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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-09-28
Hired BY Hanna.

It isreported upon authentic infor
nation that William B. Kelley OF the
fremont theater. Boston, has been re-
quested by the Republican national
campaign committee to stump Illinois,
Indiana and Ohio as gold Democrat.
Mr.. Kelley was offered salary ana
his expenses to undertake this work.
The telegram conveying the request
was signed by r. A. Kelley.
It thus appears that while Mr.. kel'
ley is expected to 60 on a spellblndine
tour through the three doubtful states
as gold Democrat. he will be drawing
pay from the Republican national con
mittee. The assumption is that by
masu uerading as q Democrat he car
do more good for Mr.. Hanna and the
trust party than he could possibly &C
complish if he we're to throw oil dis
guise and appear in his true colors.
However, it is not likely that Mr.
Kelley's disguise will do much service
1t will not hide the vital fact that h'
ia one of Boss Hanna hired men.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-09-28
REPUBLICAN oRAToRY.

The Republican Office holders were
out in full force on Monday. they had
erected stand in front OF the court
house and periodically festOoned 1t
with the Stars and Stripes. which they
revere so much that of late no act can
be accomplished without its protecting
folds being about them. The Chinaman
and his Joss. the Mohamedan and bis
Koran, do not 60 SO close to each other
as the patriot of today does to bis nag
provided always he be eating pap from
Uncle Sans full bowl. There were
several speakers a Mr.. LOuthan, who
holds government office; Col. Hub
ard, who has one arm in the crib and
Is trying to get the other in also;
Mr.. Ker, whose name appears on the
public pay roll, and Hon. Jacob I ost,
the only private citizen of them all.
But with this array of talent and
flags, the dark and dingy, unkempt.
unprosperous looking audience could
not whoop loud. The claquers claqued,
the bosses gave the signal and shouted
themselves, but the audience which
Iresembled q coal heap with few Jumps
LOT lime scattered here and there, do
mot respond heartily. We did not
hear the speeches, but if reports be
true there was not much inspiration
in them, and the colored voters had NJ
government moisture in their mouths
nor the hope of any. Not one of then
had ever drawn penny, nor had thu
pleasure OF scrubbing Il government
;. floor, or cleaning government spit
r toon. 1t was therefore hard to pu
Ienthusiasm into such an audience
This is Col. Hubard's second appear
, ance here on court day, he shows u
IL as regularly as Big Dock, the umbrell
lfixer. or Bert McCaull with horses i
1.-The spring. We have only one NOR
county court before the day of elet
ton, and We are here to state tina
lCol. H. can find ample room to excl
else bis talents in these parts from no.
4 until the election, as there will :
D. more Bryan people around here in tn
n next five weeks than he has seen
wears before. The place to kill duel
lis where the ducks habitate, and tt
1t ducks the Colonel is looking for al
% here. He has not bagged any yet. b'
Or that pension scheme OF his may intere
some inmates Of the Western Lunat
Asylum. This is sad year for II
IN publicans of the office holding strip
lie they see the handwriting on the wa
~ their joints are loosed and their kne
smite one another, as do the knees
the Ohio Belshazzar, and we'll they mi
C. for their kingdom is be divided, al
n their king slain.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-09-28
Mr.. Hauna's Trust bubble.

Il would like Mr.. Bryan or any 9TH
er Democrat to tell me what trust is.
don't believe there is trust in the
United States, said Mr.. Hanna to a
Chicago audience.
Mr.. Hanna worked that bubble with
some success in his own State of Ohio
two years ago. He is not likely to
work it with much success in Chicago.
The people of Chicago are able to rec
ognize very obvious bubble.
They are not entirely ignorant of the
fact that the monopoly combine took
the form of trusts when they first be-
came Extensively conspicuous and re-
tanned that form and name until the
courts forced them to look for a safer
shelter. They know that when they
took the safer form of the corporation
they were essentially the same thing
and so the old and conventional name
of trust" stuck to them.
The courts universally condemned
the thing in the form of trust. They
recognized it rs the deadly enemy tt
free competition, and. therefore, as tn
deadly enemy to the interests ant
rights of the people. That is why i
had to crawl into a safer one calle'
corporation"
The thing itself is the same 1t i
universally condemned by the court
and by the common sense of justice
The people choose. for convenience
sake, to call it by its old name in 1t
new skin. They know very we'll wha
they are about and they are not foole'
for a minute by Mr.. Hanna's quibbl
that there is no such thing as trust
They know that the thing itself is NOR
powerful and dangerous than it wa
when it was in the form of trust. an
they know that the monopoly combine
are far more numerous and that thei
nominal capital Is at least $4,000, 600, OO
greater than it was when Mr.. MckiI
LEV was indicted into Office.-Chicag
Chronicle.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-09-28
POLITICAL TAXING.

