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TODAY'S WEATHER.
"WASHINGTON. Oct. 13. — Forecast for
Wednesday: For Minnesota— Fair; southerly
to westerly winds.
Wisconsin— Generally fair; warmer; light
to fresh winds, shifting to westerly.
South Dakota— Warmer; southerly to west
erly winds.
North Dakota — Fair: warmer in eastern por
tion; southerly winds.
Montana— Generally fair; westerly winds;
cooler in northern portion. — "
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
United States Department of Agriculture,
"Weather Bureau, Washington, Oct. 13, 6:48
p. m. Local Time, 8 p. m. 75th Meridian
Time.— Observations taken at the same mo- .
ment of time at all stations.
TEMPERATURES.
Place. Tem.|Place. Tern.
St. Paul 60Winnipeg 52
Duluth 64|
Huron 60jBismarck 58-72
Bismarck 5S Buffalo 48-50
Williston 62] Boston 48-50
Havre G2jChevenne 50-60
Helena 64 Chicago 56-56
Edmonton 58 Cincinnati 54-54
Prince Albert 5 i Helena 54-64
Calgary 60 Montreal 48-54
Medicine Hat 64 New Orleans 68-70
Swift Current 58 New York 48-48
Qu'Appelle 60W T innipeg 52-62
Mlnnedosa 541
DAILY MEANS.
Barometer, 30.24; thermometer, 52! relative
humidity. 72: wind, southwest; weather, clear;
maximum thermometer, 68: minimum ther
mometer, 37; daily range, 31; amount of rain
fall in last twenty-four hours, 0.
RIVER AT 8 A. M.
Gauge Danger Height of
Reading. Line. Water. Change
St. Paul 14 2.2 *0.1
La Crosse 10 1.2 0.0
Davenport 15 1.2 0.0
St. Louis 30 6.0 *0.1
* Rise.
Note — Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation. — P. F. Lyons, Observer.
OUR SOVEREIGNTY INSULTED.
It is queer how sensitive sovereignty
ls on some of its sides and how insensi
ble it is on others. Here we are, a
great nation of 70,000,000 people, flaring
up and getting our war paint on when
the Monroe doctrine Is questioned or
the proposition denied that Bering
sea is not a mare clausem, or when
our fishermen are not let flsh for
bait within the headland-to-headland
line in Canadian waters. We have
poked our nose into the boundary dis
pute between England and Venezuela
because it may involve the venerable
doctrine of Secretary Adams and Presi
dent .Monroe, while a goodly number of
our people think we should have gone
to war with England when she seized
on Corinto to compel Nicaragua to
make reparation for an insult to her
sovereignty, through indignities to an
English representative. Others there
were who thought that President Har
rison submitted too tamely to the snub
Chili administered the august sover
eignty of the United States, and that
the affront should have been an
swered with shot and shell. If there
is anything we are jealous of It is the
respect due this sovereign nation, on
some sides.
On others we are as callous as a poli
tician's conscience. Our sovereign
power, in Its highest expression, is
flouted at and jeered and discounted
and denied, and we are as indifferent
to it as McKinley is to common sense
or Bryan to the facts of history. What
Is more expressive of the dignity of
this nation than its silver dollar with
Its majestic head of Liberty, encircled
with the thirteen stars and "E Phiri
bus Unum" on one side, and that flam
boyant, soaring eagle on the other, an
nouncing to a doubting world that it
is "In God We Trust r* What more
distinct and Imperative notice to all
the nations of the world can a sov
ereign make than the fiat on that dol
lar that it is "One Dollar?" What does
It mean but a proclamation, in effect,
that we, the sovereign people of the
United States of America, do decree
that this coin is One Dollar; that we
expect all natfons to recognize it as
such, and we warn them that any
treatment of it by their subjects that
shall intimate a doubt that it is not
One Dollar will be taken by this na
tion as an indication of unfriendliness
and an act inimical to our peace and
dignity.
What more grievous insult is there to
be offered to any business man than to
doubt the solvency of his paper? What
Is the standing in aity community of
a man when his note of hand is thrown
out at the bank as no good, or sub
jected to a heavy shave? And among
nations, what is the standing of that
one whose paper is bandied about the
bourse at a discount? Russia, with her
depreciated roubles and all her power,
does not stand as high as little Hol
land with her granite-based currency.
Sovereignty and solvency are syno
nyms, and the nation whose money is
not respected among nations has its
sovereignty also' depreciated. To dis
count its coin is the keenest insult
that can be offered* it.
And yet here we are, seventy mil
lions of proud and sensitive Ameri
cans constituting this sovereign na
tion, permitting the money changers
of other nations, without a word of
protest, to not only doubt our im
perial fiat, but to deny It. Here is this
dollar, the emblem of our power, loyal
ly taken by us for what it says it is,
but when that eagle takes the flight
he is ever on the point of making, and
crosses the Canadian border, carrying
to Canucks the fiat th?.t the coin he
carries is, by the high and mighty de-
cree of this nation, One Dollar, the
Canadian audaciously, contumaciously,
says it isn't a dollar, refuses to take
it for a dollar and coolly asks the Unit
ed States what they propose to do
about it. Herein, we seriously submit,
is a casus belli. Herein is an insult
to our sovereignty that demands rep
aration, not in English pounds, shil
lings and pence, but ln blood. Beside
this what are fisheries and seal-skin
disputes, Schombergk lines or Itata
affairs in indignity? What marvel it
is that a nation which spends millions
in battleships, so that It may be ready
to resent an affront to the rights of
chronic South American revolutions,
submits supinely to this insolent denial
of its most solemn assertion of sov
ereignty by that attenuated fringe of
i humanity that skirts our northern bor
j der, not even a nation, but only a mis
erable little dependency. Zounds, is
patriotism dead that it fails to respond
to this degradation?
