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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-10-29
ADMITS he WAS DRUNK.
John C. Best Makes the First Contradiction
in His Story.

Lynn. Mass. Oct. 2s.-"l was drunk On
the night Bailey disappeared ana rein"in-
Der nothing that took place. SAID John
& Best while sitting in his cell in The
Salem jail Saturday afternoon. ne re-
mark was made 10 State Officer Neal VINO
wens 70 the jail 10 interview Best about
his property at the Breakhedtt hill farm,
North SauguS.
This is the first time Best has said any
thing about being drunk on thai might
Previously he has told IN" reporters tnat
he wen: 10 bed early, and although h"
thought he heard Bailey return from de-
Iivering milk TO Charles Deary Ak Pleas
ant hill he was not certain. as ne was
very tired and slept soundly-
II Is the fIrsbtine. the officers say. that
Best has contr.ldiC; ed himself. except
when he told some persons thai Bailey
had gone 10 Maine and - others stated
that there was "A warrant out tor Bailey 5
arrest in Maine and he had gone West to
escape the officers.
Furthar nan this Pest would LAY moth
ing and Immediately after making TINS
remark in ans er 10 I question about
the long overcoat found in the barn and
which Deary says Bailey wore. said: =
don't want To talk about the matter any
more
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-10-29
BOUND TO EXPAND.
Ex- Senator Hiscock Says the United Stat, S
Cannot Help Growing

New York. Oct. 2S.-Former United
States Senator Hiscock spoke in de-
fence Of large industrial corporations
here, yesterday. at a mass meeting Of
the Shipping and Industrial Sound
Money Association. He said, among
other things:
These large industrial combines
which have been formed throughout
the country involves millions Of CAPT
tai. effect great economies for the con-
sumner. employ large amount of labor.
and increase the profits distributed
among the people. am in favor Of
these great combines. This is a bust
ness nation.
We have the West Indian islands.
we have Manila and we are destined TO
expand. not only by legislation but BY
the trade which VIII come 70 our
doors
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-10-29
Or. GEO. EASTMAN DEAD.
Prominent, Citizen Of PiatteviIIe. visa Ma
tive Of Strong. Me.

Boston. Oct 2S.-Dr. George Eastman,
president of the First National Bank
of PIattevile. Wis, who died in that
town on Wednesday. was well known in
New England. He was IS and was
native of Strong, Me. He graduated
from Dartmouth in 1874. and located in
PIattevine in 1850. He was married 10
Anna :. Munroe of Boston, in 1882. He
was a surgeon in the 10th Wisconsin
Volunteers and later medical inspector
of the nth army corps. He was one "
the wealthiest men of Wisconsin. \
wife ana two daughters survive nm.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-10-29
LARGEST Armor Plate.

what l. probably the largest single ar
NOR ,lota X 10 be-. used in the construc-
tion or the batrieship Wisconsin The
Mate will become the port plate n tur-
rar an III. vessel. and is being cut at an
..,,,,. i,,s,s,d of being the arc of i circle,
~ AN being 10 better defect shot.
WHIT the armor plate is e a batii"ship,
Hos;etfers stomach Bitt a,,scL Is Of r co me
s,inn,iIn indigestion. dyspepsia, bilious,
Ia 5 M, prevents malaria. fever and
ague. L viii restore weak stomach 51..Gh,i =
Hoi MAJ totit,.- ajluents will 10 well TO
w r,l IL, ,l' pitIers n one. For hity Years
Il E .ne ,nad alone while its many .inita-
tors have fallen
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-10-29
SENATOR HANNA
Asserts That Nebraska and South Dakota Are
No Longer Doubtful.

Chicago. Oct Ex-senator Hanna said.
last night. while talking Of his recent
speaking tour: The crowds that met Us
everywhere showed the spirit that is
working in the Republican parry, and
was therefore gratifying. I believe that
Nebraska Will return majority for Nc
kinley and Roosevelt.
South Dakota is not in the doubtful
column. The only fighting proposition
left there is the Senatorship. ana am
satisfied the Republicans viii win it. al
though they are working against a gerry
mandcr which enables the Popocrats to
lose the state by few thousand and still
carry the Legislature.
ut was my first trip through the sec
tinns visited. and therefore interesting
The nation can he proud Of that North
western region and II people. II would
he 4 good 1hing il more Of our citizens
from down East could get acquainted
with it,.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-10-29
PENOBsCOT NUMBERING.
Most Extensive Operations Planned Tor Com
inc Season for Past 20 Years.

