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The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
Integrity of the Courts. EX-SENAToR JOHN c. SPOONER

"There is another proposition in that platform which ought to strike terror to the heart of every good citizen, what ever his political affiliations heretofore may have been. and that is the proposi- ton which even shocked David Bennett Hill 0aughter). whom I am faintly hop. ing will come out after little for sound money, and that is the suggestion that whenever the Supreme court of the United States, in the exercise of the juris- diction vested in that tribunal by the con- stitution, renders a decision which is not agreeable to Congress, they shall proceed to pack that court in some way. with judges who will reverse it, and who will be more complaisant. You recollect. ladies and gentlemen. that the Supreme court of the United States is created by the constitution. There are three sub divisions of our government, each inde- pendent of the other. The executive, the legislative and the judiciary. The Supreme court of the United States has been, from the beginning, an honor to this country; and its line of decisions, the great men who have been upon that bench shedding luster upon our jurispru. dence and upon the Jurisprudence of tine world, have abundantly vindcated the wisdom of the framers of the constitution in creating it, in making il perpetual and in providing for the inde. pendent and fearless action by reason of the life tenure of it's judges.
 II do not like to hear men cast suspi. cion upon judges. Our last reliance is in the integrity, the courage and the in. dependence of our judiciary. When the people are swayed by passion, when Con. gress may 90 wrong, when the Senate
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
CAMPAIGN NOTES.

Is the story true that thousands of laboring men are wearing Mckinley but tons who intend to vote for Bryan? We rather guess not The laboring man is not that sort of hypocrite, if we cor rectly estimate him. and it is an insult to him to say otherwise.
 Mir. Mckinley said: "Good money never made hard times" Mir. Bryan said: "Money can be too good" Will the people of this country have difficulty in determining which is right?
 Among the best speeches being made in this campaign are those coming from that little two-story porch at Canton.
 It requires no argument to see why Bryan and his followers do not want to talk about protection.
 It is the mills and not the hints that millions of workers want opened. Stop the wheels in the head and let the wheels in the machine shops go around.
 The most pressing money question is that of wages for the people and rev- enue for the government.
 Bryan is now being called the business killer He meanders through the hast making silver speeches and the mills and factories close in his wake.
 After reading Bryan's wool record in Congress the farmer who votes Tor nm musf either have forgiving disposition or in his wits be on the wrong side of the non compos mentis boundary line.
 farmers illustration of the 5O-cent s;jver dollar is that it would be like offer inr for sale calf labeled This is twins" and demanding double price for if. And still some people pretend to think that farmers are not watcning puc lie affairs.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
An Assault on the National Govern.
 ment.
DON NJ. DICKINSON.

Let us sec what confronts us. What is this free government that we hear about from the rostrum only occasion- ally on the Fourth of July and gala days? But word about this funda- mental expression. Up to the cstab- lishmcnt of the American government, governments had failed on the face of the earth for the object for which gov ernments are formed
 The theory is that this is the best government and the only free govern ment which achieves for the people the largest amount of happiness, com fort and prosperity for the greatest number. Now, they had tried emper- ors, lodging absolute power of lcgisla- ton, the execution of laws, and all judgment upon laws in one man, and it failed; the people were oppressed and made serfs. They tried then oi. garchy, a government of many men; it failed for the purposes for which it was founded; so that all monarchy and all systems and every republic in the world had failed when our fathers formed the United States of America and gave us n place in the family of nations. (Applnuse)
 What was the peculiar part of the government which promises permanency, which promises republican or demo. cratic form of government, that could live? It was this: We established a legislature to make laws, a congress-; we limited the powers of that legislature by n written constitution-thus far, Mir.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
Bryan as an Orator.
HENRY D. ESTABROOK.


