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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-07-13

As showing the keenness Of their
scent, it is said that the vulture and
carrion crow can smell their food for
distance of 40 miles. But then it
must be taken into account that the
food has somewhat penetrating flavor:
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-12-07

Whats the matter with some g0od
Republican getting into the Senator
ial fight and keeping Stewart, Cleve-
land, Newl 1nds aud Leete company
1t occurs to the Gazette 10 be good
party politics to caucus on the situa-
ton at all events. We would suggest
a caucus at no distant day of the
members elect to which the leading
Republicans throughout the State
should be invited to discuss the situa-
tion.-Gazette.
Do you know any reason why Mr..
Newlands, whom the Republicans re-
fused to antasanize the last campaign
will not still be acceptable to the Re.
publican party?
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-12-07

The APPEAL understands that the
men who are masking Nh. Newlands'
hight for S~enatorship realizing that It
would be unfair to burden the tax
payers Of Nevada with an election ex-
pense Of SIS 600, proposesthat in TIE
event of Newlands winning he will
turn the mount into the Treasury OF
the State. There is no law by which
this donation could be accepted and it
is therefore not to be seriously con
sidered.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-12-07
4 cOrresO0ndent asks the Eff

\ correspondent asks the Inference
between a protective and general ALI
ance between nations. The first is
where a strong power, for a considet-
alton, agrees to protect a weak one
against enemies 1t is thought that
there IS such an alliance between Rus
STA and China, a general alliance is
where two nations agree to stand by
each other in peace and war such as
is supposed to exist between Russia
and France.
The alliance between Great Britain
and the United States, If made. would
be a general offensive and defensive
alliance. Great Britain would agree
to help fight our battles az country
would agree to back Grea, Britain III
the event Of war.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-12-07

Becker the famous bank forger has
hnaily pleaded guilty, He said he
was weary Of fighting the banks.
Possibly the banks are weary of being
robbed by his manipulations of bank
checks. Once at his hotel he com
planned that the door OF his room had
been left open where any common
thief could get in His solicitation
owe being robbed by anybody lower
IN the criminal scale than a gilt edged
forgef has its humorous aspect.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-12-07

Noting the launching of the Evils
consin,' the Record OF Philadelphia,
published close to the shipyard of the
Cramps, pays the builders of the BIC
ship this compliment: 1t was The
builders of the Wisconsin who gave
to the American navy that marine
wonder the Oregon; and the people
will ask no more of the new Graf
than that she shall emulate in all re
spects the record Of her famous pre-
decessor on the stocks Of the Union
Iron works.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-12-07
FOR PRESIDENL IN 1900
WILLIAM JENNINGS hKIAN,
Of Nebraska.

The APPEAL cannot conceive how
any newspaper that took part in the
State campaign as a Silver paper and
accepted pay from the State Central
Committee for advertising the Silver
platform can honorably fight under
any other than the Stewart banner
until the Senatorial contest is deeid-
ed. When the STATE Central Com
mittee had assessed the candidates
under the Purity Of Election Law up
to the limit, it proved that there was
barely enough money in the treasury
to hold the campaign meetings and
nothing to pay the newspapers, It
would require a little over $1,000 to
pay these advertising bills and TIE
committee had no money topaz them.
Senator Stewart placed the necessary
money at the disposal Of the Com
mittee aid the bills were paid.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-12-07

The Republican and Democratic
papers are falling nicely in line for
Newlands. Is this for "services rem.
dered' in the campaign?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-28

