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-- - - •' - M , , y ; < * * » -MgjmtMmihL! • BUNKO THE FABtlEKS.]^ to their other Calculations, were obliged to speculate ojf the value of the money for which the# bought and sold, GOLD BRICK SWINDLE GIVES WAY TO THE SILVER DOLLAR. Honest Husbandmen Should- Not he De­ luded by.tlie Silvery Promises of the Political Fakir--Some Flaln And Proven Truths. Wo have in this good land of ours cer­ tain people known as confidence men, who have done considerable posing in our agricultural communities. The farm­ er is but little in town who lives a comparatively isolated life, whose trad­ ing is confined to the sale of his own products and the purchase of supplies for his own needs; and who. having hon­ estly fulfilled his own engagements, nat­ urally believes other people to be-hon­ est; is very apt to rely on a plausible tale told him by a graceful, bold and glib-tongued stranger. Venders of pat­ ent hay forks, lightning rods, and gold bricks have been most successful in our rural districts where there is little trade and the daily paper is least read, but the Tribune always has. and always will, so far as possible, give its readers fair warning against these gentry. There is now a new class of farmers' friends who are perambulating the coun­ try and seeking personal gain from the farmer, not by tlie gold brick but by the silver dollar scheme. Out of love and kindness to the. sturdy cultivators of the soil these bold gents exhibit the silver dollar as an object lesson, 'and promise the honest .farmer that if he will give, not his written contract nor his .prom­ issory- note payable in bank, but will give to the chief of these wanderers and his friends the control of his own future and of the destiny of this great nation, the value of his farm and all of-its in­ crease shall be doubled. Now ,we advise the farmer not to be deluded bv these silvery promises. The value of the wheat; and corn, and beef, and .pork, which the farmer has to sell depends upon the markets of Europe and cannot in- any way be changed or altered by these new fangled confidence "men, and no one knows it better than the con­ fidence man himself. He proposes to al­ low any owner of a silver mine to iake an ounce or a million of ounces of silver toa the mint and have every 50 cents' worth of it marked a dollar, and asks the7 farmer to believe that when he gets two of these irredeemable coins he will be richer than when he gets an honest gold dollar. Do not trust these men; they are trying to swindle.you. They have deceived you before, and if you take their advice they will do it again. Four years ago some of these same fmen] told you how you were being im­ poverished by Republican tariff legisla­ tion, and promised that if you would put them in power you would have good times, you would all ride iri better car­ riages. be better clad and fed. and live like lords. You took them at their word. You helped them elect just such a Presi­ dent and Congress us they wanted. They came into power in March. 1S93, and for two years have had complete control of all of the legislation and ad­ ministration of the United States govern­ ment, and fixed up matters just to suit themselves, and now they come around again and tell you thai you are worse off than ever before, and ask you to take a new kind of remedy for your ills. Have you not had enough of their wares? Do you desire again to invest in any of their fieculiar agricultural implements'? Do you want any more of their patent hay forks, or gold or even silver bricks? Four years ago they promised us a tariff which would contain such provis­ ions as would deprive monopolies and trusts of protection, but over the objec­ tions of President Cleveland the baser part of the Democratic combination en­ acted a patchwork unsymmetrically framed according to the dictation of --Senators GorillaiT~and~"Brice, the repre- sentatives of the wealthiest trusts on-the continent. And here is the way they protected the Western farmer; they put a tariff of 40 cents a pound on iron ore, 30 or 40 per cent, on iron, ly> cent on every pound of rice raised on tTie South­ ern plantation, and took away all oi the tariff on wool, leaving the Northern farmer unprotected on this, one of his most important products. We refer to this as a well-known instance showing how much regard these gentlemen have for your interests. Do you want to trust such friends again? One of the greatest and most powerful combines in the world is the sugar trust with its capital of $75,000,000, but the enemies of President Cleveland, after putting a tariff of 40 per cent, on brown sugar, put an extra protective tariff of one-eighth of 1 per cent, on all refined sugar, the effect of which was to give to the great Iiavemyer sugar trust a com­ plete monopoly of the refining of sugar, and is said to have increased the value of its capital in the sum of $8,000,000. We are not aware that these gentlemen did anything of a like character for the Northern farmer. On the contrary, ow­ ing to their revision of the tariff, they cut down and diminished all of the* protection that the farmer then had. The Tribune told you in 1893 that you would be deceived and injured and we ask you as sensible men if our predic­ tions have not come true? Have you had enough of the patent medicine of­ fered to you by these bold strangers or do you want another dose? And now the tariff having been al­ tered and changed and business demoral­ ized. factories,shut down and workmen out of employment and the nation sick and diseased financially a new remedy is suggested. Bryan and his associates propose to cure all our ills and make us wealthy by calling 50 cents a dollar and then advise you to relieve yourselves of what little debt you may individually or politically owe by swindling your con­ fiding creditors out of one-half of their dues. We trust you will take our warn­ ing. We verily believe that the farmers of Indiana, although in the honesty of their heart, they may be deceived, will always indignantly drive from their doors every man 'who asks tlieui to save a little money by repudiating their hon­ est obligations and will add their num­ bers to the majority that will make MI'­ ll in ley President and save themselves and the flag of our country from dishon­ or and disgrace.