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st THURSDAY, OCT. 18, 106. PAGE TWO. THE LEAVENWORTH POST. FINANCIAL.

MEN OF NOTE The STATE SAVINGS BANK cf LEAVENWORTH TM post- gjrjj, sdcys and Delaware Streets. $23,000.00 South-east Corner Fifth Capital OFFICERS A. A. FITNN President J. E.

OLVIS Vice-President E. A. KELLT Cashier Makes a specialty of savings accounts. Interest pa.W on savings Accounts and also time eertifleates. Does a reneral banking business.

Money loaned on real estate and collaterals. Exchange on all parts of the world. affairs and they resent the interference of outsiders. Biddly" Biddle's proposition to bring a photographer here to take pictures of our saloons, to be published in an out-of-town paper, is in keeping with his political methods. Leavenworth people have stood a good deal in the past, but they will not stand so much in the future.

They have reached that point where they will demand "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." Ex-Senator Harris is a man who has a great many friends in Leavenworth city and county. His outside backing has lost him hundreds of votes, and will lose him more before election. The friends of Harris know this and they are enraged at the attitude of his backers toward Leavenworth city. Harris will lose Leavenworth county by at least one thousand votes. The people of Leavenworth are standing together in this campaign and will elect the best men to office, regardless as to whether they are Republicans or Democrats.

The men who are trying to create trouble and disaster for Leavenworth will be rebuked at the polls. MANUFACTURER'S NATIONAL BANK. OF LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS. North-west Corner Fifth and Delaware Streets. i 1 i III 1 'iiii mm i mm i MiiMiiri ji.iil II in lib ii 7 i 7 '-7- W7 i ftfci ixft'iJWfn fci-i r.

itTr'- r'ITEI STATES DEPOSITORY. Capital Paid in $100,000 Surplus and Profits 55,000 OFFICERS' E. W. President CHESTER V. JOHN H.

ATWOOD CHAS. E. SN3TDER. Cashier WULFEKUHLER STATE BANK. OF LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS.

Capital $50,000.00. OTTO H. WtJLFEKTJHIER, Pres. LOUIS H. WULFEKUHLER.I ALBERT F.

"WTJLFEKUHLER, Cash. Office in Wulfekuhler Bank Building Fifth and Delaware Streets. FIRST NATIONAL BANK. Office, Corner 4th and Delaware Streets. cial questions are settled.

Happily, so they are. If we suggest expansion, they say 'we're done If at last we refer to the unparalleled prosperity under the present rule, and the depression under the last Democratic administration, they answer. Now the truth is that in all these matters the party has a history, but not for publication. They would have it understood, apparently, that all these mighty accomplishments were wrougnt in executive session. "The country has a cause for gratitude, not for what the Democratic party has done in fifty years, but for what it has failed to do.

And in this gratitude the best men of that party have often shared, after witnessing the beneficient results that have followed their defeat. The party then has a history to suppress. I Tnat party traduced Mr. Lincoln while he lived, but now they point to I him as the model of statesmanship, and, strangely enough, upbraid the party that sustained him In the stress of his great labors, as being recreant to his memory. Yet support in life, I fancy, is better than pious reverence after death.

"When vast expenses were to be met, the Republican party devised the greenbacks' which the Democrats opposed and denounced as filthy rags. WThen, however, this currency had performed its mission, and the common welfare, the common honesty, demanded the resumption of specis payments, the Democratic party opposed this measure, and would have made the currency irredeemable. They actually declared for the repeal of the resumption act after it had been passed. It went further even and declared for the unlimited coinage of silver, predicting unheard-of disastei-s if this was not done. Cries of Calamity Refuted.

"After all it was discovered that to furnish remunerative employment for our people, and toutilize our vast raw material at home, it declared for the principle of free trade, and in its temporary victory of 1392, brought upon the country th3 depression, idleness and stagnation that entered into the melancholy story of the next administration. Then arose the cry against Caesar. Imperialism was declared to be the inevitable ruin of our country. Our devoted little army, bone of our bone, our own and our neighbors' sons, were to be our certain undoing. The gleam of imaginary bayonets blinded their eyes.

It was Indeed a terribly frightened party that marched up the hill to fight the ghost of imperialism, and then marched down again. "After all it was discovered that it was only necessary to resume specie payments to make every dollar of our paper worth 100 cents, wherever needed in business. It was found that the American system of protection opened the mills and kept them open. An abundant currency freely circulated and with an increasing volume, as business increased. Multiplied industries gave employment and good wages, where idleness and suffering had been foretold.