 But Mir. Bryan I know somewhat. and find in his habits of life many things to admire. He is a man of undoubted talent, n talent for the stage, perhaps. rather than for statecraft. He is kind husband and an indulgent father. He does not smoke or chew, drink or swear, steal or gambe-in short, he has not n single rcdecming vice that l know or, unless it might be lying: and even there I have had spells of thinking he believes himself Moreover, Mir. Bryan is man of rare eloquencc, although anyone read ing his speeches would be pardoned for doubting the assertion. Reduced to cold type his words become mere rant and bombast, while those self-same words, spoken in Bryan's voicc-a voice as melihuOus us the sweetest pipe in wonder organ--would stir your heart. just as would the voice of great sin ger. by the very quality of tone. Add to this handsome, graceful presence and n fire and energy of action. and you can imagine that it matters very little to Mir. Bryan's audience what Mir. Bryan says, so long as he keeps on saying it. The mistake he made in Madison Square garden was in the attempt to ar gue He ought never to do that, for the divine attribute of reason was left out of his mental makeup.
 But. my friends, there is not word in this cncomum which would not with equal truth and appropriateness apply to another famous Nebraskan. whose ey- ploits are inseparably linked with the history of Omaha: whose habits are as regular as the sun. whose character is as impeccable as Bryan's own, whose presence is just as handsome, whose powers of speech were formerly just as great and have wrought many an audi ence to tears, to laughter and to fren- zy; man who, like Bryan, was pos sessed of talking devil, and who today, bourne from which no Nebraskan seems ever to return--is feeding breadcrumbs to the sparrows. That man is George Francis Train. And it must be remcm- bered that MT. Train once ran for the presidency. just as Mir. Bryan is doing. on ticket of his own. say that the ticket on which Mir. Bryan is running for the presidency is essentially his own, although two other gentlemen have been casually mentioned in connection with it-one trying to get off and the otkcr trying to get on. Here, you ob- serve. is a sort of political cerebus. with not the best of feeling between the ca. nine collaterals. Mir. Bryan's predica- ment is not without embarrassment. He must feel as bcwildered with these two appendagcs as the proverbial cat with n like number of tails. He has probably prevailed upon Mir. Scwall to stay where he is, whereas Tom Watson wants to know. He wants to know where he is "at." He wants to know whether he is q candidate for the vice-presidency or only a ycrmifOrm aDnpndiy
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
THE ROOSTER HE WORE ON HIS HAT,
Come. pause for a while In your play.

Come, pause for a while in your play. And put down your ball and your bat. Attend to me well
 While a story I tell Of a man who was tempted to stray,
 My bOys This man was a laborer skilled, Contentcd and happy thereat; For his job was secure, And his wages were sure, But his heart with longing was filled.
 My boy. For rooster to wear on his hat One day some demagogues came. My boy. And spouted and prayed In behalf of free trade My boy. He whooped like an imbeclle loon, For candidate fussy and fat, Whose Inflated renown Soon collapsed and came down; And It felt like pu2ctured balloon, on,,o My boy. Now his partisans float In the soup, Along with the bin they begat. The cuckOOs all sigh For their vanishing pie: And the rooster is sick with the roup,
 My boy. Poor rooster that rode on the hat And poverty sits in the seat,
 My boy Where competence formerly sat, And the laboring man, Through this fatuous plan. Is now left with nothing to eat,
 My boy. But the rooster he wore on his hat. Then take warning and never forget.
 My boys Free traders are blind as a bat Their promise of good Is adyersity's food, And the laborer long will regret,
 My boys The rooster he wore on his hat
 Indianapolis Journal
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22

