Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1894 — Page 1

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ESTABLISHED 1822. INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1891. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.

VICTORYFOROWENS

Unofficial Figures Givo Him 320 Plurality. Breckinridge Men Accept Defeat Gracefully. COLONEL TIGHT AS A CLAM. Ha Absolutely Refuses to Talk for Publication. Owens's Friend.. Are Expecting a Contest, Out the rrobabllllle Are Ajtnlnat Any Sneh Proceeding n the Action Would Prolong the Strangle Dentin IlreeklurMKe Still Espreaae CoulMeneefirent Hejolelnif at (iroritrlofTii Xrw from the Dlatrlrt. LEXINGTON. Ky.. Sept. 13. At 11:30 both Breckinridge and Owens claim victory, the former by in and the latter by 32). Result very close. Will take official count to decide. No el?etion or other occasion ever caused luch a general suspension of business and Jaily duties as the contest today between CV. C. Owens, W. C. P. Breckinridge and E. E. Settle far the democratic nomination fur congress from the Ashland disrkt. For months the district hag been tgitated. It was not a political, not even t factional fight. It was a moral contest for -week.- and months and during the last few days 'it became intensely personal, so much so that the nomination was not the only Issue. Col. Breckinridge was fighting for life and he never before made such dispatches or displayed such executive ability in organization, lie marshaled every man whom he could command, but he could not command the women. They had no votes, but they were the controlling element in the fight. At the Owens headquarters tonight their clalmö have run up from 400 at 7 o'clock to two, three, four and even five times that plurality, and they say in their rejoincing: "The ladies did It." The ladies could not get ward workers to their prayer meetings or other meetings, but the organization of committees of one generally got promises at home out of voters who needed no watching on entering the booths. With the salooii3 closed, the women praying and the best influences all aroused there was a quiet election with excitement and bitter feeling at their highest pitch. The greatest surprise of the day was the good order everywhere. There were some personal encounters, but not a I many as usual at closely-contested ekv? tions. There was, however, great pr caution to prevent trouble. Old friends and neighbors had been having their inning and they wanted only the voting today. If the Breckinridge men had challenged as strictly as thy had expected there would have been trouble. So closely had the canvassing and polling been done that the challengers knew how almost all the democrats stood and they could have kept many from voting. It was generally understood that republican managers favored Breckinridge, as they thought in the event of his nomination their chances would not be hopeless. Very few republicans, however, voted. As many precincts are long distances from telegraph offices the complete returns will n t likely be known before tomorrow. But Owens seems to be so much in the lead that it will not require the complete returns to settle the result. Desha Breckinridge was passing precinct D's voting place this afternoon, when he saw J. Walker Peak, a strong Owens worker, lnslie th booth preparing an affidavit. Desha spoke to him through the window, and to'.l him that h? had no business in then, and that he had better come out. Peak replied that he would not come out. and Breckinridge went In the booth after him. The two inn clinched, but were separated. Peak soon afterward cams out when Breckinridge met him the second time, and a lively flsht followed. Both men had their faces scratched, several blows being passed. Both men had pistols. In the last fight they were separated before they had a chance to draw their weapons. ' Desha, drove to all precincts personally Inspecting them during the day. LEXINGTON. Ky., Sept. 16. The victorsfieek to possess the entire field; the vanquished accept defeat manfully. This conclusion la justified by outside appearances here, which began to manifest themselves early this morning. One notable Indication was the doffing of Breckinridge badges and donning Owens badges by the most ardent young bloods, who supported Breckinridge throughout the campaign with their money and their personal services. These men say that they went to the election- yesterday believing that every voter at the primaries was morally bound to support the nominee. Now that their favorite, for whom they fought so valiantly, seems to have suffered defeat, they feel in honor bound to support his opponent. They seem to acquiesce In the Inevitable. There was a report this afternoon that Owens, Settle and Breckinridge would each iasue a card to the public e-tating his case. This was on the theory that Breckinridge was about to contest the election. Breckinridge absolutely refuses to talk. The most thorough investigation tonight failed to find a shadow of ground for the rumor. Everybody is thoroughly tired of the fierce contest that termln ated in yesterday's primaries. To con test the election would be to prolong the struggle. The probabilities, therefore. eeem to be against the contest. The trst figures obtainable here to night at this hour give totals for candi-dii"-s as follows: Owens. 7.900: Breckin ridge, 7.670; Settle. 3,403; Owens's plur ality, corrected returns, which are expected tomorrow, will probably vary but little rrom tnese figures. A special to a Cincinnati paper pays: There is nothing definite In the way of returns at 9:w tonisrnt. It Is believed by many well pot-Td Owens men. that Breckinridge will contest th,e election, but he declines to talk for publication. Cel. John It. Allen, county attorney. one of Breckinridge's supporters, fays that he intends to support Owens, and, io fact. Is wearing an Owens button. Poywiz Nelson of the state college, a man very cloe to Col. Breckinridge. ."aid that he did not believe any of the rumors that Breckinridge would contest. Th3 committee will meet In Frankfort, h-- said, to canvass the vote, and if any thing wrong id discovered it will be righted there. Owens men are very well satisfied. A tew. however, ccnjIai that Breddo

