Ligonier Banner., Volume 19, Number 27, Ligonier, Noble County, 16 October 1884 — Page 2

’ - » it The Ligonier Banner, J. B. STOLL, Editor. ' e e e e THURSDAY, OCT. 16, 1884. , : : ; ' R"3 i 2O Rl ('\: b Pt ‘;.-‘\;i;-\\.\ i { _‘i ”\.l.‘_::, & \ == R if T i ’ S 3 e \\‘~ 7 e EG ' ’ ; ' Democratic| National Ticket, Fo | President. GROVER CLEVELAND. For Vice President, .: THOMAS A, HENDRICEHS. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS, At Large—B, W, /Hanna, W. D. H. Hun er. First District, - - Wm. F. Townsend. Second, - -| 7 Henry S. Cauthorne. Third, - . - Aaron A. Cravens. Fourth, ‘- -/« . Frank E, Gavin. Pifth, - - N - «' 'Willis Heckam. Sixth, i e e e N. R. Elliott. Seventh, - . James A. New. Eighth, - - - - James M. Seller, Ninth. - - [+, - Wm.R. Oglesby. ~—Tenth, - - - - : Fred Kopelke. Eleventh, aii b - Wm,. H. Harkens. welfth, - - - William H, Dills. hirteenth, -5% e Mortimer Nye. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET . Fgr Goyernor,; . i ISAAC P. GRAY. J / Lieut¢nant Governor, MAHL : N D. MANSON. Secrietary of State, 2 WILLIAM R. MYERS: ! Auglitor of State, } JAMES H. RICE. : i - For Attorney General. i FRANCIIS T. HORD. E For Treasurer of State. . JOHN J./COOPER. i S\Lperintende t of Publie Instruction, AJOHN W, HOLCOMBE. ; Reporter of the Supreme Court.”" - JOHN W. KERN. i 3 Judge of Supreme Court, Fifth District, J. A S. MITCHELL.

¢ ° DISTRICT TICKET, ’ e Lo for Cong‘l{'ess., e HON. RHOBERT LOWRY. ' ; Fq{Senator. ; ‘ ASHER S, PARKER, i _ For Jojint Representative, = : CArr, WILLIAM M. BARNEY: ; - Flor Prose *utor, > v RANKLIN PUWERS. . . . COYNTY TICKL . ~_For Representative, - : - * ELL B. GERBER. ? ». For Treasurer, C[I,AI'LES K. GREENE, For Recorder, o CHARLES G, AICHELE, . | For Sheriff, ; . WALLACE W. NOE. i ‘" IFor Recorder, . | &4 RUDOLPH J. SEYMOURE. : .| For Coroner, o ROCECO GARREMONE. : For Lominjssioner ~Middle District, OHN H. ELY. ] For !.mgnsionerr—Southefn District, WILLIAM C. DAVIS, ‘ WEesT VIRGINIA covered herself with eterna glpry& She stands gjapdly and loyally by her demoeratic colors Steve Elkir’s moncy did not tempt the sturdy gons of that commonwealth All hobor to, West Virginia, = TuERE ar those who believe that that eminent ligr, Eli Perkins, is a more truthful mam than slippery-Jim. . i “———-‘o .—-'—-.-——— ) Gov. GrAy repeats the declaration . that he never was a Know-Nothing and denounces gs liars all.who aver to the contrary. L b o ~ THERE geems to pe ro doubt that " the St. John ticket is developing con‘siderable gtrength in certain parts of the country. ' A . esl . ISR e 2 A PENNSYLVANIA paper declares that the poly successful and true republican in this campaigo is a repub lican withpout a consciénce. We venture the assertion thit th people of (Dhio are not hap}kexjing after another Odtobey, election. . They oughte to leave :suﬂ‘fciency‘ thereof for all time to come. ; | T e e ( * Waey a|shark li}:e Jay Gould invests a hundred thousand dollars to secure Blaine's election, i%yould seem to be entively safe for the average citizen to put his vote on the other side. L —— e ————— . ~ OwINGg to sickness, Major Calkins . was upable to discuss the ‘issues with Gov. Gray at LaFayette last Monday. The joigt discussiom there will take place at gome time yet to be agreed upon, Sl e e |

WHILE Gen. Beaver, of Bellefonte, Pa.,, was in Ohio urging workingmen to support Blaine and protection, the employed of! the Central Nail Works, of which Beaver Is part owuer, were on a strike on actgunt of a reduction in wages, - ‘ WHEN 'v_EPt Jim Blaine opens his mouth to fulminate a speech he invariably makes a plea for protection, That slippery Jim peeds ‘protection can hardly be doubted, but what he wants most is protection from his own record. S ' AT almost every oneof his stopping places, as he passed through Ohio on his yote-begging expedition, Blaine told the¢ pecple that when he was a young man he strongly thought of settling|in their town. As a taffydispensgr slippery Jin is a success. e — > — : IT is probably now entirely clear to the average Ohioan that October elections are a terrible strain on the pesce and digpity of & commonwealth. The most commendable thing the people of Ohip can now do 18 to take early . steps for abolishing October €lections. : phos ; TaE Republicans of South Bend are making extensive preparations for the receptign of James G, Blaine next Saturdgy. The tattooed man will _spend [Sunday with a relative at St. Mary’s, the celebrated Catholic educational institution near Sduth Bend. Tuar| eminent, pure and upright _gierg man, 'tha M'l Jm Fml “Clarke, of Massachusetts, writing concerning the Mulligan letters, puts it ‘thus: “Mr, Blame concealed the truth, ‘ord.” That is the mﬂl !% AR R AN T s s ST gl

No WELL INForMED Demoerat ever claimed Obio as essential to democratic success. The States that Dmocrats have all along considered coptestable ground are Indiana, New York, New Jersey and Cuunecticut.g_

THE dirtiest work done in Ohio was that performed by W. W. Dudley, the most unscrupulous corruptionist in Awmerica, Steve Dprsey not excepted, If ruch a man can be retained in the public service, there is buf little use in talking about maintainiog free'in stitutions. . :

REPUBLICAN employers in Ciaginnati, Cleveland and other manufacturing points openly proclaimed that unless the republican ticket was successfu! their establishments would be closed indefinitely, And yet the boast is made that this is a Republic of sovereign voters :

- IF the American people csn elect guch a man as James G. Blaine presi dent, says the Bellefonte Watchman with all his hideous record before them, then we may consider that there is no’ longer any use for argument, no longer any use in showing up the evil and unholy transacticons of a man’s life. :

WitHOUT Ohio Blaine’s goose would have been effectually cooked. His candidacy would have been utterly hopeless. Since Ohio has been saved with the aid of a huge corruption fund and the most outrageous bulldozing, the fight. will henceforth be waged for Indiana, New Y ork, New Jersey and Connecticut. Cleveland will be elected. - :

THE RESULT IN OHIO

T'he republican victory in Ohio was achieved by the, most disreputable means and methods. Workingmen were literally coerced into voting the republican ticket; Dudley wanipulated the pension.bureau; money was gpent lavishly; repeaters got in their work wherever the polls were under republican rule. Jay Gould, Huntington & Co. furnished a eléan million dollars to corrupt the floating vote. This tells- the whole story. There is but little use in dwelling on this subjeet. Men who cantcountenancs and deliberately indorse such corrupt practices will gloat over the republican triumph, / Thoughtful msn, not blinded by par’by‘prejudices. will view with alarm the terrible strain to which republican institutijns are subjected by the violation of all principles of honor and“decency in political warfare. i

BLAINE AS A TOOL'OF MONQPOLISTS.

