THE DALLES WEEBXY CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 30. 1896. The Weekly Gbroniele. 8TATK OFFICIALS. Sjvernor W. P. Lord HnnrAtiirT of State H R Klncald Treasurer Phillip Metschan Bupt. of Public Instruction u. m. irwin a f tin-nf c-rwnprMl C. M. Idleman 7 " G. W. McBride Senators Ij. j Mitchell Congressmen.. State Printer.. Hermann W. H. Leeds IB. H J W. R. Ellis COUNTY OFFICIALS. County Judge R9btay8 SHeritr. , T. J. Driver Clerk . A. Jtt. Aeisay Treasurer C. L. Phillips , , l A. a. urower. s Commissioners in. 8. Kimsey Assessor W. H. Whipple Hnrvevor - J. B- 01t Superintendent of Public BchooU. . .C. L. Gilbert Caroner W. H. Butts NATIONAL REPUBLICAN TICKET For President, WILLIAM M'KJNLEY Ohio For Vice-President, GARRET A. HOBART . . v.New Jersey For Presidential Electors, T. T. GEER Marion County 8. M. YOKAN Lane E. L- SMITH Wasco J. F. CAPLE3 Multnomah THE WORK OF THE CLUB. W KIN LEY Enough names have been added to the McKinley list to bring the number above the 400 mark ; but, as "we have heretofore suggested, its real work has just begun. The or ganization has been well done, and the possibilities of the club for use fulness are great. Its work must not be confined to the four pre cincts of this city. Among the mem bers of the club are many men ac customed to public speaking, who have given the questions at issue earnest thought, and who are capa ble of expressing their ideas in such manner as to convince those who listen of the correctness of their po sition. There are many precincts in this county which cannot be reached Jby speakers from abroad, but which -ought to be canvassed, and these members of our club above referred ;to are the men to do it. The matter -should not be left until a call nnade from these precincts for speak ers, but these gentlemen should be notified at once that the3' will be called upon during the next six weeks to deliver an address in a given precinct, fixing the date as near as possible. Then let it be ad vertised in the respective precincts 'of the approaching meeting. Thus the speakers can make such prepara. tion as is deemed necessary, and the people will be prepared to attend the meetings. We have the winning side of the issue, and the more it is discussed by intelligent, well-informed speakers the better. The suggestions made at . the meeting of the McKinley Club last evening are worth being carried into effect. owners should be allowed to have the government pur, a stamp npon fifty three cents worth of silver reciting that the same contained one dollar's worth", of 6ilver. Mr. Clarno did not appear to have been starved by the fact that the mints are not per mitted to coin his silver at the ex pense of the rest of us. The gold monometalism, so de nounced by the Populists, never did and never will exist. There never was a gold staneard country which did not use silver in connection with the gold. " The United States today is using almost as much silver for monetary purposes as gold, and a very much greater proportion of sil ver than she ever used in free coin age days. She is using three times greater a proportion of silver than any iree silver nation. ' A gentleman who recently visited the locks reports that the work is progressing rapidly, and they will certainly be completed by Novem ber 15th. Now, Col. Day, can't you arrange to have them ready by the 4th? There will be several "Pops" who will be bound up on that day, and it would be advisable to expe dite their journey as much as possi ble so they will go so far up Salt river this time as never to come back. Why do Englishmen, the shrewd est traders in the world, buy wheat in America? Why is it possible for a gold standard country like ouis to market any portion of our crop in Liverpool? If Englishmen can buy our saver at as certs anct get as much wheat for that silver as $1.29 will buy, why buy any wheat in any country exce.it the country that takes the rupees, upon which the bloody Englishman makes 7C cents. FREE SILVER MEXICO. AVheat has an upward tendency, but silver is lower than ever. This is a strange phenomena, in view of the assertions' of Bryan and the other Populists. Four years ago Bryan and his party declared that a repeal of the protective tariff would bring the price of wheat toll; but the price fell about fifty per cent. This was another remarkable phenomenon. Notwithstanding the public speak ing at the Baldwin last evening, at which were a large number of Re publicpns, there were from fifty to