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The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1900-10-17

SENATOR PETTIGREw has called Han
mas hand. Learning that Sir Orator
Puff, nothing dauuted by his failure as
a second Anthony, has decided to in
wade SoHth Dakota on his spelling jag,
the Senator sent Mr.. Hanna polite in
vitation to Joint debate. Now, Hanna
in a debate would look exactly like
thirty cents, and he has got sense
enough left to know this, though it was
doubtless after long struggle between
his vanity and his brains that he came
to this conclusion. So he has accord
ingly announced that he has decided to
pay no attention to Mr.. Pettigrew chal-
enge. Ye Gods, what a sight would
have followed had the meeting been
arranged! The Senator from South
Dakota would have chewed-up the
Senator from the Nation-at-Large I'M
til the Black Hills would not have pos
sessed cover enough for Hanna to hide
his head. But Marks no fool. he knew
this, so he Just grinned and said "nit. y
Though he is as much tickeled with
finding that he can speak, as was the
gentleman who went into ecstacies Ovel
the discovery that he wrote prose, yet
he prefers to crate without accompani
ment or opposition. But his biograph
ers are hardly liable to hand down tC
posterity mention of the fact that he
was an orator, and only through hi:
memoirs is the secret apt to escape ant
enlighten,succeeding ages.
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1900-10-17

FROM his city of refuge, Conspira-
tor Taylor sends us some interesting
news. lie says in case of the election
of Republican governor. he will be
brave, return to Kentucky and forgive
and forget. He continues that call his
nights are frances and all his days are
Dreams" so great is his anticipation ol
JOY at the thought of getting back to
Old Kentucky. But we fear that
from all indications Mr.. Taylor is moi
going to be called upon soon TO play the
Prodigal Son act. His sojurn in In
diana Is liable to be a lengthy and
somewhat indefinite one, at least his
residence there is apt to be permanent
for the next four years anyhow, unless
Mounts successor be more of a gentle
man than the present incumbent of the
Indiana gubernatorial chair. What q
parody on the reign of law would ensue,
should Yerkes by some hook or crook
become elected The doors of the
penitentiaries would be thrown open to
their inmates; government jobs would
be passed around to the criminals as re-
freshments, big burly coons would soon
be domineering us from official positions
and the rest of MS would be truly be-
tween the devil and the deep blue sea.
SO let's put Yerkes out of business,
punish Taylor and his gang for the
prominent part taken in assassinating
Governor Goebel, and then maybe we
can 90 en- like nothing eyer happened
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1900-10-17

EX-PREsIDENT HARRISON has got
plenty of grit in his craw. Though re-
peatedly urged to come out of his shell
and speak for the Republican ticket,
the old war-horse wont go against his
convictions to please Mckinley or any
body else So he announces that for
neiSher love nor money will he mount
the raging stump and advise the people
to vote for the continuance of thepreseni
administration. General Harrison has
been at outs with Mckinley ever
since he signed the Porto Rican tariff
bill and he is too upright man to en-
courage what he knows to be wrong, SC
he has notified Hanna that they must
run the roost without him this time.
Ex-Czar Tom Reed is another ele'
ment of their party, the Republicans
have been unable to enthuse this trip
try as they may, they have not reused
him from his lair as yet, and theiI
chances for doing SO are not favorable
All its great men are either DESERVING
the Republican party. Orsaying nothing
and doing lot of thinking. And one
Of these evils is about as bad as the
other, for does not Holy Writ say ''Ht
who is not for me, is against me-"
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1900-10-17

EVERY day does more than the last
to prove that some good can come out
of Nazareth, for each daily paper is
kept busy chronicling the detection of
some noted Republican. Times great
est offspring is its latest" so the saying
goes and now the desertion of another
prominent Republican proves this. It's
Frank Monnett this time. the former
Attorney General, of Ohio. He comes
out strongly in a current issue and
says to Mac goodbye, ma honey I'm
gone"
Mr.. Monnett is very strongly opposed
to the trust system and states that he
cannot support ticket whose success
would be certain ruin to the country
ard sure death to the constitution. In
his manifesto, he points out the fact
that action and not talking is essential
to Bryan's victory and he exhorts all
victims of the combinations of CAPT
tai, (which Hanna says are not trusts
to stand up for their independence and
throw off the yoke of bondage. And
this is just exactly what the Democrats,
converted Republicans and Republi-
can victims are doing this fall. Never
was the country so stirred up as now, or
so much interest taken. We are all
working together and We are going to
win. Put that in your pipe, Mark, and
smoke it.
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1900-10-17

