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SOUND MONEY DEMOCRATS ON
THE CHICAGO PLATFORM.

The National Executive Committee of
the sound money Democrats, in session at
Chicago on Monday last adopted and gave
out an address to the Democratic voters of
the country, from which we make the
following extract, as worthy the serious
consideration of our readers, Democratic
and Republican,:
This platform is in it's policies dangerous
to the welfare and life of free government.
1t is mischievous in it's tendencies. But
even more threatening and mischevous
was the spirit of the convention that
adopted it, a spirit manifested not alone
by its Affirmative action, but as we'll by its
reckless rejection of every proposition tend
ing to temper the declarations of the con-
vention with conservatism and justice
The platform proposes to degrade the
coin of the United States by means of the
free, unlimited and Independent coinage of
silver by our government, and by the ex-
ercise Of the power of the nation to compel
the acceptance of deprecated coins at their
nominal value, thereby working an in
justice to creditors defrauding the laborer
of a large part of his earnings and savings,
robbing pensoned soldiers of part of their
pensions, contracting the currency by the
expulsion of gold coin from circulation, in
iuring if not destroying, domestic trade
and foreign commerce
While protesting to advocate policy of
bimetallism it censures the present Demo-
cratic administration for maintaining the
parity of gold and silver. 1t proposes to re-
duce this country to condition of silver
monometallism, with its vacillating and
unreliable standard of values, and tends to
bring the farmer the wage Garner and the
salared man to the wretched condition OF
the same classes in countries in which the
silver standard prevails and where the re-
wards Of agriculture and labor are lower
than anywhere else in the world.
1t demands the free coinage Of silver at
the arbitrary and fictitious ratio of 16 to 1,
although the ratio established in the worlds
market is about 81 to /, and although
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on its bonds might be in default, and the
bondholders would be without redress, but
the wages of the laborer would always be
paid, for they are first lien upon every
industrial enterprise. No, my friends, not
because they love the laborer the more, but
because he is absolutely necessary to the
existence of the enterprise.
Here we have the figures from the United
States Bureau of Statistics, showing the
amount of wages paid every year in the
United States, and we find that it was over
So, 2S3, 225, 900. Talk OF the interest on
the national debt! Talk OF the principal
of the national debit Talk of any other
debt that exists throughout the civilized
world, and it forms but small percentage
of the debt which is due to labor, wherever
man works and tolls, wherever things OF
value are being created, wherever meals OF
transportation are in activity, wherever the
forces of civilization are at work.
Now, a farm is an industrial Enterprise.
The pretense that the farmer OF Nebraska
is suffering under the weight of NOR gage
contracted under metal which has steadily
increased in value is but a populistic meta
phOr. Two-t thirds OF the farmers have no
mortgage debt whatever. | do not be-
lieve there is per cent. of them that owe a
mortgage over three years old during which
time there has been no change in the value
of the metal, but every single farmer has
creditors in the shape of his own laborers.
This proposal of the Populists is an attempt
to enlist the farmers in a conspiracy to re-
duce the wages paid this labor that he may
have larger proportion Of his own pro-
ducts, and they are willing to cut down the
wages of every man who works in cities,
who tolls at the bench who digs in the
mines, who manages the train, in the hope
that they can ride into power on wave of
cupidity and greed awakened in the breast
OF the voter
But, my friends it is a triumphant vindi-
cation of American citizenship that this
attempt to enlist the farming and agricul-
tural members of this community into this
conspiracy has failed miserably, utterly,
absolutely. Every Western state which in
1 800 and in 1892 fell into the hands OF the
Popul,sts, before their real purposes were
executed, was purified and the Populistic
forces scattered out of existence when the
farmer OF this country understood precisely
that what the Popullsts meant for his well
fare was really for his ruin. The farmer,
who, when this country was in danger,
shouldered his musket to set it aside when
the last shot had been fired on the South
ern battlefield, whose moderation prevented
the political warriors at Washington from
pursuing a policy of discrimination and
punishment in the Southern States
that farmers who made the policy Of
the North policy of Cancellation, of
forgiveness, of reunion, whose hand
it was that made ruins of the cities of the
South and ashes of her homes, received her
once more and said Live in peace and
sin no more That farmer today is the
mainstay of order and of prosperity as he
was the manstay OF the Union.
