Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 August 1896 — Page 2

end as never more reaawuriaav andn«v«r -had toetttet ca/use & an now, "Tlhe R£fi?ubAifoaitt pai**y. the kefvufetican voter, It sound mooey fcratunvfes, ae (believe it wM, nxusi to the niatnr« ot the thing consMbarte tir^-cody tuooasaftil funny. We ought not, therefora, to be aakedi to do anything fchat will affect the asisawy, the loTs&y, fire" dladpHne or the entthaisiaam, of ithe RepuibUcam party. The Rep^Ktean party fronts the destotiotiOTiiist, trutuuptAB fts defiance to ttae: eaesnie* of money. It will fightt, however, wiifiwutft covermtg any of the glono*» mtefcftoes and iaeiGripiUom* thai are uppo i*» Aawer, HJf our Iamio©ra,tic friend* uea.Mae» aa we realise, the gravity, the far reatihtng: conjseqnienfees of 1b-j» oaropaign, they omgfat not to a the Republican. pa*fcy to reorganize MselK to put aside, any of the great priBCipl'es that it has .advttcBtted in ordier to w*n a votte. their opinion. i» sfooeirely held, a© t)bjey taste*, it ougihrt *o determine their action for themselves wftfcouit reference to whe anyibodlyt else should dta. And I subtmit to these gentlemen, for whose opinions I have the highest regpeot, whether, i£ it is true, as they eay, thlat tlhe success, of the COiteaaor nominee would piumg© *h*s country Inrto eomimerclal distress and drag the nation's honor l» .tba dust, can there be any question for EUDCSI g«n^ tTemen. but tibia: Ho»w cam we roost 6urely defeat the Chicago nomineeta?

**Th« defense of the oonstlttiittofl and of the •intetfriay af the supreme dottrt of tha United j8tet«a end •©*tne prestde&t'a power and duty to «nf«*oe aftl of the iaws of the Uaiited States without a watting *h« ©ail of consent of the gdv«rnor of en ste*e, is important iuftdfe living Issue of tMs Wfcnupalg'n, Tariff and ooteage •wiM he of Jittle unothent cmr cotistitttt*»niatl g-overnnietit is oV!eirthrov(«n- When have a pj"eaidentt who be*lev«s it 'is neither his rifcht not his duty to see that .the mall trains ere not obstruct** and chat interstate commerce (has its free way, irrespective atalfce Uhea and courts, who «ears to use our ancient and familiar ,powex to .fesitrain. and punish law breakers, free trade and free silver will be appropriate .acoompanihientis of such an adrotoistratkm and cannot add appreciably to the natiottal distress or the natlonai dUshonor. Ttoere is only one rule by -which we can ftve usefUftly as a naition or peacefu-Wy as cltoens. It Is the ru-le of the laws

enacted? a'n^/flnaHy toterprefced^by the ludicial trib-unal appointed toy the constitution. When it becomes' thfe .rule thaft violence carries Us end aft^d we have In a a condition a •«wt™ot-

S a a a

death is to the tissues of ithe Human

.atmosphere of the Chicago con-

venMon was surcharged with the spirit If revolnition. This .platform was carried a*d its nom'tnatiohs ade^rUh comfrahydn* incid^t of c^r'Med the onllooker® end amazea

brief political cuuc

^i,ed so a Omt I pelled to ©ay:

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am not a revolutionist. ..

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the tt^J^S, adhere was

They S S S in intenteren^ toy

the local

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crime against cree

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,dedo to be ,,„.,. demnation Bu *or usto®

pie aippruv= Governor AltffiSJKToS^SiSr of any other S a 2 to enlflorce the laM»

S Un-tted States,

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t» 'a P'Min- and easy one. A

purely loca'LJn a

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canwbt send troops or iemi the it*lfcte*«Te c^lte upon him for .Ytev, or tf the ds not seeisfton. But when a law of the United States is ftnrvaded and broken it is the-sworn duty of the president to execute it, and) tote con-venttbn arraigns the president for doling wh'at Ms oath oom.pe.Bed to do. Ownrades of the great war o£ the Union, sons of th"ose -Who went to batitle thart the fla® might not lose its lustre, wilt we consent after these yeara, (-cries of "no, no, tfcbufc that .dowCrine WMoh was shot to death in the gsreait war shall 'be revived and m-ade -wtotorious In a civil a a (Crises of "no.") But this assault doeis not enVl there. The iSu.pre»me Court of Ze UW^ted States and the federal lower courts are arrtWned Ibeca-use they used the tomSlto writ of .injunction to suppress vfiolentce, to re^traim men from breaking the law. •, "I widl show you that it was understood in the convention and in the Committee on restftu-ttone that the Democmt'lo pol^csv w-as that (when the Snpreme Court, exeroislng consiinitlonel po.wer and duty, .gave an interpretation to a taiw of the United States that w*as not pleasing to oongrees, they would liincreaee the iMwotoer of judges and pa*?k .therfscmrtto get a dedision to pleafee them. ruroe Great Departments.

