Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 225, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1900 — Page 4

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Rejected manuscripts will not be returned unless postage la Inclosed for that purpose Entered as second-class matter at Indianapolis, Ind..- post once. THE nmi.XAl'OLIS JOIUXAL Can be found at the following places: NEW YQitK Ator House and Fifth-avenue Hotel. CHICAGO-ra!mr House, P. O. Newa Ca, 211 Dearborn street. CINCINNATI J. II. XIawley Sc. Co.. 154 Vine streetLOUISVILLE C. T. Deering, northwest corner of Thlra and JefTersoi streets, and Louisville - Hook. Co., ZJi Fourth avenue. ET. LOUIS Union News Company, "Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. C-Rlggs House. Ebbitt . House and Willard's Hotel. Hereafter the Bryan organs villi not quote 'the remarks of Senator Hoar with comments of approval. The empire Is here," shouted a Bryan orator on Saturday. No, not here yet; the empire only covered North Carolina last week The Bryanltes are discreet, so they postpone the . next great national meeting here until October. One 'frost" In Indiana Is enough. Let the devotees of 18 to 1 keep heart; UrBryan is quite sure to say a word for them In bis next speech of acceptance In - - Kansas. ....."'. The Indications are that Nathan Powell, In. the Fourth district, will cause Representative Griffith to call upon the outside brethren, for help early In the fight. The astrologers have elected Mr. Bryan, but, as Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and the other planets do not vote In November there Js yet a cheerful hope for Mr. McKinley. Colonel Durbln Is not making much noise as he goes over the State, but he is doing the work that will tell, which Is seeing the people and meeting face to face the precinct committees. Those Democrats who came out vigorously for expansion in 1S3S and there are many of them are having an unpleasant season. Hereafter they will wait for the party to declare Itself before they express opinions. It is stated that the Republican on the Towers Jury , In Kentucky has received threatening; letters, telling him that his safety depends upon his giving a verdict of guilty. This may be a report, but It 13 one of the reports'whlch should be Investigated. "Liberty," f said - Mr. Bryan Wednesday evening, "Is. pot the gift of government, but of God himself." This, however, has reference to the Tagals, who, Captain Aliensays, are Ignorant of self-government, and. not to .the. thousands of colored men - disfranchised by the Bryan party in North Carolina." So Mr. Bryan will make another speaking campaign Ills own experience four years ago that he lost most where he spoke most will not deter. him. One aspirant for the presidency declared that he would rather be right than be President. It may almost be said of Mr. JJryan that he would rather talk than be President. "While the. contractors and' the Building Trades Council in Chicago are no nearer an agreement than they have been for months the men who have been the real sufferers are returning, to work in large numbers, to 'that building has been resumed. The strike- Involved no question of wages, so that no concession is made by those who were called off by the politico-labor leaders of the Building Trades Council. Now that the hot weather is a thing of yesterday, it .may be permissible to remark, without being unduly exasperating, that it is high time American inventors were devising practical methods of keeping houses cool in äuramer. Our winter luxuries in the way of regulation of temperature are unsurpassed, but In summer we, in this age of ingenious machinery and scientific wonders, -'are as much at the mercy of the August sun as were the aborigines. To an Inquirer No, Mr. Richardson, who Informed Mr. Bryan of his nomination and assayed trusts and defied an impatient audience of ,) or 7.000 in Military Park the fateful afternoon of Aug. S, has not copyrighted the Declaration of Independence. If was written and revised, it is true, by two men who subsequently became Presidents of the United States, but Mr. Richardson has not included it among their orilcla papers which he has copy righted. It is not very long since publishers brought out all their books at one reason, j - beginning in the middle fall and ending in the early winter. Now they have all times for their own, and one New York publish Ing house announces that its summer sea son 'will end with Sept. 1. It might be In ferred that the xresses would then rest for a .considerable time,' out no, publication Is to be resumed one week later, a long list of books being promised by the middle of the month. Nor is the summer output confined to fiction or other light reading. Some of it Is very serious, not to say heavy, and though It ls-prlnted in summer the suspicion arises that tnose who contemplate reading these scientific, philosophical and otherwise informative works will at least wait until the August hot weather has moderated. A Democrat In Missouri who made the mistake of fighting against the Union complains In the St. Louis Globe-Democrat that Le. was ruled for several years In Mis

souri Carl Schurz representing him in the

