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SOMERSET, PA.,
BRYAN DEMOLISHED.
Eonrke Cockran Does it Before an Im
mense Audience.
The mara meeting of the Democratic
Honest Money league was held Tues
day evening at Madison Square Gar
den, New York, under the most favor-
ble auspices. Thousands upon thou
sand!! of persons turned out to hear
William Burke Cockran's reply to the
peech of Mr. Bryan delivered in the
same amphitheater last week.
The Sixty-ninth Regiment band ren
dered a series of national airs while the
audience filed in. Every man, woman
and child who entered was given a
small American flag and a leaflet con
taining the words of the "StarSpangled
Banner" and "America." These songs
were rendered by a double quartet, in
which the vast assemblage asxtated.
The small American flags played a
prominent part later in the evening,
when they were waved vigorously aud
with charming effect by the vast audi
ence when it gave vent to the enthu
siasm at some of the many points made
by Cockran in the course of his speech.
The platform, which was considera
bly larger than that used last week was
tastefully dressed in the national colors.
On it, besides Maj. John Byrnes, presi
dent of the Democratic Honest Money
league, who called the meeting to or
der. Perry Belmont, the permanent
hairman of the meeting, and Bourke
Cockran, there were a host of promi
nent Democrats of national and local
renown, and a large number of the vice
presidents of the meeting.
The audience was far more enthu
siastic than that which greeted Mr. Bry
an last week. The slightest occurrence
out of the ordinary set them cheering.
Eighty-three hundred chairs had been
placed in the arena of the auditorium.
This arrangement swelled the seating
capacity of the building to about 18,-
000.
At 8:25, when Mr. Cockran came in
every seat was occupied. Mr. Cockran
was received with prolonged cheers.
Maj. Byrne immediately advanced to
the front of the platform and when at
8:30 order was restored, he called the
meeting to order in a brief speech.
He was heartily applauded through
out vhen he named Terry Belmont
as chairman, the cheering was renew
ed. Maj. Byrne said :
Fellow Democrats : Democrats who
love their country above their party. I
may be pardoned if I give briefly the
causes that led to the organization of
the Democratic Honest Money league
of America. It is a home for honest
Democrats who are unwilling to wit
ness the assassination of their party.
It is a home for honest Democrats who
believe their party stands for honor.
This league was organized in an emer
gency. Honest Democracy has always
been found on the side of the country.
They are now. This campaign will be
conducted on the lines of education.
There has been a conspiracy organized
by selfish greed of everything undemo
cratic. We are going to save tne coun
try first, if possible, and then look to
the party. We have lost the ship, but
we must Bave the country, and we in
vite all good citizens of this country to
cooperate with us. In every fatate in
the Uuion to-day the league is moving.
From the camp-fire we expect the en
thusiasm will spread until the cam
paign ends to the downfall of Anarchy,
Socialism and repudiation.
He then introduced ex-Congressman
Perry Belmont as the presiding officer
of the meeting. Mr. Belmont advanc
ed slowly to the front of the platform,
aud, when the applause which greeted
him ceased, began his speech in a slow
and deliberate manner. Mr. Belmont
said :
This is a time for very plain speak
ing, we want no victory under a laise
flag. The Democratic standard was
supplanted at Chicago by the rag of
Populism, which we firmly refuse to
follow to the disgrace of the nation
We are Democrat and we represent
Democrat who intend to remain Dem-
rats, refusing even to surrender the
honored name of our party to the Pop
ulists. Mr. Belmont concluded his remarks
at 8:4-5, and then introduced the speak
er of the evening, Mr. Cockran. The
vast auditorium was immediately iu an
uproar, and the ovation of the ntght
was tendered the ex-Congressman.
Men and women stood in their places
and cheered themselves h-mrse, at the
same time waving small American flags
vigorousls. When the cheering had
subsided in a measure the New York
Bauks Glee club began to sing the Star
Spangled Banner. The audience join
ed in and helped out with the chorus.