KEEPING IT ALIVE.
We have noted in some quarters a
disposition among Democrats who re
gard with apprehension the possible
election of Mr. Bryan and the installa
tion of the cause he embodies, to be
irritated at the constant prominence
Mr. McKinley gives, in the little ex
tempore addresses he makes to the
spontaneously evolved delegations
that have spoiled his lawn, to the
tariff question. They say, protesting
ly, that it is not an issue in this cam
paign; that by constantly pushing it
to the front he is not only belittling
the main issue, but is irritating Demo
crats who yet feel raw over the dis
appointments inflicted by Gormanism,
but are willing to forget that in the
presence of what they consider a
greater danger. Then, too, there have
been mild protests from Republicans
at a time when they were alarmed at
the apparent strength of the silver
movement, and thought and said it
was impolitic in Mr. Hanna and Mr.
McKinley to be always rubbing the
hair of gold standard Democrats the
wrong way. Even the New York Trib
une, rabid as it is, condescended to an
explanation of and apology for the in
trusion of protection in this campaign.
It was sorry for it, but, really, it could
not be avoided, because there are quite
a lot of fellows who are interested in
it, you know.
Now, we are free to admit that we
rather like this obstinacy in McKin
ley, this steady shoving up in front of
his pet policy. We do not believe he<
does it to distract attention from his
shady record on the money question,
but because he really, down in his
boots, believes that there has been no
greater issue ever presentd to an in
telligent people since the Declaration
of Independence than is the one which
bears his own distinguished name. If
one could get into his confidence in some
moment over the nuts and wine, we
have not the slightest doubt he would,
in all seriousness, assert that his "Let
there be protection" ranked second
only in importance to that other com
mand, "Let there be light."
But it is not because of this ardent,
unwavering, Implicit faith of McKin
ley in his prosperity breeder that we
like his insistence on it. "We have tried
to look all over and around this silver
question to find some substance in it
some evidence that it is anything more
than the after aches and growls of a
financial debauch, the fierce thirst for
more Of what causes the headache af
ter a night out with the boys, and,
honestly, we have been unable to find
it. We see the people all busily en
gaged in trying to repair the disaster,
slowly retrieving the consequences of
their and others* folly and extrava
gance, and booming by their industry
and economy, and we know that this
is the only way men have ever crawled
up out of the wreck of their castles in
the air. We are quite confident the
cloud is passing away, and that this
turmoil about coinage is only its re
treating silver edge. We need no free
coinage any more than we need an
Advance Agent of Prosperity, or a
Great Apostle of Protection to make
us again a busy, industrious and pros
perous people.
If we do not want to have industry
hampered, crippled, paralyzed by cur
rency disturbances, neither do we want
to see the hobble of taxation put on
it. We want to help our farmers to
greater returns for their labor by let
ting them have the same kind of mar
kets to buy in that they must, per
force, sell in. We want to see Ameri
can manufacturers holding up their
heads with true, manly, American
pride and pluck, and defying this
world to make as good wares and sell
them as cheaply as they can. We want
to see the American artisan stop cow
ering before the bugaboo of foreign
pauper labor, whose wages, measured
by product, are higher now than his
own. We want to see the old days
come back, when American merchant
men carried American goods under the
flag into all the ports of the commer
cial world and brought back from them
the things taken in exchange which
we all want. This condition that we
aspire to, this laTger freedom of man,
is bound up in the issue of protection
and has got to be fought out. The
very sturdiness with which it keeps
pushing itself to the front is the best
evidence of its vitality, that it is one
of those uncomfortable questions that
refuse to remain unanswered. So we
are glad that Mr. McKinley and his
press keep on telling the voters that
they must not lose sight of the issue
of free trade or protection in the issue
of a gold or a silver standard..
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DOES M'KIXLET OWE H ASS At
To the Editor of the Globe.
Please inform me through the columns of
your valuable paper if the statement that
McKinley is in debt to Mark Hanna about
$118,000 is true. —a Subscriber.
"Whether or not Mr. McKinley re
gards the subscription that Mr. Hanna
and others raised, said to have been
$118,000, as a debt of honor to be re
paid or not, or whether he insisted on
giving his obligations to refund it or
not, we do not know, and no one but
the parties probably does. We su:
--; mise that neither is true, and that the j
j sum was raised, given and accepted as I
THE SAINT PAUI, GLOBE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1898.
a gift from those whom he had helped
in congress and other admirers like
Mr. Kohlsaat.
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THE MEXICAN "NEGOCIA."
All subsequent Information gained
from those who have gone to Mexico
to find things as they are and not as
they wish to find them, whether, they
are advocates of the gold or silver
standard, but confirm the position
taken by the Globe that there are
exceptional conditions prevailing there
that make comparisons valueless so far
as they are sought for to bear on the
issue here. Any country in the process
of an industrial awakening through
the development, by means of railways,
of resources heretofore untouched, and
especially when a barrier against im
ports of 100 per cent is raised by the
cost of foreign exchange, cannot fall
to present some features that are
favorable. But to use these features
as an argument for or against a mone
tary standard, in a country where con
ditions are wholly different, is as un
fair as were the comparisons made by
the protectionists of labor conditions
here and in European countries to
prove the beneficence of protection.
