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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28
Imnerin1i,mnf stee1.

When the great iron and steel indus
try Of the United States thriyes. other
American industries thrive. The Dem
ocratic party could not legislate to de-
stroy the protection to the iron and steel
industry without legislating to destroy
the prosperity of the United States.
The millions of additional profit and
wages that have come TO the iron and
steel industry under Republican rule
would have been earned. If at all, by
foreign nations. had Democratic policies
prevailed during the last eight years.
The gigantic rise Of this industry dur
ing tie last eight years added enormous
II TO the wealth of the United States,
and every branch OF American industry
and agriculture has been stimulated by
1t. Prosperity at home and prestige
abroad" has indeed been intimately con
nected with the increasing imperialism OF
steel. which once was Pauper but now
ia King
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28
Mr.. DAVIS CONTRIBUTION
Democratic Vice Presidential Candi-
date Ora ws the Line Mt $4,000.

Democratic Vice Presid entia1 Candi-
date Draws the Line at $4,000.
4 press telegram dated Cumberland,
Nd, Sept. Z. says:
1T is stated on reliable authority from
Elkins that the campaign contribution
of Henry G. Davis will not be anything
like the amount the De mOcratic manag
ers had expected. lie has fixed the
amount for all purposes 1T $4,000 and
his brother, Col. 1,hnmas b. Davis Of
Keyser, w. Va. gave n similar amount.
Mrs. Elkins and Mrs. Arthur Lee
daughters of Mr.. Davis. are known to
have objected to their father contribut-
ing large sums, and his son, John T.
Davis. is said to have done likewise
-Four years ago John I. Davis spent
a large sum in four counties when his
Uncle Tom was a candidate for Con
gress, but no results were obtained. Col
Davis being defeated by a large vote,
Since then the Davises have little faith
in politicians judiciously expending
money"
There's some sense In the Davis fam
lily, it appears. The ex-senator himself
has always succeeded in hanging on to
his dollars.
How much better it will be to use
some of papa's money to buy pretty bon
nets and gowns with, than to throw them
10 the mocking-birds of the Democratic
campaign committed
And all for nothing, too!
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28
Cheap Barricades.

Ii is droll, the attitude of the Demo
cratic party in the present campaign.
II has nominated candidates Of mod
crate talents as fgure-heads for the ven
lures of the diseredited party. and ex-
poets the people to support them, while
the Democratic National Committee and
Tammany are expected to buy or steal
success.
The Democratic party. with its I'M
sound views, financial and economic, lies
hopefully behind Parker and those un
named expectancies voiced by Williams.
Bryan and other Democrats.
And Bryan promises to reorganize the
party after the election! How2 EvI-
IDENTIFY on lines Of socialism, government
and municipal ownership Of telegraph
aud railroad lines, with all the sequence.
What vagueness Of thought and prom
Use! How may so-called leaders of any
party expect to get the votes OF sensi-
BILE men upon n proposition 80 din as
this! The fault with the Demo cratic
party. this year. is that it does no: even
furnish good dissolving view.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28
THE WORKINGMAN'S FRIEND.
Railway Firemeu Pay a Notable Trib-
ute to President Roosevelt.

