THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 28. 1896. The Weekly Ghroniele. NOIICC. Ail eastern foreign advertisers are referred to oar representative, Mr. fc,. Katz. 230-234 Temple Court, New York City. Eastern advertising must be con tracted through him. STATK OFFICIALS. Sjvernor W. P. Lord . Secretary of State H K Kincnid Treasurer PbllUp Metschan Supt. of Publio Instruction G. M. Irwin Attorney-General , CM. Irtlemnn IG. W. McBride (Senators jj. H- Mitchell IB. Hermann Congressmen w. R. Ellis State Printer W. H. Leeds . COUNTY OFFICIALS. County Judge. Kobt. Mays Sheriff. T. J. Driver Clerk i A. M. Kelsay Treasurer CL fhilhps , . (A. S. Blowers Commissioners... D. 8. Kimsey Assessor W. H. Whipple Surveyor - J- B. oit Superintendent of Public Schools. . .C. L. Gilbert C .roner W. H. Butts NATIONAL REPUBLICAN TICKET For President, WILLIAM M'KINLEY Ohio For Vice-President, GARRET A. HOBART . . . .New Jereey For Presidential Electors, T. T. GEER Marion County 6. M. YOkAN Lane E. L- SMITH Wasco J. F. CAPLES Multnomah THE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN SUCCESSEUL. The most remarkable campaign in the history of the country since 1860 is drawing rapidly to a close. Sel dom has a contest been soentiiely free from abuse or vilification of the candidates; but seldom has so many false representations been made. In many instances' the statements, no doubt, were supposed to be tiue, and were innocently made. But in too many cases when the truth was made known the press and the cam paigners continued to reiterate them. The Republican press has been kept bnsv disproving false allegations. The whote campaign as originally laid out by the Popociatic managers was upon a false basis. The act of 1873 was not surrepti tionsly passed, and this is now con clusively proven. Ernest Seyd, who is alleged to have been employed by London bankers to distribute 100, 000 pounds sterling to demonetize silver in America, was a silver ad vocale and urged congress, by written paper to the committee who hiM the act of J 873 in charge, not to drop the silver dollar from our mone tary system. Seyd was not in this country at any time except some five or six years prior to the passage o this act. The Bismarck letter was garbled; Blaine was misquoted ; Gar field's relatives were misrepresented -i . . . . . ami a nunnrea omer laiiacies were put before the people and have been disproved. Last, but not least, the great foun datitn stone of Populism, the alleged relation between wheat and silver, W.-8 knocked into a cocked hat, to use a slang phrase, by nature herself. Now all our Populist friends have left is the claim that the rich have an the money. Ibis we have never disputed, for it would be indeed queer if the poor had the money. If such were the case the bankers and shrewd business men would all be come poor, and the Populist, who devotes his time to discussing the affairs of the nation on stieet corners instead of repairing his fences and digging potatoes, would be rich Then indeed it would be a cry of rich against the poor. 'I he real fact is becoming more and more prominent that the Ameri can ' people cannot be fooled all the time. Wise counsel and a presenta tion of the truth ha? had its legiti mate effect, and unless there is a great change in popular opinion be tween now and November 3rd Mc Kinley will be elected by an over whelming majority. Commeicial Club has this matter in hand, and if it is undertaken at all it will be well done. The business men of The Dalles are ever ready to respond to the appeals uhich are in lino with our cominea:ial growth and prosperity. They laid aside all business rivalry and built a line of steamers, whose, whistles have been the strongest possible demands for the speedy opening of the river. This boat line has done more to bring to a close the long-drawn-out construction of the locks than any other one' influence. They have continued to operate the boats, some times in the face of almost insur mountable obstacles. When the im provement or building of new roads has been called to their attention they have always joined hands and contributed liberally. And now that the most important event in our commercial history is about to occur they will not hold back their purses in presenting to that part of the commercial world which is directiy interested in the locks at the Cascades our commercial and social standing. The entertainment should be a most hospitable one: but this docs not necessarily mean a lavish expendi ture of funds. It will take a consid erable sum, but not more than the people directly interested will be willing to give. THE PROSPEROUS