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VOL VIII.
MEDFORD, JACKSON COUTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1896
NO. 29.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
. S. HOWARD,
SURVEYOR AND CIVIL ENGINEER.
XT. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor for the State
' of Oregon. Fostoffice address:
Med ford, Oregon.
"TM. S. CROWELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Jacksonville. Oregon.
"W. H. PARKER
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
fiamlin Block. Medlord. Ore.
J H. WHITMAN,
ABSTRACTOR AND ATTORNEY
AT LAW.
Office in bank building, Medford, Or
Have the most complete and reliable abstracts
of tide in Jackson county.
JJaMMOND & VAWTER,
Anstin S. Hammond. Win. L Vawter.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Office 1. 0. 0. F, building, Medford, Or
WHITE & JEFFREY,
G. W. White. J. A. Jeffrey.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Medford, Oregon.
Will practice in all the courts of the state.
Special attention given to all kinds of convey
ancing. Notary work and collections at reas
onable rates and remittances promptly made.
Mining law a specialty. Office on Seventh
street, opposite Opera House.
B. COLE,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Chronic diseases, and diseases peculiar to
women a specialty.
Office Opera Block.
(Medford. Oregon.
Y B. OFFICER,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Eagle Point, Oregon.
Office Inlow residence.
Jjv KIRCHGESSNER,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Medford, Oregon.
Ooice McAndrews Block, Seventh sts.
J. B. WAIT,
PHYSICIAN AND 8CRGEON.
Office in ChUders" Block, Medford, Or
(JEARY & PICKEL,
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Oace honrs 10 to 12 a. m. and 2 to 4 p.m.
Sundays 12UL ,
Medford, Or
Office: Haskin Block. f: . -2
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BRYAN AND SEWALL
THE
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES EN
TERED FOR THE RACE.
A Bedhot Convention In Which the IT
Silver Writ and South Sat Upon tho
Neck of tho Gold Bap of tho EU
The Democratic Convention met at
Chicago on Tuesday, July 7th, and
the Chairman of the National Com
mittee, Harrity, called the del
egates to order, and the list of
temporary officers as selected by the
committee was read. Senator David B.
Hill of New York was elated for tempo
rary chairman. The name of Senator
Daniel of Virginia was put in nomina
tion for temporary chairman, and on
roll-call, 849 voted for Hill and 558 for
Daniel This vote was the measure of
strength of the. gold and silver factions,
and clearly showed the preponderance
of silver.
In contested delegations from Ne
braska and Michigan the silver con
testants were seated. A conference of
gold delegates was held to consider the
oonrse to be panned and the conclusion
reached was in favor of abiding by the
action of the majority ana against a
bolt. Senator Stephen M. White, of
California, was elected permanent chair
man of convention.
The list of candidates for nomination
was unusually fnlL The following vote
en the first ballot shows the widely
scattered sentiment:
Bland 233
Boies 8
Mathews -A. 5
McLean 54
Bryan 10.)
Blackburn 83
Pattison 95
Campbell
Russell
Penney er 10
Hill
Stevenson
Teller 8
Absent and not voting ISo
The New York delegation refused to
vote, as did several other of the so
called gold delegates.
The fifth ballot stampeded to Bryan
and he was nominated amid the wildest
excitement.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
The Democratic nominee for President
After Bryan's nomination ' Friday the
convention adjonrned to evening, but
did not reach a ballot for Vice Presi
dent and adjourned over until Satur
day. At the Saturday session, after
Bland, McLean and some others bad
declined to stand for second place, on
the fifth ballot Arthur Sewall of Maine
was nominated for Vice-President.
The following is the ' platform on
which the Democratic party will stand
during the campaign:
We, the Democratic party, in conven
tion assembled, do reaffirm our alle
giance to those great essential princi
ples of justice and liberty npon which
our institutions are founded and which
the Democratic party has advocated
from Jefferson's time to our own free
dom of speech, freedom of the press,
freedom of conscience, the preservation
of personal rights, the equality of all
citizens before the law and the faithful
observance of constitutional limitations.
