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The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1898-01-28

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work pos sible, when called On in the
line of duty.
MAYOR VAN WICK GIVES A PLUM TO a
STAFFORD BOY.
Mayor Van Wyck of New York city
has appointed Julian 1. Fairchild one of
the commissioners of the new East
River bridge. Mr. Fairchild is the son of
Douglass Faircnild, who will be well
remembered by some of our cider
townspeople.
ENTERTAINING THE SOUTHPORT FIRE
LADIES.
The Southport firemen cane over, one
evening last week, to visit their sbr other
firemen and inspect their new quarters.
The visitors were sent home in happy
frame of mind, loud in their praises of
the treatment they had received, and of
the horne of the truck company.
T. S. Beardsley has returned from a
trip to Baltimore.
Some of the large elms on Main street
are being taken down as they were dead
and danger to passers by during a
heavy wind. One In front of William
Blamey's place stopped the travel of
the trolley cars for few hours.
Charles Hine of .Campville has Wis
tied friends In town.
Nathan F. Wilcoxson expects to be-
gin operations on his new store building
very soon. His plan calls for two and
half story building with store on
ground floor and tenements above. Ii
Is to be located on Barnum avenue.
The horse stolen some time since from
Truman Booth was found in the pot
session of the famous Murty Savage in
New Haven.
Rev w. 81. Lannin spoke in the Mis-
sion chapel, Sunday afternoon. Prob
ably this will be the last time our people
will have an opportunity of listening 60
him fer some time as be contemplates a
trip TO Atlanta, Ga the people of that
city having given him an earnest call TO
spend few months in evangelistic work
among IS them. Mr. Lannin has made
many friends ia town who will with
hing success in his new field of labor.
Charles J. Hughes, Of the Stratford
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1898-01-28

horse blankets from their barn, one
night last week.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-12
GoLDBUG PRESUMPTION.

In answer to an article in the New
York Mail and Express calling atten-
ton to the fact that the silver men
have everything their own way in the
Democratic party OF Pennsylvania, the
Washington Post says:
"A gold standard Democratic bolter
from his party-has no more right than
a Republican to a seat in the Demo-
cratic partys councils. He may be an
able and an honest man; he may have
been a Democrat all his life prior to the
PRONUNCIATION of the Democratic plat
form of 1886; he may intend to vote for
the regular Democratic nominees this
year. but so long as he refuses to sub
scribe to his party's creed-to the latest
revision of that creed by the national
convention-he ought not to demand or
accept recognition as a Democrat"
How is it possible" asks the Post,
for a gold standard man in Pennsyl-
vania, New York, Wisconsin, or any
other state in which a seat in the Unit
cd States senate is to be filed by the
Legislature to be elected this year, to
support all the Democratic nominees?
Giving the boilers of SO credit for hon.
esty. how can we explain their willing
ness in 'sS 10 tamper with the senate?
The same arguments with which they
defended their rebellion against their
party two years ago require them to do
all in their power to prevent the cleo
ton OF regular Democrats to the ma
tiCnal senate or house of REPRESENTA-
tives"
Because state issues are paramount
in Pennsylvania. owing to the effort of
all good citizens to aid Democracy in
defeating Quay, and because the state
platform. out of Difference to anti-Quay
Republicans. was confined to state is
sues. some have complained that no
gold men were recognized on the ticket
at all: and that those who were in the
state Democratic organization have
been summarily removed.
in a manner which shows that it I'M
derstands the situation. THE theory
that state issues are paramount this
year will not excuse neglect of national
issues. Pennsylvania is to elect 80 rep
resentatives in congress and New York
&c. Each of those great states also
elects a senator. Can any good citizen
of any party or faction discharge his
duty to his country by ignoring his
convictions ON national issues?"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-12
A RATIFIED CONTEMPORARY,