--South Bend Tribune. Dressed Meat Compared with Gold. There are a few things with which we can compare gold with some reason and assurance, and 1 wish to call your at­ tention to some of them. There is dressed meats, for instance. Dressed meat is an article which is manufactured from time to time to supply an imme­ diate demand. Our packing-houses are not obliged to keep a large stock on hand in the mere expectation of a market- If the market is glutted they stop killing. If there is a prospect of a demand they buy ii3,st cattle enough to meet tie de­ mand. Dressed meat might almost serve as a standard of value, it is so uniform and unvarying in its output ..&«£ con­ sumption. How does it compare with gold? For the last twenty-five years it has slowly but surely advanced in price, which shows that gold has depreciated. Then there are farming lands. City lots are subject to violent fluctuations, but farm lands are reasonably stable. How does gold compare with them? Since 1873 the farming lands in the United States have risen very much in wilue-- which shows that gold has deprecated. Then there are wages. Waget fluc­ tuate more or less, of course, but a*e con­ sidered far more stable than mosi com­ modities, because of their adaptability. What do I mean by that? If i man i loses one job lie tries to find another as soon as he can at just as good .vages. This power of adaptation therefore makes wages reasonably stable, j How do they compare with gold? Sine? 1873 they have very sensibly increase!- In 1891 the common laborer could ifemand in gold $1(50.70 as compared with 8L48.30 in 1873. For skilled labor the difference is even greafer, which shows tint gold has either depreciated or that wagU have increased. But, my friends, I \fnture to assert that a slow-moving standard, tip or down, is infinitely better for Every­ body than a constantly fluetuatingfetand- ard. The manufacturer and rotjehant today calculate to the least fracion of ' profit the price for which they cm sell, - trusting to an aggregate of little profits to make up the credit column, fft want this to be so, do we not? W fcjfes us •vervthinc we buy at the lowest passible it would add groatly.^Jro their perplexity and would end by lliaking us qiay l'or whatever risk they - imagined they as­ sumed. Modern coiiimerce cannot toler­ ate that, and the nhtiori which adopts a changing, fluctuating standard to meas­ ure its values will take a back seat, whether that nation be the United States or Mexico.---From Henry D. Este- brook's speech. » »< GOV. STONE CALLED DOWN. Railroad Men Are Not Being; Intimidated in Favor of McKinley. If a railroad man .who, having the ex-0 perience of a lifetijne, a.ttempts to make a talk for sound money and explains to his employes why free silver would be the ruin of the country and greatly im­ pair the operation of railroads as well as affecting the wages of the employes, then he is put down by the free silver advocates as coercing the men under him into voting for McKinley. A. E. Still well, president of the M„ Iv. & T., and vice-president of the Pittsburg & Gulf, recently addressed a large num­ ber of the employes of his company upon the great financial issue of the day. and immediately Gov. Stone in one of his fire-eating speeches charged Stillwell with coercing the employes. Mr. Still- well addressed the following open letter to Gov. Stone: Sir--I understand that you have been inti­ mating iii some of your speeches in favor of William .T. Bryan and free silver that I have been Intimidating anil coercing my employes Into voting for MeKlniey. I have delivered two lectures to my employes at their re­ quest, explaining my views of why a coun­ try could not be prosperous on a Silver basis.. A have never asked .one of the 0000 people" on cur payroll who he was going to vote for. I understand that this is a free eountrr and that every man has, a right to cast his tjallot fQt tlie men at his choice. Certainly a busi­ ness manlike myself, who Is in charge of large industrial and commercial interests; is, better lifted to muterstand what is necessary to a business country than people like you, who haves had no business training "and ex­ perience. • If you wish to investigate this matter of. my coercing my employes, I will donate the expenses «f anyone you may seiui to make the necessary investigation, and if you find that I have ever asked any one of my em­ ployes who they were going to vote for and furnish proof, I will donate $1000 to your campaign fund, which you can use to pay the expenses of Mr. Bryan in case he visits the state again. This will relieve you and Mr. Bryan of the embarrassment which must have been occasioned when he was asked to pay his fare after visiting aud speaking at Kansas City. Up to date Gov. Stone has not called for the $1000 to be used in the Bryan campaign fund nor is he likely to call for it. His charge was like a great many other assertions for which the gov­ ernor has become noted--without any foundation whatever. If the time has come when any particular class of American citizens are precluded from free speech and free thought the peo­ ple ought to know it. If a governor of a great state has the liberty and privi­ lege to coerce his subjects hy his elo­ quence certainly the president of a rail­ road should be granted the same privi­ lege. If the Popocrats could seal the mouths of all the sound money men and confiscate all the newspapers that care to speak for the honor and integrity of the governement, then their nefarious scheme might be enforced upon the peo­ ple, but thank heaven this is still a free country and the old flag, the emblem of American liberty, still floats, Gov. Stone to the contrary notwithstanding. The people love free speech and that right they will revere without fear of punish­ ment from such men as Gov. Stone who stoop to prevarication in-order to carry a point.--Springfield (Mo.) Republican. BRYAN'S RIDE. Out from Chicago this later day, lii4ngkigto^W«ens-frcsh-Ttisniay. The affrighted Press with a shudder bore- Like a youth who had never heard it before-- Tlie terrible jumble and mumble galore, Stating that silver was up once more- Stating that Honor had had its day-- And tsryau was only five niilcs away. II. But a protest came from the Eastern gates. Two good, old-fashioned and sturdy states, Unheeding the ignus fatuus light. Cast ballots as thick as the stars of night; Hill rose and fell and was heard to say He was sorry, indeed, he could not stay, But Bryan was then ten miles away. III. Then out from Watson Issued a shriek That blighted the smile on each Popocrat's cheek; And the heart of the people beat eyer faster. Foreboding a terrible scene of disaster, The thought of Watson as possible master Sufficed to steady all wavering eyes. They had looked enough at the 'light th3t lies; Thoy longed for that great November day, And Bryan was fifteen miles away. IV. ' Under their spurning scorn the road. Supposed to be paved from a Silver lode. Grew dark and tarnished, nor longer glowed. The rear-car platform that traveled o'er The continent's breadth from shore to shore Appealed to sensible folk no more; It sped along in the silence gray, And Bryan was twenty miles away. V.