Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 277, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1900 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1900.

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Ebbitt UouM and Willard's HoteL If there I anyone who believes the sold standard Is n Rood thltig, or that It must he maintained, I warn him not to rant hi vote for nie, he cause l' promise him It will not he maintained In this country longer thuii I nm ahle to et rid of lt." WILLIAM! JI;NM.M;S UltVA.V, Knoxville, Ten n., Sept. 10, l.SJMI. The party stands where It did In 1S1X1 on the money question.' WILL IA3I JE..XGS 11 RYAN, Zanesvlllc, ()., Sept. 4, 194KJ. Another and a harder frost! Mr. Hearst's $50,000 to get a crowd did Lot bring It. The mountain of National Democratic Clubs Las labored and brought forth a mouse. Some were mean enough to say there rere not as many people In town yesterday as there were the day before. The Journal invokes the Democrats to have a little pride and make an effort to give Mr. Bryan a house to-day. Some stronger word than a frost Is reQuired to express yesterday's failure. It was a shower bath of liquid air. Evidently Mr. Hearst felt It In the air and stayed away from his well-planned funeraL Did Mr. Creelman notify him? Counting, chickens before they are hatched is a safe business compared with estimating Democratic crowds before they appear. The local Democracy went to bed last night sorehearted. Every man of them felt the damp death-chill In the marrow of hl3 bones. The Democratic atmospheric depression In this city made Mr. Hearst ill in Chicago and sent several to bed here. It was a killing frost. . Just now it seems that the few who did tome to the Hearst performance painfully regret that they came to witness the Hearst frost. In this hour of desolation the Journal forgets its life-long enmity to Bryanlsm and tenders its sympathy to the bereaved and frost-bitten. A certain cold Friday years ago Is yet remembered as the coldest day on record. Hereafter Wednesday, Oct. 3, 1900, will be the frostiest day within Democratic tecollectlon. . Thus far in the campaign, Mr. Bryan has not told the country whether or not he will direct the payment of the coin bonds and their Interest In silver why not settle the doubt In his speech to-day? Richard Croker, Mayor Van Wyck, Judge Van Wyck. who drew the anti-trust resolution In the Kansas City platform, and Mr. Bryan's Chairman Jones are all named as defendants in suits against monopolies. The venerable Mark Tapley, who Is both chairman of the Bryan national committee and a large shareholder in the cottonbaling monopoly, declared yesterday that he is "entirely satisfied with the outlook." It I cause for regret that ex-Governor Altgeld was not induced to come to the Hearst meeting, that the trinity Bryan, Altgeld and Sovereign, against which Bourke Coekran warned the country four years ago might be present. Tour years ago," says the Omaha Bee of Tuesday, "hogs in the South Omaha market were quoted at $2.94; last Monday the average price was $5.13'. If Mr. Bryan had been a real prophet the price on Monday would have been less than 52.94." The Idea that the people want a cheap dollar Is a false Idea. The man who earns an honest dollar wants an honest dollar in payment. Let us have a good dollar and let u.i keep at home as much work as we can by a protective tariff." Ex-I'rcsident Harrison In 1SJ. The Philippine commission, which Is now formulating a plan of government for the Islands, finds many abuses to be corrected. Among ether surprising discoveries It found that the writ cf habeas corpus was unknown In the Philippines, and when It was established a general jail delivery followed of piisoners who had be-en incarcerated under Spanish law from a few months to several years without a. chance In court. C;:a c, Xh prisoners thus released did

not know upon what charges they had been held, and no record showed. This is the sort of government, and worse, that Mr. Bryan would restore in the Philippines. EX-PRESIDENT HARRISON. The announcement that ex-President HarTlson will shortly take part in the campaign will be gratifying to all Republicans. There is no American living whose views on public questions carry more weight with the people or who has the faculty of presenting them In a more forceful and attracth'e manner than General Harrison. The limitations of hi3 position as an ex-President prevent him from taking an active part in politics, and his careful observance of the proprieties makes him shun Interviews on the subject. His silence thus far has been misconstrued by some as Indicating a lack of Interest in the campaign or indifference as to the result, but no one who knows him has entertained such an Idea. General Harrison is an American of Americans, a Republican of Republicans, and the Issues of a presidential election would have to be very unimportant and the position of the Republican party very wrong for him not to take a lively Interest In the result. The Issues of the present campaign are such as to appeal strongly to his patriotic instincts as well as to his political convictions. A lifelong and ardent supporter of a protective tariff, an unwavering advocate of sound money and opponent of free silver, a veteran of the civil war and defender of the flag, -onscientious and conservative in all his views, there is nothing in the batch of political heresies and isms that make up Bryanlsm to excite anything but his hearty contempt. An attempt has been made to create the impression that General Harrison docs not approve of the President's Philippine policy. The Journal ventures the prediction that when he speaks it will be found he fully approves of it. No one knows better than he that it is the constitutional 'duty of the President to enforce the laws of the United States and suppress Insurrection against its lawful authority, and no one knows better than he that a treaty is part of the supreme law of the land and that It Is as much the duty of the President to enforce the treaty rights of the United States as any other law. To quote his own words: "The President cannot go beyond the law, and he cannot stop short of it. His duty and his oath of office take it all in and leave him no discretion, save as to the means to be employed." If General Harrison were in Fresldent McKInley's place he would be