The boldest political fake OF the
campaign is a purported cable reply
made by the Philippine Commission ut
Manila to an enquiry by the admins
tratiOn as to how things were getting
on out there. The enquiry purports
to have been sent ON the 18th of Sep
TENDER, and the reply to have been
cabled back on the 22nd. The reply
was roseate, it told how beautifully
everything was coming on out there
and should the present policy be con-
tinued at the election the whole rebel
lion would disappear in sixty days
thereafter. "HOw this world is given
| to lying" The commission itself is a
useless, burdens0me affair. 1t has &C.
complished no good, and when 1t stays
there doing nothing save and except
to cable at immense expense suct
stuff as is in this report, then the peo
pie should open their eyes as to Till
whole affair. That report. If 1t came
over the cable. must have cost Uncle
Sam 81 900. 1t is nothing but cam
paign document made and sent out t.
brace up Mckinley in his dying strug
giles. 1t is untrue, and is made to Ordel
political clap-trap. Unfortunately il
was published on the same day that th'
report of one of the severest conflicts
of the war. The New York Herald
says the stuff was cabled over mOntl
ago and held by the political steerer
to be flashed on the country at tn
most Opportune time, but as 80 oftel
happens it was flashed just as came tn
report of the severe fighting, and tn
hollOwness of the trick was exposed
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-09-28
Mendaci0us Marcus.

Mr.. Hannah had himself interview
ed few days ago and among other wild
and wierd political stories gave utter
ance to the following:
Bryan is making an ass of himself.
He is wabbling around from one Issue
to another trying to find safe ground
on which to stand. No sooner does be
talk on one of his so-called issues than
the prop is knocked from under him
and be makes a flying jump over to
some other 80 called issue. 1t will not
be many days before he must say some
thing about the real issue OF the cam.
paign. He must come out and stand
on the real issue.
II tell you, Bryan is promising any
thing and everything with the under
standing that his promises will be full
filled in the event of his election. He
| is a man who is burning up with the
desire to hold Office. He is nothing
more nor less than an eager ONCE seek
or, and he will promise anything and
say anything if he thinks that will
help his chances Of election"
AS to those promises purporting to
have been made. Mr.. Bryan has the fol
lowing to say:
81 have not given to any one, either
verbally or in writing, promise OF
Cabinet position, and shall not, dur
ing the campaign, make any suct
promises. have not authorized, and
shall not authorize, any one, verbal,
or in writing, to promise any Cabinet
position or any other position to an!
one. II am elected shall be abs0
lutely free to discharge all the duties
of the office according to my platform
as far as the platform goes, and accord
ing to my own Judgment In all natter
not covered by the platform"
1t is needless TO ask the public
4 whether Mr.. Bryan or MIR. Hanna will
| be believed. Mr.. Hanna will lose mucl
of public respect if he keeps up thi
mendacious gait.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-09-28
A Night of Terror.

awful anxiety was felt for the widow
of the brave Gen. Burnham, of Machias,
Me-, when the doctors said she would die
Mrs. s. H. Lincoln, who attended her that
fearful night, but she begged for DR.. Kings
New Discovery, which had more than once
saved her life, and cured her of consump-
ton. After taking, she slept all night.
Further use entirely cured her." This
marvellous medicine is guaranteed to cure
all throat, chest and lung diseases. Only
900 and 81. Trial bottles free at B. F.
Hughes drug store.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-09-28

