Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1893, Page 15

POLITICS IN KANSAS. A Very Lively Triangular Fight Waged. POPULISTS SET A HOT PACE. Meetings Being Held in Every School District. LOOKING TO NEXT YEAR. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. TOPEKA, Kan., Oct. 31.—Before the peo- ple of Kansas engaged in politics as a busi- ness there were “off years” when, by com- mon consent, the local politicians of the counties were allowed to run their politics in their own way and without much of an effort to stir up enthusiasm. Under the pres- ent populist regime, however, there is no rest and every year is a fighting year. From this time till November 7, the cam- paign will be hot in this state. The popu- Usts are forcing the fight and carrying the war into the republican strongholds. From Gov. Lewelling down to the janitors in the state house the stumpers are at work, and if a speaker is not big enough intellectually to go to a county seat and address 1,000 People the state committee measures him up and puts him into the school house cam- paign in the back districts, where he can have ample opportunity to test his lung power. The aggressiveness of the populists has forced the the republicans to make a stronger fight than they had intended. Heretofore they have not deemed it neces- sary to make much of an effort in the odd- mumbered years when only county officers and a few district judges are to be elected. But when Gov. Lewelling declared on his return from the world’s fair that this would be the same kind of a campaign that was fought last year and that the “off year” business had played out in Kansas, the Tepublican mangers got together and con- suited and decided that they must keep up The result was that a terrific campaign was mapped out by both parties and for ten days it has swept over the Kansas prairies like a cyclone with Gov. Lewel- ling, Mrs. Lease and Mrs. Diggs leading the van. The contest is for county officers and fourteen judges of district courts. Sev- eral of these districts and forty-four of the 365 counties are very close, the majorities on last year’s vote being less than one hundred. Gov. Lewelling opened his campaign at Marion week before last. He denounced corporations as robbers and “interest a e." His speech was more radical if possible than any utterance he made last year. He charges the republicans Lynne the last legisiature and the s' preme court of the state with being an ac- eessory to the crime. Mrs. Lease foliows with a bitter denun- elation of Wali street and eastern money sharks, and closes by paying her respects to Senator John Sherman. She says he 13 the Benedict Arnold of America, and a3 Arnold was buried in England, so ought the bones of John Sherman, his patron saint, be laid in the same cemetery. “For Briti: gold,” she says, “John Sherman has be- trayed the people of the United States, and stands before the world a confessed crimi- nal” Speaker George L. Douglass is the leading republican campaigner in the feld. He is traveling over the state denouncing the populist position during the late legisis- tive war, and challenging Gov. Lewelling or Mrs. Lease to meet him in joint debate. but they have declined. At a recent meet- ing held by Mr. Douglass at Chanute ex- Speaker Dunsmore of the populist house walked into the hal! in the midst of one of Douglass’ denunciations of that body and a seat in the front row. Douglass noticed the entry of the “Bald Hornet of the Neosho,” as more is calied, but he did not modify his language on that ac- count. For one hour he scored the ex- populist speaker and his “house.” and at the close of a peroration a republican In the rear of the room asked him why he did not throw the hala hornet ont of the speaker's stand? Before Douglass could answer Dunsmore replied that “he wasn't biz enough.” ‘The Rest of the Fight to Be Fierce. The remainder of the campaign will be red hot. Day and night meetings will be held by both parties in every community in the state. Lights will flicker in the win- dows of the 5,10) school houses before elec- tion day rolis around. While the ieaders hold forth in the towns and cities the local managers will call the faithful together in the country districts, and both sides will appeal to their hearers to redeem Kansas and save it from everlasting ruin. H. E. Taubeneck of Lilinois make twelve speeches in the state, beginning at Hutchinson on the 18th. He announced that he would confine his remarks to th Omaha piatform, and gave Chairman Brefdenthal to understand that he had no sympathy with fusion. This question, however, is rarely referred to in Kansas. Democrats and populists both declare it is a@ dead issue, and will never occur again In this state, except in local county eiections. Neither populists or democrats desire it next year, and already the latter are pre- paring for a thorough organization in the state, and have straight tickets in seventy- seven of the one hundred and five counties. Demoerntic