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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-02-06
AN ARGUMENT ALA SPANISH.
TIL Between Two Sons of CASTLE Which
Led "a Panic.

TIL Between Two Sons of CASTLE Which
Led to n Panic.
IF the average Spaniard is as pug.
nacious and bloodthirsty as the pair we
Just had upstairs said man who lives
in fiat uptown. Il think the Cuban
patriots have taken a mighty big job
ON their hands About a month age
the family in the fiat directly over me
advertised their parlors to let. The
next day they were engaged by law.
yer, who said he wanted them for two
brothers, to whom he stood in the re-
lation of guardian. He said he would
be responsible for the rent, as the IA
Their OF the young men lived in Cuba
and sent them an allowance every
month for their support. When the
brothers moved in It was seen that they
were two young Spanfards and as they
We're rather mysterious in their move.
Dnents, disappearing for a day or two at
{, time and then locking themselves in
their apartments and spending the time
rolling cigarettes and slipping curacao,
it was soon noised around that they had
something to do with the instruction
IN Cuba. The Spaniards themselves
added to these rumors by their con-
duet. They would address each other
in the most violent terms, apparently
hurting oaths both loud and deep.
Then they would rush toward each
other with the most threatening ges-
lures and just when every one thought
they were going to fight a mortal COM
bat they would smile, roll the inevita-
BILE cigarette and walk off arm in arm.
Zone morning just at daybreak the
landlady was awakened Uy loud talk
ing and noise in the front room. 1t
sounded as if the Spaniards were chas-
ing each other. the flying footsteps be-
ing accompanied with dull thuds. The
racket reused the whole house. Sud-
denly there was an awful crash. \
heavy piece of furniture had shattered
the pier-glass. This was followed by
Il humping noise that shook the whole
fat, and could have been made only by
the men clinching and rolling over and
ever on the floor. The landlady hur-
ried downstairs in search of the janitor.
By the time they returned the noise
had ceased. and a knock on the door
was Immediately answered by one OF
the Spaniards.
1.-The room was Il wreck. Every piece
of furniture that was too large to be
broken had been overturned. \ blood
stained razor lay on the carpet. The
. hands and face of the Spaniards were
criss-cross in siashes. and one wondered
why they had taken the trouble to
dress themselves, only to tear the
clothes off each other. But they now
seemed TO be on the best of terms and
ridiculed the idea that they had been
quarreling. When the broken furniture
and razor were pointed out to them
they just shrugged their shoulders and
said they mad merely had a little friend
ing cigarettes, but the landlady adver-
ing cigarettes, but the landlady adver-
tised her rooms to Iet.'-Chicago News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-02-06
lights glimmeredlike st9 ana a man

lights glimmeredIike sta ana a man
hoarse tones ca'le ring oeio"'
Hello. Help, theri
Hello. Ware hare
'What's W.
..Wilders las fallen b"n the ladder
md is badly hurt" :
Can hemove?
NO. vu must low cot. But some
80 49, rsnps of tbaEdder have been
$500 .wav. So. oberil of your lives.
49, y. try the desfnt without ropes. -"
..II,w many rupf ARE broken?"
III right Sa VI soon be Nth you;
cher up" 4 or. hofo-e
saey bro brought afd go 50 as to bridge the
II 10 ene p psa And then when eager
oroi-en Lying with sympathy upon
races "cIgnder hands were helping
theni' Whitford, who had done
thein' ESQ much, proved her title to
ana GOOD by letting the little crowd
"o.1ern walls reel around her and
amy and unostentatiously fainting
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-02-06
a. ieprayed Mule.

