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POSTAGE. Entered at the Louiavlll poet-offlc a laaa matter. a 10. 12 and pases 1 1. 18, a and pases centm TELEPHONE NUMBERS.

Buxlneas department JS. ring 1 aVUtorUi rooms rice 4 Them wlahlng th OOfRTKR-JOURNAL seat to their residences eaa order thrown tb, telephone or by postal card, Failure of camera to deliver shoold be reported la th same manner. MONDAY 14, 18fl BCSI3E3a." Saturday Evening, Sept. 12. The recovery of confidence has hardly been so pro-' Bounced as last week, but there is still a clear galnJt was time for a slight reaction, -but this would not have come had It not, been for the bank failures at New Orleans.

The Government crop report was also discouraging, but that there was not much, reliance upon It abroad was shown by the decline in the price of cotton, notwithstanding the remarkably low percentage assigned. Hank clearings were again reduced. To offset these unpleasant features, there was a moderate gala in business, and it begins to look as though the stream of fall trade has at last comma need to flow steadily. Stock speculative Circles were also Influenced by ths declar ation of several important dividends and the very. fine annual statement of the St.

Paul railroad. The heavy imports of gold have continued, notwithstanding the Bank of England raised the' discount rate per cent, la order to check? the outflow. The English now see that this movement Is a legitimate commercial demand, and it Is thought likely that to $30,000,000 more Will come. The good effect of this baa been apparent la New Tork, as the banks car added to their reserves, notwithstanding aa exceptionally heavy movement of currency to the Interior. Over 17,000.000 was shipped from New Tork.

a Urge part going to New Orleans, which bas been a heavy sufferer from bank fall- urea. The Interest rate bas declined and did not exceed percent, on call the whole week. Bom commercial paper la now being taken. The rate to-day was SS4 per cent. Silver touched 65 cents an ounce, the lowest price recorded for several months.

This puts the bullion value of our dollars at 60.1 cents. At ex lean dollars Tsro quoted at S0.5 cents. Starting exchange has also declined to a further low figure. Government bonds have been firm and higher this week, and both they and railroad Issues closed firm. The stock market eased off somewhat at the close because the bank statement, really-a very good one, was not properly understood.

The Maine election may put up things. While cotton declined yesterday and day because of aa anticipated bearish) report by Nelll and because of late Improve, meat la crop conditions, th agricultural have at laatt become stronger. The grata export movement continues heavy. Cash wheat was la Cht-'cago to-day. December options closed at 9c.

aa advance of Ho over yesterday. Corn was also firmer, cash corn being Xuc Oats closed dull and low, and has been low all the week. There have been 'but few fluctuations In provisions. Leaf tobacco has been Arm. Cattle were steady; bogs a shade lower than a week ago and sheep dull.

The Iron and steel markets la the North give little evidence of Improvement, but la the South there have been larger speculative orders. Bredatreet's says there are gnral signs of betterment. The outputs, both of Iron and coke, continue to decrease, but stocks do not go down. We bow bear more reports of the opening of mills and factories, though closings of ethers are printed every day, Dun' report there is little decrees la the stock of print cloths, but the price has bean advanced 8-lo and sales have beea heavy. Woolen manufacturers, according to the Wool and Cotton Reporter, havs done a very tight Initial order spring business.

The same authority, however, states that the wool market has seen its worst, SpecuHUvs buying has set in. and the leales this week were up to the normal, Host country dealers are holding their stocks very Arm. Hides have secured a sharp advance, which was further acceler ated by the sale of 100,000 by Swift Co. to ths United States Leather Company. la this city both retail and wholesale trade is better.

Dry goods Jobbers report aa excellent business; 'shoes bave beea helped by the boom la hides; hardware men are well pleased, and of glassware, oil I and paint the sales bave beea large and Increasing sales. The tuna is true of the harness leather, clothing and drug bust, cess. Even the grocers, who have been long complaining, are now saying that this week's trade has been fair. A for the banks the situation appears to bave daily grown clearer, though very little business bas been done. WELCOME.

As a citizen, of the United States and the candidate of a part of Its people for the presidency. Mr. Bryan Is heartily welcome to the city of Louisville. The Courier-Journal joins with) the rest of the people of the city in making this welcome unanimous. What the Courier-Journal thinks of the political views and objects of Mr.

Bryan Is sufficiently, well known to Its readers. But when Kentucky and the city of Louisville welcvme the coming guest, considerations of that kind do rot count. Our political differences we shall settle in the field of open and man ly discussion: but. meantime, we trust and confidently believe that all classes willunlteln giving Mr. Bryan a warm re-copjUonacd a respectful aad patient hear.

That the American method, and. above all, the Kentucky method, not withstanding an exceptional instance or two that have recently occurred. We trust that the National Demo- i crats, who form bo large a part of the population of the city, will, as tar as practicable, attend Mr. Bryan's meet- Ing and give him an attentive bearing-. Especially should they be careful that no Interruption or disturbance of the speaker, no attempt to prevent others from bearing him, shall emanate from any Democrat.