Bangor. Me, Oct 4S.-Not for p years
past have numbering operations been UNI
dert4lien upon such an extensive scale
on the Penobscot river as this fall. Never
in the history of the industry have men
FOR work in the woods been 50 hard to
get. even at advanced wages.
1t il estimated that 20, 10000 feet Of logs
will b. Gu. on PenobScut waters. this
winter. abou, equally divided between
pulp and saw logs and that fully 800 men
will be Eecded 10 supply all the camps
About 1000 already have been sent into
the woods. while the employment agents
and operators are securing the State. the
British provinces and even the large cities
for the a0n0 men still wanted.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-10-29
EMPRESS or BRITISH EMPIRE
Title Proposed Tor Queen Victoria by Wiitism
John Lyme.

sydney. y. S. W, Oct 2s-Mr. william
John Lyme. premier and treasurer Of New
South Wales. during a speech at the
opening OF a German fete here. today.
said: 1.-THE temper Of the Australian PEG
PIE was never so anectionate toward the
mother country as it is now. The war in
South Africa has produced a patriotic
bond which should last eternaliy.
1T has been suggested locally that Her
Majesty should assume the title as Queen
Of Australia. To me IL seems a good pro-
posal. Indeed. think Her Majesty might
well be approached with a view 10 her
assumption Of the title Of Empress Of the
British emnire, thus embracing all the
colonies and dependencies
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-10-29
FATHER AND SON DEAD.
VIM. and Charles E. Fessenden Of Denmark
Die Within an Hour Of Each Other.

Denmark. Me, oct 2S.-Charles T..
Fessenden. one Of BridGton's most
prominent citizens. and his father, Will
liam Fessenden OF Denmark, died at
hour of each other Charles +. Fessen-
den was director Of the Bridgton
Railroad and railway and highway
commissioner for Maine and Massachu-
sets. He was 81 years old and is sur
vived by wife. one son and a daush
ter. The elder Mr.. Fessenden was "a
years old. Both had been i'll for some
time
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-10-29
SUNDAYS LULL
In the Greatest of All Great
Political Fights.
Ali the Candidates Pass a Quiet Sum-
Sunday at'Various Places.
Will Start Again, This Morning, on Last
Week Of Campaign.

Binehamton. \. Y. Oct 2S.-Gov.
Roosevelt spent the day very quietly
here, taking long drive with Mrs.
Roosevelt during the day and going
to the Episcopal church in the even
ing.
The trip. tomorrow. includes but
three stops-Cortland, where the party
stays for one hour: Ithaca. where a
three hours stop viii be made and al
Elmira. where the party will stay for
the night.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-10-29
RAIN. TODAY AND TOMORROW.

Washington. oct. 27.-Forecast for
Monday and Tuesday: New England.
partly cloudy. Monday; probably rain
on the south coast. probably rain.
Tuesday: fresh to brisk northeasterly
winds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-10-29

It has been announced at Toronto.
Ont. that the Royal Canadian Yacht
Club will not challenge. next year, for
the Canada's cup, now held by the
Rochester Yacht Club. The declina-
ton DC skipper Jarvis to handle the
challenge is given as the reason.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-10-29
Boston Forecast.

