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lateral thct PotMfflOHM DeaUur, UUnoU.i Mond olmu mall nation. THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1898. NATIONAL REPUBLICAN TICKET WILLIAM Tor Pnuldint, I Ohli l-'ar OARRKT A. HOUAKT Jersey REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET, Governor Tiinno Zdcutormnt timi'mor A. Xorthcot Becrtitoiry of rftnto 3.

Kos Auditor ,1 il. MoCtillough TrrajniiOT Henry L. Herb Atturmiy Oununil K. 0. Alkoi XTnlvurilty Tniitueit--I? M.

McKay, Chi T. Smith, Ctmmpulgn. Mrs Mury Tumor CuiTlol, Clerk nf thu Nnrthurn Oriiml Division, Uniiruinu Chris Mmne Clark of Chu Cciitnil Oraiiil Division, Huprtmie Court. A. A.

Cmtwiilltulo Clerk of thu Southorn Uruml Division, ynprmim Court. H. Miibr; Clerk or thu Hiieoml District, Appullnto C. Duffy Clerk of thu Third Judicial District, Appoltittu Court W. Hlblmn Clork of thu Fourth Judicial District, Apnullivtn Emerson CONGRESSIONAL TICKET.

I7tli For C.PiixroM A. CONNOU.V for Mombnr Htutu o( llutircl rilUMAM I.KAVITT Kliwtor II N. 80UUV1.EK REPRESENTATIVES, W. O. C'ouhrnti JBUKM hhtirrock Moultrlu Count; Chrlstluu Count COUNTY TICKET.

Tor Stittui Attoruuy Isiuio Mill For Circuit Clurk. Diivlrt Jj. Fosto for Coronor Boudur For V. LorlDf Who can Intvo thu hvnrt, itftor looking nt thi) pluturos of bho limiting Populist published by thu Ht Louis Olobo-Doino orat to I i what thuy will do In thol COIIVUIltlun, Thu nrtlst who oonculvod tho lllustni tloti ot thu DtitnopopullHt putty whuroby In rupremintutl by orosH batwooti ftoosonmt it domiky Is on titled to known us gotiltis. Alt thnso ponplo who say tho ciiiinpnlgt not ho upouod i Saptombor don" know iinythlng about tho tompor of tK pooplu.

Among thu mnsituo tho campaign Js opun now without Tho Mutnwirntla pnrty uurrlod out noth lug It promised In 18113 and olunrly dom oimcrittuil Its Inability to conduct th jitTalrn of thu government In tho Interest of tho pt'oplo and yat they huvo tho tomcr ity to try to i tho comliiK aluotloii ou other prmnliMM. "If tho same rnto of bolting Is maintain ad i Nuvunibor MoKlnloy will go juoro Duniorcntlo votus thnn Drynn bu WoKlnluy will not got iv single nuttrchU or I'opullst voto, They will stand by th Chicago platform which Is a bid voto of ovory lnhmnollto In tho land wlios bund against tho hand of uvory num. "Thu platform adopted at Chicago mirs (ioncral Sloklus, "It one that mnkoi JIM ohooso butwuun my party and my country, as 1 did In 1801, and no pnrt; a right to claim what uulongs to olio's country." There are thousands loyal DumocratH who toko tho sumo vlov of tho situation, and whonu votus will bo cant for tho protcctlun of tho natlona honor, C. C. Loforguu as vcation why hi jtowr supports Urynn and freo sllvuraftoi milking lights In Mm county convon ilon for sound money Is that he yields to tho majority.

As a rulo It Is proper to yield to tho majority but not always upon a great principle Involving tho weal or woo of tho pepolo, Upon the orjr thoru would hnva hcun HO Cnlubs nut! It li not the acuity of monojr that Is tha country. It Is tho lack of ihu uii nt It In tin 1 employment of labor. Uitdor protection when tho pooplo wore employed thorn was plenty of money, Them Is Just at much In tho country now IM there prior to Cleveland's Inaugu- mtlon '1 ho Is thu IHmiuuratx upset the conditions that employed lahor and nuulu the i'nuntry and there I no tndiicoment now to Invest money where It twill Qiiiuloy labir. Thu 'lexat Middle of-tho-rond t'opiillits nro trying to ho conslstutit. They say that In Totas they Imvu ehiiraotorUcd tho JDomocmtlu party a harlot and pointed 4o tlwlr party as a and, thoroforv, they say they cannot afford to oncourago any cninmunlcatlon botwoou tho harlot and tho virgin.