-In spite of the most extraordinary ‘efforts on the part of republican managers to extort some words of encour—agement from Senator Georgs F. Ed‘munds, that sturdy Republican perPaistently refuses to make: favorable response to' the pleas of the followers of Blaine, He caunot even be induced to mention the namse of Jumes G. Blaine. When obliged to allude to the tattooed man from Maine he invariably uses the expression, “‘the persun referred to.” M. Edmunds’ latest letter: “I am entirely out of politics, this year. I hope ‘the grand old party’ will pull throtigh all right,” is not of that encouraging kind which Mr. Blaine’s star route friends could wish. The letters and speeches of Mr. Edmunds in the past about Mr. Blaive reyeal his opinion of the latter., The revelation of these spesches and .letters brings to view these facts: Mr, Edmunds, in a late letter alluding to oue he . had : written in 1880, said: *“I believe it. to he true .that be (Blaine) was on the side ¢f the railroads in the struggle of 1878, and it is my belief that I said so.” It was in thay struggle over tha Thurman bill, ardently supported by Senator Edmunds, that “Mr, Blaine @ppeared from behind the Gould breastworks, musket in hand, as Senator Edmunds said in his letter ‘of 1880. The Thurman bill was a measure designated, as tbe Boston Herald explains, by the requirement of a sinking fund and other precaut‘ic';in;e to secure the paymant of a part, atleast, of the large indebtedness of thp Upien and Central Pacific railroads to the United States. Blaine and Stanley Matthews were Its chief opponents. Jay Gould was in Wash-

ington looking after his interests. Mr. ‘Blaine moved a proviso which would have tied up the hands of Congress for 22 years. .Senator Thurman said of the provisd: ‘lf such an amendment ag that of the senator frum Maine should be inserted in this bill, it would be the best bargain these compunies ever made.” -He also said that it ‘was a stab at the very heart of the bill! Senator Edmunds said: e

“It is reserved, Mr, President, to the senator ; from Maine, to be the first map, and at this late period of time, to .propose in any act regulating or creating a corporation or any part of its operations the sovereign power of the great tribunal that imparts to ‘it its gifts, that creates it for its monopolies, that is bound (o stand between it and these dangers that monopolies always threaten people with—for the first time, I say, it has been proposed that an act of administrative justice which calls for the accumulation of a sinking fund, and which is othing but an administrative act for the future, thiat changing évents may chauge the agpect of fromiday to day, as other lines are huilt, «s other men come into the management, as the stock is either run up or run down £o please “baars” or “bulls” “for private interest—that the hands®of this:supreme tribuupal shall be tied behind its back, not in respect of anything that it has receiyed to discharge a debt, because there would ‘be an end of it without any such provision, but in'respect of the future administration of the affairs of these companies 8o far as it affects the interests of the United States.connect ed with this debt.”

In another passage Mr. Edmunds said in his mostsarcastic manper; ~.

| “You cannot tell who will manage these corporations. You calnot tell how long there will be any net income or not, depending not upou the. fair progress of natural resources of development and natural competition, but depending upon the evil deviltry of atock boards and private jobs. There is the trouble about all these corporstions. And yet, my honorable frieud from Maine, in that sweet|innocence which characterizes his chagacter, that sublime faith that evergbody is as vir-tu-us as he is, 18 willing to fold up his arms and be tied up in a bag by the Union Pacific and Central ' Pacific railroad companies for 22 years, mere‘l{ because we require them to establish a sinking fund.” ; Mr. Blaine’s aimeddment was rejected, and he voted against the biil. The final vote was 40 yeas and 20 nays. In the hope of the repeai or of the nullification of that bill, Jay Gould is now

A Glorious Victory

A iy e Y R 4 [ . ' @A e S West Virginia True to‘ ~ Democracy. Steve Elkins and his Corruption - Fund of no Avail, The State Damcoratic by an Overwhelming Majority, Ohio 01 a Full Vote Goes Rpublican " . by Alout 12,000, A Loss of Over 8,000 on the Vete of 1880 y . The efection in Ohio 'iast‘Tuesday was perhaps the most remarkable election ever held in that state, from early morning until the polls élosed in the evening, all was excitement. 'ln several of the larger cities the troubles culminated in bloodshed. The latest returns show that the whole republican ticket 18 elected by perhaps 14,000 majority. The r‘e_bublicans making large gains in Lhe _Lcities. Cincinnati and - Hamilton county giving over 2,ooo'm9,jority, which elects two republican - congressmen, Butterworth and Brown. In Cieveland the republicans also triumph i)y nearly 3,500. majdrity,while i:n a'l other large cities Toledo, Columbus aud' Dayton, their gain< hold good. ~ . WEST VIRGINIA , ‘The returus came in very slowly from the out precinets of this state, but everywhere ths vote shows Win: derful demoeratic g iins, and the state bas surely given a tremendous majority,folE, W. Wilson, the demoeralic cominee for Goveraor. ; THE LATEST. ! Up to tbis meruing unofticial re turns. of the Ohio election have been received from all the couuties vu the State excepting ﬁve.vwhicb, in (1883, gave a republican majority of 7,072.

The total of majorities in counties giving republican pluralities foot up 45,192, and in democratic counties 41,399. Adding to the above the majority in the five counties unbeard from, gives a net republican plurality of 10865. The five countiss will probably increase this to 11,000 or 12,000, . The Republicans elect ten Congressmen and the Democrats ten, while in one’district the vote is a tie, : WEST VIRGINIA. ; The very latest reports show an ircreased majority for the Democracy. It will probably rcach 10,000, THRE VERY LATEST. | - CoLuMBUS, O,; Cet. 15.—The hedvy republican gains have been made in the cities, whereas the Democrats have gained in the country. This is the case in this county—Franklin—and it will ‘be found to ,be truein other strong democratic counties, not heard from, and the republican majority will be reduced below 10,000. This, however, the Republicans will not concede, but admit their majority ‘will be far below their first claims. | CARES I ST R s We stand now exactly where we stood in 1876, when we elected Tilden and Hendricks. Ohio was carried by the Republicans; Indiana, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut by the Democrats. History will repeat itself.

