Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1892 — Page 3

THE INDIANA. STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 18, 1892-TWELVE PAGES.

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ITSPANSTHE RIVER

The Opening of the Great Memphis Bridge Causes That City to Appear in Holiday Garb While Thousands of People Witness the Sight. A TRIUMPH OF GENIUS, It Stands as the Third Largest in the World, A Memorial to the Skill ot Engineer Morrison. The Speech of Senator Voorhees on the Occasion. rive Span of Six Piers, the Main One Bring Nearly Eight Hundred Feet in Length A Second One of Ore? Six Hundred FeetThe Structure Includes the Largest Steel Flate Ever Made in the United. States The Government Man-of-AVar Concord on Hand to De a Part in the Festivities Other Points of Interest About the Structure. MMPnn, Mar 12. At high noon today, with impressive ceremonies, tbo great steel bridge acroes the Mississippi river at this point was formally declared open for traffic All yesterday, laet night and this morning railroads and steamboats have been br inline people to Memphis, and the erowd of visitors which today thronged the city and congregated about the great bridge is estimated at thirty thousand. The city never presented euch a gala appearance. The decoration of business houses was never bo elaborate, and the itar spangled banner floats from every cornice and window of the down town buildings. Distinguished visitors In the person of eminent statesmen, senators, congressmen, governors, supreme court judges and prominent railroad officials crowd the hotels and are here to join in celebrating the grandest event in the history of Memphis. The wholesale business of the city has made the day a holiday and the freight departments of all railroads are closed for business, excepting for the delivery of perishable freight. The man-of-war Concord, gayly bedecked with stars and stripes and the union jack from stem to stern, raised her anchors and steamed slowly down stream toward the bridge amid tremendous din of whistles from the shipping at the levee. All river craft had been handsomely decorated, excepting perhaps the mammoth transfer boats, whose vocation will toon be known as s thing of the past. The weather is delightful. The festivities of the day began with an imposing street pageant, which started from down town at 10 o'clock. A detachment of mounted police cleared the war, and the procession which followed was mopt imposing. The visiting and city militia, acting as escort to the distinguished guests of the day In carriages, led the way. Following these were the fire department of Memphis with engine and carts gayly decorated and 100 floats illustrative of the products and manufactures of the Mississippi valley and many other beautiful and striking features, the whole liberally interspersed with bands of music A Test of Mrangtli. The procession was about two hours in passing, and, after traversing the business portion of the city, proceeded to the bridge, arriving shortly before 2 o'clock. Mr. George W. Morrison of Chicago, chief engineer of the great structure, began the ceremonies by motioning to an engineer seated within his engine, and in a minute a procession of eighteen ponderous locomotives, amid tremendous cheering, itarted on to the bridge as the supreme teat. . The bridge which was opened for traffie was built by the Kansas City, Memphis A Birmingham railroad company, which will at once commence using it, the first regular train to cross over being their Kansas City fast express, arriving at 5 o'clock tonight. The bridge is located on the exact spot where Ferdinand De Soto crowed the Mississippi in 1541, and in excavating for the shore pier on the Tennessee side, some Spanish halberds supposed to have been used by him were found. It is the third largest of its kind in the world and stands as a magnificent memorial to the engineerioggenius of the builder, Mr. George S. Morrison. It was his conception, the practical work being under the direction of Mr. Alfred S. Sohle, assisted by Messrs. W. E. Angier, D. A. Malitor and J. M. Ileiskell, all of whom have lent eüicient assistance to the undertaking. The practical labor at this point be?un in the fall of 1863, w hen the first caissons were sunk. It has gone on steadily since that time, and now finds completion something less than four years later. Description mt the Great ft rid s.a. There are five spans and six piers in' eluding the anchorage pier. The east shore or cantilever span Is 225.83 feet; the main span consisting of two cantilever arms and one intermediate span is 794.42 feet; one continuous span 621.06 and one deck span 33-3. i 5 feet, making a total length of 2,597.12 feet in the bridge proper. The structure is extended west of the main bridge by an iron viaduct 2,500 feet in length, followed by a 3,100 foot timber trestle and nearly a mile of embankment to a junction with the eating track of the Kansas City, Ft.Scott & Memphis railroad a fw hundred feet w?et of Sibley, Ark. This embarkment crosses the hi. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern railroad and the Little Kock & Memphis railroad, and has a connecting track to both roads. The river piers are sunk todeptbs varying !rom 78 to 131 feetbelow high wUr mark. All were sank by the pneumatic caisson process, and are of masonry from the eaissons to the bridge seats. The material If the main bridge if steel. Some idea f the immensity of the - ateel parts used may be obtained by knowing that the main poita are eighty feet high and weigh twenty-eight tons. Many of the piece weigh ten, twelve and sixteen tons. The main pin of the cantilever truss is fourteen inches ia diameter and weighs 2,200 pounds. A Chlldron Cry for

