The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 15, 1900, Page 2

f | Se aa my Siac e ie REPUBLICANS NEAR A PANIC teresting. fa | It appears that wire nails now sell-} ing at the price of $3.53 a keg in | New York and Chicago which | one year ago sold for $1.59 and five] “ | years ago for 95 cents, are now being | Washington Post, Regarded as exported from New York and sold to} an Administration Orgon, Savs He is Losing Blamed | foreigners at $2.14 perkeg; and that} Strength. 6 eet tne mat-| M’KINLEY’S CHANCES Z ARE DIMINISHING. Porto Rican Tariff Mav Prevent the President’s Re-election and Sugarand Tobacco Interests in 1896 the export price was $1.30} home market gners certainly for Getting the Party Into its Pres- the | when 70. Fore price was -A Senate Caucus ent Muddle have} we in this case. j zi | atter of barb wire the | the adve Necessary to Avoid House Sut in the BRYAN GROWING IN FAVOR. Ww March 9.—In the | dispacches reference has been made |to the recent marked ehange in the | present politieal atmosphere at the capital. The most conservative po- litical observers admit that President McKinley's chances for reelection have diminished rapidly within the | last few weeks. The Washington Post this morn- ing, in its leading editorial, discusses the effect | the situation candidly. The Post is of the extremely high prices now be-| 4? independent republican paper, ing charged cannot but greatly re- which generally has supported the strict the building of fences, houses|@dministration. It is something o and barns an authority on political matters, But the trust advocates are telling and, therefore, its view on the out- Experiences. | Canadians are fovored by American and Europeans are ungton, regard to Washington, March &.—The Porto manufacturers Rican agitation seems to have set-| better treated in prices tled down to a question as to wheth er the administration really favors free trade or a tariff on trade between Porto Rico the United States and the confusion is increasing rather than diminishing. A feeling of irrita- | great that foreigners are being driven tion has existed in congress since at- than even the Canadians. Barb wire is now soldto Americans at $4.13 a 190 pounds, to Canadians at $3.25 and to Europeans at $2.20. Our exports of these products are 60 and out of the business Barb wire and portant articles of consumption with tempts were first made to learn when wire nails are im- it was decided necessary to abandon the free trade idea and take up the tariff proposition submitted by Mr Payne. Some members go so far as to say the president “has imperiled farmers and builners, and his chances of re-election, and possi- | has still further impaired Mr. McKin- ley’s prestige and the rumored pur- pose of the president to compel its ratification will. if it should be realiz- ed, not only discredit the government the party. Ina word, !as it seems to us is far more | ble to Mr. Bryan and | Mr McKinley than it ago | What will happen within favora- far less so to wae f¢ r years next) {six months it is not for us to pro We deal with the facts as they are at this moment. In our opinion | the republican party has to an alarming extent wit Its lesy. {<3 ost ground | in the last! best friends and three months j ablest exponents have not been able} toexplain the betrayal of our na-| tional integrity in the Hay-Paun e| fote treaty, or to defend the bad faith | and cruelty involved in our treat- H ment of Porto Rico. We say nothing} of the stupid mismanagement in Cuba | and the Philippine islands. the ugly | and appalling suspicionscurrent with | reference to both them and Porto} Rico | Having no certainty we speak no word. But we assert without fear of} contradiction that the adminisetra- but bring contempt and odium upon} the situation | The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 y has borne the signatnre of d has been made under his pere sonal supervision since its infancy, Allow no one to deceive you in this, All Counterfeits, Imitations and + Just-as-good” are but Experiments that trifle with and cndanger the health of infants and Children—Uxperience ainst Experiment, What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harialess substitute for Castor Oil, Pare. goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. I¢ contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narecotie substance. Its age is its guarantee. Ut destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrl tand Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures € istipation and Fliatulency. It Pood, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep, The Children’s Panacea—Lhc Mother’s Friend, GENUINE CASTORIA Atways