St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 51, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 11 July 1896 — Page 2

jffiBATTMGINSj Democratic National Convention in Session. FIGHT ON CHAIRMAN. Gold and Silver Forces Try Their Strength. g

Great Democratic Gathering at thicaSo Called to Order—Silver Force* fire the First Gim Amid Much l.n* thnaiosm — David Is. Hill A eraua Daniel — Former Announced as Temporary ChaMtmnn and Latter Put Forward by the White MetalHats—Wild Throng in the Hall. At noon Tuesday there assembled in •he Chicago Coliseum a political convention which pwnmsed to rank with the most notable events of the kind in the Mistory of this country. For days the leaders of the rival factions of one of the great political organizations of the Cnitcd States bad been hurling at one nu•ther invective: and threats. Tuesday they met to Ivcglu the actual struggle for the control of that party. The conrcutiou hall doors were opened • til o’clock, and those entitled to admis•ioa permitted to enter. At 12 o’clock the Seventh Regiment band took its st iiion in the balcony over the chairman's desk, am) discoursed sweet harmony till he arrived to cull the convention to order. There were the gold men from the Hast, silent and thoughtful; the silver men from the South and West, jubilant, aggressive, and noisy; the Tamm* ay braves, for once in their lives “with.” instead of “a'gin,” the government; the I Pf \ V. ILLI \M F. Il Mtlil I V. Chairman of the I>>: oeraHa National Committee. Southern gentb'tnen, rah, in light summery suits and broad brimmed sb»m-h * hats; the Western silver m-n; the adher- — eats of this or that candidate, with the names of the i l l sticking ’hut .ill orer —all ♦hese were features <>t the crowds that loaded every vehicle of transp>rta ♦ion southward bound during the ear'? forenoon. After a week of the hat I *! kind c hustling, not only among the a, «f the score or so ot < amii lab* for the ■ominntion, but also anti ng the men who were straining every energy have tin r way tn the framing of the party p'iwy. the first day of the convention dawned with but one fixed certainty in vu v namely, the adoption of afr silver platform, favoring the unlimited coinage of , silver at the ratio of 1G to 1. The silver ■ men went down to the < invention hall ’ in a triumphant mood over the assure I fact that in a convention of a little over 1 delegates t' ey had a little over «hM> votes pledged t- the white metal. Bare | iy a two-tbirda vote it was. too, and this they claimed would, w!;e>, ultimately uni i Jed upon one man. insure the namir alien of a silver candidate iqxva n silver platform. The gold men. though in a mi- • nority, went taorongaly united and with ; » fixed purpose in view. That was to ' place in the chair as temporary chairman and maintain in th.it p i-, ion Davin Be:: nett Hill of .New York. N xt • । secure through him as tnuea control if the per nanent organization of the convention a- ’ .A d .iXty ‘X '..,4 V L x 7- ~ \\ ■“ \ M 4."" * A. >. ' ko 'M -TQ A' S F 110 F A NT- AT - AKMS M ART IX’. possible; next to t . th ■ aza the advantage thus ga. i -I. -cue sort of compromise on the emmiyo qm - ion.

The convent: >u i in She handjpmest and nw<i yerf ■” ,y npp dtit: 1 fadkliug ever prepared In < Ihieago fur a national assenddag' of retires ntativ'S of any political party, an 4 i: is d mbtful if nuytl ing as complete in all de' tits as Ithe Coliseum ever lias b m off--red for rouvention purposes in any o''ht city. As the delegate - r - - ■ 1 the do .rk oners they found th'”.! e- in a gigan e foyr the entire wi kh th • building and fully as long as it i. wide, the north end of which was (leaned with mammoth Hugs Half a dozen .ya trances. cjn-pietmiisly k-Ucrc I, afTm Pl a m.-a s of access by which hollers of tick ts for seats in the different sections could find their proper toeation without trouble or confusion. A forest of cl ilrs a: »e on tht-m -ides in amphitheater style around the level aqsare in whi h ‘he delegates were seated- A. peculiarity o £ the arrangement by which seats mi ! been prepare'! for the delegates was the über impossibility of aert-as to thin square by any one lacking Uh- proper privilege of I" ig there. Thein

