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nd :comm*rc» on, the fouh; iwal'of. io«ti«: Pltnjii , tliopv sf If' tho ,lt;!•-' r ■ campaigns ian It hi, omp'n’risoh'to a pruajderit would repro-bllc interests ictlco.Uy. upland hiis in-illustration's illstic. What Istakably a 1. Yut while isly urgOH a tor securing pular ruleiv term would mlar rule as :.serves tholritWprobftiiIo'/;th'ati;^ who ’ has rie ver- been n1 rich• trinn. would now b ee n ga gedln.tho: ac 11 y e practice .of law in Dubuque inntcnd'of preslil Ing aa-speakor. ' And the Country would hardly have discovered' the great abilities and the nobility of the: late Senator' 'Davl.s of'-lllnnesota,; .who died poor, and who, in the’ absence of the $5,000 nalnry, .would’ have been forced--to remain out of congresslonal'lifo and de vote; himself to other pursuits,vthan •statesmanship.UilN. ly the nows-rlln, regards0 the Kay-lap in Eng; lerabie part mis the po-ade ,Uy. the mt and the British gov-the sennto, tutlon, Is a power, and treaties as bout, that ly, and un-nstrue the n the nogc-:nln Invarl-) maximum d her mlti-nd sapient tor govern-he changes it proposed hostility to the protcc-whlch It Is irlean connote. This ndon as In understood, :lsh states1 to discern y manifest } president uvu as HI. have been has to as ended. As ilnted out ate If itthat tien-dments to icharge of f their ln-le subject negotlat i a rule abdicate o charged ic fearless csponslble ncles and ' the ibject and sutlvc de-P power,It lo not. isldent or miliar as titles and ate, they victims y should ndmcnts.Danish is the chief competitor of American butter in the European market., The .entire product, with the exception of a small percentage reserved for. the wealthy class, is exported. Exclusive of this cluss the people,like .the common people of .other countries of Europe, eat-olebmargarlne, and-eat It,knowingly;; It ls: wholesome, and as It la. but. ten cents a qiound against, thirty or,, thirty-five cents for butter, they prefer it. Yet In-the United States, after enacting legislation which robs workers of their earnings to such an extent that largo masses fin'd It difficult to meet expenses, the party dominant in congress has passed a bill through one house which substantially prohibits the buying of cheap oleomargarine,; and provides that consumers shall pay, high prices for butter or go without.The Philadelphia Press tells how Bryan preached In favor of an Impossible .monetary system that would, he said, make CO cents worth ..of silver equal a dollar In gold.” Of course Mr. Bryun never preached anything of the sort, since a quantity of silver equal to. a dollar In gold, would bo th 100 and not 50 cents. No one would give for 50 cents a quantity of silver, equal to a dollar in gold.Congressman(DENCE Chinese ,rsh pro-! lmport-‘orts bo-muntlcd, imunlcn-lurrcd to i bo sta-ilna ab-,nil that of $200, of what,, , Lentz of the capitaldistrict of Ohio lias served -formal notice on Congressman-elect. Tompkins that he will contest the latter’s seat in the house, basing his claim on charges of wholesale bribery and fraud in the count in the ballots. Mr. Lentz will undertake to prove that ho was beaten by corrupt methods, deliberately employed. .It is hoping against hope Unit every good resolution made to-day, the first day of the first year of the twentieth century, will be kept. Yet there Is something good in the man who makes a good resolution. If there were not he would not make If.General Miles lias not yet made his mind to reply to the recent attack of cx-Sccretary Algor. The public will appreciate him the more If he re. mains sI|ent. The embalmed beef discussion is as offensive ns its subject.• tttlW.;- l»vt the ^olerfchr-ritfee ■:/- we^n'o.t-MJ.fhoyl^sh^jijM.'be^hdctt'vlfewiJays ago.he.'callea ori';ttek-•ed -him' 16 show.’ Mr. .^Hayos’ ,-- reports; The .auditor: showed^till .dh'ht^fcoulcl^b'e found, consls/;lng,.:of; n,; fe\v..vannuali reports. , it stems thai^Miv iiayes; when he felt like It, made a report to .the board, occasionally about January 1; and If ho did not feel like It he made no report. I-Ie did. riot deign to verify those statements by affidavits, as the law prescribes, but simply ■ certified that they, were true. . As-;nearly as can be figured from the statements.Mr. Ha.yes.has paid Into the county treasury an average of .