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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23

its political traditions and opposed Mr..
Bryan In 1896, because OF the financial
heresies to which the Chicago plat
form committed him and to which was
attracted unsafe elements In American
citizenship. Our convictions In this
relation have only been strengthened
and confirmed by intervening exper-
fence. IL Mr.. Bryan be nominated at
the Kansas City convention and that
representative body reafirm the inan-
cial plank of the Chicago platform, we
can support neither the declaration OF
principles nor the candidates who
stand for II.
This ia without qualification or res
ervation. We have no aid or sympathy
for any movement that has for Its ulti
mate purpose the vitiation Of national
currency, the overthrow of prosperity
the decentralization of business. and the
baseness OF reputation. IL the go
called Democratic party clings bllndly
to its free silver coinage plank, rejected
as IL was under conditions most favor
able to It's adoption, II Is rushing TO It's
ruin, Just as IL seems to be In the judg-
ment of Mr.. White and the thousands
OF other old line Democrats who re
fused four years since to renounce
their allegiance.-Detroit Free Press
Dem.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23
and It will not BIO supported any more.

and It will not be supported any more.
now or hereafter
The work of Butler IL the sicux
Falls convention IA putting Up Towno
for vice president on the Bryan ticket
cannot be explained except On the
theory that he has started out to carry
his threat of November, 1896. against
Bryan and the Democratic party into
execution. The real ~fusionists and
doughfaces like Senator Allen tried to
get Their convention to make no nom
ination for vice president at all,
knowing that any selection which they
might make would be an emtnrrass-
ment to the Konsas City convention.
The selection which Butler fore II On
the Populists. however, wS1 tna most
Objectionable to the Democrats which
could possibly have been thought Of,
as Towne was q Republican until q
rev years ago, and does not stand with
Bryan on u issue except silver,
which he (Towpe) has recently said
should be kept in the background In
the campaign. In order that Buffers
threat or four years ago, against Bryan
and the men who, Ia the Kansas City
convention, Will nominate him, shall
be carried into effect, he declares he
Will stay on the Populist ticket, and
make a fight for the candidacy In the
Kansas City gathering. Even before
the lines are fairly drawn for the
campaign Bryan finds himself ~iercely
assailed in the house OF his alleged
friends. Clearly, the "enemy's coun-
try" of 1900 forms for Bryan a much
larger tract Of tho United States than
It did In 1896.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23
THE ENEMY'S COUNTRY EN-,
LARGED.

.Towne, the ex~-Republican, who was
nut I'D for vice president by the fusion
populist convention Mt Sioux Falls, on
the ticket with Bryan, has an excel
lent chance to do a good deal of dam
age to his running mate, and he is
rising grandly to his opportunity.
Towpe says that his name Will be
presented for the candidacy for vice
president to the Kansas city v
ton. His state, he declares, will in
dorse his candidacy, and he tells the
Democratic bosses that he Is In the
fight to win.
When Senators Butler OF North Car
olina and Pettigrew OF South Dakota
forced Towne on the Sioux Falls con-
yeotion, 1t was natural to assume that
Butler was carrying out his promise
made Just after Bryap's defeat in 1896
to fight against Bryan aad the Demo-
cratic party henceforth. Butler said
then, through his paper, that he served
notice 'on Mr.. Bryan that IL he desired
TO head the reform forces of the Peo-
Piles party In the next fight Chat. of
1900 he must do SO under some other
name than that OF Democrat. Tnat
name" he added, "has become a re-
proach and a stencil among the people
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23

