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III RSI II l» (III lift Aghators Made No Headway Towards Success Yesterday. The Men at Three Small Mines Go Out, But More Resumed At the Mines of the Monongah and Watson Companies-The Monon- | gah Strikers Notified to Report , at the Office and L arn, Individ ually, Whether Tney Will be Wanted Any More-Monongah and Wat3on Companies Secure Injunctions Against the United Mine Workers and Other Agita tors — The Paper Not Served. Mahon is Disgusted—His Failure at New England Has Soured Him -Sending Wild Telegrams to Ratchford. Special to the Register. Fairmont. W. Va., July 26. The strike of the miners, so far as it affects Fairmont, is a flat failure, and nothing which the agitators can do now. with the miners themselves., can retrieve it. Every card has been p'.ayed, except the stopping of the railroads, and no one believes now that there is any au thority among the labor leaders which can accomplish that. Mahon and the other organizers are disgusted, and Mahon is making claims like a man who has lost all. and has but assertion left. He wired Ratchford to-day that 5.000 men were out in this field, and that the strike was won, when, in fact, there are not 5.0(H) in the field, and there as not as many men idle as there were on Sat urday. while the number at work is largely increased by the arrival of men from elsewhere. To-day. the Luther. Hutchinson and Beechwood miners came out. in part, aggregating about 125 men. To offset this, the Monongah Company alone re ceived 80 men from the Connellsville region and will have as many more to morrow. The Watson mines found auite a number who wanted to go to ^fc^kand from ths ranks of the strik ers at other mines, the workers made gains. The management of the Monongah and Watson mines made a move that had been expected for some days and which will probably permanently break up the efforts of the organizers to do business in Fairmont and Marion county. Col. J. A. Flickinger and J. E. Wat3on. the presidents respectively of the Monongah and Watson mining com panies, appeared before Hon. John W. MaSon. acting as special Judge of the Marion county Circuit Court, and asked ,for an injunction to prevent interfer ^ ene with their miners. The injunction was granted, and its provisions are as follows: Eugene V. Debs. M. D. Ratchford, W. D. Mahon. J. D. Crosslet., H. B. McDonald. J. W. Rea. W. H. Miller. Thos. Owens, John Burdess, Phil Burgh, William Burdess. W. A. Ben nett. John Cunningham. H. Costella, D. D. Edwards. R. Hall. Daw Grace, G. W. Ernust, A. W. Hamrick. N. M. Knott. Lewis Vogle. Nicholas Loss, N. McMaster, H. Parker, John Ruth owiska. D. C. Masch. W. T. Richards, G. Richards. John iteese. D. C. Royle. J. S. Kadden. G. B. Skinner. Thomas Sharkey. Joseph Yengle. Jas. Vogle. F. 1*. Watson, A. R. Watkins. Ben Holdsw’orth. Jess Soles. John Honard. John McNeemar. Bailey Bunnell. J. L. Higginbotham. Frank Stevens. Frank Dunn. Staats Dunu. Fleming Merri field, SI Ronaud, L. H. Hall. John iv Mclntire. Toney Franks, their confed erates, associates and co-conspirators, whose names are to the plaintiff un known. and each one of them be and the same are hereby enjoined and re strained from in any manner interfer ing with the employes of the said j plaintiff now in its employ, and from in any manner interfering with auy person who may desire to enter the employment of the said plaintiff, bv | the use of threats, personal violence. I intimidation or by any other means | calculated to terrorize or alarm, in- , timidate or place in fear any of the ! plaintiff's employes in any manner or j form whatever: and the said defend ants and their associates, confederates and co-conspirators, are hereby enjoin ed and restrained from undertaking by the use of the means aforesaid to in duce or cause any of the employes of ' the plaintiff to quit the employment of gaid plaintiff, and the said defendants j and their associates, confederates and I co-conspirators are hereby enjoined i ' and restrained from congregating or | loitering about the premises of the said plaintiff at and about the said coal mines, coke ovens and other | works used and operated by it in con- , nection with its said coal mines; and { the said defendants, their associates, co-conspirators and confederates are hereby required and ordered to go about their ordinary business and to abstain from in any way interfering with the business of this plaintiff; and the said defendants, their associates, confederates and co-conspirators are ! hereby enjoined and restrained from j congregating on the said premises of j the plaintiff’s said mines, and the plaintiff’s said coke works, and from ^the works of the said plaintiff used operated in connection with its Kaid mines, and they are enjoined and f restrained from