-less than $800 . a year, while, he has drawn.out for.clerk hire, etc., several., thousands. When Mr. Qulglejr.was clerk he paid.out of the fees all expenses of the office, including clerk and deputy hire, and paid Into the county , treasury, an .average of $1,000 per year. .Hence, when he. had; the office, Jt was a source of revenue to the county, and .now,-when the fees are more than. double ..what they were In the ’70s, It Is a-burden to the extent of several .thousand Collars.Why Jumps A. Hayes, as clerk, lm.s disregarded the requirements of law concerning the making of reports, ls not. explained; and.while it Is. known that, ho supports a grand mansion, Is .a prominent figure In an Insurance company, and has sunk-considerable-money In an attempt to revive arid ’ uplift a tottering newspaper, It Jsnot here either affirmed or denied .that his reports have been withheld to conceal from the public facts and figures which If exposed might not be to his credit. .It Is most positively affirmed, however, that ho ha-.violated the law. The. latter requires i;ho. clerk of the courts to make quarterly reports to the board of supervisors, and to pay over fees, etc.; and to soml-arinually report to the treasurer all witness and other fees remaining in his hands and riot Included in his. quarterly reports. This, as the records show, Clerk, Hayes has not done. Ho has ignored rind defied 'a statute enacted , for public protection, and ho Is clearly liable to • Indictment and prosecution-for..misfeasance in office, If not for. a more serious offense.The grand jury is to meotthls month, and It Is Its duty to. investigate 'he clerk, arid, If it finds, what is here alleged of him to be true, as it will, to return a true, bill against him.. Should the body fall to. thoroughly Inquire Into and ascertain why lie did not make his reports as the law prescribes, it will be as recreant to its duty as officially ho has been to lit.-;.. ,INAUGURATION OF CbL. BLISS.The wave of civic reform has reached Milwaukee, where an attempt Is to be made to stop prize fighting and to compel a modification of the wide open” policy .The. nineteenth was riot a bud century after all. Most bf us were borr in it, and because we are here the world Is, of course, much better than ever before.It Is too much to-expect that newspapers which lravo been abusing Mr. Bryun will refer to the Commoner as our estoomod con temporary,1'May tho-New Year and the now tury; bring more happiness to us Individually and collectively.CLERK J. A. HAYESPort Huron, Mich., Jan. 1.—Dr. Geo. II. Brown, of this city, who will have' dharge of the ceremonies lu connection with the inauguraUpn of Colonel Bliss as governor,'ha’s; about completed- th© elaborate- preparations for tho event, it will be an afl’air of great splendor. Brown sn.vs that most of the Invitations Issued have been accepted.They were sent to uU;tho living ex-governors of tho state; Bliss’ opponents for Uhe nomination at the Grand Rap-Ids convention; Senators - McMillan and Burrows and the twelve representatives from the state; Governor Pln-gree and staff; Brigadier General C. •L. Boynton and staff; -Colonel ‘McGur-l’ln and staff;Colc-uel Hnrrari and staff; Colonel Bates and staff; Major Verrion of .Lansing; Major Matlle and staff, of: Port Wayne; Major Newell and staff; .Colonel; Ungers,•'cof-'vOrehnrd Lake;1 President AshlejV.of-‘Albion college;’ the.-.olllcers-'of the-,state central‘committee and officers,' of the Michigan Longue ,of Republican -clubs;-also'the-foreign., consuls resident In-tho state. - ■• Ciml-Mln'u Sirlko SeUn-il. Belleville, Ills., .Tim.' 1.—The strike of the 700 miners oiriployed in' the three mlr.es of the‘Scott Coal company has been settled, the company acceding to the demands of the strikers. . .-The -men went out Dec.. 11 be-' ■anse tho-company refused to comply with the stale law requiring that they pay employes- twico a month. , The I company has signed an agreement to pay semi-monthly'.'”'Fails to Make Official Quarterly Reports as Express ly Required By Law.Alliturn la i, and a I lntog-esorved. rortures essness. ough to o tliom-Re-' mercy ch the ). The !0 pay-hatover ic con-rill do-n pa thy certain islrablo id eon-WlthAND THUS COMMITS AN OFFENSEWhich It Is tho Duty of the Grand Jury to Investigate, .n im-ndoncoo pro-spread ’echlll, its thoif theL-ndlngChina,ustlee.1 fam innnot years ustieeSome montli3 ago James A.