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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-15

l~utions, who represents neither the old
heroic South of Lee and Gordon and
Buckner and Hampton, nor the new
South of enterprise and energy and activ-
ity and increasing manufacture, stood
up in the Chicago convention and pro-
claimed a new sectional issue, the South
and the West against the North and the
East. A new sectional issue between the
North and the South! Why, God forbid!
Illinois sent out the flower of her nan
hood to the nations battlefield under
Grant ard Logan and Oglesby and Palm
er to put an end to s%ectionalism be-
tween the North and the South forever.
Illinois gave Lincoln to the restoration
of the Union, that in his hallowed mem
DRY the hearts of all the people might
grow together in close and lasting friend
ship. My father went out under Wis
consin's flag, and gave his life that there
should be and should remain q united
people. l have crossed the old Mason
and Dixon's line. Two weeks ago I
went from Washington to Richmond in
four hours-it took some Of you four
years to make the same journey. l have
clasped in right good fellowship the
hands OF the men who fought upOnN the
other side. The heroes of that great
war-South and North-will never again
enlist in another sectional strife.
1t does not matter whether the Ameri-
NeAAA y . AONAOu W INC A1uSf+ VI
Yankee Doodle or the lullaby of Dixie.
if the flag of the nation is displayed
above it; and the American baby can be
safely trusted to pull about the floor the
rusty scabbard and the battered canteen.
whether the inheritance be from blue or
gray, if, from the breast of a true moth
er and the lips of a brave father, it's little
soul is filled with the glory of the Amcri-
a constellation. A newsissue between
the West and the East! why, God for
bid! l am a part of that mighty West.
l know its brave, enterprising, pioneer
people. l have seen them rescue the
wilderness and convert it into a garden.
They have been greatly aided by the as
which represents the accumulated say
ings of two centuries and a half Of Fast
ern thrift. The great West cannot live
and thrive without the cordial co-opera-
ton and support Of the strong East. and
the East cannot live and grow and thrive
as it ought and should without the cor
dial cooperation, friendship and support
Of the mighty West. United, we are Il
nation powerful for the welfare of all
sections; divided. we are at the begin
ming of the downfall of the republic.
Nebraska put one star in the azure of
the flag, inc Illinois put another, but
when they took their places in the flag
they were no longer the stars of Illinois
and Nebraska, but the stars of the great
est nation of the earth, shining for the
welfare and protection of every section
aud all the people.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-15
COME HOME.
"From Thomas Watson"

"From Thomas watson"
o! Bryan, dear Bryan, come home with M
now,
The pops are all ready to run;
You said you were coming right hoax to IL
Pate,
A soon rs your talking was done.
Come home, come home, Bryan, dear Beyn1s
come home.
Poor Aitseid IL dying and Boies has 60
Don't talk any more. but come home.
o! Bryan. dear Bryan, com home with -
Why don't you come home while y0u canf
Free silver's all right flor the haAthsnl,
that's 20, TsH
But you can't stun It down a free uAa1.
Come home, come home, Bryan. dear BxYonk
come home,
Mckinley is ready to give you Z blow.
That. will knock you quite dat, 90 cqe0h
home. Lincoln (Nebl CalI.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-15
Jugglers with the National Credit.
CHAUNCEY DEPEW.

