Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 October 1888 — Page 2

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The National Ticket.

FOR PRESIDENT,

BENJAMIN HAHBISON, of Indiana.

VICE PRESIDENT,

LEVI P. MORTON, of New York.

ELKCTORS-AT-LAROB,

JAMES M. SHACKELFORD, of Vanderberg. THOMAS H. NELSON, of Vigo.

EIGHTH DISTRICT ELECTORS.

JOHN C. CHANEY, of Sullivan. The State Ticket. GOVERNOR

ALVIN P. HOVEY, of Posey. LIEUT.-50

VEKNOR

IRA J. CHASE, of Hendricks. JUDGES OF SUPREME COURT

let District—SILAS D. COFFEY, Of Clay. District—JOHN r. BERKSHIRE, of Jennings. 1th District—WALTER OLDS, of Whitley.

SECRETARY OF STATE

CHARLES K. GRIFFIN, of Lake.

AUDITOR OF STATE

BRUCE CARR. of Orange.

TREASURER OF STATE

Jl'LIUS A. LEMCKE, of Vanderburg.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL,

LEWIS T. MICHENER, of Shelby.

bUPPKRINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION,

HARVEY M. LA FOLLETTE, of Boone.

REPORTER OF SUPREME COURT,

JOHN L. GRIFFITHS, of Marlon.

CONGRESSMAN,

JAMES T. JOHNSTON, of Parke.

JOINT REPRESENTATIVE,

WILLIAM K. WELLS, of Vermillion. County Ticket.

STATE SENATOR,

1 ltANClS V. B1CHOWSKY.

REPRESENTATIVES,

WILLIAM H. BERRY. MARION McQUILKIN.

THOSECUTINO ATTORNEY,

JAMES E. PIETY.

TREASURER,

FRANKLIN C. FISBECK.

SHERIFF,

BENONI T. DKBAUN.

COMMISSIONERS,

lnt District—LEVI W. DICKERSON. •til District—LOUIS FINKBINER. 3.1 District—S. S. HENDERSON.

SURVETOR,

FRANK TUTTLE.

CORONER,

DR. JOHN HYDE.

The people are hungry for "reading niattei" this year. The Republican party can in no way better feed this appetite than by the circulation of General Harrison's speeches.

A hard pull and a strong pull by Republicans duriDg the next two weeks will not only make sure the electoral vote of Indiana for Harrison, but will inake sure his election.

The Gazette iB logically for free trade. Tt already has the benefit of low wages, paying as it does, less than any newspaper in the state, and it now wants what it buys of others made cheap by reducing the wages of the man in the paper mill and the man in the type found ry.

They seem to be crowding General Harrison with delegations to Indianapolis, but the speeches of this remarkable man show that however frequently and numerously they may come upon him he cannot be crowded into a corner. Rach visit brings out a strikingly new presentation of the issues of the campaign. such as his party believes in.

The tariff is the issue of the year. It gains the votes of democrats who can't endorse the free-trade tendency of their party. There are many of them who are ready to desert their party if once convinced that it is moving toward free trade. Happily the evidence of this fact is complete and can be supplied equal to the demand. The Express furnishes some of it this morning.

Mr. T. C. Crawford, the New York World correspondent who has spent the last year in Europe, traveling through all countries there, says in an interview that he went to Europe a theoretical tariff reformer" but that he returns to this country an advocirte of a protective tariff for American industry. Mr, Crawford's theories were quickly dissipated by the facts that came within his personal knowledge. It is the condition that confronted him.

If any working inun can see how cheaper things can be secured by the free trade policy and yet leavo him hie fair margin he should vote for Cleveland. Any workingman who does not know that in the cheapening process the wages of the workingman first feel the effects of the cheapening process should vote for Cleveland, but we do not believe the workingmen of this country will this year be misled into taking the initiative in reducing their own wages.

A correspondent of the New York World who has been here sends to his newspaper the information that the campaign here "is floating along without a ripple of bitterness or acrimony," and that "the two parties are fighting purely on the lines laid down in the platforms of their respective parties." On this we shall win. There is no doubt about it. We kuow we are making converts, and converts count double on election day in wiping out the majority Cleveland received in this state. There need be no "smart" tactics in a contest so plainly detined. Our opponents can not, and do not care to. avoid the issue. The Republicans need only to push the fight to increase the gain the stubborn opposition realizes has been made. The opposition can not change front and should be pushed to the wall. It is a tight where frank and honest purpose will surely win.