- Hayes, clerk of the district .court, caused a defamatory article to be published in the Dubuque I-Ierald, charging the business manager of the Telegraph, P. J. Quigley, with having failed to pay Into the treasury foes due the county when he was clerk. As Mr. Quigley Is not In the habit of answering articles or charges of this nature ho made noIrish (Haul Suspcotod of lUsn-der.’Milwaukee, Jam -1.—United States secret service officers in. this city claim to have evidence. In their possession which leads them to ’believo that J; A. Montague, who ;ivns arrested in connection with the Montford, Wls., attempted bunk robbery, -la the siime person who shot o.axl killed Policeman Gates, of LaCr.-.sse/'Hyis;, in October last. Montague Is known as flic Irish Giant.■ Knninrrfod tlio Tlilrd Tlmo.Madison, Wls., Jan. 1.—Matilda and Guilder. Christofferson.-were remurrlod Sunday after , a separation of three months. Tills..is the third time the couple have roman-led after being divorced. ...tiooci Attvico.Tho most miserable beings In the world are those suffering from Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint. More than .•onty-llve per-cent.'of the people in the United States are ufflicted with these two diseases and their effects; , such as Sour Stomachs, Sick Head-ioMpon.se. The fact that ho has lived ache, Habitual Costiveness, Palpitation ana do no hn« nnuu lt;*« _ . . 7*and done business in Dubuque nearly of all his life rendered it unnecessary to notice the accusation. Anything ho might say on the subject wouldmallst ment, $15 a i:ila ry house : poor rayed alary icl of itlves - casesuperfluous, since iiv the end ho would bo judged, noi; by what Mr. Hayesmight say, uryivhat- ne himself might say, but by, rils ri its.It Is now ahViost forty years since Mr. Quigley opened a store in Dubuque, and lie has been In active business ever since. Ho has In succession been in tho grocery business, tho grain business, the lumber business, clerk of the court, avid - in the newspaperbusiness. During the early parta business’ career he wasquite extensively engaged In mining, having an Interest In from two to four dlfferent'-mlnus continuously. He also, as administrator., wound up al estates, and acted ns guardian for minor heirs, spendthrifts and Insane. In these capacities rind relations ho handled large amounts bf money and transacted business with all kinds of men, yet no man who over, had dealings with him onn say that he acted dishonestly or failed to pay his.obligations in duo time and with 100 cents on the dollar. Mr. Quigley has not left It In the power, of any person to say that ho over took advantage-of a technicality. He has paid. ;ct,,different times sums, aggregating noririy $8,000, which ho was not legally obligated to pay. X-Io has always considered a debt much an’ obligation after It _became bnrrod by. the statute of. limitation us before. Pie doesn’t need Mr. Hayes’ endorsement, and can well nfr ford to-,disregard his censure.When he rend Mr. 'Hayes’ arllcie and reasoned on, the ,;cause whlcli prompted it, he suspected that mattersGnawing and burnlng-Pains at the Pit of the Stomach, Yellow Skin, Coated Tongue and Disagreeable Taste in the Mout.il, Coming up of Food after Eating. Low Spfrf ;-s, - etc. • Go to your druggist and gel a bottle - of - August Flower for 750.; .Two-.doses. '.will relieve you. Try it.Get Green’s Prize Alma-' nac. For sale by T. W..Ruete and Geo Wunderlich. —The only through sleeper from Dubuque to California is via the Illinois Central (the Old Reliable) the shortest and-quickest route .to Omaha and points west.s:PILESA Certain .Care; for-Thl, Painful and Annoying Disease, Salriliable and Sure in EveryCase. . . - .Dr. Wilkin’s Non-Irritating Pile Cure a new compound conslscng of internal and external treatment, simple to apply, purely vegetable. '• norfoe m v • h «ply, purely vegetable, perfectly- harmless. It is better than uhe knife—cures quicker, easier and safer.' -.Thousands have used it, thousands have been cured by It. We .will guarantee relief at once and permanent cure. 1 -COSTS BUT A TRIFLE. : Badger Specific.Co., Station C.„.Milwaukee' sola proprietors-and compounders'.;Sold only by G. A.- Grlirim’,-' successor to Hervfy,,.7th.;ahd Malri-. Hedioy ft Brovvn, 3rd and Kaln Streetii; Chas J.-Brown.,lath ^y.d Miiin atrWi'ti.
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Dubuque Daily Telegraph
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Tue, Jan 01, 1901
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