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MINNESOTA TROOPS
GIVEN A WELCOME
BY THE PRESIDENT
Mr. McKinley Reviews the Thir
teenth Regiment and Warmly
Praises the Volunteers.
MINNEAPOLIS. Oct. 12.— From a plat
form in front of the Minneapolis Exposi
tion building President McKinley this aft
ernoon voiced the nation's welcome to the
Thirteenth. Minnesota Volunteers, just re
turned from the Philippines, and delivered
an address to thousands of cheering peo
ple.
The President and his party were driven
to the exposition building directly after
having viewed the long parade from the
reviewing stand on Nicollet avenue. About
the platform in front of the building,
where General Harrison was nominated
for President of the United States by c
convention presided over by William Mc
kinley, were massed the returned volun
teers. Behind them was a crowd whose
numbers could scarcely be estimated. The
cheering broke loose as soon as President
McKinley, Governor Lind and General
Summers of the Second Oregon Volun
teers appeared on the platform. Dr.
Cyrus Northrup, president of the Univer
sity of Minnesota, presided over the exer
cises and the invocation was pronounced
by Bishop Isaac W. Joyce of the Metho
dist Episcopal church.
Mayor day spoke the words of greet
ing to the soldiers and distinguished
guests on behalf of the city, and Governor
land on behalf of the State. The Gover
nor paid a strong tribute to tho returned
volunteers.
President McKinley was greeted with
cheers that continued for several minutes,
and throughout the delivery of the ad
dress the applause was frequet. Said he:
I have come from the capital of the nation
that 1 might give the nation's welcome to a
regiment of the nation's fenders. I have
. come to speak the voice of love and gratitude
which comes from every American heart to-day
thai loves the tlag. I have come to hid you
welcome because you did your duty, ami that
1b the highest tribute that can be paid to any
foldler anywhere; and I do not think the mem
bers of this regiment, or the regiments consti
tuting the Eighth Army Corps in the Philip
pines, realize the Importance and heroism of
their action niter the treaty of peace was
signed and ratified 1 want to say to you men,
and to Colonel Summers— General Somers now,
because of his gallantry— that the officers and
men of the Eighth Army Corps sent to Wash
ington a message t. ...ng me that they would
stay in the Philippines until I could create a
new army and send it there to take their
places. . . ._
1 come to bid you welcome and give you the
honor of the nation because you sustained the
tlag of the nation, because you refused to stack
arms, refused to sound retreat. And you have
come back, having a high place In the hearts
and affections of the American people and grat
itude that will continue for all time. You have
also by your services added much to th. cause
of huma'nitv, added much to the advancement
of the civilization which has so characterized
the century just now fading away. This cen
tury heralds the most wonderful progress of
the world known to all history.
The century now drawing to a close has been
most memorable in the world's progress and
history. The march of manking in moral and
intellectual advancement has been onward and
upward. The growth of the world's material
Interests is so ast that the figures would al
most seem to be drawn from the realm of im
agination rather than from the field of fact.
All peoples have felt the elevating influences
of the century. Humanity and home have been
lifted up. Nations have been drawn closer to
gether In feeling and interest and sen
timent. Contact has removed old prejudices at
home and abroad, and brought about a bettor
understanding which has destroyed enmity and
prompted amity. Civilization has achieved
great victories and to the gospel of good will
there are now few dissenters. The great pow
ers under the inspiration of the Czar of Rus
sia have been sluing together in a parliament
of peace seeking to find a common basis for the
adjustment of controversies without war and
I waste. While they have not made war Impos
sible, they have made peace more probable and
have emphasized the -....,: love of peace.
They have made a gain for the world's repose;
und Americans, while rejoicing In what was
accomplished, rejoice also for their participa
tion ln the great cause yet to be advanced, we
trust, to more perfect fulfillment.
The century has blessed us as a nation. While
it has not given us perfect peace, it has brought
us constant and ever-increasing blessings and
Imposes upon us no humiliation or dishonor.
We have had wars with foreign powers and
the unhappy one nt home— but all terminated
ln no loss of prestige or honor or territory, but
a gain in all.
The increase of our territory has added vastly
to our strength and prosperity without chang
ing our Republican character. li has given
wider scope to democratic principles and en
larged the area for republican Institutions.
I sometimes think we do not realize what we
have, and the mighty trust we have committed
Ito our keeping. The study of ipraphy and
history have now more than a passing interest
to the American people. It Is worth reading
that when the Federal Cnion was formed we
held 909,760 square miles of territory and in less
than 100 years we have grown to 3,845,513 square
miles.
