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Regular Republican Nominations,
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM M' KIN LEY,
oronio. '
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
O ARRET A. HOBART,
OF NEW JERSEY.
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET,
For Congrcssmcn-at-largo,
GALUSHA A. GROW,
of Susquohnnna County.
SAMUEL L. DAVENPORT,
of Erie County.
Editorial,
THE FROGS PETERED OUT.
A dologate to tho Chicago oonven
tlon from Sussex Co., N. J., relates
this story.
On his rotu rn a drummor who had
been traveling in Missouri occupied
the berth above him in the sleeper
and naturally they fell Into a oon
versatlon which ran a follows :
Dologat c " In what section of the
country have you been ?"
Salesman " Out through Mis
souri. Where have you been travel
lng?"
Dole gate I was a delegate to the
Chicago Convention and am now re.
turning home."
Sale sman "Well, I saw you had
noniina ted a Free Silver man on
Free Silver platform."
Delegate " Yes, we did. How
does the nomination seem to take
among the people you have talked
with ?
Bal esman " It reminds me of
story I heard out west and I'll tell it.
One day a long, lank specimen of
man en tered a restaurant and asked
the proprietor if he didn't want to
buy a lot of frogs ?"
"Yes," said the proprietor, "I do,
how many pounds have you to sell?'
" P ounds 1" said the countryman
" I don't want to sell by the poundi
I want to sell them by the wagon
load."
" Oh," said the restaurateur, "I
don't know as I want so many, at
one time, but If you Bell them cheap
I might try a load or two. How
many loads will you furnish ?"
" I don't know just how many
hut several.and I'll bring the wagon
load to-morrow morning," said the
farmer.
" A 11 right," said the proprietor,
"bring them along early to-morrow
morning."
He waited for the supply and his
custom era to whom he hod pro
mised the treat became impatient.
Along in the afternoon the hayseed
who w as to bring the frogs came in
And put a little basket down on the
table, remarking these were all he
oould get.
" Well," said the restaurant.
keeper, " you are a pretty followi
here I have been waiting all day fo
those frogs, had a big crowd of peo
ple and they went 'away maddor
than hornets. Now what explana
tion have you to offer for your fail
nre to keep your contract."
"Only this," said Mr. Hayseed
" you Bee my farm is covered with
marshes and pools and I thought
from the noise the frogs made tliore
wore more than forty wagon loads
of thmn and I oould make a nioe
thing soiling the critters. I have
boon chasing all day and these are
every hlatnod last frog I oould find
on the premises. There was oceans
of noise, bnt mighty few frogs."
" Do you see the point, Mr. Dole-
gator"
I do," said the Judge, as he
wearily turned over and the rattle
and roar of tho train went on.
CANDIDATE FOIl CONGRESS.
Tliere is a story of a gentleman of
saltatory proclivities who attempt
ed to hoist himself over a f enoe by
lifting at his boot straps. The re
cord does not state that the effort
was a sueeess.
In last week's Dispatch, Mr. Hart,
as editor, essays the same feat for
Hon. J. J. Hart as candidate for
Congress. In view of the attitude
assumed by leading Democrats in
the Stnto and district.it would soem
that no froo silver aspirant for Con-
gresslonal honors need apply, and
other things being equal, this move
on the part of the Honorable mem
ber would look as if he had com
mitted political felo de se.
The straps may not break, and the
grunting may be loud and plaintive,
but the load of free silver is too
heavy and the fonoe too high to be
scnlod by any such method. Joseph
will fall outside of it.
HOW THEY FIGURE IT OUT.
The Combination at Chicago which
nominated Bryan for President has
now figured out his election. It
will require 224 electoral votes to
make a majority and to obtain these
they must carry the following
States :
Alabama 11 Missouri 17
Arkansas.... 8 Montana 8
California. . . 8 Nebraska 8
Colorado .... 4 North Carolinia 11
Florida 4 North Dakota. . 8
Georgia 13 Oregon 7
Idaho 3 South Carolina. 8
Kansas 10 Tennessee 12
Kentucky 13 Texas...... 15
Louisiana. ... 8 Utah
Maine e Virginia 12
Maryland.... 8 Washington...,
Michigan. ... 14 West Virginia. .
