Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 216, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1900 — Page 4

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JieJecte-1 manuscript will not be returned unl's postage It Inclosed for that purpose Entered as wxrond-cla matter at Indianapolis, Ind., postorftce. Tin: ISDIAXAPOLIS JUtll.NAL. Can be fonnd at the following places: M:w TOitK Astor lioine and Fifth-avenue Hotel. CHICAGO Palmer House, P. O. Newa Co., 211 Iarbom tret. CINCINNATI J. R. Hawley & Co.. 131 Vine street. IajL'ISVTLLS-C. T. Deerins:. northwest corner of Third ar.d Jeffer-on streets, and loulsvUle ' Book Co., 204 Fourth avenue. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON, D. C-Rfgrs House, Ebbltt Bous and Wlllard'a IIoteL It must please the Bryanltes in Kentucky I to witness the crow-eating performance of the Loulsviüe Courler-Journal. In 1S1KJ few papers said as vicious things of Mr. Bryan ta the Courier-Journal. The middle-of-the-road Populists of Texas have copyrighted their platform to prevent the Democratic party from stealing it. That will not prevent Mr. Bryan from skillfully appropriating and assimilating its principles. Whether the Goebcl law is amended or rot, Kentucky Republicans should not forget that Mr. Bryan went out of his way to approve it when it was in full force and operation, thereby putting himself on record in favor of Goebellsm. A prominent Republican of Colorado says the State will cast its electoral vote for McKinley this year. "The ieopIe out there have been thinking the last four years," he cays, "and when people begin to think they stop voting the Democratic ticket." The attempt to Induce Republicans to make the reception of Mr. Bryan and his associate's a nonpartisan affair is absurd unless the Bryanltes make nonpartisan speeches. It will be an out-and-out Democratic demonstration, and nothing else. - The eloquent voice of William Jennings Bryan which pleads for the enfranchisement of the Filipino Insurgents is not raised in favor of the colored American cHIzens who have been disfranchised by hundreds of thousands In several Southern States. In all the central Western States, where the German vote is heavy. Republican leaders are confident that it will not be materially affected by the so-called imperialism issue, and that a large majority of Germans will vote against Bryan on the ellver question. Southern Democrats are alarmed by the shadow of a new danger. They are beginning to fear that the elimination of the colored vote from Southern politics may Be'ttle the race question and break up the eolfd South. Thus a guilty conscience doth make cowards of us all. The Ministerial Association of Atlantic City, N. J., has expressed itself deeply grieved and shocked because the Prohibition candidate for President and others. after announcing that a Sunday meeting to which they charged an admission fee would have no political significance, made ultra-prohibition addresses. During 1S37 and 1S0S Iron puddlers In the extensive plants received $2.23 or $2.50 a ton. While iron was so high the price was advanced to $4. It is now proposed to reduce :o $3 a ton, because of the fall In the price f steeL. During the year of high and adrancing prices wages were advanced CO per :ent. Wages rise and fall with the price of Var Iron. If the Journal were running a campaign It would not make any effort in Tennessee ind Kentucky, both of which have laws 3eslgned to stimulate the counting out of Republicans. There are States in which there ere fair elections, and In which contests can be made with effect. It is no use to gtt ballots Into ballot boxes to have them rejected by counters and returning boards. A resident of Indianapolis who has twice YOted for Taggart as an independent Republican said yesterjaj' that the best indication he saw of the re-election of McKInley the wonderful keeping up of business: If there were anything like a general feeling that liryan would be elected business would fall off tremendously, because Iryanl.am is a menace to the present financial stability. The citizen is a business man. Several days ago the German-American editors of Wisconsin held their annual meeting In Madison. A member presented a resolution criticising the President for hin policy of expansion, but It was not acted upon. It was discovered that a large majority of the members of the association were opised to the resolution, though both parties were represented, and that the resolution would have been overwhelmingly defeated. Germans who have been Republicans are of the opinion of Dr. Pretorious, of the Westliche Post, namely, that "imperialism is an academic question, but free sliver Is a practical one." The wrong which has" just been consummated against the colored citizens of North Carolina 1 Incomparably worse than any that is contemplated against the Filipino. The negroes are native-bora Americans and far better qualified for self-government or for participation in government than are the Filipinos. They are all loyal to the government,.and some of them have fYught tor the fiag." Yet by a constitutional amendment thy 8 re as completely and htl:i!7 dlrfranch!scd and excluded from

