davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-02-10
Sized Up Correctly.

The murder of Col. A. J. Fountain near
Las Cruces is another evidence of "get
ting away with the man in the way of
crime and outlawry;" case where the
criminal was being closely cornered, where
he becomes desperate and resorts to foul
murder. The hanging of few stock
thieves in this territory would set an ex-
ample probably not forgotten for years,
and have tendency to suppress these
outrages to great extent.-Springer
Stookman.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-02-10
A Live stock Pointer.

New Mexico is in line for a brisk
trade in sheep this year and the season
for buying is opening remarkably early.
Advices from nearly every part of the
territory say that buyers are already on
the ground looking for sheep and there is
brisk inquiry in all directions. Only tho
other day man named Allen Packer, of
Union, Ia, came to New Mexico to pur-
chase stock. 1t seems like new impetus
to the business to have Iowa men coming
out to buy sheep in this country and it
shows the good repute in which New
Mexico sheep are held by the fasteners.
Las Vegas Stock Grower.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-02-10
N office
Advertising Rates.

Requests for back numbers of the New
MEXICAN, must state date wanted, or the
will receive no attention.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-02-10

THERE are many marked changes
probable in the southwestern railroad
world during the next year.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-02-10

sY"Entered as Second-Class matter at the
Santa Fe Post Office
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-02-10
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
j. B. BRADY,

Dentist. Rooms in Kahn Block, over
Spitz' Jewelry Store. Office hours, 8 to
10 a. M; to Pm.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-10-22
COMMUNICATED J
Headquarters Republican Executive
Committee of Armstrong County.

Headquarters Republican Executive
Committee of Armstrong County.
KITTANNING, PA. OcT. 2lsT, 1896.
A. B. g. MCFARLAND, ESQ,
Chairman Rep. Elk. Com, Butler, Pa.
DEAR SIR
Permit me to say to you and through you
to the Republican voters of your county
that the Republicans of Armstrong county
will duly appreciate your assistance in the
effort now being made to elect q Republi-
can Senator in this district.
You are aware of the deadlock that eX-
listed in the senatorial conference of this
district and the attempt made by the state
committee to relieve the conference of its
embarrassing position. The court held
that. in the absence of a rule, precedent
was not sufficient to control the case.
This method failing, the only method left
open to the Republicans of the district
was to use nomination papers; this the
Republicans Of the district have done; and
thus w. B. Meredith is the Republican
nominee of the district and is by precedent
the only Republican candidate an the dis
tict.
1t is we'll to recall the fact that in 1880,
the friends of our then Senator Greer (now
Judge) sought to renominate him for q
second term. Armstrong county natural
ly insisted for local candidate, Thus a
deadlock ensued, just like the conditions
of the present year. The State Committee
sent an umpire contrary to our wishes and
against our protest. The umpire entered
the conference and renominsted Senator
Greer. The Republicans of Armstrong
county declined to carry the contention
any further; they turned in and gave Sem
ator Greer hearty support and were al
ways pleased to know that he served his
constituency faithfully ard well fol
another four years, giving him contin-
uUus term oil eight years.
Now 'the shoe is on the other foot. "
We, therefore, now appeal to our Repub-
lcan friends in Butler county to turn in
with equal un4nimity for the choice of
Armstrong county. We expect to give
Senator Meredith and the Whole Republl-
can ticket at least twenty five hundred
majority in this county. We hope there
will be no county line drawn in our dis
trict, but that Dir. Meredith will receive a
loyal support at the hands of the RaDubli
cans of your county.
Trusting that this communication will
be received in the fraternal spirit in which
it is written, l am yours truly,
d. B. HRINER,
Chairman Rep. Elk. Com,
Armstrong County
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-10-22
REPUBLICAN MEETINGS.