The first acquisition. In 18 3. known as the
•'Louisiana purchase." embraced 8^3,072 square
miles, exclusive of the area west of the Rocky
Mountains. Its vastness and value will best be
understood wh.cn I say that It comprises the
entire States of Arkansas, Mississippi, lowa,
Nebraska. North and South Dakota and parts
of the States of Minnesota. Kan. Colorado,
Montana, Wyoming, Louisiana, all of Indian
Territory and .urt of Oklahoma. It would
fcfm almost incredible to the present genera
tion that this rich addition to the Federal do
main should have been opposed, and yet It was
resisted In every form and by every kind of
ass_ult. The ceded territory was characterized
a« a "malarial swamp." its prairies destitute
of trees or vegetation. It was commonly
charged that we had been cheated by giving
J15.000.000 for a territory so worthless and pesti
lential that it could never be Inhabited or put
to use, and it was also . a ely asserted that
the purchise would lead to ci replications and
wars with European powers. Iji the debate in
the Senate over the treaty a distinguished Sen
ator from Connecticut said:
"The vast and unmanageable estate which the
lyoulsiana acquisition will give the United
States, the consequent dispersion .' our popu
lation and the destruction of that balance
which It is so Important to maintain between
the Eastern and Western States, threatens at
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no very distant day the subversion of our
Union."
A distinguished Senator from Delaware said:
"But as to Louisiana, this new. Immense,
unbounded world— lf it should ever be incorpo
rated into the Union, of which I have no Idea,
and which can only be done by amending the
constitution. I believe it will be the greatest
curse that could at present befall us. It may
be productive of Innumerable evils, and espe
cially of one that I lear to ever look upon.
Thus our citizens will be removed to the im
mense distance of two or three thousand miles
from the capital of the Union, where they will
scarcely ever feel the rays of the genera] Gov
ernment, their affections will be alienated, they
will gradually begin to view us as strangers,
they will form other commercial connections
and our Interest will become distinct * * •
and I do say that under existing circumstances,
even supposing that this extent of territory was
a desirable acquisition, fifteen millions of dol
lars was a most enormous sum to give."
A distinguished representative from Virginia
said:
"I fear the effect of the vast extent of our
empire." He feared the effects of the Increased
value of labor, the decrease In the value of
lands and the influence of climate upon our
citizens who should migrate thither. "I fear
(though this land was represented as flowing
with milk and honey) that this Eden of the
new world will prove a cemetery for the bodies
of our citizens."
Imperialism had a chief place ln the cata
logue of disasters which would follow the rati
fication of this treaty, and It was alleged that
it was the first and sure step to the creation
of an empire and the subversion of the con
stitution. The phrase which is now employed
by some critics, "planetary" policy," so far as
I have been able to discover, first appeared
here. Jefferson was made the subject of satiri
cal verse:
"See him commence, land speculator.
And buy up the realm of nature,
Towns, cities, Indians, Spaniards, prairies."
The opponents, however, were in the minority
and the star of the republic did not set, and
the mighty West was brought under the flag
of justice, freedom and opportunity.
In 1819 we added 68,749 square miles, which
now comprises Florida and all parts of Ala
bama, Louisiana and Mississippi. In 1846 we
received the cession of Texas. It contained
376.931 square miles and embraced the State of
Texas and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Col
orado, Wyoming and New Mexico. The next
cession was under the treaty of IS4B, contain
ing 622,568 square miles, embracing the States
of California, Nevada, Utah and parts of Col
orado and Wyoming and of. the Territories of
Arizona and New Mexico.
In 1853 we acquired by the Gadsden purchase
45,535 square miles, which embrace parts of
Louisiana and New Mexico.
The next great acquisition was that of
Alaska in 1667, containing 699,446 square miles.
This treaty, like that of the "Louisiana pur
chase," was fiercely resisted. When the House
had under consideration the bill appropriating
the sum of $7,200,000, the amount of purchase
money for Alaska agreed upon by the treaty,
the minority report on that bill quoted ap
provingly an article which characterized Alaska
as a "terra incognita," and "that persons well
informed as to Alaska are ungrateful er.ough
to hint that we could have bought a much su
perior elephant ln Slam or Bombay for one
hundredth part of the money, with not a ten
thousandth part of expense incurred in keeping
the animal in proper condition."
The minority report proceeded to say that
"the committee having considered various ques
tions involved and the evidence In regard to
the country under consideration, are forced to
the conclusion that the possession of the coun
try is of no value to the Government of the
United States; that it will be a source of weak
ness Instead of power, and a constant annual
expense, for which there will be no adequate
return; that it has no capacity as an agri
cultural country; that it is known that it has
no value as a mineral country; that its trade
is of insignificant value to us as a nation and
will speedily come to an ned; that the fisheries
are of doubtful value and that whatever the
value of its fisheries, its fur trade. Its timber
and its minerals, they were all open to the
citizens of the United States under existing
treaties; that the right to govern the nation or
nations of savages in a climate unlit for the
habitation of civilized men was not worthy of
purchase." They therefore reported the follow
ing resolution:
"Resolved, That It is inexpedient to appro
priate money for the purchase of Russian
America."
