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12 Fight Over the Money Question in Georgia. SECRETARY SMITH LEADING ONE SIDE Evan P. Howell Directing the Sil- ver Forces. POPULISTS ARE LYING LOW Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. ATLANTA, May 25, 1896. storm center of the political campaign In the south Atlantic and gulf coast states. Alabama to the west, and South Carolina to the east, and Tennessee to the north, have acted, and all have de- clared for free coinage of both gold and silver at 16 to 1. Here in Georgia the fight is still raging and ‘ill continue until June 6, the Gate of the primaries. Secretary Hoke Smith is the virtual general of the campaign for the gold standard in Georgia, This is the and he has able lieutenants. His old po- litical adversary, Capt. Evan P. Howell, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, is di- recting the fight for the silver forces. Last week Senator Ben Tillman and Represen- tative Joe Bailey spoke here for one side, and Representative Patterson of Tennessee for the other side. Tillman had imes as many to hear him as Bailey had, and Bailey had a third more than Patterson drew. Bailey really made con- verts. Neither of the others did. Bailey shook the faith of some of the most ac! workers in the Young Men's Sound ( rency Club, and won trom it seme of i most valuable members. Fight in Fulton County. The fight of the state fs over this (Ful- ton) county. The opposition to Mr. Smith is determined, if possible, to mortify him by carrying the county for silver, and if they do get the convention they will rub it In hard. Howell has the county ma- chinery, which is a marked advantage. He declared last week, at the Bailey meet- ing, that if the gold standard faction should turn down the silver delegations from Nebraska and Iiinols in the national con- vention, he would “take to the woods,” the inference being that he would go to the silver convention in St. Louis. This has been construed to mean a threat to bolt, and the opposition to him announce that they will challenge his vote in the primaries on the ground that he fs not a loyal demo- crat. But as his committee appoints the managers of the election, it is not probable that the challenge will deprive him of his vote. Representative Lawson recently said that Henry Clay could not check the silver tide in his district, the eighth, Georgia. It seems that Judge Lawson is doomed to de- feat for renomination. If the silver can- didate, Wm. Howard, is nominated, the populists will not run a man against him, but will vote for him. There is an inde- pendent in the race, former Representative H. H. Carlton, but he cannot win. Populists Awaiting Events. The populists are lying low. They hope for a bolt at Chicago, and whichever side controls there, the third party people ex- pect to benefit. They know that they will get thousands of silver democrats !f a gold platform is adopted, and they count on a large defection of gold democrats if a 16 to 1 plank is put in the platform. Judge J. K. Hines, who was the populist nominee for governor two years ago, sald today that he could not accept the nomination again. He claims that he was counted out in 1894, and there is strong evidence that he was, but there were frauds on each side. Tom Watson is watching developments In the democratic party. He ts the leader of the Georgia populists, and will be his arty’s caucus nomines for the United tates Senate. The populists will not hold their state convention until after the demo- eratic national convention. Mr. Crisp Confident. Ex-Speaker Crisp, who fs at home direct- ing his campaign for the United States Sen- ate to succeed Senator John B. Gordon, says that he will carry enough counties, June 6, to insure him the nomination by the party caucus when the general assem- bly meets. But the gold delegates may purs: he Kentucky plan and stay out of the caucus. This Is expected. Governor Atkinson, who is running for another term, doubts the wisdom of de- claring in the state platform straight out on the financial question. There are others who fear that an unequivocal declaration either way would cost the party a great lcss of votes in the October election. The gold men are willing for a compromise, but the extreme silverites refuse to yield anything. They are confident of carrying the state, and want a fight to the finish. ee THE SEVENTH TO JOIN LATELY. Recent Acquisitions by the Associat- ed Press. ‘The one strong meorning daily paper of Bridgeport, Conn., the Morning Telegram, has become a member of the Associated Press, and has begun receiving the full leased wire report of the dominant news organization. The Telegram having had experience of the local and minor news as- sociatiors, has found them inadequate to its size and needs. This ts the seventh strong New England paper to join the As- sociated Press since May 5. The Sunday Globe of Hartford, Conn., one of the leading Sunday papers of south- ern New England, has become a member of the Associated Fress, and receives the leased wire service of the Assoctated Press. The Bridgeport, Conn., Morning Tele- gram said yesterday: “With this morning’s fssue the Telegram begins supplying its readers with news fur- nished by the Associated Press, the great organization which numbers in its ranks some of the greatest newspapers in the country, and whose service is superior to any other. A week ago the Evening Post commenced taking this service, and the Telegram, in line with its policy to give Bridgeport a newspaper with facilities bet- ter than any other, follows sult. The As- sociated Press has a spectal wire to the Post building, which is in operation from 8 a.m., continuously throughout the day and night until 3 o'clock every morning. “By this alliance the Telegram 1s en- abled to serve all the news of the world from the closing of the issue of the Even- ing Post until the next morning. The As- sociated Press is the strongest organiza- tion of its kind in existence, and its con- stftuents are found in every important place In the country. Besides this it has @ thoroughly equipped cable service, and will supply the Telegram with all foreign news of importance. “Under the new arrangement the Tele- gram makes another stride forward. Its Various news departments will be im- Proved, and it will continue to be