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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06
CONGRESSMAN BARRETT'S CIRCU-
LAR.

IT will be remembered that Coz
gresham w. E. Barrett, OF Massa-
chusetts. wanted to have Ambassador
Bayard impeached for some of the
speeches he made in England. Barrete
didn't have his way, but he hao ms
say. He was also very anxious TO 90
several other exceedingly foolish
things. but his colleagues in congress
would not permit him to have his VIII.
Now he has taken it upon himself to
prevent the admission of the territories
of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma.
He has begun his campaign alreaoy
by sending out circulars to eastern
members of congress. He first CITES
the plank in the Republican national
platform which says: I'VE favor the
admission of the remaining territories
at the earliest practicable date" Then
his circular continues in these words:
.It looks as if an effort would be
made at the next session of congress
to secure the passage of bills for the
admission of Arizona, New Mexico and
Oklahoma, giving these three small
territories, the two former of which
have none of the prerequisites tor
statehood, six additional United States
senators, along the same political lines
as the recently admitted states, whose
representatives in the senate have SO
largely bolted the Republican party
and its candidates
'Endeavoring, in the interest OF fair
ness, not to allow any further increase
in the senate of the United States, ex-
cept when based upon present popu-
lation of considerable size with
promise of permanent increase, shall
be glad to hear from you, whether, in
YOUR Judgment, you intend to vote for
the admission of these territories.
Without knowing what prompted the
insertion of this plank in the Repubh-
can platform, I am prepared, as one
representative, tc say that not until
thS. conditions very materially change
shall [ give my vote for the admission
of territories of so small, and in at
least two of the cases. so stationary, a
population"
OF course, all this is merely for the
sake of preventing the admission of
states where the people favor silver.
There will be no means of finding out
how many or what kind of replies Mr..
Barrett will receive to his letter, but
it is hardly probable that any repre-
sentatives are going to commit them
selves in writing on so important a
subject A bronze, or better brass,
statue of Congressman Barrett would
serve as a splendid monument to
folly.
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population
M'LEAN'S CANDIDACY.

Editor John r. Mclean. Of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, seems to be develop
ing some strength at Chicago. 1t is
said that his real aspiration is to OBJ
tain the presidential nomination,
with Teller as the head of the ticket
He is said to favor Teller as he believes
he would unite the silver forces as no
one else could.
1t really looks as though there was a
thorough understanding between the
Teller men and Mclean. The Denver
organ of the TeEerites has hoisted the
names of Teller and Mclean for presi-
dent and vice-presidcat, and has long
article setting forth the reasons why
such a ticket would win. Editor Nc
Lean cannot be ignorant eli all this and
it shows him to be far more ambitious
than Democratic. A Democrat who
has presidential or presidential
aspirations that will favor the nomin-
alton of a man who is not Democrat
and who is only in accord with Demo-
Gratis on one subject as the party STAN
dard bearer is absolutely unworthy of
any recognition by a Democratic ma
tional convention.
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monetary system will everywhere
tend TO make the rich richer and the
poor poorer and will inf1ict grinding
poverty and intense woe upon the great
masses of helpless mankind all over
the world. Fortunately there has been
nothing in the past of any of the pres
ent proprietors of these two newspa-
pers to lead anyone to suppose they
could be induced to surrender to the
dictation of the advocates of gold mon
ometallism. who would Cypress the
many for the benefit of the few in all
1.-The most enlightened nations of the
earth" BY answering adherence to
Republican bimetallism we shall best
promote the election Of Mckinley and
Hobart, the passage of protective tar
if laws, the restoration and main
tenance of prosperity in agriculture
and manufactures, and the prolonged
ascendancy of the Republican party
against the combined efforts of the
Democracy and the Populists to
achieve its overthrow.
w. E. CHANDLER.
To declare his opposition to the free
and unlimited coinage of silver bullion
by the United States, and to declare
his opposition to the single gold stand
ara anu Ills uSNOliOii ~ liz .oOAcio
standard, in view of the declaration
of the Republican party, in national
convention, on the money question,
shows the senator's great capacity for
straddling, looking two ways at once
and doing the contortion act generally
His declara ton on the money issue is
a genuine daisy"
That little philosophical
reflection in the third proposition is
something startling, still it IS soothing.
1t shows that the senator's mind has
at some time been occupied with some
thing else than politics. No man who
is solely a politician could make such
a reflection.
The senator says that the single gold
standard would everywhere tend TO
make the rich richer and the poor
poorer, and would intlict grinding pow
erty and intense woe upon the great
masses of helpless mankind all over
the world True, O Senator! Ana
the United States have that standard
today, and the Republican party has
declared for the maintenance OF it.
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NOT A SECTIONAL ISSUE.

