Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 293, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1900 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1900.

THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY. OCTODICR 20, 1CC0.

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The sugar trust, in the person of Its coun3el-ln-chlef, Mr. Shepard, Introduced Mr. Bryan In New York. BSMBSBBBBBBBBSBBBIBBSBSBSBSBBBSBBSBBBSBBBBSMBSSaSBBBBBBSBBB The tone of the Democratic press shows that these rare October days do not bring them either courage or hope. Every Republican or anti-Bryan man should do something every day to make the defeat of Bryan in Indiana emphatic. MBBBBaaBBBBBBBBSBSBBBSBSBBaSSBSSBSBBBBBSSSBBBBBBBBBSBBBBSSBSIBBBBBBBB Will the voter who reads this paragraph question himself as to his knowledge regarding the marking and folding of a ballot? It Is stated that Mr. Bryan will make a hasty trip through some States to undo the work of Roosevelt which means more antiBryan votes. It would be greatly to the political advantage of. Hon. Frank II. Burke If he could provo that he was never a member of the Indiana Senate. If the people of this district want a representative in Congress to fight labor interests they could not do better than elect Frank B. Burke. Mr. Bryan's presence In New York has not reduced the betting odds of 4 to 1 In favor of McKinley. Indeed, the largest bet cf Thursday was $22.500 to $.".000. It may be that Mr. Bryan Is staying away from Nebraska in the hope that in his absence his various parties may elect a Legislature that will send him to the United States Senate. A vote for Bryan against McKinley, or for a Democratic candidate for Congress against a Republican, is a vote to substitute souphouses for factories and empty dinner pails for full ones.. Indiana Republicans have reason to feel proud that their two senators arc among the most effoctlvo speakers in the campaign and have been much in demand outsldo as well as within the State. In spite of Mayor Taggart's denial the circumstantial evidence is strong that he obtained from Boss Croker $00,000 which he will use tho last days of the campaign in his own way and for the advantage of his small coterie. A circular has been received from Plttsboro, addressed to colored voters by a few men whose names arc appended, but whom no one in that locality knows. It Is written and circulated by Democrats who have their national platforms read by Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, and who dare not criticise the wholesale disfranchisement Of negroes In the South. Senator Lindsay, of Kentucky, has come out for President McKinley, and for Mr. Yerkes, the Republican candidate for Governor. He says the prospects are good that Mr. Yerkes will be elected by a good majority, while tho chances are in favor of Mr. McKinley. But what of the Goebel Jaw? Cannot any majority be overcome by a law passed to wipe out Republican majorities? Wednesday's Boston Journal noted the fact that all the presidents of the great Eastern colleges save one had declared for the Republican ticket. That exception was President Eilot, of Harvard, and the Journal ventured the prophecy that he would bt?N found on the Republican roster before the end of the week. The event proves the Journal to bo a good prophet. President Eliot has declared his Intention to vote for McKinley and Roosevelt. Mr. Bryan thinks Mexico is far letter otf because we hauled our flag down from the capltr.l when the war was over and leTt 11 rx Ivo to govern herself. That U a matter of conjecture and of no consequence. as the. United States never thought of holding Mexico. But Mr. Bryan will hard ly say that New Mexico and California, which we did :i quire and hold, are not far beMer off than they would be hud they remained undor the Mexican flag. SSSSBSBHSBMSHSHBaSHaMKBaawBBiBSBBHSBS Mr. I.'rran went out from Crokcr's Relfrhazzar . fcart. which cost each diner $12. exclusive of wlner. which brought the total up to M0. to speak of honest wealth and that which was not. lie poured forth his tenement epithets upon those who obtained wealth by the advantage of position; yet there is not an Intelligent tcrson in the country who does not know that all the splendor which Croker poured out about Mr. Biyan was bought by wealth acquired by a; predatory methods aa those of the freebooter. It ! a series of remarkable coincidences ttxt Senator Frank B. Burke wu absent

when the final vote was taken on the "anti-pluck-me-store" bill; also, when the final vote was taken on the bill to protect discharged employes and to prevent blacklisting; also, when the final vote was taken on the bill providing for the weighing and Screening of coal In miner, for the better