Xnr fathers who framed this government dttvided it© great pow«ra ibetween three greet depart'men'tB. The Supreme Court, the most digntifled judjciai body in the world .was appointed to Interpret the laiws ami the constatutfion, and when thalt court pronounces a decree as to the powers af congress or ae to any other eohultitutiional question, there is bait one right method if we disagree and that Js the method pointed out by tiie constlbuiUion, to amend it to comlonm our. views. That is the position today, i'on are to tanswer then whether you wSia susftain a parity that proposes to destroy the'balance which onr fathers instituted in our form of government, an*d Wherever a MumuttwuS congresB disagrees Avitth the &'j-preine Court and a snibseitvflent preiftdent is 8ii the White Honise. thtat the Jutd^merrt off the couirt shall be rexxttiettdered end reversed by ancreeein® the nu*hiber of judgefe and paiolrtiig t2ie oonrt w4th men who Will dexjide as «ntgT*ess iR^nts them to. I cennfet exaigBerate the gnavhy and the Sniportar.ee and the danger of this assault HUpoh our ctotoEiWtutiohal forms of .govefcntnen*. Whatever the qttes'rton Is, (whether Mr. Bryan's -Mie«w of the cons^'Utionel question shaft prevail or that of the a-u^mst tribunal apipointed by the oom*'ft'tftton to settle it. the courts are ithe defense of the weak. The rich arid po.n'eifPul bft-ve other resources bait the poor have not. The hlghi minded independent jiia-Uflftry th^t ^-AH hold to the line in queSbtons (beweaith and latoor, between the

rlxfy uati.tha.poor im,&* 4*&eom *adJ»» ouftty al th# oWe6»eile»Si "il d* not int«ntt to m^aUtA arfy to in the d*scu«St5tt of Che WtAff que^fea. That deibete baa been wTJn. We needed an- e4*periets» at ttat omrtt fchtt wH have had it. lit has been a herd lesson

5ult

a jyeny conivij'njgrnjg one, and

^erytKidy was itmmg:^ftgoiBofiiw waeii it "was giiven. We have htotory 50 fresh and reoenit, history 00 dndeaibly written on fire fiaif^ sMt mitim Off otff jJed^Ie tbiat certain in jnu*t he admitted and among (those thfaigs 1* thi* histofiiCal ra«St' Ws&t In 1*92 w*~ h*d "fle WSsti prosperous rtdmes, y*e- a»oet general d'jffiu^ion of a^roapenitty, t)he most universal tpartidiipat'ibh in. proisperity and the Wie-hest iritertt bdf p¥osfet*t# H&*4 eVer ait/tadned as a natfiion. Ntow« what has happened since? Then our .business pr*(pefy was ilfce the atttttig 6iirren£ otf t!he mm&y Jftveti ftdw2 they ftft itke a fading spring in Atfgutft drought.

Kviis or tb Wiiaou 'I a riff lull

"I do not beMeive there has ever been a time eseeorc peitbaps in the very hea* oif adrae «ub H've paaiic ,wheri universal business fear ant*-ea*iety and' waftchfu'lness, evert to the point o£ de^pei'fttao«, has cih^traioteiiiizfe^ tlhis great metropollis as tt"«b* tiO&lfr. fi^»leuse.) Men have .been atfirasid to go away !for a vacation. They have felt that they nm&, erWat? d%y til flh-is burniiiig heaft, coane imr the oMy and W&fcn fhtilr W&lness. Thiatt .is *he attutttaon. w^ho is there to dWend «the Wtilson tariff Ml'l? Who says it Js a god3 tariff oneasure? Mr, Olevelkoa regnDdaated k. It was so bad that he twoniM' .not atttacih his ofBictfal ffligniafFure to It and .became a.

\m mmm. n. te* »aia ft was ?»A ot 40feongw««ite And iftequsrlMes. And It was better on© than he wetted to give us.

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maintenance of the gold re-

serve tip to $100,000,0(50 by the government for,the redemption- of OUT not&s was essantla-l to coiffldeiw*e in the a biWty of our iflnaooes. Whett the goy--er.n.ment reserve run« down people begin, at once to eay: "We may come to the silver" .basis goW.ts ^roing out the reserve going down," altd this fear id gr&aely .imjreasetf. fBiit how can you k*ep a gold reserve of HOO.000,000 when you have not got $100,000,000 in (he treasury afll told how can you maintain this gold reserve for the redemption of notes Wheii you have an annual and cohtihaial deficit in yoiir lhcome hot equalling y&Ur expenSigeriStttfeat fdy friends, this tariff bi'M has not only, contributed by ihoreasihg importation by takin'g away the iieed-rtill support for incfeasihg the silver scare to bring us into the present condition of d'istru«t and d:smay •Which now prevails. The bond sale^ which have been made necessary by reason of this delftclt, because, I think every one will agree that as a financial .problem, tt la one thing when you have $300,000,000 surplus in the treasury to keep one dollar in three in gold and quite another when- you have only $125,000,000 in the treasury all told. But 1 did not Intend to fofllow this question further.

Reference* td William BfcKlnlejr. "I am quite as tHUoh hdwever, bp* posed to cheapeftihg th^ Americaft worfcingmeh and Tworltingwomeh as I am to cheap^hing our dMlarSi I aift quite as strongly iri faVOr of keeping days work at home, as I 4 gold dollars. If it coulfl be khown tbillght that the gallant soldier, that typical young American, that distinguished and useful statesman. •Wlttlaift MofciMey of Ohio (Applause a»d cheers) would certainly be elected president, how the •bears would take to cover oh the etoeft exchange tomorrow. AS a Republican I am proud of many things, but I can sum tip as the highest satisfaction I have had in the party and It* career that the prospect of Republican success never did disturb business. "In connection w:tn thSs finar.ciafl iiaafllter, do we all realize how ^Jbortant the oh6We 6* a presldertf-!«. Oo you know tihat ae the la.w is how, .without the -passage of any free coinage Off silver laiw fct all. It is In the power of the presl'derlt of the United States to brin* the to**fl*'S c* thi* cou-ntry to A stiver basia. A:ll he h.3s to do is to let the gold r^erve g», to pay oilt silver when men aek for gold «ti fl we ate there already. *a oiiiy beoatiee fhe oredlden*3 Of the Un'tted States th'at we •have ha^d, arffl the one *re have now Ba-ve regarded it under the la.w a& his puiblte dmty to miainte'n the geld Tw*». 5tota.teir.lw that r******?*™°to -V\ier ah.d gold Coins which the law declares is the policy of the government and became he a had the couture to execmte the powers fflven to h'.m bv the reBVimtti'iOn arit to tarry ouit tft»«t ration Of public 1 underrafke. to say that if Mr. Bryan or a m.an ht)l*h.«f Ws ww »ft the presidential 6hair. without anyJe®.*[ntion by ctoirsreA?, we snoutd be to a silver bag* lti a week's time.

