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THE
recent death of Mrs.
LAND
in
ACCORDING
I'attcn,
A\all
of
Washington, makes four girl* orphans
with fortune of one million dollars
ftach.
street. New York
City, is worth *14,300,000 an acre.
They are not buying it by the aero,
however.
CAPTAIN HKOOKS,
of the Guion line,
has made six hundred round trips
across the Atlantic, sailing two mill
Ion miles.
AFTER a recent hurricane a roral
reef fifty feet long, thirty feet wide and
five feet high appeared in the harbor
of Vera Cruz.
PCXDITI KAMABAI,
the Hindoo worn-
a», has rained fifty thousand dollars in
the United States to build a school for
widows in India.
GENERAL GKEK.LY,
AMERICANS
of the Signal Serv­
ice, says that January 25 will be the
coldest day this winter. Make a note
of this prediction.
have been awarded fif­
teen diplomas, twenty-six gold, six sil
ver and three bronze medals at the In
ternational exposition at Brussels.
GEORGIA
refused, at the recent elec­
tion, by a majority vote of between
8,000 and 10.000, to increase her Su
preme Court bench from three to five.
OL'T of live hundred toilets and seven
hundred and fifty hats surveyed on a
recent afternoon on Broadway, New
York, no two were alike, and all were
fashionable.
MR. STANLEY'S
THE
last words on leaving
Cairo on his preson#*nission were: "It
must not bo supposed that I am lost
because I ean not communicate with
the outer world."
Ill view of the sensational story
about the poisoning of Laura Schir
nier, the Boston singer, in the Sultan's
harem, it is allowable to ask when the
lady intends to begin her tour of this
country.
dearest little birds in the world
are the English sparrows. It is assert
ed that these birds cau«e a loss to ag
ricultural England of from forty to
fifty million dollars per year. Thi» is
what makes them so "dear."
A BACHELORS' club at Bentonvltle,
Ark., imposes a very heavy financial
penalty upon all members unmarried
at the end of 1881), excepting those who
can present satisfactory evidence that
they have proposed and boon rejected
three times during the year.
i 1
to the Jewish Gazette, of
the 211 clothing manufacturers in the
city of New York 234 are Hebrew
firms. The Jews of that city are also
largely engaged in cigar-making, em
ploying over 8.000 hands and produc
ing over 600,0(H), 000 cigars annually.
AT
the congress of the advocates of
cremation, recently held in Vienna, the
statemont was brought out that there
exist at present throughout the world
fifty crematories, most of which are in
the United States, twenty in Italy, and
one each in Germany, England, France
und Switzerland.
_J»
IT is said a Boston barber, after
sixty years of steady work at his trade,
has retired from business. In his long
and useful career ho has shaved about
.'JOO.OOO
men, cut the hair of over 200,
000, and has probably made 327,000,
000.000,000,000,000 statements per
taining to the weather, prize-fights and
base-ball.
A LITTLE sheet of note paper, con
taining less than half a square foot of
surface, has a marvelous capacity.
By means of such a sheet young men
have succeeded frequently in sending
ten thousand or more kisses safely
through the mails, sometimes a con
siderablc distance, to persons who we^e
waiting for them.
AT
the last drawing of the Prussian
State lottery tho grand prize of $75,
000 went to a well-known Silesian.
Curiously enough, his father won the
grand prize just forty years ago, and
fifteen years ago his uncle won half
Ihe prize in the same lottery. But the
most startling coincidence in the
whole matter is that in every instance
it was the same number that captured
the prize. That number ought to be
one of the most popular heirlooms of
the family.
KING KALAKAI A
i
has been officially
declared a boodler. Before the recent
revolution in Hawaii, Akia, a Chinese
merchant, asserted that he paid Kala
kaua $71,000 for a license to sell opium
in the Sandwich Islands. After receiv
ing the money the King gave the li
cense to another opium dealer. Akia
died not long ago and his executors
brought suit against the trustees of
Kalakaua's estate to recover tho money
The Supreme Court of Hawaii has
given judgment for the full amount of
the claim with interest. Kalakaua
thinks the Chinese ought to go.
SENATOR STANFORD,
just returned
from Europe, says he thinks that he has
picked up abroad art treasures that will
make his new university's museum the
finest in tho country. "It was my in
tention," says tho Senator, "to have
the university opened next May on the
twenty-first anniversary of my son's
birth. As this seems impossible, I can
not say when it will be opened. The
more I see of life abroad, the more I
am convinced that such a seat of learn
ing as I hope to establish in Cali
fornia will prove a great blessing to
this free country."
MR. AND MRS. ACTON, six children,
the oldest twelve and tho youngest one
year old in a perambuiator, and two
maids, recently finished a pleasure
walk from London to Glasgow (five
hundred miles), where they go regiv
larly every year. They carried no
umbrellas, only mackintoshes. Tho
daily distance covered was from twelve
to twenty miles, with no journey on
Sundays, the whole trip being done
in tivo weeks and two days. The party
enjoyed the best of health through it
fill, odo nurse haviug wheeled the
j?reambuUttoj' the entire distance.
VOL. XXX.—NO. 5.
TmE~NEWS7
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
PROM WASHINGTON.
THE annual report of the Commissioner
of Labor, issued on the 23d, was devoted
mainly to statistics in regard to the social,
sanitary and economic condition of women
employed in shops and factories.
AT tho Treasury Department the esti
mate on the 24th of appropriations for the
fiscal year ending June 1890, apgre
jrated ftM.'-i-JO.:}*'.*. Those for tho current
year aggregated $94,73S 186.
DL'RINO the nine months ended Septem
ber 30 last the total number of immigrants
arrived at tho ports of the United States
from the principal foreign countries, ex
cept from the Dominion of Canada and
Mexico, was 432,802. against 411,282 during
the same period last year.
THE exports from the United States for
the year ended Septembor .'to, 1888, were
$079,387,001, against 1718,204,r31. The im
ports for the nine months ended Septem
ber 30 were f.44 507,008, against 1535,824,
•KVJ during the same period last year.
IT was decided by the commissioners of
the District of Columbia on the 25th to
honor the memory of General Sheridan by
naming a new street intersection Sher
idan circle.
THEKF. were 208 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 26th, against 105 the previous seven
days. The total failures in the United
States from January 1 to date ece 6,074,
against 7,71b in 1887.
THE BAST.
Mas. ANGIR F. NEWMAN spoke before
the National W. C. T. U. ut New York on
the 23d on the condition of Mormon wom
en in Utah. She told of two sisters, six
teen and fourteen ye irs old, with babes in
their arms, who were the wives of their
father and cited the case of a man who,
besides his regular spouse, liad married
his mother, his grandmother, his daughter
and his granddaughter, all of whom were
now living.
