and him not since been rcHtunocl. In wtrongly In favor of this diver]the exact political situation in Iowa loyal BervJce, not only In politic*, 1 ^ > IN THE SECOND DISTRICT low ifhelr adoption by the „ DAVENPORT REPUBLICAN. France not nearly so Inrgc n proportion idea? . I county.' Tii doing this Mr. Kuney is I but in every good work for n half ceii- We 1iave «een the ruin aocoiupliwhe ot'tb'b busini-fcs of -the people j» done Well, -the farmers u« u. general tiling; also feeling the pulse on the. business miry in Johnnon and Muscatine coun- by the free trade declaration of 180; TRIBUNE. Promiocnt Republican* From the Dlf aud we Lave now heard a demand tha by «hcck or draft as in fhte country, fcrent Counties dive Their Views. maJnJy on account- of low prices for Ultuntion, and will «oou be able to give tics, and an u soldier in the war of the the ruin fihnU'be made complete by th S. D. COOK. EDITOR. although a Ktrcnuoun effort lias been (•heir products. They feel that price* not only the political, but the business (rebellion. overthrow of our finnneiul system an inn tic bv the iroveriMiicnt Wirougih its tire very low and ;lhey can-not niukc |Bontlinent of his county: Mr. Itoney the substitution of an experiment tha 5UBSCRIPT1ON RATES-BV MAIL. 4 ^ ff Information *f lnUr*5t to the Friend* cl Good ^d. Blalscr, chairman of the banking list to encourage this form of * them any worse.by a change, Thatisisays Mart he finds the fanners of Iowa county republican committee, can result only in untold misery am DAILY—Cue year KV.OO Oovenuaent In the Second Iowtt incalculable loss. Six months *. • «* • * • •••* 1.2Ti French people, Con- their main argument. county generally very much interested was iu the clty yesterday as a delegate Three months * . t * * * * * • District. "We believe that every possible flue IVJEKKLY—Oue year * » » * * * * * • sequently, need a somewhat larger per Cannot they be made to reali/e that in the present discussion of the money J to the convention, und in a very neat tuation of money standards betweei MX months *• •- • * • ** eaplfu of chvulation than do -those of it could be much worse by putting this I question, and while some fanners arej anner seconded the nomination of U'lircc moutJis * * ft • •» CAPT. J. IX FEGAX, OF CLINTON. m the Iowa producers and his conKume TO CITY 8V1WCHIK1CRS. the United SUvtai where comparative- country on the free silver basis? inclined to the free silver idea, many [Mr/Curtjs. Mr*. Blaiser is so enthus- is a margin between them; If it is no "Captain, what do you think of the DAIJ/Y—Pcllvornd»per v/cck 10 cents ly few ixjople ch'oose to handle coin, I -think they can. I do not -think more- ami u large majority of them ore Mastic for Mr. Curtis that he is ready an advantage to have a common stand prospects of McKinley's election, and Give iicitoflOco address in full. and this is more esj)ecially true since they have got that fju-along yet. If more inclined to fnvor sound money now to promise Mr. Curtis a good round ard with his customer'.abroad, then i und county. 3 n ordfirlnt: fcluiiKO of r upon what states do you think we can is no advantage to huvc a eommoi fcotli old and new addresses, r™.. the issuance of coin certificates. they are made to see -that this would and good government. Many of them |majority this fall. Moon- may be sent fcyrostofflw Money onw. depend for the electoral vote without standard with the other coramunitie Express Moncv Order, Hofclsierod Utter or cut the IT farms in two 'they will see it^remeinber very distinctly the prosper- of this union. question or reasonable doxibt?" JIr T T sl Draft at our risk. , , n . . THE KKl'UJJUCAN'S PICTURE. is not the thing for them. 'ity tha,t visited them during the yeaxs " " - ° ><>™. one of the pro- In the interest of our export trade Kates to nosnnasters. newsdealers and putt- "J believe that McKinley can and netors f the Ushers sent on application. Sample copies sent One of, our citizens sent a copy of Do you believe th«t the average sil- of 1891 and 1892 when they were selling P -° Willianwburg Journal, for the furtherance of the policy o will be elected v/ithout any doubt, but reciprocity, and for the promotion .o .1RI-CITY PUBU5HINGCO the Republican with its picture of Me- vir'advocate realizes the vast amount the products of their form, iu their ™ '"dependent P*P<* published at Wil- the republicans