ventilation of mine, and for the better protection of mine workers by timbers, props, caps, etc. The absence of legislators at such times Is generally called "dodging." WA II X IMS TO REPIBLICXS. Within a few days a member of a local Republican committee was approached by two members of a Democratic committee with an offer of two votes for McKinley for one for John W. Kern. These men went to the home of the Republican in the evening and went about the thing deliberately, indicating a considered plAn which must have had its origin in the brains of leaders. Similar reports have reached Republican committees that offers to trade off Bryan for Kern have been made in Cass, Fayette and Howard counties. No one should be surprised at these re ports. The Taggart regime knows that Bryan is beaten in Indiana, but out of the general disaster it would rescue John W. Kern for the all sufficient reason that Mr. Kern belongs to the Taggart regime and is its candidate for Governor. As the Journal has before stated, the Taggart regime has finished its course in Indianapolis. It has borrowed and wasted all the money it can reach, and. furthermore, it has lost caste. Taggart rule has come to be a synonym for wastefulness, corruption and lawlessness. The whole State witnessed the lawlessness of Taggartlsm last week. Now no one in this city is surprised to read that the Taggart regime is assessing the saloon keepers for political contributions under the hint of nonenforcement of the laws for those who pay. The covetous eyes of the Taggart regime are fixed upon the state government. Its revenues are so ample that the greedy "grafter" desires to reach the treasury. Affairs are tied up in the Statehouse, but neither Constitution nor laws stand in the way of Taggartlsm. The sort of imperialism which gives one class of saloon keepers advantage over others is tiie kind which will sweep away all barriers between the greedy and the state revenues. The patronage of Indiana, even with its nonpartisan boards, is worth more to the Taggart regime than is the giving of an electoral vote to Bryan which cannot elect him. First of all, Taggartlsm is thrifty. Mr. Kern is an affable man who does not let his politics interfere with his social life; but in all Indiana there is not a more resolute and bitter partisan than is John W. Kern. With the possible exception of Frank B. Burke and A. G. Smith no Democrat in Indiana has habitually uttered so many bitter, derogatory and slanderous words against Republicans as has Mr. Kern. Should he be Governor the administration will be of the bitterest partisan character. The affairs of the Slate of Indiana are now conducted upon a high business plane. It is an Intelligent, conscientious andbusinesslike management of public business. This policy will be continued if Colonel Durbin and tho rest of the Republican state ticket shall be elected. Those who want the other thing will make no mistake In voting for Thomas Taggart's special candidate. .. OXIS OF THE COL'XTLESS TEXTS. "Earnings of Vandalia trainmen for September show, by pay roll, an average increase of $15.20 for the month over the same month in 18Jt. Wages of shopmen show an Increase of 22 1-3 per cent, for September over the same month In 1856. Over tho foregoing quotation a reader wrote, "Text; I. leave you to preach the sermon." It would seem that the text is one of- those which cannot be Improved upon. It Is a fact that all can understand without study. Under the fear of Bryanism, which first really alarmed the 'country by the speeches and platform of tho Chicago convention in July, 1SJW, all employments shrank and wages diminished, partly because of the intermittent nature of employment. Men often got but two or three days' employment in the week, and many had no employment whatever. In fact, the conditions were about as disheartening as they could be. Mr. Bryan said tho panacea was the coinage of the bullion of tho silver mine-owners Into dollars, thus doubling its commercial value. Major McKinley said: "Open the mills and not the mints." Everybody knows what followed. Major McKinley was elected, and he has proved to be in fact the advance agent of prosperity. The mills started up, the railroads had larger trains and employed rpore men, and employment offered on every hand. Soon the disheartened man ceased to pursue the elusive Job, because the eager Job pursued the man. A change for the better has come over the whole country'. What Is stated in the "text" became a general fact. And now the hundreds of thousand, of men who have been benefited by the improved conditions, the larger employment and tho better wages are invited to vote for Mr. Bryan, whose remedy In 1SW would have plunged the country Into disaster ar.d distress. Are these hundreds of thousands of men weary of good times, that they would go back to the conditions of 1SD4, 1S05 and 1S9C? The indications are that the hundreds of thousands of sensible American citizens will not commit hara-kiri by voting for Mr. Bryan, the leader of the party of destruction. BUY.W WOtLD PACK THE COIIITS. Chairman Jones, of the Bryan national committee, is indignant because, as he says, "Some persons affect to believe that In case Mr. Bryan shall K elected he will pack the Supreme Court for purposes of his own." There are many persons who believe this without any affectation. Chair man Jones says: "There is nothing in anyDemocratic platform or In tho utterances of any assemblage of Democrats or of any single leading Democrat to suggest such an idea." In further vindication of the Populist candidate for President he says: "Fortunately Mr. Bryan has been before the public long enough for every one to know that tricks and false pretenses arc not among his weapons, and suggestions of this kind excite contempt." The fact that Senator Jones thinks It necessary to defend Mr. Bryan against the charge that, if elected, he will pack the Supreme Court for purposes of his own shows that he regards it as a serious one, It certainly Is. The Journal does not re member to have seen the charge In that rpeciflc form, but the real question is, would Mr. Bryan UEe the Judiciary to further hl political ideas and ends? On that point there is scarcely room for doubt.

