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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-10-01
Don't Bet on Election.

The period Of brag and bluster hai
arrived rather early in the present
political campaign. This 10 g kind Of
argument" which requires very little
talent except the ability to prevAricAtc
and 10 believe everything one hears
favorable to the prospects Of victory
for his side and TO d'sbelleve that the
other side has any show at oil. AC-
companying this phase OF the CAM
psign offers TO bet are usually promi-
nent Without discussing here the
immortality Of betting, the Kansas
Farmer desires 10 warn it's readers
against betting on eleCtion. The mag.
nitude Of campaign funds raised by
political parties is little realized by
those who are not in the management.
Some managers hold that money bet
on the campaign is we'll invested, ev.
on If lost. II is not an unusual prac-
tice for these managers to secure the
services Of efficient persons TO bet on
their side, the managers furnishing
the money, with the understanding
that il their side wins the better
makes the stakes, and If il loses no
questions will be asked and the money
need not be returned. There are
many variations Of this plan Of max.
ing political capital. These political
strikers are always anxious TO get
up" all the money they can find ''tak.
ers for" and if they find no takers
they are loud in their claims that the
other side knows il is defeated and
that q vote for that side is sure 10 be
"thrown away" etc. Farmers and
farmers boys who are in dead earnest
for their side are considered choice
game by these fellows who "never
bet on anything but election" Don't
bet. Make il a rule and stick 10 il
always, that you will not bet, and you
will command the respect Of even the
fellows who sought to make game OF
you.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-10-01

Down in Indiana yesterday Thomas
H. Patterson Of Denver, addressed the
democracy Of Charlottesville, and il
was made the occasion of the biggest
political demonstration Charlottesville
has seen in twelve years. During his
speech a sensational incident occurred
which called forth the severest CON.
domination on q party Of Wabash stu
dents who attempted TO ape the Yale
boys who broke mp the Bryan meeting.
Thirty students gathered on the
outside of the crowd and started the
college yell, which they concluded
with three hearty 'rShs for Mckinley.
They could not DO quoted and the
speaker was forced TO pause, where.
upon a great crowd Of angry country
boys made a dash for the students.
No love is lost between them anyway,
and the farmer laos saw . golden OPP
portunity to avenge many fancisd
sights,
They took the initiative and there
was preCipitated q battle which waged
furiousIy for few minutes. The stu
dent body included several muscular
foot ball players, and they fought
valiently until overpowered by super
Tor strength and numbers, when they
broke ranks and ran. The attacking
party followed and q running fight
was kept up for several blocks, one
squad Of students being compelled to
seek safety at q private residence.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-10-01

SEVERAL old soldiers are very hot
at Mr.. Bryan for saying in an editor
lal in the Omaha WOrld-HerGd of
Nov. Is, 1892, that:
"The next session of congress will
have to wrestle with one deficiency of
36,OOO,0OO This is on account of
pensions. The appropriation for pen
sions for the next year must not be
less than $15O,OOO,OOO. 1t is there
fore easy arithmetic to perceive that
the appropriation that congress must
make for pensions next session must
aggregate not less than $186,0O0.
This tremendous sum would in it.
self be enough to run reasonable
government. One would not com.
PLAIN If il were an honest debt, but
large proportion is not debt, because
1t was never earned by any act Of pat
riotism or heroic service. The gov
eminent is held up and despoiled of
no mean portion Of this, and it seems
helpless to defend itself. One cannot
help being curious to know how many
more years it will take to exhaust the
generation which feels itself injured
by the war. II is safe to say that
never did a generation display such
remarkable longevity.
This statement is unfair and unjust
to the old soldier, but did Mr.. Bryan
make it, Mr.. Bryan became editor
Of the World Herald, September l,
1894, as the following will show:
The following dispatch from the
owner of the World Herald to The
Times concIusively refutes the at
tempted attack on Mr.. Bryan:
Omaha, Neb., Sept. 2-Bryan be-
came editor of the World-Herald
September l, 1894, He was in no
way connected with the World
Herald at the time Of criticism in
pensions, G. M. HITCHCOCK,
Proprietor World Herald.
We had hoped that our friend who
is preaching "pure politics" would
keep campaign lies out Of his paper,
but it seems not
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-10-01
During all Of Grover OIeveland'l