In the debate in the House a distinguished
Representative from Massachusetts said:
"If we are to pay for Russia friendship this
amount, 1 desire to give her the {7,200,000 and
let her keep Alaska. 1 have no doubt that at
any time within the last twenty year., we could
have had Alaska for the asking, providing we
would have taken it as a gift, but no man, ex
cept one insane enough to buy the earthquakes
of St. Thomas and the ice fields of Greenland,
could be found to agree to any other terms for
its acquisition to this country."
To this treaty the opponents were in the
minority and that great, rich territory, from
which we have drawn many and many times
over Its purchase price, and with phenomenal
wealth yet undeveloped, is ours in spite of their
Dpposltion.
In the last year we have added to the terri
tory of the United States the territory of the
Hawaiian [stands, one of the gems of the Pa
cific Ocean, containing 6724 square miles; Porto
Rico, containing 3600 square miles; Guam, con
taining fifty square miles, and the Philippine
archipelago, embracing approximately 143,000
square miles. This latest acquisition is about
one-sixth the size of the original thirteen
States. This is larger than the combined area
of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina and the District
of Columbia. It equals in area all of the New
England States. It is almost as large as
Washington and Oregon combined and greater
than Ohio, Indiana and Illinois united. Three
times larger than New York, and three and
a half times larger than the State of Ohio.
The treaty of peace with Spain, which gave '
us the Philippines, Porto Rico and Guam, met j
with some opposition in the Senate, but was j
ratified by that body by more than a two-thirds
vote; while in the House the appropriation of
$20,000,000 was made with little or no opposition^
As in the case of the Louisiana purchase and
Alaska, the opponents of the treaty were In tha
minority and the star of hope to an oppressed
people was not extinguished.
The future of these new possessions Is in the
keeping of Congress, and Congress Is the serv
ant of the people. That they will be retained
under the benign sovereignty of the United
States I do not permit myself to doubt. That
they will prove a rich and invaluable heritage
I feel assured. That Congress will provide for
them a government which will bring them
blessings, which will promote their material
Interests as well as advance their people In the
path Of civilization and Intelligence, I confi
dently believe. They will not be governed as
vassals or serfs or slaves— they will be given a
government of liberty, regulated by law, hon
estly administered, without oppressing or ex
acting, taxation without tyranny. Justice with
out bribe, education without distinction of so
cial conditions, freedom of religious worship
and protection in life, liberty and the pursuit
•>'. happiness. >
Attorney General Griggs was. next in
troduced. In a brief address he praised
the volunteers for their gallantry in ac
tion and complimented them on their good
appearance.
Secretary Long of the Navy was the
closing speaker. B_t_B
"I am one with you." said Secretary
Long, "in love and admiration for the
President of the United States, who
stands before you, the representative of
that great country whose citizens you are.
I am one with you also in your love
for your own great State. And I
am one with you In your appre
ciation cf tho navy of the United
States. I thrill through and through in
admiration for its achievements. I recall
the fall of Santiago before the guns of
Sampson—"
At this point hundreds of voices in the
crowd interrupted the Secretary's re
marks with shouts of "Schley! Schley!
Schley!" The Secretary paused a mo
ment and then said:
"Mv friends, there is glory enough for
all. If I were to attempt to enumerate
the names of all these who took part in
the great naval achievements you .would
never have your dinner before I had con
cluded."
General Summers, responding to calls of
the soldier boys, came forward and bowed
his acknowledgments amid frantic cheers.
"We left Old Glory floating in Luzon,"
he said, "and if necessary we will go back
there to defend it."
At the conclusion of the exercises the
returned volunteers were served with an
elaborate dinner In the exposition build
ing. The Presidential party was driven to
the residence of Thomas Lowrey for din
ner and at 6 o'clock was conveyed to St.
Paul on the interurban trolley line.
Visited by Grand Officers.
WOODLAND. Oct. 12.— Grand President
'Trautner and Grand Treasurer Guenther
made an official visit to Concordia Lodge
No 20. Sons of Herrmann. Wednesday
The officers for the term were installed
and several new members initiated. The
grand officers were banqueted.
Brewster Hotel Is Sold.
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 12.— The Brewster
Hotel of this city was sold to-day by
the State Loan and Trust Company of
San Francisco to Graham A. Babcock
for $60,000,
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1899.
CAPTURED
TOWNS ARE
ABANDONED
General Schwan's Expedition
Marching Back to
Manila.
HAS MANY PRISONERS
»
Filipinos Reoccupy Trenches as
Soon as the American Troops
Withdraw.
