The Oskaloosa Independent from Oskaloosa, Kansas • Page 2

From McLouth. I Vote against anarchy. There! Von the entire Republican tick 1TEMS FROM OAK. Mr. Editor.

Thinkinor KERIDEX NOTES. The doctors report considerable sickness. Our merchants are having a fair trade and business is quite lively. Feebler Bare seem to have the hardware and OSKALOOSA, KANSAS. narness trade.

Tney are kept busy. The sidewalk buildine has been hadlv delayed on account of no lumber to be had. The street commissioner has built something like 20 cross walks out of bard oak lumber, which has been a nice improvement for our little town. The people's party candidates are keep ing themselves quite scarce. Wonder if they are afraid of getting bush-whacked are they in it, or are they making a still hunt Don't be afraid, boys, come out of the brush.

It will only be a few days until the agony will be over and you will be on your way up salt river, L. M. Eshom, our city marshal, has been gunning for un-licensed dogs, and Len is a sure shot. He lets no guilty dog escape: he also keeps his eves open for other violations of the city ordinances. He had George Harris and another woman who started from Topeka be fore the Police Judge.

George payed up but the other woman had no money and ien nrea ner out 01 The "coy maiden" died pretty hard but she is dead. Dooly, Means, Puder-baufirh and Kramer were pall bearers at the funeral, and I miess thev did a eood job, for there has been but very few- Democrats seen around this neck of the woods since the burial. There are a few of them who will not take the dose dished up by the people's party, but some of them will gulp it down. W. II.

Wood, after his visit to Colora do Springs, has come back to Meriden and concluded that this is the best town for his business that he saw while he was gone. He has rented his old stand and will move his stock of hardware in a few days. Feebler Barr are going to add stoves to their hardware business, having made arrangements with the Detriot Stove to handle the famous uariana stove. The people's party are having meet ings eacn nignt tms week at the school houses in this township. They don't expect to make any new converts but are trying hard to hold the kickers down ior one more election.

They well know that this is the last dvinsr kick. I am informed that their subject, principally, is the finance, and the way they discuss that is a caution. Then they divide up jay uouia money ana go home: The Republican candidates were all here last week looking up their chances. They wore smiling faces, and were con fident of success: and why not? Thev are a nice, clean lot of boys, and deserve election. And they are candidates of the Grand old Republican Party! The party that never dodges an issue, never compromises witn wrong, never goes back on its principals, never seeks to de ceive the people to gain a temporary victory, never amnates witn calamity nowiers or any otner wild-eyed schemes, Hon.

J. G. Wood delivered to a crowd ed house one of his excellent speeches last week. It was full of eloquence, logic and sound, convincing argument. Hon.

Case Broderick delivered a splen did speech in the afternoon. Both meetings were well attended by an ap preciative audience. The ltenuhhVan League will hold its last meeting for inis campaign on next Monday night and make final preparation for Tuesday's election. The fight is not ended until the victory is won. The Republican ladies will have a dinner the hall election day and help along the good cause.

The railroads are complainintr of lack of shipments to the east. Farmers are holding their grain for better prices. I Topeka is earning the reoutatinn "of being the most orderly and temperate city in the country. Note the followine: country. Note the following: asus department shown the 1 average annual cost of maintaining the! police force in nine license cities of same size as Topeka to be in Topeka, 816,273.

The average taxes in these same nine license cities are 9266.714: in n. 1- ri During the week of the recent State fair, with a large number of visitors in town the entire week, the police force increased by 14 special officers, making aooui officers in all, and the utmost vigilance ecured, only 12 arrests for urunkenness were made the seven days, or an average of less than two a aay. un nursaay, tne Dig aay, no less than 25,000 people were gathered to attend the fair. This immunitv from drunkenness in a city the size of Tope- Inrohihuimi urmnn In most of the counties of the state the Republican conventions have passed resolutions favoring prohibition, either as a principle or as an established fact not requiring to be mentioned distinctly. "Etern al vigilance" is the price of temperance, as well as of liberty, and all other good.