United States Senate without his consent. The Confederate Democrats took, the test oath. It was a bitter rill, but It nut an end to the Imperialism of Mr. Schurz In Mis souri. The same Missouri Democrat recalls that in 1S72 he was urged to vote for Greeey In order to keep General Grant from establishing Caesarlsm, . as Schurz and others called It at that time. "We were urged to vote for Greeley because Grant was the man on horseback who would ride over us and trample our liberties under foot; but while we did not vote for Greeey, and Grant was elected, our liberties have survived," says this Democrat of Pike county. miYAX vs. msTonv. In his speech in this city Mr. Bryan said that "It is impossible to secure title to a people by force or by purchase." Evident ly Mr. Bryan has not read the history of the United States with that care that a man should who discusses topics having an historical bearing. By purchase, in 1S03, the United States secured title to the Louisiana territory and people of all colors, paying $13,000,000. The consent of the people of the Louisiana territory was never asked. Thomas Jefferson, President, James Madison, secretary of state, and James Monroe and Robert S. Livingston made the purchase. By purchase the United States secured the title to the Florida people of all colors in 1S19 at the nominal price of $3,000,000. The consent of the people of Florida was not asked. James Monroe, President, and John Quincy Adams, secretary of state, made the purchase. By purchase, after a war of conquest, the United States secured title to New Mexico and California, with all their people, In 1S4S, for which 18,2Ti0,000 was paid. In this, as In the preceding cases, the consent of the people to be governed was not sought, but the purchasers knew that most of them protested, as they did in Louisiana. The purchase was made by James K. Polk, President, and James Buchanan, secretary of State. By purchase. In 1833, the United States secured title to the white people and Indians living in what is now southern Arizona, the price being $10,000,000. President Franklin Pierce, who made the purchase, did, not think of asking the consent of the people over whom sovereignty was ac quired for cash. By purchase, In 1S67, the United States, at a price of $7.200.000 paid to Russia, bought the sovereignty and the territory of Alaska. The consent of the Alaskans was probably not thought of, and would not have been considered If it had been. Andrew Johnson, President, and William II. Seward, secretary of state, made the purchase. Here are one, two. three, four, five pur chases of territory and sovereignty made by the United States by Democratic Presidents with a single exception. The territory, embraced in several of these purchases Is more extensive than many em pires; the people, of all colors and races, not consulted as to their desires about the transactions, must have been two or three millions, while the aggregate amount paid was $33,430,000. In every case except Ari zona and Alaska the purchased people pro tested. This is history; yet Mr. Bryan declares that "It i3 Impossible to secure title to a people by force: or by. purchase." Should Mr, Bryan become President, con sistency will require that he declare the title to these purchases invalid and void. EDUCATION VS. IMPERIALISM. A letter from Professor Moses, a member of the new Philippine commission, refers to an interesting plan for Americanizing the Filipinos by sending young natives to the United States for education. Professor Moses says: From observations already made I am inclined to think we shall find among the young people of the Islands a large number of eager and competent students, and I hope some arrangement may be made by which, from time to time, a goodly number may be sent to the schools of America. It may, perhaps, be found advisable to render some of them assistance from public funds. It is quite likely that In this way we can help to bring the people of these islands to appreciate somewhat the civilization of the United States and to mark the difference between America and Spain. This interesting plan can hardly be called a novel one, for It Is In accordance with es tablished American ideas and methods. Education is the distinctive feature of free government, as surely as Ignorance Is of despotism. Imperialism, in the sense that the demagogues of the day are using it is an outgrowth of ignorance, and no government or party looking to its establish ment would encourage a policy of free education. Students of American history know how steadily the national and state gov ernments have adhered to the policy of public schools and free education. The States where free schools have the poorest support are the ones where free government is also most seriously threatened, and where, singularly enough, there is at the present time the greatest outcry against imperialism. Free schools and universal 1 education arc a sure and safe preventive of imperialism. It has always been the policy of the United States government to provide means of education for those for whose welfare it is responsible. At great expense it has established and maintained schools for the education of young Indians. For many j ears after the war it contributed large sums towards establishing schools for the emancipated slaves. It has provided for the establishment and support of free schools in Hawaii and Porto Rico, and Is co-operating with private benevolence in giving about 1,000 Cuban teachers of both sexes a free summer course at Harvard in crder to better equip them for their duties. The plan to send young Filipinos to the United States for education is of the same wise and philanthropic character. If he school fund of the Islands will not justify carrying out the Idea the necessary funds should be appropriated' by Congress, although as soon as the islands are pacified the expense can probably be borne from the local revenues. Nothing could better demonstrate to the Filipinos the good faith end high punv.se s of the United States towards them than the adoption of a sj-s-tcmatlc plan to educate from year to year a select number of young natives In the schools of the United States. No doubt the parents of those thus favored would appreciate the honor, while the young people thus educated would go back thoroughly Americanized and prepared to become intelligent and effective propagandists of the principles and methods of republican government. Free schools are already being established In the Philippines, but the plan for educating a number of young natives in

the United States carries the Idea still farther, and . will contribute materially to Americanizing the people. It Is a very effective answer to the charge of imperialism.