* Then at last the Public caught a sight Of a yanishingwfaec at a platform's height; And November came with its chilling blight, The people emerged with a mental growth And, polling their votes with a solemn oath. They swore that the right should still suc­ ceed. They stood by their country in time of need. They rose en masse in their awful might, And William Jennings was out of sight. _-C. M. „ Bryan's Sixteen to One. Mr. Bryan frequently boasts in . his speeches that where one Democrat leaves his sixteen Republicans and Populists come to him through the same hole. It is certainly a very .different sort of people going .out and coming in through that hole. Glance over a partial record: Some who have left Some who have come to Bryan: I'effer, l'ennoyer, Bloody-Bridles Waite, Weaver, Tom-Tom Watson, Sockless Simpson. Silver Miner Stew­ art. Silver Miner Teller, Silver Miner Jones, Coxe.v. Carl Browne, Debs. Mary yellin' Lease. Bryan: G rover Cleveland, John O. Carlisle, The entire Democrat­ ic cabinet. Senator Lindsay, Senator Gray, Senator Palmer, Senator Caffery, Senator Vilas. Gov. O'Ferrall, Ex-Gov. Buckner, Ex-Gov. Waller, Ex-Gov. Jones, Ex-Gov. Lee. Ex-Gov. Flower, Bourke Cochran, Falrchild, Bragg, Whitney, Bynum, Fellows, E v e r y p r o m i n e n t Democratic leader in New York except Hill. And hundreds of oth­ ers of equal influ­ ence. --Louisville Courier-Journal. The Free Riot Plank. There has been so much indignation at the free riot plank in the Chicago platform, and this indignation has in­ creased so steadily, that many attempts have been made, especially during the last two or three weeks, to explain this plank away. The most common form of explanation consists of" separating the plank from what was in the mind of Gov. Altgeld when he framed it and had it incorporated in the Chicago platform. "Object to the 'free riot' plank, do you?" asks the Bryan Democrat. "Oh, then of course you are in favor of arbitrary interference by federal authorities in lo­ cal affairs." This form of rejoinder be­ trays a knowledge in the advocate that his cause is weak. He substitutes, knowing well enough what he is about, his party's description of President Cleveland's conduct in the summer of 1894 for that conduct ifself. He knows, as everybody knows that the particular "interference in local affairs" which the Chicago platform "denounces" is Presi­ dent Cleveland's suppression of the Chi­ cago riots. Now it is possible that Gov. Altgeld may harbor bitter feelings because Presi­ dent ^Cleveland then did, as his duty, what Altgeld, though it was also and for a different reason his duty, had neglected to do, but it is impossible for a plain per­ son, who believes what he is told, to un­ derstand why organized labor or_its_iead- ers should have bitter feelings toward the President. While the Chicago riots were going on, the leaders of the A. R. U. strike issued bulletins in which they exhorted their followers to be orderly, and informed the pubhc that the destruc­ tion of railway property and the assaults upon railway employes were not the work of strikers. If this was so, then, the President, by sending troops to Chi­ cago, did not in any way interfere with the strikers or in any way thwart the plans of their leaders. He merely sup­ pressed a riotous outbreak and restored order. One would suppose that the lead­ ers of the strike would be grateful to President Cleveland, who relieved them of the unwelcome and damaging co-op- eratiou of rioters, aud left them free to work toward their goal by their own peaceful and law-abiding methods. There are several ways of regarding President Cleveland's action. If we re­ gard it as an act of good in itself, but one which the President was not compe­ tent to perform, then we are extreme states' rights men, who can find in the constitution no warrant for our views. If we regard it as an act bad in itself, then we mtost believe that the best way to treat a riot is to let it alone. If we are indignant at the suppression of riot, then we must be friends of riot. If we ask organized labor to be indignant, then we must hold organized labor responsible for« these riotous acts which the Presi­ dent put an end fo. and the responsibility for which was disavow ed, in the name of organized labor, by the leaders of the strike.--Milwaukee Sentinel. A VICIOUS DELUSION. Bromise of Free Silverites of an Advance on farm Products. • .The capital delusion of the free sil­ ver victim is that there will be an ad­ vance in the market,value of farm pro­ ducts immediately upon the adoption of the free and unlimited coinage of silver. The silver price, they believe, will corre­ spond with the premium' bit gold; This is no mote yicious a delusion than that of Bryan that, if ^anyone has acquired money or property he has acquired it by stealing or robbery, the possession of wealth being prima facie evidence of the guilt of a man of theft. Si/i, far as the first delusion is con­ cerned, the free silver champion always insists tljat the farmer will be the chief beneficiary. The ordinary wage-earn­ er may whistle for benefits. The farm­ er is the fellow who will be certainly favored. The American farmer is rep­ resented by the Bryanites as a pauper of twenty-five years' standing, the victim of the act of 1873 which "struck down silver." None of these "victims" is even able to tell how he was stricken down with silver, but they liaVe all been taught to attribute their disabilities to low prices sai<\, to have been thrust upon the country concurrently with the "striking down of silver" in 1873^ Every postulate of Bryanism is an economic and financial untruth. Prices do not depend upon the quantity of money in circulation, nor is it true that the act of 1873 struck out of the circula­ tion half the money in use. It didn't impair the value of a single dollar in cir­ culation in this country, and so far as silver is concerned, the country, within twenty years after the "striking down of silver." had fifty or sixty times as much silver as it had had in the eighty years previous. In 1873 there was in circulation in this country money and its representatives aggregating $751,881,809, and in 1895 we had .