3*SIM0N NTOFFRI (SUCCESSORS TO PEBRY & OVEN.) We have never gathered wanted " • ' : w. WEDNESDAY* OCT. 14, 1896. •VATS 8LYKE, Editor. --FOR PRESIDENT,-- HON. WILLIAM McKlNLEY, OF OHIO/ --FOR VICE PRESIDENT,- GARRET A. HOBART, OF NEW JERSEY. REPUBLICAN TICKET^ Vox Govern >r, JOttN|!\ TANNER. For 1 leut-Governor, W. A. NORTHCOTT. For Secretary^of State, JOHN A. R03E. For Auditor, JAMES R. McCULLOUGH. For Treasurer, • .. v .? "" • • HENRY L. HERTZ. • M For Attorney General, EDWARD O. AKIN. For University Trustees, MRS. MARY T, OARRILL, :' F M. McKAY, , * T.J. SMITH. For Olerk of Supreme COnTt, North Division OHRIS MAMER. For Clerk'of Appellate Court, . . ' . • C.C.DUFFY. For Member ff Congress. ALBERT J. HOPKINS. For Member fltatefBoarii of Equalization, T.S.ROGERS, For Sthte Senator, FLAVEL K. GRANGER. For Representatives, (IX votes each), GEO. R. I.YON, • D. A. FULLER, HARVEY'S VENOM. W. H. Harvey, author of "Coin's Fi nancial School," aroused the ire of vet erans oi the late war, and all patriotic citizens, at Clinton, Iowa, when during his free silver speech he injected into it a scurrilous attack upon the Union Gener als Sickles, Alger, Howard and others who are touring the western states in the interest of good government and sound money. His vituperative language should go on record in every newspaper in the country that places patriotism high above partisanship, and the veter ans of the civil war whose comrades were subjected to such a gratuitous insult, should paste the sentence in their hats for future reference, narvey referred to the generals as "old wrecks of the re bellion, who have lost all their honor and patriotism, and are tools of political shy locks." The speaker narrowly es caped being mobbed at the hands of the old soldiers who heard the remark, and the larger part; of his audience.is report ed to have left the opera hou&e in ill-con cealed disgust of the man who conid so wantonly attack" the defenders of the Nation. - The war generals arrived in Clinton Tuesday night and spoks to tremendous gatherings, and in the course of his re marks Gen. Sickles referred to "Coin" Harvey's insult in the following lan guage;:. ; We are wrecks of the war, but"no man who knows us can truthfully say or dares to say in the reach of my arms that we are agents of Mammon. We do not often take notice of what is said by every cur. Our march is onward and we do not stop to take heed of bark ing curs. Mr. Harvey is a car. Let him go back to his kennell. If he is prudent let him keep out of my way or he might run against a wreck . that would Bink him. THE SILVER CONSPIRACY. « Somebody blundered. T. S. Merrill, •secretary of; the bimetallic league recent ly sent one hundred circulars to silver mine owners asking for campaign funds. One of these circulars got astray and in to a newspaper, and now Mr. Merrill is out of a job and the mine owners arei boiling mad. Mr. Merrill said that if Bryan is defeated, silver will not sell for more than 40 cents an ounce. And he closes his letter by a direct appeal to the owners, calling them by name, and asks them to send him the profits of one month for campaign uses, assuring suc cess if this is done. The letter is candid, fearfully candid. The silver men are backing - Bryan, ^hy? For the "horny handed sons of toil?" or for themselves? Have the mine owners ever shown particular solic itude for the workman? They have steadily cut down their men's wages. With Bryan elected their increased profits would aggregate §400,000,000 Who would pay it? Not the rich, but the working men of the country, for nothing is surer than that prices would rise with no proportionate increase of wages. ' How ludicrous is Bryan's harangue against trusts when his own, the silver trust, is the greatest on earth. WEST McHENRY, I» 1-.. O W :V By buying yonr needed tall an 1 winter merchandise of 'SIMON SI OFF EL .; Who is now receiving a very large and carefully selected stock o! Dress Goods, Suitings, Flaanels, Domestics, Shawls, Underwear, Gloves, Hosiery, Yarns, Blankets. Gaps, Mittens, , Our entire stock of