Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1900 — Page 7

THE POLITICAL POT.

MOW ITS BUBBLINGS ARE VIEWED 1 FROM WASHINGTON. It la Said that Postal Director Rath* bone la to Make a “Roar” that Will Result in a Stampede of Administration Pets. Washington correspondence: Postal Director Rathbone has issued his ultimatum from Cuba to the administration. It came in the form of a private letter to First Assistant Postmaster General Perry S. Heath, who got him his job. In it Rathbone declared that he did not propose to be made a scapegoat, and that if he were attacked by order of the administration somebody would suffer. Who that “somebody” is will not be hard to discover. Hanna is the man. Rathbone first came into political notoriety in Indiana as one of the principal “blocks of five” manipulators. Since that malodorous campaign he attracted little attention until he came to the front to manipulate the Ohio Legislature and secure Hanna’s election to the Senate. That notorious event still reeks in the nostrils of decent people. Of course Rathbone had to be given a job. Strange to say, the shrewd Col. William Dick advised against putting Rathbone in thg responsible position of Postal Director of Cuba. Dick argued that knew too much of the Inside history of Republican management, and thus armed could not be brought to account for any maladministration of office. But First Assistant Postmaster General Heath wanted just those peculiar qualities which Rathbone possessed and insisted on the appointment. lle carried his point and Jubilated much at his seeming victory over Dick. But now the victory rests with Dick, who is thus made the principal man, next to Hanna, in the coming campaign, while Heath is to be shelved at the first opportunity. It is well understood that Hanna is to be held somewhat in the background of the Republican campaign. His unpleasant personality is too much an offense to his own party to make it advisable to expose him to view. Besides, his methods savor too much of brute force, and some other quality will be necessary to bring McKinley anywhere near an election. It is probable that Col. Dick will be the brains of the Republican campaign. There will be plenty of money, but as a prominent Republican leader remarked, “it all depends on the drift. If the drift is against us no amount of money can win.” The drift is against the Republicans, and that means Republican defeat. t The wisdom of the late date set for iheDeniocratic.cou.ventlon now becomes apparent. Tlie Republicans have to declare themselves first and have piteously floundered around in the last days of Congress with schemes to head off and steal the Democratic thunder. With proposed anti-trust amendments to the Constitution, which will never become a part of that instrument, and antitrust bills which will never become laws, they intend to go before the country as the people’s champions against the trusts. The trust magnates laugh cheerily and think it a great joke. One of their leaders who came to Washington to see the circus at the Capitol said he could take all of the proposed Republican legislation down into Wall street and secure for It the cordial indorsement and signature of every trust within twenty-four hours. What the trusts think about it can be read in the fact that every one of them will contribute to the Republican campaign fund. What the country wants to see is some legislation which the trusts don’t want, but it will not see it until Bryan is in the White House, with a Congress Democratic in both branches to support his administration. Now comes the open assertion that Ferdinand W. Peck and his subordinates have succeeded in disbursing something like SBOO,OOO at the Paris Exposition, with nothing to show for it but an expensive salary list and a ramshackle and unsightly building. American exhibitors are complaining that they are being practically blackmailed anywhere from S3OO to SI,OOO apiece for the privilege of exhibiting, notwithstanding that it was the purpose of the Congressional appropriation to prevent any such extortion.

Hunting for Republicans. Mr. Hanna has ageuts scouting through the country looking for founders of the Republican party. All such worthy persons who are fouutl and who are ptill members of the party’ will be Invited to attend the Philadelphia convention as guests of the National Committee. Transportation will be furnished them fret 1 , and all of their expenses, will be paid out of the.campaign fund. It Is said that Mr. Hanna's scouts have reported the discovery of twelve of the party founders, two of whom are now Democrats. As the term, “worthy persons,” does not fit these two, of course they will not be Invited to Philadelphia. One-of the founders—or at least he voted the first ticket ever nominated by the Republican party—is the Hon. Henry M. Teller, of Colorado. Mr. Hanna bas extended no invitation to this gentleman to be the guest of the National Committee at Philadelphia. Senator Teller was his own guest at St. Ixnils four years ago when Mr. Hanna founded himself, and Ills Itehavlor there was not such as to commend him to the Hnnnaites. The. Coloradan bns since then assisted In the establishment of a new party—one, he says, that more nearly accords with the Republican party as he knew It nt Its birth, and as it remained until the Hannaltes took possession of it This