sixty members in attendance at the McKinley Club business meeting. That the Republicans are alive to the work of - the campaign no one doubts, and the result on the 3rd of November will demonstrate the use fulness of this club. A gentleman from Kingsley whose word is unquestioned, reports that the eighteen names published in the Dufur Dispatch as having joined a Bryan club at Kingsley recently, are all that compose the "fifty members' concerning which the Dispatch boasts. We should expect them to claim a membership of 288. Why they have reduced the ratio in this particular instance from 16 to 1 to 3 . to 1, we don't understand. But that is right, gentlemen, count the num bers big now, you'll not have . a chance on November 3rd. S. T. Jeffers, a lawyer of Portland, and Francis Clarno, an owner of silver mines in Eastern Oregon, held forth last evening at the Baldwin, and labored hard to convince the Republicans and the . honest money Democrats that the poor silver mine- The United States lias over three times as much silver per capita in circulation as any free silver coun: try, and over four times as much money in circulation as any free sil ver country except Russia. Russia has a total per capita circulation of $8.46, while the United Stites has $22.55. Bryan, Stewart, Jones, Waite, Teller, Altgeld, and other managers of the Popocratic campaign, are all unselfish patriots. Every man who does not agree with them are in partnership with the bankers of Wall street. By the way, there are a lot of people who have been bought, considering the per capita of circu lation in this country. Mexico ' h;is al ways been - a . free silver country. The conditions there, it is true, are uulike those of the United States, but not so unlike our conditions as that it could not raise the price of silver one cent, while we could raise the price 47 cents, as is claimed by Mr. Bryan, should we adopt (heir financial sys tem. If free coinage will give us a silver, dollar worth, as bullion, $1 29, why does not free coinage in Mexico give them a dollar worth something more than the actual bullion value ? If free coinage will give us higher wages than now prevail here, why does free coinage there fail to bring up wages to the level, at least, of the gold standard price here ? . ' The minister of finance of Mexico says farm labor is paid twenty-five cents per day. ' Dr. Won. H. Sloan, a Baptist missionary who has resided in Mexico a number of years, writes of the conditions there as follows: An American dollar in Mexico at this writing is worth $1.90 in Mexi can silver; in other words, one Mex ican dollar is worth about 51 cents in American money, although it has more silver in it than the American dollar has. I believe this cheapness of silver is due to its enormous pro duction. Immense quantities arc brought to the Mexican mints to be coined, the owner of the bullion pay ing about four cents for the coinage of each dollar, and of course profit ing by the added value supposed to be placed upon it. by the govern ment's stamp. Day by day the sil ver is cheapened, but wages are not raised, the price of the necessities of life steadily increase, house rent be comes distressing beyond descrip tion. Let me give j-ou a few figures drawn from the daily life of the people. You know I am not a news paper correspondent nor an editor, seated in my comfortable sanctum and theorizing upon this subject. For years I have seen these people in their homes, I know the wages they get, the food they eat, for I have eaten with them, their appeals for better wages, the destitute condition of their squallid homes, and I know that their life is cheerless and almost helpless, Jf free silver could have mae any people prosperous and con tented, it should have done this with the Mexicans. But it has been a blessing only to the capitalist who could buy silver with gold, and who has enriched himself at the expense of the laborer. The dailjr wages of a skilled me chanic is about $1 (51 cents in American money). Under favora ble circumstances he may get $1.25, men, will endeavor to have the prin ciples for which Republicans are contending thoroughly discussed in every precinct intho county. The more of this work the better. Lead ing men from other poitions of the state, as well as residents of this city, will be heard wherever an audience cau be gathered. WATSON'S WARNING. Watson is dissatisfied with the treatment he is receiving, and it is only surprising that he has not com plained sooner. He