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VOLUME LXXVI. NO. 118.
NOT HER FIGHT
All Russia Wants Is
Peace.
TO SEIZE NO PORTS.
And China Is Safe in the
Pamirs.
YET EUROPE 15 UNEASY
Because of the Illness of the
White Czar.
HIS SUCCESSOR IS AMBITIOUS.
There Is No Telling Just What
Would Follow Mis Acces
sion to the Throne.
. London-, Sept. 25.— European bourse?
are affected by the news of the Czar's
health, as he is recognized as one of the
strongest supporters of peace, and it is
feared in the event of his death his suc
cessor would seize an opportunity to secure
•a naval port on the Pacific and enlaree the
boundaries in the direction of the Pamirs
nt the expense of China, either of which
■ step." it .is believed, would easily precipi
'.Wie a war. ,
• On the other hand a dispatch from St.
Petersburg to-day denies that Russian
troops have gone to Korea, or that
Russia has any intention of doing
anything calculated to disturb the peace
of Europe.
■ A dispatch from Tientsin says an im
perial edict has been issued by the Em
- peror of China expressing regret at the
death of General Tso, killed while leading
a charge at the battle of Ping Yang. The
Emperor has ordered thai posthumous
honors be paid the dead general and im
: perial favors have been bestowed upon his
family.
Lieutenant Ching, first lieutenant of the
Cbin Yuen, the Chinese war vessel suuk
at the battle of Ya!u River, has reached
the Chinese camp on the banks of the
Y;ilu River, He reports the captain of the
Chin Yuen escaped drowning, but died of
his wounds.
A dispatch from Shanghai says: It is
reported that most of the Japanese men
. of- war hare left the island of Hal Yantan.
Their destination Is unknown, and there
. is great uneasiness here regarding their
! intentions.
Chinese agents in Europe and the
United States have been ordered to forth
with purchase any warships they can.
Many vessels loaded with munitions of
war are on their way here from Ham
burg and other European ports.
. . : M. PirrEnsßfiiG.Sept. 25.— 1t is reported
here, with even more particularity than
yesterday, that a Chinese mob has at
tacked and plundered a Siberian railroad
station in a province of Russia and killed
eight Russians who tried to defend the
'station. K.issian troops are in pursuit of
tl.w marauders, who crossed the Chinese
frontier.
JAPANESE KILLED.
Officers Lost in the Great Battle Off
the Yalu.
Yokohama, Sept. 25. — Among the Jap
anese killed in the battle of Yaln River
were Commander Sakomoto of r,he gun
boat Akagi, Lieutenants Tnkala and
Sonuckchi of the cruiser Hashidnte,
Lieutenants Sim 6 and Ito of the
cruiser Xat«usMma, Lieutenant Magal of
the cruiser Akltshima, Lieutenant Asso
of the cruiser Yoshima, Chief Surgeon
.Myack, Chief Paymaster Isiiizuka and
: Surgeon Muiakosl and thirty non-commis
sioned officers and men. Seven hundred
and sixty were wounded.
The German cruiser Alexandrine has
arrived here.
TREATY OF ALLIANCE.
Japan Fights and Korea Furnishes
the Provisions.
Yokohama. Sent. 14 (via Victoria, B.
C, Sei't. — No one now doubts that the
long delay in Japanese military move
ments is to allow time for the completion
. of a great plan of invasion. Any day
may bring news of a battle in Northern
Koiea and of the sailing of 50,000 troops
for some point on the inner coast of the
Guff of Peechili, but as the decisive
lime approaches the Japanese authorities
. crow more and more deaf to appeals for
information. They frankly declare that
' secrecy is one of their chief conditions of
• success.
This belief is not agreeable to the news
paper, correspondents who have recently
arrived from San Francisco and who
strongly desire to be admitted to the confi
dence of the Government. They are offered
transportation to Korea, passports author
izing them to . visit any part of th« penin
, eula ana letters of introduction to the civil
officials at Seoul and the generals of tbe
field.. But they are of the opinion that
' these privileges will avail them little un
less they srj told where they should go to
look for adventures and guaranteed the
right to accompany all important expedi
•■ tions.
•■: This is more than the Government ie at
present willing to concede, and the Eng
. lish correspondents have left for Shanghai
'.in the expectation of finding better op
■ portunities among the Chinese. Two
.American journalists, one representing
..the New York World and the other a con
- tributor to tbe Herald and other papers,
• are now in Hiroshima, on their way to
' Korea.