Boston. oct. 2S.-Forecast for Mon
day: Cloudy, generally fair, probably
followed by rain during the night and
Tuesday morning: easterly winds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-10-29
stops the Cough
md Works off the Cold

! Laxative Bromo- Quinire Tablets cure
cola IN one day. No cure, No Pay Price
Is cents. m,wse
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-10-29

Is the burning question that interests
both political parties just nov; but the
question that interests the man who
wants his linen done up with that
snowy Wilderness and exquisite beauty
Of finish that will only satisfy the man
or refined taste. is where he will find
the best laundry in town to do il. The
majority Of voters in Augusta viii vote
that it is at tho
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-10-26

Such illustrations might be multi:
piled all along the line. When Bryan
Is elected the trusts will have to cease
taking toll from both consumer and
producer by paying low wages and
exacting monopoly prices. Whatever
legitimate profit comes to organized
capital will have to be made by an
increase of sales and the offering of
high-grade goods at reasonable prices
Illegal Discriminations.
Such trusts as the American Tobac.
CO company have been in the habit of
forcing retail dealers to handle nc
goods but theirs. Let Bryan be elect
ed and the attorney general whom he
appoints will quickly show these
trusts that such illegal discrimina-
tions against individual manufacture
ers will not be permitted.
Then, too, when trust or rail.
way combine attempts to rob the peo-
pie, let the president of the combine
be arrested and punished, not some
agent Of the concern.
The election of Bryan will mean de-
1iverance from trust rapacity and self
ishness.
4 ~ AgyyTYNT N
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-10-26
Who I. Meant nv .w..~

The republicans tell us that we are
creditor nation-they, brag on the
fact that Americans are loaning
money to Europe. Why is this money
loaned? Because it will bring better
returns abroad than at home-because
interest pays better than business in
acknowledgements moneyed men fear
to invest their money in developing
the country and charging its busi-
ness enterprises. Yes, 1--WE" are loan
ing money abroad, and who are sweep
Are the fellows who write prosperity
for republican newspapers at $40 a
week investing their salaries in for
eign bonds? Is any farmer in the
United States taking any part of this
foreign loan? Are the laborers and
mechanics of our cities investing much
of their wealth in Europe? Are the
coal miners of Pennsylvania investing
their surplus wealth in British con-
soils or German loans? But who are
.'we," then, that have become the cred
itors of the foreigners? ''We" are the
plutocrats of New York and Boston
the men who have been enriched by
special legislation-the bankers who
have fattened on public funds-the
contractors who have benefited by
public plunder-the favorites who have
been enriched by wholesale robbery.
These are the men who are loaning
money abroad, because they are afraid
to invest it at -Nonconformist.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-10-26

The public pays the miners of
Pennsylvania No public, no mining.
The public are not kicking against
the demand for increase of wages.
They can afford to pay three times
the wages. But it is the profit the
millionaires add to the cost of min
ing coal that is causing all the trou-
BILE Do away with the profit by hav-
ing the public mine and sell the coal
at the cost of the labor to mine and
transport it. and there win be no trou-
BILE in the mines. There is no other
remedy.-Appeal to Reason.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-10-26
McKinley Prosperity.

The amalgamated steel and wire
company-the. steel trust-has finally
come to terms with it's employees and
signed the scale with the men-not
what the men asked, but much less.
Capitalistic newspapers publish this
and state in big head lines that this
sets at work $4,000 men who have been
idle since June. Tt is the first init
nation that the readers of these jour
mails have had that any such number
of men in one industry have been idle
all summer. Probably the men were
SO flush after three years of McKin.
ley prosperity that they were merely
taking a summer vacation.-Dakota
Ruralist. =
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-10-26

The cost of maintaining the pro-
visiona1 brigade of the national guard
among the striking miners in the an
thracite region is about $1,000 day.
During the Hazleton strike of 1897 the
cost of the state troops from Septem-
Der IL to % was S141,545. The peo-
pie pay the freight" on this expen-
sive machinery for keeping strikers
in order. When will the guard be
called out to assist in forcing the big
trusts and combinations to obey the
laws of the state and union? The dis
regard of our state laws against pluck
me stores and like abuses has pre-
eipitated the present trouble.-Venan-
go Spectator.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-10-26
fALSIFIRD PROPHECIES.
SALARIES Of Maay Have Csosed Eatirsly.


