The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • Page 4

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MaKinley could not be plainer. And yet, one rtwo people six months ago, were afraid McKinley was a straddler. In view of the threat of 50 cent dollars the plumbers may feel it incumbent on them to at once double their prices! In Teading McKlnley's letter of acceptance, posterity would be unable to find the name of McKlnley's chief an tagonist-Horrors! Can it be true that the Kansas Fops have been mistaken and John Sherman is not afraid of Jerry Simpson! Bryan of 1892: "Free trade and lower prices." Presto change! Bryan of 189G: "Free coinage of silver and higher prices." Bryan is now leaving "the enemy's country." And before he shall enter it again "his managers will copy after YVeyler and erect a trocha. McKinley says a factory is the best neilibor for a farmer. He is right A factory cannot borrow your plows or run away with your daughter.

yer kickin' about," yelled the orator. "We're goin' to reduce yer money one-half so you won't have to pay so much, on an income tax." Free trade means foreign trade If it means anything. And foreign, trade presupposes international money. How does Mr. Bryan figure this out? McKlnley's stand against foreign immigration is forcible.

He wants none to come to this nation who come to make war upon her institutions. Max Nordau announces that none of 'the Americans lie has seen are degenerates. But Nordau has never met any of our extremely rich aristocracy. In to Mr. Iease, it should be said that there isn't one of the dude editors of the east who make fun of him, flare come out and do it to his face.

No free silver man should allow him-Belf to be misled into an admiration for Governor Altgeld. Altgeld is not a safe American and time will prove it Tom Reed is not afraid to notify the country that it Is climbing back up the toboggon slide, and it is going to be some time before it is again at the top. A dispatch from Topeka tells about a train being stopped by a shower of toads. This must have been when the brakeman got his foot caught in a frog. John Sherman says plainly that Jerry Simpson is not fit to associate with decent people.

Tut! Jerry Simpson's neighbor is his opponent, Chester Long. Negatives are potential in this campaign. It Is said that the fact that Tron'fcman is making no campaign, and thf O. M. B.

are both working for Morrill. Something from McKinley's letter for free silver men to gnaw on for the purpose of sharpening their teetii, to-uit: "Good money never made hard times." When Bryan has rested up he should lell the people how we are to open our markels to the world and have free silvr at one and the same time. The two cannot go together. There are one or two men in this country who would like to vote for free coinage and protection this year. They fire the dangerous element in the situation.

Whre will they go? Mrs. Naomi Anderson, the colored lady of "Wichita, is leading the Equal Suffrage campaign In California. "We always told you Mrs. Lease wasn't our entire stock of that brand. Fellow citizens! Under free coinage and our present inhibitions against pugilism It will take as many American dollars as Mexican dollars to eee a prizefight.

Pause and think! As 200 people call daily on when Tom Anderson in asking for the posfcofliee tells McKinley that he was the man who allied on him March 1G, 1S93, McKinley will look puzzled. The sober second thought of the campaign, we predict, will bo harpooned deep into the American heart, and it will be that free silver and free trade cannot be coupled, even if either were practiced. Mrs. Tom Watson when a baby was picked tip after battle on a southern field. Who would have thought that a foundling would become the wife of a man who is not going to be vice president of the U.

Public condemnation a year ago was leveled at one man Grover Cleveland. Today the Republicans say very little Rgainst him and the Democrats nothing, and the Pops nothing! Why? Is Cleveland blameless? Free coinage might be as harmless is a harmless chemical but when added to free trade become a deadly poison. About two-thirds of the silver Republicans are weighing this part of the campaign carefully. There was, it appears, a slight mis-hake about John Sherman threatening to tear the shirt off Jerry Simpsons back in order to preserve the credit of the government Think of Jerry's shirt preserving the credit of the government! McKinley is right wnen he says tbata corrected tariff will settle many of our ills. It was one tariff which downed McKinley; another which lifted him up.

The tariff which lifted hlra up hurt the nation. The tariff which downed him was one he framed for the nation. M'KINLEY IS EIGHT. The troubles of the times are traceable to apprehension, to an utter lack of confidence. Nobody knows what is going to happen, and everybody therefore has been hedging on the situation.

