Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 20, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 November 1896 — Page 4

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A PAPER

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PEOPLE.

C. DUDDI.BBTOjr. 7. J. PIBFESBBIKK.

DUDDLESTOM a PIEPEHBRIMK,

PROPRIETORS.

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SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 7. 1*06.

THE ELECTION.

The most remarkable political campaign that the members of the present generation have ever witnessed, or probably will ever witness, came to a close Tuesday in the election of. William McKinley of Ohio", and Garrett A. Hobart of New Jersey, as president and vice president respectively. Their majority of the popular vote is the largest in the history of the country. So is also their vote in the electoral college with one exception, that of President Grant, in 1872, when he received 286 votes. The most reliable returns make it appear that the vote in the electoral college will be divided as follows:

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Alabama .... 11 Arkansas 8 Colorado 4 Florida 4 Georgia 13 Idaho ,.... 3 Kansas 10 Louisiana 8 Mississippi 0 Missouri 17 Montana 3 Nebraska 8 Nevada 3 North Carolina... 11 South Carolina.... 9 Tennessee... 12 Texas 15 Utah 3 Virginia 18 Washington 4 Wyoming 2

California 9 Connecticut 6 Delaware 3 Illinois 24 Indiana IS Iowa 13 Kentucky 13 Blaine 6 Maryland 8 Massachusetts 1ft Michigan 14 Minnesota 9 New Hampshire... 4 New Jersey 10 New York 86 North Dakota 3 Ohio 23 Oregon 4 Pennsylvania 82 Rhode Island... 4 South Dakota........ 4 Vermont ............ 4 West Virginia 6 Wisconsin 12 Wyoming

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Total 278 'Aside from that general result the moat notable thing about the election is the size of the pluralities in some of the states that have been classed as doubtful, and in which it was maintained the result would be decided. Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, all have given the Republican candidates pluralities unprecedented, in many cases far exceeding those of 1872. Here in Indiana the Republican candidate received phirallty ranging from 18,000 to 20,000, which it will take the official canvas to decide. The greatest plurality ever given a presidential candidate in the Itate Was ity 1872, when Grant had 22,515. In the face of a seemingly unfair gerrymander the Republicans have also carried both branches of the legislature, thus ensuring the election of a Republican to the Senate to succeed Senator Voorhees, a position it is hoped will be filled by another distinguished resident of Terre Haute, Hon. W. R. McKeen. The RepublicAn elected will be the first of that faith to represent the wtate iu the Senate since 1887, when expresident Harrison was defeated for reelection by A combination of Democrats and Populists. One pleasing feature of the general result is the overwhelming defeat in Illinois of Governor Altgeld, who while a man of great ability, Is one of the leaders in the breeding of discontent, and represents all that is bad in politics. His absolute repudiation by Illinois is as gratifying to the people of other states aa to those whose votes accomplished it.

In the west the Republicans seemed to have fared better than was really expected. 'California, Oregon, North and South Dakota, and possibly Wyoming have maintained their allegiance to the party, although the pluralities by which these states were carried are comparatively small. The Republicans have met with their worst defeat in Kansas, where they have lost everything, governor, legislature, appellate court, and a chief justice of the Supreme court, which glveH the Populists complete oomtrol of these judicial bodies. When it is understood that the chief justice elected is one who believes that the right* of the borrowers of money before the law are paramount to those of the lenders, it is easy to believe that the man who wrote "What's the Matter with Kansas?" in a few years will be able to add to it, "What Isn't the Matter with Kansaat" Nebraska, Colorado, and the other mining states, reaffirmed their faith In free silver, the plurality in Colorado being something phenomenal. In the South. Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland and West Virginia broke away from former affiliationf. From the present indications the Republicans will have control of the next congress, thus ensuring the enactment of a new tariff law.

The most wonderful fe*tu«i of this unprecedented campaign Is the canvass made by the candidate of the Democratic, Populist and Silver parties, William Jennings Bryan. Until a few months ago he was a comparatively obscure lawyer in Lincoln. His only claim to distinction was a brief •career in eongrees, where be made two eloquent speechea that attracted attention.

