Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 23, Number 20, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 November 1892 — Page 1

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TOWN TALK.'

THE POLITICAL SITUATION IS ONE OF WAVERING UNCERTAINTY.

No Cue Seems Willing to Venture an Opinion on the Be»ult—Both Parties Claiming the Earth and the Fnllnen# Thereof-

Concerning Illegal Voting.

Tbe quietest campaign which this country baa ever knowii is now over, and both parties will takea abort breathing spell 'previous to the mighty battle pi ballots on Tuesday next to decide tbe contest. O.u that day moro than tWelve millions of votes will be cast, and from the time the polls close until the result is known

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decreased because of apathy among tho Democratic voters who are unwilling to support Cleveland, which will reduce their majority below the winning limit. Apparently both parties possess the utmost confidence in their success, and it may be that they are honest in their belief, but at the same time it is evident that one party must be mistaken, and next Tuesday will tell the tale.

Horo in Indiana there is almost as much uncertainty as thei'e is in the Empire state. Both parties have completed tbe final poll of tbe state, and each claims to be satisfied with the result. From Democratic and Republican headquarters come the same report-each is sure of carrying tho state by a handsome plurality. No figures are glyen out officially, but it is said there is very little difference in the polls taken. The chairmen of the state committees refuse to verify estimates, though each claims tbe state for his party by a safe plurality. In 1888 Harrison's plurality was 2,848, with a scattering vote of 12,575, of which nearly 10,000 were cast for the Prohibition candidate, the balance going to the Union Labor party. That year Harrison received 49.H per cent, of tho entire vote, or 5,114 short of a majority. Iu 1890 the vote was 477,(543, a falling ofi of 69.806, and Claude Matthews had a plurality of 19,579, with 29,460 scattering. This shows that with a decreased vote in 1890 reaohlng 60,000 the third party gained nearly 30,000 votes, and that is where the danger to the other parties lies in this campaign. If tho People's party holds together until next Tuesday night tho Democrats claim great things, while if it goes to pieces in the contest they admit that the Republicans will be benefitted by the dissolution. Harrison will not lose

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Republican votes In the straight contest between tbe old parties though the third party may decrease his vote. In the rural districts the farmer is not so much interested in the tariff, finance or force bill as be is in the price of his crops, and the argument of the wheat market at this time Is being used by the Democrats for all it is worth. True the market value of any article is always regulated by the supply and demand, but men wont always look at it that way, and the failure to take a sensible view of the situation at this time may prove disastrous to the political hope* of many.

In this county both parties are nearly as much at tea in regard to the outcome as they are In national and state politics. Here there are four tickets In the field, Republican, Democratic, Populist and Prohibition, Naturally the county is Republican. In 1880 It gave Garfield a majority of about 200. In 1884 Blaine carried it by about 150, and at the last presidential election Harrison bad a plurality of 161, out of a total vote of 12,500. But two years ago Claude Matthews, then candidate for secretary or state, carried it by a plurality of 592 on the Democratic ticket. At the election of 1890 the vote decreased to 10.S9& of which the Populist® had 271, and the Prohibitionists 9®. In Vigo county, however, the presidential vote isn't always criterion of the reeult on the county ticket. In 1890 the Republicans carried their county candidates through with the head of the ticket, but| In 1884

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excitement will bo intense.

Inhere has probably never been a time In the history of political parties when thinking men were so unwilling to express an opinion as to the result as they are at this time. All parlies seem to be at sea. Of course those who are directly Interested in running the machine are voluble in their claims and more than loud in their utterances, but none of them can back their assertions with fact or figures. As usual New York has been the bone of contention, and as is also usual both parties claim it with brassy confidence by pluralities ranging from 5,000 to 00,000, according to the enthusiasm possessed by thoclaimant, but facts or figures are religiously avoided. ExSberiff Daggett, of Brooklyn, one of the late President Arthur's ablest lieutenants, figures that the Democrats will reach Harlem with from 85,000 to 80,000 votes to spare. Thomas F. Gilroy, the Democratic caudldate for mayor of New York, says his party will leave the lower counties with a,plurality of 100,000, and that as the Republicans never came dowu to New York City with more than 86,000 majority they cannot win. On the other hand tbe Republicans claim that in the Democratic strongholds in the city the number of registered voters

