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THE SUN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1898. '1? EVERY ISSUE FAIRLY MET. coorr.it vxtox rnowtimt rnx tbb jtr.rvnurA ct.vm mkktjxo. Ittatnr Lodge Show the Importance of National laao. Whan 34 C.nrin Ar to B Wcted-I. K. Alu.worto IMa cii.tr. Stale Iau Kllno Root Denouaee Ctoker't Attark on the Courts and Warn lllm ' Beware Mia Fata ol Twaad. rpr,-r I'nlon herd a crowd bubbling over Hh BeptiblloMl enthusiasm lest night, and tnileil State Senator Honry Cabot Lodge, the upn Danforth-JL Alnsworth. Deputy Bnperln tond'tnl "l I'ubllc InstrucUon. and the Hon. Vllhu 110' ' responded to the wild demand of Van wrok Van Wyck A Co. and Mr. Croker. the ..t.ir .'"'I managing partner of the firm, to jeuva state lues In a manner that may L-tepi riser the fervor of the flrm'a de- for a while at leaat. Mr. Lodce ad lti,i thk he didn't know a treat deal ..out state isauea. but he had aeen a twoftlioi discussed In the newspapers. nd htacUIl thom with a fervor to make Van Wyck. Van Wyck Co. hop. and then he gave lucid nf'atiatlon 0f how much more Im portant an- the national Issues Involved In the ,l.tion ol thirty-four Congressmen and a I,g lturc thut l to eleet the successor to Edward urrhr. Ir . to the United Rtatcs Henate. Mr. l9worth knew all about Htate laauea and h knew all about the record of the predecessors tothi'flrm of Van Wyck. Van Wyck A Co. Bo did Mr Hoot. Cooper I'nlon waa jammed full at 8 o'clock. It had been full forhalf,an hour before that, and th" crowd apent the time yelling and cheenne for Col. Roosevelt and the Republican tiekot The meotlna- was arranged by the Re publican Club, and the Hon. William Ijeary. Chairman of the club's Campaign Committee. railed It to order. He Introduced Col. Charles f. Homer. Vice-President of the club, aa Chairman. Col. Homer. In a abort speech. ibowed how Impoaslbla It Is to separate Htate and national Issues in this campaign, and then he Introduced Benator Lodge. The crowd knew the Senator and told him so. It was two mlnutea before the cheering; stopped. "The manager of the Democratic party of the State of New York." said the Senator. " has stated that in this campaign only state issues are to be disoussad." "Hehaen t got brains enough to discuss any other." yelled a man In tha rear of the hall, and the erowd cheered. "That may be one explanation." assented the Benator. " Probably if the time comes when ha think of putting soma one In the White House. I ana he picks op another brother somewhere alas out of dim obscurity, he may permit tha dfee nation of national affairs I suppose now. however, we shall have to oblige him. I can't be expected to discuss your Bute affaire with the Alienor born of residence, but I'm going to " " I think Mr. Croker aaid the other night In a dpeech he made in Buffalo" Goodlgood!" shouted half a dozen voices, and the Benator had to atop until the laugh trip v t'T - I think Mr. Croker said." he went on. " that the canals were the only thing we could talk 1 The Benator then took up the allegations of fraud that the senior member of tha Jurm of Van Wyck. Van Wyck A Co. made in his Buffalo H'-"'h The proposition, as he understood it, was. ho said, that the Republicans should be turned out and the Democrats should be turned In. The object being to secure an economical administration of the canals and the punishment of persons guilty of fraud. If there had been any fraud, he wanted to know what Tammany Hall's record was for econoini chI administration of anything.. He had fun with Tammany's New York city record, arid thn he compared It with the record of the Ilepubllcan party and with the record of OoL Roosevelt. His aaid that Col. Roosevelt' twenty years of public terries was a sufficient a-uarantee that If economy and the punishment of fraud were what was wanted he would attend " The man who has lived up to his Ideas aa Col. Roosevelt has." said the Senator. ' is tha man to trust now. ' ., . . Thecrowd yelled. "That's right I' The Benator said be understood that another State issue was the National Guard, and he wanted to know whether the master of Tam manv Hall, who had never worn a uniform in hit Ills, was as well equipped to deal with the needs ol the National Guard as a man who hail served three years In the guard himself and had completed hia education as a citizen soldier on the battlefield at Santiago. "another loeal issue, and one that I haven't yet beard the Democrats demanding, should be discussed." said the Senator, ia tha issue of the Judges. And I want now to formally de cline to admit that the rectitude of the bench of the great city of New York is a loeal question. As a citizen of Massachusetts I say that an assault on the Integrity of tha Judges and the benoh of the city of New York ia a matter of immediate Interest and the utmost Importance. It ia of Ui highest Importance to every American to whom the honor of the judioiary Is a pearl be yond price, and I want to call attention to a meeting on this subject that waa held In youi aiLy the other night?' Th Senator described tha moating at Car aegie Hall on Friday night and. without men tioning Bourke Cockran s name, referred to the separation that Mr. Cockran made at the be ilsnlng of hia epeech. to the effect that he tro Kasd voting tor the Democratio candidate for Governor. The orator, ha said, described the Kepis surrounding the temple of justice with wall of their Indignation, and saying to the Boat. "Thus far shalt thou go and no further." The problem in his mind, the Senator said, was why the Ixbh should be permitted to go 'thus far." He wanted to know why Mr. Cock tin, so shocked at Croker'e assault on our Judge, would hand over the chief magistracy of the Htate and the Legislature to a man who had attempted to debauch the judiciary. If It was wrong for Croker to attempt to debauch I he judiciary, h said, why ia It right to make ijm Governor of the State, for the Governor often has to appoint Judges r Ha said the twothlngadldn t jibe. and. aa ho looked at It. there was but one thing to do and that waa to ttrike down the guilty man absolutely and to tnke down the whole ticket that he atood for. J Too muoh Van Wyck." bawled a vole, well you'll have less It you vote right." said we Senator, and the crowd cheered and half a dozen voices cried, " We will." The Benator said he had tried to oblige tha Democratic manager In the matter of State lasuee. and. having done it. he felt at liberty to peak to the crowd aa one American citizen talking to others. Great and important as the issues of the Empire State were, he said, there were greater and more important issues that affected Hie whole country. He aaid there were two that surpassed all others. lou are going to elect thirty-four Congress men and a Legislature that is to elect a United states Senator," lie said. " Are you going to MM tbsm to look after the Erie Canal o; you are going to elect them to take Huge of the great interests of the nation, and If that doesn't make a national sue then I don't know of what a national iu can be constructed. I haven't muoh fajpeet for the Democratic organization in th state -if Massachusetts, but I want to say this. " s got more honesty In It than the Democratio organization of the State of New York, because cornet right out and says what it means. It adhere to the principles of the Chicago plat '"rni. "Three cheers for William J. Bryan." shouted a man There was a hiss that sounded like a locomo tive Jetting .i IT steam. Thais t. r,.j Democratio leader." said ine s.-nat ,, pointing hia linger in tha dlreo ;ioi Ironi which the voice had come. that la a perfect Illustration of It. SJtrj Idlest Democrat like my friend ".