During all of Grover Oleveland's
years at the head of the government
he was dlshonoring one of our ORE
cious metals, one Of our own great
products, discrediting silver and en-
HANGING the price Of gold. He en-.
deavored, even before his inaugera-
ton to Office, to stop the coinage Of
silver dollars, and afterward and to
the end of his administration persis.
tently used his power to that end
He was determined to contract the
circulating medium and demonetize
one Of the coins of commerce, limit
the volume of money among the peo-
pie, make money scarce and therefore
dear. He would have increased the
value of money and diminished the
value Of everything else, money the
master, everything else the servant
Mr.. MCKINLEY, at Toledo, Ohio, Feb.
IL, 1896.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-10-01

Ar THE soldiers reunion in Topeka,
on labor day two gentlemen were In
vited to make speeches, one to take
the silver side the other the gold side,
but just as the silver man got started
a portion of the audience decided
that it wanted no politics discussed at
the reunion, and 80 the silver man
was howled down. Quiet was finally
restored, but the speaker decided to
quit. The gold man then started in
and the people who wanted no poll
tics at reunions cheered almost every
word he said. It is not politics at re.
unions that hurts, but the kind of
politics.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-10-01

IT IS reported that the pops in one
Of the counties to the south have ap-
pointed committee to distribute the
free silver which is to be received as
soon as Mr.. Bryan IS elected. We
presume that like the garden seeds
sent from the department of agrlCul.
ture it will be given to pops and dem
ocrats only.-Burr Oak Herald.
If silver was to be distributed in the
way above indicated, it is our unbias-
ed opinion that many pops and demo-
Gratis would have their corns tread up
on by republicans, anxious to get q
share. They never yet have been
backward in lining up to the govern
mental free lunch counter.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-10-01
THE PLunB RESOLUTION.

On the first page Of this issue Of
the HERALD will be found an editor
lal copied from the Dispatch Of An,
gust 80, 1894, We want every one Of
our readers to look IL over closely,
and learn what was claimed as the
poSltion of the republican nominee
for governor upon the money issue,
only two years ago. We suppose he
is not now in favor of the free ana
unlimited coinage Of even the Ameri-
can product.
But the main portion Of the editor
ial is this:
"That from and after the date OF
the passage Of this act the unit Of val
ne in the United States shall be the
dollar, and the same may be coined
of 4l2s grains Of standard silver, or
Of 1858 grains Of standard gold; and
the said coins shall be legal tender
for all debts, public and private
That hereafter any owner Of silver or
gold bullion may deposit the same at
any mint Of the United States to be
formed into standard dollars or bars
for his benefit and without charge, bat
il shall be lawful TO refuse any depos-
it Of less than 500, or any bullion so
base as TO be unsuitable for the oper-
atoms Of the mint"
Read the above over carefully and
see what it says. 1t calls for free and
unlimited coinage Of gold and silver
at the present ratio Of 16 to l, and no
where does it ask or suggest any
waiting for an international confer
ence. Now whose production is this?
The Congressional Record says that
Senator Preston B. Plumb succeeded
in having 1t passed by the United
States senate, then republican we be-
lieve, by good majority. The reso.
luton went to the house where it was
defeated. Every republican from
Kansas in the house voted for this |
amendment, among them was Judge |
Peters who comes here next week.
The position now taken by the sill
yer people is exactly the same as that
outlined by Mr.. Plumb's substitute.
II Mr.. Plumb and his friends were
light in 1890, the silver people are
low. II the silver people are repu-
listors now those republicans who
7oted for the Plumb substitute were
hen. The fact is however that in
1890 free silver was not a party ques-
ion, and those men voted for what
hey believed to be for the best inter-
ssts Of their constituents, but today
he party has declared for a gold
standard, Except by permission of
'ther powers) and so those gentlemen
ire trying to convince themselves and
'thers that they were wrong in 1890.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-10-01

Mr.. BRYAN has been having great
time down in the cultured east. At
New Haven students from Yale kept
up such a racket that he could not
speak. In another town the owner of
a mill had red flag flying upon
which was a Bryan picture. Some
incendiaTy act fire to this building
and il was seriously damaged.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-10-01