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were UGO scats for delegates, thirty more than were required. Fifteen thousand chairs were given up to spectators. The speaker's platform was on the oast side of the hail in exactly the middle of , that portion of the building which whs used for con .-entiou purposes. <>n this platform there wen- “OO chairs, occupied by -.listingulshe,’ gnosis,” At tl>o immeduite right ami left of the- presiding officer's platform, but on a lower level, there wore ninety six seats tor r.-poriers, making 1112 on the east -de of the ball. At the north ami south ends then* weio provisions for 240 more workers. These tables were covered with white cotton cloth nnd draped alternately in the colors ' of the 1 uion. Bed, white and blue banting prevailed nearly everywhere, i he tight board fence j separating the delegates from the alter nates was covered with it, every iron ‘ beam an 1 girder was draped with it. while from the ceiling, nt fn^uent am! regular intervals, depended immense , flags, some of them silk, others of bant- ■ ing. Everything around the speaker's platform was festooned with evergreen. Three aisles divided the delegates' j scats into four sections. The delegation* ■ wore seated alphalH’ticaUy. beginning nt the extreme right of the < hairmati. or at i the northeast corner of the -q’: iv. Thus UIC St lb-* bog ’ n with A. < •i ma ; > I oti h-i With Wyoming. Telegraphic and to’ophon • facilities' were believe I to bp ampi. for any pos-t bio emergency. Sixteen private : lophone wires ran from the reporters' table* to ; right newspaper offices. The Western I'nion Telegraph Company ha<l sixty wires in s.-rvice, w tb faeuit i * for an increnar should they be m-o led Th<\ national commiti'«e 1 ivmg ! on contests, tin* is the way the goal and silver for><-* hm-d -jp ;u the temp -rary organ.nation: State- <>r r»-- — s Sound Territory. c»uu. <; 1. v< ; monej. Alabama ... .... gg ... gg Arkansas bl 1G <'altforuta ....... is . . 1 * .., ; Colorado * ~ s ... < onne-tlcut )g 1J l». law.ne U Florida .......... * t 4 ... j Idaho ’..X^ X... 'll ... - /. IHltvd* s* '* Indlviia ;m . . 30 low a g>: ... g»; ~ K . . 2*^ . , Kcnttn kv 24 24 . . . : I-ml-ami 1«» .. Id . . • i Xt.Hn • 12 T Han land bl Id MasiaehtiseUa. ... go • M.emg'h . 24 I vihi!.v*> a is 12 ~ . m*st»dppl 1* ... H ... . , M.ssonrl 3» :u Nebraska bl i I , .. Nevada . . ■ d <$ Sew Hamp* .re . * s \eu Jersey go go ... Sew York .... 72 72 N >rth < arollt.i gg _2 I North Dakota .. »l ... tl ... | Ohio 4 . ... 4i ... I I'etimsy Iv mis . . . Gl Gt ... ... j U!u»de Island ... S - . . • Su-.jth t'arolir.i. . . is . i* ! Teiim -sec 21 . 24 j Tex is m . ,:<> ~. ; s ' h d | Vlrgim i 21 . . 21 I W.istdngbm .... s IW. st Virgk:!* . . 12 I_ I W!s ■ :stn 24 21 i Wyoming ti ... d ■ Alaska 2 g • Art/ >:.a . .2 D'.st of tWnmbla. 2 1 l Sou: i Dalo>tn * 4 4 Indian Territory. 2 ... 2 . . X w ‘.1.-, > _ . 2 ok ahomn Toials !«r; lh> N<7<> Chnirtnaii ilarr y port'ormed the they of calling the < eivctt'i.m ■' order v.th a gavel which hn- history '.at-.ug ba A to the time of the i'.iara-' - i s un:>; te g tvel .n (I- - . >:t . ,f Chicago, who pr.oe ,’od a -i.riin gift for use at the RopuM ■a -. . .vva: ..i , .> The head of the gave; - i. tve' ir. :;i a piece of oak which form '. : ’ t Fort Dearborn. To - lia - ' <>ak. but front a Tee wh: a w a • growing on the pt- sent - : e ■ f Chie azo 7,t*‘'» } ai - az.'. This tree was one of a ; imeval forest, covered by tbc deb;.* of cvuiuries and hidden until a few munihs ago. when ~, , ■.- «* Sh« L! u ihe 4 ■ ‘ ’ .uk ’ ' . -i x i ns i . -> ; k* | if :v । . < I. If. - 'part were lev.i " ! The give! wi.’n”- eivcl by S. rg. UC- । • \ . Ma .. w - ■ . ■ - ‘ bam d th'- Min:'.' - ■' : Hi'toriea; ><>.".oiy

