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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-05-30
CiEVELAND'S PILL.
Asked tn Call an international Bi-
metallic Congress.

WASHINGTuN. ID. g.. May ~ Mr..
Tracy OF Missouri introduced into The
House to-day 4 joint resolution call
ing upon the President to invite the
nations Of the world to send delegates
10 The International congress 10 be
held in Westinghouse 1872. The con-
gre>s is to consider the subject of in
ternational himetallism and The pre-
am5l" OF the resolution recires that
International bimetallism Is de-iIa bic
and ought t. be established and that
the efforts ON the part of the United
States should not cease until it is Sc
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-05-30

We've got a scheme. Beef
steak has gone up. If it goes
much higher nobody but the
but the Angels can reach it.
Oil is up among the clouds a
little higher and it can be poured
on the troubled waters in the
clouds. Hides are up and
shoes may 60 skyward, so the
papers say.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-05-30
Why not make our dollar

Why not make our dollars
out Of rubber-that's a great
cheme-then they'll stretch. It's
a pretty hard matter to make a
five dollar bill stretch over a ten
dollar purchase, and even we can't
do that for you-but yet, until
rubber dollars are made we'll come
nearer to it than any store you
know of.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-05-30
The Monetary Question.

The question of the hour is the
question of dollars. Men who own
gold mines want a standard to be
a single gold dollar. Men who own
silver mines want a silver standard.
Men who own 10th gold and silver
mines there are only a few Of us
left want a gold and silver standard.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-05-30
MAI. OUT.
Is Not and VIII Not BE n Candidate
for Governor.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 25.-Maj.
William Warner, ex-Commander-in-
Chief of the q. \. r., who has been a
much talked of gubernatorial candi-
date, has issued the following card to
the public.
10 the Republicans of t~Iissouri:
In answer to numerou inquiries
from friends in all parts of the State,
| say to you frankly lam not, andwill
not be, Il candidate for Governor. |
have no enemies to punish, and more
friends than | could reward If | lived
to he as old as Methuelah.
WILLIAM WARNER.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-05-30

b. 3. CahOun will moi h the midGln
man in the race COR Governor at the
Springfield convention. He will go
into that convention leading all con-
petitors and if his friend, will stand
by him he will be nominated before
many ballots are taken.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-05-30
FOR Assessor.

Ex-Congrcssionman Arnold. it is
said, is laying his plans to capture
the Observation-Disclosures Con-
gress and ii is the opinion Of the bet
ter element of his party that he will
be the nominee of the Cape Girardeau
convention.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-05-30

Directory Of the Principal Business Houses.
The following is published daily for the
benefit of travelling statesmen, strangers and
the public generally. 1t cannot fail to prove
of interest to all who intend transacting bust
ness in Cape Girardeau.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-05-30
FOR STATE

FOR STATE SENATOR
We are authorized to 0
THOMAS Il. GREEN
As a candidate for State Senator from
this Senatorial District. subject 10 the
decision of the Senatorial Republican
nominating convention.
FOR SHERIFF.
We are authorized to announce
BERNHARD GOCKEL
As q candidate for the Office of Sheriff
of Cape G~irardeau county, subject to
the action of the Republican nominat-
ing convention.
We are authorized to announce
EDWARD F. REGENHARDT
As IA candidate for Sheriff of Cape
GirardeaucOunty, subject to the action
of the Republican nominating con-
VentiOn.
o COUNTY TREASURER.
We are authorized to announce
AUGUST CDE
As a candidate for the office of County
Treasurer, subject to the action of the
County Republican nominating cOn-
vention.
FOR COLLECTOR.
We are authorized to announce
PETERLEHNER
As a candidate for reelection to the
Office of Collector of Cape Girardcau
county. subject to the action of the
Republican nominating convention.
We are authorized to
a. II. GRANT
As Il candidate for the Office of Col
lector of Cape Girardeau county. sub
jet to the action of the Republican
nominating convention.
We are authorized to
G. F. SIEMERS
AS Il candidate for Collector of Cape
Girardeau county, subject to the action
Of the Republican nominating con-
vention.
FOR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY.
We are authorized to announce
EDWARD HAYES
AS a candidate for Prosecuting At
torney of Cape GirardeaucOunty. sub
ject to the action of the Republican !
nominating convention.
We are authorized to
ROBERT N. SAWYER
As a candidate for Prosecuting At
torney of Cape Girardeau county.
subject to the action Of the Republic
can nominating convention.
o Assessor.
We are .aurthorizcd TO announce
/. FRANK CALDWELL.
As 4 candidate for Assessor of Cape
Girardeau county. subject to tie de
of the county Republican nom
mating convention. :,
We are authorized 70 announce
D. A. NICHOLS =
Asa c~andidatcfor the Office of Assessor !
Of Cape Girardcau county, subject to ;
Lhe action OF the Republican nominat-
ing convention. :
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-05-30