Mississippi .... B Wyoming 3
Total 229
Thils would give five more than a
majority, if every State in the above
list should consent to the arrange.
ment. It is a narrow margin and a
desperate chance. They are not
claiming enough to make it safe.
Why not put in New York and Penn
sylvania?
AN OVERSIGHT.
Somohow our distinguished co
temporary the Dispatch last week
overlooked tho fact that Bryan and
Sowall were the candidates of its
party. It did not hoist thoir names
neither did it recall that Samuel
Dickson had resigned as one of the
electors on the tickets, but kept his
name at the head. Don't get too
much water on the brain neighbor,
use ice, and read a Democratic pa
per if you can find one. The New
York Journal published by the Mul
ti Millionaire, and silver mine owner
Hearst had the ticket and the re
signation both In it, and the Journal
is now in Democratic circles in the
East pretty much like Alexander
Selkirk "monarch of all it surveys,'
no other loading paper disputes its
right.
The Louisville Courier Journal has
been making a canvass of that city
to ascertain the sentiments of the
Democratic business men, none
others being interviewed. Of the 225
asked, 155 declared themselves as
against the ticket and would not
support it, 40 were non-oommittal
and only 30 said they would vote It
This is a Democratic city and if only
one business man - of that stripe in
seven is willing to commit himself
it does not look very encouraging for
the "combine."
Sovoral leading Democrats in this
County have received slips cut from
the Northampton Democrat contain.
ing an editorial by Howard Mutch.
ler In which he declares for Bryan
W onder if he Bent them to Samuel
Dickson and Hon. J. B. Storm.
Mr. Dickson has resigned and it is
said Mr. Storm is opposed to the
ticket.
There will have to be some fenoe
repairing done to keep the flock in
the free silver pasture.
The ordinance granting pe rails
sion to the Western Union company
to erect poles in the Borough says,
they shall be of chestnut, straight
peeled and painted two ooats of ap
proved colors. The Council should
see that this is done and that all
signs of tin or paper tacked to them
are removed, and kept off. The
poles are a necessity, bdt they should
not become eyesores or bulletin
boards for the advertisement of nos
trum oh.
William C. Whitney Ex-Sucre tary
has set at rest any reports as to his
position in the national campaign by
sending out the following dispatch to
the Democratic organization of New
York. 3 'Will you be kind enough
to correct the statemont that I de
sire the indorsement by the State
organisation of the Chicago ticket.
There are no possible conditions or
circumstances that would induce
me to vote for or assist It." .-'
William j".-vYmT!CY.
The loading Democrats of Strouds-
bnrg do not agree on tho ticket.
B. Staples, Esq., the delegate to
Chloago, Prothonotary Dutot and
B. F. Moroy editor of the Democrat
are for it, while Ex-Judge and Ex
Congressman John B. Storm and
Ex-State Senator, J. H. Shull are
unqualifiedly forninst it.
The Lansford Record do no
hoist the Democratio ticket, and
handles the subject of the Chlcngo
Convention, beautifully, by lotting
it soveroly alone.
Views of Leading Iemoeratle Newspapers.
Baltimore "News" (Ind, Dem.)
Mr. MoKlnloy is right in saying
that there 1b now laid "upon the
patriotlo people of this country a
responsibility and a duty greater
than that of any time since the
Civil War." Tills roHiKwisibility
cannot lie mot, this duty cannot be
discharged by merely refraining
from support of the candidates on
the wrong side. No true cltiwin
can fool himself absolved at a crisis
like the present, from doing his ut
most to bring about a triumphant
victory for the right. The man who
thinks that tho country's great need
is the defeat of Bryan and Populism
fails in his duty if he doos not cast
his vote for McKinley, regardloss of
any feelings of personal liking or
satisfaction.
