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KIND WORDS FOR COCKRELL. Chandler Declares He Would Win if Ran for Presidency. Washington, April 20.—William E. ,a New England senator who ofcourse is a dyed in the wool re- blican, made some interesting dis- closures of personal conviction con- eerning the forthcoming presidential campaign. “Do you know, should do if I were managing the democratic party and wanted it to win the presidency thisyear. I would pomina Hof Missouri and leave the making of the platform to whoever desired to do that work.” This of course, sounds str: “he began, “what I te Francis Marion Cock ge, coming from a man who thirty-f rsago thought all the men like Cockrell at that time had horns and hoofs; a man who believed every rebel in arms should be shot without mercy. “] have been in thesenate with this one-time coniederate brigadier nearly twenty years, and IT am convinced that he is the most practical, if not the most powerful, intellectual factor in the democraticequation. Though astout and an intelligent democrat, heis less a partisan in matters of kgislation than anybody that I have ever known in either branch of con- He is able, clear-headed, far- sighted, clean and patriotic. Though for four yearsin arms against the government, I conscientiously believe that the people of all sections would forgive him for that when his remark- able record in the senate was prop- erly laid before them. There is not a member of the senate who could not testify to the belief that if he were ele- vated to the presidency he would Le entirely safe in that great oftice. No section of interest the country would appeal to him over another. Of course, Bryan is going to be nom- inated and this talk about Cockrell is purely speculative. But as a repub- licean, I am delighted that there is not the least prospect of the Missourian’s nomination for president. If there wasachance of his being placed at the head of the democratic hosts in the great battle soon to open Ishould very much despair of the re-election of McKinley.” of Nothing has ever been produced to equaloreompare with Tabler’s Buck- eye Pile Ointment as curative and healing application for piles, fissures, blind and bleeding, external or inter- nal, and itching and bleeding of the rectum. The re! iminediate and cure infallible. Price 50 ets. in bot- tles, tubes T5cts. At H. L. Tucker's drugstore. BOERS GET THE BE Brandfort. Orange Free State, Monday, April 23.—A British column in the direction of Bultfontein and Hoopstad has been beaten back through Boshof. The federals sus- tained two casualties and the British had twelve men killed and a number wounded. Yesterday General Kelley-Kenny’s artillery at De Wet’s Dorp indulged ina mild bombardment of General De Wet’s position, the firing lasting through the morning. The scareity of water is supposed to be very press- ing at Bloemfontein. A desperate attempt was made by alarge British force in two columns Yesterday to recapture the water works. Their right flank was beaten back, however, a party of iy eut off and twelve men were killed. The Johannesburg command has eaptured a British scout. Some American scouts have been shot. were A Republican View of It. Washington Correspondent of the Chicago Rec- ord. Everybody is glad to have the Puerto Rico bill out of the way. It! has been an incubus upon the repub- liean party ever since it was reported from the committee of ways and Means, and a great annoyance to the President. It has cost a number of congressmen their seats in congress. and unless something happens to divert public attention it will give the! democrats a majority in the next! house. Everybody except its author | and involuntary defenders unite in} condemning it as the most unfortu-/| Rate and disastrous piece of legisla-| tion that has been introduced in} congress for years, and it will un-| TIME OF REFORM IN KANSAS CITY. Democrats Unearth Republican Schemes by Which City’s Revenue Was Filched. TREASURY ALMOST EMPTY. Republic, 26th. The new democratic officials of Kansas City are just beginning to uncover the frauds and the salary grabs with which thecity government under the republicans was impreg- nated. It has already gone far enough to show conclusive evi- dence of the official corruption that had fastened itself on all the depart- ments. Mayor Reed of Kansas City said yesterday toa Republic reporter: ‘Although I have been in office but a short time, we have discovered monumental scheme which the repub- licans were using to mulet Kansas When I took charge of the mayor's office there was less than $200 in the city treasu It had been drained to the last dregs, and the new officers will have to wait City of its revenue. some time to secure their salaries. Besides that, it was evident