steel plate resting on the first pier from the Memphis side and coming out at the top is the largest steM plate ever made in the United States. This plate reaches from the supports under the bridge to the extreme top and from side to side, being open in the center and through this aperture traffic parses. At the opening of tho bridge celebration, Senator Voorheea having been in troduced, spoke at length. Senator Voorno' Speeeh. Opening with an eloquent reference to the importance ef the event, the spceoh dealt chiefly with the subjects natural to inch an oc casion the wisdom, patriotism and foresight of JefTerson ia the acquiring of Louisiana, the glorio results which it has accomplished, the growth of the South within the last thirty years. Its still brighter future, and finally, predicted

that the time was not far distant when the bar rier to the navigation of the oeeana would bo removed. Having recalled the negotiations between France and this country over the disputed territory, and read the correspondence which had passed between Jefferson and the minister to France till the transaction which save the Louisiana territory to America had been completed, ha said: "May we not now. with a proud and grateful feeling, look at the lines ot the map wherein it lay. Its immense extentand infinite resources were practically unknown at that time. In the light of the pressnt day, however, with the banners of civilization foil high, advanced and atreaming, throughout alt its borders, what a revelation rises to our view. What a constellation of states we see b'azinr across our whole westers sky. From the mouth of the Mississippi river to the straits of Fuca, and from St. Louis to the l'acifio ocean, the American flag was placeii on April 30, 1803. Under its ample folds are clustered the states of Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Is'ebraaka, Kansas, Oregon, Washington, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, Wyoming, portions of Colorado and Narada on 1 the territory of Utah, all secured to the United States by the treaty with France. But the influence arising from this act of consummate statesmanship did cot oease nor perish by the wayside, upon its completion. It grew rapidly in force, and in farreaching and marvelous contequenpe. Only forty years later t.'-e lone star ot Terns was illuminating the horizon of the southwest in revolt against Mexico, guided toward the United States by the example and precedent ( the Louisiana acquisition." After an aiiusion to the party invective and sectional animosity to which the war with Mexico gave rise, and an expression of joy that the period of aversion and distrust had given way to the kindiy sunlight of peaceful noonday, he passed over the acquisitions of New Mexico, Arizona, the southern parts of Colorado, Nevada and Utah with brief but appreciative comment. Out when they came to Tents, the colossus of the Union, which cams as a conviction precedent, and to California, which fell to usus a condition subsequent, to the war with Mexico, the mind was tilled with awe and the boldest imaginatlou waa bafSed with its conceptions of the future. tvhnt Might Have Been. "The fate of the nations," he went on, "the voice and the teachings of the aces, the manifest destiny of the race, all proolaim a Providence ia history, a divinity whieh shapes the conduct of human affairs and determines the ultimate ends to be attaiued. The treasures of California, richer and more alluring than the hoarded contents of all the other gold-bearing regions of the earth combined, belonged to the gold-hunting Spaniard nearly three centuries, but they were hidden from his eazer, cruel and rapacious eyes. Spanish adventurers, by authority of the government, repeatedly thronged the California coast in search of the land of gold that lay open to their sight, to their touch, their possession and their insatiate avarice. Had the Spaniard discovered the gold of California the face of the world would have been changed and the American republic of today would have been an impossibility. As controlling factors of commerce and civilization and for the elevation and prosperity of the laboring millions on the farms and workshops of the world, the gold beds and the silver lodes of the Pacific atates and territories have been given in trust to the American people, whose sacred duty it ia to see that they are coined and put into circulation as money en terms of absolute equalitity, and in strict aecordanoe with the constitution at framed by the fathers of the republic We need not dwell today on the results already accomplished in cur history by the precious metals of the coast. Without the gM and silver of Ca'ifornia, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Montana and their incentive to the growth, wealth and transportation of the Weft, the bridge you hare opened here would not have been built. Locomotives and railroad trains would not have sought a crossing at this point during the present generation. Hut let the honors of history be paid to whom they belong; let a giant statue of Thomas Jetlerson stand at the west end of the bridge, his face to the settiag san; let him look out as it were, upon the domain he seenred for hia countrymen. There will rise np before him an abode for generations more numerous than the inhabitant of all Europe combined; and it will there remain a monument to his wisdom and statesmanship as eternal as the mountains that towet op from it place. A Tribute to the