Mr.. Bryan has been much criticised
by republican orators and newspapers
because he predicted, in 1896, that the
decentralization of silver would tend
to depress prices and diminish wages.
Yet there can be no doubt that, apart
from other considerations, this proph-
ecy is true. 1t is automatic that, in the
absence of disturbing elements, the
prices Of every marketable thing. i'm
GLIDING the wages of labor, are exact
" measured by the amount of stand
ard money in circulation.
Nobody anticipated in 1896 the dis
covery of gold in large quantities in
the Klondike, nor that the worlds
annual production of that metal would
increase from 5000, ISL 900 in 1896 to
1921. 805, 456 in 1899; nor that a repub-
lican administration would coin $685.
Oa4,o3a in silver money denounced as
bad) in 1898, and perhaps as much
capita in money said to be in circula-
ton July 1, 1896, would be increased
to $25 per capita July L, 1899. Yet
these facts are all shown Except the
silver coinage of 1897 by the stats
teal abstract published this year by
the secretary of the treasury. In 1896
it was claimed by the republicans that
we had too much money, and that
the silver money amounting to So or
SO per capita ought to be eliminated.
Neither did anybody in 1896 con
template the alarming growth of the
trusts that supervened the Inaugural
ton of President Mckinley. Encour-
aged by his election, and fostered by
the Dingley tariff act, they have quad
rup1ed in capitalization in the last
three years; and, controlling the
greater part of the manufactured
products of the country, they are now
the great disturbing element as TIC
prices. Many articles have been
doubled in price, not in pursuance OF
the law of supply and demand, but by
the arbitrary action of the magnates
who control the trusts.
But now as to false prophets Re-
publican orators and newspapers made
strong appeals in 1896 to men who
worked on salaries and others who
had fixed incomes, saying that if Bry-
an was elected, and the bimetallic
standard prevailed, their salaries and
incomes would not be increased, while
the cost of living would be greatly
enhanced; but, if Mckinley was elect
ed, their salaries would not be dimin
ished, and their "sound money would
buy more of the necessities and lux
| llries of life, so that the election OF
Mckinley. would be to their net adj
| vantage.
The fact is, the salaries and in
| comes of many such men have either
been diminished or entirely cut off by
the consolidation of independent in
dustries into trusts, and all consumer:
are obliged to pay much higher price.
| for goods manufactured or controlled
| by the trusts. And so the election O
Mckinley has not been to their ad
vantage, but to their detriment. Thu
republican orators and newspaper.
of 1896 were the false prophets thai
| led many men astray and induced
them to vote against their own inter
ests.-Judge David Martin, of Kansas
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-10-26
when his

Once when his keeper was tenn
porarily absent, Mr.. Mckinley wrote
a message to congress in which he
embodied the famous truism about
.sour plain duty to Porto Rico" It
is also history that when the full
and fell meaning of this innocent out
pouring of conscience dawned upon
the fatty degenerated mental proc
esses of Hanna that person went ia
the white house and called his dele
gate and protege to account. Since
the time to which we allude it is a
record that the present republican
candidate has been compelled to sub.
NIT all of his written words to the
party boss before uttering them
Washington Times.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-10-26
Urges support of Bryan.
The shadow of Imperiansm

Every official indication from the
war department casts before it the
shadow of impending imperialism.
The signs cannot be ignored, for they
are black and somber and forbidding in
their proportions. The Endorsement of
imperialism, of foreign conquest, is the
Endorsement of militarism. It is but
a short step from present conditions to
the assumption of military burdens
like those which are depressing the
poor of Europe. If we conquer for the
trusts the trusts viii not pay the bills.
It is the common people who support
standing armies, not the milionaires.
Boston Traveller.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-10-26
PROTECTION DENOUNCED.
Policy Will Bring Us to the Level
of the Chinese.

Methodist ministers heard q denun-
citation of the republican party's tar
if principle by Bishop J. H. Thoburn,
at the Rock River conference. held at
the Garfield Park church, in Chicago,
40 years in the orient, delivered the
first of series of lectures on the
eastern situation, and he likened the
republican party to the Chinese.
"Our fathers never intended to build
a Chinese wall around this nation -
he said, ''by putting a duty upon
things, and keeping the foreigner
from bringing in his goods. We are
doing as the Chinese have done for
centuries. We must get broader no.
tions about these matters. The Chi
nese built a stone wall that they
thought would keep out the foreign
ers. Our stone wall is the custom
houses that we set out on our borders.
Before I became missionary I be-
ieved in the republican policy of pro-
lection. I have learned that if a ma
ton wants to survive it must open
wide it's doors and trade with the
world. Let our revenues be raised
from direct taxation. The true policy
to be adopted in dealing with the PEG
pie of the east is to abandon the oh
principles. Let us give up being .
semi Chinese nation and excluding
other people,"
The bishops attack on the republic
an party was made in connection with
his review Of the Chinese and other
orientals.
He ascribed their lack of progression
to the isolation created by the pro
tective system
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-10-26