giving the rg. of he tree from which the handle ■sma: .a- m. P- dby eminent Chairman I las by was al-> tender.'l the ti>e of a gave, made from the platform upon whi-a George Washington stood wmn iimiigura :* 4 [Te-ideat of the l States f.. r h s -<•- od term m hSemite chamber > f C" ngr< -s Hah. Sixth and I'he- tm streets, rhiia lelplua, or. Mar h I. IV'.C. The ga 4 was made by William Jem s, who has been the janitor of Ir.dopendem o Hall for a quarter of a •ntury. The . at: -s of the mate rial is eertitied to by Andrew Jaekso.i Reilly, wlio Inis been for n-any y.-ars an I ofli, r of District Court of Philadelphia . At 12:. _ i 0 o’clock Chairman Harrity. of the National Democratic Committee, with the Conventton gavel in hand, rapped loudly for order ami imrodueed Rev. E. M. Stires. who raised his hands to heaven in an invocation for wisdom, peace and *go ■ d-wili among the assembled Domoern ty of the nation. The vast asseniblage. numbering over twelve thou sand people, rose and remained standing during the devotions.

At the conclusion of the prayer the chairman announced that the National Committee hud reported Hon. Dnvid B. Hili <>f New York for temporary presiding । otlicer of the conwulion. Then hr "'ns interrupted and Ilie stiver i<„.i H>. tr chance. Chairman Hnri-hy recognized National Committeeman Clayton of Ala bama. As he rose the silver men sent a mighty roar of applause. Before he had opened Ins mouth the crowd knew what was coming, nnd for two minutes kept up a hubbub that drowned out his i voice. It was well known Mr. Clayton intend- ' e<! to oppose the national committi'c by a ; minority rciwt favoring Senator Daniel for temporary chairman. Senator Daniel's name was wildly cheered, silver del- : egates rising from their seats and to*sug tln ir hats in the air. A hasty review of the floor covered by the excited delegates speedily showed that in point of numbers the minority r< port was the fn- . vorite; it was really the first slogan of the : silver forces. When order hnd been restored Allan McDermott of New .Jersey made an Imi passioned plea for Senator Hill. Mr. McDermott -aid that it woel l not be proper to overturn the traditions of the D’tm>i erntie party in a thoughtless manner. He nrgmsl against turning down n man who for years had been prominent in the Demj ocratic party, ami whose words. “I am a ‘ Dem > rnt." are known the length ami hfadtb of the land He declared that free silver was a sulh ient novelty in the ; eninpoign without striking out at the I 4 ginning at the very foundalion principle* of the party. Mr. M< Dermott was given ! generous applnusc. Then CX Governor Wall r -f Ca h nn-ti. । cut ’‘•epp *1 iijsm the platform and lent j bis oratory to what the delegates thought 1 was n conciliatory »pwh. He drdarcl ihnt lw»th Hili nnd Daniel were great m*’n j Their mum * *h<»o|<l V.. si>>ken together. . hoenM together an I voted tog *| l>r y c then threw on? the olive l>mti h. -cisi. 'i | the deh-gntrs were quick to see, by ndvo-

