Hope Republican, Volume 2, Number 8, Hope, Bartholomew County, 15 June 1893 — Page 6

OHIO REPUBLICANS. State Convention at Columbus Renominates McKinley. I.etter of Senator Sherman on the Duties of the Hour. The State Republican convention of Ohio met at Columbus, Wednesday 'afternoon. After prayer by Rev, Mr. Moore, the temporary chairman, Geri. Charles Grosvonor, delivered am address, lauding the McKinley bill as a marvel of wisdom, and attributing hard times not so much to the silver problem as to the apprehension that the Democrats will proceed to carry out pledges in regard to upsetting the protective tariff. Protection and reciprocity, General Grosvenor declared, amid great cheering, were the twin coursersof American prosperity. Ho then arraigned the Democratic administration at great length for its indecision and lack of firmness in following a financial policy that would restore the confidence of

WILLIAM M'KIM.EV, JR,

tho country, and closed with a tribute to the Harrison administration, indorsed the Legislature and Governor McKinleyJs State work, praised Sherman and Foster and spoke of personal controversies as contemptible and the penalty as political death. The following letter to the convention from Senator Sherman was then read; To the Hon. Charles Grosvenor: My Dear Sir—Your letter of the 30th ult. is received. It was my purpose to attend the State convention, but I am detained by business engagements that I can’t well avoid. Still, if 1 could be of any service to tho Republican party by attending the convention I would ignore all personal interests and go to-Colnmbus to consult and advise with the Republicans of Ohio. As you know, I have scrupulously abstained from any interference in the selection of candidates and the an- • nouncement of the principles of our party, as I believe this dutv can be best performed by the delegates assembled in convention from all the counties in Ohio, for the concurring opinion of these delegates is a far wiser and safer guide than the advice of any one of them. Fortunately our party is not now divided as to either candidates or principles. Public opinion seems to ha ve concentrated in favor of those selected two years ago, all of whom have proven that they were worthy of the confidence reposed in them. The public policy of the State and Nation is already engrafted in our laws, and 1 believe has the approval and sanction of the people of Ohio. * Governor McKinley is an honored representative of this public, and justly commands the confidence, not only | of the people of Ohio, hut of the United States of America.

Whav wo need most in Ohio is a wise revision of our laws levying State and local taxes so as to secure just and equal taxation on all property of every kind in Ohio. Next to this wo should secure to labor and laboring men every advantage and opportunity for education, employment, and happiness and comfort which can be conferred bv law. Ohio, from its location, population and condition, ought to be, and 1 believe now is, one of the most prosperous States in the United States, This great Republic, though but recently devastated by a destructive war, is now the freest, strongest, and best governed country of the world. It is tintype and model to which liberty-loving men of all nations look, in the hope that they and their countries may be able to follow our example. Much of the good wo now enjoy is the work of the Republican [tarty. The policy of our party has preserved and 'strengthened the Union; it hqs made us a free people, in fact, as well as in name: it lias demonstrated the strength of a popular government resting upon the equality of men, and has proved that each generation in a Republic can furnish, by election from the people, great men, greater and wiser than kings oromperors, to administer the highest functions of the government in peace and war. The Republican party lias furnished a host of these, among whom Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant may be named as examples. The Republican party has established a policy which lias secured America for Americans. It lias protected all industries impartially. It has secured to labor its highest rewards, not onlv in wages, but in opportunities and advancement impossible in other countries. It has secured us a sound currency, the highest financial credit, general prosperity and an unexampled growth in Wealth, intelligence, inven-. tion and development, It lias eared for the patriotic soldiers of the war. their widows and orphans, not only bv honors and sympathy, but by liberal pensions. Compared with the empty and fruitless promises of its adversaries, the Republican party lias engrafted its policy in the acts and executed them, and now points to the history of its deeds ns the best evidence of what it will (in in the future, while a Democratic party and a Democratic President can not agree ■upon or formulate a single affirmative measure of public policy, andean not oven agree upon now ana where it will or can attack any measure of the Republican party. It relies upon temporay discontent, the slumbering animosities of the Rebellion and the corrupt agencies of the city of New York. Under these circumstances it should be the pride and glory of the Republican ■party in-Ohio to take the lead in the coming election, to revive the latent energy and enthusiasm of theolden times, to bury out of sight all the petty divisions and dissensions inseparable from political strife, and with courage and hope to advance our National honor, as in with our principles emblazoned on every fold, with pride in what we have done in the past and with confidence that, the patriotic people of the United States will rally to our support wherever a free ballot

