Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1891 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 18, 1891-TWELVE PAGEST

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IGHT Palmer Is Elected Senator from Illinois. Moore and Coekrell Carry Out Their Plan Because They Obeyed the Popular Will. The Whole Town Fairly Goes Wild Over the Result. Gen. Palmer Thanks the Legislature in Person. Farmers Alliance Men Explain Their Sensible Course. The President of the Kansas Alliance Is Satisfied. Rejoicing in Tennessee How It Came About. EntiKGriELD, March 11. The republicans held a caucus this morning. The managing committee was empowered to handle the senatorial matter as it might think best. The commi tee sent for Representative Moore, one of the F. M. B. A. men, and offered him the solid republican vote of 100 if be and his two conferrees, Cock rell and Taubeneck, would join them, but Moore said : "I regret to be obliged to disappoint you, gentlemen, but your offer cornea too late. After waiting eight weeks in vain for republican support, Coekrell and myself have decided to give our votes to Gen. Palmer, and have affixed our signatures to an address to that effect." A few minute before the meeting of the Joint assembly the republicans joined in a chorus of "Auld Lan Syne" amid great applause. The democrats also struck up a melody, but of a rather more cheerful nature. In the meantime every available inch of space in the chamber open SENATOR-ELECT PALMER. to the public had been occupied by a throng intensely eager to witness the closing scenes in this memorable contest The republican steering committee ordered its members not to answer preliminary roll-call. Senrtor Evans, however, disregarded the committee's injunction and answered "here" when his name was called. On the roll-call of the house both Coekrell and Moore answered "here." Taubeneck did not answer to his name. "Twenty-five senators and seventy-nine members of the house have answered to their names," said the speaker. It is now in order to take another vote for U. S. senator." When CockrcU's name was called, he rose to his feet and said: "Mr Speaker" "No speeches! no speeches! object! vote 1 vote ! vute 1" shouted forty republican voices in unipon. "If you will keep your mouths silent for ft minute I will vote," said Coekrell. "I rote for John M. Palmer." For a few minutes the democratic shouts and cheers that reverberated through the capitol were deafening. After a slight lull they again broke out and it was seveal minutes before order was restored. Tho republicans remained silent throughout the preceedings. Moore's name was called and in a perfectly calm voice he paid, "John M. Palmer." Again democratic enthusiasm found vent in prolonged cheers and hats and papers were thrown wildly in the air. When the name of Morris, the colored republican, was called that gentleman voted for Cicero J. Lindley. The program now became for all the republicans to vote for Lindley, it having been found impossible for Fuller or any other man to receive the full republican vote, representative Taubeneck, when his name wa called, voted for "A. J. Streeter, nominee of the F. M. B. A. party," and, dropping to his seat, burst Into tears. The roll-call showed every republican voting for Lindley, every democrat for Palmer, Moore and Coekrell for Palmer And Taubeneck for Streeter. On the 151th ballot Speaker Crafts said: The whole nomber of votes cast is 204; necessary to a choice 103. of which John M. Palmer has received 103 votes democratic applaose. A. J. Streeter 1 vote and C. J. Lindlev 100 votes, and I hereby declare John M. Palmar duly elected U. S. senator to represent the state of Illinois in the eongresa of the United States for the term of six years. Lefeninz applause from the democratic side and galleries greeted this announcement. The democratic representatives cheered themselves hoarse, and mounting their desks threw hats and paper and baskets in the air. Several members blew horns. A joint committee was appointed to notify Gen. Palmer of bis election. lie wan conducted into the eharr ber by the committee, appeared by the side of the speaker and was greeted with applause. Senator-elect Palmer being introduced by Speaker Crafts began by saying that he would not undertake to formally thank all of his friends for the honor conferred upon him. He felt, he said, more like singing that camp meeting song, "Ain't I Glad I'm Oat of the Wilderness." CGen. Palmer expressed his thanks to the 101 democratic members oi the joint assembly whose unwavering support throughout had made success possible. Their stand, he said, had vindicated the riht of the people of the state to elect a

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senator. If the present legislature Had been elected as legislatures ordinarily are, the general continued, he would not have been a candidate for the senatorship; but the people of the 6tate, by a plurality, bad indorsed the prineiplesadvocated by him, and the election of today was therefore an historical sequence. He thanked the farmer members who had voted for him and congratulated them on the independent principle which they had shown throughout the struggle. The republican members, he continued, represented the old method of electing a senator in contradistinction to a direct appeal to the people. He thanked them, also, for the fairness and dignity with which they had conducted the senatorial contest. Moore and Coekrell received many beautiful floral pieces from members and friends, and after adjournment of the house great crowds pressed around them and shook hands and congratulated them, the throng including a great many ladies. Fire bells and church bells all over the city were rung as soon as Palmer's election was made known and on public buildings and private houses flags were hoisted and bunting hung out. THE TOWN GOES WILD.

