Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 299, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1900 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1900.

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C RIggs House, Ebbllt House and vvillard's HoteL The honest people of Indiana ought to resent the sending of $00,000 Into the State by Boss Croker to corrupt Its voters. The Democratic bettors absolutely refuse to take the predictions of their campaign managers, even on the basis of 16 to L In Vanderburg county It Is said that the Debs party, has enrolled 1,400 voters, of whom all except a handful voted for Bryan in lXrQ. It Is to be hoped that never again will a candidate for the great office of President of the United States make a stump-speaking tour of the country. Every dollar of the fifty thousand placed In Mr. Taggart's hands by the Tammany boss of New York represents blood money and political corruption. "Mr. Terkes will receive a majority of the votes for Governor in Kentucky," said Sir. W. E. Curtis, of the Chicago Record, when In this city, "but he may be counted out." The fact that the amount of money In savings banks of the country is over $000,000,000 more than it was five years ago does not Indicate that all of the poor are growing poorer. Of the three Bryanlte claims that they will make great gains among the farmers. among the workingmen and among the Germans, It Is hard to tell which Is the most groundless. Tho so-called "silent vote" of the coun try is likely to contribute greatly to Republican noise after the election. It will be an Important factor In the overwhelming defeat of Mr. Bryan. Those who find fault with Mr. Bryan for caving different paramount issues In differ ent States forget that his hobbles must have some rest by turns. It would be cruel to ride one all of the time. From present indications the Democratic party in 1S04 i?Ill be officered and led by a very different class of men from those who are heading it now. Two campaigns of the blind leading the blind will be enough. If Arkansas Jones has any faith in his predictions he might put up some of the ihares of the cotton-baling monopoly ahich ho owns against some of the Mc Kinley money that is flaunted in his face. The Omaha Bee is publishing' the reasons of voters In Nebraska who havcrfcanged from Bryan to McKinley. The reason one of these men gives is too many false prophecies in 1S06 and too much prosperity in 1000. All of the reasons that made for a change of administration In 1S06 make against It now. Then a change was essential to the general welfare and prosperity of the country; now a continuance of present condi tions is essential. A careful canvass of the doubtful con gressional districts leads the independent Washington Post to conclude that the Re publicans will have a majority in the next House of from fifteen to twenty-five, and "it may reach as Jiigh as forty-five." Since Mr. Bryan has become so vicious and extreme in his utterances as to shock all fair-minded persons the claim that he la "sincere" Is calculated to hurt rather than help him. Sincerity In the advocacy of dangerous doctrines Is no recommenda tion. Ex-Congressman Belford, of Colorado. Who supported Mr. Bryan in 1$96, is now advocating the re-election of President McKinley. He says he regards the con tinuance ofprosperlt as more important than the gratification of Mr. Bryan's per sonal ambition. A Democrat in Missouri who had re ceived discouraging reports from members of the Bryan national committee tele graphed them to "claim everything." The committee Is doing so, but Democrats have not enough faith in the claims of their committee to put up money thereon. The Hon. Frank B. Burke has not yet entered Into a joint debate with his labor reeoru; ne nas lounu a inena was A S t a willing to undertake the task, but his per formance was a sad failure, as he made Mr. Burke a dodger into the lobby when roll call3 on labor bills were b-?ing taken. Gen. George B. Wright, who lived In this State yeara ago, but is now a resident of Columbus, O., has addressed & letter to the voters of the Twelfth congressional district la that State, now represented by UtJ dreadful Lentz, in which ha recalls

the fact that Abraham Lincoln was as

sailed in Ohio by the same epithets connected with Imperialism that President McKinley receives from the Bryanites. General Wright shows that the policy of the Nation has been to extend its borders since the earliest days. Such being the policy of the country, General Wright pre dicts that yet other lands will pas3 under the beneficent rule of the United States. ) He sees in the pledge of Mr. Bryan to convene Congress, If elected, a menace to round money, as well as a dishonorable yielding to Aguinaldo. The country is prosperous, the currency is sound and abundant, cur credit is the best In the world why tinker the finances? In the language of Henry Clay, General Wright would "let well enough alone." He spe cially urges the voters of the district to elect the Republican competitor of Lentz a request in which all Republicans will Join. 3111. KERN'S CHANGE OP FRONT. A friend writes the Journal: "If I am not mistaken Mr. Kern, the Democratic candi date for Governor, was a Gold Democrat in 1S96 and made speeches during that cam paign against Bryan." Our correspondent is partly right and partly wrong. Mr. Kern was a Gold Democrat In 18D6 up to the meet ing of the Democratic state convention, but after the free silverites captured that convention and also the Chicago conven tion he, by some sort of mental hocuspocus, experienced a change of mind and finally got in line with his party. Mr. Kern's course on the money question shows how differently a man may act under hon est Impulses and convictions from what he does under party fealty. Early In 1S36, when it became evident that the free-silver propaganda was demoralizing the Democratic party and was likely to stampede the state convention, leading Democrats began to come out against it. Among those in this city who did so was Mr. Kern, who