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Digital page images are linked to the text file. i i dUU ern n fl4L j VOLUME XV JIT VERNON R001OASTLE COUNTY KY FRIDAY OUT 19 190Q NUMBERA TELL MY FRIENDS TO BE BRA VE AAu FEARLESS AND LOYAL TO THE GREAT COMMON PEOPLE EXTRACTS From a Speech Delivered by Grov Altgeld in Cincin riati Oct 1st f Andrew Carnegie in an article in the North American Review re cently advised the people of America to support Wiliam McKinley He says that he believes that Mr Bryan would he an unsafe man What has caused this change o heart on the part of Mr Carnegie We find on examination that there are but two great armorplate fact ories in the country and1rlr Carnegie owns one of them Mr Hanna had a bill passed in Congress Iafew months ago which put 8 000000 of unjust profits tnto the pockets of the Armor Plate Trust 11rlCarnegie He went on to say that Mr Car negie received a vast income from his trust possessions and that in his article he says that Mr Bryan is a dangerous man because he favors a tax on incomes He referred to the testimony giv en in Washington last winter by Mr Havemeer of the Sugar Trust in which Mr Havemeyer said that the tariff is the parent of all trusts Thd tariff said the speaker was never put up higher and higher for t the benefit of the laboring man but For the benefit of the favored few There is no tariff on pauper labor The miners of America know this The articles which they must buy are increased in price by reason of the tariff but the labor which they sell is open to the competition of the pauper labor of- Europe i ALWAYS AGAINST TRUSTS Sf This county he said has always been opposed to trusts There are laws on the nooks against trusts now but they have not been en forced Why Because the trusts control the Adminstration at Wash ington There is an Attorney General in Washington now who has been trying for a long while to find out hownot to do it The trusts take a hand in poll tics They look after the selection of United States Senators they take a hand in the election ofmembers of the lower House They watch the appointment of Judges And they put up the campaign funds in Presidential elections If the money of the trusts should succeed in carrying this election do yo think that the trusts will be destroy ed after their candidates have bee inducted into office Our candidate has been vilified Onr candidate has been misrepre sented We have not complained of that But let me remind yo miy friends of one thing No man even the bitterest has ever had th hardihood to say that trusts coul control William J Bryan This remark started a storm applause that could not be stoppe- iorseveral minutes It was a remarkable demonstration I we get Bryan at Washing ton no trust representative change our plaits duty into a 15 perl cent tariff f Mr Hanna made a speech the other day in which he said that all peoplewere prosperous He said Vthis i1spite of the fact that thousands ofcoal miners were starving and pleading for bread in spite tbetaot that iron workers in Penn sylyanhi were trying to get the trusts that controlled them to allow V tbehrut i rlc iswollen profits to i Ji tj caliWherever you will cast ybuY eve you will find that the legisla Uion in the past few years has been fin favor of the few and not in favor of the laboring people expansionIThere is no such question as ex pansion before this country today Expansion is growth We ex panded when we got the Western States We expanded when we got Florida When we got Alask i But it was undeerstood then that befcome an coun tbeIIn a Ital1ts 0 t IS annexed tern iorr were to become citizens of this country I am In favor of expansion and I believe that the time will come when Canada will wrap for admission to this Union when the WestIndia Islands will rap for admission I hcpe some Ameriinorth pole to the Isthmus of Pana marBut the people who inhabit it must be free They must come of their own accord and must be our brothersnot our subjects II But there has been nothing of that sort in the Philippine quest ion In the treaty of Paris it way stipulated that the citizens of the Philippines should not become citi zens of this country Are they not as much entitled to become free and independent people as we are CAN NEVER BE FREE We have told the people of these islands that they can never be free that our flag can never be haveIsame flag of Spain stood forbrute force Brute force has been the principle that has guided the flags of tyrants t r O tffhereIsland of Porto Rico an island of 1000000 inhabitants In 1898 the industrious people ofthis island cheered our flag and welcom ed our soldiers with flowers and smiles Gen Miles issued a proc lamation in which he promised that the people of that happy island should become citizens of this country He told them that they should be brothers ofoursthat they should enjoy the same bless ings and advantages that we enjoy IIHe told him that we had come to make them our friends that they were to become American theyIrepresentation in the thauin substance The people of Porto thne Spanish Congress They have no such representation now We too them away from Spain and then rightdthemumeager as rights were Last theCondgress our plain duty t Porto Rico was to allow free trade Coiigressmad n r removal of all tariff duties between here and Porto Rico Then th trusts heard about it They fours that it might interfere with some of their profits A trust waanat- named Oxnard weut down to Wash ington from Wall street and f lce Mr Payne to suppress his bill He forced the preparation of an other bill ofan exactly opposite character A d1ten JLto the eter n ofal shame of thebAniaricau people he forced the President of the United States to signthe hew bill after he had forced Congress to assJib vTbe Presid ntwbohad it5tp + i4ir 2 said that it was our plain duty to remove the tariff duties and allow poor little Porto Rico some of the advantages of freedoman advant age which Spain had allowed her changed his entire attitude in that regaid and signed a bill to require a 15 per cent duty The bill that was passed embod ies every principle that King George fought for over ico years ago If this Porto Rican bill is right then our fathers were wrong If this bill is light we were wrong 130 years ago If this bill is right let us pull down the monuments that we have built to the heroes o the Revolutionary War and erect altars on which to burn incense to the memory of King George Search history and you will neve find a parallel case One trust magnate greater than the President of the United States One trust magnate greater than the sentiment of 80000000 people Why should we celebrate July 4 when the prin ciples that are being commemorated by that celebration are being scoffed at and disregarded by those at the head of this nation Good Roads A Few Plain Facts Concern thebBond Issue r l There seems to besome tew people who are fighting the road question straight out for what rea son I do not J know I desire to answer some few frivilous excuses and reasons they put up why they oppose the road question First they say it is fortlie bene fit of Mt Vernon Let us see if Mt Vernon is the only place to be benefitted The plan as proposed is to start a pike at the Laurel county line audrun straight through to they Lincoln county Is Mt Vernon they only place to be benefitted by that pike Then where next Start in the Southern part of the county and run on through to the Madison county lire Who is to bebenefit ted by that one The thoughtof even attempting run these pikes out only six or seven miles from Mt Vernon has never been enter tained for a single moment by 3113 citizen of Mt Vernon who isan advocate of the bond issue Who is to have charge andcay how this money shall be expended That will be left to the Com missioners appointed from differ ent sections of the countyevery part being represented tWhere will this money be spent for labor Some say that these contractors gokto bring in cheap homse our county 1 it reasonable to suppose that atn counteto get a crew men to work for hoiot tti same amount oj work for the same pay They ia some two or three Mt Vern n men want to get that money a uti Anothee wsdyour C mmissiner be for It t 111 huguemoney is spent and kov Ondman says the debt in twenty fit years will amount to 63000 inter est and1all Yes that is true al1 ilhinltamount to a million dollars but want to ask the gentleman wlt JI he is going to do with tlia 23QI that will be cpllectedrea Tdndrea dollarro call i WliaC t 0i I tl will it amount to in 25 years f 57500 bethCalculate it for yourself applied on the debt and see what will be the result see if it will amount to 63000 I will still go farther than that and say that after the 2300 has bee applied on the debt each yeafj that at assurplus instead of an indebted ness and a mathematical calculation will prove it so Oh yes says some fellow it will run on for a year or so and then there will he placed on us a poll tax of 500 to usfsee if that is so Uuder the present Constitution a poll ot not more than 150 can be levied under any consideration and under the call for this election a poll tax of any kind cannot be levied to pay for the pikes so those who pay nothing but a jpoll tax can rest as sured that so far as they are con cerned they will never have to pay a cent towards paying off the bonds Those who kick against the pikes never think about the 4 or 5 which they pay out every year for some one to put their time in on the roads and those who work their own tine never think about that time and money which they loose which would more than over balance the amount of taxes which they would have pay This ic a serious matter andl when we cote against it we vote against the interest of our county and our posterity and should it be lost this time it will not be dead for all that is necessary is for he people to thoroughly understand it and then it will go through t a whoop But donPJet us haveL u wait f9r another year but Kt vote it in nowand before another year 1011around have pikes leading in different di rections throughout our f Youis tr C0111tyJ r t i 1A E1Y 4 The Whole Truth Theres nothing so bad for a cough as coughing nothingI tiso a I couhas Ayers I Cherry Pectoral g j t The 25 cent size is justjight coldIcough of bronchitis crottg grip i and hoarseness The doftv 7a is the best for chronic c tb y ns consumption eronic b1diitis asthma etc JiSggtt T gg W fe TS i r it frsVH vrvtv vy r iC t r First National Bank Or STANFORD KY Capital Stock 5100000 Surplus 184o076 DIRECTORS- J W Hayden VtP Walton JH Collier MD Elmore G Ried T P Hill S H Baughman W4 A Nibble M T Miller and S TvHarrIs adjoiningcountiesness intrusted to us Personal application and correspondLence with a view to business relations invited- J S ROCKER Pres JiSTO J McROBERTS Cashier A A McKINNEY Asst Cashier DANNIE OWENSUN- DERTAKER Baskets Coffins Robes Etc Kept in Stock Orders by Mail Telegraph or Telephone N Promptly filled BRODHEAD KKNTU Y The Lincoln County NATIONAL 00 BANK OF STANFORD KY Capitalw 00 Successors to Farmers Bank Trust Got ST A f FOR KV A rndor 2 gjrears Solicit yotir Bank account hopiug such business relations will prove materially profitable and pleasantDIRECTORS J T Williams JE Lynn J S Owsley Sr S HShanks William Gooch JF Cash w CarpenterJ B Owsley t cWnfq ffiitl V r11 KSH SHANKS President J B OWSLBY Cashier l r W M BRIGHT Asst Cashier TC Bailey Bookkeeper Vv i rJ O TOrJ JONA ILMTFor Everything in Dry Goods Clothing Boots and SHoes and Genaer Merchandise BEST GOODS AT LIVING PRICES tr GRIFINNLPrand FUNERAL DIRECTOR Mt Vernon Ky Keeps Coffins Caskets Robes Linen Bosoms Cuffs and Collars 1 furnish Metallic Caskets and have Embalming done on short no tice and easy terms Orders by telegraph or telephone promptly attended to day and night v y m rnTVV WITHERS I reMrW 1Ithrough to September ist This enormous stJkI HHijOvfall goods This means just what it says we are going to have a firstclass show and eveiy pur S X chase will be a bargain ww WITHERS f vmrVl Ci v STAOTORD s fl3g ivvV 4vX it5 v i J WaaQtJti m3 Mt Vemon Signal lMt VERNON KY OCT 191900 filtcu1 at the Mt Vcnwt Postoffice av aen noiiClns nuiH nintuc t 0 0 J J i LOUISVILLE NASHVILLe RR 7 TIME TABLE X24 north 1105 a m 26north 132 a 2 south 157 p mI yak South 144 amIJAS LANDRTJM MASONiC AsLland Lodge No 640 meets 3rd Alon Jay 10 A m CHURCHES Christian Holds services 1st 3r Sundaj at 11am and at630j PresbyterianHo1ds services on the 4th Sunday i Baptist ChurchServices on the Second Saturday night and Sunday Suuday 3chol at 9 a in every Sunday Prayer meeting on Tuesday nig- htsPERSONAL AND- OTHERWISEr Mrs Hare of MaretbuVg is Xyery sick this week Green Fish a prominent farmer was in town Wednesday C S Cummins sold iizo acres of land near Brodhead for 1000 1 r Mr and Mis R L Tones spent a few nays with relatives here this week Mrs Mahaley Jones visited relatives in Livingston the first 0f the week Eugene Vowels editor ot the Middiesborough News was in town yesterday Mrs Cleo Brown is in Livingston desP laying her splendid Hue of millinery EaB Brown of Lebanon June tionjs here to see his sister Miss Florelle W T Short has made a speech every night this week except Mon daynight r iJH Pettus is holding the tele graph office down during Agent Landrum absence Go to Turpin Bros in basement brick hotel for fresh fish and fresh oysters octrqtf Jas Purcfcll was in Saturday night and took a degree in the Order of the Mcacabeesi speakt1eer Hon Frank Peak tomorrow at 1 Oclock at the court house- Mrs M C Williams and child ten of Stanford came yesterday to spend a few days with relatives Frank Wallin of Nicholasvill e is here visiting his sisters Mesdames H L Tate and J F Griffin W B Whitehead and James I White were in Nicholasville last 4 week for the purpose ot buying a planing mill- Through D B Langford we learn that his mother is quite sick Dr Davis was called to see cher Wed tie ciay A Speaker is always triad to see the ladies in his audience Let them ali hear Peak tomorrow Come early Born to the wife of C C Davis on the night of the 12th a twelve pound girl Charley is the hap Ipiest man in towna r John KT Williams of St Louis Mr and Mrs D N Williams and Mrs CC Williams spent the day Wednesday with Mr and Mrs Allen Hjatt re Remember that Hon G G Gil v Bert will speak here Monday at i p m and that night Livingston aN7Pnl The next day Tuesday tafcildie at 2 p m and ahd Brodhead lttigf 4 n J C Ayres and J L Taylor twoprominent farmers of Gallatin county are here this week prospecting for tobacco land STOPS THE COUGII AND WORKS OFF THIS GOLD Laxative BtomoQuinine Tablets cure a cold in one day No Cure no Pay Price 25 cents James F Reynolds who left thiF State thirtyfive years ago and is now a citizen of Parkersburg Illinois is here his week visiting relatives Willis Griffin U G Baker J1 A Landrum and J N Brown attended the meeti g of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Louisville TuesdayVANTEDTwenty wagons and teams to haul lumber from my mill to station at Jellico Tenn Good roads and liberal prices Oct i2tf JTW Marler Son Mr and Mrs B N Roller Capt A N Bentley and C W Tankersley of Livingston took in the Grand Lodge and Horse Show at Louisville this week Judge Williams saw A C Stapp who formerly lived here in Louis ville Tuesday and reports him get ting along nicely He is now in the revenue service Rev Williams conducted a two weeks meeting at Flat Rock clos ing last Sunday with 22 additions to the church The order of Bap tism was attended to When you come to town go to Turpin Bros restaurant whereI you can get any kind ot a lunch you want In basement of old brick hotel oct gtf B Ja Betlmrum came in from Frankfort Sunday afternoon and returned Wednesday taking with him the certificate of the nomina tion of Dr John M Williams to deposit with the Secretary of State Elder W R Lloyd who has fo several years been the pastoi of the Christian church here resigned his pastorship Sunday We have not learedwho will be his success QrRichmon Register rv feif l Miss Lute Moore left Saturday with her brother for Alabam a to make her future home She has always lived here and the host of friends which she has made at this place will be glad to know that she is well pleased at her new homeI A Republican Club was organ izedlast Sat urday night and was named the J ohn Mason Williams Club Dr Davis was elected president and made a very neat speech ofac ceptance Several other speeches were made Will Hansel Sql of Joe Hansel while trying to j ump a freight train near Pine Hill Saturday missed his ain and was bruised up considerably Nearly all the flesh was torn from his left arm from the hand to the elbow also several bruises on the head and face Some hope of his recovery John H Williams who left this county sixteen years ago and is now had clerk for Nelson Morris Co the largest packing es tablishment iu the West came Sunday night to spend a few day with his parents Mr and Mrs D N Williams He will return to St Louis tomorrow night We are in IeceiPttofa long letter from our good friend Tilman Gil pin saying that there are eight or willlw see renting or buying tobacco land Those men who have had exPe- rience as tobacco raisers say that Rockcartle soil is the proper kind for raising a high grade of tobacco aIt is to be d that the farmers VvIfere t zloY rtn7ut tin rs rgr 4 31r Wr f f11 C48 MClIII u Stewart writes from Centre ICol1ege that he is getting along although he hasto study like a trojer Tilinon Gilpen passed IMrs on Mondays train for her home in Glencoe utter avisit to relativesin London v TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Broriio Quinine Tablets All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure E W Groves signature is on each- W A Chestnut twasin from Orlando Tuesday His brother Lee will enter the Collegiate Institute again here the first of the year The Democrats of Walnut Grove precinct organized a club at Walnut Grovechurch Saturday night with a membership of forty T J Nicholas was elected President Joe Rentier VicePresident J A Ren ner Secretary and Thos Rowe Jr Assistant Secretary It was an enthusiastic crowd and the Democrats of that precinct say they will poll the largest Democrat ic vote that has ever been polled there A BryanStevensonB e c k h a m Gilbert Club was organized at Savers school house last Thursday night with thirtyfive members W H Owens was made President M C Tyree VicePresident A G Craig 2nd VicePresident J M Craig Secretary and Walker Owens Assistant Secretary The Club was favored with an excellent speech from Judge Williams It will meet again tomorrow night Saturday R L Brown and oth ers will make speeches PINE HILL Miss Effie Meadows held Ia re ception Saturday night at her home Several Mt Vernon boys were tliere and spent the evening playing games not base ball Ernest Ewers spent Sunday here with friends Mesdames Krueger Ewers and Miss Klous of Indiana were down Monday and spent the day with Mrs Sympson Mr Price of Livingston is holding a series of meetings here All ate invited to attend- S D Lewis addressed a crowd of our citizens Monday evening He made a good speech and had the attention of his audience The game of base ball played here Saturday between Mt Vernon boys and the team at this place was rather interesting although the score of 38 to 28 in favor of Pine Hill shows that there was some mighty rotten playing done Another game will be played sonic time next week between the same teams on the Mt Vernon diamond The following named pupils received the largest general average for the Month of September in the school of Miss Georgie McFerron Valentine freeman 93 Miss Lizzie Wolf 93 Miss Mayor McHargue 92 t Casper Berry 91 Willie Doan + i9IMiss Nellie McFerron 90 r jefferson Lester of Danville visited the family of MrMcFerron relatives here this week vv VABD JF Paylieha5 been very sick but is improving sloW Y Mrs Jane Bloomer is sl1fteri fi severly with 01llethingJii cat a 1rli rJ at i tV T NJ 1Ster1rass t 1 1r n i Sarah were visiting home folks Sunday last JV Shu tts wife and mother were visiting at James Payne Sun qaylasL T G Graves wear iad to say is improving H T Williams filled his regular appointment at Skaggs Greek Saturday Misses Louvada and Lizzie Nbr SeacrlSunday Walter Bustle made a flying trip to see his best girl at this place Saturday lasta An infant child of Chandler isI not expected to live but a short while It has whooping cough and croupMiss Rebeca and Jennie McKin ney spent the day with Misses Re becca and Lula Bray Sunday last John and Nathan Bray left Wednesday for Mo where they will join their father who has been there about a year M C Sowder returned to this place Iron Somerset Saturday from a visit tohis daughter Mrs David son We are sorry to nounce the sickness of our old friend and rifigh bor James Cummins who is suffer with heart disease Wm Bustle says his best girl went back on him Sunday night J r t OFfLANDO cc Geo T Johnson and family at tended an association near the old tanyard on Clear creek Rev Horton of Indiana is now holding series of meetings on Crooked creek from which place he will come in a few days to hold a meeting at McNews chapel Chesley Payne and Miss Rosa Owens were married a few days since Married on the n Mr ShreWs berry and Miss Mary Bell i fr r f xy t7 fffi i Dr Hanes formerly of Tenes see andLold school mate of the Doctors was here to see him thfs week and sold him a nice lot of surgical instruments royearoldIwheel of a loaded vrtLgon Saturday and had his Collarbone broken Henry Bales is visit ing relatives in Jackson county Mrs Dr Penniiigton attended church here Sunday J1 Miss MattieBales who is teach ing school near here visited Vernon Saturday and alMtI Bige Woods was in last week tq buy goods IOn last Stndayrtight vv Mr i O G Helton had the misfortune to lose his house and almost its entire contents byfireThe family barely escaped as the building was almost ready to collapse Avhen they avoketD G Bales was down irbnt Conway Sunday to see his sister Misses Mattie and Rosa McFer rOll and Berta and Annie Me Hargue were over from Pine Hill Sunday to attend church Miss Mury GaVid Xias rerXiruedt to this place after a weeks visit near Conway Our protracted meeting at Flat Rock closed S randyy with twenty two additions fourteen of whom were baptised This 3Yas otieof the quietest meeting we have ever had If i BROPHtAD tr 3E3 J1 C Yj i Hon Let h xqwsl Y of Lancaster SaturdaynighLto 7 f i i2I gathered from different parts of the country to hear the wonderful doctrine of Democracy expounded Miss Nannie Yadon has returned froma visit to friends and relatives at Rowland Mrs J W Tate is visiting in Richmond this week Rev DaveHoltzclaw of Preach ers ville has moved o the house previously occupied by John Rob ins Weare glad to have such a I man in our town Mr Ben Pike is able to walk around some with