ONCC ax K.VIMXSIOMST. . Ex-Governor Boutwell. of Massachusetts, will be In the city the present week to attend the anti-imperial conference. When he was a member of General Grant's Cabinet he was a zealous advocate of the President's scheme to annex San Domingo. Mr. Schurz was then in the Senate, and opposed the treaty. Twelve years ago, because he had been a member of General Grant's Cabinet, Mr. Boutwell was asked to prepare for a school text-book a statement of his (General Grant's) views and aspirations In annexing San Domingo, when he wrote as follows: One feature of General Grant's character he never fully developed to the public, but hints of which you will observe in his writings: his belief in the greatness of this country, In Its institutions, in the capacity of the English-speaking people to spread the cause of Christianity and of republican Institutions over the surface of the globe. He had not an opportunity, in his public life, to do what was in his thought; he had opportunity only for one act, not much observed, but an act which is to have a very important influence in the fortunes of this country the acquisition of a protective power over the Hawaiian islands, centrally situated in the Pacific ocean. He accepted the opjortunlty for that acquisition upon the idea that, as a country, we should turn our faces westward; that Europe was already occupied; that it had a population alreaiiy quite equal to Its capacity; that for the future it was of but little consequence to us; that the peoples with whom we should cultivate associations and alliances were the people south of us, upon this continent, and the people west of us, upon the Asiatic continent, where there are hundreds of millions of people waiting for an opportunity to enjoy the advantages of commerce and social and, in time, political Intercourse with us. To these peoples, to those countries, to those future events, his eye was turned, and, although he had not the opportunity. In his public life, to develop these ideas, and certainly only a transient opportunity to seize upon an event as a preliminary step to this great future, still he believed In the capacity of this country to take a central position in the affairs of the world, and ot by aims, for he was a man of peace, but by the forces of civilization, led by commercial intercourse, to exercise a power 'for good over this continent; forming alliances, not for purposes of war, or, necessarily, for defense, but for the purpose of infusing our institutions and ideas, which he believed to be better than the institutions and ideas of any other country south, over this continent, and westward, over Asia. It may not be for some of us, who are not exactly in the prime, to say nothing of the youth, of life, but there are those, now in active pursuits, who will see some of the results toward which the eye of General Grant, in faith, was turned. It Is very clear from the foregoing that Mr. Boutwell at that time was in hearty accord with the views of General Grant when he made his great effort to purchase San Domingo. The man who has been an expansionist In his earlier and more enthusiastic years should not attack General Grant, now in attacking President McKinley. . OUT IX KANSAS. The Kansas Republican committee has been making a canvass of the State by townships to ascertain the trend of the political movement. The changes reported by the local committees have been so remarkable in some portions of the State that the Kansas City Journal has sought to verify them. In Delaware township, Jefferson county, nearly west of LeavenWorth county, the committee reported thirty changes from Bryan to McKinley and none from McKinley to Bryan. The .Journal's canvass confirms that of the committee. The names of ihe voters who have changed are given, with the reasons for changing. The reasons given by farmers, mechanics and business men for changing from Bryan to McKinley are all significant, as the following, taken from those printed by the Kansas City Journal show: It has lxen demonstrated that we have an abundance of money, and the laboring people are having a chance to earn good wages. Farmers are prosperous and business in general is good. There is no reason to trade oil a certainty for an uncertainty. It is Impossible for me, with my love of Americanism, to support a ticket whose main issue is the hauling down of the American flag. I think f that the future success of the country depends upon the success of the Republican party. The most disastrous thing that could happen at this time would be the election of a Democratic President. I have no confidence in the Democratic professions of liberty and freedom, as their past history will not bear them out. If they believe in equal rights, why do they not encourage a free ballot among blacks as well as whites? When Bryan, in lSi'6. declared that the success of Republicans meant 5-cent corn and 25-cent wheat, foreclosure of mortgages on farms and the starvation of laboring people. I actually took some stock In his prophecies. Rut he has proven a false prophet. If he was wrong in his prophecies then, why should we listen to his prophecies now? Plenty of work and good times have changed me from a Bryanite to a McKinley man. Bryan caught us four years ago with his alarmist speeches. He will not do it again. . I have had plenty of work the past three years. That's what interests me. I have made money farming under McKinley. It kept me scratching to make a living under Cleveland. The Republicans gave us what they said they would good times. That Is whv I am for McKinley. I voted for Bryan in 1S06 because I thought he would bring prosperity. He lost. The Republicans have brought it, and I am for McKinley. The foregoing, are the reasons of practical men who recall the hard times of ISM. They recognize the change for the better, and, having no fears of the ghost of imperialism or of the coming of a dictator, will vote as their Interests dictate. They all remember the predictions which formed the greater part of Mr. Bryan's speeches In 1S1MJ lower prices for farm products, increasing mortgages and foreclosures, closing factories and lower wages if McKinley should be elected. The opposite of these dire calamities which Mr. Bryan saw came about with the election of McKinley, and those Kansas people, and, it is probable, thousands elsewhere who voted for Bryan in 1ST5, will not do so now. The changes will not be so great outside of Kansas, because more voters were deluded by the Bryan heresies in 1S06 than In some other States, but there will be men In Indiana who will quietly vote for the candidates whose election in lSyö was the forerunner of prosperity. The Bryan organs are faying from time to time what an excellent President Abraham Lincoln was. One of these organs held a different opinion In August, 1SM, as Is shown by the following quotation from the Sentinel of that month: There Is no hope of restoring constitutional liberty and perpetuating republican Institutions unless the sectional faction which has been running the Nation to ruin is lemoved from power. It was not removed from power, and this prediction was made thirty-six years ago. The Democratic opinion has changed in that time. Lincoln, who was denounced as a bloody tyrant and -the destroyer of civil liberty, la hailed by Democratic organs

and by Mr. Bryan as If he had been a