An impression has been cnoveyed by
English newipapers in Eastern Asia tbat
nbundant and trustworthy supplies of
men can be obtained in China, but an ex
amination of the telegrams sent from
Chinese ports to Europe and America does
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not sustain this belief, s For their various |
accounts of the events since the fight at j
Asßti there is scarcely any foundation.
The Japanese, if silent, do not attempt i
to mi- lead on vital noints. One error and j
one only is laid to their charge. They are
accused of circulating doubtful repoits to
the effect that Admiral Freemantle excul
pated Japan from technical blame in the
matter of the sinking of the Kow Shing.
The Japanese aver that they had and !
still have reason to believe that the state
ment is true. Whether true or false does
not appear to he of the gravest moment,
yet nor a day passes lat fresh changes
are not rung on this alleged endeavor, to
practice fraud and deception upon the
world. If the imperial Government de
sired ti create a sensation by means of
the use of Admiral Freemantle's name,
there is a strong convic in that they |
could easily do so by calling attention to j
that officers correspondence with Admiral '
lio and pointing the way to an inquiry as i
to ie British Admiralty's opinion on the j
subject. But the Japanese Ministry is
the embodiment of official discretion, and j
popular curiosity will probably never be i
satisfied from this end of the liar.
The Japanese military headquarters,
now centered at the Imperial palace iv j
Tokio. Will be transferred on September
25 to the town of Hiroshima, on the inland
sou, fiom which most of the trooDS and
supplies are shipped to K»rea. The Em- {
peror started thither on the 13th accom- |
panied by Conn I Ito, Minister President, |
and the Ministers of War, Marine and j
the Household. It is not expected that
any other departments will be transferred, j
and the general business of the Govern- i
ment will continue at Tokio.
The avfiige dai y expenditure of the
Japanese Government, in connection with ,
me war, is estimated at 300,000 yen, about 1
SEA FIGHT OF JULY 25-CAPTURE OF THE KOW SHING.
Trwn by a Japanese artist from sketches made durlog tbe conflict/
$150,000. On the 18th of August voluntary
contributions to the army iund from nil
of Japan had reached more than 5R0.00Q
yen. The contributions to the naval fund
on the same date amounted to over 200.000
yen.
At the summit of one of the most promi
nent hills in Tokio a Shinto temple has :
been er.'rted in the memory of the sol Hers |
who were killed in the Satsuma rebellion i
of 1877. In this edifice an exhibition was I
opened on September 12 of tbe flags,
cannon, musical instruments and other
spoils captured from the Chinese at Shong
Hwan and Asan. More than 100.000 ein
7.<:n- attended on the first day and nearly
double that number on the second. Great
multitudes of visitors are routing to tbe !
capital for the purpose from a radius of
fifty mips aroimd.
The press of Japan hails with delight an
apparently well-founded | report that the
official censorship is to be greatly modified,
if not abolished. This liberal measure if
carried through will be due to the influ
euce of Count Inouye. who nad strongly
advocated the complete rovision of the ex
ist.ng press laws.
T 1 1 c expediency of organizing expedi
tions to harass tbe coast of China is dis
cussed in the Tokto papers, and it is stated
that several wealthy noblemen are pre
pared to supply the funds required for tbe
undertaking.
Tne following treaty of alliance be
tween Japan and Korea has been signed
by Otori, the Japanese Minister in Korea,
and by Kininsboku, Korean Minister for
Foreicn Affairs :
Since the Korean Government entrusted the
Japanese Minister at Seoul, Korea, on the 25th
of July. 1804, with the task of expulsion of the
Chinese, the troops of the Governments of
Japan and Koiea are already In the position
toward China of mutual assistance, offensive
and defensive, and to define tills fact more
cleaily aud to accomplish the object that hoih
countri-s should act in concert, the undT
sipned ministers, having received full authority
in th'- trailer, have enieied into the following
agreement:
Article I— This alliance bas lor Us object; the
the expulsion of Chioese troops from the
Korean borders, the strengthening of the in
dependence and self-government of Korea and
the furtheiance of the Interests of Japan and
Korea.
A i tide 2— While Japan shall wage war, of
fensive and defensive, against China, Korea
shall render every facility for the movement
of Japanese troops aud the preparation of tneir
provisions.
Article 3-This treaty shall become Dull and
void as soon as peace is concluded with China.
In witness whereof this treaty is signed by
both the plenipotentiaries.