Baltimore "Pun," (Dem.)
There is one eventful " Black Fri
day" in American hisiory. If the
ticket nominated at Chicago should
receive a majority in the electoral
votes there would be good reason to
put a mark against July 10, 1890,for
the disaster which would follow the
application to national affairs of the
policy advocated by Messrs. Bryan
and Sewell would be as far-reach
ing as that of the memorable Fri
day which ushered in a panic less
than a quarter of a century ago
But assuming in advance the defeat
of the Chicago ticket, the day which
marked the adoption of the platform
on which Bryan and Sewell stand
was a " Block Friday " for all that
the historio Democratic party re
presents. It was a "Block Friday "
for Jefferson and Jackson and Til-
den.
From the New York T linos, (Dem.)
Nor is fidelity to genuine Demo
cracy confined to the East. In St.
Louis the Courier-Journal, the An
zeiger and the Evening Post de
nounoe the Populist ticket. In Chi
cago the Staata-Zeitung and the
Chronicle, the strongest Democra
tic journals of the city in which the
Populist Convention was hold, join
such staunch Democrats as John R
Walsh, Collector R us soli and Comp
troller Eckels in denying the claims
of Bryan as a Democratio candidate.
This is not a bolt ; it is the vindi
cation of true Democracy. It
is
stripping the disguise from an im
pudent pretender and whipping him
out of the party whose leadership
he Books to usurp. Repudiation
swindling and revolution are not
Democratio and have not the slight
est hold on the hearts or consciences
of Democrats. It is the duty as it
will be the pleasure of Democrats to
crush them completely that thoy
will never in our generation trouble
tho land.
Brooklyn "Kaglo" (Dem.)
If anybody has had doubt as to
Mr. MoKinloy's trustworthiness as
a Bound money man or as to the de.
gree of firmness he will show in
dealing with financial matters, the
action of the Chicago convention
should immediately remove it, for
his position is the antithesis of that
in which the Chicago nominee is
placed. If the convention had at
tempted a straddle the situation, of
course, would not have been bo clear
ly defined, but the flamboyancy of
the silver utterance makes McKln
ley 'a position on the money question
that of sanity as against insanity,
that of honor as against dishonor
that of financial integrity as against
repudiation. At Paterson the other
day we found the Republican candi
date for the Vice-Presidency deliver
ing an address, parts of which
oould well have been incorporated
in the platform of any convention
that was genuinely Democratic and
not Socialistic or Populistio. ' 'Gold
said Mr. Hobart, "is the one stand
ard of value among all enlightened
commercial nations. All financial
transactions of whatever character,
all business enterprises, all individu
al or corporate investments are ad
Justed to it. "
From the Charleston (S. C.) News and
Courier, Dem.
Free silver has won in Chicago
will it win at the election in Nov
ember? We do not think so. It
would be disastrous to the country
if it should win. It will not win if
irgnnijitinn nnd work can prevent
The solid South nnd tho solid
West could triumph ; but tho South
will not bo solid on such an issue
nd the West in not yet hopelessly
nsann. Kentucky will not vow fur
free silver President on a free sil
ver pint form, nor Maryland, nor
Delaware. The Richmond Times,
one of the truest lhmioornt in nows-
pniMirs in the South, snys that "if
the Democratic ixn ty iidonts free sil
vor ns its platform Virginia will po
for the Republicans, provided there
Is no fraud In the oloeolons." With
a free ballot and a fair count we bo
Hove that Alaliama and Tennosseo
and Florida cannot be held in tho
freo silvoroolumn, and tho States in
the North and East which have in
the past cast the deciding votes in
close Presidential elections willjnot
cast a single voto for a freo silver
candidate for President. But what
does it matter? South Carolina will
voto the free silver ticket, and Sena
tor Tillman, Evan Howell and Pnt
Walsh will Iks exalted. Is not this
lomponsation for tho wreck of tho
party and tho ruin of tho country?
