Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 8, 1898, Page 1

bY . : ~—Exvand Rapias— Vou VII.—No. 7 Granp Rapins, Irasca County, Minn., SaturDAY OcTORER 8 1898 o Two Dotuars A YEAR — TI bidashsheshsshsthsihshsshesheshshshishedushihshiderdikededdade dts coke Goce pal ITHSC: = —_ i SERA ee gh eA ea ae ee a eae a a ae eae a aH HS eat ae a Shoes will be of the latest styles. Which department we have given ample floor space to supply all demands. Now for BOYS’ SCHOOL SHOES; school purposes and és a winner. Buy them once and you will always buy them. UR BUYERS will be in the midst of some of the largest and finest “Stock” in the Northwest for the next week, and expect to select and purchase a line which will be surpassed by none. effort to get what they call “Nobby” and Stylish Patterns, and extend a general invitation to the ladtes of Grand Rapids and all tributary points to call and examine our stock. We are also going to increase our ==SHOCE STOCK Our Gents’ and Ladies’ and Misses’ We have a shoe made especially for 4 ' eae eae ae eae eet eae ee ae eae aes ee ae eee ee ee ee ae eae ae eae ee ee ae eae eae eee ae eee eae ae ae te eae ae oe a ee ae eee eee eae ete ae ee ae ea ea ae a ea eae ae aa ae aE nescliatihasivnakoats sath net DRY GOGOL We are making a special fr Ldeddad L chhshichthshshnshshasashsshshusdhethsdacduduedstdudededor tcc ni kek cent eee A Blunderbuss... In the hands of an idiot is just about as efficient ) as the ordinary cheapshot, } gun in the hands of the ) average hunter. No mat- | \ ter how good ¢ jo | \ may be, if your gun isn't > right you might as well stay at home. N Era Shot Guns Are All Right. | t } They are made of fine Damascus steel, with twisted barreis, ) and are absolutely accurate. Don’t waste your time moénkey- ing with a “snide,” cheap shot gun. Buy one of these good guns, and have all the sport there n hunting. Other guns cost jless, but this is the cheapest, because it does the busi- ness Hit kills. Before going out on your fall hunting trip come inand , look over our line of sporting goods. ? SEES — w.d&H. BD. POWBRS | = ee | ? [ J { < th a. | . 9 I “QUEEN QUALITY THE FAMOUS SHOE FOR WOMEN unequaled in retaining shape, wear, and lustre. Fashionable for street, dress, home, or outing. All feet and fancies fitted in toes, heels, and leathers, ‘The limit of excellence style, fe QUALITY ,. = pectin aos COUNTS material, $ 3,00. workmanship. these essen- +44, from start > tals this shoe is Queen Quality to finish. “ FOERDERER’S”’ VICI KID | used exclusively. _—— ° ry 7 Qa SOLD EXCLUSIVELY BY on every : pair. * ~_ — fore g Hi istate leg |said the Republican part Canty and Mitchell, who hauded | down ions, to succeed | themselv Is it not passing strange KNUTE MAKES A SPEECH. | Junior From Talks to Our People. Senator Minnesota good audience turned out last | Tuesday evening at the court house | to greet Senator Knute Nelson, and | were agreably entertained by the dis tinguished gentleman aft M Carthy ended his ‘‘Democratic Plat- form Desection” h. The pleas ti r, but cian or an orator he is a_ sign ure. n by telling McCarthy that he{ ¢) was entirely too modest —whether this wasa bit of m er not we know not, and there was a diversity of op yu anent the same. He went intoadry summary of the laws which have been enacted by the atures since 1893, which he “pointed of Re- | is-a | | sarca to with pride” asthe fru publican legislation “mono- polies and combine but he forgot to tell his hearers that a goodly num- ber of those measures were conceived | and championed by Democratic and | Populist members of the legislatures, | and that the G. O. P. allowed them | to become laws to save its political neck. He tried to encompass the Re-} publican party with a {halo of glory because the state supreme court had decided that the Anderson rail- road lands tax law was constitutional and that (in the Steener rate case) the rail were not entitled to more than a fair income on the cost of the} reproduction of their plants, but fur-| got to relate that the Grand Old Party at their late state convention | refused to nominate Justices Buck, that the Republican party should de- 1{ in the upholding of the. rights the people by t ¢g to ouste from office the judges who upheld those rights? But, returning to Knute; he drifted into the money question, and claimed that it was an issue in this campaign, and stuck to that declara- tion, his claimed the undivided at- tention of his audience, who have} \ been wold by every Republican organ | | in the country that ‘‘the silver issue lis dead,” and by Pa Morris that it isa ‘‘dead” and yet “a live, burning”’ re