. THEY DID THEIR DUTY, There can be no doubt that our political brethren in Ohio did their full duty during the:great contest which terminated at the ballot-box last Tuesday. The invasion of the state by the Blaine menagerie and the open aud shameless attempt of Commissioner of Pensions Dudley and bhis understrappers in the pay ot the United * States government fo colonize gangs of repeaters and to buy the corruptible element stirred the Democrats to unwonted activity and a gene eral determination to maintain their rights and deéfend the purity of the ballot. But it.must not be forgotten that they had to contend against fearful odds. The last time the state voted on nationa! questions the republican majority was upwards of 35,000. The wholo power ¢f the fed—eral goverument, so far as it can be exerted, was used to help the Republicans. The pension office has been deliberately prostituted by Dudley to make votes for the republican ticket. So flagrant was his attempt to deceive and corrupt pensieners and applicants that the Civil Service Commission, through its republican secretary, has been cong&rained to call the attention of President Arthur to the matter. Hundreds of deputies, selected from the worst. of the criminal classes in Cincinnati, were appointed by the Umted States marshal to intimidate legal voters and force illegal votes into the ballot-box. Carloads of Virginia, Maryland and Kentucky negroes ‘were shipped to the state to cast their fraudulent-votes. The slums of the eastern cities were. emptied of their rounders and shoulder-hitters to as--Bist Dudley in his nefarious work, ‘The money of the great monopolists— Gould, TField, Vanderbilt & Co.—waB poured iuto the state to foot the bills of the republican agents of corruption and fraud. Thede are facts that are beyond dispute. Taking all these things into consideratiun, it need not be deemed etrange that discreet and utterly impossible for the Democrats

g S 80 t . Danced His Last Jig. Charles Butler Finishes his Mirthful Existence at the End : ot a Rope. ¥. THE GALLOWS. CHARLES BUTLER HANGED. . - The banging of Chas. Butler for the murder of his wife at Pierceton, Kosciusko county, in September, 1883, took place in the jail yard at Celumbia City last Friday. =Late the night previuuﬁ. Butler gave up‘all hope of respite, and broke down completely, crying like a child for some time. He fell Into a restless, troubled sleep, and remained in that condition until five o'clock this morning, when he awoke, jumped up, and rapidly dressed himgelf, but could eat no breakfast. He was shaved at 7 o’clock, after which he swore that he would kill a few men before he left his cell to go to the scaffold. Hecontinued to grow more violent until the arrival of Father Henry TFoellhake, a Catholic priest, who after a short cénversation got him quieted down. He was then baptized, and later, in their proper order, received the last impressive gacra-i ments of the Roman Catholic church. After the clergymdn left Butler ate; a Jight breakfast, Mrs. Havens, of Cinicinnati,' his sister, then callel, with her child, to bid him farewell. She burst into tears and continued to grow more affected until she fell in a swoon upon the stone floor. She was removed to the jail parlor, and shortly afteg, was taken to her hotel. All this Butler loeked upon unmovedly, He then sent for Willilam A. Bernhammer, of Indianapolis, to write his will. He bequeathed all his property to his son, ‘naming his father, Dr. George Butler, as guardian., The making of the will occupied considerable time, as Butler objected to some trivial points, and where he found a “t” not erossed or an “i” not -dotted he made the lawyer do it. At this point the fire department, at the request of the sheriff, surrcunded the jail to keep the crowd away, as there was talk of tearing down %he inclosure, which was a temporary affair, so that all could see the execution, as the feeling against Butler was very bitter..

During all this time Butler was playing upon his accordion. He finally told the spectators he was now going to take hislast dance. Playing “We Won’t Go Home Till Morning” he danced a jig for five minutes up and down his cell. A few minutes before noon Sheriff : Allwein entered the cell and read the death warrant, and he was then led to the scaffold. He proposed to resist exit from the cell, but the presunce of half a dozen. officers dispslled the idea. After a miid protestation he walked out: About 150 witnesses were in the inclosure. Butler seemed to enjoy the situation. - With a firm step he ascended the scaffold and faced the audience. He looked as. pleasant as if it was his wedding morning. After kicking the drop to see if it was solid, he stepped forward and addvessed the audience as follows: 3 .

“I never premaditated the murder of my wife. I have too much manhood in me to think of such a thing. The man who will kill a woman is a coward, and I am no coward. I want the newspaper men to take that down. The newspapers have abused me and lied about me. I neverdone a badact in my life, and never carried a weapon. See the jury in front of me. I hope they are pleased, You will be sorry; mark my word. I could have been a man; would have been oneif let alone. You are all here to see me hung. That is nice business. I would not come hers to see a mau hung for all the meney in Whitley county, No, there 18 not enough money in the country to ‘make me see a man hung. I hope God 'will forgive all people. I see Doctor Webber, of Warsaw, in front of me. Doctor Webber has gbused me like a dog. You will be sorry. I see the Pierceton saloon-keepers in fiont of me. They lied about me at the trial, but I forgive them all. I forgave Dr. Webber, but he will never forgev me. There is Mr. Jellison, who helped put me here. I forgive him, but he will never forget Butler, and what he did for him, and 1 say right here that all who were eonnected with putting me here will get, their j ust reward for putting me here.” . . - Then, turning to the sheriff,he said: “Well, fix the rope.” When they began to tie his limbs Father Foellhake prayed aloud. At this juncture Butler broke down, and until the drop fell the scene was dramaticin the extremae. He sank down on his knees aid had to be held up by the sheriff and a deputy while deputy Sheriff Goodfellow ad - justed the noosy and black cap. He begge’d‘ piteously to have the cap removed so he could see daylight once more, and complained that the rope pinched. He cried out: “Come, Jim,” meaning Goodfellow, “take off that cap! Take it off quick!” When told to step to the trap he refused to do so, and had to be pushed forward by the sheriff and his deputies. While being g 0 pushed he ecried for mercy, and continued to do so until the trap was sprung.. The fall was too short to break his neck, and he slowly strangled to death. His contortions were frightful. He was pronounced dead after “hanging seven minutes. The body was turned over to his sister, who left at 10 o’clock that evening for Columbus, where the remains were buried. The scaffold was the one used in F't. Wayne just one year ago to hang McDonald, and all the proceedings of the execution worked ~without any friction. This is the only hanging that ever occurred in Whitley eounty. ‘Though the crime was committed ‘in . Kosciusko county, the case was taken there on a change of venue. . THE ORIME, Charles W. Butler was 27 years old, strongly built, fastidious in his taste, about five ‘feet six inches in height, with fair complexion and open countenance, His home was in Columbus, Ohio, and his father, Dr. George W. Butler, a prominent and wealthy citizen of the State, was at one time superintendent of the state insane asy'ﬁ . Who, before her marriage to Dr, Batler, resided at Pierceton, Kosoius- | ko county, Ind, where, and in thej Ty o N 0 AN skt