South. "In no other quarter of the globe was there ever before displayed the high Christian courage, the sublime devotion to duty, the steady nerve and the reouperstiv energy and strength which have guided this southern people from the depths of adversity and ruin to (he assured and glowing prosperity Of the hour. Aided by the hand of an ever ruling Providence, you have caused the calamities and curses of war to beeome the foremost LUiiings of peace. You have removed the rubbish, left by the most destructive tornado that erer swept the earth, and en their foundations yon have rebuilt atates, now more powerful, progressive and full of promise of future greatness than ever before. You have risen superior to the most unjust aad injurious system of national lesialation that ever cursed a people, not exc-ptiotr Eoplsh laws for Ireland, and that system has totally perished, leafing only its memory, despised alike throughout the North as it ia throughout the South. It ia not a new South; it is the old South moving in cotinectiou with the revolution that has taken place, the old blood end brain power of the South transmitted from generation to generation, are now aroase l ai.d working out the problem of her aplendid destiny." The speaker then qnoted statistics to show the growth of the South in population, in railways and property valuation. "There is," he continued, "an increase of more than 309 per cent, beyond the best she has done when at the zenith of her former prosperity. Sir, who ahall ssy that your people are lairgarda in the race? That they slumber while others are speeding on? Who shall say that they waste their time and dissipate their energies in party strife, race conflicts or lawless pastimes? The world is looking on these closing years of the nineteenth century in the American republio. The enemies of the free government have made lend predictions that one section of the Union had been ruined by the other; that chronic aversion, straitened relations and ill diaguiaed hostility between the United States and the people of ths states would follow the close of the war never te be suppressed by mutual esteem, affection and a common reconciliation. Their predictions have already been proven false, and at the bar of history and before the Lar of God, the booth eaa claim with truth, that she has done, and is still doing her part, faithfully for that perfeet reconciliation and full development of a unitrd eountry, which constitute the highest honor and value and glory of American citizenship. The triumphs of science which we celebrate this bright, bappy day, have placed the people ef the United States, and more especially of this valley, not only in calling distauce but as next door neighbors. Let us gratefully acoept our pieces in the grand brotherhood whioh embraces otir homos, ouf united destiny and our prosperity. The dazzling and tempting possibilities ef the future we may not dwell on now. A vision of the next hundred years of American genius, energy, industry, courses and endurance and of the coming centuries still further en, if it waa indulged in, weald overcome the mind, as if gazing into the starlit dopths ot spaee, when "the heavens declare tb glory of üod and th firmament ahoweth Ilia handiwork." What of the Future? We may not knew the future either of time er eternity, bat dreams will sometime! some in our mast wakeful hoars aad we see the features ef glorioue though distant realities. Onee the star ef empire took its weitward way; its orbit in tuat direction ia bow closed forever. 8 ball thia star, whieh signified Amerleao progPltchcr'o Caotoria

ress and destiny, stand still In t ie sky or fall and expire like a transient exhalation? II aeems not so to me. 1 see it in the events of these later days and ia ths swift spproaoliiog achievement of the future, hovering in all it splendor ever the plains, the mountains aad the rivers of the South and of the Southwest. The march of the empire is here; the wire of Christian civilisation, of agricultural wealth, of diversified labor and human well-being and f resent happiness. The generations ot the uture will behold this march of empire toward the Isthmus et Derlen, not in columns of conquest, or with sword in band, but with knowledge and science winning its wsy and scattering the blessings of liberty, peace and Justice as it moves on. Already, in fact, ths American empire is far on its way in that direction. The acquisition of the republio of Texas waa a stride toward Central America, the extent of whioh it is dimcult to realize. The majestie commonwealth containa 265.780 square miles of territory. Who ehall attempt to foretell the influence and ths power of such a commonwealth at this? There are comfortable homes within ita vest boundaries tor a population of more than 50,000,0u0, and when they are full, as some day they will be, Mexico and oouotriea further south will be benefited and blessed and perhaps absorbed by the swarming millions which will go forth from America. Destgaad far Freedom. North America, 8outh America and Central Ameriea were designed, by the unrepeatable lawa of their creation, to be helpful neighbors to eaoh other, and the day is not far distant when reciprocity will be established between them, genuine in all its parts, fair to every industry, with no protected monopolies behind it; no bogus metal in its composition no party intrigue in ita arrangements, Noreanwe fail to hold that the vital point in ths western hem isphere for the eomraon progress and the independence of the three Americas, is the isthmus that mighty ligature whieh has bound them tocetaer since the morning star first took ita place in the sky. No power not American can ever be permitted its control, nor esn it ranch longer stand an unbroken barrier to the navigation of the two oceans. The intercourse of the American nations snd peoples, the commerce of the old world, the enterprising spirit, of the age in which ws live, will net much longer submit to brave the tempests of Cape Horn, or to cross through the narrow straits of Magellan, in passing from one ocean te the other. The waters of the Atlsntie snd Paeifio are too near each other to be kept apart in thia sublime era of science, invention mid energy. Jt is true the grand Jold Frenchman, De Lesieps, failed at Panama, but it is also true that it wufl right for him to toil. It is not given in the proviso of hUtory for any European to do this work and