doing just what the latter Is doing using the army of the United States to suppress insurrection and establish the authority of the United States in territory rightfully belonging to it. It may be said without exaggeration that General Harrison inaugurated the era or modern expansion by recommending the annexation of Hawaii. In his message of Feb. 15, 1S93, transmitting the treaty of. annexation to the Senate, he said: Only two courses are now open one, the establishment of a protectorate by the United States, and the other annexation full and complete. I think the latter course will be highly xromotIve of the best Interests of the Hawaiian people, and is the enly one that will adequately secure the interests or the United States. There is reason to believe, also, that Gen. Harrison thought Hawaii might be annexed without reference to its ultimate ad mission as a State. In his Instructive work entitled "This Country of Ours." published some three years ago, after describing the usual method of converting territories into States he said: Out of this habit of dealing with the pub lic aomam nas come tne common thought mar. an territory tnat we acau re must. when sufficiently populous, be erected into states. liut why may we not take account of the quality of the people as well as of their numbers, if future acquisitions snouia rnaxe it proper to do so? A territorial form of government is not so in adequate that it might not serve for an maenmte time. This was the first time this question wfes ever touched upon, and General Harrison. with characteristic felicity of expression, suggested that in the matter of statehood the quality of the inhabitants should be taken into account as well as their num bers. No two executives ever do things: In pre cisely the same way, and while It Is quite likely that General Harrison, if President, would have done some things differently from President McKinley, there can be no doubt that as a big American and a good Republican he approves the main features of the administration policy and that he has nothing but loathing for Bryanlsm. saaaasaBaassaMaasssssssaaaBSBasMBasaaBBaaai THE IIRYA.N CONDITIO. Four years ago, many prudent business men put on 4he face of their contracts, "payable in gold." The practice caused much indignation on the part of Mr. Bry an's advocates. Now, as the election ap proaches, those who are making contracts for merchandise are, in many Instances, inserting the words "void if Bryan is elected." Manufacturers in this city have received similar orders or messages declaring that if they were entirely positive about the result of the election they would order merchandise. This is because there la a general apprehension that if Mr. Bryan should be elected a . panic would follow which would paralyze Industry and consequently close factories. A few days, ago the Albany Journal gave a number of Instances in which the clause "void If Bryan is elected" was written into contracts. A company manufacturing cement in Nazareth, Pa., recently made a contract for the extension of its plant, in which is written the proviso "void If Bryan is elected." The company takes all work under' exist ing conditions, but it does not face the contingency of the election of Bryan. The J. Curley Company, of Brooklyn, N. Y., desired a certain number of carriages of the New Haven Carriage Company, but in the contract for the delivery was writ ten: "This agreement to be null and void In case William J. Bryan is elected in No vember." The following letter was Kent with the contract: We inclose herein agreements signed. You will notice that we have made an in dorsement at the bottom. Will you please Indorse this yourself? It Is Just as good policy for you to indorse it as it is for us. for you do not wish to be bound down by anything in case or such adverse circum stances as would occur In the event of Bryan's election. To a large manufacturing concern in Mil waukee a Jobbing house sent the following letter In reference to an order for five car loads of goods: In further reference to our contract, will you kindly advise the writer whether, in case conditions were to become seriously unsettled on account of the election and the Jobbers should be confronted by a canlcky state of affairs which would result in the Hidden shutting down of business, you would give us permission to cancel the order we have with you for January shipment? The bare possibility of the election of Bryan has caused the ordering of merchan

dise to hesitate all over the country. Several steel mills will close because their