Otori Kast;kk,
Kino.n6Hiku.
Breach of discipline ou the p»rt of Jap
anese soldier* tn Korea and offenses
a B r j n s t natives nre punishpd with risr
orous seventy. For attempting to steal
a pair of Irass chopsticks from the hou«e
of a peasant a hospital guard was con
demned by court-martial to three years' im
prisonment, and for stealinu. with threats
of violence, five meions and a pig another
private was sentenced to thirteen years'
penal servitude.
On the western shore of Korea are now
gathered nearly 100 ships of war of vari
ous nationalities. Japan has between
twenty and thirty, Eneland fjf'een, France
six. Russia eight, the United States four
and Germany seven; while uovi'iiiig at a
little distance, though not easily found,
are between thirty and forty Chinese Tea
sels. Fuither additions from Russia are
presently expected.
The Marquis Sainji, the Japanese Em
pprnr's personal messenger to the court of
Korea, has been received by the Queen,
who has never before been seen face to
face by any foreigner. At a ball given by
the Japanese Minister to Marquis Salnji
the entire body ot court officials was pres
ent, together with all the diplomatic corps,
excepting the representative of England,
whose failure to aitjud was much re
marked.
A Japanese educational society has been
formed by several distinguished scholars,
with tbe purpose of introducing a sub
stantial system of public instruction into
Korea. A considerable sum has been sob
SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1884.
scribed for preliminary investigations, anil
it is proposed to set in operation a number
of primary schools in tbe large towns as
soon as permission can be obtained from
the Government. The expense at the be
ginning will be p«id by voluntary
donations.
The society recommends that schools of
a higher oraer be introduced by the .Tauan
ese authorities with as little delay as pos
sible, and that the people b» practically
encouraged to take full advantage of these
institutions, it is expected that before the
end of this year a regulir courso of study
will have been introduced in the capital,
and the Government will be urged to nsc
Its influence In making tbe schools attrac
tive to the Korean c immunity.
The mouth of the Pelbo River hai been
closed by a banier, which is opened only
on each night ar*d morning for the pas^a^e
of ships. The obstruction consist? of
heavy logs fifteen feet long, poiuting up
and down the river and lying four feet
from each other, fastened with two heavy
chain cables. The bed of the stream is
also Ibicklr strewn with torpedoes.
A report comes from Peking that the
Government fearing entrance into the
Chinese ports of Japanese ships in dis
guise has asked the foreign Ministers to
consent that all foreign men-o:-war under
whatever flag shall be stopped «nd held to
wait thorough Inspection by Chinese naval
officers.
The Chinese authorities believe that
Formosa will be th« scene of serious con
flicts. Detachments of irn.ps and muni
tions of war are constantly sent thither
from Foo Chow, and fie Chinese part of
the island is in k 'tnte of uncommon mi -
'ary activiiy. After many con'ra'ii'ctory
rep its the news is declared to be con
firmed that fifty Japanese emigrants en
gaged in collecting camphor in Formosa
were murdered by Cliiiese at the begin
ning of tbe war.
Though lead has bsen declared contra
band of war by China, vessels laden with
that munition are permitted to leave
ilone-Koiie for Chinese ports, whil- trie
shipment of rice, when England refuses
to consider contraband, is forbidden from
Hong-Kong to Japan.
WAR NEWS UNRELIABLE
Still It Is Not Pleasant Traveling in
the Orient.
Victoria, B. C. Sept. 2"> — The Em
press of lndi« arrived this evei inc. eleveu
days from Yokohama. As she was leaving
the latter place the first news of the re
sumption of hnstilitips was received. She
was guided Into all Japanese ports by war
ships and at Shanghai was inspected for
contraband of war.
The passengers are a unit in comment
ing on the unreliability of war news cir
culated throughout the Orient. On the
day before the ship reached Kobe she
picked uo four Japauese castaways in a
junk. They had been two days without
food or water. She landed them at Kobe.
OFFICIAL ADVICES.
The Japanese Consul Informed Con-
corning the Big Naval Battle.
Consul S. Chinda, representing the Mi
kado and tbe empire of Jatnn in Sun
Francisco, has received an official dispatch
concerning the naval battle of Septem
ber 17.
The dispatch sates that the battle listed
from 1 p. m. to 5 p. m. of the above date.
It took t»lace thirty-live milps northwest of
Hai-Yang island, aixtv mil« 3 from the
tmiuth ol the Yalu River. There were
eleven Japanese men-of-war, with six
torpedn-bnat*.
