Plymouth Tribune, Volume 3, Number 49, Plymouth, Marshall County, 8 September 1904 — Page 2

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rt'U Q. N. M. "t F. Q.F. M VS 4th. Zlllth. y 17th. v 25th. PANORAMA OF THE WORLD ACOUT THAT WHICH HAS DEEM AND IS TO BE. 11 fildea and Condition of Thing art Shown. Nothing Overlooked to Btka It Complete. Long Report on Canal. Special Commissioner Bright, who was appointed several years ago to take testimony and make an investigation of the dispute between the states of Missouri and Illinois over the Chic 'go drainage canal, has completed his report and it is ready to be filed with the Supreme Court of the United States. 1 he contents of the report are secret, but the length of the document has been made known and it Is one of the longest. If cot the longest, paper ever filed with any branch of the government. The report contains 8,000 printed pages, containing anvcrageof 385 words, so the entire report contains 8,0S0,0OD words, all of which the members of the Supreme Court will read if they live long enough. Ticket Steal is Discovered. The Philippine exhibit at the St. Louis Fair has been robbed by its employes of a sum that may equal $25,000, according to a report to the insular bureau of the war department from Dr. W. 1. Wilson, chairman of the Philippine exposition board. The men who were engaged in selling and receiving tickets to the Philippine village have, it is charged, been reselling tickets and pocketing the receipts. A Filipino, seeing one ticket taker stuffing a lot cf tickets in the bosom of his shirt, exposed the steal. Upon his arrest, the ticket taker gave the scheme away. Since new men have been placed at the gates the daily receipts have increased $1,1.00. Suiten of Turkey Hit by Bullet. The Paris edition ot the New York Herald prints the following from its Geneva correspondent: "V high official of the Ottoman court has received news of a serious fight between the sultan's Albanien guard and Uusnaians, which continued almost to the doors of the harem. Many were killed or wounded. It is said that one Albanian shot at the sultan, the bullet glancing off the coat of mail which he always wears. ,The sultan has asked the prince of. .Montenegro to supply him with a guard. The affair is certain to be denied, but its truth can te affirmed." Man Who Stole Priceless Cope is Powerful. Rome special: Beside the body of Hocchiggiani, the photographer, who was arrested, August 17, in connection with the theft from the Cathedral of Ascoll of a priceless cope, who afterwards committed suicide by hanging, w.'s found a paper on which was written with a burnt match: "1 am innocent. Search for the guilty, but when he is found he will be too powerful to be touched." Eighty People in Wreck. A St. Louis and suburban car of the Merameo Highlands division, carrying about eighty passengers, was hit by a Wabash world's fair shuttle train at the Sarah street crossing, and fifteen persons are known to be dead and nearly all the others were more or less injured. The car was struck by the engine and literally reduced to splinters. The engine was partially wrecked. Two Men Struck Down with an Axe, In a fight, which is said to have been the outcome of an old quarrell, Charles Driseall of Fairland, Ind., was struck on the head with an axe by Mart llill. John Driscall, who ran to his father's assistance, received a wound on the head with the same weapon. Both are badly hurt and the father is believed to be fatally wounded. Hill, so far as known, has not teen arrested. Dr. Miner Killed. ' ' J)r. A. G. Miner and his wife wer in: stantly killed by a Baltimore & Ohio passenger train,' at ihe Tod Avenue crossing, Warren, Ohio. They were in a bugijy. The horse was also killed. Dr. Miner was a wealthy retired physician and about 65 years ot age. . Sc tided to Dath. Dennis Gill, 63 years of.age, was scalded to death in a bath tub in his apartments in the Alexandria flats, Indianapolis. It is supposed the man fainted shortly after getting Into the tub. The flesh on the dead man's body was literally boiled. ' ' 1 , Idaho Town Destroyed. Fire swept the entire business portion and a large part of the residence district of Gem, Idaho, entailing a loss of $150,0 0, destroying 100 houses and rendering scores of people .homeless. The houses were occupied for the most part by miners. Mount VesuTius Active. A dispatch from Naples says: Mount Vesuvius is again inactivity. Flames, ashes and stones are rising from it to a considerable height, and a wide stream of lava is issuing from the crater. . Fatal Elevator Accident.' By the falling of f.n elevator in SearsRoebuck fc Co.'s mail order wart house at Chicago one man wa3 killed and four persons seriously injured. The elevator had reached the eighth floor on its upward Journey when the cable ipr4 and the cage dropped to the first Joo; with a cra:h. . ' Train flits a Bnggrr. ... The Alton limited, southbound, struck buggy occupied by Perry Lundy and Mary Woods at Lavandal, 111. Both were instantly killed. Kills Himself Amid Moros. Fitzgerald S. Turtoii, second lieutenant !a the Twenty-second United States Infantry has committed suiade on the Island of Mindanao. He wta bora In New Zealand. He was appointed from the ranks to the grade of second lieutenant. . Neck Broken by Automobile. Edwin Hager of XerJa, Ohio", was killed in an automobile accident. He had been covering the eight miles - between Cedarville and Xenia in his daily trips in twenty minutes. The other day In trying to avoid a ditch the automobile jumped a bridge and overturned.

