Evening Star Newspaper, August 6, 1892, Page 6

STATE CAMPAIGNS.| Political Correspondence From Many | Cities. WHERE CONTESTS ARE CLOSE. | ‘The Outlook in New York, Alabama and North and South Carolina—Effect of the People’s Party in Michigan Opposing Fu. ston. Bpecial Correspondence of The Evening Star. Razrom, N.C.. August 5, 1892. ‘The campaign of 1892 in North ‘Carolina is already memorable, presenting features abso- | lately novel here. The chief of these new) features are three in number, being the third party, the split in the republiean party and the Proposals for « fusion of those parties. The third party is, of course, the great disturbing | @lement and the uncertain quantity and the Prime cause of all the other complications. The democrats, in all previous campaigns eonfident of success, are this year divided, one half being confident and the other half fearful of the third party. The fearful ones at one time nearly caused a panic and every assertion made by an assertive third party man was| eagerly taken in. The policy of the party was waite early decided tobe to make the federal Sections bill the chief insuo and. the changes in | it have been by every speaker since the campaign opene democrats, having in | all the previous campaigns faced ‘only their | veteran enemy, the republicans, cannot figure on the result in a triangular contest or in case the third party and republicans fuse. They want three tickets in the field, and hence the statement by the republicans that they would put up a state ticket was very agrecable. NORTH CAROLINA IMPORTANT THIS YEAR. In previous years no money has come into ‘this state from the national democratic com-| mittee, it being always assumed that North Carolina was assuredly democratic. But under the new rating of 1892 the national committee has put this state in the doubtful list, and whereas heretofore it was a matter of little public moment how North Carolina stood, this year the result of the election is of much ger ‘eral interest. There are reasons to hope for outside aid, both with money and speakers. ‘The state executive committee has begun an early campaign. The convention was held in May. but active work in the field began only a few days ago. All the speakers to be secured are now and a little later there will be twenty-five or thirty of these. For many years joint discussion between the bernatorial candidates has been the custom this state. The democrats maintain that in such a canvass they have gained nothing be- cause their speakers attracted audiences which | otherwise the republicans could not have had. | ‘The floating vote in this state has always been very light, the ine of division between the two great parties being sharply drawn, so that each | party made few converts. It is not yet known whether there will be this year such a joint dis- cussion, but not a few democrats oppose it, | end think this is a favorable occasion to do away with the old custom which has put a great burden upon all nominees for governor. There area few who go further and think a gaberna- torial candidate should not be required tomake hes, week after week, all over the stat lig as the majorities of the party has been Previous years they have not, asa rule, been won by thorough organization, for an ex-secre- tary of the stare cominittee said only a few da; ‘ago in a speech that only once did the commi tee have accurate information of the party's stmength ten days before the election. So the demand this vear is for better work, and this demand arises from an exigency. Therefore it is that money and speakers are | needed. It was asserted that the democrats ‘would be met with small audiences, as the third party people, through their newspapers, have constantly warned their adherents not to at- tend discussions. But your correspondent hears daily that there arelarge audiences wher- ever the democrats go. The number and quality of these audiences hare led not a few demo-| erats to believe that the reports of disaffec- | tion are magnified and that the result of the election will be a walkover Ifke that in Alabama. ‘The latter election has brought joy to the dem- pressed the third | ccratic heart here and has de party. ‘THE THIRD Parry. Tt will be noticed that the third party is al- ‘Ways so termed in this state. The name “peo- ple'’s party” is never used by either democrats or republicans. The third party was born four years ago. One day while your corre<pondent was talking with the late Gol. Polk the latter | said: “The allinnce has made some ‘requests.’ It will next make some ‘demands.’ And so it turned out, and from these “demands” sprang the third party. Polk saw ahead. He was the frankest third party man in the stateand | avowed himself first. Others are only now ex- | Pressing themselves and some are yet silent So much of the work of the third “party has! been secret thateven yet it cannot bear the light. It was born in the alliance and the most Persistent efforts have been made to induce all ‘the alliance men to enter its ranks and remain there. The claim is made that there are 50,000 alliance men in the state and that 60,000 will go into the new party. Mr. Mewborne, one of the executive committee of ‘the state alliance and! an earnest third party man, was asked how thought He rey party only a fow daysago. | the towns know little or noth-| third party's strength, the latter ly in the country. Elias Carr, the democratic candidate for governor, assured me | that in a number of sections the ‘third party men had actually bulldozed the democrats, and many do not hesitate to sey that’ Mr. | Garr bimeclf was scared. vas BULLDOZING 4 DEMOCRAT. This is something never before heard of in Publicans have so far found it impossible to estimate the third party's strength ia thatin some sections,and e some townships, it is really While in others adjoining it has no strength atall. After a careful look into the matter John B. Eaves,the republican chairman, 80 assured mo. is no doubt that the Great majority of the third party is ready for fusion with the republicans in order to elect a State ticket. Last reek Dr. Mott, who is the head of one wing of the republican party, in an address, publi in the chief organ of ‘the third party. openly proposed such # fusion, and in an editorial the paper (which is the one formerly edited by LL. Polk) promptly ac- cepted it. It has been observed for a year that the third party speakers and writers are far more harsh toward democrats than toward re- and that the latter have early ad-| ‘Vices of their plans. The republican papers Bow openly give advice to the third party. There is another strange feature of BATT. Some of its members are for the ma- and state tickets and congressional tick- | ets, while otbers take the singular position of supporters of Weaver for President and Carr, | the