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The advocate., 1896-06-03


cure.
Senator PETER speaks at Eureka
July4.
The population Of Ness county
Is 1870.
Bourbon county Democrats declared
or silver.
Senator Baker was the Decoration
ay speaker at Fort Scott.
The Madison Tnder Qnd.) Is for
Senator Leedy for Governor.
Hutchinson is still In the ring for
the Republican State convention.
The fusionists carried the Democrat
convention In WyRndOtte county.
Labette county POpullsts instructed
for George Campbell for Governor.
Eastern Kansas got q soaking rain
on the morning Of Decoration Day,
Reno county Democrats refused to
pass resolutions lndOrsing Cleveland
The oil companies In Kansas pay
royalties of $4,000 per month in Kan.
Gas.
Thirteen Shawnee county Convicts
were taken to the Penitentiary this
week.
The annual conference Of the Dunk.
ard church was held at Ottawa last
week.
Shawnee county Republicans are for
]. G. Slonecker for Judge Of the Court
Of Appeals.
The Wichita Commoner 10 for Jerry
Simpson for Congressman from the
big Seventh,
The Fort Scott Monitor has been
sold to F. G. Rsney Of the Anthony
Republican.
Osborne POpullsts Endorsed the
course of Congressman Baker and
Senator Peffer.
There are forty.four old soldiers In
Wichita county, Of whom all but eleven
draw pensions.
A resolution to indorse Morrill, was
defeated In the Wabaunsee county
Republican convention.
The SC. Louis cyclone was on the
same day Of the year ss the Wellington
cyclone four years ago.
Two train loads Of cattle were
shipped from central Kansas direct to
London, Eng, last week.
An effort Is being made to secure a
pardon for Gaines the policeman who
murdered Alfred Cruger last August.
The Hutchinson musical jubilee
brought the best musicians Of the
State together In that city last week.
The Scott county Ne,oS- LeCer (Pop.)
has absorbed the Republican, and that
county Is now without q Republican
psrer.
Topeka Journal "The little house
on Jefferson street In which James
Crow operated q saloon has been va.
Gated"
A strong effort Is being made by the
opposition to prevent Morrill, from
getting the delegation from McPher.
son county.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01
How Republicans Gust Democrats lrem
their Seats.

their Seats.
The Washington Post (Republican),
shows how the Republicans turned
Democrats ont of their seats in Con
gress. It say VS.
THE Democratic membership of the
House was hammered down during the
late session from 105 to o. This has
been the result of seating eleven Re-
publicans and Populisfs in the place
of Democrats who held the original
certificates of election, and declaring
two Democratic seats vacant.
There are two cases still pending on
the House calender, and two before
the committee.
The two on the calendar are favor
able to the sitting Democrats and in-
crease the number of eases so decided
TO twenty.three. A fight will be made,
however, in two, If not in all OF these
cases, against the report of the com
,nittee, and 1t is not unlikely that tue
big Republican majority will uuseat
the Democratic members at the next
session. One of these cases is that OF
the popular young sound money
Democrat. Harry st. George Tucker,
OF Virginia. Mr.. Tucker would prob
ably have beeu unseated If a vote had
been taken at this session, for the Nc
KiuIey leaders had marked him for
slaughter, and the Virginia Republi
csEs represented that keeping him in
his seat would ininre the party chances
this autumn. These Influences will
have lost something of their force after
the election next winter, and MIR.
Tucker may keep his seat.n
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01
New York Farmers and Free Silver.

That the advocates of free silver
coinage have not confined their mis-
sionarv work to the South and West
alone is shown by the statement in
Sundays New York Herald that the
farmers of the En- ire State are begin
ming to worship the silver calf. "Por-
tentous and menacing," says the Her
aid, "a political spectre has arisen in
the counties OF this State. threatening
to overshadow parties and conditions
and obliterate partisan lines from the
Pennsylvania boundary to the ST.
Lawrence and from Lake Erie to the
Hudson" The silver agitation in New
York, it appears, has been conducted
SO quietly. by the dissemination OF
literature and not at mass meetings,
that the sudden development of the
cheap sentiment comes as a
great surprise even to New Workers.
An organization" adds the Herald,
land an active free silver campaign
would make many of the strongest
republican counties in the State doubt
full in the November election" This,
it must be admitted, is q very unusual
state of affairs and indicates the need
of a campaign of education, not only
in the South and West, where the
craze exis in it's most extreme form,
but even in Northern States. where it
was not believed that the delusion
would spread. Baltimore Saaa.
The above speaks Volumes. as it
comes from the center of Wall Street.
and received editorial comment from
SO sound a gold advocate as the Bait.
Sua. It is a pointer which tells as
n 1thing else can the way the tide is
turning.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01

