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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-10-21

WHY DO Messrs. Bryan, Towne ct al.
continue to stand afar off and discuss
silver in 'low tones?" Do they not
know that the day of election is com
ing and that they have many stumps
in Ohio from which they must yet
speak to fulfil their pledges: The
farmers Of Ohio are burning to hear
of the beauties OF free silver, and they
also want to ask Mr.. Bryan about that
accent wheat in case Mckinley were
elected. 1t will be remembered that
Mr.. Bryan went through Ohio last
fall and said some things about wheat
and some other things and somehow
or other it hasn't turned out just that
way and the farmers are anxious
about it.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-10-21
SOME RAMBLING THOUGHTS.
BY MEMO"


To vOTERS:-We believe in pride of
country and | write to a nation not
lacking in it. We believe in the pos
sibility of real devotion to an adopted
country by those who come from other
shores, and | write to a nation largely
made up of emigrants. We believe
there are more healthy people than
sick, more sane than insane, more
honest than criminal, and | write to a
nation whose unseltish citizens out
number by five to one all who find
their pleasure and their profit in per
verting the peoples will.
X
SO you andI are filled with healthy
sort of hopefulness. Like those dear
always the bright side of trouble, or
those logical sufferers who insist on
the existence of the sun no matter how
black the cloud, we believe in our
country we dare to imagine for it a
greater destiny than has yet been at
tained in short, we are proud of it.
But let us stop a moment to analyZe
our pride; for pride goeth before a
| fall unless it be a carefully selected
and well grounded pride, that has no
stitfneckedness about it.
~
What is there about the United
| States to make us proud?
Territory. Yes, that something eX-
| traordinarily vast and compact, but
the Roman Empire had that and yet
went to pieces. The character of a
people has something to do with the
retention of territory.
Population. That indeed increases
by leaps and bounds. Each census
piles up further millions, but the Chi
nese Empire has that fact to meet in
even greater measure, and as a nation
! it is lettering to disruption. In popu-
lation, quality is more important than
/ quantity.
Wealth. The total wealth of the
nation climbs up into figures that are
beyond comprehension. But Spain
and India We're, during their prime
richer than your most golden dream
the former is now narrowed down tC
mere nOthingnesS among the powers
and the latter has for generations
been trodden by the foot of the con
uueror. The true wealth Of a nation
is manhood, and the lackof that ruined
the two mentioned.
Products. | grant the remarkable
range from tropical fruits to arctic
pines, and from pottery clay to virgil
gold, but these things are here for the
gift of nature. We may be wise anC
take or eat, or we may dispense o
our plenty to others need; but the
sun shines on other nations besides
ours, and if we may be proud, mucl
more such a natl IN as England wht
makes up for insular lack by getting
quotas from every habitable portion
of the globe.
Political Institutions Then The
pride must be largely ascribed to thos
broad plans of our fathers, rather thai
to any certainty in relation to the fu
ture; unless we come to realize tina
institutions and rights are not perpe
tual motion machines. They do no
run themselves. For example, if pro
gressive plans and broad culture coul'
go on without great men to carry then
forward, we should have been spare'
the sight of Greece, so decadent iron
grand historical traditions as to be al
easy conquest by the polygamou
Turk.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-10-21
NUMBER 80.

fronted this plain people. By splen-
did energy they have subjected it, so
that its culture, its progress, its com
pleteness are a monument to the mag
niticent power of common people, un-
trammeled by traditions.
Then great moral question come
up for settlement, whose issues struck
at the very cohesion of our blood ap-
tised nation. Desperately the national
heart yearned over the need of gov
eminent ''one and inseparable" The
common-people bore the brunt of the
conflict on both sides, and by them
was it fought to a conclusion, so that
even the vanquished now say the
question was settled rightly.
Our pride is that the people can be
trusted. If thoroughly possessed by
an idea, their response is splendid
Like some huge engine, their progress
is Irresistible when once motion is i'm
parted. The only complaint-and
even that is cause for pride as it is
closely related to the permanency of
national purpose-is that they are
slow to awaken to danger
With your EDITORS permission will
carry this idea further next week.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-10-21

THE Bank of England is becoming
alarmed at the outflow of gold from
it's Golfers to this country, and various
measures are being attempted to stop
it. But it still continues to come.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-10-21
POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS.
BY A CONTRIRUTOR.

