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Year: 1878

THE Bloomfield Republican tells the
following true story about Gen. Wea-
ver's multitude of promises. We
have very full knowledge of the facts
stated, and that they are facts there is
not the shadow of doubt. They are
susceptible of easy proof and Gen.
Weaver dare not deny them. The
Republican says:


"The democratic convention in OF
tumwa last week was run in the in
terest of j. b. Weaver, supposed
candidate of the National party
Wednesday, when the delegates from
Jasper arrived in Ottumwa, they
seemed surprised that Weaver was
not on hand to welcome them. They
at once had dispatch sent to KeO-
sauqua, that he must come up and
give certain pledges. Mahaska coun-
ty delegates sent the same kind Of a
dispatch. The result was that Wea-
yer, accompanied by his trainer, Judge
Trimble, came to Ottumwa on the
midnight train, and was escorted to a
back room uf a quiet hutel, and there
interviewed by the democrats from
Jasper and other counties. The dele
gates from Jasper county asserted
publicly that they would not vote in
his interest if he did not pledge HIM
self squarely to them. After their in
terview they declared they had all the
pledges they could ask. That Wea-
yer would ACT WITH THE DEMOCRAT
&c PARTY IN ALL THINGS, except on
finance-on that question he reserved
the right to act as greenbacker.
When asked to make a speech to that
effect in open convention, he replied
that some of his democratic friends
and some of his greenback friends
thought he had better not address the
convention.


That is the democratic side. Now
we make this direct charge: That
Gen. Weaver has, since his nomina-
ton by the greenbackers, told repub-
licans of this and other counties that
he is just as good republican as ever
he was, except ON the financial ques-
tion-that it was an absurdity to think
of his acting with Ben. Hill and that
class Of fellows. We charge that he
has SO expressed himself to republic
ans in this county since the letter
from Judge Trimble was written. He
cannot keep both promises; who will
he sell out?


We know he cannot keep faith with
the democrats, with the republicans
and with the greenbackers. We un-
derstand Gen. Weaver denies making
any pledges to democrats. He refus-
ed to deny when charged with the
same thing before the Jasper delega-
ton. We challenge him to come out
over his own name in the Green6ack,
his organ, denying:


First, His pledge to Democrats
Second, His pledge to Republicans.
Talk ON the streets does not make an
issue; plain straightforward denial
NIT of proof, for and against.


Gen. Weaver has been dealing in
duplicity. He is like the little boy
whose sweet tooth for candy led him
to declare himself anybody's boy who
offered him the candy. A man who
becomes hardened and Indifferent as
regards the keeping of his promises
comes to making promises whenever
and wherever it is deemed a paying
enterprise. They are cheap and why
not have an enormous issue? They
are precisely like his thousand million
Of new greenback issue would be, viz
Never to be redeemed.
Year: 1878

leaders before the people is as if a vi


cious scoundrel with a flaming torch


were going through the land applying
| it to the firing of property every


where.


The seeds of this are cropping out


In the numbers of brazen, impudent


tramps here in Iowa, where we assert
without fear of successful contradic-
tion, there is no reasonable cause for any


man in health being tramp. They
are the direct fruit of the brazen
daubs Of newspapers such as the New


York Advocate and the blatant, dis
graceful talk of deInagogues. The
end of these things, their tendency, is
the burning of farmers agricultural
implements, theirgranaries and barns
and the outraging of defenseless wo-
men.


To the Deans and Pomeroy's have
been added the sore-headed, ambitious
politicians who have not been graft
fed with office in their own party
and are base enough to fan the breezes
of communism in the hope of obtain
ing place for themselves. Both these
sets of leaders form quasi secret clubs
or lodges over the country to solidify
their strength, that they may the bet
ter and more surely manage it in the
dark. Its machinery is Of the char
acter of the old Know-nOthing organ
ization, and if this country is ever
swept into anarchy by its political
parties, it will be through some party
that shall have its nucleus, its secret
workings in these partially secret
clubs or lodges. No political princi-
ciples, however pure, can ever be JUS
titled in being secretly promulgated
and sustained. Secret politics are
bane to good government.