A few days ago Mr.. W. s. Hopkins,
president of the bank of Rockbridge,
which occupies the old stand of the
defanct Bank of Lexington, found a
box, the contents of which proved to
be Rockbridge county Baltimore and
Ohio railroad subscription bonds, cou-
pom, and negotiable in the sum OF
$219, 0OO The board of supervisors
were notified and took charge of the
find, and Saturday. by order of the
board, they were destroyed by fire in
presence of the officers Of the county.
These bonds were in the possession
of Figgatt, the defaulting and alb
sconding cashier of the defunct Bank
of Lexington, and as the coupons were
payable to bearer and negotiable, the
wonder is that he did not use them in
his last extremity to bolster up and
conceal his robbery or carry off the
current due coupons with him.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01
Hanged by a Mob.

We published, at the time of the
tragedy, that the wife and sister in la "
of Jos. Cooking. merchant in Mary
land, were murdered, and that Jos.
Cooking was found in the cellar of his
store early in the morning by colored
man who had gone there to buy p'ow-
point. His hands and feet were bound
by himself it is presumed to make the
impression that the murders were can
mitted by some other person Nothing
was missing from the store. showing
that robbery was not the purpose of
the criminal. He was arrested and con
fined for trial in the Jail at Port Tobac
co, and on last Saturday mob of
thirty persons disguised as women took
him from the Jail aud hanged him to
bridge. He pr6tes!el he was innocent.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01
Mckinley the Puppet Of MiIllonaires.

Referring to the nomination of Nc
Kinley and his obligations to Hanna
and his class the New York Journal
says:
mckinley himself is neither strong
enough nor weak enough to be dan
gerous. The agencies behind him are
what make him menace to the well
being Of the Republic. The million
aires who extricated him from a bank
ruptcy not discreditable to him have
kept him in their clutches in a fashion
which brings him only discredit. They
would make him President not for his
sake, but their own. He owes to them
an allegiance, duty which he cannot
ignore. If he be installed in the
White House, Hanna and his assOci
a,es will abide there also.
Perhaps never have the American
people been confronted by situation
so grave as this Never has triumph
ant plutocracy been so insolently self
assertive as in the making of this
Republican nomination. Mark Han
ma, most offensive type of the over
bearing, constituencies, dominant man
of money bags. has forced upon the
American people this politician who is
weak in all matters in which he is not
wrong. The National Republican
Committee was dominated by Hanna
The Committee on Credentials was
dominated by Hanna. The candidate
was SO wholly controlled by Hanna
that he passed through the prelimi-
nary campaign silent as a sphinx. 1t
is, in fact, Mark Hanna. iron founder
and inveterate foe of organized labor,
who is now candidate for President on
the Republican ticket. Major McKin
ley, with all his excellent characters
tics, is nothing but puppet.h
A Republican paper published at
Detroit advances the proposition that
the Republican party in Michigan is
not bound by the platform of the Re-
publican National Convention 1t
positively repudiates the financial
plank and calls upon the State con-
vention soon to be held to rebuke the
delegates to st. Louis for supporting
the gold standard declaration. 1.-The
real fight is yet to be fought" declares
this exponent of the new variety of
political ethics. 1t calls upon the Re-
publicans of Michigan to organize-not
to fight the Democrats as might be
supposed-but to antagonize the plat
form of their OWE party. Boiling, it
declares, is something not to be
thought of, but war is to be waged
within the party on the only plank in
the platform that gives expression to
a live political issue.
This is strange doctrine certainly.
The generally accepted theory of
politics is that partisans are bound by
their party platforms; at least not to
oppose, if they cannot conscientinusly
support them. And when one cannot
obtain the consent of his mind to pur
sue either of the courses indicated, it
is always assumed that his place is
outside the party. According to the
Michigan idea National Convention
has no authority to speak for anybody
except those voting for the resolutions.
The next thing we may expect to hear
is that party is not bound to support
its own candidate One proposition is
just as reasonable as the other.-In0eC-
Appedl.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01

