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The Connecticut Democrats Speak Plainly. Delegates Cheer Cleveland to the Echo And Show Their Preference Unmistakably. IOWA IS GETTING READY. Her Convention to Be Held Today at Council Bluffs. A Declaration Will Be Made in Favor of Boies, But the Delegates Will Be for Cleveland Second. Mlitouri Will Select a Solid Delegation for the ex-President The Novel Idea of a Colorado Man Regarding Silrer Chicago' Blaine Club Manifesting Unusual Activity Mr. Cleveland IIa Nothing to Say Regarding the Rumor That He AVill Write a Letter of Declination Other Political New. New Haven, Conn., May 10. The dem ocratie state convention was called to order at the Hyperion theater at 10 o'clock (his morning by Clinton B. Davie, chairman of the state central committee. Judge Walsh of New Britain was then introduced as temporary president ol the contention. Judge Walsh made a speech of half an hour's duration. With regard to the selection of delegate Judge Walsh said that they ought to go untrammeled and unpledged by any instructions or conditions, and if eo the convention conld predict that their choice would be overwhelmingly approved at the polls at the November election. The committee on credentials reported that there were no contesting delegates and a long iiatof vice-presidents and Secretaries. Gen. E. Bradiey of New Haven, who was chosen a? permanent chairman, was escorted to the platform and briefly addressed the convention. A mention of the nfime of Cleveland aroused unbounded enthusiasm. The delegates rose in their teats, cheered and threw up their hats, and when it subsided three cheers were called for and given lustily to the expresident. But the echo had not died away when a Hill man called for three cheers for the ex-governor of New York, and then there was more cheering and cries of "Hi, hi," "Yi, yi," but the enthusiasm over the mention of Cleveland was the greater, while a few hisses were heard during the cheers of the Hill men. Nominations for delegates-at-large were then called lor and the selections made at the district caucuses last eight were announced and ratified by a unanimous vote in every case. The delegates-at-large selected were: A. P. Hyde of Hartford, Carlos French of Seymour, J. B. Shannon of Norwich and . C. Benedict of Greenwich. The platform was then reported as follows: The democracy of Connecticut, in general convention assembled, again declare its allegiance to the principles apoa which tb party ii founded. We demand a revision of the tariff along the liuea of the democratic federal platform of ISai and the state platform of 1990, and in particular we demand that the duties on raw materials ahall be removed. We charge the prevailing stagnation of oar industries to MeKinleyisro, the full effects of which we have been spared for a single season, only by oar unprecedented cropa of last year, eoupled with short crops abroaL The falie logio of this disastrous potioy has already ended in broken pledgee, and in place of promised work there aie ahorter hoars; and inatead of better wages there are all bat universal redaction a. Wo call apon the fernere, the manufacturers and the workiogmen alike to intrust the revision of the tariff on sound principles to the denioeratie party in the interact of ail e!aeaea instead of the few. We declare for a stable currency of gold, silver or paper, founded upon coined money of the leaat obtainable fluctuations ia value; and we regard the unlimited coinage of silver dollars worth bat 87 cents eaeh with the legal tender attribute attached aa a financial hereay certain to result in a proportionate reduction in wagte, the unsettling of contracts and widespread d.streks. We charge the oonünued agitation of this question upon the lat republican congress and tne present administration in passing the Sherman act of 1390, which involves most of the possible follies in currency legislation and has thus far forced upon the gorernmtnt the pur. tbaaaef euver bullion upon which the treasirv has already lost more thaa $11.000,000. We applaud the integrity, the statesmanship and the lofty patriotism of the administration f Grover Cleveland. We thank the true democratic reprsssntatives of this stale ia the present congress for (heir devotion to the principles of sound fiaeaee and Uri J reform, and we pledge thee lur earnest sur pirt We arraign tne administration of Benjamin Harrison for bestowing moat of his appointBents upon little statesmen; for rewarding poll ieal work with judicial and other appointnentt ; for turning to partisan nses the pension surest and the census bureaa; fcr sacrificing sis country in the Bering eea dispute; for his kaaty threats toward the week bat friendly republic of Chili; for throwing the influence of aie administration in favor of the iniquities of the ioroe bill, and for approving the McKinley oill, the silver bill and the extravsgaat appropriates of