Brown County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 47, Nashville, Brown County, 11 October 1900 — Page 3

|| THE CAMPAIGN]! f GLEANINGS OF OPINION ON PENDING ISSUES f 1 j. J. & & jk FROM VARIOUS SOURCES J> j* Z “It is not necessary to own a man in order to trade with him.”—Bryan’s Notification Speech at Indianapolis, August 8th.

THRIETY GLASS CUTTERS. Their Union at Pittsburg Is Wealthy and Has Money to Loan Employers. Washington special: The workman's side of the question of trade arbitration was presented to the Industrial Commission Thursday by A. N. Hammett, of Pittsburg, one of the officers of the Window Glass Cutters’ Union, which is, perhaps, the most strongly organized, union in the country, and at the same time maintains the closest and most friendly relations with the manufacturers. Mr. Hammett said the cutters did not make more than seven or eight months’ time a year, awing to the fact that the glass production was in excess of the domestic demand. The workers have a wage scale committee, which meets with the manufacturers each year and adjusts the wage scale and other matters for the ensuing year. The wages of the cutters now run from $5 to $6 a day. The men are not at work now, owing to some differences over the season’s,schedule, which is still in conference between the workmen and employers. The men are practically all Americans, there being only twenty-five or thirty foreigners in the union. The initiation fee is now $25, and dues 1 per cent, of the wages. The union is rich, having at times as much as $200,000 in its treasury. Mr. Hammett cited one case when a certain manufacturer, being in financial difficulties, borrowed $50,000 at 4 per cent, from the workmen and started up his factory. The money was well secured, and the loan was a good thing for both sides. There are a good many co-operative factories, .some of them old and successful, while others started on the same basis have failed. The highest wages, paid to the trade are those paid to the blowers, who receive from a minimum of $140 a month to $400 or $500. Apprentices are taken into the shops only with the consent of the men, a workman having a right to take in his son or his brother where the quota of the factory is not full. These apprentices work for three years without wages, after which they are taken into the union as full journeymen.

VICTIMS CHOSEN CHINESE EMPEROR SELECTS NINE FOR PUNISHMENT. Imperial Government Kow Making an Effort to Disperse the “Boxers”— Germans Receive a Check, Pekin cable; By an imperial decree issued at Tai-Yuen-Pu, capital Of the province of Shan-Si, dated Sept. 25, Emperor Kwang Su denounces the “Boxer” movement and designates for punishment nine ringleaders. He acknowledges his own faults and rebukes himself; but he places the chief blame upon the princes and nobles who participated in the movement and who protracted it. Prince Tuan, Prince Chung, Prince Tsai Lien, Prince Tsai Ting, Luke San Kang, Ying Nien, president of the censorate, and Chao Shu Chiao, president of the board of punishment, are all deprived of their titles, removed from office and turned over to various trial boards for further penalties. Prince Tuan, by the terms of the decree, is to be tried by the board of clans. Copies of the decree have been received here and are accepted as genuine. It is reported that Tung Fu Hsiang fled to the province of Shan-Si, fearing punishment. The Irnprmessicn is growing that imperial government is making an effort to disperse and punish the “Boxers.” The imperial troops, who were seen Monday near Pei-Ta-Chu are believed to have been concerned in this movement. The acting viceroy at Tien-Tsin was notified that orders had been issued to disperse tho “Boxers,” but said he feared to send out troops because of the presence of the allied forces. An extended Japanese reconnaissance south of Pekin uncovered the enemy. Sunday afternoon the American troops were reviewed by General Chaffee in front of the Temple of Heaven. All the foreign staffs were present. London cable: The Standard has the following from Tien-Tsin, dated Friday, Oct. 5: “A German force cam© into collision with eight thousand Chinese, described as “Boxers,” a few miles south of Tien-Tsin, this morning. The Germans were checked and compelled to retire on Tien-Tsin. There is reason to believe that the Chinese in this case were not Boxers, but were Li Hung Chang’s veterans who had been ordered to wait near here in view of the possibility that the foreigners would bar his progress to the capital.”