Hitting the nail on the' head the Emporia Republican says: "Can vou explain." chuckled an alli ance man yesterday, "how it happens that republicans and democrats so thick At the "beginning of the war men who diflered widely as to governmental policy came together and fought side by side when the country's life was threatened. So patriotic citizens are now laying aside their political prejudices and joining bands to resist assaults upon the state's reputation and credit. After all, Kansas patriotism is stronger than Kansas partisanship, wnen it comes to an actual test. Senator Blue says: "A few days ago. Senator Peffer was discussing with some citizens his peeu liar fiat money theories, when one man remarked, 'Senator, if the government can make money by printing paper, what is the use of collecting taxes? Why not take the shorter, easier and cheaper way of printing the money to pay the running expenses of tne government, and not bother the people fer taxes says the senator, 'is just what we are coming to.

Senator Blue remarked that this reminded him of an incident that occurred in southeastern Kansas in the fall of 1860, after the fear ful drouth. The people had met to talk over the situation, and if possible devise ways and means to go through the win ter without starving. After several had spoken, one fellow got up and said his family was all right as he had a cow 'But' says one, 'you have no feed, and what good will a cow do without feed 'The cow is all said the sanguine chap, 'she don't need any herself A isew Dodge. Some or the calamity speakers. are trying to make capital out of the census report, lhe personal pro perty of some of the eastern states, notably Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania, have increased more in personal wealth than a great number of the western'and south ern states put together.

That is one siie of the story. Thi other side is that the real estate of these western and southern states has increased in value niany -iold during the same period. The reason is plain. Every dollar of the ealth made, either east or west, is made by labor, and is an evidence tha labor has been profitable to just the extent of the dollars added to the wealth of the country This added wealth in the east goes largely into personal gains. In the west it goes into improvements on the real estate.

The farmer sells the products of, the soil largely in the east. The money comes back west and is put into improvements on the farms. The eastern wealth is largely personal. The western is largely real. He who fails to note this is deceived himself and will de ceive others by the representations he makes.

Who reaps the personal wealth gained in the east? The Dema gogue will tell you it is the capital 1st the "plutocrat." But what are the facts? We only have them a hand from one small state Con necticot. But it tells the-" whole story in few In 1880 the amount of money on deposit in tb savings banks of Connecticut was, in round numbers, $1 In 1890 it was $110,000,000, a gam $97,000,000 ten years. This money in the savings banks belongs almost exclusively to the "poor and laboring classes. It shows that in ten years they doubled their wealth five times, or five hundred per cent, an average of 50 per cent. ach year.

iNO Dusmess in the country can make a better showing. These facts demonstrate that the great accumulation of wealth in the east has largely been for the benefit of the laboring classes, and is now their possession. hat a splen did snowing ior labor: During the same period hundreds and thousands of men in business failed, hailing from all parts of the couatry. If one little state tb laboring people have accumulated $97,000,000 in the decade, what has been the enormous amount accumu lated in all the states, east and west? The man who will try to one class of citizens against another on such figures as these, is an ene my to bo to classes, and to our com mon country. He not worthy to be an American citizen Parties from Chili report that Balmaceda is not dead, but, alive, notwithstanding the report his snicide.

A scheme to defraud some one, probably. Good Results. et without a scratch. The man who bolts this fall ought not to expect any favors hereafter. Be true now, and the true men of the party will remember you for good.

But if false now bow can you ask or expect favors in the futare? Be true. Be manly. Vote for principle. In defining the parties Mr. King said there were but two, "the skinner and the skinned" an old thing -all capitalists are 6kinners, all borrowers skinned.

The chairman of his meeting is a capitalist and loans money to his neighbors. Is he skinner? Do his neighbors be lieve this? Does he believe it? The same i3 true of other men in the au dience. In his last financial circular, Hen ry Clews, of N. gives the following figures as the crop products of the U. S.

for 1890 and 1891: The wheat erop of 1890 was 399,262,000 bushels; for 1891 the crop is esti mated at 600,000,000 bushels. Exportable surplus in 1890, 39,000,000 bushels; price per bushel the same in both years, lbe corn crop of 1890 was 1,490 million bushels; 1891, 2,005 millions. Oats crop of 1890, 524,000,000 bushels; 1891. 729,000,000. Live crop of 1890, 29,000,000 bushels; 1891, 36, 000,000, and the price per bushel 25 cents higher this yean Barley crop of 1890, 59,000,000 bushels; 1891, 77,500,000.