TÜBKEY FEARS LOSS OF CRETE Reports of Probable Revolt and Annexation to Greece Causeo Alarm. The departure, recently reported, of Prince George of Greece from Crete, of which inland he is governor, on a mission said to be with the object of inducing the powers to consent to the annexation of Crete to Greece; has aroused Turkey to energetic diplomatic action, according to a dispatch from Paris. It Is stated that a note has been received in Paris from the Sublime Porte to the effect that a certain number of Cretans have decided to raise the banner of revolt against the Sultan, to proclaim the Independence of Crete as a preliminary to demanding the annexation of the island to Greece, and to send a petition to Prince George, who is. en route for Copenhagen; acquainting him with this decision and asking him to accept the' new state of things and incorporate it in the bask of his negotiations. The Porte does not guarantee the strict accuracy of this Information, but instructs the Turkish embassy In Taris, In the event of such a proposition as is outlined being made to the French government, to protest most energetically against any interference with the integrity of the Ottoman empire. The Porte adds that it cannot believe the European powers will break their oft-repeated pledge to maintain the status quo in the trear east.

. BALLOON LANDS IN ILLINOIS. ToniHnson Driven by Hunger to Descend After 24 Hours' Trip. The first contest in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition balloon race for $3,000 ended near Wyoming, 111., when Prof. George C. Tomlinson descended with his aitship after being In the air twenty-four hours. Prof. Tomlinson ascended from tbs fair grounds in St. Louis with provisions for two days, but speedily found that the high altitude had increased his appetite. He consumed all his provisions in less -than half the time they were expected to last, and with hunger staring him in the face he decided to abandon the trip. He discovered also that he could in no manner control his airship. Prof. Carl Mayer of Frankfort, N. Y., Tomlinson's competitor in the race, only got to St. Charles, Mo., twenty-one miles northwest of St. Louis, where his balloon descended a Iittlo more than two hours efter the start from the exposition tTounds. The contest, which is to come Lie nearest to thp Washington monument, in Washington, D. C, will be continued until Nov. 1. ' MANY FREED OF ALIMONY. New York Law Stops Payments to Women Who Have Married Again. Men who have been paying alimony to former wives married after getting divorces are rejoicing in the new New York State law which went into effect the other. day and cuts off the incomes of thousands of divorcees, living with thIr second husbands. According to the new statute alimony payments assessed against an ex-husband are to continue only so long as the woman shall remain unmarried. Manyspersons, not a few of them in the theatrical profession, will be able to visit New York for the first time in years, except on Sunday, having remained out of the State rather than make the required payment, in default of which they could have been sent to jail.' MAY HAVE TO USE CORN. High Price of Wheat Will Increase the Consumption of Meal. Corn millers from Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas held a meeting in Kansas City. II. S. Kennedy of Chicago, ex-secretary of the National Federation of Millers, was among those who attended the meeting. "The corn millers have no distinct organization," said Mr. Kennedy, when he was asked the purpose of the meeting. "We have come to talk over the business situation and the crop conditions. Corn is .50 high priced and has been for so long, that the millers of that cereal have made nothing nnt of it. Now, however, we believe that the high i prices or wheat will bring about a greater consumption of corn, especially among the laboring classes." Rescues Seven from Fire. . With his cottage in flames, Michael Scheidt with difficulty rescued his wife and six children in Hammond, Ind. A lamp exploded and the frame oottage-Tvas in flames in an instant Scheidt, though severely burned, made his way to the rooms of his wife and children, carrying them out one at a time. The cottage was entirely destroyed. Japanese Cash Is Rescued. A Japanese supply steamer, said to have had $5,000,000 on board for the Japanese army, was stopped by a Chefoo ofiicial, and a torpedo craft from Dalny rushed into port in the night and rescued' the cash. Hussion messengers aid papers intended for Port Arthur are reported to. have been captured. . Conservatives Rule in Wisconsin. Wisconsin Democrats, in convention in Oshkosh, were turned, by former United States Senator William F. Vilas from the threatened"rule or the radical element, and the conservatives dominated in the framing of the platform. Former Gov. 