lumber-dealer igtg?ietéetpn. The murderer’s mother is dead. In September of last year. Butler's wife, while he| was in jail in Columbus, Ohio, went with their 6.year-old boy to the home of Mr. Ryerson, at the same time writing to her husband that shedid not intend to live with him longer.. When released from jail he followed her, reachiag Pierceton on the 28th of September. He called on his wife at Mr. Ryerson’s on the afternool of the following day. The husband and wife met in the presence of Mr. Ryerson, and epparently upon friendly terms, though he had formerly treated her with great cruelty. After a whileshe turned to leave the room, Butler being then engaged in conversation with Mr. j Ryerson, when he sudéenly drew from %his pocket a revolver and fired at her. The ball took effect bet ween the shoulders, glaucing upward and Idgging in the brain. . ‘The upfortunaté_, woman lingered along until Oct. 2, when she died. = After the sheoting Butler left the house and walked down the street and gave himself up to the officers, who took him on the first train to Warsaw. On the way to the jail he expreséed the utmost indifference about the affair, and was seemingly unconcerned as to how it would result. 'He was afterward indicted, and on application at the December term of the Kosciusko circuit court the veunue of the cause was changed to Whitley county. On March 15, 1884, Butler with Chambers and Butler, the counterfeiters, Cassell the horse thief, and a prisoner named Carter escaped from jail. Ab(%nt two weeks after-| ward officers discovered Batler in Harver’s salocon in Antwerp, O. He was, intoxicated at the time, but was right enough to understand that he was being watched, and so fl=d through the back door of a saloon. The oflicers tracked him into a swamp across the state line in the woods of Allen eounty, this state, near Woudburn, where he was caoght. Half a dozen pistol shots were fired at the flzeing fugitive. He was desperate, and defied the offi cers to take him for a time. Sheriff Allwein, of Columbia City. took charge of the prisoner, carried him to Fort Wayne, and lodged him in jail. Two thousand dollars .eward was offered for his capture. . While in jail'in Fort Wayne he made another attempt to escape, and would have succeeded but for the treachery of a fellow prisoner. Butler’s trial took place in Columbia City. ' His father secured the best of counsel to defend him, and the de‘fense set up was insanity, As an evidence of strenucus efforts that were made to save the'murderer from the halter there W?e on file seven thousand pages written by a type writer tracing the genealogy and meatal peculiarities of all his family even te the forty-second degres.. The trial lasted for 27 days, and was one of the most prolonged and hard-fought in the history of Northern Indiana. After 7 hours deliberation the jury brought in the following verdict: “We, the jury, find the defendant, Charles W. Butler, tguilty of murder in the first'degree as he stands charged in the indictment, and assess 48 his punishment therefor that he suffer death.” : | The .verdict was announced at five o’clock in the moruing on June 12 in 1 the presence of two dozen persons. The prisoner never flinched, and said: “I don’t care; lam a thoroughbred, and will die a thoroughbred. I pity my poor old father, my sister, and my little boy. It will send my father to a lunatic asylum.” '

Sound Words from a Farmer.

It is not often anything commendable is found in the Cincinnati Enquirer, but the fellowing 1s well wor'thy of careful reading: A contributor from M ifflin, Ohio, if he is not an in‘telligent farmer, is in sympathy with the farmers, makes a point against the republican- party. “I am no politician,” he says, “and do not take very much interest in politics. 1 vote, it is true, ‘and generglly the republican ticket.” = After referring to the reduction of the tariff on weol, “the ouly artic'e that was ever protected by tax for the benefit of the farmers,” and Senator Sherman’s part in this scheme, by whbich the farmers were robbed of millions of dollars annually, our contributor proceeds 1n this convincing fashion: “What I wish most particularly to call the farmers’ attention to is this: Immediately after the failure of the Marine Bank, in New York, and while all the brokers, stock speculators and wheat gamblers in the country were embarrassed and failing, the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Mr. Folger, ordered the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. New, to go to New York City and buy millions of government bonds, to bolster up the rotten market and wheat gamblers. He did so; and, through the protection and friendship of the administration and treasurer of the United States to the gamblers in stocks and grain, they were given ‘new life and ‘means whereby they could further speculate and ruin the market of American wheat abroad. And what are the consequences? We all know.that this gambling in grain was ipaugurated and has grown to its present magnitude since the republican party came into power. We must all acknowledge that this gambling in wh%at has ruined our market abroad, and that buyers of wheat in Europe fight shy now of American sellers. Why? Because there is no stability in our market, for at the will of these spec'ulaf.ors'the market price of wheat will advance or decline as much as ten cents per bushel per day, thereby discouraging buyers abroad and compelling them to seek other markets. Now, if the republican party and the administration of that party think and act but for the benefit of the stock and grain gamblers, as they have done, to the detriment of the farming community of the country, I think it high time that the farmers should apply the cure that we have in our possession—the control by our votes of the politics of the country and rebuke: the money changers, wheat gamblers and their allies—the republican party.” ° This i 3 presenting the case in its true light, and the farmers will not fail to see it. The solicitude of the republican administration for the New York speculators is well known. Every industry in the country may be prostrate, and no helping hand is extended, but let a panic seizé Wall street, and the treasury of, the United States is at its disposal until relief is obtained. Persons who desire this sort of thing to continue can best per‘petuate it by voting the repubiican| Memet.. i aont s g AL ORI, e L 1 would respectfully inform those know- | ing themselves indebted to me on account | st LEAYS plnded SOO. skime 1y the hiande of Bowman & Fellows for colleotion, Who | may be found at the office of Hsquire| e O Kamaon, |

MR. TILDEN’S LETTER.

nocratic Ascendency is Demanded by the Abuses of Republican Tenure.

The following is Mr. Tilden’s re‘s‘ponse to the committee of the national emocratic conventipn conveying to him the resolution of that body: . - GREYSTONE, Oct. 6,1884.—Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Commiitee.—l thank you for the kind terms in which you have communicated theresolutions concermn%lme adopted by the late democratic national convention. I share your conviction that reform in the administration .of the federal ag.;lovernment, which is our great national want, and is indeed essential to the restoration and preservaeion of the g{l)lvemment itself. can only be achieved through the agency of the democratic party and by installing its representatives in the chief magistracy of the United States. . : The noble historical traditions of the democratic party, ¢he prin'ci]ﬂes in which it was educated and to which it has ever been in the main faithful, its treedom from corrupt influences which grow up in prolonged possession of power, and the nature of the elements which constitute it, all contribute to qualify it for that mission. The opposite characteristics and conditions which attach to the republican party make It_hogeless to expect that that party will be able to give better government than the debasing system of abuses which, during its ascendency, has infected official and political life in this country. - : . The democratic party had its origin in the efforts of the more advanced patriots of the revolution to resist the preservation of our government from the ideal contemplated by.the people. Among its cansglcuous founders were Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams and John Hancock, of Massachusetts; George Clinton and Robert R. Livingstone, of New York, and George Wythe and James Madison, of Virginia. From the election of Mr, Jefferson as president in 1800 for six}ty years the democratic Far« ty mainlg directed our national 'go icy. It extended the: boundaries of the republic and laid the foundation of all our national greatness while it preserved the limitations imposed by the .constitution and maintained a simple and pure system of domestic administratlon. On the other hand, the republican party has always been dominated by principles which favor legislation far the benefit of particular classes -at the ex%ense of the body of the people. Tt has.become deeply tainted with the abuses which naturally grow up during long possession of unchecked power, especially in the period of civil war and false finance. The patriotic and virtuous elements in it are now unable to emancipate it from the sway of selfish interests which subordinate public duty to personal greed. The most hopeful of the best citizens it contains despair of its amendment . except through its temporary expulsion from power. ; . It has been boastfully asserted by a modern Massachusetts statesman, struggling to reconcile himself and his followers to their Presidential candidates, that the Republican, party containg a disproportionate share of the wealth, the culture, and .the intelligence of the country. The unprinciled Grafton, when taunted by James gI. with his personal want of conscience, answered: “That is true, but I belong to a party. that has a great deal of conscience.” Such reasoners forget that the same claim has been made in all ages and countries by the defenders of old wrongs a%ainst new reformers. It was alleged by the tories of the American revolution against the patriots of that day. It was repeated against Jefferson, and afterward against Jackson. It is alleged by the conservatives against those who in England are now endeavoring to enlarge the popular suffrage. : Aﬁ history shows that reforms in government must not be expected from fhose who sit serenely on the moun-tain-tops enjoying the benefits of the existing order of things. Even the divine author of our religion found his followers, not among the self-compla-cent }iﬂmrisees, but among lowly minded fishermen. . ; 7 :