what, from barbarism to the highest
civilization, he has rescued from the
forces of his environment. 1t belongs,
not sentimentalIy merely, but in every
day reality to every individual of the
race
Greed, I admit, is common, and dis
honesty and corruption crop out here
and there in unexpected places. Legis-
latures have been corrupted; courts
eminent, in many instances, misdirect-
ed along lines of selhshness and in
Justice but these instances Of degen-
eracy are-and 1 have measured my
words carefuIly-as rare today as in
any extended period of AnglO-Saxon
history. They stand out more distinct
lively and appalling than their predeces-
sors, because their background is larger
and whittier general public conscience.
I'VE have seen, in our day, some
physical manifestations against social
tramping toward the country's capital
in quest of incOherent measures of re-
lief; we have seen colossal factories bar
ricaded by their owners, and defended
against the assaults of Infatuated
Workmen; we have seen the business
of great cities brought to q StandStil1,
and the transportation lines of a CONT
nent paralyzed; but we never stood
face to face with a social upheaval so
full of menace as that captained by
Daniel Shay and his followers. They
constitute our type of industrial and
moral indictments, and they have new
er yet been OutdOne. The symptoms
are varied, now of one character and
now of another, but the disease is con
slant inherent, and incurable-nervou
unrest, universal and eternal 1t is a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-28
KANSAS NEWS.
Arctic Explorer Dyche Pleased
With the Idea
OF Taking His Celebrated
Worlds Fair Exhibit
TO THESHOW ATPARIS
1t Will Cost $4,000 to Make
the Display.
Other Kansas News of General
Interest.

Lawrence Jan. 2s.-The movement
started in Leavenworth last week to
raise money to send Professor L. L.
Dyche with his museum to the Paris
exposition in 1900 meets with his APP
prevail provided that enough money is
raised for him to make as large or a
larger exhibit than the one he had at
the Worlds Fair.
1T would take 100000 said Professor
Dyche, and there is no use going I'M
less I can take the whole museum.
Some people made the mistake at Chi
cago of putting up little exhibits on the
side of the wall which no one would see
unless they happened to run into them.
[ believe in doing things on a big scale
and if we are going to advertise Kansas
and the university, it ought to be done
right However, the Paris exposition is
not a long way off, and $4,000 is a big
amount to raise. But 1 would like to
so just the same. IF every town show
ed the same iberahty that Leaven-
worth shows, Kansas would certainly
be well advertised at Paris"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-28

linked with every achievement in
American history.
In the whole history of America
there has been no period when the
conditions of the present, and the pros
poets for the future were so interesting.
The day now passing is unique. 1t sees
US standing, as never before, with our
backs almost wholly to the past, and
our faces to the future. Parties have
With less regret than ever men swing
loose from past party utilization and
with greater ease than ever ally them
selves to new political movements.
Until 1890, a majority in any political
election of 10000 or 10000 was regarded
as large; a majority Of 100000 as phe-
nomenal; now a majority of 100000
votes in such states as New York, Ohio
or Illinois, is looked upon as meagre-
so meagre as to be indecisiYe. Voters
cut loose from their parties, not singly,
as of old, but in armies. The pendulum
that marks political victory and defeat
swings through long reaches and with
rapidity. There is no longer any clear
line of political cleavage. The genera
ton we live in is puzzled and in doubt.
The cause of all this is that we have
moved forward in history.
For the first time in a century the
ground looks clear for a new civic
movement. From what corner of the
horizon it will rise; what banners it
will carry; who will captain it, I know
not But it will come. There is no
stop to the time piece Of civilization;
the hand of the clock now points to
new era of political agitation and de-
bate.
80 interesting a prospect breeds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-28

integrity are retreatfng before an ad-
vancing pest of greed; that city coun-
ellis, legislatures, congresses, the
courts, in fact all the repositories of
power of government are but shambleS
wherein are sold whatever the seller
has to give and the purchaser is able to
pay for; in short, that money is king,
the government institutions of our
at large his slaves. In the visions of
these men we are approaching g. cata-
clysm. Indeed, if what they think they
see are not what the boys are supposed
to see at night, nothing short of a cat
aclysm can purify US.
They bid US hold our ears to the
ground if we think there is no wide
spread muttering of discomfort; they
start at times and inquire if those
sounds against this century's evening
ing chariot of revolution and dtsor-
der
1.-The blind optfmist, on the contrary.
sees nothing and hears nothing out or
the common. Preachers OF discomfort
and agitatOrs for change are, to his no
ton, only howlers of calamity, and
bode no mischief more alarming than
the occasional cries of the coyote here
and there through the evening land
Scape. Wealth, he admits, is cOncen-
trating; aggressive captains of indus
try are gathering into their own hands
the reins of what was hitherto wide
spread individual industry; men are
fiocking into ORGANIZATIONS which in
turn decorating, concentrate their pow
ers both of resistance and attack, and
the grumbles of discomfort may be
heard on every hand; but, says he, wait
for good times, and these misshapen
apparitions will disappear as swamp
fogs before the rising sun light.
1.-THE wealth of the civilized world,
after all, is only the trophy of mans
triumph over nature. 1t measures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-28