Free speech, la the soul of a republic Let no Democrat be guilty of te slightest discourtesy to Mr. Bryan, or those who assemble to bear him. TO m. BAT as. As a distinguished American and as the choice of three political parties for the presidency of our country, the Courier-Journal btda you, Mr.

Bryant welcome to Kentucky. Ia extending that greeting we speak for all our citizens Irrespective of party. That greeting extended, we now speak for those of our people who disagree with you oa the wisdom of the theory ia advocacy of which you ask the approval of the electors. The audiences which you will address this evening will be made up largely of men who believe our national welfare is dependent upon maintaining the present financial system and reforming its defects, snd who think that the free, unlimited and independent coinage of silver by the United States at the fictitious ratio of IS to 1 would result only in disaster, la holding to these convictions they have no other guides but reason as they understand it, and experience as they know K. If they are wrong, they are willing to be shown their error.

They want the best currency that Is attainable, and If the policy you advocate will insure that currency, they want that. The Courier-Journal can speak for this element of our citizens. It is fighting with all it ability for the gold standard because it believes the gold stand ard necessarily underlies the best currency it is possible to secure. It Is fighting with all it ability against free as proposed by your platforms because It believes that such a policy would quickly place us upon a single silver standard, measuring a debased and fluctuating currency. If we are wrong and you ere right, all we ask is that you show it, and we ehall light for free sil ver Just as sealously as we are fighting for the present standard.

But. Mr. Bryan, you can, not convince us. nor the people for whom we speak, by offering us your unsupported personal opinion. Ton can not convince ue by appealing' to the discontented and the unfortunate to rebel agralnst the existing system, without giving them evidence that the system which you would substitute would be better.

Tou can not convince us by impassioned invocations to- the irresponsible and un thinking revolutionary element which exists under all governments. Tou can not convince us by eulogizing the blessings of "bimetallism' without showing that your policy would result tn bimetallism. There Is the point to which we wish to pin your attention. We have read all the many speeches you have made since your nomination at Chicago, and all your arguments and claims hinge upon this: That the free, unlimited and independent coinage of silver by the United States at 1 to 1 would raise silver to a parity with gold and thus secure and suetata the concurrent circulation in this country the two metals as money. But you bave never shown that this Is anything more than a personal opinion of yours.

Tou bave never. cited one single chapter from the financial history of the world In support of such a hypothesis. Tou simply ask millions of your fellow-Americans to change their Views On thie SUbleCt fcecaucut VA1I, views are different. Tou call upon a great to revolutionise its monetary system merely because you, one man, and confessedly not exceptionally experienced la such matters, havejtaken up the Idea within 'the last few years, that another system would be better. Is it reasonable to expect the American people to change their minds and the American nation to change its fiscal policy without at least some shadow of a satisfactory demonstration that It would be to their interest to do The universal experience of the world tells us that the free, unlimited and Independent coinage of silver by the United States at the ratio of IS to 1 would result la silver monometallism.

None of your arguments or pleas for such Tree coinage, Mr. Bryan, has' the least relevancy or legitimate force until you show that It would result in silver and gold bimetallism. Ia this connection we would direct your attention to the challenge on this page, which we bave published day after day, and which none of your supporters bas been able to successfully 'answer. Answer that challenge. Mr.

Bryan, and you will prove that you bave some solid ground upon which to build your theory. It is all the more incumbent upon you to make such an answer because now and then you have shown some lack of absolute confidence in the Infallibility of your personal opinion on this question. Thus in your recent Milwaukee speech you said: at Is purely a question of supply and demand. If Mexico had been able, with other nations that are now using silver, to furnish a use for all the silver that would go to tb Mexican mint, why, she cuutu nave maintained the parity. If we are able to do U.

taking Into consideration tha demand now vainv uu maintain the parity. We never can tell until try. and our opponents will never anow, because they never would try." Here you confess that, after all, It is an experiment whose result we shall not know until we try It And suppose, upon trial, it should not result as you believe It would. Tou ask us to go through the THE COTJR IE R-J01TBN AL, LOTJIgvEV MOafoAY M0RNI1TQ. SEPTEMBER IJ-ff THE COUETEiJOUBJIlL'S CBAIXEVBE.

We contend that free and unlimited coinage by the United States alone will raise the bullion value of silver to Its coinage value, and thus make silver bull-tor worth 81.19 per ounce in gold throughout the world." (William Jennings Bryan, Speech of Acceptance, August 12, KM, I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past." (Patrick Henry. "Judge the future by the past" Will-' lam Jennings Bryan, Hornellsvllle, N. T-August 29. 189S.

Mr. Bryan, together with all other advocates of the free, unlimited, and Independent coinage of silver at the ratio of IS to 1, who maintain that such a policy would Insure bimetallism In this country rather than sliver monometallism, bases bis sole argument In support of that theory upon the assumption that free coinage under such conditions would raise the price of silver bullion to H.29 aa ounce, and sustain it at that figure, thus making sliver and gold coined at the ratio of 14 to 1 equal la value and insuring their circulation side by side. If this theory la right It will secure us genuine bimetallism. If it la wrong it would force, upon us disastrous silver monometallism. Upon the correctness of this theory, therefore, depends the justification of every claim made by Mr.