] and a fair count is permitted by the ruling powers of the Democratic party. Very sincerely yours, John Sherman. After a lively contest Harry Daugherty, of Washington C. H., was elected permanent chairman. The platform committee was then appointed with instructions to report at8:30 a. m.. Thursday, after which the convention adjourned. Thursday’s session opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Holmes, following which Harry Daugherty, the permanent chairman. was introduced and spoke briefly. At the close of Mr. Daugherty’s speech the Duke of Veragua, present in Cplumbus as the guest of the largest city in the world bearing the name of the great discoverer, entered the hall amid great applause and was given a seat of honor near the stage. Just at this Juncture the convention made the re-nomination of Win. McKinley for Governor of Ohio, by acclamation. A committee at once notified the Governor and escorted him to the hall. His entrance was the signal for terrific applause. When quiet was restored he spoke at great length, from which we make the following extracts: , eOVEKMOK M'KIM.KV’S SPEECH. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention—I accept the nomination which you have unanimously tendered me, and I thank you for it. It is an honor to have it thus offered; it is a duty to accept it. I might justify myself in declining the honor; I could not in declining the duty. The honors I have already had, with the one you have just bestowed, only increase my sense of obligation to the Republicans of Ohio, and make their summons my pleasure and duty. Republi- ! canism will have a severe test in Ohio this year. This State is the coveted field, of the opposition; they will center here, but with unity, harmony and courage our party will triumph over all. We do not wait for the enemy to form their line and challenge us to contest. We challenge them early upon every issue and upon every line of controversy, State or national which divides us. The national administration has done nothing thus far except to create in the minds of business men a deep distrust. The financial situation, which for the most part ha;s prevailed since the 4th of March, lias not been improved, nor has the financial stringency been relieved by anything the national administration has said or done. The Democratic victory of 1892 has not been able to bring the better times promised. It has not been able to maintain the good times which were enjoyed every; where in this country on the day of the victory. What will the Democrats do with the tariff? We can only wait and see; but the waiting, and anxiety, and uncertainty is paralyzation. Certain it is they will make wool free, and thus strike down one of Ohio's great agricultural j products. Tin-plate must also be made free, and the new and splendid enterprises for making black sheets and tinning them must be crippled financially, the millions of capital invested imperiled, and the thousands of workingmen driven from employment, or forced to work at reduced wages. Sugar will have to go from the list of free articles ‘to the list of tariffed articles, and cheap sugar again made dearer to the masses. Notice has gone forth that not only is the tariff to,be revised, but that the p'en- [ sion list is to-bo revised. War is to bo waged upon the pensioners of the country. No honest man will object to a purging of the roils of all who are unworthy there. I Kvcry case must rest upon its own facts. ! i do not object to unworthy men being j stricken from the roll—if there are such— I but I do object to the impression which in ! some quarters is being made, that this j whole pension business is a fraud. ! We want no coin dollar which does not measure up to full foo cents in value, and we will never return to a paper dollar issued by State authority, resting upon uncertain and doubtful securities. The pledge of the Republican party that gold and silver shall be maintained at a parity, the one with the other, must be sacredly | kept. The Government must not suffer ! any taint to bo put upon its credit or tinani cial honor. THE PLATFORM. The Republicans of Ohio, bv their delegates in State convention assembled, declare as follows; Ji. We indorse and reaffirm the platform of principles adopted by the National Republican convention in June, 1892. 2. We Indorse and commend the administration of Benjamin Harrison while President of the United States as eminently patriotic. 3. The people of Ohio have a just pride in the administration of the affairs of this . State by Governor William McKinley, Jr. We heartily indorse Ins administration. 4. We indorse the action of the last General Assembly in providing bv law for the protection of railroad employes, bv compelling the use of automatic couplers, , ’.k We favor biennial sessions of the General Assembly. 6. We favor the policy of full and adequate protection to American labor and industries. » 7. We condemn the 'bill passed bv the Democratic majority in the House and Representatives of the last Congress, and the present avowed poliiA' of the Democratic party to place wool on the free list. 8. We indorse the policy of the National Grange, that all tariff laws shall protect the products of the farm as well as the products of the factory. 9. We believe in a true ballot and a fair count. 10. We demand the enactment of laws that will protect our people, against the influx of the vicious and criminal classes and tire importation of laborers nndercontraot to compete with our citizens. 11. We adhere to the Republican policy of granting pensions to the wounded and disabled Union soldiers and sailors of the late war. and the widows and orphans of such as are deceased. 12. We favor honest money, composed of gold, silver and paper, maintained at equal value, and under national and not State regulations. 13. We denounce the avowed purpose of the Democratic party to repeal the prohibitory 111 per cent, tax on State bank issues. The ticket in full as nominated is as follows: Governor—William McKinley. Jr., of Stark county. Lieutenant-Governor—Andrew L. Harris. of Preble county. \ Treasurer of State*- William T. Cope, of Cuyllhoga county. Attorney-General—John K. Richards,of Lawrence county. Judge of Supreme Court—Joseph P. Bradbury, of Meigs county. Member of Board of Public WorksFrank J. McCullough, of Logan county. Dairy and Food Commissioners -Frank 1’, McNeill, of Miami county.