Democrat. - In Colonel Conn's editorial In the Elkhart Truth, telling, first, why he will support Mr. McKinley rather than Mr. Bryan, and, second why he will not sell Truth to a stock company based on a house-to-house canvass, there Is a volume of Republican argument In the bare figures given by the writer. He says that he employed in July, is6, 1S1 persons, with a monthly pay roll of $7,230; in July, 1000, he employed 274 persons, with a monthly pay roll of $11.4GS. In other words, during last month Mr. Conn paid ninety-three more employes an average of $1.6S0 a month mor; than in July, 1SS6, the figures being, respectively, $11.741 and $40.035. "Fatigue costumes" is what they are call ing the shirtwaist men's apparel down East. This is probably because of the effect some of the outfits have on the obtervers. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. Gastronomy. "All stout people say that they eat very little." "Perhap-j they mean they eat very little compared with what they would like to eat." The Ice Man's "Wish. Mine be a cot beside the rill; all day I'd loaf end fish at will: and when 'twas dusk, from mossy log, I'd dive and paddle like a frog. Works Doth Wny. "We are going to get a set of croquet." "Well, what for?" "Oh, Aunt Mary ants to eet fat and Aunt Emellne wants to get' thin." Thermometer Proof. "Little Jim, how can you rush around and play so hard in hot weather?" "Aw, ma. 'taint hot at all; me an Tommy Tibbs has bin a-playln camp-out in a blizzard." Love's Hclplnjg Ilnntl. "Belinda, if my salary were raised we couM be married to-morrow." "All right. Augustus; I'll write your employer an. anonymous letter and tell him we both think he is a mean old thing-." How Things Work Around. 'Well, that's great," "What's treat?" "Our Chinese laundryman has put his pries up on account of the war in China." "How's that?" "Why, hß says he has to be paid for the time he wastes telling peorle what he thinks of it." SPEECH .AND MEETING. VIotvs of the State Press on "Wednesday's Ceremonial. That was a terribly long-drawn-out and monotonous keynote that Bryan sounded at Indianapolis on a hot day. South Bend Tribune. If there was anything which Mr. Bryan overlooked in his speech of acceptance it will be properly attended to In his formal letter of acceptance. Anderson Bulletin. Mr. Bryan spent nearly three hours of his speech of acceptance on the subject of imperialism, and never once called attention to the disfranchisement of 150,000 people in North Carolina by the Democrats. Evansville Journal. There Is not a point presented by Mr. Bryan that has not been riddled time and again. He makes a vain attempt to escape lrom his personal responsibility for the ratification of the Spanish treaty, but falls miserably. Madison Courier. , It was a perfunctory affair and instead of starting the Democratic campaign In Indiana with a hurrah the spectacular notification only served to call attention to the fact that the candidate and Issues are politically dead in Indiana. Terre Haute Tribune. Bryan, in his speech of notification, did not say anything about the "consent of the governed" In North Carolina. With an instance of It right here In one of his pot Democratic States Mr. Bryan travels 14,000 miles to find a far fetched example. Crawfordsvllle Journal. Parks Martin put the crowd in Indianapolis at 30,000, but did not say how many of that number were Red Men. The Sunday excursions land about that many people In the capital. The fact is people are not interested in Bryan end his Popullstic and Socialistic notions. Anderson Herald. From a spetacular standpoint Bryan is a great success. Peru Republican. It Is now said that it was the excessive heat which kept away the expected crowds at the Bryan notification meeting. But if it was so hot as that how can any one account for the heavy frost of the occasion? Richmond Item. Had he avoided his tricks and dealt with the questions in an entirely fair and honorable way he would have commanded the respect of his readers in a greater degree, but he would have convinced no one of the wisdom of the Democratic position. The evident attempt to miscontrue and mislead will lose him the respect that is essential to a convincing argument. Vlncennes Commercial. The attempt to make "notification day" a big rally for Bryan and Stevenson at Indianapolis was at best only a limited success. In fact, it was in some respects a frost. The attendance was principally con fined to the people of Indianapolis and those living only a shrt distance from that city. Even J. Fred France, of this city, wasn't enthusiastic enough to attend. Huntington Herald. The chameleon of American politics is Mr. Bryan. Four years ago, after hastily cramming himself with the money question. he made his notification speech almost entlrclv. as the one cuestion which "over shadows all other questions in importance." Four years later, in his speech accepting his second nomination, he changed color and devoted his whole speech to Imperial ism as the only paramount Issue. Terre Haute Express. It is pleasant to note the fact that Mr. Bryan explains his pose on the matter of the ratification of the treaty of Paris by which the Philippines were ceded to this country. Mr. Bryan deliberately states that he foresaw an issue and takes much unctious satisfaction In the expressed be lief that a battle-cry has been secured bv his party. He says: "I believe that we t'fe now in a better position to wage a successful contest than we would have been had the treaty been rejected. It Is interest ing to speculate as to the barrenness of the Democrat platform in tne event Air. Bryan mentions. Marion Chronicle. Mr. Bryan's dissertation on "imperialism and militarism," delivered at Indianapolis Wednesday, is a distinct disappointment except in point of length and loudness. It is a weak presentation of a weak case, a sophomorlc essay on an assigned subject, and betrays a lack of enthusiasm that must be contagious. It is very evident that he would have preferred to talk abcut free silver, which Is a subject that more readily lends itself to the befogging arts of the orator. Bryan made a much more plausible case four years ago than now, as he is him self obviously aware and as the unrespon sive and inattentive attitude of ednes day's audience showed. Muncie News. The crowd that greeted Mr. Bryan at Indianapolis, Wednesday, was not half as large as expected and there was a notice able lack of enthusiasm; nothing like that displayed by his followers in 1806. As for his speech It can be truthfully said that it contained nothing new, nothing that he or his mouthpieces have not uttered before; yet from a Democratic standpoint It was a good speech, adroitly arranged and couched in choicest " language, but contained nothing of a convincing character to those who are seeking light on the great questions at issue, therefore did the Demo cratic party of this State no good, and the Republican party no harm. Kokomo News. The peerless has bowed his head to the storm of Democratic wrath, and. In con sonance with the plan of the politicians, he shies away from the question which, only four years agi, he averred must rise su perior to all others until the sold standard

is overthrown. Indiana will not tolerate free silver. Sam Morss, of the Indianapolis Sentinel, Informed the resolutions committee at Kansas City that on the silver issue Inuiana is Republican, and so the "sincere" Bryan, as a mere automaton, a chattering parrot, rambled through a ten-thousand word speech and not once mentioned the question which, he affirmed in ISftf. would never be abandoned until the reform, through free coinage, was accomplished. Wabash Plain Dealer.