the only Morning newspaper in western Connecti- cut in direct touch by telegraph with all the world.” The Boston Journal, under the capt “The Competition Is Felt,” say: scar “The Journal's satisfaction with the news furnished by the Associated Press is un- bounded. A week's trial has shown, as the Journal expected it would show, that the service is the best ever received in Boston. The single wire service of the As- sociated Press was all that, but its double Wire service, which was established when the Journal became a stockholding member, is, of course, vastly superior. There are signs that some of the Journal's newspaper gompetitors in Boston also appfeciate its ¥alue, and that they realize the advantage Which its use gives the Journal. Courage Qnd enterprise would lead them to attempt @ improvement of their own service or the adOption of the Journal's, but they pre- to either of those courses an effort to Ww or to drive the Journal back to the ectortty from which it released Itself ten “The Journal ts not to will hardly be driven*'> °° “AWM, and tt ——————______ Will Filea. The will of the late Bertha E. Kramer, @ated March 12, 1896, appoints her aunt, Bertha Finnacoin, executrix, and makes her sole beneficiary. The Astate is that in- herited from the testatrix’s grandmother, Catherine Koch. THE STORM'’S CENTER| THE PALMETTO STATE Her Sons in Washington Entertain Distin- guished Guests at a Banquet. ~ Secretary Herbert, Senator Lodge and Others Make Patriotic and Eloquent Addresses, The South Carolina Society Saturday evening celebrated the anniversary of the ratification of the Constitution by the state of South Carolina. A banquet of a hundred covers was spread at the Ebbitt, and many distinguished guests were present to do honor to the occasion. The table was ar- ranged in the form of a rectangle, and dec- crated with cut flowers. Behind the chair of ex-Senator Butler, who served as toast- master, was a palmetto tree brought from South Carolina. The banquet was the first given by the society, which was organized in March of this year, and it brought to- gether many accomplished and distin- guished men. Ex-Senator Butler, in pro- posing the toasts, explained that one of the objects of the association was to collect and preserve the historical data relating to the palmetto state. Secretary Herbert's Speech. Hilary A. Herbert, Secretary of the Navy, responded to the toast, “May 23, 1783—May the Principles of the Constitution Live For- ever.” He said that it seemed as if a guid- ing Providence had inspired our Constitu- tion to accomplish the liberty of man. “Our government,” he said, “Is not only the freest that ever came forth from the hands of man; it contains more and better safeguards for the rights of property, for the sanctity of contracts, for the administration of jus- tice between man and man, and for the pro- tection of its citizens against the hand of government itself, than any other upon the face of the earth. The parliament of Great Britain, unrestrained as it is by any writ- ten fundamental law, yielding to the pres- sure of the times, has already passed laws regulating the relations between landlord and tenant, that, if enacted by our Con- gress, could never be enforced so long as the judges who sit in yonder Capitol re- gard their oaths to maintain the Constitu- tion of the country. Behind that Constitu- tion human liberty and the rights of prop- erty find their last entrenchment. When that barrier is broken down anarchy will reign supreme. “Parentalism in government is hatching in these modern days a brood of pestilential heresies from the rerils of which there is to be under republican forms no escape, except in the saving doctrine that written constitution cf governmcnt shall remain inviolate and inviolable. The great Ger- man author, Von Holst, has pointed out what he calls the disposition of Americans to worship the Constitution. Well would it be for us If this spirit were universal. As it is, the widespread feeling that our gov- ernment ts the most perfect work of man is the balence wheel of our institutions. It was this sentiment, manifesting itself at the ballot box, that lifted the reconstructed states from the dust and restored to them as coequals in the Union under the Consti- tution the right of self-government. “Deep down in the hearts of the American people is a love of those principles of the Constitution, of which I speak tonight, that has heretofore been equal to every emergency, and there sre signs arcund us that the public mind is being made ready to encounter the perils of the future in whatever guise they may come. Over the school Fcuses throughout the land the flag, which fs the emblem of the power of the goverrment, is being hoisted. Into those school houses text books are being intro- duced that treat of the nature and author- ity of that government, and in nearly every colge In the land the science of government is row being carefully taught. “Let this good work goon. Let a spirit of Patriotism be cultivated; let us call to our aid in this work all the arts of poetry and oratory and music, and let the lesson be everywhere taught that this country has grown to be great and prosperous, and that it has been able to tide over all the dangers of the past because of the love and veneration that the people have borne in their hearts for the Constitution of their country; and, further, that if future gen- erations are to prosper, as their fathers did, taey must Icok to that same Constitu- tion as the sheet anchor of their liberties, and as, at the same time, the source of and limitation upon the power of gcverr ment. Senntor Lodge’s Happy Address. At the conclusion of Secretary Herbert's address, which was received with great enthusiasm, the orchestra played the “Star Spangled Banner.” Senator Lodge of Mas- sachusetts was then introduced to respond to the toast of South Carolina and Massa- chusetts in the colonial and revolutionary period. The suggestive unity of these two States, the part each has played in the his- tory of the country, side by side, or facing as adversaries, gave a particular point and interest to this address. The elegance, the historical interest and loftiness of senti- ment displayed in this address excited great enthusiasm, and its spirit pervaded the company during the rest of the