Bryan for the free, unlimited and independent coinage of silver by the United States. If this theory Is correct, let the proof be offered before the nation la asked to accept if. The history of the world Is aa pen book; let Mr. Bryan point to the page which contains his proof. The Courier-Journal makes this fair proposition: X.

If Mr. Bryan or any other human being, will show that this country, when It had the free coinage of both silver and gold at the ratio of Is to or any other ratio, was ever able to bring the bullion value of both metals to the coinage value and keep them together, thus securing and maintaining their circulation as money side by side, and preventing one from expelling the other. the Courier-Journal will withdraw all opposition to the free coinage of silver. If Mr. Bryan, or any other human being, will show that any nation oa earth, by the free coinage of both gold and silver at any ratio, was ever able to bring the bullion value of both metals to the coinage value and keep them together, thus securing and maintaining their circu- lation as money side by side, and preventing one from expelling the other, the Courier-Jour-, nal will withdraw all opposition to the free coinage of silver.

We submit that if no nation has ever been able to bring and keep together the bullion and coinage values of the metals when those values differed very little, it Is preposterous to assume that any nation could do it to-day, when those values are so wide apart. precede the change of systems, only for sj uncertainty, which, should It turn out contrary to your opinion, would force us to a system of monometallism, against whose evUe you have eioqueret-ly inveighed. And you ask us to take this tremendous risk and make this change, without offering us even a pretense of proof that the result would be what you hope it would be, and what you beUve It would be. In all candor. Mr.

Bryan, do you not think you are asking too much? One other question. Mr. Bryan. There will be many among your auditors tonight who, disastrous as they conceive your financial policy would.be, fear a greater evil than free silver from your election. Tou object because It has been charged against your platform, that It upholds anarchy.

This charge is based upon the fact that the platform In effect condemns the action of the President of the United States In enforcing the laws of the United States during the Debs riots, without which enforcement anarchy would have been supreme. Attorney General Harmon. In a remarkably clear exposition of the law, which you should read as a lawyer. If not as a candidate, thus concludes: "It must be that Mr. Bryan, amid the many demands on his time and attention.

nas xauen into inadvertence. I can not believe that he really thinks the President has no power under the Constitution and laws to maintain the government Intrusted to his charge. Nor can I believe that Mr. Bryaa means to promise or to make or permit others to think he ha promised not to Interfere if he should be elected and the situation of the riots of 1894 should arise during his term. I will not lightly question either his knowledge as a lawyer These are plain questions, and call for plain answers.

Tou claim to be a plain man and a bold -man. Tou won your nomination by plain-speaking and bold-speaking. Will you answer these two questions plainly and boldly. In accordance with your repeated assurances that you want the votes of none who do not share your opinions? Answer them and we shall not trouble you witn others regarding your ulti mate policy of irredeemable paper, your ambiguous attitude toward the tariff, your advocacy of the spoils system, your partiality for paternalism, your assault upon the right of contract. Nor shall we ask how you voted In 1882.

nor revive reminiscences of your threats to bolt the Chicago convenUon If It should fall to declare for free sUver; holding you th rather In admiration for your manliness In proclaiming your Intention to bolt a party which should not represent your principles. WUl you be as manly, before expecting the votes of the people, to show them that you are right when you say that free coinage would secure bimetallism, and to tell them what you panic, whlchl you have admitted 1 bare, done had Cleveland's place during the Debs THE VATTEEWS SESOLUTTOV. (To the Editor of the Courier-Journal.) I shall be very glad Indeed If you will explain why the Secretaries of the National Treasury have refused to be gov. erned by the resolution Introduced In the Senate by Hon. Stanley Matthews in the latter part of December.

1877, which. It Is claimed, was adopted by both Senate and House and which provided that the Treasurer should pay ail bonds and suppose 'greenbacks' In silver dollars of 412H grains weight each or In gold as be preferred. Did that resolution ever become a law? If not. what kept It from becom ing a law binding and mandatory oa the What is the difference between a concurrent aad a Joint resolution? The last question, you need not answer, if it consumes too much space, as It may not be of general Interest, but the others seem to me are. ED THOMAS.

"Fulton, Ky. Our correspondent misconceives the Matthews resolution, both as to Its tenor and Its effect. It was a mere expression of opinion, and not a law; and it did not express the opinion that the bonds should be paid In silver, but merely that they were so payable at the option of the United States. To show this, we here give the resolution itself, omitting the long preamble, which Is only argumentative and historical: "Be It resolved by the Senate of the United States (the. House of Representative concurring therein).

