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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-10-20

TIE desperation of the Bryanites
is evidenced by the fact that both
MIR. Bryan and Stevenson are attri-
buting things to Abraham Lincoln
rthat he never said. Secretary Hay,
. who was Lincoln's private secretary
and who assisted by John Nicolay
wrote the most completeslife OF Lin
coin ever published, having access to
: all the writings of the msrtyr-P resi-
dent, declares the Lincoln quotation
eused by Mr. Stevenson in a recent
speech-s prediction that a combine
ton Of corporate wealth would Is.
stoy the republic--to be forgery. He
said of it: "The passage does not APP
pear in any of the standard collec-
Aions of Lincoln's writings. It's style
and manner are entirely different
from Lincoln. 1t is generally re-
ported in the West that it is the in
vention of spiritualistlc medium
made several years after Mr.. Lincoln
died." If it we're only some obscure
member of a party that made use oil
such forgeries, it might be excused
on the ground Of ignorance, but no
such excuse will do for the candidates
for President and Vice-President OF
q political party. When such men
resort to such methods, it is usually
with wilful intent to deceive their
hearers, and no man who tries to de-
ceive the people is worthy of being
elected to the hign Offices to which
these men aspire.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-10-20

ACCORDING to John Lind, no Demo
cratic legislature could be half Sc
anxious to break their necks to dc
what II recommended" as was the
Republican legislature of last year
If Lind got Democratic Legislature
he would be sure to quarrel with it.
as have ell Democratic executives
from the time of Andrew Jackson.
4 but with Republican legislature
how lovely everythin g has been!!!
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-10-20

The record shows that Mrs. North
colt never had anything but third
grade certificate. If the Chokio Re-
view has any names to call, they had
better first look up the record, and if
there are any additions to be made
produce the evidence.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-10-20

,PRAor1oA1LY no space in Demo
cratic papers nor time in Democratic
speeches is devoted to the Demo
cratic state ticket except Lind. The
Democrats have no hope of electing
anyone except Lind, and were it not
for the fact that the governor Is the
distributor of the "loaves and fishes, "
the fight for the reelection of Lind
would also be abandoned.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-10-20
CROKER IN NEW YORK--LIND IN
MINNESOTA.

UAANLNA1SVATAe
Mr.. Croker, of New York, recent
" put into operation his patent
method of raising campaign funds
with the result that he now in pos
session of plenty of mony to pay the
cost of the big celebration held
on the occasion of Bryan's visit to
the metropolis. The first OF DC, ober,
was pay day at the city halls in New
York, Brooklyn and other boroughs
of Greater New York, and the first
week in October all bills for supplies
and payments upon contracts that
have been approved by the proper
officials are paid. Accordingly every
employee of every contractor and
every other person to whom money is
due, received beforehand an uniform
circular from the finance committee,
of which Richard Croker is chairman,
notifying him that he was expected
to pay from three to ten per cent Of
his actual salary or the amount OF bis
bill to the democratic campaign fund.
It is estimated that the proceeds of
this assessment amounted to $780,
600. The disbursements in New
York City alone amount to $4,000,
GOO and FIVE per cent of that is $3.50,
coo. The Tammany system for col
lecting these assessments was simple
and effective. A collector called
"Wiskinkle" occupied a seat beside
every paymaster with copy of the
payroll before him upon which the
assessment of each person is set OPP
posite his name. Very few employees
of the city had the nerveto overlook
the "Wiskinkle," when their money
was passed over to them. Those who
pay promptly are commended; those
who "kick" or endeavor to escape
were reported to headquarters and
will lose their jobs. Aprouos of
Bryan's visit, it will be remembered
that an audience of some 10000 per
sons gathered at Madison Square
Garden some four years ago to hear
him crate on silver. But his speech
was so dull or the weather 80 hot, or
something, that all but about 5000
left before he had finished. This
year things were different. Croker
mas passed the word that no one
be allowed to leave the hall until Mr..
Bryan ended,uo matter how much he
may suffer from, the infection Of list
ening to him for several
hours. The police, it is said,
received orders to this effect, and
guarded the doors, preventing egress
until Bryan has mercy and desisted.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-10-20