The following is taken from an edi-
{ torial in yesterdays Tribune:
Our friend, the enemy, tried yester-
day to make it appear that there were
contentious and heart burnings in the
Republican convention of the previous
day, and cited the defeat of Mr.. Sails
bury, a most pronounced silver man,
as evidence of that fact. Now, the
truth is Mr.. Salisbury was compelled
10 be in court that day, but before
going there he had informed the chair
man of the convention, many devoted
personal friends, and several county
delegations that, were he to receive
the unanimous vote of the convention,
he would positively decline the nomin-
alton, so that when his name was pre-
scented by gentleman who was labor
ing under a Misrepresentation of the
real facts, it was known all over the
hall that Mr.. Salisbury would not ac-
cept if nominated.
Who is "our friend. the enemy?"
Why should the Tribune try to dis
credit its own news department? In
it's report of the Republican state con-
vention, printed on the first page of
Saturdays issue, the Tribune said:
Then came the contest over the con-
only unpleasant episode of the day.
Mr.. Hopkins of Summit placed in nom
ination Alma Eldredge of Summit.
Ex-Governor A. L. Thomas of the Salt
Lake delegation urged the nomination
of Hon. o. ]. Salisbury, and Mayor S.
S. Jones bespoke the support of the
delegates for ]. Z. Booth of Provo. The
usual seconding speeches followed and
the nominations were closed. Chair
man Arthur Brown ordered the dele
gates 10 prepare their ballots. In the
stir that ensued. Chairman Brown
turned to the Cache county delegation,
on the platform behind him, and said
casually: Salisbury won't accept the
nomination il it is given to him."
Cache county had seconded Mr.. Sails
bury's nomination, and Mr. Browns
remark naturally astonished the dele
cation. One of them went TO Wesley
Walton with Browns story, and Wal
ton Immediately asked Brown If he
had any authority for his assertion.
Brown weakened Immediately, and
said he had no direct authority, but he
understood Mr.. Salisbury would not ac-
cept. Walton said ne would take the re-
sponsibility of saying that Mr.. Sails
bury would accept.
1t was more than a coincidence that
Browns declaration was> repeated all
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-12
CHILE HAS SURRENDERED.

Under the pressure of a single stand
ard Chile has collapsed. A healthier
nation might have stood the thumb
screws applied by the money power a
little longer. With the opening re-
sources and immense natural wealth
possessed by the United States, Chile
would have stood up under the strain
at least ten years longer.
But her banks have suspended and
the once prosperous nation of the An
des is in disgrace. She has been forced
into a Reputation of her debts. a con-
dition at the bare mention of which
Republicans throw up their hands in
horror. I
Chile has gone to join the gold
wrecked and bankrupt debtor nations
of the world. They are all on the
Rothschild list. They have to pay the
money barons for the right to exist.
No longer can they claim to be en-
lightened, progressive lands. The am
bition of the people has been Slapped
away, Discouragement has settled
upon them like cloud. And there is
no debtor nation anywhere so rich
that ii can long withstand the gradual
encroachments of designing creditors.
The United States may do it for a
while; in fact. this country can do it
for many years; but the evil days will
come. and the years draw nigh when
we shall have no pleasure in them.
Chiles silver chord was ioosed and
then her golden bowl was broken. Now
her oddities bow themselves and "the
grinders cease because they are few"
The doors are shut in the streets,
when the sound of the grinding is low"
The people are afraid of the power
they created. and fears stand in the
way of progress. 1t is but the natural
result of a surrender TO the money
power
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-12
MEN AND PARTIES.

The man who leaves one party for
another. who makes the change on ac-
count of principle. cannot be called "a
political chameleon"
The one who vacillates between two
parties. who tries to be full-hedged
member OF both, who makes requests
from one side and turns to the other
if they are not complied with, whose
highest conception of a political party
is an organization through which to
work out private schemes. and who
wanders back and forth for that Dur-
pose. may be called "a political chame-
Leon
II is 20 the credit of any man or
woman to follow the dictates of con-
science out of one organization and into
another. When he finds that the policy
of a party is at variance with his IDEAS
of good government; when he discovers
that the national policy to which he is
inferentiaIly committed as member of
that party presages ruin for his coun-
try, it is his duty as a citizen, as a pa
triot. to get out Of it at once.
But political parties are necessity.
and through them alone can economic
problems be solved in this republic.
Then it becomes the duty of men TO
work in an intelligent and consistent
way with some such organization. The
man who leaves a party will lose his in
fiuence. to a considerable extent, and.
correspondingly. his ability to bring
about the reforms in which he is inter-
ested. unless he identities himself with
another organization. Whether of right
this should be so, it is not our purpose
to discuss. But it is true, neverthe-
less
Men should not hope to find party
which will suit them in every respect.
No organization representing six or
seven millions of voters can be expect
ed TO I'LL the exact requirements OF
each member But the issue that
party holds paramount, the issue over
which the hottest of the battle RACES.
is the. one which determines men in
their selection of Sides
Earnest men will make a choice, and
whatever it is. they are entitled to the
credit OF their convictions. however
mistaken we may regard their judg-
ment. Only chameleons will try to
wear all colors at once.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-12
SOMETHING TO WORRY ABOUT.

