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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1894.

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Can leicund at the following place: l'AHIS American Exchange in 1'arla, 36 Boulerard ie t mi urine. S LW YOltK-GUsey House and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. P. Kemble, 3735 Lancaster venue. t Jl ICAUO rainier House, Auditorium IIoteL C1SCINNATI-J. R. Haw ley & Co.. 131 Vine street. Z.OUJNVIIJF-C. T. Pe ering, northwest corncmf 'J biid aiil Jeficritou streets. fcT. LOUIS Union New Company, Union Depot. "Washington, c.uzkh iioue and Ebbitt llouna. It U only wrier Mils would benefit other people's families that Mr. Dolman objects. As a watch dog of the treasury Mr. Hoiman la not nearly as fierce towards relatives as he is towards strangers. It 13 reasonably safe to predict that Mr. Bynum will not make any promises during this campaign as to the price of wheat next year. Representative Holman's attempt to railroad through the House a claim in favor of his daughter-in-law shows he believes In the adage that charity sriild begin at home. ; Post-mortem editions of the Congressional Record are still being Issued. It is hardly necessary to say that the contents relate mostly to dead issues free trade and the like. The new battle ship Maine will be tested for power some day this week. If It follow the example set on Monday by tthe Sute It was named after It will show Itself a very powerful and admirable ship. The Democrats of Maine seem' to have taken Mr. Cleveland at his word. In his Wilson letter he characterized the Senate tariff bill as "a measure of party perfidy and party dishonor." The Democrats of Maine respond In effect, "Right you are, Mr. Cleveland." The veterans at Pittsburg were so angry at the refusal of the railroads to grant satisfactory rates that It was even proposed to hold no more annual encampments unless the roads would grant a uniform rate of one, cent a mile. If the encampments should be abandoned, " which may happen before long, only the delegates would meet to transact the business of the Grand Army. The Staie convention of the New York Fopuliats, hejd at Saratoga on Tuesday, was attended by about self-appointed delegates from about half the counties In the State. No men of prominence were present, those in attendance being mostly political nondescripts and odds and ends who had been identified with the Greenback and other third party movements. There la nothing in the Populist movement to attract live men. Lord Brassey, the eminent Englishman who, through close study and Investigation,' has become recognized as an authority on the labor question, ha reached the conclusion that "high wages and short hours are a. g-enulne economy In the long run." It 13 also genuine United States P?publican doctrine, and If Lord Brassey should ever become an American citizen lie would find himself barred out of the Democratic party. The Sentinel, commenting on the Maine election, says: "About the only comforting thing in it to a Democrat Is that It does not show any drift of importance toward Republicanism, though It does show a great capacity for staying at home among Democrats." As long as the net result Is the greatest Republican victory ever achieved In the State Republicans need not care whether It was due to Republican strength or Democratic weakness. Democrats who do not vote are on the high road to becoming good citizens. Democratic papers are doing the best they can to explain away the Maine election. They Fay it l no Indication of a Republican landslide in November, because, by Novcmler. "the business improvement certain to follow the settlement of the tariff issue" will be well under way and the voters who meant to cast their ballots against the I nomocracy for having caused hard times will see their mistake. Assuming th.it the tnriff issue 1s settled, though Mr. Cleveland an 1 Mr. Wilson say the agit.ulon has Just begun, no port of business com can re-establish confidence In the Democratic party in eight weeks or eight years. It has lost its grip. There Is discord among the colored Democrats. Mr. II. C. C. Astwood, who was nominated by President Cleveland as consul to Calais and not confirmed by the Senate, has written a letter declining to have anything mre to do with the negro Democratic League. He ms "The methods which are being adapted by certain negro Democrats and their lngus ormiz.itlons are of such a ruture th.tt no self-respecting negro can afford to associate with or continue In them." Mr. Astwood says It is problematical whether he shall continue in the ranks of the Democratic party, but if he docs it will not be as a member of the National Democratic League. He will find It very difficult to be a Democrat and a respectable negro at the fame time. president Cleveland stands In 4 he position to-day of having compelled eteryman, woman and child In the United Statas to

j become a party to deliberate robbery. In

his Catching letter he said: 'The trusts and combinations the communism of pelf whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success -we deserved should not be forgotten nor forgiven." Thanks to Mr. Cleveland himself "the communism of pelf." the Sugar Trust, is now In full operation Jn all parts of the country and every purchaser of a pound of sugar Is made to contribute to its success. Thus through Mr. Cleveland's action every Inhabitant of the United States Is not only robbed himself, but is forced to contribute to a scheme by which every other Inhabitant Is robbed. WHAT IT ALL M 12 ASS. The result of the Maine election would be significant by Itself, bu: in connection with Others it Is doubly so. If it were the only election that had occurred since the Democratic policy of war on American Industries began it would be a clear indication of public sentiment, but, construed in the light of other elections, it has extraordinary significance. As an Index of the political drift of the times it is Important to keep this in mind. Beginning