the aidof crutches J Archie Albright little son of W H Albright is very sick A crowdiof girls went grape huntingMonday afternoon andre port an excellent time Our school is progressing nicely with such teachers as Prof R L Brown and Miss Helen Thurmond I7A L a I how could it do otherwise Mr Josh Boreing of near Oak Hill 1on his best girl here Sunday afternoon Mr E S Albright our hustling editor attended the speaking here Saturdav night t visitingIMr L L Jarrett has an attack r of typhoid fever i Mr Dannie Owens is quite sick C 4ccnuihoLaxativetho romedy that CKTVH o coa fn ono 3ay When you cannot sleep for cou hr ing it is hardly necessary that anyone should tell you that you need a few desof Chamberlains Cough Remedy to allay the irritation of the throat and make sleep possible It is good Try it For sale by Theo Wesley Druggist GREEN FRONTDRUG STORE2 SKv is the place to buy Drugs Patent Medicines Jewery Stationery Cigars arid Tobaccos Paints and Oils Prescriptions Carefully Compounded Prompt Attention at All Times Call When InTown r t t KyPhoneif I 1r lpvV rd Offered for JJf GEOTgJOHNSONS 1 RED HOT l v1 r Ti T jY J i Line of Geiferi l lvIei rianlclis 4 1 t 4aihts Countyhas ndequalandvniv snecial pricps riirj sty loA aeBotLa s p oil winters r r r Boots y Slioe Qlats ttj Caps i t Are 26 per cent cheaper than anv shown 31Jfri11vfr cbnif or tv fickle anc niake you glajj tha youafea zn t lenjoy an jDppoftunity sure and progressive I keep id t stock rt lil P j Z i l tiJ Wagf Irons SpdfeosaiiM F llejs i jS1r x tots ancrcookirigATt hsilj5 Lridiest l a and JalVi tAtf etsy at prices too iojvvbutk selh them V ix j iI J L r 1rif I akei N PriceOier t r I t i iMa attiala Jlt luwill Come aatn 7 1l f 1 t CK F w reol1nSci1 b rYr ar s h NJtVernon SignaL f FRIDAY CCTlIq tOO Pgcjblished every Friday by r EDGAR S ALBtiGPr I SUBSCRIPTION ONE YEAR fto r trr A4Pe i itiiig rates made known an hlicatiol1r s DEMOCRATIC TICKET For President i Jrf r i 1 VW J BRYAN i of Nebraska rl F9r Vice President V ADLAI STEVENSON of Illinois fFor Congress t HONlG G GILBERT if i j of Shelby For Governor Gov J C W Eeckhain bf Nelson Take the case of Youtsey He may be a mere peivert He may be a half crazy fool But he was one of Taylors official family The case as made against Powers as perfectlyIthe case as made against him He bought the smokeless powder cart ridges That is clearly proven His conneclion with the conspiracy to kill is complete his confession is laid bare His conduct on taial isjLhat of a guilty man How can v any body pretend that all this is the offspring of the arts of prose cution Whata motive what con ceivable motive could Arthur Goe be have for example to pursue an innocent man Why should he goon the stand and perjure him t self bv such testimony as he has giteu He pursues the slayer ot hisbrother Can any man blame hin for this He wants to reach the guilty not the innocent He could have no partisan motiyes fop he is not a politician nor in politics He te1Ia plain straight tale explicit in every det iland tlnmix who would discredit this youlUlnot believe though one i should arise from the dead Tie punishment of these male factors considered politically is in np way essential to the Democrats as a campaign issue They do not need it in the least No Democratic leaderhas anything to do with the trials They have proceeded according to law and f usage The witnesses have been Republicans Their testi mony hasbeen cumulous and cum lati vetThe plea that it is paid for out of the reward fund is too ridiculous to be refuted To make J it good the Commissioners of that fund who will have publicly to account for every dollar of it must be assumed to be both scoundrels v audfools What man of integrity and sense would ascribe to him denying only murder Howards talibishrank to nothing when brought to question whilst his character told the rest Tne1l7 wii Youlsey who Parted out to save himself by turning States eli dente and was induced to changeim defense is showing the vile stuff of Which he is made by his performances at Georgetown YfU a jjrcai political party has commit ted itseh tc the innocence oi these men has promised them freepardon if it carries the State election and to make this prom 1 e good gentlemen otherwise rer spectahle and honest are shutting their eyes upon facts as plain as truth itself whilst they join in a iyof proseutionCourier Journal Hon Frank Monnett former Attorney General of Ohio last week in a speech delivered at Columbus Ohio declared his in tendon to support Bryan because of the trust issue As a republican attorney general of that state he instituted twenty four suits against combinations monopoly and trusts but that the courts were badgered and obstructed by republican lead ers United States Senators and political bosses and a subsidized press In conclusion Mr Monnett said I believe that William McKinley and John W Griggs his Attorney Gen ral and his executive officers have willfully pnrposely andknow ingly paralyzed the executive arm of this Government far the last four years and prevented the enforcement of the common Jaw and the statute law both criminally and civilly against these lawviolators And the hour has now come and the only time we will have for the next four years as voters to legally and constitutionally smite them for this hypocrisy to resent this viola tion of official duty and we should vote against every elector that is pledged on the Republican ticket to perpetuate this great wrong in our republic HIS VOTE PLEDGED TO BRYAN William J Bryan may not ac complish all that we expect or all that we hope for in this behalf but I believe him to be thoroughly honest sincere and a determined man and while I do not agree with him in all that he advocates yet I am forced to take one side or the other on this gieat question which lor the mass is the para mount issue and inthen fut of patriotism and for the sake of our republic and to preventthe threat ened danger that Senator John Sherman and the other Nestors in the councils of our Government have so graphically prophesiedand which I firmly believe will come to pass if not checked I propose to cast my vote for that fearless up right champion of the people William J Bryan JTJ1E most enthuseastic reception ever given a candidate for any of flee in the gift of the people was given that matchless leader of the common people William Jennings Bryan in New York City Tuesday Not half the people were able to get in hearing distance This wonderful demonstration of the people of the East is suffecient ev idence that Hannaism will not rule the United States for the next four years POSSUM HOLLER I have been a sojourner at Wildie for 6 weeks trying to teach soine young ideas how to shoot but my progress is to slow tho my fault I suppose Wildie is a small town but it is brim full of enterprising men Three stores pf general merchandise are doing a ilourish ing business One black smith shop near by Mr Baker where he does all kinds of making and re pairing in his line L T Stewart the lumber man Prof Philips James Parsons section foreman and various politicians live here while morals and religion are prop erly looked after by the good luDiberisstaves being the principal kind Much very valuable farming laud ishere farmed tho all owned by other men before I come therefore I will remain m pssun j JHojler 9 Not iasiimarijfadvocates fcnrthe F pike as I would love to see are found among the good men ofl Wildie men who pay more tax in the advance of sugar coffee and coal oil without a grunt than they will have to pas a pike tax are perfectly horified at the idea of the pike tax tTos my friends ifwe can bear to be robbed so tamely why not pay this little pittance that will be suck an enormous benefit to ourselves and even down to the 3rd 4th generations If we had good roads in Rockcastle you would not see our most wealthy citizens continually seeKing homes in other parts but they would stay with us and with their money help to develop our resources and build up our county but under existing circumstances when men accumu late a few thousand dollars they emigrate and bad roads is the principal cause Capital will never seek investment in our county un til this evil is removed then immi gration will flow in and with it plenty of money and Rockcastle will soon be what it should have been long agoone ofthe wealthiest mountain counties in KentucyI Now to confirm some of the facts set forth Ill call your attention to this little but true incident A few years since some home seekers came from Ohio landed at Mt Vernon and started to explore the C A Redd farm but by the time they had gone one half mile from the depot they became so disgusted with the road that they went no further but took the next train for home As a matter of course these men carried this fact back to Ohio andwhere ever told the homeseeker went elsewhere Give us good roads and all else will naturally fol low Fellow citizens both demo crat and republican dont be af fraid of the tax we will have to pay it will make life easier and deathless dreadful Let no merceuary motives come between you and your duty The law will pass in the near future if it does not no wand then those who oppose it now win regret i Come out boldly for what all men will say we need and have notgood roads What all agree that we cannot have un the present system That you may know that I prac tice what I preach I will suppli ment my tax with 50 to be doub led if nccessaryand as you may not all know Buck Varnon I am Very truly J N BROWN V Level Green Ky e YOUTSEY CASE The case ofY uts y was resumed Tuesday At 227 oclock Mr Arthur Goe bel took the stand At this junc ture Col Nelson said he desired to examine the witness as to the corn petency of his testimony and the jury vras retired After hearing the attorneys Judge Cantrill ruled that Mr Goe bels testimony was competent and the attorneys for the defense took exceptions The jury was returned and Mr Goebel was put back on the stand Youtsey then began to groan and moan aloud Mr Goebel said y I went to the jail between 4 and 5 oclock on the afternoon ofhis arrest Youtsey met me at the door and 100kmy hand Itold him to tell all he knew He said that on Monday morning Dick Combs told him he was ready to kill GoeT5el Continuing Youtsey said I went to Caleb Powers and asked him for the key to the Secretary of States office Caleb told me tp get the key from John Powers and I did I then went to Taylor and told that Combs would kill Goebel Taylob said he did not know we to do that Taylor said if it was necessary to kill Goebel all igut but said it was too important to be done by a negro I went back to see Taylor on Tuesday morning and told him that Jim Howard was there Wehgo ahead thenI saia Taylor At this juncture Youtsey sprang out of bed and became very violent The debuty sheriffs ran to him and seized him1b y the arms and l gs- Theyfiually quieted hini r 1Sid YputS2 Taylor tbidme t 1t i he would either send the man who did it to the mountains with a squad of soldiers or would pardon the men connected with it I got the ke jrom John Powers andad muted Berry and Jim Howard audI Dick Combs to the Secretary of States office I gave thE cartridges Ito Jim Howard and told him they would fit either a Winchester or a Marlin rifle At this point I asked v Youtsey who fired the shot and he said Mr Goebel I don t know I step ped to the door and stood there but I gave thecan ridges to Jim Howard Mr