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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-10
An Attorney at Law.

The return of Thomas L. Watson to
the practice of law is worth more than
the bare fact. If not an event of the
first magnitude, it is an event of in
terest, pointing political moral and
adjoining populistic tale.
Mr. Watson abandoned his profess
sion some five or six years ago. At
that time populism as national fac
tor was just rearing its bucolic head.
The discovery had just been made that
the country's distresses all grew out
of the preponderance of lawyers and
politicians in the paths of the public
service. These men had too much to
do with framing the laws, and with
their execution. They had established
a sort of legislative trust, which must
be dissolved And the only way to
dissolve it was to elect more farmers
to office. Agriculture must have a
larger representation in the halls of
Congress, and wherever public affairs
were transacted .t
Mr.. Watson fell in enthusiastically
with the new propaganda. A lawyer
himself, with a fair practice in a
country town, he sold his books locked
his office door, turned his back on the
courts, and set up regularly as a
champion of the people. The episode
was widely advertised, and on the
crest of its wave Mr.. Watson came to
Congress, farmer, and in earnest.
His conversion to populism was
complete. He was the Populist can
didate for Speaker of the House. He
| held the age even over the famous
jerry Simpson as the spokesman for
populism on the floor. He kept the
cause of populism continually in evil
| dence. He became a martyr to the
cause when he offered for reelection;
! but he rose from his congressional
ashes into the position of leader OF
the party at home, and finally into
that of vice-presidential candidate on
the ticket with Mr.. Bryan. He is
suspected of desire to head his par.
tvs national ticket in 1900, and of al
ready laying pipes to secure that
nomination.
But behold, Mr.. Watson is a lawyer
again. He has bought back his old
books, or invested in new set, re.
turned to his old office, or opened a
new one, gone into court again and
earned and received a large fee He
is again distinctly tarred with the
legal stick. What does it all mean;
That Mr. Watson is now so strong
that he can afford to ignore the mere
prejudices of populism? Or is popu-
lism itself abating some of the fan.
tastic notions which heralded it's ap-
pearance on the national stage?
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-10
To Much Comfort a Disadvantage.

Is the world or mankind benefited
by having too much comfort and lux
ury? This question has been under
discussion by many of the master
minds of the world. No definite con
clusion has been reached. We may
wisely study the subject for ourselves.
Cities furnish more apparent luXuries
and attractions than the country
many more advantages in the eyes of
young people.
The farm has been at discount for
years. Boys have set their eyes to-
ward great commercial centers and
have said good-by to green fields and
lowing herds at the first opportunity.
Some of them have grown rich and
prominent and have outstripped their
competitors who were city born-they
have put more energy and hard work
into their pursuits. They have had
to gain for themselves the comforts
of the city instead of having them
furnished by indulgent parents. They
have grown strong in toiling, while
those with ready-made comforts have
simply enjoyed them and refrained
from the severe work of necessity.
The majority of the really great
men of the world have been born in
the country and have struggled for
development. Ease rObs the possessor
of ambition and of power. Riches do
away with a desire to work
Too many of our young men and
women fail to appreciate the advan-
tages of country life, the beauties of
sky and field, the peace and quiet of
farm life, the freedom of excitement
and rivalry, the opportunity for self
education and reflection.
Handsome furniture, fine clothes
and high-toned surroundings are not
essential elements of greatness. Too
many comforts are often weakening.
Rugged, strong characters are formed
in the cold and gloomy hills Of Scot
land rather than under the sunny
skies and in the balmy chimes of the
Indies.
Let our young people cultivate an
ambition for acknowledgment and
expanded mental vision; how to bring
improved methods to the farm and
to enjoy economy rather than grow
envious of their city acquaintance or
become filled with discomfort because
they do not possess the comforts
which in their enjoyment are fire.
quently weakening. Give us the de-
velopment of mental power, the cult
walton of nobility rather than the
possession of unlimited wealth and
luxury .-MOntgOmerY Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-10
Death of Mrs. John S. Combs.

