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The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-05

mess pork, per bbl., 7.2O; lard per 100
lbs, 3.32 l-2; short ribs sides loose 3. 40
az. %; dry salted shoulders. boxed 3-ia4 :;
short clear sides, boxed, 5.Sa3 81: whis-
Key, distillers' finished.goods, per gallon,
l.22; sugars unchanged.
CINCINNATI.
Cincinnati, August 4.---Flour active.
Wheat steady; No. red, 81 l.2. Corn
easy; No. ,, mixed, 26 Oats active: No.
.. mixed, 20 ii Rye quiet; No. .. 80
Lard stronger, 30. Bulk meats firmer.
362 l-2 Bacon firm, 1 50. Whiskey
dull sales 456 barrels at 1.22 Butter
stronger; Elgin creamery, l6 1-2; Ohio.
i2al3; dairy, l-2. Sugar steady. Eggs
in good demand, ! 1-2. Cheese steady.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-05

y nice line of fly nets and summer lap
robes Iost-ForIer Co. limited, next to
postollicc
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-05

CEVERAL NRAT HOMES ONE SQUARE
! cast Of Jefferson street 1T from $3.50 to
$1,000.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-05

ID EAL ESTATE Is TIE MOST RELIABLE
Al investment you can make. Buy IL and pay
Tor IT. Values may fluctuatc, but you can never
lose IL.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-05

NTE have ONE HOUSE ON WEST
w Campbell avenue 80 cheap that II woulC
eurprisc you Come ana see II and be convinced
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-05
THE FAIR

Have You been TO the FAIR Now open
AT No. salem avenue, with an elegant
Inc OF books, stationary, glassware inks,
pencils. tablets etc. Give Us a call and
inspect our stock. George Gravatt. Man
aGer.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-05

PUY A HOME AND BE YOUR OWN LAND
ID lord. Stop paying rent.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-05

VERY FINE RESIDENCE ON MARSHALL
v avenue on which offers are solicited.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-05

81 ADJOINING LOTS NEAR CITY CRMB
- terry. No reasonable oircr would be refuse
Tor them.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-05

O"SII QUOVHUIONs Woo rs IOIIOws.
Flour quiet, unchanged; no. yellow corn.
21a25 Is; NO. spring wheat, d: No >
red, 81 Is; No > corn. ~ 81. No. oats.
Is l-2; No. , white, y 2a22 No white,
lSal0 Ii; No. rye, 30 - No barley,
nominal; No , +. %. b.. 32a3l; No. flax
seed, Il l-ia,2 prime timothy seed, 3. 10;
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-05

A VERY FINE BUSINESS PROPERTY.
IN Confidential terms 10 righs party. Pays
large per cent. on selling prc-.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-05

WYE WANT A LIST OF YOUR PROPERTY
w for sale We have buyers on the string.
One wants lot on Centre avenue n. w. One
wants TWO lots in Mclrosc, must be cheap. One
wants a lot in the Hyde Park addition. One
wants house and lot In Eaet Roanoke. Two
want good, cheap business properties producing
good incomes.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-05

A VERY DESIRABLE .HOME IN EAS,
~ Roanoke for $l,cOJ. Easy payments.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-05

A GOODHOUSE NEAR EST END ROUND
"A house, only 800, on monthly payments.
Very cheap for this property.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-05

A t FsHiS ADDITION ooNNhR LOTT oNh'
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-11-21

