Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1890 — Page 6

ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS.

GEN. JOHN M. PALMER NOMINATED FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR. The Largest and Most Enthusiastic Convention tn the History of the State—A Winning Ticket Placed in the Field—A Ringing Platform— Speech of General Palmer. The Illinois Democratic Convention, ■which met at Springfield on Wednesday, the 4th inst., was the largest, most enthusiastic, and most harmonious the party ever held in the State. The Democracy of Illinois, represented by its ablest leaders from all sections of the State, met in this convention and enunciated a declaration of principles and nominated candidates which will bring success to the party in the Prairie State at the coming election. Led by th t fearless old campaigner, General John M. Palmer, whose every utterance alike inspires the Democracy with confidence and strikes fear to the heart of the Republican leaders, the party of Illinois needs only that unity which seems already assured to redeem the State from Republican misrule. Joseph B, Manner, of Danville, who was made temporary Chairman of the convention, delivered an eloquent speech. A letter was read from Grover Cleveland, declining with regrets an invitation to be present and address the convention, but expressing a hope of success for the ticket to be chosen. It was received with loud cheers. Judge E. S. Wilson, of Olney, was nominated on the first ballot for State Treasurer, and Henry Raab, of Belleville, was nominated by acclamation for Superintendent of Public Instruction. Richard T. Morgan of Livingston, John H. Bryant of Bureau County, nnd N. W. Graham of Jackson County were nominated for Trustees of the State University. A resolution indorsing Gen. Palmer for United States Senator was ?assed amid great applause, and Gen. 'aimer was cheered to the echo on his appearance. He spoke as follows: Gentlemen of the Convention : In 1883 the Democracy of Illinois paid me in full for all the services I had ever rendered, for they gave me every vote they could command. No party ever did better or can do better than that. The Bern icracy of Illinois have to-day paid me in full in advance for all that I can hereafter do for them. They have nominated me as their candidate for United Stat's Senator. They have not promised to elect me. They have given me a •commission to get out and make battle for the Democracy, and have promised to do all they can to help me. That is all any of us can do But it must not be understood that the Democracy of Illinois intend that I shall go out • and light everybody; my mission is a very pe■culiar one,' The Democracy of Illinois have commissioned me in their name to make an •a tempt to popularize the Senate of the United States. I am not, as has been said by some of ■my friends who write for the newspapers—l am not bound as an expositor or definerof Democratic faith. There are thousands of Democrats in the State who attend to that job whenever required. It does not need any special champion. The fact is, there is a growing feeling throughout the country, not •confined to Illinois, that the national Senale is •becoming an element of danger instead of good. It is the only body of officials that is not responsible to anybody. Tho President, when nomi■uated by the national convention, although he takes but a small part in the canvass that precedes the election, is made tho subject of criti•cism, his whole life is examined, his business relations are discussed and at last the peoplq pass upon the man whose name is presented to them. Not so with a Senator. Sometimes, as is found in this State when the Governor uses his patronage while occupying the position of Chief Magistrate of Ihe State, and later on secures a majority of the Legislature; when the Legislature assembles the party caucus actually nominates him; he ceases to be Governor and becomes Senator, and from that time forth he is responsible to nobody. He travels through the State during State elections and criticises 'the State, but is responsible to nobody. It is the purpose of the Democracy of Illinois that hereafter when the Senator comes into the State •somebody shall take care of him. It is intended hereafter that the Senators from Illinois slyill give an account of them selves. Heretofore, as I have sa : d, they have traveled through the State, responsible to nobody. National expenditures are increasing at a fearful rate; the new State of Montana is organized and two Senators stolen, and we are threatened now with an election law which is to make our Representatives just what the partyin )>ower may ch lose it shall be. Our Sena ors •will take part in this, but when they come into Illinois it is the purpose of tho Democracy that they shall answer for those acts at the bar of public opinion. They shall ba asked, “Why is it the people of the Stats of Montana are not to be allowed to have Senators that represent them?" They will be required to respond to those questions. They will be asked: “What have tho people of the Slate of Illinois done that the power and control over their own elections shall be taken from them and placed in the hands of irresponsible Federal officials ?’ They will not escape by wrapping their senatorial toga—don’t they call it that—around them. It is the intention of the Democracy that these men shall be compelled to answer. Here they will be surrounded by the representatives of 400,0X1 Democratic votes, and an answer will be •demanded. Than is the intention of your Action to-day—not to-provide a champion for l emocratic principles, not the sending forth of knight errants to one: unter wind-mills. The purpose is that hereaf er these Senatorial men shall be made responsible, their acts shall be inquired into, nnd they shall be called to respond for them just as other people are required to do. That is tho purpose of the movement. It is to popularize tho Senate of the United States. In other States gentlemen have found an evidence tbav satisfies many people, and iu some of those States the request of a senatorial car didate for votes is expressed in the form of a check. It will be the purpose of tne Democratic party that such checks snail not pass current m senatorial elections hereafter, but that the official conduct of those officials shall be investigated. They shall, for the first time in our history, be made responsible for their conduct. "We know that in the earlier history of the republic the senator was regarded as so much of a servant of the State that legislatures instructed them as to their duty and tho common Jaw of politics of the party required that the senator should obey the instructions given by the hgislature or resi.-n, and tho legislature would elect some one else who would repect the , wishes of the people who sent him. But all tnat has passed by, and no .v those gentlemen are responsible to nobody. Thp party caucus actually makes the romiration. the majority elects him for the time being sena.or, and the senator is under no obligation to answer for his conduct to anybody, aud in this case 1 say this action on the part of the Do.r.ocratic party of Iha State is a warning to Mr. Cullom, u monition to Mr. Far well ana to those mtn generally of the Republican party that when they think proper to nominate a senator they will do it. Well, this commission may be a charge to me, and you must take care that your principles are enforced. There are thousands of Democrats all over the Si ate, while this work on this charge is being performed, who will take care of the followers behind. That is the mission upon which, you have sent mo. Gentlemen of the convention, I trust during the cam ass I may be able to render an additional service to the Demociatic party—that is, to assure them of my belief that Illinois is today a, Democratic State. It is to assure the Democracy'o'f the State that the time has come when they mat be Democrats without forfeiting their social standing or injuring their character as members of churches. That now public opinion has so far changed that not only is that true, but the intellect and intelligence of the country is now with the Demociatic party and that the work of the party from this time forward requires but this, that the old men should r .member they still ojve duties to