new organization is the Free Silver Republican party. Senator Teller will attend the convention of this party at Kansas City on the Fourth of July, and will there tell what he knew about the original Republican party. The founders who will be the guests of Mr. Hanna are to be starred as one of the principal attractions at Philadelphia isl June. Moat of them are old gentlemen who for a long time have been lagging superfluous on the stage, but that they will arouse curiosity at Philad»lphla there can be no doubt. Some of them may grow a little too garrulous to suit the purposes of the occasion, and if any of them should cut loose and talk about things as Senator Teller and some other founders talk Mr. Hanna, it is believed, would feel called upon to expose them as “ringers."—Washington Evening Times. Labor Conditions Unsatisfactory. No matter how the Republican press may try to disguise the situation, the fact remains that the condition of labor In this country is far from satisfactory, generally speaking, and affords small basis for encouragement. The press of the opposition keep reiterating that the country is prosperous, and not only that, but is enjoying a high degree of prosperity. But If thjs is the case, why these strikes, boycotts, lockouts, etc.? Perhaps there is prosperity and labor is emfeavbrlng to obtain a small portion of It, but at this present writing there are no indications that it is receiving what it should receive according to the predictions of Mr. McKinley and the benevolent trusts. There never was a nation that has increased in its Industrial achievements to such a glganitc extent as has the United States. Such an increase should have attached to it the element of prosperity as a necessary adjunct. But labor is not rising up to the level of this

If Willie is a good boy, and minds papa and nursie, they will try to let him keep the pretty house until he is eight years old.—New York Journal.

wonderful prosperity, and its unrest is caused by its struggle to break through the restraining crust. This cryst is nothing more or less thau discrimination—discrimination that favors the “aggregation of capital” at the expense of the employe. It is this discrimination that makes the Republican party so strong financially, and renders it an easy matter to raise huge corruption funds. It is tliis discrimination that the Democratic party is striving to break down, and which it will break down if It gets into power.—Oshkosh Times.

Making Cabinet*. Republican editors are now engaged in tlie pleasant occupation of making cabinets for Bryan, says tlie Chicago Democrat. Of course, Bryan has not yet been nominated for President, much less elected, but Republicans fear both contingencies and are trying to create a bogy out of an imaginary cabinet which they urge Bryan would select. This is an old trick long ago exhausted of any effect ou the public, and this cabinet-building ou the part of Republican editors can only result in a waste of time and an exposition of the makers’ contempt for the Intelligence of the public. Discussing this question, the New York Mall and Express names Senator Allen of Nebraska ns Bryan’s -choice for Secretary of State. Suppose that Allen should be selected. He couldn’t do worse than John Hny has done. In all probability he would do much better. Certainly Allen would never surrender American rights to Great Britain as Hay has done. He would not advise the construction of the Nicaragua canal for the special benefit of Europe, as has the present Anglomaniac who masquerades as an American Secretary of State. Apropos of this, the Pittsburg Post well sayst “There would be none of the weakness of McKinley In Bryan's selection of a cabinet. No public mau of our day lias a better knowledge of the leadi ers of American political thought than Bryan. For eight years his life has been among them, and he bas In all that time been brought In close contact not only with the masses of the people os no other American statesman has

