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4" STATE JOTTRXAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1894. Hie State Journal CZiial Paper cf ti-s City cf Tcpeka. Br Fran k P. MacLknkan. cr srEsairr::::. Tally edition, delivers! by carrier, 10 tizta a weak to ar.y part of Topeka cr n'carts, cr at tne sane price in any Eansas tsva vrhera this paper has a ear lier 3ystsn. nail, three nonthg ........$ .23 1 7 nail, one year 3.63 Veekly Edition, per year 53 GREATEST IN KANSAS. AVS2A33 BAILT ZZ2 37LATZSN': 8,806 Fsr tie three dell sinner nsntha of 1331 an increase cf ever :lfr.y per cent In ore year. OIK PROOF: The lsu of the Topeka Datit Statu JuvnxALlar Viio three rnoiitbj, viz., from tha 1st clay of June. l.v-H. to tha aist day of August, IsM. inciusiye, hitu been as fol cwj: June July August 1.. s. . . 6. 6. s! 9. 10. 11. is. is. 34. 13. 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((AtDRSItlRT!, Cle "k of the J!-trki Court, Shawnee Couuty, Kins as. t-TT-The STATS JCrSlTAL is the enly piper in Zansas receiving the Full Taj Asscciatei Press. f.77"2ater American Newspaper Fufc lishere'a asscciaticn.. riT-The STAT3 J3UP.NAL has th haniscnest ani most ccnp".ete web ster e:type perfecting press. tiTEastern cfieti, 73 Trilnne Euiliin. 17aw York, Perry Lnkens, Jr., manager. Mother Indlfttloni. Washixotov, Sept. 20. Forecast till 8 p. m. Thursday. For Kmsaa: Fair, southerly winds. Mart E. Lease ays she wouldn't take a Pullman pasa. Mary adds to the levity of nation. Charlie Ccktis Is justaj experienced a puLIio epeakor 9 there is in Kaunas. Let him have a chance at S, 51. Scott. If therb U anything ia the line of favors from corporations that Borne Populist officials won't take, pleaae name tLeia. Will Governor Lewellinj say that h did not oak for a pass f jr his business partner and get it, or wi.l he remain silent as heretofore? Doesn't Ilowel Jones' committee think that Charlie Curtis is able to debate with S. K. Baott? Tha Republican of thi district do not aj;rea with Mr. Jones' com mittse. TTell, poor old James IL Cook ia dead now and W. S. Wait can have his chair all the time. Even Dr. MoCasey can eit ia it when he isn't busy righting with his lubordinatea. It looks just as if llo, ! Jones and jhla committee thought that Charlie Cur tis wasn't smart eaougS to debate with B. 21. Scott. The committee haa no busi ce:i3 to allow iach a ridieulom cooitruc tioa to be put on their actkn. llisiox Record: The Pops maintain their usual breathless eilenoe concerning the reduction of the Pullman assessments. Ia the meantime The Topeka State JorasiL has uncovered tho fact that the state board of asset aors all hold Pullman p&isea. Does this account for the re duction? When: Lincoln post finds it necessary to act as a body to sec jr the invalid chair bought foraa old soldier for that ell ioldier, it seems to us that Dr. UcCasey can not be the bigh toaed gentleman that Wsltar N. Allen and Mary E. Lease would aave the pub lic believe. Tiie petty fraud that Attorney Gen eral Little Intended to commit against tha Bsnta Fe railroad by lending his railroad pass, shows at leas'; that he lacks dignity end self respect. The Attorney Geaeral of a great state llkn Kansas act Is: a lie ia indeed a sorrowful and des p iC able sight. AnoasE? General (the Litti.k) irave out his paaa tJ Jude Foote know ing1 wsll enough that It was Judge Foote'a iatentioa to practice a fracd and decep tion oa the railroad conductor to whom L handed the pass. Any man who will practice petty fraud Eke that isn't fit to 'told a position la the state house, that's f-'-t8rn We are all for free coinage in Kansas; it took some of us a long time to see the lijjht; in fact some people had to be hit with a bricK, but everybody in ivaasaa stands on the same platform. fcTATs JOCKWAL. The Republican candidates are pre tending to be for free silver coinage be cause they know it is popular to do so. If they had to be hit with a brick to make them pretend to be in favor of tiU vpt what will it take to maHe them vote for silver after they are elected? It is the same old Republican story. Promise everything before election and do as they please after they are ia oSce. Clay Cen ter Dispatch. That is what ails the Populist party. Its leaders promised everything before they got into oSca and have performed nothing. The governor has not enforced the prohibitory and anti-gambling laws, he haa appointed to office men who can not command the respect of