even- ing. He spoke of the growing interest in the study of American and state history, once thought of so little value. It was a great aid to patriotism, to scholarship, and to the fostering of all sentiments that were i preservation of the states and the na- ion. In the beginning, he -said, South Carolina and Massachusetts fought together in the common cause. He was sorry that a New England general was in command when Crarleston capitulated to the British, but another New Englander, Greene, drove the British out of South Carolina and com- | hee the work that Marion and Sumter ad begun. The first blood was shed in Lexington, Mass., and the last at James Island, 8. C., by Major Wilmot. In the zate struggle the first shot was by South Carolina, and Massachusetts men were the first to fall. The two states had been very conspicuous in the history of their country. It was a proud thing for South Carolinians that It was Charles C. Pinckney who said, “Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.” authority and Other Responses. The toast, “The Credit of the Govern- ment Should Be Sacredly Maintained,” was responded to by Judge Lamareux, United States land commisssioner, whose patriotic sentiments were applauded. Judge Lama- reux spoke in the place of Senator Vilas. In the place of Senator Gray, Judge Cole responded, in a very graceful and appro- priate speech to the toast. “The Unton of the States—Its Enemy is Sectionalism; Its Friend the Cordial Fellowship of the Peo- ple.” “South Carolina in the American Congress" was responded to by Represen- tative Stanyarne Wilson, South Carolina; “The Women of South Carolina,” by ex- Representative J. J. Hemphill, and ‘The People at Home” by Charles A. Douglass. The Participants, Among the guests were Secretary Her- bert, Representative Wilson of South Caro- lina, ex-Representative Hemphill, Nathan- fel McKay, Gen. C. M. Shelby, Justice Cole, Justice Bradley, Judge Lamoreux, Capt. V. E. McBee, W. H. Baldwin, jr., Colin Studds, Solicitor Faisson, Gen. W. R. Cox, H. L. West, E. L. Givings, W. 8. De Wolf, A. Barnes, R. B. Nixon, Amal Smith, George H. Boyd, Maj.*T. G. Garrett, Ernest Wil- kinson of New Orleans, R. M. Larner, Har- ry P. Godwin, Dr. F. T. Howe, W. W. Price, J. J. Darlington, J. P. Miller, Rep- resentative Elliott, Rev. Dr. Elliott, A. Rhett Stuart, Col. E. M. Rucker, jr, St. Cc. B. Gwynn, W. de C. Revenel, T F. Brantley, A. A. Brantley, H. N. Obear, R. A. Ford, J. F. Melton, C. Meriwether, Jo- siah Bedon, C. M. Davis, P. 13. Parrott, P. Farrow, Col. T. 8. Farrow, Benjamin Mar- tin, L. W. Haskell, K. 8. Murchinson, Rev. A. R. Stuart, D. C. Roper, R. J. Gantt, G. L. Baker, J. W. Davidson, Col. J. T. Trent- len, J._G. Tricher, T. H. Mackey, T. Will- jams, J. L. McKennon, Marks Kahn, J. K. Bethea, D. V. Chisnholmn, A. S. Lally, E. M. Gadsden, M. L. Venable, G. M. Stack- house, Julius W. Stewart, C. A. Calhoun, Dr. James Stewart, C. E. Thomas, W. W. Anderson, John M. Colt, P. Thompson, R. R. Block, R. M. Geddings, Rev. J. G. Williams, William Miller, Dr. Lewis Al- len, William Folger, G. H. Ingraham, Sam- uel Edwards, Rev. Josiah Perry, J. F. Kilgore, J. W. Stokes and W. T. Robin- son. The banquet committee consisted of W. M. Aiken, Thomas F. Brantley and John G. Capers. The officers of the society are John B. Irwin, president; Charles A. Doug- lass, first vice president; John G. Capers, second vice president; J. M. Baker, sec- retary, and Charles H. Brice, treasurer. THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1896-SIXTEEN PAGES. SUPREME COURT DECISIONS Fewer Oases on the Docket Than in Twenty Years Before. Burke Bonds in Louisia: Held Valid —McKinley Tariff Did Not ‘Repeal Coal Rebates—Other Decisions. The United States Supremé Court ad- journed yesterday for the term, after de- livering twenty-seven opinions. During the term the court has disposed of 487 cases, leaving 585 on the docket, a smaller num- ber than have remained at the close of any preceding term since the close of the term in 1876. In addition to those finally disposed of argument has been heard in twenty-eight cases in which opinions were not rendered. The most important of the cases which go over is that involving the constitutionality of the California irrigation law. The court reversed the decision of the supreme court of Arizona in the case of Bertha Tomlinson agt. the Southern Pa- cific Railroad Company. This case was an action for damages on account of the kill- ing of Mr. Tomlinson on the Southern Pa- cific road. The jury awarded $50,000, to Be divided between the widow and other heirs of the deceased, but she remitted all but $18,000 of the amount. The supreme court of the territory affirmed the verdict for this amount. Opinion by Justice Gray. Liable for Infectfon. Thé court decided in the case of George W. Grayson and others, appellants, agt. Lynch Brothers, appeilees, that the owners of stock infected with Texas fever can be held Hable for damages to those to whose stock the disease is conveyed. The case came up from the New Mexico supreme court, which is sustained in yesterday's de- cision, Coal Rebates. In the United States, plaintiff in error, vs. Charles R. Allen, the circuit court of appeals for the ninth circult was reversed. The case originated in the northern district of California, and involved the legal ques- tion as to whether the McKinley tariff law repealed the provision of the act of 1883 granting a rebate on bituminous coal. The cireult court of appeals decided in favor of Allen, thus holding that the law was not repealed. Justice White said, in his opin- jon, that it was repealed hy implication. The decision of the circult ccurt of ap- peals for the eighth circuit in the case of the receivers of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad vs. Lafayette & Hailey was affirmed. The case involved the lability of a railroad company for damage in case of a fire started by a spark from an engine. The opinion holds the railroad companies hable in such cases. Louisiana Bonds. The circuit court for the eastern district of Louisiana, tn the case of Victor end Adolpk Meyer vs. W. T. Richards, was re- versed. This was an action to recover $8,383, the price paid by plaintiffs to Rich- ards in February, 1889, for thirteen bonds of the state of Louisiana, and whica plaintiffs declared were not