'Iho Urynn porhnpt, proceeding upon tho principle luld down In tho divine Injunction, "Lot him that Is without sin case the first In that duo there will bo no jflumagu, no matter how milligram tho hotws nmy be In that How's poor man going to get gold dollars?" shouts rt silver enthusiast. How Is a poor man going tn got silver dollars' Will the silver after lutvlng from MO 000 000 to yonr coined, give tho dollars to tho poor? Not much. Tho poor man will not bo fltdc to got silver dollars except by working for them tho same ho works for gold And after ho gotatbosll- TOT dollars ha will find thnl they are worth but half as much, while ho hng worked just ns ban) to got them. Tha aiobo'Domooral: The working- jMn of tbli country we and InteUgrat, and they can be wiled upon to discover that tho diver policy of tbo Democratic party will, if carried Into reduce thu purchasing power of their wages and Increase tho coat of llv ing nt the same time. The advance In thu coot of living wo aid bo Immediate tho advance In wages would bo very slow and would not In years equal tbo ndvnnc In tho oust of living.

If history does no teach this, It does not tench anything. Tho voter who Is honestly looking fo: Information an tbo free silver question went away from tho ratification meeting Saturday night as empty as ha got to tbt meeting. It was apparent that those who addressed tho people are for the plat farm and ticket simply because thoy or Democrats and nro ready to subscribe tc anything to win as thuy subscribed to am advocated free trado In 1809. Tho run Democrats, however, don't swallow th platform or tho ticket. Thoy don't wan to win on tho terms proposed.

Ignatius Donnelly Is opposed to th I'apullsts being swallowd by the Demo crats and lu giving hla reasons for It says tbo campaigns of education mud by tho Populists has brought tbo Demo crats to accept their views ns correct am i tho Democrats should therefor surrender to tho Populists. If Ignatln Donnelly has any notion in his head tha free silver Is a matter of education with tho Democrats ho Is mistaken. It I neither a matter of education nor convlc tton with them but a scheme to fool th pooplo In ordnr to win and retain contra of tho government and tho offices, Tho civil war cost tho North or tho gov eminent $3,000,000 a day. This represent cd tho cost of tho army and tbo navy, an represented a market for tho products our people--the mills and tho farmers Hud It not been for this feat nro tho wa would have bankrupted the country; am It was this, In connection with tho no that tho millions of soldiers In tho floli wore removed from competition with th labor of those at homo, that saved th country from tho natural results of cheap money. Even then a day's wages woult not buy us much as a day's wiigus In 18(10 and over one-third less than a day's wages would buy In 1899.

Laboring men Inclined to voto for a CO cont dollu should bear those facts la mind. Costa Ulan, one of tho Central Aiuerl can republics, has struggled along on a silver basis for years, tho result of an at tempt to coin gold and silver wlthon discrimination against either metal an keep them nt a parity at 10 to 1, but I has learned by hard experience that thl could not only not bo done but that It de prlvad tho country of tho stability given by gold us tho measure of value. Las week tho government decided to adop gold us tho standard and It so pleased tb pooplo that thoy celebrated tho event nl over tho country. Tho pooplo will now bo ablu to hnvo gold and silver both In circulation--to have bimetallism. Ou free slhorltos will, however, lenrn noth Ing by this example for tho very slmpl reason that they nro owned by tho sllve: mlno owners of silver producing states.

Mr. lOdward Atkinson, tbo well-know: politician eeonomtst, writing on the sllvo question several years ago, said: "Th annual value of the silver product Isabou gold. Tho production tho ban yards of tho United States, ao cording to tho census statistics, was, 1 187), 150,910,910 dozen eggs, and, if hon have Increased in tho ratio of population It Is now 500,000,000 doion, a only 10 cunts a would exceed th value of tho product of tho silver mines. It would be vastly more reasonable fo congress to order tho compulsory pur ohaso ol 1 $3,000,000 worth of eggs pe month, "lu order to sustain tho ben products of tho United States," than 1 to buy $3,000,000 worth of silver; bo cause tho eggs could bo elso would rot, whllo tho silver can not be used, nni Is expensive to storo and to watch. Itobcrb I.