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ATTEMPTING DECEPTION OF MARYLAND
FARMERS.

Free Silverites are reported to be trying
to deceive Maryland farmers into the belief
that if their cause is defeated at the polls
this fall all the fractional silver in the
country will be done away with and be
superseded by the fractional currency of
war times.
The Republican platform declares for
the existing money standard, and Sound
money" advocates propose no change in
the policy in pursuance of which nearly 53
millions of dollars of subsidiary silver coin
(about IS cents per capita were in circula-
ton on the LIST of August this year.
1t is the free silver party that proposes q
change and will reduce the purchasing
power of the fractional coin, as it will of
the dollar, if it is successful in the Novem-
Der election.
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LABOR IS FOR MCKINLEY.
WOrkingmen not Caught With Free
Silver Clap-Trap.

The great majority Of Baltimore's working
men are striving for the election of Mckinley
and Hobart. They seem to dread even the
win. In the latter event they look for hard
times, less wages and the loss entirely Of en-
ployment to thousands of men. The glass
workers are nearly all for Mckinley and pro-
lection, inasmuch rs they attribute to the
Wilson tariff bill the fact that the window
glass trade OF Baltimore is in such a depressed
condition and that factories are closed down.
The views of Baltimore workingmen in
regard to the evil effects on work of the free
silver coinage agitation was aptly expressed
by Mr.. G. j. Ward, of Typographical Union,
No. II, in an interview with n reporter of the
''American.' Mr. Ward is one of the promi.
nent labor leaders Of Baltimore. He said
at is dead easy for us to explain how this
free silver agitation INJURIES the working
mans chance OF getting employment, and
tends to cut down wages. Any workingman
can see how it does that. In the first place,
the banks very naturally are not going to take
any chances at letting their money out while
htt sllNtI coludSsc 10 D'lhS dSlluttu. hunc,
of course. Mckinley will be elected, there is n
bare possibility otherwise. and that is suffice
lent to make the banks careful in putting out
money, for capital is always very cautious,
and takes little or no risks If the employers
fail to get their usual bank accommodations
to meet their payrolls and improvements, of
course they are compelled to shut down their
shops and factories.
Il take it that it is not possible for the gov
eminent to take any commodity and double its
price merely by stamping it. Everything de-
ponds upon the law of supply and demand.
Silver, wheat, oats and other commodities
are today gut in the markets. If the gov
eminent can take fifty cents worth of silver
and make it worth one dollar, why can't it
take oats or wheat, put it in bag and label
it dollar just as well?
"Free silver means that the cost of every
thing that the workingman consumes will
double in price, but the workingman's wages
won't. It's all Il very nice theory to tell us
that our wages will boom. but we know
from experience that to raise wages is II
mighty hard thing to accomplish. No free
silver for me. if you please There would be
so little work. and so much competition for
| it, that wages would be reduced to actual
beggary. Baltimore American.
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Since 1878 there have been nine epidemics
of dysentery in different parts of the country
in which Chamberlain,s Collie, Cholera and
DiarrhGa Remedy was used with perfect sue
cess. Dysentery, when epidemic, is almost
as severe and dangerous as Asiatic cholera.
Heretofore the best efforts of the most skilled
physicians have failed to check its ravages.
this remedy. however. has cured the most
malignant cases, both of children and adults.
and under the most trying condition. which
proves it to be the best medicine in the world
for bowel complaints. For sale by R. b.
Frazer, Elkton Md.