W at Is the Silver Qnestlon. "TheOliver qnesftion. Wihat is it? we- want al-lver, do *we want more money, a .Janger Circu-laition? I have not heard anybody eay so. Mr. Bryan is not u.rglin« St on that basis. 1. any one were to seek to give that as a reason for .wanllirag free silver he would be very soon conifounided by the statemenu that free silver won I'd .put more gold of clrculatJion than the mints of the Uniited Stateo could possllbly put in in years? of silver and that instead af haivtag more money we wou'd have less. (AtPiplanee.) Wttth our s.x hundred ah'd odd mlilMons of gold- driven out of dircuOatioh we will reduce the per caiptta mloney of th-te eountTy between eigilSt and hihe dolars. So it is not fof more money. Wre have ah abundant Woffitor »f cE-ftni'fatSig medium gold, sSlver, national (banik paper, greenbacks, treabUry noteS, ifractohal A'.ver. We have sometn-Img like 523 per capita of out- population. What is it then thi* creates this, dehra^d fof rtlver. It 3s oipenlry avowed: It is a hwe te1 andVaiM off ^ahie thiat they are dfinahdCng. They say gold ihas gone u-p UntTil_ It has ceased to be a .propef standard of Value and they wartit sMvef. '"Hf you h-ave trn^o thing's e'Sthe'f one of whiich will pay a dttttt ar.* one is not as valualWe afe the other, you are RUre to g*ive the leatet valuable one. It is just upon the prfrn£fple thart a man who can pay a d«tot w?th one doiiar won't give ttwo, •pre«ise«y that. So that uuless these two thingfs malnta-ih a.pproxtaiattely the relative vstiue of that sixteen otinces of siliver .:s wotth one o^iniae of gold yon cannot make such doKtafs circulate together. The one that ia more vatoaibte i'he man will keep In hto potflcet or he w81l sell it to a bulUlon broker and everylbody iwiH 1iee .the other. 11 is an old low proclaimed years a-go in England by G-resheim thet the cheaper dbMar drives the befter one out. Yotl •m'egM as we*l say that we h*d' two kinds df buebTe.1* 3f th* l*w sbotfld declare that sixty pounds of Wheat was a biii=*iel aWd tWriry ipomnHa of Wheat was a bu&fcel—WeH whet farther would deltvet wheat fbj' the ^xt pound measure he hia'd soM by the bushel.

Bryan's AtouMti* rntiwn. 'Wow w*(at So these people propose to db? ^WheTT rheffliartrtrts off the world fix «heretettfive value of sliver or gold at

TKRRE HAUTE EXPRESS, IMDAYMQKKI»G^AF6UST 2B,I89&

51 ounce* «Unttr.to ooe^ooawftjoit «S^._ thay (propoirt to say 1«. (lATigMffi) There has been bthdng mAre atfntoia||. and yet I fear i^at it t&e

thouiAHifiBr

it may hove b*#n ittsomd taeasate mll-•iead(i)ng-*tii'ao'ilfe« fi»eetci defaifcratteii of Mr. Bryan, thet everyibody admitted thajt bfimetalWsm jwjas^^goffd thdng— itowfe 1» OT detete on that Btrbjeot affd the deflaate of the oaenpel^h has ootoe do.wn.jto titik fine j*fiiit--the Repulbilamis oay ttrat we cahnot faatve rhts gooin thiag wi'tfaoatt the ooneeBt af Bwgikmi and we &ay we. can .have H, oanselv«» a he h^j^ndjeewored^to pivot t-hj* greWt caemtpaign with its trespen-dow issues ufpon .that pin hole. Applause.) "But this Xeeiing is Weil Adapted to tducU the pwvailflig American bamfcuouenesi well adapted to touch that prejudice- agaih&t England Which we peopte ha-Ve, Can we d« this thing ourselves? It is a question whether we rt do it or ask' somebody'* consent whetBfer m*y is fche ^o-operattoh of eomebody,? ..Ifot 4t.aiL 1 wili .teU you what this governmient •ihn do alone. I.fe ea.tt fix tts money tihit, can declare1 fey law what *haill the the relative value of %n vunoe of gold or an ounce of stiver, but it cannot make that 4ast declMtfo gtood. It tfi^ilestlohabay fu'lly within -the power thlS «oyerhm'ettt to bring *hi» codtttry to a Silver basis by coining alrvef doilafs anti .making them legal tendeh They can do that. This governmanit says ySU Sh^li take one 01 those dollars In discharge of any debt owing to ybii for a dokar", notwithstanding yw* ^AT* loaned gold dollars, but it oaauiot say, and enforce 1ft deerw, if you whould.caW ou-t the regular army and navy and muster an our great modern, ships and add the irtllitta and put William $. (Bryaa in commend of them—tt cannot enforce the decree that one ounce of gold is the equivalent of sixteen ounces of silver. (Gtre&t «fcbpia.Use iaimd cheers.!) Iti&t only that not HPflaj*de arid England and Germany can do that unless the markets respond. (Applause.) WRy? You may make me t(ike a .Silver dollar for a debt, but if have bbuifht my goods at gold prices, you annot make nie give as many yards ot cloth for silver dollar a* I have been in the habit of giving for one gold one. If I have a gold dollar in this hand,and a silver one In that and you declare they are eqwaA, end I can take the gold dollar to a bullion broker. *nd get two dollars for It, I know .(•Great applause and cheersi) l"v

