The Territorial Topic. (Norman, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 7, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, July 17, 1896 Page: 1 of 8
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NORMAN, CLEVELAND CO.. <). T., FRIDAY, JULY 17,
THE GREAT SALE.
VOL. 7.—NO. 48
Is drawing the crowd to the BOSTON STORE. Special Prices on Dress Gocds. Clothing and
Furnishing Goods, Etc- The largest stock of Boots Shoes in South Oklahoma.
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4 fi carries through Pullman Sleeepers and
chair cars, arriving at Wichita 10:1* >>.
iu Kansas city r :M) p. m. Chicago 9:4t
a m. following day. making connec-
tions at Win fie d and Wichita with
Frisco for points oHst.
40^ carries through chair cars and Pullman
Sleepers from Arkansas City arriving
Wicliita 10:35 p ni Kansas City 0:M a.
in. Makes close connections at Wichita
witu the Frisco K It. arriving at St.
Louis at 6:30 p, ir. following day.
40r> carries through Pullman Sleepers and
chair cars arriving at Ft. worth H; 10 a.
in. Cat vest on ! 30 p m same day,
407 carrics through chair cars ar 'iving at
Galveston 9:Hi a m. following day.
.Ticket® sold o all points In the United
Suites and baggage checked to destination.
For further information call on or address
It J MOUQ \N
bantu fr'e Itoute.
For President,
WM. J BRYAN.
Of Nebraska.
For Vice President,
ART HUB SEWAl.li.
Of Mane.
I'EHltlTOIilAl
W, C. Hen Trow
T. ,1. |,owe
F ank l>ale
J H Hurt ord I ....
It. W Scott f
Pat. Nag I©
C. K. brooks
Governor
Secretary;
Chief Justice j
Asso'ute Justices
U. S. Marshal
.... IT. S. Attorney
NORMAN SECRET SOCIETIES
Norman I.odgo No. fi A. [•'. & A. M. meets
every first and third Monday in oach
month. All Master Masons are invited.
A. W KtsHKii W, M
W. H, Blackmon. See
Norman I.odue No s K of i', meets every
Friday llisht Castle Mail in Hillluin
t j 1111 d i n k . Alt visit 1 iik Uuinlits cordially in
vvited. H. w. STtlBBKMAK.C. c., I
\ C. vv II,i t (MB. K. of It. and S.
Norman Lodue 1.0. O F. No. 1 incuts every
Thursday nialit. Visiting brothers tordi
ally invited M.M.UOuaH. N.C.
" Williams, Sec.
nokman CHURCHES.
CHRISTIAN.
Frcaohlnff on tilHt and third Sundnj of
each nmnth. Morninn service U and even
Inn service 7; n. Sunday school H a m.
t'hrlRii' n Endeavor 5:15 p m. Prayer meet
ii.ii ev, ry Wednesday eieiiiwt at
Hkv WAl.TKit ltos<, Pastor,
mk.thodist ri'iscol'a 1..
Church corner of Gray street and Porter
avenue services every Sunday.
Morning services J' * I
Evening services • ;•>" P- ■
Sunday School ['■
Prayer meeting Wed. evening ...1(1 p in.
t'lHKS nicctiuy: inimediate'y after morning:
services lUv. FkiiOUSon, Pastor.
ukfhodist kl'lscopat, (south).
Church corner of Peters avenue and Tonha-
wa street. Services every Sunday.
Morning services 'J ,[n "■m■
Uveniug services ...in p.m.
Sunday Sell >1 K
Pruyer meetii :: Wed ev ng :hip ni.
It lev i. F. Shkkwood, Pastor.
CATHOLIC.
Church on Tonhawa lfleet between Craw-
ford and Porter avenues. Services on sec-
ond and third Sundays of each month.
Ukv. Fathku Mltii.h, Priest.
BAPTIST.
Preaching on iiist and third Sunday nf
each month, morning and evening.
