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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-20

In HIS Madison Square speech
Mr.. Bryan said: ga gold STAN
dard encourages the boarding of
money because money is rising; it
also discourages enterprise and
paralyzes industry Mr.. Bryan
makes an assumption that is con-
trary to all experience. When the
gold standard is threatened people
take to boarding and hiding their
money, and when confidence re-
turns the boarded treasure again
flows into the channels of trade.
What boarding is now done is due
wholly to the silver agitation, and
the crippled condition of industry
has arisen from the same cause.
Business enterprise, manufacture
ing industry and commerce flourish
only under normal conditions, the
first of which is confidence in the
security and stability of the stan
dard of money. The Popullsts
threaten this security and stability
and assert that the want of conf
dence is due to the boarding of
money, thus substituting the effect
for the ceuse.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-20
A Little Recent History.

Up to the close of 1882 the coun-
try was prosperous, Its manufac-
lures were expanding; wages paid
in good money had steadily risen.
Agriculture was prospectus. The
largest yields in value of wheat and
corn ever known were in the pre-
yious year, and the total value of
farm and farm animals was greater
than eyer before. All this was I'M
der twenty years of the alleged fan
ciful injury by characterization. :"
At the close of 1892 something
happened. The policy of disturbing
business conditions was put into eff
feet. The consequence is that no
business man has since then known
what the next year would bring
forth. The Democratic candidate
then advocated lower prices; the
Popocrat candidate now wants to
establish nominally higher prices;
and for both he proposes to unsettle
business conditions, and continue
a disturbance of confidence and
credit that has prevailed for the past
three years. The result on labor
and industry every man can tell for
himself.
Which do the people want-re-
stored confidence and the activity
of 1888 to 1892, or the maintenance
of the times that they have expert
enced under the Democratic inter-
ference with business and industry?
The country needs the election
of Mckinley, the restoration OF
prosperity and a return of the gold
which for three years has been flow
ing to England.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-20

cal leaders. He is compromiser
and an obstructionist, but Bryan's
course cannot be served by COM
promise. We should think Bryan's
managers would feel dubious about
entrusting very much responsibility
to man who has failed i'm every
great crisis which has confronted
him. They had better be satisfied
that he has been smoked out of his
hole, and let 1t go at that. Bryan
says he is the friend of the people,
and their friends friend. What
service, then, can the friend OF
trusts and monopolies do him:
The Boy Orator and the Senior
Senator from Havemeyer-it is 6
queer combination.-Balto News
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-20

the great orator consumed a couple
of hours in reading printed speech
chiefly DEVOTED to reiterating the
stale, worn out and exploded
theories of the 16 to 1 free silver
advocates. No wonder the audience
could not stand it, and were as
eager to leave the Garden as they
had previously been to enter.
Mr.. Bryan was evidently out of
his element in attempting to be
conservative. He was shiningln his
true light when, on his journey from
the west, he continually appealed to
the passions and not to the reason
of the people, and we predict that
when he is fayed by the press and
his political opponents, as he will
be, that he will throw off all re-
straint and show the communistic
spirit which is now held in check by
the conditions surrounding him.
We predict further, that Mr.
Bryan was nearer the presidential
chair on Wednesday afternoon thar
he ever will be again.
The platform and the candidate
Of the so-called Democratic part.
are not to be trusted. They breath
in every line and word revolution
and Reputation.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-20
Mr.. Bryan Has Spoken and Great is
the DjSappointnnent

Mr.. Bryan Has Spoken and Great is
the Disappointment.
The effect of Mr.. Bryan's speech
recalls the fable of the laboring
mountain and the ridiculous mouse.
For weeks it has been heralded
abroad that the great "boy orator"
would "beard the lion in his den,"
and in the "heart of the enemy
country would wipe the ground
up with any and every man who
dared to question the divine right
of the fifty-three cent dollar to cir
culate as 100 cents.
Expectation was on tip-toe and
thousands wendell their way to Mad
ison Square Garden, anticipating a
feast of eloquence, at least of the
wild and woody west type, and ex-
pecting to enjoy for fleeing hour
the privilege of basking in the sun
shine of pyrotechnic elocution and
sawing-the-air oratory.
"What fall was there, my coun-
trymen!'
Imagine the disappointment when
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-20
CraYOn for Markers,