The total value at Chi cago of all these crops in 1890 was million dollars; the value in 1891 being estimated at 1,836 million dollars, an increase of about 433 million dollars or about three dollars per acre on the total area sown. Just So. Two People's party men in confi dential conversation tell the secret, not knowing that they were over heard by a good Democrat. "Why not fuse with the Demo crats?" asked one of the other. "Because it is not good policy to do so.

You see in the first place it will disgust many Republicans and driye them from us, and so we shall lose their votes for good. And then the Democrats have nothing else they can do but to vote for our tick et, and they will do it because they have to. So we will get the Demo crats at any rate, and hold the Re publicans who are opposed to fu- sion. "I see. I had not thought of.it in that light.

I think you are right "Of course I am. We have the Democrats any bow, because, you see, thev cannot neip tnemseives, i its ii i and must come to us. The real danger is in losing the Republicans from our ranks. If we succeed this vear. we will be the party, the De mocrats will come to us permanent ly, and it will be the Republican and the Peoples party, instead the Republican and the Democratic party." "If it will only work that way "It is bound to work that way.

How else can-it go? The Demo crats have nothing else they can "That will put us ahead next year There will be no Democracy." "Exactly. That's the trick. You see it was not only the only thing we could do, but it was by far th wisest. It puts us away ahead in the lead, so that next year ws wil be in a position to demand what we please of the Democrats. The smal must come to the great.

They can' ask un to go to them; but we can tell them to come to us. And that is all they will have to do. Do you see it?" "Yes. By the holy spoons, that' bully! Bully Senator Piffer makes this state ment in his speeches: Une man invests ten thousand dollars in bonds drawing 10 per cent, interes Another invests the same amoun in land, and another in mercnan -a 11 dising. At the end of six month the man of bonds gets 500, his in terest being paid semi-annually, and at the end of the vear $500 more $1000, and he does nothing but si still and wait.

The farmer and his family work hard all the year, and come out 5200 ahead, lne mer chant's gains are an uncertain quan titv. The one man is 1 1000 ahead at the end of the year without labor. The other $200 ahead with the bard est kind of work. Is that just and eoual?" Whv don't Peffer tell the whole truth "These parties each pay tax on their capital. The capitalist probably lives in a city and will pay 4 per ct.

taxes, or $400, leaving him but 600 of his S1UUU tie has live, and bis familv too. That wi take all the rest of his interest and $400 of his principal. In a few years he will have nothing. The farmer makes bis living, and lives well, increases ins personal sur roundings and comforts, and saves $200. In a few years he will doub his possessions or his wealth.

Say whv does not the senator be hones and tell the whole truth? It is jus such clap-trap trash and nonsense as the above that deceives honest and unthinking people. Shame on are many good citizens in the Peo-1 pies party, but the principles they I advocate as certainly tend to anarchy as water runs down hill. Mr. King very plainly told his "Democratic brethren" that the People's party was to swallow up the Democracy. He made no promise of voting the Democratic ticket next year.

Some of the candidates on the Peoples party ticket are trying to persuade the Democrats to vote for them this year by promising to vote the Democratic ticket next vear. No sensible Democrat will be caught by such chaff. It is in violation of the laws of Kansas to preserve the purity of the ballot. Any such of fer '3 held in law to be a bribe, and vitiates the election of those who might be profited by it, and thus succeed. Mr.

Kisg probably' did not mean but he practically "charged God bolishly," for putting Coal, coal oil and other minerals in Pennsylvania, as he berated the state for growing rich off these natural advantages. But the calamityites are grumbling all the time, when they have crops or when they don't, when it rains or when it is dry. Their stock in trade is grumbling and fault finding. Strange that some American citi zens will denounce the capitalists and manufacturers of America; call ing them hard names, and at the same time favor those of England. They want to break down Ameri can enterprise and ruin American capital, apparently for the sole pur pose of aiding the same class of people in the old world? Is this patriotic? Every dollar taken from American enterprise and given to Europe makes us that much poorer and Europe that much richer.