such an attempt will never again be made. It belongs to the Americans, with their atalwart Saxon brother of the North at their head and in chief control, to ublte the two oceans and to annihilate the distanoes and the dangers which now interpose between them. Those who behold the opening day of the twentieth century will also behold the flag of the United States earried on ships of commerce acrois the isthmus, navigating the waters of the canal now under construction by the Nicaragua route. This is not a question of foreign policy; it is a question of American policy, and so far as di plomacy is concerned it is a question to be settled by American councils alone. The Monroe doctrine, which was simply ths reassertion of the policy of Jetlerson against i.uropean interference in American affairs, is here involved, and it will staad the test of statesmanship and time. The Modern Memplit. And now, Mr. President, we will leave these proud scenes of patriotic festivity, and go our several ays, many of us to meet no moie, but there will remain here ths wonder snd admira tion of the future generations the glorious publio work springing from private means and enterprise which you have this day dedicated to American advancement toward manifest destiny. The travelers of the world for forty centuries have gathered around the pyramids of Egypt and marve.ed at ths useless, ncmean mg toil which reared them) the antiquarian has gazed upon the sphinx amidst the sands of the desert, and conjectured in vain as to its origin and purpose, but no such doubts of uncertainty will e-er happen the Memphis bridge over the Mississippi. Nor is the time far in the future when here on this left bank of the American river will stand the American city of Memphis, far greater than the Memphis of Lsypt, as it once stood on the left bank Of the Nile. lathe Memphis of the Mississippi no places for kings will be erected, no temples nor altars for their worship; but here will aoeuuiulats the wealth and all thi great agencies of civilization; here will con tinue to come the strong business men of a dominant governing raos. nere win arts a oenter of trade, and here will conoentrate the commerce of the railroads and of the rivers of a continent; here will continue the temples of Christian people for the worship of the living God: here will stand great seats of learning and science, to renne, cultivate and illustrate the minds of the generations coming on, and here will the American citizen, wherever his borne may be, and for all time to. come, find in the hearts of this people, the same spirit of fraternity, of union, of devotion to the flag, the honor, and the glory of their country, that we nave found today. A PREACHER'S SUIT. He Becks Damage for Conspiracy . and Libel. Sax Francisco, May 12. The Ret. Dr. F.I lis began suit today against Uugh Frazer and other members of the San Francisco presbytery to recover $100,000 damages. Dr. Ellin was formerly pastor of the Central presbyterian tabernacle io this city and in March, 1891, was arraigned by the presbvten' on charges of rnisap propriation of funds entrusted to him for the benefit of the church and of deception and falsehood. The case attracted much interest, resulting in Dr. Ellis los ing his pulpit, and he now brings suit for damages on the grounds of conspiracy and libels SIXTY DROWNED. Reporte of a Terrible Disaster to at Tarty on a Raft. Pesth, May 11. The retther Uoyd publishes particulars ot a terrible disaster that has occurred near lirody, a town on Austrian Galacia. Ylule 100 workmen with their wives and children were crossing the riter, near Brody on a raft, the raft capsized and ill were thrown into the water, bixty persona were drowned. SEVEN BURNED TO DEATH. Suffocated and Charred Almost Bo yond Recognition. Berlik, May 12. A fire broke oat last night In a dwelling house at Crefeld, a town in Rhenish Prussia. Seven persona were suffocated to death and afterward horribly burned. When the fire was ex tinguishad the bodies were almost tin recognizable. REMARKABLE 8EAL CATCH. riflJ.Eltbt Thousand Taken Steamer Esquimau!. by the St. Johns, N. F., May ll.-The seal fishery winds np remarkably well. The record of the steamer Esquimaux is remarkable, though several others were not very far behind her. This steamer ar rived the other day from her second trio. having on board 12,400 old seals and 3,700 young ones, the weight being 630 tons. On her first trip she brought in 18,000 seals, or an aggregate ot 68,000 seals, weighing l,00 tons for the season. Allow ing an average of $2.50 per seal, the ?rn ingsj of the Esquimaux were $145,000. ID is is unprecedented. Tb Attmr JT (!. New York, May 12. Simplicity of detail and absence of anything like d lay lay marked the funeral service! of William Astor, which were held today in Trinity USUI.