UEPEW.
"Bryan and Sewall and Watson pro-
claim a revolution. These jugglers with
the national faith and national credit.
with business and prosperity. with labor
and employment. are recklessly endeav-
oring. to p~recipitate one of those crises
in which capital and labor and homes
and wages are inextricably involved.
The right of revolution is divine, but it
must have supreme justification. Under
our constitutions and institutions and
laws as they exist there is before us
in the promises of the Populistic leaders
nothing but an invitation to embark
upon that sea of reputation and dishon-
or which has wrecked every nation and
every people that ever embarked upon
it. This revolution promises to destroy
the Supreme court, to prevent the issue
the country for any purpose, to debase
the currency, to issue. If need be. ire
deemable paper and fat money, and to
destroy the validity and the ~inviolability
of contracts between individuals. 1t
proposes to seize the railways and the
telegraphs, to enter upon a vague and
vast system of p%aternal government and
to destroy those elements Of American
liberty by which the government governs
least and the individual has unlimited
opportunity for industrial business, pro-
fessional and political honors and emolu-
ments.
mo one has ever doubted the wis
dom of the fathers of our republic. A
century of experiment has abundantly
and overwhelmingly justified their fore
sight, craftsmanship and patriotism.
They saw the horrors. Of the French
revolution, and they made up their minds
to guard their country against the ex-
cesses of temporary madness. They
created the executive and the legislative
branches of the government and made
them subject to frequent submission to
the will and judgment of the people, but
they enacted a written constitution I'M
der which the executive and the legisla-
tive branches must act. Inc then they
created that new feature of government,
that palladium Of the rights of the peo-
pie and the permanence of our institu-
tons. ar independent judiciary. a court
which could say to a wild Congress:
You have overleaped the boundaries of
the constitution and you must bring
yourselves within its limits They knew
from the precedents of liberty behind
them that the judiciary can always be
trusted. There are two places under
our constitution where neither wealth
nor power gives any advantage to the
individual. where the richest and the
poorest. the most exalted and the hum
blest stand on the same plane; one is the
ballot box and the other the court. And
yet this Democratic and Populate al
lance proposes to destroy this majestic
tribunal and make it simply the echo OF
the party caucus which controls Congress
this year and may be driven into OBJ
security next"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-15
Bryan as an Orator.
HENRY D.


But Mr.. Bryan / know somewhat, and
find in his habits of life many things
to admire. He is a man of undOubted
talent, a talent for the stage, perhaps,
rather than for statecraft. He is q kind
husband and an indulgent father. He
does not smoke or chew, drink or swear,
stea! or gamble-in short, he has not a
single redeeming vice that I know of.
unless it might be lying: and ever there
| have had spells of thinking he believes
himself. Moreover. Mr.. Bryan is a man
OF rare eloquence, although anyone read
ing his speeches would be pardoned for
doubling the assertion. Reduced to
and bombast. while those self-same
words, spoken in Bryan's voice-a voice
as melli1uous as the sweetest pipe in
yonder organ-would stir your heart.
just as would the voice of a great sin.
ger, by the very quality of tone. Add to
this q handsome, graceful presence and
a fire and energy of action. and you can
imagine that it matters very little to
Mr.. Bryan's audience what MI. Bryan
says. SO long us he keeps on saying it.
The mistake he made in Madison
Square garden was in the attempt to ar
que. he ought never to do that. for
the divine attribute Of reason was left
out of his mental makeup.
But, my friends, there is not a word
in this encomium which would not with
equal truth and appropriateness apply
to another famous Nebraskan. whose ex-
ploits are %inseparably linked with the
history OF Omaha; whose habits are as
regular as the sun. whose character is
as impeccable as Bryan's own. whose
presence is just as handsome. whose
powers of speech We're formerly just as
great and have wrought many an audi
ence to tears, to laughter and to frpn-
~; a man who. like Bryan. was pos
sessed of a talking devil. and who TODAY
in Madison square, New York-that
bourne from which no Nebraskan seems
ever to RETURNS feeding breadcrumbs |
to the sparrows.. That man is George
Francis Train. And it must be remem-
bered that Mr.. Train once ran for the
presidency, just as Mr.. Bryan is doing,
ticket on which Mr.. Bryan is running
for the presidency is essentially his
own, although two other gentlemen have
been casually mentioned in connection
with H-one trying to get off and the
other trying to get N. Here, you oh
Is q sort Of political cerebus. with
not the best of feeling between the On.
nine collaterals: Mr.. Bryan's predica-
ment 10 not without embarrassment. He
must feel as bewildered with these two
as the proverbial cat with
4 like number Of tails. He has nrohahir
prevailed upon Mr.. Sewall to STAY where
ne is. whereas Tom Watson wants 70
know. He wants to know where no l.
at he wants to know whether he IL
candidate for the vice-presidencv or
My q vermiform appendix.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-15
ABoU BILL BRYAN.