put bis foot in it withe his accustomed blundering “strenuoufeness.” Now that be has opened his mouth the second time, in apology, he has put both feet in it. “Teddy” says that he did not mean his insulting characterization to apply to all Democrats, but simply to those who framed the Kansas City platform. The delegates to that convention he explicitly denounces as “cowards,” as “dishonest and dishonorable” and as advocates of the “policy of infamy.” Of course, the reflection applies equally to the more than six millions of Democratic voters who stand by the declarations of their party at Kansas City, as well as to hundreds of thousands of independent voters who are opposed to the Republican policy of imperialism. As a matter of fact, the Democrats who support the Kansas City platform are as guilty, according to ‘-Teddy’s” logic, of dishonor, dishonesty and cowardice as the representatives of their party who framed the platform. So, wriggle and squirm and evade as he may, "Teddy” has deliberately insulted mere than half of the white voters in the United States and has attempted to place a stigma upon every man who does not think as he does. .

They Do Protest Too Much. “There is no imperialism,” declares President McKinley in his letter of acceptance. “This talk about imperialism is the veriest moonshine, the mere coinage of partisan brains,” asserts Mr. Schurman. who was the president of the first commission Mr. McKinley sent to Manila. “The talk of imperialism and militarism is the rankest nonsense,” maintains Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts. Prom President down toH'he humblest spellbinder and organgrinder the Republicans are kept busy protesting that an evil which does not exist in a palpable form really has no existence. Their denials are based upon the assumption that the American people are dull-witted, that they are unable to understand the difference between the republican government and the kind of government which has been established in Porto Rico and which is ultimately to be forced upon the Filipinos. ■. The Republican leaders are anxious, and very naturally so, to create the impression that the policy, of this government in Porto. Rico and the Philippines does not involve any departure from the principles upon which the American Republic was founded. They will not succeed, however, either by the apologetic methods adopted by Mr. McKinley in his letter of acceptance or by the fiat denials of Mr. Schurman, Senator Lodge and other imperialists who think the American people can he bluffed by such tactics. If there were no such thing as imperialism, Why should the Porto Ricans be virtually “subjects” of the United States, why should tariff duties be imposed upon the products of the island, and why should they be denied the privilege of free trade with the country of which they are a part? Why should their status is such matters be different from that of the inhabitants of other territory of the United States —of Arizona and New Mexico, for instance? Why should the government at Washington impose educational and property restrictions upon suffrage in Porto Rico? Why should the Porto Ricans be subject to our immigration laws and treated as aliens?

want it to stand erect; I want it to be so just and upright that when other nations quarrel, instead of calling out great armies to kill each other, they will say; ‘Leave the question to the United States; they can be trusted.’ I want this nation to be a peacemaker among the nations and then it will earn the reward promised to the peacemaker; ‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.’ ” At night Hon. Bourke Cochran spoke for two hours to a large audience in Tomlinson Hall. A series of resolutions were adopted by the convention which condemn Republican, policies, closing as follows: “If, as we are informed by the Republican press. Mark A. Hanna, chairman of the Republican national committee, can, by intercession with one man, bring about a settlement of the coal strike, then we direct public attention to this significant fact as showing: “1. The dangerous concentration of commercial and industrial power into one man’s hands. “2. The intimate relations that e'Slst between such combinations and the Republican committee. “3. The plain inference, is that Hanna's interest in the adjustment of this labor difficulty is only for campaign purposes, and that after the election the mining strikers of Pennsylvania, like the mining strikers of the Coeur d’Alene, will be suppressed by the standing army.” ENGLISH ELECTIONS. The Administration Party AVip Have a Large Majority in the Next Parliament. London cable: Thirty-two contests took place Friday in the parliamentary general election. Most of them were in rural districts, and results have not yet been announced. So far as is known, however, 441 members have been officially declared elected, and the relative strength of the parties is the following; Ministerialists, 301; Liberal, 77; Nationalists, 60; Laborites, 3. In the Stratford and Widnes divisions of Lancashire, Sir John William’ McClure and Mr. John Saunders Gilliam, w r ho respectively represented their constituents in the late Pari I ament, have been returned by the Conservatives with increased majorities. Sir Robert Bannatyne Pinaly, Attorney-General, was re-elected as the Liberal Unionist candidate in the Inverness burghs. At Maidstone the Liberals captured a seat. Thus far the Ministerialists have gained twenty-three seats and the opposition fifteen, which would give the government sixteen votes on a division in the House of Commons. Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, sent the following telegram to a candidate; “Let all patriotic Englishment remember the words of the mayor of Mafeking, ‘A seat lost to the Unionist government is a seat gained by the Boers.’ ”