the farmers may get good prices for
their production. (Applause).
My friends, the test of the policy is
its operation. We have tried to point
out what the gold standard has done !;
what the gold standard was doing. but
the fault was laid onto the tariff law.
Why, if we talk about what legislation
could do for silver these men tell us law
could not do anything, Legislation was
incompetent, and as soon as they con-
vince the republic that legislation was
powerless to accomplish anything they
then convinced the people that little
law respecting the tariff would
accomplish everything. daughter and
applause).
Legislation is impetent on the money
question, and potent on the tariff ques
ton, that has been the slogan of this
campaign. That you could not raise
the value of silver by law, but yet when
they come to discuss the tariff question
they have asserted that you could raise
the prices of wages by law, that you
could raise the price of the farmers
products by protective law.
My friends, we will have a chance to
see them as they carry these theories
into practice. We have said that those
who had the support of the great
corporations in this country would not
be in a position after election to enforce
the laws against corporations and make
them respect the rights of the people.
We shall see. Now that success has
been secured we have said that the
American people were injured by the
existence of trusts.
Now want to suggest to those who
are to continue the organization of these
clubs that they meet at stated times,
say once month, or at such times as
the members of the club decide, and at
these meetings that they discuss the
public questions. | believe that the
public servant ought to live continually
under the eye of the master whom they
serve. l believe that the people when
they elect man to Office should watch
his every act and discuss his every vote
and speech in order that they may know
whether he is man to be employed in
that business or not. And, therefore,
| say to you that these clubs can find
ample employment of their time if they
will discuss from month to month, from
meeting to meeting, the various ques
tions which arise and interest the
American people. You tell me that is
agitation l say to you, my friends,
that when you go into a nation where
there is no agitation of public questions
among the people you will find a nation
where few can prey undisturbed upon
all the rest of the people (Applausel.
| understand from the papers that the
chairman of the Republican national
committee suggests that they also will
keep up their organization. l am glad
of it. l have never advised those who
believed with me to do single thing
that | would not advise my opponents
to do, and when l advise our people to
keep organized and to keep discussing,
| advise our opponents to do the same
thing, because if they would discuss
more they would really help US.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-11-21
Arkansas Mystery.

LITTLE Rock, Ark. Nov. 16.-James
Butler, the most mysterious man III the
state of Arkansas, is dead.
He was about so years old. He came
to Arkansas 30 years or more ago ana
has lived ON the Cache river, in Greene
county, ever since, leading the life oil
recluse. He owned a small tract OF
land, and had two ordinary old ROAD
wagons, which stood side by side, ana
on these wagons was built a small house
in which he lived
He never spoke to anyone during ms
80 years residence in this state, so FAR
as is known, but he has often been
heard to sing while alone in his rude
hut. He was thought to be very
wealthy miser. and was known to have
had an iron safe in his hut, in when
his supposed wealth was kept. -,
The coroner, in investigating the oi9
man death, found library of splendlu
books, several exquisite pictures, a lou
of carpenters tools, and a regular
armory of guns and pistols in the nut,
but the iron safe had disappeared. Inc
verdict ofthe jury was that the old man
died from natural causes. 1t is sup
posed that the safe was stolen after the
old man died
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-11-21
What 1t Cost.

NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-It cost the
Republican national committee 81, 462,
600 to elect Mckinley. This does not
include the money disbursed by the
various state committees, which is
placed Appropriated at 50, 500, 900, but
the actual expenditures of the national
committee.
Money flowed into the Republican
Golfers from the East. The West gave
little or nothing, except to its state
organizations. Chicago bankers devoted
most of their spare funds to the Tanner
campaign The moneyed Republicans
of st. Louis were source of grave
disappointment to the national COM
mittee, owing to their small con-
tributions.
The national committee received,
according to the ledger kept by the
chairman, the following sums, in round
figures
From New York, $500, 900; from
Philadelphia, 1915, 900 from Pittsburg,
$3.50, 900; from Boston, $162 900
scattering, SIS, 900 total, 81 482 900.
Treasurer Cornelius N Bliss, after
striking a balance yesterday, found that
he had on hand a surplus of SIS 600 or
$50, 900. This sum, it is understood
will be applied to the fund for a
permanent headquarters for the
Republican national committee.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-11-21
Sovereign Speaks.

