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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-16
Free the Hemisphere.

Multiplied rumors come from Eu-
rope Of the probable intention of Spain
to sue for peace as soon as it is demon
strated that her cause is lost in Cuba.
Madrid reports of the helpless condi-
tion of Spanish finances and the ina
bllity of the Bank of Spain to render
any more assistance indicate that there
is a substantial basis under the rumors.
II the rumors are true they no doubt
foreshadow a well-matured plan at
Madrid to resort to trickery as the on
ly hope Of saving some of Spain's col
onial possessions. We have not yet
made determined move on Porto
Rico. AS soon as naval operations
around Santiago are completed Cuba
will be at our mercy, and it will then
be only a matter of detail to land
troops and ultimately invest Havana.
If this movement is not accom- panied
by movement on Porto Rico, Spain
will have an opportunity to propose
peace before we have fairly got in po-
sition to achieve one of the main pur-
poses of the war-the Punishment of
Spain from the Western Hemisphere.
This would complicate the situation
more than it is possible to complicate
it by the most vigorous prosecution of
hostilities from this day forward. We
cannot afford to treat with Spain on
any other terms than complete surreu-
der of her sovereignty in the New
World. Any other course would sim
ply mean postponing a final settle
ment, when possibly the advantage
would not all be on our side.
The rumors doubtless will have the
effect of increasing the activity of both
the army and navy. When Sampson
shall have reduced the Qualifications of
Santiago and captured or destroyed
Cervera's fleet, so that an army OF in
yasion can be safely transported to
Cuba, his next move probably will be
on Porto Rico. He need not necessar-
lily renew the attack on the fortifca-
tions of San Juan. Possibly some 9TH
er point offers a better opportunity for
landing troops in Porto Rico. But this
is detail of small concern compared
with the Importance of fastening the
investment OF the island.-I. Louis
Republic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-16
War Departments Weakness.

1t would seem that the entire fabric
of the war department is weak and in
competent. The commissary. quarter
master and ordnance bureaus have
failed utterly to meet the demands of
the army II is not that they have
failed to provide ample supplies, but
in the distribution and delivery of them
they have shown little or no intelli-
gence Hundreds of cars of supplies
have been forwarded to the several
camps of mobilization without their
contents being noted on the car doors
or any memorandum retained of car
numbers so that they might be traced.
1t is said the supplies sent to Tampa
are strung along the railway for fifteen
miles, with no one knowing how to
locate anything. General Miles is
stirring up the heads of these depart
ments. which is right, but it is pretty
late in the day for the army commander
to find out that such a condition of
things exist.
In the earlier stages of the prepara-
tions Secretary Alger was considered
the right man in the right place. tt
was thought the war spirit of the cab
met was furnished by the secretary.
He talked much to the press, and was
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-16
IRONTON. NO. THURSDAY. JUNF 16. 1855

to the corporations. The agents of the
corporations are active. They are
more bold and less secretive as to their
aims than is usual. They are all work
ing together, and they expect to con-
troll the Springfield convention. The
railroad lobbyists, the corporation at
torneys Of the big cities. the gang
politicians who are the tools of the
corporation politicians, are all work
ing the political wires as only they
know how to work them. What can
be the official life of q man who owed
his elevation to such an iBHnence? 1t
is not question as to his record in the
past. Men have sold their birthright
for a mess of pOttage IN the past and
will again. The corporations of the
union knew that Mckinley would not
fall to do their bidding when they
made him president. The corporations
of Missouri are equally clever. They
will make no mistake in their choice
of timber. If they nominate and eject
a man, he will be their man.
For once the people will not be blind
folded. The fight will be between the
people and the corporations. and the
line clearly drawn. In eastern states
where the battle has been fought on
these lines the corporations have won.
Missouri has always been ruled by the
people, however, and it will be to the
everlasting glory of the old state if the
democratic party in convention as
sembled will once more show to the
world that the corporations do not own
Missouri. "A. C. Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-16
The Bond Issue Bill.