VIRGINIA., TO-wit:-In the Clerks Office
of the circuit court of Augusta cOun-
ty. the Goth day of September, 1900.
Blue Bell Iron and Steel Company,
corporation duly chartered and moor
pOrated under the laws of the State
of Delaware. Plaintiff.
VS..
Herman Becker, Defendant.
In Chancery.
The object of this suit is to obtain parti-
ton, or sale In lieu of partition, il not
susceptible of partition in kind, of tract
of land, situated In Augusta county, near
Basic City, Va, on the east side of South
River containing ,740 acres, more or less,
being the same which was conveyed by
Chas Curry, Special Commissioner to Her.
man Becker and Herman Fritsch by deed
bearing date on the 22nd day of January,
1895, of record In the Clerks Office of the
County Court of Augusta county, in ID. B.
1875 page 1873, and which tact is now own
ed jointly by said Complainant and said
defendant. the complainant owning in,
fee an undivided three fourths interest
therein, and the defendant an undivided
One-fOurth.
And it appearing by affidavit filed that
the said defendant is not resident OF this
State, it is ordered that he do appear here
within fifteen days after due publication
hereof and do what is necessary to protect
his interest in this suit.
Teste,
JOS. B. WOODWARD, Clerk.
j., ]. l.. & 4. Bumgardner, p.q.
sep 21-4t
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-09-28
City and Suburban Property
for Sale by mcIIhany &
HiIIearV.

1st. A delightful home, large brick resi-
dence all modern cOnven1ences. close to cal
line. Everything in nice condition. Owner
will accept much less than cOSt.a
End. A most attractive suburban proper
ty, 4 acres Of land. excellent orchard 81
stable, about $500 recently spent in improve
ments, electric line within block. This is
a choice place, 81, 1000.
3rd. 100 acres, imm ediately on the edge OF
city, having an eastern exposure, which we
can sell off in 5, 10 or go acre lets, at figures
that will induce the building of suburban
homes.
4th. rs select building lots in good part OF
city. owner anxious to close out this prop
ertv.
5th. Very desirable frame residence
beautiful location, everything about the
property carefully and attractively con-
structed. Prompt sale Important.
9Th. within one block Of street car and
close to the park is a home we offer for sale
on account of owner leaving the city. The
residence is very comfortable and In good
repair. The lot has upon it some fine fruit
s., 900 will buy this now.
nth. Very good property. Good as home
and as an investment-6-rOom house with
garden, some fruit, blocks of street cal
line: $3.50 was the price, but an offer OF $77;
may buy it, Should rent for 81 per month.
Sth. Absolutely necessary to sell a large
desirable frame dwelling IN Sears Hill, good
location and nice property. very cheap al
$3.50.
9th. Small brick dwelling and large lot on
electric line. Assessed value $1,000. Will
submit $3.50.
Certainly this is an OppOrtune time to buy
n home, Will make up full list upon appl1-
cation. Call at our office for information.
sep at Mc1LHANY HILLEARY.0
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-09-28
THE MAILED HAND OF THE TRUSTS

There is a faint cloud over the pros
perity sky just now. There is an
enormous strike on hand, already SOL
diers or sheriff possess have killed
men and wounded little children. The
sheriffs are on the side of the trusts
who own the property and have begun
firing promiscuously into the crowds
composed of miners and their families,
and the killing has begun. The griev-
ances of these people are manifold. In
the first place they we're not paid in
money. The gold standard did not
figure there at all, though the work.
man was told to vote for the gold
standard that his wages might not be
cut in two by the payment to him OF
so cent dollars. Now he gets no dollar
at all, but a piece of script, or an order
to the company's store, where he must
buy his supplies at the company's
prices. He is obliged to pay company
doctor, and his earnings are held out
for that purpose. He must dig $3.50
pounds for ton of coal, when the
company only gives 1900 pounds for
a ton to its consumers. The trust has
raised the price of powder to him
nearly 800 per cent. These are a few
of the many grievances these pool
people suffer and have suffered, and
these have caused them to protest.
About 120, 600 of them have struck
and to this time the sheriffs and sol.
dlers acting for the coal trust have
killed and wounded about 10. -Four
years ago when the lovely picture OF
prosperity, which was to make the
battle cry of Republlcanism "the full
dinner pal" was painted in flowing
cOlOrs on the horizon, strikes were
things of the past, like panics under
the gold standard, these had vanished
from the face of the earth. But the
mask has been torn away the hypo.
critical face it hid is displayed in its
grim hideousness, the deceit and lying
done then are exposed now, and the
dupes of then can be dupes no longer
With wars, and strikes, and militarisn
and Imperialism already on us, and
their attendant evils the Trusts stalk
ing about in defiance of law, order
and good government, why will the
people not take heed and return to
constitutional government before it is
too late
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-09-28
cARNEelE'S RAILROAD.

