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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1883
Page
4
Abilene Reflector notes subscription prices and terms with one year for twenty three dollars and six months for twelve dollars. Editors and publishers Bl Strother and Strother Brothers are listed. The piece remarks that only seventy three of 195 Democrats held seats in last Congress and forecasts many new members in the upcoming Congress.
The speaker says Congress created thirteen hundred sixty seven new offices and allocated a million and a half dollars to staff them. He urges a drastic trimming of the official apparatus when the next session opens, claiming the surge was driven by patronage and party gains.
A visionary forecast names New York as the battleground for the presidential nominating process. It predicts Tilden and Arthur as the leading figures, factoring New York’s 36 electoral votes into the contest. The piece asserts Samuel Tilden, despite age and frailty, would still outmatch the energetic former port collector in a head to head struggle.
The editor urges avoiding prejudice and passion in political coverage. It argues readers demand live, pertinent questions and principle over party cries. The Reflector pledges respect for Republicans while debating issues without ignorant personalities.
Quo warranto filed in the Kansas Supreme Court against John Foster Saline County prosecuting attorney. The petition accuses him of failing to prosecute liquor sellers and of corruption to shield guilty saloon keepers. The state seeks judgment that Foster forfeits his office and be removed from duty.
Kansas City and Memphis, Tenn., are connected by a direct railway line uniting the sunny Kansas with the sunny south. The route opens vast markets for western grain flour beef and pork and will turn Kansas City into a major distributing and lumber center, providing cheap access to southern markets and boosting the Belt line’s prospects for the sunflower state.
A Manhattan nationalist column debates party purity and the push to purge those unsupportive of prohibition. It questions whether reform should target monopolies and tariffs as well as liquor, noting the clash between prohibition and broader economic controls. The piece probes consistency in calls to abolish internal revenue taxes on whisky and tobacco.
The piece criticizes the Republican stance on prohibition and tax repeal, arguing it forces a choice between enforcing laws and political expediency. It contends Republicans must embrace a clear anti prohibition or cede ground to Democrats who prioritize law enforcement.
A condensed, period tone comparison argues the Republican party supports a high protective tariff, taxing the poor for the rich and favoring whisky and tobacco tax cuts, while the Democratic party backs tariff reform to lower prices for the poor, preserves whisky and tobacco taxes as non-essentials, and seeks to curb monopolies and align them with the people.
A reader denounces The Gazette for arrogance and misrepresentation, calling it a bulldozer in the county. The writer defends the Reflector as a clean family paper and vows courteous dispute while resenting vilification and partisan bias.
A collage of short items includes political jabber about Ben Butler and editorials, English wheat prices, and social notes. It features Abilene market hints, a revival show, stolen grain with a $50 reward, bank hours, and Thanksgiving promotional notices from Weeks Ball and local merchants.
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