"BOOMERANG SLANDERS."

Mr. William E: Curtis, of the Chicago News, who has been feeling the political pulse in the "doubtful states," with the skill and experience whioh have made hiin a specialist, was in Indianapolis a

week or more until yeeterday, when he applied his skill to the Wabaeh valley feverish patient. Mr. Curtis' renown as a practitioner among the most "knowledgeous" subjecte is world-wide, it may be said, and he never makes a mistake in his diagnosis. In one of his letters from Indianapolis he says:

The glanders that have been published by the Democratic committee against General Harrison may have injured him elsewhere, but they have helped him here by awakening Indignation among his neighbors, who lrrespsctlve of party, hold him in the highest esteem. Chairman Brlce told me he accepted the management of the national committee with the undeestandIng that there should be no personal attacks upon the opposing candidate, whom he had known for years and respected as a man of ability, Integrity and honor. But Mr. "SI" Sheerln the secretary of the committee of which Mr. Brlce is chairman, Is conducting the campaign In this quarter and keeps several men busy preparing for shipment circulars and other documents containing the most Infamous slanders, and Mr. Sheerln knows them to be slanders, too.

Mr. Curtis further reviews the Sentinel's wild accusations as to knownothingism, etc., and his conclusion sent to the News, a newspaper supporting Cleveland, is that it is a losing fight for the unscrupulous Democracy. Indeed, it is aimed too low for that intelligence which the voter is calling into play this year, and which General Harrison said on Saturday last would prevail over these silly slanders.

MR. QUAY TALKS,

Mr. ^uay, the chairman of the Republican national committee, is the right man in the right place. If there were no other reason for saying so it could be said because he refused to talk. Mr. Quay is not a "rainbow chaser" like our friend Brice, of the Democratic committee who, after many weeks of his so-called "campaign of intellect," is made to step aside for "Seven-Mule Barnum" and Higgins' Gorman, who are from this time on to conduct the campaign on the ideas of Sam Tilden, of cipher notoriety.

Mr. Quay has not talked, we said, but he has at last said something that should put every Republican in line with the general movement and help swell the tide that now needs but two weeks to make sure the election of the Republican candidates who, if a vote were taken to-day, would be elected beyond doubt. This is the report of his talk:

You want a peculiar reason *1 suppose." Mr. Quay replied, "and not one of many that are familiar. Well, here is a point: Four years ago today a tide was setting in that floated Cleveland Into the White House. Up to the 1st of October in that year there seemed a certainty that Blaine would be elected. But during that month there was a singular, almost phenomenal, series of happenings that defeated our candidate. Without any good reason for expecting a repetition of this unpleasant experience. It Is true that some of the gentlemen In our committee have dreaded the present October. Their fears have proved groundless. We are two-thirds through the month and not the smallest setback for Harrison and Morton has been encountered. On the contrary, our strength Is growing steadily and largely, and that, too, In just the states where we want It Weare getting through October this time without disaster.

C. O. D.

It the weather will only follow the example of the campaign orators and dry up after election we will all be doubly thankful.

May Howard, who lias made a success as a burlesque actress, (emphasis on burlesque) makes the astonishing statement In a recent Interview that "It won't do to let the audience see too much of you.' Why, May!

Mr. Jack Strauss—"Miss Mamie, did you ever read "Behind Closed Doors?" Miss Mamie—"Oh yes, often, read all of Miss Rives' works that way. Mamma Is so old-fash-ioned and strict, you know.''

Jake KUraln still holds the champion belt, but John L. Sullivan (of Boston) promises to contest his right as soon as his health permits. As John Is now a journalist we fraternally hope that he will le able to reclaim his zone.

Juggins—"I've (lot a scheme to carry Illinois for Cleveland sure.'' Muggins—"No! What is it'.'

Juggins—"I'll do it on just due sentence of liis December message. He says: 'Legislative and executive effort should have a tendency to divorce as much and as fast as can safely be done, the treasury department from private enterprise.' Now I propose to get out a million cards with that sentence on, stopping at the word'done.' and we'll carry Chicago by such a majority that all the rest of the state ca»'t overcome It. See?"