The Cumberland Times of Monday
evening contained the following no
tice of the death of Mrs. Emma V.
Combs, wife of Mr.. John s. Combs,
formerly editor of the 1N01tntaiN Dem
OcrGt. The deceased lady has quite a
large number of friends in Oakland
who will be shocked to learn of her
death. The Times says:
Mrs. Emma V. Combs, wife of Mr..
John s. Combs, assistant forman in
the Times composing room, died Sun
day morning at O'Clock at her resi-
dence OnHanOver street aged AZ years
The deceased had been i'll for a long
time, vet her death was so sudden
that it was a great shock to her friends
as the family had every hope that she
would live for some time.
The deceased was a good mother
and faithful wife. She leaves be
sides her husband five children, two
of whom are grown while one is an in
FAINT sixteen months old, and the other
two are of tender years. She also
leaves father, Daniel p. Seaber, of
Westernport, and the following
brothers: John F. Seaber, of West
ernport, and Charles w. Seaber, the
foreman of the Times composing room,
and one sister, Mrs. Laura Lybarger,
who resides on Center street.
The funeral will take place Tuesday
afternoon at o'clock from Kingsley
M. f. church with interment at Ger
man Beneficial cemetery, Baltimore
pike.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-10
PLANS FOR CURRENCY REFORM.
Chairman Hugh Hanna Outlines the Com
ing Conventions Work.


INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Dec. 6.-The
movement of the business interests OF
the country toward national currency
reform upon wholly non-partIsan
lines. which has resulted in a call by
the commercial organizations OF the
Central West for convention in this
city in January, promises TO become
one of the notable things in the his
tory of the country. 1t is doubtful
whether any of the delegates to the
| conference last week have any idea OF
the breadth of the plan Hugh Hanna,
| chairman of the Executive Commit
! tee, has in mind for accomplishing
! this reform.
Il am convinced that we should
| have a commissions said Mr.. Hanna,
in conversing with a reporter to-day.
This is not question upon which
large convention can make an intelll-
gent decision in a day, or in week.
This is a matter that will require
commission two or three months, pos
sibly six months, of continuous work
and thought. Every plan presented
should be carefully weighed, and the
commission. ! believe, will be able to
evolve something that every intelli-
gent business man can heartily IN
dorse | think long step i'll this
direction will be made if this cOnyen-
ton should select a commission com
posed of the very greatest and best
men we have in the country. We
could afford to pay well for the ser
vices of those who could not other
wise afford to devote the necessary
time to the work.
"Then when the commission has
finished its work the largest part of
our duty remains to be done in the
thorough organization and continual
ton of the business of the country be
hind the measure.
! "Instead of sending a committee to
Washington to ask Congressional
Committee for a hearing we should
when a bill that we can all indOrse is
evolved, ask our Representative 60
. come home for consultation with his
constituents If all the members OF
, Congress with large business constit-
| uencies can be thus thoroughly i'll
f formed as to the desires of the meI
7 who were potential in their election
do not believe there would be any
= doubt about the enactment of the
: measure into law.
> Il do not want to see it made a
} bankers convention or bankers
commission, though | want to SET
I that their interests as well as Other
| business interests are represented
2 We want to solve this problem for the
l whole people, not for any particular
S class of people, or for any particular
J line of business
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-10

if there had been no migration to
our shores since the war of the Revo-
luton our population from the native
increase alone would have been equal
to what it is now. His theory is that
the foreign population has made tn
struggle for existence harder, he
lowered the standard of living, an
as a result has checked the growth q
native population. The number Z
children in families has steadilt.
grown less. This is seen among the
masses, and, if Mr.. Gladstone's CLASH
fication be admissible, among the
classes also-in the one case from the
hardness of life, in the other from its
luXuriOusness.
But is the increase of the native pop
uIation have been checked, its politi-
cal weight and influence are in any
emergency potential and controlling
Already there has been more or less
intermarriage between the different
races which make up our population
and without doubt this intermingling
will constantly increase. In time it
will modify the American type of fig
ure and feature, as well as the mental
and physical attributes. The Anglo
Saxon American has now more ACTIN
ity and quickness than the Anglo-Sax
on Englishman. The Introduction Of
! Celtic and Latin qualities into lis
blood may heighten his own, and lead
in the blended stock to higher and
more refined race than the world has
yet seen. The eulogy upon Colonel
Yell, of Yellville, was that though ii
was true his books did not balance
none could doubt that his heart bent
warmly for his native land" We trust
the ideal American of the future viii
both balance his books and maintain
high and fervid patriotism.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-10
WHY KANSAS SHOULD SECEDE.
strong and Sane Advice to the Violent
Ward.

