Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 220, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1901 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8. 1901.

Til K DAILY J O URN AL THURSDAY. AUGUST 8. Vm.

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Fubrrib! with any of our numerous agent or atr.J suLscrlijtlon to tha JOURNAL NEWS PATER COMPANY, Indianapolis, Intl. prnn n!!! th Journal t!;roufi th maM In the CrlrM Statm FhouM put on an eljclit-far rrr a .i: CENT postage Ftamp; a twelv er si-f-en-pat.- iHi-r a TWO-CENT r-oatair tamp. Fojfcign iostage Is UiuaKy i'oull thin rat. All crmmunlcatlon intended fr publication In this paper rvi:. in order t rerlve attention. b a'-corn; anie-i ty the nam- anl adelress of the writer. l.Wt 1 rnnnucrlrt ''III rio e returned unleu j octree ly lr.c!"( 't f'r th.it purpose. Enter 1 s peconJ-class matter at Indianapolis. J i-i . isotonic. Till! IMll.WAI'OLIH join.AL Tan I. foiiiil at the fnllowlns places: NEW YüKK Autor House. CHICAr-.O-ralmer House. I. O Nowr Co.. 217 Dearborn street. Auditorium Annex HouL CINCINNATi-J. R. Hawley St Co.. K Vint rtrctt. Lot'I.- VILLn-C. T. peerlr.e. northwest corner cf Third and Jefferson streets, aud LoulivUls Look Co., 2i'J Fourth avenu. ST. LOUIS Union News Company. Un'.on Depot. WASHINGTON. D. C R';g House. Ebbltt 1I.H.0 and Willard's IIoUL Notice to TourUta. Subrrribers leaving the city for a rerlol during the summer can have the Dally and Sunday Journal mallei to any aiJress in the United States or Canada v. lthnut extra charge. The address will be changed aa often as desired. Itotn telephones 23. Assistant City Attorney Bell 13 an a;reeable man. but as a candidate he can nevtr liavc half as many taking ways as Thomas Taggart. There are those who believe that the steel strike will be settled, but they must admit that, the Indications are few and that the upirit of conciliation Is wanting. It is not very encouraging for the corn crop when the secretary of the Missouri Board of Agriculture, after a personal in. vestlgatlon, estimates that there will be but 21 per cent, of an average yield la the State. It Is said that Mayor Taggart Informed the committee that waited on him regarding hl3 candidacy that his last campaign cost him 512,000 and that the mayor's office, had cost him more than he had ever got out of it. If he said this it was equivalent to confessing that he had used a largo amount of money for corrupt purposes. It is the claim of th Federation of Labor that its growth the past few years has bten unprecedented, while wases have been advanced, and, In some instances, hourä of labor reduced. If this is true it seems unxv I? e for labor leaders to raise an lssuo .which wilLlftrolve the overthrow of oryunIzed hulor, as President Shaffer say?, if defeated. "'""Dr. Washington Gladden, a Congregational clergyman of Columbus, O., who is u member of the City Council, has come to the conclusion that the referendum does not hold out much encouragement to those who desire municipal reforms when only C.OK) of ZÖ.VjQ voters In that city go to tho polls to vote on tho question of issuing $3.000,000 bonds for an electrlo plant and sewers. The new town cf Lawton, O. T., Is rnssir.g through the experience of many ether mushroom towns In respect of lawlessness and crime. This will not last long, however. A vigilance committee representing the law-abiding element will soon establish order, and In a short time the regular, machinery of government will be In operation. That Is the American way. AVhen Mr. Wood, who drew No. 1 In the Oklahoma land lottery, enforced his right to locate the whole of his ICO-acre claim adjoining the town site of Lawton, thereby compelling ML Peal, who drew No. 2, to take land back of hi?, he was denounced by the bystanders as ungallant. No doubt, liowcver, any one of them would have one the same thing In like circumstances. In a real-estate deal Involving $:.0ou gallantry docs not count for much, except to the man who Is on the outside. Senator McLaurir.'s reply to the Democratic state executive committee, which undertook to read him out of the Democratic party. Is the breeziest contribution to political literature that has appeared in a long time. Ills defiance of the committee and his denunciation of Senator Tillman, "whD has posid as a buffoon and tartly." and of his "always evil and Indecent ir;:hu:ice." are put in very strong terms. V:vitr.r McLaurin has shown that he is capable of maklrg a strong llftht before th" 'people, and In it he will have the Fyi.ipathy of every progressive American, Irrespective of party. robabIy no labor controversy developed quite so remarkable n situation us that reported from Tampa, Pia. A recent stiike of cigar makers in that town caused so much trouble and interruption to busintfs that the eitl-.ens formed a sort of protective associ itlon. and. having captured the leaders. Fpirited them away to parts unknown. No less than eighteen professional agitators and strike promoters were thus dfported. and riol o.!y knows how or whither, extet) t that they are gene. Of course the proceeding was ill yul. but w hen a community has borne with a nuisance until forbearance has cefed to be a irtue what la it to do? What may be called a merit system has fc. Introduced into the rialntield Reform F.chocl ur.tier vhich every boy Is put upon M. own record. It Is based upon the theory that v. ry boy may get a parole If he earns it by cood conduct. Upon entering tho Institution the boy Is put at zero. Perfect dipjrtment give h!m ten merits evry day. For thirty dayä of continuous good conduct th toy Is given 10) merits In ad dition to th 0 earned. For ninety days of tool conduct & boy gts l.ZIO merits. A J he la reaulred to jfain .X merit to receive a parole or release badg-, it appears that It Is pf ssible for a boy to win it in 2Z days of continuous perfect deportment. On the other hand, violations of known rule-i subject a boy to deit.erltx, which, for different