A lot of young fellows were sitting around In the hotel office, airing their supposed knowledge of women and their ways, when old man Barlow spoke up and said: "My young friends, by the time you are as old as I am you will conclude that you ain't so very much smarter than a woman la. after all. Back in the early days when I was courting my llrst wife, it was generally the rule for a young fellow to saddle up his horse—there weren't any roads in those days hardly, and not a young man In the settlement had a buggy—well, a young man would start out on his horse, and get to his sweetheart's house about dark, have his horse put up and the old folks would bundle off to bed as soon as they had their

SHpper.

Well. I

rode over one Sunday as usual—It was about eleven miles and through the woods—put up old Jerry In the barn, and after the old folks had turned In. why, Jane and me set there and talked about the weather, and the big meettn' and one thing and another, but somehow 1 never could get up enough courage to pop the question, though she knew and I knew, that that was what I was there for. Finally, alter I'd said for about the fourth time that I 'spect I'd better go. and she'd said, 'Oh. don't be In a hurry.' equal number or times, I reached for my hat and went out to the barn to get my animal, and found out that he'd got the dour open and skipped for home. I goes In and told her how It was, ain said If she'd give me a blanket I'd just make a shakedown out In the hay and get home afoot when the gun rose. Says she, 'You'll do no such thing. I'll go In and wake pa and ma, and—and—I guess I'll go and sleep In ma's room, and let you have my room.' Of course I had to give up. and so she went and explained things to the old folks, and gave me alight and shoyed me in.

First thing I saw was a pair of her shoes over In one corner. The two of ,'ein just about made a good handful. Then I takes off my^boou and set 'em down along side of these little shoes and that sot me to thlnklug. I kinder heaved a sign after looking at those two pair of |foot gear for about five minutes, and sorter rolled up my eyes like a young feller will when he's In love, and saw a lot of white goods, flounced, embroidered and so on hanging on the wall. Then 1 heaved another sign and after I'd hung my clothes up alongside of all that muslin, 1 turned In, but not a wink of sleep did 1 get that night, for thinking of the picture those little shoes would make a settin before the fire-place In a little shanty of my own, anil when daylight came I somehow get Jane alone before I left and asked her to marry me, and we was hitched by old Brother John Carter the next month.

It wasn't until we'd been married six years that she told me that she had turned old Jerry loose herself that night, and had left them tilings around the room on purpose

IT MEANS FREE TRADE.

Extract from a Paper In the New York Tribune by the Hon. Thomas B. Reed, of Maine. The leader selected for the operations of the president's party in the house of reprentatives was Mr. Mills, of Texas. He was selected with his antecedents fully known and after much and painful deliberation. The country staggered under the surplus for many weeks while it awaited the choice of Mr. Mills. We are, therefore, justified in regarding Mr. Mills as the exponent of the president's party. So univeral is the sentiment that he represents the party that Mr. Henry George, a bold and outspoken free trader, and consequently a bold and outspoken supporter of the president and his measures, seems to have come to Washington on purpose to examine with his own eyes and other organs of sense the leader in the house of his party. After a full and fair examination Mr. George returned to New York, and over his own signature pronounced Mr. Mills "a free trader from base." But, fortunately, Mr. Mills' position does not rest upon the opinion of even so competent an observer as Mr. George. Four years ago Mr. Mills, having perhaps at that time more freedom of utterance than he has now, made a speech, on the 15th day of April, 1884, which can be found in the Record, which itself defined his position then. "We must remove, both by legislation and diplomacy, every hindering cause which prevents the free exchange of the products of our labor in all the markets of the world. We must unfetter every arm and let every muscle strike for the highest remuneration for its toil. We must let wealth, the creation of labor, grow up in all the homes of our people. Then every industry will spring forward at a bound, and wealth, prosperity, and power will bless the land that is dedicated to free men, free labor, and free trade!"

The capitals are not mine, but those of Henry George, who makes the quotation with due emphasis, so that the faithful may wink incredulously, one unto the other, when an inaccurate newspaper makes Mr. Mills deny the faith.

In order that he might have room to declare his repentence, if he had repented, the passage was read to him in open house on the 6th day of une. 1888, and he made no reply. In order that Mr. Mills might not fail to remember that he once knew what free trade was when he saw it, Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, read to him an extract from another speech of his as follows: "Our policy should be to take the smallest amount of taxes we can by customs, and we should gradually decrease the amount until our customs taxes come alone from non-competing articles entering our custom-houses."

To this he also made no reply except to demand a vote. Really it was the only reply he could make. He was lookingthen and there into the eyes of too many men who knew what his real sentiments were.