Prospects. It ts possible for the democrats to carry Kansas next year. Party fealty rests very lightly on the shoulders of the average Kansan. In 1888 the state gave Harrison 2.000 plurality. Two years later 15,000 of that plurality was wiped out by a new party, and four years later the state gave Weaver the electoral vote. The republican party of Kansas is easily demoralized. Many of the active members have grown tired of prohibition, woman suffrage and other issues that have been thrust into the platforms and only desire a chance to give these disorganizing issues a black eye. Next year the repubiicans will probably incor- porate both in their platform, and it is cer- tain that the populists will champion wi man suffrage. In this event the democrats will select a ticket of clean and aggressive men, declare against all fads and issues, for & business administration of state affairs, which will restore the good name and crec%i ef Kansas, and make the fight to win. Such a campaign would bring back to the democracy thousands of voters now affili- ating with the people’s party, not as a mat- ter of choice, but as a protest to republi- canism and republican rule. On the other hand there are at least 20,000 republicans who will not again take their republicanism mixed with prohibi- tion, and will naturally vote with the dem- ocrats on a platform declaring only for the business interests of the state. Speaking of the situation today a repub- Mean who has been prominent in the party said: “Next year we will have the Austral- fan ballot m. Then a voter can go in- to a booth with nothing in sight but his heels, and with his pencil and his God, vote as he pleases.”” Looking to Next Year. Already democratic sertiment is crystal- {zing in favor of David Overmyer of To- peka as the strongest and most available candidate for governor. The young democ- racy is for him, while ex-Gov. Glick, Gen. C. W. Bisir and many of the old leaders have declared him to be the logical and Most available candidate for governor. It is believed that Overmyer could poll 100,00 votes, and if he should he would be elected. Last year the total vote of the State was 320,000. Since that election fully %,000 have gone into the Cherokee strip and the states trom western Kansas on account of crop faflures. The party that polls 100,- @o votes next year will win, and tt is rea- sonably certain that Overmyer or any other strong man can secure half that number from the other two parties. The democrats believe they will poll from 40,000 20 50,000 votes this fall for their county tickets. while leading populists declare that they will not have more than 10,000 votes all told. This has created a friction be- tween the two parties and the orders have Sone out from leading democrats to organ- = — poll every vote possible. @ republicans claim they w: seventy counties this fall. "uae comic’ forty-five counties last year and lost the ata by 6,000. Chairman Breidenthal says th, will make heavy gains and carry at lene sixty-five counties. The populists are mak. ing the hardest fight for county clerk. for the reason that this officer Is the custodian of election returns from the time they are Fecelved by him on the night of election until the following Friday, when the county commissioners meet to canvass and declare THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1893—SIXTEEN PAGES. Beg 8 i i iG Rg 3 i F 3 biican clerks who certify lect these officials and know that they for honest acts. fact that the demccrats are running will greatly aid the republi- make it possible for them to elect their county tickets in many localities. el HOW HE SAVED THE BAND. The Humorous Speech That Made Car- ter Harrison Famous. The memory of the late Carter Harrison must always remain green in this city and every time the strains of the Marine Band are heard there should go up from every loyal heart a prayer of thanks to him who has just been stricken down by the bullet of an assassin. To this unique man is due the existence of the celebrated band, for at a time when the rigid economists of Congress were about to prune off this val- uable branch of the naval service Mr. Har- rison stepped to the front and by means of a patriotic and witty speech of about ten minutes converted a majority in favor of cutting off the band into a decided ma- jority in favor of its retention. The debate occurred on the navab appropriation bill, which was presented on May 23, 1876, in the first session of the Forty-fourth Congress. Mr. Harrison, then a member of Con- gress from Illinois, arose to oppose the amendment omitting provision for the eae hee ee) nee oe ee ree id: “Mr. Chairman, for fifteen long, dreary years at the other end of Pennsylvania avenue the White House has been occupied by a republican and during the winter months of evenings the Marine Band has been up there to discourse sweet music for the delectation of a republican President and the delectation of his republican friends. At every reception @ republican