It is not good polities for any man—not even the hero of “Alone in Cuba” to fling ugly epithets at millions of his fellow-citizens ahd then attempt to escape the responsibility for his utterances by a lame and illogical explanation. There seems to be no remedy for “Teddy’s” garrulity except an interview with bis Uncle Marcus Alonzo Hanna in the political woodshed, where perhaps, an energetic spanking may bring this “bully boy with a bad eye” to a proper sense of his folly and wickedness. His Uncle Mark ought to lose no time in correcting him, otherwise the carefully planned Republican campaign may collapse with a crash and the party may be destroyed in the wreck. Meantime the millions of Democrats whom this incorrigibly bad boy has foolishly affronted will continue to advocate the policy which commends itself to their intelligence and patriotism. When the time comes in November for them to take “Teddy” out to the woodshed and teach him better manners they will give him a dose of repartee which he will remember as long as he lives. Hanna’s bad boy will realize then that be cannot say naughty things with impunity about half of the white population of as big a country as the United States'. Other bad boys have been tamed before “Teddy” and made to realize the error of their ways. When the disgusted Uncle Mark and the indignant Democratic voters get through with “Teddy” he will wish he had remained alone in Cuba shooting fleeing Spaniards in the back. The anger of the American voter is not easily aroused, but when it is at boiling point he is a much more formidable proposition than the Spaniards whom “Teddy” slaughtered (in ids mind) at San Juan. Hereafter Mr. McKinley’s runningmate would do well to cultivate a meeker and humbler spirit and dispense with some of his strenuousness. There are hosts of old soldiers who have seen more of war in a day than “Teddy” has seen in his lifetime. It is not altogether prudent to call them cowards, dishonest and dishonorable and champions of “a policy of infamy.” All of them have votes, and they won’t hesitate to take any candidate who offends them into the political woodshed and apply reformatory treatment.

DEMOCRATIC CLUBS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION MEETS AT INDIANAPOLIS. Large Number of Distinguished Men In Attendance But a Comparatively .Light Turnout of People. The national convention of the National Association of Democratic Clubs convened at Indianapolis Wednesday Quite a number of distinguished men from all parts of the country, including Col. W. J. Bryan, Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson, Bourke Cochran, Senator J. K. Jones, James .Hamilton Lewis, of the State of Washington, and many others, were in attendance at the various sessions of the convention, but the turnout of the masses of the people from different sections of the State was a disappointment to the managers of the convention. The first session of the convention was called to order at 2 p. m., Wednesday. Mayor Tagagrt delivered the address of w'elcome. Speeches followed by Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson and James Hamilton Lewis. At night a monster parade was successfully conducted by the Marion county Democracy and many visiting organizations from Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati. It was estimated that 3,750 men were in line, the procession taking one hour in passing a given point. Thursday’s sessions might well be termed “feasts of oratory.” Speeches were “on tap’” by orators of national reputation from 10 a. m. to 10 p. m. The most notable addresses of the day and evening sessions were by William Jennings Bryan, Hon. Bourke Cochran. Jas. R. Sovereign and Adlai E. Stevenson. Mr. Bryan did not arrive in the city until 2:40 p. m., and reached Tomlinson Hall at about 3 o’clock. He was introduced by Gov. McMillan, of Tennessee. Mr. Bryan said in part: In opening his address Mr. Bryan dwelt at some length upon the help the Democratic party expected from its clubs in the way of disseminating literature and in a financial way. He then proceeded: “We need the clubs to help us get the votes out on election day. Out in our State -we sometimes arrange to have volunteers who will go out, and when they find a man who thinks he is too busy husking corn to spare the time to vote, the volunteer husks in his place until he goes and votes. We need these clubs to help get the votes out, and then we need these clubs to help get the vote counted and to prevent fraud after it is cast. * •? « * * “New York has a Republican Governor, a Republican Legislature, and you Republicans who have been worrying so* much about the ice trust can just ease your minds, for as long as the Governor is out West making speeches you may be sure nobod is being hurt in New York (Great applause.) Why is it that no Republican knows anything about the Standard Oil trust, or the suv-arTrust, or the salt trust, or the cracker'brust, or the window glass trust, or the envelope trust, or the writing paper trust, or the trust in' the paper that Republican editors use to write a defense of the trust upon? (Great applause.) Why don’t they know about these trusts? Is it dishonesty or is it Ignorance? Why is it that no Republican speaks out against any trust except the ice trust, and why is it that the Republicans in charge do not destroy that so you can believe Mr. Hanna -when he says there are no trusts? (Applause.)

