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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10
ABSOLUTELY PURE

change, necessarily, coin of one metal for bull
lion OF the other. l have seen on this floor
indications that some gentlemen appear to
think that one way we should lose our gold-if
we opened our minis to silver-would be in
handing it over to designing individuals who
should bring silver bullion to the mint and
demand" gold. The open mint exists merely
to coin the bullion brought to il and pass 1t
back in coin to the owner. The government
stamp cannot create value. Whether a coin
when stamped shall be effectual to pass at the
value it claims to represent will depend upon
the use it can command. In this respect i
agree wholly with the honorable gentleman
from Maine .Mr. Dingleyl, who opened this
debate and who now does NE the honor OF
listening to me. The whole question OF main
tanning freely coined silver at a parity with
gold is one simply Of giving 1t enough to do
subjecting it to a large enough demand. lap
plause.I Let MS hear no more cheap denun'
citation Of creating value by law" Nobody
claims that you can do so. You can lesislate
opportunity, and that is all silver asks.
Now, Mr.. Kelley, show up the
misquotation, or, better yet, prove
that the government stamp can
create value,-prove it by Mr.,
Towne.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10
THE SILVER BARON'S VAULTS.
They Have Been Tapped to Help Bryan
to Win.

Chicago, Sept. 5.-The silver
mine owners vault has been pried
open. The stream Of Colorado gold
has already commenced to flow into
the treasury of the free silver cam
paign managers, whence it will be
taken at the discretion of the trusted
advisers for free coinage into argu-
ment on the side of Bryal and
Sewall and Watson and free silver.
Five hundred thousand dollars is
the sum reputed to have been raised
aE:ong the mine owners of the west
to pay the campaign expenses OF
the democratic party. Not all of
it has been paid in cash. The half
million mark represents in part
pledges supposed to be as good as
gold, certainly as good as silver.
According to the Information re-
ceiyed from Denver, and corrobo-
rated by facts and circumstance
evolved IN Chicago, 500, 600 has
already been sent on here. The
balance of $40O, 900 or its eouiya
lent, is understood to be on its way
hither now in charge Of |. N. Stew
ems, acting chairman Of the silver
party's national committee. Mr.
Stevens is temporarily custodian OF
the funds for diplomatic reasons, it
having been thought best that the
nver of gold which is expected to
bear William j. Bryan to the white
house, should find its way into
political circulation by a devious
channel, rather than in a straight
line through democratic head
quarters.
The springs of silver which feed
this river of gold are. for the most
part, in the private offices of Denver
millionaires. D. III. Moffat of that
city is given credit for handling
the crowbar and pickax with which
the springs were opened. Minnea-
polls Journal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10

Senator Thurston showed up the
free silver proposition very clearly
when he said /: eff Rothschild were
to sail into New York harbor with d
great ship loaded with foreign silver
bullion which had cost him $780,
000,0 and should ask this govern
ment to pass a law compelling our
people to accept that silver bullion
in exchange for their products and
their labor, at just twice the price
paid for it by Rothschild, the mem
bers of congress who would vote for
such a measure would be hung to
the nearest lamp-post ; and yet that
is what the free and unlimited coin
age of the worlds product of silver
MEANS"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10
Vote to Open tae Workshops

Waubay Cllppcr' nrO-
Bryan IS no more ia favor and
lection today than he ever s'', dire,I
all his speeches have been u ~. i
opposition TO the Republican h
a tariff. On the tariff ques'OI, sgs,
party stands where it did tbsi
yet Bryan never alludes thros
question, but continues ,o,er
free silver dust in the face = d
to blind them as to the real e 'a;t;ous
the present depaorabie nrOpt
Will be be able so fool 'ne inter
into voting against their owl ow" wear
ests ? We think not rou wen
trial of a partial dose n u'' - con
pledged to give is enough 81, 4 ID
vince reasonable men 'h" I'D b
whole dose had been apple
effect would have been neaa b
bad again. Tho people w;ll a
cause aud the remedy anu !. vol
ply it by voting to open
shops of the country.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10