they lost by majorities which ranged to 500 aud and over, and in 1888-the contest ended in a similar manner. This year the new system of voting may change matters. A verv small informality causes the loss of a vote, and unfamiliarity with the art of stamping the tickets will cause many to avoid the risk incurred in scratching by putting it in straight. Tbe uncertainty in regard to the county ticket lies in the unknown strength of the third party. It started out with ti loud hurrah and promise of a vigorous campaign, but as the battle progressed its waning strength become evident, and the indications are most of its followers'will go back to the old parties. It may be that it will slump to to one'dr the other, and if it does that party whicb secures the vote will win. The Prohibition vote isn't making any more noise than usual its followers are taking a philosophical view of tbe situation, and at present the indications are that most of them will vote the Republican ticket.

In the wild hurrah of the last days of the campaign not much, if any, attention has been paid to the tickets whibh must be voted, and it is feared there will be much confusion. There are two of them which must be used by each voter, and taken singly or in a pair they are a formidable looking blanket. 11, is safe to say that not one oitizen. in a hundred is familiar with the names of the cdunty candidates, to say nothing of those running for state offices and preslr dential electors. And the number who knows the names on the tioket is even larger than the roll of those who want to vote a mixed ticket aud know how to stamp it. It would be a good plan for all voters, no matter how firmly they have fixed their uainds about the ticket to be voted, to familiarize themselves with the nftmes of their candidates. It Is easy to theorize about the stamping and the folding of tbe ballots, but to dc the business properly is a more difficult problem. Under tho law a very slight Informality will enable the election board to throw out a vote and where any political advantage is to be gained the temptation to take advantage of technicalities will be great. The candidates on both sides have been soliciting votes In the enemy's camp and many promises of complimentary votes have been made, while many others who have made no suoh promises will not be able to desist from the great Amerioan privilege of la safe to assert that not near half the voters know how to stamp a mixed tioket, and very

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inform them. It may seem very simple but it isn't. Just try it and see for yourself. Then get a copy of tbe law, study the matter thoroughly and discover just how little you really do know. Those who are interested in this should give it their attention before it is everlastingly too late. «.»

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Under the Australian syrtom the purchase of votes is almost impossible and the boodle politician would give a small fortune for aont»» scheme which would enable him to beat the new law. The latest comes from Cincinnati, where it is said imitation state ballots have been prepared, which will be sent to precincts whero they can be used to advantage. One of these at each voting place will be sufficient for the work. From genuine signatures of the clerks received beforehand the initials will be inscribed on the back of the spurious ticket and then It is ready for aotion. In the proclnot in which it is to t?© used this ballot is intrusted to some man whose fealty is certain. Ho will take it to the booth, vote it and carry away the genuine ballot, which will be stamped and given to the next purchasable voter,who will be paid his price upon his return with a genuine tioket unstamped. After the first ticket ha% been successfully voted it is alleged that this scheme can be carried out abso lutely without detection. With one exception the ballots voted in each precinct would be genuine, and the returning of the genuine ballot unstamped by the floater whose vote has been purchased would be positive proof that the contract had been carried out. It has been charged that this scheme will be worked In various portions of the state, and if it Is tried it will be found to be dangerous work. The law makes such an offense a felony, and as the person committing it has the evidence of his guilt on his person It is hardly possible that any person will be found with nerve strong enough to incur the risk.

The last will and testament of the late Dr. Robert Van Valrah wiis admitted to probate this week. It Is dated October 10, 1892, was witnessed by Wright L. Kidder and Thomas B. Long and revokes a will made by him on September 1,1882. After directing the payment of all his just debts he divides his property equally between his daughter Katharine and his son Robert, after the latter shall have reached his majority, but stipulates that his brother, Johnson W. Van Valtab, shall hold Robert's portion in trust until the latter reaches tbe age of SO years. rider the provisions of the will Johnson W. Tan Vals&h is made executor without the requirement of any bond or security whatever. Hie estate is worth in the neighborhood of $&!M>00.

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WOMAN'S WAYS.

HOW MANY MEN COOL OFF AFTER "TS DISPLAY OF TEMPER?