Mr. Cockran at length secured order
and plunged at once into his subject.
his reply to Mr. Bryau's speech. Mr.
Cockran said:
Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen,
fellow Democrats: (applause,) With the
inspiring strains of the national song
still ringing in our ears, who can doubt
the issueof this campaign? (Applause.)
Tuat issue has been well staled by
your presiding officer. Stripped, as he
says, of all verbal disguwe, It is an Issue
ofmmmon honesty; (more applause.)
an issue between the honest discharge
and the dishonest repudiation of pub
lic and private obligations. It Is a ques
tion as to whether the powers of this
government shall be used to protect the
honest industry or to tempt the citizens
to dishonesty. On thja question honest
m?n can not differ. It is one of
morals and of justice. It Involves the
existence of social order. It is the con
t4t for civilization itself. If it be dis
heartening to Democrats and the lov
ers of free institutions to find an issue
of this character projected into a Presi
dential campaign, this meeting furn
ishes us with a clear idea of how that
issue will be met by the people, (Ap
plause,) A Democratic convention
may renounce the Democratic faith,
but the Democracy remains faithful to
Democratic principles. (Applause.)
Democratic leaders may betray a con
vention to the Populists, but they can
not seduce the footsteps of Democratic
voters from the path of honor and jus
tice. (Applause.) A candidate bearing
the mandate of a Democratic conven
tion may in this hail open a canvass
1 against the foundations of social order,
set
ESTABLISHED 1827.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26. 1896.
and he beholds the Democratic masses j
confronting him organized for the de
fense, (Applause.) i
Fellow Democrats, let us not disguise
from ourselves the fact that we bear
In this contest a serious and grave and
solemn burden of duty. We must raise
our hands against the nominee of our
party, and we must do it to preserve the
future of that party itself. (Applause.)
We must oppose tho nominee of the
Chicago i onvention, and we know full
well that the success of our opposition
will mean our own exclusion from pub
lic life, but we will be consoled and
gratified by the reflection that it will
prove that the American people can
not be divided into parties on a ques
tion of simple morals or of common
honesty. (Applause.) We would look
in vain through the speech delivered
here one week ago to find a true state
ment of the issue involved in this can
vass. ( laughter. ) lmleed, 1 believe it
is doubtful if the candidate himself
quite understands the nature of the
faith which he professes. (Laughter.)
I say this not in criticism of his ability,
but iu justice to his morality. (Laugh
ter.) I believe that if be himself under
stood the inevitable consequences of
the doctrines which he preaches that
his own hands would be the very first
to tear down tiie platform on which he
stands. (Applause,)
LVKID KIIETORIC SCBDl'ED.
But there was one statement in that
speech which was very free from ambi
guitj, pregnant with hope and confi
dence to the lovers of order. He pro
fesses his unquestioned belief in the
honesty of the American masses, and
he quoted Abraham Lincoln in support
of the faith that was In him. Well, I
do not believe that the faith of Abra
ham Lincoln was ever more signifi
cantly justified than in the appearance
which Mr. Bryan presented upon this
platform; in the changes which have
come over the spirit and the tone of
Populistic eloquence since the Chicago
convention. We all must remember
that lurid rhetoric which glowed as
fiercely in the western skies as that
sunlight which through the past week
foretold the torrid heat of the ensuing
day, and here u'hu this platform we
find that same rhetoric as mild, as in
sipid as the waters of a stagnant pool.
He is a candidate who was swept into
the nomination by a wave of popular
enthusiasm, awakened by appeals to
prejudice and greed. He is a candidate
who, on his trip home and iu the ini
tial steps of his trip eastward, declared
that this was a revolutionary move
ment; who no sooner found himself
face to face with the American feeling
than he realized that this soil is not
propitious to revolution. The people
of this country will not change the in
stitutions which have stood the tests
and experiences of a century for insti
tutions based upon the fantastic dreams
of Populist agitators; the American
Nation will never consent to substitute
for the Republic of Washington, of Jef
ferson, and of Jackson, the republic of
an Altgeld, a Tillman, or a Bryan. (Ap
plause.) The power of public opinion,
which caused the vivid oratory of the
Chicago platform to burn low and soft
as the moonlight outside of this plat
form, which has already shown its
power to control Populistic eloquence,
will show the full extent of its wisdom,
will give Abraham Lincoln's prophecy
iu triumphant vindication when it
crushes the seed of Populistic Socialism
next November. (Cheers.)