President has stood in a certain room re- ceiving his guests and his pet republican friends in white vests and white cravats have stood behind him enjoying the dulcet tones poured forth from the silver throats of silvered instruments by twenty-four gen- tlemen in scarlet coats. For long years, of summer Saturday afternoons, twenty-four gentlemen in scarlet coats have caused twenty-four silvered instruments on the green in front of the White House to belch forth martial music for the delectation of a republican President and his republican friends. “On the 4th of next March, sir, there will be a democratic President in_the White House. Sir, is the democratic lent to have no music? * © © “But they wish to abolish the Marine | Band. Think of this being done, democrats, before a democratic President goes into his Position! We have many men who, we feel, {are fit to fill that position. In my mind's | eye I sce them now march: on from St. | Louis to the White House. t_ me name | them as they come,in sight. They come first from the east.”” Mr. Harrison then described in a humor- ‘ous way, without giving names, the various | democrats then looming up as democratic | candidates. Continuing, he said: | “Then, sir, there {s still another, the Great | Unknown, coming 10,000 strong from every | Part of the Union, the Great Unknown of the democratic party.” | There were questions as to the identity of | the unknown from all sides of the chamber, and Mr. Milliken suggested that perhaps — prevented Mr. Harrison from nam- ing 5 |_ “Yes, sir, delicacy and modesty prevent |me from calling names. Sir, when the Great Unknown gets here shall he have no music; shall no tunes come from those tweu‘y-four silvered instruments, blown out by chose twenty-four gentlemen in red coats, to welcome him to the White House? Shall we have no music when we introduce him to the American people? Not by my vote; never, never, never!” When the vote was taken, a few minutes after, the members, whose sides were stil) aching from the laughter that this speech had caused, gave Mr. Harrison their sup- | port until the result was—ayes, 25; nays, 70; | and the Marine Band was saved. A night or so later the band serenaded Mr. Harrison at his residence and he made them a speech, beginning “Gentlemen of the brass band,” which was quite as hu- morous as that delivered in the house, but | which has unfortunately not been pre- served. itll Bea if : E —__ Working on Their Reports. ‘The report season in the Post Office De- | Partment is at hand. The annual report of | the second assistant postmaster general {hinged upon the report of the sixth auditor of the treasury. This has been |im_ for several days, and the second | assistant’s report will speedily follow. It is also thought the report of Fourth Assist- ant Postmaster General Maxwell ts ready for delivery to the Postmaster General. The first assistant postmaster general also depended largeiy upon the auditor’s report, and his report will be handed to the Post- master General within a day or two. They will be given to the press promptly. ——__2-—____—. A Naval Death. A telegram was received at the Navy Department yesterday anrouncing the death at Tryon, N. C., of Captain Oliver A. Batchelder, who was placed on the re- | tired list about a year ago on account of | Physical disability (consumption). Capt. Batchelder has a good record, and was re- warded as a fine officer. His last service was in command of the gunboat Concord in her cruise in the South Atiantic. ———-2—_____. ‘Work Now Up to Date. At the regular daily council of the pen- sion office chiefs yesterday, it was an- nounced that the work of the bureau was up to date. When this administration took hold of the reins it was found that there was an accumulation of evidence on pend- ing eases extending back for three years. This has, by industrious and intelligent ef- fort, been cleared up, so that all the divis- ions are now up to date. This is especially gratifying, and, although no formal report of the fact will be made to the Secretary of the Interior just now, he has been infor- mally apprised. Personal Mention. Mr. W. L. Harries, master of Columbia | Lodge, No. 484, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, has returned from attendaace upon the first biennial convention of the order, held at Boston. More than 600 jele- gates attended and the sessions covered fourteen days. It was the biggest convea- tion of railroad men ever held and was a success in every respect. The delegates speak in the highest terms of the hospital- ity extended tu them. | Mr. John W. xiolcombe, appointment clerx | of the Department of the Interior, has re- |turned after an absence of three weeks from the city, during which period Mr. | Allen Was acting appointment clerk. |_ Mr Yates of the deputy commissioncr’s room, pension office. has left on his annual | leave. | Secretary Lamont and his private secre- | tary, Mr. Seeger, have returned from a short visit to New York. ————_+e+—____ The Blue Book. Dr.Ames, superintendent of documents, re- Ports that work on the Blue Book is well advanced. All the matter necessary to its completion is in excepting statistics from the Agricultural Department and the gen- eral land office. If this matter is not re- ceived within the next few days the work on the annual production will be delayed. —__o-____ To Cut Of Retired Pay. Mr. Batley of Texas has introduced a bill im the House providing that officers on the retired list of the army and the navy shall not receive any pay. The same pro- vision {s also extended to United States judges on the retired list. ———_2—____. Paying for Information. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury has sent a draft for $00 to a man in New England for furnishing information of a violation of the alien contract labor law by the manu- facturer by whom he wasemployed. This is |in accordance with the law in such cases, which provides that the informer shall re- ceive one-half the fine collected. In this case the manufacturer had been working aliens from Canada. —__—__.~«-—___. The Grounding of the Machias. The Secretary of the Navy hes ap- pointed a court of inquiry to meet at New York Thursday next, to investigate the re- | cent grounding of the Machias off Chatham, Mass. The court is composed of Capts. J. N. Miller, M. Sicard and E. M. Shepard, with Lieut. Bitler as judge advocate. ——-o.—___ A Naval Court-Martia: A general naval court-martial has been appointed to meet at the navy yard, Mare Island, Cal., on the 6th proximo, for the trial of Lieut. E. D. Bostick of the Ranger, on charges of conduct to the prejudice of | Sood order and discipline in publicly abus- | ing a sentry. Capt. Louls Kempff is pres- ident and Lieut. Waldemar D. Rose is judge advecate of the court, OHIO DEMOCRATS IN HOPE. They Give No Figures, but Predict Neal's Election. The Republicans Look for a McKinley Plarality of From 25,000 to 40,000— Latest Aspect of the Campaign. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star, CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. 31.—If Ohio should go democratic this fall every- body would be surprised, but it is generally the unexpected that happens in this state. Not a politician in the state of either party thought that Cleveland would carry one elector and come within 1,000 votes of get- ting them all last year. Since that time many changes have come about and they have had an effect on the buckeye voters. Within the past week the prospects for the democracy have brightened considerably and the decision of the Senate to pass the repeal act has undoubtedly reclaimed a large num- ber of business men in the cities who were disposed to vote the republican ticket. The greatest obstacle that the democrats have to contend against is the fact that Ohio is a republican state and has never elected two democratic governors in succession. it appears that this year is not a good one to expect a reversal in political history. Once in six years this state chooses a dem- oeratic governor, but their time does not come until two years from now. But there has been on exception to this rule, and that was in 1877, when Bishop, who was nominat- ed by the democrats because nobody wanted it, was, to the astonishment of the dem- ocrats themselves, electd governor by 22,000 plurality, the largest plurality ever given to a democratic candidate, although two years later Tom Ewing was defeated by 17,000 and yet got 60,000 more votes than Bishop. Not Much Enthusiasm Aro le Up to this time neither party has been able to arouse much enthusiasm in the contest, and this is a source of republican danger. The democrats invariably get the best of it on a light vote either dn state or municipal elections. All the republican papers are urg- ing their leaders to action, but the very small registration in the cities has still further alarmed them, although there is no evidence attainable that the democrats have registered to any greater extent than their opponents, In Cincinnati the two first days of regis- tration show a falling off of 8,000 from the Tegistration of last year and 5,000 below that of two years ago. The same seeming lack of interest prevails in most of the other cities of the state, but a most vigorous effort is being made to bring out the laggards on the last two days. The attitude of the democratic party of Ohio on the silver question has cut both ways. It has doubtless held the business vote in the cities, but will lose them some in the country among the farmers, thou- sands of whom have always been wedded to the “Ohio idea,” which simply means a large increase of the circulating medium, no matter whether of coin or paper. The indications are that the populists will increase their vote this year from twenty to forty per cent over last year, when Weaver polled in round numbers 15,000 votes. Most of the new recruits will come from the democrats, although in the mining regions and the central part of the state the republicans