No President ever received more
notable tribute from a labor organiza-
ton than Theodore Roosevelt did at the
convention of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen held in Buffalo. A pub
lie meeting was held on the night OF
Sept. 13. Fully 5000 persons were in
attendance.
Grand Master Hanuahan, in conclud-
ing an address, called attention to the
fact that New York newsrSDer had
criticised the President because he had
accepted an honorary memh ership in the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Let me say" said Mr.. Hanaahan, that
IL the President of the United States or
any other Of its citizens does nothing
worse than accept membership in this
organization he will neither merit the i'll
will nor deserve the censure of any of
his fellowmen. (Cheers.)
IF the rest of the public, and particu-
larry those who are intrusted with the
direction of our government and the
management of the nations greatest en-
terprises would do as the President and
meet us upon a common level. there
would be fewer strikes and less strife
and more OF peace and goodwill in the
industrial world
What has the President done for
you" shouted an Intoxicated man, who
stood near the stage door on the right.
What has the President done?" re-
peated Grand Master Hannahan. ''rhe
President has proven to the organized
workingmen of this country that he has
an interest in their welfare by accepting
an honorary membership in an organiza-
ton of men whose faces are beSrimed
by smoke and dust, and who daily and
hourly face the gravest Dangers
The monster audience burst into
deafening cheers. The tumult rolled
from wall to wall and back again. Men
stood up on the benches, wildly waving
their hats and cheering for the Presi-
dent. The demonstration was spon-
taneous and was general all over the hall.
Finally it died down and some one in
the audience shouted:
'Hurrah for Theodore Roosevelt"
And again the crowds burst into
cheers and when the second demonstra-
ton died out the intoxicated man was
nowhere to be seen.
During the demonstration the men on
the stage sat silent and made no effort
either to check or urge on the remark
able ovation which the President had re-
ceived. The Brotherhood does not per
nit politics to influence it's action, but
its members, regardless of party, enter
tain a high opinion of President r rose
welt and will stand by him as firmly as
he stands nv them
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28
Parker's Election Would Unsettis
Rueiuess,

Eugene A. Merrill, presidenk OF the
Minnesota Loan and Trust Company OF
Minneapolis, in an interview in the Com
mercial West of Minneapolis says:
''Mucb has been said concerning the In
significance of the coming election so far
as IL relates to business. 1t has been urged
that the maintenance of the geld stand
ard is assured. etc. but, while the theory
Of the case is excellent, yet as a matter
of fact the man with money to invest does
not want to be monetariy involved In
unsettling of conditions through a change
Of administration. The policy of the party
In power Is pretty well known and It's con-
tinuance In office will precipitate no diff
cultes. The policy OF the opposition may
be ever so clearly conjectured, but its ac-
cession to control would, | think. cause
some contraction in business and financial
enterprises, at least temporarily until the
safety and conservatism now talked Of
should be more substantially demonstrate
cd
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28
Republican VS.. Democratic Policy.

Organization does much to maintain
the wages of labor. but organization of
wage-earners does not provide consum-
ers. Consumption OF coal is always
greatest when mills and factories are run
ming full time. 1t is the policy of the
Republican party to protect all indus
tries by wise and benefcent laws, while
it has been the policy of the Democratic
party. as evidenced by the last Cleveland
administration, to provide as much work
as possible for the artisans of other coun-
tries by removing the protection the tar
if affords American workingmen.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28
Take Your Choice.

David b. Hill, the sponsor of the
Democratic candidate for the Presidency.
said 1T st. Louis that he did not know
how Parker stood ON the money queS-
ton For thirty years Hill and Park
or have been intimately associated. so
cially and politically. IL the statement
made by Hill is to be believed, then
Parker is FOO secretive a man to elect
To the Presidency; IL false. then it was
evidently made for the purpose of mis-
leading the people: and if the people are
70 be deceived in one thing. why not in
all the acts Of the Democratic lee DER?
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28

The truth is, there is now more dis
affection in the Democratic party than
there was when Bryan was nominated
the first time. Neither Bryan Demo-
Gratis nor friends of w. r. Hearst will
support Parker. In New York Stare the
Bryanites have put State Pvpunst
ticket in the field ard will vote for Wat
son, the POpulist nominee for the Presi-
dency. In New Jersey the Hearstites
have organized the Peoples Demo
cratic party and will fight the regular
organization. In Indiana and other
states the free silver and Bryan Demo
Gratis are in arms and will worry the
Parker party.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28
HANDICAPPED.

Marshall P. Wilder's most successful
joke of the season has a political tang
to it that is calculated to make even
Democrat with any sense of its eternal
aptness laugh. He tells of a teacher who
asks a class OF boys whether they would
like to be President of the United
States. Observing that amid the gen
eral enthusiasm of assent one boy was
silent and disconsolate. she said:
What's the matter. Willie? Don't
you wish to be PresidentT'
"Yes'm, but can't" replied the boy.
GLOW do you know you can't" she
asked.
Because I'm a Democrat"
That let him out.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28
"MUD-sLlNGiNG.
Democratic Newspapers Are Horrf-
fed When Facts Are Stated
~, XorI, Fpr;kvua |