their country which will last as long as they live- that the men in middle life will feel that good government must be maintained for the welfare of their children, that it is upon the young men we must depend in this struggle, and I, for one, will say in this campaign I want to be regarded as a captain Ipr on 6 purpose. I want to say to every young Democrat in this State that you have the right to go forth and fight this battle for good government, and if you fight it earnestly you will win it. Most of the Republican party believe they should stand by the men in power, and their patriotism requires that the older they get the more money they should receive. They have succeeded to all the patriotism of the old soldiers in the army, and still require that you shonld provide for them for their noble services to the country. That is not true with the young man, and you now will have to fight for the principles of- the Democratic pa ty. Gentleman of the convention, it is not necessary that I should say 1 thank you most profoundly for this additional evidence of your confidence. I thank you with my whole heart for your kindness. I have retd with the greatest interest the proceedings in your county conventions and the kind words spoken of me, and I have felt grateful to all of you. and I shall enter into this canvass atd upon this contest with all the energy I can employ in that direction. I believe sometimes I read a newspaper published by my young friend Mr. Medill, who designates me as'a decrepit old man. 1 have only to say that if he dees not quit that I will treat him as the prophet did the boys—l will set the bears on him. I will set the bears after these juveniles who follow me. I shall endeavor to make a good fivht for the good cause, and I shall call one and all of you to do your full share in this work. There is to be no off year in politics in Illinois any longer. The Democracy of Illinois does not require the incentive of a Presidential election to bring them out to work, This should be no off year. It should be one of labor for the cause of right and justice, and that the people may be delivered from the terrible oppression under which they now labor. Gentlemen, I repeat my thanks, and with that I am done. The convention then adjourned amid enthusiastic cheering.