that street work i ve to be sus- pended because of lack of funds. The city departments were packed with henchmen who did nothing but draw their It was outrageous. A bill has been introduced in the city council which will reduce this expend- alaries. iture more than $20,000 per annum. This will permit us to have more rev- enue for the various places where it It has been paid out in the days of the republican ma- chine, under Jones, to the leeches who is badly needed. were fastened onto the offices.” Mr. Reed has sounded the keynote of reform retrenchment in The parallel case and no uncertain wor of the St. Louis der the Ziegenhein machine to that of City under the regime is strangely marked. The of- fices of the city been packed with useless clerks who constant drain the city Places have made sin this ward andthat until ity government un- Kansas Jones government have are a treasury. for heele! the pay roll has grown to such great on been proportions that the total frightens even the party leaders themselves ev- ery time they think about it. In Kansas City the republican cam- paign was conducted on the propesi- tion of an inerease in the taxation to pay for The people saw it was a game to load neces: improvements. a more useless employes on the city. and their votes at the election plain- ly demonstrated what they thought about it. The democrats sweeping victory. In St. Louis the shortage in the revenue if thecity may be attributed to the bad manage- ment of the affairs of the city, and the padded pay rolls w hich the city hall machine is forced to support to keep its party workers in line. won a Oklahoma Territory. GALENA, OKLA., APRIL 21, 1900. Ep. Trmes:—I will send you a few items from Oklahoma. This is a fine cattle country. The hillsand valleys are green with grass with thousands ofeattle to eat it. Wheat is fine, there will be a big harvest. Nearly everybody is done planting corn and kaftir corn; hundreds of people are to this country seeking No little farms here; all have This the best place for a poor man I ever saw. no body frets and worries, while we sleep the cattle and are growing. The merchants well; have no jewing over a penny on the yard. the merchant sets his price and we give it, and that’s the way things move in Oklahoma. We have good churches and Sabbath schools Yours truly, Van KRETZINGER coming homes. 160 acres of land. is wheat are doing we Every Parish Democratic. New Orleans, April 13.—To-day’s returns do not change the result of yesterday's election. W. W. Heard, democratic candidate for governor, appears to have carried every parish in the state. The sugar district almost solidly democratic in both branches. The constitutional amend- ment authorizing the city of New is » doubtedly prove as destructive to Politieal life as the salary grab bill that was passed by the forty-second congress. | Unless a woman eats sufficient nourishing food she ean neither gain nor keep a good complexion. Food, when digested, isthe base of all health, all strength and all beauty. Hereive will help digest what you = eat, and give you the clear, bright, _ beautiful skin of health. Price 50cts -and75 cents. At H. L. Tucker's drug store. Orleans to issue $14,000,000 bonds for water, sewerage and drainage improvements has carried overwhelm- ingly. The total vote in New Orleans was 21,648, slightly over half of the registration. Heard reeeived 18,051 Cafferey 2 Reams 2.674 and é Heard’s majority is 14.454. The! returns received to-day indicate that the democrats carried their local tickets throughout nearly every parish in the state. Two Kinds of Expansion. Admitting for thesake of argument that the McKinley plan of expansion is a good thing, it will be instructive to compare what the republican president has done with what was ac- complished by democratic execu- tives. Facts concerning the history of ter ritorial growth are found in a little book just published in Boston under the title of ‘Territorial Aggrandise- ment of the United States.” This work is simply historical and entirely nonpartisan. Following are some of the interest- ing statistics found in this book: “Louisiana purchase in 1803—by Jefferson—area 864,931 acres. to be Pop- ulation at date of acquisition 80,000. Population in 1890, 11,000,000, in- habiting the of Arkansas, lowa, Missouri, Nebraska, North and stutes South Dakotas, nearly the whole of Louisiana, the whole of Indian Ter- ritory, and the greater parts of Kan- sas, Minnesota, Montana and Wy- oming and parts of Colorado and Oklahoma. “Florida purchase in 1819—Area 59,268 acres. Population at date. 1 of purchase 4,000; population in 1890, 6,000,000, including Florida, and small parts of Alabat ana and Missi “Texas annexation in Louisi- sippi. 