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»nd commorce:lon, th* tenth?' ■awai’of. io«rl'«’ •plage.', tliopv 'of it the ,»y campaignshan It lit, It compVirlsoh'to a prusjderit. would ropro-ibllc interests .'actlco.Uy. un-olund him lu ministration'll lallstic. What nlstakubly a •n. Yut while usly urges a for securing opular rule:*.' j term would •pulur rule as. eaerves theirit isdprobabl*;thati;Clt;?to^whq liaH never bcon n'rlch-trinn.' wouldVKN. _ riy tho nows--•rllri, regards to the Kay.-dap (n Eng,-Idcrabio part dtes tho po rmdo ,Uy. the lent and tho Uritlsh gov-t the aonuto, Itutlon, Is a power, and J treaties as n bout, that ■bly, and un-xnstrue tho In the nogc-Itnln Invarl-io maximum nd her mln-:ind sapient her govorn-L’he changos lot proposed hostility to tho protcc-wlilch It Is icrlcan con-'inoto. This ondon as In understood,It lull status's to discern ly manifest 10 president have as lll-• have been i has to ascended. As lOlnted out, ruito If It0 that tien-idments to Ischarge of of their Indie subject n negotiates a rulo ) abdicate ro charged he fearless responsible oncles and y tho con-ubject and icutlve de-ig power,It Is not. •osldont or xtnlllar as duties and mite, they1 victims ey should endmcnts.now bo engrfged ln-tlio 'actlye practice .of'law in Iubult;iue jnsto.ail' of presltllng as’-speaker.'' And tho tountry would hardly Imye dlsoO’/ered the great abilities and the nobility of the: late Senator' ■Davis -, of-; Minnesota, .who died poor, and . who, in the: absence of the $5,000 salary, .would' have been forcedyto remain out of congressional life and de vote; himself to other pursuits,vthan statesmanship. 'and1 thmrs iijl Ure1 alnvji Woe w«agobe- called; on; tha :aurtit'brd«nd' asked ‘Him' Clt;1 Show,'' Jlr.'^Iayes’;|'rfepp'r'tSi’Danish Is tho 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 is. but. ten cerits a -pound against, thirty or,, thirty-live 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 lin'd It difficult to meet expenses, the party dominant In congress has passed a bill through one house which substantially prohibits:, the buying of cheapoleomargarine,:and provides that con.sumors shall pay. high prices for but ter or go without.The -auditor: shdw.'eddll. thht\:fcbulci: lie found, consisting,;of;n,;fe\y/;dnnual'reports,.'. , it st-ems that^Miv iiayes; when ho felt like’ it, made a report tp .the hoard, occasionally about January 1; and If ho did not feel like It he made no report. He did. riot deign to verify those statements by affidavits, as the law prescribes, but simply ■ certified, that they, were true. . As ; nearly can be figured from the statements.Hr. Hayes has paid into, the county treasuryetc.,Tho 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 worth 100 and not GO cents. No one would give for GO cents a quantity of silver, equal to a dollar in gold.CongressmanLento of tho capital district of Ohio lias served formal notice on Congressman-elect. Tompkins that he will contest the lattor’s seat in the house, basing his claim charges of wholesale bribery and fraud In the count In the ballots. Hr. Lent* will undertake to prove that ho beaten by corrupt methods, deliberately employed. , 'It is hoping against hope Unit every good resolution made to-day, the first duy of tho 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 lie would not make It'.General Miles lins not yet made his mind to reply to the recent attack. 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 $1,6G0 per year. .Hence, when he. had the office, it was a source of revenue to the county, and .now,-when the fees are more than. double ..what they were iri the ’70s, It is a-burden to the extent of several .thousand dollars.Why Jumps a. I-l'ayes, as clerk, has disregarded the requirements of law concerning the making of reports, is 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 ;monoy 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 har.violated the law. The. latter requires the. clerk of the courts to make quarterly reports to the board of supervisors, and to pay over fees, etc.; and to semi-annually 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, C’lerk, Hayes has not done. Ho 1ms ignored and 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 meot thls month, and it is Its duty to. Investigate «he clerk, and, If it finds, what Is hero alleged of him to be true, us 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.To Be miOrcnt -Splendor—Many Many Ncdnlilun Inrltml.Port Huron, Mich., .Tan. 1.—Dr. Geo. II. Brown, of this city, who will have' ciuirge of the ceremonies lu connection with the InauguraUpn of Colonel Bliso as governor, 'has; about Completed tho elaborate- preparations for the event, it will he an afl’aIr of great splendor. Brown says that m'ost of the Invlta-of cx-Sccretary Algor. The m,b!ic lssll0lt;l have been accepted....fit _ I ' P Nov csrtti ..11. If.-*.will appreciate him the more If he remains silent. The embalmed beef discussion Is as offensive as its subject.The wave of civic reform has reached Milwaukee, where an attempt Is to be made to slop prize fighting and to compel a modification of tho wide open policy .The. nineteenth was riot a bud century after all. Most o? ns were borr in it, and because we are here the world is, of course, much better than ever before. .....NDENCE c Chinese arsh pro-•o Import-forts bo-stnuntlcd, nmunlca-ifurred to s be stu-Ihlua ab-and that of $200,-t of whatIt Is too riiucli to-expect that newspapers which Iravo been abusing Mr. Bryan win refer to the Commoner as our esteemed contemporary.alu.All•oturn Is is, and a xl In teg-reserved, ivertures dessuess. tough to co them-ie. Re-y mercy rich tho b. The igo pay--•hatover lie con-wlll do-’nipathy certain I'oslrablo tod oon-Wlth nn lm-ondoncoMay tho. New Year and the now century, bring more happiness to us all, Individually and collectively.They were sent to ull;tho living ex-govopuors of the :t;ito; JB.Hss’ opponents for Uhe nomination at the Grand Xtap* Ids convention; Senators; McMillan and Burrows and the twelve representatives from the state; Governor Plu-gree and staff; Brigadier General C. L. Boynton and utaff; Colonel McGur-l’ln and staff;Colc-uel Hnrrah and staff: Colonel.Bates and staff; Major Vernon, of .Lansing; Major Matlle and staff, of: , I'ort Wayne; Major Newell and staff; Colonel; Rogers,-t .of-'*Orchard Lake;' President -YshlejY .of: Albion college;’ the.