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VOL- LX-.N0-10,657. NEW-YORK. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1000. -FOURTEEN PAGES. Copyrtuht. 1900. "by The 1^-ibune Asaoeiatlon. PRICE THREE CEXTS. THOUSANDS OF LIVES LOST. v ? STORM WORKS HAVOC AT GALVESTON AND MANY TOWNS ON THE GULF COAST AND IX TEXAS. MEAGRE DETAILS OF A GREAT CALAMITY. The \\ est Indian storm which reache<l the Gulf Coast Saturday mornine wrought awful havoc in Texas. Reports are conflictingr, but it is known that an appalUng disaster has belallcn the city of Galveston, where one report savs a thousand, anothcr two thousand, and the latest. which camc by cable via Vcra two thousand six hundrcd, lives have been blotted out and a tremendous property damage incurred. r reports from towns scattcred along the low coast line of Texas and - as a hundred miles inland tell of the loss of lives and great destruction of property. SUBMEKGED BY THE GULF. ! RT'IN WBOUGHT BY WIND AXT> WAVES AT GAEVESTON. Mempliio- Tfr.n, Sept. U.?.K apeclul from 5rT(.Orlrnn? ?tale? that u mctwge xvaa re reived tbla evenjna; tlxlng; tbe loaa of Hfe at Calveoton ni 2.000. Tho mekaage came by ?ahle from l>ra frui. DtJlar Sept, P.--The following tele red from Houston by "The NVvs : Reltef traln Jnat retnrned. Thfy ooulil not get cloaer than aix miles of Yirglnia Polnt, n-here the prairle wa? covered vrlth lumber, debria, plar.oi, trnnki and dcad bodles. Two hnodred corpirs tvcre connted from the train. 4 larae stenmer la ilraodrd tw? miles fifls slde of \ irsrlnia Polof. as lliongh thrown iip by a tidal wave. \ntbini; i-an br seen of Galveaton. T?o meu wcrp picUed up who floated acrnw*. to the malnland. who ?ny they estt tnatr the loaa of life nn to the tlme they left at ino thoosand. ibove rr.e?sage ls addressed to Superln ? Felton, Dallas. Texas. and comes from Mr. Vaugnan, manager of the "Western Unlon ? m. A btilietin to-night at 9 o'cloclc aaya that one-half of the eity la estimated deatroyed and not leaa than 2.500 livea axe loat. The scenee north of Ylrglnla Polnt are inde arribable in thelr horror. \ew-Orleana, Sept. 9.?A second telegxam to Allgeyer. dated Houaton, 10 p. m., aaya: "IijiIumoii almoat totally deatroyed." Hoaaton, Tex., ?ept. 0?Jamea S. Timmlni, Cinrnl auperintendeot of the \stlocnl Com prf?? Company, arrived here thla eveuinu; Ironi ualvetton after a perlloaa trip. He rejiort* thsl moie than oiie tuoatand people have been drowned. klllcd or iuisslag, and that foar thousand boaeea have been de? atroyed. He aaya the maenitnde of the dis aater remaina to be told. storm that i urt of Texas ? as the most disastraiu that has ever ".on. The wires are down, and way of flnding out Just what has Longb is known to make it cer tbat there has been great loss of life and destroctlon of property ali along the ooaet ?nd rundred miles inland. Every town that reporfa cne or more dead, or.d the y damage is m great that there ls no way itlng It accurately. Oalv- iay remained lsolated, "The -:" and The Associated Press made pfforts to gpt speelal trains and tugs with whlch to reach the laland clty. The rallroad companles .red to r:sk their locomotives. rts of rumors prevalled. It was known ? ra::road brldges across the bay at Gal -.vere elther wrecked or were likely to be jred wlth the welght of a traln on them; I <r3 to the wagon brldge were gone ar/1 the brldge v.as rendered useless. The brldge Galveston, Houston and Northern Rall rot4 ls atandlng, but the drawbrldges over Clear ''r^k and at Edgewater are gone, and the road ' get trains through to utlllze the bridge across the bay. A traln went down the Columbla Tap road rning as far as Chenango Junction. The tova was greatly damaged, and the bodles of nine ntgrots were taken from the rulns of one houie. The train could proceed no further and came back to Houston, leaving the fate of the at Anelnon, Columbla, Brazoria, Velasco na uncertaln. Hbb smal! tox\-n of Brookabire, on the MiF fiourl, Kansas j-nd Texas, was almost wiped out by the stcrrn. The rrew of a work train brought tr.iE ir.formatlon. When tho traln 1-ft the bodles ?< four pereone had been recovered and the ' frir others was proceedlng. "", across the countrj' from Brook ?'?ai? a]so gr^atly damaged, but so far as 'ves were lost. ' e Pass has not been heard from to-day. raa rapehred from there > rnlng. ard at that tlme the watcr was ? dlr.g tbfl f^ld town at the pass, tho wind M rlnlng and the w.iv<-s \\<:-re cornlng blgh. 'ue new town, whJch ls WDM dist.iin-e ?'k, the water had rcached the ftation and nninp tnrough the streetp. Tho people ?'?r'- teavlng for the bhjb country known as tho ?'-a'k Bidge, and it is betfeved thal all eacaped. Two bodles have ?