THE Bryan-Towne strain of the
Free SilverShorthorn Herd have been
excluded from the rich pastures of the
Ohio and Maryland reservations.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-10-21

THE Bushnell Foraker Hanna com
bination are all speaking from the
same stump This is not in exact
accord with the Democratic AN
nouncement" some time since that
Senator Foraker was mad and had
cancelled all his Ohio engagements
.tarthe campaign.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-10-21

\ COUPLE of months ago the free
traders looked compIacently at the
large expectations Of manufactures
under the Wilson law, and were only
waiting to point eXultingly to the
falling Off of these expectations un-
der the new law 1t seems, however,
that they were wrong, as usual. The
first month OF the operations of the
Dingley law showed larger eXporta-
ton of manufactured articles than
TOR any corresponding month of pre-
ceding years. So2nuch for their state
ments that the enactment of a pro
tective revenue law would cut off our
market abroad from American man
ufactures.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-10-21

THE Philadelphia RecoTd says that
the Dingley law comes laundering
down the line in the second month of
its operation, with deficit of three
and q half million dollars. What a
noise there must have been in the sec
ond month of the Wilson law, when
the deficit was thirteen and a half
million.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-10-21

Mud has supplanted silver in Ohio.
It would seem impossible that silver
could have, in the short time since
the adoption of the Ohio Democratic
platform, when it was made the chief
plank, deprecated to the value of or
binary mud as campaign issue, but
this appears to be the case in Ohio.
The Mclean men are, however, eXer-
eising their ingenuity in attempting
TO discover a particularly adhesive
quality of that article for use in the
Mclean machine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-10-21


No country stretching far,
No pomp ofcivil state,
Can make you truly great
America!
No gain from cruel war,
No cannon echOing loud,
Can make you truly proud
America!
No golden stone or bar
Filched from its darksome ditch,
Can make you truly rich
America.
Only the guiding star
Ofhonesty and truth
Can keep your glorious youth
America
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-10-21

II Is not kind thing for the editors
Of newspapers to insinuate that just
because John r. Mclean, of Wash
ington, d. c. (residing in Ohio these
few months, happens to own the con-
trolling stock of the $5,0OO,OOO Wash
ington Gaslight Company, and also
interests in astraet railway capitalized
At &12, O00,O 900, and because the affairs
Of these monopolies are regulated by
the &. S. Congress, John r. should
want to get into the Senate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-10-21

No, Territory, population, wealth,
products, formal declarations, are not
the things that fill us most with pride.
This nation thrown together hap
hazard, is nevertheless so permeated
by ideas of the eternal right and just
ice of things, that in moments of grave
national testing the pulsatiOns of the
mighty heart of the great common
people have always beaten steadily.
That is our pride. After all a moral
idea is greater and longer lived than
material things or forms of words;the
church in your neighborhOOd will
point my meaning as its spire-finger
is raised upward to the sky. 1t stands
for an idea that goes on after its apos-
ties have persisted, after its builders
have slept for generations, after the
materials of which it was made have
crumbled at the touch of time. Moral
and not material it survives the lapse
of years, the death of supporters, the
SCATTERING of dynasties. Even so with
all right ideas, of which surely oul
nation is an embodiment. Vaguely
yet desperately the masses have held
! tothe conviction that this widespread
country is to be supreme testing
place of the trustworthiness of the
common-people; solemnly have they
grown to a sense of unity and it's alb
solute necessity to national life
Glance back and see.
Who held in clinging desperation
along the fringe of the continent, DIES
pite wild savagery before and cultured
savagery behind? The commonpeo
pie.
When lapsing time showed the pos
sibilities of this country and men be
gan to dream of rights based upon con
ditions here, uninfiuenced by the diet
of a remote and half crazy monarch
the common-people watered tn
ground with blood.
The supreme right to the manage
ment of our own affairs having bee
decided, a territory wide enough t
inspire boundlesS enthusiasm cor
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-10-21

