Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 24, 1880, Page 3

THE. CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1880—SIXTEEN PAGES 3 A nce of going to the White House as good 8 otter ‘or tho canal-boy—lapplause} the rall-sPlre does not, if he is not bright or ittle Bet or Bfoll will pick up the right enough, It" She will go there and introduce Bit in that way.” [Laughter and applause} I do not mean that Iwould fill every child’s head “Sith the idea of being President; but I do ‘pean to say .that.I would maintain for the ti people of America such a condition Inborfevery child born of laboring mon or Pomen should fect, 14 is all before'me. where to choose, ‘The Providence phalt be my guide, gpd not to toil in turning the husband's or stirs machinery, that the family may carn $3 i {applause]:: not to live as the silk- eaves fePfracelesticld lived, the father and threo daughtere gathering together cach week a é iy subsistence with meat one day in the ‘Dergr\n. no! Wheb you legislate for wages “on should legislate for tho very foundations of ‘american society, and should legislate for their gullest and frecst protecdon. [Loud applause.] ‘Now, my friends, wk HAVE THE CONFEDERATE BRIGADIERS TO FIGHT US. We have more than that, I_bave here the “pighost possible kind of cvidence that the ‘British Government, only cne degree removed “grom its oficial cupacity, is meddiing in a most $pfamous manner in the very election now “pending ‘before us. Fourteen members of the t British Government, members of the “Cobden Club, are taking an active part in its ‘ ‘Here is a pamphlet, “Tho Western by Augustus Mongredien, another of Te trade and English Commerce.” It is “These papersare Tespectfully oe fibed to to, the farmers of America “Cobden Club. ‘Gervisited Chicago, New York, and Beventertained ‘asd kindly reccivea. ' Mr. 3 Bailey _ Aldrich writes to | my Fiend Thomas H. Dudley, saying, “We * distributed © in your Western Dave 5.000 copies: of Mongredien’s letter at Bieostot 22 ‘2s. pert housand ”—$550,000 of migney: “gpent under the uuspices of a club to whic! srarteen members of the British Government ‘felong, in the Northwestern States, to induce ‘yon to reduce the cust of Inbor in order to let he British manufacturers in. [Applause. ““You have on the one band the Confederate ‘Brigadiers, who were born to believe that labor was not entitled to wages. ‘You have on the “Other the very cream of the British aristocracy ting to try to overthrow our manufacturing , to reduce our wages, to destroy the mar- et for our agricultural products. reat Brit- ms object is to reduce your wages, suspend urmanufacturing. “We will sell you godds. “cheaper, and then we will buy your farm prod- ‘Sete. ‘That is. if we cannot xet them anywhere then we can getthom from you." They want to-enlarge their market for their own + and.cripple our market alike for manu- curing and agricultural products. Xow, my frionds,. let me point you to the “pleasings they are enjoying under this free- ‘grade system. I have here an article descriptive IN THE GREAT IRON DIS- ‘TRICT ‘of Midalesboro, England, taken from the London Daily News, Sept. 13, 1879; 5 “Altogether there were, I should think, about 500 men, Women, and children destitute in Middlesboro. There is little or no furniture in ‘the rooms in which these poor creatures huddle. “Poverty has forced them to take the furniture ‘to @ broker, and also to part with evory available article of wearing apparel. Daily, ‘scores of women and children wade in the slime jn the River Tees ijn search of mussels and gar- ‘page. As early as 4 o'clock in the morning children clad in rags are to be scen-near the ‘works waiting for the men going off the night- shiftin order to ber auy crust or other scrap that may be left, which they ravenonsly devour. “19-day a poor woman with four young children told the Police Magistrate she hud had nothing ‘to eat for teree days, and she knew not where to sgetanything. And one man assured mo he had Srgotten the taste of fiesh food, and dared not take any, use he “feared it would make him ill. Yesterday gman was* found in_a field near Middiesboro dying of starvation. Food was given him, but he vomited it and blood, and shortly after died. ‘Aman has just informed me that he has seve! ‘times made broth of second-hand bones fora ‘poor man who has been ill fora Jong time. Some may urge that intemperence has contributed to the terrible state of things existing. Perhaps it bus. But what workingman, no matter how “eareful he may have been, could stand against Deing out of work for one or two years? of (SHE DESTITUTION The poor veople who are. destitute fed themselves os long as they could, but now they. bave nothing, and many of them don’t get a mealof ontmeala day. There was considerable distress last win- ‘ter and the winter before, but local charity met it. ‘The distress now is more widespread. All the'people in the tuwn are more or less poor, and contributions from all parts of the country are needed. The destitute have uo wish to live on charity. They do noteven want to remain in the town, but ask to be sent out of the country to America, where the iron trade is prosperous and men are wanted, or to ivy of the culonies ‘where work can be, had. They express them- selves willing to adapt themselves to any kind of work. All they wantis food, and that they cannot get here.” ibeyun by showing you that Engiand bad a tariff ior revenue only, and have shown you the ‘conditionlto which revenue tariffs have brought you, my countrymen, and me at three periods. Ishow you here’ the condition of the British workingmen under a tariff for revenue only, and I say this to you, my worlangmen friends: f you {ote the Southern Brigadiers and the Britisn capitalists better than you love your, neighbors, your friends, your wife, and children, and self, in God's ‘nyme vote the Democratic ticket for . HANCOCK, ENGLISH, AND REVENUE TARIFP, and general Gissatistnotion and_ bankruptcy. {Applause.] If, on the other hand, you believe dy and so successfully exploded as has been’ thé case with the now noted Gartield Chinese-letter, which.an unscrupulous editor published kere this week in a paper that otherwise never would have been heard of: outside the purlieus of Nassau street. The whole scheme was simply concocted by the whilom minstrel end-man Who now enjoys the dignity ,of newspaper-puplisher and his figurehead editor for the purpose of ad- vertising their seven-by-nine shect, which.2s- Pires no higher than sensationalism and has no special character’ for -the attribute which its namo implies. It was most conclusi¥ely shown by yestorday’s ‘investigation that tho let- ter published was Ee . _ AN UNMITIGATED FORGERY, a which the Democratic Central Committee have been unwise enough to accept, and which think- ing Democrats are to-day soundly berating them for doing. There is nothing.more needed to cs- tablish the forgery of..the’ document. The. dis- patch which was received to-day by Gov. Jewell from Gen. Garfield would be sufficient. “He-‘em-. phaticatly states that he never wrote such a-let- ter, and never knew such a person ns the-one to whom it is addressed. Then the Wash- ington Postmaster shows ‘that the postmark on the envelopo is not a fac-simile of the stamp used at the date of the letter. Notwithstanding the tact that-the letter is’ proven to be bo;zus, the Democratic National Committee have been and still are INDUSTRIOUSLY AT WORK having printed and mailing lithographic copies toall parts of the country. They huve sent thousands upon thousands to’ California, where itis believed the letter will have an effect in changing votes, and they’ are disseminating, them elsewhere with a prodigalty and recktes- ness in keeping with the magnitude of the falsity of the document. : 3 The Ma this evening says: “Immediately oninformation of the forgecy Gen. Ganticid telegraphed to his Secretary, Maj. Swain, who was then in this city, an indirnant and. nu- thoritative denunciation of the Morey lettey a8 a stupid forgery. : We saw the dispatch. It sas shown to Mr. J. W. Simonton, the General Asgont or the Associatéd Press, who, on the sufticient authority furnished bim, sent the substance of Gen. Garfield's dispatch all .over the country. ‘This should have ended and settled the matter. 3t Will so far as-fatelligent and impartial men. are concerned.” : GEN. GARFIELD PROPERLY STAMPS THE STORY. New Yorx, Oct, 23.