issue. the tariff question with the money question, and as a result he presented a beautiful yet transparently foolish argument for the continuance in Of- tice of the Republican party.. He tackled the question of the duty on lumber, but did not dilate upon it to any extent, and it slipped his memory that he isa rank “free trader” when lumber is concerned, else he would have told his hearers so... But when it comes to tin plate then Knute is a high tariff advocator, and he tell the good housewife in seductive lan- guage that every family in this coun- try should be willing to pay a tax in order that the tin plate manufactur- *But Knute transgressed from | the subject and skillfully interwove| add to their millions. Knute also believes that the iron and steel manu- facturing industries must be ‘“‘pro- tected’’—but he forgot to state that American steel is soldat a profit in Hogland at $7.00 per ton less than in our own fairdomain. ‘The war and its probable results claimed consiaer- able of the Senator’s attention, and his words of praise for McKinley, our brave soldiers and sailors found ac- cordance in the hearts of our people, bub when he cast reflections upon the uetions of the Democratic senators }and congressmen in the halls of con- gress during last sessiou, and stated that the actions so taken were actuat- ed by unpatriotic motives, Senator Nelson deviated from his usual spirit of fairr and stated that which he knew to be absolutely ®ilse. The agts of democracy in the late war néeds no champion, whether it be with Morgan in the senate, Bailey on the floor of the house, Dewey on the deck of Olympia at Manilla, Hobson schuttling the Merrimac, or Schley at Santiago, we find Democrats all true and capable of maintaining the honor and dignity of the greatest nation on earth. Senator Nelson did but fol- low the tactics of the Republican speakers and newspapers in the en- deavor to distract public attention from the charges of incompetency which Gen. Miles and others have jaid at Secretary Algers’ door, and at the same time try to make political capitol out of the success which at; tended the skill aud bravery of ad soldiers and sailors‘in battle by try- ing to make the people believe that it was a ‘“‘Republican war.” he senator closed his address by asking the audieuce to sing ‘‘Ameri- ca,” which it did with a will. Lhe address as a whole was not what the average man’ would expect at the hands of such a noted man as is Senator Nelson, but this iu a meas- ure may be accounted for. by’ reason | cf the lateness of the hour when he began to speak. His manner; of ad- s is pleasing—he talks to the audience in plain, unvarnished and comprehensive language. He makes many telling arguments, but his logic is weak. He does not enthuse his hearers to any marked degree, but for all that he is undoubtedly a vote- maker wherever he goes. His visit to Grand Rapids is not causing the democrats here any worry, they be- lieving that Knute’s conclusions will not stand ground under the rapid fire of logic delivered by the Democratic {speakers who will visit usduring the next few weeks. Duluth-Omaha Line. There is only one railroad from Duluth to Omaha, operating trains over its own track all the way, the ‘Northwestern Line’ (Omaha_rail- way). Visit-the great 'Trans-Missis- sippi exposition, second only to the World’s fair. Very low rate excur- sion tickets on sale daily. Call on your local agent for information or address B. W. Summers, agent, 405 le n this country can wax fab and s } e West Superior street, Duluth. PLATFORM Adopted by the Democrats of the Fifty-Second Legislative District. We, the representatives of the Democratic party of the 52nd Legis- lative District of the State of Minne- sota in convetion assembled at Grand Rapids, do hereby reaffirm our alle- gance to the national platform adopt- ed at Chicago in 1896, and to those principles as enunciated in the state and congressional platforms of 1898, and pledge to them our unswerving snpport during the present campaign and until their demands shall have become the established governmental policy. We recall. with pride the glorious campaign made in [896 under fhe matchless leadership of Hon. W. J. Bryan, whose devotion to the princi- ples of free government has endeared him to our herrts, and installed him as the foremost leader of true democracy. Wecommend the wise and patriotic actions of the Democratic senators and representatives in congress in the momentous affairs with which the nation was confronted on the out- break of the war with Spain and point with pleasure to the fact that they ignored partisanship and united with their