Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1896 — Page 3

THE BATTLE OF LOGIC

TILLftSAN, HILL, BRYAN AND VILAS SPEAK. }«• Favor the Adoption of the Bepart of the Committee on Hceolntiaao, and Two Xjo Battle for the GeW standard. Debate on the Platform. la the discussion of the platform before the national Democratic convention Senators Hiii anti Vilas opposed the silver, U.ad, and tneome tax planks, and Senator Tillman and Congressman Bryan ■appealed the committee’s report. Senator Tillman spoke ia part as follows: Senator Tillman. 1 came here from South Carolina. I came •1 an Opportune time. South Carolina In MOB led the fight in the Democratic party which resulted In Its disruption. That disruption «>f"that party brought about the war. The war emancipated the black slaves. We are here now leading a fight to emancipate the white slaves. I do not know whether I <u Irmly say whether I am a representative of the entire South or not. I have been In fourteen States since April, making the anaoanermeut of a new declaration of Independence that “10 to 1 or bust” is the slogan. Ia the last three or four or five years the ■l'eatern people have come to realize that

SENATOR TILLMAN HURLS DEFIANCE.

the condition of the South ami the condition Of the West was identical. Hence, we Unit to-day that the Democratic party of the West is here almost iu -mild phalanx appealto the South—the South have responded—to come to their help to remove this yoke. It ia not worth while for me to say that •which will breed any discord between the decttoiiK, for such a fuought does not harbor In my breast, i deny utterly having one 3U thought or augry passion lu my bosom ia contemplating the wrong which we have endured. Hut if you have listened to the truth, and it has entered your brain, you are bound to acknowledge that the most of these imjprovcnmiits and money In the Eastern litld atom hern States where all this wealth has fioue, has uot gone for the benefit of the jpeoplo. Imt the wealth is owned by a few amen. Look at this city here—uot a paper In It iu favor of the money of the Constitution aud of the people, every one of rtieui howling day by day and abusing the majority of their Telloiv citizens iu this section even, and .further West by calling them howling dervishes and silver lunatics. We have, instead of a slave oligarchy, a money oligarchy. The one is more insoieut than the other was. The only thing which can keep the ulovemeut this revolution—from succeeding in ■sweeping this country' from end to end is thm we may submerge our patriotism here, forget the duly which we owe our people, follow after the banner of some Individual walhcr than a principle, and fail to discharge '4hai dm y which we owe to the masses of selecting a man here whose record will fit this Idfilfortu. The Senator • from New York is *o follow mo. He despised the President of The I'll lied States in 181)2. He has had cause glace to more than despise him. Hut for some Inscrutable reason, although he has been betrayed by his own party and his own State, be appears here as the sponsor and apologist for Hie administration. As drover Cleveland olatids for gold monometallism, and we have repudiated it, then when we are asked to Indorse drover Cleveland’s administration, we are asked to write ourselves down as liars. We need money to spend or we cannot patronize the local merchants; If we have not money, the local merchant cannot order from the jobber; the jobber cannot order from the factory; and you see the sequence of consequences. .The farmers of the Northeastern Nfnlii? are Just us poor and just as hard up .*» we are. They are ready to join this army of emancipation. The Democracy are face to face with tills Issue.- and it must lie met. We ol the South have burned our bridges «<* far ns the Northeastern Democracy is ssmeerned, as now organized. We have turn«kl our faces to the West, asking our brethren of these States to unite-with us in restoring the Government to the liberty of our fathers, or which our fathers left us. The West has responded by Its representatives here. For myself, and for those of iny State •who entuo with me, we came here primarily to see that we had a platform which meant what it said and said what it meant. We got it. Now give us any man you please who is a true representative of that platform—we have no choice—and we pledge you •shat every vote South of the I’otomac-wlll .go iu him.

Penator Hill.

I an) a Democrat, put I am not a revolutionist. Mo matter what the provocation, you *c»nof drive me out of the Democratic party. Tliat party has survived the attempt ol' every ■section of the country to divide It, to distract it; It lives to-day, and I hope it will Sotix survive. My mission here is to unite, mol. to divide. The question which this convention is to decide is which is the best position to take at this time upon the financial •question, it Is not a question of patriotism. It is not a question of courage. It Is a question of business. It is a question of finance. I think that the safest, the best course for this convention to have pursued, was to take the first step forward in the great cause of siionetary reform by declaring in favor of international bimetallism. I do not think that we can safely ignore the monetary systems ■of other great nations. I know that it appeals to tlie pride of the average American To say that It matters not what other countries may do, we can arrange this matter foe ourselves. But I beg to remind you, if almt suggestion is carried out to its legitimate ■conclusion, you might as well do away with International treaties, you might as well do away with 'commercial treaties with other ■couutries, you might us well do away with -all flic provisions in your tariff bills that fete* relation to the laws of other countries. "What does this silver platform provide? Tour committee has recommended for adoption a platform which makes the test of •Democratic loyalty to hang upon a single ratio, anil that If! to 1. I doubt the wisdom ■*% .having entered into detail. I doubt the gpropriety of saying that 15% or 17 is heresy mbit 10 is the only true Democratic doctrine.

HILL ADDRESSING THE CONVENTION.