Thick craYons of indelible black
will be used to mark ballots at tie
next election INSTEAD of the cross
mark stamps which have been used
since the Australian ballot system
was adopted.
The crayons are made in Phila-
delphia.
They have no wood or other
covering except wrapping of pa
per, and consequently there will be
no trouble to keep them sharpened
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-20

OFFICE OF THE
BOARD OF COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS :
OAKLAND, MD, August ~, 1896.
The annual examination of teachers for
Garrett county will be held at
Accident, Thursday and Friday, September
Sd and 18th.
Oakland, Monday ard Tuesday, September
eth and Sth,
Grantsville. Thursday and Friday, Sep
TENDER 10th and llth.
Examinations to begin at Q a. m.
Examination of both first and second grade
applicants will be conducted at the same
time.
the coming school year will be required to
take the examination.
Applicants will be required TO provide
themselves with pencil, tablet. pen and ink.
Examination paper will be furnished free.
By order of the Board.
Aug. 20-27. U. G. PALMER, Examiner.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-20

Breckenridge addressed the conven-
ton and acted as chairman of the
Committee on Resolutions. 1t is
well known that Col. Breckenridge
is working hard to get back into
public life, and when he throws in
his lot with the movement it is a
pretty sure indication that it is
powerful in his direction.
Whatever may be the prospects
of straightout Democratic ticket
in other States, there is now nc
doubt that 1t will be supported
with great earnestness and enthusi.
asm in Kentucky. If the move
ment was confined solely to those
who attended the county conven
tions it would be formidable one
but the prominent Democrats wht
gathered in every county were rep
resentative men who have a larg
following. 1t wonId not be at al
surprising if it should turn out il
Kentucky, as 1t did once before il
Nebraska, that the sound none
Democrats, although boilers, pole
a larger vote than therenegade regu
lars.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-20

Hill's resolution that the new
financial system should not apply
to existing obligations and con-
tracts?
Why did they make no reserva-
ton or expression in favor of the
pensioners?
The only allusiou to them in the
Chicago platform was alarmingly
significant from its breYity and mar
rowness of range.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-20
Another Republican Club,

The Republicans of district No.
II met on last Saturday night in
the school house at Bittinger and
organized Republican campaign
club with membership Of some.
thing near fifty.
Mr.. Thos. B. Wiley was made
president; Geo. W. Engle, vice
president and Henry Bittinger sec
rotary.
The members of the club were
enthusiastic and the meeting was {
great success.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-20
He is not Dangerous.

We do not believe the cause of
sound money is seriously menaced
by Mr.. Germans connection with
Bryan's campaign. His reputa-
ton for political wisdom has be-
come somewhat fy-blown in late
years. Recent events in this State
have cast a shadow upon him. He
did not cut much of figure in the
last State campaign Judging by the
results. Once he was known as a
great strategist and tactician, but
the dreadful botch he made of his
candidacy for the Presidency in
1892 took the shine off his some
what fictitious reputation for po-
litical sagacity. He has never
shown any of the aggressive
qualities which make great politi-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-20
Wool growers in the West. q

Wool growers in the West, and
particularly those in the region be-
yond the Mississippi rifer, have
had an object lesson of the effects
of the silver agitation viii should
make them hesitate to gin erf5ouf-
agement by their support to the
political movement to perpetuate
the harmful work of the cheap
money propaganda. The distrust
engendered by the silver craze has
checked sales of manufactured
goods, increased the percentage of
idle mills and so narrowed the out
let and crippled the financial re.
sources of Eastern distributors of
wool that the latter have practically
ceased purchases of the staple in the
country markets, and inmany cases
have refused to make even reduced
cash advances on consignments, Ii
the Judgment of wool merchants
there can be no substantial recovery
from the depression in the WOO
trade until all business interests
shall have been relieved from thu
prostrating effects of the silve
mania.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-20
The Uprising in Kentucky