The Republican county commit
tee are not placed under the necessi
ty Of getting unknown people to make
afidavits. The characters of the
Democratic candidates are well
known by the business men of Morris
to be much inferior to that Of Supt.
Rowe.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-10-20
mr.. BRYAN.

with apologies to Alfred Tennyson.)
/ come from fields of wheat and corn,
/ get cranky notion,
/ wave my hand and raise my voice,
And set my wheels in motion.
From north to south, from east to west,
My voice like thunder reaches,
Who saves the country care not
If may make it's speeches.
/ glide along, my voice is smooth
AS creased with lard or tsllow,
/ chatter like the brook because
just like the brook I'm shallow.
| chatter, chatter as | go,
My voice is silent never,
For men may come and brooks NAV
flow
But go on forever.
Four dismal years I've spoken on,
Four years my foes have smarted,
Beneath my lash of endless tongue,
And / am hardly started.
I shift about and in and out,
l weave my airy tissue,
What reeks to me the thing I urge
If may raise an issue.
[ quote from statesmen who are dead,
Prom ssges gone borrow,
Today I'm out for this and that,
IT'S something elne tomorrow.
/ have no special sort of bait,
/ have a dozen issues,
| use the kind I think will catch
The greatest lot of fishes.
Like Don Quixote on his steed,
My hot and knightly blood thrills,
I dash away across the plain
And madly charge on windmills.
What issue may be paramount,
Whatever question be, sir,
No issue that has yet been raised
Is paramount to Me, sir.
| talk and talk and talk and talk,
| blow and then I brag, sir,
And when I weary Of my work,
I stop and chew the rag, sir.
/ chatter, chatter as go,
My voice is silent never,
For men may come and broods may
flow.
But / go on forever.
Foley in Bismarck Tribune.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-10-20
my RECOMMENDATION" LIND.

Senator E. T. Young, of Appleton.
was made the object of bitter at
tack on account of his vote for the
gross earnings bill by John Lind at
at his speech in Benson recently
Senator Young in answer, wri es an
open letter to Mr.. Lind, calls on Mr..
Lind to prove his charges of cerrup-
ton, and further takes the glamour
off of Lind's "my recommendation"
/ speeches. The senator says in part
"Now you either knew this thing
you charge at the last session or you
did not know it. If you knew it you
should have disclosed your evidence
long ago, in the regular channels,and
| if you did not know it and still make
the charge on the eye of an election
for partisan purposes, you are not
only nnlit for tie Office to which you
aspire, but you are unfit to be a
poundmaster anywhere in the state.
"In this connection let ,me ask you
question. If it was culpable to
vote against that bill, would you not
be compromising crime to seek the
political advancement and promotion
of anyone wo did so vote? y Is
CHS your position7 A Republican
who dared vote against your dicta-
ton in a body over which you had
no control whatever, is criminal,
and Democrat who sat by his sioe
lis saint, worthy to be called mp to
sit at your right hand! What col
ossal hypocrite you are" Senator
Young then fully justifies his own
position on the bill, and continues,
"But if there IS any merit in the
proposition, why do you claim to be
the author of it. The bill was intro
duced into the house two years before
your election, and was then as we'll
as at the last session drawn by Mr..
Merrill, of Minneapolis, without sug-
gestion or aid from you"
Senetor Young then points out a
few things which Gov. Lind might,
with profit to himself, explsin,sa
"You might also deyote little
time in your TRADES to explaining
your honesty 60 and inconsistency
in recommending the so-called" Miller
Bill" and vetoing it after it had
passed, and after the legislature ad-
journed.
''You could explain also, the hon
esty of sending your appointees and
Office help irto the Legislature to lob
by against other bills you recommen-
ded in your message.
"You might explain why you false
ly claim credit for the enactment of
the bill introduced by Senator Som
erville, imposing license tax on for
cign corporations, when you know
you had nothing whatever to do with
it.
"You might also explain why you
falsely claim credit for the commence
ment of the suit to recover lands err
roneously certified TO the Little Falls
and Dakota Railway company, when
you know and the records show, that
that suit was brought by the direc-
ton Of State Auditor Dunn long be
fore you were elected"
The senator points out further the |
absurdity Of Lind claiming any cred |
it for taxation, as that matter is en-
tilely in theshands Of ths legislature
and state auditor. Lind's own record
on. wheat and binding twine comes
in for Q scathing rebuke.
---=
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-10-20