democrat, for governor. North Carolina the only people who have thas persone from vote | third party men not a few lay claim to being democrats. The existence of this sort ven ‘THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. Tounderstand the status of the republican. party in North Carolina it should be stated that there have been for years two factions. At the | factor. | brought suit for hbel the third | alliance the republican ranks. The Mott faction is anti- negro, and its organ reviles the black man in all possible w: and it demands fusion with the third party the state ticket, while | serving its autonomy on the national ticket. Eaves poses as the friend of the negro, and in all his addresses puta the accent strongly upon him. Mott and Eaves both see a breach in the party ranks ahead, if not now. : There is coming to the front in the west the “white republican” party, as yet incipient, whose purpose is to eliminate the negro. The Promoters of this claim that they can attract manny roung democrats whe in sentiment are republican, but will never join that party so pce as the negro is,as he is now, ih chier The negroes are greatly the attacks upon them. They have never split their vote, but two years ago, for the first time, there was some abstention from voting on their part. Some will not vote this year, but the number is very uncertain. Eaves is for a state ticket: Mott gainst the nomination of one. Eaves regards the action of the state committee in calling a state convention September 7 as not only an indorsement of himself and his iy work, but as practically assuring a state ticket. Mott says that there will be no ticket; that in nominating one the party will drive all the third party men back into the democratic ranks by the fear of negro rule, and thus throw away an unprecedented political opportunity. And no one can say at this writing whether there will be or will not be a state ticket. Daniel L. Rus- sell, who is Mott's chief ally, writes a wrathfal letter denouncing Eaves and the fourteen out of fifteen committeemen who voted to call a state convention. J. C. L. Harris, editor of the organ of Dr. Mott, informed the committee that if ticket was nominated he would not support it. Today the official party organ excommuni- cates him, OPPOSING FUSION. Result of the Recent People’s Party Con- vention Michigan. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. Gnaxp Rarips, Mica., August 5, 1892. The results of the people's party state nomi- nating convention in Jackson this week will have an important influence upon Michigan polities, but not in the form nor in the manuer expected. ‘The convention was ruled by an ele- ment which rampantly opposed anything that savored in any degree of fusion or combination with the democrats or any other party, and which howled about treason whenever gny fusion sug- gestion, no matter how mild,"was made. was mainly through this element that the ticket nominated is made up of men whom the dem. ccrats, even with the prospects of cer*vin vie- | , Will have nothing to do with. Ir ple’s convention had nom: ardson, 18 peo- inated Geo. F. Rieh- en. Wm. P. Innes or d influential ele- y opposed to the renomination o? Gov. Winans would have been attempted with good prospects of success to swing the democratic state convention igto in- dorsing the people's nominee and made him the head of the democratic ticket. As the case stands now Gov. Winans has practically a clear | for a renomination and will be nominated | on the first baliot if not by acclamation. THE PEOPLE'S PARTY NOMINEE. John W. Ewing, the people's nominee for governor, is a farmer of 300 acres and is not known outside of his own bailiwick. He is about fifty years oldand has held a few minor office in Eaton county, such as supervisor and town clerk. He has been @ republican anda greenbacker, has had prohibition leanings and is a recent convert to the people's doctrine®, When supervisor he was accused by the Char- lotte Republican of misappropriating funds and 1. ‘The trial of the case and resulted in a verdict of no cause of action and he carried the case no further, paying the costs taxed against him. The members of the people's party who favored the nomination of a candidate who ould be agreesble to the democracy and be liable to receive the democratic indorsement are greatly dissatisfied with the results of the con- vent ni y of corruption and -y among the delegates. The convention will have the effect of disrupting the party and ving it on the shelf after this campalgn, if not ted A. A. before election. ‘The Jackson convention renomi Ellis for attorney general. Mr. Ellis was the candidate of the people's party and of the dem- lasted several ocrats for attorney general two years ago and | was elected. Ci toward the democrats when among the disciples at Jack-on this week it is hardly probaple that he will havea place on the democratic ticket this year. E. H. Belden, the people’snominee for United States Senator, was at the head of the industrial ticket two years agoand polled 13,000 votes. He was appointed a member of the world s fair commission by Gov, Winans and etill holds that office. IN SOUTH CAROLINA'S DISTRICTS. Prospects of the Return of Congressmen | From That State. Special Correspondence of The Evening Stat CutaRLesto: Aug. South Carolina is represented in the Fifty second Congress by one alliance man, Geo. W. Shell of the fourth district, since the death of ex-Congvessman Stackhouse in June last. Just at this time the alliance yardstick is being in- dustriously and vigorously used in the hustings and it looks very much as if there will bea change in the next Congress, #0 far as the pal- metto state is concerned. A glance at the con- gressional canvass in the state may be interest- ing at this writing. It may be premised the fight is for the nomination and is confined en. tirely to thé democracy save in the seventh di trict, better knowa as the “black district,” owing to its dense colored population. he first district is represented now by W. H. Brawley, who is admittedly one of the ableat young Carolininns of the decade. Mr. Brawley ; | Tepresents ihe commercial interests of Charles- | ton, which is the metropolis and seaport of the state. He is opposed for the democratic nom- ination by Dr. J. William Stokes, the president of the state Furmers’ Alliance, and the indica- tions are that he may be beaten unless he can Ul the entire demo he other two counties of the district—Orange- burg and Lexington—are distinctively alliance counties, although Brawley will get a large vote from the towns and cities of both counties, Dr. Stokes is running on the Ocala platform, which, by a strange turn in politics, is now the demo- cratic platiorm of South Carolina. Mr. Brawley i op) to the free coinage of silver. The re- publicans