Senator Jones says there Is nothing in any Democratic platform or in the utterance of any single leading Democrat to Justify the charge. Let us see as to that. The Chicago platform declared as follows:

We denounce arbitrary interference by federal authorities In local affairs as a vio lation of the Constitution of the United States, and a crime against free institu tions, and we especially object to government by injunction as a new and highlydangerous form of oppression, by which federal judges, in contempt of the law or the States and rights of citizens, become at once legislators, judges and executioners. There has never been an Instance of ar bitrary interference by federal authorities in local affairs. The foregoing resolution grew out of the action of the federal- authorities in interfering during the Pullman riots in Chicago, in ISM. On that occasion President Cleveland, in reply to an Impertinent message from Governor Altgeld, said: Federal troops were sent to Chicago In strict accordance with the laws and Constitution of the United States, upon the demand of the Postofflce Department that obstruction of the mails should be removed, and upon the representations of the Judicial officers of the United States that process of the federal courts could not be executed through the ordinary means, and upon abundant proof that conspiracies existed against commerce between the States. This was. the "arbitrary interference" denounced by the Chicago platform, and the "government by injunction" was the order of a federal court to maintain the authority of the government and protect property and life. In his letter of acceptance, in 1896, Mr. Bryan expressed his approval of this resolution, as he did In many speeches. The Populist convention which nominated Mr. Bryan in 1SD6 declared against "The arbitrary course of the courts In assuming to Imprison citizens for Indirect contempt, and ruling by Injunction." Mr. Bryan indorsed that also. The Kansas City convention reiterated the Chicago platform of 18, and Mr. Bryan indorsed that also. He is, therefore, committed as fully as a man can be against the right of the federal government to send troops into any State for the protection of Its malls and execution of orders of its courts without the consent of the Governor of the State, and he is also fully committed against the right of a federal court to issue an injunction for tho protection of property. It follows, logically, that Mr. Bryan would not appoint any person to a federal Judgeship, whether in the Supreme Court or in the Circuit or District Courts, who did not agree with him in this view of the case. All his appointments of Judges would be of persons who agreed with Governor Altgeld in the controversy of IS04. How many Judges he might have to appoint no one can tell, but they would all bo of tho kind Indicated. To all intents and purposes that would be packing the courts for purposes of his own. But there arc other reasons for believing that, if elected President, Mr. Bryan would appoint judges holding different views from any now on the federal bench. He is bitterly opposed to tho national bank law, which, he holds, is a monopoly and unconstitutional. He would not appoint a judge who believes tho law constitutional. He believes, above everything else, In the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. He would not appoint a judge whom he did not know to be opposed to all legislation in favor of the gold standard. Ho is in favor of an unlimited issue of legal-tender notes by the government, and would not appoint a judge who favored the redemption, retirement or limitation of such notes. In short, if Mr. Bryan is a man of his word, as he and his friends claim, he would appoint no federal Judge who did not hold all the views he is now preaching on the stump. Whether one term would enable him to appoint enough Judges to get the support of the courts for these views is not the question. That lie would do his best in that direction there Is no doubt. This would be virtually packing the courts. The Veterans' Patriotic League, of which General D. E. Sickles is president, and Colonel I. N. Walker, of this city, a member of the executive committee, is circulating largo numbers of an addrcsu urging veterans of the war of the rebellion to vote for McKinley and Roosevelt. This circular is signed by a large number of exUnion veterans, including Generals R. S. Foster, George F. McGinnls, John T. Wilder, John Coburn, Fred Kneflcr, Admiral George Brovyn, Colonel I. N. Walker, Captain W. A. Ketcham, F. A. Osbourn, Company I, Twentieth Indiana Volunteers, and many others. With it is a stirring letter from General Sickles, one paragraph o! which Js given as a sample: In ISiMi our united and fraternal voices placed Comrade McKinley in the presidential chair. It Is true that In that eventful canvass Mr. Bran gained the suffrage cf millions of voters. He will not get near as many now. Then the country was sick at heart. It had passed through years of disaster and gloom. It looked anywhere and everywhere for relief. Many were willing to accept the nostrums of any political quack who pretended to offer relief. Now our country is prosperous, vigorous, hopeful, strong. It needs no doctors least of all, quack doctors. Mr. Bry an will find his favorite prescription of lt to 1 nauseating to all sensible people. They will turn away from him as never before. They will cling to the wise statesmen who have restored our prosperity and renewed our confidence in ourselves and In our future. Let us re-elect our comrade. Let us help him to upheld and increase the prosperity the Nation now enjoys. Let us run no risk by disturbing the conditions which are rapidly giving to us the control of the best markets in the world for the product of our mines, our manufactories, und of our farms. The re-election of McKinley means employment for labor everywhere, at good wages, paid in gold. General Sickles closes his letter with the following appeal, which has the stirring quality of a call to arms: Comrades, let us stand together once more for our country, its peace, its prosperity and welfare and honor. Let us again put patriotism above partisanship. Let us stand together, touching elbows, as Comrade McKinley stood with us In the ranks in 1M1. To vote for a single name on the Democratic ticket the Republican must put an X in the square at the left of every McKinley elector fifteen squares, and to the left of every other name on the Republican ticket as well as to the left of the single Democrat for whom be votes. "With the excellent state ticket from top to bottom, so much marking is not worth while. Besides, the chances are ten to one that the Republican voter who undertakes this task will disfranchise himself by putting the X in the circle with the eagle. It Is altogether better to vote the entire Republican ticket by putting the X In the circle with the eagle and nowhere else. We hear no more of Chairman Jones's talk about offering a reward for evidence of any case of the coercion and intimidation of voters by Republican employers. Vv

all means let Jones do it and make the reward big enough to Indicate that he is in earnest. If there is a single case of the coercion or intimidation of voters anywhere let us know it, and let the man, firm or company that attempts it be held up for public condemnation. The Journal is very sure there is no case of the kind in Indiana and will not be. The fact Is, Jones's talk is all bluff, as is that of Bryan and his organs on the same line. They all know there Is nothing of the kind being done or contemplated. The talk is intended to break the force of their inevitable defeat. Only that, and nothing more. "Every address of Mr. Bryan since his speech of acceptance has been an error's crown of error." says the Brooklyn Eagle. Two days after Mr. Bryan's New York meeting the secretary of the Brotherhood of Cloak Makers and other officers of unions told the New York Times that there had been a very general change of sentiment among the members of East Side unions since listening to his last speech. They complain that he has not the merest outline of a policy and that his arguments were sophistries when he used arguments, so from admirers of Bryan they have turned to McKinley. Every recent speech is an "error's crown of error." Croker Is the greatest man In the world. And he Is at the head of the greatest organization in the world. Such were the last words of William J. Bryan to the people of New York city, uttered In his last meeting In Cooper Union. It seems scarcely credible.

