Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 253, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1901 — Page 4

THE IXDIAXAPOLIS JOUKXAL, TOESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1901.

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LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. C Rings House, Ebbltt Houa and Willard's Hotel. Senator "Wellington, of Maryland, seems to have fallen heir to the spl. it of the assassin of Garfield. Anarchist Most, of New York, was at least practical when he said: "If you are going" to proceed against the Anarchists nhy don't you begin with the New York Journal, whose savage attacks upon the President should make a bootblack blush." It has been announced that Mr. Magulre will advocate the immediate placing of watchmen and gates at the railroad crossings to prevent accidents. To this extent he practically accuses the administration of which he 13 a member of not doing its duty. The trial of the assassin of Garfield was prolonged through weeks that a notorietyseeking lawyer might parade himself before the country. Unless self-defense can be plainly shown the man who shoots or takes the life of another should receive the penalty due the murderer. Church service In Fairmount, Neb., was postponed on Sunday while the young men of the congregation ducked and rode on a rail a man who expressed pleasure that "the promoter of trusts had come to a violent end." The victim had undoubtedly taken the statements of a yellow newspaper as fact. atrolinan of the Cincinnati police force has been stripped of his insignia because he said he was glad that "McKinley had been shot, and that he, Hanna and the rest of the trust crowd ought to have got it long ago." He had taken the first lessons In the hate of anarchy from the yellow newspaper. An exchange has a cartoon representing a farmer chasing a snake labeled Anarchist with a pitchfork, and exclaiming: "He is a foreign viper and doe3 not belong In our land." Unfortunately, this is not true; the President's assassin is a native American, and we tolerate numerous hatchcries of such vipers. It Is reported that the official circle in the city government will put forth its most strenuous efforts to elect Mr. Magulre and will eacTiflcs any or all other candidates to accomplieh that purpose. As most of the present offlciala would retain their places if Sir. Magulre Mrere mayor, tho officials are naturally ach for himself. If th wors should happen and Colonel Xioosevelt should become President, the suggestion that he would proceed in a manner to destroy confidence In business is too absurd to receive any attention. In financial affairs the Vice President has been brought up amidst conservative influences. The excellent Governor of the Empire State would not be a reckless President. Yesterday, in McKeesport, Pa., S00 or 1,000 men anxious to work for high wages to support tl.cir families were prevented from so doing by a mob. The right of men to work should be next to the right to livo in this country. It is set forth as one of the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence, as one of the inalienable rights, "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Some rlan should be devised to retire the floating: debt of the city occasioned by the temporary loans. How much it will be is not so clear at the present time, but It would ba unwise to think of paying It out of a levy which last year did not afford sufficient revenue to pay current expenditures, and it would be absurd for any one to promise to do so unless he can see where present expenditures can be cut down. The board of school commissioners, as now constituted, has rendered the city ex cellent servicp In putting the new system Into successful operation. The terms of three of tho members of the board Messrs. Moores, Sweeney and Sickels expire December 51, an 1 their places will be filled at the city election. "While several worthy citizens have been nominated, It seems that the w iser course, all things considered. is to reelect the men whose terms expire. Just before the striking down of the President there began to be inquiry as to the purpo.ee of tho administration in sending the note of mediation to Colombia, and Venezuela. Those who do not understand the meaning of the Monroe doctrine construed it as a notice of its enforcement. The United States is under obligation to protect the Panama Railroad and the .sovereignty of the government holding the territory over which the road passes. Colombia docs "not und. -inland whether the note of Secretary Hay means an offer of mediation to prevent war or Its protection against Venezuela ami lieuulor in case they should disregard the note and invade Colombia. Venezuela, however, understands the note to mean that It must riot Invade Colombia, and so it hesitates. The note xplains itsctf in that It distinctly implies

that the United States will be compelled to protect the rights of thi3 government In regard to the Isthmus, and that this government will judge for it?elf whether an Invasion of Colombia by Venezuela would imperil those rights. If the State Department considers that the territorial Integrity of Colombia is necessary to preserve our rights in the isthmus, Venezuela and Ecuador are warned what the consequences of invasion will be.