have no fighting chance in this dis- trict, although it is probable they will put up Dr. U. C. Crum, the colored man who was ap- pointed postmaster of Charleston by President Harrison, but whose nomination was withdrawn | from the Senate before it was acted upon. The tigit for Congressman Geo. D. Tillman's shoes in the second district is a liv the chances largely in favor of “¥ George,” as he is familiarly called bere. His opponents are W. Jasper Talbert, a high official im the state alliance, and Robert Aldrich, a | prominent lawyer, who went over to the Till- man side in the state campaign of 1890. Tal- bert hasa majority of the alliance behind him. Aldrich has nothing to depend upon except the | dis- devotion to the ‘Jiliman side, and this counted by the fact that “Your Uncle George” is a brother of Gov. Ben Tillman. In addition to this “Uncle George” will get a large share of what is known as the conservative democratic vote that is row directed against his brother, the governor. It is doubtful if the republicans will put up anybody in this district. ‘The third district is now represented by Mr. Geo. D. Johnson, who in 1890 ran in « triangu- lar contest and got the nomination over the candidate, D. K. Norris, The alliance, however, wants Mr. Johnson's scalp and have put against him A. C. Latimer, a third ty advocate, and the man who rushed the platform through the democratic state conven- tion. Congressman Johnson, however, has a big following in his district and may pull through, especially since he voted for Crisp for ‘Speaker and with the free silver men. It) idering Mr. Ellis’ attitude | atic vote of Charleston. | unless the alliance screws are put on for fitrait he will win the fight. No republican has a peared in this distlct aa yet nih The death of Stackhouse of ‘ongressman the sixth district leaves that district in a po- | litical mess which has some novel: features about it The deceased Congressman had no | opposition in 1990. He nted wi known asthe garden district of the stat Pee Dee country—where farmers beforo the war used to three es of cotton to the acre. Almost before the dead Congressman had been _ buried | the alliance fot together and snggested John L. MeLaurin, the present attorney general of the state, for the vacancy. ‘This was in spite of the | | fact that W. D. Evans, vice president of the state alliance, and 8. Bigham, another big gun | of the alliance, were candidates. After this | unexpected action of the alliance Evans with- | drew, leaving the fight between McLaurin. Big- |ham and Jere Smith, the Inst named being what is known as a conservative democrat. Maj. J. Jonathan Lucas was a candidate, but he | Bappened to be one of the old regime, and the old regime is not “‘in it” in South Caroltas to- | day, so he withdrew. The republicans of this district have a fight- ing chance and will probably nominate E. | Deas, a colored politician. | The withdrawal of Col. Wm. Elliott from the | race in the seventh district leaves two demo- cratic candidates in the field, W. H. Whaley, | alliance, and E. W. Moise, conservative demo- erat. The republicans can easily carry this district if they could unite on a candidate, but this they have seldom done and indications are there will be the same party fight this year. ‘The leading candidates are. Robert Smalls and |Z. E. Miller, both colored and both of whom have served in Congress, and J. H. Osteadorf, white. ‘The choice of congressional candidates will not be made until September. The democrats nominate by the primary election plan and the republicans by the convention plan. INDICATIONS FAVOR DEMOCRATS. Apparently They Aie All Harmonious in New York. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. New Yor, August 5, 1892. Nobody is willing yet to make any definite | predictions about the results or even the proba- bilities in New York state politics. It is gener- ally conceded that New Yorkw@nust remain the | pivotal state. So far as present indications are | an index the democrats seems to have the bestof it. It is a curious fact that, although New York did not give a single vote to the nomi- nee in the convention, the democrats aro | “getting together” more repidly and | thoroughly than the republicans are. | The meeting of the state democratic | | committee, which is composed entirely of men | welected by the “snap” # midwinter conven- | tion, was quite remarkabje in ite apparent will- | | ingness to accept the situation and make the best of it. The course of these men, who met for the first time since the convention of theit | party turned down their candidate and no: nated a man whom they have most bitterly op- posed, was quite in contrast with that of promi- nent republicans, who were disappointed in the nomination of Mr. Harrison. ‘MR. PLATT'S COURSE. If they were inclined to do any kicking they | bod the good judgment “to do it in private, | while certein of the republican lenders seem to | | glory in their opportunity to say bitter chings | j about the nominee of their own party. The | | attitude of ex-Senator Dlatt, whose caustic re- marks anent have al- republican situati: } ready been telegraphed Tux Svar, creates a | good deal of anxiety among republicans und no |little satisfaction on the democratic side. | Whether Mr. Platt intends to keep up| his warfare against the candidate of his party is not known, but. certainly | the sort of talk in which he iS i | months after the nominating convention can but have a depressing infuenee upon republi- | can pro=pects in New York state, where his in- fluence is, undoubtedly, very great, His course | and that of others who co-operate with him is | in such strong contrast with that of democrats who were equally disappointed in the tomina- | tion of Mr. Cleveland that it is imposible to conceal the fecling on both sides that the demo- crate are guining a decided advantage in the matter of ma: ir forces in support of | lulging two | | the ticket. body is willing, as indicated | in the beginning of this letter, to verture a| | definite opinion as to what the remult will be. | | WHAT GEORGE 0. JONES SAYS. | Mr. George 0. Jones, whose face and fignre are well known in Wachjngton and who has | been making a study of national politics for ink any ot thi ling together with the the repablicans are. My | of the interior of the have known for 3 were opposed to M line for him, What the republic to do is yet uncertain. “Whai do vou th the republicans and ¢ “It is certainly unfortunate + Senator Gorman refused to serve as the head of the executive committee. I regard him ay the most aente and valuable all-around Yet the democratic or-| i KR and even stronger than that of the republicans. who had greater difficulty in making their orguniza- tion then the democrats hd."a “It puts the management of the campaign | into new and