became known as a decided sound money man. On the night of May 24, 1896, a conference of sound-money Democrats was held In this city for the purpose of organizing and making themselves felt In the party councils. About seventy per sons were present, including Mr. Kern. The conference discussed the possibility of controlling the coming state convention, of nominating a sound-money man for Governor and of sending a sound-money dele gation to the national convention. There was also talk of opposing the presidential candidacy of Governor Matthews, who had then recently come out for free silver. Mr. Kern was one of the speakers at the conference and wan in full sympathy with Its object. The fruit of the conference was the Issuance of a call for a public mass meeting to be held at English's Opera House on the following Thursday evening, May 3. The call emphasized the Importance of maintaining the gold standard and declared opposition to the free and unlimited coinage of silver because it would cause "a contraction of credit and a destruction of values that will bring upon a majority of the people, and especially the debtor and labor classes, financial distress and ruin." This call was signed by about sixty Demo crats, among whom was Mr. Kern. The meeting was held the next Thursday night, and Mr. Kern was the principal speaker of the evening. After stating the issue raised by the silverites, he said: There are in the United States $1.800,000.000 deposited In savings banks by four and a half millions of people an average of $371 for each depositor. Nearly every one of these dollars represents labor and self-de nial, and every dollar was worth 100 cents when deposited. Shall these people be paid with a depreciated money, with dollars worth little more than one-haK as much as those deposited? There are in the United State. nearly two million shareholders in building associa tions, and of their earnings thty have paid in as dues about $500,000,000 in, sound and honest money. The dollars paid In were worth 100 cents each. Shall they be compelled to receive In return dollars less than 100 cents? It is said that silver is the poor man's money, and bo it is. It Is paid out more largely to wage-earners than to any other class. It follows, then, that the poor man is more interested than any one else in having his money maintained as good money. Mr. Kern spoke at considerable length in this strain. This was before the opening of the campaign and when Mr. Kern was free to express his real views and honest convictions. The Democratic state conven tion which met a month later was over whelmingly for free silver, and the Chicago convention, which met July 7, nominated Mr. Bryan on a 16-to-l platform. After that nothing more was heard of Mr. Kern's real views and honest convictions on the money question. Since then he has been engaged. In the reluctant fashion that characterizes a man's conduct when he knows he is stultifying himself, in trying to unsay what he said on the money question be fore his party conventions gave him new views. No doubt, in the inner recesses of his clear brain and the bottom of his honest heart he is as much in favor of sound money and opposed to free silver to day as he was when he made the speech above quoted from, but the exigencies of party politics have forced him to talk and act differently. It can hardly be said that he turned a somerset, for that performance leaves a person facing the same way he did before. He has turned his back on him self. Contrasting the views he now express es with tho honest ones he expressed in May, 1S96, Mr. Kern can say: I know the right, and I approve It, too: Abhor the wrong, and yet the wrong pur sue. CnOKCK'S 3IONEY IN INDIANA. There can no longer be a shadow of doubt that Manager Taggart obtained from Boss Croker $50,000 for campaign purposes and that he is now holding that amount to be used on the day of election. Mayor Taggart is an expert at this sort of business, having had a large ex perlence during all the years he has been political manager and officeholder. Th holding of this large amount of money un til the day of the election, or a day or two before, proves that the mayor has no faith in the legitimate uses of campaign funds in giving committees assistance In getting out the Democratic vote. It may be that he dares not trust money in the hands of county and precinct committees. It Is cer tainly very apparent that Mr. Taggart and those close about him believe there are more effective methods of securing votes than by expending money to get Democrats to the polls. In spite of the fact that the Taggart managers are experts in all the devices to bribe voters they must be aware that the scheme has its embarrassments at the present time. The hungry are num erous and .they have been on duty a long time without any compensation. In tho natura of things they will not be pleased

to see the Croker thousands go Into the jackets of men who must be hired to vote while they are refused and their services not recognized. It is possible that these workers will show their resentment by sulking. Many of them are very "long" on Taggart promises and correspondingly "short" on Taggart performances. The "glad hand" and the famo.'js smile have