AVitk all due respect, I think it an unwise step; I think it an unnecessary step, and I tklub It will return to plague us In the future- Another suggestion: What was the necessity for putting Into the platform other ■questions which have never been made the teste of Democratic loyalty before? IVhy we find the disputed question of the policy ■nod. constitutionality of an income tax. Will some one toll me what that clause means in this platform? Whenever before‘in file historjf of this country has devotion to an Insfime tax been made the test of Democratic loyalty? Never. Another question I think ■should have been avoided Is this: What was the necessity, whar, the propriety of taking up the vexed question of the issue of bonds Tor tin; preservation of the credit of the nation? Why not have left tills financial question of the free coinage of silver alone? You kxve announced the bold policy that under «o circumstances shall there ever be a single Imxt issued in times of peace. It means the Tirtusd repeal of your resumption act; It •nexus repudiation per se and simple. The

statement is too broad. the statement Is too sweeping; It has not been carefully considered. No, no, my friends; this platform has not been wisely considered. In your zeal for monetary reform yon have gone out of the true path; yon have turned from the true course, and In your anxiety to build np the silver currency you have unuecesssrily put lu this platform provisions which cannot stand a fair discussion. I dislike the ttepuilcan party. 1 dislike ali their tenets. I have no sympathy with their general principles. I>o not attempt to drive old Democrats out of the party that have grown gray iu its service to make room for a lot of Itepubilcans and old Whigs and other Populists that will uot vote you/ ticket after all. No matter who your candidate may he In this convention. with possibly one exception, your I*upnlist friends upou whom yon are relying for suport In the West anil South, will nominate their own ticket and your silver forces will be divided. Mark the prediction which I make. My friends, 1 thus speak more lu sorrow than in anger. You know what this plutforrn means to the East. You must realize the result. But, calamitous as it may he-to-ns, It will be more calamitous to you if. after all, taking these risks, you do not win the fight. My friends, we want the Democratic party to succeed. We want to bulls Ik up. We do not want to tear it down. \Vir wiuit our principles—the good, old principles of Jefferson, of Jackson, of Tllden, of hard money, of safe money, we want ns greenback eumyuy on our plates. We want no paper currency whatever. We want to stand by the principles under which we have won daring the history of this country anil ma.le It what it is. If we keep in the good old paths of the party we can win. If we depart from them we shall lose.

Ex-Congressman Bryan. 0* On the 4th of March, 18'.Y», a few* 1 Democrats, most of them members of Congress, issued an address to the Democrats of the nation, asserting that the money question was the paramount Issue of the hour: asserting also the right of a majority of the Democratic party to control the position of the party on this paramount Issue; concluding with the request that all believers In free coinage of silver In the Democratic party should organize and take charge of and control the policy of the Democratic party. Three months later, at Memphis, an organization was perfected, aud the sliver Democrats went forth openly and lioldiy aud courageously proclaiming their belief, and declaring that If successful they would crystallize lu a platform the declaration which they had made; aud then began the conflict, with a zeal approaching the zeal which inspired the Crusaders who followed Peter the Ileriult. Our silver Democrats went forth from victory unto victory until they are assembled now, not to discuss, not to debate. But to enter up the Judgment rendered by the plain people of this country. In this contest brother has been nrrayed against brother and father against son. The warmest ties of fore and acquaintance and asroclatlon have been disregarded. Old leaders have been cast aside when they refused to give expression to the sentiments of those whom they would lead and new leaders have sprung up to give dlreetion to this cause of truth. Thus has the contest been waged, and W" have assembled here under as binding and solemn instructions as were ever fastened upon the representaitves of a people. We do not come as Individuals. Why, as Individuals we might have been glad to compliment the gentleman from New York, Senator IHll, hut we knew that the people for whom we sp-'ak would never be willing to put him in a position where he could thwart the will of the Democratic party. I say It was not a question of persons; it was a question of principle; ami it is not with gluilness, my friends, that we find ourselves brought Into conflict with those who are now arrayed on the other side. If they ask here why it is that we say more on the money question than we say upon the tnrltf question. 1 reply that If protection has slain its thousands the gold standard has slain its tens of thousands. If they ask ns why wo did not embody all these things in our platform which we believe, we reply to them that when we have restored the money of the Constitution, all other necessary reforms will be possible, and that until that is done there is uo reform that can be accomplished. Mr. McKinley was nominated at St. Louis ou a platform that declared for the maintenance of the gold standard until It should be changed into bimetallism by an International agreement.' Mr. McKinley was the most popular man among the Itepuhlleaus, and everybody three months ago In the Republican party prophesied Ills election. How is it to-day’; Why, that man who used to boast that he looked like Napoleon—that unrn shudders to-day when he thinks that he was nominated ou the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo. Not only that, but as he listens lie can hear with ever-increasing distinctness the sound of the waves ns they beat upon the lonely shores of St. Helena. Why tilts changeV Ah! uiy friends. Is not the change evident to any oue who will look at the matter? It is no private character, however pure, uo personal popularity, however great, that can protect

BRYAN DELIVERING HIS GREAT SPEECH.