continuing their un lawful assemblage^ and marches on or naa^to the iblage:j said 4»: ki laintiff’s mines, on or near the paths or approaches lead- ] ing to the said plaintiff's mines, and , enjoined and restrained from continu ing to assemble there with intent to prevent the miners working for the plaintifT in its said mines and from going to work therein: and the said defendants, their associates, confeder ates and co-conspirators are hereby enjoined and restrained from then and there using threats, menaces, shouts or epithets, force or show of force, and offers of violence to interfere with, prevent and stop the miners working in the said mines of the plaintiff from continuing their daily labor therein and from using any of the aforesaid means to prevent the plaintiff to the services and labor of said miners, and other persons employed in and about its mines and coke works from continu ing its said business, or running and shipping coal from its said mines, and of running coal and manufacturing the same into coke and shipping the same from its said mines and coke ovens. But this injunction shall not take effect until the plaintiff or some one for it shall execute a bond with good personal security in the penalty of $500, conditioned that the plaintiff shall pay all costs and damages in curred by the defendants in the event that this injunction hereby granted is dissolved. This document has not been served on any of the people who are named in it. and it is not likely to be served, I unless there is a change in the appear I ance of things. Mahon was billed to speak at New England to-night, and had expected a big turnout. When he got there, he found just 23 people to hear him. and | instead cf making an appeal he deliv i ered a scolding to the Fairmont and West Virginia miners in general. He was disgusted, and spoke his mind free ' lv. He has been doing this all day, . i hief Arthur, of the Engineers, as a traitor, because he ■a )Q | t>, • attend Th‘- mceting at Wheel ! ing to-morrow. Mahon is not confining his wild state ments to those sent by wire to Ratch ford and the other leaders who are not here. To-day he said that all the men at the Montana mines were out. Your 1 correspondent went there, and found that all of them are at work. At Monongah to-day, big posters were i put up, announcing that the Company desired all of its former employes to , call at the office, and if any of them were needed, they would be put to i work. The others will be formally dis i cnar^u. When Debs learned of the Injunction to-day, he remarked that he would do > no more work in this county, intimating I that he does rot relish working with j the courts against him. Senator Camden was asked to-day | how far the injunction would be push ed. He remarked that the agitators had ' been annoying the miners and their employers for two weeks now. and ' that they would do the fighting for a while. Their miners want to work, he said, and they would protect them in their effort* in that diretcion. It is not belis?e£ bere-tirar as* fur ! ther efforts will be made to yet the i Fairmont miners out. and that the or [ gariz^rs and agitators are gone for I good. There is no alarm over the threat that to-morrow’s conference in Wheel ing will eot the railroad men to quit ! hauling West Virginia coal. ALL QUIET AT DILLONVALE. The M»r»h»U Are All (lone and the Miners ^how No Inrllnitinn to Keturn to Work. i Special to the Register. Dillonvale. O., July 26.—The mines are still boarded up and the miners are as determined as ever to stay out until the strike is settled. The exodus j of miners to other places continues, and they are leaving in squads each day. going mainly from Long Run. The miners are not in straightened circumstances. They are thrifty and have saved something out of the low wage they have received. Some have been doing harvest work. All have productive garden patches, from which they obtain subsistence, so that there is no danger of their being driven to the company's terms by reason of want. It is thought the strike at this point has been a great disappointment to the plans of the coal and railroad company, who expected to have their miners working throughout the strike at a big profit to the c 'mpany. Depredations on the W. & L. E. and at Dillonvale will now be looked after by James Smith, of Grand Island. Neb., who has been appointed special agent. The fact that the deputies left so soon after the company sent out from Mas sillon that spikes were being driven in frogs of the railroad at Dillonvale to wreck trains, shows that there was no basis for that hazy story. ATKINSON'S REPLY A Hot Retort to the Wathington City Fed eration of l.abor. Special to the Register. Charleston. W. Va.. July 26.