offenses, range from ten to 2.000. Hereafter no sort of Influence can secure a parole for a boy in the Reform School. Unless he wins by good conduct the boy will remain until he is of age. On the other hand, a year of good conduct without an infraction of rules will Insure his parole sooner or later. It Is believed this new regulation will have a marked effect upon the discipline of the Institution, and that a large number of boys will obtain an early parole on the merit system. Tim MAYOR'S Ri:Fl SAL. Mayor Taggart will not run again, and there is a lodge of sorrow In session in the places where those who have Ted upon ids favors do congregate. Outside of tho official force about the city government and a few personal frier ds there v. as no demand Inside the Democratic party for Mr. Taggart's fourth nomination. In the first place, Mr. Taggart has too many affairs In his hands to be mayor, even If he wre considering the candidacy for a first term. During the past year he has been absent more than a mayor should be. but it was less noticed because the late Controller Johnson stood In his place. So. from a business point of view, the mayor cannot afford a renomlnatlon even if an election were a foregone conclusion. Politically, Mr. Taggart has nothing to gain by being mayor another term, even if he were sure of a re-election, because whatever there is for him in politics in th future must be In a wider field. On the other hand, a defeat would badly Injure Mr. Taggart's prestige. His plurality of less than 400 in 1SJ3 was not calculated to strengthen a man who received between C.ouO and 4.CO0 in two previous elections, and injured his popularity in the State. lie not only saw this, but as an astute political observer the mayor must have seen that the chances were very much against his election next October. Two years ago tho Republicans entered the campaign under about as unfortunate conditions as they could, and jet Mr. Taggart had a plurality of less thon 40. With practical harmony In the republican ranks and a good and fairly nominated ticket Mr. Taggart saw that the chances are decidedly against him as a fourth-term candidate. The almost certainty of defeat was doubtless a controlling factor In the mayor's decision. In a light In which a man has nothing to gain and everything to lose he is a prudent man who declines to go into the battle. Then thero comes a time in the life of a man when he becomes weary of the same kind of a fight. In some respects Mayor Taggart is a stronger man than his parry can find to take the nomination. He has a personal following which, considering his partisanship, is quite remarkable, but as the years passed he chilled the hearts of a large number of Democrats to whose entreaties for places he was forced to turn a deaf ear. Still, it Is generally admitted that he is several hundred votes stronger than any man the party can nominate, which, whh a Judicious campaign upon city issues, makes Republican success as certain as anything in the future can be. The sooner, however, the oflicial force of the mayor puts off the emblems of mourning the better it will be for them.

AY IXIlKItlTHIl OIILI ATIO. The Journal has been in error in assuming that the D3-cent levy for city purposes furnished the revenues for 1DJ1 iirstead of 1000. Tho öy-cent levy was voted in when Mr. Taggart was last time a candi date for mayor, and applied to the year 1900. This misapprehension, however, does not materially change the situation. During 1300, under the 53-cent levy, the city made $224,632 in temporary loans and redeemed $178,955.83, leaving $145,637.14 of temporary loans outstanding from the year iyn) on Jan. 1, 1301. In addition to this the practical excess of expenditures over receipts was Increased by reducing the cash In the treasury from ?100,SC1.95 on Jan. 1, 19. to $23,C03.r6 on Jan. 1, 1901-a loss of J71.1D3.S3 so that the expenditures during the year 13' were $215,890.53 in excess of the revenues. The $llö,C37.11 of temporary loans made during 1300, and not raid, came over to thl3 year and had to be paid out of current revenues. It is this $115,C37 which has compelled the city to resort to the expedient of temporary loans with the 73-oent levy of 1900. This unfortunate inheritance from li- is evidently taken up as a current expenditure this year and covered by a new temporary loan. Under tho levy of this year the city should receive $160,000 more than during last year. Tne activity of the county treasurer as city tax collector should increase these figures considerably, so that out of current revenues the city should be able to pay current liabilities, but the large borrowing at the present time makes it probable that even tha 72-ccnt levy will not leave the city without a Moating debt with which to begin the year 1302. In his last address Mayor Taggart, by his own figures, shows that the expenditures of the city during his five years had been increased 52S8.419.42. When Mr. Taggart became mayor tho levy was 63 cents on an assesses! valuation of $10",6C7.SC0; in 1901 it was a levy of 73 cents on a valuation of :i23.713,r,0. The tax assessed upon the property of the city for city purposes in 1S35 was 5'33.S2'.lb', but in 1901 it has increased to $903.22S.!m. This is an increase of 52iJJ.512.7i. The Increase of expenditure being in excess of the Increase of revenues during the periods compared. It Is very doubtful if the controller Is anticipating revenues for 191 In making loans at the present time. Unless there is some saving made, even a 72cent levy will be barely enough in theyear to come. TIIK STRIKC ounnii. The strike order Issued by President Shaffer will not tend In the slightest degree o place the cause of the strikers in a good light before the public. On the contrary, it is likely to have an opposite effect. There i no presentation of facts, no statement of the points at Ipsue, no averment of grievances, and no attempt to show the Justice of their cause. It is simply an appeal to passion and a general call to strike. Labor strike have often been called 'industrial wars," and this order sustains the designation, for It has all the characteristics of a call to arms. "We must fight or giva up forever our liberties." it tays. What liberties? Certainly, none that Is Ruarunted to all citizens by th Constitution and laws. Tha stel association waa not threatening to Impose any disabilities or burdens on tha men. It had not reduced wages and was not proposing to do so. It was offering ateady employment at tha contract rate of wages, without asking whether the. recipients of waes were union 1 men or not. If the men had bided their