The passage of the Bond issue bill
through the Senate on Saturday last
draws the lines OF our politics for the
! next quarter of century. That the
bill was dictated from London, there
is no doubt It's importance in inter-
| national history il so great that the
Spanish war is trivial in comparison.
As a measure for the collection of
war revenues, the bill is one OF the
worst measures OF class legislation ever
drawn. The Democrats and Popullsts
in the Senate attempted to force amend
ments. lessening its determinations
against the masses OF the people, but
owing 10 the fact that Messrs. German,
Gallery, Lindsay, McEuery. Mitchell,
Murphy and Turpie, elected as Demo-
Gratis. are controlled by the Sugar
trust. the Whisky trust, the Trunk
Line pool, the Rothschild Bond Syndi-
cate and similar Combinations, the
trust and corporation forces under
Hanna were enabled to DO as they
pleased. What it pleased them to do
was this:
l. They voted down alr amendments
taxing incomes under which Plutocratic
campaign fund contributors would
have been compelled to contribute to
the expenses of the war.
,. They voted against all PROPOSE
tions to avoid bond issues by using
silver bullion on hand.
3. They voted down all amend
ments imposing war taxes on trusts
ana other combinations formed in vio-
lation of the Sherman antitrust law.
4. They voted down all propositions
to issue Notwithstanding treasury
notes instead Of interest-bearing bonds
this regardless Of whether such notes
were made legal tender or not.
5. They voted clearly and unmis-
takably to make everything else in the
bill itself. in the conduct of the war
and in the domestic policies of the
country subservient to the interests of
the international bankers, who demand
the issue of more bonds and the in
definite continuance of the debt already
existing.
As our politics have been heretofore,
any party taking in National cam
paign the attitude now openly assumed
by the Republican party under Hanna's
leadership, could not have carried
State south OF Pennsylvania and West
Of New York. Perhaps the Spanish
war, Hanna's leadership and our new
world politics" of cooperation with
London bond syndicates will change
all this. 1t remains to be seen. What
can be seen already is that in one way
and another-in every way in fact
the bills draws the lines for a great
political revolution. Either the plu-
tocracy under Hanna will be wiped out
as the Federalists were under Adams.
or the United States will cease to be
an independent Republic of equal self
governing States. and will become an
empire with Baron Rothschild as its
Caesar and London as the real seat of
its government. - Mississippi I-dUey
Democrat and Journal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-16
Temperance Notes.
LOYAL TEMPERANCE LEGION.

z2z252zzA Scatter diligently in
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AI5s Isl EesI susceptible minds the
bloom, and bear the golden fruits of
Paradise"
And so our w. c, I. U. women work
in the Loyal Temperance Legion be-
lieving that it is easier to bring up
child in the way he should go that
when he is old he will not depart from
it than to reclaim the old and hardened
sinner.
The worlds Supt. of L. T. L. work
is Miss Anna Gordon who will always
be remembe as the guide, philoso-
pher and friend" of our promoted lead
er Frances E. Willard. Miss Gordon
has worked faithfully to bring the
children of the world under our white
banner of purity and peace. She who
has planned so wisely for the children
whom she loves now rejoices that
children of every land have pledged
themselves
''Not TO buy, drink, sell or give
Alcoholic liquors while | live,
From all tobacco I'll abstain
And never take Gods name in vain''
Visitors to the w c. I. Z. rooms at
the Columbian Exposition will remem-
Der the decoration of red, white and
blue total abstinence cards which had
been signed by the children. In this
way money was raised for the Willard
Fountain which stands at the entrance
to Willard Hall. The little .'cold /
water girl" who presides over the foun-
tain silently pleads that men viii turn +
from the error of their way, and cease
TO CRAFTY the appetite for stimalants.
Our national work Is under the SUI
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-16

There's no use in talking says w.
H. Broadwell. druggist, La Cygne,
Kas.. tChamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrbpa Remedy does the work.
After taking medicines of my own pre-
paration and those of others took a
dose of Chamberlain's and it helped
me; a second dose cured me. Candid
ly and conscientiously ! can recon-
nerd it as the best thing on the
market The 20 and 50 cent sizes for
sale by the Arcadia Valley Drug Store.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-16

