Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1896, Page 9

=— = THE EVENING STAR ————— FUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SCNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 01 Iwanla Avenue, Cor. llth Street, by The Evening Star Newspaper Company 8. H. KAU! , Prest. Yow York Ofic:, 4) Potter Buildiaz, Src cad ‘The Evening Star ‘s served to subscribers in the elitr by carriers, on their own account, at 10 cents T week. or 44¢. per month. Coples at the counter cents each. Ry wall—enywhere in the United ee or Canada—pestage 50 cents pr ment Sutarday quintupt> at argos per year: “(Gnteredat Nine Hin Once < Washington. D. C.. @s sccond-ciass snail mattec.| ‘All tl abscriptl>as must be paid in advarce. fie finn ortho known of application. Part 2. Es WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1896-EIGHTEEN PA GES. == Printers’ nf, fle fittfe ecBoo? master of advertising), saps: The First Thing in the BOIES OF IOWA THE CASE OF JOPLIN ‘ Morning Take a little Carlsbad Sprudel Salt in a glassful of water. 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Evans’ Drug Stere, 938 F St. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. apl-84 esessesterdontresonteatontontertontontontoateatontortontentoetestonte headeegeatoasentresvosberontontonsoedvobenterdorsradeesneseateateateeswogeatenter Tt is Now Believed He is in the Presidential Race. THE ONLY PRONOUNCED SILVER MAN See Friends of the White Metal Claim They Will Control. —_- +—_- GOLD MEN CAN’T SEE IT - It is now believed that ex-Gov. Horace Roles cf Iowa is in the race tor the presi- cGential nominaticn at Chicago. At the mceting of the Hamilton county democratic corvention a few days ago his name was put out, and the resolutions adopted spe ot him as “the great commoner; the Glad- stone of America.” It Gov. Boies should enter the list, which y likely. it is thought, he will be the Iver man whose name has yet b mentioned, unless Senator ‘ill cluded: that he will be the only pro- nounced silver man. Gov. Matthews of In- diana is a candidate, but his position ‘s €cubtful so far, and the politicians on both sides say that no man can be nominated whose exact view on the money question is not known. The gold standard men will take no uncertain man, if they are in con- trol, and the siiver men will have nothi but a silverite, if they are in the majori= What Are His Chances It is difficult at this early day to predict the chances of the Iowa man before the national convention. It is felt, as stated in a recent article in The Star, that if he could carry a silver delegation to Chicago from Iowa he would be a strong ve ality before the national con-ention. «democrats of Iewa are badiy divided on fnancial issues. Last year the gold st dzrd men defeated their silverite brethren, and claim that they are able to do so this year. By most people Iowa is regarded as | geainst silver. Should Mr. Boies be able to take a delegation with him to Chicago for } silver and in favor of his own neminatien he would at least attract attention. in the last national cenvention Boies quite a figure, and received some wnea pected suppert. His name is still mer tioned among southern and western poli- ticians, and 2% the delegates from nearly every state will x0 to Chicazo h prac- tically no choice, there is no telling what chance any man stands. Still Claim the Convention. The silver men are every y heas ‘The hi more confidently of their al toe trol the national convention. Representat i aid to a Star reporter a few days ago that there was nothing which coul] prevent the white metal men having a majort He dis- cussed the que: nm of the southern state # solid and instructed delegations + there were some districts im the states in favor of “sound mone: or not. “We can control the conventicn,” he said, id give the gold standard men every dis- in the south to w they believe are entitled. I think thai if tne ques- were left altogether to districts throughout tke country we would have a larger majority than by the state conven- ucting solidly, as is proposed in tern states. Mr. Bailey predicts that either way the matier is figured out the silver men_will win. Gold Men Can‘t See It. The gold standard men can’t see it that way. A Star reporter asked Senator Brice the other day if there was any change in his estimate that the “sound money” men would have at least 58) votes in the con- vention. “There is no change,” he said. A story has been published that Senator Brice will decline to he elected a delegate ago. The Senator's friends say that there is no truth in this story. < not true that he has declined this He might do so later on. The Sen- is a warm friend of €x-Governor Campbell ard would like he Bu eye mun get the democratic nominatio1 despite his protest that he was not