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TELEPHONE 72.

Fusion seems to fekve fizzled.

Is Mr. Bryan's bid of $1,500 the highest yet in for the Populist party?

Now that strikes seem to be in order the sun is taking a hand at the business.

Canton is like the most of the rest of the '-country in' the resjpect that it still believes in McKinley.

If the coal miners fail to win their strike It will'be one manifest instance of justice failing to score.

During the past few days no breeze has ,looked just right that did not bedeck itself with -Old Glory.

Mrs. Dominis does not appear to appreciate the fact that there are higher cards in the deck than the queen.

If General Weyler gets too gay in Eastern Cuba General Gomez is apt to supersede panovas in withdrawing him.

W. C. P. Breckinridge may be a little off color in some respects but he is the genuine (article on the

money

question.

Thomas E. Watson believes in the Populists proceeding to be a party without the aid or consent of any other party.

The TMngley bill is so thoroughly displeasing to foreigners that it certainly^must be a pretty good American measure.

The Declaration of Independence is of sufficient importance to warrant the small boy In giving three days to its celebration.

The gold Democrats in Kentucky are fairly eure they will poll enough votes to put the iPopocracy in that state under the wire a poor

6econd.

The Ohio Popocrats have swapped off the old war horses for a lot of colts. It is the consensus of opinion that they made a very bad trade.

Yale says she will never desert the Cook stroke. She says so although knowing that it was this manipulation which recently cooked her goose.

It has been clearly demonstrated that a man can jump from Brooklyn bridge. It also has been clearly demonstrated that that is a first-rate way to commit suicide.

It is the free silver opinion that what the coal miners need is a 47-cent dollar. It is the opinion of the miners themselves that •what they need are more 100-cent dollars.

A Chicago man made a foolish attempt to combine fireworks and gasoline. His patriotism was all right but the list of the injured indicates that his judgment was

considerably at fault.

The coal miners say they believe prosperity is returning and declare that on this account they have decided to strike. It is unfortunate for the cause of the calamityites that they should have so grounded their causes for action.

A former citizen of Shelbyville, Ind-. writing from Honolulu to the Republican of that town, says thft if the. United States fails to annex Hawaii "it will be about as great a piece of stupidity as the government ever committed" This man is obviously not frightened by the talk about savages and

lepers.

JAPAN AND HAWAII.

It seems almost incredible that Japan should be so much exercised over Uncle Barn's proposition to annex Hawaii. Ihe Japanese government could not see the annexation movement go on at Washington without filing a protest with tha state department. Secretary Sherman has replied to that protest and in a manner that would neern to be unanswerable.

The Asiatics took the ground iba they had treaties with Hawaii that wore perpeiua! in their nature. Annexation of the islands to Ihe United States, as viewed by the mikado's government, meant the abrogation of these treaties and a sacrifice of such advantages as belonged to Japan by virlua of them. The position was taken, therefore, that the Dile government should stmd in order that its perpetual treaties might also

stand. Secretary Sherman dfces not agree with this interpretation of the situation. He is of the opinion that according to international law no action can make a treaty that shall live after it is dead. The secretary takes the view of all modern writers that waen a sovereign state loses its sovereignty its treaties become void and must be subject to the pleasure of the succeeding nation. That this is the sensible and the only tenable construction of the case is apparently beyond dispute. No nation securing control of another nation by purchase, conquest or voluntary

annexation

would consent to be bound by

any treaties signed by the former sovereignty unless

those

treaties wero acceptable

to It. If Uncle Sam annexfes Hawaii, he will not »ex any of her treaty "obligations. They wereW^ ty

the Dole

ests in Hawaii.

government or sanc-

and after annexation the Dole

government0 will be no tnore. However, Japan should know that she will receive perfectly fair treatment at the hands of the United States in case this country ever comes to negotiate with her. in regard to her inter­

THE COAL MINERS'STRIKE. Th coal miners* strike just now begun will probably be one of the piosl extensive, determined and prolonged strikes that has occurred, says the Indianapolis Journal. The conditions that have caused it are widespread and fundamental, and the miners