rf ige men had a stack of affidavits at every -olling place and voted every man they could on these affidavits. A story was started that W. S. MeChesney, Jr.. nnd another Breckinridge man. took a carriage a-nd went to Scott county with $2.l)M, intending to buy up the officers of election, but arrived too late. Traced to Its source this story appears o have been founded on the fact tint McChesney hired a carriage at u livery stable ti take Co!. Breckinridge to Trevilia, to the home of Mrs. Douglass, where Col. Breckinridge and his wife are staying. Col. T. Logan Hm-ker, the original Owens man of Lexington, ."aid: "As victors we can afford to be generous. I fought the colonel to the best of my ability, but now that he is beaten I have no unkind words for him or for any of his g'i friends who worked for him. We are all democrats." No more official returns have been received from the country, most of the telegraph offices In the smaller towns being closed on Sunday. The Breckinridge managers from all parts of the district have leen in close consultation here all day. They figure Owens's plurality at 19. against the 410 plurality claimed by Owens men. Dr. R. J. O'Mahoney, a Breckinridge detective, has been sent to Henry to see if he couid not find grounds for charges of fraud against the officers of one precinct in that county which gave Owens an overwhelming majority and thereby throw the Owens vote. M. A. Cassidy, a detective employed by the Berckinrldge forces, is in Owen county on a similar mission. Breckinridge leaders claim that in Scott county Owens reeeved many fraudulent votes, as 600 more democrats voted in this county yesterday than at the last election. Mrs. Harry T. Groom, wlio has worked incessantly f r Breckinridge, said tonight: "I was surprised at Breckinridge's strength, but had never a doubt that Owens would fall of nomination. I think now that Mr. Owens would not have Fiieceded if the ladies had not tak-n up the tight. I believe that is the univTsal opinion of the ladles of -the district, that had the moral question not been interposed there would have been n fight against Breckinridge." iiiirxKixnmuirs statement.

Ho Relieve Illegal Votes Have Been Cant Score the l're. CINCINNATI. Sept. 17. The Commercial-Gazette's Lexington special says: Since midnight there seems to be no doubt about Col. Breckinridge making a fipht f r the nomination before the district committee, on which all possible pressure has been brought tonight. Breckinridge tonight made public a statement in which he ys he secured a majority of the legal democratic votes of the district and that fraud was practiced against him in several counties. The following is Breckinridge's statement: "None of the interviews printed in various papers purporting to be held with me were authorized by me. The democratic committee of the district alone has the power to declare who Is the nominee and until that declaration is made no one Is tha nominee of the. party, and when it Is made I will loyally submit to this decision and support the person declared to be the nominee. Under the law, and under the rule of the party, it alone has the power to ascertain what votes have been cast and what votes shall. be counted and what declared to be fraudulent. No court has any power over its action and I would regret to see New York judicial methods introduced into Kentucky politics and pliant judges corruptly giving the apparent sanction of the judicial proceedings to base methods. What is th legal vote of the eight counties of this congressional district is a question which is not in my power. and when decided by the proper authorities if. will be accepted as binding by me and my friends and until that Is done any charges that he or his friends will attempt in the way of "shananigan" or Improper practices are alike insolent and false: and when coming from the Courier-Journal and Louisville Times, owned and edited by a gang of blackmailers. It is an insolent intermeddling with the affairs of the district and a corrupt attempt to prevent proper in vestigation and deliberate action. "The nomination has not yet been made. and it might not b? improper to suggest that Ins dent abuse does not tend towards harm any, nr will It lead t" the path of party victory. And it might b? well for those who are pl-itting to discharge their employes and evict their tenants because ths' voted for me, to suspend their proceedings. "The extraordinary nrdtr of th judge of the Fourteenth Judicial district, obtained as it w.us by the friends of Mr. Owens, seems to decide that the party had no right to require a voter at the primary to be pledged