—Gov. Atkinson gave to the press to-day the following letter addressed to Charles Atkinson, secretary of the Federation of Labor. Washington City: Sir—I have just returned from a ten days’ absence from my office, and find your letter dated July 23. in which you state that at a meeting of your Federation, held a few days ago. you saw fit to denounce me as a cowardly and bloodthirsty man. without assign ing any reason therefor. This is the first time in my recollection that I have been denounced as cowardly and blood-thirsty. I do not believe that I am guilty of either charge. The newspapers say the reason you have seen fit to class me as cowardly and blood-thirsty is because the mayor of the town of Pocahontas, in the State of Virginia, refused to allow Grand Master Sovereign to speak in that town. 1 have no authority in the State of Virginia, and therefore cannot j be responsible for thai which thej mayor of one of its towns may decid proper or improper. If your fedeny^ tion had any sense or were honest, you would inquire as to facts before ? >iu’ - i some one who has a’wj been your friend. I have no tlm| waste on a set of men who cong: am! pass resolutions denouncing without cause who has always for honest labor, and who is i abiding friend of the toiling The people of my State know I am glad to be able to si J that all the resolutions you can pass or may pass, which are not based upon facts, will have no effect upon them. Very respectfully, (Signed.) G. W. ATKINSON. Following is the letter to which the Governor replies: To George W. Atkinson, Governor of West Virginia. Sir:—At the last meeting of the Fed eration. the following resolutions were adopted: Resolved by the Federation of Labor, That we denounce the action of Gov ernor Atkinson as cowardly and blood thirsty, and point to this as another instance of a series of insults and out rages upon labor, which should be re membered at the ballot box by the working class; and, be it further Resolved, That we denounce the militia as tools of the capitalist classes, who are used by said class to overcome and murder the workingmen when struggling for their rights, as men and American citizens. Resolved. That we denounce work ingmen belonging to the militia as ene mies, either conscious or unconscious, of the working class. (Signed.) CHAS. ATKINSON, Secretary. KANAWHA MEN RETURNING. Only Four Mines Idle and the Men Going Back to Them—Organizer Hastings Com pletely Disgusted. Special to the Register. CHARLESTON. W. Va.. July 26.—Ev erything is quiet in the Kanawha \ alley and indications are that the strike is prac tically over in the southern part of the State. All of the mines’ in the Kanawha Valley are in operation except four, and the strikers are gradually returning to work. The work of the strike organizers is practically a failure. \V. H. Hastings, one of the strike organ izers from Ohio, who has been agitating among the Kanawha and New River min ers for the past three weeks, is in the city to-night, having returned from a cam paigning tour through the New River country. He appears to be very much discouraged and rails at the West Virginia coal dig gers for their subserviency to their em ployes. He says he does not expect to get | all of the miriers out in this State, but hopes to get enough of them out to cut [ short the supply of coal front here. Mr. . I stings will leave to-night for his home in Ohio. Chief Mine Inspector Paul returned this evening from the Norf«t & Western coal region. He says the men are returning to work there, and that the agitation is j about at an end- If is Mr. Paul s opinion 1 that the strike will amount to but very I little in West Virginia. ANOTHER FAILURE. Miner* About Clarksburg: Go to >'***-£< l >ual, Lnmoved By Kae ihd '.Mahon’* Appeal. • Special toJJ].6 'Register. ClJI’ksburg, W. Va., July 26. The Rae-Mahon meeting last night did not result in effecting any organization among the miners, who went to work as usual this morning. It is now pretty well settled that so far as Har rison county miners are concerned, there will be no strike. ALL ARE WAITING For the Outcome of the Conference of Operators at Pittsburg To-Oay. Pittsburg, Pa., July 26.