Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 313, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 November 1899 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1899.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: NEW YORK Actor llouee. CHICAGO P!mer Home, P. O. News Co., 217 iKarbcrn rtreet. Great Northern Hotel and Gran I Pacific Hotel. CINCINNATI J. II- Hawley 4: Co., 134 Vine rtreeV 2-Ol'lsvlLLE C. T. Ixeerlng. northwest corner f f Third and Jeffermjn treeta.' n Louisville licok Co., ZA Fourth avenue. BT. LOUIS Union Nfwi Company, Union Depot. VAFHINGTON. D. C.- Rlgjs House. Ebbltt House and- WiUard's Hotel. The Jones vote in Ohio appeared only In fpot?, but fome of the spots showed up pretty strong. . The result In Ohio was as emphatic an Indorsement as a president could have from his own State in an off year. Elections in States like Mississippi arc gradually ceasing to be worthy of the name. Ere Ion?, but for the offices, the people might forget them entirely. The arrival of the British transports at Cape Town, and the speedy landing of ov?r (XX British troops will soon put a different face on affairs In Africa. 4 ' Among the very happy InOhlo to-day are twelve or fifteen thousand Democrats who ;ot even with Mr. McLean for the wrongs and slights of the past twenty years. The Goebel law was not as effective as ltd framera Intended. It should have made it a felony to vote mything but a straight Democratic ticket for the "regular" party nominee. All the voting-machine experiments In New York cities on Tuesday were satisfactory. The returns of the large city of Buffalo were all announced half an hour after tho closfng of the poll:;. Those who have casually read the Cincinnati Enquirer the past three months and noted its coarse abuse of the President and Senator Hanna ought to be convinced that auch methods do not win votes. The Lcndon Times of yesterday in Its reView of the military situation in Africa rather discredited the report of a great British victory at Ladysmith. Nevertheless, later news may confirm the report. All that Mr. McLean's paper said about Republican trusts, seemed not to frighten the Ohio rural Republican voter; on the contrary, the Republicans made steady, if email, gains in the agricultural counties. Ohio, where rre.idnt McKmley voted, gave a large Republican majority, while New Jersey, where ex-President Cleveland deposited his ballot, went decidedly antiDemocratic. Teople can draw their own conclusions. Last spring the Republican mayor of Baltimore failed of re-election because his administration did not commend itself to eeveral thousand Republicans. lie took his defeat to heart and took vengeance upon tho Republican state ticket In Maryland. Mr. McLean's personal organ in. Cincinnati ought to know that, however effective lying may be during a campaign, it does no pood after an election. The Republican majority in Ohio cannot bo changed either by concealing or distorting the truth. Some of the defeated candidates in Tuesday's elections on both sides talk of contesting the result. The best time to contest Is before an election, and while there may be a small element of fraud In all elections people do not take, very kindly to post-election contests. The result of the election In Ohio will tend to assure the rcnomlnatlon of Mr. McKInley next year, while that In Nebraska makes tho nomination of Mr. Bryan cer tain. Tho presidential candidates In 1900 will doubtless be the same as In 1SW, and Mr. Bryan will be beaten worse than he was before. Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, follows his colleague, McLaurin, in favor of a protectorate for the Philippines, which will keep the Islands as a market for the cotton goods of the South, and he will vote money to establish and maintain that sort of rule over the Islands. That is about the kind of government which is generally favored by tho-e who are not flag furlers. Nothing more amusing has been seen hereabouts lately than the heroic attempt of the Sentlnal to prove by big headlines that the elections of Tuesday were favorable to the Democracy and a rebuke to the MoKlnley administration. The extraction. vt frunbeams from cucumbers would be a nimple ojieration compared with the task of get ting. Democratic comfort out of the elections. N doubt the administration would like to be "rebuked" that way again. Tho Cincinnati Enquirer wvnt to Its readers yesterday morning with headlines de claring that the "figures indicate that Mc Lean has been elected," yet there was not a. moment after 11 o'clock Tuesday night that the Associated Press dispatches did not Indicate the election of Judge Nash by 2T.0A By midnight all of the returns indi fc cated the election of the Republican candi date by 35,000. There was not a remote morning paper in the West that did not announce the defeat of McLean yesterday. ytt the Cincinnati newspaper of Mr. Mc Lean did not give the new of his defeat. Mayor Jones takes a queer view of the election In Ohio. Construing the very con idcrable vote for himself a a nonpartisan vote, he thinks: "The moral force will lead the Legislature to pass the municipal code commission bill, which provides that every municipal officer in Ohio shall be elected .by tha nonpartisan plan, doing away entirely with political parties in ail our cities." The

entire divorcement of municipal elections

from party politics might possibly be a good thing, but there is no reason to beieve that the vote for Jones makes In that direction. Probably it does not represent any principle raorj than a vague port of unrcit or discontent. THE IKAMr. OF THE ELECTIONS. It will not require many facts to make clear the falsity of the Democratic claim that the President was rebuked in all the States that voted-on Tuesday. Begin with Massachusetts. The Republican plurality Is nearly G6.000; It was considerably larger last year because, on Tuesday, the Republican vote fell off nearly 20.CHO and the Democratic only 3,00m, and this with the open Indorsement of the Democratic ticket by the mugwumps and antl-expansionlsts. Mr. Brjan will not be elected President in lWj by States whose Republican majorities fall from 80.000 to C0.0-0 Tammany carried Greater New York, but by much less than Its usual majority. The Republicans gained elsewhere in the State. New Jersey and Pennsylvania made It clear that they would stand with the Republicans year hence. Coming to the President's State it can be claimed that the Republicans have rarely won in Ohio a more emphatic triumph. In an off year, in the face of open treason and secret treachery in official places, with a candidate using hundreds of thousands of dollars to debauch voters, and