Where is the man who wishes to do his when he honestly considers the acts Some Fallacies. One of the claims of the old green back party, a heritage to the people's party, was that the soldiers should be paid full value in gold for their services in the war. They. demand now that greenbacks shall be issued in greater volume than they were at that time, men tney were wortn an tne way from forty to fifty cents. Now they want to put them out in sufficient quan tities to bring them below the old price.

That means that men who work by the day would be compelled to receive them, while men who had money lying in the vaults of their banks would speculate in them. Again the alliance asks that monop olies be crushed out of existence, and that the government build warehouses in which they may store their products until a famine is brought about and they may get whatever price they ask for their produce. This is the greatest and most dangerous monopoly that has ever been suggested by any man or un dertaken by any class or syndicate. Again; the alliance demands that the government loan money to land holders upon their land, and that this money be fiat, and that it be loaned at 1 or 2 per cent, a year. No one can get this money unless he be a farmer or own land.

1 his is the worst of class legislation, some thing against which the alliance de claims at every opportunity. Is this a fair demand, or is it the cry of the dema gogue Again; tne alliance speakers declare that politicians control the government to the exclusion of the people. These same men demand that the government own and control the railroads, a system oy wmcn tne government would be placed in the control of railroad em ployes who would be compelled to support the administration in order to re tain their places. These are a few of the fallacies the third party asks its supporters to swallow. They may do that tor a time, Dut it will not last long, in fact a large majority are denouncing tnem aireaay.

ineenais near. j.nic rence Journal. Mr. Kino's array of maps to show that the east is getting rich faster than the west, is the thinnest thing yet. He tries to show- that the eastern states or N.

Y. and Pa. are getting rich very fast, while the west and southern states are not. He only tells half the truth. He is probably honest, howeyer, and believes what he says.

Let us punc ture his bubble. The wealth of the east is largely in stocks and bonds It is wealth on paper. The real wealth, represented by this paper, is largely in the west. We have the railroads, telegraph, telephone, in fact; they have the paper or shad ow of the fact. VV hich is best, the reality or the shadow? If we only had the shadow here and not the substance we could not ship a grain of our cereals or a pound ef our produce to any available market.

Mr. King said we have over $400,000,000 of railway in Kansas alone. Now add all the railroad, telegraph, telephone, wealth to the figures of the west and you will find the ledger, account between east and west will about balance. To illustrate: A citizen of Oskaloosa owns a farm outside of the city limits, which is well stocked with cattle, horses, hogs etc. All this personal property is taxed where he lives, in the city, and the city gets the benefit.

So with the eastern wealth. Being personal, it is taxed and rated where the persons live. But the benefits are where the property really is, as the farm outside the city gets the real benefit of the work of the horses and the milk of the cows. This is all plain. Let the truth be told.

Mrs. Panrell is said to be very weak and ill as the result of the death of her husband. rT Th Met nttrnotirm nnv regular weekly Ghost Dance held by the Iiuddinsr Moon Pow-wnw fSPft Vindica- Budding Moon Pow wow, (See Vindica- tnr Tr thia tHT hcinncr man? nfoi warrior chiefs, and every dance becomes more interesting. It is a source of great pleasure to an old-time chief to see so many of the young warriors who were lea aside oy the wailing of the apostles of despair return to our camp. They Dance (if such a thing be possible) with even more vigor and spirit than do those who went not astray, First came Sir.

Porter Leavenworth and every Pale Face that came to the camp knew we were after them in a way that meant sure defeat.unless something was done, and that at once. Then came S. is. The Pale Face grew still more pale as the speaker, in tones of thunder, told them of their fallacies and the treachery of their leaders. After the speaking we engaged in a season of dancing that eclipsed anything of the Kind trem tne beginning 01 tne uhost Dance era.

Next morning small squads of Pale Faces could be seen congregated at various places seemingly considering wnetner to surrenaer or to make one more struggle to hold the scattering forces together, at least until after election. The latter proposition prevailed, and a plan of action was agreed upon as follows: To send to Nortonville for the Rev. Burnell. He came but his diciDles came not to exceed ten in number, the balance of his audience being of the Ghost Dance persuasion. well, ne talked as long as his breath held out, telling all about his grand father, his father and himself that he had addressed Rep.

clubs and Dem. clubs and Grange clubs and People's P. clubs; that he went into the army when nis niotner was eignty years 01a ana tnat sne aiea 18 months ago at the age 01 ys That he haa hve sons, the last of whicn weighed 180: that thev had starved all these years with the rest of the people in Kansas. The Pale aces applauded at the word starve. At the conclusion of the speech one of the leading Pale Faces took the floor for the purpose of illustrating the workings of the sud.