a can- didate under any circumstances. To ac- complish his desire he will necessarily have to be a delegate to the national con- vention. To Sétile One Sinte. The difference of opinion as to whether Alabama is a “sound money” or silver siate will be settled the 11th of this month, when every county in the state will hold its con- vention to elect delegates to the state con- vention. The question at issue there 1s over the choice of a candidate for gover- nor. Johnson is the silv andidate for governor and Clarke the “sound money” man. Both sides are claiming the election. Governor Oates is the gold standard can- didate for Urited States Senator. The poli- ticlans are having it hot and heavy. Sev- eral of the Congressme have gone to Ala- bama to mix in the contest, among them Representative Bankhead, who is spoken of as the silver candidaie for the Senate in opposition to Oates. _ Alabama is the only southern state, un- iess it is Louisiana, in which there is any doubt of the silver men winning in the election of delegates to Chicago. — Helping Hunter's Family. George E. Hunter, the Iron worker whose skull was crushed by a treasury elevator several days ago, is reported to be slowly recovering from his irjuries. He is still at the Emergency Hospital, awaiting the result of the operation of trephining which was performed a few days ago. He has a wife and eight children, and a subscription for their benefit was taken up at the Treas- ury Department yesterday afternoon. About $20 was quickly raised, mostly in the of- fice of the supervising architect. The mon- ey was turned over to the family. CURES §GROFULA, BLOGD POISON. CURES GARGER, ECZEMA, TETTER. rr D The Man Who Supplanted Mrz Lincoln's Sister as Postmaster. The Senate Still Refuses to Confirm Him and There is a Very Pretty Fight Over the Matter. The sympathetic reference by Mr. Wat- terson Sunday night to Mrs. Lincoln re- called to the minds of some of his audience the interesting story relating to that un- happy la@y’s younger sister. Mrs. Ben. Hardin Helm is her name, and her home is at Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Her husband was the youngest brigadier general in the confederate army, and was killed while leading his men into action near Atlanta. He was an attractive man, and left a host of very warm friends. Appointed Postmistress. The widow, with her little family, being without means, she was appointed a few years after the war closed postmistress of abethtown. It was a most popular ap- pointment, although bestowed by a repub- lican administration on one whose antece- dents aud whose personal sympathies were all democrztic. But everything yielded to fact that Mrs. Helm was the younger er of Mrs. Lincoln, and that Mr. Lin- co’n had been as fond of her husband as of an own brother. Moreover, Mrs. Helm was % competent woman for the office. She served in the place satisfactorily to the Post Office Department and to the peo- ple of Elizabethtown, made a snug home for herself and educated her children. Re- publican administrations came and went, but Mrs. Helm was not disturbed, and the impression grew up that she would hold her office for life. She herself naturally fell in with that opinion. Turned Out by Cleveland. ‘To her very great surprise, as well as to the surprise of all her friends and towns- people, Mr. Cleveland, in the fall of 1804, refused to reappoint her, but gave the office te a Mr. Joplin, a lieutenant of Mr. Montgomery, then the Representative in Congress from that district. Mr. Joplin had been of service to Mr. Montgomery in the latter's Congress campaigns, and the post office at Elizabethtown was his re- ward. ‘The charge was made during vacation, and when the last Congress met for the Short session the nomination of Joplin was ; sent in by the President, and appropriately rerred to the post oilice committee of the But there it remained during the evtire session. Mr. Blackburn exerted him- self against action, und prevented it. All the survivors of the old Hardin brigade, as well as many prominent and influential republicans, opposed confirmation. The nomination, therefore, died with the ses- sicn. Senate. Joplin Recommissioned. No sooner had Congress adjourned, how- ever, than Joplin was recommissioned. The President would not be balked in the matter. So Joplin served through the long vacation, and, when the present Congress met, his name was again sent to the Sen- ate, the nomination was again referred to the post office committee, and has again been hung up. No report has yet been fnade, and none seems likely. The demo- crats were in majority when a report was refused in the last Congress. The repub- licans control the committee now, and seem to be as much opposed to the appuintment as were the democrats. It is regarded as certain