Saturday was the day fixed for
the holding of county conventions
throughout Kentucky for the cleo
ton of delegates to the State con-
vention of the National Democracy
which meets at Louisville, August
goth. Reports Of the proceedings
of these county conventions occupy
twenty-three columns of the Sunday
edition of the COUrier-JOurRa1.
The revelation made of the strength
and enthusiasm of the Democratic
revolt found in Kentucky against
the Chicago platform and candi-
dates is almost impressive. Long
lists are given of the names Of
prominent Democrats, in every
county, who took part in the con-
ventions. Ringing resolutions
denouncing the Chicago platform
and reasserting old time Democratic
principles were adopted.
Here is a specimen from the pro-
ceedings of the Fleming county
convention:
Resolved, That we, the sound
money Democrats of Fleming coun-
ty, utterly repudiate the platform
of that convention as dangerous to
free government and fraught with
perils to the interests of our coun-
try, and call upon the patriots to
vote with us to uphold the credit of
the government and maintain the
parity of every dollar in the land,
to maintain the integrity of the old
Democratic party, whose past
achievements are in danger of pol
luton at the hands of the Altgelds,
Tillmans and Anarchists.
Resolved, That we reaffirm our
allegiance to the party which was
founded by Thomas jefferson and
made illustrous by such statesmen
and leaders as Madison, Monroe,
Jackson, Tilden, Cleveland and
Carlisle.
In nearly every convention there
is some marked reference to Alt
geldism and the feeling in support
of the power of the national govern
ment to preserve public order is as
strong IN support of sound money.
Among the resolutions adopted by
the Lawrence county convention is.
the following:
We believe it to be the duty of
the Federal government to preserve
republican form of government in
each State, and while we believe in
the strict maintenance of State
rights, we believe that when apathy,
insanity, timidity, incapacity or
COLLISION with outlaws prevents the
proper State officers from attempt
ing to suppress internal disorder or
from making the proper call, the
law abiding people are nevertheless
entitled to Federal protection.
The Hart county convention was
addressed by Gen. Buckner, and
he was elected at the head of the
list of county delegates to the State
convention. The Woodford county
convention was addressed by State
Senator Henry L. Martin, who has
been leader of the Blackburn fac
ton, and was active in the struggle
to e.elect Blackburn to the United
States Senate. He said that he
was still a Blackburn man, "but
when the Chicago convention went
outside the party and nominated a
Populist for President and adopted
an anarchistic platform, he was
forced to bolt to maintain his self
respect"
At Lexington Col. W. G. P.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-20

Actions Speak Louder Than Words.
As to whether or not Mr.. Bryan
Eastern trip has been a failure
there Is a triumphant assertion on
the one side and angry denial on
the other. Here, however, is a
cold fact. According to the origi-
nal programme he was to go on to
Maine. The next day after the
Madison Square speech there was
as conference of his managers, and
as a result it was announced that
the trip to Maine had been aban-
doned, and that for the present
Mr.. Bryan will go into retirement.
So ends that Eastern trip which
was to accomplish such great things.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-20
Why, Indeed?

If pensions are not to be reduced
ore-half by being paid in deprecla-
ted silver, whv are the Free Silver
men so vociferous about "reduclng
the expenses of the Government by
Free Coinage!
Why did they vote down by an
overwhelming majority Senator
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-20
He Writes a Few Letters.

