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The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-10-08
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Massillon. o., Oct. 7.---Henry Smith,
the baseball catcher OF the Buffalo
London, Oct. 7.---George Du Maurier
passed q quiet night, but his condition.
which IL critical. has not changed.
Greenwich. Conn, Oct. 7.---E. c..
Benedict's steam yacht Oneida with
President Cleveland on board arrived
here tonight.
Lexington. KY. Oct. 7.---colonel Ro-
bert D. Todhunter. one of the oldest
and wealthiest breeder of trotting hors-
es, IS dead. He bred many famous
horses.
team, eloped from here with Miss
Rosa Russ q few days ago, has been
heard from. He telegraphed his father
that they had been married in Buffalo
Saturday morning.
Peoria. H., Oct. THE building oc-
cupied by the Parsons Horoiogical in
stftute and the Ide Manufacturing COM
pany, was nearly destroyed by fire ct
O'Clock this morning. Loss is about
500. zoo and the insurance $13s.0oo.
New York. Oct. 7.---William X
Kearnes, a newspaper artist formerly of
Pittsburg, Pa, was today held without
bail on recommendation OF q ooroncr's
jury on the charge OF numbering Rosie
A. Redgate, whom he shot in the streets
of this city Sept. g.
Cleveland, o., Oct. IA special to
the Evening Post from Gallipolis. o.,
says: The elegant passenger steamer
Columbia struck q rock near Red
House on the Ohio river this morning
and sank almost Immediately. Tire pas
sengers escaped in yawls- The steamer
was valued at between $4,000 an1 s15.-
600.
Quincy. H., Dot. Last midnight
seven men started u a skin 40 cross
The river 1rom Caa,on. Mo-, where they
had been attending po1tical meeting.
When about fifty feet from the Illinois
side. the boat upset and John Reed,
George Withrow and John Smms were
drowned. All were in the government
river service and the two latter came
from Fort Madison.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-10-08

thing that Its advocates said would fol-
low its adoQtion-pot one. More, it has
not served a single American interest.
II has served tine interests Of other ma
rions of the world. but has given no
benefit TO the American people. 1t has
not helped tho Iaborer the farmer. the
manufacturer. the mechanic, the mer-
chant, the lum,berman. the miner, the
trader. It has not helped either the pro
ducer nor the consumer. 1t has given
the treasury Inadequate and insufficient
revenue. and It has given the iaborer
and the farmer a disappointing and
ruinous price for his products.
THE WAY NOT TO DO 1T.
"Why, think for a moment, farmers
of West Virginia, that during the first
year OF this so-caled tariff reform aaw,
We imported 1882. 600. 900 OF agricultural
products from other countries. Is that
the way to bring prosperity to the
American farmer? The way to do that
is to buy your products at home and
make your tariff high enough to keep
the products of the cheaper labor and
the cheaper lands Of other countries
from destructive competition with our
own producers You would have
Thought II this tariff reform revenue
law would have done anything it would
at least have raised enough money to
run the government. It has not even
done that: as q producer of revenue It
has been an utter failure, and as q pro-
ducer OF wealth or wages or markets
or prices to the farmer, Its failure Is de-
plorabe and unprecedented
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-10-08
SPEAKS TO THE AsHLANDERs
Mckinley Notes the Similarity of Issue
Years Ago and Now.

