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THE INDIANAPOLIS JO URN AJJ, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1896.

tween two lines of guests, who bowed as the Czarina, still on the arm of President laure, parsed. The Czarina responded umiUngly and the Czar touched his cocked hat to the naJutes he received. After a short ffbay in the grand hall preparations were made for boarding the Klan, Napoleon's state barge, in order to review the fleet. Before this was done Admiral Besanard. Minister of Marine, surgested that tn view of the fatigues which he had already undergone during the day the Czarina might prefer not to accompany the Czar during the review of the fleet. The Czarina graciously replied: "I am too anxious to visit a French vessel to renounce such a pleasure." The magnificently painted, gilded and upholstered barge was flying the French tri-color and the Russian Imperial standard side by side. As the Elan emerged from the harbor to review the fleet of French war ships moored In the roadstead each vessel fired a salute of thirty-one guns. The barge steamed between the ships, which were drawn in four lines as the barge passed, the crew of each vessel gave seven cheers and the guard of honor on deck presented arms, the bugles sounded and the band played the Russian anthem. The Elan was stopped abreast or the battleship Hoche. the flag-ship of the squadron, and the imperial party proceeded on board of her in a pinnace. As the Czar and Czarina came on board the Russian standard was lowered from the main and the personal flags of the Czar find of President Faure were hoisted on ship. AH the chief officers of the port of Cherbourg and of the squadron were massed on dck. The Czar conversed for a few moments with Vice Admiral Regnault de Premesnol, In command of the squadron. Their majesties then inspected the crec and the ve3sel. The party remained on board for half an hour. On leaving the Hoche a renewed salute of thirty-one guns Yias fired. The Russian -sovereigns continued the review. after which Elan returned alongside the Pole Star. As President Faure traversed the Pole Star on his return frt-m the barge to the arsenal the Russian sailors on board cheered and the band played the "Marsellaise." SPEECHES AT THE BANQUET. , At 6:30 o'clock this evening President Faure and the other French officials went to the Quay to fetch the Czar to the banquet. The President alone Wfnt on board the Pole Star. The Czar immediately made his appearance and all proceeded to the banquet hall. There were seventy-three guests seated at three tables In the arsenal. The central table had a magnificent display of golden ornaments and flowers. The Czar and President Faure occupied the central places at this table, M. Loubet representing the Senate and M. Brisson, president of the Chamber of Deputies, being Heated on either side of them. The Czarina was not pi-esent at the banquet, havingbegged that she be excused on account of the fatigue sfce had undergone during the day. - - . President Faure arose, the others present Joining him in standing while he proposed the toast to the Czar. The President said: 'It is with groat joy that, accompanied by the Presidents of the chambers. I have received to-day your Majesty and the Empress. The President of the Republic is certain, that he responds to the sentiment of the Nation in constituting himself the Interpreter of its unanimous wishes for your Imperial family, the glory of your Majesty's reign and the welfare of Russia. To-morrow In Paris your Majesty will feel the heart of the French people beating and the welcome given to the Emperor and Empress of Russia will prove to them the sincerity of our friendship. Your Majesty has chosen to arrive in France escorted by one of our squadrons. The French navy is grateful for this. It remembers with pride the numerous marks of sympathy which your august father displayed towards it and that the task was intrusted to it of taking part in the demonstrations at Cronatadt and at Toulon. In wishing your Maijety a welcome to the soil of the Republic I raise my glass in honor of the Emperor and Empress of Russia." As the company drank the President's toast the naval band played the Russian anthem. TI16 SlzaT' ,n responding to the toast, said: 'l am touched with the sympathetic and cordial welcome given to us at Cherbo,Hr?' 1 have muh admired the squadron which escorted us and also the admiral's vessel, the Hoche. On touching the soil of a nation which is Russia's friend, I share the feelings which you have just expressed XL. le President. I raise my glass in honor of the French nation, the French fleet and her sailors. I thank the President of the republic for the wishes and the welcome he has just exnressed." The Czar then clinked glasses with President Faure, as M. Faure had done with the Czar at the end of his own toast. The naval band present played the "Marseillaise and the Russian anthem. At the conclusion of, the banquet the Car and President. Faure engaged in a cordial conversation .lasting for twenty minutes. M Faure then escorted his Majesty to the Imperial train, where the Czar shook the hands of the President, who kissed the hand of the Czarina. The batteries fired a salute as the Czar and Czarina entered the train, which started f&r Paris at 8:30 o'clock, the presidential train following at 8:45 o'clock. A double line of troops presented arms as each of the trains departed. President Faure has conferred the various grades of the Legion of Honor upon the various members of the Czar's entourage, including the. grade of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor upon Rear Admiral Lorn in. All those who have been concerned in the ceremonies incident to the welcome of the Czar are greatly pleased with the Russian monarch's affability. Twice he insisted that M. Faure should precede him. .The French officers in attendance on the Czar are General Le Mouton De Boisdeffre. Rear Admiral Roustan, Colonel De J,es Tapi3, Celonel Oudard. Lieutenant Colonel Menetrez, Commandant Pauffln De Saint Morel and Commandant Chanzy. The officers attached to the person of the Czarina are Vice Admiral Grevais. Lieutenant Colonel Meunir and Lieutenant Colonel De Lastoum. In addition to the officers mentioned eight captains have been placed at the disposal of General De Bolsdefl're to act as orderly officers. In order to please the townspeople of Cherbourg the Czar has ordered that the imperial yachts, Pole Star and Standard, should remain here until the end of the week. The Czar has conferred decorations on the notable French statesmen who took part in the reception ceremony. When the royal party left the dining room at the arsenal after the banquet was concluded to-night, the company made a rush to secure the menus and flowers to preserve as mementoes of the occasion. There was a pretty scene after the Winquet, when a nurse carried the taby Prhicess OJga, the ten-months-old daughter of the Czar, dressed in white, through . the glazed hall next to the banqueting hall, where a brilliant reception was being held. The throng of brilliantly uniformed officers saluted the little grand duchess and the other guests applauded. EMILY CRAWFORD'S LETTER.

