The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 20, 1898, Page 2

ab, 0 ee reece =a ~ SEEKS A NEW SENSATION. | New York Journal Leaves Bry- an to Act with Boss Croker. Having Fought for Silver at 16 to i Concludes That Any Old Ratio Wil! Do, And Fires a Broadside at Bryan Consequ New York, Jan. 12.—The New York Journa!; hitherto his warmest | partisan, evidently is getting ready to cast aside W. J. Bryan. Ina signed editorial by its chief | writer, Arthur McEwen, Mr. Bryan! in to-day’s issue is roasted severely. The New York Journal was the only eastern paper of importanve to support Bryan during hie late cam- paigo, and this indication that it is to abandon him as a candidate for the Presidency in 1900 is a matter of no small ioterest. Richard Croker and the influence of Greater New York is apparent. The Journal will, it is thought, become the advocate of a new demo- cracy, whose nucleus is Tammany. There may be a fight between the East and the West, the eastern lead- ers aiming t3 uohorse Bryan and re-organize the democratic party under the leadership of a now man and on a platform calculated to win back the members who were alien- ated by the Chicago platform. The New York Journal’s political edi- torial opens with this paragragh: “As a Bryan democrat I bave to confess that I grow weary of Mr. Bryan, and this is important, because I find myself in a constantly increas- ing company. With the otber Eastern democrats I am com- ing to believe that he is not large enough to be the leader of the cause which is known by his name. Of his energy and his brilliancy as a politi- cal speaker, as high an opinion must be held as when he made that mar velous tour of the Union, arousing the people eyerywhere with his earnest and dashing eloquence. But he no longer impresses as a great man, nor asone of the highest sincerity.”” Then it continues: ‘He is showing narrowness, or irrational obstinacy, either of which should be detrimental to his ambition and must be hurtful to the immediate prospects of the movement he represents. The per- sistence with which he clings to 16 to 1, as if it were not only the salu- tary tenet in the democrats’ creed, or the axis of the revolving cosmoe, betrays either Mr. Bryan’s incapacity to comprehend Bryavism or a dog- ged disposition that refuses to ac- knowledge what is presented to his eyes and those of every other intelli- gent man in the country, whether for or against the Chicago platform of the new democracy.” The writer then goes on to give his ideas of what the principles of the democratic party really are and should be. He mentions the struggle of labor against capital,and speaks of poverty as a disease for which a reason must be found. He alludes to the cures proposed by the Socialists, the George single-taxers, the Christians and the disciples of the philosophy of laisez faire. Mr. Bryan, he says, believes that free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 tol will do it, and the intelligent and educated and property owning classes of the coun- try rise and clamor against him in wrath and terror, as if they, too, believe he has touched the button. Also millions of men who hope for. instead cf dread the inauguration of a squarer deal, agree with Mr. Bryan on the principle, for the most part, that it is better to try any remedy than none. After admitting that a sound currency is important, be says: “DBimetallism, bv all means It is the money of the constitution, and therefore democratic. But why a ratio of 16 to 1 or death? cree of heaven has given that ratio a sacredness beyond all other possible ratios?’ This, he says, is a matter | over and remain good democrats. “Common sense,” he goes cr mands that a political party, instead of narrowing its gates of entrance, should widen them by every possible inch. There should never be any surrender of principle. tials. Agreement on tke main thing is all that should be required, and What de- | > which bimetallists can differ) but always * readiness to subordinate non-essen-} |the main thing inthe new democracy that took up the jis not 16 to 1.” The closing paragraph of this) three column roast reads: Mr. Bryan may, if he chooses, stick oyster to the rock of 16 to 1, but the| ,|main stream of the new democracy | will not be stationary for his sake, for any mans. Bryanism will} to grow, whatever Mr.| nor continue Bryan may do.” SHOT POWN. | Bank President 1s Killed in His Office. | Butte, Mont., Jan, 12.