Hunt, If correctly reported a thu Uryuu ratloflatlon meeting Is undo tho Impression that tbo "Irredeemable greenback nud tho Sherman treasury notes nro reissued nftor redemption by a whim of tho lust two secretaries of the treasury. By an not of congress bearing dato May 1878, tho retirement or do struetlon of United legal tender nutvs nftor redemption was not only for bidden but it directs tho treasurer tha "thoy shall bo reissued and paid out again and kept In circulation. Tho treasury notes Issued under tho so called Sherman law, in payment for silver bullion, wore redeemable la coin and it was provided that thuy might be roliisued at tho dlscro tlon of tho secretary of tbo treasury. Wa Infer that Mr Hunt Is In fnvor of retiring the greenbacks and tho Sherman notes to stop tho "endless chain" which Is tho discovery of an improvident Democratic administration. In this ho Is far removed from candidate Bryan as that gentleman not only opposed tho repeal of the Sherman silver pucrhnso law and was In favor of continuing additions to this "endless chain" and Is opposed to changing tho law for the reissue of the greenbacks.

Tho national convention of building and loan associations mot In Phllndel phla, today, Tho dolcagtos will represent 2,000,000 members and $100,000, 000 of Invested capital all paid a gold bash as everything else has been transacted since tho war and for many years before It. Tho free sllverltos pro wso, by tbo freo coinage of silver, to rob ho Investors of one half their capital and ruin tho associations. No people realize this fact more thnn than who hold membership In tho associations and It ez pcoted they will speak out plainly on tho liver question before they adjonrn as the Mississippi and Mlssonrl valleys assocla- lon of hardware dealers that met at Dei Mo I DOS, Iowa, did Tuesday. These are of people who understand business principles and bavo Rome regard for business honesty. They cannot bo allured rom tho paths of logical bnilnen by any promise tbnt In a new and depreciated standard of silver they may ante to bMt Uwlr all for tte of' a tew silver mine owners.

Tho convictions of such people mean much as against those who in the poverty of their prinoi pies would start revolution and a long train of discordant Issues that perhaps would not be settled without the shed ding of blood, Their convictions mean that the country will turn to the Bepnb llcan party in Novomebr to save it from further ruin by those who aro iucoiupcteu to govern It. A Free Silverite With McKmley There Is a story to the effect that Ma jor McKlnley cured a free sllverlte of tbi poison In his political blood by a little of common sense that thousands of other men, situated as the free silverito who ap pruached MoKlnloy was should consider The story is told by E. V. SmaUey in Times-Herald and is ns follows: I hear an anecdote hero in Canton which Illustrates Major McEinley's prnc tical wny of reasoning on the silver quoa tlon The othor day an old acqnaintanci called upon him ana told him no was go Ing to voto for tbo freo coinage of silver In his qxiiet, pleasant way the mujo: asked tho man to give his reeusons: owo flvo thousand dollars. I can't see my way to paying it, but I think I eoxild 1 we hud free silver When Is the money inquired tbo major.

"One noti for two thousand dollars Is due next De cember 1, and tho other for three thon sand IB due January 1." Very well. Le us see wbat would happen if the free sll vor men elect their president and elect a majority of tho new house of representa lives. The president might call the new congress together next suppos ing the senate to bo for freo 16 to 1 coin age, a silver bill might be passed by th first of April But what is tbo bank go lug to do with yonr notes when they fal duo next December and January? Is 1 going to extend them so you can pay them olT tn 5li-cont dollars Will not thi bank shut down on you promptly and sell you out?" "I denlnrel never though of that. I'll think tbo matter over care fully." Tho man went away, but two days later be called again and said "Major, I've boon reflecting on that rant ter of ray notes, and I've concluded thai I will not voto for freo silver." A Chapter on Money Making. New Yorjk Sun.

If a man takes a pioc of steel worth 15a and makes of it watch springs worth $100, that Is skill. If ho tnKos a pleco of paper worth 3o and writes on It poem that sells for $50 that is genius, If ho takes a farm worth $6 an acre and by bis labor and knowledge puts i In heart again and makes it worth $2' an acre, that is work. If a man takes a hammer worth 60c and in a day's use of It earns HI 85, that hard work. If a man buys a yearling at a trottlni sale for $15, that In its U-year form de vclopos ability to make a mile at a goto, that is judgment. If a man buys a silver mine ho has nev or seen, and it makes him a millionaire that's hick.