<een brought In from Bea brooke, on ^WilvcHton Bay, an?i aeventeen r"-r ng tben Three persons were drowned at Morgan s ? nri othen are missing. With the excep ttoa <,t Omm of Mrs. NlcbohKin and Mrs. Jane W'oodloek, the bodies of the dead have not >et been Identtfled. I' ITonatuM on?- person was kil!<-'l Henry .: back drtver. The praperti ?nmage !? ;t <onservailve t-htiniaiH placlnj; it at -"-'?,(?'<<(. The iferehaata and Planters' on Min a^ wrerki-d, entAiling a lotsa >.t fdO.000. The m Car Who i Worfca Fiiffered t? \h>- > x Trit bpfit Cough r<-nfiy of the eentury in J.UNE'B BXPECTOBANT.?<Adv? tent of $16,000. The blg Masonlc Temple, which la the property of the Grand Lodge of the State. was partly wrecked. Nearly every church in the clty was damaged. The Flrst Baptlst, Southern Methodist and Trlnity Methodist, the latter a negro church, wlll have to be rebuilt before they can be used again. Many businesa houses were unroofed The resldence portion of the town presents a dllapidated appearance, but the dam age in this part of the clty has not been bo great as ln some others. The streets are almost impassable bceause of the lltter of shade trees, fences. telephone wires and poles. Much dam age was done to window glasB and furnlture. Many narrow escapes are recorded. Another traln left here late thls evenlng for Galveston, making the thlrd to-day. The two preceding ones have not been heard from, as all wires are proatrated. The Santa Fe traln which left here at 7:55 o'clock on Saturday nlght was wrecked at a polnt about two mlles north of Alvln. Mrs. Prather, of Alvln, Tex., was kllled and Beveral were injured. The traln was runnlng slow'y when it encountered the heavy storm. It ls re ported that the traln was llterally Hfted from the track. Mrs. Prather was thrown across the car and half way through a wlndow. When the car was reached lt was found that her head had been under water and she was drowred. Among the Injured are A. J. Condit and R. C. Hender son, of Houston. Englneer "Jack" Martln was badly hurt about the chest and leg. Flreman Thomas Doyle, Conductor M. H. Donnelly and several other passengers were also sllghtly In? jured. The town of Alvln ls reported to be practlcally demollshed. Hltchcock has ouffered severely from the Btorm. whlle the llttle town of Alta Loma ls reported wlthout a houee Btandlng. The town of Pearl has lost one-half of lts bulldlngs. L. B. Carlton, the presldent of the Buslness League of Alvln, and a promlnent merchant there, reporta that not a bulldlng ls left stand ir.g in the town, elther resldence or businesa. Stocks of goods and houao furnlture are rulned and crops are a total loss. Alvln ls a town of about tvvelve hundred lnhabltants. Beven per sons were kllled ln and near the town. They are: GALASPy, John. JOHXSOX, J. M. JOHXSOX, Mrs. J. M. ElB'.er of Mre. Johneon, name not known. LEWIS. S. O. PRATHER. Mrs.. kllled ln Santa Fe Rallroad wreck. A boy named EICHARDSOX. Kountze Brothers, bar.kers at No. 120 Broadway, have heavy flnanclal lntereata at Bablne Pasa, wbere the Btorm did great damage. Luther Kountze was out of town yeatorday, and no other member of the flrm could be found who would glve detalls of the flrm's lnterests there. The posslble fate of Oalveaton was a general toplc of conversation yeaterday when lt became known that all communlcatlon had been cut off. Galveston ls eltuated on Galveston Island, and ls connected wlth the malruand by very long brldgea. If the brldtrea have been destroyed the clty mlght bo lsolated wlthout aufferlng much. The Island ls twenty-elght mlles long and one and one-half to three and one-half rnliea wlde. atretchlng along the cofH of Texas. Its Burface haa an average helght of four to five feet above tlde level. ? DETAILS OF DAMAGE. HOW THE STORM SWEPT OVER ISLAND CITT?WBLIi KNOWN MEX KILLED WATER BDPPLT SHORT. Houston. Tex., Sept. 0.?The flrst news to reach this clty from the Btrtcken clty of Gal? veston was n.-ceived to-nlght. James C. Tim? mins, who lives ln Koueton, and who la the general superlntendent of the Natlonal Com presB Company. arrlved ln the city at S o'clock to-night from Galveston. He was one of the rtrst to reach here wlth tldlngs of the great dis aater, which has befallen that clty. and the magnitude of that disaster mnalns to be told because of his endeavors to reach home. After remainlng through the hurricane of Saturday he Btarted from Galveston on a schooner and came across the bay to Morgan's Polnt. where he caught a traln for Houston. The hurricane, Mr. Timmins said, was th* worst ever known there. The eetlmatea raade by citizens of Oalveaton were that four thousand houBes have lx-en de? stroyed and that at least one thousaivl persons have been drowned. kllled or are missing. Some businesa houses were also destroyed. but most ? ?f thern etood, though badly dama?