al participation in government as if they .ivod m Dahomey or chlna And ,he par(y

uws xais uenmuus inuep:iiui-iiiv ii-.t pomicai equality lor me a-inpinos. Tili: TAGGAltT HKGIMH. Now that the Taggart coterie, which has ruled Indianapolis for Ave years, has seized control of the democratic party in the State, as appeared in the last state convention, it is well that the voters of Indiana should understand what sort of a rtile It has been, to the end that they may consider whether or not they desire that it shall be extended to the affairs of the State. Thomas Taggart wus elected mayor in October, 1303, and Immediately took the office. Consequently the expenditures of 1S05 were practically made under the Denny administration. The current expenditures will alone be considered. They have been as follows: Current expenditures, 1S03 $745.733.56 Current expenditures, 782,935.60 Current expenditures, 1W 907.C2.13 Current expenditures, ISM 944.635.66 Current expenditures, ISM 1.010.S04.27 Thus it appears that in four years the current expenses of Indianapolis have been Increased 5JC2.030.71 under the Taggart regime, with a Taggart Council. This is an Increase of 33 per cent.,, which is far in excess of the percentum of the Increase either of population or property.. The above is only a part of the burden which the Taggart regime has put upon the homes. Industry and business of Indianapolis. It has Issued $700.000 of bonds, of which $20,000 "has been paid, leaving $CS0,000 of bonds which have been added to the perrminent debt of the city. What has the city to show for the expenditure of the proceeds of those bonds? A police station which cost $134,000; some fire apparatus which originally cost about ' $25,000, and a parcel of refuse land purchased at nearly double its cash value, called Riverside Park, and other park lands, and about $125,000 of S150.000 of the receipts for bonds sold for the construction of bridges. Thus it appears that In four years, for current expenses and bonds Issued, Mayor Taggart has increased the burdens of the people of this city $342,050. The people quite generally favored a system of parks, but the popular wish was that the parks should be located north and northeast of the city, where the surface is adapted to such uses. Instead of such a natural location being selected, a parcel of waste and refuse lands, chiefly along White river, were purchased at twice the money they could have been sold for, and so ill adapted for park purposes that many hundreds of thousands of dollars mtist be expended in artificial preparation to make them as available for park purposes as the lands along Fall creek north and north east of the city. This purchase has permanently Increased the taxation of Indian apolis many thousand dollars each year for park Improvements. It should be added that, in the opinion of several real estate men whom the Journal consulted when the purchase was made, twice as much was paid for the land as It was worth, wasting about $120.000. The law department, .of the Taggart regime is under the direction of the Taggart nominee for Governor. An opinion has been given out from some of the quite numerous ' subordinates In : that office, doubtless with the sanction of Its head. that any money that happens to be in the city treasury, no matter If it is a fund ob tained by the sale of bonds, can be used for the payment of current expenses. Because of the unbusinesslike methods of Mayor Taggart's rule the treasury is empty to-day, and bills due several weeks cannot be paid. In view of these facts it is possible that Indiana would not wish to extend the methods of the Taggart regime to the State government. TWO KII)S OF EXPAXSIOX. There are two kinds of national territorial expansion, of which one may be called expansion for expansion's sake and the other expansion for honor's sake. There are times and circumstances in which expansion becomes a national duty, and there are others in which it is Indicative only of national greed or partisan politics. The recent acquisition of territory by the United States comes as near representing the principle of national honor and national duty as any that has ever occurred in pur history. The war with Spain was not undertaken with anv idea, nf nmuirinff territory even In this hemisphere, much less in the eastern. We were pledged to liberate Cuba without annexing it, and at the beginning of the war nobody . thought of acquiring Torto Rico. That idea, however, followed quickly on the suggrestlon cf a war Indemnity, and it was a most natural idea. To have driven Spain from Cuba, as we were pledged to do, and have left her In possession of Porto Rico would have been absurd and would have involved the certainty of another war at some future time. We could not acquire Cuba, but we could acquire Porto Rico, and, as Spain could not pay a war indemnity in money. our only chance to get any indemnity was in territory. From the first shot fired In the war it was inevitable that Porto Rico should become ours. The steps hy which we were drawn Into acquiring- the Philippines are familiar to the public. At the beginning of the war that was even less thought of than was the acquisition of Torto Rico. We did not seek the Philippines; they were forced upon us by the logic of events. After the battle of Manila bay there was never an hour when the United States could have withdrawn Its hand from the Philippines without a sacrifice of national prestige and without leaving them as island derelicts to fall Into possession of some other power. The sinking of the Spanish squadron involved a new departure and a new vista in world affairs with the American flag flying over the Philippines as plainly and as rightfully as It did over Maine or Alaska. To have rejected the situation which was so clearly indicated by Providence and by a combl nation of circumstances quite beyond our control would have been worse than cow ardlce and next to treason. The acquisition of the Philippines, like that of Torto Rico, exemplifies national expansion as a national duty. The Democratic party is the only one that ever has or that does now advocate expansion for expansion's sake and regard less of national honor or duty. The Mex lean war, rrom oegmning xo end, was a war of aggression and territorial nggrandlzement. For more than fifty years the Democratic party favored the annexation of Cuba, even at the sacrifice of the na-

tional honor and the cost of war. In 1S54 a circular was issued with the approval of a Democratic administration advocating the purchase of Cuba for a price not exceeding J120,000,0O), or, that failing, the tak-

