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NO. 08.
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
From oar Rejnlar .Ctiirespdndlnt
For the Democrat:
E x -S j en k e r Ca r 1 i sle's s t a t e
ment i-howing that the ap
propriations contemplated
by the repubFcan majority
would leave a deficiency in
the Treasury has caused
Mr. Cannon, chairman of the
House Appropriation com.
mittee to make a statement
which he calls an answer to
Mr. Carlisle. Mr. Cannon's
estimate leaves out a number
tf appropriations that the
republicans generally have
pledged their party to make.
Time will tell which state
ment is correct. For the
sake of the country Mr. Car
lisle would not object jto hav
ing Mr. Cannon prove to be
right.
Poor Harrison, he is in
deed to be pitied when even
Jay Ilubbell can come to
Washington and abuse him
through the medium of a
newspa per i ntervieW.
It is a mistake to suppose
that the Oklahoma bill which
passed the House last week
opened the Cherokee strip to
settlement, and Mr. Harri
son has issued a proclama
tion of warning to people in
tending to settle thereron.
A resolution passed by the I
11 i 1... Lt.. ,.r re
ty caucusaud attempt to get
revenge.'
According to high republi
can authority, they will only
require about 50,000,000 a
year to to pay the pensions
under the bill that they pro
pose passing at this session.
That will bring the pension
payment up to more than 1-
oo,ooo,ouu a year, a mere
trifle.
A republican appointed to
a 91.500 Federal office in
New York last week by Mr.
Harrison is a defaulter for a
large amount to the Gover
ment. The defalcation oc
curred in this city some years
ago.
Secretary .Noble considers
his authority greater than
that of the Senate, and has
accordingly refused to fur
nish certain reports, relating
to the withholding of land
patents in the Union Pacific
railroad grants, asked for by
a resolution of the Senate.
He holds that it is a matter
for him to decide upon. Mr.
Heed has undertaken, anoth
er big contract. HeL.ys he
intends to attempt to break
up the practiceof exmembers
of eongriss acting as lobby
ists. Another Attempt is being
made to have the Gov't.
adopt paper fractional cur-
mterest, power and gold un
til the republic Khali end
Amen.
nan states ns New Ham-'tion may haveofiicials whose
siure, .Mass. Knock'
Conn. in an open
tween the home and the Fa
loon stood by the saloon
by hhr majorities. lVnn.whieh
lop kn, Kan, I eh. L'S jrilVe Harrison 80,000 plural ! is nevertheless true that in
ity, defeated prohibition by the States carried bv Harri-
ST..I0IIN ON HARRISON.
iiaiii, example ,u ioiiowe.1 ov our
tight Ik"! boys, would not lead them to
the use of intoxicating liqu
ors.
"Strange as it may seem, it
ncy for the convenience
House calls on the Sec. of.
War for information as
the money and facilities he
has for rendering aid on the
flooded Mississippi river.
The worlds fair bill has!
Iiopii ne-fc-tcd Mccnr.Hn..- in'.of the Senate 'a
in
ij.i.i- 111111,111 iii-jircciniii ive
Hall, ex-Governor John 1'.
St. John spoke to a large au
dienco. He excoriates tne
national administration and
the Republican party. His
de nunciation of the Republi
can party and its position
on prohibition wnsespecially
cutting. President Harrison
and Vice President Morton
were touched up in lively
style.
On the tariff question and
its application to Kansasfar
mers, Mr. St. John said :
"Never in the history of
this nation have farmer's tar
iff duties and the mortgage
indebtedness been greater
than they are to day.
"Just think of it! Corn sell
mg at M cents per bushel m
Kansas and 53 cents in New
York. Who gets the differ
ence of 40 cents between here
and New York? Hard coal
selling nt $1.50 to $2 per ton
in Penn. and at $11 here.
Farmers using corn for fuel
in western Kansas because it
is cheaper than soft coal
from our own mines. Beef
cattle selling at less than act
to I srnail transactions through uu! co.-t of production.