with fac tional jealousies, the rank and file of the Republican party in Ohio have given Judge Nash about as large a plurality as Presi dent McKInley received in 1.. Forcing the question of expansion to tne front in Iowa in the most aggressive manner, the Repub licans have gained thousands of votes in that State. The Republicans have also car ried Kansas and South Dakota. If the result in Kentucky ha no national signilicanec It has given the Democratic leaders a feud that will distract them for years to come. The Democrats carried Maryland and Mr. Bryan carried his own State. They carried Maryland upon a platform which was care fully silent on the monev- question and be cause of the dissensions created by a few wculd-be bosses in the Republican party. It is not probable that the Bryan party can carry Maryland next year on the Chicago platform, with Mr. Bryan as a candidate; and If they could if by Goebel countlngout laws the solid South should be arrayed for the Bryan ticket, Nebraska and Colo rado are not sufficient, with the gain of Kentucky and Maryland, to elect Mr. Bry an. In Maryland and Kentucky, In lSt6, President McKInley received twenty electoral votes, and in Kansas, South Dakota and Washington Mr. Bryan received eighteen votes. The votes of these States are more certain for President McKInley in KM) than Is Maryland for Mr. Bryan. There was nothing in Tuesday's elections to indicate that one Nbrthern State, great or small, which voted for McKInley in 1S0 would not vote for him next November. Indeed, wherever there was voting on Tuesday, except in Maryland and Nebraska, it sustained the policy of the President, even when a part of that policy Is stigmatized as Imperialism. DISCARDED POLITICIANS. Tuesday's elections leave several somewhat noted politicians of the baser sort so thoroughly beaten and disabled that it is not likely they will ever regain any .Handing as political leaders. These repudiated statesmen were base in different ways, one in one way and one in another, but they all earned and deserved the drubbing they received at the hands of the people. One of these is John R. McLean, of Ohio, who thought he could lift himself into the gubernatorial chair. by a campaign of "boodle" and false pretense. With no claim whatever to the suffrages of the people of that State, and scarcely possessing a legal residence in it, he seems to havo thought, that he could secure an election by the same methods that secured his nomination. Himself a millionaire, a corruptlonist in politics, and a boss of high degree, he actually had-the audacity to attack Senator Hanna, who was not himself a candidate, on all these grounds, and to insist before the people that they should put the stamp of their disapproval on "Hannaism," as he called It, by electing him Governor. The people seem to have sized up Mr. McLean pretty accurately and rated his false pretenses at their proper worth. Whatever Hannaism may mean, they havo preferred it by an immense majority to McLcanlsm. Mr. McLean has been talked of as a Democratic candidate for President, and it was understood that, if elected Governor, as he fully expected to be, he would take second place on the ticket with Mr. Bryan next year. His overwhelming defeat ends all such speculations, shatters hl.carefullyconstructed air castle and leaves him a discarded politician. The people of Ohio have set a good example and done themselves credit by repudiating him and his methods. Another repudiated statesman who deserved tho dose he got is Goebel, of Kentucky. His political baseness was of a different kind from the Ohio man's. Instead of buying his nomination and trying to secure his election by money and false pretenses, he stole his nomination and hoped to make his election sure by means of a law framed by himself for the express purpose of facilitating frauds and preventing fair elections. Kentucky Is really a Democratic State, and there is every reason to believe that any clean Democrat of recognized ability, good character and unobjectionable record who had been fairly nominated would have been elected. Probably Mr. Goebel would have been but for the manner of his nomination and the odious law to which he has given his name. He counted on party allegiance and discipline to elect him in spite of his handicap, but the result shows he was mistaken. His candidacy added materially to the normal Republican strength in the State, and thousands of honesJt Democrats either refused to vote for him or voted for the Republican candidate. His defeat is a distinct triumph for honest politics and disqualifies him for future leadership in Kentucky. Perhaps the list of repudiated politicians should include Governor Bushnell and C. L. Kurtz, of Ohio, Republicans who have played false to the party and who secretly contributed to McLean's strength. In spite of their defection and attempts to control their following, Judge Nash is elected by a much larger plurality than that of Bushnell two years ago. The latter was never In public life until he was elected Governor, and will probably never be heard of asain. Kurtz is the Ohio member of the Republican national committee since 1S'.. If the committee has the power he should be removed, not so much because he is a discarded politician as because he is a political traitor. Mr. Bryan is the only Democrat who appears to have made any political capital out of Tuesday's elections. He carried his own State by an increased plurality over 1S3S. It does not so much matter whether

his success was due to the stay-at-homes in the Republican party or to an increase of his party vote over last year. He has landed his State, and landed it to the disgust of the conservative leaders or wouldbe leaders in his party who believe that his candidacy next year means defeat. But the carrying of Nebraska is not the only trlumph of Mr. Bryan. The Democratic candidates for Governor in both Ohio and Kentucky are reported to have been hostile to tho renomination of Mr. Bryan. Their enemies affirm that they belong to the element secretly hostile to Mr. Bryan, which includes Mayor Harrison, of Chicago. It ha been known that Mr. McLean is hostile to Mr. Bryan is, indeed. hl3 most dangerous foe. Had Mr. McLean been elected in Ohio it is probable that an anti-Bryan delegation would have turned up in the next Democratic national convention. If Mr. Goebel should be counted in in Kentucky he will be but one conspirator in public position. Thus Mr. Bryan by the overwhelming defeat of McLean in Ohio and the real defeat of Mr. Goebel in Kentucky is rid of two men in the conspiracy to prevent his nomination next summer. The conspiracy will not be able to pull itself together again.