When General Lee, with his daugh
ter, Miss Mildred, made their trip from
Lexington. by way of the Peaks of
Otter, to the home of the late Captain
Pascal Buford. at Montvale, they spent
the night at ''Avenel." the home of
Mrs. W. M. Burwell. Next morning
while their steeds (they made the jour
ney on horse-bach) were standing be-
fore the door, awaiting their riders,
Mrs. Bowyer cut from the flowing name
of Traveller" lock OF hair which she
still treasures among her most valued
possessions
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01
E. NJ. Cushing & Son. Auctioneers.
COMMISSIONERS SALE
THE A. B. LIGHTNER LANDS.

In pursuance of a decree of the Circuit Court
of Augusta county, entered in the cause of W.
2Sth day OF May. 1896 the undersigned COM
missioners will proceed in front of the court
house in Staunton, Va. on
Monday, July 9th, 1896, County Court day,
to sell at public auction to the highest bidder,
estate of the late A. b. Lightner:-
LIST. A tract of Ill acres, lying on the south
Side of the Staunton and Petersburg turn
pike, about five miles west Of Staunton. This
tract is part OF what is known as the ED
son. farm, lately occupied by Chas. A. Light
ner, and the portion to be sold is that part of
the land next to the Turnpike, embracing all
of the buildings and Improvements. This land
is fine state of cultivation, the buildings are
first-class and in good condition, and the sale
farm first class in every particular. right
of way will be reserved from the back part of
the land, assigned to the widow as part OF her
dover, by the most convenient way to the
barn on the land to be sold, and from that
point, by the present farm road, to the Park
ersburg turnpike.
End. A tract OF woodland. part of the Edison
farm. containing I5A acres and lying adjoin-
ing john Taylor and others.
3rd. tract of az acres of land, known as
the Bell land, lying on the north side OF the
Parkersburg turnpike Immediately opposite
the Edison land. This land is OF fine quality
but there are no improvements on it.
4th. tract Of SO acres, known as the Buff
falo Branch farm, formerly occupied by John
A. Lightner. This tract is well watered, has
on it good Improvements, (house, barn, sheep
barn, apple house, &C. fine young orchard
just coming into bearing, and the land is of
good quality
5th. tract of 10 acres adjoining the Buff
falo Branch farm, and known as the WiSenlan
land. This has on it a comfortable house and
good orchard.
The attention of parties desiring profitable
investments is specially invited to These
Lands.
S:-Cash in hand to pay the unpaid
costs of suit and of sale, and any taxes past
due and unpaid on the lands, and as to the
residue on credits of one, TWO and three years
in equal instruments bearing interest, the pur-
chaser to execute bonds with approved per-
sonal security for the deferred payments and
the title retained as ultimate security.
RICHARD P. BELL,
VIM. PATRICK,
JAS. BUMGARDNER, Jr.,
commissioners.
Clerks ONCE of the Circuit Court of Augusta
County, to-wit:
l. Jos. B woodward, Clerk of the Court
aforesaid do certify that Richard p. Bell has
executed the bond required by decree of sale
in the chancery cause of W. L. Lightner ct ais
VS.. A. b. Lghtner's admir-, &c, nOwipending in
said Court
Given under my hand this 18th day of June,
1896.
JOS u. WOODWARD, Clerk,
june 24-tds
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01