with the election In this city last October, tierc has not been one that has not resultel disastrously for the Democratic party. Following close after our city election came local elections in New York and New Jersey, then State elections In Massachusetts, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Ohio and South Dakota, all showing' great Republican gains. Pennsylvania gave the largest Republican majority ever given, except that for Grant in 1S72, and the Republican majority In Ohio was never exceeded but once. The spring local elections In thl3 State showed large Republican gains. Rh)de Island, in April, and Oregon, in June, told the same story as did special elections for Congressmen in Pennsylvania and New York. Vermont, which voted Just before Maine, gave an overwhelming Republican majority, and now comes Maine with the largest Republican majority In the history of the State. It is Impossible to mistake the significance of this unbroken series of Republican vietories and gains. They mean that the people are disgusted with the record which the Democratic party has made during the last two years, and that they will embrace the earliest opportunity to turn it out of power ami intrust the administration of the government to a party which they know by experience can administer it successfully. THE CASB OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. The name Is one that has filled the trump of fame and sounded along the corridors of time aa continuously during the last two or three centuries as any that men know. At first blush the case of William Shakspeare might be supposed to be the one In which he appeared as a defendant before a local magistrate on a charge of poaching, or to refer to the controversy concerning the alleged Baconian cipher which maintains that Shakspeare's plays were written by a Judge and not by a playwright. But neither of them Is the case of William Shakspeare referred to. On the 11th of July, 1SG3, Lieutenant Burrows, of Michigan, now Congressman Burrows, in the discharge of hl3 duties a3 an ofTlcer in the Union army, came upon a Union soldier lying on the field at Jackson, Miss. The man was wounded in 3even places -and had both legs broken. lie seemed to be dying. Lieutenant Burrows Stopped to speak to him, and found it was Sergeant William Shakspeare, of a Michigan regiment. He gave the Lieutenant a message for his mother, and the latter left. Mm, as he supposed, in a dying condition. Instead of dying, however, the man outlived his wounds, became a general, and in due time was placed by a grateful government on Us pension list. In 1S30, twentyfive years after the close of the war, his pension was increased to $72 a month. That does not seem too much for a man who had received seven wounds and two broken legs In the service of his country. But the Democratic postmaster at Ionia, Mich., thought It too much, and in his excessive zeal to serve an administration hostile to pensioners he Informed the Pension Office at Washington that, in his opinion, the case of Gen. William Shakspeare should be investigated with a view to reducing his rating. The Commissioner thanked the postmaster for his Information, and as soon as he could dispose of other cases took up that of General Shakspeare. The office is now engaged In Investigating the case, with a probability that the pension will be reduced. When Mr. Burrows, formerly lieutenant and now Congressman, was told by General Shakspeare that he had been ordered by tho pension authorities at Washington to undergo a physical examination with a view of reducing his pension, the Congressman exclaimed, "What! You, whose grave we dug; you who were among the bravest in the army ami whom I found dying In the Held; you here like a criminal in the witness box being questioned alnmt your wounds? It Is an outrage." The case Of William Shakspeare Is only one out of many. It illustrates the kind of treatment and reform that this administration is practicing. M)T WlTIIOlT MGMFICAXCE. Newspapers published at the national capital are usually conducted on the theory that they can afford to have no party affiliations. Their political opinions are apt to be of a colorless sort, but with a perceptible bias In the direction of the administration In power this leaning being offset at suitable Intervals by mild and inJ nocuous criticisms of the said administra tion and an "independent' attitude thereby secured. The Journal has no complaint to make of this policy; the publialicrs, having made a study of tho field, probably know what Is best suited to its peculiar need., and have endeavored to meet the requirements. It has been a matter of Home regret, however, that the Washington Post, which expresses itself with s-i r.uiea vigor and ability on social and nonpartisan topics, does not define its views on party questions with equal fore and clearness. By doing so it would perhaps not Change a vote or Influence legislation, since Its readara ara largely composed of men whose

opinions are fixed or who have no vote, but its expressions would have the merit of grace and originality, and would be an Interesting addition to political literature. But It has seen fit to maintain the customary noncommittal position, and has given a mild support to the Cleveland administration, with an occasional gentle dissent from Its course, to prove its own freedom from part prejudice. Recently there has seemed to be an undercurrent that Indicated a degree of effort In "holding to the editorial dead level on public questions, but not until now has restraint been thrown off and the nonpartisan rule disregarded. At last tho Post strikes out, and with vigor, as was to be expected. The Maine election was the exciting cause. Speaking of the overwhelming Republican triumph In that State, it Fays: As we see the matter, no other consummation was possible. The Democratic party has done nothing to commend itself to the respect and confidence of the country. It has succeeded in convincing us that It Inclines to foolish and