Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 October 1896 — Page 3

HOW IT WAS DONE

POPOCRAT8 OBTAIN THE POPS BY A "COMMERCIAL TRANSACTION."

P. F. Kennedy Sizes Dp the Committee— An Attempt to Bribe Ulm By a Democrat.

The sudden change of heart by the Populist committee of thirteen Tuesday night and its peculiar action in launching forth at midnight a fusion ticket has caused a large amount of comment, not only among Populists, but among politicinas of all parties and the general tenor of the comment is that it must have been a purely commercial transaction, says the Indianapolis Journal. The Populists put ten of the Democratic electors on their ticket, and in making up the list of five Populist electors put on three of their congressional candidates, thus pulling them out of the congressional race and leaving a clear field, so far as the silver sentiment is concerned, for the Democratic nominees in these three districts—the Fourth, Tenth and Thirteenth. In the way of a bargain the silver Democrats conceded nothing. They have not taken down any of their electors, and declare that they will not. The consideration, therefore, must have been of a different character, the politicians declare. This theory is given corroboration in the action of Thomas Patterson of Denver, who came here as the accredited agent of the silver syndicate. He was met here by George F. Washburn, who is at the head of the Western branch of the Populist national committee, and J. G. Johnson of the National Democratic campaign committee. These gentlemen had various conferences with the members of the Populist committee of thirteen, all of tfyem of a strictly private nature, and the deal was fixed up. What the consideration was remains a secret among the parties to the bargain. M. C. Rankin yesterday denied that Patterson had appeared before the committee of thirteen, but said that when Patterson went to Room 79, English Hotel, where the committee was in secret session, at a late hour Tuesday night, he talked to nobody but Rankin.

The statement was published yesterday that the silver Democrats would probably take down five of "their electors to place the five Populist electors on the Bryan and Sewall ticket. It is not likely that they will do anything of the kind. As the deal •tands at present it is eminently satisfactory to the Bryan managers here, and they are not likely to take any further stops. They figure that the action of the Populist committee, together with the charges of bribery, have been flyiDg about during the past two weeks, has practically destroyed the Populist party in Indina that the men who voted the Populist ticket two years ago have become thoroughly disgusted with the mysterious and suspicious actions of their leaders, and that these "leaders" have nothing further to sell and are not worth paying any further attention to. Furthermore, they want to prevent, if possible, l,he placing of a state ticket in the field by :he National Democrats and believe that they have l^d no hand in the action of the Populists in putting out a combination licket.

The Nationals' Call.

Chairman Pickens of the National Democratic state committee yesterday issued a call for his state committee to meet next Friday to consider this subject. "I don't .enow," said he, "what action the committee will take. I don't think the Popocrats nave gained a vote by the Populist fusion, in fact it seems to me that they are likely lose much more than they gain." When •:he committee last met and considered a state ticket a majority was opposed to put:lng one in the field as the case then stood, md it decided to defer action until time should develop whether or not there would oo fusion among the other people.

There was a lively tilt in the rooms of r.ho Popocratic state committee yesterday jetween Chairman Martin and Charles' X. Matthews, editor of the Nonconformist. It seems that Mr. Martin had made a statement at one of the conferences Tuesday cnorning that an emissary had come from :he Nonconformist office to ask for $600 to ^et the paper to change its politics. This 311ed Matthews with indignation and he went down yesterday to have it out with Martin and they had it out in a very lively war of words.

Boodle and Bribery,

The action of the Populist committee of thirteen in delivering the party over to the Bryan managers has caused a lot of calk about boodle and bribery among the local Populists. "There are two or three members of that committeo," said D. F. Kennedy, one of tho local leaders, when discussing the personnel of the committee some days ago, "that I have had occasion to come in contact with before in trades union work and whom I would not trust my further than I could see them. One jf them in particular has a rather large record in connection with a co-operative oal company that was organized In this .own some years ago. They went out and ot subscriptions from merchants and others, amounting in all to several thouland dollars, and he was put in to manage .t. After a few months the money was gone aud he could not account for it. He left town for a couple of years, but re--.urned after the affair blew over."