4. are wdGfttl* & earnest ia theic de-

termination to briog .bout. change in tl«» I Ion. Mo bu ®.d. conditions and secure not only better wages (home especially to attend the co™^^^ but better recognition of their rights in the

future. In both of these purposes v... entitled to and will have warm put1 pathy as long as they keep within of law and order. Their right to i.3. and to strike is unquestionaole. Sc :e right to use every form of eonniG^r. r.inon, co-operation and pressure possible under the law to labor organizations aiming to sc. ere their own rights without interfering with the rights or property of others. The moment any class of laborers, organized or unorganized, do this, they put themselves in. the wrong and cease to be entitled to public sympathy. It is to be hoped, therefore, for the sake of the miners and the cause they represent, that the present strike may be an orderly one and entirely free from such, acts of violerfce as have characterized many strikes in the past. That evidently is the present spirit and intention of the leaders, but if the strike should be a long one it is impossible to say what new phase it may develop. A quarter of a million of determined men organized as these are and malting common cause for what they deem their natural rights are a tremendous force, and while they may be entirely amenable to the spirit and orders of their leaders at the beginning of a strike, one cannot foretell what may happen, if, after, several weeks of idleness and deprivation of wages, their families suffering for the necessaries of life, they should find themselves confronted with a prospect of failure and of being forced back into a condition which they regard as little) better than slavery. Under such circumstances the strikers may become desperate and resort to methods which they would not think of using now. At present conservative counsels prevail, but in such large •bodies of organized labor there are always hot-heads who are ever ready to supplant the conservative leaders and advise violent methods when they think the time is ripe.

The miners should bear these facts in mind and use every effort to keep the present strike free from acts of violence of any kind. At the beginning of the miners' strike of 1894, which was almost extensive as this one promises to be, the public at first recognized the substantial justice of the miners' claims and wished them success, but when, after few weeks, it degenerated into a course of violence, arson, murder and antagonism to law it lost all public sympathy and arrayed the entire law and order element against it.

It is evident that such a strike as this must affect many interests and cause much disturbance of trade. To begin with, tha loss of wages to the miners themselves wili amout in aggregate, to millions of dollars, and the withdrawal of so much money from the channels of trade will be felt in all tha mining districts and by the miners themselves for quite a long time to come. In the strike of 1894, which lasted from April 11 to June 15, the loss of wages to miners was estimated at $12,500,000. The suspension of coal shipments will affect the railroad business and by cutting down their earnings will lessen the amount of money they can expend for -wages or betterments. It is understood that the markets are well stocked with coal at present, but if the strike should continue long manufacturers in some localities will be y,ery apt to feel it in the higher prices for fuel. Indirectly this would! operate to the. advantage of the miners, as a reduced stock and higher price for coal would enable the operators to resume om a better scale of wages, but the pinch would be seriously "felt while it lasted. The strike is greatly to be regretted, but the necessity for it is equally so, and all must unite in hoping that it may result in the establishment of better conditions and better wages for the miners.

CURRENT EVENTS.

In the past two or three years in the effort to keep the price of mining from dropping low«r and lower no operator has been more in evidenc.e in opposition to that effort than DeArmit, of the New York & Cleveland Consolidated Co., of the Pittsburg district. From all accounts he is a Napoleon in the coal industry: He has been able to defeat the schemes of operators and miners alike. Moreover, he has been able to' hold his men so well in hand that they could not be.drawn into any of the movements in which their fellow miners have been enlisted. Time and again his associate operators of the Pittsburg district have tried to get him into line, but he has stood aloof and has been busy selling coal all the time. At two or three stages of the interstate negotiations, in Which operators and miners were working in harmony, the price of mining might have been upheld if DeArmit had entered into the agreement. The Pittsburg district has been the first brick, and when it fell all the others fell in turn. Once all the other operators of the Pittsburg district agreed to maintain the higher price of wages if he were forced to come to time. The miners undertook to do this but they could not reach his men. Then the miners entered into an agreement with the other operators to work for lower wages to enable DeArmit competition to undersell him and defeat him at his own game, but this scheme did not carry. Then it was proposed that operators and miners alike in the Pittsburg, Ohio and

Indiana districts raise money to pay De Armit's men while they were idle on a strike but this plan was not put into effect.