Now, my friends, I have said there
was one statement of great significance
in Mr. Bryan's speech. There is another
portion of it which is singularly free
from any obscurity, and that may be
comprised within the two initial para
graphs where he talks logically, con
sistently, plainly, the language of rev
olution. Whatever change may have
come over his manner as a candidate,
however much the vehemence of his
eloquence may have been reduced, two
things for which he stands remain un
altered. On this platform he defended
the most revolutionary planks of the
Chicago convention in speech less vehe
ment, but not less earnest, than that in
which he supported their adoption. On
this platform he defended the Popu
listic program of overthrowing the In
tegrity of the Supreme court (Ap-
t.lause.) If there be any fruit winch
A I -
has grown for the benefit of all man
kind out of the establishment of our
Republic, it bos been the demonstra
tion that is possible by the organization
of an independent tribunal to safeguard
the rights of every citizen, and protect
those natural privileges against any in
vasion from whatever source, or how
ever powerful might be the antagoniz
ing elements. (Applause.) The very
existence of that power presupposes the
existence of an Independent tribunaL
Yet we have this Populistic convention,
because a Populistic measure was eon
demned as unconstitutional, proposing,
not to amend the constitution in the
ordinary wav prescribed by that instru
ment itself, but proposing to pack the
court, to reorganize it ( he used the lan
guage of the platform Itself) so that it
will pronounce those laws constitu
tional which the constitution itself con
demns; a proposal to make the courts
of law instruments of lawlessness; to
violate that sacred pact l?tween the
States on which the security of this
Nation rests; to profane the temple
erected for its protection by the bands
of false priests who, though sworn to
defend it, will be appointed to destroy
it. (Great applause.)
FREE SILVER WON'T INCREASE WAGES.
In the time to which I must confine
myself to-night I can do nothing but
examine that one question which Mr.
Bryan himself declares to be the over
shadowing Issue of this campaign. I
am a utue puzziea wuen i reaa mis
speech to decide Just what Mr. Bryan
himself imagines will be the fruit of a
change in the standard of value
throughout this country. I do not be
lieve that any man can follow wholly
with the speech, because, if he dissents
from one set of conclusions he has got
to read but a few paragraphs and he
will find another of a different variety.
But I assume that it is fair in a discus
sion of this character, independently of
what Mr. Bryan may say, or of what
Mr. Bryan may think be himself stands
for, to examine the inevitable economic
effects of a debasement of the coinage,
of a change in the standard by which
existing debts are to be measured in a
baser measure of value. Now, I will
imagine that Mr. Bryan himself may
believe that in some way or other he is
going to benefit the toilers of this coun
try. He says he is, but he declines to
show us how. ( Laughter and applause. )
For my part, I am willing to state here
that if Mr. Bryan could show me that
by any means known to heaven or
known to earth, any means revealed to
the comprehension of man that wages
could be increased, I will be ready to
support him here and now. (Great ap
plause and cheers.)
I do not make this statement through
any pretense of special affection for the
man who works with his hands. Such a
pretense made in the heat of a Presi
dential canvass would merely insult and
discredit the Intelligence to which it is
addressed. (Applause.) I repeat that I
would support any measure calculated
to increase the rate of wages, because I
know of no test of prosperity absolute
ly infallible except the rate of wages
paid to laborers. (Applause.) Where the
rate of wages Is low, there must be dis
tress. If, then, Mr. Bryan can show
me that by tne enforcement oi any
portion of his program wages will be
increased in this country, I will not
only support him, but I will recognize
him as the wisest orator that ever
opened his mouth on the platform
since the beginning of the world.