cannot Jic or sit down our commerce, as well as for the J>ene Telephone No. 31* Kinley and Hobart rolled therein, to of silver ra tflus country? , Iowa, was secretary of the and do nothing-. They must be up and own market at an average of three lit of pur silver producers, we.. pledgi a lady relative at Kansas City, ^10. On 1 do not. They have no idea% Mex- times what they are now getting, and convention yesterday, and is very en- the support'of Iowa representative, Entered at tlie Davenport postofflceas second- doing fioci now until election day. J : class mutter* ,the margin of the paper, in violation ico today is taking but only 10 per cent in many cases they refer to special ar- thusiastic for Mr. Curtis. in congress to the promotion o f.ai believe he can carry every state east of International agreement :to estaiiiisj THE KF.vuiii.irA>' may be *°,uua of the postal law, he wrote: "Enclosed of what fecr mines are capable of pro- nicies tliat they were then able io place Hon. 'Euclid Sanders, of Johnson the Mississippi river and north of the j V • a joint standard universally; and .fron York Trilnmc offlc*?. Xewlork; Aliprn you will find 'My Picture.'" Yester- ducjng. Mexico alone could swamp news stsmd. Pus Molncs; Clifton House new* Ohio commencing- with Maine, Connec- ill large eastern cities in coin petit ion county, accompanied by his wife and tiie same considera-tiohs to opp^se'th< stand. State and Monroe streets. rejected day a letter from the lady Sn acknowl- this country \vftfli silver. It would be- proposition to.carry the United'State will always ticut, Massachusetts, Xew Hampshire, • j • vri-th our fanner friends across the daug-hter and Miss Stebbins, spent the manuscripts or sucli as arc not available or ^e edgment, said: come almost as .cheap as iron. Almost to silver monometallism. Vermont, New York, Jlhode Island, lake at good and satisfactory prices to day in Davenport yesterday. 2vfr. San- : in tts columns, wlien postage for that purpose is "I received the paper containing- *My We aifc oppotied to the change tb a enclosed. every mountain in Mexico is full of sil- flie Iowa farmer. Under present con- Lers is one of the workingVepiiblicans Ke\v Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, r single silver standard because"it-Hvil g^Orders for tlie delivery of Picture." At first I was afraid to look ver. I do ''not think thc\ realize the ditions, hoAvever. tJiis is all changed, Lf the Second district who is loyal to Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, Illinois-:, • ^' decrease and-not increase the to either residence or wlace of. O"suu.ss at it, as Iowa is reported to be so much amount of silver in sicrht with the ini- bo made Dy posUil card or Oirouftlnelepnoie*o. Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, O and the Iowa farmer is in tftat long- every interest of his party. He is of money'in. the,country: because^iri 51, or at the counting-room of the .HE u Hue A>. in the silver ring- I was fearful yoa Anv irregularity in delivery should oe immedi- proved facilities, four mining. talbed-of market'one of the world—^and thoroughly convinced that with prop- stead of restoring confidence, it might be too. But it was all right, and the latter being on both sides of the destroy credits; .instead of inspiriu. ately reported to the onice of publication, When they are made to see this and i:* reaping the benefits therefrom.not to er management Johnson county ivill r \ Mississippi, and he-will carry Iowa. We . i enterprise, it will spread-alarm; i lam glad to have such a good picture to what a low state of financial engi- jv^irua^^x STQKIKS —\\e arc- will give'him 231 electoral votes. He liis satisfaction, liowever. give Curtis a larger majority than it stead of aiding the debtor, it will i a remarkable series of stories, which win of our next president and vice i>rlnted throuph iho summer in da»> *^' will carry California, Oregon and neering Mexico 'has fallen do you be- As to the political situation the out- [did two years ago. volve him in bankruptcy; instead .o xnents Tlie greatest living authors will president . ] had never before lieve they ivould change their senti- furnishing employment "to labor. Sfbute. to the list of authors, names appear North Dakota, with chances of carry- look is quite favorable for repTiblican familiar to every reader of fiction seen what this evidently is, ment? - success in this county. The defeat of ^ L. Brooke and Hon. John E. Evans, will .make more iincertiiiii and ing Tennessee, and possibly Kentucky. f * * . ^ *J , ., , ^ , I of^ Wes-• * *• tr Liberty•-*- • ii . , are t\\-. o of_ the'renub. . _ - *nutnerativ Til * t *l *IT**I r i **/e* tlia-» n *tt 4- whk-•*-. V , ^h- V , itI i hasT__,.; _ histea; - LTCA>-'* GKEAT OFKKR!