the last republican eongrns. We eathueiaetieally command the attitude of the democratio members of the general astern Mr in insisting first of all upon a decla ration of the result ef the state aleetion and in subordinating everj thing else to that first and most imperauve duty of ssrvaots of the people. Wo thank them for preserving to the voters the clear usus of unquestioning obidlence te the eipreaeed will ef the people, unimpaired by shifting eomprosaiss and anebscured by weak yielding to selfish demands for lesser things. We confidently go te the people ea that issue, believing that Iber will welcome the opportunity to rebuke those who bare i imprudently repudiated their will, to right what the aapreose court calls "a treat wrong." and to prevent a possible repetition of suoh wrosg by a tarn to the fundamental law of the early days et the eemmonweelth under which the eadidat ho received the Isrssr aambsr e( votes became governor and under which the God-made man ss well as the man-made roan, humanity as well ae acres, had representation la the law-making, tax-imposing bodr. We sondema the pablls aeU ef Morgaa G. Burkalf sinoe Jan. 7. 1991, in not promptly ipBxreaiiajc hß oce osrraor.f CeuacctV

cut to Luzeon 1$. Morris ss the choice of 67,653 electors of this atate aa aeainat 63,973 for bie chief competitor, Samuel E. Merwis, and none for himself ; we condemn him for unlawfully directing the sou ot the republican majority of the house of representatives to nullify the election, to eitabliih and perpetuate a deal-lock, and for attempting to justify bis holding office for the entire term, intended by the constitution for his successor, by the flimsy exouse that a dead-lock exists which he himself made; we condemn the republiean members of the house of representatives for their part in thia plot; for their fictitious claims of doubt about the election of a governor; for attempting to repeat in this state the injustices of an electoral commission ; for their delay to declare the eteotioo of officers whose election they themselves admitted, and for refusing to make the investiaction of the election, which they themselves held to be needful, ia order that no result might be reached. We eondemn the sets of TL Jay Walsh in keeping John J. Phelen out of the office of secretary of state, and in permitting the case at law, begun fof the purpose of inducting Mr. Theten into the office to which he was elected, to be defended in his name, when George M. McLesn, ths unsuccessful candidate against Mr. Phelen, does not contest the election. We condemn him for resorting to the technicalities of the law for purposes of delay, with the result that, although the case was begun almost a year ago, a trial on the merits in the lower court is only reached today, and msy yet outlast the term of office. We point to article 2 of the constitution of the state, which holds that the powers of government shall be divided into three distinct departments and each of them confided to a separate magistracy, to-wit, those which are legislative to one. those which are eieoutive to another and judicial to another, for the purpose of criticising his flagrant disregard of its requirements in still holding the executive office of secretary of slate at all, by any title, however good, when he M at the same time holding important judicial office in this state. We condemn the acts of Stevens Henry ia excluding Msrvin 11. Sanger from the otfioa of treasurer to which he was elected. We commend and applaud Nicholas Staub in bis oonduet of the oiiiee of comptroller in times of uncertainty and trial? and we pledge him our hearty assistance and support. We regard all these acts as a political crime to be resisted at every point by all the resources available to free men and to be resented at the polio. Finally, we express our disapproval of the constitution of this state and ita incoherent amendments, ss a system wanting in adaptation to present conditions. Its election machinery hss broken down, its representation is unjust, its provisions are cunningly devised to bring minorities into power and are filled with die trust of the electors as the legitimate sovereign ruling power of the commonwealth. We therefore demand its revision as a whole by the constitutional convention to be called by the general assembly. The convention machinery, as aole, wh worked without the slightest friction, the fighting and talking having been done at Inst night's caucuses. Another round of cheering greeted the name of Cleveland during the reading of the platform, which was adopted with a loud and long shout. In dismissing the delegates Gen. Bradley commended them for their work, w hich he enid was well and quickly done. Three cheers were given to the Chicago delegate as a godspeed, and three for Gen. Bradley. The delegates were empowered to appoint teir own alternates and the convention adjourned at 1 :30. TROUBLE, FOR HARRISON.