I A FATEFUL STRUCTURE. | Collapse of the Ford Theater Building at Washington. Frightful Casualty In Which tiovcruiueat Clerks 1.080 Their Lives, Ford’s old opera house at Washington D. C., the building in which Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, and used by the Government for mafny yeart as part of the office of the surgeon-general of the array, collapsed, Friday morning, shortly after 9:30 o’clock, with a terrible result in loss of life and injury. The building had been condemned years ago, some claim as many as fifteen or twenty, and had been repaired, propped up, and all renovated from year to year. There were 475 persons, mostly Government clerks, employed in the building, and nearly all of these were at work when the building fell. An excavation for an electric light plant was being made in the cellar of the structure-a three-story affair, and, according to the best information obtainable, the workmen had dug beneath the. foundation supports in the front of the building, weakening them to such an extent that the walls gave way before they could bo “jacked.” This explanation of the cause of the accident is the only one advanced, but it seemed somewhat strange, in view of the

FORD'S OPERA HOUSE BUILDING (FROM AN OLD PHOTOGRAPH.)

fact that that the top floor gave way first. Those on the top floor were suddenly precipitated to the floor below by the weight of falling timber and furniture, which car- | ried the second and first floors with it. Fortunately, only the forward half of the floors gave way. Women appealed anxiously to every bystander for information about some particular person, while men came, with tears in their eyes, and imploringly besought the policemen to let them through the lines, that they might obtain some knowledge of their friends and relatives. A general fire alarm was turned in a few minutes after the crash, and then all the ambulances of the city were summoned. As quickly as possible the police and firemen formed a reserve brigade, and ready hands assisted them to take out the killed and wounded. In less than an hour about twenty-five people had Been taken out, and every few minutes thereafter some still form would be borne on a stretcher from the building. To the occupants there was but one crash heard, and instantly the whole building was filled with blinding lime dust. Running directly through all of the floors and the middle of the building, was a wall ten feet or more long and three feet wide. The fatal area was in front of this, leaving a space of six or seven feet in width undisturbed on either side. The floor at the back part of the building containing more than half of the floor's space, remained intact. There were many very narrow escapes from death. A number of clerks whose desks rested directly upon the line where the floors broke away, saved themselves, while the desks at which they were, were precipitated down the awful chasm. Others, who were walking across the room, heard an ominous sound, and stopped just at the very threshold of death. When the crash came those wty) survived heard a mighty scream of anguish from their comrades as they sank out of sight, and then groping in the darkness they found their way out safely, trembling in every joint, with the pallor of the dead in their faces. No women were employed in the building, but in a few minutes after the crash came the wives, mothers and daughters of the victims began to arrive. Within a few moments a hundred or more men, stripped for hot work, jumped into the building and began throwing out the wreckage in |ront and under the floors which remained standing on the rear. The building which was wrecked was the Army Medical Museum. It was orig • inally theold Tenth-street Baptist church. It was a medium-sized structure, and was painted white. About forty years ago the Ford brothers, of Baltimore, purchased the property and transformed it into a theater. The interior was entirely removed, but the old walls were left standing. It was used as a play-house until several years later, when it was destroyed by tire. The Fords then built a spacious brick theater on the site of theold building. It was in this theater that President Lincoln was assassinated on the Good Friday night of 1865 by John Wilkes Booth. After this event the Government closed the theater, and finally bought the property for about i 150,000. Again the integer of the structure was remodeled, and adapted to the use of the Surgeon-Gen-eral. The museum proper occupied the three floors of the building. While it was originally established for the purpose of Investigating the wounds and diseases incidental to war. its scope has broadened so rapidly that it latdly included all interesting objects of medical and surgical study. It was said to be the onlymuseum of its kind in the world. Labor and money had been expended on it to an almost unlimited extent. TJiero were no less than twenty-two thousand specimens arranged with great care and system within the walls of the museum. The second floor of the building contained the medical library of the Government, a library