valid. The bonds, the opinion says, were fraudulently issued by State Treasurer Burke. Until the discovery of that fact the coupons therefrom were regularly paid by the state, including those of July 1, 1989, and after that time the state officers declined to continue payments. The judgment in the lower court was for de- fendant. Justice White says a review of the authorities governing the sale of ne- gotiable paper, transferred without re- course, as between vender and vendee, af- firmatively establishes that there is no peculiar warranty in a sale of commercial paper. The case Is remanded, with direc- tions to enter judgment for plaintiffs for the amount claimed, with interest and costs. Tax on Estates. In United States and Ackerly, executor of Merriam, agt. Perkins, county treas- urer, Suffolk county, N. Y., involving right of the state of New York to tax bequests made to the United States, the law was affirmed. Merriam bequeathed all his prop- erty In Suffolk county to the United States. The surrogate assessed a tax of $3,964, and the government and the executor both ap- bealed to the state courts. The New York supreme court sustained the surrogate. Justice Brown said that the United States was not a corporation exempted by the state law from taxation in such cases, and that the legislation was only intended to allow exemptions to such institutions as the state had created. The case of the bequest of George W. Cullum of property in New York, amount- ing to $250,000, for the maintenance of a memorial hall at West Point, was also disposed of in this opinion. A motion, submitted on behalf of the Singer Manufacturing Company,. to stay the mandate in the case of the Singer Company agt. the June Company was granted, and leave given to file a petition for rehearing before the next term. Right to Hunt. The right of the Bannock Indians to kill game 'n unsettled lands of their former reservation in Wyoming was denied, the court holding that under their treaty the Indians could not kill game in violation of the game laws of the state. The title of the case was Ward, sheriff, agt. Race Horn. The epinion of the court beiow in the Omaha bridge case was affirmed. ——_--e—_______ LIEUT. GATEWOOD’S BRAVERY. He Rode Into Geronimo’s Camp Alone and Demanded His Surrender. Lieut. Crerles B. Gatewood, sixth cav- alry, who was laid to his final rest at Ar- lington Saturday, had the reputation of be- ing one of the bravest men in the army. He was a native of Virginia, and was graduated at the Military Academy in the class of 1677. In Febguary, 1878, he was assigned -to the sixth cavalry as a second lieutenant, and served with that regiment at Fort Apache, N. M., until 1881. During that period he had command of a com- pany of Indian scouts, and was frequently in the field in active operations against hostile Indtans. He commanded the troops that were first on Victoria’s trail, on his outbreak in New Mexico, in May, 1879, be- ing also engaged in action against them in the Miembres movntains, New Mexico, in the Guzmen mountains, Mexico, San Mateo mountains, New Mexico, and San Andras mourtains, New Mexico. He was cn leave of absence and absent sick to August 13, 1881, when he rejoined his command, and commanded Indian scouts at Forts Apache, Arizona, and Stan- ton, New Mexico, and in the field, taking an active part in every campaign In Ari- zona and New Mexico in which the troops were engaged up to the final surrender of Geronin:o, the last of the Chiri¢achua In- dians on the war path. In August 24, 1886, he rode into Geroni- mo’s camp of hostile Indians, at the risk of his life, and, without any assurance of a peaceable reception, demanded their sur- render through two friendly Apaches. The Indians agreed to surrender, he remaining with them vrtil they came up with and surrendered to Gen. Miles, September 4 following. He was con:merded in general orders for tis services in the action against the hos- tile Chiricachua Apaches in the Sterra Madre morntains, for his services in con- nection with Geronimo’s surrender and for bravery in boldly and alone riding into Geronimo’s hostile carnp. In addition to his other duties, he was on July 24, 1888, charged with the manage- ment of Ind‘an affairs on the northern part of the Apache reservation, to preserve peace end quiet among the White Moun- tain Apeches, about 1,900 in number. He was on duty as A. D. C. to Gen. Miles for four years, and rejoined his regiment October 2, 1890, and served with it at Fort Wingete, New Mexico, in the field in South Dakota, in operations against hostile Sioux Indians at Pine Ridge agency and vicinity. While serving at Fort McKinney, Wyo- ming, on May 18, 1892, he was severely in- jured by the premature explosion of a blast of powder while preparing a charge with which to blow up one of the barracks at the post during a fire. Having been found physically incapaci- tated for promotion, he was ordered to his tome to await orders, and was awaiting orders ac Fort Monroe when he died. ———__-o-_____ More Revolt in China. The Dungans are again in rebellion. They have captured Kiayuk-wan, China, and are advancing westward. ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS rer To Play a Prominent Part in the Campaign. GOV. ALTGELD AND EX-MAYOR HOPKINS Opposition to'Ciéveland Tolerated, but Not Encouraged. COL. MORRISON’S ATTITUDE Special Correspondence of ‘The Evening Star. CHICAGO, May 238, 1896. Tilinois gives promise of playing a part in democratic national politics fully as decisive as it seems to have done in fixing the republican presidential nomination. With the democrats, however, it is not a question of candidates. The state is the battle ground of the anti-silver campaign. President Cleveland is said to have been given the word that Illinois would stand with the administration for sound money and to be greatly rejoiced at the news. Probably the President is rejoiced because what promised to be a limp and aimless canvass for the administration policy has been turned into an aggressive one. Netth- er Ben Cable nor Controller Eckels nor any other of Mr. Cleveland’s friends, who are supposed to know the state, would be justified in making such a statement. They don’t know what the outcome will be. Nobody knows, not even Col. W. R. Morrison or Vice President Stevenson, both of whom are candidates