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Tuesday, September 8, 1896,

at II o'clock n. M, for the purpose of choos-
ing delegates to represent Cecil county in
the Congressional Convention which will
assemble at Baltimore on Wednesday. Sep
TENDER 8. 1885, at IL o'clock. to nominate Il
candidate for Congress from the Second Con-
gressional District.
The following gentlemen are hereby con-
stituted judges OF the said primary election
with full power and authority to fill such
vacancies as may occur in their respective
districts where the judges named are unable
or unwilling to serve:
First District-John W. Taylor, Joseph
Megill, Charles A. Stevens.
Second District-Wiliam J. Lake, J. Han
son knorr, George Buckwith.
Third District-Philip NJ. Groves, George
Ricketts,, Jr., Samuel II. King.
Fourth District 60 Howard Scott John
Drummond, Albanus Saxton.
Fifth District-W William Johnson, L. T. b.
Day. S. d. Mccullough.
Sixth District-Eugene A. Reynolds Joseph
p. Brown, William p. Scott.
Seventh District-E. p Brickley, George
Eccleston, William r. Coulson.
Eighth District - Atwood Montgomery
John Reagan. William Fulton.
Ninth District-Samuel Haddock, Richard
7. Howard. Jonathan l.. Crothers.
H. Ii. HAISEs,
W. J. SMITH,
J. L. WELLS,
|. II. DEAN.
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employees in Il deprecated silver. He will re-
fuse to part with his property unless he re-
ceives gold or gold value for it. He will
not sell on silver basis, because he will
store his product in warehouse and wait
for his gold price, or he will cease to produce
at all, transferring his capital to foreign in
vestment and throwing more American labor
out of employment. The rich man will re-
fuse to lend money to the poor man except
on a gold basis demanding the payment of
interest and principal in gold at II premium
of 100 per cent He will send his capital
abroad just as W. r. Hearst, the great silver
mine owner. is doing, so that If free silver
should triumph he will be able to dispose OF
his great quantities of silver here establish
ing new fortune for himself while preserv-
ing the full value of his present vast fortune
by securing it in foreign lands. where the
basis of earnings returns and payments is
gold and only gold
But the poor man, what of him? 1t is the
man who works for his living at day wages
or on salary or commission who will be
plucked. 1t is the wage-earner who will be
TODDtu 10 uuu tOtHe wealth. Vi INC lllut OWutT.
1t is the wage Garner who will be the victim
of this gigantic speculation of the Silver
Syndicate. 1t is the wage-earner who will
have forged upon him letters of poverty and
starvation which he cannot strike off.
When capital withdraws from American in
vestment to seek countries where valuables
are undisturbed, more American factories
will close more American mill machinery
will stop and more American wage-earners
will be thrown into the competitive labor
market What. then. must happen here, as
it has happened in the argentine Republic,
in Mexico, in India. in China and Japan !?
Wage-earners are degraded to the level
of beggary, where labor pleads for work at
any rate of wages that the employer will
give And in Il country that is on Il silver
basis what does the wage-earner receive?
Always deprecated coin If his pay is fifty
cents Il day he goes to the grocery and finds
that his daily wages will buy only twenty-five
cents worth of anything there. Let him
turn where he will, Ills money is worth only
one-half what the mint mark on it says it
should be worth; it will buy only one-half Of
what it will buy when n currency is on gold
basis, like our currency at the present mo-
ment.-New York Press, Rep.
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How Free Silver Would Affect Rich and
Poor.

1t is not the rich man who will be thrown
Into bondage by the free coinage of silver; it
is the poor man. The rich man. under free
silver, will be abundantly able to take care
of himself. Indeed, if he should desire to
speculate in the decentralization of the masses
and the miseries of unemployed labor, he can
reap great fortunes from the whirlwind
which destroys the wage-earner.
The rich man does not keep his wealth in
his pocket book or in savings banks. He
puts it into real estate, commercial enter
prses or investments secured on a gold basis
Under free silver the rich man can pay his
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THE WHIG,

Pre-eminently valuable for its Local as well as
General Intelligence, News Communications
are respectfully solicited from all sections of
the County in addition to the weekly con-
tributions of its regular corps of correspond
ents.