It was found at last that the 'imperial' army was only working-men thronging busy factories, and the gleam of bayonets only the shining of their dinner pails." DIRECTOR 0m. H. Jackson. W. W.

Walter, J. V. Kelly, A. ML Jackson. O.

O. McNary, T. M. CDckrill. Cbas.

Dwt-ten. DIRECTORS Louis Vanderschmidt P. TT. H. W.

Mehl, E. W. Sayder. J. D.

Edmond, C. W. Snyder, J. H. Atwood and C.

E. Snyder. Mo; ley to loan en Farms. Interest paid on Savings Deposits. Boxes for rent in Safety Deposit Vaults.

Does a general banking brataess with savings department- Interest paid on deposits at IL.QA and. nn and a pass book or certificate- of deposit issued. Sell drafts on. the principal cities and Europe same as money orders at less than, jmstoffice. and express companies DIRECTORS E.

N. Morrill, Henry Ettenson, Amos E. Wilson, O- EL Taylor. A. J.

Tullock. W. Denton, A. Caldwell and N. N.

Todd. Does a general banking business and sells exchange on the principal cities in the United States and Europe. Little Strings. It Doesn't Pay. Don't expect returns upon your own valuation of yourself is Uncle Bent's advice.

If you do you'll be bitterly disappointed. Not Much. Another thing about Miss Opportunity says the Herington Sun, sh won't wait for you to put on a high collar and roll a cigarette before you go to the door. A Woman's Way. If a woman is going to have a new dress for the winter she cuts patterns out of fashion magazines for three months beforehand, then finally settles down on a pleated shirt waist and a seven-gored skirt, says the Sabetha Herald.

Able Witnesses. The State Journal says up in, Geary county it cost a man $40 to swear over a farmer's party telephone line. He said some emphatic and uncomplimentary thing3 over the line to another man, who had him arrested for it. The complainant had no difficulty proving his case: Four women had their receivers down and heard the conversation. War Note.

War correspondence in the Ottawa Republic: The residents in th? vicinity of the Wilson blacksmith shop on North Main street were diverted this morning by a feminine "mill" of the conventional order. The casus belli was a small boy and over him was waged a battla that resulted in gore and forcibly detached lockets. A few rocks were also distributed over the surrj'nding scenery with more danger to Innocent bystanders than to thi belligerents. No arrests. Made a Hit.

Society note in the Cimarron Jacksonian: The mention of Drew Evans' auto-sparker in the Jacksonian has awakened quite an interest in the- machine. A young lady of Hess township applied to Drew for one of them this week. She said she was acquainted with a real nice young man in her neighborhood and she 6aid she thought he orter spark her. Another young woman who lives in Cimarron told Drew to order one for her immediately. She said she had a nice feller, but said he was a li tie slow, seemed weak in his trmt in fact, lacked ginger and snap.

She thought that aa auto-sparker would put more life In hi3 wcoing. KILLS OFFICER IS A DUEL. Sergeant in Negro Regiment Shot Lieut. Robert B. Calvert.

Manila, Oct. 18. First Lieut. Robert B. Calvert, Twenty fourth infantry, was killed in a duel by Sergeant Taylor, Twenty-fourth infantry, at Abera, Leyte.

The men quarreled. Calvert wa3 from Indiana and graduated from West Point in 1904. He was' 32 years old. KNIGHTS OF HONOR. Newark, N.

Oct 18. The annual meeting of the grand lodge of the Knights of Honor opened here this morning with about a hundred delegates present. V.J THE POST PrBLISHIXG CO. Albert T. Reid, President Fred W.

Jameson, Secy, and Treas. Published every evening except Sunday, in Leavenworth, Kansas, at Pourth and Cherokee Streets. Member of The Associated Fresa. Entered at the Postoffice at Leavenworth, Kansas, as second class matter, August 21, 1905. TELEPHONES Editorial Department ..112 Business Department, 775 SUBSCRIPTION' RATES.

By Carrier, 10 cents a week or 45 cents a month. By mail, $2.50 a j-ear. In advance The Wisconsin food commissioner claims that dehorned limburger cheese can be made; that it is the dirt in the cheese which smells so loud. Mr. Hunt's Confidence.

McCown Hunt in talking about the city today said: "I have lived here all my life. I think I know Leavenworth as well as any man, and I have gone through booms and times of depression. We have had Our ups and downs, but in my opinion, Leavenworth has a real start this time. Our young people are working together better than ever I knew them to work before. We have none of the old fights going on that we used to have.

