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12 Only Associated Press Paper In Oklahoma,
OKLAHOMA WEATHER.
TO OA Y-Fair
TIESOAV-.Fali
Wl.\D -!SOUfllfily
THE FIRST PkPEW PUBI.ISMED IN OHLANONA,
Nend u* One Dollar (*1 OOi nnd Kft
"Worjjgii'M tlauuul" or the Home-
Htrud.TownNltr. and lliiirral Lnwn
ami a line Neetionul map of Oklaho<
«na Tlii* book has £141 poi;cfl and
1* a Imo lute authority on laud law,
Ntate Capital IViutiug (oiupauy,
tiuthrie, Okluhoiuu
VOLUME XIV.
TUESDAY MOUSING.
(i I'TIIKIE, ORI.AIiO.MA, S!■: I'TK.M I i I! K
TUESDAY MORN 1 N'O.
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NL'AI IS Eli 122.
west mm hurricane
SUBMERGES THE CITY 6f GALVESTON.
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The Waters of the Gulf
Oriven Into the City,
THE DEAD
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Water Five Feet Deep in the Highest Portions oi the City-
Storm Began Two O'clock Saturday—A Night of Hor-
rors—TSie Bay Front Frcm End to End in Ruins
—Water Washes out Dead From Cemeiaries.
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ped down Into the water . No ono in the
houso was hurt.
"Of tho Lavlno family, six out of the
seven are reported dead.
"Of tho Dennett family only ono Is
known to have been save. d
"The family of Stanley G. Spencer, who
met death In tho Cotton Exchango saloon
is reported to bo dead.
"The Mlatrot houso .In the West End,
was turned Into a hospital.
"All tho hospitals in tho city were un-
available.
"Of the now Southern Pacific works,
little remains but tho piling. Hal! a mil-
lion feet of lumber was carried away, and
Engineer Boschcke says that as far as
tho company Is coneerned it mlfiht as
well start over again.
"Eight ocean steamers were torn from
their moorings and stran led in tho bay.
The Kendall castlo was carried over the
flats from the Thirty-third street whnr!
to Texas City and lies in th^ wreckage
of tho Inman pier. The Norwegian
steamer, Gyller If stranded between Tex-
as City and Virginia Poin*. An o?ean
liner was swung around through tho
West Pay, crashed through tho bay
barges and Is now lying In n foot of writ-
er near tho wreckago of the railroad
bridges. Tho steamship Taunton was car-
ried across Pelican Point, nr.d Is strand-
ed about ten miles up tho East Hay. Th"
steamer Alamo Was torn from her wharf
and dashed upon Pelican Flats an;l tho
in Tremont street I saw eight bodies. hf)W (ho v.rltlsh steamer RM Cross,
Four corpses were In one yard. | which had previously b^«n hurled ther^.
"The whole of the business front for sfrrn nf the Alamn !s stove In, nnd
three blocks in front the gulf was nnd tho bnw of tho Rod Cross Is chursh-
strlpped of every vestige of habita- 1 f<1
tion, tho dwellings, the great bathing; .'<Down iho channel fo the lettles two
establishments, the Olympia and every nthrr Rt(>aiT1Shins lie aground. Somo
structure having been « ither carried ! p^ooners. barges, and smaller crafts are
out to sea or its ruins piled in pyrmlde. ptrpwn bottnm Bldo un along the piers,
far Into the town, according to the vag-
aries of the tmpest.
"The orphans home, Twenty-first
street and Avenue M fell like a house.
of cards. How many dead children and I , «,.r
_„<• . , . 4 thine near .an approximate Idea of tho
refugees are in the ruins could not be 1 *
asc
" Hit the Nail
Oil the Head."
If you have eruptions, pains in the
head or 'kidneys, stomach trouble ar.d
feelings if meanness. "Hit the tia! on
the head" Hood's Sarsapan.ia is the
h.xmmer so usc. It <wil! purify your blood.
The masses praise it fc* doinj this and
making the whole body healthy.
PRESIDENT McKiNLEV'S
LETTER (IE ACCEPTANCE.
N'hP tog Louise, of the Houston Direct
Navigation company, is also a wreck.