While Mr. Kennedy was in a reminiscent mood he related a story of the effort that was made to bribe him and E. A. Perkins. Perkins was nominated for auditor of jtate on the Populist ticket. His competitor in the convention had been Coben of Crawfordsville, who was a Democrat, and ,vas playing to get the nomination of both he Populists and Democrats. "Goben came lown to my house to see me," said Kennedy, "and talked around in a general way

xbout Perkins being unsatisfactory to the

Populists aud one thing or another. I rather suspected what ho was up to and ed him on to find out what his game was. -Ie did not make any definite proposition it this time, but asked me to meet him at .he Grand Hotel an another day. I kept he appointment and we talked about in desultory way until I finally said to him, order to got at what ho was driving at, hat he could talk to me with perfect fre lom, and, while I would make him no promises as to whether or not I would comply with any request he had to make, he •ould rest assured that what he would say me would go no further. He then canu? •ut with a flat proposition to pay Jl.ftDO in ash and take me around over the state and jay my campaign expenses if il would get Perkins off the ticket. I told him that it vas a matter that I could not have anvil ng to do with, and I understood he -nade various propositions to get him to •etire."

OBSCURE MILLIONAIRES.

Only Way Possessor of Millions Can Keep nimsfilf Unknown. The London Spectator oncc published a 1st of those it called "obscure millionaires" •.Tho had died within the previous ten years. The list was a rather long one, says the Church Standard. This list sets one considering. The age is a shopkeeping age, it is rue. It is apt, we say, to value men acoordlng to their property. Great wealth lives great consideration, and yet, noU

withstanding the exaggerated importance of money and money getting, it appears that wealth in the largest measure redeems no man from obscurity that money in itself, by its mere possession, confers no distinction which even this age values. Its use, and not its possession, is all that can make it a matter of distinction. In our own country even more than in Europe wealth exaggerates its own consequence. It is natural that it should, for here^more than there, it is a personal matter. The American millionaire has "made," as he says, his own millions. They represent his own shrewdness, industry, tact, perseverance or "good luck." He is fond, it may be, of reminding us all that it is so. He Is a "selfmade man," and recurs to the time when he was a barefoot boy, or a penniless youth," with some pride, as a proof of how bright a man he is in having changed by his own powers the early poverty for the present wealth.

He feels It in his heart that he has done a noble work, and that he deserves the commendation of mankind for doing it. He is liable to disappointment, as we all know, and it is somewhat strange that, shrewd as he is in money matters, he is so blind in others. For the rest of the world is very busy and has little time to trouble itself about his success or his failure. Neither can other people see on exactly what grounds a man can claim its applause only for having taken good care of his own interests.

The consideration given to him for his money is given only to his face by those who expect to get something by it. The community would look complacently upon the matter if a sudden revulsion should set him to sweeping the streets tomorrow,would consider him, indeed, quite as important in the last occupation as in that of raking his heaps higher. In other words, it is the wealth itself that is important, if there is any importance in the case. The miin who owns it may bo very unimportant in fact, if he is content to be merely its owner, is sure to be so.

Tho only way to create distincitnon with wealth is by its use. What a man does with what he has determines the question of his obscurity. The world is very just, and forgets all but Its benefactors. The millionaire who uses his millions for his own benefit is like the ofllceholder who uses his office for his own benefit, or the man of genius who exhausts his genius for his own selfish ends, or Indeed like any man who, endowed with a trust, uses the trust for his own exclusive use and behoof.

Men possessed of other trusts are not as apt to mr-ke thla* mistake as the men possessed of money. Genius, intellectual power, spiritual gifts, we arc all loud to claim are conferred for the good of humanity. We stand ready to condemn relentlessly the men who, endowed with such gifts, use them mainly for their own advantage. But great wealth, especially if a man has himself won it, is less apt to bo considered a trust. The greed for it is great. It is often sought, not for itself, but for the supposed distinction it confers. When the young man of energy and ambition looks forward to the attainment of it as the end of his endeavors, he is not led by any miserly desire for money itself. He has rather the noble desire of winning distinction and importance by its possesison. It is a means and not an end. Pity he should in the years of his pursuit so often change his notion. For his first opinion is right. Wealth can confer distinction. It can bring honor and high consideration. It can make a man's memory fragrant for centuries. But to do all this It must be used.