Pennington, Friday, 23d P w Lowry
and 7 W Coulter 1880; Lardln's Mill
School house, Friday, 23d ] Showalter
and B Greer; Coaltown, Saturday,
2dth, Col Thompson and L M Wise; Eu-
cid. Saturday, 24th, P w Lowry, L M
Wise and 7 w Coulter, 3 p m; Boyds-
town. Monday, 10Th, Col Thompson and
M Painter; jefferson Centre, Monday.
10th, D Mcjunkin and ] B Showalter;
Bruin. Tuesday, 27th, J NJ Galbreath and
Nv Hutchison; Hiliiard, Wednesday,
18th, 7 M Galbreath and J Showalter;
Renfrew. Wednesday, 28th, Hon Geo R
Higgins and ] B Mates and A B c Nc
Farland: Mars, Wednesday, 2Sth, Col
Thompson, N Black and S F Bowser;
and M Painter: Flat Rock School
house, Thursday 2etb, Col Thompson
and A M Christley; Zelienople, Thurs
dav goth DIR D H Wheeler; Friday, But
Ter Opera House, Meade D Detweiler, OF
Dauphin Co.
The Republicans of Elwood and vicin-
ity will have a grand rally tomorrow
night. Three thousand men will be in
line, with several bands of music. There
will be special trains from Evans City
and Zelienople.
They lad an enthusiastic Republican
meeting at Ekastown Wednesday night
rhe whole county side was out, Galbreath
and Painter made the addresses, and
everything is right there.
The Republican meeting at Browns
dale last Friday night was a very large
and enthusiastic one.
The Republicans of North Washington
and vicinity held meeting in Academy
Hall Wednesday night The Hall was
crowded and addresses were made by J D
McJunkin, DR. Showoltar, Col Redic and
NJ B Mcbride
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-10-22
SILVER DOWN---WHEAT UP,
An Interesting Little Fact That Should
Not be Forgotten.

An Interesting Little Fact That Should
Not be Forgotten.
The recent sharp advance in wheat CO.
incident with fall in silver is quite in
line with the experience of the last month
and annihilates the theory that the price
of silver is inseparably linked with the
prices of farm products.
Government assay bars fell to sixty-five
and half cents an ounce. At this price
the bullion value of the silver in stand
ard dollar is fifty and a half cents, SO that
If the advocates of free coinage were sue
cessful we would have dollar worth
about fifty cents.
Every claim made by the silverites has
been promptly refuted by the event. They
pleaded for the passage of the Sherman
law, asserting that the governments pur-
chase of nearly 200 tons a month under
that law-practically the entire product Of
this country-would advance the price Of
silver so that Sixteen ounces would be
equal to an ounce of gold. In other words,
they said it would sell at S1.e9 an ounce.
When the law passed and purchases un-
der it began silver was s1.OS an ounce
After more than three years of steady gov
ernment buying when the law was re-
pealed silver was seventy cents! Recently
the free coinage advocates have been as
suring the farmers that their wheat would
continue to fall unless silver could be ad-
vanced. What is the fact2 Silver goes
down because the demand is not equal to
the supply, and wheat advances because
the demand exceeds the supply. The
farmer must see that the prices of his pro-
ducts are not dependent upon the fuctua-
tions of silver, but upon the same natural
laws that govern all other commodities
n. Y Herald.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-10-22

MEXICO is on silver basis, yet 1t has to
pay its foreign debt in gold, the total debt
being S111 600 600 Minister Limantour,
in his budget for next year, calls for an
appropriation of 81, 900, 900 in silver, that
amount being necessary to obtain $6 900, :
900 in gold required for the interest It
will thus be seen that while Mexico Is ON
a silver basis at home she is on gold basis
abroad. She can pay the Mexican wage
Garner in silver dollars, but the foreign
bondholder must have gold. How much
better it would be to have the gold stand
ard at home as well as abroad, so that the
dollar of the laborer would be just as good
as that of the foreign bondholder. The
best dollar made is none too good for tho
man who earns it.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-10-22
FACTS ABOUT WAGES.
Prices Paid to Labor in COun-
tries On a Gold Basis.