Mow RelaMVto Taltoea AM T\x(ta. "Bt Is trade, Hi the merchant, it the mdh to exchiim^e* and deals in th*se things .that• flxe* their relative value and if you. do not take the value he flxe# the geld dWter 11 go.back to the giold. vault and the gold will g» out of oiroulation. In this connection. these gea*«eteeo eay: "Winy did we not win the belt-tie at BttHKer

mi^""%£

ntft we whip the Briti'&h at Yb.rtttoiwn and do you mean to &ay we cant do it asalh'?"' Tihe log^c bi these gen«*m*.n —if I may use iu.:to. a term in connviCtion with such balderdia^h—is that, a nation that can do these great thlrng.3 and estabilrrh its poMrcal independeftce can ailso bs ftna.nciaily and bomimerclslly free fr oain.not be free of the laws of trade. They W a law that 50 cent® 1B a dollar? That would hot make It. so, wound It? Baft It "would be tf iesal **te*. It would not tu a dollat's worth-of anylthMg. Wthart

the effect thet? The. merchant would take care of hlm^eTtf. A .man keeps a store down here on Broadway and. the law f&m mo operation- tonight, lie summon,* all tfs rietto and buVfe 25 ceiHts' Worth Of pencils and .befor?he open, his store in the he has marked uip hM .gf?sd.a ft new scale. He can do all that, but there are great numberless people, who ehl*t trtf t^re^ft and- some of. ,whom-: nkindle ou,r sympathy who cannot use the FencU Take the working mian to the pay roll with.a up. Then there is the P*h6^°« cann ta-ke hirs-pen^o.n N when- tt ueftdto $8 mefce it read $16..He must wait for an appeal to cpnSTess and a congre-s,, that I

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character -wtflili* .bs u-reympathel.^. What can the depoisilt.ors- in our Wante, tlhis great oomipar.y of and-orihnn«. do. Can they take the hank pa-s- bocks and w*,re it sajis $1? $20? Not at all. Take the men who have life Insurance: con they where the policy, rea** koflO make $10,000. This polity coerces integrity.

Virst ftrninrt of a BiM-T 'These men sivrely dd hot contemplate the irretrievable arid extensivecharacter of the a and disturbance and disruption whtch they are prX)pos'irag for all of UB in all oU* bus nte8 affaiiis great and simple. Take the laboring man, hfew flill of syTmipathy they are for hi'm. The flrSt dirty errand that a drrty dollar does is to ch6at the workin-g.man. A cold siattSWloal Inquiry, nonnpar-tlsah in its oharaQter, wa.& made by a tconrmitUee of the eehate ih 1890. This intvastigtaltion coVered'rhe yedTS of 1 the war. I/atbof in 6ne pe«od advawjsd 3 per cent. the thiinga the men I had "to bu-y 6Uit of their Wages for their famines and .JiVlnig advanced 16 per I cerit. ThrooiiSh ah'dther pertod the laiiw orer's wages aivanieed 10% per cent., land the price oif good? advanced 49 per ce'riit. ilh "another period the wages of the laborer went Up 25 per Cent, and the (prices of meflohiand.ise advanced 90 per cent. On an'dther period the laiberefs wages went u.b 48 per cent, and the piiices of goodfe lit per cent. Now. theve

Statls'tfJcb are the resuH oif a &DW sc*t eh'tiine inqtilry, niade by men of bo't'h parties to determ-ine what the truth was and they fb-uml tlaat the enormous disparity be'Sween the advance of the cost 6if ttivln-g and the advance of waiges, falls in exactly with twhteit we would cohWuded In adva.nce. The taJborers, men w!ht worit whether 'with fre&d .or hard ih salaried poaitlons, would do well to ta'ke theie facts to he.ant arid settle the question after .that broad, deep inqnliry to wh-io&. iMr. Bryan invites you a.s to whether you wanft entef InW another experience suteih iafe it had dur ng the war when 'wages.(advanced so slcwly and tediously and t'he cost of your Xving moved so swiftly. I have skeitohed v€ry hesiaily some of the evils that will result .from thi.'e change to a deibhist'd dollar, a oontradtion of our currency by the exrittniihg of our gold and a readjustment of everything.

The Men W Win He ItoticttilaO. "Nviw, who will get any benefit? Wellv the man who owes a debt that he contracted upon a gold basis and is a-bie to pay it with a 60-cen.t dollar. He and the mine owner, who gets an exaggerated price for the products of his mine( are the only two people or classes of people that I can see that would have any benefit out of it. The, people tfho advocate this class of legislation, this legislation favorable to the mine owners, to double the price of the products of their mines and Offer this temptation of repuflierlbn- *6 the better class, as the party that heve fof twenty years been proclaiming agaklst olaisa legislation. They make a strong appeal to the tfajfmet. T'hey eay it will Out »p trlces. If iw%ea-t goe* from. SO

_then.4^ep«io« h*a-been tfiSk prllji* of fctrery-

fchlhg else ha* goife up'In Hie aim propoltiop, Wlsiel of Wheat Woto't bay for th#,teCto^r a*^ ax*ore«ugar or coffee 6f rl*n^^imTw8«nt», OF anything else that he has to purchase. If that dollar won't "buy tor 'the farmer any more or a better dollar a the one we 'have nowj where the good to anybody of initroduKfin*. these fitftttioos prices that are now real? "fch^llwe now inrftoeselBBnes, wh«n aH the ttis -#e suffer, are -aBbfe At we frhly revenle bill tfcet a 4 repfienlsh the treeswry df the United States, the* .will «en*rousHy preterit American aatooT aga.ins* 4n,j.unlouB competstlon a b^in% badk a®*!fl ffill prosperttyto all our (people—feheH we now contettiplate tor a moment, or allow t^q hSjve any power over our nearw and minds, tfiffe *eimtAa*loi{ H6 fleibase olir currency attflu ptot *t Ifl it .ftMtoteial posfiition alotugslde ol,ttoe_A&iatr:c countries 6r our weak artd! struggling s-fster retpulbtte of Mexttto? Doeil not, every insftinot 6i 0r*ae, do & nbt eve*y i«stlnldt oif sellf Infterest, does not every rhoughtifui aifeciaonate interest dn others, dbeS hot out sense ii W in honor rise vlfc to refc*utie th Inifamons. proiposlWon that^hte goyiernment and fiiis people shall become a nation and' a pefttfte ot re^dbmCTIltt, COfteetS.)" iEXr. Dfctflfl JBll, prest6nt ot hhe Jtochw ester Univensiity, Mr. HSinniaj Mr. Dauterbaioh and Mr iohn Wenamaker spoke Very .briefly and the arodilence dispersed aiCter gBiving three hearty cheers for the national ticket.