been, but he has learned to know ana weigh the capacity and Integrity of political leaders, who will naturally go into the of a new President.” ■But, after all, the Republican editors are complimenting Bryan by their attempts to make a cabinet for him. Thia Is the best evidence that the Republican editors fear Bryan’s success at the polls next November, and are endeavoring to frighten the people by horrible forecasts as to the kind of a cabinet he would choose. Afraid of Its Record. The Republican party has ample reason to be afraid of its record. How to cover up the rascality of Republican rule Is the great question which bothers the politicians under the leadership of Mark Hanna. Of course, the platform which will be adopted by the Republican national convention at Philadelphia will “point with pride” to the achievements of McKinley, and will glow with promises of great and good things to be done during the next four years. But, unfortunately, the people have long memories. They recall the promises made in the Republican platform promulgated in 4896 at St. Louis. They also remember very distinctly how those promises have been broken and disregarded. It will be an easy matter for Mark Hanna to order the ready writers under his command to prepare platform planks expressing opposition to trusts and quoting hypocritical cant about accepting the behests of Providence, but none of these things can obscure or destroy facts. It is one thing to talk and to make promises, and it is quite another thing to face an evil record and to explain away the scandals of bad government. - , How can the Republican party get away from the disgrace attached to the embalmed beef furnished troops in

WILLIE AND HIS PAPA.

the field? What excuse can be urged for the taxation without representation Inflicted on Porto Rico? Will the Coeur d’Alene outrages on miners be clared inventions of the enemy? If not, how can they be explained away? And then the gigantic postotfice steal in Cuba. What can be done with that? Besides, there is the Philippine war, useless, costly and death-dealing, to say nothing of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty turning over the Isthmian canal to England. Facts are hard tilings to meet, ami platform buncombe will not have the effect of making the people forget the facts.

Hnnna’n Blundering Speech. Senator Hanna made his second great speech recently, and.the administration organs pronounce it most extraordinary. He was defending the armor plate contractors and the Times-Herald declares that his keen wit routed the star debaters of the Senate. A careful perusal of the speech of the mighty statesman develops the fact that his keen wit consisted In reiterating the assertion that all bids except that of tiie highest and preferred bidder were “mere bluffs.” This coming from tlie potential professional "business man,” is assumed to have crushed all opposition. Tills style of praise calls to mind the adulation that sycophants showered upon Nero, who as a bright debater and ready statesman made all Rome laugh. It should be added that when the office holders In Rome laughed nt Nero they had to go down cellar or up an alley lest he might lop off their heads. Same thing here.—Bloomington Bulletin. The Flaw in Danner. If the McKinley officials keep on utilizing the shade of the flag to exploit their villainous schemes Iu our "outlying dependencies,’* the probability Is that the flag will have to bo hauled down to keep It from spoiling.— National Democrat. Worrying Bryan. The G. O. P. organs are fond of saying that Bryan Is being "worried.” The very statement is proof that he Is not worried, for no man attempts to worry another man unless he himself Is worrying.

BEAR BACKS BOXERS.

RUSSIAN INTRIGUE BEHIND UP* RISING IN CHINA. - Empress Dowager Alleged to Be In the Plot—Britain, Germany and Japan Have Unite.! to Oppose Overthrow of the Empire. A usually well informed Washington correspondent asserts that Russian intrigue is at the bottom of the present anti-foreign insurrection tn China. It was through Russian machination that the queen dowager was led to encourage the “Boxers” to make a (demonstration of force. The gravest anxiety as to the future of the complication in China is felt at the European embassies and legations in Washington, and it is from one of these that the information given by the correspondent was obtained. Our own Government har exceedingly meager advices from China, but the embassies and legations are better supplied. Germany, Great Britain and Japan have a thorough understanding concerning the Russian plot. They will stand together in resistance to the expected encroachments of the great Eurasian power. I’s Russia seizes Pekin they will protest and demand evacuation. If necessary they will meet force with force. The most conservative diplomats do not, however, believe there will be war between the powers. It is well known that it is the Russian policy to pursue aggression just as far ns possible without a rupture of the peace, and no farther. The Russian plot, as it is understood among diplomats in Washington, was to stir up the anti-foreign elements of the population, and.under cover of disorder to land troops which should forever remain in the Chinese capital/ permitting Russia gradually to extend her suzerainty over the empire through the connivanre_of the vicious queen dowager. Empress Tsi An is of rapid proRussian tendencies, and she bitterly hates the Germans and; the English. In encouraging the "Boxers” to acts of violence it is said the empress stirred up a greater power than she knew. She let loose a- Frankenstemish monster -which has now gotten beyond her control, possibly to her regret. Whether or not the Russian plotters are surprised at the ex-

FRONT GATE AT PEKIN, CHINA.