The Chinese vessels Yang- Wei and Chow
Yung, each of 1350 tons; the Lv-Yuen,
2900 tons and the Ching YueD. 2:? no tono,
were sunk. The Line-Yuen. 7b36 tons;
the King-Yuen, 2900 tons, and the Ping-
Yuen, 2731 tons, eaucht tire and were de
stroyed. The rest of the Chinese fleet,
badly damaged, tied to the coast of China.
On the Japanese side the Akag', 622
tons; the Matsushima, 4278 tons, and the
Hi-Yu, 2284 tons, were mure or less dam
aged, but ;.ll returned to their station. In
this engagement the Japanese lost nine
officers and thirty sub-officers and men,
who were killed. The wounded numbered
160 officers and men.
FEAR OF THE KAFFIRS.
They Threaten a Town on Dela
goa Bay.
It Is Held by the Boers, Though
It Belongs to the Portu
guese.
LornKxzo Mauquez, Delacoa Bay,
Sept. 25.— Several thousand Kaffirs are
threatening to attack this town. The Gov
ernment has distributed arms among the
white population for defense. Lourenzo
Marquez is the walled Portuguese town of
Africa, on the noith side of Delagoa Bay.
It has a population of about 3000, and is
protected by roughly constructed old forts.
The Transvaal lenders have lone been
anxious to secure control of the Delagoa
Bay Railroad and to have a seaport,
Lourenzo Marquez being preferred. With
this object the Boers recently sent $250,000
to London to purchase bond?, which Por
tugal is expected to issue as soon as the
Berne arbitrators have decided the ques
tion of boundaries. : September 15 advices
from Pretoria said the Transvaal Govern-'
ment has acquired prior rights In Delagoa
Bay, including the control ox port dues,
thus giving the Transvaal a commanding
position and free access tj these. ;v-
OPEN THE FIGHT.
Harrison and McKinley on
the Stump.
TRUTH FOR DEMOCRATS
To!d in Fashion That Is Wonder
fully Telling.
LEARNED TALK OIN THE TARIFF.
The Worst Is That Yet Further As
saults Upon American Indus
tries Are Threatened.
Indianapolis, Sept. 25— Governor Mc-
Kinley of Ohio opened tbe Republican
campaign in this Siate to-day. lie was
introduced to an audience that packed
Tomlinson Hall by ex-President Harrison.
The two famous leaders were received
with great enthusiasm.
In iitroducing Major McKinley to his
audience rx-President Harrison said:
"My fellow-citizens: The delightful
duty has been aligned me by t\\n State
Central Committee of the RepuMican
party of Indiana to preside over this grant
meeting. lam to be its chairman, not its
speaker, and 1 congratulate you on that
fact. [Laught-r.j
"Two years ago this country was not
only the most prosperous country In the
world— for that it had been before — but it
stood upon the highest pinnacle of pros
perity that it had ever [Cheers.]
"This is n< t the verdict of pol ticians, it
is the verdict of the commercial reports; it
is the expressed opinion of those men who
make a profession of studying business
conditions. The last two years have been
years of distress and disaster; the losses
of them defy the skill of the calculator.
It has been said, and I think not without
reasoo, that they exceed the cost of the
great civil war. These losses have not
been class losses, they have been distrib
uted.
"Tiie bolder of stocks and bonds has
found his wealth shrinking and so has the
farmer as the workingman has found his
wages sbritiking. There has been a gen
eral parlici; ati n iv the calamities of the
pa*t two yeaia. as there ww a general
participation in tbe prosperity of ttie pre
ceding years. Great national losses, like
those of the civil war, have sometimes
their adequate compensations. Great as
was the civil war for tbe Uuion, we feel
:hat it was adequately compensated in the
added glory that was given to the flag and
in the added security that was given to
our civil instititions and the unity ol the
nation. [Cheers.]
"Bat the losses of the last two years
have no such compensating thought.
Tnere is no good to be gottnn out of them
[laughter] except for guidance. They
seam to l.aye been ol a retributive nature.
Like the swamp, into which a traveler was
uuconsciously driven, they have no ame
liorating suggestion except that they tea h
him to keep on the foothills and on tbe
roads that are on the hilltops.
"We were told the rich were getting
richer and the pior poorer, and t> cure
hat imaginary ill our political opponents
have broudit in a time in which every
body is eettine pDorer. [Great applause.]
