Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1896 — Page 1

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(Wholesale BIG ROUTE Commercial Travelers' and Bicycle Republican Club Excursion TO CANTON, OHIO, and RETURN, TO VISIT Hon. WM. McKINLEY $4 FortheRouudTrip $4 Special train composed of sleepers, chair cars, first-class coaches and refreshment car will leave Indianapolis FRIDAY, Oct. 9, 1896, and run as follows: Leave Indianapolis. ...10:(0 pm, Friday. Oct. 9 Arrive Canton 8:W am, Saturday. Oct. 10 RETURNING. Leave Canton ........ 3.00 pm, Saturday, Oct. 10 Arrive Indianapolis ...11:30 pm, Saturday, Oct. 10 Tickets good going and returning only on epecial train, named above. Chair cars $1 per seat for round trip. Sleepers $2 per double berth going and $1 per seat returning. For tickets, sleepers and chair cars call at Big Pour offices. No. 1 Bast Washington street, 36 Jackson place, Massachusetts avenue and Union Station. Traveling men, merchants, bicyclists and all In favor of sound money invited to join the party. C. W. Lefler, L. W. Cooper and J. J. Higgins, Transportation Committee Commercial Travelers' Republican Club, Geo. Catterson and E. J. Richards, Transportation Committee Bicycle Republican Club. H. M. BRONSON, A. 3. P. A. CINCINNATI CHEAP EXCURSION, txrxcltiy, Oct, 11 One Dollar Round Trip Special train leaves Indianapolis 7:15 a. m leaves Cincinnati, returning, 7:15 p. m. " MONON ROUTE Louisville. New Albany & Chicago Railway. SHORT LINE TO rHifAnn the west VlllVilUU AND NORTHWEST Pullman Vestibule Train Service. Trains dally at 7:00 a. m.. 3:35 p. m. and 12:65 a. m. Arrive Chicago 12:00 noon, 8:20 p. m. and 7 0 .. m. Leave Chicago dally 2:45 a. m H:50 a. m. and p. m. Arrive Indianapolis 7M5 a. m., 4:37 p. m. and Chicago Sleeper et west end Union Station, leacy nt S:30. ?ti'ed information t Union Station and No. 2 W. Waih. st. GEO. W. HAYLER. U. P. A. CAMPBELL, WILD & CO. 205 INDIANA TRUST BUILDING Pew Letting AT First Baptist Church, Wednesday Evening, Oct. 7. Orxlociso Attend. SKIRMISH AT LEADVILLE. Colorado Militiamen nud Strikers Exfliange Shots nt Mi&lit. LEADVILLE. Col., Oct. 6. A report reached military headquarters about noon to-day of a eklrmlsh last night at the Resurrection mine between soldiers and striker!. Right armed men approached clone to the mine and opened fire on the guards. Both the soldiers and their assailants sought shelter behind rocks and kept up the shooting about twenty minutes. Whether any one was k tiled or wounded is not knowu. All la q.uiet to-day.

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Exclusively.) YEARLY MEETING ENDED ALL REFORM MEASURES DEFEATED IX THE RICHMOND SESSION. In Many Respects the Quaker Conference Was One of tlie Most Pleasant Ever Held. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Oct. 6.-The Indiana Yearly Meeting: of Friends closed it3 sessions here to-day It was one of the most successful and pleasant meetings they have ever had. The meeting; brought out various signs of progress, and, although no decided change was made in any way, it Is evident that there will not many years elapse when there will be some radical changes in many ways. One of these will be the adoption of. the pastoral system, of which many were in favor this year. Another will be doing away with the separate sessions and having- the business all transacted before the -whole meeting-. 'An-' other will be a change in the time of holding the "pearly Meeting, for it was very evident tht there are those among the members, who do not intend to give the matter up, but will keep at it until the change is mad?. Rev. John Kitrell, of Friendsville, Tenn., held a gospel meeting last evening and a short devotional service was held this morning. Samuel B. Hill and William L. Wilson were appointed trustees of White's Institute, at Wabash, Ind., for tnree years. Hannah L. Smith and Alfred Brown were appointed delegates to the national convention of the Anti-saloon League, which is to be held at Columbus. O., and Timothy Nicholson and 1511a J. Davis were appointed alternates. The funds of the late James Moorman for a home for needy women and ministers having accumulated to $3,402.9::, the t'tstees transferred $3,000 of it to the home endowment fund, raising it to 15,000. The treasurer's report was read and was satisfactory, except in point of the- indebtedness of the meeting a,nd the interest on the same. The quarterly meetings are behind $4,511.96 in the amount of money they should raise, and the deficiency of the meeting at this time is $10,294.06. The endowment funds amount to $101,985.23. The following appropriations were made: For the book and tract committee. $lu0; peace committee. $100; foreign mission committee. 8800: missionary board. $750: vangeJistic and pastoral committee, $1,250: In dian committee. $S0; indebtedness, $1,000; incidentals, $1,S20; total. $0,500. , . Six thousand copies of the minutes were ordered printed, which is one thousand more than last year. Epistles were prepared for London, Dublin and Mexico and a general epistle for the American Yearly Meetings, with special clauses to Baltimore and North Carolina. The proposal, which came from the Spicelar.d quarterly meeting, that there be no separate sessions hereafter, but that all the business be transacted in joint session, was reported on favorably by the committee to which it was referred, and probabiy would have been adopted had it not been that the women were averse to it at this time, which resulted in the whole matter being dismissed. District A. 31. E. Conference. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 6. The Richmond district of Indiana Conference African M. E. Church is holding its session In this city. The services opened this morning at 11 o'clock, Rev. J. Mltchem. of Franklin, presiding. Rev. C. C. Allen, pastor of the congregation in Auuerson, delivered the address of welcome, response being made by Rev. L. V. Ratliff. of Kokomo. Rev. A. L. Murray, of Indianapolis, addressed the delegates to-night. WITNESS BRIBED. Sensational Charters Against Jackson's and AVnlllnn's Attorneys. NEWPORT, Ky., Oct 6. The case of John Seward, the detective charged with subordination of perjury in the trials of Jackson and Walling, was postponed today. William Trusty, sr., father of William Trusty, whom Seward introduced as a witness to swear that Pearl Bryan was found dead in Cincinnati and could not have been murdered on the Kentucky side of the river, made a confession, stating that certain attorneys offered $500 for such evidence and that Seward got his son to testify accordingly and then kept all the money. Sensational developments are now expected at the trials of Seward and William Trusty, jr. WOMEN'S RELIEF CORPS. Convention of the Corps of the Eighth District. The convention of the Women's Relief 6orps of the Eighth district, composed of Marion, Hancock and Hendricks counties, will be held in Grand Army Hall on Delaware street, opposite the courthouse, Thursday, Oct. 15, at 9 o'clock. Mrs. Pearl Lynch, of Greenfield, is president und Miss Ella D. Zinn. of Indianapolis, secretary, A campfire will be held in the evening, over which Department Commander Cayior will preside, feevf ral prominent members of the Grand Army and Relief Corps will speak. An attractive programme has been arranged.

THOUSANDS OF VISITORS AT CANTON DESPITE BAD 'WEATHER.

Four Delegations Representing; Three States Listen to the "Wisdom of the Republican Nominee. NIGHT PARADE OF CLUBS REVIEWED BY THE MAJOR, HIS WIFE .WD AN INDIANA GUEST. Streets of the City Thronged with Marchers from Sew York, Michigan and Pennsylvania. SPEECHES FOR EVERYBODY SENTIMENTS THAT WTILL INTEREST FARMERS AND ALL AVORKERS. Benefits of Protection Made Plain Maintenance of Sound Money and Credit a Necessity. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CANTON, Oct. 6. Despite rain and mud, this has been a busy day for the Republican nominee and the people of Canton. No more enthusiastic callers have been here than those from Tonawanda and Buffalo and Syracuse, N. Y., Lenewee county, Michigan, and Clarion county, Pennsylvania.And through the drenching showers the callers marched to the "McKinley home, making the city resound with their enthusiasm, while mounted troops and large bands of music and finely drilled companies uniformed in marching mackintoshes evoked cheers from the thousands who stood sheltered in the doorways and under awnings whi'e the visitors marched by. The formal receptions of the visiting delegations did not end the demonstrations. Soon as the city was shrouded in darkness the clubs were again on the street, Michigan and New York and Ohio uniting to from the spectacle. When the parade was well organized it marched and countermarched past the McKinley home, and was reviewed from the little, stand on the front lawn by Major and Mrs. McKinley, President Higgins, of the Indiana Republican League, and members of the McKinley Club. The regular west-bound train at 10:06 this morning brought two extra coaches tilled with shouting McKinley men from East Brady, Clarion county, Pennsylvania. They were headed by a brass band and banner carried announcing the party as "The Plutocrats of Clarion County, Pennsylvania;" The delegation was introduced by N. E. Graham, and addressed by Major McKinley from his front porch. . A special train of live coaches arrived about 3 o'clock this afternoon, bringing the lumber dealers of Buffalo and Tonawanda. This was a distinguished apppearing and thoroughly enthusiastic delegation. It was composed of business men connected with the lumber trade, and according to the statement of the spokesman, including many former Democrats. The reception was held in the Tabernacle, rain preventing a demonstration on the lawn. Millard S. Burns made the introductory address. Shortly after 5 o'clock a special train of five coaches arrived bearing the Republican clubs of Syracuse, N. Y. Most prominent in this was a handsomely-uniformed and well-drilled Syracuse escort, an or ganization effected in 1SG4. There were also representatives of thirteen other clubs, including a detachment of wheelmen. The delegation was introduced by Daniel Criehton, a business man. A few minutes after the Syracuse party arrived a special train of ten. coaches reached Canton, bringing a delegation named in honor of Lenew-ee, and organized in the county of Adrian, Michigan. The party was made up of about 90 per cent, of farmers. The delegation, in a pouring rain, marched to the McKinley home to view the lawn. They then returned to the Taber nacle, where Henry O. Smith made the introductory address. . TO REPUBLICAN CLUBS. Mr. McKinley SyoakM Earnestly on the Financial Question. In responding to the congratulations of tho Syracuse delegation Mr. McKinley said: "My Fellow-citizens I am very glad to know that the weather has no depressing inlluence on the Republicans of the State of New York. I am glad to know