Years Ago and Now.
Canton, Ohio, Oct I'm the course
OF his address to the delegation from
! Ashland county, Ohio, Major McKin-
| ley said:
Eighteen years ago your county wtas
in the congressional district for which
/ stood as candidate for congress.
remember as q young man TO have gone
to your county, almost an entire strang-
er to your people, end I shall never for
get so tong as ] live, the warm and
cordial welcome you gave me and the
splendid support you gave TO the Re
publican party that year. applause
and cries of: I'VE will do it again.'D
Thown in a Democratic district that
was the hot-bed, impenetrable and un-
conquerable, with a Democratic major
ity OF over 1000. the Republicans, who
every county of that district, turned
that Democratic majority into a Repub-
lican majority of more than 1900.
THAT year, as the older men in this
audience WIFI recall, 1 was cautending
for two things. In every speech made
L presented what 1 regarded as two
great overmastering issues. One was
the return to specie payments and the
other was the cOTltin uance of a protect
i've tariff policy THAT would preserve the
American market for the American far
mer and the American factory for the
American workingman. Great cheer
ing) We are contending this year for
the same principles. On the one hand,
the allied parties of the opposition insist
this country shall take a step back
ward. Ever since 1879 we have been ON
the gold basis, on the solid rock of hon.
est finance and of honest payments Of
debts, public and private. 1t is now
proposed that We shall enter upon the
SEA OF not only deprecated silver dol
Lar, but of deprecated paper money;
and, ITO that the Republican party ans
wers No; forever no. tremendous ap-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-10-08
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of Thomas Watson, the Democra tic ma
jority has dropped from 5000 TO 1000. 1t
is generally conceded, however, that
Atkinson has carried the state by at
least $4,000 and the returns are xepected
by his friends to show he has major
dty OF $4,000. This. if true, viii mean
that the balance of the ticket has been
successful by najorfties OF 10000.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-10-08
LATEST NEWS FROM GEORGIA
Atkinson's Majority May be as Much as
Twenty Zig hit Thousand

Atlanta. Ga, Oct. Wv. H. Atkinson
DemocraS is reelected governor by a
majority of not less than 2S. 600 which is
am increase of 5000 over the party ma
lority of two years ago. The situation
at midnight was very complex and the
result is largely guasswork. Fulton
county, in which this city is situated,
ha's given Atkinson. majority of 200.
where two years ago 1t gave a majority
,f 800. Bibb county this year gives a
majority Of soe and two years ago it
gave the Democrats a majority of 5000
In the Tenth district. which is the home
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-10-08
CUTS NO FIGURE NATIONALLY
Chairmaa Buck and Hoke Smith Interpre,
the Result in Georgia.

Atlanta, Ga, Oct. IA E. Buck,
chairman of the state Republican COM
miFtee, said: "Atkinson's large major
ity is due to the Prohibition plank in
the PopuI7st platform The governor
won the negro vote by his efforts to
suppress lynching. The result has no
significance nationally"
Ex-Secretary of the Interior Hoke
Smith In AN interview with the repre-
sentative OF the Associated Press said:
''The contest in Georgia was over the
question of local government. National
issues did not enter into il. Governor
Atkinson won the confidence of the
negro vote by his impartial administra-
ton and the Large ma jority of them sup
ported him ait the polls"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-10-08
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The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-10-08
TO THE WEST vIRGINIANs
Utter Failure of Democratic Tariff Reform
Is Pointed Out.

Canton, Ohio, Oct I'm his response
to the delegation from Parkerspurg,
and West Virginia, Major Mckinley aS-
serted that the intereSts of West Vir-
giniA We're identical and not different
from those of every other section OF the
| country. After speaking of the diSap-
pearance of sectional lines. he express
ed desire to see the people of the
north and south united IN control OF the
government, brought together in the
execution of a common purpose, agree
| ing in a common policy for tl1e good Of
all, and together making laws and ad-
mfniStrationS which shall be national
IN fact as well as in name. He said:
PARTIES, my felIow-citizens, are only
the Instruments in the hands of the peo-
| pie for the accomplishment of the good
of the country. They shall not require
our fealty or allegiance single mo-
ment after they have ceased to be in
strunsents for the public good. for the
public honor and for the public veal.
Party attachments, strong as they are,
should be quickly broken if to con-
tinue them means IN juryand hurt to the
country's highest interests and the well
fare Of an the people. Ma patriotic CIT
izerl can with his own sef-respect.
mindful of the interests of qfis state and
country, follow any political organiza-
ton, no matter how long he has been a
meTiher of 1T, when that political organ
iZation essaits the currency and credit
and industrial Independence of the gov
eminent.
TARIFF REFORTS FAILURE.
Nor should former political opinions
be closed against revision when exper,
ience has demonstrated that those opln-
IONS are clearly wrong. I DO rot be-
lieve there are many men in this coln-
try, no ma uteT what they have thought
IN the past, who viii not now say that
free trade, or So-calbed tariff reform.
has proven by the experience of the
past four years TO be a signal and dis
e-strous failure. 1t has failed, utterly
failed, in every prophecy, promise and
expectation. 1t has not secured a single
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-10-08