People of All Partita Rejoice at Palmer's Election. Springfield, I1L, March 11. This has been a gala day for the capital city of Illinois. For nearly a year, in fact since Gen. Palmer fathered the movement in the West for the election of U. S. senators by the vote of the people, it has been the cherished dream of his Springfield friends and admirers throughout the state that be might ultimately be chosen as the successor of Douglas in the Prairie state and the first Democratic U. S. senator from Illinois since the day of the "Little Giant," thirty years ago. This dream finally has been realized and the pent up exultation of the Springfield and Illinois democracy has found expression in every form of hilarity and celebration known to the refinements of civilization. Indeed, when the exultant partisans found the restraints of civilization too confining for a proper expression of their feelings, they have resorted to gongs, horns and other primitive soundmaking devices oftener used by the South Sea islauders and aborigines of the Congo tnan uy the great Anglo-Saxon race. All tho afternoon and evening squads of shouting and cheering democrats, headed frequently by a man with a tin horn, gong or some improvised musical instrument, have marched through the streets and corridors of the hoMs, and when tired of marching they have invariably wound up atGen. Palmer's residence, where, entireful unmindlul of the fact that the general was at his office, several blocks away, or seeking seclusion in tho democratic state committee rooms, they liave given cher after cheer for the democratic senator-elect. Immediately after the election of Gen. Palmer was known, the church and the tire bellii of the city began to ring and above his voice, when addressing the joint assembly, could be heard the triumphant melody of the bells. Every factory and manufacturing establishment in the citv, quite regardless of the politics of the proprietors, blew in unison on their whittles in appreciation of the fac. that Springfield now claims both of 1 linois senators. Private residences hung out their flags and bunting and from tho staff of every public buiiding in the city proudly floated the colors of tho nation. Tonight the festivities still continue. Fireworks and sky-rockets from the public square must be visible to tho Illinois farmers for many miles over the prairies. Chinese lanterns, transparencies and illuminations on every building testify the a imirationof the citizens of Springfield for their distinguished fellow-townsman. A heavy and me. ting snow haa been falling all the afternoon and evening, but lias been insufficient to dampen the ardor of the anterrined democracy, who, when tho opportunity oMers, can celebrate as no other political party can. The democratic ii i embers of the general assembly havo been wearing conspicuously their "101" badges, and amid their rejoicing they have started a movement to procure and present to Messrs. Moore and Coekrell two magnificent badges, surpassing in beauty, cost and workmanship anything yet devised. Indeed, it seems that tho general rejoicing has become infectious. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that everybody in Springfield is celebrating tonight All parties seem to be well satisfied with the election of Gen. Palmer. Republicans almost to a man are cratifice with the action of the 100 republican members in voting on the final ballot for Cicero J. Lindley, president of the F. M. IS. A. of the state. They pee in that action, so they say, the consolidation of tho republican and the independent parties, and as a result, republican victory in 1S9. THE BIG THREE TALK. Moore, Cockrall and Taubeneek Explain Their Course. Spring field, Ilk, March 11. As a means of obtaining a consensus of the average of opinion in the result to the state and nation of Palmer's election by the circumstances and combinations that made democratic victorr possible, numerous prominent politicians of all political parties were tonight requested to express their sentiments. "I am glad this fight is at last over," said Dr. Moore. "I wanted to make a short talk this morning in explanation of my vote, but when I saw hew the republicans treated Cockrelfs attempts at explanation I concluded not to try to talk. Had I been allowed so to do I would have told the members of the Thirty-seventh general assembly that I was elected as an in dependent and that I had honestly and fairly contended for the election of an independent a- long as I thought there was any chance for such a choice and as long as tha majority of my supporters were perfectly satisfied with my action in supporting an independent candidate. I supported an independent candidate just as long as I thought we could elect him. But when it became apparent to me that he could not be elected and when rumors were circulated all over the country to the effect that the man for whom I was voting was no longer an independent bat a re publican and would act in the U. S. senate with the republicans, and when letters and telegrams began to pour in from my supporters to the eifect that they desired me to drop the man for whom I was voting and cast my vote for Gen. Palmer, I decided to do it. I became convinced that it was the earnest desire of a majority of my supporters that I should so vote, and I felt it to bo my timo to heed their mandates. I felt that the time had como for me to fulfill the pledge I made to my people before election, and I have done so. I told my people before they elected roe representative that any timo they or a majority of them deaired me to reflect their views on the senatorial or any other question, to so instruct me, and I would cast my vote in accordance with their instructions. I feel perfect. y confident that I have conformed Children Cry fcr