<<! The clty, Mr. Timmins avers, is a oomplete wreck, bo far as he could see iVom the water front and from the Tremont Hotel. Water was blown over the Island by the hurricanf. the wlnd blowing at the rate of eighty miles an h?ur atraight from the Gulf and forcing the s.a water before lt ln big wavea. The gale was a steady one, the heart of It Btriking the clty about 5 oVlock yesterday evenlng and conttnulng with out lntermiaslon untll mldnlght last nlght. when it abated somewhat, although It rontinued to blow all nlght. Of hl? own knowledge Mr. Timmins knew of only one houae guccumliiiix wlth fatal results, though he heard of many residences being ear ried av.ay wlth lnmates. The houso that he t-d was Rltter'a snloon and restau rant, at No. 2,101) Strand-st., a prlncipal street of the city. Thls three story bulldlng was blown down and nlne nn-n-prominent citizens? were Ulled. Among the dead an- Oharles Kel ,i, r, sr.. a cotton buyer for an English flrm; Btanle) C Bpeneer, general manaper of the BMer-Damater Steamship Line, and Rlchard Lord. manaajer for M?Fadden's Cotton Company, whose body is etill ln the rulns Beeratary Balley of the Wharf Company and several walters and customers saved themselves by Jumping from the upper story Just before the crash came. It was reported that the Orphan Asylum and both the hospitals were destroyed. and if thls proves true the loss of llfe wlll be great, as these institution8 were generally crowded, and as they were substantlal buildings, the ehances are that many had taken refuge in them. The water extended across the Island. Mr. Timmins said it was three feet deep in the ro tunda of the Tremont Hotel. and was six feet deep in Market-st. Along the water front the damage was very great. The roofs had been blown from all the elevators, and the sheds along the wharves were either wrecked or had lost their sides. and were of no protection to the contents. Most of the small ^ailing craft were wrecked. and were either piled up on 'he wharfs or float Ing bottom slde up in the bay. There is a small steamship ashore three mlles nortn of Pelican Island, but Mr. Timmins could not distinguish her name. She was flying a Uritish fieg. An other big vessel has been driven ashore at Vir glnia Pottit, and stlll another is aground at Texas Clty. At the south point rf Houston Isl? and an unknown ship iles in a h^lpless condi tion. The lightship that marks Galveston Bar ls hard and fa3t aground at Bolllvar Polnt. Mr. Timmins and the men wlth him on the achooner rescued two sailors from the mlddle bay. who had been many hours in the water. These men were forelgners and he could gain no information from them. A wreck of a vessel whlrh looked like a large steam tug was observed just before the party landed. In the bay the carcasses of nearly two hun? dred horses and mules were seen, but no human bedy was vislble. The sc.enes durlng the storm, Mr. Timmins 3aid, could not be described. Women and children were crowded lnto the Tre? mont Hotel. where he was seeking shelter. and all night these unfortunates were bemoaning thelr losses of kindred and fortune. They were grouped about the stalrways and in the galleries and rooms of the hotel. What was occurrlng in other parts of the city he could only eon Jecture. The city of Galveston, he says, is now entirely submerged and cut off from communlcatlon. The boats are gone, the railroad cannot be oper ated, and the water is so high people cannot walk out by way of the bridge across the bay even should that bridge be standir.g. Provislons wlll be badly needed, as a great majority of the people lo6t all they had. The waterworks power house was wrecked and a water famine ls threatened, as the cisterns were all ruined by the overflow of salt water. This. Mr. Timmins regards as the most ser'ous prob lem to be faced now. The city is ln darkness. the electric plant hav lng been ruined. There is no way of estimating the propery damage at present. So far as he could see or hear. Mr Timmins says the east end portion of the city. which is the resldeme dlstrict, has been practlcally wiped out of exist ence. On the west end, which faces the Gulf on another portion of the island, much havo.. was done. The beach has been ewept clean. the bathhouses are destroyed, and many of the resi dences are total wrecks. PORT ARTHUR PARTLY ESCAPED. SABIXE PASS THOUGHT TO BE TOTALI.Y DESTROTED. New-Orleans, Sept. U tSpecial).?The reiief traln from Beaumont, which reached Port Ar thur to-nlght, found that town less injured than reported. It, lies on the west bank of Lake Sa blne, about flfteen mlles from Sablne Pass. through which the lake emptles into