Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1896 — Page 4

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In rdr to receive attention, be ar"orr;t.anJed by the nam nl aidr of the writer. ; Tlin IM)IAAI'OLI5 JOLItNAL Can b found af the follomlng r laces: NLW YORK Wlndftor Hotel and Aator House. CHICAGO ralmer Hou. and P. O. News Co., 91 Adorns tre-t. CI.VCIN3TATI-J. H. Hawiey & Co.. lit Vine LOUISVILLE -C. T. peerir.e. northtret corner of TMrd and Jefferson streets, and Louisville iJock Co., SS Fourth avenue. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. .WASHINGTON'. D. C HIs House. Kbhltt lh)uw, Willard' Hotel nnt the Wa5h'ington News Exchange. Fourteenth street, between Penn. avenue and F street. letters from the Mining Regions. On fiunijy nxt the Journal will bt-gin the publication of one of the most striking rerles of letters ever furnlshM to the American people. Vbeie letters will describe the new gold and silver mining replons of the United States. They will take yj into the gold camps of Colorado. Utah and other parts of the West, and will show how the new processes of gold mining and gold reduction are so materially increasing the gold product of the world. They will al?o rive an Insight Into nome of our greatest ellrer mining camps. Through them you may visit the birest rllrer mine of the worll. which has already paid more than 1Z,X.CC0 In dividends, and whose liver output has been more than $30.WO,000. This Ls the Ontario mine at Tarke City. Utah. These letters will show Just what It now costs to mint gold and fllver, ar.d will give the latest facts about them, which can be got on the ground where they are produced. They will describe In simple nerds how the precious metals are got out of the earth. The letters will not be political. They will not te written in the interests of either gold or silver, but their only aim -will be to give Rome Idea of the condition of our mineral regions aa they are now and their wonderful posslb lltles as to the future. Connected with them will be many new romantic stories of men who have made and lost money in mining. They will contain interviews with th owaers of great mines and talks with them uron mining as a business. The writer of these letters is Mr. Frank G. Carpenter, who has spent several months among the Hackles this year, and who, as usual, has had the very best eources of information. The first letter will be published Sunday, July 25. It wll describe the wonderful revolution which' is going on In mining all over the "West. It will tell where our gold comes from and will contain a graphic description of the new processes of reducing low-grade gold by cyanide of I-ctassium. Mr. Carpenter saw these processes In their perfection at Florence, Col., during his Vls4t there to the biggest and most perfect cyanide mill of the world. No one who wants to be thoroughly posted and up to the Mmes can affurd to miss these letters. Hon. William Jennings Bryan finds his mall Inconveniently large. Patience, William, It tvIII not be anything like so large six months hence, The educational campaign Is in full blast. On the part of the Republican press it consists In disseminating facts, and on the part of the free-silver organs In concealing them. ' Just now rle question of greatest Interest to Populists and free-silver Democrats Is which party shall swallow the other. It Is a difference between swallower and iwallowee. It is evident that the same persons who are pulling the strings that operate Mr. Bryan are also at the ends of those which work Senator Teller. Both are puppets of the silver barons. Senator Teller's recent course shows that the respectful treatment accorded him In the St. Louis convention and the expressions of sympathy for his tearful leavetaking were entirely misplaced. Faul Vandervoort, of Omaha, who Is a prominent candidate for the Populist nomination for President at St. Louis, was formerly in the railway mall service, and was dismissed by a Republican rostmaster-gen-eral for neglect of duty and Insubordination. Senator Teller's letter to Mr. Bryan shows him in the Interesting attitude of kneeling to the free-silver candidate. The address issued from Denver, doubtless pre-part-d by him, shows him prostrate. If there Is a more groveling pesltlon he will probably find it. Tbf Populist loaders denounce the old partlts for their adherence, to the spoils system, but whenever any sort of a fusion or alliance U proposed they want to know' what there is in it for them. They may be disinterested patriots and reformers, but they act very much like hungry and scheming office-seeker?. Seme of Candidate Bryan's friends ar alarmed lest in his rapidly accumulating mail, to tvhich he cminot give attention, a letter from drover Cleveland is concealed and going unanswered. Their solicitude is hardly calkd for. Mr. Cleveland Is not interesting himself in the candidate of a convention that insulted him. Senator Thurston, of Nebraska, says that, while Mr. Bryan is personally popular In that State, there is nothing to far on that aecount. as his popularity will bo more than counteracted by the character of the platform on whih he Is running. "In my opinion." says the Senator, "personal popularity will cut KttU If any figure by the time election day is at hand." The letter Issued by the president of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company to Its C:o policy holders warning them against the dangers of free silver might be duplicated by rery life Insurance company In the country Free silver coinage would result very soon In placing the entire currency system of the United States on a 33-eent dollar basis, and thereafter all policies would bo paid in dollars of that purchasing power. The bortlng Republican silver Senators address themselves "t those who believe In .bimetallism, which means the equal treatment of both gold and silver at the mints of the Nation." Men of sense enough to be in the United States Senata. and presumably of average honesty, ought to bo atzzizd of themselves to make a state

ment so. palpably false. The kind of bimetallism which they are demanding would subject gold and silver to most unequal treatment, since it would require the gold dollar to contain 100 cents worth of fine metal and the silver "dollar only Z3 cents worth. The thing of all others whlcit they do not want is the equal treatment of gold and silver. They prate of patriotism and statesmanship, but they dare not for a moment discuss the question of commercial ratio. If they have a particle of business sense or common honesty It does not appear in their treatment of the sliver question.

