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The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-06-05
The Impressionistlo BARBER.

Oh the barber is mortal
With a spirit most serene;
And his hair oil, being bear oil,
Isn't lard or vaseline.
He's good one at story.
AS around your head he pops,
With a grip on your proboscis
While he lacerates your chops.
Like fiend he asks you questions,
Such as, 'Does the razor hurt?"
"Shal / trim your beard a little?"
In spirit most alert.
Oh, he loves to sell you lotions
When he capers round the chair
Oh, the BARRIERS, oh, the BARRIERS
Growing glory's cutting hair
-Munhlttrick in Chicago Record
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-06-05

Things are somewhat mixed in Grip
pie Creek since the fire, office room be-
ing SO scarce that people are glad to get
shelter almost anywhere, regardless OF
the surroundings. On the first floor OF
one building banking establishment a
telegraph office and drinking bar are
all huddled in together, fianked by a
number of gaming tables in active OPP
Grafton.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-06-05

The smallest republic in the world is
Tarolaro, a little island in the Mediter-
ranean, about seven and one-half miles
from Sardinia. The island is only one
and one-half miles across, and has only
55 inhabitants. The President is elect
ed for six years, no public official re-
ceives any salary, and women have the
same voting rights as men.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-06-05

Clara Schumann, the renowned pi-
anist, sufeaed an apoplectic stroke
recently at her home in Frankfort-on
the-Main, from which she is not ex-
pected to recover. She is now 76 years
of age. Her first appearance was as a
juvenile prodigy in 1920.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-06-05

There's heaps O men who'll cheerful
Iy spend two hours any day teachin' a
dog to jump over a stick, but if their
grown-up children don't know the al
phabet they never worry over the fact
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-06-05
Dubois Adroit Move.

Dubois, of Idaho, made a clever move
Tuesday, to test the sincerity of senat-
ors who have repeatedly avowed their
readiness to vote for tax on anything
to increase the national revenues.
When the filed cheese bill was about
to pass the senate he proposed an
amendment placing a tax of Is cents on
each barrel of beer In support of this
measure he said this tax would produce
additional revenue to the amount of
s25,OO0,0oO.
John Sherman, who has made so
many appeals to his colleagues to pass
some measure for the relief of the
treasury, and expressed his readiness
to vote for tax on tea and coffee, OPP
posed Dubois amendment on the
ground that it was only a scheme to de-
feat the filled cheese bill. But his mo-
ton to lay the amendment on the table
was defeated by vote of 80 to %. The
bill as amended was displaced by con-
sideration Of Buffers anti-bond bill.
The amendment was defeated yester-
day by vote of 81 to q.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-06-05

The recent enormous advance made
In the industrial development of Japan
and which is now spreading to China,
has demonstrated to rejecting men
who have given the subject thoughtful
consideration, that a protective tariff
will no longer alone successfully guard
our manufacturers and wage earners
from the stream of cheap manufactured
products which have begun to flow from
those countries to our shores, and
which has at last excited the serious
alarm of great numbers of our citizens
engaged in the manufacturing indust-
ries. This is evidenced from the fact
that boards of trade, chambers of COM
MERGE, and other organizations ore APP
pointing committees to investigate the
nature, character and extent OF this
Asiatic industrial invasion. Lee
Mantel, u. S. Senator, of Montana.
The advocate., 1896-04-01
A Kind Word for Harris.

The Lawrence Journal, the leading
Republican paper Of that city, exhibits
a Commendsble disposition to be fair
in personal matters. The following
from the March 16 issue of that paper
will interest readers of the ADVOCATE:
"The Topeka ADVOCATE last week
quoted q paragraph from the Journal,
In which we said that the PopulIsts
were not smart enough to nominate
Col. w. A. Harris for Governor, as a
sufficient answer to the ISLANDERS upon
the private life of Col. Harris. The Jour
nal did not mean It so. The private
life of Col. Harris needs no defense
from the Journal or from any other
source. If all men were as good and
as true in private and In public life as
Col. w. A. Harris, this world would be
much better than 1t Is, to say the least
Of 1t. Among his friends Of whatever
political belief, he Is known to be
man above reproach, and no lies, or
ISLANDERS, or scandals, or llbels will
ever cause those who know him to
doubt for q moment his integrity or
his honor"
The advocate., 1896-04-01
Another Rodeemor Gone Wrong.

