davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-01
WANTED-TO RENT.
RECRUITS WANTED.

MARINE CORPS UNITED STATES NAVY RE-
cruits wanted-Abe bodied men; service on
our warships in all parts of the world and on
land in the Philippines, when required. Lieu
tenant Colonel b. r. Russell, N. W. Corner Lack
awanna and Wyoming avenues, Scranton.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-01
FOR RENT.

FOR RENT-STORES IN COAL EAIHANUE
building Inquire John Jermyn, 1l9 wyoming
avetue.
Sls--LLEVEN ROOM HOUSE, GREEN RlpGL'
pleosant location: modern improvements. q.
s., Tribune.
FOR RENT 80. 4O3 LACKAWANNA AVENUE,
four floors; elevator; best store ana ioc''
tion in Scranton
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-01
FOR SALE

NNN~1N~No~Orc~rONr>
FOR SAIE-TENTH WARD PROPERTIES:
house on Richter street, recently papers,
price ~ 500 house near silk plant price Si',ou,
only 500 down payment asked. Full sized lots
for $500 G.. +. Reynolds, Connell Building.
FOR SALE-RESTAURANT AND FuRNlsnED
room apartment, making good money; oldest
and best established stand in scranton, Penn
Sell cheap; poor health Dolan, l2S tranRhn
avenue
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-01
NOTICE.

>>>'N >JNN~~N(NN
NOTICE TO ARCIIITECTS-TllE COUNTY CON-
missiOners Of LaCkawanna County hereby
give notice that architects submitting plans and
specifications for improvements and repatS to
the County Jail will be heard on Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday, September 9th, Ith and Sth,
at the office Of the County Commissioners,
". .. DANIELS, Clerk.
scranton, Pa, Aug. 80, 1900
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-07-07
PHILIPPINE POLICY.

After denouncing the Philippine
policy Of the administration the
platform says:
The greedy commercialism which
dictates the Philippine policy Of the
administration attempts to justify
1t with the plea that it will pay.
but even this sordid and unworthy
plea fails when brought to the test of
facts. The ''war of criminal aggres-
sion" against the Philippines, entail
ing annually an expense Of many mil
lions, has already cost more than any
possible profit that could accrue from
the entire Philippine trade for years
to come. We are not opposed to ter.
ritOrlal expansion when 1t takes in
desirable territory which can lie
erected into states in the Union, and
whose people are willing and 1T to
become American citizens. but we
are unalterably opposed to the Selling
or pure hasing of distant islands to
be governed outside the constitution
and whose people can never become
citizens.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-07-07
uoNoroLTEs AND Trusts

Private monopolies are iDiefensible
and intoIerable. They destroy com
petition. control the price III all ma
terisl and finished product, thus rob
bling both producer and consumer.
They lessen the employment Of labor
and arbitrarily Tx the terms and con-
ditiODs thereof and deprive individu-
al energy and small capital Of their
opportunity for betterment. They
are the most efficient means yet de-
vised tor appropriating the fruits Of
industry to the benefit Of the few at
the expense Ut the many. and unless
their insatiate greed is checked all
wealth will he aggregated in few
hands and the republic destroyed.
We pledge the democratic party to
an increasing warfare in nation state
and city against private monopoly in
every form.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-07-07
eleave his of,Ice IN the adm,nlstrs,,o.

eleave his office IN the administrations
He pictured in brilliant and flaming
sentences the ''crueltfes" and s.av-
gressions practced by Great Britain.
upon the Beers OF South Africa. He
expressed his intense satisfaction that
the democratic party had Incorporated
In the platform plank so cordially
and enthusiastically in6orsinv tho
cause of the Beers, which was the
cause Of liberty and Justice. As he
felt, he said, that this great republic
should not chain itself to the chariot
wheels Of the empire that was crush
ing liberty to death in South Africa.
he believed 1t to be his duty TO allv
himself with the democratic party.
His account with the republican party
he regarded as fully balanced. He
owed it no further obligations. These
sentiments met with great applause.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-07-07
SIXTEEN TOONE.

