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ABILENE TEXAS FRIDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 4 1802.
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"FOR HE IS A. DEOCRAT.lN
THE WORLD'S $500 PRIZE CAMPAIGN SONG.
Awarded the Prize in the Recent Contest by the New York World.
AIR Benny Havens O.
.
To every teeming city to town and village sent
' To every shop and mine and farm the thrilling message went;
'We've got our old commander back he'll lead us once again!
Be up and ready for the Tray and quit ypu there like men;"
And quit you there like men and quit you there like men;
Be up and ready for the fray and qut you there like men.
He stands for all that's dearest for which our fathers fought;
The people's right to rule the land for votes that can't be bought;
He stands for lower taxes for gold and silver too
For equal rights and laws for all for everything that's true;
For everything that's true for everything that's true
For equal rights and laws for all for everything that's true.
He's for the civil service and not for sham pretense;
He's for the common people and he's full of common sense;
He's brave and level headed and it's his unchanging plan
Whatever he may think is right to say it like a man;
To say it like a man to say it like a man
Whatever he may thmkjs right to say it like a man.
Our party knows no sections North South or Eist or West;
The bloody shirt a.id bayonet we heartily detest;
We'redead against the Force bill but we're for the church and school
And everywhere and all the time we advocate borne rule;
"We advocate home rule; we aavocate home rule
And everywhere and all the time we advocate home rule.
"We do not wish to regulate our neighbor's hours or drinks
"Nor do we want to interfere with what our neighbors think;
The Constitution and the laws decide our every doubt
And we're always good and ready to turn .the rascals out;
To turn the rascals out to turn the rascals out
And we're always good and ready to turn the rascals out.
Then raise lor Grover Cleveland a mighty deafening cheer!
We'll land him in the White House safe before another year.
"No Pinkerton detectives then to run our shops and mills;
No billion-dollar Congresses with him to veto bills;
With him to veto bills with him to veto bills
Mo billion-dollar Congresses with him to veto bills.
Then up and at them. Democrats! Charge home their wavering ranks!
They break they fly the days is ours they're routed front and Hanks;
Monopoly is on the run protection don't protect
But think of seventy-six and swear election shall elect.
Election shall elect election shall elect;
But think -of seventy-six and swear election shall elect.
And when our sturdy captain comes to his own again
He'll need a very different chair from that of little Ben;
We'll hunt him up the very one in which Old Hickory sat
And he'll fill it like a statesman for he is a Democrat;
For he is a Democrat for he is a Democrat
And he'll fill it like a statesman for he is a Democrat
Gojiear McDowell to-night at the
operahouse.
. NEWS NOTES.
Oct. 29 Early this morning the
4-yer-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Sims residing in north Dennison was
grabbed by a pet bear wh-ch 'was tied
in the back yard and but for the time-
ly appearance of a neighbor the child
would have been torn to pieces. The
bear had to be killed before it would
Telease its grasp upon the child.
About 4000 people were present
at the barbeciue given to Judge Clark
at Travis.
The Texas & Pacific's new time
card will take effect from November
6. The only clnnge wilt be in train
No. 31 which runs from Texarkana
to Fort Worth via Paris and Sherman.
It has been reaching Fort Worth at
7:05 thus failing to connect with the
train reaching Dallas at 8:10 p. nr.
On the 6th of November and after-
ward it will reach the Fore at 6:40 p.
m. the Dallas train leaving at 6:45.
Traveling men on the Transcontinental
can come in on Saturday night and
spend Sunday in Dallas.
Gov. James S. Hogg addressed
about 1300 people at Fort Worth to-
day. He was introduced by Judge
N. A Stedman who during his intro-
ductory unveiled a marble bust of the
governor and presented it to his excel-
lency. Jeff and John Bird lyere held up and
robbed on their way home from Al-
ford Tex. When halted they altemp
ted to run and the robbers fired one
shot taking effect in Jeff's forehead the
ball glancing to the tight coming out
behind the ear. The Wounded man
and his brother were searched and rob
bedof$4o. The highwaymen then
mounted .their horses and galloped off
The alarm was given to the nearest
farmhouse the officers notified and
search begun. It is believed that the
guihy parties will be captured.