The Platform. The following resolutions were unanimously adopted by the convention: The Democracy of Illinois, in convention assembled, reaffirm the principles of the party as laid down in the platform adopted by tho national convention in St. Louis in 1888. Realizing that a tariff is a tax, we insist now, as heretofore, that such a revenue as is required to honestly and economically administer the Government should be raised from internal revenue taxes and duties upon articles of luxury, thus exempting and making cheaper all articles needed by the masses of the people. The admission of the fraudulent Senators from Montana and the unseating of Representatives duly elected, in order to add greater strength to the Republican majority, are precedents alike dangerous to the safety and perpetuity of the Government. lor over a quarter of a century the finances of the State of Illinois have been in the hands < of the Republican party. Every year more taxes are levied than are called for by the laws passed by the Legislature. It is time for a change in order that there may be an overhauling of the books. We denounce the Republican party of Illinois for its broken promises and pledges made to the farmers and laborers of the State; not so equalizing the taxes as to compel the large corporations and trusts to pay their equal proportion of our State, county, and municipal tuxes is a crime against the farmer and laborer that loudly calls for redress. We domand of the State Board of Equalization an honest enforcement of the law as interpreted by the Supreme Court, in order that various corporations of the State shall no longer escape the payment of their just proportion of taxes. The imposition of over 75 per cent, of the taxes upon the lands of the Stiue is a wrong which calls loudly for redress, and is u just cause for complaint by tho already overburdened farmers of the State. Knowing that there is no calling in the State so hazardous as that of tho coal miner, we demand the enactment of a law a' olisbing forever the system of truck stores, the enactment of u law for the examination of mine busses, the enactment of a law providing for the examination or stationary engineers, tho enactment of a law providing for the weighing of coal before screening, and the amendment of mining laws so us to provide for the inspectors of tne respective inspection distric.s or some other competent person to act us sealer of weights und measures for the adjustment of scales upon which coal is weighed at the mines. We are in favor of tho eight-hour work day. We cannot Hird language strong enough to condemn the McKinley tariff tax bill, considering it a crime and conspiracy against the toilers of America which is intended to impoverish the masses and benefit a' small class that ore already millionaires. We recognize in it the consummation of an unjust agreement between tne Republican party and manufacturers and others profiting by the protective tariff, which agrrement we suspected at the time of the last Republican national convention and charged In the last campalgrr. We demand absolute economy in all the various departments of the Stats and National Governments, and the discharge of all unnecessary employes who are kept upon the pay-roll merely because they are partisan favorites. ■ We favor the adoption of the Australian ballot system, so as to provide a fair and secret ballot. Ever since the Republican party have had control of the office of State Treasurer, public moneys of Illinois have been deposited in banks outside this State, without profit to this State or its people. The Democratic partv pledges itself that all deposits of State funds shall be in Illinois banks, and that the interest thereon shall ba paid into the State Treasury, aud that such legislation as is necessary shall be enacted to carry this resolution into effect. We favor the election or United States Senator by direct vote of the people. We demand that all unnecessary restrictions be removed from the coinage of silver. We are in favor of the election of the Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners by direct vote of the people. We are opposed to class legislation in every particular. We denounce the bill now pending in Congress known as the ship subsidy bill as a species of vicious and unjust class legislation, and we deny the right of Congress to tax the whole people to raise money to pay a subsidy or bounty to this or any other private enterprise. Whebeas, There has long been a combination between publishers of school books to avoid competition aud extort exorbitant prices, therefore we favor the preparation and publication of a series of school books and furnishing the same to the school children of this State at actual cost. Resolved, That the Democratic party in convention assembled heartily indorse the public school system of the State of Illinois, and it declares that the parental right to direct and control the education of the child should forever remain inviolate, and that the provision of the law of 1889, commonly known as the compulsory education statute, impairing that inalienable right, should be at once repealed. Respecting this subject we adopt the following propositions and hold them to be self-evident truths : 1. To determine and direct the education of ths child is a natural right of the parent. 2. There arises out of this parental right the duty to provide education. 3. When one who by natural or humane law owes a duty to another fails to perform that duty the State can (a) enjoin or compel performance, (b) punish for non-performance, (c) supply the lack where the injury of society by non-performance is wrongfully persisted in. 4. Wise statesmanship encourages general popular education, but does not mean or require unjust or unnecessary interference with those who are educating their children according to the best of their ability aud conformably to tho condition in life of parent and child.