As a candidate for State Senator from
this Senatorial District. subject TO the
decision of the Senatorial Republican
nominating convention.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-05-30

We are authorized TO announce
THOMAS Il. GREEN
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-05-30
o SHERIFF.

We are authorized to announce
BERNHARD GOCKEL
As Il candidate for the Office of Sheriff
of Cape Girardeau county, subject to
the action of the Republican nominat-
ING convention.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-05-30

DE. L. w. MURTON.
Practical Dentist. Office Sturdivant
Bank Building. Cape Girardeau. Mo
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-05-30

DAVID y. GLENN.
Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods,
Carpets. y Main Street.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-05-30
ENCOURAGEMENT

SATURDAY, NAY 30, 1896.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-21
ONE FFA.iEE ROUND TRiP.
The Railroads Announce a Rate
For the Fall Festival.
Applies to All Points In Kansas
and oklahoma.
The Santa Fe and Rock Island Will
Get Out Colored Flyers Descrip-
tive of the Festivities-oth-
er Railroad News

The Western Passenger association
circular announcing the rates for the
Topeka Fall Festival and State Re
union, September % to October 3.
reached this city today. The rate de-
clared is one fare for the round trip
from all points in Kansas and Okla
horna. Kansas City. St. Joseph and Su-
perior Nebraska. From all Kansas
points tickets Will be sold September
81 to October 8, inclusive, and from all
Oklahoma points September q to 80 in
elusive. The limit to return from all
points will be October 5.
AS soon as the Committee of Fifteen
arranges all details of the weeks pro-
gramme the railroads running into To-
peka will publish flyers and distribute
them at all points along their lines. W.
J. Black, assistant general passenger
agent Of the Santa F'e, who is taking a
lively interest in the Fall Festival, in
tends to get out very elaborate flyer
printed in different eolOrs. The Rock
Island flyer will probably be in colors
also.
On the days of the Festival week on
which William Mckinley and William
Jennings Bryan speak the railroads will
run excursions into this city. All roads
are preparing for a large passenger
business during that week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-21

Caney CSan.) Times: We are pleased
to welcome to our exchange table the
State Journal. published at Topeka. It
is the most reliable and conservative
paper that comes to the Office. Unlike
the Kansas City Journal and other rad
zeal gold bug Sheets &c reports the con-
ventions and other demonstrations of
the silver people in a truthful and i'm
partial manner. and does not stoop to
the level of political mud-slinger and
by garbling the reports attempt to be-
little the cause. Such Independence Is
commendables
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-21
STRIKE MAY BE GENERAL.
All Adams Express Co.'s Employees in
LARGE Eastern Cities May Go Out.