BUBBLES IN THE AIR. Art nnd Mature. -"Was the country lovely, Marie?" "Oh, Just lovely; It looked for all the world like a landscape painted by somebody." A Conversational nnblt. "lliggs is a man of few words, isn't he?" "Yes, he hasn't much of a vocabulary; but. gracious! ha can reiterate- until the- cows com4 home." Affectlon Exhanatlnj? Tribute. "Clara came back worse than when aha went away." "How did that happen?" "The doctor said the had worn herself out buying presents for the family." Political Theory and Practice. "Jonas Jibbs is aa amusing cltlien." "In what way?" "Oh, ho says he knows Bryan Is all right, but he is going to vote forVlcKinley." "Work Anions the Heathen. "That lady miEsionary declines to go to Kentucky." "Why?" . " ' "Sht says she'd feel just as ssffc in China, and get more bric-a-brac.' FERRELL IS BREAKING SLAYER OF .MESSENGER LAM J OX THIS VliltCSK OF COLLAPSE. Ills Fiancee, on the Stand, Heinle the Story of Their Relations Other Testimony of the Day. MARYSV1LLE. O., Oct'. -19. When Bosswell Ferrell entered the courtroom,' where his trial on the charge of murdering Express Messenger Lane is in progress, this morning, there was an absence of his usual Fclf-conlident air. lie kept his eyes on the floor instead of posing In a heroic attitude. His countenance is beginning to take on a haggard- look and the strain is fast exhausting his nerve. The prisoner's betrothed has declared her faith in him and expresses confidence in his acquittal. Mrs. Ella Smiley was the first witness called this morning. She identified Ferrell as the man who stayed at the hotel In riain City on the night of the murder. She testified that she furnished the string with which the package expressed to New York was tied. A. G. "Walker, a Columbus policeman, next gave testimony as to unimportant details in connection with the finding and'removal of Lane's body. Miss Lillian Costlow, who was engaged to marry Ferrell, was placed on tho stand this afternoon. Although quite nervous, she did not at any time lose her composure. She hesitated at times, but it was evidently the result of her desiro to be explicit and positive, rather than to evade the questions. She said she became engaged to Ferrell in December, 1SIO, and that shortly after the date for the wedding had been fixed for Aug. 15 last. She told of tho preparations for the wedding. and of tho money Ferrell gavo-her to keep for him, tho day following the train robbery. She said Ferrell told her that he had drawn it from a building and loan association, and that it represented his savings. Sho did not know the amount of the money. She also told the story of Ferrell's arrest at her home on Sunday, two days after the robbery. Ferrell was taken sick in the Jail tonight, and a physician attended him. He is apparently weakening, and it is feared he will have a nervous collapse. Negro Hanged by n Mob. Dodson was hanged early this morning at lirusie canning ior snooting conductor Will Jordan last Tuesday. An hour after Sheriff Dubroca placed Dodson in the West Baton Bouge jail last night tho mob secured him and two hours later he was hanged to a telegraph pole at Baton Rouge Junction. Two weeks ago Xed Cobb was lynched here for the murder of Young Mallen. Saved the Country. LET us breathe again In freedom, taking d?p braths, if si need 'cm, for the Nation has been duly saved, we're very glad to state. Yes. the country's freed from ehackl, through the Hryanlstie tackles, and the liberating iroecs3 cost just lifty flunks per plate. I GENTLK realer, dot thou ak us: "Are tho y lunks coins of Damascus? Are they kin t j the Kesterct thnt were spent in ancient Home?" Ktp cool underneath your collar. "I'lui.k" is but a term for dollar for th dollar o' our daddies for the dollar here at homK 'TWAS a scene quite transcendental in the room so Oriental, where tr.e Moorish decorations iT.t an adJ-d Joy to life; here the crackedIce smile of Cruder showed that he was but a joker when he leprecated eating pie or pudding with a knife. Oil. they tired a foolish garcon when he hummed a wicked war for,- whlch will rhyme. patient rradtr, If you'll lve the Krench tx twist.) And 'twas Croker who .most bravely, also gallantly and gravely, said he'd "pa. th? menu entry." ami called for an "eatln lit." AT the start the noble r.ryan. foreign influence d'fyin. would have nothing whatsoever tht wa known as "conwarae;" and he paraIvied a scullion who suggested he'd try "bouiüon" which will rhyme, dear reader, If you think of it that way. Tlli-HK were entremets and rate; jrne le terre and pot age that lü. ther wire .lls'iie.i that were betu-r than their name woulj in ilcate. F.ut the country wä In danger, co each gastron'inie ranger did hh duty by tho Nation, all for fifty plunks per plato. HUTS the Liberty Apostle did. midst Jumbl, jerk and jostle, do his best to save the Nation, while the Sachem paid the toll, and the other brave assistant ate along this entire distance, till they left a great hiatus 'tween the s.nip and linger howls. INlHCiK.sTlON h-xA no t.i n.rs they were there to rlht the error of the people who had youht to phwe the land in luxury, and eacl,uy er'.slottii carad the fears that Ion have fraught u dared the fears and eought to Grown them in u tl.le of l'ommery. SO, with energy unceaslnc and simplicity mot pleasing, did the Common People's Tatroa inat-h them from their awful fate, and he did It very peatly. wrecked the blli-of-fare ompletely wrrcke.l the bill, but saved the fountry, all for f.fty plunks per plate. W. M. Xe?blt. In Baltimore Amri-rv

SPEECH BY A BISHOP