»
Special Dispatch to The Call.
MANILA, Oct. General Schwan's
expedition having accomplished its ob
ject, the troops are all returning to their
former positions, abandoning the towns
taken. General Schwan is en route from
Perez de Marinas to Imus, with the in
fantry, while the artillery and cavalry
and all mule teams are retracing their
route from Malabon to Bacoor, with the
signal corps removing the wires. General
Trias, with the organized bodies of insur
gents, retreated to Silang and Indang, at
the base of the mountain.
The movement of United States troops
was a fine display of American general
ship and energy, while the Filipinos made
what General Alejandro terms "our pe
culiar method of warfare."
The whole country is an immense
swamp, and the Filipinos never expected
that the Americans could or would at- |
tempt to invade it during the wet season. j
Moreover, the line of march furnished a
succession of surprises, the advancing !
troops being generally attacked from the j
unexpected points.
In Cavite province, the scene of the hot- j
test fights and their greatest successes
over the Spaniards, the Filipinos might
have been expected to make a resolute •
stand, if anywhere, but after their whip
pings at Cavite, Vicjo and Noveleta their
tactics consisted chiefly in a continuous |
exhibition of their agility and their trans- j
formation from warriors to amigos.
The marines, while reconnoltering about |
the scene of Sunday's encounter. find ,
that the trenches have been already re- ,
occupied, although the enemy manifested j
more than their usual willingness to re
treat before the Americans. Bands have j
appeared along the shore road between j
Bacoor and Rosario and the troops re- !
turning by that route expect another |
light at Rosario. At Malabon the Ameri- j
cans corralled two or three hundred na- ;
fives supposed to be lighting men. A few
of them were caught with arms in their |
hands, but large numbers were found in
hiding, dressed in khaki like the Ameri
can uniforms. A majority of them were
in the garb of amigos, but they are sus
pected of shooting at the troops from
houses, a growing habit, which flourished
throughout the advance whenever small
parties of Americans strayed from the
main body. „'.
The prisoners are a white elephant on j
the hands of the Americans. The Mala- j
bon contingent spent an unhappy night
incarcerated in a church. A native priest
and an uncle of General Trias were dis- j
covered in the Filipino arsenal outside
the town. They are credited with being
two of the pillars of the insurrection, but j
they vigorously proclaim their innocence. I
The leading citizens of Rosario are ter- ]
porarily engaged in towing a fleet of
cascoes laden with .the American army's :
impedimenta at Bac'oor.
The prisoners, with the exception of |
those caught red-handed, will be released, I
as owing to the fact that the insurgents
have so many more men than guns the
keeping of prisoners Is a useless expense |
unless the policy of reconcentration which !
General Weyler pursued is to be adopted, j
In conversation with an Associated Press
representative a hading merchant of
Rosario remarked: j
"They will all be engaged in their old
business as soon as: released."
When asked where! the army had gone,
the merchant replied:
"The majority of them are here. They
simply hide their guns when they see a
superior force approaching."
The lighting falls the hardest on the
women and children. Hundreds of them |
spent the night before the Americans j
reached Rosario in boats, the bay for |
miles being crowded with small craft ,
containing non-combatants, few of whom j
remained in the town.
The work of commissary and quarter
masters" departments, directed by Cap- I
tains Riddle and Horton, was remarkable
throughout. The transportation of sup- j
plies from Rosario to Malabon seemed to j
be Impossible. The wagons had to be re
peatedly unloaded and reloaded while be
ing dragged through the mire.
General Schwan is marching back with
out the teams, all the loads of baggage
being shipped from Bacoor by cascoes and
the wagons going empty.
A telegraph squad under Lieutenant
Clark kept th" wire abreast of the line to
Malabon, but in order to do this the teams
had to be abandoned and the wire carried
by coolies.
* .
ARAYAT OCCUPIED
BY YOUNG'S TROOPS
MANILA, Oct. 12.--General Young with
two battalions of the Twenty-fourth In
fantry, nine troops of the Fourth Cavalry
and the scouts of the Thirty-seventh In
fantry, left Santa Ana at 7 o'clock this
morning and occupied Arayat at 9 o'clock,
after a skirmish lasting a half hour. Tho
enemy, estimated at 300 men, retreated
toward Magalan. The swampy character
of the country presented the use of
cavalry. The men (if the Twenty-fourth
charged the trenches'. The enemy set the
town on fire and succeeded ln burning a
small section. Five dead and three
wounded Filipinos wjere left on the field.
The Americans had one man wounded.
General Schwan's column is now be
tween Perez das Marinas and Imus. The
roads are very heavy and there has been
no fighting yet.