which was said to contain more medical literature Wan the British Museum or the National Library of France. The entire 1 building was usually filled with a force of clerks and officers examining, compiling the records pertaining to the judicial and hospital department of the army. A strange coincidence is that the old. theater was wrecked on the day of the funeral of Edwin Booth, brother of John Wilke,s Booth. From all sources the number of dead reported at 4 a. m., Saturday, is twenty-four, of which sixteen are at the morgue, four at the Emergency Hospital and eight not located. The only Indiana men known to hava been injured'in the wreck are A. C. Black and F. N. Test. THIS SETTLES IT. An Attempt to Open the Gate* Mean*, Trouble, The decision of the Federal court in Chicago that the World’s Fair must be closed on Sundays will be. backed up by the Government by the force of arms, if necessary. All officials in the War Department agree in saying that the military will be broiight into requisition it an attempt should he made to Ignore ttie court’s injunction. There are nearly 1,000 soldiers at Port Sheridan, twenty-five miles from Chicogo, that could be summoned quickly if necessary. ARMY WORM DEVASTATIONS. In Knox county, Indiana, and Lawrence county, Illinois, the army worms have appeared in great numbers and are destroying the crops of wheat and corn and the meadows of grass. Many fields nave been stripped bare. ONE HOOSIER AMAZON. Mrs. George Wilbur, Elkhart, “gassed” a constable who caiue to arrest her husband. The official swore out a warrant for her arrest, and when he tried to serve it Thursday she tilled his eyes with red pepper. THE MARKETS. Juiio 13. 1893. Indianapolis. GRAIN AND HAY. Wheat—-No. 3 red, 63c; No. 3 red, 00® 61c; No. 4 red, 56c; rejected, 45@55; unmerchantable. 35@40c: wagon wheat, 63. Cohn—No. 1 white, 41,Xc; No. 3 white. 41J$c:No.3 white,41c; No.4 white,36c;No. 3 white mixed, 30c; No. 3 white mixed, 38,Xc; No. 1 white mixed, 35c; No. 3 yellow, 39c; No. 3 yellew, 38Xc; No. 4 yellow, 35c: No. 3 mixed, 39c; No. 3 mixed, 38Xc; No. 4 mixed. 35c; sound ear. 44c for yellow. Oats—No. 3 white, 35c; No. 3 white, 35c; No. 3 mixed, 31c; No. 3 mixed, 30c; rejected, 26@33c. Hay—Choice timothy, $11.50; No. 1. $13; No. 3. $13; No. J prairie. $7: mixed, $8; clover, $9. Bran, *13. LIVE STOCK. Cattle—Export grades $ 5.35(3)5.75 Good to choice shippers 4.85(35.25 Fair to medium shippers 4.00(3)4.05 Fair to choice feeders 4.35(34.75 Stockers, 500 to 800 [email protected] Good to choice heifers 4.00(34.75 Fair to medium heifers 3.40(33.85 Common to thin heifers ... [email protected] Good to choice cows. '... 