II T. REV. C. II. FOWLER DELIVERS A POLITICAL ADDRESS. He Advocates the Defeat of W. J. Bryan and the Election of William McKinley. TELLS A FEW GOOD STORIES POIXTS TO THE GREATEST MISSIONARY EVENTS SINCE CHRIST, And Makes a Convincing; Argument In Faror of Expansion If McKinley Is) Elected." CHICAGO, Oct. ID. IU. Rev. Charles Henry Fowler, T. D., I.L.. D., of Buffalo. bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, addressed six thousand people in the Auditorium to-night, under the auspices of the Marquette Club. After paying a magnificent tribute to President McKinley and his work and reviewing the growth of prosperity under his administration. The bishop's subject was "Lincoln and McKinley." He spoke for two hours, holding the rapt attention of his hearers. At times the applause was tremendous. The bishop said in part: "I am invited here to talk under the auspices of the Marquette Club upon two providential men I.lncoln and McKinley. All men honor Lincoln to-day. All men will honor McKinley to-morrow. "In VnO the business of the country was dead. Forty per cent, of the railroads of the country were in the hands of receivers. Five millions out of 20.00.000 of ouf laboring men were idle and 2,000,000 out of 20,Ouo.OOQ more were on reduced wages or reduced time or both. Our exports had run down to only $200,000,000 and the deposits in the banks had been reduced to only 1107,fj0,000. Failures in business had gone up to per cent., from 10,0m under Harrison to 15,001) under Cleveland. Farm products would not bring enough to pay for production. Farmers could not pay the interest on their mortgages. Merchants could not sell or buy. Factories were closed, furnaces cold, mines shut down. All this forced upon us by competition with cheap foreign labor by free trade. "Test the prophets of 1ST6 by their prophecy. Bryan prophesied that if McKinley was elected the distress would increase and the number of the unemployed would multiply. What are the facts? Distress has disappeared everywhere except from the minds of the calamity buzzards who are hunting for carcasses, and the number of the unemployed lias been reduced from CS per cent, of our laboring men to 2 per cent., that is. from 5,090,000 to only 400,000. Bryan prophesied that if McKinley was elected farm products and wages would go down with silver and that farmers would lose their farms under their mortgages. What are the facts? Farm products are higher than they have been for years, wages have advanced from 10 to 25 per cent, and farm mortgages have been paid off more rapidly than ever. Mr. McKinley promised to re-enact a protective tariff and maintain sound money, and he prophesied the return of prosperity. He has kept every promise of his party and every prophecy he uttered has turned to history. TWO ILLUSTRATIONS. "Bryan's predictions make me think of a doctor who had a patient sick with the bubonic plague. The patient said: ' 'Doctor, have you ever had a patient with this awful plague?' "The doctor said: 'Yes, I have had ninety-nine ' " 'Doctor, did any of them die?' " 'Yes, they all died. "The patient said: 'Oh, dear, then there Is no chanco tor me. "The doctor said: 'I think there is some chanco for you. It seems as If I ought to save one in a hundred.' "The patient said: I can't afford to have you experiment on me. I want a doctor who will cure every time.' "That seems to me about all the chance we have if we take Mr. Bryan. We had better take a doctor that has cured every time. "I would like to say a few words about the paramount Issue if I was certain what it is. Mr. Bryan's statement of the paramount issue makes me think of tho old, old fctory about Pat and his present to the priest. Pat promised to give the priest a pig. He put the pig in a basket and started. On tho way he went Into an inn to refresh himself. "While he was there some wags took out the pig and put in a pup. Rat went on with the basket. With a proper speech he gave the basket to tho priest. When the priest opened the basket he found nothing but a pup. The priest paid: " 'You promised me a pig: I don't want the pup. Take it back with you.' Pat swore it was a pig when he started with it. But back he went and stopped again to refresh himself at the inn, when the wags took out the pup and put back the pig. Pat went home and said: 'Biddie, the dlvll's to pay. When 1 got to the priest with that pig it had turned into a pup, and the priest drove me away with 11. Seo the infernal creter. Then lie opened his basket and was dumfounded to find tho pig again. He said: 'Sure. Biddie, the dlvll is in the basket. Now it is pig, then it is pup, then It is pig again. Sure that is the divil.' "So it is with Mr. Bryan's paramount Issue. In the East it Is expansion or imperialism, but in the West it is 16 to 1. I do not know what it is here In Chicago, where you arc at the meeting of the seas. Pat was right. The devil is in that Bryan basket. GREATEST MISSIONARY EVENTS. "The three greatest missionary events. since the tragedy on Mount Calvary are: First, the conversion of St. Paul, to be the apostle of the gentiles. 'I send you far hence to the gentiles.' That Is our chanco. That opened the door to us. That widened Christianity from being the religious cult of the Jews to the saving faith of mankind. Second, the firing on Fort Sumter. That made the Anglo-Saxon race fit to be used in the world's evangelization, washed In tho blood of her martyrs, her life emphasized her profession of liberty. 