BBBBBBBBBBBMMHBBB Last week the Journal called attention to the fact that the representative of the Associated Press at Cincinnati sent out a prediction regarding tho election in Ohio that could not have been more McLeanish if it had been prepared in the committee-room of the Washington candidate. It said that the Republicans were distracted by factional lights. Outside of the limited influence of the statehouse and Cincinnati the vote showed Republican gains over 1S97. It was also stated there were practically no dissensions in Democratic circles, but the returns show that Democrats all over the State seized upon the election as an opportunity to get even with Mr. McLean arid his paper. This would be a matter of no consequence were not the pnblic led to believe that the opinions of the Associated Press arc based upon intelligent Investigation and are strictly nonpartisan. There is no person so misleading as the one who covers, under the much paraded mantle of nonpartisanship, a partisanship that is dishonest, because it is concealed or denied. General Wheeler's letter to a friend, which has just been printed, contains several im portant remarks and suggestions, one of which is the following: The action of some people in the United States in asserting that the people of the Philippines ought to have independence tloes a great deal of harm and assists Aguinaldo In maintaining the insurrection. aA he publishes all assertions by Amer icans of that character and tells his sup porters- that if they hold out until winter independence will be given them. It also has a bad effect in this, that i?ople who are disposed to bo favorable to us and who desire us to govern the islands fear to assert themselves, because? they know that if they should do so and the Americans should abandon them they would be in great danger of their lives, and In all probability their property would be confiscated. There are many Democrats who are talking as if they wero leaders who are guilty of doing the thing which this Democratic' general in the Philippines condemns. If they continue this sort of thing, which does "a great deal of harm," now that they have been warned, it is fair to assume that harm is just what they desire to do. That the Philippine Islands are not an entirely unknown country to American scientists is a fact recalled by the report of the Steere expedition. Which went out from Michigan University in 1887 and spent about twelve months in the islands. The purpose wa to make soological collections and to study the distribution of species. Fifteen of the larger islands, were visited and examined as exhaustively as their time would allow. Over fifty new speck of birds and mammals were discovered and are described in the reiort. Though doubtless incomplete this record will serve a a a foundation for the work of later investigators who will go under more favorable auspices. A copy of tho pamphlet has? been kindly forwarded to the Journal by J. B. Steero, of Carthage, Ind. Tho lord mayor of London expressed great admiration for tho orderly manner in which American elections in great cities are conducted. So far ho was right, but when he vent further and gave the credit for this orderliness to tho municipal and police authorities ho w h mistaken. American orderlicesa is not due to external causes, but to the common s-enso and self-respect of tho American individual a condition of things festered by our distinctively American type of independence. The enemies of Mark Hanna at least give him credit for extraordinary executive ability.. When times are bad they blame him with it, when tho times get so good that capital becomes active and aggre.ive they accuse Hanna of being the father of trusts. nrmiLES ix the Ain. Beyond Doubt. "Who was the scientist who made tho discovery that baldness is a sign of intellect?" "I don't know his name. All I know la that he was bald." Avrful Thoua-ht. The hay fever victim shuddered. "Got another chill?" his wife asked. "No." he answered. "I just happened to think of what I might be suffering If I were an elephant." One or the Other. "Henderson tells me he means to name his new boy George." "Old or new style?" "What do you mean?" "Washlngion or Dewey ? The SavuKe Ilnchelor. The Sweet Young Thing suddenly laid down her newspaper. "Dear me!" said she. "Here is the story of a young man's mysterious disappearance the day before his wedding was to be." "I can't see anything mysterious in that," said the Savage Bachelor. "Even a young man Is liable to a gleam of sense." 1TUUEXT PERIODICALS. Recreation for November has a series of pleasing out-of-door Illustrations. It has also an Interesting account of the- making of a great zoological garden in New York city. The development of the United States railway mall service is the subject of a wellwritten chapter In the November number of the International Magazine (Chicago). This periodical is conducting a series of lessons in. the French language for the benetlt of its readers who Intend visiting the Paris exposition. Besides William Archer's friendly article on tho American stage, the Pall Mail Magazine has several yhort stories, a sketch of "The Ladies of Llangollia." a chapter about some famous fore.gn newspapers, and various other attractions. The typographical perfection of this magazine Is of Itself a pleasure to the reader. The November St. Nicholas begins a new volume of the magazine. No serials are carried over and none begun. Among the half dozen short stories is one by Ian MacLaren. Thero is a "Bird Talk" by that lover of birds, John Burroughs. A hLstory of Tom Thumb is another feature. Several of the stories and poems relate to Thanksgiving. The Alaskan Boundary is the iubject of an exhaustive paper by Hon. J. W. Foster In the National Geographic Magazine for November. It reviews the work of the high joint commission and Includes a number of old and new maps of the region, among

