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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-02

But bark! once again! In the distance
A tremulous rhythm of sound
Floats in from afar on the keen, frosty air.
And peals from the church bells around
A welcome as glad and as joyous
AS ever young monarch has known.
With fair, happy face and bright youth
full grace,
The New Year comes to his throne.
He is crowned with bright hopes for the flu
ture,
And graciousness sits on his brow.
He holds in his hand the bright scepter of
faith,
And smiles wreathe his youthful lips now.
His courtiers, in loud adulation,
His praises and batteries sing.
With one breath they whisper: THE king.
he is deadr'
With the next, cry: Long live the king!'
Mary Morrison, in Housekeeper.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-02
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Dealer-A diary for OF? Perhaps this
new style will suit you.
Observation-Disclosures small. isn't it?
Why Il stops with January IS!
Dealey-Yes, it is very compact-doea
away with the unnecessary bulk OF
paper that you find in the old-fashionad
diaries.-TrOth.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-02


III And graciousness sits on his brow.
He holds in his hand the bright scepter of
faith.
And smiles wreathe his youthful lips now.
His courtiers. in loud adulation,
His praises and batteries sing.
With one breath they whisper: THE king,
he is dead" 1870.
y With the next, cry: Long live the kingv'
Mary Morrison, in Housekeeper.
y1dz!l!52ll t3 S
| eA el:& -
GAI HSM, SOR RENT-a spaci-
t {fI|SGilS vyzza 7 GUS drawing-room
NH%SCIAEE~ floor, handsomely
wE-S W \ / furnished, near the
w. I rit 8 h museum.
i e. NE$@N ! Quiet genteel neigh
Il w III borhood. Liveried
E% * NSSO servant for visitors
500 Russell Square,
III I E. c."
N..4 just two short hours after reading
this advertisement in the London
Times, /, George Harland, librarian
of the goodly city of Boston,
Mass, was tenant of the afore-
said ''drawing-room floor" with
my wifc-to whom I shall allude in
this veracious narrative as mother
and her trusty waiting woman, Ruth
Martin.
1t was near the British museum, and
I had come 1900 miles to collate ma
terial from the archives of that ancient
and very useful institution.
s. Mother had come to take care of
me, and Ruth had come to take care of
'.mother" and 1 in the end had to take
care of both of them.
The lodgings were all right, but
there was one awful insurmountable
drawback.
The children!
The whole neighborhood swarmed
with them. Pretty little well-dressed
boys and girls, 1 confess, but to me
utter and abominable nuisances. They
r screams and lau liter the clatter
neir rubberless-t "a tricycles on
me pavement me- I frenzied me,
spite of the IL, ess Of the sea-
aue weather wa quite sultry at
and we could 2 OF always close
indows, so l, wi thought that
children, lono - 'or the power
Herod and t unity to ex-
J, it.
had been lrly a month
Ossa was Pelion and
on Oymp' laext door was
family
aer's tong. so glib in
alton, ce muir soft
udes anQ - were in
yes half Now, my
I'd fou, section in
Gs q lg young
or rather
NO had be-
she briefly an
duly put in an APP
", YOU two are as blue as
|" he declared, as he tossed
sofa and coolly seated him
other's work table. Are yoa
r the pumpkin pies and cream
your native land?"
mother, with touch of pa
which would have pierced any
less obtusc than Jacks sensi-
SIS. told how was distracted with
racket of the child /, how l was
ling so irritable" Mich was not
that she eXpecte, ~ to become
Eous wreck and candidate for
.etreat."
oh. Jack, Jack" vailed, what
T,st we do?"
'And Jack oracu "a answered, as
.ough he had beenk " ering for hours
,er the question:
"Pul up sticks go to Melcomb
egis."
''What and wht Melcomb Regis"
gasped.
Well Jack 1tinued, pensvely,
2pheeding my 81 for Typographical
fRrmatie-I 9! link that is just tho
~ yol, There isn't an able
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26
sILvERIrEs AND MR.. CLEVELAND.