That, all tha bonds of the United States tosued or authorised to Je issued under the said acta of Congress herein before recited are payable, principal and Interest, at the option of the Government of the United States In silver dollars of the coinage of the United States, containing 412 grains of standard silver; and that to restore to Its coinage such silver coins as a legal-tender payment of said bonds, principal and interest, is not la violation of the publlo faith or his sincerity as a publlo man. Certain- I Pr derogation of the rights of the pub- turn tetter as generally misunaerstooa un less It means either that Mr. Bryan thinks the President has no power or that he would himself not use It if elected." Tou can settle the question a to your sympathy with anarchy, Mr. Bryan, by assuring us how you would act if. In the words of the Attorney General, you "should be elected and the situation of the riots of 18M should arise during your term." Or.

to put It In another form, will you say, Mr. Bryan, -whether or not. If you bad been President In 1894, you would bave acted as Mr. Cleve land acted with regard to the Chicago riots? lia creditor. This resolution wa submitted to th Senate January 14, 1878, and not in December, 1877.

and was passed. On the 29th of the same month it passed the House. It was never presented to the President, such not being the practice with reference to concurrent resolution. If it bad been a Joint resolution and had gone to the President, he would have refused his assent This resolution was passed before the so-called Biand-Alllson act became a law. The House had passed a bUl ofTered by Mr.

Bland for the free coinage of silver. When It got to the Senate, Mr. Beck, of Kentucky, offered a substitute to coin $3,000,000 a month on Government account, which to about what we are doing now. This resolution was referred to th Finance Committee, of which Mr. Allison was chairman, and that committee changed the three millions a month Into not less than two or more than four millions a month.

It was not, therefore, the Bland-Allison Bill, but the Beck Bill with an Immaterial amendment which became a law. This law altered the situation because it provided for the Issue of silver on Government account only, the Government buying silver at a discount, coin ing It and paying It out at par with gold. Thus arose certain equities which would not bave existed if the dollars bad been coined and Issued on private account at their market value. The distinction between a concurrent and a joint resolution Is of great interest to any one who desires to know the effect of the Matthews resolution. The concurrent resolution appears to be an invention of Congress to avoid submitting certain resolutions to the President It violates Article I.

Section 7. subsec tion 3. of the Constitution, which, pro- vote Sen arte mavtbe of the rree Matthews ka 01 lure to present to the President la concerned era! I A A point readings. proved to which the concurrrrice of the and House of Representatives necessary, (exception a question Bjournment) shall be presented to ident of the United States." The resolution, therefore, had no validity, being in fact, so far aa a plain violation of the Fed- -onstltutlon. resolution must bave three like a bill, and miwt be ap- by the President before It be comes operative.

See Digest of Rules and Practices of the House, Fifty-sec ond Congress, first session, page 457. The satme manual says that the distinction between joint resolutions and bills la not ciosely observed. A Joint resolution is aa binding as a law. while a concur rent resolution is a mere expression of opinion, and in a case like that mentioned a usurpation of the functions of the Supreme Court. A CHABCB TO T.Tiamr.

Those free-silver leaders who are trying to prevent country merchants from buying their goods in Louisville instead of going to that Republican, stronghold. Cincinnati, ought to take a walk along Main street to-day. When they see the number of boxes and cases on the sidewalk ready for shipping, the hurrying teams on the streets and the customers la the stores, they will realize that the trade of this big and beautiful city ta aa good this fall as that of any other town In the country. Let our silver friends also talk to the visiting merchants from Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama. Kentucky and Indiana.

They will find them busy but courteous, and every one a believer In the soundest of money. They will also find that these gentlemen, who are not In business for their health or aa a mean of carrying elections, will report that they come to Louisville because they can get goods cheaper and better here than elsewhere and that freight rates to their homes are lighter. Furthermore, these merchantsthe word of whom Is as good as gold on Main street, as well as in their own communities wUl tell them candid-ly that their observation Is that the Bryan and Bewail strength Is not only waning, but that it has been greatly overestimated, as they have learned from confidential talks with their cus tomers. We hope that the honest believers In silver will come here to-morrow In. large numbers.

We do not believe they dream of boycotting Louisville merchants or Louisville voters; they will learn that they have no reason to do so, and that If they attempt It it will not alarm men who are standing by their convictions. At any rate, gentlemen, no leu now than In the days to come, when you will realize that we were right as well aa conscientious In our beliefs, we extend you a welcome and hope that you will acquire useful knowledge on this trip In more than one direction. WITHOUT A SINGLB EXCEPTION EVERT ARGUMENT MADE BT MR. BRYAN IN FAVOR OF THE FREE. UNLIMITED AND INDEPENDENT COINAGE OF SILVER BTTHE UNITED STATES IS BASED UPON THE ASSUMPTION THAT IT WOULD SECURE US BIMETALLISM.

ADMITTING, FOR ARGUMENT.THAT BIMETALLISM WOULD DO EVERYTHING MR. BRYAN CONTEVD8 TT- WOULD DO, ALL DISCUSSION BT HIM OF THE BENEFITS OF BIMETALLISM IS IRRELEVANT UNTIL HE CAN PROVE. IN THE FACE OF at.t. PAST EXPERIENCE. THAT THS POLICY OF FREE.

UNLIMITED AND INDEPENDENT COINAGE OF SILVER BT THE UNITED STATES WOULD RESULT IN BIMETALLISM AND NOT IN SILVER MONOMETALLISM. THIS IS THE WHOLE CASE AS. NOW PRESENTED. If free silver has made any impression upon New England. Mr.