Sunday School every Sunday morn
ing at 11:45 a. m.. C. Brewer Sunt.
Prayer meeting each Wednesday night.
Everybody invited.
K .v. O. 8. Uussm.t., Pastor.
|>i1e8ii\tkrian.
Preaching eve-y Sunday morning and
evening. Sunday School every Sunday
morning at ill o'clock. All lire invited.
Ituv. S.E. Hkniiv, pastor.
Thb St. Louis Republic lias made
arrangements !o cover the politics
of ail pai ties in Ilia coming campaign
tn a way that has never been equaled
by any newspaper. Those who wish
lo keep posted should suscrihe at once
The Republic dailv and Sunday has
been reduced to $K a year, $3 for six
months or 60 cents a month. The
Twice a-Week Republic Is $1 a year
Briefs.
Lawyers having short notice briefs
to lile in the supreme court can get
llietn in the shortest possible time, in
new, ciean type, and at most reason-
able prices at the Tone office.
The most interesting series of ta
hies given in this mineral and precious
ni. titl report is that showing ihti grad-
ual increase during the past few years
iu the production of gold. With the
exception of 1892 I he expansion in
the Ro d production has t>een steady
and rapid since the opening of the
present decade. The figures on the
amount ot the yellow metal taken
from the mines of the various S'ates
and Territories inake an interesting
exhibit. With the single exception
of 1892, as mentioned above, a m irked
increase has regularly been noted
from year lo \ear. The figures since
anc including 1890, as given bv the
various publications which have ema-
nated frm the office of the Director
ol the Mint, are as follows:
Amount of
Vcar. Gold Prodn ed
IMO,. $«,8tMl<10
1801 tifl.iT; non
1SII! f3:1,000,1100
M" jiw.fes.ooo
i-*H f <0,00",' e'
ISB-r f'I!!,5^0,000
To some of the readers of the Topic
these II g ti res may appear lo show an
annual gold output of extraordinaiy
propotious. To others, those who
remember the palmy days of gold
propuction, there is nothing in them to
excite comment. While the increase
lias been rapid since 1889 it is nothing
compared with the extraordinary de-
crease in production wliicn was noted
between 1878 and 1884. In the former
jeartlie United States produced gold to
the value of $51 207 360; in the latter-
Init $30 000 000. a falling off of $21,,
206.360 in six yeais.
The m'nt director's estimate for the
present year is specially inteiesting as
showing a probable excess of the
great production of 1878—{51.200 360
It has been said that ' there is scarce-
ly an assignable limit to the gold
known to exist in the United Slates."
Geologically speaking this may be
true, but the production lias been
limited by the difficulty of proHtabh
treating the low grade ores iu which
much of the stone's found.
The improvement of ore treating
processes, however, promises a con-
tinual increase ot available gold min-
es. Iti view of the late of increase it
would be haul to lix the limit of gold
production hv the end of the century.
Cot, BiiisokKiDGis will mike the
race for Congress in K 'niticky.
Richard i'. Blamd has allowed
his name to be announced as
a candidate for congress from the 8th
district of Missouri. His old home
district.
Increased Cold Production
Another interesting and valuable
compilation has just been issued by
the Goverment. We refer to the sta-
tistical bulletin giving ligureii on the
pioduction of economic miiietals and
precious metals iu the United Slates
during the calendar year of 189.5,
The total value of the mineral and
metal products of the country during
the year mentioned was $61i,795 290
against $527,368,591 for the year 1894.
These figures not only show that the
mineral and metal indu tries of our
country are of great value and im-
portance. but that we have made a
marked recovery from the depression
which M cted all branches of trade in
the United States in 1893 91- The
trutl ni the above stateme.it is more
plainly nppaient, perhaps, when it Is
known that the mineral and metal
production has never exceeded that of
1895, but once—111 1892 wheu it was
$648,000,000.