lilt YAK AS A POPULIST. There is no reason why the ropuiists should not Indorse Bryan. He is a Tepullst himself and stands on a Popullstic platform. The reasons which ought to make him acceptable to Populists should make him obnoxious to all who do not aceept the political vagaries and heresies. of that nondescript party. Bryan's sudden conversion from Democracy to Populism shows the versatility of his political conscience. In the spring of speaking as a Demo crat in the House of Representatives on the tariff bill and discussing tho fall in prices in recent years, he said: You must attribute it to the Inventive genius that has multiplied a thousand times. In many instancts, the strength of a single arm. and enabled us to do to-day with one man what fifty men could not do fifty years ago. That ls what brought the prices down in this country and everywhere. There was some sense in that view. Now and for some time past he attributes the full in prices, and especially of farm products, to tho fall in sliver. "In the first instanco he was speaking for free trade; now he speaks for the silver mine owners. After his conversion to free silverlsm he said in one of his speeches in Congress, "I denounce that child of ignorance and avarice, the gold dollar, as the most dishonest dollar which we cculd employ." In the same speech he said: "I stand upon the authority of every intelligent writer upon political economy when I assert that there ls not and never has been an honest dollar." It would be hard to say what he raeant by this, and he did not cite any "intelligent writer on political economy" In proof of the statement. Again, in the same speech, Mr. Bryan said: "Not only am I in favor of the government supplying all the paper money needed, but I believe that it can and ought to prevent any private citizen or corporation from setting aside the legal.tender laws by private contract." In other words, he would restrict the personal liberty of citizens by depriving them of the right to enter Into private contracts specially payable in one of two forms of legaltender money. What would become of personal rights under such a law? Itv his speech at Chicago which secured him the nomination, he said: "Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy our farms and the grass will grow In the streets of every city in the country." These and similar sentiments are found In all of Bryan's speeches. There is no reason why the Populists should not surport him, but there are many why no self-respecting Democrat should. TIIE BUSINESS ELEMENT. , A peculiarity of thl3 presidential campaign is the unusual number of nonpolitical papers which are coming out on the side of sound money. There is in the country, as many know, a class of papers devoted exclusively to business, sometimes to a particular lino of business. Some of thern are papers of high standing and wide circulation among the class for whom they are published, but as they circulate among persons of all parties they do not, as a rule, discuss politics. This year, however, is an exception. The money question having got into politics, they are discussing it from a. business point of view, and all of them on the side of sound money. One would expect to find financial papers on this side of the question, yet they do not treat It as a party question. The New York Financier, a high class paper, says: The best that can be said of the Chicago platform is that it is wholly bad, nnd appeals only to a class that i In the minority. No man who has accumulated a small surplus can support it; no man who is. making investments in the form of life Insurance for his family will be attracted by it; no man who wishes his wages to purchase the most possible for the money will understanding give his asssent, and above that, no man who recognizes the law of honesty in the abstract can vote it conscientiously. The United States Investor, a paper issued simultaneously in New York, Boston and Philadelphia, discusses "Commercial versus Coinage Value." ' from a historicfinancial point of view and concludes that not all the governments in the world, much less one government alone, can by legislation obliterate the distinction between commercial value and coinage value. The Northwestern Miller, of Minneapolis, the organ of the milling Interests, devotes a long article to the Chicago platform and ticket, and takes very strong ground against both. "At such a time as this," it says, "even party lines should be ropes of sand to keep men from their duty," and It urges all its readers to stand for sound money and national honor. The article concludes: No plausible pretext, no specious nnd misleading speech can hid the issue. It is not between protection and free-trade, or sliver and gold, but simply between rule and misrule, order and anarchy, liberty and license. The Northwestern Millar is not a iolitlcal Journal. It understands well enough that the people it represents are of widely different views. Under ordinary conditions it would hesitate to counsel political action of any sort, but- in the face of a real danger, to the very life of the Nation it would be untrue to its traditions and principles and false to what it recognizes as its duty if it did not, unmistakably and without equivocation, speak out freely and frankly for the cause of honest and stable government and do what little it can to assist in putting down a movement which. If triumphant, would bring untold misery and woe to the people of this country. These expressions from representative class journals show that the business element of the country is likely to be found pretty solidly for sound money. FREC SILVER AM) FHCE GRASS. In his first speech at Chicago after his nomination, mad? from a hotel balcony to a crowd in the streets, Mr. Bryan began by saying: "There hall be no signs of 'Keep off the Grass when I am President." There ls no better evidence of the law-abiding and law-obeying disposition of the American people In general than the respect they pay to' the little signs, "Keep off the Grass," so often seen in public grounds. The notice is not intended to oppress or discriminate against anybody, but to preserve the property of all for tho pleasure of all. An a general rule, the order enfortes itself, everybody recognizing its propriety and sympathizing with Its object. Now and then some crank chooses to construe it as an attack on the rights of the people, as Coxey did In Washington, and tries to break it down, but no sensible person sympathizes with such attempts. Thus far the Boy Orator has made only two distinct pledges of what he will do if eleeted President. One ls that under no circumstances will he bo a candidate for re-election, and the other Is that he will

do away with the signs, "Keep off the Crass." During the time that he has been nursing his aspirations tor the presidency he has evidently given careful consideration to the subject and reached the conclusion that the grass of the country belongs to the people thereof. The pledge to do away with the restrictive signs seems properly to go hand in hand with the free-silver pcllcy. The free and unlimited coinage of silver dollars, which, of course. President Bryan would arrange to have handed out of the treasury on dematvd, would attract a vast number of people te Washington, and when they got there they would bo delighted to find that they could camp out on the lawns an J tramp through the parks of tfie city without once encountering the sign "Keep off the Grass." In connection with free sliver, that would be a great and beneficent reform.' It might make tho Boy Orator so X'opular that at the end of his first terra, in spite of his pledge to the contrary, the people would unite in demanding, "Grass, grass, four years more cf grass." Bloody riots, murders of entire families by one crazed member, suicides and men running amuck are uncommonly numerous, as the daily record shows. It is the excessive heat, no doubt, which, touching brains already under stress of pain or care or passion, has set them wild. The maddening effect of tropical temperature upon the minds of persons normally well disposed was never so vividly set forth as by Kipling in one of his short stories of life in India. WbUe the summer heat here is less Intense and continuous, its influence upon the nerves and temper of even the most selfcontrolled and phlegmatic persons is easily discernible. With the emotional and excitable frenzy and crime are sometimes the result.