1t is reported that Mr.. Andrew Car
negie has determined TO build rail-
road from Pittsburg to tide water.
This has been forced On him by the
and defiant position OF
existing roads, which have extorted
such onerous rates that he will no
longer submit to them. The under
taking we do not believe will be ac-
complished because the existing rail-
ways will come to terms before be can
build. The scheme is looked on as
huge bluff, and the roads are not as
vet scared. In the event he undertakes
the project it will be but a repititlon,
we fear, of the history of the Southern
Pennsylvania, which Mr.. VIM. II.
| Vanderbilt undertook to build some
wears ago, and which caused such wide
spread disaster and disappointment.
Mr.. Carnegie is wealthy. but when he
goes up against the railroad combine
now existing between trunk lines which
cross the Alleghanies to the sea0oard,
he will find he has met the toughest
tproposition of modern times, and II
he does not change bis views with
reference to "trusts and combines" we
will be sadly mistaken. 1t is quite
, funny and must cause audible smiling
in many places. to hear Mr.. Carnegie
, squeal, if we may use so inelegan'
} Ibut expressive phrase, when the rail-
, roads press down heavily on him. de
a who has laid his hand on, the labor OF
t this country and forced it to his terms
!. who has laid his hand on the business
t men of the country and the farmer
). and forced them to buy his wares a
). his own exorbitant prices, he who ha
d held the nation by the throat AM
a forced it's hands into air while b.
n quietly emptied its pockets with hi
a conscienceless demands for armo
, plate. 1t may be wrong for on
t trust to squeeze another. The
r we're formed for a different fiel
W of spoliation. and brigandage
70 it was the common peopl
"a who were to be their victims. But
10 course rapacity knows no bounds, nc
Is are any free from it, and this Mr.. Ca
IA neyie seems to have at this late da
re discovered. So long as the roads r0l
1T bed only the people there was no con
st plant, but when they began pludersr
ic their brethren in the plundering bus
e. ness, a cry went up. and the brlgan'
,e, the armor plate trust, has declared WI
II, against the brigand, the railroad trus
es We hope to see the good work go o
of II Mr.. Carnegie's company uses on
az one years profit which in recel
nd suit was shown to be about S4O, OOO, W
be can build delightful railway to t
seaboard and teach q lesson to tho
dogmatic plundering roads now
existence. We have no faith, howevt
he in this report, and should he begin.
lily little government by injunction
ut might be melted out to him. Alrea
is the Springfield Republican has a
ng nOunced that he should have no che
rts ter because his road would tend to
ep, lure values of the stocks OF exist
en roads, and there is no general demaI
ply it says, for new line. For the sal
lily reason he might be injoined from
ere dertaking the work at all. The p
IN is surrounded by many difficult
Del and will possibly evolve new princil
ays of law.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-09-28

Hon. Jno. M. Palmer, the head of the
Palmer and Buckner ticket of four
years ago, is dead. He and Gen. Buck
ner had both reached their dOtage else
it is doubtful whether either would
have allowed his name to have figured
in that piece of deception. But let us
bury bis frailties with him, and remem-
her his good deeds only.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-09-28