to their wishes today by casting by tote for John M. Palmer for U. S. senator." In regard to the tender of the solid republican vote to him by Chairman Fuller of the steering committee this morning, Dr. Moore said: "When Mr. Fuller came to me and said that the republicans would vote for me if I would accept the position if elected, I replied that I would under no consideration accept a seat in the U. S. senate unless it was tendered me by the will of the people; that I felt I was not their choice, and for that reason I could not accept the honor that would be conferred by the casting of the republican votes for me." "I have been an Independent since 1870," Eaid Mr. Coekrell. "I am just as much of an independent now as I ever have been. In voting for Palmer, I have not gone into the democratic party, as many seem to think. The people last fall only elected three of us independents. When I first met Dr. Moore, after the election last fall, before either of us came to Springfield, he and I agreed to make a struggle in the coming senatorial fight for the election of a straight independent for U. S. senator; we determined to try and secure the election of a man who stood only on the platform of the independent party. We concluded, as the republican party was in the minority, its members in order to beat the democrats, would assist us in the election of our man, and made up our minds that if they would not do it, but insisted on trying to elect a man who voiced the sentiments of the republican party, after having been defeated at the polls in November and practically condemned bv the people, then they should not have a U. S, senator. It was agreed between Dr. Moore and myself from the beginning that as Palmer bad made his fight before the people and had been indorsed by his party's convention, and as the democrats had conducted their campaign on the p an of the election of U. S. senators by the direct vote of the people, we would vote for Palmer after we had demonstrated the fact that we could not elect a straight independent man. That had been the understanding between us from that dav to this. The" first time we all threo Moore, Taubeneck and myself met here was at the beginning of the session. We talked over the question of the U. S. senatorship and Dr. Moore and I then decided that Taubeneck was a s raiehc out and out republican. We have believed ever s nee that anv day his vote would have elected a republican, the republicans could have had it. Put Dr. Moore and myself, acting upon the principle on which we started, have made an independent fight, although we later became satienei that the republican party would never assist in the election of on independent. During the la6t few days we became afraid that a scheme was being worked bv which a break would be ma'le in the democratic ranks. We feared that this break would result in the sending of a certain ( hicago millionaire to tho U. S. senate by means of boodle, and we understood that in that event not only we, but the people of the state, would bo defeated. AVe determined to head off any such scherre. We have now done it and are willing to stand the cons quencea. In voting for Gen. Palmer, I have not gone back to the democratic party. I do not think the independent party can got the reforms it demands from either of the parties. 1 think these demands will only be gained by a new party." In regard to thn action of the republicans in not allowing him to explain his vote, Mr. Coekrell said: "I don't know why the republicans have treated me as they did. They need not have been afraid of anything I wns goingto say about th ein. I would have said iu my speech that, while ditlering with them politically, I had, in all ray dealings with them, found them to be perfect gentlemen and had nothing if not a good opinion of them." "It is reallv too early to predict what our party will think of the result," eaid Representative Taubeneck. "If the democrat part of the organization sustains the action of Moore and Coekrell then it will break the organization all to pieces. If, however, the action of theso two men is condemned by the democratic members of our party, then it will show that the organization is on a sounder footing than ever and will also show that the party, as a party, do-s not want anything to do with eil her one of the old prtic. If the democratic portion of our party condemns the actions of Mooro and Coekrell, I am satisfied the republicans will aNo. They will stand by the independent movement aud by the organization. I regard the election of Gen. Palmer today as no democratic victory as far as the state is concerned in the future. There were in this state on 4th of last November 42,000 F. M. 11. A. members. A number of new organizations have been added since that time, and there are now in all probability fully 50,000. Politically speaking, there are more democratic than republican members of the F. M. B. A., because the order is more thoroughly organized in the democratic or southern part of the state. And I say that in my opinion the election of today is not a forecast of democratic victories in the future, but will tend to make the state more strongly republican than ever. There will be thousands and thousands of re

publicans who voted independently last lall, who will become disgusted with the manner in which Palmer was elected and will gradual y gravitate back to the rei: t . n i . puo ican pariy. j. am eatisnea, nowever, that the actions of Moore and Coekrell will not be indorsed, and I base my opinion on the resolutions which the F. M, B. A. members adopted in the past. No sir, I am sure they will not approve their actions. I have no complaint to make oi any democratic member of this legislature, or any one else except Moore and Coekrell. They have not treated me ritfht, Thoy have p'ayed the traitor. In the last few days they would not agreo to anything. They were not willing to take up any other candidate and would not even havo any coherences. In regard to myself, I am 'perfectly satisfied with my course. It was the onlv thing I could do. I wish to say, in conclusion, that from now on 1 wiah the people and the press wouia not call us the tfig inree any more. If the people are satisfied with the scions of Moore and Coekrell let them be called the 'Big Two,' and let them call me the Little One.' " The defeated F. M. B. A. candidate, Streeter, said: 'The manifesto issued by Moore and Coekrell wa very surprising to me. I regard the coarse they have taken as meaning death to tha Farmers' mutual ben efit association. Hereafter it will be known far and wide as an auxiliary to the old democratic party. In the future the or ganizatlon will have no influence in the politics o! this state and very littio mnu ence in tha politics at large. By their action Moore and Coekrell must be held responsible for the length of this contest ana for the enormous expense entailed on tne people. "Palmer's election," said Speaker Crafts, "is a victory for the principle of the eleea. : ir cJ . i . J : . . - i a i turn 01 u. o. senators uy uirect uie oi tue people. It is the beginning of the end of the present mode of electing U. a. sona tors. It commits the democratic party in the state, and possibly in the nation, to an amendment to our national constito tion providing for tho election of U. S. senators by direct vote of the people, and until such an amendment is adopted, so far ns this state is concerned, the demo cratic party is committed to tho nomination of candidates for senator by the state convention and a pledge of legislators to votvi in the joint assembly for such nomiPlJcher'o CactcrfHa

nees, thus doing away with the corrupting influences that surround the legislative caucuses in every state."