men's, youths' #nd children's Clothing and Overcoats, at a For Circuit'iClerk, GEORGE'.B. RICHARDS. For S'.ate'a Attorney, VINCENT S.1LUMLEY." For Coroner," SPENCER O.LWEKNHAM. For Surveyor, CHARLES H. TRYON. Our Next Governor CAPT. JOHN R. TANNER. teaT Bryan's speeches increase in bitter ness as the campaign progresses, because the fact becomes plainer to him that he is destined to be the worst defeated man who ever ran for president on the ticket of either of the two great parties. V&F Bryan has one speech, and on it he rings all the changes in the universe, but it is one speech just the same. He is a man devoid of ingenuity, and will be des titute of followers if the present stam pede continues. LABORS GREAT PROTEST. The sound money [parade on Friday formed the distinctive feature of the com memoration of Chicago day and mar shaled together the mightiest industrial army ever seen in the west. One hundred thousand representatives of labor and capital marching shoulder to shoulder for the maintenance of the national honor formed an inspiring spectacle, the magnitude of which will not soon fade from the memories of men. Employer and employes keeping step in solid phalanx, touching elbows in thf defense of a .common cause in which their interests are mutual and inseparable, formed a mighty object lesson that must convey a stinging rebuke to the repudia- tionists who have sought to array labor against capital in this campaign. The industrial interests represented were stupendous. In the diversity ot productive activity typiSed by the floats and in the great pay rolls suggested by the marching toilers of the people ac quired some faint idea of what Chicago has at stake in the issue to be decided November 3d. As a protest on the part of the soldiers of industty against the proposed debase ment of our currency the demonstration was signal and overwhelming. The unanimity of the movement was superb. The admonition conveyed to those who propose to sacrifice the national honor was ominous and significant, The hosts of skilled labor notified the spoliationists that they had settled the currency ques tion for themselves. They will not be coerc d by windy labor agitators, neither will they be deceived by the soft notes of the silver syndicate orators. The labor of Chicago is free, fearless and independent. It will stand like a rock for sound money on the 3d of November. SSf* Below is a statement of reduction of the State Board of Equalization for1 MeHenry county, for the year 189G, over the local Assessors: * Personal Property, 26 per cent, 1356,060. Lands, 12 per cent, or .$422,42i. Town and City Lots, 20 per cent, or $156,481. It should be understood that this re duction is made after the Assessors made a 20 per cent out all through the county, last year and this year. A pretty good showing for the Mehiber from this Dis trict on the Board. Gents7 FurnSsh And by far the largest stock in the county of the very newest and most practicable styles in ladies', misses' and Children's Direct from Jos. Beifeld & Co. in all shapes and ages: Special colors and shapes, Special salesroom. Besley's Reliable Heave Powder. The best remedy of the kind now on the mar ket. Try a package. New stock of fall and winter Dutchess Trousers, fn.m $1 50 to §4 50 just re-! ceived at S: Stoffel's. Administrators" Wotfceof Fil irg Final Settlement. STATE OT ILLINOIS, ) , 83 KCHENKV COUNTY. ) Estate of Virginia 0. Parker, deceased. TO the heirs ot said oatate nrul to whom it may concern: You are oernby notified Ib^t or. Mondav, the 2.1 day of No- vember, 1896, th- undersigned administrator f said estate will present to tlin County Oiurt of MeHenry county his Ural report of hifl arts and doings as such ndmiristr tor, >nd will, at the earn* timn, a*k tho judge of I raid court to approve the eame and an order ijf court for a discharge as such adminiBtra- or, at which time ane niic.e you can appear and ol joot if vou see fit FO t" do. Dated this 5th dav of Octobrr. A. E 1890. JAMES B PKRRV. Administrator of the estate of Virginia O. Parker decreed,. Uw4 Executor's