—The foliowing dispatch was received to-day at tho Republican National | headquarters: Menton, 0...Oct. 22, 1880—To the Hon.’ Bf Jewell and the Hon. S. W. Dorsey: break the rule I have adopted by making a public reply to campaign lies, but I_nuthorize zou, to denounce the so-called Morey letter asa old forgery, both in its language and senti- ment. Until'its publication Inever heard of the existence of the Employers’ Union of Lynn, Mass., nor of sucha person as H. L. Morey. +; J. A. GARFIELD, THE WORK OF SOME CLUMSY VILLAIN. ‘The National Republican Committee furnish the following: “Menton, Oct. 23, 1880.—To the Hon. Marshall Jewell; Your telegram of this afternoon Is re= ceived, Publish my dispatch of last evening if you think best. “Within tho last hour the mail has brought me the lithographic copy of the forged letter. Itisthe work of some clumsy villnin who cannot spell nor write English. nor imitate my beadwriting. Every honest and manly Democrat in America who is familiar with my handwriting will denounce the forgery at sight. Put the case in the hands of the I will ‘not graphéd to a Democratic paper from Cleveland, that the Directors of the National Press Association met and instructed a man to Ro to Mentor to interview Gen. Garfield on the tariff question, !s wholly untrue. The National ress Association, being composed of papers of both parties, would under no circumstances authorize so’ one-sided an interview, and the gentlethen state further that Gen. Garileld’s only reply to’ the man who nddressell him, claiming to be the National Press agent, was thet he must decling to submit toany interview. What he had to say ho gave directly to the public. Gen. Garileld was at no time agitated. : GENERAL. THE: FLORIDA. -DISPATCHES. BABNUM'S CONDUCT CONCERNING THEM: ‘Spectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, ‘New York, Oct. 23.—There was a conference to-day at the Republican National Headquarters over the publication of the Florida dispatches. Among those present were Gov. Jowell, Scnator Dorsoy, Gov. McCormick of Arizona, ex-Con- gressman George A. Hulsey of New Jersey, and ‘Horace N. Congor, ex-Secretary of State of New “Jersey. Gov. Jewell said that he had nothing furtherto state: in relation to the Florida dis- patches, except that he was informed they had ‘been returned to the Western Union Telecraph | Company >by Mr. Barnum. The officers of the Western Union have been soverely taken to task for the mistake in a matter of such vital importance, and where confidence isso essential. Mr. Brown, one of the’ Superintend- ents of the Company, called on Gov. Jewell to ive on explanation. In the Supreme Court this morning Judge Lawrence, on application of the Western Union Company's attorneys, granted . $ AN ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE, returnable on the Zith inst., why an injunction should not be issued to restrain the Democratic National Committee from neing or circulating lithographic copies of Marshall Jewel's dis- patches, which were obtained by the Committee through a mistake of the Telegraph Com~- puny. The original application .was for an injunction,. which was not grunted, and tho affidavit on which the order was obtained was made by Norvin Green, the President of the Company. At the Nationil Democratic Head- quarters it was ascertained that the dispatches, fofore being returned to the Western Union Telegranh Company, were lithographed _and copies were sent to the Democratic State Com- mittee of every State. in tho Union. _A large number was sent for cireulation in some of the Southern States. - BARNUM’S CONDUCT CRITICIZED. ‘The Evening Post to-night, reviewing Bar- .num's preposterous ‘pretensions to unearth- ing Republican’ frauds, says: “Yet at ue critical, hour of tho canvuss,” the - Chair- man of the National Democratic ma ee, the most conspicuous figure |on that side except the Presidential candidate, can find nothing better to do than steal telegraphic dispatches—for the moril, if not theleyal, qual- ity of theft attaches to the procceding—and print thom with unwarranted innuendoes for the pur- pose of creating a petty and ephemeral scandal. . Respectable Democrats will take satisfaction in knowing that Mr.‘ Barnum, while he bas been guilty of a disreputable act, has nisomude an eregious fool of himself, a8 the account of the amatter published yesterday shows.” DEMOCRATIC DESPERATION. The Timea to-morrow will say editorially: “Latterly the Democracy have attempted to distort certain stolen dispatches, based on » sus- icon of Democratic colonization in Florida, Tato evidence of a Republican scbeme of the game kind. ‘The device was so shallow and so easily exposed that it is amazing men of sense «should have run thorisk of resorting to it. But DI te the Democratic mind appears to regard the ablest agteceivae atonceyand, bunt the rascal | ‘i orieun public as a brainless goose, that can bo stuffed. with any sort. of compost, A HASELESS SOROENT Perhaps the clumsiest’ of all their Spectal Dispatch to Thé Chicago Tribune. - | Yovices is that of the forged letter Cassorouts, Mich., Oct. 2—As a personal | of Gen. Garfiold on the Chincse question, Its foie} Gnd college classmate I have had frequent | origin was obscure, and {t could casily have been correspondence with Gen. Garfield, and I do not hesitate to pronounce the Morey-Lynn ietter a ‘baseless forgery, because Gurficid has inyarla- bly for years past sizned his name J. 4. Garfield, and never abbreviated it ‘\Jas.,”" as in the al- leged letter. CHARLES W. CLISBEE. DEAD AND BURIED. * THE MOREY ROORBACH. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. ~ Wasnixaron, D.C., Oct. 23.—Conciusive evi- dence for those to whom Gen. Garfield's word ig not enough has been discovered here to-day to show that the pretended letter on the Chinese question isa malicious forgery, and that it ought to send the perpetrator of it, as Post- master Ainger suggests, to the Penitentiary, and it should not mutter to the Courts or Grand Juries that the accessories to the forrery.are eminent men, and possibly members of the -Democratic National Committee. A copy of, the fac-simile of this letter, which th Democrats are reported to be sending ‘by tho hundred thousand to the Pacific coast, only reached here this morning. The first glance at the envelope by the Post-Ofiice off- clals here showed the bungling character of this atrocious forgery. Democrats, over the signa- ture of the Chairman of their National Commit- tee, assert that this letter was written by Gen. Garfield in January, 1890,on House of Repro- sentatives stationery, mailed in Wasbirigton, and addressed to “H. L. Morey, of the Employ- ers’ Union, Lyna, Massachusetts.” An exami- nation of the fac-simile here to-day shows. first, that you arecitizens of the proudest Nation the ‘Almighty has ever called into existence [ap- plause]; a country sweeping from ocean to ‘ocean, f1 to Gulf; ;a country embody- “Sng every form of raw material thav may found outside of the tropical and the hyperbo- renn regions.—if, I say, you believe you are citi- zens of such a country, and proud of it, and de- petulty among mortal things, stand by the com- Jrercial and manufacturing independence of ‘Jour country in order that you may maintain an ‘American system of wages,an American system free school an .American system of civil polity, that shall open all the blessings of life to every child of whatever color or tage that Shall be born under the starry olds of the American flag. [Loud applause] I thank you, gentlemen, for your patient hoar- RESOLUTIONS. ‘ Mr. Mason offered ‘the following, which were ‘Unanimously adopted: 4 WHEREAS, It isan indisputable fact, that when ‘there is work for the hands of men, there is food for their mouths, clothes for their bodies, shel- ‘ter for their heads, fuel for their warmth, ‘iu- struction for their minds, comfort for their families, and progress for their condition; and, WHeueas, Tho sum of social misery among a People can bo measured by their inability to ob- ‘lain wages; abd regular employment and labor fully compensated are the fruitful parents of general thrift, content, and cheerfulness; and, Warreas, All the prosperity enjoyed by the American people-tabsolutely all of it, without ‘any exception whatéyer—from the beginning of the Union until ndw has been