Senator-elect Gen. John M. Palmer said ; tonight: "My canvas has demonstrated that the true method ot electing a senator is by an appeal to the people. This contest has presented the contrast between the two systems in their best forms. The democratic contest nas been simply a plain form. Our 101 were elected under instructions to vote for me and the two other gentlemen who voted for me ultimatelv were pledged to the same svstem of electing a senator. The republicans in their methods have paid no attention to tho public will. They have had all the resources of the state and federal administrations at their command. Nearly all their prominent men in the state have been presented to the farmers fn opposition to me; and that system, after being fairly tested in opposition to ourg, has failed and the system of electing senators by the people is'now fixed in Illinois politics. It does not make very much ditlerence whether the consequence is changed or not, this popular system will now be come a part of the common law of Illinois and of the political methods of this country. For mvself, I shall of course advocate in the (J. S. senate an amendment to the constitution enabling the people of the various states to vote directly for senator." "In what 6hape does this leave the party for 1892?" was asked of Senator Fuller, chairman of the republican steering committee. "In the very beat possible shape. Republicans will see just what the democratic F. M. B. A. schema means. Republicans have shown their willingness to compromise on good F. M. B. A. or farmer alliance candidates, and the only reason such a man has not been elected is due to the treason of Moore and Coekrell. We have met with 100 solid votes fo the president of the farmers' organization. Their votes would have elected him today. Let them explain their course if they can. The F. M. B. A. as a party is dead. Two of its members in the legislature have been guilty of such duplicity as should and will consign them to eternal oblivion. From their recent prominence they drop all at once to the bottom of the hole that is said to exist in the bottom of the sea. There let them rest, execrated by a I manUnd." Messrs. Streeter and Taubeneck are preparing and will tomorrow furnish for publication, a manifesto in which they denounce tho action of Messrs. More and Coekrell in voting for Palmer today. It is understook that the action of the two independents in so voting will have the etiect of breaking up, to a grat extent, the independent movement in this state and that the reforms which it was hoped to accomplish by this movem-nt will be greatly retarded, if not entirely killed. Moore and Cockroll will probably retaliate with another address to the public. Both the Hbove documents aro awaited with much interest. A NOBLE LIFE. Sketch of the Mao Klerted by IlllnoU to t:.o Neiialo. John Macauley Palmer, who was governor of Illinois from 18'J9 to 1872, was born in Scott county, Kentuckj. in 1817. During his infancy his father, who had been a soldier in the war of 1812, removed to Christian county, Kentucky, whete he remained till 1831, when he emigrated to Mason county, Illinois. Young Palmer received little schooling. During the summer of 183S he formed tho acquaintance of St-phen A. Douglas, then making his first canvas for congress. Young, eloquent and in political accord with ' Mr, Taltuer, he won his confidence, fired his ambition and fixed his purpose to enter upon the study of the law, and he was admitted to practice in 1839. From that timo on he was much interested in politics. In 1843 he became probate judge. In 1817 he was elected to the state constitutional convention, where ho took a leading part. In 18-52 he was elected to the state senate. He ran for congress in the year 1S59, but was defeated. In 1800 be was a republican presidential elector for the elate at lurge. In 1S(1 he was appointed one of the live delegates (all republican?) sent by Illinois to the peace congress at Washington. When the civil conflict broke out he offered his services to his country and was e'ected colonel of the Fourteenth Illinois infantry and participated in the engagements at Island No. 10, Farmington, Chicamauga and Stone River, and for his gallantry at the lat.er placa was made major-general under Gen. Sherman. He was assigned to the Fourteenth army corps, and participated in the Atlanta campaign. In February, 1805, he was assigned to the military administration of Kentucky. Gen. Palmer was nominated for governor of Illinois by the republicans in 1S0S and elected by a large majority. His political course during his terra was such as to alienate him from his party and his acceptance as a democrr.t, which he has ever since been, but though a force in politics since then he has remained in private life. He received tho indorsement of the democratic state convention, held in June last, for the oflice of U. S. senator, and the instructions which each democratic representative elected in November last received were considered aa obligating him to voto for no one elso for U. S. senator. STREETER AND TAUBENECK Make a Very Toor Arralcmneot of Coekrell nd M"or. Springfield, Ill.,March 12. Dissension is rife among the agricultural organizations of the state. The election of Gen. Palmer by the votes of Representatives Mooro and Coekrell has caused a division among the F. M. B. A. lodges of Illinois and this breach will be but widened by the following address issued tonight bv A. J. Streeter, the recent senatorial candidate' and Representative laubeneck, the single farmer member who stuck to the independent candidate on the last ballot: To the F, M. B. A. and otbtr Independent and Industrial organizations: It would seem to be meet and proper that we present some facn bearing on this memorable eonust for the election of a U. B. senator. In doing this we present a Hoe of facts showing that there has beta no surrender on our part but that we have steadfastly from the begin log followed a line of policy