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7 r TARIFF REFORM. | c ? u?A? ii.ii?i i..... i' mu?i impuiidiii nduuildi i*5U6 Says Hon. John Gary Evans. HE GIVES HIS VIEWS Oil the Other More Important Issues of the Campaign?Favors Immigration to Meet Stnte Problems? We Print Below His Formal Announcement of His Candidacy for the United States Senate. Sometime ago Ex-Gov. John Gary Evuns formally declared his intention to be a candidate for the United States Senate in the primary this Summer in a letter, which we publish h??lnw: Evan's Announcement: The following is the announcement Governor Evans gave out: It has not been deemed necessary heretofore for a candidate for the nomination of United States Senator in a Democratic primary to write a pletform, especially before the as? sembling of the State and National conventions of the party. I would therefore, simply state that. I am a j candidate for the nomination of United States Senator by the Democi'Rtic party of South Carolina, but as others have published what they stand for, a word from me may not be inappropriate. I believe the most important issue to be pressed before the people - _ is, that of tariff. I have in former campaigus endeavored to show the iniquity and injustice of the Republican policy so far as the South is concerned and I shall continue to ? fi do so. We are still an agricultural peopie. cotton raising and cotton manufacturing are our principal industries and will ever be. These industries furnished the United States las' year a balance in trades without which our ^ country would have been a debtor to thp rest of the world instead of a ' creditor. Since the war between the b United States, the South from its cot-. ? con crops alone has brought into the States approximately fourteen ? million of dollars of foreign gold. *, This sum represents enough money c to purchase at their assessed valuations for taxation today the States of Maine, New Hampshire^ Vermont, a Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsyl- I vania, New Jersey, Delaware, and ii Ohio and a surplus sufficient to add d 100 per cent, to the taxable property o of South Carolina. If this money could have been kept at home the t South would be the richest country o in the world. Where has it gone? n The answer is easy, to fatten the pro- n tected interests of the States enum- n erated. Our farmers who manufac- ti ture nothing have been forced to o sell their cotton in Europe, compelled u to bring back gold only to be robbed e at the custom house and forced to c purchase their ploughs, hoots, shoes, d buttons, coats and supplies from home manufacturers at prices from a fifty to three hundred per cent, high- s er than they could have been gotten is in the markets where they sold their t cotton, and yet we are told that the p Southern farmer is lazy and indol- a ent. The time has come for the t truth to be preached and demand v made for fair treatment. t The Republican party is fast be- c coming divided into two hostile lj camps on the tariff. New England is S thoroughly developed, her manufac- v turers no longer monopolize the 1 home market, they are dependent t now for dividends upon the surplus 1 product which they are forced to sell c in foreign markets where the Soutn r sells her cotton.* The Western 1 Republican has become the extreme c high protectionist and Massachu- 1 setts is now for free trade in the r raw material, which she manufac- i tures. The shoes we formerly bought a In Massachusetts now come from $ Missouri. The factories have gone to i the hides just as they are coming to c the cotton, and the East can no long- j or compete in the home market with \ the West. You cannot protect cotton so long as the home market con- c sumes but one-third of the raw me- ) terial. It is our duty, therefore, to c combine with the free traders of New < England and thus secure fair treat- r ment for our farmers. c Our cotton crop for the past year e Is estimated to bring into this coun- l try in foreign gold seven hundred < millon of dollars, while our cotton c manufacturers bring in only thirty two million. This condition should e. " 1 mncf 1 CH De anowea iu caisi. ^ manufacture at home every poundL of cotton we raise and instead of J j exporting raw cotton cloth. Our c prosperity will never be permanent until this is done. We should stand c by our cotton manufacturers and de- t mand for them fair treatment It is a, an anomalous fact that England last f year built more new cotton mills in s three counties than were constructed r in the entire outside world. Cotton c machinery can be purchased in Eng- s land fifty per cent, cheaper than the t mills can buy in New England and ? ,,ot nre fm-rpd hv the iniquitous \ tariff policy to pay the price. Thejt Southern cotton farmer and the h Southern cotton manufacturer should f go hand in hand into this fight for h their interests are of the same. Thilg gamblers in cotton futures who at- j tempt to fix the price of our crop lv.