time and proceeded with tact all the mllla might have teen unionized before a great while. The statement that they must fight or give up their liberties is not true. Mr. Shaffer is a preacher, but his advice to the men to disregard their contracts Is not defensible on moral grounds. He says: You will be told that you have signed contracts, but you never agreed to surrender those contracts to the United States Steel Corporation. Its otiicers think you were sold to them, just as the mills were, contracts rnd all. Kctmmbe-r, before you ngreed to any contract, you took an obligation to the Amalgamated Association. It now calls you to help in this hour of need. The contracts made with the various corporations were not abrogated by the formation of the trust. If the trust had taken the ground that they were, and that It had a right to establish a new scale of wageF, regardless of the contracts, the workmen would have protested and struck. Mr. ShafTer tel!3 them, In effect. that their contracts were made with a mental reservation and subject to future repudiation if things did not go to suit them. 'Remember," he says, "before you agreed to any contract you took an obligation to the Amalgamated Association." In other words, the obligation to the Amalgamated Association is a higher law to which all other obligations, including even individual contracts, must yield. On the same principle an oath taken in court to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, would be subject to the higher obligation to stand by the Amalgamated Association. This position could not be sustained in any court of Justice or morals. There is nothing in Mr. Shaffer's order to indicate that he is a wise leader, and nothing to win public sympathy for the strikers. The refusal of two residents of this city to respond to a subpoena to testify before a United States commissioner in the Neely case raises directly a question which has been hinted at in previous discussions of the case namely, whether witnesses in tho United States could be compelled to testify In a case pending in Cuba. It Is to be regretted that the question should come up at all. Every person is supposed to deslro that Justice be done, and thi3 is a case for an exercise of justice, not sympathy. If Neely is guilty he should be punished, and if he i3 innocent the truth cannot hurt him. On general principles a person who has knowledge of a criminal transaction or violation of law stands in a tetter light if he volunteers to tell what he known than if he declines to respond to a summons which is at least legal on its face. It is doubtful if any person in the United States cognizant of facts bearing on the Neely case can be compelled to testify, but certainly refusal to do so will r.ot help Neely in the public estimation, and. It is to be hoped, will not save him from getting his deserts.

The Poard of Review in Cook county, Illinois, is doing some heroic work in the way of increasing the personalty assessments of rich men in Chicago. On Tuesday the board increased individual assessments from $2oö,14 to $700.000, from ?25,0v0 to $000.(00, from 73) to 230,i'o0. from ?5,0i0 to JWOO, and so on, making a total increase of fo, 000.000 on forty-four persons. It is not known whether any appeal lies from the action of the board, but it seems to show that the original returns were grossly inadequate. rKOJI HITHEE AND YON. Reward of l'e rat voran re. Tuck. cjforse I understand the Cottlts had a hard stru,'fde to jret Into society. Jack I should say they had! Why, old Cottit had to spend neatly four years ia the Klondike! Civil Service at .Manila. Judge. Member of Examining Hoard Do you consider that you are physically qualiilod for the position or mail carrier? Applicant I was with A.?ulnaldo during all his campaign in search of hiding places. He .ot It. Catholic Standard. Tower If Crabbe ever comes around your place borrowing anything, don't let him have it. P.o wer You've tpoken too late. lie was around yesterday. Tower You're eay. What w-as he borrowing? Dower Tiouble. lie's In the hospital to-day. He Wanted to Know. Ohio State Journal. 'Tummle, Is your mamma at home?" asked a lady caller coming up th gravel walk. Tommie, who was peeping arounJ the corner of the hou?e. gave a guilty start and then replied, ir.e kly: "That's Jlst wot 1 wuz tryin f find out; I've bin wimmln'." To Cict Rid of Ilirds. Life. Citizen I'd give a clean thousand to find some way to exterminate these pparrows. sporting Friend I'm your man. I've got Juat the thing. "Out with it." "Get the Legislature to pass a game law protecting them." A Iturnl Scene. The herd is beard to low on high. Mounting the mountain Fteep; The weary shepherds hie below To get a bit of sleep. The little swallow gulp and choke Tho early worm to swallow. While penned within the barnyard pen. Th pensive piggies wallow. Harvard Lampoon. Mayor Taggart has been in olHce so long that it was hard for him to let go. Unlike many practical politicians, he has not sacrificed a business or lost money by politics, and if his private affairs have been neglected they have prospered notwithstanding. Outside of the bad party nnd vicious school of politics that Mr. Taggart represents ho Is a clever gentleman, and the Journal hopes he may continue to prosper. Dr. J. Ewing Mears's gift of over 4,00 volumes to the Marion county medical library adds another to the list of local gifts for public purposes which i becoming eiuite noteworthy. Although a native of this city. Dr. Mears has been for many years a resident cf Philadelphia, and the books now pvesented by him are from some of the best collections in that city famed for its medical schools and private libraries. The donation makes the local medical library one of the largest in the country. Our new porsessions are likely to add some weird woids and phrases to the American vocabulary. A Honolulu pap;r remarks casually In its local column: "If you are in pllikia about your laundry, go to Pacific Import Company." Now, whit In the name, of common sense Is pillkia? Is to bo in it Hawaiian for being in a pickle? In the same column is announced that "fresh horr.e-made poi is to be had every Tuesday and Friday at the Woman's Exchange." Every aelf-respecting woman's exchange ousht to know that "pol" ia no way to spell "pie." It Is also learned from thla paper that persons ate frequently arrested ia Honolulu on the charge of "gross cheat." "Gross cheat" is as simple and proper a phrase as "grand larceny" and its meaning 1? quite as clear, but it has a queer sound. Parsing from these unusual terms to another class of informa

tion, the samo columns contain the interesting announcement that "Prince Cupid, who has been residing in European cities for two yearn, has decided to go into the diamond mining business in South Africa." So that Is where Cupid has been! And what better or more appropriate business could he go into than diamond mining? PROSPEROUS SOCIETY.