3.85(34.35 Fair to medium cows 3.35(33.05 Common old cows [email protected] Veals, common to good 3.50(35.50 Bulls, common to fair 3.50(33.0(1 Bulls, good to choice 3.35(34.00 Milkers, good to choice [email protected] Milkers, common to fair [email protected] Hogs—Heavy packing and shipping $7*00(37.35 Mixed 0.90(37.30 Light 6.85(37.2(1 Heavy roughs 5.50(36.75 Pigs [email protected] Sheep—Good to choice clipped. 4.50(35.00 Fair to medium clipped 3.50(34.25 .Common clipped [email protected] Spring Lambs, 30 to 50 lbs [email protected] Bucks, per head 3.00(34.00 POUETRV AND OTHER PRODUCE. [Prices Paid by Dealers.] PouLTRY-Hens, 9c lb; young chickens, 30c $ 1b; turkeys, young toms, 8c $ lb; liens, 10c "(9 lb; ducks, 7c |> #>; geese, $4@ 4.80 for choice. paying 13c. Butter—Grass butter, 13c; fresh country butter, 8@10e. Honey— 18@ 20c. Feathers — Prime Geese, 40c ® lb: mixed duck. 30c. $ lb. Beeswux—30c for yellow; 15c for dark. Wool—Pine merino, 15@17e; medium unwashed, 18c; coarse or braid wool, 16@17c; unmerchantable, 13@15c; tubwashed. 33@37c. Detroit Wheat,69Xc. Corn,No. 3,44Xc. Oats, No, 3 white, 37Xe. Minneapolis. Wheat, 63Xc. New York. Wheat, No. 3 red, 73c. Corn. No. 3, 48c. Oats, 35f4c. Lard, $10.70. Butter, Western dairy. 15@17c; creamery, [email protected]. Wheat, 08>jc. Corn, 39}£c. Oats, 30c. Pork. $30.90. Lard, $10.52X- Short-ribs, $9.8(1. Cattle—top steers, $4.25@6; others. $4(34.80. Hogs—Heavy mixed and packers, $0.70(37.35; prime heavy, $7.30(37.40: prime light, $7.20(37740; other lights, $4.8.') @7.50. Sheep — Top sheep. $4.50(35.35; lambs, *4.50(30.35. Cincinnati. Wheat, No. 3 rod, 66c; Corn, No. 3 mixed, 44c; Oats, No. 3 white western, 33Kc; Rye, No. 3. 03c; Mess Pork, $21.15; Lard, $10.50: ‘Bulk Meats, $10.50; Bacon, 811.63. Butter, creamery fancy. 23c; Eggs. 13c. Cattle, $4.50(3$5.35. Hogs, $6.65@$7.23. Sheep, $3.50(3$4.00. St. Louis. Wheat, No, 3 red, 66c; Corn. No. 3 mixed. 36j4 ; Oats, No. 2, 32c; Butter, 33c. Buffalo. Cattle, [email protected]. Hogs, heavy, [email protected]: mixed, $7.20@ $7.50; light, $7.20@$7.45. Sheep, native, $3.75@$4.33;Tcxas,$3.35@ $6.50. Philadelphia. Wheat, No. 8 Red, 72Xc; Corn. No. 2 Mixed, 48c: Oats, 41c; butter, creamery, 21c; eggs, 16c. Baltimore. Wheat. No. 2 Red, 73Xc; Corn, mixed, 49c; Oats, No. 3, White Western,43Xc;llye, 64c: Pork. $33.00: Butter, creamery, 21c; Eggs. ISXc.