them those made by Vancouver. The article contains ail the information that the ordinary student of the question could desire. The enterprising Washington Post is out early with what might properly be called an expansion calendar for A portrait of Washington draped with the flag "on which the sun always shines" embellishes the front, while on each of the twelve cards fcllowing 1 a map of the United States and its possessions as they appeared at different periods. The series shows the growth cf the country during the century just ending, and i of curious interest. "The Trail of the Barnstormer," in Alnslee's Magazine, is an entertaining account of the presentation of that perennial play, "Uncle Tom's Cabin." in the rural districts. According to this chronicle the play was originally written to run two nights. At the Bowery Theater the purchaser of a ticket on Monday night got as far along as where St. Clair dies before he can sign Uncle Tern's1 freedom papers. On Tuesday night he gave the rest of his coupon and saw the rest of the play. The Paris exposition Is beginning to occupy space in the magazines. A description of the buildings and grounds as they are to be and as they are. now fills the opening pages of the current Cosmopolitan. Some striking Illustrations in a paper on "Electrographi" show what an electric spark is like under the camera. Olive Schrclner, the South African writer, offers some views on the woman question. Summed up it is a demand that women hall have a full and fair share of honored and socially useful human toil. Julian Hawthorne recommends the building a national highway, not for commercial purposes, but to facilitate leisurely travel and acquaintanctship among the people of different parts of the country. An illustrated paper describes the engine room of a warship; "The Child's Proper Development" is the title of a prize article: Iresident Hadlej- continues hi? discussion of modern education; there Is a description of the Dewey parade, an article on dancing girls Is contributed by Laura B. Starr, and thero are two cr three hort stories. Among a number ofvery readable articles in the November McClure is one in the. nature of an interview with Sir Henry Irving, in .which tho actor touches upon his own stag? career and expresses his opinion of tho stage as a profession. "The stage," he?

thinks, "will be tho great teacher of the future, but playwrights fhould remember that to teach is not its purpose, only its privilege?." In this remark lies a. hint to novelists as well as to playwrights. Another curious contribution, which may be all fiction, but sounds like the real thing it professes to be, is a series of letters written by a girl of eleven and addressed to her "dear husband." Sho was spending the summer in a lonely place, and for lack of something better occupied her time in writing to the unknown person who, somewhere in tho world, was growing up to be her husband. Another paper tell? what is being done by Russia in eastern China in the way of railway building. "Two Thousand Miles in the Antarctic Ice" Is the title of a readable paper by Dr. Frederick A. Cook, surgeon of the Belgian antarctic expedition. Few people know what Is being done In the way of antarctic exploration, and the information given here is in the nature of newr. An important contribution to the numb?r is that by the Hon. George S. Bout?;e,Icn V? fJJmous "Black Friday"-Sept. u. iv,. .Mr. Boutwell was secretary cf the treasury at that time and Is well qualified !2 Ky th fafts concerning this episode in the Nation s financial history. A poem by Kipling, a paper on the Indiars of the Northwest and two or three short stories make up the number. Krugern' Superstition. Chicago Times-Heraid. An amusing Kruger story is going the rounds. The President Is minus the thumb of his left hand. In his youth it was badly wounded, and rather than nurse the troublesome rrrember he laid the. thumb on a block and cut it off, a heroic cure. Some time ago. in discussing tho present situation and wishing to illustrate how he would do Sir Alfred Milner. as he had his predecessors he began with the little fin?er .f J8 ,eft ha"d: "I was too much fo.r.uBLr. Gt?rRf Grav-" Then, annotating with his third finger: "I was too much for Sir Howard Berkeley." Passing to the middle ringer: "I was too much for Sir Hartle 1'rere. Next with the Index finger: "I was too much for Sir Hercules Robin?on. and shall I not be too much for Sir alle maagte!" he exclaimed, for he had come to the place of the missing thumb. The Incident, which is a true one. Is said to havo Impressed and depressed him not a little as he Is very superstitious. The- Hour to Look' for Jleteor. Prof. C. A. Young, in LIppIncott. An interesting and significant fact is that tho average hourly number of meteors is only half as grfat in the evening as in the morning, and in the evening their velocity is lower. The reason Is that at sunset we have before us the point In the heavens from which we are moving in our orbital Journey around the sun. while In the morning we face the point toward which we are advancing; in the evening we are in the rear of the earth, at sunrise in front. This Increase in the numbers and speed of the morning meteors is Just what ought to happen if they are bodies moving indiscriminately in all directions under the sun's attraction, and with the velocity (about twenty-six miles a socond) which a body would acquire in. falling toward the sun from a distance very great as compared with the size of our planetary orbits. Mr. Prantr'n Retirement. New York Evening Sun. Mr. Louis Prang, of Boston, long known as one of the most eminent lithographers in America, retired from business this week. Tho admirable work that he has done or that has been done under his direction is well known. Perhaps the most remarkable of all the achievements accomplished in his house, In Roxbury, was the recently published catalogue of the Walters collection, of Baltimore. The illustrations were a revelation to lithographers in Europe. On seeing them, some of the most skillful practitioners in Paris refused to believe that they had not been heightened with tho brush, and their doubts were pardonable, for the skill with which the color, and the very character of the surface, was reproduced, was Indeed almost Incredible. The Way to Look at It. Chicago Daily News. Some Boston politicians are up in arms against Mayor Quincy of that city for having granted permission to the Victoria Club to ierect a monument on Boston common to the memory of the British officers and soldiers who fell at Bunker Hill. In this case the ground of the epposition seems purely political. A part from this, not even the most pronouncedanglophobist