Every man is pulling for Leavenworth. Our store-rooms are all occupied, and there are no vacant houses. Our working men are well employed and receiving good wages. Our business men are making money, and the trade of the merchants is increasing. What the government has done at Fort Leavenworth has helped us a great deal and yet we are just beginning to feel the benefits of the Fort Leavenworth trade.

Work has already been commenced at Fort Leavenworth to make it a Brigade Post which means that twice the number of men and officers will be stationed there that there has been In the past. This alone will add a great many families to the city; civilians who are engaged at the Fort and the extra money that will be spent in Leavenworth by the officers and enlisted men would maintain a small city. Yes, Leavenworth is all right. It is a good city to live in, and it is going to be a good city to invest in. The man who buys rear estate at present prices will double his money In a few years.

My property is paying me better than it has done for years. I consider every piece of property I have in the city is worth 25 per cent more than it was two years ago and none of it is for sale." Resent Interference. Leavenworth is one of the most prosperous cities in Kansas. Our working men are well employed, and the business men are making money. The only two professions in the city that are not prospering are those of the doctor and the lawyer.

There is very little sickness now and in fact, very little at any time. Leavenworth doctors will confirm this statement. The lawyers are doing nothing as Leavenworth is the poorest city in the Btate for lawyers. Twenty years ago, when the prohibition row was on, some of the lawyers got rich, but there has been nothing doing since. An examination of the police court docket shows a decrease of crimes and the docket of the district court shows very little litigation.

Leavenworth is one of the best governed and one of the most peaceable cities in America. Any man or any set of men, who would change the present conditions that exist, is an enemy of Leavenworth. No man nor political combination can interfere with our prosperity or upset our peaceable conditions if our people will stay together and work together as they have been doing during the last eighteen BLOnths. Outside interference in Kansas City, Kansas, has ruined that city financially. They are getting into debt deeper and deeper ever year.

Leavenworth people believe in home rule. They can manage their own The Lumber Tariff. The Republican who is unduly exercised about the tariff on lumber should remember that the present tariff of $2 per thousand has been in force practically all the time for 30 years, and that during that time lumber has increased in price about 35 per cent. The tariff had nothing whatever to do with this increase. We took it off for a short time, but as the Canadians promptly imposed an export duty of $2 per thousand, we restored our tariff and they withdrew their export duty.

If we were to again take our tariff off the Canadians would probably restore the export duty. If they did not do that, they would raise their price enough to offset the reduction in tariff. Supply and demand fixes the price of lumber as it does of other commodities. The small tariff levied on it does not affect the price appreciably. The range of prices on nearly every commodity is constantly increasing without regard to tariffs or tariff laws.

Who wants to return to the era of cheap prices? The School Book Commission. The question is asked who is paying Mrs. Burton for her alleged exposure of wrong doing on the part of Governor Hoch's book commission which has never met or transacted any business. The school book law is about all there is left to the credit of the Populist party. It is a good and wise law and ought to be let alone.

At every session of the Kansas legislature held since the law was passed there has been an effort, promoted by school book publishers, to amend or destroy this law. They have failed and ought to fail. We are getting on the whole, a reasonably good class of books at a low price. Mrs. Burton is said to have stated that this board which has never done any business, and has not been authorized to do any business, is costing the state $500,000 a year.

The total sales of school books in Kansas, as is shown by the record, is less than $200,000 a year. At the next letting the commission ought to be able to improve the character of a few of the books which are not up to the highest standard. Kansas wants the very best school books at a reasonable price. The price fixed by law, while not high is large enough to afford the publisher a fair profit on a good book. Barton's Offense.

The Kansas City Jov.maT prints a Washington dispatch In which it is said that "Burton was regularly employed by the Rialto Grain and Securities company of St. Louis as attorney and his services consisted in attempting to stop the issuance of a fraud order by the postoffice department barring the use of the mails from that company." There was no evidence in the case that Burton attempted to prevent the issuing of a fraud order against the Rialto Grain Securities or that any such order was ever contemplated by the government. None was ever issued. The undisputed evidence offered by the government was that when Burton asked if there were any complaints pending against the company, he disclaimed any intention of seeking to influence the action of the department in any way. He was told that no complaint was pending; that a complaint which had been made sometime previously had been disposed of.

Four of the strongest members of the supreme court, including Mr. Justice Brewer, held that no offense was charged in the indictment, and even if there was, that there was no proof to support the charge. Macaulay's Prophecy. Attention is called to a prediction of the English historian, Macaulay, written in 1S57, and recalled now ia connection with the radical campaign in New York. "The day will come," said Macaulay in a letter, "when, in the state of New York, a multitude of people, none of Littiefield.

from Maine. state, but as the campaign progresses that prejudice is gradually wearing away. He is able to point with pride to things already accomplished while his opponent is forced to rely upon promises. Senators Long and Benson and our members of congress are all actively engaged in the campaign and are doing good work. Mr.