The Blaine Clubs Are K'ght Arter Ills Scalp. Chicago, -May 10. An important meeting of the Blaine club in this city was held today. In the circular calling the meeting the secretary, H. D. Teed, eays: An important meeting of the Chicsgo Blaine elub will be held next Tuesday, May 10, at the Sherman house club rooms. It is now almost certain that Mr. Harrison wiil not be renominated. Whenever a atate or district convention has indorsed his administration his friends have claimed the delegates from the atate. But it ia a fact that less than two hundred delegates bare been instructed for Harrison and many of these will not consider their instructions as binding after one or two ballots. The C00 uninstrueted delegates are mostly from republican and doubtful states and anti-Harrison. This being the situation, all eyes are turning toward Mr. Blaine. lie ia not seeking the nomination but it is seeking him. There are good reasons for believing he will reconsider and accept if the nomination is unsought and unsolicited. "The Blaine boom" has spread all over the eountry. This club will he a conspicuous organization at Minneapolis and will hare an important work to perform aa a center around which the Blaine sentiment will rally and will exert an influence on the convention similar to what it did in 1883. This is a great opportunity and it is our duty to seize it with credit to ourselves and benefit to the cause we have at heart. The Cincinnati Blaine club will arrive here on the moraine of June 0 and will join ns for Minneapolis. New York, May 10. Postmaster Manley of Augueta, one of Secretary Blaine's mot faithful followers,!). been in Washington for eeveral days and has held a number of consultations with Mr. Blaine. Before leaving for home Mr. Manley said: "There is nothing in this new talk about Mr. Blaine and the presidency. When he wrote his letter of last February to Clarkson, in which he stated that his name would not go before the convention for the nomination, be meant it. He has not changed his mind since then. He says frankly to thoee who speak to him on the subject that he feels better than he has for a long time and he knows of no reason why be should not live for years, but he is conscious that he could not bear a great and unnsual strain. He does not intend to place himself in a position where suclr a strain conld not be avoided." BOISS OR CLEVELAND. The Iowa Democrat en the Presidential Onratton. Council Bluffs, Ia., May 10. The state of Iowa will send a solid delegation to the national democratic convention with instructions to vote as a nnit for Horace Boies for president. If all hope of their favorite receiving national favor shall have passed away, the delegation will cast a solid vote for Grover Cleveland, but the resolution of tomorrow's' convention will not discount the chances of Governor Boies by admitting the possibility of euch a contingency. The following gentlemen are'mentioned as candidates for delegates at large: C A. Clark of Cedar Rapids, Senator Shields of Dubuque, Senator Yoemans of Sioux City, J. F. Duncombe of Ft. Dodge, L. M. Martin of Des Moines, E. D. Campbell of - Fairfield, Senator L. It. Bolter of Harrison connty, Senator Perry of Monroe county, and S. T. Marsh of Des Moines. The latter is a colored man and tie president of the Iowa Africa-American reform league. The only contest on the platform and that, if it comes at all, will probably be confined to the committee on resolutionswill be on the financial plank. For the past two years the democrats of Iowa have adopted planks favoring the free coinage of silver, but it looks as though the custom would be departed from In tomorrow's platform. The candidaey of Oovernor Bols may have something to do with thia contemplated change of position. The most powerful opponent of a free pilver declaration is Congressman Walter S. Hayes of Clinton, who is regarded as the coming I", S. senator from the Hawkey state in case the democrats lucceed in cirrriog the next legislature. The fight has, therefore, car.0wt.d down to a contest Sot the control of

the committee on resolutions, and the indications are that on tlii committee Mr. Hayes and his friends have a clear ma jority. A QUEER ARGUMENT

Offered by a Colorado Man oa the Silver Qqoatloo. Chicago, III., May 10. State Senator Gilder of Colorado is in the city. In giving expression to Iiis views on the silver question, he said: "It may surprise one if I say that if my signature would make the silver bill a lawtomorrow, I don't think I would sign it. Why? Because the elJect of increasing our silver coinage to the proposed extent would simply put gold at a premium. "No," he added, ''the price will not remain where it is. I think it will rise gradually to about 94 cents, and if the proper course is taken then it will go permanently to about $1.10. My plan is this : Let us offer to England to reduce our tariff on some of the articles which will stand a reduction without hurting our industries, for instance, steel rails, w ool fabrics and tin plate, if she in return will guarantee to coin -'5,TXX),000 a year in silver and put it in circulation. That would take the price of eilver up without debarring our own money, and we in the West have a right to ask this much of the East. This can not be done unless we have the reduction to offer, and therefore can only be done by the republicans, as the democrats are committed to freo trade." THEY AGREED TO DIE. Williams Succeeded and His Wife, After Several Attempts, Is Missing. St. Louis, Mo., May 11. A corpse in the morgue, and a wife to identify it were the dramatic personnel in a pathetic etory learned here today, Mr. and Mrs. John Williams were married at Warrensburg, Mo., two years ago. Coming to St. Louis the husband secured work, though the pay was small. A month ago ho w as discharged. little by little their money disappeared and then the household belongings but still no work could be secured. At