ing of it by force. If Spain refused to sell I the Island the circular said "We should be justified by every law, human and divine, in wresting it from Spain, if we possess the power." This infamous doctrine was tacitly approved by a Democratic administration. The national convention of 1S56 declared that "The Democratic party will expect of the next administration that every proper effort be made to insure our ascendency in the Gulf of Mexico," and the convention of 1SG0 declared "That the Democratic party is in favor of the acquisition of the Island of Cuba." The Kansas City f platform says: We are not opposed to territorial expansion when it tCwkes in desirable territory which can be erected into States in the Union, and whose people are willing and fit to become American citizens. This favors expansion for expansion's sake' and without reference to any question of national honor or the compulsory results of war. It would cover the seizure and annexation of Cuba after the Island has acquired Independence and would cover the acquisition of the Bermuda Islands or the annexation of Canada at the cost of war with England. The Republican party favors expansion only as a matter of national honor or a necessary adjunct of national duty. The Democratic party favors it for expansion's sake. A G LOO 311" VIEW. The next few days will probably show how much foundation there is for the view of the Chinese situation, sometimes referred to as "The Yellow Peril." This refers to the possible union of all China and war to the death against the rest of the world. Including, perhaps, not only the defeat of the allied armies, but the expulsion of all foreigners from China, the revocation of all concessions and leased ports, the nullification of all treaties and the perma nent exclusion of all foreign representatives. This Is not a probable condition, but it is possible. If the allied forces now moving against Peking And that city practically evacuated and the government, with the ministers as prisoners, removed to some remote capital, It will mean that China intends to defy the powers to do their worst. If this should contemplate the subjugation of China, the magnitude of the undertak ing might well appall the powers. The London Spectator says: When Peking is taken the conquest of the swarming territory la only just begun. Peking is not Paris, nor has it any such influence that its occupation, or even destruction, should signify to China that all Is lost. Chinamen are not Europeans to forget that Peking is of yesterday. The blood-stained rulers who have passed on Kurope so terrible an insult will not remain in the capital to receive their sentences. They will 11 y, carrying with them their tioops, and wherever they settle, there will be for all political purposes the effective capital of China, the power to which four hundred millions of people without nerves will look for Impulse and direction. Kvery province will arm: irregular armies as good as that which defended Tien-Tsin will arise by the dozen the absurd Illusion, that a race of cowards built the most durable em pire in Asia, is gone already and Europe will find that, to hold Chlna securely, and trade with it in peace, she must provide a garrison of four hundred thousand men. The cost of such an effort will be ruinous to every treasury, except that of Great Britain or, If she joins in it, America and the profit of it will be absolutely nil. The "v'LP;:;" C 1 Vtllllinv i ill V. iii'i v i a iiufii v v ii m. pay and supply and feed their armies, and him. will consent to such a waste of his rtvcnuif ; while, if they leave him to govern as lie can with his own forces, tliey slrnply enable him to strengthen himself until he can throw off the mask and once more set Kurope at defiance, an enterprise which, to the ruler of China, can never seem simply mad. Why should it, when he knows that he can hurl a fourth or mankind, not upon Europe, but upon that small section of her population which Kurope can afford to send over fourteen thousand miles of ocean to be consumed in an endless bat tle for an object which, when attained, Is worthless? This is rather a gloomy view of the situa tion, but it is not an unintelligent nor an impossible one. It will be fortunate for the civilized world if Chinese courage proves to be a myth and the possibility of Chinese union an imaginary danger. The next few days will probably show In the Powrs trial on Thursday, while Capt. Stephen Sharpe, of Lexington, was on the witness stand, the following passage occurred, counsel for the prosecution being the questioner: "I will ask you to tell the jury whether. on the Saturday before the shooting of Mr. Goebel. you did not. In a loud and excited tone. sav. in the presence of Messrs. Gray I and Rullock. of Lexington: 'I'm ready to 8 to 1-rankfort and take my gun and lead or follow wherever I am put?' Mr. Sharpe hesitated and then replied: ' "I might have stated It, and I don't hesi tate to reiterate it now. that I was ready and willing to take my gun and see that the people of the Commonwealth of Ken tucky had seated the men they had elected. I repeat It now, ana I am still prepared and ready." This witness represents the spirit of the mountaineers, over whose meeting he pre sided at an exciting crisis. He evidently has the courage of his convictions, as they had. There has not been a particle of evi dence adduced to show that they contem plated the murder of any particular person, but that they thought they were being robbed of their right and were ready to take their guns and lead or follow in defense of constitutional liberty, as they looked at -it, there Is not a particle of doubt. All were armed and all were excited and ready to fight. That Is a dangerous and Inflammatory condition of affairs, but it is very far from constituting a conspiracy to murder. Ex-Senator reffer, of Kansa?, has of fered his services to the Republican committee of the State to make campaign rpeeches. Another local leader in the Populist party in that State, W. E. Kibbe, bids the organization farewell in the following words: The mighty things that confront us too"ay must be met from a standpoint other than party, and the way the questions hav? been met and managed by the party in power thus far ought to be approved by the American people. During my few remaining days I prefer to be a citizen rather than a partisan, and instead of still staying over in the old mule lot. with its gloom ani mud, listening to the eternal braying of asses and the croaking of frogs and making taces and throwing mud at the great procession moving along. I am going to jump the fence, get out into the broad, sunny highway, Join it and help make, not mar, our prosperous, progressive, yea, imperial country as it enters upon the new century with its many great problems still waiting for a solution. The reports which come drifting northward from North Carolina disclose methods of violence and outrage. Twlee a mob undertook to destroy the Smllhfleld Courier. In that town the Populist candidate for the Legislature, Mr. Massey, was pulled off a I stand and beaten and kicked as he was dragged across the courthouse equare. At Dunn Mr. Teague, a Texas Populist, was prevented from speaking by Red Ehlrts.