ROCHESTER, N. Y. Nov. 16.-At the
early session of the Knights of Labor
general assembly today a proposition
from Building Contractors Assembly
1862 of New York, under the iurisdic-
ton of assembly 40, was submitted
favoring the restriction of immigration
to fifty thousand per year, was defeated.
A proposition was also introduced and
carried by narrow margin requesting
congress TO enact a law to keep out ali
foreign musicians and professional
people. There was a long discussion
over the civil service law which resulted
in an endorsement of merit system.
The general board was instructed TO
urge that the government establish
postal savings banks.
At the afternoon session a spirited
contest between Boston, Baltimore
Butte. Mont, Montreal, Little Rock
San Francisco, Chattanooga and Louis.
vile, the latter city was chosen on the
fourth ballot by a narrow margin as ina
place Of holding the next general
assembly.
This evening a well attended puhlic
meeting was held in the general
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-11-21
Mr.. Bryan at Kansas City.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Nov. 16.-Mr.
Bryan arrived in Kansas City this
morning at $3.50 O clock ON his way
from Lincoln to st. Louis. He took
breakfast at the Coates House and spent
the rest of the three hours until 9:30
O clock, when he took Missouri
Pacific train for St. Louis. In speak
ing of the future of free silver Mr..
Bryan said
Unquestionably it is stronger today
than ever and will grow day by day.
When the people are enlightened on
Just cause they will see its merit.
Education can do nothing to hurt the
cause of silver This year we got the
heaviest vote in the states where free
silver has been longest discussed.
Where it has been presented to the
people only in limited way it did not
do as we'll. Take Kentucky, for
instance Last year the campaign in
that state was on the financial issue.
Democrats lost by about s, 900, but this
year the vote was almost tie, and our
party polled more votes than did the
Republican candidate last year. This
shows recruits for the free silver cause
at rate reassuring to its supporters.
The people are seeing the light and will
learn for themselves -
"What, in your opinion, Mr. Bryan,
is to become of the gold Democrats and
their organization?
eff they come back to the Democratic
party it must be as silver men. There
is no room for two Republican parties
in this country. The gold Democrats
cannot come back to the party and run
it on Republican lines. The Democrats
who left the party because of its plat
form are men who announced their
intention of voting against silver man
before the convention. They are the
men who called me Populist long before
the Chicago convention. The gold
Democrats will have to remain in the
Republican party unless they change
their views.
You take it then that the Demo
cratic party is committed to free silver
and that it will continue to fight
for it. %
That is just my view of it.
Democracy is for free silver and will
yet win with it. The next campaign
will be fought on the same issue as the
recent one.
~ suppose you have noticed, Mr.
Bryan. that the administration i.
removing Federal officeholders who saw
fit TO support your What do you thinl
of such action2'
That's something / would not cart
to say much about. You can say, how
ever, that civil service reform seems Il
be construed to mean that officeholder,
can do as they please in politics so Ions
as il is inst what the administration
wants done.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-11-21
ClaytOn's Venom.

EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. Nov. IL
The much advertised ratification and
reception to Gen. Powell Clayton was
held Thursday. Gen. Clayton S
invective was recklessly hurled at the
South. He said:
More than quarter of century
has passed since a portion of this Union
was arrayed against the other; these
same states are still arrayed against
progress and prosperity.
Il say that most of the states that
cast their votes for Bryan do not have
honest election methods.
Arkansas is fair sample of the
whole lot.
In this connection it is current that
Mark Hanna severely scored the
General on account of Arkansas in
creased Democratic majority; and
especially because Eureka Springs,
Clayton 5 own precinct, gave Bryan a
majority three times as large as ever
previously given any candidate.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-11-21
Officers Of the Masonic Grand Lodge.
h tuesdays Little Rock Gazette.