fed when Facts Are Stated.
New York Tribune.l
To charge that the President Of the
United States is so reckless and un-
scrupulous that he means. il elected. to
grasp Mexico, the West Indies, Central
America ana South America, and con-
solidate all in one huge American EN-
pire-that ia moderate and proper pOlit'
ical discussion. THE candidate is the
issue"
To recite, with scru )ulous moderation,
the historic facts co corning the entry
into public life of tue opposing candi-
date-facts that no man disputes or
dare dispute--that ia mud-throwing"
TO mention that his first political
friends and creators were the ballot-box
suffers of Stony Hollow and Jockey
Hill; that his debut as a political man
ager was. while a surrogate judge, as
the State chairman for and personal
representative of David b. Hill, who in
gratitude made him Supreme Court
Justice; and that, when he needed a
close friend 10 intrust with his bid TO
Organizes for the Chief Judgeship of
the Court o. Appeals on the ground that
he had voted for Bryan. he chose as
such conidec..at representative the cleo
zion thief Danforth-to mention these
nndisputed and indisputable facts, it
seems according TO the mortified Demo
cratic organs. is ''mud-slinging.
Well. Shivering souls. if those facts
imply mud then that is the sort OF
mud your candidate lives in. You in-
woke in vain caSt-off judicial robe to
hide it. The candidate is the issue"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28
las MAINE GOES.

In each campaign
They look to Maine
To make tie future outcome plaiu.
For each one knows
That as Mime goes
The tide of public judgment dows.
One time Maine went
bent for Kent"
And every one knew what that meant
This year the State
Has struck a gait
That sets Republicans elate.
At Esopus
There is a fuss,
Because the votes are going thus;
And Gassaway,
So blithe and gay.
Must write checks till elsctiea day.
The Texans shout
And jeer and fout
Because their State is not in doubt;
But ID. +. Hill
Has had a chill
And thinks that he had best keep still
Much pain is felt
Beneath the belt
OF those opposed to Roosevelt;
They have the blues
AT this great news
They know that Roosevelt caat ioss.
The record shows
That as Maine goes
The tide of public judgment flows
The figh is vain,
For all explain
That they will have to vote with
Maine.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28
TAMMANY "TAR WATER. Z"
Will 1t Prove an Acceptable beverage
to Respectable Democrats?


Judge Parker's ''admonition." adj
dressed to his waning supporters. in his
speech to she visiting editors, has in it,.
for all it's rhodomontade, shadow OF
the pathetic.
1t is little wonder that there are dis
sensions in the Democratic camp. as
staid gentlemen from the South, East
and West, men who have certain tradi-
lions of responsibility to reckon with,
find that their candidate is and always
has been cheek by jowl with David
Bennett Hill and hand in glove with
Tammany.
Judge Parker. recognizing the dangers
OF his position, but una bic to shake off
the political associates and methods by
which he has risen, pleads fervently for
1.-THE elimination OF personal, fractional
and unimportant differences involving no
surrender of principle Such elimina-
ton, he declares, lis essential to sue
cess"
But will the Democrats drink the
Tammany "tar waterY.
There is something to be sailor
there WAS-in favor, even. of tar
water" Bishop Berkeley in his famous
eulogy upon that old-fashioned but I'M
pleasant mixture declared: 1T is OF
A NATURE so MILD AND BENIGN
AND PROPORTIONED TO THE
HUMAN CONSTITUTION AS TO
WARM WITHOUT HEATING, TO
CHEER BUT NOT INEBRIATB."
Still. tar water went out OF fashion,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28
rarrnrt 1. Fascinated.