BOIES 111 THE RACE.

The Iowa Convention Gives Instructions for Him, And Takes No One Else Into Consideration. Delegates Must Stick to Him Throughout. CLEVELAND IS CHEERED, But the Resolutions Have Not a Word for Him. Missouri Give Instructions for Cleveland, And New Hampshire Pursues a Like Course. The Name of the Ex-President Cheered in Every Convention Whenever it Is Mentioned A Scene of Wildest Enthusiasm In the Missouri Convention' ie New Hampshire People Have but One Choice Mr. Hill Makes a Ilreak on the Apportionment ncvivnl of the Rumor That Cleveland Will Withdraw-Campbell Denies That He Is to Rothe Legatee Other Political News. Council Blifts, Ia., May 11. The democrats of Iowa today pronounced their unehaken fealty to Horace Boies for president of the United States by a unanimous vote, and without a dissentiog voice, either in committee or in convention, resolutions were adopted instructing the twenty-6ix delegates of the llawkeye state to vote as a unit for Governor Boies and use every effort in'tneir power to se cure his nomination for the presidency. As the first etato in the great West to pro nounce ia uniquivocal terms for the candidaey of a favorite son, Iowa must occupy a prominent position in the national convention, and the friends of Governor Boies are tonight rejoicing over the impetus which today's action must give to the presidential boom of the farmer governor. The fact that every gentleman selected as a dfllegate-at-large is a recognized personal friend and follower of Boies, and that in every wrangle over the selection of delegates declarations of loyalty to the governor and his candidacy were required as primary evidence of eligibility to a place on the state delegation, would indicate that the friends of Boies are not far wrong in their assertiona tonight that the twenty-six delegates' 6f the llawkeye state will xemain loyal to the Iowa candidate until the national convention shall have declared its choice. In another respect is the action of today's convention peculiar and original. It is the first stato convention for several years outside the state of New York whore the name of Grover ' Cleveland has not been mentioned ia the p;atforrn. Further than this, the omission to extol the expresident waa not the result of error or forgetfuinees. It was due to the deliberate action of the committee on resolutions, after calm discussion of the questions of policy, that Grover Cleveland was ignored and this action wan taken in a very excess of caution in order that Iowa might avoid tho error into which Illinois is popularly regarded an having fallen, in apparently naming Grover Cleveland as the first choice and John M. 1'almer as the pecond choice of the Illinois democracy. Horace Boies is so emphatically and solely the choice of the Iowa democrats for the president of the United States, that even the name of Grover Cleveland was banished from the official declaration of democratic faith and not a single man in this vast assemblage protested against this omission. Tlia I'lalfotra. The resolutions were as follows: . ''We reiterate our devotion to the principle that all men ere born free and equal. We assert that this does not mean necessarily tho physical, socialer moral equality of all men, but it does mean equal rights for all men before the law and special privileges for none. It means the right of every man to put into his mouth the bread that ho earns with hia own hands, and all of it without having it tolled or taxed for the private benefit of any of his fellow men. And we denounce all such tolling and taxation as it exists today under the so-called protective tariff system. "We declare that the citizen is the best protected when insured in the absolute control and disposition of his own wages, and that he is most certainly robbed when deprived of this disposition and control and when others exercise it for him not for his benefit but for their own selfisn objects and ends. All limitations upon the liberties of the citizen not required in the interests of good morals and good government are odious and tyrannical. "We hold it self-evident that limits imposed by law which compel one citizen to his own certain loss to trade with designated classes of citizens for the certain gain of such classes, is of this odious and tyrannical character; and we assort our confidence that a free people cannot be permanently deluded into supporting such legislation upon the . pretense that they are thus being protected while having their rights invaded and denied for the benefit of monopolies, trusts and combinations. "The conditions which have been brought about by this falsely called protection must be remedied or we must have iosiead of a pure democracy w hero voice and liberties, and interests of the people aro Bapreme a government of the classes by