Those opposed to free silver have in
sisted right along that it was a sec
tional issue. 1t has been asserted by
this class that the west favored silver
only because it was western product;
that otherwise the west would not be
for silver. Such argument, or rather
assertion. was merely for the purpose
of rousing sectional prejudice and
making the people of the east believe
there was nothing in the silver ques-
ton itself.
The st. Louis Globe-Democrat, Bit
terly anti-silver paper. discusses the
question at length and comes to the
conclusion that the money issue is not
sectional. 1t says the country has
discovered within the past two weeks
that there is less sectionalism in the
financial question than was popularity
supposed. 1t cites the fact that ex-
Representative George Fred Williams,
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He wouldn't Eat the Cake.

Thomas Taylor, a bookkeeper living at
No. S26 Spaulding avenue, complained in
Justice Richardson's court yesterday
morning against Hugo Wagner proprie-
tor of a restaurant at No. 344 State street,
and who, the complainant says, served
him with a strange dish Monday, and then
thrashed him because he refused to eat it.
Taylor ordered coffee and cake. He
broke open the cake and found in it, he
says, foreign substance which wiggled
and had legs.
Il don't want this yelled Taylor. IT'S
no good
1T is good.'' returned the proprietor,
'eat it,
Nit, not, never declared Taylor;
There's a raisin in it that can walk, and
l don't want it,"
The bookkeeDer then declares that he
was thrashed by Wagner. and the walters
and the lady cashier, who belabored him
over the head with his own umbrella.
After banging him around the restaur-
ant as though he We're a football Taylor
says they kicked him out in the street,
and kept his shower stick.
The ill-used man went to the Armory
and swore out a warrant which was
placed in the hands of Detectives Nc
Mahon and Mcbride.
The two officers called at the restaurant
Tuesday. When Wagner learned their
business he smiled pleasantly and said:
''All right, gentlemen. III be with YOU
as soon as | wash my hands.
Wagner then went into room, and the
wise men waited for three hours, at the
end of which time they discovered that
the man had jumped through the back
window and fed.
The policemen went around again We'd
nesday and were fooled the same way.
Wednesday evering they were more eau
tious, and they succeeded in arresting the
man, who was locked UP at the Armory.
Yesterday the prisoner was placed i'll
peace bonds for one year by Justice Rich
ardson.-Chicago Inter-Dcean.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06
BAD TENEMENT HOUSES.

Some time ago commission was ap-
pointed to investigate the condition of
the New York tenement houses. Rich
ard Watson Glider was made chairman
of this commission It's investigation
has resulted in much Improvement in
the tenement districts of New York.
Mr.. Glider has just returned from Eu-
rope. There he found no tenement con-
ditions, as rule, so bad and so much
in need of reform as those which pre-
vail on the east side in New York. He
says the great cities of Europe are fast
doing away with their rookeries, and
that there is more reason in New York
than anywhere else for prompt action
in following this example.
This is not a very good showing for
New York when one thinks of what
the tenement quarters are in some of
the great European cities Municipal
government is in reality a greater and
harder problem than state government,
and in municipal government there is
no harder problem to solve than that
presented by the tenement districts of
great cities. Where houses are so
overcrowded as in these districts, and
it seems almost an impossibility not to
overcrowd them, it is a most difficult
if not quite impossible task to keep
them passably clean. Facilities of all
kinds are extremely limited If room
and facilities are increased there comes
with them an increase of rent; and no
matter how slight it may be, it tells
heavily on the light purses of those who
occupy them.
If anything be done. and no doubt it
can, to improve tenement houses
without any particularly heavy adj
dition to the tenants expenses, it
should be. Those who live in tenement
houses would certainly be justified in
bringing in a verdict that life is not
worth living.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

Comptroller of the Currency Eckels
says of the two-thirds rule: Il am
not in favor of the abrogation of the
two-thirds rule. In order to be sue
cessful the party should be unit" "
The Kansas City Star. commenting
upon this remark, says: Besides,
there is nothing TO gain by preserving
this odious rule in the coming Demo-
cratic convention. 1t would possibly
prevent the nomination of a free silver
advocate by the convention, but only
at the expense of a deadlock in the bal
loting, a pratracted and acrimonious
session of the convention and a break
UP in the end without a nomination.
Tie free silver majority viii prevent
the nomination of a sound money man
under the two-thirds rule or any other
rule. and the majority having power
to make the platform, no sound money
man would accept the doubtful COM
pliment Of az obviously worthless
nomination on such a platform as the
convention is certain to adopt"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06
PENSION FRAUDS.