5. Compulsory education, in ttio sense that parents who violate or neglect their parental duty may be compelled to its performance or punished for non-performance, is licit. 6. Compulsory education, in the sense of controlling or sacking to control or dislodging from their rightful place those parents who are discharging their parental duties commensurately with the state of life of parent or child, is not allowable even to the state. 7. For the education of his children one parent may select the public school, another may select the private or denominational school, still another may furiflsh proper education without the aid of any school, and each of the Hires in so doing exercises a right protected by the law of the land as well as by the law of nature, and for doing which he need offer neither excuse nor apology. 8. The public and private or denominational schools are in law neither related* nor are they

subordinate one to the other, nor used they bo antagonistic. We favor and pledge onr selves to the enactment of statutes, first, to require parents who are not performing their duty in respect to educating their children to do so; second, to correct incorrigible truants by providing- means for their amendment and to minimize the evils of truancy by sending truant children to such schools ae ihs parents may designate; third, to prohibit child labor, with all its debasing consequences.

WEARY OF WAR TAXES.

THE PROTECTION CAPITAL REBELS AGAINST TARIFF ROBBERY. Business Men ami Employes Denounce the McKinley Tariff Bill at bntnense Meetings in Philadelphia Ringing Letter from Ex-President Cleveland. [Philadelphia special.] An enormous business men’s meeting to protest against the McKinley tariff bill was held at the Walnut Street Theater Tuesday afternoon, at which Alexander K. McClure piesided. The tobacco, tin plate, and wooden industries were largely represented. Among the speakers were Congressmen McAdoo, Springer, Bynum, and Breckinridge (Kentucky). In the evening a mass meeting of workingmen in textile goods was held at Kensington and was addressed by the same gentlemen. There were 7,000 to 10,000 people at the Kensington meeting and three overflow meetings were necessary. A big parade of workingmen preceded the meetings. Resolutions were adopted declaring that both parties had promised to amend the tariff so a« to remove unnecessary burdens and enlarge our markets; that the party now in power had, on the contrary, proposed to add to the burden and restrict the market by tho McKinley bill; and the meeting would be satisfied with nothing short of free raw materials and such general reduction of tariffs as to cheapen the necessaries of life and open foreign markets, thus securing steadier work aud more comfortable living for the workingmen. The announcement of a letter from exPresident Cleveland was greeted with great applause. . The letter was as follows: F. A Herwig, Esq., Secretary: My Dear Sir —I desire through you to thank the Kensington Reform Club, formerly known as the Workingmen’s Tariff Reform Association, for the courteous invitation I have received to attend a mass meeting on the evening of the 3d of June. The terms in which the invitation is expressed convince me that the question of tariff reform is receiving the attention it deserves from those most vitally interested in its just and fair solution. I know that the feeling now abroad in our land, and with the intense existence and activity of such clubs as yours, tho claim presumptuously made that the people at the last election finally passed upon the subject of tariff adjustment will be emphatically denied, and that our workingmen and our farmers will continue to agitate this and all other questions involving their welfare with increased zeal, and in the light of increased knowledge and experience, until they are determined finally in accordance with the American sentiment of fair play. I use no idle form of words when I say that I regret my engagements and professional occupations will not permit me to meet the members of your club ou the occasion of their mass meeting. Hoping that those who are fortunate enoughto participate will find it to their profit and that the meeting will, in all respects, be a groat success, I atn, yours very tiuly, Grover Cleveland. Resolutions were adopted ns follows: We, workingmen in mass meeting assembled, do resolve that we cannot too strongly denounce the McKinley bill as a dangerous measure, or too earnestly protest against its passage by the United States Senate, and that we hereby give notice that we will not be satisfied with anything short of free raw materials and such a corresponding reduction of general tariff rates that will give us a chance to enter foreign markets with our products aud to keep und control our own, knowing full well that only by these means can the toilers secure steady work at good wages.