One Of the brightest Virginia women
in this city has a fund of anecdote
illustrative of life among the Old Do
minion darkies that is not surpassed
by Thomas Nelson Page himself. She
was telling the other night of young
mule that had been stripped on freight
train to a farmer in Fauquier county.
a tag had been tied securely around
his neck with a rope, with shipping
directions thereon, but in the course of
his journey the mules hunger and
natural depravity had tempted him to
chew up both tag and rope. This gave
the darby brakeman great concern. He
hurried to the caboose and saw the coz
ductor.
'Mars George" he cried, 10 Gawd,
whar yo' 'spects to put Off dat colt?
'E done eat up whar he gwine. IN. 7.
presA
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-02-06
Speaker Reed, it is said, v

congress to adjourn by May. Amen!
Congress has shown that it is not going
to pass any legislation that will do the
country any good. The next best thing
it can Go is to adjourn before it can
pass any lie. ,1slation that will do the
country any harm.-Louisville Cour-
aer,Jourral.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-02-06
The republican leaders and c

The republican leaders and Or
sans made themselves very merry while
the last congress was in session over the
inability of the majority to carry a
measure regarded by the party lead
eIs as important, and they laughed
themselves almost into fits when the
treasure had to be shorn of some of it's
best features in order to get il passed
by a semi-traitorous senate. They sre
laughing now-as the saying is-cn
fine other side of the mouth. With a
majority far bigger than the democracy
had in the last congress the 6. o. p.
finds itself utterly unable to carry the
simplest measure though it has pro-
claimed yociferously that the welfare
of the country and its most cherished
interests are at stake.--Detroit Free
Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-02-06
iHE REED RULES,
a Significant Argument Against Shad
Methods.

| a SfyPHcanC argument Against Shad,
| Methods.
Affr all the gloriication of til,
rule of the 51st congress by our re
tuEican friends, the principal rul.
inented by NJ. Reed was repudiated
p add to the horror of this incident
rule proposed by a democrat, Ran
dolph Tucker, was substituted fol
that of Reed, with some slight modi.
fcation.
There has been great deal of mis-
representation with reference to the
criticism of Mr.. Reed. When the 51st
congress met. it adopted no rules at
all. The speaker professed to be
guided by general parliamentary
law" which in this country is based
on the rules of the house of repre-
sentatiyes. Mr.. Reed reversed the
practice of the house as to quorums,
and had no law to support him but his
own will.
1t was by means OF counting quo
runs when none voted that Mr.. Reed
was enabled to secure the adoption
OF his rule for counting a quorum.
Thus the rule itself was of no bind
ing force, having been adopted by a
disregard of a rule that had universal
ly prevailed. The counting of quo
rum under a lawfully adopted rule
and such counting in opposition to
the practice of 100 years are two very
different matters. Besides, it is known
that Mr.. Reed counted members who
we're not present when necessary to
FAKE quorum. But the abandon
n'ent of the rule by the party which
adopted it is sufficient argument
against it.-Louisville Courier-Jou
eal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-03
Can Afford to Contribute.

If there be anywhere one who really
doubts that the silver mine owners can
afford to contribute to the Bryan cam
paign, this appeal to some of the
smaller mine owners in Utah from the
secretary of the silver league ought to
set his mind at rest on that point: IF
Bryan is defeated we must expect to
see silver sold at price that will be
given it simply by it's demand for use
in the arts. which will certainly be not
more than forty cents an ounce In
view of these facts the owners of sill
Yer producing properties can afford
to contribute at least the additional
profits they receive from their own sill
Yer product for one month to the
Brynaite campaign" Inthis appeal the
secretary addresses the mine owners
by name and adds: IF we can secure
the additional profits of one months
mines, it will insure success at the
election on Nov. g."
At a meeting in Salt Lake City short
ly after this call was issued a Bryan
campaign financial committee was or
ganized, subscription list was started
among the silver mine owners and the
announcement was made that the re-
suits proved eminently satisfactory. ;"
Meanwhile William j. Bryan and Ar
thur Sewall are spouting away about
the classes, the "plutocrats," the trusts
and monopolies intrenched behind the
gold standard and similarly sickeniny
rot.
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The investigation of the fur seal COM
mission, which includes representatives
of the British and United States gov
ernments, seems to leave no doubt but
that with proper restrictions the herd
may be protected from determination;
also that pelagic sealing has been re-
sponsible for the great destruction of
the animals. destruction so thorough
that the sealers who have followed
that method of killing the past sum-
mcr, have been unable to pay eX-
penses. This latter result is, perhaps,
more likely to bring about the desired
legislation and enforcement of law
than are the findings of the commits
sion. Greed has been the obstacle that
has prevented united effort on the part
of this and the Canadian government
heretofore and now that the Canadian
sealers have killed the goose that laid
the golden egg for them they may con-
sent to a truce. tsHa'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-03
Vigorous Language from South America.
Manchester Union Dem.)