$1,001,908,473. In 1873 there were only about 8.000.000 sil­ ver dollars in existence. On July 1, 1890. there were $478,652.S08 silver in circulation. Potential facts squarely against the assumptions of Bryan! Mr. Bryan keeps on saying that, with free coinage silver will jump to $1.29 an ounce. It may be worth that in silver. What does that amount to? No act of Congress can pull silver up to the par of gold, however. The act of 1890 didn't push silver up to $1.29. In 1890 it was $1.04033 an ounce, and when the act was repealed It was $.78031 an ounce. Gov­ ernment fiat cannot make, values. If it REPUBLICANS' DUTY. HOW TO WIN THE GREAT BAT­ TLE IN NOVEMBER. Stirring Appeal bjr Senator Foraker to the Voters of Illinois--He Arouses Patriotism in Advocacy of John R. Tanner for Governor. Stand by tlie State Ticket. Senator Foraker, of Ohio, spoke to 15,- 000 people in a tent at Chicago, and was received with trenienddiife (Enthusiasm. He discussed at length the financial and tariff questions, and all ojiher national issues. Having spoken until a late hour he was ready to conclude, but the audience insisted that he should jib on, when he s:\id: •^lt is easier for y^ti t^ sit there than it is for me to stand ",ne%. Moreover, I do not think it is neceSsary' to do any more talking. (A voice-.' "You are right, there.") 1 read in one of your morning papers' that Senator Cullom said last night, and truthfully, that this fight is already over and won, except the shout­ ing. (Applause.) I thought, as we came from the hotel down the streets, passing long lines of torchbearers, all shouting for McKinley, Har.ua, aud protection, that the shouting tad commenced. (Laughter.) ' ; "I thank you for the attention you have given me. I appreciate the invita­ tion you extend that 1 snould Stand hero longer, but 1 intend', nevertheless', while thanking you, to bid you good evening with simply one injunction, and that is, to remember that we want not only your electoral vote, we want not only your full delegation in Congress--the whole twen­ ty-two, do not let one of them miss you-- and we want riot only a United States Senator to succeed Gen. Palmer, but wo also want tti hear on the night of the election that you have elected to be Gov­ ernor of this great commonwealth that gallant soldier and spl.-ndid representa­ tive of Republicanism. Capt. John R. Tauner. (Great applause, after which three cheers were giver for Tanner, fol­ lowed by three more for McKinley.) "I can vote in Ohio, as you here, for the presidency, for Congressmen, for Sen­ ator, for everything else you caii vote for except only John R. Tanner. I wish from tho bottom of my heart 1 were in Illinois on election day, with tli? right and power to vote for him. (Applause.) He repre­ sents for the American people to-day more than any other man who is a candidate for any other office, except only Gov. Mc­ Kinley, that law and order which are at the basis of al' American prosperity. „He represents the idea that the United States of America are a nation, with a Federal Government that has power everywhere to assert, uphold and enforce the laws of the United States against all who would do violence to them. The good name of your State, the good name of the United States, demand his election. Do not fail us. I thank you." (Groat applause.) could raise silver to $1.29 there would be the same "too valuable" dollar wlileli Bryan says must give way to a "cheap dollar" to "help the farmer." All Bry­ anites in fact want to see the present 100-cent dollar knocked out arid the prop withdrawn and every man with his wages worth 52 cents on the dollar. After all the talk about. big prices for the farmer what would be accom­ plished for him? In 1860, taking the index figure 100 to indicate all prices, in 1805 wheat was 140.5: corn, 132.4; oats, 150.9. and the general average of agricultural products was 194.6. How did the farmer fare? His clothes in­ creased the same time to 299.2; fuel to 237.8; price of farm implements to 191.4. Under such big advances in prices where was the benefit to the farmer from the increase of farm product prices? Tho lowest prices for farm products were reached before the "crime of 1S73" was perpetrated and since then few products have shown an appreciable decline, while the lower cost of production, the inven­ tion of labor-saving machinery, the great reduction of freights and taxes have been contributory to the farmer's advantage. Bryan and his friends say cheap com­ modities are a "curse" to the farmer. Does tlie farmer think them so? Do wage-earners think cheap clothes, cheap fuel, cheap food, cheap tools a big "curse." as Bryan says they are? A man who pronounces these things a curse is either a fool or a knave.--Minneapolis Journal. Tlie Trouble with the Farmer. The trouble with the farmer lies not in the form of currency which is oaid to him for his product, but in the' de­ creased home demand for all articles of consumption. Free trade has brought hard times to- the farmer, and free trade and free silver would ruin liim completely. From 1892, when all our wage-earners were employed under protection, to 1895, when hundreds of thousands of them were out of work and consequently non- buyers, the home consumotion of coru fell from 1.983.551,7J5 bushels to 1.184,- 184.047. Iii the same time the home consumption of wheat fell from 386,114,- 188 to 315,454.000 bushels. This was due to the lessened purchas­ ing power of the home market caused by the loss of wages to American bread­ winners. Our form of eurreney had nothing to do with it. The Wilson law transferred wage payments from this country to foreign countries, and the American • farmer suffered because his best customers, the American wage- earners, had less money with which to buy food. If all the silver in the world were coined into American dollars the American farmer could not sell his crops unless American wage-earners were steadily and profitably employed. - There is only one way for the farmer to sell liis crops. That is to re-establish the purchasing power of the home mar­ ket. This can be done only by putting our wage-earners at work. But Mr. Bryan proposes to extend the free trade policy already in operation. He proposes to lessen still further the value of the farmer's sheep, to wipe out the sugar-beet industry of the West, to weaken still more the home demand for wheat, corn, potatoes and everything else that is used as food. The trouble with the farmer is free trade!