I "Tt will tako a week to tabulate the
' dead and the missing and to get anv
tajncj J loss. Tt Is safe to assume that one-half
Of the sick In St.'Mary's Inflrmarv thP ^ nf ""V,rl,f ^
y xnary. jand one-half tho residents have to face
together with the attendants, only eight
HOUSTON, TEXAS, SEPT. 10 —
RJchard Spiilauo a well known Gal-
veston newspaper man and correspond-
ent of the Associated Press in that city
who reached Houston today after a
terrible experience gives the following
account of the disaster at 'Galveston:
One of the greatest tragedies of mod-
ern times has visited Galveston. The
city Is in ruins and the dead will prob-
ably number one thousand. I am just
from the city having been commis-
sioned by the mayor and citizens to
come and get in touch with the outside
world and appeal for help, (Houston was! are understood to have been saved*.
the nearest point at which working] "The old womens home, on Rosenberg
telegraph instruments could be found,
the wires, as well as nearly all the
buildings between no re ana trie gurr^. «. «nu oioxrn. jsvei*yi «
Mexico being #ROkM. I church In the city with possibly one nr1"' l] '' ;:,nrui !u " v,'r'
"When I left Oalveston, shortly after ^ « In ruins. are few bull.ll... a, T«.s. CftSr .hat
At the forts nearly all of the sol-!not tell °* l'10 storm- 1,1 hotel
noon yesterday the people war* nriran-1 .llers war* reported dead, they having ruin. The ofltoer. oi the Twe-
iting for the prompt hurtal of the ileail'l"" M in temporary quarters which (tave "* city camP t;' : ,1!
diFtribution of food and all nccessary no protection against tho temp- jwith all other walls rdlpixnl off of paper
h1". and flood. Mothhic remain, of the piece except lh«,
work after a period of disaster. i ,.v
report has been received from PlUnfc.- The wreckage from <„t. «ton
"The wreck of Oalvestfln was brought, i the Catholic orphan asylum down the Utter, th. ehore. and is a hundred yards
about by a tempest so terrible that no island, but It seems impossible that it or more wid. .
words can accurately describe Its In-,™"1'' WiUtttflOd the hurricane. If "Fop ten nii!i*< inland from ttie shore
tensity and by a flood (hat turned the i,',.', th"' inma,<'s were no doubt it is a common right to we small rnilts
.. , " 'fler" "''is no aid within a mile such as steam launchces, schooners and
city Into a raging so:,. The weather bur-I The bay front fmm end to end ta oyiter .loop*.
eau records show that the wind at- in ruins. Nothing but piling and wrecks! "Tlio life boot of the T.lfe Savini." sta-
talned a velocity of S4 miles an hour | ^aiehtnisi-s remain. The ele- tion, was carried a half mile Inland,
when the measuring Instruments blew and thel^Vtt^k,^'"Jl'-^vork. | while a Ttnel that was anchored on the
j, t„., -.ti i , damaged by water. Moses Bayou lies high and dry flv
away, so that it was impossibe to tell . he life saving station at 'Fort Point ' Up from 1
avenue. collapsed. The (Rosenberg
school house is a mass of wreckage.
Pall high school is but an empty
' • ..n<
, I a von
n ' j sehoi
the The
rotf fhrtl
absolute poverty.
"At Texas City three of tho residents
were drowned. Ono man stepped Into a
well by a mischance, and hl eorpse was
found there. Two other mon ventured
'font, during the helgtli
miles
what was the maximum.
"The storm began about 2 o'cloek
Saturday morning. Previous to that a
greaA storm had been ragfng
carried
gulf, and the tide was very high. The
wind at first came from the north and
was in direct opposition to tho force jj,,,
from the gulf. While the storm from Fiv
the gulf piled the water on he beach j w r<
away, the crew being
Tov ;'!.r"'SS the l>ay fourteen, miles to
-',s t ity. i saw Captain Haines ye--
ter lay and he said that hi^ wife and
tho; one of his crew were drowned
Marnue.
The shore at Texas
to rebuild a el
City contains
sons who wore swept across t'he'hjy aZ
h" sto™ w''i-e picked t-t> lltere (live
C°r„p_ses.w0re "'so picked up. There
Texas City, in
J« \as City, ea«k«-ts
t and coffins from one nf the eemoterl< '=
.si aaiv.ston were, being Ashed ojt ,f
1 were:
"St anle;
fierce Elder-Dempster Steamship
I "Richard Lord .traffic
Sponrrr. manager of the
three fatal tic
aide, the north wind piled the water f^^tion to the living and the dead which
from the bay on the bay part of the up ut ^exa. City, casket,
city.