which may be intended to be conserya- tive body, may be revolutionary body, we take comfort in the fact that we can rely upon the patriotism, upon the wis dom and upon the fearlessness of the judiciary. (Applause.) The man who makes it his business in public or pri- yate life to destroy the confidence of the people in the judiciary is public ene- my. (Applause.) It is cowardly thing to do. It is the next meanest thing to whispering something about the charac- ter of woman; and nothing on earth can be meaner than that. (Applause.) It is the next thing to it, to pass un- friendly comment and impeachment upon judges, and the integrity of their pur- poses; because a judge cannot come down from the bench and resent an in- suit like that. l say the people in this election ought to see to it that no Presi- dent is elected upon a platform which calmly proposes, by unmistakable sug- gestiOn, to make the Supreme court of the United States. and other courts in our system, the mere football of politics, the mere tool of passions. Applause.)
 "I think Mir. Bryan thus far in his talks--and he says, I understand, that he never sees a crowd without wanting to talk to it-and l sympatlfize with him little iE that respect; used to feel that way myself 0aughter), but it was when l was good deal younger than l am now. and~ didn't know great deal; when l was about 36 years old Qaugh- ter), although I never expect to know as much as l thought I knew then 1aughtcr)-Mr. Bryan in his speeches has not much to say about this packing of the Supreme court, but it is in their platform. That fact itself is another reason which justifies the Democrats of character and responsibility in a re volt against the nomination made and platform promulgated at Chicago"
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
republic and in no part an idle working.
 man who wanted to work. Crremendous applause.)
Bryan for Fiat Money,


 EX-SENATOR WARNER MILLER. Mir. Bryan at heart cares nothing for the free coinage of silver. Mir. Bryan IS first and last believer in fiat money, | and he is only using the free coinage of silver to arrive at that finally. This is serious charge to make, but if cannot prove it l will apologize publicly for it.
 In the September number of the Arena .,just last month--there is an article on the currency by Mir. Bryan, in which he criticises Mir. Cleveland severely for using bonds in time of peace, and espe- cially for selling them to syndicate He says: "When the United States, without waiting for the aid or consent Of any other nation, opens it's hints to the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the present legal ratio of l6 to it will bring real relief to it's peo- ton of bimetallism throughout the world It Will then be prepared to perfect it's financial system by furnishing paper money invested with legal tender Quali- ties and sufficient in volume to supply the needs of the government. It's paper | money will not be loaned then to favor ties, but will be paid out in the expenses of government, so that all may receive the benefits"
 This is fiat money, pure and simple. | Mir. Bryan proposes to stop taxation and pay the expenses of the government by printing fiat money. This government once launched upon that boundless sea would as certainly fall and go down as | did the French republic which was set up at the close of the last century by lot of theorists and revolutionists. They issued during few years forty thousand millions of francs of fiat money | llnl nSSippats an1 nnnlnfS Thny gave a leSal-tender quality to it, but while it could pay debts they could not compel people to take it in pnr- chase. In other words, they could give legal-tender quality to the money, but | they could not give purchasing power to it. From day to day it was issued, until finally it all disappeared as utterly worthless. Not single franc of it was ever paid or redeemed, and the people who had parted with their property | for it were rendered paupers. Their property was gone and the money they | had received was valueless.
 | Shall this be a lesson to us? And can we contemplate the probability of | putting into power as President of the | United States man who holds such views? In my humble opinion there is but one way to bring us back to prosper ity and to the path of progress, and that
 is to return to the system Of admins tration which las been of such great
 benefit to us in the past, and to follow l in that path, to follow the lamp Of cX- pericnce. To do that every true. honest
 American citizen, without distinction of | party, should unite in this attempt at restoration. and should by an overwhelm- | ing ajOrity stamp out now and forever the hcresy and the folly of cheap and dcbascd currency.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
ABOU BILL BRYAN,

Abou Bin Bryan, may his tribe decreasei Awoke one night from a deep dream of
 peace: Making 1t rich and silver-like in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold; Exceeding gall had made Bill Bryan bold. And to the presence in the room he said: What wrtest thour' The vision raised
 its head. And. with look of what he might expect, Answered. Their names who'll get 1t In
 the neck" And am l oneT' asked Abou. 'I don't
 know" Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low. But cheerily still, and said, .'I pray thee-
 sir, Write me as one not liable to err" The angel wrote and vanished. The next It came again with a great November light, And showed the names of those knocked gal-
 ley-wcst: And To! Bill Bryan's name led all the rest!
 Lincoln (Neb) NewA
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22

they went on, think. to the amount of $S,000, 100000. and finally the whole structure collapsed. The government would not take them, the paper became absolutely worthless, and when that pa per became worthless it was found, not in the hands of the speculators; no, it was found in the hands of the manu- lecturers. of the business men, of the workingmen of France. It was on them that the loss fell because they had ex- changed their labor and their earnings for this worthless paper. That is the history of all attempts to jurgle with the currency. The loss lands always in the same place. and we can form no ex- ception to the great natural laws.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
COME HOME.
"From Thomas Watson"