--New York Press. THE >TEW GOSPEL. Mr. Bryan announces a pound of eight ounces would make us all twice as strong, And a year of a hundred and fifty days would make life twice as long; For this Is the law of the universe, and the burden of his song. That it's only the measure that makes the size, and it gen'rally makes It wrong. If the little pint bot, were called a quart, It would make us twice as full. If a rusty red were named scarlet. Instead, 'twould embitter the life of a bull: With an Inch labeled "mile" the lowliest pile would boom like a bulk immense- Then here's to the nickel that's called a dime, and. the dollar of fifty cents. Oh! the people's.blko away shall strike from effete old physical laws- Triangular wheels with a chain that squeals on a frame that is mostly flaws-- And the tire we sell will continue to swell so long as you choose to Inflate, And we'll have a law especially for to make ft circulate. Then we'll have a compass that hustles around and ain't no slave to the pole. Our thermometer's rise will be double the size for the sake of the saving in coal; And two will be four, and five will be ten, antra lialf wftl be a Whole", When we get the rules of the 'rithmetic well Into our own control. --Joseph Lee in Puck Illinois Day at Canton. "Illinois day" at Canton is already an assured success. The bureau at J 24, Great Northern Hotel, is in receipt of an enormous mail every day from parties and clubs desiring to go. But in almost every instance they fail to locate the line of road upon which thei.-.town is-loeated or the county in which it is situated, and it requires the services of several clerks to look up these matters and see' what route should be used by the parties desir­ ing to go. If all correspondents would state plainly the line of road that they are on, and near what large city or junction point in Illinois they ar^. it would simpli­ fy matters to a great extent. The sched­ ule of rates for Southern Illinois is now complete aud the Central Traffic Associa­ tion aud the Western Traffic Association will hold a meeting in Chicago this week, after which tlie rates from all points, frt-in Moline, 111., to Galena, on the north; and cast of that, will ba determined and? promulgated. A great many people tail yet to under­ stand that it is necessary to belong to any club or organization to participate in the advantages of this date. Any person in the State of Illinois desiring to go will find on sale at the ticket office in his town tickets at tlie lowest reduced rates, and all parties going will bo assigned a place in the parade and will be received by Maj. McKinley at his home. It is import­ ant, however, that all clubs'should com­ municate with Mr.' t\ D. Higbee, care Republican State Central Committee, at once, that he may know as near as possi­ ble how many people io provide eating and other accommodations for in Canton, and to be able to assign clubs in the par­ ade in proper order. « It is now expected that following the example of Illinois a day will be set apart for "Indiana day," but Illinois is in th<t field first, and will undoubtedly have a host of her citizen3 in Cantou, Ohio, Oct. 21. Maj. Connolly's Campaign. In the Seventeenth District Maj. James A. Connolly is making an admirable cam­ paign and will be re-elected. All of the reports to Republican headquarters con­ firm this opinion, and th • Decatur Repub­ lican says of the canvass: "Maj. Connolly has proved himself to be one of the ablest men sent to Congress from this State for a quarter of a century, taking high rank as a leader in the House from the first. The people of this dis­ trict are fully acquaints J with these facts and appreciate the advantage the district would have should the Republicans suc­ ceed to power which they surely will, by being represented by a gentleman who has the ability to be a leader in shaping legislation and restoring the principles ad­ vocated by the party by enacting them into law and placing them upon the stat- ute-books. Maj. Connolly is a sound- minded, patriotic citizen, who desires the restoration of the prosperity of the coun­ try through the re-enactment of proper tariff laws, a prosperity which will, as it always lias, benefit a'l the people by opening the way for the safe investment of capital where it will -unploy American labor at good prices, which in turn will restore the farmers' home market by giv­ ing the farmers' customers power to buy the products of the farm instead of beg­ ging them or starving, aud restoring again the trade of that great class of mid­ dle men through whom in prosperous times the earnings of the wage-earner and his employer are exchanged for the prod­ ucts of the soil. In o*her words, Maj. Connolly is an American who believes in his own country and believes in legislating for it and leaving legislation for the bene­ fit of other countries who are our com­ petitors to those countries themselves. He believes in "sound money" because he knows that on a fluctuating currency in the control of a visionary administration business could not be put upon a safe and prosperous basis." Kqep Up the Ficht. The Galesburg Mail states the situation in Illinois thus: "To all outward apearances the Re­ publican party has not for years had a more hopeful outlook for complete vic­ tory all along the line. The Democratic party is divided on the financial question, andJtsJpadiog. members are doing all in their power to defeat tlje regularly nom­ inated ticket. The influence of the busi­ ness men of the .country, regardless of party, is with the Republicans,, anc de­ feat looks impossible.-*! "While this is, true, it will not do fer­ tile Republicans to make up their mind that the victory is won and nothing more remains to be done. The fight must be kept up until the polls close in November. It will not do to take it for granted that the intelligence of the voters will cause them to cast their ballots for the Repub­ lican candiates. It must be remembered that the advocates of free silver have been working for years to accomplish their pur­ pose, and that their literature has been read and reread around every fireside in this country since. 