Do we hear of any protest, any con-
demnation of the secret rifle clubs of
the South which, to-day, are making
a solid South, from the Nationals, the
the Deans, the Pomeroys,
or even the Weavers and Gillettes
and their democratic groomsmen?
No. The howl is against hon
est money, against keeping SOL
mn promises, against what they
are pleased to term the tyranny
of capital. 1t is the poor, down.
trodden tramp they howl for
It is a favorite theme with them by
inference, to represent the hirer of the
laborer the tyrant and the laborer a
slave. The sum and substance Of all
this is the desire of the demagogue to
get Office at any cost; the real interest
of the people is a matter they ignore.
Year: 1878

New YORK, Aug. 2l.-The congress
sional labor committee resumed it's
session to-day. w. Goodwin Mody,
of Boston, said he could not discover
that there was any conflict in theory
between capital and labor, but he
found there was an artificial conflict
between them growing out of mis-
conception of the relations between
them by both parties. The direct
causes, he thought, were that the Ia
boring class could not understand
why capitalists could be in afliuence
with the hostility against capital on
the part of labor; one was to q great
extent dependent on the other. He
believed that in Massachusetts, they
were living in as much harmony as
they could in the present condition
of things.
Year: 1878

AVBvl0u VtAuUvzoguOU VOT VuUueC
Plunder.


Marion Register.


The following clippings are taken


from PomerOy's Democrat. The sig.


nificance of the utterance will be un-
derstood when it is remembered that


the author Of the sentiments is a


leader of the greenback party. We


have taken the pains to append the
date of each paper from which the
clippings are made, SO that any one
so disposed can verify their correct
ness. We ask honest, thinking men
to read and ponder these utterances:


Now we demand that the Govern
ment call its bondholders, to whom it
is in debt, up to its counters, and pay
to them greenback money in full for
all it owes them.-May 4.


In the organization of greenback
clubs we counsel every able-bodied
member of these organizations to be-
come as proficient as possible in the
manual of arms. In time of peace it
is best to prepare for war, and to pre-
pare for war is the best way in the
world to avert it. In every greenback
club there should be a drill master
that is in every club where members
are brave enough to stand at all times,
under all circumstances, to defend
their rights as citizens. This green
back movement is no boys play, and
the bondholders of this country, and
all their allies, may as well under
stand it to-day as at any other time
June 1.


We say burn every United States
bond. Wipe the debt entirely out of
existence. Pay it in that creation of
law known as absolute, perpetual
money of the country.-aJlaae1 /.


Now if this bondholding contract is
not Cancelled, closed and the debt paid
in greenbacks let it be paid in bayo-
nets. If the holders Of these claims
against the United States want metal
instead of money, in Gods name let
them have it; and let us who are of
the people, see that they have all they
want of it, and all this that the gov
ernment of the United States may
live and that its robbers and plunder-
ers may die. Where the law-making
power is vested in the people-where
every voter is an individual sovereign
of himself, it is not treason for us, who
are the people, the individual sover-
eigns, to command our servants to do
what we will have done, else we, the
people, are not supreme, and the
boast that we have a law of our own
making is a lie that it were time to
prick with steel.-J,ne 1.


Our correspondent wants to know
what we mean by urging greenback
clubs to familiarize themselves with
the manual of arms. We mean this:
The people themselves are the gov
ernment. They are the individual
sovereigns, the kings of this country,
who are their own lawmakers, and
whenever the government as admin
istered by a coterie at Washington,
deems it essential to strengthen the
army and commence the drilling of
troops with view to terrorizing the
people, it is time the people showed
their teeth and said to the dishonest
administrators of the rich mans law:
"Thus far and no farther can you 60
with impunity."-Jtoae %.