Tin: president's condition. The news from Buffalo yesterday, more and more hopeful with each succeeding bulletin, brought a sense of relief which could be seen in the faces of the people on the streets. The general Inquiry when nun met was: "What is the latest from the President?" Scarcely giving the salutation, "Good morning," friends asked of each other w hat they thought of the President's chances. While it is yet too early to cease to be anxious, the very general opinion Is that President McKinley will live and so recover as to be able to meet the high responsibilities of the future with the courage and wisdom he has thus far displayed. TIIH YELLOW JOIRXAL AM) TIIK YELLOW OHATOIl. Tho IJrooklyn Eagle, one of the leading independent papers in the country, declares that "the yellow Journalism of anarchy shares the responsibility for the attack on the President." True, Czolgocz claims that he has long been an Anarchist and that the Goldman woman gave him his inspiration, yet it will be found that whenever he read a newspaper it was one of the notorious yellow journals which have circulated so widely the past few years. flhe Eagle says "the journalism of anarchy did not mean that the President should be shot; it only wished to sell more papers" by cartoon and comment like the following: McKinley is a tyrant reddening his hands in the blood of the poor and filling his pockets and those of others with dollars coined out of the sweat and tears and hunger of helpless strikers, their wan wives and their starving children. The foregoing was published in the leading yellow journal fn the country the journal or its duplicate that is read by thousands of persons who are attracted by its hideous cartoons'and its sensational comment in poster typo. Observing people must recall seeing a class of ignorant young men reading such papers on the streets. Such readers come to believe the passion-inciting stuff addressed to men who labor. There can be no doubt that Czolgocz has read such papers, made to sell to just such people. There is no question that this sort of stuff has caused the large sale of such papers. On a par with the foregoing from the leading yellow newspaper is the yellow orator who harangues on "McKinley, with his merciless and cowardly heart, raising his blood-stained hands to heaven in hypocritical prayer." These are not the words of an Anarchist, but of a man who assails the policy of the President. Pages of such hate-inspiring expressions could be clipped from the leading yellow Journals and from the harangues of 'yellow orators. To-day such journalism and oratory as above -quoted is the most tearfully sympathetic and demonstrative grief-stricken journalism and oratory In the land. The papers which have denounced William McKinley as "a tyrant reddening his hands in the blood of the poor" are proclaiming with ostentation the lovableness of hi character. Last week and all the previous weeks for years the President has been cartooned and described as a monster, a despot and a coward. Scared with the feeling of its responsibility, the yellow Journal flies to the other extreme and canonizes the President, who may die. Patriotic men and women, the vast majority of all political parties and creeds, are asking to-day what can be done to exterminate anarchism. They have in their minds small bands of wretches who are at war with society, the ripe fruitage of a godless pessimism. It is well, but all efforts to suppress anarchism will fall if the yellow journal and the yellow orator are permitted to resume their war upon social order as soon as they think that people have forgotten their responsibility in tho attempt on the life of the President. Our assassins of Presidents are native born; they have been educated at home, and every weak-minded or ignorant person who reads the yellow Journal Is taking lessons in class hatred which makes many lawless and a few assassins. Efforts to extirpate Anarchists will be useless so long as the yehow journals, circulated by tens of thousands, and the yellow orators are permitted to circulate and speak where they will. AX IXWISK PHUACIIUII. The Rev. Dr. Xaylor, of Washington, may be the President's preacher and a very able and godly man, but when he declared that the attempt to assassinate the President "had almost made him an advocate of lynch law" he made a very sorry spectacle of himself. Nor can there be any excuse for such a declaration, as a preacher is supposed to think over in advance what he proposes to say in the pulpit. Lynch law or lynch outrage is one of the manifestations of that lawlessness which finds Its culmination in anarchy. Lynch law is the most dangerous manifestation of lawlessness in this country at the present time. Within the past six months several innocent men have become the victims of lynch or mob law. Out of the spirit of the mob seeking vengeance, the most revolting and fiendish of human passions hav3 been displayed, such as the burning of negroes charged with crime. No one is safe under the rule of the mob. It was the mob to which Pilato listened when he gave the Son of Man to be crucified. Dr. Nay lor is reported to have said that if he had been in Buffalo he "would have blown the scoundrel into atoms if he had had a pistol." The eloquent preacher seemed, In his excitement, to forget that "vengeance is mine and I will repay, saith the Lord." He seemed not to be actuated by that kindiy spirit which the President Is reported to have shown in the request that his assailant should not be harmed. Blowing Czolgocz "into atoms" or "cutting him into inch pieces" can be of no use. Nothing could be gained by torturing the weak-minded wretch. It would not deter others or promote any good end if done outside the law and by violence. It would only show, deep in the hearts of the excellent people who would have visited Czolgocz with violent death, the germs of the savagery which made him an assassin. The only remedy is in the absolute supremacy of law. The law is the only source of personal security and of the well-being of society. If we had not fallen Into a mistaken Idea which' makes the rifcht of free speech the cover fur license, no such men as Czolgocz would be in existence, but we have so falkn into the fear of the yel

low Journal and orator that th attempt to break up a band of confessed Anarchists last week would have called forth passionate protest and hideous caricature. Lynch law follows the demagogy and cowardice of these who neglect to enfore the laws for the protection of persons and propert-. The lawlessness of the T3ungaloo is incipient anarchy. The custom of courts in letting murderers clear on such absurd pretexts as temporary or emotional insanity breeds contempt for law, emboldens the criminally-Intent and prepares people for lynch law. The work of creating reverence for law must begin in the school and the family. Before Dr. Xaylor, we had claimed the pulpit on the side of the majesty of the law. Jury commissioners should not put the name of a man on the list who cannot be counted to stand for the law as the safeguard of society and the foundation of civil liberty. Tin; in-: pl ii Li can chart. The exposition speech of the President would have attracted wide attention if it had not been followed by the attempt on his life. It was In no sense an off-hand expression, inspired by the occasion, but a speech which bore evidence of unusual care in its preparation, while his use of manuscript In its delivery indicated that he regarded It as one of tho most important utterances of his life. The Xew York World has fittingly characterized It as "the latest, ripest word of the ablest leader in the Republican party of a man who, with courage and earnestness as a part of his political capital, has grown and broadened with every year he ha3 passed in public life." The World has often been a critic of the President, but with the mass of people, it sees in that great speech one of those rare men who has the prophetic vision of statesmanship. The World continues: "To those who prate of 'empire and tattle of conquest, how apt his calm rebuke: 'Let us ever remember that our interest Is in concord, not in conflict, and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.' " Attention is called to this speech again because It contains the policy of that large and increasing number of Republicans who believe that legislation and treaties should be shaped along the lines of the President's utterance. It embraces the purpose of progressive Republicans and it should be a timely warning to those men who had begun to make themselves offensive by declaring war upon Republicans who believe that the schedules of the tariff should be changed from time to time in the interests of larger trade as against those of a few