that if confirma- tion again fails, Joplin will again be re- cemmissioned by the President. And thus the contention between the President and the Senate promises to continue to the end of the chapter, and this administration ex- Pires with Joplin still holding office by the President's edict alone. A Very Pretty Fight. It is a very pretty fight as it stands. The President would not in any circumstances reappoint Mrs. Helm, nor are her friends acking anything for her at his hands. Their appeal Is exclusively to the Senate, which is besought not to ratify a change made against the protests of so many people, and involving the personal fortunes of so worthy a woman; and, so far, the Senate, first under the control of the democrats, and now of the republicans, has lent a sym- pathetic ear to the petition. «+ ____ MORTALITY IN THE DISTRICT. A Decrease of the Death Rate Shown by the Report. The mortality in the District decreased during the past week, as compared with that of the preceding week. The deaths numbered 115, while in the week before they amounted to 130. The death rate fell from 24.5 to 21.7. In the corresponding period of last year the rate was 22.8. A general re- view of the health conditions shows a con- tinuance of the comparatively high rate of fatal cases of brain and heart disorders, and a decline in the number of fatal cases of lung and kidney affections. ‘The meteorological conditions which pre- vailed during the week in this connection are noticeable for severity of weather, ac- companied with extreme changes. ‘The highest temperature of the air was 66 de- grees, on the 26th, and the lowest was 18 degrees, on the 24th, showing a difference in that time of 48 degrees. The relative humidity was high, and the mean tem- perature as low as 30 degrees, with a maxi- mum velocity of wind of thirty-six miles per hour. The deaths from lung diseases were twenty-nine, as against thirty-nine hy the last report; of these ten were from pneu- monia, a decrease of nine, and thirteen from consumption, a decrease of four. The prevalence of measles still continues, there having been six fatal cases reported. One death resulted from diphtherla and one from scarlet fever. The number of new cases of diphtheria reported was three. Houses released from quarantine were eight, while eighteen re- mained placarded at the close of the week. Of scarlet fever five new cases were re. ported; four houses were released from quarantine, and fifteen houses remained in quarantine. Of the total deaths twenty-three occur- red in hospitals, and other public institu- tions, and seven were certified by the cor- orer. —_———__ Contests the Will. Ella S. Todd and Lula A. Burton, daugh- ters of the late Oliver P. Donn, has filed notice of contest, alleging that at the date of their father’s will, April 16, 1802, he was not of sound or disposing mind, and therefore incapable of executing a valid deed _or contract. The will divides the state equally between the four children of the testator, Mary C. Donn, Lula A. Burton, Cora L. Dinwiddie and Ella S. Todd, but provides that, should either of them die leaving no issue, such child's share shail revert equally to the other children or their issue. The estate is said to be valued at not less than $100,000. Several months ago Mr. Donn was declared by a marshal’s jury to be of unsound mind. —_—.__ Returned a Ring. Major Moore has received in his mail a conscience contribution, evidently the pro- ceeds of crime. It consists of a heavy gold ring, from the set of which five diamonds had been removed. The diamonds were in a piece of gut, which was dry, and which had evidently been laid away for a long time. In the setting of the ring was some clay soil, indicating that the ring had been buried. There is nothing about the package to indicate from where it came, but the police are satisfied that it was stolen, probably several years ago. The ring and diamonds are held at headquarters for identification, McKINLEY IN KENTUCKY Representative Uolam Says tho Ohican Can Carry; the Btate, ow Delegates Will Vote for Gov. Bradley if There fer Him. Representative Colson of Kent has returned from a trip to his state. When asked by a Star reportes as to how the re- publicaa presidential fight was getting along, he said: “Next to Gov. Pradley, the men, women and children are for McKinley, and it looks like he will have the solid state. Of course our delegates will compliment Gov. Bradley, and wiil vote. for him whenever it Is thought there is a chance for his nomina- tien, but whenever they dc not cast Bradley votes McKinley get them.” McKinley Men Active. By others who have been to Kentucky recently it is sald that the MeKiniey men are waging war against everybody, and that It Is not anitkely that many of the dis- tricts will instruct