We reaffirm and endorse the princi-
pies of the national democratic plat
form adopted at Chicago In 1896, and
We reiterate the demand of that plat.
form for an American financial plat
form adopted by the American people
for themselves, which shall restore
and maintain bimetallic price level,
and ~ part OF such system the immediate
restoration OF the free ana unlimited coin
age Of silver and gold NJ the present legal
ratio III 10 TO I. without waiting for
the aid or consent Of any other nation.
We do denOunce the currency bill
enacted at the last session Of con-
gress as q step forward in the repub-
lfcan policy which attempts TO dis.
credit the sovereign right OF the
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-07-07
SYMPATHY FOR THE BoERs.

Lovers of liberty everywhere
throughout the United States will
point with pride to the plank in
the democratic national platform
extending sympathy to the strug-
Cling Beers in South Africa, which
is as follows:
believing in the principles Of
self-government, and rejecting, as
did our forefathers, the claim Of
monarchy, we view with indigna-
ton the purpose of England to
overwhelm with force the South
African republics. Speaking, as
we believe, for the entire nation,
except its republican Office hold
ers, and for all freemen every
where, we extend our sympathy to
the heroic burghers in their une-
quail struggle to maintain their
liberty and independence"
When we compare it with the
weak, ambiguous platform adopted
by the republican convention at
Philadelphia on the same subject
we must pause long enough to in
quire if we have not two parties in
the United States, one favoring a
republic, the other an empire.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-07-07

national government to issue all
money. whether coin or paper, and to
best0w upon national banks the power
to issue and control the volume OF
paper money for their own benefit. A
permanent national bank currency,
secured by government bonds, must
have a permanent debt to rest upon,
and il the bank currency is TO in
crease with the population and bust
ness, the debt must also increase. The
republican currency scheme ls there
fore scheme for fastening upon the
taxpayers perpetual and growing
debt for the benefit of the banks. We
are opposed to this private corpora.
ton paper issued as money, but with
out legal tender qualities, and de-
mand the retirement OF national bank
notes as fast as government paper or
silver certificates can be substituted
for them.
The above plank was adopted at
the Kansas City convention, and is
all that any silver man ever con-
tended for. Fer the past eighteen
months, since it has been demon
strated that Mr.. Bryan was the
choice of the democratic party for
the battle of 1900, a number of
gentlemen and number of news
papers who do not agree with him
on all public questions have sought
to write his platform for him. In
this they have failed, tor the reason
that if there be any characteristic
in the record Of William J. Bryan
that stands out conspicuously, that
Of consistency is conspicuous. Mr..
Bryan is not nearly so anxious to
occupy the White House as some
Of the politicians Of this country
imagine. He would not compro-
mise his principles even though he
knew that compromise meant to
him political victory.
Since the republican party has
surrendered its principles to Wall
street the above plank will draw
thousands of votes to Bryan, for it
must be conceded that he has the
courage of his convictions.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-07-07
EMPIRE OR REPUBLIC
WHICH SHALL IT BE-?
This is the Question Asked by the
Kansas City Convention.
BRYAN and STEVENSON.
Asiial e. Stevenson Receives the Nomlna.
tiOn ON First BallOs.

The first authentic news to reach
Rathdruz, of the nomination of
William Jennings Bryan by the
Kansas City convention was the
following dispatch:
KANSAS CITY, July 5.-SlLvER
BLADE, Rathdrum, Idaho: Bryan
was nominated tonight by the biggest
and most enthusiastic convention
that ever met in the United States.
His nomination was seconded by Hill,
Of New York, in a speech which
pledged the state of New York to the
nominee and the platform. 1t Was
one Of the strongest democratic
speeches ever made. Every state
joined and we have today an united
democracy. We start the fight with
banners flying against Imperialism
and for Free Silver. It looks Nike
Hill for vice-president.
w. b. MCFARLAND.
Nh Bryan was placed in nOmina-
ton by Oldham Of Nebraska, who
caught the fancy of the convention by
his statement that the government of
this country is "bounded on the
north by the Constitution, on the
east by the Monroe doctrine, on
the south by the Declaration Of hide.
pendence and on the west by the Ten
Commandments" AS he approached
the close Of his address he raised both
hands high over his head and spoke
slowly and with an energy that caused
his voice to penetrate into every COR
ner Ut the hall. t'And that man is
William J. Bryan" he concluded,
bringing his hands lower with each
word until the last had been uttered,
when he brought them up with a
sweep, but quicker than his motion
was the answering cheer that swept
across the convention hall. 1t was
roar from all parts of
the hall. Up went the delegates upon
their chairs, over their beads went
the flags and above them all scared
and rang the cheers for Bryan.
1t was at this juncture that the
climax was sprung upon the great
assembly. A huge flag Tad been
slHng across the roof between the
two trusses, and as the signal was
given the cords were cut and slowly it
unrOlled its white and crimson folds
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-07-07
A DRAMATIC SCENE.