destruction of the party's influence In
national affairs for many years.
ITO my mind there Is but one hope
for the future of our party-wo must
cut loose from the Populists, make
our W nominations on a platform
that accords with the position or our
party prior to 1896 on the financial
question, and place the party squarely
In antagonism with the present ad-
mipistration on the live issues OF the
present. 49,.
imperialism Is a ghost that VIII
not down. 1t will haunt the Ameri-
can conscience until some party VIII
deal II a death blow. | want the DEM
ocratic party to bear In history the
everlasting honor that will come to
those who deal that blow.
IF the Kansas City convention IN
siBts upon the nomination OF Mr.. Bry-
an on q platform pledging the party
to free coinage ut the exact ratio OF
| 1G to /, then a convention Of the con-
servative Democrats will undoubtedly
be held"
That Bryan will be nominated at
Kansas City Is conceded and that he
will reafirm the Chicago platform
with all it's heresies is proven by the
following statements made by him In
an article eptitled 1.-THE Issue in tho
Presidential Campaign, In the June
number Of the North American Re
view. The candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for president |
lines his plan OF campaign, which ne
indicates will be made on the Isl
of bimetallism, anti-trusts and anti
imperialism-this being the order In
which he considers the questions.
"The issue presented IN the cam
paign of 1900" says Mr.. Bryan, is
the issue between ~plutocracy n de-
mocracy. All questions under discus
sion will, I'm their last analysis, dis
close q conflict between the dollar and
man-a conflict as old IS the human
race, and one which will continue as
long as the human race endures."
That the Nebraskan has not waver-
ed In his allegiance to the cause OF sill
yer Is Enthusiastically shown In his re-
| peated CHASING Of the money question
at the head OF the list. Says he:
1.-The contest between monometal-
lism and bimetallism Is q worldwide
contest-a contest which must go on
until silver is once more a money
metal equal with gold, or uOtil the
gold standard becomes universal. We
cannot afford TO throw the influence OF
this nation upon the side Of the gold
standard unless we are prepared to
accept universal gold recommendation
with all that that meaps. The in
creased production Of gold during the
past few years will act as a parachute
to retard the fall In prices, but there
Is no assurance that it will be suf-
ficient to enable us to dispense with
silver as standard money"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23
Made I'm

New York World: Although the
South African war has somewhat
eclipsed the yarns from Alaska, a few
good ones get out occasionally. The
latest was brought down by a man
who tramped through Seattle in his
bare feet. He solemnly says that a
cigarette dropped in the waters of the
Yukon will be gold tipped before it
IAN be dipped out. The same man also
tells about an Indian who swallowed
a gallon of Yukon water, and when
resuscitated had a full set of gold
teeth.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23

the boat and the baby on the board
looked at each other in silence. Then
Henry swore softly to himself. The
baby began to cry. Fastening his
painter to the strange skiff he pulled
for shanty-boat and wife as fast as he
was able. Ii was cut loose from ito
board and taken into the shanty-
boat to be fed and petted.
They looked at the board from.
which the child had been taken. 1t
had apparently been cut from a dry
goods box, and bore two letters, thu
end of a name "Ay," and below it
'Cinti, O" In the skiff beside the
umbrella were some old clothes, two
fried fish and a bottle of whisky. On
the child's swaddling clothes were in
scribed the letters M. NJ"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23

Mrs. Henry could just distinguish
something black, like a man bent
over, in n endrof the boat. Instantly
she called TO her Husbands:
al, there's that thief fooling with
your lines"
Henry dropped the net he was
mending and sprang for his skiff. His
wife ran out of the room and handed
him the pistol, which he kept to pro-
tect his property. Then Mrs. Henry
got an old shotgun and stationed her.
self at the window of the shanty-
boat.
Soon Henry was close to the buoy,
The 'thief's" boat had not moved.
The ayenger saw that. an umbrella
was raised in one corner of the boat,
screening everything at that end. Shut
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23

off by this, the thief had evidently
not heard his approach.
Henry drew his skiff alongside the
other carefully. When he started no
had laid the pistol in the seat beside
him, but now he picked it up and
cooked it.
With one blow of his left arm
Henry dashed aside the umbrella, at
the same time presenting his pistol
with his right hand. The umbrella
flew over into the water. Something
that had been behind it in the boat
gave an unmistakeahle whining
shrek, and Henry sat down suddenly
in his boat from surprise. His pistol
was covering a baby dashed to a board
which lay in the stern of the strange
skitf. For @ few minutes the man In
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23