for nim first and for Bradley second, something like was done for Senator Dayis in his state. Even Gov. Bradley's friends, It is said, do not look up- on him as having any chance for the nonil- ration. The McKirley men are urging that to instruct for Bradley, or to allow him to name the delegates, will be throwing away votes which McKinley will want. The Mc- Kinleyites claim that they are not making war on Bradley, but that with him out of the race the state’ will be overwhelmingly for the Ohioan. These being the facts, they do not want to take any chances of iosing a few delegates. Gov. Bradley ts charged with being friendly to Morton. The McKinley men fear that if this is true the governor would use his influence with some of the delegates to vote that way. Besides, it is said that Gov. Bradley would not be averse to the vice presidential nomination. Should Mor- ton or an eastern man be selected as the presidential nominee, it would be all right to choose a western or southern man for second place. The Kentucky man might be willizg to enter a combination with that end in view. a Could Carry Kentucky. “McKinley could carry Kentucky with a whoop,” Representative Colson said. “There would har-ily be any doubt on this point. Thousands of democrats, would vote for him, but might not vote for some other re- publican. There are many democrats in the state who have recently been converted to the doctrines of reciprocity and protec- tion. They are mostiy manufacturers. These men like McKinley and would vote for him.” “ Republicans claim that all indication: point to their carrying the state this fal There has been no unicn of the democrats. The same bitter ‘feciing exists, and will crop out when the state convenilon meets to elect delegates to the Chicago conven- tion. It is said that the silver men have decided to neither give nor ask quarter. If they are in a minority in the state conven- tion they will accept the situation like men. If they are in the majorjty they won't lis- ten to any talk of compromise. They will elect a sclid free silver delegation and in- struct it what to do. Senator Blackburn himself is on record as taking this stand, it is said. = STEEL POOL. ft WIIl Have $00,000,000 to Work With. Frem the New York Herald. PITTSBURG, Pa., March 31, 1896. Further infcrmation leaked out here to- day concerning the new steel pool. It ap- pears that this week’s meeting of the con- cerns in it will be held on Thursday in New York in the Savoy Hotel. The papers will be signed then. What amounts to a fcrfeit put up as a guerantee of good faith will be paid into the pool's treasury by its members. They will pay $2 a ton on all billets they are to turn out under the new egreement, which restricts the production to the actual market requirements. Every manufacturer in the pool will be given his pro rata share of billets to make. ‘The shares will be based on the capacities of the mills in proportion to the entire de- mand anticipated. The capital of the individual concerns of the new trust ranges from $2,540,000 to $50,000,000, the latter being the Illinois Steel Company. The Carnegie Company, with a capital of $25,000,000, handles daily 500 car loads of ore, coal, coke, finished product, etc., and the collateral lines at- taching to all the interests represented em- Floy millions of people. , The following concerns are included in the new pool: The Carnegie, Hainsworth and Shoenberger Steel companies; Jones & Laughlin’s and Park Brothers, all of Pitts- burg; the Illinois Steel Company, Chicago; the Pennsylvania Steel Company, Harri burg; Ohio Steel Company, Youngstowr Troy Steel Company, Troy; the Midvale Steel Company, Philadelphia; the Bethle- hem Iron Company and the Wellman Steel Company, Thurlow, Pa.; the Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company, Scranton, Pa.; Lickdale Iron Company, Lebanon, Pa.; the North Branch Street Company, Danville, Pa.; the Cambria Iron Company, Johns- town, Pa.; the Shenango Valley Steel Com- pany, Newcastle, Pa.; the Maryland Steel Company, Sparrow's Point, Md.; the John- ston Company, Lorain, Ohio; the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company and the Junction ae and Steel Company, Mungo Junction, fo. It is estimated that the pool has at least $2€0,000,000 to work with. —_—__+ e+ _____ COLON’S GREAT FIRE. NEW Over Seventy-Five Buildings Were Destroyed March 23. The Columbian line steamer Finance, which arrived at New York yesterday from Colon, brought partictlars of the fire which destroyed nearly cué-half of that city on March 23. The fire burned for two days, destroying upward éf seventy-five buildings, including residences and busi- nces blocks. The fire department was reinforced by two engines and 150 men from Panama, brought across the Isthmus by a special