As Major McKinley shows in his letter of acceptance, published yesterday, in the brief space intervening between President Harrison's last message and that of Cleveland's summoning congress in extra session, a complete industrial and financial revolution had been brought about simply by a change of national policy. Confidence had flown, mines were shut down, factories closed un and the money of the country was hidden away. Harrison's message referred to abundant work and high wages with good prices for every thing, everywhere, oer this broad land. Eight months later Cleveland was convening congress in extra session to relieve a situation which his own message describes as "alarming," and as "involving the prosperity of the people." Cleveland then went on to enumerate some of the more threatening financial and commercial troubles, but failed to point out the real cause of It all. The election of McKinley meanB the restoration of the policy of Harrison; means an adequate levenue; means a return of confidence and a consequent unlocking of horded millions, and means their investment The elec tion of Bryan means the policy of Cleveland which forced that extra session of which has held this country and all Its interests on the rack of a panic for three years; means a further loss of confidence, a further tightening of conditions, and the added experiment of free silver.

In no event can free silver and free trade go together. They are utterly antagonistic. Free coinage is a protective principle end if it is over reached in this country in a way that the silver dollar under free minting jvill maintain a parity of 36 to 1, it will be under Re publican policy, and in connection with protection and reciprocity. It not a lack of money but a lack of confidence when has so prostrated prices and paralysed prosperity. Mexico has but about $5 per capita and her circulation seems abundant The United States has $23 or more per capita, and yet tliere is a dearth of money.

The difference is this: what money Mexico has is all In circulation, while the great per capita volume In the United States is locked up, hidden away in safety-vaults, and buried in holes in the ground. Of the two billions and a quarter of gold, silver and paper money in the United States one-half of it or more than a thousand millions, or one billion dollars, is hidden away and effectively horded by the non-debtor, who is afraid to loan it or to in any way invest it under the present shrinking conditions. Major McKinley is right WATSON'S WAIL. Tom Watson, the least significant tail to Bryan's kite, the curtail as it were, has set up a howl which may have to be heeded. He wants to be notified, formally and officially notified, of his nomination for vice president at St Louis, otherwise the reason why not Tom is right If the nomination was in good faith and intended to mean anything ho and the country should be made aware of the fact officially and formally.

All that the St Louis contention did besides scrapping and quarreling for four days was to nominate Tom Watson for vice president Bryan had already been nominated by the other wiug of the party In Chicago. Tom was first nominated as vice president. Mr. Bryan's nomination afterwards being merely acceded to upon the grounds that their man be accepted. Otherwise the fusion was no fusion, and the St Louis convention became less than a tail Tom insists that he is not only the real tail of the Bryan dog but that the tail wag put ahead of the head and he proposes to do some of the wagging or know the reason why Tom is right in that position also.

The Pop parry either amounts to something or it dws not Its convention and action at St Louis was meant for something or otherwise it was the biggest political take ever attempted upon the country. Tho national Pop committee clothed, as it distinctly was, with "plenary powers" should be heard from in the interest of the Pop party, or otherwise it identity will be lost. lUiey have tho riUt and tne Doner to name another man for the head of their ticket in place of the one named for them by tho Pop wing of the Democratic party at Chicago. If Mr. Bryan is only a Pop-Democrat the real Pop larty has a right to know it because tho real old simon pure national moss-backers of the Jackson-Cleveland stripe aro going to nominate a ticket of their own at Indianapolis In a few days, and there will be no Bryans or Sewalls or Watsons on it or silver in it It will be a gold embossed and corporate trimmed affair throughout Tom Watson was either nominated for vico president or he was not If he was then the political amenities demand that he should be formally notified of the fact Apropos of a scene in an Atlanta telephone exchange: "Can you fix me some telephone connections so that the wire will make a complete "You mean in such a way that what you say will be transmitted around the line and sound in your own ear?" said the man in charge.