Henry Watterson, the celebrated
goldbug, who left the Democratic party
with Cleveland and Carlisle, and whose
utterances are no more binding on the
party than those of Senator Cannon
are on the Republican party, has re-
peated the old chestnut that silver
is dead" And the Salt Lake Tribune
quotes him with great glee. If it cares
to abide by the declarations of Mr..
Watterson, here is another taken from
the same issue of his paper:
1t is dollars to doughnuts that, before
it is six months older, this country will
did results of the war to the genius
the valor of our armies, acting indie
pendent of and superior to jack-rab-
bit administration, which began its
diplomatic decker with Spain. wearing
a white feather and a pair of panta-
lettes. 1t was only saved from dis
grace by the events of the war. The
heroes of the army are being mustered
out. The heroes of the navy stand at
rest. The rascally politicians, headed
by Alger, and the incompetent, diplo-
matists. headed by the Lord knows
who, are again in the saddle. Worse
luck for Uncle Sam, for the trail of the
hay seed is over them all.
Mr.. Watterson, being radical gold
lite, a supporter of the administration,
and n barker at Bryan. his anti-silyer
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-12
WHO PAYS THE TARIFF

Major Mckinley leaped into promi-
hence as sponsor for the system of tar
if taxation embodied in the Mckinley
bill" He won his spurs in congress
by reporting the bill from the commit
tee of which he was chairman. But
his fame was built upon his assertion
that the foreigner pays the tax"
A gentleman who led the Repubii-
cans of Utah to victory more than once
on that very satisfactory assumption.
went down to Washington and investi-
gated this matter for himself. He
learned that tariff protection, as cham
pioned by the Republican party, was a
form of robbery. a delusion to voters,
and fraud upon the government.
When a Republican administration,
Harrison's, removed the duty from. SUI
gar, it was apparent to consumers that
the foreigner had not been paying the
tax. President Harrison even called at
tention TO the annual saving to Amer
lean consumers on account of the re-
moval of the sugar tariff This was in
one of his messages to congress.
But Major Mckinley never weakened
until recently. By an order he has
just made. the fact that the consumer
pays the tariff tax is recognized, and
the foundation of his fame as an econ
omist is shaken.
BY virtue of his authority as COM
mander-in-chie of the army and navy.
President Mckinley has issued an
edict requiring that cattle and other
food supplies intended for the starv-
ing inhabitants of the captured islands
may be admitted free of duty. subject
TO the discretion of the commanding
officers.
For whose benefit was this order
made? Was it to relieve the foreigner
of his obligation? Or was it to take
burden from the Cuban people?
The mandate clearly implies knowl-
edge on the part of the president that
the consumer pays the tariff tax. 1t is
an admission that the foreigner does
not pay it, and that Mr.. Mckinley
knows it. The American people who
have been bled by Dingley laws and
Mckinley laws should not overlook the
lesson the president is teaching in his
action in this matter.
No doubt the Cubans will hail with
delight a government which removes
from them the Ubiquitous system of
exorbitant taxation under which they
have writhed. helpless in clutch of
Spanish corruption.
Wouldn't Americans, our OWN peo-
pie, appreciate a similar relief?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-12
MY LOVED oNE-DEAD.