OTIS SENDS NEWS OF
RECENT OPERATIONS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.— The War, De
partment to-day received the following
dispatch from Manila, dated October 12:
Schwan's column Is moving on Sapang and
Das Marinas to-day, where opposition is ex
pected. His artillery and wagon transporta
tion is returning to Bacoor by way of Rosario.
A column of 600 men I? marching from Imus
to support Schwan. If necessary. Young. In the
north, has occupied Arayat and supplies arm
being moved up the Rio Grande by cascoes to
that point. Lawton will command the column
when a full concentration is effected. Young's
loss to-day is one enlisted man, who was
wounded yesterday.
The Insurgents attacked the Angelo line, but
were quickly repulsed. ; Six enlisted men were
slightly wounded. OTIS.
Recruiting Almost at an End.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12— task of
recruiting the volunteer army for the
Philippines is practically completed. It
was announced at the War Department
to-day that all the regiments have been
filled except one of the additional colored
regiments, the Forty-ninth, which needs
less than 100 men. These will be secured
within forty-eight hours.
WORK OF FOREST FIRES.
LOS OLIVOS, Oct. 12.— ranger just in
from Zaca Lake and Pine Mountain re
serve reports the only fire In this division
this summer. It had been burning since
Saturday on an almost inaccessible por
tion of San Rafael Range, but was
promptly subdued by the ranger and two
assistants. Monday the fire was confined
to the heavy brush, and the rain to-day
will extinguish the big fire on the Santa
Ynez Range. - .' ,
SANTA CRUZ, Oct. i 12.— The fire In Bear
Creek Canyon played' havoc with the
roads. About four bridges were burned,
and travel from Boulder Creek to- the
summit is impossible.;
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Children! note the result of beautifying
common things; an object lesson ln
"Keith's" window, 808 Market street, Phe
ian building. ■_'-•- *
WILLIAM L. WILSON
NEARING HIS GRAVE
Former Postmaster General Is Dying,
Hated by the Members of
His Party.
BY O'BRIEN MOORE.
f EX-POSTMASTER GENERAL WILLIAM L. WILSON. 4
WORD comes from the bleak |
hamlet of Martinsburg, W.
Va., that William Lyne Wil
son is dying. Mr. Wilson does
not live at Martinsburg; his
home is at Charles Town, fif
teen miles away, near the northern mouth
of the famous Shenandoah Valley. There
are two towns in West Virginia that
are eternally conflicting. One is Charles
ton, the State capital, situate on the
Kanawha, not far from Kentucky and
Ohio, and with a population Hearing 20,
--000. The other is Charles Town, popula
tion 3000, not far from Harpers Ferry.
and almost within hailing distance of
Washington. Charles Town is aristo
cratic and discontented and only enjoys
life by sneering at Charleston. It is a
popular fallacy that every adult residing
in Charles Town can write a magazine
article and habitually does. Charles
Town has a sign out that it has reached
the limit of Its growth and ambition and
that new settlers are not wanted.
Charles Town was cut off from Virginia
when West Virginia was made a State,
and consequently the town has since been
discontented. All the people of Charles
Town are society people; but they only
hold social relations with Virginians;
there is not a West Virginian outside of
Charles Town on their visiting lists; and
no Charles Town people who are not dis
contented because they are geograph
ically West Virginians instead of Vir
ginians.
• * •
In Charles Town, with its peculiar en
vironment, prejudices and conditions, was
born and has lived William L. Wilson.
In years Wilson Is about midway between
his fifth and sixth decade. He served in
the Confederate Army during the last
year and a half of the Civil War. Often
has he shown me a little tin-type picture
of himself in Confederate gray, standing
at attention with his gun at the "pre
sent." He did not look robust ln the
picture, and as a matter of fact he never
has been robust. Wilson Is not of the
chivalry of Virginia— he springs from the
school-teaching class.
Wilson is a lovable man. Nearly
every one who has had opportunity to be
come acquainted with him has liked him.
He is not warm, nor spontaneous, nor is
He endowed with many of the other
traits that make Virginians so attractive.
But there is a simpleness in him, and
his conversation, while by no means
glittering with wit, is so delightful and
pure that no one who has ever heard
film talk missed an opportunity to hear
him again.
• • *
Wilson's rise in West Virginia was
slow and progressive, and his fall was
sharp and violent. He was the best
loved man in his State— in fact, was
described by common consent as "the
first citizen of the commonwealth." Then
the fatal "curse of Cleveland" fell on
him, and West Virginians derided and
despised him instead of honoring him.
He was called upon in a political emerg
ency to choose "between the people who
loved him and had honored him, and the
President of the United States, who had
made him a member of his official family."
He decided to stand by the President,
and his party in West Virginia turned
on him with such fierce hate that for
a couple of years he deemed It prudent
not to visit his home.