Pie mails.
Senator East is convicted
Senator Hoar of making wil-
Jful mistaternents on the floor
the ideas of the Chicago folks
and it will probably come up
in the House this week. Noth
ing has been agreed upon as
to date. The Government
appropriation is $1,500,000.
lhe wonderful egg is at
last hatched, and the pro
duct-Representative Lodge's
Federal election bill has
been reported to the House.
It is a remarkable concoc
tion, and is claimed to be
based upon the Australian
system of voting.
Senator Voorhees and
Judge Jeremiah Wilson will
help in the defense of C. E.
Kincaid, the newspaperman,
who killed Ex-Congressman
Taulbee, of Kentucky.
There is a regular monkey
and parrot time going on in
the Navy deparment. Sec.
Tracy has forced the head of
one bureau to resign, and it
is said there are others to fol
low. Naval officers accuse
Mr. Tracy of being w himsical
in his ideas.
Republican Senators have
had the nerve to engage in a
revolt againsli Quay's boss
ing. Quay, according to the
story, demanded that the
present Sergent-at-Arms of
the Senate should be put out
to make room for one of his
men, and a majority of the
republican Senators, not
only refused to this, but in
timated in very plain lan
guage to Quay's agent-the
boss being still in Florida
that even if there was a va
cancy in the office his man
could mot have it. The ques
tion now is whether Quay
will quietly packet ttWaffront
or whether he w ill attempt
to whip enough of the Sena-
t week,
that will not prevent ti.e
but
' Oars at. 10 cents er bush
el ni;d good horses at from
50 t '.SO, 'while western po
tnroes la-fug only from 8 to
20 cents j.er bushel where
asti:v are produced, but com-
sachusetts Senators doinir
the same again whenever it
may happen to serve their
purpose.
The Senate is to get rid of
tlie Blair bill by voting on it
Thursday,
The minority of the house
committee on Territorial has
made a report against the
bill for the admission of Ida
ho.
Washington, D. C.
JAY GOULDS PRAY tit.
Our father who art in Eng
land. Rothschild be thy name
thy financial kingdom come
to America, thy will be done
in the United States as it is
in England. Giveusthisday
our bonds in gold, but no
silver; give us plenty of labor
ing men's votes to keep mo
nopoly in power and their
friends in office. We know,
our father, we have done
many things that werewronir.
we have robbed the honest
poor,nnd brought distress to
many a door. We know it
was wrong to refund the
bonds and make them pay
able in coin; we know it was
wrong to demonetize silver;
we know it was wrong
to .water our railroad stock
but thou, our father, krrow-
est we made money by that.
Now, our father thou know
est we are above politics.
It is the same to ns whether
democrats or republicans
rule, for thou knowestwe are
able to 8-way all poltical jobs
in our favor. Lead us not
into the way of the strikers,
butdeliverus from the insane
Knights of Labor and the
Earmers' Alliance. Thus shall
fcrs into line to control a par Wvve the kingdom bonds, in tlie past year such Repub
mamliSO cents to $1 a bush
el in eastern markets.
"Can you see where the
western farmer's protection
comes in? His land is plas
tered with mortgages. He
finds it almost impossible to
pay the interest and utterly
impossible to liquidate the
principal. Taxes-municipal,
State and national-never so
exorbitant as at present;
transportation and markets
lor all he has to self, as well
as for everything he is com
pelled to buy, are under the
control of gigantic monopo
lies and trusts.
"But is not his pig pen pro
tected? Yes, if tariff "means
protection, then it must be
admitted that thefarmer's
pig pen is protected. So are
his plows harrows, harness,
hammers, saws, augurs, food
fuel, clothing including the
buttons on .his shirt are all
'protected.' In fact the far
mer is 'protected' to death,
and he is just beginning to
mm it ouc. w natever we
have accomplished in the
West has been despite this,
the so called protection,
which is nothing more nor
less than legalized robbery of
the many to enrich a few.
