The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 25, 1896, Page 4

i ‘ \ ' ait tt cca hls iresnanninte thie ———— ——— — jl Senator Teller,leader of the silver BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES bolters at St. Louis, favors Bland | ~ for president. J. D. ALLEN Epiror. J. D. Atrex & Co., Ptoprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: The Weexry Times, published every Thursday, will be sent to any address one year, postage paid, for $1.00. ————————— DEMOCRATIC TICKET Representative— GEORGE L. ELLIS. Sheriff E. C. MUDD. Treasurer— f A. B. OWEN. Prosecuting Attorney — HARVEY C. CLARK. Surveyor— ROBERT JOHNSON. Pablic Administrator— D.V. BROWN. Coroner— DR. O, F, RENICK, Jucge North District— J. M. COLEMAN. Jadlge South District— W. T. KEMPER. THE BUTLER TIMES has credit for the larg per published in the 6th congressional dis- fret of Missouri, which has a population of 161,754 and the publishers of the Amem st circulation accorded toany pa tean Newspaper Directory guarantee the accuracy of the rating aecorded to the paper by a reward of $100 £0 the first per- sou.who successfully assails it.—From Printers Ink, issue of April 15th 1896 The new national republican com- mittee organized with Mark Hanna, as chairman The bosses at St. Louis could not have pleased the democratic party better than they did. The Ohio state convention met yesterday. The free silver delegates outnumbered the gold standard six to one. “Who is Hobart?” is a question that has been asked a thousand times in Butler since the Republican bomination. The headquarters of the national republican campaign committee should be established on Wall street New York. St. Clair county instructed her delegates to the congressional convention to vote fer Jude DeAr- mond. Before leaving St. Louis Senator Teller stated to the reporters that he favored the nomination of Bland for president. Arkansas and New Mexico have instructed their delegates to the national convention to vote for Bland for president. The funeral oration of G. O. P. was read by Senator Teller, Cannon did the embalming act. The funeral will take place in November. Col. John I. Martin, of St. Louis, seargeant-at-arms of the democratic national convention is in Chicago arranging for the big convention. ee The new democratic central com- mittee of Vernon county, met Satur- day and organized, with Dr. J. R. Buchanan chairman and Douglass Wight secretary. McKinley's managers failed to make the tariff the issue in St. Louis, and they will fail to make it the is- sue in this campaign. Money talks now. The Kansas City Journal asks: “Is it possible, after all, that the republican party has made some ter- rible mistake.” Looks very much that way. President Cleveland and Secrereta- ry Carlisle left Washington Sunday evening to spend e few days on a/his time, and his many friends in this | fishing excursion down the Potomac | county are well pleased at his course. | river. ———__. The bidding ot the bosses at St. Louis was carried out by the dele- | been launched. yesterday. The prevailing senti- | ment of the delegates was free silver and Altgeld for governor. Among the delegates from New | York to the Chicago convention will 'be David B. Hill, Roewell P. Flow- ‘er and Edward Murphy. | | Mark Hanna, chairman of the na- | tional republican committee, McKiu- lley's political manager, and supreme | boss of the republican party, is pres- | ident of iron ore trust company. | The republicans have begun to Pee on the states they propose to carry in November and dogged if they haven't hogged about every- thing except Colorado, South Caro- lina and Texas. We have heard nothing of the A. P. A. since the nomination of Me- Kinley and the doption of the gold standard platform. Isn't it about time the order was celebrating the nomination and sending delegations to Canton with congratulations. The republican convention failed to take the advice of the Globe-Dem- oerat, and nominate a southern man for vice president, and thereby show the country that sectional hate has been obliterated. Tennessee offered Evans, but New Jersey kocked him out with Hobart. The Kansas republicans are in re- volt over the financial platform of the party, and swear they will not vote the ticket. The same is pretty near true of the republicans of this state, and in Noyember, unless a change is made, Mark Hanna and Major McKinley are going to hear something drop. The free silver wing of the demo- cratic party of the eastern part of the state has an able and reliable advocate in the St: Louis Post-Dis- patch. Toeven up they ought to havea metropolitan paper in the western part of the state, and we suggest to the Kansas City Times to get on the band wagon before the 7th of July. It would bea popular move and a circulation getter. Mr. Whitney writes a very strong letter on the political situation, and while admitting the silver strength in the Chicago convention, makes a plea against radical measures on the question