"That's it exactly." "Yes. Step into that room and we'll arrange it for you." As he departed a stranger, who happened to be in the office, remarked: "That's th rmarkable request I ever hard." It dos eem peculiar, but the man Is perfectly harmless, and we humor Lhiiu." "Who is he?" "He's a crank who imagines he is Tom Watson. He wants to notify himself of his nomination." TWO HUNDRED UNTBRRIFIED. It is a mistake to conclude that there are no Democrats In Kansas, no Dcaio- crats of principle and conviction, unin fluenced by promise of political pap. There are.

Over two hundred delegates attended the Democratic convention at Topeka, called for the purpose of repudiating fusion and wild-eyed Populism. These Democrats and the Democrats whom they represent in the state are honest men; self-respecting men; men of stamina and reliability; men who refuse to sell their convictions for a chance of political preferment; men who scorn to stiultify themselves because John Martin, who was elected to the United States senate by prostituting his principles to the Pop party, had in conjunction with other political jugglers, traded away his party and I made it a stench and a taunt These Democrats whose courage equal their convictions, and who cannot be sold and delivered to an aggregation of Pop leaders, whohaving been repudiated by their former associates turned repudiators themselves; leaders of a party which cannot boast a man, a measure or a record which any honest cause would claim, did not go to Topeka expecting that their action would bring them any personal reward. They knew beforehand that there was no such possibility. They went without hope, but went filled with pride In being true to principle. And what honest man does not admire iheni, admire their integrity, their patriotism, and even the enthusiasm which they evinced in electing delegafes to the National Democratic convention called for Indianapolis.

Anent this action of the real Democrats of Kansas of the ten thousand Nerv York Democrats in the dry goods trade who in October, 1892, organized a Cleveland and Stevenson club, the significant fact is stated that not one can be found who will support tho Chicago ticket. Not only has this Democratic legion in the chief stronghold of Democracy refused to countenance the repudiation ticket but it has resolved to work actively against it and will form a new organization to that end. Such a movement makes a mag nificent 6et-off against the attitude of Tammany Hall, and It gives new strength to the assurance that the Indianapolis convention will have solid backing not only in the metropolis, but wherever there is intelligence to discern between the true and the false Democracy, and honesty enough to carry that discernment Into effect THAT ORIGINAL BRYAN MAN. Newspaper readers with good memories may recall Bryan's visit to Ada, Ohio, on August 10th, when on his way dawn to New York to receive his notification, and that he was introduced to the crowd in that little Ohio town by Professor Lehr, as the next president of the United States. Lehr is the head of the Ohio Normal university, and there is a sequel to the story.

The professor is a Republican. It will be recalled that Bryan in his speech thus referred to the professor: "He is one of the original Bryan men. When I was here a year ago he was a Bryan man. I think he wanted you to become acquainted with me, so if you wanted postoffices you would know where to come to get them." But Professor Lehr himself, replying to an inquiry from an amazed Chicago friend, has put a new face on the matter by explaining that a year ago when Mr. Bryan addressed the graduating class ho was introduced as the next Democratic candidate for president and the class as invited to shake hands with him because he might have the dispensing of postoflices at some future time.

In other words, It was a mere class-day joke; and the joke is now on Bryan, for its effect has been to eliminate the professor from the list of original Bryan men. Or rather, he has eliminated himself, In his letter printed in the Chicago Post in. which he says: "I am not for free silver, but my platform is: First I believe in a tariff for revenue, so adjusted as to protect American industries; second, I believe in reciprocity; third, I believe in an income tax, but I do not believe that the last income tax was constitutional." PRINCIPALLY GALL. There is one thing about this campaign which has proved very satisfactory, and that is the arrogancy of New York has received a good solid counter snubbing. With all its overwhelming majorities In the past for the Democratic ticket, it has always been insufferably swell-headed.

