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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1888
Page
2
The Tribune quotes Harper's Weekly on Grover Cleveland and Allen G Thurman as the Democratic ticket. It contrasts the party's renomination with the country’s verdict on his course. It notes the Union Pacific and Central Pacific figures appointing convention leadership and naming Mr Estee as permanent chairman.
Allen G. Thurman was selected to represent the Hocking valley miners in arbitration with their employers. He secured the miners their rights and ended the great strike.
In a speech before the Chicago convention Foraker asserted the Republican presidential nominee would be at least a gentleman. The convention understood this to mean Mr. Foraker was not to be considered a candidate.
The report notes Russia Spain and Italy in Europe and Mexico in America have the highest protective tariffs and the lowest wages. England has the lowest tariff in Europe and pays the highest wages.
A 10 percent wage reduction occurred at Pennsylvania Steel Works as owners met in Chicago with Republican leaders to extend the tariff bonus for four more years.
After two conventions promised tariff reductions but did not deliver, Republicans now aim to align words with deeds by again not pledging a specific tariff cut, signaling a cautious, unified stance.
The text mocks a Republican civil service reform pledge joined by cheers for Webster Flanagan who is noted for asking what are we there for but the offices. The passage suggests the cheer is mere padding.
A Black resident of Springfield organized a local Democratic club. Republicans furious over the loss of a chat tel attempted to assassinate him. The incident is unlikely to be investigated by a Senate committee per Senator Sloar.
The Union Pacific railroad chair led yesterday with a characteristic Republican speech. Central Pacific to preside today and New York Central aims for the V presidential nomination.
Thurston served as temporary chairman and chief lobbyist for the Union Pacific railroad. When the congressional investigating committee sought his books he could not be found and he appeared to preside over a convention of corporate representatives ready to fight.
The Des Moines News calls the Republican National Convention’s temperance omission a capital blunder. It argues the move aids Clinton L. Fisk the prohibition candidate for president and could swing votes against the Chicago nominee.
J Milton Turner once a U S minister to Liberia and prominent Black Republican announces his shift to support Cleveland. He says the party has misrepresented Black attitudes and Cleveland’s administration shows fairness and justice for the Negro citizen.
The Post argues it would support Cleveland if he would pursue civil service reform, despite failures to fulfill reform pledges. It contends tariff reform is beyond the president, notes GOP frictions, and suggests the party would block a fit nominee or disguise Blaine’s traits with a bad pick.
An optimistic ad claims Vigor and Vitality are quickly given to every body part by Tleod's Sarsapurrilla. It asserts the blood is purified enriched and vitalized delivering health to organs. It promises toned stomach appetite restoration and energized kidneys liver brain.
Fairfield Republicans largely oppose the tariff plank, especially the free whiskey provision. Critics call the proposal a new, revolutionary doctrine beyond traditional Republican and any other party stance, threatening revenue and protections for American labor.
Reports from the Republican convention cover readings from Epinaure and Paris letters by Blaine, eighth ballot shifts with Harrison and Morton gaining, California's bloc moving to Harrison, and critique of party influence and reform in the West. Morton secures vice presidential nomination on first ballot with 491 votes.
The Chicago Times accuses John M. Thurston of Nebraska of using his position as temporary Chairman and Union Pacific solicitor to influence Republican politics. It alleges bribery, passes, and lobby work to sway Nebraska legislators and to advance railroad corporate interests, portraying the party as increasingly controlled by money and monopoly.
The Centerville parade supporting Cleveland and Thurman faced rocks rotten eggs and vandalism. A train switch was tampered with as violence erupted injuring Vierece from Walnut township and striking others. Charley Crego, a Republican, carried the transparencies and cheered for Cleveland.
Rockford Nova Scotia resident A Hl Thompson writes that Papillon Catarrh Cure cured his years long catarrh after less than one bottle. The extract claims to cure bronchial, acute and chronic catarrh and other ailments with large bottles priced at 100. Clarke and Junkin offer the product.
The text touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a carefully prepared medicine by competent pharmacists. It claims a unique combination of herbs including Sarsaparilla Dandelion Mandrake and Yellow Dock giving strength and curative power. It asserts purification of the blood, appetite improvement, digestion stimulation, and relief from scrofula, salt rheum, boils, pimples, dyspepsia, biliousness, headaches, kidney and liver issues, catarrh, rheumatism, and fatigue with a testimonial from A Ball of Syracuse New York.
The narrative notes Blaine’s campaign tactics and his Kansas City supporters refusing to attach two cars of the John J. Ingalls club to their train to Chicago. It condemns followers of McClellan and Hancock and paints the Ingalls faction as indecent political charlatans.
A common sense remedy promises curatives while you work. Allcock's Vorous Plasters are described as purely vegetable and harmless with no diet changes required. They claim to work through any weather and suit all ages, warning against imitations and substitutes.
Market quotes for spring wheat 60 to 65 cents per bushel, fall wheat 65, corn at elevators 4.50, oats 25, rye 4, buckwheat 31.00, hay 10 per ton. Cattle prices include cows 2.00 to 3.50 per cwt, stockers 3.00 to 3.25, beef steers 3.50 to 4.00, hogs 4.70 to 5.00, light 4.50 to 4.80. flour 2.60. corn meal 1.20 unbolted, 1.50 bolted. bran 0.55. chop 1.10. Potatoes 0.75 per bushel. green peas 0.50, beans 0.75, raspberries 1.23 per quart. Hams 1.24 per th.. bacon 9-10c, lard 9c. butter 10-12 1/2c, eggs 12c. Hides 7c, calf skins 5c, pelts green 3c. Wood 2.75 to 4.00 per cord. coal lump 2.50 to 2.75, anthracite 11.00, coke 7.00, nut coal 22.00.
The schedule shows eastbound and westbound services with numbers such as No. 2 Chicago Express and No. 1 Pacific Express, including times like 12:10 a.m. and 9:02 p.m. It notes passenger and freight trains and an accommodation service, with daily operation and a note that some trains do not carry passengers.
Ty of property to be sold at public auction for cash on July 5 1888 at 2 PM the Jordan elevator building and adjoining structures on the depot grounds of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad in Fairfield Iowa under a chattel mortgage dated June 29 1887 to Arthur 8 Jordan Jr. to secure 3327 65 with costs. Jones and Fullen agents.
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