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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-07-06
Evidences of McKinley's Popularity

Springfield "Uniion" Rep.).
When President McKinley's train pull
ed out of Adams last night amid the
cheers of the people of that town, there
was concluded a most convincing series OF
manifestations of peoples love and adj
miration for their President. This visit
came at time when the excitement of a
political campaign was entirely absent.
The demonstration in honor of the Presi-
dent, the hearty welcome accorded to him,
and the kindly enterest toward him, is
therefore all the more striking as proof Of
the esteem in which he is held. They
show that the sanderous attacks to which
he has been subjected have not poisoned
the hearts of the people against him. Pre-
sident Mckinley has won for himself per-
sonally and individually the love of the
plain folk. They believe in him, in his sim
gle heartedness, in his honesty and SINGER
ity of purpose, and we in the western end
of Massachusetts have been delighted to
honor him. If the President does not go
back to Washington confident of the faith
of the people in him he will have been
blind to the significance Of the bearing of
the people toward him during his stay in
this section.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-07-06
VINE AND FIG TREE.
Or the Philosophy of Eating the vegeta
bes One has Raised.
(Rep.l

Hartford "Courant" (Repl
This is the time of year which sees the
apotheosis of the amateur fruit and vege-
table gardener. When one eats at q
friends table lettuce that flourished in that
friends garden, or cucumbers which grew
green on that friends vines, and is not, de-
ference to our common humanity, suffer
ed to forget it, one reflects in vain upon
the high price one has paid for equal if
not superior lettuce and for cucumbers
warranted still touched by the dew. Such
consultations are of no avail, and the table
might be spread in the presence Of ones
enemies, go bitter is the sense Of disadvan-
tage which overshadows its enjoyments.
Nor will any amount of tact and court
esy on the part of those who grow things
in their gardens blind one who has once
himself belonged to their circle to that at
titude Of condescension. And so many
have belonged to it at one time and
another Almost every proprietor at
some period of his life has fattered the
dream of raising his own vegetables and
fruit into actual accomplishment. And
such know well--none better-that joy of
contemplation which raises HIM above the
colorless satisfactions of those who draw
upon the common supply. He is not to
be misled by any apparent acquiescence in
the tentative statement that you can real.
ly get very good things in the market.
But it is to this very knowledge, the re-
suit of experience and disappointment,
that we must look for tolerance and SYM
pathy towards those who rejoice in their
own garden truck. 1t is a short-lived
pleasure-let them indulge in it to the full,
with out the detraction or the resentment
of envy. By and by, just as they are
most prone to dwell on the delicious
sweetness of their own corn, they will go
away for their August vacation and will
have to look out to have the ears of plenty
plucked and sent somewhere, or else let it
remain at the mercy of the alien depreda-
tor
And it has been dearly purchased by
hand to hand conflict with relentless foes
of drought, weed and insect. Surely it is
an ungenerous fellow-creature who would
wantonIy cut short this day of triumph.
Let none assure the cultivator of the pro-
bable brevity of bis achievement.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-07-06
LIMITED POLITICAL MORALITY.

There seems to be aspasmodic out break
with some of the Democratic papers in
Virginia in favor of change of election
methods in the State. They claim, and
admit, that the measure of corruption in
the conduct of elections in Virginia is now
very great and is still increasing but the
reforms they suggest are both insiocere
and inadequate. They talk about the de-
moralization that is occasioned by buying
mens' votes, without saying word about
cheating men at the ballot box. The
greater evil seems to have escaped their
notice. They are Mortified at a candidate
or party worker paying man, who is will
ing to sell, for his vote, but express no
disgust for the corrupt official who steals
an honest, but ignorant mans vote. There
was never more corrupting and disgrace
full election law than the one which is now
used in Virginia. 1t not only gives op-
portunities to those who conduct elections
to practice all kinds of frauds, but indi-
rectly suggests dishonesty. The law was
framed for fraudulent purposes, and no
intelligent Democrat will deny, when he is
put upon the witness stand, that it has
been used for the purposes for which it
was created.
The papers that are crying out against
use of money and whiskey in elections,
should also raise their voices against the
frauds that are.being committed by election
officers. If they will attack the chief evil
their sincerity will not be questioned; but
if they continue to condemn the lesser
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-07-06
]. J. HILLS VIEWS.
The President of the Great Northern
Railway Favors Expansion.