—Patrick |A Largey, president of the State Savings Bank, one of the best known citizens of Butte, was shot and kill- ed in the bank building at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon by Thomas J. Riley. Riley entered the bank about five or ten minutes before commit- ting the crime. He called Largey to the cashier's window aad they talked for five minutes or more. Suddenly Riley drew a gun and shot through the window at Largey. The bullet struck the latter in the left arm and shattered the bone. Riley fired a second shot, which struek Mr. Largey squarely in the forehead, and he fell on the floor dead. Riley ran out of the bank flourish- ing his revolver and was captured by officers after an exciting chase of several blocks. He claims that Lar- gey had promised him work, but failed to make his promise good. He was taken to the Deer Lodge penitentiary to prevent a possible attempt at lynching. The murderer has but one leg. He loat the other in the explosion of a powder ware house at the Mon tana Central yards, and has since worn acork leg. Largey was man- ager of one of the companies whose ware house exploded and cost the loss of 58 lives. Gomez to Blanco, New York, Jan. 12 —Estrada Pal- ma received a copy of a letter writ- ten by General Gomez, the rebel chief in Cuba, to Captain General Blanco. The letter says in part: “You have come to substitute Weyler. To a man of your condition I would ask, as I did in the case of General Campos: What are your aims and purpose,? To exterminate us? It is impossible to do that and to pretend such a thing might be little honor to you. Is your pur pose to subdue us? That is absurd and might prove a ridiculous at tempt for you. Our determination is well known and patent. Neither extermination nor submission would mean peace. In view of this fact, I now repeat to you what I said to General Campos: ‘Let this blood shed be stopped. Let the use of the torch cease, General.’ Spain should not allow Cuba to owe her independence, directly or indirectly, to eutside help. Let the deep abyss between Cubans and Spaniards dis appear by Spain's recognition of the Cuban Republic. Then there shall be eternal peace. Otherwise there shall be blood and fire. That would be the command of our honor and dignity. We will follow it until victory, which always crowns those who fight for justice, settles our fate.” Calling for Death, Clutching at Life. From the sick room at Friedrichs ruh come loud and savage denuncia- tions of the vanity, misery and folly of life. “I have never known happi- ness,” says Bismarck. too long. Death would be a joyous relief from a never light burden that has now become an _ intolerable torture.” | Yet we do not hear that Dr. Schwening«r is rebuffed or that his | directions are disregarded. skillful and numerous nurses are gratefully, even eagerly received. | The once gruff and most rebellious | Patient now meekly and heartily co- operates in all efforts to prolong his “intolerable torture.” While his voice despairingly calis ‘for death, his hand clutches Time's hour-glass zied effort to stay the sin’ of hfe. Thus does human nature put down the pessimistic veneer of phi- -—New York World. J. M. Birdwell bas been ap ointed postmaster at Patterson. W ayne| county, Mo. sword at Chicago; | Democratic Club Wil! Move Into Magnificent | like an} “T have lived | The at-| tentions of the family and of the} desperately | CROKER BUYS A CLUB HOUSE. Quarters. New York Herald The Democratic club bas decided to move to a more commodious building. The announcement was made last night that it had arranged | through Richard Croker for the pur- jchased of the New York Athletic |club’s building, at the southwest | corner of Fifty-fifth street and Sixth | avenue. The change was made necessary by the rapid growth of the club since Mr. Croker took bold of it and} decided to make it the democratic | city, state and national headquarters. the figure fioally agreed upon is not made known. The purchase, which was effected three days ago by Mr. Croker, was ratified last night by the board of governors. It will be laid before the club members at their meeting next Friday night, and will doubtless re- ceive their approbation. The gover- nors of the club expect to move into their new quarters early in May The democratic club’s home-to-be was opened in February, 1895, as an athletic club. It is built of brick and terra cotta, and has a frontage of 76 feet and 6 inches in Sixth avenue and 100 feet in Fifty-tifth street. It is equipped with a roof gallery and a running track, and contains a swimming bath 68 feet long and 21 feet wide It bas a billiard room and six bowling alleys. The kitchen is on tie roof and the restaurant on the s+ cond. It cost, with the ground on which it stands, $300,000. The athletic club will not ba able to move to its new house, at the corner of Fifty-ninth street and Sixth avenue, until March, and some time after that will be occupied io remodeling the old house to make it suitable for its new occupants. A large banqueting hall will be provid- ed, where democratic leaders from all over the country may dine and discuss questions of politics. Tbe present club bouse, which was formerly the residence of Chris-| topher R. Meyers, the sugar refiner, cost $175,000 when the club bought it. A comparatively small portion of the purchase price was paid out right. Members of the club hold $60,000 in mortgages will be sold at auction and the pro ceeds applied to clearing up the mortgages and paying in part for the new house. There wers twenty-seven new names of proposei members on the bulletin board of the democratic club last night. sponsor for fourteen of them The club house was thronged with lead ers, old and new, all evening, and | Mr. Croker was kept busy with conferences. The uear prospect