New York, Aug 21.-The World says:
All of the employees OF the Adams Ex-
press company in eastern cities may
stop work in two days. The general
executive board of the Knights Of La
Dor ordered this sympathetlc strike yes
terday. 1t is said the Switchmen's
Mutual Aid association stands behind
the strikers and the switchmen in the
Jersey City yards OF the Pennsylvania
road NAV 90 out Such q condition
would seriously impede the loading OF
express cars. Master Workman Kelly
saws the men taking the strikers places
are wholly incompetent and the com
pany has advertised for new men.
The strikers said yesterday they
condition. 80
The strikers are quiet. About 200
pickets are watching the Adams com
nanv's routes and the pickets in turn
are watched by Pinkerton men. On
the other hand President Weir OF the
Adams company says the company can
easily get along without its old EN-
ployes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-21
CHINA RAISES COTTON.
Will Soon be One of the Greatest Pro-
ducers in the World.

Washington. Aug. 21.-The prospectus
Of new industry at Shanghai is made
the subject of a report to the state de-
partment by Consul General Jernigan
al that place. It is called the Shang-
hal Oil Mill company, which proposes
to manufacture oil from cotton seed. 1t
is, the consul general says, the logical
result of the cotton mills at Shanghai
and the consequent stimulus given to
the cultivation of cotton in China.
Since 1890 there have been As new cot
ton manufacturing establishments erect
ed in Shanghai and these are now in
successful operation.
AS the area suitable for the cultiva-
ton of cotton in China is almost as
HmitIess as the supply of labor, and
labor being very cheap there can be.
Mr. Jernigan says, no doubt that China
will soon be one of the greatest cot
ton producing countries in the world
There is need in Shanghai, the report
concludes. of a more distinctive Amer
lean business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-21
RATES FOR KANSAS MEETINGS
One Fare Round Trip for Meeting of
Masons and Soldiers' Reunion.

The Western Passenger association
round trip from all points in Kansas
for the annual meeting of the grand
lodge A. r. & A. NJ. at Wichita, Sep
TENDER 10 and IL. Tickets will be sold
September and 10, good to return Sep
TENDER T.
A rate of one fare from all points
within a radius Of 200 miles has also
been declared for the Southwestern
Soldiers reunion at Arkansas City, Sep
TENDER Is to 10. Also for the meeting
Of the eastern district NJ. W. A. at To-
peka. September II. from points within
a radius Of 80 miles.
A rate of one and one-th third fare has
been declared for the reunion OF the
Kansas Soldiers association at Ottawa
September 16 to Is, the soldiers re-
union at 4Iarysville, September 8 to 10.
and the L. A. w. bicycle meet at Fort
Scott, August q.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-21
BULLET BROKE HIS NECK.
A Butcher Gets the Drop on an Es-
capped Cattle Rustler.

Sturgis, s. D., Aug 21.-Ray Sewell,
who for the past month has been con-
fined in the Meade county jail in this
city on the charge of cattle rustling,
made a desperate effort to escape yes
terday and was killed in an encounter
with Fred Willard. a butcher. Sewell,
seeing an opportunity, bolted from the
Jail and, running into Wizards shop,
got possession of a rifle. He had been
closely followed by the sheriff and dep
uty Willard in the meantime had Sc
cured a rife and appeared upon the
scene.
While SeweI was talking to the Off
GERS Willard called upon him to throw
up his hands. Instead of complying
SeweH turned his rife upon willard
Both men shot simultaneously -SeWeIl's
bullet grazing Wizards hair, but VII
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-21
= DISHONEST DOLLAR.