THE death of Mary Ann Weidler, aged
about forty-five years, occurred at Lan
caster, Fa., on the 22d of consumption,
hastened by a fait extending ove.' a period
of forty-seven days.
TOE total registration of Boston, Mass.,
is 71.881, against f«5.8Sl in 1884. The total
registration of Brooklyn, N. Y., is 156,U85,
against 130,090 in 1884.
GEOKOE GORDON, who had registered
illegally at New York, was sentenced on
tho 23d to Sing Sing prison for two add
one-half years.
Br a falling scaffold at the French
spring works in Pittsburgh, Pa., three per
sons were fatally injured on the 24th.
A. K, RCTAX, an undertaker at Pater
son, N. J., lost his stable by fire on the
24th, and twenty-seven horses were cre
mated.
MRS. JOHN A. LOOAN, wife of the late
General John A. Logan, sailed from New
York on tho 24th for Europe on the steam
ship Trave.
CoxGiiKssioNAi, nominations were made
on the 24th as follows: New York, Second
district, Thomas Seward (llcp.), Felix
Campbell (Dem.): Fourth, William E. Rob
inson (Rep.) Fifth, Thomas P. Wagner
(Dem.) Tenth, Francis B. Spinoia (Dem.)
renominated.
TUB residence of Charles Nigabower, In
Ilion. N. Y., was burned on the 24th, and
Mr. Nigabower and a daughter, aged
twelve, perished iu the flames.
ON the 25th a base metal bar purporting
to be gold was received at the Philadelphia
mint from the West. A bar of gold of the
same size would be worth $35,000.
AI.VIN SCIIEKMKHHORN, aged seventy
eight years, was burned to death in his
homo at Fall River, Mass., on the 25th by
the explosion of a lamp.
DAXIEI. HANI, of New Haven, Conn.,
gave to the American Missionary Associa
tion of New York, astrustee, the sum of
*1,000,000 on the 25th to be expended for the
education of indigent, worthy colored peo
ple of the South.
ON the 20th in New York City over 66,
041 names were added to the registration
list, making the total 253,532.
AT Lowell, Mass.. Mrs. Myra Reals was
on the 26th awarded a verdict of 130,000
against Dr. Augustin Thompson for having
alienated her husband's affections.
ALFHED H. LOVE declined on the 20th to
be a candidate for Vice-President on tho
National Equal Rights (Belva Lockweod)
ckct.
WEST AND SOUTH.
OEOKGE AKIN and Georsre Johnson were
instantly killed on the 23d by a fallin
derrick at Mitchell's stove works at El
lcttsville, lnd.
Ox account of the prevalence of diph
theria tho public schools of Athens, O.,
were closed on the 23d.
ON the 23d the skeleton of a Union sol
dier was found under the flooring of the
hotel kitchen at Dinwiddle Court-House,
Ya. Close to the skeleton was a musket
and canteen.
THE residence of Joseph Whitaker (col
ored), at Blackstiear, Ga., was burned on
the 231, and his four children, who were
alone in the building, perished in the
flames.
JOHN SHELLEU, of Cincinnati, in a flt of
jealousy on the 24th, murdered his wife and
then killed himself.
IT was said on the 23d that Thomas Ax
worthy, city treasurer of Cleveland, O.,
had fled with 140.),000 of the city's funds.
He was supposed to be in Europe
Ix a fight with circus employes at Mount
Vernon, Ky., three men were fatally in
jured on the 24th.
ON the Montana ranges great numbers of
sheep had on the 24th been destroyed by
wolves.
ON the 24th ar. organization to be known
as the British-American National Associa
tion was effected at Chicago, with George
E. Gooch, of that city, as president. In
order to secure membership applicants
must declare allegiance to the constitu
tion of the United States.
CLEVELAND, O., was on the 24th in an al
most bankrupt condition owing to the de
falcation of Axworthy, the city treasurer.
ON the 24th David Crack, said to be one
hundred and seven years old, was married
at Marlboro, Md., to Susanna Oaks, a
wiaow of seventy-five years, by Rev.
Joseph Kunane.
THE seventh game of base-ball of tho
series for the world's championship was
played on the 24th at St. Ixiuis and re
suited: St. Louis, 7 New York, 5.
IX Santa Cruz, Alameda and San Joaquin
counties, Cal., forest fires were raging on
the 24th, and great damage had been done
to tho fruit ranches and wheat,
Hoo cholera still raged iu Hancock
County, O., on the 24th, and swine were
dying by the hundred* each day. In Port
age township alone over six thousand bogs
had fallen victims to the disease.
A MAIL pouch from Boston which arrived
in Chicago on the 24th over the Michigan
Southern railroad was robbed of all the
first-class mail matter it contained. The
stolen package consisted of registered let
ters.
ON the 24th Frank Hill, J. B. Strathburn
and William Foster were fatally injured
at Kansas City, Mo., by being crushed
under a hay press.
Tui: raisin pack this year in California
was on the 24th estimated at between
1,350,000 and 1,450.000 twenty-pound boxes,
an increase of 500.000 boxes over last year.
AT Provo, Utah, the grand jury re
turned two hundred and thirty-four in
dictments on tho 25th. principally for
adultery and other offenses growing out of
the practice of polygamy.
Ox the 25th trains begun running through
the Wickes tunnel on the Montana Central
railroad. The tunnel is sixty-two hun
dred feet long and cost $1,500,000.
J. A. SWAN, late treasurer of Knox
County, Tenn., was found on the 25th to be
$25,000 short in his accounts.
ON the 25th the eighth of the world's
rltamalwmhU)
New York and the St. Louts tfrowns was
played in St. Louis. Score: New York,
11 St. Louis, 3. This
gives
the champion­
ship to the New York players.
IT bad up to the 25th rained continuous
ly for four weeks at New Philadelphia,
O., and vicinity, and fears were expressed
that the corn and potato crops would be
ruined.
COYOTES and wolves were doing great
damage in the northern part of Montana
Territory on the 25th. Several hundred
sheep and other stock had been killed by
them.
P.
M.
ARTHt'R
was re-elected chief at
the meeting of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers at Richmond, Va., on the
25th.
THE Brotherhood of Railroad Brakcmen
in session at Columbus, O., on the 25th
elected W. G. Edens, of Bucyrus, O., first
vice-grand master.
AT St. Louis on the 36th the ninth of the
world's base-ball championship games be
tween New York and the St. Louis Browns
was played with the following result:
St. Louis, 14 Now York, 11.
DAVID YATES, a barkeeper at Colfax, W.
T., on the 26th killed his vife, of whom he
was jealous, and committed suicide.