"ARoUSD the world in eighty days
is we all know, the title OF a novel by
Jules Verne. This celebrated story Of
a race against time is to have Its coun-
terpart in another globe trot that will
be productive of more good to the
world than that which Unparalleled
Phineas Fogg. Not content with the
prayers of our people alone, Mrs. Mary
E. Balch, the organizer OF the endless
chain Of prayer for McKinley's defeat,
has directed it toward foreign shores
and now English women have heard
the Macedonian cry and are proclaim
ing it all over the continent. Think OF
the whole world of women praying for
the defeat of one mani What chance
at all has poor old Mac against so
much concentrated goodness? Good
women are generally always apt TO be
on the right side. to such at times it
almost seems that God reveals bis pur-
poses. In all the battles between the
sexes from the time of Adam and Eve
down, the Ewes have ever been the vic
tors. This movement of the w. c. Il.
u, we believe, is prophetic Of McKin-
ley's downfall, in it let him read his
doom. Wherefore We say, "Come down
Zackeus. come down, you are done
for now"
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1900-10-17

MCKINLEY, the Figurehead," is the
title that shall designate to posterity the
present head of our government. OF all
things nothing is so pitiable or despica-
BILE as a nonentity and that is the APP
pellation that describes Mckinley. II
fits him all over, for he is a man with
no will or opinion of his own; as weak
as water and vacillating as the sands Of
the sea. He can be bribed, bought or
sold and at no time has he been the
real Executive of the nation. Every
move that he has made, has been that
Of another, Hanna and others have
supplied the brains and Mckinley has
been merely their puppet. 1t really
ought to give old Mac some sand to see
how his bosses run over and bully him,
but he's as meek as Moses and puts up
with it all. None of the big Republic
cans pay any attention to him, and il
his name didn't appear on the ballot. nc
one would know he is running. Poor
fellow, he is held in contempt by
Hanna and ignored by Roosevelt. The
latter in a speech the other day, con
tinually referred to Mr.. Bryan as "my
opponent" and otherwise acted a:
though he Teddy were the head O.
the ticket, as in truth he is. The Pres
dent, however, doesn't seem to care, ant
appears coniented as long as they pay
him his per annum and EXTRAS" Fl,
is perfectly happy, like old King Cole
with his pipe and his bowl and hi:
fiddlers three, Hanna, Roosevelt and Gov
Mount. They do his talking and savt
him the trouble, so in the words of the
immortal Checkers he asks what
the odds as long as you are happy"
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1900-10-17

Gov. MOUNT is not alone in his iniqui-
t.. Teddy Roosevelt is in. the same
class. Gov. Sayers, of Texas, issued a
requisition on the New York Executive
last week for the extradition of John
d. Rockefeller and other Standard
Oil magnates for violation of the anti
trust law in the land of the Rio
Grnade. Roosevelt refused to take ac-
ton on it and the matter stands pat.
What in the world is our country con-
ing to when its laws are not enforced
and its legislative powers ignored. In
one State of our Union, criminals
charged with murder are harbored and
in another. accessories to law-breaking
are shielded. No country can maintain
the even tenor of its way, and counter
ance wrong-doing among those in high
places, and vigorously Cypress the poor.
Let an humble miner murmur
against his starvation wages, and the
militia is called out to bring him TO
terms, but rich man may steal, rob,
or defraud the government and nothing
comes of it. The Republicans have
taken lthe reins of government in
their bands and are defying the law
and enriching themselves at the public
expense and doing whatever they
please.
This loose system of crime and rob-
berry must be stopped or something's
going to drop; in other words, the bottom
will fall out Of our government, for a
structure built on sand cannot stand
and the foundation OF our national edi-
fee is being daily weakened and under
nined by the heedlessness Of the party
in power 10 law and order. Wherefore
citizens, work together tor the good Of
the country and throw of the octopus
Of RsaablIesn sorrupiisn aud dishencr
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1900-10-17
Teachers Association.