now publicly declares: ''Under present condi tions Mr. Bryan cannot get the full Popuilst vote. They (the Populists) ma3' not be able to break up the fusion deal, but they can stay at home. With one accord the Bryan and Sewall papers have given mc noth' ing but disparagement, misrepresent tation and ridicule." Every word Mr. Watson says in this respect is true. What care the Democrats for Populists or the prin ciples Populists are contending for It has always been their boast and their greatest element of strength that, regardless of results, they would vote their true sentiments, In Oregon, as in many other states. they are called upon to vote, not for what the believe in, or have always professed to believe in, but for the elevation to office of Democrats, Sewall is to be" vice-president if Jones and the other managers can make him so, and Watson is to be but a sacrifice. He and all men who want to see him vice-president have a right to be dissatisfied. Mr. Watson says: "They (the Populists) will not stultify them- se.'ves by voting' against their prin ciples." This they must do if they acquiesce in the trade made between the leaders of Bryan's campaign. It will be seen that Bryan is not, and will not be, taken to visit Wat son. The plan is to elect Sewall, who, for every reason, should be more objectionable to Populists than any man on either ticket. The shipments of stock, wool, wheat, fruits and fish from The Dalles attract the attention of the general freight departments of all the five transcontinental railroads It is now practically a competing point, and will be actually and fully when a portage is no longer neces sary. 1 The Chronicle has frequently predicted that with the assurance of the election of the Republican ticket, prosperity would begin to return, The reports of the leading com mercial agencies indicate that busi ness men are satisfied that Bryan will be defeated by a large majority. Bryan draws as large crowds, or even larger, in New England than he did in the West. So far as a presi dential candidate is concerned, crowds do not count. There is not now, and never will be so long as 41 2 grains of silver are worth less than one dollar, a free silver country that is not on a silver basis. Beading; Notice. William Jennings Bryan, well and fa vorably known as editor of the Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald, has severed hie connection with that paper and has ac cepted what is thought to be a more de sirable position as presidential candidate. The beat wishes of the gentle guild of pencil-pushers go with him in his retire ment. tde2tinsilverl and I know of a few, extra men, who in government shops and railway service get $1.50 (about 80 cents in American money)- Occasionally, where men go away from their amilies, or the work may require peculiar skill, or the employers are unusually liberal, a slightly higher figure will be paid. But the average is about $1, and the large majority of Mexican blacksmiths, carpenters, tailors and other artisans receive only 75 cents per day, or 39 cents in American money. In my remaining figures, to avoid repetition, I will giyc the amounts in United States "sound" money, A policeman gets 51 cents per day, a common laborer from 18 to 30 cents. Postal carriers get from $6 to $15 per month Clerks receive from $16 to $20 per month. House rent for the poorest laborer here is from $1.50 to $3 per month, gold, of course. For 350 years silver has flowed forth in an uninterrupted and prolific stream, finding its way into the ends of the earth ; but the laboring classes of Mexico are worse off, and have been, than were their progenitors before the working of the mines com menced. I can hardly understand the blind fatuity of my countrymen who want a free coinage of silver. If they are successful in engrafting the Mexican financial system, so far as silver . is concerned, upon the American people, they certainly will rue the day. " . - John Boyd Thatcher, Democratic nominee for governor of New York, who refused to stand on Bryan's platform, and who sees the hopeless ness of the case, has declined to make the race. The Democrats of New York are going from bad to worse in their campaign, and if they do not find a man very soon who is Populist enough to make the race, they will not have time to intioduce him to the voters. The campaign in Wasco county will be pushed with more vigor from now until November 3rd than any campaign we have ever seen.' The McKinley Club of