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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-11-22
CHEAPER ARMOR PLATE.
Secretary Long Contracts for n Large
Quantity AIT "a Ii deduction of S35 Ton
from Prices Originally Asked.

L
| Washington, Nov. 16.-Secretary
Long yesterday announced the con-
clusion of the long controversy over
| the price of armor plate for naval
| vessels, and an agreement with the
| Carnegie and Bethlehem companies
| for Krupp armor at 1920 ton, with
the possible addition of royalty fees,
| making the maximum price $455.52 Il
| ton. The amount of armor involved
| is the largest ever placed at one time
| by the government and is said to
| equal all the armor purchased by this
government up to 1896. 1t covers the
armor for II ships now in various
stages of construction, including eight
battleships. six armored cruisers and
three protected cruisers. The follow
ing official statement was given out
concerning the agreement:
The navy department has come to
an agreement with the Carnegie and
bethlehem companies for Krupp ar
NOR of the first class, amounting to
1850 tons, for S420 a ton. The Krupp
process involves the Harvey patent,
| the validity of which is now under
| consideration by the courts, and it is
further agreed that the government
will assume in addition any liability
for the Krupp process not exceeding
f5, or $24.32 per ton for Krupp roy
atty, and not exceeding the United
States license fee of Sl1 20 for Harvey
royalty. The maximum price to the
government is therefore S455.52 ton,
subject to elimination in case of any
reduction in the foregoing royalties.
The bid of these companies for This
class of armor was $490 and the price
originally asked $545."
The MIidvale Co. some time ago
withdrew their bid, but they would
have been unable, in any event, to
furnish armor in due season for the
Maine class of battleship. Had they
not withdrawn their bid it is prob
able that some arrangement might
have been made for the distribution
among three companies of the manu-
facture of the armor other than that
of the Maine class. Their bid, how
ever, was of value in enabling the de-
partment TO secure the above large
reduction. Admiral O'Neil, chief of
the bureau of ordnance, said of the
result:
1.-The agreement is most satisfac-
tory. The terms are reduced not only
to reasonable poirt, but more than
reasonable. We get armor cheaper
than any country III the world. 1t is
due not only 10 Secretary Longs able
management of the matter, but also
TO the fact that the companies met
him in very reasonable spirit. 1t is
only just that This should be under
stood"
The armor contract covers not only
the 24,9j0 tons specified in the official
statement, but also some 10000 tons
of armor of the second and third
class. which has not been in contro-
vcrsy. but has been dependent upon
the disposal of the first class armor.
The entire amount, approximately
200 tons, is now made avaiia BILE.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-11-22
PEDDLES MEDICINE.
Former Governor Leedy of Kansas
Adopts New Business for Re-
trieving His Fortune.

Out in Kansas during the last few
years many men have leaped into sud-
den political prominence, and with
equal suddenness have gone back into
almost complete obscurity. Among
the more recent and spectacular of
these political meteors is former Gov.
John W. Leedy, who has started out
to peddle a new patent medicine
through the state.
In explaining his action Mr.. Leedy
airy was but $4,000 a year, and that
he was compelled to spend most of
that sum to maintain the dignity of
the office. When his term expired he
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-11-22

In 1880 he was made under secretary
for India, but resigned the office the
same year because of his dissent from
the home rule policy.
From 1888 to 1888 he was governor
general of Canada, and followed this by
term as viceroy of India, being named
by Lord Salisbury, with whose union
ist policy he has strongly identified
himself. His governorship of India
from 1888 to 1898 was less remarka bio
for domestic reforms than for his work
in strengthening the frontier defenses
and building strategieal railways.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-11-22
At LO@gerheads.

Rerlin, Nov. 1.-THE Frankfurter
Neltung prints a dispatch from China
saying that discord prevails in Pekin
between the military and the diplo-
mats and that the latter are also at
ioggerheads among themselves.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-11-22
sag Cure, Law Unconstitutional,

st. Paul, Nov. 15.-The state SUI
preme court has decided that the So
called jag cure" law is unconstitu-
tonal because it applies only to coun-
ties OF over $4,000 population and it is
limited in it's benefits to certain
number in each county one per year
to each 10000 of population.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-11-22

After suffering for long time from
the migratory rats, the inhabitants of
Copenhagen organized war against
them and lu is weeks 100000 were
killed -.--.--a
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1900-11-30

1895. In the latter year named,
the democrats polled the 363, 200
votes to which they can point as
their high-water mark, from which
they have now recedad. A reduc-
ton in the size of party majority,
or plurality, is a reverse, which
can not be lightly considered. This
the Missouri democrats have met
in the campaign just closed. Such
a reverse, however, might have
been borne with more equanamity
If not accompanied by positive
loss in party strength, as shown in
total poll thousands of votes
smaller than that OF four years ago.
"There's the respect which makes
calamity" of the figures. The tide
has turned. The flow is over and
the ebb has set in, and the CLAIMS
it leaves too high on the shore can
be used to make chowder for our
barbecues. That's all the use Mis-
souri, is going to have for CLAIMS in
the future. They had better go
out on the high tide they came in
on. The tide is ebbing now, and
heaven help the clans caught along
the shore at the next election.
wonder if the full significance,
the real meaning of this decline in
party strength has burst upon the
minds of the machine managers
yet. think they knew what was
coming when the first unofficial re-
turns of the election came out OF
the counties the night after the
voting, and they have exhausted
themselves in an effort to make the
figures tell another story than the
one they did tell. Probably the
falling of in the democratic vote in
this state is much larger than the
official figures discloses, but it is
enough that the falling oil was so
large that even the presumption of
a machine dared not go to the
length of wiping it out entirely, but
had to leave fraction of 1t stand
ing as condemnation of them and
all their works. But after the opera
ton OF all the st. Louis slot ma
chimes, which work on the principle
that you put in certain number
of ballots and pull out an office,
the fact remains that the demo-
cratic party of Missouri is declin-
ing. | wonder IL there is enough
chloroform in an election certificate
to make Dockery unconscious Of
that fact.
He ought to know it. He need,
it in his business. Dookery mad,
a closer campaign of Missouri thar
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1900-11-30
THE MISSOURI VOTE.
The "Oid Politician Analyses the
Official Returns.


THE "GoING BACK"
Here are the figures of it. Bryan
has 35i, ,9t3 votes this year in Mis-
souri,. Four years ago he had 1858,
667, an actual loss of more than
If, 900 votes from the poll of four
years ago. But, using the basis
common in political calculations OF
10 per cent to indicate the increase
of party vote under normal con-
ditions, the democratic vote for
Bryan this year should have been,
approximately, 100000. So that
the loss of 1000 votes from the
polls of four years ago may be
taken as indicating only about one
third or one-fourth of the actual
loss to the party. But what is
significant and more ominous is
the fact that this is the first time
in the history of the party in Mis-
souri,, except when the majority of
its partisans were disfranchised,
that its poll at any presidential
election has shown a falling OFF
from the last one preceding. Even
in the campaign of 1890, at which
the greenback party polled over
35, 900 votes in Missouri, more than
80 per cent of which came out of
the democratic ranks, the demo-
cratic party vote, as polled for
Hancock, showed an increase OF
more than 5,000votes. In the cam
paign of 1875 the increase in the
vote of Tilden over that of Greeley
was more than 5000. In 1884 the
increase in the vote for Cleveland
over that cast for Hancock years
earlier, was more than 1000, In
1888 Cleveland increased his vote
in the state 25,000 and more over
that which he had polled here in
1884. In 1892 he showed another
increase, his vote then being 1000
larger than it was in 1898. And in
that year the Missouri Populists
polled over 10000 votes for Weav-
er, at least 80 per cent of which
was loss to the democrats. Yet, in
spite OF this loss, the party did,
as 1t had done in the face of the
greenback detection twelve years
earlier, show a gain in its total vote
in the state. 4
| After the Populists had been alb
sorbed the gain was larger than
ever before. 1t was about 95,00C
in the four years between 1892 and
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1900-11-30
OFFICIAL CONGRESSIONAL
LIST.

