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Drink your “good healths” with HIRES Rootbeer—it’s good heakh itself. ‘A 25c. package makes 5 gallons. Sold everywhere. ee SSS SPAIN APPREHENSIVE. Fearing War the Spanish Government Buys Ganboats. A dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Madrid says: “The platform adopted in St. Louis causes great uneasiness in Spain, and it is feared that a conflict with the United States has now almost a fixed date. The government has hastened to buy two 14,000 ton ironclads at Genoa, whose price, a few days ago, was thought to be excesssive. A great part of the loan of 100,000,000 placetas, made by Rothschild on the Almaden quicksilver mines, will prob- ably be immediately applied to such war- ships as are now for sale.~The govern- ment, responding to the undoubted national sentiment, and trusting probably to the help of other powers, seems resolved to resist American impositions.” EB J + : Pee 4 oon 5 3 gz ("3 d ? 8 B : | ? . : 5 A PERE? Pal alabaster oe OG ee eee i ee THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1896-TWELVE PAGES. GOLD BUGLE BLAST W. 0. Whitney Warns Democrats on the Silver Issue. DECLARES HE IS NOT A CANDIDATE Predicts Defeat if the Chicago Convention Goes for Silver. WHAT MAY HAPPEN William C. Whitney hes made public a statement in which he defines the political situation, makes his position clear as re- gards his decision to remain in this country instead of going to Europe and concludes by saying that he is not a presidential pos- sibility; that he “would not run if nom- inated and would not serve if elected.” In his statement Mr. Whitney say: “I find it necessary to make a public statement embodying my views on the sit- William C. Whitney. uation, to correct misconceytions and save time now occupied in answering questions. “Far too much importance has been at- tached to my-decision to go to the Chicago convention. “I have been practically out of politics for four years and there are now many eastern democrats who can do much more than I can for the party. I shall not assume any position of leadership. My decision to stay was simply based on the duty of every person who believes In the party for its principles to stay by and lend his aid and take his chances when the great crisis is upon the democratic party. Fundamental differences of principle exist inside the par- ty, marked almost by sectional lines. Party Disruption Feared. “The great question to my mind is wheth- er the party meets in convention now as in 1860, with issues and differences that are for the moment irrecencilable. For the past fifteen years leaders of public opinion in the south and west have been advocating as the great remedy for existing ills the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, with or without the co-operation of other nations. “It has come to be believed in there quite generally and conscientiously. A large majority of the delegates to the coming emocratic convention heve been elected by the people for the purpcse of incorporating that doctrine into the platform of the dem- ocratic party. “Our people, on the other hand, entirely disagree with these vicws and believe al- most universally that it will bring general ruin to the business and prosperity of the country. It is deemed a new doctrine when Proposed to be incorporated into the plat- form of the national democracy. It is true that in no previous platform of the party can it specifically be found. Consequently no party cbligations heretofore assumed oblige them to subscribe to it. Under these circumstances, if the results of the demo- eratic convention should be to establish the issue of this campaign the free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, independent of other nations, in the intensity of feeling likely to arise, it is to be seriously appre- hended that a disruption of the democratic party might occur. Certainly no substan- tial following could be secured for the declaration among eastern democrats. They might not vote the republican ticket for other reasons (believing that the repub- lican party stands for other issues that are detrimental to the country), but the dem- ccrats in the east would not, in my opinion, vote fcr it. Question of Ability. “This movement for free coinage pur- ports to have for its object the establish- ment and maintenance of gold and silver as the money of the country, upon equal terms with each other, and at a parity of purchasing power. If, by the proposed Measure, that object could be secured, there would be no substantial disagree- ment in the party. Every national demo- cratic platform that has heretofore spoken upon the subject has declared for both gold and silver money. It is our traditional Policy. But the maintenance of the double standard at the present time is not a question of desire, it is a question of abiti- ty. The commercial