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Decorah-posten., 1896-11-13

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Decorah-posten., 1896-11-13
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-11
PRAISE AND BLAME.

To believe that Mckinley could run
the gauntlet of a campaign either for
the nomination or election to the presi-
dency, without being subject TO attack,
would be nonsenSical.
The first attack ON Mckinley in the
present campaign comes from Shelby
Cullom of Illinois, himself a candidate.
Cullom's criticism embodieS the idea
that Mckinley is posing as the sole
originator, champion and exponent of
a protective tariff. ''He is the protec-
tive tariff is Cullom'S sarcastic method
of explaining it.
1t is true, of course, that Mckinley is
not the sole champion of the protective
tariff in this country. The Mckinley
bill was not all his work. The bill was
prepared by the ways and means COM
mittee after many amendments. But
Mckinley was a dominating member
of that committee and the bill took his
name and has carried it since
The people of the United States took
exceptions to the Mckinley bill. A
campaign made in the defense of it re-
suited in one of the most crushing de-
feats in the history of this country
When, on that November morning, the
returns kept coming in bearing the
news of Republican district after dis
trict which had for the first time cast
a Republican minority Mckinley was
alone in defeat The Mckinley bill
was derided, blamed, and condemned.
Shelby Cullom and the other Republi-
can leaders did not rise TO its defense
then. The country had crushed the
Republican party, the Mckinley bill
and the name of Mckinley. The de-
feat was McKinley's.
Now, when in succeeding years of
trials and tribulations, the nation sees
its mistake, it turns generously back to
protective tariff not only, but also TO
the name of Mckinley which it treated
with such brutality when it defeated
the bin bearing his name.
The country wronged Mckinley then.
The mass is not like the individual and
will recognize its error and atone for
ii, and that sentiment as much as any
other one accounts for McKinley's pop-
ularity today.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-11
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Canadian county is solid for John l.
Ollie for delegate-at-large.
An unknown man fell OF the train near
Edmond Sunday night and was killed.
The Republicans OF Oklahoma city will
hold their delegate convention March IS
D. c. Lewis, himself politician. says
that Oklahoma City has too much poll
tics.
At Blackburn a respected citizen goes by
S5e euphonious nickname of Catfish
Jack"
The landofice at Guthrie is now four
months behind with its work with prov
ers-up.
c. M. Vance has sued the city of Pawnee
for 5000 damages for falling over an en-
bankment.
General Thomas and Sam Murphy have
a bad case Of interlocked horns at Okla
homa City.
1t turns out that one of the benefits OF
Kafir corn is the saving OF the Indian
maize raised.
Leslie N'black will have to put on his
bullet proof vocabulary again and sail
into Colonel Freeman.
1t will be noticed that Horace Speed has
assumed the role of a spectator in the
present contest in Oklahoma.
Scott OF the Oklahoma City Times-Jour-
nal, ii is said, has an ambition to be the
first governor of Oklahoma state.
Henry Asp now spends about an hour
70 ~ 10 q
old enough TO fight in the late war.
John Ollie may not know it but he is
getting the reputation over the east as the
king Of divorce lawyers in Oklahoma.
C. G. Jones writes that he will stay in
Washington until the president disposes
Of the Sapulpa road bill, if it takes until
next winter.
The Perry Enterprise thinks that Nan
sen has tackled his booth certificate up
on the North Pole and is on his way back
to Perry 10 file on it.
The Nagles are coming to the front al
though they do not spell their names
alike John Nagel has assumed control
of the Yukon Weekly.
1t has now been three or four days since
IL was announced from Washington
through fake dispatch that Judge Scott
would be investigated again. The Wash
ington correspondent who gets up this
story must be getting tired.
A man near Newkirk took his neigh
boris cat, saturated its tail in kerosine and
set it on fire, thinking it would run home
and burn the neighbor out. Instead it
turned and jumped into the barn Of the
perpetrator and burned IL down.
Guthrie Leader; An attorney OF the
city has been semitic Washington TO lobby
against the divorce bill now pending in
congress. The present divorce law IS
considerable source of revenue 10 the ter
ritorial bar. as well as the country in
general, and ii would be a hard hit for
Oklahoma at the present time. The bill IS
a scheme OF Dakota lawyers. whose bust
ness has been lessened By the increased
advantages OF Oklahoma as a divorce
haven.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-11
GoLDBUG MISSIONARY WORK.