The present "businesS" administra-
tion seems to be q profitable venture
for the fellows who are In office, and,
as a natural consequence, rather un-
profitable for the people. E. L. Chsrl-
ton, steward of the Deaf and Dumb
asylum at Olsthe, Is the latest official
who suffers from public ventilation
of his official methods. He has found
it convenient to take a vacation,
which, so far as his official position Ia
concerned, will not be interrupted by
the State. His books are In q badly
tangled condition and his unpaid per.
sOnal indebtedness is considerable.
The amount of his shortage has not
been given to the public az yet. Chal.
linor is busily engaged examining his
books His troubles seem to have
been brought on by domestic infeliclty.
It would seem that q "business" ad-
ministratlon, enjoying the cooperation
and assistance of an imported account
ant, would have kept close tab on such
officials and would have discovered
such Irregularities before they were
carried to the point that the recreant
official could no longer face it. The
steward who preceded him was George
Tauber, and his books and records
were always in a satisfactory condi.
tiOn. He was appointed by the Popu.
list board. In this, as In all other
departments, Populist officials will
compare more than fsVorsbly with
those made by the redeemer admins.
tratiOn.
The advocate., 1896-04-01
Mention the Paper.

Both advertisers and publishers
would be much gratifed If the patrons
of the advertiser who are led by an ad.
vertisement to make orders or pur-
chaserS, would take pains to mention
the fact. But large number of peo-
pie seem inclined to be ashamed to
acknowledge that they read an adver-
tisement, and will, in fact; conceal the
fact from an advertiser If they are at
trscted by the published appeal. They
thus rob the publisher of the credit due
his publication and the advertiser of
the satisfaction Of knowing the result
of his advertising. The writer ear
nestly entreats It's readers to look over
its advertising columns, and when Ct
trscted by any advertisement, to
mention this paper. ~. Kansas Nor
gan IN Newspaper West.
The advocate., 1896-04-01
Kansas Republicans Ought to be Happy.

Kansas Republicans Ought to be Happy.
Kansas Republicans occupy slmi.
lar position, but they stand on rather
more indefinite ground. They have no
candidate Of their own, whom they
present as the embodiment of all
human wisdom In all things political,
so, with the blind confidence Of the
child that leaped into It's fathers arms
in the darkness, they throw themselves
bodily into the embrace Of the Repub-
llcsn national convention. Whether
it declare for the gold standard Of
Wall street, free silver, or something
utterly indefinite and meaningless,
Kansas Republicans will be satisfied.
That is certainly a very comfortable
mental condition. The man who Is
willing for others to do his thinking
and formulate his principles, IL not q
very valuable citizen, should at least
be hsppy.-NGtiOnal Bimet0lIiSt (Chi-
cGgo).
The advocate., 1896-04-01
WhAt New YOrk wand.

Perry Belmont was recently inter.
viewed by the New York World. He
Is recognized ss one Of the leaders Of
the New York bank and money ring.
When he refers in the interview to
New York he means the ring which he
represents. He says:
"We all understand that the exist.
ing parity of gold dollar and @ silver
dollar Ia not In the United States Q
commercial bullion parity, but is an
artificial parity maintained solely in
our country, and by compulsory stat
utes, which, If repealed, would cause q
silver dollar to Immediately have only
half Of the purchasing power of gold
dollar.
"NeW York, come what may, will
not willingly consent that there shall
be condition Of things In which new
Congress and President may be chosen
to declare that antecedent contracts
and debts payable In gold dollars spe-
cifcally can be discharged by tender
ing standard silver dollars this on che
theory that Congress can make full
legal tender dollars out Of anything 1t
chooses to use.
"New York will not willingly take
the risk Of future Supreme court de-
Clsrlng valid such q law making so.
cent silver dollar full legal tender for an
anteCedent promise to pay a lOO.Cent
gold dollar, just 40 a former Republican
court upheld the greenbaCk legal
tender enactments Of 1862 and 1873"
The advocate., 1896-04-01
Daafnesa CANNOT be Cured