The Dalles, act ing in conjunction with the state, congressional and county committee Bryan is everywhere declaring, both directly and by inuendo, that the capitalists and manufacturers are working for the Republican ticket tinder a pretended solicitude for the welfare of the laboring classes. Nothing is more false or; more mis leading." The sneer that Bryan has again and again uttered, "Why are your employers so solicitous for your welfare just before election?" is un worthy a candidate for the presi dency. No one has ever claimed, or does now claim, that the anxietj' of the capitalist, manufacturer and business man in this campnign is not on account, to a large degree, of his own welfare ; but every candid and truthful man knows perfectly well that the highest and truest interests of the capitalist and laborer are in separable. The manufacturer is say ing to his employes that "the depart ure from a fixed and stable currency, the currency of the great tsommer. cial nations of the world, to a fluctu ating or experimental currency, will be detrimental to my business ; I can not manufacture with these condi tions staring me in the face. It is for your interest and mine to oppose the proposed change, for if I cannot continue my rrills, you cannot find employment in my mills or those similarly situated." The capitalists who have capital to loan to the man ufacturer and merchant, says: "If manufacturing and trade decrease, my capital will not Gad safe em ployment." And the laborers of this great country will say on No vember 3rd : "We will stay by those who are able and willing to employ us, rather than by the and political experimenters A 89 M A Newspaper Man Relates a Mar vellous Story. An Interesting Chapter in His Own Life -Some, We Hope, May Profit by Reading Same. Maury County is one of the richest and biggest and best counties in Tennessee. It would be an exaggeration to say that any one man knew every other man in this county, but it may safely be said that few, if any, can come nearer to it than Mr. Joe M. Foster,, whose home is at Carter's Creek, and who is now connected with the Herald. In the interest of the Herald he has visited nearly every home in the county. lTDon " state " occasions that is, the Herald's an nual pic-nic reunion he is the "Master of Ceremonies." There are few men better known, few better liked, none more trusted. and what he says the Herald, unconditionally anu unequivocally, win vouch tor. To see him now in perfect health arid energy, one would not think that two and years ago he was a bed-ridden invalid, a physical wreck, whose family physician, loved ones at home and friends all thought was soon to be called hence. But such is the case, and not only he but his family and a hundred friends will testify to it. It was a peculiar affliction he had, and his cure was marvellous, bis recovery a nine teenth century miracle. And that others may enioy the blessmes of the wonderful medicine which beyond the peradventure of A H ,mi Vit 1! nil ill- lijl ra li nou i n ir t',1 l-i -i rr li i . life, Mr. Foster not desiring publicity but with the hope of doing good has con sented to tell of his sickness and his cure. It was in the full of 1892 he was taken ill. He was a farmer then, and had spent the day exposed to the weather and working in the field, and for fiVe hours was in the mud, in a stooping position. In a tew days thereafter he had a peculiar feeling in his feet and hands ; they lecame numb and felt as if asleep. , But, perhaps, it would be lietter to let Mr. Foster tell his own experience, and this is what he says : " Following the numbness of my feet and hands, that mtmlmess spread until my whole body was paralyzed. I had a dreadful con striction around my body, and as I grew worse this extended up, cutting otT my breathing ; it finally got within a few inches of my throat and it was with difficulty that I breathed at all. At irregular intervals I had lightning pains throughout my entire body and limbs, and for ut least five months I was perfectly helpless, and a man servant was kept in my room day and night to turn me in bed and wait upon me. " In the earlier part of my illness my feet felt as if I was walking bare-footed on a stiff carpet, soon 1 could not wane at all in the dark, and could not even stand alone with my eyes shut I rapidly grew worse, and soon my limbs refused to carry me. Finally I lost my sense of feeling or touch, and could not tell when my feet were against each other, bnt felt