1t is announced that an educational
campaign is about to be started by the
sold standard people. as a preliminary
to the national election of next fall.
Secretary Carlisle, Cleveland's first
choice as can0. date for the presidency.
has been invited 10 New York TO ar
range the matter with the chamber Of
commerce, and its committee on sound
money is expected TO begin at once a
crusade against silver. We have heard
all this once or twice before, but ex-
cept the delivery of some very heavy
and commonplace speeches by the sec
rotary and his associates not much has
come of 1t Ii is not any reasonable
persuasion that is TO be feared from
that quarter. but rather the very dis
honest use OF what they are pleased 10
call honest money" as influencing
conventions and votes. that is TO be
feared. Every national convention nee
esSarily contains q large number OF
men who are poor in both purse and
principle, men who are after the Of
fees and anything else they can nick
up on the way TO them. The tempta-
ton TO deal with such men for the
public good" is very strong with the
moneyed classes in every country.
when the issues Of politics are liable
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-11
INTERNATIONAL B1MErALL1sM.

The proposal made to the British gov
the holding of another international
bimetallic conference was rejected, it
appears, because the proposal assumed
beforehand the opening of the minis
of India to the free coinage of silver
The action of the London and Indian
governments in reference to the open
ing of the Indian minis could not prop
erly be determined, in Lord SaliSbury'S
opinion, in advance. Prince Hohen-
lohe desired 10 base the project of
holding the conference and the con-
illusions such conference would reach
on the course of the Indian mint,
whereas, from the British point of
view, the conclusions of the confer
ence should decide whether-or not il
would be expedient TO reopen the In
dian mint. If the conference should
result in international agreemnts of a
practical character, the situation might
be so much changed as to justify con-
cessions by governments having the
single gold standard. 1t has been sup
posed that the present British cabinet
is opposed to the projected international
bimetallic conference. This. accord
ing to the statement made in parlia-
ment last week by Mr.. CurZon, under
secretary of foreign affairs, is mis-
take England will participate in q
conference looking TO an agreement
with reference to silver, provided the
reOpening of the Indian mint is not
made beforehand the condition of its
would consent 10 4 renewal of free
coinage in India, provided Russia and
Austria would consent to certain con-
ditions. What these conditions are
is not stated. They probably have ref
erence TO some recognition Of the mar
ket ratio of silver and gold as the coin
age ratio. or some sort of enCa cement
by which each nation shall be reSpon-
sible for the redemption of such of its
silver coins as find their way across
its frontiers. But. whatever these con
ditionS may have been, they were re-
jected by Russia and Austria-coun-
tries which have a considerable excess
of over-valued silver TO unload upon
other countries in case of an intern3-
tional agreement
England antaGonizes the world today
on the money question 1t is ridiculous
10 deny her superior power, and vain
10 hope for relief until that power is
weakened. So long as England can
dictate the money standard OF the
world. there is little use for the world
10 bluff. Emperor William can send
congratulatory messages 10 President
Kruger without end; the ear can make
InnunaeTable secret treaties with the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-11
THE RIGHT THING TO DO.

/
The American sympathizers with the
| Cubans, ought to either put up or shut
up. Congress has voiced the feeling
and sentiment of the people on this
subject and We have reached the reso-
luton limit, where something more sub
| stantial should take the place of fitful
| outburstS of denunciation against one
side and helpless words of sympathy
for the other. Spain is on the verge
of bankruptcy, with credit seriously inn
paired and deriving no revenue from
Cuba. In case the United States should
recognize the independence of the pa
triOt government the war would be of
short duration and at less cost of blood
and treasure than in the event of nom
recognition. 1t does not necessarily
follow that recognition of Cuban indie
pendence will precipitate war be-
tween this country and Spain. Such a
step would have to be determined by
the Spanish government, she would
have to strike the first blow-which is
highly improbable under existing con-
ditions.-and it would result in her
speedy overthrow and the enfranchise-
ment of q people in all respects worthy
of our support.
The barriers of federal interference
once removed, men would flock from
this country in such numbers TO the
standard of the revolutionists, that the
Spanish government would soon be
forced to a choice between granting all
that is demanded of her, or the annihi-
lation of her army in Cuba. If the
administration pockets the Cuban con-
current resolutions it is altogether
likely joint resolution will be passed
over the presidential veto, and if Cleve-
land further persists in opposing the
wishes of congress, the proper thing to
do is to commence proceedings of i'm
parchment against him. But first let
there be full recognition Of Cuba as an
Independent sister republic. Every
generous impulse demands that the Gu
bans shall be assisted to secure their
freedom, and if anything were lacking
to spur Americans to aggressive action
it would be this spectacle of a nation
like England-that calls itself hui
name, discussing the future Of the I'M
happy island in the callouS and cold
blooded tone with which one might con-
slider the flavor of a new brand of
cigars. Behind these dissertatiO on
international law to which we are be-
ing treated, is the resentment of one
of the family of robber nations at in
reference with the operations of an
other The American idea that liberty
is a sacred thing, in itself and every
where, is too big for them to cOmpre-
bend. 1t is comfort TO know that if
they don't like the American style of
handling questions of this kind, they
have perfect freedom TO dislike it This
country has its own ideals and among
them stands high that gentle mercy,
which is not strained, but extends its
help to the suffering without demand
ing q return of money profit.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-11
ALONG THE KANSAS NILE.