that falls upon Americans sobered by
thoughtful patriotism, and cultured in
to a capacity to wait. To a people thus
tempered every debate is progress; eV-
cry public storm, hOwsoever charged
clearing up of future skies. Unless ar
rested and greatly sobered, it will mark
our transition from people capable of
self-government, to one ruled by alter
mating impulses of jealousy and ca
price.
THE prime quality of good citizenship
is, after all, good sense and charity.
Neither the ultra radical nor the ultra
conservative can help us much.
when these cOnvulsiOns are over,
the nations who survive will bear toward
each other a relation never known be
fore. Wars of firearms and carnage
will ultimately cease. 1 believe in the
eventual federation of mankind; in a
time coming when no ship will pillow
foreign sea, or touch at a foreign port;
when no lines of boundary will be
traced by the CLINT of opposing
lines of upturned bayonets; when
no cry of wrong, whether it proceed
from the low skies of Siberia or the
azure depths of the south land, will go
unheard or unrighted; when tribunals
will sit by permanent constitution as
they now sit by special treaty, to de-
termine the controversies of the globe.
The increasing power of public opinion
as an universal moral force; the spread
Of the AnglO-Saxon tongue; the co-or-
dination, through the telegraph, of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-28

women who will carry flowers and
sweetmeats to the wretch who has raw
ished a sister or murdered a wife, but
thank God; it is not such shallow pates
who represent the moral sentiment Of
the people or to whom is given the task
of enforcing the laws
Judge Foster says of the work of the
state board of pardons:
"A tribunal of pardons should have
no place in the economy of civil govern
ment among men. Its very existence
is a menace to good government and
the enforcement of laws. 1t speedily
becomes a tribunal for the notification
of the laws 1t becomes a receptacle
into which is dumped falsehood, per-
jury, gossip and chicanery. 1t begets
a system of brokerage and traffic in
condoning crime. A board of pardOns
begets multitude of unworthy appltca-
lions for executive clemency- 1t usurps
the functions of the courts by set Of
men unlearned in the law, bound by no
rule of evidence, justice or common
sense And, therein lies the danger to
civil government. A tribunal with a So
a day lawyer at it's head sitting to dill
Igently inquire into the facts of a case
which has passed through the course of
contest every point in the case and an
intelligent judge and jury to determine
law and fact upon full hearing of all
the evidence is such a travesty on JUS
tice and truth as should bring the blush
of shame to a people who tolerate it
Speaking of the judicial methods of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-28
STATE BAR.
Annual Meeting of the Kansas
Bar Association.
Judge Grosscup, of Chicago,
Reads the Main Address.
TAKING AIOOK AHEAD
PrOphesies a Change in Form
of Our Civil Life.
Addresses Made by Noted Kan
saS Lawyers.
TAKING ALOOK AHEAD