( COMMISSIONERS OFFICE, ~ ,Oo.
" Staunton, Va, June 18th, 1896.
VIM. Shul1 ct ais.
vs.
James A. Shull ct ais.
and
ShulI and others
Shuils widow.
All parties interested in the above styled
causes now pending in the Circuit Court for
the County of Augusta, and being heard TO-
gether, TAKE NOTICE, that pursuant to decree
of said court entered in said causes May 9TH,
1896, shall at my Office in Staunton, virginia,
on
July 18th, 1896,
proceed to take, state and settle the following
accounts
1st Whether the division of the lands of
Geo. Shull decd, made by Commissions here
tofore appointed in said cause of Shull vs.
Shull's widow is a proper division and has
been acquiesced in by the heirs at-law.
Ind. What alterations have been made OF
said lands and in what shares and interests,
and by whom said lands are now held.
3rd. Whether any division has ever been
made among said heirs of the lands of Geo.
widow, and if sO,,whether the same is prop
er division and has been acquieSced in, and
in what shares and interests and by whom
said lands are now held.
4th. And other matters deemed pertinent.
etc.
HENRY W. HOLT,
Commissioner
W. Fl. LandeS, p. q.
June 17-4tS
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01
Grain Trade and Crops.

The Cincinnati Price Current of last
Thursday saws
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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01
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COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.


4 COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
~ StauntOn, Va, June 10th, 1896.
Helpers Committee, Robert & Samuel
VS..
Hepler, John w. g. ais.
In Chancery, in the Circuit Court of Augusta
All parties interested in the above entitled
cause pending in chancery in the Circuit Court
of Augusta county. TAKE NOTICE that |, purSu-
ant to decree entered in said cause on the
18th day of May, 1896. shall at my Office in the
City OF Staunton, Virginia, on
Saturday, July 18th, 1896,
proceed to take an account showing
LIST. The real estate of which Isaac Hepler,
deceased, died seized
End. The liens, if any, binding said real es
tate and the debts, if any, chargeable there
upon, and settlement of the accounts of Isaac
Hepler's Administrator.
3rd. The debts owing to the heirs at-law of
Isaac Hepler or any of them by the said Isaac
Hepler, deceased, at the time of his death,
which will be considered in the division of
said real estate,
18th. The debts owing to said Isaac Hepler,
deceased, at the time of his death. by any of
his heirs atlaw, or Announcements made to
any of said heirs at-law by said Isaac Hep
Ter, deceased, which will be taken into ac-
count against the respective shares of said
heirs at-lav i'll said real estate.
5th. The proper share of each of said heirs
at-law in said real estate.
9th. Any other matters deemed PERTINENT by
J. NJ. QUARLES,
Commissioner in Chancery
Circuit Court of Augusta
Co.
B1ease g. Perry, p. q. june 11-4ts
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01
Democracy Against Republleanlsm.

AS the whole policy of the Republi-
can party is adverse to the rights and
interests of the people, especially to
those in the South, that policy should
not be supported but all should unite
against it, particularly in the South.
With a policy of concentration of-pow
er in the F ederal Government, impo-
sition of taxes by high tariff, extern
sion of the pension list. extravagant
appropriations and increase of gov
eminent expenditures and advocacy
of the Force bill. make its success
menace to the rights, liberties, and in
terests of the people. All who are op
posed to oppression should disregard
minor differences and unite to prevent
Republican success, however they
may differ on the question of the cur
rency or other questions in the next
election.
Upon the currency question, the
Democrats are somewhat divided. but
this should not prevent concert OF &C
ton in supporting common ticket
The ticket may be consistently sup
ported by those who may not approve
all the planks of the platform. Ii
would be unreasonable for one to re
fuse to vote for the ticket because he
did not approve certain plank OF the
platform, when by SO doing he would
be supporting ticket representing a
party and policy to which he is more
opposed and to a platform, with the
exception of single plank, which he
does not approve.
The election to decide the currency
question is that of the members Of
Congress, for it is they who make the
laws on that subject. If our party il
| to be divided on that question
| let it be at the election of Con
gressmen, and not of President. W.
fear that the struggle which will en-
sue between the factions in the Chi
cago convention on the currency ques
ton will intensity feelings and
widen the breach in the party, ant
cause such division as might insur
Republican success and disin
tegration of the Democratic party.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01
RepnblIean Inconsistency.