We advise every club chartered to
make an example of every officer OF a
club, and every member thereof, by
expelling him and elect
ing another man in his place, who
betrays the greenback cause or who
himself to an affiliation with
either of the old parties.-J,oe %.
Year: 1878

]. T. BEST, an old Californian and q
gold expert, now declares it to be his
belief that almost all the dirt of Cali
sornia is gold-bearing and gold-pay.
fRG. He is very positive that this is
the aase the whole length of the coast.
Having been for ten years connected
with theiight-house department of the
coast be knows more about this than
any other section of the state. 1t
would seem that the miners have
lately turned their attention more par
;ticularly to the coast than they did
formerly. Wherever there is a good
chance to examine and make the test
it has been found that the sand wash
ed up by the waves is all richly gold
bearing. The miners gather the sands
at low tide, and washing up of riches
from the deep seems to be continual.
Some of the sand has yielded as much
as $56.A to the ton by actual assay.
In one case LAS pounds of sand
yielded $36.70 gold. It Is of various
richness, but all the sea sand that has
been tested on the coast has been
found gold-bearing. Different appli-
ances and machinery from any now
now In use will be required for this
kind of mining, as there is great
deal of tlOur gold to be saved.
Year: 1878

BLUNT Bur TRUE.-There is said to
be young man in the Missouri PEN
itentiary whose parents at death left
him $4,000. There is where his pa
rents made fatal mistake. Ii they
had taken the precaution to invest in
a small dog, and shot him, and then
simply left the young man a jack
plane or wood-saw, with printed di-
rections how to use them, the chances
are that instead of being in the peni-
tentiary, he would to-day have been
gradually working up to handsome
competency, an honorable and an old
age. But ever since the day of Adam
and Eve, parents have made it point
to toll and struggle all their lives in
order to realize q sufficient sum oil
money to purchase, when they are
dead and gone, their sons each a first
class through ticket to the devil; and
it is not much to be wondered at that


so many of their sons, reared in vice
and idlencss, as too many of them Of


ten are, have no higher ambition than


to invest their inheritance in just that


sort of transportation.
Year: 1878

Trimble-Cook letter, and now this
polly-foxing, namby-pamby Trimble
letter of excuse and explanation ex-
poses the card up the sleeve SO plainly
that it would seem they have lost
their wits, for once. The Democrat
don't seem to take much stock in the
explanation.


We notice the Democrat don't run
up at the head of its columns the
name of Weaver for Congress, but the
Ottumwa Times does. We notice too
that the Times calls it the democratic
ticket. There appears to be differ
ence of opinion among the brethren.
Year: 1878

TO buv not a few comforts which labOring men
often lack.


But the bill is well calculated to deceive
and blind wage-earners. They Will receive as
many dollars as they do now. Their loss
will come when they buy anything with the
money. At first, no doubt, the new dollars
will pass as the trade dollars have been pass
ing, without causing any change in prices.
But presently men who receive them III trade
will find that they cannot buy as much wheat
or -four, meat or provisions, sugar or cOhee'
with the silver dollars as they can now win
the legal-tender dollars. Since they cannot
replace stock without loss, if they sell at
their old prices, they will be compelled grad
ually to advance prices. The legal-tender'
if made Iedeemable in silver. must sink
with the com, but the depreciation of both
will be expressed in an advance OF retail
prces. The workman will receive as many
"dollarsn every week, but his new "dollars
will not buy as much food, clothing or shelter.
He will see that "prices are higher" but
whether the change is due to the new dollar
or to any of the many agencies winch con
stantly cause prices to fuctuate, he cannot tell.
The one thing certain is that, at the end OF
the year. if he has earned $500, and silver
coin has fallen to its bullion value, he VIII
find himself no better off than if he had re-
ceived only $3.50. He will be the loser, who
ever may gain. Perhaps he will try to obtain
an advance of wages. But with hard times all
over the country-and the times will be harder,
and the stringency and alarm of capital greater,
if the bill passes-what chance has he OF sue
cess2


The banks and business men can do great
deal to educate public opinion on this matter.
IL dealers for example, would take pains,
wherever it is possible, to make known to
customers that they can sell at lower prices If
paid in legal-tenders or gold than if paid in
SILVER, thousands of men would begin to think
to some advantage. If the banks, and saw
ings banks also, instead of refusing silver,
would freely take it at such discount as its
market value warrants, thousands more would
be led to inquire whether it would help them
TO be obliged to receive the poorer money for
wages or IN payment of debts. Best OF all,
if the banks would at once put their business
into terms of gold, and receive and lend AL
other money only at its market value, thus
encouraging all merchants also to name prices
ID gold and to take silver and paper at a
known discount, the change in public opinion
would be very rapid.
Year: 1878