VIII furnish Music for parties-two,
three, or four pieces-at reasonable
figures. LAUGHLIN & DAVIS.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-02-22

umns, "All the news that is fit to be printed, " as tfe New York Times does. And again, editors were held to strict accoun tability for what they printed, and publishers were not estimated by the number of startling lies they might print one day and be forced to contradict the next.
 Indeed, fake news has become a common thing with newspapers, and an important speciality with some newspapers, and the New York Journal and the New York World, for instance, have created fortunes by publishing fake news. They are denominated great newspapers, and yet there is no reading man in the country who attaches the slightest importance to these sensational publications. But they amuse, ere ating little or no impression upon the thought of the country.
 But it is a singular fact that men and even women-like to read this description of papers; so much so is this the case that the evil will con- tinue to grow, and though there are some clean and conscientious news papers remaining in the country and making money, yet the profits of. yellow journalism are so great, and hence so tempting, that we do not hesitate to predict that, if some successful movement is not made to check this descent of journalism in- to the depths of fakism, indecency and sensationalism, in twenty-five year from now there will not be 8 seIf-respecting gentleman on the daily press of the United States New Orleans States.
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Henoring Nancy Hanks.

The proposition to place a memorial over the grave of Nancy Hanks, the mother of Lincoln, is tho thought of a woman. It originated in tho brain of Nellie G. Robinson, who practices law in New York and Washington and who has interested Senator Fairbanks and Congressman Zenor of Indiana in the project.
 1.-The grave of the mother of one of our greatest men. !" said Miss Robinson, "'lies in an out of tho way place, neglect ed and forgotten, in Spencer county, near Lincoln City, Ind. We owe it to the past and rising generation as we'll as to ourselves 10 erect a national me- morial over this grave. We ought not to let patriotism become a lost art. I feel interested ill the matter from patri- otic and local reasons, for was born near Lincoln City. I think congress ought to appropriate $10, 1000, and the bill which is to be introduced will ask for that amount Washington Post
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The Latest Skirts.

The latest skirts are so close fitting around the hips that there is very little room for any petticoat underneath, which fact suggests the possibility of it's being abolished altogether. But this is hardly probable. and the skirtmakers are as busy as ever bringing out all sorts of novel and attractive models to tempt feminine fancy. One of the latest de- signs in silk for petticoats is i'll three shades of one color, each i'll bayadere stripe fully an inch wide. Tho darkest, medium and lightest shades follow each other in successive bands. The fashion able silk skirt, however, is not confined to any one style of silk Anything and everything is made up into this fasei- hating garment-broeaded silks, shot and plain, striped and figured taffeta, peau dc soie, satin and grosgrain. The chief aim is to make them very full, with innumerable ruffles to set out the gown at tho bottom. They may be pinked, hemmed, corded and trimmed with lace, but there must be no stinting in the quantity of material used. Lining tho lower part of the skirt, which is Span ish hounee, with wool albatross is a good plan for winter skirts, as it adds warmth whore it is needed and helps the silk to wear longer. York Sun,
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A LOST ALASKAN MINE.
Esarching For Hidden Millions In the
 Dreary Yukon Country.

Searching For Hidden Millions In the
 Dreary Yukon Country.
 Five million dollars in nuggets and an Inexhaust1blo mine of fabulous richness will be the reward of the prospector who can find the lost Golden mountain in north. ern Alaska Such at least is the report current among the miners along the Yukon and it's tributaries, says Sioux City cor respondent. The story may be Q myth or 1t may be literally true. No one seems tG know for certainty, and so many liyea have been lost in the effort to establish it's truth or falsity that investigators are grow ing somewhat ehary of entering on ths search Mark Hamilton, Yukon miner in 1891 and 1899, thus told tha legend
 "Away back, before Alaska passed out of Russian hands, ? he says, "a party start ed up the Koyokuk river, tributary of the Yukon. The mem bers wanted to learn all they could concerning tho topography of the country, it's mineral resources and the various tribes by which it was inhabit cd. They were picking up furs, too, and looking for any little snaps on which they might stumble in the way of Indian trad Ing. Alaska was not known then, as it is now, as gold country; still it was under stood that gold was occasionally found, and the explorers kept their eyes open for any chance sight of the precious metal. About half way up the north fork of tho Yukon they branohed off to the west and sone- where between tho north fork and the Are tic ocean, no one knows just where came to a small mountain, the base of which was literally honeyoombed with veins of rich gold bearing ore.
 "Such at least is the story. don't tvouch for it's truth It is said that $5, ,000, 00e worth of nuggets were picked up in few weeks almost on the surface of the ground. By this time the winter season was begin. ming to set in, and tho prospectors con. eluded they had better strike for the south srn settlements. Travelling was so difficult and the party so small-it numbered only six or soYen-that the greater part of the treasure was cached near the camp aud only enough packed for transportation to convince settlers in the south of the rich. ness of the deposits. It was expected to return tho next summer with stronger party and work the lead for all it was worth.
 "What became of that party after 1t left tho mountain no one knows. It was never seen again Inquiry made by the Russian authorities when the explorers failed to re- turn on schedule time developed frem the Indians th3 story given aboYe '
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NEW EVeRETT PIANO.