BOOKS AND PERIODICALS. Love In n Cloud. This story, by Arlo Bates, is distinctly clever and entertaining. It Is a society tale, with the scene laid In Boston. The characters include a French count in search of a rich American wife, a divorced Chicago woman and her former husband, a widow and her son who are forced to live by their wits, but are rather agreeable persons to know, nevertheless; a rich Boston spinster, young girls, young men, etc. not an unusual combination, but, as treated by Mr. Bates, productive of unusual results. Most of the personages are introduced to the reader at a 5 o'clock tea In the first chapter. The movement and conversation there are lively, as should be the case at teas, and this liveliness and flavor of comedy continue to the end of the story. An element in the plot is the mystery surroundng the authorship of a popular novel. known as "Love in a Cloud." published anonymously, but known to be the work of some local writer. Several people go about looking conscious when the book is spoken of, and, when challenged, coyly refuse to deny their connection with it. Complications growing out of the affair are decidedly amusing, but the truth finally becomes known, to the discomfiture of false claimants. There Is, perhaps, too much of an effect of sprightlines'S" and wit In the conversations, which make up a large, part of the volume, to be quite true to life, even in Boston society, but the story is above the average among summer novels. Hough ton, Mifilin & Co., publishers. j Current Periodicals. Book News for August contains the first and only sketch of George Ade written by himself. His portrait is used as irontispiece. "Young America at the Gates of Litera ture" is the title of a paper In Lipplncott's Magazine, in which the author, Prof. Henrv S. Pancoast, discusses some of the problems that confront parents who undertake to chose books for their cnimren. The complete novel in this number Is an entertaining, cheerful love story by Thomas Cobb. There are also several short stones. "The Master Chivalry," the opening nov elette in the August Smart Set, is written by Margaret Lee, who is presumably a young person with little knowledge of life. She is at least a poor judge of human nature or she would know that she was Dortravintr wildlv improbable occurrences in her story, which deals with a delicate social oroblem. The number, like Its pre decessors, contains a curious mingling of clever and original matter and sketches suggesting that they were drawn irom the editor's stock of rejected manuscripts. The list of contributors contains many good names. The editor of The Century Is receiving inquiries about the author of "The Helmet of Navarre," the historical romance which began to appear serially in the August number of that magazine. Miss Berthä Ttiinkle is the onlv child of Mrs. L.. G. Runkle, a well known New York journalist, and one of the editors of the "Library of the World's liest Literature." The present work Is a maiden effort at fiction writing. She was born in New Jersey a few and twenty years ago, never went to kinder garten as a child, nor to college as a young woman, has traveled little, and has never been in France which possibly accounts for her laying there the scene of her ro mance. The August Criterion has for Its cover design an artistic drawing in color repre senting a scene in Major's "When Knighthood Was in Flower." This novel and the secret of its success is discussed by Albert White Vorse. Among other features f the number is a characteristic talk by Rev. Henry Van Dyke on "The Novel of Yesterday, To-day and Forever." John Philip Sousa describes the business of the bandmaster. Vance Thompson writes of "Gar den-patch Art," by which term he designates the pictures of the Paris exposition; Mary Shaw tells "How Women Rule the Stage." and there are a number or clever stories and sketches. The Criterion is becoming one of the most attractive of the magazines. The August issue of the New England Magazine is appropriately called an "Old Home "Week Number," since its articles all have some bearing on the approaching celebrations In New Hampshire and Maine. Its frontispiece is a fine portrait of the founder of Old Home Week, Governor Rollins, of New Hampshire. Mr. William I. Cole's "Maine in Literature" claims recognition for this State as the birthplace or. home of many prominent poets and prose writers. Besides claiming Longfellow, N. P. Willis, John S. C. Abbott. Newman Smyth. Egbert C. Smyth and many other distinguished sons, with Maine are associated the names of Hawthorne and Mrs. Stowe, who, for a time found homes there. The article is fully illustrated, chiefly with portraits. Including those of Kate Douglas Wiggln and Sarah Orne Jewett. The "Pan-Partisan Pocket Manual" Is the alliterative title of a little volume of political and financial statistics Just issued by Calderwood & Heffron, Minneapolis, Minn. Into Its few pages are packed an Immense amount of Information on all public topics likely to come up for discussion during the present presidential campaign. There are no opinions, merely facts, which have no party bias. Its contents include the national rlatforms of all the parties, with reports of national conventions, a congressional directory, electoral vote of 1892 and ISTtfi, tariff schedules, figures concerning the currency, with synopses of laws and monetary events, banking information, prices of agricultural products, information concerning our new Island possessions, etc., etc. It is carefully Indexed and thus becomes a most convenient book of reference. Its price is the nominal one of 15 cents. With the 1'nMlnlierR. Joel Chandler Harris will furnish the Introduction to "Down South," a book of reproductions of Rudolf Eickemeyer, jr.'