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The Perry Daily Times.
Vol. 2.
PERRY, OKLAHOMA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER, 27, 1894.
No 36.
1
Some Problems of Today.
Then* an* four great problems be-
fore the American people today for
solutiou.
('/«! nnhm of
The tillvr problem.
The tariff quentiim.
Itcutrh'ted hnmijrulion.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report
Baking
Powder
absolutely pure
MISTAKES Of Tilt: HEITIIIsU'ASS.
Why Tli nl I'ttrly 11 it 4 Some I-: 110 ugh to
I'rollt l y Ki|ifrl«ii< e* of the Pant.
We do not claim to belong to an in-
fallible party. Everything in this
world is human and imperfect. Were
the republican party immaculate, this
earth would be no place for it to dwell,
for heaven is the only abode, the bible
leaches us, of the perfect. The repub-
lican party has made several mistakes,
but it has made fewer mistakes than
were ever made by any party in the
history of the world.
The opposition parties delight in
pouncing down upon the few mistakes
made by the republican party and
magnifying them into the greatest
blunders of the age. They are like
the buz/ard who poises himself over
the earth und soars over miles of beau-
tiful territory upon which are sleek
cattle and horses and all the ele-
ments of buoyant life. The panorama
below has no charm for hitn, but final
Iv he comes over a barren, rocky cliff
upon which lies a putrid carcass, when
he begins at once to 1 ic.< his chops,
and electric sparks of gladness perme-
ate his veins, and down he swoops for
a sumptuous feast.
The opposition parties avoid very
carfully the magnificent rteord of the
republican party, the good things in
it, the things which have uplifted this
nation and given it greater prosperity
in the last thirty years than was ever
before experienced in any nation in
the world's history in the same length
of time; policies which, since 18«*.l.
have added three times fts much to the
wealth and population of the nation
as were accumulated in the three hun-
dred and sixty-nine years previous to
that date.
The republican who apologizes for
the mistakes of his party violates the
fundamental tenets of his party—for
it was built to cure the errors of the
past andean rectify its own mistakes
as well as those of other parties. To
acknowledge the mistakes and demand
advancement and remedy is true re-
publicanism.
Now. what are the mistakes of the
republican party ' The builders of our
splendid financial system, headed by
Abraham Lincoln, Salmon I'. Chase.
Thaddeus Stevens and John Sherman,
with other leaders of the republican j
party, builded it upon the idea of a !
coin basis, yoUl mnl #i/ro . at the
earliest possible opportunity after the
saving of the nation. The credit
strengthening act «>f and the re-
sumption act of 1H74 were the culmin-
ation of this original determination.
The dropping of the silver dollar from
the coinage law of 1973 wa<- a mistake.
Leading republicans have furnished
excuses f« r it by declaring that up to
that time nearly all the silver coin
li&d been subsidiary coin, seventy-six
million dollars of this class of silver
Staving been coined, while but eight
million dollars of silver dollars had
been coined up to that time. The gold
product then was thirty seven million
dollars per year, and the silver pro-
duct but twenty-seven million dollars
and silver at that time was three per
cent premium over gold. Therefore,
John Sherman says, the republican
party under the existing circumstances |
was * justified in dropping the silver
dollar, but subsequent events have
proved it a great error. That bill was
Introduced by William 1>. Kelley, of
Pennsylvania, and upon the committee
which passed on the bill and reported
it favorably were .lames F. Bayard, of
Delaware, and Allen G Thurinau of
Ohio, two of the greatest democrats of
the century. Voorhees of Indiana sat
in the house and voted for the bill.
There were only four votes against
the bill in the senate, and but two of
these were democratic votes; while out
of the twelve votes ugainst the bill in
the house, but three of them were
democrats. So the charge that the
republican party was wholly responsi-
ble for this demonetization, and that
the democratic party had no hand in
it. is as unauthentic as are the various
other declarations of the democratic
party concerning its record. William
I). Kelly in a speech delivered in the
house in 187S said:
"In 1872 we were not usingcoin, and
no gentlemen in the house seems to
have appreciated the scope and magni-
tude of the silver question or to have
given it special study. Hence the bill;
and I wish, gentlemen, for you to
know what that bill was. It was a
bill to reorganize the mints, not to re-
vise the coin money of the country;
and it was passed without allusion in
debate to the question of the retention
or abandonment of the standard silver
dollar."