vicious legislation, and it has frightened conservative citizens In all quarters. We cannot imagine any serious and responsible" and useful voter in the act of sustaining and indorsing the avowed purpose of the Democratic leaders Mr. Wll.wn, for Instance and are not surprised that the verdict has been to their discredit and repudiation. What Maine did yesterday we expect the other States In the North, Kast and . West, at least, to do when their opportunity presents Itself. We expect, in a word, that the whole country will rise In protest against the foolish, mischievous and untoward policy which the cuckoos, the mugwumps and the demagogues 'nave Indicated. The country is always intelligent and patriotic, and It can be relied upon, re think, to accept the Republican party as the safest, wisest and most wholesome custodian of the national welfare under the circumstances that now prevail In the Democracy. Coming from an avowed Republican paper, such utterances would not be remarkable; from an Independent paper, with administration proclivities, and whose owner and publisher is a Democrat, it Is significant. The Post sees the writing on the wall, and realizes that the day of the De

mocracy Is over, and that to adhere to it la to follow a sinking ship. General Grosvenor, of Ohio,, who made a number of speeches in Maine during the recent campaign, says that, no matter what Democrats outside of Maine may say, those within the State know they were defeated on the tariff Issue. "They knew from the beginning," he says, "that they were doomed and they did .not dare to say anything. They made very few speeches. In their private utterances their chief tapic was denunciation of the administration and of the Senate. They had less to say against the Republican party than they had against the Senate and the President. Cleveland was everywhere bitterly denounced by them." It is pretty hard lines when even Democrats get to thinking Mr. Cleveland worse than his party. ; . ;; . The trees of Indianapolis have,, for some reason, suffered little from the caterpillar pest this year, and have never been so, overrun by them as are the trees In many Eastern cities. Still, the nuisance . Is one likely to be very troublesome at any season, and the experience of Rochester, N. Y., may be worth remembering, since the problem of preserving city shade trees from their many enemies is increasingly difli- , cult. The trees of Rochester were badly Infested by worms, and the Genesee Valley , Forestry Association interested itself in the ' matter to the extent of offering a bounty to school children for cocoons. There Is nothing the average boy likes at any time better than climbing a tree, and when a prize hangs at the end of a limb the joy Is heightened. As a consequence, practically the entire crop of cocoons was harvested last year, the enormous number of 8,500,000 being turned over to the association, which disbursed $C00 in prizes. This year the Rochester trees have been In full foliage and free from caterpillars. The Investment was a good one, and might be made by city authorities when needed as well as by a private organization. Twice a day, beginning with last Monday's mat nee. a variety comedian at the Empire has been telling a little joke about his fruit farm. When asked what he does with the fruit produced thereon he replies that "We cat what we can, and what we can't we can." Wednesday the esteemed News reported the conversation as occur ring on a north-bound car. Thus does Retribution get his work in, so to speak. The variety folks have been stealing from the papers for years, and it is a matter for gratulation to know that the journalistic worm has turned at D.st, and has begun robbing the robbers. Any other paper than a fearlessly Independent one would have waited till the troupe got out of town, but the News isn't built that way. It swipes the defenseless variety man's Jokes right from under his artificial nose, as It were. Peru, lnd seems to have developed something entirely new In the way of county fairs. A display of wares In street bootha has many advantages over the same collection In a distant and not easily accessible fair ground. The live stock display may be less attractive in streetcomer tents, but the whole must be a picturesque exhibition and one likely to be imitated. The plan was probably suggest--ed in part by the markets and street festivals in foreign v!lltest and in part by the celebrated Midway at the ChlcaRO exposition. It adds variety to the pleasures of the country people, at all events, and for this reason, if for no other, is to be approved. Philadelphia business men have begun a crusade against the three days of grace now allowed for the payment of certain commercial obligations. It Is a relic of barbarism and of the days when postal communication was slow and uncertain and telegraphic communication unknown. It is useless, and to. abolish it would simplify business transactions and establish a uniformity which does not now exist, since California and several other States, including New Yprk. have enacted laws doing away with the usage Judging by indications there is no eager and tempestuous desire on the part of the School Hoard to learn the exact price for which the property east of the High School can be obtained. IU HULKS IN Till: AIU. CoiiKnlalion. When man has K'rrrwn too old to love. He ha.- this consolation sweet: He Rets a mot amazing knack Of learning h--w to drink an I cat. Very Misfit nUxnicc. . "See here," sail the lawyer, "isn't it a fact that you were ence sentenced to a term in jail for stealing Iios?" "I cucs it I.-." sullenly absented the witness, "but, by gee, - 1 broke out the Fame nigot I wa put in." cl!l!i. "Rut lok here, my friend, you know as well as I di that bth of th old parties are In the hydra-headed g'rap of the octcpu of monopoly. Why don't you come out a.-Kl Join the Populist party?" I g-uej you are right about old Monopoly and all that, but a man has got to took

after his own interests first I'm a barber !by trade."

