Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1897 — Ambitious Philadelphia Boys. [ARTICLE]

Ambitious Philadelphia Boys.

All of a sudden the bright, small boy bn a pari of West Philadelphia has developed a'wonderful desire to run errands for the neighbors “free for nothing," and generous housekeepers have been marveling at the solicitation of contracts for the privilege of running after purchases. Numbers of the yetngsters have made compacts that they shall be the privileged ones for a certain period. The mystery is explained by a schema of some of the Storekeepers, who give each boy a card Indicating the amount of the purchase, sad when the boy becomes the possessor of the tickets aggregating a certain aawnnt he is made the recipient of a percentage of all that has been bought through his agency. A corps of ambitious young drug and grocery brofcsrs to thus being developed.

“The gold Democrats of the country are attracting a good deal of attention by the vigoi one work th p y are doing in opposition to that wing of the party which went off on the free silver tangent.”.. Rensselaer Republican, Yes,the late Indianapolis election is in evidence. Last fall the so-call-ed gold democrats of that city played into the bonds of the i epublicans to snch an extent that |Hanna’s man, McKi -ley, received .about 7,000 majority. This fall the ma j onty of Tom Taggart, on a 16 to 1 free silver platform is nearly 4,000. It would seem by this s howing that the gold democrats are ‘vigorous’ in getting baok into the Democratic fold. We had no idea, however, that the Republican would join in commending this “vigorous work” of gold Democrats which it says has been “ah trading a good deal of attention.”

Mr. Bryan has “consented” to appear at an Arkansas oounty fair and make a short speech for the trifling sum of SSOO. This is a big drop from the $1,500 figure which he made for the Ohio Dem oorats, though the fact that they did not oiose with his proposition may have affected his scale of prices somewhat... Rensselaer Re publican We do not know that the above item is original with George, but taking the following in connection with it, the folly of accepting and giving publicity to sombody else’s lie can be readily determined: BRYAN DEOLINED TO SPEAK. Though He Was Offebed SI,OOO fob a Short Address. Paduoah, Kv., Oct. 14. .. At mid night last night the Hon. William Jennings Bryan left Kentucky soil and crossed over into the good old state of Missouri, where he will continue his campaign foi free sil vei, or bimetallism, as he is pleas ed to term it. He finished h’s speech at tbis place at 9:40 and was driven at onoe to his special Car, and in ooiqpany with ]£. .tkral Ornmnitteeman Grey Woodson, ex'.Congressman B. A. Enloe and Mr Cknt fieigh, left for Fulton, where he caught the fast.tram on the Illinois Central railroad for St. Louiß’.

Mr. Bryan’s visit has bean an event with the free silver people, and at all the points have they turned out en masse to hear the Nebraskan whom thev regard as their logical candidate in 1900. The charge has bean frequently made, and as often denied, that Mr. Bryan r, ceived so much per speech for his efforts in Kentucky. The assertion is absolutely untrue, as those det.ocratp who have hau charge of his tour tinough Ken.■tucky will testify. In speaking of the fact that an admission fee of 25 cents was'charged at the Henderson fair grounds, where Mr Bryan spoke yesterday, N»ti mal Committeman Wooason said; “If we had not secured some concession whereby the money of those who come solely to hear Air. Bryun would be refunded, Mr. Bry, an .would not have spoken. De will not make a speech wbereflan admission fee is charged, and when told that admission was charged at the gate he declined to speak until the management had promised to r.-.tarn the money of e/ery man who desired it at the conclusion f the address.

“Yesterday afternoon Mr. Bryan received a telegi am from a man in Faragonld, Ark., offering him sl*. 000 to deliver one speech at the grounds there during the latter part of the momh.yi took the telegram to Mr. Bryan anc he said ‘Tell him no.’ But. I said, there is SI,OOO in it for one day's work, knowing full well that the money would make no difference with him ‘I don’t care,’ said he, ‘l will make no speeches for money daring this campaign, I don’t care what they offer me.’ Not oidy did he receive no compensation for the twelve or more speeches he made in Kentucky, bnt he paid his way to and from tne state, and i addi. tion contributed to oar oampaign fund. Louisville Post.

“No Democratic orator m Ohio* Maryland or New York has opened his lips on the silver question, and those who attempted or proposed to do so were promptly silenced by the cLairman of the party.”— Bensselaer .Republican. , Mi. Bryan has gone to 'Ohio to aid in the fight against reluming the dough man, Hanna, to the U. 8. Senate. Thus it seems George’s statement lack all the elements of truth. yueon VICm Domnin. Tbs Que-n Is the mo t powerful widow on the globe. She rules 11,- • 5,067 square mle of the arth’s territory sod 318,126,867 of it* popnlstlgto

Two more filibustering expeditioDS are enroute for Cuba. The estimated profits of the sugar trust this yeir are $30,000,000, and every American family is compelled by republican legislation to contribute to it.

Says the Fort Wayne Sentinel: “A laige number of well known bu aadly perplexed republican organs in Indiana and other states are with labored effort trying to explain that there ia nothing of more more than local significance m the results of the Indianapolis election Silver and the Chicago platform were right to the front in that fight.”

Mark Hanna was in leagus with the syndicate of sew York bankers who propose to buy the Union Pacific railroad at a price of $20,000,000 less than the government’s claim against the road. The New lork World ohargea that after a conference with Hanna these bank, era contributed $2,000,000 to the Republican campaign fund with the understanding that an attorney general should be appointed who would assist them to rob the governments the matter of the Union Paoific road. No scandal since the Credit Mobilier scheme is so foully disgraceful.

In a public card, the twelve Democratic candidites for the Legislature in Cuyahoga county, (Cleveland, Ohio) declare that “they will not vote or assist in any in the election for senator of anv known monopolist or millionaire.” They cite in justification of this declaration the celebrated utt aranoe of the late Governor William Allen, when Le expressed these lofty sentiments: “Democracy is a sentiment not to be appalle37 rupted or compromised. It knows no baseness. It cowers.to no danger. It oppresses no weakness. Fearless, generous and humane, it rebukes the arrogant, oberisbes honor and sympathizes with the bumble. It asks nothing but what it conoedes. It concedes nothing but what it demands. Destruot* ive only of despotism, it is the sole eorservator of liberty, labor and property. It is the sentiment of freedom, of equal rights and equal obligations. The stupid, the selfish and the base in spirit may denounce it as a vulgar thing bet in the history of our race the Democratic pritoiple has developed the highest moral and intellectual attributes of our nature. It is a noble, a sublime, sentiment, which expands our affections, enlarges the circle of our sympathies and elevates the soul of man until, claiming an equality with the best, it rejocts as unworthy of its dignity any political immunity over the humblest ot its fellows.”

Henry George, candidate of the Thomas Jefferson democracy for mayor of greater New York, after a night of speech making, d ed at 4:50 this morning from an attack of cerebral apoplexy. Moonshine Whisky tn New York. The other day In the city of New York revenue officers raided a cellar on Rivlngton street, where Illicit whisky was being made, and seized nearly a dozen barrels of mash and 80 gallons of the contraband liquid. They were led to the raid by the fact that whisky was selling for five cents a glass In a large number of places en the east side, and suspecting crookedness they set a watch and readily located the 11110 It distillery. The capacity of the placs was three gallons an hour and ths product was sold to saloonkeepers at the rate of 26 cents a gallon. Ia speaking of the affair a revenue officer said that there are many such, places la New York and Brooklyn and that it la easier to carry on such operations hew than ont In the country.