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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-10-05
CHAPTER ".
CYNTHIA GROWS skeptical.

Two or three days had passed by, and
the report had been confirmed that Will
lam Mckinley, of Ohio, was to be the
next President of the United States.
Political Simon was able to be up
and around as Cynthia expressed it
though his face was slightly disfgured
He had stayed away from Brownsville
quite while, it seemed to the people
of the town.
Pa" said Jimmie, IF you stay at
home much longer people win think
you're ashamed Of your face
well, I'm not; my son. Many mar
tyr before me has worn disfigured
countenance."
Then you'd better get move on
you and go down town and pay up
what you bet on Bryan"
simon said Cynthia, did you bet
on Bryan?"
mot much, Cynthia, but still we shall
feel the loss of 1t now"
"Well, 1 am surprised" said Cynthia,
in establishment. How much did you
bet?''
Twenty dollars, the money I got for
the old. speckled COW, but you see ex-
pected to get forty dollars back, or two
cows for one"
II hope, Simon, that you have learned
a lesson. Went and took the last dol
lar we had and fooled it away. What
would you think If had done such a
thing as thatg"
1T wouldn't have been very proper
in woman, but men, who are sup
posed to know about such things, often
make piles of money this way"
Eyes, you tell how much you have
made" Cynthia said sarcastically.
Cynthia! Don't be unreasonable;
half OF the bets made have been won.
I just happened to be pnluclxy, but not
much more unlucky, after all, than any
one else. McKinley's election will be d
detriment to all laboring classes, and
in regard to his victory, we may as well
all be considered unlucky."
Simon, they say down in Boonsville
hogs have gone up Is cents a hundred
since last Tuesday election day., and
corn 2 cents a busheI, and they say
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WHAT is A TORNADO7

What is a Tornado? is the question you
will hear
Asked by every one you meet at this time
Of the year.
1t seems 50 awful stupid, that often feel
inclined
To Cyclone with my intellect the whirl-
wind Of their mind.
Now, full-grown Tornado, it is very
seldom seen.
1t leaves its tracks behind it. and you
know where it has been.
1t comes so very sudden, and as quickly
doth depart,
That its coming and its going IS Impress
ed upon your heart.
Now. I've told you all about it, there is
nothing more to know.
Until early in November, when McKin-
ley's sure to show
A Monsoon and a Typhoon, with Q whirl-
wind on the side,
Galivanting through the country, tanning
Democratic hide.
james L. "Bromleykite" PillinG
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WILLIAM q. ANDERSON.
gold supply Nearly Doubled.

Mr. Bryan SAID in 1906 I'VE want the
free coinage of silver because there is
not enough gold In the country to run
the finances" When he said this the
dmount Of gold in circulation was $685.
1924 Since then the amount Of gold
in the country has increaserd to SS14,-
0G8, 155 In May, 1900, and is almost dou-
bled. Is this enough for Mr.. Bryan,
or has free silver some peculiar super
natural power over human aaffirs, that
Mr.. Bryan still insists on the 42-cent
dollar? A cloud with a silver lining"
still befogs his brain.
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ISSUES DISCUSSED BY
MEN or ALL PARTIES.
McCIeIIan's Tribute to the Sol
diers of Our Small Army.
Progress Of the Campaign Commented
On by Persons Of All Shades Of
Political Thought Imperial.
ism No Issue.