The next president will be either
Mckinley, a Republican and conse-
quently a protectionist, or Bryan, G
popocrat and consequently a repuda-
zionist. Every citizen must elect
which he will take. There is no use
in beating about the bush or in be-
moaning that such al alternative is
before us. 1t is either security and
national honor with Mckinley, OF
ruin and national dishonor with
Bryan. We may wish it ere diff.
f~erent, but the political situation is
fixed unalterably, and we must look
it squarely in the face.-New York
Sun (dem.)
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10

A dispatch to the Minneapolis
Journal states that four million and
twenty-five thousand dollars in gold
was poured into New York yester-
day from Europe. American wheat
and corn are being poured into
Europe. Prosperity's sun is rising
and courage has come back to inan-
cial and commercial interests. The
change has come in a week. 1t be-
gan with the Vermont election Tues
day, when a majority of $4,000 was
rolled up for prosperity and sound
money. The world realized on
Thursday after the nomination at
indianapolis of an independent tick
ct that it would do well to anticipate
the election of William Mckinley.
Men who have faith in the economic
sanity and financial honesty of the
American people realized that after
all their faith had not been shaken
and that their courage vas equal to
their faith. And so they began to
do business.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10

The weakest of the many weak
arguments advanced by the Day
County Herald appeared last week
in the attempt to parallel the Re-
porter. The conclusions reached by
the Herald editor are SO impotent
as to hardly merit notice, but as he
charges us with mjsquoting Con-
gresham Towne we call uDon him
to nroya snob ,,o,o, ard
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10

The Republican party of Day
County has made its nominations
and thrown down the gauntlet to its
foes. From now until the first
Tuesday in November, a bitter fight
will be waged, and we want to i'm
press upon the candidates, the cen
trail committee, and the Republicans,
the necessity of a vigilant, unceasing
campaign. There are no disgruntled
factions in the Republican ranks,
and everything looks bright and
favorable for a grand Republican
victory, but we can afford to u no
risks nor can we afford to be "liberal
in politics. because we are convinced
that nothing but a complete Repub-
lican victory will bring about favor
able and prosperous conditions.
Stand firm ! and you will be more
than repaid for your patriotism.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10

Editor Kelley still has his nerve
with him when he attempts to insult
the intelligence of his readers by
declaring that Mckinley has the A.
p. A. with him, when it is we'll
known throughout the country that
that order instituted a boycott
against the gallant major of SO much
Importance as to call the leaders of
the order together, and only after a
bitter fight was it lifted. One thing
Mr.. Kelley overlooks is that Bryan
while editor of the Omaha World
Herald in a city election at Omaha
assisted by word aud pen the A.P.A.
candidats for office. Mr. Bryan is
the Ala. candidate, not Mckinley,
and the facts prove it.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10

Has the conduct of the affairs of
the nation by the democratic party
during the past three years been
such as to warrant the people of this
country in retaining it in power ?
Will this nation be again misled by
this party of glittering promises and
dismal failures of fulfllment ? Four
years ago, the populist and democrat
orators travelled the length and
breadth of this land, proclaiming
that with a change of party admin
i~stration would come an era of pros
perity,-but did it come Z? ".Vote
for Cleveland and S1.25 wheat was
their campaign cry. As Senator
Thurston aptly remarked about a
banner carried in a democratic
parade, inscribed "When the demo-
Gratis get in, we will have no more
20 cent wheat" it was the only
pledge the democrat party carried
out, as we have never had 70 cent
wheat since. With their record
staring them in the face, it became
necessary to revamp some new cam
paign cry with which to dazzle the
people /; hence we have "Give US
free silver and the price of your
products will double" Like their
free trade, free silver would prove
but a delusion and a snare, and the
voter will do we'll to think long and
earnestly before yielding to the per-
suasive cry of free trade, free silver,
OF free anything.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10
The Poor Pops.

How do the pops like the stu
alton in this state Through ts
manipulation of their new leadsr
Senator Pettigrew, they have bssa
sold out to the democrats and will
not even have the privilege Of voting
for their own nominee for vice pres
dent. Talk about bossism, what
the matter with this state Of aaals
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10
The Difference.
So. Oak. Sentinel.