In the course of a speech at tho re-
cent general council of the Reformed
Episcopal church at Baltimore Bishop
Stevens rather astonished his cowork-
ers by declaring his fondness for to-
bacco. IL smoke" he said, "and shall
continue TO smoke. I don't believe the
use of tobacco is as bad as II has been
described. / believe il is all a piece of
will worship. God has never said any
where that we shall not be ministers
of his gospel il we do use IL. God pro-
vfded for every need in nature, and L
thank God for my cigar"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23

Signorina-Loretta Italia Garibaldi
has entered the preparatory school of
the woman's college OF Baltimore,
where she Is making up back work IN
order that she may enter college next
autumn. She is the granddaughter of
the famous Garibaldi. Her father,
Gumiotti Garibaldi, has achieved dis
tinctlon as a military leader. Signo-
rina Garibaldi will remain at the wo-
mans college until she has finished
her full course, returning TO Rome
only during her vacations.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23
No Trouble ut All.

Chicago News: Mrs. Waggs-"T'm
sorry to hear that your husband is
drinking again. Isn't it an awful
bother to get up in the middle of the
night to let him in when he comes
home full?"
Mrs. Jaggs-"Not at all. When he's
drinking he gets so full he can't come
home"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23

There was once II writer who diff
fered so much from other authors
that she refused, SO TO speak. to die
as regards her W generation. This
was Nine. Necker. She left about 400
letters, which she distributed among
her friends before her death, e%njoin-
ing them TO send one every month to
her husband as if she were continuing
her correspondence from the other
world. 1t is not stated how her hus-
band liked it, or whether he answered
her letters.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23

Captain Francis Martin Of 100 First
street, Detroit, the oldest American
naval officer alive, has just celebrated
his 1Q2Sh birthday. lie was second
lietepant six years before Admiral
Dewey was born. lie entered the gov
eminent service In 1881 and has been
at II ever since, getting his first COM
mission from Andrew Jackson. A
month before attaining his majority
he witnessed the funeral of Napoleon
Bonaparte, the vessel on which he was
serving having put into st. Helena for
water.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23
Tic TYnewritcr Invention.

a statistician has proven that the
INVENTION of the typewriter has given
employment to 100000 people, but he
fails to state how many cases of weak
stomachs it has induced. All persons
IF sedentary occupation need Hostel
tcr's Stomach Bitters. II helps nature
TO bear the strain which cnsues from
confinement.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23

There Is a doubt as to whether the
collection of United States postage
stamps intended to be exhibited at
the Paris exposition will be sent to
France for that purpose. 1t has been
learned that three sheets OF proof
stamps were lost after being sent to
the exposition, and there Is some
question as to whether IL would be
safe to trust further collections OF q
similar kind there. The exhibit which
has been prepared is a very compre-
hensiye one, including samples Of
nearly every stamp issued by the gov
eminent. To accomplish this II was
found necessary TO borrow stamps to
the value OF about $1,000 from a-pri-
yate collecteCr.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23
Mutually Hard.

Philadelphia Press: "This living in
furnished rooms said the wife, lis
hard on the children"
mo doubt" replied her husband,
who was e~ndeavoring to remove the
marks of sticky fingers from the plush
sofa, "but the children are also hard
Oh furnished rooms"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23
IOWANS IN NEW 0 r

Hawkeye Visitors TO the Metropolis
of the Nation.
New York, June 1S.-Among the recent
arrivals at the hotels here are the fol-
lowing Iowans:
Davenport-W. I. Louis, Bay state.
Marshall-C. p. Cook, Holland.
Red Oak-T. Griffith, Astor house.
Sioux City-W. Jepson, st. Denis; G.. M.
Conway. Hoffman house,
Nevaoa-A. j. Ringheim, st. Denis; w.
X. Buardman, Herald Square.
Cedar Rapids-E. E. Clark, Herald
Square.
Hewton-F. Hammel, Grand Union.
Inwood-A. A. Rogers, Continental.
Kellogg-A. b. Craven, Grand Union.
Des Moines-J. II. ~Stockhan, Astor
house; G. =, Harsh. Cosmopolitan
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23