1845—area 8s. Population at date of acquisition 150,000; population in 1890, 2,300,000, including and small parts of Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas and Oklahoma. “Mexican cessions in 1846 and 187 —Area, 591,313. Population at date of acquisition, 80.000; population in 1890, 1,600,000, including Arizo- California, Nevada, Utah and parts of Colorado and New Mexico and a small part of Wyoming.” Texas 3 na, All of these acquisitions were se- cured by democratic presidents, Jeff- erson. Monroe, Polk and Pierce. Com- menting on this sort of expansion, the Pittsburg Post sa) “They compr acres, as against which ean area of 1,890,- 827.844 acres, constituted the of the union the constitution was formed. They had a population of 314,000 at the time of their acquisi- tion. area when They now have a population than 20,000,000, occupy- of not les: ing twenty states and territories of They ecoustituting the American union are self- the backbone of the republic, with an in- governing states, telligent, patriotic and progressive population. They have become the nary of the world and supply a large proportion of the world’s yield of gold, silver, copper and other metals. No imperialism or colonial- ism among any of them. They were acquired with the intent they should become states, and free and equal states they are. They added vastly to the natural wealth and power. sion.” Now, what has McKinley done? By the acquisition of Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippines, he has ac- quired a total area of 124,758 acres and a population of 7.864,708 of every complexion known tosunshine, save the pure, unadulterated Cau casion; they are black, brown and copper and the McKin administration is now loudly pro- claiming they are incapable of self- government, or fitted to enjoy the rights and privileges of American citizens, or the benefits and guaran- tees of constitutional government. Is it necessary to argue on the mer- its of the two kinds of expansion? Assuredly not. The facts are more have This was democratic expan- colored, eloquent than words.—Chicago Dis- patch. Three Murderers Hanged. MeMinnville. Tenn., April 25.—Jno. Watson and Bill Brown, both white, and Sonnie Crain, colored, were hang- ed here to-day. Watson war convicted of having shot his neighbor. James Hillis. from ambush in Decegnber, 1898 Brown wascharged with complicity in the murder of his wife. Crain was a double murderer. He was convicted of having killed anoth- er negro and while serving his sen- tence killed John Brown, a fellow- prisoner, in the jail here. Preaches in the Open Air. Manchester, April 22.—Rev. Dr. Talmage, on leaving the church here to-day, where he had preached. was called upon by an immense throng} who had been unable to enter the building. and was urged to speak again. He complied. preaching in| the open air. General Wheeler's Resigauatien. Washington. D. C., April Wheeler to-day sent his resignation | as member ofcongressfrom Alabama to speaker Henderson. Gen. Wheeler} is to receive an appointment as brig-! adier general in the regular army. BEGS TO BE HANGED. Prisoner in Kansas Makes an Unusual Request. OTHERS FEEL AS HE DOES. Death Penalty Is Never Intlicted in Kansas, Although Life Term Pris- oners Prefer It. Kan., April 26.—Taylor Cook, a convict and now in the peni- Topeka, tentiary at Ft. Leavenworth, has petitioned Goy. Stanley that the death sentence be carried out and that he be hanged for the murder of which he stands convieted According to the law of Kansas a murder is punishable by death. But for thirty years no convictin Kansas has suffered the death penalty, each governor during that period has re- fused tosign the fatal rant. Somebody has said that ** death war- no want is more terrible than and the terrible say illustrated in Taylor Cook's Cook was sentenced to the peniter Es the want to die,” gis well more story tiary ten years ago for the brutal | murder of his wife. Henow demands most delicate skin. It i that the full penalty of the law be -s r } eniintecd. cleansing the pores of al This is the third time that Cook has begged the governor of Kansas to earry out his official duty under} the statutes There are sixty convicts in thestate vee I c under advisement and it is belie venitentiary ¢ wavenworth con-| 4; } } : - y at Leavenworth con-| chat Cook will be adjudged insane victed of murder and waiting only i } th se © thed ; a and sent to an asylum 1e signing of the death warrant by| -p , ai octaves tae 3 The fact. however, that about one some governor to pay the penalty Olt at of those ander practical death their crimes. Out of this sixty it is said that twenty are awaiting eager- ly the outcome of Taylor Cook's pe- tition. Should sentence in the penitentiary and by the custom of the state serving a life hard labor, all