from the avenging wrath of an Indignant people the man who will either declare that he is In favor of fastening the gold standard upon this people, or who Is willing to surrender the right of self-government and' place legislative control in the hands of foe, elgn potentates and powers. We go forth confident that we shall win. Why? Because upon the paramount issue In tills campaign there is not a spot of ground upon which the enemy wilt dare to challenge battle. We care not upon which issue they force the light. Mr. Carlisle said In IS7B that tills was a struggle between the idle holders of idle capital and the struggling mnsses who produce the wealth and pav the taxes of the country, and my friends, ’it Is simply a question that we shall decide, upon which side shall the Democratic party fight? Upon the side of the idle holders of idle capital, or upon the side of the struggling masses? They tell t;s that the great cities arc In favor of the gold standard. I tell you’that the groat cities rest upon these broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms and your cities will spring up t< ugain as if by magic. But destroy our farms and the grass will grow In the streets of every city In tills country. My friends, we shall declare that this nation is able to legislate for Us own people on every question without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nntlon on earth and upon that issue we expect to carry every single State Ip!this Union. It is the issue of 1773 over again. Our ancestors were the 3,000,000 who had the courage to declare their political Independence of every other nation upon earth. Shall we, their descendants, when we have grown to 70,000,000, declare that we are less Independent than our forefather*? No, my friends, it will never be. Die judgment of this people. Therefore we carp not upon what lines the battle is fought. If they say bimetallism Is good but we cannot have It till some nation helps us, we reply that, instead of having a gold standard because ICngland 4ns. we shall restore bimetallism and then let England have bimetallism because the United States has. If they dare to come out In the open and defend the gold standard ns a good thing, we shall fight them to the uttermost, having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world. Having behind us the commercial interests and the laboring interests and all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands for a gold standard by saying to them you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

Senator Vila*.

As a Democrat who has always maintained a reasonable obedience to be the first duty to accomplish the party’s mission, I ask-.a hearing for the party’s sake, which from youth I have devotedly believed necessary for our good and onr liberty. I speak for 4 State which has maintained the Democratic faith under circumstances of trial ahd with constant fidelity. The question Which you are about to decide is momentous, painfully so. its right decishm deraauds intelligence and reasoning. Order will reverse no law of nature and flat rage in vain against principles of finance. Tills convention has power over neither, but will be powerful for good as it shall respect that higher law which it csimiot alter, though disobey' and counter. The minority believe the proposal of the majority tobe disobedient to that cause, recklessly and flagrantly so, and will cause a fearful penalty. 1 will not protract the argument. The Senator frum New York has already stated the argument. His speech in direct proposal ind-tftPS what serious Injury to the country utLf 33VV) In the change of the standard of vn'oec -i that proposition is carried out. It will not produce bimetallism—far from it. It

!• la diametric opposition to the platform ot 181*2. which proposed an honest bimetallism, if the thing be possible at all, when conditions shall make it possible. And the superlative victory of this scheme will be the honest bimetallism contended for to-day la tho Isdief that you will tiereby secure bimetallism. Those who are In favor of this scheme jjelleve that It Will produce an abundance of money. TUI* it will not do. It will shrink, and not swell oer currency. The silver dollar Is uo new thing to the United States. This scheme of sHVer-sho’nnaietalllsm Is no new thing n» tbliM-uunny, however novel to the ignorance, perhaps, of gome of this generation. The silver standard Is no new thtug In the Putted States beginning without early poverty aud weakness and abiding until 1534; then money was scant lu this country; It possessed no gold; It was to get gold and with it abundance, so far as the want of eurreufiy is concerned, that the act of 1.834 was passed. That was a Democratic measure. That wag a measure preßped under Democratic leadership tiy Beutoti with the favor of Andrew Jackson. That was distinctly accused then as a gold measure, and It raised the standard of gold iu this country, but it raised this country from the grade of Chlua uud Japan aud Mexico to a place amoDg the foremost nations that maintain and rule the world’s commerce and carry the colors of civilization to the farthest regions of the globe. The gold standard la now accused of responsibility for fulling prices, hut It Is never credited when prices rise. In truth, it Is entitled neither to the credit nor to the fault. The argument is u false deduction. Would you stop the fall of prices, suppress Invention, extinguish enterprise, discard Improvements in transI*ortatiou—lu short, smite with paralysis the forces of civilization? Take from the farmer the harvester and thrashing machine, am} wjient will rise; snatch away from the planter'the cotton-gin, the press, and cotton will rise. Let loose on society the things of de-

VILAS DEFENDS THE ADMINISTRATION.

struotiuu and they will soon deliver you from this supposed curse of civilization to a cheap abundance. But the gold-standard has nothing to Uo with It. When any standard be fixed with continuing stability It lias no more to do with price than a yard-stick or pair of scales. oh, fellow Democrats, why must you launch our old party on this wild career? What inspiration warrants our pursuit of that which the wisdom of mankind condemns? Who teaches us. with authority, a lesson In finance which the world of the highesl civilization stands aghast at? Is It possible that tills ohl party ol’ Jefferson, tills old Demo-cratic-party of constitutional law and liberty, shall thus fall before the machinations of n propaganda maintained by silver mineowners which had Its origin many years ago? It was not for such uses, It was not for such an end that the Democratic party was created. I protest with solemn earnestness, with sincerity and personal kindness, that the Democrats of the North ought not to have accepted this result. For thirty years they have stood at great personal cost lighting devotedly for the principles of Democracy, until in a restored Union, lyth equal rights shared by every part anil every portion of the people, they hare seen the triumph apparently of Democracy. And now, la the hour when we thought everything before us was well, we are to have this newly given strength exerted to pul! down tile pillars hf the temple aud crush us all beneath the ruins. So 1 hope for a better future for tlie Democratic party. The evil times, the evil days, though filled with darkness and with dangers, and compassed around with clouds, may pass. I hope to live to see a Democratic convention asembled here when all shall be united and the whole party restored to the vigor and power which Is necessary for Us service to the Constitution.