need object to such a tribute to the men who marched bravely up that historic hill only to find their death at the hands of Its gallant defenders. A monument to the British at Boston Is a high compliment to the brave colonists who successfully overcome them. Gen. Harrison! Discretion. Chicago Daily News. Ex-President Harrison Is showing great dlscreatlon in refusing to utter a syllable on the war between England and the Transvaal. He has friends in both places. The eminent lawyer is as wise in his silence as In his speech. Mo InMtine Hebrew. Kansas City Journal. Mrs. Leah Marks has been taken to tho insane asylum from Atchison. An insane Hebrew is said to be very exceptional, and there is no other In Kansas No Hilarity. Omaha Bee. Strange to say, there is not much iejoicIng in London over the fact that pori'ons of the British army have already Invaded the Transvaal capital. Must negln Early. Baltimore American. Christmas gifts arc In order for Manila. The fact serves to remind one how active tho?e people must bo who want to grow up with the country. So In Everything: Klc. Boston Herald. Uncle Solon Chase sums up the industrial situation in three eloquent and memorable words: ' Logs is riz." That tells the whole story. Ilia Eye on South Africa. Baltimore American. An Indiana man has discovered gold on hi farm and Is preparing to resist a British Invasion. Clnlnd. Memphis Commercial-Appeal. As Mr. Sharkey silt the nos of Mr. Jeffries and Mr. Jeffries broke two of the

esteemed slats of Mr. Sharkey it would seem to have been a case of slit for slat.

BOERS AND THE NATIVES. A Ilamito of the Transvaal, Xow iu America, Tells This Story. Marshall Maxeke. In the Independent. The newspaper dispatches cf late are to the effect that, out of sympathy for the Boer?, the Basutos, one of the most powerful tribes in the Transvaal, are arming themselves to check the advance of the British forces. The Basutos inhabit the section directly east of the Transvaal, and come under the jurisdiction of the Dutch. The tribe number 2TAO00, with a scattered white population of enly 6,000. The Basutos are skilled In agriculture and sheep raising, and are almost equal to the Zulus in warfare. Tho whole matter of my tribe's antipathy for the Boers depends upon the present barbarous and Inhuman treatment accorded them at the hands of the Boer My people ate extremely sensitive, and are in every way able to distinguish between the treatment which belongs to a slave and that which should be given a free man. Since 1S.V Basutoland has been nominally British territory. but the Dutch have exercised uninterrupted control. It is because of this despotic control and the Inhumanity practiced upon the ignorant natives that the Dutch are afraid the Basutos will take advantage of the present situation and eithtr join the English lorces or excite an insurrection. From my knowledge of the present chief's peaceful nesw. I am expecting only that he will join his fotees with the British. He would not dare take, sides with the Dutch. Only once lias that been done, and then tho Basutos ostracised their chief. The tribe is entirely opposed to the Boers. In the first place, the Boers are a people who seem to" know nothing of right and justice. I say that from the manner in which they treat the natives- in the Transvaal. A dog in the Transvaal I treated better than a native. Why I say this is because a dog can walk on the pavement beside his Boer master, can stay in the Dutchman's house, and is at liberty to go where he desires' a thing which is hardly allow able if done by a native. There is a law which prohibits the natives from walking on the. pavement. The Boers say we are not good enough to pass too close to their women, and speak of us as creatures along with their domestic animals. This law t enforced for both men and women throughout the Transvaal except in Pretoria, where our women are allowed the use of the pavement. But no respect is shown them, and they are compelled to wedge tlielr way through the crowds, being careful not to come In contact with any Boer. Everywhere else the natives have to walk in the broad streets along with cows, horses and carts, no matter how muddy it is. The men have to wear around their arms what Is called a "badge" made of tin something like a dog's tag. This? badge has a number stamped upon It, and is issued with a ppper cn which are written the name, height, age and features1 of its possessor. This paper you are to carry in your pocket all the time, and It must be renewed every month. There are street policemen who look after this ordinance to see that it Is rigidly and cruelly enforced. It does not matter whether you are on duty or not. walking along the street, the police will stop you and ask you for the paper to the badge. If ycur paper is over a month old you will be arrested and hurried to tho' magistrate's office and a fine exacted. If you even we3r the badge on the wrong place you will have to bear the penalty of paying about $K fine or of being Imprisoned. Besides this there is another law for the natives which is the oldest of them all. It was instituted by the English for just purposes in Cape Colony. But it has been grossly prostituted by the Boers. This law is known a the "pass law." Under it the native ha to pay about twenty-five cents, sometimes fifty cents, regularly to secure a written paper, similar to the abovebearing the name of his trade or occupation; or, if he is working under a white man, the name of his employer must be written on it. This paper must be regularly renewed. This pass he has to show every time he is accosted by a clieeman. If the native if not able to show It. he. is taken to the court and without answering for himself is fined $T or $J. or confined to a month of hard labor. Natives are not allowed on the streets nfter 9 o'clock at night. To walk after that time they have to have a written excuse. No native is permitted to purchase liquor of any kind, and any native found intoxicated i- severely beaten by the person who detects him. Only houne servants are allowed to reside near the white people. All the rest have their own location, set apart in the most undesirable part of tho towns, in which each man rents from the city government at very high rates, so that they are almost constantly in. debt to