Youtsey said I went back to see Gov Taylor on Tuesday niorpfng and I said to him The man tocfo the shooting js- 2nowhere 1 said Vhat else did Taylor S33crHe said Gov Taylor walked up and down the floor and said Youtsey what do you think If Goebel is killed do you think I ould hold my office and discuss ed that matter talking to me back and iorth and I said to him I thought ifGoebel was put out 6f the way that the contest would be settled and that he could hold his office Finally I said to him as Gov ernor Taylor hesitated stiil It is up to you to decide now finally whether it is to be done or not and after some more hesitating Youtsey said Taylor said finally Well tell them to go ahead If it is necessary I can send the man to the mountains with a squad of soldiersI Did he sjay anything about pardoning him Howard and Youtsey said Yes that is so He said If it is necessary I can pardon him and he will be safe enough Col Nelson started to crossex amine Mr Goebel but broke off short saying Thatll do II Miss Emma Scott of Frankfort the daughter of Mr James Andrew Scott was the next witness She said she knew Youtsey and remem bered the day he was arrested He was at her fathers home on the morning of his arrest Miss Ann Crutcher who was a guest at the Scott hom vas also there and Miss Crutch r asked Youtsey if he thought Whafton Golden was telling the truth We object to all of this interrupted Col Crawford The Com monwealth consented to excuse Miss Scott for the first time and the defense recalled Mr Goebel He was asked by Col Nelson about a conference which he and Col Camp bell had with Messrs Crawfordand NelsonMn Col Crawfords office in Newport Mr Goebel narrated what was said betweed him and the attorneys for the defense in such a straightforward manner that applause broke out in the courtroom but the crowd was quickly quieted Thatlldo said Col Nelson when Mr Goebel had finished Whartou Golden was next called and told cf having seen John L Powers give Henry Youtsey the key to the Secretary of States office on the day before the shooting The defense moved to exclude front the jury what Powers said to Golden at the time and the court sustained the mo- tionCASTORIA hndrenllhBears the- Signaturer of d VI ATDAMS FISTULA SALVE manufactured by J W Adams ismeetingIvth sons who have used it say its a marked success and a sure cure for Fistula Poleevel S ween ey Scratches Enlargements Greasy Heel Etc It is sold on a written uarantee and money refunded if trot as represented For sale by Teeo Wesley druggist Mt Ver non Ky 443mQ rjlandolowesi prices Be tI rgall1sn ticountry I J t1 wa JIr1 = The Kind You Have lllwaysEougllt and which inns been in nr for over 30 YC 1shas borno the signatmc ff 7 his Counterfeits Imitations and JustasgoOtL7 are but Experiments that trifle and endanger the health of infants and Ciiildreu Experience against Experiment Whet is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil Parco goric Drops and Soothing Syrups is Pleasant It contains neither Opium Morphine nor other Narcotic substance Its ago is guarantee It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness cures Diarrhrea and Wind Colic It relieves Teething Troubles cures Constipation and Flatulency It assimilates the regulates the Stomach and Bowels giving healthy and natural sleep The Childrens PanaceaTile Mothers Friend CEUgNE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of a The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years THC t EFMI1 J LWXL YCJr eLand Stock Cr- Dpjc i rv John Roseberry who recently engaged his export cattle to 1 Joseph sold them to same Tues day Thore were 124 head averaging 1550 pounds and brought 5 centsParis Kentuckian Capt English Ieports about 400 cattle on the market today but pwiugto the dry weqther the market was somewhat S101 Prices ranged from 3C to 44c13aui- Il A lyvj its J A Ramsey repprtsthe sale TJ Scptt 3Sons Friday as fairly well atteuden Among the prices obtained were the following Heavy hogs 440 lighter ones 465 5 shotes ion pound4oc each 9 shotes 90 pounds each 420 dry cow 2160 light yearling steer 725 5 yeai ling steers 233steers 775ibs 2852 7 feeders 850 lbsj 392 per cwt i good feeder 900 Uis at 4IOj 3light feeders at 355 heifri 600 pounds 20 i extra heifer 730 lbs 28 cow andalf 2850 Jersey steer 1525 extra steer calf 20 i steer calf 13 2 calves 10 each 59 mountain eyes 2 each 41 ews at 240 each Wifichest er Democrat Nerve FoodIf you have neuralgia Scotts Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil cryingand set your whole body going again ina way to satisfynerve and brain from your usual food That is cure If you are nervous and irri table you may onlyneed more fat to cushion nerves you rEprobably thinand Scott nulsion of Cod Liver Oil will give youthe fat to be gin with tgoesFull mdScottsErnulsion to that freeniftsSCOTT S OWXE Clinninfc 409415 YkOcqJlqr i and has bcen made under per sal supervision since its infancy Allow no ono to deceive youin this All with It its It Food of FURNI1URE AND UNDERTAKING A full and complete stock All orders filled promptly Motto Besllgoods ane lsweet prices BLANKKNSHIP MDLLINS vIom V etic J t iUArc you nervous W y Are you completely esiiatitiedr t Do you every month ti If you anwer ye tto any cf N whichjappreciate what perfect ha1iwotldbe to you Arter tutcg Wine cf cart thousan6 1L e Ot1 llave rf tc lRIi of Cardci used jti3t befcrr Hl men l thmaLImedicine is taken quictiyi 1ipwomnjendorsed Loui3Inwoman by reason of use of Wine of NInAcSvisO131cine Co Chattanooga Tcnn Jr5i When you have no appetite do not relish your food and feel dull after eating you may know that you need a dose of Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets Price 25 cents Samples free at Theo Wesleys drug store CAME NEAR DYINGt For three days and nights I suffered agony untold from an attack Ol1YILovvther clerk of thedistrict coin t Centerville loway I tlfought 1 should surely die and trieda dozen diffeient medicines but a1tto no puryose r sent for a bottle of Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and three doses relievedm entirely I went to eighthoursago I felt so gratified that the firsf work I do on going to the offieisto write to the manufacturers tf Pygrateful medicinI r 5ale by Theo Wesley Druggist v i c 91Liithi r = = r 1rfiS = r r rrr rsrxst t rrrr o p II0 K Sf s a General Merchandise Mt Vernon Ky i FOR i hr Vf s 7 li rJ7 r off Jm i i1 Hi 01- ORDER OF COURT CALT4TERM ROCKCASTLE COUN TY COURT SEPT 21 1900 k VhereaS twenty per ce1 tofthcs Jegal voters of Rockcnstle count hath made application by t riiteu petition tome Judge of the Rock castle County Court to order an election to be1 held on thcj 6th day of November 1900 at the va rious voting places in said county for the purpose ot taking the cei se of the voters of said county as lo- whether pr not they desire an ap pre priatiotl of thirty thousand Col lars 30000 to be secured Thy selling Bonds of the county to be payable at the option of the county at any time within twenty fine yejirs from date of their issue and to bear a rate of interest not great sir th n four per cent per annum horn date until paid7vacd not to be soldat a price less than theitipar value fort e purpose 6f raising 1rz Wol1ey obuildand maintain turn pikes and gra efroagsin Rock castle county Said bonds to be- rt piidas well as their interest by exVceed 15 cents on each hundred dol This worth of taxable property ill said county each year until the same are paid Said election is now ordered to be held at tneuext regular election which is on the 6th dayofs iNQyember 1900 arv X heSheriffoftitl county is t Hereby ordered and directed 0to open a pollat each andalltbe voting places of the countyafore said for the purpose sense of the voters on said question The Sheriff of sjiid county will causetob published itiThe Kentucky Colonel and THE MT VERNON SIGN lr two weekly newspapers publishecLandy baying generalcirculation in said county a copy of thin order for at least TQU weeks prior to the day of said jLif rz fi electin Given under my liand this the 21 day of September 1900 R G WILLIAMS Judge Rockcastle County CpurL Acopy attest M C MILLER Clerk By J J Cook Deputy Clerk j iNIKINLEY CAMPAIGN OF DENIAL Thecampaign of ihe Republicans twill go down into history as the Willia1l1McKinl iph charOedwith grave crimes committed in the guise of duty and under the alleged inspiration of destiny The worlds history is filled with the crimes of deMiny but no despot has had the assurance to masquerade inthe cloak of duty McKinley and his cabal have not even the courage of their convic lions to win them followers They have been accused of im perialisil They deny it miliIj ing the trusts They deny it- Theyeven go fin ther and deny the trusts The plea ofnotguiltyU has Been entered again Escape from responsibility is apparently the only hope of Hanna and his coconspira tors for the consequences of the indiscretions to which they have puppetibe dashed the evidence too cleat to be doubted itthe people declare for McKinley it will be because the believe in imperialism trusts and militarism with their accom parrying duty anddestiny treacle President McKinley says there s no such thing as imperialism injthis country Everybody who thinks know better Imperialism means the government of others without their cor sent leKinley is gov lerning Porto Rico today withoutI the consent and againsttb will of the Porto Ricans Thi is imperi alismHe is trying to govern the Filipinos by military force This is m ptrialism McKinley yS hnHarinalrr Ji f 1ti r04 11 IKt 1U 0ct oJUJ t4J i J 0IJ Q tCd tz Lr i 1Ilr- t Uc r fjk7 0 l f0Uv rJo 0r11 Uoi 010 0 Q or J t Y W cj 0cd 3C HO ME MARKETS Corrected each week by Houk tv Son Mt VernonvKyI Arbuckles Coffee I5C Lion Coffee 14c Green Coffee 140 to I5C Flour No i per barrel 450 Belle of Lincoln per brl 425 I Daisyflourer barrel 400 Labelle flour trStar Soap 3 cat cs x ice r Rice NoI per Ib 76C Granulated Star per Ib 7 Zxtra Light Brown Sugar lb 64c y Sprup Caramel gal bucket 350 Sorghum best homemade gal 4oc goctLard IOC in small lots bets in J 50 lb lots or more Northern seed oats none on hand Millet on hand 1Fe13thersI Cattle extra shippers 475 to 5 0o i Cattle common 2 75 to 400 Hogs best heavies 505 Hogs medium 495 440Yr Sheep common 300 to 375 j 1898 the regular army was limited to 25000 men In point of fact it 1 was not so large Today the army numbers 100000 In 1898 the army cost about 2 3oooooo annu GHytbe cost of the army this year is 135000000 But we are told that there are not soldieis enough What does this great increase in two years mean if not militarism Hanna saystbereare no trusts He lies and fie knows he lies He is at this very moment dicker ing with a gigantic trust to stop the coal strike to save his puppets at Washington He hnnselt is in control of the Bessemer Ore Producers Association one of the most iniquitous of trusts which has succededin doubling the price ot Bessemer ore since 1898 The campaign of denial does not deny Its attempted evasion lis simply a corfessibn ofweak ness Boston Traveler IT HAPPENED IN A DRUG STORE One day last jtera lady came to my drug store and asked for a brand of coughmedicine that I did not have instotkjlsays MrC R Grandin the popular druggist ot Ontario N Y S e was disap pointed and wanted to know what cough preparation I could recom meld I said to her that I could freely recommend Chamberlains Cough Remedy and that she