Philadelphia News Bureau.
President Hill says: 81 sent a Russian
Jew to China year ago to gather exact
information. He was trained statistician
He told me on his return that for the first
time in his life he saw apeople go filled
with the instincts of trade and commerce
that even his own race could not compete
with them.
'In October, 1896, my friends in the
East did not want to shut down their steel
mills. 1 said 10 them: why not build on
Chinese and japanese rail contracts? II
you will bid low enough will make you a
rate on the rails % We carried more than
Il, 900 tons and lost money, but had the
fun of doing business? I made arate OF
40 cents per thousand to Yokohama. The
next year they sent 10000 tons. Last fall
we could have carried so, 1000, but did not
have the ships. In one week last Novem-
Der we refused $4,000 bales of cotton
bound for Asia. We could carry it by
land but woulc have to drop it at the sea-
board.
81 am an expansionest. I believe in
carrying our civilization anywhere. Let
it follow our commerce. Without growth
We would not have civilization. Without
territory our SO,O0O,OOO would be nothing
but mob. We want boats. We want
to extend our commerce on the Pacific.
We want to know that the water is reced.
ing over the face of the earth. If we ever
get into trouble again We don't want to be
told to leave in twenty-four hours. We
want to protect our ships after they make
60OO-mile voyages.
81 believe in calling spade spade.
The other fellows began this thing and we
are going to throw all the responsibility on
them. We desire to use the Philippines.
Let us say we want to extend our COM
merce to all the world. We need the is
lands out there epaid high price for
them, too. We may have to pay more
than money for our possessions We will
leave many of our boys on foreign soil.
We fought the Mexican War and left many
heroes behind. Yet we are not sorry we
fought the Mexican War.
"Let us keep our eyes on the objective
point and march to the front. We will
get there in time. Our people are able to
solve any question if you give them
show for their white ally. Don't make
them carry burden the other fellow
does not have to carry"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-07-06
YOUNG MEN IN POLITICS.
1t Can Furnish Them the Best Post
graduate Course Extant.
Hartford "courant' (Repl.

Hartford "Cournnt' (Rep.).
There was much sense III the remarks Of
young Mr.. Freeman, of this city, at the
Yale Law School meeting on Monday, as
reported in 'The Courant." Politics, as
he said, is the best postgraduate course
open to the college student.
1t isn't politics per Sc that has bad
name. 1t is because so many shifty adj
yenturerers drift into politics that the
word has acquired its shady significance.
The very fact is discreditable to every
body. The opportunity of such persons IS
all found in the neglect of their betters.
IT it were generally understood that this
post graduate course was to be pursued by
young men who were ambitious to do
good work and to make honorable reputa-
tons for themselves and to serve their
fellow men, the whole tone would change.
There can be nothing inherently wrong
about politics, or else there is something
wrong about selfgovernment, and it is
discreditabe to undertake the duties Of
citizenship in republic. Politics is moth
ing but the management of our affairs.
They must be managed and the better
this is done the more we get out of each
day. The gravest charge that can be
brought against us today is based on the
almost universal desire-to shrink. our pub
lie duties and content ourselves with easy
private life The large taxpayer will stay
away from the caucus and let the wrong
man represent his ward or town, because
sit takes an evening" and he would rather
stay at home and smell the smoke of biz
own cigar than go out and smell that o
the "twofers," whose combination is the
incense of the multitude.
Mr.. Freeman is right. 1t is the bes
course and should be the natural tenden
cy of the young man to assume his share o
the burdens and responsibilities of politics
and the more and better the young mel
who follow his suggestion the better fol
the affairs of all of US. He's very good
illustration.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-07-06
RACING THE MOON.
over the siberian Railroad Eafth's
Circuit May Be Made in
Thirty Days.