Cougrecallonal IldueatlonnI Association IIa a Working Balance, BOSTON. Mass.. Aug. 7. The eightyfifth annual report of the CongregationaJ Educational Society was made public today. It states that greater sums have been raised in the West than ever before, and that tho soedety has given considerably more to academies and missions than last yeas, has paid all outstanding claims, is clear of debt and has a small working balance. In the student department all claims have been promptly paid, with a surplus In this department. The report further states that there is ru department of missionary work which the society does not touch. In the department of theological scholarships more men than usual have accepted grants a 'loans, giving their notes for payment. The number of men receiving scholarships has been 133, one more than last year. The one great -demand for hundreds of Southern Congregational churches is an educated ministry. Students from Northern seminaries are not available. Young men sent to the North from Southern seminaries remain North. It Is necessary that a Southern seminary should be established. The students now in attendance at the college at Rolins, Fla., are, as a rule, considerably older and more advanced than those eif previous years. There are several Cubans in attendance at Rolins. The year closes with twenty-one academies upon the list of the Educational Society, as against seventeen last year. The four which have been added are IV nsonia Academy, Michigan; (Sates Academy, Gates, Neb.; Southern Collegiate Institute, Albion, 111., and Weiser Academy, Idaho. LABOR SIDE OF STRIKE WHAT T1IH OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FttUEKATIO.X OF LAHOR SAYS. Will Stnnil tiy the Ainnlmunted Association of Iron anil Steel Worker ia Present Fight. American Fedcrationist. The Iron and Steel Workers of America are face to face with the giant trust of our time. Many have been the inquiries from the outside public as to whether our affiliated organlzatica, the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel and Tin Workers, could not have avoided this conaict? We answer without hesitation, that the present contest could have been avoided with but one result, and that, the dissolution of the organization of the workers, and with it the destruction of the scale of prices. Then reduction after reduction of wages would be inevitable until the lowest possible point had been reached. Tho facts are that the different branches of the Iron and steel trade formerly had agreements with their individual employers providing for a sliding scale of wages. Subsequently, a minimum to that sliding scale was established. Ry reason of new elements and new transitions in the trade, a few' nonunion plants were in operation: but at the time of the establishment of tha employers' combination in tho trade, preceding the trust, the largest number of establishments were union; operated unde" a union scale and union rules, agre-cd upon in joint conference between tho representatives of the organized men and the employers. TIIK TPwUST METHODS. The next phase was the formation of the trust, controlling union and nonunion establishments. Last year the trust magnates, by methods known to the management and others, threw every obstacle and Inconvenience in the way of the success of the union establishments. To illustrate, while tho annual conference between representatives of the Amalgamated Association and the management of the mills was under way twelve men were discharged from the union plants for no other reason than to give to the union a demonstration of the trust'a power. The organisation decided tnat negotiations could not be fairly and satisfactorily conducted while overt, aggressive actions were being resorted to by one side. If a conference with a view to agreement was to be conducted, it must bo while neither party was attacking the other. After a forcible protest was made on this point the twelve men were reinstated, and negotiations resumed. The point upon which negotiations finally broke off was that the trust tried to make it a condition of employment that the men in the nonunion mills should refrain from joining any union. The Amalgamated Association insisted upon their right to endeavor to organize these nonunion men into tne union, and to finally scure for them the wae scale paki in union mills, these union mills operated, too, by this same trust. In otlur words, the Amalgamated Association was endeavoring to protect the rights of these men to organize for mutual protection, whenever they should desire to do so. The trust was attempting to take the right from them. NO FAITH IN TitUST. Any one who observes current industrial events can easily read the purpose of the trust In its present unfair attitude. It is that it may throw every obstacle within its power in the way of the union, even to the stoppage of the union mills; thus finally encompassing the weakening and probable destruction of the organization. Then the trust hopes to have absolute and undisputed sway lo reduce wages at will. They' will tend toward the deterioration of the condition of the workers and also of their product, but the trust Is too selfish to look farther than the Immediate profit which it hopes to secure by reducing wages. The Amalgamated Association has developed strength along lines entirely unexpected by the trust magnatts. Many of the workers in the nonunion plants are making common cause and joining issue with the- union nun for the purpose of maintaining the union rate and to