rs, bly the election of a republican con- the people that combines reduce the look is of more than usual interest. | tion is daily losing strength on all] ress. The statement that Secretary = The Post states: these scores, and we know. for a cer- Root was compelled by the sugar] cost of articles and are thus bene- and tobacco interests to submit to the imposition of duties on Porto ficial. “Assuming that the Honorable|tainty, that thousands of men who How do the farmers like the “bene-| William J. Bryan will be the demo-/ four years ago regurded M Bryan Rican trade has vexed members who |fit’” they are getting through the cratic nominee this year, and there] with terror and aversion now consid- have been tr. ing to shield the secié- | Steel and wire trust ? seems little doubt of it at the presenter him favorably as the lesser of two tary of ena to-day stories are Will they vote for MeKinley and |™moment, let us cast his horiscope, 80 | evils.” heard full of definite assertions of | trusts and pay two prices for home- far as that may be possible in the personal responsibility for the change light before us. The Campaign 16 of front on the bill : close at hand. Within four months o 1 : ? noi ihe: _Toallay pains, subdue inflamma-| oth tickets and platforms will be|*¢™mpt to relieve Ladysmith 1e sugar and tobacco interests are | tion, heal foal sores and ulcers, the We all recall the} General Buller 1.859 charged with the chief responsibility a e most saiisiactory resulis are obtain- a s * : eae fees oe exits 96 r ill be] This is a far heavier casualty list for securing a reversal of policy. Mr. ed by using Ballard’s Snow Liniment. | Crcumstances of 1896. What will be seal J Price and 50cents,at H. L. Tuck-| the situation and what the prospects | than resulted from the first disas- trous attempt to cross the Tulega, THE SILVER QUESTION. and is approached only by the losses It Cost Buller 1,850 Men. March 7.—The last at- made articles ?—Chicago Dispatch. London, eost men isted before the people. Oxnard of the beet sugar interests is 3 er’s. spoken of as having adopted the same in this year of our Lord, 1900? HE CENTAUR Com! DR H.M CANNON, | tactics employed by him in opposing | NATIONAL BANKS WITHOUT END. the annexation of Hawaii. The beet sugar farmers were asked to write letters to congressmen urging them to protect the threatened industry. Concern Under the New Law. With this movementthetobacco men| New York, March —State banks x sai ~ co-operated, so that the president |in all sections of the country are pre- made the most conspicuous and a ete Same was worked upon at the same time|paring to take out charters under| threatening feature of the eonflict, ee pee pean Pore cercosre that the members of the senate and| the national bank system |CBtbled the orators and organs of ee ee ets house were feeling the pressure. Mr.|as soon as the currency bill becomes the capitalistic combinations of the pe rounded ee Cae —— Oxnard is said to have secured the}a law. One New York bank received |COU8tty to proclaim that Bryan’s ees) billed oa fog d Mace co-operation of the tariff reform] more than thirty inquiries upon the | SUCCe58 meant ‘dishonest money,’ ‘the aa we a caadepe, killed Jeague and it is said that he practi-|subject yesterday. One man from a degradation of the dollar’ and ‘rob- ei heptane secs i eae et Bove’ cally prepared the bill which met the] western town told a bank officer that bery of the horny-handed Bou of toil. t) cin susiieers, kalled 11. oe sti approval of the ways and means|he expected to start eight banks with What dreadful pictures were drawn illed 1 cemmittee after it had decided to] a capital of $25,000 each. Reports of the consequences of democratic throw over the president's recom-|of similar preparations in other sec- | SUCCESS it is mes! impossible to ade- mendations and the bill introduced | tions of the country led to a predic- quately describe. The wreck of enter- by Mr. Payne. tion by an officer of one of the best | Prise and industry, the ruin of the Witha great variety of amend-| known banks that fully 2,000 na-| POOF Man, the extermination of agri- culture and the dawn of a_hell-bern carnival—these were only a few of the grewsome prospects dangling before the eyes of the ignorant and timid voter. Newspapers ranted about the ‘fiity-cent dollar,’ stump speakers brayed and howled about the infamy Four years ago Mr. Bryan stood|i# tae Spion Kop movement. The for what many regarded as a propo- four advances cost about 4,000 men. Only $3,000 Needed to Start a $25,000 ganda of amarchy. The silver plank A list of the casualties sustained by in the Chicago platform, which was, | General Bullec’s forces, from February 