classes and for the classes In which the masses will be servitors and subordinates, equally trampled upon and despised. "We declare that thia is the paramount issue in the presidential campaign, and the republican policy of spoliation of the treasury to pay bounties to the favored few, repudiated by the people at the polls la 1R00, will be rejected in 1892. "With free ships and the markets of the world open to our farmers,our wage-work-era and our mechanics, we will have that larger freedom ef commerce and that genuine reciprocity for which democrats hava always contended and our Industrial and commercial supremacy is assured. "Trustsand monopolies with their imforted foreign labor are entitled to no avers ever our mechanics, wage-workers and farmers. "We demand such free raw materials iot our factories, ttpps jirj f p;gea as shall

secure emancipation from industrial

bondage; we demand a free list made np of as many articles of necessity and of comfort to tho people and a reduction of import duties all along the line, fixing the limit at a basis which shail give no grcaterrevenue than is requisite to the needs of the government. honestly and economically administered. I be democratic party of Iowa, recognizine the nation's obligation to maintain an honest cuireucy with equal value in all its forms and of sufficient volume, to preserve a ju9t proportion between its pur chasing power and the cost of products of labor at liberal wajres, reaffirms its ad herence to the financial system of the fathers of the republio based" upon equally fiee bi metallic coinage and hereby declares ita unqualified opposition to nil legislation calculated to reduce cither of the precious metals to the position of a commodity alone by establishing the other an a single standard for the measurement of values, We commend the faithful, the honerable and the successful administration of our chief executive, the Hon. Horace Boies. His duties have been performed with a high regard for the office of public servant. Ilia trust has been discharged unselfishly for the good of the whole people. His leadership is without error and bis name is justly honored In every household. Becognizing his ability, his integrity, his pure character, his eminent fitness and popularity, we present his name to the national democratic convention as a candidate for the olhca of president of the United States. In doing this we feel the great responsibility which devolves upon Iowa and upon western democrats. And while we pledge the laithful support of the party to tlie candidate of the national convention, we pledge the electoral vote ot Iowa to him who has led the party to victory in three successive state elections And that the wishes of Iowa demorrats may be fairly and justly known and represented we hereby instruct the delegates se lected at this convention to u?e all honor able means to Fecure the nomination for president of the Hon. llorac Boies, and the delegates to vote as a unit upon ad questions upon which a roll call of states ray be called in tho national convention." "I move that the resolutions be adopted by a rising vote," shouted a delegate, and amid another scene of enthu?iain the resolutions were adopted by acclamation Alter the conclusion of the incidental routine busiucs the convention adjourned. SOLID FOR CLEVELAND. t Hampshlra loirsriia Sit Hard on the Lnn Hill Mte. Coxcord, N. H., May 11. The democratic Btate convention, to choose delegates to the Chicaeo convention, was called to order in rnenix hall at 11 o clock today by the Hon. John P. Bartlett of Manchester, chairman of the state committee. The officers and committee se lected at the meeting of the state commit tee last nizht were elected officers of the convention by acclamation. Oliver K Branch of Weare was escorted to the chair and briefly addressed the convention. Mr, Branch's address was warmly received, his reference to Grover Cleveland being loudiy applauded. Mr. Urch of Portsmouth created a sen sation by saying that he came to represent those who had grievances aainet the democrats who had held and inspired to further high honors at the handa oi tho party. "I charge," continued he, "Grover Cleveland and his past administration with disloyalty and unfaithfulness to the rank and file of the democratic party." The speaker was interrupted by storms of hisses and cries of "put him out" and "never." The excitement was intense for n short time. When tho confusion subsided Chairman Branch . ru ed Mr. Urch out of order. A motion was made to proceed to ballot for delegates-at-larjre and Mr. Urch moved to table the motion. The motion was defeated and balloting was then pro cepded with. Til rutform. Mr. Sanborn of Wolfboro submitted the following report of the committed on reso lutions: "The democrats of New Hampshire ap prove a system of taxation