One OF the most dramatic scenes
IN the Kansas City convention was
witnessed when Webster Davis,
former notwithstanding of the
interior under Mckinley, mounted
the platform and declared that he
would support William Jennings
Bryan.
Mr.. Davis began his address by de-
nouncing rs ''nialicious lie" the
statement that he had been forced Ia
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-07-07

We, the representatives Of the dem
Ocratic party Of the United States,
assembled in NATIONAL convention on
the anniversary Of the adoption VI
the Declaration Of Independence, do
reaf1irm our faith in that immortal
proclamation Of the inalienable rights
Of Americans and our allegiance to
the constitution framed in harmony
Herewith by the fathers Of the re-
public.
We hold with the United States
supreme court that the Declaration
Of Independence is the spirit Of our
government, of which the c0Dstitt-
ton Is the form and letter. We de.
clare again that all governments in
stituted among men derive their just
powers from the consent u the gov
erned; that any government not based
upon the consent Of the governed is
tyranny; and that TO impose upon
any people government Of force is to
substitute the methods Of imperialism
for those Of the republic.
We hold that the constitution fol-
lows the flag and denounce the doc
trine that an executive or congress,
deriving their existence and power
from the people, exercises lawful au-
thOrity beyond it, and is 10 violation
of it. We assert that no nation can
long endure half republic and half
empire, and we warn the people that
imperialism abroad will lead quickly
and inevitably to despOtism at home,
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-07-07
SENEACQUOTEEN.
From Our Special Correspondent.
every form

From Our Special Correspondent.
Henry Sage made "A flying trip to
Priest river Sunday.
Putt Brown. accompanied by Mrs.
r. Campbell and Miss Fife Gordon,
went to Rathdrum on business last
Saturday.
A party, consisting Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Horn, Mrs. Francis
Markham and Miss Hilda Christen-
sen went huckleberrying last week.
After much sport and pleasure they
returned on Saturday with twenty
gallons of hnckleberries.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-07-07
Giberty's champion.

as it fell gracefully and hung over the
platform slightly to the rear and
south Of the speakers desk. The
banner was an enormous affair, being
fully fifty feet long and about one
half as wide. Upon the broad stripes
were printed the following sentences
in large letters Of blue:
Unconstitutional government derives
its just powers from the consent OF
the governed.
1.-The constitution and the flag, one
and i0separable, now and forever"
1.-The fay Of republic forever, OF
an empire-never."
IA republic can have no colonies. u
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-07-07
1MPER1ALIsM PARAMOUNT.

The Importance Of other questions
now pending before the American
people is in nOwise diminished and
the democratic party takes no back.
ward step from its position on them.
but the burning issue OF imperialism.
growing out Ut the Spanish war in
wolves the very existence Of the re.
public and the destruction Of our free
institutions. We regard 1t as the
paramount issue.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-07-07
HOW SAD THEY ARE.
with regrets and commiss,