"About noon It became evident that the w.-iier (here yesterday
the city was going to be visited with: In ihe business portion of the eily
disaster. Hundreds of residences alongi'wn' •arte brlok building., one oocupteb
the heach front were hurriedly nbnn- ^ Brothers and the other by Hii
doned. Ihe families fleeing to dwell-L,, Cotton Kxehange saloon "her^werB
ings on higher portions of the city. Ev-j lift. . n persons Most of them escapi d
ery hrnne in the city was opened to the. ' p to the time i left Qalveston liiree,
refugeef. black or while. The wind 1,211 bcan taken irom the mini. They
was rising constantly and the rain fell
in torrents. The wind was so
that the rain cut like a knife. j " Kichard l.ord .t.-affii- u inncer for
''By 3 o'cloek the water from the gulf j George TT. Mr*'addon and Brothers.
nnd bay met and by dark the entire *!'IT! s ^e^er the Arm of Lamroers
.and Flint.
city was submerged. Tho flooding of tho „
mens more corpses are there will
electric light and gas plants left the . not be known until the scare a is fin-
city In darkness. To go out on tho ishod.
streets was to court death. The wind I "Tho oil mills, the bagging factory, the
was then at cyclonic velocity, roofs. - • • works .the electric light works and
cisterns, portions of buildings, telegraph nearly all tho industrial estahliHhm r,ti
poles nnd waits were falling and the of the city are elthtr wrecked or crip
•noise of tho wind and the crashing of Ipled. The flood left o sediment about an
the buildings wu terrifying In the ex-j Inch deep all over the whole olty an i
treme. Tho wind and water rose stead* unless the progress Is made In burying
lly from dark until 1:45 Sunday morn* corpses and carcasses of animals, there
ing. During all of this time the people i danger of a pestilence.
of Galveston were like rats in a trap. | «some of the stories of escape are ml-
"The hightest portion of the city was nu.uious. William Nisbott. a cotton nr.*
from four to five f el under water. v , burled In the ruins of the
while in the great majority of ouei BxchB.nffe moon and when dug
the streets were submerged to tho
depth of ten feet. To leave a house was
•to drown. To remain was to court
death with the wreckugo.
"fcuch a night of ag ny bns se'dom
been paralleled. Without apparent, . ...
ed by the water and was carrle 1 ten
blocks by tho hurricane
"A woman who had Just givon birth to
a child was carried from her homo to
a houso a block distant IT
"The Qalveston News asked to have ir
announced that all the men of I s start
are safe."
PARTTAT. T-TST OF DEAD.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, SEPT. 10,-Kol-
lowing is a partial list of th,> dead as
gathered hy the News. It was sent by
a tug to Houston.
Stanley G. Spencer, steam ship agent.
Chas. L. Keller, sr. a prominent cotton
ma n.
Richard Lord, traffic manager.
Georgo H. McF;i !<!• 11 and brother, cot-
ton merchants.
W. L. Daly, agent for Chas F. Orthwein
& Co., grain exporters and steam ship
agents.
Richard Johnson, tract by flying tim-
ber and instantly killed.
WASHINGTON, SEPT. ' 10.—Frcstaent
MeKlnley has mailed his letter of ae-
ceptanco of tho republican nomination
for a second term. It is as follows:
Executive Mansion, Washington, 1). C.
September 10, law.
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Chairman Not-
Uicatlon Committee.
My Dear Sir:—
Tha nomination of the republican na-
k-entlon of Juno l'J, liHK)k f.jr
i office of tho president of tho ynlted
Stales, wlUch as tho official representa-
tive of the convention you have convoyed
t< mo, Is accepted, i havo carefully ex-
amined tho plat: rm adopted and glvo 't
\ Spanish sailor of (he steamship Teles. jmy h,..irty ap]lruval- ,.|100 lho ,reat
issuo ol' the national election It Is clear.
I'. upholds the gold standard and en-
0 rses the leg!;-is tion of the present con-
gr« ss by which thai tsandard has been
effectively strengthened. The stability
« t our nat'oi ul currency is th< refore se-
cure so long as those who adhere to this
platform are kept In control of tho gov-
ernment. In the ilrst battlo that of 1896,
the friends of tho. gold standard and «>f
sound, currency wero triumphant ahd the
Miss Mabel Stlckloch, Mechanic street,
nephew of S. M. Hay.
Seven members of the Westmoro fam-
ily, residing in the east end, one member J t'(l"al
of the family nn old man was paved.