14 to February 27 shows: Killed, 123; unfortunately for the democrats, missing 2; Scots fasileers, wounded 67, missing none With the list of casualties issued Monday, this makes the total cost to the rank and file in the final relief of Ladysmith 1,850 men. ments offered for theconsideration of | tional charters would be applied for the senate, and opinions pouring in| aftor existing restrictions were moc- upon the senators to disturb them, | ified. the opinions being generally favora-| The New York Evening Post says: ble to free trade with Porto Rico. | ‘It was estimated to-day that any- senators who were a day or two ago| one with $3,000 cash capital could quite free in expressing their opinions | start a national bank under the new Harrison Steps to the Front. Washington. March 7.—Ex-Presi- dent Harrison is a candidate for the presidency. The sudden breach in the republican lines caused by the unexpected clash over the status of Porto Rico, gives the friends of the ve become i ie rhen K ste nb ae secu: is $25] Of Paying the laborer only half bis : z : have vecome impatient when asked | sy tem. All that is required is $25, Sie ae a 1.]e-President an opportunity to push concerning the public outcome of the] 000 in 2 per cent government bonds| ¥8ses: Pensioners, persons depend- him to the front, andit is being made the most of. Harrison is not only outspoken in opposition to the policy of Mr. McKinley as to Porto Rico, but protests aguinst the spirit of toadyism to Great Britain which issuch a marked characteristic of this administration, and openly ex- presses sympathy with the Boers as a people struggling to maintain a free government. Mr. McKinley and Senator Hanna ing upon life annuities, all theswarms of the salaried were told that they tottered on the brink of penury. Nev- er was there so simple and sosharply defined an issue and never was the opportunity for blantant and insen- sate outcry so inviting. We all re- member how it ended But what a difference now! The republicans themselves have deliber- ately removed the bugaboo of free silver from their property room. The F é enactment of the law fixing the gold|#"¢ ore disturbed just now by foes standard a part of our national poli-|"2"* BO Se oes = my jey makes silver coinage impossible they are by'the problem of the Phil- contest over the bill. which could be secured at ruling rates The caucus of the republicans that |for about $26,750. These, represent- was first suggested as desirable is now | ing the capital of the bank, could be admitted to be indispensable and]|sent to Washington and circulation many senators say that,it should be] for the full amount of the capital im- held soon in order to avoid the break | mediately taken out. The organizer that was caused in the house, making | of the bank then has only $2,750 tied legislative heroes of every member! up in the enterprise, but could take who voted against the imposition of | deposits in the regular way. Whether a 15 percent duty on Porto Rican] the system can be p trade. Among indications of the state of public feeling in reference to the Porte Rico billin the middle west is the difficulty representative Crumpacker Gen. ‘operly sa feguard- uirements is not known, but local bankers are wat ing the experiment with great interest and more or les ed under such req > concern. ia Having ta cpppreseine his boom for Rise in Prices Probable. for At least six years to come. No|'PP!ne® s, governor of Indiana. Mr. Crumpack-| Chicago, Il., March 8.—The rise in| Manufacturer or capitalist or great] The democratic state convention er wants tocome back to congress | Prices of all kinds of material caused | Merchant or employer need be fright-| will make no mistake in nominating and does not want to be governor. | the National Wagonmaker’s Associa-|ened into a heavy contribution to] the present attorney general, Ed C Prior to his vote against the Porto|tion to hold a meeting at the Aud-| the republican « ampaign fund. Were| Crow, for reelection. He has made Rican bill he was never thought of or|itorium Annex. It was announced| Bryan to be chosen president next|Missouri one of the best attorneys mentioned as a gubernatorial candi-|that, since no apparent decline in| November. and were a democratic] the state ever had. He has been a a rise in| house to be elected simultaneously,|true friend of the people. and has would be | the pe like that of|carefally. ably and faithfully guarded free trade, would be no nearer or| their eve -y interest during his admin- more real thar listration. The successful war waged | the insurance and date. The resentment among repub-| Prices could be hoped for, licans over the of the bill] Prices of wagons probly