A missionary was sent to convert
Dewey to Democracy at Manila. He
represented the most potential politicians
In the Democratic party-those who could
have given him the nomination if he
would have consented to few-line senti-
ments and glittering generalities. II
Dewey had consented at Manila to be q
Democratic candidate he would un-
questionably have been the candidate.
He wonld have been an imperialist some
thing like; an imperialist wouldn't have
hurt the Democrats bit. The Demo-
cratic party wouldn't have cared a rap
about imperialism nor about silver at 16
to or at 33 to /. They would have
gone in on the heroics. They would have
celebrated conqueror as their candi-
date, and been glad and proud and stuck
up and happy to support a man who had
shed blood, conquered territory and sur
rounded the world with his glories. That
Is what the Democracy wanted.-Murat
Halstead.
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replied: mo, money not good enough to
buy sheep won't buy horse; perhaps you
pay your note with such bill"
Well, Jonathan, / think Of that cattle
dealer whom read what Mr.. Bryan says
of the independence Of the German vot-
ers In his recent speeches, and especially
when his subject is sixteen to one'' and
the sturdy independence of the German
voters.
COUSIN GERTRUDES YOUNG
MAN.
Perhaps you don't remember, Jonathan,
when your cousin, my Gertrude, used to
have calls from dandy young man. He
sometimes sent her fine roses by his little
brother from the village. / got suspi-
'cious Of that young man, Jonathan, and
by and by he stopped all at once coming
to see Gertrude. You want to know
why, Jonathan? Because one day he
was driving by, down the road, and said
very kindly and sociable like to him:
My young friend, / guess you needn't
trouble to bring or send any more roses
to Gertrude because she says she likes
EN- fresher than when you send 'em-
she has permission to help herself"
You see, watch that young man when
he. goes home late one early morning, and
! saw him steal my roses on the way out
of the front lot, and In the evening next
following he sent 'em to Gertrude. If
he only keeps the roses for his partikler
friends in the village it wouldn't SO much
matter; but when he steals them to make
himself solid with my little Gertrude, he
reminds me of Bryan quoting from Abe
LincOln's speeches to try to make the peo-
pie think how much his party loves the
people-when all the time before, the
Democrats had no use for Mr.. Lincoln.
Lincoln was great Republican, whom
to love is fashionable, even with Demo-
Gratis now. But when their great man,
Mr.. Bryan, offers Republican voters
roses out Of Lincoln's garden they nat
urally feel like Gertrude they like 'em
fresher, and they have permission to help
themselves.
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CHAPTER III.-(continued.l


Winnie walked in by her fathers bed
side.
WINNIE" he said, Il don't want you
to ever speak to Harrington again
as long as you live. You will probably
meet him at school this morning, but
don't want you to ever speak to him.
want him to know that you uphold
me in the fight with his father. Do you
hear what say?" But before she an
swered the patter of horses feet and
the shouting Of mems voices were
heard.
"Hurrah for Mckinley, the next Pres
ident Of the United Statesv' rang OUT
upon the morning air.
Whats that they're shouting? I do
wonder If Mckinley Is elected" said
Simon.
ut may be so" said Cynthia, "but
don't worry about 1t, Simon. / guess
if we work hard we can keep our souls
and bodies together, If he is elected"
Just then their neighbor, Mr.. Blank,
appeared at the door to find out how
Simon was feeling, and to bring the
glad news that Winnie was elected.
who's to be PresidentY' quickly in
quired Simon.
Mckinley" he said.
IT don't see how 1t could be possible, !"
said Simon. Providence has always
been on the side Of right in the affairs
of this nation"
$50 1t has, Simon, and it has not yet
forsaken u.s."
You'll repent thousand times of the
way you cast your ballot before anoth-
err four years Of hard times rolls
around said Simon, who knew Blank
was Republican.
Just then Johnny came IN crying.
Whats the matter2' said Jimmie.
"That Reynolds boy was just goin'
by and he said Mckinley was elected,
and that 1t served my pa right to get
licked. / wish I'd have licked him
5oo-hoo!"
well, why didn't youY'
Hes bigger than am" Johnny
whined.
"OhoF' said Jimmie, laughing. That
don't make any diff. Old man Harring-
ton amt near so big as pa, but he licked
him just the same"
Jimmie" said his father. march
out Of here just as quick as ever you
can; do you hearf"
"Can't we have any more pie and
cake to eat, ma, If McKinley's elected r.
he added, as he proceeded to obey his
father.
mo, darling. We shall have to live
very economical"
Winnie now started to school, and
Jimmie watched her as she walked
away.
"'Pon my word, pa, If Glen Har-
rington hain't come to meet her. Here
he is now, and he's congratulating her
for defeatin' him. Listen" he said to
Johnnie. winnie is telling him that
she is sorry she had to defeat him in
order to be Superintendent. BY golly!
If they hain't locked arms, and walk
ing to school together, when pa told
her not to even speak to him.
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that party Thave nothing in common, and
the history Of my country shows that Its
power and its croalxing prophecies Of evil
have been disregarded, defed and spurn-
ed by the chivalrous spirit Of Anglo
Saxon blood, manifest destiny, American
progress or whatever you may choose to
call it.--Daniel w. Voorhees, Of Indiana,
"a Democrat, at Washington, d. c., Feb.
IA, 1859.
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Imperialism is no issue at all. There
is only one issue in this campaign, and
that concerns the business interests-the
pocketbook issue. While the people are
threatened with another financial panic
and business depression their thoughts
are not going to be concentrated on any
cry of imperialism. 1t is folly to assert
that little war over in the Philippine
Islands is of more Importance to the peo-
pie Of the United States than their indi-
vidual and collective interests at home.
There is nothing like imperialism in the
policy Of any political party in this coun-
try, and, therefore, it is an impossible is
sue.-Dr. George L. Miller of Omaha. a
sound money Democrat -
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While wish Mr.. Bryan no i'll fortune,
deem his election as President would
be misfortune to him and to the coun-
try under present conditions. If elected
he would have such heterogeneous
mass of discordant Democrats, Populists,
free silverites, greenbackers, anti-expan-
sionists, mossbacks and dissatisfied do
nothings to contend with that no harmo-
NOUS or settled policy, legislative or adj
ministrative, could be established--C
Geo. w. Warder, Kansas City, Mo-.
Democrat who voted for Bryan in 1896.
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We built 500 miles OF railroad in the
United States in the year ending June 80,
1900 We built 1.d50 miles in the year
ending June 80, 1895. when free trade
had its disastrous trial.
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our Foreign Trade In Corn.