THE leaders of the calamity party
are overjoyed at the slight fall of
wheat lately. They are expectantly
watching quotations, in the hope that
something will conduce TO a further
depreciation of its value, so that they
can say I'VE told you So to the far
mers. ',The fact that an ounce of sill
yer year ago was equal in value to a
bushel of wheat, but now buys only
half a bushel, has knocked the wind
out of their specious argument.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-22
Advertise your wants In tn, TRnux


II beg your pardon" said the passea.
ger In tho long linen duster, leaning
over the back Of the seat In front Of him.
"but would you mind tellin' me how
your nose got ell knocked over to ono
side, the way IL is?''
"Not at ALL" cheerfully responded the
passenger on the seat In the front. 1t
was done one time when was polxing IL
into other folks business. Chicago
Tribune
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-22
The New Way.

Mrs. Decree (laying down the maga-
zine)-What a delightful storyl
Decree-Humph! Isuppose they were
married and lived happily forever after
ward?
Mrs. Decree-Not at all. They were
happily married, and got q divorce the
year afterward. - Philadelphia North
American.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-22

No-To-B Bsc for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
men strong, blood pure. SOC, q. All druggists
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-22
And Butter, Too.

"Give us this day our daily bread"
Said baby's mother reverently.
While knelt In praycrful attitude.
Her wee pink darling on her knee.
DIV US dis day our daily bread
And butter. toor piped cheerily
Her boy, while mamma looked amazed
On kneeling young America.
National stockman.
For latest style furniture at low prices, go
- j. n. Leahy's,. just over the bridge.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-22

Advertise your wants in the TRIBUNE.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22
HAM BROWN DEAD.
He Was the Pioneer Cattle Dealer and
Herder of the West.

FULTON, No., April 13.-News has
reached here to-day of the death of
Ham Brown, which occurred at the
residence of his daughter, Mrs.
Thompson Fry, in the northwest part
of this county.
He was So years of age, and was the
pioneer cattle dealer of the west,
being the first man In this country
who made business of buying up cat
tie into large herds for grazing pur-
poses. Away back in the forties he
was know from San Antonio to Chi
cago, and from st. Louis to Frisco, as
a cattle dealer and herder. He went
to California In 40 and returned in '52
with a pack train. Under the "Bit"
law he entered large tract of fine
land in northwest Galloway on which
he grazed large. herds OF cattle for
many years. His sons are all thrifty
stock dealers and farmers.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22
David Clark Suicides.
HE SHOOTS HIMSELF TO DEATH
AT THE PALMER HOUSE IN
LOUISIANA, MO.
Was Formerly a Resident of Mexico,
But Moved With His Fathers
Family to Rush Hill About
March 1-Assigned
No Cause For
the Deed.

Lacrosse Telephone Special to the Ledger
LOUISIANA, Mo-, April 17.-David
M. Clark, aged about 20 years, whose
home was at Rush Hill, killed himself
with revolver in his room .at the
Palmer House in this city yesterday,
sometime between the hours of 4 and
6 in the afternoon. He left the fol-
lowing note:
Farewell. Give my watch to broth
er Charlie. 1 have not an enemy in
the world and am proud of 1T. am
not crazy, either"
Young Clark came to the Palmer
House Thursday afternoon, secured a
room and Immediately went to bed,
where he remained until noon on Fri
day, when he came downstairs, drank
a cup of coffee, took bath and secur-
ed shave and shampoo. From the
barber shop Clark went to Jordan &
Frier's hardware store and bought
revolver, returning to his room at the
hotel. When the porter went to call
him for supper Clark was dead with a
bullet hole through both heart and
temple. The pistol shots were not
heard in the hotel nor did the reports
awaken the night clerk, who was
asleep in an adjoining room to Clark.
1t is reported that sickness from
stomach trouble was the cause. The
body was taken to Rush Hill this
afternoon by Clark's father, who came
down last night.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22
Mexico Aurain County Missouri Thursday April o. 1897
That Air Ship.