Strong and Sane Advice to the Violent
Ward.
3 The Populist Kansas City World, a
s,liant defender of our noble cause
d sixteen TO one and Reputation,
sints a thrilling story to the effect
nat Kansas is going to secede from
lie Union. At first thought this
hems a little-nOt very, but just a
lttle-startling. But as the idea
links deeper, it strikes root and grows
ind wakes and blossoms and bares
! ogical and delicious fruit The idea
is a good one.
Let's secede. Let's tear loose from
the plutOcracy and arrogance and
brains and responsibility of the cor
|rupt and unsympathetic East. Let's
Rather to our selves here in Kansas
I I'll our jewels and tlounce out of the
3sterhoOd OF States. Let's take our
2ll rags and quit civilization and an
AX ourselves to barbariSm. Let S
Ibolish interest; make poverty fel-
S,ay; punish work with Il sentence of
jenforced silence; make thinking a
Ppenal offence, enact brains into but
/ termilk; paint over lad astra per as
pera" with blue mud, and in its place
inscribe in letters of seething goose
grease; 'Vive Ia Lease; hurrah fOl
| hell!'
What's the use of being bound VI
with communities that are chained
to old superstitiOns about what they
call honesty? We of Kansas want tt
pulverize the money power; we want
! to pay our mortgages in silver, tin
y TsGetajron, pot metal, asbestos, papiel
mache and wampum. The pent-uI
Utica and Schenectady and othel
plutocratic centres contract our pow
ers. With these communities con
stantly treading on the rutfles of hel
garments, Kansas is handicapped.
Therefore let us secede. What. He
there, Alabama. Aux Armes Citiyen
of Arkansaw. Arouse We, Florida
Rally round the standard of Jerr.
Simpson, who boasts of his fiat none!
lunacy," shouting the battle cry o
Kansas. PETER forever, hurrah, boys
hurrah; up with Bill Bryan, dow
with the law, for We'll rally round hi
Whiskers; We'll rally once again
shouting the battle cry of Kansas!
If war shall show his wrinklet
front, let's get a tlatiron and smootl
it out. This is a great day for Kansas
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-10
NIaryIand,s New Came Law Tested.

Baltimore, Nd, Dec. 5.-The valid.
ity of the game law passed by the
last Legislature is being .hotly con
tested in the courts here. City Coun.
Gilman Conrad Dickout was indicted
for having in his possession rabbits
out of season. He is large dealer in
game, and contends that as the rab-
bits came from Virginia the State OF
Maryland has no right to prohibit
their sale.
1t is claimed that the new law is a
violation of the United States Consti-
tuition, and involves the point already
settled in the South Carolina dispen-
sary and original package cases. The
results of the trial will have an impor-
tant bearing on the large game and
fruit and oyster packing interests of
Maryland.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-10
Attempted Suicide.

Norman Fasenbaker, a farmer liv-
ing seven miles west of Frostburg,
along the National pike, attempted
suicide Tuesday evening of last week.
For some time the would-be suicide
has been suffering from general debil-
ity, and he became melancholy. The
last time he visited Frostburg he told
a number of his acquaintance that
they could expect to have surprising
news from him in a short time.
Early Tuesday evening he made an
attempt to get a gun, with which to
end his life, but his family discovered
his intention and placed the gun out
Of his reach. Knowing that some
muriatic acid was about the house he
procured the bottle that contained it
and drank a quantity of the acid.
His wife administered oil and milk to
relieve him, while his son FASTENED to
FrOstburg for Il physician, who worked
all night with the unfortunate man.
He is now in a precarious condition.
He is 55 years of age.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-10