Considering the extreme length to which the Democratic party has gone in pandering to free silver and cheap money, Republicans cannot be too thankful that the St. Louis convention took such high and impregnable ground, on the question. Even if there were no higher, motive for taking the right side of public questions. Republicans should always remember that it is useless to try to compete with the Democratic party in pandering to vicious doctrines. It can always find a deeper depth. The story of the murder of the captain of the barkentlne Herbert Fuller, and of his wife and the second ofQcer, reads like a chapter out of one of the old-style sensational maritime novels. In which long, low rakish piratical craft flourished and mutinies and murders on merchant vessels were of every day oc currence. That sort of tale has given way in dime-novel circles to slum horrors and ten-ement-houso crimes, but the foundation for it seems to exist still. When Senator Jones, head of the freesilver "combine" and Mr. Bryan's keeper, set about making an attractive proposition to the Populists he began by assuring them that if the Boy Orator were elected President they should be "recognized" equally with Democrats. There would be no stepchildren in his political family. And now the first question tho Topulist leaders ask Is. "What is there in it for us?" It is a plain case of trade and dicker. Light on Vehicles nt Mght. Bicycle riders, when out after dark, are compelled to have lighted lanterns attached to their wheels. This is a perfectly proper regulation, and no objection Is made' to it, but wheelmen do complain, and with justice, that the ordinance i3 not made to apply to all other vehicles as well. The presence of innumerable bicycles on the streets has created a new condition of affairs, to which the public has hardly adjusted itself In all respects. Heretofore horses, wagons and pedestrians have had the streets to themselves, but the sudden irruption of this new vehicle in such great numbers makes it necessary for the people who drive horses and those who walk to make some concessions. There is a dispo sitlon still, on the part of many drivers, to keep their teams in the "middle of the road," and to otherwise prevent wheelmen from enjoying the right of way to which they are lawfully entitled. This is a matter that will regulate Itself in time, but it may be expedited to some extent by a rule requiring all vehicles, wagons, carts and carriages, as well as bicycles, to carry lights after night. Such a requirement would sbe no more of a hardship upon one than another, and is needful for all. Wheelmen are in danger of collision with unlighted carriages, and many accidents are said to have occurred from this cause. It will not do to say that the sound made by horses and iron tires is sufficient warning of approach. Other noise, like that of a passing street car, may drown this sound or any chance happening may call attention from it. It is due to wheelmen, in all fairness, that they be given the same de greo of protection that they are compelled to supply to others. The ordinance call lng for bicycle lights should be amended to include all classes of vehicles. Carthage: 1. By law, there was free coinage of silver from 1792 until 1S33, when the free coinage of halves, quarters, etc., was stopped. From 1S06 to 1S3, by order of President Jefferson and his successors, no standard silver dollars were coined under the free-coinage law. 2. The - last bonds Issued can be paid with silver. 3. During the war, when the greenbacks were Issued, the law restricted the volume to $4i)0.000.000. Subsequently a law provided for their gradual substitution by bank notes, but it was repealed twenty years ago, and the further retirement or destruction of greenbacks forbidden. For years the amount outstanding has been $3 iG.800,000. 4. The gold standard was practically adopted in 1S31. when a ratio was made by which the sliver dollar had a commercial value of $1.03 and over, measured by gold. The gold standard was adopted in 1873 by an act for which nearly every Congressman In both pcrties voted. At the time Congress was Republican. 5. When the owner of silver bullion ls given legal-tender silver dollars or legal-tender certificates at the ratio of $1.C9 an ounce for his silver bullion, worth now 70 cents per ounce, the government practically pays him 51.23 an ounce. When that is done no gold money will be In circulation. Public Opinion, a weekly paper which undertakes to give busy people who haven't time for dally newspaper reading a summary of news and opinion of the week, certalAly covers the ground In its issue of July 10. It not only gives a condensed account of the convention proceedings, but gives press comment from 123 newspapers representing every shade of political opinion. All this invojves much editorial labor, and the paper is correspondingly a labor-saver to one who wishes to be informed on public affairs in brief tlme.,L. A. T.. Upland: 1. All legal-tender money Is redemption money standard silver dollars, gold, greenbacks and treasury notes. 2. Standard silver dollars are redemption money because one can pay all debts and dues with them in this country unless he contracts to do otherwise. 3. The act of 1S73 ls a general revision of all the mint laws. The clause which ls al

leged to have demonetized silver (which it did not do) simply names the coins that will be coined at the mint the trada dollar of 420 grains, the half, the quarter and the dime, dropping the standard silver dollar from the list and ' making the legaltender limit, of the .trade dollar $3. 4. The only sections of any laws affecting sliver are those making silver dollars full legal tender, making silver quarters, etc., a legal tender to the limit of $10, and authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury' to coin the silver bullion purchased under the act of 1SS0 as he deems necessary, and to purchasa silver bullion Xp coin into subsidiary coins. """BSSaSBSSSSSBBBSSBSSSSSSa That bicycle dealer of St. Louis was really going to extremes in the matter of advertising his wares when he.wnt down into Kentucky and eloped with a girl on a tandem. A simple announcement, top of column, next to reading matter, to the effect that his tandems. were the best on the market for elopers, and especially built for them, would have answered the purpose. The United States consul at Bradford, England, has sent over some samples of Princess Maud'3 wedding gowns and a report which shows that fashionable English women, just like our own, have a preference for French goods and gowns. This is important information If true, and it is for this that we have consuls. R. E. J., Hall, Ind.: The silver dollar is . legal tender to any amounL Tho law was passed in 1S73. BUBBLES IV TIIE AIR.