! Washington, ID. c. Nov. ig.-
Clerk Mcdowell, of the House of
Representatives, is preparing the
ontcial list of the Fifty-seventh
Congress. twill shortly be issued
land will show POI Republicans,
against 1856 Democrats and fusion
lists. This makes the Republican
majority % votes on party ques-
tions.
The Kansas delegation Is not
officially reported, but chat state.
California, Iowa, Minnesota, Mich
igan, Maryland and Wisconsin,
have sent solid republican dolega-
tions to the House. The delay in
The count Of the Kansas figures is
occasioned by the requirements of
law for counting the soldier vote
where citizens or Kansas are serv-
ing in the army outside OF the
United States. In the third con-
gressional district there are about
3pO soldier voters, who, in all
probability, have voted for the
regular republican candidate, G w
Wheatley, against a NJ Jackson,
fusionist. AS the count stands.
without the soldier vote, Wheat
ley is about $50 short of election.
Two hundred and sixty-eight
members OF the House have been
reelected. There will be eighty
line new congressman. The re-
publicans defeated are Lorimer.
O'Neill, Marsh and Rodenberg of
Illinois. This is an extraordinary
showing, as each administration
usually has number of retired
statesmen to provide for. The
only care on the Presidents mind
in this respect is in the cases of
Senators Carter of Montana, Shoup
Of Idaho and Wolcott of Colorado.
The republican majority is likely
to be increased in the decision on
the contested election cases from
Kentucky, where two districts were
carried by the help of the out
rngeous Goebel law In the in-
Ivestigations, the Kentucky meth
ods OF fraud viii be thoroughly
Exposed The Senate Republican
majority will be 20.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1900-11-30
CATCHING SERFS.

Last week the TRIBUNE saw an empire and it was no
Joke either We heard much of empire before the cleo
on that we can't rid minds of it soon as Demo-
cratic friends Living examples keep coming up before
us nearly every day and so we must be pardoned II we re-
vert occasionally to the empire, slaves and serfs.
Down in Jerry Simpsons baiwick near Medicine Lodge,
Kansas the other day friend of ours, having to wait
few hours for his train put in the time strong around
town AN of a sudden he heard cry out "He's
mine caught him." Then from another direction came
be No he's not youn, he's mine, caught him last night
and he's nv serf'' ''Drop 'im drop i'm say, yelled
smother On looking the direction whence came the u-
usual nose my friend said he three men scraPng over
long whiskered prisoner whom one had caught with a
moose On inquiry being made it was learned that the Re-
nubcan down there were having considerable fun capt
inc slaves and serfs the laughabe expense of Poss
and Democrats who said prior to the election that they
Jerry Simpson, got so wrought up over this slave
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1900-11-30
THE DUKES ARE COMING.

Running from the Dukes will be the chief occupation
of our Democratic friends for the next four years If the
little ones when they being put to bed of nights
their fathers will say ush, see go sleep or the dukes
will get you sue Run for your lives boys, the Dukes are
after you that's what the night watch will yell at the boys
when he wants rghten them home before the curfew
rings Then it will operate in other ways -Four or five old
cronies who have had many warm night at draw poker
will HE themselves quiet back up stairs to enjoy
quiet game. They will lock the doors draw the curtains
and proceed the chips and make merry when 10
They upset the table and chairs drop king and two
in the Jack pot and make bold rush for the stairway, down
which they tumble pe nell and strike out for their quiet
hearth stones dead with the Dukes in hot pursuit
cankng their chains and brass collars close on to the heels
of their slaves who will fall into the of their wives and
cry out ''the Dukes the Dukes oh! them awful Dukes
they won't let go to prayer meeting when we want TO-
This is empire in active operation
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1900-11-30
THIRD ArIENDnENT o. K.

j. X Pool editor of the Cenralia Courier says if ever
there righteous law passed the Bird Amendment re-
Gently adopted, is one of them.
Kelly is free trader of the Champ Clark style when
it to attacking Republicans But in the of
Missourians borrowing money where they get it the
cheapest Kelly believes that the Mssouran should not be
allowed to borrow only from Mssourians who live in Mis-
souri, and have Missouri money to loan The Bird Amend
puts Chinese wall around the and practically
puts money up per That is foreign east
money can't will into the state for invest
because the lender must pay tax the mortgage here
and also on the he may reside This double
taxation on the money lender unless he lives in the state and
then it is practically the thing. Eastern money
being driven from the state home money lenders can
charge they please for lone Money not being an
'Infant Industry therefore not in favor of protect
ing it with Chinese wall Still the Bird Amendment may
be bad is believed to be- 1t may be worse
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1900-11-30
A Fly Story.