SO. OAK, Sentinel.
If the people of the United States
were positive tomorrow that the Ne
publican party would succeed neIi
November, business would revive
before the sun went down. On the
other hand, if they were positive q
the success of free silver and tree
trade, you couldn't get a dollar I"
pay your way through purgatOry'
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10

Col. M. M. Price of Letcher
will deliver a Republican adj
dress at the Webster opera
house on Saturday evening,
Sept. II. Col. Price has re-
Gently returned from the
populist to the Republican
party and will give his rea-
sons therefor. Do not fail
to hear this eloquent orator.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10
Free Trade, Free Silver; Free SU

Armour Chron.- Tribune.
Four years ago, Bryan wants
free trade. This year, after ir
years of panic and hard times, |
has changed his tune for free silvs
Should he be successful, the CRY vi
then be free soup.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10
ncKinley ~Epigrams,

u NV NV ~
about it, but l believe it is a good
deal better to open the mills OF the
United States to the labor Of Amer
lea than to open the mlnts OF the
United States to the silver of the
world.
We want in the United States
neither cheap money or cheap labor.
We will have neither the n nor
the other. The post which the
United States must occupy, both in
wages and industry, and in the
integrity of its finances and cur
rency, must be at the head of the
nations of the earth.
We must not forge. hat nothing
is cheap to the American people
which comes from abroad when 1t
entails idleness upon our own
laborers.
If free coinage of silver means "a
ffty-three cent dollar, then 1T lsnot
an honest dollar. If free coinage
means ii hundred cent dollar equal
to q gold dollar, we will not have
cheap dollars, but dollars just like
those we now have, and which will
be as hard to get.
Whatever the farmer is suffering
today is b ecause his competitors
have increased in numbers, aud
because his best customers are out
of work. | do not know that we
can decrease the number of your
competitors, but with the adoption
of a true American policy we can
set your best customers to work.
You don't get consumers through
the minis, you get them through
the factories.
Free silver will not cure over
production nor underconsumption.
Free silver will not remove the
competition of Russia, India and
the Argentine republic. This com
petition would remain if you would
coin all the silver of the world.
Free silver will not increase the
demand for your wheat nor make a
single new consumer.
You might just as we'll under.
stand now that you cannot add
value to anything by diminishing
the measure of the value with which
the thing is sold or exchanged. If
you cab increase the value by lower.
ing the measure OF value and YOU
want to benefit the farmer. then
make the'bushel smaller, the pound
lighter, and declare "a legal dozen
less than twelve.
You cannot help the farmer by
more coinage Of a4lver he can be
helped only by more consumers tog
mis- products. You cahnI help him
by free trade, but, as |, 1--we shown.
ne can be hurt, and seriously hurt,
by the free introduction Of com
peting products into this country.
Better IL thousand times enlarge the
markets for American products
than to enlarge the minis for the
silver product of the world.
What the agriculturist Of tli,
country wants more than anytbin,
else, after he has gathered his crop
Is consumers at home, men who do
not produce what they eat, ha,
must purchase all they consume
meii VINO ara engaged in manufao
sufinS, In mining, IN cotton spin
ning' IN the potterles, and in tn,
thousands OF productive industrie.
which command all their time an,
energy and whose employments d,
! not admit OF their producing thci
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10

The Herald man has again been
writing letters, this time to find out
the business rating of Lee, the pop
ocrat candidate for governor. He
announces him as worth $4,000, but
Lee stated to his audience here
that he was worth a million and a
half, and he surely ought to be good
authority.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10

The sound money democracy at
their Indianapolis convention placed
in nomination fer president, Gen.
Jno. Nj. Palmer of Illinois, and for
vice-president, Gen. S. b. Buckner
of Kentucky. This drives another
nail into the political coffin of the
boy orator OF the Platte.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10

Whatever Sioux Falls undertakes
to do is done well and those who
attend the Tri-State Fair to be held
there Sept 2l-25 will be agreeably
surprised at the multitude of attrac-
tons offered.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10

X CURRENT TOPICS.
Not Until Then.