A military gentleman declares that
in the year 1902 he intends with friend
to travel around the world in 30 days.
His companion will be Prince HilkosP,
the Russian minister Of railways, says
Stray Stories.
Suppose, he says, Eve start from
Baltimore. 1t is, sey, $3.50 miles to Seat
tie; then, via the Pacific, to Yokohama
$500 miles, whence to Port Arthur, via
Nagasaki, it is 1900 miles more.
eat Port Arthur we leave ship, and,
going ashore, take train on the Man
churia extension of the Transsiberian
railway for st. Petersburg, 5000 miles,
thence by rail direct to Berlin, 1000
miles, and on to London, 75o miles. Ship
again, this time on the Atlantic, to New
York, 1920 miles, winding up with 200
miles or less of railroad.
'The total of rail travel is 10, 700 miles,
and of water 5000 miles, an aggregate
of 1900 miles.
Gan average of 40 miles an hour by
train and 20 by ship would insure the
transit within 80 days.
Prince Hilkoff declares that with the
completion of the great Siberian line to
Port Arthur and Ta-Lien-Wan in 1902,
he will make the time from London 10
Shanghai 12 days.
The distance from London to Yoko-
hama has already been done in 20 days
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-07-06
AGAINST PROTECTION.
That Is lthe Real Purpose of the Demo
cratic Anti Trust Cry.
knows it.

st. Louis "Globe-Democrat" (Rep)
Nothing shows the incapable nature o
the Democratic party more clearly thar
its new base of attack against the protec
ton of American industries. 1t has pro
posed with noisy flourish, to make oppo
sition to trusts leading feature of the
campaign next year. No sooner is this
idea preached than numerous Democrats
insist that the first step toward destroying
the trusts is to smash the protective tariff,
1t is useless to point out to these bigots
and iupracticables that trusts are quite as
plentiful in free trade countries as else
where. The Democratic mind is singular
ly constituted. The party is committed to
free trade in spite of the bitter experience
with the Wilson law and other destructive
Democratic measures. The moment trusts
are accepted as an issue Democratic ideas
fly of at tangent and war against pro-
lection is devised as the best way to make
beginning against business monopolies.
The Democratic party again reveals in
this line of conduct that it is incompetent
and scatter Drained. Trusts are recent
development. Protection is an old and
time-honored principle. The country suf-
fered when the Democrats successfully as
sailed it, threw them out of power and re-
versed their tariff policy. Now they shift
their ground and make trusts an excuse
for re-opening the battle against protection.
Of course, the only way to regulate trusts
is to 90 at them directly and not turn the
movement into crusade against some
thing else. But whenever a Democrat
talks or writes about trusts he soon forgets
his starting point and expatiates on the
evils of protection. Democratic logic and
action alike are confused and ineffective.
When something positive is to be accom-
pliehed the Republican party is invariably
called upon to do it. 1t is so with all pub
lie questions, and trusts will be ne excep-
tion.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-07-06
Meals and Conventions.

Louisville "Courier-Journal" (Dem.)
When the Kentucky State Convention
met Monday there was great thinning
out of the faithful, who had not come to
Louisville prepared to fight it out if it took
all Summer. Many of them long before
morning were in frame of mind and
pocket to sympathize with Colonel W.,
of Kentucky, who had paid visit to New
York some ten or twelve years ago and
put up at European hotel. He hustled
into an American plan hotel shortly after
ward, accepted rate of So for room and
four meals day, and had the clerk send
a niger instantly TO the other hotel for
his baggage. .I've been payin' TO- dol
lars day for my room alone over there, !"
he explained, "and they've been a'charg-
in all my meals extry. Yes, sirl they've
been a'chargin' me twenty-five cents apiece
for roasin-years, and I've been just fairly
eatin' my damned head off,"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-07-06
PERSONAL NOTES.
Ex.secretary Whitney is an enthusiastic
member of the L. A. w.