The Woodford County Demo-
crat is the authority for the fol-
lowing:
An Eureka man, who shall be
nameless here, like the most of us,
is terribly down on flies. He has
been known to throw out a cup of
coffee with three flies floating in it,
and when he finds flies in his syr-
up he begins to buck right then
and there and it takes four men to
hold and make him spread it on
his pancakes. He uses sticky fly
paper to good effect, and fairly
gloats over the flies he catches.
But it is getting late and we must
hasten on with ou- story. He
placed two fly papers on on two
chairs and put them near a win
dow. He came home late the 9TH
er evening and what did he do bu,
pump down in one of these chairs.
He got up and paved at the fly pa
per but he couldn't get it of with
out taking off his pants. He took
them OIL and while tearing frantic-
ally at the fly paper, he sat down
in the other chair.-Curtain.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1900-11-30

any democratic candidate for gov.
ernor before him. He seemed t.
realize that n change had com,
over the spirit of the party dream
and to understand in fact that there
was no longer any dream in it,
He travelled day and night. lie
battled with the reaches in the
biscuits and the bugs in the beds
OF country hotels. He took forty
winks in the caboose at the rear
end of a freight train between 4
O'Clock and daylight. He talked
so much to the people, on and OH
the stump, that he had bull frog
in his throat the last half of the
campaign. Dockery impressed me
as man who knew he was up
against It. He said he was not
afraid of defeat but he did not
want to get less vote than Steph-
ems got. And nobody could blame
him for that.
When Stephens ran he was rarely
away from Jefferson City. He
made no speeches, and no arduous
journeys. He wore blue spectacles
and it was through these he had
that strange telepathic vision which
came to him on the 10Th of October
1896, which enabled him to see the
conference between his agents and
Jones, the Populist candidate for
governor, and to write to friend
and supporter: 81 am expecting
every minute to receive intelligence
from St. Louis to the effect that
Mr.. Jones has withdrawn and has
come out for me-" And that very
day Jones withdrew. Now, what.
ask, is the use in a man like
Dockery waking up in the middle
1f the night to catch a freight train |
'r wrestling with a beefsteak of |
he vintage of 1877, in the effort to
Keep up with man who can shut
up in a room, put on his
blue glasses and see how his cam
'aign is progressing in every part
of the state; where his fences are
down and where they are up, and
discerning the very day. and
almost the very hour. when cam
didates running in opposition TO
him, will pull out of the racer IL
was all of no use as Dockery has
discovered, for, in spite of all his
contact with the people and all the
rest of it, his vote is 1913 (ominous
number) less than Stephens got.
I'll bet that Dockery is sorry that
he slot machines in st. Louis
couldn't have made at least thir-
,een more or less counts to wipe
out that thirteen more than 1000,
which marks how far he ran behind
1t is bad enough for
Dockery to run behind Stephens
at all, but to run far enough behind
TO have the fatal thirteen for the
tail of his minority, is adding the
threat of injury to downright in
suit. Dockery has got his hoodoo.
| don't know that he can ever get
rid of it, but if | was in his place
would not rest until had the hind
foot of a gray rabbit caught in
the dark of the moon in the
political graveyard in which Steph-
ems is buried"
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1900-11-30
STOLEN GOODS.


person who takes advice invariably takes every
thing else
If you have voice sing about your work 1t is like
the boys whistle, it keeps up your courage.
whats the cheapest thing you saw around bar
gain counterE "A husband waiting for his wife,
When anyone talks of exchanging gifts with anotf-
it shows that the true spirit of Christmas giving lost
celebrated physician received the following ambigu
message doctor my wfe's mother at death door
Come Immediately and pull her through"
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1900-11-30
A Kansas man, the bridge o