/ gave my boy. as mother should;
L gave with whispered prayer,
And l did not weep I'LL he waved farewell
From the hilltop over there;
And then l turned to my chamber,
And the tears fell down like rain.
All, Cod for the babe, the boy and man
| never might see again.
We mothers love our children
As a man may never know.
They are flesh of our flesh; We bore themj
We drink of their Joy and woe.
But our country called my darling;
l could not hold him here.
And so i smiled a last farewell.
Though my soul sank down with fear.
Sometimes from fitful slumber
| would start with cry OF woe,
Dreaming a Spaniard's bullet
Had stricken my dear one low.
/ dreamed of the cruel battle.
OF the horror and pain and strife,
And then l walked from my dreaming,
To pray for my loved ones life.
But I did not dream-Ah. never
/ could not have fancied then
That the country he loved would leave
him
With the thousands of gallant men,
To die like sheep with murrain.
While the stricken people grieved,
l did not magine this ending
Dear God, who could have believed?
1 gave my boy to our country,
1t gives him again to me-dead;
Not slain by a Spanish bullet,
A victim of folly. instead
Slain. with some thousand others,
In camps where disease is bred
What have you to say. who did this thing.
To me, with my loved one-dead2
"A. ]. Warehouse in Examiner. f
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-12

To show where Henry Watterson
stands politically, the following from
the Louisville Dispatch is given: "Since
the Courier-Journal has repudiated
Democratic principles and has repudi-
ated the Republican candidates, those
Republicans who have attempted to
make it their party organ must feel
sick and Disguised. The gold men who
stood up with the Courier Journal to
be counted for principle must feel a
degree of nausea at the tergiversations
of their home newspaper leaders who
are now trying to sneak in at the back
door of the Democratic party, willing
to swallow the Chicago platform or
anything else except the ratio of Is to
1, which they are under contract to
Wall street to fight. The Democrats
will not be deceived again. and the Re-
publicans are pierced with the broken
reed on which they leaned. The Cour-
ier-Journal is a political pariah, de-
spised by all parties and trusted by
none. 1t lost it's Democratic subscrib-
ers for Mark Hanna's favors, and it
gained a certain Republican support"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-12

less contemplate the unjust judicial pro-
ceedings by which Dreyfus was found
guilty and ZOla condemned. Now that ii
is found that good deal of the evidence
was false, quite number of the French
people and the French newspapers are
said to have changed their minds; but,
even If the evidence had been trus. the
manner in which il was used in these
trials shows a disregard for personal
rights and a vinGictiveness of prosecution
which the great mass of a people cannot
entertain and at the same time continue
TO he free, independent and progressive
Boston Herald: Il is now proclaimed.
under authority from Secretary Alger.
that he win not be drawn into any con-
troversy on the subject of the late war
This may be recorded as a prudent posi-
ton on the part of one who has no good
defense of his action, yet, in view of the
serious accusations made against him, il
is doubtful if a stubborn silence is his
best policy. IL may keep Secretary Alger
his place while the president sustains
him there but IL is giving both the secre-
t;.ry and president a heavy load to carry
before the people and in the end II may
be found TO prove of decided disadvantage
TO the party to which they belong Their
safety-if they are Safe-is in the weak
ness of the Democratic party. With a
formidable opponent in the field. the Re
publicanS could not bear up against the
heavy burden that their war department
has brought upon them
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-12

There was some surprise shown when
it was announced that the Populists
had nominated a national ticket for
1900. But the Indianapolis Sentinel
points out wherein it was a wise pro-
ceeding: There are about 1900, 900
voters in the country, and as the
straight Populist vote in the last ma
tional election was less than $50, 900. it
is evident that the candidates will have
to convert about 100000 voters to in
sure their election. Allowing a posi-
bility of zoo working days before the
election of 1900. they will have to con-
vert 10000 per day TO win out 1t is
evident, therefore, that they have start
ed none too soon, and that they will
have TO employ every bit of their time.
In fact. it would have been wise to
have made the nominations for 1906 at
the same time
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-12
COWBOY, FIGHTER, LINeUIsT.