of moving into a new house has made Mr. Croker’s the dictator of State politics and the maker of Presidents The demonstration of his power in raising the democratic club almost from the dead and placing it ona buying more costly quarters thaa it He is a greater man in their eyes to-day than ever before Sued for Price of Wife’s Coffin. Columbia, Mo, Jan. 14 —Thomas J. Owens of this, Boone county, has) coffia in which his wife was buried some time ago. He separated from! his wife and. though he was not jdivorced, he cl agreed before th=y parted to release/ him from all debts aud obligations. | | This understacding was reached) after he had deeded to her some | property over which they were dis-| | puting After her death and burial | |no one could be foucd to pay the |cost of the coffin, and the firm of ims |Hulen & Hulen sued the husband. In the court of Justice D. N. New- map. a decision was rendered in \favor of Owens. The plaintiffs will appeal the case to the Circuit court. The urgent deficiency bill passed by the House contains a provision that owners of bullion must pay the lcost of transportation to mint. | 1 | As to Bryan and Democracy. The price asked for the building by | the athletic club was $270,000, but | The house | Mr. Croker stood | plans for extending his influence | seem more real to the Tammany} leaders. They already see in him footing which enabled it to think of | pow occupies has impressed them. | that his wife | Little surprise will be occasioned by the New York Joursals an- 'nouncement that it ean no longer lurge Mr. Bryan as the democratic candidate for the Pre: ey in 1900, | The further dec! pany- ing this announcement th he free coinage of silver at a ratio 16 tol is not acceptable to the democracy of New York is neither new nor startling. Our New York conten jof Bryan and Bryanisz | Bryan created tbe —— an instead of being created by it. | | Before Mr. Bryan's ‘pereonal lity was! ja factor in that remarkable conven- | tion, and before his name orary talks as if Mr.! | conven- | figured in the newspaper dispatches, the plat form had been completed by the| }committee on resolutions. Bryan's| remarkable speech was made in sup-| port of a platform in the creation of | which he was no more conspicuous |} than any one of twenty other com- mitteemen. What the New: ‘York | Journal calls Bryanism is nothing | more than the policy of the demo- cratic party,as deliberately expressed | by the only body of men authorized to make a final party declaration. The Journal is correct in its asser- jtion that Bryanism will with or without Bryan, for what the East call Bryaniem, the West and South understand as democracy. Take the party declarations and | apalyze them, and Mr. Bryan's bandi- work does not appear. Before Bryan became a factor even in the polities of his own State the democratic position on tbe tariff had been made} clear. Before Bryan was known to politics Richard Parks Bland was the conspicuous political advocate in| continue, |this country of the free coinage of 98, and if credit is due to any one man for that dec laratiop, it is to Bland of Missouri. The third declaration, portant because of the bitter tight waged upon it during the campaign, was contained in the plank which! declared against government by injunction. ‘This declaration of im- portance secord only to the one declaring for independent free silver coinage, because it made certain a co-operation of the populist and democratic parties, was written by Altgeld of Illinois, and placed in the platform through his tireless efforts. Why, then, cal! it Bryanism’ Had Mr. Bryan remained at Lincoln the |democratic platform wou’ i been adopted just as it was prepared | | by the committee on resolutions | The Tammany machine, which now controls the New York Journal, bas never made a democratic plat- form or nominated a democratic candidate for the Presidency. The most it has ever been able to ac- jcomplish has been the selec- tion of the second man on the | ticket, and even that was denied in | 1896 The democratic party in 1900 | will not go to New York for its |platform or its candidate. It will {not seek the advice of Richard Croker, nor be especially ccncerned in the attitude of the New York Journal. It recognizes that the sup- | port of the Tammany machine, which ignored the platform in 15846, in its last campaign. be of greater} | financial advantage to the New York! Journal than the support of the jcombined free silver parties, and it) will permit them to go siver at a ratio of 15 made im- have will their way and revel in whatever spoils they can | wring from Greater New York. The | democratic platform for 1900 was ;made in 1896, and States essential | for democratic success are more en thusiastic in its eupport now than |—K. C. Times. Oat of Office: Then Oat of Lite. Washington. Jan. 9 —Miss Mary | Waite, who tried to commit suici ide| | because of her failure to secure a| | Rovernment position, still threatens) | to end her life. Her first words te | the physician who saved bor were “Life is i ona ‘ t worth living, jed to die Miss Waite is pretty and four. Her whole existence