'George W. Peck was named for Governor. .. . . Idaho Town Swept by Flames. Fire swept the entire business po-tion of Gem, Idaho, andva large part ol the residence district, entailing a los of $150,000, destroying 100 houses and rendering scores of persons homeless. The houses were occupied for the most part by miners. Stampede to Gold Field. Fairbanks, named after the Indiana Senator, has become the metropolis of Alaska. A great stampede has followed more gold strikes there. - Twelve teamer more gold strikes there. Twelve steamer loads have left Dawson rushing the winter supplies.. Kouropatkin Leaves Llaoyanjc Gen. Kuropatkin has evacuated Liaoyang and withdrawn his whole army to the right bank of the Taitse river to meet a flanking" movement by Gen. Ku-' roki, who has crossed the river with several divisions. . ' . La Follette Ousts Kempf. , Gov. La Follette has declared vacant the office of the Wisconsin State Treasurer and ousted John J. Kempf. The latter threatens litigation that- may tie up the State funds for months Weighs Sun's Corona. Prof. A. F. Axrhenius of Stockholm has weighed tbe sun's corona and settled another great solar problem in investigations carried on at the Lick Observatory in California. Retail Business Livelier. . Weekly trade reviews report an increased volume of business, with country buyers active. Retail movement is increased in spite of labor troubles. Beats Women at Fancy Work. Louis Gladder won the blue ribbon prize for embroidery at the Minnesota State fair, beating many women competitors. Wind Wrecks Earn urn Tent. . A furious windstorm blew down Barnuai & Eailey'e tent in Iowa City, Iowa. Fire starting, from gasoline lamps also

Inflicted heavy damage. No one was e riously injured. Anticipating the storm, the management had refused to admit thousands. A stampede of animals was averted by their early removal from the ring. The loss I3 $8,000.

SULTAN MURAD DEAD. Imprisoned Ex-Ruler of Turkey Passes Away After Long Durance. Former Sultan Murad V., one cf the saddest characters of modern history, died Monday of diabetes, from which he had long suffered. One of the most noted of royal captives was ex-Sultan Murad of Turkey, who since 1S76, when he was deposed after a few weeks' reign, had been kept a prisoner In the Tcheragan palace in the outskirts of Constantinople. The approaches to this gloomy abode are strictly guarded by soldiers and police, and to such an extent is the surveillance kept up that pedestrians, as well as people iu carriages and on horseback, are roughly ordered to hasten when in the vicinity of the palace. Murad was deprived of his throne on the score of insanity, and the ministers, headed by Midhat Pasha, had arranged that Abdul Hamid should be merely regent during his brother's illness. But at the last moment, when the ministers had advanced too far to retreat, Abdul Hamid insisted on being proclaimed Sultan, handing, however, to Midhat a written promise pledging himself to restore the throne to Murad as soon as he recovered his reason. What has become of this document it is Impossible to say. According to some, Abdul Hamid had recovered possession thereof; according to others, it is still in existence in safe keeping in London. Equal mystery prevailed with regard to the condition of Murad. It was said that he had recovered his reason long ago and was perfectly sane; and as he held a high grado in Free Masonry strong appeals were made to King Edward and to other sovereign members of the craft to use their influence in behalf of his liberation. SIX LIVES LOST IN FIRE. Dwelling Catches from Street Lamp at Yellow Creek, Ohio. In Yellow Creek, Ohio, six persons were burned to death and four terribly injured