under the rule of tariff protection; b¢ it therefore Rezuii ‘That we are utterly opposed to “a tariff for ‘revenue only,” which is a system of duties on imports based on the false and ruinous ideas that the Government will look out for iwelf, and the peopi¢ must look out for them- elves; that home industry will thrive most ‘when it is least cared for in the laws, und that it 4s expedient to hire foreignersto produce munu- Yactures for our use, while tens of thousands of | our Workingmen are, deprived of employment, and our own rdw materials lie neglected, to make room for' importations,—a system cwhich has always ended in prostrating industry; in reducing multitudes to idleness: in disordering the currency by forcing the ex- Portation of specie to liquidate an adverse bal- ance of trade: in bankrupting the country; ia contracting the Nations revenues until the Government bus been coimpelied to resort to ex- pensive loans to help pay its ordinary expenses in times of profound peace; and in spreading Privation and misery throughout the land. — evils which continued to grow worse until the Bressure of necessity forced a return to tarif- ‘Protection and brought back prosperity. ‘ Resolved, Tuat we denounce British tree trade 88a scheme to protect British manufacturers in ‘the American turket against the competition $f our manufacturers; as a scheme to enable ritish capital and labor to deprive American capital and labor of the just protection of our We;,and as a scheme to dupe us into produ- ging articles which contain much material and tle work, to be exchanged abroad for artitles ‘which contain much work and little material. Resolved, That we favor the policy of tariff Protection, which multiplies the estaplishments , Rat give employment to labor at home; which ‘gncates a demand for all tho different ampli- udes, endowments, talents, and capabilities ‘Among our people; which steadily affords a fair H-S pay for a fair day's work; which ultimate; “ Which a nobody idle who secks wages, and tor fills the country with ‘prosperity, the mes of milliuns with comfort, and the coffers Government with abundance. opfived. That as the Republican party is the ly political organization which for twenty Past bas been true in its National plat- Br 1s and in its legislative record to the policy palbiea American laborers against ruinous- SamPetition with the serf pay and the famine Zaye of European iaborers, that party is the one inthe present emergency capable of te lng a change from the Dountitul pros- qs nity which the country enjoys; and that party np erefore, ths only one worthy to receive the Taree voters who seek acontinuance of There wore calla f ‘ere calls for “Long Jon,” and he came. forward, but briefly ciel that be. pur- Posed ring a hall noxt week for the purpose of Wigessing his fellow-cltizens. : meeting then broke up. GARFIELD. ry = ‘HUNT HIM DOWN,” ree THE LONG-EARED RASCAL IF CAUGHT. rou i Disptch to The Chicago Tribune. New t. 2L—There probably never "isa pretentious campaign roorbach so quick~ tested and repudiated if found worthless. But it was eagerly snapped up and paraded asa now and effective weapon of calumny, and though’ promptly exposed by the most conclu- sive evidence of its spurious character, it is clung to with desperate tenacity. But .people are neither fools nor knaves, and if tae Demo- cratic party and its leaders would acknowledge that simple fact thoy might have more hope of success in winning yotes. They would at least refrain from some of those desperate devices that only work injury!to themselves.” AUTHORITATIVE EXPLANATIONS. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. New Yons, Oct. 23.—Messrs. E. B. Callender and Charles J. Noyes, both members of the Bar of Boston, Mass., who went South some five seeks since under the auspices of the Republic- aa National Committee to make campaign speeches, arrived in this city to-day on the turn. These aco the two gentlemen who ro~ celved the dispatches from Marshall Jewell which were captured by Mr. Barnum. Chairman ‘of the Democratic National Committee. One of these telegrams they sald reported a sum of: money which had been.sent to them to pay cum~ ign expenses, and the other referred to some laborers sent to work on railroads, which they thought might be Democratic repeaters. ‘The idea of colonizing a State so sparsely populated as Florida they consider preposterous and im- ible. AN-INJUNCTION WANTED, +o the Treatern Assoclated Press. New Yonx, Oct. 23.—Judge Lawrence, in the Supreme Court Chambers, to-day. on aj plication: ‘ot the counsel for the Western Union Telegraph Company, granted an order to show cause, re- turnnble on the 27th instant, why an injunction sbould not issue to restrain the American Na- tional Committee from using or circulatin: lithographic copies of the dispatches of Marshal that the envelope is not of any of | 7, Ni fewell, Chairman of the Republican Nutional the sizes ever used by the House | Committee, sent to Florida. and given to the of Representatives, and\ is not a | Democratic Committee through a mistake of tho size that Gen. Garfield would hitve been likely Telegraph Company. The original application to have had. Second, all Congressional Ietters mailed at the Capitol Post-Oftice have the word “Congress” placed upon them with a. date stamp. There is NO SUCH POSTMARK uponthis envelone, showing that the letter was not mailed at the Capito. It purports to have. been mailed in Washington. The only other place where it could have.been muiled and-re- ceive the Washington postmark was at the City Post-Office. The canceling stamp used upon..| “the envelope containing the forged letter is of itself conclusive evidence that the letter is nforgery. In January, 1880, stamps were can- celed at the Washington City Post-Office by an old rubber stamp, which left.a heavy -blurred impression. No other stamp was used.: On April 13, ‘nearly;three months after the -pre- tended Garfield letter claims to have been |, @ new. steel canceling-stamp was’ in- troduced in the Washington City Post-Office, and has since been jn use there exclusively. The fac-simile, however, of the pretended Garfield letter is a pretty correct imitation of the hew stamp introduced in April. Tho rogues Have thus : 3 : OVERREACHED THEMSELVES. No letter, by whomsoever written, postmarkpd in Washington, was canceled by sucha stainp onJan, 3. Assoon asa fac-simile of the letter and envelope was received here, Postmaster Ainger detected the forgery. The status as‘to this latest trick of Mule-Buyer Barnum is, was for an injunction, which was not granted. ‘The aMdavit on which the order was obtained was mado by Marvin Green, President of the Westorn Union Telegraph Company. INGERSOLL. COOPER INSITTUTE, NEW YORK. FILLED TO OVER- FLOWING T0 GREET HIM. Speciat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, New York, Oct. %—The Republican mass- meeting in Cooper Institute this evening was the largest evor held inthe building. Col. Robert G. Ingersoll was the principal speaker. Among the prominent persons who hud sents on tho stage wero Collector Merrill, tho Hon. Hugh Gardner, Emigration Commissioner Edward Stephenson, F. P: Thurber and wife, Luther R. Marsh and wife, Jesse Seligman, the Rev. Mr. Mickle, M. N. Hockscher, Dr. F. R.S. Drake, and E.R. Peck, of Mochunics’ and Traders’ National Bank. At7:30 o'clock the Glee Club Quartet which gecompanied Col. Ingersoll from the West_ was introduced and sang“ America.” At 7:50 s COL. INGERSOLL 5 appeared on the platform. He was greeted with a storm of applause walch fairly shook the building. Mr. Hugh N. Camp presented Col. Ingersoll to the house, and after the applause which greeted him had subsided the Colonel pogan his address. During its delivery he was froquentiy interrupted’ with outbreaks of ap- preciative laughter and applause. The speech was a masterly appeal to the common sense of the poople in behalf of tho policy of the Ite- therefore: - publican party, and kept. the atcen- 'Firet_Gen. Garfield denies that he wrote such | tion of the audience {rom, beginning to 8 letter. + the end. ‘The speaker's assertion that ‘Sccond—There was no Employers’ Union in Lynn in January, 1850, ‘Third—There had beon no organization of that nature for years previous to that date. Fourth—no man named Morey waa ever con- | nected with that organization while it existed. Fifti—aAs far as can be ascertained uo jaan of that name lived in Lynn two yeurs ago or ever. Sixth—The letter was not written on official ' stationery. ‘Seventh—The canceling stamp shows that it could not bave been mailed at the date claimed, nor for three months afterwards. 