last, with their rosources exhausted, not a bite to eat in the house and the future darker than the present, the coupledetermined to die.withmout money to buy poison. The river was the only resource. Husband and wife failed to seek their end at di;!erent points. He succeeded as thin tale will show. She went to the foot of Spruce-st., and with a murmured prayer jumped in. It was cold, icy cold, but after the first plunge it was too late to retreat. The woman sank once, twice, not thrice, for as ehe was poing down a last time ehe was seized by a boatman, pulled to the shore, partially restored and sent to the city hospital, fully recovered and a day or so later, ehe, thinking her husband had likely been pulled uut too, but last Friday giving up again ehe once more sought the river. Again all the experience of drowning, sinking even a third time. But just as the end was rear a boat-hook roughly thrust into her dress caught and she was again pulled out. Once more resuscitated and strength restored, she today went to the morgue, thinking her husband bad, after all, been drowned. There on a slab lay the dead body of him she bad loved best on earth. No tears could flow ; death alone must be sought. As ehe stood by the seat she told a part of her story to a reporter and then disappeared. The police cannot find her. lias she fought the river a third time in an effort to join her husband" ROMANTIC BUT SAD. The Elopement and Ituin of Christie Jackson The Arrest. Chicago, May 10. The deplorable infatuation of a young girl for a worthless scamp, the elopement of the couple, the theft of a large sum of money by the girl from her wealthy father to assist in the elopement, and finally her ruin in a sec-ond-clas hotel iu this city, form the outlines of a sad romance which has just come to light here today. Christie Jackson, the daughter of the Hon. I). A. Jackson of Sharon Springs, N. Y., a leading politician of that place, is the victim. There were four characters in the drama Miss Jackson, Louis Mariott, George Hoffman and Teresa Smith, the daughter of a leading clergyman of Sharon Springs and Mies Jackson's boon companion. Mis Smith had agreed to be a partv to the elopement, but backed out at the last moment. The three others left Sharon Springs while Mr. and Mrs. Jackeon were away from home, and came Wept. At Detroit Hoffman left the couple, taking the $1,000 Miss Jackson had etolen from her father. Hofltnan was arrested in New York, and through him the whereabouts of the runaway pair became known. Sheriff Black of Sharon Springs came to Chicago, and with the aid of the police today arrested Mariott and Miss Jackson. The latter ia utterly broken down. The sheriff and his prisoners left for New York tonight. It is stated that the girl's brother will not await the glow process of law to secure the punishment of the abductors,' AT CHICAGO. The Indiana Delegation and Its Duty to tho State. Evansvllle Courier. We have received a number of letters from democrats protesting emphatically against Senator Yoorhees' interpretation of the "compromise' resolutions." There will probably be ten thousand Indiana democrats at the Chicago convention, !0 per cent of whom will favor Cleveland's nomination, and if Senator Yoorhees attempts to cast his vote against Cleveland he will do it in defiance of the declaration of the state convention as it was explained by the gentlemen of the conference committee and wae understood by all of the delegates. The sentiment of the state convention was overwhelmingly for Cleveland and Mr. Yoorhees knows it because he was there. To misrepresent that sentiment would be a breach of confidence upon the part of any dekgate to the Chicago convention. Washington Democrat. Notwlthatang the different constructions put upon the action of the democratic state convention at Indianapolis last week it means Cleveland for first choice, and when he ia out of the way then tba delegation is at liberty to place Gray in nomination. Delegates who go to Chicago in June and disobey thia obvious meaning o( the instructioni may as well prepare at once for permanent retirement from politics in this state. Tliev will show by their course that they are not sufficiently honest to be entrusted with authority from the party.

OVER FORTY KILLED

A Terrible Gas Explosion jin a Mine Results in a Harrowing Loss of Life. EXACT NUMBER NOT KNOWN The Catastrophe Occurs During a Change of Crews, Followed with the Instant Death of Every Man. A Large Force at Work to Recover the Ilodies The Greatest Losa of Life at Any Time in the History of the Northwest Aid by the Railroads for Coffins and Burial SuppliesNames of the Unfortunates. Roslyx, Wash., May 10. The first accident of any note at the coal mines in this place occurred at about 1:30 this afternoon, just after the afternoon shift had gone on. A driver had just come out of the slope when a tremendous explosion occurred. The shock upset his cars, knocked mules and driver down and bruised a man standing one hundred feet away. The report was heard over a mile away. The mouth of the elope was soon surrounded by an anxious crowd, which grew in size every minute. Hard rain was pouring down, but the crowd heeded not. The number of men in the slope is not actually known, but it is known to be from fortyfour to fifty. There is scarcely a possibility that one of them escaped death. One body was recovered in about two hours, another an hour later, two more at 7:30. All were terribly bruised and indicated that death came instantly. The floor of the city hall has been converted into a morgue. The rescued bodies are being viewed by crowds. A ead feature of the disaster is all leave large families. Many of them are in straitened circumstances. The scenes about the mouth of the slope were sad in the extreme, men, women and children standing about iu a dazed condition. The pitiful lamentations of the negroes add to the horrors. The exact cause of the explosion or