Ik gold hil been demouitized in
1873 instead of silver. 21.8 grains of
nine tenths gold would be worth about
$1,75. Would the silver dollar, then
tie a dishonest dollar?
Wheat, corn, cotton, wool, and all
agnciillUHl products Quuluult) ill valor
and ihe producer has to st:>ml the loss
or gain. Wlioare demanding that*
law be enacted that will pievenl thif
fluctuation? Bui the gold men realiz>
while g ild fluctuates in value 'twili
not depreciate under the present laws
The farmer must take his chances In
losing wiiile the gold m m must be
protected from loss.
It is frequently staled th.it Hit
present tariff lias destroyed maim
factures of tUis country by makmp
it impossile to compete with toreigi
pauper labor. Let us see how this is
The expott of manufacturers lo
several years past:
189 0 $151102 870
189 1 $168 927 315
189 2 SI08 510 937
lt>93 $158 023 118
189 4 $183 728 808
1895 $184 595 743
The year end-" •Idue 3 ) and t he re
port for '96 is not 111 for bin 10 mon hs
which shows an export of $184 572 61 5
from which if is estimated that 1 he
exports for the full year will reach
$220 000.000. These are figures that
illu. iraiesomething. They show thai if
there has been a decline in the output
of the manufacturers of ibis country,
it h s been due to other cauess than
the tariff, for the decrease is in
home consumption and uot in then-
exports. The principle canse for this
will be found 111 our tinaiicial policy
ill,it has caused prices of almost all j
real estate and of nearly every product
of Ihe soil to depreciate until the '
men who owned their homes or hai I
equity in them could no longer mak
tliem produce enough at the ruin e
prices to pay the interest and pur-
chase a sufficiency of the necessaries
of life. It is the gold standard, not
the tariff, that has caused the present
trouble as the above figures plainly
indicate.
Th republicans 111 this neck of the
woods are for silver. They are also
for protection. If they vote for pro-
tection they vote against silver, If
tbev vote for silver, they vote against
protection. They are 111 a dilemma
and the only way out is to decide
which is the most important issue,—
silver or protection. They are not
talking for publication but are doing
a whole lot of thinking — Journal(Rep )
Augusta, Kaus.
The same dilemma confronts the
republicans all oyer the West and
South. One of Ihi two issues mnst
be dropped and ttie tight made on the
other. McKinlev and Protection will
be the republican issue. The people
are going to cast their voles on this
gieat monev question. They have
been blinded for the last 20 years and
now propose to see out.
The Republicans of Michigan have
the following to say:
"The party which nominated Bryan
is not the Demooatlc party, but a
new Democracy, called lo the front In
demands of Hie times Theie are
thousands of Republicans in Hiis
counts and Stale who will vote for
Bryan and frae silver anil tliev come
trom the laboring and farming class
es."
The alliance when formad will prob
ably make Mavor I'ingree their candi
dale for Gnvenor. The Mayor is a free
silver man and does not trv to conceal
his liking for Bryan. When tlia plan
became known Republican leaders
here declared that the Slate was prac
tically lost, to them. The candidacy
of the Mayor, who is uncommonly
popular iu the Slate removes Ihe last
hope of retaining it iu Hie Republi-
can column
B-UY-A-N.
Indiana is yvheeling into line
for Bryan.
texas cotton crop is estimated
at 2,759.000.
I _
j THR New York World ngnin
j apologizes for the fakn letter on
i Bryan.
Ninty counties in Kansas have
instructed their delegations to
vote for Bryan.
thk Republican gubernatorial
race in Kansas looks ns though
Morrill would win the race.
the Rochester Herald will ap-
pear with the names of Bayan and
Sewflll at the head of its editorial
columns. The Herald litis long
t been an advocate of the gold
standard.
An Argument For Silver.