There are millionaires In our own country who will neither be remembered nor cared for thirty days after their costly funerals. Their pasasge from among living men Will leave no void, for the stocks and bonds and shares which alone gave them their consequence remain. Mankind has lost nothing, misses nothing. There are others who will be missed in a thousand places and by thousand of hearts, for though the millions remain, the heart that made the millions a blessing is gone. The man in this case is lost to us, and he was morethan his money. There are again some few who so dispose of their thousands that their names and memories are linked for years, for centuries, to the monuments of beneficence they leave behind them, famous the land over, not for their wealth, but for the good deeds their wealth was used for. The millionaire is nothing, his importance nothing, his consequence nothing. We want to know what he does with his millions before we care to remember his name. As a millionaire merely he is like the great poet who never writes, the great orator who has never made a speech, the great inventor who has never invented anything. He had grand opportunities. He could have done so much with his money. He did nothing. He "died worth so many millions." That is all. We stand by his grave and thing "what a fool he was!" Another obscure, millionaire."

SILVER MEN IN NEED OF MONEY.

Mine Owners May Prepare For Another Aaslcnmenr. New York, Oct. 1.—"We are out for money,"

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Senator Jones, chair­

man of* the silver Democratic committee, in reference to dispatches from Chicago regarding the financial straits of the Bryan-

Chairman Jones said

oratorical bureau further: I came here at this time to meet Mr. Bryan for a conference about his speaking tour. I wanted to arrange for his trip through the west. He will go to St. Louis from here and from there to Memphis, October 5. Then he will go to Nashville, Tenn., October 6, and from there through Indiana and into Iowa, speaking at Bui^ llngton, in the latter state, October 8. No appointmcTi is habe been made beyond that date, but he will go up into Minnesota and Wisconsin, and probably through Michigan. I have seen Mr. Bryan and have had a sat-

ference with him. I will re-

turn to Chicago. "I am entirely satisfied with the condition of the campaign and with the outlook."

Senator Jones was then asked about the dispatch from Chicatro that his committee is financially embarrased. "That i£ true," lie responded promptly. "We are out of money we are broke, but It is onr normal condition." "Did *ou come east to raise money?" "Oh, no we do not expect any money from New York." "Are you and Mr. Bryan satisfied with the situation in this state, and with the candidate nominated for governor?" "Oh, yes what is satisfactory to the Democrats of New York is satisfactory to us." "Have you abandoned your campaign in Ohio, as is reported?" "We have not given It up, not for a second.* Just wp.it until election and the country will see whether or not we have abandoned our campaign anywhere."

l.ost. All Interest.

"WThat is a Popocrat?" she askea. He started to explain to the best of his ability, and was getting along to his own satisfaction until he happened to notice her trying to squelch a yawn. "Perhaps I am wearying you?" he asked. "It isn't as interesting as I expected," she admitted. "I—I thought perhaps a Popocrat might be a young man who was jxot afraid to pop."—Indianapolis Journal.

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Through a half open door could be seen the leading lady, vigorously applying powder, rouge and other necessary youth-giv-ing accessories.

Among tlie other players, too, no time was being spared in preparing for the ideal world into which they were about to enter —a modern forest of Arden, where the old selfish self is cast off and an unselfish, sacrificing self is put on—by all except the poor, much abused villain. Down the stairs leading from the ladles' dressing room lightly tripped a little girl of perhaps 7 summers. Her gown of laces and frills fluttered all about her and a natural bloom suffused her dimpled cheeks. She stepped to the curtain, and, standing on tiptoe, peeped through a crevice.

Tim Plajers Appear.

"It's an awful poor house," she said to the commedian, who had joined her, in a staccato whisper. "It is, my girl?" the big fellow answered as he stroked her on the head.

From out of the corners of the stage the players appeared almost simultaneously and took their appointed stations in tho wing.

Ting-a-llng went the bell. Everybody took a hurried glance at themselves and cne another to see if everything was all right and that the players had forgotten none of the necessary pharaphernalia.

Ting-a-ling once more. Up rose the curtain. The lawyer, the railroad president and the German barcn were living for the audience now. After a few opening remaiks the railro.tl magnet mado his adieu and disappeircl behind the scenery. 3

One of the stage hands came over to where the commedian was standing evidently with some intelligence. "Well, what's the matter now?" anxiously interrogated the mainstay of the piay. "The president's sick," replied the man.

The commedian looked troubled but preserved an otherwise outward caim and unruffle demeanor. "Who will take his place?" asked the reporter of the commedian. "Nobody," ironically. "He'll have to go on just the f.ame. The play Bud the part must be played, and it can't be played without him."