will suffer some. The pro- hibitionists are hardly taken into account in the figuring, because their vote is dis- counted. They will get from 22,000 to 30,000 votes, and the party campaign committees know just where they will come from, seventy pe> cent from the republicans and the other thirty per cent from the demo- crats. All the fighting this year has so far been done by the rival gubernatorial candidates, McKinley and Neal, although Col. W. A. Taylor,the nominee for Heutenant governoz, who came within 1,000 votes of being elected secretary of state last year, is making a very effective canvass and drawing down upon him the wrath of the republican pa- pers for his alleged misstatement of facts im_ connection with state affairs, to which subject he confines his remarks. Not one of the big guns of either party outside the state has, with the exception of Reed for the republicans,poked his nose into the campaign. Even Foraker has been silent and is now stumping out in Iowa. McKinley has a lot of enemies in his own party and Foraker is one of them. Will Knife McKinley. What is known as the “kid element,” of which Foraker is the leader, are jealous of the rising star of McKinley, and they would shed no tears should he be defeated. There has been no open work against him, but a faction of the party will secretly knife him. As in his former campaigns for Congress and governor, McKinley has a powerful ally in the protected manufacturers, who never hesitate to come to his aid when called upon to do so. They are furnishing most of the funds for his canvass, and while the demo- crats are hard-up for money the republicans have all they need. There is considerable feeling among the friends of Neal over the indifference of the national adriinistration to his fate. His managers have not only been unable to s cure the presence of speakers of national reputation, but have failed to raise any con- siderable amount of money in the east. The eastern democrats have an idea that there is no chance for the Ohio democrats to win and they are not disposed to throw their money away in a hopeless cause. Mr. Neal has a firm belief that he will be elected and his running mate, Col. Taylor, is even more confident and enthusiastic of success. The legislature to be elected this fall does not choose a Senator this winter and that is thought to be the reason whySenator Brice is evincing so little interest in the state con- test. Both sides seem to be comparatively in- different to the legislature, because the par- ty that carries it will be held responsible for a lot of bad legislation two years hence. It has luckily happened for the democrats that whenever they have carried the legisla- ture it has been when there was a Senator to elect, and for a quarter of a century Ohio has had a representative of both parties in the upper house of Congress. The probabilities are that the republicans will capture the legislature, but it will all de- pend upon Hamilton county, which elects thirteen members, ten representati and three senators. The only possible advantage there could be for the democrats to carry the legislature this fall would be to redistrict the state for congressional purposes, but their experience and that of the republicans im gerrymanders, which have.acted as a boomerang, would make the wise hesitate to try it. This possible advantage would be more than offset by the strong probability that they would lose the legislature two years hence, when Brice’s successor is to be chosen. In this part of the state the working democrats are up in arms over the appoint- ment of Joe Dowling, a rank outsider who lives in Dayton, to be collector of internal revenue for Cincinnati. The anti-Campb=ll men are much incensed over this and it has opened the old sores, which cannot be entirely healed by election day, and the fight is sure to be renewed when what is known as the local Campbell men get the offic: In this city there is a so-called re- volt from “gang rule” in both parties, and an independent citizens’ ticket has been nominated, but on account of the men who are running {t there is not much danger of serious injury to either party. The best posted judges think that the independent citizens will not cast more than 2,000 votes if they get that many. Republican Claims. The republicans claim the election of Mc- Kinley by from 25,000 to 40,000 plurality, but the democrats will not concede any such figures. They express the belief that Neal will win, but offer no figures to back up their faith. If the vote of the state falls below 775,000, Neal will stand a chance, but if it goes above that figure he will be beaten. If the reports from democratic headquarters to the effect that the republi- cans in the Western Reserve are taking no interest in the contest prove true, then Neal has more than a fighting chance. The democrats have played a shrewd game in confining their mass meetings to demo- cratic counties. They have staid away from localities where all they could