that vu agreed upon at the beginuing of this legislative terra. In the manifesto published by Represents tivn Moore and Coekrell, we find the following statement, apparently ae the reason why they dropped Mr. Streeter snd swung into the demooratioline and voted for Oen. Palmer: Profeulof te drtlre to eeqalesoe in tbeeUedoa of en IndspeDdant, the republicans have a -gotiaUd tlih ut, aud miDliMted an inclination to support Mr. BtreHsr. tict Insteed of soiloj upon Mils hypothesis thy have adjourned from time to tims and prcloDgadtke eootaii. end finally, Iguortnf our declaret on that the U. 8. senator mutt be an Independent, they hare, little by lltt e, southland obtained from our candidate such concessions and promises ss would, ll carried out, entirely unfit him from conscientiously ri presenilis tho principles of tbs independent organization. We know thii statement, presented by Messrs. Coekrell aud Moore, as the reason why tbey abandoned Mr. Streeter and voted for Mr. Palmer.to be Inoorrect, as facte will show. There was a eonference held at the Leland, when the legislature first convened, at which Representatives Coekrell and Taubeneck, A. J. Streeter and Capt A. P. Petrie were present. At this eonference the policy of Mr. St Teeter's eandi dacy wae first marked oil aud unanimously agreed upon. At thia conference it was agreed, with one accord, that in ease of his election Mr. rJtreeter would maintain and defend the principles of the F. M. U. A. and other agricultural and labor organizations and outside 0f these and In aonalderatioo of tie suocort of tie repuLLlcia

members, Mr. Streeter should be st liberty to vote with our republican friends on other issues. With this understanding and agreement Mr. Streeter was put in nomination and his name was presented with those of II. U. Moore and John P. Steele to the republican steering committee as independent candidates who were acceptable to the F. M. B. A. members. Mr. Moore and Mr. Streeter were ca led before that committee to define their position. Mr. Streeter eaid to the rcpublioan committee that it was his purpose to support tho principles of the P. M. B. A, alliance and other farmer organizations, but outside of these, if elected, he would vote with the republican party; that his tariff views were nearly in harmony with that party; that they were the result of thought and investigation and bad often been expressed and published. Mr. Streeter also narrated hie experience in Arkansas when a candidate for president ia 185S and which lias already been published, ile said the facts convinced him that there was need of a law to protect the people in at least some of the cottou slate in their constitutional right to a free ballot and a fair count, and that he would clad ly vote for reasonable measure! to that end. He said further to the committee that he must and would be independent if

elected to the senate and made no concession inconsistent with the above statements. In proof of this we refer to the members of the republican tteering committee and ask each ooe and all to answer to the correctness of this statement. At the conclusion of Dr. Streeter'e statement at this conference Representative Moore used the following, language: "Gentlemen, I hare only got this to say now. I am satisfied perfectly with Brother Streeter a explanations and I waat him to understand as long as a man is ritfht, as long as he is with us, and we believe in the riht, we are with aim. Now, gentlemen, I can cast my vote for Streeter with a doien times better grace than I did yesterday, without this explanation. And aa long as Brother Streeter has a show, I am with him." Representatives Moore and Coekrell have both, time aud time acain, eaid in our presence that they would never vote for Gen. Palmer. In support' of this statement we present the folldVing language usedW Mr. Coekrell at the same conference: "W -went over and talked with Palmer on this- question and I want to tell you what was said, so that these F. M. B. A. brothers here, who want us to support Mr. Palmer, may hear it. We all agreed that the wealth of the country was being drawn to a common center; that there was no profit in farming. Palmer said himself that there waa no profit in farming, as be knew. When we asked a remedy lor all this evil and hardship be said be did not know the remedy, but that tho young men comiug on the stage of action now would have to find it later on. That is what he said. That is what this man for whom I had a grand opinion, who is held up before the people of this couutry as a senatorial candidate aud a tuaia support was obliged to confess. This is the man whom they are asking the three men representing the agricultural classes of the country to support. He says he knows of no remedy for this condition of things. The only remedy he has got is a little reduction of the taritt and the free coinage of silver. Alio- this talk Mr. Taubeneck, Dr. Moore and myielf walked away and before ire had got thirty feet from the door we agreed that we rou d never support that man for U. S. Kt-nator. 1 waut a man who is going to the U.S. senate by my vote to say at least that be thinks he knows of some way out of the condition of things. I want him to say that he ttiinks be knows some way to prevent the wealth of the country from being drawn away from the people nnd into a common center to oppress them. Was not that the wind up of It, doctor?" "Well, we did not seem to reach any conclusion, anyhow," replied the doctor. "But," pertisted Mr. Coekrell, "that the young men coming up would have to root out the remedy?" "It seems to me that was the substance of it" said Dr. Moore. Mr. Cookreli further said: "There are P. M. B. A. men coming up here aud petitioning us to vote for Palmer. We made one of the hnrdeet fiubts that was ever ru'ide, for we have a class of P. M. II. A. meu who are members of the order for revenue only and they want to climb up ly it and be taken on its shoulders aud carried into the old par