for the presidency. If either of them could guess, he would be able to gain a marked advantage in shaping his campaign in other states. The convention mects at Peoria June 23, and the delegates are already being chosen in the various counties. ‘There will be 1,069 delegates, of whom 535 form a ma- jority. Cook county, which means Chi- cago, has 362. Here is the problem in poiitical arithmetic which is to be solved: ‘Take 362 Chicago delegates, add 173 from the county and there will be an anti-silver majority in the democratic convention. Governor Altgeld is at once the soul and the brains of the silver movement. Mr. W. H. Hinrichsen, the secretary of state, does most of the public work, but he is simply the arm of the governor. Defeated on Silver. Last October when a vacancy occurred in the eighteenth congressional district Gov. Altgeld insisted on ex-Congressman Lane, the democratic candidate, making free silver the issue. Lane did so. It was understood that the result would determine whether the party should keep silver to the fore in Illinois. Mr. Hadley, the re- publican candidate, made a square anti- silver campaign, and was elected by an unprecedented majority. Many democrats congratulated themselves on the dutcome. They wanted the party freed from silver entanglements and they believed this had been dene. But it was the testimony of the men who had taken part In the can- vass on both sides that the people were thinking only of the tariff. These were not so sure that silver had been side-tracked. Gov. Altgeld took this view. Now he is bound to commit his party definitely to free silver. The state administration has entire con- trol of the central committze and ihe party machinery. It also seems to have the best of the local organization in Cook county. Thomas Gahan, an officeholder under the governor, is chairman of the county com- mittee. Under these circumstances the outlook for the anti-silver democrats was not encouraging unless they could find a leader, or more properly, a boss. An Hon- est Money Leagtie had been in existence for several months, and by great exer- tions had managed to keep its landlord from turning the league out of doors for ron-payment of rent. The federal office- holders of President Cleveland were rais- ing a feeble and decorous voice in behalf of sound money, but the mass of demo- crats were listless. Ex-Mayor Hopkins’ Position. Now atl this has been changed. Ex- Mayor John P. Hopkins, whose talents as 4n organizer are unequaled, is at the head of the movement. A year ago Mr. Hop- kins was for free silver. Until a month ago he was charged with coquetting with both sides. When the proposition was heard to intrust him with the manage- ment of the honest rmoney campaign objec- tion was made, but these objections disap- peared when some one cited the members of President Cleveland's cabinet, who, after being intrusted with responsibility, have seen new light on the money question. Hopkins’ enemies charge that he is now against silver because Governor Altgeld would not give him everything in sight. He is to be a delegate-at-large, and he also wanted Ben. Cable’s place on the na- tional committee. Mr. Thomas Gehan wants that place for himself. Whatever the ex-mayor’s motives, he has to be reckoned with as an important factor in the contest that is waging. It is said that a personal request from ex- Secretary Whitney was the real means of placing Hopkins in charge of the anti-sil- ver movement, and this is not unlikely. They are warm friends, and Whitney was the first of the national democratic leaders to recognize his extraordinary ability as an organizer. With Hopkins in command the men back of the honest money movement are sure of a fight on the lines of practical Folitics. Goy. Altgeld professes contempt for the movement. He could have reduced its ul- timate influence by issuing the call for the state convention on a basis which would have given Cook county fewer delegates, but he was willing it should have a full quota. Hie has made some sharp personal attacks on Hopkins, which the latter ts too wary to answer. The governor, however, Goes not depend on generalities. He re- spects Hopkins’ organizing ability, and as an offset to the Honest Money League he is organizing the Altgeld Legion. The legion will draw to itself the masses of the democratic party. Nobody can question Gov. Altgeld’s popularity with them. The national administration is powerless to in- terfere with him. Altgeld in the Convention. ‘The unit rule will be vigorously applied in the county and the state convention, so that if Gov. Altgeld wins he will be sure of the forty-eight votes of Hlinois in the national convention. He has been credited with the purpose of having the Illinois convention pass a resolution censuring President Cleveland, but e is too good a politician to press that point. He will be content to make a speech in the national convention setting forth his opposition to Mr. Cleveland. The democrauc party in Illinois tolerates, but does not approve these attacks of the governor on the Pres- ident. Many freq; silver democrats in the state, while not enthusiastic or exuberant over their natignal administration, wiil not submit to what locks like personal insults to Mr. Cleveland. Not much will be heard of anybody, ex- cept Governor Altgeld and ex-Mayor Hop- kins, during the canyass. One reason for this is that the, struggle will be waged chiefly in Chicago, and the governor will take command in person of the Altgeld legion. Senator,Palmer, Vice President Stevenson and Co). Morrison may take a hand out through the state, though it is understood that the Vice Presidcnt prefers to sit on the fence. Senator Palmer is “for gold and the administration,” but he has ceased to be a controlling influence in the ccuncils of the party. Morrisén’s, Attitude, It is a surprise that Col. Morrison is not in the front of the anti-silver movement. He incurred Gov. Altgzld’s hostility last October by his persistent refusal to write a free silver letter for use in the eighteenth district. What he did was to write letters to his friends urging them to support Judge Lane as a democrat. Nothing in the shape of a silver declaration could be got from Col. Morrison all through the winter. The friends who were planning to have him given the democratic nomination