and for a compromise. The conciliatory spirit of his letter com- ing at this time will have a good ef- fect to tone down the harsh feelings between the two sections but it will probably have no effect upon the action of the convention in framing the financial plank of the platform. Mr. Whitney admits the growth of the silver sentiment even in his own state of New York. Hon. C. C. Dickinson has grace- fully retired from the congressional race, leaving his popularity with the | people unimpaired, and a clear field jfor Judge DeArmond’s renomina- tion. This is as it should be. Judge | DeArmond has been true to the in- terests of his people and the people can be trusted to do the right thing | by him. Mr. Dickinson isa good |lawyer, an eloquent speaker and stands high in the regard of the peo- ple of this district, but this is not The democratic convention at Chi- |NOT THE DEMOURATIC NOMINEE- Mr. Teller will not be nominated for president by the Democratic) party at Chicago. ‘not be seriously considered in that connection. And Mr. Teller does | CHEW BUT DON’T SWALLOW. His name will) Kansas Republicans Urged Not to Bolt Just at Present. ! Topeka, Kansas, June 21.—The | Topeka Capital views with alarm the _| gates and the Wall street ticket has| not expect these honors. He i8 revolt in Kansas against the financial | conscientiously for the free coinage | plank of the Republican naticnal |So firmly convinced was he that the | adoption of a gold basis platform by ‘the Republican party meant disaster jand ruin to his state, in the event of | that party being successful at the | polls, that he refused to further par- ticipate in its councils. Being in earnest in this matter Mr. Teller | must pursue the course most certain \to obtain the results for which he is | contending. The democratic party has not held its convention. Until it does and adopts its platform, Mr. Teller and his followers have no means of knowing what policy it will pursue upon this all-important question. If tbe Chicago conven- tion adopts a free coinage plank, as is confidently expected, then their duty to their constituents and to themselves is plain. They will have to support the nominees of that convention. Any other course would lay them liable to a charge that they were acting from selfish motives when they left the republi- can convention. Mr. Teller well knows that to throw his strength to @ new party or the populists would be to insure republican victory anda gold basis. The populist leaders were in a hurry to nominate Senator Teller as their candidate for president. In anticipation of a bolt, the populist leaders, headed by Chairman Tau- beneck, assembled in St. Louis and prepared an address to the popu- lists of the country. The seced- ing republicans were called into conference, the address was approv- ed, signed and handed out for pub lication. It is rather a sad reflection on the people’s party, that they are compelled to go outside their own ranks to finda man to head their ticket Mr. Teller has been a re- publican since the days of Lincoln, and isa republican to-day on all issues except that of finance and so voted in the recent St. Louis con- vention. He does not represent the populist party on a single issue ex- cept that of money, and were he to be put at the head of that ticket and be elected he would not, as an exec- utive, adbere to any of the doc- trines, principles er tenets of the populist fallacies of government ownership of railroads, telegraphs and the many other humbuggeries of the Omaha platform. Mr. Taube- neck and other leaders of the popu list party kyow this and this advocacy of his nomination is a confession of the weakness of the party, of the platform and cause they represent. Mr. Taubeneck and associates are now full fledged politicians, and they understand that a failure to nominate a candidate at this time, and thereby reluctantly acquiesce in the support of the democratic nom- inee (as the party would not support a gold standard republican) would mean the loss of the high places j they hold and the well paid salaries | they receive as executive officers of | the party. Soto sum up the situa tion, if the rank and tile of the pop ulist party are honestly sincere in their desire for the success of the cause of free silver, they will meet this year and dump overboard these emissaries and fall into line with the |democratic party and bury forever the Wall street, gold bug republi- can party. A Tough Old Bird. From the New York San. | The Hon. Richard C. Kearns, by The trusts can handle McKinley jcago will not nominate as its seer stein permission of the Hanna, has easier than they could Reed or alli- lard bearer Senator Teller. They! son, and that accounts for McKinley being nominated. They tried him in drafting a tariff bill and be was not found wanting. Republicans desiring favors of the patty hereafter will apply to! boss Kerens, who will hold the pull on the party, state and national. Mr. Filley is no longer in