The B4re Fnnd of Enjoyment in Simple Home Pleasure—The'Disagreeable Fool Who Says "I Told You So"—A Comparison of Proper and False Pride.

The lines, "Men must work and worn* en must weep," ought to be changed to "Men may go out while women can stay at home and wait for them to return.'! This is no woman's rights sermon, on a little talk on men's privileges—the' actualities of

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you and Jack—whether you are married, engaged or willing to be—have a little tiff, what is the result? Jack puts on hia hat, slams the door'and goes off to, some hotel or club where it is bright and pleasant, while you, poor thing, will iU: All probability byry your head in the sofa cushions and cry until your ey68 look like two burnt holes in .a blanket. When he has quite gotten over bis fit of temper or there is nowhere else for hiast to go the lord of creation walks into your presence and awaits graciously your apology. No'v if you could rush Out somewhere, to some place where your mind could be distracted, where there were lights, congenial companions and kindly appreciation, don't ybu suppose that tiffs would be less frequent? You see, Jack and the restof mankind would not feel so certain that you wero moping in tbe privacy of your own home and they might not be so apt to leave you to seek other and more congenial companions. This is, ho^eyer no plea for a woman's olub but just, a statement o* facts that every woman has proven for herself and has in her heart longed to fling herself out of tbe house and into tbe streets with tbe grand air that men assume ou such occasions, but propriety has forbidden, and perhaps it is just as well

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that are horrid enough in a man, but would be ten times more so in a woman.

What a rare fund of enjoyment may be found in simple home pleasures if parents and children working on the cooperative plan of furnishing happiness one for the other enter with genuine heartiness into the arrangement and make their household a genuinely deft

lightful one. It does not need great wealth to fwjcojygrplisb tblsji^e of affWrgj. ^niiitoe*i«due8a, true kft«otkn~sind raat It is nof the bionfed value of-the entertainment, but the love and affection that euter into its arrangement and da tail that make it brighter, sweeter and more complete than any other affair of its' kind ever can be. Let the birthdays as they come around be occasions for rejoicing, in which each and every mexqber of the family takes part, while the qne to whom the homage is due will have cause to remember in later years simple gifts and innocent pleasures that marked the event with a subtler and keener en joy*ment because of the evidences of genuine love in the little offerings, than will ever be fell over gorgeous banquets that haye perhaps been prepared as tokens of honor and respect to the successful man or woman. It is keeping up all the little family festivities that crown the home life with a union of sweet' interests that bind hearts closer and closer through the exhibition of simple faith and pride in eaoh other, instead of letting birthdays and Christmas pass by uhnotlced, these days being of no greater import than any others, until the young hearts that must have pleasure will seek outside diversions that are not so harmless and which will not linger in the memory in later years with the tender reminiscent grace that surrounds the thoughtof the simple festivals whose celebration were features of bygone home pleasures. ,ijV

There are some very disagreeable peo pie who delight in crying told you so" directly any misfortune, no matter of what nature, befalls any of their friends or acquaintances. They are human croakers who simply revel In others' misery. They get more solid enjoyment out of fiendish "I told you so" than in years of uninterrupted prosperity, snd the galling reiteration of that sentence is to them a sop to their belief in their own omniscience. Now, no matter if we did foresee that an enterprise would be a failure, that we did predict disaster, don't let us, like vultures, fly at oace to the grave of buried hopes, the corpse of a bright ambition, and flap our kings and cry: "We knew It all along we told you so if you had taken our fcdvice such a calamity never would have happened." Can't we pocket whatever of satisfaction there is in thus gloating over another's misery, and Instead of iepressing, buoy the despondent witk other plans and ambitions, point out tb them that their failure Is not the ofly one ever made, that life holds much yet that Is worth striving for, though me goal has not been reached, on* prise 4ot been won. Be one of the cheerful| sunny creatures who make themselves loved through fehe very Inspiriting Influence of their presence. Don't hunt In all sorts of oui-of-tbe-way fields tar a mission, but just make one for I yourself right at home among your ovp family and acquaintances. The mission of cheerfulness is the sweetest find best

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that you can follow. Pleasant words, bright smiles and helpful words will bring an easier conscience to yourself, a greater affection from your friends and, as ~a last great and womanly reason, it will keep you younger much longer than if you make it your business to revel in the downfall of your companions, getting your satisfaction from the self-con-ceited utterance: "I told you so."