the Gulf of Mexlco, and lt is the termlnus of the Kansas Clty and Southern Railroad. The town is only two years old, and is owned mainly by the rail? road, which has erected large wharves, eleva? tors and warehouses th<?re and dredged a chan nel to the Gulf. Sablne Pass lies at the mouth of Sabine Lake. at a very exposed point. The old town is prac? tlcally deserted. It was destroyed by a storm slmilar to the present one some thlrty years ago, and was badly damaged in another storm eixteen years ago. The new town ls about two mlles from the old one. The Beaumont reiief expeditlon could not get nearer to this than four mlles, and from the depth and quantity of water they believe Sabine Pass must have been nearly or totally destroyed. It ls reported that the populatlon escaped to a neighboring ridge, and that the loss of llfe was small compared wlth the destrmtion of property. GALVESTON S ENPOSED SITUATION. NO PART OF THE CITT MORE THAN BXX FKKT ABOVE TIDE?DAMAGE IN PREVIOUS I>ISASTERS. Indlanapolis, Sept. 0.?D. B. Clarkson. of Gal? veston. v.hose family is probably swept away, was an anxlous inquirer at Associated Press headquarters here to-night. Speaking of the sunken city, its looation, populatlon, buslness ln terests and former floods that have swept over the city, he said: Galveston ls situated on an laland extendlng east and west for twenty-seven miles. and it is seven rriiles in its rreatest width north and south. No clty could be in greater danger wlth such a horrible visltatiou as has now come to Galveston. No part of the clty. wlth Its 68.000 populatlon, is mpre than eix feet above the sea level. The flat conditlon not unly polnts to the desperate sltuatlon of the people at such a time as thls. but thelr danger may be consioered emphasized when It is known that ex acUy wher? ti,e clty ls bullt the island is only one and one-quarter mlles wide. On the bay or north side of the clty is the com merclal section, wlth wharves atretchlng aiong for nearly two mlles, llned wlth sheda and large ator agt house*. Than. in that Portion of Galveaton ,h?r? art, tbree elevators?one of 1,600,000 busneis SSctty? onTof 1?000.000 and the third pfWMOft. The 1-land from the north slde is connected wlth the"mainland by railroad brldges, andthejongest wagon bridge ln tlie world, the latter neany two "ftFlOT Kntire east end of the clty waa swept '.'.'.l5,hv the Hdal wave that followed a tetrlftc S^2. ti,-.t sw.tu the Gulf Coaat for three daya. ernment By the force of the storm o 1?- elx All uliti '.;'?.'' and j? inia quarter between be wash.d a?a> *?l?nt\Ui. fiandsomeaet and o^eSaaatve"raaWSSsa iro located. There was ',;. . 1 ere on' bome which alone cost the oaner for the gulf slde o* the dtj has been two stone Kaakwatars but many Mmes wlth or.iu.ary s..,ims ccmiiig iii from the Gulf. the hlgh tlde water hn beSi huried over the low stone walla right to the iTrv doora Of houses From Virginla Point Bta mUea from Galveston, ln ordlnary cunditions of the atoiosphere the clty can be pluinly seen. If lt la true that Galveston cannot be now seen from the polnt then the conditlon of the people In the clty Jnuat be Indeaerfbablv horrible. conrerning the wealth of some of the prtnelpal buslness quarters of Galveston. Mr. Clarkson said: Many milllons of dollars are Invested in the wholesale and retall buslness of the clty. ' m Strand-st. alone there are ten hln-ks of buslneaa eatablishmenta that repreaen! an Inveated eaplta] (untinurd on fonrlli |>n*r. BPBAK1NQ 0F BIOCK BIONALA ?The New-\o-k Central has. rirsily, th? Interlock ln* ?yat.-ni, and, ?uparadded to this. aecondly, tne unlcn of the leck and block aysteni (Syke ?> - Kxtrart from addresa of Mr. John P. O'Donnell. the Engllsh expert on blook aignals, before the Amerhaii Boclety of Clvll Englneers.-(Advt CROKER'S PROBABLE SLATE IXDICATIOXS THAT 8TANCHFIELD WILL BE XAMED FOR GOVERXOR. XO HARMOXTIX SIGHT AMOXG DEMOCRATS AT SARATOGA-HILL BOUXD TO PRESEXT COLER Probable nomlnfei: For Governor?John B. Stanehfleld. For I.ieutennnt-Governor?Senator Markey or I ?liuirii H. Roar, For ? ontroller?Edward 6. Atwater. Fop Attoruey-tienernl?