From Thursdays Little Rock Gazette.
Selection of officers for the ensuing
year marked the closing day proceed
ings of the Masonic grand lodge. Last
night final adjournment was had until
next year.
The following is the result of the
election of officers by the grand lodge:
G. G. Ayres, of Fort Smith, grand
master.
J. b. Baker, of Melbourne, deputy
grand master.
Robert M. Smith, of Hot Springs
grand senior warden.
Harry H. Myers, of Brinkley, grand
junior warden.
J. NJ. Oathout, of Bonneville, grand
lecturer.
S. T. Rowe, of Greenwood, grand
orator.
p K. Roots, of Little Rock, grand
treasurer.
Board of control of Masonic temple
John G. Fletcher and George Thorn
burgh.
George A, Donnelly, of Searcy, was
re- elected custodian of work.
All other officers are appointive.
AT yesterday s session a proposition
was submitted from President John H.
Dye, of Galloway college, rendering a
scholarship in that educational institu
ton to the grand lodge. The proposition
was accepted and a committee composed
of George Thornburgh, John G..
Fletcher and John T. Hicks was
appointed to arrange for the bestowal
of the scholarship upon the orphan of
some Mason. All the Masonic lodges
in the state will express a choice in the
matter.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-11-21
., ~, are the only pills to take
Hoods Pills with Hoods Sarsaparilla
Democrats Get Wyoming.

CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov. 14.-The
Wyoming state Democratic committee
today received returns from seven Big
Horn county precincts, which, with
five previously received, gives the
county 30 majority for Bryan electors
and twenty six majority for the Demo
cratic congressional candidate. The
committee now has complete unofficial
returns from every precinct in the state,
except ten small precincts in Big Horn
county. These returns give the lowest
Bryan elector 1859 majority and each OF
the other two 365 majority. For
congress, Osborne, Dem. has 1888
majority, and supreme judge, Corn,
Dem. 4s7. The remaining ten
precincts, the committee claims, will
not materially affect the majorities
shown by the returns received.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-11-21
Mr.. Bryan's Book.

CHICAGO, Nov. lev. J. Bryan is
actively engaged in the preparation of a
work to be published about January |.
This work will emhedy thorough dis
cussion of bimetallism and its import
ance as an issue in the campaign of 1900.
Mr.. Bryan has authorized his pub
fishers, the w. B. Conkey Company of
this city to state that onehalf of the
royalties received from the sale of the
book will be used in advancing the
cause of bimetallism during the next
four years. The work will also contain
Mr. Bryan s views regarding the results
Of the recent campaign, his biography
written by his wife, together with
special contributions from eminent
political leaders. Another special
feature of the work will be an interest
ing account of Mr.. Bryan s trip and the
enthusiastic reception accorded him.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-11-21
As We Expressed 1t.
inc Bluff Commercial.

From the Pine Bluff Commercial
The Salt Lake Tribune, strong
Republican paper, but in the late con-
test for Bryan, never spoke clearer
truth than these words below. 1t is
substantially what we have said and we
still believe the same in due time will
show the fallacy of the wage earners.
The Tribune says:
The so-called wage-earners in the Eastern
States will never again have the sympathy that
they have received in the past. They had the
opportunity to vote for man who was sincerely
their friend who was determined to open the
opportunities which are closing against them
every year and put them on an equal footing
with every other man of the republic. They
fell down before the power OF money and the
next time they raise their plant and demand
their pro rata of the republics benefits, men
will reason that men who would not be true to
themselves would not be true to others With
out knowing the fact they came nearer com
hitting hari kari on Tuesday than promoting
their own good.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-11-21
JOHN OK A N T..

assembly room, Charles Wright, OF
Rochester, presiding. He introduced
General Master Workman Sovereign,
who spoke for over an hour, his subject
by request, being, why | Asked the
Laborers to Support Free Coinage at
the Ratio of 16 to / - Mr.. Sovereign
held his audience from start to finish
and started frequent rounds OF ap-
plause. ~ :,
Mr.. Sovereign said the late political
campaign was contest between the
productive and speculative class OF the
country, or between labor and dollars
and that the dollars won.
Mr.. Sovereign paid his respects 10
President elect Mckinley, marx
Hanna and Wall street, and, speaking
of William j. Bryan, he characterized
him as ''that matchless champion OF
the great cause, - who would yet pun
his foot on the neck of the plutocratic
classes, - unless he changes MS
character.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-11-21
Distinguished SpOrtsmen.