Said a miners' official: "DeArmit is one of the nicest fellows personally that ever lived, but he is a pastmaster in his business, and he can play his game all around the other operators. Among his several thousand miners are many foreigners, Italians and Hungarians, principally. I don't knorw how he manages it, but somehow he keeps them solid in spite of all we can do."

It is now reported that the Illinois Central is back of the project for a railroad from Areola to Vincennes. For some weeks the Charleston people have been holding meetings in the interest of a road from that town to Vincennes, and it now seems that this is only a part of the line. It is to cross the Vandalia at Martinsville. Meetings have been called in most of the towns along the proposed line and it is given out that if the right of way is donated the Central will build the road. One of the Illinois papers says that "the proposed line would let the Central into the territory of one of its strongest competitors, the Chicago & Eastern Illinois."

CROWDS AT SAN FRANCISCO.

The Advance Guard of the Christian Endeavor Delegates.

San Francisco, Cal., July 5.—The broad area of this city is a sea of colors, the decorative ribbons of the Christian Endeavor societies, the stars and stripes and the bunting hung in honor of the national holiday, floating with the breeze in mfngling waves of blue and gold, purple and white, vyith the motto of the young people's organization displayed in every way. From the ferries to the outermost civic, limits by the Golden Gate, buildings, both public and private, business houses, residences are covered with variegated colors and with inscriptions, of welcome.

Probably the total number of yesterday early arrivals did not exceed 400. However, they will be coming in on every train and boat, and last evening and early today ten special trains, containing eighty-five cars and 2,172 passengers arrived over the Southern Pacific from the Santa Fe alone.

Several distinguished delegates are already here, including John Willis Baer, general secretary of the organisation, who came in this morning, and Evaagiftiist Day ill*

From now until the close of the convenjrn members of the reception committee, Heh numbers 1,000, will meet every ar.ving train and boat and escort-xhe visiting delegates to the convention headquarters in tte Mechanics* Pavilion. The' r/»iroad com-

pan/ is at a loss to find accommodations for all the cars that will arrive this week. They expect to have the yard at West Oakland filled to its fullest capacity, as ^well as every available side track between Oakland and Niles. Over 150 Pullman cars .are expected.

BEET SUGAR BOUNTY. J'

Republicans Will Caucus Today to Consider Advisability of Re-introducing It.

^Washington, July 5.—A caucus of Republican senators has been called ?or 10 clock tomorrow to consider the advisability of reintroducing the beet sugar botiMy amendment. The decision to call the caucus was the result of a series of conferences which consumed the greater part of the day, but which developed such a divergence of views as to make it quite evident that only in a party conference could the bounty question be settled in a way to bind all. It appears probable tonight that the caucus will rescind the order of the previous session directing the committee to report a sugar amendment, Dut the sugar bounty advocates hope that at the same time the Republican senators would be instructed to vote for the amendment as offered by Senator Allen. They thus hope to put the party in the senate on record as for the amendment while they avoid the responsibility for the delay which they admit the amendment will occasion. The Democratic leaders still announce themselves as unalterably opposed to the bounty provision, and say they will debate it for an indefinite length of time in order to prevent its incorporation into the bill. fv

THE BERING SEA AWARDS.

An Allegation That England Has Acted in Bad Faith. London, July 5.—The Washington correspondent of the Daily Chronicle asserts that official correspondence is abo.ut to be submitted to congress which includes a dispatch sent by Secretary Sherman to Ambassador Hay, dated May 10th, for submission to Lord Salisbury, insinuating that England has been guilty of bad faith in carnying out the terms of the. Paris seal award. The correspondent says: "There is no doubt that the publication of this dispatch will cause resentment in England. It was really the work of Mr. Foster and Mr. Hamlin, jointly. I learn that the administration is very proud of the dispatch, and believes it Will be received in the United States with the same popular approval as greeted Mr. Olney Venezuela dispatch. Lord Salisbury has not

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, TUESDAY MORNING. JULY 6,1897

E. J. Elston, of Indianapolis, a Clerk in the pension office, has been .prompte^ from $1205 to $1,400. v'

E. J. Richardson, of Indianapolis, has been reinstated, as special examiner in the pension bureau.

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It is hard to imagine why the Republican members of the finance committee should have brought the bounty business before the senate. They cannot have forgotten that .ne sugar bounty provision incorporated in the tariff act of 1S90 answered no good purpose, political or otherwise. It depleted the revenues o£ the government and did not convert the Louisiana, sugar planters to Republicans.