Bryan has been in the state but seems to have lost much of his old-time ability to enthuse his followers. Prosperity has turned him down materially. Mexico and the Gold Standard. In these piping times of prosperity it is little short of a breach of the peace to refer to the dismal predictions of the financial and moral ruin which was to follow the continued maintenance of the gold standard. We all know how Bryan and his disciples are busy trying to explain why it is that instead Of being in the very depths of moral and financial ruin we are on the pinnacle of prosperity, and are bucking the trusts and other agencies of depravity to beat the band.

The shifts which they resort to, to convince the public that they are not false prophets are numerous and amusing. They charge their discomfiture to good crops, Alaskan gold, the Spanish war, and the like. To add to the troubles of these good people, Mexico now bobs up as a witness to their fatuity. A little more than a year ago that country adopted the gold basis with the result that it has had the most prosperous year in its history. There has been a general awakening in every department of industry.

There is more work for laboring people and at increased wages. Foreign capital is seeking investment much more freely than ever before and there is a general forward movement along all industrial lines. And Bryan, having waxed rich and sleek and fat, goes groping about seeking vainly for a real, substantial issue. The situation is distressing for a man in search of trouble as a political platform. Would Bryan have been better pleased if his doleful predictions had proven true? Such an unhappy result would clearly have been to his advantage politically.

Let us hope that he is glad that he was mistaken. Money Will Not Buy Contentment. In an able address, delivered at Soldier, October 9. Senator Benson, gave a large audience good reasons for voting the Republican ticket straight. After describing the wonderful advancement made by the people of the United States under Republican rule, and its retrogression as soon as the Democrats came in power he said: "If, as someone has said, money will buy about everything but contentment and history, the Democratic party must now be in the winter of its discontent.

It is not contented now, any more than it was in 1892 with the universal prosperity that prevails and apparently desires to have the country resort to the same experiment tried in the four years under the last Democratic administration. Guided by it is safe to say that the experiment would leave the country with the un-happiness, instead of the party. Low wages, idle laborers, closed factories, a vanished surplus, and hard times, seem to follow as the accompaniments of Democratic success, and apparently as the conditions of Democratic contentment. Some Democratic History. "Turning from its discontent to its history, going back to the beginning of Republican rule in 1861, they remind us that we must not refer to the war period and the abolition of slavery, this is 'fighting the war over and we forbear.

If we speak of greenbacks and resumption, they complacently say thatthe finart- Charles E. Representative whom have had more than half a breakfast, or expect to have more than half a dinner, will choose a legislature." The premises here are not fitted to the situation. Never before was it so easy for an industrious American to earn enough to pay for an abundant breakfast and dinner, with a surplus for other expenses and something for the savings bank. This is a year of great harvests, and there is work at good wages for every willing hand. Hard times prevailed ten years 'ago, and even then the public order was not seriously disturbed.

Macaulay pursued his forecast thus: "Is it possible to doubt what kind of a legislature will be chosen? On one side is a statesman preaching patience, respect for vested rights, strict observance of public faith. On the other is a demagogue ranting about the tyranny of capitalists and usurers and asking why anybody should be permitted to drink champagne and ride in a carriage when thousands of honest folk are in want of necessaries." The picture is defective except as to the demagogue, and he is a multimillionaire instead of a ragged champion of a starving host. Macaulay asks which of the two candidates is likely to be preferred by a work-ingman who hears his children cry for more bread, and continues his prophecy in these words: "Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by the barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman empire was in the fifth, with this difference that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman empire came from without and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered in your own country and by your own institutions." The New York radicalism is causeless and absurd compared with that pictured by Macaulay. As to what it signifies, more will be known the morning after the election. Globe Democrat.

The week has shown little if any change in the political situation either in the state or the nation. Chairman Sherman of the National Republican Congressional committee after canvassing the situation, concedes that the Republicans will lose a few congressmen, but not enough to impair the top-heavy majority which the party ha3 in the present congress. In New York there is some uneasiness over the unexpected strength shown by Hearst. It is now certain that Tammany hall will exert every possible effort to bring about his election. That organization has suddenly become an advocate of municipal ownership.