ALL 0TBR P0LTTICS

HUIWANB OFFICEB BKADBURV WITH A BttOoM HANDLI:.

HIT

•Brad" la Alleged to BtSv« Called Cteorg* BettitAeltl A Kiib*I"TB* Old Maa Fined For Asaanlt*

Sulliven. courlty is unquestionably r^motiirattic, butt wtoe-n tt coaie© to an inHiHfaetion- tbait some of it* citizen© are rebels, George Bentinetd, 70 yeans old, iR'. j$ady for a ngiht. Th:« much was pHovep yetelterdey when he took a broom handle and maJde a desperate eflbrlt to fEabbare the tihiouighit incubator oif Hur mane Officer Wlliiaim H. Bradbury. Dt wa6*one o'f those fligibtis havinig an- orl-: gin Jn a free silver disouosion. Silver ajngunfnehts are ais comonion down, on WaMis'treeit and South Fourth sfcreet as flleB':k'.bout a mouaisties fadtory. inhere ie "noil a day passes that some one doe3" ni{t,get miid a hid want to ftg'h/t, bu|t yestenday is the firat time there ha© been a blow sttriiok In. tih'at part of the dity

Bradbury ahd JAY, Benefieid were At it hot and heavy yesterday morning. Tthey h-ad talked eibouil the crime 6f '73, of. the 53-cenit do.lar,

B'h.-lnpl,a».ei(s

and

national' deibfcs. When the sulbject drifted down to a dieeuteision of the piy ment of soldier?,. Bradbury made some remark albouit ribcOs in Sullivan couin•ty. This was. too miuch for Bcnefleld. He loveid tho^e handsome i£!mocralt-il3 majorities Siudlivan. counity always ro.'lt3 up. He voted there hirr-celf ard, being an oSd soldier, rafiuised to hear of rebels In Sullivan county thirty years after tiiec .war was over. He aiodordiingtly 'picijed up a heavy "broom handle 'and broniigftit. down oh. Bradbuiry's head with all his might.

Then- the two men clinched and were having a.liv-ei'y tu'?.:ile when bystanders separated thehi. iBsinig an dfrTojt^ Bf*adflUTy at once took Eetfcifteta iri.to custody. When'arraigned before M'aybr Ro^fe, Fer^ififld' made no denial of the fa-cit thalt he bta.d struck the humane ofheer. He Saifl frs had struck but three men in his life and on e3iah of those occasion© it was due to the fact that l.ney had called him a relTel. 'T hSt.'hoM. I ddn't deny it," Benefleid when placed on the wiitnes-s stand chlanged w'li'h aWsaiiit and battery "I'm gullity cif assaihlit and batiery, I appose and will .pay whenever you' Iteil -me hfow mniish dliimiage has been. Mbne." -. The mayor afs-:sred the low«lt .fine ipib*Rl.bi'e. $1 and ro?tts. ar.d Benefleld Ipniited otft h!.= old arreatsv,. pcp»««*nTt and paid his way to liberty. He then ih^tMWV§d prol-o-Ke pY-oce'edlnes a&ainstt BTatd.bury. But the rhsr^re of Be-nefield that the 0 ffi.ee hiid called Mm- vile nairri.fs was not' u.«t?!lned by fhe witnesses eiuimnrbnpd. The court iheriifore found for the de-ferldant.

.1 [X Chicago a Durirtoweed. New Orlears. Aug, 27:—The gottd standard Derrotfrarlc convencion- aissemhled at 8 p. m. Semaitcr Dorva'dsoh Caffrey was mud'e pe:imanent chalrrr.'an. The r^oluiilons denounce the action of the Chicago convention of 1896 and affirm that its declaration of prinebples is not binding uip- .n any true Democrat aorhmer.d. the aictaninis-.m-tion of Cle.va'end and declare hd we are unalteraMy cipp-cised to the free and unlimited co'»a«e of silver exctpt by lniterni3iliibnal a^recimeri th.vt will maintain its per its' with go'd."

The convention eleMled a full delegation to the Indianapo'-is convention.

Brya Vpcate* «t Huff^lo. •'*.-•

EnffaTo, N. Y., Amg. 27.—Mr. Bryan addressed 4,000 people in Music Hall ton'lgibt. He wias escorted to the hall by the ''Cleveland DemotCTacyi"r''When Mr. Bryan oondiuded he was esco¥ted badt to the Genesee House, frenr t«*T balcony' of whtbh he made another speech to art audience larger than the first one. (Bryan's .prograim/me has been changed The speech at Coium'bus has hevtn abandoned and the trfp to OhLoago will be aiong the line of the lakes.

tlpntriipMvH MiohJiran ^Irp..

l^a'lutt ?lte "M-lrle, Mich., Aug. 27.—^ire, Whi'ch ®t,ai,'.e'l in Jtforth W'ater sireet today, deiv.royed over $300,000 wor'.h of property. Amoriig the burn-ed burildings are the f'so

f!a:lor!eii

Bank bud-lding,

$100,000 the Bren-?MUer block. Chipipewa, House, Clevelird House, Me age-r Bk»pk aftd Perry Hr-ie), po^ottlce and Unit ell 9'a-te? custc'rr.5 offic? and a nuf^iber of wooden strua.-Utes. infe-ur-anoe atbuit $150,000. -bt

Sl.-"s Afr*l'l or Tt»»r f.lf««.