- r fore it is even planted, should be j outlawed and treated the same as t other criminals. Cotton is still kin,;. c but he is taxed to death and enslaved c by a party intent upon making him j pay the expenses of the government ^ and to fatten their insatiable fina.i- p cial cormorants. I believe, it is time r for the young ^outhernor to demand a a voice in the government of this no- j, tion. The men who now control n the politics of our country were not g in the Civil War and it is nonsense and cowardly for the press of tiic p 5outh to continue to print the fecr >f a so called rebel control as a icare crow to Southern brains and imbition. The most loyal Americans oday live in the South and the fight now jeing made by the president of the "nited States against his own party or honesty in business and governnental affairs and against predatory vealth and the cupidity of our mil ionaires and trust magnates finds its iblest champions in one section. Anotner iquuy mac 1 snan enleavor to blot out, is the pension jolicy of the Republican party. The ?ase with which every free hooter ind camp follower now gets hi.3 lame upon the pension rolls is apjalling. We have paid to Northern soldiers since the war ended $3,551,>25,651.17 or enough to buy the States of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia. Florida, Alabama. Mississippi, and Louisiana at their assessed values "or taxation. The South pays the najor portion of this tax and gets lothing in return. We were not aggressors in the Civil War, the refusil of the North to acept the decision )f the Supreme Court of the United states upon a constitutional question n the Dred Scott case was practi'ally a nullification of that instrument and therefore, according to ;heir construction, a declaration of var. The. South fought in defense >f the constitution. This is now acepted as true by all writers of history md has practically been sustained by he Supreme Court of the United States. The President who h?s spent nost of hi3 life writing articles and looks deflamatory of Southern statesnen and heroes, in his'last message o Congress, he thus speaks of this onfiict, "There is grave need of those tern qualities shown alike by Uip nen of the North and men of the innth in the dark davs when each aliantly battled for the light .is it fas given each to see the light, their pirit should be our spirit as we strive o bring nearer the day when greed ud trickery and cunning shall be rampled under foot by those who ight for righteousness that exale'h nation." The Confederate 3o)dter attled for the light as given by the nly source from whfence it could ouie, the sun ot' the constitution? he Supreme Court of the United Itates. Such being the case I shall eraand that the Confederate soldier e treated as the equal of the Federal oldiers and granted an equal penion in his old age as a brother who aught for the light as he saw it and s he was in duty bound to accept it rom its only source the highest lourt in the Union. Finances. Under our Constitution Congress tone has the power to coin money, j shall advocate an elastic currency, ssued by the government and inorsed by the enti.-e resources of ur country. The great trouble with this quesion is the tendency on the part of ur financiers and statesmen to treat loney as a commodity and n otas a ledium of exchange. The idea of loney being sold in the open market o the highest bidder like real estate r mules and horses is something mique to the student of political conomy and vet this is the spectale we witness when a scare is proceed in our financial centres. The volume of money cannot be rbitrarily fixed, its only regulator hould be the volume of produce it 3 snuposed to represent the amount >f cotton, corn and manufactured iroducts it is supposed to exchange .nd stand as a pledge for. The idea hat money should have an intrinsic alue is unsound and absolutely anagonistic to the object and function if money. What we need is to go iack to first principles, to Adam Iraith, instead of relying upon men, ^ho never see anything but a dolar. to make the financial policy of his government men who look upon noney as the only product of the ountry, we should consult men who nanage the farms, the mills and the nines, which produce tne roai source >f our wealth and who believe that nonew is stamped by the governnent for the purpose of aiding them n exchanging their products. Thrui md not until then will we have a ;ound financial policy. Turn the noney changers out of the temple md place therein honest men who >roduce something and the country vill be safe. I am unalterably opposed to the 'stablishment of a central bank in rVashington to handle the currency if our government. This is Republian doctrine pure and simple and neans ultimate monarchy and the entralization of government. Oui* ixperience with a central bank has >een disastrous. It was corrupted to lefeat Andrew Jackson for presilent. Thrice lias it been tried, corruptid and reputiated and I do not beieve there is a Republican in congress who has the temerity to pro>ose it, to say nothing of its advoacv by a South Carolina Democrat. The Panama Canal will sojn be ompleted and with it will return ho importance and commercial advantages of our ports, Charleston, 'ort Royal and Georgetown. I shall ;tand for (heir opening