"best customers will not give orders for goods until after the election" For this reason thousands of Democrats who would vote for a candidate like Mr. Cleveland will not vote for Mr. Bryan, because they fear the consequences expressed in the words: "Void if Bryan Is elected." If the re-election of Mr. McKinley be ac complished and the revolution in China be wiped out, and the war In the Transvaal take no new complications, then will I be the first to accept the peace that I believe to be necessary, though It be at the cost of acknowledging the sovereignty of the United States, since I consider that our forces are now impotent to defend our sacred and legitimate rights. This is a portion of one of the letters seized by General MacArthur in Luzon, and was written by a Tagal officer in close touch with Aguinaldo. The ambushing of American soldiers will go on until after the re-election of President McKinley, upen the assumption on the part of the Tagal leaders that thereby "the impressionable Americans," as one of them calls us, will be led to vote for Mr. Bryan. The election over and Mr. Bryan beaten, Aguinaldo will consider himself overthrown and will probably escape, while the masses will recognize the sovereignty of the United States. The years of war upn which the Bryan orator dwells in the hop-, of winning patriotic voters will not take place. With Bryan's defeat Agui naldo will retire and peace will follow. Some time ago the Journal showed up the scheme to induce Republican farmers to subscribe to the Farm, Field and Fire side, an alleged family paper containing articles advocating the election of Bryan. It was a very smooth trick, but was exposed. Since that time these Bryan publishers, using the name of a brother of General O. O. Howard and promising ar ticles by that esteemed veteran, have sent to all the Grand Army posts for rosters or the addresses of as many veterans as could be forwarded, promising a copy of the Bry an paper in payment for the courtesy. The circular of Charles H. Howard has been sent to nearly every Grand Army post in this State, and Is addressed to comrades without making apparent the purpose of getting the lists of names. It is a trick to send a Bryan publication ander the guise of a farming paper to thousands of vet erans whom the managers expect to reach In this indirect manner. It is a fraud. Out In the far west Mr. Bryan attacked a paper trust. There is a combination of paper mills, but they do not control the output of paper or make the prices, as a number of large mills are outside the com bination. All of the papers published in Indianapolis are printed on paper purchased outside the combination. Late In 1S99 the demand for paper caused a scarcity and the price ran up to 3 cents. It has since fallen off cent. One of the causes of the high price of paper ft the printing of newspaper posters like those of Mr. Hearst and expressing them over the coun try to compete with local Democratic pa pers. If the pound newspapers would re duce the size, . use newspaper typo and print fewer falsehoods, the paper market would again be in a condition that a falling off of price might be expected. The visitinsr and local Democrats who were persuaded to purchase Mr. Hearst's Chicago American last night must have been somewhat surprised to read in large tvüe that 3.500 delegates were seated, yes terday afternoon. In Tomlinson Hall, and applauded by 4,000 onlookers In the gal leries. Equally surprising must have been the Information In the same sheet that Mr. Hearst arrived at 2:30 and was escorted to the hall by a club 300 strong. The only thing excelling these statements In Inac curacy was perpetrated by the Sentinel when it announced that thirty acres of neoDle heard Bryan in Military Park, which contains fourteen acres. The Chi cago paper's figures exceed the capacity of Tomlinson Hall by not less than 3.000, and Mr. Hearst was not here. Mr. Hearst's papers are declaring that the members of the Republican national committee represent $40,000,000 or more of the wealth of the country. Judging from the wealth charged up to & member known to the Journal the estimate Is more than twenty times too large. In this connection it may be stated that Mr. Hearst is the possessor of more millions than all the members of the Republican' national com mittee unless he has "blown It in" by' the publication of three yellow newspapers. It will not do for Mr. Hearst to attempt to array the poor against the rich by such clap-trap. He is or was the richest news paper publisher in the country and seems to be engaged In the not overlaudable ef fort to drive other Democratic papers out of circulation. Rear Admiral Watson, retired, expresses the opinion that' the next presidential elec tion means a great deal, not only to the United State3, "but to hundreds of thou sands of people In the far-away Philippines, who wonder if we are going to step aside and watch their throats being cut by the Tagalog tribes now in arms against us." He is confident that American rule will be the best thlnn that could possibly happen for the Filipinos, for he says: "I have followed the fitg in many countries and on many seas, and I have never yet seen it stand for oppression or bad faith with any people." It will now be in order for Mr. Bryan to hold up the rear admiral as an enemy of the Declaration of Inde pendence. Efforts have been made to align the Catholics in this country against the Philippine policy of the administration on the- alleged ground that it is hostile to Catholic interests. Archbishop Ireland does not so regard it, and he says the Pope does not. He calls attention to the fact that the Pope refused to recognize the Filipino commission that sought papal Intervention, and he says: "The Pope has every" confidence that the rights of the church in the Philippines will be safe guarded by the American government." The legitimate rights of the church certainly will be. Mr. Bryan's policy would turn them over to the tender mercies cf the Aguinaldlsts. Four years ago when Mr. Bryan "made his first visit to this city a great many people turned out to see him, as they would any other freak or widely advertised person whom they had not seen. Since then he has become an old story, and there is no longer the same curiosity to see him. The crowd that came to hear his accept ance speech a few weeks ago was surpris ingly small, and from present indications