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i enHajr't hit Hili b- me. de t -mp .rary cbairj man acl Dm/;.-’ p- rm.in.mt ImirmMJ Mr. \\ hr .ya I h « : I! v ib ! f: :n X. a \ k ipp! o; ■ 4 ”, • J<. !.i ration t H :1 nr ! Dime! shouW be vhevi.-! t _ • r. r 1 th re w..« ns a? tvmpt ’ a l-m-mGmt ti when Walter i-DMiryX m.m ha IMt the Dx-iuo-I'. S lu mas. 'L ri': ' • " ■ ■ man f ; ■’ a < "I -■. 14 '. was ta< . mtn-! :■ ■ i amM he pin : - 4 the -owi men. IL in opposition M the rm.wl will of ' . ;t met ever be-a prisiTitvd >„ lore at a mioa \s he proeecb 4 ti,.- .char •’• oga- s eheei.-d, , .... eiallv when he openly 4> elan i th t nn4 .>‘h. •<of " West b M hna became * athfi. rr; :towh■• •■ • "t‘4 commit- ! ll.' ma D n strong point when ho t o H ' th.' < .aow, :. -I. . L-nr years ago h< h j < /' I ? - ' » - *' — J . SV . ... ? : a 1 I.W A PPI. It Al TON s : oil ’ advo.-ited Mr. Hill's nominal ion for I’res- ’ iilent. ami lie ami others like him l la ,i i ' been refused a hearing. They had I eriiMl down; Senator Daniel bad be eu ’ . ried down, because Mr. Hill’s opponent, t Mr. Cleveland, had control of the conveni- lion. The majority of th g; had a right to name th' temporary pr ~_ I siding officer.

3’h<- impatience of the silver im-n vented itself in cries of “vote” when Mr. Thomas finished, but Chairman Harrlty culled for Charles E. Waller, of Alabama. Mr. Waller proved himself to tw a fiery Southerner, ami he showed feeling when he told how he had been made to swallow bitter medicine four years ago when another New York Democrat had been thrust over the head of Senator Hill. This was the first referr i ■cM t-''- - I sX-N.' l IX rut SHKIIMAX Hot -. t oCBT. em-v to I’res lent Ch-ve!:in >; It was unfriemlly, and .t pa--. I wit limit notice at the hands of the eonvenMon. ‘M > ) : |ow»*l in favor of minority report. “The money question." -a,.l he. “is the only question tn « i;< h the Dem->ern<’y of | the country h i* an inten *t in this campaign. We wa;:t the tem;i>>r*rr chairman of this convention to - un i the keynote of this convention and to go to the country ns ,t d<e'.aration f our views. W.- are dm- -m -.-I C : that key .-e i I will h<» a silver speech in harmony with i •: * v ows of t.io note •• \ v