Indianapolis Joornal: It was stated a few days ago that Senator Mark Hanna had cut the wages of tho^e employed in nis coal mines. A Columbus special to a Chicago paper says the report is false. Instead of cutting wages he has done all in his power to keep them up, paving 60 cents a ton in a five foot vein, wMle Mr. Chapman, the Democratic candidate for governor in Ohio, pays but 51 cents a ton in a three-foot vein.

Chicago Tribune: Last Saturday the finance committee presented—and then withdrew—an amendment to the tariff bill for the payment for five years after July 1 next of a bounty of a quarter of a cent a pound on ail beet

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produced in the United States. Alter the amendment had been withdrawn by the committee it was reintroduced fcy Senator Alien of Nebraska, which is one of the beet sugar states. It may give rise to a protracted debate, and thus delay the passage of the bill.

Kansas City Star: Nothing could be more absurd than the story that the presidents visit to Ohio is for political effect. To assume that the presence of Mr. McKinley in Canton for three or four days will tend to allay the industrial dissatisfaction in Ohio and contribute to the prospect of a Democratic defeat in November is to place a mighty mean fstlmate on the intelligence of the voters of that state." The president goes to Canton to visit his aged mother, to whom He tenderly devoted, and to meet his o'.d friends and neighbors. His object is to get away from po.itics and to give up a few days to those quiet joys which' a man must forsake when enters the White House.

Cincinnati Enquirer: It has been a very difficult task to work up the diplomatic incident" between the United States and JjPan into a matter of importance. It iscvindeed, even now only a question of

veracity

THE DAY CELEBRATED

bx-got. altgeld delivers a pesSUKISTIC ADDRESS AT BROOKLYN

Letters From Cleveland and Bryan at the TAOUDtny Mwtlnf—CI* Roundly HiMed.

New York, July 5.—Ex-Governor John P. Altgeld, of Illinois, addressed about 2,000 people in the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, today. The meeting was under the auspices of the Democratic League of Kings County. Henry George presided and introduced Mr. Altgeld, who was greeted with hearty applause, which broke out repeatedly as he proceeded with Ills address. He said:

between

Secretarv Sherman and Toru-Hosht, minister from Japan. The minister says he understood the secretary to Hay. the day kefore the Hawaiian annexation treaty was signed, that r.o such treaty was in preparation, hecretary Sherman's answer to the protest against annexation is. of course. In diplomatic language: the meaning of it, when reduced to every day phraseology, is that it is no business of Japan or any other country besides the United States and the Hawaiian Republic. John Sherman ig not always as mild In his manner a* nc looks.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat: There is a chance that the miners' strike will neither affect as manv men nor last as long aB is predicted. The madness of a general dislocation of business in the coal-producing regions is so manifest that the men responsib.e for the "walk-out" which has been ordered are likely to grasp it before the contest ia many days o!d. In an overwhelming majority of the labor contests the strikers are beaten, and this fact ought to appeal to the thoughtful men among the miners. The advance fit, wages which they seek has a much oetter chance to come to them in a month or two If they remain at work than it has to come in a Vear if they disturb general fcpsmess, cut off the demand for coal, and put other men a I

Today the most wonderful nation on earth is in distress. Its children are suffering and its foundation stones are slipping away. "A whole generation has paid at the war debt and has reduced it by one-half. Yet such has been the governmental policy that today it will require twice as much of our products to pay the remainder as would have been necessary to pay it all when it was created. Being a producing and debtor nation, it was a crime to legislate exclusively in favor of the creditor classes of Europe, and thus destroy the purchasing power of our people. Every great abuse is intertwined with the money question, and you cannot ignore it, for it fixes the limitations on enterprise and material prosperity. There must ultimately come a system of finance or exchange that will have a philanthropic basis and will not restrict human effort. But until tills does come, we demand the restoration of the bime'illic system as it formerly existed in our country because it was the best thus far given the world. "Effects follow causes in the economic and commercial world as they do ih the physical world. The paralysis of our country has Jjeen produced by certain measures. So long* as they exist they must continue to produce the same effects. We were promised prosperity it has not come, and it requires no prophet to see that under existing conditions no permanent prosperity can come. The forces of destruction are still at work gathering the substance of the nation into the hands of the few. The country is paralyzed. The patient is told that if he would only have confidence and go to work he would be well. But in spite of this he is unable to rige.