Aberdeen News.
When the laws of supply and d
mand can be suspended at will, The
and not before will it be possible ID
Mr.. Bryan to make silver wort
s1.29 per ounce the world over.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10

The Sioux Falls Press officially
u that the purchase Of that
paper by the Pettigrewites is off and
that it will continue to enunciate
sound Republican doctrine.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10

own food. The American .p,;,,l
turalist further wants these ' sa
sumers near and convenient h !;
field OF supply. Cheap as inl,n
transportation IS, every mile sa,s
is money made. Every manut.,
turing establishment in the INIT
States, wherever situated. i :,
priceless value to the farmers ofts
country.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10

Roberts County will be plunged
this fall into a county seat fight. An
effort is being made to change the
county seat from Wilmot to Sisseton.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10

Do you want four years more of
democratic rule :? If so, vote for
Bryan, the free trader.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10

mo one need be In any
doubt about what the Re.
publican party stands for. Il
stands, now as ever, for hon
est money and a chance to
earn IL by honest toll. w
Mckinley.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10

Ross the JeweleI
display in hi
good assortn
al the Flu.
| Monday was La
20 celebration OF j.
lew Moquette
b Benjamin & Flo
| Mss Fife Billin,
train II
100 pages of 90
|sa or pencil for {
Kerosene Oil, q,
pttnls Per SaH'
| Walt. Finch an,
b their bicycles /.
HcKLES-Bes
Frklps for sc d.
EOre.
| VII Brokaw W.
yesterday, billing
ALLEY"
bfng m your
|nde you new o.
kCo.
| Don't ia
fTays lin
p grades.
Rev Beycrs OF
|sday to tend
his office a
| The Elevator S
per c.
~ them.
| Mss Rose Mar.
3Rdty schools
20ning year.
tEosS the .Jewe
fsing Machine
A kinds.
pancan McFar
iaak Friday and
f'er sunday.
Two new oil t,
Position near tn,
f'aadard Oil Co.
LAcomplete set
fNluded, Torso
FAIRNESS shop.
| chas. German
VISITING his brot
y Racine town,
| Drop in Kero,
ny as hssetoior
.9 gallon "a, tn
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10
Congressional

For Representatives in Congress-
X. j. GAMBLE. of Yankton.
COE l. CRAWFORD, of Hughes.
State.
40. RlNGsRUD, OF Union.
For Lieutenant Governor
D.T. HINDMAN, of Marshall.
For Secretary q State
KIRKG. PHILLIPS, of bloomington
II. Z. MAYHEM, of Sanborn.
For Supt. of Public Instruction
FRANK CRANE, of Codington.
For Attorney General
s.. V. JONES, of Turner.
For Land Commissioner
ia. LOCKHART, of Grant.
For Railroad Commissioners
GEO. A. JOHNSON, Of Dawson.
d. W. MoFADDEN, of Custer.
Legislative.
c. J. SCHULTZ, of Racine.
For Representative
ANDREW L. HEMMAH, of Liberty,
County.
For Register of Deeds
G. B. KNOTT, of Bristol.
For Treasurer
DC KIDDER, of Kidder.
JAMES G. RATHBUN, OF Andover
For Auditor
o. J. SLETTEN, of Union.
For Clerk of Courts
l.. J. LANGLAND, of Highland.
For States Attorney
JOHN II. LUND, Of Webster.
For Superintendent of Schools
ELMER SYVERS0N, Of Egeland.
For County Judge
e. W.TAYLOR, of Webster.
For Coroner
NJ. C. sCHENECKER, of Bristol.
For Surveyor
JOS. ALLEY. of Webster.
For Justices of the Peace
j. p. REILANDER, of Kosciusko.
+. w. HARRIS, OF Webster.
NJ. Rexford. Of Waubay.
ARTHUR JOHNSON, of Andover.
For Constables-
j. II. BOND, of Andover.
A. WOLFE, of Racine.
L. PAUL. of Waubay.
FELIX RONDELL, of Kosciusko.
Commissioners.
Second District
&c. MOORE, of Raritan.
Fifth District
j. j. LEE, of Highland.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10