GOV. KOOSEVEIT AT DAVENPORT, In His Address He Insists That a Nation Needs the Same Qualities as an Individual. Governor Roosevelt and, party reached Davenport, la., Friday. He was greeted by a vast crowd of enthusiastic people., great street demonstration followed the arrival of Roosevelt’s special train. Addresses were made by ex-Controller Eckels and other speakers who are traveling with the vice-presidential candidate, hut Mr. Roosevelt made the principal speech. In the course of his remarks he said: “Now, fundamentally, what we need in a nation are just .he same qualities that we need in an individual. First of all that is needed is honesty. One form of honesty is paying cents on a dollar, with a dollar wofitk 100 cents. A nation should not, shirk its manifest duty. When a duty comes to a great nation, a nation ceases to be great when it ceases to do its duty as that duty arises. You must have honesty and courage, but those are not enough. I do not care how brave and upright a man is if he is a natural born fool. No amount of oratory and no amount of enthusiasm will take the place of common sense in dealing with the problems by which we are surrounded. Six or seven years ago there were people who had soft bea .s and unluckily, also, soft heads, who felt that the way to meet hard times was to put up an enormous system of soup kitchens. Now, that was not the way tc meet hard times. The way to meet bard times is to shape our legislation so as to give each man a good chance to work out his own fate to the best advantage.”

DYNAMITE EXPLOSION. Seven Thousand Pounds ‘'Unanimously” Explode With Disastrous Results. Duluth, Minn, special: A special from Eveleth, Minn., reports one of the greatest explosions ever occurring in the State, Seven thousand five hundred pounds of dynamite in the powder magazine at the Spruce mine, about half a mile from; town, blew up about 5:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon. A hole one hundred feet square and twenty feet deep marks the spot where the magazine stood. The force of the explosion was so great that there is not a piece of glass over a foot square within a radius of two miles of the mine. Practically every window and mirror in Eveleth was broken, while in saloon all bottled goods were demolished in addition. The loss in the city is estimated at $30,000. The damage done to the Spruce mine was about $3,000, the mine, laboratory and warehouse being wrecked. At least two hundred people were hurt more or less from being thrown down by the shock or hit by shattered glass. The explosion was plainly felt at Biwabik, twelve miles distant. The cause of the explosion is hard to ascertain. An unknown man was seen near the magazine a few minutes before it occurred, and it is believed that he was responsible, although that is pure guess work. At any rate, the fellow has not been seen since. FLOODS IN MEXICO. Country Back of Tampico Devastated by Two Rivers. St. Louis special: Telegraph advices from Tampico, Mexico, state that the Panuco and Tames rivers, which empty into the gulf at that place, are on one of the biggest rises in their history and great damage has been wrought by the floods in the populated and cultivated valleys above there. At one point near Chila Station, on the line of the Mexican Central railroad, the Tames river is over fifty miles wide and has swept to destruction hundreds of houses occupied by Mexican farmers and laborers. Many deaths by drowning are reported. All the tributaries of these rivers in the south and eastern parts of the State of San Luis Potosi are out of their banks and have washed away whole villages, and ruined thousands of acres of growing crops.