R W Coleman died at San Antonio
this morning about 2 o'clock of typhoid
fever contracted during his active can-
vass of the state for the people's party
Mr. Coleman was the editor of the
Truth the loral alliance organ and
despite his protest his name has been
placed on the peoples party state tick-
et for land commissioner.
A dispatch from Reading Pa. sas:
A big batch of disappearances of well
known people is reported in this re-
gion. George W. Rehsynder and
Adam Wagner both of Reading have
been missing from home a week and
no trace of them can be found. Josiah
Erhard a rich miller-of Plover has
not been seen since October 14 and
fears are entertained that he has met
with foul play G. W. Stanley of
Dorrence disappeared mysteriously
last week. William Lloyd a feeble-
minded resident of Manorsville wan-
dered away from home in September
and has not been heard of since
Lillie Sowers of Lancaster is also mis-
sing. William Whitiaker and Miss
Fannie McCabe disappeared October
16 leaving no trace.
The thickest armor plate ever made
is now in course of preparation at the
Bethlehem iron works The monster
ingot which will be converted into
armor plate is now in a furnace in the
hammer depaitment. It weighs 840
tons and when completed will be
seventeen inches thick. This armor
will defend the sides of the battle ship
Indiana now being built at Cramp's
ship yard Philadelphia
Henry George considers the elec-
tion of Cleveland sure by a big ma
jority
Oct 30 A dispatch from Philadel
phia states.that a fire broke out early
in the morning at the Point Breeze
gas works which are situated along
the banks of the river Much damaage
was done among the rest the tugboat
Chas. E. Pugh was destroyed. Esti
mated loscs $134500.
' A fire broke out at Fort Worth at
2:30 a. m. in Chambers avenue.
Three frame buildings were destroyed.
Loss about $500; insurance $2200.
Sheriff Rucker and Constable Mor-
tis captured W. G. Chumley and
Henry Grantham and jailed them here
to-day charged with shooting and rob-
bing the Bird boys. It is reported
this evening that Burd died last night.
Chumley and Grantham arc held
without bail until the facts in regard
to Burd's death can be ascertained.
Considerable excitement was created
to-day at Homestead over the appear-
ance of H Snads of London England.
Mr. Snads hunted up a number of
prominent strikers and represented to
them that he was agent for capitalists
of Philadelphia Washington and Balti-
more who would build a co-opera
tive steel plant in Homestead.
The boiiermakers strike on the Mex-
ican International railroad at Porfino
Diaz has been declared off
Col. Charles Stewart spoke at Mar
tin to a fair audience in ttie interest of
Governor Hogg. He refused to di-
vide time with the Clark orators.
Oct. 31 The White Star steamer
Teutonic experienced very rough
weather during her last voyage acioss
the Atlantic. Two saloon passengers
went crazy with fright. No damage
was done but the passage was the
longest on her record; namely 6 days
8 hours and 51 minutes.
Judge Clark had a splendid recep-
tion at Taylor. Over 5000 people
heard him speak.
A dispatch from Raleigh N. C
says; Rev. Dr. George W. Sanderlin
stale auditor hasjeturned from a can-
vassing tour west of the Blue Ridge
mountains in this state. His trip was
through Mitchell and Yancoy counties
on the Tennessee border. He had an
appointment to speak at Burnsville
the county scat of Yancoy. A gang
of desperadoes in that county had
sworn that no democratic speaker
should be hird and when they found
that Dr. Sanderlin was determined to
speak they uetermined to assassinate
him. The day of the speaking a great
crowd gathered coming from all puts
of the country on horseback. It was
said that a number of east Tennessee
desperadoes were also present as well
as some from Mitchell county. A des-
perate fight ensued and five men were
killed qutnght and more than a dozen
seriously or fatally wonnded.
Anderson Lewis and Mrs. Mary
Ledbetter were married at the court
house of Denton this afternoon. The
groom's age is about 65 and the bride's
Counsel for the Southern Pacific
according to a dispatch from New
York says the Aransas Pass deal has
not been closed and may or may not.
So far it is talk. Financial agents of
the Aransas Pass say negotiations are
practically pending but nothing has
been consummated.