by a fire and oil explosion. The dead are: Mrs. Henry Fling and two children, anl three unknown men. The house of Fling caught from a street lamp and the intense heat set fireto the rig of au oil well near the house. The flames destroyed the derrick and communicated to the tank, which was full of oil. Before the occupants of the house realized their danger a terrific explosion occurred. The blazing oil was thrown all over the house and their escape was cut off. The bodies were recovered after the fire was subdued. ARE 2G0,903 SUNDAY SCHOOLS. Secretary of World's Fourth Convention Issues Statement of Statistics. The report compiled by W. J. Semelroth of St. Louis, chief secretary for the World's Fourth Sunday school convention, shows a world's total of 200,003 Protestant Sabbath schools, 2,414.757 teachers, and 23,442,993 scholars. The United States leads with 139,817 Sunday schools, l,4ia,S07 teachers and 11,493,591 enrolled scholars. England and Wales come next with a total membership of little more than half that number, while Greece, the lowest on the list, has only four schools, seven teachers and ISO scholars. BIG TELESCOPE FOR HARVARD. Nearly Twice as Large as Lick Observatory Instrument. The Harvard observatory is to add to its equipment what is considered the largest efficient telescope in the world, the five-foot aperture reflecting instrument constructed by the famous English astronomer, A. A. Common. The new telescope, which is some twenty-seven feet in focal length, will be used mainly for photographic work. It is nearly twice as large, as the Lick observatory telescope, which has an aperture of thirtysix inches. EIGHT HURT IN TORNADO. Storm in Wisconsin Wrecks Several Residences. Eight persons were injured by a tornado and lightning in the southern part of La Crosse, Wis. Six in one house were burned by a shock of lightning, while in another residence flying debris struck and injured two. All will recover. Several residences and outbuildings were badly damaged by the wind. Heavy rain, which followed, caused many washouts on railroads. Missionaries Flee for Their Lives. A revival of Boxerism is reported from Tamingfu, in the southwestern part of Pe-Chee-Lee province, China. Over' twenty American missionaries, including women and children, have been obliged to evacuate Tamingfu owing to an intended massacre by the "Boxers," who call themselves "Tsaiyun." Asks Doctor to Kill Wife? Frank Schaffer, a prominent business man of Dayton, Ohio, has been Arrested on the charge that he had tried to iuduce the family physician to kill Schaffer's wife with poison, under the pretense of giving her medicine. The physician. Dr. O. A. Keifer, says he was offered 500 to give the poison. ,. Storm Is Worth $29,000. The steamship Alaskan, which arrived at New York recently with a cargo of sugar, made nearly $30,000 for the owners of her cargo by being delayed in a storm at Caronel. The rise in sugar added to the value of the cargo by $29,120. It was the most valuable ship load ever sent from Hawaii. Flames Destroy Lumber Plant. The plant of the Mitchell & Rowland Lumber Company was destroyed by fire in Toledo. The loss is estimated at $150,000, with insurance of $118,000. Sparks from a locomotive ignited sawdust in the yard. The steamer Verona, owned by Gilchrist & Co. oT Cleveland, was burned. Child Population of Chicago. The school census shows a fallitg off of child population in the so-calleJ desirable residence wards in Chicago, while in the poorer districts and foreign colonies child population is largely on the increase. Druggists Association in Contempt. The National Association of Retail Druggists, composed of 25,000 dealer, was held in contempt and fined $2,000 by Judge Dunne in Chicago because supplies wese cut off from a cut-rate dealer. $200,000 Fire in Baltimore. The large packing plant of Street & Corkran, in Pennsylvania avenue, Baltimore, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at between $150,000 and $200,000. Fifteen Killed in Wreck. Fifteen passengers were killed ' and many injured in a wreck on the Grand Trunk railroad, as the train was ntaring Richmond, Que. Weekly Crop Report. The government weekly bulletin says crops have made satisfactory progress in spite of thermally low temperature.