"Mrs. J. W. Wenman and two childr.
Mrs. Jack Delaney, wifo of United
States bridge office of tho port, and two
children.
for a.
Tho Tclcsfora went adrift and struck
White Hall at pier No. 15. Timbers of
I the grain elevator fell on tho soldier and
I pinned him to the docks.
I Mr. Magia, grocer, Eleventh street nnd
Avenue A, Two daughters and a s> n.
Miss Ida. Schofleld.
Mrs. PaVer and child, all lost In tho
Magals st/fl\
Mrs. Dudley Bell, wife of a Galveston
news compositor and child.
Will Ric<*, proof reader of tho News,
and child.
Mrs. Claude J. Fordtran and sister.
Miss Helen Somers.
George Swel, wothcr and sister,
Mrs. Michel O'Keefe's brotlur.
The bodies of four white person
seven colored were .found in the
story of W. J. Reitmy. rs store in the great buslm
niornJng.
Mrs. J. B. Trendwell and Infant.
Mrs. C. J. Clark#nnd infant.
Mrs. A. Longnecker.
Mrs. Beverage and two children.
Mrs. George M .Schroeder and four
children, and tho mother of United States
Deputy Marshal Wood.
Mr. Txmgnecker escaped with
Injuries.
Mrs. Amundozon, mother of
Chief of Police Amundozon.
ft Clear, Logical Slate.msnt c! Ills Posi-
tion en all Questions.
BRYANISM CONTINUES PHILIPPINE WAR
country is enjoying tho fruits of that
victory. Our antagonists, however, are
not satisfied. They compel u* to a sec-
ond battle upon the same lines on which
the first was fought ahd won. While
regretting tho reopening of this question,
which can only disturb the present con-j
and isfactory financial condition of the gov.|Uon •a<1 reeiProcity were the Ami pledges
first 'enrmont and visit uncertainly upon r,'I>uWlran victory to be written Into
nterprises, wo accept the pl,b"c
jssiiHs and again invite the sound money P'e •• ut congrcss has given to
forces to join In winning another aou Alaska a territorial government for which
w- 1 opo a permanent tr untph (■ •' an Ivn-J't had waited for more than a quarter
est financial system, which will contlnuo|°f '«• century; has • stablli=lied a ropr« -1
"""Gould not Abandon Them it We
Wouid—Short Day Belter Than Short Doiiar- Gnba
and Porto Rico—The Inter-Oceanic Canal—
Per Capita Now $26.85,
inviolable the public faith.
* vanouirtp:;> over * >me.
As in 1S!H tho throo silver parties are
limited', under the same leader who Im-
perious mediately after tho election of that year,
I in an address to the bl-metaliRts, said:
Deputy i "The friends of bimetallism have not
been vanquished, they have tolmply been
Jos. B. Aqullo, chairman of the demo- ■ rc.m- They believe that tin* gold
ratlc county executive committee. standard is a conspiracy of tho money
Chas. J. Rust, knocked from a dray hangers against th welfare of lho hu-
while attemnH*-.u' to carry his family to|mnn race, and tiny will contluuo tho
a place of safety^ >• m- -s killed, warfare against it."
John R 1 ). • v .'fe. T'>-- polie.v l.'.us p' •••la'rie .1 !: i 1« • c-
tiii • ibf • R !(um, (n at ' «4nflrmrd by i .
th-Tn rn-\\ t in. "iiuA all tlliree piatferrfts tltew-
Mrs. W. B .1 nud child. j pnf /r-.i'ounee , ili.i th-:Mn
White girl tw lv< years old, wnWentl-1 effort a shall be unceasing until the
fled, found in yard of J. Paul Jones. hooks and1 the free and unlimited coin-
Mrs. CI or t Howth. - j age of silver at 18 to l shall take its
Mr. and Mrs Sehuler, and five, children. ' P'11CG*
Mrs. Motor and two daughters. ' The relative importance of tho Issue I
sen tat I vo government in Hawaii; has
enucted bills for tht: most liberal treat-
ment of pensioners and heir widows; ha.-i
revived the freo home
1 in value. •'
FOREIGN TRADE.