The gam rie-. r s.. to ~r over into the They s tw a slmrt. r nd m tn. with a red. 'ms w ’.x • f York h^.-.s ,n the . ri ■ r where Whitney, Hill. T: . Gr . - . S .ma wen . ■' t- ' T.W ,s, ' a w i 1.. 1l» was John It. FiT-v. s. Three cheers j were started whvn tl”. g a! the maj >ri- ■ the tanat Cm' it ; :"i' - 4 r begin the . .':v. .Con by adopt in g a llepablican H " '.-d. " !<owne I. li-ho:. d. fl mted I by Democrats Tw vs ,; .i evervwhere." Mr. La.ld from Idin m address'd the | . onventi.m. lb sa I: “There is m> nnI tagwiism to S .. no- HC. :! ... a; n an. an able man. an hones; mm . 1' is not 1 ' - 'r.n. bin n Mr. HT.. ns i. >s ben sai I. but it is bt n : nize lasa ma ?of the Ditnoe.a'ic party "f the i’nit i ! States, nP d tha- is all. If th ■ coma ittce : hits made a rm imm. m' " cei that we do when we do it iw.• ■.-■ : ’w _:catest democratic privil .re in 'lie world of voting ' ns we please?’’ Mr. Harrity then put the vote upon the , motion that the nam,- of John W. Daniel, 'd’ \ irginia, t>e substituted for that of j Davil B. Hill, of New York, for the position of temporary chairman of the i conv mHon. '1 he vote result. I: Yeas. out.; nays. IIP.); not voting. 1. riscorted by the committee, the temporary chairman. .John W. Daniel, of Virginia. pass'd ::p to tlie platform, where, when he appeared, he was received with an immense eruption of cheers and yells. : While the delegates and everybody else in the house were yelling and cheering I ‘'hairman Harrity passed the gavel ..ver ' ’ > Mr. Daniel, who took it and then ad- | 'r ssoj the convention.

CHAIRMAN DANIEL'S SPEECH. Virginia Senator States Hi. P osH i O n to tlie Convention. 'Temporary ( hairman Daniel, upon taking the chair, spoke in eulogistic terms of Sena or H.ll, of New York, an,l expressed sat i.-, fact mu that the majority in the at"iss l 'r."r Waß i not s “ ctio,laL ’ l»>n points ut issue he Raul: ""“i 2 &?JSS4“i?7 V" veirs H JI , ’),'). V’ 1 "'' 1 ,i,at J’ l * l f ‘.nr City the C '* I ’yp u " ™ ,l, 'e" n v^ in this htlv‘»,..i n X ' '^••’"■Glon stood li.-re .solte,i til the fr U < Vil ‘ “ ‘ ‘"“H'late eonindtV..1- ,U, '‘ "''limited coinage of s fl- ) and gold at. a ratio of It; to I Vnd If “ r ; *’• "" " '"" forg'X Gnu ’l’lo.t . i"en*'ire to their teachings. Fist "Yn y '’" gentlcuui) of the -‘'■st. is readily acknowledged and will be ever most gratefully renivtiibervd Km if you gentlemen have helped to save the .’J. als " l ‘" M ’" 'V'd save yon in the hast Ihe majority of 1 .emocrats is not sec.her does it Stand for any privileg'd or class legislation. The active buslnews men of this country, its manufacturers. Its liier.-hants, Its farm. rs. Its sons of toll. Know that a <*ontra«*tlon <>f currt'acy swoops away the annual profits of their enterprises, they know, too, that rhe gold standard means comracthm. Do not the people know that It was legislation dictated by the advocates of the gold standard that has caused m.d now continues the financial depression'

