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PARKER, LINN COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1896, WHOLE NUMBER 5. 16 to 1. INDEPENDENT IN EVERYTHING, NEUTRAL IN NOTHING. 16 to 1 VOL, 1, NO. 5.

Hurrah for Bryan OUR QUESTION BOX. LET'S PLAY YOU A TUNE' The rain stopped 119 somewhat at the rally, but it wont stop U8 at the polls. We inyite everybody that has questions that are puzzling their minds to hand or mail them to us and if v3 can not answer them we will endeaver to find someone who can. RULES. 1st.

The questioner mu At be a subscriber. 2nd. The name and address of each one must accompany the questions. AVe willl publish a non de plume, or no name at all if desired, but want your name as an evidence of good faith. Questions may not be answered the first week they, are asked, but any question of a political natwe he explained before election, providing it is not too complicated.

AYhat to Think of When You Cast Yonr TOTE. Think of your wife. Think of your babies. Think of the past and present. Think of your mortgaged homes.

Think of your neighbors homes. Think of your nation, its prosperity Think of the decrease in prices un-a gold basis. Think of the fall of prices along with the fall of silver. Think of how many days you worked in 73 and how many now. Think if you want the existing conditions with thp existing gold standard which' the republicans offer Think tof yonr own interests not those who are holding the capital of this country, -and you will vote for better times and more money.

I limn Htcw IB It i3 queer that the wheat was out of the hands of the farmers before prices advanced, isnt it? That is always the case. Two years ago just after the wheat left the hands of the producers and went into the hands of the speculators the price fiew up to 80 cents and after the farmers had shipped their wheat for 30 and 40 cents the Greeley Mills shipped in two cars of wheat and paid 81 cents for it and thought they had a bargain. But we remember that it was a spirt in the market that had no more of a natural cause than the present inflation, and it lasted about as long as this one will. English granaries are, full at present. Three months ago the English trade was supplied and only a small demand was expected.

All of a sadden word was received ordering a shipment of about 4 million dollars worth of wheat. Now with the facts before us. and the history of the past twenty five years, caa we conceive that it is a plot of no greater magnitude, than similar schemes which have been employed Does it not have about the same face and earmarks as the act of 73 It comes from the same place, and the intentions is to make the voter satisfied with his present deplorable conditions. AVe hardly look for a restoration of grass on Major McKinleys lawn until after the 4th of March. K.

C. Journal. The Major is not going to be don up so badly he cant plant grass, is he If Mr. Bran really never swears, it is diffieulft to see how he is going, to do any talking after the elction. K.

Journal. Hell leave that for McKinley. Hanna considers that Colorado is doubtful. Perhaps he will consider heaven doubtful before election is over, unless he comes nearer to the truth than that. Is there any positive proof that coinage will raise the price df silver bullion to $1.29 per ounce in gtyhl the world over? If so, what t.e proof? The above question we believe is is very reasonable because it was put solely for information, but we cannot think of answering it in our little publication.

In the first place international bi-metallism is virtually accomplished as soon as this country adopts it. Germany has already expressed her willingness to do so, and Russia i readv and France already enjoys it. Uur questioner is a posted man so we need to advance no proof as to these facts. Second, it was $1.29 before it was demonetized aud we believe that to restore it to its former position would restore it to its former price. Again it would cause an unlimited demand for silver at $1.29 cents per ounce which it has not had since 73 It would act similar to the wheat market now.

Only a few speculators wanted wheat at any price, and those few men who live in England nearly doubled the. price of the wheat of the world. Then is it not probable that if this country offers $1.29 cents an ounce for silver, as it did under the law prior to 73 that the market for silver bullion the world over would be no less than that. Another reason is that this government would use its discressi' iug off its obligations in cghOO gk CM ET given it by the contract, V'lclA Es 1 no one, because both pavtiY rd to it. Give silver the same as gold to pay off these obligations and then the money centers the bond holders, will do all in their power to keep silver and gold at a parity with the coinage at 16 to 1.