circumstances that led to it wil. probably never be known since it is believed that every miner who wa.i.t work in the slope at the time has perished. It is not definitely known how many men were in "the vicinity of the disaster, but it is believed that between fortyfive and fifty were on the three levels that were affected by the explosion. Large relief forces are at work and at this time two bodies have been recovered. These men were working nearest to the opening and at some distance from the point where it is supposed the explosion occurred. Most of tile men were 1,5(K) and 2,000 feet farther in the elope and in the immediate vicinity of the accident. There is no doubt either in the minds of miners or the company officials that every man was instantly killed. The Roslyn mine is one of the largest in the ßtate, supplying western divisions of the Northern Pacific and Union Pacific railroads with coal and has a capacity of 20,000 tons a day. The explosicm occurred just as two gangs were Bhilting at 1 i no cause oi u was not known. Two boys who were in the tunnel escaped, but they are the only ones from either gang so far recovered. lieports eo far received indicated that the explosion has closed up the shaft, that the mine is on tire and that it is impossible to recover the bodies. The company will forward forty coffins from hero by midnight train. The following is a list of tne men who were at work on the three levels that were affected and their conditions as to being single or married men: THOMAS HOLMES, married. JOHN FOSTKlt, wife and baby. PHILIP DAVIE:?, large family, THOMAS HEES, large family. JOHN HEES. WILL ROBINSON, wife and bsby. ROBERT GllAHM, wife and two children. GEO RUE MOSES; leaves aa orpaa tea years old. ' A. POLLARD, colorsd, married. JACK FL'RGUSON". large family. GEORGE BROOKS, family at Streator, 111. JOSEPH ELLSWORTH,, Sr., large family. JOSEPH ELLSWORTH, Jr. JOHN LAFFEUTY, single, aged sixty-five, owner of considerable property. DANIEL McCLELLAN, wife and three children. RICHARD FORSYTH E, family. GEORGE FORSYTUE, son of above, tingle, T. It. COOPER, married. . LISHE JACKSON, (colored) married. SCOTT GILES, (colored) married. PRIIS9 LIVING, (colored) married. ANDREW ERLANDEK, wife and four ehildren. t , CHARLES PALMER, wife and ehdd. MITCHELL HALE, single. MITCHELL RONALD, large family, brother of ex-Superintendent Ronald. WINSTON STEELE, family. Steele's son was working with his father, but came out on the last trip and escaped by jumping out. He was knocked down bv the force of the explosion. WILLIAM CAGUE, single, only support of mother and crippled sister. EBEN OL8IFER, Isrgs family. JOHN DANKS. Italian with family. JAKE WEATHEKBY, laU mine boss at No, 3, lare family. . .. JOSEPH HRE WELL, family. THOMAS T.CONDON, leaves wife and nine children. HARRY CAMPBELL, single. JAMES HOUSTON, colored. JOSEPH RENNET, wife and twe children. WILLIAM BENNETT, wife and three Children in Eerope. He had just gone in. JOSEPH ISM A. Y. son-ia-Jaw of ex-Superia-tesdent Ranald. .WILL PKNHALS, married. SIDNEY WRIGHT, brotherof County Clerk Thomas Wrlgfct, family, Omaha. Neb. EATEN BY A BEAR. A Helpless Mother Sees One of Her Children Devoured Before Her. MorxTAiy Home, Ark.. May 11. Mrs. Mary Carter, a widow with a small family of children, is a rarinqr maniac ns a reeult of a raid on her little cabin by a half starved black bear, which devoured one of her children, lief cabin Hands upon a hillside, some distance above the town.

A heavily wooded grove extends to it, w ith the exception of a email clearing immediately before the house. In thia patch her five children were playinz while the mother was engaged inside the cabin. Suddenly tne wild screaming of her children startled her. the saw an enormous bear strike down her oldest boy, who had bravely attempted to defend the children in his charge. The beast seized her baby and shuttled rapidly away. The animal tore the little one limb from limb before the mother's eyes, and before help arrived from the village completed his meal and escaped within the forest. VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. A Pnpnlar Demand. Kcntland Democrat. The question : Can the democratic national convention which is to meet in Chicago next Jrne, in order to propitiate Tarrmany, ignore the obvious preference which the people in every state in the Union have manifested for Cleveland? is becoming every day a mora serious one. The spontaneity of this feeling seems tobe without a parallel in the political history of the country. Other states may have their favorite sons, but Cleveland seems to be the favorite Bon of the democracy in every state from Maine to Texas. If, through a trumpet as powerful as that of Gabriel, the question could bo asked so as to reach the democratic hosts in ever state in the Union, "Who will you have for your leader?" there can be very little doubt as to what the response would be. Some politicians say that there would be an adverse response from Sew York, while others equally well informed declare that Cleveland will carry as largo a vote in that state as can be carried by any other man that can be nominated. In Cleveland's case it is the office seeking the man, and not the man seeking the office. 11 is willing at any time to withdraw from the contest when it becomes apparent that, he is not the most available candidate, but up to this time the expression in favor of his candidacy has approached so nearly to unanimity as to convince him that he is the choice of an overwhelming majority of the democrats of the country. This being the case, it is the duty to obey their expressed will. Again we ask: If Mr. Cleveland is the choice of a majority of the rank and file of the democracy of the country can their choice be ignored and made to succumb to the wileB of scheming self-seeking politicians without endangering the success of the party? We are inclined to think such a course will be suicidal.