Bryan ought to get some encouragement the return from the Maine election tonight Maine is the home of one of his associates on the ticket Moreover, Maine was not so many years ago a hot bed of greenbacklsm. and the microbe of greenbacklsm one prevalent are never entirely exterminated during the life of the victim. Greenbacklsm and free sllverlsm only differ In degree. Beside. Mr.

Bryan stands for both free sllverlsm and greenbacklsm of the worst kind, as proved by his record and his platform. So If be Is to get anything from New England he 'should surely get It from Maine. Th awful calami tie to befall the cltl-sen of this country, when the thirteen billions of trust funds and savings are cut in two, when the nation's trade Is demoralised and disordered, and the nation's honor is sullied, no man can predict That they will be far-reaching and deatructiv we know; but the extent of the dimeter beyond conjecture. (Seoauor Caffery, at the Auditorium. And yet Mr.

Bryan demands that the people of the United State shall make the experiment of free coinage and risk these "awful calamities" upon no stronger proof whatever than hi own unsupported personal opinion that the experiment would succeed, and silver would rise to a parity with gold, Th corr eapondent vf a Cinclnnatlo Popoc ratio newspaper telegraphed his journal that ther were a thousand empty seats In the Auditorium Saturday night, and that 60 per cent of the audience were women. There Is a field for this young man outside of journalism. Hi true vocation to the reading of gas meters. If Mr. Bryan can not or will not answer any of the question addressed to him by th Courier-Journal this morning, he will find some pertinent Inquiries by CoL Thomas W.

Bullitt In this Issue. The people hereabout are fond of oratory, but they just now want facta. The opening of the mint to free coinage of silver would mean the closing of many mills to th working-man, and the payment by those which remained you beea in Mr. vide that "every, order, resolution. -a el wages In a fifty-cent dollar.

IN AND ABOUT KENTUCKY. 552X tw. Two prominent Lanrtnrt An 1 a IiMm maae speeches at Beettyvill the other day. but they do not seem to have set the woods on lire. The Beattyvllls Enterprise say: "Aa a political speech Judge Smith's effort was a poor one.

and It had no other effect than to give Denny an op portunity to male a few hits for the delectation of the element that always laugh when therea half a chance. Smith said some chaste and pretty thing and told a story that was Just a little Indelicate and" would have been better unsaid. There was nothing In Denny's reply but a little pleasantry, and the Republicans manifested their delight by lusty yells. But when it was all over there stood th gaping crowd no wiser than when they came, and two distinguished gentlemen from Lexington returned to their home Tuesday morn-ua each with a puncture In the tire of his reputation for 'The Ma Held Mirror, formerly a aound-tooaer paper, la furiously advocating th claims of Populist Ben Key for Congress in the First district The Hawesvill Plalndealer says: "A petition will be made to th Council to pas a curfew ordinance, compelling boy under sixteen years of age to be at home by o'clock. This would not only help the boys, but would do away with the excuse that some of their father give, who remain out till i or o'clock la the morning, stating that they are hunting for their coys.

The Mayfleld Monitor la determined that the silveiites must put up or shut up. It submits this proposition: "A reward of I2S win be given, not for the names of Republicans, but of fifty In Graves county who have agreed to vote for Bryan and Saw all at th November election. The writer is not a Republican, but he is tired of having such Ue published to the world; and therefore he makes the above proposition. The above offer Is open to any one. and on receipt of the fifty names and their statements that they Intend to vote for the free-silver nominees, the money will be paid.

Now, let these Ananlase either put up or shut up. as honest people are growing weary of their racket" Frankfort people cherish a never-dying grudge against their ancient enemy. Lexington, The Frankfort Roundabout say: "The paper announce that the Fiscal Court of Fayette county, on Saturday, made arrangements to purchase on acre of land, about three miles from the city or Lexington, for the purpose of tendering the same to the State that one of th two 'Stat Houses of Reform for Juvenile Offenders' may be placed thereon. Wonder bow this honorable body screwed Its courage up to offering such a big bonus to the State for this school? Its extravagance Is perfectly awful." A tramp who yesterday canvassed Pleas, ant street, for pure unadulterated impudence and villainy is enutled to the palm, says the Paris News. Having approached an inviting-looking residence.

uiud the pretty young mis who wa queea of the household tor something to eat He was told that there was nothing left but some cold biscuit. He accepted the proffered food and apparently took hi departure. Th young lady went about her duties and was seated near a window absorbed In her work, when she was suddenly startled by several missile being thrown through th open window, narrowly missing her head. On closer observation sha recognised tb biscuits but shortly before given to the tramp, but the Insolent beggar could nowhere be seen, a he had taken a hasty leave. The young lady told the New she had read the Scripture about "bread cast upon the water returning after man days," but this was her first experience of its literal and novel fulfillment.

Congressman Hendrlck did not los his own county, Livingston, In the recent First district primary. He carried it by a majority of 123. me 4tchneid Gazette says: O. Jones is looking for the fellow who passed a raised HO bill upon him a few days ago. mil and over the numbers la pasted a large 10, doubtless cut from an advertising bllL Two of the large ten ar used and also the words ten dollars' are pasted over thedenomlnatlon in thecen-' ter.

