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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-07-08
TINE DAILY PRESS

Can always be found at the periodical
torres of:
John Chisholm 100 Congress street.
". +. Goold 400
n. G. FesseEden, 52G
w. FL. Jewett 504
], a. Libby. ego
F. A. Jellison, 935 Congress street.
]. j. Beardworth. 81 india street.
F. II. Erskina. is Middle street.
j. w. Peterson, 2 Exchange street.
Mr.. Dennis, 4l9 Commercial street.
{. s; Cole. Cor. Boyd and Oxford street.
j. W. Peterson, III Middle street.
w. a. Golden. rs Exchange street.
Westman & West. SO ana So Commercial
street.
W. A. ellis. 145 Commercial street.
Frank Freeman 100 Bracket street.
John ii. Allen, 3S11s Congress street.
Dennet & Co. the Florist. $40 Congress street.
T. M. Glendening, Long Island
f. L. Brackett Peaks Island.
E. L. Littlefield, 189 Congress street.
j. E. Harmon, l115 Congress street.
G. s. Morrill,, 931A Congress street.
L. Fl. Beai. 422 Congress street.
j. NJ. Googins 221 Spring street.
Mrs. Bradley. cor. Spring and Clark streets.
j. Z. Wyer. 48 Portland Pier.
G. W. Hunt. Custom House Wharf.
John Cox. % Monument square.
bennett. the Florist. 563 Congress street.
L. ID. Look. cor. Congress and Franklin.
Also at the new stands in the Falmouth
Preble and United States hotels, and Grand
tanned OF Chisholm Bros, agents on all trains
OF the Maine Central. Grand Trunk and PorG
land & Rochester railroads and of agents on any
OF the Boston trains.
The PRESS can also be found at the following
places out side the CITY:
Auburn u. Haskell.
Augusta. f. Pierce.
Bath-John o. Shaw.
Berlin Falls, N. he. S. Clark.
Biddeford-A. NJ. Burnham.
w. I. Bardsley.
PridutOn-A w INGALLS,
Brunswick-F. P. Shaw.
Cape Elizabeth-Dyer & Jose.
Cumberland Mills-H. G. Starr
Camden-Fred Lewis.
. j. H. Gould.
Cornish-E. L. Brown
Deering-N. j. Scanion.
Damariseotta-E. w. Dunbar.
Fairreld-E. H. Evans.
Earmington-HM E pi, Witt 6 Co
Fryeburg-J. I. Whitmore.
Gardiner Russell Bros.
Green's landings. W. Fifeld.
Gorham-L. ). Lermond.
Kenhebunk-J, II. Gus;
Kennebunkport--C E. Miller.
Livermore False. Newman.
Observation-Disclosures & Winship.
Long lsland-Hughey Bros.
Iinerick-S. A. Grant.
Mechanic Falls-Merrin g. Denning.
No. Deering-A. G. Noyes.
North stratforo. N. III. G. Huchtins,
NOrWaY-F. I. stone,
&" A. o. Noyes Co.
Old Orchard-Fogg g. j bby.
| Ricnmond-A. K. Millett
| Rumford Falls-H. L. Elliott
&C. A. Clifford,
| Rockland-Dunn & Carr.
A. j. Huston.
Sanford-F. H. Wingate.
| Sl1owhegan-Bixby & Buck.
| South Portland-J. f. MerrIman.
| .,outh Windham-J. w. Read.
| South Paris--A. ID. Sturteyant
| South Paris-F A.. Shurtleff.
South Waterboro-G. C. Downs
| Saco--H. B. Hendricks s. Co.
E. L. Preble.
| South Brstol-N w. Carnage.
| Thomaston-E. Walsh.
| Vinal HaveE--A B. VinaL
| Waldoboro-Geo. Bliss.
| Waterville-W. ID. Spalding.
| Westbrook-W. B. Boothby.
| Winthrop-F. s. Jackson.
| Woodfords-C Chapman & Wyman.
| Yarmou:hville-G. Howard Humphrey.
The true northerner., 1896-08-05


