The Paducah Daily Sun Newspaper, August 24, 1897, Page 2

A ibis v; 1 ization of young colored Republicans | Democratic Senators. The Demo- _THE PADUCAH DAILY SUK, for the peng bolting the Repub-| cratic Senator from California who except lican ticket at the coming election. | presided at the convention of 1°51 If the statements therein are facts,| which nominated Cleveland, and who why did not the author sigh|wasa distinguished and promivent his name, or the ‘‘Register’’ give the} momber of the Chicago convention, fact as a news item? The truth of|voted for the high, and you ‘oxn| the matter is that there {s nothing in}may say excessive, tax on - maieany|it, but the article in question was|borax because California was a RECEIPTS. | TRRASUNEK| written hy a colored school teacher| borax producing state. For the same ||; who has conspicuously figured in the|reason he voted! for the prohibitory , \inbership e thiol tk police court of late, and he did not] duty on onyx and for the protective |S" ee aoene peel believe what he was writing himself. } duties on wine, fruits and nuts, all ' | If he will continue to furnish vommu-| products of Calfortia, and, I may RESOURCES | nications to the ‘Register’? in oppo-|also add, for the duty on raw sugar) Pl Mig. Last Leport sition to the Republican ticket there} to protect the beet sugor interests of Honus se or TIT Published every afternoon, Sunday, by THE SUN PUBLISHING COMPANY, INCORPORATED, FOR SIX MONTHS ENC pinncrons ¥.M. Fisher, J.R, Smith, R.W. Clements, J. Williamson J.J. Dorian: THE DAILY SUN (ill give special attention to ALL local bap mings of Interest in Paducab and vicinity, fot neglecting general news, which will be Hicwted $30 0 | fy om $119 700 0 ~~ SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT OF PADUCAH, KY. Dues Cotlecied $ 7 498 00| Due Tre $24 2 st ven as fully as space will Dérmit without re- Eara'o expense will not be enough horse power in the city to pull a colered voter from the “! nominees, When anything 1s so rank that even the ‘‘Register’’ will mot run itas an editorial, when it hears it, it is surely pretty tough. This communication is on that order, but perhaps the ‘‘Register’’ learned a lesson from the last article of the kind that it published. THE WEEKLY SUN As devoted to the interests of or rons, ad Will at all times be ne (ertaining, while keeping tts re: posted Op'all political affairs and topics; while it will Be & fearless and tireless exponent of the doc: trines and teachings of the National Republi: oan party CORRESPONDENCE. Aspectal feature of the weekly edition of Tae SUN will be Its Correspondence Depart: ment, In which it hopes ably to represent every locality within the limit of ite cireu- lation. ier’ nil ADVERTISING. Rates of advertysing will be made known ov application Office, Standard, Block, 116 North Fourth street. ITS OLD GAME. The ‘‘Register’’ is at its old game again, of telling what is going to {happen to the Sux, the ‘Farley tee 4.50| $8m8,”" etc. It has cried wolf so of- Daily Bis monte u 2.25 | ten that its rantings have no effect Daily, One month. 40}now at all. It would be a pious Daily, per week... 10 cents] thing for the ‘‘Register’’ instead of attempting to predict the future, to devote a little of its valuable space to telling what has happened in the —| past or is now actually taking place. TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1897. | Tt has so often predicted dire calam- = | ities, when the results have happened Tue 100th anniversary of the in-| otherwise that the public has come to corporation of the beautiful little city] the conclusion the ‘Register’ spends of Augusta, Ky., is to be celebrated) most of its time talking through its by appropriate ceremonies next] editorial hat. month. For nearly half acentury} As for Capt. Farley's ‘‘dethrone- the old Augusta College made this) ment,’ fortunately the ‘Register’ place renowned, especially during] has ‘‘no say’? in the matter; the wish Bascom’s presidency. It was here]is, however, doubtless fathet to the where Morgan's men and the Federal} thought, The “Register” can put troops met in deadly combat. Au-| this down asa fact, however, that gusta has given to our country many|Capt, Farley is strictly in the fight distinguished men. and will win and will be serving as Ss mayor long after the ‘‘Register” is a No sensible Republican claims that thing of the past, unwept and forgot- the high price of wheat is due to the] ten, election of McKinley. But Republi- Capt. Farley is the nominee of the cans do claim, and facts prove their) Republican party and if he should