BY local applications as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There 10
only one way to cure deafness, and that ID
by constitutional remedies. Deafness ID
caused by an inAamed condition Of the
mucous lining Of the Eustachian Tube.
When this tube is infamed you have RUM
bling sound or imperfect hearing, and when
1t Is entirely closed, deafness is the result,
and unless the inflammation can be taken
out and this tube restored 10 It's normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed for
ever; nine cases out Of ten are caused by
cstarrh, which Is nothing but an infamed
condition Of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case Of deafness Caused by cstarrh)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars; free.
FIJI. CHENEY s. CO., Toledo, 0.
sN Sold by druggists, IS cents.
The advocate., 1896-04-01
The Farce Ended.

The curtain has finally been rung
down on the farce comedy which has
been so long on the boards Of the
United States Circuit court at Chicago.
On Monday Of last week noUe prose
qUi was entered In that court In the
case against Eugene V, Debs charged
with interfering with the malls during
the great strike. If that court could
recall the tragic phases Of Its action at
the beginning Of this huge travesty on
justice, the taint Of contempt would
not cling 80 tensciously to the brutal
exercise of authority In depriVing
man Of his liberty without regard to
his rights under the constitution. His
tory, however, Is inexorsble, and will
make no mistake, at least In this In.
stance. Due process Of law iS only In
the memories Of the paSt.-TypogrGph-
icaI Journal, March 10.
The advocate., 1896-04-01
cold Crowd eettIng TOgether.

The Platte county (Mo.) Republican
convention passed the following reSO-
luton:
"ReSOE0ed, That we recognize In the
Hon. John Sherman o statesman In
whom there is neither varisblenesS or
shadow Of turning, who has for the
last thirty years been Q leader In the
The advocate., 1896-04-01

A Republicans Impression of Party Head
quarters.
The Emporis Gazette, one Of the
leading Republican papers of that city,
uses the following language to describe
the headquarters of Kansas redeemers
and the official residence of Governor
Morrill,:
''If there were a literal hell, what an
excrucisting torture it would be to be
condemned to walk the corridors of
the Copeland for a thousand years.
Every day there is like all other days.
The same faces are in the same places
at the same hour every day. The same
talk about the same fight for the same
nomination goes on world without
end. The same crescent vested poll.
ticisns pick the same hunks of meat
out Of the same scraggly teeth and
chew the came coffee and stuff from
the same mustaches forever and for
ever. The same whispers, the same
pulling by the arm, the same wise nod.
ding of the head by the same fool who
is listening to the same old lies that
the snake told Eve, are repeated night
after night through eternity. The tor
ment Of a doom like this makes the
heart sick, yet there is one man who is
self condemned. That is Judge John
Guthrie. Every night, year after year,
he does penance for some heinous IN.
known crime, by walking into the Office
of the Copeland, pacing its weary
length, listening to its dull and dresry
chatter, and soberly hitching the pro-
cesses of his remorBe-stricken brain
onto the Olesgsnous links Of lie sea-
The advocate., 1896-04-01
Ex-senator Martin for silver.

Ex-senator John Martin was re-
Gently interviewed at Wichita and he
had the following to say as to the pO-
hticsl situation:
"Do you think silver viii be an issue
In the next Presidential campaignP''
"Well, it looks that way now, but Of
course If the Democrats and Republi-
cans nominate q gold-bug candidate
good many Democrats and Republi-
cans who firmly believe In the free
coinage of silver will vote their party
ticket.
''It is strange that people viii sup
port o party which they think will
work an injury to the country just be-
cause their party has adopted it, but
good many of them would do that very
thing, l would like to see the people
of this country divide on questions of
principle instead of on party names.
''It is my candid conviction that q
very large majority of the people Of
this country are in favor of bimetsl-
lism, but whether they will vote for it
Is another question. AS for myself I
am q Democrat, but l do not hesitate
to say that l would vote for moder-
ate high tariff man like Teller on free
coinage platform rather than for a
tariff reformer like Whitney on gold
bug platform. do not intend if I can
help to vote for party against the best
interests of my country. Country
ought to stand first.
"The transportation question will
not down in this State, but I hope 1t
will be ultimately adjusted in the In
terests Of all parties concerned. told
the Populists when they elected me
Senator that l did not believe In the
government ownership of railroads,
but l am in favor of government con-
trolling the roads in the interest Of the
people as well as Of the stockholders.
If the government fails in this, then l
am in favor of the government build
ing roads and owning them. If the
people are compelled to do that there
will not be any doubt then of the gov
ernment being able to control them In
the interest of the people"
The advocate., 1896-04-01