Good Adric tu lUntr Watteraoo. lETansTllle Courler. 1 Mr. Watterson says: "I had intended to let the whole thing take its course without a word." For his own sake and the sake of the party it would have been better for him to abide by that intention, particularly as he saye, w'earily, 'I am tired; I have earned a rest" Let him take his rest, and give ua all a rest. The determination of the democracy is for the nomination of Grover Cleveland, and it would be raid-summer lunacy for the national convention to attempt to thwart that determination. "The whirlwind of expectancy" is set. It will culminate at Chicago, and woe be to those false prophets who dare to piace luemseivea ia mu way oi ua inexorable course. A Sf Prediction. MartiooTille Uazette.l At the present time a large number of republican newspapers are working hard to make the tax law odious and unpopular among the people. They tried the same racket on the ballot law and the school book law. Both of these measures have been thoroughly tested. They give general satisfaction. No one presumes to sek their repeal. The same will be the case with the tax law. We predict that the ballot law, the school book law and the tax law, or improvements on the same, having the same purposes in view, will live to adorn and brighten the statutes of Indiana iong after the republican party has passed into "innocuous desuetude." Effects of the McKinley Law. RockTille Tribune. Free traders have been frequently challenged by the upholders of our worse than war tarilf to "name one article" that costs more than before the passage of the McKinley bill. The Tribune having named a few, as the editor stated, that had come to bis notice personally, our esteemed contemporary tries to crawl out of a holo by saying these articles ere not in general use. We have at different times mentioned cloaks, dolmans, shotguns, ammu nition, n, "l. X. L." (Sheffield) cutlery, granite, albumenized paper, etc. These articles are in general use, and only a McKinley editor can have the effrontery to deny it. Rautn'a Dirty XVrlt. IKrteoetitle Star-Press. That refrigerator statesman, Green B. Raum, commissioner of pensions, is still attempting to smirch the record of the Hon. G. W. Cooper, and to this end Is writing letters to pension attorneys in Indiana, asking them if they have been paying money to learn the status of pension claims on file in the pension office. These letters have been received in Oreencastle this week, and the answer thereto has been an emphatic no, so far as Mr. Cooper is concerned. In the interest of political decency and for the good of the public service, Green H. Kaum should be boosted out of othce in the shortest order possible. Gaining Strength Every Day, Columbua Herald. Grover Cleveland is gaining strength every day. The states of Wisconsin and Michigan, in state convention assembled, instructed their Chicago delegates to vote for Cleveland. His name was loudly cheered and great enthuissm was manifested. It seems that there Is no question as to his nomination. He may be nominated by acclamation. It the people demand the nomination of Mr. Cleveland why should the politicians kick? There is no stronger man among the masses than Mr. Cleveland, and if he is defeaed it will be through the manipulation of politicians. Th Resolution le Platn. iMartlntrllle Gazette. There is considerable talk in the newspapers, and also in politcal circle", as to the significance of the Cleveland and Gray resolution of the democratic platform of Indiana. We have read the resolution carefully, and cannot discover wherein it is susceptible of a double construction. It declares, in very plain language, that the democrats of Indiana prefer Mr. Cleveland above all other men, as their presidential candidate, but, if he should not be the first choice of the convention, then the Indiana delegates are to nee their influence to secure the nomination of Mr. Gray, Malta tba Corporations Tmj Vp. peocrr Psraocnt. We can not clearly see why corporations should expect more from the state than a private citizen. Therefore, let the corporation:? share their part of the state tax. and if tlier don't, lew unon their stock and nil it, as would bo the case with any individual citizen. .

CLEVELAND IN NEW YORK.

THE STRONGEST DEMOCRAT THERE. AS IN OTHER STATES. A. Gnat Chang in ttia Political Conditions Since 1888 The L qaor lasae Used tc Shift Vt From Cleveland to Harrison In Order ta Score Ilill'a Kleetlen No State Complications Tbts Year. S. Y. Times. Within the borders of the state of New York there is no longer any occasion to argue that Mr. Cleveland, if nominated for the presidency, will carry the state by a very large majority and receive its thirtyeix electoral votes. Persons in any degree familiar with the political feeling of patty men and independents readily concede this to be the case. Even among the supporters of Senator Hill, those who feel any sense of responsibility for their utterances, have ceased to deny it. The currents of public sentiment run that way in a volume that has been visibly swelling of late. Recent steps in political organization give abundant proof that the name of Mr. Cleveland is potent to awaken the masses ol the New York democracy. Among the people of New York who can watch these currents and see these growing proofs from day to day, doubt, where it existed, has given place to an assured conviction. There is no longer any question about it here. But in states remote from New York there is here and there some apprehension lest the apparent party division and personal resentments in this state shall imperil the success of the democracy with Mr. Cleveland as its candidate. Some part of this doubt, we are convinced, is the honest birth of political prudence and forethought; much of it has been artfully created by the alarmist talk of the partisans of other candidates. But alike with those who prefer Mr. Cleveland but are afraid of New York and with thoee who prefer a different candidate and Beek a pretext, doubt takes its rise from the disaster of 1S8S. If Mr. Cleveland lost New York and with it the presidency in 18S, how can he expect to carry New York and win the presidency in 1892? is the question of some anxiousl democrats of the Westend the South. That question calls for an answer. We will answer it The democratic party may expect