Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 227, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 August 1900 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 190D.

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K ejected manuscripts will not be returned unless postage is Inclosed for that purpose. . Entered a second-class matter at Indianapolis, Ind.. postofilce. TUB IXDIAXAPOLIS JOlRXAL Can t fnund at the follow Ins; places: KKW TORK Attor House and Fifth-avenue Hotel. CHICAGO ralmer House. P. O. Newa Co., 211 Dearborn street. CINCINNATi-J. IL Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Deerlng. northwest corner of Third nd Jefferson streets, and Louisville Look Ca, Hi Fourth avenue. ET. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. .WASHINGTON. D. C Ttlggs House, Ebbltt Uoum and AVi Hard's HoteL The reports of the antl-irapcrlallst conference Indicate that a limited number of men can entertain many views. How many days will elapse before the Bryan party will be assailing the President for his vigorous policy toward China? If less than , three men could make a rarty several might be made out of the disagreeing factions now visiting this city. SBSKSSSIBSSSWSSBSSSSBBSSSSSSSJBBSSSSSBaSSHBSBBSSSaSSSSSHBSSSSSSSSSSBt It 13 cause of complaint by some that we have nine kinds of money, but no one can truthfully say that either of the nine Varieties is not as good as gold. It Is very funny to see the New York Imperialistic visitor suggesting a gold standard platform to such men as Dr. Van Vorhls and the Indorsement of the merit system for the civil service to antllmperlallsts of the Rookcr variety. "Mark llanna is an issue" shouts the SentineL Well,. not that exactly, but as a Democratic bugaboo he is filling a great role. If Democratic editors keep on It will presently come to rasa that members of their party will bo afraid to go out alone after nlht. More than two million depositors in the pavings banks of New York have $9:,0S1,30 laid away, the Increase in depositors the last year being 105,168 and In deposits (3,638,310. and more than 1200,000,000 since And yet we are told that the masses are not so well off as years ago. SSBSSBBBBBBBSSBBBBBBBSSSBBBBSiBBSSSSBSSSSSSBBBBSBBBBBBSSBBBlSBBBSSBBSSBBBBS "Bryan Republicans' is a term In use with "Anti-Imperialists" who are ashamed to class themselves where they belong. There Is no such thing as a Bryan Republican. Former Republicans now training In Bryan's crowd are Democrats of the variety sometimes rudely designated by big D's and F's. Dr. TV. A. CrofTut, of Washington, D. C, row In Indianapolis as a member of the AntI-lmperialist League." is quoted by an evening paper as saying that he Is a "Bryan Republican." Dr. Croffut once established a reputation as a writer of mild newspaper humor. The humor. Judging by this effort, seems to grow milder with age. The gentlemen attending the anti-im-perlallst conference should not be called delegates, since delegates are selected to represent a large body of citizens upon some basis of numbers. The men who teem to be active in this vicinity are Bryanites. and they will be sufficiently numerous in the mass meeting, should the matter come to a vote, to indorse Mr. Bryan as the anti-imperialistic candidate. Ex-Senator Henderson was dropped from the list of the political quick more than a decade ago. He was a Republican until 1S92, when he supported Mr. Cleveland. Ex-Secretary Boutwell was set aside by the Republicans of Massachusetts in 1S77. Discarded men past the three-score and ten limit are not vitalizing forces in politics. Besides, when he was following General Grant Mr. Boutwell was an expansionist, advocating the purchase of San Domingo. It may be remarked that the correspondent of the New York Herald and Chicago Record in Manila, who glorifies Agulnaldo, disputes the word of Admiral Dewey and charges American soldiers with shocking and unnecessary slaughter of Tagals, has undertaken too much at one time. To present Agulnaldp as a truthful man and denounce American soldiers as wholesale murderers In one article is rather Snore than the American people will accept. There Is such a thjng as overdoing a matter. One of the troubles in the cotton belt la the lack of labor for the reason that the fcegroes have been flocking to the cities. Fields have been abandoned because of sjcarcity of labor to till them. A correspondent of the Memphis Appeal expresses gratification because the authorities to cities are forcing the negroes cut into the country; they are called vagrants because they go to the cities, where they can obtain more money for their labor. Without rights In the courts the negro has a dismal future In the cotton States. A Prohibition leader states that It is not a matter of consequence that a man drinks whisky so long as he votes against the saloon. If there were none who drink whisky there would be no saloons. Moreover, the real advocacy of temperance which counts Is that of the Francis Murphy quality, which seeks to Induce men not to drink. It is the requirement of sobriety by railway managers, manufacturers and business men that is making the people more temperate as the years pass, not the vehement denunciation and slanders o Prohibition leaders. The statement that President Kruger rent to the government to ascertain if the United ßtate would vouchsafe him an ojlum 1j .too absurd for fairly intclli-

gent people to credit. Tresldent Kruger knows that the moment he touched Ajncrlcan soil or was on board an American ship in neutral waters he would be entirely safe. His offer.se against Great Britain la political, and there is no ' extradition for such offends. It is not probable there is a word cf truth in the report. If any consul ever asked if a refuge would be guaranteed President Kruger in this country he should be dismissed as an Ignoramus.