(>ur for.-iri i ti. I. showa ;i satisfactory
and Incr ising gt wth. The amount of
our exports for ihe year 1: «j0 over tho*e
'i tin «'X. r ottonally prospeujus year of
ls''!i was about a half mlnllion dollars
lor • very day of the vear, and these sums
have gone Into the homes and enter«
prises of the jie.ipic. There has been an
id policy. In its lucien - « f over $50,000,000 in the exports
great financial law ii p-n for the'of agricultural products; $92,692,220 in
establishment of banks of Issue with a' manufactures an.l In the products • f fite
capital of $25,000 for the benellt of the mln- e\■ r $T -mimi. Our trade balances
villages and rural communities. and ran not help but give satisfaction to tho
bringing tho opportunity for profitable' people of the country. In ISPS we sold
ss In banking within the
moderate capital. Many are already
availing themselves of tills privilege.
BONDS PAID.
nst year moro than, nine- j
i : .C United Sattcs bond* have
siirjilus revenes of tho
i* ''iTtlon t \w.i't\ -.ik\;tK niH ;
1 er e, nts rtinnir^i| P.iciti'yj
n! r.-.1.1 \;....f products more than
we bought abroad; In 1899 $529,SIT,813, and
In 1S9U $54,471,701, making during the three
years a total balance in our fav^r of
$l.r,s:(.77'.i,l!«", nearly fiv« times the balance
of trade In our favor tor tho whole period
of I'm years from 1790 to Juno 39 1S97, in-
clusive*. t ■
INCREASE OF OOLD STOCK,
bonds Issued by the government,' Foti! hurifba'd and thtrty-slx mUHon dol-
in'nld of the r.-ads In the sum of nearly '-irs of gold ha\. been added to the gold
1 7
it All road I
Mrs. Davis Wakelee.
C. IT. Fix. * ' I
W. F. Fi'-hrr, wife, two children, two
isters in law nnd a niece.
Mrs. John F. Ge-rriand and two children.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Compton.
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Broecker and two
children.
Tlorbeck and boy.
Mother In law and sister in law of Wm.
Thompson, of lho fire department.
Thomas W- bster, sr., secretary of grain
Inspector of th port, and family of four.
Irs. J. R. Corel and family.
Francois" a well known waiter, re-
ports the loss of 22 persons who took
• fuge in his !, ise six of them members
f his family.
Mrs. John Rowo an 1 three children.
Policeman John Rowo. attempting to
av hi fa mi! j • a raft, but they were
wept off and drowned.
o not stop to discus';?.
All of them are important. Which
ver party Is successful will be bound
a conscience to carry Into admlnistra-
forty-four million dollars havo been paid
sineo December 31, 1 st 7. The treasury
balance Is In satisfactory condition, show-
ing on September 1, $135,119,000, in addi-
tion to the $150,000,000 gold rtsere held
Lotton
3ut In
tho morning had no further Injuries than
a few bruised fingers.
Dr. S O. Young, secretary of the
Cotton Exchange was knocked senm h< 4
when Ills house collapsed, but was r viv-
mon woo
reason tho waters begvan to subside at
1:4C a. m. Within twenty minutes they,
(had gone down to two feet and before |
daylight; the streets were pructieslly
free fhom flood waters- Tti the meantime j
the wind had veered to the southeast. j^'To carrying h r h iving t > bold her
"Very few, if anv bulldinfl ©tt «p"il.' r>l their h ids • the wator w .
Injury. Their# is hardly u habitnble fr" ,1roP when she * moved,
dry house in the eity. Wtten the people 1 :i' stories wero current ot houses
who had escaped daath went out ai | wd Inmati escaping Clai* '•
daylight to view the work of the temp-'N Ousley, editor of thi i: nlng Trlbui
est and the floods tin*y saw the most jt 1,1 family and the families of twi
liorribb* sights imaginable. In tbathree«neighbors in his house when the lower
block* from Avenue N. to Avenue p.]half crumbled and th upptr part siiji-
ap
Sic 1 ITpadaoho aud relievo all tho trouble* Inci-
dent to a bilious BUto of tho syetam, 6iioh its
Diu-.iuesn, N usoa, I>' nvi-iue. •<. l>intn*.-H after
eating. Pain lu tlio bi.lt, \o. Whil.| their ruuat
rcuiarkuLle buccur hart been shown iu curiuj
IIoAdarhe. y«*t Turtor'n I.ittlo Liver rills are
cipiaiiy Tslnsble in OoMtlpstion, eiu Ing u I pre*
ventiu^ thiBaunoyiuuoenipl int.n liiln they in <o
corroclalldiHordi'i • < t tlniHioma. h.Htiunil.itu tlio
liver au.l rtiguluto tho bowcU. Ev. n if thoy only
cur€" " R p™
f ?