We shall all lie ahlo to soo clearer
and act better after tho smoke of tho
conflict has cleared away. No io
liticul party can win on a fraudu
lent issue.
(From thn New York Sun, Dem.
Not only should tho An tl-Populist
Democrats of this Sta-te.and of every
State whl(Hi Is opposed to repudia
tion and anarchy seo to it that their
votes count for' their full value by
casting them for McKinley, but they
should awake at once to tho imper
ative nocossity of carrying the next
Mouse ol Jleprosontatives, That
branch of the Federal -Legislature
should constitute nn insuperable
barrier against the fulfillment of su
verite designs. Temporarily, the
Senate is lost. ; we may as well look
that fact in the fuco. But with fore
sight nnd co-oporntioii the defend
ers ot sound money can control the
next House.
To that end, in evory Congress
district where the suvoriteB put for
ward a nominee nil honest men
snnuia unite on Ins opponent, no
mntter whether they have marched
hitherto under Democratio or Re
publican colors. In the present cir
cumstances for the enemies of cheap
money to place two candidates in
the fluid would ho nn net of treason
against the nation" honor. Let tho
anti-Populists work together, sub
ordinating every sordid and person
al aim to the duty of saving the
country, and nothing can provent
thoir returning a decisive majority
to tho next House of Reprcsenta
fives.
AUDITOR'S KOTICE.
In tin' Ornhan's Court of I'lke County.
estalc ,,f Conrad lnb, clee'd.
In the Tiiutl-er ,,f the iiocnunt of Ceorgo
K. llnrtn, ii'lmlniHt.rMfciir.
The auditor aoijoint-cd " to make distri
bution of the balance of funds in hands of
(Teore K. Horton, ndniiniHt.rator,as shown
y his account, will meet the partlr Inter
ested for the purposes of his apiKiintinent
ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1898,
at 10 o'clock a. ill. at his oitioo, corner 8rd
and Ann streets, Mllfonl. Pa., when and
where all parties lntcrosfe'd are requtrod to
make and provu their claims, or bo de
barred forever from coming in uimn said
funds. HY. T. 11AKKH,
Mllfonl, Fa., Auditor.
July 20, 1W0. 8t
CANDIDATE'S CARD.
laving been appointed to nil a vacancy
In the oliioe of
Associate Jndge.
1 hereby announce myself a candidate for
the nomination at the Republican Conven
tion. Hbould I receive It, and be elocted,
I shall endeavor to perform the duties of
the elTloe Impartially aud to tho bunt of
my ability.
July D, 1806.
All Demons are hereby notified that
throwing or burning papers or refuse of
any kind In the streets of the Borough is
prohibited.
Jjy onier oi mw w,wn council,
J. C. CHAMHKRLAIN,
President, pro turn,
Attest, D. H. HORNBKCK, Seo'y.
MUford, May 5, 18WS.
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HOW TO SETTLE IT.
Only On War Ont of the SIlTer
Says CnngTMiimtMi W arnfT,
Kx-Oongrossinnii John Do Witt War
ner opposes ex-Congrcfwman Richard P.
Bland in a nlwnssion of the money
question in the New York Journal of
July 1. Unlike ninny eastern men, Mr.
Warner dim a high opinion of the abil
ity, character and motives of the silver
people. He thinks that both the leaders
and those in thn ranks of tha 19 to I
army are earnest, industrious, sober and
God fearing American citizens, who ars
smarting; under act-mil grievances as to
tho real cause of which thoy are greatly
mistaken. Wo quote tho following as
part of Mr. Wnnicr's views:
This proposed law to make people ac
cept silver is not asked for by anybody
who wants silver. It is Just because
people do not want silver and will no
take it tinloss compelled to do so thai
our free silver friends want a law to
make thorn tnke it Tho only people
who want tho law are, therefore, not
those who want silver, bnt those who
want to got rid of silver, or who, owing
gold and thinking they can buy silver
more cheaply, want to make their cred
itors take it instead. It ma be said
that, as to future matter, we could
make special contracts calling for gold.