that what I have long thought, that, in sun shine or storm the Republicans in the city pt Syracuse stand faithful to Republican principles ana are untaitering in meir aavocacy of the cause of the Republican party. Republican principles are right and eternal, rney nave surviveu eveiy ueieai and are brighter and more glorious to-day if that be possible than they have ever been before. Your visit, coming at such great discomfort and so long a distance, I assure you, is peculiarly gratifying to me, and vou are all welcome to my home, city and State. I recall with much satisfaction the visit I made to your city two years ago. when, at the head of your State ticket was that splendid Republican statesman, Levi P. Morton. I recall with what splen did spirit you then cheered Republican nrinciples, and I discover to-day that you have not lost your voic?s. 'In common with Republicans everywhere this year you show an ardent interest in the pending campaign, of which only four weeks yet remain. The campaign of 194 was peculiarly a campaign of the people when they exnressed themselves for the first time after the. change of 1S92. Their verdict was an impressive protest ntrainst the tariff legislation of a Demo cratic Congress. Men of Syracuse, have you changed your opinion or tnat legislation since then? The same question is presented now as then, with the added one which involves the character of our currency and the inviolability of our credit. If the free-trade policy of the Democratic Congress merited tas I think justly) the condemnation you gave it. now how much greater must be your vote of protest and disapproval when it is coupled with the proposition to enter upon the free and unlimited coinage of the silver of the world. "The people of New York are naturally most deeply concerned as to the outcome of the latter issue, possessing, as they do. nearly six hundred millions in their savings banks, $300,000,000 in your insurance companies. $700,000,000 in the capital and loan of vour State and national banks, in addition to your other forms of property, in all of which they would suffer immense losi if we shou'd enter upon an era of dishonest and depreciated currency. Greatly as you have suffered in your business enterprises by the tariff policy which has prevailed for the past three years, the new issue would still further entail loss and injury, and is a change. I believe, that our people will not tolerate for an instant, as they value their material interests and the honor of this great Nation. " Property and investment are dear to all of them, but I am fully persuaded that now, as so many times in the past, neither would weigh in the balance with love of country, whenever, wherever and however its honor may be assailed. As the allied parties in opposition are urging this question it is not a proposition for the

free coinage of both gold and silver, but. practically that of silver alone, and not silver by international agreement, for to that they are opposed, but solely, exclusively and definitely, if you please, the free, independent and unrestricted coinage of the silver of the world, regardless of consequences and despite the certain distress and ruin in which it would involve us all. Considerations of prudence, a faithful regard for our obligations and proper respect for the rights of our citizens as individuals, are all left out of the question and we are blindly to follow wherever they may dare to lead. It is not a leap In the dark, for we know, from sad experience, what a depreciated currency means to every invested interest; what it "means to wages, to labor and property, to credit and to the country itself. "Ignoring all existing conditions among the great commercial nations of the world and the requirements of sound finance; oblivious to every consideration of prudence, care, thrift and national integrity, their proposition would engulf us in a system of absolute silver monometallism, for they are themselves the only unconditional and unqualified monometallists in the United States. Our policy insures the use of both gold and silver at an equality. They seek to drive us to silver alone. They advocate what they call financial independence, and in the name of independence they appeal to us. to debase our currency and repudiate in part or whole all our debts and sully our national honor. This we decline forever to do.. This is not the character of independence which. the American people lova and sustain and are accustomed to exercise. It is independence, with honor to which we hold, not any dependence to which attaches a taint of dishonor. We would not want that distinction at any price. "It is neither dignified nor justified in public debate that we indulge in harsh names. It is not becoming to any one to do it, nor does it help the. cause which is espoused. I prefer to treat my felow-cltizens as being honest in their convictions and desirous only of what they believe will promote the public welfare, convinced that if they are wrong they will eventually espouse the right when at last they see the right. It is their intelligence we seek to reach; it is their sober judgment we invoke; it is their patriotism to 'which we appeal. It is to persuade, not to abuse, which is the object of rightful public discussion. In that spirit I address my fellow-citizens and abjure them to reflect before they add either dishonor to our credit or our currency. Let the words of the revered statesmen of all parties of the