He was» not a national character before his nomination, like Lincoln, to whom he has &een compared. The latter'* Joint debate with Douglass made him a nation*! charter before he was thought of for t'« nlencY. A single speech nominated «o, iUs», would hi* own eft have mad* bim president, had he been fortunate enough to win TuewJaj battle. He w*s desert** by the te.vt .rt»jr of t*t lit the north who ha*. jromiucut in the, parlj and leader* itt ita work. Few new* papexs of any ia*$ :t**ce *npport*d him

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to do-was to loll in an easy chair and claim the vote of every state on the map. Necessarily, therefore, he was compelled to fight his own battle. Most magnificently did he conduct it on his own plan, though it brought but feeble results.

He was nominated at Chicago on the 10th of July, and since that time he has traveled 18,881 miles, delivered 592 speeches in 447 towns and cities, covering 27 states. It is estimated also that his audiences aggregated over 2,000,000 qf people Bryan's campaign covered the whole country from Bath, Maine, in the far east, to Charlotte and Memphis in the south, and west to Grand Island in the interior of Nebraska, going north as far as Fargo in Dakota, Duluth In Minnesota, Marquette in Wisconsin and Mackinaw City in Michigan, while the whole central belt of the country between Maine and Nebraska would require hundreds of dots on the map to locate the places where he delivered addresses.

It is noticeable that in the great middle west, where it was conceded the battle would be decided, and where Mr. Bryan made his greatest efforts, the greatest majorities were returned against him. Where the farmers were more numerous, where the farm products bad decreased in value, it was thought the free silver theory would find its greatest strength. In those states it found its greatest weakness. In each of them the plurality is greater for McKinley than ever given in a previous presidential election. Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Minnesota, with their great agricultural vote, went against him, in the face of a stronger fusion in his favor that was ever before effected. It may be doubted, therefore, whether he helped his cause by his wonderful campaign. At any rate he can be given credit for his marvelous energy and endurance, and for the pluck displayed in this great fight, when the defections from his party included the majority of those who had helped to make it famous.

The election of William McKinley, while carrying with it all the fruits of a partisan victory, is not solely a triumph of the Republican party. It is a triumph of all the people in the land who do not believe that it can prosper by the preaching of the gospel of discontent who do not believe that capital and labor should be at war who do not believe in arraying the masses against the classes who do not believe that the supreme court should be manipulated lo s'lit nn executive or a congress who do •mi tvlii ve that there should be any radical uuange in the financial policy of the government to disturb values and create distrust and, lastly, who do believe that the tariff system should be one calculated to raise sufficient revenues for the government. A platform such as this is sufficiently broad to please a majority of the American people, as expressed by their votes on Tuesday.

THE campaign idiot, and his boon com panion, the campaign liar, can now go into winter quarters.

A baseball umpire has been elected to the Illinois legislature from Chicago^ The people were ignorant of his occupation.

Sknatob Jonkswould be a good man for census supervisor for some city that wants to inorease its population. He can count more votes with less justification than any man on record.

Tub visit of Li Hung Chang to this country has borne some fruit. A Philadelphia locomotive works has been given a contract for building eight locomotives forthe Imperial railway of China, the first ever built in this country for China.

Ir thid election proves one thing more than another, it is that labor leaders who propose to deliver the labor vote where they may choose, reckon without reason. The laboring men, like the farmers, read and think, and deliver their own votes.

President Cleveland has an eye to the eternal fitness of things. He issued his Thanksgiving proclammation the day it became assured that the party that had abused him most unmercifully iu the present campaign was thoroughly and effectually defeated.

Ai.L other rainbow chasers pale into the veriest insignificance when it comes to Mistah Jones, the gentleman, sah, from Arkansas. At three o'clock election afternoon he posted a bulletin to the effect that Cook county, Illinois, had gone 60,000 for Bryan, when as a fact the county gave a majority of nearly 60,000 for McKinley.