There are three things that always in
terest the laboring men, says the Jeannette
Dispatch. First, good wages; second,
steady employment; third, the best money
In circulation. In answer to the free silver
argument we beg leave to quote the prices
paid to labor in few trades in countries
on gold basis and the same labor also in
countries on a silver basis. The statistics
are taken from The World Almanac for
1895, and the same can be found in the re-
port of the United States census:
Bricklayers are paid per week in the
gold basis countries as follows: New
South Wales, 1852; Victoria, Sl46o; Bra
gil, $3.50; Belgium, S4.5S; Denmark, 81;
France, 1882; Germany, S421; England,
s75s; Scotland, s755; United States,
lis, and Ontaria, $1a In the following
countries on a silver basis the wages for
bricklayers are: Austria, S.5s Tin 1ss4) !;
Quito, sl.44; Russia, 1921; Mexico, $40;
Venezuela, 90; Japan, S9. 40. AS the silver
money in each of these countries is worth
only about 50 per cent of the value of
gold the reader can Judge for himself
whether or not free silver basis is con-
ducive of high wages. This is but one ex-
ample of the various employ yments taken
to S how the relative wages paid.
Now consider the second question of
steady employment. The cry four years
ago was, give US a chance at the markets
of the world and we will give steady en-
ployment to our laboring men. Has such
been the case? Is not the same tariff
policy to be pursued by the Democratic
party? 1t seems from the hard times of
the last four years the markets of the
world have gotten n chance at us. With
more depositors in the banks than ever
before in the history of our country, does
1t go to show that hard times is brought
about by the scarcity of money?
The argument that scarcity of money
never brought about good times is GER
tainly true, but the opposite is equally
true that good times never brought about
a scarcity of money. If the money of our
country today was put into circulation
and not boarded up through fear there
would be no talk about scarcity of money.
AS to the third question, the dollar of to-
day is equally good among all classes. No
one would ask for anything more. Its
parity is never questioned. Then why re-
years ago? The voters of this country will
listen no further to theory; they want
facts.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-10-22
Officers To Be Elected.

Thirty-two persons to represent the
State of Pennsylvania in the Electoral
College to elect President and vice
President of the United States.
Two persons for Representative at
large for the State of Penna. IN Congress.
One person 10 represent the 25th dis
trict of Pennsylvania in Congress.
One person to represent the 4Ist dis
trict of Penna in the State Senate.
Two persons to represent the county
of Butler in the General Assembly OF the
State OF Pennsylvania.
One person for the Office OF Sheriff OF
Butler Co.
One person for the Office OF Register
and Recorder of Butler Co.
One person for the office of Prothono-
tary of Butler Co.
One person for the Office OF Clerk OF
Courts of Butler Co.
One person for the Office of Treasurer
of Butlar Co.
Two persons for the Office of County
Commissioners of Butler Co.
Two persons for the Office of County
Auditor of Butler Co.
One person for the office OF Coroner OF
Butler Co.
The names of the nominees OF the dit
fereut parties are as follows.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-10-22

During talk between w. A. Stone
w. M. Kennedy, w. A. Graham and F
J. Torrance in the latter's parlor in Allie.
gheny last Sunday afternoon, as reported
in the Commercial Gazette of Monday
"Col. Stone was ask if it was not true
that Senator Quay intended going tc
Harrisburg at the opening of the session
and remaining there until the reform leg.
islation was passed or defeated. He sait
that he presumed Senator Quay would dc
SO as he was greatly interested IN put
ting through these measures"
'It was along about this time that some
one wanted to know who would succeed
Cameron in the senate. Eyes were turn.
ed on Col. Stone, and he said. 81 do not
know who that man will be, but think
if there are enough members in the leg.
islature to pass the reform legislation in
which Quay is interested, there will be
enough votes to elect a United States
senator friendly to Mr.. Quay. Who that
man will be cannot say. / am conf.
dent, however, that the members of the
next house and senate will divide upon
the United States senatorship in Just the
same way that they will vote on the re-
form legislation"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-10-22
PRODUCTION OF SILVER.
The Amount Brought Forth Since Il
Crime of '73.

The Amount Brought Forth Since the
Crime of '73.
Since silver was STRUCK down by the
crime of 1878" the mines of the United
States alone have produced 939, ,576, 900
ounces.
The commercial value of the enormous
yield, reckoned at the average price for
each year, was s943, ,0S3, 600.
The coming value of the total product
at the existing ratio was l.214, 751 900. So
that if permitted to enjoy free coinage the
mine owners would have made an ''addi-
tional profit" as the circular of their
Finance committee truly put it, of $27l,-
s6S, 600. They would have made an 'addi-
tional profit of s8s. 900, 900 on the yield of
1894, and of S36, ,OO0, 900 on the yield of 1895
No wonder Mr.. Merrill thought they
"could afford not to give" the ''ad-
ditional profit they would receive for
their own silver product for one month";
to help elect free coinage president-N
Y. World.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-10-22