That is Just what they can do now in
regard tn silver. As a matter of fact, a
large and Increasing proportion of con
tracts do provide specially for payment
in gold It is significant that no one
hoars of silver contracts. The reason is
no ono prefers sliver except for the pur
pose of forcing it upon some one elan.
Thn most serious feature of the pres
ent situation is not so much the predica
ment in which we find ourselves as the
apparent disposition in both parties not
to take tho only way oat, which, if I
may suggest it, is to accept the situa
tion that the commerce of the world has
oroatod for itself, to rooogniae its gen
eral acceptance of the gold standard,
and, leaving to commerce the things
that belong to commerce, to resist any
attempt at interference either by our
own government independently or by
any combination between it and those
of other nations.
Personally I believe gold to be far
superior to any other standard that is
even remotely practicable, but if our
commerce preferred silver I should con
sider it measureless impertinence on the
part of congress to interfere With that
preference. And so, certain as I am that
our commerce finds It more profitable
and natural to use gold as a standard, I
am all the moro opposed to any attempt
by congress to interfere with the natural
course of business. Bad as would be
the effect of free silver, moro and more
of ns are concluding that a few years of
apprehension and financial paralysis,
such as we have had, would be more
damaging than the actual experience of
free coinage of silver, a trial of which
would at least establish certain facts
and destroy sundry delusions.
Small Boat, Big WhUtU.
The free coinage boat is pretty mooh
11 whistle, and when this 16 to 1 whis
tle blows tho paddle wheel stops. Mooh
noise and little work is the reason why
the boat don't go.
The Real Cnmnejr Coptractton laU.
While the ailveritos are howling them
selves hoarse over ' gold standard oon.
traction of the currency" the people
who believe in a steadily expanding
volume of money should keep in mind
tho fact that free ooinage at 10 to
would be the greatest contraction meas
ure of the age. It would pnt the oonn
try on a single silver standard, woo Id
drive gold out of use, would frighten
investors into withdrawing loans.
would make it impossible for the gov
ernment to redeem its paper obligations
in coin of any kind, would eanae the
suspension of banks by creating panic
among depositors, and by establishing a
precedent for the repudiation of debts
would greatly curtail the operations of
our present credit system. If currency
contraction is an evil, the people who
favor expansion should vote to sustain
the present system of gold and silver,
under which the volume of money has
increased from $18 in 1873 to $34 at
the present time.
Tha Monatroaa Wrong),
The "monstrous wrong" for which
Governor Boies arraigns the Kepubllo-
ans is, the Philadelphia Telegraph says.
"the wrong of giving the poor man the
best money in the world and assuring
him that what little property he may
possess or may acquire shall not be pat
in Jeopardy by the unoertaintiea of
shifting and questionable currency t the
wrong oi insisting that the dollar paid
to the wage earner shall be worth 100
cents and shall not be cat down to 60
cents."
Caaas of Fraa 811ar Craaa.
The causes of the free silver erase are
thought by the Baltimore San to be
"the some which cauned the greenback
heresy to find advocates in so many
states of the Union 20 years ago the
feeling of unrest and desire for
change, no mutter what, produced by
hard times, bud business and lack of
employment the desire, conscious
unconscious, of debtors to scale their
debts by paying them in a depreciated
currency the vapie idea that 'more
money In circulation' means more
money in each individual's pocket, with-
out reference to his means or opportunity
to earn or acquire it
War Gold Is Kspaota.
A single white metal standard paper
says that gold is going out every week.
aud that but for sliver the coon try soon
would be destitute of coin. If it were
not fur silver, gold would stay at home.
Chicago Ckrumclo.
Boms Sr nets.