that of to-day will be still smaller. What

ever he may be in other places Mr. Bryan is no longer a drawing card in Indiana. Four years ago to-day Mr. Bryan was touring the South and talking free silver as the paramount issue. At Memphis he said: If we must have the gold dollar because foreign nations insist upon it. then I think we should change it and in the place of that face above which is written "Liberty" let us have a picture of a woman in chains and above it written "Bondage." And instead of having on the other side the eagle, the emblem of national freedom. let us put a vulture that lives upon the devouring of human kind. The American people never did indorse a party firing Into the backs of American soldiers. They sent the Federalist party to its doom for not supporting the war of 1S12; they sent the Democratic party to twenty years of minority in the North because of Its leaders denouncing the war for the Union; they will send Mr. Bryan to de feat on that issue alone. Mr. Bryan has denied that he has prom ised any person a Cabinet position in case of his election, but he has not denied that there is an agreement between him and "Boss" Croker as to the disposition of the federal patronage In New York if he is elected. That Is the charge made and re iterated by Senator Hanna. Mayor Jones, of Toledo, who made a demagogic appeal yesterday In Tomlinson Hall, Is the owner of a monopoly out of which he has made a large fortune. It Is related, however, that when a poor In ventor invented a machine similar to his he went after him with an injunction in the most vigorous manner. Under free coinage as proposed by the Bryanite platform .the owner of silver bullion would be enabled to deposit S3 cents worth of the metal and receive legal-tender dollars In return. Would this benefit anybody except the owner of the bullion? Mr. Bryan might tell what he knows about this. Now the Democrats attribute their "frost" to the railroads because they did not advertise the special trains. Great Scot! has it come to the pass that Democrats along the railroads in Indiana must be reminded by a flaring poster of a great national party event? The Journal does not believe the story that sllver-mlnc owners paid Mr. Bryan $150,000 to force the special declaration for free coinage into the Kansas City platform. It was too weak a story for the Journal to purchase when it was offered. Mr. Bryan believes in 16 to 1. Mr. Bryan has not changed the least in four years; consequently, any one who be lieved him to be a dangerous man four years ago must believe so now, unless he has come to the conclusion, like Bourke Coekran, that to join him is casting doubt on the Supreme Court. It begins to look as If there might be more Gold Democrat votes against Bryan this year than there were In 1S96. Some have gone back to him, but more are going back on him. Mr. Burke pleads guilty to the printed record of his votes and acts against labor when in the Legislatur. A tn-fact, he avoids it as an ordinary person would fly a pesthouse. If the Hon. Frank B. Burke shouM an nounce a Joint debate with his legislative record he would have larger audiences than listen to him now. Do not stop to Inquire if a Bryanite rumor of gain is true, but go ahead with the work. Not one voter in six went to the polls In Georgia yesterday, and, yet it is called an election. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. "Written -Across the Envelope. Forgive Kate's husband his bad, careless waysHe has carried this letter for five long days. Placating the Power. "Our cook carries Harry's gold-handled um brella all the time." "I wouldn't submit to it." "Oh, yes you would; we wouldn't do a thins to make her dislike us." Acquired Charity. "Our clergyman plays golf." "Has it done him good?" "Well, it has cured him of preachlnic so often against profanity." Melancholy Days). Sweet summer tiles; her loss we croon With deep and poignant pain; The twentieth-century wrangle soon Will start out fresh again. Beyond the Dreams of Conscience. "Clytie, 13 this young man you are engaged to well to doT' 'Oh, Pa. he's rich; he's ro rich that he doesn't have to care whether he pays his debts or not." The Collector's AVnrped Conscience. "Isn't it a shame that our people are looting lr China?" "I think so; but still, we ought, at least. 1 get what oric-a-bruc'and stuff we want at bargain rates." Embittered Politics. Eryanlter-Ha, Bryan is addressing crowded houses all over the country." Republican Oh. yea. of course; if flryan was all by himself, you know, he'd get the Idea that the place was well filled. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson and her son, Mr. Lloyd Osbourne, are building two houses facing each other on Lombard street, in San Francisco, having decided to make that city their home. Mrs. Hearst has engaged Prof. Louis Dyer, of Oxford University, to cross the ocpan and continent in order to deliver six lectures at the University of California on "Mycentan Art." He wilt sail from England abcut Oct. 10. During his stay he will bf: Mrs. Hearst's guest She dors nothing in a small way. Germs of contagious diseases of all kir.ds, it is believed, can be eradicated by a r.tw germicide developed by the-, bacterio'.ogiits of the Marine Hospital Service. This Is formaldehyde gns generated by v. nw process Cultures of the most virulent type .f contagious diseases havi been subjected lo its operation, and the results have been such as to encourag3 the belief that danger of contagion can be materially lessened. The dowager Empress of Russia has always declined to accept the guard of Russian detectives during her visits home. On her present visit, however, this custom has been altered at the command of the reigning Czar and much against the desire of the Empress. She Is now followed by eight Russian dvtectives of the international service. Four of these detectives have taken station at Fredensborg and four in Copenhagen. Mark Twain, who will soon return to his . home in Hartford. Conn., thus answers a