^hefol'fce last ftitghlt arrested Inwin Greer on a warrant AworWiibg to JehnlerWeddle, who Swore obt the tvarrant, Greer is a bad man and 1 won Id not hesitate to kill her. She says she is af reld he..will do her bodily harm and on her F*tajtemenits Jiisit^ce Felsent'hal issued the warrant ¥br Greer's arrest.

?b#derl? ^il 8n|»pbrt MclCiniejh Scfanton, Pa., Aug. 27.—T. V. PowBeriy, former master workmen of the S if of Labdr, ill ah interview today, announced his intention tb support (Major iMdRlnley. 1 -—i-. -—i*- '." .'U5» %®& a Itnnean Nnmlri*tel» W rBvemw»le, Ind., Atrg. 27.--Thohias D»unca'n of G*Won county was today nomlrKUred tor congress in the *^r»t d!slr»ft fey &fe Deiniottralts.

DEATH ON THE HILL

suooKlica Avotama* TO BIOTOLK KIDXB.

MIM Bay Saffara Iajarlaa Waleh

Oa taa BlekUa H1U.

As a result off a- daitresalnts bKylcIe accideat which happened on Hirtdto* hili, six mrlw w«et oi ttoe effty* n&Atda»y momlhg' Miss Laura Ray, one otf the best known, teachers of the Terre Heute cityt schools, received iniucles fr*ft wihlcli ahe died a f«w hours later.

The H*Mi hiii a very steep declivity on the Paris gravdl road haK way between. .bbJs city and. the IlKnois line. TJ» hill has loag been considered d\a.ngemus by the fanner* in that tocalify and, althou§if wheelmen irequenitly make the aescent by "Wfaettto«," they have looked ntpoli ii as a perilous trip. &aea Ray waa foufid lylng utncdhsdtius lis a iHMe gnilley at uhie f6ttt of the hill about 9130 o'dlo^fe yesterday morning. The1 Viood wa8 streaimtibg from her nose 4hdl moiift'h and she was aptparenitly HifeWsB. H^ bicywie lay a few feet aw'ayi No one saiW *lhe accident, bu* it JS stip^cBed Milss iRay, in descending tile h!H, lost cdhitfbli oi her wibeel atid was th*ciwn"

Off. •'.•l-*'lii r"£.i|''" &he W AS discovered &£., Ml,&*te^ of Eiag.ir bbttaJty. 111., 8 & :W wif#s a on his way to Uandes carried the wntfortunaite wonfan to -tihe hosrne of_WWHam Bllsworth, a fihort dfetehce froiri the saene of th? afccldwJt. M&s B« atrtl breaching, bUt gave no other indk»tti|o'ns ctf life. A meseeniger as dispatched for physicians and in a i&M four Df. Htant of Miackeville arrived. OJaiter Drs. Befl and Swafford of thte *ty were sent ©r and the three physlctar,* did everythimg in tieir power to revive the unconscious wamah. All efT«jts failed, however, and MM* Riay dtld abonit 1 o'ofodc. Her mother, Mrs. Ray, livlmg a haf* mile west of the Illino» line, was snarifcriioned ehontly aifter the accident and remained at her daughter's bedside Until the end. Mies Ray was well known- in Terre Haufte, where she had been idenllitled With the e*y fcncble for yettW*- She ^n«a«

in training school work and was very popular wittn both teicheTS antt etttdentts. Sh •boarded'at the homie of Professor Wisely, on. North Tenth Street.

CMSss Ray was evidently on her way home' wiheh ishe met death oh the hill. Although £The was experienced rider it was known thet she dreaded the steep descent. She once told her brother of an experience she once had while coming down HiiKskiMtf. (hill and laugh'thgly referred to haw she had lost control o'f the pedals. Ht Is the opinion of the physMetis that Miss Ray's death was ca.used by cbnlttiiHiion ot the bra.ih. There was a contused Injury ht the base of the istkull whtch indroeted t'bat her head, had oonle tin contact wi'foh a sbbne or some other herd suibeta-nce. In the ahsence of Coroner Payne, Derputy Coroner Stuntkard went tb the EiHswOTth home yetsfterday aifternbon and took the tedtfimony of a nanmlber of persons living- in t'he ne^htborhood. Undettaker Ryan took oherige of bh^ b-dy. No detlhiite arrangements hA)Ve yet been made for the iftinera 1.

TO THE SCHOOL TEACHERS.

«bn oif teachers. The visitor* with un- I

deeply moved by jit—the beautiful trlh ute paidt, by Mr. Sfcn'er bo a memlber oif nvy:'&i\"n family, and one whom dearly loved. Her splendiid work is "to me a Swee't and penpeittval memory, and I gratttruily adkniowledlge the Inlluentie Sfhe exerted -upon my li'fe. Her notle ex-ample has been to me a constant inspiration. Thet the board, of eduoatibrt oif Canton should have so honored her memory is most gratifying to her fam.il y. "Friends, I have great respect and incr-eas ret p..:it for the schoolmaster. My grFai-grandiflatber was a teacher in New L.£.vton of a private school, ih Columbiana county, thiis state, lorig before the public school sysUirn was established, and since the.: titrme soirrie meirr.bers of the family have befen eh.anagtd in that honorshle ocnuratidti. if I sail, I hav-e a'Wayis f*ft the greiittest feiapno- for tre ?ohob!'mtister. and rioiw and th^n po»s bly a fear of himt .&MI my p.a.1 est arid pleaean-t-est r»cod!er*iions are ad-toci-ate^ w'th him, ard I bear hirn only gratit-vde and iove. Jm eaMy day.--, now, h^? was the com-spfcit'ous flgur*» in thp cornmirnify, comrri3ndir,g the nohfidsnoe and often winning the a.fftrt'on ot both pupils arid pvreni**?. The teacher orilnarily wias the ideal of thf pa'pM. in hjrn wad frmil-odied "a«!| fha.' was good, and true, and great, anr! th'S W3s a'ways tt*Ue ^".Ren the piip.l r've8 Mi teacher, bnit if he d'd rtot love the teacher, then tt ws rarely true. Then the teacher. If he wculd enjoy the frlenls.rr(p of his school, mu not onvy Bave a good head, but a good heart. As I look hick ww my sehoo! dayi= I gr^m- in *he convfetlon that my bfwit tea^heTs wer* not the mont aigreeaMe leachen-. have come to feaTifce that wha