financial affairs Of the country, and
that it ls with pleasure we note the
conversion Of such men ss President
Cleveland, John G. Carlisle, Hoke
Smith, ex.GOvernor Francis, Judge E.
II. Norton, Steve WoOdsOn and others
to the time hOnored principle so long
by Mr.. Sherman"
The advocate., 1896-04-01
No Room for Doubt.

When the facts are before you, you must
be convinced.
The facts are that the Union Pacific Is
leading all competitors, Is the acknowledged
Dining Car route, and great through car
line Of the West.
The line via Denver and Kansas City to
Chicago In connection with the Chicago q
Alton railroad, with its excellent equip
ment Of Free Reclining Chair Cars, Pull.
man Palace Sleepers and Pullman Diners,
demands the attention Of every traveller 10
the East.
Ask your nearest agent for tickets via
this route. e. L. LoMAx,
Cen. Pass. and Ticket Agent.
The ADyOoATE until January |, 1897,
The advocate., 1896-04-01

tales and it's plotting. What a terrible
deed John Guthrie must have done, to
mortify his weak and unwilling flesh
with such q pensnce."
The advocate., 1896-04-01

Take time to secure twenty subscribers
at 60 cents COr this paper until January
l, 1897 and get John Clarke Ridpath's
"History Of America"
The advocate., 1896-04-01

The Advocate until January /, 1897,
fOE so cents.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-09-24
Fl AMENDMENTS

The fourth proposed amendment to
the constitution provides that 'the
judicial power of this state shall be
vested in a supreme court, district
courts, county courts, justice of the
peace, police magistrates and in such
other courts inferior to the supreme
court as may be created by law in
which two-thirds of the members
elected to each house concur" AS
the formation of new courts is left to
the legislature, and as the legislature
is elected directly by the people, we
see no valid objections to this amend
ment.
The fifth proposed amendment re-
lates to increasing the number Of
judges and changing the boundaries of
the various judicial districts, and 1t
requires a twe-thlrds vote of the legis-
lature to do either. This amendment
is eminently proper and is necessary
in order that the judiciary may keep
pace with the growth of the state
without the expense of amending the
constitution every time a new judge
is wanted. Changes cannot be made
oftener than once in four years.
The sixth amendment proposes to
allow five -sixths of a jury in civil cases
to return a verdict, and also to allow
trial by a jury of less than twelve men
in courts inferior to the district court.
This seems to be a good amendment,
as it will greatly reduce the expense
of trials, and also reduce to a mimi
mum the "tieing up" of a jury by one
or two men, as is frequently done now,
necessitating a new trial and conse-
quent delay.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-09-24
C. TO

1t was the republican party which
turned over to the Cleveland admins
tration a bankrupt treasury, with con
tinuing appropriations Of mlllio ms in
favor of subsidized interests with
public revenues depleted in the inter:
est of private plumber, and with the
plates for the bond issue that became
Immediately necessary already en-
graved and ready for the printer.
It vas the republican party, rep.
resented by The Harrison-R Reed Nc.
Kinley congress, which, by e%xtravagant
appropriations, looted the treasury,
turning a splendid surplus into a great
deficit.
1t vas the republican party which
passed the Mckinley protective tariff
lava law which demoralized bust
ness, impoverished the people, en-
gendered labor strikes and lockouts in
Vulnerable and oppressed every legiti-
mate industry in order that political
adventures and gamblers might thrive
on the uncertainties and distress that
such measures always occasion.
1t was the grand collapse of the re-
publican party's unrestricted legisla-
ton in favor of privileged classes, of
the republican party's wanton aban-
donment of the masses in favor of the
classes, Of the republican party's rot
ten financial and economical doctrines,
that caused all the ills from which the
country has suffered during the last
three years.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-09-24