Presence of Mind.

A person who knows exactly the fight thing to do in a suildeu emergency, without stopping to think at all, deserves to have his presence of mind noted and commended. A German drum major has lately attained such distinction, with good reason. A regiment of the imperial army, resting on a country road, was appalled to see a great bull madly pursuing a little child iu a field wb*ci» was near by. and yet so far away that the child could not be reached hi time to 'save it, nor' yet' saved by the shooting of the animal. The bull had his horns down, and all the soldiers were horrified to see that in another moment the child must be gored to death. For an instant no one seemed to know what to do, and then the drum major shouted to the buglers of the band, who stood near with their Instruments in their ha nils, to f sound a loud blast. They looked aghast. “Sound, I say, for God’s sake, to save the child!” he repented. Then the buglers blew a blast at the top of their lungs. The drum major knew that animals of the cow kind are so much affected by strange and highpitched musical sounds that they seem compelled to imitate them. This bull proved to be no exception to the rule. As soon as he heard the bugle blast he paused iu his pursuit of the child, glanced toward the hand, raised his head, anil began to bellow nmdly. The buglers kept up as high and discordant a tumult as they could, and meantime soldiers were running to the rescue of the child. Before the bull had finished hits attention to the bugles the child was in a place of safety.

Great Waves.

A traveler who crossed the Atlantic in company with an army officer says that in spite of his sympathy for his companion’s suffering from the pangs of seasickness, he could not help deriving eonsiderable amusement from it. Going into the stateroom one particularly rough- day lie found his companion tossing in his berth, muttering in whkt at first appeared to be a sort of delirium. Stooping over to catcli bis words, tit friend heard him say, “Sergeant, majo sergeant, major, or, only eighth corpor al; brigadier general, brigadier general, ugh, lieutenant general, a-a-a-h!” , “What are you saying?” asked; the friend in some alarm, as the sufferer looked piteously up at him after his last gasping “a-a-a-h!” “Assigning tho waves their rank,” said the military man, rolling over toward the wall agaiu. “There have been eight lieutenant generals within the last twenty minutes'.”

Mourning.

Mourning takeif'o(td forms in'sb’me countries, but none more curious than at Sitka, iu India, where, when a woman loses her husband, she mourns bin by painting the upper part of her far a deep jet black.

Will Make Clothing Cheap.

An electrical machine for cutting cloth lias been invented which is capable of cutting out from 200 to 300 suits a day. The sacred Bo tree of Ceylon it said to have sprung from a slip of tbe tree under which Buddha was born.