The Constitution of the United States
guarantees to every citizen the rights
of civil and religious liberty. The
Democratic party has always been the
exponent of political liberty and
religious freedom, and it renews
its obligations and reaffirms its
devotion to these fundamental
principles of the Constitution. Dur
ing all these years the Democratic
party has resisted the tendency of self
ish interests to the centralization of
governmental power, and steadfastly
maintained the integrity of the dual
scheme of government as established by
the founders of this republic of re
publics. Under its guidance and
teachings the great priuciple of
local self-government has found
its best expression in the maintenance of
the rights of States, and in its assertion
of the necessity of confining the general
Government to tho exercise of the pow
ers granted by the Constitution of the
United States.
FINANCE.
Recognizing that the money question
is paramount to all others at this time,
we invite attention to the fact that the
Federal constitution named silver and
gold together as the money metals of
the United States, and that the first'
coinage law passed by Congress nnder 1
the Constitution made the silver dollar J
the monetary unit and admitted gold to
free coinage at a ratio based npon the
silver dollar unit. We declare that the
Act of 1873 demonetizing silver without
the knowledge or approval of the Amer
ican people has resulted in the apprecia
tion of gold and a corresponding fall in
the price of commodities produced by
the people, a heavy increase in the
burden of taxation and of all debts,
public and private, the enrichment of
the money-lending class at home and
abroad, the prostration of industry and
Impoverishing of the people. We are
unalterably opposed to monometallism,
which has locked fast the prosperity of
an industrial people in the paralysis of
hard times. Qold monometallism is a
British policy, and its adoption has
brought other nations into financial
servitude to London. It is not only un-
American, but anti-American, and it
can be fastened on the United States on
ly by the Btifiing of that spirit and love
of liberty which proclaimed our politi
cal independence in 1770, and won it in
the war of the Revolution.
FREE COINAGE.
We demand the free and unlimited
coinage of both gold and silver at the
present legal ratio of 10 to 1 without
waiting for the aid or consent of any
other nation. We demand that the
standard silver dollar shall be full legal
tender equally with gold for all debts,
publio and private, and ws favor such
legislation as will prevent for the future
the demonetization of any kind of legal
tender money by private contract
BONDS.
We are opposed to the pslicy and
practice of surrendering to the holders
of the obligations of the United States
the option reserved by law to the Gov
ernment of redeeming such obligations
in silver or in gold coin. We are op
posed to the issuing of interest-bearing
bonds of the United States in the time
of peace and condemn the trafficking
with banking syndicates which in ex
change for bonds at an enormous profit
to themselves, supply the Federal Treas
ury with gold to maintain the policy of
gold monometallism. Congress alone
has the power to coin and issue money,
and President Jackson declared that
this power could not be delegated to
corporations or individuals. We, there
fore denounce the issuance of notes as
money for the national banks as in dero
gation of the Constitution, and we de
mand that all the paper money which is
made legal tender for public and private
debts, or which is receivable for dues to
the United States shall be issued by the
Government of the United States and
shall be redeemable in coin.
TARIFF.
We hold that tariff duties should be
levied for the purpose of revenue, such
duties to be so adjusted as to operate
equally throughout the country, and
not discriminate between classes or sec
tions, and that taxation should be lim
ited by the needs of government hon
estly and economically administered.
We denounce as , disturbing to
business the Republican threat to re
store the McKinley law, which has
been twice condemned by the people in
national elections, and which, enacted
under the false plea of protection
to home industry, proved a pro
lific breeder of trusts and monopo
lies, enriched the few at the expense of
the many, restricted trade, and de
prived the producers . of the great
American staples of access to their
natural markets.
INCOME TAX
Until the money question is settled
we are opposed to any agitation for fur
ther changes in our tariff laws except
such as are necessary to meet the de
ficit in revenue caused by the adverse
decisions of the Supreme Court on the
income tax. But for this decision by
the Supreme Court there would be no
deficit in the revenue under the law
passed by a Democratic Congress,
in strict pursuance of the uniform de
cisions of that court for nearly one hun
dred years, that court having under that
decision sustained constitutional objec
tions to its enactment which had been
overruled by the ablest judges who
have ever sat on that bench. We de
clare that it is the dnty of Congress to
use all the constitutional power which
remains after that decision or which
may come from its reversal by the
court, as it may hereafter be consti
tuted, so that the burdens of taxations
may equally and impartially be laid,
to the .end that wealth may bear a due
proportion of the expenses of govern
ment. LABOR.