lost their persuasiveness. Both have been overworked. If it were not probable that the infamy of Crokerism will receive its deathblow with Bryanism in New York a week from, Tuesday, this gift of Tammany money would involve an obligation which would make the Indiana Democracy a vassal of Tammany, but Crokerism will come to grief before 1904. The acceptance of a portion of the Ivy on vice and crime commits our little Tammany to the parent wickedness. ONE THING M'KINLEY HAS NOT DONE. In their attempt to make out a case of mperiallsm against President McKinley the Bryanites have brought some weighty charges against him. They have shown that he has commanded the army and navy of the United States, sending troops hither and thither as if he had a right to. They have shown that he has used force and arms to suppress an insurrection against the United States and so prosecute a war which might easily have been ended by abject surrender on the part of the government. They have shown that he has stubbornly refused to haul down the flag from where it was placed by the valor of our soldiers and by treaty. But there Is one thing they have not shown. They have not shown that President McKinley has of his own motion assumed and exercised the right of rejecting a treaty with a for eign country without submitting It to the Senate. If they could discover that President McKinley had done this and could prove it against him it would be much stronger evidence of an Imperialistic temper than anything he Ras done. But while the Bryanites could not es tablish this charge against President Mc Kinley they could establish it against another President, viz., Thomas Jefferson. The purchaser of Louisiana did not stop about trifles when he thought the greatness of the country and the honor of the na tion were at stake. In 1S06 President Jefferson sent William Plnckney to England to assist Mr. Monroe, the resident minister, in negotiating a treaty covering certain points in controversy between the two countries. The treaty, was concluded and sent to Jefferson. It was unsatisfactory to him, and although Congress was In session at the time he rejected the treaty without sending it to the Senate. His motive was patriotic, but the act was severely criticised. As far as known it has never been repeated by any other President. It was precisely In line with the purchase of Louisiana a prompt exercise of descretionary and arbitrary power in the interest of the country and outside of the Constitution. There are times when the executive of a great nation must exercise imperial power without stopping to consult crossroads politicians of the Bryan type. Mr. William E. Curtis, of the Chicago Record, has been visiting Kentucky and investigating political conditions in that State. The most important discovery re lated to the recent trials of the men ac cused of the murder; of Goebel. After showing the partisan character of the trials, Mr. Curtis says: The most learned lawyers In Kentucky tell me that the proceedings in all three cases are without parallel for partisanship by the court and the Jury In the history of American jurisprudence, and that the Dreyfus case Is the only one within the present century that can be quoted in the same connection. The proceedings before Judge Can trill at Georgetown remind them more of the Spanish inquisition than any thing In modern criminal prosecutions. The Juries that convicted these three men were not drawn from the regular panel, although sixty names were left In the wheel, but were summoned personally by the sheriff from among his personal acquaintances. Members of the State Bar Association have prepared and published a statement of the case addressed to the members of the American Bar Association and lawyers throughout the United States, setting forth the facts. It is a terrible arraignment of the Kentucky judiciary, but they tell me here that there Is little public excitement over the convictions, because everybody knows that the Court or Appeals will overrule the Judgments and set aside the entire proceedings. It is fortunate that these facts have been brought out by a man of such high character as Mr. Curtis, because the Democratic press and two or three independent papers have assumed that the trials were judicial investigations rather than partisan convictions. It is important, moreover, be cause Governor Mount has been assailed mercilessly by the Democratic press because he refused to turn over two men Indicted by the Cantrill inquisition for trial. Now that It is declared upon the Judgment of tho best lawyers in Kentucky that "the Dreyfus trial is the only one that can be quoted in the same connection" with those of Powers, Howard and Youtscy, such fairminded people as may have been in doubt regarding the action of Governor Mount should be satisfied that he acted wisely. Mr. Bryan's maiden speech in Congress was in favor of free trade, and when he came to have it printed in pamphlet form he headed It with a quotation from the Bible. He had been told that free trade would destroy the American rate of wages, so he prefaced ht3 speech with the proverb, "Better is little with righteousness than great revenues without right." Observe the argument: Free trade is right and protection is wrong; therefore, better free trade and low wages than protection and high wages. The attempt to twist a proverb of Solomon into an indorsement of free trade was characteristic. The President of the Illinois Bankers' Association, In an address at its opening meeting on Tuesday, expressed his belief that a President of the United States who is deeply devoted to the modern silver standard idea could force this country to a silver basis by the aid of a secretary of the treasury of similar notions, and could do this In spite of the act by which we suppose the gold standard to bo established. As Mr. Bryan is pledged to bring aVout that result It is best not to give him a chance. It Is both fortunate and creditable for the Republican party that in the coming election the Independent vote of the country will be cast almost solidly for its candidates. The questions at issue are so Important and the issues themselves are joined in such a way as to leave business men and conservative men of all parties no alternative but to vote the Reputdcan ticket or else not vote at all. As the Inde-

pendent voter does not believe in not voting it follows that the great bulk of that vote will go to McKinley. The Journal has published no more conclusive argument for supporting McKinley than the letter of Otto M. Dresser, a machinist in the Big Four shops. From March 1, 1S9T, to Sept. SO, 1000, he earned $1,922.00; from March 1, 1S93. to Sept. GO, 1S9G, he earned $9S7.0J. For Mr. Dresser these figures are all the argument necessary to Induce him to vote for McKinley. There can be no more effective reason presented to a thinking man.