An argument something like this 10
sften used with the debtor classes by
he free silver advocates. w It il the
prices of what you buy do advance, as
we'll as the prices of what you sell?
You are still gamer in the debt pay
ng power of the surplus. You take
100 bushels of wheat TO market now
md get $50 for il; you pay $40 for
suit of clothes and have $40 left to ap-
ply on your mortgage. With free sill
,er coinage you would get 500 for
lour hundred bushels of wheat. Even
4 you did have TO pay double price for
he suit of clothes, you would still have
ESQ left to pay on the mortgage.
There would be two bitches in this
plan of operations. In the first place
the prices of farm products would not
oe at all likely To increase as rapidly
rs those manufactures, large part of
which are imported. Imported goods
would have TO be paid for on gold
oasis, and the increase in price would
be immediate. The very platform
which declares for the free coinage of
sAiNCis utS4dlCo alSO dkdlilob DlOlCS-
tive tariff, and in the absence of the
come market which the latter should
aid in furnishing, farm products would
lot keep pace with manufactured
goods in the enhancement of price.
But the worst hitch in the program
proposed would be just here. The re-
suit of the election will be known next
aot, in the ordinary course of events,
meet until December of the year fol-
loving, and il would be some months
after that before such legislation as
that proposed could be crowded through
the two houses. Even If an extra ses-
sion was held in March, it would take
months TO get bill through. 1t would
be from one TO two years after election
before the new measure could become
operative. Meantime gold would be
driven out of circulation, and much of
Z sent abroad, causing a great con-
traction of the available currency.
Wherever obligations become due cred
itors would insist upon immediate pay
.nent, or else, if renewals were granted,
upon additional security with the stip-
ulation that payment should be in gold
There are scores of millions of dollars
of mortgages in Michigan alone that
are past due, but that are allowed to
run as long as the interest is paid.
The same self interest that gives the
debtor desire to pay these in fifty
cent dollars, would lead the creditor to
secure payment while the gold stand
ard prevailed, or else to secure future
payment in gold. He would have the
advantage of time, and with part due
obligations no law could stop him.
There would be ten foreclosure suits
where now there is one, and no
bidders except the mortgages. Be-
sides this first pinching time it would
take years for the newly coined silver
to fill the gap occasioncd by the with
drawal of the 5000, ,OOO, 900 in gold now
held in the country. Whatever busi-
ness structure might ultimately be
reared upon the silver basis, and it
would probably be u flimsy one, its
foundations would be laid in the almost
universal bankruptcy of what arc now
the debtor classes.
The true northerner., 1896-08-05

it that Mr.. Shellenberger, the author
of the article, is banker and dem
ocrat:
ct. NJ. SheIlenberger of Bradshaw
sends to the Journal political sug
gestion that must not be kept from
the public. Mr.. Shellenberger is a
modest man, but it will not do to lei
his light shine under a bushel, and
so his note is printed herewith:
Being democrat, / have built a
platform and a cabinet, which j sub
init to the Journal before patenting
The cabinet is as follows:
Secretary of state, Altgeld of Hi
nois.
Secretary of war, Bloody Brides OF
Colorado.
Secretary of agriculture, Pitch Fork
of South Carolina.
Secretary of the navy, Herr Most
of New York.
Secretary of the treasury, Herr
PETER of Kansas.
Secretary of the interior, Pennoyar
of Oregon.
Attorney-general, K. V. Debs OF
Illinois.
The free silver car will be built
with two platforms, democratic in
front and populist at the rear. Pas
sengers are warned not 10 stand on
either platform. 1t is dangerous.
These platforms are TO get in on.
Democratic platform:
Damn Cleveland.
Damn the supreme court.
Damn the constitution.
Damn the banks.
Damn the gold bugs.
Damn the railroads.
Damn the British.
Damn Wall street.
Damn the rich Except SewalD.
Populist platform:
The populists simply insert the
name of the deity before each plank
of the democratic platform.
The true northerner., 1896-08-05
The Act of 1873.