-» * •
Wilson was elected to Congress from
the Second District of West Virginia for
six consecutive terms— twelve years. He
was picked up accidentally. He was the
president of the University of West Vir
ginia, located at Morgantown. .A Demo
cratic Congressional Convention was in
session there and became -deadlocked.
There was balloting for more . than • a
Week, three favorite sons being in the
race. At last the convention broke up in
a row and the three men who were before
the convention became candidates before
the people. The Republicans were united
and it became plain to the Democrats
that they would have to unite or lose
the district. A new convention was called,
the favorite sons stood aside and Wil
son, considered; inoffensive and not of
much account and likely not to be long
In anybody's way, was nominated. Ho
was elected and did not attract much
attention during his first term.
He did, however, attract the attention
of one keen and farsighted statesman,
who at the time was chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee and ' the
leader of the House. This was William
R. Morrison of Illinois. Morrison is the
real discoverer of Wilson. Morrison found
that the ex-college president was a stu
dent and had looked deep into the tariff
question. Morrison was looking for men
of that kind and when the next Congress
convened he got Speaker Carlisle to put
Wilson on the Ways and Means Com
mittee. From that time until the blight
of Clevelandism struck the Democratic
party Wilson was a power in Congress.
• * «
He was chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee and leader of the
House during the Fifty-third Congress.
He is the author of the tariff bill that
has gone to history labeled with his
name. The industries of West Virginia
were hit hard by the Wilson bill. He
put wool and coal and lumber on the
free list. This touched the pockets of
such Democrats as ex-Senator Henry G.
Davis and ex-Senator J. N. Camden. They
built a cave under Wilson and on election
day his Republican opponent had the bet
ter of him by more than 2000. .
. • ■ » *
The writer of this accompanied Wilson
during his . last Congressional ! campaign.
I was then the Washington correspondent
of the St. Louis Republic and a very de
voted friend of Wilson. We traveled to
gether, ate together and slept together.'
He. was very primitive in his tastes and
habits. It was his custom to sleep in his
I underclothes— heavy woolen undercloth-
I ing that he wore during the day and
I perspired through during hours of speech
j making. He was pretty well satisfied
that one good washing a week sufficed;
he had no idea of the luxury of the bath.
My tendency to take cold water outward
ly amused him immensely, and the peel
ing off of all my "duds" at night and
my wearing of night garments he re
garded as a personal invention and to a
great extent a personal affectation. One
night, when our bed was small and our
accommodations very limited indeed, and
he was tired and nervous and could not
sleep, I suggested to him that he might
try my plan of rubbing a cold wet towel
over himself and putting on a nightshirt.
He tried it and soon went to sleep. Since
then he has been devoted to the night
shirt and has hardly ever met me that
he did not express his gratitude for my
"higher education" of him. In fact It
! might be said that the nightshirt struck
j Wilson as the game of poker struck the
Kentuckian— like the dawn of a new
revelation.
Wilson campaigned in very light march
ing order. When he left home his wife
habitually put a clean handkerchief in the
stern-wheel pocket of his trousers. He
made this do duty until he again got
home sometimes perhaps for two or three
weeks. He hated to bother with a valise,
and he regarded a pocketful of papers and
data and a tooth brush as about all that
civilization and emergency demanded of
him to carry. A nail brush that was a
part of my equipage and that I made
work for a living attracted him. He had
never known the use of this article be
fore. He became delighted with it.
Wilson was very much in the dumps at
the time that Cleveland called him to the
Cabinet. A couple of weeks before Ike
Grey of Indiana had died and thereby
created a vacancy in the embassy to
Mexico, Wilson was a candidate for the
post. He expected to get it and wanted
it "mighty bad." But old Matt Ransom
of North Carolina, who had been in the
Senate twenty-four years, had been
knocked out by the Republicans and Pop
ulists of his State and he succeeded in
getting all the Senators to sign a petition
to the President asking for his appoint
ment. He got it, and Wilson was very
sore. He talked freely with me at this
epoch about the "ingratitude of Cleve
land." A few weeks later Bissell resigned
from the Cabinet and left the postoffice
portfolio vacant. It was after midnight
when Wilson came to my office. He told
me that the President had appointed him
Postmaster General; that he had gone to
bed, but his wife reminded him that he
owed me a favor, and so he got up to
come to tell me about It and give me a
"scoop." I had performed a whole lot of
favors for Wilson, and this was the only
occasion that he performed a favor for
mo. Even that time he admitted that his
wife reminded him of It. His mind was
not constituted to think of little things
like that himself.
* * •
I have not seen Wilson since the 27th
of September, 1896. He returned from
Europe the day before, and for a week
preceding my office was crowded with
West Virginians urging me to use my in
fluence with Wilson "not to destroy him
self" by bolting the Chicago ticket. I
went to see the Postmaster General at
his office. He candidly told me that he
would not support the Democratic ticket.