-!• or a lim- a good likeness of Hobart. I think I tihink t-hey -would in a great many a fef w county orhcers at the last elec- *> e \ ^ OI me «P«° bciicfttting- the producers. U will in Without the latter states he can be I Iir*fni •tx'/'iT'L-^T*^ T.hnt o T>A •*-* f*\-*\t* -f^ivnjl J o. f E* ^ ^*VMI.*^^^O. »^ »>J. *u ited time onlv. Kand-McNally & Co/s >ew yen- there never were two handsomer men cases. We have good substantial tion is more attributable to dissen- lican workers that are never found jure them: and. finally, becauseT era! Atlas, the work Is complete, beautifully elected, even if he should not .succeed • bound in fmo English silk cloth, with colored on the same national ticket* I have the farmers in Jackson county who realize sion in the party-.Ulan .lack of num-vantinfc' Them the calls. would do infinite injustice- and i edges. Sect prepaid to any express oHice upon Xiicturc franied and hung on the wall in carrying West Virginia." volve our country in repudiation c receipt of $1-05- FuWishers- price, ^.aO. that their products have been very low, bers. This year the outlook is very- Mr. j. AV- Eells clerk of court of One hundred and fifty seven paces of colored of my room just beside the bureau, so "What clo you think will be the ef- q dishonor...... maps showing even- country on the clobe. fect of the third ticket should the but still they do not really understand favorable for tmited action and h-ar- Muscatine county was an enthusisswc No library complete without it. Ihe most that I can look at them as often as J We denounce as false the stnteiuen the situation they 'would be placed in iBony which, promise good results in- Curtis man nt the convention. useful book In ten thousand. Order bv mail, or do at. myself in the mirror. Even pres- sound money democrats insist on put- of the democratic party that', we Lav canbe bad at the REPUBLICAN OFFICE, if we adopted the free coinage of silver. asmuch as the dominant party is badly contracted or that our pclicv.wHl cd: US and 120 Main Street, Davenport. Iowa, idents 'should not expect more than ting the ticket-into the field? -, . * • . _ *
^_^ _ ta - ^_ !th. - - e-^ flocrrin- - _ ,-— — — — -TeV o— — f-• proteotiaV — ^^ ^. ^»- 'W •» » -^1 a• » t—o *f •VVB^^^AinerlB ^^ and in his own estimation a, great man. fully today Vs they did in" 1SG1 the Im- piropeiiy conducted. The outcome in not be far behind any of the other James STATE TICKET, . Bradley, _ of Augusta, Me., labor, and the policy which is ]xirt for he winds up his letter by saying portance of their shooting their bal- Jackson county will depend somewhat counties in the district in percentage is the oldestt living- United States $cu- Ut» the promotion of our fori'ten.tra For Secretary of State— he would rather be right than presi- lot into the republican bos?" . . on the kind of a ticket. the free silver srain shown. We intend to go to work at-or arid has al\\-avs been a democrat r^* r^ciprochl agTeeme«it5?. Under th GEORGE L. DOBSON. denti .....*•• "That is true as regards'the lead- men put in:the and cany the county, not only for Mr. bivt he repudiates the Ohicago platform CO™steilT a°d practjcarpolJcy the d * * • ** ^«_«- -u.-i ^— ^ A=_. LI- .._ , P x /- ^ -, ^ iveiopincnt of our Immtessr respure For-Auditor— . ing democrats of the north. The lead- Cnrtis. biTt- for the entire republican and refuses to support Bryan and Sew- Uvill>e resumed, enterprise will spri TO REDUCE WAGES* . JOXT. 31AXSOX. , C. G, 1TCARTHY. ers in many cases would vote for Me- ticket. Of this we feel sure. The size alL I int* •* b o1^ action.--a^* «., |^ «. VJ *±, ^4 t a million opportunltl There is no doubt "that those who * ^ ' Mr. Jont Maxson, editor of the West 1 «^^;*«i ,..:n g j »kina: f<>r • " * B of the mapority will depend somewhat | capital will 0 ou set For Treasurer— Kinley, and in saine cases they are op- figure .on the benefits'of free silver, Liberty Index, one of the staunch W. P. St. John, chairman of t-he con- waare.earner^^ . and when the table of JOHN HERRIOTT, posed to the republican platform, on on the attitude of the. liberal lora*• l • - working man is asratn covered v figure on. a great proftt to be made from the grounds of protection.