untried hagds on both sides, does | it not?” 8 ure going ganizations of ‘or the democrats ‘es, and hence the uncertainties are greatly | inereaved. Another feainre which is going to | ndd largely to the an: ies of the situation is the new ballot law LW goes inte t | in many states for the first tine in a presidential | campaign. Nobody can tell how that is going | to affect the herefore opinions on the | rompects no Id not be worth the paper they are written ALABAMA DEMOCKATS IN DANGER. | | The Third Party Threatens the Supremacy of Those in Power. i Special Correspondence of the Evening Star. Montoomeny, Ava., Ang. 4, 1892. } ‘The result of the election held in this state | on Monduy last was a victory for the orgenized | democracy of Alabama. | | ‘The character of this victory will be measured by different standards and its magnitude de- termined according to the light in which it is viewed. ‘To those who underrated the strength | | of the alliance or third party element in the | state there js little inthe majority by which | ov. Jones and his ticket was saved to afford substantial comfort or aid. To that other and | larger class who have been prompt to recog- | | nize a radical change in the ordgr of things the result will be accepted as a happy compromise | of what has long been regarded a most em- barrassing, not to ot Sagaan a6 situation, Perhaps after all the only fact that has been definitely settled in this coniest is that the con- | stituted officers of the state government for | the next two years will be exponenta bf “organ- ized democracy.” Beyond this it is difficult for the non-partisan observer to note the final determination of any issue over which the two | | democratic factions in Alabama have been | worrying for the past six months. The August | election may therefore be properly regarded as marking the skirmish line of the battle to be fought in November. During the late canvass Mr. Kolb, the alliance candidate for governor, was “frequently inter- | rogated as to his intentions respecting the | | national ‘ickot, His answers were not of @ | character to commit him to the support of M. | Cleveland; indeed his opposition to the national democratic ticket is no fonger denied. In his attitude toward Mr. Cleveland Mr. Kolb is sus- tained by a majority of those who supported | him for governor, and when it is remembered | that this class, according to the Inte election returns, embraces nearly one-half of the demo- | i H. |.the hazards to which it is N reduce the margin for democratic success in November and correspondingly enhances the chances of republican victory. BEPUBLICANS WILL BE LITTLE AFFECTED. ‘The republican party will be slightly affected, if at all, by this new party, as nine out of every ‘is | ten of its recruits will be drawn from the ranks ‘the | of the democracy. An analysis of the presi- dential vote four years ago will elaborate this statement and serve to justify the conclusion drawn. Four years ago the total vote polled in Alabama for President was 175.100, divided as follows: Cleveland, 117,320; Harrison, 57,197; other candidates and scattering, 583—a demo- cratic plurality of 60,123. An accurate com- parison of these figures with the tabulated vote polled last Monday cannot as yet be drawn, as the official count has not been deter- mined, but from returns received to dato ‘it is evident that the Kolb or independent vote cast will approximate or exceed the plurality by which the democrats carried the state in 1888. Now, presuming that the republicans will hold their own in the com- ing election—as is probable—and that the bulk of the Kolb vote in August will be cast for Weaver in November, we have some idea of sible democratic prospects may be subjected in the coming na- tional election. Another deduction is equally apparent, and that 18 the republican party will be the real beneficiary of the third party movement in Alabama." And herein lies the hope of the de- mocracy to check this powerful invasion on its prettize | and) power. ‘There is noth- ing so fatal to democratic opposition in the south as the possibility of a. return to republican control. The moment it is clearly understood by the advocates of a third party that their maximum strength as a party is short of a real majority of the white voters of the state, so soon will its forces begin to disin- tegrate and seek old affiliations. THE RACE ISSUE A FACTOR. The reason refers to a cause that transcends | party ties and appeals to an instinct more powerful than all political considerations— the race issue, Independent of this bar tier the tide of the people's party een| ment would sweep over this state in No-| vember with a force which, if not resistless, least with a power that would foment a revo~ lution widespread and universal The immedi- ate danger which confronts the democra in the fuct that the possible consequen party division may not be considered until the experiment of testing the strength of the third in Alabama is fairly made. Ina contin- gency like this the republican party's outlook orember would be full of promise, for that party would enjoy all of the advantages to be derived from a house divided against itself, and these, in this instance, as shown from fig: ures quoted above, would be decidedly great. This is calm, dispassionate review of the situation in Alubania ss it appears on the threshold of the rational campaign. ‘Ihere wiil be developments within the next few weeks by which the predictions and estimates of this letter can be intelligently studied and verified, : —>—_ LATE POLITICAL NEWS. Both Branches of the Michigan Legislature Meet for Redistricting. Both branches of the Michigan legislature were called to order in special session at noon yesterday to reapportion the state into seni torial and representative districts, the last ap- portionment act having been declared by the supreme court to be unconstitutional. The house after organizing tock a recess until 2:30 | in the afternoon. Pending action on a motion for the adoption of the rules of the regu- lar session, except that quires one day's notice for the introdue- tion of bills, the senate also took a recess, Inmediately after adjournment representa- tives from both parties met to see if rome terms of peaceable procedure could not be ugreed | upon, Before the legislature reconvened the crats held a nd decided to accept a pacific proposition which came from the re- P viz: The appointment of three demo- three republicans to confer upon a ament bill. ction can b- made as to the outcome. on is likely to be very short or to run to maximum. The repnblicatis hoped io carr: it over to Wednesday, when an immediate effe act would be necessary: but in view of theaction at the firat session all slates are brokenand both parties must reform their lines, publicans, New York's