A letter 13 published from ex-Governor Waller, of Connecticut, a lifelong Demo crat, expressing regret at his Inability to speak at an anti-Bryan meeting in New York and the hope that "the coming victory will be great and sweeping enough to meet the requirement, and thus restore the Democracy to the proud position It occupied before it went into partnership with Popu lists, Socialists and 50 per cent, financiers." The Journal took off its hat to the sound money Democrats in iöi6, and it does so again. There has been no better or higher evidence of good citizenship and of putting country above party than they have given and are giving. As long as there are inde pendent and conscientious voters enough In both parties to defeat a notoriously unfit and dangerous candidate for President tho country is safe. Mr. Bryan has accepted the nominations and is running as the candidate of three parties the Bryan Democracy, tho Populist and the Silver Republican. If elected he would probably give each party one or more representatives in his Cabinet. Such a uaDinet would be worse than a crazy bedqullt. It is a pity that, after all of Chairman Jones's talk about the wholesale intimi dation and coercion of voters by Republican employers, he cannot discover one single case of the kind In any part of the country. Just one case might give a little color of truth to his statements. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. A Merely Personnl Situation. "How do you regard this 16-to-l theory?" "Well, I've got 16 bets out; I hope Til win 1." Not Pretty Enough for the Ofllce. "You're for Imperialism, that's what you are!" "Well, if I were, I'd want a better looking emperor than Croker." : The Thick of the Campaign. Tis a calm, lethargic contest, so the anxious ones aver; but T. Roosevelt and B. Bryan both are centered in a stir. On a 'Sand Foundation. Td fix that Hall of Fame all right." "What would be your basis of choice?" "Why, I think no man's name ought to go In there until everybody is' dead that knew him." Handicapped. "Tlbbs, I never hear you make any fun of y&ur wife's cooking." "Well, no; you see, she belongs to so many cooking clubs that I do a good deal of tho home cooking myself." The Uo pardonable Offense. "Adeline and I haven't spoken since last winter." "What was the matter?" "Why, she got a coat for $10 Just exactly like the one I paid $23 for." THE PAHAH0UKT DUTY. It I the Defcnt of llrynn, and Gold Demdcrnts Shonld Assist. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Mr. Bryan has done more to confuse and mislead the people on the money question than any other man. He was more responsible than any other man for the seduction of the Democratic party in 1S0G. When the saner elements of the party sought to shake off the incubus of free silver coinage at Kansa3 City ho compelled its retention. The party was helpless in his hands. His nomination had been as surcd by instructions to so many delega tions that it was Impossible to turn to any other candidate. He has yoked up with the Democratic party the Fopulist and Free Silver Republican parties. All the ad vocates of any form of bad money are among his followers. It is the battle of 1S96 repeated. "Imperialism" Is a feigned issue a stratagem, a Boer trick. We have, indeed, real and hard questions to meet in rela tion to Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands. But they are not only not emergent, but they are not ready; they cannot be acted upon immediately. Whatever we may ultimately decide to do with those islands we will not precipitately and in flagrant disregard of the obligations of the treaty of Paris run away from the responsibilities which we have assumed. We must keep control of the situation and maintain the authority of the United States. Mr. Bryan would be compelled to do that much if he were President, and by means and measures not materially different from those now being employed. He says that he would as a first step establish stable gov ernment. The final question can wait; it will wait In spite of all we can do. The subject of trusts is important, but there Is no important issue, if there is any at all, between the parties in respect to it. It wants more thought and more dis cussion. The present campaign has been useful In that way. But It, too, can wait and will wait in spite, of us. The Republican party has not always been a paragon of virtue. It has hed dan gerous lllrtations with greenbacks and free fcilver, but it has always stopped short of ruin. With all its mistakes and hesitations at times the Republican party has been the sole guardian of the public credit ever since the war excepting the years when the solitary figure of Grover Cleveland stood like a lighthouse in the midst of a morass. With more courage than In the past the Renub lican party is still the guardian of the pub lic cremt. All tho Interests which were at stake In l$l are at stake now and will remain in peril until the Democratic party is ready to say quits, and say It in its platform and by the mouths of its leaders. The sure way th? only sure way to bring about that result is to defeat Mr. Bryan, and to deteat him by Democratic votes. Let it be seen that Mr. Bryan's vicious dectrinrs have been repudiated by the Democratic party witn unmistakable condemnation and he and thov will . disappear. A mtie Re publican victory will leave the question fctill .open. The Democratic partv must punish its own traitors. Nothing tut the public degradation of Its Prince Tuan bv its own net will deliver It and the world from its Boxers. One other consideration. The act of March 14, lf-0, was a great victory for sound money. But more legislation is needed. In the interest of excellencies of money other than soundness econom v. flexibility, adaptability to seasonal and lo cal conditions and reduction of interest. These ran be had only at the hands of a Republican Congress; and there will be a direct relation between the courage of Re publican representatives and nenators and the size of the Republican majorities. Now la the time for Gold Democrats to complete at once me worn wnicn tnty oeiran in 1506. R. S. TAYLOR. The Library AKMoelntlon. The Indiana Library Association will meet in Room 83 at the Statehouse this afternoon, and will be in session till to morrow night. Miss Margaret Mann, of the University of Illinois, and Miss Helen Tracy Gould, of Bloomington. president of the association, will speak this afternoon Miss Eva M. Fitzgerald of Kokomo. Mrs. Laura E. Woodworth of Fort Wayne and Mrs. Virginia Stein of Lafayette are on the programme for to-night.