The man was really ^uite ill. nnd be showed it too, deapite his plucky efforts to conceal the sudden attack. But he had received his cue again, and, putting on a brave front, he went on the stage to the audience, well and hearty a:i th-2 hsalih'cst of men. The act endod and the cur.nm fell amid the aoplause of the appreciative, though small, audience. "Now men, here step lively!" commanded the stage manager to the hands. "Hurry up with the scene, we've got no time to spare." "You see this would be a pretty hard scene to arrange properly in a few minutes if we had to do it all at each performance." he offered in explanation, as the men removed a large white covering from a railroad track built at the back of the stage.

Yet there was plenty for them to do. A half-dozen or more carried the steel rails to the proper places, while others scattered spikes, sledges, crowbars, hammers and what not in every direction. From above, by means of ropes and pulleys, a man lowered and s): Ifted slides and borders under the direction of the carpenter below.

Tho Kxploslon Sc«ne.

"See that wooden box there?" pointing above the track to where the border was being lowered to hide it from the view of the audience. "That holds the stone for the icene. When the proper time

comes a spring is touched over the stage. Here are two whistles for the engine. This one makes a shrill noise, and is used to give the far away effect. This larger one is blown when the engin§ is supposed to be near. And here is the way the rumble of the train is produced," taking up two switches made of several strands of wire, so tied together that the strands would strike at different Intervals, and beating them against a piece of sheet iron laid across the mouth of an empty barrel. "Where are the hundred men supposed to be in the scene? Oh, every trade has its tricks, you know, and the theatre business is no exception to the rule. Now, to tell the truth,'a Hundred men would spoil the scenic effect yet by a systematic moving to and fro of the men the audience is deceived into believing that that number and sometimes more are taking part in the scene. It's extremely simple, if you -are only on to it."

This was the act on which the whole play hinged, and no care was avoided to have everything, even to the smallest detail, in perfect working order. If this act failed to go off properly, the play, judged from a dramatic standpoint was a total failure.

Once more the curtain rises to the responces of the bell. The play moves rapidly. Sensation following sensation until finally the grand climax is reached, where the men strike under the leadership of the walking boss, the villainous detective in disguise. Then the comedian leaps valiantly on the stage from a soap box in the rear, holds the crowd at bay with two wickedlooking revolvers which never had a shell in them, delivering an appealing harrangue to the strikers, wins back their allegiance, and carries the day amid the chewing of the men on the stage and the applause of the audience, while the curtain falls, the comedian wipes the perspiration from his brow, and the others do likewise.

In the twinkling of an eye almost the space has been cleared and a modern drawing room has been erected. Carpets, rugs, chairs, divans, stools, tables, easels, pictures have been headed in the space by the hands and artistically arranged by the carpenter. Then the property-owner man goes

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2,1896.

BEHIND THE CURTAIN

PREPARING FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A SPECTACULAR PLAY.

Big Explosion on the Stage—Effect of an Engine Whistle In the Distance—Rnmble and Noise of the Train.

'An audience never sees the best part of a theatrical entertainment. That part of the performance which goes on behind the scenes is the truly interesting one. There is beheld the mechanism, the force, the power, the manipulation of all the various elements into a perfect harmony, the finished product, the play as given to the audience.

The old saw, "All is not gold that glitters," is truly exemplified in the theatrical business. It is work, downright hard work which produces the perfect arrangement of the scenery, the slides, the borders, the furniture—everything that gives the glitter to the stage, transforming it from bare wooden floors Into a wonderful "Arabian Nights" palace.

In five tninutes the curtain was to rise for the first act, says tho New York Record. The stage had been leisurely arranged. The stage carpehter, his assistant and property man and the stage hands were lounging laz--ily on boxes and barrels, placed out of the way of the performers in the far recesses of the stage. The comedian was putting,the( finishing touches to his make-tip and putting notches in a piece of cotton cloth—to all intents and purposes a linen handkerchief—bo he could the easier tear it in the play.

over the scene to see if anything has been omitted In the general hurry. He directs this or that thing to be moved a trifle, and then the stage Is ready for the curtain to

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CHINCH BUGS ON DAN.

Reibold Tells Fairy Tales, and the Constlr

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Pats Them In Print.