Kédistricting is Void. Judge Rameey in Rochester, N.Y., has h down a decision in the case of county board of supervisors, & portionment act void and unconst decision is based m the repree ded ap- sional. ‘The yon the gronnd that pro- disre- respect hasbeen pl court holds that the ineqni this Th are so gross that it is mimifest (bat diser: ture was exceed d the: The Republican Ticket in Nebraska, The Nebraska republican rtute convention ted Lorenzo Crounse for gov- ernor, ag announced in THe Stax, he receiving 446 votes; necessary to a choice, 423. Rev. J. G. Tate was nominated for lieutenant gov and John C, Allen for secretary of state. ticket. was completed as_ follows: Joxeph 3. Bartley i struction, A. H. Has buildings, G. R. Humphrey. Y genera wblic lan Gov. McKiniey 3 At noon yesterday at the Millard Hotel, ac- cording to invitation, Gov. McKirley met the members of the Ohio Club of Omaha. Last ight Gov. McKinley was the center of mam- hh republican demonstration. The ropub- cans’ ward club of the city, with a band. sembled at the hotel and escorted Gov, McKin- ley to the High School grounds, where he made @ speech. ike govérngr taced’a throng of 30,000 people, who were demonstrative from first to last. Gov. MeKiniey diseussed the methods of taxation posed by the republican and tic parties, He admitted that for a time a protective tariff is paid by the consumer, but that in the end the consumer is benefited. Protection, he continued, has cheapened everything it has touched ept labor. Referring to republican deteat in 1390, Gov. MeKinley said: “We were beaten two ‘years ago by false pretenses.” ‘A voice shouted: The speaker "kind of language would not be parliamentary for me.” Gov. McKinley leaves for Denver today. m Mr. Stevenson Frankfort, Kentucky's capital, was gay with fluttering flags and a great crowd from all parts of the state greeted Adlai Stevenson on the ar- rival of the train yesterday. A procession was formed and, after a parade throngh the streets, proceeded to the state house. Judge Lindsay presented the visitor. Mr. Stevenson's speech was a non-political one, It dealt mainly with his relations to Kentucky and Kentuckians and the clore kinship of Kentucky and Ilinois. Last night Mr. Stevenson held a reception at the residence of ex-Governor Proctor Knott and today returns to his home at Bloomington, Fresh Democratic Complications. Chairman Wm. F. Harrity of the democratic national committee has decided to take up the grievance of union printers against the New York Evening Post, the Philadelphia Record and other newspapers refusing to employ union printers. It is proposed that a subcommittee, | consisting of Mr. Harrity, Lieut. Gov. Sheehan of New York and &. C. Wall of Wisconsin, meet @ committee bf nd that the committees jointly urge upon the it of the news- re men the employment of union ters. Candidate Bidwell Notified. Gen. John Bidwell of Chico, Cal., was of- TG fils UEEEE FL} i portion which re- | ‘Spécial Correspondence of The Evening Star. Ata grand ball arranged by the officers’ corps | New York, August 5, 1892. | of the Cear's Body Hussars last night at the ‘There is # good deal of quiet dissatisfaction | Casino in Moscow, Bussia, First Lieut. Ivan | here over the action of Congress in voting even | Rattovitch suddenly stepped into the middle of | two and a half millions to the world’s fair. The | the ball room, drew a pistol from his dolman, | editor of one of the prominent papers here said | took deliberate aim and shot Prince Nicholas | to Tae StaR correspondent today in talking | Sussovitch, a brother officer. Prince Nicholas | with him: “Those Chicago fellows haven't | was waltzing with the lieutenant's fiancee. | played fair in this matter. They swooped |, The prince, who received the bullet in the | down on Washington and tock the fair away | heart, fell dead instantly, dragging his partner after the sentiment had been worked up in its | with him to the ground. The assassin, amid [favor in that city. They got it by promis-| wild excitement, stepped over the body of his ing everything. They even had the assurance | comrade, raised his affianced’s head by the hair to propose to pay the cost of the government's | and then blew his own brains out. exhibit if the fair would be only given to them. | _ All this happened in leas than seconds. | When it was insisted that” they would come | So quickly were the shots fired that interfer- along pretty soon and ask for congressional aid ence was impossible. The cries of the terrified they swore they would not. Yet they did come | Woman first gave the alarm to those in other and coolly ask for five millions in excess of the | parts of the | two or three millions that Congress has alread, Medical assistance was at once , but given for the government exhibits, the| was of no avail in the caseof Susslo- | salaries of officers, &c. Then when the | Vitch and Ivan Ra ttovitch. Sunday closing clause was attached to the | appropriation they swore they would not hav it and vet sent a big lobby down there to work tooth and toenail for the appropriation, Sunday closing and all, and finally in the end were will- ing to tke half that sum and include Sunday closing if necessary. It shows the absolute insincerity of the whole performance on their The young lady was with difficulty dtagged rom the death grip of her murdered partner. She is lying at the point of death. The mirder bas created great excitement in Russia's upper circles, where all parties con- cerned were well known. ‘The czar ordered a special report to be for- warded to him by telegraph. murdered part. . prince had been warned beforehand by Ratto- ‘The Washingtonian viviting here can scarcely | Vitch not toattempt dancing with the latter's in- realize that he 1s out of Washington. Familiar faces bob up at every turn and familiar sights are @ hand everywhere. The first man I saw on entering the Fitth Avenue Hotel this morn- ing was Senator Cameron, who was engaged in conversation with a gentleman whose face is also very familiar in Washington outside of legislative circles. A little later Senator Te was a clear case of jealousy, though there was epparently no ground for any #1 on the part of the marderet. sy “upicione ———_+e+ WOMEN PAST FORTY. They Allow Themselves to Grow Old and x made his appearance and ‘was the World Neglects Them. ‘hustling to get away for Washington, | prom the Chicago Herald. |where “he thought his presence might “Why should a woman at the age of forty be, in any sense of the word, passe?” asked Mrs. ‘Terhune the other day at the Monona Lake as- sembly. And then she answered the question in a paper that was full of the simplest yet the saddest and most pathetic sentences that one is likely to hear for many a day. Mrs, Terhune pointed out that after the age of forty the mental forces of woman