who broke into his room with pistols in their hands, put him in a buggy and drove Mm out of town. These are but three of scores of instances where Republicans and Populists were threatened with violence

and prevented from speaking by Democrats. The Declaration of Independence seems not to have been heard of In North Carolina. Judge James M. Dill, a prominent attorney and long-time Democrat of Illinois, has declared for McKinley on the tariff and the expansion questions. On the latter point he says: The right of the Nation to acquire territory is an inherent, absolute right. Our fathers were too wise to undertake to pu: upon It a constitutional limitation. Wo have legally acquired the Philippines; we must, therefore, govern them. If this be imperialism, our Nation has been guilty of imperialism for a hundred years past, and I am in favor of It. Judge Dill seems to possess the valuable quality of thinking straight. The Bryan idea that it is right to acquire territory but not to govern it does not consist. The Republicans hope to carry Nebraska for McKinley, and the secretary of the national committee has given out the list of speakers who will assist In doing it. It Includes Senators Fairbanks and Beverldge and several others of equal prominence. The secretary says even if the State does not go for McKinley the Republicans feel confident of electing four of the six con gressmen, with a good chance of electing the entire delegation. At present the del egation stands one Democrat, two Repub licans and three Populists. INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES. The Democratic party announces the Constitution fallows the flag, with two exceptions North Carolina and Louisiana. Richmond Item. Drunkards are forbidden to enter the kingdom of heaven; and they should not be allowed to hold county office. New Albany Public Press. Mr. Bryan says that he will not pretend to dictate the policy of the South towards the colored man. For once, then, he declines to be a pretender or a dictator. Terre Haute Express. The Baltimore Sun proclaims President McKinley to be a weak candidate. The Baltimore Sun is a very deliberate institution, and it may be that it has not yet had the time to look at the election returns of 1S06. Lafayette Call. All the paramountlng that the Demo cratic party can do with their Imperialistic bogy will not cover tin its free silver de signs nor nllay the fears of the business world and the laboring people on the financial question. Columbus Republican. A Kansas congregation prayed earnestly for rain, and the deluge which followed nearly swept the church from its foundation and kept the faithful prisoners all night. The moral of which is that it is sometimes possible to get too much of a good thing. Anderson Bulletin. The communications of the Chinese Em peror since he committed suicide In addi tlon to being murdered bear no perceptible change from those which bore his royal signature before the two tragedies oc curred. Here is a problem for those who do not believe In messages from the un seen world. Marion Chronicle. Words, words, words! Frank Burke signalized his nomination for Congress with a challenge to Mr. Overstreet for a joint debate. Burke's '96 speeches from a phonograph wou.d furnish enough joint de bate for any Democratic candidate for Congress and Chairman Hernly would do the right thing by Burke if he would put the talking machine in motion to accommodate that windy individual. Evansvllle Journal. It Is more and more plain that the Dem ocratic fund In Kentucky for conviction of political opponents has been working overtime. Never in the history of courts was such an array of perjury for pay exhib ited to an American community. The court, the State, the jury, the entire com bine of the forces of Justice has become a leech upon the fattening fund raised by Democrats for conviction irrespective of guilt. Marion News. The calling of United States soldiers from Cuba and the removal of United States officials from that island shows that the administration Is fast rounding up its plans to allow the Cubans to govern them selves. They will adopt a constitution in October and then be In position to go it alone. The "work of reconstruction has indeed been carried on quickly and satis factorily. This is decidedly to the credit of President McKinleys statesmanship. soutn liena irioune. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. A Citizen We All Know. "What kind of a man la Tlbblnsr "Oh. he the kind that would do you a favor so he could feel fixed to aek a favor." Trouble on the Spot. "Arabella, have you any pet superstition?" "Yea, indeed; I think it is a sln of awfully bad luck to be interrupted in one's afternoon nap." One Chore Out of the Way. "Amelia. It Is a harne for us to quarrel this way before we start out.'. "Oh. not at all, Edgar; if we have a right good quarrel now we won't hav a thing to do but enjoy ourselves after we get on the train." A Careful Dresser. "Charlotte writes that there is a dreadful dude out in the country where she If." "Is that so?" "Yes; Clara says he wears a rubhor collar an3 rubber necktle when he helps get in the hay." A Matter of Seqnence. Grandfather (a trifle irritated) Can't you da something with that baby of yours? He keeps me awake every night. Young Mother (on the defensive) That baby of ours! Dear ine. pa, you are Just as responsi ble for him as anybody. Not So Foolish, After All. Hartford Courant. The editor of the American Lawyer has found a provision of Kentucky law which strikes him as Hibernian and rib-tickling. "It shall be unlawful (so runs the stat ute) for any person to fire or discharge at random any deadly weapon, whether said weapon be loaded or unloaded." The wording is a little queer certainly, but the sense and intent are all rlRht. The fools who pouit "unloaded" guns at their friends. pull the trigger, and then grieve quite inconsolably over the results, are found in Kentucky as everywhere else. "Zero of DemiiKOKie CialI.M Troy (N. Y.) Record. The secretary of agriculture under Pres ident Cleveland, J. Sterling Jlorton, says "the denunciation of trusts by the only national convention which contained deleKates at large from the New York city ice trust is refreshing and refrigerating. It touches the zero of demagogic gall. That is a fair sample of the way in which the anti-trust deliverances of the Kansas (Titv convention strike the average voter. The one opinion is that it is only another case of the thief crying stop thier. Ileyonil Redemption. Salt Lake Tribune. Property values In Missouri have Increased S100,UX,(K"0 since :S?6. and those In Kansas nearly as much. Kansas will elect Republican electors this year, but no State where the stripping and whipping of wom en in the streets is permitted is expected to go Republican. Sir. Ilryan anil the Trust. Harper's Weekly. The Kansas City resolution offers no definition of the word "trusts." It appar ently Includes In Its denunciation practically all corporations, and all those large combinations of capital without which no railroad could exist and none of those great enterprise which ara of tha moat