3 ‘Eighth—Gen. Garfield docs not spell the word companies witha “y" as Chairman Barnum’s forger does [sic] “ companys.” F ‘Ninth—Gen. Garfield does not sign his namo “Gaitield” os the forger has, who doubtless availed himself of this technicality to avoid the penalties of prosecution in case his forgery was detected, and who very plainly dots the first 1.” AN ABSURDITY. HE REPORTED BARGAIN BETWEEN GENS. GAT- FIELD AND GRANT. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 23.—Friends of Gen. Gar field to-day declare as absurd the report of abargain made between’ Grant, Conkling, Lo- gun, and Cameron with Gen. Garfield at Mentor just’ after tho Warren mecting, Sept. 28, by {which the present Republican candidate wus to Jeave the way clear for Grant to become Presi- dent in 18S in return for campaign services ren- derod. In the first place, ex-Senator Cameron did not go to Mentor at all, but proceeded di- rectly, home from Warren. The remaining three traveled to Mentor by way of ts distance of about seventy- Ashtabula; a five miles, leaving Warren at about 5 Garfield's, o'clock. partook of a lunch while at and spent there in all not over three-quarters of auhour. Gen. Grant shook. hands with between 290 and 300 people while there. Theré were news- aper correspondents around the arty cen- Frantly. The aio reached Cleveland at a vom ponavely ‘early hour in. the evening, 60 that it woul 2 Z HAVE BEEN UPTERLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANT SG TO HAVE BEEN DONE + fn the short space of time, had any been intond- Sd. and bad there been an opportunity by ar ab- sence of the usual crowd from 3féntor. z Capt. C. E. Henry, and others of Gen. Gar- field's friends, stated to-day that the story tele- State sovereignty was the viper that lay in the bosom of the Republic, and unless we destroyed ‘it it would destroy us, was greeted with up- roarious applause, and when some one proposed “Three cheers for that settlement,” they were mven with a will. Loud and long continued ap- plause also followed the statement that the shicla of : PROTRCTION WOULD BE SPREAD OVER AMERICAN LABOR. ‘That his treatment of this subject was in ac cord with the feelings of. the audience was in fact made repeatedly apparent in the frequent shouts of approbation and laughter which iol- lowell every telling hit, and at timés even pre- vented the sponker from completi his re- marks, for the audience followed te ‘spenker closely, and was often abic to imagine how the speaker was going to finish his sentence. The mention of Gen. Grant’s unme was received with applause, as was also the speakers’s agser- tion that he did not believe that one capable of insulting a down-trodden race, 1s Hancock had dono in telling Grant be did not “believe in nigger domination,” was fit to be President. in commenting on Hancock's views on the tariff as “a local ques- don,” the orator was irresistibly funny in his manner as well as in the remarks themselves. Cheers were given with a will when the speaker declared that no man WHO FOUGHNT AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT should be given office underit. Here some one cried out, “How about Longstreet?” * Long- street,” quickly responded Col. -Ingersol “Longstreet has repented. He’ admits that he was wrong, and no braver man than he fought on the Southern Side. 3f any man who fought im the Robel ranks will say, not that be knew at the time he was wrong, but that he now knows he was in the wrong, and that he ig willing to strive with us, I will take him by the right hand as nbrother.” This ready re- sponse: ‘was greeted with dexfening cheers. Sim- ilar marks of approbation, with lonz-continued and enthusiastic applause, followed the mention of Gen. Gartield’s name, and when the speaker said there was not in this Republic a man with GREATER BRAIN OR LARGER HEART than Gen. Garfled there was a burst of cheering second to none ever beard in-the hall. His de- bunciation, too, of the forged Chinese letter, was greeted with terrific applause. For more than two hours the speech wasinterrupted by ap- roving laughter, cheers, and ‘applause, and faring the delivery of the carne gives no one 5 ic of the, vast andienes- ince. One passage “of . bis wes loudly applauded: as follows. make Democrats let-them alone and they'll jnake themselves. Tbe Democratic arty 18 made upof the dregsof humanity. They are the human wrecks that Rrow without cuitiva- tion. If you want toraise Republicans in this fair land of ours you’ must work to do it, If you want to make amana Democrat give him a wholesome neglect, and he will turnout a first-class article of . A THIRD-RATE SPECIES. ‘ ‘A man is a Republican because he loves sonietbing,—his country and his race. Most men are Democrats because they hate some- ly’ their -Republican’ brothers. {Laughter.] Am I not right? Am I not honest, .gs 1 said that I would be? {Cheera] The Re- publican party takes aman by the collar and says to him: -*You must climb the hill of prog- ress with us.’ Now -und then one of these meno gets tired and rolls down the bili, and when he strikes the Democratic mud at the’ bottom he gets up transtigured and shouts ‘Hurrah for Hancock! {Cheers | upon the finances at some length, Mr. ingerso Concluded as follows: “A greenback without “the gold bebind.it is no moro # dollar than a bill- of-fare isa ainner. We must have PAPER THAT Rca enna MONEY. Iwant it issued by the Government, und a gold orsilverdollur behind overy one of the paper dollurs, so that every greenback may stane up and swear I know that my redeemer liveth.” {Cheers.] In conclusion, Mr. Ingersoll sedi: Gon. Garfleld [cheers] to-night is poor in money, but he is rich {n honor and integrity. In brain he js n millionaire. 1 know him, and £ like him. Men are blackening his tation who are not fit to blacken -his shoes. ‘The last lie isa forgery. [Applause] I saw to-day a fac-simile of what purported to be One of his letters. I know his writing, and am well acquainted with bis aioatire, and I tell you that that fetter and that signature aro forgeries. {Cheers.) That cannot také from hima vote. The Rebel line cannot reform with a Forgery fora standard. [Cheers.] This is the Innd of humanity. Oh! I love the old'Republic. Tlove liberty. Liberty 18 my religion, [Pro- longed cheers.] ‘Therefore I worship it.” ———— NEW YORK. THE HANDWRITING ON THE ‘THOUSAND REPOBLICAN MAJORITY. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Trioune. New York, Oct. 23.—The careful estimate of the Hegublican strength in this State, mado'a day or two ago, bas created a stir in Democratic -circles, and caused much talk in the eastern and central sections of New York. That tho estimate of at least 14,500 Republican majority was based on fact is generally admitted, although Gen. Chester A. Arthur {s sanguine that Garfield will load Hancock nearer 90,000 than 16,000. There is great apprehension throughout the interior in respect of John Kelly and his nominee tor Mayor of this city. All this causes the Democrats to wear an aspect of great seriousness. ‘Democratic estimates of the State place their majority in New York County at 60,000, Kings 20,000, Queens 3,000, and Richmond 1,800. In the remainder of the State they claim 15,955, or a total of 97,755, as against 91,036 in 1876. This does not give more than an occasional normal increase except in the case of the counties above mentioned. In New York County the Democratic majority in 1876 was 63,069; in Kings, 18,49. In Queens County the majority in-1876 was 3,0%, and the peculiarity of the estimated vote this year is that it is based on the figures that antedate the frat John Kelly rumpus, A promfnent Democrat says: ("The Kings County estimate is regarded by leading Kings County men A8 VERY HIGH, Z really don’t see how thoy can form any esti- mate with even approximate accuracy, for, in the first- place, Brooklyn is little better than 2 roost nowadays, and the roosters, being employed very largely by New York men, may possibly vote as their employers wish them to. As shown, the estimated majority in the four counties is 84,800, and if Queens is