past dissuade them from putting any stain upon the financial honor and hitherto good name of tliis Republic. "Syracuse is not only deeply interested in the rightful settlement of the money question, but she is interested in a true American protective policy. You had $17,207.0.SG of capital invested in your numerous manufacturing establishments, with annual product exceeding $25,000,000 in value by the census of 1S0O. So great was your prosperity under a protective system that-your city more than doubled in population from 1S70 to 1590 and practically quadruple the value of her manufactories. What her condition has been since 1800 you know better than I, but your beautiful city is indeed most fortunate if it has escaped the business depression and wreck of trade in common with every other industrial center of the country. We must return to that policy which gave us such wonderful triumphs in manufacturing and registered such mighty progress in all that goes to make the Nation great, strong and powerful and the people prosperous, contented and happy. May we wisely use the ballot, my fellow-countrymen, to secure these much desired ends. "I thank you for this call. I would be glad to remain longer, but another delegation awaits me and I regret that you should have come on what proves so disagreeable a day that our people are deprived of the opportunity of meeting you and extending to you a warmer and brighter welcome. I bid you all good afternoon." TO MICHIGAN FARMERS.

Tribute to Toilers and a Blow at Popocratic Repudiation. Major McKinley spoke to the Michigan delegation as follows: "I am glad to know that there are farmers in this delegation. Indeed, everv delegation that comes to the city of Canton nowadays is made up of men of every vocation,-railing and employment in the country. We do not have any classes in Republican delegations. We are equal citizen of a common f-untry .and propose to continue to be equal citizens, in privilege and onDortunitv. I am triad to meet the Republicans of the State of grand old Zach ! Chandler. 1 am glad to meet the Repub le ans of a State which almost from its begin ning has given uninterrupted majorities for the Republican party. Can Michigan be counted on this vear? (Loud cheers and cries of 'Yes. by 50.000; and 70,000!') "Your coming with such generous assurances gives me great satisfaction. Your coming in an earnest of your desire and your purpose in the pending campaign and is an unmistakable evidence of coming victory. People are in earnest this year never before was there such a general and personal interest as now. What is the meaning, my fellow-citizens, of this extreme activity. It is not a passing sentiment; it is deep rooted in the souls of men and means that they are alive to their own best interests and do not intend to take any chances any more. They do not mean to delegate to any committee the management of the campaign which in volves not only the country's welfare, but that of their own homes and families. They are not satisfied with the present situation. They are tired of it: they want to escape from it; they are seeking relief. They discharged the Republican party four years ago, dispensing with its services and called in to service another party. With that party has come a business condition which almost beggars description. They longed for a change and have longed for it since, for three long years. It is a sweet memory; they dition in 1S92. It is a sweet memory; they have felt their condition since. It is a sad experience. They want to get back; they want to restore what they lost. They have made up their minds and are ready to vote. To me the contention for protection is from first to last a plea for labor and the agricultural interests of the United States. It is a recognition of the men who toil, whether in the factory or on the farm, and an effort for their advancement and constant betterment. "We want in this country none of the harsh and degraded conditions of the free soil of America that prevail in some other countries. And we do not mean to have them because, unlike other governments of the world, this government rests upon the consent of the governed. We have no plaee for the laws of caste or primogeniture, and want none of theix artificial conditions of birth and society in our matchless civilization. The door of opportunity swings open to the honest, industrious worklngman as well as to those of every other condition. "They talk about being a debtor Nation, and because we are a debtor nation they want us to repudiate our debts. They say we should be opposed to the great commercial countries of the world and talk of our asserting our independence of them by proving a nation of dishonest creditors. That sentiment, my fellow-citizens, will never meet with the indorsement of a majority of the American people and the farmers least of all. Why, the greatest creditors in this country, either in numbers or wealth, are not the railway and mine owners, bankers and manufacturers, but the vast army of small capitalists and the laboring men found in every community of the land. The Secretary of the Treasury says that the industrious and frugal people are to-day the creditors of the banks and trust companies, the building associations and other institutions of that character, to the extent of five billions of dollars, while the same people, very largely, are the policy holders In our insurance companies, who owe ten billions. That debt is not