SENTIMENTS^!® Wholesale \il graph on Currents I Majorltyfor Repeal of sSiietu. Bl on the Inc< a ue Tax-KepeHl Bank Tax Likely to li The Now York World, folloBL nouncement that there session of Congrees in SepteBj day propounded to all memb®: gross, that could be reached bM| the following questions: 1. Do you, with present iOl favor repeal of the Sherman fli 3. Do you favor an income tiBLli 3, Do yon favor the repeal oflU bank tax? I I Within twenty-four hours ail I been received at the World ol | nearly all. The sentiment in fal t repeal of the Sherman Silver law ; whelming. Apparently the fori ,( Natirtnal legislature will he vel t tie on the question of an incomel . very strong opposition was fount! \ against the repeal of the ten per on State bank issues. A few rllaK give direct answers and were non \ initial on all the queries. A maj® 1 the Southern and Western membew 1 an income tax. Partisan division wa developed by the interviews and it i. lleved that party lines will bo malnta ' when the issues come up for set.tlemeiv A NEW LIBERTY BELL \ National Souvenir of the Columbl) Year. The Columbian Liberty Bell, which ws to have been cast at Troy, N. Y., on th 9th, will be completed about July 1, am it.is hoped that its ringing will usher ii the “Glorious Fourth” at thejWorld’s Fair. It will be the property of the ■‘Daughters of the American Revolution,” and when not traveling to great patriotic celebrations will have a home at Washington. The bell weighs near!-/ 13,000

pounds and nearly every State and Terri \ tory has contributed something to go inti 0 the melting pot. The collection has Ir. Jh eluded copper coins from Wyoming, silvery flasks from California, medals and spnonst from the South, a silver fruit knife which \ once belonged to Lucrctia Mott, the fa- ' moos emancipator, forty thousand pennies from residents of New Jersey, pieces of brass cannon used in the revolutionary war. buttons from the clothing oi Indian massacres, and so on through an almost endless list. It wilt be such a boll as has never before been molded. The bell is. excepting in the matter of size and inscription, a reproduction of the famous Liberty bell of 1776. WINTER WHEAT CROP SHORT, Drought and Cold Weathei* Make a Heart Decrease in the Western States. The report of June ID, based on the re*— turns to the Department of Agriculture, makes the acreage of. winter wheat as compared with that of last year 87,88, being a reduction of 12.13 points. The States in which the principal decrease has occurred are Illinois, Missouri. Kansas, and California. The reduction of the acreage in the States of Kansas. Missouri, and Illinois wms caused in the main by the long contined drought and extremely cold weather. A vast amount of the acreage sown has been plowed up and put toother crops. The decrease from the acreage of 1893 is: in the State of Illinois, 34 points: in Missouri, 16 points; in Kansas. 39 points. The percentage for the country , of spring wheat area is 94. The percentages of the principal spring wheat States are: Minnesota, 90; Nebraska, 300; South Dakota, 95; North Dakota, 96. The percentage of the acreage of oats, as compared with last year, is 100.7, and the'fcondition 88.7 for June 10, as against 88.5 for the same months in 1893. Returns show the percentage of tiro acreage of rye acompared with 1892 to be 94.3. while the 'reportsof the condition make the general average 84.6, the lowest for years. Bariev acreage, as compared with last year, shows a decrease of 5.1 points, or 94.9. The condition of this crop is 88.3, against 93.1 in June last year. MOBS AND DEPUTY SHERIFFS Coma In Collision at Lemout, Illinois. The strike which has been in progress at the stone quarries and on the canal at Lemont, 111., for some time assumed » serious phase, Friday. At noon an encounter took place between deputy shear - iffs, armed with Winchester rifles, and a mob of the strikers. One man was killed and fourteen badly wounded. Thirty of the strikers were captured by the sheriffs. The situation was regarded as so serious that the Governor at Springfield was called on for troops, and he ordered ont the second regiment and a part of Col. Bennett’s regiment to report at Lemont at once.