Yet only a few days before this unrepentant silence Mr. Mills had been to New York, and, according to the report of the New York Times, said, "No Democrat desires free trade." Of course no one believes that he said it. It only shows how newspapers misrepresent public men.

But why should we spend so much time upon details as to individuals when one scene in the house lights up the entire group? Mr. McComas, the able young member from Maryland, on the 2d of May, put to the president's friends the point blank question: "Why in this debate has every friend of the Mills bill lauded the English free trade tariff system, which only levies duties upon articles not produced at home? Has any friend of this bill in this debate uttered one sentence in favor of the American tariff system, which discriminates in favor of the home producer and laborer? I will pause and yield a half-minute to any member on the Democratic side to name the sentence or the member's name who uttered it."

This challenge, broad as it was, could be answered in only one way, and accordingly Mr. Hooker (Dem.l, of Mississippi, responded with a frankness and fullness which some of his shivering Northern colleagues must have envied: "No, there was no one and you won't hear any Democrat utter one."

ALL ARE PROTECTED.

One of uil'^e Tliurman's Falliu'lt-s Thoroughly Exploded. The free trade candidate for vicepresident has finally issued a letter of acceptance. It contains little or nothing new, but there is one sentence to which we want to call attention. The judge says: "Much is said about the competition of American laborers with the pauper labor of Europe, but does not every man who looks around him see and know that an immense majority of the laborers in America are not engaged in what are called the protected industries?"

The judge knows this isa^false statement, and sent it out at this last hour of the campaign with but one purpose, and that to deceive the people. Prof. Denslow, in his "Principles of Economic Philosophy," most happily illustrates the absurdity "of this free trade falsification. We reproduce his words:

One of the ingenious fallacies by which this manifest dictate of common prudence is assailed is to assert that the population of a country may be divided into those who are protected and the who are not. As well might we aesert that the rains of heaven benefit those only who are caught out in the shower without an umbrella. A late free-trade organ, The Million, which died of inanition, at Dee Moines, Iowa, divided the workers of the United State_s into those engaged in agriculture, 7,670,49:5 personal and professional service, 4,074,233 trade and transportation, l,S10,:!o0 manufacturing, mechanical, and mining, 3,837,112. It then deducted from the manufacturing group certain classes of industries which it classes as not protected by the tariff, such as bakers, blacksmiths, box factory operatives, tinners, millers, butchers, carpenters, carriage makers, tailors, and others, numbering in all 2,147,631. Wherefrom it concluded that the workmen of the United States were divided into: Protected l'n protected .15, 86,£2

Total 17.392.095 A like argument might be framed against the protection of forts, by counting the few who dwell near enough to be immediately under their guns and and walls with the vast number who do not. The 7,670,493 farmers are chiefly protected in the fact that while they produce only their crops, it is consumers only who can produce prices on those

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crops, and a crop without a price is not a commodity, but a discommodity. Whatever is the difference between the price of a farmer's product on his farm, and at its place of consumption, is to the farmer a tax frr transportation of his products. This he knows can only be removed by a transportation of his products. This he knows can only be removed by a transfer of the manufacturing business in its totality to near his farm. Whatever removes this transportation tax is to him not a tax but a boon. If protection brings the factory to the farm, and whether it does or not is simply a question of fact, to be verified by observation, then one might as well classify the people into those who are benefited by the sunshine and those who are not, as into those who are and are not "Protected workers."

Come, I.et Us Reason Together. Men capable of reasoning will find in the official record of exports a most convincing proof, says the New \ork Tribune. This country sells to other countries every vear manufactured articles valued at $100,000,000 to $200,000,000. The holders do not give away their goods, nor sell without profit, as a rule. They sell because they make money by selling to foreigners rather than to home purchasers. The price received is therefore, as a rule, as high or higher than the price paid by purchasers who supply home consumption. But the exported goods represent all the branches of manufacture whose products are supposed to be lifted by duties above the level of prices in foreign countries. Cotton manufactures valued at nearly $15,000,000, iron and steel manufactures in value $16,000,000, were sold to foreigners last year. How was that possible if the products of these manufactures are enhanced by duties which averaged 45 per cent, on cottons and 40 per cent, on all products of iron and steel? Manufactures of leather valued at 810,000,000 go abroad, though duties on imported products of leather average 30 per cent. manufactures of chetuicais, copper, flax, hemp, paper, wool, glass, rubber and almost every other material, are exported in considerable quantities. While it is true that numerous products of these and other manufactures, being not largely produced in this country, are controlled in prices by the foreign supply and the duty, it is equally true that a far greater number, bearing precisely the same rates of duty, are so extensively produced here that their prices are controlled by the home market, and are so cheap that they are exported to other countries.