Again, it is hazardous for any man
to go into a strange country, with
whose language and customs he is un
familiar, and try to get the condition
of trade or the range of prices. For
instance, the Mexican method of mak
ing purchases is as different from ours
as their language and disposition are
from those of our people. With us the
practice of "jewing down" is practi
cally extinct. The American is too
busy a person, whether it is a man '
driving a bargain or a woman doing
her shopping, to spend time haggling
with the tradesman about the price.
In fact, the general practice is 'one
price for all. If the price accords with
the customer's idea of what it should.
be the article is taken; if not, another
place is sought or purchase abandoned.
It requires a people with abundant
leisure on their hands to chaffer long
over the price of the articles of daily
consumption in the house. One finds
such people among the indolent
Easterns, with whom time and
themselves are one; but we are
yet in too great a hurry to
afford the time. This disposition to
haggle is illustrated by the woman
who, on asking the price of an article,
was told that it was 15 cents. Misun
derstanding the reply, she said: "Fifty
cents? I'll give you 15." Corrected, she
rejoined: "Well, then, I'll give you 10
cents."
Mr. Hawthorne, of this city, who.
went to Mexico as the agent of the
silver committee to get statistics that
would prove the superiority of the sil
ver standard, took with him the North
ern idea of bargaining. Other inquir
ers, who have elicited the same sup
posed facts, doubtless went there with
the same conception. They were ig
norant of the Mexican's inveterate
love of what they term negocia and
what is kn^wn here as "jewing down."
The Mejrfcan merchant habitually asks
twkre, or more, what he expects to sell
for. The purchaser expects that he will
do so. This forms the basis of that
protracted and enjoyable negocia, in
which both parties to a bargain so de
light. They start from opposite ex
tremes, the seller asking twice what he
will take and the buyer half what he
is willing to give. Gradually, by a
process of oral sapping and mining,
they approach the point where theit,
minds meet in a happy agreement,
made happier by this price fencing. So
when these emissaries of the silver
cause went about among the various
tradesmen and craftsmen to get the re
tail prices at which household neces
saries are sold, the merchant met them
with the idea that he was getting a
customer and proceeded to state his
initial terms of the negocia. The seeker
after truth noted down the price in his
note book and left, much, doubtless,
to the vendor's chagrin. These "facts"
were duly collated and have been re
tailed at home in the press and on the
stump to show how much higher
prices are in Mexico under a silver
standard than they are here under the
yellow one. Whether they are collated
to support either standard they are
equally unreliable, and, aside from
other considerations not to be omitted,
they prove nothing for or against one
or the other standard.
AT THeT^ATERS.
A well pleased and demonstrative audience
witnessed the presentation of "In Mizzoura"
at the Metropolitan last night. A popular
price matinee will be given this afternoon at
25 and 50 cents. The engagement of "In
Mizzoura" is for the entire week.
• « •
Again last evening was the popular Grand
well attended in honor of the visit of Eddie
Foy in "Off the Earth." Today at 2:30 a
popular priced matinee will be given.
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RECEIVER FOR ROSE.
Miss Coghlan Says She Has So As
sets.
NEW YORK, Oct. 13.— Justice Fitz
simmons, in the city court chambers
today, appointed Wm. M. Bennett, re
ceiver for the property and assets of
Miss Rose Coghlan, the actress. Miss
Coghlan says she has no assets. The
motion was made for Herbert E. Boyn
ton. assignee for F. G. Smith & Co.,
jewelers of Detroit, Mich., who recov
ered a judgment against the actress
for $500, the value of a diamond ring
which Miss Coghlan claims was pur
chased for her by her husband, John
T. Sullivan.
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JONES TAKES HIS TURK.
Claims Everything In Sisrht for Mr.
Bryan.
CHICAGO, Oct. 13.— Chairman Jones,
of the Democratic national committee,
gave out a statement tonight char
acterizing as absurd the figures show
ing the probable result of the election
as given out by Senator Quay. Chair
man Jones states that in all the states
classed by Senator Quay as doubtful,
a complete and harmonious fusion be
tween the Democrats, Populists and
silver Republicans exists, rendering
them certain for Bryan. For the same
reason, he classes as doubtful the
states of lowa, Ohio and Wisconsin,
and claims for Bryan the electoral
votes of Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Ken
tucky, Michigan, Minnesota, North Da
kota and West Virginia, all of which
were claimed for McKinley by Mr.
Quay. The table given out by Chair
man Jones gives 81 votes as certain for
McKinley, 279 for Bryan And 87 as
doubtful.
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TOIK TURfIED DOWfl
WATSON OPENLY REBUKED IN A
MANIFESTO BY HIS NATIONAL
COMMITTEE.
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TO STAY M THE TICKET.
BUT THE WHOLE DAY WAS DE
VOTED-TO (oasidrhim; his
Case.
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POPS WILL TURN OTHER CHEEK.
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For the Gfcod of the Cause They
Are to s?ok-k«)t Democratic In
justice it ml Say Nothing;.
CHICAGO, Oct 13,— A meeting of the
executive committee of the People's
party was held at the Sherman hotel
today. All members were present with
the exception of John S. Dore, of Cali
fornia. After hearing reports from
members .present and especially from
H. W. Reed, of Georgia, who spent
several da^s with Thomas F. Watson,
the committee decided- to issue a mani
festo to the voters of the party.