evidence, | the silks have kicked him out. —__ The 16 tol ticket to be named at Chicago the 7th of next month is strictly in the swim and the mighty uprising of the people will teach old England and Wall street an object lesson in November. ‘made a mistake and miserable failure | jin endorsing Horace Greeley, and got whipped out of their boots. A mistake will not be made at Chicago, a sound 16 tol democrat will be nominated. Then if Senator Teller ‘and his followers are sincere in their advocacy and desire to see the silver | be Mr. Filley himself. The bogey} dollar restored in this country, they will lay aside all else and join hands for the success and triumphant elec. tio: eause of free, unlimited and inde- pendent coinage of silver. This js the situation ina nut shell. won a few points from the Hon. |Chauncey Ives Filley, but should | beware to kick up his heels or hallog | too heartily just at present. There jis a might long, dark stretch of | woods for him to go through, woods jfilled with monstrous bogey men jand haunted by The Man with the | Iron Mountain Hat, who is said to mer, all inthe service of The Hat. ‘may kidnap the trembling Mr. Kerans some moonuless night, shore him under the tlaps of The Hat, and i of the ticket. If they are not leave him to suffocate. Mr. Filey | | sincere they will join a third party is a tough old bird, and several bun-; | and use their influence to defeat the | Gred amateurs with popgurs have | jhunted him for several years, ; but he declines to come down. And jeven The Hanna can't keep him long from his perch. Illinois held her state convention | silver on an equality with go | platform, and in a double-leaded edi | torial this morning, under the cap- | tion, “Don't teave Your Party Before | |You Know Where You Are Going.” | urges the rebellious brethren to hold on a while. Don't say anything rash, | my Republican friend,” the paper | }Says, “even if you dont like the financial plank of the St. Louis con-| vention, until you hear from Chicago. | Don't rush into the papers and eay | }you have never voted anything but a Republican ticket until this year, | plank in the platform, you will be blasted if you vote the old Republi-; can ticket. Don’t go off half cocked. “Let us wait a bit and reason to gether, and see what the enemy is going todo. The action at Chicago may make you say, ‘Well, the Dem- ocracy can always be counted on to make blunders that a Republican can't indoree.’ Don’t you see, my free silver Republican friend, that when the Democrats and Pops and Prohibs ali get together on some mongrel platform with a mixed tick- et that it may appear to you best after all to stay with the party that has the brains to do the business of the nation and the patriotism to save it when it is imperilled. “There is a whole lot of other things besides the demonetization of silver that has assisted in bring- ing about the long business depres- sion. Democratic imbecility has been one of these, and it won't pay a Re- publican to joim that party to help perpetrate the record of the last four years.” : These paragraphs are quoted liter- ally from the Capital’s editorial. Here is the way it reads between the lines: “Boys, we'll admit that the St. Louis platform is not satis- factory, but let's not renounoe it un- til something better is presented. You have no place to go nuw. Wait until the other parties hold their conventions. They may make a plat- form more obnoxious than that adopted in St. Louis. It will be time enough to leave the Republican party when you find a platform to your liking: Only don’t quit now. Let’s make as good a showing as possible.” The Capital has the reputation of being a great stayer, always looking ou the bright side of things and claiming the earth. Its appeal, there. fore. to wavering Republicans to stay on the sinking ship a httle longer is additional evidence of the hopelessness of the cause it repre- sents. This is the Capital's first ad- mission of the decline of the Repub- lican party. ' { Will Follow the Bolters. Spokane, Wash. June 19.— | Twenty-five prominent republicans have sent the following telegram to St Louis | “Hon. H. M Teller, or Fred Du- | bois and their We, the | admire your course and approve your action and stand ready to follow your lead-| ership, aud we pledge you the state | |of Washington. We state further | that tue republicans are misrepre- associates: undersizued republicans, i | sented in the national conveation on the financial question | Cures ae | ' | | Cures ent ' | Cures Cures tes Cures Cures { i } | To€. 1. Hood & Ce | Hood's Pills 7 |but in view of the gold standard | | ,|day that they can not support the | where we stand on this great quee- | Sarsaparilla — tio = platform says GOLD. BENNET--WHEELER MERC. 60, Hardware, Groceies and Stoves “75. AGENTS POR THE L + Stee, CELEBARATED LIGHT DRAFT MILEWAUREE BIND. . > EXS AND CHAIN GEAR MOWERS ; La Racine and Bradley high grade Buggies, Carriages, Road Wagons and Spring Wagons—Weber Schuttler and Clinton Farm Wagons, Machine Oils, Binder Twine and Queensware. The highest cash or trade price paid for all kinds of country produce. BENNETT-WHEELER MERC. CO Teller’s Action Approved. Denver, Colo , June 19.