The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-09-21

BRYAN will make but one speech il
Kentucky this campaign, that in Louis
vile Oct. 6.
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WILLIAM j. BRYAN will go TO the Da
kotas the latter part of this month
thence to Minnesota and Wisconsin, anC
then to Indiana and Kentucky.
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No political speaker of either party
has invaded the sacred precincts
of Fulton County thus far in the cam
paign and there are no indications that
any will do so.
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Gov. BKcKHAM and ex-Gov. McCreary
spoke at Mayfeld, Monday, 10 a
crowd of from 1000 to 5000. as estimat-
ed, and the Messenger reports enthusi-
asm greater than in the Goebel cam
paign.
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GREAT BRITAIN has needed the warn
of Sir Robert Hart and has arranged for
the sending OF more soldiers TO China.
LII Hung Chang has arrived at Taku.
There are the usual conflicting stories as
to Russian policy and action and as to
Ii Hung Chang
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GEN. WHEELER retirement from the
army recalls the fact that he pronounc-
ed the Filipinos very superior people,
ambitious, finely educated, easily gov
erned, capable of self government. sem
sitive and unwilling to be treated as in
feriors. st. Louis Post Dispatch.
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THERE is a call issued by Senator De-
Doe and others for a mass convention TO
meet in the counties on the 22d and for
the District at Paducah on the 25th to
nominate a fusion candidate for Con-
gress against Hon, Chas Wheeler. Hon
Ben Keys, the present Populist nomi- |
nee. it Is thought will be the nominee
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ADLAI Stevenson takes a Just and 4
fair forward step when he crowns his
enumeration of the documents that play
an important part ON the democratic
side in the present campaign Abraham
Lincoln's doctrines, the United States
and the Declaration of In
dependence with the Sermon ON the
Mount.
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OF course the Republicans carried
Maine, last week. but the result shows
losses for their normal victory in that
State of IL per cent, and Democratic
gains of % per cent. This may be
straw showing which way the wind is
blowing in the national campaign. Mr..
Bryan Is waging formidable campaign
and the Republicans are fighting more
and more on the defensive.
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THE American Antitrust League,
with headquarters in Chicago has is
sued a public address officially indoors
ing w. j. Bryan for President and Al
Ian Stevenson for Vice President. and
pledging them the entire support of the
League. The statement describes the
present administration as the friend OF
the trusts, and Col. Bryan as the "un-
foe of private monopoly"
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FILLED with hope and determination
and spurred by the prompt response of
the country TO the appeal for aid. the
people of Galveston are setting their af-
fairs in order and preparing TO rebuild
the town. The task of cleaning the city
is well under way, and everything is
under military control and proceeding
rapidly. The dead are now nearly all
disposed of, and the sick and wounded
are receiving every attention.
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RICHARD OLSEY, in his letter announ-
cling he will support the Democratic
ticket, talks like Jeffersonian of old.
Hear him:
Our Government was not conceived |
or framed rs money making machine, |
even for the profit of all the governed. |
much less for the profit of particular
classes or portions of the governed. It's
vital principle and its browning merit |
are that it stands for equal opportuni- |
ties for all-that by the maintenance of
order and the administration of Justice /
1t Is designed to give every man free
hand in the struggle for the prizes of |
life"
A FOUL BIRD.