friend who asked him if he did not enjoy traveling: "No. I don't. I do It for the sake of my family. If I had my way I'd settle in one spot and never move. In fact. I can't understand how any writer can be persuaded to move of his own accord. Old Bunyan was In luck when they threw him into prison. If I had been in his place they'd never have got me out." Stately ceremonies are to attend the transporting of the ashes of Dante to the new Library Talace at Florence. Historical documents show that the remains of the poet were taken from the Ravenna Church and deposited secretly In the outer wall of the chapel of Braccioforte, where they were discovered In 1SR5. Enrico Pazzi. the sculptor, had for several years the iron urn containing the ashes of the poet, but he consented to hand over his treasure to the city of Florence, which was Dante's birthplace. A score or more of Chicago men and women, under tho lead of a Prof. B. Tyler, have pledged themselves to a diet cf uncooked food. They have been organized into a r&w-food society, which has r?solved that such a diet would banish disease ftom the earth to a great extent and make physical and intellectual griants of men; and "we believe that the world would be morally improved, because those living on raw roods are always healthful and in a picasant frame of mind, and have no desire to commit wrong." All that is life-giving in anything is destroyed by fire, says the president of the society, and on this most conclusive observation the society takes Its stand. Musical criticism as it appears in Kansas may be seen in the following estimate of Paderewski, quoted from a Kansas Journal: "The fellow is deceitful. He makes you think all the time he is going to play a tune, but he never does. He flirts all around a tune, but never touches it. His hair looks like a wig, but It Isn't. He deceives you In a hundred ways. He makes the sweetest sounds you ever heard that were not a tune. He has his piano so trained that It will keep right on playing when he is not touching it. He reaches out slowly and strokes it, drawing back his elbows like a man brushing a girl's hair. You see the moonlight, and you're there with your girl, but somehow she doesn't love you. You know the sorrow of that, and that's why we don't like Paderewski." Our temperance meetln didn't prove The biff success it oushter; The chairman tried to blow the froth From off a glass o' water. Philadelphia Press. Th lessons of war oon are lost. As the ship of state onward careens. Bow many among us. in sooth. Remember what protocol means? Detroit Journal.

C0CKRAN VS. BRYAN IN "96 TIIK XEW YORKER THEN' STRONG IN OPPOSITION TO THE CANDIDATE. Ills Words Had the Strength of Firm ConvictionCalled Bryan Dishonest and a Demagogue. This year the Hon. W. Bourke Coekran, of New York, is making speeches in favor of the election of Bryan, the Democratic candidate for the presidency. Four years ago Mr. Coekran took an active part in the campaign against Mr. Bryan, delivering speeches in various parts of the country. As the distinguished New Yorker had always been a Democrat and high in the counsels of Tammany, this defiance of party dictates to the extent of arraying himself openly against its candidate neces sarily called for much courage, and proved" the strength of his convictions. The chief issua then, as now, was free silver, affd because Mr. Bryan represented the dishonest dollar, Mr. Coekran denounced him and his principles. In a speech made at Tomlinson Hall, in Indianapolis, on Saturday evening. Oct. 3, 1896, Mr. Coekran said, among other things: "A . large number of persons, Mr. Bryan rays, have no dollars at all, and would, therefore, be glad to get hold of 53 cents. I do not know of any man in this community outside of the almshouse who is with out a dollar. I do not believe that in the city of Indianapolis there Is a man tonight who has not got a dollar in his possession, unless he is receiving aid from the county or municipal authorities; and thank God for it. Everybody knows we have few paupers, but we have an immense moneyed class. Every man who is engaged in every Industrial enterprise, whether in furnishing the capital or furnishing the labor, whether he works upon it or manages the enterprise at the counting house, is deeply interested in the soundness of the money upon which the pay for his employment must depend. And It is against this money, against the Integrity of this circulation that Mr. Bryan avows himself and his whole campaign is directed. What has he promised to do for us? You will perceive he never will answer the question how ho intends to benefit the condition of the worklngman, because he can't." Again he said: "The history of this country proves conclusively that the whole of the Bryan mystification Is already in a state of collapse. It needed but examination to show what a tawdry, empty, senseless argument of false pretenses it was. He (Bryan) issues an appeal to cupidity. He thinks when he asks a farmer to repudiate his debts