If man buys an article today fo $1.50 and soils it tomorrow for $3.69 that's business. But when government; takes 63 worth of silver and coins It Into a curt wheel, and says legislatively that it 1 lOOo, or a dollar, and pays It out as sac to its creditors, that Is not finance, bu highway robbery. A Democrat. A I'ree Silver Lesson. Thoy have in the United States of Co lumbln, South America, free coinage both gold and silver and hnvo had It fo many years as far buck as 18T3 when sil ver at tho ratio of one ounce of gold to 1 ounces of silver tho latter was at a pro mlum.

There wns no "orlmo" commit ted against silver in that republic but i was permitted to go to the mint for fre coinage on the sumo footing ns gold. Bu it sooms freo coinage rights did not kee up the price of silver to a parity wit gold, but on tho contrary the value of sll ver declined just ns it did in this country and In Europe and the value of an onnc of silver is relatively tbo same there a hero and elsewhere. That country, then is a fair sample of what this couutr would bo under free silver. Luther Konnoy who is United States minister tc Columbia has written a letter to the New World In which he tells all abou the operation and effect of tho free coin ago of silver lu that republic. The lette details a complete object lesson for those who aro Inclined toward tho free coinage of silver by this country.

States Minister MoKlnney says. Twenty years ago, in 1870, gold and sil vor wore coined In the mlpts of Culum bin, both being legal tender for all debts and nt tbnt time, owing to the scarcity ol tbo white metal, silver wns at a premium over gold of abont 3 per cent About 1880 gold was at a premium, because tho Imports exceeded tho exports. Up to 1S8S tho government continued to coin gold and sliver, and at that time gold wns at a premium over silver about 30 per cent. In 1885 congress passed law thai made paper money a legal tender for al debts, tbo paper to bo payable In gold or silver at the option of the governmennt, this being an attempt to make silver al par with gold. This was an impossibility, for nt once bho gold nil went out of tho country and tho government was on a silver basis in spite of Its effort by legislation to keep gold and silver at a parity.

From that tlmo to this thoro has been no gold In circulation In Columbia. Tbo effect of this was to raise the premium on gold from SO per cent in 1885 to 190 per cont In 1895. At the present June 17, exchange on New York Is 140, the price of exchange depending wholly on the number of drafts on tho mnrkct and tho demand for them. In tho department of Panama paper money is not used, silver being the only medium of circulation, the result being that silver in the other departments has gone out of circulation and paper Is the only money used. If one goes to market in Bogota and offers silver for his dinner it is refused; as exchange is lower in Panama than in ithor parts of the country speculators buy ill the silver they can find at a premium if from 5 to 10 per cent and send It to Panama and make a profit.

Now, to bow the effect of this upon the people of Columbia I will give certain facts that are well authenticated. In 1885, when old was at a premium of 20 per cent, 'ages of workingmen on the plains of togota were 40 cents a day and in the Kt country 60 cents a day. At the pres- nt time wages are 60 and 90 cents, re- pectlvoly, an advance of 50 per cent All irovlilons have increased in cost about 00 per cont Meats at (bat time were ailing for from 13 to 15 cents per pound; ttha present they sell for 40 and 60 House rent! have Inoreated from 100 to 200 per cent Small tenements, snob poor people occupy, could be bad In 1895 for a month; DOW the same tenements bring In 1884 and 1886 the protestant minister of Bogota occupied a bouse for which be paid a month; at the present tune the smoo house brings a month. In 1886 table board could he had at the beat he tels for $1 a day, now it Is $3 a day, and the proprietors all say there is much less money in the business than -when they received $1. Wearing apparel hag not increased in price in proportion to bnc this is because the people aro too poor to buy the goods they were in tho habit of wearing before, and the merchants have placed upon tbo market the poorest quality of goods mude in Eu rope for the market.

The reason that the merchants give for not buying more goods in the United States is that the goods are too good and the pooplo cannot afford to bny them. It Could Not Bo Worse Tbo amount of misinformation that th: Demopopulists are putting out is some thing astonishing and can be accounted for in but one of two ways, it is either done through ignorance, or wilfully for tbo purpose of, deception. One of the worst and mept inexcusable is that th present silver dollar is not a legal tender Why any person with the information li almost any ulmanac of facts before him or obtainable at any news stand, would Insist upon giving out sacb information or upon believing that the silver dollar is not ft legal tender, can be accounted for upon no other ground than that the cam paign is to be made up, on the part of the free sllverltes, of freaks. The standard stiver dollar has always been a legal ten der to any amount. When Thomas Jefler son stopped tho coinage of the standard silver dollar in 1806, and none were coin edfor a period of nearly thirty years those coined prior to 1808 were a lega tender.