could take a bottle of the remedy and after givingit a fair trial if she did not find it worth the bogey to b ingb9ckth bottle and I would refund the price paidIn the course ota day or tow the lady came back in company with a friend in need of a cough medicine and advised her to buy a bottle of Chamberlains Cough Remedy I consider that a very good reconV mendation for the remedy The remedy owes its great popularity and extensive sale riii a large meaure to the personal recommncla Lion of people who have been cured by its use jt isrsa1e be Theo Wesley Druggist iY For sprains swellings and lame ness there is nothing sp good as- ChainberlainsPain Balm Try it- For sal by rrfi DruggistY I f o C t P f i H j 9jtr O AiI CLf I j r0s J ie CLtrD1 1 rrOW 4 rt t 1 i FT t COURT CALENDAR COUNTY COURT Fourth Mox day in each monthQ- UARTERLY COURT Fust Monday in January April July and OctoberCIRCUIT COURT Second Monday in February Fourth Monday- in May and Third Monday in Sep temberMT VERNON POLICE COURT Third Monday in each month P A PennIngton 0 D S M D DENTST N W Cor Third and Chestnut Sts LOUISVILLE KY Will be at Miller HouseMt CC111IIG W MCCIURE J W BROWN McCLURE BROWN ttorneys atL w MT VERNON KY All business entrusted to our care will receive prompt attention Office room No8 in the old Brick Hotel C C WILLIAMS Aottrnevat Law I r Mt Vernon Ky B6k Office on 2nd floor of new brick on Church street Specia attention given to collections IR WILLIAMS 9eYNatL W MT VERNON KY t R L BROWATTORNEYATLAW MT VERNON KEFTUCKY Special attention given to col lections 82 FRANKLINMt Vernon Ky Clock and Watch Repairing Spec tacles Repaired Gold and Silver Soldering NeatlyDone The eyes tested and glasses fitted by scientific methods Can fur riishvglasses properly flitted from 150to6ooWatchcases chains jewelry ofallkinds plated with gold or silver and made to look likehew All work cash npcredij AlI for d fg2 tist i1rA i R A JON ES DENTIST STANFORD KY Phone No 437 V Office over Higgins McKenney s Stor- eMACK ESTES Carpenter and Cabinet Maker Mt Vernon Ky Mantles and Hatracks a ii specialty The Veranda Hotel JOSEPH COFFEY PROPR Stanford Ky Specially equipped for traveling i men Sample room on first floor Bathrooms free to guests RATES 200 per day Insurance of all Signalioffice Mt Vernon t == fi sofa A PJS liquk Scwa AIt i 1S Vernon Ky- D rL roC D JJM qdf3 UJ 0- irn djtt r S tro IWA CARSON Painter and t HangerBrodhead All wbrkjfirstclass and guaranteed to give satisfaction Phone No 1 MTVERNONI LIME COMPANY Manufacturers of Lime and brick They also t furnish Lime Bull jng cutI3943 1sf1JoAi BANKOP LONDON KY apit a1 50000 Surplus i5poo V BOR SING M HOPEr President VicePresident R M JACKSON Cashier WB WANT YOUR BUSINESS Miller House HUGH MILLER PROPR Head uarberg for Commercial Men pPofter at all trains g HoeJFrith- k FRANCISCOIPropr Located at Jthe DePotaJC- OoBodhe ad Ry tMeettraveling Itfepand Railroad men Solicited Will fiip unches raIU Sj SUPPLEMENT TO MT VERNON KY MOUNT VERNON SIGNAL r FRIDAY OCT 19 1900 18001900 Some Historical Parallels Be tween Jefferson and BryanT First hear now Mr Henry Adams summing up of the tirades against Jefferson by the Federalists of New England and New York in 1800 Every dissolute intriguer looseliver forger falsecoiner and prisonbird every hairbrained loudtadng dem agogue every speculator scoffer and atheist was a follower of Jefferson and Jefferson was himself the incarna tion of their theories WHAT ROOSEVELT SAYS OF THE FOLLOWERS OF JEFFERSON Study the Kansas City platform and you cannot help realizing that their policy is the policy of infamy that their triumph would mean misery so widespread that it is almost un thinkable and a disgrace so lasting that more than a generation would have to pass before it could be wiped outThey stand for lawlessness and dls rdor for dishonesty and dishonor for license and disaster at home and cow ardly shrinking from duty abroad WHAT HISTORIANS SAY OF JEFFER- 60NSADl1INISTRATION And what followed all this hysteria spectreswas the sequel An administration as Schouler justly describes it peace ful progressive and popular beyond all precedent especially strong and successful just where the direst disas ter had been foreboded in the management of the finances of the coun try The policy of this remarkable Administration writes this admirer of Jefferson was at once and steadily successful in winning the people and the prestige of enthusiasm became irresistible when conjoined with the prestige of success An executive neither the instrument of others nor a betrayer of trusts we may regard Jefferson as the genuine personator of that to which Frances First Consul presented contemporaneously the counterfeita leader of the common people in the direction of their best desiresThis verdict is not simply that of Jeffersons admirers The historians are harmonious Mr Morse in his volume on Jefferson in the American State sriea seriesand neither the series as a whole nor Mr Morses vol aC1cusedson its forteuses terms almost iden tical Mr Schouler in the passage quoted is writing of a time midway in Jeffersons second administration just before the troubles with England Mr Morse is writing of the close of his first administration when the campaign for his reelection ap proached Everything he says re dounded to his good fame and popular ity The nation felt comfortable and good natured amid the broad visi ble facts of the passing time Were not expenses curtailed and taxes reduced and debts being rapidly di minished Had the country ibeen for many years past so free from irritation and anxiety growing out of politicalikindliness nation as it did today Four years of prosperity and tranquility left little iroom for discontent with the government Amid such influences political opposition pined and almost died The verdict of history on the adminis tration of the latter day Jefferson William Jennings Bryan who has store bitterly abused than even his great prototype will closely follow out the parallel TO SUPPLANT WHITES American Workmen Will Be Put in Competition with Chinamen by Conquest of the Philippines PLAN ALREADY OPERATING Never in the history of this gov ernment has the labor of this coun try been so menaced by the threatened influx of the Mongolian and Malay cheap labor of the far east as seems probable under the McKinley policy of imperialism should that dangerous policy be ratified by the American peo ple Without the labor vote that policy cannot be approved It behooves the laboring people therefore to look out for breakers ahead What does the conquest of the Philippine islands mean It means that they shall be come American territory What rights does that proposition carry with it to the people of the Philippines The McKinley policy to make the Philip pine islands American territory by con quest and subject to American juris diction carries with it the right of the people of those islands to free lo comotion to travel whither they will from one part of American territory to another without let or hindrance What has happened in the Hawaiian islands under the McKinley adminis tration since those islands have been annexed to the United States will take place in this country Fourteen to twenty thousand Japanese coolie la borers have been imported into the Hawaiian islands by the rich sugar planters under contract since the annexation of those islands and this too in violation of the contract labor law Why did not McKinley as the chief executive of this nation whose duty it was to enforce the law pre vent this influx of Japanese coolie la bor Simply because he is bound thesyndicatescountryWhat have we in store for the Philippine islands should the Mc Kinley war of conquest be endorsed The influx of Chinese coolie labor into those islands under the sanction of the McKinley administration General Wesley Merritt and General Charles A Whittier U S V and other land and naval officers went to Paris from Manila to testify before the Paris peace commissioners as to the Philippine people their wants needs capabilities and government General Whittier saidThen the question of the admission of Chinese with the strong argument on both sides The merchants of Ma nila are unanimous in their representations of the necessity for more Cooley labor They and many others re quire it in Manila and think that it will be necessary in railroad building and in the development of the country saying There is no question of competing with American labor here there being no such in the country nor can there be the climate prohib iting that Oheap labor and plenty of it is the life blood of the Philippines There is room for three millions of Chinese comfortably while 90000 is the present estimate The Omaha Bee Republican said editorially Oct 14 1898 if we absorb the Philippines with their millions of cheap laborers and proceed to the development of those islands indus trially and commercially by the utili zation of this cheap labor NOTHING CAN BE MORE CERTAIN THAN THAT IN TIME OUR HOME LABOR WILL SUFFER FROM THE COM PETITION WE SHALL NOT BE ABLE TO PERPETUALLY SAFE GUARD IT BY THE SYSTEM OF PROTECTION NOW IN OPERATION Territorial expansion as now proposed is a very serious mat ter for American labor and the op position of that labor to expansion should have more vigorous expression than has been given nThis was when the Omaha Bee was opposing the conquest of the pines and endeavoring to Phlllpicourse of the administration LINCOLN VS HIS PARTY InStateArnoldtheDeelaratlonagainst us denyItsconsent of the governed Birdscyc View of William McKinley His Devious Political and Official Trail Is an Anomaly in American Politics Always Wrong in the End The Republican party has accepted the European idea and planted Itself upon ground taken by George III and by every ruler who distrusts the capacity of the people for selfgovernment or denies them a voice in their own affairs William J Bryans Letter of Acceptance This is what President William McKinley has done says Jonathan B Taylor He has exercised the autocratic and unconstitutional power of denying the right of representation and suffrage of trial by jury of writ of habeas corpus of the right to bear arms of all rights guaranteed by the constitution to the Inhabitants of newly recognized islands He has recognized slavery and polygamy In Suln x He has made war upon the nonslave holding nonpolygamous Inhabitants ot Luzon He has consented to the taxation without representation of the inhabitants of Porto Rico He has withheld Independence from the inhabitants of Cuba This Is Imperialism In his message President McKinley saidForcible annexation is criminal ag gression He then proceeded to forcibly an nex the Philippine archipelago with its 8000000 unwilling people In 1899 President McKinley said It is our plain duty to give free trade to the people of Porto Rico He immediately proceeded to im portune and coerce a Republican con gress into passing a tariff bill against Porto Rico in accordance with the de mand of the sugar trust He gave pledges to Spain and Cuba that Cuba should be free and inde pendentHe created a military govern ment in Cuba which has thwarttS every step toward island autonomy and which reeks with theft and corrup tion of every kind Record in the Philippines President McKinley paid Spain 20 000000 for something which Spain did not possess and had not power to deliver The president has since that time spent of the American peoples money 200000000 