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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1883
Page
6
Reform rhetoric clashes with party loyalty as the piece argues for or against civil service reform while stressing Democratic permanence. It criticizes Republicans and factions, tracing party doctrines from Washington to 1800s platforms and predicting 1884 outcomes and 1885 presidential choice.
A broad call for party change sweeps the country as labor discontent and foreign-born voters push toward the Democrats. The piece cites labor unrest, Know-Nothing fears, and Republican overreach as catalysts for a peaceful political shift. It notes gains for Democrats in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Virginia, and other states, with nationwide momentum toward a Democratic presidency in 1880.
Republican papers muse on the next Democratic presidential nomination amid many strong candidates including Hoadly Cleveland and Pattison. The piece notes March 4 1885 as a date for many government posts and asserts Republicans show humiliation by focusing on Democrats’ field rather than their own prospects.
A collage of notes on public figures and writers: Judge Albion W Tourgee speaks on "The Mission of the Dude" while a revised Old Testament edition is announced for spring. Brick Pomeroy is praised for running a silver mine and a paper, and Martin I Townsend is celebrated as a fifty year stump speaker since 1834. John G Whittier declines a commission due to difficulty writing, and Dr Isaac Bartlett, aged 73, maintains health on bread and milk. Tennyson’s fee sparks poetical musings, and George Bancroft embodies disciplined life. The London Times lauds American literary vitality, and Margaret Washington, Washington’s great-grandniece, remains active in charity and a boarding-house mistress near the Riggs Hotel.
A compilation of quips and cartoons from papers like the New York Independent and Hartford Post. It includes jokes about misplacing writers and clerks, bee-keepers and clover, skim milk humor, forest policy satire, and a punning, domestic anecdote about a mother and starch shopping.
John Quincy Adams, a miner from Western Ohio, found horn silver after his haversack caught fire and exploded a powder charge in a crevice near Socorro New Mexico. He quickly staked a claim named Close Shave and sold a one third interest for 13000 dollars within a week.
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