expected it to be on a sound money platform. They were making progress when Secretary Car- lisle was brought forward. Nothing can convince Col. Morrison’s friends in Illinois that this was not a move of the adminis- tration to kill him off in the south and west. Morrison's criticisms of Carlisle's utterances followed. Nevertheless, there will be no help given Gov. Altgeld’s free REASONS FOR THE OPEN INVITATION Given by Doctor McCoy to All Chronic Sufferers in Washington, Welcoming Every Sufferer From Catarrh, Bronchitis, Rheumatism, Deafness or Any Other Malady to a Trial Treatment Entirely Free. the Trisl Treatment Free clause must not be misunderstood. ‘It is simply the result of the Famous Physician's desire that the public may obtain without cost an adequate knowledge of the treatment which is the perfected result of bis life work, which, like his earlier treatment given to the world ten years ago, will soon be in goneral adoption by the profession, which has worked such cures in Deafness and Bronchial Diseases alonc to startle the old school practitioners, which hi already proven by the wonderful record of results that it will be the treatment of the future. In ex- tending this invitafion Doctor McCoy desires that its terms be unequivocal. Every person in Washingon to whom life has be- come burden by reason of the filthiness and suf- fering of common Cata:rh of the Head, Nose and Throat may now apply at the offices of Doctors McCoy and Cowden and receive a trial treatment free of charge. Every person in Washington who has “beco:ne discouraged and tired of the vain fight they have been making against the cough, the choking spells and the ever-recurring agonies of Asthma and Bronchitis may now apply at the offices of Doctors McCoy anc Cowden ard get an inkling cf what may be done for them by a better system of treat- ment than they have heretofore been receiving. ‘They will be cheerfully accorded a trial treatment without charge. Every persou in Washington who has lost strength of heart and strength of body and is becom pale, emaciated and lantern-jawed and melancho by the sickness, the torture and the ‘vation in- eldent to chronic Catarrh of ¢ 8 ch may now apply at the offices of Doctors McCoy and Cowden and receive, without expense, an explanatory ad- mitlstration of the treatment that has restored 80 many thousands of gloomy dyspeptos. Every person in Washington who may be under- going the fiery agonies of Rheumatism or the blight, the suffering and the disfigurement of Eczema, or the weakness, failure, misery and de- cay due to any common form of vhroate disease, ay pow apply at the offices of Doctors McCoy and Cowden and get a glimpse of happier conditions in store for them under the McCoy system of treat- ment. ‘The free trial treatment will be accorded to all upon personal application. To those who continue treatment until cured there will be no expense beyond the regular nom- inal monthly assessment, all medicines included. Dr. McCoy Curing the Deat. Jastus E. Griswold, 205 Pennsylva- nia ave.: I had to take my watch and press It very hard against my left ear to hear it at all. I could not hear speakers at any distance. Under Doc McCoy's treatment I notice a wonderful change in my hearing.” John W. Bailey, 30 B at. ne. “I had been deat since childhood. The Deafness followed an attack of Measles. Wher conversing I would in variably have to ask person to speak If the speaker was a fect away from could understand nothing. I went to Dr. MeCog. and asa result I cxn hear ordinary conversation.” Charles Mende, 477 I st. niw.: « can hear sounds now clearly that were heretofore rumbling, confused noises. I can distinguish or- y conversation, I can now hear iny clo @ from the room upstairs; I could not T went to Doctor McCoy's. I became deaf t years ago. ‘The Improvement is the result of D (Coys treatment. P. F. Milfigan, 115 4th st. n.e., Cap- Stol HM: “I feel like going down the avenue and one my deafness fs cured. I was deaf | could scarcely hear a word; I wouid clock to my ear and never hear it tick. 1 fas a brickhat. Doctor McCoy cured me entir If there is anybody who does not believe | it let him come and see me in person. was de Frank Miller, 533 9th st. s.e., expert machinist: I could nvt hear a sentence a tance away. Sounds were confused. I ba neople to repeat. I eculd not hear my watch tick, Buzzing sounds like excapiug steam were constant, Since taking Dr. MeCoy’s treatment my bearing | bas bean restored. I hear perfectly. Stephen J. Dixon, 1226 29th st. n.w. “T could not hear questions in ordinary tone four feet away, ‘There was a general confusion of | sound, and continuous roaring In ears, like ste and a ringing. Since being under Dr. McCoy's treat- ment I can detec versation spoken in ap ordinary tone. Sounds don’t run together as be- fore, and I can hear at a dist ‘sounds which Vefore would have beea impossible. Mrs. Maria D. Bradley, 919 F st. s.w.: I was very deaf, and had ringing and buzzing scunds in my ears all the time. I could not hear ordinary conversation. People would have to shout to make me understand. I could not hear the clock | ef until I went und. deafness. I ha an ir the clock restoration of my hearing | Doctor McCoy's wonderful in proved conversation. IT can part of ‘he room. was brought through shill”? Doctor McCoy's Monograph on Dis- enses of the Skin can be obtained by sending an application through the mail. It is in led only for those who are afflicted with some form of skin disease. j land was officiating, and though I wat in the ex- ‘The purpose of this invitation extended 12] MORE OF THE MARVEL OF CURING THE DEAF. William H. Norton, 601 P st. n.w.: “After a severe attack of inflammatory rheuma- tism, followed by typhoid fever, six years ago, I first became deaf in my left ear. I thought it would pass away, but as time wore on it grew worse. I first realized that I was deaf by people making remarks, alluding to my asking for a repe- tition of sentences. “My left ear was always the worst, but my right ear at last became affected. “I Could Not Understand Ordinary Conversation. “I could not hear a watch tick at all, As act- ing secretary of the Tempe Lodge, the SUNS OF JONADAB, I would bave the greatest difficulty fn understanding what members said, and would always have to ask the presiding officer as