all the while as if they were Derng puLieu apart. "in the Dei from the Herald, Columbia, Term. of Columbia (who is now clerk and Master ot the Chancery Court of this county), re commended Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. "I beffan usincr them as ner direction for locomotor ataxia, and in about one week some of my friends thought I was better ; but it was two weeka before the improve ment was plain to all and satisfactory to my self. Then, however. I knew the nills WPfft doing their grand and glorious work, and I kept taking them until I could hobble about on crutches. " It was suggested to me then that nature would do the rest, and I left off the pills. In about ten days I saw that I was going down hill again ; I promptly renewed the pills, and again I began to improve. A second time I tried to leave the battle to a good constitution, but found it still too weak so I commenced on the pills again and kept taking them until I was well. "I was in my fifty-first year when I was taken sick. It is now about two years since i aiscaraea stick ana crutch ana round my me. i am en- more and look years, and attribute my health ana my recovery ana lite to the Pa i aiscaraea stick ana crutcn a legs strong enough to carry m joying splendid health, weigh i better than for years, and magic of Pink Pills for the blessing of God Pale People, under trinninn I had called in my lamuy pnysiciifcn, a very buuucobiua firrou tioner. He put me on a treatment, with in structions to Keep very quiet. But I contin ued to grow worse, and in about six week" he told me, candidly and honestly, that he had done his best, that he had also advised with some of Columbia's leading physicians, giv ing them my symptoms, but that he could do nothing for me and it was useless for him to try any further. He and the physicians with whom he advised pronounced my dis ease locomotor ataxiaand incurable. " He told my friends they could try any thing they wished, and then I began trying everything that was suggested. I tried dif ferent kinds of electricity belt pads, shock ing machines and electro poise, with number less kinds of medicines, both internally and externally, but all to no effect, until, about April 1st, 1893, a cousin, Mr. A. N. Aiken, I have recommended these pills to a number of people, and many I know have been cured by them. I wish in my heart that every person ou earth who is suffering as I was could get them and would try them. "' To those who know me. I hope it is not necessary for me to add that 1 make this statement of my own free will, without money and without price. Hut if there are any who are inclined to doubt, I will refer them to Dr. J. II. Hill, J. M. Hunter, H. I). Loekridge, Joe Terwell, Anderson Nic hols. S. B. and G. W. Nichols, all of Carter's Creek, Maury Couuty, Tenn., or if they will call upon me I will give them the names of a hundred witnesses of as good men and women as the sun ever shone upon. . Hoping some poor sufferer may read and believe and be raised from a bed of pain, I am Very respectlully, Jok M. Foster, Cure of the Herald, Columbia, Tennessee." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peo ple are an unfailing remedy for all dis eases arising from a poor and watery condi tion of the blood, such as pale and sal low complexion, general muscular weakness, loss of appetite, depression of spirits, lack of ambition, anemia, chlorosis or green sick ness, palpitation ot the heart, shortness of breath on slight exertion, coldness of hands or feet, swelling of the feet and limbs, pain in the back, nervous headache, dizziness, loss of memory, feebleness of will, ringing in the ears, early decay, all forms of female weakness, leucorrhcea, tardy or irregular periods, suppression of menses, hysteria, paralysis, locomotor ataxia, rheumatism, sciatica, all diseases depending on vitiated humors in the blood, causing scrofula, swelled glands, fever sores, rickets, hip-joint diseases, hunchback, acquired deformities. decayed bones, chronic erysipelas, catarrh, ' consumption of the bowels and lungs, and also for invigorating the blood and system when broken down by overworx, worry, d ease, excesses and indiscretions of living, i covery from acute diseases, such as fevers, etc., loss of vital powers, spermatorrhoea. early decay, premature old age. They act directly on the blood, supplying to the blood its life-giving qualities by assisting it to absorb oxygen, that great supporter of all organic life. Pink Pills are