The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 16, 1896, Page 4

oe aa PS | te i or TIC BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES J. D. ALLEN Eprror. J- D. Atren & Co., Ptoprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: The Weekry Times, published eyery Thursday, will be sent to a one year, postage paid, tor $1 DEMOCRATIC Represent GEORGE B. ELLIS. Sheri E, C. MUDD. ‘Treagurer— A. B. OWEN. Prosecuting Attorn HARVEY C, CLARk. Surveyor— ROBERT JOHNSON. Public Administrator— DV. BROWN. Coroner— DR. O, F. RENICK. Jucge North District— J. M. COLEMAN. Jadge South Distriet— WwW, T. KEMPER. THE BUTLER TIMES has credit for the largest circulation accorded to any paper pub- lighed in the 6th congressional district of Mis- sourl, which has a population of 161,734 and the publishers of the American Newspaper Directory guarantee the accuracy of the rating accorded to the paper by‘a reward of $100 to the first person, From the Printers Ink, who successful assails it.— issue of April 15th CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING. Members of the Bates county democratic central committee are hereby notified that a meeting ot that committee will be held at the court house in Butler on Saturday, July 25th, 1896, at 10 o'clock a. m. for the purpose of selecting a cam- paige committee and for the trans- action of such other business as may come before it. Candidates on the county democratic ticket are invited to meet with the committee. T. L. Hanrver, Chairman. W. F. LaFouerr, See’y. We won't do a thing to McKinley! Nebraska went wild with joy over the nomination of Bryan. William Jennings Bryan will be the next occupant of the white house. The Kansas City Times and St. Louis Republic fa)l into line for the nominee of the Chicago convention. The gold bug Kansas City Star is bitter in its denunciation of the Chi- cago nominee and the platform adopted. * Pure in life,strong in limb,a giant in intellect, with a warm heart and gifted above all men with power of speecb—what an ideal candidate. Senator Peffer, of Kangas, is pleas- ed with the nomination of Bryan, and says he favors the populist party endorsing him for president All doubts have been removed by the Chicago convention. The issue now isa square one. It is Bryan and free silver, McKinley and the gold standard. The voter must de- cide the question at the polls in No- vember. The rich men of America believe in spending their time and money in Europe during the summer season. The Globe-Democrat says all the ocean greyhounds are crowded with passenge¥s for Europe, and their dollars go at par on the other side. Perhaps a dose of free silver will keep them and their money at home. Wo will apply the antidote next No- vember and watch results. The Times believes that Lon. V. Stephens is the most available can-| didate before the Missouri demo crats for governor. But we do uot) question any one’s right to hold a! different opinion. The democrats} of Bates county should look the field | address Bryan the nomina- | A GOOD PEATFORM AND CANDIDATE | The Times can give the Chicago — - | platform and its nominees its une- Senator Jones, of Arkansas, suc-|quivocal aud hearty endorsement ceeds Mr. Harrity as chairman of!and support. The platform is all the national democratic committee-| that the Western people could de- sire and much more than they bad Jobn W. Breidenthal, chairman | hoped for. On the woney question, of the populist state central commit- | tng er tee of Kansas, favors endorsing Bryan for president. Oklahoma gave | tion for president respective of partisan politics, are in |bearty accord with the 16 to 1 prin- sanianteal ° ih af | ciple enunciated. If Bryan is elected and has a of our people believe in a tariff suf- ieee be te c= bill : j erene| to Resa : ie Bas eH |ficent to meet the expenses of the will be passed and signed in less than | thirty days after he takes the oath Se tats economically ea f offi jtered When that end is reached, | of office. the least agitation of the tariff ques- tion the better. That is exactly what the Chicago platform demands. We believe that wealth should share its just proportion of the burdens of taxation, and are well pleased with the plank demanding a constitution- al amendment legalizing the income tax. The other and miner planks are The Times is the only paper in! Kansas City which supports the! nominees of the Chicago convention. | | When democrats want a good city} | paper they should remember that | fact | | Senator Hill showed the character |of his Democracy by his eloquent} words: “I come here on a mission! to unite, not to divide; to build up, | not to destroy; to plan for victory, ple. William J. Bryan meets all the re gi majority of our people, ir- ~ A large majority |« in accord with the views of our peo | Is neve t >On not to plot defeat.” In words, Hill is a Democrat his own quirements of the platform and is the | Sketch of the Nebraska Orator] Whom very strongest man that could have | been nominated. He is a born ruler | the Democrats Have Nominated for President. The reputlican orators and poli- ticians are getting sweet on the fac- tory hands and