so adjusted as to produce the necessary revenue for the legitimate requirements of an honest gov eminent, economically administered, with the least possible burden upon the people, and affording such incidental protection as meets every reasonable demand of American labor; and denounce the pro tective svstein, so-called, developed under republican eovernmental control and em bodied In tho Mcivinley bill of the iulv first romrress as antagonistic in spirit and purpose to every principle of honest gov eminent; as strengthening monopoly rather than encouraging labor, and fostering trusts and combinations which gather in the substance of the people, and in re turn for the privilege pav a liberal tribute into the campaign funds of the party through whose instrumentality that sys tem has been established and maintained. "They approve of a currency sufficient in volume for the proper demand of busi ness, but ptesenting no device which can be manipulated to the advantage of any individual or class at the expense of any other a currency whose every dollar is equal m value to every other. "We recognize in Grover Cleveland a great leader in tariff reform who, with an energy that never failed, with a directness Both the method and results when ßrrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant did refreshing to the taste, and acta gntlj yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system effectually, dispels colds, headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. 8yrup cf Figs is the only remedy of ita kind ever produced, piercing to the taste and acceptable to the itomach, prompt in its action and truly benehcinl in its effects, prepared only from tho most healthy and agreeable Bubstances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it tho most popular romody known. feyrup of Figs is for sale in ßOc and tl bottles by all lendinc: drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not hare it on h&nd will pro eure it promptly for any one vrho wiche to try it. Do not aooflpt any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. MAI FHAkCliCO, CAL. 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COULD YOU 1F-VOU WERE CONFINED IN AN ASYLUM I Btm Intarcattoii Feta Frm m Prominent goUntific Man Vf bo Haa Bad a Moat Valuable Kxyarience. fCliieafo Journal. We aomatiraes see in tue papers a thrillio account of where a perfectly sane person bas been couünod in an asylum. Think of it, read er! How long would you retain your aenaes if you were confined with a number of lunatics, night and day, and yet think of the physicians in charge of these patients who are compelled, day by day aui year by year, to lire among them. What wonderful opportunities they have for studying characteristics an! vagaries; what a wouderfni ehanoe forlearniag the mis eries ef life and hew best to overcome them. We are brought to tkeso reflections by a con versation lately bad with Dr. J. C Spray of 163 State Street, Chioago. For nearly ten years Doctor Spray was in ehage of the Je'Jenou, now Dnnninr, Institute, at Tannin?, 111. This tremendous institution contained about twelve hundred patients in the Iusane Department, and fifteen hundred in the infirmary. Among thia Iare number ef pereons there were a vnst number ef physical ailnieate. Dr. Spray, speaking about it, stid: "1 traced the great cause for root of the mental and indeed physical disorders very carefully, and while some authorities mate an estimate that sevanty-five per cent, of the peo ple in the United Mates are aflr.cted with tome form of kidney dictate, I do not thiuk that ths rate m go lush, taking all aces into eonstdention. Before middle life it is less than serenty-five per cent, but after middle life it is, I should think, fully tnat percentage." 'This is something terrible, Dootor. Few people can certainly be aware that so largo a percentage exists?" The Doctor thought a moaaent and then ata : "It is a fact not generally reoegnizei that where a person has diseased kidneys and tho or-acs fail to perform their functions of removing the waste and the impurities from the sTum, it toon produces melancholia. Asa result eur Ahvlumsare filled to overflowing, while if the pec pla would strike at the root of the matter and see tnat their kidneys weta in good order, there would be fewer ratiests in the asylum. 