People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — One on Dan. [ARTICLE]

One on Dan.

The rule of three—trying to crowd three bushels of wheat into a dollar. If you think Wall Street is exerting itself in your behalf, then tie yourself to it The protracted meeting at the court, of commissioners' court, is still in progress. “Give us this day our daily bread,” cry thousands of American wealth producers. Absolute, free and unlimited coinage of both metals is the only pivot upon which parity will poise. A bill has been introduced in Congress to admit the territory of New Mexico as a state into the union. The man who would pick up a gun and defend his country in time of war is worthy of protection in time of peace, for he may be wanted again.

We still hear much said about cheap silver dollars, 65 cent silver dollars; but the fool who will take 65 cents for one or 95 cents, or even 99 cents has not yet come to town. ' At the suggestion of rone of our exchanges, wouldn’t it be a good idea for Grover to return to his piscatorial enjoyments. He can handle fish better than he can his congressmen. Every Republican in Jasper county wanting constant em : ployment at good wages and light work will be a candidate for commissioner before the next Republican county convention. No good, sensible Democrat is asking for the unconditional repeal of the McKinley bill, neither is any good, honest sensible Democrat calling for the unconditional repeal of the Sherman silver law. Now 7 don’t blame it on to the tariff if you should compelled to go into the banks to borrow 7 money to pay your taxes. Don't do that, but just stop and think for one moment the real cause, then vote accordingly. The Nonconformist truthfully remarks that “the Cherokee Strip opening was a drama of barbarism far surpassing anything done by the Sioux Indians in their palmiest days, and would put to blush a cannibalistic feast of South Sea Islanders.” I iwimwii I—| Our commissioners say they are making no big money out of these protracted meetings, for they are }Mid in county orders which they have to discount at 18 per cent. Can not this discount be made up to them in some way? A county has no right to treat its faithful servants in this manner. Benedict Arnold Judas Iscariot Voorhees is complaining of the treatment the bankers are giving him. Dan, they are just the same mean, heartless wretches you used to so eloquently and plainly tell us they were. You should not whine now, Daniel, when they kick you, for you are their dog. flrover bought you for them.

In their awful struggle to steal “more rope” the New York banks should be careful lest they hang themselves. The gubernatorial- campaign has opened in Ohio. To judge from the opening of Governor McKinley and Lawrence T. Neal it will be fought out on the tariff issue, for the Major has already taken the stand that protection is in the interest of the laborer and other producers, while Mr. Neal takes the opposite view. The campaign will be a hot one. The Indianapolis Journal in announcing that Senator Irby, of South Carolina, had been arrested for drunkenness at Charlestown, states that he was elected by the Populists. That is not true. He is not now and never has been a Populist-. He supported Cleveland last year, attends Democratic caucuses and otherwise demeans himself as a “good Democrat,” not the least of his qualifications in that line being his ability to get drunk on small provocation. Cleveland is like the traditional bad boy—continually getting himself into trouble. His atest break of any consequence was the appointment of that Anglicised swell. Van Alen, to the Italian mission. We suppose the appointment for the reason that the latter contiibuted the nice little wad of $50,000 to Cleveland’s campaign fund. Van Allen is the man who said in public that “this country is not fit for ladies and gentlemen to live in.” This must account for so many of his stripe now inhabiting this great country of ours. Boodle and illiteracy seeqi to control things in general.

Washington Correspondence. The biggest laugh of the whole session occurred the other in the senate near the close of the big row occasioned by Dan Voorhees’ call for a vote on an important amendment without any previous notice, a thing, by the way, that was never attempted before. The fracas had been going on for half an hour. Motions flew thicker than snow flakes in mid winter, and then by common consent, or because they were all out of breath, there was a sort of a halt. Several senators had spoken without any regular order, or rather talked back and forth at one another. . Finally Teller took the floor and was skinning Dan alive, for attempting to do a thing never before attempted in the senate. At last Dan arose and said that he had only made the motion to lay on the table because no senator would take the floor to speak. “But even now,” said he, “if any senator will go on with this discussion I will withdraw my motion to lay on the table.” Senator Stewart was sitting in a seat next the middle aisle, he sprang to his feet with the suppleness of a fourteen-year-old boy and said: “I’ll—l’ll talk a while.” The quickness of his movements, the swiftness and alacrity with which he stepped behind his desk threw the vicepresident, the senators and the galleries into a roar of laughter, for Senator Steward is an old, white haired man with a long, flowing white beard. As he drew forth from his desk a pile of’ manuscript about a foot thick and laid alongside of it two or three volumes of political economy, the laugh was renewed. “Mr. President,” said Mr. Stewart. “The gentleman from Nevada,” said the vice-president. But Mr. Stewart’s speech did not go any further, for Mr. Teller asked him to yield a moment, and after a few "words Dan showed the white flag, surrendered unconditionally and, after eight hours of continuous session, the senate adjourned.