Treas. scheme, (jniet Rear none, ana Crazv Horse had some nrettv hard Ques tions, but the best of all was when Chief Squatting liear (who was known to have a warm side for the Pale Faces) stood up and asked that they give us the truth, that he was investigating ana he want ed nothing but truth. Well, said the Pale Face "That's not the kind of men we expect to make People's Party man out of." This frank admission was satisfactory to Squatting Rear and all the rest 01 the band, ana tne meeting aa journed. It was afterwards claimed by the Pale Faces that Bunnell was not in good faith, but that a job had been put up by Bunnell and Squatting Bear (who are closely related in church attairs.) lie ing sorely wounded in spirit and weak in body a second scheme was put in to operation. They establish a People's Party headquarters in the Daniels build ing, supported by private contributions This has long since been a noted head quarters, but the mam omce has been moved down stairs, fitted up with a convenient back room where spirits may be exchanged.

That is, they take spir its in order to keep spirits up. The supposed effect of these exchanges are fre quently made manifest on the streets Billy, the Wolf Hunter, did himself no gooa when he subscribed to tms tuna. lhis place is also the omce ol -corre spondent for the Farmer's Vindicator. lie attends the Ghost Dances regularly with pencil and tablet, taking such notes as he thinks he can use to his purposethat is. misstate, omit or insert.

any thing to deceive his readers and misrepresent the speakers, ior in stance, he says: Bradford says Jerry Simpson was formerly marshal of nasty little city like AlcLouth. The fact is, Bradford never referred to Mc Louth in any such manner. He has given us our name, he has named our chiefs. All this works to our advantage. Our Great Chief Rain in the Face, is a terror to a Pale Face and under his leadership 'ere many suns the enemy Will be scattered to the four winds; ana when Bro.

Harman makes one of his bi-weekly visits all he will find left of Head Quarters will be his hungry-look ing correspondent. But the climax of our joy was reached when Chief Dawes scalped Air. utley, with all the schemes and fallacies of the new move. The leaders of the Pale Face sousrht to break our ranks by en couraging a temporary misunderstand ing between Chiefs Ep-se-ta-wah, and Little Turtle regarding the advisability of having the great medicine man from the tribe of the Oskaloosas preside at the joint discussion. They failed in this.

The discussion came off. Utley closed with an apology for his poor speech. stating that when a Republican he could make just as good a speech as Dawes. The meeting adjourned, and the Pale Faces hied them to their homes, to dream of poverty and starvation. Not so with the members of the Budding Moon Pow Wow.

They gathered around the great chief many noted chiefs of our tribe, who count the scalps of the Pale Face by the score, prominent among which were chiers crazy liorse Ep se-ta-wah. Squatting Bear, Little Crow, Hollow Horn, Bear, Little Turtle, Red Cloud. Spotted Wolf. White Elk. Spotted Tail, Porcupine, Big Beaver and others, besides many braves of our band of the tribe of the Oskaloosas.

Talk of Ghost Dances! This eclipsed them all. Round and round we went, shouting and singing! Suddeidy a great shout went up. Two-Strike, a young chief, claimed he saw the Messiah, proved to be a Pale Face looking over the bannisters! We elosed with the following Sioux sorrgto the tune of Old Hundred: Wakantankee yaton mlye Cin hint ku kin makata lii Wika caji ya Un pi kt la wi ni ya wa kan pi ci We havent seen a Pale Face since! White Eagle. Polk's College, North Carolina. Brothers have all graduated from that institution and prepared for all pro fessions in life, such as building soup, soap or sup-houses: also we Brothers were going to run the commerce, not only of the booming city of Thompson-ville and Bonner Springs, but the whole world, and 3 villages more.