due the rich. It is due to the sons of thrift and toil. It represents in many instances the savings of a lifetime, put aside for family in case of accident or death should overtake the men upon whom the families depend. So, when we talk of scaling debts, or decreasing the value of our dollars, let it be constantly borne in mind that it is the p'ain people, the honest, frugal people, the bone, muscle and sinew of the land that this policy would affect and injure most largely, but no matter who it would affect, it is dishonest and, therefore, must not and will not be tolerated by the American people. "My fellow-citizens. I thank you for this call. Michigan is a sreat State; she his everything that could make her rich; she has rich minerals, lake and river frontage, railroads, mines and splendid soil. All that Michigan wants now is the touchstone of confidence. That will drive away distrust, and the presence of it will encourage investmentsshe wants a Drotective tariff, a tariff that will protect her mines and manufactories and her fields and ports; that will protect the home market, the best market in the world to the American farmer. "Farmers of Michigan, the only market we can rely upon is the home market, and the home market is good if the wheels of industry are running, and the wheels of industry are running only when American production is protected apainst the cheaper products of other lands. I need not detain you any longer, but I desire to express to you my appreciation of this call, of your coming a (Continued on Sixth Page.)

HARRISON HITS HARD

THE EX-PRESIDENT DELIVERS TELLING BLOWS AT BRYAN. He Also Fires a. Few Center Shots at the Popocratic Platform and Its Outrageous Planks. OVATION TO THE GENERAL THOUSANDS OF WEST VIRGINIANS GREET THE NOTED INDIAXIAX, And Eagerly Listen to His Utterances at All Points During: His Trip Through the State. BIG CROWD AT CHARLESTON FIVE THOUSAND MORE PEOPLE THAN GATHERED TO HEAR BRYAN. Grncefnl Tribute to the Republican Presidential Nominee Speech at Cincinnati To-Nlsht. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CHARLESTON, W. Va Oct. C. West Virginia, or, at least, that part of the State contiguous to the Chesapeake & Ohio railway, turned out to-day to hear General Harrison. From Ronceverte to Charleston every station had a crowd anxiously waiting to see and hear the ex-President. There were many men in these crowds who had never voted anything but the Democratic ticket, but from their demeanor one would be led to suspect at least a temporary transfer of allegiance to the Repub lican party on the part of most of them. The most respectful attention marked these assemblages. At Ronceverte, where the first stop was made, General Harrison spoke briefly. Referring to free silver, he said: "The word free is very attractive, wherever we find It. It was a great word with the colored people during the war, and has been since, out there are not many things to which you can attach it. The good Lord who made this world and put us m it didn't make many things free. Water and air are free, but He ordered it, as to aimost everything e:se, that we would have to work for It set it by some toil by the sweat of the brow. All this talk about free silver does not mean that you are going to be allowed to pick It up somewhere. You will not find it scattered about the roads. If you get it you will have to toil for it. "At the close of the war a story was started that the United States was to give to each colored mart forty acres and a mule. That was a deceptive statement, and the colored man found he had to work out his own way. He was free to work there was nothing else free. "If we should coin silver free if the United States should say to every man who had silver, "Bring it to our mints, and every 412'2 grains we will stamp as a dollar, and lat you take it away with. you.' so far as you and I are concerned we will get not one of these dollars unless we work for it. "The idea that the people want a cheap dollar is a false Idea. The man who earns an honest dollar wants an honest dollar in payment. Let us have & good dollar and let us keep at home as much work as we can by a protective tariff.;" At Alderson, General Harrison spoke briefly on the silver question. At Hinton there was another large crowd, ' and the General spoke ten minutes, confining his remarks chiefly to the silver question. He concluded by saying: "Your interest is to have a good, fixed, staple money that you can deal with and count on year in and year out the kind of money that you can take and put In an old stocking, if you want to. and hide it under the bedtick and keep it there a year, and when you take it out, find just as much money as you put in. That kind of money is honest and true. That is thes kind of money the laboring man is entitled to. and that man who would put off any other kind of money upon you, however loud his pretensions of friendship may be, is the enemy of the worklngman." At Montgomery the General referred to the tariff question, and contrasted the present condition under -the Wilson law with that under the McKinley law. He said: "Mr. Bryan voted for the Wilson bill. Indeed, it was as an extreme free trader that he made his first reputation. He tells you now that things will be very good when you get free silver. He to'.d you they would be very good when you got free trade. Under the first approach of free trade the Democratic Congress could make, they have been very bad. Mr. Bryan