Notice, PINSTATE of Leonard Bonslett, deceased. ]j The undersigned havinc been appointed Executors of the last will and tostavnent of Leonard I'onsl^tt deceased, late ol the county >f MeHenry and state ot Illinois, hereby gives notice that they will appear bef re the County iJourt of MeHenry County, at the Court flpuoe in Woodstock, at the Dec. term, < ft the 3rst Monday in Dcc. next, at which time all. persons having claims as.amst »aid estate are. ootilied and requested to attend fortho pur pose of having the same adjusted. All per sons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payme -t to the undersigned Dated this 5th day of Oct, A. D„ lWKi, MARGI ETIIA HONPLFTT, WJT.L/IAM BONSLETT, BERNARD BONSLKTT, Executors. OUR FALL CLOTHING! Is all from the renowned firm of Kuh, Nathan and Fischer, and comprise proper cloth, all sizes and correct styles, in both Suits and Overcoats. New and Specially Fine Fall and Winter Overcoats and Suits FUR OTORQOJLTS, In various furs and in all sizes? and low prices. W arm Well Wearing- Underwear Of all kinds and agreeable prices. Fall styles in Hats and Caps, Cotton and Wool Hosiery. Duck Coats, Overalls, Shirts, Dutchess warranted Trousers Fargo & Douglas' warranted Leather Boots ami Shoes. Special low prices on WALL PAPER, Only the Best GROCERIES SIMOEF STQFFEL. West. MeHemy, III., 1896. We have just added to our stock $1500.00" worth of the latest and best styles Qf I . O T H I N C . From the noted house of Henry W. King & Jo. of Chicago. Extra pains were taken in the selection of these gcods and we are satisfied that a look at them will convince you that ve have as fine a line as there is in the county. All we ask is for y( u to call and examine before buying as we know we can save you money by buying of us. When you are putting up your stove good oil cloth pattern to put under it. We of the different widths, both by the yard and I • - yoij will hav in patterns. WE ALSO HAVE A COMPLETE LINE OF probably need a a large assortment BOOTS AND SBOlSGb Underwear, Dress Goods, And all winter goods. ̂ With a large and complete stock, small pr )fits and square dealing, we will look for a share of your patronage this fall and winter, OWEN & GHAPELL. MeHenry, 1896. E. 1. PERKINS Evan son's Oct. Selling MEANS SAVINGS TO CASH PAYING TRADE. goods I©" If free silver would be a good thing for the laborers of the United States, at its advocates insist, why has it not been a good thing for the laborers of China, India, Spain and Mexico, where wages are much lower than in any gold stan dard country ? tegTButter on the Elgin Board of Trade Monday was active. Bids opened at 18c quickly advanced, all sales, 24,8-10 lb?, being at 20c; 19%c was refused on five lots, which remained unsold, Offerings, 24,060 pounds. Last week, 16%c; year ago, 22c. of (©"The Bryanites in different parts of the country availed themselves of the centennial of Washington's Farewell Ad dress to read that precious document in public. But we doubt if they put suffi cient emphasis on this small extract: "As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit," A WISE MINE-OWNEB Nothing more significant has occurred during the campaign thin this reply J. J. Hagerman, the big silver mine owner, to a request for a subscription to the Democratic campaign fund: After mature consideration 1 have con cluded that the dangers likely to follow the success of the Democratic-Populist 3ombination would out-weigh any possi ble benefits, and I cannot contribute to the Democratic campaign fund, either personally or through the companies in which I am interested. Mr. Hagerman would like undoubtedly to see an increased demand for his silver, but he feels that free coinage threatens business prostration, and he knows that business prostration would carry down mining with everything else. He is wise enough to look well into the future. Wall Paper B -- AND-- New Paper, just in. Prices Lower than ever. Try Our "Floor Paints, Try Our Outside Colors. The Best in the Market, OILS, LEADS, BRUSHES, In fact everything in the paint or paper line