“M’KINLEY PRICES.”

They Will Be Very High for Evoi-ytlrnrg but Labor. The “McKinley prices’* will be higher, because in this Republican tariff bill the duties on cotton aud woolen materials are raised heavi y along the whole line, but those on goofs used by the laboring masses are made to pay higher duties than are put on the more costly goods used by the rich. The duly on wool, unreasonably high at present, is heavily increased: the duty ou woolen yarns is doubled, and tbe duty on blanketsand woolen stuffs is doubled, and on some of the cheaper qualities, those most used by the poor, is nearly trebled. On some of these goods in universal use the duty is run up to 150 per cent. So, too/the cheaper kinds of carpets have their duty heavily raised. All that means, of course, th t the “McKinley prices” will be very much higher. The “McKinley prices” on houses will be increased by the increased duty on lime and cement—double the present rates--nnd by increased duties on brick and tiles, and by higher duties on glass. The “McKinley prices” on the poor man’s kitchen will be higher bv the increased duty on pottery and on glassware, that on common glassware being increased in some cases more than 100 per cent,; the “McKinley prices” on the poor man’s clothing aud bedding will be made higher by heavily increased duties on blankets, coatings—in fact, on all that he and his wife and family wear or need to keep them warm in the winter or cool in summer. All this in face of a surplus taxation of nearly $100,01)0,000.— New York Herald.

Took the Next.

“Ah, ha 1” he called as he stood waiting for a car, "didn’t I tell jou last wintor that we’d have to pay for the warm ” “No, sir—no, sir,” interrupted the other. “I met you almost every day last winter, and you never said a "word about the weather.” “Didn 11 predict in February that we should have an unusually late ” “No, sir! I don’t remember that you Sn-'d any such thing.” “You don’t! Didn’t I sav that we should ?” “No, sir!” “Very well. Are vou going down on this car?” “I am.” “Then I will take the next.”—Detroit Free Press. She could sing like a very siren; She could dance as trim as a fairy; Her steak was a dream of rapture and bliss ; Her cakes were like lace films—so airy; She could wash, fit, and mend as do tailors; Her general style would’bewitch or Enthuse; but to save her she couldn’t Ever tell the left field, from the pitcher.

DEPEW ON THE FAIR.

THE NEW-YORKER SPEAKS IN THE CHICAGO AUDITORIUM. Reasons for Holding an Exhibition in Celebration of the Quadro-Centennial of America’s Discovery—The Address Listened To by a Brilliant Audience. Chicago dispatch: Chauncey M. Depew’s speech at the Auditorium, under the auspices of the Chicago Press Club was the eveut of the week. The vast building was crowded and many of the distinguished men of the city and State were in the audience. The subject of. the popular orator was “The World’s Fair,” and he did ample justice to it. When the prolonged applause with which the distinguished guest of the Press Club was greeted had ceased that gentleman advanced a step or two nearer the footlights, as if to be in closer communion with his auditors, and began his “talk” with no further preliminaries than to explain that he was iil and hardly equal to tiie occasion. Indeed he evidently was not expecting to face such an audience as he saw before him. Possibly he had just a tinge of “stage fright,” for his first few sentences were uttered in a voice which hardly penetrated to the depths of the great hall. But his voice seemed to strengthen as he progressed, and he soon had everybody en rapport with him. It was soon evident that he was prepared to furnish an oratorical feast, and he did it. His remarks were frequently interrupted by applause, which at times was extremely enthusiastic. Speaking of the benefits to be derived from the fair Mr. Depew said: “Above and beyond the material results of this exhibition will be its stimulating influences upon the patriotism of the people and the unity of the nation