Mr. Cleveland to carry New York in 1892, though losing it in 1888, because there is no governor to be elected this year, no state canvass to be made, no local issues to be fought over. State conditions that would have defeated Thomas Jefferson, had he been the democratic candidate in 18S8, are completely altered in 1892. A brief review of Warner Miller's canvass against Governor Hill will ehow that fact. The state platform of the New York republicans in 1SS8 declared for high license and the restriction of the liquor I jmo. Warner Miller, their candidate for governor, wasa pretty göod prohibi tionist all through the campaign. But if Mr. Miller succeeded in winning votes from the ranks of temperance, he and his party's platform were rank poison to the liquor dealers, who, with the large vote they control, went boldly over to the support of Governor Hill. Nor were they content with this. They took votes for Harrison over into the camp of the republicans and exchanged them for Hill votes. For Mr. Hill personally they may have felt no very warm affection. For Mr. Harrison they cartainly cared nothing at alL But for the privilege of selling liquor under liberal laws they cared a great deal, and the presidency was of email account weighed in the scale against this dominating self-interest. They literally traded a presidency for a governship, co-operating eflectively in that commerce with other interests then practically identified with their own. The attitude of the liquor interest in that contest waa perfectly well known in New York. For the benefit of readers outside the state it will be worth while to quote the liquor plank of the platform adopted by the republican state convention in 1S88: The repnblloan party unequivocally eon demns the coarse of Governer Hill ia obstructing by his vetoes acts for increasing the fees for licenses by which a larger share of ths cost of government might be levied on the liquor traffic, and we approve the eflorta of the republicans in the last legislature upon the liquor question, and especially in passing the act nullified by such executive action to restriot that traffic by changes which would lift some of the burdens of taxation caused by the liquor traffic from the homes and farms, and we believe such charges should be advanoed to standards' similar te those successfully enforced in other states under republican control. Mr. Kraus, one of John J. O'Brien's delegates from this city, vainly tried to get the convention to substitute for thia the brief declaration that it favored "a fair and equitablo excise law." He was squelched by the chairman, and the convention adjourned while he was on bis feet. It was this evident disposition to cater to the prohibitionists that made the liquor dealers resolve to defeat the republican candidate for governor at any cost to the democratic candidate for president. And the words and the condnctof the republican candidate himself strengthened them in that resolve. In the course of the campaign Mr. Warner Miller uttered this sentiment: The saloon evil is a monstrous evil, and I mean that iu power shall be broken. This is the meaning of my campaign. This is my object. I would rather be dsfeatsd than 1st go that object. But if we may believe Mr. Miller's assertions after the election, he co-operated indirectly but powerfully with that part of the electorate that strove to give the state a democratio governor even at the cost of defeating Grorer Cleveland. In the New York Tribune of Nov. 14, 18S8, a few days after the election, Nr. Warner Miller is reported aa saying: When I accepted the nomination my chances of being sleeted were exoeedialy slight I did not expect tusn ti at I could win. My wife did not want me to iake it I told her, bow ever, that I believed it was passible to keep down the prohibition vete, and thereby svc the state for Oen. Harrison. I started In with that object in view. It wss accomplished. Last year the probibiton vote in this state wss 40,600, an ineresss over 15.000 above 8h John's votfln 1834. Tbsy started in to get a million votes this yesr, and in all probability would have polled upward of 60,000 bad ao temperance ittue been made. That er much leas than that would have given Clevslsnd the state. Rut polling, at they did, lets tbaa 30,000 votes gave us the state. Thus Mr. Cleveland In 1S83 was hampered by conditions in nowise personal to lilmeli, and fell a victim to local conilicts and eelfiah interest! that would have defeated any candidate. Moreover, the trading in votes that worked against him all over the state was carried on with tho greatest animation in the three-cornered fiirht for mayor in tnia citv. ine com bined vote for Grant and Hewitt, the two democratic candidates for mayor, was lSo

095, while Mr. Clevelcnd' vote in the city was only 1(52,733. Mr. Harrison gtjt ths advantage of this perfectly obvious traffic; and after the election a Tammany magnate declared that he was orry for Mr. Cleveland, but self-preservation was the first law of nature. The ballot law under which votea ar now cast in this Btate is an ellective obstacle to wholesale trading li ico that of 1888. Hut the chief distinguishing difference between the canvass of isss and the coming contest is that no state officers, are to be chosen in New York this year except a chief justice ot the court of ap peals. There is neither the tasis nor the, material for any dickering in votes. In. this city it is possible that a democratic candidate for mayor may he nomi nated against Tammany's candidate; but if so. the trading incident to that situation would a'Jert Mr. Cleveland hf more unfavorably than any other dem., ocratie candidate for the presifencv. And it in to be borne in mind that tho leaders of Tammany have this year given assurances of unusual potitiveness of their intention to support the candidate of the party. "We are tied to no one and shall support the candidate heartily," say Mr, Croker end Mr. Gilroy, and eo says Mr. Fdward Murphy of Trov, chairman of the democratic state committee. When the democrats meet at Chicago ia the great party council, they may dismis. from their minds all doubts and fears about the ability of Mr. Cleveland to bring New York into the democratic column. In this state, as in even' other state, ho is simply the stronoet man ia his party. THE TARIFF AND WAGES.

