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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-08-15
S. D. TAYLOR, Editor and Proprietor
THE CONVENTION.

Never in the history Of Kootenai
County has the republican party
put up such a model ticket as that
named at Cnur d Alene last
Wednesday. To begin with it was
a model convention, composed, as
was generally remarked, of the re-
preventative republicans of the
various precincts of the county.
There were few proxies in the CON
venticn. The peoples will was
carried out. All sections of the
county are fairly represented on
the ticket. The candidates them
selves are generally the strongest
men that could have been named.
The ticket is one that THE KooT-
ENAI HERALD can support with
great enthusiasm and we shall sup
port it from top to bottom. The cleo
ton of the legislative ticket means
four votes for the reelection of
Senator Fred t. Dubois. That of
itself should, and will, commend it.
self to the voters of Kootenai
County. Old Kootenai must do
her duty to the gallant Silver
champion. We believe that the
ticket will be elected by large ma
iority. We base our belief upon
the fact that the republicans are
largely in the majority in Kootenai
county and that the ticket it is one
that will bring to it the united sup
port of the republicans of every
precinct. There is only one pre-
cinct in the county where there
could be any soreness-Rathdrum.
But why should Rathdrum be sore?
1t ought to be The happiest precinct
in Kootenai county, and we pre-
sumo it is. 1t had effected to work
itself up into high pitch of excite
ment over county division, declaring
that to be the paramount issue
before the convention. Rathdrun
secured the adoption of resolution
uuequivocahy disposing of county
division, killing it as dead as a dool
nail, and having won on the para
mount issue, they, of all others
should be supremely happy. AL
the rest of the county being satisfied
and Rathdrum being satisfied, hoy
can there be an uncertainty owe
the result? There is none, and GU
gold bug governor had just as wei
make up his mind to that effect
The Ceur d Alene convention wa
a credit to the republican party
1t voiced the sentiments of the pee
pie Of Kootenai county, and the
will endorse its work.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-08-15
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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-08-15

Six weeks ago | suffered with
a very severe cold; was almost un-
able to speak. My friends all ad-
vised me to consult a physician
Noticing Chamberlains Cough Rem
edy advertised in the ST. Paul Volks
Zeitung ! procured a bottle, and
after taking it a short while was
entirely well. l now most hearth
ly recommend this remedy to any
one suffering with a cold.-WM
VEIL, 67S Selby Ave, st. Paul
Mimi. For sale by J. F. Cook, Jr.,
Druggist.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-08-15
AYERS Pills Save Doctors Bills.
The Platform.

The republican convention at
Rathdrum last Wednesday adopted
the following declaration of prin-
ciples;
We, the Republicans of Kootenai
County, in convention assembled
do hereby declare our allegiance to
the principles of Free Coinage and
Protection, as enunciated in the
platform adopted at the state con-
vention held in Boise, in the year
1894, and reafirment at the Poca-
tello convention in May last.
We believe that bi-metalism is
a necessary part of our protective
system in order to enable our farm
ers and manufactures to meet the
competition of the Oriental countries
who being upon a BIZ metallic basis,
reduced to nullity all benefits de-
rived from tariff legislation unless
such legislation be accompanied by
a change in our system of currency.
We commend the course pursued
by Senator Dubois and Representa-
tive Wilson in their advocacy of the
principles of bi-metallism and we
believe that the people of this state
should show their appropriations of
of their services by returning them
to the positions now held by them.
Resolved that the delegates to the
State convention be instructed to
vote S unit, upon all questions be-
fore that convention, a majority OF
the delegates to decide how the vote
Of such delegation shall be cast.
The nominees of this convention
for the state legislature are hereby
instructed ifelected not to introduce
either directly or indirectly any bill
or bills to divide Kootenai county
or to create any new county OF
counties from the territory com
prised within the limits Of Kootena
county, and if such bill or bills be
/. introduced said legislative candi-
dates are instructed to vote anC
9 to work to insure the defeat Of such
p bill or bills.
6 Resolved that this convention
respectfully recommends to the stat
? Republican convention the nomin
. alton of Bartlett Sinclair of KOot
enai county as a candidate for tn,
n Office of Secretary of state.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-07-31