? beautiful photographs of picturesque negro life, which will be published early in the fall by R. 11. Russel, -tew York. Another of Katharine Tynan's Irish stories, "The Handsome Brandons," Is announced for early issue by A. C. McClurg & Co.. Chicago. The Handsome Brandons are the members of a family whose decayed fortunes have no power to obscure their inbred loveliness of character. To the group of Kentucky novelists in which Mr. Fox and Mr. James Lane Allen are conspicuous Mr. Robert Burns Wilson has been added. His verses have already become known in the magazines and elsewhere. He has lately written his first novel, and the Scribners have it In press. It is said to le weird in theme. A new edition of "Hugh Wynne" in one volume will soon be issued by the Century Company. Other new editions announced by the Century Company are of Dr. Edward Eggleston's "The Graysons: A Story of Ab-aham Lincoln." Harry Stlllwell Edwards's "The Two Runaways," and Richard Watson Gilder's "Five Books of Song." a fourth and revised edition. Inquiries at public libraries by people who wished to "read up" on Turkish rugs and Oriental carpets In general led to the discovery that there was practically no literature on the subject. This deficiency Is soon to be remedied by a work on Orlen tal rugs prepared by John K. Mumford and published by the Scribners. The purpose of the book Is to place tne reader in posses sion of the fullest information regarding rugs, both genuine and spurious, to give an Idea of the comparative worth of va rious Oriental weavings and the means of distinguishing them. It will contain six teen illustrations in color, besides numerous half tones. A Good Illustration. St. Paul Pioneer Press. China at present affords a good illustra tion of the sweetness and light which at tend Oriental administrations such as our friends the antis want us to bestow upon

the Philippines.,

SENATOR HOAR ON BRYAN

MASSACIirSETTS STATESMAX REVIEWS XOTIFICATIOX SPEECH. He Says It Is but n Mask nnd Denounces Bryan's Philippines PolIcy as "Ridiculous Xonsense. Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, who was the most zealous and able of the opponents of the Spanish treaty which gave the United States the sovereignty of the Philippines, has briefly reviewed the notification speech and the action of Mr. Bryan. Senator Hoar said: "Mr. Bryan has pur. his case with great power and with great dexterity. His defense of his course in procuring the ratification of the treaty by which the Philippine islands were acquired from Spain is exceedingly weak and lame. It will not bear examination for a moment. The Senate was the strong fortress, the West Point of the opponents of imperialIsm. The treaty by which the people of the Philippine islands were purchased and the faith of the country was pledged to pay $-0.000. uou for sovereignty over lo.OO0.uO0 of unwilling subjects, and by which, on the faith of the country, it was further pledged that Congress, and not the people themselves, should determine what disposal should be made of them, required the vote of two-thirds of the Senate for ratification. The opinion of senators enough of far more than one-third of the Senate against it was well known and freely expressed. In this condition of things Mr. Bryan was not content with a mere opinion. He put forth all his power as a great party leader, the last candidate of his party for the presidency and then reasonably sure to be the next candidate, to secure the ratification of the treaty. Not content with writing letters, he came to Washington In person to overcome the reluctance of his followers. Seventeen of them voted for the treaty, of whom only four or five at most had been previously known to be In Its favor. He now . says that he thought the war would go on; that there was a doubt whether Spain would have ratified a treaty If It had been amended by Inserting in it a provision like that relative to Cuba. It was perfectly well known then, as it Is now, from documents that had been made public and had been sent In to the Senate, that Spain was compelled to do whatever the United States exacted of her, and that her commissioners expressly so declared. A change would have been agreed to In two days upon a request by our government communicated to her across the ocean by cable. Mr. Bryan says he thought that a resolution like that offered by Mr. Bacon would be passed afterward, which would do as well. But every man who knows anything about the Constitution' knows that by the Constitution a treaty becomes the law of the land. It is the law of strongest obligation, because Congress not only declares it to be the law of the land, but pledges the faith of the government and the people. Such a resolution passend by the Senate would have been the merest and idlest mockery without the assent of the House of Representatives and the President, neither of which could be obtained. CONDUCT LIKE A TRAITOR'S. "I said the Senate was to the opponents of Imperialism what West Point was to cur fathers In the revolution. Mr. Bryan's conduct is as if some general in the revolutionary army, a great leader of the people like Washington or Greene, had given up West Point to the British and had Induced the Continental Congress to declare that King George was our lawful sovereign and the British Parliament 'our lawful legislature, on the plea that he wanted to stop the war, and expected afterward to get some votes through one or the other House of British Parliament granting us Independ ence. The war with Spain was over; we had no title, as President McKinley declared again and again, to anything. in the Philip pines but the city of Manila: At that point in came Mr. Bryan and got all that were needed of his followers to force through the Senate a treaty which made lawful our ownership of the whole of the Philippines end pledged the faith of the country that we should pay for them and that Congress thereafter should legislate for them, and. acordlng to many high constitutional au thorities, made it the duty of the Presi dent to reduce them to submission. That act was itself a declaration of war upon the people or the Philippines, and the strife which had been but an accidental outbreak, which Aguinaldo disclaimed and disowned, became war. And for that war Mr. Bryan Is more responsible than any ether single person since the treaty left the hands of the