value of silver has de- clined greatly in the markets of the world. “Whatever the causes are and whoever is to blame, the fact is that silver has de- clined, and free coinage now at 16 to 1 is the same as our offering for all the silver in the world about twice what it is selling for in the market. International exchanges have to be paid in gold. And it would seem plain that if we, under these conditions, open our mints to the free coinage of silver and gold at a ratio of comparative value which is largely at variance with the commercial value of the two metals, we must take the entire silver surplus ourselves, maintain its parity with gold, or else we shall go 10 @ silver basis. Internatio al Agreement. “France, in 1873, closed her mints against silver and abandoned this experiment, deeming herself unequal to the task alone, and at that time it was much less difficult, for silver was then at par with gold at the ratio in use, and even England’s mints in India were open to the free coinage of sil- ver. If the experiment of maintaining the Parity of the two metals at a coinage Standard was difficult then, it would see to be positively hopeless now, without in- ternational agreement. Germany, France, Belgium, Italy and Austria believe in a double standard, and desire to establish it, but no one, two or three of them deem enemsel yes: oe te maintain the double standard, even with the co-operation of il United States. ie ee “There has never been a time when the prospects of international action favorable to the joint standard were at all as prom- ising as at the present moment. But an ill-advised, unsuccessful attempt here would discredit the cause the world over. “From the discussion of the last twenty years it has come to pass that among the persons in Eurcpe who are trained, recog- nized scientists upon monetary and eco- nomic questions, scarcely one is not at the present moment advocating the desirability of the joint standard as the real solu- tion of the monetary difficulties of the world. This includes every professor en- gaged in teaching or lecturing on these sub- jects in the universities of Great Britain. They are agreed upon the desirability of it, and that it is entirely practicable, if es- tablished and maintained by agreement of the principal commercial nations. It would be expected that with such a general con- census of scientific opinion as is to be found abroad upon this subject. it would come rapidly to be the generally received opinion of the nations to be affected by a wise settlement of the problem. Nations Rendy for Silver. “At the present moment Germany, Frence, Italy, Austria, Holland, Belgium and the United States wish to co-operate for the establishment and maintenance of the joint standard by international agreement, and (a most important cir- cumstance), Great Britain has recently, within three months, in fact, made a most important concession. She has sald: ‘We will do for you as much as you can do for yourself. We will make this great contribution to a bimetallic system. We will go back upon deliberately arranged methods of providing a currency for In- dia. We will Feopen the patie mints, We will engage that they shall be kept open, and we shall therefore provide for a free coinage of silver within, the limits of the British.empire, fora population, greater in number than theggpulations of Ger- many, France and America put together.’ “Into this long, andl nBw just about to be successful, struggle for the establishment of the joint standord, jt is proposed that we should interven F- assuming to es- tablish it alone. Aggins§ this proposed ac- tion on our part these earnest believers in, and workers for, theccause strenuously protest. They say *‘u# you cannot suc- ceed, and your failure, will discredit the cause. ea “The same feeling gf Jitdisposition to com- promise with the matter for votes or any- thing else is as activé'end dominant in our party as it was foufid”in the republican, when it bore down and overpowered the McKinley machine. “Personally, it is my opinion if the democratic party goes on that platform at this time they will meet the most disastrous @eféat that any party has ever had in this country. His Own Candidacy. “It ought not to be necessary for me to say anything of a personal nature. I find myself, however, spoken of here and there as a possible candidaté—not very seriously or prominently—but sufficiently to attract attention, if I should fail to notice it. It Sometimes affects one’s influence in cases like the present. I have no personal motive in entering this fight. I have said that I would not be a candidate. 1 will add, copy- ing the emphatic language once used ‘by the late General Sherman (1 think I remember it correctly), ‘I will not run if nominated, nor serve if elected.’ “1 am not foolish enough to suppose that any eastern man could be nominated by this convention, much less that I could. I sym- | pathize thoroughly with the feeling in the south that has caused this uprising, and will find its expression at Chicago, but as to the principle brought forth, and the issues being framed, I entirely disagree. (Signed) "WILLIAM C. WHITNEY.” Comnient on the Letter. Wharton Barker, commenting on Mr. Whitney's letter, says, in the New York Journal: “No gold demccrat can either be nomi- nated cr elected. Mr. Whitney speaks for the money cliques, whose aim has been to make the United States subservient to Great Britain, and his advice will neither be usked nor heeded by the bimetallists in the democratic party, who will control the Chicago convertion. “I have no doubt bimetallists clearly out- number sirgle gold standard men in the great central states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Hilinois, as well as in the south and west. I belleve the Chicago convention, controlled as it will be by pa- triotic demoerzts and bimetalists, resolved on freeing America from subserviency to foreign money cliques and our producing classes from the tkraldom of virtual slav- ery, will arise abcve partisanship and act, not as a democratic cenvention, but as a convention representing the bimetallists of all parties, and that they will nominate a presidential candidate acceptable to all bi- metallists. “The fight is not sectional. It is a strug- gle between those who mean America shail have financial and industrial, as well as political, independence on the one hand, and those money cliques, whose profit is in forcing our country deeper and deeper into debt to Great Britain, on the other.” Senator Peffer says: “I think Mr. Whit- ney wise in declining a nomination. This is not a democratic year. If all friends of silver unite in the campaign they can name the next President. As to the success of the silver cause ruining the country, that fs nonsense. We are ail Americans. Senator John P. Jones says: “In view of Mr. Whitney's figures, it was to be expect- ed ‘that he: would make -a statement. He wants the public to know in advance that his proposed visit to Chicago is hopeless. I have the greatest respsct for Mr. Whit- ney, und I regret he has been forced into his present position. Jt was not his ight.” ~~ ee SENATOR TELLER’S POSITION, Mr, Dubois Tells Why’ the Democrats Should Nominate Him. Senator Fred. Dubais and Senator Teller had a long conferenée in St. Louis Satur- Gay, but neither would state after the con- ference what its purpose was. This was the only new develypmént in the silver situation. ‘ In discussing the genetal situation, how- ever, Senator Dubois ‘spoke with frankness. Said Senator Dubois: «The democrats now have an opportunity to redeem the pledges which they, have been making to the people for so many years. We offer them Senator Teller:in the utmost good faith. The fight for currency reform can- not be won this year with anybody else.” FOUGHT A DUEL. Chicago Brothers Quarreled Over Their Brecd of Game Chickens. Eugene and Emmet Shedd, brothers, fought a.duel at Chicago last evening. The latter was shot in the left breast and will die. They live in adjoining houses on Elgin Street. Both are teamsters and are mar- ried. For some time past there has been a rivalry between them as to who raised the best breed of game chickens, and a re- newed discussion was the subject that led to the duel. : ——+0-. Lynched by Mounted Men, — Near Hartsell, Morgan county, Ala., Fri- day night, Mary, the nine-year-old daugh- ter of Gwinn Puckett, a well-known farmer, while passing from the kitchen to her mother’s room, was seized by Leon Orr, a negro farra laborer, and spirited away to the woods. Her father found her half an hour later in an unconscious condition, having been brutally assaulted by the negro. Fearing violence the sheriff hid the negro in the court house. At 2 o'clock yester- day morning a mounted mob of fifty mask- ed men compelled the sheriff to surrender the negro at the point of guns. Orr was taken back to the scene of his crime, strapped to the back of a horse. After confessing his crime and being allowed one minute in which to pray, he was hanged and then riddled with bullets. Physicians Say the girl will die from her injuries. ie ae ee Elevated Train Derailed. A west-bound train on the Lake street elevated road in Chicago Saturday ran into an open switch near the kockwell street station today and was derailed. The mo- ter went completely off the tracks and Plunged to the ground benath, another car being about equally balanced over the side of the elevated structure, the motor being held on end by the coupling. M. G. John- son, the motorman was fatally injured. John Apger and James A. Buggie, passen- gers, were injured, but not seriously. One or two ochers were badly bruised. All the injured were in the motor car. There was great excitement among the Passengers in the cther