We hold that the most efficient way
of protecting American labor is to pre
vent the importation of foreign pauper
labor to compete with it in the home
market, and that the value of the home
market to our American farmers and
artisans is greatly reduced by a vicious
monetary system which depresses the
prices of their products below the cost
of production and thus deprives them
of the means of purchasing the products
of our home manufactories. The ab
sorption of wealth by the few, the con
solidation of our leading railway sys
tems and the formation of trusts and
pools require a stricter control by the
Federal Government of those arteries of
commerce. We demand the enlarge
ment of the powers of the Interstate
Commerce Commission and such restric
tions and .guarantees in. the control of
railroads as wfirprolect the people Iron
robbery and oppression.
TAXATION.
We denounce the profligate waste of
the money wrung from the people by
oppressive taxation and the lavish ap
propriations of recent Republican Con
gresses, which have kept the taxes high
while the labor that pays them is unem
ployed and the products of the people's1
toil are depressed in price until they no
longer repay the cost of productions
We demand a return to that simplicity
and economy which befits a democratic
govornment and a reduction in the num
ber of useless offices, the salaries of
which drain the substance of the people.
FEDERAL INTERFERENCE.
We denounce arbitrary interference
by the Federal authorities in local
affairs as a violation of the Constitu
tion of the United States and a crime
against free institutions, and we spe
cially object to government interference
by injunction as a new and highly dan
gerous form of oppression by which
Federal Judges, in contempt of the
laws of the states and rights of citizens,
become at once legislators, judges
and executioners, and we approve
the bill passed at the last session
of the United States Senate and now
pending in the House of Representa
tives, relative to contempts in Federal
courts, and providing for trials by jury
in certain esses of contempt. We ar
in favor of the arbitration of the diftsr
ences between employers engaged in in
terstate commerce and their employees,
and recommend such legislation as is
necessary to carry out this principle.
ANTI-FUNDING.
No discrimination should be indulged
in by the government of the United
States in favor of any of its debtors.
We approve of the refusal of the Fifty
third Congress to pass the Pacific Rail
road Funding hill, and denounce the
effort of the present Congress to enact
a similar measure.
PENSIONS.
Recognizing the just claims of deserv
ing Union soldiers, we heartily indorse
the rule of the present Commis
sioner of Pensions that no names
shall be arbitrarily dropped from
the pension rolls, and that the
fact of enlistment and service should be
deemed conclusive evidence against dis
ease and disability before enlistment.
TERRITORIES.
We favor the admission of the Terri
tories of New Mexico and Arizona into
the Union as states, and we favor the
early admission of all the territories
having the necessary population and
resourced to entitle them to statehood,
and while they remain territories Je'
hold that the officials appointed to la
minister the government of any Terri
tory, together with the District of Col
umbia and Alaska, should be bona fids
residents of the territory or districts
in which their duties are to be per
formed. The Democratic party believes
in home rule, and that all public lands
of the United States should be appro
priated to the establishment of free
homes for American citizens. W
recommend that the territory of Alaska
be granted a delegate in Congress, and
that the general land and timber laws
of the United States be extended to said
territory.
CUBA.
We extend our sympathy to the people
of Cuba in their heroic struggle for lib
erty and independence.
THIRD TERM.
We are opposed to life tenure in the
public service. We favor appointments
based upon merit, fixed terms of office
and such an administration . of
the civil service , , laws as will
afford equal opportunities to all
citizens of ascertained fitness. We
declare it to be the unwritten law of this
Republic, established by custom an .
usage of 100 years and sanctioned by
the examples of the greatest and wisest
of those who founded and have main
tained our Government, that no man
shall be eligible for a third term of the
Presidential office,
WATERWAYS.
The Federal Government should cars
for and improve the Mississippi river
and other great waterways of the Rep
ublic so as to secure for the interior
states easy and cheap transportation to
tide water. When any waterway of the
Republic is of sufficient importance to
demand aid of the Government, such
aid should be extended upon a definite
plan of continuous work until perma
nent improvement is secured.
Confiding in the justice of our cause
and the necessity of its success at the
polls, we submit the foregoing declara
tion of principles and purposes to the
considerate judgment of the American
people. We invite the support of all
citizens who approve them and who de
sire to have them made effective through .
legislation for the relief of the people
and the restoration of the country's
prosperity.
a hist iu oohn Couch Adams, wno
shares with Leverrier the honor of dis
covering the planet Neptune, has been
set up opposite the bust of Sir John
llerschell, in the great hall of St
John's college, Cambridge, the college
of which both astronomers were fel
lows. The U. S. Gov't Reports
show Royal Baking Powder
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