to support the nominee, and thL- Is tenable only on the ground that under the Carroll law a voter at the primary election is not bound by the result. It may be difficult to persuade all who participated In the primary election not to retaliate upon him who obtained this injunction and invoked this law. I do not believe that such is the lav, and, to u?e the mildest term possible concerning that order, issued under the circumstances, I think it was Itnprovidently given, and I, for one, repudiate it. I have no doubt of my nomination by the legal democratic vote3 cast on last Saturday and that by many votes. I had no doubt that fraud would be practiced upon me In Scott county, and I am certain it has been dellberateiy done. "I believe that at least 300 illegal votes have been cast agaln3t me In the county of Fayette, and perhaps nearly as many In the county of Franklin. I shall make no frivolous contest, shall raise no technical questions, nor enter into contest abjut doubtful points, but shall reserve until next Saturday tha right to- have euch proceedings taken before the district committee as will accord with my Judgment. "Ie regret certain Incidents of the day of election; the voting with consent, if not approval, of the faculty of Georgetown college, of students who had no legal residence In Georgetown, and some of wham are under age. "I have no regrets as I look back upon the canvass for the utterances I felt called upon to make, and all statements made by me, wnrther m speeches or interviews, are absolutely true in fact as well as moderate in utterance and temperate in spirit. "I wa3 offered a large amount of testimony concerning many of those who attacked me and of scandalous connection with others related to these persons. All this I declined to use, and while it might have made certain enemies less virulent, I am glad that I did not permit any provocation to tempt me to use iu My gratitude to my friends cannot be nut Into words." The Commercial-Gazette correspondent telegraphed from Lexington that he had asked the Hon. W. C. Owens fur a statement and that Owens would only say that he intended to stand by and abide by. the decision of the people of the Ashland district last Saturday. May Make a ('onlrat. FRANKFORT, Ky., Sept. 16. 'Breckinridge men here are reluctant .to acknowledge their defeat. Some of them are still claiming the nomination of Col. Breckinridge by a small majority. They base their hopes of contesting the election on the fact that the Owen county vote fell

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ty leaders mere. wens men ciaim ur; nomination by 241 votes. The ofTleiil count will be held tomorrow and as a majority of the elections committee favors Breckinridge, it is expected that advantage will be taken of every contested vote to se.it the colonel. Bishop Duncan, In a prayer before the met hod ist conference litre today, thanked Cod that the ritrht had been upheld in putting down bad men who aspired to public office. joy at ;f.oih;eto w.. The 0etia I-ple Have n. Howllnc Good Time. GEORGETOWN. Ky.. Sept. 16. The people of Georgetown Wave not yet ceased celebrating the triumphs of their honored fellow-citizen in the congressional primary election yesterday. All day Mr. Owens has been flooded with congratulations from all parts of the country. He bears the well-earned victory with his usual modesty. It was long after midnight before the enthusiasm aroused by the returns fast night allowed the hippy peoi.de to retire. The enthusiasm, which was in full blast, was dampened for a while by unfavorable reports, but when the news of the victory' was made certain bedlam broke loose. Men crazy with Joy hugged each other In a way that would have made them ridiculous n any ordinary occasion. The good-natured mob, for it was nothing else, seized upon Mr. Owens and tried to carry him on their shoulders. The court house bell was rung, a balloon was sent up. fireworks filled the air and bonfire blazed on every corner. A dry goods box wis placed on the public square and Mr. Owens was lifted upon it. But speech-making was out of the question. Mr. Owens said he h:id been doing the speaking, but the boys had done the work; it was their night to howl and he wanted them to enjoy themselves. After the crowd had yelled th'-mselves hoarse thy insisted on a speech, and Mr. Oweivs sjU, briefly from the balcony of the Wells house. 1 1 j said: "For some months I have been furnishing the chin mnsl.'. but this is to m th" sweetest music I ever heard. You have done all you promised to do, but I want to exact one more promise from you. and that is to support the nominee and I won't swec.r you; I will take your woid. I am only the Instrument through which the people, the noble men and winen. have won the victory. I bellt-vtd that the work of the men and the tears and prayers of the women would bring a gVl result." IMiil Thompson Disappointed. NRW YORK, Sept. If,. Col. Breckinridge's defeat was a severe disappointment to Col. Phil Thompson, who was fine of the counsel for the Kentuckian in the suit brought by Miss Pollard. Col. Thompson was at the Hotel Waldorf today. "It seems," he said, "that the enemies of Col. Breckinridge have triumphed. No man has been more shamefully represented and villified and all because he would not elevate his mistress to a plane above his children 1 his own household." "Do you think this means the end of the colonel's political career?" "It hooks as if it might, at least in Kentucky. But he gave his opponents a game fight. He had the praying women and the machine against him, and yet was beaten only a few hundred VwtsS." - - Dentin. Still Confident. CINCINNATI. Sept. It?. A special from Lexington, Ky., says: "At 10 p. m. Desha Breckinridge said he was confident of his father's election. Said he: 'I cannot give out a statement by counties, but our latest reports reduce Owens's pluralty to 141. I am sure that the count will be given us by the dlsitrict committee when it meets. If it d es not, I am not prepared to say what wll follow; may be a contest.' "At Midway. Bert Hammond came and confessed to the judg-r that he had cast an illegal vote, and a.