The Dispatch of last week printed
in full MI. Blaine's speech OF Febru-
airy 7, 1878. We read the speech and
find that Mr.. Blaine urged indepen-
dent action upon financial matters by
this country, He stated that foreign
nations would be coerced into follow.
ing in our pathway. He also says;
(See near bottom Of third column Of
speech as printed ID the DiSpatch,)
II believe the struggle now going on
IN this country and in other countries
for single gold standard, would, IL
successful, produce disaster in the
end throughout the commercial world.
The destruction Of silver as money,
and the establishment Of gold as the
sole unit of value, must have a ruin.
GUS effect on all forms Of property,
except those investments which yield
q fixed return IN money. These
would be enormously enhanced IN
value, and would gain a dispropor-
tionate and therefore advantage over
every other species of property. If,
as the most reliable statistics affirm,
here are nearly seven billions Of coin
or bullion in the world, not very un-
equally divided between gold and sill
YER, 1t is impossible to strike silver
out Of existence as money without re-
suits which will prove distressing to
millions, and utterly disastrous TO
tens of thousands"
There you have it. The obstruction
of silver as money aOiU PROVE dis
t'eSSing to millions, and utterly dis.
aStrouS to tens of thousands. Sill
yer as money has been destroyed, as
all silver now Ia circulation 10 only
token money. As to the results Of
such destruction each must be his
Judge.
If as Mr.. Blaine says, "the respon-
sibility of re-establishing silver in its
ancient and honorable place as money
n Europe and America devolves real
y upon the congress Of the United
States" the voter should cast his bal
ot for men who favor such indepen-
lent action. Two men will be voted
lor this fall by the people Of this
county, j. d. Botkln, candidate for {
at large, and N. B. No
Jormick, candidate for congressman
rom this district, and when they 20 /
o congress, as they will by the grace
# the voters, they will vote to "re-es-
ablish silver and bring it into gener-
Il use as money, while our national
Indictment to Europe is so great, {
hat if we have the right to pay it in I
liver, we necessarily coerce those I
lations by the strongest of all forces, i
elf interest, to aid US in upholding 6
he value Of silver as money" .
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-10-01

"AccoRD1NG TO my view Of the sub
iect. the conspiracy which seems to
have been formed here and in Eu-
rope to destroy, by legislation and
otherwise, from three-seventhS to one
half Of the metallic money Of the
world, is the most gigantic crime Of
this or any other sge.-John g. Car
Isle. Congressional Record, PIP. Al
to "A, 1881
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-10-01
Caucus.

The peoples party Of Phillipsburg
township will hold a caucus at the
court house on Saturday, October 10.
1896, at 3 o'clock, p. M, for the pur-
1pose Of nominating q township ticket.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-10-01
For Residential Electors
STATE TICKET.

STATE TICKET.
For Chief Justice
FRANK DosTER,
Of Marion county.
For Governor
J.W. LEEDY,
of cOfEoy county.
For Lieutenant GOvernor,--
A. NJ. HARVEY,
Of Shawnee county,
For ngressman-at-Large,-
REV. j. D. BoTKlN,
Of Wilson county.
For Secretary of stato,-
W. e. BUSH,
OF Jewell county.
For Treasurer
D. II. AEFTLEBowER,
Of Mama county.
For Attorney General
L. O. BOYLE,
Of Bourbon county.
For Auditor
W. H. MORRIS,
OfCherokee county,
For Superintendent Of Public Instruction.
WILLIAM sTRYKER,
of Barton comfy
For Congressman 9Th District,
NELSON B. MCCORMICK,
Of Phillipsburg.
For Judge Appellate Court,
SAMUEL W. MoELRoY,
Of Oberlin.
For State Senator,
DAN HART,
of Norton County.
COUNTY TICKET.
For Representative
CHAs. TURNER,
Of Plum Township.
For Clerk Of the District Court
S. LANDES,
Of Kirwin Township.
For County Superintendent
JIM. TADLooK,
. Phillpsburg Township.
FOR County Attorney
R. FRANK STINsoN,
Of Phlllipsburg Township.
For Probate judge
JOHN Ii. HAM,
Of Freedom Township,
For Commissioner ist DISTRICT
MS. KING,
OF Bow Greek Township.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-10-01
THE KANSAS CITY TIMES