Within the past two days two mys-
ter'ous murders have been brought to
light in Oklahoma. In the woods near
Langton was lound the headless body
of an old nun and near Cloud Chief a
skeleton with a bullet hole in it was
found in a ditch. There is no clue as
to the identity of either of the victims.
A dispatch from New York says
that Choynski beat Godfrey in a glove
fight to a finish in 18 rounds a; the
Coney Island club.
Nov. 1 .Hon. Walter Grcsham has
published a letter declaring his inten-
tion to vote fo( Cleveland.
Gov. Hogg spoke at Alvarado. A
barbecue was given and there were a
large number of people present.
A Chicago dispatch says: For the
first time in the United States pontifi-
cal high mass was celebrated to-day
by the papal delegates. It was All
Saints' day services of the Italian
church oT Our Lady of Sorrows on
Jackson boulevard in this city the
home of the Servile order of priests.
The celebratant was Archbishop Satolli
of Rome. The church was packed
with people.
The Dallas fair was officially de-
clared closed.
A few weeks ago Rev J. C. Long a
Presbyterian minister 6f the Red Oak
neighboihood was arrested on a charge
of poisoning his wife last August.
Soon after his "wife's death Long mar-
ried a young woman wto had been
living at his house says a Terrell dis-
patch. Albert commonly known as "Case"
Blades keeper of a crap dive in Green-
ville shot and killed J. W. Riley of
Beatty Mortis county. Rider was
shot through the heart and right lung
and fell to the ground without uttering
a groan expiring instantly. '
Fifty bodies have been recovered
from the wreck of the Roumania.
A brakeman by the name of H. M
Ryan fell through the cars at West
Point this morning about daybreak and
was instantly killed.
A San Antonio dispatch states that
under an order of court the Alamo
electric street railway was sold this day
Charles Harris a New York capitalist
bidding it in for $25000. The line
embraces twelve miles of track and a
complete equipment. It has been in
the hands of a receiver several months.
Mr. Paul Savignet some time since
sank a well near the Laredo ice facto-
ry. After going down about 100 feet
the water suddenly rose to the surface
He at once ordered piping and receiv-
ed it Oct. 31. The piping will at once
be placed in position and the work
continued.
The plans of Mr. E. S. Macklm of
Austin have been accepted ft r the new
school building at Del Rio.
Two men entered the building of the
Ford county bank of Spearsvitle Kan.
early in the morning. They secured
$1700.
Republican Clark Club Meeting:.
At a meeting of the republicans of
Taylor county held at the opera house
Saturday night Oct 29 at which time
the Abilene Republican League club
was formed the following officers
were elected:
Chas E. Pratt Pres ; S. Lapowski
vice-pres ; E. S. Kean secy and treas.
The following enrolled their names as
members:
S. Lapowski J. G Lowdon
M. S. French E. H. Sintenis
Thos. Buck Geo. E. Bovee
T. H. Kershaw Frank A. True
Jno. T. Woolson H. Young
S. K. Radford D. A. Olds
A F. Gauerke II. H. Harden
H. Blanks E. B. Rollins
B B. Kenyon C. E. Pratt
J. IL Pratt E. S Kean
Cort Donnell J. H. Morrow
O. P. Spaulding W. Saunderson
Sam Stanford R. M. Grantham
F. H. Hardin A. W. Burchard
E E. Ward Frank K. Sterrett
I. B. Julian J. It. Julian
James Willis J. H. Doman
Dan McCarty.
Alter which the following resolutions
were adopted:
Whereas At this time it is fitting
that the republicans of this club should
give expressions to their political views
that all may know the feelings that ac-
tuate them as a body. Therefore be it
Resolved By the Abilene repub-
lican League club that we cordially en-
dorse the administration of President
Ilairtson believing that all his import-
ant official acts have been for the best
interests of the whole people of the
country and the tendency of the same
has been to establish uphold and
maintain the tnnor and dignity of the
United States among the nations of the
earth.
Resolved further That we un-
qualifiedly endorse the platform of
principles adopted by the national re-
publican convention at Minneapolis
and heartily agree with the position
taken by the republican state conven-
tion recently assembled at Fort Worth.
Resolved further That we wjll
support all the regular nominees of the
republican party and wilt vote for Geo.