CHAUNCY M. DEPEW.

itisoneof tbe parodoxest of progressthat diffuse and universal intelligence tends to provincialism and local pride, and the refinement of the inte-Weet toarrgles and points. There was a time when the Weekly Tribune reached every town in the West, and Horace Greeley’s opinions were the bond of common sentiment and' national union, but the press associations distribute with impartial hand the news of the world to the newspapers of every e-ity in the land. The result is that the journals of every town goto the public only as far as the train can carry them during the morning hour or before the family clock strikes the • note for retiring. Universal circulation all over the country is- no longer possible to any newspaper, and* the-edli-torlais of the local press mold the opinions of their people-. Under these conditions the New York editor does not write for Chicago, nor the Chicago editor for St. Louis. If tho Eastern or Western, or the Southern or Pacific coast press treat at all the interests- of other sections it is too often in atn unifriendly and critical spirit. It is- in a tone which depreciates- or assails their distant countrymens and makes them, not only rivals, but enemies. From this cause multitudes in the east believe the West given up. .wholly to the pursuit of money, and deficient in the culture and refinement of long organized and intelligent communities, Multitudes in the West regard! the people ©>f the East as effete and; weak—excrescences upon the body .politic-, or leeches in the form of gold bugs and coupon cutters. The press of the South inculcates a sectional pride and sen- | sitiv.eness which suspect an enenay in | the mildest critic and hostility in every other section. But the fierce light of universal publicity which will! beat upon this exhibition and the commingling here of citizens from every part of the union will do much to demonstrate that we are one people, with common interests and a common destiny. With the broad, generous, and catholic spirit which will inspire visitors to this exhibition, the West will discover that the East, with its conservatism, intellectuality, and prosperity, has not lost its vigor, and the East will find that the West, with its stalwart force and push and drive, is abreast with the East in intelligence, culture, and refinement. While the East and the West will meet the South here with fraternal greetings and reciprocal respect the representatives from every State will learn anew the lesson that peace, prosperity, and power can be strengthened and perpetuated only in the federal union. Let this international fair be held; let the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus be celebrated; let it be commemorated by an industrial exhibition grander in extent and volume than any ever seen before; lot the old world know what their children have done in the new? let the stars and stripes float from every roof and turret and flagstaff; the bands announce the opening and closing of the fair each day with the inspiring strains of our national anthem, and we will seperate from this grand communion impressed more deeply than ever before with the fact that the proudest title on earth is that of an American citizen.” The visit to Montreal of the Duite and Duchess of Connaught terminated yesterday afternoon, the party leaving at 3 o’clock for the Caspadia, N. 8., fishing grounds q>Sir George Stephens.

THE FURY OF A STORM.