The Republican party is largely made u%of those who live by their wits, and who aspire in ¥ohtlcs to advantages over the rest of mankind, similar to those which their'daily lives are devoted to securing in private business. The Democratie party consists larg%e]ﬁ of those who live by the work of their hands and whose political action is governed by their sentiments or imagination. It results that the Democratic -party, more readily than the Republican party, can-be molded to the support of reform measures which involve a sacrifice of selfish interests. - .

The indispensable necessity of our times isa change of administration in the great executive offices of the country. This, in m{; Jjudgment can only be accomplished by the lection of the Democratic candidates for President and Vice President. SAMUEL J. TILDEN, To R. H. Henry (Chairman), B. B, Smaliey and others of the Special Committee of the Democratic National Convention.

POLITICAL JOTTINGS.

—ls General Arthur the last of the Reﬁublican Presidents? It begins to look that way.—New York Truth.

—Mr. W. H. Keenan, a democratic candidate for the legislature in Audrain, testifies as a classmate of Steve Elkins in Missouri universit that Elkins was among the ﬁrsg to. ‘help raise a rebel flag in the vicinity of that institution.. But if Steve had fought all throu(gih the war in the rebel army his record since the war would have made him the greatre}i‘ublicau leader he is, all the same. The man who can make $3,000,000 in less than ten years out of the salary of a territorial delegate in congress is the beau ideal of regublican loyalty and statesmanship.—=St. Louis Post- Dispaich. —“To-day,” says Harper’s Weekly, “there is but one .issue, and but one, before the country,—an issue fully. rec‘ognized by every intelligent voter,— and that is whether the author of the Mulligan letters shall be elected president of the United States.” Our contemporary is rliéll}t. It will be a national disgrace if . Blaine shall receive the votes of a majority of the American people. He has endeavored to make money out of every office that he ever held. It would be dangerous to make him president and throw in his way the temptation of using that high E&sition for his E)}'ivate emolument. e could not resist it.— New York Truth (l'nd.) L —The late Hon. Timothy O. Howe, who was for twenty years Senator from Wisconsin, told the editor of this paper that James G. Blaine came to him in the Senate -chamber twice on the da3{ before the morning when the electora commission bill was passed, expressed the greatest interest in the passage of the bill, and urged him (Howe{ to argue with Senator Hamlin, who had expressed opposition to the bill, and, if gossible, get him to vote for it. Senaor Howe added that on the way down town in the horse-cars that afternoon he, Blaine, the late Senator Anthong, and others being present, Blaine said, in substance: “Someof ourfolks want the bill passed, but think they will stand better p_olitica.ll¥ if they (g)pose it.” The next morning Mr. Blaine made a short, (*uibbling slpeech against the bill, p;o;gos ng a wholly impracticable substitute, and voted against it. It was just like Blaine,—Boston Herald. |

—“Here is $5,000 which Joyce collected from the boys for yonr benefit just before I left St. Lonis.” This remark was made to General Q. E, Babcock December 7, 1864, by John McDonald, and it was accompanied with the de-~ posit of thesum named upon Babcock’s desk in the White House, the official residence of the President; of the United States, whose confidential Secretary Babcock then was. MecDonald so tells it. He was a revenue collector and so was Jogce, and “the boys” were distillers and rectifiers whom these officers were allowing to cheafthe Government. Col. John A. Joyce is an ardent stumper for Blaine, and in an - interview predicts that “Cash brains, and Blaine will be suecess_hﬂ.” Col. Joyce undoubtedly looks forward to another brilliant . :eﬁ)och in which “cash and braing” will play as prominent a part as in the glorious days of the whisky r'miof St. Louis. Col. Joyce was sent to the fpenit;ent;m.ry for three and a half gears or his share in those adyventures, ut was gart_ioned before the full expiration of his term.—Springfield Republican. e | A et ) i e < —We must make the most of Ben i, s el Sos ; \ ast, the mold spontaneoualy “Dusted. —oson Bereldy

JOY EVADED THE POINT.

MR. BEECHER REPLIES TO ALGER,

The Plymouth Pastor, in Defense of His Character, Relates What James F. . Joy Sald of Blaine's Effort to be % Bribed in One Case. -

On Sept. 27 the New York Herald, in its correspondence from Detroit, attributed to Henry Ward Beecher a_statement to the effect that James F. Joy, ‘who placed Mr. Blaine in nomination in 1880, had said to Mr. Beecher that Mr. Blaine, while speaker of the house of representatives, had offered to appoint a house railroad committee which should comprise certain members suitable to Mr. J og—such, in fact, as he should request or dictate,—providing Mr. Joy would take off Mr. Blaine’s hands $25.000 worth of Little Rock railroad bonds. The storg remained uncontradicted until Sept 30, when Mr. R. A. Alger. of Detroit, cabled to Mr. Joy, in London, the story as coming from Mr. Beecher, with a request to answer whether or not it was true. To this Mr. Joy replied on the same date as follows: “Blaine never made me any offer to appoint a committee tosuit me, in any manner or form, or for any consideration of any kind whatever.” ' The following letter from Mr. Beecher reiterates the charges: I BrookLYN, N. Y., Oct. 6, 1884, -

To Gen. R. A. Alger, Candidate for Gubernatorial Office in Michigan—DEAß Sir: The publication of your telegram to Mr. James F. Joy; of Detroit, but now in London, and his reply compels me to publish the facts of an interview with him at his house on or about Se}i)t. 29, 18717, in order to clear myself of the charge of bearing false witnessagainst him. I have steadily refused to give to the public press the story of ‘that interview at the hospitable board of a private house, but, as. the utterance of a public man about a public man, I had a right to mention it '%rivately among my intimate friends. In what way the partial and imperfect story of that interview got into the .newspapers I.do not know;—-certainlﬁnot with my knowledge or privity. Misled by these re?ort.s you telegraphed to Mr. Joy in sondon:

PEeTROIT, Sept. 89, 1884.—Joy, Care Brown, Shipley & Co., hmulon; Did Blaine offer to appoint connmittee to suit you if you took Little Rock bonds off his hands? Henry Ward Beecher says you told him Blaine did. ALGER.