I think 1 remember to have heard once of
an inscription on a tombstone Unit ran
somethiug like this:
" 'I was well; I thought to be better; 1
took medicine, and here I lie.'
"Our Democratic friends have passed a
tariff bill that is approved, so far as I can
learn, by six Democratic Senators and by
nobody else. Mr. Cleveland has repudi
aied it and has declared that it involves
perfidy and dishonor, that it was ho
shamelui in its character and influences
that he would not even put his name to
It. All the leading Democratic papers in
the country have condemned it, both of the
o!d stalwart variety and of the mugwump
variety.
"Tho Democratic chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee has condemned it
and the entile Democratic majority in tbe
House of Repiesentatives condemn It.
Sow that is a ereat misfortune, it is a
misfortune that the Democratic par y was
not able to evolve a tariff b 11 that the party
would accept as a settlement of the tariff
question. But it is not accepted as a settle
ment. Already we bave a proclamation
from Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Wilson that
this is only the beginning of the crusade
against American industries.
".Now that is also a great mlsfortnne. If
we could have been told by our Demo
cratic friends that we were at the bottom
of tbe well — dark, damp and dismal— we
would have begun to look up to see
whether we could not find some star of
hope. We would bave begun to anoint
our bruises and try to build some scaffo d
by which we ought climb out. But we
are told there are lower depths in store for
us. So this country is to be held in a
state of suspense.
'Tt can be ended in ju«t one way, and
that is by an overwhelming Republican
victory in November. When New York
gives Levi P. Morton 75,000 majority and
Indiana her State ticke 25,000, and Illinois
and those States that have wavered f«ll
again into the line and the next Congress
ie republican, there will be an assurance
that we have found the end of this disas
trous condition. [Cheers.]
"I think tbe Ohio Democrats the other
day declared all these disasters of which
we speak came, upon the country under
the MoKinlev bill. Well, to be sure, the
McKinley biil was a law until the 29: h day
of August, when tbe Gorman bill was
passed. It had been arrested. We were
listening from day to day to prophecies
that in from two weeks to three or lour
that it would be repealed.
'^t was not a law in any sense that any
merchant or manufacturer could act upon
it. It was dead in a business sense, though
alive on the btatute-books. Why, sir, it
would be just about as reasonable to com
plain of a man who bad been arrested.
handcuffed and locked up in a ceil for not
supporting his family as to complain lhat
the MeKmley bill did not give prosperity
during this period of suspense.'
"And then we are told that under the Me-
KiiWey bill the price of wool went down and
that sinco it has been made free it is going
up; that sugar no the free list was higher
than sugar at a 40 per cent duty, and all
this, notwi hstanding the old Democratic
doctrine that tie duty was always added
to the cost of the domestic article."
General Harrison then made a neat
speech, presenting Governor McKinley.
McKinley opened with eulrgistic ref
erences to the administration ol President
Harrison, under which, he said, the coun
try prospered as it had never prospered
before or since. The address was devoted
almost wholly to the discussion of t!ie
tariff, and especia ly t c effect of the
Democratic tariff law. The Governor pre
sented a phase of the law recently parsed
which was a startling surprise to the au
dience.
The sugar schedule (Schedule E), he
said, in effect, provides for the continua
tion of the treaty of 1875 made with the
King of the Hawaiian Islands, under
whien all sugar Irom those islands was ad
mitted free. This provisiou was Inserted
by the Senate,
•'lt gives the Sugar Trust," said Gover
nor Mciunley, "an advantage which has
not heretofore been suspected. Suzarpro
duction in the Hawaiian Islands is under
the control of the Sugar Trust; that coun
try Is the fiehi of its primary i pentiou.
"The Democratic party took away from
the sugar-vaiscr* of tne Uniied States a
bouniy of $10,000,000 a year and beslowed
a bounty ol $0,000,000 a year on the sugar
producers of the Hawaiian Islands, giving
them an advantage over not only the
sugar-producers of the United States, but
of the whil> world outside of the islands.
"When we made the tariff law of 1890 and
took away all the tariff from sugar we
gave to the cane-producers and the beat
producers and the maple-sugar producers
a bounty equivalent to the tariff and we
said in that law that bounty should stand
for fifteen years. This is all wiped out by
the law of IWH. What is there more sacred
tnan a solemn contract made with our own
citizens."