Total exports Of corn to all foreign
countries were, in 1896, 99,992, 1876 bush
els; in 1899. 174,0S9,094 bushels. The
following shows the value of the exports
Of beef and hog products in 1896 and in
1890:
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We all know that there has ever been
a party in this government, since its foun-
dations were first laid at Bunker Hill
and Yorktown, opposed to our territorial
expansion and ACKNOWLEDGMENT. With
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Whoever attempts under whatever pop
ular cry to shake the stability Of the pub
lie currency and bring on distress in
money matters, stabs your interest and
your happiness to the heart-Daniel
Webster, in the Senate Jan. 81, 1884.
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To China, Japan, Asiatic Russia, Aus
tralia, Hawaii and the Philippine Isl
ands, exports of the following two corn
derived products were in 1890 and 1899
respectively in value:
1899. 1890.
Provisions 1906 IT'S $51S, 1870
Fertilizers .......... 1861 114,9S8
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All the incidents of the past prove that
the army will never have the disposition
to jeopardize the free institutions of the
country. Our nation would be safe in
deed, for all time, did the mass Of its cit
liens place upon its institutions the same
intelligent appreciation as that in which
they are held by the army, and were
honor, integrity and respect for the laws
as much the rule among the people as
they are in the army, which has given too
many proofs Of heroism, of integrity, of
devotion to the country, to be regarded
as a source of danger. On the contrary,
he who understands its history must re-
gard it with pride and satisfaction as one
OF the chief ornaments of the nation, as
school wherein are taught and prac-
ticed the virtues Of valor, self-denial,
obedience and patriotism, and as an in
stitution which has never called the blush
of shame to the face of an American
George B. Mcclellan, Democrat, and
nominee for the presidency in 1864.
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"Militarism," imperialism" are terms
used by newspapers, politicians and plat
groundless ones of the most demagogic
import--used to stir the people which no
well-balanced statesman or newspaper
will use. There is no more danger of
either condition in this great intelligent
seventy million freemen and great aggre-
cation Of States fortified by those States
rights recognized by our constitution and
sustained by our courts, than there is of
England becoming an absolute despotism.
Canton (A1iss.) Times, Dem.
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There are 6,000 people connected with
the glass business in Indiana alone and
their votes will make the State go for
Mckinley. We are only protecting our
interests. Our wages have been raised
10 per cent in the past two years, s per
cent last year and per cent this year,
just restoring the cut that was made un-
der the Democratic administration in
1S93.-William Peck, Glass Workers.
Union.
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The Republican party in Wyoming is
In excellent shape. The State is quite
prosperous. This is particularly true Of
the wool industry, which has been slim
ulated by the tariff and the general bus
mess revival throughout the country.
The wool growers all realize that their
future depends largely on the continu-
alton OF the prosperity which now pre-
walls and believe that they, to man,
will support Mckinley, Our people are,
paying little attention to the so-caIleds
Imperialism but are, content to think Sc
nGusly Of the financial and tariff ques-
tiShs. Wyoming will give handsome
majority for Mckinley and Roosevelt
=. A. Slack, Cheyenne, Wye
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Imperialism Is false cry. Never have
seen Republican who wants to be
a king. ! am military man, but / have
never been able to find out what they
mean by "militarism." If by "militar-
ism" they mean they are opposed to our
young men learning the things that will
enable them to uphold the flag, then they
are opposed to patriotism. One of my
sons COL Guy Howard, was killed in
the Philippines while fighting for the
flag, and another one is fighting over
there now Don't talk to me about TAX
ing down our flag and giving the Philip
pines away. 1t is an insult.-Gen. Oil
yer 0. Howard.
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s "A STORY OF COUNTRY LIFE.