(" Is for Bryan. The Democrats ii vL.hil''ml"'" are honest enough to admit " Thev r,. r,t skulking, not sneaking along. mini in tell whore they stand. There is not F0!! iiiii-uig them who says he won't tell on inch -el . js hncauae he is afraid of alien Ming ruiM I don t know how their policy will ork in Sew York, my friends, but In Maaaa rauaetti. I ,-nn tell you that It would re " in tin-, aiididates getting through election r. without Uiy votes at all. My friends. diiiiitii, Democrats of this State are muzzled wait then c.itioii on the guest Ion of the froe Wring, .,,; iiv.-r. w know when, they stand. " the Democratio party In the nation auc-jr;'1- in winning the next Congress If Will pa a Mil for the free roiuag, ,,; silver. The Democratic Congress BtO from the great States of New York and ffaipuctta will vote for free silver because luih i", ''''" istic du'.-liine. Of course no 8"-ti bill .-mi t-ecoine a law because it can't "through ii,,. Senate. The next f lilted "i" senate is golngto be Republican." ... nfr was a seskou ot cneerlng and the Beu "ur lihii t , ,t0p rr minute. "But if It could mm Hie h-nate." he resumed. "It would be ttonped at the White House." and there waa hh" .."""'bC- "It is not necessary." he ' ' . ""' '"" ill should become a Kin ',' T1" about disaster. If such J ii should pass the House It would open th noi quaation again, open It just as the coun .;, "nicrlng on a time of prosperity. Then .,;'.V '",n" again tho stagnation, the business x?l ,.' '!"!' all thai It entails, and we would vin ,',' :iul'' ;l'" whole iiuestlou over again T V J "' '"" disaster consequent." i hi ii ' ' "'"r s"l he wasn't going to argue on lliei -niesilon. That waa argued out In 0H ill l!',, "' Ne- York, he said, and free sil I. hini ,',''"''' by an unprecedented majority. t eVih. "' '''"' '" make it plain that in spile " u uLWecUeuiaa majority tba whvla thing would hare to be fought over again If the Demooraoy won In the nation. That, hw aaid. was the substance of the money question aa It presented Itself at thla aleotjqn. He aaid one of the strongest elements In holding tin the hands of the Government In the war with Spain was whsn the Government said to the peopl that it needed more ready money than could be ralaed by taxation anC asked for 200.(X0.0IH). The people subsorllied fourteen hundred million dollars. . "Da you think." he asked that It would have had that great subscription If thy people hsd not iHsllcved that the financial systam was beyond attack and the Issue was dead? The second question that outweighed any possible State Issue. theBenatorsald.oameout of the wsr. The country had been through a great war, he aaid. a war of unbroken vlotoriea. Hostilities hsd been suspended and peace was being mado bv a commission appointed by the 1 resi dent. He said that the laat six months had been the greatest In the history of the na tion since the civil war. The nation In six montha. ho said, had become a world power and no treaty could unmake it. He aaid there was no use discussing the why -or the wherefore of the . situation In which the country now found itself. The prob lems and th responsibilities thai bad been created must be mat. Ha had faith In the capacity of tha American people to ad minister government anywhere on earth. He said the war had brought freedom to .eight millions of people on tho other side of the Pa cific, freedom from tyranny under which they had suffered 1(00 yeara. . ' "Are you going to give them back to the tyrants who have oppressed them ? ha aaked. There were shouts of aKo" and We will nt" ... .... " Of course." he said, "you are not going to thrust back Into slavery and oppression th; people who wera freed bV Dewey's guns," and the crowd cheered him and cheered Dewey. The Benator said then that the American nation had these people on Its hands and the problem of their government had to be dealt " I will not attempt to solve the problem." he said, "but the President or the United States is charged with the duty." "And he'll do It," yelled half a dozen voices "He must decide what I to be done for the Philippines " he said, "and with Cuba and with Porto Rico." ... " Keep 'em all." cried a voice, and there was great cheering. . .. The Senator spoke of the work of the Pence Commission there, and said that every day the news despatches told of the delay and tho bickering brought about by the Spaniards. "They delay, ,T he said, "because they hope that on the 8th of November a House of a different political faith than the faith of the President will be elected, and such an event would be disastrous to peace Spain would take It and Europe would consider It a repudiation of the war and of the President." He said that when the war was actually on all men rallied to the support of the President. He waa not the Republican President but the American President. The President, the Bena tor said, was now face to faae with Spain. "He la trying to bring about a peace com mensurate with the victories of war. a peace that will preserve and guard the Interests of the United States, which shall abut us out of none of the possibilities which are our due. Again I say he la not the Republican President, but the American President. We all have the right to vote against him because of tho monev question orthe tariff question, but when he Is standing ap against a foreign foe. aa he is to-day. we must stand with blm. The duty of the moment is to stand by Mr. SlcKln ley. Stand by him now by aending to the House and to the Senate man who you know will stand by him." MB. AINSWOKTH OIRCU8SE8 BTATK ISSUES. There waa long-continued applause when Benator Lodge finished. Mr. Ainsworth was the next speaker. Mr. Alnsworth said in part: "Th one great queatlon to be determined by thla election is what does the future hold in store for the citizens ot this Btate whan Richard Croker and Tam many Hall, when the Van Wycks. Robert and Augustus the greater, shall have extended their sway with all that Tammany Hall government Implies, and always has im plied, over the State at large. 'Tie Bald 'com parisons are odious.' I paraphrase 'compar isons are luminous.' and that without apol ogy for a single act performed, or excuso for a single duty neglocted, I want to com pare the record of the Republican party during the last administration, whan It had absolute control of and undivided re sponsibility for the government of the State, with a like period under a Democratic administration, when they, too, were charged with undivided responsibility, and leave with you for your answer in November the ques tion as to which appeals most strongly to the honest voter anxious for good government. "The Republican party is under indictment, drawn at Syracuse. The district attorney upon that occasion was Richard Croker. His assist ant was David B Hill. and. as is the fact in the Slty of New York to-day. the brains of that epartmentwere under the hatof the assistant. It is fair to assume thst the worst criticism that can possibly be made was that contained in the platform of the Syracuse Convention. Let us plead. "The first count in this indictment is the canal question. We pledge the people an hon est and economical administration of the canals of the State. No squandering of pnbllo moneys: no more millions to be stolen or needlessly expended as reported by tha Re publican investigating commission to have oc curred with the JH.000.000 canal improvement fund ; ail public contracts to be fairly and hon estly awarded to the lowest bona-flde bidder; no special privileges to pet surety companies favored by political Influences. "What la meant