Anonymous communications will receive no
attention, the name of the writer being re-
Quired in all cases as guarantee of good
faith.
To maintain its high standard as a family
Journal no offensive or Objectionable adver-
tisements will be admitted at any price.
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''1be future is tie sacrcd trust Of as all
South as wcH as North. Honesty, like pntriot-
ism, can neither be b0unded by state nor see
nonoi tines. Financial dishonor is tie Mredt-
encd dGngcr no'c, and good men pjW obiiterdte
OLD lines o. purity in Il Unitcd effort to uphold
1mcricdH honor. William Mckinley.
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DEMOCRATIC POPULlSTIC FL
NANCIAL POLICY MEANS NOT
BIMETALLISM BUT MONO
METALLISM.

Under the above caption were given in
our last issue the views of distinguished
foreign and American advocates of bimetal-
lism in support of the Republican 'conten-
tion that, under free coinage according to
the Chicago platform, silvermonometallism
would surely result.
We add now an expression Of the same
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THE Third District Republican Club, Of
Elkton, will open headquarters in the
Frazer building this Saturday evening at
8 o'clock, and will start an active course
during the campaign. Let all who favor
an honest dollor, national prosperity and
the preservation of our country's credit
and honor, attend and take up the standard.
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AS is seen by the call Republican prim-
aries will be held in the county on Satur-
day, September 5, to elect five delegates
from each district to county convention
in Elkton on Tuesday, September g, when
delegates will be chosen to the Congress
sonal Convention in Baltimore on Wedncs-
day, September 8.
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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-08-30
GENTLEMEN WITH THE WEEP
INGS"

were just behind them. The church
reached. the thirteen head Of children
all seated. the preacher began: Sister
chic. weep: your father is dead.
Brother Juniper, weep; your father is
dead. Mary Jane, weep; your father is
dsadr' This was kept up until twelve
were named. ana Emme,ine was left
ont. This was aa insult she would not
stand. and so she raised up n al her
majesty and her Grape veil, and asked;
rs l askin too much when l dequires
Why I an EFT Out?"
At the other end OF the bench stood
I'D Sis with the answer: Uncle Cole, he
were none Of your father.
Back came the rotor; from Enmsline:
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Then the men at the ether end of the
block-hOuse woke up with noisy clamor,
and amid ali the din musket shOt rang
loud and clear.
What's wrong?" demanded Sergeant
Murdoch Speak, somebody
Simon Glass was herer' cried Ma
than. He tried 10 kin me! He just
ran out! Don't let him get away"
The name of the Tory rutfian was ia
m.iiar TO all, and the angry and excited
men svsrmed into the middle room. a
private appeared on the scene with
lighted lantern, and by the yellow glare
the door CT tha guard-room was dscov-
ersd to be wide open.
The spy has escapedp' TOared the SER
geant. This is GLASS; doing. l wish
I'd hung the man last night
"Glass didn't come here fur that" de-
clared Barnabas. "WaXpenny must
have opened the door an run fur it
when ne heard the row in yonder. But
where's The sentry?"
Just then a clamor rose from several
OF me III u " NJ uou -Aoti-A4Ch Oht'-N4S'
Led by Sergeant Murdoch the rest OF the
party ran into the yard, and at enc side
of the door they found the PROSTATE
body OF the sentry who had been posted
in the middle of the room. The man
was breathing family, and his swoolen
and purple face showed that he had been
nearly strangled to dsa5h by pair OF
muscular hands.
With shouts Of vengeance the crowd
scattered in different directions, but q
hoarse cry from B3rnabas quickly drew
them together again al the partly open
gate Of the stCckade. Here lay the Sec
ond sentry stone dead, with a long knife
buried in his ribs.