It Is only a hallucination—we would not accuse our friend Dan Reibold of anything worse—because it is common with those who go over to the enemy to think thei. late comrades are flocking after them, says the Robinson (111.) Argus. Hence the story, told Brother Abbott of the Constitution, is excusable with him, and Brother Abbott, with the desperation of drowning men who catch at a straw, is excusable for printing it. This is the story, as told by Reibold and printed In the Constitution last week:

Dan Reibold, heretofore one of the leading and influential Republican business men ol Terre Haute, is in the city on legal business, alid made the Constitution a social call yesterday. He is now strong for Bryan and informs us that they have a Bryan sliver club ic Terre Haute organized solely for those wlic have heretofore been Republicans. The membership is now over 400, and Mr. Reibold informs us that names are being added at the rate of about twenty-five or fifty a week, and that the membership will soon numhot 1,000.

Now this is a fairy tale of immense proportions, hut the Constitution characterizes it as "A Straw of Large Proportions." Now let us have the facts in the case and see if there are not something worse than flies on Dan. Here is a letter in reply to an inquiry from E. G. Rutherford of our city:

Terre Haute, Ind., Sept. '.0, 1896.

E. G. Rutherford, Robison, 111.: Dear Sir:—In reply to yours of the IStli will say that it was a pleasure to Investigate as thoroughly as possible, the published statement of Mr. Reibold, which I know to be a large bolt of cloth made from a small sample. I understand that the gentleman was given to elaborate exaggerations wiille a Republican (for revenue). As a free silver Popocrat ho bids fair to attain a much mere exalted position as a prevaricator.

Mr. Reibold has been a standing candidate before all the Republican county conventions for many years for the offico of sheriff. Ills defeat in the last convention, held here •only Jt short time ago, made him very sore, and satisfied him that he need never expect the nomination here by a Republican convention. Do you believe that it was altogether an honest conversion on the money question that made a Popocrat of Mr. Reibold? Do you believe Mr. Reibold would have favored free coinage had he received the nomination for sheriff?

Now for the truth of the statement: The Republican Free Silver Club waa orgenIzed about two weeks ago with a membership of about twenty-seven, eleven of whom have heretofore been identified with' the Republican party sixteen had either been Populists or Democrats. Nearly all of the eleven hive either failed In business or have bean disappointed in getting an office. There are good reasons for believing that the club has not materially Increased In membership since organizing. It would be safe to gamble that there are not 100 members in all of Vigo county. They were expected to turn out in a body last night in the big Turpie demonstration, but for some reason, probably Inck of numbers, they did not show up.

I have given you the facts as near as I can get at them.- They have been challenged several times to show their roll Of membership, but there Is no probability that they will do It. Yours, respectfully,

L. M. Hopewell.

In addition to the above the Argus has received the following: Terre Haute, Sept. 19, 1896. Editor Argus:

If it is true Daniel Reibold of Terre Haute, made the statement that the Silver Republican club of this city had 400 former Republican members, he stated what Is not a fact. There are not twenty former straight Republicans who have joined the Free Silver club.

Charles H. Goldsmith, Commission Merchant.

Since the above was in type we have received a letter to the same purport, signed by all the ofHcers of the Commercial Travelers' Sound Money Club of Terre Haute, which bears out what Mr. Hopewell has written in every particular, especially as to Mr. Reibold's grievance in failure to secure a nomination and as to the eleven disappointed Republicans as being all the Republicans in the club. It is by such statements, coming from disgruntled Republicans, that the "great changes" we read about in the Democi'atic press, are manufactured.

FRESH EGGS FROM THE ORIENT.

Chinefe& Import Delacacles of the Season

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For Their Winter Consumption. ''fresh eggs from China" is a conspicuous sign posted at the windows of all the Chines^ stores and restaurants on Ciark street, says the Post. Only the Chinamen notfCe ft, for it is posted in the queer characters of their language. They area delicacy that come to Chicago every fall from China. This is the season when R. B. BoriheiM, in charge of the Chinese entries at the* custom house, has his hands full of work.. The examiners' room for the past two weeks has been strewn with the square paper covered boxes wrapped with bamboo splits, .and which hold the consignments of fruits,'vegetables and groceries for the Chinese colony of Chicago and the central West—for Chicago is the headquarters of supplies for all Chinamen from the Missouri river to the Alllegheny mountains.