(Laughter.) I will be ready to confess
that the rhetoric, whicli I do not un
derstand, is really the language of in
spiration. (Laughter.) I would regard
h Is admission to the Presidency as the
kindling of a great light before the
footsteps of man showing him a broad
pathway to endless happiness and
measureless prosperity. But in search
ing through his iqteech, in reading
through whole reams of Populistic
literature with which this country had
been flooded for four years, I have
never yet found one syllable which
showed me how a Populist expected to
increase t he rate of wages. (Laughter
and applause.)
WORKINd.MEN NEE1 HONEST MONEY.
Now, in order to understand the sig
nificance of the remark that wages is
the only test of prosperity we have
only to consider for a moment just
what is meant by the term wages.
Wages, as I suppose everybody here
understands, is that part of the labor
er's product which is given to himself
in compensation for hl toll. If, lor
instance, I be engaged in the manu
facture of chairs, and if I can' make
five chairs every day worth $-"0, and
the rate of my wages U $4 a day, what
I actually get is one chair out of the
five which I make. The other four
chairs, the other four-fifths of my pro
duct, are devoted to the payment of all
the other labor that has been expend
ed In preparing the element out of
which the chair was made to the
man who felled the tree In the forest;
the person who sawed It in the mill;
the carrier who transported it; the
workmen who prepared its component
parts, and the profit on the capital
which set all this labor iu motion. It
is plain, however, that I could not take
a chair home with me at night aud at
tempt to settle my bills with it; for the
moment I undertook to divide the
chair among my creditors, that mo
ment it would lose its value; so i nstead
of taking the chair, which I cau not di
vide, I take its equivalent iu money,
which I can divide; but my wages all
the time are fixed by the quantity of
my own producU. (Applause.)
If instead of five chairs I were able
to make ten and the rate of my com
pensation remained the same I would
obtain for my wages two chairs, or fS
a day; but instead of there being four
chairs or f 16 available for the payment
of other labor, there would be eight
chairs or 52, and thus the larger my
wages, the larger my product, the
greater the prosperity ia the chair
making industry. (Applause.) Now,
applying that principle to every other
department of trade we cau see that a
man who works ou a tunnel can not
take a part of the tunnel home with
him for his wages; the man who paves
the street can not take part of the
highway with him; but each one
takes the money equivalent to that
part of the product which is the result
of his daily toil; and the laborer is the
man who has the most vital interest
in the character of the money which U
paid to him. (Applause. )
Now, when we come to find out Just
how Mr. Bryan expects to increase the
wages of labor, we find ourselves lost
in a maze of contradiction and In a
haze of obscure expressions. No man
can tell bow or where or when the
wages of the workingman are to be in
creased; but anyone who examines the
scheme can see that the inevitable ten
dency, the inevitable consequence of
debasement in the standard of value
must be a reduction in the rat3 of wag
esand that is the conspiracy in which
the Populist is engaged. (Applause. )
Now Mr. Bryan tells us that he
wants to cheapen the dollar; that he
wants to increase the volume of mon
ey. I do uot believe that any man
who ever lived could quite understand
a Populist's notion of what money is
(laughter) further than that be believ
ed it is a desirable thing (laughter,)
and he is not very particular about the
means by which he can get his hands
on it ( Laughter. ) Nothing is more
common in Populist oratory than the
statement that the volume of the mon
ey must be increased for he benefit of
the people which means that part of
the people that run and manage and
address Populist met'tiuga. (laugh
ter. ) I remember that in one of the
speeches which Mr. Bryan delivered
on his way East he declared that any
man who objected to too much money
ought to vote the other ticket Now,
my friends, I will ask you to indulge
me for a moment while I state to you
here the only conception that an hon
est man can form of money, In order
that in discussing this thing hereafter
we will be able to understand the eco
nomic expression which the Populist
uses for the delusion of a man and for
the confusion of his judgment Noth
ing is more common than the state
ment that money and property are
identical.