So, also, is it with County Superin-
tendent Scherer. He has so popular
lied himself with the school interests
as to make clear sailing for nomina-
tion and election. No other name has
been seriously discussed on the Re-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-07-31

publican side, as the position i
wholly non-parisan it is not impro
bable that the other parties will
decline to name a candidate in oppo
slotion to him.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-07-31

MCKINLEY tells his callers that congress
elected by their votes will give them prosperity
by restoring the tariff. His callers should
know that only house Of representatives is to
be elected, and that if they should pass seven
times seven Mckinley tariff bills the silver SEN
ate would kill them as fast as they came in if
they did not have free coinage attached.-Min-
neapolis Penny Press.
Then the people will get after the
silver senate in way that will make
it's head swim. The fellows who stand
between the people and prosperity
are going to get hurt. Down with
the senatorial silver monometallism
syndicate which is attempting to run
the country for it's personal interests.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-07-31

THE Minneapolis Journal can hardly
afford to fight the reelection of Gov.
Clough. 1t opposed his denomination
with all the force at it's command, as
it had right to, and still the govern
or was successful in almost every i'm
portant county in the state, including
Hennepin. There are a good many
Republicans in the state who would
have peferred some other man than
Mr.. Clough to head the ticket this
year, but the vigorous and successful
fight he made entities him to the 10y
al support of every member of the par
ty, This is year when it behooves
all to stand together. The success of
the Republican party this fall, ma
tional state, congressional and coun-
ty is all important if distress and pa
ralysis to people and to business is to
be prevented. No free silverite should
be allowed to occupy any position of
trust or responsibility at this time,
even though such position does not
directly bear upon the currency ques-
tison. The election of free silver
governor would simply give added
courage to those in opposion to
sound money, and the fight two years
hence would be all the harder to win.
1t is principle more than men that
the people are called upon to sustain,
and there is no time like the present
to get together and close up the
ranks for vigorous fight all along
the line. Gov. Clough has made a
good executive, and the Journal, mol
! anyone else, will require stretch of
conscience to support him. Especial
~ is this true in the face of present
conditions.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-07-31
A SAD ME SSAGE.

Word has been received from Mis-
sissippi City, La, that probably nei-
ther Sadie nor Will Wildes will ever
return to Minnesota. When Sadie
and Annie were very sick with typhoid
fever, their brother went to them, al.
though he had been fighting off an i'm,
pending attack of the fever all winter,
and bis arm, broken at Sioux City
while in the employ of railroad
company, would not heal. Annie
died, but Sadie improved. While the
fever has left Sadie, she is so weak
that she is not expected to recover
and Will is now coming down with
the fever and has not strength to re
sist it. The case is one which call;
for the sympathy of all.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-07-31

THE silver monometallists have a
habit of quoting Mr.. Blaine as having
been in favor of free silver coinage
They do not quote him square out as
favoring such coinage, but simply
garble his speeches so as to intimate
that he favored that side. In a
speech delivered in congress in 1878,
Mr.. Blaine opposed the free coinage
of silver in the strongert terms,
though at that time it's bullion value
was 80 cents. He pointed out plainly
the evils that would result from free
coinage and how it would rob this
country of it's gold. This was what a
92-cent dollar would do. Today the
silver dollar has bullion value of So
cents, and it's work of ruin under free
coinage would be far more severe.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-07-31

THE free silverites keep rehashing
their story that Mexico is most pros
porous country under free silver. The
fact that wages there range from 25
to 40 cents per day, while the price OF
all manufactured products are from
two to three times as high .as they
are in the United States under the
existing gold standard will not strike
the average workingman of this coun'
try as being the kind of prosperity he
wants The fact is, the masses in
Mexico live in abject poverty.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-07-31

A LOCAL sheet says that the friends
of w. S. Hammond, of ST. James
want him to run for congress again
and remarks that he would make q
formidable candidate, as he was only
about six hundred shy of an election
when he made the run before. The
official vote, however, tells a different
story. 1t records the fact that
Congressman McCleary's plurality
over Mr.. Hammond was 6,9OS.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-07-31