Hidden Motives. "Just think! That Miss Parrotte. who went from here as a missionary, you know, has married one of those horrid South Sea Islanders." "Yes, I heard about It. I don't know whether her motive was one of revenge or sentiment. The fellow she married ate the man she was engaged to." A Very iood Hill, (Although not altogether what we could wish, it is, in the main, a very good bill. Democratic Paper.) It has some faults, we must confess. It will fill the country with distress; It will close the shop and stop the mill. But, excepting that, it's a very good bill. It will give our richest markets o'er To goods that come from a foreign shore; It will kill our trade with Cuba; still. Excepting that, it's a very good bill. It will slaughter all the farmer's sheep; It will make his wheat and barley cheap; It will work the cattle business ill; But. excepting that, it's a very good bill. It will take the laborer's hard-earned home; It will give the tramps excuse to roam; And the Jail and poorhouse It will fill; But. excepting that, it's a very good bill. It will help the greedy Sugar Trust, And the Whisky Ring will grow robust; It will let Carnegies work their will. But, excepting that, It's a very good bllL It will lend the import trade new zest, While it bids home factories take a rest; In short, it is all that's bad; but still, Excepting that, it's a very good bill. Nemo. THE RESULT IX 3IA1XE. There seems to be a big chestnut crop In Maine. New York World. The Maine Democracy appears to have lost its centerboard. Toledo Blade. An Irresistible tidal wave is sweeping every Northern State. Philadelphia Press. Vermont and Maine have joined hands. "Comrades, comrades." Philadelphia North American. New England has set the pace. Let the whole country keep it up. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. When it comes to furnishing a political corpse for exhibition purposes, the Maine Democrats have no peers. Washington I)3t. The Democrats don't like the news from Maine, and they will like the news from the country in November still less. St. Louis Globe-Democrat (Rep.) Maine sometimes has surprised people in its elections, but no one looked for anything but a sweeping Republican victory there yesterday. Boston Herald (Dem.) Maine has gloriously answered the call of patriotic duty. The tidal wave has begun to roll and In November it will sweep a Republican majority into the House of Representatives. Baltimore American (Rep.) The Democratic Congress and its performances will not grow more beautiful as the days go by and we may reasonably expect that all of the Northern and Western States will show very heavy Republican gains this fall. Cincinnati Tribune (Rep.) Grover Cleveland and his cuckoo followers have tried to make it the plutocrat's party. The result of this policy thus far has been a heavy falling off in the Democratic vote In every State which has. held an election, and like results may be expected In the States yet to vote. Chicago Times (Dem.) The national Democracy have not attempted to make Maine even good skirmishing ground. It is too- far to the (northeast. It Is out of the line of. human progress. It gets few immigrants' from other States, and its political, social and business life Is narrow and selfish. Chicago Herald (Dem.) The evidences of profound Democratic dissatisfaction are too plain to be obscured $nd ;too numerous to be explained away. The elections In Vermont and Maine are the first verdicts of the people upon Democratic incompetence in national afTalrs. The rest of the country will be heard from eight weeks hence. New York Tribune (Rep.) The people have come to the conclusion that the Democratic party Is unfitted to have control