A Well-Known Writer DiMcnsweti Their JHnjeNtieM limit to Paris. (Copyright, 1S96, by the Associated Press.) PARIS, Oct. 5. Suggestive dates coincide with the Czar's two great visits to western Europe. As he lands at Leith, his wife's grandmother, the good, the true,, the constitutional Queen Victoria, completes her sixtieth year on the throne and the longest reign of any British monarch, or of any other monarch save Louis XIV, who, however, inherited the crown of France at the age of four. His effective reign was not therefore so long as that of her Britannic Majesty. Thrones have been shaken and overthrown around that of Victoria. Monarchs have been murdered with the knife, pistol and bomb; but the fair, delicatelooking girl who succeeded William IV is now the senior monarch of the world, and has survived during her regal career three Emperors of Russia, one of whom was dynamited. Her first aspiration at the age of ten, on learning that she was to succeed her uncle William was "to be good." She repeated to her governess "I will be good," and she has kept this vow, which time has fhown embodied the highest political wisdom. Surely the date of her sixtieth anniversary should be an object lesson of the highest Import to the Czar and his gentle . young wife, and especially now that the moral sense of mankind is shocked with the repeated massacres of Armenian Christiansmassacres for which the Czar's late Chancellor, Prince Lobanoff. and his representative at Constantinople. M. Nelidoi?. uve greatly answerable in the eyes of history, and, what is more important, in the eyes of God. The date that coincides with the landing In France of Nicholas and Alexandra is the hundred and seventh anniversary of the march of the marKet women of Paris on the Palace of Versailles to bring back the King, Queen and their children hostages of the revolution. Their capture was effected next day, Oct. 6. 17S9. on the anniversary of which the Czar enters Paris for the. first time and with that spectacular Fhow which the French are so skilled in isrranglng. The blind worms now in power here are doing what they can to divest tho date, which is fo far as M. Hanotaux and Prince Lobanoff (who sketched the cerenonlal) - were concerned, of, U true sig

nificance. The severe lesson that it should inculcate Is being hidden away. Despotic monarchs are. humanly speaking, assured of impunity. The power that shapes the ends of nations as of individual men and women catches up such potentates in their posterity and often the seemingly innocent are made to pay for the guilty as in the case of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. This lesson should at the- present time, when, with the tacit complicity of France and Russia, Armenians sure being massacred and exiled in tens of thousands, come home with awesome force to the minds of Nicholas and Alexandra and make them tremble for themselves and for their infant daughter, the darling of their hearts. The only daughter of Louis and Marie Antoinette was apparently born to the most brilliant lot cf any princess of her time. Yet she was fated to see before she was thirteen years old her father, mother and aunt led out to execution, to be a. solitary prisoner during four years, to witness in the course of her life three revolutions in 'rance, and to die in exile with cheeks furrowed with the tears that had flowed during sixty-three years. That Daughter of Sorrows, like the infant Grand Duchess, was also on the maternal side descended from one who gloriously reigned in her own right and was good as she was great. Maria Theresa, but whose goodness did not counterbalance the maledictions that weighs on the House of Bcurbon. ROYAL ETIQUETTE. M. Faure has been able to secure the presence of the Czar, In company with himself, at a review of 70,000 soldiers at the Camp of . Chalons. He tries, on the one side, to revive the glories of Versailles (of which more presently), and on the other,' to revive the military glories of the empire at Chalons, where the Emperor Napoleon III annually "held," as the French used to say, "Prussia and the Germanic confederation in respect." M. Faure's departure at the Grand West-of-France maneuvers last week prepared Fran-:e to see him on horseback along with the Czar. The example set by Carnot and Ca&imir Perier was thought to have bound him to appear in a carriage drawn by six artillery horses, held with artillery- traces and ridden by artillerymen acting as postillions. The Czar would not have objected to ride in a carriage with the President. The difficulty would have been what to do with "the Czarina, who is completely identified with the life of her husband. If she rode in the same carriage with him and the President, one of the gentlemen would have to sit with his back to the horses, which is considered undignified. If there were two carriages, which should go the first? Gallantry would have given the pas to the one containing the Czarina. She was forbidden by her doctor to go on horseback. It is now settled that M. Faure and the Czar, with an escort of generals, are to ride before her carriage at Chalons; that is, should she feel well enough to go to the review after a very fatiguing three days' bout of sight seeing and festivity in Pails and a run down to Chalons between midnight and 9 in the morning, which wou'd only leave an hour's time for dressing and going to the camp. Tha mammoth Imperial train proved unmanageable and dangerous. In going round the Girdle railway from Vangirard to Passy Green, where the imperial party are to alight, it flattened out the rails and ran off them. Had it not been going at a snail's pace there would have been a grave, not to say fatal, accident. Russian railways run In a straight line from one great city to another without regard for intermediate burgs or villages. As the whole country is flat for thousands of miles, there are no more steep gradients than abrupt bends. The colossal weight of the Imperial train, 430 tons, on a downward grade might have caused a catastrophe. A