assert their right to become members of the organization of their trade; thus at or.cv ie-n-.oiishlr.g tho claim of the trust that the organization does not represent either the intertst or the desires of the whole trade. In this struggle our members of tne Amalgamated Association of Iron and Stee.' "W orkers will receive the cordial svrnp.ithy and support of a'd unions. We know that any action they take will be within their full lawful and moral rights. lleaatlr of u 3Ictul Currency. San Francisco Chronicle. A Nashua (N. H.) bank cashier ha been attacked by smallpox, wh'ch. It is billeved. was contracted by handling bmk notes. Paper money is a medium of filth, and those of us on this coast, wh j are accustimed lo metallic currency, cannot Imagine how any community can put up with it. Cleanliness,-however, is evidently not necessarily an attribute of civilization. It Is the same Easterners who handle these bank notes so freely who give us most trouble by spitting in street carf. a thing of which no good Calit'ornlan would be guilty, In Indianapolis Too. Brooklyn Eagle. At the extortionate price which this town pay for asphalt the least that the asphalt companies can do is to keep the streets In rideable condition, which some of them are not. There is no law to compel the use of asphalt, and if the ccmpunlei are not careful thry may discover a rveralon to cobblestones. Jo Ter ii mental Cons tders ten Chicago News. The government has taken the first step to secure a prt of the menev embezzled by Captain Carter, it was considerate of th i government to wait until Carter's relations had ample time to bury the loot iu tho back yard,

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PLACED AT HHAD OF IOWA IlCI't'D. LICAX STATU TICKCT. ReceiTed 8SO Votes for Governor ou the Flrt Uallot at the Cedur Hupldit Convention. ABLE DES MOINES LAWYER WHO SPKXT PART OF HIS YOUTH IX XORTIILIRX INDIANA. John Herriott, of Stuart, Xomlnated for Lieutenant Go veruor Point from the Itcsolutions. CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia., Aug. 7. Albert Ii. Cummins, of Des Moines, was nominated for Governor by the Iowa Republican state convention this evening on the first ballot. The vote: Cummins, S-J0; Trewin, 3C3Vi; Harriman, 303; Conger, 42; Herrlott, S; Mahon, 2. This result was foreshadowed by developments of last night's conference between friends of the other candidates. At this conference a number of Herriott delegates came over to Cummins, and even the opponents of the Des Moines man admitted that his strength seemed almost sure to return him a winner before todav's convention. When the convention waa called to order this afternoon after an adjournment to allow the various committees to prepare their reports H. W. Beyers, of Shelby county, was made permanent chairman. Chairman Roberts, of the committee on resolutions, read the platform, which whs unanimously adopted as read. It expresses "gratification over the Indorsement given to the administration of President McKinley by the decisive majorities of last year," and "rejoices In the manifold benefits resulting to the country from his re-election which has inspired new confidence in the business world, established authority and order in our new possessions, and strengthened tho position of this country before tho world." The people of the country are congratulated upon the "enjoyment of a state of prosperity that blcaes every class and community." The work of the Fifty-sixth Congress, its action for the reduction of taxation, and its constructive legislation, giving effect to the party's declarations of li9t and 1900, are approved. The plattorm continues: "We would emphasize our Indorsement of this action in more firmly establishing our monetary system upon a gold basis and in providing for civil government in Porto Rico and the Philippines and for the relinquishment iu our authority in Cuba. The policy of this government towards these islands has followed inevitably upon our expulsion of the authority of Spain. It has been dictated by the conditions present, has been comistent with the spirit and within the provisions of the Constitution, and the paramount consideration 1ns been to secure the lasting welfare of these people, whose fortunes and destinies have become, in a largo degree, dependent upon us. The fact that our authority there is the result of a war waged, not for our aggrandizement, but In the name of humanity, must forever govern and Inspire our relations to them. "We are earnestly opposed to all legislation designed to accomplish the disfranchisement of citizens upon lines of race, color or station in life, and condemn the measures adopted by the Democratic party in certain States to accomplish that end." The policy of a protective tariff is indorsed, and such changes therein are favored as from time to time become advisable "through the progress of our industries and their changing relations to the commerce of the world." Reciprocity is indorsed as the natural complement of protection, and its development is urged as necessary to the realization of our highest commercial possibilities. Regarding combinations of capital the platform says: "We assert the sovereignty of the people over ail corporations and aggregations of capital and the right residing in the people to enforce such regulation, lestrictlons and prohibitions upon corporate management aa will protect the individual and society from abuse of the power which great combinations of capital wield. We favor such amendment of the interstate-commerce