people. It should be studied by the men who are already Intimating that it will not be wise to extend to Cuba reciprocal advantages in the exchange of that island's products, and who would oppose the annexation of the island if asked for by the Cubans, lest It Interfere with one industry we have had and with another which imports a large part of its products regardless of tariffs. In that speech, whether the President lives or dies, is the policy of progression which the Republican party must espouse if It Is to continue to control the affairs of the United States. SM OK I CO X S 1 3 1 l'T I () X. The street commissioner of Xew Tork city is taking time by the forelock and advertising for bids for the removal of snow and ice from the streets next winter. In the same line of activity is the movement of St. Louis business men to secure a clean city. They have in mind the impression to be made on strangers during their exposition two years hence, and know that they must begin in time. One improvement they are urging with vigor is the adoption of smoke consumers. They assert that smoke consumption is entirely possible, several devices on the market being practical and accomplishing the work satisfactorily if the fireman does his duty. The chief difficulty in the way of 'this improvement is the indifference and even active opposition of manufacturers, owners of hotels, business blocks, etc. It seems impossible to convince them that, in spite of the actual outlay In the beginning, the use of such devices is a matter of economy. A recent writer on the subject says: Contrary to the ordinary impression, it does not cost more to have a clean city than a dirty one. Smoke-consuming devices get so much more out of the coal by its more effective combustion that they are a real economy in the end. The Gait House, in Louisville, voluntarily pi;t ir: an elaborate system of this sort for the purpose of saving its own laundry bills. The damage done to lace curtains, upholstery ami tapestries in a nice hotel by the heavy black smoke of the chimneys is great. The owners took particular pains to compare the cost under the old system and under the new; they had not only boilers for heating, but for the electric dynamos, which lighted the hotel, ran the elevators and did other mechanical work. They told me that their fuel bill for the entire plant had been greatly reduced by the change. There Is much other testimony on the same side, and yet the opposition of soft-coal users to taking steps in this direction is very great. " Last winter an effort was made to enforce the Indianapolis ordinance requiring the use of smoke consumers in all down-town establishments, but without much success, though perhaps one or two of the contrivances were put in. Certain manufacturers In the outskirts who do not come under the ordinance use the consumers of their own accord as a means of saving fuel, but the managers of business blocks and hotels show a singular reluctance to doing this. It is time now for the building inspector to' look after this matter with an energy he has not yet shown and to insist that everyone to whom the regulation applies shall obey it. It will be but a fewweeks until furnaces are started, and preparations should be made to secure pure air and than streets. The colored man Parker, who fell upon the assassin of the President, has a good reputation as a man of intelligence and courage. Of his race it can be said that it has no Anarchists. Some of them are guilty of the lesser crimes and a few are inclined to use deadly weapons when in passion, but not one can be found who could be drawn into a conspiracy to strike down President, Governor or other representative of high authoritj. In that respect all are loyal Americans. Reader, Staunton. Ind.: The dates you ask for are July '2. ISsI, and Sept. 19, of the same year. Where Anarchist Come From, To the EdStr of the Indianajiolls Journal: Speaking of the attempted assassination of President McKinley, the Rev. Lewis Brown. St. Paul's Episcopal Church, said: "l believe the fault lies largely with ourselves. The development of the Anarchist has been due to infidels, unbelievers and atheists. What we need here is that we shall begin building our government more closely upon the foundation of simple and pure Christianity." it is very true that all. or nearly, all, at least, of Anarchists, are unbelievers, infidels and atheist, and it is also true that about all Anarchist are the offspring of those countries where Christianity (so recognized) has greater sway and power th m In this. I am not prepared to say what effect the teaching of simple und pure

Christianity would have upon a nation, but history informs us that in those countries where It is claimed Christianity in Its purity has been taught for centuries. It is from the shores of these same countries the United States receives the greatest number of Anarchist?. OBSERVER. Indianapolis, SPt. 9. THE JESTERS.