The advocates of the free coinage of
silver, have, for years, been rciterating
the statements that the act OF 1873,
stopping the coinage of the silver dol
lar, was surreptitiously passed; that
the members of congress, even, did not
know what they were voting for, and
that the act was passed ut the instiga-
tion of men who were interested in
forcing a corner on gold. They have
repeated these statements SO often
that many have convinced themselves
OF their truth. Even SO wcll-informed
man as +. A. Baker, in his recent
ratification speech at the Auditorium
in Detroit, declared that it WAS a
''stealthy" act. They also speak of the
law as having "demonetizcd" silver.
An inquiry as To the exact facts in the
case is pertinent at this time.
There had been no general revision
of the coinage acts since 1897, and no
amendments adopted since 1853. In
1870 the secretary of the treasury, Mr..
Boutwell,, framed bill intended to
bring under one chapter all the acts
relating to the coinage since the mint
was established in 1893. This was
printed and copies of it sent TO experts
throughout the country; and after their
suggestions had been considered il was
introduced in the senate and referred
to the committee on finance April 2s.
1870. 1t did not pass the senate until
Jan. 10, 1871, having been for some
months upon the lilies of members in
printed form. Previous to its passage,
which was by vote of 36 to IA, il was
discussed for two days, Senators Shcr-
man, Sumner, Morrill,, Bayard and a
number of others having taken part in
tho discussion.
The bill did not pass the house of that
congress. but was introduced in that
branch of the next congress March 9,
1871, by Hon. VIM. ID. Kelley, of Penn
sylvania. Ten months later, Jan. Q,
1872, 1t was favorably reported by the
house committee on coinage, weights
and measures, Mr.. Kelley saying that,
in that committee, lit received as care
full consideration as have ever known
a committee to bestow upon a meas.
ure." 1t was discussed in the house by
Nessrs. Kelley, Garfield, Maynard,
Dawes, Holman and others, and May
p. 1872, it was passed by vote of ITO
TO b. 1t went TO the senate and. with
amendments, passed that BODY Jan. IL,
1873. after a discussion which took uu
10 columns of the congressional Globe.
In the house il was again printed, with
the senate amendments, in some OF
which the lower body failed to concur.
Conference committees were appointed
and their report was agreed upon by
both houses, the bill becoming a law
Feb. IL. 1879.
I; will thus be seen that the bill was
BE congress and its committees
ne " three years. II was printed % o
con rcssional document IL times, and In
ti" report of he deputy controller Of the
csrcncv twice. making IL tires in ALI
The true northerner., 1896-08-05

| q VA oonddered by the finance. COM
nittee of the senate and the committee
IN coinage, weights and measures Of
:hc house during five different ses-
sions, and the debates on the measure
n the senate filed SO columns in the
Congressional Globe, and those in the
,ousc 76 columns. Surely there is
nothing surrcptitious nor ''stealthy"
about this.
AS 70 the so-called "demontization"
,f silver, neither that nor any other
act of congress ever took away from a
single standard silver dollar any legal
.ender quality once given 10 it. The
silver dollars coined before that time
we're then, and have been ever since,
egal tender for their face value. The
.aw simply discontinued the coinage of
.he silver dollar, and its use as stand
ard. The reason given by the director
,f the mint, III. II. Lindcrman, in rec
ommending the bill, was that 'having
/ higher value as bullion than its nom
nal value, the silver dollar long ago
ceased TO be coin of circulation, and
oeing of no practical use whatever, its
'ssu' should be discontinued. The
comptroller of the currency gave sim
lar view, when, referring to the fact
hat the silver dollar disappeared from
circulation long before 1873, he said:
The coinage act of 1873 simply regis
cred in the forming of a statute, what
lad been really been the unwritten
.aw for 40 years"
There was no trick and no secrecy
about the passage of the law. 1t was
well-considered measure, and under
the conditions then existing, wise
measure. 1t established by law a
standard which was already the stand
ard in fact, and it aided in the resump-
lion of specie payments, which was
brought about by legislation adopted
two years later. The fact that enor-
mously increased production of silver
has since deprecated the value of that
metal, does not discredit the judgment
Of the congressman of all parties, who
were considering the subject before
that increased production any effect.
The true northerner., 1896-08-05
Thou Shall Not Steal.
the Inter Ocean:

From'th Inter ocean:
Mr.. William Jennings Bryan is
the demo-pop nominee for president
by virtue of a belief that he is an or
ator, and specially by virtue of be-
lief that he made original and exclu-
sive protest against crowning sup
posltitious man with thorns and
crucifying him upon a cross of gold.
Were the belief well grounded it
ought not to work very greatly to
the credit of Mr.. Bryan, for the pas
sage is at best a parody of sacred
history and somewhat irreverent
and very melodramatic travesty, by
which the story of the profoundest
of all spiritual agonies is travestied to
win the applause of political audi
ence. Even were the "cross of gold"
apostropbe travesty conceived by
Mr.. Bryan, it would not stand the
wear Of campaign, for it is not ora
torical; it merely is sophomorical.
But Mr.. Bryan, is not entitled to
the pinchbeck crown of tinseled
rhetoric. A contemporary finds that
Jan. 26, 1894, Mr.. Mccall of Massa-
chusetts spoke thus in congress.
Do you regard your bill with ref
erence to labor? Ready as you have
ever been to betray it with kiss,
you scourge 1t to the very quick and
press crown of thorns upon its
brow. You shall not cruelty mankind
on cross of gold.
This was in an argument against
the Wilson bill. Mr.. Bryan heard
the speech and evidently afterward
committed it to memory. On the 9th
of July, before the convention of
demo-pops in Chicago, Mr.. Bryan
said:
Having behind us the commercial
interest and the laborlng interest and
all the toiling masses, we shall
answer their demands for a gold
standard by saying to them: You
shall not press down upon the brow
of labor this crown of thorns. You
shall not cruelty mankind upon
cross of gold.
This, as Constable Dogberry said,
is ''hat burglary" Such honor as
accrues from the "cross of gold" be-
longs to that stanch republican, Sam
uel Walker Mccall of Massachusetts,
not to that man of uncertain politics,
part democrat, part populist, part
socialist, William Jennings Bryan of
Nebraska.
The true northerner., 1896-08-05