Main entrance to the capital of China, Showing the great wail which surrounds the -City; ’

tent and ferocity of the fanatical antiforeign movement uncovered by their machinations remains to be seen. Whatever may have been the precise nature of Russia's conspiracy, and whatever may be its limitations, nothing is clearer than that it is confronted by the joint and determined resistance of Germany, Japan and England. Against the naval aud military forces of these powers Russia cannot contend in the far East and will not dare make the attempt. Great Britain alone could overmatch Russia upon the water, and with the help of Japan could quickly place upon the continent land forces more than equal to any contingent Russia is iu position to confront them with. It Is not forgotten by diplomats that Great Britain is nt this moment at the zenith of her military power. Not in half a century has that nation been so well prepared to meet a foe at home or abroad as she is at this moment. In a short time 250.000 hardened men, fresh from the field of South Africa, could be transported to the eastern eoast of Asia. If it should be necessary to strike a blow upon the Asiatic coast Great Britain could strike bard and quickly. Japan, so much nearer at hand, is quite as ready. If breach of the peace comes through unexpected Russian aggression, or if dismemberment of the Chinese Empire becomes imminent, the United States will l>e placed in a most serious and embarrassing dilemma. On the one side will be our traditional policy of non-interfer-ence. On the other the fact that the United States is now the greatest power bordering the Pacific ocean, an Asiatic power, too, through sovereignty over the Philippines, and, in the open-door pledges and the commercial situation, our enormous direct interest in the status of China.

PLAY ENDS IN DEATHS.

Workman, Serins Boy Beheaded, I«eta Derrick Fall on Fisht Men. Word conies from the Oneida reservation in Wisconsin of n tragedy enacted there, by which nine persons were killed. Several children playing in a yard near Stockbridge saw a woman in the house catch a chicken and kill it for dinner. They watched her platje .the fowl’s head on the block and chop it off and as soon as she left the yard several of the little ones imitated her'. An older girl caught one of the children, who was pulled to the block, his head hold while the girl cut it off. The little boy screamed when the ax struck his neck and the attention of several men who sire raising heavy timbers on a derrick in the yard wnsV’alled to the scene. The father of the child held the rope and when he saw his son killed he let go and the timber came crashing down among the men, killing eight of them. Ont of 17,000,000 pieces of registered mail handled annually in the United States, the loss has been one-thousandth of 1 per cent and in the transmission of ordinary letters the loss is but seventhousandths of 1 per cent. The Nordedlscltcr Lloyd Company has recently ordered a steamer, which, it is claimed, will be the Iprgest vessel afloat. It will be 700 feet in length. Sheaxs in a steel mill in Coatsville, Pa., cut a slab of Iren four feet wide and two feet thick at one stroke.

BATTLE IN CHINA.

Boxers Surround Imperial Troopsand Hundreds Are Slain. It was reported Thursday from Chinese official sources that 4,000 boxers surrounded 1,500 Chinese troops between Lofa and Yong-Tsun anS that 500 boxers were killed, but give no account of the Chinese casualties. Thirty of Gen. Nien’s troops encountered a body of boxers three miles from Tien-Tsin on the Taku road, and killed twenty-one of them. No news has been received from Pno-Ting-Fu for several days, and the situation there is believed to be critical. It is reported that

SCENE OF NEW COMPLICATIONS.

the Chinese troops have been defeated near there. London advices say that dispatches from the far East show apparently no cessation in the activity of the boxers, but the powers are gradually feeling their way to common action for the suppression of the disorders. I't is be-lieved-that witen the-dowager empress realizes, the first intention to check her connivance in the anti-foreign movement, fhere will be a speedy end to the rioting, as, if the Chinese acted in good faith, they could easily quell the rabble, which is armed chiefly with spears, agricultural implements, a few swords and some old rilles. —Pressing appeals are being sent to theState Department aud the President by missionary interests in this country to semi United States marines into the interior portions of China, whore American missionaries are threatened by the boxers' uprising. To maintain an appearance of 1 neutrality and not to offend the Chinese with too much show of force, a Washington correspondent says that the Goverijmeiit cannot safely land more marines in China. To send them into the interior would be deemed folly. With this situation of affairs there is no possibility of aid for the missionaries unless they seek the protecting wing of the American legation at Peking. This is the situation which confronts the State Department.