Mr.. Bryan is now sending per-
sonal letters of thanks to all the
Democratic papers that have not
bolted. 1t will probably take fully
a dollar to pay for the stationery
and postage used in this noble
work.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-20

ONE extreme follows another.
The wettest July on record is fol-
lowed by the hottest August remem-
bered in the present generation. In
the loss of property by floods and
in the number of deaths by heat, the
summer of 1896 has left its impress
in way not soon to be forgotten.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-20
Attention, Republicans

The Republican voters of Garrett county
are hereby requested to assemble in primary
meeting in their several districts on
MONDAY, AUGUST 81, 1896,
at , o'clock p. m,
for the purpose of selecting five delegates to
attend a county convention to be held in
Oakland on
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST %, 1896,
at which time delegates will be elected to the
Congressional convention which will be held
IN Oakland on
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 0. 1885,.
to nominate candidate for Congress for the
sixth Congressional District OF Maryland.
]. C. PEDDICORD,
Chairman County Committee.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-20
He is Not a Bow Orator.

"HenryH'
eyes, your exceIlency?"
81 see that Bourke Cochran is to
reply to the Boy Orator"
''Yes, sire"
"Well, Henry, it will not be
necessary for Mr., Cochran to read
an eight-column essay ia order to
say something"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-20

G. CLEVELAND does not yet
appear to know that W. j. Bryan
is running for president of the
United States. And this G. Cleve-
land is the only man the Democrats
have elected president in 40 years.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-20
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST %, 1896,

The spectacular in politics, like
any other passing show, amuses
the people for brief season, but
the serious and practical concerns
of life have no use for 1t.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-20

on election day.
The use of the stamp and ink
pads was discontinued under the
provisions of the new election law
because the Booze-Rusk contest
showed clearly that when ballots
were folded the mark often became
transferred to another place on the
ballot before the ink became dry.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-20
NOTICE CONTRACTORS.

COUNCIL CHAMBER
OAKLAND. MD, Aug. II. 1896.
Sealed proposals will be received until two
O'Clock, p. m, Monday, September l. 1896, for
the erection of an iron bridge over the B. & O..
railroad in line with Oak street. span los feet
roadway IL feet clear and one foot side walk.
Bids Tor masonry will also be received. Plan
and specification of each on file. The right
to reject any and all bids is reserved.
By order Town Council,
JIG. DURHAM. Clerk
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The Republican.
BENZ. H. SINCELL, Editor and Proprietor
d. G. SMITH, Local Editor
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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-07-24
DUN'S COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

The Feeling that the Financial Future Il
SIN Uncertain HAS - Very Depressing
] Influence Upon Railway and Trust >tpch
Wheat Market Remarkably Well sup
ported cotton Iower-iron Dull ~ho
Trade Weakening.
NEW YORK, July is.-R. g.. Dun s
Co. say to-day. in their weekly review
OF trade:
Failures for the week have been aO'
in the United States. against sss las
year and 50 in Canada, against 80 las
year.
Dlsapproval of the action at the Chi
cago convention has had some inf
ence in the markets the past week
but far more important factor has
been the feeling that the financia
future is still uncertain. The average
price for go active railroad stocks has
declined from Sis. % 10 Sia g5 per share,
ana the average of trust stocks from
81. 80 to s4i. As per share.
The wheat market has been remark.
ably well supported. in spite of very
favora BILE report by the government.
and prices are "A shade higher than a
week ago, without any di>covera bile
reason connected with American sup.
ply or demand Western receipts OF
wheat have been ASST 600 bushels,
against l,4s5, 500 for the same week Of
July of last year, and Atlantic ex-
ports, flour included, have been l,ls5.
900 bushels. against only 547,ols for
the same week last year
Cotton has fallen about half Il cent
in options and one-quarter in spot
prices, because the men who were
sure there would be cotton famine
in July and have been holding large
quantities of corn in expectation of
higher prices, have changed their
minds.
The wooden manufacture is waiting,
and as new orders are exceedingly
slow, the sales of wool at the three
chief markets were for the week only
2,255, 900 pounds, transactions at Bos.
ton being reported the lowest ever
known at that market.
The output Of pig iron July was
lso.532 tons weekly. against ls2. PC
June l, and III. 1914 year ago. Con.
sidering the fact that the accumula-
ton by the great steel companies must
have been large, the consumption is un
doubleday smaller than year ago.
The manufacture OF boots and shoes
is weakening under the effort to secure
an advance in price, although most of
the works have orders for some time
ahead. But the demand is very light
and nearly all the shops would have to
close if dependent on new orders
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-07-24
THE BRYAN FAMILY.
The Statement That tho Family Nam.
was OBryan Refutod.