(ircrsc M. I'nlmrr. IMatform?Indorsement of Kansas Clty plat form, ini'lndlns; I'ree sllver. CROKER DTRECTIXG FIGHT. TSIXG MI'RPHY AS FIGUREHEAD. PERHAPS WITH UL.TERIOR PCRPOSE. Saratoga, N. Y.. Sept. 9 (Special).?The Society for the Promotlon of Trouble ls working over time here. It is hopeful of excellent results. despite the efforts of a few misgulded indivld uals to brlng about compromlse. peaee and har mony. But fortunately these persons are, so far, in a minority, and the dogs'of war are stlll runnlng loose. The Tammany men shout: "Down wlth Hlll and Coler!" And the anti-Tammany men nave the Coler banner aloft and yell back: "We never surrenderV Rlchard Croker is here directing the fight agalnst Hlll and Coler. Nominally ex-Senator Murphy is commander of the anti-Hill forces. but the grirn. determined Tammany chlef ls the actual dlrector and supervisor. He seems very well satisfled, too, wlth the situation. A ma Jorlty of the delegates are at his beck and call, and well he knows that the other fellows can not do more than fuss and fume and raise some dust. They must take at the Convention what ever medicine he prescribes for them. But after the Convention. Ah! there's the rub. Some cautious Tammany men believe that Hill never really had any expectatlon of nom inating Coler. and that the Controller himself deliberately made his nomination Impossible by his thinly veiled. but none the less bitter, at taek on Croker. These people argue that Hill long ago perceived the hopelessness of carrying New-Tork State this year for the Democratlc ticket, that he desired to unload on the Tam? many h-ader the responsibility for defeat. and. flnally, that he planned the Coler crusade so as to have Tammany make a martyr of the Con? troller and thus sweep him into the oftVe of Mayor of Xew-York. That view has been put before Mr. Croker. How much or how little of it he believes, it ls difhcult to say, because, just now, he is not do ing much talking for publieatlon. It may or may not. however, oe signiflcant that he is more than willing to have Mr. Murphy assume all the honor and glory?and incidentally the re? sponsibility?of directing the Convention whlch meets here next Tuesday. Ex-Senator Hill is expected here to-morrow. His lieutenants on the ground deolare that he will stick to Coler until the roll is closed and that he wlll make a flght in the Convention whlch won't be forgotten in rr.any moons. There is no tellinr; what may happen after the eagle of ] Wolfert's Roost gets here. Among the possibllities?not probabilitles that would surprise people here. would be the patching up of a peace between himself and Croker. The latest indicatlons all favor a flght , or btood. with no quarter given or asked. In the tnterest of pure sport and good newspaper stories, it is to be hoped that there wlll be no dtsappointment in this respect. CANDIDACY OF STAXCHFIELD. IN A RECEPTIVE ATTITUDE?HOW MUCH HE HAS TO FEAR HIS FRIENDS. Saratoga, X. Y.. Sept. 9 (Special).?The can dldacy of John B. Stanehfleld, of Elmira. for Governor was developed rapldly to-day. Ex Judge S. S. Taylor, of Elmira. who is the chair man of the Chenung County delegatlon. arrived here in company with George S. Robinson, the chairman of the Democratlc commlttee of that county, and the other delegates of the county. and spoke every where in favor' of Mr. Staneh? fleld. Ex-Judge Taylor for years has been David B. Hill's chief lieutenant in Chemung County, and it cannot but be BUspected that Mr. Hill does not frown upon Mr. Stanchfleld's can didaey. although himself supportlng Mr. Coler for Governor. Two years ago Mr. Stanehfleld was one of two or three candidates in the interior of the State who were seeking the Democratic nomination for Governor. Up till 12 o'cloch or the night before the Convention was to make its nomi? nation Mr. Stanchfleld's friends belleved he would receive the nomination. Mr. Croker and Mr. Murphy, however, were deceiving Mr. .Stanehfleld, having long before decided to nom inate Augustus Van Wyck. whieh they did ten hours later. Mr. Stanchfleld's friends, therefore, cannot feel at all confldent now that he wlll be nomi nated. In view of their experience of two years ago. Yet they do feel considerable hope. be? cause nearly every promlnent Democrat they meet here predlcts Mr. Stanchfleld's nomina? tion. Plainly, he ls the most prominent candi date to-day. Ex-Judge Taylor said regarding Mr. Stanchfleld's candidacy: Mr. Stanehfleld is not a candidate in the sense that he ls seeking the nomination, but he would accept it lf it should comc to him. We of Che? mung County and other Southern Tier counties believe that he is the strongest man that could be nomlnated for Governor. He would not be the candidate of any faction of the Democratlc party. We hope that the delegates can unite upon him and we believe that if they do he will be elected. Mr. Stanehfleld has had a most honorable eareer as a dlstinguished lawyer of ElmJra and as the Democratlc leader in the Asslmbly. His acqualntance all over the State is large, and everywhere he is hlsrhly esteemed. He would be consldered, we thlnk, especially a candidate of the young men of the State. In the Southern Tier counties he is thoroughly well llked. and I believe he would receive far more than the usual Democratic vote there. It is said that Mr. Stanchfleld's