- Henry Ward Beecher said nothing of the kind, as you shall soon see. It was easy for Mr. Joy to reply:

‘LONDON, s-;»l)c. 30, 1834.—R. A. Alger, Detroit, Mich: Blaine never made me any of--felgg appoint a committee to suit mein any mafner or farm, or for any consideration of any kind whatever., J. F. Jov. Please send him the following narrative and you may depend upon it Mr: Joy till not contradict its substantial accuracy. Neither will any of the several gentlemen who were at the table with me. Nor will other witnesses (not a few) deny that the same substantial statements have been made by Mr. Joy to others not infrequently. Toward the close of the dinner, Sept. 29, 1877, political matters wera: introduced, and among other things Blaine’s failure to receive the nomination that went to Hayes. Mr. Joy stoke with contemptuous severity of Mr. Blaine, and gave this statement: When a difficulty occurred in regard to certain lands in the southwest in which I wag interested, a committee wasabout to be appointed by congress to examine the matter.- Blaine being speaker of the house, throuzh a friend I asked Mr. Blaine to have one sound lawyer appointed on that committee. I did not care of which imrty.. I simply wanted a sound lawyer. » In a day or two Mr. Blaine sent me word through a friend that he had certain depreciated bonds and that if I would enable him to place them at par I could have my committee as I wanted it. il _ I cannot for%et with wbat cutting scorn Mr. Joy leaned back in his chair and said: “That is the man Blaine Is,” and he added: : : “I refused the offer, and as the courts soon settled the matter no committee was appeinted.” ‘At that time I knew nothing of the lands in question, nor the bonds alluded to, but I%ﬁd understand fully Mr. Joy’s opinion of James G. DBlaine. What cﬁanged Mr. Joy’s notion and led him to nominate Mr. Blaine at the Chlca%o convention of 1880 Ido not know. It can probably be found out by inquiring of the editors of certain great daily newspapers who hardly found language bitter enou}%h for years to invéigh against Mr. Blaine, and who now cannot find language enou%'h to pour contempt upon the men who do not approve of _}fllacing Mr. Blaine inthe presidential chair. T shall not prolong this letter by narrating Mr. Blaine’s views of the matter, in an interview with me which took place after my speech at Cooper union during the Garfield canvass, at his own request in the Fifth Avenue hotel. I can hardly believe that he has forgotten that. ' I cannot but admit the indomitable pluck with which Mr. Blaine is defending himself against such a cloud of charges as was never made against any presidential candidate since the government began, yet I cannot aliow myself to be misled by sympathy with' his undoubted kindheartedness, courage, and audacity. Unsound in statesmanlike judgment, unserupulous in political met?)ods, dim-eyed in distinetion between truth an]guntruth, absorbingly ambitious, but shortsighted as to the methods of gra{ifying his - ambition, but with a genial, social disposition, and a brilliant rhetorical capacity, Mr. Blaine makes an alluring candidate, but would make a dangerous president. I pray you to excuse my adding to the cares of; your canvass bly a consideration of these matters. It-was,how-eve?, but just to you to point out how misleading was your telegram to Mg, Joy, and how irrelevant to the subject matter was his rep% . : HENRY WARD BEECHER.

The Main Issue.

Everybody understands by this time that the real objection to Mr. Blaine is thatihelis a dishonest man. Superhuman efforts-have been made to shift the issue, but without avail. That is still the great point. Is Mr. Blaine an honest man? A large majority of flie people of this country believe he is not, The most respectable newspapers of the country, including such sterling, ‘high-toned republicin papers as the Boston Advertiser, the New York Times and Evening Post, and Harz;ler--’s Weekly, daily denounce him' as dishonest, and%rove it by his own letters. Yet Mr. laine says nothmf to defend himself from the char%?. His course was different on another matter. Mr. Blaine made haste to brin%la libel suit and to rush into print with his story of two secret marriages, for which he has no good reason tcﬁglve. c o ‘Why is not Mr. Blaine as ready with: his libel suits and his letters ‘to Fer—sonal friends—to be published on their own ‘responsihility—about his jobberies? Is it because he has no answer to make? Is it because his own letters prove all that is charged against him, as the Cincinnati Commercial said in 1876? Or is he trying, by his appeal to the “noble manhood and noble womanhood of America” in his “private” letters, to diyert attention from the main issue—the question whether he used publie Fomtmn for Fryiate gain? We candidly téll Mr, Blaine that the peos ple do not care whether he was married secretly or ogenly, once or twice, thir-tg-three or thirty-four years ago.. But if he has any explanations to offer for. the jobberies and falsehoods his own letters disclose, he had better put them out; pmﬂtly.—Boston Herald. 1

—The New York Sun did not:shine on John Kelly in 1880 as benevdle%t_ly as it does now. In the 7wvmes of November 5, 1880, appeared a dispatch from New York containing the following from the Sun of the same morning. ‘From dit¢h to diteh, deeper-and deeger into the mire, Mr. John Kelly leads the democratic party.© When he: lost us the state. defeatixfg Lucius Robinson for governor, and throwing all the (fatronage of -the state into the hands of the republicans, we were assured that whenever he chose he could readily recover th%gower he had recklessly resigned. ‘When he pushed aside our candidate for president and fave us General Hangcoek in his stead, he promised a very lm{f mag)ori%for I_it_m—cock in the state. How has-that promise been fulfilled? Then for mayor Mzr. Kelly selected a ca-rpet-ba’.ﬁ candidate who barely scraped in. he possession and retention of the office of comptroller of the cit¥ of New York by John Kelli' have cost the democracy the control of the government of the state of New York and the control of the %:)vemment of the United States for the next four years.,” ‘. : i ——'—M’W " ¢ ~~Have you heard from West Vir-

A CORRUPT SYSTEM.

/A Beathing Arraignment of the Republican Party by Thomas J. Wood Member = - : of Congress from Indiang. .

Thomas J. Wood; member ‘q‘)tv.Con'-l gress from the Tenth' Indiana ]?istuct in a recent'speech said; |=[ | i ‘ ' The Republican party has hM full | power in this Government for nearly | twenty-four years. During that time more of the people’s jm‘oneyvh%s ‘beﬁgj wasted through fraud, pecglation, and l bribery than in the whole ASe‘veﬂty-twol years of Government administration by the Democratic and S@{hig.,l%a.rties,. Go back four years and recount the de- | falcations of Republican officials, | They cover a shameful page in our his- | tory, and include Burnside, late dis-~ bursing officer of the postoftice department, $BO.OOO, and John .Hall, United States Marshal at Pittsburg, $15,000. The list is a long one. The .amount of defalcations since June 80, 1881, up- to June 20, 1883, amount to nearly $3,000,-. 000. Straw bonds were taken in hun.dreds of cases;and when the official became a defaulter the Attorney Gen- | eral ordered suit brought upon: theé ' bonds, which were found to be worthless, and this vast sum of moneﬁ was - lost to the Government, every dollar of which came from the pockets of the people. But bad as this is the worst isnot told. ‘There were defalcations of Government officials from June 30, YBBl, to June 30. 1883,‘.0f over $1,851,000, and the Attorney General, knowing the <bonds of such defaulting officers.to be worthless, did not sue them, but compromised with the defaulters for about $441,000, leaving a total loss to the Gov-. ernment of over $1.413,000.. The sum total of defalcations in the last three years reaches the enormoss sum of $3,000,000.- With this bad record before the people the Republican party asks to be again trusted with publie “affairs. . Can you trust it another four years in the face «of this. dishomest record? I expected nothing less than this when I saw the leaders of that party spending vast sums of money in | 1880 to corrupt the people and the bal< lot-box.” DAshonest money \was then sown broadcast over the country.and’ the result is a° general defalcation of public officials. ‘The same unholy-and. corrupt system is- adopted this year. - Your neighbor is to 'be corrupted, if possible, by money—money wrung from 120,600 office-holders in defiance of the civil-service Taw. - Your elections are to be corrupted.. Your ballot-box. to Be a mockery of honestfr and honest men. . [Tow: will the people enforce meform and purity in the ‘administration of this Governmient when' the ballotbox, the only peaceful result of a frée | people to remedy evils, becomes