Abou Bill Bryan, may his tribe decreased
Aw0ke one night from a deep dream of
peace;
And saw within the moonlight OF his room.
Making 1t rich and silver-like In bloom.
An angel writing In a book Of gold;
Exceeding gall had made Bill Bryan bold.
What writest thou?' The vision raised
Its head.
And, with q look Of what he might expect,
Answered. Their names who'll get Il II
the neck"
And am ! one?" asked Abou. II don't
KNOW"
Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low,
But cheerily still, and said, II pray thsAA
sir.
Write me as one not liable to err"
The angel wrote and vanished. The next
night
1t came again with q great November light.
And showed the names Of those knocked gal.
ley-west;
And 10! Bill Bryan's name led all the rsstl
Lincoln (Neb.) NewA
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-15
An Assault on the National Govern,
ment
DON NJ. DICKINSON

Let us see what confronts us. VIVA,
is this free government that we hon
about from the rostrum only occasion.
ally on the Fourth of July and goia
days.? But a word about this fundn
mental expression. Up to the estah
lishment Of the American governma at
governments had failed on the face ri
the earth for the object for which noy.
ernments are formed.
The theory is that this is the host
government and the only free cover.
ment which achieves for the neonle
the largest amount of happiness. com
fort and prosperity for the rren tast
number. Now. they had tried emnar.
ors, lodging absolute power Of ierisla.
ton, the execution OF laws. and ail
judgment upon laws In one mar, md
It failed; the people were oppressed
garchy, q government Of many men:
It failed for the purposes for which II
was founded; q that all monarchy and
all systems and every republic in tha
world had failed when our athar.
formed the United States of America
and rave US q place IL the famiIv IN
nations. Applause.1
What was the peculiar part of Tho
government which promises permanpnrv.
which promises = republican, 81 demo.
crntie form OF government, that could
It was, fhis; We sestablIahed
leRislatuEe 10 make laws j cCnSYeso. ~
tn powers q ~. 1eeislatuf1 81
! written OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES NJ
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-15
republic and IN no part an idle workin,.
a~pplause.) uuous
Bryan for Fiat Money.

EX-SENATOR WARNER MILLER
Mr: Bryan at heart cares nothing TO,
the free coinage of silver, Mr.. Rrvn,
IL nrst I'M last n believer in fiat money
\ ne Is only using the free coinae,
= : SILVER to arrive at that finally. Thi.
10 u serious charge to make, but if
fanHot prove 1t l will apologize publicly
In the September number of the Arena
Just last month-there is an article OF
the currency by Mr.. Bryan, in which
ne crlticises Mr.. Cleveland severely foI
using bonds in time of peace, and espe.
c1aily for selling them to a syndicate,
ne says: when the United States,
without waiting for the aid or consent
u any other nation, opens its mints 10
the tree and unlimited coinage of gold
n silver at the present legal ratio of
10 to l it will bring real relief to it's PEG.
pie, Il will lead the way to the restora-
tlon OF bimetallism throughout the world,
1t will then be prepared to perfect its
nnancla! system by furnishing a paper
money invested with legal tender quail
ties n sufficient in volume to supply
tue needs OF the government. Its paper
money will not be loaned Their to favor
ties, but will be paid out IN the expenses
OF government, SO that all may receive
the benefits"
ms Is nat money. pure and simple.
MIR. Bryan proposes to stop taxation and
pay the expenses of the government by
printing fiat money. This government
once launched upon that boundless sea
would as certainly fall and go down as
dld the French republic. which was set
up at the close of the last century by
q lot OF theorists and revolutionists.
they issued during a few years forty
thousand millions of francs of fiat money
called asslgnats and mandats. They
gave a legal.tender quality to it, but
while it could pay debts they could
not compel people to take it in pur-
chase. In7other words, they could give
legal-tender quality to the money. but
they could not give purchasing power
to it. From day to day it was issued.
until finally it all disappeared as utterly
worthless. Not a single franc of it was
ever paid or redeemed, and the people
who had parted with their property
for it were rendered paupers. Their
property was gone and the money they
mad received was valueless.
Shall this be q lesson to us? And
can we contemplate the probability of
into power as President of the
United States a man who holds such
In my humble opinion there is
but II way to bring us back to prosper
ilty and to the path of progress, and that
is to return to the system of admins
tration which has been of such great
benefit to us in the past. and to follow |
that path. to follow the lamp of ex- |
To do that every true, honest |
citizen, without distinction of |
party, should unite in this attempt at
and should by an overwhelm- |
ng majority stamp out now and forever
he heresy and the folly of a cheap and
currency.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-15
THE ROOSTER HE WORE on Hrs HAT.