Anderson. Ind , July 12—Within
24 hours after the nomination of n
presidential candidate on a silvei
platform, the Wright Shovel Compi
nv of this city, one of the largest sliov
el and scoop manfu icturers in tin
country, posted notice that, beginning
with to-morrow, they would advance
the wages of their grinders and polish
ers 5 cents on the doz«u, m iking ati
advance of about7o "ents per day to
these workmen. Business is good and
the plant will continue throughout th"
summer season. They ship to all
ports.
Popular Discontrr.ent
"The West is swept with a wave of
discontent," writes John Russell
Young to the New Yoik Herald, and
adds: "This discontent is based upon
the ind ffireuce at Washington ti an >
interests hut those of monopolies.
Corporate schemes are so multiplied
and vast that they block the way iu
Congress.
Where does the responsibility for
"tliejnidiffereiice at Washington to
any interests but those of tnonopo
lies" rest? The Democratic party has
been the persistant opponent of mo-
nopoly legislation. On the other
hand, the Republican party has fos-
teied monopoly by legislation until
under McKinleyism a climax of scan-
dalous sacrifice of popular interests to
the interests of monopoly was reach-
ed.
But the discontent is confined to
the West. The plain people iu all
parts of the country feel it and are
suffering from Washiuton indiffer
ence to their Interests. The chief
significance of the Chicago Convention
is the protest it embodied against the
failure of Democratic agencies al
Washington to wipe out McKinleyism
and completely reverse the monopoly-
fostering policy established by the
Republican party.
Mr. Hanna representing the inter
ests whose greedy rule has caused the
irritation,offers as a remedy more of
the same. He wauls to allay populai
discontent over trust-fostering and
gold monometallism with another
application of McKinleyism and the
gold staud.ud.
The gold bugs of Democracy
are urging for another conven -
tion, that they may nominate
another ticket. Should they do
so, it will only decrease the sol-
id strength of the East, which is
opposed to anything that will
benefit the West. Then the
West will have a better opportn
nity to elect Bryan, president.
The silver men of the republican
party aro fast declaring for Bry-
an and from the indications at
present, this free silver senti
ment and brilliant Bryan will
sweep the United States like 11
prairie fire.
The present programme of the
gold bags is to delay a definite
decision whether to uume an in
dependent candidate until after
the Popilist convention at St.
Louis. Some of the gold men
fear the results of a union be-
tween silver Democrats, silver
Republicans and str light-out
Populists' and believe such a
union would make necessary n
combination of gold men of all
parties iu support of McKinley
Those who favor a separate tick
et do not admit the force of this
reasoning. Neither the one ele-
ment nor the other conceals the
fact that its essential purpuse is
to defeat the ticket nominated at
Chicago. Those democrats who
favor an independent gold ticket
are not advocating it an a half-way
measure, but simply because they
believe an independent ticket is
the most effective way of defeat
iug Bryan and SeWall.
Accepts the Platform
Grand Rapids. Mich., July 15
—xhe Graud Bapids Democrat,
which favored gold before the
convention, accopts the platform,
declares it is the accepted creed
of the party for this campaign,
and Bays that democrats who do
not like it can find comfort and
compabv on the republican bide
of the fence.
Massachusetts Endorse-
ment.
Haverhill, Mass., July 13.—
The Democratic committee has a-
dopted resolutions reaffirming al
legiauce to tho democratic party
iu its new declaration of princi-
ples, pledging support to its late-
ly nominated candidates and en
dorsing the action of George Fred
Williams in his support of the
nominee as wise, patriotic and
democratic.
Wall
St re it Man
Silver.
for
ted Garment Workers, says: "It
is probable that the organization
will come out tint-footed for
Bryan and free silver."
Daniel Harris, president Statfl
Branch American Federation of
Labor: "Bryan represents the
people-the poor people. Every-
body, except the representatives of
Wall street, corporations and
syndicates, will vote for him.
John J. Fall as. Pattern maker's
Union : "Brj an is a good, hus -
tling man, aud I shall vote for
him. The free silver doctrine
is just what the laboring man
wants."