"But when we come to the
Rebublican party we are as
sured that it has given us'all
the prohibition we have ever
had,' and that we Prohibit
ionists are trying to turn the
the Govnerament into the
hands of the 'whisky Democ
racy.' Now, what are the
facts? Let us see.
"A dozen States adopted
prohibition before the Repub
lican party was born. With-
1HD.000 majority. Iowa
which gave Harrison, the
anti-prohibitionist, 30,000
majority in '88, d( feated the
Republican, candidate for
governor jn 'SO on a plat
form pledged to the enforce
ment of the prohibitory law,
and elected an anti-Prohibition
Democrat.
4 President Harrison was
paraded before the church
people in '88 as a strong teni
perance man,' and the 'fami
ly prayers, racket was used
to good advantage politic
ally. The day before his in
augv.ration was Sunday.
i wo niousnmi saloons ran
wide open in Washington
City, in direct, violation of
law, riotous diunkeness was
seen on every hand, and yet
this 'Christian President' had
not a single word to utter in
h is i n a ugu r a 1 a d d ress a ga i ns t
these outrages upon moral
and common decency. In his
maugrai procession ma.c -edl,0w0
saloon keepers. How
many slave drivers marched
in the inaugural procession
of Lincoln? Not one. Why?
Simply because they wen? not
in sympathy with his party.
From the inaugural ceremo
ny th's 'Christian President'
went to a big dance in the
Pension Office, where 400
son there are two saloons in
proportion to the population
to one in the States carried
by Cleveland, and the Repub
lican North consumes 22
barrels of beer to every one
consumed in the Democratic
South. So you see there is
no reason for alarm about
'turning the Government
over to the whisky Democra
cy.' Nor is there any hope
whatever for prohibiton from
the Republican party. Why,
right here in Kansas only a
week ago, the Republican
League met, and not with
standing all the agitation a
bout resuomissiun it lacked
the courage to speak out a
gainst it, but as usual dodged
the issue. Republican resub
mission clubs are being or
ganized daily. The Demo
crats are for resubmission
straight, while the Republi
cans propose to reach the
sawe end by way of aconstit
u t ion a 1 con ven t ion . ' 'Na r-
ionnl Democrat.
pletj ice house. Hurrah for
Riok! :
La (irippe is fading away
for want ofsubjects on which
to feed.
J. R. ErvinlaiuJ II. M. Kent
are at the head of an engin
eering corps surveying a
route for the Southern arid
Western Railroad. Their ac
tion is from Grandmother
(Jap to Crdnberry. Tlie -minus
of this road areShelby
in Cleveland county, p-nd
Cranberry in Mitchell. It is
to pass entirely through
Burke'.County. J. S. Warner;
March 17. 1890.
Lin'ville Items.
gallons of Roman punch was
consumed.
Mi .lit
ir. now .icems tnat ne is
not even a total abstainer.
lie not only drinks intoxicat.
ing liquor, but serves guests
with it in the White House.
It is said by the press that at
a recent great feast given by
the President live wine glass
es were at eech plate, and
that the sparkling beverage
flowed freely.
"Surely history repeats it
self. The Bible'tells us that
Belshazzer, the king, made a
great feast to a thousand of
his lords and drank wine be
fore the thousand. And that
they drank wine and praised
the god of gold, and of silver
of bi ass, of iron, of wood and
of stone.
"Now strikeout 'Belshazzer
tne King,' and put 'lienjamin
the President,' in the first
verse. We insert in the sec
ond 'monopolies and trusts,
pig iron and wool,' and the
parallel, so far as these two
verses are concerned, is com
plete. No act either official
or otherwise, gives us any
reason to suspect that Presi
dent Harrison has any desire
to overthrow the liquor traf
fic. Vice President Morton is
of a ntore' practicable turn of
mind. He is only worth 10
million dallars and of course
must in some way provide a
living for his family, who
have a right to look to him
for support. Therefore he
owns a bar of Irs own where
the elect are supplied for 20
cents a drink. And yet the
liquor from 'Shoreham bar'
will makeamauas drunk as
that sold in O'Briens saloon
on the bowery. Mav God
hasten the day when this na-
lt
For t ho Democrat.