coaches, but all made a successful scramble for safety. Peculiar Trolley Accident. Over twenty passengers én two open trolley cars were injured last night in a peculiar accident in Frankford,.a; suburb of Phila- delphia. One of thd cars was returning from and the other, gojng to a near-by pleasure park. They ran On parallel tracks. Both were so crowded that many of the passengers stood on the sideway foot boards, and when the tars attempted to Pass each other at a,yapid rate of speed a jam resulted. Nine of the passengers were internally injured and were taken to hos- pitals, but it is not thought that any fatal- ities will follow. : ——__- Caught by Decoy Letters. Post Office Inspecfor Gregory has cap- tured at Durham, NoC.,-a mail thief who has been carrying op fgr months past a systematic robbery gf the large mail re- ceived by the Blackwell Pobacco Company. Many mail clerks were shadowed and some of them were searched for the decoy let- ters sent out by the inspector. David Lane, a colored messenger employed by tha Black- well Company, was finally spotted as the thief. When arrested he had fifty-eight of the marked dollar bills in his possession, all of which he had gotten from one mail. eS SOE Club House Keeper Killed. Forsythe, Ind., has a murder sensation with all the attendant mystery surrounding it that baffles the police. Martin Clihal, keeper of the Chicago Outing Club House, was the victim, and the object was robbery. The police are proceeding on the theory that the murder was the work of tramps. The murdered man’s home was formerly in Cleveland, where he leaves a wife and family of grown up children, ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS They Favor Silver and Want Either Boies or Teller for President. STEVENSON AND MORRISON OUT OF It Gov. Altgeld Likes Teller and Will Give Him a Fair Field. SILVER THE ISSUE Special Correspondence of Thg Evening Star. PEORIA, IIL, June 20, 1896. In a week of democratic state conven- tions Illinois takes the lead. If the plans of Gov. Altgeld and his Meutenants do not miscarry, the state convention, which meets here Tuesday, will act in a way to keep attention focussed on the delegation from the time it is selected until the last ballot Is taken in the national convention, Gov. Altgeld is a spectacular leader. He loves tu appear before the footlights, but he does not beliéve in burning all his red fire at once. Whatever the Illinois conven- tion may do it will not bow itself out of the public mind. The controi of the free silver element is absolute. Out of 1,362 delegates there may be 100 gold advocates, with possibly an- other 100 who would consent to a mild declaragion for silver and a platform which would enable all democrats to support the ticket to be nominated at Chicago. But the remainder are for free, unlimited and independent cvinage of silver. Outside of the Chicago delegation most of the dele- gates were instructed for a ratio of 16 to 1. Since the republican national conven- tion declared so unequivocally for gold, the issue has been accentuated. John R. Tan- rer, the republican candidate for governor, is a strong gold inan, and the aim of the democratic managers in the nomination of Goy. Aitgeld on a free silver platform is to raw the financial line sharply in both state and national campaign: Not Enough for a Contest. The gold standard democrats will not be much in evidence at any stage of the pro- ceedings. A few weeks ago they planned to put up a contest which could be carried from the state to the national convention. The lack of support developed in the rank and file of the party cable.. The other da 3 the last one in which a stand had been made against the silverites, resolved in favor of silver at 16 to 1. Rock Island is the home of ex-Congressman and National Committeman Ben Cable, who directed the fight in person. The Chicago sound money democrats nominated a county ticket and selected men to go to Peoria and protest against free silver, but they will not make a contest for representation. They have nothing on which it can be bi ‘The Illinois convention will instruct its forty-eight delegates to Chicago to vote as a unit for free coinage, and Gov. Altgeld will head the delegation, On this point the position is so clear that the chief interest centers in the candidate: Frien is of ex-Gov. Boies have already ‘TS are temporarily transferred Mr. Bland _h: some Mi: uri s on the skirmish line, and h own convention ha not kept Gov. Matthews from sparing a few of his advis who are | not needed in Indi and who may be use- ful in Mlinois. Lastly, the free silver re- publicans, who have nominated Senator | Teller provisionaliy, have a representat on the ground. 