I>O they not know that when their demands Upon Ih-moerney were compiled with In 1st);; and the Sherman law repealed without a sut.stltme, that the very Slat. < of tin- East that «!»*rnnnilo<l It turn»Mi against tho l>rniocra<’y who grant«m! It nnd swept nwnv their majorities In a torrent of ballots? Ilad the silver men had their way then instead of the gold monometallists what storms of abuse would here to-day be emptied upon their heads. Democracy In ISA! iulifrited fr<»m its Itepubllcan predecessor the tax system and the currency system, of which the M Khih-y law and the Sherman law were the etiltnlnatiug atrocities. It came t > power amid a panic which fitly followed upon their enactim*nt with strikes, lockouts, riots and civic commotions, while the scenes of peaceful indnstry in pennsylvanla hud become military ramps. Jt.-sid. * manlf-dd oppressive features, the MeKinky law had thrown away s.sljmh.ikm) of revenue thrived from sugar under the spectral plea of a free breakfast ruble, and ha I substituted bounties to sugar planter*, thus decreasing revenue and Increasing < xpendlttire. 1 r"tn t!:, joint operation of tin- McKinley ,aw and Sherman lav. an adverse ba-anr-e of trade was force.! against t:* in IHU3, a surplus of s io«>,i« ssi tn the treasury was • nverted into a it .q s'.n.iusi.tMM. fn IX!M. and engraved bond- prepared by a Republican s.-.Tctary to borrow luonev to support the Government were the II! oim ns of the pr. ..rginlzed ruin that awaited the incoming Democracy, and aib pie-, dtr asurv Moro sign'd.-ant -till, the vert author- of the 111--t im l Sherman law makeshift were already at c -at» *sl e,a| upon the stool of poniten,*e, •id Wer. begging Denioerats to I' 'p tueni to put e'.it the • utl.igr.it'ou of disaster that they themselves had kindled. So far as r» v - ■ nue t<> sup{H>rt the Gov ernme-it is .'..n -erne! the Dem««-rutlc party, with but a -lender majority in tin- Sonat -. was not long providing ■ and bad not the Supreme Court of the l ulted States r. . r d it* M tt.'ed doctrine* of inn y.-nrs, the income tax Incorporated In the tariff I.!|j would long since have abundantly sm.nl! d It