and improvenent for I believe that our exports >f cotton and manufactured products hould go through our own ports. The day is not far distant when we ;hould manufacture all the cotton ve produce. When it does come hese manufactured products should >e warehoused, sold and exported rom Charleston and our other ports, ro this end the manufacturers of our State and financiers of our port cites should co-operate to make our nil Is independent of outside capital? - x 1 /lav tvhpn sts. u c must udsicu me uwj hp agents of the outside world will ome to our ports to buy and ship otton goods instead of raw cotton. To bring about this result we must lave an increase in industrial workrs of character. We cannot build uills to stand idle for want of opertives. Already our labor supply is \ elow the demand. We cannot stag-1 ate. we must go forward as other j tates will take our place. The negro has been tried and I roved a failure as an artisan. He DODGED THE ISSUE. STATE SUPREME COURT OX CALHOUX OOUXTY ELECTIOX. I A Decision That Decides Nothing Ex* co|it That Disfranchised Voter; Have No Redress in the Courts. The formal opinion of the fc>tate Supreme Court in the Calhoun Count} election has been filed and we are sorry to say that it is an opinion thai does not do much credit to that so called higher court. The case is thai of Parler and others against State Treasurer Jennings and others a; members of the State board of elec tion canvassers. The court in the opinion written bj Justice Gary, holds that the ques tions of fact in these cases are laf; to the State hoard of canvassers tc decide. The board has found that ii i all the electors residing in the terri tory of the new county, but whos< polling precincts were outside hac voted al the new county election the result would not have been changed The court declares that it is nol necessary to pass on the constitutionality of the statute in question ir order to protect the right of the elec tors to take part in the election, as the Court follows the well settled rule not to take into consideratior the constitutionality of an Act of the General Assembly unless it is necessary to do so. The action of the State Board of canvassers is therefore upheld. I It will be recalled that thero is o I ..... . 1..: e *1. j connici neiween me pruvi&iuus ui mr [ Constitution and the Act of the Genjeral Assembly in regard to the right I to vote in new county elections. The j Constitution declares that all qualified electors residing within the proposed new county shall vote while the status provide for the opening of the polling places at only these precincts within the territory, whereas, as in this case of Calhoun County, the polling places of certain qualified electors who reside in the territory are outside of the territory. The Court does not undertake to settle this conflict. It will be seen that the Court completely dodges the issue and leaves the decision of a most important ques tion to a lot of men who knows no more about It than a lot of catfish does about Sunday. When the question was before the State Board of Canvassers, and after the question had been argued pro and con for several hours by the learned counsel on both sids, one of the board gravely enquired If all the people in Orangeburg County had not been allowed to vote on the question of forming the County of Calhoun. This shows how competent at least one member of the board was to pass on the important question. It would have been much better for the Court to have taken a manly stand and decided the question one way or the other, even if they had gone against the disfranchised voters, than to shift their responsibility off on an ignorant board of State Canvassers. The question involved was not a question of fact at all, but a question of law and justice, involving the right of many legal voters to exercise a privilege guaranteed them by the State and Federal Constitution. The action of the Court in this case is not creditable to it as the supposed custodian of the rights of all the people in the State.?The Orangeburg Times and Democrat. cannot be used in manufacturing, the white man must take his place. None but the most narrow minded, short visioned demagogue can fail to realize the problem that confronts us. It is cowardice to leave it to our posterity. The white man's ranks must be filled, we cannot wait for reinforcements after the battle is on. The i only hope of the negro is in segragajtion. h emust be placed in a hopeless j minority wherever he may be, otherI wise a race war is inevitable. There jare only two flags, white and black, I under which will you enlist? ] j stand for the white. hooinaam I The coast section of our State is lone of the richest in the world. Our forefathers appreciated it and by a system of canals, endeavored to drain the swamps and claim the abundant fruits of the soil. I pledge my best efforts to get for our State what the West is getting for irrigation. We are entitled to it and with proper representation it can be had. Water Powers. Our chief hope, to be able to manufacture our produce cheaper than elsewhere in the world, lies in the development of our