8 Altgeld. This is a condition which appeals strongly to Gov. Altgeld'’s love of spectacular dis- plays in polit It may he taken for grant- ed that he will not destroy the effect hy permitting the state convention to In. t the delegates to Chicago In reference to can- | didates or even to indicate a preference. “Buch” Henrichsen, chairmen of the state committee, has been credited with making a deal with the lowa suvporters of Boies, but he never went that far. Boies was Weeks ago given to understand that the Illinois silver democrats thought well of his candidacy, yet th as nothing that could be construed as a pledge of support. Such a pledge would have destroyed the end for which the free silver leaders in Illinois Were shaping the movement which was to make the delegation a determining factor in the convention. Without in any manner being committed to Teller, the circumstances are such that the Colorado Senator comes as near suit- ing Gov. Altgeld as the candidates who have been in the field for months. Altgeld cares nothing for party traditions and shares none of the prejudices of the old-time demo- crats against taking a candidate who does not profess to be a democrat. He has never paid much heed to the tariff, and in the governor's eyes Teller’s protec. tion principles would be no bar to nominat- ing him on a moderate tariff plank, with free silver as the dominant issue. ‘This dces not mean that Altgeld is likely in the end te exert his influence in behalf of the scheme to have Teller nominated by the Chicago convention, but he will insist that the propo- sition be treated with respect, and that no course be adopted which would put up the bars against Teller. Col. Morrison Out of It. The fact that Col. Wm. R. Mcrrison will rot come before the demcerats of his own ; state for indorsement is already known in Washington as well as in Illinois. It is an- ether chapter in the sturdy colonel’s disap- pointed political ambition and his unwiil- lingness to place expediency above pria- ciple. The telegram to a Springfield friend, in which Colonel Morrison says that as the democrats favor free and unlimited coinage, and as he does not favor it, he is not the candidate for the occasion, states the case accurately, so far as his own state is concerned. His public declaration ends negotiations which were under way to mor erate the free silver zeal of the democrati and to give Colonel Morrison the support of lilinois on a conservative silver platform, After it became clear that Altgeld and the silverites really represented the democratic sentiment of the state, ex-Congressman Forman went to Chicago to protest against the plan of the sound money democrats to bolt. It was understood that Gov. Altgeld looked with a more friendly eye on Mor- rison and was inclined to modify the ex- treme silver position. But the two men have nothing in common and it was im- possible for them to act in harmony. More- over, the governor himself could not have moderated the silver sentiment which he had helped to create. Hence, the end of Colonel Morrison's candidacy.’ The colonel has many old-time friends and supporters among the delegates; yet, if a test question arose, they would prove to be in an insiz- nificant minority. So the test will be avoid- Notwithstanding the reports of a revival of Stevenson sentiment in ‘Washington, the Vice President is no better off at home than Cclonel Morrison. The free silver leaders say with some tartness that the democratic Senators who are in the movement think more of their personal friendship than they do of silver. It is apparent that few of the delegates now gathering in Peoria are thinking of Gen. Stevenson. ‘They like him and are ready to believe that he is friendly to their cause; yet their minds are on can- didates whose identification with free silver 1s positive enough to be known all over the country. The probabilities, as foreshadow- ed by the state convention, are against the Illinois democrats putting forward a candi- date of their own at the Chicago conven- tion. SILVER VICTORY CONCEDED. Lenders Are Turning Their Attention Now to Available Candidates. Special Correspordence of The Evening Star. CHICAGO, IIL, June 20, 1896. Free silver’s victory at the democratic national convention being conceded on all hands, the Illinois leaders in the movement are turning their attention to candidates. They have a notion that the prairie state may put itself in a position to name the man. Its forty-eight votes cast as a unit, which will be done, will be a strong factor fer reasons which are easily understood. New York and Pennsylvania being for the gold standard, are not expected to take a share of the responsibility of helping to nominate a silverite. Iowa and Indiana are tied up to Boies and Matthews, respectively. Ohio, which is next to Illinois in voting aquarters in Chicago, but the |., i1 The highest claim for other tobaccos is ‘‘Just as good as Durham.” Every old smoker knows there is none just as good as BULL DURHAM Smoking Tobacco Yon will find one cou inside each two ounce bag, and two cou- Pons inside