It has considered Itself the nation, politically, commercially and financially. Take for Instance the old and worn-out chestnut that is annually hurled at the people of tho United States, from New York, through the press dispatches, that the bankers of that city are now furnishing the west and south "money to move their crops." They always speak of it as though it was "their mouey," and that they were putting themselves out to accommodate tho west and south whose producers would be left utterly helpless but for the considerate generosity of New York's monetary institutions. Everybody knows, for instance, that this is a time of year when money is withdrawn from New York to meet tho exigencies in the sale and movement of crops, and everybody should know that It is money deposited in the banks of New York "by the banks of the west and south, and that it belongs to the people of the west and south, and not to the eastern bankers at alt If the banks of the west and south should tomorrow draw out the balances which they carry in the banks of the reserve cities of the east every bank in New York and Boston and Philadelphia and Chicago and St. Louis i would bo left without a single dollar of cah, and there would still be large balance of obligations due to the banks of the west and south unpaid. NOTHING SURER.

in receipt "of a pamphlet is sued at Denver, full of charts, figures, tables and illuminated illustrations, showing that BftTcr-is discriminated airainst by the railways. It Is evident from the fimires that so far as Denver's distributing rates are concerned she is at a disadvantage as a Jobbing town. But pae shouldn't complain of her re- celving rates. They axe for the moat part very favorable. But there is one thing the author of the pamphlet is right about "and that i that every year it becomes more evident that an increasing share of the export trade of the western states must be diverted from the northern Atlantic ports to the south Atlantic and Gulf ports.

The rivalry of the soutfrward river and rail routes is building up trade at Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile and Savannah, which will probably prove in the long run a permanent holding. This southern competition is of advantage to consumers in the north because it operates to cheapen rates and to steady them; but it is none the less a source of apprehension to large interests built up in the confidence of perpetual control of the direction of the bulk of western traffic along east east and west lines of transportation. LTS DIPLOMATIC MISSION-So far as can be made out the only diplomatic mission of Li Hung Chang is to procure a modification of the treaties which limit the duties to be imposed at the ports upon European and American articles to 5 per cent ad valorem at the point of shipment These revenues being collected in silver, the decline in value of that metal has prao-Hillv cut the Income of China from the maritime customs department in half, and accordingly it was proposea by Li Hung Chang to Lord Salisbury to consent to on increase of tho duties to 10 per cent. The fairness of the proposal is evident; but doubtless Lord Salisbury thinks a bargain is a bargain, as he does not nronose to consent to any new- arrangement without receiving a quia pro quo for instance, the opening of new Chinese ports to toreigu cum-merco the abolition of "likin," or import dues, collected at the boundary of every Chinese province. It seems hard, however, to refuse to China what has readily been conceded to Japan by nearly all western nation; and the mnnhr trTitVh shnll first OCCede to China's Tequest may expect to receive many reciprocal favors.

Li Hung Chang is expected to arrive today or tomorrow in America. He may be landing in Now York as we write these lines, ne left Southampton last Saturday. He aroused much kindly feeling and no little merriment during his visit in England by his apparently sympathetic curiosity and pointed questions concerning things that were strange to him. The distinguished oriental traveler and statesman shows such a keen and evidently intelligent interest in the unfamiliar life of Europe that It seems a thousand pities that he could not have undertaken his tour of the world at a time when he was in the prime of his manhood and power. As it is he is quite too old for the task of oocidentalizing China.

The precedent set by him in his tramp around the globe may, however, be followed by various men of influence in his country, and the frequent contact of Chinese leaders of opinion with the outer world may at last result In breaking the bonds which have held the celestial empire in its course to ward disruption and decay. WITHOUT ANY DOUBT. Sol Miller says that in the event of the election of McKinley, which event seems more certain than ever, so certain that men of the opposition, like Senator Teller, concede it that It will not be necessary for any legislation of any character for a return of good times. The Republican party being in power again confidence will at once be restored, and almost before the announcement of the result of the election is proclaimed things will commence to move, or words to that effect. There is no question about the soundness of the conclusion.