Tom Taggart is so fascinated by the
inscrutable mystery behind Judge Par
kers speech of acceptance that he can
not lay it aside long enough TO take his
meals. He pores over ii from morn till
dewy eve He reads it in his bath at
French Lick Springs and drops to sleep
reading it in bed. He declares that the
elusive mystery of what it all means
becomes clearer with every perusal, and
that by the close OF the campaign he con-
fdently expects that it will be as clear
as the water of his own Pluto spring.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28

Now we know thai David B. Hill IN
tends to quit politics next January, for
he has disclaimed calling President
Roosevelt "a fraud" That a little in
nocuous fling Ike that when he has ex-
hausted the vocabulary OF vituperation
upon the Republican half OF the Ameri-
can people for nigh on 40 years" is
surely a sign that David is setting his
house in order and wants to depart po-
Hueal life at peace with "a men.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28

Tom Watson Acknowledges that the
condition of American workingmen is
now vastly improved, aud that in their
homes they enjoy conycuiences OF life
which a king could not command some
hundred years ago. " the Democracy
had its way we would reverse the wheels
Of progress 81 that the workingmen
might enjoy the privations Of life that
were the common lot in the grand oh
days Of Jefersonian scarcity OF bath
tubs.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28
Womb IL He MAJ

1t Is conceded that the Democrats are
not on record on the tariff question. This
being the case. would it not be unwise
t' trust tariff revision to the party OPP
posed to the principle of protection. the
result being practically free trade, bring
ing industrial depression. hard zines and
the inevitable lowering Of prices on farm
products?
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28
Pro'pe itr at Home, Prestige Abroad.

Prosperity at Home and Prestige
Abrcai"-was a campaign phrase that
appealed with great force to the Amer
lean people in 1900 II should appeal
to them with still greater force in 10 4,
for during the last four years OF tux
Their Republican rule there have been
still further great gains in the prosper.
ity Of the United States. and still fur
ther great increase in the respect enter
tanned for The United States by all the
nations OF the world.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28

The helptuiuess of the German to-
ward each other has been one of the
spleudid lessons they have taught.
Fidelity Is ALWAYS an I'D mirabIe trait.
The fidelity of Germans toward ench
other has been to me always on. OF
their striking ami admirable charac-
tsristics.-Senator Fairbanks - Iadlanapolis
Sc ptenter g. 1884
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28

The Democratic party has been fatally
wrong on every phase of the money ques-
ton from the resumption OF specie pay
ments after the war 10 the establish
ment Of the gold standard. both of which
it oppose, 1t is eonstitutionally unit
to deal with financial questions.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28

a man who is weak enough to put IL
candid ,cy in their (Hilrs and Bel
mont'sl hands before the convention
would not be strong enough to resist
their influence after election. If he
were by any possibility successful
William j RYAN
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28

History shows that a Democratic
tariff has always been followed by bust
ness adversely aud a Republican tariff
lay business prosperity. Why not ae-
ceDt the verdict of history?
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28

The story of the struggle on the edge
Of the arid belts is a record of heart
breaking disappaintments and Of failure
for causes utterly beyond individual con
troll. Under national irrigation these
will occur happily no more.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28

Forty years of practical control of the
government by the Republican party
covers the whole perio of modern prog
ress. The only intervals of reac-
ton or failure to progress were when
the Democratic party was in power.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28

The Democratic party is like the man
who was in favor OF prohibition out
"agin" the enforcement 1t favors
Panama Canal, but opposes the measures
necessary to obtain it.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28

Under the Republican policy Of pro
lection our home market affords our
manufacturers aud producers the best
market in the world. even IL we did not
sell any Of our products abroad. But
protection has also made us the greatest
exporting nation in the world.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28
Democratic Party Divided.

The Democratic campaign managers
are trying To hoodwiuk the mass OF the
party by saving all Democrats are work
ING earnestly for the election OF Parker.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28

China and India are cheap" countri, 5.
Human labor is held vety low in these
lands and the result is that the masses
are constantly stepped IN poverty and
menaced by starvation. In spite Of the
so-cailed cheapness the people do not get
things.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28

and asking support under false repre-
sensations, and the farmer never fayors
or supports insincerity or fraud.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-12
RIVER RIPLETS.