be claim, that the advance in wheat ab-| detested, which he will not be, it solutely knocks out the one theory| would be the defeat of the Republi- upon which Bryan and his followers/ oan party and not merely of Capt. Far- made their canvass last year. Itliey, Tne Republicans of Paducah covers them with contusion. It re-} sre united and will win this fall, tue duces their claims to the most puerile ‘Register’ to the contrary, notwith- foolishness, Wheat and silver were standing. ‘The slush that the ‘Regs twins! No more Dollar wheat, with-| ister dishes out to its readers only out the rehabilitation of silver! Sil- disgusts them and makes votes for must first be looked after and then} the Republican city ticket, and when wheat would follow! These were the] the Republicaus want any advice they assertions upon which they made} wili not go to the Register” for it. their canvass. The law of supply = and demand they refused to recog-| * A LESSON IN MONEY. nize. Republicans and Sound Money| ‘‘ Without waiting for the aid or Democrats have a right to rejoice|Cousent of any other nation,’’ the at the discomfiture of the advocates} Democrats proposed last year to go of free silver. upon ssilver basis. In view of their Weekly, per annum in ad- vance... Specimen copies free 1,00 Arrears Bal. Cash on band his stale, He did right; but I de vot think he was altogether just to other sections in refusing to vote for protecting their interests, ‘The Dem- vauue oF evan ocratic Senator from Kentucky earn-| First series mature estly worked and voted for protection | ” for wood alcohol. The Demovratie Senators trom Florida voted for the protection of the local interests of F that state, and the Democratie Seva- tors of Georgin and South Carolina for the protection of rice, lumber, and any other interest of their states which presented itself. Why aid and assist in making the bill protective| | and then vote against it? The inter- ests that were advocated would have been lost by a defeat of the bill, I 5 voted for the interests of Lovisiana. Leecured the protection we desired, and [did not intend to lose it by taking any chances for the defeat of the bill.” MONEY IN paid off wide! ries Jai. ¥ But Millions More for it,— Isn't This Prosperity? ined the report ab same correct Louisville Times. - worried over what it terms Hannaism Tobacco isa luxury, and at the/Now on the subject of bribery I led ‘ TOBACCO, = Prices for All Grades of Tobacco} cst % Average Double Last as 8 Year's Figures. sends ak i Bize of the Lrop Slightly Smotter,| _ “*****tet! and worn to etore me this Avg. 1 same time a necessity, but when poy erty and bard times bear dowa upor all with such depressing effevts, tho: the use of the weed 1s reduced to the bounds of necessity. The gradually declining prices that have ruled for the weed on the Louisville breaks during the past few years, discour- aged the farmers to such an extent that the acreage this year is consider- ably below the average and less at tention has beeu given to the cultiva- tion. Therefore, with the unfavorable conditions of the weather, accompa- nied by inattention te crops, the tobacco this year will not surpass in quality that produced last year, which was very inferior, and the quantity will also be considerably curtailed. should like to submit to you a few figures, and, if such a thing is pos- | joible, Ewould like to enlighten the | | editor of that most enterprising jour- nal. To do this, I will compare the population and voie of two states, | Minnesota and Mississippi. The! population of Minueso‘a January 1, 1896, estimated by the Governor of the state, was 1,700,000; of Missis- sippi, 1, of these states has nine electoral votes. The toial vote of Minnesota for President | in November, 1896, was $41,539. The total vote of Mississippi at the same election was 70,545. Now in pro- portion to population — Mississijypi| should have cast a vote of about 306,000, and if 306,000 1s correct, there were 235,455 ers in Missis- We publish today a statement of the Mechanics’ Building and Loan Association. It shows the company tobe in good condition, having ma- tured two series already, paying off|and the shock is felt wherever a|°° being greatly less, the manufsc-| anybody else to brile 295,000 voters the first one, at the same time show- temerity, the facts concerning the rise of wheat are most interesting. That no nation lives unto itself is as The apathetic condition of finances | sinpi who did not vote. Why? If in this country, which until shor‘ | jt is wrong for Mr. Hanna to bribe time ago rendered business of every} yoters