train. The crew of the Finance, under the direction of Captain Daly, also ren- dered valuable assistance. . During the progress of the confagrationh there was a great deal of plundering of both residences and hotels, the disorganization of the po- lice force making the. opportunity a good one. ——— Medals of Honor. A medal of honor has bee presented to Conrad Schmidt, late first eergeant troop K, second United States cavalry, for dis- tinguished gallantry in action near Win- chester, Va., September 19, 1864. He went to the assistance of his regimental com- mander, whose horse had been killed under him in a charge near the enemy's line, and mounting the offic2r behind him, under @ heavy fire from the confederate infantry, returned with him to his ecmmand. A medal of honor has also been awarded Samuel Hymer, brevet major, United States volunteers, Jate captain one hundred and fifteenth Illinois volunteers, for gallantry in action at Buzzard’s Roost Gap, Ga., Oc- tober 13, 1864. With only forty-one men under his command he defended and held @ block house against art attack by Hood’s division for nearly ten Hours, thus check- ing the advance of the enemy and insuring the safety of the balance of his regiment as well as that of the eighth Kentucky in- fantry, then stationed at Ringgold, Ga. THE FINANCIAL PLANK Managing Politicians Now Figuring on the Republican Deliverances. All Point to an International Agree- ment as Necessary — Ground of Agreement Between Extremes. It is now possible for the managing poll- ticlans to figure somewhat on the financial plank of the St. Louis platform, and many of them are improving the opportunity. The east has spoken, through New York and Massachusetts, the middle states through Ohio, and the northwest through Minnesota and South Dakota, and the belief ts that the national platferm of the republican party respecting the money question will be evolved out of these local del!verances. An International Agreement. The first thing observed is that the note of an international agreement on the ques- tion of reopening the mints to sliver is heard from every quarter. It is a little clearer in Ohio than in New York or Massachusetts, but it is plain enough in the east. The gist of the matter from every quurter seems to be this: The United States cannot afford, separately and alone, to adort the policy of free coinage, and will not do so. Such a policy would only be safe through the agency of an international agreement. As matters now stand, every dollar now in cir- culation in this country musi be kept as good as the gold dollur, and gold must be forthcoming to meet all the ends of redemp- tion. Such is accepted in political circles as being in substance the attitude of all re- publicans except those in the silver mining states of the west. The Line of Battle. This, then, it is believed, wil! mark the line of battle at St. Louis. Nine-tenths of the party will be willing to express friend- ship for silver and to formally and sincerely commit the party to an effort, in case of suc- cess at the polls, to help rehabilitate silver as a money metal by means of an inter- national agreement. The remaining one- tenth—composed of several silver-producing states of the west—will demand an uncon- ditional declaration in favor of free coinage at 16 to 1, and thus the war over the plat- form will be begun. Ground of Compromise. What ground of compromise will lie open to improvement? The policy of purchasing silver bullion has been repudiated by the vate of the party in Congress. That, it is assumed, cannot be returned to. The sil- ver men themselves have confessed to its failure while ghe law was in operation. Is there anything possible, therefore, but to declare either for free_coinage, provid- ing it car be brought about by interna- tional agreement, or for free coinage with- out any condition whatever? And if that proves to be the situation at St. Louis, will the nine-tenths surrender to the one- tenth, or even be very far guided by it, or will the one-tenth, linked to the nine-tenths by many strong bonds, withdraw from further fellowship and go over to the third party? The Power of the Government. The issue being thus reduced to that of an intermational, agreemept,. the .question of the power of this government to bring such an arrangement about is regarded as of very great moment. ‘he silver men in- sist that this government is so strong and its credit so high, it need not wait on the rest of the world in this business. Let It, they urge, but take the step, and other countries—even Englan-l—will be obliged to follow. They denounce ihe talk about an international agreement as only an excuse devised by the gcld men to avoid action. But the gold men—or bimetallists, as they think they are entitled to be called—de- cliire to go