gainod by an indifferent vote, there {3 a loss of 3,000, ora net total of 81,800 with which to meet the Republicans when they sweep down to Harlem Bridge. What, then, is the expectation in that regard?, What majorities do Democrats concede to the Republicans? It ig shown beyond question that the Democracy concede 59,315, or a gain of 415 only over the interior " majorities of 1870. In other ways, while the Demcrats concede that the Republicans will gain a fair proportion of the normal addition as per census, they will fall from their high estate almost as low as they did. in 1676. If this estimate is‘ based on fact the parties will stand as follows: Democrats, 97,755; Republicans, 9.315; net Democratic majority, 36,440; and if the estimate published yesterday be based on fact the. parties will stand ‘as fol- lows: Republican - majorities, 93,150; Demo- cratic majoritics, 79,140, not “Republican majority, 14,010. It will be- seen that'by these figures the Republicane are’ sup- posed to be more generdus than their Demo- ‘cratic opponents; but it must be borne in mind that the former have a ‘A: DAILY: ACCESSION, © * : acoustant growth, and, in the words of Gen. Arthur, intend to carry New York by 80,000 ma- "The Herald says: ‘The Democratic differs widely from the Re- publican estimate in figures and results, which was to have been expected, but the rival eati- mates also differ in the circumstance the Republican leaders’ make a specific and plausible statement of the reasons on which their expectation is founued, while the authors of the Democratic estimate furnish mere fig- ures without reasons. If. they cannot tell why they expect to Incroase the majority which Mr. Tilden received in 1876. impartial citizens can attach no value to their hopeful Grures. Tho Democratic lenders seem to take no account of the obstacles which lie in their path. Is it alt the same whether they: possess the State Goy- ernment and wield 1s putronage as in 1876, or whether the Republicans possess this’ advantage as they do in 2 = Does it make no difference whether they cal the Indiana October election as‘ they did in 1876, or jose it as they have done in 1880? Is their cow- ardly retreat from the tariff plank of their plat- form to make no difference? Cun they expect fobeagstrong in-a condition of great pros- perlty like tho. present as they were in i870, when the stagnation on the anic continued any signs of recovery? - Are Gen. Hancock's in- discreet letters of no consequence? Is Mr. John Kelly's selection of -a candidate for Mayor, which is disrupting the Democratic party of the city, an account ‘In the estimate of majorities? The Republican leaders give intelligible reasons for their cxpected success. The Democratic loaders only present a set of figures, far-as the public is permitted to know. 0 nothing but their ardent and sanguine hopes.’ Sonal Fass NEW JERSEY. : PROSPECT OF ANOTHER SURPRISE. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. New York, Oct. 23—There are very lively times in New Jersey just now. Thé Democrats acknowledge that they must put forth the most strenuous efforts to secure a victory, and that the case is now almost hopeless. The Demo- cratic majority in 1870 was 12,481, the, Green- backers polling 712 and the Prohibitionists 73. ‘With the aid of the tariff issue, which the Demo- crats admithys made cousiderable inroad in their ranks, the Republicans hope at the coming election to change the situation so that Penching they will give Garfield that State by 3,250 majority. ‘Chere aro Green- pack and. Probibitionist tickets, but it is predicted that between them they will not.polt 1,000 votes. ‘While great interest dential fight, still THE CONTEST FOR THE LEGISLATURE is by no menns-of secondary importance. Sena- tor Randolph desires to be sent back to the Na- tional halls of legislation for tho term of. six years again, and consequently his friends are la- Doring to this end with all industry. That they have a difficult task beforo them canuot be denied, when it 1s stated that out of the twenty-one Senators in the State eleven are Republicans and but three Democrats is centered in the Presi- hold over. In the counties which aro to eloct new Senators, four are considered Republican and three Democratic, so that, if this should be verified, the next Senate will stand. fifteen Ro- publicans to six Democrats. To overcome the Republican majority in the Senate, the Dem- ocrats must elect thirty-five mem bers, ‘A PRETTY HARD THING TO DO, sis admitted even by the followers of the party. Rumor bas it that a leading Democrat who has much interest at stake in ono of the great railroad corporations is to bring about a trade by sacrificing Ludlow, the Democratic candidate for Governor, for members of the Legislature, because Potts, the Republican candidate, 18 consiaered friendly tosaid corporation. Senator McPherson is work- ing for the election of Ludlow, and the friends of the latter are confident of victory in conse- quence. It is admitted, however, that he will run about 3,000 votes bebind Hancock. THE SHORMAKERS AND HATTERS are snid to be inimical to him because he voted against the Dill ‘prohibiting shoemaking in the State Prison while a member of the Sonate. The Democrats expect to elect five Congressmen out of seven, but the Republicans concede only three.—Koss, Hardenburg, and Harris. ‘There is a warm contest in the Second District between Smith and Brewer, and in the Fifth be- tween Cutter and Hill, and both are considered yery close. The Republicans, 20 far, have had the best orga and the shrewdest work- ers, but the stumping on both sides bus been and is well managed. Some of the hest speakers in speech, “Ir you want to} the country:haye appeared ‘in various portions of the State. .‘fne Democrats are somewhat frightened over the establishment of headquar | tersin Newark by Mr. Ni Pears bide pies Dorsey, of the National neil ficial FOR GARFIELD. spect Mspatch to: The Chicago Tribune, reid York, Oct, 23.—Ex-Congressman George Halsey, of New Jersey, who isa candidate for United States Senator to succeed Theodore F. Randolph, was at the Republiean National endquarters to-day. “Talk as much os you please about the Garfield letter, Florida dis- matches, and such stuff,” said be, * we will sweep lew Jersey this time.” “May I ask on what you base your calculations?” asked the reporter. ‘The Tariff question chietly. Mr. Potts, our can- didate fur Gavernor,_‘fa_sound ‘on that, while his opponent, Mr.i Ludlow, is weak with the labor element in consequence of his vote in lature on the Prison-Labor bill. Our large manufacturing interest must. rally to our aide in New Jersey as they have already done in Ohio and Indiuna. The Legislature, come what may, will be certainly ours. Then, again. Gen. Grant is throwing hig’ great weight into th canvass ‘in our State, to which 7 attached by family tes wom Be Rn GEN. GRANT. HE DELIVERS ANOTHER SPEECH IN NEW JERSEY. ‘Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Frankuny, N. J., Oct. 23.—Notwithstanding the adverse wenther. the grecting to Gen. Grant at this place to-day was‘cordial in the extreme. More than 2,000 of the yeomanry of Essex stood out the cold afternoon on the bleak hillside lis- tening to the addresses of Messrs. Pierrepont _and Storrs, while a procession of soveral hun- dred uniformed Boys in Blue, on foot and mounted, marched and countermarched to the inspiring music of bands, mingled with the tiring of cnnnon. ‘The appearance of Gen. Grant was everywhere greeted with enthusinsm. TheGen- eraland his party left Jersey City at1o’clock on a special chr chartered for the purpose. The party comprised GEN. GRANT, the Hon. Courtland T: Parker, the Hon. Ed- wards Pierrepont, Emery A. Storrs, the Hon. George A. Halsey, Gen.A. A. Badeau, Senator Hobart, Mr. Charles A. Waderhill, Maj. Tom Ochiltree, Mr. D. B. Halstead, and others. At Nutley, a railroad crossing a few hundred yards east of Stitts’ Station, the car stopped, and the party were transferred to carriages and driven rapidly to the residence of Br. James Satter- thwaite, where o handsome collation was provided. The lunch finished, the visitors once more entered carriages and were driven to the scene of the speech-making. Mr. Courtlandt Parker, on behalf of the Essex County Repuo- Means, delivered the address of welcome. When Gen. Grant rose he was hailed witha burst of prolonged cheors. When he could at length make himself heard, he sai “FeLLow-Crtizens or New Jensey: Even if I were in the habit of speaking out of doors, foar it would be dificuit to make you hear meon this occasion. The great importance of this oc- casion alone caused .me to attend. I feel I could scarcely bear to think of this great Government ‘falling into tho hands of those who sought so long to destroy it. * |, THE DANGER IS GREATER NOW than at any time since 1905. 