One of Them. Pittsburg Chronicl?. "This ancient umbrella," remarked Suulldifc, "belonged to my g randfath? r." '"Ah! One of the shades of ycur ancestors," added McSwilligen. Iletter Itennon. Chicago News. She Love is like a potato. He Because why? She Because It shoots from the ey. He Oh, I thought perhaps it was because ralring makes it less. Scarrinfir the Turf. Philadelphia Press. "I made one hole in five strokes," announced the new Rolfer. gleefully. "Tho ideal" exclaimed the other golfer, who was even newer. "I invariably make a hole with every stroke. I hover can hit the ground In the same place twice." A Clncli. Judge. Johnny So you got inter de how fer nothing? Jimmle Eetcher life! I carried de manager's grips up from tho train, blacked his booLs, brushed his clothes, run half a dozen errands fer him, and peddled handbills fcr six hours, and he gave me a ticket fer nothing. Consoling. Brooklyn Eagle. The Leading Heavy (loftily) My only aversion to playing the villain's role is that the better one plays it the more one 13 disliked by the audience. The Light Man (reassuringly) Yes, but you don't play it so very well, you know. Failed to Shock the Colonel. Chicago Tribune. "You know, of course," colonel," remarked the bartender, "that Kentucky is producing about 30.000.0u0 gallons of whisky a year now." "Have you any idea, sah," asked Colonel Ilankthundc-r, raising his glacs with a steady hand, "whan we get the rest of ouah supply?" Result of Social Reform. Chicago Toft. "I notice," said the man with the paper, "that an assoclati(t of scientists has decided that the Etory of Adam and Eve is a fabrication; that no such couple ever existed." "That must be tho result of the efforts of one of our many social reform societies," suggested the man with the book. "How so?" "Having assailed the nude In art for many years, they now seek to dispose of the nude In real life." Annrchy nnl Assassination. To the Editor of th Indianapolis Journal: In view of te shooting of President McKinley ami the assassination of Garfield and Lincoln, three kind-hearted men, doing no harm to any one, we should do whatever we can to protect the American people from harm. It seems as if the Anarchists are public enemies of all mankind. They glory in what they call freedom. They repudiate all law. While they are protected in life, liberty and property by law, they scorn the law and assassinate people when ordered by lot. As long as Anarchists are permitted to reside in the land, no prominent person is safe. Society should protect Itself by making anarchy a crime. Congress and the States should pass a law defining anarchy and making it a felony punishable by death or transportation to some island. They should be regularly tried by a jury, and the punishment should be death or banishment for life when duly convicted. Congress should set off some island in the Philippines, or elsewhere, and all assassins like those who assailed McKinley, Garfield and Lincoln should be hanged, and all others who aid and abet should be transported to some island, and make it a Botany Bay. If there was any known good in anarchy it would be different, but it is marked with murder and assassination, with a bloody trail around the world, and adequate punishment should be provided. If transported, as a part of the finding, there should be appended thereto a provision that at any attempt to leave the island the penalty should be immediate death. Let all civilized countries, by treaties, ratify this agreement, so the Anarchist could not find an asylum anywhere, except on the convict Island. Birds of a feather should flock together. In addition to anarchy let the perpetrators of murder, treason, kidnaping, burglaries and common thieving be transported to the same island. Let the people on this island have perfect freedom to enact any law they please, according to their ideas of freedom and justice. In a few years society would weed out the evil disposed persons and take off about two-thirds of our taxes. To support our Jails, houses of reform, penitentiaries, courts and police, about two-thirds of the taxes are levied and law-abiding people foot the bills. Juries would convict men for transportation where they would hang or acquit in many cases. Let our warships cruise around the convict island, and make it a part of the conviction, when any one was caught in trying to escape, that the officers should shoot him on the spot. In all cases should an innocent person be convicted, the President, or the Governor of the State where the conviction was had, should pardon the man. In this way the innocent man would be restored to home and country. Unless the criminal class be thus collected, society will be in constant turmoil, and the taxes regularly collected frtjm peaceable and law-abiding people, and society in time weed Itself of the vicious and criminal. It is hoped that the shooting and attempted assassination of President McKinley will arouse the public to consider the best plan to remedy the evil. JUSTICE. Anderson, Ind., Sept. 9. Socialist Remedy for Anareliism. To the Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: The plain and obvious explanation of the attempted assassination of Mr. McKinley is to be found in the generally accepted individualistic theory of man's relation to nature and to each other, exemplified in practical life as private capitalism, competition and its natural correlative, private monopoly. As a rule of this individual, private, competitive theory, society is pervaded from center to circumference with a spirit of antagonism, rivalry, hatred, enmity, like the earth of gravitation. It may be latent or veneered with a spirit of pious hypocrisy, but like an object at rest, the force is there just the same. All political bribery, corruption and class legislation is traceable to this fact, that our industrial system is in private hands. The people's representatives are purchased to further private interests, er have private interests of their own to further. The scientific method for the cure of a thing is to remove the cause. The obvious cure for political assassination, as well as murder in general, is the substitution of the altruistic in place of the individualistic theory of society, and the practical application of that theory to the business system of production and distribution is democracy in industry, otherwise socialism. Political assassination is but one method of calling public attention to the industrial abortion of private capitalism and competition, with its wealth, luxury, preferment, power and authority on the one hand and its poverty, dependence, degradation and crime, with their natural concomitants, poorhouses, jails, asylums, strikes, etc., on the other. There is no act without a motive of some kind. In the very nature of things the motive under private capitalism must be self (ish) at the expense of society at large, and the shrewdest and most cunning will invariably manage to get the wealth. The motive under public capitalism would necessarily be the public welfare instead of the individual, and the best and brightest intellects would naturally gravitate to the head and control of public affairs. Get on the Socialist band-wagon, Mr. Editor, and save yourself the trouble of saying, "I told you so" later on. There is plenty of room. CHARLES M. DYER. Cloverdale. Ind.. Sept. 9. Congressmen at Manila. MAXI LA, Sept. 9. The United States transport McCIellan. from X?w York July 10, having on board the congressional party, has arrived here. The visitors will start on Thursday on a tour of the Islands for the purpose of investigating the conduct of affairs.