BY ALMA /. PARKER GUIDE RocK. WEE.
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Bryan's name Is household word in
every Philippine hut. They are thor
oughly familiar with his anti-expansion
views, and in him think they see their
''deliverer." His nomination and candi-
dacy alone mean the loss of much prop
erty and many lives, for it will infuse
new life into the insurgent cause and
cause them to break out anew.-R. NJ.
Shearer, Inspector of Customs, Mauban,
p. r
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-19
LUsK's HYPOCRISY.

News comes from Asheville that Col.
Virgilius Semper Lusk, declared by
Pritchard to be too old to be Federal
Judge, is going over Buncombe coun-
ty declaring against the amendment
by falsely declaring that it will dis
franchise white men who cannot read
their ballot. He is a nice fellow to
be talking that way. On the floor OF
the House of Representatives on the
gath day of February, 1897, Col. Y. ;.
Lusl< repeated twice that mo MAN
SHOULD BE PERMITTED TO CAST
A BALLOT WHO CANNOT READ HIS
OWN BALLOT''
He cannot deny having made this
statement when he was a member OF
the House. He ought to be exposed
now for his hypocrisy. Such man
ought not to receive the vote of a
single white man in Buncombe county.
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BUFFERS LATEST.

A telegram from Goldsboro CONVEYS,
the information that Butler has tele-
craphed to fusionist in Goldsboro
to have "a Wayne county registrar
arrested and carried before a U. S.
Commissioner. No charge is made, no
particular registrar is specified, he
only want "a Wayne county registrar
arrested thinking he can make po-
litical capital out of it.
A short while ago Butler was de-
claiming against Federal interference
in State affairs. NOW he is invoking
the aid of the Federal court in pure
w State and local election, in which
the Federal courts have no jurisdic-
ton.
II seems that Holton has taken the
contract to see after the arrests in
the Western part of the State while
Butler is lord paramount in the ar
resting business for the Eastern sec
ton. 1t is plain that his object in ar
resting d w TIC SOuhoy
is to seek to put odium upon Aycock's
home county. Our correspondent
truly says that in this respect, But
ler's action is "a piece of unmitigated
deviltry."
Aycock's majority will not be less
than $4,000; the Legislature will be
largely Democratic; the amendment
will be overwhelmingly adopted; and
the Radical party and its Re-pop-li-can
ally will be wiped out on the second
of August. And then thank God we
will have no more of Butler and his
gang. We will whip them out of the
State politically with ballots. Every
time a registrar is arrested, it adds
5000 votes to the Democratic ticket,
because the people of this State will
not submit to Federal interference in
their local elections. The man who
threatens them with it, solidifies the
patriotic white voters against his
party.
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TRYING TO INTIMIDATE.