Turoineon the question of money Gov
ernor McKiuley said: 'Our money is all
good, whether it be in silver, national
bank notes, or greenbacks or treasury, or
gold or silver certificates, every dollar is
go d. To cet the mon^v out among the
people is the serious problem to-day. To
do this we must not only have something
to sell, but be able to fiud somebody to
buy. If we are compelled to keep it we
suffer the loss in whole or in part of what
it costs us to produce it.
"Banks are filled with money; money
was never more plentiful or less employed
than it is now. It is because it is not em
ployed that we have the stagnation in
business which distresses the country, and
the reason it is not employed is that
the iuvitatiou to safe and profitable in
vestment is not presented. It is not the
lack of money nor the kind of money that
is the trouble, it is the lack of prosperous
manufacturing and tbe absence of con
fidence in the party managing i c Govern
ment, and we want faith in the future.
"When confidence and hope are every
where manifested, manufacturers are busy
and laborers employed, and when both are
engaged tnerein with a fair profit and with
fair wapps, then agriculture is prosperous
and money has free and healthy circula
tion."
ONLY A FEW BONES.
All That Wild Beasts Left of
Colgate.
Many Points Prove That the Cook of
the Carlin Party Was
Deserted.
Portland, Or.. Sept. 25.— News reached
here this afterr.oon that the body of Col
gate, the cook for the Ciirlin party, had
been found on tbe Clearwater River,
Idaho. The Carlin party went on a hunt
ing trip In the mountains last November
and took Colgate as cook. They were
caught in a snowstorm atid narrowly es
caped death. Colgate was left behind,
being too weak to travel.
Missocla, Mon;., Sept. 25 —The Mis
soullan to-morrow morning will contain a
sensational story of the recovery and
burial of the remains of George Colgate,
the deserted co nk of the notorious hunting
party headed by William E. Carlin, the
son of General Car in, late commander of
the Department of the Columbia.
The discovery was made about August
23 by Lieutenant Elliott, eight miles be
low the spot where the desertiou occurred,
cq Clearwater River. All that remained
of Colgate's body was a thigh Done and
one lee, and thesr had been mangled and
gnawed by wild beasts infesting that
region. It is presumed that the balance
of the remains were carried away by ani
mals into the mountain fastnesses. At the
same spot also was found the matchbox,
fishing line and other articles identified as
Colgate's property.
The remains were iaterred in Lower Hot
Springs on tbe lower fork of tbe Clear
water. Lieutenant Elliott was sent out on
this mission by the present commander of
tbe Department of the Columbia, to which
officiel be made a full report, there being
many points tending to prove that Col
gate's desertion by the Carliu party was
cowardly in the extreme.
WHISKY TRUST SOUND.
At Least That Is What Its Treasurer
Says.
Cincinnati, Sept 25.— A broker re
ceived a telegram from Jilew York to-day
stating that an examination of the affairs
of the whisky trust was being instigated
by tbe American Distributing Company,
which claims the trust owes the distribu
tors $192,000 on rebates overdue. William
M. Hobart, treasurer for tbe whisky trust,
when apprised of this telegram, said it was
true that about the sum named will be due
to tbe distributors and fiat It would be
paid as soon as due. he said tbe trust
did not owe a cent on whisky it had taken
out of bond when the present law came
into force.
REPRESENTATIVE PEERS.
That Is the Scheme Proposed by
Mr. Chamberlain.
London, Sept. 25.— Joseph Chamber
lain, speaking at Leeds this evening ou
the question of the abolttiou of the House
of Lord*, said lie would favor any reason
able proposal t > strengthen the House of
Lords by giving it the authority and power
derived by the United States Senate from
the representative principle.
Cash in the Treasury.
Washington, Sept. 25.— The cash bal
ance in the Treasury to-d*y was $123,760,
--090. of wnich $58,296,232 was gold reserve.
HILL'S BIG TALK.
Calling the Democrats
to Battle.
VICTORY YET TO BE WON.
Despite the Boasts of New York
Republicans.
COMMENDATION OF CLEVELAND.
The Senior Senator From the Empire
Mate Also Tardily Commends
the Wilson Bill.