1t is a well-known fact that no pianos have stood the hard South ern climate as well as the Everett but the new improved Everett of 1897 has surpassed all pianos, in artistic tone, touch and beautiful cases: they have created a sensation in the musical world, and by investi- gating you will find that they are absolutely the highest grade of pianos now on the market. I am determined to have the piano trade of Arkansas. I have dropped prices, and will sell you nice upright piano from $140 up, and the high grade Everett for $50 less than factory re- tail prices. J. c. WoMBLE.
 Some of these pianos are on exhi- bition at Mitchell's on Main street. You are cordially invited to call and inspect them. 2-6 & W 1mo.
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Eupioni Eup onu EupIoniii

No doubt many people are awaT that Eupion Oil makes a much bet ter light than the lower grades oi coal oil, but we doubt if there are any that know that a gallon of Eupion lasts longer than cheap oil. Then, why not have the best light when the differencein cost is scarcely nothing. Eupion is sold at the fol owing places:
 nicCain Grocery Co, John H. Talbot & Go Robinson & Greenfield, J. L. Lloyd. Ma n-Tankersley Go, F Bros,i
 W L. Dewoody x Go Houston & Roane, L E. oldsmith & c.. rhalheimer Bros, Ferguson $ Russell, P. E. Mercantile Go H. F. Seveke, 2. Lumpkin, J. E. Simmons. Bluff City Lumber Co. q N. Hart Drug Go. W. s. Beard eodtf 312 Hearin & Alexander
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
 For Sheriff.

The GRAPHIC is authorized to announce Mir. EDGAR BREWSTER as q candidate for Sheriff and Collector of Jefferson county at the ensuing election, subject to the action oi the democratic primaries.
 We are authorized to announce MT. THOS M. PHILLIPS as a candidate for Sheriff and Collector of Jefferson county, subject to the action of the Democratic primaries To the Democrats of Jefferson county:
 Believing that 1 can serve the best interests of the Democratic party as effectively and discharge the duties of the office, if honored with the same, as competently as any who may aspire thereto, hereby announce my self IS a candidate for the office of Sheriff, subject to the action of theDemocratic party, pledging myself to make a faithful officer, if honored with the suffrages of the people,.
 H. A. MCCOY. We are auteorized to announce Mir. c. M. PHILPOT as candidate for Sheriff and Collector subject to the action of the Demo- cratic primaries.
 We are authorized to announce Maj. w. H, DAVIS, of Altheimer, as a candidate foI Sheriff and Collector, subject to the action ei the Democratic primaries.
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 For Representative,

To the Democrats of Jefferson Co:
 Being fully sensible of the honor confered by your partiality in selecting me as one of your Representatives in the General Assem- bly, of 1897 would presume again to offer my name for the nomination as candidate for the honorable position of Representative for Jefferson county in the next General Assembly: subject to the action of the Dem cratic primaries. Hedging for the future as was my effort in the past, a constant and yigilant attention to the trust imposed and an earnest effort to foster and protect the in teresb of our county and State l am.
 Respectfully.
 Feb. s, 1898. MCH. WILLIAMS. We are authorized to announce Hon. k. r. FOSTER as a candidate for Representative in the State Assembly, subject to the action of the Democratic primaries.
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For, City Clerk.