DIOCMPIIIFOi. The platform as reported by the Committee on Resolutions to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago is as follows: »m We. the democrats ot the United States, In national contention assemH.A, do reaffirm our allegiance to those great essential principles of justice and liberty upon which our institutions are founded ami which the democratic party has advocated from Jefferson's time Uk.wuc own—freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of conscience, the preservation of personal rights, the equality of all cltlaens before the Law. and the faithful observance of constitutional limitations. FINANCIAL PLANK—Reeogniztn g that thetnoney question tr paramount to all others at this time, we Invite attention to the fact that the federal constitution names silver ant gold together as the money meta|s. of the United States, and that the first coinage law passed by congress under the constitution made the silver dollar the unit of value and admitted gold to free coinage at tho rgtlo measured by the sliver dollar unit. ■ • ■ We declare that the of 1873 demonetizing silver Without the knowledge or approval of the American people has resulted in the appreciation of gold and a corresponding fali In the prices of commodities produced by the people; a, heavy increase In the burden of Jaxation and of all debts, public and private; the enrichment of the money lending class at home apd abroad; prostration of industry and impovertohment of the people. • 4 We are unalterably opposed to the single gold standard, which has looked fast the prosperity of an Industrial people In the paralysis of hard times. , Gold mononnjtaliteni is a British policy, am] Its adoption has Brought other nations into flnajftial senitudn to London. It Is not only un-American but antiAmerican, and it can b? fastened on the United States only by the stifling of that indomitable spirit and love of liberty which proclaimed our political Independence in 1776 and won it in the war of the revolution. norjnzenL We demand the free and unlimited coinage of 8 K both gold and silver at the present legal ratio of S | Any other nation. We demand that the standard | H silver dollar shall be a full legal tender, equally (| with gold, for all debts, public and private, and we | I favor such legislation as will prevent the demon- i| etization of any kind of legal tender money by |j private contract. | rjrjmrA We aro opposed to the policy and practice of surrendering to the holders of the obligations of the United States the option reserved by law to the government of redeeming such obligations in either silver coin or gold coin. BONDS —We ore opposed to the Issuing of interest-bearing bonds of th* United States In time of peace, and condemn the trafficking with banking syndicates. which. In exchange for bonds and at an enormous profit to themselves, supply the federal treasury with gold to maintain the policy of gold monometallism. Congress alone has the power to coin and issue money, and President Jackson declared, tlfat this power could not be delegated to corporations or Individuals. We therefore demand that the power to Issue notes to circulate money be taken from the national banks, ami that all paper money shall bo Issued directly by th» treasury department, f TARIFF AND TAXATION—We hold that tariff duties should be levied for purposes of revenue, and that taxation should lie limited by the needs of th« government honestly and economically administered. We denounce as disturbing to business the republican threat to restore the McKinley law, which has been twice condemned by the people In national electiqns, anil which, enacted t under the false plea of protection to homo Industry, proved a prolific breeder of trusts and monopolies, enriched the few at the expense of tha nuifly, restricted trade and deprived the producers of the great American staples of access to their natural markets. Until the money question la settled we aro opposed to any agitation for further changes In our tariff laws, except such as are necessary to make the deficit In revenue caused by the adverse decision of the Supremo Court on the income tax. There would be no deficit in the. revenue but for the annulment by the Supreme Court of a law passed by a democrat!* congress In strict pursuance of tho, uniform decisions of 'that court for nearly one hundred years, that court having unstained constitutlojial objections to Its enaottnAit, which lias been overruled by the ablest judged who had eves sat on that bench. We declare that It Is the duty of congress to uco ull the constitutional power which remains after that decision, or wiileh may como from Its reversal by the court as it may hereafter 1"' constituted, so that the burdens of taxation muy be equally and Impartially laid, to the end that wonlth may bear Its proportion of the .expenses of the government. We hold that the most efficient way of protecting American labor Is to prevent tfie Importation of foreign pauper labor to compete with It, In the home market, and that the value of the home market to our American farmers and artisans Is greatly reduced by a vicious monetary system which depresses *he prices of their products below the cost of production and thus deprives them of the means of satisfying their needs, REPUBLICAN CONGRESSES—We denounce the profligate waste, of tb# money wrung from tho people by oppressive taxation and tho lavish appropriations of recent republican congresses, which have kept taxes high while the labor that pays them is unemployed and the product of the people's toll are depressed in price till they no longer repay the cost of production. We demand a return to that simplicity and economy which best befits a democratic government and a reduction In the number of useless otfioers, the salaries of which drain the substance of the people. FEDERAL INTERFERENCE—We denounce the arbitrary Interference by federal authorities In local affairs as a violation of the constitution of the United States and a crime against free Institutions, and wc especially object to government by Injunction as a new and highly dangerous form of oppression by ■which federal Judges, in contempt of the laws of the states and rights of citizens, become at once legislators, Judges and executioners; and we approve the bill passed at the last session of the United States senate and now pending In the house relative to contempts in federal courts and providing for trials by Jury In certain eases of contempt. PACIFIC FUNDING RILL—No discrimination should he Indulged In by the government of the United States In favor of Its debtors. We approve of ths refusal of the Fifty-third , congress to‘ pass the’Pacific railroad funding bill; denounce the effort of the present republican congress to enact a similar measure. PENSlONS—Recognizing the just claims off deserving union soldiers, we heartily Indorse the rule of Commissioner Murphy that no names shall be arbitrarily dropped from the pension roll, pm} }h*. fact of enlistment and service should be deemed conclusive evidence against disease and disability before enlistment. SYMPATHY FOR CUBA—We extend our sympathy to the people of Cuba in their heroic struggle for liberty find independence, CIVIL SERVICE—We are opposed to life tenure In the public service. We favor appointments based upon merits, fixed terms of office; and such nrt ailmln? lstratlpn of the civil service laws as will afford equal opportunities to all citizens of ascertained fitness. AGAINST THIRD TERM—Wo declare it to be the unwritten law of this republic, established by custom and usage of one hundred years and sanctioned by the of the greatest and wisest of those who founded and have maintained our government, no man should be eligible for a third berm of the presidential ofllee. * Confiding In the Justice of our cause and the necessity of Its success at the Polls we submit the foregoing declaration of principle and purposes to the considerate Judgment of the American people. We Invite the support of all citizens who approve them and who desire to have them made effective through legistetion for the relief of the people and the restoration of the country's prosperity.

FOR A NATIONAL FLOWER.

The Columbine's Claims to Be Selected as Our Floral Emblem. Gertrude Christian Fosdick, in the Ladies’ Home Journal, advocates the adoption of the columbine as our National flower, and considers its many commending points: “First, its very name suggest Columbia,” she writes. “Nor la this, as may appear, a mere trivial play upon words. We know that the word Columbus means dove, a fact full of poetic signifleanee when we remember how Columbus, like Noah's messenger of old, was sent forth to discover a new land. We also know that the columbine took its name from the resemblance which one view ot the flower bears to a group of doves. This form grows wild in the region where Columbus was bora, as well as iu our ltocky Mountain States. Then, too, the botanical and horticultural name of the flower is Aquilegia, which isVonnected with the Latin acini hi, an eagle, and was so named because t lie flower reversed suggests an.eagle's talons. Thus we have the thought of our Amerirtin eagle, emblematic of fearless power. Again, a front view of the flower shows the outline to Ik; a beautiful ttve-rayed star, emblematic of the stars of our flag 5 while, the leaf terminates in thirteen lobes, the number of the stripes, as well as of the number of original Stages In the Union. Another point is that while the columbine grows in many colors, three colors—the brilliant red, pure white and the exquisite Cerulean blue—are tlie American variety of the flower. Once more, a single petal of one of the long-spurred variety the shape of a horn of plenty, slgmo-l cant of this fruitful land, while short-spurred petal forms a perfect little liberty cap. Lastly, it grows In efery State of the Union, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from Canada to the Gulf. It point of hardihood It compares favorably with the rose. Our wild columbines are in full bloom by Memorial Day, and have not all disappeared by the Fourth of July.”