A Kansas man, the bridge of
whose nose had been broken
down at some time in the past,
was one day asked by his curious
son "Father what is the trouble
with that nose of yours?" "My
sou, answered the man with a
faraway look, "that nose is the re-
suit of an unwise thirst for know
ledge. When it was younger and
less experienced than il Is now, il
undertook to stick itself into an
other mans business. 1t has
never been so handome or ambit-
ious since that time"
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1900-11-30

Mr.. and Mrs. S. B. Cook, of
Mexico, spent a couple of days in
the city early this week looking
for a home. as Mr.. Cook will be
the next Secretary of State and
will probably move his family here
next month. They win be a de-
lightful addition to society and our
city will give them hearty well
come.-Jefferson City Tribune.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1900-11-30

Jefferson City, No., Nov. 15.--
Joseph Flory filed the secretary of
state this morning a sworn state
ment of his personal expenses in
his race for governor of Missouri
GA the Republican ticket. The
statement includes all expense ex-
cept railroad fares and hotel bills,
and it is as follow: Stationery and
postage, ,S95; express and telegram
s7S; cigars 500; buttons S653.50;
clerical hire s229.50; miscellaneous
expenses, hire OF assistants, car
riages si,3i9.50. Total s3,0i3, 10.
That amount is what he spent du-
ring the canvass. Before his nomi-
nation his expenses we're s293,20
making grand total of S3.326. 30.
--------
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1900-11-30
WARRIOR BRYAN.

Cyclone Jones of Howell county, No. although de-
feated for the legislature. still insists having little fun
with the party that defeated him in Missouri Here is his
sketch of Bryans military warrior Bryan mar
ched into the very jaws of palace sleeper and proceeded
to battle with the mosquitoes at Jacksonville where he
fought bed and might have dedhad he not remembered
the approaching campaign Of l9OO.'
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1900-11-30

The largest majorties in Missouri given this year
by Monroe county with 3225 Democratic jority Clay q
659; Boone, 313l Galloway 22S4 Platte, 2,l27 Saline
1850; Audrain 2,029 and Randolph 2,0O7. ST. Louis
county the largest Republican majority it being ZOO
Gasconade, ,45S; Putnam 117S, Warren and Franklin
,095 each, and Grundy. 1O35.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1900-11-30
Eugene McQuie Won.

In the defamation contest held
at the Ferguson Opera House last
Friday night, the award OF first
honor was made to Eugene McQuie
and second honor to Miss Lillian
Evered. "First honor" carried
with ID the right to represent this
county at the Teachers Associa-
ton which convenes at Hermann,
Mo-, Nov. Goth to Dec. 1. Supt.
NJ. F. Higgins and Eugene left
Thursday morning for Hermann,
driving through in buggy. On
account of the rainy night the at
tendance at the contest at the
Opera House was not as large as ii
should have been. We understand
that all the contestants did well
and put up a strong fight for the
honor OF representing the county
at Hermann.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1900-11-30

The late William l.. Wilson had death almost exactly
parallel to that of Robert f. Lee The two men not only
ded III the same Office but in the house, in the
and in the bed and they were buried from he
same chapel-Jackson Examiner
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1900-11-30

Watterson was pretty good prophet when he said if
the Democrats nomnR ted Cleveland for third time the
party would march through slaughter house open
grave To be sure, they elected Grover but the party has
been making its biennial march through the slaughter house
since.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1900-11-30

And now the story is that Bryan will edit big news
paper for Mr. Hearst in Washington City, salary of
$4,000 year Times must be auspicos propitous deli
cios and everything else that good when editor can
receive salary of S25OOO year for editing Popult
paper.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1900-11-30

business that he moved to Kansas City for fear some Kan
as Duke or Lord of the Isle might capture him and make
him his slave forever
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1900-11-30

lrrepresibe Conflict appears be growing Democratic
enough at least to advise the rganizaon of the Dem
ocratic party along the temperance lines and in favor OF
irohlbon The editor looks ahead such coalition of
the party of Wooey and Bryan and excaims 'Who could
stand before Bryan Dockery Stone Clark and Cockrel?
would tax must imagnaon beyond recovery to think of
bu stone and Champ Clark as stump speakers on tenn
perance platform.-Marshall {AIo. } Republican