Proper pride is one thing, false pride an entirely different factor, and one that is much better not to encourage. False pride is the sentiment that urges us to feel ashamed of country people whose manners and clothes are not quite up to the standard set by the city's code, yet who* possess hearts trusty and honest, feelings that are easily wounded by the slights we in our newly acquired knowledge of society ways are prone to put upon them. ^False pride makes ua pass by with no nod or smile of recognition, the friend of other days who was kindness itself in dealing with us when others turned away, yet wheu prosperity once more permits us to bask in its effulgence we forget tbe illiterate but well meaning man or woman who looked'not to our clothes or our finances, but just opened wide their arms and did all in their power for us and ours, and we hurry past consumed with fear lest the Honorable So-and-So or Mrs. Upper Ten should heat' that wa ever had been on speaking terms with such a shabby, oldfashloned person. False pride likewise prompts the daughter who lias been sent jaray to boarding school, to return imJbued with notions far above the bumble /surroundings which are, perhaps, not as -stylish as some she may have seen during her absence, but whioh are presided ovei* by the loving aud tender parents who oould have bought fine furniture and many bits of household decoration, with the money they saved andsetaside for their little girl's "schooling." They isajfeso fond and proud of her, yet with her false ideas of life, gleaned from surface rather than heart observation, she wounds daily the loving old folks by her evident dissatisfaction with her plain home, the .substantial, but to her way of thinking, coarse food, and worse than all, by her evident feeling of su perlority to them, her parents, who have done every thing in their power to give her evory advantage only to be rewarded thus|| Young and old, rich and poor, if you oould but read life as it is and value

friends rather than show and pomp. Styles will change and the day .may come when even yOu in your boasted knowledge are not quite up to date. The rich to-day may be poor to-morrow and then ih the changing vicissitudes of this topsy-turvy world you will regret the false pride that made you pass by in the flush of prosperity tbe rough diamonds whose value was none the less for their lack of polish.

AMUSEMENTS.

OORMANS' MINSTRKM.

It is a well known faot to theatre goers that the minstrel show is rapidly undergoing changes more marked than are tbe improvements in any other branch of the theatrical profession. Especially is this fact evidenced by the work of those prime favorites the Gormans Bros, and their famous company known as Gormans High Class Minstrels who are billed to appear at Naylor's Tuesday night. Every year they present an entire new. performance and this year the general plan of the programme they have arranged is entirely different to anything heretofore offered by them. In addition to tbe large number of specialists, Vocalists, comedians and dancers, they produce a scenic First Part with elaborate costuming and absolute originality throughout. George Gorman will be seen to deoided advantage in new character songs, etc. John Gorman will be on deck with many new things while Eddie Garvie, Billy Lyons, Eyans, Estus,- Sam Connors, Frank Farrel, Carey, and Wbalen, Chas. G. Taylor, George Brunton, George McCloud, Eaton. Walsh, Johnson, and others will appear in new specialties, songs and dances. "The Golden Ball" isa charming operetta it is based on a Siamese legend and is the composition of James Gorman. Election returns will be received and read from the stage. The Gormans' are great favorites hero and will no doubt play to a packed house.

CHAS. A. GAKDKKB "FATHJHOAHD."

Chas. A. Gardner the sweet singer, will appear here at Naylor's on Thursday evening Nov. 10th. Sidney R. Sills, with Mr. Gardner, has written the play called "Fatherland" which it is intended to produce. The action is laid In the heart of the romantic Austrian Tyrol, and the scenes and business represent the life and local manners of the Tyrolese, who area sprightly people, fond of music and dancing, and excel In rifle shooting and athletic amusements. Gardner Is a picturesque actor according to all accounts, and sings a good song, one of which, a love-lyric, called "The Ulac,",praisefal mention is made. Consistency, originality and wit are claimed for "Fatherland," and the special features, such as tbe "Ffcstsg," "Spinstube" and Ssengerfest scenes, are cited as quite

absorbing.. JTbe seat sale. ^ill open on Tuesday. 'thb i/st pakadise."