by the last statement is to my mind uncertain. I have heard some criticism upon the administration of the Raines Liquor law from Democratic sources in connection with alleged pet surety companies favored by political influ ences, but what that particular question has to do with the canal question must puzrle the average voter. It Is a mixture of whiskey and oanal water, probably clear to the Democratic Convention, but confusing to me. " ' We favor a reduction of canal expendi ture, and are opposed to Intrusting the work of carrying on further improvements to Republi can officials responsible for the prodlgalitv. favoritism and corruption which have charac terized the present administration of the ca nals.' "Here are three significant adjectives used by them to describe the connection of the Re publican party with the canal Improvement fund. They are 'prodigality, favoritism and corruption. Let us take them up In their order." Mr. Alnsworth aaid that there waa not a word in the report of the commission about prodigality. He showed that alleged extrava ganoe was baaed on expenditures for certain repairs and on dual supervision of the work provided, insisted upon by the law under which money was appropriated. He quoted from the report as follows: ... While we have criticised the expenditure of a part of the SROUO.000 fund for work that should have been taken care of by the ordinary repair funds, we would call attention to the fact that the objection is baaed upon th legality of such ex penditure and not upon its propriety. The Btate gets the full benefit ot work whlob In its nature is repair and not improvements, and practically if makes no difference from what fund it is paid.' "The report abounds in statements that the work performed has been usually well done. Its exact language is 'the quality of the work Is found to be generally good and an improvement upon that heretofore done on the canal. The most that they have said In this direction is that some of this very excellent work waa not fairly within th lan guage of the statute authorizing the Iraprove- " Favoritism ia another charge. What is meant by fovoritism? In a political sense I understand it to be a charge that contractors (for all this work has been done by contract and Is so required to be done by statute) in political accord with the public officers empowered to let these con tracts have ben favored In the letting of con tract, that Is. Republican contractors have been favored to the exclusion of Democratio ontractors. IlEMOCBATIC CANAL CONTRACTORS. " I have a Hat of the contractors together with the fact as to their political affiliation. There have been contracts awarded seventy five contractors. Forty-alx of these con tractors are Democrats; six contain both Republicans end Democrats in the firms; twenty-three ohly are Republican. Bo the charge is made in the Democratio platform that Republican officers are guilty of favorit ism in executing two contracts with a Demo crat to one with a Republican. "I deny the charge of favoritism, but plead frullty to the fact that they sbowud exceed ngly bad judgment, because if any money lias been stolen, as is charged, it must have been stolen by the contract ors to whom the money was paid. There has been paid or is now due to these contrac tors a round eight million out of th nine ap propriated. Collusion must have existed or absolute theft upon their part must have been the fact. I am not astonished at the charge In view of the politics of so large a majority of these contractorH. "Let us look this canal question squarely in the face. Is it remarkable that the actual ex pense exceeds the estimate prepared by the State Engineer's office? Here is a work of vast magnitude extending across the State more than 454 miles, crossing streams, passing through populous cities, presenting intri cate and difficult problem of engineer ing Drainage must b provided for; sewerage In cities crossing beneath the canal must not be disturbed. Costly buildings erected by private citizens adjoining the canal must not nave their foundations weakened by th neceaaary excavations. Has there aver been a railroad constructed the cost of which did not exceed th es timate V The Btate in which our friend. Sen ator Lodge, reaidea. Puritan In Its ancestry and Congregational In 1U prediction, attempted to construct a great tunnel on the I ltchburg All road The estimate of the engineers waa hree millions. It oost was eight million. We have just completed the Capitol building in our own State. The original estimate was Ave million. It h cost twenty-flve millions and. in connection with the fact that our Democratic friends promise i i i a . ' a It within tha estimate and honestly expend the money. It may be worth while toconsldor that the oornerwtone of the State Capitol building waa laid In lf. Since then wo have had as Governor a Democratic John t Hoffman, a Lucius Robinson, a Samuel Tllden. aOrover Cleveland, and another Governor who wears constantly upon his bosom a badge bearing the Inscription. I am a Demo crat? In tho executive chair for two terms, and Itoswell P. Flower, whose business judgment and financial nstutoiioss has In his private business stood him in good stead Dur ing some of these administrations the Senate and Assembly wore In political accord with the Governor, and yet It was reserved to a Hepiib llcan administration to complete thla building, and It stands to-day na a monument of Repub lican business administration In theafinlrsof the State." Mr. Alnsworth took up the various other Btate Issues about which tho Dem ocrats talked In their platform, but about which they had said not one wort! since. He described the work of the Democratic Assem bly and Benate In ISD'2 and l3. In tearing to pieces tho charters of various cllles. This was under the head of home rule. He showed that the bill In each case was In the hands of a Tammany Hall man Theu he took up the matter of eleotion legislation. Under this head he said: "I need not refresh vour memory by reforrlng to the frauds that have existed In theoltylntho past. In the election of lHfu something like twenty Inspeotors of election in this city wore sent to prison for violation of the election laws. The charter of the cltv provides that the Police Commission shall bo bi-partisan. One of the first acts of tho Democratic Mayor was to remove the two Republican Commissioners and appoint one successor, leaving one vacancy. The board thus constituted Im mediately elected Chief Devery. not uuknown to fame In connection with Hie election frauds as revealed by tho Lexow committee, and I uotloo that this Chief of Police, whoso duty It la to preserve order nud whose duty it would have been to enforce the l-.lec-tlon law had not the Governor circum vented the plans of Tniumnnv Hall, applauds the sentiments expressed by Senator Hill. Who advisee the citizen to knock down appn tho spot any inspector who interferes with him under the provisions of this act." Mr. Alnsworth showed that under Republi can rule the Btate tax rate had been re duced from- 2.58 to '.MiM. He discussed the Raines bill at length, showed how much money It had put Into the State Treasury and how it had stopped the levying of black mail 111 this city. Ho took up successively the subjects of civil ser vice reform, the National Guard, organ ized labor, and State reapportionment. the proposition for biennial sessions of the Legislature, and finally he tackled the Democratic record, particularly that of the Hon. Elliot Danfotth In the vear IHSi", when the Mavnard scandal occurred. He said: ,.. "The people had a conscience In lSlU-IM. They furnished nn epitaph for the