The standard silver dollars coined subsequent to 1334, up to those coined prior to 180b were a lega tender. Of course few of them had been coined, the total amount being only 8,031,338 from 1793 to 1873, and most these had gone to the melting pot becaus much of the time they were worth mor as bullion than as dollars but tho few that escaped, if any, wore a legal tender The aot of 1878, that "crime 1 wo bear si much about, did not demonetize th standard silver dollar but simply dropped it from the law as being open to coin age, and any standard silver dollars tha wore in the country after the law of 187S coined prior thereto, were a legal tender In 1878 an act was passed providing io tho coinage of silver dollars on the sami basis that tho law of 1863 placed the coin ago of fractional silver coin, namely, tha they be coined on government accoun instead of private account. That is tc say instead of permitting an individual tc have silver bullion coined into dollars, on his own account, the secretary of th treasury was authorized to purchase sil ver bullion at the market price and coin not less than 3,000,000 of them i month nor more than 4,000,000 pe month. That act known as the Bland Allison act provides in the first section a follows: That there shall bo coined at the severa mints of the United States, silver dollar of the weight of four hundred and twelvi and a half grains troy of standard silver as provided in the aot of January, 18 1837, on which shall be tbo- devices and superscriptions provided by said aot which coins, together with all silver dol lars heretofore coined by the United Statei of like weight and fineness, shall be i LEGAL TENDER, at their nominal val ue, for all dubts and dues, public and pri vote, except where otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. Tho only thing we have noticed that I just to our liking, which has grown ou of this free Silverite falsehood is the fact conveyed by tho following telegram which appeared in the Sunday papers.

Lewiston, 111., days age H. Masters, a Popocrat lawyer, wager ed $100 with M. Love, local Repub lloan, that silver dollars are not now a legal tender. The referee has decided in favor of Love and paid over the money Mr. Masters being unable to produce an; authorities to support his end of tho argn ment The result has had a depressipg effect on the free silver raon here, one some of them admit It will lose the party 500 votes.

Such imbecility ought to lose them The only regret an honest citizen can hove is, that, If they will not invest! gate facts on so important a matter, after deciding to on free silver and will not by experience as they have tariff, question, thai more of them hSjpo 1 not lost money bock ing up their asMfeljjns. Jacob Gehlbach and Relatives Will Vote the Republican Ticket. Peoria Transcript: Jacob Gehlbncb, of Logan county, Illinois, has announced his intention of voting the Republican ticket this year for the first time in bis life He yesterday addressed a letter to L. Ph. Wolf, editor of Die Sonne, which will tie published this afternoon.

This letter states that Mr. Qehlbach has been a life long Democrat, but that he and his relatives, who number forty-two voters, cannot swallow the free silver doctrine of the Democratic party. They have considered tho subject thoroughly and have fully made up their minds to vote tbo Republican ticket. Mr. Gehlbach is one of the leading and most Influential citizens of Jogan county.

He owns several large farms and is known among his associates as tho prairie king. Bis defection is an niportant one and fully illustrates the way tho Germans of the country will vote tho November election. There will be a reunion of the 116th Hinols regiment September 16 and 17 at Fits RAAunat ff JfelMu Inf. W. H.

Peeke, who ipeciaUy makes a Epilepsy, his wi doubt treated and cured more cases than any living Physician; his gnccess is astonishing. Wa have beard of canta of ao years' standing by Mfof hte COM. to any atftmn 0.andBipr«isaildreas. DRY GOODS fit CARPET COH WILLIAM, FRANKLIN AND NORTH PARK STS. Remnant Sale! Odd and End Sale Broken Assortment Sale! Half Price Sale! One of the greatest sales in the Dry Goods history of Decatur.

$20,000 woith of Remnants and Odd Lots to be closed out immediately. All goods will be ticketed and marked in plain figures. Goods delivered to any part of the city and country. If you can't come, write us. Read our ad; we mean what we say.

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Combination Suits, 2 Pants Cap 4.00. .65 .73 1.75 2.45 3 50 2.75 2 80 3.75 Remember you have only 24 days left in which to take advantage of the special cut we are making to reduce our stock. We close for good Aug. 16. Get the right place, 124-126 East Prairie St.

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