took form in a spontaneous boem for the only republican inthe Indiana delegation whose vote represented of free silver, massage Ss made. Coneerns from South Moline, Ul.. Raci Bend, Ind., it is at this moment e@ and Kenosha, | There would still be a majority iu the by him against their sentiments Mr. Crumpacker Wis; Louisville, Ky: Chattanooga, | Senate capable of preventing either| other trusts existing in the state at | has done everything he could to sup-| Tenn: Florence, Ala; Atlanta, Ga;|calamity and no power at the dispo-| the time, made for him unnumbered | press this boom, but all the reports |St- Louis, Mo; Troy, O., and Fort | sal of the executive to overcome the | friends among the people of this com- who are | monwealth, that from Indiana indicate, however, that it may not be so easily | Meeting. dispowad of come Wayne, Ind., were represented at the obstacle. Those two ly nigh loud in their } mares no longer throng the atmos-| praise of Ed Crow. and ask that he phere. No one outside of nurseries | be justly honored witha renomina-} and asylums ean now be frightened|tion by acclamation. No opposition March 7.—Not. | by these buckram spooks | has yet materialized and is not likely nish Financial Bill. | ngton, D.C Steel and Wire Trust. Washi re | probably, in the history of the senate oO} 4 Do the American people wis! | was th b 283 | MCKINLEY LOSING STRENGTH. * | tO. pay more for articles manufactured | 7S there ever shown so little real] (| t : +h | he will lead much strength to the en-} A ee a n the other hand, what streng z 2 i REO j : in the fir na great}, | tire ticket.—Warrensburg Siar. j here than the people of Europe are peo} t | : . ; Measure as was manifested vester: required to pay for the same articles | ™°SSUre as was manifested yesterday | has the republican | offset ti party gained ness by to} nthe vote on the confe | Propably Miss Gould’s Gift. © report shipped from this country and sold} id : ¥ . . =} - ie; O°) t » Te: ' alecad? | e financial bill. The report has | °°™ ~ ; % ies Me f T 4 A before the : 4 and successful conduct of) .. > ; <. 4 It ist likely that 4 mer- before the se haw gee oa ics =o ts ‘| Evening World asse that it has . : st } he war with Spain has been sadly ; 1 * ican people desire to do anything of > Je SS ies ~ information that Miss Helen Gould uded by the scandals of mismar : ‘ : : ee —_—— giver of $100,000 tor the the kind, and yet that is just wi = erec- a é = _——_ = lagement a which at- ps nein iis they are forced to tendea* ine ae T tion a “Halli of Fa connectic tive tariff, whicl z ne % ~ he University of New York inistration with re- to obta confirmatic rich and impover Thos. W. Silvers. row is an able campaigner ind |). M. CHRISTY, M.D. ‘ew York, March 8.—The New York | Office The Over Butler Cash Depart- Office Telephone en aspecia DENTIST, RUTLER, MO. I WILL LE IN East Side S:juare, FOSTER, the first Mondayin each month 2days. MERWIN, 2n1 Monday in each month 2 days AMSTEEDA ‘I, \\ednesiay following second Monday, 2 days. | AMORET, friday following second Monday | 3 days | ARCHIE, thst Monday of each month 2 days. ADRIAN, 4th Monday of earl month 3days. | Prepared to do all kiudsof Dontal work. Con. | sultation fre t Cc. «SON, D. DLS DR. W. J. McANINCH, | VETERINARY SURGEON. Scientifically treats all domestic ani- mals. Office at Gailey’s Feed Yard. Butler, Mo. J. F. SMITH, JOHN L. 8TANL SMITH & STANLEY | LAWYERS. | Office 2nd stairs east of Mo. State Bank, 8. W. Dooley. A. B. Ludwick. DOOLEY & LUDWICK, LAWYERS. Office Over the Post Office J. 8. FRANCISCO. H.C. CLARE. Francisco & Clark, LAWYERS, Successors to Giaves & Clark. Over Mi State Bank. W. O, JACKSON, LAWYER, BUTLER, - - MO. Will practice in all the courts, Thos. J. Smith, LAWYER, Office over Bates Countw Bank. Butler, Missouri J. A. Silve: Rich Hil, Butler, Mo Office ic in rear of Farmers Bank Silvers & Silvers, —-ATTOENEYS ‘AT LAW— Will practice in all the courte. DR, E. S. BALLARD, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office over Trimble’s Drugstore, West Side of Square. S. A. ROE, M.D. Diseases of women and } Ear, Eye, Nose and Children a Speciality. § Throat Specialist. DR- CHRISTY & ROE ment Store, Butler, Mo. House Telephone 10. C. BOULWARE, Physician and Surgeon. Office norta side square, er,Mo. Diseasesof womenand chil tv. Miss Gould ers. brought from As an illustration of thing take the steel ar report for example. Jo publishes a letter in are ractica country. The Hay-Pau cefote treaty j closed. not be dis-' gorrance, same thst leats to Hagedcra’s Studio, north side square, Butler, Mo DR, J. T. HULL DENTIST. Parlors Over Model Ciotb‘ng Co. 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