The first thing Che, Ions win have TO
do will be TO sit down and learn his plat
form by heart.
In acknowledging serenade the Arkan-
sas City Traveller speaks OF the AFFAIR as a
bowling success.
Sumner county nominated Chester Long
again. Sumner county has secured q
copyright on this job.
Harry Bone once made the prediction:
These bones shalt arise again" And
they seem 10 have done II.
All the counties in western Kansas that
have held conventions have instructed
their delegates for Elrick.C. Cole.
The ChaGtaqua Republicans in their
convention last week Endorsed Governor
Morrill, This is the first time II has been
done.
All the judges in southern and western
Kansas adjourned court IN order 10 let
the lawyers take part in the Wichita con-
ventionS.
The boys say that Ed Madison OF Dodge
City ought TO put his eyes on a seat in
the United States senate and keep them
there until he wins.
A Winfield man says hat this present
cold spell will hold the peach buds back
till the light OF the moon and then they
Will be beyond danger.
BY some strange CONFUSION OF politics
Sumner. Sedgwick and Reno county are
working together for the first time in the
history of North America.
Septimus Andrews OF Arkansas City,
who has been taken TO the insane asylum.
imagined he had a tapeworm In his throat
and tried to cut IL out with a razor.
Hutchinson has discovered some dyna-
mite in an old sock II Is not known 10
whom the dynamite belongs but there Is
a belief that the sock ought 70 be returned
to Medicine Lodge.
II. Beck OF Winfield. Is now decorated
with a Hustler button" This button IL
given TO the members a certain lodge who
secure the application and acceptance OF
five new members within a month.
Dick Howard CT Arkansas City. Is trying
to be Parkhurst. and he warns the par
ents OF that town that recently a teacher
had several OF her girl pupils up before her
charged with circulating a piece OF bad
poetry.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-11
CAUGHT A TARTAR

When twenty ''whitecaps" a short
Bowen Sykes at Rern, Fla, and reused
him from his slumbers, the survivors
Of the nocturnal raid, realized too late
that they had walked up the wrong
man. He resented the unceremoniOus
visit by killing four and wounding six,
and then returned 10 his couch. There
were no grounds for just complaint
against Mr.. Sykes; he was simply dis
liked by some Of his Deighbors, and as
he refused TO leave the country they
purposed 10 kill him, but falling in
their object fed, leaving their dead and
wounded on the field
There ought 10 be Sykes In every
community in the country where these
skulking, cOwardly reptiles exist
Nearly every state in the Union is OF
has been infested with them, and as
they go masked and commit their
crimes Of whipping and murder, under
cover Of darkness. they easily manage
10 e4Gut L-t pAAtcSae VI tie Ia ~ -Afus
women and young girls, have been
dragged from their beds by these mid
night fiends. scourged. tarred- and not
unfreqUently killed, and the perpetTat-
ors OF the outr5ges gone unpublished
for the reason that they could not be
discovered IL is perfectly safe % con
clude that the community In which the
hero Sykes lives VIII experience no
further trouble from -whitecspS." He
deserves the gratitude OF all honest
men and women
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-11

TO affect business profits. 1t is motor
ious that New York money has played
a notable part in all the recent cleo
tons, although the campaign of 1888
showed that president could be elect
ed without it. Can this committee on
sound money tell US just what part it
is to play in the coming election, and
whether there is truth in the rumorS
already been put up for the benefit of
the party which comes the nearest TO
meeting the views Of the New York
money lenders? That information will
be more opportune and interesting than
anything they can tell US about the
comparative merits Of the single and
double standard.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-11

sultan; Italy, Germany and Austria can
form forty alliances, but so long as
bluff" and not war, is intended, Eng
land will continue to dominate not only
the commerce of the world but its in
ternational affairs.
The first blow of actual warfare
against England will be the solution or
the monetary question, for the nation
antagonizing her would realize that
England's appreciated money standard
is dearer 10 England and more SER
viceable than all her battleShips.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-11
o1.NEY GREATER TEAM GROVER.