—Dolan and Warner have assured the sheriff that the strikers had no intention of march ing on the mines of the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company. Pres ident Dolan said it was not intended to lose the sympathy of the public by any ill-advised display of force. “At the meeting on Thursday,” said he. "we want no crowd from other points. We want only our speakers and DeArmitt’s men there, and it is mv opinion that this plan will be suc cessful. If we get a good meeting I think we can show to the public and the other miners that DeArmitt’s men still have manhood enough left in them to come under our standard and join the strike.” A body of 1.000 miners, carrying clubs, marched to Oak Station, where 40 men were working and prevailed upon them to come out. Senator Hanna was in the city to day. In speaking of the efforts to set tle the strike by arbitration, he said: ”1 am In favor of any plan that will better the condition of the men.” This afternoon. Rufus C. Crawford, owner of the Bunola mines, went into court and secured a preliminary injunc tion restraining the miners’ officials and strikers from interfering with the enipiuj to. A famine in fuel is not likely to occur. The market is overstocked. The railroads are bringing in coal from West Virginia and mines east of Pittsburg. Riven coal is selling at $1.05 a ton. an in crease of one cent a bushel since the strike began. At Canonsburg everything is quiet at the mine of Cook & Sons. The mine was run ning to-day. The strikers made little ef fort to Induce the men to remain out to day. About iyo strikers from Miller's Run arrived at the camp at McGovern this afternoon bv way of Plum Run and Hous tonville. About forty more came through here this afternoon from Bishop. They brought a large quantity of provisions. An injunction against the miners' offi cials and others, obtained last Thursday, was made permanent td-day. Both sides here are waiting for the re sult of the meeting to-morrow of the op erators. No one come. at this time predict the out [nfiscating no coal. ..fimore. Md.. July -6.—General M^Rger Green, of the B. & O.. says rv> is no coal being confiscated by company and that all commercial KIi was being forwarded promptly. SUFFERING IN INDIANA. Indianapolis. Ind.. July 26.—Commis sioners Connor and Terhune. appoint ed bv Governor Mount to visit the In diana coal fields, find that 8.000 fam ilies will need assistance if the present conditions continue. The Governor will issue an appeal for relief. -—o TRACEWELL. OF INDIANA. Washington. July 26.—It is under stood that Robert J. Tracewell. of In diana. has been selected as comptroller of the treasury. Ee Addressed Three Thousand People, Last Night. Many Business Men and Prominent Citizens in His Audience. Tbore Was Much Applause ! Throughout the Address, and the ! Tenor of His Remarks Was Very Generally Approved and En dorsed, Although Once or Twice There Was a Feeling That He Was Too Severe in His Criticisms. Wage Earners and Labor 0:gm izations Well Represented—The Mayor on the Platform—Prelimi nary Address by J. W. Rea. I M. F. Tighe Presided. * Last evening’s mass meeting at 1 Chapline and Seventeenth streets, ad ! dressed by J. W. Rea, of the Painters’ j and Decorators’ Union, and Eugene V. Debs, was a monster. Not less than three thousand people were present, and of these more than one-half—per haps two thousand—remained until the meeting adjourned at half-past ten o’clock. It was a thoroughly repre sentative audience, although the wage earning element predominated largely, as a matter of course. The addresses ' —particularly that of Mr. Debs—were liberally punctuated with applause, and after the meeting adjourned there was a very general concurrence by all classes in the sentiments voiced. Once I or twice, in the estimation of some of his hearers, Mr. Debs was a little too severe in his strictures; but on the I whole the spirit and text of his speech i was commended, and in many in stances this commendation was enthu siastic, and all that any speaker could desire. 1 ne meeting was late m sLaiuug. Many people began to gather about the stand as early as a quarter past seven, and by half-past several hun dred were present. At a quarter to eight they had increased to nearly a thousand, and after that they came thick and fast. Mr. Debs^ ui^Sr-ifee local committee, and ac companied by Mr. J. W. Rea, did not appear until about twelve minutes past eight. He was cordially welcom ed by the multitude awaiting him. j M. F. Tighe, Esq., presided at the meeting, and introduced as the first ! speaker Mr. Rae. That gentleman 1 spoke for about half an hour, making a very able address. On the stand with the speakers were Mayor J. R. Butts, and the local committee, con sisting of Messrs. President Simms and Vice President Bauer, of the Trades Assembly; ex-President Tighe, W. H. H. Riley, Councilman Hahne, and a number of others. In his preliminary address Mr. Tighe presented Mr. Rea. as the first speaker, on behalf of the Trades Assembly of the Ohio Valley, and expressed, in their behalf, the sat isfaction he and his co-workers in the , field of labor felt at the presence of : such a large audience. ! Mr. Rea began by saying: — “Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle ! men—Fellow Workmen of Wheeling— ' it is a very great pleasure for me to bo ' here to-night, because 1 assure you that my friend Debs and myself want to meet the people of Wheeling, that they may see that we have no horns j upon our