Mr. Kelly argued that lu some way
or other the elimination of the silver
dollar was worked into the bill in the
senate after it left the house, and
when it came back for adopt i >n by the
house of certain small amendments,
no one knew that the dollar had been
stricken from our coinage; und in sup-
port of this Mr. Kelly said in this
speech in 1878:
"The then speaker of the house, now
adistinguished member of the senate,
and Hon. Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana,
who it alto a member of that body,
were then tneinbt r* of this house, anil
during the last congress this colloquy
occurred between them It was. I ,
think, denied by Mr. Voorhees that
the bill proposed to demonetize the |
silver dollar, and to sustain hit view i
lie sai«l to the speaker: 'Did you know j
it, sir?' 'No,' said Senator Blaine, i
'did you?' 'No,' replied Senator Voor I
hees.
"I was chairman of the committee
that reported the original bill, and I
aver upon my honor that 1 did not
know the fact that it proposed to drop
the standard dollar. 1 did not learn it
had done it for eighteen months after
the passage of the substitute offered
by Mr. Hooper, when I disputed the
fact and was shown the law. The
distinguished gentleman from Ohio
(Mr. (Garfield) who now leads this side
of the house, was then as now an at-
tentive and already distinguished
member of the house, yet, when in
joint debate before the people of Ohio
in October, 1877, the question arose as
to who was responsible for its demon*
etization. He frankly said he d d not
know that such a provision was in the
bill when it passed the house. Nor
did the president who signed the bill
know that it abolished legal standatd
silver dollars, for in his letter to Mr
Cowdry. in 1*7.1, cited by the gentU
man from Ohio (Mr. Warner), lie said:
•''Silver will gradually take the
p'ace of this currency, and, further,
will become the standard of values,
which will be hoarded in this way. I
estimate that this will consume from
$'-'oo,000,ooo to $ioo.ooo.ooo in time of
this species of our circulating medium
I confess to a desiie to see u limited
hoarding of money. It assures a firm
foundation in time of need, but 1 want
to see the hoarding of something that
is standard value the world over. Sil-
ver has this.'
' The gentlemen will observe that
this letter was written several
months after the writer's signature
had given the force and effect of law
to the bill which prohibited the fur-
ther minting (if the kind of coins he
expected the people to hoard
Mr. Kelly, of course, told the truth.
Whether it was a mere slip of law or
whether some one in the senate (John
Sherman, as accused by the populists),
got worked in clandestinely the elimi-
nation of the silver dollar, is immate-
rial. In the light of conditions then,
the elimination of the silver dollar, in
fact, amounted to nothing, for the
people could still take their silver to
the mint and have it coined free; so
that silver was not stricken down as
the populists declare, but could be and
was as freely used, and more so. after
the passage of this bill as at any time
in the history of the republic
About this time the silver product of
America began a rapid increase, and
the republican party, rializing that
the elimination of the silver dollar
from our coinage was a grave mistake,
in 187* remedied it, at least iu part,
and a bill was passed providing for
the coinage of from '2,000,ooo to 1,000,-
oo silver dollars per mouth, more
than enough to consume the American
product of silver at that time. Presi-
dent Hayes vetoed this bill because it
provided for the jmrc/uine of this
amount of bullion at its market value
and the coinage from it of these dol-
lars. and he argued that it should pro-
vide tlirtrflj/ for the free coinage of sil-
ver and declare it a money metal.
And time demonstrates that Hayes
was right, notwithstanding that the
bill with the purchase clause in it was
passed over Hayes'veto and became a
law.
The Bland-Sherman bill provided
for the entire silver product of Ameri-
ca very nicely until 1800, when the
product had gvne beyond the amount
provided to be coined by this bill. The
republican party immediately passed
the Sherman purchasing act. In 1800
the product of silver was r>0.000,000
I ounces, and this act provided for the
purchase of $.">2,000,000 worth per year
and the issuance of treasury notes
1 thereon, which, together with the
amount necessary in the arts, would
have consumed the entire American
1 product had not the bill declared that
I the secretary of the treasury should
I go into the markets of the world and
• purchase any silver which was offered
Had this bill contained a prohibitive
tariff on foreign silver bullion and
confined purchases to the American
product, silver would never have gone
below SI.20 an ounce, and we would
never have heard anythiug of the
I "bixty cent silver dollar."
I So the mistakes of the Sherman bill
were:
First, that it made a r*mnmnUly of a
; muncy metal.
i Second, that it failed to prohibit the
j foreign product and thereby allowed
I the price of home silver to be beaten
j down.
| Another mistake of the republican
party was that when it passed the Mc-
! Kinley bill in 1800, it failed to attach
■ to it a clause prohibiting from this
! country undesirable foreign elements.