PROFIT ASD PLEASURE

TWO THINGS THAT CHARACTERIZE THE CONVENTION. Papers of General Interest Rend Sethe Public Health AHSoclntion. fore lOBECAST OF THE ELECTION DR. LEE, OF PENNSYLVANIA, IS SLATED FOR THE PRESIDENCY. . A Brilliant Reception Held at the German House The Last Sesalona To-Day. The mcrnlng session of the Public Health Association in the amphitheater of tne German House yesterday began with the transaction of business. Treasurer Henry D. Holton, of Brattleboro, Vt., made his report, which showed the finances of the association to be In excellent shape. The laboratory section elected Prof. Wyatt Johnson, of Montreal, its president to succeed Dr. Theobald Smith, of Boston. Prof. E. O. Jordan was elected vice presi dent, G. C. Whipple secretary, H. D. Pease recording secretary,, and Drs. Theobald Smith, W. R. Stokes, E. A. Descharvernitz, V. A. Moon and P. C. Abbott were chosen to compose the council. A valuable paper entitled, "Some Hints About Malaria," was read by Dr. Jesus Chico, of Guanajuato, Mexico. Dr. Chico declared this disease to be the scourge and the dread of all warm countries, and attributed its spread to the mosquito. "Woman's Sanitary Work In Indianap olis" was the subject of an Instructive thesis by Miss Hester McCiung, of this city. The report of the committee on disinfectants was read by the chairman. Prof. F. C. Robinson, of Brunswick. Me. Dr. Benjamin Lee promulgated the report of the committee selected to define what constitutes an epidemic. "A Suitable Dress for Uerense Against iniecuous jjisease was the title of an interesting paper read by Dr. John H. S. Fulton, of Baltimore. lr. II. M. Bracken read the report of the committee on a national leper home. BUSY AFTERNOON SESSION. Papcra of General Interest Were Read and Discussed. Tlie papers read and discussed at yester day afternoon's meeting of the Public Health Association were with scarcely a single exception on subjects of general in terest, making the session one of the most profitable of the series thus far held. Mr. M. F. II. Newell, government hydrographer. contributed a paper showing some results of the investigation of stream pollution which has been made by the United States Geological Survey, of which he is a member. Mr. Newell said that the government, realizing the importance of public water supplies and their conservation and protec tion against pollution, has established a special division or branch of the geological survey under the title of board of hy drography. It3 duties are to ascertain the amount of water flowing in the various important streams In different parts of the country, to survey reservoir sites, examine geological conditions which govern currents of water under ground aJud to prepare maps and charts showing the depth at which water can probably be . had in different localities. Mr. Newell referred to the work of this kind, which, he said, is being done with rare delicacy and thoroughness under the direction of Dr. Charles O. Probst, of Ohio, secretary of the association. The speaker declared that en gineers and sanitarians everywhere are bringing to the public attention the great importance of guarding and conserving sources of municipal water supplies, and said that it is the object of the government geological survey to be prepared at all times to answer as lar as possible all questions having to do with the public welfare and comfort. BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. Dr. -D. E. Salmon, director of the govern ment bureau of animal industry, followed Mr. Newell with an exhaustive, yet highly interesting paper, which was the report of the committee on animal diseases and ani mal food. The first disease the committee called attention to is glanders, which Salmon, the chairman, said is easily communicable and very fatal to man. He urged the Importance of careful observations be ing made of this malady. In view of the fact that serum for use in the treatment of many human aliments is obtained from horses. The doctor said that army horses are peculiarly liable to contract thedis ease, especially in time of war, on account of the extra exertion and frequent lack of full rations during such periods. He roundly condemned the carelessness of tho United States government In the matter of providing skilled and trained veterinarians in the army, saying that this IS the only civilized country on the globe that does not have an organized and commissioned vet erlnary service to guard the health of its horses. The speaker said the present vet erlnary service is distributed in the form of civilians among cavalry regiments and there is no. organized head. Dr. Salmon also took up the subject of rabies, com monly known as hydrophobia, and empha sized tne importance of active measures looking to the stamping out of the disease. He citecL statistics of many outbreaks of raDies anu snoweo ine disease to te peculiarly virulent and almost invariably fatal to numan Oeings. Misguided people wno oeciare mere is no suen tning as hydrophobia communicated to man from animals were sternly rebuked, Dr. Salmon declaring .that their obstructive tactics have wrought incalculable harm In the way of deceiving people into a careless attitude towards this malevolent disease. The Pasteur treatment for rabies was high ly commended hy the committee, which also recommended that the health associa Hon take steps looking to the enlighten ment of the public on the disease and its treatment, as well as means for its pre vention. ABOUT TUBERCULOSIS. The committee made strong recommen dations on the subject of tuberculosis, as terting its belief in the theory that the disease can be and is communicated