There is something curious about the course OF
our great civic criminals They run away, but they
cannot stay away. They seem to think that there
is no safer place for a rogue than New-York
City, or its vicinage. Even Harry Genet.
with the State Prison in prospect, when
lie slipped from the grasp Of Sheriff
Brennan. only went over to the rural solitude
of Westchester County, and there vailed his chance
of slipping over to Canada. Soon he came back
here and since that time it is asserted he has
seldom been away from the city its ncighbOrhood
This is not by any means the first instance OF man
who, being much wanted by the police has
quietly lived under their sharp noses, and by the
exercise of little crcumspection. has eluded
what they call their vigilance. 1t cannot
be possible, of course that the detectives detailed
to look mp Mr.. Harry Genet did their level best not
to find hm-they are too honorable and too honest
for such breach of duty "a that. We do not know,
however, that perch on the other horn of the di-
lemma helps them much. Admitting that he was
too sharp for them, they stand in the position OF
professionals who do not understand their probes
sion-Of detectives who do not detect.


There is a lesson to he learned from all this. As
mans best things according TO the poet, are near
est TO him, lie close about his feet so the police
ought to understand by this time, that though
scamp has disappeared, it does not follow that he
has absconded There are hiding-holes without
number in New-York-attics, and cellars, and back
bedrooms-houses where nobody would think OF
looking for fugitive outskirts to be in which Is as
good as to be thousand miles off. Under our
system or rather nO-system OF seeking hiding is the
easiest thing in the world. Ii is taken for granted,
when a man has reason and opportunity
for running away, that he will assWediy
run So when great thief or defaulter has with
drawn from the eyes of his fellowctizer5, the first
thing they think of is an ocean steamer, then Can
ada After that they are at the end of their conjec-
lures. They sit quietly down and wait for the
missing one to come back of his own accord.


IL was pleasant to find Mr. Beach, his lawyer,
SAYING that he had induced Mr.. Genet "penitently
to return to the court and submit himself
to its discretion" only sIr. Beach added.
land to ask for bail pending appeal. on


the exceptions taken during the trial" SO It
is evident that Mr.. Genet does not by any means
surrender himself with view OF expatmg bis
offences by going to jail. He comes back to have
another tussle with the law Judge Daniels had
scruplcs, it appears about signing the bill of
exceptions while the convict was at
large-while the gentleman at large,
as Mr. Beach politely put it, SO Mr.. Genet returns
for little more litigation, and who can say that he
perhaps knows what he is about well as anybody.
Poor Mr Tweed must, as he reads of Harry Genet at
large and taking his drinks cOnviyialy with his old
friends, reflect sadly upon the hardshIps of scape
goats.
Year: 1878

There is a glut of silver without additional
coinage. Already this causes so much loss and
inconvenience that a special meeting of the
Board of Trade and Transportation has been
called to devise measures of relief. The
banks properly refuse to accept silver coin, ex-
cent in small sums; the United States Offices
refuse to accept the trade dollars at any terms,
that coin having been specially provided by
law for export only. Some of the railway
companies and wholesale merchants have al
ready taken similar course The small retail
dealers whose daily sales are not more than
500, find it necessary to dispose OF their
silver to brokers at less, and 1t is evident
that the depreciation is likely to become much
greater when the people who earn wages dis
cover that dealers can defend themselves only
by putting UP the prices of goods. at present
the loss is divided between tire wage-earners
and the retail dealers the profits are realized
by those who pay wages III silver, and
by the bullion brokers. But the wage-eaIners
will presently perceive that they have right
IN demand legal-tender dollars for their work
and legal-tendcr prices when they buy. and
the shopkeepers, who are prompt to recognize
tbe distinction, and to make better prices for
legal al-IGUuCT pay uICHt, VIII la" ~ w ''NiA -"
vantage.


