distinction with other min.
ing towns Of the Hills, shows no signs
of decadence, which may be readily
accounted for by consideration Of the
potent fact that. Galena is silver camp.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12
Republican Senatorial Convention

The republican, of this the 4ist Senatorial
district, comprising Custer and Fall River
counties, VIII meet In delegate convention al the
eflstsf ror-err1i
county is on the vote cast for Hon. Charles III.
Sheldon for governor in 1884,
The counties are entitled 10 delegates as
follows:
Custer County. Observation-Disclosures. delegates
Fall River County. y................... 3 delegates
Ii is recommended that no proxies be allowed
but that the delegates or their aternates pres
ent at the convention east the full vote OF their
respective counties.
BY order of Senatorial Committee.
l.. BALLoU, X. ID. JENNINGS,
Secretary. Chairman.
Dated this 9TH day Of August, 1896
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

Dated at Custer City, $. D., this 3rd day of
August, 1896.
BY order Of County Central Committee
WILLIAM NEyIS, Chairman.
j. T.. PITCHER, Secretary.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

For Vice-Prcsident--
GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey.
Republican State Ticket.
For Congressman
X. j. GAMBLE. OF Yankton.
COE i. CRAWFORD, OF Hughes.
For Governor
40. RINGsRUD, Of Union.
For Lieutenant Governor
ID. r. HfNDMAN, OF Marshall.
For Secretary Of State
w. III. RODDLE, OF Brookings.
For Treasurer
KIRK G, PHILLIPS, OF Lawrence.
For Attorney General
y. V. JONES, OF Turner.
For Auditor
ii. f. MAYHEM, OF Sanborn.
For Supt. of Public Instruction
FRANK CRANE, Of CoddlBgton.
For Com'r OF School and Public Lands
J. a. LOCKHART, of Grant.
For Railroad Commissioner
ID. w. McFADDEN, OF Custer.
GEO. A. JOHNSON, Of Dawson.
n. 4. BROMLEY, Of Sphinx.
For Presidential Electors
J. J.. TURNER, of Bon Homme
II. -. EDWARDS, Of Lawrence.
X. j. WOODS, Of Minnehaha
B. VI. SLOCUM, Of Campbell
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

Montana, closed it doors on Saturday
last. The banks capital surplus is
81 100000 and it is the United States
depository, with large United States
funds on hand. Its officers are S. I.
Hauser president. f. d Edgerton vice
president and manager, and George Hill
assistant cashier. It's directors are
among the strongest men in Helena.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12

iho iofk tNeDTaskd) lines saws:
There are good many strange things
developed by politics besides strange
bedfellows. Who would have thought
six months ago that any respectable
number Of people in the United States
would be attempting to prove that
Mexico is better country than this,
that the Mexican government is bet
ter government, that the Mexican sys.
tenn is better system and that the
Mexican laboring man, who goes half
naked and lives on vegetable soup and
wild fruit, is better off than our own.
Yet the free silver advocates are driven
to this desperate expedient and do not
hesitate TO accept the situation and un-
dertake to prove it. When they get
dissatisfied and restless they are liable
to allow their disgust at their own party
or government to carry them TO almost
any extreme. Who would have thought
four years ago, when Mr.. Bryan was
telling Us with SO much assurance that
free trade would make the world
paradise that his scheme would be tried
and prove failure, and that while the
ruin, misery and woe that it has
wrought was vet upon US he would come
forward bland and smiling, with another
scheme more foolish and visionary than
the first and find advocates among men
who are supposed to have common
Montana, closed il doors on Saturday
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-12
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET.

For President
WILLIAM MCKINLEY, of Ohio.
For Vice-Prcsident--
GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-18

TAX VALUATIONS INCREASED.

The Railroad Commission is hear
ing arguments regarding the tax val
uation~ of railroads in theState. The
valuation of the Norfolk and Carolina
has been increased from $500 to
$4,000 a mile. The Norfolk and South
ern has been increased from $4,000 To
81, GOO a mile. The Hendersonville and
Breyard, a new road twenty-one miles
long, has been put on the tax list at a
valuation of 50. 500 a mile. The Cald-
well and Northern, from Lenoir to
Oollettsyille, twelve miles, has been put
on the tax list at a valuation of 81, 800
a mile The valuation of Wilmington
and Weldon rolling stock has been in
creased $32, 900, and depot property
$4,000.
Col John d. Shaw appeared before
the commission yesterday for the
Seaboard Airline.
The Southern and the North Caro-
lima road will be taken up Monday.