LIAOYANG TAKEN.

Japanese Army Crushes Kuropatkin and Occupies Town. RUSSIANS IN A ROUT. Terrible Three-Days Battle Ends in Victory for Mikado's Troops. Russians Overwhelmingly Defeated in the World's Biggest Battle With a Loss of 30,000, Kuropatkhl Is Driven North of Taitse River Mikado's Soldiers Relentlessly Pursue Fleeing Foe 10,000 Islanders Slain. Llao Yang, the magnificently fortified Manchurian town, which has been .so stubbornly defended by the Russian forces under General Kuropatkin, has been occupied by the Japanese. The evacuation of the town was forced by General Kuroki's army, which, crossing the Taitse, twenty miles east of Liao Yang, threatened the Russian troops with a flanking movement which would have placed them between two fires, the armies of Generals Nodzu and Oku enveloping the front Charged with bayonets and showered with a hail of shrapnel from the enemy's death-dealing artillery, the Russian forces were forced to evacuate the town and beat a ha;ty retreat to the north of the Taitse River, hotly pursued by the relentless Japanese. The Japanese casualties in. the threedays' battle are officially estimated at Tokio to be 10,000, while an unoffi cial estimate of the Russian losses ! The Japanese are now in supreme control of Lioa Yang, according to the latest Information. and will push SCENE OF THE GREAT ahead to prevent Kuropatkin and his army' from reaching Mukden, for which point he is believed to b? Leaded. Dispatches from St. Petersburg, while admitting the overwhelming defeat of the Russians, assert that Kuropatkin has retreated north of the river, where he expects to be able to make a more formidable stand against the Japanese. This move, however, Is regarded in a different light. Inasmuch as Kuropatkin has repeatedly stated that he would make a . final stand against the enemy at Llao Yang and had constructed what was generally believed to be impregnable fortlgcations. In fleeing from the city Kuropatkin Is believed to have abandoned large stores, many guns and other trophies which will, prove of great value to the Japanese. Crushing Defeat for Czar, In the light of events the evacuation of Llao Yans, therefore, is looked upon as a crushing defeat for the Czar's army. Kuropatkin's retreat to north of the Taitse River Is not regarded as a move of the Russians for strategic purposes, but is generally believed to have been a determined effort to escape and prevent a capture of the entire army. The Japanese are reported to be pursuing as rapidly as the Russians arfe retreating and it Is' believed that Kuropatkin's attempt to reach Mukden will fail. General Kuroki, having crossed the Taitse River, has thrown his entire army toward the railroad ltading from Liao Yang to Mukden and late advices say that train service on the road has been Interrupted and that the line Is Impassable. This Is an important move and can have but one meaning that the Japanese have seized the railway between the two cities. ' . , In this event it would seem hat Kuropatkin's way t"? Mukden practically Ls cut off and that he will be forced to make his last stand against th caemr Just north of. the river. The

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RUSSIANS AND JAPANE armies of Generals Oku and Nodzu are expected to join forces with Kuroki and another bloody carnage will be the result. The fighting at Llao Yang, with more than 500,000 men on both sides engaged, was the largest battle in the world's history. v The battle was of the most desperate character. It raged continuously from dawn until midnight, and the slaughter must have been awful. Japanese assaults during the day had been directed principally against the Russian centpr, 1 little east of Maietung hill, near the railroad, and three miles southwest of" Liaoynng. Nothing approaching the severity of the infantry nnd artillery fire here had been heretofore experienced iu this war. General Kondratovitch's division bore the brunt and suffered the most Bayo- : net charges succeeded each other in rapid succession, while the artillery duel never cis?d for a moment Up to Saturday morning nothing further regarding the situation at Liaoynng was known beyond the fact that Kuropatkin had withdrawn the main portion of his forces to the north or right bank of the Taitse river, and that, according to the late advices, the action was still in progress. There was disinclination In St Pe tersburg to believe that Liaoyang had been abandoned, and at the same time it was declared that the position Kuropatkin now occupies is the one he had prepared and fortified, and where h has all along planned to make his second stand, instead of directly in and LIAOYANG BATTLE. around Liaoyang, with the river at his back, as has been believed. It Is thought by Russian experts that in attacking Kuropatkin's present defenses the Japanese are facing an almost impossible task, especially with their forces divided by the river. Advice reaching Tokio say that the Taitse is flooded and cannot be forded, and therefore, as .pointed out in the Associated Press dispatches from St. Petersburg, "the .river itself beV" i v 4, ' ':'-: V". kw : fit - GENERAL OKU. comes an important factor in the general scheme of Russian defense." Dispatches from both Russian and Japanese sources indicate that the troops on both sides are jaded and weary after the many days' fighting, and it is pointed out that in consequence a temporary lull In the active struggle would not be surprising. A dispatch received at Tokio says that great fires ate raging at Liaoyang, "believed to result from Japanese shelling or from the efforts o the RussiaD to destroy their stores nrenaratorv to the evacuation of LIaoyang, with toe additional hope of Jn.