of the government in this great country. They know by experience that the Republican party can be trussed with power and can be relied upon to administer the government wisely, prudently and in the interest of the industrial and commercial classes. Chicago Tribune. (Rep.) It is Idle to dispute the force and meaning of this unprecedented victory and defeat. It is the signal response of the North to the grotesque failure and woeful wretchedness of Democratic rule over this great country- The typical vote in Maine Is. a death knell to the prosecution of the crusade against the American policy of protection to American Industries and labor, Boston Traveller (Rep.) The Republicans of Maine have, not merely gained an ordinary victory. They have achieved the most sweeping triumph In the whole history of the Republican organization. It is a Fplendld tribute to the ability and aggressiveness of the Republican leaders, both of the State and out of it. who in the committee room and on the platform conducted tne brilliant canvass. tioston Journal (Rep.) Herein lle3 a lesson which other States should profit by. It remains for the great Northern States not only to carry the elections, but carry them by overwhelming majorities. This will prove a way to ston the further agitation of the tariff question threatened by President Cleveland, Ch airman Wilson and other leading free-traders It will say that the people of this country have had enough of misrule.-Clncinnati Commercial-Gazette (Rep.) SHREDS AXD PATCHES. Will all the Brecklnridges in Congress please stand up? Toledo Blade; J Those Louisiana sugar planters expect to rV?aln ht tne Political field. Philadelphia Times. Some of the lord's shepherds try the hardest to feed the sheep that are fat. Rams Horn. About the only heirloom most people know . anything about is a mortgage -Atchison Globe. Ml" Dr. Parkhurst might do a little effective campaigning among the Four Hundred. Washington Post. There is not and never has been a divine right by which a man or woman could act like a fool. New York World. An Independent in a man who will not cut bait or hold the pole, but wants to eat all the fish. Tammany Times. It is always a sin to hold an opinion differing from that of a man who thinks he is a saint. New Orleans Picayune. Willets What's Blobson doing now? Gilletts He Isn't doing anything. He's got a government position. Somervllle Journal. It should not be overlooked that most of the crowing about these great Chlnece victories comes by way of Shanghai. St. 1-oul.s Republic. The people aren't listening much to the Democratic screeching. They politely decline to be fooled twice. Philadelphia North American. "The Four Hundred" seem to have placed "family skeletons" on the free list this year without waiting for tarifT reform. Chicago Inter Ocean. Rev. Dr. Parkhurst has returned from -Europe and the tl?er piles a few extra chairs against the donr of it lair when it retires at night. Detroit Tribune. Order of American Mcrlinnicn. PROVIDENCE. R. I.. Sept. 12. The fortyninth annual meting of the National Council. Order of American Mechanics, is in progress here. One hundred representatives are in attendance from twenty different State. Secretary John Server's report shows that the order his made a handsome sain all over the country. The national councilor, in his report, recommend. that liquor dealers be barred from membership. Fnlleri'Otrlns; JC.00,IMH. SALEM. Mass.. Sop:. 12. Marshall H. Abbott, one of the most extensive operators-In this section of the State, this forenoon, filed a petition in Insolvency. His liabilities are estimated at $.7-tf.X.O. Mr. Abbott says that his financial dlilicultles date back to tlie big Lynn fire.