possi- bly do would be to bring out the republi- can vote, but the republicans have sent their speakers everywhere. —___. Making Paper From Sunflower Stalks. A paper mill at Salina, Kans,, has made from sunflower stalks several tons of pa- per, which will be sent to experts in the east. The paper is regarded as superior to straw paper and marks a great departure in the peper-making and sunflower-raising industries. The mill is now buying sun- flowers and proposes to make sunflower paper a specialty, Saturday evening the Daily Republican ran its entire edition on the sunflower paper. ON HAZING. Capt. Phythian Writes on the Sub- ject at West Point. Capt. R. L. Phythian, superintendent of the Naval Academy, in his annual report to the department, says on the subject of hazing: “It is urgently recommended that power be given by statute to the superintendent of the Naval Academy to order courts of inquiry for the investigation of serious offenses committed by naval cadets. It has been found difficult to establish the guilt of those who committed the two grav- est offenses—hazing and gouging—and fail- ure to detect and bring to punishment of- fenders of this class has an injurious effect upon the discipline of the academy. It is believed that the cadets who commit these acts are encouraged to do so by the difficulties in the way of detection, which difficulties would be removed if formal sworn testimony could be taken. The en- actment of such a statute would in itself so greatly tend to breaking up these practices that the necessity for the exercise by the superintendent of the power conferred upon him would not be of frequent occurrence. BUILDING A NAVY. Chief Constructor Hichborn Tells of the Work in a Report. In his annual report Chief Naval Con- structor Hichborn says that at the begin- ning of the administration of the late chief of the bureau of construction and repair (Commodore Wilson) the navy corsisted of @ comparatively small number of obsolete Wooden steam and sailing vessels, and half a dozen small iron gunboats. Since that time there have been added to the navy forty-five vessels, aggregating 173,000 tons displacement, and costing for hulls and ma- chinery alone more than $52,000,000. These vessels embrace almost every variety of type of modern vessels of war, and the ex- cellence of their design and construction has been the subject of most pronounced commendation by naval architects who stand at the head of their profession in the Principal maritime countries of Europe. During the year the Monterey, the Ban- croft, the Detroit, the New York and the chias have had their official trial trips, ‘the results,” says Commodore Hichborn, “in all cases being satisfactory to the gov- ernment trial board, and demonstrating the ability of our ship builders to turn out the highest grade of work.” Good progress has made on vessels in course of con- struction during the past year, although there has been some delay due to the de- ferred deliveries of armor pla’ This cause of delay, however, is being gradualy eliminated by the armor contractors, and it is expected that they will soon be able to furnish armor promptly so as not to re- tard the other work of hull construction. Vessels launched during the year were the Columbia, the Marblehead, the Olympia, the Cincinnati, the’ Katahdin, the Indiana, the Massachusetts and the Minneapolis, and of these the Columbia and the Marblehead are preparing for their acceptance trials and will soon be added to the effective fleet of the navy. The Olympia and the Cincin- nati will probably have their trials within the next year. ———__- eo -_____. FEEDING THE DEAD. The Chinese Celebrating Their An- nual Sacrifice. From the Los Angeles Times. $ All Chinatown is lighted with many fish- bladder lanterns and melodious or other- wise with the music of tom-toms. The occasion is the festivities in connection with the sacrifice of the dead. The hall on the west side of Los Ange- lese street, just south of the plaza, 1 adorned with numerous idols and other devices, and is visited by many people. Some of the pieces on exhibition contain figures representing natives of the flow- ery kingdom as they appeared many years ago.One of the noticeable peculiarities of the figures shown is that an effort has apparently been made to make them seem to be of greater bodily development than the celestials. Some of these figures represent warriors in fantastic uniform, while others give one some idea of various classes of celestials. In @ room adjoining the one where these are kept the ceremonies are performed. At one end is a group of idols fantastically formed, and near it is a table on which are dishes of beans, cheese and all kinds of food. The edibles are placed there as an offering for the dead, and are not disturbed by the living for a period of four days. At the other end of the room are more idols, and about them are the priests, who go through various incantations. Dinner is served free to the Chinamen who visit the