MRS. Martha Becket, aged sixty-five
years, and Mrs. Henrietta Spiel, aged
seventy-five years, inmates of the German
Home for the Aged at Baltimore, Md.t
were suffocated by gas on tho 26th.
THE following executions took place on
the 26th: Benjamin Carter at Hawlins,
Wy. T., for the murder of John Jeffry Oc
tober 4, 1886 Epliraim Mayes at Edge
field, S. C, for the murder of a deaf mute
a year ago, and Hugh Blackman (colored)
at Toledo, Ark., for killing a negro.
TUB death of William T. Hamilton,
formerly Governor and United States Sen
ator, occurred on the 26th at his homo in
Hagerstown, Md.
Ox the 26th the peanut trust, with head
quarters at Norfolk, Va, and controlling
ninety per cent, of the country's product,
was dissolved.
WHILE driving across the track Mrs.
James Ditworth and Henry Pond were
killed and Mr. Larken fatally injured by a
train at Wost Liberty, la., on the26th.
Tnc house of David Sellers, a wealthy
farmer near Mount Gilead. O., was fired
by robbers on the 26th after they had mur
dered Sellers and his wife.
DAX BOMS was instantly killed and
County Judge John Goodin received
wounds from which he died in a row at a
circus at Barbourville, Ky., on the 26th.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
OFFICIAL reports on tho 23d of the re
cent railway disaster near Poterza, Italy,
limit the number of persons killed to nine
teen and the injured to fifty-five.
A FIRE on the 23d burned out Samuel
Benjamin & Co., wholesale hardware deal
ers in Toronto, Ont. Loss, $100,000.
AT Dublin on the 23d twelve men were
sentenced to six months with hard labor in
jail for conspiring to compel a farmer to
leave his farm.
THE threatened rise of the Mexican ele
ment at Rio Grande City, which caused so
much anxiety, culminated on the 23d in
the arrest of twenty-one of the rioters.
A SYSTEM of wholesale freight robbery
was discovered on the 23d on the Mexican
Central raiiroad at Eagle Pass, and it was
believed that the total loss to tho company
would be I50.00U
THE colliers' strike in England was
spreading on the 24th. Fifteen thousand
men in Yorkshire were out.
THE Metropolitan of Servia published a
pastoral on the 24th in which he dissolved
the marriage of King Milan and Queen
Natalie.
Ix the recent revolution in Port au
Prince, Hayti, three hundred persons were
killed and over five hundred were
wounded, including many women and
children.
Ix lxmdon on the 24th Mary Ann Suther
land was sentenced to live years' penal
servitude for representing herself as a
wealthy land-owner and thereby collecting
money.
Ix Moscow a club-house collapsed on tho
25th and a large number of the inmates
were burned beneath the ruins. Sixteen
dead bodies and twenty-four injured had
been recovered.
ON
the 25tli the fiftieth anniversary of
the entrance of M. de Giers, the Russian
foreign minister, into the public servico,
was celebrated at St. Petersburg.
Two WEALTHY foreign ladies drowned
themselves in the lake in which King Lud
wig, of Bavaria, committed suicide.
Ox the 26th a man and his wife were
murdered and terribly mutilated at Mag
yar Szakos, Hungary.
ADVICES of the :JKth say that if the
Chinese Exclusion bill is carried into effect
the Chinese Government will expel all
Americans from China.
Kixu
MILAN
on the 26th settled one
million francs on ex-Queen Natalie. The
Crown Prince would be permitted to
write to his mother three times weakly.
v
LATER.
TH3 MMt bound passenger train on
HECRETAITY or
tfee
Iron Mountain railroad was stopped by
train robbers two mi cs west of Newport,
Ark., on the afternoon of the '_'Mh. The
passengers were robbed of about $1100.
STATE BAYARD,
Miss
fcuiTH
ANMS,
on the
27 th teicgrapbed the United btatea Minister
of London asking him to notify the British
Government that their Minister at Wash
ington, Sackville West, had.broken the rules
of diplomat!* courtcny and asked that he be
w.thdrawn from the country. The offeuse
of Mr. West was tiie writing of letters to a
supposed Englishman in Los Angeles, Cal,.
which it was stated that, in his (Wes.'s)
pinion, the recent retalitory ni3snage of
President Cleveland was a paper issued
for campaign effort.
Two passenger trains on the Milwaukee
road collided near Uiudolpli, Iowa on the
1*7th. Charles Baldwin, of Itacine, Wia,
was instantly killed and^three train men
seriously injured
one of I tho teachers at
Albert Lja, Minn., and several friends as
cended to the tower of the new court house
on the l'7tb. At the highest point Miss
Annis became tiizzy and ill down the
stairs a distance ef t0 feet Bustaining seri
ous injury.
ANDREW ('BOO
AN, a brakeman at Nora
Springs, Iowa, was killed on the 27th. He
was found with his head
completely sever
ed frcm his body.
Tui: engine, mail and two baggage cars
of the Northern Pacific road were thrown
from the track by a misplaced switch near
Motley, Minn., on the iiS-h. Alex Brown,
firem 11, was killed and three mail agents
bad.y hurt
THEIU: were It! new cases'of yellow fever
at Jacksonville, Flo., on the 'JHtli, with
three do :th3. Total cises
MINNIE GIBSON,a
PASSENGER
bit wee
I.O.V.i
total
deaths, 318. Appeals have been Bent oat
from Decatur, Ala, aud Enterprise. Fla.,
askiug lor additional pecuniary assiatanuo.
Two ladies and a boy were ki led ty the
Cars at West Liberty, Iowa, on the 127 th.
Their death was the result of the stubborn
ness of the boy, who persisted iu driv.ug
across the track when the engine was al
inostupon thcin.
young lady of good fam­
ily at Potosi, lo., shot herself iu the head
ou the 27th. She had been seduced and
could not bear the shame.
traiu No. 1. Cheap:alee & Ohio
road jumped the track on the 27th near
Cbarlcstown, Va. The train which con
sisted of four cars including sleeper to
gether with mail and baggage was Lurued.
Joseph E'tklns, fireman and W, A. Nother
lnnd conductor were botfi Uturoed to death.
DEMOCRACY'S DAY.
Judge Thurman at the Cincinnati
Centennial Exposition.
on* Crowds Cheer the (Md KomM't
|t|M»ltlon of Hi* l*»rty rrfnclplea—
Presentation of it Horseshoe—
Speaker Carlisle'* Address.
CINCINNATI, Oct., 26—Democratic day
(Thursday) at the Centennial has been a
magnificent success, and the demonstra
tion in Thurman's honor, has been such
as to reflect credit on the Democracy of
the city and State. The Judge was liter
ally besieged all morning by friends, who
called at the Grand Hotel to pay their re
spects, and he was so delayed that he did
not get to breakfast until eleven o'clock.