he cskb the farmer something he will want to do himself, and there he misunderstands the character of the American citizen. whether he works in the field or whether he works in the store. Wherever an American citizen is found we are pretty sure to find an honest man. And an appeal to dishonesty and dishonor cannot find favor with the citizens of a country who have created 3uch a history as that of which we boast." In another place, Mr. Coekran said: "You will find out when the Potsulist (meaning Bryan) starts out upon his scheme of beneficence and reform to enrich the farmer that the man whom he robs is the helpless laborer who has no commodity but his toll to offer in the market " Later on he says, and it is a condition as true to-day as four years ago: "The business of the country' Is languishing now because everywhere men arc doubtful as to the kind of money that will b? received if they chould part with money now. Everywhere men are gathering to themselves their commodities and their money, fearful of what may happen if Bryan should be elected." A PERSONAL VIEW. And here Is what Mr. Coekran thinks of the man, who is the same man to-day that he was four years ago: "My friends, there can be no hatred of class in a country that understands the rules which govern mankind. When we see the spectacle of u man Roing acrosd this country asking people of the United States to intrust him with the powers and privileges of an office In which he will be called to administer the law, and bases his appeals to 'their suffrage upon appeals to their hatred and their distrust of each other, he shows that he misunderstands the purposes for which governments are furmed. He shows that he is not fit to be trusted by a people as honest and industrious as the American people. "I do not object to anything that has occurred in this canvass. I am glad that the issue is present. The man never knows the quality of the ship in which he sails until she has been menaced by the tempest and the waves. A man never knows the t.curity of his government until he sees the assaults, which It has been capable of repelling. We have seen this ship of state ride safely through the tempest and Rtorm of civil war. We have seen her ride safely through this tempest of hatred and strife sought to be aroused in the breasts of the American people by the agitator who think they can ride into power over the objections of the people, but they will find themselves thwarted by the intelligence of the American laborer. "If there was nothing Involved In this contest except the defeat of Mr. Bryan I would not be here to-night, for that is accomplished already. There is something more than that. We must not be content with defeat by a bare majority. We must not be willing to admit for an Instant that there can be a minority respectable in numbers found to support a programme so disreputable In its proposals. The defeat must be so overwhelming that no demagogue will ever again find profit In at

tempting to turn discontent into disloyalty." Mr. Cockran's speech concluded with this ringing announcement: ' "To-night I stand before you declaring that in the presence of the peril which now overhangs the country I cannot reconcile my conscience to even a half-hearted measure of opposition, and I cannot Justify myself in the steht of God unless I vote for William McKinley." EARNEST OPPOSITION. The following excerpt from a speech made four years ago in Madison-square Garden, New York city, shows still further how deeply In earnest he was: "Fellow-Democrats We must raise our hands against the nominee of our party, and we must do it to preserve the future of that party itself. We must oppose the nominee of the Chicago convention, and we know full well that the success of our opposition will mean our own exclusion from public life, but we will be consoled and gratified by the reflection that it will prove, that the American people cannot be divided Into parties on a question of simple morals or a common honesty." It will not do for him to assert that the 16-to-l issue has been eliminated in face of the signed letter written by Mr. Bryan to the New York World the day after his renomination, in which this passage appears: "Whenever you see in the newspapers that I have abandoned silver, or sidetracked it, or tried in any way to evade It, you can set it down as false. The men who demand the abandonment of the sliver question did what they could to make the party a gold-standard party, and when they were outvoted they left the party and did what they could to defeat the ticket. I want the Filipinos to have a chance to celebrate the Fourth of July, and I want every private monopoly destroyed, but I also want silver restored at the ratio of 16 to 1, and want the national banks deprived of the power to issue paper money." In that same Madison-square speech Mr. Coekran had this to say of a candidate who has changed in no particular, but whose election he now advocates: "He (Bryan) is a candidate who was swept Into the nomination by a wavo of popular enthusiasm, awakened by appeals to prejudice and greed. He is a candidate who, declaring that this was a revolutionary movement, no sooner found himself face to face with the American feeling than he realized that this soil is not propitious to revolution: that the people of this country will not change the Institutions which have stood the tests and experiences of a century for institutions based upon the fantastic dreams of Populist agitators; that the American Nation will never consent to substitute the Republic of Washington, of Jefferson and of Jackson for the Republic of an Altgeld, a Tillman or a Bryan." TOOK A LONG- DRIVE.