The other figure upon th bill ar blurred or covered with dirt and wax, making It a clever counterfeit though easily discernible on dose Inspection." William Martin, a colored man. now un der indictment at Henderson, ha made a remarkable record as a criminal. He to forty years old. In 187 be was sent to State prison for three year. Ia 1879 he wa sentenced for six year and pardoned after serving a year.

In 1890, he was again convicted of grand larceny and under an old statute, ent to the penitentiary tor ninety-nine year. He was pardoned in 1891 and in 1892 wa sent up for three year. Now he to in trouble again. If he Is convicted under an Indictment now pending against him, sentenced to the minimum penalty provided by th law, ninety-nine years. It- will mak a total of 210 years he ha been Called upon to serve the State.

Tb Middleborough News says: "The people ta America ar so patriotic that each one thinks his native State Is greater than any other Stateif not greater In material development in schools or something which statistic will prove, then It to greater la the Intelligence of the people. This to noticeable in Middles borough, where so many State ar represented. Th small boys have taken up th same feeling and one from Tennessee aad on from Kentucky got Into a discussion. Th Tennessee boy said: 'Look at Kentucky. Th other day they bad a bicycle race in a town there.

The first prize was a watermelon, the second prise a sack of peanuts and the third some parched corn. The Kentucky boy replied: 'Look at Tennessee. At a fair over there they had an race. The first prise was two pound oi goose i earners and the second prise wa a pound of State Political Mention. -Winchester Jefferson lan Democrat: "Bryan to neither flesh, fowl nor good red herring.

Th real Democrat repudiate him, and th middle-of-she-road -Populists reject him." Mayfleld Mirror: "Andy Halt, out tinner and Republican, on Main street says he can get 8S09 of Republican nun, bet against 250 Democratic dollar that Bryan will go under at th election." -Owlngsville Outlook: "All the cranks, sensationalists, new women and such are etmer in tongu or writing im plement for Bryaa. Such a variety of erratic follower no presidential candidate ever had before." Maysville Publlo Ledger: "The manager of tb Popocratlo campaign in thl we" a a D-a-d set Not satisfied with trying to hoodoo the farmer and the working-man with a flfty-three-cent dollar, they have gone off and done and did It by renting as headquarters a big building. 1J West Second street Goodbye, boys!" -Mt Sterling Gazette: are reliably Informed that at the fre-aMvr meeting at the Levee last Thursday night on of the orators of the occasion declared: 'Sil ver we want and silver we must have; a or to ballot, we will gat It by the bayonet' Thl ia tn en Lira accord with tb anarchist platform adopted at Chicago. Will the people Indorse such revolutionary declarations? BurksvUle Herald: "Our ntmmi. friend ar constantly telling about th free-silver Republicans.

Ask for their name and you are told of a fellow "Just over th hill." Go over th hill and you are told that he la 'Just over another hiu. So far. hav been ainable ta.fiad neriana county, Catron says there Is not a single one Soule Smith and Judge George- Denny. Clin ton county DOWN IN DIXIE The hanging of Hanye at Sheriff Barnes H. and all he received trvm th county wa 10.

and that erally given to th man who pull th trap. A session of th Legislature Is a costly luxury to a State. The Nashville Banner ays: "Th mileage cost to -the extraordinary session of the ar abi Legislature will be about IJ.0W, whether the session last twenty day. Thl amount distributed through twenty days would mak en average of US a day. As the per diem of the members amounts te WOO a whole expense a day.

Including Incidentals, is easily over 0.000. Marshall Furgerson, who lived In Gwinnett county, near Stone Mountain, and who died two weeks ago, was a remarkable man. say the Savannah New. had reached th age of elxhty-six. aad he and his wife bad lived together for over sixty years.

II mads forty-two crops, with two horses, having plowed on for twenty and the other for twenty-two years. LEAVING A SINKING SKIP. It I not a a Cabinet officer, but as a citizen that Mr. Francis define- hi position, and the influence of hi example will not be small. (Brooklyn Eagle.

Th artuation la unDrecedented In na tional politics. Th Cabinet of the only President tb hav had in power since the days of James Buchanan repudiate and openly oppose th "regular" nominee of the party. It shows that la th present crisis the leaders of th Democracy will not hesitate to put citizen-ship above party when the faith of that party ha beea betrayed by th force now in temporary command of Its affairs. (Ohio Stat Journal. Th fact that Col.

Lamont has, outspoken way, declared his preference and defined what understands ancient Democracy to be, will bave a powerful Influence In his own State, especially upon thousand of them who have been hesitating in regard to Bryan. (St Paul Dispatch. THE PRESIDENTIAL TICKETS National Democratic. Nominated at Indlanapolla Sept A 'For President John McAuley Palmer of Illinois. For Vice President Simon Bolivar Buck-ner of Kentucky.