vital importance to all the penp.e could

te carried on for a single day. There is. In fact, an express demand made for the en actment of laws "requiring all corporations to show, before doing business outside or the State of their origin, that they have no water in their stock." That is to say. every company engaged in manufacturing soap, or starch, or bicycles, or any other article of use must be required to show that its stock issues represent no patents. however valuable, no "good will, however priceless, no demonstrated earning capacity, however great, and nothing elseexcept money actually paid into their treas uries. Merely to state such a proposal of legislation Is sufficient to suggest its folly and its destructlveness. It is a proposal of pestilent and anarchic interference with perfectly legitimate private affairs. The paragraph was manifestly written, as other parts of the document were, in response to a demand of Populist Ignorance and Social istic unreason. So was the denunciation of all laws permitting those perfectly secured bank-note Issues which alone give elasticity to our currency. BOTTOM OF THE DECLINE INDICATIONS THAT IT HAS ABOUT BCE.N REACHED. Present Level off Prlcea la Developing Daslnenfr Movements of CerealsIron and Steel Situation. NEW YORK, Aug. 3. It. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly Review of Trade will say: It is often hard to read encouraging symptoms of general business in declining prices of commodities, but just now it is reasonable to look for them. Some raw materials, and some manufactured products one stage removed from the raw, are selling at lower .1 advance set in; but there is confidence among buyers that the downward swing is nearly over, while sellers are adopting a cautious policy, which until recently chararized the attitude of buyers. Iron and steel markets were startled by reports of sales of steel bars at 90 cents per 100 pounds, but business at the same time was the largest in months at Chicago on a basis of about $1.25. Increasing demand for bar iron, from makers of agri cultural, implements and car builders, was a feature, contracts placed being estimated at 110,000 tons in bars and plates. The trade believes that orders will increase as the season advances, and that total needs of iron consumers will compare well with last year. Heavy bids appear for foundry iron. buyers being uneasy, with output reducing and selling prices of many descriptions approximating cost. Export orders increase and makers do not fully accept reports of purchases of foreign rails for delivery in the South. Some traders are not satisfied with the result of the Chicago conference. pointing to the report of production of pig iron in the first half of the year, exceeding all records, and contrasting it with recent dull markets. Copper exports in July are estimated at 10.661 tons, against 7.150 in 18W. and the amount coming into sight in the last half year for home consumption is only to,Ui tons, a decrease of 19,467 tons. The foreign demand for bituminous coal is heavy, but producers hesitate to contract shipments while prices tend upward. bhipments of boots and shoes from Bos ton were 72.34S cases, against Ü8.2U8 last week, but a year ago they were 108,045. The present movement is more in specialties, and trade in staple . lines' remains dull. many shops working .about one-third ca pacity. Leather is weaker, some items declining a cent, but there is more activity. While prices are above the 1831) opening in woolens, they are materially below figures reached later last season. The wool market has been more active, but the average of 100 quotations on Aug. 1 was slightly lower at 20.51 cents. Wide sheetings are reduced 13 to 20 per cent., but the decline attracts more business. Failures for the week were 228 In the United States," against 182 last year, and 24 in uanaaa, against Zi last year. FAIR FOR THE SEASON. Trade volume and Conditions Are Very Generally Satisfactory. NEW YORK, Aug. 3. Braöstreet's to morrow will say: Trade conditions still favor the buyers. General fall demand. though fair in view of midsummer condi tions, Is still below expectations and below a year ago. Bank clearings are at the lowest for two years past, and failures are slightly more numerous, though no marked tendencies are perceptible. On the other hand, gross railway earnings hold the per centage of gain previously shown, and where prices are made low enough to satisfy buy ers a heavy business Is uncovered and read ily booked, pointing to demand still present and awaiting disposal. The crop situa tion, aa a whole, is better. The outlook as to corn Is for a 2,100,000,000 bushel crop,' spring wheat is turning out better in qual ity and quantity than expected, and there has been an unquestionable improvement in cotton-crop conditions. The yield of an pies will be the largest for many years. and fruits generally are yielding liberally and commanding good prices. The iron and steel Industry furnishes the !Sciiglrheavrbuf,rcss. and. whlie the most notable example of reduced prices outlook is still a confused one, the volume of trade In finished material, notably bars and plates, Is very large. Foundry pig iron has been In better demand, but at conces sions. and the drift of crude prices gen erally is toward a lower level. More ex port inquiry is reported for rails at the West and for iron at the South, but shlproom scarcity obstructs business. Textile demand Is still uncertain, the fu ture or prices not being clearly outlined. In cotton goods some irregularity is noted. The raw material is lower on a fuller realizing that the crop outlook has im proved and that high prices are a check to demand. ide sheetings have been marked down in price this week, and, while the Fall River committee prices of print cloths are insisted on, a shading In these goods Is reported at other Kastern cen ters. The cereals are all lower this week, part ly on better crop reports, partly on lower cables, but largely on the growth of bear ish feeling after the late reaction. Beef products are generally higher on army de mand. Alone of the metals, lead Is actually higher on improved demand, while tin -is seeking a lower level, in sympathy with foreign markets and Increased supplies. Wheat shipments, including flour, for the week aggregate 3.227,003 bu. tigainst 2.CÜ3.743 last week. 4.711,614 in the corresponding week of lSi9 and 4,111.312 in 1S0S. From July 1 to date wheat exports are 14.5CS.S) bu. against 18.50s,yo6 last season and 14.426.122 in lays. Corn exports for the week aggre gate 3.!Ui),lAfe bu, against 3.104,715 last week. 5.027,706 In the week a year ago and 2,S56,5t23 In 1S9Ü. From July 1 to date corn exports are 1S.973.'J71 bu, against 21,045,203 last sea son and 13,514.292 in 1S9S. Business failures for the week number 170. as against 183 last week, 156 in this week a year ago and 189 in lSltS. This Week's Uauk Clenrlng. NEW YORK, Aug. 3.The following table, compiled by Bradstreet, shows the bank clearings at the principal cities for the week ended Aug. 3, with the percentage' of Increase and decrease es compared with the corresponding week last year: New York Boy ton ... $756.512,$!) Dec.23.1 103.1S7.S78 Dec..2!.0 121.521,873 Inc.. 1.2 70.50,),W1 Dec.. 6.5 Chicago Philadelphia St. Iouis ... 27..!S,2U2 J2.7C5.3.SS 18.415.517 21.137.018 13.ffi9.f60 13. 420.31 U 6.874,804 8.245,317 8.127,331 10.733,767 ".MUS Dec. S.O Pittsburg Inc.. 31.1 Baltimore San Francisco Cincinnati .... Kansas City .. Inc.. 6.4 Inc.. 4.3 Inc.. 1.2 Inc. .18.4 New Orleans Inc. .15.0 Minneapolis Detroit Cleveland ....... Louisville Providence Inc.. 3.5 Inc. 4.9 Inc.. 2.1 5.210.000 5.272,634 Dec.13.2 Inc.. 7.6 Milwaukee St. Paul 4.6O7.2S0 Inc.. 11.6 5.077.317 Inc..13.S S.'JK.lfZ Inc.. 8.1 6,047.523 Inc..2S.7 Buffalo Omaha Indianapolis ... Columbus. O ... Evansvllle, Ind 5,37.6.'i0 Inc.. 20.6 670,065 Inc. .17.9 Totals, United States.l,32S.403.5S3 Dec.15.8 Totals outside New