"So l'e ior It. "This here theosophv business won't do, said the practical politician. "No?" said the idle listener. ' . "No. Nay. Nit. Imagine raking a feller's record of 5,000 years ago up against him." Xot the Mnn for the Tlace. . "Shall I send Strykaut to watch that dance at Hottimes Hall?" asked the lieutenant. "Of course not," said the captain. "Don't you know he was fired from the club because he never knew how to get his eye on the ball?" Sixteen to One. . Watts There is no gainsaying, old man, that the day of sixteen to one Is coming, and coming fast. Potts I thought you were such a confident gold man? Watts Who's talking about gold? I meant sixteen bicycles to one horse. It Might Work. He If the women had a vote, every time they tried to hold a rally In favor of their candidate some one would get up a millinery opening, with free ice cream soda, and break up the meeting. You don't think it would work, do you?'.... She It might. It seems to work among the men. when the hated opposition has a saloon opening, with tree lunch. De Good Lavrd Know My Name. I des don't know ef de co'n'll grow. But I plants hit des de same; I des don't know ef de wind'll blow. But I watch en pray, en I reap en sow; En de sun he rise, en de river flow. En de good Lawd know my name! I des can't tell ef de. cotton sell. But I toils on des de same; De birds dey build when de spring sap swell. En dey know enough fer a rainy spellEn dat's lots mo dan dey gwinc ter tell, But de good Lawd know my name! So I watch en pray ez I goes my way. An I toils on des de same; De rose is sweet, but de rose can't stay. But I'm mighty glad when hit bloom ray way; De night fall dark, but de Lawd sen' day. En de good Lawd know my name! Frank L. Stanton. POPS:WRflNGLE. . (Concluded from First Frtjre.) some time before this stage was reached, and hut little progress had been made in a business way The real interest centered around the position of Butler as a middle-of-the-road candidate. A Texas delegate, with a great deal of eloquence, stated that he had Just come from a conference with Butler and knew his position absolutely. He said that Butler was for Bryan and a Populist nominee, for Vice President. He had asked Butler what position he would take In his speech before the convention. Butler informed him that he should say that the Populist party had reached a crisis which it must meet, and that it should meet it In a manner that would save the party and yet elect a President favorable to silver. Butler declared it was his intention to make the first speech in the convention. The conference with Butler was before he had been selected. The Texas man told him that there was one condition on which Texas would accept Bryan: "Let each State divide Its electoral ticket about equally, name a candidate for Vice President and not fuse on the State ticket." The vote of the State was to be cast according to the vote for Governor. If tbc Populists had more votes for Governor than the Democrats, then the entire electoral ticket of the State where fusion was to be agreed upon was to be cast for the Populists. If the Democrats had moitf votes for Governor 'the electoral vote was to go for the Democratic ticket. This was to be carried out In every State, and whichever party had a majority under these terms for President should allow the other to name the Vice President. "The Bryan leaders." said the Texas man. "hooted at this proposition. Butler hooted at it. and said it was impracticable. I have no idea." he said, "that the Democratic party would accept It for a moment nnd yet it ls the only fair proposition looking to a compromise that has been made." The Texas man declared himself as unalterably opposed to Bryan and to Butler, and he was cheered by all the middle-of-the-road men present. .. A GEORGIAN'S WARNING. A Georgia man made a very significant speech, in which he- stated that tlere was every appearance that their leaders had not treated them fairly, and, he did not want to be so harsh as to say so, had sold them out. But he warned all every-day Populists to stand up straight for a temporary chairman of their own and a candidate of their own. The Georgia men could not go back to their State if they gave up their party organization for which they had fought so long. He pledged all but two votes of Georgia a?ainst Bryan and any compromise with the Democrats. The roll of States was called and delegates from each State made speeches against the Indorsement of Bryan and in favor of a straight ticket. A great deal of bitterness was expressed by the different delegates, some of whom declared that the leaders had sold them out to secure ofilces for themselves, and had tried to deliver their votes without consulting them. It was also stated that these offices ranged from Governors and Congressmen to fourth-class postmasters. Slurring remarks were made against Taubeneck. A North Carolina delegate undertook to state the position of Butler, but, confronted with Butler's own words, as given by the Texas man, aid that Butler could not carry his delegation with him. and that he ccul4 not depend on the Southern delegates to carry out the will of the national committee. . M. I. Branch, of Georgia, member of the Populist national committee, said, this evening: "I came here with the impression that thi South was absolutely solid against the Indorsement of Bryan. I find, however, that Butler Is in the position or wanting a quasi indorsement. lie wants to nominate Biyan and a Populist Vice President. As soon as I found that out. I made it my business to fight him in the contest for temporary chairman. He. however, was selected and the reason was that he might have the opportunity to make the first speech in the convention. My point was that if Brvan were nominated with a Populist for Vice. President, he could not accept the nomination would not go back on his running mate. I put Donnelly, of Minnesota, in nomination, as a middle-of-the-rOad man. and he was beaten. Butler, during the day, had been counting on the ninety-five votes of Texas. He has the ninety-five of North Carolina, the Virginia and Florida delegations, and part of Alabama back of him In the attempt to nominate Bryan and a Populist Vice President. The rank and file of the middle-of-the-road became aware of Butler's scheme tht afternoon. They are without organization, but they propose. In the .morning, to put up a middle-of-the-road man Jerome Kirby. for temporary chairman in opposition to Butler. Taubeneck. Washburn and Brown, who control the New I England delegations, will support Butler. ucorgia is strongly inclined to & uoiu u.