UNDER "M'KINLEY CONDITIONS." "Suppose he did. Suppose that a temporary stimulant could lopate a temporary activity? It would be along old lines it would be in harmony with those forces that paralyzed us. The patient would soon collapse a second time, and then the case would be hopeless A spurt of activity under Mc-

yet replied. "A later dispatch of the same series complains that while America maintained a fleet conditions means the more certain

of five vessels to prevent illegal sealing in Bering sea,. England had only two^ one of these being" a mere yacht."

4 The Evangville Prison Board., w_ Smolal to the

Indianaoolls

News.

Washington, July 5.—Commissioner Evans, of the pension bureau, has assured

Congressmen

Hemenway that the pension

medical examining board at Evansville whiqh served under the Harrison administration will be reinstated in a few days under the ex-soldier provision of the civil service rules. The new board will be composed of Drs. W. G. Ralston, W. S. Pollard «id J. W. Compton. 1

About Indianlans.

Special to the Indianapolis News. Washington, July 5—John Matthews, of Indianapolis, will soon be reinstated in the railway mail service. 1

death of free institutions it means that the poison of corruption shall go on until every organ of the body is destroyed. "The universal corruption that is today destroying our country comes from the concentration of capital and the alarming aspect is, that it is practiced by men who talk patriotism and who stand high in the estimation of the public. It is idle talk about purifying the government so long as men of influence and position offer vast sums to corrupt it. Cut off the hand that offers a bribe and you will end corruption "We must devise some way of removing overwhelming temptations on the one hand and of distributing to all men the benefits and advantages flowing from the process of concentration. As power never limits itself we must find a method o! curbing it"If asked whether the government will take the railroads or establish referendum, say you do not, know, but that every step which may become necessary to save free government and restore happiness in this land will be taken say that if necessary to do so the government will not only take the railroads, but every monopoly and concentration of property which interferes with either the rights or the welfare of the people.

For thirty years our party has been a neutral party the manipulators who wished to use it as a convenience did not want it to stand for anything. There were interests that seemed to control both parties. This was the easiest way of controlling national legislation. Had there been a positive compact, and an aggressive minority party standing for principle, the cry of distress would not be heard In this land today. Had there been such a party, the Standard Oil trust never could have nominated the same man three times in succession for the. presidency. Trading politicians made this possible. Compromisers, traders and neutral men never correct abuses, never founded or saved free Institutions, and never fight for human rights. Only men of conviction and courage can save this land.

LOSING OUR INDEPENDENCE. "Unfortunately, we seem to have been slowly and unconsciously losing our personal independence. Through the scramble for the dollar, the longing for position and the dread of criticism, we are becoming cowardly in conscience, in thought and action, and are losing our birthrights.

No other country has drawn so much from the

store-houses

of omnipotence as has

ours. In all that makes wealth, greatness or glory we have been overloaded. Limitless riches are within our grasp, centuries of happiness are within our reach. A kindly Father bids us go forth and enjoy the estate He has prepared for us. Meantime wa have fallen into the hands of the despoiler, and the poison of political leprosy is entering our blood. If we submit, all is lost if we rise' in our manhood and crush the enemy it will give a new inspiration to mankind. It will be a new declaration of independence, broader and deeper than that of our forefathers.

In every state the people are aroused they see their condition growing worse they see the hopes of this children disap pearing they see poverty hanging over the future they see the black flag of hunger floating over some of the richest nations of God's earth, and they are crying for

Jus-

tice. "My frieiids, that cry will free the American people. Even if we should, be borne down again and again, the voice of human ity will arise from the dust and drive the money-changers out of the tempi® and the traitors out of the land. The Benedict Arnold of 1780 sleeps in English soil. Lat the Benedict Arnols of this age make their graves beside him."

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WILLIAM J. BRYAN'S LETTER.