KRUGER NOT TO QUIT.

Transvaal President Says the Bunghera Will Fight to the BUter Knd. President Kruger, replying to the offer of 100 acres of land in America to each burgher is reported as saying: "We thank yon for this generous offer of land, but the burghers are determined to fight for their owy land and independence to the bitter end." In the Orange Free State the British, are not having their own way by nny means. Even apart from the capture of the Irish Yeomanry, Gen. Rundle has made what the Loudou Mail's expert calls a retrograde movement. Nothing official lias beep heard from Gen. Buller in Natal. At last accounts he was preparing to turn the Boer position nt Laing's Nek, which probably means hard fighting. A dispatch from Maseru, in Basutoland. says that in the last engagement tlie Boers took fifty-four British prisoners, including an officer, whom they released conditionally. The officer estimated that the Boer forces between Vicksburg and Bethlehem number 6,000 men. Tlie Thirteenth Imperial Yeoinnnry battalion, captured by tlie Boers near Lindley, Orange River Colony, consisted of two Irish units and two companies of the Duke of Cambridge’s own, including Lord Donongbmore’s company of the corps, a number of men in the ranks being closely allied to noble families. Among the officers of the Thirteenth I’mperial Yeomanry captinwi me the Earl of Leitrim, the Earl of Longford and the Earl of Ennismore. A London cable says that it now appears captain that there will lx'stubborn fighting on the part of the Boers. While the British were taking possession of Johannesburg and Pretoria tlie burghers escaped with their guns, rolling stock nnd 1,000 British prisoners. President Kruger declares that the real struggle is just beginning. Sir Alfred Milner cables from Cape Town, warning miners not to start for the Trnnsvnal, adding that two months at least must elapse before Johannesburg can Im* opened and work at the mines resumed.

Sparks from the Wires.