to What was going on. “It was the same way at the meetings of Lin- Mrs. Maria D. Bradley, 919 F st. 6.w., testifies to Dr. McCoy's skill in curing noises In ears and deafacss. coln Post, G. A. R. I would have the utmost difficulty in distinguishing voices that were at avy distance from me. “The most ordinary sounds, on the streets, or about the house, I could not hear. “I Lave listened to political speakers without being able to catch what they were saylug, and have had to ask some one standing near me to repeat for my benefit. e ortly after Doctor McCoy established a national practice in Washington some of his re- markable Cures of Deafness Among My Neigh- bors came to my notice, so I made up my mind to go to him. Asa resnit I can say I find myself bear- ing better in every way. “I noticed it pasticularly at the meeting of the Lincoln Post a few nights ago, when I could clearly understand ‘ything that was said. T attended the services at the rch, where Reverend Dr. Strick- treme rear of the church I plainiy heard every word of the sermon, I can hear the wagons on the street and the Mlerele bells without any trouble. Tam Sinproving right @ pecially at t there is a great deal of noise going on. really hear better there than In a quiet plac Patrick McGraw, 214 E st. s.w. (S35 years of age): ten years. I had been hard of heart ‘There were constant ringing and t sounds in my ears. I coud not hear a watch or | clock tick at all. I can now hear the clock tick and all ordinary conversation. I hear the street cars | passing, which I could not before. The singing | sounds have left my cars.”” George Cecil Hyde, “I could not Lear ord ce going to 3400 Prospect ry conversation. ring bas been ree emarkable change tn our bos” st his hearing ct us now. Am happy t is doing excellently. He hears me when him in a very ordinary tone.” Oscar Rundgvist, 21S Harrison » Anacostia, car inspector, B. and P. R. R.: could not bear ordinary conversation, I would have to ask questions repeatedly. ‘Ihere were whistling and ringing noises in uy ¢ I conid not hear the clock t Since tak ctor Me- Cex’s teatincnt Tam timp: T can hear the clock tick s improving in a remarkable way. Maurice Clagett, 215 A st. s.e.: a quarter of a century I had been Deaf. rothirg I could hear distinctly. Ordinary tien I could not bear at all. established a National Practice in W: went to him. in cow hear in my shington T left ear or- nary conve nd the hearing in ms ear i8 far bette deaf, Today 1 Mlodk away. I hear ®t sounds which I had not heard in years, Copies of Doctor McCoy's monograph on deafness will be mailed on app! cation to those directly interested in the cure of this condition, year THE ONLY TREATMENT AND CURE FOR CATARRH. A. 8. Johnson, 1240 9th St. N. W., the well-known heating and ventilating contractor, after @ course of treatment at Doctor McCoy's offices, ea “For 15 years I was a sufferer from catarrh, af- fecting my head, :hroat, bronchial tubes | and stomach, T could not digest my food properly. On getting up in the mornings I would have violent ks of belching, caused by gas on the ston Every- thing would Lave a bad tast was a constant dropping of mu “Intense pains of a nature Would sweep across any we the This condition w ast ti noon, y with great effort. badly affected, and action In my nose, aml a fullness in my ears, rly drive me crazy Was a sensation of weight dies and succeded only but another 4 make a long st a pew man aghly satisfied that Doctor McCoy's 1 have urine wit nded it in a similar w: aise recon who are alllicted DOCTOR McCOY CURING BRONCHIAL ASTHMA. A. 8. Dent, 1 rearly three ye asthmatic trou ysms of coughing tubes and shortness of Ws back of the breast bone. have no effect. There was a discharge of mucus. ‘Then there across the chest and dryness in my mes “| hitts, nec and parox- e wax a choking of the ath, A. S. Dent, 1124 B st. ne to Doctor Met chial Asthma. . testifies y's skill in curing scarcely 2 at times, Physiclans tald me I had asthm in weight. I was very get upstairs without great y's remarka and sta At times it on my storn, sein There were and sides. A’ U falloess, nav depression. I all aw id spirit. I could not with any comfe He is entirely cured I eat and McCOY SYSTEM OF MEDICINE 715 13th Street Northwest. Dr. J. Cresap McCoy, Dr. J. M. Cowden, Consulting Physicians. Office Hours, 9 to 12 a.m., 1 to 5 p.m, 6 a a >4+ p.m Copies of Docto McCoy’s monograph on catarrh will be mailed on cation to thos ly interest the cure of eatarrhal disease. silver crusade by Morrison's supporters in the southern part of the state. Many of them will be delegates. If ex-Manacer Hopkins should succeed in electing an anti- silver delegation from Chicago most of the additional 173 deiegates would come from Col. Morrison's county. They would be for sound money, yet before a platform was adopted an understanding would be reach- ed as to the presidential candidate who would receive the 48 votes of Illinois. If Mr. Cleveland is not a candidate, and if Mr. Whitney doesn’t want it, they would both probably stifle their dislike of Col. Morrison and advise that he be supported by his own state on a sound money plat- form. At least that is the undercurrent of talk. Se LAST APPROPRIATION BILL. It Passed the Senate Yesterday—Only Conference Reports Now. The Senate passed the general deficiency pill yesterday afternoon, and so cleared the calendar of the last of the regular appro- priation bills, leaving only the conference reports and miscellaneous bustness to be disposed of before adjournment. An amend- ment by Mr. Mitchell allowing $2,500 to Henry A. Du Pont of Delaware to cover ex- penses in prosecuting his claim to a seat in the Senate and a like amount to the counsel for the opposition was agreed to. Mr. Warren offered an amendment ap- propriating $1,027,000, covering 341 French spoliation claims reported from the Court of Claims. On a point of order which the chair submitted to the Senate it was de- cided that the claims were proper as an amendment—82 to 14. Mr. Harris offered an amendment to the amendment appro- priating $545,000 to 325 claimants under the Bowman act. Both series of claims, French spollation and Bowman act, were agreed to. Further amendments were made appro- priating $174,000 to pey the Chauteau claim, arising out of the building of a bat- tery in 