At twelve the parlor doors were thrown
open, and until the timo of his departure
for the reviewing stand on the Centennial
grounds, the Judge shook hands with hun
dreds of ladies and gentlemen who
crowded in to see him.
The streets were well filled with people,
and about the stands the streets were
packed. There were eight divisions com
j»csed of local and visiting Democratic
clubs, all of whom shouted vigorously as
they passed the stand. Clubs were pres
ent from Oliio, Indiana and Kentucky. In
cluded in the parade were a big hat labeled
"Grandpa's hat," and a mammoth rooster
made of plumes. At tho conclusion of the
parade a large crowd gathered in front of
the reviewing stand and called for
speeches, but Judge Thurman and Speaker
Carlisle both cxcuseil themselves because
of their speeches about to be delivered in
doors, and the crowd dispersed slowly.
Meanwhile crowds had been surging into
Music Hall and the Exposition buildings,
and when the exercises began there could
not have been less than 70,000 people in
that vicinity, at least 10,000 being in Music
Hull alone, waiting for Judge Thurman to
appear. On the stage was a large flower
framed picture of Mre. Cleveland,
and beside it smaller pictures of Presideut
Cleveland and Judge Thurman. Thirty
eight girls sat on the stage to represent
the different States, and waved bandanas
and flags as their part in the storm of ap
plause with which the Judge was greeted.
It kept up in installments for several min
utes, each time being restarted by some
enthusiastic Democrat shouting: "What's
the matter with Cleveland!" or What's
the matter with Thurman?'' to which there
came the well-known reply: "He's all
right." President James Allison, of the
Exposition Commission, welcomed the
Democracy and introduced W. S. Grocs
beck. as chairman of the day. The crowd
was all ready for Judge Thurman. and he
was at once introduced, being welcomed
enthusiastically by the entire audience,
and making a pretty picture with the thir
ty-eight uniformed girls encircling him
aud waving bandanas. 1^3 spoke as fol
lows
MY FRIENDS: When yo« insisted that I
should come down here in the center of this
bu ldin? to speak to you the few words that I
have to say you forgot one thing. You forgot
to provide me a turn-table—[laughter|—so that
1 might be turned around and speak to those
who are now behind, as well as those who are
before. [A voice: "Good! 1 You have a little
advantage in that over those who arc to my
right and to my left and upon whom I am com
pelled to turn my back very unwillingly in
deed, for to say nothing of the men who
are behind me, there are many beautiful
ladies whom 1 would much rather look
in the face than that they should look
at my buck. [Great laughter and up
plause.l This has been to me a day of unal
loyed pleasure. When I left home I bad no
idea of making a political sneech on this occa
sion. 1 did not know that it would be proper
to do so, but when I got here I was told that it
was in order and exactly proper for me to
apeak to you on political topics to-day: that
what are called Republican day, Democratic
day, Prohibition day, and any kind of a day
that may be mentioned at this groat centen
nial was a duy of free speech and that a man
had a right to pour out his whole soul to the
people. ICbcering.l Therefore I will say
something on pol cs as well as my almost
broken voice will permit. There is another
reason why I am happy to-Jay. 1 can not ex
press to you in words the admiration I feel for
the Democracy of Cincinnati and Hamilton
County, for organiz ng this magnificent demon
stration. |Applause. And I can not sufH
c.ently express the thanks and the admiration
1 feel for the Democracy of other parts of the
State, and not only of this State, but of other
States, who have come here to join you in the
man testation of your Democratic attachment
and principles. Therefore, being a Democrat
"dyed in the wool '—[great applause) being
so from my boyhood up, and having often be
fore met with the Democrats of this goodly
city of Cincinnati, and always with pleasure to
me if not with i ruilt to them. 1 may rejoice
that 1 stan
1 once more in their midst, to say to
you that you are lighting a goo.l fight, and if
you continue to light it to the end, as you arc
doing to-day, victory will perch on the Demo
cratic banner. [Continued applause.]
We are in the midst of an extraordinary cam
paign—the most extraordinary campaign that
1 have ever gone through, many as 1 have
taken part in during my 1 fe. We are in a
campaign in wh cli our adversaries have the
boldness, the audacity to tell the people that
the way to make a people rich is to make them
pay more taxes than their Government wants.
[Applause.] That the way to benefit the con
dition of a man is to tax him from the crown
of his head to the soles of his feet on every
thing he wears, on his household utensils, im
plements of his trade and every thing which
is necessary to his existence and comfort
as an American citizen. That is culled protec
tion of laboring men. as if you could protect a
laboring man by robbing him of his earnings
and verifying the old saying of "Robbing Peter
to pay Paul." [Applause.] This is a decep
tion and a delusion. What is it that makes
the wealth of the world? Now. 1 am not going
to play the demagogue in the slightest degree.
I never did in my long life and in the man
speeches I have made to the people, and I
never will in the few remaining years of my
life when I address my fellow men. 1 say to
you then—not in the language of a demagogue,
but in the language of true philosophy, re cog
nized by every able writer on political econ^
omy—I say to you that there Is not and there
can not be one Bingle dollar added to the
wealth of any country except by labor. When
the Aimighty pronounced that seutenee which
some people may havo thought too severe but
which experience has proved to be the wisest
thing that could be said, "In the sweat of thy
face shult thou earn thy daily bread"—when
that was declared to be the condition of the
human race, labor was made honorable, labor
was made resectable, and labor was made the
great occupation of the human race, be the
man high or be the man low. [Great applause,
which was renewed on the Judge producing a
bandana.] Vou cheer that old bandana, but I
would like to know how in tho world 1 ever
would have gotten that bandana for you to
cheer, if it had not been for labor? [Prolonged
apulause.] Labor made it. [More applause
My labor enabled me to obtain money enough
to buy it, and your labor will make you weallliy
enough to live in peace, in quiet and in com
fort, if you will only understand what is your
own best interests. [Great applause.
Some one may say to me "That is an absurd
proposition of yours that all comes of labor.
They will say the earth produces wealth: that
the wild pastures on the earth, with their rich
and nutritious grasses, are wealth. No, my
friends, they are not wealth until they are
grazed by the cattle which thu labor of man
herds upon them and takes care of and turns
into wealth. [More cheer.ng.] As
THE IOWA PLAIN DEALER
IOIIK
US the
ore lies in the mines, be it gold, or silver, or
iron, or ooal. it adds nothing to the wealth of
the world. It Is only when the laboring man
comes with his pick and his shovel and works
it out with his strong, brawny arm that it be
romes wealth to the world. [Cneerins
Therefore it is that of all men in the world the
laboring men of any country aro entitled to
respect, aud to esteem, and to care. [Pro
longed applause.] The annual production of
wealth in this world is divided Into throe or
four uarts. One part of it goes to the capital
ist, who furnisnes money, lends his money out
at interest und nobody begrudges him his inter
est, If he only charges a reasonable figure.