1 belleve’ the Re- publican party should continue to exist until a free ballot can be had in every Stato without fear or intimidation. A tariff for revenue only means free trade. The Republican party's rinciples on this subject are well defined, and it is not necessary for me to explain them. The difference in the tariff is the smallest differ- ence between the two parties, say the Demo- crats. Tho Democrats would; pledge them- selves to noything to gain success. They care very little about the tariff. Indeed, one of them has told usitis only a local issuo with them. {Cheers and laughter.] That is not what they are after. What they are after is y TO GET INTO POWER by any and every means. Let me express the hope that on the 2d of November next New Jer- sey willeast her vote for James A. Garfield to be President of the United States from the 4th of March next.” (Loud and protunged appiause.] ‘The Hon: Edwards Pierrepont and Emery A.. Storrs followed in eloquent addresses. The Gen- eral and party were edcorted to the cars by 800 Boys in Blue, under Grand Marshal L. H. Rowan. ‘They left tor New York at 5:30 o'clock. Atorch- | light procession in the evening wound up the day's proceedings. ‘ELEGANT RECEPTION. ” New York, Oct, 23.—The Union League Club ee i very elegant reception to-night to Gen. TENNESSEE. DESERTING A SINKING SHIP. Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Crxcrxxatt, O., Oct. 23.—There are substan- tial signs of a Republican revival in Tennessee. ‘At Chattanooga last night the Hon. Lewis Shep- herd, a prominent Democrat and ‘leading Jaw- «| yer, atinounced his severance from the Demo- cratic party and approval of Republican prin- iples. Mr. Shepherd was voted for strongly the Democratic Convention as Presidential “lector, and bas served as a prominent Demo- cratic’ member of tho State Legislature. His speech last night was delivered to a large meet- ing. of the Garfield and Arthur Club, and awakened much enthusiasm. Mr. C. C. Sny- -der, a member of the Democratic County Committee, also addressed the -Club, an- nouncing his adhesion to “the Re- publican party as the only one which presented honest and consistent princi- ples. Mr. Otto Fischer, attorney; the Hon. W. J. Clift, a Tilden Elector, and recently a prom- nent Democrat; Col. W. C. Dewitt, a loading attorney, well known throughout the State, are algo announced as having . LEFT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Clift and Dewitt will probably take the stump. Great excitement prevails over the wholesale desertion of the Democratic party. The canvass in this State s most interesting, and proper ef- fort would elect a United States Senator. The Democrats are hopelesly divided. The election of Hawkins, Republican, as Governor. is uni- Yersally conceded, and in'nearly every Ja- tive district there aro two or more Democratic eandidates. The National Committee should tairn its attention to Tennessee, where great work can be done. i A GOOD SHOW. chicago Tribune, %3.—Ex-Con: an Spectal Dispatch to The ‘WASHINGTON, D. C.. Oct. \eressm Thornburgh, of Tennessee, is in the city. To- day he visited the Post-Office Department and sala that in the quadrilateral fight for the Ten- a Governarship Hawkins, ie ae lican candidate, had 2 very good show 0! elected. : He thinks the Republicans will gaina Congressmen in the State. [To the Western Associated Press. ‘Tenn., Oct. 23.—The Hou, Maynard, ‘Postmaster-General, addressed a large assemblage in Court Squares ‘thig city, to-day, presenting the claims of Garfield and Arthur and the State Republican ticket. The Demo- erats gave a monster torchlight demonstration to-night for Hancock and Bngile and the State- credit Democratic tickets. The various trades and industries were represented on floats in the procession. FLORIDA. XPERIENCE OF TWO REPUBLICAN SPEAKERS. “Spectat Dispatch to The, Chicago Tribunce New Yorx, Oct. 23,—Messrs. E. B. Callender ‘and Charles J. Noyse, prominent Republicans, have made speeches in Raleigh, N. C., in Wood- bridge, and in many towns in Florida. Thoy state that they were well received everywhere, but, that NO DEMOCRATS ATTENDED THEIR MEETINGS. ‘They found the colored people of tho South de- termined to maintain their right to vote by ull the means in their power. Some of their hear- ers walked from ten to fifteen miles to at- tend the mectings. The press of the State inannouncing their meetings invariably cau- tioned the people to treat them fairly, and to refrain from any acts of violence or unbecom- ing conduct, ‘There has been a marked change in the Republicans from that of four years ago. ‘Then they were surrounded by armed men, who dispersed the meetings by mobs. The southern portion of the State of Florida they describe as sparsely settled with a race of men called “# erackers,”" who are sul generis. There is nothing like them upon the footstool, green, black, or white, Tney vote the Domocrae nnot read or write. Atasmalitown picker ia where there are but three white Re- retired Pon his door ‘and toid him that he need fenr nothing; that ho would stand between bim danger. ang oy) think tbat Florida {s GOOD FOR ONE REPUBLICAN paniiaare erry te that the figures will show that Flo! Peey Sar S700. to 3000. Republican majority. Hhoy thought the Democrats were disposed to ailoy a free ballot and a fair count at this ele” fon They think that thoy. mive learned the filly of bulldozing the negroes and terrifying the North by acts of violence. ———_ KENTUCKY. FLATTERING PROSPECTS OF THE ELECTION OF GO REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMEN WROM THAT BOURBON STRONGHOLD. ‘Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribunce Louisvite, Ky., Oct. 23—Ever since the October elecuons in Obio and Indiana there has been a tendency among many voters here to support Col. Thomas . Burns, Republican nominee for Congress in this district. The Hon. Albert 8. Willis, present incumbent, ia-aguin a candidate for elecuon, and so is Maj. Thomas H- Hayes, both Democrats. Hitherto the candi- daoy of two Democrots has never endangered the success of that party, but now 60 many changes have occurred that with two Democrats on the track REPUBLICAN SUCCESS 18’MORE THAN LIKELY. To-day the Democratic Executive Committee ‘of Louisvilie voted 5 to 4 to hold a Convention next Thursday. Willis and friends opposed the Convention, and declare that he shall run as aD independent candidate. ‘This he proposes to do, thus giving the Republicans more than a chance for vi toy ‘The indications are that John D. ‘White, publican, will defeat tho Hon: Tom ‘Turner, Democrat, in the Ninth Kentucky Dis- trict. Two ‘Republican Congressmen from this State will bea great surprise to the Democrats, yet they will very likely be elected. LOUISIANA. REGISTRATION FRAUDS CONTEMPLATED BY THE “ DEMOCRATS. New Orceans, La. Oct. 2—Acting under orders of Gov. Wiltz, after legal advice, State Supervisor of Registration Cavanac has decided to keep the registration office open in this city until Oct. 30, The Republicans contend that the registration books should under the law be closed ten days prior to election-day. Cavanac ‘was arrested on a complaint of United States Supervisor Pearson, taken before Commissioner Lane, ande harged with -illegally registering yoters. The case was setfor Tuesday. The Republicans claim that, as the registration now stands, their candidates for Congress in the First and Second Districts would c be elected, ‘The Republican Campaign. Committee has ‘adopted the following: ._“ Wrereas, The continuance of registration in the Parish of Orieans beyond the time fixed by wis a flagrant violation of the letter and spirit of the law, is for political ends and pur- poses under orders of the Democratic Commit- tee, is in direct conflict with the opinion of the ‘Uaived States District Attorney; therefore, “Resolved, That affidavits be made against every person who illegally registers after this date, and against the Supervisor or Clerk regis- tering any person illegally with a view to arrest ce pigeon: under the law of the United IRISH-AMERICANS. A PROMINENT CATIHOLIO CLERGYMAN ADVISES THEM TO CUT LOOSE FROM THE DEMOCRATS. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Harrrorp, Conn., Oct. 23.—The Rev. Father Sheridan, of the Roman Catnolic parish of the thriving ,manufacturing village of Collins- ville,1sone of the most independent of the Catholic clergy in this diocese, and just now is the subject of some comment, owing to polit- ical utterances from the pulpit last Sunday. ‘The substance of bis remarks were printed in a Hartford paper a few days later, and the qucs- tion was raised that he did not, as reported, urge the Irishmen of the country to cut loose from the Democratic party and vote independ- ently. The Hartford Post (Republican) to-night prints fan interview with Father Sheridan, in which he is reported as declaring that the principle of Irish independence in_ politics ‘was the real issue and the thing for which he had worked and spoken. Saidhe: “I have ut- tered the same sentiments in public lectures re- peatedly ana in various parts of the State, and they have been received with applause. I love my own race, andam anxious to see Irishmen obtain power and intiuonce; but they can never doit until they learn to act independently. They can hold the balance of power and dictate terms, but - THEY CAN DO NOTHING WHILE THEY VOTE THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET. Asamatter of course, as an Independent Democrat myself, the thing I wantis to see my people represented in positions of honor and profit, and not merely voting to put other*peo- ple in'such positions.” He also alluded to the way in which the Irish had been used and thrown aside by the Democratic party, and in this con- nection mentioned the ditference in the conduct of Maj. Bigelow, Republican candidate for Governor in Connecticut, and ex-Goy. English, Democratic eandidate. in reference to the Irish Relief Fund, drawing an inference very much in favor of Maj. Bigelow. CONNECTICUT. HER POLITICAL COMPLEXION IN THE NEXT HOUSE. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribuns, , HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 23.—The importance of ‘acquiring control of Congress bas been urgedin the campaign in this State, and will nave thé effect of inducing Republicans to vote not only for Garfield, but the straight ticket throughout. It may safely be predicted that Connecticut's delegation in the National House of Representa- tives will remain unchanged.—three Republic- ans and one Democrat. In theHartford district Gen. Hawley, who isa candidate for Senator, ylelded the nomination to John R. Buck, a Re- publican lawyer ot Hartford, ana one of the shrewdest political workers in the State. There is little or no question of higelection. : That en- thusiustic old Republican campaigner, Col. Wait, will beredlected without trouble in the Nor- wich district, and Frederick Biles in the Fourth district, where ex-Senator Barnum declined 2 nomination and transferred the honor to A FAR WEAKER CANDIDATE. “The only Representative that the Democrats have any certainty of carrying through is Judge Phelps, in, the ‘New Haven district. He com- mands’ a full party vote, and has bad consider- able aid from Hepublicans in past years. Reports from several sections of tho State in- dicate that the Democrats will not ‘gain 2g heavily as anticipated through the admission of new voters this fall. Mere Hart- ford, they have actually great_ extent, and from other places in. the State similar reports are received. Tho only reason given for this is that five or six years ago immigration was considerably checked owing to dull times in-the United States and the depression of manufacturing in Connecticut. The Democracy has tho Irish vote almost entire here, and every man ‘of that nution- ality naturalized is classitied by the Registrar of Election as on that side, and with little risk of mistake. On the contrary, the Germans and Envlish almost invariably join the Republicans, Iisa singular coincidence. ; NOTES. * TRYING TO HEDGE. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. “ToLEDO, O.. Oct. 2—A prominent Democratic politician of this city who took all bets he could get on Indianaand on Hurd, of this district, losing heavily, started for New York to-day with the avowed purpose of hedging and. re- trieving hislosses by betting on Now York and the general result from, the Republican stand- point. He tried the same thing here, but could not make it work because bo was too well known. lost to a ” ‘THE POOLS. Spectat Dispatch to The Chicaco Tribune. + WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 23.—Betting onthe elections is very slight. What there isranges about as follows: . One hundred doliars on Gar- field to $50, $60, and $70 on Hancock. GIVEIT UP. © Special Dispatch to The Chtcago Tribune. Wasntncrox, D. C., Oct. 23.—A special dis- patch from Indianapolis says the Democrats have abandoned all attempts to secure a fusion with the Greenbackers on the Electoril ticket. fn that State. The vote will be cast therefore for three Electoral tickets. NOT A RESIDENT. ‘Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, BRADFORD, Pa., Oct. 2.—The Evening Star publishes to-night copies of affidavits which conclusively show that David Kirk. of Brad- ford, the fusiun candidate for Congress in this, the ‘Sixteenth Congressional District, is not a resident of Pennsylvania. Mr. Kirk removed his family from Jamestown, N. after he nad been indorsed by the Greenback and Demo- cratic parties. Publication of atlidavits, etc., Caused 2 great sonsation in political circles. ‘A CITIZEN OF PENNSYLVANIA. New. York, Oct. 23.—Announcemont was made that Gen. Hancock would register foray, in the first election district in the First War Many persons gutheredin the neighborhood, ‘but the General did not appear. An aid called upon the Board of Registration and said Gen. Hancock -would not register or vote in New York, as he is a Pennsylvaniaf, and the act might cause some unnecessary discussion. REGISTRATION CLOSED. ‘To-day was the last day of registration. The number of persons registered to-day was 20,077. Total number registered in four cae Phe total registration in 1876 was 183, ELEVENTH NEW YORK DISTRICT. New York, Oct, 23—The Greenbackers of the Eleventh District nominated John B. Gibbs for Congress. - ‘THE INDIANA SURPRISE. - 2 IspIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 23.—Following are the official figures of the total vote for Gov- ernor ut the October election in this State ss re- ceived by the Secretary of State: Porter, Re- publican, 20,991; Landers, Democrat, 2,740; Grom, National, 14,83; plurality for Porter, 7,88) CALIFORNIA. San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 23—The Demo- cratic wing of the workingmen last night with- drew Senator Enos,. their. candidate for Con- gress, and indorsed Gen. Rosencruns, the Demo- cratic candidate. ‘THE SOCIALISTS. New Yor«, Oct. 2%—Congressional nomina- tions by the Soclalistic Labor Party: Firth District, Valentine Schmidt: Sixth District, Richard K. Forster; Seventh District, Alexander Henninger: Tenth District, Berthold Beckmann. THIRD NEW YORK DISTRICT. New York, Oct. 2.