their fellow- 1 citizens and associates, like Artz, To ld, McCasey and others. lie and his follow state officials have accepted railroad passes and Pullman passes. In fact they have "done as they please 1 since el ac tion." A few days ago a Topesa Journal reporter interviewed all the state board of railroad assessors who were in Tope ka. They all acknowledge 1 tht they have annual passes on ail the railroais of the state and two of them acknowl edged that they have passes oa Pull man cars while Auditor Prattler said he got a Pullman trip paas when he wanted them. Does this account tor the heavy decrease in the Pullmau as4essmoat this year? Doesn't it look a little Strang for these reformers to be accepting favors from the soulless corporations? Oiage City Free Press. We want to call the attention of the Free Press to' another point These same state officials made much of the local A. R. U. organization here, said to be composed of 1,3J0 men. They f.-iirly outdid themselves ia expressing sympa thy for the A. R. U. ia their boycott oa Pullman cars, while all the time thay were carrying Pullman passes in their pockets; a base deception was practicad on the confiding A. li. U. men. Gentle reader, you find by followiag the columns of the Journal that the pass influence taints all grades of oilicial life; it doesn't matter what political party is in power. If thia fact doesn't open your eyes to the rottenness cf the system, then you are blind, indeed. The people j ought to "get real mad" about this mat ter and then they ought to keep from baing partisan. Whea you take sides, then you begin to justify the rottenness on your own side, instead of denouncing It wherever you see it. Political parti ss are an evil which the world is not yet ready to be rid of because it hasn't pro gressed far enough. This i3 a very stupid old world yet. There is no good reason why Charlie Curtis and y. M. Scott should not meet in joint debate. It is not necessary for them to jaunt all over the district and make the debate continuous, but two or three meetings might be arranged that would afford the people an opportunity of hear ing both at the same time. It looks fool ish for Curtis' committee to dodge the challenge when there isn't the slightest danger that Charlie Curtij caa not held his own. Hutchinson Gazette: The Topeka Journal is giving the railroad pass business a commendable airing. Let the fight continue until every judge and of fice holder ia the stats throws his pass away. KANSAS PARAGRAPHS. The Salina Plaster company will put UP a gypsum plant on Holland creek near Boaaccord. The Presbyterian synod of Kansas will be held in Salina, commencing Oct. 4, and continuing five day3. A $1,200 horse died at fit Marys the other day while hundreds cf $5 hors33 are in disgustingly good health. The postoffice at Stuart, Smith county, has been discontinued and its former patrons have to go to Lebanon for taeir mail. A coroner's jury in Riley county 6ald the deceased came to his death on ac count of medicines administered by the doctor. Since the trustees shut down on foot ball Baker university hasn't been heard of and probably won't be. The trustees vertising. A "musio band" haa been organized at tit Marys. The first part of the name is doubtless to distinguish it from the ordinary brass band. Boys' trousers are selling for 17 cents a pair at Eureka, so cheap that the boys don't think it worth while to tear them on nails to get a new pair. The brother of a Scranton man sent him a cow the other day, and at the same time a telegram stating that it was nec essary to milk her twice a day. Minneapolis Messenger: The Repub licans of Smith county hav drawn the color line by nominating Mr. Black for clerk of the courts and Mr. White for commissioner. People who travel oa the Howard branch since the late rains, pause re spectfully and return thanks oa arriving at their destination, that the train remain ed on the track. A gymnasium club with thirty-five members haa been organized at Abilene, and will do what it can to counteract the tendency tha Lanier circle has to make the people run all to head. The Beloit Call in giving an account of a W. C. T. U. meeting said one wo man's paper was on "Xon-alconolic Medi tation." It should have been medication and of course the printer got tha blaine. Hope CrescWBt: A couple were lately madei ia thi vicinity at which tiie groom used the preacher's coat to be married in. That preacher will have quite a