1t is not improbable-in fact it is
quite probable-that the usual Demo-
Pop-alliance will be made this year
on the county and legislative tickets.
But with united Republican front
there is no visible indication pointing
to anything but an old-tlmc Republi-
can victory. 1t should be the policy
Of all the candidates to so make
their preliminary canvass for nomi-
nation as to render it easy to accept
defeat, if it shall come, and turn in
heartily to the support of the more
successful competitors. If this is
done none need fear the result in
November.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-07-31

The Duluth Neacs- Tribune remarks
that the silver craze is subsiding
there, and is not half as strong as
some ten days ago. So it is here, and
will be everywhere. The work which
the senatorial syndicate set out to do
is over, aud the excitement they could
raise in connection with national
convention, can not longer be kept at
fever heat.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-07-31

or even passive candidate at this
time. II. G. Mclean, of Lake Crystal,
Joe Davis, of Judson, and A. Johnson.
all of the Third district. are sin it,
and as the Welsh down that way are
always loaded for little pleasant po-
litical scrap" some tall hustling will
take place during the next monnh.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-07-31

made record clear from blunders,
popularlzed himself with all who
have had business with him, is
equally deserving with his predeces-
sors for endorsement. Mr.. Gunders'
friends will likely move for his nomi-
nation by reclamation.
Middletown transcript., 1896-12-26

ines playing an important part in the
orchestra, while now and again, by
meahs Of special instrument, pathetic
and birdlike notes swell up with pecul-
lar beauty, as if some midnight bird
had lent its voice to mingle with the
angelic psalms to herald in the mystic
coming of the babe of Bethlehem. In
the churches of the small provincial
towns and villages the instrumental
bird notes arereplaced by those Of an
ordinary rooster, which by some device
known to the peasants is made to crow
at the appointed period during the cele-
bration.
Not only on the continent Of Europe,
but also in the southwestern counties
Of England a superstition prevails to the
effect that animals possess the power Of
speech at 10 O'Clock on Christmas eve.
Inasmuch, however, as only those per-
sons who are entirely free from mortal
sin are supposed to possess the privilege
of understanding their utterances, there
is no authentic record extant as to the
character Of their remarks on these oc-
casions. EX-ATTACHE
Middletown transcript., 1896-12-26
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Middletown transcript., 1896-12-26

child and with a silvery tinkle little OBJ
jects fell right and left to the floor.
"Great heavensl" she exclaimed, caus-
ing Jakob suddenly to start up. First
he looked around somewhat scared, but
then, hopping from one leg to the other
in exuberant joy, he exclaimed: eyes,
yes; everything belongs to me. Look,
just look, motherl''
The woman first Of all made light
Her husband now woke up, too, leaping
from his bed with both feet at once.
my God," he said, "the train has
passed. OF course you have been out
there, wife?'
His wife turned deathly pale. IT
have just returned" she gasped.
'But I was out there" ohimed in
Jakob. "When father didn't want to
wake up at all, I just took the flag and
the overcoat and did everything all
right. Nobody knew me, but the Santa
CLAUS threw a heap Of money from
heaven down to me-an new money"
Feeling quite miserable yet from the
spell ofsfear he had just passed through,
the fagman, with trembling knees, al
Middletown transcript., 1896-12-26