when ah -.merican citizen receives
"a gold coin he knows thai If it should
be mashed out of shape or melted he
could take it to the mint and have it
recoined into as much money as it was
before This is the law. and it keeps
the commercial value of gold equal to
its coinage value.
The holder of gold cannot lose any
thing whether his gold be in the shape
of coin or Of bullion. This is what the
advocates Of the single gold standard
call an honest dollar. If this be an
honest dollar then the existing silver
dollar is an extremely dishonest dollar
and yet not a man of those who pirate
Of honest money has suggested the re-
tirement from circulation Of the dis
honest silver currency.
The government continues to coin
and pay out the silver dollar declaring
it legal tender. forcing creditors to
take it in payment of debts, while if
it should be mashed out of shape or
melted the possessor would be robbed
of about AZ cents because he could not
have it recoined.
If each Of these silver dollars had a
gold dollar behind it as is frequently
asserted by the friends of honest
money the case would be different
for then the holder of the melted silver
dollar could take it to the treasury and
get another dollar for it. OF course
this is not the case and this assertion
Of the gold bugs, like many others, is
made for campaign purposes.
If any such misfortune as that out
lined above happen to the silver dollar
the holder cannot even get another sill
yer dollar for it. This is the condition.
by the St. Louis platform. Is there
any honesty about it?
Perhaps some friend of the exist
ing gold standard" will hop up and
say: How about paper money!"
There is no paper money. Every piece
Of paper currency is a promise to pay
money, except the silver certificates.
They are promises to pay silver dollars
which are not money according to the
gold bug idea of what constitutes
money.
What the silver men propose is to
make these silver dollars money
money that cannot depreciate in value
by an accident while in the hands of
the people-mOney that needs no re-
deemer or any other money behind it.
They want one dollar as good as ev-
cry other dollar in fact as well as in
theory. This is what the Republican
party has always contended for before
it fell into the hands of Hanna, Kohl
saat and Plat at St. Louis and it is
what the people are demanding today.
They want the parity of the metals
established and maintained in accord
ance with what is declared to be the
established policy of the government,
both in the Sherman law and in the
bill repeating it. There has been no
such thing as a parity since 1873. Res
toration of it is demanded first and
maintenance afterwards.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-21
THE MExICAN DorLAR.


GF'rOm the New York Journal
Inc impertinence of those EMPLOYERS
Of labor who are striving to discredit
the movement in favor Of the free coin
age Of silver by paying off their men
in Mexican dollars is only equalled by
the shaIlowness of their argument.
With silver demonetfzed in the United
States, with the silver dollar as now
coined, standing not as a dollar at all.
but as a promise to pay a dollar-a
mere certificate of Indebtedness. in
which there is no more need to put a
dollars worth of silver than it is neces-
sary to put a dollars worth of paper in
a greenbaek~-in such a situation it is
Inevitable that the silver coins Of for
eign countries should have here no more
than their bullion value.
The Mexican dollar is coined for use
In Mexico. and has shown itself a thor
oughly serviceable instrument for the
purposes for which it is designed. In
Mexico it buys just as much wheat. just
as much produce, just as much labor as
it did thirty years ago. And what is
can buy his dollar with just the same
quantity of wheat or produce, the Ia
bOrer Civ 5 only the same number Of
hours work for it as thirty years ago.
Mexico has kept the purchasing value
of her currency stable by free coinage.
Her people enjoy truly honest dol
lar" because its measuring capacity,
han
does not vary.
But, people viii say. in Mexico wages
are low, the standard or living is not
high, the nation is not great and pow
erful ana wealthy like the United
States. All true. but more than one
factor enters into the situation. 1t is
not the use of silver which makes Mex
lean wages less than those in the Unit
ed States.fOr wages in Germany, France
and Italy, gold standard countries all
also are lower. The character of the
workingman, the efficiency of his labor
his personal ambition, all are factors
in fixing the rate of wages. Mexican
labor is not energetic. Mexican holi-
days are many, and hours of work brief
Yet there is among the working classes
OF our southwestern neighbor a general
diffusion Of comfort and independence
scarcely excelled in the United States.
The peon labor. of which returning
travellers tell tales to show Mexico's
degradation. is not free labor, and the
wages paid to poems are not a Iegiti-
mate part of the discussion.
With the use Of silver as money, Mex
leo has progressed marvelously since
swift justice was melted out to Maxi
milan for his effort to destroy her lib
critics. a great war debt has been
funded and reduced. Public works
have been undertaken. Domestic and
foreign commerce have wonderfully ex-
panded. The silver dollar which the
gold bug employers ridicule has paid
for all. and with its aid Mexico. despite
the obstacles of a tropical climate and
an enervated people. has prospered
and grown strong.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-21
Met the Rate.