cheaper than ever. The Underwear (©'Senator Hill is reported to have said of his meeting with Bryan: "There was no use in attempting to advise him. He was all up in the air, and he knew it all. So I quit." This has been a remark ably bad year for balloonists, no less than 14 of them having been killed, and November 3 will close the season. lOTT. V. Powderly, the great labor leader denounces free silver and declares that a debased currency means low wages for the workingman, higher prices for goods and more hardship. He says that workingmen ought-to realize how little confidence they can place in the Democratic party after listening to its promises in the last presidential cam paign and nearly starving on Democrat ic performances during four years. About eighty silver mine owners in the United States are credited with wealth aggregating $600,000,000, or an average of a little more than $7,000,000 each. It is in the interest of these "poor men"--in the interest of increasing the product of their mines that Candidate Bryan is ranting over the country, de crying rich men and Beeking to array the less fortunate against them. Of course the rich men to whom Mr. Bryan objects are not these "poor" mine owners He is after the men who run large manu facturing plants where labor is employed --the men who will open the mills if given a fair opportunity; not the men who seek only to open the mints. It is the men who build and operate railroads to employ armies of workmen to which Mr Bryan objects--the men who create wealth througli the employment of labor not the men who create wealth by mere fiat of the government. and we are willing to share with you the profits, but $ou cannot tell what the saving is until you investigate. section is fairly bristling with bar gains. Ladies' and misses' suits, PAINT HOUSE!! (vest and pants), ribbed and fleece lined, 38c, Men's extra heavy and fleece lined, 95c for suit. Plenty of wool garments at correspondingly low prices. Here arc a few staple things you may need: Standard blue Prints, 4£c. Staple & fancy check Ginghams, 44c. 25 yds, best brown Sheeting, $1.50. Good cotton batts, 5c per roll 10-4 gray Blankets, 49c. Good outing Flannel, 5£c.^ All wool '• isconsin made Cassimere for boys' & men's suits, 59c yd. Child's Overcoats, beginning at 3 yrs. old. Extra good quality cape coats, $2.25 to $3.50. Ladies' plush Capes, extra good quality, $9.90. Cloth Capes and Jackets, $5 to $9.75, very newest. Best Granulated Sugar 5c per lb. j Fairbanks' Soap, 2%c per bar. Best Rolled Oats 2c per lb. | Lemon Extract 5c per bottle. Beet perfection or Quaker Oats 10c pkg, I The goods must move. Come. FALL STORE Hit . The Clothing question is now a severable cne out doubt the largest assortment of We ht.ve with- OVERCOATS AND SUITS iar"Poor Tom Watson! As second man on the Populist ticket, with Bryan at the head, he insisted that Sewall should withdraw from second place on the Chicago ticket and that he should be accorded that position. But Sewall re fused to retire. Then Bryan visited Sewall and passed Tom by and there was more trouble, and now he is calling on his party for a running mate in place of Bryan, and also threatening to take PaF' Bryan has left the doubtful states of the east as no longer doubtful. His sweet illusion that all he would have to do would be to pass through them and insure them to the cause of free and un adulterated silver has been dispelled, and his party managers have insisted that he hustle out west and look after some of the sure silver states that seem to be get ting into a wabbly condition on finance, Bryan is slowly realizing that his hopes being president are doomed. Tetter, eczema, and all similar skin troubles are cured by the use of DeWitt \Vitch Hazel Salve. It soothes at once, and restoren the tissues to their natural piles himself out of the field of politics alto gether. No one would be surprised jf he I condition, J id never fails to cure did the latter. But truly politics are J. A. Story. badly mixed just now in the Democratic Besley's Sarsaparilla Compound. The camp