this far, and insist that to take such action as the silver men d2mand, without first securing the co-operation of at least some of the other great money Powers, would bring about a calamity the like of which the world of business has never up to this time known. vee WILL BE LOYAL TO MORTON. Mr. Depew Discusses Past Republican Conventions. Chauncey M. Depew was interviewed yesterday at Del Monte, Cal., regarding a canvass made by the San Francisco Exam- iner of the prominent republicans of Call- fornia, which apparently showed the senti- ment of the state to be overwhelmingly in favor of McKinley. “Let me see,” he said, “this is the Ist of April. The republican national convention does not meet until June 16—now there is such a thing as.a man running so fast as to be out of breath when the time comes to jump. McKinley is a good man, and I have no doubt that he will have the larg- est number of votes on the first ballot. Blaine had the same at Cincinnati in 1! and it almost broke my heart when he fail- ed to get the nomination in place cf Hayes, the dark horse. Grant had the same at Chicago in 1880, and yet the Blaine people nominated Mr. Garfield. If it turns out that McKinley on the second ballot does not carry the convention by storm, the followers of the other candidates are likely to agree upon some man who will get the nomination. New York will be loyal to Mr. Morton. I am a delegate-at- large to the convention, and all of us will try to make him the nominee, as the best available man.” It was suggested to Mr. Depew that he himself might become a formidable dark horse. ”’ he replied, “I do not think so. Ir Such a thing is impossible. I am bet- ter off where I am. I desire to say, how- ever, that I do not consider the fact of being a railroad man any detriment in such a contest. There is no prejudice against railréads in the east now, and I think I have had something to do with the change. In New York today it is rather to the ad- vantage of a man to be a railroad ¢m- ploye when he gets into politics. He does not lose thereby in public favor, and 1e- ceives the united vote of the railroad peo- ple in addition to the usual vote.” ——+e<«—_____ Ask for Relief. John F. Olmstead and Elias S. Hutchin- son has filed a bill in equity against Lin- da Hutchinson Webb and others, praying to be relieved from a trust imposed in a conveyance made March 15, 1881, by the late Hayward M. Hutchinson and his wife to them. The property conveyed was sub- lot 132, square 181, for the benefit of Mrs. Webb, the trustees being directed and em- powered to convey or mortgage at her re- quest. The trustees also request permis- sion to turn over to their successors two notes of $1,000 each. SS University Extension. W. Hudson Shaw, M.A., will deliver a course of six university extension lec- tures at Metzerott Hall on Tuesday after- noons, beginning April 14. The lectures are to be given under the auspices of the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching, and are on the sub- ject of Florentine history from Dante down to the time of Michael Angeld. A num- ber of prominent people have promised to act as patrons to the course, among ther Mrs. Cleveland, whose interest in the mat- ter was secured through Rev. Dr. Wood of Germantown, Pa. ———— All Saints’ Hospital at Kansas City has been placed in quarantine, and one of its patients taken to the pest house suffering from smallpox. TREACHERY ALLEGED Foraker Men Charged With Under- mining McKinley's Strength. EX-G0VERNOR'S FRIENDS PROSCRIBED Bolt of the Columbus Dispatch Likely to Be Followed. QUEER STATE OF POLITICS —————— Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 2.— Notwith- standing the declarations of loyalty to Maj. McKinley made by the Foraker re- publicans in the state convention two weeks ago, there is unmistakable evidence that the Foraker republicans, led by Go’ Bushnell, are using the state patronage, now fully in their control, to undermine the strength of the ex-governor in this state. Charles L. Kurtz, Senator Foraker’s con- fidential political adviser, who has bee: elected a national delegate from this count: and is-instructed to support McKinley, is telling it everywhere that it is entirely im- probable that McKinley will be nominated. Gov. Bushnell refused last week to reap- point W. T. Lewis state labor commis- sioner, for the reason that Lewis has been operating as a McKinley leader, and in his congressional district convention three weeks ago defeated Kurtz’s candidate for member of the state central committee. In refusing to reapppigt4.ewis, Gov. Bushnell said to him: “Yow have been running off after false gods. You cannot expect to be retained.” Aliacking McKinley's Friends. A number of investigations of state offi- cers by the legislature are now in progress, and