tombstone marking the grave of the iolliieal ambitions of Hill and Maynnrd. " Ur I lis snug as ,i bug In rug." "Let us November next furnish for Danforth the balance of the couplet : "Here I lie. Utile mugger than Hist other bugger." MB. BOOT'S r-LEA FOB TI1K JODICIABT, Mr. Root, "after outlining the issues, State and national. In this aiuimigii. chose the Democratic assault on the judiciary as his principal topic. Referring to the petition which the lawyers of th city had addressed to both political parties, aaklns that Justice Daly be renominated, lie called attention to the fact that of the :t.4i lawyers who signed it but H85 were members of the Bar Associa tion which Mr. Croker has accused of serving ita own ends in this matter. "The Republicans,'' he said, "acceded to the petition. No attention was paid to it by the Democrats. Why? Because the man who has the sole power, whose single voice con trolled the vote of every delegate In the con vention, had personally declared that Justice Daly should not bo renominated, for no other reason than that he had failed to obey the or ders of Mr. Croker on two occrmlons. "But this is not a question of Jiweph F. Daly. There are other good men who could be put upon the bench, other good men who could be depended uimn to disisnse justice. The greater question is whether or not the people of this citv and State are going to ap prove of the domination of the courts by Cro ker. It cannot be avoided or evaded. All through the bar and the community there has existed the impression that there are other cases where political leaders have sought to dominate the courts. If this Is permitted there will be more and mure of it until the ourts.like the head of every department in the city, become but a puppet to do the will of one man. We cannot vote against Daly without serving notice uim all Judges that their ten ure in office is dependent, not upon the faith ful performance of their duties, but upon the whim of the leader of the dominant political party. "The difference between our republic and those of South America, which for nearly a century have been the by-words of civiliza tion by reason of their revolutions, lies In the fact that our people accent as rucIi all lawful decisions and appeal to the courts to reverse them when they are wrong. If the iieople lose respect for law. If they ce.ise to believe that thedeclslone of the courts nre honest, and come to believe that they register hat the wish of a political leader, then where is the magnificent obedience to law which bus made us admired of nil the world and assured the perpetuity of our instltutons? V'hy Is the republic of France for several monihs now trembling to its fall, with the people vying with each other in crimination and recrimina tion, with mobs surging through Pans and with OO.lsiO bayonets gathered aliout Its legis lative halls? Because a subservient court, bowing to the orders of a nolitieal power, con demned a humble individual. "Lose of confidence in institutions, of faith in law and of trust in the integrity of the courts does not come like a clap of rhunder, but by slow process of degeneration. We can stand. having bad Judges of whom iolitical leaders demand, decisions, but we can never stand having the iieople yield approval to such practices. "All honor to the noble Democratic law yers who have the courage of thei convictions sufficient to rise and rebuke their party for this attempted degradation of the bench. The names of Carter. Bowers. Hornblowor. Cock ran and Shenard and the thousands of others who put their duty above party and personal interest, and ranged themselves with the Re publicans against this great corporate tyran ny of Tammany Hall, aro worthy to Is- in scribed in letters of gold over the temples of lustlce. Tens of thousands of Democrats will express their views by voting for the Republi can candidates forjudges, but Is that enough? Are you going to only frustrate this o'.tempt and then turn the Government over to Croker? What are you going to do to him?" "Put him where they put Tweed," cried a voice in the audience. "They are on the same road now." went on the speaker. "That's what Tweed did first He got control of tho courts. And when Croker get control of the courts, what then? Any man who has done as he has is not tit to control any branch of government." In closing Mr. Root appealed to the poor man to vote for an honest .ludiclarv, because, he said, it was his only protection. No mat ter how corrupOhe courts should become, the rich could always take care of themselves through contributions to the political leader In control. Congressman J. Murray Mitchell of the Eighth district closed the meetinz with u short talk on conditions in Ills dlstrlut. FACTH COXTKAIUCT VAX WTCK. Canal Contracts Thoroughly Advert laetl In New York and Brooklyn. Justice Van Wyck in his speech delivered at Buffalo. Oct. '2'2. as reportod in the Brooklyn Sunday Eaglr, made the following stntoment in regard to the canal contracts Investigated by Gov. Rlacks commission: "The first step appears to have been to have the lawso amended asnot to require the adver tisement for bids for this work in tho papers of New York city and Brooklyn, the gruatest centrea ot contracting competition in the The facts contradict the Judge's statement, as the report and statements tiled with the Governor show. Instead of there being no ad vertisements for bids In the papers of New York city and Brooklyn, as the Judge desires the public to believe, the statements In the hands of the Governor and the vouchers in tho jposaession of the State Comptroller show that over SO percent, of the whole cost of advertis ing was paid to New York and Brooklyn papers as follows: NKW VOI1K. Knainerring ll'ra 'd .. 4,7.13 10 Setn H.soe 40 Mail and Kriirru 4.11B do Fraboard J.!i88S d',.r,( tl.ilsl Jij JViwoirri-ing Juurna' of Cum- Accord 1,'JHIl Co tufrrsandi'om- Rex 4.474 MO m'rrull Hull' Timi IS.OIS 00 f,n . 211-' CO Journal O.OUl -o Coi.uti'iriml Ad- Morning Adrtr- vrrUir lie. on tigrr 4, 10M HO lrttlt H-ild Bil 40 A'ewi JuMiib l.n'ir't Wfklu.. 1-lni no Comuaag a. 1 24 30 friu 2.r.R in i To'al t4d.Q8l 70 IW6UM ,4a 00 BROOKLYN. Standard -L'nion 4.8irt HO Eajlr. JI4 Up tl.nltl 20 T6UI MliOM Mr, The total coat for advertising throughout the State was ifJ.:i. 70. Another fact which the .lunge st odiously con cealed from the pubic- wio the imp-. riant item of $741.111 7o which the State has lotained from the sums due to contractors on their montlilv estimates as security for the faithful ml satisfactory performance of their coiitracU), which sum does not include the deposit ot contractors for the same purpose: The Governor promptly referred the Com missioner report and evidence to an eminent lawyer for the purpose of determining a to the commission of frauds and overpayment and allowances to contractors, aud If It shall appear that the Btate has lieen wronged by improper or fraudulent estimates of work per formed or alleged to have been k.