trying to obtain that for which he had paid 20000 000 In this attempt he has only succeeded in filling graves hospitals insane asylums and fat insular jobs The end is not yet He has appointed more commissions to carry out his unconstitutional pol icy than all other presidents have legally created He is paying these commissions in violation of the con stitution See article 1 section 9 clause These commissions have never done anything beyond administering coats of whitewash to the autocracy at Washington McKinley AIJpOInteesI President McKinley is responsible for General Alger of canned beef no toriety for General Eagan who was suspended for blackguardism on full pay for Rathbone and Neely the Cu ban postal thieves for Gage the banker who turned the treasury over to Morgan and his Wall street con spirators and for Griggs whose sole duty is to shield the robber trusts from prosecution- He is responsible for Hay the Brit ish toady He sent Hays son to Pre toria to be the administration agent at the death of the South African re pleas of authors are be r clamor about O J of made a of a report Clerk of the Bureau of and Under his analy this tells a he and a half years 13 1900 amount to as filed or a of in favor of This real bear claim of there pass to column we find that in chattel have been as a of and is Under the same Hay McKin American in Alaska to Great denied the right of miners to Enemy of labor At the request of Standard Oil trust President sent regular army Idaho to shoot miners who had rebelled against Standard tyranny in Coeur d Alene These were into a stockade kept there with right of trial until many of maniacs These facts are a part of history He a horse doctor in charge of the of He pliced Miles sent to Cuba in of the army Shatter who rode to battle in a lit ter who wanted to surrender when the first shot was fired Crooked All Mr was a silver man in 1893 a in 1896 and a single gold standard in 1898 He was a of civil service in 1896 two years later he 8000 civil service to make place for political pets of Hanna PlattThrough his of state he into a treaty with Great Britain whereby the American people to a canal and leave to be used at pleasure by John He the opening of special mail matter to our consul at Pre toria by British agents and called our home that official com constant that the of country are in the hands of and then a large army as if not equal to the task Behold the Man of Destiny in a recent speech in New York said Oh for one hour of Grant Why Grant if is such a NapoleonWhy when the of des tiny and of is at the at the man He has been on every side of every landing on the side opposed to the on the side of on the side of national shame LET THE PEOPLE ELECT THE SENATORS President Johnson in 1868 recommended a constitutional for election of United States senator by direct vote of the people but his recommendation met with no response About twelve years later General Weaver then a member of congress tried to the passage of a an but his efforts were futile In 1892 the resolution recommended by President Johnson urged by Congressman Weaver finally the house of represent atives it has not reached a vote in the senate And now after eight more of public the for the first time receives the of national of one of the great fusion forces win a victory this fall we shall see this reform accomplished before the next presidential election and with its the people will find it easier to any remedial legis lation which they may desire Great are solved slowly but marches on step by step content if at each nightfall it can pitch its tent on a little higher ground WILLIAM by patriotism the Cuban frauds whose pretended to prosecuted the boodle equaled the prosperity Dr Perkins has study signed by A Ifon Chief Labor Industrial Statistics of sis report widely different story from that daily proclaimed by Republican speakers press Using the round says the mortgages satisfied during the three ending June 99000000 against 77000000 difference prosperity applies to estate mortgages only and would out the the Republicans provided furtlier When however we the next 238000000 mortgages filed against 77000000 difference 161000000 prosperity The difference between 161000000 22000000 is 139000000 This the actual publics territory Britain and American pro test the McKinley its into down and imprison oil men thrown and out them became raving current placed medical department Cuba Gen incommunicado and charge and Through McKinley free bimetallist advocate champion and discharged appointees and proBritish secretary entered were dig Nicaraguan defenseless Bull permitted consul because plainedHe declaration institutions this providence demands standing providence were Secretary Root McKinley man providence helmLook questionaway people oppression amendment providing the secure resolution submitting amendment and passed yet years discussion proposition endorsement the convention partiesIf accom plishment secure problems struggling humanity JENNINGS BRYAN Chicago certified Gleas Nebraska and numbers 22OOOOOO was nothing satisfied against ley surrendered but WANTS A MONARCHY McKinley Organ in Iowa Voices the Real Sentiments of the Republican Party CONSTITUTION IS OBSOLETE The following article Is from the Des Moines In Globe a Republican farmers paper It voices in plain lan guage the spirit of McKinley Repub licanism What the Globe frankly speaks the imperialist secretly thinks It is brutally plain and for this rea son Republican organs have affected to discredit its sentiments but it speaks out of the fullness of a heart saturated with Hamiltonianism which is the inspiration of President McKin ley and tnere is in it that touch of sincerity that gives it weight as an ut terance a little rash perhaps and pos sibly a little premature but significant of rile trend of modern Republicanism The article deserves the very widest publicity as showing the direction of the McKinley drift For a long time thinking people who have large commercial interests have felt unsafe with our present form of government from the fact that we are controlled by the little cheap John politicians anu wardheelers NOv IS A GOOD TIME TO DO AWAY WITH OUR OBSOLETE CCNSTITU TION and adopt a form of government that will be logical with expansion ideas and will give AMPLE PROTECTION TO CAPITAL- A CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY is probably the most desiraole plan that we could now adopt Everything is ripe for the change We take it that the great farming interests of our land will readily adapt themselves to the change The rarrner is a great lover of law and order and ANTI MONARCHY IS LARGELY THE EA PRESSION OF FRENCH REVOLU TIONARY IDEAS SuuGESTED BY HOTHEADED THEORISTS We believe that history and exper ience have proven beyond cavil tat A REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERN MENT CANNOT SUBSIST beyond a certain stage That as soon as a great PEOPLE BECOME RICH STRONG AND GREAT THE REPUBLio DROOPS AND DIES We believe this is so of necessity and not by chance We believe that there is not a single case of record where the masses of a great nation possessed the intelligence to initiate laws and were intelligent t enough to compel tne enforcement of such good laws as they might pass It would seem as if science teaches that men are created to follow their mastersthe inspired minds of the world HISTORY SHOWS THAT A KING MUST BE AND IS FOUND IN EVERY NATION to guide its people in every great crisis Neither is the change to be dreaded or looked for ward to with foreboding While ware e in fact largely under the conditions of a monarchy we have the evils with out the benefits of the same Bryan and the Income Tax At present the government can draft the citizen but cannot draft the pocketbook Slowly but surely the dollar is being exalted and the man de based Justice in taxation must be restoredThe xentiment prevailing among those who advocate an income tax justifies the prediction that the Democrats Populists and Silver Republicans will in their next campaign advocate constitutionsan and tip one who faith in tho final trinmph of every righter us cause will doubt the ultimate to make au income tax a permanentI part of the revenue system of the fed eral government W J BRYAN NO FREEDOM NOW FOR FILIPINOS havoalwaya thought that all men should be free but if any should be slaves It should be first those who de sire It for themselves and secondly those who desire it for others- ABRAHAM LINCOLN From an address to an Indiana Reg iment March 17 1865 BENEVOLENT ASSIMILATION A Republican Newspaper Ac- cfount of a Philippine Battle Just past this a few hundred yard we saw a solitary body lying in the read The body was almost stripped of clothing and there were no marks of rank left on the bloodsoaked coat But the face of the dead man had a look I had never noticed on the face of other dead men I had found in in surgent uniform on the field of battle in the wake of an American firing line The features were clear cut and forehead high and shapely I decided the man must have been an insurgent officer A soldier came running down thetrailThats old Pilar he said We got the old rascal I guess hes sorry he ever went up against the Thirty thirdThere aint no doubt about its be ing Pilar rattled on the young sol dier We got his diary and his let ters and all his papers and Sullivan of our companys got his pants adSniders got his shoes but he cant wear them because theyre too small and a sergeant in G company got one of his silver spurs and a lieutenant got the other and somebody swiped the cuff buttons before I got here or I would have swiped them and all I got was a stud button and his collar with blood on it So this was the end of Gregorio del Pilar Only 22 years old he managed to make himself a leader of men when he was hardly more than a boy and at last had laid down his life for his convictions Major Marsh had the diary In it he had written under the date of December 2the day he was killedThe general has given me the pick of all the men that can be spared and ordered me to defend the pass I re alize what a terrible task is given me And yet I feel that this is the most glorious moment 01 my life What I do is done for my beloved country No sacrifice can be too great A private sitting by the camp fire was exhibiting a han kerchief Its old Pilars Its got Dolores Hosea on the corner I guess that was his girl Well its all off with Gregorio Anyhow said Private Sullivan got his pants He wont need em any more The man who had the generals shoes strode proudly past refusing with scorn a Mexican dollar and a pair of shoes taken from one of the private insurgent soldiers A private sitting on a rock was examining a golden locket containing a curl of a womans hair Got the locket off his neck said the soldier As the main column started on Its march for the summit of the mountain a turn in the trail brought us again in sight of the insurgent general far down below us There had been no time to bury him Not even a blanket or a poncho had been thrown over himA crow sat on the dead mans feet Another perched on his head The fog settled down upon us We could see the body no longer We carved not a line and we raised not a stone But we left him alone in his glory And when Private Sullivan went by in his trousers and Snider with his shoes and the other man who had the cuff buttons and the sergeant who had the spur and the lieutenant who