'Whose life is lightening oice in thunder.' Third, the blowing up of the Maine. This made this Anglo-Saxon race one. The grandson of General Grant and the grand nephew of General Lee marched side by side, under the old Hag, against a common enemy. "Expansion is the law of Saxon life. Wrhen he accepted individual accountability directly to God. without the Intervention of any man. then God gave him self-reliance, and sent him about the Job of subduing and saving the world, and he is out and at it. Mrs. Partington with her broom trying to sweep back the tide of the ocean is more certain to win than the men who stake their success righting expansion; for they are lighting not merely McKinley and the Rough Rider and the American people, but they are also lighting the resistless force running through all ages of nature, the force of natural selection, and they are also lighting God's eternal purpose to elevate the races. "The eagle is out of Its shell, and perched on a crag of the mountains, and is pluming his pinions to wrestle with the whirlwinds. You cannot coax him down from yonder crag and crowd him back into tho shell which he has burst and deserted. No more can you crowd the American Nation back into the original thirteen colonies. "Our fleet was yonder in the far East, the war was precipitated upon us. all the ports of the world were neutral ports. Our warships. Ilko our notes, had three days' grace, when all ports were closed against them. With not half enough coal to take them home there was left to them only the empty heavens and the bottomless sea. Something had to be done. God said: I will fhow you what to do,' and He led our ships past -all the forts and around all the concealed mines Into Manila bay, saying: 'Turn those Spanish warships Into colanders, and I will give you a coaling station and an archipelago. You shall exile despotIsm; give to an oppressed people a free press, a free Bible, a free school and a free government.' He obeyed, and now that Hag waves over the Philippines. It wave there overs the graves of some of our bravest aons. Let no man dream that it

will ever be hauled down. It will not come down for a thousand years. EXPANSION IN OCR BLOOD. "Expansion Is In our blood. In our history, in our religion. It Is our destiny. To call expansion imperialism is either foolish or insincere, or both. It Is practicing fallacies upon the uninformed and the ccntlding. Imperialism is absurd. No department of government could usurp the supreme power. Congress could not think of it. The people would strangle their representatives before their seats were warm. The Senate could not even undertake it. The people would stop their supplies and starve senators before they could select their titles. The President least of all could resist the people. He is under law always. Congress can stop supplies. The Senate can reject his partisans. The Supreme Court can neutralize his laws, if unconstitutional. He is only able to execute the will of the people. The only possible emperor is the absolute power above Congress, about the Senate, above the Supreme Court, above the President, 77,00ü,uu0 people. "The President resist the people! McKinley resist the people! To borrow from a Chicago orator: Rather than undertake to resist the people I would go to sea In a

boat of stone, with sails of lead and oars of iron, with the wrath of God for a gale and hell for the nearest port. A seriotH charge of imperialism is the craziest crime of this century. "President McKinley is a providential man. Like the prophets of old. he Is here on an errand. He is the prophet of our time. Prophets are sent in great emergencies, and they- come with God's messages. Our trouble is to recognize them. Few men have the insight to see a living prophet. They do not all come in the samo role, nor in the same form, nor wearing the Fame apparel. If the new prophet copies the old he would be merely a charlatan. One comes as a patriarch, like Abraham; another as a leader and law giver, like Moses: another as a warrior, like Joshua; another as a disturber and avenger, like Elijah; another as a reformer, like Luther; another as a regenerator, like Wesley; another as a patriot, like Washington, and another comes as a deliverer, like Lincoln. "To find the prophet of our time it Is useless to take the grave clothes of the old r.rophets and run around among the living men trying to find some man whom theea clothes will fit. You might as well take the bow of Achilles and try to find the modern warrior by hunting for some man to bend that ancient bow. Much better to look for a man on the bridge of a steel warship, with his pockets full of fifteenmile cannon. "To find our prophet, the prophet of this time, we must find not the man who might fit the sheepskin cloak of John the Baptisi, but the man who fits into the big Job of our time, the man whose hand makes a bend in the stream of events. Whether we recognize It or not. impartial history will lind that hand in the White House. President McKinley has lifted the United States from being a remote province into the character of a foremost world power. He seems to be dictating the policy of the civilized world, holding in his hand the boiling cauldron of China, into which all the navies of the world are steaming, and toward which all' the armies of the world have been wheeling, and still he seems to be able to keep the hope cf peace. THE "OPEN DOOR." "No man can tell what a day may bring forth, but if he shall succeed In preventing tho dismemberment of China, and the preservation of the 'open door and 'the most favored nation' clause In our treaties, he will have advanced the Chrlstianlzatlon of China by at least a century, and will have won the love and honor of all libertyloving people. "The open door for trade, and for the gospel means much more than we can comprehend. It means the perpetuation of the British empire. With Russia and France controlling the sa front of China, England would be compelled to come out cf India. The breaking up of the. British empiro would be the destruction of the greatest civilizing force ever known among men. Russia closes her doors against missionaries with a firmer hand than does China. Lot Russia become the power back cf the thione, and heathenism has a new lease of Mfe. China, armed and left in heathenism, in twenty-five