The Fairfield Recorder. (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, August 28, 1896 Page: 6 of 8
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ffairfield Jlttot 4tr. SMITHEE IS WRATHY.
L. D. JJLLARD,- K«litor and Proprietor.
FAlftHEhD, FRKKsroa* Co., TEXAS.
Bryan's election is more sure,
than, that of any presidential candi-
date since Grant’S5' first raqp. The
united support.of .ill the free silver;,
people would make it absolutely
certain; hut the. nomination of a
ticket at St. Routs cannot. eh
place Democratic success'in ques-
tion, as the masses of the Populist,
voters iu the South are for him,
anyway, while- leaders and masses
both are for him from Ohio east.
Has a Redhot Editorial
His Paper.
DEMOCK A TIC PROSPECTS. IT I8 SEVERE ON THE POPULISTS.
"“STATES sens® rou hsvax.
Following is a,list of the States
which can be safely counted ior
Bryan and free silver : .
Southern States:
Alabama.....
. il
North Caro'.lDk. 11
Arkansas.....
. *8
South Carolina. 9
Florida.....
1
T niiestoe______ 152
Geovgi-a......
♦id
Texas......... 15
Kentucky ...
. 13
V u giiiia ....... 17
West Virginia . ti
Louisiana ....
8
Mississippi....
Missouri......
t)
17
Total Southern US
The Western
States practically
assured by
the
bolting Repnbli-
cans;
California ...
. 8
Oregon........ 3
Colorado.....
. 1
L' tali........... 3
Idaho........
. 3
South Daki ta. . 4
Montana ..*...
. 3
Washington . 4
Kansu s.......
. HI
Wyoming.......3
Nebraska
s
'--
Nevada.....
, 3
Tothi Western. 59
North Dakota
3
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H« S»va » Few Demaffofftoal, Nelflah
«( the St. Lotils (jonTpntlon
Hirritlcetl, Murdered and Crucified
Mouctarj lteform— Roasts TfiM and
Some Other Sfiutherq Delegation*,
Little Rock, Ark., Aug;. 2.—Col.
J. N. Smithee, editor of the Little
Rock Gazette, who was closely .as-
sociated with Senator Janies^ K'.
Jones,“chairman of tSc democratic
national Comhiittee; Hon, Thomas
Patterson of Colorado and other
Bryan leaders at the populist nata
tonal convention, has returned to
the city. Col Smithee is thorough-
ly disgusted with the action of the
coveution and gave veut to his
feelings in a v-olhtnn article in the
Gazette this morning** The article
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Total electoral votes from certain
Southern and Western States, 207.
STATES CONCEDED TO m’kINI.KY.
Following are thy States whose
electoral votes can be conceded to
McKinley:
Maine...........
New Hampshire
Vermont........
Massarhusbette .
Rhode Island...
Connecticut ....
New York.....
Naw Jersey
Pensylviiuia
I) lav:arc .. .
Ohio......
Wisconsin . .
Total.
155
The doubtful States are:
Maryland...... 8 Illinois........ 24
------ ------ 15 •- - —
Total ....... 71
Michi.aq....... 15
Minnesota. .... 9
Indiana ....... 15
Of the States here classed as
doubtful Bryan would only have to
carry Illinois with its 24 votes to
receive the 224 electors necessary
to elect the President. If he should
be defeated in Illinois and should
carry Maryland apd Indiana, or
any other two States in tile doubt-
ful list having an. aggregate of 17
votes, he would be elected. Mc-
’“Kiuley, on the other hand, will be
compelled to carry every State
which has been placed in the
• doubtful list.
The Democrats are quite certain
of Illinois, Indiana,- Michigan and
Maryland ; and the Eastern States
of Maine, Massachusetts and New
York, while conceded to the Re-
publican column, will surely go for
Bryan if the free silver sentiment
grows the next three months as it
has the past three.
Rev. Reddin Andrews, the
Populist candidate for congress’ in
the Austin district said in a recent
.speech at Georgetown. ‘‘If the
drouth had, continued the whole
Country would have gone Popu-
list. ’ ’ That was a statement which
" he doubtless believes. He might
have added that the Pdpufist party
has grown upon the drouths, boll-
worms in cotton, rust in wheat,
and disasterous cyclones, and the
hard times,'more than any real
cause in politics. But with the
showers from heaven and ilie Dem-
ocratic rain aLChicago so closely
followed by the deluge at St. Louis,
the Pops, as a separate party, will
be washed from the face of the earth.