number of weddings when it becomes known that he furnishes the groom a coat to be married in. belong to an age that never hard of &d- Scranton Gazette: The editor of the Ottawa Bulletin, must te aa awful "boozer." He says: "The entire expense of our government Is only about ot;e half as much, aa Tve spend for Intoxicants," LAW AND TIIE NEGRO. FEELING STIRRED BY THE ENGLISH INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE. Ca4itiaa f tha Ularlcs Today JL Crln Til at Rouses t Fury of Men of Every Hare I a 11. Well and the Duty of e gTMt Themselves Special Correspondence.! Atlanta. Sept. 20. And so the ten der hearted Eugliab are to investigate ts! WelL vre oaa stand it. We have teen investigated ia turn by Butler, Sheridan, two Shermans, Blair and so on down to little Billy Chandler, and if we caa stand all that, great Scott I what can't we stand? To eay that raoat cf our folks are redhot over this truly English performance would bo drawing is mild, but a minority and I am in and out of it look on it as a huge joke, an appropriate close for a season vv-hich opened with Corey's inarch on Washington. Ordinary impudence an noys, bat euch ooloefcal cheek as this has in it an element of the sublime. And t-aero is one good thing to bo said for these Englishmen they are not trying to make votes. I have made seven tonrs in tho south and changed my mind on Borne point after each tour, and am therefore dis posed to be charitable. My first experienco after tha war was in Tesas in 1878. Coming fresh from a ruther radical northern community, I expected freedom to do everything for the blacks and do it quickly. Irritated by their dawdling incompetence, I reacted to .the other extreme. I tried the negro by the northern white man's standard and pronounced him incapabla of pxog- t 1 C ' ..III YyN? V.i! IDA B. WELLS. ress. Set this down as the northern man's first mistako on coming south. They nearly all make it. My next view waa in South Carolina in the campaign of 1876, and there I was almost per suaded that if tho whites did not ester ruinate them they would soon be eating each other. In Mississippi in 1877 and Louisiana in 18791 inclined to the their prevalent theory that the race tended to die out. The census of 1880 knocked all that nonsense oat of ns, and we took a fresh start. Tlire Conclusive Facts. Three long totu-s through the black belt have since convinced me of at least three facta. First, the progress of the blacks in any section depends chief ly on the progress of the whites in that section. Tako this beautiful and pros perous city as an example. A little OTer 50 years ago it was not marked on tho map. Since 1850 it has doubled in popu lation each decade and far more than doubled its wealth and business. It has therefore about the finest colored popu lation in the south. Tho English com mitteemen can se9 their well organized colleges, their fine churches, their ele gant high school and other public build ings. They will be welcomed by many refined and intelligent colored people. They will be handsomely entertained at the hoinss of bishops, doctors of divinity, learned professors and fairly well to do busine-s and professional men, all col ored, biit they will find another class of blacks which is a menace to tho peace of any community. Where white progress has been greatest colored progress has been great est Where the whites Lave been slow or stationary the blacks have also, and if there bo a place in the south where the whites have retrograded I think you will find that the negroes have moved back and kept "company distance." The second fact of importance is that the colored race is rapidly divid ing into classes as clearly marked as the Four Hundred and the ragged Reu bens in New York. And this is one of the surest signs of increasing civiliza tion. There is a small class gaining rapidly, a much larger class gaining slowly and another stationary or retro grading. It mast not be forgotten that the imported negroes were from many different regions. One authority says 143 tribes were represented, the intel lectual range as great aa from the Cau casian cf Boston to the "greaser" of Mexico. The third fact of importance is that tho two races are getting farther apart, and that right rapidly. The good of each race respect each other, but have no wish for closer association, and, as for the bad, one fact tells it all mis cegenation haa almost entirely ceased. A Case In Point. Standards of right and propriety