It is one of those self-evident propositions which call for no reasoning from cause to effect The election of McKinley simply means a complete restoration of confidence. President Hull, of the American Pig Iron Storage Warrant company, anticipates a very brisk demand for pig iron during the coming winter in case of McKinley's election. In his view, ns conveyed to a New York Times reporter, "consumers' yards will be almost bare of iron, and when they realize the small stock held by the furnaces they will tumble over each other, so to speak, to get enough to supply their individual needs." The same gentleman states that English iron men are buying as much Alabama iron as they can secure ocean freight for, and that "one Scotch concern is endeavoring to secure a four-months supply from one of the Birmingham furnaces. Another bought American warrants for 30,000 tons some time ago, and would probably have bought 100,000 tons more but for the silver craze, which makes them timid." Such an outlook in the iron market coupled with the caution which is restraining the output of the mills and factories in general, warrants the Idea that with the triumph of the Republican party there will be no trouble about a revival of business. Take our own state.

Kansas is fa irly burthened with her surplusage of grain and of marketable live stock. Many millions of dollars worth of wheat and of corn, are is stock and in bin. and many millions more ripened and un-gathercd, and millions of dollars additional In hogs in pen and catrle afield, all awaiting such a movement and demand in the market as restored confidence would insure. Besides there is money In Kansas, millions more than is dreamed of by the bunks. Ever since the unrest and suspicion begotten of Cleveland's free trade, syndicate-borrowing policy the Kansas farmer has been hedging and hording.

For the Iast three years he has, as a rule, made no improvements which called for an outlay of money, bought only machinery a was absolutely neees-sary. and economized at every point. Eight out of ten of them are not only fortified for any emergency, but a majority of rhem holding such a surplus as will put them in funds. We have it from a reliable and wealthy farmer of this county that to his personal knowledge there is being privately horded by fanners in hia township a total sum of $37,300. What Is true of tcwMhlpa is true of counties, ad ef the whole state.

There to met a4 tkere are medIus products -all awaiting such a movement as can only come of restored confidence. The triumph of the Republican party, which means a staple money, protected markets and a reciprocal trade, will restore that confidence as nothing else will. EXPERIMENTS IN CURRENCY. From the time when the colonies first began to "feel their oats" down to the present, the number of experiment that have been made in this country upon currency are many and great sufficient it might seem, both in number and magnitude, to have supplied a very adequate per capita of tho knowledge that is the fabled fruit of experience. If, by any sort of superhuman mathematics, it could be discovered how many people have been made poorer and how many dollars' worth of property lost by the issuing of "cheap" money on this continent alone, the result would be astounding.

D. Lothrop of Boston publish "Money in Politics," written in 18S4 by J. K. Upton, late assistant secretary of the United States treasury. It is a history of the evolution of our present currency, beginning with the shilling pieces brought over in Queen Elizabeth's time, and the manufacture, in New England, of the black and white shells that went by the name of "peag," the unlimited coinage of which, by the thrifty settlers, caused the guileless Long Island Indians with whom they traded to lose faith In humanity, and caused the "peag" itself to drop from the value of six and eight for a penny to a basketful for nothing.

Then came the efforts of the colonies to establish each its own currency. Rhode Island went at it in a most original way. To 'advance trade anil promote commerce" paper money began to be Issued, about the beginning of the last century. The issue was based upon mortgages upon the property of those who took tho paper, and the loans grew very popular. Loan after loan was issued, every new ifcsue depreciating the value of its predecessor until, finally, in 1763, parliament prohibited further issues and ono Spanish dollar was found to be worth seven pound3 of "old tenor" notes.

Tho colonists, if tliere were any, wiio had accepted these notes at their face value, were hardly to be congratulated. WESTERN MILITARY POSTS. General Miles is a strong advocate of peace, but that does not prevent him from using every effort to place this country in the best possible shape for war. He will start shortly on a trip to the west with a view to ascertaining what military posts in tho interior it Is Wise to abandon. It is believed to be the conviction of General Miles that the place for the greater part of the regular army of this country is not in the in terior, but upon the coast A few years ago western forts were a much greater necessity tlian they are now.

Indian outbreaks were frequent and thore was no way of keeping the wards of the nation at peace with the white men or among themselves except by the continuous presence of United States rifles and sabers. But far the greater part of the danger from this cause is now believed to be passed. The Indians on the whole are le.vj num erous and much more peaceful. Interior posts are still needed for recruiting stations and for cases like the one in which Populist Debs figured not so long since, when the United States troops were us.ed to protect the United States mails and quell riots, to the huge disgust of Mr. Altgeld.