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ILLINOIS REPl'DLICAX CAMPAIGN OPEXED I1Y THE SEXATOIl. 3IacVenKl Qneallons) Answered and Xcw Ones Pul Finnncial Condition of the Country-MeKInley Tariff. ROBINSON, III., SepL 12. The Republican campaign in Illinois was formally opened here to-day with the first big rally held under the auspices of the Republican State central committee. At the reciuest of the Republicans of this county Senator Shelby M. Cullom was assigned by the committee as the. speaker of the day. and delivered his first speech since his return from Washington. The Republicans of southern Illinois are exceedingly enthusiasts and they turned out in such large numbers and with such a display cf enthusiasm as to render the rally one of the most successful ever held in this section of the State. Mr. Cullom proceeded to an- j swer the questions asked him by tne i-em-ocratic candidate for United States Senator, Franklin MacVeagh, in the latter's recent speech at Springfield. Senator Cullom ridiculed Mr. MacVeagh's comparisons of the Republican and Democratic parties to the political parties of England, and taid that, while Mr. MacVeagh appears to be thoroughly English in his political ideas and associations, he does not appear to be any more exact in his statements about English politics than in those regarding American politics. Hd spoke at length on the tariff and the currency, concluding with an arraignment of Mr. Cleveland's pension policy and a criticism of Mr. MacVeagh's alleged aspersions on Gen. John A: Logan. As to the inquiry whether the McKinley law would be re-enacted by the Republican party if it is restored to power. Senator Cullom said his prediction was that the McKinley bill would not be re-enacted in its entirety. The reasons he gave for this prediction were that the law had been in force four years when repealed and undoubtedly would have been revised by the Republicans,, had they continued in power, in accordance with their policy in the past, when the changing condition of commerce or other reasons showed this to be necessary. He had no hesitation in declaring, however, that when the Republican party returns to power and enacts a new tariff law it would be drawn in accordance with the policy of protection to American industries and American wage workers. He would advise that the first step taken by the Republicans when they revised the tariff would be to consider the propriety of reducing the duties upon the fifty-on? articles on which the new Democratic law had increased duties above the rates fixed In the McKinley law. He would be anxious to discover why these duties had been raised by a party which denounced the alleged high rates of the McKinley "robber tariff," and he called upon Mr. MacVeagh to explain why the duties upon these articles had been increased. Toward the close of his address Mr. Cullom said: "Fellow-citizens, allow me a word or two now in regard to the financial condition of the country In 1892, when the Republican party went out of power. The vealtn of the country Increased from $16,159.616.0C8 in 1800 to $62,610,000.00) in 1KW. The capital invested in manufactures in 1STX) had increased to $3,0!J0(000.0iK). The wages earned by employes In manufacturing in 1SW aggregated $1,!1.17Q,4M. and the value of the product was $4,SGO,285,S37. Wagss Increased greatly in the aggregate between 15) and l&K), and In this period they made the vast Increase of more than 41 ier cent, per capita, "In 1S92 the value of our exports amounted to $1,030,000,000 and exceeded our Imports by the sum of J200,OGO,0CO. showing that the Republican protective policy has continually built up and enlarged our foreign commerce, instead of closing against us the markets of the world, as claimed by the free-traders. "In 1831 the amount of deposits In the savings banks of the country aggregated the sum of $1,623,079,719. and nearly all of it belonged to the artisans, mechanics and other laboring men of the country. "At the clo.33 of President Harrison's administration the Interest-bearing debt of the Nation amounted to $.'85,039. 210. It, had been reduced under the Republican policy from something over $2.300. OOO.OOO in 1G5 to that sum. Cleveland came Into offlc? In 1893 with a Democratic Congress to support him, and on July 1. 1S94. the public debt had increased to $CCo,041,&90,. an increase of more than $30,009,000. And If the Democratic policy continues as heretofore the Interest-bearing debt of the Nation will be Increased by the sum of from $1i0, 000,000 to $200,000,000 before we get rid of Democracy in March, 1897." WOLCOTT AXD TELLER. Colorado's Senators Mpenk at the RepuMIrnu Convention. DENVER, Sept. 12. The Republicans of Colorado met here to-day in State convention. There were 933 delegates In attendance, a few of whom were women taking part in their first State convention - under the new equal suffrage law. Senators Wolcott and Teller made speeches. The former denounced the administration of Governor Waite as the cause of the deplorable condition of. the State and Implored every one to vote with the Republican party this fall in order to redeem the State from misrule. "The plank demanding the free coinage of silver," said Senator Wolcott, "Is the only thing in the Populist platform which merits consideration of the voters. The Republicans aLy demand this. When I am certain it cannot be secured