abundant natural water powers. These are now being harnessed and brought to our doors in the form of electricity. To pre serve them it is absolutely necessary i to protect the forest upon our mountains from the ravages of the axemen, j If the trees are cut down we shall soon have bare rocks incapable of ; retaining the water and our hopes for cheap power will be blasted. The Appalachian Park should be estabi ished and I pledege my efforts in its behalf. Inter-State Commerce. Congress alone has the power to J regulate inter-stale commerce. I be! Iieve the Jaws now on the statute i hooks amply sufficient to protect the people against oppression on the part ! of corporation interest. Their strict 'enforcement is all that is necessary land this will be insured by the ap[pointment of an honest commission. I have not endeavored in this paper I to do more than direct attention lo the most important questions as I see them. I shall in my speeches be: fore the people let them know my ! position in every question affecting i their interests, irrespective of the 'consequences. If I am eiecicn i snau devote my whole time to the people's cause. If 1 am defeated I will not sulk in the camps, but will continue, as I have always done, to work for the upbuilding of the State and the enlightment of our people. BLAMES ORANGEBURG For the Closing of the Dispensaries in Calhonn County. D The Orangeburg correspondent of The News and Courier says " a rumor has gained circulation that the city of Orangeburg is responsible for the disprrsary tangle in Calhoun. This was based on a portion of an article C from the St. Matthew's correspondent of The News and Couriei as follows: 'There are said to be somo quiet forces at work in the city cf Orangebburg with a view of injuring ** ??* >? i r nn/4 otfrnnfinrr t r*?> il/i nr 7 II11S (JUlllIll UUll.) nuu auiuvuut, | ? j to the former city.' ^ I " This correspondent has made dH- ^ - igent search and inquiry, but is un- ^ t able to locate any sign or trace oi' ei ; the said 'quiet forces,' except, per- w ; haps, the prohibition forces, which, \ - naturally, would like to see Calhoun ^ and every other county in the State jj 7 for that matter, dry. Even the pro- a. - hibition people, so far as is known, ai t have not been active in this matter, p > and if they were, their efforts would q f not be exerted towards forming any - prejudice against St. Matthew's ii q ? favor of Orangeburg." G) I a PLANE OF INTELLIGENCE. C( The favorable reception with which c t Governor Evan's announcement of ir his candidacy for the United States tl i senate has met is no doubt gratifying ai to him and his friends. Many papers w ? have commented upon his letter setL ting forth his views upon national c< ' issues, but few of them are more in- 0] ! teresting or complimentary than this >] from the Charleston News and Cour- s! ' ier. The Charleston paper says: o; Friends and opponents alike of Ex- jr Governor John Gary Evans must ac- c< knowledge that his announcement tl ' printed yesterday in The News and fj ' Courier pitches the cmpaigu for I United States senator on a plan of intellig?uce and puts his contestants on js notice that they must be prepared not ^ only to discuss national issues, but 1 to discuss them informingly. Mr. L Evans places in the foreground the C( 1 issue that belongs there, the reform ti of the tariff, the one issue on which De aj mocracy has won a victory since the (r war between the states, and he urges w it with the inspiring confidence of a L, man who has studied the subject, has J p watched economic movements in the hj United States and considered the Lj principles underlying them. A de- hj claration for tariff reform is not new in South Carolina, but a tariff re- Lj form declaration ihat is neither par- h( rot-like nor platitudinous has a novel ring in a state which has neglected q. for years the political issue most jg' nearly affecting thd prosperity of q the people. L, We do not like Mr. Evans' endorse- Lj, ment of Congressman Hobson's idea L. that congress be asked to pension SJ Confederate veterans, we think that w plea useless and, therefore, inexpe- QJ dient, but it is to be said again that Mr. Evans has a reason for the faith that is In him and his ground that the North was the aggressor in bring- ,r ing on war is logically supported. In advocating an elastic currency, lj x\Ir. Evans is at one with everybody. L Opposing a central United States bank ]v he occupies historic Democratic j" ground, but this opposition will re-L. quire to be defended with other ar- Lj guments than those of tradition and ,, sentiment. While we incline to agree Lj with the Spartanburg candidate, the L Greenville candidate. Mr. McCul- L lough, will deserve a considerate p hearing for his cause, the argument 1 of 1835 not necessary being pertin- L ent to the conditions of 1908. I Mr. Evans' position as to immi- _ gration is at least as sound as The News and Courier's and Senator Till-1 j man's views on the same subject? , views to which another candidate, I Col. George Johnstone, gave vigorous public utterance at a time when ^ Senator Tillman's mind, we believe, was engrossed with the consideration of the negro as the best and indissable laborer for~the Southern fields. Other parts of Mr. Evans' an- ' . nouncement will arouse future dis- ^ ; cussion and criticism, but the truest ^ . comment that we can make on it as , a whole is that its author shows g( clearly that he conceives that the duties of a senator in congress require careful study and some understanding of economic questions af; fecting the whole country, and it is ^ I?r..