*' republican papers of the Second dis- democrats of the county. They help- veiition at St. Louis, was appointed For Attorney-General— the lowering1 of the wages of labor. trict, was in attendance on the conven- treasurer of .the democratic national plenty ihe American farmer will kn "There is a feelinsr amon*r sound ed us out two years ego and we expect Q REMLEY; *-> O good times once more- \Ve hold th It has Always been true that inflation money democrats that we should not tion yesterday and was one among the them to put their country before their committee. : "• the prices of our farm'products can For 5oprcme Judge— while it- causes the price of all commod- put too much stress upon the protcct- many enthusiastic " republicans who party this year. If they do. the major- _ , ~ ; ; :_-' " I restored onlv bv ihe recover r of tl SCOTT M. LADD. ities to rise has less effect on wages. was predicting a victory for Curtis, Mc- Two electors nominated by Pennsyl-jnjarK-etp to which -we had i-wcss fo ix-e plank in our platform. They say ity will be well up in t&e- hundreds. Al- vania democrats have resig-ned and will years ag-o. and through the return It is almost an axiom that wages is the Kinley and good government this fall. ou For Railroad Commissioner— * * ' that the McKinlcy tariff \vas so very though we are an agricultural com- In response to the'question, "What is under no circumstances support Bryau r.home eonsuirierK of the buyi E. A. DAWSON, last thing to rise in a rising market and extreme in some cases that they have munity there -is very little free silver power wh.ich was theirs four years * • • the present- outlook in Muscatine coun- and Sewall. For Electors-at-Lar^e— production coupled with a steady IK> sympathy whatever with the Mc- sentiment, in fact, in our town of The Iowa farmer needs ho other E. H. CONGER. cheapening of production by the use ty, and especially the territory trib- _jtionu s to assure his prosperity y tariff law. Xow, do you believe over 200 voters there is onl+*v one out- The headquarters of the state cen- " "f. , EDWARD S. JAflES. of machinery, the wages of the labor- utary "to West Liberty?" Mr. Maxson , . . .« •** -._ -. _• _ thos— — •• -—--*•»e* whic- • m^A ^^h4 niaintaincA«L««&A *-M.\,m-+ h • • v. di^« thLUe^ ^\leve, r v l•> o*^-f* that with the election of McKinlev we spoken advocate of silver. I think free tral commraee be opened in the jpr5cek? incri,ascd the value of hU.f... , ing man. has remained about station- said: For District Elector— go back to hig*h protective tariff?'' silver is a bubble that will burst along 1 Equitable building at Des Moines onjand reduced the cost of his purchas ary, and in effect has been, continually ;i "So far as I am able to learn the sJl- 1 N COWNIE. »' * .. » No. it is Dot required now as at the about Nov. 4. Nothing will be left un-i Tuesday, j during-the.four spfrnriitl years of P: rising. The laboring man. is the last ver sentiment of Muscatine county is jident Harrison"-*! adiiimLmratioru • . — • time that law was enacted. VVe want done, however, to make the majority ! Ife 4 " * not considered very strong, and in our \Vade Hampton, of Sout^h Carolina, ?*«£ restoration of those conditions/ Our creed "embraces mn boneet dollar* man who should vote for free silver. protection enough to assist in paying emphatic." own locality there is very little said condemns the democracv of his stale lina|n:njnc ^V^biHfy of our mom »n imtzrnfebcd national credit, ad*qnmt« the running expenses of this govern- ,. , , ' _. . {ana not bv deba-*inir its value, the : revenue! for the .n*«» of tlie m;ov«rament, jRfchard P- Bland is t&e author of an on that question. /- Goshen township as populism of t-he most extreme cnar- j *- ^ ment. Xow Tve do not tret enouch. A LOY.VL IRISHMAN. publicnn pnrtv pro mi bim reR protection to labor and Industry, prefer- article in Johnson's Encyclopedia in V— O which joins us on the east "is about the We want a reciprocity clause in con- >L ^FcTnerney, one of the dele- acter. ' tTbe abandonnjent of tiie treaties Tatlon of the borne market, and reciprocity which he says there has been a slight same as