THos. LARK1N, the afiant of the
Times, has left for Canada.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-10-20
COUNTY.

m r. SPUR. ..fof AuoA'oI
NJ M1rNRo ......For Sheriff
.~apr RrrcKENTTN, For Treasurer
NETS OLSON For Clerk of Court
FED J. Decentralization Register OF Deeos
<GEo. E. DARLING. For Judge OF PROBATE
WIN. G. BICKNELL.. For County Attorney
c.. e. CAtNE..... 800. ..........For coroner
D. T. WHEATON......... FOR surveyor
T, D. GILLESPIE. For Court Commissioner
PHILIP ROWE. For Co. Sup't OF Schools
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-10-20
LEGISLATIVE.

FOR Representative
H. x NELSON
J. T. ScHAIN
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-06-05
kF,n.ncfaT-s4ar.

They haven't been married long, and
they are as loyal and devoted young
couple as ever made the confirmed
bachelor search for a new argument
against matrimony. She has prOnounc-
ed and original ideas upon domestic
economy, and in this and other ways
she strives to make her husbands
home perfect Utopia
There was a love Lit smile upon her
pretty face when hubby came home
from the Office the other evening.
what is it, dear?" he asked, OBJ
serving the glow of enthusiasm that
shone through the soft, peach blown
cheeks and sparkled in the Kohinoor-
like eyes.
II made ID cents today" said she,
and her rosebud lips parted in pride
full curve.
"That so, dear2 How did that hap
penn
"Why, sold cents worth of rags
and-and 8 cents worth of bottles
and-let me see
Eyes, that's IL cents. Where does
the other cent come in?'
'Oh, yes-yes-now 1 remember-an
old pair of your trousers for the other
penny"
No Napoleon of finance ever looked
more satisfied or smiled with so much
self complacency after a successful
monetary deal than did this CIR young
wife when she had related her little
commercial accomplishment And she
looked sorely grieved when he smiled
audibly. 1t was really their first mis-
understanding Free Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-06-05
F,xed For Her Photo.

Many a refusal to sit for a picture
has been given because of knowledge
of advancing years and fading beauty.
1t remains for the Devonshire folk,
however, to give new point on max
ing up" for a sitting. 8. Barring
Gould's ''Book of the Vest supplies
the incident.
The looks of Devonshire and Cornish
Iassies are proverbial. A complexion OF
peaches and cream, well proportional
body and well nodded features are the
characteristics. West country women,
as they are called, cannot forget they
were once comedy.
A woman of 70 years was brought
forward to be photographed by an am
ateur. No words of address could III
duce her to speak until the operation
was completed Then she put her fin
gers into her mouth.
She said: ''You wouldn't ha' me tooR
WI my cheeks failed in? l just stuffed
The Western Mornin News Into my
mouth to fill n out"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-06-05

+ About September, 1888, Dicky Tur-
ner, the converted weaver, when deliv.
ering one of his fervid speeches in the
Temperance hotel, Preston, the cockpit
where the earls of Derby formerly
fought their cocks for three centuries
in favor of the new pledge, declared
with emphasis that nothing but the
tee-tee-total pledge would do" Mr.
Joseph Livesey upon hearing this i'm
mediately cried out amid great cheer
ing, "That shall be the name" The
newly coined word was taken up by
the succeeding speakers and was after
ward used at all the meetings held in
the town and neighborhood. 1t was
soon adopted in every part of Lanca-
shire and was eventually accepted as
the true designation Of total abstainers
not only In the United Kingdom, but
throughout the civilized world.
/ had the above facts from the lips of
Mr.. Joseph Livesey.-London News.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-06-05
The Claqueurs.