Program of Teachers Association to
be held at Mt. Gillead October 20 1900
800 a. M Devotional Exercises.
Address Prof. ]. A. Stevens.
School Management-Prof. H. II
Brock.
Primary Reading-Miss Iva Hen.
dren and Mrs. w. III. Miller.
Language Lessons-Misses Emma
Duncan and Nancy Tudor.
School Hygiene-Misses Maud Gran.
dali and Eiiie Scrivener.
Number work in First and Second
Readers-Misses Nell Mershon and
Anna Duncan.
Spelling-Misses Bette Francis and
Lottie Faris.
Writing-Misses Eddie Whitlock and
Marguerite White.
Noon-Basket Dinner.
$50 How Secure Cooperation of Par
ents-Profs. K. Lee Davis and join
holland.
Recitation-MissM Mary Miller.
Trustees and Their Duties-Profs. J
b. Harris and G. L. Brock.
The REGULATIONS Purpose and Method
Profs. A. +. Caldwell and James Wilson
Geography-Misses Leila Harris anC
Callie Long.
Recitation-Miss Madge Wilson.
Fractions-G. g. Faris.
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1900-10-17

ANOTHER precinct heard froml After
a silence of few months, Billy Taylor,
Esq, the gentleman from Indiana, I"
comes 10 the front again, only to re-
ceive a Knockout blow and to retire
once more to his former obscurity. 1t
happened in this wise: Growing
weary of his enforced seclusion, and
longing to again hear the reverberation
of his own melodious voice, for lack OF
vanity is not numbered among his vir-
lures, he essays to slip out like a theft
in the night, lest the officers of justice
pounce upon him unawares, and adj
dress a body ofRepublican constituents,
assembled at Seymour, Indiana.
Bracing himself up to the occasion,
as became a resident Of Kentucky, he
mounted the platform and proceeded
to divest himself of his cut and dried
old tale. After he had exhausted his
vocabulary of vituperation, and when
his made-to-order eloquence gave out
for lack of something further to say he
made terrible blunder. With one
hand beneath his coat tails aad the
other waving grandilOquently in the
atmosphere, IN a spirit of vain glorifica-
ton, he opened the lists to all corners
and announced that lie would answer
all questions propounded to him. For
a moment silent establishment held his
audience and then a still small voice
from the extremity of the building
asked: "Who killed Goebel?" Be-
fore this Parthian arrow the mighty
Taylor went down like a shot; his gull
ty conscience doubled him up in q
knot, and he resembled nothing sc
much as a small boy, suffering from &
diet of green apples. His embarrass
ment was painful to behold and annie
silence the meeting was declared ad
journed and Taylor was taken out anC
restoratives replied. He'll be more
careful next time, if there be a next
for after this experience it is our unan
imous opinion that he will play dea(
and say nothing"
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1900-10-17

The "grandest scoundrel OF the age"
was the famous epithet once applied to
John Sherman. If it had taken its party
as a whole it would have been truer
for if ever a set of thriving, lying rascals
existed, they live right here in Ken
lucky and they call themselves Repub-
leans.
Since last falls election, resulting in
Gov. Goebel's victory,they have nearly
talked themselves TO death about how
they were robbed" by the Democrats;
they have made that their main issue
of the campaign in Kentucky, but in
the light Of recent events it looks very
clearly like the Democrats did not do
all the robbing. The Christian county
grand jury has just returned a number
OF indictments against a dozen or more
prominent Republicans, among them
the County Judge and County Clerk for
interfering with last NOvelnber's bal
lot. These gentlemen are charged with
supplying false registration books,
stufiing the ballot boxes and other
gross violations of the law. Now IT'S
about time they Were shutting their
mouths about the sO-called Democratic
frauds, since they have been indicted
by grand jury for the same Otfense.
The boots on the other leg now, hey,
boys? Democratic guilt has never yet
been proved, only surmised, but these
poor devils of Republicans have been
caught red-hsgdedRp theact of SHINING
against their nuctfmooted civil liber-
ty." This puts new definition on
that term. forit appears now that it
means stealing yourself and laying it on
the other fellow. Well, it will teach
them a lesson to have. their County
Judge and Clerk sent up to the peni-
tentary, for the very offense they have
been trying to lay to us, and maybe
they'll quit talking now. 1t makes a
good deal Of difference whose OK is
gored, don't it boys?
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1900-10-17