only metropolitan daily this section supporting the peoples andi
dates will daily from Sep 1885, until JAN 1897 for
ONLY $1OO.
TIMES the most popular semiweeky the west
Sent postpaid until Jan. l. 1897 for rs cents 81
Byan Silver March," the popular campaign will be
person subscribing for the Daily and each months
subscription the Weekly Times Song has both words and pusc and
any address for rs cents providing do not want the pa
per- Address all orders to
KANSAS CITY TINES Kansas city, Mo.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-10-01
PEOPLES PARTY TICKET.

PEOPLES PARTY TICKET.
For President
WILLIAM j. BRYAN,
Of Nebraska.
For Vice President
THOMAS E WATSON,
Of Georgia.
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For President.
WILLIAM ]. BRYAN,
Of Nebraska.
For Vice President
ARTHUR sEwELL,
Of Maine:
FREE SILVER TICKET.
For President
WILLIAM ]. BRYAN,
Of Nebraska.
For Vice President
ARTHUR sEwELL,
Of Maine.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-10-01
OAsT0RrA.

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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-11-24

Boston Advertiser: The national CON
vention Of Hebrew women in New York
Is of moment quite apart from the topics
considered, the important purpose avow-
ed or the personnel of the assembly.
II Is OF fully as great moment TO
thoughtful soclologists outside OF the
Hebrew race as 1t can be to any Of the
persons most actively participating. 1t
shows In a sirgularly striking way how
widespread. how .~deep-rooted and how
rapidly developing Is the modern wo-
mems movement. Hebrew women have
been SLOW to respond to this great lat
ter day impulse, which Is irresistibly
working TO free one-half the human race
from shaciles no longer endurable, but
all the history of the Jewish people tends
to the that, having oncc be-
gun, these women will never cease until
they succeed, d1
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-11-24
W D%EBUTANTEs
or Washington-Gcn. Grants Grand
daughter and tho Daughter OF rostnus.
ter General Wilson,

daughter und tho Daughter OF rostinns.
ter General Wilson,.
Washington special in New York
Herald: Though little more than seven
teen years of age, Miss Vivian Grant
Sartoris. daughter of Mrs. Nellie Grant
Sartorls, will make her special debut
the coming season. She will be presented
at a tea on December 0. given at the
home of her grandmother, Mrs. Grant,
in her honr. Mrs. Grants residence on
Massachusetts avenue, formerly the
home OF the secretary of state, Is hand
come and well fitted for entertaining
effectively.
The fortunate young woman, for whose
pleasure many pretty affairs have al
ready been planned, resembles closely
In feature and manner her famously
charming mother. She Is of medium
height, with dainty figure, big. brown
eyes, brown hair that Is golden in the
sunshine, and pink and white complex
ion. A well known artist for whom she
has posed for her portrait Is authority
for the statement that she has "the most
beautiful neck and shoulders ever SEEM.
She was educated in England, only
coming to America In June last. She Is
a wheel woman. takes an active interest
In all sorts OF athletic fun, sings sweetly,
knows the languages and Is absolutely
without a fad. The prospect that lies
before her is unusually brilliant, for she
will not only have friends won by her
own bright smiles and lovable ways,
but a legion of loyal admirers Of her
grandfather will exert their wealth and
position to make her social career a sue
cessful one.
Miss Wilson, daughtcr"of the post
master general, is among the girls who
will make their debut In. Washington
society the coming winter. She will
not be presented before January, how
ever.
She is a frank, interesting girl, whose
education, with her four brothers, has
been broad and thorough. She has au-
burn hair, blue eyes, Is plump, fair and
utterly free from a~ffectatiol.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-11-24

Pick-Mo-Up: le was a Very well-pre-
served woman. and certainly did not
look her forty years; indeed, people who
saw her about with her twcnty-year-old
daughter generally, II they did not know
them, used 10 TAKE them for sisters. In
the matter. OF actual looks the mother
was, indeed. better looking than her
daughter. and she certainly had quite
as many admirers. The daughter COM
Ing into her mothers room the other
night-they were both going TO a dance
found the latter putting the finishing
touches TO her toilet before the long
glass Of her wardrobe.
"Ah, dear" said the mother, while
her hand adjusted her shoulder strap.
what would you give 70 be as good
looking as your mother?"
what would l give. dearest mother?"
replied the girl; why, exactly what
you would give to be as young as l."
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-11-24