In the Democratic State convention OIL
Wednesday, when a reference was made
to President Cleveland, one delegate shout
ed, Damn him, he turned US down. and
the convention applauded. In the Ohio
convention speaker said: Looking down
on this convention is that arch-traitor, that
Benedict Arnold of the Democratic party,
Grover Cleveland" He wanted the ofsen-
sive picture removed. In the Illinois con-
vention, when the temporary chairman
said -Four years ago the Democratic
party of the State supported man from
New York and may God forgive them for
it," there was an outburst of applause
lasting several minutes. These attacks on
Mr.. Cleveland are as brutal as they are
undeserved. If there were any gratitude
in politics Democrats ought to hold the
name of Grover Cleveland in the highest
regard and reverence. He has led il to
victory twice. the only two national VIC
tories it has achieved in forty years, and
by his strong personality has come nearer
making the party respectable than any
other leader it has had since the war. II
a political party ever owed monument to
leader the Democratic party does to
Grover Cleveland.
These attacks are utterly undeserved and
inconsistent. Mr.. Cleveland has not de-
serted any Democratic principle nor gone
back on his party. He is standing by the
principles of the fathers and founders of
the party. and even the last Democratic
national platform sustains him in his pres
ent attitude on the money question. His
opposition to free silver Is no new thing.
He has been outspoken in his opposition to
the coinage of silver for more than ten
years. Whatever may be said of Mr.. Cleve-
land he is not hypocritical and does not
fight in ambush. In Fehruary, 1885. before
his first inauguration. he addressed a letter
to certain Representatives in Congress In
which he deprecated the continued coin
lge of silver and pointed out the danger
of the country going to a silver basis. He
called attention TO the fact that 1.-The
vaults OF the federal treasury have been
are now worth less than So per cent of
the gold dollar and said, it was ''of
momentous Importance to prevent the ulti-
mate expulsion of gold by silver" From
that time to the present Mr.. Cleveland
has not varied in his opposition to silves
coinage. II his party did not agree with
him il should not >have renorninated him in
1SSS and again in 1882. on sound-money
platform. He has not left the party. but
the free-silver wing of the party has left
him Governor Altgeld said in the Illinois
convention. ''the head Of the administration
has sought strange gods and espoused alien
principles" Not ons the silver question.
certainly. 1t is the Altgeld crowd who
have sought strange gods.
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26


In October. 1880, after the passage of the
Mckinley tariff act. and while the election
of that year was pending. the Democratic
managers in portion of this State and
Ohio sent out peddlers among the farmers
with tinware, for which they asked two or
three prices. explaining that it was the re-
suit of the Republican tariff. How many
people they were able to dupe is unknown.
Such tricks are always attempted by those
who presume upon the ignorance and Gre
dulity Of the mass of the people. Yesterday
a man wrote the Journal affirming that
there was so cents difference Between the
price paid in gold and silver for farm prod
uce this year. Is that the dodge? If SO.
look out for 1t. The prices of all these ar
ticles are quoted in the daily papers, and
they are in standard money based upon
gold. and equivalent to it in purchase
powert If those who tell such hopelessly
stupid stories believe them they need guar
dians. If they tell them to others they
should be punished for insulting the sense
of fairly intelligent people.
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26

j. A. H.. Millville: l. AS the Journal
monetized iE 1873. Demonetize is to deprive
of the power of being used as money. There
wac no silver in circulation then money.
consequently 1t could not be demonetized-
The act of 1878 dropped the silver dollar
from the list of coins stamped free or
otherwise; at that time the silver in it was
worth about $1.o2 in gold and sl15 in green
backs, which was then the money of this
country. Very few members of either
branch voted against it. Later. when sill
yer was cheaper because OF the opening
of new mines in North and South Amer
lea, and decreased use. there was demand
for the free coinage of silver. Instead of
that the government purchased the bullion
anu made the silver dollars. There are
now about 425 100000 of them-full legal
tender When more can be kept on a par
with gold they will be coined, but the Re-
publican party is opposed to coming any
kind of dollars which cannot be made as
good as gold. 2. Five silver dollars are
equivalent to s. gold piece because they
will purchase as much They will purchase
as much because their number is limited
and Indirectly can be exchanged for gold
or gold notes. II there should be free and
unlimited coinage as Is proposed. which
means the coinage OF private silver bull
lion. giving the owners two hundred silver
dol1or1 fq2 the bullion which {1Q9 "a RcI6
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26
The President DispIensed.
ashington Special.