President. "I did myself, In my humble way, everything In my power to prevent the treaty. I do not understand that any opponent of imperialism charges me with failing to do my full duty as a senator, both by vote and speech. I did it at the cost of what was as dear to me as my life the approval and sympathy of men who had been my friends and political companions for more than thirty years. Everything I tried to do was brought to naught by the action taken by Mr. Bryan, an action taken against the remonstrance of the wisest leaders in his own party. "He is not to get the reward of this conduct if I can help lt. I do not give him my confidence In this matter. "RIDICULOUS NONSENSE." "He says that If he is elected he shall call an extra session at once and propose to Congress to give up the Philippines to their own people. He is too intelligent not to know very well that this talk is the idlest and most ridiculous nonsense. He knows he could not expect either house of Congress to do this thing until the people of the Philippine Islands have abandoned their opposition and have established an orderly government under our protection. He knows that if there should be a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives equal to his wildest hopes, and if the Republican majority In the Senate should be reduced to two, or wiped out altogether, so that it should be a tie which is, I suppose, beyond his most sanguine expectations there are still earnest and pledged Imperialists enough In the Democratic party to prevent any such action. Docs he expect Morgan and Pettus, of Alabama, after their State has indorsed their position so triumphantly does he expect Sullivan, of South Carolina, MacHenry, of Louisiana, Jones and Stewart, of Nevada, or others that I could name, to swallow everything they have said publicly for the last four years? "No the anti-imperialism of Mr. Bryan and that of his party Is but a 'mask it Is a mask to cover the things they have had most at heart from the beginning it is a mask to cover their purpose to establish the free coinage of silver, a mask to cover their purpose to bring in free trade, a mask to cover their purpose to overthrow the banking system, a mask to cover an attack on the Supreme Court, and a purpose to reorganize it if they can get the opportunity. A very considerable number of Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States are old men. It Is not at all impossible, that the majority of the court may be changed during the term of a single President. Long appointed. I believe, a majority of both courts of Massachusetts during his three years' service as Governor, though these were, if I mistake not, much younger men. If Mr. Bryan shall be elected he will bring his party Into power with him the party which is at this moment engaged In contriving with masterly ingenuity the disfranchisement of 10,000,000 of Americans at home, I must have something better than these declarations against ImperialIsm from the candidate who secured the passage of the treaty and baffled nil the efforts I was able to make against it, before I am ready to purchase his election at the cost of having a government that will sympathize with the disfranchisement of 10.000,000 of Americans at home, that will stand for dishonoring the currency, for the Aiolation of the national faith, for the overthrowing of the banking system and the establishment of an Income tax, for assailing the integrity cf the Supreme Court, for sympathizing everywhere with Populism and Socialism, and which will substitute for the prosperity which has brought comfort into the homes of our workingmen, wh!ch has cleared off the indebtedness cf the farmer, which has ororpht England heelt to our chores as a borrowe.-. which has made the balance of trade on our tide and established forever he independence of American manufacture and this at the cost of going through once more the nightmare of Mr. Cleveland's administration without even Mr. Cleveland's conservatism and firmness in resisting his party to alleviate it." Grief Among Chrlatlnns. Chicago Post. Genuine grief in Chirstian circles has besa caused by ths announcement from

TJen-Tsln that "the cloven hoof of dissension among the powers is mealing itself." This Is the same old cloven hoof that h&s bobbed up so persistently since the inception of our holy war the expression "cloven hoof" having been aptly chosen as symbolical of the appearance of the devil as an adversary of our humanizing and Christianizing influences. From the delay at Tien-Tsin we had begun to fear that the powers had cast a shoe, and our apprehension is not allayed by the intelligence that we are blocked by a cloven hoof and that our "co-operation is faulty." The trouble seems to be that while as Christians we. are firm and united, as Caucasians we have' our little differences. It seems impossible to make an English Christian believe that the angel of the Lord has appeared to a Russian Christian in a dream and commanded him to take control of the Taku & Tien-Tsin Railway. And while we are debating this theological point the Confucians are disposing of Christians regardless of denominational proclivity. We are beginning to understand what is meant by the term "allies," and we hope the lexicographers will amend their previous definitions to read thus: "Allies a convention of antagonistic Interests, called for the purpose of disputation and controversial argument." THE HICKORY ELM CLUB