-,officers- of the--state Mritrril'committee and officers,' of the Michigan League,of llep ill'll can 'clubs; also the-iorolgu.consuls resident in-tho state.'- ■CLERK J. A. HAYESC.ml Mlno Strlkii SettU'd.Belleville, Ills., '.Tan.' 1.—The -strike of the 700 miners oiiiploved 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 because the-company refused to comply with the stole law requiring that they pay employes, twico a month. Thocompany has signed an agreement to pay semi-monthly'.'’.Fails to Make Official Quarterly Reports as Expressly Required By Law.AND THUS COMMITS AN OFFENSEWhich It Is tho Duty of the Grand Jury to Investigate,Some montli3 ago James A.- Hayes, clerk of the district .court, caused a defamatory article to be published In the Dubuque Herald, charging the business manager of the Telegraph, P. J- Quigley, with having failed to payInto the treasury foes due the county when ho was clerk. As Mr. Quigley Isto pro-ospread Pechtll, lets the of the lending China, Justice, d fam-cannot years Justiceonallst ament, : $15 a salary house o poor frayed salary nel of atlves s-casonot In tho habit of answering articles or churgos of this nature ho made no response. The fact that ho has lived and done business In Dubuque nearly all his life rendered it unnecessary to notice the accusation. Anything he might say on the subject would be superfluous, since iiv the end ho ’would ho judged, not; by what Mr. Hayesmight say, or-/ivhat- ne himself might say, but tv, ids ;lt; its.It Is now ahViost forty years since Mr. Quigley opened n store In Dubuque, and lie has been In active business ever since. Ho has In succession been in tho grocery buslncs3, tho grain business, the lumber business, clerk of the court, avid ■ in the newspaperbusiness. During the early partof his business career ho wasquite extensively engaged In mining, having an Interest In from two to four dlfferent'mlnus continuously. He also, as administrator., wound up several estates, and noted ns guardian for minor heirs, spendthrifts und Insane. In these capacities anil relations ho handled large amounts of money und transacted business with all kinds of men, yot 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 ever took advantage-of a technicality. He bus paid, rat,,different times surhs, aggregating iWany $8,000, which ho was not legally obligated to pay. I-Io has always considered a debt as much an’ obligation after It _became ’barred by. the statute of. limitation as before. Pie doesn’t need Mr. I-Iayen’ endorsement, and can well nfr ford tO\disregard his censure.When he read ;.Mv. .'Hayes’ • articio and reasoned on, the ,;cause which prompted It, he suspected that matters“Irish Gliiiit” Siispootod of Murder.•Milwaukee, Jam -1.—United States secret service officers in. this city claim to have evidence. In their possession which leads them to ’believo tihat J: A. Montague, vho was a-rrested In connection with tlie Montford, Wls., attempted bunk robbery, -la the same person who shot a ad killed Policeman Gates, of LaCrAvis:, In October lust. Montague Is known as flio Irish Giant.■ Knninrriod tlio Third Tlmo.Madison, Wls., ,To.n. 1.—Matilda and Guilder. Chrlstotl’erson.-were remurrlod Sunday after , a separation of three months. Tills..is the third time the couple have remarried after being dl vorcod.Good Attvico.The most miserable beings In the world are those suffering from Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint. More than seventy-five per cent.'of the people in the United States are afflicted withache, Habitual Costfveness, Palpitation of the Heart, Heart-burn, Waterbrash, Gnawing and burnlng-Pains at the Pit of tho Stomach, Yellow Skin, Coated Tongue and Disagreeable- Taste in the Mout.il, Coming, up o£ Food after Eating. Low SplK- ;-s, - etc. • Go to your druggist and gel a bottle - of August Flower for 73cv .Two-.doses. will relieve you, Try it, ■, Get Green’s Prize Alma-' nac. For sale by T. W..Ruete and Geo Wunderlich. SH(—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;'ChicA Certain.Care for-TRI, Painful and Annoying Disense, Safe Re'—’! Dr. Wilkin's Non-Irritating Pile Cure a new compound conslstng of internal and external treatment, simple to up' ply, purely vegetable, ocrfmnv-h,.*Thibeiply, purely vegetable, perfectly harm less. It is better thanuhe knife—cures quicker, ousier und safer.' - Thousands have used It, thousands have been cured by It. We .Will guarantee relief at once and permanent cure. ' ' -COSTS BUT A TRIFLE. : Badger Specific Co.; Station. C.,lt;.M11 wauicee' -solaproprietors'and compounders'.: ,Sold only by G. A. Grimm,-- successor to Jaa^ Heryfy,. 7th.ian^ Main; ‘ Hediov ft Brown, 8rd ..iirHSiii ’’CfiGiM.J- Brown.,13th. wtd Mitlri atritt’ti,........ iifBrewe Ask ftBanqu. Dubuq
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Dubuque Daily Telegraph
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Tue, Jan 01, 1901
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