The Unfortunate Typewriter.

Mrs. Wallace—lsn't that a rather pretty girl Sir. Ferry has as a typewriter? Mrs. Ferry—l—l guess she is. It is a pity she is so deaf. Mr. Ferry lias to lean right over her shoulder when dictating a letter.—Cintinna ti Enquirer.

Jilted by Famous Men.

It Is a curious fact, says a Washington correspondent, that there are several women here who And a soujree of gratification in advertising that they have been jilted by famous men. A former sweetheart of John C. (Jalhoun is an inmate of Louise Home. She has a ling that he gave her, a lock of hair, and other mementoes of an early engagement, and she likes to tell the star? of her love affair. Another woinau here was once engaged to James Buchanan, and might have been mistress of the White House had she been so inclined. She does not advertise the fact, however, but the story is related by her friends to explain the reason why she prefers to remain a recluse rather than occupy the social position which her wealth and accomplishments would comamud.

Family Life.

Family life sustains national life—that is, by lightening the duties that would otherwise fall heavily upon the State. No one can compute the degree to which the family circle, with Its ever-prevading influence, anticipates wants, prevents crime,/promotes Industry and independence, and thus II9JIA back many of the burdens that wotnp otherwise be borne by the State. It is safe to say that there would be; a tenfold necessity for laws and penalties all through the country were it not for the controlling and guiding influence of the home.

Electricity from the Sea.

V At first glance there seems to be no connection liet ween the breaking of sea waves and the electrical condition of the air. Recent investigations, 'however, show that the shattering waves and the scattering of the have the effect of imparting positive electricity to the atmosphere. Visitors to the seashore experience a stimulation from the ozone contained in the air, and the presence of this is ascribed to the electrifying action of the spray 1 from the breaking waves. This same effect, from the same cause, is noticed near waterfalls.

The Cat’s Stretching.

The old family cat nwoke from a nap before the fire and, stretched himself in the manner common to cats. Margie looked at him with distended eyes. “My doodness!” she exclaimedr “I dess ze cat's doin’ t’ boll ovcr. J '-—Judge.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD QF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Jndjje Helm PrononneeH Sentence on Scott Jackaon'a Accomplice - ncreased Demand for Iron and Glaas Goods- Diacovera Ilia Mother, tValHnir Mhat Hnne. Alonzo Walling. -accomplice of Scott Jackson in the murder of Pearl Bryan, was sentenced to hung Aug. 7. Walling, smiling nud dbhant. was taken from tlx* Covington jatt liy Sheriff Plummer anti Jailer Bitzer, and driven in a surrey to Xew|x»rf. ’ On their arrival they found a crowd of several hundred surrounding the court house, hhf there was'no demonstration. Judge Helm at once overruled Pol. Wnshrngfbn’s tnotleii 'fbr a new trial, and ordered the prisoner to stand up. Walling, Uia. face flashed, fulteringly arose. Judge lloTm .-hid: •'Have you anything to say wljy judgment should not now be pronounced ngaiust youV” Walling replied M'ilh choking voice: “I will ask my attorney to siienk for me.” Col. Washington said: "If 1 can’t argue fully. I desire to say that there is no evidence in this ease justifying the conviction of this man.” Here Col. Washington sat down angrily. Judge ilelnt then said: “it is the judgment of this court that you He taken from here to the Covington jail and there oontined until the 7th day of August, nnd then brought front there to an Iriclosure nt the jail yard in Xewport, and then* by the sheriff bo hanged by the neck until yon shall be dead, and may God have mercy on your soul.” Walling turned pale and sat down. A moment later be was on his way back to Covington. Cheerful News for Labor. The Weatherall Hulling Mill Company of Anderson, met its employes Saturday and asked them to return to work at once, promising to payffiem whatever the hew scale cnlled for when the manufacturers slfcn it. The men refust-d to go to work. The company is rushed with orders and wants to get Its plant in operation as soon ns possible. All flint glass bottle and jar—house* in the nation closed down last night, the rules of the Flint (ibis* Workers' Association requiring all men to stop work for the summer season. The market is rushed and the prices are udvanoed. The manufacturers have forwarded a petition to the workers - convention .in session a* Alton, 111., asking them to permit tin* workers to return to their fines Aug, 1, instead of Sept. 1, as is the rule. In ease the request is granted all plants will resume nt that time, The past year has Jieen a most prosiwrons one in this department of the glass business, and it is one of the very few industries that tins not suffered a reduction of \vug<*x in the past few years. The Wright Shovel Company of Anderson posted a notice that they would advance tin* wages of the polishers and grinders 5 rents on the dozen. This will mean about 75 rents a day to the workmen. The increase was made unsolicited, and was a great surprise. The company states that the business of tin* firm is heavier now than for years. All .Over thu State. Dean Hush, of Knit Warsaw, dlsaplienrod Thursday morning and cannot Is* found.' lie has been sick for a long time, and it is feared that in his despondency lie committed suicide. A license of SIOO per year lias been Imposed upon the sale of cigarettes in Hushville by the City Council. Any sale's without a license are made punishable with a fine of )f-5 for each offense. Thomas Waiters, son of David Walters. was thrown under a locomotive at Wnlkurtoti and killed. Ho was employed on the grade of the Baltimore and Ohio Itnllroad nnd was nlxiut Li'-’ years old. Js>h Heed, a prize lighter who formerly served as chief of police at Anderson and Marlon, met Henry Boyd In a saloon at Ilrightwnod Thursday night, and struck him on the ear with his fist, felling him lilte a log. He then kicked the uncoil-! Hgioiiij t'ernv until dragged, away. Boyd.' died and Heed escaped arrest by flight’. A young man naiqcrd Edward Lee, who recently on me to Mishawaka from the Lafayette orphan asylum and has boon coachman for .1. A. Hnjior, lias JuHt dis- 1 covered the mystery of his parentage, lie was born at Fort Wayne in IX7-1, was entered at the asylum in 1878 as abandoned, but. really is the son of a wealthy woman of Buchnmui, Pike County, (). After a long search she located the son she had abandoned slid has sent for him. She is very sick.