THE Republicans are undoubtedly
trying to deceive their own party in
Madison in order to get them to the
polls. Who ever heard'of a threatened
law to allow only those to vote who
own taxable property to the value of
$1,000" Any sane man would recOg-
nize at a glance the following letter to
be onesof the Republicans many de-
ceiving schemes:
Richmond, KY. Oct. LIST, 1900.
MIR. -.
DEAR SIR:-We are in the midst of
the most important campaign in the
whole history ofour country, from both
State and National point of view.
This is true for several reasons, the first
of which our civil liberties are at stake
in Kentucky and must be protected at
all hazards.for which these sacred rights
nothing is left of that proud heritage
for which our fathers fought and shed
their blood on a thousand battle-felds.
The National race and the election of
Mckinley and Roosevelt is very import
ant to the commercial. manufacturing
and agricultural interests Of the conn
try, all of which have been revived with
wonderful rapidity under the present
administration, and which will con-
tinue, unless prevented by the election
of Bryan and the installation in power
of the party which brought such crush
ing disaster to the country from '92 to
'96. We are meeting with much ell
enlargement from honest, patriotic
Democrats who love country better
than party, and it only remains for the
Republicans to do their duty to insure
certain victory. And this committee
takes the liberty OF appointing you a
committee OF one TO see every voter in
yo1r immediate vicinity and urge upon
them the necessity of going to the
polls and casting their votes early
Stay on the grounds until the votes
are all cast, counted aud the result an.
nounced. BE ready at all time to assist
IN bringing to the polls the old, the
halt, the lame by providing means OF
conveyance. If you have no vehicle
get your neighbor to furnish one. BY
an organization of this kind victory is
sure, our liberties secured, and the
threatened law to allow only those &c
vote who own taxable property to the
value of $1,000 will be averled.
3. j. CLAY,
Chairman Campaign Committee.
j. I. MCCIINTocx,
Chairman County Committee.
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1900-10-17

OLD UNCLE GROVER CLEVELAND
is following Ben Harrison's cue. lie,
too, says he has retired from public life,
bur his views are not changed. Great
minds, you know, run in similar chan
nels and these two great and glorious
statesmen having in their day served
the public need, are now content to
rest under their own vine and fig tree.
far from the maddening crowd. Grover
is peacefully domiciled at Buzzard Bay,
where the wild-waves resound to the
cast OF his fly, and the canvass back
fyeth from the crack of his gun.
{. Ben is settled within the gates Of the
city which first honored him, and be-
meath the shade OF his elms, and in the
society Of his better-half, he is determined
to live and'die. Both doubtless glance
ut the morning papers and think what
fools Bryan and Roosevelt are to be
wasting their mind on an unapprecia.
tive people, and softly thank God they
are done with it all. If they could
both vote themselves n niche in the
temple OF fame they would probably
die content.
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1900-10-17
Chairman Countv Committee.


THE colored brother is looming into
prominence just now. Its election
time, you know. On every hand you
may find him surrounded by his Re-
publican hackers, who are pouring into
his ears the old, old story of how they
''set him free" and telling him the
Democrats are trying TO rob him of his
vote, thus persuading him to vote
against his best interests and thereby
put himself in abondage infinitely worse
than that which Lincoln and Grant
freed him from. The Republicans are
not the negroes friends, they are his
masters. They need and use him only
at election tunes for without him in
KENTUCKY, they can do nothing, since
Go per cent. of their party in this State
are Philippians.
We favor education among the
darkies, as a means Of enlightening
them in regard to the true state Of az
fairs. Al present they are stepped in
ignorance and have no idea about poll
tics save that the Republicans freed
them and therefore they blindly vote
that ticket. They do not know or
realize that they are thus voting to put
themselves in q condition Of actual and
finan,iaI starvation. They arp largely
day laboregs and With Repsslieans In
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1900-10-17