A SI OGESTION TO THE .WTI-IMFER-I A LIST COXFERHNCE. Several citizens of the United States from different portions of the country are In this city to consider the dangers of imperialism. As stated, this danger is seen in the fact that the present government has not promised Independence to the people of Porto' Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines, as it has to Cuba. If the President's party would announce that after securing stable governments in these islands their people wouid be left to Independence some of these excellent citizens would be satisfied. Others, however, will be satisfied with nothing short of the hauling down of our Rag in the Philippines and leaving the country to care for itself. Unless one or the other of these courses is pursued these visitors see the overthrow of the liberties of the American people and the destruction of the federal. Constitution. The Journal does not share the alarm of these gentlemen holding the anti-imperialist conference. It seems that they are the victims of their overwrought imaginations. The surprise, however, is that men who are so anxious regarding the destruction of the Constitution in the , governing of the Philippines are not alarmed at the positive annulment of the- fourteenth and fifteenth amendments of the same Constitution by the ruling element In . the States of Mississippi, South Carolina, Louisiana and North Carolina. The Journal would call their attention to the fact that more than 2.DO0.00O Inhabitants of those States have been practically deprived of citizenship. These people are natives of the land, yet during the past five years 560,000 of them who were voters have been deprived of the right of suffrage in defiance of the plain provisions of the Constitution of the United States. If this assault upon the rights of citizens is not checked before two years shall have passed 1,500,000 men who are voters under the Constitution will have been disfranchised, and not less than 6,000,000 people be deprived of every right and all the protec tion which full citizenship confers. Can not these so-called anti-imperialists, who grieve over the alleged wrong of governing the discordant and ignorant natives of the Philippines in a manner that will be to their well-being, perceive the outrage of robbing:. In defiance of the Constitution, more than 6,000,000 citizens of the United States of all participation in the government under which they live? Is it a matter of no consequence that, with the denial of the right to vote, 560,000 Americans have lost citizenship, the right to sit as Jurors, and to have their causes in court tried by men Of their own race? Is It of no conse quence that 560,000 American-born men shall be taxed and thrown Into prison if payment is refused, and yet denied the right to vote? Can these anti-imperialists. so zealous of the rights of far-away semisavages, look unhaoved- upon the degradation of 6,000,000 American-born inhabitants to a serfdom which does not now exist in Russia? It is sincerely hoped that the anti-Imper-ialists will take cognizance of the whole sale destruction of the rights of citizens In the South by the Kind-holding and other wise superior race, and put thenselvcs on record by resolutions something like the following: Resolved, That this conference views with alarm and indignation the annulling of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments of the Constitution in the States of Missis sippi. South Carolina. Louisiana and North Carolina, by which 500,000 voters have been disfranchised and several million Americanborn inhabitants reduced to hopeless serfdom. If the conference docs not do this the public will be forced to the conclusion that Agulnaldo and a few thousand Tagals un der him who are murdering? American sol diers are of more consequence than mill ions of colored native citizens who always respond to calls to defend the national--honor. FIAT OR DEPRECIATED PAPER. It Is fair to assume that nine-tenths of the active business men of the country favor the national banking system, and that they do not join with the Kansas City convention in its demand for "the retire ment of the national bank notes as fast as government paper and silver certificates can be substituted for them." The truth is that the leaders of the Democratic party before It was Bryanlzed and fell a prey to populism denounced the issue of paper money by the government. During the in tense struggle of Jackson and his follow ers against the United States Bank the issue of paper money by the United States government was never mooted. The issue of circulating notes by state banks was the Democratic substitute for the Bank of the United States. Every Democrat in Con gress voted against the legal-tender act under which the greenbacks were issued as a war measure. All conservative leaders of the party like Mr. Tilden opposed the Issue of government paper. The declaration of the Bryan platform on thU subject is entitled to attention: "We demand the retirement of the national bank notes as fast as government rjaier and silver certificates can be substituted for them." This means that as far as possible all the legislation upon which the national banks are based will be repealed and that government paper and silver certificates shall take the place of the bank note. How shall this government paper Le obtained? By Issue, and evidently without any coin In the treasury or any provision for its redemption. It is the old. discarded greenbacklsm pure and simple. Silver cer tiflc&tes are also 'to take the place of the national bank notes. Silver certificates mean that there are silver dollars or silver bullion of equivalent value In the treas ury of the United States to redeem them. But the United States has no silver dollars or bullion upon which to Issue certificates For about every silver dollar in the treas ury there is a silver certificate in circulation. Is Congress to iasue bogus certificates with no silver behind them? Or U promise of the free and unlimited coinago of silver to be made good and a dollar's worth or cerrncaici io ue issucn to mo sliver bullion monopolists for every 50 cents worth of bullion they bring to the treas ury? One thing or the other is true of the wordf of tha Bryan platform quoted.