from infected cows through their milk. Here also the committee encountered learned men who controvert tho theory, asserting mat me uiiicicm-c in uyjicarance oi mj bacillus of human tuberculosis and that cf bovines indicates that the latter cannot communicate the disease to human beings. Dr. Salmon said that one had Just as well argue that because the bacillus of cowpox differs from that of smallpox a human being cannot contract cowpox from a co-.v. He admitted that human tubercle gerrmj do not produce tuberculosis In cows or other animals very readily by inoculation, tut said that bovine tuberculosis undoubtedly is communicable. The speaker said that it is a well-settled rule of bacteriology that a disease which is transmissible among many widely divergent varieties of animals is transmissible to man, and added that experiments have demonstrated that bovine tubercle germs are very fatal to rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, sheep and goats. Dr. Salmon also Inveighed against loo33 methods prevailing In many creameries oy which the milk received from an infeete.l herd is mixed with the general supply of milk on hand, and further, the practice of distributing, without previous sterilization, the waste milk and cream to be used as food for swine was condemned. Dr. Bryce, president of the association, commended Dr. Salmon's report, and added a few terse, vigorous utterances on ths subject of the care which ought to be employed in dairies to guan against the dls. tribution of milk Infected with tubercle, bacilli. "I maintain from the- standpoint of public health." said Dr. Bryce. "that there is no recourse In the interest of tha

public health except to test every cow in a dairy herd and to remove every cow that

reacts, that is. shows symptoms no matter now slight of tuberculosis. In my judg ment the association cannot divide on this question, but mu?t absolutely say that no animal that reacts to the tuberculin test can be risked to give milk for one day longer." ANIMAL DISEASE. Dr. H. M. Bracken, of Minnesota, first vice president of the' association, supplemented the interesting statements of Dr. Salmon's report with cases of animal disease found by sanitary authorities in his State. He related interesting facts concerning outbreaks of virulent animal diseases known as haemorrhaglc septicaemia (hitherto now reported as occurring amongAmerican cattle), meningitis, rabies ana anthrax. Haemorrhaglc septicaemia, Dr. Bracken explained, is caused by the same bacillus which produces chicken cholera. He said that partially successful attempts have been made to immunize animals against its ravages by inoculation with partly filtered and also with killed cultures of the bacillus. Concerning meningitis, Dr. Bracken cited the fact that guinea pigs and rabbits inoculated with its virus died In a very short time to show its deadly character. The doctor said that a man who re moved the hide from the carcass of a horse which died of anthrax contracted the disease and was killed by it in a few days. Further facts and arguments in line with Dr. Salmon's report were offered by Dr. F. F. Wesbrook, of Minneapolis, Minn. POLLUTION OF STREAMS. In the discussion of Mr. Newell's paper on government Investigation of stream pol lution, Dr. Josiah Hartzell, of Canton, O., said that in his State investigations of streams will be continued until every water course and water shed is thoroughly understood. He said that the Investigation as it has thus far progressed has revealed an astonishing degree of pollution of the public water supplies of the State. When Dr. Lee, of Pennsylvania, was asked by President Bryce for an expression on this subject, he raised quite a laugh by saying laconically, "Just at present, so far as my State is concerned, I would rather not say anything about stream pol lution." Mr. C. Monjeau, of Hamilton, O., dele gate of the American Water Works As sociation, began the reading of a very carefully prepared paper on the subject of "Our Domain's Most Threatening Dan ger," but was prevented by lack of time from finishing it. Mr. Monjeau stated that. in his opinion, the danger lies in the pollu tion of public sources of water supply by dumping into them sewage, garbage and other waste material. He said that his chief object in coming to the Indianapolis convention was to enlist the co-operation of the American Public Health Association in the crusade to educate the people generally upon the importance of this subject. The session was concluded by the reading of a paper entitled "Pages from a Sanitarian's Note Book," prepared by Dr. William S. DIsbrow, member of the Newark, N. J., Board of Health. In the absence of Dr. DIsbrow the paper was read by Dr. John L. Leal, of Paterson, N. J. ELECTION OF OFFICERS. That and Other Business Will Take Place Thla Morning. Dr. Benjamin Lee, secretary of the Penn sylvania State Board of Health, will be elected president of the American Public Health Association at this morning' session of the convention. Dr. Lee was the unanimous choice of the advisory council for nomination to the high office. The prac tice of the Public Health Association Is to leave the making of nominations for of fice to this council. These nominations are then presented in open session of the association, and by vote either accepted or rejected. Many members of the distinguished body were asked last night as to the probability of the association ratifying the advisory council's choice of men to fill the offices for the ensuing year. The invariable response was: "There will certlnly be no opposition to Dr. Lee for president." Dr. Lee is one of the most Lindefatigable workers