A^he thoy would l o almost prlroloss to thens whfl
Suffer f«'< mthirtdiativ: ".un cMayliont. butforfu-
Ii.itelr tbriri/ < . ei , ., notuud here,ami tie «,j
tv ho..nee try thorn will flt:.l the f little pilln valu-
able in po many ways that thsy will not ho w.!-
'ilug tu do without iht'iti. but aftur ull Hick h
jca
" .vi
li'thplianeof pomnnyllro!* ♦ bnt hem f« whnrs
We tnako our great boa it. Our piUs cure It whllo
OtU'TH do 11 t
Carter's Little Lifer Pills STO very •mull and
Tory easy tot'iftn. Ono or two pills malm a d'<ne.
They aio firlotly vc -ntablo ana do not gripe or
pun?o, but by their tenflo n tin jdense all wh.>
t.otliein lu vialoi.'2' . ntH ; flvofor $1. bold
by druggists ovarywhero, or went by mail.
CARTER MEDICINE CO., New York.
Sail! Pil Small I®, Sdl Pries.
Walter Petts.
lealer and wife
Pitman Howe
B. T. Ma st erst
Policeman ''i■
Policeman To\
Family of J 'o.i
Family ot l'ol
a prominent produce
and family.
ti and family.
. Wolfe.
eroa.
r eman Rowan.
iceman Bird.
City engineer, wife
Richard D. Swa
Captain D. TI I
and five children.
Mrs. J. W. Muni.
Walter, and three children.
Mrs.
Edwa
Mrs.
arbr
slo
Webster and two
iT. Harris,
lee. Harris.
Celley.
jester.
sis to
f the I'nited States since July 1,
1896. The law of March II. 1900, auhor-
i/.- i tie refunding Into tw< per cent
i>oi i ..f that part of the public debt
rope. ;-.-!ited by He* three per nts duo
in lists, tie four | - cents duo li. 1907. and
the live, per .
$4S0, 000,000.
sum of these
first thre
ii. duo in 19(1 aggregating
.re than one third of tlie
on<is was refunded in tlioi
months after the passage of
Mrs. Harrys.
Joo Schwa rt7.b "
Mrs. W. Qm t<
J. F. RoU, Wlf<
Joe Hughes.
Mrs. Katie Ev
Cate and Panny.
Charles Sli r v. i
J. B. Palm
. son and daughte
and four children.
id two diughiers,
Mr. and ^
Burnett.
Mrs. Moll I,
and baby.
Gary Burnet
P.rker.
Miss itattl v\. o.i ward.
Harmon Plitt
Mrs. Peter Hamburg nnd four
ron.
— Wontmn.
Mrs. Mary TJ' inlaouv.
PRESIDENT WILT JAM McKTNLEY.
:ion an.l legislation itrf several declar- in the treasury. The government's re-
aHons and doctrine#. One declaration Istions with the Pacitic rallronls havo
will be as obligatory as another, but all been substantially closed-, $Uf.|21,o ' being
ar- Immediate. It Is not possible that receinved of these roads th" greater part
these parties would treat the doctrine in cash and tho remaind r with ample
of b! to 1, tho immediate realization of securities for payments deferred.
which is demanded by their several plat-1 PER CAPITA T/ARGEFl.
forms as void and inoperative in tho | xn .((.nd of diminishing as was predict ed
th let, and nn Sepember 1, th. sum had
been Increased mor< than $33,000,000, mak-
ii g in all$330,578,060, resulting in a net
iving of ov« r $s.;i79,52f| Tb ordinary
receipts ..f the g< eornment for the fiscal
year 1900 were $79,627,060 In excess of lta
expenditures.
REC 'Eli TS A NI) *R X PENDI TI * R ES.
While our ree««4p| both from customs
a-l internal revenues have been greatly
increased, our expenditures have bee If
Ing. Civil and miscellaneous ex-
i i for the ti 1 y or ending June ttu,
nearly 114,OOt ,000 li ss than in
i -tii while in th" war acount there is a
leci i oi than $96,000,000. There was
100,0 !■ to .support the navy
this y. ar than last, un tlie c-xpendSt'ures
on account of fndtans were nearly two
,*; : tin- e .piarteT million dial tars less than
i \- • The . nly two items of increase
in th. public xpenses of 1900 over 1S99
:f..!• pension^ and Interest on the pub-
!,. lit In 1 we expended for pensions
1 929 and for the fiscal year UK*), our
j. nvii'is on this account amounted to
?! i • ■•77,316. Tho net increase of interest
on the public d-'bt of 1900 over 1899, re-
.:r ■ 1 by tlio war lotin, was $263,408.25.