£ead At Washington Celebration-^I^e^olu tions Adopted.

Washington,

July

ing his regrets at not being able to attend the treasures of which is the world-fame* Doomsday book. ii Neb., J. 29. tm. T™ ,0 "Hon. Lawrence

Gardner,

redeemable in coin, the silver and gold of

coinage of both gold and silver at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for. the consent of any other nation. "As our forefathers, 121 years ago, declared that this people are and of right should pe free from all foreign domination and control, so now we demand' that this

THE TAMMANT CELEBRATION.

Letters Read from Grorer Cleveland and W. J. Bryan—Cleveland Hissed. New York, July 5.—Independence Day was celebrated by Tammany Hall in its usual fashion today.The wigwam's capacity on tne main floor was crowded, but the gallery was vacant. There was one departure in the celebration today, and that was that the usual supply of refreshments was not dispensed from the basement. A number of letters of regret were read fjom invited guests who did not attend. Ex-President Grover Cleveland wrote as follows: "Westland, Princeton, N. J., June H, 1897. "The Hon. John C. Sheehan:

Dear Sir—I desire to acknowledge with thanks an invitation to attend the celebration by the Tammany Society of the one hundred

but I hope its significance will pre-eminently, exist, in a clear and emphatic announcement of tha principles and be'ief which accard with the best and most thoughtful opinions of our countrymen. Yours very truly,

Kiven

IN

5.-A patriotic cele

bration was held here today at the Grand Opera House under the joint auspices of the National Association of Democratic Clubs' and Democrats of the District of Columbia and contiguous associations. Patriotic ad dresses were delivered by Senator John W Daniel of Virginia, and Joseph C. Sibley, of Pennsylvania. Short speeches were made by members of congress and others representing the original thirteen states. The Declaration of Independence was read by

Andrew J. Lipscomb, as was also the last letter written by Thomas Jefferson, expressing regret that he was unable to attend th# Independence Day celebration in this rtity seveaty-onej years ago. Mr. &>bley acted as

chairmur

of the meeting. Bryan^ jriUi a letter expreaa-

Washington. of ,hr birth cf "i.i. v, -,f auch

"My Dear Sir—An cusH&nmtfnt at Los a ilocucjoat is it. t.- •«. »%••««. fo. by Angeles, Gal., will make it impossible for the- «unwuc»:CK-. me to attend the Fourth of July celebratica I papers of the «.» at

trust that the meeting be useful In stimulating those present to renewed exertions to the end that the Independence achieved by our ancestors may be preserved for posterity. "Just now there is a special reason. for solicitude, lest a servile acquisence in a foreign financial policy Ibay rob us of the substance of political freedom and leave us in the shadow.' Vary truly, yours, «'W. J. BRYANT.**

THE RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED. Resolutions were adopted declaring that "We indorse the time-honored Democratio doctrine that taxes should be laid for revenuo only, and limited to the wants of a eimple government, honestly administered, and we denounce the schcme of the Dingley bill and tho various amendments thereto, in secret caucus, as a more flagrant robbery cf the masses than the Republican law known as the McKinley bill, twice repudiated by the people. Dictated by trusts and monopolies, in part payment for moneys advanced to corrupt the suffrage, its main effects are to enrich the few at the expense of tho many and to release accumulated capital from a'A taxation, while restricting our trade, «ndl depriving the American producers of fice remembered that the duchcss of Kent, who access to the markets of the world. wa5 E!

GroverC.eyeland.

W. J. Bryan's letter is as follows: "Lincoln, Neb., June 2'. 1S97. "Dear Sir—I regret that an engagement made several weeks ago, will render it impossible for me to join witn the Tammany Society in celebrating the 121st anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence. I have, on former occasion, commended tne formers of your society for making provision in the constitution then adopted, for the annual commemoration of the Fourth of July. "There is a special propriety in the observance of this day by Democrats *t this time when the party has just freed itself frcm foreign financial influences and taken an emphatic stand in favor of an American policy for the American people. I trust your meeting may prove the inauguration of a campaign which will result in putting greater New York under Democratic control. "The party has already shown in Chicago, Cincinnati and several other cities larger gains than will be required to overeome the Republican majorities secured lu November. All indications point to a strong growth in public sentiment along the lines laid down the Chicago platform. The failure of the Kcnublican policies to restore prosperity haying

a new Impetus to the movement which has for its object the restoration of goid and silver coinage of tha constitution. "While the increasing strength of Democratic principles, together with the absence of coercion extensively practiced last fall, would seem sufficient to make victory reasonably certain In New York, you will be great aided by the fact that the Republican administration In your city and state has boenso unsatisfactory as to caus€ widespread cr»-.-