we condemn the incompetent and
extravagant methods to which the
so-called reform and fusion ad-
ministration has treated the peo-
pie of Kootenai county during the
past one and one-half years. We
consider that the amounts Of sal
aries paid to most of the county
officers are too high and should be
reduced, and that, as the current
debt Of the county has been con-
siderably increased, the candidates
on the republican ticket pledge
themselves to decrease that debt
and to administer the affairs of the
county in an economical and bust
ness like manner"
The above resolution was passed
at the republican convention last
week and was heartily cheered
when read. How sympathetic
this little coterie of ex-officials be-
comes for the tax payers after they
have been kicked out OF Office for
their mismanagement of county
affairs! No doubt the big-hearted
William Ryan, whose ear-marks
the above bears, sweat drops OF
blood while penning this resolu-
ton, his heart being ''too full for
utterance." "Ohl If we could
only blot out the past" sighed
Ryan, "but alas, therein lies the
sadness" Fortunately for the
taxpayers all the public records OF
the county did not disappear with
the auditors cash book when the
last republican Office holder made
his exit from the court house.
There are records left which tell
story that Mr.. Ryan would rather
not have told. Mr.. Ryan was
once an Office holder in Kootenai
county. Let us see If he practiced
then what he is now preaching.
On page 70, Journal B OF the
commissioners records of Koote-
mai county, we find the following
order which was made on January
II, 1898;
elm the Matter Of Allowing the
Assessor and Tax Collector Cler-
ical Assistance.
"The board having considered
the matter Of allowing the assessor
clerical assistance for the ensuing
year and being fully advised in the
premises, on motion it was ordered
that the sum of $500 be and the
same is hereby allowed the asses
sor and tax collector for clerical
assistance in his Office for the year
1893"
On Friday, April IA, 1895, the
following order was made:
"Now at this time the board
considered the request OF VIM.
Ryan, that the apportionment Of
$500 heretofore made be paid
monthly in payments of 500 on
the first Monday of each month
commencing May Ist, 1893. After
due consideration it was ordered
that the auditor draw a warrant
for $1oo to the order of William
Ryan on the first Monday of each
and every month until the appro-
priation is paid"
This was the year that Ryan
held his thumb on the pulse Of the
republican party in kootenai
county with strong grasp. 1t
cost money to be politician in
those days, so William, like the
tabled Elid, killed the goose that
laid the golden egg by asking to
have his appropriation doubled the
following year, as will appear by
the following resolutions made Inv
the commissioners in January and
April, 1894:
cit is further ordered that the
sum Of 81. 900 be and the same is
hereby allowed the assessor, who
is ex-officio tax collector, Tor cler-
'cal assistance for the year 1884,
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1900-11-29
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

The Federated Trades assembly has
decided to order a general sympatheti1
strike at Tampa on account OF the trou-
BILE between the Cuban and American
cigarmakers. This is causing much
alarm among those who will be affect
ed, but are not directly interested.
Mrs. Bessie Hodges Of Denver has
been identified by Mrs. Flora Belts as
one Of the people who assaulted and
robbed her of $1,000 worth of diamonds
last August. 1t is charged that Mrs.
Hodges wore male attire.
J. Fletcher Shera, the New York
stock broker who failed last week, has
been arrested at the instance of General
Daniel Z. Sickles. who charges that he
gave Shera $4,000 to invest in stocks
last summer. and since then has seen
neither money or stocks.
Rumors that Chill is buying guns and
other armament are entirely without
foundation.
Germany's pig iron production for Oc-
tober was 742720 tons, the highest fig
ures ever reached.
The Chilean government has invited
tenders for 10000 tons Of rails for the
ne W railroads.
A house collapsed in Barmstadt, Ger
many, buring a score of workmen, OF
whom twelve are dead.
1t is reliably asserted that Mr.. John
A. Russell, attorney general Of Porto
Rico, has rendered his resignation.
The next convention of the National
Association of State Dairy and Food
departments Of the United States will
be held in Buffalo.
Nine. Marie Goetze, the best also at
the Royal opera, Berlin, lies in crit
ical condition from the effects of an
escape of gas in her bed chamber.
Governor Allen has been unofflcially
notified by a Venezuelan officer that the
rebels in Colombia are occupying the
coast towns in the department of Pan
anna
Maurice Brennan, one Of the three
men arrested for dynamiting the prop
erty of the st. Louis Transit company
during the recent street railroad strike,
was found guilty by jury and SEN
fenced to serve ten years in the peni-
tentiary.
Arrangements are nearly completed
for the launching of the monitor Me-
vada at the Bath, Me-, iron works. The
monitor will be christened by Miss An
ME Curtiss Boutelle, daughter of Con-
gressman Charles A. Boutelle of Ban
gor.
in session in Washington for several
days, has adjourned sine die
The receipts of the war revenue ac-
count for the first four months Of the
past fiscal year were $3S, $685. ,956.
The London Anti-Gambling league
has taken out summons against G. A.
Pearson for publishing skill competi-
tious in his weekly papers.
Cracksmen blew open the safe in the
Farmers bank, Orlando, o. T., with
nitro glycerine and escaped with 81, 100
in currency, leaving no clue.
At the Old Bailey F. F. Hodgkinson,
a former British vice consul at Bre-
merhaven, was sentenced to eighteen
months penal servitude for trying Ia
sell a foreign code book to an agent OF
a foreign power.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1900-11-29
LITERARY NOTES.