tMdllCEtStef Union tDeI1.)
We are favored with a letter from
Hon. l.. +. Mckinney, United States
minister, written to prominent New
Hampshire Democratic from Boguta
United States of Columbia, under the
date Of Aug. % We drop out the
private portion Of the letter and make
use of that which may rightly be called
public. The fact that Mr.. Mckinney
has written the New York World
avowedly for publication in former
letter, and the unequivocal sound of
this communication. gives us. if we
mistake not, ample permission to con-
slider him as addressing his fellow
citizens of this state. rather than a
single person. The portion of the letter
which we judge public is as follows:
IF the Democratic party in New
Hampshire confirms the candidacy of
Mr.. Bryan and the Chicago platform
then that is not the kind of a Demo-
cratic party l belong to. I
have been a firm and faithful Demo-
crat, and for the last II years | have
devoted myself to the furtherance Of
what | believed to be true Jeffersonian
and Jackson principles l still believe
in those principles. AS Senator Hill
says. I am Democrat There is not
one Democratic principle in the Chica-
go platform, or if there is. it is so sur
rounded with that which is not Demo-
cratic that cannot find it,
The financial plank, advocating that
we shall have a debased currency. and
that every debtor shall pay his debts
in 5O-cent dollars: that every savings
bank depositor shall be paid in 50-cent
dollars. thus reducing the savings of the
people. and the pension of the soldiers
One-half.
That is downright dishonesty. and
as believe in honesty, will not sun
port such doctrine. The plank re-
garding the supreme court is revolution
against the fundamental principles OF
the constitution. AS l once fought
against revolution and am not a reyo-
lutionist. 1 will not support a party
mat advocates it. The plank against
the Federal Government interfering to
put down mobs and riots in the states
and thus protecting interstate commerce.
and the United States mails. is down.
right anarchy. And as / am not an
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-03
PRESS COMMENTS.
The Silver Trusts AppeaI>
On. Y. WORLDLY


The silver mines of this country pro
duced in 1893 27.600,000 ounces of fine
silver. The copper and lead mines pro-
dueed as y-product-all proft-3a.
100000 ounces of fine silver. About this
proportion is maintained year by year
All of this silver is produced at pro-
fit. Most of 1t is all profit
one mine, the Ontario. has paid la1
successive monthly dividends amount
ing to $l3 100, 900 or $s23125, a year.
Other mines have paid dividends In like
proportion.
These silver-ring people plead pow
erty. They have reduced miners
wages from $3.50 per day to 81 ana in
most cases to $3.50 per day. while de-
claring dividends by scores of millions
Yet they ask the workingrnen Of the
country To help them with votes ia
double their dividends and take the
difference out ul the wages of all the
people who work
FOR this is precisely what their pres
ent free coinage demand amounts to.
These multi-mllionaire monopoiists
have already forced the government
to pay them 1854 GOO, 900 for silver bull
lion now worth in the market only s3is,-
o.ooo-in other words. to pay them 4
bonus of $li6. 900 600 on a business al
ready enormously profitable Every
dollar OF this eNaciion has been taken
out OF the earnings of the people, for
every dollar of it has been paid out OF
the proceeds of taxation
They now ask that the government
shall take all their product-60. 900 600
ounces n year-at Sl.-9 an ounce when
it is worth only about sc cents an
ounce. That is to say. they ask the
workinglnen of America to give them.
out of hard-earncd wages, bonus OF
about S3S,000,0 goo a year for continuing
their already enormously profitable
business
This is the programme of the silver
trust. composed as ii is of men most OF
whom are already rich beyond the
dreams of avarce They have cut
down the wages of their own work
men to the smallest limit, while pay
ing enormous dividends. and now they
ask all other wage-earners of the coun-
try to contribute enough out of their
earnings to give then-the multi-mil-
iionaires-thirty- five or forty millions;
more each year without any return
whatever.
These are the cold. official. statistical
facts of the situation
Why should any wage-earner vote
tor such proposal? Why should any
Woffln%man vote to compel himself to
contribute to the already fat fortunes
of men who grind the faces of the poor
and Cypress labor to the point of de-
graduation in their own enormously
profitable mines?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-03
Vote for Mckinley.