-ked that one vote lss be counted for Owens. The Judges refused t3 do this, and Hammond was summoned to appear in court tomorrow." A 31lslJike Corrected. LOUISVILLE, Sept. 1C The dispatch last nicht stating that the CourierJournal's returns complete gave Owens a plurality of only 28 was an error and should have lead Incomplete. The precinct returns received by the CourierJournal showcl the total vote in the district to have been: Owens, S.10J; Breckinridge. 7,C!7. and Settle, 3,4o7, making Owens's plurality 41.1, and the majority In the district against Breckinridge y2. Tonight's dispatches have not altered these figures, except in Bourbon county, where Breckinridge's plurality should have been placed ut 152 instead of 121, a difference of thirty-one votes. Due to the Church and .Jude Morton. CINCINNATI, Sept. 16. A special from Lexington, Ky., says: A strong Breckin ridge man, cashier in one of the banks here, attributed the defeat of his candi date to the opposition of Judge Morton and Prof. McGarvey of the Christian church. He said: "The Christians have a verv strong following hero, and while ordinarily we should have given S'JO or 1,000 plurality to Breckinridge, we car rled Fayette county by only ü05 votes." Two Den eon Come Together. PARIS. Ky., Sept. 16. Thl3 morning Deacon Horace Miller, an Owens man, and Deacon J. D. Butler, who voted for RroU inrido'e were diseussins the election Hot words passed and IOeacon Butler harnoonpri Deacon Mi ler in the ear w th his iimirlli whprpunon Deacon Miller blacked Deacon Butler's eye. They were then separated. HE CAME FROM INDIANA. John Morrow Stühs n Man to Death Xenr Dallas, Tex. DALLAS, Tex., Sept. 17. John Mor row, after an absence of two weeks, re turned home last night and found his wife away. After a search he found her about midnight In the company of James O'Neill. A fight ensue.1 in which Morrow stabbed and killed O'Neill. Morrow is now in jail He came here from Indiana and his wife was Miss Gertrude Holden of Mississippi. Morrow has been With the Dallas cotton mills since their estab1 ish ment. Du ma ore Suit Filed. FRANKLIN. Sept. 17. On the night of April 2i last, during the progress cf the Mcrniel mill fire, the smoke stack fell, drag ging down one of the stack stay wires across the tracks of the P., C, C. & St. L. railroad. A freight train came along nhortly arierwarn ana eirucK the wir- stny ai:d a-1 It swisnei around Jeorge v Smith ani Joseph R. Harrison were struck by it and Injured. Today they tiled Indi vidual suits fur J5.000 damages each against tlr? railroad company. AV 11 mo n Bill Kelt. OS-WEGO. N. Y., Sept. 17.-The effect of the Wilson bill, placing lumber on the free list, U being felt here. Ten cargoes, with a total of seventeen hundred thousand feet of lumber, have arrived here within the past th.rty-six hours, i wice that amount is on Canadian docks awaiting shipment. Lum bermen are Jubilant, as are also 5tX longshoremen, most of whom have done noU-

THE COMING FIGHT

Republicans Will Hard to Win Try In Order to Gain Prestige for Presidential Year. DESIGNS ON INDIANA, Which Is "Wanted" for Seven Republican Congressmen, Reed Anxious to Again Play the Czar. Ilia Fartjr Hope to Gain KnoosU Stille In the Houxe to Elect a PreaIdent If That lloily Should lie 4'nlled lon to Decide the !ntter The Senate Out of the Queatlon Terma of Meiitbera Which Soon ILir-. BUREAU OF THE SENTINEL, WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 16. It is not improbable that the election next November will settle the next presi dential contest. Th? republican national and congressional committees are now at work on that line. The recent bolt of Senator Jones of Nevada to the "pops' has only made the republicans nore active in the coming campaign to c.ipture the majority of the state congresilonil delegations. In the Jones bolt they ice the los3 of the silver states for the republican electors In 1S3 a loss that will go to the populists and give that nartv the balance cf power and throw the election of president into the house.' They believe that neither ihe republican.? nor the democrats will get a clear majority of the electoral college. In that event the house will elect the president and the st-nate the vice-president. The vice-presi dent is elected by a majority of the senate, c-ac-h senator having one vote. But when the house elects the president mem bers lose their individuality. Each state is entitled to one vote. At present there are forty-four states and twenty-three states would elect, but as congress has provided for the admirslon of Utah, New Mexico and Arizona, fortyseven states will participate in thi next presidential election. Twenty-four will be a majority then. In voting by states for president