The members of the committee ad
mitted after the meeting that the state
ment was in the nature of a rebuke to
Thomas Watson, who nas been call
ing on„aH Populists to keep in the mid
dle of the road without paying atten
tion to either of the other parties.
Early in the afternoon Senator
Marion Butler said that Mr. Watson
would; retfi-alh on the ticket and that
his removal had not been discussed. A
different story was given out after the
meeting, when it was said Mr. Wat
son had been the chief subject under
discussion during the day. The mani
festo issued is as follows:
To the .people's Party Voters of the United
btates: Your national committee Indulged
tne_hope that the patriotic action of the Peo
ples party In national convention, in subor
dinating the interests of party to the success
of the vital Issues Involved in this campaign,
would be met by equally unselfish devotion
to a common interest, on the part of the Dem
ocratic party, hui that all the friends of sil
ver could present "a solid front against the
minions of gri?ed Vy supporting one ticket,
the truly co-o^eratiffe ticket, Bryan and Wat
eon. But this' hope'being disappointed, there
are but two course* left, one of which must
be adopted, d
First— To run a straight Bryan and Wat
son electoral ticket In every state— which, on
account of the failure of the Democratic party
to support this titftet would have effected
the same 'result 'In Ihls campaign that would
have followed the nomination of a straight
Populist ticket at iSt. Louis, namely, the
election of McKinley and the triumph of the
gold standard.-, ,-.
It Is true that the' Democratic party would
be responsible, even to a greater extent than
ourselves, for such' i; a result, but to permit
evil to triumph on such' grounds would con
vict us as weH as them of a lack of patriot
ism and' a narrow partisanship' that would
deservedly forfeit to us the confidence of the
American peopje. Remember that two wrongs
never make a right.'
When our devotion to the welfare of the
people falters because of any failure on the
part of the Democratic or any t,ther party,
then, indeed, we Have lowered our standard
and proven ourselves false to our own teach
ings, and repudiated our own motto ot coun
try first and men and parties second. The
brave, enlightened voters who constitute the
rank and file of the People's party are in
capable of such base betrayal of the country
as would result from a division in the ranks
of those opposing the machinations of the
confederated money power of the two conti
nents against the homes and liberties of the
American people, and would repudiate any
action on the part of their leaders opposed
to united effort at this time, as they re
pudiated the old parties for treachery to their
interests.
The only c"M*.« that is open to us, con
sistent torKfo the action In "nominating ' Mr.
Bryan was to do Sterything "In our power,
was to unite- -the voters of the country
against McKinley, and to overcome the ob
stacles and embarrassments which, if the
Democratic party had put the cause first
and party second, we would not have en
countered. This could be accomplished only
by arranging for a division of the electoral
vote in every state possible, securing so
many electors for Bryan and Watson and
conceding so many to Bryan and Sewall. At
the opening of the campaign this, under the
circumstances, seemed the wisect courss for
your committee, and it Is clearer today than
ever that It wag the only safe and wise course
if our votes were to be oast and made* ef
fective for the relief of an oppressed and
outraged people.
Following this line of policy our commit
tee has arranged fusion electoral tickets in
three-fourths of the states and will do all
in its power* tc^. make the same arrangements
in all the states. ' By perfecting this ar
rangement—and every sincere opponent of
the gold standard giving loyal support to
these, Joint electoral tickets— the people's
party will not;i onljr. secure in the electoral
college for Bryan and Watson several times
as many votes t as w.e could have possibly se
cured by making a straight fight, but we
will secure the defeat of McKinley and the
gold standard.- whlnh rhou-ld now be the
greatest desirei-of every citieen who believes
in th« principle of ti=ue Democracy as taUght
by Jefferson arid of. true Republicanism as
represented by, Abraham Lincoln.
ONLY ONE HOPE.
By this arrangement we can unite a large
majority of the voters of- America on our
Joint electoral ticket*,* therefore the only hope
of ihe money , »ower:i and trusts is to divide
and conquer. "The Republican managers and
the gold Democratic allies realize this and
are putting forth every effort to accomplish
this end. Their hai-e had their emissaries
on hand everywhere trying to prevent joint
electoral tickets from being arranged—fall
ing in this they try to find Populists and Sil
ver., D«>mo«rat« ..who can be induced, on one
pretext or another, to go against the Joint
electoral tickets. . They either have or will
secure the offices of every man who money
can command to breed dissensions and divis
ions. The danger lies ln the possibility of a
certain portion, ot the- rank- and- -file of the
People's party being misled by so-called
leaders, who, for reasons best known to
themselves, or for want of reason, are ad
vising voters to rebel against the Joint elec
toral tickets and put up separate electoral
tickets, or to withhold their support from the
joint electoral tickets.
Some .of the Democrats of the revenue
stripe who are not yet weaned from the
flesh-pots of Egypt, but we sticklers for I
regularity, and are nominally supporting
Mr. Bryan, while secretly and In every un
der-handed way are trying to accomplish his
defeat, are advising against the joint elec
toral tickets, and, failing in this, advise
Democrats to scratch People's party electors
and already a- few so-called Populist leaders
aye advising the rank and file of our party
to strike back by refusing to support the
Democratic electors on the joint electoral
tickets. This is a trap set by the gold bugs
who are rejoicing that a few honest men
have fallen into it.