(The product was protected, but the
' producer was left unprotected. When
| we have not jobs enough iu this coun-
| try for our own peop e. why do we
j want to allow the rif-raf of other na-
| tions to come in here and take the jobs
our tnen already have?
There was a time up to ten years ago
! wh«n immigration was needed. The
Herman, the Irish, the French, and
the men of all nations were welcome
t) our shores, and here they found an
asylum from the degredations and op-
pressions of their own lands. In l*'.«n
the necessity for immigration had
ceased, and then was the time to re-
stiict it. The late congress had a
desire to restrict it now, as nine-tenths
of the house, during last fall, were in
favor of the anti-anarchist bill which
passed the senate, and that bill dow
•tands on the calendar unpassed be
cause a democratic congressman from
Brooklyn, elected by the lowest for-
eign elements, and a democratic con-
gressman from Chicago, elected by the
same sort of elements, took advantage
of the lack of u quorum and prohibit-
ed the passage of that bill, which
every man in the United States should
be in favor of.
Of course we are not troubled with
immigrants of any kind now, as Cleve-
land has put the country in a condi-
tion where foreigners are trying to get
away from it, not to come to it. We
want, with the return of republican
prosperity, a high tariff on every unde-
sirable foreign element. We want to
prohibit tin* producers of foreign lands
as well as the products from those
lands to as great an extent as possible,
to do justice to our own people; and
we want to prohibit all foreigners
from voting for fifteen years after
they get here.
I ulike the democratic and populist
parties, the republican party never at-
tempts to go back to things which his-
tory shows have been failures in the
pa>t. It profits by its own mistakes
and never commits the same error the
second *.ime. It is a party of progress,
development and gold sense; and
therefore, the people can depend upon
the renublican party for the restora-
tion of silver to its constitutional po-
sition, and for a correction of the im-
migration problem and all other great
problems which now confront the peo-
ple. This is the only party that it can
depend upon. Kverything the demo-
cratic an*l populist parties do is a fail-
ure before they put it into effect, as
proyen by h'story and by the experi-
enc s of men living. To go back to
this is ruin, as the people know, and
that is the reason they have had
enough of this backward movement,
and on November « th will take the
progressive step from which there
never will again be retrograde.
VOORHEES REFUTED.
The democratic papers have been
making great stock cut of the state-
ments of Senator Voorhees to the ef-
fect that John Wannainaker has an
advertisement in the Philadelphia pa-
pers that on account of the Wilson
bill the prise of all goods had been re-
duced. Mr. Wannaiuaker refutes the
statement in the following letter:
• Philadelphia, Oct. 17, 1804.- Dear
Sir: Answering your letter inclosing
the editorial of an Illinois newspaper,
embracing a speech alleged to have
been made by Senator Voorhees, re-
ferring to the advertisements of our
firm, 1 have to say that if Senator
Voorl ees ever made any such speech,
he has been terribly fooled by some-
body. Any one of common sense can
see what a boomerang such a speech is
for the democrats. By going to any
village store anyone can learn that it
is a bunch of falsehood slyly tacked
together. It is a queer cominentarv
on the intelligence of democratic audi-
ences to tell them that the Gorman
tariff, that did not touch shoes at all,
has reduced prices one-half, and that
it reduced linen, when it did not alter
the tariff on linens one cent.
' Senator Voorhees is printed in
quotation marks as saying in refer-
ence to reduced prices that our adver-
tisement in the Philadelphia Record
says 'that owing to and solely on ac-
count of the democratic tariff.* If the
senator or any other reputable person
can find any such an advertisement in
any Philadelphia paper, I will con
tribute SI0,00!) toward the charity
funds of Illinois, to help the working
men this winter thrown out of work
in that stat • by reason of shuttling and
blundering in tariff legislation.
Very truly yours,
John Wanamakf.il"
TO STOP OUTLAWS
The Indian Territory Asks for United
Stales Troops.
The Omaha city park* commissioner
who refused a salary for three months,
while absent in Europe, has aston-
ished the people, but lie has at the
same time dug his political grave. No
such a man can be u trusted confidant
of the average city politicians.
COAL IN THE STRIP.
j M. (joUIcii, ul I IiIn City, Solicited to l>e.
velop certain Vein*.
j GuTHK'.K, Okltt , Oct. 27.—|Special.]