President McKinley Also Received Several Callers of Note. CANTON. O.. Oct. 3. President and Mrs. McKinley took their usual drive, to-day, through the city and the outskirts. The day was delightful and they remained out lenger than usual. No plans have been made for going to Washington to confer with Cabinet officers on matters connected with the Chinese situation or for any other purpose. On the contrary, there is every indication that the President will be in Canton all this week. There were many callers to-day, the moat prominent visitor being Michael II. De Young, of the San Francisco Chronicle, one of the twelve United States commissioners to the Paris exposition. He arrived during the morning and made an ap: pointment to see the President later. FAILURES IN BUSINESS CO 31 PA R ATI V E STATE3IEXT ISSUED BY R. G. DUX & CO, Liabilities Only 37 Per Cent, of the Figures in ISOG-Ttto Firms Suspended Business Yesterday NEW YORK, Oct. 2. Reports to R, G. Dun & Co. show commercial failures for the nine months this year to date. Comparison is made below of failures and liabilities this year and last for nine months In different sections of the country: Number. 1900. 1896. New England .....1.3S4 1,213 Middle 1,6X0 1.3S8 South 1.290 1,173 Southwest 594 4S3 Central West 1.4G6 1.223 Northwest 731 578 Pacific 706 747 United States 7.S51 6,854 Liabilities. 1900. 4 Olli lOfyWiiJOi 11.657,073 1S99. J12.922.6C3 13.S44.291 9.290.243 2.9U7.971 14.804.020 2,919.993 3.002.113 New England .. Middle South Southwest Central West . Northwest .. . Pacll.j 3.9G4.C1S 17,479,006 4.870.39S 3,413,536 a United States $101,SG7,41S $37,703.903 A comparison is also made between the failures of the quarter Just ended and those of the corresponding three months of 1S96 when business was ilmillarly disturbed by a political campaign and conditions were not unlike those at present existing. The number and liabilities, are given herewith: Nuanbcrs. 19M. IK;. Commercial 2,513 3,757 Banking 14 50 Liabilities. 1900. 1S96. $27,119.9?; J73.224.649 Commercial Banking ..... 5.633.732 11,712.500 Hltr Philadelphia Produce House. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2.-Late to-day the failure was announced of Nace & Swartley, a well-known produce commission house, with offices at No. 11 South Water street and SCO Terminal Market, and formal notice of their assignment was filed in the office of the recorder of deeds. John Sparhaw, Jr., an attorney, who Is named as the assignee of the firm, when questioned concerning the failure, said he was not prepared at this time to give any figures concerning the firm's liabilities or assets. DuIIdliiK Failure at Harrisburs. HARRISBURG. Pa.. Oct. 3.-P. H. Engle. the most extensive builder In this city, has failed. Ills liabilities will reach $250.000. and his assets approximate XLW.000. Judgments and mortgages cover about JlOO.OoO of the liabilities. Faith In American Finances. NEW YORK. Oct. 3. Lord Revelstok. a director of the Bank of England, before sailing for home yesterday on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosso said: "England's extensive loans for the South African war will not interefere with her financial condition. The war has been a heavy burden, but now that It i: about over the debts caused by it will be cared for rapldl3 England has more confidence in the financial condition of America to-day than evt-r before." Auotlier Canadian Frnud. MONTREAL. Oct. 3.-Thomus G. Chlsholm, manager cf the Montreal Cold Storage and Freezing Company, was arrested last night on a charge of conspiracy. The arrest is in connection with that of McGillls and McCullocgh. arrested last week on a. charRe of defrauding the Merchants' Bank of Halifax out of $220.c0. by means of fraudulent warehouse receipts. Dot They Didn't "Pour. Hearst's New York Journal, Tuesday. Indianapolis is to welcome to-morrow one of the greatest potlticul gatherings that ever assembled In America. The National Association of Democratic Clubs is to hold Its convention there, and Democrats by tens of thousands will pour Into the city from all the States of the Union.

ADDRESSED BY ROBERTS

AMERICAN HANKERS HEARD THC TREASURER OX 3IOXEY. Officers for the Coming Year Meetlaff of the Live Stock Hoards South era Cotton Spinners. RICHMOND, Va., Oct, 3.-The American bankers' convention was called to order by President Hill at 20 o'clock this morning. Reports from the various States were heard, every section of the country retorting financial Improvement. An ad dress by United States Treasurer Roberts, on "The Treasury and the Money Market. followed. Mr. Roberts, after reviewing; the history of ancient and modern banking and comparing the methods of English, continental and American systems, took up the matter of current monetary conditions. In part, ha said: "If proof were needed that the time is past when a single bank Is needed to place government bonds, the Spanish war loan of 1S5S affords it abundantly. The ical of the banks in subscribing for that loan five times over deserves all praise for their loyalty and devotion, and the praise should be extended freoly and graciously. Rut th offers in small suras from individuals wer twice the amount called for. The floating of that loan without discount and at a cost of only one-fifteenth of 1 per cenL for printing and distribution records both the patriotism of the plain people and ths excellence of the work of the treasury. "For two years our financial problems have related to the surplus. The Spanish war cost much less than the estimates. General prosperity has given large revenues. The secretary of the treasury has had to decide what to do with I178.UU,w0 of unused funds, for the treasury was ab! to spare so much from quick resources, and yet to retain about JGO.vuO.OuO in its own vaults. That is about the cash kept by tha British exchequer in the Bank of England. "The task was to serve the government and to respond to the frequent and somewhat urgent appeals for the relief of tho money market. The prepayment of interest could be only a transient measure; bondholders showed no