WRECK ON MONON. Head-On Collision of Fast Passenger Trains at Monticelio, Passenger trains Nos. 33 and 38 on the Monon railroad collided head-on- immediately south of the Monticelio station Sunday afternoon about 2 o’clock. Both engines were demolished, and the baggage cars of the trains were badly damaged. A number of passengers on both trains received small wounds, but none of them were dangerously hurt. The south-bound train had just pulled out of the station and was going very slowly. The north-bound was slowing up for a stop at Monticelio, and to these two fortunate circumstances a number of people in all probability owe their lives. On the way south No. 33 had lost several minutes and by the times it arrived at Montieello had made the time up. This fact had evidently escaped the memory of the train dispatcher, who gave both trains the main track at Monticelio. A curve at the point of collision prevented each engineer from seeing the other train as they approached each other. CABINET OF PERU RESIGNS. Great Public Scandals Cause Ministers to Withdraw. Lima, Peru, cable, via Laredo Junction; The cabinet has resigned on account of an unanimous vote of censor by Congress being inevitable as a result of the scandal in connection with the purchase of arms in Belgium and the allged use by Senor Belaunde, a former minister of finance, of government funds for his private transactions. The ministers of Peru, who have just resigned, were appointed Aug. 31 last by President Romana, Senor Enrique Coronet Zegarra being President of the cabinet and minister of home affairs. A MOTHER’S HORRID CRIME. Crazed by Bad Health She Shoots Two Children and Commits Suicide. New-'fork special: Mrs. Lillian Smith, of Inwood, borough of Manhattan, while insane, shot her two children, Ethel, aged twelve years, and Theodore, aged eight years, and then committeed suicide by shooting herself. Another child lies in Fordham Hospital at the point of death as the result of carbolic acld bums. Before shooting the children Mrs. Smith tried, to force them to drink carbolic acid. Long brooding over the prospect of death is Said to have been the cause of the woman's insanity. She bad been ia bad health.

If this is not imperialism, what is it? We 'have fastened American sovereignty upon Porto Rico; we intend to hold the island permanently as territory of the United States; we have taken charge of the government of the island, placing it in the hands of officials appointed by the President. Such representation as the Porto Ricans are graciously permitted to enjoy in their government can be of little advantage to them. The actual ruler of the island is the civil governor appointed by President McKinley. The members of the government’s council, his cabinet, are also appointed by the President, and governor and council together constitute an oligarchy sustained by the government of the United States —an oligarchy beneath whose sway the Porto Ricans, even with their elective assembly, are absolutely helpless. Certainly this is not a republican form of government; it is not governed by consent; it is not a government founded upon the principle that there must be no taxation without representation. It is the rule of might, the holding of a weak people as “subjects,” the establishment of an imperial system. It places the United States on the same plane as the land-grabbing nations of Europe; it is an emphatic and unconditional denial of •every principle for which our forefathers contended and for which they fought to the bitter end. The late General U. S. Grant, in his “Personal Memoirs,” strongly condemned the war with Mexico and the methods by Which the annexation of Texas was consummated. “I was bitterly opposed,” he wrote, “to the annexation measure, and to this day regard the war which resulted as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies and not considering justice in the desire to acquire additional territory.” Our war upon the Filipinos is due to the Administration’s failure to consider justice in its greedy desire to acquire territory. Before the treaty of peace negotiated at Paris by the commissioners of the United States and Spain had been ratified by the Senate, Mr. McKinley proclaimed American sovereignty over the Philippines. The President, several weeks in advance of any action by the Senate upon the treaty, arrogated to himself the functions of one branch of Congress and asserted a sovereignity which did not exist. What was this but imperialism? The President conveniently ignores this imperial proclamation in his recent letter of acceptance. There is good reason to believe that it was partly on account of this proclamation that we are now 'at war with the Filipinos. The entire policy of the Administration since the President instructed his commissioners at Paris to demand the cession of the Philippines and other territory by Spain has been imperialistic. The facts are too recent and the record is too plain to be denied by any except those who believe the American people are destitute of intelligence.—Baltimore Sun.