Saratoga, N. V., Sept. 25.— The State
Democratic convention to nominate candi
dates for Governor, Lieutenant-Governor
and Court of Appeals Judge was called to
order here to-day by Senator Murphy,
cbairmau of the State Committee. He
named David B. Hill as temporary chair
man. Mayor Gilroy of New York and
Hon. Daniel L. Wood of Erie escorted
Senator Hill to the platform and then
there occurred a remarkable scene. The
vast body of delegated stood on chairs,
waving handkerchiefs and yelling them
selves hoarse, as from different corners of
the audience came demands ot "Three
cheers for Hill." Pandemonium reigned
for at least five minutes. Senator Hill
stood pale and motionless until the ap
plause had subsided, and then, at 1:20,
began to speak, partially extempora
neously and partly from notes. He said:
"The unterrified Democracy of the Em
pire Mat- assemble here to-day undis
mayed at the premature boasts and as
sumed confidence of our adversaries. We
are not unaccustomed to their annual and
mo^s-covered came of political bluff, re
uewed this year wiln extraordinary
vehemence and unblushing effront-ry. If
vain boasts alone could bring victory their
battle is indeed won before it is a.-tually
commenced; but we beg to remind them
that there has not been a campaign in this
State during the past twelve years when
they did not assume in August and Sep
tember that they had carried it, when in
truth during the whole period, with one
single exception, victory has perched upon
our banners on the tirst Tuesday in No
vember of each year. We win our vic
tories on election days, and Dot by ex
uberant bravado in convention halls.
"The unexpected victory of our oppo
nents last fall has turned their heads and
rendered tiiem arrogant and opinionated.
They fail to recall the fact that the total
vote Dolled was nearly 300,000 short of the
full vote of the State. It was a victory
which they themselves did not anticipate
and which their surtrised and astute
leaders the Dext day after the election
humorously attributed to divine provi
dence and not to Republican strength.
With united battery and a united vote
Ne*v York is still a Democratic State, and
if we are true to ourselves she will this
year resume her place in the Democratic
column.
"Our opponents, by the vigorous beat
iog of bogus political tomtoms and an in
sistence upon petty and misleading local
issue?, seek to divert public attention
from the unenviable record they made
during the recent four years of control of
the Federal Government. The people,
however, h^ve not forgotten that it was a
Rapublican administration which in that
ill-fated year, 1890, saddled the country
with the unwise and vicious legislation
which has since crippled its prosperity,
endangered its finances and augmented its
public burdens.
"People remember that the Sherman
silver bullion purchase law was the pro
dact of Republican statesmanship, against
trie enactment of which every Democrat
in Congress voted. li9honldbe borne in
mind that the financial panic was a Repub
lican panic in its Inception, continuance
and disastrous effects. It was under a
natioual Democratic administration that
the Sherman and Federal election laws
were repealed, and in the first year of our
administration, and in ensuing Congres
sional elections the spectacle will be wit
nessed for the first time in twenty-four
years of State elections conducted as they
ought to be, without Federal interference,
dictation or intimidation.
"The enactment of the McKinley tariff
was the culminating alrocity of Republi
can iPi kl'ssnoss in legislation. It was the
very person location of protectionism run
mad. It was the inauguration of a huge
scheme of Governmental partnership with
private business interests. The reaction
which followed in the elections In the fall
of 1890, and was reiterated in the elections
of 1890; was the natural and legitimate ex
pression of the popular indignation at the
party which had basely surrendered to the
mercenaries within its own ranks, and had
bartered away the public good for selfish
greed. We promised the people
that, if intrusted with power, this
vicious, un-American and objection.
abla law should be repealed and
we rejoice to-day in the fulfillment of that
pledge. The McKinley law has 'gone
where the woodbine twinetli'— gone to stay
—never to be re-enacted again by any
political party. Without retracting a sin
gle word which £ have uttered in the Sen
ate in criticism of a measure, while en
gaged in the effort to perfect it and render
it. more acceptable, now that it has been
passed and become a law it must be con
sidered as a whole, treated largely as a
uartv measure at <1 contrasted with the
McKi.iley law. Uninfluenced by any
personal disappointments or any pride of
opiuion, I may be permitted to tpeak of
the measure as it is— nothing extenuate,
nor set down aught in malice. Of its
strictly tariff features it may truthfully be
urged that it is a vast improvement over
the McKinley law and will clearly demon
strate its superiority as time rolls on and
business in tins country shall adjust
itself to its provisions. It recognizes in
part at least (be Democratic doctrine of
free raw materials. It may be safely as
serted that toe new law will not cripple
or embarrass a single industry in the land,
nor throw out of employment a single
wotkintjman, nor unduly stimulate over
production on the oue hand nor exorbi
tant importations on the other.