years will bo our most dangerous neighbor. Economical, industrious, brave, able to put from 40.WO,000 to &0.0H0.000 of roldlers into the field, danger will lurk in her every step. "The open door in trade means much to us. It means the running of all our furnaces, spindles and factories. We can produce much more than we can consume. China is the great mart of the next century. Cnina can furnish a market for our surplus. The open door means much to us in every way. "We are at the crossing of the roads. If Bryan is elected he says he will call air extra session of Congress to legalize the planks of the Kansas City platform. He will eeek the repeal of the gold standard bill and open the mints to mine owners for the free and unlimited coinage of silver. This will wreck business, take half the value of our salaries and wages and give It to the men who have the gold. We don't want that. "If Bryan is elected he will seek the immediate repeal of the present tariff Jaw and secure free trade. This will stop our spindles, , close our factories and cool our furnace. This will transfer our work beyond the sea to strangers and leave our laborers Idle and their families hungry. If Bryan is elected he will call back our armies, turn over all the tribes of the Philippine islands to be robbed and murdered by the Tagal, and pull down our flag from where our heroes have planted It. We don't want that. s "On the other hand, what? If McKinley is elected he will continue the protective tariff, keeping our factories and furnaces lunning and furnish work and high wages to our laborers. That Is what we do want. "If McKinley is elected he will retain the gold standard, preserve sound money and pay all our salaries and wages In money worin 100 cents to the dollar. That is what we do want. "If McKinley Is elected he will keep our flag floating over all our territory, preserving our national honor. That Is what we do want. "If McKinley Is elected he will hold the United States up to the front as a world power, t-ecure the open door for trade and the gospel and help to perpetuate civilization, thus hastening the end of heathenism and the Chrlstianlzatlon of the world. That Is what we do want. Therefore, let us send him back to his job." THE VOTE ON REVISION. Sentiment In the Preab) tcrlea Hp. carding Changcn in the Creed. PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 13. The vote of the presbyteries on the question of the revision ol the Confession of Faith, as thus far reported, is as follows: For revision only, CO; declaratory statement, 2; supplemental creed, 3ü; substitute creed, 5; revision and supplemental creed, 10; dismissal of the whole subject. S3; total number of presbyteries voting, 110. There are 232 presbyteries, including twenty-one In foneign lands, which will not vote in time for the report of the committee, and there are eight or ten presbyteries which have only one meetirg during the year, during the spring. A report will be presented by the committee to the General Assembly, which meets In this city next May, with recommendations. The votes of two-thirds of the presbyteries will be necessary for the Assembly to send down any overtures on the suber t. The presbyteries voting for revision desiro, as a rule, modification of certain expressions, such as "elect infants dying in Infancy." which they ask to have changed no as to read "infants dying in infancy are Included In the election of grace." Presbyteries which voted for a declaratory statement desire to have such an explanation of disputed points in the Confession, as adopted in May, 1ST, by the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland, which, in connection with the question of salvation of infants, has adopted the following: "In accepting the standards, it Is not required to be held that any who die in infancy are lost. The advocates of a supplemental creed do not desire to do anything with the Confession, but simply to add to the Confession a brief statement of Calvinlstlc doctrine in simple language. Strike" of DrettamfiUer. MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. The dressmakers in this city, over two hundred In numter. have struck for a ten-hour day, extra ray for overtime and no reduction In wages for the new hours. A few employers luve granted the demands of the union. The Ii ranae from SO to $13 i..r vv erk

ELIOT FOR M'KINLEY

riu:smi:NT or harvard sippokts IIKPIIILICAX TICKET. ür ItrgnrtU the Financial ClurMlou ft i the Mont Important Inane He- ' fore the Country J HENRY C. PAYNE C0NFIDEN WILLING TO I1ET TWO TO0E THAT M'KIXLEY WILL BE ELECTED. He Snv the President inl Fleht I Picnic for Republicans Who Cannot Loae. NEW YOniC Oct. 19.-President Chas, tributes to the Outlook for Oct. 20 an academic article on "Political Principles au I' Tendencies," in which he supports the Republican national ticket. He says he regards the election next month not "as a supreme crisis, like the second election of Lincoln, but only one indispensable act In a leng drama." Dr. Eliot takes the hopeful view. He points out that "the American people have leng had a characteristic political and social enthusiasm. Thrir two steady, pasionato sentiments rre for the security, prosperity and honor of the Republic, and for the spread amon. the white races of free institutions and of the good social conditions which grow out of them." At the outset Dr. Eliot says that it seems to him "those men and those parties that suppose the American ieople likely io be permanently guided In their jolltIcal action by any sordid commercialism or other form of national seliishness are grievously mistaken. Some party managers and all mercenary voters are governed by mean motives, but the mass of the people is never much influenced by pecuniary consideration in politics." In