The President is said. to be displeased
with ex-Secretary Whitriey because of his
published statement on the situation. He
is said to have expressed the opinion that
the hest plan for the sound-money men
would have been to go to Chicago and
make a good fight for sound money. Sec
retary Carlisle. Col William r.. Morrison
and Senator Lindsey are quoted as say
ing that Mr.. Whitney's concessions to the
free-silver people of control at the Chicago
convention was bad policy. inasmuch as it
will give the white-metal advocates the
advantage of the prestige of success before
the convention their idea being that the
wavering delegates could have been
brought into line for the single gold stand
ard. The Eastern Democrats who will make
the fight for sound money will not burn
much money at Chicago for the very good
reason that they will not have much to
burn. IL being reported that neither Brice
nor Whitney will put up any. If they dom I
it is question who will. The silver people
say there will be no scarcity of money in
their campaign. One of them in discussing
this phase I'm the situation said: 'Wall
street and the advocates of the gold stand
ard threaten to spend big money to elect
Mckinley and Hobart. We will see them
dollar for dollar. and If that kind of cam
paign influence Is needed this year we will
supply it,"
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26

1t was the order several years ago when
the political farmers organization had
such a sudden growth. to ridicule the So
called subtreasury scheme. which contem-
plated that the government should build
warehouses for the reception of surplus
wheat. cotton and corn. receive it of the
farmer when Il was low. and issue there
on a warehouse receipt for portion of its
value, which should be legal tender when
outstanding. but returned and destroyed
when the deposit should be called for. This
scheme was ridiculed and denoupced; new
ertheless. the same men who did it favor
the plon of having the government take all
the silver bullion brought to the mints.
coin 800 worth into two hundred silver
dollars, or, to further oblige the owners.
store Il away In warehouses and issue
them certificates for double it's value,
which shall be legal tender. Compared
with that proposition to create a money
holding monopoly, the farmers. warehouse
scheme Is a moderate and fair measure.
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26
KATE FIELDS ROMANCE.
1t In Said Whftelaw Reid Was Once
Her Sweetheart.
Chicago News.

CIlcdSO NEWS
Miss Fields death recalls a story of her
youth that was first given publicity in the
worlds congress of journalists in 1888 and
may contain the secret cf her having never
married. The story told by one who
claimed to know was that in the beginning
Of her journalistic career. Miss Field
worked on the Cincinnati Commercial in
collaboration with Whitelaw Reid. who
was at that time her accepted lover. When
Reid became an editorial writer on the
New York Tribune he sent for his old
sweetheart to come and take a position on
the paper. Until after the defeat of Horace
Greeley for the presidency the pleasant re-
lations between Mr.. Reid and Miss Field
continued. - =
When Greeley returned to his old desk,
defeated and broken-hesrted. the stock of
the Tribune was put upon the market. at a
very low price. BY the advice of Mr.. Reid
a majority of the stock was purchased by
ID. o. Mills and Reid was given full con-
troll OF the paper. AS a result of the rela-.
tions thus established Whitelaw Reid mar
ried Miss Elizabeth Mills. the daughter of
ID. o. Mills. and became the owner of a
majority Of the stock of the Tribune. When
the news of the engagement of Mr.. Reid
to Miss Mills became known. Kate Field
severed her connection with the Tribune
and left the office never to enter 1t again
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26

The Democratic State convention in
dorsed the present tariff. declaring that 1t
will furnish ample revenues TO run the gov
ernment. Candidate Shiveiy. who should
have read this platform before making his
speech OF acceptance. declared that the
present tarifr would have been ample If the
Supreme Court had not declared the in
come tax law unconstitutional, by which
a revenue of over s4oooc.o0o was lost
Passing by the fact that not even the
most sanguine of Secretary Carlisle )
subordinates ever expected that more than
$50 100000 would be derived from the in
come tax. and that much more frequent
estimate was s2o.ooo.ooo. let us note the fact
that the tariff plank says the Law produces
sufficient income, while he admits that il
has been tQeun5ciept BY som<thine IKE So
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26