Either the country is to have the fiat money of the greenbacker or the depreciated silver dollars of the silver bullion owner. The national bank note, by which no man ever lost a cent, practically redeemable In gold, is better because it is

the best paper money In the world. in: why iiefoke aohxaldo. It is evident fmm what Mr. Ehrich said yesterday of our promises to Agulnaldo that either he has not read the frequent statements of Admiral Dewey, General Anderson, General Merritt and General Oti.-, or that he prefers the word of the man who sold out his people's cause to Spain to that of honorable and respected United States officers. It is true that a few arms were given to the Filipinos at the outset, long before the arrival of United States troops. It is not true that Agulnaldo, as the representative of a revolutionary government, was ever recognized by an officer of the navy or army. On May 13, 1S9S, Agulnaldo and his staff arrived at Manila, being allowed to travel on the McCulloch. He called on Admiral Dewey, but, while he was allowed to organize an army. Admiral Dewey says, that he might render assistance that would be valuable, no promise of alliance or Independence" of any kind was made. In reply to a sug gestion of the Secretary of the Navy not to make any political alliance with the Insurgents, Admiral Dewey responded June 6, (hat he had made no alliance of any kind with the Insurgents. On May 24, 1S0S, Agulnaldo issued procla mations declaring himself the head of a revolutionary government. After the arrival of' the American troops, Agulnaldo became hostile. Admiral Dewey reporting that "General Merritt's most difficult problem ii to deal with the Insurgents un der Agulnaldo, who has become aggressive and even threatening toward our army." In fact from the arrival of the first American soldiers, July 4, Agulnaldo was troublesome. He was not permitted to take part in the capture of Manila because he determined to loot the city. In October, 1593, he offered to unite with the Spanish commander at Malolos to defeat the Ameri cans, "in the hope," to use his own words, 'of yet saving from the shipwreck the sovereignty of Spain in these islands." It is in evidence that Agulnaldo brought on the attack before the ratification of the treaty with Spain, Feb. 4, ISM. It Is In evidence that Agulnaldo notified his officers about Feb. 1, that his army would rise and Invade the city on Feb. 5, and that a company was formed by Agulnaldo ' to exterminate not only the American forces but the families of all Europeans in Manila. All these assertions are matters of official record. If Mr. Ehrich prefers the word of Agulnaldo to that of the officers of ' the army and navy, it is his privilege to do so. Men who have not lost their Americanism In championing this betrayer of his people to Spain will take the word of Dewey, Anderson, Merritt, Otis and MacArthur in preference to that of Agulnaldo. A well known English novelist writes to a London paper extolling the beauties and attractions of rural Ireland, as If he were announcing a new discovery, and urging his fellow-Englishmen to visit that island when they next take an outing. In view of their close proximity and the propensity of the English people to travel about It would seem that they would long since have become as familiar with the charms of Ireland as Americans are with the summer re sorts of New England and the Atlantic coast.- It can hardly be antagonism to the e Irish people that keeps them away, for English tourists swarm over the continent. at the same time franklyvexpresslng their detestation of Germans, French, Italians, and, In fact, all races speaking a different language and with different customs from their own. It must be that they never formed the habit of going to Ireland, and, being creatures of habit, they have continued like sheep In the paths originally taken. The pension act of May 9. 10O0, so amends the act of June 27, 1S30, that almost any applicant can secure from $10 to 512 a month. This is the case because senility Is made the" most prominent feature for a rating instead of basing the applicant's disability upon one disease or ailment. The reason that most men of fifty-five years of age cannot do a man's manual labor Is not because they have this or that ailment, but because of the general weakening or breaking down of their phys ical power. When that breaking down or failure is a pensionable disability few men about sixty-one years of age will fail to get pensions hereafter. The fact of being sixty-five years of age carries a half pension, and seventy-five years a full $12 per month. In fact, the act of June 27, 1S90, as amended, is practically a service pension law, since there are few veterans sixty-one years of age who cannot obtain the benefits of that law almost to the limit of $12 a month. Mr. Robert Treat Paine is quoted by a Boston paper as predicting the overwhelming defeat of the Republicans In the coming campaign. "The 'cotton whigs " he says, 'who condone slavery beneath the Ameri can fiag as their fathers condoned the attempt to extend slavery into the free terri tories of the West, may pull wires and manipulate men without backbone, but they cannot control men like ex-President Harrison, ex-Senator Henderson of Missouri. Thomas li. Reed, ex-Secretary Carl Schurz, and ex-Governor Boutwell. The Republican party, which began its career In the -defense of liberty, is prostituted to the service of money as against the rights of man, and New England will not be silent." This might be very impressive and even alarming if anybody knew exactly what it meant. It cannot Improve the temper of the Louisville Courier-Journal to see daily In Its exchanges quotations from its files in 1ST, when it spoke of the man it is now supporting for President as follows: Mr. William J. Bryan has come to Ken tucky and Kentuckians have taken his measure. He Is a boy orator. He is a dis honest dodger. He is a darinir adventurer. He is a political fakir. He is not of the material of which the people of the United States have ever made a President. Nor is lie even of the material of which any party has ever neiore made a candidate. Mr. Bryan has not changed in his nature In four years, but the Courier-Journal announced its change when it declared that between Republican knaves and Demo cratlc fools it chose to go with fools. An exchange ventures the opinion that after Mr. Conger gets out of Feklng the magazine proprietors will begin to bid for his experiences. After he gets out! Pshaw Mr. Conger 1 probably under contract by

this time, and is preparing "copy" to be ready for the printer when he comes out. When it comes to securing war literature magazine editors allow no grass to grow under their feet.