she was not coming, returning every
time with his head full of snowflakes.
Then he would plant himself with great
conscientiousness in front of the old
clock, watching the swinging of the
pendulum.
At last. There was no mistake, the
hands pointed to where the mother had
shown him. Jakob went to the bedside
of his sleeping father, shook him by the
shoulders and cried into his ears, 'tF'a-
ther, the traini"
The man lay in a deep sleep. After
drinking the tea sweat had broken
out, and heavy dream seemed to op-
press him, for when the child bent over
him he struck at him. But Jakob could
not be deferred. He knew what was at
stake if his father missed his duty. He
got the flag and put it in his fathers
hand. He dragged the heavy overcoat to
the bedside. He yelled, he tugged and
pulled at the sleeping man-but in
vain. The train signal could now be
heard outside.
'+QuickI'' the boy cried. "The train,
fatherl Get upi Listen, dear fatherl
Do listen to mel"
eyes, yes," the man murmured. 81
am there already" And he turned to
the wall again.
tThere is nothing left but for me to
go out" f" the boy said to himself, 'for
somebody must be out there"
With quick decision he slipped into
his fathers heavy overcoat, drew the
cape over his head and seized the flag.
He arrived just in the nick Of time at
his post, for few moments later the
train thundered past the grotesque little
form. The snow had covered him from
head to foot. With great seriousness he
presented the flag, and the rosy child
face beamed most sweetly from under
the snow covered oape-a storm waited
Santa Claus on a solitary night.
As such he may have appeared to the
youthful lady who stood in the open
window Of compartment car, gazing
out into the silent Christ night, for sud-
denly she beckoned with her hand, and
the next instant heavy object came
flying from the passing train right be-
fore Jakob's feet.
He picked it up and hurried into the
house with it. Thare, after dropping his
fathers heavy overcoat, he hastened to
the window to examine his present In
the bright moonlight. It was small,
fine purse. He opened it and found 1t
almost filed with bright new silver
coin. Jakob fairly screamed with de-
Middletown transcript., 1896-12-26

~ ence is generally admitted,
even by those who do not believe in him
as a divinity, to have been for the good
Of mankind, for the betterment of the
world. In those 1900 years most re-
markable change has taken place among
the sons of men. Their ideals have been
changed radically-have been raised
from the low level of selfshness to the
high level of generosity. of good will to
all and Of helpfulness. Year by year the
circle of Christian influenoe.has widen
ed, and today it is felt in some degree
in every part of the world, save in some
few remote regions, like the densely
darkened interior of China, or some as
yet unvisited corners in Africa.
Even among many of those peoples
who have not as yet accepted the ali
gion founded on the first Christmas day
Jesus is held in high esteem. He is can
pnized as saint by the Mohammedans.
He is known to the Buddhists as great
and good man, and when Japan made
war upon China, although the mass of
the Japanese are as yet non Christian,
their soldiers were cautioned not to con-
duct themselves with the cruelty of pa
gan times, but to remember that the
eyes of Christendom were upon them
and must not be scandalized by wanton
slaughterings Of the helpless and the
innocent. 1t is true that these warnings
were forgotten at Port Arthur, but the
blood that was ruthlessly shed there
was abjectly apologized for by the mi
kado, and in the main the war was con-
lucted without the old time barbar-
lsms.
It is also true that there was war;
that there are still occasional wars be-
tween Christian nations, and that all
wars are violations Of the teachings of
Christ, but the fact remains that tho
world is now practically at peace.
Middletown transcript., 1896-12-26

''There must be almonds in it. Goodby,
mother, and give my best regards to the
Christ Kindl, if you meet him on the
wayp
Then Jakob went to his tree, gazed
on it rapturously, and from time to
time clapped his hands, for in anticipa-
tion he already saw all the branches
and twigs hung with apples and nuts.
Though the mother could not return be-
fore O'Clock, and the clock was now
striking only 4, Jacob nevertheless every
little while went out doors to see whether
Middletown transcript., 1896-12-26


light He never thought of a giver, for
wasn't it Christmas2 No wonder that
presents fell from heaven.
He commenced to cover the twigs Of
his little Christmas tree with the coins,
which was no small trouble, for they
would continually drop off again, 80
that finally Jakob. quite exhausted,
placed his head or his arms and fell
asleep under his silver spangled tree.
He did not hear when his mother re-
turned. covered with snow and painting
from exertion as she entered the room.
She first set down her basket and then
hurried to her husbands bedside. He
was breathing evenly, and ON the floor
was his overcoat. He had been able to
fulfill his duty. "God be praised, +" the
woman murmured and turned to the
window where the tree was and her lit
tie boy was sitting motionless. Softly,
on Hptoes, with the basket full of ap-
pies and nuts, the herzlebkuchen in her
hand, she stepped behind the child's
chair. But what was, thatf Was the
moon shining with extraordinary bright
ness tonight that q silvery simmer
seemed to proceed from the tree as we'll
as from the curly hair Of sleeping Ja-
kobp The woman brushed with her out
stretched hand oyer the head Of tbs