York filUCO.Cl .Inc.. 15

ANOTHER BLACK EYE

THE POWERS DEFENSE SIVES IT TO THE mOSECUTIO.. Star Informer Culton In n Defaulter and Wan nismled from Service hy State Auditor Stone. WEAVER AT GRAYSON SPRINGS DIRECT TESTIMONY THAT HE WAS KOT IX FRANKFORT. Collier, Offen Some Important Evidence, but la Prevented by the Judge The Case of Dick Comb. GEORGETOWN, Ky., Aug. 3. Of the I eight witnesses introduced by the defense in the Powers case, to-day, all but one were called for the purpose of attacking the credibility of witnesses placed on the stand by the prosecution. One of these, former State Auditor Stone, stated that Witness W. H. Culton, an alleged coconspirator of Powers, was removed from a place of trust in his office because he defaulted in the sum of 11.000. ' ? ! Other witnesses, residents of Grayson Springs, Ky., testified that instead of being In Frankfort, Jan. 30, the day of the shootin? of Senator flnohol n h elaimed Under I " 17 . oath to have been. George Weaver, a prose-

cution witness, was in their town organiz- very slightly marked by the Channels of ing a lodge of Woodmen of the World; and the weapon he infers that the rifle was 4V,.. ,, ..t.,, 4nctflCj tviut both dirty and rusty, both conditions tenderers from eastern Kentucky testified that ng q & ow ve,oclt and to mak? a Kaplnff the witness, Wharton Golden, of the prose- wound. In regard to . the measurements etilen, had displayed a large roll of money taken he said: "It is also wrong In theory nH intimt that it rame from the State to draw an exactly straight line from one