But ns The Brooklyn Eagle points out, "we are at present lamentably weak where we should be most strong," namely on tho coast. In the remote event of an attack upon this country by a foreign nation, the probabilities ore that the coast cities would be the first to suffer, and it seems to be advisable that tho nucleus of the army, which is all we have, should be given Its training where the greatest demand for its service seems likely to be made. No man can outdo me in opposition to monopolies; but the manufacturers of this country should not be thus characterized. They have no princely fortunes; in general they have no Independent means. Their all Ls in the brick and mortar of their establishments, in the machinery, in the organization, in their trade.

And how many of them today would be willing to sell out for first cost and below first cost if they could do it! He who would break down the manufactures of this country strikes a fatal blow to labor. It Is labor I would protect Hon. Wm. McKinley. Human footprints twenty-nine inches in length and nine feet apart have been discovered in British Columbia, and scientists estimate that the man who made them must have been twenty-five feet tall and large In proportion.

If ho Is a sample of the American aborigine the descent of the race must have extended throngh many feet of shrinkage in size as well as through the lapse of many centuries. In planning Americans on that gigantic scale nature made a mistake which, fortunately for ns, she afterwards corrected. Less than six months ago, the Honor-able Hoke Smith fold in a public speech in XeW York that nnder the free coinage of silver, "manufactories would close, "business houses would fail, banks would be raided, the unemployed would be numbered by the farmers would find no purchasers for their products, want and famine would pervade the land." "I would willingly defend free trade with my life," was the declaration of Mr. Bryan In ni3 firrt spleen In congress. That was before the "VUon bill became a law.

Mr. Bryan I now ready to ill his life for silver. American treats her presidents like nhe loes her bad medicines. Sbe shakes them well before Doctob (setting ispatiest "What do vou think yourself is the natter with yoaH Patl-at "Incurable boredots." Doctor "Yen told ne. 1 think, that yen had oca-traded a habit of talking to vonr-earr Patient "Yes.

Wcflr Doctor tfW eH He cot so I ec-Galigaaai's Mweraw NEW FALL DRESS GOODS are arriving fast. Black Drew Gods a specialty. Wash Goods at washed away prices. SPECIAL SALE of Ammonia Saturday, half pint bottle 7 cents at 123 and 127 Main St. THIRD ANNUAL KANSAS STATE FAIR AT WICHITA, KANSAS, September 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26, 1896.

$8,000 in Purses in the Speed Department. liXTKIES CLOSE SErTEHUKK IS, 1S9S. trot 500 Free-for-all pace 500 2:17 pace 500 1 Free-for-all trot 600 2:21 trot 500 3:00 pace 500 2-year old pace 60012:37 trot 600 2.50 trot 500 2:20 pace 500 2:27 pace 500 2 13 trot 600 2:23 trot 600 2:13 pace 500 2-year-old trot 6002:32 trot 500 Running races each day, good purse s. American Association Rules to govern except otherwise noted. Entrance fee 10 per cent of purse -which must ae-ern except otherwise noted.

Entrance fee 10 per 5 per cent, when nomination Is made and 5 per cent night bef ore the race. Records made on and after Sept. 1st, no bar. Liberal Premiums and special indu cements to exhibitors of Live Stock. Poultrv and Pet Stock and for Agricul tural.

Horticultural. Manufacturers and Merchants Display. Big prizes for largest and bat displays of farm and Garden Products grown In one township GET READY FOR THE BIG FAIR OF 1806. For Information about entries or premium lists, address C. S.

SMITH, Secretary, Wichita, Kan. WHY NOT INDIVIDUAL MINTS? To the Editor of the Eagle- If free and unlimited coinage of silver la the right thing why should the government beat the of coining it? "Why not let the sliver mine owners put In their own mints, under the supervision of a government superintendent, same as a gaug-er for distlllerle-and in this way they would be able to develop and mine the untold millions of silver that has already been discovered, and owned by great silver corporations, three-fourths of whom are Englishmen who never saw America, nor never expect to. but are using their gold to further the interests of the Popo-cratlc party in order that they may have free and unlimited coinage of silver and free trade. OLD BIZ. HAPPEN.