The work of the "claqueurs" is not,
as will be readily seen, intellectually
of a very high order. The chief is sup
posed to have taken voluminous notes
at the rehearsals of the play they are
seeing performed, to have consulted
with the manager, to have chatted
with the author-in short, to have
made a close study Of the entire work
on which his brigade" is to be en-
gagged. He is the spring of the claque.
The men under his orders, scattered
here and there under the chandelier,
are merely parts Of the machinery, and
they would no more think Of applaud
ing on their own account than they
would think of flying.
Once upon a time there was daring
claqueur who did not wait for the sig
nal, but his short connection with the
professionals was Immediately reliev-
ed of his fauteuil for breach of disci-
pline-hardly entities him to the honor
of mention in the same company with
eminent claqueurs. The part he ap-
plauded happened to be the only good
scene in the whole play. His sense of
art, unfortunately, was stronger than
his ideI of duty. Seized with uncon-
trollable enthusiasm, he, the only man
of taste among the claque, made the
house ring with applause. He is now
one of the most eminent dramatic crit
les In Paris.--Wide Wide World.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-06-05
THE CRlMEAN WAR.

1t Was Started In a Controversy
Over Door Key.
AS an instance of what great events
can follow trivial happenings the
genesis of the Crimean war is inter
esting.
In 1851 Louis Napoleon demanded OF
the sultan that the Latin monks should
have a key to the great door of the
church at Bethlehem; that they should
have a key to each Of the doors of the
Cave to the Nativity and the privilege
of setting up there a silver star bear
ing the arms of France.
After a year of arduous negotiation
the Turkish government yielded, and
in February, 1858, the keys were hand
ed over to the Latin monks, and the
silver star was established in the sane
tuary of Bethlehem.
Unfortunately Emperor Nicholas, as
head of the Greek church, considered
this an infringement of his rights and
Immediately ordered 10000 meI
across the Turkish frontier. At the
same time he demanded that the
claims of the Christian population Of
Turkey should be secured by treaty
with himself, but the sultan refused
this, with the support of France, Aus
tria and Prussia.
The car then proceeded to seize the
Danubian provinces, proclaiming at the
same time that he had mo intention
to commence war"
The central European countries at
tempted to secure a compromise, but
neither party would agree to theil
mediation, and in October the sultaI
declared war.
England and France joined him, and
so from such slight beginnings spranG
the most merciless, bloody and fruit
less struggle of the nineteenth cen
tury.-New York Journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-06-05

Battery place is the traditional spot
where, on May 6, 1926, the Indian own
ers of Manhattan bartered 1t to the
Dutch for baubles worth go guilders.
AS early as 1893, there being war
with the French, "a platform upon the
outmost point of rocks under the fort
was designated as a suitable place for
a battery, and the council was called
upon by Governor Fletcher to furnish
"S6 cords of stockades, IL feet In
length, for the purpose of building
same"
In 1875 really imposing battery,
with a no less imposing title, "The
George Augustus Royal battery" was
erected by Governor Cosby, and 1.-THE
Battery" has remained on our city map
ever since, associated though it has
been with the pleasures Of peace to a
much greater extent than with the art
or the practice of warfare.-New York
Sun
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-06-05
NOT MUCH OF AN ORATOR.
Conductor to Whom Woman
Gays. the Wrong Coin.


Gave the Wrong Coin.
as this all you've got, MADAME ask
ed the conductor on a North Side car as
he scrutinized the coin in the semidark-
ness Of the tunnel.
"What's the matter with it?' she ask
ed in such frigid tones that the con-
ductor looked confused.
Nothing, but
'Then if there is nothing the matter
with it why do you want me to give
you another nickelY
Nothing. but that he ventured
again.
"Well, then, somebody else must
have given it to you. didn't have a
penny in my purse"
Eyes, but you did give it to me, mad
am, and it's all right, but
She had got red IN the face. The
other passengers were watching the
outcome, and one youth who was
standing craned his neck and got a
good look at the coin. He grinned
She saw him grin. That broke what
remained of her dignified and chilling
patience. She testify snatched the coin
from the bewildered conductor. AS she
was tossing it into her open purse she
too, got a look at the coin. The car
was coming out of the tunnel, and II
was lighter so that she could make out
the coin.
"Why, that is az but she was toe
much confused to finish the sentence.
Eyes, it is a SIS goldpiece, madam
You gave 1t to me-"
"You might have said So" she muir
INJURED meekly as she fished out a real
nickel.
well, you see, amt much of al
orator, madam" he said and resumed
his march down the aisle, reaching fol
nickels.-C Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-06-05
HAVE EYES AND SEE NOT.