A strong play, with a bold purpose admirably worked out, that is Henry De Mille's "Lost Paradise," which will be presented here on next Friday evening, November 11th, by Charles Frohman's company. Whenever one of Frohman's companies is announced to appear our theater goers look forward to the engagement with a great deal of anticipated pleasure, and it is safe to say the theater will be orowded on next Friday evening. Theoompany whioh does not fall one whit below the requirements of the play or the standard whioh Charles Frohman has sot for-himself includes j«w»i weilknown artists as Miss Esther L« ii, Mi-»s Virginia Marlowe, Miss JLdur* Lmdeuj Miss Frances Lander, Miss Fnnuy Cohen. Miss Arlin» Athens, Mr. Charles Stokes, Forrest Robinsou, Merriam Bruce, Louis Hendricks, Lawrence Eddinger, Frank Dayton, James F. Rickard, George W. Neville, J. F. Marsh, Henry Sohatfer and others. The seat sale for this engagement will take place on Wednesday morning, November 9th. "THE ISLE OF CHAMPAGNR."

Perhaps the most important of this season's novelties is the brilliant attraction which is to appear at Naylor's opera house'on Saturday night, November 12, namely, Mr. Thomas Q. Seabrooke and his splendid comio opera company of nearly eighty people, in his new operatic spectacle entitled, "The Isle of Champagne." The star, Mr. Thomas Q. Seabrooke, has always shown an aptitude for legitimate comedy effects while bis impersonations are quaint, original and highly grotesque, they ate nevertheless as delightfully natural a« they are irresistibly amusing. His innate sense of fun is always bound by discretion and goyerned by intelligence. This organization is one of the most extensive that has yet-been introduced on the American stage. It is an imposing combination of leading lyrio lights and light comedians supplemented by an augmented chorus and orchestra, together with a grand ballet. The elaborate sceo ic effects are from the brush of Mr. Henry E. Hoy of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, while the costumes are the design of Captain Alfred Thompson, who is without a peer in that line of,stage art. The libretto is by Messrs, Charles Alfred Byrnes, the New Yerk crlt}b7arid Ebtfls mrri«a^tbe^eft91o« comedian of the ''LtUiarSupP^Opera Company. Tbe musio was composed by Mr, W. W. Furst, whose weird and curious composition in the spectacular production of "She" will be readily recalled, likewise his share of the work as "Miss Helyett." Todisoard simile and speak of things as they are, it may be justly said that the new opera, "The Isle of Champagne," occupies a higher artistic plane than many lyrio successes. While humorous to a degree, almost extravagant, there is nothing coarse or common in the text or action. This will undoubtedly be one of the greatest events of the season. The management have gone to consideiable financial risk in bringing this attraction to Terre Haute, and their efforts should be crowned with success. Let everybody that can possibly do so be on hand next Saturday night in fact we might add if you haven't the price, borrow it. The seat sale will take place on next Wednesday, Nov. 9th, at 9 a. m. Seats secured by mail or telegraph.'

The report of the superintendent of police for October shows 247 arrests, as follows: accessory to rape, 1 associating, 4 assault and battery, 17 begging, 1 carrying concealed weapons, 2 drunk, 70 disorderly conduct, 3 fugitives, 3 gambling, 24 interfering, 1 inmate house ill fame, 3 insane, 2 incorrigibility, 2 keeper bouse ill fame, 1 petit larcency, 9 grand larcency, 2 malicious trespass, 6 mandate, 2 murder, 2 provoke, 1: prostitute, 4 rape, 2 runaway, boys, 1 shooting with intent to kill, 1 suspicion, 47 **fe keeping, 21 transients, 16. During the month the patrol wagon made 204 runs, 9 of which were to remove sick persons, 4 to remove injured persons, 1 to remove a dead body, 4 In response to fire alarms, and 186 on regular patrol service. During the month 17 complaints were received at headquarters, 87 cases of contagious disease were reported, 3 cases of destitution, 3 children lost, 1 death by accident, 1 death by suicide, 2 persons injured by accident, 3 persons sent to the Friendly Inn, 5 persons sent to the penitentiary and 7 persons sent to the hospital. There were 406 electric lights out. The value of property reported stolen was 906, and the value of property recovered $30. The pay roll for the month, Including commissioners' salaries, was $2^65.33, and the other expenses $26J3.