The Indications IRE that President
Cleveland will do nothing in the Cuban
matter. What OF Congress? The Gu
bans are our near neishbors. waging
war for their liberty. We have been
through that kim OF war ourselves.
Their island commands the mouth Of
the Mississippi. No European power
should command that island.
Liberty humanity and s%elf-interest
appeal to US to recognize the truth re
garding Cuba, that a state of public war
exists there. This recognition would be
helpful to the Cuban The chances
are in favor of Cuba without any friend
ly act of ours, but recognition would
hasten the end of the trouble that Is
desolating the island.
Spain would have no right TO COM
plain. She has had almost two years in
which to put down the revolt, and the
hour of he- success seems as far off as
ever. -
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-11-24

Case and Comment.
! nm the American Eagle, ~,
And my wings flap together;
Likewise | roost high. ttzg@
And cht my bnnanas raw.
Rome may sit on her seven hills and howl,
But she cannot sit on me;
May she put TINT In her pino
And smoke II.
| am mostly II bird OF peace,
But | have got thlons J
Which reach from the storm-bcatcn
Shores of tho Atlantic
To tho golden shores of tho
Placid Pacific, Gg
And Tuse the Rocky Mountains
To sharpen tliom on.
And when J scratch gravel,
Mind your Dyes,
And every time I cacklo
| have laid I'm egg.
Ant / point with prldo
To the eggs | have laid
For tho last hundred years or so;
| am the original hen bird of tho Goddess
OF Liberty, %
The only %gaIlInaccous "E Plurihus unum''
On record.
I am an eagle from Eaglcsvillc,
With II scrcnm on mo
That makes thunder sound
Like dropping cotton on n still morning.;
And my present address Is
Hail Columbia. United States OF America.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-11-24
HE Propo.ed CITY Chnri.r.

There are some excellent features In
the proposed new charter for the city OF
Wheeling. whose present form of gov
crnmcnt Is far behind the best thought
and practice of the day In the matter OF
municipal government. At the same
tlmo the proposed charter Is a dlsap-
polntment to those who think that when
Wheeling gets a new charter It should be
as good as the beat.
The fundamental defect In the pro-
posed instrument 1t that power and re-
sponslbilitr are not brought together in
one executive head. The people arc to
elect n mayor, assessor. treasurer, audi
tor, board OF control, and, IL they prefer.
n chief of police. A board OF public safe
ty is TO be elected by the council. These
provisions are not good. The people
should choose the mayor and he should
be responsible for the executive branch
Of tho city government. Responsibility
and power are scattered instead Of be-
Ing contracted. This Is a vital de-
feet Of the proposed charter.
II we canno do better than this It
would be wise to get along with the char
ter we have until q more progressive
public opinion shall come up to a higher
standard. When a change is made It
should go to the roots. not merely trim a
few branches. The people will not ask
for a new charter every year or two.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-11-24

~ a."
with the Republican party as the great
central force, and protection left out, is
as idle a dream as any sophomores in
politics ever had. To try 10 realize that
dream would give tho Chicago
ton politicians a walk-over in the next
election.
II was the tarlf issue. not the money
issue, ON which the Republican party
swept the country In 1895. On that issue
It would have swept the country this
time, II the money issue had not been
sprung to obscure the real issue. II the
Republican party wants to open a blood
vessel 1t will take the well.meant bad
advice II IL getting On the tariff question.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-11-24

On Sunday, the Rev. B, B. Evans. of
Zane Street VI. L. church, Wheeling.
dedicated n beautiful little church at
Proctor, Wctzcl county.
The church and furnishings cost
about seventeen or eighteen hundred
dollars, which was provided for. and
tn. church dedicated. The building
committee and the people OF Proctor
and surrounding country stood man.
fully by the work and in return they
have n very neat little church.
The pastor. Rev. L. A.. Mamma Is do
Ing a good work at that place.