"From Thomas Watson" O! Bryan, dear Bryan. come home with me
 now,
 The pops are all ready to run: You said you were coming right bcak to the
 Platte. As soon as your talking was done Come home. come home, Bryan, dear Bryan,
 come home. Poor Altgeld is dying and Boles has gone
 fat. Don't talk any more, but come home. o! Bryan, dear Bryan, come home with me
 now,
 Why don't you come home while you cant Free silver's all right for the heathen).
 that's so. But you can't stuff 1t down free man. Come home, come home, Bryan, dear Bryan,
 come home. Mckinley is ready to give you a blow. That will knock you quite flat, so come
 home Lincoln (Neb.) Call.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
Labor Needs an Unvarying and Re-
 liable Currency.
FRANK s. BLACK. CANDIDATE FOR
 GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK.

"No mans labor of yesterday or last
 gear can be preserved, except by some representative or token of it. and money
 is the almost universally adopted agent for that purpose. Nothing in the world should be so anxious as labor that the token which represents it should be un- varying and reliable Who can preserve until tomorrow the labor of to- day? It cannot be done, and the only means of securing it's benefits is to re- ceive and preserve some token which shall stand in it's stead and which may be used as future needs may require" And further on the speaker said: If q man is robbed, it is crime and he may have redress. If bank fails and pays him only 53 cents on the dollar, it is q misfortune, and he is not yet without hope of recovery. But if he votes away 47 cents of every dollar, it is his own fault. and he has nothing to condemn but his own folly, which will remain with him much longer than his money"
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
No New Sectional Issue will be Tol.
SENATOR THURsTON.

My fellow citizens, there are other req sens vet why the loyal people of this country should stand together at this time. Senator Tillman of South Caro- lima. chairman of the committee on reso-
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
SUPPLEMENT TO TIE C0c0MIA0 WEEKLY SUN,

FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 22, 1896
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-07-09
Oak Wood.

Though generally assumed that
oak Is the wood capable of being put
to the greatest variety of uses, it is
known, as n matter of fact, that the
pine is really tho most used, on 40
count of its great abundance. Never
theleSS, the timber Of the oak com
bines in itself the essential clements
of strength and durability, hardness
and elasticity, in degree which no
other tree can boaSt-unrivaled as a
material for shipbuilding, also supe.
rior in architecture, cabinet making,
carving, mill work, cooperage and
innumerable other purposes, while
the bark Is of great value as furnish
ing tan and yielding bitter extract
in continual demand for medicinal
purposes. But of uses for the pine,
details would DO vol nigh endless.
The timber Is Invaluable in houses
and ship carpentry; common tur-
pentine is extracted from it in vast
quantities and immense supplies of
tar, pitch, rosin and lampblaok. In
the manufacture of lucifer matches,
and, abovea all, paper pulp, thousands
and tens of thousands of acres of
pine forests are cut down every year,
and, briefly, the timber of this tree,
constituting as it does tho chief ma
terial of English and American build
ers, may be said to DO moro used
than all other kinds of wood mt to.
gether. New York Sun.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-07-09
AIabama's Old CAPITAL Gone.

Tho name of Aaron Burr CHANGING
to be mentioned in conversation
with w. A. Hawley, a young law
yer Of Selma, Ala, he said: Speak
ing of Burr reminds me of a visit !
made recently to Cahoba, the old
time capital of Alabama, where Burr
spent considerable time, and where
he built q handsome residence, per
haps the finest in the place, unless
the one owned by William l.. Yanoy
was superior to it. When railroads
began to be built, Cahoba did not
remain the capital of the state very
long, and one by one the families
that had made the place famous for
fashion, hospitality and learning
moved away, and when / saw it it
WAS q cotton field, with here and
there the remains of an old brick
chimney. Not house is left stand
ing. Even the cemetery has been re-
moved or trampled down until all
traces of itare obliterated. Wash
iDgton Star.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-07-09
1.-THE Hero's Soul Has Fled /"