“Let no populist ever again open
IPs head to claim that he belongs
to the only party that favors the
restoration of silver. If ever a
great 41 id holey cause- was, sacri-
ficed, murdered, crucified on the
ambitions cross of a few demagogi-
cal, selfish leaders it was monetary
'reforpi at St Louis. Free silver
received a stab by the national pop-
ulist convention from which it s,tag-
gerd and reeled like a drunken
man-. Murdered* in the house of
its friends!
“It will take time to recover from
the blow. But recover it will, and
woe be to the men who betrayed
the holy cause of the honest yeo-
manry of the country., '
“The narrow, contracted selfish
leaders have doomed the populist
party. They have pulled down the
structure over their own heads.
The will-eyed, loud-mouthed Tex-
ans, aided by other southern cala-
mity shriekers, would not heed the
advice or counsel of the wise con-
servative men of their party.
They insisted on rushing to their
own destruction. They hissed the
venerable,' .white-haired Senator
Stewart of .Nevada, who has done
more than all others to firing to the
attention of the people the wrong
done by John Sherman and his con-
spirators against silver; they hissed
Hon. Thomas Patterson of Colo-
rado, wfio Refused to support Cleve-
land in 1892 and threw His influx
ence to Gen. Weaver in that cam-
paign and carried his State for the
brilliant' young Colorado ex-con-
gressman, Lafe Pense,- whose
Bright record in congress did more
than that of any Other man to gi ve
respectability and standing to the
peoples party; even Jerry Sinipsotq
the vdteran peoples'party advocate
ot Kansas, did not escape their
jeet£. This, tod from thechivalric
south But the Texan, the Mis-
sissippian, the Arkansan, theGeor-
gian and other middle-of-the-road
soifthernsrs here in the saddle, and
they rode to the death of their fiartyf
If ever men proved theif incapacity
to’govern they did.
. “The westerners who have elec-
toral votes at their command were
voted down by men who not only
have no electoral votes to deliver,
but no congressman nor anything
else. The nomination, of Bryan
against his will with a new running
mate in the person t>f ex-Congress-
man WatSon of Georgia will not
save the peoples party. It does
not deserve to be saved.”
NbT 80 GREEN A8 THEY SEEMED.
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Bow Throe Tonne Stol Pl«7«r* Ha4 Vu
With Dead dome Sparta. ** ,
Three young men entered thbbU- *1 .
list'd room of s Broadway hotel the
other afternoon and began to play
pool'' They played poorly and didn’t ' rs
attract muob attention exoept. from ■
an occasional man, who watched, .
their efforts more with pity than de- ’
riaion. They bad played a couple of
games when one of them said:
Miss Deruooraoy (with a sfgh of relief):
and the path is qloan for deoent people.
I make the assertion that in' nearly
every respect’ tfie conditions enabling a
nation to support a system of bimetal-
lism are today more favorable to the
United States than they were to France
“There’s.a good day’s work'
—Rocky Mountain NewsT
from 1803 to 1873.—C. A. Towne.
The Natural Ratio.
The reason that the coinage ratio;
'which has obtained for more than a cen-
tury last past, is to Tor 16 to 1 is
that the relative quantities of silver and
gold existing today* in the world, the
accumulation of past ages, is approxi-
mately in that proportion. The quanti-
ties of tons or ounces of these precious
metals put into the bowels of the earth
for man’s use by the Creator, so far as
experience teaches, is in that proportion.
About 16 to 1 is, therefore, the natural
coinage ratio—the ratio ordained by na-
ture itself.—W. B. Fleming.
Rood Joke on the Lawyer.
“I’ll tell \you What I’ll da- J’ll
play a game of" pool for $20 a oor-
ner.”
The other two looked at him, then
grinned, a hit and aooepfed the chal-
lenge. Each man pulled from his
vpooket a $20 hill and pat it up. In
an instant the situation was changed.
The table had booome. a center of
attraction. . Spectators crowded
around It* and the sports in the
plaoe came forward as old war horses
respond to the bugle oall. The game
began. If the three ycrung men had
played poorly before, their play w*»
simply hopeless now. The sports
took each of them under their wings
in turn. When one tided for an im-
possible shot, altbongh an easy one
lay right under his nose, his par-
ticular mebtor would reason with
him. When he persisted, a wail of
despair went np from the spectators,
while one sport, with tears in his
eyes, kept mattering: • .