in Oli‘o to go to the polls and true as that mo man liveth unto bim- self, Crops area failurein Europe, bushel ef wheat is raised. A drouth ing profit of one dollar and seventy- | in the valley of the Danube. ora crop seven cents, being five cents more| failure in the Russian interior has an than was made during the term end-|immediste effect on the price of ing July $1, °96, Building and|wheatin McCracken county or on Loan Associations have been of great | the Nebraskan prairies. The farmer benefit to Paducah, enabling numbers| in Argentina watches the European of poor people to secure a home that] Crop reports as closely as the Ameri- would never have gotten one, and it| can wheat grower. Nowhere in this afforded a safe investment for small| World iss bushel of wheat raised savings each month that otherwise| Whose grower can fix the value. That would have been spent. It should | is done for him in [the great wheat be the aim of every public spirited | markets of the world. citizen to foster and take care of the} And this interdependence of the building and loan associations, there-} World in regard to wheat is just as by doing more for the city than can|truein the matter of « standard be done through any other channei,| money. In this no nation lives to If the law does not protect them to | itself. Mexico thought she had solved to the fullest extent, one should be|the problem, bat she is now in the made at the earliest opportunity that} throes of a business panic, the out- will enable them to carry on their | Come of which is dark and uncertain. description very dull, was likewise] yote for Major McKinley (and he| felt in the tobacco manufactaring | did not do anything of the sert), is it trade, The demand for plug tobac-} not wrong for Senator Walthall or turers did not care to increase their} to stay away from the polis because! stocks or store any tobacco that was|ihey were !epublicans and would! in the least degree doubtful, and} vote ihe Republican ticket? The| would probably become funked. same disproportion will appear in the About last March the echoes of al yote of Alabama, South Carolina, returning prosperity were heard] arkansas and Louisiana. throughout the entire country, and} But they say (hese were colored the tohacco dealers, as if by some] voters, aud the wiite people cannot mysterious premonitien of a large de-| afford to let them cast 9 full vote, mand for manufactured tobacco in| If they did, they would have negro the near future, commenced to re} governors, judges and sheriffs. The plenish their depleted stocks. The) white people can not submit to this, production in 1896 was far below the}I do not wish to argue the right or average, and when the manufactur-| wrong of this, bui only to make this ers commenced to bid with such en-| point; If it is wrong to ergy for certain grades most desirable} bribe men to go to the polls to vote the prices gradually commenced an/q certain way in Ohio, if such an upward movement about five months] illegal act was ever committed, is it ago, until at present they are nearly | not just as wroug to bribe them away} twice as high as at thistime last year. from the polls in Mississippi? We! | The market advanced steadily untillhave no proof of bribery in this | June when many were of the opinion/excent the ussertion of the silver that it was verging ou a boom and} Pemocratic journals and leaders, prices reached their meridian, and then a slight reaction followed. The enormous p. ‘ce paid for wheat which we all know is not evidence, ! But the records show that 235,000 voters in Mississippi did not vote or! {the Perquimans river, jare able to show you hundreds of business, affording protection to alj,]Some common standard of money is}and the geue al prosperity of the as absolutely necessary as is a com-| country bave caused an increased de- were not counted, The Republican | Ohio in November, 1896, Every now and then some quon- dam free silver paper startles us with mon language. The framers of the Chicago plat- the assertion that the free silver issue] form formed some effective catch is no longer ‘‘up,’’ aud every sound| words and phrases. But the light of money man at once agrees with the| recent events have proved them to be statement, for to the sound mosey] meaningless. As long as the Ameri- people nothing is clearer than that] can looks to the outside world for the tree silver is ‘‘down,’’ and way down. | price of his commodities, just so long But if free silver is not ‘ up,’ what} must he not discard the outside is ‘‘up?’