train, therefore, was arranged to replace that of the Emperor, which will afford greater accommodation and be only half the weight, but it will not be consecrated unless his Imperial Majesty particularly desires that place may be made for the icon, or picture of the patron saint, with a lamp burning before it. There is a chapel in the regular imperial train, with icons of the Virgin and Child, of St. Alexander Newsky, St. Olga and St. Nicholas, the Czar's patron saint, and also the patron of little children. In Russia he is regarded as a sort of Father Christmas. The nursery compartments will be missed in the French specially arranged train. M. FAURE ACTS AS HOST. Orf they other hand M. Faure will have the Intense joy of acting as host to the imperial visitors all the way from Cherbourg to Paris, and of giving them more than the eight hours of his company and conversation than they had agreed to put up with at Cherbourg. The original arrangement was that they should travel In their own train, and he in his, a short distance before them. He is to meet them at Cherbourg without Madame Faure, and is also to meet them unaccompanied by the ladies of his family at the Palace of Versailles the day they go there. Madame Faure has no national or international rank and the President's many journalistic enemies, whoe envy he is constantly arousing, have made it impossible for the Empress to ignore a black page of the good lady's family history. About a fortnight ago they returned to the charge and published the sentence by default passed on M. Bellnot. her father (a lawyer by profession), with the contract of marriage of his daughter and a journeyman tanner, who is now President of the Republic. The first document recorded twenty years of penal service on Bellnot, who had fled to Spain, then out of the reach of extradition, for robbing a client by a forged paper: the second showed that

M. Felix Faure got as a dowry 100.0JO francs out of the assets Bellnot left in dying. This exposure was mean and spiteful. But the Court of Russia had to take it into account. The Empress, accordingly, is not to associate with Madame Faure in public. She is only to see her when she calls at the Elysee and dines there. Great efforts are being made here to get this fiat altered and to bring out the Faure ladies at the Francais and the opera house when their Imperial Majesties go there. M. Faure will await them at the Francais and opera house. They have arranged to go by themselves to the former and to Versailles. The road thither has a central pavement of cobble stones, thirteen miles long. It is to be thickly sanded the whole way to make it smooth for the imperial carriage. The whole garrison of Paris will be under arms and posted along the road. An imperial levee will be held in the Gallery of Mirrors, which has been furnished as in the time of Louis XIV. But physiognomies and the costumes will be so different, and. alas! the manners, too. Ambassadors in the eighteenth century were never xrofessional diplomats, affectedly reserved, but men born to great stations and chosen for their social gifts as well as for their clear heads, bright wits and insight and readiness. They dressed magnificently and had a grand air. The Corps Diplomatique which will present their homages to the Czar and Czarina at Versailles will contain no such diplomats as Lord Stair, the Duke of Portland, the Earl of Albemarle, the Conde de Haro. the Duke of Osuna. The grand bodies of the State will also be received. They are formed of men who have pushed their way on and up and are ready to show themselves in all but restraint of manner utter courtiers. PREPARATIONS AT VERSAILLES. Original portraits and busts of Peter the Great, the Catherines and Paul and Alexander I have been brought down from the attic gallery and placed on easels in the south wing, where their Imperial Majesties can see them without climbing lofty stairs. The different portraits of Marie Antoinette will be submitted in the same way to their inspection, as also the miniature taken of Catherine the Great just after she became Empress. A wonderful work of art it is. Scaffoldings have been removed at enormous cost from the terraces, fountains and basins repaired; a fleet of eighteenth century royal barges furbished up to take the Imoerial visitors by the canal in his gardens facing the west front of the palace to the Trianons. This excursion is to follow a lunch in the Gallery of Battles and a long rest of the Imperial visitors in his suite of small rooms fitted up by Marie Antoinette as a private residence. They are pokey little rooms ard all look out on dingy, narrow courtyards. But they are different from the state rooms', the grandeeur of which was wearisome and his discomfort dreadful. The small rooms are a bathroom, saloon and reading room: they look like a doll's house. Fluted brocade or satin of tender and yet lively shades cover the walls. The furniture is dainty, but it is in the style affected by mercenary beauties of the corps du baliet towards the' end of -the last century. Old courtiers were shocked at the frivolous pettiness of these rooms. In the blue room or saloon there is a dainty sofa in sky blue with gilt frame In a niche set round with mirrors. The lovely Queen whose fate was so tragical liked to se her beautiful head in front, in profile and vanishing profile. She ordered in three; mirrors to be set at right ancles. But the first time she went to survey herself In them at one of the corners she beheld what? a headlcsi body, and sank fainting on the sofu. She was constantly meeting with incidents and facing catastrophes that seemed presages of coming woes. In this respect Nicholas and Alexandra resemble her. Thir wedding was on the morrow of his father's funera.K The first year of their reign was blackened by her first set of Armenian mawi ;ros. In which 100,000 peop!? perished. Their coronation was marked by the appalling catastrophe of Moscow, and the day , Unreached Vienna the first news they received was that fresh massacres had taken place.