OF course, everybody understands
that all the stories about the air ship
are fakes and that the press of the
country are exploiting the air ship
craze just like they did the Coxey air
craze, and the following from the
Omaha Bee, handed the LEDGER by
Col. Shireman, of the Shireman Cloth
ing Co., will be of interest along this
line:
The mystery surrounding the mys
terious air ship, which has caused the
veracity of many reputable citizens to
be questioned, promises to be cleared
up within a few days through the
medium of the Transmississippi Expo
sition. Either this is fact or a stu
pendous hoax is to be perpetrated on
the exposition authorities.
In the first mail yesterday Secre-
tary Wakefield received letter dated
at Omaha and bearing the postmark
of this date. The letter was signed
ga. G. Clinton" and read as follows:
"To the Exposition Directors: My
identity up to date has been unknown,
but will come to the front now, i. e.,
if you guarantee me $4,000 square
feet of space. l am the famous air
ship constructor and will guarantee
you positively of this fact in a week.
The air ship is my own invention and
as am an Omaha man, wish it to be
held as an Omaha invention. 1t will
carry safely twenty people to height
of from 10000 to 10000 feet. I truly
believe / have the greatest invention
and discovery ever made. Will see
you April II, 1897, at the headquar-
ters.n
This communication was written on
a sheet of plain note paper, without
printed matter of any kind which
would throw any light upon the iden-
tity of the writer. He gave no ad-
dress and his name does not appear in
the last city directory.
The amount of space asked for by
the writer of this letter is nearly |
thirty five acres. The exposition |
authorities will await his appearance
with interest. N
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22
A Splendid Citizen Coming to Mexico.

From the Rochester tInd.l Republican.
Mr.. Lou Wohlgemuth, so long the
manager of FEEDER & Silberberg's NAM
moth clothing house, will depart Mon
day to give personal attention to the
construction of the plant for the man
ufacture of ice at Mexico, Missouri.
MIR. Wohlgemuth has long been one
OF Rochester's most active, enterpris-
ing citizens and we will miss his ag-
gressiveness and social features in the
every day affairs and business rela-
tions of life. He was one of the prin-
cipal promoters and active construct
ors ct the Rochester electric light
plant, and he engaged earnestly in the
advancing of every public enterprise
calculated to serve Rochester and
Fulton county the best possible pur-
pose. His official capacity in the
management of one of Rochester's
building and loan associations was
every way acceptable and beneficial,
and every private or public interest in
which he engaged was properly and
satisfactorily accomplished. Mrs.
Wohlgemuth will maintain the home
at this place for the present and Mr..
Wohlgemuth Is expected to make sew
eral return trips during the summer
season,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22
Shipping Mules to South Africa.

Luke M. Emerson, of Bowling Green,
Mo-, the largest importer of jacks and
jennets in the country, left st. Louis
last night for New York, to oversee
the shipment of thirty jacks and $50
mules to Cape Town, South Africa.
This is the third shipment Mr.. Emer-
son has made from his S0O-acre stock
farm, four miles from Bowling Green.
Just before leaving for New York last
night Mr.. Emerson said: "South At
rica has proven the best market for
jacks and mules which I have SO far
found. The soil is SO rich and the
vegetation SO rank that horses and
cattle can not live there. Mules are
absolutely necessary to the business
of the country, ang they bring good
price. I shipped ship load of jacks
and mules to South Africa, and found
that such shipments could be made
with profit.n
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22
Marriapeable Are


In Germany the man must be at
least eighteen years Of age.
In Portugal a boy of fourteen is con-
sidered manageable, and woman Of
twelve.
In France the man must be eighteen
and the woman fifteen; in Belgium
the same.
In Greece the man must have seen
at least fourteen summers and the
woman twelve.
In Spain the intended husband must
have passed his fourteenth year and
the woman her twelfth.
In Switzerland the men from the age
Of fourteen and the women from the
age of twelve are allowed to marry.
In Australia "man" and "womano
are supposed to be able TO be capable
OF conducting q home Of their own
from the age Of fourteen.
In Turkey any youth and maiden
who can walk properly, and can un-
derstand the necessary religious serv-
ice, are allowed to beunited for life.
In Hungary, for Roman Catholics,
the man must be fourteen years old
and the woman twelve; for Protest
ants, the man must be eighteen and
the woman fifteen.
In Russia and Saxony they are q lit
tie more sensible, and a youth must
refrain from entering into matrimony
till he can count eighteen years, and
the woman till sbe can count sixteen.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. O. Diggs, of Lad
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