TIMES. The proposition that The Dalles entertain the people interested in the opening of the locks is certainly one that should appeal to the loyaltv of every citizen of Wasco county. The The Spokane Review denounces Maine and Vermont, and declares that they are the "money, power's models." It then proceeds to prove the allegation by showing the slight increase in population and the small advance in propert' valuations. The Review forgets that both Maine and Vermont were thickly populated before the state or territory of Wash ington was heard of. Every acre of land which can be profitable tilled has been under cultivation for fifty years or more. During the period from 1880 to 1890, when the West was developing so rapidly, these old states lost in population and prop erty wealth; but their loss was one of the greatest factors in the rapid development of the western states. Corporations are far less numerous or powerful in either Vermont or Maine, in proportion to their populations, than m Washington, and in Vermont almost the entire population consists of intelligent and thrifty farmers, the same class who now till the soil of Illinois, Indiana and Michigan. In the latter states they will vote just as they did in Vermont and Maiac. The greater the majority which Oregon shall give to the Republican ticket on November 3rd the more readily will outside capital be en trusted to the people of our slate to develop our resources and establish new industries. No man in this state who owns propeity within it, or who expects employment here, should be counted with the Popocrats. The county fair, as a fair, is worth much to our community. As a means for transient gamblers to fleece the community it Is a serious curse. The wholesale business houses of Portland and of all the other north ern' cities, ate almost unanimously opposed 1o the election of Bryan, and what is the reason ? It is be. cause, as business men, experienced and careful, they know that Bryan's election would mean a practical ces sation of business for some months and a very great contraction in busi ness thereafter, and until another change of administration. Mr. Bryan is now devoting his talents to denouncing cx-President Harrison and other Republican cam paigners. There is no better evi dence of his own hopelessness, for he, as well as anyone, knows that this will gain no votes for him. But it is no doubt some satisfaction to sputter over bis certain defeat With McKinley elected president, the locks at the Cascades opened to commerce, and the price of wheat at 65 or 70 cents, the people of Wasco county can return thanks on the last Thursday in November with a heart iness never before known. One more week and then we begin a period of prosperity unknown since March, 1 893. . . The following letter, written by a gentleman now past 84 years of age recites his own personal experience and observation during tht good old days when we had free coinage, His statcsments bear more weight than all the, combination of figures ot statisticians or the tables of prices prepared by politicians. "Good old days" are not at all what they are represented to be by politicians. Prosperity under free coinage is a beautiful myth. Editor of The Chronicle: The Popocratio party find the explan ation of hard limes low prices, low wages. scarcity of money, scarcity of work, ail in the crime of 1873, when the wicked Republicans struck down silver, made gold the standard by which to adjust the value or greenbacks, the purchasing power of wages, and the worth of com modities, of securities, of everything. This crime of '73, committed in political conclaves, surreptitiously, clandestinely, and with the eyes of the people all blind folded, is now the stock in trade of all the campaign rhetoric of the boy orator and his echoing satellites. "Before the crime of '73," say they, "we had bimet allism, we had the 'silver dollar of the daddies,' we had free coinage, we had good times." To a man like the writer, who has been personally present, a living witness of all the events of contemporary history for seventy-five years, all this political elobber and campaign rot, if it were not so offensive, would be specially amusing. Before the crime (?) of '73, in the days of the dollar of the constitution, who ever Baw an American silver dollar or the lesser coins of the constitution? There were some made.. The record shows that silver dollars to the amount of some $8,000,000 had been coined previous to 1S73; but silver was so scarce and so dear that it could not float as money. It was converted into watch cases, spoons and plate. We didn't have any silver money