Miss Elizabeth Smith, n society girl
of Derby, Conn, and the possessor OF
$4,000, is going to marry G mechanic
in a typewriter factory who earns $I2
a week. She has turned n deaf ear to
many fashionable young men. who
have paid her court on the golf links
and In the ballroom.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23

Countess Castellane formerly Miss
Anna Gould of New York; seems still
willing to crafty her husbands most
expensive within. He has just secured
what furniture experts declare to be
the most magnificent set of wardrobes
ever seen. They were made for Louis
XIV, and are OF tortoise shell veneer,
almost covered with carved brass. The
price paid was $2S0,0o0.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23
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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23
STATUS OF TRUST LEGISLATION.

STATUS OF TRUST LEGISLATION.
Following is the text of the proposed
antitrust amendment to the United
States constitution, which was defeated
in the House of Representatives June
| by a vote of 154 to 131-not the neces-
sary two-thirds in the Affirmative:
Section ALL powers conferred by
this article shall extend to the several
states, the territories, the District Of
Columbia and all territory under the
sovereignty and subject to the jurisdic-
ton OF the United States.
Section 2-Congress shall have power
to define, regulate, control, prohibit or
dissolve trusts, monopolies or combl-
nations, whether existing In the form
of a corporation or otherwise. The sew
eral states may continue to exercise
such power in any am not In con-
fiict with the laws OF the United States.
Section 3-Congress shall have power
to enforce the provisions OF this arti-
Gle by appropriate legislation.
Republicans voting yea :. . :. :. 148
Republicans voting nay =. . . 80. 2
Democrats voting yea. .. .. =. . #. 8
Silverites voting yea. :. :. /. . -. l
Democrats voting nay =. :. ...... 129
Democrats voting yea with the Re-
publicans-Campbell of Montana, Ma
phen Of Massachusetts, Scudder Of New
York, Sibley of Pennsylvania, Thayer
Of Massachusetts.
Silverite voting year with the Re.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of Nevada.
Republicans voting nay with the
Democrats-Loud of California, Mccall
OF Massachusetts,.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23
ROLES CAN'T GO BRYAN,

Ex-Governor Horace Bo!es of Iowa
has written a letter to James ]. Rus
sell of New York city, In which he
says:
''The denomination of Mr.. Bryan on
the Chicago platform reafiirmed
means not only the defeat Of our par
ty next fall, but it means the practical
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23

The American Funcier. which is au-
thority on fowls, considers the case
of the now famous McNally hen of the
Pawtuxet valley, and her alleged
achievement of laying .2s9 eggs in
thirty-eight successive days, including
Sundays, and reaches the conclusion
that modern science has not banished
credulity from this world.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23
PROSPERITY POSERS.