quence that the candidate and the platform
get together upon this subject as IL is that
the public shall understand where the lead
ers of the Matthews party in Indiana and
Of the Altgeld party in Illinois have placed
themselves on the tariff. They have not
changed. The experience of the past three
years has taught these political leaders no
lessons. If their friends go to Congress
they will vote against any remedial tariff
legislation. They denounce Great Britain
as the controller of the worlds money.
they insist upon tariff policy regarding
such articles as woods and wooden goods
which has transferred TO wool growers in
British colonies cne-third OF the wool re-
quired by American manufacturers. and
which has increased the importation Of
woods from an average of $25. 600 year
during 1891. 1892. 1893 and 1894 to over $J5,-
industry, chiefly British, has been given
by the Indiana Democrats and their asso-
ciates in one year an amount of money
nearly equal to the output Of the American
silver mines. No party leaders can do as
much for the industry of Great Britain at
the expense of the United States as have
these men who applaud the present tariff
and declare that 1t is right and must be
sustained. The fact that the number OF
sheep in Indiana has fallen from 1850. $50 in
1893 to SS6.217 in 1896. and That the total
number in the United States has fallen
from 47.273.553 Jan. i, 1893. to 3S. .29s,73S Jan.
!, 1896, and their value from $l26. .9O9. .264 at
the first date to So. e7.7S5 at the last does
not attract their attention. or. IL it does
they do not care. They have no con-
demnation for the tariff system which
has reduced the value of Indiana wool from
81. 42s.10 in 1892 to s514.ss5 in 1895 Howling
about the ruin of the farmer as being
plundered oy Wall street. the Matthews
party approves the tariff whicn has robbed
indiana farmers of s914S49. or nearly two-
thirds of the value of the States wool clip
before and after their tariff law, let these
men be brought to face the ruin they have
wrought.
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26


Washington Special to Louisville Courier
Journal.
According to the results of all the States
upon the financial question as CLEANED by
the Courier-Journal's correspondent from
the press dispatches counting North Caro-
lima and Georgia. the vote in the Chicago
convention will be as follows: For free sill
yer at ratio of l6 to 1. SO. Against free
silver. or for the gold standard, 34s- Two
thirds OF the convention will be 6l2- There
fore, the free-silver men lack forty-two
votes of having the necessary two-thirds.
They can secure these votes. however. by
breaking the unit rule in Michigan, Mary
land and other States. or they may throw
out the vote of Michigan altogether, on
the ground Of fraud and corruption IL IL
will give them two-thirds of the conven-
ton. They would prefer doing this. per-
haps than TO abrogate the two-thirds rule.
This rule has existed since 1922 and even
wild free-silver Democrats will hesitate be-
fore they sweep away such an old and
time-honored rule of the party. The free
silver men evidently desire to win their
fight without breaking down the old rules.
customs and traditions of the party AT
least, IL is logical to attribute to them this
view of the situation. They also claim that
they have two-thirds of the convention and
will not find IL necessary ii abrogate any
rule.
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26

Those who are impatiently clamoring for
the free and unlimited coinage of glass are
begged to cultivate the virtue of patience.
All the arguments put forth by numerous
and, above all, plentiful. Once the glass
mints are in operation. the whole country
will wallow in luxury. All the anxiety
there can be about it is that all will be SO
rich in glass dollars that none will work
and all may starve.
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26

The clause in the free-sIlver plank OF
the Democrats State platform which says
s'all such coinage TO be frn legal tender
In the payment OF ell debts. public and pri-
vate." would make government bonds pay
able In silver at so cents on the dollar. This
would be repudiation OF the rankest kind
and would give the Eational credit a blow
from which II would never recover.
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26
THE FOOLS REVENGE.
A Fable and a Moral That Has Some
Bearing ON the Present Situation.
Drugs Oils and Paint

Drugs, Oils and Paint
There was once man who climbed a
tree, and he had in his hands saw. And
while he was in the tree his enemy came
beneath it and lay down to sleep in the
shade. And the man said to himself Be
hold my enemy. asleep and in my powerl
! will avenge myself upon him by saving
off g. limb of this tree and allowing IL to
fall upon him and crush him. And as he
said he did; but he sat upon the limb and
when it fell he fell with II. and was griev-
ously injured. But the sleeping man was
not injured.
The Moral
There was once a farmer who went In
debt to a banker. And values declined and
money became scarce. and he said: i will
have law passed making my debt paya-
BILE in cheap money. and thus / will be
avenged on this gold bug. And as he said
he did. But when debts had been made
payable in cheap money he received only
cheap money for the products of his farm
and he was required to pay double the
amount of cheap money for his necessi-
ties; and the gold bug foreclosed the debt
and was not injured. but the farmer was
ruined.
And this is the story OF the Fools Re-
venge.
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26
The Spirit of the Commune.
o,,isvilla Coltrier-Iorrpal (Der.,