laboring men in general. They always do this just/| before the election. How prettyi they will talk honest dollar and rais ing wages. The poor down trodden farmer will also come in for his share of sympathy and promises which are never fullfilled. of men, intellectually strong, of fine physique and commanding appear- ance, a born orator, with wonderful magnetism that attracts men to him. He is not an experiment,as he has en- gaged the ablest men in the nation in debate and has always sustained his contentions. He served in Con- grees with distinction and was Mr. Bland’s able lieutentant in his con test for silver. Heis an ideal can didate on the platform adopted, and we now make the prediction that he will be elected by the largest popa- lar majority ever given a president. Bryau Sewall, democratic nominees for president and vice- presiient, are to be notified of their nomination in Madison Square, New York. The selection of a place of notification could not have been more appropriate. The occasion will give Mr. Bryan a chance to make a speech and we expect him to cerry New York off her feet as he did the Chicago convention. aggressive Democracy will carry the war inte the East. And there are farmers and laboring men who will join by thousands the rebellion against gold standard. Old leaders may bolt or sulk. New leaders will arise. The example of a Bryan will bring forth other Bryans to speak for the masses of the Middle and New England Staies.—Republic. The Louisville Courier Journal has flown the track and refuses to support the Chicago platform. All right, yo it boots. The sheep must be seperated from the goats and it will be all the better to have the separation made as quick as possible. Then the free coinage men can make calculations as to their standing. and Senator Jones, of Arkansas, will command the democratic ship in this campaign. The Globe-Democrat in figuring ou the outcome of tbe presidential race, says McKiuley will not have a walk over, and in order to win every republican must go to the polls in the people have November. ‘Vo give McKinley the|™et and nominated for the presiden necessary majority in the electoral college the Globe Democrat says the party must carry Illinois, Indiana and New Jersey. The loas of either one of these states will defeat the ticket. Bryan Is the Man. Kansas City Times * The great convention bas acted. The delegates of braska There were other candidates be- fore the convention, and the friends of each ardently hoped he would be the nominees. In particular the friends of Honest Dick Bland longed for him for their leader in the strug- gle which may now be said to have begun. Lov. Y. Stephens, state treasurer and leading democratic candidate for governor, visited Mr. Biand at his home Sunday. He went tosee} The democratic convention, how- Mr. Bland and ascertain from him Hl over rnee. Or simply to honor . : : , ? oi he hed any intention of running for the friends of free silver, but governor, and assured him that if he | to select the strongest candidate the had, he (Stephens) would withdraw party could present for the great at oace in his favor. Mr. Bland said battle in behalf of the people. This he was not and would not be a can- man, they have concluded, is William didate for governor, that he prefer Jennings Bryan Fs : red to go to congress. There is no questioning the judg- ment of the convention. The friends of Mr. Bland will be the last to crit- icise the nomination, since it was the expressed wish of Mr. Bland that whenever it should appear some { With the nomination of Bryan at | Chicago comes the spontaneous news | from all over the country that pop- ulist, silver republicans and demo- crats are endorsing him. With the two candidate in the field that are) ,. : 3 ile didate, his now nominated it will narrow down | to the question of free silver | withdrawn. : S Sees | he striking ability of the nomi gold basis. Which do you want?} jecwallkuogn FF his Take your choice and above all, take | ee ae oe = ccnecuratnes dictates.—-Rich |12*° politics his remarkable talents Hill Tribune. | have kept bim before the public and | Won from the people of every sec- Hon. D. P. Stratton, of Vernon | tion the heartiest admiration. county, isannounced asacandidate| T° the credit of Mr. Bryan, let it for Judge of the Supreme Court. | be said that he had no managers Judge Stratton came to Missouri | grooming him for the nomination. own name over carefully and if, in their judg-| ment, Mr. Stephens is the man to! aominate, they should say so at the | county convention July 1s96. | Bryan may be young,but he is not) untried. He has seryed on the most | important committee in Congress | He has met in hand to hand debate the leaders of Republicanism. His! actions and life have been subjected. --to the most searching criticism and no flaw has been detected. If he has accomplished so much at 36, what may not the nation expect of him as he enters middle age’—-Re- public. from New Jersey, in reconstruction Quietly and unostentatiously he daye. He cast his lot with the peo |mounted the platform to speak ple of Missouri when they were suf-/#8ain for the cause