Not the least among the queer things that are imported from the celestial kingdom are the fresh duck eggs. At least 30,000 of these have passed through the custom house during the past two weeks. Each egg is wrapped in a mass of black mud, that reatins its putty like consistency for months even when exposed to the air. They com© in boxes holding twenty-five Chinamen's dozen, which is ten. Everything that comes from China is purchased by* tens. The eggs are as fresh as if laid yesterday. Peeling the mud coating from them, the faint blue tint of the shell Is disclosed. The only difference between the eggs of an American duck and a Chinese fowl, and the one unfailing mark that keeps the dealer from practicing a deception, is the yelk instead of being yellow, It has the color of an American beauty rose.

One of the chief Importations for the Chinamen is the rice vermicelli, a snow white gelatinous thread like substance, and the only thing that to an American seems edible. The canned goods comprise fresh vegetables, mainly beans and cabbage. But the Chinese dote on salted foods, and most of their cabbage comes shredded and salted, together with beans and mushrooms, and sea moss that resembles black wool in appearance. Sharks' fins and oysters are dried and salted and salted plums are considered a delicacy. Bidrs' nests are seldom imported on account of their high price.

Appraiser Hoyne estimates that the Chinese importations at Chicago amount to 1100,000 annually, most of which is cleared during September and October. With a big consignment opened yesterday were four cases of shoes, a case of incense sticks and two of firecrackers. A package of books, consisting of four volumes in a set, each apt being inclosed in a cloth flexible covering ^nd fastened with ivory sticks, was said by the importer to be a history of the recent war with Japan from a Chinese standpoint.

Early experience as a miner on the Con%stock lode stood the Rev. Father D. O. Crowley of San Francisco in good stead one day last week when an obstreperous ne'er-do-well of a father came to the Youths' directory, of which the priest is manager, and tried to take away his child, whom his divorced wife had placed thefe. The man threatened the priest and then struck him, whereupon the clergyman set to and gave him a sound drubbing. The priest afterward assisted in patching him up as effectively as he had previously done the work of chastisement*

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My friends advised me to go to Washington, where I could push my interests better and as this seemed reasonable I packed up and went to the capital city.

In a very short time I was on intimate rms with hundreds of politicians and officeholders. My intercourse with them was very pleasant. They all took an active interest in my appointment and'talked it over with me at our luncheons and suppers.

Of bourse I footed the billsl for these little outings. At the end of two months my congressman rushed into my room one day in a state of excitement. "Here Is your appointment," he said huriedly, and I can tell you that it took slick work to get it. You will never know, old fellow, how much I went through to- get it for you."

I thanked hftn nervously and opened the big document. It was my commission as consul at Tingaling.

For fiv6 mihutes I gloated over the paper in silence, and then I ventured a question. "Colonel, I would like to know why this place was given to me instead of the post I asked for?" "Because you were considered the best man for it," was the reply. "I am not at liberty to say more."

How much is the salary?" was my next question.' "Oh, I don't know," was the answer that Vni be' all right. I must go to the house now. See you later."

Hold on Colonel," I shouted.- "Where is Tingaling?" Suoh a question," replied the colonel, with a laugh. "Don't ask it again. Everybody knows where Tingaling is."

He walked off before I could say another word, and I at once got my atlas and tried to hunt up my new post. A search of two hours failed to find it on any map, and I closed the book without knowing whether my consulate was in Europe, Asia, Africa or South America.

This was disappointing, but I felt better when the afternoon papers came out. They announced my appointment and said very nice things about me. None of them, however, stated where Tingaling was located.

The next day I called at the state department and went through the usual formalities made neccssay by my commission. "By the way, where is Tingaling?" I asked the secretary.

He looked at me thoughtfully for a moment. "Well, that 13 a singular question," he said "everybody ought to know where it is. Your commission tells you." "No, it says Tingaling, Island of Tingaling." "A clerical oversight," said the secretary. "We'll have it corrected when McGosh returns." "What is the salary, Mr. Secretary?" "I don't know, but that will be all right. When McGosh returns next week he will tell you all about it."

The great man waved his hand and I took my departure. All that week I haunted the hotels and newspaper offices, asking for information

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WAS CONSUL AT TINGALING,

Some Curious Reminiscences of His Extraordinary Experiences. In this matfei -of-fact narrative dates are not Important. It makes no difference to the reader whether the following incidents occurred this year or ten years ago, says the Atlanta Constitution.