—The news | of the action of Senator Teller and | the Colorado and Idaho delegations in withdrawing from the vational republican convention has been re- ceived throughout the state with en- thusiasm. In Denver there will be a demonstration when Senator Tel- | ler returns, which will be by Thurs- day, and Senator Cannon of Utab, will be the feature of another dem- onstration when he passes through. The mining camps are especially jubilant. At Aspen last night the hille were reverberating with the boom of improvieed cannon, and at Cripple Creek the streets were thronged with enthusiastic crowds all night. At Pueblo the company of the National Guard fired a salute of forty five gune when the news of the bolt was received, and in the northern and southern Colorado towns the enthusiasm was unconfin- ed. Chas. S. Thomas, Colorado mem- ber of the democratic national com- mittee, said at a meeting of citizens held to arrange for a reception to Senator Teller on his return to Col-| orado: “Tama democrat, always have been, and as it looks now I may re- main one, but I am here to say asa democrat that I wou'd like to see; children, who had just moved to Senator Teller go back to the senate | Burlington. Had the train beens by the unanimous vote of every elec- | few minutes sooner on the bridge, tor and every member of the legisla- | at the rate it was going, it would ture; anything else would be baee | have gone through the draw to the ingratitude.” bottom of the Mississippi; or bed eee | the fireman not noticed the failan The Emporia Gazette, one of the | to signal, it would have been wreck leading papers of Kansas, is outin eq in the Burlington yards at the a double leaded editorial admitting | west end of the bridge. the disaffection of the republicans | of the state over the financial plank of the St. Louis platform, and urges them to wait awhile before taking a |) final stand against the party's course. “The republican party, if it comes | into power,” the Gazette says, “is pledged against bimetallism to gold | monometallism. There is no mistak ing its intent, no doubting its pro- gramme That being the case, it | was the manly thing to say so, and to eay eo plainly with no chance for | the demagogue to deceive the yoter. That the republican party has done, and by its brave, honest stand for | the position it expects to take, the | 'Gladness Comes party has lost—and very properly— thousands of republican votes here Wit a better understanding of the in the west. | transient nature of the many fl . - < 2 . | ieal ills, which vanish before pi In this state, in thie county, in this | forts—gentle efforts— pleasant efforte= town, ecores of republicans, who | Tightly directed. There is col Ee : 3 | the knowledge, that so many forms: honestly believe in silver, feel to-} sickness are not due to any actt ease, but simply toa constipated conde tion of the system, which the pleasatt family laxative, Syr ‘igs. Figs. pre om ly removes. That is v it is thea remedy with by all Dead Engineer at the Lever. Burlington, Ia., June 21 —Whe [== the Burlington fast mail train tha. BUI dered across the Illinois bottom |_— from Biggsvilie to this city yeste. day morning, a dead man was in th engineer's seat and the hand of g corpse held the lever. The engine is one of the new pat. tern with seven foot driving whe, and capable of running a mile a mia. |ute with a heavy train. The {at | mail was on time and running fully fifty miles an hour when it approach. |ed the Burlington bridge across the Mississippi at this point Instead of etupping to signal the drav, which was just closing after passing a steamer through, the engine dash ed right on the bridge approsb without even a signal. Firema Sam Main, badly frightened, -eprang around the immense boiler whieh fills the cab, and found engineer V. B. Giddings dead, with a horribly [7° gach in hia forehead. No one knom 3 F where or how he was struck, as there | urd was nothing about bie positioner jand | the cab to give a clew. L About a month ago Giddings, fy), while entering Burlington with this get same engine and train, run over aad kilied a wealthy man named Som- mere of Keokuk, Iowa. Engimer he Giddiugs leaves « widow end small * vint T City B. h qui The west and south will be the | battle ground of the campaign this republican ticket. To ask these re- publicans, who sincerely believe in silver, to vote for gold, would be unfair. The gauntlet is down. The issue is made. The parting of tke ways is come. she rem¢ We now have the opportunity to stand up and count noses on this proposition in America, and if the democrats can be equally brave and declare for silver. when this election is over we will know just exactly The financial plank of the republi- Figs stanc used and gives