Senator David 3. Hill, of New Y ork,
will speak III Richmond October 2, and
at Dauville the next day.
The crop of Albemarle pippins is very
small this year. being shorter than ever
known before.
Two negroes were killed on Friday
by the explosion of the engine of the
saw mill of James Winston, near Cars
ley, Surry county.
Mr.. Thomas Fauntleroy' = handsome
residence, near Lynch's, In Campbell
county, was entirely destroyed by fire
early yesterday morning. The lOss is
about $4,000
Lieut.. Thomas NJ. Larkin, of the
Washington Guards, Fredericksburg,
has been appointed assistant inspector
general of the Sous of confederate Vet
Grams of Virginia.
| Scott Cook, formerly of Front Royal
and his family we're lost in the Calves
ton horror. Mr.. Cook served In tn,
; Confederate army with the Warner
| county soldiers during the civil war.
A vicious bulldog rushed into put
lie school in Norfolk on Saturday. snarl
Ing and swapping. ApaDic among th
children ensued, and during the excite
I ment five boys were bitten.
a Mrs. Joseph Simpson, about fit
: years of age. of Norfolk, was burne
to death ut her home yesterday. 81
q was pouring gasoline from a pitch'
into a lighted stove when an explosiO
+ occurred and her clothing ignited.
IS Governor Tyler yesterday pardont
q Landon Parr. who about twelve mont
q ago in jealous rage shot and near
is killed young Sandege. who had drive
II off in PARIS buggy with a young lad
10 Sandege was shot from behind.
"a Maj. M. A. Sale, professor at vi
q ginia Polytechnic Institute, died
10 Blacksburg Friday morning OF appe
~ dicitis. Death came suddenly, MI
~ Sale having been on the streets t.
r. evening previous. He was not
y twenty five years old.
b. Miss Pearl Corbin, daughter OF M
n David H. Corbin, died at her paren
NJ home near Luray Thursday night at
81 thirty-six hours of intense agony fr'
d, the effects of burns received early
ar day previous. Two other women W
st. badly burned in tearing Miss Corbi
N. clothes from her body and rolling
lly on the ground. They succeeded in
mt tinguishing the flames but not Def
90, the ung woman WAS fatally burn
Mr.. w. b. Wallace, of near Lexi
100 ton, has received a letter from frieI
in Texas. announcing the death
o' Samuel M. Johnston and his sis
- Mrs. Elizabeth Wilhelm, who W
" both killed in the Galveston disast
their home being at Alvin, twelve m
from the unfortunate city. MIR. Jot
ton and Mrs. Wilhelm were natives
49, Rockbrldge county, children of the
E Samuel NJ. Johnston, who lived n
n Lexington. They visited their ma
county last summer.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-09-28

In stating the cost of the Philippine
war to Maryland alone, which it esti-
males at about So, 600, 900 annually, the
Baltimore Sun says;
This view of the matter does not
take into account the periodical list
of dead soldiers, the agony and suffer
Ing of the wounded prisoners, the
despair of the mothers, the widows
and orphans, the broken health of
those who finally return and the bitter
curses of those whom we have wrOnged
and driven from their homes to the
iungles,
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-09-28

COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
" StauntOn, Va. Sept 25, 1910.
Charles Frazier,
VS..
Louisa Reed. ct ais.
All persons interested in the above
STYLED chancery cause Will Take Notice,
that in pursuance of decree of the circuit
court of Augusta county, entered in said
cause on June II. 1900, l shall at my Office
in Staunton, Va, on
MONDAY, OCTOBER "a, 1900,
proceed to take, state and settle the fol
lowing accounts:
1st. The Indebtedness of Ervine, or lr
vine, Reeds estate.
end. The real and personal estate OF
which he died seized.
3rd. Amy other matters deemed peril
nent. etc.
r. E. r. NELSON,
Commissioner in Chancery.
Elder & Elder. d. q. sep 2S-4
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-09-28
Meeting Of Veterans and Sons Of Veterans
Co. E, LIST Va. Cavalry.

A joint meeting of veterans and SONS
of veterans, Co. E, 1st Va. Cavalry,
was held in StOnewall Jackson Camp
room, Sept. "a, at II a. m. The meet
ing was called to order by w. L. Kerr.
After stating the object of the meeting
a permanent organization was affected
with the following officers President.
w. L. Kerr; Vice Presidents, Lieut..
8. H. Walker and James T. Kerr;
Chaplain, Rev. G. A. Freed, and Sec
rotary, H. G. Gilkeson.
The next meeting will be held Octo.
Der 10, at 10 a. m. We hope to have a
full meeting.
H.G. GILKEsoN, Sec.
w. l.. KERR, President.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-09-28

e Any one who will read the death
lists of the last few weeks coming from
the Philippines will be cruel indeed,
If he does not want the war there ended
unless it be those ship companies
which Mr.. Bryan says carry our sol
diers there alive, and bring them back
dead.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-09-28

Since the conviction of James How.
ard of murder in the first degree, for
the part he took in the killing OF
Gov. Goebel, it becomes apparent that
Gov. Taylor did brainy act when he
shook Kentucky dust from his feet.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-09-28

The only argument which is advanc-
ed on either side as to why Bryan can
not be elected, is that the Republicans
have too much money. The very
thought is an insult to American
uotara