candidacy has especially the support of Hugh MoLaughlin, of Kings County. MACKEY'S CANDIDACY CHECKED. HE MAT BE NAMBD FOR LIEVTEXANT-GOV ERNOR. Saratoga, X. Y.. Sept. 9 (Special).?Senator Mackey's candidacy for Governor was appar ently not in a prosperous condltlon to-day, and the Erie County delegation was greatly dls tressed. There was a conference held regard? ing Mackey's candidacy by Riehard Croker, Edward Murphy. Jr.. Senator Mackey himself, Senator Grady, John J. Kennedy and Nor man E. Mack. of Buffalo. in the courtyard of the Grand Union. Mr. Croker. tt is aaid. was urged by Mr. Mack to declare ln favor of the nomination of Spnator Mackey, but the Tam? many "boss" excused himself, on the plea that Mr. Murphy was the Democratic leader ln the State and must therefore make the cholce of the candidate for Governor. Mr. Murphy. then being appealad to. said that really he could not assume the responsibility at this hour in the Convention's Hfe of declar ing who ought to be the Democratlc candidate for Governor. Mr. Mack and Mr. Kennedy are said to have regarded these remarks of Mr. Contlnned oa flfth patrr. THE LETTEB OF ACCEPTANCF.. MR. M'KIXLEY'S ANSWER TO THE RFPUBLICAX COMMITTEE OF XOT1FICAT10X. A STATEMENT OF REPUBLICAX PARTY'S POLICT. Mr. McKinley made public his letter ol aeceptance of the nomination for President tendered to him by the Republican Xational Convention at Phila delphia. The chief points of the messaere were: The ffold ataadard i? made the leadlna; aabjeet ln the Preatdenf'n letter. It la poiated ont that ander the prenent working of onrreaey and tarlfT a roadltiua of prnaperlty hltherfo unknovrn hai been arrnrrd. Proper reatraint npon monopollea. forclna: them to make tranaaetlona pnhllr. taa merchant ninrine, Civll Serviee reform and tht? penaion lam are ,il*o eonalrfered. llulc tn the poaaeaalona aeqalred hy the I nlted Stntea after the aar with Spaia foraaa the major part of the meaange. Trade wlth Porto Rlen la dlaeaaaed. aad th? palfcy eff the (.overnment tn the Philippinea. nhnwlne that it au Impoaaible to adopt other mea ?urea tban thoae takeu, la dedned TEXT OF THE PRESIDEXT'S LETTER. . Executlve Mansion, 1 Washington. D. C, September S. 1000. Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge. Chairman Xofification | Committee. Bfy Dear Sir: The nomination of the Repub lican Xational Convention of June 11?. 190O for | the offlca of President of the United States, which, ! as the offtcial representative of the Convention, i you have conveyed to me, is accepted. I have care fully examined the piatform adopted. and give to it my hearty approval. Upon the great issue of the last Xational electlon it is clear. It upholds the gold-standard and lndorses the Icekdatlun of tke present Congress by whlch that ?tandard kaa been effectively strengthened The statnlny of our Xational currency is therefore aecare as long as those who adhere to this piatform rn kept ln control of the Government. In the flrst battle?that of 1808?the friends of the gokj standard and of sound curren.??;>? were trium phant. and the country ls eajoylng the fruits of that vlctory. Our antagonlst.-. however, are n?>t satisfied. They compel us to -t pecond battle upon the same linps on whlch r!i<> ri?-st was fought and won. While regrettinsr the reopen ing of this question, which oan only disturb the present satisfactory nnancial condition of the Government and visit uncertainty upon our great business enterprises, are aecept the issue and again invite the sound money forcei to join in winning another and we hope permanent triumph for an honeet financial aystem, which will continue inviolable the public faith. THE OLD ISSUE OVER AGAIN. As in ISOfi, the three silver partles are united under the same leader, who immediately after the election of that year. in an addreps t.i the b> metallists, said: The friends of bimetallism have not been van quished; they have simply been overcome. They believe that the gold standard is a conspiracy of the money changers against the welfare of the human race, and they wlll continue the warfare against ir. The poliey thus proclaimed has been accepted and confirmed" by these parties. The Silver Democratic piatform of 1900 continues the war? fare against the so-ealled gold conspiracy when It expressly says: We reiterate the demand of that (the Chlcago) piatform of 1S90 for an American nnancial sys tem made by the American people for them selves. which shall restore and maintain a bi metallic prlce level, and as part of such system the immediate restoration of the free and un limited eoinage of silver and gold at the present ratio of 10 to 1, without awaitlng for the aid or consent of any other nation. So the issue is presented. It will be noted that the demand is for the immediate restoration of the free eoinage of silver at 10 to 1. If an? other issue is paramount. this is immediate. It will admit of no delay and will suffer no post ponement. Turnlng to the other associated parties, we flnd ln the Populist Xational piatform, adopted at Sioux Falls, S. D.. May 10. 