~ - AGNEN
1t is always a pleasant thing to read
what President Cleveland has to say
when he sits down on a genuine GRIM
inal. Very recently application was
made to him for pardon in the cases
of several men who had been guilty of
procuring pensions under false pre-
lenses. There were two of them. In
the case of one, by name Marcellino,
the president wrote:
This convict was guilty, apparently,
of nearly all the crimes and frauds de-
nounced by our pension laws. He seems
in every way possible to have cheated
and swindled ignorant pensioners and
imposed on the government. The pun
ishment melted out to him was well de-
served, and | cannot yield to the I'M
thinking and irresponsible appeal for
his pardon.
In the case of man who personated
dead soldier he wrote:
This convict personated dead SOL
der and through that means procured
a pension and robbed the government.
He was justly dealt with by the court,
and should suffer all the punishment
awarded to him.
The third case was that of a man
who was found guilty of over-charging
pensioners for his services in substan-
tiating their claims. In this case the
president wrote:
Denied. 1 am unwilling to pardon
those who, in violation of our pension
laws, overcharge applicants for the
services they render in substantiating
their claims.
1t would be impossible to imagine
cases in which men were more deserv-
ing of severe punishment than in these
The whole country will laud the presi-
dent for his refusal to pardon such
men.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06
TALES OF THE DAY.
A Leap Year Maid.


A woman stood at the golden gate,
with record for passport in. Troublous
and hard had been her fate. yet her life
had been without SIN.
ST. Peter looked at her face and said,
Full long you've lived on the earth
and yet tbs writ, for l just have read,
your souls of uncommon worth. It's
strange, tbs strange" unused the heaven
ly guard, land you never have told lie?"
Nay, good st. Peter
The gate unbarred-. But stay, but
stay, before you pass by, and pray tell
me exactly how old you be-your word
as the proof I've seem She smoothed
back her hair and dropped her eye. "Of
birthdays I've had sixteen
What; wrinkles, gray hair? IT'S won
drous, very, with such youth to SO
strangely miX!''
All saint, 1 was born on February %,
1886"
Go back sighed the saint; Heaven
not for you. Its blisses must pale before
the woman who all her life but knew one
birthday in every four" Judge.
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A VERY WILD FLOWER.

Within garden once there grew
flower that seemed the very pattern
OF all propriety; none knew
She was at heart wandering Slattern.
The gardener old, with care and pain,
Had trained her up as she should
grow,
Nor dreamed amid his labor vain
That rank rebellion lurlzed below.
A name sufficiently high-sounding
He diligently sought for her,
Until he thought that the "Rebounding
Elizabeth he should prefer.
But whom grown up the flower began
70 show the tastes within her hidden;
AT every chance quite wild she ran,
In spite of being sternly chidden.
They, told her beds for flowers were
best;
But daily greater grew her failings;
Up to the renee she boldly pressed,
And stuck her head between the
palilgs.
Then to the street she struggled through,
Tearing to rags her silk attire,
And all along the road she grew,
Regardless quite of dust and mire.
You'll find her now by country ways,
A tattered tramp, though comely yet,
With rosy cheek and saucy gaze,
And known to all as Bouncing Bet"
Mildred Howells, in July st. Nicholas.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

1.-THE disabled old soldier wants his
pension paid in 1O0-cent dollars. He
wants his pension to go as far in his
support as it can be made to go. He
does not care to share the bounty ac-
corded him by the nation half and half
with the millionaire owner of silver
mines,' says the Omaha Bee. He has
always got that kind of dollars and he
always will And he has sometimes
got his dollars in greenbacks, some
times in gold, and sometimes in silver
Free silver is no menace to the old
soldiers, but would. be a blessing to
them. NIB 6i
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THE SALT LAKE HERALD. MONDAY. july 8, 1895

the advance agent of prosperity" who
haven't the courage to fight in the front
rank, but who are willing to lend their
services to present any assertions by the
rank and file.-Butte Miner.
The silver delegates to the convention
would better look out or the national
committee will smuggle in a preacher to
open the proceedings with a plea for
divine assistance for the gold standard.
Chicago Record.
The people who try to keep posted on
all the new cures, don't have time to
read the new books, or learn the latest
songs. The latest method of curing is
by rubbing the hands together. 1t is
another remedy warranted to do away
with drug stores.-Atchison Globe.
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SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS.

Chauneey Depew, who has been talk
ing little to celebrate his vacation,
says he has figured out how much money
he could make per annum by writing re-
commentators for patent medicines,
wines. liver pads and bicycles. and the
estimate is $4,000 That is modest. DR..
Depews Endorsement of few things
ought to bring him in more than the
presidents salary.-Boston Herald.
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CHANDELIERS PROGRAMME.