had the other spur and the man that had the handkerchief and another man that had his shoulder straps it sud denly occurred to me that his glory was about all we had left himRich ard Henry Little in Chicago Tribune Rights never conflict duties never clash Can it be our duty to use up po litical rights which belong to others Can it be our duty to kill those who following tho example of our forefathers love liberty well enough to fight for It W J BRYAN r The Children of the Coal Miners Do you hear the children weeping O my brothers Ere the sorrow comes with years They are leaning their young heads against their mothers And that cannot stop their tears 10 The young lambs are bleating in the meadows r The young birds are chirping in the nest The young fawns are playing with the shadows The young flowors are blowing toward the westnut the young young children 0 say brothers They are weeping bitterly They are weeping In the playtime of the others In the country of tho free Mrs Browning Y FALSE PRETENSE OF PROSPERiTVo morehollowpalpableevidences thet may be easier Allowing that the population of Nebraska has increased twenty per cent since the census of 1890 we find that the increased indebtedness is over 109 for each man woman and child in the state If the people of tlie state of Nebraska with abundant crops arein this slhorttime plunged 139000 000 more in debt than at the beginning of this period how many years will it require under the same regime to place the property entirely in the hands of mortgage holders Those not acquainted with the present methods of loaning money in the west and south will be astonished at the large increase in chattel mortgages shown by the report This is explained by the fact that the lender prefers a short time loan at an increased rate of interest secured by a mortgage on growing live stock to one on real estate An analysis of similar reports made by other state officers in the west and southwest will show practically the same results Instead of there being any decrease of mortgage debt in Indiana the mortgage debt real estate and chattel has increased during every year of the McKinley administration and the total increase for the three years completed is in excess of 5OOOOOOO In two years of McKinley prosperity the chattel mortgages of Indiana have increased 255151 in number and 7382234 in amount and the total mortgage debt of the state in three years of McKinley prosperity has increased 55946746 over what has been paid not including the chattel mortgages and foreclosures of 1897 4hhNNMiLhlhhNMdh1nd4Mtfdhgplfh1qP11hPIPIPIP1AlhA1hA1Rd1p1P i W4qryllIP1P1ht ALL FORMS OF TOIL MENACED BY TRUSTS 1 SI rynndunrolhrfn uhrfr o The Farmer the Laborer and the Business Man f Alike Threatened with Serfdomr 3ouDEMOCRACY THEIR SOLE DEFENDER wwwwwwOWWWWWWlwUwWoIwwwwwwoJ THE KANSAS CITY PLATFORM SAYS Private monopolies are Indefensible and intolerable They destroy competition control the price of all material and of the finished product thus robbing both producer and consumer lessen the employment of labor and arbitrarily fix the terms and conditions thereof and deprive individual energy and small capital of their opportunity for betterment They are the most efficient agent yet devised for appropriating the fruits of industry to the benefit of the few at the expense of the many and unless their Insatiate greed is checked all wealth will be aggregated in a few hands and the repub Uo destroyedWe the democratic party to an unceasing warfare in Nation State and tit against private monopoly in every form WILLIAM J BRYAN SAYS A private monopoly has always been an outlaw No defense can bn made of an Industrial sytetu In wlftcti one or a few men can control for their own profit the output or price of any article of merchandise Under such a system the consumer suffers extortion the producer of raw material has but one purchaser and must sell at the arbitrary price fixed the lahorer has but one employer and is powerless to protest against Injustice either In wraqea or in condition of labor the small stock holder Is at the mercy of the speculator while the traveling salesman contributes his salary to the overgrown profits of the trust Since but a small proportion of the people can share In the advantages secured by private monopoly It follows that the remainder of the people are not only excluded from the benefits but are the helpless victims of every monopoly organized It Is difficult to overestimate the Immediate Injustice that my be done or to calculate the ultimate effect of this injustice upon the social and political welware of the people Our platform after suggesting certain specific remedies pledges the party to an unceasing warfare against private monopoly in nation state and city I heartily approve of this promise If elected It shall be my earnest and constant endeavor to fulfill the promise In letter and spirit One of the main reasons why men truggle so hard to obtain a monop oly is that it enables them to charge more than the worth of the goods or services they supply In the Bramkamp wire nail case the attorney for the trust admitted that the combine had raised the price from 80 cents to 20 a keg whole sale securing thereby a monopoly profit of several million dollars That trust went to pieces but recently an other has been formed and wire nails have advanced over 140 per cent be yond the ordinary competitive price Coal Trust Extortion The coal combine was investigated by congress in 1893 and the report declares 1 that in 1888 the extortions of the coal monopoly averaged more than 1 a ton or 39000000 for the year and 2 that from 1873 to 1886 200000000 more than a fair market price was taken from the public by tills combination It also appeared that in 1892 the combine raised the price 125 to 135 a ton on the kinds used by housekeepers though the price of coal was already high and the cost of mining diminishing every year The Linseed Oil Trust in 1887 put the price up from 38 to 52 cents a gal lon or nearly 5000000 additional tax on the yearly output In the same year the copper Syndi cate put up the price from 10 to 17 and 18 cents a pound or 30000000 au don on the yearly outppt A congressional investigation in 1893 brought out the fact that on the strength of a rumor that the internal revenue tax was to be increased by congress the Whisky Trust raised its prices 25 cents a gallon which would amount to an additional profit of 12 500000 on its yearly output Jump In Sugar In 1888 just after the Sugar Trust was formed the average price of raw sugar was vhe same as in 1885 but the average price of efined sugar ad vanced so that the difference between the pric J of raw sugar and the price of refined sugar was 76 per cent more than in 1885 and about 70 per cent more than in 1887 the year the trust was formed Recently sugar has made advances amounting to a total of 2 cents on the pound For a dozen years we have paid each year a good deai more per pound for refining sugar than re did in 1885 although the cost of refining has been constantly diminish ing and our sugar bill nas averaged at least 10000000 and perhaps 20 000000 a year more because of the trust Standard 011 Again she Standard Oil is another monop oly that has kept prices form falling as much as the diminished cost of transportation and refining would have caused them to fall in an open market and at times ithas lifted prices abso lutely as well as relatively in spite of the vast improvements in processes of manufacture great cheapening of transportation by the pipeline service and the falling price of crude oil From 1894 to 1897 for example the price of refined oil went up 14 per cent while the price of crude oil declined 6 per cent Oil rose at wholesale in New York from 3 cents in November Io97 to 6 cents in December 1899 and it has gone still higher in 1900 One may charge the fair value of the services he renders without a mon opoly But monopoly gives power to charge more than that value in other words monopoly confers the in estimable privilege of demanding something for nothing The Telegraph Monopoly We pay twice as much for our tele grams as government ystems charge the telephone monopoly charged the federal government 75 per phone for service the government is now sup plying for itself at a cost of 10 per phone and even in our largest CItY exchanges where the monopoly charges 90 to 250 tae service could be rendered atka profit for a uniform charge of 30 a year The Bell monopoly in Grand Rap ids Wis charged 36 for a house and 48 for a business place while a co zerative telephone exchange Is oper ating in the same place at 6 for a house and 18 for a business place per year and is making money The ex orbitant rates of express monopolies are notorious and even railroads have been known to make excessive charges Municipal Franchises it issue same witn all our city mon opolies Gas sells at 1 which can be made for 20 cents and distributed for 15 as we know from various gas reports and investigations- The above are but a few samples from an enormous mass of facts dem onstrating that private monopoly tends to extortion Extortionate charges lead of course to enormous profits and the building of vast fortunes which become in their turn the instruments of further ex tortfon The monopolists roll in wealtn while the working masses and competitive classes are cheated out of their fair share of the worlds wealth Those who build palaces do not live in them Builders Enter Not In Those who dig coal have little fuel Those who make clothes are illclad Those who grow wheat and corn are poorly fed- Those who build railroads do not travelThose who do most of the work do not enjoy the fruits of their labor while those who do little or nothing enjoy much all because privat mon opoly gives some men the power of appropriating what others produce Here are some of the profits private monopoly has made Oil trust 23000000 in three months about 100 per cent a year on the cap ital water and all The oil monop oly has been known to make 520 per cent on its whole capital and on one investment 3000 per cent per year was obtained througn railroad favoritism Wealth Against Commonwealth pp 67 99 100 Profits of Monopoly Steel trust 4250u000 a year about 30 per cent on water and all Sugar trust 200 to 400 per cent Wire trust 60 per cent Tin plate trust 40 per cent Pennsylvania coal 30 per cent Fifth Ave bank New York 150 per cent Chemical bank New York 200 per cent metropolitan Telephone Co 150 per centBell monopoly 5000000 a year 45 of its total Income Telegraph monopoly on original in vestment 300 per cent a year Bay State Gas Co 60 per cent a yearCleveland Gas Co 144 per cent a yearNew York Gas 300000000 in ten years or enough to pay 10 per cent on the investment and duplicate all the plants besides New York Senate Investigation Metropolitan Street Ry System New York 28 per cent- Philadelphia Traction5500000 16 per cent on investment lath and 15th Street Co 65 per centPhiladelphia City 31 per cent Ridge Avenue 42 per cent Citizens Co 67 per cent 2d and 3d Streets 25 per cent Union 31 per cent The excessive charges and exorbi tan profits of private monopoly are nothing more nor less than taxation without representation You are no represented in the oil trust the steel trust the coal combine the Chemical banK the gas electric street railway telegraph telephone railroad beef su gar copper and tin monopolies Yet they levy taxes on you Watered