? What is the argument| world when selecting his standard of that isto be used to get votes for] value. Mr. Shackelford at the coming elec- tion? What song and dance are the silver Democratic orators going to] Senator McEnery, who voted his give the people during the coming sentiments on the tariff bill, hit his campaign? What isto be done with|°O¥@tdly Democratic colleagues Bryan, who is preparing to study the pretty hard blow in his speech at silver question in Mexico ia the Span- New Orleans the other day when he ish language’ These are serious showed that Senator Tillman, of questions for the 16-to-l-er, Lasy} 0th Carolina, Senator White, of year the Democrats cast everything California, Senator Lindsay, of Ken- aside to make room for the free coin-| ‘W¢kY, and Senators Bacen and Clay, age issue. They abandoned all ihe| % Georgia, who voted for a tariff on old issues, fluag away their heritage the products of their own states, at- to nearly a century of glorious mem-|e™Pted to nullify these votes by ories in the one vain attempt to cap-| °° : ture the election, and that upon a| ills Concerning the attitude of stolen platform. Now they are out| ‘ese Tepresentatives, Senator Me- in the cold. Having burned the} Peery said: bridges behind them, they find that the road that was to lead them to the promised land is a blind lane, Whither shall they turn? VOTED ON BOTH SIDES, of the inconsistent and selfish de- mands of its representatives. Louisi- ano has been well taken care of. The communication and without any sig- nature, concerning an alleged organ- voting against the final passnge of the] », ‘To ihe edivor of te Comwe protecte: the docteiie of ‘‘a tariff! 14th inst, in au article hi for Jy pes was lost sight of by| bery in Ohio,’’ seems very mand for tobacco, and the consump- tion has been greatly enlarged since the advance in prices. The most marked advance has been along the line of trashes, common to medium lugs and common leaf, which are bringing twice as much now as at this ume last season. Lounsville is the largest tobacco market in the world, and the farmers of Kentucky receive more revenue from this source than the farmers of any other state, The following are the tables and grades of tobacco, and the compara- Will any candid, truth- ful man claim that these men were bought, marched to the polls and vote I think not, So I think we in the south would better clear our own skiris before accusing other peo- ple. Respectfully y OF COURSE HE IS. McKinley Happy Because Large Crops and High Prices Are tive prices for this year and 1896: ., ; Li Sa Ath . Causing a Boom in the BURLEY DARL Western States, Rea, Colo T ach (4-000 . peneumine i oF Fed ‘sh (20u0d) Common lugs But He Thinks the Tai iff Brought Medium luge Good ligase, 4351000) Bi to 080 Prosperity to the Eastern Common leat ‘shor (10509 619 08CI BE) Lo! Commcaient Sie State Manufacturers Medium lea. 61 tolo( ' Good leat... 100) told | Ping aod | Selections — 14 1018.50 18 10% 00 4 a | Champlain, N. Y., Aug, 23.- 1898 CROP, Vresident McKinley siated to a re- 4 PURLEY par | porter that it should be a pleasure to| c : Red. Colovy every American citizen to know that sae ea | there was a return of prosperity 5} the country, it “The cause of the present boom in| c the West,’” be said, ‘‘is undoubtedly DH 7H % (0880 £54 tov 340 1060} due ina greabmeasure to the large 149016 60 14€) to16 00 8 75 to7 50) Crops and high prices caused by the t ea. 10180 16091018117 90409601 failure of crops in other countries. | a8 180) Lo84 00 18 09 LoBs OO But the fact that prosperity has set! 3 ia i he Ei xe accounte By Way of Comparison. Pi ic 7 sy Peers Bosca af accmuniad Paducah, Ky., Augusi 20, 1897 y than by the wise policy of the Republican party in ve- storing « protective tariff, The present boom is not spas- modical, but willcontinue to increase much 'and not ouly the mapatacturers, but| fa Prlouse The Louisville ‘‘Dispatch’’ of the led ‘Bris & 8% a TI, MRI ey be to| miss E, GUTHRIE & CO, 5 ING JULY 3) DISBURSEMENTS. MP tow LIABILITIES. k Ace't end goth term § Withdrawals and Matur Mock $8 8h 9 s received zoth term PROOF OF STOCK ACCOUNT Series No. Shares Value per Share total Value Maturities and Withdrawals unpaid Guarantee Fu Vndivided Ir ending July 31, 1807 P.M, PISHER, Se i “W. F PAXTON, Not s Building and toax ation, have exam- JNO. ROCK KG com the people generally, will soon realize’ that it is only with « protective tariff and sound financial principles that the will be prosperous and re- countr main in that condition «With the restoration of confidence will eo restoration of prosperi- ty. 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