We are authorized to announce Mir, k. LEE JOHNSON as candidate for CityGlerk at the ensuing municipal election.
 We are authorized to announce MT. H. PEEL ALEXANDER as a candidate for City Clerk, at the ensuing municipal election, Tuesday April ,, 1898.
 We are authorized to announce MIR. ARTHUR T. LOVING as & candidate for City Clerk at the ensuing municipal election, Tuesday, A pril 5 1898.
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Decadenee of the Press

The assembling here of the Inter national Press League suggests some remarks about the status of the press of the present day. What are it's ends and what is it's influence? A true answer to these questions will not rebound to the credit of the modern press.
 It is constantly held, with dam nable iteration, that that this newspaper is a strictly business in stitution; that it's raison d'etre is to make money for its owners; and that it's object is to print all the news. But these declarations place the press of today upon very low plane, and have sunk it far below the level of the press of the past two or three generations.
 As matter of fact the press has never been the great and benefcent agency which it has been held to be, both by demagogues, who are bid ding for its favor and applause, and by tho individual egotism of it's con ductors.
 h its best days the press was characterized by great vigor of thought; superior intellect, earnest ness and power; but it was equally characterized by virulence, abuse, if not blackguardism, belligerency and partisanism. This is not high praise; but it is true, and in that era of it's existence it really possessed great power and influence, and was an agency to be courted or feared.
 Out of such an agency one might have reasonably predicted an eYolu- tion really great and benefcent; a dynamic power in civilization and especially in politics. But quite the contrary has happered. The evolu. tion is not yet complete; but so far as it has gone, the result has been quite disheartening to those high hearted and honorable men who love the profession of journalism. Let those who are old enough to re- member Prentice, Greedy, Jones, Forsythe, Daniels and Q number of other of journalists of the elder era and compare them with Pulitzer, Hearst and their kind. Let them compare the biackguard journalism of the era of the first men tioned, with it's ferocity, its courage and it's duels and It's street fights, with the yellow journalism of the present t era, with it's indecency, it's fake news, it's preposterous assumptions, and dirt in general, and he will realize the awful drop that has occurred in the standard of journalism within even the last thirty years.
 Tn the old time there was not so much news" printed in the papers because indecency and scandal were not relished by the public so much as they are today, and because the feverish thirst for sensation was not so intense. It was not then necessary for a reputable rewspa- per to print at the head of it's col
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-02-22

AN exchange says in it's obituary of a residents: 'He was a man of spotless integrity, a successful busi- ness man, a good advertiser, and he always had his job printing done at home
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For Prosecuting Attorney.

We are authorized to announce Mr. WAL TER B. SORRELLS as candidate for Prose- cutting Attorney Of the Eleventh Judicial District, subject to the action of the Demo- cratic party.
 We arel authorized to announce Hon. SMITH c, MARTIN as a candidate for re- Eleventh Judicial District, subject to the action of the Democratic party
 We are authorized to announce Judge B. r MERRITT as q candidate for Prosecuting Attorney of the Eleventh Judicial District subject to the action of the Democratic party.
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For CtrcuitZ,J Judge

We are authorized to announce Hon. A. B. GRACE as candidate for Circuit Judge of the Eleventh Judicial District, subject to the aetion of the Democratic party.
 We are authorized to announce Hon, JOHN M. ELLIOTT as candidate for renomination and reelection as Circuit Judge of the Eleventh Judicial District, subject to the action of the Democratic party.
 We are authorized to announce Hon c. fl. HARDING as a candidate for Circuit Judge of the Eleventh Judicial District. subject to the action of the Democratic party,
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For Assessor,

We arc authorized to announce CAPT. SAM LINDSEY as a candidate for County Tax Assessor, subject to the action of the Democratic primaries.
 We are authorized to announce Mr. CHAs. W. HARRIS as a candidate for County Assessor, subject to the action of the Demo cratic primaries.
 We are authorized to announce MT, M. A. HUDSON as q candidate for County Tax As sessor, subject to the action of the Demo- cratic primaries,