1S92. It must follow that this general circulation!of literature has had some effect on the minds of the people who have re.a- .4tisami it is not sur­ prising that deluded men are -found -in every community advocating theeniise (>f free stiver. The marcti of education along Republican lines must continue without abatement, to the end t{iat vic­ tory may be complete." Women in the Campaign. The all-absorbing aiix'iety as to the out­ come of the pending campaign has for the time being overshadowed the part which Illinois women may rightfully bear in the coming ejection., Up to the present time the organized effort of Republican women in the State has been mainly directed toward insuring the election of Maj.^ McKinley, who stands for every cardinal principle of the Re­ publican faith; to tho return of "sound money" Republicans to Congress and, finally, to the election of the entire State ticket. ; " \ v \ • ' Opportunity involves responsibility-- woman's \vt>rk in Illinois may not be re­ stricted asJs her ballot. There are many ways by which, in the most unobtrusive and womanly manner, women may influ­ ence nid augment the national and'State vote, even if they themselves may not de­ posit the full ballot. This year three university trustees are to be elected and wom»-n may vote for these officers. Like many another duty this has been imposed with or without their assent. Like any other duty of citi­ zenship it should be performed conscien­ tiously. The university at Champaign supported by taxation as it is should receive as well the moral support of tne people. Since its governing board is entirely elective, from its three ex-officio members--the Governor, president of State Board of Agriculture and Superintendent of Public instruction--tq the nine trustees--three of whom are elected at every State election for a term of six years--it appears that the real responsibility of the proper ad­ ministration of its affairs rests upon the people who elect, so that the women of the State really share this responsibility in a direct way in so far as that they may vote for tne trustees and indirectly by in­ fluencing in every consistent way tho election of the ex-officio members of tho board of trustees as well as that of tho Republican candidates for the General Assembly. Republican women are urged to perfect county, township and district organiza­ tion, with a view of influencing a full vote for the national and State ticket, and especially to call out a full vote by wom­ en for the three candidates for university trustees--Mary Turner Carriel, Thomas J. Smith and Francis M. McKay, WOMEN'S REPUBLICAN STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. Mi*s. L. Brace Shattuck, Chairman. Mrs. Kilburn Harwood, Vice Chairman. Mrs. James Frake, Secretary. First District--Mrs. L. Brace Shattuck, Chicago. • • - Second- District--Mrsi E^W. Adkinson, Chicago., Third District--Mrs. Charles Hinckley, Chicago. Fourth District--Mrs. John H. Tait, Chicago. Fifth District--Mrs. .Tames Frake, Chi­ cago. Sixth District--Mrs. Elizabeth W. Shippen, Chicago. Seventh District--Mrs. Charles E. Af« field, Chicago. Eighth District--Mrs. Edward Poole, Aurora. .Ninth District--Mrs. D. H. Law, Dixon. Tenth District--Mrs. Fanny M. Worth- ington, Sterling. Eleventh District--Mis. W. H. Jen­ kins, Pontine. ' 1 --f! Twelfth District--Mrs. S. M. Bradford, Peotone. Thirteenth District--Mrs. Sue A. Pike Sanders, Bloomington. • Fourteenth District--Mrs. Wilbur O. A l v o r d , P e o r i a . - - J . Fifteenth District--Mrs. J. R. Webster, Monmouth. Sixteenth District---Min. James H. Dan- skin, Jacksonville. Seventeenth District- -Mrs. Kilburn Harwood, Decatur. Eighteenth District--Mrs. Belle A. Whitworth, Moweaqua. Nineteenth District--Mrs. Mary Mo Cauley, Olney. Twentieth District--Miss Estellc Ram-: sey, Oskaloosa. Twenty-first District--Mrs. .Carrie Alexander, Belleville. Twenty-second District--Mrs. Sarah E. Hannan, Cairo. At Large--Mrs. Ida M. Dempcy, Chi­ cago. Mrs. Mary A. Ivepninger, Carlinville. Miss Kate Smith, Lanesville. Mrs. Elizabeth F. Wilson, Peoria. Mrs. Augusta Levi, Chicago. Mrs. L. L. Morrison, Lincoln. Mrs. Millie Jackson, Salem. Mrs. Mary E. Sykes, Monmouth. Mrs. Edward Roby, Chicago. Mrs. Mary Kennedy Brown, Chicago. Mrs. Flo Jamieson Miller, Monticello. Mrs. Marion Foster Washburne, Chi­ cago. SOBER ~--rr^-- OR STARTLING, FAITH­ FULLY RECORDED. Masons Finish THeir Work--^Women's Christian Temperance Union at Moline--Set-Gnn Kills a Chicajjo Chiclren Thief--Cheap Travel to Vote. Reduced Rates for Voters. After a short conference at Chicago the Central Passenger Committee determined to make a rate of one lare for the'rouud trip between all cities and towns in their territory for all persons who may desire to return to their homes for the purpose of voting. This rate, with the exception of'those made to Canton, which in some cases are hardly piver ,<tne-half a cent a mile, is lower than any made by these this year, the usual concession being one au^-j one-third fares for the round trip. In order to prevent use of the tickets by scalpers it, was decided that transporta- tibn for distances under 200 miles should be sold on Nov. 3 only. For distances over 200 miles they wiii be sold Nov. 2 and 3. This will enable persons to travel from ope end of the committee's territory to the other and.be home'in- time to vote.. Returning, all persons holding these tick­ ets must present them for passage before midnight of Nov. 4. The " territory, af­ fected by the order is that in the United States north of the Ohio River'and be­ tween the meridians of Chicago and Pitts­ burg. The trunk lines' committee, gov­ erning the territory lying east of the meridian of Pittsburg arid extending to the Atlantic coast, will undoubtedly take like action. Western roads have refused to make like concession, a proposition of the same character having been voted down. Passenger men of these lines de­ clare more people will travel away from than toward home if low rates are made. "The sound money cause is receiving notable support froth the great pulpit ora­ tors t-his fall. It means much to have such an eloquent presentation of the cause from the ethical as well as the political standpoint, and to have it expounded by such noted divines as Drs. Gunsaulus, Bristol, Hillis, Henry and other ministers of national reputation who have taken so decided a stand, with the host of others with less reputation but,not less earnest­ ness and conviction."