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trust that your celebration will excite increased Interest in the principles of Jeffcrron and Jackson, and thus hosten the day when these principles will be completely trle»3phen,. "Thanking you for the honor, I ver in city, state and nation. truly youra, William J.' Tlryftn."

When the letter from Greyer Cieveiasd was read, his name was greeted with hisses. It was that a delegation from the Progressive Democratic league was present to bias ail the gold men.

Bryan's letter was loudly cheered.

THE COURTS OF EUROPE.

Behind the S«ene» With the Mobility of I joagjng [0 the Solomon group, the Old World. A spnaation has been created In Great, Hemeuwa? *'arl» Bark. Britain, especially among the members of the established church, who coistitute

vast majority of the population of the unite*

kingdom, by the diecovery that no record poth

exists either of the baptism or of the conflrmation of Queen Victoria, who is Uie supreme of that church, writer the Merquiso de Fontenoy to the Chicago Rccord. SUto papers and archives of every kind have been searched in vain for documeuts of this char-

acter without success, and, wirnt is more, there is no reference whatsoever to the celebratten of religious ceremonies of this kind in the court intelligence of- the newspaper* or tl*e period cevcrod by tha infancy end yauth of her jmajesty-

In only one inatancG Srttish history since the Norman conquest of any sijcb omiasion as this, records o£ every kind, ejer relating to the most trifling events in the live* of the various British monarch*, male and female, being preserved in the hAge public record* building in Chancery laae, one

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tho constitution. 1 pretext or opportunity cf bringing ?lrl And wc demand the free and unlimited jr.0

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trcraely likely that bar n:ajes 13 wm c«ver eitbe cbrtswrsftd or -cPoSrtnatf. Her father and motiiw were Beithar of tfcatn 'Oit one can call Hellglous recpla, the ink* c* Kent being, ia fact, as much of a profligate ti» brotbfere—Kiag George, Km* William and the dukes of York and CvMbariaiiA. 3£oreorrr, the duke at the time wk ct extremely bid, terms with bit family, ae terribly hard up financially that he would acrer have reached England with iis wife la tliae for his daughter to be born on British soil hnJ not a friend, Mr. Wood, tie grandunclo of the widowed Mrs. Charlea Stewart Parnell. lent him enough money to leave Germany and to travel in all haete Xaglanii. "Hence It is probable ti*t V# neglected to have tho child christeced oa t*e threefold ground that he hid not cao'igb nwMy for the christening ceremony, which in the *se of royal infants is very costly secoad. that none of his relatives wo'-tld have attended the function: end, third, bcecuse Le w«s not sufficiently religious tot-are two etraws about the matter.

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Possibly the church people of England might be still more anxious and disturbed about the religious views of their sovereign were they, to be made aware of the littleknown fact that there is not a single follower of the church of England among the confidential servants of the queen. They are every one of them Methodists. Presbyterians, Catholics, Lutherans or Hindcce. Th& queen's chief personal compenicn, who shares her thoughts more largely than any of tho most prominent figures at court, a Presbyterian, a woman of line- eensibililies and absolute discretion. The domestic who stands to Lr^r majesty in the relation of ianfiiSential maid and principal dresser is as cetive a Methodist as is the so-called "clerk" yt\o hccompanies he unon all h*r jourti^ys, .d who is in charge of her personal possessions.

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Tho queer believes, jus: a* did her friend anJ chaplain. Dean Stanley of Westminster, that there are many doors and gates to hoaven iar the upright

Congressman Andr?w J. Hunter, of Illinois, was overtime with tea heat and is in a Prea lari?a crowd attended read a speech denouncing trusts and the Republican party together.