Whil. <"imresB authorized tho govern-
to m ike a war loan df $400)000,000 at
th beginnig of the war with Spain, only
■ «i of the bonds wero lSfeued, bear*
itiK H i per cent Interest, which was
and patriotically taken by our
elti/.e
4
redue
they should be clothed with pow<T. ' foUr yeard>s
T
D
Mamie G'i
Mf and :
Mrs. Gor.l
John T.yr
Waliai
Dorln.
- 'Vomer.
Jtherwise Ihelr profession of faith I
■ ticere. It Is therefore the imperative
lusiness of those opposed to this flnan-
iai heresy to prevent the triumph of
h • p irtle whose union is only assured
,y adheranco to th" silver Issue. Will
j He- American people through lndifT.• r-
nei. ,,r fancied security, hazard the ov- r-
Hirow of tho wise financial legislation
. r the past year and revive tho danger
f the sliver standard with all of Its In-
stable evils of shattered confidence an<I
i f-iil disaster which Justly
and aroused them in 189S.
FAITHFI'I. TO PRINeiPI.R.
' Th" repuhlieun party remains faithful
It !i■ prinelple of a protectIvo tariff
I which supplies -ijfiiclent Tevenin s f r tlio
volume of our cur-
rency is greater per capita then it. has
, ,#r been it was $2110 In 189C. I has
increased to $26.50 on July 1, 1
$26.s5 on B*n tember 1. 1900. Our total mon- |,
ey on July 1. 1S96, was $1,608,434,966; on i
July 1. rn> it was $2,062. ilTi. i'n5; and $:."9C- >
6S3.043, on Sopt®ml>er 1, 1900.
PROSPERITY ABOI'NDS. \
Our Industrial and agricultural con 11-| i
lions aro more promising than they Imvo u
been for many yours; probably more •• n
have ever been. Prosperity r
ery where through out th
that the southern
alarmed ahoum]„
^niblle. I n jolr
REDT*( 'TON HE'-OMMENDED.
i otnt • g unl : • ei a o< curs ta
our revenues or Increase our ex-
ngres at lbs next session
should reduce taxation very maerlally*
GOV E R N Ml-J N T BON D .
Five years ago we wero selling govern*
ment bonds bearing as high as livo per
'Tit Interest. Now wo aro redeeming
i he?n with a bond at pur bearing two per
- j t ent Internet Wo aro selling our sur-
i products and lending our surplus
Kiey to IC'irope. (>n<* result of our solU
< i other n at la ho much more than
have bought from them during the
t four years is i radical ImprovemenD
<nir flnancbd rekitlmva Tho great
lount of capital w)i.lch hae been bor*
wi-il of E ,rop«' for our rapid material
re- develop, me ;• l i\ i> rnained a constant
as drain upon <uir n*s. uri*<^ for Interest and
Mrs. M urn. an-
our children,
threo chlldre
■d on second p-igc.
cctU
eli us the
full share
nditlons a
i largely i
•veiopment
wer re war
our enterprise^ and producers; and of
reciprocity which opens foreign markets was invest
to the fruits of American labor, and furn- rates of Int
isli. now channels through which to been in tli
markot the supplies of American farms, which are
The time honored principles of protec-j workshop,
northern stnt«-s are enjoying dividend and made our ni« n«,y market
of the*--.- imontvd natlc-i ti liable to <M nstant disturbances by > ihs
d that 1 am contrllnitir.g t'. r payrm" ' or heavy sales of our s cur*
■) air r.-niarkab'e In lu "rial lib v le te-v • money strlngi-•>. leu er
The money lendet receives panic occured abroad1. We have now
I- f .r hi- capital then if it I a \ ing tho . d, l ts and bringing
ed in a< ' i\ • bn tie.- The i-.-me m i-.. • i ur curltles ami estab-
. i iri lower than they hav# llshlng countervailing credits abroad bg
aintrv whil 1 . i . us and pluclng ours lves upon
pr< 1 ■ ed on the farm and in
end the lubor pxoxltKii.g tlunij
^'oniiuu. d on page cl^Ut.y
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