the collectors. Every month the Boers have what they call j'nuwiiiis n eiLtm numocr oi ruling Boers to go to the natives' district and seo how they behave and to ascertain if they all have their passes and badges. These patrollers are very oppressive and repeatedly injure the natives. In the Transvaal a native never gets a gcod position, only that of the meanest house drudgery under a Dutchman, no matter whether he is a nigh class tradesman or sn Ignorant hunter. The highest wages paid are, to men. not over id a week, and to women not over $5. But the greater number are cheited out of this by the Boers who hire them; to those who slave In the families no wages are paid. The natives' are not allowed to learn to read and fines are extracted from any one v ho is found teaching them. The more educated1 the native becomes, the more tho Dutch hate him. But if he acts like a crazy man, the better they like him. The Basutos are satisfied that their condition would be vastly Improved under the English, and so far as I know the opinion of the natives In the Transvaal. I do rot think they will ever be on the Dutch side us long as the Boers keep thse abominable rules and practice such cruelties upon them. WAGES OF PRIZE FIGHTERS. Wint Jeffrie nnl Sharkey Will Receive for Ihelr Recent Lahorn. New York Journal. James J. Jeffries and Thomas Sharkey will be rewarded to-day for their labors on Friday night. They will receive their share of the gate receipts. A meeting will be held at the Dele-mar Hotel, when the officials of the Coney Island Club will turn ever the money to the principals. It was said last night that the total receipts of the fight were $0,848. According to the articles the fighters will receive twothirds of the amount, or ?l4,5ii. As the winner Jeffries- will receive 73 per cent., amounting to $33,423. Sharkey's share will be the remaining 23 per cent, or $11,141. Jeffries's thare of the receipt is the largest ever received by a prize fighter for winning a battle. Thefie receipts are not the only winnings of the successful pugilist. For showing at Koster & Bial's this week he will receive rz,T(Y). while Sharkey gets. J1.O00. The largest financial income to the principals will be in the reproduction of the big fight. Both fighters have a third interest in the pictures, and it is estimated that at least $500,000 will be derived from this source. This would give Jeffrie and Sharkey a little over $150,000 each in addition to the iurse. The biograph company is not worried over the taking of pictures by rivals who succeeded in reproducing the rounds of the firht. The biograph people are going right ahead developing their fourteen miles of film, which was necessary to take the entire twenty-flv rounds, and when completed it will be forwarded to Washington to be copyrighted. William A. Brady, who holds a large interetn in the biograph company, says there is only one set of pictures of the fight in existence and it is in possession of his company. Any other reproduction. Brady say are fakes. "Mr. White or his friends who claim .to havo taken the pictures of the fight may have a few rounds." said Brady, "hut that is all. The michlne was carried into the clubhousi under a mackintosh, and, from what I understand, only ten rounds were taken. This whole thing looks like a blacknalllng scheme, but it will have no effect on our pictures." William Grossman, of the firm of House. Grossman & Vorhaus. counsel for Joe Howard, of the Howard & Emerson Vaudeville Company, who secured tho light plcturfs. iid yesterday that the pictures' taken by Us client were copyrighted at Washington nnd would be produced very shortly. Mr. Grossman said that there would be no injunction askxd for to restrain the biograph people from using its pictures of the fight. "The pl-turea taken by Mr. Howard." ald Mr. Grossman, "are not the same as those taken by the biograph people. Both macilnes have different views of the men in action, and In such a case both are entitled to have thel: pictures copyrighted. I have ?een the pictures and they are the finest 1 ever saw of eny moving object." There is more trouble in store for those who have an interest In the picture machine. It Is f-ald that the Edison Company, whose machine was used by Mr. Howard's representative. Intends to begin proceedings at once to prevent the fight from being reproduced by Its tna.rhine. t

FUTURE OF FREE CUBA

FITZHICHI LEE DOES .NOT II Ef SARD THE OUTLOOK WITH OPTIMISM. He Say There Are Many Difficulties In the Wny of Withdrawing Onr Troop from the Inland. VIEWS OF GENERAL LUDLOW HE THIXKS t i n.WS ARE BEGIMNG TO Tilt ST AMERICANS, And that They Are Learning Some of the Fimt Principle of Self-Govern-ment Experiment Under Way. NEW YORK. Nov. S."The Future o: Cuba" is a paper by Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, which will appear in the Independent to-morrow, as follows: "When will the United States evacuate Cuba? That is a question I am very frequently asked, and I suppose it is natural for people to suppose that from my peculiar facilities for observation in the Island I might have some knowledge, or at least some opinion about it. Nevertheless. I have no such knowledge and no such opinion. With the very best of will on the part of our government, a desire to keep its pledges and leave the inhabitants of Cuba to enjoy their independence in their own way, there are many difficulties in the way of withdrawal, and whether or not we have In the last six months made progress toward the end I am unable to say. Yet I can say that during the last six months crime has decreased and peace and prosperity are spreading or reviving in a great measure. This, however, seems attributable to the presence of the United States troops, whom the chief property holders and conservative business men insist must stay. "The Cubans themselves seem to be very much divided in opinion as to what ought to be done. Some want an independent republic immediately; others Insist that Cuba shall be annexed to the United States, and great numbers of others seem to have no positive opinions concerning the path their country should pursue. There is. of course, on the part of a majority a lack of understanding ot the. difficulties of self-government. "At present the census is being taken in Cuba, and for the first time we