has not. I think, established his reputation with you as a prophet." Referring to his own personal relation to the campaign. General Harrison said: "It is not because of any personal interest that 1 appeal to you. I am a candidate, for no office. I have been fully honored by the people of this country, but I owe It to them to give them the best opinion 1 have, based upon my experience and any knowledge I may have gained. I have but one wish in my heart: That this country that you and I love shall he prosperous: that prosperity shall go to every home and that every worklngman may have the best possible returns for his labor." Ovation at Charleston. Other stops and short speeches were made, but it was not until Charleston was reached that the party realized how fully West Virginia was aroused. The streets were packed with a mass of people. The town people were otit en rr.asse, and long excursion trains had brought in thousands from outside. "Harrison has four to Bryan's one," was the answer when the relative size of the crowds was asked for. From the station to the platform, a matter of half a mile, the carriages had great difficulty in making their way through the masses of humanity that almost blocked the passage. The platform stood against the opera house and faced an open square. The square was filled and also the streets beyond, while men and boys were perched on telegraph poles. Every place in sight that offered a seat or a foothold was occupied. There were fifteen thousand people in sight and there were ten thousand standing in a compact mass around the stand. One of the finest displays in the parade was given by the Mark Hanna Uniform Club of Huntington. There, were fifteen bands in the procession and over 1.000 horsemen. Mrs. Harrison accompanied her husband and shared in the applause that greeted him here and all along the line of march. General Harrison was escorted by the procession directly from the train to the platform. When Hon. Samuel Burdett introduced General Harrison there was great enthusiasm. The cheering broke out anew as the ex-President stepped forward, but whin he raised his hand there was an instant hush. It was not broken, save by applause, until the speaker concluded. In opening, the General said: "We are now in a campaign which seems to have stirred the interests of the people to a most astounding degree. The Chicago convention was the most notable, in some respects, that has ever been held in this country. It was notable for the frenzy that characterized It. It was notable for the declarations it made, which had never be

ore found expression in the national platform of any political party in this country. It was notable for the fact that, in passing over every Democrat who had achieved distinction in his party passing every man who had experience in public affairs In that great party it nominated a man as its candidate whose distinction had been solely as an orator. A gift of speech is a good gift, but a prize at an interstate collegiate debating society is not a full guaranty of fitness to administer the affairs of seventy millions of people. We have usually thought, in choosing candidates for the presidency and vice presidency, that some achievement, some experience, some maturity of years, was essential for those great offices. The convention at Chicago thought otherwise, and has givc:i us as its candidate a man of whom I have no evil word to say. but one who is. in my judgment, to-day proclaiming sentiments and advocating doctrines that greatly tend to hurt all the people and will greatly hurt the honor and prosperity of the country we love." The speaker discussed at seme length the tariff policies of the two parties. He said: "The Democrats now admit that their policy as carried out by the Wilson bill has failed to bring the prosperity promised four years ago. But they now offer as a panacea for our present ills free silver. It is more days' work in this country that we want, and not a different kind of money. Free silver will not make one more day's work for any man. We must have a money that is Indisputably good, a money that the farmer can receive at his home and keep there a month, and when he comes to town with it be sure it is worth just what he took it for." General Harrison spoke of the Democratic assault upon Mr. Cleveland for sending troops to Chicago to establish order, and called attention to the fact that Senator Daniel was the chairman of the convention making the assault and was also the man who offered a resolution In the Senate approving Mr. Cleveland's course in the matter. He closed with an eulogy of tho Republican candidate, saying: "A candidate who has shown his devotion to the Hag; a candidate who will never allow it to be dishonored at home or abroad: a candidate who will faithfully exeuece his oath to enforce the laws against all who oppose: a man who has achieved no: one, not one who won a college contest in declamation, but one who has won honor on the -bloody field of battle bearing his country's flag to the front; one who has had long experience in public affairs; who has been conspicuous in the great House of Representatives: one the whole story of whose life is a pledge that these great policies for the betterment of our people will have his faithful and intelligent support." General Harrison will leave to-night for Cincinnati. He will rest there to-morrow quietly and speak in the evening at the Academy of Music. THE -RICHMOND SPEECH.