Those who travel on railroads have noticed that in a great many towns the view from the car windows is chiefly bounded by a sucoession of unsightly back yards. Some aesthetic ladies in Plainfield, New Jersey, want their town to be an exception to this rule, and, forming themselves into a Woman's Town Improvement Association, have offered a price for the two best-kept back yards along the railroad. The prices have already been awarded, and the example of the two pricewinners haa led to a general Improvement of all the back yards in town. Hie Plainfield plan should become popular in every railway town. If the women will take it up generally they will need to offer but few prices, because they will make attractive back yards along railway ttoes fashionable, and that will make them the role and not the exception.

Skkkkib* for consular appointment* under the new administration are likely to be incensed over a recent ruling of the Mate department, which reduces materially the revenue* lockient to these offices. Some of them pay in fees more than the salary aw ..bed to the office of president, and appositions are not likely to be .is aunwi 'us when it is known that the emolt r-,nt* ate greatly reduced. For a tang tune ftrvign shippers and domestic Inr, or'-r» have protested against what they lmed wei* the exorbitant fees de-i-Mid^i by the United States Consols. Those torn have, however, been a large •, tite in the attractiveness of the posi­

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Swretiwjr CHney has cnt them off to a very great extent by Issuing an order limiting Ott case* Whet* «a mA umj be demanded ot a shipper to those where frandukat uu-

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der-valuation or misrepresentation is suspected, and forbidding the consuls to receive the whole or part of any fees charged for the administration of an oath, and from receiving anything as a gratuity or otherwise directly or indirectly in connection with these fees. The' Treasury Department has for along time, it is said been trying to alleviate the situation, but could find no way until the attention of the state department was called to the matter, with the result of the promulgation of the order. An idea of the degree to which it will affect the consuls is seen in the fact, as stated, that the loss of those officials in England alone will be more than $200,000. The system is one that was never contemplated in organizing the consular service, but has developed and has has frequently given occasion for much scandal. _________________

Poor old Spain, the most run-down-at-the-heel of the effete monarchies of the old world, is in a bad way. Its daily expenditures in trying to put down the rebellions in Cuba and the Philippines are enormous, and its financial resources must soon be exhausted unless it secures the loan it has been seeking, thus far in vain. It needs $200,000,000 badly, but nobody seems to care to take the bonds at ordinary rates. Foreign capitalists will not touch them unless a high rate of interest is promised, a large sinking fund provided, a special guaranty given, and the bonds freed from taxes. To the interest must be added two per cent, commission demanded for negotiating the loan. These terms are hard terms for Spain, which is a poor country, with small recuperative power. The premier admitted recently that the drain of men and money cannot be borne much longer. The outlook in Cuba does not encourage the goverment at Madrid. General Weyler wants a year more to put down the revolt. He says the prolongation of the rainy season has increased the sickness in the army and delayed the completion of the new trocha. He says he wanted to crush the insurgents with the new troops, but he had to use them to strengthen positions already occupied. He hopes, however, soon to be able to confine the war to that portion of the island lying east of the new trocha. He is now massing forces against Maceo. A statement just published shows that eighty-four sugar estates, producing annually from 1,200,000 to 24,000,"000 pounds of sugar, have been destroyed since the war began.

THE DEATH ROLL.