The Shakers have made a great hit
Their Digestive Cordial is said to be
the most successful remedy for stom.
ach troubles ever introduced 1t i'm
mediately relieves all pain and distress
after eating, builds up the feeble sys-
tenn and makes the weak strong
The fact is that foods properly di-
gested are better than so-called tonics.
The Cordial not only contain food al.
ready digested, but is digester of other
foods. Food that is not digested does
more harm than good. People who
use the Cordial insure the digestion of
what food they eat and in this way get
the benefit and grow strong.
The little pamphlets which the Shak-
ers have sent druggists for free distrib-
ution gives interesting information on
the subject of dyspepsia.
At druggists. Trial bottles 10 cents.
The true northerner., 1896-08-05

In speech in congress March l6,
1892, Candidate Bryan said: "lf the
democratic party comes into power
in all departments of this govern
ment, it will not destroy industry, it
will not injure labor. 1t will bring
prosperity and Joy and happiness,
not to few, but to every one, with
out regard to station or condition"
Mr.. Bryan's condition came to
pass. Democracy held full sway in
all departments of this government.
Contrary to his prediction, industry
has been destroyed, labor has been
injured. The prosperity that we
had when the speech was delivered
has given way to the deepest depres-
sion and hard times, affecting not a
few, but every one, without regard
to station or position. a man who
four short years ago was so absolute
ly ignorant of the effects that would
follow the Inauguration of the policy
he advocated, is an unsafe man to be
the president of the American peo-
Pile now. If he was so grievously
mistaken about free trade, is it not
likely he is also in the wrong about
free silver? Mr.. Bryan is theorist,
and has the happy faculty of clothing
his sophisms in the attractive garb of
faultless eloquence. But he has
never yet evidenced that sound judg-
ment and reasoning power necessary
to the successful filing of the presi-
dental chair.
The true northerner., 1896-08-05
Now that the Van Buren, county

Now that the Van Buren, county
republicans have permitted Judge b.
+. Heckert to name his own con-
gressional delegation and, to make
his support doubly sure, bound the
delegates in unit rule, it is to be
expected other candidates will admit
that Judge Heckert is in the race to
stay. 1t would be useless to repeat
the reasons the NoRTHERNER has ad-
vanced from time to time why he
should be nominated. Suffice it to
say those reasons are as virile now
as ever. Judge Heckert is solidly
backed by the republicans of this
county, who ask and expect his nom
ination at Three Rivers next week.
The true northerner., 1896-08-05
A BERLIN dispatch dated Julv ID

A BERLIN dispatch dated July II
said: "The result of the Chicago
convention was hailed by the social
lists here as victory for the red flag.
A resolution will be proposed in the
London congress congratulating the
coworkers of the European socialists
on the coming victory of the cause of
dynamite.
The true northerner., 1896-08-05

g. b. PALMER of Bradshaw, Neb.,
formerly Van Buren County boy,
sends the NoRTHERNER the following
excerpt from the Bradshaw Journal,
with the explanation accompanying
The true northerner., 1896-08-05
Republican Representative Convention.

Republican Representative convention for the
County of Van Buren will be held at the village Of
Paw Paw, on Tuesday the FIRST day OF September
1906 at ten o'clock a. m, for the purpose OF nom.
mating candidate for the State Legislature, and
for the transaction Of such other business as may
properly come before the convention.
The several townships will be entitled 10 the
same number of delegates as TO the regular county
nominating convention.
J. c. McFELLIN,
{. b. CHARLES,
Committee
The true northerner., 1896-08-05

The Republican electors of the township OF
Paw Paw will hold Caucus at the Court House,
Saturday. August IS 1896, at two o'clock p. m, for
the purpose of selecting sixteen delegates 10
attend the County Convention TO be held al
Hartford, August 10, 1906 and also 10 select six.
teen delegates to attend the Representative Con-
vention hereafter TO be called.
BY order of COMMITTEE.
The true northerner., 1896-08-05
Republican Congressional convention.