heads, as the press has some I times represented. (Applause.) But we have beer out among people who l ought to have horns and know how to use them upon the coal operators of West Virginia. (Applause.) I have been a resident of the city of Chicago for twenty years past, arid have been working in the cause of labor, and yet have never yet injured a fly, to my knowledge. (Applause.) I have never , advocated any other method of set 1 tling labor troubles, except upon a bus ; mcss basis, as between man and man. i (Applause.) When people say that we believe in strikes, I want to say that we are misquoted, and I want to say this to thp people of Wheeling who are not in the ranks of labor.” The speaker described the Chicago : Building Trades Council, to which he belonged, and its methods of work, and I then said: I> > UCU JUU Utb wu lUV **VV» Wfc J V«» labor union, and the time comes to elect officers, cast your vote for a con ; servative, hard-headed, thinking man, even if you do not like a hair of his head, and never would vote for him I on personal grounds for any office. I Elect such a man to office in your un i ion. and he will carry you through. In the Building Trades Council of Chi | cago. which has a membership of 75, i 00u, we have not had a strike in twen I ty years.” * * * * “I want to say | t'o-night, if you are looking for that | which has lately gotten lost some j where — great prosperity (laughter), ' you must demand that labor obtain j enough wages to live on. and when la I bor is earning living wages, prosper j ity will come to this State. (Applause.) ' The laboring man is the man who spends his money. If he is earning one dollar or five dolars a day, he spends it in the town in which he earns it; but the operators, who belong to a trust, made possible by our laws, plugs holes in that law and crawls through, and then goes to Europe to spend the money which belongs to this country, I J And then he tries to marry his daughter to somebody with a title. ("Thafs the stuff.”) They remind me of the man who had several marriageb’e daughters, and who was talking to an eligible young man about them. He said: ‘There is Mary, she is 25 yeare ' old. and when she is married I will j give her $5,000. And there is Jennie, ' she is 30 years old, and when she Is married I will give her $10,000. And i there is Sallie, she is 35, and when ' : she is married I will give her $15,000.’ i j And the young man stroked his chin I i a while and looked thoughtful, and! [then he said: ‘Say, you haven’t any-j thing about 50 years old. have you? Any old thing will do me.’ (Laughter and cheers.) That is the way with the American millionaire. Any old thing in the way of a duke or a count ( will do for his daughters, just so they | get the title, but there is nothing good enough for them in America. (Ap plause.) “The time has come—it is open to you now—in the State of West Vir- , ginia, and we are here to plead with ' you on behalf of your fellow work- ] men. It cuts no figure with me what the coal miners get. My trade is a local one. You can’t paint a house | here in Wheeling and take it to Chi- | cago, but you can take a ton of coal j there, and if you allow that you might J as well send your miners there, and in return for that, the organized labor of this country will wipe you off the face of the earth. (Cries of “Good!'' “Good!” “Good!”) “Yesterday a man in Clarksburg , said to me: ‘But how are you going j to do that?’ I said to him: ‘The peo- [ pie of this nineteenth century will do j it.’ and this meeting here in Wheeling is one of the ways we have of gain ing our point. (Applause.) It is one of the things we have up our sleeve. (Applause.) The other day, in Pitts burg, I received a cypher dispatch, and j an editor came to me and asked me , to let him have the text of it. I said no, that I did not propose to put a gun in a man’s hand, and tell him that ! at a. certain time I would be at the • eofner of Clark street, and that he ; could then and there put a bullet in me. (Applause.) But I added that after a while, when the time came, that dispatch would be at his service, • and even though he might not then want it. he Nvould be welcome to it. j (Laughter.) That is what we are here j in conference to-morrow for—to come • to an understanding as to what we are to do for the miners of West Vir- i ginia, and of Pennsylvania, and Ohio, ! and Illinois, and Indiana, and of Ala- ' bama, and clear out to Colorado, and if you will help us, just as sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the , west, you of West Virginia will be , benefitted as well as the miners of , Pennsylvania or of Illinois. (Applause.) : We can fix such corporations as the Baltimore and Ohio road. We care nothing for Arthur and such men as he. (Cries of: “We are with you!”) “Mr. Debs has