M. Golden, of this city, went to Mc-
! Kinney, Cherokee strip, today in
i answer to a letter informing him that
an eleven inch vein of coal had been
| found, and he was asked to come and
I take charge and develop it The vein
j is only thirty feet under the surface
1 and can be worked ea*i y Mr. Golden
|is a man of enterprising spirit and
[ will succeed in the matter if anyone
P. U. RICHARDSON. D. 0. RICHARDSON, T. M. RICHARDSON, J*
President V lot Pre* id eat Caakltr.
T. M. RICHARDSON a SONS,
PERRY, CHEROKEE STRIP,
All Business Guaranteed by our
INDIVIDUAL KE^PB^IBILITY <5-
)KLAJ
JAKK FORCH.
KRKI) FORCH
TO SUPPRESS DESPERADOES.
Ureal rrenNiire llelnc Krouglii on tlie War
lit-|i*rt men! to Give It* Assistance,
us the Indian Police State
That They Cauuot
Cope With
Them.
Washington, Oct. 20.—The Indian
ottice has received another telegram
from Agent Wisdom, at Muskogee, I.
T., relating to the troubles experi-
enced f; >in lawless men in that sec
tion. II ti says: ''The Cook gang of
outlaws in force is cuinped at Gibson
staiion, eight miles from here, on the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas roa I. It is
believeo that another hold-up is con-
templa'ed. My police force is not
equal to the emergency and Marshal
Crump, at Fort Smith, Ark., writes
that he has not money to keep mar-
shals in the field for a campaign. Af-
fairs here are in a desperate condition:
business is suspended and the people
generally intimidated and private in-
dividuals robbed every day and night.
I renew my recommendation and earn-
estly insist that the government,
through the proper channel, take the
matter in hand and protect its court
and citizens of the United States, who
are lawful residents of the territory.
Licensed traders are especially suffer-
ing and they are here under suspense.
The state of siege must be broken and
something done to save life and prop-
erty."
The telegram was referred to Secre-
tary Smith, who called the attention
of the secretary of war to his request
of yesterday, that troops be sent to
the Indian territory and suggested
the urgency of early action as desired
by the government. It has been de-
termined by the interior department
officials to break up the lawlessness in
t'ie Indian territory, if the active as-
sistance of the war department is se-
ured.
Attorney General Olney has sent
telegrams to the I"nited States attor-
ney and the United States marshal, at
Fort Smith, to do everything legiti-
mately within their power to prevent
the interruption of inferstate com-
merce and the detention of the United
States mails. If these efforts fail, it
is assumed that the military will be
called into requisition.
Secretary Smith was asked today
what he should recommend to prevent
permanently the lawlessness and reign
of terror that now exists in the Indian
territory.
"Abrogate the treaties: abolish the
tribal relations: establish a territorial
government and extend the jurisdic-
tion of the United States court over
the whole country," he promptly re-
plied.
The secretary expressed the opinon
that the local self government of the
civilized tribes was a failure thus far.
Their legislatures make laws, but
there seems to be no way of enforcing
them. Men who had all along been
opposed to the course suggested now
see that there is no other way out of
the difficulty. He would see that the
Iudians were protected in all their
property rights, but he would have
the United States control sufficiently
to rid the territory of the outlaws 1 f
a territor'al government were estab-
lished. judges would be seut there to
administer the laws and the governor
who was appointed could see that they
were enforced*
The report of lioveruor Uenfrow, ol
Oklahoma, advivs the cousoiuiaiiuu
of the two territories, sa> 1 "K l,,ui uit
whites would then p,e<iu"""aie. 1 uih
being called to the secretary s atten-
tion, he said that the wh'u people lu
the Indian territory now laiaei.v pre-
dominated, but they had uice iu
the affairs of the (?uvermne"t. U was
Wines, Liquors and Cigars of the best Imported and Domestic
Brands will be Found at this
ELEGANT RESORT
The best equipped in Oklahoma—over the Bar or for Family Use, in Packages
of Any Size. The Liquors sold at
155 ROYAL. PALACE
For Purity and Ago are not Excelled, If Equalled in the Country.
Convenient Side Room and Courteous I l Sixth Street Kaat
Attendance. ( } side Square]
Awarded
sighest Honors—World's Fair.
DR;
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w CREAM
BAKING
POWMR
MOST PERFECT MADE.
A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Fre<
from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant.
40 YEARS THE STANDARD.
The centleman'8 place.
Turf Exchange.
ONLY THE FINEST PROCURABLE WHISKIES.
AND OTHER LIQUORS AND CIGARS.