The following is the list of interments for Woodlawn and Highland Lawn cemeteries, as reported by Superintendent Bain for the month of October:

Wt^DLAWN

3—Lulu N'eukom, 21 years, consumption city. 1—N. M. Gossett, 78 years, general debility 115 Poplar street. 5—Ellen Beattie, 60 years, typhoid fever: 412 south Fourth street. 10—James H. Jones, 65 years, tuberculosis of lungs Chicago, 111. 10—Wm. P..Hunter, 45 years valvular dls ease of heart city. 14— Anna M. Zimmerman, 66 years, heart disease CJentervllle, Ind. 15—NJary Anna Bldaman, 75, years, pnetij monla 535 Lafayette avenue. Y.. 15—Edwin Gulnip, 23 years, phthisis 1101 north Sixth street. 20—Wm. B. Elliott, 59 years, peritonitis 521 south Fourth street. 21—Infant, still born city. 25—Lena G. Bitter, 25 years, consumption 611 north Thirteenth street. 26—Nettle Llndsey, 32 years, renal calculi Washington. D. C. 23—Theodore Hulman, 76 years, chronic bronchitis 1639 north Thirteenth street.

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6—Catharine Oragg, 23 years, brain fever: 111 south First street. 8—Ethel Johnson, 4 years, tubercalosls 1346 First avenue. 9—Scott Edwards, 19 years. Inanition 1834 south Thirteenth and One-half street. 12—Theodore Hants, Maxville, Ind.

20—Child Carlston, 7 months, membrandds croup: 1665 Elm street. 21—Infant Solomon, 2 years. Inanition city.

George Schaefer, 46 years, ascitis, northeast corner Ninth and Crawford streets. 22—Arthur Sparks, 2years, 6 months, flux

1413 Eagle street. 22—Elinor Beal. nla Oak and Seventeenth streets. 26—Prudence Duncan, 36 years, tuberculosis pulmonalis: 1205 south Fourteenth street 26—David C. Graham. 45 years, suicide north Eleventh street. 26— Harry Warner, 5 years, membranous croup 2110 south Eighth street. 27—L. C. Mitchell. 48 years, phthisis pulmonalis 310 Ohio street. 27—Catharine Barns, 88 years, old age: Old Ladles' Home. 28—Margaret Lowery, 1 year, meningitis south Third street. 29—Infant Jacobs, still born, 1121 Tippecanoe street. 3D—Infant Lowery, still born, 092 south Eighth street. 30—Lei and Smith's twins, inanition 315 Walnut street.

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TERKE HATJTE SATURDAY EVENXN"G- MAIL, NOVEMBER 7, 1896.

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13-Helen Gllmore, 20 years accidental inJuiy and congestion First and Swan streets. 15—Infant Jacques, valvular insufficiency First and Cherry streets. 16—Infant Richmond, 1 year, dlptherlc croup: city. 17—Alonea Foley, 5 years, croup 113 Eagle

nor Beal. 1 year, 1 month, pneumoente

Highland Lawn. 23 Woodlawn. 13 tota 1(96.

When Being Photographed.* Remember that, unless there is any urgent reason for it, it is a great mistake to be photographed if you are either out of health or in low spirits.

That a just-the-mode-of-the-momeut style of costume or coiffure will "date" the photograph, and soon make it look out of fashion.

That it Is trawiae to Wear a new di&s. It always falls in awkward folds. That, whenever possible, It is money well spent to drive to the photgrapher's.

That a white dress, or one that takes "white," gives a ghastly effect, and one far from becoming, unless the sitter is yopng and pretty.

That a feather boa or a laoe fichu has a a wonderfully softening effect on the features.

That, generally speaking, the head and shoulders make afar prettier than a fulllength portrait.

That a veil imparts a patchy appearance to the face also, that gloves make the hands appear much larger than they am in reality.

That, above all, if you want your pBotograph to have a natural expression, you must forget where you are.

Prevent sickness and save doctors' bills at this season by keeping ytrar mood rich aad pure with Hood's SarsaparOla.

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"We used to call him the cactus edition of Blackstoue," said ^tbe major, who had lived iu Texas long enough to tmake a fortune, "and the blind eyed goddess never bad a more peculiar representative. The law never bothered bim a bit, but he reverenced equity. He had a dignity all his own, but never allowed it to interfere with bis love of ajoke.