-i formed by contractor, th sum retained is ample for the recoupment of all uch excessive and fraudu lent uaymeala. CROKER BREAKS OUT AGAIN avBTicm jAi.r in nor An vrntauT jvntivnooT attavkkik An Addr by Tammany Leader to "The People of the State" "We Are Mot Dtnrganlsd," Ptfoteeta. After Akg th IMtlrlet How Mneh the Daly Move must Has Hrirt Them Also Pretests That the Dive Are Rnnnlng free of Tribute Thought on the Conatttntlon. The Executive Committee of Tammany Hall. Daniel F. McMnhon. Chairman, held a meeting In the Wigwam yesterday afternoon. Richard Croker was there, with another epeech trem bling on his once taciturn lips. The principal theme was the uprising against Tammunyir.ed courts. Following the example of their chief, the district leaders In their reporta made no attempt to disguise the real reason why Justice Daly was not renominated. For instance. George W. Plunkltt. leader of the Fifteenth, said: "There la no Daly sentiment In my district. We might aa well face this thing first aa laat. What did Daly ever do for Tammany Hall? He has' been on the bench twenty-eight year by .the grace of Tammany Hall and we've never got anything from him. For that reason I'm against him. and I say ho's bad all he's enti tled to." When Mr. Plunkltt had seated himself. Col. Michael C. Murphy, who. In reporting the con dition In the First Assembly district, had said that he hadn't "met a man who said he would vote for a man running on the Republican ticket, who aaid he waa a Democrat." arose and aaid: " I dldnt uae Daly's name, because he Is so contemptible. I didn't even want to have his name nn my llpe." In making his report each leader did his best to account for the falling off In the registration in the Democratio districts. Col. Murphy said that In the First thirty-eight buildings used for dwellings had been torn down, but that Qua Van Wyck would get more votes than Hob got Patrick Dlvver said that if Kim street hadn't been widened there wouldn't have been a fall ing off in the registration of the Second dis trict. Patrick J. Ryder of tho Third said Hint buildings had been torn down there, too. but that Hie i ii-rmans were with Tammany. Timothy 1'. Sullivan of the Sixth said that they were all united in hia district "against Superintendent McCullagh." Martin Eiigel said that In the Eighth no mnny sohoolhouses had been built that there were fewer tene ments. John C. Sheehnn of the Ninth also complained of the tearing down of tenements. When tho leaders of the uptown districts were called they hud one excuse or another to offer for the poor showing the Democratic dis tricts bad made compared with the Republican. Mr. Croker asked that every leader make a special report on the judiciary situation. He snld he wnntcd to know of anyldefection on account of Justice Daly. Barney Mar tin of the Fifth and .lames J. Martin of the Twenty-seventh were the only ones who owned up to any dofection. In the Fifth it was stated that perhaps Justice Daly would get fifty Democratic votes, and in the Twenty-seventh It wa-s stated he might get Jot). All the other leaders said Daly wouldn't Sot a Democratio vote. Hearing these reports. r. Croker said: " I have asked for these reports to show that in the party there is entire harmony, and be cause the Republican candidate for Governor has said the organization is disrupted on this matter. I say again that the Bar Association is run by trust and cor poration lawyers. The time has come for this organization to assert itself. As for Judge Daly. I say on this floor that he is not an up right Judge. He did not do his duty. Wo did not nominate him because we could put stronger men in the field. We have done so. We are not discouraged, and Roosevelt Is hard up fur an i-suo when he says so. "And remember that only one out of twenty one Judges asked for Judgo Daly's renomlna tinn, and that one came from Judge Daly himself. Another thing: 1 want to say. as the Chairman of the Finance Commit tee, that not one dollar has lieen received from a poolroom, gambling den. or any lass of people violating the law. nor from a single liquor saloon. I would not deign to say a word about this if the Republican candidate for Governor had not so lowered himself as to attempt to deceive tho people that we are in league with vice." The Law Committee next reported an ad dress to the public attacking the clause In the State Constitution which forbids the election of more than half the Btate Senators by New York and Kings counties and suggesting as a rem edy an apiieui to Congress under the clause of the United States Constitution which says: " The United States shall guarantee to every State a republican form of government." Tho Law Committee says that the denial of repre sentation according to imputation ia a denial of a republican form of government. When this report had been made. Mr. Croker said: "The very men who passed this Consti tution are the very mon who asked for Daly's i vii, iinlnnt ion. They are the men who cheated New York out of eight or ten Senators and As aembiymeii, and one of them came very near being indicted for his work in the Constitu tional Convention. 1 refer to Mr. Hoot." This ended tho business of the meeting, and then Mr. Smith. Mr. Croker's private secretary, read the following speech for Mr. Croker: "Since our Inst meeting there has lieen quite a demonstration on the part of the man agers of the Republican campaign, under the auspices of the Bar Association, Intended to manufacture sentiment on the false Issue to which 1 called your attention last week. Mr. Roosevelt and other Republican speakers have taken the cue and are echoing the in sincere utterances contained in the speechss delivered at last Friday evening's meeting. You. of course, have not been deceived as to the partisan purpose of that meeting or as to the make-up either of the officer or orators of the o-caslon. notwithstanding the pledges of loyalty of some of them to the State ticket. "Mr. Bourke Cockran. who was the star at traction of the occasion and now poses as a non-partisan statesman, loft the Democratic party for that party's good. If he or any of his new found friends have any doubt of the correctness of this assertion, he or they may know where to apply for particulars. They muy come directly to me. ll!pon application later Mr. Croker declined to furnish particu lars' The other lawyers connected with the meeting have long lieen recognized as bitter opponents of this organization and it Is quite Impossible to hope or oxpect to satisfy them by anything we may do or omit to do. "We hear of the Bar Association's Interest in judicial nominations only when Its mem bers see an ooiKirtunity to retain a Republi can Justice upon the bench or to so divide this Democratic community as to make pos sible the election of a Republican Judge, and so while they cry 'Daly' their real purpose is the.election of a Republican Jiidgclfn.the per son ot Justice Cohen. The insincerity of this cry is made manifest by the fact that ul - though Justice Coheu has been leas than a year upon the bench and was appointed by Gov. Black, all the petitions that have eman ated from the Bur Association have asked for the retention of Justices Daly and Coheu on the ground that Judges who have served 'long and faithfully' should lie retained. It Is not generally known that the Bar Association numbers less than one-seventh of the bar of this city. "But while you will not be deceived either as to the falsity of the issue sought to be raised or the character and motives of the men behind It. the people throughout the State may not lie so well acquainted with the 'true inwardness' of the movement. For that reason I feel justified in laying before you some of the information which I believe should be made public in order thnt the people may lie in a position to act Intelligently and with full knowledge of all the circumstances con nected from the beginning with the raising of this false issue. "I'nderiicath the surface of all this manu factured clamor lies the fact that this is an at tempt by Tweed's lawyer o re-elect Tweed's Judge: and in this connection it should be re membered thut Mr. Root was not only counsel for Tweed, but Is the private counsel for Mr. Roosevelt, the Republican candidate for Gov ernor. He is nuturally anxious to create every possible division aud liscord in the Demo cratic ranks, in the hope of helping his friend, client and political leader. Mr. Roosevelt. He even went so far as to go before the Republi can Convention with the startling assertion that u mini might have one residence for the piiipo-e of taxation and auother which should lie uls real home. It mar have been forgotten thut during the Tweed reign aud collupse Mr i.llhu Root was ranged on the side of Tweed and his gang. In the very year In .which Tweed elevated Duly to the benoh iny position whs disclosed by Tweed's action in legislating myself end my associates out of power. In 1H7.I it was common knowledge that Tweed hud stolen millions of dollars from the public treasury and thut all the property which stood in his name aud that ot his son, Riuhard M. Tweed, to whom Ii was transferred by his futher. was the proceeds of raids upon the city treasury. On Nov. 1H. 1M73. Tweed wss con victed on the oriiiiiual charges against him. On Nov. 33. 