POSEHS.
Excerpts from a recent speech in the
House OF Representatives by Congress-
man Grosvenor OF Ohio:
Why, Mr.. Chairman, the gentleman
from Missouri (Mr. De Armond) talks
about the Republican party being UNI
der the domination OF the wealthy
classes, and undertakes to point out
that we do nothing here that is favor
able to what he is pleased to call "rhe
masses" Why, IL there Is any one par
ty on the face OF this continent that
more nearly represents the aspirations,
the hopes and the interests of the
masses of the people OF this country,
surely 1t Is the Republican party.
Now, my friends, | am going to make
a few concise in~terrogatories. Can You
name one thing you said after your in
troductory remarks OF "LGd'e s and
gentlemen or Fellow citizens In any
one OF your campaign speeches OF 1896
that ever became true? Can you? IL
you can, | appeal to you, under this
order to print, TO put it into the Record
and let us embalm it.
Was there one thing you said-and
you may start at Bryan and go clear
down to the smallest Democrat or go
up to the largest Democrat, and you
may take all the newspapers and all
your arguments, and II o will find
one single uggestion, either affirm
tive or negative, that came out as you
said, | VIII agree hat ! never heard or
1t up to this time. Can you name It?
You cannot. Do you want the people
now to take your word that you under
stand this question that is now pend
ing here? DO you?
You said we would have no foreign
trade. We have had the biggest for
eign trade this country ever had In all
its history. You said we would not
have money enough to do business. We
have $500, 000, 600 more today than
when you made that prophetic utter
ance, and every dollar Is of equal par
value. But we are here to say that no
contingency shall eve arise, If we can
help it, when you shall undo the work
the people demand shall be done.
Now, n or two more questions. IL
| am wrong, tell me. What caused the
good times of 1892? | refer you to the
commercial reports OF December o.
that year and l refer you to the pres
dents message of D-camb,r, 1892.
What brought it about? Answer tn t.
II came right in at the very feet Of this
great crime of 1873. We made grea e.
progress than we had made in the
same number Of years before. What
brought it about? Was it your wis.
dom or ours? There was not q statute
on the statute books Of the country
which you had put there. There was
not one there that effected the results
that we did not put there.
Answer mt the next question. What
caused the country to go from that con
dition in business down into the terri
BILE condition that we found ourselves
in 1896? Explain it, my friends. What
caused the reaction Of 1897? What was
1t that brosght to this country a condi-
ton of prosperity the like Of which 70
people on earth ever had before? Tell
me that; and tell me why 1t Is that ev-
cry time the Democratic party gets into
power we go down in the scale of pros.
perity, and every time the Republican
party comes back into power we get up
again. Go back to 1887, and come on
down, and the record is all alike and
uniform.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23

He is a Denver man and his name is
dents occasionally carry watches, *
cept when the assessor Is about, he
concluded TO tax up one to every voter
in the county. leaving to the voter the
task of paying the tax or proving that
he hasn't n ticker. The trick will
probably turn $4,000 into the county
treasury.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23

The declination Of Herman Riddcr,
editor of the New York Staatz-Zei-
tung and n prominent leader among
German republicans, TO accept mem
bership on the board of trustees of
the College of the City of New York
as rendered him by Mayor Van Wyck.
is based on ethical grounds. He thinks
n newspaper man should hold himself
free to criticise everything.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23
A Wee inby Girl Tied 10 the SIX

Louisville Courier-Journal: Al
ready Allan Henry had five boys, but
Saturday afternoon the big Ohio
river, as though to even up matters n
bit, foated him down a little girl six
months old. Henry is a fisherman,
living in a shanty boat a short dis
lance above the upper end of Tow
head island. In the evening just after
Z o'clock Henry was sitting on the
porch Of his shanty boat mcnding a
net. His wife was inside cleaning
away the remnants of the supper.
She had leaned out Of the window to
empty q di%shpanful Of water, when
she saw a boat damned up against
her husbands fishing buoy out in tho
stream. 1t was just getting dark and
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23
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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23

Senator McComas of Maryland
u the loss of n handsome watch,
which was taken from his pocket
while he was Mt Antietam with the
presidential party. He took Mr. Me-
Kinley's arm to escort him through
the crowd, and in the crush his pocket
was picked. The tlmepiece was pur-
chased for $3.50, lawyers fee which he
received just before his marriage.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23
WOULDN'T HAVE SECOND PLACE
Dewey Says He Stands Where Ho
Stood Three Months Ago.

Washington, June 1S.-Admiral Dewey,
when seen by an Associated Press repre-
sentative and asked whether or not he
would define his position relative TO tho
presidential nomination, replied with
his usual ~frankness:
'I never contemplated being a candi-
date for vice president. j am not a candi-
date for that Office, and would not accept
the nomination If offered. My position is
unchanged. I stand where stood In the
past three months
Thus II will be seen the admiral had no
second string to his bow when he made
the announcement that he was a candi-
date for president IL the people OF the
country wished him to be.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23

AN undertaking establishment in
Chicago offers to conduct funerals on
the installment plan. 1t issues policies
which amount to $50 when paid up,
and which entitle the holders or mem
beers of their families to a decent bur-
ial when such persons may require
post-mortem offices.