SE AT CLOSE QUARTERS.

GREAT BATTLES OF MODERN WARS. Battle. Armies. atorloo French 72.000 Waterloo Allies 124,000 Sedan French 150.00O Sedan German 200,000 Plevna Kussian 13.". 000 Plevna Turks 90,000 Chanceüorsvllle Federal ... sn.oOO Chanccllorsvllle Confederate 50.000 Losses. .000 23.000 10.X)0 12.0 ) 40,000 30,000 17.O0O 13,000 Chattanooga Federrl .... C",ooo C.,000 Chattanoga Confederate ... 4.",.xh o.ono Fair Oaks Federal 112.000 n.7?.9 Fair Oaks Confederate 67.000 4.232 (it'ttvshurg Federal Xi,itO 23.100 (Jetrvsburz Confederate ... r-.om 22.( Wilderness Federal lHiK: 3O.00O Wilderness Confederate 70S) 20.00 juring the city as a future Japanese base." The opinion prevails in the Japanese capital that the Russian casualties in the recent fighting will reach 30.000. BALTIC FLEET GOING TO WAR. Trials Prove Successful and Majority of Ships Await Unfinished Ones, The AssociatcJ Press is enabled to state authoritatively that there has been no change of plans regarding the Baltic squadron on account of the result of the recent sea fight off Port Arthur. The maneuvering and firing trials of the ships have been completely successful and the squadron has now returned to Cronstadt to await the finishing touches on the battleship Orel and the cruisers Oleg, Izumrud and Jemtchug before sailing for the Orient. The Japanese statement, on which Japan bases its demand that the crews of the Askold and Grozovoi at Shanghai be interned until the end of the war. namely, that the officers and men of the Variag and Gorietz are on board ships bound for the far East is untrue. The crews of those two vessefo have been distributed among the school and training squadrons and on shore duty in the Baltic and Black sea, but not one man or one officer is on Vice Admiral Rojestvensky's vessels. War News in Brief. The number of men in the Russian and Japanese armies now engaged in battle probably is the greatest in modern times. American military students expert the Japanese to win. The first day of the desperate Liaoyang battle ended in success for the Russian arms, according to St. Petersburg advices, the charges of the Japanese on three sides of the city being repulsed. A Japanese supply steamer, said to have had $5,000,000 on board for the Japanese army, was stopped by a Chefoo official, and a torpedo craft from Daley rushed into port in the night and rescued the cash. ( Russia has equipped two steamers, the Korea -and the Kitai, belonging to the Danish-Russian East Asiatic Steamship Company, as auxiliary cruisers. The vessels will be attached to the Baltic squadron. Recently a Japanese officer tried to gain entrance into Port Arthur in a sack carried by a Chinaman. The mouth of the sack was filled with cabbages. A sentry stuck a bayonet into the bag and exposed the artifice. Both the Japanese and the Chinaman were shot From the beginning of the war all the land operations of the two belligerents have been leading up to the Liaoyang conflict The one question has been as to whether or not Gen. Kuropatkin would be sufficiently , strong when the crisis should come, to risk a decisive battle at Liaoyang. The fact that Kuropatkin engaged in battle demonstrates either that ha could not fall back safely or that he was willing to take the chances of fighting "a greatly superior force. ' v Shushan, a mountain about 1,000 feet high, about five miles south of Liaoyang, seemed to be. the strong defense of the Russians against which the Japanese hurled themselves in that quarter. Extending eastward is a range of hills which joins with the eastern summits bordering the level plain where stands the city. Along these crest?, presumably, the Russian line of defense was drawn. The Taitse river, a , stream 200 feet wide, which is greatly swollen by rains, extends eastward from the city. The Russians ueld its north bank with heavy forces of Cossacks and of infantry, but Kuroki crossed men on pontoons ar tba enezy westward

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OPENS INDIANA BATTLE.