the renresentatlves of eah state decide how the vote of the state shall be cast. Before the third party developed strength enough to carry states a major ity of the state delegations in congress was never contended for. a majority of the house was all that was desired. But we remember how the democrats of the far West cast their votes for populist electors two years ago, not as an indorse ment of populism, but to throw the election in the house, where the democrats had a majority of the states. This was done in case Mr. Cleveland could not carry the majority of the electoral college. But the contingency did not arise. Iteed SettlnK Up Ilia Tina. It is known that were it not for the loss of the sliver states and the necessity of securing a majority of the state delega tions in the next house, for the purpose of saving the presidency, the republicans would not be very anxious to obtain control of the next Siouse. at least the Tom Reed republicans would not. Tom Reed's friends assert that nothing will prevent the nomination of their chief save a re publican majority in the next house. They reason that Tom whl have to become speaker and of course shipe all the legislation through the committees. The great trouble will -be in the placating of the silver men. The latter will accept noth ing now but free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 1C to 1 no mere Bland-Allison or (aherman patched-up work will th?y take. To pass a free-coin-atra bill would ruin Reed In the credit states of the East. He cannot do It. He will not appoint a committee on weights, coinage and measures with a free silver majority. He is now posing a fort of friend of the silver men. kind or halt brother. As long as he is not In power he can "pose." But once speaker he will have to show his hand. And the repuDlicans fear, with much reason, that if the next house is republican and a free silver bill not passed Teller. Dubois and half a dozen more republican senators will fol low Jones's example go over to the pop ulists. In that event the republicans ex pect to lose every state west of the !Missouri river In '96. There would be no hope In the elec toral college. Hence the importance of electing a majority of congressmen m the majority of states. With that s cured, well could Tom Reed sit down on the free silver bill with boldness, for ha would make himself solid in the E,i.t and, if nominated, the republicans would have to confine their work to prevent the democrats from getting a majority of the electoral college, and for them to accomplish that they could follow the example of western democrats m yj. help the populists 4n- states which they. could not themselves carry. Where Republican Hope Lie. The republicans are certain of electing a majority of representatives in fifteen states, viz: Maine, Oregon and Ver mont (already elected). New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsyl vania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Washington. They have a strong pull In New Jersey, where the democrats have been sold out orr the tariff by their senators. In Connecticut there are now three democrats to one republican in congress, but the republicans may gain one. which would tie the vote of that state. Irr New York the democrats have the best of it on the reapportionment, and it will take a tidal wave to lose the delegation to the democrats. However, the republicans will make a strong light to carry both New York and New Jersey and Connecticut. Orders have been sent out to the Indiana committee that at least seven representatives of the next house must be republicans a majority of the delegation. In both Indiana and Illinois the republicans will make a tremendous effort to elect a majority of the representatives to congress. , Indiana democrats who are dffratlsfieJ with their representatives because "so and so" got the village postofflce and "so ami so"did not.by voting this year for the republican candidate for congress to get "even." may find out two years hence that they voted to put Tom Reed or Ben Harrison in the white house. If the republicans should carry the majority of the members of Connecticut, New York, Indiana, Illinois and New Jersey they would need four more states to give them a clear field In the house If the election of president is to be decided there. They would have Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico. Axiivnj. ,UtiL Cali

fornia and Nevada to draw from. Montana and Idaho are the only elates now represented by republicans, California has a majority of democrats. New Mexico, Arizona and Utah are represented by democratic delegates and Wyoming's only roiveMntative in congress Is a democrat. Colerado i.a solHl populist. Kansas and Nebraska art controlled by populists, ami Minnesota is tied, eah of the three parties having two representatives. But even If the republicans do not carry a majority f the täte delegations, but elect a majority of the h"'.ise, it will not be long before they get both. Tom Reed would not hesitate to do this by unseating democrats in the states with delegations nearly equally divided. "Ioa" Hope for the Senate. It looks very much now as if the sen