desire to accept interest in advance on rebate. Stronger measures were adopted and were successful Offers jvere put out Nov. 15, 1899. to buy J25.0M.0iO In old fours and fives at the prices then current, and purchases were mado of 519,300.600. In May the secretary of tho treasury gave notice that the twos of tho funded loan of 1891 would be paid on presentation and interest would stop on them Aug. IS. By that date 113.231.750 had been paid of the total of 3.004.500, and on Sept. 2o $1,700,750 remained unpresenled, free of interest. . "The largest contribution of relief, however, was by the act of March 1L That provides for the exchange of threes, fives and old fours for new consols at 2 per cent. During the six months which have elapsed, such exchange has been made to tho amount of $S32.117,S50, which is 39.57 per cent, of the bonds eligible, to wit: JS39.146.340. Of these redemptions $76,337.0u0 was in threes, being 38.4 per cent, of that class; $2U2,653,&oo in old fours, S7.lt per cent, of that class, and J53.120.950 in fives, being 53.91 per cent, of their total last March. In the exchange the treasury paid out $33,169,000. and a net saving of JS.41S.203 was made to tho government in the transactions, while there was no increase of the public debt. INCREASED CIRCULATION. "As a consequence of the revisions of the new financial law the bonds pledged for national bank circulation ran up from $239.917,270 on March 14 to I296.172.SS0 Sept. 13. The whole volume of the bank notes, including those secured by money. Increased between the same months by $112.4 13.038. and became $361,SS0,936, which Is more than ever before afloat. "A greater addition to the available resources of trade and industry was the de-" posit of public funds In the national banks. This was not a new device, but an enlargement of a well-eitabllshcd practice Deposits were granted to every bank applying with proper security while the surplus permitted, and about $30.OJ0,000 was kept in the treasury. The moneys so placed were at their maximum Feb. 10, at $109,-" 094.S78, including the credit of disbursing officers, and were reduced to $96,410.49$ by Sept. IS. The depositories number 410, axl they are foond in every State except Mississippi and Nevada, and every Territory except Arizona and the Indian Territory. The banks holding $50,000 or less are 17o; from $50.000 to $lü0,0ou, i3; from $100.000 to $200,000, 87; from $200,000 to $'00,000, 61; from $300.000 to $1.000,000, 13; over 5l.000.OO3. 10. "May 23, to prepare for payment of old twos, a call was made on these depositories pro rata, and in June a second and third call followed, to the aggregate of $11,853,700. No single institution, no one city could have paid that money mora promptly and with less friction than did these 410 banks all over the country. "This is the plain story of the putting out of $178.000,000 from the treasury above current expenditures. "With its mingled verdure and blossom and fruit, the orange grove of the Indian river of Florida or the extensive ranches of southern Cnllfornla Is a triumph of arboriculture. More rich in its yellow fruitage is the policy which from the treasury scatters to all marts the treasure which no orchard can equal, which serves more human needs than orange or apple or pome prntifltp." Immediately after tho adjournment of the convention, the nominating committee, composed of one member from each State, met and agreed on the following slate to be presented to the convention to-morrowt President, Alva H. Trowbridge. New York; vice president. Myron T. Derrick, Cleve-, land. There will be a fight for the presidency made on the floor in behalf of J. G. Forgan. of Chicago. W. L. Mayer, of Butte, Mont.; Kenneth Clarke, of St. Paul. Minn.; James H. Willcock. of Pittsburg; S. A. Morrison, of Indianapolis, and William Hill, of Rlcbmond. have been selected for the executive board. They will name the secretary and treasurer. The trust company section of the association met separately from the general body this morning, seventy-five members, representing every State in the Union, being present. The section was welcomed to the city by John Skelton Williams, president of the Richmond Trust and Savings Dpesit Company, who was followed by Willlam C. Mather, of Cleveland, O.. chairman of the section. In response. A paper on "The Duties and Liabilities of Trust Companies Acting as Transfer Agents and Registrars" was read by Harry Bowdoin, vice president of the Maryland Trust Company, of Baltimore. "The Proper Conservative Attitude of Trust Companies Toward Corporate Enterprises" was treated in a paper by John E. Borne, president of the Colonial TruU Company of New York city. The fubject. "Necessity of Trust Company Ofttcerx Having Legal Education." by Henry Russ II. ccunsel for the Union Trust Company. Detroit. Mich., was the address of the day. "The Advantages of Operating Sfe IojKslt Vaults in Connection with the Trust Company" was treated by William A. Carr, treasurer of the Union Trust Company. Pittsburg. Pa. A paper on "Trust Company Advertising" was rad by Richard 1 Crarnpton. of the Northern Trust Company, Chicago. LIVE STOCK ao AH lift. ' Xatlonal Association Adjonrns Its Louisville Sleet I nc-The Officer. IXriSVILLE. Ky.. Oct. 3. The meetln of the Interstate Association of Live gtovk Boards adjourned at 1 o'clock this afternoon, to meet next yeir In Nashville. Co!. C T. Johnson, of Illinois, was re-elected I resident; E. P. Niles. of West Virginia, vice president: Dr. F. T. Klsenman. of this city, secretary. Indianapolis was Nafhville's competitor for tho next place of meeting. A resolution ws adopted providing for the appointment of a commltteo trom each State In which the quarantine line runs to consider the advisability of tabllshing u permanent zone with a closed, season. ' Another resolution recommended that the United States Department of Agriculture establish an op-n euson during Ninmlr and December, and that the various States interested arrance details in a similar manner to lat season. A resolution wax ala passed petitioning Congress to enact tue!