Mrs. Samuel Stamm, Loganton, Pa,
bore her thirty -four years of suffering
with courage and fortitude. Her
trouble was rheumatism in the knss.
In consequence her limb had become
so stiff that she could hardly walk.
Mr.. Stamm is a well-to-do merchant,
and had spared no pains or expense to
relieve her, but with little success, Jun
til one night when it grew so painful
that she could hardly endure 1t, ne
persuaded her to try Chamberlain's
Pain Balm. The effect was magical,
the first application relieved the pain,
and its continued use has removed all
stiffness and given her the free use Of
her limb once more. II you have
friends who are troubled with rheu-
matism insist on their giving this
trial. You can do them no
greater favor, as it is sure to give
prompt relief, and if they are q little
patient 1t will effect cure. For sale
at 25 and so cents per bottle by o. A.
Buckner, Druggist.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22
Ayers Sarsaparilla
It's been curing such cases for
90 years. Try it yourself.
Send for the "curebook." 100 pages free.
J.c. Aver Co., Lowell, Mass.
Hon. James Bradley,
From the Fulton Gazette.


The tax payers of Audrain county
were wise when they selected Hon.
James Bradley to represent them in
the legislature. He represented them
truly and faithfully, especially in his
opposition to the State University En-
dowment bill. Hon. James Bradley
reflected the Audrain type of man to a
dot when he did this. The people Of
Audrain are made up of thrifty, ,shrewd,
up-to- date fnanciers. A more thor
ough-going lot of stock dealers, real
estate men, stock raisers and farmers
cannot be found in any county in this
State. The old Salt River tigers are
either all dead or they have moved to
Kansas. Those who are left and those
who have moved in need no guardians
on a question of finance. This has
been demonstrated. Take the man
agement of the finances of Audrain
county, get list of their county
judges, examine the records and in
vestigate the management. With such
men as Guthrie, Douglass, Locke, Jim
Carroll and number of others, they
have managed the business of the
oounty chat It has had ono or rne best
and most economical arrangements of
finance in the State. No debts have
been piled up-no exorbitant taxes
have been levied.
Mr.. Bradley, in his opposition to the
University bill, very naturally repre-
sented these men. They knew Brad
ley before they elected him and he
never disappointed them. The Ga
zette publishes Hon. James Bradley's
reasons for voting against the endow-
ment bill. 1t is good reading and we
ask careful perusaI OF the article by
every farmer who reads this paper.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22
The New Ten.

Matrimony has ten commandments.
These were studied out by Theodore
Parker shortly before the day of his
wedding. They took the form of ten
beautiful resolutions which he -serib-
bled in his journal. They are as fol-
lows:
1. Never, except for the best reas-
ons, oppose my wife's will.
2. To discharge ali duties for her
sake freely.
3. Never to scold.
4. Never look cross at her.
5. Never worry her with commands.
6. To promote her piety.
z. To bear her burdens.
8. To overlook her foibles.
9. To save, cherish and forever de-
fend her.
10. To remember her always in my
prayers. Thus, God willing, we shall
he blessed,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22
In Audrian County.


A Mexico wheelman hung his bicy-
Gle from the ceiling of his cellar, not
far from the swinging shelf on which
food was kept. A mouse jumped
from the wall to the tire of the front
wheel, evidently hoping therereby to
reach the shelf. The wheel started
and the mouse naturally ran toward
the highest part of It. 1t was able to
stay on the top of the tire, but could
not get enough of foothold to jump
to the wall. When found next morn
ing, 1t was very much exhausted,
though still running. The cyclometer
showed that it had travelled over
twenty eight miles.