\Vv» l^s' aSt'a^t-

Ive to me was nrri: ^mip^Tiatit to my educatfohi'-' **&'\

"That ^oQ^'fiaVe a deep In'reresf'fn politics goes without saynng. 'for you have deep Interest In your country. If you would show me your love for country, you mhst give considerate attention, to American politics. .Wb»e_

btaia eaU fmmoat muf 9«ft*lM« algnifloanc*. it la 4ea«t an aierurenoe that yottr jtttndb are not wholly ebsorbej with literary puraults, tout that now. foid then ydtt have *urna4 *o oonaideraUon5 a potttrcai Sh«fa«Sb. The duties of citizenship ere quite aa high andl Impoitapt a any which oan anjpaaa our attention, and the educated- an ox Hie country should tW th Mkat dtwloote and neglect them. They aU mai^ should, by example and

Srae*J,*,vj^*

force ifcpon every oomrhunity t» w'nlca tU?y.,risi«e ^heineoeasity or a

and patriofio perwfrflanw bB

the civil obtigatWHS resting upon outf cKfisemshrp in a free cou»try. "Tour jiwlfassfeon, ladies and.gerstftemen, is one oS rare reS^nsibBmy andl oi|piort«un»llry. 1 know at no class o* persons upon Whom is ta»posd graver Auftlea, prvwtoo heve weder oppor*un*tf» ftr promSHng good -oltsaeoamS* ahdi en cotaraglng bfigh a*nd *»fl purposes, both. In lndividiuel a netlonal litfe, tihanj those w:ho barve obange of the edfuceo tvonai"jnsjitugions. of the^coijntTy. Thel tesuoher is the puibtoo servant. He Si not in privute «sntpk)yttn«ntt. He is an esjpitttialjpart of the conservative forcB whiioh uipholds the national JatbfTc. Instructs the flirtire1 dhrfiefe. and future statesman. He is a mighity power in the Me otf the nation. His influenoa j^'uWxormiy been on t&e &«« of x'igrfts He moldi* and dlretRs the mlritt whtchl will control the destiny of, the regpuMie. (ienltllemen, you are engaged In a n'ofble celling. I honor yTJOT in your servlca and .prolftaeton nothln* more exa*twi could engage you. The youth are yotwa oUtain. The youth oif -fche land era ytitfrs to instrmet. That it may ha #?sfe=« if done ybu h*ve my .Wtet iWnShe* AUdl pfAyiBrs."

O S OF GREAT ACTORS

Taloftbie Ctflieetlon mt Autocrashio ftffst"

lii(S Froaa tha Stages .,,

A -\1iDualble e-n'd unique collection o4 E4gnatures and amtographlc senitlmemtJ •by distirngwiehed atltors and aotressedi of the past and present? Is oonitetned Irk large wttap toootk owned) by J. Oahlorne IiU'nt, says the New York Her* aid. Mr. L.um.t has been twenky year* ane'kinB his collection and haa refuotSl $500 offered ltor it by a Bo*ton ao^jety.

Here are some of iitB oonSri&uKlonal which are elf SeKt-Snienf.al interssl^all le^elt, it tthose wihb a&mHre emlneot ^er« son^tges of the drliniii:

John T. Rayttnonda wriitea Ma temoiutt line./Tthert'B m-dUc-as in it,'' "'•Btdririg' tKe 'cross.' Time &, sh6r$ and, If youar croes be heavy, rem-erhftjetf

reet ybu have not far to certy tt," & from, Albotft tn»ree #eekls algo Mlifes fRay w«nt 4 eimoiMor-al ajcUresa, Mitilto Wmona I*erk fto afcterid the assesfriibty

a a

meeting in prbgrees there S I burden. devout memfeer otf the Central frettey teitian Chniicih land d-iirin^ the swm-mef Wad ta*eh etitive interest in the work at Winona.. Three days ayo she wrote to her Drbitner here that Bhfe wtmW return home Wednesday. She said that ^he na intended. Bti6ft:tp4t,ig off at Betehi Wttrl some friends tout as she desired to be present It the ReeVesiMtttkle twedldUhif Wednesday iMftU s-he would hnirry bh hoim.e. Heir "Sa«hi:5y wad ejcpecif'ng her bn bhey were not po« tfiiVe oif her feTttU'rh until the sad in-* telMfeehfee- of 4ier d**nt!h .was brought to them yesterday. _The aged mother of Miss Ray was almost prot-(tTa!t|d^fcy the nefws of- ithte sSiotekinig aocidettt, (but nevertheless hurried to her daughter's side.

whoM Siribe taid down he*

The line ctf Bob BrlerJ-y in 'Th Tltfc-e.t-of-Leave Mbn,"' "P'oor broken, heart hutited down" is 'in iihe strong hand c& W. J. Ilorenoe. "We are ari»anit knaves allj belietve none oE us," quotes J. W. Carroll, tiia old ctomedian Of the Walluck atoeS conTipi-ny. "Hiirry" MJonitu#Tie, New York's mdsS ipoptiiiar miairinee aoior, quoted ihe famiiti*uis Mn.eS froirn. Tennyson, '*Tr-iMl hearts a.fe riibre tfiah ctoroneits. and ciinrpie fcith than !Ni?nm«.n ftriood."