BY their action in delaying and pre-
venting the passage of new election
law, the Republicans have earned the
contempt of the nation at large. They
have forfeited the respect of all classes
by their pretense of virtue and then
falling far short of it. In plain words
they are a set of deceivers and liars.
All during the last campaign they
could do nothing but shrek THE
Geobel Law" and turn up their hands
to heaven in holy borrow. All the Re-
publicans IN the State and parcel of
narrowed Holinesses from the Demo-
cratic ranks, a Ia the Truly Good
Deacon Billy Breckenridge, took the
stump in violent denunciation of the
infamous GoeDel Law. They sighed
for freedom, they wept for liberty, and
altogether they made a very pretty
display OF dramatic Mysteries.
But now, what change of 'front.'
When the Legislature met with the
purpose, and summoned for the pur-
pose of pacifyiDg these calamity howl
erE, and repeating the old law, what
do these holy, righteous, GOd-fearing
citizens do but place every obstacle in
their power in the way of framing a
new bill to govern eieetiOnsi
They say they want civil liberty
Fiddlesticks! they want to act contrary
block the passage Of new law and
then make their own remissness and
general cussedness a campaign issue
against the Democrats. But every
body are on to their tactics now, the
scales have fallen from the people;
eyes, and they all see these blamed
turncoats in their true colOrs. Think
it's going to do you any good, boysi
Shoe fly!
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1900-10-17

able to say, we wait with impotence
the resuming Of his trial and the verdict
of the jury. If guilty he should be
given the extent OF the law; on the
other hand. if it appear. from the evil
dence that he was merely tool oil
others and the victim of circumstances,
he should be dealt with more mildly,
but in either case, he should be tried,
condemned or acquitted according to
the law Of the land, and sympathy
'rackets should not bias judgement.
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1900-10-17

Richmond Lodge, A. o. U. W., No.
"A:
WHEREAS. We have had taken from
our midst one OF our members, Brother
Free Mulfnger, therefore be it
Resolred, That we tender our most
heartfelt sympathy and coincidence to
members of the bereaved family, and
be it further
Resolred, That these resolutions be
spread upon our minutes, published in
our city papers and a copy be sent by
our Recorder to members OF the family.
G. F. HIGGINS, -
l.. J. FRAZEE, Ooi'''
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1900-10-17
sloo Reward. s1oo.

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The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1900-10-17
DEMOCRATIC TICKET

YERKEs says "any man that bolts
his party should be kicked out of the
community We say: ANY man
that sees heis wrong and DONE 90 right,
should be shot with box of ten ounce
taXs." There's the difference betwix
"tweedle de-de and tweedle de-dum."
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1900-10-17
NOTICE.

The sale Of the land Of
Taylor Rice, decd, set for
uesday, October Is, 1900, is
postponed. This sale will oc-
cur in December.
S. E. SCOTT, Com'r
z. T. RICE, Admir-.
ocfI0-1m
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1900-10-17

WHEN knighthood was in flower,
deeds of merit received the alcohode
as their reward. Later during the
palmy days of the First Empire the
cross Of the Legion of Honor was be-
slowed upon heroes as their just due.
Even now in this degenerate age Eng
land rewards gallantry on the battle
field or illustrious distinction in other
professions by the award of the Vic
toria cross. And now what does Ameri-
ca, the grandest nation under the sun,
give to her sons for toll and services
rendered? Simple a fuil dinner pail.
Truly, is the age of chivalry dead,
buried and beyond resurrection, when
the faithful service and honest labor
of many years, reaps only meal, and
that not always a square one, as its
mead
These trust men and mine owners
seem to think their employees have no
souls or cravings for higher things, and
that so long as their animal cravings
are satisfied, their spiritual instincts
should also be. This is the most mon
strous injustice of this day and genera
ton; these poor miners and factory
hands are as much men as their EN-
pIoyers. They, too, have families to
feed, children to educate and the same
desire to rise in the world that animat-
ed their masters before they became
wealthy and rose. But they are
checked and held down in bondage
and oppressed, and there is no better
thing in sight for them unless Bryan be
elected and different system of pay
ment be inaugurated in which.will be
included the recognition of merit and
desert. And this will come to pass be-
fore many days, for Bryan will be elect
ed since they can not keep good man
down.