act as will more fully carry out its prohibition of discriminations In rate-making and any modification of the tariff schedules that may be required to prevent their affording shelter to monopoly. ' Great pride is expressed in the record of the Iowa delegation in Congress, cspeciaiIv in the sel-ction, as speaker, of D. B. Henderson. Senators Allison and Dolliver are Indorsed in particular and their reelection at the hands of the General Assemly to be chosen this tall is heartily in dorsed. The administration of Governor Shaw Is declared to have reflected honor upon the State nnd his discussion of great questions is declared to have placed him as n leader of national influence and renown. Afttr the adoption of the platform came nominations for Governor. th choice, as already to:d. going to Cummins on the first ballot. The nomination, on motion of A. G. Stewart, of Waukon. a stanch friend of Trewin, was then made unanimous. For Lieutenant Governor John Herriott. of Stuart, was the choice on the second ballot. Prant was the only opponent of Herriott who gave him any sort of a race. Nominee Cummins then appeared before the convention. maSe a brief speech of thanks and withdrew amid thunderous applnusp. The nomination for judge of the Supreme Court went to S. M. Weaver, of Iowa Falls, on the second ballot. K. C. Brown, of Sheldon, for railroad commissioner nnd R. C. Birrett. of OeHge. for superintendent of public Instruction completed the ticket .and the convention then adjourned. Cnmmlnn a Former Indinnlnn. PES MOINES, Ia.. Aug. 7. A. B. Cummins, of Des Moines. Ia., who was nominated for Governor at the Republican state convention to-day. is one of Iowa's representative men Eorn in Green county, Pennsylvania, fifty-one years ago, of ScotchIrish parents, he worked his wr.y through the c.-.iiirnon schools and the Waynesburg Acrd my, and then came West. In lH-i h,' located at Klkader, ia Clayton county, and secured a clerkship ia the recorder's ofi'j?e. Some tim- afterward he engaged in ran. entering, ard still later was an express "messenger. In 1S71 he went to Indiana and was lUpvty surveyor of Allen county, a sh.rt time afterward becoming divk'.ön engin er of the Cincinnati, Uiehinorn i'i Fort Wayne I'aiiro.'d. At tho arre of twenty-ihree Cuaiirins decided to stuuy law. and two years later wus admitted to tlio bar in Chicago. That city was his home until 1S7(. when he removed to I)e Moines and formed a law p-xrtn.-! -hip with J. C. Cummins. He fas a member of the Twenty-second General Assembly of Iowa and for lour years was n uiembr of the Republican national committee. LouUvllle'fl Political Tangle. LOUISVILLE. Xy.. Aug. 7. At a meeting of the Republican city ami county executive committee tonight the recent primary was annulled and it was decided to hold a delegate convention Aug. 21 to nominate an entire ticket for city and county offices. The canvassing committee riled a report on the destruction of bnllots c?!t In the primary by persons who broke into the Republican reiyhpiarttri and sild that it was the duty or' tha executive- committee to ' hy the who!e mutter before the September grand Jury." A Danseroun Mixture. LINCOLN. Nb.. Aug. T.-Mcetlngs were held thla evening by the Democratic. Populist and Free Silver Republicans of the stata central corimltte and fusion of the three parties wa practically agreed upon, the ktate Convention of all Uln fixed for Sept. 17 at Lincoln. W. J. Uryan addressed the Drrccratlc and l'opullat committees and declared himself strongly for fulon. Tvo Live Loat by a Cloudburst. SALT LAKE CITY. Utah. Aug. 7.Clouuburfts and heavy rains in various parts of Utah last night caused the loss of

two Uvea and rasulted in considerable damace to railroad and other property. At Winter Quarters, where the mines of the Pleasant Valley Coal Company are located, a flood caused by a cloudburst swept away the home of Matt Korbillo. Korblllo, his wife and child were swept away by the torrent, tho father and child being drowned, while the mother was rescued only with the greatest dliT.culty. Mrs. Korbillo was terribly bruised and received injuries which may prove fatal. PLEA TOR TEMPERANCE.

Archbishop Ireland Talks to Cnthnlle Total Abstainer. HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 7.-Special religious services In the morning, a business meeting in the afternoon with encouraging reports from officers and an immense gathering at Farson's Theater to listen to an ad dress by Archbishop Ireland, of St. Paul. . In the evening, constituted the first day's proceedings In the convention cf the Catholic Total Abstience Union of America, now in session here. The day opened inauspiciously, for a drizzling rain prevented a large attendance in the morning. In the afternoon the business meeting was held, at which the officers made their annual reports. Ilev. D. F. McGillicuddy, of Worcester, president of the union, presided and after his report tho reports of the vice presidents were made. The report of the secretary. Rev. A. P. Doyle, of New York, furnished interesting figures on the etate of the order. It was shown that the society now numbered 5C5.441 members in 370 brane-.h organizations and that the increase for the past year had been 4.1J members and ninety-three new societies. The audience at Parson's Theater for the evening session packed the auditorium. Bishop Tierney presided aud after addresses by Rev. Father McGillicuddy, of Worcester, Judge Waiter K. Gibbons, of Chicago, J. Washington Loebe, of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Lonara