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The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-10-08

Tours. France, Oct. 7.--Gsneral
Trochu, who defended Paris until II
surrendered 20 the German war in
January. ISL. IS dead.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-10-08

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The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-10-08
HERE Is A STRAW
KENTUOKY's REGISTRATION SHOWS
HOW THE WIND BLOWS.

Reports From all Over the State Indicate
an Unprecedentedly Heavy Registration
and Figures From . Majority of Towns
Show Uniform Republican Gafns-Face
Of the Registration Returns Shows .
Republican Gain OF Fifty Thousand
Latest Returns of the Georgia and
Florida Elections.
Louisville, KY, Oct. 7.-Reports from
oyer Kentucky show that the registra-
ton Of voters yesterday was heavy to
am unprecedented extent and the Re-
publicans claim to be greatly encourag-
ed over the result. Except in Louisville,
Lexington and Covington, but one day
Is given to registration. Figures re-
ceived from a majority of the towns
show uniform Republican gains in the
registration and also a great increase
In the number who refuse to state their
political faith. AS q rule the gold STAN
dard Democrats have registered as
plain Democrats and 1t Is impossible TO
estimate their strength. The back dis
tricts have not been heard from but
the reports up to date are conceded 10
be the most significant evidence yet
brought forward to indicate how the
state will go in November. The Re
publican gains, according TO the face
Of the registration returns, will amount
to over $4,000.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-10-08

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The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-10-08
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the knowledge, that so many forms CT
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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-02
They Were Born Kicking.

The kicker is Il genuine United States Amerl-
can and was born kicking He is the salt of the
earth and without him. the people will be nffl-
ciallv sailed The kicker continually puts
crown of thOrnS. in the chair OF the Office
holder right where the official end Of greatness
can be most easily won to uprlglltness.
The kicker is frequently a nuisance to his
friends and to his enemies alike. but when Ne
kicks AT nothing the strain all comes on his OWE
anatomy. The reason so many kickerS are I'M
popular is because they miss what they KICK AZ
| All humanity. except the object hit reioices al
the effect of a centcrshot kick. The fellow WHO
| gets hit is usually minority AMI a minority has
| no right to the love. affection or sympathy "t
majority.
/ Humanity has not yet passe, the point of
brutality. That milestone is one or tw" millen-
mum laps ahead of the coming man. Human
suffering attracts the crowd and the most SYM
pathetic theorist is there on the reserved seats.
Several counties will mobilize to see mali
hung and 90 home disguised if he is reprleVet
on the scaffold. Not a man will congregate to
view the merciful sight of d convict released
from the penitentary.
The man who was first in war. is first in the
eyes OF d whole world; the man who is first III
peace could not win a lanitorship in colored
cntlrcn: WHe tle man "iIb - HIST III 'V fo''i'
of his countrymen will never he found out untl
he is thoroughly dead and securely buried.
The kicker is always sire of an audience
Sure of it because he exposes trailty and abuses
! sonObotv If he advertised TO praise Il man ht
would only have the party to he praised AS {
: listener Men MAY be good. after they are dead
but in life 10 man really believes another MAJ
IS so filed with goodness rs IT, perlneate ms
whole outward hide. and inward conSc"usness
5 He may publicly testify To the good man : sane
: tty but privately he reverences the Kicker Wh'
shows up the good mans black spots and lame
joints
l Therefore remember the kicker Will survive
t while the sun. and the sons and daughters o
q men have spots. McMaSters Weekly.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-02