Capt. d. w. Wisherd departs tonight
for trip south in the interest of the
steamer J. s., for which boat he will
make arrangements for her winter
business. The S. is now closing her
summer business in these waters and
on the 18th of this month she leaves
for the south. Capt. Wisherd states
that she has done a fairly good excur-
sion business this season considering
the fact that there were so many coun-
ter attractions
Boats down were the ZaIus Davis. c.
w. Cowles, Dubuque. Emily, r. d. Ken
dali, z. Rutledge and Winona; north.
the St. Paul, Waunetta, Lizzie Gard
ner. r. d. Kendell. E. Rutledge. Emily
and Winona. The Helen Blair left for
Burlington.
At a. m. the stage of water was
$50 and at noon it was 3.G5.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-12
PASSENGER WITH A JAG
CUTS BELL ROPE OF BOAT
A. D. Goldsberry Refuses to Disembark
From Whitney on Return
From Grand Isle.

a. D. GolGsberry. of Vinton, Iowa,
refused to disembark when the steamer
A. J. Whitney, returning from Grand
Isle with the last load Of passengers,
put into the Rock Island harbor last
night at y o'clock.
Whereupon Goldsberry was told
that if necessary to rid the boat of
his presence an officer would be call
ed. Goldsberry, who had been punish
ing more than his share of the re-
freshments at Grand Isle. grew abusive
and pulled his knife and proceeded &c
do some cutting.
The bell rope was tackled first, buI
when he had finished cutting this,
Officer Gus Kirsch had arrived, and
he had Goldsberry under arrest before
he had a chance to turn his attention
to the members of the Whitney crew.
Goldsberry, in the police court this
morning, was locked as a disorderly.
He was fined $50. He could not settle
and was sent TO the county Jail.
Swan Carlson, of Moline. was as
sessed So. and Mike O'Day So, both for
drunkenness.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-12
The Stomach is the Man.

\ weak stomach weakens the man.
because it cannot transform the food
he eats into nourishment. Health and
strength cannot be restored 10 any
sick man or weak woman without first
restoring health and strength 70 the
stomach. \ weak stomach cannot di-
sest enough food 10 feed the tissues
and revive the tired and run down
limbs and organs of the body Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure digests what You eat.
cleanses and strengthens the glands
and membranes of the stomach, and
cures indigestion, dyspepsia and all
stomach troubles- Sold by all drug
SISLA
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-12
CONTIGUOUS ENERGY.
Chairman of Republican National Com
mittee a TireIess Worker.

George Il. COrtelyou. chairman of the
Republican national committee, has
developed into Il man of quick action,
SAYS the New York Herald. 1t takes
him about two minutes to consider Il
DrUpcsition. If lie does not look with
favor on ii by that time the chances
are that it Will not lie considered
again. When he makes his mind up
thus in two minutes il usually takes
him about thirty seconds more to get
to the telephone.
The national headquarters in the
MetrODOlitan Life building in New
York is run like Il we'll organized bust
ness establishment. An observing man
who went to work there recently re-
marked that it seemed to him that it
must have been running at least
year Mr.. COrtClyOu is surrounded
by former employees of his in the de-
partment of commerce and labor, who
voluntarily resigned to go with him.
He goes to work about o'clock in
the morning. He deyoteS all his time
while at the headquarters, which he
does not desert until late in tie after
noon, to seeing callers, talking with
the Chicago headquarters over the
long distance telephone and to receiv-
ing reports of matters which ought
to be done in various states in which
the national committee is interested.
His system of reports is complete. 1t
is safe to say that he knows more
about the political situation of the
United States at this minute than any
other man.
When he leaves the headquarters Mr..
Cortelyou goes TO his rooms in the
Manhattan hotel. At that time his
work is just half through. and he has
accomplished more than the average
business man who works under full
head of steam from o to ,. He at
tends to all his correspondence at the
hotel He has no chance to look at it
at the headquarters. He also sees
some callers, but only by appointment.
He never goes TO bed until his work
is finished. Sometimes this is , o'clock.
sometimes il is 8. But he gets up
fresh rs n daisy" and is ready for
work before the older campaigners at
headquarters have finished their coffee
and rolls.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-12
n. Chandler Egan Wins.

Shorthills, y. J., Sept. 12.-The anna
teur championship tournament of the
United States Gulf association which
began last Tuesday ended Saturday
and was won by H. Chandler Egan, of
the Exmoor Country club, Chicago,
eight up six TO play. He defeated the
young Brooklyn player Frederick Her
reshoff. who attends school near Potts
town. Pa, and who was entered from
the Ekwanok Country club. of Man
chester Vt.