only one object in this State. He is not a member of any union connected with it, but he has an honest sympathy with the men who are in it, and so he told Mr. Ratch ford that if his sendees were of any value they were at his disposal. (Ap plause.) That is my position. When the miners of Spring Valley, Ills., ap pealed to our union it was voted to devote a sum of money to the cause of :;pfke, amr ftfaiTteaL strikers all the aid in my power, amr every mile I travel and every' bite I | eat is paid for out of the funds of my local union. "To the business men or \\ neeimg, i 1 want, to state that your interests anr! our’s are identical. I tell you that Is a fact. Why is it that \vh*n the tariff ; was put on sugar, in one day a few ; men cleared ten millions of dollars? , Was that a strike? You say no, it is j lawful. But 1 say it was a strike, and ! as long as we advocate nothing but what is right the day is not far dis- j tant when the people at Washington | will stop selling us out for their per- ; sonal gain. The interests of the busi- | ness men and wage earners should be j more consolidated. Our business men j and wage earners should stand togeth- J | er. (Applause.) i “The newspapers call us ‘agitators.’ j Now, I have no objection to that term i if it is used in the proper sense. Any : question must win by agitation, but many use the word in the sense of re negade. I stand here as a lawyer, pleading the cause of labor, just as an attorney does that of a capitalist. (Ap plause.) Let the people of West Vir ginia be true to themselves, and true to their neighbors. If you are not in the trades unions, get there, for God's sake. If the miners lose this strike, I every one of you will lose something, eveu if you think you are all right, and have a steady job. If the miner goes down, all must go down to some de gree.” At this point the speaker referred to the incident of the denial of free speech at Pocahontas, and said he had not learned until last evening that Po i cahostas was across the Virginia State line, and he tendered an apology to Governor Atkinson for anything which i might been said re-sulting from hta j ignorance of State geography. Mr. Rea I spoke for a few minutes longer in the j same strain, and then gave way to Mr.' Tighe, who at once introduced Mr. Debs, the main speaker of the evening. MK. UKHS Sh'Ciil.UK. Mr. Debs was received with applause as he came forward. When speaking was possible he said: “Ladies and Gentlemen and Fellow Citizens of West Virginia—Such a meeting as this is unusually sign:fl cant. It bears testimony to the fact that the people in every walk of life are aroused, and that thcrj is on , every hand an increasing interest in the labor question, and that it has ex- [ panded to such proportions that it is taking precedence over all other mat- 1 ters. I shall not appeal to your pre judices. I would not if I could arouse your passions or incite the populace, j I appeal to your sense of justness and to your patriotism, and I ask you to examine the conditions under which millions of your fellow beings are dragging out a wretched existence, and to ask you to get closer together— so close that yau can hear one an other’s heart throbs. In the words of Paul, let us reason together. A great strike is in existence More than 180. 000 miners are engaged in a struggle for enough wages to keep soul and body together With their families they represent nearly one million peo ple "There are a great many excellent people who are opposed to strikes un der all circumstances Let me admit in all candor that I, too, am opposed to strikes Most of the time strikes are of little avail, but now and then there comes a time when men must I choose between a strike and starva- • tion and slavery, and such a time is upon us now (Applause > I under stand perfectly the misfortune of being out of employment But there is a condition infinitely worse—that of the American workingman degraded and reduced to a point where he can no longer resist oppression Then it is a duty to strike I would remind you that we live under a strike govern ment (Applause.) Every stripe and star that dignities and glorifies the tlag is the result of a strike. Our fore fathers struck at Lexington, and again at Concord, and so on in a succession of strikes. And against what? Tyr anny and oppression and for liberty and independence, and had it not been for those striking forefathers you and I would to-day be subjects of Great Britain instead of sovereign American citizens. (Applause.) "It is sometimes charged that my colleagues and myself are agitators. I plead guilty to the indictment. (Laughter.I I accept the compliment. (Laughter.) The progress of the world has been made possible only by agi tators. (Applause.) Moses was an ag itator. (Laughter.) So was Socrates. So was