ties and there unloaded with power and iniluence at their command. When you make an independent move and star by the P. M. B. A. as against the old parties these meu have not the courage to face the niosio. but go back to the old parties." We leave the public to determine for themselves what is meant by the above term : "Per we have a class of P. M. B. A. men who aro members of the order for revenue only, and who want to climb up by it and be taken on its shoulders and taken into the old parties and there leaded wi'h power and iullueuce at their command. These men have not the courage to face the music, but go bark to the old pnrtie." We next call attent on to Mr. Streeter's speech of aro -ptanoe as lirst prepared and recue that portion of it to which Messrs. Moore and Coekrell took exceptions, and which was partly stiKken out or change J to suit their eugweit:ons. lt it be fully understood that I ro to the senate independent, in a partisan sense. It will htt lay duty to maintain and defend tbe rights of ail elaarea oi our citizens and labor to restore to all the tou-ditiOD-t of jirusnt-riiy aud hs) pineis whiih are theirs by right Aside from th economic i rinU.de hold to be i ntial in our labor organizations. I will stsnd hy tiioe who have stood by us lo this eh'Cii' ti. i win vote wiia our republican inenus on other party Issues. It would b ungrateful ia me to do olht-rwie. As no lunn can divine what may uoine tii in the future, bei.oe 1 claim tbe right to sv that In doing this! w II not violate my con science, my iutrgrity nor sense of justice. My tariff Ti.-ws are the result oi thought ad In vrs titration, and have undergone some change within the Inst three years and are nssrly In harmony with those of the- republican parly. .My experience bus male me know that in sum at.ves there is need of a law to protect the poop e In tb ir right to a free ballot and a fair couut. 1 would bo clad t support any reasonable measure to this end. ISow in conclusion, lot us see if ' we cannot get closer toiti'iber touching the principles of our government. In tbe Unguals of Lincoln, our martyred president, and whose memory we all rerere, "Lot us got e os -r to the people, for they sre rinht." Let us r member that the great eentrsl idea ol our fathers when they ordtiued and established this govt romrnt wsi that it thould bs forcvei a (.oTfrniiiro t of great common people. Koine of as have beeu drilling from this fundamental prinoiple, and the tuns nns now come when it should b-i reston d, snd unt.l freedom's banner hnll wave from erery hllltoo and the premises of prosperity snd lis pin os shall burn l.ngtitly in all the valleys throughout tha land. Again I think you. These several statements of Mr. Streeter are preserved to prove the faot that be haa been straightforward and honorable from the beginning to the close of the content. Tbe policy to be pursued by Mr. Streeter in ease of an election was azreeJ upon at the beginning of the session. I he name was presented by Mm to the steering committee, again to the eonfer ence of some hlteen or tweuty independents on Feb. 10, including Messrs. Coekrell aud Moore, and indorsed by them in the strongest language as eeen above and at which time liepresen tati ves Moore and Cock rell said they never would vote for General Palmer, but would standby Mr, Streeter so long as he had any show of au election. In view of these faete why was it that Messrs. Coekrell and Moore should take exceptions to bis speech of acceptance, proposed at the request of one of them, and which has not a single principle in it but what was indorsed by them? A copy of this speech was shown to Representatives Coekrell and Moore on Friday, the Cth inst., at which time Mr. Streeter agreed to cfisngo it to meet their views and did so. On Friday evening Mr. Cookreli went to Chicago and did not return until Monday eveniug. men Mr. Streeter tried to see him and present a copy of bis revised speech. But Mr. Coekrell de clined and said be was through with all confereLoes. Representatives Cookreli and Moore kept us in the dark as to their purposes until the dar they voted for Oen. Palmer. Mr. Tau beneck saw their published manifesto in the morning papers in wblch they had said they would that day vote for Geo. Palmer. This was done without commlttiog either of us. Then Mr. Taubeneck hurried to Dr. Moore's home. . Ho asked tho latter if tbe three independent members had net agreed to consult with each other in everything they did and to treat each other honorably. To this Moore replied in the affirmative and asked if be had not always done eo. Mr. Taubeneck replied that he bad not flone so In issuing tho manifesto just published. Mr. Mooro replied: "We thought you did not want to bo crltioised In it." We believe that Representatives Mooro and Coekrell have not treated us fairly V hen, in tho history of events, was a senatorial candl date on tho eve ot an election, and the remain ins votes promised to secure tbe prize, thrown overboard without notice and without cause? An excuse for this strange procedure, wo have been told by others, was found in tho follow ing clipping from the Associated frees: Son-dor Evans, hsarlnc thst Representative Cook rell was to siend the intervening days between Friday and Monday in ChlcsKo, himself lft for thst city Friday night and loiued Mr. Coekrell at the rihsrnian house on Saturday. He there stated to the F. M. H. A. inn that he feared he might be foreed to support Mr. Mfeter, but that it would be under protest, and because the independent can d dials had made every concession to the republican steering committee wbioh had been requested by even the most rsdlcal republicans, lis never msds say pledges," ssli Senator Evans, "because I neer asked - for aay, but he rasde every lmaelasble concession to the steering . committee and tLe par it leaders, sal tl-y trtrs re