The land OF Mary Johnston has prS
iuced another historical romance WriteS
Miss A NJ Elwell, who has writteA
what is said to be an excellent histoF'
zeal novel OF the time OF Bacon's ks
belllon in Virginia in 1875. The story
will be known by the title, "A Whlts
Guard to Satan,'' the title being derives
from an incident of Bacon's strugsie,
which forms the Introductory episods
of the novel 1t is love story In az
historical setting, the latter made more
suggestive by the assumption OF lho
sneech of the tine-an undertaking In
which It is said the author has oeeh
very successful Governor Berkeley
and Bacon were utterly unlike In enar-
acter. and their followers were no lesS
so. Bacon's wife was also a strangely
unique character; there were numoeE
of men and maids then as now to fall IN
love with each other, the resdIt mere
being a most pleasing one in furnishing
several romances Of more than usuaS
interest.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1900-11-29
criticisinR Mckinley.

Berlin-(Special.)- 1.-The press in gen
eral severely cTiticises the United
States for not agreeing to the demands
of the other powers in China. The Vos-
sische Zeitung, which claims that the
Chinese are "only induced by the Amer
lean attitude to remain obdurate." says:
'Tt would be impossible TO aid more eff
fectually the joint enemy Of western
culture"
The Berlin Tageblatt remarks: THE
Philippine qaastion is causing tbs
United States a severe stomachache
he1ce the shilly-shally policy of Wash
ington toward China"
The Cologne Volks Zeitung, the lead
ing centrist organ, says editorially
Count Won Buelow will not succeed in
restraining the kaiser from making ex-
travagant speeches. If he had been
able to do so he undoubtedly would
have prevented the delivery Of the nc
pardon speech"
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1900-11-29

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
IN SESSION AT HAVANA.
CAUTION is ADVISED.
Gen. Sanguilly Says Every Member
of the Convention Should Ex-
press His Fairest Views.

! Havana.-tSpeciaD- was a large
attendance of the public at today's ses-
sion of the Cuban constitutional con-
| vention in the Marti theater. An ami
mated discussion took place over the
Equestion whether the sessions are to be
public or private.
The delegates Of the national party,
who were supposed to have been pledg-
ed to support private sessions, swung
over to the other side, only one, Senor
Quesada, voting in favor of private
sessions. The final vote stood nineteen
for public sessions and ten for private.
Senor Eduardo Tamayo, who is a can
| didate for the presidency, made a pas
Sionate appeal to the public in the gal
eries to sustain him in his argument
for public sessions, and was called to
order by the president of the conven-
| ton, who ruled that delegate had no
right to address the audience. Consid-
cradle confusion prevailed for a few
moments and eventually Senor Tamayo
apologized to the convention.
Thirty-eight additional articles Of the
Yaya rules were adopted as the rules of
the convention, including one providing
that two-thirds Of the delegates shall
constitute a quorum and another di-
recting that, after organization, the
delegates shall be allowed eight days
during which to bring in projects for
the basis of constitution or complete
drafts.
Senior Ilorento urged that the conven-
ton should appoint special commit
tee to draw up a constitution. He said
he did not believe that all the delegates
were capable of doing work Of that
character. In his opinion the conven-
ton did not want constitutions like
those of the South American republics
or of republics in any other part of the
world, but something distinctly Cuban
Senor Capote argued that the Yaya
rules provided for the appointment of
a committee to consider all schemes
presented and to make draft constitu-
ton for discussion.
General Sanguilly said: 1.-THE rela-
tions to exist between the United States
and Cuba, although definition of them
will not be included in the constitution,
will be of equal Importance, and do
not believe a constitution should be
drawn without considering these. Ev-
cry delegate should present his views
regarding these relations"
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1900-11-29
Business at a Loss.

Chicago. nl.-(Special.>-As a result Of
the years operations the international
Packing company lost S43.eo4. At the
annual meeting Attorney Jacob New
man characterized the event as the
funeral Of the company. A resolution
providing for committee to investi-
gate the company's affairs and report as
10 the best course to be followed was
unanimously adopted, and ". II. Hen
kle of the Illinois Trust and Savings
bank, E. A Potter Of the American
Trust and Savings bank, E. A SheGd
and R G. Tenant were appointed for
that service. The president reported
that keen competition caused the de-
ficit. The company Is capitalized foi
s.. .5O0,e00. Last years business amount
ed to over s5,o00,oo0.