the convention nominates Bryan . and a Populist Vice President. It looks to-nlrht as if Butler would dominate the convention. I asked Senator Jones the direct question to-night. whether if the Populists . should nominate Bryan and a Populist Vice President he thought . Bryan would accept the nomination. He did not think he would and advised h.im against it. Senator Jones was the moving spirit at the Democratic national convention. This statement can be received as being seml-ofilclal." THE "CYCLONE" SPEAKS. The middle-of-the-road men continued making speeches until quite a late hour. They had about determined to make Jerome Kirby, of Texas, their candidate for temporary chairman, but some of them thought It would be a goed thing to have Marion Butler declare himself. Accordingly, a committee was appointed to wait on and Invite him to como before the miiMle-of-the-road men, or, if he could not como to announce Ilia position. While the committee was absent "Cyclone" Davis entered the room and Immediately there were calls for a speech. He was lifted bodily on a block and was visibly embarrassed. Davis is a middle-of-the-road Populist, and one of the most pronounced members from Texas, In favor of a straight-out patform and ticket. In the national committee today he supported Butler. His Texas friends w-anted an explanation. Davis went around tne question of temporary chairman, jokd with those listening to him and finally asKed them what he should talk about. Here was their chance. A Georgia man shouted: "Tell us where Marion Butler stands and what he will do to-morrow if her,Is 8elected for temporary chairman." The Cyclone replied: "Well, gentlemen, I found myself in a very peculiar situation. Lach of the States in the national committee had three votes. The men from the sage brush and cactus hills has as much to say as the great State of Texas. The lirjan men had slated Weaver for tempoary' chairman. I saw the strategic point and began to work. I went to Butler and told nim how the delegations stood. How Texas stood, and said that I was Instructed by my State to stand by a middle-of-the-road man. He told me that they favored the adoption of a platform and the nomination of candidates, that in order to prethe Pal?y 11 seemed the convention ?nStadTpt the Ranki" or Butler plan, socalled I conferred with my colleagues on the national committee and finally sent Jim SS?6"!1?0 c.am2 back from Sutler and 5rd B.utler the man." I tell you. my a J. V1 antI"Bryan man I assure you." frni ? M.'uncturce the committee returned wl S,allinS on Senator Butter. They had decided not to invite Senator Butler to aptoastari?, the C?,nferene- but ask him inrHlnie Hi PSlt,n- That position. ftC2?5 to th cmmittee. was that Senanlatfi HlUSt alopt Ti?i m te,nder nomination to t5-i a?d nominate a candidate for Vice r?de"iV TIie feport was received with 3"ii n.Te d2n, want him'" crii one. lie has turned his coat already." said an?l .5 A mer"er of the committee said there was nothing more for the middle-of-Lhe"??.ad. pPulists to do except to stand edJn the of his speech, some of the Texas men thought that he ought to have an opportunity to complete his explanation. Davis pleaded with them not to attempt to undo the action of the national committee. He was very much surprised ? leaI? th.at Butler held the position stated by the committee. "We must be patriots said Davis. "We must not make a fight on the action of the committee. It will aggravate the Northwest section of the countrj. We shall be antagonized In many sections." ADVISED AGAINST RASHNESS. Davis thought it would be a good thing to have electoral tickets composed of half Populists and half Democrats. The latter could not then count them out. This would insure the defeat of McKinley. The Populist electors would not be obliged to vote for Bryan for President unless the Democratic electors voted for a Populist for Vice President. If the middle-of-the-road men took this matter. in their own hands they would alienate the Northwest. DhvIs advised against rash acts. lie would be torn limb from limb before he would do anything to injure the Populist party. He had placed his eons on their knees and. laying his hands upon their heads, had bid them to hate tho Democratic party for alj tlmp. He was like Hannibal learning his sons to hate the Romans. He urged his hearers to counsel among themselves and again announced his adhesion to the Ponufist party. "Their God shall be my God." he cried, excitedly; "their graves shall be my grave." "Cyclone" Davis was preparing to soar still higher when the middle-of-the-road men took a hand. "He's a Bryan man." shouted one. -Take him down." yelled another. "We don't want to listen to such talk as that," came from a third. "He sold us out." said a fourth one. Davis saw the " tide was against him. and gracefully retired, perspiring frrelv. but not before one of his Texas friends had mounted a chair and declared that anybody who would undertake to stop "Cyejone" Davis's mouth "would have him to fight." W. J. Carter, of Georgia, a young man. with flowing curls, jumped on a chair and said that he could not expect to reply to the eloquent Cyclone from Texas, but would do the best he could. "The man." said Mr. Carter, "who tells Jim Davis five minutes before the committee meets that he ls against Bryan and an hour afterwards tells our committee he is for Bryan is not a fit man to preside aver a convention of Populists. We want no such man." This announcement was received with great cheering by the Populists. An attempt was then made to nominate Kirby, who was still presiding over the meeting, but as several delegates wanted an opportunity to be heard he recognized everybody. A Texas delegate suggested that the temporary chairman should come from some other State than Texas, but there were still loud calls for Kirby. A North Carolina man mounted, the table and said that North Carolina would nojt vote for Butler. Two other delegates in the room from that StaXe substantiated hjs statement. He advised everybody to beware of men who talked for Bryan. Some Texas man nominated Judge Frank Baskett, of Louisiana. for temporary chairman, but the Louisiana man said he expected a place on the national ticket and did not want to embarrass him by having him made temporary chairman. A Missouri man remarked tha.t he could relieve the Texas people of their difficulty and announced that O. D. Jones, of Missouri, would make an admirable chairman. A Texas man immediately Indorsed the candidacy of Jones, and the conference seemed about ready to accept him, when several delegates demanded that Jones make his appearance. Many delegates were clamoring for dinner and Chairman Kirby adjourned the meeting until 9 o'clock. The middle-of-the-road delegates reassembled after supper and were about to select O. D. Jones, of Missouri, for temporary chairman, when it was stated that he was not a delegate and the national committee woud not allow him to be voted for on that ground. An effort was then made to select Barkett, of Mississippi, but it was decided to let the matter go over until 9 o'clock to-morrow morning. The middle-of-the-road men still assert that they will vote for some other candidate than Butler, but are not sure who it will be. TIIREG FACTIONS.