IL for nothing else President CleYe-
lands last general message to Con-
yress will always be memorable from
the fact that in it the head OF a ma
tional party congratulates the coun-
try on the defeat of that party. OF
all the possible changes of politics
who could ever have dreamed that
the last important act of the man
raised to power by a sweeping party
victory four years ago would be to
express public fluctuations on the
overthrow of the same party organl-
cation, Such an occurrence is with
out precedent III political history.
The feature of the message which
will probably elicit the greatest inter
est is that relating to the war in
Cuba. The policy of our government
us here set forth, is sensible and judi
cious. He points out that while Spain
has been unable to suppress the insur-
rection, neither have the insurgents
been able to set up government.
Even the form of a civil government
has been abandoned and the cause of
Cuban independence is at present
represented purely by military au-
thority disconnected with any civil
government with which other nations
NAV enter into relations. The sltua-
ton is such as to suggest the neces-
sity of intervention to end struggle
which is continually growing more
harmful, and the government has
taken step i'll that direction. 1t has
proposed to Spain that the island be
granted complete autonomy of gov
ernment. and, since the insurgents
could not be expected to lay down
their arms on Il mere pledge from
Spain. the fulfillment Of which they
would have no means OF securing, our
government will guarantee the eXecu-
ton of the agreement. No answer
has vet been received from Spain in
reply to this proposal, and whether
or not it would be acceptable to the
insurgents is vet to be ascertained.
If this overture is rejected. interVen-
ton may be compelled to take an
other form, but that the present pos
ture of affairs cannot be allowed to
continue is quite certain.
As regards the financial situation
President Cleveland has nothing new
to offer. He declares his belief that
the present tariff law, if allowed a
fair opportunity, will yield sufficient
revenue to provide for the expenses
of the government if due economy
is practiced. He reiterates his previ-
Gus recommendation that the green
backs should be retired and that the
national banks should be compelled
to redeem their own notes. He rec
ommends the reduction of the tax on
circulation to one-quarter per cent.
1t is now per cent.
The message closes with a repre-
sentation of the uneasiness in the
public mind over the aggregation of
capital in the form of trusts, and calls
attention to the fact that existing
legislation against trusts is made
quate to deal with the subject On
this point he does not make any dis
tinct recommendation, and the sum
of what he says is that something
ought to be done.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-10
RepairOf Highways.

If it be true that $40, 0G0, 900 is spent
in this country every year for road re-
pairs, then indeed we get very little
for our money. The extravaganza of
this bill, however, is due to the fact
that so many of the roads are irrepair-
able. They are not made right in
the first place, and no amount Of
mending can make them right.
The indignant citizens who are
mred in them at frequent intervals
or whose houses are fouled in dry
weather by the dust of them demand
that they be bettered, but instead of
getting an engineer TO lay off really
good road with easy grades and prop
err bed and with projections and gut
tiers the rural tOwnspeOple, thinking
to save money, put the matter in the
hands of some one who knows no
more about roadmaking than a child
and he dumps a quantity of sand
over the broken place. This sand
packs down and for a little while
seems to improve the highway, even
then it is deeply rutted by the wagons
that are carefully driven in each
others tracks in order to save the
horses, but it is not long ere the rains
md winds and ordinary travel have
done their work, and the road needs
mending worse than ever.
We would think it absurd if we
spent $50 to patch SO coat, or if we
were to get q stOnemasOn to make re-
pairs to cabinet, yet exactly that
sort of economy is seen in many of
the country districts,
Now the material for making a mile
of good road where all conditions are
favorable need cost only about $50
Indeed, if a township bought the
quarry outright it would cost less
Stone that has to be crushed or haul
ed for a distance of course comes TIC
more, but there are many places es-
pecially in the south and west, where
$50 will cover the expense of material
for a mile of road, and the road itself
after we have added the labor and
the roller, can be reckoned at $4,000
a mile. The road once made is there
forever. 1t may require a new sur
face from time to time, but if laid by
practical engineer who secures il
by its grade and conveXity against
the wear and wash of rain and wind
it will endure until some cataclysm
changes the face of the whole country
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-10

Our gallery will only remain in Oak
land about one week longer, and those
wanting fine photographs had better
take advantage of the opportunity
for you will not have a chance soon
again to get such pictures as we are
giving you at such price nor at any
other price, and you need have no
fears of not getting your work. Call
and make your sittings at once and
the pictures will be finished as soon
as the weather will permit.
LoAR & Co.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-10
A Curious Situation.