shall have an accurate and reliable enumeration. When that has been finished the experiment of free government by Cubans for Cubans will, I believe, be tried. Precisely In what locality or in what form I do not know. That is a matter for our government to decide, and I have obtained no information of Its intentions in the matter. If It is found the Cubans can organize nnd maintain a government In their island that will protect life and property un.ubieuly we shall withdraw and allow them to go their way along the path of Independence, accompanied by nothing more embarrassing than our very best wishes. But at present all is tentative, all attempts at government are merely experimental, and, not being , a prophet. I am unable to say what the future holds for the pearl of the Antilles. I sincerely hopo that it is happiness and prosperity in their greatest abundance and in the highest form." GEN". LIDLOW INTERVIEWED. He Say Cuban Are Learning: to Appreciate the Work of American. NEW YORK, Nov. 8. Brig. Gen. William Ludlow, military governor of Havana, who arrived in New York harbor yesterday on the steamer Havana and was detained at quarantine, said to-dny: "I am glad to say that the feeling of Cubans towards Americans whether the military representatives of the government or others has greatly improved during recent months. The suspicion and distrust with which perhaps a large number regarded Americans for so long a time after the military occupation was established has given way in a great measure to confidence and cordiality. They are convinced now, I think, that our purposes are horfest and friendly and limited to the organization and development which are essential precursors of the establishment of .a stable native government. Along with this conviction now goes a perception of the fact that these preliminaries are not to be accepted so easily and soon as seemed to them at first. In other words, they see that our conception of the task in hand was truer than, their own, and the most influential and intelligent are now content to have us work out the most of the problem before intrusting tho conduct of affairs wholly to them. The more we do the less there will be for them to do and tho more auspiciously will the republic start upon its career. "The necessity ot doing our part of the work thoroughly, so that there shall be the smallest possible chance for a failure of self-government, makes it very difficult to say when the military occupation ought to end. There must at any rate, I should say, be a complete organization of civil government and an experimental operation of it under some degree of military supervision before the armed regime is terminated and the island handed over absolutely to its own people. The organizing of civil government Is proceeding prosperously throughout the cities and towns of the Island. In many it Is perfected; In others it is well under way; in the rest it is either being undertaken or about to be. In Havana, of course, we have had for some months a complete municipal organization and administration, but under military supremacy, which, however. Is exercised no more than is deemed necessary. "Among the final preparations for the full assumption of authority by the Cubans will be the election of a constitutional assembly. The date for that election has not been fixed, nor have the details which must attend it been worked out either by our government or by the Cuban leaders themselves. Hence I am unable to replv to questions touching the conditions under which the election will be held. In regard to the suggestion of an educational test for the electors a difficulty arises In the fact that 80 per cent, of the population is illiterate. It is evident that if the new republic is to be a popular government there cannot be much of educational requirements for the exercise of suffrage. In short, particulars relating to the constitutional organization of Cuba still belong to the future." GENERAL NUNEZ INSTALLED. Nut Civil Governor of Havana to CoOperate with American. HAVANA, Nov. S. Gen. Emllio Nunez, the successor of Gen. Ruis Rivera, as civil governor of Havana, formally took over the office to-day, declaring that he accepted the post with pleasure. He then had an interview with Governor General Brooke and Senor Capote, secretary of government, after which he accepted the resignation of Senor Vlvanco. secretary to the civil governor. Senor Vivanco's successor will be appointed shortly. "It is the duty of all Cubans." said the new civil governor to-day, "to co-operate with the Americans In an honest endeavor to reconstruct the island, financially, politically and socially. I pledge my best effort to harmonize all factions. In my opinion the existing regime is entitled to much consideration and I am satisfied that all intelligent Cvbans take the same view, believing that the military government is paving the way for the eventful Independence of the island, as promised In the Joint resolution of Congress, a resolution which, judging from what I learned while in Washington, will b?come operative as scon as the United States government regards it as safe to put it Into operation." The Havana Board of Trade has asked General Brooke to direct that a fine le imposed on all cases for the adulteration of liquor. The merchants cite the case of a hogshead of wine being sold In Havana for whereas the Spanish wine roost In vague costs $C0 a hogshead. A good deal cf wine Is consumed by the people of Havana at meal time and much that is drunk is considered Injurious. A meeting will be held on Sunday under the auspice of the general club of Cuban

workmen in memory of the Chicago Anrrh Ists who were handed in November, 1V7. JOY OVER AN ACQUITTAL