Fair Trade.

A correspondent of the London Morning Post, writing in the interest of "fair trade," says: "When England furnished America with all the nails she used it required ten pounds of butter to purchase ten pounds of nails. To-day in the same locality in America one pound of butter will purchase ten pounds of nails and of a much better quality than those received in the old days from England. If America had joined the free trade movement she would still be producing cheap butter to exchange for dear nails. Other counsels prevailed, and under an almost prohibitory tariff nail works were established. To-day America produces all the nails she uses, and is able to sell them at a price far below that charged before the tariff was imposed. In the meantime butter and all other agriculture produce has risen in value, on account of the increased demand for home consumption in local manufacturing centers, and tLo condition of the farmers is vastly more pros porous."

A Small Sample of tlie .Mills Bill. There came into this country from Austria last year 1,700,000 gross of pearl buttons, the product of prison labor. In consequence two-thirds of the American establishments are closed and two-thirds of the American pearl button workers are out of employment, while the others are one half the time. But when a New Jersey congressman offered an amendment to the Mills bill putting a duty of four cents a gross on these buttons it was summarily rejected by a solid Democratic vote. And yet there are American workingmen who are' blind enough to go about hurrahing for Cleveland and free trade.—[Boston Journal.

The London Iron Messenger of August 4 says, in speaking of the Mills bill: Perhaps the greatest alteration laid down In the entire range of the new tariff Is that which places on the free list, thereby abolishing the duty of 1 cent psr pound, or about A'4 13s 4d per ton. Tills change will be certain to administer a notable stimulus to the Welsh tin-plate trade, and through it to the iron and steel trades. The alteration, if adopted, is also certain to put a stop to the project for manufacturing tin-plates In the United States.

POLITICAL COMMENT.

The Hargen (Switzerland) Advertiser coines out for Clevelaud because he is for "free trade." and declares that "the whole of Europe endorses his nomination."

During the three complete years of President Cleveland's administration the balance of trade, averaging $90,000,000 In the four previous years in our favor, has beeri converted Into a balance against us of $28,000,000.

To Mr. Cleveland's statement that he and his party propose no free-trade crusade, the London Chronicle answers: "It is immaterial to discuss what President Cleveland's crusade should be called. He may give It any name he likes, so long as we know It is In fact a crusade for free-trade,"

JohnJarrett: In Germany, with a protective a 1 8 7 9 to 1 8 8 6 ad an 2 8 cent. I agree that this campaign will be Important. It will be a tight between our American system and the teachings of a foreign power, and I believe the people are prepared to accept this Issue just as laid down.

The following inscription Is on a table now owned by Mr. F. P. Arnold of Marshfleld. The Inscription has not lost its pertinency: "1833. ••Presented by the Mechanics of Buffalo to the Hon. Daniel Webster In testimony of respect for his distinguished public service In defence of a protective tariff and of our national Government.

The free traders are endeavoring to show that the American system of protection breeds pauperism. Statistics do not show this. The census of lbHJ In this country gives the number ofpaupers In the alms-houses and out-doors as 110.263, about one-fifth per cent of the population. Great Britain and Ireland. In 1885, had 1,262.228. which Is about 3 per cent, of the population, or fifteen times as much as there exists under the protective tariff.

T. V. Powderly: I am a high tariff man 6nd a protectionist, and for the reason that I am an American and a friend of American laborers. No workmeman has ever called for a reduction, and no reduction should be made until It is demanded by the people We need no tariff tinkering. We want protection from one end of the country to the other. Touch not the tariff raise the tariff so high that not a single article of foreign manufacture can come to it

The Passaic (New Jersey) Herald, a Democratic paper but faithful to protection, recently contained the following pithy paragraph: "Every reader of this paper knows ws don't like Cleveland. We don like his policy. We don like his democracy. We don't like his second presidential term, because It Is a forswearing of himself. We dont like his arrogatlon of legislative power and believe the veto power was onty Intended to affect unconstitutional and very positively questionable legislation. We like his contribution of 810.000 to the national committee as an evidence of his faith In democracy, and yet we doubt If It would have been J10 to elect anybody but himself to the presidency."