Ex-Senator David B. Hill, pleading a previous engagement to speak at Oswego, a letter of regret.

James D. Richardson, of Tennessee, made an allusion to Grover Cleveland, as tha man with whom the Democrats had been twice successful in the nation. The name of Cleveland was again loudly hissed.

The reunion of the Democratic, party, he mid was coming and there were already perceptible signs of a glorious revival in the party and a victory for the party n«i*ovcmbrr. "With an intrepid Wader such as Wm. J. Bryan," he said, but got no further. The audience broke into a wi:d cheer, which lasted for nearly a minute.

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mcut likely ueglectcd to fca.v* ra* young prince*» onfirmed, as tht-y 1 nave in-, fisU-d on »eicg present at the ceremony.

These •linissioc* are 'fry singular, in view cf the fact that the queen, on hsr aecevjwn to the throne, mad« t® cimomary declar-

people make its own national laws, ill of ation of membership in tha c'JU'ch of Engthem, without ank'ng the advice or consent of any foreign government. "The Democratic party from the beginning has pronounced its sympathy with every people struggling for the right to govern themselves in their own way. So, uow. do we extend our hearty sympathy to the people of Cuba in their heroic stand for liberty and independence, and declare that the day should be hastened, by all proper means, which shall see the lone star of Cuba fixed forever in the constellation of American states, and we demand the immediate recognition of the belligerent rights of the Cuban people."

land, which' Is required at th« eai:i3 time as the oath of fidelity to tha cor.su'.vi'ion. Her majesty freauentiy manifests in religious matters a liberality and a bvcadth- of view which is simply pa 11 c.ud wotmwood to purists of what are known «s h? "Exeter hall" category, that is to say. people who believe that outside the pale cf the church jr. of England there is no saivaUss or true. Christian belief -v

They have frequently tak€n her majesty to task in the past for the countenance which she accords to Roman Catholics, while her practice when at Balmoral each spring of receiving the holy communion according to

ed "church papers" do not hesitate to denounce her in the most vigorous fashion, declaring that she is guilty of indifference to the stipulations of the declaration of membership of the church of England made at the time of her accession.

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the Presbyterian rites excites their ever- "f recurring indignation. In fact, the so-call-

In those days there "no popery" was still,,

me to be present on this interesting occasion, appointment by the Roman pontiff of var-^-f

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dlnal Wiseman as archbishop of Westminster provoked anti-popery riots in London. To-.-day. however. Catholic prelates and priests are able to do a thing from which they were debarred in many of the Catholic countries of the" continent—namely, to march unmolested in religious procession through thet streets of the metropolis and of the principal, cities. The cardinal archbishop of Wsst'^ninster is persona gratissima at court, and a particular favorite and friend of the princef and princess of Wales, while the lord chief justice of the realm is a devout Catholic. are also one of the cabinet ministers and several of England's ambassadors and colo* nial governors abroad.

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Indeed, there have been moments when on learning that she bad availed herself of her presence either in the south of France or itv the north of Italy to attend Roman Catholic--, open-air services, and to visit Catholic cona on as a have charged her openly with being a "papist," supporting their assertion by calling"*/attention to the progress which Romans «j'Catholicism has made in England since hers*,, accession to the throne sixty years ago.

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Oc« Hundred »t Wubasb. Special to tho IsAfcnapolIa News. Wabash, Ird., July 5.—This ia* been tha hottest do.y rere for «vcrvl year?, tha ttermometc- marking 100 in the shade. L*st night Albert Miller, a wc-1! known citizen.

carious condition. A large crowd attended the Fourth of July ceUbraiicn here today, and several persons were prostrated by the intense heat, but their condition is not Beri-

Seriously Affected By the Heat. Special to the Indianapolis New». Franklin, Ind., July 6.—Christian Axt one of tho wealthiest citizens of Johnsoa county, was overcome by the heat Saturdaj and ia in a precarious condition. He haii been at work on one of his farms during th« day and complained of a bad headache in the evening. He is about 70 years old. He has never had a physician visit him before.

Hoisted the Cclon .Jack.

London, July 5.-A special from Sydney, New South Wales, says that the British warI ship Wallaroe has hoisted the Union Jack on Russell, Bellona and Stuart islands, be-

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