dif fer amazingly, but there is one offense which rouses to fiercest fury the men of every race from the Caucasian to the Piute violence to its women, especial ly to little girl. In the presence of a victim the most enlightened community goes iEsana. In 1S76 I was in southern Ohio when the corpse of a lady (her name was Bennett, I think) was found in the woods, murdered by a tramp. He was dragged through the streets, with the best men and women in the place crying for vengeance. A leading cilizen, an aged Christian, who had never been heard to utter an ro to, was asked to address tha mob for law and v i . . . order. He began, broke down in tears and fairly screamed, "Boys, go hang th & ii !" And they did hang him, the geod mmxi agisting, the good wosaes plaudig. The popular rage at tha so a tii ia tafoll fiercer becaus the danger is tenfold greater. In a thickly aafctled and thoroughly policed country like Eagland that crime is al most aa impoeaibility. The south ia all frontier. Savs in a very few localities the population is sparse. Women and Echoclgirls must often go long distances on lonely roads. The temptation to the naturally lawless is great The retribu tion must be swift, certain and terrible. Aa a rac our negro is most unfortu nately situated. He has been brought from the rudest condition of barbarism and put under the requirements of the highest civilization, while there he has not been time for the internal to change in harmony with the external. Scien tifically speaking, the organism has not developed to lit the environment The negro is subjected to 600 times as much temptation as in Africa and has not acquired five times the power of moral resistance. The result is much the same as it would be with a lot of wild cattle gathered at random from the plains and mountains and put under the restraints of a well ordered stock farm. It has taken 1,200 years of select breeding to produce the mild eyed and gentle Jer sey, yet every stockman knows that when the sex instinct is roused the wild nature is apt to break out and the Jer sey to become as dangerous as a wild Northumbri an. A Kodd Kenedy. There is, however, a remedy, and it is high time to apply it. The negroes themselves should organize more thor oughly and mark the bad men of their race. The whites must realize that every lynching has a reactive effect on the natura of citizens a hardening, de moralizing effect. Most important of all, there is a chance that an innocent man may suffer, and though the chance be but one in a thousand that is enough to condemn the whole Fystem. Miss Ida B. Wells has achieved a re markable success of tho kind. It is evident at a glance that her view is al together presumed and one eided, and many of the statements she makes can not in the very nature of things be true. Nevertheless there is an evil, and it should be cured, nor should tho absurd exaggerations of reformers hinder it. And, as to our English friends, let them come, and welcome. They are sure to see ten times an much good as evil, and tho more they see of us the better they will likens. They will find nine-tenths cf this southern country as open to the rambler as their own settlemei: : in new countries are and much the s-ije sort of people. They will be sneered at a lit tle and laughed at a good deal, but their own countrymen already settled here will tell them many things they did not know, and after hearing it they will think better of us. Chahles Applebke. CRANK INVENTORS. Kew Ideas For Liquor Klakti, Pulpita and Steam Cosines. "Special Correspondence. BrFFALo, Sept. 20. If you want to hear good etories, you will do well to gee into the company of an accomplish ed patent promoter. "One of the most interesting cranks I've met in a long time," said one of them to me the other day, "was a chap with a scheme for a church which he thought would be a treasure to indolent preachers. The pulpit was to be in tho center, and the pews were to be in cir cles extending clear around the speak er's stand, rising at the back as tho tiers of seats rif;e in a theater. The pulpit was to be stationary, but the pews were to rest on rollers, running on circular tracks. Ey the use of an electrio motor the seats were to be kept in constant, gentle motion, and in that way the preacher would face the entire congre gation in service without once having to turn around. I don't remember whether the device had yet been patent ed or not, but I had a great time getting rid of the