Lake, of St. Louis, a vice president of the union, Archbishop Ireland wa introduced amid great applause. Archbishop Ireland recounted the events attending the founding of the union in Washington thirty years ago and traced its growth through the early years do An to the present time. In .Teai?irEr of th work nf the union he said that In years past the criticism had been Justly made that the proportion of drinkers among Catholics was greater than among persons of other religions, but that now such a statement was untrue, the change being due to the Catholic Total Abstinence Union and other similar organizations in the church. The speaker did not, however, fail to pay a tribute to temperance societies in churchs of other de nominations. In closing Archbishop Ireland made an eloquent plea ier temperance among the men of the twentieth century in view of the demands of the age for clear headed and active men. VANT DUTY REDUCED. Cabana Think the Tariff on Clears Is Mach Too High. HAVANA. Aug. 7. The Union of Tobacco Buyers, of Havana, was recently asked by the Merchants' Union to give an opinion as to the duties levied in the United States upon Cuban tobacco. The reply was to the effect that the duty on cigars should be reduced to J2.50 per pound, irrespective of value, and that the duties on wrappers and fillings should be reduced IX) and 5 cents, respectively, per pound. A long preamble asserts that Cuba, if she docs not obtain a concession to which she has a perfect right, in view of the fact that she is under the economic as well as the political protection of the United States should ask for annexation. "This the United States would grant," the preamble goes on to say, "as it would be in conformity with the desire of a majority of the American people. Thus the successful opposition of sugar and tobacco interests of the United States to granting concessions to Cuba would only result in tne ruin of those interests, since, with annexation, Cuba would have free trade and this would mean the overthrow of the sugar and tobacco Industries in the States." At to-day's meeting of the constitutional convention. Slnor Cisneros presented his resolution that Senor Giberga be called upon to explain what he meant in his recent declaration that Marti was the evil genius of Cuba or to withdraw from the convention. The convention adopted a moelittcatlon of the resolution expressing sympathy with the attitude of Senor Clsntros and disapproving" the conduct of Senor Giberga, but at the same time asserting that it had no power to go further into tho matter. INSURANCE TOO HIGH. Chicago's Transatlantic Steamships to lie Withdrawn from Service. CHICAGO, Aug. 7. Ruinous discrimina tion in insurance rates, according to officials of the Northwestern Steamship Company, has decided them to withdraw from the transatlantic route the company's steam ships. The withdrawal will be made on the return of the two steamships to Chicago from Liverpool. Similar action will be taken with the company's other two steamships unless the alleged extortions shall be abated during thd six weeks' interval that will elapse before the steamers again make this port and the route will be abandoned v.ntil such time as satisfactory rates can be arranged. As high as $1.75 on the $100 has bten charged shippers for cargo insurance to Liverpool from this port and the average rate has been not less than $l.l, at which figure there fs a discrimination against the Chicago company of about 1,50:1 a cargo, or $7,M0 a round trip. Lines running to Europe from New York or Montreal are able to secure insurance as low as I cents. REJECTED LOVER'S CRIME. Sans "Ilecaase I Love Yon" nnd Cut Ills Throat at Girl's Home. NEW YORK, Aug. 7.John Hall, a professional einger, cut his throat last nightunder the window of the young woman lie had asked to be his wife, and who had rejected his suit. He had gone to the young woman's house to set made her, but she ordtred him away. He walked a few steps, s :ng a bar of the song "Because I Love You" and then slashed his throat with a razor. He probably will ule. Snlcltle of a Lawyer. BOSTON, Aug. 7. Robert F. SImes. a lawyer of this city, shot and killed himself in a leading hotel here late this afternoon. Sinus was forty-five years old and a graduate of Harvard. The cause of the suicide Is unknown. ENCK'S COMET OBSERVED. Seen by Prof. II. C. Wilson, of the Harvard Observatory Station. CAMBRIDGE. Mass.. Aug. 7. A telegram has been received at the Harvard observatory station from Prof. H. C. Wilson, at Northfield, stating that he observed Enck's comet on Aug. 5. Si'.i Greenwich mean time. The right ascension is 6 hours, 0 minutes, 0.1S seconds, declination plus CI degrees, 43 minutes. 'M seconds. The time given In the onicial announcement Is the astronomical time, which, reduced to civil tine, makes the dk cowry on Aug. 6. at 3 hours. 2S minutes and Z.'M seconds, reckoned at Greenwich mean time, or 4 hours. :'5 minutes and 3.Di seconds Eastern meridian time. HE HAS HAD ENOUGH. Xo More Pools for George II. Phillips, the "Corn Klug." CHICAGO. Aug. 7. "No more corn pools for me." said George H. Phillips, to-day. "I knew that I was standing over a can of gunpowder all of the time, and It was only by the merest chance that I escaped annihilation. I was forced into the May pool, but I won't be forced Into another. They are too risky and not at all to my liKlny." The "corn king" made this emphatic declaration apropos of the resolution tgain t pool passed by the board of directors of the Board of Trade yesterday.