our -township. Scott town- ~ ] reciprcxrity. which opened opened wbicli -srlll extend our foreign markets. nection with tariff legislation that will gates from Johnson county to the con- appreciation of silver since 1S73. This ship in Johnson county, whJch joins on And now what will Candidate Sew-:market.places of Spanish America a UpAn thi» platform tre stand, and •ubmlt admit- goods from foreign countries vention, has been voting- the demo- the populists? -Central Europe TO the farm prodn It* declaration* to the *ober and consider- is quite different from the tale of woe tbe west, has some silver sentiment/' all have to sa about that do not come in competition with cratic ticket for more thau one third of ;AM of the United States has alread rest ate judgment of the American, people-— which most of the free silver acritators "'Do you believe that the silver sen- That is the next question. William McKlnley. our own productions. As nearly free a century, but came out two years ago ed in the aimo;?t total exclusion of have to tell. The way Mr. Bland J5g- timent that prevails in the vicinity of breadstutTs and meats from the co as it can be—simply paying- the expens- enthusiastic for Mr. Curtis. Mr. Me- The Hawkeve th:nks the SewalMYat- ;ires it is this: that gold has risen in 1 Muscatine will diminish or increase j tries. Thus, tariit reform, as man A CUHIOUS STATEME>"T. es of passing it through the custom Inerney gives the best possible reason son incident has furnished Mr. Bryan je(| bv t}) p;ftv-third value 50 per cent as compared with as the campaign proceeds?'' congress, inst The Dubuqnc Telegraph says that it houses. There are goods, dyes, medi- why every Irishman in this country with another cross. of ojHMiing new markets; for the fa "t think it will diminish all over the is American folly which has brought commodities,* and thai silver as com- should vote for and support the repub- closed foreign markets lo us and sti cines auu many things that could be ^fr. Carl Yogt of Iowa City was in country. Undoubtedly it is an educa- .r the metal in the silver dollar down to a pared -with gold has fallen 30 per cent, admitted to this country from coun- lican ticket. He says: "The laboring ulated production by our comj>etitoi therefore, as measured bv commodi- tional campaign, and the more people the city yesterday on the Johnson nt the same time causing a;i unt-xa value of only 53c: tfiat it is because wo * •- tries where they do not produce the men are as much entitled to a good dol- think the less they will think of sil- countv defecation. jplcd prostration of its nearest and I iuvc permitted England to fix the price tics, silver has Tiot fallen, but has grain, etc. In such cases we whould lar as the \Vall street banker, and they customer*, the ^age earners of oj • ver/* of silver, instead of it ou selves. sliifhily apj)rcciaii'd. Of course. get direct benefit by finding market for can be sure of having- good dollars for IKONY. own land. 5s the business condition of and that 5f the United States coined reasoning of Mr. BJand 5s false 5n one our products- Gen. D?m Sickles said their labor only by supporting the re- The democratic Sioux City Tribnnc The republican party ajipenls wn your vicinity?"* confidence to l^ie peo]»le of Iowa silver ii co-jld force British buyers to pariicaJar. The fallinr: of the price that he was a democrat Tn 2364 atid vot- publican ticket. The silver sentiment savs: "WcJl, the business conditions arc support it hi its purpose to o«iabli| pay SiJtt an ounce for it, \Ve arc an-jof conamodiiics can be traced to clhcr ed for Lincoln and could be just as in Johnson counts- is largely confined ^Convention's are gatberinirs of me:i industries and all of the varied zraallv sc2Ha?Knro9C about $55.000.000, sources than the monetary laws of the pretty dull—not much life in them/' of the same political beliefs whose *' " ^^ *J fc ' grood a democrat and rote for McKin- to the men who are not prosperous tercsts of production and exdian| "Doc.s the fact that your farmer? are principal objcc; in meeting i^ to prove a quantity of silver for which the Tel- country. Inventions have cheaened lcy, He wants no third party and a f- 1. m. r", . *. X- l <. * ^ •T-.fcV ,/-„• : • j i- • l ,•••.„«< -- ? **- ^ —*. .'v - . •* -f ' t^f^-f. i* »*r ^^^vftkr^:^.? -'..&'f *£:±, .^r^ '«&ifc» IS&L '^ 'r,s- •**..- ^^S^^^S^^Sfe^^^