are at their best, and yet the sunset of her life is darkened. Take the average case. A woman of twenty mar- ries. She is handsome, intelligent and edu- cated. She has read, she has bathed a little in the sea of thought and looked with wonderment upon its billows, She has even dreamed of voy- ages out there where stately ships of splendid minds are grasping all the winds that blow end | are pushing for the port of progress. And then | she turns to her duties as wife. At first che follows her reading and tries to keep up with the times, but it keeps her busier now than it did. Then the children come and she is so harried. Her work is so unending and so ex- acting. She finishes one task only to find it has brought her to the threshold of a hundred new | ones. She thinks sometimes of the culture she | i# losing, but she has no time. Here are duties | that will not be waved aside. She is a mother and her children shall not be neglected. She loses her touch with the women whose cares are lighter. She forgets much that she once knew well. She bends every energy that the childrett may have advantages. She would feel that she had done a selfish. an unpardona- ble thing if she sat down to read or to study when there were tasks demanded of her by her hasband or her children, Presently she sees that the boysand girls have discovered that mother does not know. How quickly children come to that? They compare her with some one and she suffers, Without meaning it or knowing it he loses interest in the things that interest them. She never would have thought she could do that. To avoid it is the very thing for which she sacrificed herself, She has made duty her slave so long that duty is her master, She cannot escape from the treadmill she bas builded. She be needed to make a quorum in the Senate. At the Hofiman House I encountered Mr. Mathews, who formerly represented the Chicago Time: on Newspaper Kow. Other faces familiar in the newspaper world mude their appearance fur- | ther down town., One incident which shows the difference between New York and Washing- ton ways is the gait at which the street sweep- ing machines are driven. Instead of the steady- going amble at which the sweeping machines slowly peregrinate over the Washington pave- ment the New York sweepers go ina trot; prob- ably it might be called a “sweeping trot.” _— DETECTIVE RAFF WEAKER. A Belief That He is Failing Rapidly—His Case Hopeless, |. Detective Raff is much weaker today, and it is the belief of his brother officers at the first precinet station, where he is still held, that he is failing rapidly. Yesterday afternoon he seemed much brighter and tock a| short walk with his wife, returning to the station for tho night. It is now stated that his family will send the afflicted man to an asylum near Baltimore, Md, His fam- ily and frien‘ds realize tha: his case is hopeless and will do ail in their power to make his re- mining days as comfortable for him as pos- sible. DISTRICT GOVERNMENT. A LARGE PLANT. | A permit was issued today to the Washington Asphalt Block und Tile Company to erect a e plant on square south of 703, at the corner Rand South Capitol sireets southeast. The plant will comprise a boiler house thirty feet square and factory 59 by 76 feet. Thecontracts call for an expenditure of $55,000. BU Building perm J. Webster, fi st 's were issued today as follows: brick dwellings, 306 to 315 N 000. C. W. Kind, eight | frame Kraemer street, block 27, lote | sees her weary way till the dav is done, and to . J. H. Merriweather, | even in sleep she dreams of toiling. All her and 1113 to | associates drift further and further from her. Her circle narrows till she stands in the center Jone. There is not a throb from her brain that is answered by a thought from the world, and she knows i Has he done best. Would it bave been sel- fishness for her to neglect thte children a little in unconscious infancy to keep pace with them better in acute maturity? Does she not quicker lore huld of them, lose guidance of them, when they they have gone and left her alone, and the echoes are loud where laughter nsed to live, what has sh quited, unthanked, in many things ignorant, in many things dull, the measure of suffering raped and that that portion of it Just south of Columbia road be macadamuzed, | Mereifal. aracters ever ppeared before Judge the person of Francis Greek or Arabian his shoulders was a mat as large aga peck measure. —_— | The Judie Was Not One of the most disgusting | seen in the Police Court ing acro hai He carried under his arm an. i | that must be hers will simply be the measure of of aaaps and papers, and with tears streaming | possibility that was hers the day che wed. down his fac Mr. Judge, I'n 4s Beaty Ament ee, no tramp—1 man. See my And Tobacco Amblyopta. hands, Mr. Judg ng UP & pair Of Very | v0, ths Pall Moll Canto aA eee are ae? bands ot | “The report of the committee of the Royal Society on “color vision,” with the accompany - away my | § 5 ing minutes, contains some curious reading. ihave left. merciful Mr. Judge, ee, good Mr, Judge, save me. to'a poor man and do not him to | out is that some of the tests now used for de- tecting defects of vision in engine drivers and seamen are inefiicient. Color-blind men | prison. | | Deeasanctiite Attorney Dumont explained that | the felloy so simple as he pretended imony showing that the man | tering about the Capitol for years, | mcelf a general nuisance, When the | nced that he wou!d have to go down | hhirty days in default of $20 bonds, the man | led below still praying: “Oh, good Mr. udge, have merey upon a | a profession of what may be called “color coaches” having grown up to eupply this wan: The art of cramming surely never had a more strange and, one may add, a more mischievous application than this. The committee had before them one of these gentlemen, but they do not give his evidence. Another witness, however, explains their method of proceeding. “They provide themrelves with aset of colors similar to those used in testing. | Acolor is shown to the pupil. It is, say, green, has appealed to the police | and he calisit “red.” Thereupon he isinstructed without success for some relief from what he | to answer “green” when a thing appears to him considers a nuisince. Some of the unimproved | Ted. The instruction is not, of course. so sim- ; ; | ple as this would seem to make it out. The color | Sround in that section is being worked in cora | Csneationsare variousin various individuals, and tocs and the latter has | different tints make different impressions; but me infested with bug or worm. | the exemple is sufficient to show the method of o save the potatoes the grower used paris | “color coaching.” The committee recommends drove them off, and the migration the universal and compulsory use of what is toward the house of the complain- | called “Holmgren’s test.” This consists of a Hud the worms stopped at the | number of skeins of colored wool. The exam- ¢ would bave been all right, but | iner eelects a ekein cf a certain color—say pale Wa Judge, Oh, dear Mr. haid working man, a poor, persecuted man.” prelate dsr streets northea: his into the | right up steps, parlors | grass green—and the candidate is requested to aud bed chambers they went in search | pick out from the heap others of the same typo of something tender” and green to! of color, irrespective of chade. A color-blind feed pon, “and their presence became | person will match drabs, pinks and yellows with intolerable. Then Lieutenant Hefner was ap- | peated 10 and advice asked, but he could give | none other than to sweep them out. It was suggested that he might use paris green to drive them off, and he went off in search of that | article. grass green, blues and violet le oF tps Tight red “green blind.’ "That accidents have happened either from the ineficiency of the test applied or from none having been applied at all seems to be estab- lished beyond doubt. In July, 1875, a steam tug and a steamer collided near Norfolk, Va. ‘with ligi ik SS Preferred Poker to Banking. He was a businers man of more than ordinary pronuuence, He still is, Several fellow- | citizens, also prominent, asked him to accept a bank presidency with a $5,000 salary attach- ment and nothing todo. There was but one condition: he must cease to play poker. “Gentlem id he, appreciate honor you would do me, but I must deciine. ‘the disparity between the valury vour offer and the amount I can rake in at poker is too great.” | And another man presides over the financial | institution that sought his services, i] red light was exhibited. All the odicers of the | steamer swore that the position of their vessel was such that only the green light could have been visible to the tug. The master of the tug was found on examination to be color blind. In this case the defect cost the iives of ten sons. In another case an accident was ly averted. The third officer of a vessel, seeing what he cap aged coe a age as Robberies Reported. Some time yesterday a sneak thief entered the apartments of Mrs, William Stedman, stop- ping at the Portland Flats, and eecured pair out that the man-was color blind. He was re- moved from that ehip, but probably followed | his ocenpation elsewhere. A somewhat alarm- ing fact is that temporary color blindness may ot Siaiaoel secrings, ‘5 diambel pia twe ie, amblyopia it is salle and imate rene mond studs, a ‘ge pearl pin, several diamond Kcckets and’ a purse containing 850. She re- | Ob,0F Was brought on in a case rrted her lows td police headqi and the Eee nes Dana puri the hems or Doren Carter. pie ees, Ungomfortable Folks, From the New Yo-k Herald. “Yes,” said tho martyr, ashe heaved a sigh ‘of unntterable woe, “there are two classes of | uncomfortable folks that have lately made life « burden to me. “The first is the woman whose things are bet- | ter than yours, and the second is the man who | enone is aigood sort, this “sl a nat woman, @x- tut xcessi Cayed.* hit complacenty tao creereaaly. de> veloped that a rifled ball could not it, and the is rolling it under her good | property valued at $10,000,000. n outrun her—outthink her? And when | Neglected, forgotten, unte- | ‘The mos: practically important fact bronght | y educated to puss the examinations, | | The master of the tug swore that the steamer’s | TEN YEARS IN Prison. An Interesting Feature of the Forthcoming | Jaeger, the Defaulting Cashier of the ‘Census Report. Rothschilds, Sentenced. Charles E. Bull, chief of the division of re-| Rudolph Jaeger, who for seventeen years ligious statistics of the forthcoming United jze chief cashier in the banking house of the States census report, has finished his labora, | Rothschilds at Frankfort, Germany, and who His general report is the first one authorized by | in April last was found to be a defaulter, was Congress. It contains the returns of all the | yesterday convicted and sentenced at Frankfort religious denominations in America. The total | to ten vears’ penal servitude. RELIGIOUS STATISTICS. Rachie 4 yh | Jneger, whose stealings were estimated at over seem Ae pp oe me ore apes million anda balf marks, fled shortly before Property valued at 646,125,704. his crime was discovered, but was The Roman Catholic Church ranks first in | tracked to Ramich, Egypt. where he woe numerical strength, embracing 6,250,046 people found living at a Bore with his in ite faith. Its property is valued at €118,000,- | mistress, who had fled with him. When 000. ‘The Methodist Episcopal Church is next, | @rrested’ J: was found to have in his session nearly the full amount which bh: with @ membership of 2,240,354 and with | Stolen. His infatuation for bis mistress. a church property aggregating $96,000,000. In | woman known as Kler, is said to have led him the southern portion of the United States there to commit the crime for which be was today are numbered in the Methodist Episcopal faith | sent to prison. 1,250,000 .. with property belonging to the church reaching the sum of 13,000,000. Other smaller bodies of the Methodist religion te 4,000,000. ‘The Lutheran is third in numerical strength. The Baptists follow, 3,000,000 strong. and next come the colored denominations, with a total membership of 8.000.000 and church property valuation of $30,000,000. The majority of them | are Methodist, The Presbyterians are fourth ip numbers, The Protestant Episcopalian denomination, while numbering but 500,000 people, as the most property per capita, the aggregate being $73,000,000. The valuation of church property by census agents does not include schools, par- sonages or any feature excepting the edidces ~ eee THERE 18 A LITTLE DIFFERENCE. Women Are Not All Alike, Opinion, One of the constitutional opinions of the aver- age man is that women are all alike, writes Junius Henry Browne in the Ladies’ Home Journal. It crops out in his speech perpet ally, sometimes in the way of kind: pathy, oftener in the way of tempt. When a wife hos forgi wrong done her by her husband, when has sacrified herself for ber children, we hear Spite of Men's eas and <vm- ision ad « en ry “It is just a woman.” We hear the «me and the sites upon which they are built. : - . ‘Of Jews there are’ 150,000. the Quakers num- | thing if she Bas deceived her lover or involved her father in debt. This dissent is duc to the fact that some men are sentime that more men are cynics. The former are a ways pruixing woman, the latter are genera! sneering at or decrying her, but both tb that rhe has only one nature alist believes her to be good ful under every circamstance nounces her bad, harsh, incon cal on instinct, ‘Neither is wholly rig wholly wrong. She is good und