Used in Millions cf Homes pested to nie, In the bone thst I wott'd finally conclude to vote for Mr. rilreeter. To be frank with you, Mr. Coekrell, he bss inado to us eery concession and every promts of future republican sup port waica tne most araen. u uuwiui'iviui.mi memkor nf miv nanv i-ould ask. lie bos promised Terything, and has bartered his I ndependenee away tor our support, and I am afraid 1 may be forced Into voting for hlin, if jou gentlemen desire to keep him en the track. I only state this to you In order that you may be forewarned tiiat Mr. Strsvter, 11 elected, will not ns your man, oi " "'""s " the republicans and will vote with us upon ail questions in the U. 3. senate." The fact of this interview between Senator Evane and Mr. Coekrell we believe to have been riven out by Mr. Coekrell himself, and to be purely fiction, as aa excuse for voting for Gsn. Palmer. For proof of this we present to his admiring constituency the following letter from Senator Evans: I have eeen the statatnant of the interview ths Is said to have taken place between Mr. Coekrell sod. myself at the fehermsn house in C ticago on saturdsy last. It is nearly all a fabrication, nor hss Mi. SHrreter made snv pledges to my knowledge incon sistent with his integrity ss an Independent man. Signsd) ll. IL tVinr. We submit this statement to the publlo and let them draw oencluslons. (Signed) A. J. BTRISTII. If. K. TAVBK5BCK. SIMPSON WEARS SOCKS. Republican Defeat Hakea II Possible for Hln to D (to. Avnapolis, Md., March 12. Repre sentative Jerry Simpson, better known as the "socklces statesman" from Kansas, created a sensation yesterday afternoon amonir the Maryland farmers now in convention here at the state house, when he interrupted the proceedings to deny the statement that he did not wear half hose. The explanation was precipitated by a re porter, who, during the recess, called at tho Maryland hotel, where Simpson was stopping, and eent him a note in which ho requested the farmer congressman to affirm or deny the report regarding his footwear. The note wound up: UQ you wear sock??' After waiting some time for the answer the reporter went back to the convention, which had just been called to order, and soon Mr. Simpson, liatlees and with hia overcoat over his arm. rushed into the hall and demanded immediate recognition. He then handed to tho secretary the note left ior hitn at the hotel. There was a quiet smile on every farmer's face when the secretary finished reading it, and all eyes were turned expectantly on Mr. Simpson. Towing hia coat to one side he faced the convention and spoke as follows : Mb. President This letter refers to myself and I wish it read to this audience and then to make a personal explanation. It has been alleged that at a certain time in Kansas I had said that tho poverty of the farmers was so great that they ootild not afford to wear socks and that I was a living example. So far as I am ooncerned, there ia no truth in the story. The statement oryinated from tho brain of a rcutiblican editor in Kansas. My constituents know all about me and I took no occasion to deny tbe yarn. 'Tie true that owing to the high tariff some of the farmers could not aflord to wear socksx and we were In the same position as was anoleoo during tbe time be attempted to cross the frontier to attsok the Austrian army. He was wilhout arms and when asked where be thought he could get them, said: "Take them from the Austrians." Tho waa who was against me was a representative of the silk-stocking aristocracy, better known aa Prince Hal. At tho fine of tho election I told my people that I expected to get tbe other fellow's socks, and not only did I get them, but got his shoes as well. I want to say that I do now wear socks and I Fut them on after tho defeat of Infills, which believe waa the beginning of an era that marked the time when the humblest people can wear socks and the people who sustain the government, some of whom are my constituents, should wear the very best. I deem it necessary to explain to the people of Maryland the tnuuh-veied question of socks. Just now I am unable to determine which has given me a greater reputation my feet or my head. This speech was greeted with tumultuous applanne, after which the business of tho convention went on as before. KANSAS IS PLEASED. Tho Election of Palmer the U-st Thing to be Done. TorEKA, Kaa., March 11. President Chase of the Kansas st ate farmers' alliance waa not particularly disappointed when he heard of Mr. Palmer's election to the eenato by tho Illinois legislature. "The three F. M. B. A. made a gallant fight," said he, "and were partially successful. To be euro they did not succeed in sending farmers' alliance to the senate, but, after all, the fight waa not eo much for a man as for principle. Gen. Palmer peems to have embraced many of our principles and I regard his election as a partial triumph for the farmers. It is difficult to judno of the situation at this distance, but I have no doubt that the three farmers' alliance men did all in their power to elect a representative farmera alliance man. Failing to accomplish that they attempted to elect Mr. Streeter. I regard Messrs. Moore's and Cockrell'a desertion of him justifiable, so far as I can judge at this distance, on account of hia too open flirtation with the republican steering committee and his pledges to it. Gen. Palmer was, in my judgment, the next best available man from our standpoint. If he will stand fini.ly in the senate on the principles enunciated by him in his replies to the F. M. ii. A., particularly on his financial plank, the F. M. B. A. will have done well in sending him to the American house of lords." Polk on Palmer. Washington, March 12. President Polk of the national alliance declined this morning to express his views on the election in Illinois of Gen. Palmer to the senate and the position of the three alliance men in the recent contest, further than to say that it appeared to him to hate been a fight between tbe republican and democratic parties rather than a contest between those two parties and the alliance. The alliance men, he thought, had fought manfully for principle", and though they had not'been victorious in sending a farmers' alliance man to tho senate ho believed that Gen. Palmer's election would generally be regarded with mor favor than that of any of the other candidates. Gen. Polk said further that he knew of no promises being made by Gen. Palmer as to his policy iu the senate on any questions whatever. Tor Nervoue Exhaustion VSE HORSFOno'a ACID PHOSPHATE. Dr. Jason Walker, Minot, Me., says : "I have used it with very pleasing results. I have prescribed it for nervous exhaustion for that state of the nervous system following exposure to sun heat; for wakefulness in cases seeming to be due to nervous debility. Our young man at school bad such a feeling of confusion in hu bead that he had to leave school. I gave Acid Phosphate, and he was soon alio to t&-