The Only Pabst Bohemiam Beer and the best Equipped
Billiard and Pool Hall in the City
THE TURF EXCHANGE. i
Sixth Street, Between C and D St.* Perry, Okla
J. V. N. CHICORY, Pres.
P. W. FARRAR, Cashier.
V. C TALBERT, Ass t. Cash.
BANK of PERRY
CAPITAL,
850,000
DIRECTORS-
J. V. N. 9RB00RY, F. W. FARRAR, V. C. TALBEBT,
QE0. 8. HARTLEY, J. T. LAFFERTY
This Bank has the latest improved safe with automatic boll
work. Also a fire proof vault.
true that in this white population
there were many persons who are now
oausiug trouble, but if the I'nited
states had complete territorial juris-
diction over the country oould drive
them out, and the better element
would prevail.
The secretary said that the intruders
now in the Cherokee country should
be driven out. and that the war de-
partment would not interfere further
in the Silan Lewis case from the Choc-
taw country, and that it is probable
Lewis will be shot.
WAS CALLED DOWN.
WINGED HIS MAN.
A SjM'.ikrr Ti lea to Misrepresent Flynn at
Taloga and Huns Agulnst a Snag.
Taloga, Oct. 23 —Editor State Cap-
ital: Will you please {five us a little
space in your daily paper? Joe Wisby
came in yesterday, according to post-
ers previously posted, and by luck or
chance happened to find an old com-
rade in the person of G. II. Sexton,
who served in the same regiment with
him. Last night he made a talk to
the citizens in the new school house
and was only cheered once—that was
when he quit. L. B. Ross followed
Wisby and made the statement that in
the year l*8i I). T. Flynn was editing
a democratic paper at Riverside, Iowa,
and voted for G rover Cleveland at that
place at the election in 1884. He was
promptly called down by Mr. Sexton,
who asserted positively that 1). T.
Flynn and Frank Holmes were edit-
ing and publishing the Kiowa
Herald. at Kiowa, In Barber
county, Kansas, that same time
and that I). T Flynn was a delegate
to the county couvention at Medicine
Lodge that year, he, Sexton, being a
delegate at the same time, and further
Mr. Sexton asserted that he would
back his assertion with money that
the poll books of Kiowa township
would show that Dennis voted in old
Kiowa at *he election in the year 1884
Mr. Ross tried to show that Flynn had
not done anything for the people in
the Cheyenne %id Arapahoe country.
Dennis Flynn will carry this (44l)M)
county by a rousing majority.
The supreme council of thirty-third
degree Scottish Kite Free Masonry, in
session in New York city, elected John
J. Gorman, of New York, sovereign
grand commander and John G. Barker,
of Brooklyn, grand secretary.
Jailor Kills Seiul* a liullet After an Kacap.
lug Prisoner.
Guthrie, Okla. Oct. 27.—[Special.]
Jailor Ellis took a very good, effect-
ive shot after an escaping prisoner
this forenoon that but for his good
marksmanship would have gotten
away. The prisoner was Louis Jack-
son, who was found guilty injustice
Jackson's court of playing a confidence
game on a colored man to the tune of
820. Ellis had his man inside the
county jail fence and was unlocking
the iron gate of the jail. When he
had it unlocked, he turned around and
saw his man just getting through the
outer gate. He tjok after him and at
the distance of half a block, when the
prisoner would not stop, sent a bullet
after him from a small revolver, and
t ok him from behind in the tleshy
part of the hip. On receiving the shot
the negro stopped so suddenly he liked
to have broken his neck.
Natural gas: has been sirucK at 101a,
Kan., at a depth of 150 feet.
George Howell was killed by a cave-
in in a coal mine at Ottawa, Kan.
Henry Lynch, supposed to be one of
the Cook gang of outlaws, was arrested
at Pilot Grove, Mo.
The annual reunion of the survivor*
of the battle of Mine Creek is being
held at Pleasanton, Kan.
At Buffalo, N. Y., on the 24th, John
S. Johnson rode a mile on a bicycle in
'he unparalleled time of 1:35 2-5.
Sam Gallion and W. S. Williams were
captured at Mountain Grove, Mo.,
charged with rilling mail pouches.
The railroads have granted a one-
fare rate to the irrigation convention
at Hutchinson, Kan., November 23 and
24.
Great Britain has submitted a propo-
sition to the government of Hawaii to
build a cable from London to Hono-
lulu.
A fearful plague of diphtheria is
raging near Caseyville, 111. No fewer
than forty have died within the past
week.
Pension Agent Glick, of Topeka,
Kan., will disburse Stt,500,000 in his
November pa3*ment, which will begin
on the 5th.
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