ate from next March would be con trolled by the populists through balance of power. The republicans give up all hoTV of gaining control of the senate. Before Jones left the party they expected to come near controlling It. With Jones the jaopullsts have four votes now to the re publicans thirty-seven, the democrats forty-four, with three vacancies. The republicans will have to hold all they now have and gain seven more seats to control the senate. Of the thirty senators whose term3 ex pire next March, sixteen are republicans and fourteen are democrats. The out going republicans are: Carey. Wyoming; Chandler, New Hampshire; CulU.m, Illi nois; Dixon, Rhode Island; Dalph, Ore gon; Frye, Maine; Iliggina, Delaware; llar. Massachusetts; Manderson, NebrasKa; McMillan, Michigan; Pettlgrew, South Dakota; Power. Montana; Shoup, Idilo; Washburn, Minnesota; Wilson, Iowa, and Walcott. Colorado. Dixon and Wilsm's successors have al ready been elected. Legislatures favorable tj Dolph and Frye have been elected. It is b-ynd question that successors to Chandler, H;nr. McMillan and Washburn will be republicans. Wyoming 13 doubtful, and beside Car ey's seat ther? is a vacancy to be filled and a combination between the damxrats and populists will be made. The same condition exists in Montana. There are strong probabilities that Bryan, the free silver democrat, will deL?it Manderson. Walcott is threatened with a populist. Idaho will probibly elect a populist, as it Is understood that Jones of Nevada will look after Shoup s success-or. In Illinois Cullom has n jt an even chance There are two republicans who ho'.d their seats through appointment of governöre .in, tvhi will vrpt( them ns Soon as the legislature at their states meet next winter they are Perkins of California and Patton of Michigan. A repuolican Is certain to come in the place of Patton, but It is not at all certain that Perkins or another republican will be returned from California. Of the three vacancies to be filled by the legislatures of Montana. Wyomlng and Washington, the republic ans are certain to win the one in Wash ington. Little Hope for the Itepnhllea na. Of the fourteen outgoing democrats Caffery of Louisiana and Lindsay of Ken tucky have already been chosen tu be their own successors. Democratio t-uc-cespors to Hutten of Virginia and icLaurin of Mississippi have also been elected. Berry of Arkansas, Butler of South Carolina, Camden of West Virginia, Coke of Texas, Harris of Tennessee, Morgan of Alabama, Ransom of North Carolina. Walsh of Georgia are certain to be succeeded by democrats. Martin of Kansas and McPherson ar the only two democrats who will not be succeeded by democrats. Martin will probably be succeeded by a populist and McPherson by a republican. The letter's tariff record will cost him his re-election as New Jersey democrats prefer to be represented by a repubican protectionist than by a democratic protectionist. But the democrats will make up the Jersey loss by a gain In Delaware. Higsrins, who got in by accident in 'SS. will make way for a democrat next March. Besides Illinois, Montana, Wyoming and Nebraska to recruit from they will have a chance at six new seats from Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. New Mexico and Arizona are conceded to the democrats, but the republicans wi;i probably pet the two Utah senators. as the old mormons are nearly all republicans. John Q. Cannon, whom Harrison pardoned out of nitani-'irv ix here h had been confined for supporting a dozen wives, is no doubt the most intluentlal mormon. Through the church he expects to end bis eon to the senate. Young cannon was a ueiegate to the Minneapolis convention and voted fr Harrison out of gratitude for getting his father out of jail, perhaps. He is now the republican nominee for delegate to congnss. The democratic party of Utah is principally made up of gentiles and apostate mormons and the church influence will no doubt turn the new state over to the republicans. While it is possible for the democrats to hold the senate. It Is not possible for the republicans to do so. FATAL FIRE AT WASHINGTON SEVEItAL IlfKXED TO DEATH IX A 3IATTRESS FACTORY Ami Four Othera Mlaalns Their Rodlea Supposed to Be In the Rnlii (unte of the Kl re la InknonaFlre nt orth Euid, Ok. T. WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 17. The most fatal fire of recent years in Washington wa3 the burning of the mattress factory of Stumph & Bros, today. Four bodies are at the morgue, charred and crushed bespnd recognition, one is dead at tha hospital, three injured, men are at the hospital, and there may be others buried under the ruins, as several of the workmen are unaccounted for. Two of the dead at the morgue are now known to be: WILLIAM II. TENNYSON, an old man employed in the factory. WILLIAM ASHE, a boy of thirteen years. JAMES F. VAUGHN, a clerk, died at the hospital. Four others who are missing are Henry Fowler, Phillip Ackerman. Robert Reitzel and an old man w ho had been employed in the factory but a few days, and whose name is not remembered by his employer. Those at the hospital are: A. J. HASKE, both legs broken; may die. . , ARTHUR C. BEVINS, Internal lnJuri?s and fractured wrist. HARRY BACON, Internal injuries. One flremin and several spectators were hurt by falling bricks. The cause of the fire is unknown. The factory building was valued at 515.000 and Its contents at 525,000. Fifteen thousand dollars' insurance was carried in several local companies. One Inn Killed nnd Three Hurl. IfAZLETON, Pa., Sept. 17. A premature blast occurred at Honeybrook colliery today, by. which John Demphsa was killed and James Matsuka. Alis30 Trlmpeno and Glvlona Petro injured. The fire was of Incendiary orUln.