As the Tammany chief, Big Tim Sullivan puts it, "With municipal ownership in New York City, Tammany will remain in control until the millinium." In Kansas nothing new has developed in a political way. La-Follette has come and gone, and while he may have done the Republican ticket some slight harm here and there, it is not believed that the net result will he serious. His meeting in Topeka was a frost. The Democratic State committee seems to he spending most of its slender fund, on a Missouri newspaper, to the no great advantage of either. The newspaper has lost cast and the Democrats have gained few votes by its vociferous partisanship.

Col. Harris is making a rather adroit campaign. He avoids an open debate with Governor Hoch and is prudent in doing so. Governor Hoch is making one of the strongest and most telling campaigns ever made in the state. At the time of his renomination there was more or less local prejudice against him in many parts of the UXITED STATES DEPOSITORY.

Capital $300,000 Surplus 60,000 OFFICERS I A. CALDWELL, President O. B. TAYLOR Vice-President AMOS E. WILSON, Cashier public jobs.

When Aubere tells us that Uncle Joe Cannon wears a $2 hat and a hand-me-down suit of clothes and smokes a Key West cigar, panetella shape, it gives us a better insight into the man's character than any verbatim report of his speeches. We get him on a proper plane, a common one, that we can understand. He becomes a man to us, whereas speeches of any kind might be spoken by the oracles of Delphi, or whispered (phonographically) among the Dodona oaks. Mere words. But these intimate pictures of men tell us what to expect of them, wears a $2 hat and cheap clothes, A man who smokes a 10-cent cigar, must be pretty near to the masses, especially as he has found these things good after seventy years' experience.

He can't care for the foolish things that great wealth buys. He has individuality. He does not mask himself in the conventional attire of "statesmen" affected by the Baileys, Hearsts, Depews. The one thing that redeems Fairbanks is his fondness for buttermilk, and Bryan is dear because of his alpaca coat. They both say brilliant things, hut we could too, were we public characters.

What we want to know about our candidates is little things. But let none seek to deceive us by a temporary simplicity. We look up records to see if they have always been as they now pose. Globe Democrat. Postscripts.

Almost any" one can be a. conversationalist, if he'll Just use his brains occasionally. Children often have cause to correct their parents, but they don't usually try it more than once. "He doesn't amount to anything," remarked a Leavenworth girl of a man acquaintance, "but he thinks he's Thunder." The first thing a newly married woman would buy is visiting cards, but she generally finds that "he" has them for her, already. A woman who wouldn't think cf wearing a green ribbon with a red waist, will put on plaids of every color imaginable, and think she's the whole thing.

Postprandials. An amusing incident occurred, the other day in the millinery department of one of Leavenworth's leading dry-goods stores. A young married woman was looking at hat3, and in the meantime her baby was being entertained by a girl friend, who danced the child up and down before a mirror much to the youngster's delight. exclaimed the impromptu nurse, to the mother. "Isn't Bhe the vainest thing?" At that a large blonde woman, who had been trying on a hat, at some distance, walked over, and exclaimed angrily.

"Do you mean to insinuate that I haven't a right to look in the glass!" And it took some time and many explanations to bring about a calm, agaia. Calamity. This is the best year In the history of Kansas, and it comes as the culmination of seven fat years. WTill we "make up for it" in the future? Atchison Globe. Of course, anything may happen to Kansas.

get sevsn ls2i years of drought and famine to "make up for" the seven fat years. We may all be raising subscriptions to send clothing and food to the destitute and starving of Atchison, Topeka and Lawrence. We may have to buy nails and shingles and boards and send hammers and saws to help Kansas rebuild after it has been struck by a possible cyclone at some indefinite time in the future. A pest may sweep Kansas. It may occur to Kansas again to elect a Populist ticket.

One of the most terrible things that could happen to Kansas would be an overflow of the Kaw river, submerging the state as far west as the Colorado line. And then there are earthquakes and visitations by fire. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that may not happen to Kansas in the way of calamity, or to Illinois, or to Maine, or to Oregon. But why worry about it? It's a pretty good thing to have seven fat years to boast of. Seven fat years are good things to contemplate, and even if it comes to the worst and Kansas has to "make up for" them, it will be some satisfaction to look back to the time when all that wai the matter with Kansas was its prosperity and the Atchison Globe.

Inter Ocean. The Personality of Candidates. Candidates themselves talk to us of the "great issues of the day," and we, being a polite people, listen, though not in the least interested. Everybody knows all about everything in a general sort of way, and one may say anything. We have ceased to judge men by their publicly expressed opinions.

But those wise newspaper correspondents who go about reporting things, see to it that we are informed in the vital things that concern the people -who expect us to give them.