of our own coinage, we had Span ish, Mexican, French and German coin, but not our own in general use. Since 1873 silver has become cheap by reason of overproduction, and instead of being "struck down" by EOcalled de monetization, has been coined in our mints by hundreds of millions and stamped as,, dollars and held up to the full value of gold dollars by the strength of law when not worth much more than half their face. But about the good times before '73, when we had the dollar of the daddies, the silver of the constitution, free and unlimited coinage. The writer lived in those dayp, before the Erie cacal was finished, when farmers drew wheat from the Genesee river to the Hudson river, 250 miles, more or lets, on wagons, and loaded back with goods for the country merchant. Wheat was worth at Albany sometimes fifty cents and sometimes a dollar. It fluctuated as now. But the silver of the constitution (if he got it, which he did not) would scarcely grease the wheels of his wagon. Later on, after the canal was in. use, when Rochester was the market town of Western New York, then how hard the times of the farmers who hauled their wheat thirty forty, sixty miles. Then what were the wages of labor? Fifty cents a day. Not in money; but in pork, in candles, in flour, in maple sugar. In harvest time a good cradler could get a dollar and his board ; but in haying time mowers got seventy-five cents. The writer, who was a teacher many years, taught bis first school in 1831 for $12 per month and "boarded around," bad an average of sixty pupils, and was considered doing well. Since "the crime of '73 and the slaughter of silver," teachers get from $$0 to $100 a month and complain of hard times. The writer has been personally cogni zant of the settlement and development of the West since 1826, when be was a boy 14 years old In the Genesee valley and in hia retrospect of the past and its comparison with the present, he can truly say that the people of the latter end of the Nineteenth centurv do not know practically the A, B, C of bard times. He went to Illinois in 1845, when Chicago was a lake port of possi bly 8,000 people, and settled at Rock- ford, 100 miles west, a half-way stage station between Chicago and the Miss. issippi river. That was the day of "the dollar of the daddies," when "the silver of the constitution" bad not been "stricken down ;" but about the only money then in circulation was the paper currency of the Wisconsin Fire and Ma rine Insurance Company, and in Rock river valley the only way to get any of that was to haul wheat 100 miles on wagons to Milwaukee or Chicago and sell it for from 45 to 62 cents per bushel. Carpenters could get $1 a day ; not in money, but in goods at the store at ex orbitant prices, or in farm products at rninously low prices wheat 37 cents; corn 12)4 cents ; oats 10 cents; pork 2 cents or 2J cents. Money was scarce, bat times were good. Farmers didn't expect money for anything; they learned bow to have good times without money. They could raise good horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry without money, and were rich in their poverty. When they must have money for taxes, they hauleif wheat 100 miles to get it. Other grains would not bear transporta tion. : Then they felt the pinch of hard times, and when they were forced to borrow, at 25 per cent interest, which was the current rate on cash loane. The writer was a teacher, and estab lished the first academic school in Rock ford in 1845. Rates of tuition were nearly nominal; less by the quarter than now by the month in private achoole of the same grade, and there was almost no money in it, bnt other things in profusion. He never lived better in his life; his bouse was fnll of flour, meat, butter, eggs, poultry, fish every thing good, and be never was happier in bis work; bnt did not see as mnch money in a year as some, teachers now see in a month. As for "the dollar of the daddies," there were none of them in s;ght. Sesox. A DEMOCRAT'S VIEWS. Hon. Benton Killcu, who was in the city yesterday shaking hands with his many old friends, was seen by a representative of The Chroni cle and asked to express his views upon the present political situation He said : "I am, and alwajrs have been, a Union man. I gave three years of my life to the preservation of the Union, and I feci that I have a considerable interest in this nation and its honorable perpetuation. I am not a protectionist, but there are issues in this campaign which put the tariff question entirely in the shade. As.a veteran and a Democrat I can not support Bryan, and I believe his election would, be a most serious calamity. I