1H7M. three days after hi convic tion, the sou. Richard M. Tweed, to whom Wil liam M. Tweed had conveyed his property when the trouble began, conveyed to EUhu Boot t ROYAL piwStr Absolutely Pure. Had aVeua Pare aarevavej Creeuat fTaMat, four lota on the aonth side of Eighty-fourth Jtreet, between Eighth and Nlntb avenue, or the nominal consideration of B20.00O. In the preceding July of that year Augusta Pot tier, with whom Jnmee II. ingeraoll waa a all ent partner In the furniture business, con veyed to Flihn Root the property on the north Id of Sixty-ninth street, between Madleon and Fourth avenues. In December. 18m James II. Ingersoll. who waa convicted with Tweed, conveyed to Ellhu Hoot a piece of prop erty on the south side of Fiftieth street be tween Fifth mid Madison avenues for the oom-' Inal consideration of 810,000. I mebtlon these facta only to remind you that this emlneiiCreformer. who Is now so so licitous about the purity of the bench, and. In cidentally for the success of the Republican ?irty In the State, was not quite so scrupulous 1873, at which time he served William M. weed, to the extent of Insulting the distin guished Justice who presided at the trial, and escaped bunlshmeut only on account of his In experience. ' Since when has the Republican party been so solicitous that Democratio Justices should be kept In office I have In mind many great Judges who have been re-elected by Tam many Hall liecause of their spotless record and splendid ability, whom the Republicans used every effort to defeat at the polls-such men ns Abraham R. Lawrence and Frederick Smyth, who were re-elected in spite of the opposition of th' Republican party. These men were admitted hi their associates to be ornaments to the bench, whose retention was urged as a matter of public pride and duty. Their services had been conspicuous, and their brethren came forward to testily to the wisdom of their retention. 'It Is a significant fset connected with the canvass of Judge Daly that, although he has been desiieratelv struggling and pulling every social and p .. liti.-nl wire for renomlnatlon for the past venr. not a single one of his twenty otie associates has urged or even asked that he be renominated, or pretended that his ser vices justified the lengthening of his term from twenty-eight to fortv-two years. In all my political experience I never knew au In stance in which a Judge of long vear on the bench had not sufficiently attached himself to any one of his associates to lie supported by at least one of them for a renomlnatlon. "If the Republican part v is to succeed In cre ating an Issue out of the failure to renominate Judge lmlv.'it means thnt any and every Judge upon the bench who once gets there will stay, whether the iieople want film or not, regard less of his ability, fitness or services. No body claims conspicuous ability for Judge Daly. He was not elected to the Supreme Court, but to an Inferior court. "which waa afterward consolidated Into the Supreme Court. Tammany Hall believes, and we still believe, thnt any one of the three candidates firesentcd to the iieople by us Is far superior n fitness and ability to Judge Daly. "No organization has mora strongly sup ported the independence of the judiciary thsn Tammany Hall. For twenty-eight years Judge Dalv has been honored by the Democratio party. Now that If sees fit. In the exercise of Its judgment, to place another mini in nomi nation, he shows his loyalty and gratitude to that party by allowing nlmself to be used as a catspaw to deceive the people and attract votes from his own party. I do not believe that the voters of this city and State are going to permit themselves to be deceived by the at tempt to create this false issue. "I repeat that never In the history of the organization has any leader of Tammany Hall asked of or suggested to any Judge upon the benoh In anyjport of this State anything con nected with his judicial duty. Never In the history of any State has the judiciary beeu more jealously guarded from interference or more independent In the performance of Ita duties. Tammany Hall is justly proud of the judiciary of this county and Intends to remain so." so bossicd Jtinans: Popular Campaign for the Purity of the Bench Gets Under Way. The Committee of One Hundred, named by James C. Carter. Chairman of the Carnegie Hall citizens' meeting, to "resist the threatened degradation of the bench of the Supreme Court and the overthrow of the independence of the judiciary " by Richard Croker, organized in the Mutual Life building yesterday afternoon, naming James C. Carter for Chairman and Henry B. B. Stapler for Secretary. Tho mem bers of the committee present were: John D. Kernan. William B. Hornblower, Ellhu Root. Frederick W. Molls, Joseph H. Choate. James Byrne. William E. Curtis. Gibson Putzel. Hor ace C. Doming. John C. Clark. Edward J. Mc Guire. I.cvvis L. Delafleld. Alfred Seligsberg. Richard L. Sweezy, Wallace Macfarlane. Myer B. Isaacs. Eugene A. Philbin. James Seligman. George E. De Witt. Robert G. Monroe. William G. Wilson. Charles V. Fornes, Bowles Colgate. William C. Gulliver. Louis Stern. John E. Par eons. Henry B. B. Stapler. Oliver P. Buel. George I. Rive. Paul D. Cravath. Everett P. Wheeler, H. de Forest Baldwin. Albert Stiok noy. John Frankenheimer, Edward W. Shel don. William D. Guthrie. Lawrence E. Sexton. George Sheldon. Robert W. De Forest. Joseph Laroeque. Julien T. Davles. R. Fulton Cutting. Robert L. Harrison. George H. Burford. J. Ken nedy Tod. John Vinton Dahlgren, James R. Ely, and Nathan Bijur. " This is not a movement of the Bar Associa tion, nor even of the general bar outside of the association," said Mr. Carter, "although It has been in it iated bv them, and they take tho deep est interest in It. This committee was ap pointed under the resolutions adopted at the great meet Ing of citizens in Carnegie Hall, and Is to act In the name of the citizens of New York, without distinction as to party and with out distinction as to trade, occupation or call ing. It is desirable that our actions should bear that stamp from the beginning. It Is' not a partisan movement ; it is a movement pro testing against the action taken by certain political leaders in reference to the nomination of Judges, and a movement that intends to secure such action at the polls as will protest against and rebuke the action of these leaders." Ellhu Root presented some figures to show that even in the first work done to secure the renomination ot Justices Daly and Cohen the Bar Association played a secondary part. "The petition of the members of the New York bar for the renomination of Justices Daly and Cohen." he said, "has 3.480 