MONEY MUST HAVE ABSOLUTE VALVE.
They are not A redundancy of
money does not prove any prosperity.
era
There may be a large volume of circu
lating medium and very great poverty.
The issue of paper money simply is no
more an increase of wealth than the
Issue by an individual of his promis
sory note would show an increase of
his property. (Applause.) As a mat
ter of fact, an increase in the coinage
is no proof of an increase In property,
but may be a strong proof of a decrease
in wealth. Let us take, for instance,
this watch case. That Is worth its bul
lion value plus the labor that has been
expended upon It If, now, I melt
that down Into a ten dollar gold piece.
it is worth nothing but its bullion val
ue. Here then has been an increase in
the quantity of money, but a decrease
in the volume of national wealth. I
could not buy a watch case with trie
coin which would be coined out of this
unless I added something to it, and
the pretense that men can be enriched
by swelling the volume of currency is
the oldest delusiou which has affected
mankind since the very beginning of
civilization. (Applause.)
Continuing these illustrations at
some length Mr. Cockran continued:
Money never can circulate freely and
actively unless there be absolute con
fidence in its value. (Applause.) If a
man doubts whether the money in his
pocket will be as valuable to-morrow
as it is to-day, he will decline to ex
change his commodity against it, and
this PopulLst agitation threatening the
integrity of money has been the cause
of the hard times through which the
country is passing aud from which it
will uot escape until the heel of popu
lar condemnation is placed upon the
Populist agitation which undermines
the foundations of credit ( A pplause. )
The basis of sound trade is sound
money (applause); money which is in
trinsically valuable, money which,
like the gold coinage of this couutry,
the government can not affect if it
tried to. (Applause) I cau take a $10
gold piece and I can defy all the power
of all the governments of all this earth
to take five cents of value from it
(Applause.) Having earned it by the
sweat of my brow, having earned it by
the exercise of my brain, having earn
ed it by the exchange of my commo
dities, I cau go to the- uttermost ends
of the earth, and wherever I present it
its value will be unquestioned and un-
challeged. (Applause.) That gold
dollar, this meeting and the Democrat
ic party, the honest masses of this
country without distinction or party
divisions, demand shall be paid to the
laborer when he earns it and that no
power ou earth shall cheat him out of
the sweat of his brow. (Applause. )
Now let us see how Mr. Bryan pro
poses to deal with this question. I
have looked through his speech to find
out just what he thinks he is going to
do for the laboring man, and I find
that he dismisses him with a very few
and some very unsatisfactory phrases.
But it is perfectly clear that the purpose
of the Populist Ls to put up the prices
of certain commodities. Mr. Bryan's
language is that he is going to improve
the conditions of the people of this
country, not all of them, but of the
greatest number. Well, now, I don't
suppose Mr. Bryan pretends to any
miraculous power. I don't suppose he
claims he can multiply the number of
chairs upon this platform or upon this
fl(xr. although be has shown his ca-
jwcity to empty them. (Laughter.)
If he is going to work any change in
the conditions of men he must increase
the material possessions of some part
of the community.
ONLY LABOR CAN CREATE WEALTH.
It requires the labor ot man and the
labor of man alone to create wealth.
If, then, Mr. Bryan is going to enrich
somebody, the thing which ho mean
to bestow on him he must take from
somebody else. Who is to be despoil
ed, and who is to he enriched by the
exercise of this new scheme of govern
ment? (Cry of "silver mine owners.")
My friends, the silver mine owner will
get cheated with the rest. (Laughter.)
I fever the Populist has but way no
body will be benefited, not even Mr.