Mr.. Hanna was more ingenious
than honest in his attempt to damagf
Mr.. Bryan by declaring that he was
pledged, in the event of his election,
to permit one, if not two, members OF
his cabinet to be selected for. him BY
Richard Croker, the Tammany leader.
The haste with which Mr.. Hanna and
the republican organs have dropped
the charge is in itself a fine compli
ment to Mr.. Bryan. It is an admis.
sion on the part of his bitterest politi-
cal enemies that his word cannot be
profitably challenged.-Baltim San.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-10-26

Senator Beveridge thinks prom-
fse of independence to Cuba made
in 1898 may and ought to be broken
in 1900. Some one ought to send .
COPY of the ten commandments to this
mond (Va-) Dispatch
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-10-26

"A significant banner was that
which the great procession Of strik-
ing miners carried while parading
through Wilkesbarre on the I'd, and
which read: I'VE want our dinner
pals filled with substantial food, not
coal barons' taffy."
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-10-26

Mr.. Bryan continues to puncture
McKinleyism with pertinent extracts
from Lincoln. In speech at Duluth
he said: Lincoln wanted the declara:
ton of independence applied to "a
black man, while the present leaders
OF the republican party are unwilling
to apply it to q brown MANN. Y.
World
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-10-26
Interesting Figures and Compare
sons Which Set People
Thinking.

The Helena Independent, of Helena,
Mont, furnishes some interesting
figures in regard to the strike in the
anthracite region of Pennsylvania.
1t is estimated that if the anthra-
cite coal strike shall last two months
the men will lose $s.O00.OO0 in wages;
the operators $20.OO0,OOO and the rail
road companies like amount.
Here is curious condition, well IL
Illustrating the power of private mo-
nopoly to rob the producer, arbitra-
rily fix the terms and conditions of
labor, and appropriate the fruits of
industry for the benefit of the few
at the expense of the many.
1t is estimated that some $4,000
or $780, workers will lose $4,000, 600
in wages, while few monopoies will
lose 100000. In other words, these
few monopolists will get two and a
half times as much for mere owner
ship as the great army of laborers
get for doing the work.
Every 500 got from mining and
marketing the cold is distributed as
follows:
To the monopolists Observation-Disclosures. IL g.
To the railroads OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Al 81
Total 800 90
Leaving the railroads out of ac-
count. every 500 got for mining the
coal is distributed as follows:
To the miners .$28 s.
TO the mOnOpOl1StS Observation-Disclosures. IL AZ
The railroads get two and half
times much for carrying the coal
to market as the miners get for dig
ging it out of the ground.
Private monopolies are indefensible
and into1erab1e,'' says the democratic
platform; and these private coal mo-
nopolies are an apt illustration of
that declaration.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-10-26

William Mckinley and William
Jennings Bryan stand out in the bold
est possible contrast as representa-.
tives of hostile forms of thought, OF
opposite views regarding questions OF
public concern. The democratic can
didate for president of the United
States is the strong man of the PEG.
pie, the supporter of the constitution
The republican candidate is the weak
and vaclliatlng creature of ,ne money
power, the servant of overmasterine
trusts, the ambitious seeker after an
imperial power. sternly forbidden by
the organic law which he has flagrant
y violated.-Philadelp Times.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-10-26
To he Decided by the People

You people are going to decide this
fall whether you want the sham OF
the real; whether you want the Eu
ropean or the American; whether you
want government that protects the
individual or a government that takes
care of a monopoly; whether you want
government that rests upon the con-
sent of the governed OF government
13 inches in diameter, round in shape
and fired out of cannon.-William j.
Bryan.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-10-26
THE COSTLY COAL STRIKE.

ADOLPH PATTERSON