"What the Radical, Compromisers und Indorse Ave Fljchtln? For. ST.4 LOUIS, July 21. It is apparent on the eve of tit? convening of the Populist convention that there Will be three factions in the convention the middle-of-the-road element, headed by "Cyclone" Davis, of Texas, which will stand out against all compromises prior to the convention and to the election; the faction favorable to the indorsement or nomination of Bryan ar.d Scwall, and the compromise, men, headed by Senator Butler, of North Carolina, who favor the indorsement of Bryan, but who contend for the right to name a Southern Populist in place of Mr. Sewall for tho position of Vice President. The Bryan people aro still holding out very stiffly against any and all compromise, and some of them go so far as to say that If they are not successful In their contention they will leave the convention. Senator Butler Is strong In the position that Mr. Bryan should be indorsed on a Populist platform, but says the Southern people would never accept Mr. Sewall, not only because his affiliations are not with them, but because, above all, it they surrendered both offices, it would mean the destruction of the People's party, lie claims to have almost the solid South behind him and a strong following in the Northern States. Mr. Davis combats this position, claiming a majority in the convention of over S00 in favor of traveUng in "the middle of the road," by which he means that no compromise is possible In the convention. Mr. Davis contends that in taking this position he Is not only conserving the Intercuts of his party, 'but that he is ixInUng

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io me sure roau lur mo uww- - v,-.; , nt coinage of silver and for other P" reforms. He-would have Ppu8t- "?J": dates for President and Vice P1 named by the convention on a PpP""' platform, coupled with a resolution binding the Populists to a fusion of electors in advocating this plan, he says there wouia be no contlict in the Northwest, but there would be in the South. He i"t; however, that in all sections the Democrats would poll their full strength, and w even in the South the defections to the Populist ticket would come entirely rrom the Republican party. His plan is to dliae the electors In the various States according to the ratio of the Democratic and Populist vote in those. States. In our State, for instance," he says, "the PPU"!; would have six members of the Electoral College and the Democrats nine. Tilifi he says, would give Bryan the electoral vote of that State, and if it should become apparent that he had a majority of that college he would receive the votes. of tiie Populist electors as well as those of tne Democratic electors. He thinks, however, that in that case and in return the Democrats would concede the Populists tne vice presidency. . . "But." sucgested some one in the crowd, when the Texas leader was exploiting this plan,"do we want the vice presidency. "Ior liod almighty's sake." replied Mr. Davis, "do we want to let anything gp by default? If tne Democrats would not accept this proposition they would be responsible for McKiniey's election. Do they expect us to lie down and. give them everything and receive nothing in return?-They are asking us to fcive up all: It is only reasonable that we should demand some of the loaves and fishes." The more conservative of the members of the two extreme factions arc beginning to regard the situation as a grave one, and there have been many informal conferences during. the day looking towards getting together on some plan. like that proposed by Senator Butler. They fear that if this cannot be done a bolt is inevitable, whatever the action of the convention, and this they are exceedingly anxious to avoid. Thev express confidence to-night that they will be able to reach this result. The two extreme factions each assert, however, that they will never yield and the situation is admittedly critical. The friends of Mr. Bryan assert that he would never accept a nomination by the Populist convention whleh did not carry with it a like nomination for Mr. Sewall, and they quote Mr. Bryan as having taken this position in discoursing upon the matter with delegates who have been to visit him. He is represented as considering it dishonorable and impolitic to have himself named without a like honor being conferred. on his Democratic running mate. It is also stated as ccmipg from Mr. Bryan that he ls opposed to all the propositions of fusion as tending tP the weakening of his campaign and the confusion of the voters. The ancher of his followers declare they will not depart from this position, whatever the result. They declare that they would prefer to bolt. KILLED WHILE ASLEEP CAPTAIX, WIFE AXD SECOXD OFFICER 3IIRUERED ABOARD SHIP. American llarkentlne Puts Into Halifax FlyinR the Black Flag: Below the Stars an 1 Stripes. HALIFAX, N. S., July 21.- barkentlne Herbert Fuller. Captain n, from Boston, July 3, for Rosario, put .ito Hallfax this morning flying the stars and stripes at half mast, with a black flag immediately beneath. This Is the signal for "mutiny on board." When the Fuller was boarded it was learned that murder had been added to mutiny, and that Captain Nash, his wife Laura, and second officer Bramburg had been killed in their bunks while asleep. The murders had been committed with an ax. The rooms in which the victims lay. were covered with blood, showing that a severe struggle had taken place and the bodies were horribly mutilated. The cook, Jonathan Sheere, of Rosario. suspected the mate, Thomas Bram, and succeeded in placing Bram in irons and he afterwards ironed the man who was at the wheel at the time the murder was committed. On arrival of the vessel all on board, including Frank Monks, of Boston, who was a passenger, were placed under arrest. The United States consul here has telegraphed to Washington for instructions, pending the receipt of which he has enjoined all connected with the affair to maintain the strictest silence. In