Some of us had so far advanced in arithmetic that we could tell a Bro. how much a half-bushel of apples come to if we wanted to buy them. Now we picked up courage enough to lunge forth in running things in the ground at Bonner Springs, which lays on the U. P. R.

this side of K. C. It was a kind of "snipe-hunting" concern, for our cock in the pit left us holding the sack, and now already 01,600.00 are against us, and no telling how much more is for us but our treasurer has left, and promised to commit suicide, poor deviL If we Brothers could be sold at our own estimation when it comes to carving on the running railroads, building different houses or institutions heretofore spoken of, we could not only buy the earth, but study astronomy to get the planets also. Jerry tells us we must not quarrel, but submit in patience, even if we carry on a kind of cat and dog concern in our walled up conclaves; make it appear to outsiders hke it was all harmony or "gold that glitters." What we Brothers want is more stock, and Uncle VaL for president, so if we are sued the sheriff will have something to come after. I ah still a Brother.

want a report of oar mMttinir on Inn Saturday, I thought it would Le about tne ngnt tnmg to report it myself, just to be sure that there would be no mistake about the matter. Well, the central committeeman of the People's Par ty caned ior a mass meeting to meet on the 24th at 2 o'clock p. to place in nomination a township ticket, and after ringing five bells "themasses" to the number of nine beside the chairman. met and after working hard for 42. minutes succeeded in nominating a cand date for township trustee.

There is such an uncertainty about how the beys are going to vote mis lautnat it was thought nest (after consulting the county attorney) to let tha balance of the ticket go to the republicans, as all probability the men they would have put nomination would not vote our ticket The great drawback to our success this fall is the way our county convention acted towards the democrats in the matter of fusion, and the independence displayed before the and we fear although we don't say so openly tnat tne most or the democrats will vote the republican ticket But the township ticket we feel, is a trifle "light weight for campaign purposes, and we havn't much to lose if we dont succeed in the election. La Grippe. A new tin plate mill in Allegheny City, has just turned out soma tin plate which never was excelled in quality. We offer to the Jefferson Coun ty People the followng special Our Fall Stock of DRY OUUUb, CARPETS, LADIES' and CHILDREN'S CLOAKS is now Complete! The best Prints at 5 and 6 1-4 cents. The best Ginghams at 5, 8 and 10 cents.

The best cotton flannels at 5, 8 and 10 cents. The best Ticking at 10, 12, 15 and 20 cents. The best fitting corsets made at 50 cents and The best wearing Kid Gloves at $1 and $1 50. The best Merino hose for Ladies or Children at 20, 25, 35 and 50 cents. The best Merino Underwear at 25, 50, 75 cts.

and 1 The best flannels made at 15, 25, 35 and 50 cents. The best blankets made from 75 cents to $9 per pair. The best Comforts made at 75, $1, $1.25, $1.50 and up. Our Low Prices will please you. Come and see us when you are in Lawrence.

O. McINTIRE, Lawrence, Ks. What they say of them: T. II. Conner, of Eudora, says: "In reply to your request, will say that the Cinderella cook stove will stand on its own merits, and to those wishing a good stove will say that there is none hotter than the Cinderella," Mrs.

Mollie Evans, of Williamstown writes: "I have used the Cinderella cook stove over a year and have no fault to find with it. I find it better than it was recommended." Mrs. C. W. Baldwin, of Clinton, writes IIT M-' 1 mm a 1 nave usea me uinaereua stove ior two years and can truthfully say that it is the best stove 1 ever used." Henry Bailey, of Pleasant Grove, writes: "The Cinderella cook stove I bought of you gives entire As you told me.

I have not regretted buyingit." II. W. Henderson, the boss harness-maker of Lawrence, says: "Our stove-is as good as it can be. "It will do tha most work with the least fuel of any stove we have ever had." Two years ago I sold a Cinderella cook stove to John M. Jones, the popular grocer of Lawrence.

A few weeks after, his mother came to our store and said: "Mr. Shimmons, I want to trade my cooking stove for one like John's. His stove does not use one-half the coal that mine does." MISSOURI. List of letters uncalled for at Oak Ppstoffice Oct. 27, "91: A.

Arner; R. C. Patterson: Thos. Saunders? Tl. Staf- M- F- Stewart; Ernest Meyer, package of md' E.