PROCEEDINGS OP A SESSION HELD AFTER THE XOTIFICATIOX. Col. Snort Makes an Explanation and Feels Sure that Wehster Davis Was the Event of the 8th, "Close the doors, windows and blinds." ordered the president when the meeting was about to open last night. "The clouds have cleared away, the sound of oratory has died out and thexIIlckory Elm Club has returned to its normal state of listless Inactivity and monotonous routine. The business before the house this evening is kimply to sum up the results of the Indianapolis notification, to decide whether we gained or lost by the performance, and to keep the conclusions at which we may arrive strictly to ourselves." "Before we enter upon this business." tald Colonel Snort. "I desire to make a personal explanation. It has been charged by some of my literary friends In New York that I am no new thing in either oclety or politics, and that I was imported into this club from the ötate of Texas; that my first name down there was 'Bill.' and that I was a distinguished character In that country long before I began to figure in the Hickory Elm Club. To these malevolent and unprovoked charges I desire to enter a general denial. I never was a citizen of Texas, and unless imperialism drives me to take refuge in a country worse than the kingdom of his satanlc majesty. I never will be. In order to settle the question of Identity in this case, by the permission of the club, I will read the following letter: " 'State of Texas. Aug. 7. 1W0. " 'Colonel Snort. Vice Chancellor of the Hickory Elm Club: " 'My Dear Sir I have Just heard that your identity was In dispute, and I hasten to Fet you right before the country. ,. I hereby certify that you are not Bill Snort, of Texas. I have the honor to be that individual myself, and under no circumstances would it be agreeable to me to be otherwise, simply to accommodate your enemies. I have read some of your Fpeechci In the Slippery Elm Club. They have the Snort ring to them, and I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that you are a lineal descendant of mine, or of some member of the family. Look this thing up and let me know. Yours truly, " 'BILL SNORT "I have other evidence to show that I am not 'Blir Snort, which I will produce if this matter gives me any further trouble." Colonel Garlic moved that a vote of confidence In the identity of Colonel Snort be given by the club, and it was taken by con-, sent. SNORT ON WEBSTER DAVfS. The president said that upon looking back over the events of Aug. 8 he had come to the conclusion that the principal event was Webster Davis, from Kansas City. "As an advocate of liberty," said he, "Mr. Davis has no parallelogram. His voice was like, the musln of a. circus calinne. And when he got through with his speech the audi-" ence felt an Inspiration to waltz out in the open air. I never saw anything like It. He opened three new eras in the country's history, after describing three several crises three eras partly with his mouth, partly with both hands, and I thought at one time he was going to put his foot in iL He had Jefferson at the front of the first era, Lincoln of the second, with William Jennings Bryan standing at the head of the third. It was a great picture, and every Boer in the hall was much pleased. Mr. Davis first acquired a national reputation as a weeper for the Boers at so much per weep. It was while he was holding a government Job in Washington that the tender chords of human sympathy that had lain dormant in his swelling breast for twenty-five years were touched, as I am told, by the patriotic appeals of one of Oom Paul Kruger's most eloquent agents. I remember this tearful and touching talker from the river Kaw In the campaign of 1&6. At that time he was employed to denounce the Democrats party and Bryan. He earned the contempt of the Hickory Elm Club then, and as faf as I am concerned, as a Democrat of the . old school, my opinion of him hasn't changed In four years. The experience of the Democratic party with the Davis family hasn't been satisfactory heretofore, and 1 predict that If our party takes up Daniel Webster It will soon be extending congratulations to the Republican party on having lost him." Colonel Garlic said he didn't know much about Mr. Davis, but he had listened to one or two octaves of his voice at Tomllnson Hall, and thought he was a better musician than an orator. GEN. PILCIIER'S VIEWS. General Pllcher expressed the same sentiment, and inquired if the club Intended to file any objections to Colonel Bryan's speech on hearing of his nomination. "For my part," said he, "I thought it was a first class performance. It completely demolished the calculations of all persons who may be seriously contemplating the overthrow of the Republic and the establishment of an empire. As an anticipatory document, that speech will take Its place among the masterpieces of eloquent denunciation of empire and tyranny for the next thousand years. The only objection to it that I can see is, that it was premature. I think myself that' In the course of the next few hundred years it is possible that some son-of-a-gun on horseback may spring up and want to make an ernprur of himself and want to make an emperor of Caucasians that by every principle of right ought to remain free, and equal to the occasion. But I see no signs of anything of the kind now. 1 think it is very doubtful If McKinley can ride a horse without holding on to the horn of the saddle with both hands, so that he couldn't cut off the head of a mandarin with one of our keen-edged cavalry sabers if he wanted to. "I fully agree with Colonel Urran in his demand for more liberty. We can't have too much of it in our homes and summer gardens up to the closing hour of 11 p. m. I hIso think the Filipinos should be free and independent, so that they may enjoy the bleshings of liberty under the benign rule of Aguinaldo. If they found they didn't like it they could employ George Washington to sell it for them and go back to first principles. "1 was especially interested in the presentation of the doctrine of 'the consent of the governed" by Colonel Bryan, lie made a ten-sirike in that part of his speech, and so did Webslfr Davis. I mt si late voter from North Carolina at Military Park, and he told me how the doctrine was working down in his State. He said a majority of the people there were crazy over it. and he thought Mr. Bryan could get a nglmeut of ex-voters from North. Carolina to go to the Philippines as missionaries to teach the natives the beauties of the grand and glorious doctrine of the consent of the governed. " A fire alarm caused the club to break and General PilcUer was cut off In the rr.1,1die cf his addrf.ss. v C. XL