Iu the way of illustration we would suppose that we had an engine that would ruu 16 miles an hour when the throttle is wide open, shut it cue half and it will run 8 miles an hour. Keep up the same steam pressure and open the throttle again, aud new life will appear, and it will bouud forth at 16 miles an hour. In spite of the shutting off of the throttle one half the money this country has prog-essgd in art and manufacturing. If takes the first place among the nations of the earth; all n' bus look to us and wait for our decisions on every other question, Then why do we wait? AVhy are we asking for international bi-metallism? AVhy wont the price raise it not appear like it is positive proof that it will return to its former value? Explain the Gersham law aud show why gold will not go out of cir culatiou nu.ler free coinage at. 13 i Gold will not go out of eurculation-because it is now practically out of circulation.

It cannot under any act be harder to obtaiu unless it would an act demonetizing it wholly und the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, if gold does not go into ciaculation.it all, wewill have a 'better circulating medium than we have with, a gold ahd because the measure of ualue i practecaly outbf the hands of the people now. Gnoriga lost a man iu Speaker who has represented his slate nation well. It is one of the b'ows that con'd have Georgia, as his rcelectioD wa certain. AVe ln.pe that as good will be there to take lus place. Single standard orator on a standard plank is no more good For President, WILLIAM J.

BRYAN, Lincoln, Nebraska. For Vice-President, ARTHUR SEWELL, Maine. ELECTORS. At Large, MORRIS CLIGGETT, Crawford ALBERT PERRY, Doniphan, GEORGE T. PITTS, Sumner.

First District, SIDNEY HAYDEN, Jackspn. Second District, J. B. GOS HORN, Allen. Third District, W.

II. LINTON, Montgomery. Fourth District, E. M. BLACKSHERE, Chase.

Fifth District, C. A. HILLER, Salina. Sixth District, J. R.

LOGAN, Lincoln. Seventh District, II. J. IlOETZEL, Barton. Congressman 7th District, M.

S. PETERS. STATE TICKET, Chief Justice, FRANK DOSTER. Governor, J. AV.

LEEDY. Congressman at Large, J. D. BOTKIN. Lieutenant Governor, A.

M. HARVEY, Secretary of State, AV. E. BUSH. Attorney General, L.

C. BOYLE. State Treasurer, D. J. HEFELEBOAVER.

Auditor of Strte, AV. II. MORRIS. Snpt. Pub.

Instruction, AY m. STRYKER. COUNTY TICKET. Representative. AY.

II. DINGUS. Probate Judge, POTTER. County Attorney, II. P.

CLAY. Supt. Pub. Instruction. O.

B. REDDICK. Clerk of the Dist. Court, FRANK SCOTT. Commissioner, AY.

A. GAGE. TOWNSHIP TICKET. Trusttt C. GROVE, Ulerk, J.

C. MULLINS, Cruani'K i reanrrt Cl LiiC pursuit. Cub3ULLIV AN, Cadiz, O-atlin prisoners, I thstarr'ODEICn, Cubans weVIS. thrown at iug so exLiCAN TICKET. greatest difi the prisoners! psdpnt, McKINLEY.

Pop ca-e-Presiclenf, vedaua, tT A. non ART. ululate for 40iconnty rublishi Evening DenOV. Bit Withdraws as a eaiP. Arville M.

Barnet ace is now between. a Jlothwell, Republican i CE Lvb. Deed of a Crazy Urver. Jewell City, Kan.j. Wallaces hired man 1 pitcher last night and set fire 1 family were extingui Edwards, the man set fire to t'C'ton.

was consumed, togettole. lot of grain and foil insurance, $2, OCX supposed to he crazy. Sullivan CancerCKET. Bostox, Oct. 28.

Jot ex-pugilist champion, Jones, cancer. The trouble J. the right hand, and Emergency hospital, leeler. van called for treatml. Ri less Sullivan takes Lovvc lose his arm.

Bray ton. v. FostmastcrT Topeka, Oct. 2CKET. Wesley Abrams of Maris, short, the sum has bondsmen and the office is i Joseph Deal.

It is though, rams was careless rather inal. i Hanna will be a boys name now. We will cater ho longer with England. The republicans party has reached its. doom.

Ex-Speaker Crisp died at bis home in Georgia, last week. Mr. Liwe seems to be a business man as well as Morrill. AVhy didnt Joneo answer the ques -tions propounded to him? Remember the poor at the polls its too late in the winter. There are only five more days in which to make up your mind.

The date of the Napoleon loo will change to Nov. 3. AVater Dont bet on the election. If you do your vote may be challanged. 'A good many baby girls arenaimed after Hanna.