Ex-secretary Whitney is an enthusiastic
member of the L. A. w.
Rudyard Kipling seldom writes letter
of greater length than one page of note
paper.
Mrs. Robert Lewis Stevenson is spend
ing the Winter in Madeira, engaged in lit
erary pursuits.
Tufts College has conferred the degree
of Master of Arts on Gilbert Hubbard, the
writer.
Frank H. Huipers, of Chicago, has Civ
en- 81 600, OOO for a hospital to Frise, his
native town. When Mr.. Huipers came to
this county he was pennilness.
Mrs. C. a. Steele, of Kansas, who was
General Funston's teacher when that sol
der was boy, says that she then proph'
esied a die future for her pupil.
At the Roxbury Latin School, Boston
commencement Governor Wocott, O
Massachusetts,, delivered the address, il
the course of which he said: "Believe il
the country which your fathers found
ed, keep your ideals high and do not b(
pessimistic of the country's future"
Edward Everett Hale preached his las
sermon as pastor OF his Boston church
last Sunday. His closing words were
81 wish that 1 might speak to-day on the
duty of apostleship to every boy and girl
every man and woman, and every fathel
in Israel Now that am to be one of the
congregation, instead Of standing in th'
pulpit as your pastor, this shall be my las
word of public utterance-this my las
word here, which expresses hope tina
each one of us, little child or the oldes
man, may every day consecrate himself tt
this new fellowship"
President Mckinley is said to have thu
best memory Of any man ever in polite
not excepting Blaine. He never forgets
face, rarely a name. Recently he wa
passed by man who, recognizing him b,
his pictures, bowed. They met at the mex
White House reception. I'm glad tt
meet you again." said the president
again? When before?" "On Pennsylva
MIA Avenue, at $50 last Tuesday after
noon"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-07-06

ONE of the most dangerous trusts to the
American boy is the peanut trust, which,
it is said, will be i'll existence in a short
while. The charter is being prepared and
will soon be on file in Trenton, N. ]. 1t
will be known as the American Edible
Nut Company. The trust will be financed
in New York, but the mechanical depart
ment will be in Virginia. Mr.. P, D.
Gwathmey, of Smithfeld, Va, has been
offered the presidency of the combination.
The small boys of the country will be in
danger of a rise in the price Of peanuts.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-07-06
Catarrh Cannot be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reacn the seat of the disease, Ca
tarrh is blood or constitutional disease
and to cure it you must take interna
remedies. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken
internally, and acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces. Halls Catarrh Cure
Is not a quack medicine. 1t was prescrib
ed by one of the best physicians in this
country for years, and is regular prescrip
ton. 1t is composed of the best tonic:
known, combined with the best blood pur.
ifers, acting directly on the mucous sur
faces. The perfect combination Of the
two ingredients is what produces such
wonderful results in curing catarrh. Send
for testimonials, free.
f. ]. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, prize 75c.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-07-06
THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1899.
HUNTING FOR AN ISSUE.

There is marked difference in the two
leading political parties of this country in
one very important particular. The Re
publican party has always fixed and known
principles, and makes no concealments OF
the issues upon which it will 60 before the
people. With the latter-day Democracy
it is quite different. 1t is always hunting
for an issue that will give it strength with
the people and give it control of the Gov
eminent. In rapid succession it made tar
iff reform the question of leading impor-
lance and free silver the paramount issue.
On tariff reform it deceived the people, got
into power, and almost destroyed the in
dustrial interests of the country. This
was followed by determined fight for the
free coinage of silver and the admission
that tariff reform was humbug.
The contest of 1896 resulted in the con-
solidation of all the minority parties, rep
resenting all kinds of doctrines, under the
flag of Sryan. 1t also resulted in causing
all men who we're the friends of law and
order and the inviolability of honest con-
tracts to give their support to the Repub-
lican Presidential ticket With free silver
as the leading issue, supported by all the
isms Populism and Socialism could suggest,
the new Democracy received telling re-
buke at the hands Of the people.
Democracy is now cropping around, seek
ing to find some issue to strengthen its
position and secure possible victory in
1900. AS usual there is much difference Of
opinion among the leadership of the party
as to what shall be the platform of the
party. Mr.. Bryan announces that the
fight must and shall be made upon the
Chicago platform, supplemented by anti
expansion and antitrust planks. Other
leaders want return to the Democratic
platform of 1892, which pronounced for
sound money and against a protective tar
if, with anti-expansion and antitrust
engrafted theon. Still Others want to
make the fight on the Chicago platform
and against trusts, without saying any
thing about expansion, for the reason that
they believe in expansion.
From present indications Mr.. Bryan's
views are likely to control and he will be
the leader of the new Democracy in 1900
The platform will therefore be the one
adopted at Chicago in 1896, with all the new
issues that can be added, growing out of
the recent war with Spain. 1t will be a
kind of drag.net, and will catch all the
elements that are hostile to President Nc
Kinlev's administration. 1t will be found,
however, that great many vino were in
pressed with the wild theories of the Bry-
antics in 1896 will turn away in 1900.
The great industrial prosperity that is
now prevailing, the awakened interest in
sound currency, and noble patriotism Of
the American people will make Organism
a greater failure in 1900 than it was in
1896.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-07-06
How to Treat the Trust Question.
Boston journal (Rep.J.