On Saturday morning last
at aboitt 10 o'clock, an alarm
of 'ire went forth from Roa
noko street. The fiie was on
the premises of the undersign
ed. 1 Occupied a cabin JOxlG
feet, in which I did my cook
ing, eating and sleeping, ul
alone. 1 had a stove in
from which the fire caught
during my absence. The
neighbors gathered in to do
wh a 1 1 hey co u 1 d , b u t co ul d d o
nothing to save my property
The story-and-a-half house
which stood wi thin ten feet
of the cabin took fire and was
burned to the ground. The
neighbors did much good,
however, for they saved Capt
Jordan Cook's house, (which
stands about 50 feet from
my premises,) by the most
earnest exertions. It was a
very narrow escape, for the
flames lapped over the roof of
Capt. Cook's house twice,
withotit the fire communica
ting to it. The reason why
it did not catch was because
it was covered with a thin
sheet ol ice. I lost all my
books, clothing, bedding and
household furniture, includ
ing two stoves. Mr. Pitman
had moved hrs family back
to Henson's Creek, but he had
a bed and a few cooking u
tensils in the other house.
The beds and clock were saved.
A supscriptiorr hi my fa'yor
has started and and is now
out, by which I am assured a
part of my loss will be made
good to me. My loss at a
moderate esti irate, is fully
$150.
My sincerestthanks aredue
to all who came to the fire
and endeavored to do me
good, but could not, except
by saving the property of my
nearest neigbor,viz: Capt.
Jordan Cook.
To-day (Monday) Mr. Rick-
seeker is yatherinsr some ice
and putting it in his com
HlJiD SIGHTS.
In debate in the Senate th4
other day, Senator Sherman
asked Senator Eustis, of La.
if he didn't know that the 15.
Amendment would never'
have been adopted but for
the fact that the laws of the
Southern State? practically
deprive the negroes of their
rights of citizenship; and
that otherwise reconstructi
on would have rested solely
on the J4th. Amendment.
In replying Mr. Eustis said:
It has been my honest con
viction that all the recon
struction measures', at the
Federal legislation, and the'
Constitutional Amendments,
were adopted by the Repub
lican party with the single'
object of Africanizing thd
South and maintaining and
preserving their political su
premacy. That is my opin-'
ion: What I consider the
greatest crime which hasever'
been committed against civrV
lized communities' has beeri
committed by the Republican!
party of this country; and if
you to day stand aghast and
appalled, as I know you" do,
at the results of your w'drk';
and feel like apologizing td
the country and to yourselv
es tor having committed
such a monstrous crirrie a-
gainst the civilization of the
South, I assure the Senator
of Ohio that I will not bv
answer to that question help
him out of any such difficulty
as that." A'erry & Observer;
A Terrible Accident.
Asheville N. 0. March 17.
News has just reached this
place of a horrible accident
near Hot Springs, Madison
county. A 12 year old son
of S. D. Chambers, accidental
yshot and killed his mother,
The father had been to Hot
Springs, bringing hdine witli
am a valise with some arJ
tides for the family in it.- HV
)ut the valise down frt the
louse and stepped out. When
the lad looked into it to see
what his father had brought
urn, he found a pistol,- and
said to h'isf mother: "See
what pa brought home." The
pistol was discharged, the
ball striking his mother in
the breast. Her only words
were: "Oh. Lord, von fontfe
killed me." News andObser-
rer.
You will have no me for wnec-'
taeles if you use Dr. J. H. Mc
Lean's Strengthening Eye Salve,
it removes the film and skum
which acumulates ontheeveballrf
subdues innamation, cools and
soothes the irritated nerves, etrii
gthens weak and failing strength.-
an ceni s a dox,