These, reports today are the only ones
that buoy up the hopes of the Republican
managers and the Democrats and Populists
who are thus engaged, are doing just what
the gold men most desire. Therefore we
appeal to every Populist who may have been
misled by such mistaken or false pleas of
pretended loyalty to Jhe People's party into
refusing supped to such joint electoral tick
ets. To stop and consider the results of
such conduct and refuse to be Influenced by
either misguided or ;eorrupt men.
There are but two aides in the conflict that
is being waged In thi^, country today. On one
side are the allied hosts of monopolies, the
money power, gfreat tffcsts and railway corpor
ations, who safek the enactment of laws to
benefit them ' and impoverish the people.
On the other side are; the farmers, laborers,
merchants and t all the others who produce
wealth and bear the burden of taxation. The
one represents , the '.'wealth and powerful'
classes who want the 'government to plunder
the people. Tbfo othefr represents, the people
contending for "equality before the law and
rights of man.} Between these two there le
no middle ground. n
The one* and j only hope of the Republican
party to win in this campaign and fasten the
gold standard upon the country, is the cor
rupt use of an unlimited supply of money
for bribery, corruption and intimidation* The
patriotic actlon<of the People's party Inform
ing and supporting t&eae joint electoral tick
ets has shattered that hope. Already they
are alarmed at the lmpotency of a boodle
campaign, when all of the great moral forces
of the people are solidly united In defense
of American institutions. The revulsion ot
the American people against this boodle cam
paign, during the past ten days, has so united
them that victory is now assured.
The People's party made this revolution
possible. Let every one do his duty and fail
not. Let our boast be that we are Ameri
can citizens, and that American citizens are
.more than partisans. This dona, the cohorts
of domestic and foreign greed will be drlvsn.
from our legislative councils and the domina
tion of American institutions; this done and
the betrayed republic will be redeemed, and
American prosperity restored. The men and
the party who achieve such grand and patri
otic results in this crisis will be the men
and the party of the future. It has been left
for the People's party and the silver Repub
licans to make the party sacrifice and to do
the patriotic work necessary to accomplish
this result. The People's party must db It,
for no other party will. The People'B party
will do it; therefore, the People's party
will be the party of the future. The Ameri
can people will recognise It as the agency
that saved the day when their interests were
at stake; the American people will rally
around its banner as the party to contend
against the enemy of good government In the
future. Every man to his post and the vic
tory is won.
—Marion Butler, Chairman.
— J. R. Sovereign,
— H. W. Reed,
—George F. Washburn,
—John W. Breldenthal,
— M. C. Rankin,
— C. F. Taylor.
—J. A. Edgerton, Secretary.
"MIDDLE-ROADERS" BARRED.
Their Ticket Kept Off the Illinois
Official Ballot.
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Oct. 13.— The
state board of review today spent five
hours in hearing the case of the objec
tions of Chairman Taubeneck, of the
People's party state executive com- I
mittee, to the "middle-of-the-road" Peo
ple's party ticket being placed on the
official ballot and finally decided not to
allow the ticket on the ballot unless by
petition and by using some other name
than that of People's party or Populist.
DEMOCRATIC CLUBS APPEAL.
They Imagine All Their Votes "Will
He Needed.
WASHINGTON, Oct 13.— The Na
tional Association of Democratic clubs
today issued an appeal to all club mem
bers to do all within their power to
bring out a full Democratic vote on
election day. The members are urged
to heed the request of Mr. Bryan that
the club members remain at the polls
all of election day, that each appoint
himself a missionary and that as far
as able, each furnish a conveyance to
bring to the polls Democrats who
otherwise would not vote. The asso
ciation's appeal says much depends, in
a great degree, upon club organiza
tions, and that each member do duty
as a willing volunteer.
WILL PROMOTE FT'SION.
Butler Has a. l'lim to Help Out ln
"West Virginia,
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.— N. W.
Fitzgerald, the Populist nominee for
governor of West Virginia, was in con
sultation today with Senator Butler,
over the long distance telephone con
cerning the attitude of the officers of
the Populist state committee in West
Virginia on the question of fusion, and
he says that the senator assured him
that he would not recognize the rights
of the officers to negative the wishes
of a majority of the committee, but on
the other hand he would recognize the
right of the committee to act inde
pendently of its officers. It is believed
at Populist headquarters here that this
decision on the part of Senator Butler
will promote fusion between the Dem
ocrats and Populists in West Virginia.
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D'ALBANI AGAIN ARRESTED.
Prosecution That Failed Here Trans
ferred to Minneapolis.
P. J. G. D'Albani, against whom the
grand jury failed to return an indict
ment last Saturday on the charge of
bigamy, and who was discharged at
that time, was arrested in Minneapolis
yesterday on the same charge, pre
ferred by the same woman who caused
hip arrest in St. Paul two months ago.
Pfee claims to be Mrs. Cecelia D'Albani,
residing at 350 Wabasha street, and al
leges that the prisoner married a young
woman in St. Paul while she was his
lawful wife. When arrested in this
city, D'Albani did not deny that he had
been married to the woman who
charged him with bigamy, and also ad
mitted that he had again married, but
claimed that he believed his first wife
had secured a divorce. According to
his story she was nearly ten years his
senior and after their marriage did not
get along well together. One night a
short time after his marriage to the
worn.an who claims to be Iris legal wife,
D'Albani claims to have gone home
and found her missing. He alleged
that he had never again seen the
woman but once, jarhen she told him she
would never live with him again be
cause she did not have to do so. This,
with the statements of some friends to
the same effect, D'Albani claims to
have construed into the meaning that
the woman had secured a divorce, and
believing this to be the case he had
married again.