IF Simon Glass don't die for this may
I never shoulder a musket again. roar
ed lie infuriated sergeant. 1T was
sharp trick he played. He must have
come here a bit ago, persuaded the SEN
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This is going to be the last of Simon
Glass-or else the last of me"
Eve have no Weapons, exclaimed Ma
than.
Neither has he, lad, or he would a
fired at the sentry who tried to stop
him"
Il hope be won't take to shore when
he sees we're after him." said Godfrey.
Hes too badly hurt to do that" re-
piled Barnabas. mo; were going to
get him. l feel 1t in my bones. He'll
pay with his life for venturin' this fur
after them papers. When he lay in am
bush that night he must have heard us
speak of stopping at the forts, an l
reckon he tramped all this distance
alone"
During part of the above conversation
a bend of the river had concealed the flu
gitive from view, and now, as the pur-
suers swung around, the two canoes
were seen to be less than forty yards
apart. Glass was close short, strug-
Cling desperately to drive his heavy and
unwieldly craft, while with scarcely any
effort Nathan and Godfrey urged their
lighter boat forward.
The distance rapidly decreased to
twenty yards-fftaen-ten. Now the
rufflan's SCARED face could be seen by
the moonlight that was breaking
through the clouds, as he looked back at
quick intervals. And shortly ahead OF
him was the line of noisy rapids, white
with dashing foam, black with outcrop-
ping bOulders and Lodges.
Wen hardly ketch him this side the
falls" muttered Barnabas. ut amt an
easy passage. Watch sharp fur the
rocks an don't"
Just then Simon Glass dropped his
paddle, and twisted himself around in
the stern. 81 won't be taken alive" he
yelled. "and I'll kill one of you first"
With that he drew big pistol, leveled
it at Barnabas and fired.
(To be Continued.
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try TO admit him, and then stabbed the
poor fellow in the breast. Next he en-
iced the other sentry to the yard, and
settled him, TOO. And after the lad here
discovered him in the room both he and
the spy darted out the gate"
But where's the yhird sentry?' cried
Barnabas. An who fired that shot
bark, some one calm nOw!'
Indeed, the shouting had ben going
on at intervals since the first alarm, but,
owing to the noise and excitement the
man had not been able to make himself
b ard. The sounds came from the rear
OF the block house and thither the whole
party ran in haste. 10 find Private Nick
icy pT2ncing up and down On one OF the
lookou, platforms.
"Where've you baen?" he yelled
hoars ~. Why didn't you come soon
er? I've been keeping watch on the
ruf1ian, but row he's gone-eScaped in
that big canoe"
"Escaped?' cried Barnabas. why
didn't you stop him?'
Man, explain yoursef~ roared the
sergeant. Quick, Find your tongue"
4
angry soldier. Give me a chance.
When l heard the first yell run around
TO the front just as a little man dashed
out the door. He was making for the
gate. but when he seen me he changed
his mind and cut for the rear. l fired
at him and missed. and just then out
pops the spy. Before | could lift my
empty gun he was past me and out the
gate. So let him so and went for the
other. l got around here IN time TO see
him scramble for the s,Cckade. Ireckon
he didn't know the drop that was be-
| low him. for when l looked over the
platform h was lying stunned in the
bushes down yOnder | ut watching
him. and singing out for help, and all
at once up he ge,s, staggers like a
drunken man to the canoe, and goes a
padding down stream with al his
might. In thinking his one les was
broke.
How long ago was all this?" thun-
dersd the sergeant
Not two minutes sir
Then he amt fur OFF. cried Barna-
bes. "Haya You another boat handy?
There's q little canoe in the creek
above tie bluff. with twO paddles IN II,
replied Sergoan, Murdoch
t.. quickly was B2rnabas off. call
irq to the iaCs TO follow nm. Nathan
ana Godfrey were ut his heels as he
sealed the stoclade ~ the upper end.
and plunged down the sloDing bank 10
The GEEK. They found the canoe and at
oroa irolrol IN and moment later the