Clark believing tnat his election witi
"Turn Texas Loose' from the fetters
that have bound her during the past
two years of Hogg rule and we urge
all our fellow citizens without regard
to race color or nationality to join in
the great race so well begun and now
so near completion.
WiiEKKAS In the course of time
all things must pass away the sun and
stars lose their brightness and all na-
ture assume new forms in the great
beyond and '
Whereas the wife of our beloved
president has been suddenly called
away Irom earth and the loved form
that sheltered the spirit now lies cold
and silent in the grave whilst a nation
IIIUUIII3 MIC IU39 HlCICIUrC
Resolved That in the death of
Mrs. Harrison we recognize the loss ol
a great and good woman an affection
ate and dutiful wife a fond and loving
mother a sincere and devout christian
one who was loved and respected by
the American people and admired by
all for her many womanly virtues.
Resolved further That we ten-
der our heartfelt sympathy to President
Harrison and his bereaved family in
their affliction realizing that all the
worldly honors that have been or may
be bestowed upon them can afford
but little consolation for so great a
loss
Horso Notes.
Dr. T. M Blakemore sold a two-
year.old filly by Silent Friend to Wade
McLamore Monday for $500. Mac is
one of the best known nnd most re-
liable horsemen in" Texas and we are
glad to see this filly go into his hands.
Gen'l Ross the bay stallion bred by
Dr. T. M. Blakemoreand now the pro-
perty of Fred Wood is proving himself
a race in any company. He won th;
4 furlongs at Dallas last week over a
field of fifteen in 56. The track was
slow and the performance wa3 consid-
ered a remarkable by all the horse-
men. Gen'l Ross will race at Nash
ville next week.
Lone Star State II M. Haskcw's
fine two-year-old trotting colt was dis-
tanced at Nashville the winner getting
a record of 2:15. Lone Star State
is a good colt and can trot heats better
than 2:25 but he met a big field of
colts that had been in several races
giving them that advantage over him
A colt will learn to trot from proper
trainingbut he learns to race only
from racing. Lone Star State is game
and fast. He is richly bred and is a
race horse when given an opportunity.
Major. Fred Hahn's mare Daisy H.
by Dick Dewey he by Western Fear-
naught dam by Young Toronto Chief
2d dam by Imp Lapadust is one of
the fastest green mares in the state.
His dam was a fine road mare.
The Curse of the State the Spirit of
the Demagogue and Furious
Hostility to Corporations.
Texas is a state of enormous resour-
ces and of possibilities as magnificent
as its territorial greatness Nature has
provided beneath and above the ground
every essential required for vast agri-
cultural industrial.and commercial de-
velopment. A nation in itself Texas
could grow and thrive if isolated from
the rest of the world. The natural re-
source s of the state man can not de-
stroy or remove he can only prevent
their proper utilization. It is the sin-
gular misfortune of Texas to be suffer
ing from a dangerous malady a blight
that dwarfs and cripples the growth of
the state. Tlusdistase which curses
the state of Texas is the spirit of the
demagogue which has manifested itself
in the in quitous alien land law and
t.ie presumptuous railroad commission
the latter now so happily dethroned.
Had the people of Texas studiously set
themselves to devise means by which
the confidence of the outside world
could be destroyed and the wheels of
progress within the state stopped and
blocked they could not have accom
phshed these ends in a more effectual
manner than it has been done by those
prejudice-blinded agitators and legisla-
tors of whose principles and purpose.
Governor Hogg is the embodiment.
By their unreasoning enmity to capital
and their furious hostility to corpora-
tions they have wrought mischief that
years of hard work cannot undo or ef-
face. Are we exaggerating the situation?
Are we imagining greater wrongs than
exist? We believe not and a Texas
paper just at hand furnishes us abun-
dant support fdr our views. There 's
now in course of erection in one of
the new industrial suburbs of Galveston
a large factory for lace fabrics of various
kinds. A representative of this com-
pany Mr. R. Brehens of Galveston has
returned from England where he went
to purchase machinery for the new fac
lory. His experience is well nigh in-
credible to those who are not familiar
with the results of the Hogg party's
work in Texas. His story is substan-
tially as follows:
UI went from this city to NoUinu-
ham for the purpose of purchasing I
lacemiking machinery for our factory
at Nottingham down the island I
went through alt the lace factories and
through all the machine shops and
finally decided upon what I wanted to
ship to Galveston. So I made a bar
gain with the maker.