.1 >O 11 c: a; I i . J»j »i I • I 11 . R. spel ling th>- R. publicans. Pop. ■:s's mat I lent ..ruts, wlitle’duTering upon ::: >st ’ : Ci.-r s'lb'l- :tiad linlt-d in 102 in d. or!- g for the r-: ration of our \tneri an s. es liiu.eta!!:,n> The Itopul.p.-au rr v h now rer. . d th.' < re. d of Ps ! of .rm and of our nnth>nal pledges and pr seated to the ...untry the issue of higher taxes, mere bonds, mid less money. It has ■ . C l.sl 'is-. Oir., . e t!le ( }| S . , _■ lis.-s, t!;o British gdd Standard. j Ilea onsider. g-ntl. men: The Federal. .s’ md m : teip tax.-s | ri th! ;r. intrv •r- ..»s..o„d ad p.Ud ;... si iadard of I.ie M note ma-s ~f niorioy In clr •tinllon. The spe. a r.-siimpt;. i of tsf-, L i'e the surplus me tn the t va-ury. not g..;d only, the ’ ' ■ ! if re.A tept. s CO S3.VI «m '.'X. ' »’ i olar I sllvi r mousy, or paper based >:pon • '. ■ r o d nc I the lex.,' tendon f u:! ... tlons Im arted to tt by taw. w-a-te ■ . j x- ,r..s • X ept t ile sit. ill o-m of r»» of gold ••r tti at. . «h!. h nre spe, iticaPy payable ill go I. . nd they, .f . ourse. should be so . c.d D.er.. Is dp-< r. and paper ba vd upon -.ilver. In ■ Ir.-tilathm t da» than there IS of gold or pap- r based on g ild, and that the g >.d dollar I- not tin uidt r.f value Is d.-m ■ 4 -rat.>d by the fa. ’ that no gold <lolr :■ •- an -...'.v, Pt .. ij |abe ndntI.d if we »a c:!d r upon the gold standard, ne m ist ■ hango the . xCCng bimetallic | sta ..laid >.f paym< of ii debts, taxes and I appropriations, sim.g alone tbo.se sp> ciflcal\S «. 1 tve sjop-mj.»>.<,.»» (> f peb’Jc and I , rlv ,'te .!•* ! w .id I take more than three j tlni. s ; th. gold la this . oimtrv to pay even Iww y.ar s lutdist upon It. We should be I -ompe.’.-d to contract the eiirren.w by paring !T S,-a»>.«s»>,o«s ( ,f gr.-.-nba. ks and She’r-:->n i s in g nd, •h! a w c ; ;d marlv .-xI r A-j. ri an s’oek a dtp I t th- tp a-.:ry. aud the - line polb-v would rc.| Ire the ?;tli,<-.>,<»►» .f sllvr - r iib-.-.m, should be paid hi gold a sb. ns for.-h:.lowed ■r the pr- oht draft upon the cotmtrv’s It f go. 1 -t hl- ea-.s rtn !;. p f the p ib!b d. ’by ».U t,.axi.iw»i Inor-. The only tir.mntlve suggested t » light f. r bes < • the I p.--I.:- Is th" fn ■ • an..c of .il.er nt the | ratio f !•’. 1" 1 ami ■ >e complete restoration | -t our c redi’ary and «onstltntionai system W.» pray you. n more makeshifts and i s'l-..bi 's v. x not the n.nntp with the j pr.ph.eies ..f su.ooih th ng- ’• come from | the Rrltlsh-Rep-jhlh _ i. fitet j a. ', i that we siiouid do so f»r the iim- . ‘’>4 - Is f C"1 ’ i v " h ;ve I longer db.m . . I , sm tiler .share for t-a h j Pre . -pr di ti- s have ’>■ -n pm;, tually I refuted v ..-n p. .sp . ; y was pr. nhesird to | • T’o i tie 'edit: >ual repeal of the .1 ■ .'.I m'i i - luomAly na‘i; m. . iC’/ml ,1 I. r.m..! gold have been in ht‘ -1 i f■ i ' 1 . Ic' '-r; ’. :ng >:i the fa a : ■ ■ es and debts. | civ -j;,.:. 1. th" - f th.-lr .’ I.fi via t ton | ... ..’. ig eil'-' North. South. East and West in this ru’ ou. Tile dividends on i bank stocks have shrm kon. Thr.-n-f atrths I - f the railway niii- ~.' of the I'.nited States ; Is now in the hands of receivers, aml the • oimtry has received a shock from v hich it will take many years to recover. Yet. in tills distr .ssed and contract d con--1 !••:.. the n. w tledged moiiomotal’ls < csk ns to de.ia," for a gold standard and to J n.::’ f r reii f upon < une gl: stly dream of But the people do now well know that the ■ nspirai'y ■ f European nionnr. as, led by • Ire:- Brimiti. aa< narp -ses of agt—anjlz.ngrseim tit. ’ Wiih their ■ edit tin ; s.-. k to ■chance the pm- ’ rsmg p .w. r of thousands f millions which ! s .w. dto th. ui all .aer the wori I. nd wbi i yon owe to them. They their food sappic - raw mat- ria', wheat, corn oil. ohoii. iron, lend and the other like’ staples, and they s. . k to get it for the No nation calls its -if free and independent that is imt great enough t-. establish and maintain a tlnan-iil policy of its own. Io pretend that this, ti- • Pw. most, ri -hest and nmst powerful nation of the world, cannot ■ • >in its otvn money without suing for an international agreement at the courts of European autocrats, who have nene but primary interests IO subserve. Ins for many years b'-en held out nt everv l’r. siden’ia! ele-lion. Thev have made nseof such an agreement and have foiled it n-fterward. and we have never in all our liistor; had an international agree-nv-nt upon a money system, and none of the founders of this repnbli. ex er dreamed that such an agreement wits essential. The majority of this convention maintains that tills great American nation with a natural base of tixed empire Is fully capable of restoring this constitutional money system of gold and silver at equality with each otaer.

ARTIST SIGN PAINTERS. Men of Genina Who Have Kngaced Humble Employment. Commonly’ there is not a great tb>al of real artistic value in the signs that dib ; tractingly illuminate the streets of our cities and towns. It is, however, interesting to note that there have boon .n the aunais of art not a few instances o noted artists whom stress of misfortune compelled at times in their career to take to this employment, at least temporarily’. Some of the old masters did not hesitate to turn their brushes to work of this kind when necessity । commanded, and there have been many I swinging sigus of old taverns throughout Great Britain painted by men of genius whose talents had otherwise) fade 1 to till their pockets with gui- , near. Du Maurier once painted signs, , and more thau one of his eoutempor- ■ a t ies could if he would tell a tale o* similar employment of ids brush. In the- history of American art there • have been some cases of men who * found sign painting more remunerative j than work of a higher character. Per-' i- haps the best known was Matthew • Pratt, of Philadelphia, a talented por-