A RECEPTACLE FOR DISHONESTY

and corruption? ~Will -the honest men of this country permit pllls,corrg}&ti System to be repeated this year? There has not been a fair and honest election for twelve years. Bribery, fraud, corruption, and - ‘general . dishonesty brought about by the force of unholy money, has carried the last three Presidental - elections. How long .is the voice of the svorkingman, the farmer, the mechanic, and:the artisan to be stifled in this way? Their 110\\'spmlaers publish anything, true.or false. ~Their workers and strikers. labor to slander, defame, and vilify.- Can.such a -.;l)grty be longer trusted? The Republican party in Congress delies every effort to reduce the Government taxes.: It is known.as the high-tax party. - The contest this fall is between high:tax and low tax. The Republican: party wants -a protective tariff, which means a high. tax on imports. - The Democratic party advocates a lower'tax, one sufficient to. raise money enough to suf)port this Government and no more. .1t -does not believe in -protection _beyond this amount. That is enough for the. consumer to pay.. &What party made high Government taxes? ~What party compels the workingman to pay $3 for $2 worth of sugar? Is 50 per cent. tax on sui,rar higfrh or not? What party compels theilaboring man' to pay $32 for a $2O suit of woolen clothes?- Is: 60 per cent. on woolens a_liigh tax or mot? and so on_througlt lhe list of 2.600 articles. - We want less lax, less defaleation, and better Governments This high tax on all the workingman: wears and on part thit’ he eits takes back a part f s v waley for the benefit of -the . v:oing it o let im count the increase of price ‘on all he buys during the year. by virtue of high taxes, and subtract the.sum from his daily wages and he will find that he is less )iwzud, at the end:of the year than the laborers of England, The laboring man does not grow rich by a high-tarift-tax.. Whodoes? “Not the farmer or mechanie. “The manopolist -is the man benefited by the -high-tariff tax. He is prosperous. from the -earnings of others that he has paid nothing for. Is this true? Go over to'the store and you will find one' price.for sugar, whether it is the imported or domestic article: <The imported ° article: has paid.so per cent. tax while the domestic article has-mot, yet they both sell. gor one price. The manufacturer thereore Mt B g R AT

GETS THE BENEFIT

of the high tax and does not (ipay one cent of it. Go to the dry goods. store and you will find the same fhing. The imported and domestic article rose in Fyxce side by side. - Oneé has paid.a ligh Government tax, the other no tax. The wealth of the countrydoes not*Fay the Government tax. It is paid when imported goods are purchased. The consumer pays it when he buys the %roods that have paid the Government ax. Now the great railroad wealth and bank wealth, and other corporate wealth, pays scareely any‘_chin%< of this Government tax, These wea phg corporations buy. none of .these taxed goods, and it therefore goes ¥ree of bearing a just proportion of.the burdens. of the Government.” The poor men ‘pay it when they purchase the goods. A poor man worth $l,OOO with an average family will purchase gbou-t the same amount of woolén goods per year as a man -worth ® $lOO,OOO with an average family. ‘Here the -poor man pays as much Government tax as the rich man. It is so on every article. Ought not this august and unequal law be reformed? The Republican -partgsays no. It workson the side of wealt all the while. What, party created the monopolies of this country? They were created by high taxeés—nothing else. The Government made taxes on- two thousand articleshigh tobuild ap home monoPolies?: ‘Do you fayor such a poli&y? 1t so, vote. the Republiean ticket. he Democratic party wants a fair and lust reduction of Government taxes. Jigh taxes are unnecessary now to bring sufficient revenue and unnecessary to protect our “infant industries.”. They will be protected enough by a revenue tariff. That will- give them over $175,000,000 lérotectxon., Is that not enougir?~ Wlhat decent Republican desires to give them more groteetion. than this? A ;gotec_tivs tari ';t)r’dt(_ac’cs' a few people who need mno protection: The protected few dre financially the ablest of our people, . A fariff tax high enough to s‘up}{om the Govern: ment gives them ample protection.

False Promises,

Four years ago the protective tariff yawpers in Ohio’ pointed to the. then prosperous conditions -of affairs and said tariff taxation did -it. ‘They alsq promised that if that: policy- was continued prosperity ~would continue. Their song is a little different: this year, but it is to the same effect. Thousands of men are out of work. Thougands are suffering for lack of suitable food and raiment. Thousands are 'a% work on half pay or half time. Ye these agents—most of them %aid agents —ef’ monopoly coolly stand” before the people, whose distress was neyer so great, and‘a%am solicit their votes ona p.rege_nse that a tariff levied solely to enrich employers’ makes the working man prosperous. - A Protection has -had- a fair trial in Ohio. If it made the workingmen there prosperous in: 1880 why does it not do so new? If by any process of legislative legerdemain ever invented a peo’rl)}e can be made happy at one time not 111%can.prevent the same results at another time. - The- fact is, the agsumption in 1880 was false and dema: gpglcal, It i 8 equally 80 now. Peotaofion ¢ gromlsed» p'rospeﬁtg,. and i h&g broug t;.four% idleness, depression and starvation. -It is only the workingmen, however, who are starving. - —lt would be a-: great gain to the count? to have Grover &av@!and An the White House during the next four -ggars. My, Blaineis not a desirable tenant.~New York Thuthy . .~ - _Get your job work done at THE 3;’% - “’srw b PR en e e iitSR G ST B

A Brace of Rascals.