harsh, loval and inconsta: ful and hypocritical. Her quali largely on the individunl, and the im varies with mood and ens irontoe: cut out of the ideal, ber 106,000, and there are thirty religious com- munities with a membership of 10,000. The Branderhoef branch of the Mennonites, who have been driven out of Europe, bave set- tled exclusively in three counties of North Dakota. is the primitive religious faith of Christian worship, and was established in the thirteenth century. The Mennonites are now sort of clannish people from Russia, but they are strong in numbers and great devotees in their faith. Mr. Bull says that the Church of the Latter | Day Saints is increasing rapidly in member- | ship, numbering now 66,000 and owning church “Mormons,” said Mr. Bull. ‘can be found in nearly every state in the Union. I have ascertained that there are several places of worship in Chicago for Mormons. I have not ascertained, how- a ints of strength, and weakness, of generosity and solfi exer, that polygamy is 4m | charity and prejudice, of altruism and eotiem, ‘The a nation Army Se mite to Go re- of affection and aversion. Some w _ are ligious statistics of the census report, placing its strength at 8,000, ————+e+—____ ABUSE OF A MISSIONARY. An Agent of the American Bible Society Badly Treated in Peru. The Rev. Dr. E. W. Gilman of New York, secretary of the foreign department of the American Bible Society, received yesterday a letter from Francisco Penzotti, agent of the | Bible Society in Peru, detailing an outrage per- petrated on one of the society's missionaries in the city of Ayacucho last month. The letter is dated Callao, July 11. According to the account Senor Don Aris- tides Castro, the missionary in question, was sent to Avacucho with six boxes of Bibles. He was allowed to display hiss stock of books and urge purchasers to buy the Scriptures without hindrance for several hours, when the inhabi | tants of the city began selves. Poetsand novelists may to a gre gree be responsible for the aver: ion of woman. The poets have ordinarily used her as a vehicle of passion and rom: source of light to set off the darknow of mens sins. She has been portrayed as their better angel, as turning them from vicious courmes, as comforting them in illnew and aflliction, a» re- compensing and blessing them afier uli thor trials with her unalterabic love ———+e- Electrical Signaling Balloon. From the London Daily News. A veries of interesting experiments wa ducted last night and the nigh: before at Stam- ford bridge grounds with balloon and appa- ratus invented and improved br Mr. Erie Bruce, for use in military signaling ot night over intervening woods and bills. Within the balioon are hung on a smail swinging six incandescent latnps connected by teal cable, with a battery last night at twenty-four volts and giving sity candle po jnmination By ready manipulation of instrument the cent sides of the balloon the #i¢ of any code, and these can be nce of six miles. ‘The balle staall one of cighteen feet diamet taining 1,090 feet of as, and was held rd ground, worked st the miseionary was forced to leave his stall and was compelled to seek refuge in his lodg- | ings. Here be remained for several days waiting for pubhe clamor to subside, Late one after- noon, however, the house in which he was stay- ing was broken into by an armed mob, and Senor Castro, to escape their fury, found a hid- ing place in another part of the building. The crowd made its way into the tissionary’ | rooms and not discovering him vented its wrath | Sgainst his effects. | The stock of Bibles and as much of his per- sonal property as they could lay their hands on | were taken out into the street and publicly | burned. At the risk of his life Castro escaped | from the honse and made his way out of the j city, The outrage was brought to the attention of the minister of the Peruvian government, upon whom a demand was made for compensa- tion for the destruction of the Bibles and other property, the whole being valued at $530. The | Government has the matter under cousidera- tion, experts and were answered from a station om land. ber of scientific men. The wind last night had less effect and the experiments were varied by hanging the ‘outside below the + of the balloon, and flashing direct, « pla the authorities at Chatham are, sid t r. ‘The illuminated balloon, when a few fort above ground, gives a beautiful light and can be atil- ized when required for executing work at might. ———+ee— He Palled Out. Prom the New York San. We had camped at the mouth of a pass in the Bitter Root mountains, on the dividiag line be- tween Idaho and Montana, and for thirty-cight days we had not seen a human being outside of our own crowd. About 5 o'clock in the after- noon we caught sight of a pack train of males coming across the little valley in our front. There were only two men with the train and we were amazed to ace them heave in sight in tha: wild and lonely spot. We kept wonder- ing and wondering what the mules cou! loaded with, but no one came witintn fo the right cargo. Tine hendi ——___+e-+_____ THE ARTISTS WHO FAIL. What Becomes of the Innumerable Waifs of the Paris Schools? Paris Letter to Philadephia Telerrain. The question is often asked (at least I often put it to myeelf while going through the ) as to what becomes of the artiste who are fail- ures? It is a well-known fact that the accept.d contributions of the year never number more | than one-third of the works sent in. To what course of action do the luckless painters and sculptors betake themselves, who have tried vainly for several consecutive seasons to win their way to the crowning triumph of admission toone of the two great art exhibitions of the | season? We know thateven the successful third ve ‘some years works that are only tolerable, disap- pears and is heard of no more. ‘in good stead, and in which their — ete ey pe lane pane : and drift into'any form of occupation that will | of Washington territory. "It mst be 400 sailes fRorough, education ia art received “at the | Onis 400! Well, that's wot so bad. Can we Beaux Arte or in the Julian Academy can be | camp hore tonight?* turned by a ‘and individual, if | ,"Of couree. What ye loaded with?” not into winning fame andacolossal | “Well, it was the Montana Werk!y Observer forvune, as the tere ‘that have, uc. | ten daysago, In about ten daye from this it canon lies Osan aster mate ‘earning # good | Will be the Washington Hustler, I presume. Got salary in rome congenial to be too many of us over in Gallatin, and so I Tt is told of Meissonier that in his early days | Pulied out to a new spot.” be used to paint prints for, the tops of bonbon | | “You. don't mean you've got a newspaper far the snopes deal ba = ge 7 re shops Perens ae , mister f i i F } | i if t fi li if i f i i i i £ I i rf i ft ry