Stock The monopolists know that their outrageous profits may rouse the peo ple if they become known and so many of those most open to the public gaze try to hide their gains by watering their capital Ninety per cent on the real investment is only 9 per cent on a capital watered to tenfold bulk Fraud ana extortion are among the most prolific and are quite the most deplorable of all the results of private monopoly J1 SLAYEEYEECOGNtZED Amendment to the Constitution for Which a Million Lives Were Sacrificed S tat Naught by McKinley THE INFAMOUS STTLTT TREATY i The constitution of the United States saYS ARTICLE XIII 1 Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist with in the United States or any place sub ject to their jurisdiction MKINLEYS INFAMOUS TREATY WITH THE SULTAN OF SULU Article I The sovereignty of the UnitedNStates over e archi pelago of Sulu and its dependencies is declared and ac nowledged Article II The United States flag will be used in the archipelago of Sulu and its dependencies on land and sea Article III rife rights and dignities of his highness the sultan and his da tos shall be fully respected and Moros shall not be interfered with on account of their religion All their religious customs shall e respected and no one shall be persecuted on account of his religion Article X Any slave In the Archi pelago of Sum shall hVve the right to purchase freedom by paying the master the usual market value Article IV The United States government will pay the following month ly salaries To the sultan 250 to Dato Rajah Mada 75 to Dato Attik 60 to Dato Calbe 75 to Dato Joakr anian 75 to Dato Puvo 60 to Dato Amir Haissin 60 to Hadji Buter 50 to Habib Mura 40 to Serlf Sa guin 15 Signed in triplicate in English and Sulu at Jolo this twentieth day of August A D 1899 13th Arakuil Akil 1397 The Sultan Sulu Dato Rajah Muda Signed J C Bates BrigadierGeneral U S V r COST OE MiLiTARISM l ArmySeventyFive Navy Is What McKini ley Wants DEMANDS ARMY OF 100000 MEN aretoismThe Washington government has made its demand It demands an army of 100000 men and it wants 200000 000 for the next year to support its tThe75000 This is LTonavy until the end of the fiscal year June 30 1902 congress will be aslsed to appro priate more than 200000000 The war department is estimating on the basis of 10000 men J Under th present law all volun teers and regulars in excess of about 30000 men must be discharged before July 1 1901 aM QuartermasterGen eral Ludington s making arrange ments for the transportation home of the volunteers beginning next month It will be necessary to recruit regi ments to take the pla e of the volun teers in case more troops are author ized and when they are ready for ac tive service they must be transported toManilaThe of the army will be what was estimated for the current year 47000000 There will be a heavy bill for clothing medical and hospital stores ordnance ordnance stores and supplies and regular supplies for the quartermasters department The es timate made by CommissaryGeneral Weston for subsistence stores for the current fiscal year was 11112242 and this will be exceeded Secretary Roots estimate for the military establishment for the current year aggregated 128170583 and it will undoubtedly be larger for the next fiscal year What false 7 PAPA fool down j r i OF LABOR Kansas City Platform In Interest of American labor and upbuilding of the as the cornerstone of the prosperity of our country we recommend that Congress Department of Labor in charge of Secretary with a seat in the Cabi not believing that elevation of the American laborer will bring with it in creased production and increased prosperity to our country at home and to our commerce abroad of Acceptance The platform renews the demand for arbitration and their employes No one who has observed the friction between great and their numerous employes can doubt the wisdom of estab lishing an Impartial court for the just antI equitable settlement of disputes Tho demand for arbitration ought to be supported as heartily by the public which suffers inconvenience because of strikes and lockouts and by the employers them as by the employes The of arbitration will secure friendly relations between labor and capital and render obsolete tho growing practice of calling the to settle labor troubles J r i JV The Supreme Purpose of the People Should Be to Hll attempts to Grasp Imperial Power fl The Republic Is confronted by a great national involving the perpetuity of the institutions founded by the fathers For the first time in our countrys history it has undertaken to subjugate a foreign people and to rule them by despotic The president is waging war upon people of alien birth for asserting the very principles for which the of our own republic pledged their lives their fortuna and their sacred honors The policy of the president offers the inhabitants of Porto Rico Hawaii and the Philippines no of Independence no prospect of American citizenship no coast tutlonal protection no representation in the Congress which taxes him This is the of men by arbitrary power without their consent this This is the issue which the Kansas City platform declares to be the paramount question In American politics Is no room wider tho American flag for subjects The president and con gress who derive all their powers from the Constitution can govern no man wlthouo regard to its limitations No nation can endure citizen and part subject We have come as people to the parting of the ways Which shall it beRcpt lie or Empire Shall we remain true to the American ideal or shall wo adopt the sword Is the Republic of Washington and Jefferson ready for this tremendous trtcte backward KING AND KING WILLIAM When the American colonies were in revolt against Great Brit ain George III then king issued a as follows I am desirous of restoring to them the American colonies the blessings of which they have fatally and desperately for the calamities of war and the arbitrary tyranny of their chiefs George III of England in 1776 So too while the forces of the United States were chasing the patriotic Filipinos from their burning homes President McKin ley assured them of his kind pur poses as follows That Congress will provide for them the Filipinos a which will bring them blessings wilt promote their material interests as well as advance their people in the paths of civilization AND HIS 41 WILLIE have you got on those spectacles and whiskers for papal Papa has got to himself as a harmless old gentleman Willie to the common people They call papa Honest Old Si town WHERE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY STANDS ON LABOR DEPARTMENT From the the workingman create a a the BRYAN ON ARBITRATIONj From Letter between corporations which arises corporations selves establishment army No Room for Subjects Under the Free Flag Oppose REPDBLie FACES PROFOUND CRISIS crisis power fathers hope government Imperialism There part a GEORGE proclamation law exchanged government which lILLIE PAPA disguise and intelligence I confidently be llevePresident McKinley at Minneapolis Oct 12 1899 Read what Abraham Lincoln said with regard to these promises or benevolent assimilation offer ed to a people for a surrender of their liberties Mr Lincoln in a speech at Chi cago Ill July 10 1858 spoke as follows Those arguments that are made that the inferior race are to be treated with as much allowance as they are capable of enjoying that as much is to be lone for them as their condition will allmo What are these arguments They are the arguments tlutt kings have made fur enslaving the people in all ages of the weld You will note that all the arguments of king craft were always of tills class They always bestrode the necks of the people not that they wanted to do it but because the people were better off fur being ridden Turn it every way you will whether it comes from the mouth of a King as an excufe for enslaving the people Of his country or from the mouth of one race as a reason for enslaving the men of another race it is all the same old serpent Lincolns Complete Works Vol I page 359 Let it be remembered said the continental congress in addressing tkf states at the end of the Revolution that it has ever been the pride amd boast of America that the rights tot which she contended were the right of human nature True statesmen as they were sibs Lincoln they knew the tendency oa prosperity to breed tyrants so they established these selfevident truths that when in the distant future eom men some faction some interest should set up the doctrine that nose but rich men or none but white me or none but AngloSaxon white mewere entitled to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness their posterity might look up again to the declaratiom of independence and take courage is renew the battle which their fathom began so that truth justice and mercy and all the humane and Chris tian virtues might not be extinguish from the land so teat no man would hereafter dare to limit and circum scribe the great principles on whick the temple of linerty was being built DEMOCRATIC PARTY FAVORS LIBERAL PENSIONS We are proud of the courage and fidelity of the American soldiers and sailors In all our wars we favor liberal pensions to them and their dependents and wo reiterate the position taken in the Chicago platform In 1890 that the of enlistment and service shall be conclusive evidence against itact and usability before enlistment City Platform am iirrinIIPostoftloo Department First AKHt Postmaster General Washington D C Dee 13 189 My near MajorI intended to say t you when you were here that there It one man Mr Charles F W Neely of BInncU Ind who want to go into the Cuba mail service in whom I am more interested than anv other man among thee lluld8ofIPJJllcltllts for positions of tha diameter lie is a newspaper writer and publisher anti about fortytwo years of ae splendidly educated a hustler a mas with tile very bet habit and as loyal as loyalty ftself Ho would make a GRAND CONFIDENTIAL A2 Fort YOU I will write and ask him to go and see yoe This Is a man you will warm up to and would like to have AS A rOWPANIOJ e= well as mi executive lerY- ours faithfully- PEltCY S HEATH First AHt Postmaster General ro Maj E J Rnthbnne x- HamUtot Ohio The writer of the above letter la tiesecretary of the Republican national committee and the chief of its literary bureau eulogIspostafraudsbeen a prime mover He is fighting extradition to avoid a trial in the country where the colossal frauds were committed Whenever things get so far wronj as to attract their notice the people if well informed may be relied uppy to set them to rights Thomas Jeffw son JEFFKRSON AND LIBERTY- I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty The only orthodox object of the institution of Government is to secur the greatest degree of happiness possi ble to the general mass of those aese elated under It The whole art of government sea lists In the art of being honest Governments derive theirjust powers from tho consent of the governed The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties The highest obligation of this natlo is to be true to itself No obligation to any particular nations or to all the nations combined can require the abandonment of our theory of govern ment and the substitution of doctrln against which our whole national life has been a protest W J BRYAN

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