When arrested in this city D'Albani
was bound over to the grand Jury and
gave bonds for his appearance. In a
report last Saturday that body failed
to return a bill against him and he
was released. D'Albani was, at the
time of his arrest, employed as book
keeper for the American Hoist and
Derrick company. He was arrested in
Minneapolis yesterday by Sheriff
Holmberg, of Hennepin county, and
arraigned in the municipal court oh
the formal charge of bigamy, when he
demanded an examination, which was
set for this morning at 10 o'clock, bail
being fixed at $500.
DAY MUST VACATE.
His Chair in the Snate Thrown Open
to Contest.
Fairmont now has a topic for ex
citement scarcely less exciting than
the lynching that was expected, but
which did not come off. It seems that
Attorney General Chllds had written
to the county auditor of Martin county
stating that, in his opinion. Senator
Frank Day cannot hold his seat in the
legislature and at the same time run
for congress. That throws upon the
people of Martin and the other coun
ties in that senatorial district the
necessity of naming a candidate to
succeed him, "and there was some live
ly hustling when the decision of the
attorney-general was made known in
order to get the petition started.
RETAILERS ARE ORGANIZING.
Another Preliminary Hfeeting- Held
at the Ryan Hotel.
The newly organized Retailers' union
held its second informal meeting at
the Ryan hotel last night. Some 400
circulars announcing the date of
the meeting had been issued, but not
in time to secure a large enough at
tendance to perfect the organization.
C. P. Bowlby was chosen temporary
chairman and John H. Horton tem
porary secretary.
The chairman appointed one man in
each line of business as a committee of
one whose duty it will be to solicit re
tailers to become members of the union.
The signatures of 27 additional retail
firms were subscribed to the articles of
membership last night.
The next meeting will take place
Monday night, Oct. 19, at 8 o'clock at
the Ryan when the organization will
be perfected. Its object is the protec
tion and furthering of the general in
terests of the retail business.
Hunting" Party Returns.
J. L. Greatslnger, president of tho Duluth
& Iron Range road; K. D. Chase, who was
one of the original incorporators of the Du
luth & Missabe. and Monroe Nichols and
E. L. Fisher, both prominent politically In
Duluth, came Into St. Paul last evening ln
President Greatstnger's private car, after a
hunting trip in Western Minnesota and Da
kota. They were en route for Duluth. but
stopped off for a short time in St. Paui.
Albert Lea Scared, Too.
Albert Lea has now become frightened by
the diphtheria epidemic which has been ter
rorizing the citizens of Austin for several
days, and the schools of Albert Lea were
I closed yesterday.
GASTLES Ofl BAIL
ALLEGED SAN FRANCISCO SHOP
LIFTERS REMANDED BY LON
DON POLICE COURT.
CROWN'S CASE OFFERED.
PROSECUTION ENDEAVORED TO IM
PLICATE CASTLE AS WELL AS
HIS WIFE.
LONG LIST OF STOLEN PROPERTY.
Mra. Caatle Sobhed and Waa Very
Nervous While It Waa Belna;
Read Ont.
London, Oct. 13.— 1n anticipation of
hearing a most interesting and extra
ordinary case, the Marlborough street
police court was packed with specta
tors today long before it was time to
call Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Castle,
of San Francisco, remanded on Tuesday
last, charged with stealing a quanti
ty of furs, etc., from various dealers in
this city, to the bar.
James R. Roosevelt, secretary of the
United States embassy, and M. H. Hol
son, one of the under secretaries of the
embassy, were accommodated with
seats upon the bench. Mr. Castle
walked calmly into the dock, and a
moment afterward his wife was led
ln by two policemen. She was stylishly
dressed in dark brown with a blue
cloth cape, the collar of which was
turned up so as to partially hide her
face. Mrs. Castle sobbed violent
ly while in the dock, and held her hand
kerchief to her face. When the first
witness was called, Mrs. Castle became
hysterical and her condition was such
that the police fetched a bench upon
which both she and her husband were
allowed to sit. Mr. Castle put his arm
around his wife and done his utmost
to pacify her.
Mr. Avery prosecuted for the treas
ury. After detailing the circumstances
attending the arrest of the prisoners,
he said that he was informed by the
officials of the United States embassy
that Mr. and Mrs. Castle bore a high
reputation in San Francisco. It was
not, he said, a case of wealthy persons
buying goods which they did not in
tend to pay for, but a regular case of
shop-lifting. Counsel added that he
would not read the whole list of arti
cles which it was claimed were stolen,
l-ut he begged to call the attention of
the magistrate to the following:
Eighteen tortoise shell combs, seven
band mirrors, two sable boas, two
muffs, two neckties, seven gold
watches, nine clocks, seventeen valua
ble fans, sixteen brooches, seven tor
toise shell eye glasses, two plated toast
racks marked "Hotel Cecil" and a
large number of smaller articles of less
value, such as trinkets, etc.
During the reading of this list, Mrs.
Castle appeared to be upon the point
of losing consciousness. She frequently
ejaculated "Oh dear, oh dear," and
finally closed her eyes and sank moan
ing feebly upon her husband's
shoulder.
Part of the property the prosecutor
further stated, was found among the
husband's clothes. He mentioned this
he said, in anticipation of the plea
that the female prisoner alone was
guilty, but from the circumstances
brought out in evidence, and the fact
that the prisoners occupied one room
at the hotel, it appeared to him that
the man must have known what was
going on.