The petulant tyranny which Grover
Cleveland has long exercised III has
cabinet has received shock-the first
in eight years of executive despotism-
A semi-official statement that the pres
ident would not concur in the Cuban
belligerent resolutions, given out by
Secretary Olney, was the cause OF this
break. These resoltions had not been
perfected by the house and the SEN
ate, but Secretary Olney fearing that
they would be rushed through and
wishing to avoid the appearance OF
viciousneSs in any action toward Spain
sought to dampen the too ardent en-
thusiasm of the public by declaring
thar the president would not agree to
the resolutions when they reached him.
1t is the regular thing in Washington to
nut out these "semioficial feelers."
1t so happened that the country did
not take kindly to this semi-otficial de-
claration and the newspapers greeted
it derisively, and such derision coming
to the eye of Grover Cleveland and he
not being informed that the semi-of-
fetal statement had originated with
Olney, at once denied it in a strange
interview which at the time the people
of the country could not fathOm, as it
was unusual for a president to an
nounce himself in that way.
know that Olney had given out the
semi-official announcement, he soon dis
covered that he did. In the evening
papers Friday last Olney saw the
strange interview with the president
and he posted off to the White House
and demanded an explanation and an
apology. The strange part about it all
is that Cleveland gave the apology.
Cleveland had rebuked Carlisle for re-
vealing the policy Of the adminiStra-
ton to the newspapers on one occa-
sion. He had reprimanded Morton of
the agricultural department for the
same thing, but when it came to Olney,
his majesty, of the good, round paunch,
weakened.
1t has long been the remarkable
characteristic Of this man that he has
dominated every man that has come
within the magic circle of his person
atty. And now at the close of his
public life, with that feature of indi-
yiduality more prominent than any
other, we see him dominated by one Of
his own cabinet, a man who up to his
to the attorney general
ship was regarded as a tennis-playing
dude of no consequence.
1t would now seem that the ringing
message to Salisbury on the VeneZ-
uelan matter was written by Olney,
not only, but also that it was dictated
to him over the protestations Of his
chief.
And that supposition is in line with
the belief, firm to conviction with
many, that Olney is a bigger man than
Grover.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-11
CHILDREN AS WITNESSES.

A New York lawyer has raised an in
teresting discussion as to the worth of
children's testimony in court. He
takes the ground that children's testi-
mOny is not, as is popularity supposed,
reliable, and that the oath and threat
ened penalty for its violation do not
bring out the truth, but hamper and
confuse with fright the infant mind
He says: 1T is a characteristic OF
childhood TO feel and think as en- in
dividual. Most of all. the idea Of a
witness being in a manner an officer OF
the court, of his being instrumental in
one OF the greatest functions Of the
state-the administration OF JUSTICES
and must be absolutely foreign to his
mind. In fact, he does not know what
justice means. but he does know the
meaning of eypediency just as be feels
the effects Of environment and heredity
for good or bad. And this is not suf-
ficienuy considered, partly because OF
the slight attention commonly given u
the subject. and partly because 50
many of the uses IN legal practice are
survivals OF times which were not r.
markable for breadth Of conception IN
child psychology. For instance, let Us
take the idea mentioned above that re-
ligious convictions are not implanted
full made in the minds Of children In
the case Of L. ys- Holmes, quoted IN
Taylor'S work on Evidence, 4 child was
considered capable Of giving competent
testimony because Of her statement 10
the judge that she said her prayers AID
thought il wrong 10 tell lies Tn the
other hand. Wharton quotes case Of
q girl three years older whose test
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-11

A cable says that Ambassador Bay
ard at London, is down with the in
huenza. We ought to have a man in
England who would be patriotic and
have the American grin.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-11

The country is inclined to let I'D on
Mr. Foraker little and it will be nee
essary no longer for him to take the
oath Of allegiance 10 Mckinley every
morning before breakfast.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-11

Ballington Booths new army will dis
card the poke bonnet and the red shirt
1t Will take a prodigious effort, but they
ought to throw the accordion overheard
10
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-11

Colonel Freeman of the Usage Indian
agency, is getting numerous again and
the Oklahoma papers will be under the
painful necessity Of combing him down
with a rake.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-11

Olney has been attorney general and
secretary of state and il would have
been better for Cleveland'S administra-
ton could he, by some scheme, have
been president also.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-11

Shelby Cullom does not believe that
Mckinley should be president, and he
can back his argument up with the one
Illinois county that has instructed for
Cullom
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-11

or all the fiotson and jetson Of the
late Kansas Pop administration. Mary
Elizabeth Lease is the only thing saved
from the general wreckage. She pad
died her own canoe.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-11

If we will keep cool and the Amer
lean conSuls will remain away from
the windows we may get through this
war with Spain without bloodshed vet
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-11

Cullom accuses Mckinley of taking
all the glory for the Mckinley bill.
Cullom did not banker after any of
the blame when the country hit that
bill IN the eve.