Another part of it goes to the manufacturer,
the man who carries on the business: und he
makes bU profit as a recompense for his labor
und his work and his skill, and nobody otijecti
to his having a reasonable compensation. The
lemainiug i art goes to the laborer to pny tor
bis wago*. and if he gets fait' wages, honest
wages, then ho does not comj.-'a n, i»ut .f ho
opt fCt big fM? ilMM-e, if
CRESOO, IOWA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1888. WHOLE NUMBER 1512.
if he is trampled down under loot, if his labor
is exacted from him without due compensa
tion. then, my friends, he is a defrauded man.
and be ought to complain. [Great appalusc.
A German in the audience here handed
the speaker an old horseshoe, saying:
I picked it up durinar the time the pro
cession was. That means victory. It is a
horseshoe.''
Judge Thurman—I thank you, sir. I will
take it home with me, I will nail it on my
door and keep these Republican witches
that preach protection to the ruin of the
poor man from entering my household.
[Great cheering.
A voice—Nail it on the White House
door. [Laughter.] The Judge continued:
"Ah: but," say the Republican orators,
•'you Democrats are the enem es of the labor
ing men. Is that sor The Democratic party
Is composed of laboring men. Out of every
1.000 voters in the Democratic party 99U arc la
boring men. And why are they laboring men?
Because of the privileges they enjoy. Nearly
all the happiness they have on earth Is der.ved
from Democratic principles—[applause]
which have shielded them in their trouble in
life, and made them contented and happy and
prosperous men. [Continued applause.
1 What
pa- you the right to vote? Democratic princi
ples. [.Prolonged cheering.] It is all in one sen
tence. written by the hand of the father of Amer
ican Democracy. Thomas Jefferson—[cheers—
and found in that immortal document, the
Declaration of Independence. The sen
tence is: "All men are born free and equal."
That Is the foundation stone of Democracy,
which sprang from that sentiment. That sen
timent has done all for the human race that
has been done in the way of ameliorating their
condition from the day that sentence wus
written down to this day. I defy any man liv
ing to point out to me one single amelioration
of the condition of the human race In Christen
dom, one single improvement of the condition
of the laboring men that has not been the re
sult of Democratic principles. [Applause.!
Why, some one may say. here were the South
ern States that were Democratic, and they had
negro slavery. Yes, but that sentence of
Thomas Jefferson sprouted and grew up, and in
the end made slavery impossible in any part of
the territory of the United States. [More ap
pluuse.] Our Republican friends say to the
negro that they set htm free. They set him
free? They would have been in slavery for ten
centur es to come if they had depended on
them to set them free. [Great cheering.l Those
words from Thomas Jefferson s pen are the
words that set them free in the end. It tool
time to do it, but in the end It did do it. and
therefore I say it again, and say it without fear
of successful contradiction, that no improve
ment in the rights or the condition of laboring
men in Christendom has ever been produced
except by the influence of Democratic princi
ples. [Prolonged applause.) What enables
you to walk with your head erect, the equal of
any man? What enables you toloox around at
your little children and know that they will
grow up to be respected in the country!" What
enables you to point to some smart little boy
of your own and say pcrchancc that boy will
yet be President of these United States? What
enable-* you to do that but the influence of
Democratic principles? [Continued applause.]
My friends, when a man talks about the
Democratic party being the enemy of the la
boring man, he talks tbe veriest folly. The
Democratic party contains a majority of the
people of the United States, it contains a ma
jority of tbe voters of the United States. If
these men are opposed to the interests of the
laboring man, if they are the enemies of labor,
then they arc their own cnemiea, their own
worst enemies—[great cheeringl— and to say
of the Democratic party that it is an enemy of
the laboring man is to say to that party "You
arc a set of idiots and ought not to be ent tied
to vote at all if you do not know how to take
care of yourselves." [Cheering.] My friends
the Democratic party «rc not a set of idiots
though it is composed, more than nine-tenths
of it, of laboring men. It is not a party that
ought to be sent to an insane asylum, not by a
long way. [Great cheering and cries of "No,
no. The party that produced Jefferson, and
Madison, and Monroe, and Andrew Jackson,
and Grover Cleveland—| great cheering and
vo ces: "And Thurman," "And Thurman"]
—to say nothing of other men, is
by no meaus an idiotic party. Who
ever thinks that the Democrats of this
country cau not find out their own interests,
can not appreciate the benefits conferred upon
them, and can not work to promote them, will
find himself the most disappointed man that
ever predicted the fate of a country. [Cheers.]
Aud I think that on the sixth day of next
month, God willing, we will teach them a les
son that w.ll make them cease to talk about
the Democratic party being its own worst
enemy. (Great cheering.
1
1 should say something more to you on this
occasion, but I am to be followed by one of the
ablest men in the United States, the honored
Speaker of the House of Representatives—
[great applause]—and yoar near neighbor, Mr.
Carlisle, of Covington. IMore applause.] You
know him as well as I. I have known him
long: 1 have admired him always I have always
found him to be a true man, and his ability
there is no man who will attempt to gainsay.
I shall therefore bid you now good-bye in order
to make pla.-e for him, but before I go 1
want to thank you, one and all, for your kind
reception, for your favorable shouts, lor your
favorable expressions, and for the evidoncc
you have given that the Old Roman, as I am
sometimes called—[here the spealftr was in
terrupted by a long and continued applause]
the Old Man-[hero the speaker was again in
terrupted by someone proposing three cheers
for the Old Roman. 1 Let me close my 6ent
ence. I say 1 want to thank you for the warm
place I have in your affections, and now 1 bid
you good night.
At tbe conclusion of Judge Thurman's
speech President James Alison read the
following message from Washington:
I very much regret that Mrs. Cleveland and
myself must deny ourselves the pleasure of
being present at the exposition on Democratic
day, aud we can only say that our disappoint
ment is greater than that of those who have
kindly Invited us. GROVKR CLEVELAND.
Speaker Carlisle was then introduced.