place, both those from the city and country. ———_—_+- 2. ____ The Pension Office Board. The monthly report of the board of pen- sion appeals has been made. It is as {fol- lows: Pension appeals pending October 1, 3,713; filed during the month, 135; allowed by the commissioner of pensions, 2; dis- missed, 24; pending at the end of the month, 3,618. Fee appeals pending October 1, 76; filed during the month, 26; allowed by the commissioner, 2; dismissed, 21. Motions for reconsideration pending October 1, 115; filed during the month, 9; pending at the end of the month, 106. ———__+o+-___ Army Orders. The following transfers in the artillery arm are made: Second Lieut. Delamere Skerrett, from the first artillery to the fifth artillery (battery Cc). Second Lieut. Samuel C. Hazzard, from the fifth artillery to the first artillery (bat- tery D). First Lieut Frank O. Ferris, first infan- try, now on sick leave of absence in New York city, will report in person to the sup- erintendent of the recruiting service to con- duct recruits to the Department of the Col- orado. Leave of absence for four months is granted Capt. Theodore A. Bingham, corps of engineers. Cheplain Allen Allensworth, twenty- fourth infantry, is relieved from further duty at the world’s Columbian exposition, and will join his regiment. First Lieut. Edgar W. Howe, seventeenth infantry, is relieved from further duty with the world’s Columbian exposition, and will join his company. First Lieut. Abner Pickering, second in- fantry, is relieved from further duty with the world’s Columbian exposition, and will join his company. The leave of absence granted Lieut. Col. Johnson V. D. Middleton, deputy surgeon general, is extended fifteen days. The leave of absence granted Capt. Wal- ter S. Scott, twenty-fifth infantry, is ex- tended to November 15, 1893. EE Seas Naval Orders, Passed Assistant Surgeon S. S. White has been ordered to duty on the U, S. 8, Rich- mond, November 4 next. Paymaster Henry G. Colby has been or- dered to the receiving ship Wabash, 3ist in- stant. Assistant Surgeon Robert Boyd has been detached from the Richmond and ordered to the training ship Minnesota, November 4 next. Assistant Surgeon Lewis H. Stone has been detached from the Minnesota and or- dered to duty at the naval ordnance prac- ticing ground, Indian Head. Paymaster Charles A. McDaniel has been detached from the Wabash and granted sick leave for three months. Assistant T. H. Hicks has been detached from the League Island yard and ordered to the Castine, November 7. ++ What Becomes of Old Car Horses? Naturally one would think that the dis- Position of between 3,000 and 4,000 horses in less than a year’s time would have a marked effect on prices, but such has not been the case if those who are best able to Judge speak truly—and who would doubt the word of a dealer in horseflesh? These car horses make excellent farm horses, and most of those that have been sold have been bought by farmers on Long Island, in Connecticut, New Jersey or towns along the Hudson river. The prices paid for these horses range from $60 up to $125. Mr. Bo- gardus said that there were many horses owned by the company that they would not sell for $200, as they were good, stout truck horses, which could not be obtained in the open market at that price today. ‘The horses were sold singly to any buyer who would pay the value of the animal. Sometimes a dealer would purchase a lot of five, ten or twenty, and occasionally a lot of 100 or 200 would be put up and sold at auction. Hucksters and grocers in the city were also among the purchasers, FOR INDIGESTION Use Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. It your dinner distresses you, try { It aids digestion. CLOSING THE FIGHT. The Last Week of the Campaign in POPULISTS PROFESS CONFIDENCE. Democrats Count on a Majority of 20,000. ; ISSUES OF THE CONTEST. ———EE Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 31.—The election in Virginia is only seven days off and the contending parties are now making the final spurt to win. From all outward indi- cations it is safe to say that neither the democrats nor populists will have a walk- over. The fight has not been as one-sided as in former years, and the outcome is, to Say the least, in doubt. A most unique feature of the campaign is that it is being fought almost entirely upon national issues. The democrats started out to make the fight on the record of the party in Virginia for the past two administra- tions, but the populist speakers forced the silver and tariff questions upon the demo- cratic champions on the stump. The democratic speakers, however, unless they are in joint debate with the populists, stick to the record of the democratic party in the state, dwelling at length upon the administration of Gov. McKinney, which is notable for several important accomplish- ments, mainly the settling of the state debt and the passing of a law by which the state is deriving, for the first time since the war, handsome revenue from the