Mr. Harris, of Jeffs & Harris, fur
riers of Regent street, testified that
Mr. and Mrß. Castle, accompanied by
their son, aged 10, visited his store
upon three occasions. Mrs. Castle, he
added, did most of the talking, and
the party separated while in the store,
Mr. and Mrs. Castle going to different
counters, the boy running about. After
the departure of the Castles some sable
boas and chincilla skins were missed.
Miss Edith Evans, a sales-woman in
the employ of Jeffs & Harris, confirmed
the evidence of Mr. Harris.
T. C. Cook, manufacturing furrier, of
Portland street, testified in substance:
"The female prisoner came to my shop
on October 6. She said she was sail
ing on the following Tuesday, and ask
ed if I could make a sable cape in
time for her to take with her. I called
later at the Hotel Cecil, as she said she
had some sables for this cape which
I was to match. While at the Hotel
Cecil she left the room, and I exam
ined the packages of fur 3 she had.
I saw some well known marks and
agreed to make the cape. Her hus
band came in at about that time and
gave his assent to the bargain."
Detective Cunningham described the
arrest of Mr. Castle, who he said ex
claimed: "Good God, there is some mis
take. I will pay anything rather than
have this charge pressed. I know
nothing about it,"
Manager Field, of Charles D. Rob
ing, furrier of Argyll street, was next
examined. He told practically the
same story as Mr. Harris, except that
Mr. Field swore under cross-examina
tion that the furs were in such a posi
tion on the counters that Mrs. Castle
could not have taken them.
Inspector Arrow, of the Metropolitan
police, described In detail finding the
effects alleged. to have been stolen in
six trunks, aria' in the wardrobe of
the Castles' room at the Hotel Cecil.
The plated toast racks, he explained,
were found at the bottom of one of
the trunks, covered with clothing.
F. A. Margraff, of Margraff, Simms
& Co., furriers, of Morgan street, gave
testimony similar to that of the other
merchants examined.
Prosecutor Avery asked that the
prisoners be remanded for a week.
Charles Matthews, for the defense,
asked that the prisoners be released on
bail. In the course of his remarks, Mr.
Matthews said:
"We can clearly prove that Mr.
Castle is entirely innocent, and that
he is a man of the very highest repu
tation. We do not contend that his
wife is innocent. But, at the same
time, we shall be able to prove by the
testimony of physicians in court that
she is suffering from a disorder which
affects the mind."
Dr. Scott, the physician in charge of
Holloway jail, testified that Mrs. Castle
was suffering from intense nervous
ness, and that further confinement In
prison would be extremely dongerous
to her.
Magistrate Shell asked: "Are not
people charged with such crimes al
ways nervous?"
Dr. Scott replied: "Yes; but not to
such an extent as in the case of this
prisoner."
After some formalities, the magis
trate granted the release of the pris
oners on £30,000 ($150,000) bail accepting
two sureties in £5,000 and the prisoner's
own surety of £10,000 each.
The following gentlemen' were ac
cepted as sureties: Mr. Seymour, man
aging director of the Anglo-California
bank; Charles Guthrie, of Guthrie &
Co., bankers, Idol Lane; Lewis Weill,
a watch manufacturer of Hatton Gar
den and Augustus Cohen, a diamond
merchant, of Holborne.
Mrs. Castle w?s removed to the jail
room sobbing violently, and the doctor
was called in to attend her.
Counsel for the Castles said to a rep
resentative of the Associated Press', at
the conclusion of the hearing, that Mrs.
Castle was completely prostrated. On
leaving the court room she drove with
her husband to some friends, in order
to see her son, who is being cared for
by them. The meeting between Mrs.
Castle and her son ls described as be
ing moat affecting. She is now under
a doctor's care. Continuing, counsel
Baid that the English lawyers do not
believe it to be a "case of kleptoma-
rw" /l Ut - he adaed . *'I am convinced
mind" Woman la not in h *r right
♦ w k iSr d h^ W e for the fact
£d -«i aStle , dld not know h * s wife
had stolen goods in her nossesninn
counsel said that many of theTrttcles
pVchaLl^n'rft 11^^^ 61 " 6 »esSS,aS
imrcnases, and it will be proved thar
Mr. Castle was not aware that tn*e
others were in her possession
Mr. Roosevelt, secretary of the Amer
ican embassy, attended the hearine
when the Castle case was called. M*
£X a !£ 6 * 3 the Btate dspartment
.£■ V l6 " eml >assy was doing all pos
s We for the Castles in the way of w
sistance.
MAKING A MISTAKE.
Republicans, Says Morton, Should
WorU and Not Boaat.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.-Secretary
Morton has returned to Washington
and resumed his official duties after an
extended vacation in the West He an
nounced today that he would take no
part In the elections, but added that if
he were to vote, he would cast his bal
lot for Palmer and Buckner, whose
platform he regarded as satisfactory
His reason for not voting, he said, was
the distance of his Nebraska home
from Washington, and the lark of ne
cessity for his vote, which, he said he
would cast if it were likely to make
any essential difference.
The secretary was not inclined to talk
politics and said he did not care to dis
cuss the situation and outlook "I per
sonally hope for McKinley's election as
between McKinley and Bryan," he said
"but I don't think any one of the candi
dates can rest on their oars with as
surance. The Republican party is
making a great mistake now ln brag
ging of strength and not doing more
work. There is no certainty until the
election is an assured fact and less
noise and more work in convincing
voters of the right principles and the
right creed for them to support is
needed. This failure to appreciate the
strength of the opposition was evident
when the election note was first soifnd
ed. I belong to a political party which
belittled the extent of the free silver
craze in its own ranks. This is an un
fortunate and mistaken idea and the
sooner the party managers put forth
all their efforts to bring out all the
votes possible, the better it will be."