through the latter I am ready and willing to leave It and Join any other party which can show me it la able to bring about such a result. A new element has entered politics and the women of the State must bear their share of the burden. There is no good citizen who does not thank his Maker that the women will cast their ballots with him to prevent misrule. S;nce Colorado became a State there has never been an hour when Its motto could so earnestly be invoked as now: 'Nothing without divine aid.' There must Jve enough men and women In this State to save it from further misrule. I believe that this convention will not listen to the claims of any man for office, but will select citizens who will save the State from misrule." At the conclusion of Senator Wolcott's remarks Senator Teller took the platform. He gave a brief history of the fight In Congress last winter to prevent the repeal of the Sherman bill and stated the silver cause all over the world was growing so rapidly that It was, In his opinion, but a short time until a free-coinage law would be ena-eted by Congress. He agreed with his colleague in his statement that he was willing to withdraw from the Republican party when it ceased to be friendly to the cause of silver." The following candidates were nominated: For Judge of the Supreme Court. John Campbell, of Colorado Springs; Governor, A. W. Mclntyre, of Alamosa; Lieutenant Governor, Jud Brush, of Greeley; Secretary of State. A. 15. McTaffney. of Denver: State Treasurer, Harry L. Mulnlx, of Trinidad. WOLLD LIKE TO IIP, .MAYOR. 31 r. Ilooxcvelt W'nnt n Chance to Clean the Tnmninny TlKer' Lulr. WASHINGTON. Sept. 11 A rumor published in New York, to-day, that Civilservice Commissioner Roosevelt contemplated resigning from the board In order to become Republican candidate for Ma3or of New York is believed here not to be accurate at the present time. Several months ago Mr. Roosevelt, in casual conversation with close friends, mentioned an aspiration to become Mr. . Gilroy's successor in the mayoralty chair, and spoke earnestly of securing the nomination. Since then, however, according to one of his most Intimate friends, he has re linquished this aspiration, under the txdlef that he would l-e unable to get the nomination. The rejKrt lacks confirmation, nbt only among Mr. Roosevelt's personal friends, but his colleagues in the ofttce of the commission. There It is htated that there is no truth in the story, and that Mr. Roosevelt will not continue his present position. Comrnis'ioncr Lyman, ex-chnlr-inan of the board, and the only member of the committee m the city, said to-day that he had heard nothing cf the matter, and so far as no knew tne report lacked foundation. Mr. Roosevelt left here a week u?o for a month's outing on his ranch near Medora. N. D. Dlmuruntlcd .ro Democrat. WASHINGTON. Sept. 12.-H. C. C. Astwood has tendered to President C. H. J. Taylor hl3 resignation as chairman of the executive committee of the Negro NaAstwood pays his respects to the AfroAmerican Bureau of Organization and declares that the bold and vulgar manner la

which colored officers are being forced to contribute against their will. is a spectacle so humiliating that it mikes ngro Democracy a cess pool of corruption." The action of the congressional committee "in sustaining an organization under the conditions openly condemned by Senator Faulkner himself. s:n1 the action of tin national administration towards negrc Democrats makes it impossible," he says, "for me to be un active worker." DK. C0.NKL1YS WIIKUEAI50UT&

The Missing Michigan Jlan SaM to He Held for Hansom iu Chicago. NILES Mich., Sept. 12.-The mystery ai to the whereabouts of Dr. A. B. Conklin. of Casso polls, who was supposed to hav been murdered, is believed to be solved at last. Mrs. Conklin to-day received a let" ter stating that Dr. Conklin was in Chicago and would be delivered over for a ransom, but the price was not stated, nr did the letter say whether he had been kidnaped or otherwise. Sheriff Coulter left for Chicago this afternoon. HIS POWER WANINGLI HIXG CHAXG'S DOWXFALL SAID TO HE PROIIAHLC. HI Promised Victory Over the Hated Wojen" Delayed Too Lonn-Sav iifie Ilurdex Canlnjr Terror. LONDON, Sept. 12. A dispatch from Shanghai says that the power of Viceroy LI Hung Chang has steadily decreased. His few influential fnends are doing their best fcr him at Pekin. but it Is not likely that they will be able to avert his downfall. Every day's delay in providing tha promised victory over the Japanese novr adds to LI Hung Chang's danger. The dispatch adds that the block in moving the Chinese troop3 into Corea continues. Everything has been thrown into confusion. The reinforcements frcm the more remote provinces enroute to Tlen-Tsln are at a standstill, and are terrorizing the cities in which they are halted. The reinforcements are mostly undisciplined hordes who are not under the control of their nominal leaders. Almost a reign of terror prevails even In Tlen-Tsln. The savage soldiery are plundering and maltreating the wretched populace and native merchants are fleeing to Tlen-Tsln In order' to save their lives. Trade is at a complete standt'tlll and misery is general. Toe French minister has formally protested against the action of the Chinese in boarding a French steamer on Saturday last. A letter from the resident minister at Seoul states that a large military hospital has been