COREA A Bloody Battle Is Fought at Ping Yang In Which Thousands of Chinese Are ÜSlain. Japanese Make on Attack from the Rear AND SURPRISE THE ENEMY. Celestials Panic-Strlcken as a Result And Are Cut Down end Bayoneted by Scores. i Easy Victims of n Superior Generalship. The Deelalve Victory May Hnd the War In Coreu na the Pin Ynng KniniKrinpnt la the Moat Serlotia Defeat the Clilneae Have Thiia I'ar Suffered The Ileporta or the I'nKUgement Continued The Subjects of the MlUnilo (ireatly Hinted Over the Victory The Detnlla f the IIa (He. LONDON. Sept. 17. A dispatch received here from Seoul, dated yesterday, says that during the evening of Tuesday lat a Japanese coiumn from l'ur.g San made a reconnaissance in force, drawing j the fire of the Chine?e forts and aseerj t ) j accurately their strength. This " " 1 done, the Japanese fvll back in good order. with little loss. On Friday night. thdispatch adds, all the Japanese forces were in position for a combined attack. The Gen. San column was threatening the ; Chinese left Hank. The Bung San column was facing the Chinese center, and the Hwang Zu column was operating on the Chinese right. The latter column had been reinforced the day before by a detachment of marines and blue-Jackets from the fleet stationed at the moufh of the Tah Tong river. The Chinese utilized their old defenses at ling Yang and had i thrown up new works with the result j that their position was exceptionally .P,n ISeffnn nt Dnyhrnke. The battle opened on Saturday morning at daybreak, with a direct cannonade upon the Chinese works, and this fire was continued without cessation until after noon. The Chinese fought their guns well, replying effectively to the Japanese fire. At 2 p. m. a body of Japanese infantry was thrown forward in skirmish order and kept up a rifle fire upon the enemy until dusk. All the fighting durin the day was done by the Pung San column. The Chinese defenses suffered exceedingly from the fire, but it is not thought the losses on either Fide were great, as the troops, both Chinese and Japanese, took every advantage possib'e of the shelter which the earthworks on one tide anJ the nature cf the ground on I the other afforded them. The Hank at i tacks up0n the Chinese position did not dnHnuee.op " J the day, although the Japanese gained some in the position, but they mainly occupied the same ground at night as when Its Fame STATUE OF THE REPUBLIC COURT OP HONOR WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION.