trait painter, who, having a family to support, honestly turned his han 1 in intervals of le;sur<» to the production of tavern signs and banners for political conventions. On the other hand, there arc not a few instances of sign painters abandoning their craft for a higher sphere in art. And of American artist.* especially a number have liegun in this humble line. J. G. Brown at the outset of his career painted the signs of the landscape pictures vyirb which the old New York Broadway stages were decorated. Henry Smith Mount, a brother of the more talented M illiam Sidney Mount, though a sign painter, executed some creditable pictures of si ill life and became an A. N. A. in 1832. W. S. Mount, first associated with his brother, showed a capacity for a higher order of art. He was one of our early genro painters, devoting himself mainly to depicting the humorous side of American rustic life. Francis A. Silva and Arthur Quartley. the marine painters. now ilead. began their careers as sign paint) rs. So did William McGrath. tin* clever genre painter, who of late has been painting subjects a la Alma Tadema. Worthington Wbittredzean,! William Louis Sonntag, both now well known as land- ape painters, were painting signs together in Cincinnati a little more than forty years agn

Augustine Birrell is writing an Auction n» a new edition of Boswell “Life of Johnson.'’ The Messrs. Ilmtlh are about to adi^ Shaksptme s ’Henry V.” to their Ard2^ i series fur scaooi A long novel to bo calb d "A School for Saints," is being prepared b.v,ili F artistic sinner, Jolin Oliver Hob?>es. Georg-- Bit'll Grinnell’s “The Story of the Indian." has appeared in an English edition and it attracting much attention from the London reviewers. “In Scarlet anl Gray.” the book of Stories wijp.-b t’t° i” tP Loj'J t in's daughter has written in collaboration with Thomas Hardy, is to bo published in this country. Miss Molly Elliot Seawell has written a new and notable study of Washington's life, entitled “A Virginia Cavalier.” ’ j George W. Cable is to tell in the Atlantic sin h of the secrets of the storyteller's art as are in his possession. In the same magazine Prof. John Fiske will summarize the romance of scientific achievemenr under the title, “The Century’s Progress in Sei. nee.” Fairly good machine-finish book paper. made of wood pulp by the sulphide process, may now be bought in bulk at .3 cents a pound. This fact, coupled with the revolution caused by typesetting machines, will go far to explain the recent enormous increase in the output of cheap books. It was a Boston woman in search of Eliza both Stuart Phelps’ "Burglars in Paradise” who asked for "Smugglers In Heaven.” But she was no worse than the maiden of Providence who headed her list of desired classics with Scott's "Emulsion," an 1 who failed to get it been use Cie equally inielligent works otherwise than in complete sets. J. Selwin Tait leads the Engineering Magazine with an article on "Tho Fruits of Fraudulent Railroad Management," in which he deplores the tendency of bad railway investments and good bank managers to concentrate values in real estate, thus driving the latter to excessive figures, to rhe great injury of the community at large. An enormous waste of energy is indicated by the fact that ono loading publisher receives monthly no less than I.HOO manuscripts, not 1 per cent, of whi' h he can use. The avalanche of man iscrii, s that assails every largo magazine is so great that no staff of editors ''ould read them all. The Postoffice Department apoars to be the only party profiting by the ceaseless procession of disappointed literary aspirants. Why They Remain Sharp. The outer edge of the incisors of the teeth of rats is eoverod with a layer of enamel as hard as flint, while the under side is much softer. Consequently, the layers of enamel on the under side wear away much faster than those on the upper surface, ami a keen cutting edge Is always presented. Sometimes a summer girl marries and becomes a summer and winter girl.