--Peoria Transcript. Chauncey H. Castle, in a speech at Quincy, said: "Every active, capaUle business man is a laboring man, and every active, capable laboring man is a business man." Centerville has a Republican Club of 100 cavalrymen, Belvidere a club of 100, and Richmond one composed exclusively of veterans and their sous. With the McKinley-Tanner train, the Governors' train and the excursions tx» Caritou, Illinois Republicans are making a great campaign by rail. / "' A Perfect Vacum. ' 7 An American professor claims to have made the first chemically perfect vacu­ um ever known. His method is to take a tube of the hardest potash glass with an extremely high melting poin^ and to fill it up with molten glass of Jt softer kind. Fitting a suction pump to the mouth of the tube, he then remeltefl. the soft glass and sucked it out, leavings just enough to seal the mouth of the tube:--The space behind, having cori^ tained no traces of air or gas before, svas necessarily a perfect vacuum. Chicken-Thief Trap Victim Hies. Harry Lucht, the Chicago youth who was shot early Thursday morning by a trap gun set for chicken thieves in the yard of J. W. Gilliland, died at his home Saturday morriing. Deputy Coroner Mc- Hale was notified and an inquest held, as a result of which Mr. Gilliland was held for the Grand Jury's action. J. W. Gilliland, whose chicken coop was en­ tered,said he had some valuable chickens and that several nights before Thursday uight last some persons nad tried to effect an entrance into the coop. He saw them and fired several shots at them as they ran away. Then he said he rigged up a gun in the coop so that when the coop door was opened it would be discharged at the door and the person opening it. He said "on Thursday night he heard the report of the gun and, coing out, found young Lucht wounded. Deputy McHale, when Mr. Gilliland took the stand, told him he did not need to make a statement unless he wanted to. He insisted in tak­ ing the stand, and was the last witness. The jury was out but, a short time. The parents of the dead boy were present at the inquest and displayed much grief. In a case In the Champaign Circnlf » Court, brought to hold the trustees of the Odd Fellows lodge at Sadorus individ­ ually" liable, on a promissory note, which they hed signed as such trustees, Judg«> F. M. Wright made a^ruliag that will leave all the subbrdinafe lodges of that order .in the- State, organized since. 1872, without any-corporate existfecee. Art afn peal will be taken to the Supreme Court. While engaged in drilling a company in the Second Regiment Armory, at Wash­ ington boulevard and Curtis streets, Chi* cago, Lieut. Parker Brown, of 1286 Vani Buren street, suddenly dropped dead. A, physician who was called pronounced heart disease as the eau.i.- of death. Lieut- Brown's company had been going through! rsome double-quick time movements, and when the company came to a halt Lieut. Brown's face was flushed and he com­ plained of his heart. He remarked that! he woakl rest for a while, and started fotf a chair. Suddenly he reeled and fell4 Several members of th-^ company went; to his aid. but he died without speaking; again. Brown was 22 years old, and hadi been in the Second Regiment for somef tiriie. Murderers' row in the Cook County jail contained at one time five men who stood^ beneath the shadow of the gallows. Two* of these were Irish, two Germans and; one an Italian. The firs'; was Julius Man- now, the self-confessed murderer of Carey: B. Birch. Daniel McCarthy, the wife murderer, is under sentence to hang Oct- 23. Sil verio Borrilli, the Italian convict-! ed of the murder of Domihick Parent# in 1S94 and sentenced to death, is grow­ ing nervous again. The Supreme Court4 now in session, is expected, to take ap his case and decide his fate. Boyelli hasi been in jail since Dec. 1 1894. Nic Mar^ zen, who was convicted of the murder ofj Fritz Holzheuter, Also has au appeal) pending in the Supreme . Court. Daniel »' Carroll is the last man upon whom cap-- ital punishment has been passed for thej murder of James Rowan. The State Board of Equalization Wed-» nesday adopted the report of the Generalj Equalization Committee. The same;, shows': Total assessed valuation in Cook* County, $207,530,092; equalized value,! $252,714,621. Amounts added to Cook; County personal propertv, $7,358,603 i lands, $4,200,463; lots. $33,604,798. Total! amount added to Coo.. County, $45,213,-' 929. Assessed value personal property] entire State, $120,42S.t)16; lands, $320,-* 474,124; lots, $279,307,191. Equalized, value same, personal, $120,928,855; lands,1: $310,050,753; lots, $299,932,178. Rail­ road property assessed by local" assessor's, personal. $628,751; lands, $440,754; loti, *• $S75,752. Equalized value same, person­ al, $705,213; lands, $399,812; lots, $1,- 030,449. Grand total assessed value en­ tire State, $731,215,48S; grand total equalized value entire State, $733,647,260. Mneons Announce Grand Officers. With the installation of the officers ap­ pointed for the coming year by Grand Master Scott the Grand Lodge of Illinois closed its meeting for this year at C^ntral Music. Hall, Cliieagor-- The Comn on Chartered Lodges and Appeals and Grievances submitted their reports, as did tho grand examiners. Grand Master Scott then announced tho officers an- pointed hy him as follows: Grand Chap­ lain, tho Rev. Dr.. H, \V, Polton, Chi­ sago; Grand Orator, the Rev. Dr. W. H. Milburn,, Jacksonville; Grand Pursui­ vant, C. J. Landlay, Greenville; Grand Standard Bearer, Wesley Watson, Mount Vernon; Grand Sword Bearer, It. T. Spencer, Illiopolis; Grand Senior Grand Deacon, E. C. Pace, Ashley; Grand Ju­ nior Grand Deacon, C. E. Allen, Greens- burg; Grand Stewards, W. H. Johnson, Wheaton; W. W. Bruce, Casey; Grand Stewards. Adam Ortseifen, Chicago; J. S. McClelland, Decatur; Grand Tyler, R. R. SteTens, Chicago. Work of the Year Is Reviewed. Friday's session wound up the business of the twenty-third annual convention of the Illinois Woman's Christian Tem­ perance Union at Moline. Miss Parme- lia C. Mahan, of Lexington, was elected State "Y" Secretary. Au amendment was adopted making County Presidents ex-oflicio members of the State conven­ tion. The State "Y" banner was pre­ sented to Miss M. C. Brehm, of Casey, as custodian for the Paris "Y." The last year's work, as summarized by Recording Secretary Helen Walker, included the organization of fifty-nine new - unions, twenty-nine reorganized, 129 auxiliary societies, eighteen district and fifty-seven courity conventions held, and 171 medal contests, three being by colored children. The local unions have raised for local work $30,422.19, and lieid 6,377 business and 2,016 public meetings during the year. Charles E. Leonard Dies in Detroit. Charles E). Leonard, of Chicago, father of Lillian Russell, who was stricken with paralysis on Aug. 25, while visiting rela­ tives in Detroit, Mich., died at the home of his brother