"Silver is now worth about fl cents
an ounce. Tho silver bullion in a dol
lar is worth about 54 cents. Free silver
oninage would raise the price of silver
to ISO cents an ounce, and the silver in
an American dollar would be worth 1
In gold tfce world over even without a
government stamp on it" Ex-Con-rcsaman
R. P. Bland in New York
World of Jnly 1, 189(1.
If rem have a neighbor who thinks
Bland is a great statesman, and who Is
illlng to back his opinion with money.
nd who would have anything to ke
after going through the free coinage
cyclone, here are some of the perfectly
safe bets yon can make him:
First. That fon oolniurn wnnM nnt
in one (jT?lr raise the price of silver to
91 per ouuoe. (Ton can bet on any
number of years, but would have to
wall longer before the bet ooalrl be set
tled.)
Second. That the price of silver will
be brwer one year after than ono year
before the passage of a free coinage act
Third, That the price of silver will
be less than 80 cents per ounce when a
free coinage act has been in effect six
months or one year.
Fourth. That at no time within ono
year after free coinage, at 10 to 1 has
become a law will an American silver
dollar be worth as much as 76 per cent
of tho value of an American gold dollar.
If yon cannot got even bets, give odds.
The price of silver is determined
mainly by the cost of production. All
the silver tho world can use can bo pro
duced at loss than 75 and probably less
than 70 cents per ounce. No legislation
oan raise, except for a short time, tlie
price of silver. It is tn bo hoped that we
will never be forced to make this fool
ish free oninage experiment, bnt If we
do we should, if we can find takers, re
coup some of our certain losses by bet
ting on the inevitable.
Proa Coinaao Plainly Mated.
It is important to remember that
free ooinage means the right of every
owner of bullion to present the same to
the mint of the United States and have
it coined without charge into money.
Under the free ooinage of silver, the
owner of 817tf grains of pure silver
would be permitted to torn it over to
the United States mint and have it
coined without charge or receive there
for one silver dollar. More than this,
under free and unlimited ooinage, this
right would bo extended to the whole
world, and tho amonnt of silver coin ago
would be limited only by tho capacity
of our mints and the output of the silver
mines.
If I have made myself understood as
to the meaning of free coinage and
"the ratio," we are now prepared todis-
ouss onderstandingly the feasibility of
opening the mints of the United States
to the freo and unlimited ooinage of sil
ver by this country alone at the ratio of
18 to 1. Form yself, after the most ma
ture deliberation, I have been unable to
reach any other conclusion than that
such a step would be attended with the
most serious oonseqnences to the country
and Involve all our people in a common
disaster.
In the first place, the free and unlim
ited ooinage of silver at 16 to 1 would
in my judgment expel from our circula
tion not only our entire volnme of gold.
bnt every dollar of paper money redeem
able in gold and cause a contraction of
the currenoy and a resultant panto the
like of which has not been seen in this
generation. Senator J. 0. Burrows.
Only Bee On Bide.
A silvorite newspaper says, "A bushel
of potatoes, a dozen of eggs and a pound
of butter oan be bought in many por
tions of the western reserve of Ohio at
the present time for 89 ocnta. " And
this fact is stated as a reason for freo sil
ver. Would tho farmer be any better off
if he sold his 89 cents worth of potatoes.
eggs and butter for 68 cents in coin
worth SO cents on the dollar and had to
pay $3 in silver coin for every dollar's
worth of value that he purchased at the
stores and in the markets? Chicago
Chronicle.
KHIiog tha Oooaa, Kto,
The Baltimore Sun points oat that
"our 'good' times have in the past al
ways been times when foreigners were
investing money freely among ns. It
was not altogether or chiefly our own
savings that made business brisk. It
was the oon tinned influx of foreign
gold. Now we are unfortunately isolat
ed by the threat of the silver basis and
shall be bottled np industrially if we
shall ever actually reach it Our theo
rists kill ths goose that laid the golden
Whin It Would Oo.