Jesus Christ. (Applause.) And the scribes and Ph- s nailed Him to the cross. The world has the happy habit of crucifying its saviors and crowning its oppressors. (Applause.) The trouble is. we have too little con sideration in this world. So far we are creatures of circumstances. (A voice: “That’s the stun.”) I believe in speak ing the truth at all times, though the stars fall. You tell me to respect pub lic opinion. Let me admit to you that j I have no faith in public opinion, as either counsellor or guide. Public opinion, as a general rule, has been and is wrong. The few have always led the world, and finally the minority becomes the majority, and this is the right view. It is not always popular to speak the truth, and no one understands that more perfectly than the ordinary politi cian. (laughter, and a voice: “Hit ’em again. Debs.”) I’ll get around to them before I get through. (Laughter.) There are some people who are perfect ly honest, yet who are inclined to tell the truth about the labor question, yet they say they are with us. If vou are with us. why not speak out? The man who is right ought to speak openly. I believe in keening on good terms with myself, and if 1 am afraid to do so. I am dishonest. Self-respect is a great thing. I don’t want to be in the pre- j dlcament of the man who jumped out of bed In the night and exclaimed: "There is nobody in this room.” (Laughter.) I propose to walk with my self-respect, and go to bed with lqy manhood. (Applause.) I'ontinuoil on f Iffh I’wie. SERIOUS CHARGES Made Against A. W. Stevenson, An East Liverpool Lawyer. Residing in Hancock County, Tl.1 is State. IilLv gC-—a. w. Special to the Register. 'Gt,' ^ Stevenson, a member of the bar of Hancock county, W. Va.t with offices on the South Side, this city, has gone wrong, and by to-morrow there will be a charge of f< rgery against him. Stevenson left this morning after re maining two days in hiding in West Virginia. The past two weeks, nine rotes and two mortgages, aggregating $■2,200, have been discovered. The First National Bank is the heaviest loser. ()» the mortgages even the sig natures of the notary and the recorder were forged. Stevcuson was a promin ent figure in local circles in this city. He was a society man and had a fash ion of spending money freely. When his first difficulty came on. a week ago, the losers were protected and the mat ter was hushed up by friends. When the discovery of the forged mortgages were made to-day. Stevenson left town. More spurious paper is thought to be afloat. A SETTLEMENT Between Browu Bonnelil Iron Co., anti the Workmen, Indep-ndent of the Amalgamated As-ociation Sought For. Youngstown. O.. July 2*5.—A confer ences in progress to-day between the officials of the Brown Honnell Iron Company and their employes. The company is trying to settle the wage scale with their men Independent of the Amalgamated Association and on the basis of the arrangement effected between Jones Air I^aughlins, of Pitts burg, and their employes. President Myron C. Wicl. of the Fnlon Iron Ac Steel Company, said at noon that un less the men in their mills agreed to a similar proposition by this evening, a big order, the option on which ex pires to-day, would go to the Pitts burg firm. A GREAT CROWD Callrri at th«* WhitchoaM Y*»t*r«lajr. < hare*- of thp Forlorn Itrlpada. Washington. July 26.—There wan a great crowd at the White House to day—larger than since the early days of the administration. It was the “eharpe of the forlorn hripade.” as one of the officials put it. the last attempt of the office-seekers to pet a word with the President before he leaves Wash ington for weeks. It is said the President will to morrow reappoint all persons whose j nominations failed of action. I>ater in the day Liliuokalani had a short interview with the President. WASCRUEL. Baroness Blanc Wants a Divorce from j Her Latest Husband, With Whom j She Lived a Month. Chicago. July 26.—• Baroness’' j Blanc, known in private life as Mrs. ! Elizabeth L. Waters, has filed a bill i for divorce from Leeds Vaughan J Waters, to whom she was married ; June 13. 1896. The "Baroness” states in her petition that her husband was extremely cruel during their month of life together. READY FOK A CONFLICT. Seottdale. Pa.. July 2g.—The Scott dale Iron & Steel Works will start to morrow. New men arrived to-day. Idle men are excited. Armed deputies are oi sides are preparing for a I guard. Both anflict The Oriental Kingdom’s Protest Against Annexation, The Predominant Influence of the United States Is Admitted, But the Imperial Government Op poses the Absorption of the Islands by the United States. Washington, July 26.