Then, on their return journey from Vienna. Prince Lobanoff. whom history must find guilty of complicity wi'h the Sultan, died as they were stepping out of the train to stretch their legs. When they were enjoying rest at the patriarchal court of Denmark the family circle then was appalled to learn of the dynamite conspiracy. Providence seems to have warned them that long life, prosperity and universal love and esteem may be won by following the example of Victoria; but that disaster must in the long run catch up with those monarchs whose grand political schemes are executed through iniquity. Balmoral and Versailles. Sept. 23 and Oct. 5 and 6, inculcate this warning.Xo Attempt to Wreck the t'zar' Train LONDON, Oct. o.A great deal has been made of little or nothing by the report circulated in the United States that a large block of wood was found lying across the railroad track at Garstand. some distance

south of Lancaster, an hour before the Czar's train passed there yesterdaymornlng on its way from Ba!later to Portsmouth. The inference evidently intended to te drawn from the message was tnat an attempt had been made to wreck the imperial train. - Such was not the case. The obstruction . was. quite natural in the high wind prevailing. A mile post was blown down by the wind on the opposite railway track to the one upon which the Czar traveled, and it was removed half an hour before the imperial train passed by the plate layers, whose work It is to watch the ttacks during stormy weather. Sailors Washed Overboard. PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 5 While the British fleet was returning to Portsmouth after escorting the imperial Russian yacht Pole Star into French waters the torpedo destroyer Lightning was struck by two heavy seas, which threw her on her beam ends and washed overboard four seamen. One man was drowned, but. the other three were rescued. Kearney and Haines Sent Home. ROTTERDAM, Oct. 5. Ten minutes before the Netherlands line steamship Werkendam sailed for New York on Saturday last a carriage containing four men, Kearney and Haines, the Irish-American suspects, and two police officers in plain clothes, drove up to 4he dock and the party boarded the steamer. Kearney and Haines were taken to a stateroom, where they remained until the Werkendam left port. The two suspects were shipped under fresh aliases. The French police at Boulogne-sur-Mer were notified and strict orders were given to the police of Rotterdam to keep the affair from the reporters and for this purpose an official statement to the effect that the suspects should have been conducted to the frontier was given out. t'lieK Masters' Tournament BUDA-PESTH, Oct. 5. The first round of the International chess masters' tournament was played in this city to-day. Owing to Alapins withdrawing from tlfe contest a new ballot for a second schedule had to be made. To-day's games resulted: Janowskl beat Noa in a qu sen's gambit declined after forty-four moves, Tschlgorln beat Popiel in an Evans gambit declined after forty-nine moves. Maroczy beat Walbrodt in a Philidor's defense after thirtysix moves. Charousek and Schlechter drew a bishop's gambit after forty-four moves. Albin beat Pillsbury in a French defense after thirty-four moves. The game between Winawer and Tarrasch, a Hamppe Allgaier gambit, was adjourned after fifty-six moves. Marco had a bye. Siberian Railway Through China. PEKING, Oct. 5. Consent has been given by the Chinese government for the building of a branch of the Siberian railway across northern Manchuria, with a clause giving China the right of purchasing this branch after thirty years. Permission to construct a branch through southern Manchuria was refused. Taoti, the director of railways, will probably obtain the concession for the Hanko-Peking line. The Saltan to Be Deposed. LONDON, Oct. 6. The Chronicle says this morning that it learns from a good source that the Czar and Lord Salisbury have agreed upon a policy for the ultimate deposition of the Sultan. REPUBLICANS GAINED. (Continued on Fifth Pa?e.) in harmony with the Democracy of the State on vital questions, chiefly because the 'recent State convention indorsed the platform adopted at Chicago, which, Mr. Branch holds. Is not a Democratic platform nor declaratory of the principles of the historic Democratic party. Declined the Nomination. NEW YORK, Oct. 5. Following the announcement by Judge Charles F. Brown, of Newburg, that he declined the Democratic nomination for Supreme Court Judge because he did not indorse free coinage of silver, came the report that Nathaniel C. Clement, also a candidate for a - similar office, would decline likewise. When seen this evening Judge Clement verified the report and said that he had simply been waiting for Judge Brown to take the initiative. The reasons for his declination are substantially the same as those given by Judge Brown. w Jersey Safe for McKinley. TRENTON, N. J., Oct. 5. The Republican State committee held an important conference here to-day with the chairmen of the different county committees throughout the State. The reports made were most enthusiastically received, except in one or two instances, and Secretary John Y. Foster said that a' calculation of the conservative reports showed that McKinley and Hobart will carry the State bv ,over 4fl.OOO. The exceptions were in Salem and Cumberland counties, where the county chairman reports there Is a considerable silver sentiment among the Republican farmers. McKinley Ticket May Be Barred, DENVER, Col., Oct. 5.It appears doubtful whether the McKinley Republican electoral or State ticket will be printed on the official ballot in Colorado. The ticket nominated at Colorado Springs Sept. 30 was not filed by petition and the tijie for receiving such petition has expired. Now the silver Republicans arc preparing a contest against giving the McKinley ticket a piace on the ballot, claiming that it represents, not the regular Republican organization, but a bolting faction. Both Asked to Withdraw. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 5. The factional Republican fight for sheriff in the city took a new turn to-day, when a number of prominent Republican united in a letter to James L. Miles, regular Republican candidate, and Alexander Crow, jr., candidate of the anti-administration faction, who has also been Indorsed by the Democrats, asking that both withdraw in the interest of harmony and in order that a big vote may be cast for McKinley. Flower to Speak in Indiuna. Ex-Governor Roswcll P. Flower, of New York, will take the stump for Palmer end Buckner in a few days. He will speak first in Indiana, and the gold-standard Democratic national committee announced yesterday that ex-Governor FloVer will be heard in this State Oct. 14 to 17 inclusive. Louses by Fire. DETROIT. Mich., Oct. 5. The five-story building at the corner of Lanecl aid Shelby streets, formerly occupied by the Free Press, was damaged by fire to-day. The contents of the building, including a great amount of theatrical show printing, lithographic work and other costly materials, vere ruined by floods of water. The occupants are the job printing departments of the Free Press Company, which occupied the first three floors; the Habbin type foundry and the Cliff & Higgin3 book bindery. The fire was caused by a mail explosion of a lighted gas stove in an electrotyping room on the fourth floor, the flame communicating thence with some parafilne and spreading amazingly. The total loss Is estimated at 190.000, with insurance about half. The Free Press Company's loss is $(50,000: insurance. $35,000. Several theatrical companies will sustain considerable loss. HALIFAX, Nova Scotia. Oct. 5. It was learned here to-day that the barns, mills and outbuildings belonging to the Trappist monks at Tracadie. Nova Scotia, were destroyed by fire Friday night, the loss being about $10,000. Four years ago the monastery was burned, since which time the monks have resided in the other buildings. Movement of Steamer. NEW YORK. Oct. 5. Arrived: New York, from Southampton; Friesland, from Antwerp; Mohawk and Georgian, from London; Tauric, from Liverpool. GIBRALTAR. Oct. 5. Arrived: Fulda, from New York, for Genoa. QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 5. Arrived: Pavonia. from Boston. MOVILLE. Oct. 5. Arrived: Furnessia, from New York. LONDON, Oct. CArrived: Ontario, from New York.