Bryan. (Laughter.) I will venture
to say here that if the face of Provi
dence should be averted from this
land, and such a calamity as Mr. Bry
an's election were permitted by it, the
man who would suffer most by that
event would be the false prophet who,
having torn down the temple of credit
and of industry, would be torn to
pieces by an outraged public, whose
prosperity he had ruined. Let us fol
low this argument a little. Let us see
what he means to do, according to his
own light
We see that he can't enrich one man
without impoverishing another. This
can not be generous, because if it be
generous to one it must be oppressive
toauother. (Applause.) Mr. Bryan
does not preteud that by any power
given him from heaven he can find
anything on the surface of this earth
that has not got an owner, and there
fore he can't honestly bestow it upon a
favorite. But bis financial scheme
contemplates an Increase In the price
of certain commodities. (Cry of "ex
cept gold." ( I don't think that any
thing any gentleman or Mr. Bryan
can do will affect gold. (Laughter
aud applause.) But, my friends, we
are coming now pretty close to the
woodpile behind which the African is
concealed. Mr. Bryan proposes to iu
c reuse the price of commodities. If he
means anything, he means that, and I
am not quite sure that he means any
thing. If the price of commodities be
Increased and the price of labor be left
stationary, why, thut means a cutting
down of the rate of wages. If, instead
of a dollar which consists of a given
quantity of gold, equal to 100 cents
anywhere in the world, with the pur
chasing power of 100 cents, the laborer
is to be paid in dollars worth 50 cents
each, why he can only buy half as
much with a day's wages as he buys
now. If the value of this Populist
scheme then is to be testd. let the la
boring men of this country ask Mr.
Bryan aud his Populist friends a sim
ple, common, every-day question:
"Where do I come In." (Laughter.)
Mr. Bryan himself has a glimmering
idea of where the laborer will come
in, or rather of where he will go out
There is one paragraph In his speech
which, whether It was the result of an
unconscious stumbling into candor, or
1c
WHOLE NO. 2352.
whether It was a contribution made in
the stress of logical discussion, I am
utterly unable to say. But It sheds a
flood of light upon the whole purpose
underlying this Populist agitation.
Wuge earners, Mr. Bryan says, know
that while a gold standard raises the
purchasing power of the dollar it also
makes it more difficult to obtain pos
session of the dollar. They know the
employment Is less permanent, lom of
work more probable and re-employ
ment less certaiu. If that means any
thing it means that a cheap dollar
would give him more employment,
more frequent employment, more
work and a chance to get re-employ
ment after he was discharged. (Laugh
ter.) Well, now, if that means any
thing in the world to a sane man it
means that if the laborer Is willing to
have his wages cut down he will get
more work.
She gave The m a Surprise-
She was a meek looking little
woman, and when she stepped Into the
livery stable the men sized her up as
one who drove with slack lines and
was afraid to use a whip.
"Want a rig, miss ?" asked the fore
man.
"Yes. What have you on hand T
"Well, miss, there's Slow Tom, He's
easy in the mouth and ain't scared of
anything."
"What else have you?"
"There's another animal that looks
well a nd goes a clip, too; that's Gentile
Annie. We can put her in a phaeton
for you."
"Thanks. No Gentle Annie or Slow
Tom in mine. Have you a broncho
that can kick the front end of a motor
car into fragments'"'
"Yes. miss, we have," said the de
lighted foreman, who thought he saw
a chance of getting even, we've got
just the animal you want, but no man
in this barn cau tackle him. If you II
step this way you can see the critter.
The broncho was engaged in kicking
down his stall and reducing the boards
to kindling wood when the young
woman walked into his apartment
laid a firm hand ou his mane, and was
welcomed with a whinny of joy.
4.1VI..-. In t.u t.i.t.l..e .iu vim
. , 1 lf 1 11 tut; fci.uuuT. j
asked the astonished foreman.
"I'm the animal tamer of the Wild
West aggregation, and if you will clear
the way I'll show you what ray pet
broncho can do," and with a "Hoop
la." she snrunz on the animal's back
and rode laughing away.