He began his remarks by saying:
After the argument made by the next Vice
President of the United States—[cheers)—it
seems entirely unnecessary for me to attempt
to say any thimr. As au old-fashioned repre
tentative of old fashioned Democracy. Allen
G. Thurman speaks with authority. Whatever
he states concerning the principles and the
policy of the Democratic party may be ac
cepted by the people of the country as the
truth. There is no part of the people of the
United States who are so muoh indebted to
the Democratic party and Democratic prin
ciples for their prosperity and growth as the
people of the great Northwest. To it you owe,
iu the first place, the vast territory which you
inherit to it you owe the religious liberty
which was established for all time In the
Northwest by th« ordinance of '87. To it you
owe tbe exemption in that ordinance from the
institution of slavery. The convent on at Vin
tennes, lnd., presided over by William Henry
Harrison in It*) .', petitioned the Continental
Congress to set aside the s xth article of the
ordinance of '87 and establish slavery in the
Northwest Territory. That petition, upon be
lng sent to Coagress and referred to a commit
tee, was reported against by John Randolph,
of Roanoke, a Virginian and a Democrat.
When the ordinance of '87 was passed there
were present only the representatives of eight
States, five of whieh were Southern, and not a
single State voted against that ordinance.
The only Individual representative who voted
against it was Mr. Yates, of New York.
The Republican argument is that if the prod
ucts of foreign labor are admttted into this
country free of duty, or with a low rate of
duty, tbe wages of laboring men must be equal
ized, and that they will be equalized, not by in
creasing rates on foreign lands, but by de
creasing wages at home. One single fact in our
history will refute that proposition. Absolute
free trade exists between the thirty-eight
States of this Union, and yet the wages of the
various States are not equalized. Statistics
show that in some occupations 50 per cent, and
in some 70 per cent, more wages are paid in
Chicago than in New York. 1 am not arguing
to show that free trade would be a good thing
in this country I am not arguing even to show
that a reduction of the revenue duty upon im
ported goods would be a good thing, but 1 am
simply answering the Republican theory. I
do believe that a reduction of taxes upon the
necessities of life would be of influilc advan
tage, not only to the laboring men, but to all
the people this country, thus enabling our
manufacturers to cuter all the great markets
of the world: but I do not bel eve that by so
doing it will reduce the wages paid to laboring
men In this country. If this is done tho United
States will have access to all the best markets
of the world and Kngland will cease to bo pro
tected by tho laws of the United States.
1 am in favor of reducing tuxe*. not only to
relieve the laboring man, but also because it is
absolutely necessary to reduoe the surplus
revenues of the Government Some of our He
publican f,-lends dur ng the late debate in the
House dj^uleii ii iUv.n» that tlu ro WIK »ur
0m* M4
§om «t wm wUrm
that it was a good uung
anyhow.
There are
two ways of reducing the revenue. One Is by
reducin? the taxes: that Is the old-fashioned
Democratic way. The other is by Increasing
the taxes up«i imported goods to such a rats
as to be proMbitory. and therefore prevent the
Government from receiving any duties. That
is the new fashioned Republican plan. Of the
fourteen schedules embraced in the Senate
Tariff bill the duties are increased in eleven,
and these eleven are the schedules which em
brace. except wine, tobacco, silk and silk goods,
the aecessaries of life.
Mr. Carlisle then read from Blaine's
Chicago speech in relation to the surplus,
claiming that Mr. Blaine had misstated tbe
facts in relation to the action of the pres
ent Congress in reference to the surplus.
He then reviewed the action taken by the
Democratic party in relation to the
surplus revenue, and appealed to the
audicnce to know if he had not
stated both facts and law correctly. He
said that Mr. Blaine, in his Goshen speech,
had gone out of his way to make an attack
on him, and that he intended to reply to
him at length on Indiana soil shortly. He
concluded by referring to the candidates
in the field. To President Cleveland he re
ferred as the grand representative of Dem
ocratic principles to Thurman as a man
whose very presence is an inspiration to
the Democracy of the land to General
Harrison as a very respectable lawyer oat
here at Indianapolis, and L. P. Morton as
a very rich banker of Wall street.
Before Judge Thurman left the ball, and
while Mr. Carlisle was speaking, the chil
dren who had represented the States came
forward and presented him with a beauti
ful floral tribute. A Dayton man, who
said he voted for Blaine four years ago,
but would this year vote for Cleveland,
presented a steel horseshoe as an emblem
of good luck. The Jefferson Club, of Cov
ington, Ky., was awarded the banner and
Hag for being the largest club in the
parade outside of Hamilton County, and
the Duckworth Club secured a banner for
being at the head of those in this eomrtf.
Thurman at Lima.
LIMA, O., Oct. 27.—Judge Thurman ar
rived here at 1:15 o'clock p. m., Friday,
from Cincinnati. There were crowds to
meet him at all stations along the route.
He addressed the people briefly at Miamis
burg, Dayton, Sidney, Anna and Wapako
neta. When the train reached th s city
loud and enthusiastic cheers arose from
the throats of tbe thousands gathered at
the depot, and the venerable candidate was
escorted to tbe Music Hall amid tbe wild
est enthusiasm. Three thousand people
secured entrance to the hall. Judge Thur
man spoke at some length in eulogy of
President Cleveland. Referring to the
Democratic party, he said:
"1 say It never can die: not so long as free
institutions remain, not so long as we have a
country of liberty and freedom, not so long us
the people are equal before the law, every man
to every other man. Nor so long as the people
do their own thinking and their own voting can
the Democratic party die." [Prolonged cheers
and shouts.]
Mr. Thurman said that he would not
elaborate on the tariff question in his re
marks, but would leave that to Speaker
Carlisle, a perfect expert on that subject.
He then spoke of the action of the Senate
on the tariff bill and fishery treaty and
said the Chinese Exclusion act, which was
passed by the House the same day it was
introduced, remained in the Senate six
weeks before that body could "lind out
whether or not they should become a
mongrel country—half white and half
heathen Chinese." [Great cheers.]
He then referred to the latest political
sensation, the TV est-Murchison corre
spondence, as a new dodge to destroy Mr.
Cleveland and the Democratic party in the
estimation of the people. The speaker con
tinued:
"Having fa'led in their discussion of the
tariff: having failed in tbe row they raised
about the fisheries having failed in their at
tempt to destroy Cleveland with their opposi
tion to the Chinese Kxclusion bill, these men In
the last days of the canvass, in the going down
of the sun over this political year, these men
—nay, when I say these men do not under
stand me as alluding to any Senator of the
United States of any political party, or to any
man of distinction and character in that party,
for I should be ashamed of my country If I
could make such an imputation upon such a
man—but the mean men, or some of the mean
men, of that party have all at once
discovered another mare's nest [merri
ment]
wfclch
they think will hatch an off­
spring that may destroy the Democrat party
[More merriment and great applause.] They
want to get rid of a discussion of the tariff
they want to get rid of a discussion of the
fisheries they want to get rid of
the Chinese question. and so they
have started a new dodge: invented a new
scheme, which you may have seen in the
Cincinnati papers of to-day. They pretend that
an Engl shman by the name of Murchison, liv
ing at some place in California that I never
heard of until I saw its name in these papers,
wrote a letter to the Brttish Minister at
Washington to inqu:re of him whether
the naturalized Kngtishman in California
ought to vote for Cleveland or vote for
Harrison and that the British Minister made
him a reply, and this letter, which it Is alleged
Mr. Murchison wrote, bolls over with mean in
sinuations against Cleveland and the Demo
cratic party as if they were tbe hirelings of
Great Britain, and boils over with fulsome
praise of Harrison as if he was the incarnation
of American patriotism. [Laughter and ap
plause.