SAID HE WAS GLAD

MAIL CAHHIEIl REJOICED OY Eft THE siiootixc; or the president. Reviled the Chief Executive Last Friday and Said He Should Have Been Killed Years Ago. AN EXAMPLE PROMPTLY MADE AFFIDAVITS SECl'RED AND HIS COXTHACT AT OXCE CAXCELED. Second Assistant Postmaster Sliallenherger of Opinion that Such a Man Cannot Re Trusted. POLICEMAN ALSO PUNISHED IUI VAX HAS STOPPED PRE A CHI XG AGAIXST THOSE IX AUTHORITY. Statement in Line with Other Denunciation of IliKh Crimes View of TaltuuKC and YV. E. .Mason. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. Second Assistant rostmaster General Shallenberger today summarily canceled the contract of a mail carrier for expressing satisfaction over the shooting of President McKinley. The name of the person who was thus dealt with is Charles F. Cortright, and he had a contract for carrying the mail between Homer, Cortland county, Xew York, and Spafford, in Onondaga county, the same State. The information concerning his offense came to the Postofflce Department through the postmaster at Homer, who inclosed affidavits from four citizens of the place confirming his report. It appears that when Cortright first received the announcement of the news of the attempt on the President's life he remarked with an oath that he was "glad of it," and added that the President should have been killed years ago. Hearing of this remark three citizens of the town called upon Cortright and asked him if the report was correct and he replied that It was. Upon receiving this answer, duly supported by the oaths of the citizens who had heard this statement made, General Shallenberger took prompt steps to cancel Cortrlght's contract upon the ground that a person capable of such sentiments is not a fit custodian of the mails of the government. Following is the full text of a letter General Shallenberger wrote to Cortright's sureties: "Mr. Michael Murphy and Mr. F. M. Briggs, Homer, X. Y.: Gentlemen It has been shown to this office by the affidavits of four creditable citizens that on the evening of the Cth Inst. Charles F. Cortright, contractor with the government for carrying the mail on Route 78W, from Spafford to Homer, expressed his appreciation of and satisfaction over the shooting of President McKinley. This department believes that the transportation of the mails Is unsafe in the hands of a person who would deliberately gloat over the attempt of an assassin to take the life of the chief executive of this country and is not willing to longer intrust the mails to the said Charles F. Cortright. You as his sureties in his contract are therefore hereby called upon to immediately assume the carrying of the mails on Route 7S90 in accordance with the terms of the contract and to notify this office of the date on which you begin service. You are directed not to permit said Cortright to have anything further to uo with the service on said route." Xarrowly Escaped Mol Violence. GUTHRIE, O. T.. Sept. 9.-Thomas Ryan, a farmer residing twelve miles southwest of Guthrie, narrowly escaped mob violence by declaring himself glad that President McKinley had been shot and hoping that he would die. His old age alone saved him from personal injury and he was denounced in strong terms by the crowd that heard him. Home Inmate I nder Arrest. MARION, Ind., Sept. 9. Three inmates of the Xational Soldiers' Home here are under arrest and in the guardhouse of that institution for having expressed indignation over President McKinley's life and sympathy with his assassin. Drummed Ont of Camp. LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Sept. 9. -George Braunraider, an inmate of the Soldiers' Home, was dishonorably discharged tonight and drummed out of camp for expressing satisfaction at the shooting of President McKinley. DEGRADED IX PUBLIC. Cincinnati Patrolman Who Rejoiced nt the Ruff alt Tragedy. CINCINNATI, Sept. 9. George Huesmann, a mounted patrolman on the police force here, was subjected to the humiliating ordeal of having the insignia of his rank taken from him before a crowd of brother officers in the office of the chief of police here yesterday, on a charge of having made a remark that he was glad that McKinley was shot. He passionately pleaded a misunderstanding. During President McKinley's last visit Huesmann was a member of the guard of honor to watch the person of the chief executive while here. Two Patrolmen Suspended. TOLEDO, Sept. 9 Chief of Police Raitz to-day suspended Patrolmen William Hindo and Henry Herbert. It is charged that the two police officers, after hearing of the attempted assassination of President McKinley, went to a saloon and drank to the health of Czolgocz. An investigation of the charges Is being made by the police commissioners. WA TTE R S O X 'S S E XTIMEXTS. All Are McKinley Men Xow and All Pray fur His Recovery. LOUISVILLE. Ky., Sept. 9. "Xo threat of imperialism in this country can compare with that condition which would make it necessary always to hedge about our highest officials with military protection. But if systematic murder Is allowed to stalk unreproved over our land we shall reach a period when armed guards must surround every official and even be stationed in our courts of justice." These words were the keynote of resolutions adopted to-night at a meeting of 2,ooo citizens of Louisville at the Auditorium. A demand was made for vigorous laws against Anarchists, and deepest sympathy was expressed , for President McKinley. Speeches were made by R. W. Knott, editor