notice that every Dem ocrat who has anything or expects to have anything, who is anybody or expects to be anybody, is against Bryan. Every man who has noth ing and expects to have nothing, or is nobody and who expects to con tinue a nobody, is for Bryan. I do not wish to take Judge Shattuck, Judge Bellinger or Judge Field by the throat, as Senator Tillman, the great Populist, declares that he and his associates will do. I do not wish to see property destroyed, and men engaged in the government's business mobbed and murdered without calling out the troops. At Chicago the mob was shooting the dinner buckets out of men's hands as they went to and from their work, Cleveland called out the' troops, an I will stand by him. I find some Democrats who think Bryanism Democracy, but by a trick it has been so arranged in this state that cannot vote for Biyan for president without voting for Watson, an out and out Populist, for vice-president, and certainly no Democrat is under obligation to vote for Watson. The nation will go overwhelmingly against Bryan, and Oregon must be, and will be, in the ranks ot law and order." Mr. Killen'belitives the only way to restore the Democratic party to its former position of influence is to so vote as to make the defeat of Bryan ism complete. His words are full of wisdom, and will influence rrany to leave the PopuJist camp. They should be heeded by every true Democrat. SUBU3S0ESS TIME EI A 1 i ZBODSHOfl produced ii mniroM iiiiniim. Two Cases in Gladwin County, Mich., Cited to Prove the fact that Nerve Debility can be Treated with a Nerve Food Successfully. : DO NOT USE A STIMULANT, USE A NERVE FOOD. Vom the OtwriefHerald, Saginaw, Mick. Ia Memoriam. Lines in memory of Muriel Husbanrip, who departed this life Friday, Sept. 25, isye, at Mosier, uregon. Once more death has called us to mourn over an angel of God. Little Muriel, the pride and jewel of the house- hold, has been called to heaven to ciuim her reward. Shall we weep for her de parted spirit? No, we shall not weep, The angel of . death came and little Muriel was welcomed into heaven, where her Heavenly Father was waiting to welcome her. It would be cruel to call her back to this wicked world to grieve , over sorrow and trouble, while she is sweetly resting in Jesus. God knows beet. She as pure and spotless as snow, is numbered among the angeln, sweetly resting in the arms of ber Savior. With saddened hearts we gathered 'Round the form of one so fair; An angel of G- d that was taien from earth To dwell in heaven so fair. With sorrowing hearts we laid 1 er to rest Parents and friends most dear. We bid her farewell, her spotless form ; An angel who had taken its flig.it Call not back the departed, The treasure and chief in oat dear. In heaven she's waiting to greet again, The friends she has left here. In heaven she's sweetly resting, With angels bright and fair. Her crown is a crown of whiteness: In her hand a harp of gold. , A Fkiend. TyRta'Vmlley Boiler Floor Mills. Tygh Valley Roller Flour Mills are running full time on No. 1 wheat. Flour equal to the best always on hand. Prices to suit the times. .Also mill feed in quantities to snit. W. M. McUorkle s Son. aug8-6mw Proprietors. No more BOILS, no more PIMPLES Use Kinersly's Iron Tonic. . The Snipes Kinersly Drug Co. Telephone No. 3. In the long list of diseases that human flesh is heir to, none perhaps are more pain ful than inflammatory rheumatism and its attendant ills. The sufferer lies racked by pains that seem unbearable and many times even death itself would 'be a relief. Tor tured by pains that seem beyond human kill to drive away or even alleviate, iiie wretched sufferer tosses on a bed of pain, hoping that something may be found to re lease him from the thralls of that dreaded malady. A case of this character recently came under the observation of a representa tive f .V,a TTnlA I. '. 1 1. chanced to be in the thriving, little town of umuwin. me county seat 01 ijiaawm county, Michigan. While there he heard of the case of Mrs. William Flynn, who had been a victim of inflammatory rheu matism in its severest form and had endured untold sufferings from it. It had drawn her hands out of shape until they resembled bird's claws, one had fallen away in flesh until she was almost a living skeleton and her sufferings were so great and constant that she became a victim of sleeplessness. All of these troubles contrived to make her ' condition most alarming and she became the victim oi naiiucinations, seeing terrible things and fancied dangers everywhere. Then, at a time when the most serious consequences were threatened, she was in duced to try a