1t is useless to talk of holding the votes
of the sound-monev Democrats for the
Chicago ticket If sthe Chicago convention
is To be controlled bv the spirit of the COM
mune which controlled the Peoria conven-
ton. The Democratic name and organiza-
tion may be captured by crack-brained
incendiaries like Altgeld but the bone and
sinew of the Democratic party will never
surrender principle. henor and patriotism
to follow a name thus lesecrated.
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26

From the establishment of fhe United
States mint till 1873 only S,O76sss silver dol
lars were coined. or one-seventh' of the
number coined since then. Yet the free
silverites demand that silver be restored to
Its former position"
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26

Senator Teller has declared that every
political economist is in favor of bimetal-
lism. meaning silver monometallism. Gov.
Matthews was not unanimous until quite
recently. He was partly for and partly
against free coinage.
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26

chairmen of the name of Bell seem to
have hard luck In Democratic conventions
this week. Chairman Bell in the Illinois
convention could not check the uproar
caused by e crowd of outsiders forcing
themselves into the seats OF delegates,
while in this city Chairman Bell denounced
the Democratic Mayor and the police au-
thorities because they would not take Mr.
Bynum out OF the hall.
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26
Extrns.

do you know" began the summer board
er, that the pounding of the steak BY your
cook awakened me this morning at sun
riser"
"So?" said the placid landlord. 1T was
a real poster sunrise. but bein' as you
didn't order it. it yon't cost you moren
a dollar fer extra I" ~
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26

adopted. subject afterwards to fhe accept
ance or rejection of the delegates of the
convention, determination usually arising
on the approval of one OF two reports
majority and minority. But in the mat
ter of a choice of candidate. the power
Of the minority Is positive-provided they
have as many as one-third Of the delegates
on their side.
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26

Ex-Governor Campbells prominence in
Ohio as receptive candidate seems to
have been suddenly eclipsed by Mr.. Nc
Leap of Washington Still. Governor
Campbell has been beaten in Ohio on both
free-silver and a gold platform.
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26

And you think it will be a go?' said
the doubling manager -,
Got to be-, said the dramatist who
knew his business. 'The first act is in
Grecian costume. the second is in Empire
gowns. the third ip puffed sleeves and the
fourth in boomers
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26

There is nothing to prevent the Democrat
tc convention, when 1t assemblies. from re-
fusing to continue the two-thirds rule. A
majority OF its delegates has already re-
pudiated the party platforms regarding
money
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26

a monster ratification is to be held at
Major McKinley's home. Canton. to-mor-
row. at which the principal feature is
likely to be the great outpouring of organ
lied workingmen from various manufac-
turing cities There is no need of an edu-
cauonal campaign among workingmen
this year. They have been going to school
Tor three years.
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26

At a time when all over the world one
ounce OF gold will purchase thirty ounces
Of silver the Democratic party proposes to
declare that sixteen ounces of silver shall
be worth one ounce of gold. That is not bl-
metallism: 1t Is monetary lunacy.
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
NEW YORK-Windsor Hotel and Astor House.
CHIcAGo-PaImer House and p. o. News Co..
CINcINNATI-J. r. Hawley & Co.. 154 Vine
street
LOuISvILLE-C T. Deering. northwest corner
Of Third and jefferson streets. and Louisville
Book Co.. 356 Fourth avenue.
ST. LoUIs--Union News Company. Union Depot.
WASHINGTON. d. C--Riggs House. Ebbitt
House. Wizards Hotel and the Washington
News Exchange Fourteenth street. between
Penn avenue and + street.
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26
Easy Enough.
Kansas city Journal.

Kansas City Journal.
II will be easy enough for free-silver Re-
publicans TO become reconciied to their own
party when they read the free-trade plank
OF the Chicago platform. Even SO pleasant
q dose as silver will refuse TO so down
cratic capSule.
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26

Sound money and protection mean that
the Republican party proposes that the
American dollar shall remain as good as
gold. and that the American people shall
have an opportunity to earn and spend Il,
right here in this country
The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26

II small parties go on dividing and NOM
mating tickets the State ticket will be as
large as circus poster. In some States
factions casting less than 5 per cent. OF
the total vote are not permitted a place
on succeeding tickets.