Judge P. s. Grosseup of Chicago de-
Iivered the principal address secured
for the state bar association at the
meeting Thursday night.
It elected the highest commendation
from the lawyers. He discussed Pop
ular Self Mastery: The Duty of the
Lawyers Towards Its Promotion" He
said:
1.-The lawyer, in his relation to socie-
ty, is much more than a mere practi-
toner. From Rome to America, the
lawyer has always been somewhat of
public man; the public man somewhat
of a lawyer. The American lawyer is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-28

fcient money for current expenses has
been given. Major Hood of Emporia
putting 500 into the treasury Mrs.
Chase, chairman of the board, has just
been notified that a carload of coal,
given by Messrs. N. e Wood and w
G. and Chris Beck of Pittsburg, Kan,
has been shipped to the home, the FRS
co and the Midland roads carrying it at
half rates.
About 20 applications for admission
have been received. Three, besides the
matron and supervisor, are now com
fortably cared for, three are going soon,
and more will follow as soon as the
board is assured of a certain income for
maintenance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-28
WILL THE PIN DROP

Although repeated assurances that all
IS tranquility in Havana and that the
scheme of autonomy is being carried
out successfully, there is clearly feel
ing abroad in the world that something
unusual is about to happen in Cuba.
What is going to take place may be
well understood in what are called ''di-
p1omatic circles but the common peo-
pie are as yet in ignorance. That some
important change in the Cuban situa-
ton is about to take place is being en-
phasized by the fact that armOred
cruisers of various nations are gather
ing in the harbor of Havana for the I'M
doubted purpose of being in readiness
to protect the citizens of the nations to
which they belong should their services
be needed when the crash comes.
The United States ship Maine had
scarcely cast anchor in Havana harbor
before she was followed by two other
armed vessels, one floating the English
and the other the German flag. To
these the tricolor of France is about to
be added.
The serenity with which all these
movements are viewed by the United
States and Spain as well as by the 9TH
er European governments, seems to in
dictate that there is an understanding.
Perhaps after all as has been suggested
more than once on the floors of con-
gress, the settlement of the Cuban prob
lem hinges on a question of dollars and
cents and that this part of the matter
is in process of adjustment.
Spain has incurred an immense debt,
on account of the Cuban war and the
insurgents also have borrowed money
on the strength of their prospects for
ultimate independence. Men who WELD
the largest influence in the affairs of
nations hold these securities-those of
Spain and those of Cuba. When an ar
rangement is reached by which the
bond holders will be in the way of get
ting interest on their investments the
Cuban matter will probably be speed
lily settled. The indications are that
this has been accomplished.
As a further evidence that the end is
close at hand it may be noted that
newspaper correspondents are rushing
to Cuba from everywhere.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-28
HARPER EDITOR SUED.
L. P. Burgess Charged With Criminal
Libel by Cattlemen.

Kingman, Jan. 28.-A warrant has
been sworn out in the district court of
this county charging S. p. Burgess, pub
Usher of the Harper Sentinel with
criminal libel The warrant was placed
in the hands of Sheriff Davis who left
for Harper last evening to make the ar
rest.
The case grows out of an article
which appeared in the Harper Sentinel
on January 18th, charging that William
Barber and Tom Richards, two well
known cattlemen of Harper county had
purchased so head of steers, tops out of
a herd of 300, of Simmons Bros, big
stock dealers living near Nashville, this
county; that they had paid one dollar
a head on them; that when Barber and
Richards went to get the cattle several
of the best head were missing; that
when they asked what had become of
them Simmons Bros, insisted that they
were all there just as they were when
they were purchased; that afterwards
Mr.. Richards found % head of the
steers he had bought in the neighbor-
hood. The complaint is sworn to by H.
r. Simmons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-28

or starvation; for it is the starvation of
hope, and such starvation, universal
and long continued, breeds a hundred
fold more discomfort than any real star
walton of the body.
1T is enough to say that in the orbit
of our national movement we are ap-
preaching the most perilous of all So
cial and political conditions. The con-
dition of social introspection; the condi-
ton of looking within the social struc-
ture to see how fares each one of US in
comparison with his fellow. But the
mere fact of popular unrest need not
dismay US. It is, indeed, in the last
analysis, the genius of human progress.
They belong to American manhood
They lie legitimately in the pathway Of
the republic, and are needful to the
best development of our future. I fear
no issue, no agitation, no discussion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-28
ARKANSAS River QUESTION.
Queries Addressed to Complaining
Farmers in Western Kansas.