in which he has ferers under the Drake constitution, | !2bored so ably and so long. Before He came a friend and an unswery-j that remarkable oration was finish- ing democrat, and battled valiently ee he was practically the nominee of for the abolition of the test oath, the democracy. and for the restoration of the rights) His is the wellearned victory. jof our people. For a number of Chosen by the people as their strong- est candidate, he is tonored as few men are honored. His is the glo- rious task of ieadirg the people in the struggle for their rights. His is the rare privilege of leading the people on to their most glorious victory. The next president will be William J. Bryan. years Judge Stratton bas presided over the courts in the cuit. Heis able and both as lawyer and as judge. As a good man and sound, old-time, | dyed in-the-wool democrat, he de- serves, and we believe, will receive | favorable consideration. Vernon cir- experie need, cy Williams Jeunings Bryan of Ne-| other man would be a stronger can-/ should be! | William Jennings Bryan was born |March 10,1860, in Salem, fll. He was taught under his mother’s care until he was 10 years old, when he | which he attended for five years. At |the age of 15 he went to the Whip- ple Academy in Jacksonville, Ill, which is the preparatory department of the Illinois college at the same place. He spent two years in the Academy and four years in the col- lege, taking a classical course. He represented his college in the inter- state oratorical contest in 1880, and was class orator and valedictorian in 1881. He then went to the Union Col- lege of Law in Chicago, and while in attendance there he was in the oflice of Lyman Trumbull. He left the law school in June, 1883, and went to Jacksonville to practice law, remain- ing at Jacksonville until October, 1887, when Le removed to Lincoln, Neb., going into partnership with AR. Talbot, a class mate of the law : school. He has taken part in political cam- paigos since 1880 and made a num- ber of speeches. He took part in the jeampaign of 1888 in Nebraska and ‘was nominated to represent the First |District in Congress in 1890. He was elected by the majority of 6,713, {although the district had gone Re publican by 3.400 when Secretary | Morton had been defeated in 1888 and was thought to be certainly Re publican. | He supported Springer for Speak er in the Fifty second Congress, from whose district in Illinois he came originally. This led to his be- ing put on the Ways and Means Committee in Congress, of which Springer was chairman, and on March 16, 1592, he made a tariff specch jthat was the sensation of the day {and liberally distributed as campaign | literature. | 1 He was re-clected in 1892 in spite of the fact that the Legislature had jredistricted the State and his district jin the previous election had given ithe Republican ticket about 6,000 |majority, and was re elected by 140 | votes. In the Fifty-third Congress he | helped to frame the Wilson bill, be jing a member of tue Ways and | Means Committee, and took an espe- cially active part in the income tax | provisions At the cfose of the debate on the |income tax in Congress, replying to |the special session, he delivered a |three hours’ speech againat the re | peal cf the Sherman law, thia speech | being more largely circulated than ithe tariff speech. He also spoke in favor of the bill to coin the seignior- age and spoke against Carlisle's cur lrency policy and against Cleyeland’s gold contract with the Rothschilds. In 1894 he became a candidate for the United States Senate and an- nounced that he would not be a can- | didate for the Lower House of Con- gress. He was nominated for United States Senator in the Democratic convention and the Populist cardi date in his district was indorsed t the Demncrats for the House | Representatives. The ensuing state legislature bei Republican, John M. Thurston was |sent to the Senat&gnd the Republi- ng went to the public school at Salem, | | Bourke Cochran, Aug. 16, 1893, at} ¢ BENNETT WHEELER MER¢. ——DEAl ne celebrated Peter Schuttler, Weber, Moline and Clinton Farm Wagons, New American Suiky and Gang Plows, Road Serapers, Road | Plows and Austipall Steel } Reversible Road Graders, { Top Buggies, Carriages | H Everything we sell is guaranteed | will at all times be found as low | sold. All kinds of country pre ARRARARARR AAA AAAAS RRRARRAR YY ERS IN—— and Spring Wagons, Pumps, Wind Mills, Pipe Fillings and all kinds of Steam ‘Thrasher supplieg, Hardware, Groceries, Stoghs, Queensware, Barb Wire, Salt, and Wagon Woodwork, to be as represented. Our prices as goods of same quality can be xduce wanted at market prices BENNETT WHEELER MERC. co} can candidate in his former Congres ;and several discussions were held. | After his retirement from Con- gress, he took up the practice of law in Lincoln again, but the silver cam- paign opening, he found that the calls upon that he was forced to give up his law practice. In September, 1894, he became editor-in chief of the Omaha World Herald, and had control of its edito- rial policy on Stateand national questions. Mr. Bryan is a man of small means. He was