ON THE RUN.

The Free Trade Leaders Retire Their Force* in Disorder. General Boynton telegraphs from Washington: The session of congress which closed yesterday was essentially a Democratic campaign for tree trade. It was, at the start, an aggressive movement on the part of the Democratic house. About the time of the St Louis convention this advancing army of free traders came to a halt and began to throw up defensive works. Immediately after that convention this army flung away Its colors and began a precipitate retreat from the free trade works. It Is still marching to the rear under banners from which every fre trade Inscription and device has been carefully erased.

This session can not well be compared with any other one in our history. It was a thing which stands entirely by itsell and without parallel. The resident was as much a part of ft as the speaker _imself, and the New York free trade exporters and their agents were as much members, so far as active participation In and influence upon Its legislation were concerned. as If they had held certificates of membership and had voted. There has never been another Instance where the executive openly undertook to organize the work of congress In advance of Its meeting.

Virtually this congress began Its session at the Red Top conference, six weeks before the constitutional date for Its meeting. The president called it The speaker came, and Mr. Scott who had been seleeted as the president's mouthpiece among the Democratic members, and Mr. Mills, who himself proclaimed that he was the president's choice for chairman of the committee on ways and means, and so leader of the house. In this open and unparalleled method the president set to work with these assistants to block out the work of congress. New York Importers and free trade lobbyists, such as the Parsee Merchant, were In tlie near background. A free trade policy was agreed upon, and so far as Mr. Mills was concerned, matters turned out as he publicly said they would.

The organization of this new congress was only a formal affair. Its policy and Its scope had been determined by the president In the free-trade conference. The organization took such shape as would best carry out the plan of the Bed Top conference. The message announced the position to the public and assured the New York importers and their loreign allies that the policy they had urged had been chosen as the corner-stone of administration policy. The committee on ways and means, though announced as usual, was, so far as Its methods were concerned, In no sense a committee of congress. It was made up of six Southern free traders, two Northern Democrats of the same way of thinking, and live Republicans. But the latter were not admitted to any meetings wherein the Mills bill was under discussion, and knew nothlug more of what was going on among the majority members of the committee than any others of their party on the floor. But the president and the New York importers and the lobby agents of foreign free traders and the avowed free traders of the Democratic party, such as Mr. Watterson, the brilliant supporter, and Colonel Morrison, the heavv-welght of that school, held full and close communion, and finally agreed upon their measure. After these outsldeallles and their assistants on the ways and means committee had thus agreed the Mills bill took formal shape for congressional action, and was formally reported. Even the allied army outside continued to direct, and none but those moving in favored free trade circles could obtain a hearing. The representatives of the great Industries and of the labor Interests were persistently denied a hearing. The only yielding was when Democratic members of the house gave the rump committee to understand that the Democratic interests in certain districts would seriously suffer If the changes demanded were not made.

The Mills bills dominated the session. Everything else was sidetracked lor that. Even appropriation bills were forced over until long after the fiscal year for which they made provision had begun. The freetraders were in ecstasies- The Parsee Mercant sat in the house gallery and beamed with a delight that In all the years of his devotion to free trade had never before shone so brightly there. His own had come to him. All the free .traders in the party were singing songs of triumph with him. They did not claim that they had obtained all they wanted, but they did insist that they had conquered their party and that henceforth it would march in paths to be selected by them. This was the important element of the situation to them, and they were fully satisfied with the situation.

Next, having gained their victory, they turned their attention to the execution of all who had showed any reluctance in marching under their banner. In this they had the active and earnest co-operation of the president. The employes of the civil service and every power of the patronage were used to crush Mr. Randall and his friends and all other protection Democrats, They felt them selves strong enough to attempt this, and the fact tnat they did affords all needed proof of what they supposed the new position of their party to be. Thus for weeks they held high carnival. The glories of free trade and its triumphs were dally celebrated. The party was in the hands of their friends, from the president down. The Mills bill had swept away within a small fraction of half the protective duties—over 49 per cent. In fact With the president helping them to crush all opposition or Independence In the party, they felt themselves masters.