If iloKinley is elected, with a Republican congress, times will begin to brighten the day after election, business will Improve and the country will begin to prosper. It tv ill be the result wholly of a renewal of public confidence. It will not be because of laws to protect American m-duatriefor it will be Impossible to enact such laws for some months, perhaps more than a year; but it will bo an assurance that such laws will bo enacted, and tho confidence that such -will be the case, industries will start up, and capital will begin to spread out. If Bryan. Is elected, with a free silver congress, times will become harder than yet known, and panics and failures ulll bo tho ordler af tho day.

The coming-winter will be one to be remembered for a life time. It would bo perhaps a year or more before Bryan and his congress could put any of their silver laws Into operation, but the loss of confidence in the prospect ahead would bo ruinous, and would be felt from the very day after the election. The third day of November will be an epoch. It will be the turning point Ire the condition of the country. It will be to every business man and laborer a day anxiety and doubt: for on the day following, confidence and prosperity will return.

or tho nail of distress will fiettlc more heavily over tho country. If McKinley la elected, it will mean that men at the head of the pension depart ment will be friendly to the old soldiers. Instead of enemies, who seek every excuso to reduce or suspend pensions, placing the old soldiers at tho mercy of every enemy or spy who chooses to send in reports to their disadantagc. If McKinley and a Republican congress are elected, deficiencies in current expenses, and bond issues to meet them, will ccaso Just as soon as work to that end can be done and that win" bo Just ns eoon after tho 4lh of March as congress can bo called together. If Bryan and a silver congrss are elected, how will that help the government The mine owners will not givo their money to tho government to pay expenses, depreciated as it will be: and the Bryan platform positively declares that no tariff legislation shall be hod until th mine.

owners get what they want. Where, then, will tho government got money to its expense? No tariff, no bond Iwajef. goernment would bo compelled to repudiate its debts, and force Its vast army of employees to work on credit-There ls a vast deal of weal or woe that depends upon the remit of the 3d day of November Sol Miller's Chief The Hon. Andrew White, of Cornell university, has -written a very Important article for the September Forum, entitled "Encouragements In the Presnt Crisis." Dr White emphasize verv stronclr the erious character of the which confronts ux, points out the anarchic and socialistic forces and tendencies which bhlnd It. grires some parallels In history whif-h reveal tho dangers Just now threatening us.

but which also indicate our means of meeting them, a profoundly interesting artleK In th same number Mr I-aac 1 Rlre. the known lawyer, under the sfgnUleant title. "Thou Shalt Not Steal," reverely criUclxei the Chleaco platform and the utteraacs of its candidate. OKLAHOMA OUTLINR3. Why shoaH the marshals kevp to mum Trtrr time they take a d-sperado7 It ls feared that the rumor wm soon reach Dick Plunkett that Rev.

Callahan Is an Orangeman. ilcMarter charges the Oklahoma couary Democrats wjth catching driftwood for the Top for haJf of what they catch. Mr. Dooila Is rtlll aliro and If therel vntu anythlar In the rtory hi regard to rril's 2rst capture, ebcr Tcfll some day teU It la Parne county the Democrat will gt up a free ABTtr party, as the Pop cscbfced them. Ths Republicans also bar a ticket.

Bart Thosnas, the Yukon man who ot la mnl with a girl, has beep aght wow -c. 1 boma. TJks Enid "Wave has Jamped. Ue.o "Senator" Haveaa of that dty by claiming that his great HepafcUcan will out Charge; a.Tjc The Taps of OkJahem iare ajraalty nominated poor speakers. This year tay kav trJd a change.

CaUahao, It I mJS. gas. beat the wgots oS. of Bryas is erti, WHEN IT COMES to Bill Heads or Letter Heads We outstrip everybody in quality and price We buy our paper in car lots and do our own ruling in style to suit you. Will give you a nice letter bead for 150 Cents Per Thousand EAGLE PRESS.