Kree Stiver Democratic-Nominated at Chicago, July 19 and It For President William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska. For Vice President Arthur Bewail of Maine. Ttepwblicaa.1 Nominated at St Louis, June 18. For' President William McKlnley of Ohio, For Vice President Garr at Augustus Hobart of New Jersey. People's Party.

Nominated at St Louis, July tf and 27. For President William Jennlng Bryaa of Nebraska. For Vice President Thomas EL Watson of Georgia. Prohibitionist. Nominated at Pittsburgh.

May 27. For President Joshua Levering of Maryland. For Vice President Hal Johnson of 1111. neia National IParty (Offshoot Front Pro bibltlonlsts). Nominated at Pittsburgh.

May U. For President Charles Bentlcy of Nebraska. For Vice President Jamea Haywood South gate of North Carolina. Socialist-Labor. Nominated at New York.

July For President Charle E. Matchatt of New York. For Vic President Matthew Maguire of New Jersey. A LITTLE NONSENSE. PreaervedL 'She seems well preserved." "She? She' a regular canned peach." (ietroit Tribune, Needed It.

"That young widow next door nought a bicycle." "isn't that a trill odd?" "No; she says she had to have It so sh could carry flowers out to the cemetery." (Chicago Record. That Settled It. He What did your father say whan you told him that I loved -you? "He aaid he did also." (Life, Beating th Mpark. Sheriff Hav you any last word to say? Condemned (in the electrio chalrw-This to so sudden. (New York Press.

Sign of Dawn. (Montgomery Advertiser.) Every true Democrat In Alabama will rejoice that Tillman has at last received a black eye in South Carolina la the defeat of his maa Evan la th senatorial primary. Gen. Earle's victory I a sign of dawn for the South Carolina. Democracy Earle first opposed Tillman for th guber- natorial nomination in 1890, when the Boutn, and though Tillman through th AUlancVeapt-ured the Democratic party.

Earl ha u-nr uiuiiipuru. in tyranny and corruption of the Tillmaa raglm have die- imo iwiia( in dial. Cowardice and Treachery. (New Tork Sun.) In the whole history of American politics there Is no parallel for the baseness exhibited by Stat convention elected aa Democratlo in vacating their honest money declaration and conviction, for- iiy maoe ana expressed only a few months ago. and bowing down In humbl obeisance to the vile Idol of Populist repudiation! There ar no word severe Fivrai crioe sucn coward-Ice and treachery.

It la utterly absolutely despicable. And so th people will say next November. A Pipe Line. (Chicago New) Paducah. and Rome.

Italy, have been visited alike by earthquakes. This suspicious sympathy and telepathic unanimity of souls rather point to th existence of a pipe line for tilts. aatw1iiaw Kentucky's own product through to th ther slde Politics In Kentucky. (St Louis Globe-Democrat.) Kentucky went Republican last year and the conditions which caused her to do still exist, with th difference only that th Democrat were stronger Uvea than K- ta. a vaim Provincialism In Arkansas.

(Dallas New) The people of an Arkansas town arose en mass and ordered a school teacher to quit th place because be said y-thr and ny-tber. Bnt Not By Anarchy. (Baltimore American.) War baa beea made on the toll-gates In Kentucky. Toll-gate ar relic of other days. They should go.

A War Cry Fr -na Pennsylvania. (Philadelphia Record.) Hurrah for Palmer and Buckner! Down With repudiation, and repudiate. CAMPAIGN TALK. (To the Editor of the Cccrier-JourriaJ. Welaka.

Fla, Sept pleas find my check for Si for which pleas ni th Dally Courier-Journal. Sunday- Included. I wa present yesterday a TSwSa meeting of the self-styled D-oJcracVof the Bryan aad Bewail persua. Soand wa very much mortified to he, one of the speakers arraign Gn. 8.

Buckner In th most abusive manner, charging E.ubstanc that trust and unnecessarily surrendered Fort Donelso te the enemy. hi. were to end Mr ef I it would not be worthy of notice. but a the gentlemen can offer no logical argument to sustain their own position to destroy uai crat I look for this to be their manner of conductSi -tli campaign, military record ana tu be ha7 been honored mc th war. of i th.

lia to all such slander and I will be very much surprised If such assaults are not resented a they should) with their ballots by my old comrad ZTT i i hnnnr at aervlng under UUaV wnw had thhonor of being a private In r.nL Ned afeniweather' company, Flfwt Kentucky cavalry. tT manded by Capt Jo William, Two braver or more noble men Kentucky never produced. This company was detached and put under th then CoL R. Forrest and served under him at th battl of Fort Doneisoo. so I think I ought toi know something of that event My fra pressioa ha always been that Gen.

Buck-ner'a course on that occaelon was fully; justified by hi superior officers and eared him more than vr to his ewoi command. Gen. Palmer also cam In for bis share, of abus. Epithet were applied to hln and th bloody shirt" was waved In as manner that would hav caused th in-i ventor of thi once famous garment tar, hav bluahed for very sham If he eouldi have been present It 1 gratifying toi know, however, that there are thoa who. will be very much surprised at th thousand of Democrat In thi Stat who will prefer to vot for Gen.