To the warning of the true bimetal.
lists that free silver ooinage at 16 to 1
by this government alone would drive
gold oat of use as money and so cause
a disastrous contraction shallow critics
sneeringly ask, "Where would the gold
go tor
It would go where it went dazing the
war time either abroad or into hiding
or into vaolts as a commodity for spec
ulative gambling.
It would go where gold has gone in
every free ooinage country in the world
out of sight and oat of use either as
oarrency or as the reserve for banks.
Gold is now in general use as currency
in the Pacific states. It is held by the
government and by banks in all parts of
the country as a reserve to sustain the
circulation of greenbacks and treasury
notes and to maintain the bank credits.
It serves perfectly its function as money,
When it goes to a premium, it will no
longer do this.
Free coinage means silver monomet
allism. New York World.
Vara Was a aiul PtoOU.
Ex-Governor Boies of Iowa says that
be cannot pay the present rate of wages
and make his 8,600 acre form pay. He
says that no farmer who has to hire his
help can make money at farming under
the gold standard. Kx-Oongressman
Bland says that wages of all kinds will
rise under free ooinage.
It would naturally be inferred from
Boies' statement that he wants free
coinage to lower farm Wages so that the
big farmers can make money oat of the
labor of others. Blond s opinion eW
dently is that free coinage would be
good thing for the farm laborer and
therefore, so far as wages are concerned.
a bad thing for the boas farmers.
The two leading tree ooinage advo
cates should get together. It might also
be well for farmers and ''farmhands
te investigate these conflicting state
Bents. ,
8UCKER 8TATE 8ILVERITE3.
mpnrirnt Claims off flUtonn to One Shoot
ers at reot-ta.
Tho Illinois Democratic state conven
tion added hypocrisy and double dealing
to tho silverite doctrine of repudiation
and dishonest dollars when if. declared
in its platform: "Wefavortho soundest
and safest mmoy known to man.
Wo demand tho repeal of that Ilepnb-
llcan and plutocratic legislation which
domonotiw-d silver and reduced it to the
level of token money, destroying by
otio-half tho stock of real money.
We demand tho Immediate restoration
of the froo and unlimited coinaao- of
both gold and silver as a standard money
at tho rnto of IB ounces of silver to 1 of
gold of equal fineness, with full legal
tender power to ench metal. " This d(
lnrntion for free silver was termed "tho
bimetallism which was made tho basis
of our monetary system by Hamilton
and Jefferson.
Of all kinds of frauds the canting
humbng is tho worst Tho sincere but
mistaken silvoritos, who admit thot free
coinage at 16 to 1 would put this conn-
try on the silver basis, are deserving of
far moro respect than tho men who have
tho impudence to talk of "sound and
safo money" in connection with their
60 cent dollar schema F.vory man who
is old enough to voto knows Uint fno
silver, with the Imllion valuoof the two
metals at a ratio of BO to 1, means silver
monometallism pure and simple. This
is the standard of Mexico, China and
India, where its frequent and violent
flnotnntions and decreasing purchasing
power towtify to its "soundness and
safety. " Is that tho kind of money the
American people want?
It will bo somowhitt difficult to seen
tho repeal of "tho legislation which do
monetized silver and reduced it to tho
basis of -token money, " since there is no
sneh legislation on the statute books.
What the Sucker fitnto financiers re
ferred to was probably tho legisla
tion which since 1878 has given ns
$560,000,000 of foil legal tender silver
money, not one dollar of which is token
money, and $75,000,000 of subsidiary
ooinage. As thero was not $80, 000, 000
of silver money of all kinds in the csltin-
try in 1878 and less than $8,000,000
full legal tender silver coins, it is hard
to seo how ' 'tho stock of real money has
been destroyed one-holt " Since an in
crease of $640,000,000 is considered a
contraction of the currency, it is easy
to understand how tho crosseyed silver-
ites can believe that forcing $086,000,
000 in gold out of circulation would
givo us moro money.