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the attack upon them was openr L I'irin was continued, at intervals, throughout the nisht. In the meantime the two forking column of J.ipih-.i? drew a vrdin nr-uod the Chinese troojs, and at 8 o'clock la th ir. 'rnir.g th- Japan-:.- attack was delivered simultaneously und with adniir.i'i'.i' pi ci -i jii. Th' Chinese lir. -s. which were stn tig I:i front, were found t be Weak in th rear, ai d tile Chitis-J utterly unsuspicious . f the Japanese atla.k from mat 14 iirt'-r. w re taken completely by sur; rise, beennro panic-stricken nnd were ut down and bayoneted by the hundreds. Jnpa Attack Well Directed. So well was the Japanv.se fittack CW reeled that the Chine-. were surrounded at every point, nnd eventually sought safety in flight. Defending the int r-n-.d-mfnt.. however, were im cf Vic-roy Li Hung Chang's picked Chin -so troops, drilled by Europeans. Thse eoldlew made a determined etand to th last an I were cut down to a man. The Pun San column, swarming over th? Trenches cf the Chinese front, completed th rout of th Chinee and the whoi of the latter' position was captured by tht troo; of the nilkaao. v'ome Idea of the manner in which th Japanese attack wa' delivered may be judged from the fact' that on-half aji hour after the enrlr morning attack commenced Hie strong v defended position of Bing Yang was lithe hands of the Jajnnese troops. It i-t believed that the Chine position at Ping Yang was defend -d by twenty thousand Chines, of whom only a few ruecoeded in escaping. The Japanese vlc-torj wps brilliant and complete. An immense amount of provisions, arms. ammunition and other ?ior. s, in addition t.o hundreds of fl.-.ir. Were captured by th Japanese in th - Chitie.-e vamps and. intreiicliment-ä. SU Tlioiiaiitnl Killed. It is estiniiti-d tint th I'hiiv.- e p.st sixteen thousand ne 11 in killed. Anion;; the captured Chi .i-s1 ar . -vir.il .f the most pr-loir.ent -. mm i n J : n oiticers lr tli- Chinos tro-.ps Pi Cr -a, and only a few "hirv-.- moi, i rb-rs si:ccv-lin in escaping. .". n 1 t h' got .iwa almost. immediately i.Uv th .! a, , mad-j their atta-k up tl. Chin f. Among the Chines- -:;i::u-d- taken, prisoner was (;,-. Ts- iV nk-Wai. th-commandr-in-ohie tin M.nchuri ir

at ms, wli-) ::nt i-.-,:: .y t ua la;. arid who 1 oiv si-.-i--.i v.h.n h? wa-j. badly wounded. The .'..-;, --. 1 .s wa trilling wii -n v m;are-l w..n thnt of tha Chinese, only il.iny Jap-n-.-e bvlr.-j kill J and -7'1 v.-ou-id-tl. KIv-.-:i i ra ti es olucers ar in-lud- i Pi t'i-- numbers, urA the lo-s . f th' .b.pr-ne' . v. a j incurred mainly during th first daj-'s' ti girling. Th lo-s of th Japanese dur-' ing the nii-r-.t was v. ry .cmi:l, d.i. to the fa.-ftnat the c'-.ir. take:,-, by surprise. 1-.am 1, ki '-stricken, threw away their :irms and lud. thus, throwing into confusion the rt-;;in-ntsl which otherwise might have b :i vount-j el upon to m ak a b-to-r -ear. 1. Th-s Ja pam se, wh"n this dispatch was sent, were in active pur.-ibt of tho fugitive' Chinese, and as nearly all f th lattTj were without arms, having thrown them away during the pani'-, ihe- will un doubetdlj surrender s soon as the Japa-1, nese overtake them. .V Deetnive Victory. So tar as the a -tive oprati-r.s of tha Chinese in Corca ore concerned, the war Is piactieallj- at n end for a long tim to conie, and the main land of Corea may be said to be comph-tdy in the hands of, the Japaner. The CVreans, who hava shown ss'mpaths for the Chinese, and a few detached bands of Chines troop.-t maj' continue a guerilla warfare for! some time to come; but until China sue ceeds in getting another army ia Coret: that eountrs will remain in the undis-' turbed possession of Japan. And. irview of the previous reports recvlved. as to the terrible condition of the road.-i in -the north, and the utter impossibi.it j of moving guns and supplies southward it is not likels that there will be any more fighting of Importance in Corew during the present year. The J panes are, naturalis, highly elated over theirt victory, and it is hpM that it may serv as the bais for pence rec"tiati..ns. Inquiries made at the Japanese lega-. tion here infirm the reoort.s reeiveJ rega.rdi.ng the victory of the Japanese a 5 Ping Yang. It la Confirmed. , SIIAXGILU. Sept. 17. Reports reW celved here from various places sav's av battle has been fought at Ping Yang. Crea, between the Chinese and Japanese troops. The battle is said to have laste-Tl two days and the Chine? army of 2),(X3 men is said to have surrendered tJ th Japanese. The attempts cf th? American an I British war correspondents to proceed tot the scene of the fighting have been un successful. Will Live. The World's Columbian Exposition marked the climax of human achievement. It will live in memory of the crowning glory of modern times. No other devel opment of the closing century can compare with it in practical benefit to mankind. Who that exhibited is net proud of it ? Who that failed to exhibit does not regret the omission ? The former arc the people of to-day. The latter are relics of the past. j No honor so high as that embodied in an award at the fair. Competition was world-wide, the fruits of ripest experience and noblest endeavors were submitted for examination. Honest tribunals, composed cf eminent scientists, examined and passed upon the claims of exhib itors. Their judgement based ca inquiry and justice, proves con clusively the value of any article they commend. Their approval was stamped oa