reward fund. Attorneys for the prosecution rigidly cross-examined these witnesses and made one of them. James Harklerode, of Barboursvllle, admit that he has been indicted not less than a dozen times for violations of the revenue laws. The most Important witness of the day was Daniel U. Collier, of Lancaster, ad jutant general of Kentucky, under the Tay lor administration. The case of George F. Weaver, the prosecution witness charged with perjury, was called in the County Court here to-day. and set for hearing on the 22d. Weaver inilsts that he is innocent of the charge. The purported confession of "Tallow Dick" Combs, one of the alleged conspira tors, exhibited here to-day, was at first denied by him, but later he admitted to cne of the interested attorneys that it is partly correct. The confession, if true, throws no further light on the case than to connect Henry Youtsey,' another of the alleged conspirators, more closely with the murder, and to bear out the idea of a con spiracy, a sum of money being used. W. A. Phelps, also of Grayson Springs, corroborated the statements of Carter, and identified Weaver, who was brought before the jury for that purpose. CULTON A DEFAULTER. At opening of court, this morning, Frank C. Carpenter, the Louisville Insurance man, who was on the witness stand at the clos ing of court yesterday was cross-examined by the prosecution. The examination developed nothing material, and he was followed by Sam 11. Stone, former State auditor. The first question asked the wit ness by Attorney Owens for the defense was whether or not Witness W. II. Culton, v;ho was a clerk in his office, had been re-i-ioved because he had stolen $1,000 from the State. He said that such was the care and that he removed Culton the day before he himself retired. The prosecution objected to the question and the court reserved a ruling on It. The defense next called George L. Danforth, of Louisville, who was with Witness the time of the shooting of Goebel. He did not leae the grounos for thirty minutes utter the shooting and soldiers had not arrived on the scene. C. H. Gibson, of rtartoursville. came next. He was asked to tell or an occurrence In a barber shop at BarDcursviiie, wnen witness Wharton Golden displayed a large roll of money. Before the prosecution could object witness answerei that such a thing had occurred. The prosecution asked for the exclusion of the testimony, and by agreement the witness stood aside to be called later. James Harklerode in whose barber shoD the in cident Is said to have occurred, was called. jte said that Golden told him on the day that defendant Powers was arrested that rowers was innocent. Later Golden came into his shop and lr. his presence disnlavp.i a roll of paper money tc his brother. tw Golden, and said to him: "Don't you know "',f,,tLh?..,I0O'OW) reward tani ,s On cross-examination the nrosseruHnn

attacked the. credibility of the witness, I giving to the Filipinos a larger share of bringing out that he had been indicted for I relf-government than Jefferson wpf. willillegal sale of liquor. He had been Indicted I nR to give to the people of Louisiana.

twelve times. Witness Gibson was recalled and corrohorated Ilarklerode's testimony. J. L. Butler, of Butler county, followed "Gibson on tne Witness stand. He attended a mtlnt. in the office of the defendant. Powers, some days before the shooting, at which the rais ing or money to pay exnenses of witnesses was discussed. Sheriff Burton, of Breckinridge county, there displayed some cartridges, and said the gubernatorial contest could be.t be settled with them. Powers told Burton that he must not talk in that way; that he would rather give up his office tnan cause bloodshed. He said Powers's visit to Louisville on the morning of the snooting -was to arrange for an excursion to Frankfort from the western rtart of thr State. Witness Butler resumed at the nnenln of the afternoon session of court. He was noimng material orougnt out. HEAVER A LIAR. The defense here announced that several witnesses would be put on the stand to prove that the witness, Weaver, Introduced by the prosecution, and who testified that he was in Frankfort on the day of the shooting of Senator Goebel, was at Gray son Springs on that day. They first presented C. W. Carter. He said that Weaver in stalled the officers of the lodge of Woodmen of the World at Grayson Springs, Jan. 30, and he brought the lodge records to prove his statement. Witness heard of the shooting at Frankfort before noon on that day. Weaver was walking along the street with the witness when he received the news. Daniel R. Collier, of Incaster, who held the office of adjutant general In the Taylor administration, was next called. lie said that the cipher signal "All right, used in telegrams sent by him to state guard officers on the day of the shooting, was arranged by him before Taylor became Governor. The telegrams were sent out not sooner than fifteen minutes after the shooting. The local company of state guards on duty at the arsenal was not on the scene, he said, until thirty minutes after Goebel was carried off the grounds. Witness gave no orders earlier that day to the local company at the aenal about preparing for action. At another point In his testimony witness produced a written order to htm, signed by Governor Taylor and delivered to him after the shooting, directing him to call the state troops to Frankfort and be In charge of them, after conferring with the civil authorities. The prosecution objected to the presentation of the order as evidence, because it had not been entered on the executive Journal and was not made in accordance with the statutes of the State. Judge Cantrill sustained the objection, saying: T cannot submit this paper to the Jury without explainins that the Governor had no risht under the statute to isue it." The Judre next ruled incompetent a letter addrerrtd by vrltntsj Ccllitr to ths civil

authorities of Franklin county, about cooperating with them. At the close of the direct examination court adjourned for the day." MAKHS A VIC;OHOl5 DCMAL