Come. pause for a while in your play.
And put down your ball and your bat.
Attend to me well
While q story / tell
~, r ~. ~. w., 'snp'sa . IVY " bo,.
This man was a laborer skilled.
Contented and happy thereat;
For his Job was secure,
ana his wages were sure,
But MS heart with q longing was filled.
My boy,
For a rooster to wear on his hat.
One day som d~emagogues came,
(For demagogue read Democracy,
And sspouted and brayed
In behalf OF free trade.
TIL they set all his fancy aaame,
For a rooster to pin on his hat.
He whooped like IN imbeclle loon,
For q candidate fussy and fat,
Whose inflated renOwn
Soon collapsed and came down:
And 1t felt like a punctured balloon.
On the rooster that sat ON the hat ~
Now his partisans hoat In the soup.
Along with the bill they begat.
The cuckoos all sigh
For their vanishing pie:
And the rooster is sick with the roup,
Ny boy.
And poverty sits In the seat.
Where competence formerly sat,
And the laboring man.
Through this fatuous plan,
10 now left with nothing to eat.
Ny boy.
But the rooster he wore on his hat
Then take warning and never forget,
Free traders are blind as q bat.
Their promise of good
Ie adversity's food,
And the laborer long will regret,
The rooster he wore on his hat.
Indianapolis Journal
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-15
Chicago Inter- Ocean.

they went on, l think, to the mount of
$S.OOO,OOO, OOO, and finally the whole
structure collapsed. The government
would not take them, the paper became
absolutely worthless, and when that pa
per became worthless it was found. not
in the hands Of the SPECTATORS: no, it
facturers. of the business men, of the
workingmen of France. 1t was on them
that the loss fell, because they had ex-
changed their labor and their earnings
for this worthless paper. That is the
history of all attempts to juggle with the
currency. The loss lands always in the
same place, and We can form no ex-
ception to the great natural laws.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-15
Labor Needs an Unvarying and Re-
liable Currency.
FRANK 8. BLACK, CANDIDATE FO,
GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK.

GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK.
"No mans labor of yesterday or last
year can be preserved, except by some
representative or token of it, and money
is the almost universally adopted agent
for that purpose. Nothing in the world
should be so anxious az labor that the
token which represents it should be un-
varying and reliable. = Who can
preserve until tomorrow the labor of to-
day? 1t cannot be done, and the only
means Of securing its benefits is to re-
ceive and preserve some token which
shall stand in it's stead and which may
be used a. future needs may require"
And further on the speaker said: "If a
man Is rob5ed, it is a crime and he may
have redress. If a bank fails and pays
him only 53 cents on the dollar, it is a
misfortune, and he is not yet without
hope of recovery. But If he votes away
~ cents of every dollar, it is his own
fault, and he has nothing to condemn
hut his own folly, which will remain
with. him much longer than his money"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-15
SENATOR THURSroif,

No New SEASONAL issue ~iii =
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-15

IL > - = - " ~ ~ ~ SO
my. (ApplauseJ II = 4 coyfAF
to do. 1t is the next meanest
whispering something about tn ChGSSSs
ter of a woman: and nothing ON e6ftA
can be meaner than that. (AnplAuDeA
It is the next thing to it, to pass ~
friendly comment and Impeachment. Hp0D
judges, and the integrity Of their p&G.
poses; because a Judge cannot como
down from the bench aud resent an IL,
ult like that. / say the people III tn
election ought to see to it that no prede
dent is elected upon a platform which
calmly proposes, by unmistakable sue.
gestiOn, to make the Supreme court q
the United States. and other courts &
our system. the mere football Of politics.
the mere tool Of passions. (ApplauseD
~ think Mr.. Bryan thus far In hio
talks-and he says, / understand. that
he never sees a crowd without wanting
to talk to it-and I sympathizet with him
q little In that respect; / used to feel that
way myself 0aughter), but it was when
l was n good deal ounge than / m
now, and didn't know a great deal:
when ! was about 36 years old Oaugh-
teri. although / never expect to know
as much as I thought l knew theD
llaughter)-Mr. Bryan in his speeches
has not much to say about this packing
of the Supreme court. but it is in their
platform. That fact itself is another
reason which ~justifies the Democrats
of character and responsibility in a re-
volt against the nomination made and
platform promulgated at Chicago"
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-13