II would be well if this excessive supply OF
silver ana ITS effects might be brought home
to the serious consideration of working
men in all parts of the land. They know by
cxperience how hard it is to secure any ad-
vance of wages, especially in times hike these.
when thousands are seeking work in vain.
If tine dollars which they receive are depreci-
oted. SO that retail dealers, those who keep
boarders. and those who rent houses or
rooms, are forced to charge more for what
ever they sell or rent. in order to compensate
for the shrlnkage III the dollars pad, the loss
falls upon the workman. AS yet, ne can usu-
ally refuse; If the payments due to him are
more than So each, he is not obliged to take
the minor silver coins, and he can refuse the
trade dollar at all times, as it is not a legal
tender for any sum. But if the Bland Silver
Bill should pass, the workman could be COM
yelled to take in payment Of his wages silver
dollars worth about 80 cents each in gold, or
cents less than the trade dollar. AS the le-
gal-tender dollar is worth about 0S cents, the
workman who takes the proposed silver dollar
will lose about 8 cents, and If paid $lo per
week will lose about 80 cents weeklY-enough
Year: 1878

The steps which NJ. Menier, the extensive
manufacturer, and other Frenchmen are TAX
ing to promote Franco American trade cannot
fail to be productive of good results now that
the commercial spirit is strong at both sides
of the Atlantic. The proposal to turn the
French Exhibition to account in connection
with the contemplated movement Is sagaclous
and practicable.
Year: 1878

The story Of the captain of the Metropolis
must necessarily be taken as that of an inter
ested party to the controversy over that dis
aster, but it is worth noting nevertheless,
that he repeats, with the utmost positiyeness,
Year: 1878

Emboldened by the Courtesy Shown Him
His Fraudulency Appears In His True
Colors-The Hospitality of the Board Of
Trade Abused by Political Harangue
and Defense Of Pirate sherman-Other
Incidents Of the Humbug's Stump Speak
ing Trip.
Year: 1878

AN USrIMELY SUGGESTION. - Inc
Rochester Express says: "At the re-
cent dedication OF Baptist church IN
this county, the ceremony OF immersion
was performed for the first time in that
church BY a well known Baptist minister
of this city. When he had entered the
water, and while waiting for the candi-
dste the minister suggested that some
body should sing an appropriate hymn
One of the deacons who stood near oy
heard the suggestion. and without think
Ing struck up the familiar tune, Pull for
the Shore The hymn proved so sug-
eestive, it is stated. that neither the
minister nor the congregation could re-
srain from an audible smile for some
moments, and the ceremony had to be
postponed until the preacher could re-
cover his gravity.
Year: 1878

Very decolletee ball costumes are
allowed in New York society this season.
Three inches of silk and an inch OF lace
is all that is necessary above the waist
an inch and halt strip OF tulle will dc
N connect back and front over the
shoulders, ard the arms are bare all the
way. The opening OF The bodice ex-
poses the full bust to the very limit oil
endurance, and often reaches fairly 10
the waist line behind.
Year: 1878

-Neatness, in my opinion. is one oil
the virtues. have always considered IL
twin sister to chastity, but none work so
hard as the victim Of ecstatic neatness.
| have seen neat person who would noe
let weary fly rest long enough on their
best wall paper to take breath. and who
would chase a single cockroach up and
down stairs until his legs were worn Oh.
Year: 1878




ROSALIND.
The nightingale sang to the rose
Through the livelong night,
Till her hue from ruby red
Turned wan and white.
All night it rose and fell
That silvery strain,
And the heart of the red rose throbbed
With divinest pain.
30 Love, Q Love ~ it rang,
II love but thee"
'Thou art queen of all flowers" lie sang,
"And queen of me!
Love, my Lover' he said,
Before the dawn,
The rose on its stalk hung dead
The bird was gone,
Year: 1878

a hill, and the Society propose to
take advantage of this by only par
TALLY grading it and terracing the
front down to the street, as shown
in the cut above given. With
broken flight of broad stairs and
ample landings intervening,
the ascent will be made very
easy. On the rear the lot
is approachablc on a gentle grade
by way of Sand street, and all of
the goods to be placed on exhibi-
tion will doubtless be hauled up in
this way. This will also form the
carriage approach, and walk for
pedestrians may also be laid along
Sand street. From the Pavilion
hill magnificent outlook over the
city and valley is secured. Coupled
with all these advantages, the loca-
tion has the merit of being most
convenient. It is only few nun
dred feet from the junction OF
Main, Spring and Temple streets,
where all the street car lines find a
focus and which is really the heart


of the city.


A franchise for street railway


up Temple street past tho Pavilion
| lot Is now in existence, and we


may expect to see this road bull


at an early day, affording addition


a, conveniences for approach.