AN lOWA INSTITUTION WRECKED BI THE WIND. The State Institute for Feeble-Minded Nearly Demolished by the Gale—Two of the Inmates Killed and Several Injured —Damage Elsewhere. Des Moines (Iowa) dispatch: In a storm which burst with terrible fury over western lowa the rain fell in torrents, the wind in some localities reached the force of a tornado, and the electric display was dazzlingly brilliant and awe inspiring. Tho greatest damage seems to have been done at Glenwood. The State Institute for Feeble Minded is located there and was a heavy sufferer. The boiler house and laundry were demolished; the tall chimney was blown down and came crashing through the roof into the dormitories where the inmates were sleeping, killing two and Injuring six others. The killed are: WILLIE CLINE, of Clark county. WESLEY EMERY, of Monroe county. The injured are: John Swalloe. Dubuque. Willie Bratheh, Wayne county. Fred Wright, Fort Dodge. Eddie Sweet, Lee county. Henry Snyder, Benton county. Sam Askins. Council Bluffs. Several of the injured are not expected to recover. The flour mill at Glenwood was wrecked and the canning factory demolished. It was the worst storm in the history of the’ city. At Atlantic the wind blew down the amphitheater at the fair grounds and several small dwelling houses in the town. A great many fruit and shade trees were blown down in the city, and a number of bridges on tho Nishnabotna were washed out. Three buildings wereblown from their foundations at Exira and several persons had narrow escapes. At Council Bluffs cellars were flooded' and culverts washed out. The contiguous country is inundated and crops in general are badly damaged and in some cases destroyed. The rain about Des Moines was very heavy, but no great damage was done. Dubuque (Iowa) dispatch: One of the most violent storms that has section for years has just passed over Dubuque. The rainfall amounted almost to a flood. The Burlington & Northern track between this city and Galena was washed away for a distance of over two miles. A double-header freight belonging to the Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City railroad, which operates over the Northern between Dnbuque and Galena Junction, ran into a wash-out near Menominee at 2 o’clock this morning. The first engine passed safely over the ditch, but the second went down, sinking deep into the mud. The freight cars telescoped each other. The engineer of the second engine miraculously|escaped. but the-fireman, E. B. Dale received mortal injuries and died in fifteen minutes. Brakeman Williams also received injuries from which he will die. Forty cars were smashed in the wreck. The storm was so severe and the lightning so incessant that the engineer could not set the signal of the track walker who flagged the train.

CROP BULLETIN.

Illinois Winter Wheat Practically Destroyed—Outlook in New York, Springfield (Ill.) dispatch: The June crop bulletin of the State Department of Agriculture corn firms previous reports as to> tlhe condition of winter wheat. The crop is practically destroyed. Corn and nearly all other field products promise well. New York dispatch: The State meteorological bureau has issued a report which says: ‘Tn the central and northern counties the cessation of heavy rains has been of great benefit to vegetation, and the outlook for spring grain and garden vegetables has become more favorable. The temperature during the week has been too low, however, for the best growing weather. Through the Southern and Southwestern tier of counties, and those along the Upper Genesee river, the conditions have changed but little during the week;: a vigorous growth of grass, wheat and rye obtains on the uplands, while along the water courses great local damage to crops has been sustained. Several stations in the region of heavy rainfal report that grass is turning yellow and has a tendency toward a spindling growth; but generally throughout the State this erop is very vigorous. The fruits have developed well during the week. The apple crop is exceedingly good in the western counties, and about an average yield for the State may be expected. Strawberries, grapes and small fruits have improved during theweek and promise well.

FIGHTING CHICAGO BEEF.

The Nationqf Butchers' Association In th* Field Against Western Magnates. Pittsburg dispatch: The National Butchers’ Association is preparing to make a last desperate effort to rid itself of the Chicago dressed beef incubus. The move in progress has for its object the consolidation of tile various butchers’ organizations and all agricultural interests, including the Farmers’ Alliance. Tho consolidation proposes to drive out of the business all butchers who handle dressed beef. A committee has already been appointed, and is quietly at work. This will be a final stroke to crush the Western dressed beef magnates, and no sum will be spared to make it successful.

Secretary Noble Will Not Resign.

\ Washington dispatch: Secretary No« bib—Likes public life and he isn’t go< resign his position'in the Cabinet? Tito only thing that could tertipt him would be a place on the Supreme Bench. The attention of the Secretary waa called to-day to the rumor that he was going to resign in order to accept a position as attorney for a leading Western railroad. He said there was no foundation whatever for the rumor, and that if he Intended to resign it would not be to accept any position that a! railroad company could offer hl®