Effects of the Ex-President StronR and Convincing Oratory. Murat Halstead, in Chicago Record. The voice of Harrison soon began to ring through the hall, and he was so Interesting that he commanded the peace. He referred to his Virginia ancestry, and said" he did not feel he was in an enemy's country when he visited the old State. He referred to the war and to the restored Union, the national power and glory. There had been just enough opposition to kindle Harrison, and the force with which he epoke was overwhelming. He stated the case of the Chicago riots and the action of the Presition in doing his duty in restoring order. Harrison proceeded to state that the Chicago platform denounced the preservation of order and assailed the Supreme Court. He wanted to know what Virginia had to Kay to that, she who had given the great jurist, Marshall, to the country. Harrison's force was so great that the disorderlies made a concerted effort to suppress him. and the lights on the platform were largely put out. Ten minutes were spent in a disturbance, and Harrison regained the control of the audience by referring to the Daniel resolution, adopted in the Senate without a dissenting voice, indorsing in fervid terms the action of President Cleveland in the Chicago Hots. The Governor of Virginia did the same thing, stood by the President,. yet Senator Daniel had presided over the convention that denounced the President for what the Senate unanimously commended. Was Virginia willing that her mails and her commerce should be stopped in any other State by a mob while the President waited for the permit of a Governor? After this point was made there was another row. It was evident that the sensitive point had been touched. In the reference to the execution -of the national laws, it was a thundering shot to quote the favorite Senator of Virginia, and the boys seei-ed to be in a bewildered state. This branch of Harrison's speech was finished in great shape and triumphantly. Then he entered Into the silver question, and it was very curious to note how deeply concerned the people seemed to be about silver. When Harrison proceeded with his silver argument a great hush came over the multitude, and the points were listened to intently. I have had a great deal of experience in observing the signs of beep business anxiety in great audiences, and have never seen a crowd more passionated and captivated. There was a climax when Harrison came to the. question of the relation of free silver to wages, and the cheers of sympathy and commendation roared at the close of every ringing sentence. It was evident that the next tact of the speaker was as keen as his logic was invincible, and his Incidents and illustrations apt and striking, as Harrison was sweeping all before him on the silver question. There was another organized Bryan demonstration, that of walking and hanging about. The sound was as when Bryan's audience departed from him at Madison-square Garden. But this proceeding was artificial. The great mass of the people was with the orator. The splendid peroration was a vision of the granduer of Virginia, if she gave her voice for law and order and peace between capital and labor. And then came the recitation of the Harrison policy of protection and reciprocity, the establishment of steamship lines from the James river, and from Galveston. No more powerful appeal was ever made than Harrison's to Virginians to stand by the Constitution and under the stars and stripes, and accept her greater destiny in a progressive policy. ATE POISONED FISH. Many People In Wisconsin Made 111 and Some Deaths Reported. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Oct. C Cases of picroning from eating Emoked white fish continue to be reported. Three deaths thus far have taken place at Merrill, Wis., where Albert Radloff, Gus Kruger and a man whose name is not given succumbed. Kruger died this morning. Radloff's father and two children of the family are very ill from eating the fish. Several others in the town are in a critical condition. Altogether seventy cases of poisoning are reported at Merrill. Four more cases are reported here to-day. The victims are: Theodore Suhr. his wife and two children. Their condition Is quit's serious. Following so closely after the prostration of all the students in Concordia College in this city and the similar affliction of over tifty people at Oshkosh. the news from Merrill is causing quite a panic among fish esters and dealers. Twenty additional casts are reported from P.rotherton. On the east shore of Lake Winnebago the ftimilv of George Weber, consisting of himself, wife and five children, are In a serious condition. The. analysis by the Milwaukee health authorities developed the fact that the fish partaken of at Concordia College contained th poisonous germs called ptomaines. The State Board of Health will investigate the cases at Oshkosh, Brotherton and Merrill. BATTLES IN CUBA. Two Engagement in Which Both Sides Lost Many Men. HAVANA. Oct. 6. News has been received here of an engagement which took place cn Monday near Guamo. in the western part cf the province of Pinar del Rio, between the Spanish troops, under General Bernal and Grlmado., and the Insurgents, under Antonio Maceo. The latter is reported to have lost eighty men killed and to have retired with many wounded. The troops lost over one hundred men. No further details of the fight have been received. In a second engagement between the troops under General Bernal and Maceo's forces the latter lost one hundred killed and had two hundred men wounded. The Spanish less was ninety-four men.