his discussion of the Issues President Eliot puts a sound currency first, and be says: "At this moment the fcreat cause of sound currency is defended by the Republican party alone." Second in importance In domestic politics he places "a public service based on merit only," ;ind says that "the personal nnd political history of the candidates of the Republican party should cause them to be preferred on this issue to the candidates of the Democratic-Populist party; for of tho two candidates nominated by the latter party, one is a notorious spoilsman, and the other, being u civilian without military experience, accepted a colonelcy in time of war. That act speaks louder than orations." His third important point is made in favor of the Republican policy of retirrocIty, as a longer t-tep toward free trade than the theories championed by the Democrat. He strongly condemns the Democracy's attack on the Judiciary, under the guise cf opposition to "government by Injunction." In regard to foreign affairs he says: '.'Whenever a powerful nation goes to war no man can tell what the real Issues ara to be. The war for Cuba was no exception in this respect. It had inevitable consequences, which no mortal could hav foresee!, and the gravest of these conse quences are mat me country is aireaajr committed beyond Immediate recall to the maintenance of a large navy and a considerable army, and that It is involved iu the struggles cf the nations of Europe for new territory. Influence and trade in the far East. Cnder these circumstances tho patriotic citizen has to consider this fall whether the public interests are to be better advanced by maintaining in power the present administration, with all its shortcomings, or by providing a wholly untried one." Ho pays ihat, cespite the dirforent phra36o'ogy employed, Mr. Bryan's outlined policy on these questions differs little from Mr. McKlnley's, and that little? tends io added ierils. Therefore, while he criticises the administration for some of Its acts, he sees danger In a change. On this point he says: "The patriotic citizen may well hesitate to contribute by vote or influence to complete a change of administration. I'Teident McKinley is now surrounded by Cabinet officers of capacity and experience, and he has put good men at the head of affairs In Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines, while In case of a change in the presidency nobody can tell to what sort of persona the great offices of tiie government would be intrusted." WILL BET TWO TO 0.E OX M'KIXLEY Henry C. l'nyno IIa Great Confidence In Republican Snccesn. CHICAGO. Oct. ia.-Hcnry C. Payne, vice chairman cf the Republican national committee, is not considered by those who know him best as a plunger, a daring speculator nor yet a betting man, but be declared today his willingness to bet 2 to 1 that Bryan does not have as many electoral votes this year as he received in ISM. "I don't believe Bryan can gain cnoush votes to make up for the States he Is sura to lose In the West," said Mr. Payne. 0:i that assumption l am wining to risK money at odds of 2 to 1 that he doesn't get as many electoral votes as be did In lsi. Speaking of wagers, I have a bet In my hands which I would like to get rid of. When 1 camo to Chicago several months ago a well-known business man here toll me that Illinois would give McKinley lOu.OX majoritj'. I didn't believe it. It seemed too good to be true, and 1 bet him that he ha J the majority too high. Weil, I want to sell the bet now. It looks row as though Illinois will do better than l).000. Any Democrat who cares to take my end of the wager can do so." There ha been comparatively little betting In Chicago on the election. Republican money has been plentiful, but the Democrats are either disinclined to risk their cash or else demand such big odds that they are refused. Railroad Commissioner Bidwill has bet Jl.OUO to m0 with Alderman John Powers that atcs's majority in Illinois will reach 50.0UU. Dan Hcaly wants to bet $1.0 even that McKinley will carry Cook county by 25.1M). He 1 also willing to bet 2 to 1 that lth McKinley and Yates will carry the State. "This presidential fight Ia a picnic." said Mr. Payne. "What the Republicans are prearlpg for is the future. The reason we are making such a light in the mountain States Is not that we nc-d their electoral votes to Insure the re-election of Prtsldent McKinley, but we may need thtlr votes in the national Senate and Houhe of Representatives in years to come. New York States Is going Republican this year, but In some future year local conditions may give It Lemocratic; senators and eongresenien. The two senators from a little State have as many votes as the MnUors from New York or Illinois. It is therefore wUe to h:iv Republican senators from the moun tain Stats." Mr. Payne said that South Dakota will give McKinley a larger majority than it eveT gave u presidential candidate. Senator Pettigrcw, it I asserted, has abandoned hope of carrying the State for Bryan, and is now working n!;;lit and tUy to save bis own neck. In reply to the Demot-mtle statement that W per cent, of the Gold Democrats will vote for Bryan this year Mr. Payne said: "I only tare to rjuak of the sound-money Democrats I know, and therefore 1 will confine my Matcment to Wisconsin, but I believe th same condition prevails in other States. In Wisconsin !0 ler cent, of the sound-money I-moerat who hupported McKinley and Ho'oart and Palmer and Ruckner in K will vote the Republican ticket this year. Furt her more, the return of Silver Republican to their old party will more than offset the los of Democratic help In li. Four year ago perhaps 23 per cent, of the Swede ;tnd Norwegians of Wisconsin vot-d for ltrv.tr on the sliver question. They are hu'- : liie KcpuMicun .arty thl y.ur. ;..