Anaconda (Mont) Standard: Tell them
I'm the cowboy from Days ranch" ex-
claimed a small. slender young man as he
entered the Gem concert hall in Missoula.
Some time later he was jostled by four
Italians. Like whirlwind he attacked the
four, knocking them down in quick sue
cession and not receiving a scratch.
After the GaribaldianS had recovered
from their surprise and had quenched the
flow of blood from their noses, they form
ed an offensive league against the un-
known and proceeded to hunt him up. He
was waiting for them, and, to their sur
prise, he addressed them in their own
language, offering to pile them all in the
middle of the street for $50. They de-
clined the bet. Then the fighter turned
to a Frenchman in the crowd and spoke
TO him in his own tongue. He spoke in
Spanish then. and again in good English.
Finally he turned to a Chinaman, who
mad been attracted by the crowd. and
spoke Chinese to him. The Celestial was
surprised, but answered in the same Ian
guage.
The little fellow was bird. He could
talk to any of them and in their own lam
guages. He could fight with any of them
and in their own style. He said afterward
that he had been in the navy on the Pa
cific and that he was not seeking any
notoriety. His name he kept to himself.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-12

talk will be received as the unfriedly
opinion of a hostile politician.
But his admissions of the administra-
ton incompetency may be given the
fullest consideration !, and credence.
Hen make charges in anger or from
prejudice. They make admissions only
from an overwhelming sense of guilt.
Therefore Mr.. Watterson's recognition
of official imbecility at Washington
may be added to the confessions of
many administration organs, which
have shown willingness to back the
Republican party up in everything but
the mistreatment of soldiers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-12

As an example of Republican con-
sistency we quote from the Manti Mes
senger, which supported Mckinley and
defended the st. Louis platform. In
one editorial paragraph it says
If Bryan had been elected president,
We believe the Creator would have been
displeased with this nation and with
held the great success achieved by our
brave soldiers.
That is certainly broad view to take
of the matter. but it viii probably ap-
peal to administration supporters
However, the Messenger shows great
solicitude for Bryan in the next col
unn. where it says:
Nothing has shown the cloven foot Of
Titan Democracy more than its refusal
to follow the advice of w. j. Bryan
and Chairman Jones to fuse with the
silver Republicans.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-12

The Kansas City World sizes up the
situation very properly. 1t says: For
a man who keeps his mouth shut and
attends strictly to his own affairs,
William Jennings Bryan is the recipi-
ent of a vast amount of gratuitous vi
tuperation through the columns Of
many gold Republican newspapers.
When Bryan was commissioned as col
onel of a Nebraska regiment these
newspapers ceased for the moment
proving how dead was both he and his
silver cause to impugn his motives in
offering HIS services TO the govern
ment. Ridicule followed when the dec
laration Of peace prevented his reach
ing the front And now. while in the
military service OF his country, he is
obliged to maintain dignified silence
on all questions political ana personal,
he is assailed more venomously than
Ave-"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-12

General Patrick A. Collins has an
swered the Philippine query very apt
ly. IF the Philippines are not fit for
self-government," he says, I'VE do not
want them; if they are let them set up
for themselves" In the language of
the Salt Lake Tribune, I'VE want no
Philippines in ours
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-12

Nations are like men. They exert
themselves to accomplish an object and
then go to work to undo what they
have done. The divorce courts are full
of examples of this kind. And now our
government, after sinking the Spanish
warships at great expense, is contem-
plating an additional expenditure for
the purpose of raising them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-12

Chicago News: Haughtiness is often
merely cloak for selfshness.
When some men do you a little favor,
they expect n due bill for il.
The self-made man is seldom satisfied
with the creations of other people.
Philosophy doesn't prevent the hiss Of
escaping air from a punctured tire.
The woman who is proof against flat
terry has the whole world at her COM
mand.
Authors. as rule sleep very little
but they provide lots of slumber for 9TH
erS.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-12

Should Spain remove from their West
Indian graves the bones of every hu-
man being she has killed by cruelty and
neglect. ships to bear them away could
not be found.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-12

Texans are not so different from
other people. after all. This causes the
editor of the McDade keystone to an
nounce: The editor of this paper
wants it distinctly understood that he
is running it. If there is anyone who
has anything to say about its appear
ance, quality, editor or anything else
pertaining to it, let him with the back
bone Of a man call around on US about
it,