A lot of Americans holding second-class passage tickets, but with their money all gone and boats so crowded. that there Is no room for them, are said to be stranded in Paris. Poor things! and the walking isn't good, either. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. A Financial Dnngler. "Is Digty Diggs a good business man?" "Naw; he has failed three times, and never lest a dollar for anybody but himself." Girlish Foresight. He It would be a great thing to bo present at that council when the powers partition China, She Won't it? I suppose they . will act up worse than we do at a fire sale. My Lady's Fan. Dear Daphne's fan is not of precious kind, Oi" pictured silk, full-Jeweled to her mind; It cost ten cents this for the reason that She spent nlne-dollars-ninety on her hat. To Escape the Struggle. 'Tenelope wants to go into a convent." "Unreciprocated love?" "No; she says she Is Just deed tired of having to make her shirt waist and skirt stay together." Justified Thrift. "My employer won't have a clerk that smokes In the office." "What's that for?" "He says he can afford to pay us wages, but he' can't afford having us borrow his cigar! while he is out." Footnotes. The highest ambition of a can-opener is to get itself lost out of a basket on the way to a picnic. To apologize for being stupid often only indicates that we are a trifle more stupid than usual. One of the most demoralizing: habits we form in life is the habit of doing without things we want. After a woman has sent her trunk to the station she Uee awake all night remembering two buttonholes she forgot to work. We should be affable'to our. children, remembering what cruel and impolite wretches we used to think our parents were. The deepest satisfaction in being a genuine person Is the reflection that you are without dcubt the only one in the world. If you have country relatives who do their own work, now is the time- to get the ramlly together, six abreast, and make those relatives a good, long visit. There is a great gulf fixed between the human race and nature; weather good for the corn makes man imperil his soul's salvation by wicked remarks. MR. F0ULKE AND THE SENTINEL. Another Letter Which the Democratic Editor Has Xot Yet Frinted. Tc the Editor of the Indianapolis Sentinel: I have read with interest your editorial in to-day's issue entitled "Mr. Foulkc's Academic Plea." I notice that you still neither publish my letter to you of Aug. 20 nor do you reply to the propositions stated in this letter. Your editorial, so far as it can be said to answer anything of mine at all, seems rather addressed to a former publication in the Journal, to which you had previously devoted one or more articles in your editorial columns. rermit me to observe that this method of discussion Is quite sure to convince those Who read only one side of it. To withhold what is said on the. other side and then to answer something that' was not said Is quite certain to insure your most tri umphant vindication 'among those' whose knowledge of the matter is confined to your own columns. In to-day's article you point out some differences between Louisiana and the Phil ippines. Of course there are differences. They are not in the same latitude nor long itude. Their size, population, etc., are very different, nor would it ever be possible to make any extensions of our territory in which these things should ail be alike. But there are certain points of similarity which, to those who accept the authority of Jefferson, ought to be conclusive upon many of the arguments now urged against our keeping the Philippines. For instance, Jefferson himself evidently did not believe that his maxim regarding the consent or the governed was of unl versal application, because he himself in sisted "that our new fellow-citizens (in Louisiana) are as yet Incapable of self government as children." Therefore he signed a bill which gave him autocratic power over Louisiana. Jefferson's authority is also conclusive against the argument that we could not acquire title to the Philippines from Spain when Spain wi not in possession, having been ousted by the insurgents. In Louisiana the French had not been in possession for forty years, and yet wc purchased our title from them for fifteen millions of dol lars. Jefferson's example Is also conclusive against the proposition that we cannot ac quire sovereignty over the inhabitants of ceded territory without the consent of these inhabitants, for this is precisely what Jefferson did. Jefferson's authority is conclusive that commercial advantages may well be considered In acquiring territory, for the purchase of Louisiana begajn in an attempt on his part to buy a small tract east of the Mississippi so as to insure the free navigation of that river. It may well be that our occupation of the Philippines will have a relation to our future commerce with the Orient not very different from that which New Orleans has had with our commerce in the Gulf of Mexico. Each of them controls in a manner a great artery of trade, and I have little doubt that future generations will look upon our present acquisition in much the same general way that we look upon the acquisition made by Jefferson. You say "it Is not taken that States may be carved from it or that Its people may be added to our citizenship," and in this respect vou contrast it with Louisiana. In the treaty with France it was Indeed provided that the inhabitants at some time in the future should be made citizens. But it must be remembered that this provision was inserted, not at the suggestion of Jefferson or of his envoy Monroe, but because Napoleon insisted upon it. On the contrary, the secretary of state had written to Monroe that no such provision ought to be put into the treaty. As to the future destiny of Louisiana as a ir'tate In the Union as contemplated by Jefferson I am glad you called my attention to it, for It gives me the opportunity of referring to another declaration of Thomas Jefferson In connection with Ixmlsiana. Jefferson seemed to have no care as to whether Louisiana should be Incorporated as a State In the Union or not. Hp wrote in January. 