C. McCracken, T. M. Corn picking has begun, the yield being about half a crop in this vicinity. A large acreage of wheat was sown tms Part-but 11 need ram haS' A.

Lone returned here from Ok lahoma, the 26th. Will, is going back in a few days. He likes that country well-enough to try it a while. School is progressing favorably at Tibbett, under the guardianship of W. C.

Hamilton. John Foggle is courting at Oskaloosa this week. Jack Douglass and Ed. Sharp are en route for home from Seward, Oklahoma. Five Prairie schooners left Buck creek last Sunday for the new country, alias, the Cherokee strip.

Wrieht and Edwards are turning out sorghum syrup for the people of this locality. They make a good grade of mo lasses. While Oak is not yet a town she cer tainly ought to be for she has Petrie for the blacksmith, Judy the butcher, i-og-gle the medicine man and McCracken postmaster, besides several old bachelors and old maids. Politics are waning. The democrats won't fuse with the third party, but we think the calamity howlers will hold a death dance on next Tuesday that will rival the famous ghost dance of 1890.

10 tne democrats we say 11 you vote for Republican ticket you know what is in sight; if you vote with the calamity howlers you will be left to howl. If you don't vote the Republican ticket, be a Democrat and don throw your vote away on a party that is headed by broken-down political shysters. Stak. PERRY JOTTINGS. Larimer has Bailey's new building well under way.

A large number of hogs were shipped trom Perry Monday. At Mrs. E. Layton's Feather collars, the newest thing out. G.

W. Norwood of Lecompton visited Perry Friday of last week. The Perry apple market is lively and better prices are being paid. Matt. Young and Will.

Bradford, students at Baldwin, spent Sunday at home. Walter L. Howe, assistant cashier of the Lawrence National Bank, was a Perry visitor Tuesday. For sale: A large stock of school crayons, slates and all kinds of school supplies, at spangier s. Cramer and Huber of the "Peoples' Party ticket were in Perry Wednesday of last week.

They did not tarry long, Miss Cappie Pendroy of Perry was elected recordine secretary of the Dis- tnct Epworth League at ropeka last week. A special school meeting will be held at the opera hall Nov. 4th, at 2 o'clock, p. to consider what shall be done to relieve the crowded state of the public schools. To reduce stock.

Snanffler is sellinsr some of his ague cures and cough reme dies at 2o per cent, discount. JN ow is the time to buy as this special sale will not continue long. Henry Sutter and Wm. Williams have lost nearly all their hogs with cholera They think the flooding of their pas tures during the heavy rains of last spring may be the cause of the disease breaking out. Through the efforts of Mrs.

Layton a set of dishes have been purchased for the use of the various societies and or ders of Perry when giving xuey in ue iu we care ui me jiumur vi the Odd Follows Hall. The Rebekah Lodge I. O. O. F.

receiv ed the report of the representative to the grand convention, Thursday evening. They also voted to invite the To peka Rebekah Degree Staff to visit the Perry Lodge Nov. 24, and give the beautified floor work. A fellow named Martindale beat one of G. H.

Martin's boys over the head with a rock last Monday. Constable Kirby and Orville Spangier hunted for Martindale Monday night but could not find him. It is supposed that some of his friends assisted him in getting out of the country. J. M.

Puderbaugh was looking after his prospects in Perry last Monday. We have some recollection of his making a canvass here a few years ago. This time he was with and in the hands of those who said the meanest things about him before. We wonder if he remembers the time he expressed, to us, a desire to make the canvass in this district for reelection to the legislature on a prohibition platform, when he now solicits votes for James Dooley. Truly politics make strange bedfellows The following ticket was nominated at the Republican caucus last Saturday: Trustee, J.

T. Brittain; Treasurer, Thos. Lee; clerk, Emery Willits; Constables, G. W. Davis and J.

W. Bundy. It is a good ticket. Brittain is an energetic all around rustler and never half way does anything. Lee is one of our most prosperous business men, and has built up a good business here by his own per sonal exertions and a better treasurer could not be selected.

Willitts is a young man who has lived nearly all his life iir this township and is well qualified for the office. Davis and Bundy will make a good team of constables. Some democrats have been asking ns what has become of the Valley Falls Register. We have referred them to Commissioner D. C.