Senator James K. Jones, of Washing
ton, Ark, was in the city Saturday
evening, en- route to st. Louis, where
he was to be joined by distinguished
party consisting of William j Bryan,
Gov. William j. Stone, Gov. elect l..
V. Stephens, Congressman Campau,
Hon. H. W. Salmon, Maj. I. o.
Towles, Hon. S. B. Book, Col. NJ. C.
Wetmore and Geo. H. Mccain. They
will enjoy an outing in the fancy
county game preserve, and shoot ducks
for diversion. This retreat for sports
men contains 5000 acres, and is
enclosed by a fourteen strand barbed
wire fence. 1t is owned principally by
the members of the Ligget & Myers
Tobacco company of st. Louis, and
Col. NJ. c.. Wetmore, president of this
company, is the leading spirit of the
excursion, which is to give the presi-
Dental candidate and other dis
tinguished men chance for fresh air,
sport and rest.
Col Wetmore and party reached
Springfield Monday night, leaving on
the Chadwick branch by special train
early Tuesday morning From there
the journey to the park will be made in
wagons.
The party will be under charge Of
George H. Mccain, of the Old Coon
Tobacco company, who is president of
the fancy County preserves, after their
arrival in Springfield, and it is expected
that the stay will be two weeks. How
ever, the length of time depends on the
wishes or engagements of Mr.. Bryan.
Mr.. Bryan is due to speak in Denver
on the oath, at Pueblo on the 25th, and
possibly at Leadyille on the night of the
Goth.
Thiss will cut the outing in fancy
county short of two weeks, but it will
afford the silver leader sufficient time
/ for a good rest.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-11-21
The Late Candidate for Vice President
Discusses the Political Outlook.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-THE World
this morning has the following:
Arthur Sewall, of Maine late eandi-
date for vice president on the Demo
cratic ticket, is in the city on his way
to Florida. Mr.. Sewall does not appear
at all cast down by defeat and was in
the best of health
:Of course, said Mr.. Sewall, q
was disappointed in the result of the
election. l believed we would carry two
or three of the Central States which
went against us.
What do you think will be the
result of the election as regards free
silver2'
Il regard the election as practical
victory for the cause of free silver.
think the financial plank of the next
Democratic national convention will be
practically the same as that of this
year.
what do you think of the prospects
of business revivalf'
The price of wheat unquestionably
will have some effect in improving
business conditions The basis of pros
perity is the price of cereals. The high
price of wheat at present is the direct
result of short crops in other countries
| cannot see any reason for believing
that it will be permanent, however
anxious / am that it should be. If there
is no general improvement, free silver
will sweep the country four years from
now.
What effect would four years Of
prosperity under Republican admins
tration have?''
''Should there be four years of pros
perity, l am inclined to think silver
would not be the issue, because the
improved conditions would seem tC
obviate the necessity for such a change
However, l do not expect that the
country will have any such good luck
do you think the Republican
administration will try to obtain ar
international agreement for the coinage
of silver. -
IAN international agreement is al
very we'll to talk about, but it il
practically impossible. The creditor
nations will never voluntarily consen
to the free coinage of silver.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-11-21
One Bryan Elector In Kentucky.

FRANKFORT. Ky, Nov. 14.-Com-
plete official returns have been tabulated
hy counties showing that Smith, one of
he Bryan electors. runs eco ahead Of
the lowest Mckinley elector and is
elected The other twelve BRYAN
electors run from 300 to zoo behind
twelve Of the Mckinley electors. The
total vote OF the state was 444 243 as
follows: Mckinley, 2ls. 0j5; Bryan.
s17. 79f: Palmer. 5,0ls; lowering.
3.374: Mckinley 5 average plurality,
25s on the vote fOl electors.