Boston Journal" (ReP.).
The question of trusts is partly econOm-
ic and partly political. 1t is question of
tremendous importance alike to the bust
ness interests and the laws and political
institutions of the country. 1t will make
a great deal of difference with the future
of America whether it is dealt with broad
ly and dispassionately or is made the foot
ball of partisan politics and scheming am
bition. If the September conference pro-
notes an intelligent study of underlying
principles and the collation. of facts on
which action may be safely based, 1t will
n 1t be held in vain.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-07-06

IT looks very much like Governor Tyler
is to have real boom as candidate for U.
S. Senator against Senator Martin, He
will, however, find it very different thing
fighting Martins machine from using it.
When he was a candidate for Governor
the machine was at his disposal. If he be-
comes a candidate for the Senate against
Martin, he will be at the disposal of the
machine, and it will proceed to dispose Of
him.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-07-06

THE Car of Russia is not happy man.
He is kept busy all the time with routine
work, and is in constant dread of assassina-
ton. A man in private life with the COM
forts of an ordinary home has much hap
pier life than the Russian monarch, sur
rounded as he is with wealth and invested
with despotic power.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-07-06

vTIRGINIA In the clerks Office for
" tie circuit court Of Tazewell county,
June 24th, 1899:
Mrs. L. E. Hodge, complainant,
VS.. In cbancery.
A. j. Hodge, defendant.
The object of this suit is to obtain di.
vorce a u5nculo mdtromonii, by the said
Mrs. i. E. Hodge from the said A. J.
Hodge. And it appearing from affidavit
on file in the said office that the said A. J..
Hodge is a nonresident of the State of
Virginia, it is ordered that the said A. J..
Hodge appear here within fifteen days
after due publication of this order and do
what is necessary to protect his interests
in this suit, and that copies OF tins order
be published and posted as prescribed by
A copy; teste: H. BANE HARM4N,
Clerk.
w. B. SpRATr, p. q.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-07-06

GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT not only declares
that he is not candidate for the Presi'
dency in 1900, bat says: Everybody in
the West is for McKinley's denomination,
and 1 am most emphatically for his re-
nomination" The Governor further re-
marks: 81 feel that both the extreme
rapidity with which the country has gone
up the path of prosperity under President
McKinley's administration and the con-
duct of the war in the Philippines, makes
it the duty of every citizen to stand with it,
and renders President McKinley's renom.
nation necessity"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-07-06

THE Richmond Dispatch remarks that:
Conquest, imperialism. and benevolent
assimilation, are costly luxuries." The
people have found out that in times OF
peace Free Trade Democracy is a very
costly luxury The Democratic cry OF
conquest and Imperialism" is not likely
to deceive.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-07-06
Oldest Firm Here.

The oldest firm in paint manufacture in
the United States, F w Devoe & Co, is
represented here by J. E. JACKSON.
Also the largest and best-its paint,
which last twice as long as frst-rate lead
and Job oil, is used by railroad companies
generally. Devoe lead and zinc is the
name and description oft.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-07-06

In the Russian oil district of Baku
the average daily production of crude
in 1898 was over 10000 barrels (of AZ
calions) more than in 1897, and as the
average number of wells producing in
the former year was 146 more than IN
the latter, the average increase per well
Der day was about 100 barrels.