Hank Caahler Anderson Cheered nnd Given it Banquet at Winnipeg WINNIPEG. Man.. Nov. S. After being eight days on trial the ca?e against John W. Anderson for the theft of iZ,W from Molson's Bank, in 1S7. went to tire Jury at ll:2o this morning. Judge Bain addreicd the Jury an hour and a quarter. . going over every detail in the case, referring to the character of Davis, who he said was not a professional detective, but a private .'ndivldual operating for a reward. The point was whether his exidence ws.s suffixiently corroborated to satisfy tho Jury. The Jury returned in an hour and a' half with a verdict of not guilty and the spectatcrs cheered again and again In spite of the effort's of the sheriff and his officers to restore order. The prisoner's frUnds crowded around the box to shake his ha ml and he had a triumphant march' out of the courthouse with more cheering. A remarkable scene In a Canadian courthouse and a notable thing was the presence of a large number of woxmn. Anderson was greeted with applause when he appeared on the streets and in the evening a procession was formed and marched to the Roblln House, where a banquet and reception was held. Anderson'. mother, brothers and employer since he left the bank, J. W. Driscoll. shared in the congratulations to Andersorw It is reported that Anderson's friends will enter pult against Davis for damager. WILL MARRY NEXT WEEK GEORGE DEWEY AND MILI111EI1 !!. ZEN' TAKE OUT A LICENSE. Lieut. Caldwell Swear the Admiral In Sixty-One Year of Ajje and Ills Fiancee 43 Wedding Day a Secret. WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.-A marriage license was to-day issued to Admiral George Dewey and Mrs. Mildred Hazen. The application for the license was made by Lieut. . Harry H. Caldwell, United States navy. Admiral Dewey's secretary, In person. The Information furnished the clerk and set forth in the license is that Admiral Dewey Is sixty-one years of age and his bride-elect forty-three; that both are citizens of the United States and that In tho case of each party there was one tormer marriage. To these statements Lieutenant Caldwell was required to make oath. " It was stated this afternoon that the wedding will take place on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week, though neither the admiral nor Mrs. Hazen will give the exact day. The marriage ceremony will be performed at Mrs. McLean's residence. Only a family party, with a few Injjmate friends and several high officials, will witness the event. Cardinal Gibbons will be away from Washington for a week, and it Is believed that Archbishop Keane. a friend of thj bride, will celebrate the marriage rites. The archbishop is out of the city. The Post to-morrow will say: "Admiral George Dewey and Mrs. Mildred Hazen wiil probably be married to-day. No announcement has been made, but the necessary license was procured yesterday, and arrangements for the wedding which will ba attended only by members cf the two families, are complete. The ceremony. It Is understood, will be performed at tho residence of Mrs. Washington McLean. Mrs. TIazcn's mother, No. 1705 K street. The hour of the ceremony depends, It Is said, on the return of John R. McLean. Mrs. Hazen's brother, from Ohio. He Is expected in Washington some time to-day. The required; dispensation for the ceremony to take place elsewhere than in a church v.as procured yesterday and it is asserted that Cardinal Gibbons will be here to officiate." The Olympla Out of t'omralMlon. BOSTON Mass., Nov. S. Admiral Dewey's flagship Olympla went out of commission at the Charleston navy yard to-day. All officers and the crew wer assembled on the quarter deck, where Captain Iamberton bade them good-bye. Retreat was sounded while the flag was being hauled dewn and this ended the cruise of the famous vessel. A board of survey will now make inspection of her and report to the Navy Department what repairs are necessary. Captain Lambcrton goes to Washington to await orders. INDEPENDENTS OPPOSE IT. Will Sot Enter the Proposed Telephone Combination. CHICAGO. Nov. 8. The Record to-morrow will say: "The first result of the formation of the Continental Telegraph and Telephone Company, which was recently incorporated under the laws of New Jersey for the purpose of antagonizing the American Bell Company, has been a hard and fast compact among leading controllers of Independent telephone companies, to preserve their independence at all hazards. It was said in Chicago yesterday that tha claim of the Continental promoters of pledges from the majority of the independent companies was absolutely unwarranted. Albert G. Wheeler, president of the Illlnol Telegraph and Telephone Company, of Chicago, Is one of -those who claims that fourfifths of the independent companies will stay out of the combination. Mr. Wheeler says that not only will the Chicago company refuse to join, but that Philadelphia and some of the other larger cities where Independent telephone plants are already In operation have refused to join In. James E. Keeleyn. president of the Western Telephone Construction Company, f this city. Is another strong opponent of consolidation. Mr. Keeleyn was one of the leading factors in bringing the leading telephone men into a national association for mutual benefit. He declare:' that th leading men In the association :re absolutely opposed to any scheme of consolidation that will suterdinate their Interests to those of any existing monopoly." PROUD NEWSPAPER. St. Paul Pioneer Pre Ine a G4Paa;e Senil-Centennlal Number. ST. PAUL. Minn., Nov. S.-To-morrow morning the Pioneer Press will issue a handsome sixty-four-page semi-centennial number, containing a history of the Northwest, commercially and industrially, and a sketch of the wonderful development of thH section as shown in the growth of the modem newspaper during the fifty years trantitlon of a frontier settlement Into a great modern metropolis. Mr. Frederick Driscoll. general manager, and Mr. Joieph A. Whcelock, editor-in-chief, two well-known figures In American newspaper circles, have been, associated In -the newspaper for ovtr forty years, with the further distinction of longest continuous service in the same paper of any men in leading position on the dailies of great cities In the country. The anniversary number will be a remarkably handsome Rjecimen of modern newspaper making. DOG SWALLOWED A COIN. Surclral Operation limy He Performed on the Terrier.OSHKOSII. Wis., Nov. 8. Edward Hooper, of the law firm of Hooper & Hooper, of this city, has a valuable iedlgrted Huston terrier. Among its tricks is catching in its mouth a thrown coin. Some days ago it swallowed a silver dollar, and emetics and cathartics havo failed to produce It. The dog was placed under the X-ray and th coin was accurately located. It ha. I traversed a portion of the alimentary canal. A surgical operation to remove the coin is being discussed..