"Tho bimetallism of Hamilton and
Jefferson" was the coinage of gold and
silver at a ratio which was as nearly as
possible the commercial ratio between
tho values of tho two metals. In experi
ence it was fonnd that whenever one of
the metals was overvalued it disappeared
from circulation, tho cheaper money
only being nsed, so that tho country was
always on either tho gold or the silver
standard. Under present conditions,
with the bullion valuoof silver 80 times
that of gold, it would bo impossible to
keep gold in circulation, and the conn
try would go at onoe to a silver basis.
Americans who favor real bimetallism,
under which an almost eqnal value of
gold and silver money is now kept in
circulation, must work and voto against
free silver monometallism.
THE TATIteR.
One of the pretty girls In Now York so
ciety Is Miss Mary Watts Kearny, grand
daughter of brave Pbil Kesrny.
Mrs. Ruth Sites and Marguerite Wong
nf Fuchau, China, attended the M. E. con
ference In Cleveland, coming to this coun
try for that purpose.
Miss J. Stewart Rold, composer of the
Trilby Walts," gained the only honors
certificate at the local examination of the
Royal Academy and Royal College of Mu
sic, recently held In Edinburgh.
MIhs Emma Thnrshy, the dollghtful
singer, wears a handsome decoration, con
sisting nf a splendid turquoise in a quaint
gold setting, which was presented to her
as a token of admiration by the czar.
Mrs. J. Plcrpnnt Morgan Is a member of
many charitable societies, guilds and the
like and belongs to two clubs that very
swell and exclusive one, the Ladles' New
port, and the Thursday Evonlng oluh.
Among ladies In Now York who keep
stables and to an extent personally super
vise them nre Miss Helen Benedict, Miss
Elolse lireeae, Mrs. Hicks-Lord, Mrs. Fred
crick Nollson and Mrs. William U. Van-
derbllt
Princess Pauline Metternich, widow of
the former A ustrlan embassador to France,
Is making a long stay in Paris, where she
was so long an arbiter of fashion before
retiring to Vienna. The prtnoess is now
60 years of age.
It Is announced that Mrs. Agnes Smith
Lewis, who discovered the Syrlac palimp
sest of the four gospels In the Convent of
St Catharine on Mount Slnal in 189B, has
discovered a single page of the original
Hebrew of the book of Eccleslastes.
Mrs. John M. Clay owns the Henry Clay
farm In Kentucky. She has such a tender
feeling for her stock that she has provided
for the future of all the superannuated ani
mals on the place by leaving each too In
her will so that they may receive good care
till death ensues.
MIbs Katharine Ahrons Is the only wom
an muslo publisher in the United 8 tat,
She began her career as a stenographer
and secretary, and her business training,
combined with great musical talent en
abled her to realize her ambition, which
was to become a musical publisher.
Miss Harriet Hnlllater of Rockvllle,
Conn., Is the daughter of a Revolutionary
soldier. She has just received the official
souvenir spoon given by the national so
ciety, Daughters of the American Revolu
tion. Miss Hollister is V8 years old, and,
although bllud and quite deaf, has won
derful memory.
Mrs. Gladstone's devotion to the 6. O.
M. is well known. On one occasion when
about 16 years ago he was called upon to
speak in the open air at Greenwich to an
extremely hostile audience she won the day
for him by standing throughout by his slue
holding an umbrella to shield his silvered
locks from the glare of the sun.
The Sooth's Interest.
"The south especially is interested in
the maintenance of a sound currency,"
the Charleston News (Dem.) says. "The
south more than any other section
should support the gold standard. The
south will suffer more than any other
part of the country from free silver coin
age. The north and east will be able to
take care of themselves when the del
age comes. "
qaara 1" lht WU1 Battle It.
The money standard of the United
States should be settled beyond disturb
ance. A square contest between the
friends and foes of sound money will
settle it Utioa Herald (Hep. ).