Frank Ilanlj- Evokes Great Enthusiasm at Greencastle. J. Frank Ilanly, Republican candidate for Governor, opened the campaign in Indiana at Greencastle with a speech before the Putnam county convention. Mr. Ilanly was given a rousing rece; tion. He epoke generally and at great length of national issues. He eulogized President Roosevelt and Senator Fairbanks, the Vice presidential candidate, and arraigned Congressmen Champ Clark and John Sharp Williams and Gov. Vardaman of Mississippi, whoir he charges with an attempt to make personalities the issue of the campaign. Mr. Ilanly spoke in part as follows: Standing in the very presence of th flead, tmld a nation's grief and a people' wondering fear, Theodore Roosevelt, with uplifted hand, made them this solemn pledge the day he took upon himself the duties of his high office: "In the presence of God and our lament2 f1 1 IiromIse. so far as In me lies, to faithfully execute the policies of which he has been the ablest exponent and which were the most cherished hopes of his life." u I. PledPe so solemnly made, the President has faithfully kept. lie grasped the weapons that fell from the mrveless handa of the great dead President while they were yet warm from his handclasp, and with them he has wairt-d stalwart, constant and victorious war, from then till this glad hour, In behalf of every policy for which he in his life time had hoped or tolled or fought, lie has redeemed the bond and kept the faith. Indiana presents for the vice presidency a man equipped and qualiflfHl with every essential requirement, not only for that high office, but for the greater and higher one of the presidency itself. Unlike the vice presidential candidate of the opposition. Le was not born durlns the administration of James Monroe. lie is not so old an edition as that, but he is a better one. He lives in the present rather than in the past. He is an actual, breathing, living entity of the day, and not a fading reminiscence of other times. His thought and mied are upon the thinrs that are, rather than upon those that wtre. He looks Into the future and not Into the grave. His nomination was not born of a desire on the part of the party management to acquire from him the means of corrupting the franchise of his countrymen, but of a knowledge of his worth as a man and his solid attainments as a statesman. In the Senate of the United States he has proven himself a worthy successor of Harrison and Morton. He was McKinley's friend and Hanna's confidant. In him" are met and blended the simple grace, the courtly charm and the kindly nature of the one, and the rugged strength and sturdv common sense of the other. Horn in Ohio, he has lived among us until he is, in fact, a Hooaier product, and In as though he were to the manner born. No better type of Indiana citizenship of this day and hour can be found. Wise In counsel, conservative In action, fearless in debate, dignified and Elf possessed amid turmoil an5 excitement, he holds the confidence of all the people the professional and the business man. the rich, the poor, the laborer and the cai ltallst. We tender him to the nation with conscious pride, knowing him s we do, and believing, as we do. that his life Is tlm and spotless, that his patriotism Is rudefiled, that his aMlity to serve the cor.ntrv Is great, and that his every impulst is hl;h and fcoly. Appeal to Tonnjc Voters. Knwing that the Issue Involves his destiny, and therein the fame and ploryxf the Statt, we call upon the 15,h) young mn in Irdlana who for the first tim are i bout to exercise the priceless privilege of ths ballet, to start mht by accepting the doctrines for which he stands and bv enlisting under his banner to the end that an answer worthy the hour, the man and the opportunity, may be given by our people iu November. , Tbe achievements of the Republican party during the fifty years of its existence, and the forty years of Its power, are tbe achievements of the American people. The rectfrd of the one is the history of the other. The two are inseparable. The hopes, the aspirations, the thoughts and the purposes of the American people have fouud expression and realization for half a century only through the declarations and acts of the Republican party. For forty years It has had the people's power of attorney. Acting under that high authority it has written statutes, rendered Judicial decrees, solemnlred