'He said that he regarded himself as in
honor bound to stand with Mr. Cleveland.
I asked him if he felt under more obli
gations to Cleveland than to the Demo
crats of his State, and he, without saying
so. plainly intimated "yes."
A week later he was heartbroken. The
West Virginians made life a torture to
him. He went up to Charlestown to make
a speech for Palmer and Buckner. He- was
met at the depot by three white men and
about 300- negroes. It subsequently de
veloped that his old friends had hired
the negroes to go and receive him. He
delivered I a masterly address at a public
hall, but only fourteen white men heard
him. His neighbors "cut" him. Not one
of his old friends would speak to him.
Even at the little fourth-rate tavern of
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* Mme. Idalene's Famous Face Creams— Demonstrated v
ft daily in Drug Department, and their uses explained by Mme. *
ft Idalene herself, each afternoon in private show room back of *
* [Millinery Department. *
* Hazzard, 'ffM ____?_._?__ MS Ilk M J ' F - Vca *°> *
fr Amusing WfMW E™i^iMli U&M Tenor, at *
* Ventrilo- gj |PP* p "" ar%d l m^*%sw9m Concert, *
ft Daily 10 to 5 CMrXAiniASUtK^=J*MERia^C^ STORE . hvemn^ *
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fr /J ALL-DAy **t4--S *
* // Special ales — jy" *
fr (s v *
fr Y. *
* bargain F iday. $15.00
% $15 Jacket. * ayy t
{ To-Day $9.95. ££&
ft like pic- £JF*t^
9- ture, this Jsjf^Fl
* fall style, >¥_*__
J double fe^^i
J breasted, W* *g
J satin-lined _|T i __i
J velvet col- /^^S^^^^^-v
ft lar, new fli^ib^ t\
ft stitched 111 ole ( \
ft seams, Al- I V \
» highly fin- \l°| c ' /\jr\
** ished, sizes -y*\ \\ I ' AwX*)
J32 to 42— ,---vC^' o ]^ &&kj
i special to- tfV^^r*^©^^^^'
* day only at \ P
X -.$9.95 \ f vs
*
ft
ft
ft "Bargain Friday. Four big bargains
* _Vscffwear;°: ' 3 ,^/^-
-* «_______'<'__'_•. 8o stylish Cream
ft SpCCiaiS. Applique Breton
* Wasn Scarfs, very handsome patterns,
J regularly 75c each — to-day 48c
? 32 very handsome Imported Applique
» Scarfs, cr.am color with fancy em-
ft broidered ends, handsome for jabots,
ft the mesh is slightly damaged, scarfs
ft worth if perfect $1.25 to $1.75 each—
* sale price to-day 39c
* 21 Chantilly Scarfs, applique designs,
fr Honiton lace braid edge, black or
J cream, worth $1.50 and $1.75 each —
tt sale price to-day GQc
ft, Ladies' Linen Collars, 95 dozen of toe
ft best quality, sizes 12j._ to 14 2 , regular
* value 12^c each — this lot slightly
fr soi cd — therefore tha sale price to-
* day, each ,5c
ft
fr
* "Bargain Friday. Chil-
-5 Children's 25c d ™'*
J HOSe, 1&C. heavy lxl and 2xl
ft ribbed fast black Cotton Hose, extra
ft double knees and double feet, very elas-
ft tic, sold as a leader all over America at
* 25c per pair — price to-day 16c
fr
ft
ft "Bargain Friday. We offer for
ft Curtain this da 7 onl - v
fr _ur_-f 4____ ____r 1-00 yards of
ft Net, B9CyU. excellent Cur-
* t tin Net, in 10 aitferent patterns, suit-
fr able for long or short curtains, colors
J ecru and white, widths 40, 44 and 50
ft inches, most of it worth 3Jc and 35c per
ft yard, at 19c
*
*
fr "Bargain F'iday. ***.
2 Mincing m
* Knives, m
» We. 17
J Improved Mincing C.7
J Knives, six steel blades, /..fffh
J? quick cutting, regularly •II \ V, x
ft 20c each— for this day iff I \\
ft only WC / \Vll)
» /'/ \ \
* Bargain Friday. [Mi^ \,. \
I Music
5 Folios 34c. i^
ft For this day only we offer Mark Sterns'
fr Mandolin and Guitar Folios, each book
& containing 24 new collections of songs,
J marches, wa.tze.-, etc. — the two books
J for - 34C
ft
ft
ft On Sale To-Morrow «
* (Saturday), r**l J
! Men's $15 Suits ,^M^ f
! for $10. Hfj/i\ ?