Along with the certainty of McKin-
ley's election there is strengthening
of the disposition of sound money
Democrats to vote for Palmer. Now
Gen. Palmer does not want them to do
that. He has said as much. He is in
this campaign as a candidate for two
reasons, one is bury Organism deeper
than was political grave ever dug be-
fore and at the same time retain a
Democratic organization. Bryanism
must be buried deep, or Bryan's NUT
terings about 1900 will be reiterated
four years from now. Gen. Palmer re-
alizes the need of making McKinley's
election overwhelming That done it
VIII not return to trouble this genera
tlon and as fiat crazes return about
every generation, the next generation
VIII be none the worse off for the post
ponement and the present will be vast
~ benefited. while the record of the
victory for the right will serve as an
inspiration for those succeeding gener-
atoms.
vote for Palmer is half vote for
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-03

"Oh. this is the same old Democratic
party." say the Organizes; those who
have left it are traitors" If this be so
it would be interesting to learn how it
happened that almost every Democrat,
who by reason of brains, money, politi-
cal influence. knowledge of Demo-
cratic principles or something else,
acquired leadership in the Democratic
ranks, was looked upon by the rank
and file with admiration and respect
and whose wisdom was sought in every
is not identified with the
Organized Democracy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-03

anarchist | will not support q man on,
party that advocates anarchy. / have
lived here in a country for three Years
where they have just such currency
as the Chicago platform advocates, and
may God save my country from the
poverty that it has brought to the peo-
pie here. 10 elect BRYAN on such q
platform and q Congress to CART out
the principles he advocates, would re-
| suit In the overthrow of the fundamen-
tai principles on which our Government
Is based, would be the first step to
| overthrow the greatest republic the
world has ever known
las an American citizen. an an honest
| man. aa patriot. who was one of the
first 10 enlist for the defense OF the
Union. when it needed strong men TO
| defend it, | cannot, viii not In any
way give countenance to principles of
dishonesty. Of revolution and anarchy
! am willing to go on record as saying
that If these principles, advocated in
the Chicago platform. shall become the
law OF the land, the financial results 10
the people OF the United States viii be
far more serious in the next ten years
than was the financial results of the
revolution Of 1861
Let ne say. further that il is not
the capitalist that Will suffer most. but
tn" lahourng man. who will find
slight advance in wages and the cost
Of his living doubled Where poverty
exists today there will he both poverty
and degradation. Our national honor
will he discrcdited in all the world, and
we win not recover from its effects in a
quarter OF a century
II trust that the Democratic party of
New Hampshire viii not as body give
countenance 10 such doctrines. but will
stand firm 10 the principles that the
rarity has advocated in the past. /
trust there will be a candidate nofni-
mated by voting for whom the honest
Democrats may Ire able to protest
against such nefarious doctrines. and
thus teach the world that Populists
and anarchists have not captured the
entire Democratic party
Il VIII not in any way assist in the
election of man to the highest Office
in the gift of the people, nor to place a
party in power, whose principles. if en-
acted into law. would be a disgrace to
American intelligence, and a blot upon
the fair fame of our republic, which |
was founded in the blood of our fathers.
and perpetuated by the blood of our
brothers and sons. God save the coun-
try" LUTHER r. MCKINNEY.
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nave sacrificed it to the organized
greed OF foreign competitors.
Under the free trade policy of the
present administration and Of the ex-
isting tariff law. the imports of foreign
woods have steadily increased The
ratio Of increase has steadily aug
mented during the successive months
since April, 1895. and In the meantime
the home industry has suffered an
equally steady decrease The retro
spect is appalling. and the prospect is
no more cheerful. The official figures
covering the domestic wool clip from
1889 to the present time are In round
numbers as follows:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-03
89Bae aSS|
..Fiegers" and '.Facks" Don't Saw Wood.