Palmer, who might hav been politically wrong thirty-odd year. ago, but who ha been right for a long period of years and who now stand for; a Democratic candidate, rather than nun aha ha never been rlxht and whH I represents a platform so far reaching that, in tnis I tne vicious and turbulent organ laa-l tlona of the country feel invitea to oom and partake of tb feast and ar apparent-! ly climbing over each other In order to cur a foothold on this und em oc ratio structure. If you deem It of sufficient Inrnertanee- I feel sure that you would no nunarwo of th reader of your valuabl paper av favor If you com to the defense of Oen.1 Buckner a agMprt the abovementioned, charge. C. UlLCmU-T.

LYNCH LAW IN AMERICA." Colored Cltlset Ha a Word tox Say Against Some of HI Mlaguidedi rellows, (To th Editor of the Courier-Journal) Louisville to a city In which the moeftj amlcabl relation exist between the whttej citizens and the colored citizen. This' bas been th case for many years. Th Courier-Journal ha don much to brine; about thi condition. Al tor conversant; with th fact which brought about th bitter denunciation of th Southern peoplejj by th agitation at who base to Ida Bar-! aett Weils. Our country has been slandered until many ecroe the ocean think th average Southern man to more blood-, thirsty than is pictured the Armenian, Turk.

Those of ua living In America, la th South, know bow baa and false Is this reputation given our citizen and know further the narrow feeling harbore. by the average colored cltlsen la imM'Uiw and kindred matter. I Circular are now being distributed foav "Lynch Law In America." by, Ida B. Well. In thl city.

This, of oounau, I a business matter, but to find a meetlna; of this kind, a meeting who purpose Is to stir us aalmoaitv batwMm tn jia managed by our publlo colored school teachers, demand attention. It will be. Interesting to who are doing this. Reception, Committee. N.

L. Fry teacher in Western school; H. H. LJ Valle, teacher in Western school; R. Rogers, teacher In Western school; V.

Anderson, teacher Shelby-street; S. BU. teacher Eastern; i. A. Nugent teacher Eaatern; M.

E. Fowl, teacher est em; A. M. Bowman, teacher West-rrnV B- Alexander, teacher Katra J. Alexander, teacher Western; D.

wEJS4, Central; L. N. Dt! Vail; Principal California colored school; a. uTJ Hutchinson, teachar Main-street; William Lewi, Janitor Eastern; William H. Principal Western colored; A.

K. Meyseek. Prtnc pai Eaatern colored; J. McKlnley Principal Portland colored; 8. Helms, teacher Eastern colored; M.

teacher In Ormsby colored; P. L. WU1 prof eeaor In Colored High School. Committee. Wm.

H. Perry, Principal Wtera colored school; K. Meyseek. Lrn colored school; J. McKlnley, Principal Portland colored cho': J- 8.

Cotter, Principal Ormaby colored school; A C. Payne, Principal Maiden Lane colored school. ow, Mr. Editor, the eolorad nennl- make the greatest effort to kill any of their number who are willin- duce the people of America and of the they say in particular, her unite ano race animosity of th provoiolnd U'ey If these professor com out thus' openly toberat their fellow-cttlsena. wbatnarC, fwne and prejudice must they teach laj their eeveral departmental I-- P-c''r see tit thus to US their K- the visiting generatloa let u.

hav these agitators quieted so long a th tney traduce pay thorn to teacto th youth of our city. COLORED CITIZEN. PERSONAL NOTES. On account of a recent death la the fam-i My the Gathright-Ball wadding Thursday evening- will be a very quiet one. cJJ Curry, of Harrodsburg.

I 1 thj Miss Muteon and Mtos May Master-son, of Houston, ar at th Loutovillej' Mr. R. S. Stout Versailles, Is regis-1 tered at.lh Loulsvlll Hotel. "a1-! T- a Rw- W- K.

Harrison and John W. Bibb, of Russell vlll. torn, advance guard to hear th Bryaa speak- Hotels En-nn. after vtoltlng baa, aunt Mrs. R.

a Glle. ha left for h' home at Ellzabethtowi- hW. country, and children returned! yeateroay from a visit tn th-J Oal to Naw Hamhlrr; mDth'' Mrs. William A. Sniv-i.

eminent Eptocopal mlm.u'waV'gVaVuU,; at bar bom, street ft s-irsa oeeai vary ill far time and a host oflrtoude'hav. ceUedM mental WOman ot hl "alaJ Kentucky People at Naah.iti- -Roo I13l'-L-Nkholsom Roger O. McGreth, Louisville i rT Louisville, Maxwell-H. B- Lyon, Eddyvm, Kentucky People fa Chicago. Akfor, Great Northern; M.

Lewis Clark. Louisville. kL. Loulsvlll. Clifton Troy.

Loulavllt. CUftonJ An Important'Bveaa, CKanaaa City gtJlr.) Tb formal notification of Senaie- v.l "dIn' Buckner ttSZt "ZtZlfT PrealdioTrt spectlv.ly by th gdd-eteoderd Naiii will occur thl. evening at Louisville. and it wm.