An Answer te the Falae" Claims ef (Preteea tloniate. To the EDrron ,S'i'r; Don't a high tar, if! make high wages? If so, why have not wages risen since the McKinley bilJTj passed? That act raised a war tariff of 47 per cent, to a peace rate of 00 per cent., and if "high tariff makes high wages,' ourworkingmen should begin to realize it. yo ignominiously has the McKinley" law failed to raise waged that the Indianapolis Journal now denies that such prom ises were made, but asserts that the only pledge given was that "the McKinley bil would not decrease wages." This would" be a curious pledge to give to worxment and so absurd as to prove its falsity Thai American high wages (and we are all g'.aj that they are 6o) result from other causes than high tariff is clear from several re& sons : 1. American wages long before the for mation of our povernment were mucft higher, comparatively speaking, thaa those of Europe as much fo then as now. 2. Only one workingman in twenty ia employed in the protected industries, and the wages paid the twentieth man cannot control those paid the remaining nineteen. The rule is the other war. Just as tho cheapest coin drives out ihe dearest from circulation fo the lowest grade of labor fixes the scale for the dearest. The skilled labor is the base from w hich high wages are measured. Now, right here, we have the coctroling cause oi American high wages, viz: Our cheap and inexhaustibly fertile lands, and the high wages that aj;r cultural labor commands and always has commanded in the United State?. Ninetenths of our exports are from the farm. Farm wages are the ocean manufacturers' wages the bogs and creekr. Aa well talk about the creeks and bog9 controlling the ocean level as talk about the wages of the twentieth man engaged in the protective industries controlling and fixing the scale for the remaining nineteen. 3. The cheapness of our lands and the vast number of small farms in the United States constantly so reduce the army of wage-workere that the ltbor demand is greater than the supply. In Europe when there is no land for sale or its price is too high for a wage-worker, the number ot laborers constantly increases until the eup ply out runs the demand, and so wages are kept at the lowest point. Instead of the protected industries being the balance wheel that regulates the price of wages it is the great agricultural interests ot the United States that control and it is these interests that the government cannot and does not protect. 4. Another reason for American high wages is that the "standard of comfort" of the laboring man in the United States island for the last two hundred years has been, so much higher than that of Europe. In Egypt "the standard of comfort" of m workingman ia a yard of cotton to go around the loins, a mat and a pot for housekeeping and a little rice for food. Hence, there the wage-worker is content with 7 cents per day. In Europe ther have protective tariffs nearly as high aj in the United States. Yet in these protected countries the "standard of comfort" of the laboring man by the commercial customs of society is eo low that the seal of wages is far lower than with us. That a high tariff has but little to do with this "standard of comfort" is evident from tha fact that two hundred years ago it waa higher here than in the old world and is a part of a bread-winner's birthright. 5. Another cause for American high wajea ia the innumerable trade unions, leaguee, combinations, Knights of Labor, etc, that we have here. Cut for these unions protected manufacturers would pay no mora wagea than in England or the continent. No one is so quick to import the "pauper labor' of the old world as those who are the loudest in the cry "let us have more duties that we may pay more wages." There has never yet been the slightest effort, except in case of the Chinese, to protect labor as labor. No one can fail to eee the difference between goods and labor. High duties on goods but fre trade in labor is the essence of Ihe McKinley bill. The workingman's wages are the last thing to rise, even in the practical industries, and the firpt to fall . 6. The aim of this article is to be fair That high taritf has its inlluence, although grossly overstated, in raising wages no fair minded man can deny. But it i3 only one of the half dozen causes above fointed out. If you double the cost of iving you must rauo the wage worker's pny or starve him. Even here this neces pity is converted into political capital bv the reluctant employer, who talks about the "pauper labor" of the old world, Curiouely enough the bulk of thia- old world "pauper labor" is engaged in agriculture and only a fraction of it in manufacturing. Finally. One fact is very significant: In high taritf Russia, Italy, France and Germany the workingmen's wages are but about on-half what they are in free trade England. Why don't some high tariff advocate compare an American's wages with those in the first named countries? This comparison is never made, for it suggests the inevitable and unanswerable question, "li hih tarilT makes high wages w hy are the wages ot Kuveia. Italy, Frauce and Germany (air hizh tariff countries) only about onehalf wbtt they are in free trade F.ngiand and one-third or one-fourth what thej are Ia the United States?" D. I Saldwix. IognsaorJIajf-5,