^?,;nor to havp an occasional con- . . I CliCOUlug vw tribution from a candidate touching j;1 , larger propositions than free rural ^ , delivery routes, highly important as , the later are sometimes. ! c* All Trusts Oppose Bryan. i The Times, of Buffalo, N. Y., says p in its opposition to Mr. Bryan the o New York World is in the company 11 of the Standard Oil trust, the rail- ^ i road trust, the sugar trust, the 0 leather trust, the insurance trust, c< the paper trust, the tobacco trust, c< and all other trusts which are prey- s' ing upon the people through their null with legislatures. It is in the company of the frenzied financiers and stock gamblers of Wall Street. ^ It is in the company of all the pre- ^ , datory corporations which infest the n< country. All of these interests are u opposed to Mr. Bryan. They are r? doing all they can to eliminate him as a candidate and accomplish the b . nomination of some man who would ?c ! be their willing tool. The plunder- m ers of the people know that with Mr. R Bryan in the preisdency they would rc receive no quarter. Their hope is ?c that with a 'conservative' in the i( chair they would be allowed to ply * their traffic at will. It is very con- 0 genial company for the World to be 01 in as it is claimed that its owner has n] a great deal of stock in the various w< trusts.) ot ?????? sp Thos. Taggart, Chairman of the de Democratic National Committee, ^ declares that William J. Bryan would be the choice of the Democratic national convention for pres- js ident, and that he will make a great race for the presidency. o 4 WILL BE SOLD. ISPENSARJES WILL BE RUN IX CALHOUN COUNTY. Iii?*f Justice Pope Sots Aside Governor Ansel's Order Closing Them and Throws Them Wide Open. By the grace of Chief Justice Pope, ho is generally on the side of the ispensary in his decisions, the Caloun County dispensaries will be ept open and the new county will ajoy the revenue therefrom. It ill be remembered that Governor nsel ordered the dispensaries at St. [atthews and Fort Motte closed, but iter on Chief Justice Pope issued a order restraining the dispensaries t those places from closing their laces of business as ordered by the overnor. The county dispensary board of rangeburg County wae not mentiond in this order, and the question rose as to whether or not the board juld continue to ship liquors into alhoun county under the provision 1 the Act creating the new county lat the dispensaries were to be run 3 formerly, before the new county as formed. The whole question was to have )me up before Chief Justice Pope a Tuesday but ft was postponed, but. [r. Welch representing the dispenxryites of Calhoun secured another rder from the Chief Justice directijr the OraneeburK County board to jntinue to supply liquors, etc., to le Calhoun dispensaries until the jrther order of the Court. As will e seen from the order, which is ublished in full below, the board i granted "leave to make such relrn herein as it may be advised." Mr. Welch was in the city Wednesay and had a conference with the junty board relative to the situaon, the result being satisfactory to II parties. The board has been willig all along to continue shipping hiskey to the Calhoun dispensaries, ad the places at St. Matthew's and ort Motte were ordered closed sole' upon Governor Ansel's opinion lat Calhoun was dry territory and is order to that effect to the board. No resistance will be made to Jusce Pope's order on the part of the jard of this county, which will connue to have supervision over the ilhoun dispensaries. The view taken that this is a matter affecting only p-angeburg and Calhoun counties, id the matter has been adjusted to ie satisfaction of both. Calhoun ill derive a revenue from the retail iles of liquor at her dispensaries, hile Orangeburg will make a profit i the wholesale end. Orangeburg County, we suppose, ill have to take out a wholesale limse now that she is selling liquor i the wholesale to another county, would be well for. the commlslnnv into this matter and I/UCIO IV 4VV? ....v x the price of their liquor according . As there is no limit set in Chief ustice Pope's order, we suppose it ill run indefinitely, and therefore le dispensaries at St. Matthews and ort Motte will be kept open until le Legislature meets and the defects 1 the law remedied. The following i the last order of Chief Justice ope: "1. That the county dispensary oard for Orangeburg County, creati and existing under the Act of the eneral Assembly, commonly called nd known as 'I he Carev-Cothran Acr. j o' from and after the date hereof, nd until further ordered, contine to perform and exorcise its duties nder said Act iu the territory taken ! rom Orangeburg