If the mints of this country were to coin
all the silver in the world into dollars to-
morrow not single wheel in a single mill
in the United States would begin to turn
again, not single unemployed operative
would find days work not a single farm
Or would find new customer in the home
market for his product. But if it were
known that American goods would not be
driven out of the American market by COM
petitive products made abroad by cheap
labor; if it were known that the product
of American mills and factories could be
disposed of in 1897 as it was disposed of in
1891 and 1882, then, within the time that it
would take the holders of idle American
capital to put that capital into active op-
grafton again, one million American wage
earners would resume work and the wage
payments of this country would be in
creased to their old figures or to still
higher figures. Dollars do not make busi-
ness and work. Business and work mako
dollars.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-10-22

OUR government attempted the absur-
dity of making silver the equal Of gold
Notwithstanding the change in the situa-
ton, upon the principle that government
could create money, but the effort was q
complete failure. For years the United
States treasury purchased silver at the
rate of millions of dollars per month to
accomplish this object, but the money Of
the taxpayers was wasted in th~ vain al
Ton ,rnt
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-10-22
GENERAL ELECTION
PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, AS by Section 10 Of the Act OF
the General Assembly to regulate the nomi-
nation and election of public officers, requir-
ing certain expenses incident thereto to be
paid by the several counties and Furnishing
certain ohenses in regard to such elections:
1t is made the duty of "the sheriff
of every county, at least ten days be-
fore any general election to be held therein, ,
to give notice of same by advertisements in
at least three newspapers, If there De SO many
published in the county, two of said news
papers representing so tar as practlcable, the
political party which at the preceding
Nov election cast the largest number of votes
and the other one of said newspapers repre-.
senting so tar as practicable the political
party which AZ the preceding November
eletion cast the next largest NUMBER OF
vots, and in addition thereto the sheriff OF
evey county shall, at least ten days before
any general election to be held IN cities OF
the first, second and third classes give notice
by proclama ion posted up in the most con-
| spicuous places in every election district In
said cities of the first, second and third class
and in every such proclamation or adver-
tisement shall.
|. Enumerate the officers to be elected
and give list of all the nominations made
as provided in this act, and to be voted for
in such county. and the fuil text OF ali con-
stitutional amendments submitted to
vote of the people but the pro-
clamations posted in each
election district need not contain the names
of any candidates but those to be voted for
in such district.
II. Designate the places at which the elec-
| ton is to be held.
III. He shall give notice that every per-
son, excepting justices OF the peace, who
81 all hold any office or appointment OF proht {
| or trust under the government of the United
States or of this State or of any city or incor-
| porated district whether a commissioned 9TH
Ger or otherwise "a subordinate officer or agent
who's or shall be employed under the Leg
| islatlye, Executive or Judiciary department
ofthe State or of the United States or OF any
| city or incorporated district, and also that
eyery member of Congress and OF the state
| Legislature and of the select or common
| council of any city, or commissioners OF any
| Incorporated district is, by law, incapable OF
holding or exercising at the same time the
Office or appointment of judge, inspector or
clerk of any election of this Commonwealth,
| and that no inspector, jndge or other ofhcer
| of any such election shall be eligible to any
| office to be then voted for, except that OF an
| election officer
Now, therefore, l, Andrew G.. Campbell
| High Sheriff of the County OF Butler, State
| of Pennsylvania, do hereby make known
| and give this public notice to tue electors
| of Butler county, that on the hrst tuesday
| after the first Monday of November, 1896 e.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-10-22

MEXICAN silver dollars can be bought In
our market today for little less than the
bullion value of the silver they contain.
There has been recently q certain de-
mand for them here at their bullion value
for use as object lessons in paying wages,
etc, and in response to that demand CON.
siderable quantities were imported from
Mexico. The demand having ceased the
supply is in excess, and the price of the
coin declines. The fluctuation in market
value cannot possibly occur with gold
coin, and that is one reason why gold is q
better metal than silver to serve as a
standard of value.-Phila. Evening Tele-
graph
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-10-22
No Nomination.