oyster in- dustry. If the populists do not win in this cam- paign it is quite certain that their majcrity will be greatly increased over that of two years ago. They have gained control of some of the political machinery of the state and will no doubt carry several counties. The populist cause is especially strong in the fifth congressional district, comprising the counties of Pittsylvania, Franklin, Floyd, Patrick Henry and the city of Dan- ville. In all of these counties tobacco is the aple product, and the price of the leaf is lower now than it has been for thirty years. The growers of this weed are very much disturbed at Mr.Cleveland’s alleged attitude in respect to the taxing of manufactured tobacco. They are afraid that Congress will raise the tax upon it, and the populists are making big political capital out of this issue. The farmers believe that if the tax 1s increased on manufactured tobacco the price of leaf will decrease. This theory, however, is in direct variance with thi records for the past twenty-five years. ‘When the tax was five times as much as it is now, the price of leaf tobacco was at least five times higher than the present rate. The democratic champions are using this for all it is worth, but the leaders of the democratic party are very uneasy over the result in this district. A significant feature of the headway of the populists is the absence of sanguine pre- dictions on the part of the democratic man- agers and leaders. They do not ciaim over twenty thousand majority for O’Ferrall. It will be remembered that four years ago Gov. McKinney defeated Gen. Mahone by over forty thousand votes. It is conceded that the democrats will retain the legislature, but the gubernatorial tcket is certainly in doubt. Edmund R. Cocke, the populist nominee for governor, is a man against whom not a word of re- proach can be uttered and is at least as strong as his cause. He and the populist managers have made a hard fight and pro- fess to be contident of success. In Augusta county, the largest in the state according to population and hitherto @ democratic stronghold, an interesting fight is going on. It is not between the populists and democrats, but between the democrats and prohibitionists. Mr. Bodiey, a rich wagon manufacturer, ig the prohibition candidate for the state senate and says he is willing to spend $25,000 to win. The populist nominee has withdrawn in Bodley’s favor and it is said he will be elected unless there is a radical change in sentiment before election day, November 7. He is a northern man by birth, of irreproachable character. In the guage of one of his followers in Augus- ta, “all that the democrats can say against him is that he is ‘one of them darned Yan- kee soldiers.’ ” Sam Jones and Sam Small, the noted revivalists are still in Augusta in the in- terest of Bodley. The republicans, as an organization, are taking absolutely no part whatever in the present campaign. Mahone, as usual, has had his way and no candidates whatever have been brought forward by the republi- can machinery. The general report that Mahone has secretly instructed his fol- lowers to support the populist nominees is injuring the latter's cause to some extent. Both republicans and populists, however, deny the report. State Chairman Ellyson of the democratic party is still working In his quiet and me- thodical way in the interest of his party. As one of the men under him said today, he is “saying nothing, but saws wood all the same.” He stoutly declines to give out any Positive figures as to how large the demo- cratic majority will be, but of course says they will win. A _well-posted democrat said to The Star correspondent today that the “democrats may be thankful if they win by ten thou- sand majority, and secure two-thirds of the legislature.” The majority of the lead- ers, however, say it will be at least twice that large and that the democrats will cap- ture three-fouths of the members of the house and senate. In the last legislature there were no populists and but three re- publicans—two in the house and one in the senate. ————___ YO TAMBIEN WON EASILY. Ran Away From Lamplighter in Saturday's Special Race. Eight thousand people went out to Haw- thorne Park, Chicago, Saturday, and saw Yo Tambien win in a gallop from Lamp- lighter. It was not the big match race that the crowd expected to see, but a spe- cial event at one and one-eighth miles, in which each party put upa side bet of $1,000 and the association added $1,500. It was a race that ts easily described, Yo Tambien simply ran away. from him. Passing the stand she had two lengths the best of it. There was nochange in the po- sitions until the lower turn, when Taral tried to move up with Lamplighter, but at the same time Doggett also let out a link in the mare and she went away still further. Taral did not persevere long. He saw that unless Yo Tambien fell down she would win, so he gave it up and stopped urging Lamplighter. 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