married Oct. 1, 1884, to Mary Baird of Perry, Ill, who attended the Female Academy in Jacksonville when he was in th other school at the same place, and who graduated the same week that he did, and was also the valedictori- an of her class. She studied law and was admitted to the bar, without any idea of practicing, but simply to be more thoroughly companion- able to him. She isa year or two younger than he. Three children have been born to them, Ruth, 10 years old; William J., Jr. about 7, and Grace, 5 years old. Mr. Bryan is a Presbyterian, hav- jing joined the Cumberland Presby- terian church at the age of 14. He jis now a member of the First Pres- byterian church at Lincoln. His father was Silas L. Bryan, who was son's birth and served in that capac- ity from 1860 to 1872 on the bench | of Illinois Judge Bryan moved on a farm a ‘short distance from: Salem when his son was 6 years old and from that } ‘time till he was 23 years old Bryan | spent his summers on the farm. In| | made so brilliant a showing that he sional cistrict, J. B. Strode, was | elected by 5.000 majority. During | majority. It is said the fame he all these campaigns he challenged | gained in these joiut debates, of the opposing candidate to a debate | which tariff was the theme, induced | him for speeches and! campaign work were so frequent! : | fight him bitterly. a Circuit Judge at the time of his | | carried the district by a tremendog | Speaker Crisp to appoint Bryan oa | the ways and means committee, Og | March 12, 1892, be scored his fing | great oratorical success on a apeeh on free wool. Before the election of 1894, Mp | Bryan refused renomination as com.” gressman, and campaigned for eles , tion to the United States senate | His platform forthe 16 to 1 free | eoinage of silver caused Morton and other administration democrats to He was how. ever, nominated by the state demo cratic convention. Two joint de | bates at Lincoln and Omaha respec ‘ively with John M. Thurston, the candidate for the senatorship, at — | tracted much attention. The | | lature was, however, republican, | Thurston was elected. | Mr. Bryan lives well in a commo- |dious dwelling in the fashionable |part of Lincoln. The study, in | which Mr and Mre. Bryan have | desks, is a yery attractive room. | Itos filled with books, statuary | and mementoes of campaigns. There | are busts or portraits of noted men |and there are two butcher knives | which Mr. Bryan used in the cam: | paign with Judge Field to refute the | latter's boasts of the effects of high | protection Last year %*r. Bryao waa asked if he had any aspirations | looking to the white house and he | answered: “No, I have no wish to bea pres- | idential candidate; neither now nor |for years to come. My whole | thought new is centered on my fam- ily and my profession so far as my own personal desires go. I wae | brought up in the country andl wish my children to have good rear and ling. They are now at an age when they need a father’s care, and I wish to get into practice again for I very | much enjoy the law, which has been | necesserily abandoned | four years in Washington. during my 1872 his father ran for Congress on | |the Greeley ticket and was defeated | i by 240 votes | | His family comes from Virginia. | | His father was bora in Culpepper | Court house, in that State, and died | in Salem, Ill, in 1880 His mother, | | whose- name was Maria Elizabeth | Jennings, was born in Marion Coun ty, Iil, and died in Salem a week ago last Saturday after a protracted | jillness | In appearance Mr Bryan is im. | pressive, his face indicating intellec. | ‘tuality and power as well as good | |nature. There is a notable absence | ;of the boyishness seen in the pic ; tures and lithographs of him which | 'have been circulated. Heis kindly | jin menner, easily approached and | jdoes not lack dignity. In appesr |ance he is an illustration of the fact |that some men are never accord ‘justice by a picture, which in ‘case does not prepare one for the expression of keenness shown in Lis | | face. Mr bryan bas not long been a political figure in Nebraska. In fact, he is a comparatively new man in the political arena of his etate. Through his debates on finance with Senator John M. Thurston, B van became known as the champion of silver. Bryan supported J Sterling Morton for congress in 1888. The latter was defeated. In 1890 Bryan himself ran in the | Same district against the same op | | ponent. He challenged his adver. sary to a series of joint debates, and | i j > | jeal ills, which vanish bef | ly remov 'Gladness Comes ith a better understanding of the transient nature of the many phys + proper ef- ntefforts— comfort ip. y forms o* actual dis- nstipated condi- W family laxat: hi e esteemed 50 good health. debil g it is therefore important, in order to get its bene- al effects, to note when you pur- chase, that you have the genuine artr manufactured by the 1 up Co. only and sold by is mo’ es\ st ceneral satisfaction. used and gives mc pleasant * returni! : marms | Rates ¢ Ther ” Fred cago fi in a pl Rev bis vi He 4 Augu Ber miesi him regin Ey eas, ing to d T hold Sat will the poi the we| Su in en i!