With negroes demanding that a
white man in Cleveland county shall
take off a White Supremacy button;
radical named Carpenter refusing
to let young ladies in his factory wear
these buttons, and mill owner in
Montgomery county discharging en-
ployes because they wore red shirts
with these three examples of intimida-
ton, we begin to see the true inward
ness of radicalism.
In some Northern factories employees
are told to vote as their employers di-
rect or lose their jobs. Some radicals
in North Carolina are trying to bring
about the same conditions in this good
State. They can't make it work among
the free and independent people of
this good old State. They own their
own souls and their own votes, and
will not permit any man to dictate
how they shall vote. God grant that
they may never lose their indepen-
dence!
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NOTHING BUT A RADICAL.

In the Spring of 1897, Butler and the
Caucasian declared that any Populist
who accepted an office from the Nc
Kinley administration thereby pro-
claimed that he was a traitor to the
Populist party and had sold his prin-
ciples for an office.
This week he has telegraphed to a
Republican postmaster in Moore coun-
ty to give the name of a Republican
who could be appointed to succeed
Mr.. Makepeace, L. S. Commissioner at
Sanford. He is determined to remove
Mr.. Makepeace because that gentle
man is in favor of the amendment. He
has power with the Republican adj
ministration, since he sold out to Han
ma in Pritchard's room in Washington,
to make appointments and to remove
efficient public officials who dare to
vote their convictions. By the stand
ard he himself erected, he writes him.
self down as nothing but Republi-
can, while attempting to better serve
the purposes of the Republican party
by disappearing as a Populist.'
On the night of January 2Sth, 1897,
the majority Populists issued an adj
dress to the Populist voters denounc-
ing those Populists who had been
bought by Mark Hanna and Jeter
Pritchard with money or promises OF
office to vote for Pritchard. 1t was
written by Butler. We quote:
This disruption of the Popullst
parity they will endeavor to- accom-
plish by using as their agents in every
community in the State either some
local Republican boss, or some So
CALLED POPULIST. WHO is Will
LING TO ACCEPT A MESS OF FED
ERAL PATRONAGE Il ROM THE Nc
Kinley pie counter.
'Already the Populist supporters
of Hanna's man begin to call them
selves cooperative Populists, when in
truth they are nothing but Republi-
cans, while attempting to better serve
the purposes of the Republican party
by incorporating as Populists.' by
their fruits We shall know them. "
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REGISTER TODAY.

4 The election takes place on the Sec
ond day of August. Every voter will
be expected to vote for all State and
county officers, magistrates, township
constables, and on the Constitutional
Amendment. Registration closes Sat
lrday, July 21st. Register or you
Annot vote. An entirely new regis
tration has been ordered, and no mat
ter how often you have registered
before, unless you register by Satur-
day night, you cannot vote.
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THOMPSON ADVISED 1T.

The Populst spell-bindcrs, who are
nothing but Republicans, whose eX-
penses are paid with Republican mon
ey, are going over the State denounc-
ing the Democrats for submitting the
constitutional amendment to the peo-
pie. We have already shown that But
Ter advocated it in the Caucasian, urg-
ing the Democrats to follow the eX-
ample of Mississippi and Louisiana,
''to eliminate the negro from politics
and ''free the whites" DR.. Cyrus
Thompson, Populist candidate for Gov
ernor, advised the Populist members
of the Legislature to vote to submit
the amendment. In compliance with
Buffers and Thompson's advice the
Populist leaders in the House voted
with the Democrats to submit the
amendment as did the only Populist
Senator. If any mistake was made in
submitting it, the Populists cannot be
heard to say so without putting the
blame on their Representatives.
Why do Thompson and Butler now
go about the State denouncing the
Democrats for submitting the amend
ment? The answer is easy. They
made trade with the Republicans by
which they are bound to work to keep
the 100000 negroes on the books to
vote for Mckinley, trusts, imperial
ism, the gold standard and the like.
DR.. Thompson said, 'the amendment
is the best thing for the civilization
of the State" and yet he is trying to
destroy ''the best thing for the civili-
cation of the State" Is it any wonder
the Populist voters have lost all con-
fidence in such leaders and quit the
party that follows, such men to the I'M
doing of everything for which the Pop
ulist party stood for when organized?
The plain truth is that the Populist
leaders are no longer Populists. They
are Republicans and are simply mas
querading as Populists in order to bet
ter serve the purposes of the Repub-
lican party"