—The Republicans of, the Third District (Brooklyn) nominated 8. B. Chit- tenden for Congress. : i = A Dog Clab. Paris has a new dog club, to which no one can come unaccompanied bya bulldog, King Charles, terrier, or setter, THE RAILROADS. East-Bound Freight Traffic ai About a Standstill. No Satisfactory Settlement of the Recent War Yet Agreed Upon. The Illinois Central Refuses to Stand-In with 5 the Truce. EAST-BOUND FREIGHTS. ‘The east-bound freight shipments do neither increase nor decrease. There was but a differ-- ence ofa few hundred tons in the last three weeks. For the week ending Oct. 23, the ship- ments East by rail were 33,075 tons; for the week ending Oct. 16, they were 33,810 tons; and for the week ending Oct. 9, 33,203 tons, All the Western roads are crowded to their utmost capacity, and none of them have sufficient cars to take care of all the business that offers, yet the east- bound . traffic remains very light with no symptoms of an increase. Tho east- bound shipments for the month of October, 1879, were 19400 tons. The shipments in October, 1850, thus far, were 101,018 tons, with the chances of about 30,000tons more for the remainder of the month, which will make a total for October{ 1880, of about 131,000 tons, showing a decrease from Jast year of about 63,- 000 tons. Instead of this the Eastern roads should show an increase of about 100,000 tons over October last year. A year ago the Eastern roads were laboring under far more unfavora- ble conditions for obtaining business. At that time the bulk of the business brought here by ‘Western roads went into the elevators, where it was stored by speculators. This. year nu such condition exists, and business goes forward freely, not by rail, but by lake. 16 cause of this is that the lake ratesat present are so much lower than the rail rates, and shippers take ad- vantage of thocheapest routes. The cast-bound rates on grai this year by rail are guoted steady at 30 cents, and no advance will be made before next mouth. Last year the rail rates were 50 cents during the first two weeks in October and 35 cents during the last two weeks. The Eastern rouds were anxious to raise the rates to 35 cents this year on the 15th of Octo- der also, but owing to the small amount of busi- neas they are doing and the continued sharp competition by lake they have been unable todo so, Should they have advanced the rates on the 15th, as they did last year, itis certain that the east-bound shipments by rail for October would show a still larger decrease than they do. An advance in provision rates of five cents unds has been ordered, to take offect Nov. 1, ut no action hus yet, been taken in regard to an advance in grain rates, and nothing will proba- bly be done untilcompetition by luke has which will be about the middle of next month. The following statement will show the amount of flour, grain, and provisions shipped by the various roads leading East from this city for the week ending Oct, 23: |Grain,| Prov’s, Fiour,|tons H) tons of | Total Dris. |20001b.} 20001b.| tons. Michigan Central..| 13,770} 3,680) + 1,845) 6,901 Lake Shore. 8,783} 7,066] 3,174) 10,118 9,170] 2,019) 3481) 7.3 3,510) 960) 2,433) 747 1,000) 1,06 490) 1.015 5,778) 3,291 TS) 4c 42,016] 18,972] 10,707] 3,975 As will be observed by the above statement, the Lake Shore andGrand Trunk Roads havo carried much more than their regular allotted percentage, and, on this account, charge3 are freely made by competing lines that they have not adhered to the regular rates. - UNSATISFACTORY ARRANGEMENT. It ig not by any mennscertain yetthat the troubles regarding the Western passenger busi- ness are allover. The roads lately at war with ench other are not by any means satisfied with the arrangement made by the Presidents at their New York meeting. The principal cause of complaint is the manner in which the re- demption of outstanding tickets hes been dis- posed of. No official account of the agreement made by the Presidents has yet been received, but from what has been learned from unofficial sources, the arrangement regarding outstand- ing tickets is that they can be exchanged for tickets over any of the Southwestern lines, and that the road making the exchange should lose 15 per cent of the difference between the rates at which the tickets have been sold and the reg- ularrate,and the’road which has issued the ticket should lose 25 per cent. The Wabash, it is claimed, has issued between three and four hundred thousand dollars’ worth of these tick- ets, of which about two hundred thousand dol- lars’ worth would probably be exchi for tickets of other roads, inflicting 2 loss o: us $50,000 upon that road, which is considered a very light punishment when it is taken into consideration that the other roads will lose on such tickets alone $150,000, Most of the roada think the loss should be borne by both sides alike—namely: that the road making the ex- change should lose 50 per cent, and the road which issued the tickets 50 per cent. ‘Two or three of the lines go still further, and insist that the arrangement is unjust, and can never be carried out ns long a3 such an amount of unlimited tickets are in the hands of Gueliers. ae only way 0. .. bring about . is by Tnaiing tho roads Which Issued the ‘anita: ited tickets redeem them at the best rates they can, ‘The Iilinols Centrat refuses point blank to be bound by the agreement, as it is not a party to it, and 1 making it its interests were not con- sulted. While all other roads restored. rates yesterday morning to the old figu this road. hela out nobly and continued to sell lmited tickets to St. Louis for $1 until 2 o’clock In the afternoon, when it made the rate $3. The man- agers of the road say they will make the rate manent, and stick toit, until the outstand- tickets have ail been redeemed. It cannot afford to charge $8.70 for tickets to St. Lours bata the city is full of tickets sold for $6 and less. ‘This is a very serious matter, and if the Illt- noig Central persists in holding to. this position, |, the other roads St. Louis will* hardly be able tain @ rate of $8.70. The “probabilities now are that the regular rate to St. Louis will have to be made about $5 until the outstanding tickets have been redeemed. There is also gome trouble regarding the Omaha business. of unlimited Omaha tickets at $8 and $9. The three Iowa lines are unwilling to allow these tickets to remain in the field, and say if they aro not redeemed they will reduce the regular rate to about $9. ADVANCING EAST-BOUND BATES. Tne Eastern pools have decided to advance- the rates on boxed meats, hog products, and live hogs five cents per 100 pounds. ‘The fol- lowing is the official circular ordering the ade vance, just issued by Commissioner Fink: “ Referring to Circular No. 220 requesting the vote of the Joint Executive on’ the proposed in- crease of five cents per 100 pounds on the Chicaro basis inthe ruteon and live hogs, I have to announce the vote as in favor of tho increase in the rate, and that the above increase will take effect Nov. 1, 188). From points making: reports to this office, boxed ‘meats and hog product will be reported as sixth class until otherwise directed=” ‘The following notice is added to the above cir cular: “Tt must be understood that for the present the above advance is made simply on boxed meats, hog product, and live hogs. While the question of 4 general udvance on seventh and eighth classes has been under discussion, it has not been decided upon, neither has any decisive yote yet beeu obtalned on the question of a rc- duction in the rate on live-stock to Boston and New England.” JOLIET & VALPAIRASO. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tritune. Crown Port, Ind., Oct. 23.—The City of Val- paraiso, Ind., voted $20,000" ald to the Jollet & ‘Valparaiso Baltroad to-day. _ a ITEMS. . * boxed meat, hog products,” ‘During the war the Wabash sold a largo number . Mr. W. A. Strong, Assistant General Passenger , Agent of the Rock Island Baiiroad, has returned from his European trip. : ~ Mr. L. 3 Cole, General Ticket Agent of the ‘Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, was in this city yes~ terday to attend to the ticket business and rate matters at this énd of bis road. Mrs. N. C. Valentine bas been appointed ‘Ticket Auditor in charge of the Return Ticket Department of the Chicago & Northwestern taliway Company, in pliice of Miss C. P. Convis, assigned to other duties. - The Illinois Central Railroad Company report- ed the following earnings from traffic for the month of September: . 1880. 1879. In _Ulinois.. 22 $625,709 $3 In Towa.. . WL 523 ‘Total... seceee. = TE 788,005. Jn September, 1890, the land-sales were 2,660.71 acres for $17,914.28. Cash collected on iand con- tracts was $12,047.14. ‘The General Freight Agents of the Alton, Wa~ bash, Illinois Central, and Eastern [ilinvis Ruil- roads held a meeting yesterday forenoon at the Grand Pacific Hotel, and adopted uniform freight rates from common points in Iillnois, ‘The new rates will go into effect Nov. 1, 1880. oe rates from enh palate fave been @ Uftle off for Some months past, 01 0 ‘the sharp competition by the Wabash. ‘The latter seems to have found out that such business would not Be as yesterday's meeting was called by the ‘enerni Freight Agent of the road for the pure bri toration of rates, pose of bringimg about a real » ) >