This festival of free trade continued just long enough to fully commit the Cleveland Democracy to the new position, when some of the more sagacious of the leaders suddenly saw the hand-writing on the wall. They took In Its full meaning, and promptly set themselves to reverse the position of the party. The president became panic stricken with them. He joined with them In a strong appeal to the managers of the St. Louis convention to withraw from their advanced position and at once make satisfactory terms with the moderate protectionists of the party. The free traders from congress and their allies outside of It stoutly resisted this. Mr. Watterson and Colonel Morrison openly threatened that If a backward step was taken In the committee of resolutions they would take the natter on the floor of the convention and fight It out there against the president. Mills and his friends at Washington united with these gentlemen and demanded full recognition of their bill. The president's representatives at the convention surrendered. The free traders In congress and about that convention were again triumphant and jubilant. Thev went on with their bill, refusing to hear manufacturers or the representatives of labor. On the other hand they gave secret audience to powerful trusts. That they heard and yielded to the sugar trust was admitted.

For a fortnight after the convention the celebration of the second free trade triumph began. Then, as the temper of the country became known, the yielding of the position, which had been refused at St. Louis, began. The president declared that his message was not a free trade document. Mr. Mills declared that his bill was not even related to free trade. It was a moderate protective meamre. Mr. Watterson went on the stump and affected an air of Injured innocence that would wring tears from a bowlder over the false and cruel charge of the vile Republicans that the Mills bill or the president's message even BQUlnted In the direction of free trade.

Then came the full retreat which is now bordering on a rout. The last month of congress, previous to the disappearance of a quorum was taken up bv the free-traders In repudiating their earlv assertions, their private exultations, and their early songs of triumph. And thus the session closed with nearly all the leaders of the Mills crowd Wiio were not needed to protest here, roaming around the country explaining at every cross road that their free trade bill was only a moderate protection measure, which provided for an average reduction of only 7 per cent.

Thus this session, opened privately by the president at his summer residence, parilcipated in by New York and foreign jobbers and free-trade agents, committed to free-trade by six free-trade advocates, closes with the whole army of aliens and their allied Americans In full and disastrous retreat. There was little else In this prolonged session worth mentioning, unless It was the persistent neglect and postponement of the various bills for the relief of Union veterans. In this respect the democratic house, In Its deallBgs with bills of a general nature, proved itself worthy of Its veteran president For this, as all reports agree, the "boys" are preparing their vetoes for promulgation on the 6th ot November.

Fracas on a Theater Stage.

During the performance of "Mountain Pink" at the Vincennes Opera house, Mr. Sachs, father of the leading lady, Miss Wells, went behind the scenes and demanded of Manager Pringie the receipts of three performances. Pringie refused, whereupon Sachs grabbed him by the throat and dragged him before the footlights. Miss Wells screamed and rushed from the stage. A general panic occurred in the audience. The two men came to blows and both were arrested. The company was disbanded.

Up All Night.

"Can't I sell you a burglar alarm?" he asked of a householder in a neighborhood where a number of houses had been entered. "No: I have no use for anything of that kind. My daughter has just become engaged and the young man calls every evening—[Judy.]

Striving After the I'nattainable. One of the great needs of this country seems to be young women typewriters who won't get married.—[Philadelphia Press.]

Wabash County's Big Corn Crop. The corn crop of Wabash county, Indiana, will average fifty bushels to the acre.

This is to give notice that all citizens troubled with coughs or colds should procure a bottle of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup and take it at once.*

NEW YORK NEWS NOTES.

[Collated from New York Specials.] The contest over the will of Cornelia M. Stewart will resume before Surrogate Ransom. It will be the first hearing since the long summer vacation. The Drize at stake is as rich as any that was ever played for in a court of law.

Tom Ochiltree, who has been missing for several days, has reappeared in his old haunts, having, it is evident, raised the wind during his retirement. He has had a new brand of sour mash whisky madd after him. It must be liquor calculated to give one the headache.

Colonel Mat Quay does not write letters, circulars or otherwise. He sends trusted messengers.' Talleyrand said "N ever write a letter and never destroy one," or might have said it, and Jim Fisk said, "Don't write. See your man if you don't have to tunnel to him."

The society of United German Boss Bakers held a meeting to discuss the bread question. Raports were received showing that the advance in the price of bread had been accepted without much protest. It was geuerally agreed that there was no indication of a further advance in prices.

The other day in a crowded Sixth avenue elevated car General Sherman carried a likely young colored maiden on bis knees from Twinty-eighth to Thirty-third streets. She was snatching at the straps, which were just out of her reach, when General Sherman gently seated her on his martial knee.