PASSING OF MR.BRYAN

HE DOES LITTLE TO STIR ENTHUSIASM OF HIS FOLLOWERS. Thousnnils of Cnrlons People Gitth. ered nt the State and County Build ings to See the Boy Orator. THREE DAYTIME SPEECHES PERHAPS l.'.OOO PEOPLE CONFRONTED HIM AT THE CAPITOL. He Rehashes Most of the Stock-Worn Assertions Made Ity Him' on Ills Tour, und Jumps on 11) num. THE PARADE INSIGNIFICANT FEW PEOPLE IN LINE AND THE RECEPTION A CHILLY OXEj One Man Who Called Him a "Second Christ,' and Wanted to Touch Him und Change Luck. Indianapolis has had an opportunity to see and Judge for itself the candidate of the Silver, Democratic and Populist parties, William J. Bryan. It was his second visit to the city, but when he first corns to attend the funeral of Thomas A. Hendricks he was a figure of so 111 tie consequence that nobody knew he had been here before until he mentioned the fact yesterday. The railroads brought not over 20,000 people to the city and fully as many more residing here attended one spoke yesterday. The weather, which had, been rainy during the night and still moist during the early morning hours, cleared up beautifully at noon and Mr. Bryan enjoyed perfect October weather for his demonstration in this city. The effect of his coming has been to fill his managers and his party in this State with some hope of success and to urge the Republicans to greater efforts in prosecuting the campaign. It is doubtful whether in his four speeches he has changed a vote, for he advanced nothing in the way of argument that those who have followed his speeches have not read over and over r.gain. In fact the only departure he made from his usual routine was his denunciation and ridicule of the National Democratic party and its purpose, a course which was not exactly calculated to bring back to hi3 standard any of the Democrats who had deserted it or win to himself those who have heretofore been in doubt. While here Mr. Bryan was treated with some enthusiasm by his followers and with courteous resiect by the Republicans. There was at no time any effort to em-, barrass him either along the line of march, of his parade or at any of his meetings, though It will not be denied that a very large proportion of the crowds who saw and heard him do not agree with the cause he advocates and are enthusiastic followers of McKinley. They wanted to see and! hear the man whose sensational career during and since the Chicago convention, has been one of the remarkable things in American, history, and, having seen and heard him, they were well satisfied that they are right, in voting to maintain an honest-money standard and the integrity of the Nation. Theatrical stars know Indianapolis for its cold and critical audiences. Though there were thousands among those who .heard Mr. Bryan yesterday who were there to cheer and be enthusiastic, there were manyother thousands who were there to make a critical study of the nominee of the Chicago convention and see what manner of man he Is. They saw a man of the average height and robust build, dressed in a plain business suit of black, with black overcoat and brown soft hat, creased, as is the prevailing fashion. His appearance , gives an impression of great physical strength and a will of iron, rather thau any idea of deep Intelligence. His head is wider at the bottom than at the top and the strength of his face lies in the contour of his massive jaw and chin. ,JUs mouth is remarkably wide, with firm set lips and white even teeth. His nose indicates further strength of will in Its aquiline shape and generous proportion, while his large nostrils Indicate a fine physical organism. His forehead is high, but rather narrow, and overhangs a pair of rather small, but keen black eyes. The luxuriant black hair that waves about his neck has grown u bit thin on top and when shaking In the open air he protects his head with a black silk skull cap. He Is In prime physical condition, with good 'color and is in good voice. In manner he Is perfectly self-possessed, does not get excited In the least and enjoys every opportunity that is given him to speak. When his periods ure applauded his fate breaks into a smile of perfectly frank and Ingenuous enjoyment of tho applause. Those who expected somo remarkable flight of eloquence, of great bit of word painting in his speeches were disappointed. There was nothing of the kind, in fact, he seemed to depend rather upon sarcasm and phrases neatly put for his effects. He spoke to largely the same crowd at all four meetings. The largest audience he had wan for the afternoon meeting In the Statehouse grounds. This was variously estimated by those present. Charles F. Kennedy, Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, who has had some years' experience in sizing up crowds at the State fair and knowing by the gate receipts how many people they contain, estimated it at llfteen thousand. From that figure the estimates ran as low as 10,0)0 and us hl!i as M.OOO. While there was cheering th crowds were not overly enthusiastic and there waa little done to stir their enthusiasm. THE PARADE AMI RECEPTION. AmunliiK Incidents A Man Who f ailed Hint the "Second Christ. William Jennings Bryan, who wa.s called 'tne second Christ" by one of the fanatical followers at the Grand Hotel yesterday, reached Indianapolis at 12:4s p. m. over the J.. M. & I. road, two minutes ahead of time. The train of two couches, beside Mr. Bryan's private car. pulled Into tho east end of the Union Station and stoppt-d ax the Meridian-street crossing. Through slight hitch in the programme the way was not guarded to the truck and in moment several hundred persons rushed toward the platform on which Mr. Bryan was standing, with Mr. Tomllnson, of Alabuma, Governor Matthews and other members of the committee which went o LouIavlll to