"Well, I vow," said the foreman,
"you can't teli by the looks of a frog
how far it will jump. I'll be durned
if I didn't think she was a telephone
girl out on a lark." Detroit Free Press
Cold Churches and Colds-
Cold churches are often the cause of
serious colds and catarrhs. While this
fact should not keep persons from
church, it ought to teach the sextons
how to heat a large building properly
Iu the coldest weather, and especially
when it is damp, the stone or brick
walls of a large building become
thoroughly chilled, and -it takes the
heat a long time to penetrate the
whole buildim; and counteract this
chilL
1 Usually the fire for Sunday is begun
late Friday night, or perhaps not until
Saturday, and while the furnaee or
heating apparatus may give forth an
abundance of heat, still the warm
air has uot been in the building long
enough to permeate every corner and
take off the chill, and it Is often notice
able that while the church semt to be
warm, judging by the thermometer,
there is a cold feeling in the air.
If fires in such Iawe building were
started early iu the week and kept up
at a moderate rate for four days, very
little fire on Sunday would keep
the building at a pleasant habitable
tenijierature. A small Ore for four or
five days heats better and with Just as
little ex pease as a roaring blaze kindled
on Saturday. Church committees often
flud fault with the heating apparatus
on a cold day when the manner and
the time of building the fires are at
fault Then, too, a gradual heating of
such a building allows of hotter ventil
atiou than the sudden warming up
the dav before the buildi ue is used.
Health Magazine.
Dr. Thomas' Eclectrie Oil has cured
hundreds of cases of deafness that were
suppose to be incurable. It never fails
to cure eaiache.
A Good Story oa Tillman.
"I heard a good story on Ben Till
man the other day," said a railroad
man, "which I have never heard told
down this way before. When Till
man was making his tirade against
Cleveland in the Senate, the story goes,
he noticed an old woman in the gal
lery who seemed convulsed with grief.
The further hi speech progressed the
more intense seemed the old lady's
sobbing. The South Carolina Senator
was curious to know wh; ehe wept so
bitterly, aud at the concluc'on of his
fierce harangue he nought ber nut in
the gallery and asked the cause.
'Well, I'll tell you, sir, she re
plied between her sobs; 'last month a
heavy frost ruined my garden, and on
ly two weeks ago my husband diet!.
Then my little jackass Ned, who used
to wake up mornings a-brayin', took
sick an' died, too, and when I beard
you a-talkin' it reminded me so much
of him that I jest couldn't keep from
cryin'.' "Atlanta JournaL
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Price 25 cents per box. For sale at
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Pa
Addison fell in love with the Count
ess I o wager Warwick, but she did all
the courting and gave him no trouble
in Uut regard.
A CALL TO ASXS.
Gold Democrat Sound Their Fir it
Bugle Note.
At the meeting of the National Ex
ecutive committee of the gold Demo
cratic party held at Chicago Tuesday
Chairman Bynura, of Indiana, presid
ed, and all the members were preae nt
except General Charles Traeey, of
New York, who was detained by party
work. In the metropolis. Assurance
have been recvlved that th organiza
tions In the following States, wLUh
were not presented at the Indianapo
lis conference, will have full delega
tions at the convention on September
2: Louisiana, North Dakota. Georgia,
Mississippi, Colorado, Wyoming and
South Carolina. The expectation Is
there will be 42 States to answer tho
roll.
The sub-committe appointed to pre
pare an adurefts to tne democrats oi
the United States made a report, re
viewing the history of the party as al
ways opptwed to fiat money, and de
scribing the method in which the Chi
cago convention was conducted. The
address then contiuues in part:
"In violation of the trust committed
t them, a majority of the delegates as
sembled In that convention, ignoring
the rights of the minority, unseated
regularly-elected delegates to make
places for others in sympathy with
themselves. They proclaimed a sec
tional combination of the South and
West against North and East. They
impeach the honesty and patriotism of
Presideut Cleveland, who, under ex
ceptional embarrassment produced by
past errors of legislation, has heroically
maintained the honor and the Integri
ty of the republic. Against the protest
of one-third of the delegates, they
promulgated a platform at variance
with the essential principles of the
Democratic party.