COERCION LIE NAILED

SOUTH BEXD MAXIFACTIRERS OF' FER TO moSEClTE ALL CASES. Putnam County Loeltrldsce Xot in the Silver Band Wagon Great Rally Held nt Colombm. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SOUTH BEND, Ind.. Oct. 5. The present campaign in the interest of sound money in this city has had injected into it charges of coercion. These intimations have been freely made against certain employers of labor who desire that national honor shall be sacredly preserved and that the stars and stripes shall not in any way be degraded. These charges against manufacturers in South Bend have not been confined alone to the city, but have found their way out Into the world and have made it necessary for one of the largest concerns here, which is one of the largest in the United States, to make a direct and in every way satisfactory answer. The institution referred to is the case factory of the Singer Manufacturing Company. This company received from Mr. S. Cavender, of Rutland, Marshall county, Indiana, an employe of the Nickel-plate railrcad, under date, of Sept. 30, a letter in wiiich Mr. Cavender says: "It is reported here, by parties having lelatives working in your shops, that every pay day some men are discharged for no other reason than that they are Democrats, or free-silver advocates; also that men wishing to join in silver parades or demonstrations had to wear masks to prevent identification by their employers, and so prevent their being discharged. Please let me know the other side, If tnere is another side, because, as an employe of the Nickel-plate, I have had the same accusation against the officials put at me; that I had to taik gold, not talK uver, or get discharged. This is not true.'' The reply to Mr. Cavender was signed by Mr. L. Pine, manager of the case factory for the Singer Company, arm v.as as follows : "Replying to your esteemed favor, we, have to say that the reports you mention, relative to the discharge of any of our employes for political reasons, are without any foundation in fact. We never Inquire about the religious, political or other opinions or belief's of any of our employes. The only standard by wlwch they are judged is their qualifications as mechanic, and their conduct as men. These being satisfactory to us. their continuance in our employ depends entirely and solely on the demand for our products. "The foremtn of our various departments here entertain diversified views cn political and religious topics, as do the men in their departments, and to all of them is granted the same freedom of opinion and action individually that the stockholders and officers of our company enjoy. Anything short of this would be un-American, and we are glad to be able to assure you that in no instance has the indicated course been departed from in the treatment of our employes by our foremen or by our company." The knowledge of these charges and intlmations of coercion have also been forcibly called to the attention of every manufacturer in the. city. The result has been most vigorous action on their part, and they have passed a set of resolutions as follows: "Whe.-eas, It is reported that certain manufacturers of this city are using coercion and trying to compel some of their employes to identify themselves with political parties contrary to their preferences and wishes, "Resolved, By the manufacturers whose names are appended hereto, That such reports are utterly without foundation and incapable of proof, and that said Manufacturers will furnish the funds necessary to prosecute any case that may be justly brought against any of the undersigned for attempting to unluiy influence any of their employes as above charged. These resolutions are signed by the leading and largest manufacturers m the city. The list of signatures includes the following well-known firms: South Bend Woolen Company. Indiana Paper Company. A. C. Staley Manufacturing Company. Colfax Ma nuf act Wing' Company. South 'Bend Chilled Plow Cotrpany. O'Brien Varnish Company. Oliver Chilled Plow Works. Singer Manufacturing Company. Sandage Steel Skein Company. South Bend Toy Manufacturing Company. Stephenson Manufacturing Company. South Bend Pulley Corrpeny. The Economist Plow Company. Sibley & Ware. The Miller-Knoblock Company. Studebakcr Bros'. Manuracturlng Com. pany. Birdsell Manufacturing Company. Hodson, Stanfield & Co. Bi3sell Chilled Plow Works. Winkler Bros. LOCK RIDGES JiOT FOR SILVER. Well-Known Putnam County Men Deny a Sentinel Story. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENCASTLE. Ind., Oct. 5. On Sunday the Indianapolis Sentinel ran a column interview with A. L. Lockridge, of Indianapolis, under the following triple head: Whole Family Converted The Lockridges, of Putnam County, for Silver They are Men of Large Interests in that Countv A. L. Lockridge is 'the Manager of the Putnam County Milk Company Heretofore they have Voted the Republican TicketWhy Bryan Should Succeed. The body of the article contains an entirely different story, as it mentions but two members of this family, who reside at Raccoon, in the very northern limits of the countv. There is an error in that part of the article where, the Sentinel says: Mr. R. Z. Lockridge, who is sixty-nine vears old and has voted the Republican ticket ever since the Republican party came Into existence, is also a convert to silver. Friends and relatives of R. Z. Lockridge here state that for a long term of years he has not affiliated with the Republican party, but has been a Greenbacker, and of late years a Prohibitionist. So he has not flopped at all. In this city are ex-Senator S. F. Lockridge, Albert O. lockridge and Alex. Lockridge. who. with their families, are the larger part of the Lockridge family, and they have neyer been anything but Republicans of the strongest beliefs. They are for sound money, and the Sentinel headlines, while they do dot specify them in the body of its article, do them great injustice. They are very outspoken for sound finances and other strong Republican principles." and Albert O. Lockridge is now stumping the county effectively for McKinley. Ex-Senator S. F. Lockridge was elected to the State Senate in the eighties as a Republican, and has been one all his life. The other brother is equally as strong for McKinley. These gentlemen want to most emphatically deny that "the Lockridges of Putnam county are for silver." COSFIDET OF SCCCESS. Hon. James A. Monnt Gets His Assurance from the Farmers. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind.. Oct. 5. Hon. James A. Mount and Will Cumback were in the city this afternoow and both of them in interviews declared that there existed no doubt of Republican victory in Indiana. Mr. Cumback, who has made speeches all over the State and who has made careful inquiry in every locality, says that there are but one or two points where free silver has taken hold on the voters, and for every Republican thus lost there are accessions of a half dozen sound-money Democrats. Mr. Cumback savs a conservative estimate of the Republican plurality in Indiana next month is 25.000, and he thinks it will considerably exceed this. Mr, Mount is equally sanguine. He says he has canvassed seventy-two of the ninety-two counties of the State, mingling much with the farmers. The farmer Republican vote is solid and impregnable. Both gentlemen state that among the employes of manufacturing establishments everywhere the Republicans will show immense gains. Mr. Mount went to Warsaw this evening, where to-morrow he will preside at the meeting of the National Horse Thief Detective Association, an organization of farmers for mutual protection against horse thieves. OLIJ SOLDIERS DAY. BiK Meetlna; Addreased by Col. Walker, Senator Sander and Fairbank. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COLUMBUS, Ind., Oct. 5. The old soldiers' meeting here to-day and this evening was immense both In numbers and enthusiasm. The day demonstration, including the parade, was almost exclusively by the farmers. Delegations from all parts

of this and adjoining counties filled the streets with enthusiastic McKinley supporters. The parade was more than a mile long. The speeches of Colonel I. N. Walker and ex-Senator Sanders, of Montana, at the driving park, in the afternoon, were splendid .specimens of fact, logic and oratory. The streets were crowded this evening with thousands of enthusiastic Republicans. A parade preceded the meeting at the City Hall, where a great meeting was addressed by Hon. C. W. Fairbanks. Other meetings were held at the courthouse, where Hon. W. W. Lambert and Hon. Charles F. Remy addressed the people. -

A Wild Democratic Claim. Special to the Incianapolis Journal. NEW CASTLE, Ind., Oct. 5. The Cincinnati Enquirer of Friday contained the folio wing extract from a letter written by J. S. Hazelrigg, of Straughns, this county: "To my personal knowledge, we. will gain ten to thirteen votes for Bryan at this precinct and about fifteen at New Lisbon and about the same at Lewisville. These are samples cf gains In the country districts, and we all think here that Bryan whl carry the State by 40.000 to 50,000. I don't know of a gold Democrat in the county. You would be surprised to know of the most radical Republicans that have come out and will work for Bryan." The appearance of the paragraph in the Enquirer struck the Republicans of Straughns dumb with astonishment and aroused their indignation. A meeting was called and a committee of five was appointed to wait on Mr. Hazelrigg and ask him either to substantiate or retract the statement. He said that the letter was written to S. R. Voorhees. of Cincinnati, in response to an inquiry as to the condition of political affairs in that section, and without expectation of its being" published. He refused to name the Republicans who, to "his personal knowledge," would help to make the gain of ten to thirteen votes for Bryan. The Republicans of Straughns precinct want it distinctly understood that the statement as published is utterly false, without the shadow of foundation in fact, and claim that the vote as indicated by numerous careful polls will show a decided gain. The claim will apply with equal force to New Lisbon and Lewisville. o Old-Time Democratic Knthuaianm. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Oct. 5 This was intended by the Democracy to be their biggest rally during the campaign. Great preparations had been made by the management and they expected to have an oldtime Democratic gathering. All day Sunday runners were scouring the country urging the faithful to join the delegations. In one township they circulated the report that W. J. Bryan had changed his route and would speak here this noon, hoping by that to swell the crowd. Three decorated wagons containing from six to fourteen men apiece came in from the north, one wagon with about a half dozen buggies following from the east. This was the extent of the monster delegations. Hon. B. F. Shively, Democratic candidate for Governor, was here and spoke twice. In the afternoon he was escorted to the speaking place by ten men on horseback and thirteen on foot, headed by a drum corps.- He spoke for an hour and a half to about 500 people, nearly half being women. At night the parade contained 245 voters by actual count, while possibly GOO people heard Shively speak in the opera house. A banquet was tendered him and a select company at 6 o'clock. Considering the amount of time and labor expended in getting up the rally it was a failure. Dnlsell Speak at Marlon. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION. Ind., Oct. 5. Representative John Dalzell, of Pittsburg, addressed all the people that could get within the sound of his voice this afternoon. He was escorted to the courthouse yard by the McKinley clubs of Marlon and Gas City and the Republican clubs from North and South Marion. Maj. George W. Steele introduced Mr. Dalzell, who spoke for nearly two hours. He opened his adoress with the assertion that this was not so much a contest between Democrats and Republicans as it was a fight between patriotic citizens cn one side and all the elements of discontent on the other.. The result would show whether order and law should rule the country, or whether the elements of discord should be given the rein. With such an issue involved no man who loved his country above his party should hesitate for which candidate he should cast his ballot. Fully five thousand people listened to the speech. ... ." Fusion in Grant County. ' v Special to the Indianapolis Journal. . . . MARION, Ind., Oct. 5. The Popocrats, Populists and Prohibitionists of this county havt. decided on fusion. A meeting of the executive committees of these tnree parties was held in this city Saturday afternoon and concessions were made and offered. L. A. Wallace, Popocratic candidate for Representative, has placed h!.i resignation in the hands of the committee to use as they see fit. An effort is being made to get Levi Ratliff. the Prohibition candidate for the Legislature, to pull off in favor of Cyrus Nesbitt, the Populist oominee. The fusion is meeting with much opposition among the narrow guage Prohibitionists, of which thre are fully two hundrec"i in the county, and they threaten to vote sd -id for McKiniey if the deal is made. Chai.--man Thompson, of the Popocratic committee, said this evening that the fusion would, take place. Biff Franklin County Rally. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BROOK VILLE, Ind., Oct. 5. The Hon. Nelson Dingley sooke here to-day to the largest crowd seen here during a campaign since 1SGS. At early morn from the top of the hill north of the city the cannon woke the people of Franklin county. Delegation after delegation came until the town was alive with McKinley enthusiasts. A parade was formed of visiting delegations over a mile in length. The highest hotes of the managers were more than realizetl. At 1:30 o'clock a special train from Connersville brought more than 400. Mr. Dingley spoke for one hour and a half and held the closest attention of the crowd, which vas the largest here in half a dozen campaigns. At night the Hon. Frank Beech, of New Castle, spoke to a crowded house in which many were unable to gain admission. The crowd was estimated at 5.000. Dolliver'M Bis: Tipton Meeting;. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TIPTON, Ind., Oct. 5. Without any especial efforts to get a big crowd to-day, more than three thousand people turned out to hear V. B. Dolliver, the Republican speaker from Iowa. At noon there was no particular stir in town and nothing more than an ordinary meeting was expected or intended, but by 1 o clock large delegations began to arrive from Windfall, Sharpsville. Goldsmith, Kempton. Atlanta, Arcadia and elsewhere. Normanda sent a delegation of men and women horsemen. The crowd became so large that the meeting had to be held at the fair grounds, and the amphitheater was filled. Mr. Dolliver made a strong and forcible speech. The greatest enthusiasm prevailed throughout. Wabash Sound-Money Club. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH. Ind.. Oct. 5. A souncf-money club, including nearly all of the 200 members of the Big Four railway at this point, was organized to-night. Men employed in nearly all Oi' the departments were admitted, from superintendent down. Nelson G. Hunter., proprietor of the Wabash Times, which paper, though long the Democratic organ of this county, refuses absolutely to support Bryan and the Chicago platform, made a strong sound money speech and was frequently cheerfd. The officers of the new club are S. E. Thomas, president; Ed G. Lewis, secretary. While the members of the club do not obligate themselves to vote any particular ticket, they will very generally support McKinley. Democrat Out for McKinley. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PORTLAND. Ind., Oct. 5. Three prominent Democrats at Ridgeville. Ind., to-day announced they would support McKinley and Hobart. One of them, C. C. Lyons, was formerly chairman of the Democratic county committee: David E. Becker, the second, is the leading furniture dealer, and the third. W. C. Gordon, is a prominent tailor in this city. Hardly a day passes without one or more Democratic farmers calling at the Republican club for McKinley pictures and announcing their conversion. Speaker Reed Coiuini? to Indiana. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION. Ind.. Oct. 6. Speaker T. B. Reed telegraphed Major George W Steele to-day that he would make two speeches in Indiana, one in H. U. Johnson's district and the other in Major Steele's district. , Indiana Campaign oteit. Charles B. Landis spoke to a bigr crowd at Atlanta Saturday, while Governor Matthews had a small crowd at Arcadia, three mil?3 distant, at the same nour. Captain John Worrall has been etumplne Park county for sound money, lie haa

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made four speeches in the county. At Lyford and Mecca, two mining towns, he had great crowds. The citizens of Farmland held a mass meeting: last night to arrange for the grand Republican rallv at that place on Oct. 16. A fine silk flag "donated by the citizens will he given to the largest delegation present. Hon. J. E. Watson and E. S. Elliott will be the speakers. A Veteran and Sons of Veteran McKinley Club was organized at Farmland Saturday nig:ht with a membership of over fifty. The following officers were chosen: President, W. C. West; vice president. George W. Worl ; secretary. C. W. Paris; chaplain, Frank Mullen: executive committee. W. W. Wilson. Ellis McNees. G. B. Watson, John McGuire and J. P. Gray. Delegations from West Lebanon, Perrysvi'.le, Cayuga, Covington and the smaller towns gathered in the grove west of Foster Saturday until the wouiis were peo pled. In the parade were several floats, and among them was the British lion, from Pcrrysville, which has been used In campaigns in western Indiana and eastern Illinois for twenty years. The Hon. Daniel E. Storms addressed the people in the morning and Frank Hanly talked to them in the afternoon. Music was furnished by the Perrysviile and Covington glee clubs. TUe Moral Side of It. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: To settle once and forevei the silver question should be the effort of the Republicans and thoughtful Democrats. The act of April 2. 1792. Section 11. proves that the intrinsic and relative value of gold and silver was the vital consideration in coining money. Any changes from its provisions were expedients for certain purposes, or unsuccessful attempts 'to bolster up a metal of declining value, because it is found in great quantities in our own country. If it was a foreign metal that declined, we, as Americans, would assist its fall order to buy it as cheaply as possible; would be called business. Not desirin, kill a home industry, the Republicans and thoughtful Democrats are trying to save the silver mine owners from the consequences of their own folly by curbing their, wishes. A perusal of the act of Feb. 12, 1S73, shows that it was intended to introduce a dollar of commerce, same as a Spanish or Mexican dollar. As the people of the United States prefer subsidiary silver coin to the more cumbrous, the legal-tender value was limited to $5, but in order that this dollar of commerce should be of great value In countries where silver was a medium of exchange for products, and valued according to weights and fineness, the weight of the silver was increased over former weights. Any schoolboy will understand that this superior coin would cause all those having an inferior one to hustle to get rid of it, as the superior forces the inferior Into retirement. Congress did not seem to understand this, but became rattled when a decline in silver took place by the attempts of the silver countries to unload the lighter coins all at one time as if it was "the devil for the hindmost." Had Congress stood firm, borne the expense of recoining the lighter coins of the silver countries into the superior American dollar of commerce called the trade dollar, in time the panic would have subsided and the LJnited State's, a strong nation, would have the respect of the so-called Latin Union. But. no. No such wisdom was ours we took the