County to form r^i- \ oun County, th* same as if said ler-1 itory taken to form Calhoun County j as still a part of Orangeburg Coun'"> Tf is further ordered that said | ounty dispensary hoard for Orange-1 urg County do continue as heretoore, and until further ordered, to ripply and furnish, in the manner o\v provided for by law, to the dispnsaries in Calhoun County all the rjuors and other alcholic beverages ow under the law allowed to be sold 1 the Dispensaries and necessary to lie continued conducting and operaing of said dispensaries as heretojre, and while the same was in Orngeburg County. "3. It is further ordered that the ounty dispensary hoard for Orangeurg County be made a party to the roceeding heroin, and that a c^pv f the pptition herein, together with ie order signed by me on the 17th ay of March, 1'908, be served upon ,ie said county dispensary board for 'rangehurg County, together with a Dpy of this order, and that the said aunty board have leave to make return h?rein as it may be ad ised." How to Cure Rbeamatlsm. The cause of Rheumatism and kiodred d- Hi i30s is an excess of urio aoid ,in the blood: o oure this terrible d seas tho acid must ? expelled and tbe system so regulated thai ) more rcid will be formed in excessive quan ties. Rheumatism is An internal disease and quire an internal remedv. Robbing with 1b and liniments will not enre, affords only imporary relief at best causes you to dey the proper treatment, and mIIjws ihemally to get a firmer bold cn yon. Liniment* ay ease the pasiD,bnt they will no more cure :hematism than paint will change the fibre of itten wood. Science has at la it discovered a perfect 1 complete cure, which is called Rbenmala. Tested in hundreds of cases, it has ef:ted the most raa'Teloua oures; we believe will enre you, Rheumacide "gets at the inta from the inside," sweeps the poisons it of the system, tones up the stomach, regatta the liver ard kidneys and makes you all all over. Rheumacide "strikes the root, the disease ond removes its cause" This lendid remedy is sola ny druggists and alers generally at 50c, and 1 a bottle. In blet form at 25c, and 50c, a package. Get bottle today; delays are dangerong. The political ring over in Augusta about to be ki!lrrl strain. Tt. <wm ; have as many lives ao the i.arJiest Id Tom cat. Stands by Tobacco Trust. The New York World, so fond of asking irrevelant questions, may be v interested in a recent issue of the \ publication called "Tobacco" and I published in the interest of the to- f bacco trade. The editor of "Tobac- t co" charges that the New York c World has deliberately ignored im \ portant news, the publication oi c which was not desired by the tobac- t co trust magnates. This trade pub s lication then asks: : "Can it be that Joseph Pulitzer is \ one of the little handful of persons c who hold stock in the tobacco trust? i Does the owner of the World partic- i ipate with Duke and Ryan in the 1 dividends of the concern whose 1 methods have recently been charac- ' terizecLby Colonel Henry Watterson in the Louisville Courier Journal, "Those of the pirate, the pickpocket i and the porch-climber.' " < This may account tor the New I York World's great hostility to Mr. J Bryan, it knows that if he is elec- ( ted that he will so expose the doings , of the tobacco trust that its robbery ' of the tobacco grower tfill have to , stop and as a consequence some of , the ill gotten dividends of the own- * er of the World will be cut ahort. There are many other newspapers in the same boat with the World. CLASSIFIED COLUMN. ' wanted! , Wanted?Every farmer and Merchant < in South Carolina write us for book- | let and testimonials. Huggins' i WrenchJess Plough Stock and Clio Sweeps. Beunett-Hedgpeth Co., Clio, S. C. 1 MISCELLANEOUS. ( Know Thy Fortune?Send your name, ] date of birth and sex, married or single, and 1 Oc. for a personal typewritten Horoscope of your life, * your future love, business and per- ^ sonal affairs. Prof. Opdyke, Box i 963, Binghamton, N. Y. 1 Gaslight from Kerosene lamps by us- J ing our patent burner, no chimneys i nor wicks; description free. 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If they do, ;hen why does not the republican ungres.s. now in session/proceed lloncr th? DroDosed line? Thev are n full control of all the branches of :he government and can pass any egislation they want to. Then why tfait. As the Commoner says it is . 'tomorrow" for tariff revision; 'tomorrow" for currency and banking reform; "tomorrow" for vigorous and effective prosecution of trust magnates. And to the negro with respect to the proposition referred to it is "tomorrow" and it svill be "tomorrow" forever and forever, because it is well understood that the republican party would not dare to reduce the representation as suggested. "The Best and Only Policy." George Harvey, editor of Harper's Weekly, reputed to be owned by John Pierpont Morgan, made an interesting anwer to the New York World's query, " What is the best principle and what is the best policy to give the Democratic party new Iif< ?" Here is Mr. Harvey's answer: To th<? 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