"The platform proposes to degrade
the coin of the United States by means
of the free, unlimited and independent
coinage of silver by our government,
and by the exercise of the power of the
Nation to compel the acceptance of
depreciated coins at their nominal val
ue, thereby working an injustice to
creditors, defrauding the laborer of a
larger part of his earnings and sav
ings, robbing pensioned soldier of i
part of their pension, contracting the
currency by the expulsion of gold coin
from circulation, injuring, if not de
stroying, domestic trade aud foreign
commerce.
"It demands the free coinage of sil
ver at the arbitrary and fictitious ratio
of 10 to 1, although the ratio establish
ed in the world's market is about 32 to
1, and although neither experience
nor reason warrant the belief that the
commercial ratio between the metals
can be reduced, by the action of this
government to any ratio even approx
imating that proposed.
"Its declarations invite, and have al
most produced, a financial panic, and
many of its proponeuts announce that
to accomplish their purposes they
are prepared to involve their country
in a disaster comparable to nothing in
its history save the calamity of civil
war. It assails the independence of
the judiciary by a threat to reorganize
the courts whenever their decisions
contravene the decrees of the party
caucus. It sects to anure orace-seeK.-ers
and sjwilamen to its support by at
tacking the existence of civil service
laws, which good men of all parties
have labored so long to establish ami
to extend to all departments of the
public service.
"The Chicago convention having
thus departed from the recognized
Democratic faith and promulgated
doctrines new and strange to the Dem
ocracy, all Democrats are absolved
from obligation to support its program.
More than this, as the doctrines an
nounced are destructive to national
honor and private obligation, and
tend to create sectional and class dis
tinctions and engender discord and
strife among the people, all good citi
zens of the republic are bound to re
pudiate them and exert every lawful
means to insure the defeat of the can
didates that represent these false doc
trines. "To this end we request all Demo
crats who are oppowl to the platform
adopted and candidates nominated at
Chicago to tsTgaiilav in their several
States aud to send representatives to
the convention of the National Demo
cratic party to be held at Iudianapolis
on Wednesday, September 2, 11, in
accordance with the call heretofore is
sued by the National committee."
The address is signed by Chairman
W. D. Bynum, Charles Traeey, J. M.
Falkner, F. W. M. Cutcheon, Elis B.
Usher, S. A. Holding, F. W. Lehman,
W. B. Haldeman and John P. Hop
kins. HeSections of a Bachelor-
A woman knows a bargain after
she has been married long enough.
When a man says he likes freckles a
woman will believe him if she has.
any.
The husband who brings home flow
ers to his wife is likely to be in a novel
or else they have company.
It isn't the way you look at the other
women that spoil you with your
wife; it's the way you don't look at
her.
The girl who puts on pretty stock
ings on a raiuy day U all right; it's the
one who puts them ou other days that
acts funny.
Before they are married, men make
nice resolves, such as not to sit in their
wives' presence in their shirt sleeve;
after they have been married six
months, they kick if their wives don't
keep talis on their soil-d linen. De
troit Free Press.
My lit tie boy, wnen two years of ag
was taken very ill with bloody flux.
I was advised to use Chamberlain's
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy,
and luckily procured part of a bottle.
carefully read the directions and
gavt it accordingly. He was very low,
but slow!- aud surely he began to im
prove, graduali j recovered, and ks now
as stout and strong as ever. I feel sure
it saved his life. I !'ever can praise
the Remedy half its worth, I am sor
ry every one In the world, dries not '
know how good it is, as I do. Mrs.
Lina S. 11 intuit, Grahamsvklle, Marion
Co., Florida. For sale by Benford's
Pharmacy.
A Legitimate Kick.
"What is that fellow raving so for?"
asked the tourist
"Missed the midnight train last
night," explained Rubberneck BilL
"Well, well ! I have seen men swear
and cavort for five minutes or so ovtr
missing a train, but he is the first oue
I ever knew to be at U ten hours after
the train had gone."
"He has mighty good reason, my
friend. They were more'in $jo,000 ia
bullion and dust on that thar very
train." Indianapolis JournaL
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