ft / fy^A / \ \ *
ft Another of our great Saturday Suit Specials I (sot/ \ \ *
X — choice of two lines of handsome, new A L °\ A, — \ $
ft fall suits for men; one lot is a neat gray (\ L >\/ / '^^_/ *
ft striped worsted, round-cornered, single-breasted \ff V Q/ y&. y% ♦
¥ sack coats, with the latest cut double-breasted j«\ "i = " = 'a. »/^ .' *
¥ vests; the other lot a gray worsted of pleasing pat- ' j \\^ J
J tern — something on th? plaid order — single-breasted i I I j 2
J sack coats and .-ingle-breasted vests; these suits > \ \mJ _$
ml are fine y tailored and perfect fitting; size-" 35 to V \ j . -g
m, 42; regularly $15.0 ) — Saturday 0n1y.. 510.00 *
£»_ --V ____„__ ________________ ______ .*o
the town he was told that all the rooms
were engaged. He had to drive to Har
pers Ferry and wait for a train. The
three weekly papers of the town have al
ways treated him as dead since the fall
of ? 96. They pathetically. refer to him as
the "late" William L. Wilson. He was
made president of Washington and Lee
University when he retired from the Cab
inet. hen he went there there were 23.
students, and 119 of them immediately
withdrew. And now he has gone home
to die. ■■'' -J:-;:'., t v- •
THE EMPORIUM.
Bargain Friday. Today on ? *
75c Velvets, we offer 18 I
: •_»- «___ mm trm "*h colored i
To-Day 52c. B __ velvet?, J
in 24 different shades of colorings, such «*
as gray, heliotrope, old rose, gobelin _•
blue, navy, etc.; correct material for <•
dress trimmings and millinery purposes; "**
ex-eptiona.lv good value at our regular ♦
retail price, 75c per — Bargain Fri- *
day prica 52© *
Bargain Friday. J
Boys' $2. Suits, *
To-day Only $1.45. «
f There are exactly 97
of tbese good-looking, _*,
O Of ,£|
good - wearing suits "*'
for boys 9to 14 years <,
..-_... _-
of age; suit consists ♦
of double - breasted J
coat and knee pants;
excellent cnssimeres *
in neat dark patterns, «
perfect fitting and *
lined to give the b_st J,
service ; equal in every _?
respect to the ordi- __"
nary $2.50 sorts — $>
your choice to-day *
0n1y...- $1.4-5 4>
__ «
Bargain Friday. 25 dozen *
$1.00 Velvet handsome, *
Collars, 33c. , , I _- ?
picture, made of good velvet, satin
lined and trim- _________ S
mcd with cut _fl2fif| / "^^s. S
steel ornament- /ffiijj'ii ll( L ''H_ _?
iv a variety of /^ —^ _^
des'gns — one of f^^_SS_~^^^^ai 4"
this seasoi's $1 »^^^^!_f^^^^3^^^j <"
novelties in ta '--=-_______=---*^ <*
j neckwear — on spscia. sale this day only, *
eaca 330 *
«
cain Friday. 265 dozen im- 2
25c Collars, p° rted _ ,p - *
_T__ #_«.«. _r_» man Collars, *
f U-MJSiy £C. in these sizes *
lon y: 14, 14^, 15, 17, 17^, 18 and 19, va- *
|rio'_n staple *
styles; the V^Vj *
celebrated /^s >__-___ J
"Kai s c r " s^-__^_-p^ i^ "^s 2
brand; guar- J I<U —^
anteed 2100 ,<>''-'^!>»_J<>_ <"
fine linen -^-^-^U^ \
ani will al- jT /r^" — ~ =s^k *
most out- j ps__= /\ \ _==—^v\
wear two or- I I Ny/ \ J-CT _^^ \ *
linary 25c / 5,
collars. (/?«- S
member there are no 1514, 16 and 16% i
u^es.) Price on such sizes as we have. _*
4 for 25c, or, each 7c *
«
*
"Bargain Friday. Two money-saving J
Milßinerv chances for tais Ja y «
_» * _ i on, y : «*
SpeCialS. Fine imported J
French felt shapes, th season's styles -y
and colors (no blacks), regularly $1.25 _J
each— special price _»£/_? <•
42 Trimmed Hats, of handsome material *
I and our best trimming, always $13.50 J
! and $15.00 each— special to-day o->lv .. *
I $9.95 }
: *
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Will Fight Jamaica Treaty.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12.— The Califor
nia citrus fruit growers' tariff committee
met at the Chamber of Commerce this
afternoon and adopted a resolution calling
upon, all the citrus growers and associa
tions of Southern California to, contribute
one-fifth of a cent per box on their com
ing season's crop for the purpose of creat
ing a fund to carry on the campaign
against the ratification of the Jamaica
treaty. - ■ . , ; .„-».; : i ."..-_-..■