A friend of mine had written a
story, which appeared in a certain
North British weekly. AS that pa
per has long ceased to exist-at least
Nnder its then form-I am not yio-
lating confidence by stating that its
terms were D shillings per column,
and that the editor did not care for
stories which exceeded the measure
of six columns; also he liked to
print the principal story on the mid
die page Of tho paper, so that the
whole of it came under tho eye ut a
glance. My friends story had tragic
catastrophe, which did not occupy
very much space in tho telling, but,
nevertheless, overlapped the appoint
ed page and would probably have
run into IA shilling or two on the
other side-not to mention interior
ing with other copy. Tho editor re-
mor3clc5Sly cat away tho whole of
the uni ."tJNato lero's diving mo-
mcntS and substituted in their Llace
"Tho heroic soul had fled. -
Tho anthOr was not pleased. Some
people arc so unreasonable. London
Speaker.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-07-09
"Coinfortably."

One Thomas Cor Tam Young long
held the Office of hcadsman. He was
to be scon every day taking his soil
tary walk III the public green, escort
cd by one or two ugly bulldogs. The
gallows treo at the cross was a
strange erection, fixed with many
ropes upright to tho stecplc. After
ward, when death was inflicted in
front of the Jail at tho foot of the
green, largo box or chest was
formed rs tho gallows 1t was erect
cd in wright's yard then in Buoh-
anan street. 1t was frequently visit
ed during its erection by morbidly
curious people. 1t could bu separated,
and each board was numbered, and
SO could be easily put together. There
were four or five who were at the
time of its construction under SEN
tencc of death. Tamas, having been
taken to SOC the machine and to give
| his opinion as to its accommodation.
naively replied that four could be
comfortably hanged on the beam.
but not more" That number did in
1919 cxpiate their crimes on this i'll
fated machine.-Old Glasgow.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-07-09
His wig In His Pocket.

A correspondent of the Washing.
ton Post tells how Benjamin Frank.
lin once wore his wig in his pocket
at the court of Versailles. When he
was about to present himself at the
court for the first time, he was in
formed that wig was essential.
Franklin's head was so large that
no ordinary wig would begin to fit
IL. However, one was found suffi-
ciently largo to pass him through
the antechambers, after which he
was permitted to remove the ridicu-
lous conventional appendage and
place it in his ample pocket.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-07-09
Dr. Jobnson,s COMPLIMENTS.

DIR. johnson, although he prided
himself OH his good breeding, was
often overboaring, would sometimes
break out with ungOvCrnable fury,
astonishing, as it has boon observed,
the we'll regulated minds of ro-
| spectacle ladies and gontlemcn.
! That he should have found solaco in
female society is not surprising, but
that women should have been so
! fond of his may be thought curious,
/ for he mover spared thom and fro
quuntly expressed something like
contempt for thoir intellectual ca
paCity. Ho declared that thOy wore
the slaves of fashion. and made 9th
or comments by no means polite TO
the sex. But Johnson did not always
mean what he said, and whom it
pleased him no man could pay u com
pliment moro gracefully.
Nothing can be moro happy than
! his saying TO Mrs. SiddOnS, whom for
! tho moment no had no chair to offer
! her, Madam, you who SD ofton oc-
casion n want of seats to other poo
Pile will moro easily excuse tho want
of one yourself" or his compliment,
though we may suspect it's truthful
ness, to Mrs. Sheridan on her Me
moirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph"
Il know not, madam, that you have
right, upon moral principles, to
make your readers suffer so much. I"
Dearly did he like little fattory
in return, and whom in his old age
he heard tho opinion of countess
that to be praised by DR.. Johnson
would make one fool all his life, "
he said: Il am too old to be made q
fool, but If you say am made u fool
shall not deny it. l am much
pleased with compliment, especial
ly from n pretty woman. "-London
Spectator.