Republican CohgressIoh"I toH'eH'r""'
TO the Republican Electors Of The Fourth
Congressional District
The district convention of the Republicans OF
the Fourth Congressional District OF Michigan is
hereby called 10 meet al the Opera House in the
CITY OF Three Rivers, on Wednesday the i2th day
of August 1890 at II o'clock a m, for the purpose
nominating candidate for member OF congress
may properly come before the convention;
The several counties of the district Will be en-
titled 10 representation as follows
Allegan .............I3 Cass 10
Barry ..... ..........l 81 joseph ''''' '.'.'tH
Berrien ............Io Van Buren 49,. II
FIR. gibson,
NJ o. ROWLAND,
FRANKLIN WELLS, commi,,ee
NJ s. keller,
J. o. BECRAFT,
w. II. GOODMAN,
The true northerner., 1896-08-05

For President
WILLIAM MCKINLEY of Ohio.
For Vice President
GARRETT A. HOBART of New Jersey.
The true northerner., 1896-08-05

Johnnie Wyatt, a colored lad. fell
under freight train at Circleville and
had both legs and an arm severed
His injuries arc fatal
The true northerner., 1896-08-05
Republican Caucuses.

caucus Of the Republicans of the Township
of Amena, for the purpose of selecting delegates
10 attend the County Convention at Hartford on
the 18TH Of August, 1896, is hereby called TO be
held at the Township Hail. on Saturday, August
9Th, 1896, at three o'clock p. IN.
BY order Of TOWNSHIP Com.
The true northerner., 1896-08-05


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Odd Lot Corsets Ioc and up.
Umbrellas 4Sc and up.
Gold Frame Spectacles or Eye
p'!a; Mems Shoes reduced from s.
The true northerner., 1896-08-05
Republican County Convention.

Republican County Convention for the County
of Van Buren,, will be held at the Academy Of
Music in the village of Hartford on Wednesday,
the Ioth day of August, A. d. 1896 at II o'clock
a M, for the purpose OF placing IN nomination
candidates for the various county Offices and for
the transaction of such other business as may
properly come before the convention.
The several townships will be entitled TO repre-
sentation in the convention, under the apportion-
ment lately adopted by the county committee as
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-01-17
PUTTING UP A STOVE.
A Version of the Operation That Rare
Happens In Real Lifes

A Version of the Operation That Rarely
Happens In Real Life.
This is about man who put up
stove.
1t Is unnecessary perhaps to go far
ther with it. You know in advance just
how he swore and tore and spoiled the
carpet, and the pipe didn't fit and he
skinned his knuckles and cut his finger
and spilled SCOT down the back Of his
neck and finally went up town and got
six men to finish the job.
johnson, said johnson IS wife at
dinner yesterday, "I want you to come
home early this afternoon. I want that
sitting room stove up and going by Sun
day."
"All right, my DEAR" said johnson.
"I'll be home at 4. "
So that afternoon Johnson's wife sent
the children over to visit on the other
side of town and stuffed rags in all the
cracks to deaden sound. After fervent
prayer that all the neighbors would be
out of town for a few hours that after
noon she was ready for johnson.
He arrived promptly.
"The stove is out in the wood she'd"
said his wife.
The stove was not very large, and
after johnson had dressed himself for
the occasion, with the help of Mrs. john
son, who had taken care to have his old
clothes and gloves handy, he got the
stove to the back porch without much
difficulty.
"It must be blackened,' said Mrs.
Johnson as she mixed the blacking. It
blackened to beautiful finish with very
little rubbing, and johnson whistled at
his work.
Then he tackled down the oilcloth
mat and the zinc and kept on whistling.
He took the stove in carefully and
put it in the right place.
There was plenty Of the old stovepipe,
and while he cleaned it in the alley
with stick Mrs. johnson sat on the
back porch and listened to him whistle.
The first joint went on all right, and
the damper staid in place. The next
joint fitted SO we'll that johnson almost
stopped whistling in sheer admiration
for it, and so did the next one. The ell
bow fitted admirably, and the collar and
last joint went on like top. The seam
was on the right side all the way up.
There was not even a speck of SCOT ON
the papers Mrs. johnson had spread on
the carpet.
In ten minutes more Johnson had a
lovely fire in the stove and was in his
business suit again spick and span read
ing the paper while his wife got supper.
Tt was just here that there was saw
age nudge in Johnson's left ribs and he
heard his wife tell him to wake up, and
hustle out now, for it had been daylight
for half an hour.-Topeka State Journal