James Crotty, Amalgamate!
Society of Plumbers and Gasfit-
ters. "Bryan will get my vote,
jf'he platform as a whole otighf
to uuite evory workingman in
this country.
Labor Leader Gwen Carroll,
t am a republican, but I am with
Bryan heart and soul. I am
sure his platform is right."
Robert A Mullen, secretary
Manhattan Musical Union-
"Bryan represents the common
people, and now is the time to
give the golds a good fight and if
possible drive them out of polio-
tics."
William II. Farley, secretary
of the Building Trades Seotion:
"I'm for Bryan, first, last antt
all the time; and hope all work-
ingmen will be the same."
New York, July 15.—John
Bouvier anil F. K. William of i ^
| tli6 New York Stock Exchange g
aro out for free silver. The for-! jj
! mer lias come to his convictions a
j after '27 years dealing iu securi- j 3
ties on tho Stock Exchange, and j ^
i Mr. Williad is an older veteran on y,
! the board, having become a mem-1
lier in 18(13. Mi. Willard is
identified with Wostern interests.
I Mr. Bouvier is a Democrat of
life-long standing,
S !
I Declares For Bryan.
Philadelphia, Pa.. July 15.—
The Journal of the Knight of
Labor, the official organ of that
order, declares for Bryan this
week with the full sanction of the
Ganeral Executive Board. The
J Knights of Labor have au agree-
ineut with the Populists, and as
| the Peoples' Party Convention in
S St. Louis on the 2'2ud inst, will,
j without doubt, endorse the Dem-
ocratic nominations of Bryan and
Sewell, the support of the Knights
Of Labor of that State is a fore-
| gone conclusion. ] he "Journal'
for last week is f til I of editorial
mutter directed against McKin-
ley aud Murk Hanna au I their
syndicate of tiusts and monopo
lies,
New York Workingmen.
/vYVvVVT WfWmWfc.
!
Ousterhaus
& Wilmus
Winh to ca.l your atten-
tion to tlielr iHtfHt puteriu
aiuJ nf y l n in Fall suits.
Merchant I
Tai lors
Thoy aro riolnjr a first-
ol hhh tailoring business
and invite yon to come
ami sithem before i iu«'-
fiitf yonr orders Hsuwhere
There is no us<> wending
your order* away fioua
Norman,
Oklahoma,
For tailor-made olothinir.
an we guarantee satisfac-
tion in prices, goods and
workmanship.
call anl> sjsk us.
Who Is Next?
Sometimes two men together
barber shop appear. The one has
whiskers heavy, while the other's face
is clear. 'Tis then the barber, readv
most, is very much perplexed, He
wonders if his whiskers, or the
smooth face will be next. Go to
Davis Bio's bai her shop for tlrst class
work. First door east of Boston Kes-
aiinint.
WANTED—Several trustworthy
gentlemen or ladies to tnvel in
Oklahoma Territory for established,
j reliable lioi.se. Salary $7S0 and ex-
penses. Meady position Enclose ref-
j erence and self-arldressed stamped en-
velope. The Dominion Company,
| Third Floor, Omaha Bide.. Chicago.
New Yoik, July 15.—The il-
j ver strength assumed greater
I proportions to-day when it be-
came known how heartily it is
endorsed by representative labor
| ii.g men. The followning ex
j plains itself:
Herman Robinson of the
Btofherhood of Tailors and Uni-
No Cripe
When you take Hood's Tilts. The big. eld fash-
ioned. sugar-coatcd pill*, which te r you all to
pieces, are not in It with Hood s. F.asy to take
Hood's
and easy to operate, is true
of Hood's Pills, which are I I
up to date In every respect. I ■
Sale, certain and sure. All ■ ■ ■ ■
druggists. '2">c. C. I. Hood & Co.. I<owell, Mass.
Ihe only l*UJ« to t.tUe with Hood's BarssparUiRi
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