John IVrrinc, a young Valparaiso business man, wns shot by 11 supposed burglftr in the rear of hi* Inmincs* house late Saturday night. Tuesday he received the following threatening letter: “John B. IVriine: I am still here, and will endeavor to do better tie* next time than I did Saturday night. 1 don't want your tools, but I am going to get you, and I am going tb get your property. Yours, Light Pants." The affair has caused a great, deal of exeitenibnt. At a late hour Monday night the house of (buries Cowglll, n merchant in n small town n.v.th of Bourbon, was raided by-three burglars, who ransacked every drawer, box and hiding place within thoir reacli. Not Aiding nny money, they concluded to awaken him and threaten his life if he did not tell where his money was. Mr. Cowgill hnd in the house nt the time nbont $.'1,100 in gold 11ml currency. He hnd it hidden, SSO in an old stocking and the remainder in other places. After they hnd nro ised him one of the gang demanded ids money He concluded it was liest to give up the SSO. and after some hesitation disclosed its location. After they secured the SSO they searched the house to ascertain if Cowglll had any weapons, took him a mile frpm home, bid him good-night and told him that they would see him sonic other night. C.6Wgill said they were boys about IS years of age, but ho could not tell who they were QU account of their mask#. George Bremer, of Fort Wayne, while rowing- on St. Joe river, upset the boat and was drowned, together with a companion whose name was not learned. Both then were employed in a railroad shop. Len Oliver, aged 18 years, escaped from Superintendent of Police Meagher Of Terre Haute while on. his way to the reform school by jumptug from a train which/was funning thirty miles an hour. He was handcuffed, but w'as not injured. He then stole a horse and buggy, but was overtaken by the owner and made to give rtp the rig and allowed to escape to the woods, -i. , Near Jeffersonville, much dnningc whs dope- by h terrific thunderstorm Saturday afternoon. At Borden, houses were washed away, the town flooded, and much dantpgv, dope, growing crqps weyo ruin#4/ and - the streams are overflowed. No jiyes were jost. , m,The,(Commercial Hotel at Pendleton, probably the oldest, hotel in the Stnte, was destroyed by fire Tuesday. It-was built in ISJO and was made a fort twice. in Indian escapades. Later Frederick Douglass was stopping there when assaulted by an infuriated mob pnd almost killed. It Was substantial, •brick and stone bpiug used. Other buildings adjoining 1 weld also burned. Loss, about SIO,OOO.

FOR ANOTHER CONVENTION.

Gold Men Issue an Address t# (ka Voters of the Country. Democrats who believe ie a gold standard have issued a call for a national gathering of the uieiutiers of their wing of the party for the purpose ot puttiug a gold .Democratic* ticket ia the Held. The call was given out for publication- by the members of the executive committee of the gold Demoirncy of Illinois. The call is issued by the Illinois Democracy which advocates the cause of the yellow metal to the gold Democracy of the other States. In part it is as follows: “A national ‘convention convened nnder the constituted authority of our party baa just closed its session in the city of Chicago. It entered iiism its itorfc by Rotating all party piecedouts in the rejection of a distinguished Democrat os its temporary presiding officer. It deprived a sovereign State of a voice in Its deliberations by unsealing without cause or legal justification Jfflcgatt'k elected with all the regularity known to party organization. It refused to indorse the honesty and fidelity of the present Democratic national administration. It adopted a platform which favors the free and unlimited coinage of silver by this country alone at thu ratio of 1(1 to 1. and thereby It repudiated , a tinje-honon d Democratic .principle which demand* the strict maintenance of a sound nnd stable national Hirreney. Finally, to make it still |iluiner-' that 1 although in mum it was not in fact'a't>ewocrutie convention, it nominated for President one who isbot in his political convictions, and has not always been even in bis professions, a Democrat. “This has made such n crisis, both for the uatiou and i lie Democratic party, that sound-money Democrats at once must deride what polhhial action they will take for the proteet'on of the liouor of the nation, the prosperity of the people anrl the life ami usefulness of tiny party. The sound-money Dvnioctuts of llliuois have fully made tip ili/ii minds that a new Democratic national convention shonld be called for the earliest feasible dny t<* vmininntc Democratic candidates for President and Viet -President and adopt a. platform of Democratic principles. /‘Wo hope,” continues the document, “that out of the responses to this public statement of the views ot the Illinois Democracy there can la* gathered so much of the judgment, of Hie lending sound-money Democrats of the United Btates ns can ho formulated into a plan of action.” The cull is signed by the “Executive Committee of ilie lloncst-Money Democracy ot Illinois “

ABOUT PAST CONVENTIONS.