There is queer turn in this per-
petual problem of southern election
frauds. 1t begins to look as if solu-
tion were in sight, but from an en-
tirely unexpected quarter,
Republicans have long known of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-10

members of your body, and, as mem
bers, are to be protected, guarded,
cherished as part and parcel of your
own life. BY our social instincts and
our government, which after all, is
more for the protection of the weak
than the strong an end is put in some
degree to the interindivldual struggle
for existence, and the strength and
advantage of all is in sense given to
each one. In fact, an unhindered
struggle for existence would break up
government, society, everything that
now surrounds us, the defeated and
the weak, with pleasures that would
have been unreachable by us in the
days of Magma Charta, or even in the
days OF the Declaration of Indepen-
dence.
~
This principal of government eX-
plains the theory of our courts OF
law, where the most feeble, repre-
scented by the state as plaintiff
may bring to his knees the most
naughty and wealthy criminal. II
you are enjoying any of the mental
legal physical, spiritual helps that
surround you on every side, you may
set it down as a certainty that some
one somewhere has given up some
thing for you, whom he has never
seen, just because you are member
of the same society or the same bod!
polite 1t amounts in all t,
this, that we are coming more anC
more to recognize the value of human
beings as brothers of ours; that thu
interest of all is best subsarved b.
throwing the best products of higl
civilization unreservedIy before thos
who, in their individual struggle, ar
least able to attain to them.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-10
REMITTANCES;

Remittances made by money order, postal
note, registered letter or bank draft will be at
our risk, if made Otherwise, at the risk of the
ender. Address,
THE REPUBLICAN,,
Oakland. Nd.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-10

Life in 1.-The home Of the brave and
the land of the free is not by any
means the selfish tooth-andnails trug-
gle for existence that some would
have it to be. One phrase of evOlu-
ton has became 50 commonly accept
ed among us that we rattle off sur
vival of the fittest'' quite glibly, and
imagine it explains everything of I'M
evenness in the lives of fellows who
are better or worse off than We.
When, however, you and | can see so
many unfit" both surviving and
f1ourishing, we must look for some
law in operation different from that
which Herbert Spencer shows to pre-
vail among lower creatures, "carnivO-
rous animals remove from herbivOrous
herds individuals past their prime,
and weed out the sickly, the NAL
formed, and the least fleet and pow
| erful.n
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-10
ADVERTISING RATES.

First insertion for square of ten nonpariel
lines 81; each additional insertion after firSt
81 cents per square OF ten nonparlel lines.
1ositiyely no deviation will be made from
he above rates.
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We run counter to this animal
law, law that has ruled even human
beings through many dark age of
the past, because the great advancing
common sense of civilization is supe-
rior to any such british, break-and-
claw method of making progress.
You and belong to society-to some
one government, if you willard we
are no longer regarded by it as indi
jviduals. We are members of that
government, much as your fingers are
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-10

And what may this different law be
that explains the continued existence
of those who are weak and feeble and
puny? The law that in the hearts of
the highest beings of the earth there
shall grow with their progress up
ward from the animal an increasing
recognition of the claims that the
feeble have upon the strong. This
impulse of man to look after and pro-
tect his weaker brethren is more com
pletely pervasive of our civilization
than would appear from the surface
of our daily life, covered as it is with
people scrambling eagerly for self and
pelf these two. But surface indica-
lions are not enough for our inquisi-
tive human race, else were coal mines
and other forms of mineral wealth
practically unknown, and we would
still creep in and out of caves and
gather our scant sheepskins about us.