Senator Stewart Gives it Away. The Republican National Committee and party organs are crowing mightily over Senator Stewart’s abandonment of Mr. Bryan and his return to the straightout Republican organization. The Nevada Senator can easily be spared, however, and there will be no mourning among Democrats over his defection. As aptly stated by a correspondent of The Sun recently, his return to the Republican fold is conclusive proof that he regards the silver issue as practically dead, as far as the Presidential campaign this year is concerned. Senator Stewart has long been the advocate of free and unlimited coinage of silver and probably made more speeches and longer speeches on this subject than any other champion of the white metal in Congress. Despite his loudly professed devotion to free silver, however, the senator, according to common report, was very businesslike in his private affairs, stipulating that he should receive gold in payment of certain indebtedness to him, while at the same time he was lustily denouncing the yellow metal in the Senate and from the stump. Senator Stewart belongs to that class of politicians who were vociferous advocates of silver as long as it was a living issue and votes were to be secured by denouncing the gold standard. Their abandonment of silver now is capable of only one construction—namely, that the promise of free coinage no longer attracts votes. Mr. Bryan can expect little assistance from Republicans of this stripe, nor need he feel alarmed at their desertion. For every Republican who deserts him because silver is no longer the paramount issue he will gain a Democratic supporter if no effort is made to revive free coinage as the chief issue of this campaign. In one respect, therefore, Senator Stewart’s defection is a blessing, as it proves conclusively to those timid voters who are afraid of 16 to 1 that not even the most rampant silver advocates believe Mr. Bryan, if elected, could do anything for silver —otherwise they would not desert him. —Baltimore Sun.

“The laboring- man asks for arbitration and gets a large army; he asks relief from government by injunction and gets a large army; he asks protection fropi the black list, and his answer is a large army; he asks for shorter hours of labor in order that he may have more time with his family and for the development of his mind and his answer is a large army; he asks for representation in the President’s cabinet in order that labor may be protected, and his answer is a large army. That is the domestic reason which is not-given, and yet it is a reason entertained by many. . (Applause.) What is the reason they give? . They say we need it for our foreign policy, but, my friends, they asked for the army before the American people had ever decided upon a foreign policy that made a large army necessary. “In December of 1898, w r hen tr.e President asked for his army, the treaty had not yet been signed, but its terms were understood. When the Republican Congress voted to raise the army to 100,000 the treaty had been signed and no arm was raised against this nation anywhere in the world. But the American people had never voted for a colonial policy; up to this time the American people have never voted for. a colonial policy, and yet the Republican party is pledged to a large army. What does it , want with it? It intends to exploit the Philippine islands, and if you want to understand the reason for a large army read the prospectus issued by the Philippine Lumber and Development Company. You will And that at the head of the company as president stands a Republican member of Congress, who is the chairman of the pmy committee of the House of Representatives, and another Republican Congressman is attorney for the company, and the prospectus shows that already valuable timber lands have been secured, and the prospectus also explains that the labor problem is easily solved, because there is a quantity of Chinese labor "there that can be employed at from 50 to 75 cents a day in Mexican money. What do you want an army for? To hold the Philippines while they are being developed by syndicates headed by Republican politicians. (Applause.) Mr. Di-van closed his address as follows: “And yet you Republicans are afraid to express a sentiment on the Boer question to-day. I can not better describe the fall of the Republican party. I can not better picture its demoralization. I can not better describe its complete despotisms than to tell you that when a king dies a Republican President can send a message of condolence, but that when two republics expire no Republican sheds a tear. I go into a community and I see some grayhaired patriarch whose life is so upright, whose conduct is so just, that people submit to him their differences and abide his judgment. And -when I see such a one I am reminded of the words of old Solomon, ‘A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches and loving favor rather than silver or gold.’ I want this nation to be the patriarch among the nations. 1