VANT THEIR LEADERS

TAMPA STHIKUItS Wll.I.tN; TO DO AXVIIIING FOR PH.VI U. Whereabouts of tlie De:trtel le Kuoivn Only to Those Who Put 1 he iu Out of the Way. LAWYERS HAY RE EMPLOYED la iu:sist;;lia M;i:ivir, legal aid roil 3iissi; ;z:. Vigilantes Have Sereil otice that AH Member of the I nion May Leave the City If They Desire. TAMPA, Fla.. Aug. 7. The Reslstencia Union of Cigar Markers has changed lt position with relation to the strike several times to-d:iy. This morning the strikers were taking an obligation to leave Tamp in a body and never return under any circumstances. This afternoon they issued a statement saying that if their leaders are returned to them they will then be ready to arbitrate and settle the trouble. They declare they will do nothing until this ia done. Citizens say they will hac a long wait. It seems to.be positively settled to-night that the deported strike leaders are beyond, reach, and this is impressing itself upon the strikers' minds. La Kesistcneia has been telegraphing to Key West and Ne.T York all day trying to employ attorneys to come here and take their ease, but with what success is unknown. This action waa on the belief that the men were in jail. They arc not confined in jail. From their vacillating moods, it Jb believed that the strikers are wavering ar.d will soon be ready to resume work wher they left off. Tampa served them with notice to-day that if they desire to leave in a body they can do so without objection being raised. The Kesistencla's treasury is closed and the treasurer gone with the order's money, so that they cannot get it. A proclamation in Spanit-n and English is being sent out assuring; honest workingrr.en that their legal rights will be protected while working. There is no sembiauvo of disorder so far. The m n who are missing are mostly Cubans and if there are Spaniards among them they are naturalized citizens of America. No tnoro men were seized to-day. IXW1LLIXG TO IIIMIRX. Former Strikers Xot Resuming Work at Increased Wages. CHICAGO. Aug. 7.-Efforts of the members of the American Founders' AssociaLon to break the strikes of the machinists and iron molders have apparently failed. Men. formerly employed by the manufacturers showed no disposition to return to worVc to-day. Instead of the professed increase ia wages havüng tho effect of inereasing the number of men at work it diminished th forces of the employers. When the action of the National Founders' Association In offering J4.ix and $4.7ä a day to their men became known molders employed by two companies who belong to the association quit work. They had gono nars to work, and had agreed to accept th-3 terms of th manufacturers, who had offered them $V3 and $J.sö a day. When they learned th.it nonunion men were being offered wag a considerably larger than the seaie paid them they refused to remain in the sho,x. They are now picketing the shops winia they quit work in order to prevent nonunion men from taking their places. Seceding Machinists BUFFALO, N. Y.. Aug. 7.-A statement has been issued by International Vice President Mulberry, and Grand Lodge Representatives Reynold! and Warner, of Cleveland and New York, regarding the attempted secession of some members of th International Association of Machinists in the city of Buffalo. "For some time," the statement says, "the president of lot! No. 1U3 has attempted to dictate the policy of the association in Bufialo and vieinUy. After being expelled from the convention for conduct unbecoming a member he returned to liulfaio and attempted to start a secession movement in Buffalo Lodge, No. 213. He and a number of his followers were expelled from the association and the charter of LT was revoked. The loyal members of 215 met at International Hall, to-nignt, and formed a new lod.e of the International Association of Machinists." The receding members of the association claim to have a large number of machinists in their ranks. San Francisco Strike Spreading. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 7. To-day's feature in the local utrlke was the walkout of 300 sand teamsters and all the firemen of the Pacific Coast Company's vessels in port. By the strike of the sand teamsters the hauling of building material Is brought to a standstill, save in a few instances where contractors have their own teams. The strike of the Pacific. Coast steamship firem n was unexpected by the steamship people, who had made no preparations to obtain nonunion men. The striking fire-men say that after mature deliberation they Und it necessary to Join their fortunes with th other federationis's who are striking for the principle of unionism. Filipino crews have been secured for the South American steamers City of Syndey and Colon. Flint (;ins Worker' Scale. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. Aug. 7.-No change will be meade in the wages and regulations governing the making of fiintglass bcttles. This was determined upon to-day at the conference between the blowers and manufacturers. General Labor Xote. The entire car system of the Kroxvill Traction Company was in operation on regular schedule yesterday and not a striker has been taken back. The executive committee of the Furanee Workers' Union, of th- Mahoning and Siienango Valleys, yesterday indorsed the strike of the stel workers, and voted Jo extend moral and financial support. It wn decided that the furnaces should continue in operation for the pr-r.t. but a committee was pppoiritcd t lr-.ir:i what furnaces are shipping iron to the I'rdted States Steel Corporation. Th employes at the Ni'.eg furnace, owned ty the st.el corporation, will suspend work SaturdayALIENS CANNOT SUE. Xonresldent Foreigners Xot Entitled to Relief in C'olnrndo Courts. DENVER. Col.. Aug. 7. International complications hue risen be twee. the United States and 1 1 1 en account of th decisie.n f a court that a nonresident alien Is not entitled to fc for damages In the courts of Colorado. Several month sro Fenice Ferrarao. an Itali in we man. living In Italy, brought suit for &.'.. damage against The Auric Mining Company in th courts of Hindala county for the viokr.l death of her husband. Peter 1-V.rraruo. tn the Ute and Ouray mine, near Lake e'ltv Tho suit was transferred to te court of Pueblo county, and there th" le.iih n rendered that a nonresident alien had no right lo sue for damages in the St :. Mrs. Ferrarao to-day referred the m.-.tfer to the It.ilian co:i:'ul. Dr. Jos. Cureo. who has forwarded papers In the ae to V asnlngton. Cnpt. olil Wiley Shot. MONTGOMERY. Ala.. Auf. 7.-Captln Noble Wiley. -n cf Conprev:r.an Wiley, of this distrLt. v.h h; recently received an appoi.iltt.eit as U ntenant iu te regular army, was srot and s-rlou-o.y woandM hre to-tl'iht !y Dr. J. II. CrefsliTid. 'be ball striking birr. In th? shcuMe-r. The immediate caui-e of th. hooting P not know n.