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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1896
Page
3
The piece lists Republican candidates for all statewide and legislative offices and attacks the free silver platform. It contrasts free coinage and free trade with England-like policy, cites Bryan and Pettigrew, and questions voters' guidance by a failed prior shift.
David Rankin of Tarkio Md writes Nelson Morris of Chicago on three year declines in U S beef and pork exports to Europe. Morris cites European trade barriers and reciprocal tariff repeal, linking lower prices to reduced foreign demand and a surge of foreign goods into U S mills. He urges restoring national credit and reopening domestic markets to boost farm product demand nationwide.
The article notes generals Sigel Sickles Howard Alger Stewart and Corporal Tanner backing Major McKinley and the Republican party. It mentions Coin Harvey attacking their influence by calling them old wrecks of the rebellion. Veterans respond with a different view of these grand old soldiers.
A letter from twenty seven St Paul gentlemen to Archbishop Ireland voices strong support for national integrity, social order, and free institutions amid the 1896 presidential campaign. It rejects Chicago platform calls for federal interference, warns that secession era ideas resurface, and cites Grover Cleveland’s 1894 troop use as example of federal power and state sovereignty tensions.
The text republishes excerpts from the Omaha World-Herald in August 1893 criticizing free coinage of silver at the 1 to 16 ratio. It argues the policy perverts bimetallism for selfish gain, questions public enthusiasm, and accuses silver mine owners of seeking undue profits.
The October Review of Reviews continues its record of the presidential campaign with reviews of republican democratic and populist conventions and nominee careers plus movement of sound money democrats to the Indianapolis convention. Harper's Weekly October 24 features Princeton Sesquicentennial illustrations and features on the campaign by T de Thulstup St. John Harper and Al Heecke.
The Davison county Republicans schedule a torch light procession and a grand demonstration in Mitchell on Saturday October 31 to mark national flag day. A speaker will be announced later. Also mentions various local items including advertisements and letters.
The South Dakota Republican platform reaffirms faith in the national platform, pledges support for McKinley and Hobart, praises current state governance, backs stricter penalties for public officer defalcations, favors arbitration for labor disputes, seeks empowered railway oversight and a maximum tariff, opposes trusts, urges investigation of grain elevators, and calls voters to unite for the party ticket at all levels.
A New York Tribune anecdote recalls Joe Blackburn in a blunt debate on brandy versus whisky with Senator Blair of New Hampshire. Blair’s frank admission about not knowing the difference ends with Blackburn’s sympathetic quip about Blair’s stomach, reflecting old temperance views and a wit-filled exchange. It adds note of anatomist John Hunter on feminine talk as a joke.
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