GOLD NAME'S GO ON,
Bnt Not Under the Title Selected by
National Democrats.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 13.— The
state board of elections today decided
that the electoral ticket of the Nation
al Democrats should be called the gold
standard ticket. The board had pre
viously notified S. O. Pickens, chair
man of the state central committee of
the National Democrats, that the ticket
could not go on the ballot under the
name of National Democrats and had
requested him to send in another name
This Mr. Pickens declined to do. stat
ing that the name had veen advisedly
chosen and that there was nothing in
the law to forbid its use. In his formal
reply to the board's request Mr. Pick
ens declared that the party he repre
sented was the only National Demo
cratic party and that the name was
descriptive as well as legal.
BISHOP WILLIAMS SPEAKS.
Hs Voice Is for Patriotism and
Honest Money.
MARQUETTE, Mich. Oct. 13— Bishop
G. Mott Williams, of the Protestant
Episcopal diocese of Marquette, said
today: "The Episcopal church was
most largely represented among the
signers of the Declaration of Independ
ence and the framers of the constitu
tion of the United States. She has
never encouraged her clergy to be per
sonal partisans, yet I would be a dumb
guardian of my people should I hesi
tate to say that any member of the
Episcopal church who supports the
Chicago platform will do so in the teeth
of the moral teaching of his church.
I have never been a party man and
do not declare for any personal pref
erence In this election, but I do de
clare for patriotism, mutual charity
and confidence between the rich and
poor, anti-sectionalism and honesl
money."
GENERALS AT INDIANAPOLIS.
O-fie Hall Wonlil Not Hold the Big
0 Crowd.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 13.— The
old .veterans* party, under charge of
Gen. Alger, arrived in Indianapolis this
evening. A great demonstration had
been prepared by the various political
organizations of the G. A. R. A large
parade was reviewed by the generals
from the Hotel Dennison. The crowd
that gathered to hear the speakers was
so large that it was necessary to divide
the meetings between two halls. The
addresses were delivered in Tomlinson
hall and English's opera house. The
two audiences aggregated 9,000 people
who applauded the utterances of the
generals in behalf of the gold standard
and the Republican cause.
The addresses were all similar In
character charging, that the safety ot
the country and the Integrity of the
government were being assailed as
they were In 1861. They appealed to
all honest men and patriotic citizens to
rally round the cause of the gold
standard. The speakers of the even
ing were Gen. Russell Alger, Gen.
Daniel Sickles, Gen. O. O. Howard, Gen.
Stewart, of Pennsylvania, and Corporal
Tanner. Col. W. E. McLean, of Terre
Haute, also spoke, introducing Gen.
Sickles.
HEAVY REGISTRATION.
NEW YORK, Oct. 13.— This was the last
"day of the registration in New Jersey. The
total registration ln Jersey City with one
precinct missing was 40,000, an increase of
about B.OCO over last year. The registration
is far the largest in the history of the city.
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WILMS AND FREE COINAGE.
The Judge States His Position on
Money.
To the Editor of the Globe.
I am exeremely gratified that one of your
editorials, printed ln the Issue of today, calls
public attention to the fact that since cer
tain fugitive expressions of mine regarding
the free coinage of silver strayed into the
newspapers ln the year 1891, I have been so
fortunate as to learn something regarding
finance.
In the year 1891 I am supposed to have said:
"In my humble opinion Mr. Cleveland, ln
assuming the attitude on the free coinage
proposition which he has assumed, once
more displays his Jacksonian Independence
and conspicuous good sense. His position is
correct. No party can afford to disregard the
-teaching and example of a chieftain like
Grover Cleveland," I then placed more re
liance upon Grover Cleveland than I do now.
I accepted as true certain assertions on his
part which I have since discovered to be
gross errors. In the year 1891 the highest
wisdom of the Republican party, especially
guided by Hon. John Sherman and Hon. Wil
liam McKinley of Ohio, had put Into operation
the Sherman silver purchase act, under which
the currency of the United States was show
ing a rapid increase, and the conditions then
present promised a larger utilization of silver.
These circumstances created an apparent
prosperity, by which I, in company with
many other citizens of the United States, was
led to believe that the free coinage of silver
was not absolutely necessary to the welfare
of the American people. I know better now.
Since my former casual opinion appeared in
print, I have given the matter careful study.
I have had the advantatge of considering tho
profound and able arguments presented by
Most Rev. Dr. Bishop Walsh, of Dublin, Ire
land The result of my studies is the candid
opinion that the free coinage of silver and
gold at the traditional ratio of sixteen to ova
is the true monetary policy of the United
Statees of America.
George Washington, first president or the
United States, signed the first free coinage
bill, and I believe that William J. Bryan, as
president of the United States, will sign tho
second bill establishing the same policy. Un
der the free coinage of silver and gold, tho
United States progressed with marvelous pros
perity for eighty-one years, and then, without
any public demanad whatsoever, and with
out the knowledge of the masses of the people,
sliver was demonetized. A restoration of the
financial policy pursued during the period ot
1792-1873 is now at hand, and no citizen re.
Joices ln that prospect more sincerely that
your obedient servant, -4oim W, Willi*.