fellow. " "His scheme," said the second of my promoter friends, "reminds me of tho plan that has actually been adopted in jailbuildiug somewhere in the west The cells are in tiers in a great cylinder of boiler iron. This stands on end in side a cylindrical structure of masonry and is kept slowly moving, while the outer etotio walls, of course, remain still. Before this jail was built there were many escapes from the sheriff's custody, but not afterward. The most persistent chap I have met was a fellow who wanted to save a lot of money to liquor bottlers. He proposed to get up a bottle that could not be used a second time. Inside the flask he was to have some sort of a movable float which the minute the last drop of liquor was pour ed out would fly up and act as a stopper. Until it was removed nothing more could be poured in, and the only way to remove it was to break the bottle. " "I knew an inventor, " said the third man, "who, inspired, I suppose, by see ing a gas engine at work, proposed to use gunpowder in the cylinders of en gines for ocean eteamera He had a model of his contrivance, too, but it was of wood, and he even tried to v7ork it, of course. His machine was to au tomatically deposit, say, a quarter of an ounce of powder behind the piston at every stroke. It waa to be exploded by electricity, and the resulting gases, he held, would furnish ample force to move an engine of gTeat horsepower. I told him I wouldn't take the invention up because I was afraid that some day a spark from the explosions in the cylinder would reach the main powder magazine, and then there would be force enough to smash the entire craft. The fellow got very angry at me and would never speak to rue again. But I didn't mind. ' ' Then the talk drifted to the subject of good luck in touching cripples on the street and the bad luck that inheres in the number 13, but as the state ments made were not substantiated by affidavits it would be injudicious to re pet them here. M. L D2LXXEB. "Walt For the New Department Store. Our stock, consisting of a good assort ment of popular priced Dry Goods, Notions, Millinery, Boots and Shoes, Racket Notions, and dipping lightly into many lines besides, is nearly all here and will probably all bo here by the end of the week. We expect to have it marked and ready for sale by Satur day, the 29th September. Our entire stcck has been bought for cash, with the benefit Of all cash discounts. It is the result of the best judgment and careful work in hunting bargains of our three buyers, all experts in their several lines. Our rent and other expenses will be much less than that of any of our competitors carrying anywhere near asnlarge a stock. We shall sell abso lutely for spot cash and with one price to everybody. All this gives us, we think, an advantage over whether it does or not, the fact dollar's worth of our goods is and all bought since the recent tremendous reductions brought about by the new tariff, does unquestionably give us a big insido over those dealers whose stock is princi pally made up of old goods, half or more of them bought months (or years) ago at old time prices. Do you realize what this new tariff means? Three .items out of four in a general stock can actually be retailed profitably for less than the wholesale prices of last spring. Nothing is higher; every thing, or almost everything, is much cheaper. In a few days we will adver tise some prices. Watch for that "ad." It will interest . you. Keep your money in your pockets till our doors open. We have "plums" for you that are plums in deed. Remember the place 108 East 6 th street, recently remodeled and fitted up for us. The date, Sept. 29th. The Topeka Cash Dry Goods Co. REPUDIATE FIIYE. Ohio Tojmlistft "Won't Countenance the Coxeyite's Itevolutionary Schemes. Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 26. The local Populist organization has denounced and repudiated General L. C. Frye, the commander-in-chief of the industrial army of California, who was invited here last weiek to lecture. His address was very radical, almost revolutionary, and before lwaviug- this city he took into his confidence several persons whom he could trust and told them he was the agent and organizer of a revolutionist farty and was merely using the Populist cloak to get in his work. The group system of the anarchists is used, though it is entirely separate from them. It is international in scope and growing rapidly in numbers, he said. Tha