The many friends of J. £. Button and wife deeply sympathize with them in the death of their son Homer, which occurred last Tuesday afternoon. He bad oeen suffering from an attack of malignant diphtheria, but there were hopes of bis recovery almost iill the last. He was a bright boy, 9 yeara old, and his

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CURRENT COMMENT.

Ex-Senator In gal Is says he has noth ing to take baok. He has taken a back seat, just the same.

The sage turkey is contemplating a perch on the upper limb of the moon for occupancy next month.

Insanity is said to be decreasing. You wouldn't think it to cast your eye arouud over your acquaintances, would you?

Labor Commissioner Peck evinces a decided disposition to postpone his judicial vindication until after the election.

If the time spent in looking for trouble oould be turned to sawiug wood mighty few people would suffer from cold.

A tariff can be high and be a tariff for reveuue only. We refer to the bills sent out every quarter by the telephone company.

Man is born to error as the sparks fly upward, and accuracy may only be found upon the books of the recording angel.

A light pocket, a light heart and laughing, life-lit eyes are rather to be chosen than a sack of gold and a bad liver.

There is a suspicion that the death of Amerioan poetry is due to the fuct that most of the poets have become campaign orators. i.

The uninitiated will never fully understand why it is that the worst band in the procession always has the most vigorous drum major.

Herr Pollak, a Hungarian, now living in New York, can talk at the rate of 500 words a minute. When he starts in the reporters go out to see & man.

The announcement that $10,000 have been offered for the first coin of the World's Fair Heries sounds very much like the work of a wily Chicago advance agent.

The chipmunk is said to be storing a large quantity of nuts, whioh is regarded as a sign of a bard winter. The politician seems also to be humping himself.

It took just six minutes to grant a divorce in a Rhode Island court the other day.. The judge was to umpire a base ball match that afternoon and ke was la a hurry. ', -1 tx

Hazing at Yale College seems to have -fall0jx.4ato innouuou# desuetude,, The worst thing' that sopbdutores do th* ... freshmen nowadays is to make therii play conductors on horso cars.

A Kansas girl Is said to have had emembroidered on her suspenders the inspiring legend, "Stand up for Kansas." Begging pardon for luterferlng, we suggest that "Brace up for Kansas" would be in better form.

Long before tbe war a wicked Democrat asked a runaway slave why he left his master who was so kindly as the exslave admitted. "I should have stayed there," said the Democrat. "Well," replied the darkey, "de situation am still open."

The man who once had the honor of lending Edgar Allen Poe tho sum of fifty cents is now basking in the sunshine of tbe fame of such a financial transaction. He is a Kansas statesman and in ordinary life is known as Colonel Jacob Child.

Now that the campaign is warming up tbe announcement of political scandals and the contradictions of the same are getting as plentiful as usual, and they always will oe while America permits politicians for revenue only to exercise a disproportionate influence in its government.

At tbe Eepublican State Convention at Fort Worth, Texas, an invocation was pronounced by a colored revivalist, who in the'course of sprayer requested the Lord to bless George Clark, who was a candidate for Goyernor. Thereupon Delegate Knox, of Navarro, rose and proposed to amend the prayer by including the name of Judge Nugent, another candidate.

Kansas and Missouri farmers are in a "state of mind" over the grasshopper plague. This never bothered the Indian Inhabitants of former times. They used to drive the grasshoppers into pits, where they were roasted and dried, and afterward they were pounded into meal and made into bread. Bread is "tbe staff of life," but some people are more particular than others as to what it is made

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When Mr. Powdorly expressed the desire to hang every workingman who would vote the Weaver ticket, he probably meant that he was willing to give the Weaver partisans all the rope they wanted.

We note with gratification that the good old custom of campaign speakers in bringing tbeir perorating periods to a close with an intoned recitative and a slide down the chromatio scale is still in vogue.

Unless most of tbe doubtful States can go both Democratic and Republican at the same time we fear some of the partisan orators and writers are going to have a tough time with their conscience after November 8.

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