104: "Whether we remain in one confederacy or form Into Atlantic and Pacific confederacies I believe not very Important to the happiness of either part. Those of the western confederacy will be as much our children and descendants as those of the eastern, and I feel myself as much identified with that country in future time as with this, and did I now foresee a separation at some future day yet I should feel the duty and the desire to promote the western Interests as zealously as thit eastern." Hut. Mr. Editor, while we differ radically regarding the policy of Philippine annexation we can. I know, each respect the patriotism and motives of the other. But permit me in all kindness to expostulate with you against giving currency to such reports as those published by you yesterday morning as the statements of I. C. Hadley. a soldier recently returned from the Philippines, who complains of the treatment of the soldiers and of the manner in which the war is waged, says it will continue ten years and criticises the officers in command because they curb the soldiers and will not let them "l?et after the Insurgents." In this publication Mr. Hartley gives utterance to the Incredible etateirent that It is not the purpose of those In command to bring the war to an end and that the whole matter is a mere money making scheme. I remember that during the civil war the Sentinel, under another management, gave

currency to a large number of similar com

plaints regarding the ill treatment of soldiers by the administration of Mr. Lincoln, the corruption among officers and contractors, the Impossibility of bringing the war to an end. etc. 1 remember that this action has not been considered patriotic. since the evident result of the statements of the disaffected was to discourage enlist ments and to cripple the military operations of the government. Allow me to submit to your candid Judgment whether that will not be the opinion which men may form hereafter regarding such publications as that which appeared in your i.:te of yesterday. WM. D. FOULKE. Richmond, Ind., Aug. . A duplicate of this letter was sent to the Sentinel several days ago, but It has not yet been printed by that paper. HAGENBECK SHOWS Will De One of the Fall Carnival At tractions. Albert Lieber entertained at his home last night Colonel J. H. Lalne, manager of the Frank C. Fostlck Mighty Midway Car nival Company, which yesterdav slened a contract with the Fall Festivities Society to bring Hagenbeck's aggregation of shows to Indianapolis during carnival week. Mr. Lieber and Cc-lonel Lalne saw the Paris exposition together this summer, and while there picked out "several novel attractions which have never been seen in this country. The Fostlck carnival attractions are me Dest in tne world and some of them Will be Seen down town a nr nt hura In nno of the parks during the carnival. There will be several German features never before brought to this country. isaac uoaiove, designer of the Moats, arrived in the city yesterday afternoon and will take up the work at once. The Marion countv commissi been added to the entertainment committee and yesterday granted the free use of the Court House yard to the carnival promoters. The fountain will be illuminated and some of the Hagenbeck shows will also be exhibited on the yard. TAX BOARD DECISIONS INDIANAPOLIS STREET RAILWAY INCREASED TO $3,500,000. Counsel for Rnilronds Appeal from the Hoard's Assessments The Decisions Announced. The third session of the State Board of Tax Commissioners was begun yesterday. In the afternoon S. O. Pickens, counsel for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, appeared before the board and asked for a modllicatlon of the assessment of the Pennsylvania lines as fixed by the board at Its first session. There are two lines of railroad that are assessed higher than any others in the State. They are the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago and the Lake Shore, the main line of the first being assessed at $39,000 a mile, and the main line of the latter at $10,500 a mile. Mr. Pickens attempted to show that an unjust discrimination was being made between his road and the Lake Shore. He said he was willing to admit that both roads were probably the best in the State, but did not think his road should be assessed any higher than the Lake Shore. He argued that the Lake Shore distributed its earnings over Its branch lines, and as a consequence it did not make the showing of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago road. ' Joseph G. Moses, tax agent for the Big Four Railroad Company, appeared before the board and withdrew the appeal of his road from the assessment the board had fixed on its property. He said there had been a misunderstanding as to the amount his road had been assessed. Charles M. Gibson, of Louisville, representing the Louisville Bridge Company, whose property the board had assessed at $2.5ft0,000 a mile, appeared before the board and asked that the assessment be cut to $1,000,000. 