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lUuMAlttUliLMULUtll Claims Many Victims from Neptune's Followers. Several Ships Go Down Off England's Coast And Passengers and Crewa Find Watery Graves. The Portuguese Court Martial Carried Out to Sea. Rumors of the Loss of the Steamef Trinidad. London, March 12. A foreign steam ship, the name of which is unknown, wai wrecked off Start Toint, near Dartmouth during the recent blizzard. All the crew and pat-sengera were drowned. The British ship Dryad, CaptainThomaj, bound from Shields for Valparaiso, has also been wrecked off Start Point. Her crew, consisting of twenty-four men and officers, have been drowned. The Dryai was an iron vessel of 1,035 tons burthen, She was built at Liverpool and was owned by J. B. Walmsley, of that city. Among the schooners lost off Start Point was the LuneEdale. Four of hev crew were drowned. Her captain wai eaved. The schooner Lizzie Ellen was also losfc and two of her crew were drowned. The Hamburg-American line steamer Suevia, from New York Feb. 2G for Hamburg, is in a disabled condition, sixty miles off The Lizard, her machinery ha v intt collapsed. A number of tugs have been sent to her assistance. It is rumored at Newport that the eteamcr Trinidad haa been lost and that all the crew havo been drowned. It is known that at least seventy livef have been lot during the blizzard, and ia addition at least ten men perished from cold and exposure after reaching the shore. It is feared that the liet of wrecks and of the record of lives lost is far from being complete as several vessels are known to bo missing. Many points inland where the storm was most severely felt are still isolated from the eurroundicg country, and days must elapse befort through freight and passenger traffic is re stored on the branch lines of the railroads. The severity of the storm and the diffi culty of restoring the lines of eommunica tion to their usual state of usefulness may be judged from the fact that an eipreef train w hich left Plymouth on Monday ii still blockaded up near the Brent river. The passengers are suffering severely from eiposure. Ganpa of laborers numbering hundreds have been sent from all directions to clear the railroad lines in Devonshire and Cora wall where the snow-drifts have piled up so heavily that cuttinps of twelve feet have to be made through the snow, which is frozen into an almost solid mass. The loss to farm stock is enormous and will entail much suffering among the farmers who havo already lost considerable money by the terrible weather experienced at the end of last year. The water mama at Plymouth are snowed up to such an extent that a force of two hundred soldiers from the garrison has been sent to assist the water-works employes in clearing the mains. As it is, no water has passed through the mains since Monday last and a water-famine U now added to the other sufferings which, the people of Plymouth have to endure ia this terrible blizzard which has caused BO much distress in England. Oporto, March 12. The corvette Dial, upon which the persons concerned in the recent insurrection are being tried by court martial, was caught in a gale while anchored in the harbor here, and waa obliged to steam out of sight of land, carrying away the judges, prisoners and witnrgncs. It is feared that the vessel has been damaged. Zanzibar, March 12. Tho Italian steamer Paraguay is ashore at Merka. She has a number of passengers and troop i aboard. A MOB FAILS In Its Attempts to Lynch sv Family of Frlsa oners. Mt. STERUNO.Ky., March 12. A mob oa Tuesday night camo near lynching th Wigginton family, composed of John Wigginton and his four sons, for the poisoning of William Ferguson and B. C Watts, both of whom died, and Misa Boyd, a granddaughter of Ferguson, who is still in a critical condition. The Wiggintons were suspected and after arrest, the boys, the youngest o! whom is only ten years, confessed. Their father bought ten cents worth of arsenic and sent two of his eons to Ferguson's house. One of them slipped into the kitchen and put the arsenic in the coffee pot after supper. Next morning the coffee was used with fresh coffee and the family was poisoned. The Wifgintont and Wattsea had mised tobacco together last j-ear and there was a dispute between them about $17 of the proceeds. On this account the Wiggiatons wanted to kill Watts. KILLED BY MALPRACTICE. A Kasiss Cltj Soeiotjr tloile Dlee tit ss X) tor'e OBles, Kansas City, March 12. For the past three days Coroner Langston has been investigating the death of Margaret Burns, who died nnder suspicious circumstances last Sunday in the office cf Dr. S. II. Brooks. The investigation was concluded last evening and a jury brought in a verdict of death by criminal malpractice, holding Dr. Brooks and Louis Bowman responsible. Dr. Brooks was arrested and released in bonds of $2,500. Bowman cannot be found. Miss Burns was a daughter of President Burns of the Western show-case company, and was mors or less prominent in society. Louis Bowman was proprietor of the Elite restau ant. Dr. BrooltB ia prominent among the younger physicians in this city and is s cm oi iamny.