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'How old are you?' asked one of the lawyers of a venerable spinster on the stand. .... 'I was born in '45,' she snapped. 'B. C. or A. D.?1 quickly asked the judge. And the mature maiden disowned her brother because he would not challenge the court. 'Is this your first offense?' he asked of a convicted horse thief "On being assured that it was, the judge said, 'Then I will onjy give you 99 years instead of 100, as I would have done bad you been an old offender.' "A miller had bought ten barrels of apples from a farmer and brought action to recover on a claim that the barrels were undersized, causing him a loss of three bushels on the deal. 'How did you get the barrels?' asked the court of the farmer. 'Bought them full of flour from the miller.'

Whereupon the court gave the farmer a verdict and taxed the costs against the miller."—Detroit Free Press. 4/-

A Hygienic Restaurant,

A suggestion worthy of all praise is put forth by a contemporary journal for ladies. It is to the effect that somebody should start a restaurant in which the waiters should be instructed to refuse to serve any quence of dishes which obviously make for indigestion. One can easily believe that the world would bp the better, the healthier, the happier, if this proposal were widely oarried out. Men have been known, for instance, to wash down oysters with brandy and water, but they have always been sorry for it afterward. Students at the British museum have been observed to drinV tea with veal and ham pie, and their studies have suffered from the combination. The world, in short, is full

Among the rich mines of Leadville is one called Dead Man's Claim. It seeme a oertain popular miner had died, and his friends, having decided to give him a good send off, hired a man for $20 tc act as sexton. It was in the midst of winter, there was ten feet of snow on the ground, and the grave had to go six feet below that. The gravedigger sallied forth into the snow, depositing the corpse for safe keeping in a drift, ai for three days nothing was heard from him. A delegation sent to find the fellow discovered him digging away with all his might, but found also the intended grave converted into the entranoe of a shaft. Striking the earth, it seems he had found pay rook worth $60 a ton. The delegation at once staked outolaime adjoining his, and the deceased was forgotten. Later in the season, the snow having melted, his body was found and given an ordinary burial in another part of the oamp.—Boston Journal.

.'3 A Test of Courtesy.

^It happened not long ago that I had occasion to request a friend to deliver an urgent letter for me. The letter contained business of importance which was private in its nature, as it concerned a debt. To hand my friend a sealed letter was to presuppose that he would read it if open. To give it to him unsealed was to risk the possibility of a third party reading it, for the exigencies of life are many, and letters are known to have been dropped.

I pondered, perplexed, but decided that courtesy was one of the first laws of society and left the letter open.

With an easy bow my friend received the note then, seeing the open flap of the envelope, instantly gummed it d0WD'

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The Chicago Timee-Herald says that a western gentleman lately found his new oook in the drawing room, gazing with much interest ct tho aquarium. "Well, Biddy," said the gentleman in a kindly tone, "what do you think of them?** "Sure, soar," answered the cook, "upon my sddl/if they ain't rale lovely! An, begorra, perhaps you wouldn't belavo it, bat this is the first time that I iver saw red herrings alive before."

Vcrtite riant.

One of the most wonderful examples pi vegetable growth and fecundity is illustrated by the Asiatic peoaperion. single seed planted on the grounds of the Berlin Botanical society propagated a vine which gww to be as large as a man's body is nice weeks. It gww to a total length

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middle aged men who would enjoy their middle age ever so much better if in their youth they had found their way tc restaurants where snob delicacies, at veal and ham pie, dressed crab, lobster, mayonnaise and cucumbers were only to be procured upon production of a medical certificate of fitnej3S to receive them.—London Graphic. gs&aEs?" /.

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"Strange," said the man with the strong cigar absentmindedly. V*'What's strange?" asked the man with the meerschaum. "I was thinking of a friend of mine who claims to have found an absolutely perfect fountain pen." *4 "Always writes, never dripis ink and never gets out of order?" .... "That's what he saya V-

The man with the meerschaum pipe shook his head. "What do you think of it?" he asked "I hardly know what to think of it He's joined no liara' club that I know of, and yet everything indicates that be is working for a record."—Chicago Post.

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