We think that Me-. Bryan is making
a mistake in coming back to the East,
and that his efforts will be wasted
here. 1t is true some democrats are
hopeful of carrying New York, but we
do not think it at all probable. There
is a very strong silver feeling in many
of the rural counties, but it is far
more than overbalancsd by the heavy
democratic detection in the cities.
Granting for the sake of argument
that Mr.. Bryan would have a chance
to carry New York, yet that chance is
30 small that it is not worth while to
60 after it and neglect the West.
Campaigning will be much more
profitable in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
and Kentucky. Then it must be re-
membered that New York is not nee
essary to democratic uccess this
years. Mr.. Bryan a be elected with
ont n.-Nean York World.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-09-24
HE WILL STAY At HOME.

Mark Hanna says that Mckinley
will not take the stump but will
continue to speak to the people who
come to see him. OF course that is
all right for Mckinley and his sup
porters, for they can ride on palace
cars, passes, and special trains, placed
at their disposal by the corporations
who own Mckinley, well knowing that
in the event of his election, should
they ask a flavor" of him, it would be
granted. Not so however with Bryan,
for the people who are,his most ardent
supporters are the people who "earn
their bread by the sweat of their face"
and but very few of them ride on
passes or in palace cars. Bryan is one
of the people, and is not afraid or
ashamed to mingle with them. 1t is
fitting ands"eminently proper that Nc
Kinley should stay at home and re-
sceive those who have the means, or
who are furnished with the means to
journey so far to see this great man
who proposes to enrich the few at the
expense of the many, because they
ask it Of him. Yes it is proper that
he should stay at home and not 60 out
among the people whom his party
brands as regulators and anarchists.
We believe that the great mass of
people are glad he is staying at home,
and we have good and sufficient rea-
son for believing that he will continue
staying at home for at least four years
more.-Brohnlee Hornet.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-09-24
HOME MARKET ARGUMENT.

In one of his platitudinous speeches,
Major Mckinley declared that "what
we want is to protect the splendid
home market to our own American
producers" s
The republican party has been pro-
tecting the ~"splendid home market"
now for thirty years, and the position
Of the farmer to-day is worse than it
has been in all that time.
Nor has the depression in the indus
Try come without warning. 1t has
pinehed harder year by year for twen-
ty years, till now, with corr at about
Is cents a bIshel, the climax has been
reached,
One need 60 no farther than Missouri
to ascertain the condition of the farm
er. When parents Of the farming
class are forced to deprive their child
rem of the education which had been
planned, because of the depression of
the times, what folly it is to talk of
preserving the splendid home mar
ket."
MI. Mckinley speaks again of cal
most damaging competition in III
home market" In what agriculture
products has this damaging foreign
competition been noted? Is it in cot
ton? Is it in cattle, in wheat? Are
not all these exported?
The truth of the matter is that the
policy of protection has evoked retalia-
tory measures on the part of countries
like Germany and France, which, by
their %prohibitory tariffs, have prevent
ed our sales of agricultural products
and thus caused a glut in the home
market. McKinleyism means. the
final destruction of the agricultural il
dustry.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-09-24

No better equipped man could have
been named forAttorney General than
C. ]. Smyth, of Omaha. An upright
honorable gentlemen, a practitioner
who stands high at the bar, a citizen
above reproach, he compares with the
present legal adviser of the state as a
giant to a pigmy. The duties Of the
Office of Attorney General have not re-
ceived much of the time of the pres
ent incumbent, whose record as a
lawyer In Nebraska dates from the
time when he was indicted in Iowa
for appropriating to himself the wealth
of another man. His incolnpeteney is
notorious and the next Attorney
General will be a clean man and a
competent lawyer, C. j. Smyth, of
Omaha Wyyaoss Aybor State,