'I purchased the nccesssaty plant
at a stipulated price on the following
terms: One-half three months after
the machinery should be set up in our
factory and the remainder at the ex-
piration of six months.
'So I tyrotc out a ten-page contract
and we met next day to close the bar
gain The legal adviser of these
machine makers was on hand and
looked the contract over very carefully.
Then he said; 'I shall advise my clients
to have nothing to do in this matter
for the simple reason that the plant is
located in Texas. If it was in any oth-
er state in America I should advise
them to accept.'
"Of course I was thunderstruck and
asked for an explanation. The lawyer
said: 'Your alien land law is reasoa
enough lor my advising as I do.1 I
told him the alien land law was a dead
letter inoperative. He said: "Welt
your peop.c may enact another sjmilar
law to-morrow. If it is the'spirit ot the
people and-the disposition of your pre
sent governor to do everything to un-
settle land titles and frighten away cap-
ital that makes me doubt and advise
against this investment.
Just so long as the present spirit of
Texans is against foreign or outside
capital just so long will we refuse to in-
vest.' And so I did not close the deal
and I have Governor Hogg to thank
for it."
Showing how far and wide the dis-
trust of Texas has spread let us refer
to a letter written by Mr S M. Swen-
son a native of Sweden to several
gentlemen in Texas. Mr. Swenson
wrote this letter two weeks ago from
New York having just relumed from
Sweden. Among other things touch-
ing upon 'the satn subject he writes:
"I do not hesitate to sav that the
legislation nnd policy of the Stitc for a
few years past has been unwise and.
unjust consequently detrimental to the
prosperity and welfare of the state. It
lias created a distrust ol public honesty
in the people of.Texas to such an ex-
tent that not only are capitalists in
other states of the union deterred from
furnishing capital to needed improve-
ments which are or may be controlled
by inimical legislation in Texas but I
found on my visit Sweden this sum-
mer that immigrants who had to inten-
ended to seek homes in Texas were
deterred from so doing by an idea that
they would not be permitted to own
and hold lands in Texas and I was
frequently called upon to give advice as
to the best locally for settling 111 other
states. Hpwever untrue tht statement
about not bring able to legally hold
lands for settlement in Texas really is
yet it has its origan 111 a mistaken poli-
cy of kindred laws."
These are but two out of many strik-
ing illustrations which we could multi-
ply from our own experience and ob-
servation but the subject is too lam-
entable to invite further amplification
of details. The situation in Texas is
serious; yes critical. Perhaps our
standpoint from which we can see
the situation free from conflicting in-
fluences gives us a clearer and more
impressive view than is possib'e to
those nearer to or within the troubled
state. To us it seems that the duty
now resting upon the people of Texas
the men of means and intelligence is
to l.iy aside every consideration of par-
ty and unite in a tremendous effort to
overthrow the demagogues and set
reason upon her feet This is the
only means through which confidence
in Texas can be restored. Confidence
once abused is hard to win again and
the magnitude of the work confronting
the people of 1 exas makes urgent an
immediate beginning.
Tremendous Water Powir.
A paper company at Niagara Falls
finds it no easy task to decide how the
terrific power from the 130 feet head
of water which is to be at (heir dispo-
sal shall be utilized. At a recent con-
ference of the officers of the company
about twenty wheels and methods of
developing power were submitted to
them and all but three were immedi-
ately passed over as being wholly in-
adequate to the occasion Most of the
water wheels made would crush hke
eggshells beneath the force of a column
of water falling 130 feet down a pen-
stock. Tht wheels selected for further teits
are to receive it at Holyoke and when
the decision is reached the company's
architect wilt prepare plans for several
ways of using the power. The con-
tract for building a coffer dam for the
company has been let and also for the
tunnel and shaft. The tunnel will be
500 feet long and probably to by ia
feet in size. The shaft will have a.
depth of 140 feet and will be 14 by 40
or 45 leet in size. Springfield Paper
World.
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