1 have noticed that a larpe portion of all paresis cares had kidney difficulties. "What hare yon found. Doctor, to be the standard and most reliable remedy in such taesr Dr. Spray spoke with great confidence. He said: Having so many cases to treat, 1 triad various remedies, and a.'ter a lone and exhaustive trial, linally decided that Warner's f-afe Cure was the best, most effective and tnot re liable remedy. I found it specially reliable in cases of incipient Bright s disease. It is cer tain to stop it, and even iu the advanced eon ditions it allays the diser se, and to my surpri6S at first, cured many es its. Before structural ehanges set in, it is certain to care, if properly ud ministered. ' "lias your experience while at the asylum. Doctor, been confirmed in your general practice since leaving it?" "Yes. I have occasion to use the Safe Care almost daily. Whenever I Snd traces of alhu men in the urine of a patient, I prescribe the Safe Cure, and in nearly every instance where I notice indications of nervous troubles, I analyse the urine, and almost invariably find that it is caused by some ai'eetion of the kidneys, I now have a patient to whom I am giving the Safe Cure, and find that it is having the desired eliect. Some time ago a centlcn.an cauie to me, who had reen examined fir life insurance. and traces cf albumen were found. I aJvied the nsa of the Safe Cure, end he passed the examination without difficulty after having used it." "I understand, then. Doctor, that yon attrib ute a large percentage of the ills of lite to some disease of the kidneys, and that yon hava found the remedy of which yea speak the most euertive in such cases." "Yes. 1 have no hesitation in saying that arctrs fcafe Cure I. as my unqualified in dorsement. I ue it constantly, and would not do ao unless I thought it possessed curative qualities." Tho liL'b. standin;, wide experience acd great success of Dr. Spray make his words ex ceedingly impressive, lheir sincerity cannot be questioned, aad their truthfulness is absolute. Impressed with this fact, nnd realizing the importance ef the same, I have trancnLed his words in full and ive tnem herewith. that never swerved, with a sublime fdth that never faltered, led the wav through the reverses in 1SSS to an overwhelming victoryin 18'.K), and under whose continued leadendiip there will ba achieved a crov. nlng triumph in 1S92. ALU FOR CLEVELAND. Tho Missouri Delegation Interest. Solid In Ills Pkdama, Mo., May 10. The democratic state convention to elect delegates to the Chicsco convention met today at 11 o'clock. Ii II. Norton o riatte county wa. chosan temporary chairman. He addressed the con vention briefly. Applause greeted his re marks on the tariff ; it deepened when he scored the national administration, and when he mentioned tho name of Grover Cleveland there was great applause laetiner fully five minutes. The various committees were appointed and the convention took a recess until 2 o'cloek. A decided and unanimous Cleve land sentiment pervaded the convention. Upon rutiPSfmbling tho committee upon resolutions made ita report. The platform indorses the principles o tariil reform; denounces the McKinley bill, the billioo-dollar-congreRS and Senator Sherman's bullion storage bill; de mands the restoration of a parity between eo!d and silver : indorses the administra tion of President Cleveland and request the delegates to vote for Ins nomination The resolutions were adopted, The election of delegates was then be sun and resulted as follows: Delejjates-at-iarcre. Charles Ii. Jones. St. Louis; Charles C. Moflit. Ft Louis ; W. H. Phelps, Carthace; Martin L. Clardv, iarmincton; alternates, .lohn II. Carroll, Putnam countv; Thomas T. Crittenden, Kansas City; Richard 1". Bland. Laclede county; C. F. Cochran, St. Joseph. ANOTHSR CLBVRLAND RUMOR. This Has It the He Wilt Decline la Favor ef Campbell, Who Dentes It. BrRRAtr of Tu Sknttsel, 1 1420 New Yobh-ave., N. Wm V , Washington. D. C, May 1L ) A Star special from Columbus, O., says that ex-Governor Campbell is on his way to New York in answer to a summons from the democratic loaders in that atate. The atory is that Cleveland has decided to withdraw his candidacy in the interest of harmony, and that Campbell is to be hit legatee. The dispatch states that Mr. Cleveland's letter of withdrawal will plate the tariff question at the front of the ifsues of the day. The dispatch is being disensaed everywhere tonight but not much reliance is placed in it by the politicians in generai who refuse to believe that Cleveland will withdraw when he can have the nomination as well m not. SmtSGFiELD, O., May 11. Special. Ez-Goveraor James E. Campbell was ia the city a few moments tonight en route te Cincinnati. Id conversation with your correspondent the question was asked him what truth there was in the rumor that Grover Cleveland is to write a letter soon declining to be a candidate for the presidential nomination and that he is to use his influence to transfer his strength to James K. Campbell. The ex-governor replied as follows: "I bad no inkling of it until I read the account pub lished in the papers. It is news to me, although email favors will be thankfully received." Mr. Campbell warmed np on politics, and while ho would not expregjj ao.

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