The Santa Fe and Wabash railways
met the 8 cent rate per hundred on
lard. tallow, cleo, grease and canned
meats from Kansas City to the Missis-
sippi river made yesterday by the AL
ton. The Santa F'e followed by max
ing the same rate on oleo oil, lard, stear-
inc and talIow for export, and a rate
of 1872 cents on other packing house
products. This is in the interest of the
Atlantic against the Gulf ports ship
pers and apparently is the beginning
Of another Interesting freight war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-21
IT NEVER FLAGS.
Increase of the Journals Subscription
List Continuously New Ones

Increase of the Journals Subscription
List Continues-32 New Ones.
The list of new subscribers to the
State Journal yesterday keeps up the
daily average. The most encouraging
and invigorating feature of any news
paper is a constantly growing subscrip-
ton list. 1t shows that the efforts of
the makers of the paper to create a
good newspaper are appreciated. Our
list Of new ones is as follows:
OUTSIDE OF Topeka:
J. Utz, Sedgwick, Kan.
Rev. W. J. Barron, Sedgwick, Kan.
Ed Marshall, Arkansas City, Kan.
G. T. Mann, Marysville, Kan.
]. A1. Bradshaw, Axtell. Kan.
Maggie Butcher, East Las Vegas, N. NJ.
DR. A. A. Cookinham, Holton, Kan.
NJ. Pearle, .Holton. Kan.
Carl Wagner, Holton, Kan.
r NJ. Harper, HOyt, Kan.
NJ. l.. Zimmerman, Horton, Kan.
J. G Beeson, HOyt, Kan.
Mrs. S. N Wood. Strong City, Kan.
-. Z. Burson, Paola, Kan.
VIM. Hill. Axtell, Kan.
John Dagnan, Marysville, Kan.
E. A. Bittel, Marysville, Kan.
II. e. Weidemeyer, Marysville, Kan.
w w. Redmond. MarysVille, Kan.
D. P. Green, Marysville. Kan.
c. A. Stone, Lindsborg, Kan.
NEW ONES IN CITY:
P. D. Shafer, 1413 Central avenue.
L. Burton, 125 East Tenth street
Mr.. Chase. 904 Monroe street.
Mr.. Randolph, Sixth and Golden ave-
nue..
Mr. Bates. East Sixth avenue.
Mr.. Robinson, East Sixth avenue.
Mrs. H. Harvey 735 Topeka avenue.
Mr.. T. B. Finley, 6O4 West Sixth
street.
J. P. Newell, 1909 Buchanan street.
F. A. Wattsk, 122 West Sixth street.
Singer Sewing Machine company, 716
Kansas avenue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-21
Air Brake Tests.

w. H. Stillwen, assistant general
superintendent, w. NJ. Hobbs, superin-
tendent of the eastern division, c. ".
Jones, superintendent of the south
western division and F. c. Smith, sup
erintendent ofthe western division of the
Rock Island, are in Des Noines, Ia, to-
day attending a meeting of all super
intendents of the Rock Island system
for the purpose of making air brake
tests. These tests are made for the
purpose of demonstrating the details
in the working of the air brake, es-
pecially in the case of emergency.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-21
LITTLE SHOW FOR FUSION.
Missouri Democrats and Populists
Have Trouble Getting Together.

Kansas City. Aug. 21.-The Times
prints the following:
The prospects for fusion between the
Democrats and Populists in Missouri
are very slim. At the recent meeting
of the Democratic central committee
Chairman Cook was instructed to see
what the Populists desire. 1t would
seem from his Investigations that that
particular wing of the party which is
now in control of the state organiza-
ton does not want to fuse or to COM
promise.
Instead of patterning after the Pop
ulists of Kansas, they seem to belong to
the Texas wing of the party No prop
osirion has yet come from the POpulist
state central committee which the
Democrats deem reasonable.