The publication of the fact that that Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., had consulted lawyers about entering suit against Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Blaine for $100,000 for alleniating her husband's affections, brought many visitors and reporters to the New York hotel. To one and all Mrs. Blaine refused admission. The fact is that Mrs Blaine is seriously ill. The worry and anxiety of the past fewweeks, her domestic troubles and her ineflectual efforts to secure a reconciliation with her husband have completely prostrated her.

A leading manager tells me the patronage of theaters grows at a tremendous rate, vastly in advance of the growth of population. It was never so great as at present. All the theaters are heavily patronized, and at several people are turned away nightly, and good seats must be bought a week or ten dayB in advance. Two or three theaters are built every year, but they all appear to prosper. Harry Miner is about to duplicate the splendid Broadway Theater away up in a region where the goat skipped and the squatter sovereigns worked the growler but a little while ago.

A noteworthy throng of club men, turfmen, actors and society people were crowded in the church of the Transfiguration Sunday afternoon to attend the funeral services over the remains of the late Araasa Wright Sanford. Thirty white robed choir boys followed the coffin to the church, keeping step to Chopin's"Funeral March." Rev.Dr.Houghton read the Episcopal funeral service. Miss Laura Moore sang "Angels ever bright and fair," and John Little sang "I heard a voice from heaven." Organist J. P. Dodd played Handel's "Dead March" in "Saul," as the coffin was carried from the church. The interment was at Greenwood.

The World prints a card from Kyrle Bellew, in which he says he wrote a letter to Pierre Lorillard, calling him to account for stating, as president of the Tuxedo club, that in his opinion Mr. Bellow's private character was of such a nature as to prohibit him from the society of gentlemen, and asked for an answer by the '20th inst. As no answer has been received, Mr. Bellew states that "Mr. Pierre Lorillard either has or has not maligned me, or authorized others to do so. If he has, he shall answer to me for so doing. If he has not, and yet declines to say so, I am safe in leaving the value of his character to the judgment of the public. I accuse him, however, of having maliciously and deliberately insulted and maligned me, and it is my intention that he shalNmeet my accusation as publicly as I make it."

A funny exhibition in some of the show windows is a representation of the presidential and vice presidential candidates as ball players. When I tell you that those pictures are produced by putting the hoads of the candidates upon the bodies of female base ball players, clad in tight-fitting uniforms and chosen as cigarette advertisements on account of their plumptitude and abounding physical charms you will see where the fun comes in. It convulses people with laughter to see the strong face of the Old Roman sternly gazing at an advancing "fly" while he holds out two small hands and arms to catch it, and his pretty-rounded limbs and little feet show off to voluptuous advantage in the close llannel, silk stocking and canvas shoes. As for the picture of Cleveland, who stands facing the spectators, restiug his hand on his knees in true base-ball attitude, it must be seen to be appreciates

The long wanderings of Robert Reaves with the dead body of his wife in search of her mother's grave were temporarily ended Saturday. Three weeks ago Mrs. Reaves died at Phelps City, Kan. Before her death she asked to be buried beside her mother, but could not tell him where to find the mother's grave. Since then Mr. Reaves has been going over the country, carrying his dead wife's body, trying to find her mother's grave and comply with her last request, lie advertised for friends and did all he could. Saturday he consigned the body to a temporary grave in Calvary cemetery. Mr. Reaves has displayed a remarkable devotion to the expressed wishes of the woman whom he is said to have idolized when alive, and his wanderings to find the mother's grave made a touching chapter in the story of the world's hurly burly. Mrs. Reeves was known to professional circles and to the public as Kitty Wallace. She was young, talented, and in the first rank of circus riders, and formerly lived in Brooklyn. She left New Yorlc about a year ago on a professional tour through the South and West. Shortly afterward she met Mr. Reeves, and in response to a strong mutual admiration they were married. In answer to his advertisement be received a number of answers, but no one yet has been able to locate for him the exact resting place of his wife's mother. But Mr. Reaves has not given up the task. He will leave nothing undone to find the mother's grave, and to-night he left this city for a village in Connecticut, where he had a faint hope of getting some information.

Authoress Phelps is Married. The thousands of men, women and children who have read the story of "Jack," "Old Maid's Paradise," "Gates Ajar" and other works of Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps will be pleased and surprised to hear of her marriage to the Rev. Herbert D. Ward, of the NewYork Independent.

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