An Oklahoma essay on the stomach Is said to havo started this thus: "The stomach contains tho vowels, of which there are A. 12 I. O. U. and sometime W.

and Among the brightest papers In the west are thofeo dallies at El Rno, but fney have tho queerest way at pausing days at a time and then resuming again, without a word of apology. Tb9 worst beat man In Kansas 'is fall will be Jerro Botkin. If tho wholu Topu-Hst tcket were elected with but ono exception, Botkin would bo that exception. And yet Botkin has always boon considered a better preacher than Callahan. Near Enid tho other tfay a man named Sleen started for KanH and did not gt He returned home; found hla shack locked; brotaf tbo door In ami found Mr.

JewU and his wife. He thn grabbed an az and howed dlr. JeweU to th line. He also thrashed Mrs. Steen.

You can take all the Fcpulists from the south and all from the wei from, every stato and territory and add all they hava done In congress and it will not onmparo in number or Importance with tho work done by Dennis Flynn In either Mwnion (of congress slnco ho was a There Is a good deal of spouting, but facti can weather the biggest lot of brilliant oratory any set of men can put ap. The Edmond Sun-Democrat claim- that tho repeal of tho usury law by the Oklahoma legislature has made money rcaro In OklaTiorm. The Sun means to be honest, but It cannot make many belWv it Is by that No uiKiry lawn havo been repealed anywhere elie, and money t'ght from Boston. to San Francisco. CU1.

The Okbhoma legislature had nothing to do with It. ALONG THE KANSAS Tawrence World my: hav been scared too much In this state by secret organizatiosa." It is blo-womlng on the minds af th poll-tlciane that Dick Bhie, of all th atat candidates, has walkaway. There aro In Kamtaa for sale book called "Bryan awl SewalV There are no "Lien of Bryan and Watson." At (Jalina tho slrrer fellows try to brak up the Republican meetings. Kaaiaa ls wrought up to a pretty high pitch. The Ottawa Journal, the lending Populist rvTwspaper of the state, has Bryan ard Watson at the top of its columns.

If McKinley is elected. Cy Ivland will have to fight for the secretaryship of tho Interior, PoweJl Clayton of Arkanraa The peoplej ia KanmiT will nucne day de mand, that their oandldatei conduct their campaigns without calling on any aid whatsoever from the. railroads. Before the campaign in vrtr the ltr wm be wrUlasr In confidential lttr to editors. aklnr: "Ifow can a man la Kansas vote for Watson.

tfaJa year. Kansas ls a fVsxle girt. Hho viozTy long about anyone thing. and what and bow did ait tvrxzl th fate of that young Kanmn la Cub7 Wa he killed? Jo Ady was radically silver when moved to CoVwado. Now Is for gold.

The national committer houH get excursloe to Colorado for Kansas BeptfjiJcaaa. F. P. Dawe. JlcpnfciJcan candidate- for attorney general, will at N'ewten nxt Saturday.

ThU be a rw to Wichita as will com" the pv-eat canopalrn. probably A- A Hard, of grt r. 7 that whn the Papuan were la power thy aVed for norc Taajportaiion than did ast otHr pote4 party la Xanae la the same length of Urn, before or since. Liy ls the only Pepottst tat of3-er who win do avach traveling this apl3. Leedy can pay hi tri.

The railroads will not riv the other pan, Leay otU rt one if he would ark for It. Bo eooW A man came migsTy 3ar precipitating a in a Kaaoas traia th other atrht. A eocdaetor wa tdzotVxx th gol itaa- dar(J A ijmecf- nnfcrtir- -roor ooeao't tma whi sayai Ho fcaa Ua coerced by the er-9, pawyf Jerry Ste i gatsg to wk hi this year rwt Che-ter Ls bat agalnat John Sfc-rtaa. Th flrst thisg on th dkorSa! paga of the Kiowa Joumai in adouU column pfc-. extract from the Ittsuhlicaa tat s.oy Usk.

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