remarkable remedy that had cured one of her friends and after a short time a happy termination of her terrible illness was assured. Asked in regard to . ner trouble ana its treatment Airs, ilynn responded as follows: Two years ago I had a terrible attack of inflammatory rheu matism that prostrated me utterly so that I was entirely helpless. The trouble was in a very violent form and drew my hands out of all shape. It also affected my lower limbs, which became badly swollen and helpless. I hod had attacks of rheumatism several times before but none so violent as this. I had constantpains in the joints and violent headaches. There were also times when I had chills very severe and these were followed by periods of violent per spiration that was exceedingly profuse and newnucu iiiv vuusuiuuuu. x ilia uumuilun kept on for about three months. "One day a lady friend who had used Dr. Williams' finic mis for fale feople with great benefit, met my little girl on the street 1 1 : r i . . i i uiu on leornuiK 01 my couumon Buvisea me to get some Pink Pills and take them. I got a box and began-to use them according to directions. After two or three doses they acted very clear fcr on my nervousness. I had not been able to sleep for a long time and this was beginning to tell on me very severely. I had fallen away in flesh until I was very thin and weak and my hands were hardly more than skin and bone. As I said after two or three doses of Pink Pills they began to quiet my nervousness, and 1 could sleep. I continued to gain so that in a tew months I was again able to be up and do my own work. The rlieumatism has nearly left me. I am free from the pains in the head and at night I can get healthful and refresh ing sleep. These pills have done a great deal of good for me and I cannot speak too highly of them. There are also other cases around me where they have been used and they have acted beneficially as they did in my own case. I cannot say too much for them and say these few words of testimony in order that others who are suffering as I was, may try .thcra ami get relief." Recently, while a representative of ft Courur-iferald was at the thriving village of Gladwin, Glodwin County, he heard of a case of this nat ure and that it had yielded to a short treatment with a celebrated remedy; the name of which has become a household word in every hamlet, village and city in the land. The victim of this unusually severe case of nervous trouble was ' Hansom Sim mons, an old and well-known resident of the village. His nervous condition had grown worse and worse, until the slightest unusual , noise, or even the opening of a door would almost drive him frantic. Skilled physi cians had studied over his case and pre scribed the usual remedies, hut their efforts were unavailing, and the patient continued to get worse. Finally.one day in reading a newspaper,he encountered an item in regard to a case some what similar to his own, and read wiih great interest of the means by which it had been cured. He at once decided to try the rem edy, and did so. As to the results of its use, we can not do better than quote Mr. Sim mons' own words. When asked to narraU his experience, he spoke as follows : " As the result of a long, continued iTtnesa I became the victim ot nervous debility in its most violent form about four years ago. It kept growing worse and worse until I had become so nervous that the least noise around the house, or the entrance of anyone into the bouse, would throw me into a violent nerv ous paroxysm. 1 tried medicines for the trouble, but was not relieved. Finally, I read in a Detroit, Michigan paper about a cure of a trouble somewhat similar to mine, effected by a medicine known as Dr. Wil liams' Pink Pills, and decided to give them pills a trial. After I had taken a box of the pills, my nervousness began to be relieved, and after takintrten boxes of Pink Pills I waa so well that I discontinued their use, and have not had to use them or anything for nervous troubles for two years past. In my case they acted quickly and effectually on my nervous troubles, and they proved an efficient and reliable remedy. Since using them I have recommended them to others, and they have used them with great benefit." Mrs. Simmons corroborated her husband's statements, and was earnest in her good words for the remarkable remedy that had been the . means of affording her husband mnch needed rest, and had freed him from the violent nervous disability that had made his life mixerable. Many cases similar to tli is on -. of Mr. Simmons' have been noted, wherein Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have been used wit h pminentlv atntinfAi'tnrv and tneeftv r suits, and liability to frequent and excessive nervous excitement has been readily relieved and the shattered nerves built up and re stored to a normal, healthy condition. J Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain, in condensed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing specifio for such diseases as loco- motor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus'' dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nerv. ous headache, the after effect of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, all forms of weakness either in male or female. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price, 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50 (they are never sold in bulk or by the 100), by addressing Dr. Williams' Meciicina Company, Schenectady. N. Y. Auother "Life Long Republican." Mr. vJ. B. Montgomery, "a Republi can ot 33 years' standing, as he was sententiously introduced by Chairman Story last evening, spoke in a weak voice to an average political gathering in the Baldwin opera house. Mr. Mont gomery is a oliart talker and pretends to show by them that when there was aj over-production ot wheat it raised in price, and when there was an under production it fell, thus setting at naught the world's laws of supply and demand which have existed from the dawn of civilization. Though Mr. Montgomery 8 argument was of this shallow nature throughout, he cm be commended for one thing. He is the nrst Kryan speaker thus far appearing in The Dalles who has not called down upon the heads of tbe bankers and bueiness men the denunciation of all those who are not of hat class. But as an instance of the adaptibility of men's minds, when thev are following a fetich. n which vain pursuit thev repudia'e the firnily-eetablished pri. ciples of a life time, we call attention to one of his statements. He said he was as good a Republican as he ever was, and was in favor of a high protective tariff, and vet made.sportpf it as an economic policy and now says it baa no influence upon the prosperity of the country. Mr. Montgomery, like some other Republi can itinerants who have appeared here of late, can see nothing since tbe Chi cago convention but Biyan, "that young god with Jeffersonian countenance, who has risen up from the common people" to wreck the business interests of tbe country, maintain the present disastrous ack of confidence, and keep money out circulation by frightening it away from profitable investment. Mr. Mont gomery is a pretty old. bird to be caught with this juvenile divinity of rank free trade notions and boyish ideas of nance. The Temperance Mm Meeting;. The temperance mass meeting at tbe I courthouse last evening was well attend ed and was generally enjoyed by those present. Nearly all the ministers of the city were present and gave' short inter esting addresses. Rev. L. Grey was the first of these speakers. He talked very entertainingly and earnestly upon the im portance of the temperance movement and the headway it is making, aided by the large moral element of the general population. Rev. Wood Bpoke highly of the W. C. T. U. and the great amount of good they have accomplished. He be lieved the time was coming when tem perance would win. Rev. Curtis, also, talked in a most interesting way upon the temperance movement. Prof. Lan ders read a clipping from John G. Wil- lig, the great temperance apostle, and spoke from the Bible text "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of einners, nor sltteth in the seat of the scornful ; but his delight is in tbe law of tbe Lord, and in his law doth he medi tate day and night." Rev. II. K. Hinea of Portland was a visitor who could not remain silent, and therefore added the weight of his words to the cause for which the audience was assembled. He spoke hopefully, saying the temperance cause was gaining, and by way of com parison, cited The Dalies in 1896 to what it was in :be early days. Mr. R. B. Hood, also, made a short address, re lating bis past unhappy experience with strong drink. His remarks weie very effective. Appropriate songs were led by Prof. - Landers, who is gifted with one of the best male voices of which ' onr city can boadt. Tosti has hitherto been known only as the writer of some of the most famous songs known to mnsical people. ' He has . now written his first purely instru mental composition, a minuet for tbe piano, which Tbe Ladies Home Journal has secured and will publish In an early issue. There's more clothing destroyed by poor soap than by actual wear as the free alkali rots them. Hoe cake is pure- jly24-l