Adams, as we are told that his vacillating policy has busted the Register. I. C. MERIDEX ITEMS. S.

II. Chacey is on the sick list. Frank Lilia has been quite sick with fever. A good many Meridenites are in Oska. this week, courting.

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Overstreet, on the twenty seventh, a girL George Brewster and wife of Topeka are visiting friends near town. G. A.

Huron and Deacon Cole were both on our streets the past week. Mrs. Hannah Taylor has been, quite sick, but is now slowly recovering. Laura Whaley has moved her dressmaking shop upstairs over W. U.

Wood's hardware. Mr. A. Huffman returned last Thurs day from his eastern visit and reported having an excellent time. WiU.

Wood has bought Mr. Smith's hardware stock and is again at his old stand ready to greet au 01 his old customers. Mrs. White has purchased Mrs. Wagner's house near the school-house, Mr.

Hardman has bought the J. W. Mosier property and John MeLucas has purchased and taken possession of the hoteL Geo. Clark, the present landlord, will move to the country. Herbert Peebkr.

our young P. has been unable to attend his business on account of sickness. Miss Millie Caple is also absent from Smith's store on account of sickness. E. V.

a. ROBERTS, Editor. Saturday, October 31,1891. REPUBLICAN COrXTT TICKET. For County Clerk, J.

3L Gibbs. For County Treasurer, Mel. Lkglkk. For Register of Deedi, I. B.

Brow. For Surveyor, T. H. Davis. For Coroner, J.

TV. Balslet. For Comm'r, 2d A. "Whitley. Republican Township Ticket.

For Trustee, S. F. Kobohn. For Clerk, F. II.

Worswick. For Treasurer, C'has. VT. Hcddleston. For Constables, I.

II. Fairuolm, Vf. D. Monroe. REPtTBLicAXsand Democrats unit ed to put down the rebellion, why not unite to put down principles which lead to aaarchy and ruin? Sehatoe Peffer found it too hard work to meet Burton in joint debate, and so at Manhattan he completely backed out, undershtlter of the local committee.

The report of the secretary of the State Alliance at the recent annual meeting at Salina, shows a falling off of 50 per cent, in the member ship of the Alliance during the year. The sober second thought is convincing people that the calamity howling is a fraud; and honest men will not cling to a fraud. The Alliance county attorney of Dickinson county and the Alliance candidate for judge of the district into a corrupt bargain and sale with the liquor sellers, a number of whom are under arrest, that they should not be prosecuted if they weuld vote the Alliance tick t. The trade is exposed and proved Col. A.

A. Harris, one of the ablest and leading Democrats of the state, advises Democrats everywhere to vote the Republican ticket where the Democrats have no ticket of their own in tire field. Republicans and Democrats every where ought to vole to sustain order against an archy. They are doing this in many places, and should do it in all places. The wealth of the eastern States is largely personal, that of the west and south largely real property.

What the west and south need is more manufacturing industries to bring a market close to home for the products of the soil, and to di versify its possessions. This will take from the east much of its per sonal weaith and distribute it elsewhere. This is the way to equalize matters, and not by denunciation or repudiation. Tux Argentine Republic is appar ently on the verge of another revolution growing out of the wild finan cial schemes which have ruined the country. Gold is at a premium of 360 over the fiat money with the government stamp upon it "this is a dollar." The fiat of the govern ment cannot make the dollar worth a hundred cents, and so the people are discontented and angry, and threaten to demolish things.

Honest money is the honest and safe thing to have. Gov. Humphrey is using coia-mendable energy in his action in reference to the offices, of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway, and in the matter of compelling the Union Pacific road to relay track of the Kansas Central with heavy rails of standard weight. Now if he and the railway commissioners will see that the Union Pacific obey orders in running two trains a day on the Leavenworth, Topeka Southwestern road, they will be entitled to still further credit. Until they do there is a screw loose somewhere, which needs tightening very badly.

Let us have the right of the people looked after and protected. The effort of any American citizen to array one class of the people against another class is little short of treason. The man who does it is a demagogue, no difference to what party he belongs. We are all one people. As the body is one body, though composed of many members, so the inhabitants of this nation are one body of people.

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