hsr#bing machines
|ls city is very gu
Dan Shields was in
10 E. ". Small
|Gso.S S. Maynard Q
E.dty yesterday
|.n kinds Of c0olin
bpIs.
store
this Office. i,
|SopE. ". Small.
sterisl.
|Ccl. 7. A. Baker d'
b. today
|Go to E. W. Sinai
pber bills.
actor Thomas Lei
The city.
Fresh Oysters rex
sn restaurant.
IDFinuegan's Alley
ID saturday, Sept
Binder Whips, eaC
Esvator Store.
The pop leaders
Eaevays this week.
school Books-Sl
Oss Co.
n. L, Sateren OF '
hound town Tuesd'
Dvight's Flour
HEAT, and is fine
Don't iail to hear
aturday evening q
The Elevator Sto
l at 10 cents per {
J. H. Parrott OF J
b Commercial Tu'
To keep cool--ea
|oda at Mike Thul'
The county comm
lon the fore part O
Great reduction j
|hirt waists at the
The ebster Mcl
nade its debut Tu,
iul line OF all t
IN at THUS Pion,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10
Our Ticket.
National.

For President
WILLIAM MCKINLEY, Of Ohio,
For Vice President
GARRETT A. HOBART,
Of New Jersey
For Presidential Electors
J.. L. TURNER, of Bon Homme.
t. ID. EDWARDS, of Lead City.
R. j. WOODS. of Minnehaha.
IL. NJ. of Camnhell.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10

Disaster or prosperity /?
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10

Second District
f. c. MOORE, of Raritan.
Fifth District
j. ]. LEE, of Highland.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-10

For Representatives in Congress-
X. j. GAMBLE. OF Yankton.
COE L. CRAWFORD, of Hughes.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-22

rsIa fs5 20 70 By III. laws % tire United
States was unjust and erroneous: that
<hes. zxs Rad expelled gold from csrca-
lasson. All hat s. was the b0unfsn duty
% congress 20 restore that CON 20 cs-e1-
i2sAon BY restoring Sc 20 its fusr value
Senator Bsaton was as uauch opposed a.
Wsbst.r 20 a Deprecated currency. He
sad gold is the antagonist o. paper. and
with fair play VIII keep paper currency
within Just and proper An4ts." He de-
cisred thst the atteznps 20 give preferences
to silver was due 20 ehe same cause which
today induces Pogulssts TO favor free
cosnzge-ahs Interior object Of paper
money.
silver" ne said. From IS .nconveni-
snce OF transportation would favor TIE
circulation Of bank notes. hence the birth
OF the doctrine that Il rnistaks was 70
be committed. It should be On the side Of
silver
He argued that the purpose was 20 drive
god out and force the use Of paper. just
as fhe Populisss in 1895 advocate the free
coinage OF silver wsnn the unconcealsd par-
pos. OF forcing The country to sreenback-
ism in accordance with the doctrine enu1-
casted In the Omaha platform In chose
days II was 10 foster bank issue: IN these
days IL In with the object Of forcing fat
money On the people.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-22
yothsng re,t but the Touchhole.

n-Gov. simon 3. Buckner, in . signed
letter 20 the Louisville CourisrJournsl.
gives his reasons for opposing the Chicago
ticket. and IN the same connection tells
this good story:
I'm viewing this remarkable relic OF the
Democratic party one tnvoiuntarily recurs
to the story OF the revolutionary masket.
Here said an old gentleman 70 his
young friend. Il family relic OF which I
am proud. and the sight OF which should
inspire IN your heart feelings OF the lofi-
est patriotism. Il is a muskst borne by
before It's deadly aim many a redcoat has
bit the dust in that struggle for human
liberty
The young man handled the venerable
relic tsnderly and reverently. After long
and patriotic contempla ton he 1t length
venfured TO ask:
But where Is the bayonetr'
o. said the old man. one OF the boys
was poking for coon IN a hollow tree
and broke IL. and the pieces are lost
Where is the ramrcdr
Why. that was splntered 90 badly
that had new one made OF iron at tho
blacksmith shop
But said his young friend. these
look like fresh marks on the stock
80. yes was the reply. Jim broke tho
stock last year cracking hickory nuts. and
had a new one made
Why. this don't look IKE . very old
barrel
Well. the barrel bursted last hog
killing time. so I've got a branG-new one
:" Z didn't know said the Young man.
that they used the percussion locks In the
revolutionary musket'
81 believe responded the old gentle
man. hesitatinzly. that the touchhole IL
left
And thAt II about all that is left OF
Democracy In the Chicago platform OF
1885,