But they cant vote. AVe are after the $10 offered by our contemporary as soon as he sights us. IXannaism is rampant now but the 3rd we will cut off the refix and put it pants. AYili you vote the republican ticket from principals, or from the St. Louis convention It will rustle the gold standard people to have after election.

a respectful retreat That $10 offered us to prove 150 millions of silver was coined prior to 73 is not in sight yet. The rights of the people are greater than the individuality of Tom AVatson, AVbich will the people reverance AVe never heard of so much confidence as people have now. Times ought to be if that has anything to do with it. Morrills business administration is strictly business, we suppose, siuce he has followed the national bank idea its business to go i debt. That wheat speculation is too clear.

English speclation bought it to raise the price in the first place just before election. In the second place, the speculators iutend to make money out ofit. Cleveland drives the gold standard office holders out to speak and the free silver speakers out of offices. To the former he says: Go preach gold standard, to the later he says Thou shalt not mingle iu politico. When we see wheat, oats, corn, cotton, horses, cattle, aud all other commodities are as near on a parity as supply aud demand will allow, dont it look reasonable that when one thing, gold runs away from it that gold is the thing that fiuctuats? AVe received a work called The Tariff by AVm.

McKinley. He is ten years late by Missiouri Pacific. The issue i3 money this campaign aud he hasant found it out yet. Oh will it dont matter, he is not going to be elected. Your ballot this fall decides whether we are to be Americans, or submit toEnglisholegarchy and have the gold octopus sucking the life from us as it does from the laborer of Russia, Ireland, England, Turkey and Italv.

We are from Misstouri, and will have to see that $10 before we belive its offerd. AVe cant leave it to our contempary though to decide. Well have to have an arbitration committee who will hold the money unill the fact is proven. The carious man says he saw no books in our sanctum. If our memory serves us right we saw none iu his sanctum.

But if he thinks we keep our library in a public office, he is badly left, AVe do not keep oar books like he does. Frank Scott our candipate for clerk of the court was in our city Saturday. Mr. Scott is a young man worthy or the position and capable of keeping account of the court affairs. AVe be-livc that the people will look to there own intrests enough to elect him.

AVe have been wondering ever since we came here why the Message insists upon putting weekly at its head, since no town the size of rar-kcr can afford a daily but its plain now. It is a mistake of the printer vho should have put it weakly. Every republican hollowed that the Lord was not on our side because it rained, but their side was drounded out too after dinner. The Rally at Parker the 29th was a grand success. The floats were the best we ever saw in a parade in a small place.

There were abopt 350 teams here. It is a bitter pill for the goldites to swallow, but in, spite of rain and weather the people gathered to show that the free silver sentiment moves on. There is no doubt but what the sentiment is growing, and the people are beginning to see their interest and are going to rally for them and when election day comes will not neglect to vote for them. AVe were disappointed in our speaker in as much as none came, nut the people were well entertained by the LaCygne, Lane and Cadmus glee clubs, and the Prairie Home and Par-ksr bands. No one seemed to be dissatisfied, but it put the committee in an einbarassing shape because of the disapointment in the speakers.

Mr. Brain called the other day and while here said that he had been wonderiug wliy McKinley didnt go away from home to make speeches, but finally came to the conclusion that since the laws were strist in Ohio regarding mortgaged property, that it would be deemed unlawful for McKinley toleave his township. AVith the Democrats hogging everything in Georgia, no wonder Tom AVatson feels the necessity of holding out for his rights and the rights of his party in the nation. Leavenworth Times. And the republicans had better look to Kansas or the democrats will hog that too.