idea was suggested by the great Chicago railway ttrike of last summer. When well organized they will await the coming of a similar condition, and when the laborers of the nation are in hot blood over a wrong and the state and national soldiers are supporting corpor ate greed, the signal to rise up and seiz& the government will be given, and the orgauizatica will act according to the arranged plan. "General" Frye was told he could not use the Populist party here to machinate against the government. The men he took into his confidence exposed him and ha was told by the Populist leaders that he could not address Populist meet ings here. The persons who have ex posed Frye's schemes are reliable. Frye is an educated man and a good speaker. He was one. the instructor in rnechanic.il drawing in the schools of San Francisco, I and later was master mechanic in large , railway shops in the west j NOT ALL TIIIETES. Dr. Parkhnrst Says Tlier Are Soma Good Men in Tammany, But Very l ew. Tkw York, Sept i(J. Dr. Parkhurat carried his crusade against vice into the annexed district last night. The doctor had never been north of the Harlem river before, although a branch of the City Vigilance league has been doing efficient work there for the past two years. Last night a rousing meeting of the league was held in Bethany Presby terian church, One Hundred and Thirty seventh street, near Willis avenue, Dr. Parkhurst being the principal orator. ' When Dr. Parkhurst stepped to the front of the platform h. was heartily ap plauded. He said he was not going to make a speech- but merely a talk. He got at Tammany ia the first iur.. r. There are good men in this despicable organization," he said, -but only a few of them. Many ara amiable men, and when I see them I feel glad that the or ganization is not wholly composed of thieves. "But it ia the women I am going to talk to tonight," continued the doctor. He said he knew the women were inter ested in the work of the league, although it was not until recently that he heard of them. He said the women could do almost as much as the men to bring about the desired reform by using their persuasive powers. He asked them to look to their sons and use their influenoe to induce such of them as are wayward to steer clear of fnntaminatimr associations. other stores here; but that every bran new, a the outlook fur victory for hia society this fail was brighter than ever before, but the man lor mayor must be a person who would do his duty. IN POLICE COURT. A Short Mess-ion This Moriiiugr OnVudcis Wr I'eiv. Andrew Jordan is under arrest becaus-e j the police found ia his yard a lot of bal -j bitt metal that the Santa Fo company j had missed. It is thought that Jordan ! stole the metal and rcuieltiug it sold it at five cents a pound. The evidence in ! the case was not ready and the case had I to be continued till tomorrow. Jim Riley, when Oflicer D'tt?;; picked j him up yesterday and accused of beii); j a vagrant, made a creditable allowing to ! tho court this morning and it took Judge Eusminger about thirty seconds to du : miss him. GREAT FAILURI M J Vat. j TIw Boston Sbe Cc, at SIS All., have received for inspection at tbir P-a.';:...', Lignum a whole train Ion 1 cf tL latest styles and patterns ol' f FINE I FOOTWEAR I From two large EansHetcring i ferns in 'Massachusetts. COfl- Look aad Read a Few of the many Bargains. LaciM J4.00 Hand w eit neavy ! sole r otwoar form bhapa. eaiifc W'aikUiK bhoi to tt. fte.30. Ladies' 11 tie su Har d turned Shoes, trimmed and plain, in dw ntylen, I8.oo, Ladies' line 4 Conn. Kid and Cloth Top Eal moral, tewed, pat. uo or plaiu toe, 4.o. LiUie' tine 1'r.nCB Alberts and Juittes, S2.M and 53 00 Shops, all go t a 1.4s. l.aii.oV fine $!..', 'ifords, best ever shewn In Uii city. 7.11 go at Sl.OO. Ladies" 7"c pra 'loo Slipper to cents. Men's tins Plusft Hipper, to cei ts. Men's fine Razor Toe 5 00 lio td.OD. Men's fine Cordovan 17 SIlob $ l.OO. Men s fioa Kaog. Iiand k.wiui S4 blue $4. SO. Men's fine aod heavy sole 43.50 VaJ biiocs Men's bst kind of Vi ork PUoes in Coif. K!p, Oil 'lauD .J aid 8wsl t)t;n, ber shown at le than cost to raansjfacture. ;oy's School ishoesftl to $1.25. list line of Ch irtr'-a School Ehoas, prleet from SO ci-nts to il.OO. Kinet line of Intant felines ever shoira la this cily at less i nee thau cost ox stock. this niilDIE stoek of i;o.LST FMT tt'WR, wi M fonOdtnt yea Trill be suited. Ao trouble to show- gocxis. BostonsSoe GO. 511 IJ&ns&s Atfc. V i