'The bridge is one-eighth of a mile in length. L. C. Hunter, representing the Fort Wayne Home Telephone Company, asked the board to reduce the assessment on his company from $11.000 to $4.000. He said the company had strong competition. DECISIONS ANNOUNCED. The board yesterday announced the following decisions on appeals taken from jte assessments as fixed by the county board of review: Indiana Manufacturing Company, no assessment was fixed by the county board of review. The State board fixed the assessment at $360,000. Indianapolis Street-railway Company,, value fixed by State board, $3,500.000; value fixed by Marion county board of review, 52,500,000. "Indianapolis News, value fixed by State board, $100.000; value fixed by Marion county board of review, $17,500. Union Traction Company, value fixed by State board. $3öfl,000; same as fixed by Madison county board of review. The assessment of the personal property of the New Telephone Company remains at $1,000. The appeal of Harry li. Smith was not sustained. The assessment of certain on wens ana Pipe lines, the property of Neelj', Clover & Howe, remains at $12.500. The appeal from the assessment fixed by the Wabash county board of review was denied. The State board raised the assessment of the Samual Born Company as fixed by the Tippecanoe county board of review from $12,500 to $25,000. t The appeal of A. B. Fisher from the assessment of lumber in Sullivan county was sustained and the assessment fixed at $7 500 The State board sustained the appeals of the First National Bank, of Frankfort, and the Farmers' Bank, at Frankfort, and assessed the capital stock of the former at $110 a share and of the latter at $10j a Snare T1IE APPEAL DENIED. The appeal of the Standard Oil Company from the assessment of the property In Vanderburg county was denied, and the assessment fixed at $S0,0u0. The appeal of John B. Morgan from the assessment of the First National Bank of Bloomlngton, Ind., was dismissed, and the assessment remains at $130,000. In the case of the appeal of M. W. Sanford from the assessment of the Washington Light and Water Company, of Washington, Ind.. Attorney General Taylor held that property belonging to a municipal corporation is not assessable, and the appeal was dismissed. The assessment of the Bank of Condon remains at $116,500. Its appeal was not sustained. - . The a.-sessment of the Elkhart Egg Company was reduced from JG.0a) to $3,ux. The appeal of Leopold C. Steifel. of Steuben county, was sustained, and the assessment fixed at S20.U0Q. The assessment of the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, at Elwood, remains at 150,000. The appeal of J. E. Sherman and John G. Maas was not sustained. The onnai of the Lafayette Gas Com pany as to the assessment of pumping stations in Tipton coumj was ?usiuni, and the value of one fixed at $25,0X) and the nth.r at lt flftO The assessment of the Indiana Illuminat ing and Natural uas company was reduced from $40.000 to $35,00). The appeal Irom the assessment of oil neu hv the same company was sustained. and the value of ten wells fixed at $500 each; fourteen wells at $750 each, and five wells at $i,ouo cacn. Clothe Cnnsht In Shaftlnc Frank Cartmell. of 4 West Washington street, had his skull fractured and one leg broken yesterday morning by being caught on a shafting near which he was working and thrown violently against the floor several times before he could be released. .He was adjusting a belt, and his clothing caught about the shafting. He was attended by Dr. McGaughey. of the City Dispensary, and tbn taken to , th City Hospital.

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FOR ANTI-IMPERIALISTS filVEX OUT BY SECRETARY MIZE. Ex-tinvernor vIlontwelI, of Massachusetts, the President, W HI Handle the CJavei. THE OBJECT OF THE LEAGUE AX ORGANIZATION OF OXE IDEA, ACCORDING TO THE SECRETARY. Indication that the Conreptton Will Hare a Bryan Tendency Expressions from Delegates. The much talked of conference of the American Anti-imperialist League will be held in Tomlinson Hall to-day and to-mor-row. Delegates were arriving all day yesterday and last night, and by midnight the number already here was estimated at all the way from 100 to 150. It Is apparent that the conference will not attain the magnitude in point of numbers that was claimed for it a few weeks ago. It is-possible that there may be 500 or 400 delegates present. The leaders of the league are now referring to the approaching conference as the "liberty congress." This term appears to have a jingle that pleases them. The fact became plain last night that the event is to have a strong Bryan flavor. Indeed, it was stated by some that no one who attends the conference will, vote for McKinley, while many will vote for Bryan. Edwin Burritt Smith, of Chicago, has in his possession a telegram from John J. Valentine,' of San Francisco, president of the Wells-Fargo Express Company, urging that the conference indorse the candidacy of Bryan. The delegates who are here appear to be divided in their opinions as to what the conference will do in the way of an indorsement of any candidate. The sentiment of the delegates who are on the ground seems to be overwhelmingly against the third ticket movement. With the third ticket idea out of the way it is pointed out that there are but two things the conference can do either openly Indorse Bryan or plan some way by which an individual fight can be made against the re-election of McKinley. It is the understanding that the league as a body will take no stock in the scheme of the "independents" to spring a' third ticket. However, individual members of the league may join with the "Independ ents" if they desire.. At a meeting of the executive committee of the league held yes terday a representative from the national third ticket movement was granted an audience and requested that they be allowed to present their views to the confer ence. It is the understanding that the third ticket question will be brought up in the "liberty congress" perhaps to-day. HOBNOBBING WITH BUYANITES. The executive committee of the Anti-Im perialist League was In session at the Bates House most of yesterday evening. During the evening Secretary Hawkins, of the -Democratic State committee, and Millard F. Cox, who is at the head of the Democratic press bureau of the Stats, were in the lobby of the Bates, and later two more attaches of the State committee were about the corridors. Some well known public men are