1 am not at all satisfied that this man called
Mr. Murchison ever wrote such a letter, or that
the British Minister ever replied to it as it la
presented. 1 should say that this letter of tbe
so-called Mr. Murchison bore on its face
such evident marks of a downright for
fery—shameless forgery—that I might be
at liberty to at once denounce it
as a forgery and then to say no more about it.
Prolonged applause and cheers.] Whether it
is a forgery or not, I do not know, but this
much 1 have to say' Be it a forgery or be it a
genuine letter be it a letter written by Murchi
son or be it a letter written by some cunning
Republican partisan to whom this mau
Murchison has loaned his name be it
the one or tbe other, it Is the produc
tion or deliberate violation of secrecy that de
serves to be scorned by all honest men.
When you come to look at the letter itself you
can see tbat it never was written by a mau who
for one moment thought of voting lor Grover
Cleveland. On the contrary it was written by
some skillful, cunuing Republican politican
who thought he could draw the British
Minister into a snare, and draw from htm some
reply that could be used against Mr. Cleveland
in the Presidential election. When that man
professed to be friendly to Mr. Cleveland he
was lying in every breath tbat he uttered, in
every word that he wrote. [Cheers aud
applause. When he stated tbat
the answer of the British Minister
should be kept a profound secret he was lying,
for be never intended that it should be kept a
secret. My friends, if that man intended to
be, or was wh«t he said, how does it come that
that letter of his to the British Minuter and
the reply are in the public press to-day. This
letter from Murchison was sent to the British
Minister and written on September 4 last, and
the minister's answer professes to be written
on September 13. Yet tor more than one
month—yes, considerably more than one
month—no man ever heard a word of there
being any such correspondence save the
men who were in the conspiracy no mau knew
any thing about It. But here last week there
was to be a great meeting as it was called, an
Irish meeting, although I do not think many
thoroughbred Irishmen were in the gang.
[Cheers.] But it was announced that tiiere
was to be a meeting at Madison Square In the
city of New York, and that Mr. Jamea G.
Blaine waa to address it. Accordingly the
meeting was held Thursday night, and then,
ror the first time, comes out this terrible cor
respondence which is to prove that the sworn
Presideut of the Uiiited States and the sworn
Secretary of S ate, or sworn Cabinet, were
all a set of conspirators against tbe people of
the Uuited States. It comes out just then ou
the eventug of Blaine's Irish meeting in the
city of New York, and among the first things
that Blaine does is to hold up his
hands in horror. Why was it that this
plot did not come io light sooner* Why was it
that it was kept back until the eve of Mr.
Hla ne's first meeting in New York, and then
brought forth to prejudice the American peo
ple against their honest, upright, faithful und
patriotic President and Secretary of Stater
[Cheers and applause.] Now, my friends, I HUI
not going to say more about that, because if
were to say more it would only look as »f
thought there was something in that corre.
•$pl.uit iM'v that was terrible tor the peB6crit*0
MA 199 n?) tfeicli *0 |t iU»*
'NlklTCi
HOW HARRISON WAS NOMINATED
Iks Great Railroad Attorneys and How
Vkqr Manipulated the Chicsfs
Convention.
fterriaoa Their Pliant Tool-HMttfUnpli
irally Recorded.
Chicago Tribune Editorial. June ill.
Of all the bandetl monopoly forces ar
rayed against (Jreaham there
WHS
none
more determined t)Stn the Pacitic rail
road "three." These two rings feared
(doubtless with reason) that with
Gre^liam in the white House it would
be difficult to get through the Littler
bill extending for eighty years the time
for the payment of the debt of the Pa
citic railroads to the government. With
their Thurstons and Hammonds iu the
convention the Pacific railroad were in
a position to do telling work and they
secured a significant success at the out
set when one of their lobbyists was
made temporary chairman of the con
vention.
"The ox ksoweth bis owner aid the
ass his master's crib." Railroad attor
neys Hocked in from every side and
joined their forces with Gould and the
Pacific railroad agents. Gresliam was
specially odious to the crooked pluto
crats and their agents because of his
righteous decision in the Wabash case:
but when his defeat was accomplished
the combine grew bolder and announced
that "no granger need apply." Notice
was served that no ^state which had
ever enacted laws for the control and
regulation of railroad charges need
present a candidate to the convention.
Not only was a judge to be punished,
disciplined and made an example of be
cause of a decision adverse to crooked
railroad interests, but. states were to be
castigated for daring to adopt granger
laws. This was what defeated Allison.
With his line record, many points of
availability, and loyal support from his
own state it seemed at one time that he
might succeed to Grehain's strength
and bei*ouie the nominee: but the
crooked railroad combine turned on
him also and blasted him for the sins
of his Iowa constituents. The people
of Iowa refused to be "held up" and
"sand bagged" and robbed by the rail
roads. and adopted laws for their own
protection. Hence the railroad com
bine in the convention would not per
mit them to name a candidate for pre
sident. All grangers and granger
states were excluded from consideration
—Illinois included. Sherman had some
points that commended him to the
ruling force iu the convention, but he
was more of a banker than a railroad
man and he lacked the running qualities
to carry New York and save the state
ticket. He would have cost the Tom
Platt-Depew-Hiscock-Miller followers
the state ticket iu New York and the
loss of half a dozen members of
congress.
Jerry Rusk was too honest for rail*
road use and was soon discarded by the
delegation of his own state headed by
Railroad Attorney John
C.
Spooner,
with the senior senator backiug him.
Ingalls came from a "granger state
but as his supi»ort was a matter of state
pride and intended merely as a compli
ment in return for his service in har
poouing Dan Voorliees, there was no
occasion for a railroad attack ou him
Alger was a rich lumberman,without
any close railroad association, but he
was known to
IK?
positive and independ­
ent in his business transactions. He
was dropped as an unkuowu and mire
liable quantity. The same iulluences
that defeated Gresham beat the field
and caused the choice to fall on Harri
SOll.