‘It’s wioked; it’s wioked; it’s a
wioked waste of money,” and as a
partionlarly ridiculous shot was at-
tempted he would almost sob: “Look
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, From Dal la. Record. *
At thq court-house the other dqy
the Record reporter, Judge Clint
and Deputy County Attorney
Woody were sitting in the Judge’s
private office waiting for the arrival
of a man from the jgil who was to
have a habeas corpus hearing. Just
then several persons walked into As the game proceeded the orowd
criminal court- room-, and the broth- grew largor, and The agony of the
at ’em.. Oh, why can’t I get inf Why
[ get in’? T^uk at those twen-
oan’t I get tm
ties. It’s wioked to see ’em go to
waste like that. Why can’t I get
in?” '
er of the accused sat down with a
semi-baldhc.-ffted jjqntleman with a
prominent blonde mustache. Tire
Thomas Jefferson was denounced as
th‘e most notorious anarchist of his time,
and Andrew Jackson was hated by the
money power.
Western loans are not made for more
than 4ft per cent of the value of the
property mortgaged. In case of fore-
closure the mortgagee confiscates the
Other 60 per cent of value. In the three
years preceding Nov. 1, >1895, more
than 1,580 foreclosures were made in
Douglas county, Neb., alone. It is thus
that a nation of homes is converted into
a nation of tramps.
judge and the reporter looked into
the court room, and the judge of
the criminal court remarked on the
hard visage of the criminal who
4at with his brother. Isn’t it
stranger^said the judge, “that the
very character of- the crime is de-
picted iu his expression; just look
at his face.” “Why,” said
the assistant county attorney, “that
is Lawyer F-, the attorney for
the accused. “Well, if he’$ a
lawyer, ’ ’ suggested the scribe, ‘ ‘the
toughness of countenance is ex-
plained,” and the judge-was grate-
ful to the reporter for thus showing
thatTfre at least had piade no mis-
take in his statement of fact.
A landmark In Political History. 1
That the Democratic national conven-
tion of 1896 will stand forth as one of
the mountain peaks in political history
is certain! If its candidates win and the
principles it has set forth prevail, cur-
rents which have been flowing and
gaining in volume ever since the civil
war will be dammed and turned back.
If they fail in this election! the battle
is not. lost. Victory is only postponed.
The truths set forth in the platform
adopted are'vital; the policies it defines
are essential to pie welfare Of the peo-
ple. Whether or not they triumph in
the eomingcasupaign, American politics
! cannot bo and will not bo tho same as
before they were proclaimed.—St Louis
Post-Dispatch- _
“I am for* Bfyan,” said Con-
gressman Towne, of Minnesota,
when offered the middle-of-the-
road support for the St. Louis nom-
ination.' Towne is not out -after
empty honors, but is fighting for
principle.’
So long as we want her to do it Eng-
land will manage onr money system fer
us, and we may depend on. her having
an eye on England’s interest while she
is at it . . _. .
iNjiis speech on taking the tem-
porary chairmanship, Senator But-
ler urged upon the party the ne-
The Butte Inter-Mountain, the
leading Republican paper of upper
Rocky Mountain region, has joined
the Democrats ind pinned “Bryan
and Sewall” to its mast-head. The
Reps are sadly out of whack in the
great west. _ T.
Cannot Bnow.Bnforelmd.
The income tax was not unconstitu-
tional w hen it was passed. It was not
unconstitutional when it went before
the supreme court for the first time. It
did not become unconstitutional until
cessity of harmonious acquies-l
fence in the wish and wisdom of
the majority, in the course of which
her argued that the people .who had
joined the Populist party “from
principle” must be actuated front
principle. The best way to apply
this good bit of advice is, and no
doubt was, the impression designed
to be conveyed by the Senator from
North Carolma, is: Now that
the Poptilists have an opportunity
to vole for a sound man upon a
real Democratic platform, they
should practice what they have
preached for four years and hold
principle away Aboveparty.
Hoke Smith, Sfecretary of the
Interior, Announces hi$ purpose to
support the Chicago nominees.
H*%ai
one judge changed his mind,
cannot be expected to know w]
judge will change his mind.—W:
J. Bryan.
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tys when the alternative of
voting for McKinley or surrend-
ering his portfolio is presented, his
resignation is at the call of the
President
If a vote for free silver be
then William McKinley is at
a reformed anarchist.