signature. Of these, 'J.004 are not members of the Bar Association. Only H85 of the signers are mem bers of the association." The campaign for an Independent judioiary will be carried on by the Committee of One Hundred independently ot the Republican Btate and county committee. More than half of the members of the committee named by Mr. Carter are Democrats, and while nearly all of these Democrats will vote for Theodore Roosevelt for Governor, they think that many Democratic partisans will oast their ballots against tho Croker Judges if the purity of the bench Is kept an Issue by Itself. Robert J. Monroe was made Chairman of the Executive Committee, which will have chnrge of the campaign. His associates are John D. Kernan. Oliver P. Buel. Anson G. McCook. Ed ward J. McGulre. Paul D. Cravath and Gibson Putzel. A llnanolal committee will be named. Down town and uptown headquarters will he opened. District meetings wilt be hold, and next weak another big massmeeting will be held. The Carnegie Hall sieeehes. the Bar Association report and resolutions, and the Carnegie Hall resolutions are now prlntlug and will be spread over the city. The 3.500 signers of the Daly-Cohen petition will be divided into district committees to canvass personally for votes. The. Citizens Union will work for the election of the Republican judiciary candidates. In con junction with the Committee of One Hundred. Everett P. Wheeler, repreaenting the Citizens' Union, said yesterday that the organization was at the disposal of the committee. It has placed on it ticket th? names of the Ilepub llcan judiciary candidates. vr.rt h not st: blown up. Two Men Injured by an Explosion In th Kaat Hlvcr On Works. A mysterious explosion took Plane In the Long Island Citv meter bouse of the East River Gas Works, at the foot of Webster ave nue, yesterday afternoon. The explosion wrecked the building and set it on fire, beside severely burning two employees of the oom- The wrecked structure was a one-story brick building about 50 by 75 feet. Superintendent Charles C. Hart pence and Edward Rruoe, his assistant, wen-In the pluce.it the time of the explosion. Mr Hartpence was engaged iu re pairing the gasket on some of the valves. Suddenly there wa a terrific report, and a por tion of the meter house roof roe akyward. while the Bides of the building were bulged out. Superintendent Hartpence ran out of th place followed by Bruce. Both were In agony from buroiahout their heads, faces, and hands. Dr. Frinok and Dr. George Forbes responded to a call for nhyslnlan. They bandaged up the injuries of Hartpence and Bruce, and when au ambulam-e arrived It wa decided to send the men home. They both reside at 153 Twelfth street. Ing Island City. It Is supposed thst some of the gas leaped rom the pipe and bocam ignited. The lire n ute meter house burned for over two hour after the eapljoeloa. It ia aaid that tba ioaa wUlbe about 8.00U tax wtck rn nocttMMTwm. By hmt atletake No Owe Waa at the Depot to Receive Hia. RoCHis-raa, Oct. 34. The Monroe county Demooraoy I proverbial for Ita ability alwaya to do thing wrong, and that is partly responsi ble for the fact that not a soul was on hand at the station to meet Augustus Van Wyck on hia arrival In Rochester this morning from Buffalo. Judge Van Wyck got Into Roch ester at 11:38 A. M. on the limited ex press. Along with him were Elliot Danforth. Charles R. De Freest, hi stenographer, his pri vate secretary, and a newspaper representative, who sends tho candidate' typewritten speeches along to the newspspers. The party had been led to believe that a reception committee would be on hand to greet them, bat when they stepped off the train there wasn't a soul to ahake hands. They got off on the platform and stood around for five minutes until they decided that there wasn't a friend there to greet them, and after taking oare of their own baggage and ordering it sent to Powers Hotel they got Into a 'bus and were driven to their hotel. The candidate and party walked Into the hotel corridor unknown and unannounced. The clerk nearly fainted when he saw the name of Augustus Van Wyck and Elliot Dan forth on the register and thought It. was a joke by somebody, and hesitated about assigning them to their apartments. Half nn hour later the Reception Committee. In several carriages, wended Its way to the station, and when tha train came In the candidate, were, of course. not there. They also waited around with out learning anything and hurried back to the hotel, rushed In. and asked In breathless tones If Judge Van Wyck was there. They wore told that somebody with that name had come, at which they seemed much relieved, still It was with seri ous face that they went Into the candidate's presence and made apologies. Judge Van Wyck was decidedly crusty, and before they got through he showed them that he did not appreolate the blunder, even In a Republioan stronghold like Hochester. A stand-up recep tion was held in the hotel parlors from 0:30 to 7:30 o'clock to night and a number took pains to shake the candidate's hand. Fitzhugh Hall was well filled to-night for the second meeting ot the Democratic campaign. The Hon. George Raines waa elected Chair man, and introduced Mr. Van Wyck as the first speaker of the evening. The other speakers were John B. Stanohfleld of Elmira and Elliot Danforth. Thomas Grady and Thomas J. Car mody were expected to apeak, but did not put In an appearance Thla Is Van Wyck's speech in part: "The end for which the Democratio party of this Btate. with Its various allies, is putting forth Its strength this year is that the State of New York may have good government. As the candidate of the Democratio party. 1 stand unequivocally on the platform adopted at Syracuse. Our opponents have been eontend lng that national issues are paramount this year, but thus far they have not succeeded in abnwinir what the Governor of the Htate has to do with such affairs. His duties are defined by the Btate Constitution and if he is called upon In anv way to supplement or supersede or instruct the President of the United Btatos the authority must be found in that instru ment, and that It is not therein every one knows. The Constitution of our Htate has been framed with a view to the drawing of a line of distinction between national and Btate and municipal question, experience having taught the good men of all parties that the failure so to distinguish was not the least of the oauses that gave Immunity to wrongdoing. It may. I think, be set down as a sound rule of judgment for the voters that any candidate who seeks re-election on other grounds than that his own official record has been meritor ious, or any political party which solicits a re newal of trust for reasons whloh lie quite apart from the sphere of its proper action, should he looked upon with suspicion. "I call special attention to the Demooratlc flat for in In favor of biennial sessions of the .eglslature. Upon this. I believe, as upon nearly everything else of concern to the State. our opponents have chosen to remain dumb. In declaring for this reform the Democratic party puts the State of New York in line with every considerable State of the Union, experi ence having abundantly convinced the neigh boring Commonwealths that not by clouds of laws, but by brood principles applied with care on the one hand and undeviatlng integrity on the other. Is the welfare of the people promoted by governmental action. There is an obvious sense In which we may use, in this relation, the dictum of Jefferson thnt the world is gov erned too much. "The Demooratlc party stands for home rule for cities and for uniform charter provisions, such