Everyday Matters That Some People
Seem Never to Notice.
"Can you tell me if collections Of the
mail are made today? asked an elder
ly man of a young man in Pennsyl-
vania avenue news store last Sunday.
eyes; there are several collections
made in this city on Sunday" was the
answer.
do you know the hour"
"My friend, in front Of this store Is
a mail box, and on the front Of it is to
be found card with the hours of dali
lily collection neatly tabulated. Elk
! anime it..
Thanks"
"This is an example why some OF
the old men are pushed to the wall In
the struggle for life and why 1t is not
always the old practitioner who is the
BEST said the young man. For q
man of apparently 20 to ask in the
city of Washington such question as
that gentleman just addressed to me
| is little short of criminal and well ex-
emplifies how woefully deficient some
people are with reference to matters
of common knowledge which ought to
be in the possession of every schoolboy
at the age of 10.
"There are certain wrinkles OF met
ropolitan life that some people seem
never to grasp. The running leeway
Of the street cars, their termini, the
streets through which they pass and
the districts they tap, the running
time between Washington and the
! principal cities of the railroads, thor
ough knowledge Of the environments
Of the city, the major questions OF
the mail service and thousand and
one matters which, If not directly &C.
quired by learning should be by alb
sorption, ought to be at the finger tips
of every person who enjoys the priv
ilege of metropolitan life."-Washing-
ton Star.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-06-05
WORKING UP A SICKNESS.
The story of Man Who Thought
He Had Appendicitis.

The story of Man Who Thought
He Had Appendicitis.
"a nervous man recently called OF
me-" said a New Orleans physician
land asked, In what part of the abdo
men are the premonitory pains of ap
pendicitis feltF On the left side, ex
actly here replied, indicating a spot
a little above the point of the hip bone
"He went out, and next afternoon
was summoned in hot haste to the st
Charles hotel / found the planter
writing on his bed, his forehead bead
ed with sweat and his whole appear
ance indicating intense suffering. 9
have an attack of appendicitis ht
groaned, and I'm a dead man! III
never survive an operationp
"'Where do you feel the painY
asked.
"'Oh, right here he replied, putting
his finger on the spot had located a
the office. I feel as if somebody had 6
knife in me there and was turning il
around
We'll, then, it isn't appendicitis Al
any rate l said cheerfully, because
that is the wrong side.'
1.-THE wrong sidep he exclaimed
glaring at me Indignantly. Why, vol
told me yourself it was on the left
Then must have been distracted,
replied calmly. I should have sale
the right prescribed something thai
wouldn't hurt him and learned after
ward that he ate his dinner in the din
ing room the same evening. Oh, yes
he was no doubt in real pain when
called" said the doctor in reply to 8
question, 'but you can make your fin
ger ache merely by concentrating you
attention on it for few moments. y
New Orleans Times Democrat.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-06-05
A TRIUMPH OF SURGERY.
The Case of a Man Who Swallowed
His SuGnendere.

The Case of Man Who Swallowed
His SuSpenders.
A case recorded In the Boston Med
ical and Surgical Journal by Dr. M.
Fl. Richardson is a remarkable exam
ule of the extraordinary feats In swal-
lowing foreign bodies sometimes per-
formed by men.
A man, aged 20 years, was admitted
to the hospital. He said that two
weeks previously, while he was In
respondent state, he had endeavored TO
swallow his suspenders and had sue
ceeded in getting down certain por-
lions, but how much he had swallowed
he could not tell. He did not complain
Of pain, but rather Of discomfort I'M
der the breast while eating. The food
at times passed easily into the stom-
ach. At other times it was regurgitat-
ed Immediately. Nothing could be seen
in the throat With probe some OBJ
struction was felt.
A skiagram showed suspender
buckle at the middle of the chest and
possibly another higher up. AS the
chief danger In esophageal 1mpactlon
is from liberation into the great YES
sells, especially when the foreign body
has sharp edges, and as fatal erosion
usually takes place in two weeks or
less, it was concluded that If there
was any erosion it was sufficiently adj
vanced to make even the most careful
manipulation dangerous. The problem
was how to perform extraction with
out producing fatal hemorrhage.
The throat was opened, and with
pair of forceps, string attached to
brass ring and then half suspender
with two buckles and finally a third
buckle were removed. A probang was
passed into the stomach without meet
ing with further obstruction.
The wound was closed with silk
sutures, and recovery ensued.