seems to vi tuc et of o her father was g and at tte ing his labor co dtece an interrecine war blood would fow to the borses’ bri- |dles, Miss Waite secured a place in \ ce holding ernor of Co height of a fame that would aration sccia soc tions | who ie the R sg "SS3NI90S eS ‘ODVENN “YOUNIS vEOIN MSLLVMOZKY SEND ‘sisinug sii Sqeoef ‘1S Te cEs GY Siy} equiowoy "uI2g Saonbuog 3 Aqoioymn usis “THE WALTON TRUST “COMPANY, Ort Butler, Has on hand a large amount ; Bates C or short time. that desires a new loan come and see us. Rates lower and § FRANK ALLEN, Secretary PR nty farms at low rates of interest, and on long We inyite every Real Estate owner in Missouri, of money to be loaned or ‘ Bates County er to renew an old one, to é ore mee ble tl terms more reasonabie lan ver before given in Setes county. WM. E. WALTON, President. SRR AIA RAARARAR RA RA AR AAA the government printing office. It was not the salary or the posi- tion that infatuated her. She sim- ply became inoculated with the' mania for office-holiing. Then came reverses. The position which meant ; so much to her and s0 little to oth- ere was lost She west to Aspen, Colorado, and began life anew at the home of ber sister. Butthere was continually absent the charm of being “‘in cflice.” Mies Waite, like all those who have once held office, cherished the hope of reinstatement. She came here aud made repeated efforts to secure government These all resultedin failure With each disappeiatment there was a deepening of the melan- choly whieh had taken possession of her. There is no repentanee expressed by Miss Waite for her attempted suicide. She hopes that the news, may not reach her aged father, who | is now living in Texas. Her brother | and friends are closely watching | her. Arrangements are boing made for her return to Aspen. employment. successive There is a Class of People Who are injarod by the use of coffee, Recently there has been placed in ailthe grocery stores & new preparation called GRAIN-U, made of pnre grains, that takes the place of cof The most delicate stomach receives It with« distrese, and bat few can tell it from cof It does not coat over one-fourth as much. ne Try it. cts per package. Ask for GRAIN-O. Tramp Marders a Littie Girl. Elgio, Iil., Jan. 12—A tramp | called at the home cf Christian Wol-| lett at Algonquin ‘Iuesday and be-| causa he was refused breakfast drew | } a revolver and shot Louisa Wollett, | 813 year old daughter, alone in the | bouse with the mother. Her mother | ran to summon help and the tramp | comp!sted his work by choking the | wounded girl to death. A posse is} scouring the country for the man, and declares it will lynch bim. A Sure Thing for You. 8 guaranteed tocure or ™ . are @ sure thing. Sample all dru funded. today; free Try a box | and booklet Tacoma, Ww ae, Jan. 12.—It is definitely announced by A. W. Brat- nober that the Rotbschilds would build a railroad into Yukon over the Delton trail. His brother, Henry Bratnober, of San Francisco, country othechilds’ western rep hes the enterprise in| charge The railroad will be about 400 miles long. The of con- | struction and equipmsnt is estimated resentative, cost just been sued for the price of a | they were at the time of its adoption - $8,000,000 ‘buying ( of two m C | Cook’ ane is That the Stone be Hush Mexico. Mo. Jan. 1 the presidential! ex Gov. Stone Cook says Boem Will In view of start-d for Chair boom last week, 24D j ot. sects, | — | BOSTON MEAT MARKET, Cc. W. PROCTOR, Pror'r. Successor to J, F. Hemstreet This shop from now on will be run in first-class style. Will keep none but the best meats on hand for sale. Give me a calland I guarantee satis- faction. Cuas. W. Proctor. Southeast corner of the square, first door east of the Grange store, T. W. LECC. For al! repaira, or part ‘gies, Surri road wago.s, farm wage tons &c, pol shafts, neckyokes, wh shes, cushio top. I sell the best Bugov Paint on Earth, We reset tires and DO NOT RUIN THE Will furnish you a buggy HIGH OR LOW GRADE for very few dollars. Lam thankful to all who have patronized me and hope you will continue to do #0, and if you bave never tried me, come and be convinced that this ls the right place -tt. WHEELS, W. O, JACKSON, = LAWYER, BUTLER, - - Will practice MO in all the courts, Smith & Francisco, LAWYERS, Office over Bates County Bank. Butler, Missourt, hos. W. Batler, Mo. Office in rear of Farmers Bank Silvers & Silver ——ATTORNEYS ‘AT LAW— *Slivers. J. A. Silvers, Rich Hill, Mo WIII practice in all the courte A. W. THURMAN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Will practice in all the courts. Office over Bates County Bank, Butler, Mo. (tf) j GRAVES & CLARK, I ATTORN#YS AT LAW. Office over the North side square. Missouri State Bank DR. J. M, CHRISTY, HOMOEBOPAT PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office, front room over McKibbens store. Ail callanswered at office day or night. Specialattention given to ter eases. ale dis fy C. BOULWARE, Physician and «Surgeon. Office norta side square Butler, Mo. Diseasesof women and chil en aspecialtv. DR. ‘J.T. 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