After the "granger candidates" ware
all killed the convention selected Gen
eral Harrison, who is a railroad auor
ney himself aud a partner of Steve
Klkins iu a cattle syndicate. If liarri
son had been sus|ect'd of any taint of
grangerism his throat would have l»een
quickly cut from ear to ear. The men
combined to knock out the grange!
candidates think that Harrison is with
them in interest aud sympathy. Else
they would never have jiermittecl his
nomination, and they count on him as
one who will perform his duties to his
party without coming in contlict with
tug crooked railroad interest.
ANOTHER CHAPTER.
How Ureahain und Allison Were Defeated
From the same pafier.
The Tribune ceased to feel con
fidence in Grcshanfs nomination as
soon as '.t discovered the power of a
few great or crooked corporations iu
the convention. From the moment that
railroad attorneys and lobbyists from
California, Nebraska, iowa. Wisconsin
and New York took their places iu the
convention and made their lirst display
of strength iu electing Thurston, tho
Union Pacitic lobbyist, to the teiu|or
ary chairmanship, Gresham a chances
became clouded.
When availability was thrown over
(oard and the agents of Gouldism in
.•fused into the delegates the foolish
notion that the ultra-high tariff plank
would elect anybody, no matter how
unpopular, and pointed to Oregon in
support of the stupid assertion, the
Tribune saw who was pulling the
wires, Yet while the crooked railroad
attorneys talked about the tarifl' plank
footing any one, even a wooden ludhtp
iMr
JM»
beltad their word*, tame
PlainDbalbk.
ramiM in thi lob
JOB WORK,
Bfn-Htrfi, Cards, Putm,
Or-
ealan*
SitkMN ii Hcitiiss, mn»n
ml
MN 6iamM.
SMSSHAiSFFF'
day* ago ti. luiiune saul tnat the rea]
problem with the representatives ol
Gouldism in the convention was "how
to defeat Gresham and yet secure n
candidate who could be elected." So
it proved. They sought to perform tbe
work of their employer in accomplish
ing the political assassination of
Gresham, and yet wanted to secure
themselves against the charge of be
traying the republican party to a
rushing defeat.
Some of the most powerful forces in
the convention might be enumerated
thtyf:
First—.Jay Gould and the Wabash
wrecking crew, thirsting for revenge
against Gresham for removing from
control of the "system" Gould's
right hand man, ~Gen. G. M.
Dodge. formerly of Iowa, who
was on the grouud early and
was deep in the secrets of every anti
Greshaiu eaiu us. Little een by the
public, no man exercised a more potent
influence ou the result than Gould's
most efficient and capable lieutenant.
Gotddisiu as arrayed against Gresham
represented f2)0,iM)0,0U0 of capital.
Second—The Central Pacitic Stan
ford-Crockcr-Huntington ring, with its
able, plausible attorney. Creed Hay
nioinl, at the end of the California dele
gation. This firm has in its possession
$150,0(0.000 of railroad plunder which
a president of the Gresham stamp might
compel it to disgorge. Naturally it
fought hard to prevent the nomination
of any such mau.
Third—The Union Pacific Credit
Mobilier crowd, represented by Law
yer Thurston, who is shrewd, brainy,
and nervy, anil a packed delegation
grossly misrepresenting the granger
state of Nebraska. This ring has $150,
000.000 worth of railroad Credit Mo
bilier and other boodle to protect. It
is deeply in debt to the government,
draws dividends on debts which it nev
er intends to pay during the lifetime of
any human being now in existence. It
wants Mr. David Littler's free aud easy
eighty-year bill passed, which it feared
Gresham would not favor. Hence, it
fought him to death, using the power
of the granger state of Nebraska, nine
tenths of whose population endorse him.
to defeat Gresham. It now laughs like
Mephistopheles over the success of
its schemes.
Fourth—Chauucey M. Depew. the
railroad attorney and official head of
the great Yanderbilt railroad syndicate
with its $ 00,(NM).000 of capital and it«
doctrine of "the public be d—d." With
Depew as helpers were Tom Piatt and
Wood-Pulp Miller.
Fifth—The great Wisconsin railroads
were represented by Senator John C.
Spooner, the well trained railroad at
torney, who manipulated the Wisconsin
delegation and put the votes where
they would do the "most good." And
the popular sentiment of the state for
Gresham was ignored and disregarded
with the utmost sang-froid.
These were the leading representa
tives of corjorate railroad monopoly,
but with two or three exceptions there
was hardly a delegation without a
sprinkling of railroad attorneys and
lobbyists. The land grant rings were
also represented. They argue*I that a
president like Gresham would have
caused them to lose millions of acres of
public land which they had grabbed in
violation of law. Like all the Gouldites
who swarmed in from the east and
west, they wanted no "d—d nasty par
ticular honest" candidate, as they call
ed Gresham—no man born in a log
cabin and affiicted with homespun,
granger notions about honesty and in
tegrity. What great schemes of pelf
and plunder might not such a man up
.set if Intrusted with the powers of the
presidency'.' The Wabash decision
showed Grcsham's spirit, and it was
time an example was made of kim for
the effect it would have on other judges
aud public men.
WILL BE DEFEATED.
Man-tswu t'upopular H( Iloiue. I'islilted
AIroa«l--l»f|K,M'«
Legate*.
From tbe Same Paper.
Harrisou is unpopular at home, dis
liked abroad not supported by any
German newspa|»er or recognized by
any German leader in the United States:
not numberiug among his friends one
who ever served with him in the senate
of the United States: hated iu Cali
fornia because lie voted fourteen times
against the restriction of the Chinese
immigration: op(H»sed iu his own state
because he is cold and distant in his
maimers and identified with every pub
lic act that has ever been adopted
which could wound the sensibilities ol
voters not niunleriug amoug his own
particular clique in the republican
party: haviug support amoug jioliti
ciaus, but little among the rank and
tile of the party: never elected to any
office save that, of the supreme court
by the popular vote, and it is not prob
able that he ever will be. He is the
residuary legatee of the New York
Central railroad, aud will be defeated.
The Comic Actor's Art
Adonis Dixey is spending his vaca
tion in touching up his theories about
how to make the public laugh, saystliu
New York Sun. and how to induco
crowds of them to pay for being
made to laugh. Here are a few of his
conclusions:
"It isn't makiugthe public laugh that
shows genius, but to say something
real funny and then keep the public
from laughing. Anybody can make
the public laugh. That isn't hard. An
old joke that has been heard ,"0 times
before may make a man laugh, but the
next minute he'll be saying what au
old chestnut that was. The way to
win the hearts of the puplic is to make
them lielieve you like them and give
them something to laugh over when
they've gone home.
"It is better to utake one women
laugh than four men. ShcMl tell more
people about it, and it'll do you and
the bo* office more good in the long
run. What you want is to get people
saving you're funny. A man may
think you're funny, but he won *av
anything about it. A woman will,
xh0Mltdl her friend*, and they'll \vs iii
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