"Fellow-Democrats of the Empire State
and of the country, the duty of this hour
is not raih criticism of the Democratic
leaders or Democratic measures, uot
mutual recriminations, nor conflicting
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n|>#»CHOICE SELECTIONS, BY
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■ 111 I MAYNE HAWTHONE. TENNYSON
U\J\M REID, CARLVLE, COOPER,
SEE DUMAS, BLACK, BRADDON
LARGE AD. And Other Popular Writers
PRICE FIVE CENTS
councls, out It is a time for conciliation'
for unity of purpose, for an aggressive
campaign. The control of both legislative
departments of the Government is at stake
in the coming election. luterparty strife
must now cease and our atiacus be re
served for the foes who are already
forming their lines of battle against us.
Democratic national and State adminis
tration must alike be loyally supported.
''The administration of President Cl»ve
land has been economical, painstaking
and patriotic. The various departments
of the national Government have been
conducted with success, and the Demo
cratic party, as a whole, is fitted to the
confidence of the masses of the people
whose interests it endeavors faithfully to
serve.
"The administration of our State gov
ernment under Democratic auspices h«9
merited the public confidence. We have
given to the State wise laws; we havo re
formed abuses; we have aided the cause
of labor, and we have contribuied largely
to the added greatness, prosperity and
W ®,l fare of our Brand old commonwealth.
"The Democratic party stands in this
State as it has ever stood, for that religious
liberty which is guaranteed by our consti
tution, and I arraign the Republican party
lor its covert sympathy with and encour
ment of the proscriptive spirit, which at
tempts to set up a religious test as a quali
fication for official preferment in this laud
of the free, and which Is propagated by a
certain political organization which de
serves execration at the hands of every
fair-minded man, but whicn the Republi
can State Convention last wees distinctly
refused though earnestly ;\sked to con
demn."
Senator Hill declared that Governor
Flower was amonu the greatest Governors
New York State had ever had, and pre
dicted that Governor Sheehan, whom he
designated as yuung and brilliant, had a
dazzling future. The Senator then con
cluded as follows: ''Sinking: every preju
dice, subordinating every selfish con
sideration, actuated only by high and
patriotic motives, realizi g how much is at
stake to be won or lost, mindful of the
grand traditions which belong to the p^trty
of Jefferson, Jackson and Tilden.knowiuga
united Democracy in this State means an
old-fashioned Democratic triumph, let us
buckle on our armor and together inarch
Mike the Macedonian phalanx of old. with
locked shields and measured tread,' to the
contest that awaits us with courage, with
resolution, with confidence, believinu that
our cause is just and that God and the
right will purely give m the victory."
Senator Hill was frequently interrupted
by applause, parti -ularly in his arraign
ment of the McKinley tariff. President
Cleveland's name *nt the convention wild.
aud Senator Hill's commendations were
loudly cheered. When he alluded to the
A. I\ A. and condemned its methods there
was applause from almost every perscn in
the house. Allusions to the record of
Governor Flower evoked very hearty ap
plause. At tee close the usual commit
tees were appointed and the convention
adjourned until tc-morrow at noon.
WHITNEY CAN HAVE IT.
On a Platform Which Declares That
the Tariff Is Settled.
Saratoga. Sept. 25.— "There i 3 no situ
ation and there will be no situation until
William C. Whitney arrives In New York
and gives his ultimatum. If be says 'No,'
then there will be a hustle on the part of
the prominent candidates and undoubtedly
the sprinelng up or new candidates that
would prolong this convention over Thurs
day," said a party leader to-night.
The convention meets In the Casino
rink, where Governor Flower was nomi
nated in 1891, at noon to-morrow. Mr.
Lockwood of Buffalo will come into tue
field as a prominent candidate against
John Btiyd Thatcher, Frederick Cook and
Judge Gayner, and the fight will be a
lively one if Mr. Whitney declines the
nomination.
The outline of the platform as adopted
by the sub-commit cc, to be presented to
the full committee in the morning, is as
follows:
National Issues — Congratulates the
Democratic administration oa the careful
and conscientious manner in which the
business of the country is attended to by
the appointmen t of efficient officers t > the
heads of public departments; congratu
lates the party upon the repeal of the
Sherman law, which was eating out the
vitals of the financial body politic; upon
the repeal of the partisan legislation
known as the Federal election law, which
will lessen the expenditures of the nation
by millions and promote pure elections.
Tariff— Asserts that the new tariff law
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