in every case the Foraker men are turning them into prosecutions of the friends of ex-Gov. McKinley. Gne of these investigations takes in a number of state officials, among them an appointee of the ex-governor, J. P. Smith, state librarian, on the charge of consp: to unload upon the state a book, to publ which they had formed a company, a found {t unprofitable. Mark Hanna of Cleveland, who is receiving a great deal of consideration now by reason of his con- nection with the McKinley movement, was interested in the company. When Smith was on the witness stand in the investiga- tion, ator Shattue of Cincinnati, who is a close political friend of Senator For- aker, asked aim the question, “What are you doing in Cleveland tow in connection with Mr. Hanna?” The question had no bearing upon the matter under investigation, but the senator had an opportunity to put Smith and his associates, all friends of ex-Gov. McKin- ley, in an embarrassing position, and he took advantage of the opportunity. Smith turned the question aside by an- swering, “Oh, writing letters and receiving answers. A general laugh followed, and the sena- tor did not pursue the matter further. Further evidence of the hostility of the Foraker republicans toward the Mc- Kink yites was shown last week in the action of Gov. Bushnell in demanding the resignations of the members of the board of managers of the state prison. The three republican members went to the state con- vention at Zanesville last fall, and work=d herd to prevent the nomination of Bush- nell. One of them, J. H. Brigham of Del- ta, ex-president of the National Grange, afterward took the stump in the campaign in suprort of Bushnell, but this did not save him. It is semi-officialty announced from the gcvernor’s office that he will proceed to re- organize all the state institutions at once, and the friends of the ex-governor, who have been in complete control for several years, ate getting ready to vacate. With this condition of strained relations between the two factions it is too much to expect that there will be sincere and persistent effort on the part of the Foraker republi- cans who will be in the national convention ie Louis as delegates in McKinley's be- Bolt of the Dixpateh. The Evening Dispatch of chis city, which had been supposed to be friendly to Me- Hinley, has surprised, rot to say dismayed, the friends of the ex-governor by coming out In a-vigorous editorial rating McKinley as a poor executive officer, and citing acts in his administration as governor of Qiio in support of its position. The Dispatch reasoned that he would prove an easy mark in the office of President of the United States for the designing men that always hang about the seat of power watching a chance to make profit for themselves through officiel dishonor. ‘The Dispatch Is an independent newspaper, but has always Leen strorg in its advocac: of protection. It is sigmficant that Col. J. 1. Rodgers, its ermer editor, is now privatg secre: Gov. Bushneli. unaieeiGa: It is intimated that the stand taken by the Dispatch is to be taken in t by a republican paper in Cincinnati in odified form, and other prominent newspapers of the state, in the next few weeks, us a part of a preconcerted movement on the part of the anti-McKinley republicans of the state, ihe object being to weaken the Meiinle movement without breaking ihe pledges placed upon any of the delezates in the ccnventions that chose them. On pre! inary question: such as are likely to arise on the matter of credentials, at least ten votes from Ohio will be cast against the interests of Mckinley in the St. Louis convention, -houzh in the bailot ing the whole delegation will no doubt 1 gard their instructions ani” vote for Me- Kinley on each ballot. ar COLLECTOR NEW PROTESTS. Says Colorado Democrats Should Not Listen to Senator Tillman, The action of the democratic state central committee of Colorado in in- Gorsing the idea of inviting Senator Till- man to address the state democratic con- vention has called ferth a rebuke from Gen. A. L. New, collector of internal revenue, and one of the most prominent democrats vf the west. Gen. New characterizes the convention, which is called for April 15, as that of the Tillmanites. “The democrats of the west, or of any other part of the country, said Gen. New, “need no advice from Mr. Tillman or trom any other person who comes from outside the ranks of the party. Mr. Tillman was not elected by democrats to his lofty p. tion, which he occupies and disgraces to- day, and there is no more reason why he should be invited to address a democratic convention, with his tirade and vitupera- tion, than ‘should Mr. Coxey or any other individual antagonistic to the principles of democracy.” Gen. 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