—That Japan will continue to oppose the Hawaiian annexation treaty is shown by the lat est, protest by the Japanese govern ment under date of July 10. which has been made public. Japan's reply is in part as follows: Sir:—Replying to your note of date of the 25th ult. in answer to mine of the 19th ult., regarding the proposed annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States, 1 have the honor tc inform you that I communicated in substance to Count Okouma, from whom I am in receipt of telegraphic instructions embodying the views of the imperial government in relation thereto. Taking note of what you say in re ply to the representation I had the honor to make on behalf on my gov ernment with reference to the neces sity of maintaining the status quo of Hawaii, the imperial government has no hesitation in admitting the pre dominant influence of the United States in the Hawaiian Islands. In their opin ion. however, the very fact that such predominanoee has existed so long un questioned might be urged ns'a reason against the disturbance of the status quo. more especially as practically the whole population of Hawaii acknowl edge the paramount Importance of the relations of their country with the United States, whllo It is understood that only a small fraction of their number favor annexation. From this, it may bo reasonably In ferred that "the predominant and pa ramount influence of the United States,” which as you remark "has been the one essential feature of the status quo through three-quarters of a century In which the constitution and government of Hawaii and the com merce of the Islnnds with the world have undergone notable changes." fur nishes on the on* hand the amplest guarantee against anything inimical to either the Unite.! States or Hawaii, while on the ..hand It obviates the necessity of a chiwge in existing con ditions which wifi injuriously affect Vhe Interests ojjfuher*. amo daily ir>f colonial expansion in commies was cape* ie pMuk^durlox the ueeatie ('irr.njr isi nearly all of the i$ autonomous passed various western ih>{ r.ccunl th** powers pt;u<.l w i! I i: ■ j-r P> stal .«n«l int» rii.it i<»na 1 riv :ilr iuR Interests are new tnJ tinned sotl oner of tho fow rrmair groups. But the absorpt! : si.it. .in ■■■ juirt if t)i.‘ i 'tii lining unnpH^H i.^ion as Hawaii. wnuM the signal fur the revival of territorial ambition In the Parlm^ the last vestige of native untonoi would disappear. And It la not I muc h to apprehend that a partial I distribution of colonial poaaeMlj among tho various western pow] might also follow. It. can easily up seen now inis wo aff< • the int* rest of Japanese aubjt who are n«>w engaging in inereasl numbers in \arious und**i tak'-ms ^ enterprise* In the Pacific with prd to th* a s* I vs ;»n f I advantage to Japj It was espef hilly on account f the pr< alence of the ip iIt of colonial abwl t , n t hat one of your honorable prK (« ors was 1< <1 to declare to the Ol man government that your govrnrnj attac hed (treat importanee to “the mail t. i at . <■ to th" r Jilts to v, hieh the t’Ol ted States had become entitled In the few remaining regions now under In dependent and autonomous native gov ernments in the Pacific ocean. * The justice of that declaration can not he quest ioned. and the imperial gov ernment. entertaining similar views, could not behold with Indifference changes in the Hiatus of those govern ments that, would extinguish Japanese rights. They have no intention of questioning the actual existing situ ation in the Pacific, and certainly no desire to In any wise disturb it; but their position In that part of the world renders it. impossible for them to view with unconcern and in x spirit, of. *e quiesenee the consequence* which would probably follow the extinction of Hawaiian sovereignty. The imperial government recognize* it as a well established principle of international law that the completion of annexation would render the treat ies and conventions at present /‘***j* ing between Japan and Hawaii voidable either at the option of Japan or «he t*nlted States, but they cannot antici pate without apprehension the con*A qutnre* whether direct or Ind.re , which would follow the practical con summation of the theory that anneia tion. ipso facto, mean* the. immediate termination of those treaties and con vention* and the consequent cessa tion for the future of the privilege*, granted thereunder. _o COL. JOHN R. ANDERSON DEAD. Manhattan. Kans.. July 26 —Colonel hn B. Anderfm, one of the oldest id most proof nent citizens-of ren al Kansas, il «l*ad. Colonel Ander n was bom In Washington county i., eighty -year* ago. He graduated om Wa-i/ngion and Jefferon Cot4 ?e In The WMtbrr iVasbinftton. July 26—For West VirJ iia. rain, probaly*clearing Tuesday ernoon:L southwesterly w.nds, dw* ning r.A-tb westerly. ipf, the Opera House drug jthe following observation* oerature yesterday: 7 a. m., [79; 12 m.. 87; 3 p. m., 85;j Weather changeable ^ i '\ ■i