here to attend the conference. Bourke Cockran, of New York, Is expected, . but it Is not sure that he will be here, because of some important legal business in. which he Is engaged. If -he comes he will deliver an address to-morrow night. In the event that he cannot get here his views will be read to the conference. Among the prom inent men who have already arrived is ex-Governor Boutwell, of Massachusetts, who was secretary of the treasury under President Grant. Ex-Governor Boutwell is president of the league, and William J. Mize, of Chicago, is secretary. Among the vice presidents are Andrew Carnegie, Donelson Caffery, Richard T. Crane, J. Ster ling Morton, Carl Schurz. Rufus B. Smith and John J. Valentine. The executive com mittee is composed of Edwin Burritt Smith, chairman, Edgar A. Bancroft, Louis R, Ehrich, William H. Fleming, George G. Mercer, Frank H. Scott, Wlnslow Warren, Charles B. Wllby, Erving Wlnslow, Sig mund Zeisler, Charles M. Sturges, George L. Paddock, Ernest H. Crosby. The presi dent, secretary and treasurer are ex-offlcio members of the committee. In addition to the regular list of vice presidents there are honorary vice presidents from each State. The headquarters of the league Is In Chicago. COXVEXTIOX PROGRAMME. Betnils of To-Days Session Given Oat by the Secretary. W. J. Mize, secretary of the executive committee of the American Anti-imper ialist League, announced last night the programme of to-day's sessions of the Liberty Congress In Tomlinson Hall, as far as the tsame could be arranged in advance. The congress will be called to order at 11 o clock this morning by George G. Mercer, a prominent attorney of Philadelphia. The Prst order of business will be the reading of the "call" for the convention, a very trief document. Prayer will then be of fered by Rev. Dr. Herbert S. BIgelow, of Cincinnati, after which the Declaration of Independence will be read by Prof, Albert 11. Tolman, of the University of Chicago, who arrived in the city last night. On behalf of the executive committee, Mr. Mercer will recommend that Edwin Burritt Smith, a well-known lawyer of Chlcagj," Le made temporary chairman of the congress and Messrs Erving Wlnslow, of Boston, and W. J. Mize, of Chicago, be chosen an temporary secretaries. The following committees will then be appointed: On resolutions, to meet at the Denlson Hotel; on credentials, to meet at the Grand Hotel; on permanent organization, to meet at the English Hotel. When these committees bring In their reports the convention will be ready to settle down to business. The sessions will be open to the public. To-night, beginning at S o'clock, there will be a general meeting, also open to the public, in Tomlinson Hall. Ex-Governor George S. Boutwell. of Massachusetts, will preside over this meeting. In place of Carl Schurz, who is not able to attend on account of the death of his son in London a few days ago, Sigmund Zeisler, a well-known German lawyer of Chicago, will deliver an address. Other speeches will be made by Moorfleld Storey, of Boston, Dr. Herbert S. BIgelow, of Cincinnati, and Capt. Patrick O'Farrell, of Washington. D. C. It is not definitely known whether Bourko Cockran will be able to attend the con gress. Mr. Mize entertains the belief that Mr. Cockran will "drop In on the con vention suddenly, after his usual style." On a former occasion Mr. MIze'saM that Cocl.ran was to address a meeting in Chicaso, and, when the committee was unabla

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ing me audience. Mr. Cockran strolled leisurely Into the hall about K:S0. prepared to deliver his address. "Mr. Cockran never writes anything," said Mr. Mizc, "and he will not be interviewed. At least, I never knew him to be interviewed. hen he cnp flnvn-horo ..,t.A he hunts some quiet place, retires to his room. lies down on a 'lounge and thinks out ills address. Then he delivers it abumeiy wunoui notes. He avoids hotels and public places at such times." "I should think he would be especially anxious to keep away from newspaper men just at this time." remarked a re--v.ier, since iney nave so many pertinent questions which they might ask him." The Liberty Congress will continue its ftssions throuch to-morrow reinMn.iu . morrow night with another public meeting. Bl """ auuresses win be delivered by prominent speakers. EX-GOVEItOn BOLT WELL TALKS. President of the And.ln.nri.u. League Grows Reminiscent. "Imperialism Is the paramount Issue in this campaign," declared ex-Governor George S. Boutwell. of Massachusetts, in his room at the Bates House last night. Governor Boutwell Is president of the American Antl-lmperlallst League, and will preside over the big meeting to-night at Tomlinson Hall, when the greatest amount and most brilliant oratory of the convention will be heard. Governor BoutWell served his native State several term as chief executive, was also a United States senator and previously a member ot Congress for several terms. He is well ad vanced In years, but a remarkably wellpreserved and vigorous man. He possesses great clearness of thought and an emphatic manner of expression. "You cannot make people think about things they do not care about," he continued. "That was tied In 1S60 when Lincoln ran for President. They tried to make the people think about other things beside slavery, but Xhey would not do it. This year the people are net going to think about anything except imperialism. They don't care about the silver dollar or the gold dollar, but what they want to know Is whether they are going to have anything to live on or whether it is going to bo consumed in taxes." When asked about the condition in Chi na, Governor Boutwell said, with markei tmphals: "I won't say anything 'about that to-night. I may pay tometliing about it In public before I leave the city, if I don't get carried away by other things.". The old statesman