declare that they will follow Cook’s example, sentence at Gov. Stanley consent to < argues at least that Cook's is not an sign the death warrant these twenty ; 2 unusual feeling among the life con- men will demand a like release for vin themselves within a short time Sa = Six other convicts have madethe| For whooping cough, asthma, same strange request within a few| bronchitis, or consumption, no medi- years. None of them, however, have| {2° edu Ballard’s Horehound S s Syrup > cents and 50 cents; so persistently urged theexecutive to tH I inflict the death penalty. It has often been claimed that in disregarding the statute which makes murder offense punishable death the governors of Kansas have an by Victim Used His Revolver When Ques- inflicted a penalty ten-fold more se- tioned as to Identity. This < to have received verification in the pathetic story of Cook. When Goy. Stanley rec vere. issertion seems Caldwell. Kan., pot at Anthony was broken into by At 10 o'clock morning as the passenger train lars last night k's rived Co petition he immediately wrote to the}on the Kansas Southwestern was conviet that in no case would the}coming east the engineer noticed | warrant besigned unless upon the]a suspicious looking character near recommendation of the judge before} the company’s bridge, about four whom the case was tried and the at-| miles west of this place. When the torney who prosecuted it. Cook’s| train reached the city the trainmen crime was committed 10 years ago. | notified the officers. He is now confined in the peniten- tiary and has no money and no|nied by Constable H. C. Haldredge, | friends. left at once for the place to make an | “Wait a week and you will get |investigation The officers found | over this, Cook.” said the warden, |the tracks of a man near the bridge. | joking] “Old Cook is getting| These led off from the railroad into the breaks and rayines of the river. After following them some distance they discevered a man lying under a ‘nutty has worked beside the murderer in But Cook persisted. “said the man who for vears the chain gang. He found out that the attorney who] bank. On being questioned as to secured his conviction ‘and Judge| his whereabouts last night he drew a revolver and began firing at the offi- They returned the fire, one of the shots from Wannenwetch’s Clark A. Smith, before whom the case had been tried, were still living. He wrote to the attorney and the attor- ney wrote back: cers. striking the suspect in the upper left breast. the wounded man fell Haldredge remained with the marshal came to town Dr. Robertson to “| believe, Cook, that you ought to Constab be hanged, but you will never be hanged on aecount of anything that I write.” Cook then applied to Judge Smith le him wh and toc out attend him. and met withthesamerefusal. Smith|The doctor pronounced the wound recommended that Cook be sent to] fatal The man was brought to} an asylum for the ir town and efforts were made to save him, but he died at %3 o'clock. A search of his body revealed noth- “When he was tri before me,” wrote Judge Smith, “I believed that ing that would lead to his identity. A memorandum book with some fig- ures in it and a barber ticket bearing the name of A. W. Perkins wasfound The body is being prepared for burial by thecounty. The dead man about inches tall. dark mustache. very well he was responsible for the murder for which he was convicted. I sentenced him and sent the death warrant as usual to the governor for his signa- ture. The remarkable letter which I have just received from Cook con- vinces me that heis insane. At the same time I believe that if he were pardoned he would bea menace to society. I therefore recommend that he be transferred to the state asy- lum. Cook was thoroughly indignant upon the receipt of Judge Smith's letter. *-I do not want to be sent to an asylum.” he said. “Idonot want either, to commit suicide, but if the governor fails to sign the warrant I hall be driven to kill myself.” So he wrote again. laying the facts before Gov. Stanley. I have tried to fulfill your require- ments,” he wrote. “and I have failed. It is not through any fault of mine. I now insist that you carry out your Gov. Stanley now has the matter building was 5 feet 9 proportioned and would weigh about 170 pouads For The Study of Science. Mexico. Mo., April 26.—The board of directors of Westminster college, Fulton. with Dr. J. H. McCracken, the nstitution, | young president of met in the Presbyter this afternoon. At tee was appointer ing devided to erect department f« $17.000 has alreac is stated that been raised for the purpose. It is ex- citizens of Fulton will give £ McD. rimble of Kansas City is reported to pected that the the <« 3.000. 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