On Thursday last the Court of Dauphin
county, to which contested nominations
are by law referred, decided that the Re-
publicans of the DIST Senatorial district OF
Penu'a., Butler and Armstrong counties
had made no legal nomination for State
Senate.
Judge Simonton, by whom the decision
was written, says there is nothing in the
case that would warrant a decision that
Jere B. Rex, who went into the confer
ience by direction Of State Chairman Elk
in as conferee and voted for Meredith,
was legal member. 1t is not claimed
or pretended that there is any written
rule which authorized the state central
committee or its chairman to appoint him
a member But it was argued that there
was custom winch authorized it and a
necessity which warranted it.
"There is no way of testing the right
claimed prior to the passage of the bal
lot act, F." adds Judge Simorton. "a can
didate or faction who felt aggrieved by
such Intervention, was obliged to choose
between acquiescence or the risk of being
charged with disloyalty to the party and
of receiving the penalty of dlsloyalty
The instances since the passage of the
act have been entirely too few, or too diff
ferent in their circumstances, to crystal
ize into an unwritten rule.
''There can be no doubt that some
remedy for the existing state
of affairs ought speedily to be
sought and applied. The machinery at
present i'll use for making congressional
and senatorial nominations has in many
cases broken down completely when set
in motion, The influence of local and
county pride and jealousies tends strong
1y to prevent agreement. And the evils
of the system are greatly aggravated by
the rule which authorizes candidates to
select the conferrees. Natural
1y, they select their personal friends, and
they, after being selected, consider them
selves the agents and representatives of
the candidates who select them, rather
than of the party. In consequence of
this their minds are not open to impartial
consideration of the merits and available
ity of the respective candidates, or to i'm
partially weighing the interests of the
party to which they beloug.
"It is not for US to prescribe remedy
for the difficulty. We can only empha-
size the fact of its existence, which has
beeu pressed upon our attention in these
contests over nominations. But we ven
ture to express the hope that the organi-
cations, whatever they may be, which
have authority to do so, may revise the
rules of the respective parties, so that
after reasonable discussion of the merits
and test of strength OF the several candl-
dates, nominations may be assured. 1t
is probably too much to expect that the
smaller counties will agree on any meth
cd of nomination which would tend to
lessen their relative weight in confer
ence, and it would, therefore, seem advis-
able for the representatives of the respec-
tive parties assembled in state conven-
ton to make the necessary changes in
the party rules"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-10-22

Our present dollar has appreciated, say
the silver men, it will buy too much. Do
the men whose wages are paid In these
dollars believe this? Are they dissatisfied
because the gold standard money In which
they are paid will buy more -four and
potatoes, beafsteak and clothing than the
same number of dollars would twenty
years ago? The silver people tell them
they ought to be dissatisfied II so, and
if the wage Garner really wants dollar Of
less purchasing power than he gets at
present, he should vote for Bryan.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-10-22

By reference to the General Election
Proclamation it will be seen that several
changes have made in the places for
holding elections. For instance the
East and West precincts of Fairview twp.
were consolidated last June, and will
vote at the election house built on the
Riddle farm.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-10-22

SILVER must be legal tender to give IL
value, and that means to rob all creditors
of one-half their just due. This is the
temptation the demagognes hold out 10
catch votes, but the people of this repub-
lie will scorn such method Of escaping
honest obligations
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-10-22
THURSDAY. OCTOBER ~. 1896
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.

NATIONAL.
PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM MCKINLEY.
VICE PRESIDENT,
GARRETT A. HOBART.
STATE.
CoNGREss-Ar-LARGE.
GALUSHA A. GROW,
S. L. DAVENPORT.
COUNTY.
FOR CONGRESS,
JAMES J. DAVIDSON.
FOR STATE SENATE,
w. H. RITTER.
FOR ASSEMBLY,
JAMES N. MOORE,
John DINDINGER.
FOR SHERIFF,
w. B. DODDS.
For REGISTER AND RECORDER,
w. ]. ADAMS.
FOR PRorHoNoTARY,
RI. THOMPSON.
FOR CLERK OF COURTS,
ISAAC MEAS.
FOR TREASURER,
CYRUS HARPER,
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS,
HARMON SEATON,
JOHN MITCHELL.
FOR COUNTY AUDITORS,
w. S. MOORE,
o. r. THORNE.
FOR CORONER,
JOHN L. JONES.