CULrEpPER. Va. July il. The state.
ment from }. Harvey O'Bricn, of Port
land. Ore, TO the effect that the name
Of the democratic presidential nominee
is really O'Bryan. and was changed bv
him at the time he began to practice
law in Lincoln, Ncb. is wholly with
out foundation.
William Bryan. the grcat-grand-
father Of the nominee, came To this
county in 175a from the lower part of
the state, acquiring large tracts OF land
here and becoming prominently ideuti-
fled with the county. His name in the
deeds for these lands is Bryan. and his
last vii! and testament, which was adj
mitted to record July Fl. 500, Is signed
William Brysn. An old church built
by him upon his land. and known as
the Bryan meeting house, is still stand
ing.
John I. Bryan. the grandfather U
the candidate. moved from this county
to Illinois about 1880 or 1885. when
Siias Bryan, the candidates father,
was boy about twelve years old
William Jennings Bryan. his father,
his grandfather and great-grandfa.
Their spelled their names Bryan. The
organs intermarried with some OF the
prominent families Of this county, and
nave a number of blood relations liv.
ing here. This is authentic. having
been taken from the records of the
county.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-07-24
ELECTRICAL 6LEANINGs.

Leading electricians claim that tho
new vacuum tube light will be three
times MS brilliant ~ the present light
and It's cost only one-third as much.
Prof. Sylvanus Thompson. speaking
OF the cause OF kissing frequently no
ticed In arc lights. says that at such
times the lower carbon is not only melt
ing at the tip, but actually boiling and
throwing OF minute portions of the
carbon.
There are now .OG2, roo miles of tcle-
graph lines in existence. more than half
of thcri. 5i5 800 miles. being in Amer
ica. Europe has $50. 700 miles; Asia, o.
400; Austria. 1880. and Africa, 81 500.
The United States leads the list of coun-
tries with $4,000 miles. with Russia sec
ond.
According TO a Swiss contemporary
on engineer named Tauxc has just in
vented lew process for tcmpcring
steel hy electricity. which not only
makes the steel much harder but at
the same time gives IL the proper elias
ticity; that is, il is not brittle like steel
made very hard by the usual process.
A soft and well diffused light. suitable
for banks. art galleries. etc. is secured
by placing incandescent lamps above
rhectors suspended from the ceiling.
so that the light is thrown TO the cell
ing and then thrown downward and
about the room. The rcfiectors may be
made decorative and harmonic with
the general scheme of architecture and
fiffinnc
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-07-24
GOLD AND SILVER.

In Cuba and Ilayti there are in circu
ton s2l,00o,O0o of gold and $4.400.0ol
of silver.
The amount of gold produced by tn,
worlds mines since 1882 is $s ,397, 1906.
coo.
In Spain the people have in circula
ton $i0,00o.0 goo of gold and si55, 900 ,00'
OF silver
In 1894 the worlds production o.
gold amounted to sl70.965. 600, Of silver
S2l5. fo4.6o0.
In the year 1894 France consumed ia
the arts S9,51O,24O of gold and s5.45i,
$50 of silver.
During the years between 1881 an.
1890 the production OF silver in America
was S,,as9. 100000.
The Russian jewelers. and gold platers
used in 1893 $3.5i2. os3 of gold and S..
1l..000 of silver.
Since the discovery of America til,
mines of the New World have produced
S9.90s. 247,000 of silver.
Mexico is a silver country. there be.
ing only S5,Co0,oo0 of gold in circula.
ton TO S5o,OoO,oOo of silver.
Idaho ranks fifth in the production a
precious metals. SIS .aOl, 500 OF gold and
Sl,o60.3s of silver.
The German empire. according to Off
cial reports. has SOILS. O.0O0 gold money
and S2ij,O00.oOO silver.