A FEW NUTS TO CRACK s' 1 AVoald not the workmen of this country hare jobs on the farm and at various other places if the people had money to pay it? And will they not fare better at work six days in the week at $1 per day than one day a week at $1 per day If a farmer can sell his at $1 per bushel cannot he pay off a. $1009 mortgage with 1000 bushel of wheat where it takes 3000 now Did not silver and gold circulate together prior to 73 better than it does now If it did not how does it come that under a gold standard there ue so many, shipments of gold to England Does not the history of this country teach us that a double standard is better, and that a single standard takes gold out of the country Will it be better to drive $600,000,000 of gold out of the valts of banks (what is called out of circulation by gold standard people) or put $600,000,000 nto the hands of the people Do you not think that the demonetization of silver in 73 had a great deal to do with the fall in the price of silver bulion If not, then what has caused the demand for silver so little since the average mining ratio was about 32 to 1 prior to 73 with and since 73 averages about 18 to 1 How do you expect to decrease wages of farm labor when you increase the price of farm products Did Bryan ever say we could have a cheap dollar and a dear dollar in so many words, without some philosophical explanation? If so, we chal-lange anyone do show it. Has not our contemporary committed himself when he asks why are wages as twice as high in Mexico as in this country on one side of his paper and on the other side declare that they are not so good If an engine runs.sixteen miles an hour with the throtle at a certain notch, if thrown shut it would run eight miles, would it not when open to the former notch, vim 16 miles ah hour? Explain this and then you have the parity at 16 to 1 explained. Did you ever hear a word against reciprocity from us? Cannot figures tell, what percent there is between the McKinley and AVilsori bills? That easy. Answer our questions now.

A great many ballots are put on the j. tickets to fool the populist and democratic votes. Above the democrat ticket is printed, plainly, Democrat; above the populist ticket is written the the Peoples Party. The National Democrat aud the Middle of the Road Populist cut no fignrs'to our voters. Get a ticket and.

study it. Vote for state senator, representative, Peters, Botkins, if you are a Bryan republican. Bryan can do nothing without a free silver congress behind him. Remember the legislature felects the Senators, if you are a free silver Look out for the chronic better. He is iaying for suckers tochallange votes.

An old Solder carried through the street the day of the rally what was accused of being a rebel flag. This old soldier of the Union Array, was fromMiami county and he carries three bullets in liis body. It is a likely story that he vvouldjserve six yearsfor the United States, and then carry a rebel flag. Some one threatened to shoot itif put, on the streets, but it waved by the side of our flag pole and and no one dared to insult the flag that represented the Miami county army corps, and the pattern of the one Hooker carried in his career. For information regarding the flag enquire of Mr.

Gilbert the old soldier who carried it. The boy orator is giving the men lots of trouble. lie is like another 12 year old boy that went into the temple, you remember, and answered the questions for the learned men of old. Perry Maness was phot at BeagleFri-day by Dallis Day. It was a settlement of an old fued which.existed some time over a horse that got loose from Dallis Days father and done a little damage for Maness.

Maness took the bridle off of the horse and turned the horse loose keeping the bridle for damage. Day went after the bridle and Mauess wanted to whip him then but Dallis prevented it At this time Dallis Day was at church at Beagle and Maness called for a settlement of the account by a licking, when Day clrue his revolver and commenced shooting. Six shots were fired, but one' took effect in the shoulder. The wound is not serious, Crisp ami greaest oenured to almost a man single than the single standard on the republican wagon, A wagon with one standard is no good. Iu Sioux Falls (be gill? wear a white ribbon on which is printed, in large No gold hug need apply.

Our girls should follow suit. Herald. The Atlanta constitution what McKinley stands for Thats easy. M-c-K-i-n-l-e-y stands for Hanna. askf, now.

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Clrtoooi8, Cymbal, all InUrumanU pa talntng to Braaa and drum Vorpa- I nlal ClItlatB r. wATwauBCM urif i' AAhat proof have we that free coinage of silver at 10 lo 1 will give 11s bi-meltalism lie concurrent use of bulb gold and silver as standard money Gold will not be' liable to currnlate immediately after the pa-sage of such an act, but when the price is arranged as answered iu the first question we see no reason that gold should keep hiding place, and let silver do the work. A pair of double trees with the same pail on each side will stay even, relax on one side and that side will go hack, but keep the same pres-sure and they will pull togetheiL Pull gold and silver together and it is bound to cerculate together. Su bscribeforthePOINTEF. J5H8 F.

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Stratton 31. G. Gatlin lias served the office of Justice of peace well during the time he has been hi it. AVe belive that he will continue to do so After his reelection. Mr.

Gatlin i a in an with ahighsenccof honor ami Justice and wo can do no better than to reelect i 1 Sk i Columbus Delano Dea Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 24. Delano, who was secretary oto terior under President Grant his suburban home at Lake Mount Vernon, this morning1 if A.