Senator w E. Chandler has outlined
the policy of his paper. the Concord
Monitor, so that all the Republicans
of New Hampshire may have kindly
light TO lead them. 1t is a signed
article and contains four propositi ms
They are:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

Journalist, was born in Cincinnati in
1S49. He studied law at Harvard. He
then entered journalism. He was very
successful and is now the proprietor of
the Cincinnati Enquirer, the most in
f1uential Democratic paper in southern
Ohio. He is very wealthy.
Mr.. Mclean is considered a Demo-
cratic presidential possibility.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

That there should be any talk
whether a Democratic national con-
vention will nominate boiling Re
publican or a lifelong Democrat is
really very amusing. Democrats can
be counted upon to stand by Demo-
Gratis
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

The sound money men at Chicago
propose TO sound an alarm. They have
been trying to do that very thing for a
long time. bat up 70 th4 present time
their efforts have been wholly without
Success
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

Il the gold men at Chicago should
determine to bolt. would it be neces-
sary to issue bonds to get the gold to
make the bolt?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

Now that Mrs. Stowe is dead it may
be expected that the controversy over
the question of who the original
George Harris was will break out with
much greater virulence than before.
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The election of Mckinley and Hobart
as the able representative of the great
Republican party whose restoration to
national power is required by the best
interests Of the people.
Il
The principle of direct protection to
American industries in the collection of
tariff duties; to be carried into effect
by the passage of new and additional
laws Of congress.
Opposition to the free and unlimited
coinage of silver bullion. under exist
ing conditions, by the United States
alone. When the strength of two or
more forces is necessary in order to
lift and carry a heavy burden it is
folly for one to try to bear it alone
"
Opposition 20 the single gold stand
ard of money and devotion to the
double standard; the bimetallism of re-
cent centuries. THE existing gold
standard must be preserved if it is
so decreed, only until it is possible to
restore the double standard by inter
national agreement or by just and
reasonable safeguards of United States
legislation. Whenever the choice comes,
if it ever must come, between perma-
nent acquiescence in the single gold
standard and the adoption by the
United States of the single silver stan
dard, the Monitor and Statesman will
not be found on the side of gold. Such
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

The Denver Republican thinks that
Bland. standing on a silver dollar,
would make an excellent ticket and
platform for the Chicago convention.
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Wash Hesing should be practicing
to let fly his theatened bolt. But per-
haps when he said he would bolt he
was merely drawing long bow.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

Truth crushed to earth will rise
again." but can Senator Vest inform
the country whether Liberty, when she
lies bleeding in the street, will rise
again?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

A Bad Error-"See here. Lyons. you've
ruined me. In this account of the ball L
said that Mrs. Bunkerton, the famous
lecturer on dress, wore nothing that was
remarkable You've put it, Mrs. B. wore
nothing. That was remarkable! You can
go to the cashier and get your money. -
Harlem Life.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

Mr.. Thurber has also gone to Buzz
yards Bay. AS would be the Fourth of
July without the American eagle. so
would be the administration without
Mr.. Thurber.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

The New York Mail and Express
says: IF honesty. experience and
years of consistent devotion to the free
silver cause count for anything in the
Chicago convention, Richard P. Bland,
of Missouri, will be nominated for
president without serious opposition"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

Because the Democratic party de-
clines to adopt the single gold stand
ard the gold standard men are talking
a great deal about the decline of De-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

Circumstantial Evidence-"Do you think
Mrs. Deepedge will ever marry again?'
1T is rather to early to prophesy, but 1
noticed all the pall-bearers she chose were
bachelors or widowers. Chicago Record
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So far as the Democratic party is
concerned it is no longer Silver
threads among the gold but golden
threads among the silver
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

Mr. Harrity says the outlook is very
discouraging Why does he not look
inward? He might find some encour-
agement
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

Considering that silence is golden,
the gold men at Chicago are doing a
great deal Of talking.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

The motto Of Dubois ct al. seems to
be: Teller or bust-the chances for
free silver
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

There are no cheap dollars in the
United States except in the cheap talk
of the anti-silver men.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

wake up, Jacob, day is breakingr'
so said DeWitt's Little Early Risers
to the man who had taken them to
arouse his sluggish liver. Nelden-
Judson Drug Co.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

Accounts from Buzzard's Bay of
what Mr.. Cleveland is doing or what
his intentions are, are very apt to be
fishy
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

Spain is to send forty thousand more
troops to Cuba. And still Spain in
sists that there is no war in Cuba.
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Johnnie Ghe office boy)-"Mr. Sands, the
grocer, is. down stairs, and wants to know
why you didn't answer his letter about
last months bill, sir
Editor-"Tell him he forgot to enclose a
stamp '-Tit-Bits.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

The office-seekers are not letting the
grass grow under their feet on the
Mckinley lawn.
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1t is a two TO one bet that every
move that Mckinley made yesterday
will be telegrapheG all over the coun-
try Today.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

Tomorrow Candidate Hobart will
know that he has been nominated for
the vice-Dresidency.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

The state OF Maryland being prac-
tically out of debt feels at liberty to
indulge in few lynching bees.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

Where have the bonny birds, the
cuckoos, gone?