in that city, aged 67 years. Mr. Leonard had lived in Chicago since 1860, and during all this time he was a prominent figure in publishing circles. He was born in Buffalo, N. Y., about 1830, and learned the printer's trade in the office of the old Buffalo Commercial. There he married Miss Cynthia Van Name. In 1856 he moved with his fam­ ily to Clinton, Iowa, and established him­ self in business. Four years later he went to Chicago and organized the print­ ing firm of Horton & Leonard, which was located up to the time-of the fire«of 1S71 at Nos. 106 and 108 Randolph street. Stale News in Brief. Thomas Robinson, a well-known Rock- ford citizen, committed suicide Sunday morning by hanging. Despondency over the death of his wife and loss of his home under mortgage was the cause. Joseph Simon, 36 years old, residing in Posey, five miles south of Carlyle, disap­ peared from his home. He was half clothed and without covering for his feet. Temporary insanity caused by fever is the cause assigned. L. W. Puffer disapeared from the home of his daughter, Mrs.-M. S. McGrath, in Fulton, Sept. 30. Tuesday morning two hunters, while walking along a small stream about a mile east of the citj^ dis­ covered the body of a man in the stream. Relatives of the dead man went to the spot and identified the remains as those of Puffer. • At Springfield Cv'ris Bender, 55 years of age, committed suicid"1 Saturday night by shooting himself with a revolver. He was a.member of sever*! beneficiary so­ cieties and is supposed to have had a wife in Davenport, Iowa. He also had a brother in Franklin County, Wisconsin. While running out West Madison street, Chicago, toward Cicero on Sat­ urday morning a, trolley car of the Cicero aijd Proviso Street Railway Company jumped the track, «ind, plowing through the roadway, dashed at fjlU speed against except a tree. Twelve persons were in the caf at the time besides the train crew. They w£re all more or less bruised and cut by 4jring glass. . „ David Goodpasture,, of Lincoln, whom Gov. Altgeld pardoned last February, ia in trouble again. His history is a strange one. The sori of respectable parents, with; a fair education and good opportunities, *:S Dave became the leader of a gang o$ criminals who terrorized Central Illirioiali At an expense of $1,000 to Logan Coun­ ty he was finally convicted of burglary and given an eight-year sentence in 18&4. Twenty-four hours later his confederates attempted to blow up tie county jail to? secure his releasfc and failed only through' an accident. After serving two years of his term he was pardoned by Gov. Alt- geld, and in less than thirty days was; under arrest at Milwaukee, charged with riot, although acquitted of the chargei later. Monday he was arrested at Lin­ coln on the charge of stealing harness froiri Robert Leech, of Maroa. He was taken to Macon County for trial. Crazed by overstudy and ill-health Prof. Richard Shober, of 12 Belden place, Chicago, committed suicide Wednesday in Lincoln Park by shooting himself in the right temple. The man had but recently! returned from Europe, where he had been studying art, and it is believed he became; mentally deranged by overwork. At V o'clock in tho morning Park Officer Burnsi was startled by hearing a pistol shot in; the vicinity of Webster and North Park avenues. Hastening to that place, he found Sliober lying on the ground in w pool of blood, with a revolver clutched in his right hand and a bullet hole in his temple. He was dead when the officer reache.1 him. Owing to the early hour, there were no witnesses to the deed, and Officer Burns was the first person to reach the man. Tho following letter was foundj in a pocket of the dead man's coat: "In this trying time, I cannot think; my nerves are shattered from sleeplessness; insanity stares me in the face. O God! O my parents, forgive this deed." lliis was all, that was found about the body which, gave any explanation for his act. He had i returned from Paris about six weeks ago! and since then had been suffering from ill health and nervousness. He was a son of the Mr. Shober of the lithographing firm of Shober & Carqueville. The most disastrous fire for Peoria in more than a year resulted in the partial destruction of the old watch factory Wed­ nesday morning. It wis the property of Mrs. Lydia Bradley, and occupied by the P. F. Ide Bicycle Company and the Par-" sons' Horological Institute. The fire was^ discovered at 4 o'clock a. m., though it was evident that it had been burning for more than an hour before being discov­ ered. A general alarm brought the entire department, but it was hampered for some time by lack of water, and the main building was entirely gutted, while both wings were more or less damaged by fire and water. The fire is of mysterious ori­ gin, and started in an unused staircase that had been walled in. The total loss is estimated at $75,000, distributed as fol­ lows: Building, $20,000* Parsons' Horo­ logical Institute. $20,000; Ide Bicycle Company, $35,000. The stock of the bi­ cycle company included machinery and unfinished bicycles. The work of re­ building will commence immediately, and it is thought the fire wiil hasten the erec­ tion of one of the buildings of the Bradley* Polytechnic Institute, which Mrs. Brad­ ley had intended erecting next year. She] will probably put up one of the buildings this year, in order tha" it may be used by, the horological institute The insurance is ample. > v- The Moline City Council passed a cur­ few ordinance. It includes all children under 15 years of age, and sets the hour at 9 p. m. for the summer months and 8 p. m. for the winter months. The new St. Rose Catholic Church of Metropolis was dedicated Wednesday by Right Rev. John Jansen, bishop of the diocese of Belleville. Solemn high mass was celebrated by Rev. Father Schuarto, of Murphysboro, and the dedicatory ser­ mon was preached by Rev. Father Doo- ley, of St. Louis. Visiting delegations were present from Paducah, East St. Louis, Dubuque and other points. Despondent over sickness.and inability to get work, William Insell, a German^ who has been at the North Side beer gar­ dens in Chicago as a variety actor during; the summer, tied a rope around the hinge of the door in his room in the St. Charles Hotel Wednesday and strangled himself to death. The Chicago. Burlington and Quincy fast mail from Chicago ran down a sec­ tion crew coming in on a hand-car near tfae Quincy Soldiers* Home caped with their li' and the hind-car air above the locomotive's injuring him so that he ditd, -v- ns