Tallow Dick Comb Sari He Has Made No Confemilon. CINCINNATI. Aug. S.-A Times-Star special from Georgetown, Ky., says Its correspondent called on "Tallow Dick" Combs to-day and asked him concerning the statement published in to-day's Cincinnati Enquirer and attributed to him as having been made in the presence of an attorney for the prosecution because he felt that ha was not being treated fairly by his codefendants. Combs denied having made the sensational statements, and when tho printed report was read to him he repeatedly said it was false, lie said he did talk with the attorney and others, but he thought the purpose was to get bail for him, as his own attorney was trying to get bail. When asked specifically if he said to them that Mason Hockersmlth told him that he had been offered J1.2UU to kill Goebel he answered emphatically that it was a lie; that he never taid such a thing. He said It was not true that llockersmith ever told hlra that he had been offered that money to shoot Goebel. His denial of the pilnted story was as vigorous as he could make lu Xot the Dall Which Killed Goebel. GEORGETOWN, Ky.. Aug. 1 Robert Haslock, who testified in the Powers case Saturday, declares that the bullet taken from tne hackberry tree is not the one Whlch killed Mr. Goebel. Haslock was an armorer in the Prussian army fourteen yearSf anj has a vast fund of knowledge or projectiles and the wounds they produce. The ball taken from the tree, he says. Is not a steel bullet, but a jacketed bullet. Had it been a steel bullet it would have gone clear through. It is grooved for lubricants at the base, he says, and had it passed through Mr. Goebel's body it would e mi have made a much larger orifice at the Ytrhlrtt rf Av(t than tnö kii rcrArr m Kfivr vat Point of Krnm th ft tht th hlIiiP, i. point to another point, and say it is the track of a projectile. No bullet travels a straight line for any distance over a few feet. Gravitation pulls it out of its course, and deflects it toward the earth." THE 10 TJISIANA PUPwCHASE. Letter from Mr. Foulke Which the In dlanapolla Sentinel Did ot Print. The Indianapolis Sentinel of July Si criticised the statement recently made in the Journal by Hon. W. D. Foulke concerning Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana and the Government he caused to be Instituted in the acquired territory. Mr. Foulke at once wrote and sent to the Sentinel an answer to this criticism, but that paier has not to far seen fit to print it. Mr. Foulke. letter is appended: To the Editor of the Indianapoll Sentinel: I notice in your article of July 51 criticising some observations made by me in regard to Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana you say that the cases were different, first, because Louisiana was sparsely populated, end second, because, though they were opposed to a change of sovereignty, thu French settlers made no claim to independence. Now, as to the first point, while it is true that the province of Louisiana was sparsely populated, yet the thing which Jefferson proposed to acquire when he sent Monroe to Paris was the Island of Orleans and a small tract around it on the east bank ot the river which was not sparse'y but densely jopulatcd, since it contained a city which was even then one of the largest In the country with only a small tract ot adjacent land. So it was evident that In Jefferson's mir.d the density cf population was not the controlling motive. That motive evldentlj- was the commercial Importance of keeping .open the navigation of the Mississippi. As to the second consideration, that the French made no claim to independence, although you admit that they did not line the change of masters, do you think that really makes any difference in the moral quality ct the act Would we be any more Justified in keeping the Filipinos if they desired to remain under the government of Spain? It Is very doubtful to-day how many of them want independence, but your argument would seem lo rhow that If they were unanimous in desiring to remain subject-! I of tne Spanish crown we wouli be justified nnr" V7 ?i V t.Ht roverr.nient could be provided the LouisI iana Province was put under des pott c millI tar nil 1n.t aa in-; anil Hnrf n fi rs ar-m I and the rulers selected were about as unfit I as could have been selected " But th 1 despotic rule did not terminate wnen a terI "UoriaJ povernment was provided, for the 1 aci treaung inai Koveromtni grave jener I is"i yiiin 'vemur, prvir. iary, le'iMaine council, juages. aisinci ai. torney, marshal and all general officers. Jefferson defended the Idea of an appointed Legislature "as a thing more familiar and pleasing to the French than legislation by Judres," which, had ben the practice la the Northwest Territory. Indeed, he complains with some bitterness In December, 1803, when difference of opinion developed as to the manner of disposing of Louisiana, "although It Is acknowledged that our new fellow-cltlrens are as yet as I vt Incapable ot self-government as children. I tain there nrineinles for a sinel moment. ITeMdent1. Fhn.pp.ne comm., ..on I modeled upon Jefferson's own rtlan. but i in to-oay s issue I notice mat you say: I "When Dudley Foulke explains Jefferson's I views on expansion to the people let him iro Jllrther and tPl1 them that Mr. Jefferson's 1 "ppuneui ior ine presiaency. air. j-int'icney. secured only fourteen votes In the Electoral College." I thank you sincerely for this suggestion, since It seems to me a forecast of the fate of the Democratic candidates who now oppose the plnn which was drawn from that of Mr. Jefferson for the government of American domain. W. D. FOULKE. Richmond, Ind., Aug. 2. The Oddity of It. Boston Journal. The Plaza Hotel third-ticket people now profess themselves perfectly delighted hy their rebuff by the Gold Democrats, be.wI not have the word ..D.mocral- on !t to friKhten away Republicans. It Is odd I lnat tney dia not tnlnk of that before entreating the Gold Democrats to Join them. Bryan and Free Sliver. New York Mail and Expre. Even if free silver were not the paramount Issue, it would be if Bryan should happen to be elected. He made It paramount in 1ä:h, and he could and wouM make it paramount aj?ain If he got ihm chance. It is hit own offspring and he is pledged to seat It at the head of the table at the very first opportunity. Should finea Acniii. San Francisco Pest. Mr. Bryan fays he does not think tha Republican party 11I carry a single State this fall. While that is a very serious statement, we are of the opinion that Mr. Bryan has one more think coming before the poils close. . Ammunition for liryan. Xew York Mall and Kxpres?. It looks more and more as if there were going to be a big run of "militarism" In China. The proicct would almost seem to warrant the injection of a few additional screeches Into the Kanas City platform. May Be n Little Hough. Detroit Tribune. When the powers get ready to draw th dragon's fangs, watch out for a "holler.' The probability la that they will even forget to tell the beast that It won't hurt. Law of Chance Doesn't Apply. Boston .Herald. It I amusiny to find newsrsrers r?irr.?,s ing that the law of chdnces will eii-rt Mr. Bryan. We elect cur Tri : different r.zx nowecir-ys.