sold by all deal ers, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price, 60 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, by addressing Dr. Williams' Medicine Oh. Schenectady, II. Y. ' demagogues Figures can't lie, and no govern ment should. Never was a more grieyona wrong dona the farmers of oar country than that so no justly inflicted during;, tha past three years upon the wool showers. Although among our most useful citizens, their in terests have been practically destroyed. McKinley letter of aveceptaneo. MAY BECOME MILLIONAIRES. Mrs. C. L. Gilbert One of the Heirs to a Vast Fortune. On the 15th day of September, 1S96, at Maumee, O., there was a gathering of all the families who are descendants of Jonathan Carver. He was one of the early explorers of the headwaters of the Mississippi river, and daring this time made peace between several tribes of In dians, and was given a tract of land sixty miles square where St. Paul and Minne apolis now are. This vast estate still re mains unsettled, and the heirs are now endeavoring to prove their claim. Among the number are Mrs. Harriet Gunn of 1 Dorado, Kan. ; Mrs. C. M. Fizer of Andrews, Ind.; Trainmaster C. E. Wells, Conductor F. W. Wells, Con ductors L. C. Gunn and Geo. Gunn of Toledo, O. ; and Lucian Gunn of Van Wert, 0. Should they succeed in estab lishing their claim, each claimant would undoubtedly be made a millionaire. When Mrs. C. L: Gilbert's attention was called to the above she was not in the least surprised, although she is one of the heirs. She remembers well when a little girl of hearing her grandfather say that be would not live to see the claim settled, but that the children would. Of the heirs spoken of above Mrs. Gilbert is the daughter of Mrs. C. M. Fizer, and aieter of C. E. Wells and F. W. Wells. mense trains, loaded with Grand Army veterans, returning from a reunion at St. Paul, the Bentiment among them eing practically unanimous for McKin ley. The business outlook is improving. Cotton goods have generally advanced 45 per cent. There has also been an up ward tendency in leather, and the mar ket is stiffening in nearly all lines of trade. Referring to his own purchases be states that he secured a very hand some line of ladies cloaks, jackets, capes and wraps at a good discount, and ex pects to open them up for inspection . here in about ten days. Mr. Heibrlng Return. DIED. At Hood River, Sept. 25th, Stephen Price, aged 74 years. Mr. Price is a pioneer and old resident of Wasco county, an uncle of Mr. C. J. Crandall and step-father of Hon. T. R. Coon. He was well known to all old settlera in this vicinity, and in life uni versally esteemed. Mr. H. Herbring, one of The Dalles leading merchants, has' returned from hie annual buying trip' to New York City, arriving Saturday morning after an absence of three weeks. Mr. Herbring has much to say of interest to our read ers. New York state is deep in the struggles of the campaign.. He finds that about 95 per cent, of the business ! aa nont ! itA ft wa vrW ofriiiarinria are for McKinley and Hobart, and the Jnie H. Marquis, tops of the huge business buildings are nearly all flying large banners with various political mottos npon them, all argumentative for the election of Mc Kinley. Coming home he met two im- Keal Kstate Transfers. D. F. Pierce and wife to Geo. C. Roo, lots 5 and 6, block 8, second add to Hood River; $800. R. Palmer and wife to T. H. and G. W. Johnston, sw qr sec 29, e hf ae qr sec 30, w hf se qr, e hi sw qr sec 30; w bf no qr, e hf nw qr sec 31, tp 1 s, rl3e; $4,000. Mary Laughlin to Mrs. Nellie D. Mann, lot 2, block 3, Laughlin's add ; $150. Mary Laughlin to D. W. Mann, lot 3, block 3, Laughlin's bluff add ; $150. C. E. Markham to L. L. Blount, par cel ot land in n hf w bf, sw qr sec 10, tp 2 n, r 10 e; $100. John Robinson and wife to M. Eunice Johnson, lots L and K, block 40, Ft Dalles Mil Res ; $1. Land Omc Transactions. Application to purchase u hf nw qr, n bf sw qr sec 1, tp 3 s r 24 e ; Samuel S. Shields, Milton, Or. Homestead entry of lots 1 and 2, sec 7, tplsrlle. Win. H. Clark. . Homestead entry of sw qr no qr, s bf nw qr sec 2, and se qr ne qr st;c 3, tp 2 s r 15 e. Joseph Rupp. Homestead entry of se qr sec 19, tp I n r 13 e. Hugo Scbolz. Homestead entry of n bf ne qr, sw qr ne qr, nw qr se qr sec 24, tp 2 s r 16 e. Otto Birgfeld is now ready to supply . amilies with the celebrated Gambrinus keg or bottle beer, delivered free of charge to any pr.rt of the city. Tele phone 34. '