The Trout* or tho |rapl<.
The big issue to be de termined by this
campaign is whether the trusts or the
The Louisville Young Men’®
Democratic Club, 3,000 strong,
passed resolutions’denouri&ing the
Courier-Journal • and Evening
Times, aqd endorsing Brygn and
Sewall. ' •»
people shall oontrol the government—
Bt Louis Republic.
There will be no east pitted against
the west and the south,Abut one oommon
country, ruled by the people and for the
people.—Omaha World-Herald.
WAco had its first bale Tuesday.
.It was grown by Sam ifcing, near,
Ross, and $100 premium was given
by the merchants.
Georgia is in the saddle and ml
next Democratic president is
she’ll be able to take the
theme
The gold-bug papers keep prom-
inent the fact that the last time Mr.
Bryan ran for congress he was
elected by only 145 majority. In
McKinley’s last race for congress
it Warwick who got the ma-
jority. ‘ .
The Telegram, the Republican
organ at Anderson, Ind.; is the la-
test addition of Republican papers
to the Bryan column. There have
been five or six in Indiana, and as
many more in Kansas, and three in
Kentucky. “
* The Executive Committee of the
Centennial Exposition have deter-
mined to postpone the celebration
ubtil 1898, on account of the short
time which would be given the
Southwestern States to get ready
to participate, and the exciting po-
jk “
itical contest now on.
The Georgetown Democrat says:
Banks-of-Distribution Andrews has
declared for 15-cent butter. The
great American coW will kick at
such unjust discrimination.
The Atlanta Journal, the lead-
ing pnd ablest gold champion
among the big dailies in the South,
declares for Bryan and Sewell,
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sports'booamo truly pitifuL Finally
the game ended, and the winner
pocketed the monfgr while the losers
grinned. True sportibg blood had-
they. Then the winner, a slender,
blase looking youth, said:
“Look ,here. I don’t want yonr f
money. I’ll give you a chance to get
it back and play yon another game
for $20 apiece. ” s;—. v
The others came to the scratch
promptly, and tho word was passed
aronnd the hotel that three would
be sports were playing pool for big
money, and that they’d be easy for ’
some one. If the first game had
been a Wretched exhibition, the seo-
ond was absolutely ludicrous. Snoh
pool playing was never seen. The
sports who had constituted them-
selves admirers of the players threw ,
fits and wept' The fat sharp who
had been 'tearfnl in the first game
moaned aloud in the seoond. At last
the game was brought to a point
where it depended on one balL The
short, tbiok young man who wore •
ghisses was about to shoot The ob-
ject frail, the last ball on the table,
stood jugt in front of a pocket The
one ball was not a foot%way. A ba-
by oould have made the stroke. The
young man with glasses smashed at
the ball and missed; then in a fit of '
rags he amoved' the object hall into
In an instant there .was a hubbub,
slender, blase yonth was next
and as he only needed one ball
he insisted that it shohld be ’
in front of the pooket, where
ad.been. An appeal was made to
crowd. Tho excitement became
so. Tho sharps squabbled And
ed the point as if their money
ndod upon it. Finally it waa de-
tbat the ball would have to go
spot. Then the biase youth
on<3
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as they saw it passed over,
yonth refused to play any
jmore, and the three, arm in arm, as
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apiece, strolled out. The winner
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stuok his tongue in his oheek and
grinned goodby to the assembled
sports, who said:
“They’vegot sporting blood; bnt,
Lord, how easy they'd be if we
oonld get at them,” and the fat
sport, who had wept, Btaggered to * '
green
do no
The platform demands the prevention
at the importation of foreign panper la-
bor, denounces the profligate waste of
public money and insists upon a return
to simplicity and poonomy.
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*• Stria* Attached to Btjmu
The Demooratio party pate forth a
candidate who is neither mortgaged to
a syndicate nos has been living off his
the bar to drown his disappototoeedi
As soon as the three yonng fellows
reaohed the sidewalk 'there was a
“Ha, ha!” from all of them, and the
blase one said:
“Pretty good game that Say, hat
didn’t they want to get at ns?” and
he handed back to the losers the
money he had won from them.—
New York Sun.
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Lillard, L. D. The Fairfield Recorder. (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, August 28, 1896, newspaper, August 28, 1896; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1126520/m1/6/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.