When I made up my mind to apply for a federal office I went out of business and devoted my entire time to the matter in hand. Everybody signed my application, and my congressman was confident that it would be successful. I had worked hard for the administration, and the leaders of my party said that my services deserved some recognition.

Three months rolled by, .and I found that no progress had been made. My congressman wrote to me frequently, and the president replied encouragingly to one of my letters. But my appointment was delayed and in the meantime I was using up my small capital.

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on the coast of China and was claimed bj both the French and Chinese. The French gave It a different name, and that was why I had failed to find it on the map. This was also the reason why so little was known about it at the state department.

McGosh returned the following week, and I cornered him. "Tingaling," said he, "belongs to France one day and to China the next. The next steamer will let us known its present status. You are to be congratulated. The island has a delightful climate and the natives live to be 100 years old." "And the salary?" "I will find out. Call again next week."

McGosh made me feel better and during the next few days I lunched my friends and had a good time. The newspapers had a good deal to say about the new consul at Tingaling and altogether I enjoyed myself and began to appreciate my position.

My second visit to McGosh rudely ended my pleasant dream. This time he was very cold and businesslike. "You are expected to leave* next week for Tingaling," he said. "Your post pays no salary, but the fees amount to about $80 a year. lYou can live on that if you will follow tie customs of the natives. The French and Chinese are fighting there now, but yoil can probably keep but of trouble." "I shall resign!" I blurted out angrily. "Very well, resign," was the cold blooded reply.

That night I quarreled with my congressman and I took a homeward bound train. My resignation was sent in and accepted and I gave up political life forever.

The idiot who succeeded me at. Tingaling died of cholera a week after he landed.

BRYAN'S BOLD FALSIFICATIONS. The only Democracy in New York whicll receives Bryan with open arms is Tam*» many Hall, which for a quarter of a cen~ tury has stood for all that is corrupt ia politics and for all that is venal and ineffective in government, comments the Indianapolis Journal. Tammany's police waa proved to be the collector of blackmail to enrich the leaders of Tammany and to keep the organization alive. There is not a Democratic paper in the West which has not assailed Tamicany for its corrupt practices and its exactions upon the Democratic party. Tammany Hall was a fit place for Bryan to" assail General Harrison. Truthfulness, much less accuracy of statement, is no longer expected from tho candidate of the silver mine trust. So in the presence of Tammany Mr. Bryan read an. extract of the speech of General Harrison in New York, and with the fury of Falstaff he challenges any one to find iii the Chicago platform so severe a criticism of the Supreme Court as that in the Republican platform of I860, upon which Abraham Lincoln waa elected.

In the Republican platform of 1860 but one reference is made to federal courts, and that is in the charge in the fifth resolutloa that the Buchanan administration has "exceeded the worst apprehensions" of the Republican party, in its attempted enforcement everywhere on land and on sea, through the intervention of congress and of the federal courts, of the extreme pretensions of a purely local interest," meaning slavery. In the Chicago platform, under the income tax, the following may be found: "We declare that It is the duty of congress to use all the constitutional power which remains after the decision, or which may come by its reversal by the court, as it may hereafter be constituted, etc."

In the words "as it may hereafter be constituted is a threat, if not an avowed purpose to provide by law for an increase of the members of the Supreme Court so that past decisions may be reversed. In his speech in the convention, opposing the platform as adopted, Senator Hill of New York, alluding to the clause which haa been quoted, said: "That clause, If it means anything, mean« that it Is the duty of congress to reconstruct the Supreme Court of the countiy. It. means, and it was openly avowed that it means, the adding of national mem-

about Tingaling. Nobody knew anything t,era to it, or the turning out of office and definite and all agreed that I would have reconstructing the whole court. I will not to wait for McGosh.

Once in my desperation I visited the president I thanked him for my appointment and begged him to tell me where I was to go.

He looked at me In astonishment. "You will get your instruction at the state department," he answered, curtly.

I left more perplexed than ever, but that very day I was lucky-enough to meet a sea captain who knew the location of Tin gating. He informed me that the island waa

follow such a revolutionary step as that.' The foregoing is sufficient to show that Mr. Bryan lied about the platform of Abraham Lincoln and would deceive the public regarding the purpose of the revolutionary element which dominated the convention which nominated him, and which nominated him because In his speech he made himself the exponent of Altgeldism.

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