was. however, too tull of the subject to remain silent until he reached the conventior hall, and made this significant, remark to the reporter: "I should not be surprised if. at any hour. ws should hear that the Russian minister had come out into the light from Peking, perhaps he won't, but I think he will." Th Governor declined to explain his somewhat curious utterance, but left the impres-non upon the mind of the reporter that he intends, before the convention h3s finished its deliberations, to make some weighty deliverance upon the subject of Russia's attitude towards the Celestial empire. Some interesting reminiscences of the Re publican national convention In Ivo were recalled by Governor Boutwell. "I was active in trying to get Grant nominated for the third time in that year, he said. "Logan, Conkling, Cameron and myself were the four persons who earned on the campaign with that object in view. We controlled 30) votes. "It looks as though you were going to have a pretty, active campaign in Infii;ia." said the Governor. "I noticed this morning that the Journal seems quite contilmt of victory. However, Fome people are going to settle this question of Imperialem who have not been heard from yt. It doesn't make much odds about these :onventlons." : , SOUTI1ERX COLLEGU MAX. ' Prof. Madison 31. Jnyne, of Mississip pi, I" n Helegnte. Prof. Madison M. Jayne, of Hay St. Louis, Miss., a prominent c4lcge rnafC his State. Is registered at the Denlson Hotel. Professor Jayne is Jn the city for the purpose of taking part in the congress of the American Antt-lmperialist League today and to-morrow in Tomlinson Hall. "When asked by a Journal reporter whether or not the league's convention would decide to put a ticket in the field Professor Jayne declined to be interviewed on tne tubject, saying that it was something about which he did not know anything. He Ktated that he had not thought much of the probable effect of the placing ol such a ticket in the field, but did not believe it would draw much strength from either of the two great parties. "I think the lines are drawn too tightly now lor anything like that to hapien, said he. "I don t think an additional ticket would have as much effect now as four- years agj." Professor Jayne said tne object of putting a new ticket before the people would be to show disapprobation of the methods of both of the great parties. "There are already eight such expressions of disap proval before us now," he said, sentn tlously. "There has been a considerable change of sentiment In Mississippi since said Professor Jayne. in answer to a question. "In 18JW the silver Issue was new. and a great many people took it for granted with out devoting time to Its careful study. Since that time, however.-the question has been Investigated, with the result that the gold people are much stronger than they were. But they will support Mr. Bryan, C J Tt ill e u'nji l i atif Pcoplfj who gave Mr. Bryan suppJ t four years ago, and uid iVTl support him at all, w on account of the new isfor all that. People who gave Mr. Bryan a half-hearted si ethers who woui are for him now sue of imperialism." Prof. Jayne was atked for an expression concerning the recent action of the Democrats of North Carolina in applying the educational test to voters. "Missln.lppl originated that idea ten years ago," he said, with evident pride, "and the otntr States are simply copying after her." Prof. Jayne vouchsafed the information that the sentiment in his State is overwhelmingly against the alleged imperialistic tendencies of the Rejfubllcan party. He said that Senator Sullivan wa: a candidate for delegate at large to the Kansas City convention and was defeated bt cause of his imperialistic leanings. "That." said he, "shows what the sentiment of the people of Mississippi Is." "I would rather not say whether I am in favor of a third ticket or not," said Prof. Jayne. "As I understand it. the call for this convention was issjed for the purpose of devising measures for the coming tarn ral2n. I take It as a protest agaln?t im perialism, which, in my opinion. Is the overwhelming Issue in this campaign." LE.4GI E IFORMATIOX Is Given Out by Secretary Mise One Idea of Organisation.. "Utah is the only State In the Union from which we have not received answers to our call for the Liberty Congress." said W. J. Mize, secretary of the executive commit tee of . the American Antl-impcriallft League, as he sat in the committee's head quarters. Room 64, of the Bate? House. lat night. "Possibly the trouble in the Sulu islands has something to do with that State's attitude on the subject." he continued facetiously. "It is a matter of surprise to me to learn that over C(X) men from all parts of the United States have sent in their acceptances and aeked for credentials to admit them to the congress. This is u particularly significant fact when you reflect that these men are not paying railroad fare and hotel bills to participate in a convention from which they may derive some political benefit. It is' purely a matter of principle with them not a matter of securing a political situation or exercising soma party pull. The National Antiimperialist party will not do any harm, but wiU probably do a great deal of giod In the long run. There arc some Stat s In the East where there proUibly ought to be a third ticket. I think the outcome of the matter will be that they will go thtir way and we will go ours." Mr. Mize expressed some annoyance th.it there should have sprung up nn erroneous impression that the national third party is connected with the American Antl-lm)-riallst lA-ague. "We don't know anything about the national third party." said he. "There have been two or throe member? of that nartv around our committed room thli afternoon, talking wun tne executive com. mUiee of the league. Theyi tttizi t

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