in sanitary science W - . SA -M connected wim.me neaun association ana has the respect and confidence of all of his associates. His services are said to have been very valuable to his State, as shown by his promotion from the Philadelphia city Board of Health to the higher place of secretary of the state Doard. Rudolph Hering's name will be placed in nomination for the first vice presidency this morning. Mr. Hering is a prominent health official of New York city. Dr. John N. Hurty, the well-known bacteriological ex pert of this city, is slated for second vice president. The offices of secretary and treasurer will not be filled at this session of the associa tion. (Dr. Charles O. Probst, of Columbus, O.. tne present secretary, and Dr. Henry D. Holton, of Brattleboro, Vt., the present treasurer, were both elected at last year's convention to serve three years. The advisory council agreed upon the names of Dr. A. W. Suiter, of Herkimer. N. Y., Crosby Gray, of Pittsburg, Pa., and Dr. Jesus Chico, of Guanajuato, Mexico, to be placed in nomination this morning for places on the executive committee to nil vacancies. The advisory council Is also charged with the important duty of agreeing upon the choice of a city in which to hold each suc ceeding convention. This topic provoked the most spirited discussion that marked yesterday afternoon's session of the coun cil. Advocates of New Orleans and of Buffalo as the best place for holding the convention were on hand to urge the claims of their respective cities. It was finally agreed to recommend Buffalo on account of the holding of the Pan-American exposition in that city next year. The council did not decide to suggest the time of. holding the gathering, but left that matter to the gen eral session for decision. The Public Health Association, however, always meets some time in the fall of the year, usually in Oc tober. The principal event of this morning's meeting will, of course, be the election of officers and the ratification or rejection of tne advisory council's recommendation of Buffalo as the place where the next meet ing will be held. The omciai programme prepared for this morning is rather long. and It Is likely that unless some of the pa pers are omitted an afternoon session will be necessary to finish the business of the convention. The delegates hope to get through by noon or soon arter so that final adjournment may be had without the convening of an afternoon session. THE DELEGATES ENTERTAINED. An Enjoyable Affair Given at the Ger man House. The entertainment in the auditorium of the German House last night, given by the people of the city in honor of the American Public Health Association, was an unqualified success. The large audience was representative of the city's wealth and culture as well as being distinguished by the number of notables from various parts of the American continent. The spectacle of people from Montreal, Quebec and Ontario, in Canada, from many of the States of the American Union and from the prov inces of Mexico uniting in appreciation and enthusiastic commendation of efforts to entertain and amuse made solely by artists native to Indianapolis was one that will live long in the memory of those fortunate enough to witness it. The eminent visitors were not niggardly with their words of praise of the spirit of friendliness and generosity displayed bv those who took part in the delightful affair. The programme was divided Into two distinct parts, each of appropriate length, but encores prolonged the whole to a late hour. The first number was by the Bald-headed Glee Club and fairly took the audience by storm. The honors of the entire perform ance were, however, pretty evenly shared by the little maids from the Knlghlstown Orphans' Home In their pretty Hug drill and by Mrs. John T. Brush in her inim itable recitations. The little girls have been seen and heard here before and have es tablished for themselves an enviable repu tation as juvenile entertainers of the first rank. Admirers of the little girls and of Mrs. Brush testified their enjoyment by gifts of handsome bouquets. Mrs. Lotta Adam Raechlg won an insistent encore by her splendid rendition of Massenet's "He Is Good. He Is Kind." The first part concluded with a quartet, Lacome's "Estudiantlna," by the Misses Adam and Robin son and Madames Raschig and Jones, which was warmly received. Alter an interval oi ten minutes an amusing and clever minstrel entertainment aa given by the Elks funinakers in black face and up-to-date costumes. Those who

took part were Messrs. Felbleman, Sl.ep-

ard. Balz, Quigley. Gasper. Merriman. O'Connor, Gould. Paddock. Edmund. Barrett, Bynum and Fahrbach. The minstrel turn and accompanying olio were planned to run thirty minutes, but the audience considered an hour about the proper time, and gained their point by uproarious applause. Mr. Charles F. Hansen accompanied the vocalists in the first part and Mr. Joseph Joiner manipulated the piano-forte for the boys in black." "Will View the City. The programme of entertainments pro vided by the local committees for the delegates to the Health Association convention and their women friends and relatives who accompanied them to Indianapolis, will terminate to-day with rideit atmut th oitv in carriages and on trolley cars. It is roped mat an tne places of interest may be seen by the visitors before they depart for their homes. DEATH OF A. H. JOHNSON HE WAS A DELEGATE TO THE riDLIC HEALTH CONVENTION. The Deceased Came from Newark. N. J., Where He Waa Prominently Connected. Alexander IL Johnson, of Newark, N. J., died suddenly at the Denlson House at 10 o'clock last night, of heart disease. He