of the Evening Post. Rev. Dr. E. L. Powell, Judge A. P. Humphrey. Rev. Dr. J. G. Min-m-gerode, Hon. Henry Wattersen, editor of the Courier-Journal, and others. Mr. Watterson said, in part: "What must the world of feudalism, of monarchism. of despotism, think of it? If the hand that struck down that Emperor of Russia who had given freedom to the serfs was the same hand that struck down that American President who had given freedom to the slaves, shall it be said that there was anything more sane or logical In the hand that struck down Garfield and Carnot and McKinley? It must be, it can only be. an Insanity born of something radically wrong In modern ethics, to be punished indeed and punished with death but to be extirpated, if extirpated at all. by methods more far-reaching than the halter and the ax." After saying that if Mr. McKinley dies now, "he goes as Lincoln went, a glorious sacrifice to a glorieu cause," Mr. Watterson asked: "What then?" and concluded: "We must meet the bloodstained hands of anarchism not merely with cleaner hands, but with a purer public spirit, if not a deeper philosophy. We must disseminate the lesson that government exists not for the private gain of any. nor for the cure of any private grief, but for justice, the citadel and the belltower of the public peace and order. All of us this night are McKinley men. Wo pray this night that God will spare his life." - - IIRYAX HAS REFORMED.

I'tternnces In Marked Contrast with Campaign Speeches. BUFFALO, X. Y., Sept. 9. William J. Bryan to-day telegraphed the Times as follows: "Free governments may be overthrown, but they cannot be reformed by those who violate the commandment: 'Thou s.halt not kill.' Under a government like ours every wrong can be remedied by laws and the laws are in the hands of the people themselves. Anarchy can be neither excused nor tolerated here. The man who proposes to right a public wrong by taking the life of a human being makes himself an outlaw and cannot consistently appeal to the protection of the government which he repudiates. He invites a return to a state of barbarism in vhich each one must, at his own risk, defend his own rights and avenge his own wrongs. The punishment administered to would-be assassin and to his coconspirators, if he has any, should be such as to warn all inclined to anarchy that while this is an asylum for those who love liberty, it is an inhospitable place for those who raise their hand against all forms of government." 3IEETIXG AT LEXIXGTOX. Kentucky Ex-Confederates Join In Tributes to McKinley. LEXINGTON, Ky., Sept. 9. There was a remarkable demonstration by the citizens of Lexington and Fayette county here today in regard to the attempted assassination of President McKinley. Major P. P. Johnston, a major of Confederate artillery under Pelham, in the civil war, called the meeting to order with a strong and tender address. Col. W. C. P. Breckinridge, a Confederate leader, read the resolutions of sympathy with McKinley and of condemnation of anarchy. The resolutions were prepared by the noted orator and editor himself. Breckinridge was a member, with McKinley, on the committee on ways and means in Congress. Leading pastors of the city addressed the vast audience, among them the Rev. Drs. Preston S. Blake, It. O. Kirkwood. Edwin Muller and President James K. Patterson, of State Co' lege. Judge Denny and R. C. Stoll also spoke. Thp liurris A. Jenkins, of Kentucky University, opened the meeting with prayer and the Rev. Father James P. Barry closed it. PRAYERS FOR RECOVERY. Followed by a Resolution Asking for Anti-Anarchist Laws. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 9. At the week ly ministerial meetings here to-day the attempted assassination of President Mc Kinley was discussed, prayers for his re covery were offered and anarchism was severely condemned. A resolution adopted at the Methodist preachers' meeting was as follows: "We express our horror at the dastardly crime by which President McKinley has been stricken and our reprobation of the anarchistic teachings which led to its commission, and call for the enactment of such laws as will render the public expression of anarchistic sentiments a crime against society." The following telegram to President McKinley was prepared and forwarded: "The Philadelphia Methodist Episcopal preachers' meeting heartily sympathizes with you and prays your speedy recovery." The Baptist and Presbyterian ministers adopted resolutions of sympathy. m VIEWS OF E.Y-SPEAKEIt HEED. He Thinks the Time lias Come When President's Should He Protected. KINGSTON, N. Y., Sept. 9. Judge A. T. Clearwater, of this city, just returned from Bar Harbor, was with ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed when Mr. Reed heard the news of the attempt to kill President McKinley. Mr. Reed expressed the warmest hopes that the injuries were less serious than reported and for the President's speedy recovery. He said the time had' arrived to protect Presidents from close contact with large crowds. It was not a question of courage. All Presidents were courageous, but their duty was to be protected. The position was so exalted and Important, so much depended on the life and health of a President that he should not be permitted to risk them needlessly. 9 GUILTY OF TREASOX. Senator Mason's View of One Trying: to Kill the President. CHICAGO, Sept. 9.-Senator William E. Mason, speaking of the enactment of laws to prevent the gathering of Anarchists, said: "The man that attempted to kill President McKinley is guilty of treason. A lawshould bo enacted by the government that would prohibit the te-aching of treason and deal with those guilty of the crime. "If we caught a man teaching a youth to steal we would punish him. There is a class of people that teaches that it is right to kill a President. This not only is murder, but treason. The people who teach it are accesories to the murder before and after the fact and are guilty of treason when they teach it." TALMA till IS LIKE XAYLOR. He Wishes; Anarchist CxoIkocx'h Brains Und Been Dashed Out. XEW YORK, Sept. 9. In the course of his sermon at Ocean Grove, X. J., yesterday, Dr. T. De Witt Talmage. of Washington, said: "I wish that policeman in Buffalo, who seized the pistol of the scoundrel who s-hot our adored I're-sid?ni. had taken the butt of the weapon and dashed the man's brains out on the spot. ' The ten thousand people in the auditorium applauded the sentiment. Dr. A. 31. Cuhii'M Views. XEW YORK. Sept. H.-Dr. A. M. Cohn, of Brooklyn, who was chosen to represent the United States at the international congress of Anarchists in Paris a few days ago, is ejuoted in the Tribun- as saying: "The shouting of President McKinley" would not entitle the man to be called an Anarchist, nor would the act eau.e his denunciation by the brotherhood. Probably Czolgocz thought tii.it McKinley was to blame for various outrages. As lor myself. 1 think the shooting was a rash and unwarranted act." Socialists Probably Did Not Vole. XEW YORK. Sept. 9. At a meeting of the Central Federated Union, yesu-rday. according to the Press, an en"irt was m,:de to defeat iesolutions concerning the- attempt to assassinate I'r sideiit M' Kinlt v. There was much excitement and indignation on the part of the sup.t. ! t r or the resolution. When toe call for a show of hur.tis w.if made- a little more- than twothirds of the deh-gates. voted ifl faV.if. Day of I'mjer at Baltimore. BALTIMORE. Md.. Sept. .-All the municipal and state buildings will be closed throughout the city and State from 11 to 12 noon to-morrow, pursuant to the proclamation of Governor Smith and the request of Mayor Hayes that the ilay be observed.