As the IndeC.Appeaz says. it is a Pc
culiarity of the republican platform
that it endorses the administration of
Cleveland and condemns the record of
Mckinley in the same breath. The
plank that deslares for the single gold
standard is an emphatic approval of
the course pursued by the president in
maintaining the credit of the govern
ment; while the distinct reputation of
free silver strongly condemns the latest
,utterance of it's candidate on the sub
iect, who declared when he was a :ne1n
Der of congress that he wanted the
double standard. Here we have tie
situation: Cleveland devoting every
personal and official effort to the pres
ervation of the gold standard, and Nc
KiDley standing up squarely for the
double standard; the republican ma
tional convention giving emphatic en-
dorsement to the gold standard and
condemning the double standard in
language incapable of misrepresenta-
ton. In nominating Mckinley on a
gold standard platform the republican
party is guilty of gross Inconsistency,
not to say, absurdity.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01
What MAY be Expected.

In the event McKinley's election,
we may expect an increase of tariff
taxes, an increase of pension taxes, an
increase of the public expenditures, and
last, but not least, the passage OF a
Force Bill-thc result of which would
be increased burdens on the people of
the South, making them mere "hewers
of wood and drawers of water" for
the people of the North, and the loss
of their liberties and of State rights.
The policy of the Republicans being a
high tariff, they will increase the gov
eminent expenses to furnish an excuse
for Increased tariff by increasing pen
sions and appropriations for various
purposes; and to perpetuate their pow.
er they will pass Federal election laws
so as to control the votes of the South.
In consideration of these things. no
one-who favors less taxation and liberty
in elections, should vote for the Repub-
lican nominees. And let it be constant
ly kept in mind that Mckinley voted
for the Force Bill, and that he favors
an increase of customs duties, which
will ado to the price of nearly every
thing we have to buy.
During the bondage of the Jews in
Egypt, every device was resorted to
by their masters to strip them of their
property, and to make the largest pos
sible profits out of their labor. So too
did the Romans when they had cap
tured Jerusalem and conquered the
Jewish nation lay on such tithes and
taxes,t that the very nation groaned I'm.
der the burden, and the words tax
gatherers. murderers and highway
robbers, were used spontaneously.
1t is about to this condition of slav-
cry that the farming classes of the
United States have been reduced.
They are suffering a slavery Knocked
by the name of freedom, but which is
in fact almost equal to that suffered
by the Jews under Roman tyranny or
Babylonish captivity. And yet in the
face of this, they are asked to further
rfvet on the letters of slavery, by Civ
ing their lords and masters the abso
lutte power to force the payment of all
taxes, debts, dues and demands in gold.
Before this enormity the stamp tax
which England laid upon the Ameri-
can colonies and which brought about
the Revolution, pales into insignif
canoe, and before our people should
longer suffer such inquisition, another
revolution should take place-one that
will destroy the money tyrant and the
usurer.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01

IT is not that the West and South
hate the East, that they oppose it on
the money question, but because they
love themselves. These two sections
have played toad to this stork long
enough and have supplied it with
their bodies as food, until the stork
has grown tall and very defiant, whilst
the toads have grown weaker and
very humble.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01
COMMISSIONERS OFFICE.
~ Staunton, Va, June 9th 1885,

COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
~ Staunton, Va, June 9th, 1896.
Peter Engleman's Executor
VS..
Peter Engleman's Heirs.
All parties interested in the above .styled,
the County of Augusta, TAKE NOTICE the mr.
suant to DEGREES entered in said caslse Dec.
9TH, 1880, and May 3ist, 1894, shall Al my office,
in Staunton. Virginia, on
July 1Itii. 1896,
proceed to make further Investigation AMI sat.
Element of the assets and liabilities OF the as
tate of Peter Ensieman, deceased. shall also
proceed 10 consider any exceptions taken to-
reports heretofore made in
SAID cause. also any other matters deemed
pertinent by myself or require1 30 he stated.
by any party III interest ~
HENRY W. HOLT,
Commissioner in Chancerv.
Craig s. Hickman and Blease & Perry. n. o.
june l0sitS u"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01

IT is stated by some Republican
authority that there was no trouble
about arranging and agreeing upon
the financial plank of the st. Louis
platform. 1t was written more than
ten days before the convention by
Mark Hanna and submitted to the
committee on resolutions and agreed
to without dissent After hearing
this, we are prepared to hear that Mr..
Hanna wrote the Bible.