erect ed on the heights and that number? of invalid Japanese are treated there. The building is crowded wit'x patients. It is it-ported that constant conflicts are taking place between the outIosts but that few badly wounded men nave been taken to Seoul. Most of the men In the hospital there are suiTering from disease. A special dispatch to the Times from . Shagnai says that native advices received on Sunday frcm the front are to the effect that there is a continuous long-distance fighting between the Chinese and Japanese troops, who are Separated by the Kim Chini river. No decisive result has followed the engagements. Floods have rendered the river impassable. Tlie advices show .that the Chinese army is in good condition and discipline Is maintained. The army is well supplied with ammunition, provisions and clothing. The Japanes? army, it is reported. Is suffering severely from epidemio disease. ' The Next Battlefield. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 12.-Files of th Japan Advertiser, the Globe and the Japan Herald have been received by way of Victoria and bring news of the war to Aug. 23. It is stated that four fast Chinese torpedo catchers are lying at Canton, in waiting for Japanese merchant vessels, which may come from foreign countries laden wiua arms and ammunition. All of them are said to be able to make eighteen knoti an hour. Ttiere has been some fighting at Ring Cheng. Corea, but no decisive engagements have yet taken place. It Is probable, however, that the next battle will. take place In that vicinity. Bing Chong is situated south of Seoul, near the Tai Dong river. After th. battle of Asan and Seikwan many ot the Chinese made their way to Bing Chong Where a portion of the army was posted. There is now a large forte tihere, as Chinese troops to the number of ten thousand have arrived from Ah Jun. The Chinese ordered the Governor to supply rice for tne use of the army. Two thousand Chinese troops have also arrived tit Hosan Chin, on the banks of Tai Dong river, and have started to build a fort to defend their position. They are collecting rice and other provisions. A Japanese general says that the battle which will take piace -soon at Bing Chong will have Important bearing on the ultimate outcome of the war in Corea, t AcecPling to a, correspondent of he Japanese Advertiser, there are now In Corta 24,800 troops. Of this number SO0 are cavairy. TVie Chinese army numbers about the same, the main body being encamped at P;ng Yang, where formidable earthworks have been thrown up. This will be the Oainese base of operations in Corea. Besides the Chinese, the same correspondent asserts there are 20.0of Coreans rrayed against the Japanese, but as most of these are poorly armed or unarmed, they do not constitute a formidable force. U nt-u tiit-y Join the Chinese array and are supplied by the latter with rifles as Intended, they will greatly strengthen the Celestials. THE PYTHIAN IUTUAL. Action of German Secessionists Discussed by Supreme Cliaucellorllitchie. 1 NEW YORK. Sept. 12.-5upreme Chancellor W. B. Ritchie, of the Supreme Idge Knights of Pythias, when qu;stIoned regarding the action of that body in interdicting the use of the German ritual and adopting a resolution whereby saloon keepers and bartenders were prohibited from becoming members cf the order, said: "The Supreme Lodge, of which I am at tha head, has the power to decide what ritual shall be made, In which language it shall be written or whether any ritual shall be ued at all. We have decided that In America the language of the greatest number of our people shall be ud In the ritual, and that 1 the English. This wis the decision of the Supreme l,odge, and by that I mean to stand. If we were orRanizIng a lodKe In France we naturally would elect to have the ritual in French; if in Germany. In the lamruage of thst country, but In America It Is to be In English. I regret very much that our German friends have taken offense at our decision, but they cannot help it. I have many friends among the Germans, and. Indeed, am pres-. ident of one German society, and It pains me to learn of thKr withdrawal. Of the resolution in regard to saloon keepers anl bartenders I wish to say that It reads: "No saloon keeper, bartender or professional gambler shall be eligible to membership in this order." SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENTS. Over 4000 Sheep Unlawfully Killed by Colorado Cattlemen. PARACHUTE, Col., Sept. li-Furthei particulars have been received concerning the slaughter of sheep on th? Mesa, nc;ir here, by the cattlemen. There were about twenty-five cattlemen, all wfarin; masks. They drove twenty-two hundred sheep belonging to C. B. Brown Into a corral :iii,I killed them with guns, knives and clubs. J. F. Miller's herd. numleriig about tw thousand head, were driven over the cliffs ami klllel. J. D. H irlburt's heep wr nt molested, but th butchers -rfd notice thnt then would have bern srve-l likewise but for lack of tlm. When th sheepmen returned n t a cattleman was in sipht. The sheep hrd?r who was shot will recover. Charcrd with Fraud. CHICAGO. Sept. 12.-A sensational bill for a receiver for the Cmc-ico nuKt i woiks j was filed to-day, cr.nrg.ng J. McGregor J Adams, a well-known capu ilit . w ;.- ' president ofthe rommnj. w;rh frsu'-i'i'-'v aiding the stockholders to dispose of tjir I Moci. 'iue concern vi cufiiaiued at ' ooo