“The following appeared in the Chicago Tribuneof the 24th ulf. as the true copy of a letter from Senator Edmunds to a Wisconsin official: : e

BURLINGTON; VT., Sept. 18.—Dear Sir: I have yours of the 15th. lam sure that I never wroge or said that the gentleman xou refer. to ‘‘acts as the attorney of Jay Gould,” for I 'am not conscious of having thought so. As I have Publicl stated, 1 expect to vote the republican ticiet. o % Yours truly, i / Ly . GrORGE F, EDMUNDS. The same letter has been xe})rinted with editorial comment several times since the 24th. -It was vouched for as genuine in the Zribune 'of last Friday. We are now assured by Senator Edmunds himself that the Zribune made the last publication with the full knowledge that the letter was a substantial forgex;r. A full week ago. the senator mailed a correct-copy of .the letter, with a copy of the note to which it was an answer, to the editor of the Tribune, andthatauthoritative denial was on Mr. Medill’s table when he published the falsehood. Here are the genuine letters, the portions suppressed to the Tribune being in italics: e

o [Copy:.] gl e STATE OF WISCONSIN, BUREAU: OF LABOR STATISTICS, MADISON, Sept. 15, 1834, ~—My Deay Sir: ’You have alwaysanswered promptly and fully all the questions when an opinion was wanted for one highly esteemed -throughout the nation. I/ have -asked of youupon political or other subjects. Here is a. paragraph that has/ been gublished and republished in every| bour-on-organ in the west: ‘ i

“EDMUNDS ON BLAINE.

. “Senator Edmunds, of-Vermont, in o letter, 1530: *‘lt is my deliberate opinion that Mr. ‘Blaine acts as the attorney Jay Gould. Whenever Mr. Thurman and I have settled upon legislation to bring the Pacific rnilrolxds to terms of equity with the government, up has jumped James G. JBluine, ‘musket in hand, from behind the breastworks of Gould’s lobby to fire in oux’h&acks. 3 Is this_ a true extract from any letter of yours? -If so, did Mr. Blaine, as such attorney, ever do ".ny(:hiugi)\yrong or disreputable, or contra®y to public interests?/ When, an(i for &vhat purpase, did Gould engage Blaine ag his attorney?. What salary did he receive from Gould? Has his term ofservice for Gould terminated? 1f so, when ﬁi(l it terminate? If Mr. Blaine was Gould’s -attorney. when did he “fire iuto the baclks” of ‘yourself and Mr. Thurman—g.ving dates and ‘subject matter under consideration when the firing was done? ) 5

If Mr, Blaine was ever the attorney of Gould, is that sufficient reason wiy the republican party should be defeated in the present contest? . ~Did Mr, Blaine, to your knowledge and: ‘belief, ever do anything that would render it advigable for old republicans to turn back -on their lives and their records and make Grover Cleveland, with all that implies, president of the United States?; : ! “ With the highest respeect, I @ truly your obedient servant, FrANk A, FLOWER, Hon. George I'. Edmuuc}s. - g 5 Av[Copy.l i ‘BURLINGTON, VT., Sept. 18, 1884.—Dear Sir: [Private] : I have yours ot the 15th. As I am notin the lettcr—wﬂt?zg “business, I mark this, as I have some similar ones, “private.”. lam sure that I never wrote or said that the gentleman you r?fer to ‘“‘acts as-the attorney of Jay Gould,”? for I am not conscious of ever having thou*rfht so. Ipreswme it 18 true, altho’ I can find no copy of the letter, that in 1880 I did write to some constituent adversely to the nomination of the gentleman named, and I believe it to be true that he was on the side of the railroads in the struggle of 1878, and 4t is my belief that I said so. As 'ls{mve publicly stated, I expectto vote the republican ticket. Yours, T - S Gro. F. EDMUNDS. Frank A, Flower, Madison; Wis. *ls not this a pretty piecé of business? ‘The rascal Flower takes a confidential lettex, written in responsj to hisurgent ‘request, suppresses so much of it as. to -utterly destroy its meaning; and. Fiv‘es it to the press. The rascal Medill prints the garbled letter; -a correction Is.demamded by the author; . the letter is reprinted in the garbled form and the correction is suppre sed.—Cluc\ago News.. : e

-~ —Pat’s retort to his republican employer who'told him if (})leveland was elected his wages would| be cut down to 50 cents a day, was a pretty shrewd answer to the republican sophistries of this campaign. - Patreplied: “Be gorra, an’ if you belaved that, you’d be for Cleveland yourself ivery time,”

“Indiana Will Be Attended To.”

- Mr. John L. New is sly—a very Joey Bagstock in politics—but he must not plume himself with the notion that people have no information about his tactics: We are informed that prominent Repubticans in various sections of Indiana have importuned for a portion of the campaign |fund on the ground that there was «Ir\lressing legitinmate use for it. Mr. New’s response lras been, in substance, s*Wait. ‘l%yery ‘dollar we can now raise {_i‘n Indiana we are. now pouring into | Ohio. Every State is sending all funds to Ohio Republicans. Indiana will be *attended to after Ohio is carried.”—Cincinnati FHhnouirer, Tl |

Hail, Democrats!

- The Demoerats of Noble apd town-— ship and surrounding cfyuntry are requested to meet at | sl

WOLF LAKE, SATURDAY, OCT. 18, at 1 P. M.

A fice hickory pole will be raised. and the: political issues discussed by

-~ - GOOD SPEAKERS. 5 . Do not fail to come out. . - ; el & e : I\IENTogE‘. . i S - BY ]'-lORA-'i G 5 i *Some searlet fever, ' | e Mentone against the world for busi‘ness. ; e 12 i Politics still all the topic here. { Corn crop is much better than expected. ik o Democrats are still in the lead here. In our town we hava three staunch republicans who have joined us. Next. Our uniformed club céntains 75 boys and 55 ladies. - | o ~Our mother and cousin of Washington twp. were with us over Sucday.’

. The foundation for |the new shops | are laid and things will be pushed. - Our C. and H. club mada its first tour to Bloomingburg last Monday night. Tweuty-five teams formed the procession. i : .The speakers s.nt out to address the | people are doing more to convert Re—publicans to Democracy than we are doing ourselves. KEvery speech tallies about two: for us. Good, send them along. : il s Sume twe weeks ago B. F. Swith, livicg just north of town, whose m@nd has been affected for some time past at intervals, attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a case knife, from - ‘the effects of which he died Saturday night after terriblesuﬁtriug. His remains were interréd in the cemetry at this place on last Sunday. The family have the sympathy of the entire. community, ; i ! es e SNt : ; : Thousands Say So. i . Mr. T. W. Atking, Girard, Kansas writes: “I fiever hesitate to recom - mend your Electric Bitters to my cus- { tomers; thqy give entire satisfaction| and are rapid sellers.” | Electric Bit-| ters are the purest and best medicine known and will positively cure Liver: and Kidney complaints. = Purify the ‘blood and reguléts the bowels. No| family can afford to be without them. They will save hundreds of dollars in| doctor's bills every year. Sold at fifty cents a bottle by D. 8. Scott & Son. | S e vl The regular meeting of the Boys’ Look-Up Legion will be held every Thursday, ut 4P. M., at the. residence| of their superluten_derét, Mrs, Z. A, Bothwell. The boys are all lpeciallyi requested toattend. 1 o ooy foi 5 HEHRY}R%&KYE. Sec'y, ; . The regular meetings of the W. C.| T. U. will be held each Friday af:er- | | noon at 814 o’clock in th ‘rsam'»or:m,Y. M.C. A. Everybody cordially in-| vitedtoattend, .~ o L { .- "Mis. M, Valentine, Sec’y, . | - When you haye a cough and want ‘“"‘*M Elepe eol T T i g