view of these conditions it is difficult to obtain further facts, but it appears that the murder was committed at 2 o'clock on the night of the 13th Inst. Captain Nash and his wife were In their respective sleeping apartments. Bramberg Was In his. which was separated from those of Captain Nash and wife by the room octupled by Monks. It was the first officer's watch. When all was quiet on board and those below were soundly sleeping. th3 murderer or murderers crawled aft to the cabin, descended and with axes chopped their victims to death. The affair became known not long afterwards. Then the cook, a negro, who had shipped at Rosario. became suspicious of mate Thomas Bram. a Nova Scotian. but a naturalized American, and Bram was placed In irons'. The man who was at the wheel when the - murder was committed was also placed in irons and the shin was then headed for Halifax. The bodies of the victims were all placed in a boat and covered with canvas and were towed be--hind the vessel. They are now in charge of the coroner here, who will hold an inquest. Police officers have been placed In charge of the Fuller and nobody ls allowed on board. The Herbert Fuller halls from Harrington. Me. The murdered captain was forty-four years of age and his wi?e thirtv-seven. F. H. Monks, the passenger on board the Herbert Fuller, belongs In Boston. He Is a member of the Harvard class. 1SS7, and has been suffering for some tme from pulmonary troubles. He had been advised to take a sea voyage and was going to South America for recuperation. In splto of the secrecy maintained It has been ascertained that Mr. Monks first became aware of the horrible crime whon he went to the captain's room to Inquire If the captain was ill. Monks having been aroused from hi sleep by a groan or a scream. Falling to receive an answer, he entered the room and found the captain lying on the floor covered with blood. He rushed on deck and confronted the first mate, who was in charge.' with the statement that the captain had been murdered. Bram. the mate, seemed much agitated and appeared not to know what to do. Monks then rushed below and aroused the crew. The men hurried to the cabin. where the full extent of the crime was foori made known. As the bodies lay In their respective rooms they presented a horrible sight. Mrs. Nash's skull had been split almost In twain. The fingers of her right hand had been almost cut eff, while another blow of the ax had cut off a section f the scalp with the hair attached. Her husband's head was also split open, while the other had evidently been killed with the poll of the ax. Rram first denied all knowledge of the murder, but later, from remarks let fall, and peculiar actions, suspicion pointed towards him as the murderer and he was placed in irons. The man at the wheel was Lahez. He was a!o suspected of complicity and was ironed by the crew. At the police station the , first mate was stripped and blood was found on his clothing The passenger. Frank ' JTonks. states that he saw the first -mate come from the captain's cabin after the murder. Seaman Brcwn this afternoon made a statement to the effect that he saw the first mte kill the captain. He heard a noise in the captain's cabin, and on going thither saw the first mAte murder the captain. There was no mutiny. FAMILY MURDERED. Farmer Kills Ills Three Children, Fires ills House nnd Shoots Himself. DRYDEN. Mich.. July 21.-George Swain, a farmer about forty-five years old. living near Attica, killed his three small children, set fire to the house and then biew out his own brains this morning. His wife died a short time ago and It is thought that this deranged his mind. She Was Once Cleveland Secretary. MOJAVE. Cal., July 21. Mrs. J. H. Tolfree. who was G rover Cleveland's secretary' while he was Mayor of Buffalo, committed suicide here last night by drinking carbolic add. It is supposed she was temporarilyinsane. ' Methodist Deaconesses. ASBURY PARK. N. J.. July 21.-The national convention of Methodist Deaconesses began here to-day. Addresses were delivered by Mr. D. A. Minard and by Dr. IIulburd of WHmfnstcn. - DeL

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IMPORTED ME SKT HOME Arj TROl CLE TEMPORARILY AYEliTCD Different Stories Told ly the ft uuu iiir uiirrainrM.onttBa tlon Thursday. . 4t-. 4 Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SULLIVAN. Ind., July 21. The trotir Star City between union and nonunion ra r ers yesterday started with an tcrrr'0 Taylorville miners to resume tork Vftf' having agreed to lay Idle until after tV. convention to be held at Terre Haute. Ju 23. Word had been circulated ainonKy.rtii. ing miners that a number of the Imported men would break acreenuiit. at.d on Sunday night nearly 300 men from r.join mines massed Just outside the coir.jany i property. Early Monday morning fourteen Taylorville miners, together with a nurnUr of local nonunion miners, startnl for tv mines of the Hardor-Hafer company. Wh-a about half way to the shaft they vere surrounded by men, who quickly took the'r dinner buckets, devoured the content? ar j ordered the men to return to their iar,j ing houses. This they did. and. althouc excitement ran high all day, no disorder occurred until about 7 o'clock, when a nonunion miner named Jaensch, who ha worked in the mine all day. joined th crowd. An argument was started, the Ii was quickly passed, Jaensch was aWuitrfl by a numler of strikers, was being roughly handled and would most likely have been killed by miners, who seemed to have iot all control of themselves. At this point electrician Rouse rushed into the crowd follow t-d by Superintendent Campbell, both with drawn revolvers, when they were in. mediately covered by no less than ten guns in the hands of cxcitcll strikers. The stand of Rouse and Campbell had its effect, and gave Jaensch tirtie to crawl to a place of safety, where, together with other nonua. ion miners, he was kept all night. Tke union miners then devoted their mtention to the Taylorville rm n. whom they notified