Chlcniro'H Decent Gathering Was Not the Most Memorable in History. The largest number of ballots ever taken in a Democratic national convention was in that of 18(10, at (Charleston. Fifty-seven ballots were taken without result, when an adjournment was had to Baltimore, .where Stephen A. Douglas wit's ndminntbd for President, seceding delegates from the Southern States nominating John Breckinridge. In the first throe con''rations held by the Democratic party the candidate for President was nominate'; without opposition, Andrew Jackson in lNItl! and Martbi Van Huron in lXllti and 1840. In 1844 nine ballots wen* required, Van Bureu having a clear majority at the sturt, but not two-thirds, tip; nomination falling to Polk, with Vttni'Burai receiving but ten, nnd Cass, Ills chief opponent, but seventeen. In 184. S Lewis Cass wilt nominated on the fourth ballot, receiving more than two-thirds. In’ 185*1 there were fortynine ballots. Cass was the leading candidate, with Huchuiinn second, Dougla* third and Many fourth. Ou the fortyninth ballot these dropp'd out and Franklin Pierce, was nominated. In 1850 Buchanan and Pierce started pretty close together, with Douglas third, ami on the ninth ballot Buchanan was nominated. In 1804 Gen. McClellan wus nominated ou the first ballot. In 1808 Seymour was nominated on the twenty-second ballot. In 187- Greeky was nominated on tho first ballot, reviving OSS votes; Bayard, 15; Black, ill, a. d Groesheck, Tltdcn was nominated on the second ballot. Allen (l, Thurman Jit Ohio, Hendricks of Indium, Bayard of Delaware, and Hancock of Pennsylvania were also voted for, Hendricks having the second largest vote and Hancock third. In 1880 Hancock was nominated on the second ballot, though lie and Bayard stood very close together on the first ballot, their votes ladtig 171 and 100 respectively. In 1884 there were two ballots, Cleveland having a commanding lend on the first. Bayard, Thtiru|nn, Uaudall, McDonald, Hendricks, Carlisle, Flower and Homtlcy were ulho voted for. Mr. McDonald's vote on the first ballot was fif-ty-six and Hendricks’ one. On the second ballot Hendricks’ vote wus forty-five and McDonald's one. In 1888 President Cleveland wit i nominated l>y' acclamation. In IS', td he was nominated ou the first ballot.

AGES ON THE PRESIDENCY.

Comparisons (thawing the Relative Youth of Nominee llrjron. William J. Bryan, scho 1 is ouiy Is<i years ohl, is the youngest Irfn.ll ever nominated for the presidential office by one of (he great parties, and if successful will lie the youngest man ever elected. The favorite decade in life from which to choose a President has b»en the sixth.. Thus their nges ran in this wise: Washington, 5*5; Jefferson, 57; Madison, 57; Monroe, 58; John Quincy Adams, 57: Van Buren, 54; Lincoln, 51;,Hayes, 54, and Benjamin Harrison, <53. The Presidents above (50 at the time of their election were John Adams. <sl; Jackson, <il; William Henry Harrison, <57; Taylor, <52. and Buchanan, <55. Those below 50 were Folk, 40: Pierce, 48; Grant. 4*5; Garfield. 40. aiid'Cleveland, 47. Mr. Cleveland wns 55 at his second election. The Vice-President* who became Presidents were at their eleetiou tl)o following ages: Tyler, 5o; Fillmore, 48; Johnson, s<l, and Arthur, 50. Mr. Bryan is ten years younger than Gen. Grant when he was. nominated, twenty-five years younger than John Adams and Jackson, and thirty-sine years younger than the eider Harrison, who wns the oldest uin’i ever yet -nominated for President, though he holds ihe ageover Janies Buchanan by only two years. The constitution roquircsfhe President to he :i5. so.that Mr. Bryan just skips over the boundary line. • News of Minor Note. - George laini; the New York millionaire, is dead, aged 5d years. Joseph A. Shuler, a farm**, w*s killed by lightning near Hutchinson, Kan. Ilerr Rohlfs. the African explorer, died at his residence,.at Uuengsdorf-on-Ithine. Rebecca Hertstneti, aged 4 years, daughter of a merchant of Marion, Ind.. has died from burns received while playing' with a ton tire, which ignited her clothes. '..'i.s "in.: . v Three robliers, who posed as detectives, and enforced their 'demands with»*pistol and chib, entered a house at 245 West Forty-second Street, at New York, forced Joseph Miska and Edward* Settle-to give tip $l,lOO in money and SI,OOO worth of jewelry, and escaped with their booty.