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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1892
Page
4
Madeline S Bridges recalls Decoration Day rituals and aging veterans in a reflective verse about decades past and the pull of camaraderie. The speaker urges veterans to unite, honor the flag, and dream of future reunions while acknowledging fading faces.
Ex Washington clerk Mark Jennings resigns in 1891 to care for his ill daughter and pursue law, recalling Civil War battles with pride. He tours Kenesaw battlefield with his child, hoping to locate a locket bearing a lover’s image, lost amid the war’s echoes.
Mark Jennings, a Civil War veteran, meets Miss Flournoy and her daughter at a mountain cabin near Kenesaw. Amid memories of battle and a locket bearing a past love, he confesses a deep love and receives a restrained surrender. They seal a vow of atonement and union on Memorial Day.
English engineer Fran cis H Grundy recalls Bill the banker a navvy who died in a Manchester Leeds railway tunnel accident. Bill signalled warnings from a deep shaft ensuring fellow miners safety before his crushed body arrived at the bottom. The piece honors his sacrifice as a national example.
A satirical verse mocks a group named the Cleveland Buccaneers advocating aggressive free trade and treasury plunder. The poem parodies political pledges and consumer greed with chants of rolling up millions and opposing Puritan economy rhetoric.
The piece attacks Democrats for trimming sundry civil service funds while approving a huge fifty million river and harbor bill. It cites Gen. Cogswell and Gen. Cagewell, rails at cuts to lighthouses and life stations, and critiques Cleveland and Palmer as likely contenders amid party infighting and a looming campaign.
The text argues Cleveland opposes protective tariffs as revenue and warns Hill would import Tammany methods to the White House, while Gorman would distribute post offices to party workers. It frames tariff and silver as key country tests and critiques secrecy on Hill's views.
The New York Mail and Express argues that Republicans should nominate President Harrison on the basis of principle not patronage. It asserts he will be renominated on the first ballot, rejects boss control, and praises independence, protection, honest money, fair votes, and strong American industry.
The piece attacks Democratic free trade rhetoric tied to Henry George's Protection and Free Trade. It accuses Democrats of distributing George’s book through the Congressional Record to boost free trade arguments, denounces land ownership critiques, and contrasts protectionist and free trade positions with references to McKinley tariff era and editorials from Providence, December 3, 1688.
A compilation of newspaper quotes arguing that southern Democratic majorities may rise while Republicans gain in other states since 1888. Critics accuse Democrats of wasteful spending, contrast Democratic demagoguery with Republican business prudence, and accuse Congressional leaders of manipulating quorums.
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