wear They have come to the conclusion that it
is a filthy habit and also injurious to the health.
Several have asked us to call at their cells
and take their tobacco so that they can better
resist the temptation. and this we will cheer
fully do and while we hope the boys will have
frmness to keep their good resolutions. we are
afraid Judging from past experience, that they
will fail after brief struggle and our tobacco
supply will again be reduced to the minimum.
While we realize that the man who tells the
first story doesn't stand the best show. yet we
| believe the ReformatOry has two BARRIERS that
can outStrip. out shave or outcut (aS you please
| any institutional BARRIERS in the business. if not
| they would like to hear from others. For in
stance No. 1903 and his assistant No. 1868. on
| Tuesday of this week. cut ffty-three heads OF
hair, (all but three being crown cuts.) in an
hour and fOrtytve minutes. "NeXt!'-Pontlac
| Ull.l Pioneer.
! We are willing to cOncede that the above
record is very good 1t is not our intention TO
dispute the claim that the Reformatory BARRIERS
can outstrip and out-shave any two BARRIERS in
any State institution in the country, but several
years ago this prison had barber that we are
positive could Out-cut any barber OF modern
times, either in or out of prison. The young
man of whom we speak had passed his life on
:; farm, but in an evil hour he gave way to "a
cOyetOuS desire for his neighbours horse and
was sent here to serve three years sentence.
1t so happened that a barber was needed at that
time. and he being the only available man, was
eauipped with a few dull raZOrS and set to work
removing the weeks growth of stubble from the
faces of his fellow sinners HIS first victim was
an irascibe freshman who left the chair with
blood streaming from a cash i'll his cheek and
. swearing vengeance against the barber.
dozen or more followed. blood flowed freely. anC
the looks of anger and nuttered curses bestowed
upon the young man from the country made
him so nervous that he could hardly hold the
. razor in his hand At this juncture we received
a signal from the keeper to take Il seat IN TIM
torture chair. With 4uaking heart we Sa
, down and the barber. with Il hand that Shool
as with the palsy. proceeded to remove hear'
:, and cutcle. We will say nothing OF the I'm
speakable agony suffered, but we still bea
. upon our face the seventeen sears received dun
ing the operation as evidence that the Mime
, sofa State Prison has the distinction of one
y having had Il barber t:l that could out-cut an
. barber in ChriStendOn.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-02
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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-02

Mrs l.. {. Noble and Master Archie Noble. OF
ST Paul accompanied by Miss Rose tAeai.
city visited our office on Monday.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-02
Grace Congress ational.

Corner 9Th and Laurel streets, Rev. j. r..
ALBERT, pastor. Sunday services. preach,
ing 1880 A. m and Z - y. IN. Sunday School
40 IA. III. Junior EDdeavor 800 p. m
Christian EDdeavOr $50 p. III. Chlidfen $
Mission Band the second Sunday OF each
month at 3:Oop IN. Midweek and Prayer
meetings. Wednesdays 7:45 p. m. Ladies
Aid society. Thursday afternoons. LADIES
Missionary Society. the last FRIDAY OF each
month.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-02
Methodist Episcopal.

Third street. opposite Pittman House Key. Z. a;
Grassy pastor Services at 10:30a. m. and
7:30 D. III. Sunday School at II III. JUNIOR
League at 400 p. III. Epworth League at G:3o
u. IN. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
at 100 Pastors class in Bible Study. Friday
evening at 80. Ladies' Bible Circle, FRIDAY
at 1901. III. Mrs. S. b. SlOculnD, tearher.
Pastors residence 523 \. Second street.