either In whole or in part, as a day of prayer for the ppeedy recovery cf President

McKinley. The Chamber e.f Commerce, the, Stock Exchange, th customs house and many other public buildings i:i this city will do likewise, and it now seen? probablo that there will be a general suspension of business during the hours named. Service will be held in all th chore! es and n open-air service in Druid Hill Park, if the present plans arc carried out. 31lnd Unbalanced by the Crlmt. HUNTINGTON. W. Va.. Sent. 9.-John Thompson, aged twenty-nine years and ton of welathy parents, committed suicli to day by shooting. He hid talked of aothlr.g save me attmptou assassination or McKinlev sine the orrurrrnrp t believed that Lis mind had become unbalanced. Polish Day" Postpone BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept. ?. The delegates arranging for Tolifh day at the exposi tion have, "in order to emphasize our griff and sympathy for President McKinley." decided IO postpone x onsu uay inieunitciy. FORT WAYXi: DOCTOR'S I'LAV. He Would Give the World' Anarchists an Island of Their Own. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYXH, Ind., Sept. 9. Dr. U. J. McOscar, a prominent young rhyslcian of Fort Wiyne, whose politics are of the Democratic persuasion, this morning advocated, in conversation, a unique treatment of Anarchists, both along lines of punishment for overt acts against thos constituted in authority and of isolation for all who in medical terms show symptoms of tho hateful mental and moral disease known as anarchy. "We have much Island territory." said the doctor, "for which I have not heretofore thought we had much use. P.ut now I can see where it will come in favorably. Eft Congress set apart some isolated island of sufficient size and necessary productiveness to be the future home of all Anarchists. Iet it not be a penal colony nor owe any allengiance to the sovereignty of this or any other nation. It is to be the hom and abiding place on earth of all who object to organized government or to law and order. We can say fairly to all who show symptoms of the disease of anarchy: " 'Here is a place for you. where y"u and your kind can go and work out your oVn ideas of life. We believe in this government and it suits us, and we are in the vast majority. We know no other way to live in peace, liberty and prosperity than we have now, and if you are not suit d you and v.e must part. It is you who must go. As fast as your propaganda develops people who thing as you do we will mmuI them to you. and you shall have a fair trial to work out the problems of life as you think right. But know this: If you remain in this country, any act of yours against the life of the chief executive or other heads of state is treason, punishable with death, speedily administered. We hold such acts the blackest and most culpable of crimes, because not only directed against the private life of the man who is entitled to absolute protection, hut also in far greater measure is it an attempt to subvert our government, which Is our way of insuring life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We will neither permit you to teach nor preach your doctrine of social destruction in this country, nor fail to punish most condignly its fruit of assassination. ' "No doubt the civilized nations of th world," continued the doctor, "would Join in a convention with tho United States for Fuch a segregation of Anarchists. Thin would insure a prompt purging of the social structure of baleful organisms and would tend to render society immune in th future to such horrors as the attempted assassination of our President. Our lawmakers will be wickedly remiss In duty if they do not provide some protection to our people against such calamities." AS MAJOR STEELE SEES IT. Anarchists Shonld Xot Jle Deported but Adequately Punished. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., Sept. 9. Speaking of th attempted assassination of President McKinley by Anarchist Czolgocz, Majir Geo. W. Steele, congressman from this district, and for many years a member of the wayi and means committee in tho lower house, said to-day: T do not think Anarchists should 1 be banished. That would be unfair to whatever country caught our anarchistic sweepings. It would also be an admission on the part of this country that we cannot take care of our criminals. I believe in enforcing to the letter the laws now in existence providing for a rigid inspection ot Immigration, in order to prevent the importation of Anarchists to this country. I also believe the laws now in existence presume and provide for a sufficiently strict surveillance to prevent a single Anarchist landing here and becoming a citizen. The law provides for the selection of experts to inspect the incoming Immigrants and decide as to their fitness for American citizenship. These- laws should be stringently enforced. The object lessons we have had ought to convince everybody of this fact. If the laws now in existence are not strong enough to prevent the assembling and plotting of the ons already here there should be more legislation on tho subject promptly. I have never ceased to feel greatly chagrined over the fact that a man from this country, a citizen of the United States, went to Italy and assassinated King Humbert. It is a disgrace to this country that either through laxity of the law or neglect in its enforcement such an assassin would bo harbored here and vested for years with the full privileges of citizenship, to which he was never in any degree entitled." e THEY ABHOR AXAnCHY. Knights of the fiolden Eagle Devoted to Charity, Loyalty and Sociability. Sfecial to the Indianapolis Journal. UNION CITY, Ind., Sept. 9 S. M. Harlan, supreme chief of the Knights of the Golden Eagle, to-day made public the following statement: "In view of the fact that Czolgocz, the President's eeiwardly assailant, wore a K. G. E. pin, some of the lally papers are printing glowing statements concerning the Knights of the Golden Eagle as being on Anarchist association. A more damnable fabrication was never uttered, and it is only fair to demand'a retraction ami a cessation of anv and all such statements. Th KniKhts of the Golden Eajjle is very similar in character to the odd Fellows. Knights of Pythias and Red Men, nnd teaches charitv. fidelity, honor, courtesy, temperance and hospitality. No more loyal, patriotic or fraternal organization exists In America to-eiay, and tliese cheap, amateurish reporters and detectives who are- fekln notoriety at the exix-n- of thi organization, whose character and st.in.lu g abhors anarchy and socialism in e very foim. aio assuming a dangerous position. Th' fiendish assault upon our cldef executive could not possiblv have been more- regretted, caused more"; sorrow or witnessed more profuse rxpre-ssioi.s of sympathy in any fraternal organization than it prompted amo: g the Armiican citizens who m it an honor to their homes and t- th- ir country to hold a membership in the Knights of the cp.lden Eagle. S. M. HARLAN. "Supreirc ridef." Mr. Harlan was prompted to tins step by hundreds of te legrams rc ive d (nrni bd r all over th" country ::kirig hir:i to de-uy the- Implied hartes. He id.-o s r.t the President a btte-r assuring him of the loyally of the Knight:; of th" Golden E.Ki.-. Should Up Mittle lliuli Treaon. Speci.d to the Iruhan hü Journal. VIM 'KNNKS, In.!.. S. ;t. :. At a r.ietlr of th' City Council to-night strong r solutions were passed deploring the a!t. n:;-t to assassinate the Pre .-Id. nt and asking th t;ov rr.or of Ite.I! cm to forward th icsoliiHons to the president "f the l'nit I Stab i

i--i:ate, urging that anarehy In- !ii.ud high treason-. 4 PUBLIC INTEREST IN REBLIN. Ncvts from BurTnlo E:mcrl Rend A Message of S i.i pa 1 h ? . BERLIN. Sept. H.-Publh- int. 'est i'i the Condition of Pr-side:!t M K.A .ntin... s very k-- n. The pap r pir. t a a; t aimciat of matter on the subject, win a is th- ha f toj i- of onve-rs.iti.ei. Expr-s .w of u'ipathy on tin part of the pe-;,'.- ar heard on nil si ! . Th' l 'idled Stat-s ambas-oi..r. Andrew I. White. Ie.-eid to-day tl:- f . ! i w i raj message from C.-unt W n i : str. m. pre sident ..f the- Rfiehstau: "P-rvlt me. hi tne name i f the R h.-tag and in be!) ilf f myself, to express to your Excellency our mo.-t profound execration of the atroelm:s attempt upon the life of the t al'ed ruler of thy Cnited 1'dates, presid;r, McKinley, V

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