POSTAL SERVICE FINANCES. Deficit is 81,500,000 Less Than for the Fiscal Year 1890. Washington special; The Auditor of the Postoffice Department Saturday received the trial balances showing receipts and expenditures of the postal service for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1000. This statement. taken in connection with that of the money order statement, which was completed a week ago, shows the entire financial results of the postal service for the .fiscal year. The financial statement of the postal service proper for the year 1900 is as follows: Expenditures, $107,249,298.13; revenue, $102,354,579.29; excess of. expenditures over revenue, $4,894,718.84. The excess of expenditures over receipts, or net deficit of the postal service, is about $1,500,000 less than the deficit for the preceding fiscal year. The principal item of revenue is the’ sale of stamps and stamped paper. That item for the year under review amounted to $94,013,699.63, an increase of $6,733,045.62 over the preceding year. The total financial transactions of the postal service, including the money, order statement, were $714,394,141.22 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1900. FRENCH OFFICERS’ .MARRIAGES. Obligatory Dowry of Their Brides is Done Away With. Paris cable: General Andre, the French Minister of War, has introduced a reform in the French army by abolishing the obligatory dowry of 20,000 francs of officers’ brides. The dowry system was organized in 1843, when the French officer seeking a wife was at a disadvantage, compared with a civilian, as parents would not give their dowered daughters to men who were likely at any moment to leave them widows, while changingregimes gave to officers a pillar-to-post existence particularly repugnant to' the French nature. Now that a long peace has made the people forget the war bogey and men sometimes remain for a lifetime at one garrison, the profession of arms has become chic and officers are" at preimium in the marriage market. For these reasons it was thought needless to- place difficulties in the way of a bridegroom, who was not seeking a dot; but officers desiring to marry must still forward to their commander and the Minister of War an explanation of the morality of the future wife and the suitability of the proposed union. ME. BRYANS INDIANA TOUR.. Following his address to the convention of Democratic clubs at Indianapolis’ Thursday Mr. Bryan left that city Friday morning on his special train over the D. E. & W. R. R., stopping at Noblesville, Tipton, Arcadia,, Elwood, Alexandria, Marion, Hartford City, Muncib, Winchester, Richmond, New Castle and Anderson. Large crowds greeted him at all points, which he addressed briefly. The Bryan special returned to Indianapolis Friday night and left Saturday morning over the-Vandalia, stopping at Plainfield, Greencastle, Brazil, Terre Haute,. Linton,, El nor a. Washington, West Shoals, Mitchell, Salem, New Albany and Jeffersonville. The usual crowds were assembled at all of these towns and the candidate spoke briefly on the issues.

STRIKE AT WEST POINT. Waiter* Demand More Money and' Get it Quick at Dinner Time. West Point, 1ST. T., special: Plenty-two of the waiters In the cadet mess stopped work- Just before the dinner hour Sunday night, and refused to handle a single ration unless a raise of $5 a month in' their salary was guaranteed. Major' Hall, treasury of the commissary department, was summoned, and acceded to the demand 1 . A strike is also pending in two of the other departments. The grievances aro based on the recent increase 1 in the number of cadets, which naturally makes ajjSfiitiOffal work for the civilian employes. The old scale of the mess hall’ waiters was $20 a month, with rations, CASE AGAINST KATHBONE; Tli® tate Director of Cuban Posts-Will be Charged With. Having Concocted 1 the Whole Scheme of Embezzlement. Havana 1 cable: The Havana Post, referring to the post office frauds,, made the following statement: “We >.ave been quietly and' on our own accou.vt working up the case 1 against Mr. Estes G. Rathbone, and we now believe that he will be charged with having concocted the whole scheme of embezzlement. It may even be shown that he secured' for himself something between $27,000'and $28,000.”

“Teddy” as a Partisan Bigot. “Teddy’s” explanation of his St. Paul speech, in which he accused Democrats of standing for “lawlessness and dishonor, for license and disaster at home and cowardly shrinking from duty abroad”—is quite as bad as his original offense. When “Teddy” first opened his mouth pn this subject he