Chefiey Tnorne. angither leadilng manj w'hb was a f-smiftine Idoi hb,w also deed, wndte w,'ith a .touch oif .world wearinersS ''1 atri pteased tb ifiirifi iny heme is of some Use to you it Js cf very ivUl* lb rrae." ''•'[. "EviF d&vi," ecrthbled the l!aiie J. K! Eimimet. 1 "All the world's a stege," writes MTSJ C. fi. G-'lbe-nt. "To hoTd the mirror tup to nature," ii the'sentiirniewt- o:f Mime. Poniel.

Qubt'ihg from "A'^.Tbu.Like It," Mrs.' John Wood says of her name, "A poor thing, bu'r mine own." know all toniorroiw," is tha comforting assurance of M. W. L*effingwieil once the great burlesque comedian, who na since learned Ihe great se-cr-dt for himsd'f. "Be s'li-re you're- rlg.M^^then go ahead,*' 'JS by Frank Meyo. ":,' ." f'teele'Miaokaye,..for wh-orr! a thbusand frieh'dfe anti ad.niieinJ still mourn, wrote:' '«I r^igr^t.'l'.hb^ you w-ill permit me ohly to retiurn yotl so wOrthfleftj a thing as the ttame of J- Blieele Mackaye.'-'' ,,,,.. .„...^. ... lArme. Jan«-m«it*riek q-Ufc^'sfis BrunhiildteS "Where thought' appears there ig'norar.ice tarries n'oTt.''

John. MtaCuMoingh proolaAmed: "There 1 a worldl everywhere." Oenevieve Wlaid. now r* !)ired in Bhg1iferttd. totltr orice a giwit Queen Kather'All hoodB

Mr. McHIn!ey'» Speech to a Starfe Connt.t T*l«XBtlnn Canton. O., Anug. 27.—Two hundred and fHft«y public sohool teachers of Stark irie remarks, oyn-uoJAiy county called on M.acfor -MIoKlinaey yes- m«lce not monk*." .T.V. I Th-is reflentil.v« bit of VeJtee In pr*v« terd'ay afternoon. They were headed by j„-n,«n T^ ... Is bv the late rteorjre Vandenihofr, Jr., Ffrwldiewt Hiner of the couflty asfto*ia-

a{ he W:3

.Ila)0k

covereddheads, sang "Airrtert.ee' as theyt clo-M fch« tivun-l ofl fove?

gathere belJor .th house. A shor co hgrtaitailatony sad'dretes was gtven- by PrciPeissor Sanger of this city, to whHc3i Major MMKinley responded: "Uad-ies and Gentlemen: I ootint It boffh a comipJlmertt knd ah honor t-o receive this cell frvvm the eduicators oT Stark and a dijoinftug counties. an not

HSh-oyl|d

u-3

?'-%'M

fcM

wh oh earth piay wel his piarf iMey hope a e*at a/b*ve. 'rm* face he has wreaHrKO. with smile*,

The he-art his mirth 'nradp lighten ehefi ipiead like arfg^s' toriipues fiibcnre A-nd rrialte his record brighter.

Thee* only a f»w of the eflcpreev-filo-h.«. c-a.?e arid witry. rhat ftBL Mis Tjumtt's volirmie. In addition a*re htin-

pernrX to p^asis unhoticwi-^flor 1 was dredw of autogihijaftis. among tnetn trw

K^natiire* of Ed.win Booth, JOeeiph J^l'PenSon. Charlotlte Oulshm-ans E. A. .Prtfhern. Msrk .With, H. 8. Mnwviot^ lCdiMri FVrrr«HStt, I«ter Wallucki H^nrjr Trving. Ellerr Terry, Lrttta, (Maggie MUnibheiT, Tsar.'e, Dion Biurtoanat, Ristori S^lvlnl, Dii's*. Bernhardt, Coqnie-. lln.Ve!.lwn. Mary Anderson, Dan.s*ry, John Bn^uisham. FmtM and Jenny Lind. dcJAld.OWI/'^n-flBTIhBltlffT TA TT

•'.Silver Republican l'arty."

Oa&ies, Ida.. Ang. 3".—tfn the sMrw Republican convention today, Senator Dubois was named as the party's candidate to succeed hrm«elf. They formed ai- new party under the na-nw of ,"t^ver Republicans Perry."

The (fusion candidates nemed are •Frank Stehnenbu.rg, (Democrat, governor: James Guney, Populist, congress! Oeorse J. Lewis, PoputiSt, seordtary at state.

nroohlyn'n Ofllclai Trip.

Boston. Ausftis* 27.—The Brooklyn, on her- offlcUL .trial !.rip., today, a 21.92 kindt? an h+mr during a forced dratpg'ht run of four h/iu^s. On a portion ot the PWuree seveh nj?ts long «h^ wias spedeid at the rate of 22 0-30 knots an hbut. The cruiser, by her perfO!»mance today. eari*s a tonus of $'-60/09 for her builde.'S.

K„.i.»r«^a th* St. t.»Hi» Matrnrrtl. Boise, fddho. Aug. 27.—The «lralg1»b R«pu(biMica.n co-nventiftm oloSCd -today. The .p-atiform indorses the St. Loui» platform. The fiharvoiail plank d^clar-3-* that Wimetalliam can only be brought about tlwough. the trw coinage oif sliver. The ticket Is headed by Bu-lw km& for governor. "'','•'.

iV r«inllt!on of th^ fr*a*»nfy ,"- Waalrlmgiton. Aug. 27.—The tTeasu-ry todhy ICwat $8^,700 In go'S, which I?aVe3 the true atnot6n.t.Qf trie reserve $ip1f339,174. •%. '-.\

The Express Is the ohly Sundaypd^per in Terre Haute, 15 cent* a week.