Senator Quay will be a candidate for re-election to the Senate. Agents from London are in New York trying to engage house servants. Chas. A. Reis, 63, St. Louis, committed suicide because he had become blind. Maine Prohibitionists have nominated Grant Rogers of Richmond for Governor. Southern Presbyterians in session at Atlanta, Ga., decllfied to support woman suffrage. G. W. Tubbs. 18, Poplar Bluff, Mo., gets ten years in the pen for shooting off his father's head. The Prince of Wales has ngnin, nt his physician’s advice, given -up for a time the use of tobacco. Caroline Smith and Ann Glassmann, Brooklyn, N. Y.. are charged with running a moonshine distillery. Aged Wm. Bowers, who died recently in Yonkers, N. Y„ from starvation, was worth 1100,000, it is now discovered. A Pittsburg and Lake Erie train In a run between Pittsburg and New Castle, made one mile in forty-'seven seconds.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. ' - Vituperative Street Preacher Shct Dead Seven - Hundred Barrel Oil Guaher Near Alexandria—New and Novel Idea in Church Construction. Thomas Jefferson Johnson, known as “Cyclone,” a "Street preacher, was shot and instantly killed at Carmel Friday night after he had killed Deputy Sheriff Carey, who was trying to arrest him for assault and battery. Johnson had been attacking different persons in his street ' talks, and those attacks had brought him into several fights; To-night he renewed his attacks. Carey tried to arrest him, was shot dead, and an nnknpwn person in the excited crowd shot Johnson. Concert Garden in a Church. The structure being erected by the congregation of the Central Christian Church of Columbus will have the novel distinction of being the only church in Christendom that wilDhave a roof garden. The idea was suggested to the congregation by the pastor, Elder E. B. Widger, and his plans for the work were unanimously approved. It is the intention to use the roof garden for summer services, especially for Sunday evenings, and for weekday socials and entertainments. ' - Indiana’. Biggest Oil Well. Tlie greatest oil well in the Indiana oil erritory has been found near Alexandria. It is on laud leased by the Lfppencott Glass Company, in Monroe township, ami oil men say that it is one of the best ever known. The daily output is 700 barrels, which is twice as much as any other well in tlie State. Representatives of the Standard and other oil companies are, there leasing all the land they can get and sinking many wells every week. No Grain to Thresh. There will be an exodus of threshing machines from tlie vicinity of Hagerstown to the West and Northwest this summer., There is not a single acre of wheat in the county that will lie worth cutting, and threshing men are being importuned to go to other sections, where there, is an abundant harvest. Found in a Pond. Christina Wolfarth of Weisburg, 45, married, disappeared, ami her body was found in a pond two miles away. Her lands were wrapped in her apron and the side of her head was crushed. One eye was gouged out. There is no clew to the murderer, if it was a murder. Within Our Borders. Prospect for peaches and cherries good. Spencer will have a big July 4 celebration. Oil well near Poling is flowing 250 barrels a day. John Andrew. Brazil, is dead from a fall from a scaffold. Hessian fly is playing havoc with wheat in southern Indiana. The jury in the Fuller murder case disagreed at North Vernon. A ti-year-old son of Michael McGraw, Evansville, was killed by a wagon. American Car and Foundry Company pipe titters are striking at W. W. Southard, Henry County farm- . er. hanged himself on account of ill health. \ ictor. Trook, Converse, drank carbolic acid by mistake, and is in a serious condition. W. I. Jackson, prominent colored mau, tried to board a moving B. & O. train ami was killed. Clinton township will improve nineteen miles of road with gravel, according to a township election. Squire Ridgeway of Howard County, a wealthy farmer, was captured west of Brazil in a demented condition. May Nussel. aged 12, and Eva Leachutan, aged 14, were thrown from a horse nt Brazil, the Nussel girl dying. A supposed shortage of SI,OOO iu the Exchange Bank at Spencer was found to be due to a mista'kb iu addition. Suit for $25,000 against the Standard Oil Company lias been started at Anderson, under the law prohibiting waste of natural gas. Lucy Pulley, tlie oldest colored woman in this State, died at Kokomo, aged 115 years. She was born in North Carolina and bad smoked tobacco in a pipe for 100 years. Howard Sloan. 11, stood at a telephone nt Princeton, during a thunderstorm. He was instantly killed. His little sistbr, standing near, was badly shocked. The mother, also standing near, felt no shock. Edward Collins, aged 23, Who was released from the lonia, Mich., prison, and taken to Elkhart by his mother, who is wealthy, was arrested two hours after bis arrival for stealing a horse and buggy. The first sale of the Indiana shorthorn breeders ever held on the State fair grounds was had the other day. All the animals sold were of a high class and brought good prices. Fifty-six head sold at an average of $212.80. Mrs. Herman Stibbe, wife of a prominent German citizen of La Porte, has become violently insane. Iler condition is attributed by physicians to a scare given her by a practical joker. It is said there is no hope of recovery. A strange potato pest, altogether unknown to the farmers, lias made its appearance throughout the whole northern portion of the State and lower Michigan. It differs from the old-fashioned and familiar inhabitant of the potato pateh in size, being very diminutive. In color it is red, black and yellow. The new pest has come in great force and with voracious appetite. The Breen oratorical medal at Notre Dame University was awarded to Alfred Duberier of New Orleans. J. M. Knox of Lebanon, treasurer of the Indiana Jersey Cattle Club, is suffering from wounds inflicted by a setting hen. She pecked him in the eyes, dangerously injuring his sight. A cloudburst swept Blue Creek. The water advanced in a solid, rolling mana' twelve feet high. A girl named Erhnrt, while attempting to rescue some poultry at Brookville, was caught and swept away. Her body was found banging Iu a tree top.