1900, the following deelaratlon: We pledge, anew the People's party never to cease the agltation until this financial conspira? cy is blotted from the statute book, the Lincoln greenback restored, the bonds all pald and all corporation money forever retired. We reafnrm the demand for the reopening of the mints of the United States for the free and unlimited eoinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratlo of 10 to 1. the immediate increase in the volume of silver coins and certificates thus created to be substituted, dollar for dollar, for the banknotes Issued by private eorporations under special privilege. granted by law of March 14, 10<?O, and prior Xational banking law?. The piatform of the Silver party. adopted at Kansas Clty on July 6, lfXiO. makep the following announcement: We declare it to be our intention to lend our efforts to the repeal of this currency law. which not only repudlates the aneient and tirrie hon ored prineiples of the American people before the Constitutlon was adopted, but is violative of the prineiples of the Constitutlon itself: and we shall not cease our efforts until there has been establlshed in its place a monetary system based upon the free and unlimited eoinage of silver and gold into money at the present legal ratio of 1<? to 1 by the lndependent action of the United States, under which system all paper money shall be issued by the Government, and all such money coined or Issued shall be a full legal tender ln payment of all debts. public and pri? vate, without exceptlon. In all three platforms these parties announe* that their efforts shall be unceasing until the Gold act shall be blotted from the statute books and the free and unlimited eoinage of silver at 16 to 1 shall take its place. ALL DECLARATIOXS IMPORTAXT. The relative importam-e of the issues I do not stop to dlscuss. All of them are important. Whiehever party is suecessful will be bound ln conscience to carry into administration and les islation its several declarations and doctrines. One deelaratlon will be as obllgatory as another. but all are not immediate. It is not posslble that these parties would treat the doctrlne of 16 to 1, the immediate realization of whlch is demanded by their several platforms. as void and lnoper atlve in the event that they should be clothed wlth power. Otherwise their professlon of falth ls lnslncere. It is therefore the Imperatlve busi? ness of those opposed to this financial heresy to prevent the triumph of the parties whose unlon is only assured by adherenee to the silver Issue. Will the American people, through lndifference or fancied securlty, hazard ths overthrow of the wise financial leglslation of the last year and revlve the danger of the silver standard wlth all of the inevitable evils of shattered confldence and general dlsaater whlch Justly alarmed and aroused them ln 1886? The Chicago piatform of 1886 ls reafflrmed in Its entlrety by the Kansas Clty Convention. Xothing has been omitted or recalled; so that all the perils than threatened are presented anew wlth the added force of a deliberate reafnrma tion. Four years ago the people refused to place A COXVEXIEXCE TO TRAVELLERS. The Pennsylvanta Rallroad, West 23d St. Statlon. Convenient :o all hotels. Caba to and from all parta of the clty.?(Advt. the seal nf their appro\'aI upnn th?*e dangeronn and revolutionary policies, and this year Ihaj will not fail to r?cord again their earnest dls sent. THE TARIFF AND RECIPROCITT. The Republican party remains faithful to tts principle of a tarlff which supplies sufflclent revenues for the Government and adequate pro t^ction tv> our enterprises and producers; and of reciproclty. which opens foreign marketa to the fruits of American labor and furnlshea new channels through which to maxket the surplua of American farms. The tlme honored prlnei ples of protection and reciproclty were tha flrst pledges of Republican victory to be wrttten toto public law. The present Congress has gtven to Alaaka a territorial government for which lt had walted m?re than a quarter of a century. has estab 'ish-"1 a representatlve government ln Hawail; has enacted bills for the most liberal treatment of the pensioners and their wldows; haa revtved xh* free homestead policy. In its great flnan cial law ir provided for the establishment of banks of issue. with a capltal of $25,000 for tho beneiit