treaties and made amendments to the constitution Itself. These statutes, decrees, treaties and amnedments constitute the political and civil history of the republic for the time they cover. In them can be traced, year after year and decade after decade, the growth, the development and the progress of the country, and la thein the basic causes of the prosperity, the peace, the happiness and the ever Increasing power of this proud people can be found. In each campaign the Republican rarty submits a record of things done, of laws enacted, of policies established: but with a single exception the Democracy has never been able to 6ubmlt more than a program. eaudrpnc eqj jms oj sjojjo 51 auo la Stnnp o sann-w eA'BiB st pan eoaBuxioj -J3d UDua s tuujZojd jsaea v 'jeAe.uoq 'sjuds OJd 11 'SI JI JCtJJ UBUUU.0Ü3 poo3 dql 33fn No young man possessed of youth's high impulse, of Its love of action and of achievement, of its "fever of reason" and Impelling courage, can willingly consent to an alliance with the Democracy. When we contemplate her as che hns been for fifty year?, as she is now. and ay she will most likely be in the future, he will turn away, resolved to break family traditions and to live In estrangement from father and mother if need be rather than to wed with her. The youug men of Indiana will not tarry with her in the cemetery of abandoned principles and dead Issues when they can come with us and share In the glory of thinjrs accomplished. Here 13 a record of deeds done that uplift and thrill and inspire. Here are memories that stir the blod and kindle ambll tion's fire Here is life. Here Is actionHere is achievement. Here things are done. Here history Is made. Here is hope and faith and consecration. Here, vonng men or Indiana, are lofty purpose and high enterprise, worthy your prowess sad your steel; Here is opportunity. Here Is rich reward. Here the living are the history makers' of the hour, in .State and nation. JWe are Roosevelt, and Hay, and Root, and Taft, and Spooler, and Fomk-r. and Cullom. and Cannon. Here are Fairbanks, ani Reverdge, and Hemenwcy, and Watson, and Landis. and Crurapacker, and Overstrect, and Brick, and Cromer, and Hollldav, and Cheaney, and Gilbert, and Dillon. Here are Durbin, and Storms, and Miller, and Hunt and Harris, and Griffiths. These bid you come and keep for you a generous welcome Here the assembled spirits cf the immortals are those who have fourht the fisht who wear the crown: those who fought for freedom on the gory fields of war; those who led the armies of the Union on land on sea; those who guided the ship of state between rebellion's sands and shoals: those who have led the nation in its upward march; those who have defended Its credit, saved Its honor and made It rreat the world's most imperial state. These, all these are here. Here are Lincoln, and Ellsworth, and Sumner, md Phillips. Here are Stanton, and Seward, and Stevens, and Yates, and Morton. Here are Hayes, and Arthur, and Harrison and Blaine. ' Here are Logan, the two Shermans, and Sheridan and Grant. Here are Hanna, and Garfield and McKinley. Here are the victorious hests who marched with Lincoln In '60 and '64: with Grant in 6S and '72; with Hayes In '76; with Garfield In '80; with Harrison In 'SS. and with McKinley in '06 and 1000. Here are the marching, virile hostshomogeneous, militant and triumphant, eight millions strong, who are to march with Roosevelt and Fairbanks to victory In November. Young men of Indiana, these, all these, do call to you and bid you come. The spirits of the dead and tbe souls of the living cry out to you and wait to give you welcome on this the half -century anniversary of the Republican party's birth. In the name of tbe glorious past, the splendid present and the hopeful future they call to you and await your coming. Think a minute, I conjure you. thiuk a minute, and answer by your ballot in November. 'Nothing Left. 'I have had lot3 of friends "who were guilty of mutilating books they had borrowed from me, but my latest experience was the most novel of all." "What was it?" ' "I lent Mrs. Blanks my dictionary a few days ago and yesterday Eh returned It without a word!" New Orleans Times-Democrat. In the Department Store. "Come, git In de coigeü" shouted the elevator boy. "What do you take me for?" retorted Gertrude, the ribbon girl. 'I'll take yer to raise, seel" And then the cage shot up tea ctories.