came to Indianapolis with the party representing the Newark Board of Health, of which he was a lay member, to attend the annual convention of the American Public Health Association. He was not feeling well during the even ing, but started with his friends to attend the theater. Becoming ill on the way, D. D. Chandler, a member of the party, returned to the hotel with him. In the corridors he had to be assisted and died In a few minutes after reaching his room. He was conscious almost to the time of death and told Mr. Chandler that he thought he was going to die. The party from Newark was made up of Mr. Johnson, 11. C. Herold, John H. Turnman, D. D. Chandler, Dr. F. W. Becker, Dr. R. N. Conway and Dr. William 3. Destrow. They camo as representatives of the Board of Health of Newark, but intended to make the trip one of pleasure as well as profit. It was also thought that the trip might benefit Mr. Johnson, who had been in poor health for some time. It was the plan to return by way of Cleveland and Niagara Falls, but this tour will be abandoned and the party will return with the body to-day, going straight through. Mr. Johnson was well known tn Newark, having been a member of the City Council for a number of years and was active In the public health movement. He was also prom inently Identified with the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, of Newark, with which he had been connected for more than thirty years, in the New York office. He leaves a son, Frank Johnson, and his moth er, who Is ninety-four years old. THE LIVES OF SOLDIERS SACRIFICED TO MAKE A SHOWING FOR THE BRYAN CAUSE. Facts Contained in a Letter to Rep resentative OTerstreet from Lieutenant Tarlton. Representative Overstreet has received a very interesting letter from Lieutenant Tarlton, written In the Philippine islands, under date of Sept. 19. "The Insurrection was about broken in this part of the province," the lieutenant wrote, "but the Junta at Hong-Kong worked up a great senti ment on the coming election in the States and asked the insurgents to make oni great, big effort before the coming elec tion, attacking towns and ambushing par ties, and tho letters very clearly stata that this is for the purpose of helping, the Democrats, whom they consider their friends, and many a home will be mourning the loss of a son for no other reason than that the Insurgents are encouraged by the Democrats to make a demonstration at this time. "A short time ago eight of our men wer coming along the road, when ambushed by about a hundred of the insurgents. Two fell at tho first fire, but not dead. The others defended themselves nobly, but were pressed back and got into the bush and escaped, one being badly wounded. When reinforcements came up they found the two men horribly cut to pieces. Of course. In all our engagements we have killed a lot of them, but they are getting very 'foxy themselves now. Our 'striker who-was a captured soldier, skipped out yesterday and rejoined the insurgents." Lieutenant Tarlton relates tne lonowing story of bravery and nerve displayed by two American soldiers: "Lieuteant Anders Hth v nartv of twentv-six men was am bushed by 00 Insurgents and the advance guard had eight men. The first fire knocked all but a man by the name oi uooinson. who Just stood up in the middle oi tns rniid nnd emptied his whole belt of fifty thells at the insurgents, then undid a belt from one of the dead comrades and commenced to empty that one. At his feet was a man who was wounded in the leg end while lying there he emptied his belt and then asked Robinson to give hira tho belt of another dead comrade, adoui that tlm th rest of the twenty-six got up to them and started ,the Filipinos on the run. "Another Incident Is that of Lieutenant Tti-i huvitic n (pai nf lxtfen men am bushed and the corporal In charge of the advance guard was bad hit. The corporal lay where he Tell and a man irom me rear ran im iinrtfr a. heavy fire and dragged the corporal Into a ditch, where he protected him, firing a whole rxu oi neus. unc oi our men who was captured oa Jan. 13 last, was released to-day by General Callas' and he was sent to Oeneral MacArthur. We have slept In our clothes for the past four nights as there is a great pipe oui over the country that our town is to be taken.". BOY CRUSHED TO DEATH. Frnnk Ilenlty, Six Years Old, Caught Vntler a Street Car. Frank Beatty, the six-year-old son of C E. Beatty, chief of pubpotal station A. living at 1TU9 West Thirtieth street, was struck by a street car at Thirtieth and Clifton streets at 2:45 p. m. yesterday and instantly killed. The child, who was deaf and dumb, was playing on the west side of Clifton street about a new house. As car No. 723, in charge of Motorman Thomas Mullery and Conductor Thom?.s Moran. came from the north and had nearly reached Thirtieth street tht boy suddenly sprang from the sidewalk and started diagonally across the street. The frnder of the car struck him and he wan whirled around and thrown onto the track under the rear wheels, which ran over him. The body was terribly cut and mutilated. The i-kull was fractured and Dr. Uats said there was hardly a large bone In his body which was not broken. Witnesses said the motorman was In no way to blame for the accident. He was running slowly and stopped the car within thirty feet from where he struck the boy. Street car men commented upon the habits of boys In North Indianapolis, saying thy are worse than in any other part ot town about carelessly playing about und Jumping on cars. Within one block of the accident, and twenty minutes later, thrt-e boys caught on the cam and one r.arrow'y tzcaped belns thrown under tha r;heh.