pected that steel piling will be sunk
to take the weight Of the forts, and
these piles will then be connected by
steel plates until the water can be
pumped out. Ample space below the
lowest tide level viii thus be secured
for machinery, magazines and quarters
Upon solid foundations will then be
erected sloptng barbettes, above which
will be revolving turrets. The back.
ing Of both barbettes and turrets Will
be much more solid than that which
can be given to similar defenses on
board ship, and there Is every probabil'
ity that the forts will be absolutely
in%vulnerable to the heaviest ORD
nance mounted ON any ship Of war. A.
the barbettes must extend several feet
below the lowest low water mark, and
also several feet above the highest higf
water mark, 1t is proposed to face them
with cement so applied as to protect
the metal from the corrosive action Of
the salt water.
Each turret will have Its own revoiv'
ing machinery. The thickness OF the
armor plate will be determined by the
relative status Of armor and the CUR
at the time when the forts are ready FOL
their steel protection, and, to a certain
extent, the callber and length OF CUR
will be dependent upon that relative
status. 1t is to be expected, however
that the four forts will contain eight Of
the most powerful pieces that can b
made.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-13

are 112,S60 adult males In the state
Of whom Sc, 700 are qualified voters
But the highest vote ever polled was
In 1892. when 54,661 ballots were cast
The next highest was last year, when
54,O71 were polled. This would leave
over $1,000 votes unpolled, or about
81 per cent. of the vote in the state
In other words, out of every 100 voters
in the State sixty-three go % the poiiS
and thirty-seven stay at home.
Maine folk are almost in despair De
cause OF the continued lack of snow.
Such a condition of affairs has NOT
been known In very many years. Inere
are sc. 0 900 feet of logs in the Penoo-
scot numbering district which cannot
be moved because Of the absence OF
snow, and fully as much more In other
districts, as well as 10000 cords OF hem
lock bark for tanning, and all the ium-
Der and milling industries are suner-
Ing severely. The unique experience
Of putting wheels OF sleds has peen
tried In some districts. Every previous
winter when Ice has been cut 1t a
been hauled to the houses on sieds.
This year there Is no snow, and the Ice
has been cut and wheeled away. The
farmers say now that the absence OF
the warm blanket Of snow means short
next year.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-13
An Old Rell,s INSCRIPTION,

The old bell Of st. Johns Episcopal
Church, Ellicottville. N. Y, has an in
taaresting history. 1t hung originally
In a monastery in Malaga, Spain. The
monastery was sacked in 1882, and this
bell. with others, was shipped to New
York. Nicholas Devereaux, agent of
the Holland Land Company at Ellicott-
VILE, bought it and sold 1t to st. Johns
Church. The inscription on 1t is as
follows: "Abe sol labos del angel qye
en- alto svena Maria Gracio plena Bar
gas Mefecl 1908" The meaning of this
was q mystery for a long time, until
Bishop Coke studied it, and said it was
n corrupt Spanish, in which b was
often used for v, and which changed
many other letters. "Thus," he said.
. abe should be ave and labos'
should be Ia vos.'" The inscription put
n pure Spanish follows: save (soi la
vos del angel qve en- alto svena) Maria,
plena gracia." The English transla-
lion he made thus; HAL Il am the
voice Of the angel who on high stands
sorth) Maryi full Of grace" The last
words, of course, mean: "Bargus made
me, Malaga, 17oS."-New York Trib'
me.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-13

The Rev. Thomas Alexander, a Pres.
byterian minister, long resident in
Chelsea, and well known as a brother
Scot, was most anxious to know Car
lyle, but had no opportunity Of getting
an introduction to him. One day. in the
Kings Road, he saw Carlyle coming
in his direction, and took advantage
of the opportunity by going up to the
sage and saying: Thomas Carlyle, !
believer Carlyle's reply was; 'Tom
Alexander, I know" They became
good friends, and later Mr.. Alexander
wrote to Carlyle for a subscription to-
ward q school building fund. and Car
lyle wrote back q refusal in doggerel,
~whereupon Mr.. Alexander replied that
II be did not send him flvs pounds he
would sell his poetry to a collector or
publish IL The Eve pounds were at
once forthcoming.