an the Constitution plainly contemplates, instead of special and partisan legislation, which strikes at the very root of the principle of self-government and lessens or extends he power of communities over their distinctly local affairs according to the partisan rela tion in which they stand to the men who hap pen to control the Legislature and the execu tive authority. Upon this, as upon many -ither subjects, for manifest reasons, our oppo nents are silent. Despite their promises and despite, too. the unmistakable requirements ot the state Constitution, we nave seen them proceed to pass laws designed to emasculate the municipal rights of great cities, for no other reason than thnt they refused .to elect Republican officials. Thelmonstrous law af fecting the ballot box in the city of New York Is but a special and glaring example of this abuse. The path upon which our opponents have entered has no logical stopping place short of the destruction of every looal liberty and the centralization of all power in the hands of a State mBChne. It becomes the duty of every voter who feels devoted to the rights and liberties which are characteristically American to give careful thought bOhe sub ject, for history may confidently be called in evidence to show that when loeal liberties are destroyed, the power of the people over the central authority does not long survive. No Iieople ever knowingly and voluntarily sur rendered their freedom and rights at uZsingle capitulation. Liberty is lost by neglect and failure to cheek Its invasion by slow and stealthy approaches. Let no citizen falter when called upon to rebuke the tyranny in volved in this aud like laws. Our opponents have always favored force bills, which gave them under their control greater power to In terfere with the freedom of action of those -hoe only sin is in disagreeing with them." He then spoke on the cabal question, and in conclusion said : "Having already expressed myself In other places, as well as in my letter of acceptance. on the Raines law. the general subject of tax ation, the rights of labor and the other plank In the Democratic platform. I do not deem it necessary to make a further draft on your time, or stand between you and the accom plished and well-informed gentlemen who are to address you on the whole round of cam paign topics. I wish only to say In conclusion that the Democratic party In this contest stands for plain, honest government in the State ot New York, and for personal liberty. In the full old American sense, and good faith ut every point between the governing powers and th" people from whom the right to govern is derived. Should I lie elected. I shall regard the Democratio platform as a series of pledges to be redeemed without any equivocation, and beyond any platform, acting alike as a Demo crat and a good citizen, to whom the public welfare is a consideration to which all partisan interests must yield, I shall, to the best of my ability, seek to promote the prosperity ot the Btate of New York and the well-being of every person within Its boundarlea." Judge Van Wyck leaven to-morrow afternoon for Syracuse on the Empire Slate express, and will speak there in the evening. MIOHT PROSI'KCTORS MtOnSKli. Their Boat Was Caught In a Cook Inle Tidal Wave and Wrecked. Bkatti.i. Wash., Oct. 24 Four steamer and one schooner have urrived from Alaska within twenty-four hours, bringing 700 passenger awl $150.ooo In treasure from Cook Inlet and Dawson. Among the arrival were ten passen gers aud twenty-six of the crew of tho Ill-fated Brlihum. , . . .... The pussengeis from look Inlet tell of the wreck of the schooner Johnson in Turn Agaiu Arm. with the los of her crew und eight pro peetors. The vessel was caught in a tidal wave. The loaf were: Mr. Wulcott aud son of New York: A. M. Adams, lielleviie. Pa : Kit Carson Payne. Port land. Ore.: J. W. Mathews. Emerott. Cal. : Frsnk Robinson. Santa Cruz. Cul. : R. Hicliurdson. Han Jose. Cul.: Chris Johnson. Sunrise. Alaska: the owner of the vessel and his helper. Mr. Wulcott and his son were merchanta-who were returning from KnlL Station to Sunrise. A 700-Pound Turtle Coining tot be Aquarium. New Lopos, Conn.. Oct. 24. Capt. Fred erick Oatniuu. the Watch Hill Pound fisher man, has sold the big loggerhead turtle, whloh he caught In one of hi Hah traps last month, and which weighs over Voo pounds, to the management of the New York Aquarium. This turtle is one of the largest ever seen in this neighborhood, although It 1 said that a 1. 200 pound loggerhead was captured in the Watch Tit! I Pound tn years ago. TheOaiiuan turtle got Ita flipper entangled In the netting of alien trap while (taking to feed on the fish in the trap. Another Good Thiag About Iraat'. To lb einc of brawlag Is added th prfotd art of bottling. That's why Etrana' AU woa it way aad guvarea Th al brtwlng ladaauf of Uw weaU 4 Sale of Muslin m Underwear. Tuesday, October 2 Stkl Cambric or Muslin Gowns, ' 75C, 98C. & $1.25.) NainsookGowns, Sl.95. V, Cambric Drawers, - 75c. & 98c. ; Nainsook Drawers, tt. $1.25. ; Nainsook Chemises, ") 98c. & $1.25. Nainsook Corset Coverjv- drawn In at waist. ' f ' 50c. & 75c. "lyt Cambric Skirts, j 98C, $1.25, $175 fv & $2.50. - Odd pieces in Gowns, Draw ers, Chemises and Skirts, at, greatly reduced prices. a Eider-Down Gowns, v. ' $4.85 & $6.75. Silk Skirts, v In striped taffeta, umbrella ahant-witaV.' three ruffles, $5.85. In striped taffeta with dcp aceordIaA plaited ruffle, $8.45. . Lord & Taylor I Broadway & 20th tit, .' For City or I Country Homes. Housekeepers are invited to inspect our Fall and Winter stock, of High Grade Housef urnishing Goods, which we have just placed on exhibition It is the largest and choicest collec tion ever offered in the United States, and includes everything necessary for furnishing the Library, Dining Room Hall, Bath, Pantry, Kitchen, Laun dry, Cellar and Stable. Satisfactory and 1 Economical. I Whether- you have purchased or rented a new house, taken a flat or intend to stay in your present quar ters, it would certainly be more'satis factory and in the end probably mors economical to start the Winter with a complete set of new furnishings The store is accessible, but if a visit is not possible a catalogue will b mailed upon application. Good 1rllTcrril Kree to anr part of thai "Greater New York," or rarrfullx paclteej and Delivered at Ntatlon within too mil. 0RDKR8 BV MAH. RECE1VK CAREFUL Asa PROMPT ATTKNTHIV 130 and 132 Went 4'Jd St., BETWEEN BROADWAY AND flTH AV NEW YORK. Hvraruse lir mi Nominate an Und taker for C'onsreaa. Btbacurk. Oct. '! I'liilcrtaker George Oik bert. former Secretary of the McK In ley League has been nominated for Congressman toy the) Democrats. Mr. Gilbert secured the alfaw turea of a minority of the McKinley LaMUf Nominating Cninuiittcc to hih i-etttlon anal also of 11 majority of the Democratic committal. The petitions were taken to Albany to-day DT John J. Hallock. but the heeretary of Btate re fused to sccupt both petttioiiK. Mr. HallooK couseuuently filed the Democratic petltloa. The UcKlnley League has repudiated Secre tary Gilbert and his work. . i .aggBMi CLOTHIKHH. The Byck Top Coats. A good many reputable cloth -iers are too "sot in their waya." They show it in top coats. Bee the coats on tha street ; haudsome eloth, hon estly made np, but--ti am$ old toats. A top coat is the fin isbing touch to good dressing, and shonld be quite up to date in nil details of making and shaping. We have thst kind ; that is what we are driving at PRICES $10.00 TO $26.00. Fashionable glove and hat, with the) " swell" prices omitted. DOWNTOWN: Cor. Fulton and aiaaeavu at. UPTOWNS but 125Ut (Street, U Mis