of villages and rural communltles, and bringlng the opportunity for profltable buslnaaa in banking withln the reach of moderate cap ita!. Many are already avalling themsetrea of this privilege. During the last year more than $19,000,000 of T'nited States bonds have been paid from the surplus revenues of the Treasury. and in addi Uon fSMIOOlMO of 2 per cents matured. called by the Government, are in process of payment. Pacifl^ Railroad bonds issued by the Govern? ment in aid of the roads in the sum of nearly ! $44,000,000 have been paid since December 31. j IVtT. The Treasury balance is in satisfactory conditlon, snouing on September 1. $135,419, 00<>. in addition to the $15t?.?">0.000 gold reserve held in the Treasury. The Government'a rela tions wlth the Paciflc railroads have been sub stantlally dosad. $121,421,000 betng recetved from these roads. the greater part jn cash and the remainder wlth ample securitles for pay ments deferred. Instead of dimlnlshing, as was predicted f"ur years ago, the volume of our cnrrency is greater per capita than it has evvr been. It waa $21 lO in 180S. It had increased to $26 50 on July 1. U?<x>. and |9S8B on September 1. 1900. Oor total muney on July 1. 1S96 was | 1,506.434.988. on Ju!y 1, IMfe it was S2.<*'>-425.490. aad ?2.t"n.'H.?;V;,i?42 on September 1, IMtt CNPUECEDENTED PROSPERITT. Our industria! and agricultural condltlons ara more promising than they have been for man-y years? probably more so than they have ever been. Prosoerity abounds everywhere through out the Republic. I rejoice that the Southern as well as the Northern States are enjoylng a ftill I share of these improved National condltlons, I and that all are contrlbuting so largely to our I remarkable industrlal development. The money | lender receives lower rewards for hls capltal j than if it were invested in active buslness. The rates of interest are lower than they have aver been in this country. while thoae things which are produced on the farm and ln the workshop. and the labor producing them. have advanced in value. Our foreign trade shows a aatlafactory and increasing growth. The amount of our exports for the year 1000 over those of the exceptlonally prosperous year of 1S90 was about $500,000 for every day of the year. and these sums hava gone into the bomes and enterprises of tha people. There has been an Increase of ovar $50,000,000 in the exports of agricultural prod ucts. $92.*X)2.220 ,n manufactures. and ln tha products of the mines of over $10,000,000. Onr trade balances cannot fail to glve satisfactkm to the people of the country. tn 189S we sohi abroad $t>15.432,t>7t> of products more than we bought abroad: :n MMt ?."L>1?.nT4.S13. and in IMa\ *544.471.701. making during tho three years a total balance m our favor of .*l.?kv.>.77'.?.i:H>? nearly five times the baianoa of trade in our favor for the whole perlod of 108 \fdis froan 17M to June3". 1807. Incluslve. Kour hundred and thirty-six milllon dollars of go!J has been added to the gold stock of tha I'ni-ci st.ites sin.e July 1. 1*?96. The law of March 11. U>o?>. authorized the refundlng lnto 2 p?-r eenl bonds of that part of the public dabt represented by the 3 per cents due in 1908, the 4 per cents due m 19o7 and the 5 per cents duo in l!H>4. aggregating fSMMMMMt More than one-thlrd of the sum of these bonds waa r* funded in the flrst three months after tha pas sage of the act. and on September l thls sum had been increased more than .<? ?? 00 max ing in all $;i3?K578.0GO, resulting in a net aav ing of over $f\379.520. The ordinary recelpta of the Government for the flscal year 1900 were $79,527,060 in excess of its expenditurea While our receipts both from customs and tn ternal revenue have been greatly increased. our expenditures hav<? been decreasing. Clvll and mlscellaneous expenses for the flscal year end lng June 9ft 11M>. were nearly $14,000,000 lesa than in 1800, while on the war aecount there la a decrease of more than $95,000,000. There was required $8,000,000 less to support the Navy thls year than last. and the expenditurea on aecount of lndians were nearly $2,730,000 lesa than in 1899. The only two items of in? crease tn the public expenses of 1900 over 1900 are for penslons and Interest on the public debt, For 1899 we expended for penalons $139,394,929. and for the flscal year 1900 our payments on this aecount amounted to $140.S77.316- Tha net Increase of interest on the public debt of 1900 over 1899. required by the war loan, waa $263.408 25. While Congress authorlaed tha Government to make a war loan of $400,000,000 PERFECT SAFETY TO TRAVELLER* The train* of the Pen lsylvanla Railroad ara all models of aafety. speed and comtort. Block syatem protacts the traveller.?(Advt.