to leave the country by C o'clock this morning. News of the trouble was quickly brought to Sulivan. as the mining company demanded the sheriff's protection! He left at once for the scene of trouble accompanied by deputies, and Is still there! This morning Jacob Harder, of the mining company, furnished transportation to tho Taylorville miners nnd they are now out of the State. All day two or three hundred strikers have been camped at Star City, and are in a high state of excitementhowever, now that ihe imported miners have left the locality, no trouble of a violent nature is expected. The miners at Alum Cave and Hymera are out and the men have joined the strikers, and it is claimed their action will b followed by the miners at Dugger. which !HmAto show tnat the str"e is spreading and the men more determined to win. he miners are greatly enraged at reports which they claim have misrepresented the facts A miner, giving an account of the trouble yesterday, said: "The mining company are to blame for all the troublehad they not brought men from other fields nere there is hardly a question but that the mine to-day would have been running. IX act,.n rnra'd the men. which was added to by an attempt to return to work after an agreemnt not to do so. The trouble last night was brought on by Jaensch ST. nf7oanUSlVe lipiaisr calling' a unlou Sli r? ,ar' ,cn va resented, and had not Rouse and Campbell drawn revolvers !?ahmou 1 hav? b'en 5en' an(1 Jaensch tV-o Mnave retired no more thnn a cood thrashing. The miners ordered the ImportrfLT". 10 lean.e' n and mnt that theV should leave. The mining company, all dav .V.ni! ket th nonunion men supplied jUth beer and whisky, and consequently iWerft Wl ,inff too,s ,n th hands of th company, endeavoring to start trouble and make an excuse for the company to call on the Governor for protection." Representatives of the mining company Thnflrrly d,F'rpnt ory. They mv: The striking miners were looking for trouble, and have been since a disposition was Hhown to resume work. All day Mon7lcn intimidated; a mob sur rounded them in the morning when on the way to work. and. after stealing their r"? tlons. abused them; all day throats w??i made against them, which ended T a rlct 'W.hen on.G man wo"ld have been SLedtad l not len for th( Promnt acJirwn t0. nrotct him. We have attempted to start the mine with local nun olCeoIa1' nnd have offered work to anv 2 L ; ur atltnPts Proving fruitless, as w .Tn90" brought men from TaylorMile. III. who are out of work owing to ?;.E.U7,nKB f a F.haft tJlrre- Thev w-eS mriCnn Dorn- nd Sod citizens. Rather na.Kper t.heir ,ives farther, we to-dav SSJ,de hcm tran?nrtation. and thev are now, o far as we know, out of danger." Miners to .Meet To-Morroir. Special to the Indianapolis Journal TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. July 21.-The convention of bituminous miners which will be held here on Thursday wav called at the instigation of the miners in the Third district, which comprises Sullivan. Greene and Knox counties. The purpose Is to take some action by which not only the men now at work In the bituminous mines in the State, perhaps seven hundred in all. may be induced to come out, but that, the block coal miners also may be Induced to strike. It is now nearly three months since mining was suspended in the bituminous mines and there has been no advance in the price of coal. That fact is the unprecedented feature of this strike. The operators predicted that Indiana coul I remain Idle for a year without affecting the market price of coal. The expectation of the bituminous miners was that the operators would be stampeded bv the action of some of their number in yielding to tho demand of the men for the CO-cent pric? for mining. Last year, alter a few weeks' Idleness, some of the operators gave in. that they might take advantage of the ascending market. The miners now brlieve that if the output cf all Indiana co.il is shut off the desired condition will bo brought about. THE UNIT OF VALUE. Correction of nn Error Into Which Some Speakers Have Fallen.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: I notice by your report of Captain Worrell's sptxjch at Danville that he ls reported as saying that "the silver dollar, adopted by the first coinage act of our government. in 1712. was made the unit." I. as a firm Republican, believing that the only hopo for prosperity lies through the success of the doctrines advocated by the Republican party, do not like to disagree with a fellowRepublican, but I do not like to hear a Republican saying a thing that agrees with what the Democrats claim, and a thing that I do not think represents a fair construction of the action of Congress in establishing the unit. The unit was established July G. 1TSS. by the Congress passing a law to the following effect: "Resolved, That the money unit be one dollar." Not .a silver, a gold dollar, nor a copper dollar, but the thing that the $ mark stands for: the same that the franc is the unit of France or the .pound the unit of England.' The law passed Aug. C. 1TK confirms the construction above given, being as follows: Resolved. That the standard of the United States, being by tie resolve of Congress of the 6th of July, 17x3. a dollar. It shall contain" and thtn fixes the amount of tilver. gold and copper that shall make up a dollar, respectively. I have never been able to find anything In the law of 17?2 fixing the unit, nnd it seems to be a mistake that both Democrats and Republicans have fallen Into, of taking for granted that tho :iver dollar J8 the unit cf value. Considering that the Democrats try to make such a point on the silver dollar belr.g the unit cf value, it would bo well for Republicans to con8t,rue u the law- on the subject. The law of 1.5 was a law of this country Just as much as the law of 17?-'. even if it was enacted before the Constitution was adopted, for i not the Declaration cf Independnc?; Pd in 1776. still rscc-nlicd as binding on us all? li- E. N. Noblesville. InL. July tU