1864; providing compensation to the Mexican boundary commission; appro- priating $73,000 for “claims. certified by the ‘Treasury Department;” appropriating $80,- 000 to the Portland Company for the con- struction of the boats Agawan and Pau- tuset; appropriating $77,000 to W. S. Grant for supplies furnished in 1860 and 1861. Senator Gallinger made an effort to se- cure the adoption of an amendment paying the claim of Emmert, Dunbar & Co. of $14,548, but the amendment was ruled out on a point of order made by Senator Hale. The bill for the payment of the claim has already passed the Senat KILLED nce PERSONS. Raid by Renegade Indians on a Mex- fean Ranch. Word has been brought to San Bernard- ino, Mexico, of an attack made by a band of renegade Indians upon the Lojos ranch, near that place. The Indians killed eigh- teen persons, several of them being women and children. ‘As scon as the news of the outrage reach- ed there a volunteer company of sixty men was formed, and started in pursuit of the Indians. MINISTER SMYTHE’S VIEWS. He Says None of West India’s G ernments Sympathize With Cul Mr. Smythe, United States minister to Hayti, who is now in this city on leave of absence, has caused a commotion in offi- cial and diplomatic circles by his radical and original views on situation in Cuba. “The governments and the people of the | West Indies,” says Mimster Smythe, “have | no sympathy whatever for the Cubans; nor can they understand the feeling in favor of the insurgents which cbtains in the United States, and whtch is expressed in the resolutions passed by Congress. It is thelr hope and belief that Spain wilb suppress the rebellion. It is well that we have at the head of our government an executive who stands like a bulwark against popular clamor. The President knows the facts of the Cuban situation, and hence he has resisted the influence which has been brought to bear upon him in favor of the recognition of the insurgents. Congress did not, or it would never have passed such resolutions. And the country Coes not, for if it did there would be a cessation of the expression of sentimental enthusiasm for rebels who have no claim to consideration at the hands of this or any cther govern- ment. “The men engaged in the rebellion are principally negroes, brigands, revolution- ists, adventurers and others of that ilk. I believe that Spain will crush the rebel- lion. The revolutionists, I may say, are fighting simply that they may loot the is- land. There is only one thing that can prevent Spanish victory, and that is the forcible intervention of some other power. From Hayti no expeditions in behalf of the Cubans have set forth, nor so far as I can learn is there filibustering from Santo Domingo. I know that the Dominican gov- ernment is opposed to filibustering, and is sparing no effort to prevent it. I may add that all the West Indian governments are opposed to the recognition of the Cubans. No intelligent person in the West, Indies has sympathy for the Cuban cause. Bad Condition of Buildings. Secretary Herbert has sent to the Senate a report of a-board appointed to examine and report upon the present state of the grounds and buildings and upon the sani- tary condition of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. The board finds that the pres- ent buildings, with few exceptions, are in very bad condition, and do not warrant the expense of the extensive repairs that would be needed to render them safe and service- ve able. An estimate of $365,000 is made for imprevements. —————————_e+ ____. Portraits of Ex-Speakers. Representative Walsh of New York has Introduced a resolution authorizing L. P. Spinner of Washington, D. C., to paint twenty portraits of ex-Speakers of the House of Representatives, to be substitut- ed for tLe craven portraits now hanging in the House lobby. FREE ALCOHOL CLAUSE. Bill for Its Repeal Considered in the Houxe. After finishing the Di ict bu: ss yes- terday the House took up the considera- tion of the bill to repeal the clause in the existing tariff law providing for free alco- hol for use in the aris and mant The compromise proposition devised Mr. Russell of Connecticut, and insisted upon by the friends of free alconol (for the appointment of a joint commission to ex- amine all questions relating to free aicohol and report at the t session next De- cember), was offered as an amendment to the bill. Mr. Hill of Connecticut, who voiced their sentiments, favored a bill which would perfect the provision instead of one fcr Its rep He characterized the bill presented by the ways and means committee as a surrender to a democratic administratton. : Mr. Evans of Kentucky, who had charge of the measure, argued that any sort of a free alcohol provision would open the way for fraud on the government, but that pending a complete re as authorized by the commission, the « pro- vision, which was piling ainst e rate of $30,000 a a the government at day, should be repe: Mr. Russell of Connecticut gave 2 reluc- tant assent to the bill as {t was proposed to amend it. The bill was not concluded. The report of the elections committee In the Martin-Lockhart contested election case was presented. It favors the contest- ulist. CZAR SW RS ALLEGIANCE. Consecration of the New Imperial Standard at the Kremlin. The Grand Duke Vladimir of Russia Sun- day at Moscow, in behalf of the czar, commanded the grand church parade of troops. The consecration of the new im- perial standard, in the presence of the czar end czarina, the grand dukes and foreign princes and the general staff, was perform- ed in the afternoon in the throne room, to- gether with a display of the banners and arms of all the territories and the his- toric events of the empire in the palace armories, accompanied by interesting cere- montes. The consecration occurred at the Novaia Orujeinala palace within the Krem- lin. Part of the ceremony was the swear- ing of allegiance by the czar to the colors. The higher clergy, arrayed in sumptuous eanonicals, took part in the ceremony. ‘After it was concluded, the czar and czarina returned to the Alexandrinsky pal- ace, where the imperial pair pass the period intervening before the coronation at thoir devotions. -se0- Essex Leaves Southampton. The United States training ship Esser started from Southampton, England, for Havre, France, yesterday morning.