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Newspaper
Cuba Advocate
Location
Cuba, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1900
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR text lists names and titles such as governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, treasurer, attorney general, superintendent, and various district references. The readable items show officials, positions, and locations like Belleville and Hiawatha, but many names are garbled. The passage resembles a government roster or ballot-like snippet with incomplete context.
An aged soldier recounts a Republican convention scene and a wager about Bryan carrying Kangas and Beledenthal, with citizens condemning copperheads and praising party shifts. The piece lampoons maverick platforms and bluntly notes youths urged to vote Democratic, amid claims of falsities and different loyalties in 1896 style rhetoric.
A county convention of the People's Party is announced to nominate candidates for Representative, Clerk of District Court, County Attorney and other offices. Meetings are scheduled in Belleville and surrounding townships on September 1 and 6, with primary delegates to be chosen for the county convention on September 8. The notice emphasizes party platform items including opposition to imperialism, support for initiative and referendum, free silver, and Monroe Doctrine adherence.
The text references multiple trusts including the embalm, armor-plate, coffee, sugar, tobacco, great-trust, wire, lumber, miners, and coffin trusts. It urges not to think of these while rallying for the flag, with a scott Lantern attribution and a tense exhortation about restraint.
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