fellow members in utaliz- ing every resource, moral and ma- terial, for a vigorous and triumphant conclusion of the war. We take great pleasure in heartily endorsing the candidacy of our candi- dates for the several state offices, and also the candidacy of Hon. C. A. Towne for congress, and pledge to each of them our heartiest support until the polls close in November next. LABOR. We denounce the system which is much in vogue in this district where- by employers of labor issue to dis- charged employes what is commonly called a ‘Time Check” in pretended payment of wages due for labor honestly performed, and which the holder is forced to discount at a liberal figure in order to receive some compensation for his toil. We brand this system as being infamous. Ib is contrary to all sense of right and justice and is undemocratic in every particular. We, therefore, pledge that our candidates will, if elected, use their best endeavors to have placed upon the statute books of our statea law which will compel the em- ployer to pay his employes at least once a month, orin full of account upon a discharge, and provide that such payment shall be made in Jawrul money. of the United States, or by bank check or negotiable paper not subject to discount for exchange, and which shall further provide that a heavy fine shall be imposed upon all violators of such statute. TAXES. We denounce the tax laws which the Republican party has placed upon the statute books of our state, enact- jed, we believe, for the sole purpose of legalizing tax dodging, and make it le-for the holders of large i: of lands te escape contributing their just proportion of the cest of maintaining our state and county governments. Under the provisions of these iniquitous laws the collection of taxes is a matter of impossibility, and the counties of this dighrict are annually put to a large expense in advertising delinquencies without any reasonabl> assurance of making jcollections thereof. We, therefore; | demand that the tax laws be revise {so thot when ap of land shall TOWNE COMING ! + The Mlustrious Advocate of the Peo- ple’s Interests Will Address the Evening, October 14th. It is only necessary to announce that on Friday evening next Hon. Chas. A. Towne will address the peo- ple of Itasca county at Village hall, Remember the date. taxes for three years the title thereof shall revert to the state; which may sell tho same and give a warranty- deed to the purchaser thereof. We denounce as unjust and un- democratic tbe present state law that provides for the taxation of pine logs and other timber. Under its provi- sions logs are assessed at their desti- nation in thestate. We believe that. as a master af justice and equity they should be assessed wherever found, in transit or otherwise, on the 1st day of May, and we, therefora, demand that laws regulating their taxation be re- vised to that end. ‘ We demand that the {provisions of the Anderson tax law,. providing for the taxation of unused railroad lands, be strictly enforced. TRANSPORTATION. We denounce the present railroad and warehouse commission as being a partisan body, whose offices are used solely inthe interests of the railroad and elevator corporations, apd we demand that hereafter no cor- poration lawyer or railway official be made a member of said board, and that the deliberations of that body be held for the purpose of giving the people just and fair rates and charges for transportation, and allow the railroads a fair income above the cost of maintaining and operating of their roads. STATE PINE LANDS, We denounce the injustice which prevades in the present system of sell- ing state pine lands, and demand that they shall be sold. at a fair and- equi- table figure ann only after proper ap- prisal. SURVEYOR GENERAL OF Los. We denounée the laws which pro- vides for the maintenance of the office of surueyor general. of logs in this state. Under its provisions the emoluments of that efflcee in the telah cary district above amount to nearly $50,000 annually. We be- lieve this to be a ‘matter of injustice both tolumbermen and to. the people asa whole. We therefore demand that office be madea salaried one, and that the exhorbiant taxation for scal- ing logs shall cease. DRAINAGE OF SWAMP LANDS. | We fayor the appropriation ot state moneys for the construction of state drains, to the end that-laage tracts of land within the borders of Nor- thern Minnesota shall be made fit for cultivation. ‘ DIRECT, LEGISLATION. We favor direct legislation, and and referendum, Citizens of Grand Rapids on Friday - have standing against delinquent j demand the adoption of the initative.