FackS an figgers, fggerS an Jacks.
De wood pile grins at de rusty AK.
Folks is Il settin' around de sto'
Eb'ry day talkin mo- an mo-
Nobody keers fob de autumn gold
Nor de tnglin' cheer eff de days git cold.
Nobody sees whit de oil farm lacks
Muffin adoin' but fggers an facks.
Facks an figgers, figgers an Jacks,
De col wind leaks tro' de barn door
cracks.
De oil mule shivers behind de shed
An de pigs is cryin' dat ain been fed.
De whitewashed fence hab er coat oil
CRIME
An de cows looks lonely at milkn' time
An | feels when talkin' about de tax
Dat dab ain much profit in figgars an
Jacks.
Washington Star.
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Bryan may still think himself man
of destiny but by the time he hears
what his friends say of him he is likely
to conclude that it isn't the kind of
destiny it first appeared to his fevered
Imagination to be. The Knoxville Sen
tinel, Bryan Democratic organ. is one
of these friends. 1t says: Bryan
wasted valuable time in New England
He had better be devoting his energies
to carrying the doubtful states of the
middle West and one or two of the
mining states themselves, which are
not altogether too certain"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-03
Democratic Free Wool.
On. Y. Mail and Express.)

The most direct test of the true char
acter OF Democratic tariff legislation is
found in it's effect upon the wool indus
try OF the country. 1t would be difficult
at this time to find any so-called tariff
reformer who would have the audacity
TO champion the experiment of free
wool in the United States. This exper-
iment has not been in operation for
over two years, and it's results are we'll
known.
Democratic theories always end in
disaster when put in practice and the
consequences of this experiment in free
wool have verified to the letter the pre-
dictions of Republican statesmen at the
time of the passage of the law of ''per-
iidy and dishonor." Our domestic wool
industry is today in the most crippled
condition that it has ever experienced
in the history of the country The
tariff tinkcrs and economic theorists
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-03

Bryan. A vote for Mckinley is vote
to clear the way so that the silackles OF
Popocracy2 may he the sooner struck
from the limbs Of Democracy. An
official organ of the Populist party an
nounces that the party would have
nominated Bryan had not the Chicago
convention already done so. If you
hope to divorce Populism and Democ-
racy the quickest, surest way to do 1t
will be to deal the most effective blow
possible to Organism. To do that vote
..r Mckinley.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-03

AS nearly all the business men in
New York this year are to vote one
way 1t is expected the political parade
OF the business men on the Saturday
night before election will be the largest
ever seen, or that probably will be seen
for years to come. 1t wont compare
however, with the procession that will
march to the polls, the following Mon
day and vote for Mckinley and Ho-
bart straight.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-03

All that is needed is money to buy
the bags for transportation. in order to
have many of the worthy poor in Bos-
ton supplied with a share of the over
abundance of this seasons apple crop.
The sight of barrels of good fruit going
to waste suggested to the mind of Mr.
Moody the idea of distributing it
among the poor. He agreed that his
500 students should each send bushel
of apples, the railroads have agreed to
ship the fruit free of charge and City
Missionary Waldron will supervise its
distribution. No one will be injured
and many ought to be benefited At
least the success of the project NAV
suggest some way for the future in
which the waste due to over-supply
and the want due to lack of supply may
both be obviated to considerable de-
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Death has removed the man who has
excited among the native Hawaiians
the greatest hostility to the present
government and kept alive in their
minds the hope for the return of Queen
Liliuokalani. His name was Josanh
Nawahi. He was full-blooded Hav-
alian' educated in missionary's fam
lily but afterward espousing the relie-
ION OF his fathers and practising the
arts OF witch doctor. The opponents
OF the provisional government are dis
appearing one by one.
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Surely this from the San Francisco
Bulletin cannot be regarded as a sign
of silver success on the Pacific slope:
AS the Greeley movement went to
pieces in the last month of the cam
paign. so Bryan's forces already show
the unmistakable signs of disaster His
fight Is hopeless, utterly hopeless.
ASIDE from the signs which all men
read. the fact is apparent in every ut
terance he makes from the stump, He
is man stricken with political de.
SDair''