Wichita. Jan. 2S.-Silas Rutledge, c.
E. Topper, H. J. OIdfather, c. F. Hyde
and Charles Clasen, who constitute
what is termed q river committee" at
Colurch, Is miles above this city on the
Arkansas river, and who have in charge
the plan of campaign in the proposed
action to prevent the diverting of the
water of the Arkansas into the irriga-
ton canals in eastern Colorado, and
western Kansas, have issued a circular
letter to farmers residing along the
river, and with it the following list of
questions:
1. State when you first noticed a de-
crease in the flow of the Arkansas riv-
er, and when it became a usual thing
for the bed to be dry in summer or fall.
2 What effect has the decrease in the
flow of the river had upon your farm
and the community?
3. Has the channel been filing up
gradually since the flow has begun to
decrease, ard has there been a growth
of willows and grasses over the chan
mel, thus filled up?
4. State fully the disadvantages to
you and your neighborhood caused by
the river bed being dry in the summer
and fall.
5. Please offer any suggestions that
you may deem proper on this subject.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-28

political and financial nerve centers of
the world: and the increasing facili-
ties and disposition of people from ev-
cry quarter of the globe to intermingle,
are the prophesies.
But peace on earth there viii never
be. That human restlessness, which
has. from the beginning of time, found
vent on the worlds battle-fields, will
remain undiminished, to press for
ward the destiny of the race Battles
will take place, but their scene will be
in the forum instead of the field, and
their weapons forged in the armories
the arsenels of fire and steel.
The greatest battles of the race
are yet to be met; but its he
roes will be, not the leaders of armies,
but the leaders of public opinion; of
public opinion disciplined to the sober
restraints of a campaign fought out
upon the high plains Of reason and
charity
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-28

trying persons accused of crime, Judge
Foster says:
1T will be well to suggest a doubt
whether a law permitting a party ac-
cused of crime to be a witness in his
own behalf is a step forward or back
ward in the law of reform. My long
experience on the bench leads me to be-
Iieve it holds out an invitation to the
accused to add perjury to his other Of
Tense and he seldom hesitateS to accept
the invitation. The law maker who is
simple enough to believe that the man
with the galIOws or penitentiary star
ing him in the face would scruple to
hold up his hand and invent a false
hood is too innocent for this wicked
world
Judge Foster also suggests that
where thieves steal a mans property,
instead of working out a fine he should
be compelled to work to the extent of
the value of the property, on public
works, the state indemnifying the loser
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-28

General Boyle The judge says:
THE man who can deliberately take
the life of his fellow man, or by force
robs an innocent girl OF that which is
dearer to her than life is a creature in
the similitude of man but at heart
demon and his life is not worth prolong-
ing. There can be no good purpose
served by continuing his existence. The
folly of shutting such a man up from
his fellows, feeding and clothing him
and appointing a man to guard him
with a loaded gun to prevent further
mischief is not humanity but maudlin
sentiment and tends to breed that class
of maIefactOrs. Compromising with
sin is little less than a crime and indi-
Gates a decadence of the moral senti-
ment of a community and will event
ualIy undermine the state. So long as
folly is not a crime, there will be silly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-28
w. c. T. U. Lecturer at Leavenworth
Declares Prohibition is Not Dead.

Leavenworth, Jan. 2S.-Mrs. Helen
Hartford, national organizer of the w.
G. T. u, 1ectured in the Methodist
church last evening to a small audience.
Mrs. Hartford declared that prohibi-
ton was not dead and the law was bet
ter enforced in Kansas than many of
the other laws on the statute books of
this state. Among other points that
she thought was that the preachers of
the gospel were not fighting the liquor
traffic with sufficient nerve, and if
divine would speak once a month on the
prohibition question, that at the next
state conference that minister would
be changed to another town.
Mrs. Hartford also said that there
was not a Methodist church in the
country that used fermented wine in
its communion services now, as the re-
suit of the appeal of the w. C. T. U. in
favor of it's discontinuance.