back track; we tried to propitiate the panic-stricken Latin Union by depriving our own people of actual weight in silver coin, compelling them to take the cumbrous discs as legal tenders, except where there was a special contract to the contrary; then denied that we Intended to swindle anybody, and directed the President to ask the Latin Union to join us in a friendly game of poker while they were still smarting from the injury done their lighter dollars by the attempt to displace them with our superior dollars of commerce. Suppose Indianapolis merchants were selling a box containing 412 small packages of starch, each package containing an ounce, and suppose one of them conceived the idea of putting 420 such packages in a larger box and selling it for the same price as the smaller one. The result would be a fall in the price of starch, as there would be an endeavor, to unload the smaller boxes. There would be two courses for the originator of the 420 scheme either to continue, getting the credit of being the first to increase values of the boxes or to call a meeting of the merchants, after returning to the smaller boxes, and ask them to join in restoring former prices for quantity of less value. The farmer would call this forming a trust, and Bryan Is asking thern to form a silver trust by asking the courts to compel the people to take small values at an enhanced price, by refusing to listen to outside arguments about the hardships of poverty, and other evidences of weakness. Let us keep to the moral question how can we honestlv better our condition by defraud'ng somebody else? TRAVELER. Salem, O.. Oct. 3. Bryan' DemuROHTic Appeal. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: When Mr. Bryan makes his appearance upon the platform, bows with a pleasant smile to an audience of fifteen or twenty thousand, composed of men, women and children engaged in all the different pursuits of life, he proceeds at- once, to express a profound sympathy for one chiss and bitterly denounce another class. He has much tender sympathy for the farmer, the mechanic, and, in short, all those who are striving by their labor to procurs a respectable living. He also makes many glittering promises to all who will assist in placing him in the presidential chair. He encourages the boyy by telling them that when they visit Washington they will find no cards up notifying them to keep off the grass. He promises to prohibit syndicates and trusts, provided it is constitutional to stop them: and if not. he will have the Constitution changed a youthful anticipation for a boy, transferring himself from the common walks of life and seated in the presidential chair, dictating to the American people by demanding that the Constitution shall be changed in order to prohibit syndicates, trusts and monopolies. There is another class that comes In for much sympathy Indirectly by many persons who advocute the same doctrine that Mr. Bryan Is contending for, namely, the mine owners, who have been so outrageously wronged in the reduction of the value of the products of their mines by that wicked act of 1S73. By that unjust law. as they term It. it is possible that many of their children have been deprived of the necessaries of life. Mr. Bryan and some of his followers have no fault to find with men of vast wealth, no matter how obtained, provided they sanction the Chicago platform: but men of wealth who oppose that platform anil advocate sound money and a gold standard are denounced as gold bugs and greedy money grabbers. If the American Congress should decide to coin r0 cents' worth of silver and stamp it a legal-tender dollar, it would certainly be one of the most unjust laws ever enacted by a legislative body. It is probable that there Is indebtedness in this country to the amount of multiplied millions of dol-

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Such a law would be nothing more or less than class legislation, in the interest o the debtor class to the great detriment of the credit class. JAMES TAYLOR. Greencastle, Ind., Oct. Ob It nary. CHICAGO. Oct. 5 Clifford B. Everham. quotation manager of the Western Union, Telegraph Company, died to-day of heart disease. Mr. Everham was on the witness stand in the Criminal Court giving evidence in a wire-tapping case, when he suddenly fell to the floor. The room was cleared at once and every effort made to revive him. but he died within an hour. He had been an employe of the Western I'nlou for over twenty years and was considered one of its best and most, capable men. LONDON. Oct. 5. Henry Byron Reed. Conservative Member of Parliament for the eastern division of Bradford, ami a weiiknown lecturer and speaker on church and political subjects, is dead. His death was the result of a carriage accident. He was at one time chairman of the National Union of Conservative Associations. 'Tlie Caliph" Failed to Draw. NEW YORK. Oct. 3. The run of "Th Caliph" by the Jefferson De Auglls Onera Company at the Broadway Theater came to u sudden close to-night and the theater was closed without a performance. It is said salaries were not in arrears, but poor business did not justify Nat Roth, the manager of the company, in continuing the season. Jefferson De Anglis. the comedian of the company, is said to have been an employe only and will endeavor to ralae a company to revive the opera. Seminnry to He Hemoved. CLEVELAND, O.. Oct. 5. The Central Synod of the German Reformed Church voted to-day to remove the Theological Seminary at Sheboyan. Wis., to this city, where It will become part of Calvin College. The seminary now has between 2H) and 300 students and a great many preparatory students. The synod adjourn d to meet next year at New Philadelphia, O. Sale of Trotters. LEXINGTON. Ky.. Oct. 5. Forty-eight trotting-bred yearlings and two-year-oids, the Jiroperty of B. J. Treacy. sold to-day for"(5,457. an average of $1T. Iimhr-t, black colt, two, by Bermuda, dam Tina B. 2:274. to L. C. Kenney. of Pine Bluff, Wye, for $750: Allen, brown colt, two, by Allle Wilkes, dam by Indianapolis, to Geo Watson, of Glasgow, Scotland, for ?575. A Tired Editor's AVIwh. Buffalo Courier. Hundreds of birds flew over the city early yesterday morning. They went southward. The clatter of their tongues and the whirring of their wings had an Inviting sound. Oh that the day may speedily come when we may buy a pair of wings as nowadays we buy a bicycle, and. adjusting them, lightly take our flight to the mild atmospheres of the South. RAVAGES have healtfiy children. So-called uncivilized -women have no trouble m the bearing of child ren. 1 hey nave practically no sickness and comparatively little pain at that time. It is because they live natural lives. 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