and almost anything may happen, great Blood purifier. Try a bottle. Carriage Painting, House Painting;, Paper Hanging* And all kinds of work done in a first class paint shop, promptly attended to and satisfaction guar anteed. All work warranted as represented. E. B. PERKINS. MeHenry, Oct, 5,1896. Of any house in town All we ask you to pay is the short price, we save all casb discounts. Inspection desired in variety, q lality and price. UNDERWEAR. --Our fall line will interest you. Now is thie very time to look i p he Underwear business. Are confident we can please you. Our stock is largo and prices low. FARMERS. DR.FRUTH'S Hon BO, 10 to 4. next visit, Wed'day, Oct. 14, Wooitmock FERRY & OWEN, Banneri. MCHENRY, - - B1LLIM018 This Bank receives deposits, buyi and sells Foreign and Domestic Ex change, and does a General Banking Business We endeavor to do all business en trusted to our care in a manner ana upon te:ms entirely satisfactory to our customers and respectfully solicit thr public patronage. MOttEY TO LOAN; On Real Estate and other first c a$i security. Special attention given t • co lections, > . : iisrfe»xjRAwcE In Jfirst Class Companies at tht Lowest Rates. Tour s Respectfully PERRY & GWEft. Notary Public. R. Schiessle, NEAR. THE DEPOT, WEST McHENRY, Keeps open for the acAommrwlation of tft* Public a First OlaeB aloon AND Restaurant, Where he will at ail times keep brands of Winet, Liquors and 01 ail times keep the boei Llqu to be foand In the market. lgare DOCTOR FRUTH so well and favorably known as CHICAGO'S LEADING A I IDT &MOST SOCCKSSKUL © T* !&«!*/ S A L.I <3 9 9 for his many and wonderful cures of PATADRU l"nK8, liver, dyspepsia, indices UnlHnnn tion, all disen^os of stomach and bowels D| nnn ANfl Q1/|U diseases, sores, pimples, scrof DLUUU HWU OMlfnla, syphilitic taints, tumors .etter, ECZEMA and Blood Poison of every nature. KIDNEY AND URINARY abdomen, 'bladder, sedi ment in urine, brick^ust or white, painful urinations, Briffht'a disease and all diseases ot the bladder. PRIVATE Diseases -- Gleet, Gonorrhoea, Intlajnma- rniVHIt tions, Discharges, Strictures, Weakness of Orsrans, Syphilis, Hydrocele, Varicoeie and kindred troubles quickly cured. I fVCT UAUIinnn and aI1 its ftttemHnqr ailments, LUol WAnnUUU both of Youug, Mia<Uc-AKe<j und Old Men. The awful effects of early indiscretions, "producinp: weakness, NERVOUS DEBILITY, nifflit em issions, exhaustinp drains, pimples, bashfulness, loss of enerery and weakness of both body and brain., WD 8TTKT yonr troubles if but of city. Thous- JfW mi Eli and B cured by correspondence ow? medicines sent secretly, DK. D. O. FHU'fH. '" Masonic Tfmpie. Chic,p go. Who can think of some simple thing to patent? Wanted-An Idea Protect your Ideas;, they may bring you wealth. Write JOHN WEDDERBURN & CO , Patent Attor neys, Washington, D. C , for their $1,800 prise offer and list of two hundred Inventions wanted. _ PABST'P, IChnuikM Lager Sen At Wholesale and Retail. Beer In Large or Small Kegs or Bottles al ways on hand, cheaper than any other, qnall ty considered. Orders by mall promptly attended to. WOall and see us. Robert Schiessle. West MeHenry, II'., May, 1^6. If you wf^nt a keg of nice Syrup go to A. P. Baer'p, on the West Si3e. and'get a k'ig of Baer's Choice. It has no superior oathemarKet. vVe wish to say to those farmers who contemplate buying a pair of Horso Blankets, or a Fur or Plush Bobe, io turn their attention our way; we will make it pay you. Duck Coats, men's Pantn, Jersey and Flannel Shirts, Gloves and VI it ten f?, Pliii-h Caps, wool Hosiery <&c. Groceries, Flour, Graham and fresh Corn Meal, JOHsr WEST MCHENRY, III., 1896. jr. MIE.1.SH. GEO. W. BESLEY, West McHsnry, Illinois, .DEALER IN. DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINS, OILS, TOILET ARTICLES. PURE WINES AND LIQUORS FOR ME1ICINAL PURPOSES, Also, Bottled Ale and Porter tor Medical Use. |^gT° The best brands of Cigars and Smoking and Chewing To bacco always on hand. " . I ' Physicians' Prescriptions Carefully compounded Give me call. A-A'tik GEO. West MeHenry, Jan, 1, 1896.