each four ounce bag of Blackwell’s Durham. Buy a bag of this ccle- brated tobacco and read the coupon—which gives a list of valuable presents and how strength, is not looked upon us lik have u united delegation, cither for ex-Gov. Campbell or for some one outside the state. This leaves Ilinois holding the vantage of the position. With such avaUable material es Vice President Stevenson and Col. W. R. Mor- rison, it may seem strange that the vote of the Illinois delegation is likely tu go to seme one else. A number of county con- ventions, while declaring for free silver at 16 to 1, have at the came time indorsed Morrison for President. Secretary Nelson of the state central committee, who has been active in the silver movement, is also gdvocating Morrison. Mr. Nelson insists that the interstate commerce commission- er’s views are elastic cnough to suit the masses of the party. Against tis talk is put the declaration of ex-Congressman Ben Cabie, that Morrison is the logical candi- date ‘of the conservative democrats who are trying to keep the party frem going wild on silver. The exact truth about the situation is that, in spite of Gov. Altgeld’s intluence, Morrison will have enough friends in the State convention to interfere with any plan for indorsing the canuidate of another state, if such action is proposed. They will likewise be strong enough to prevent an indorsement of Vice President Steven- son. Like their leader, they alw: cht, and being in a minority does not lessen their combativeness. It is not the program, however, of the Illinois delegation to clere a preference for a presidential candi- e. This would weaken its position when the national convention meets. Gov. Al geld intends to have it instructed for free silver and to observe the unit rule in all matters, and will stop there, after making sure that he has a safe majority of the ¢ egates. In Altgeld’s opinion neither has a claim on th? support of the silver democrats in Illinois. The test was put to them both last October, when the struggle was made to €lect_ ex-Congressman_ Lane centh district on a free silver p Morrison was more proncunced than G: Stevenson in refusing to be drawn into ment of free silver, but the Vic ident eluded all efforts to secure a ction from him. If he had taken a and since the pres tation be- gan, the silver leaders would probably have forgi his previous silence. But the talk heard from the men who echo Gov. Alizeld’ views is that they are still in the ¢ cerning Gen. Stevenson's cenvictions. are not with the 5 surances of democratic Senetors ington that he question of the day. The silver campaign in the west has been too robust and ager for {ts eham- piens to be ple ion has by mocracy, but they are not thinkin as the candidate to lead an awake: Lost. Should a number of the southern tates unite on Gen. Stevenson as the most sutisfactory candidate, it fs not likely that Iilinois would be ungracious enough to re- fuse him her support, but it is only un such circumstances that he ean count on getting it. The silver leaders seem to think that the southern states will not be guided in this matter by their representatives in the Senate. The signs are unmistakable in Illinois that ex-Governor Boles of Iowa is the favorite of the men who are most influen- ial in the councils of the silver democrats, while he is well thought of by the rank and file. A few counties have passed resolu- tions in favor of Mr. Bland, but these are not taken very seriously. Boles fills the measure of what is wanted better than any one else. When the In- diana supporters of Governor Matthews found there was nothing to do except to float with the silver tide, they made inqui- ries whether Mlinois was already tied up to a favorite son of its own or to Boies in such & way as to shut Matthews out from the prospect of support. They were assured that no understanding had been reached with Boies, and no deal made. This was true enough, for the silver leaders were content to drift. But the drift is so clearly toward the Iowa ex-governor that unless there is an uniooked for change the Illinois delegation bids fair to drift right alongside the Boies craft. A southern man for Vice President is in everybody's mind. Having gotten control of everything in s‘ght Governor Altgeld and his lieutenants are showing so much conservatism that some of the radical silver men are protest- ing. The governor adheres to the plan of not insisting on the ratio of 16 to 1. Free coinage of gold and silver is the way he and his supporters put it. Since the elec- tion in Oregen the populists are beginning to talk of not fusing with the free silver democrats on any proposition. Governor Altgeld, however, does not let the fears of the radical silver men worry him. There is method in his conservatism, He is skillfully undermining the bolt of the sound money democrats. These are still nding in their purpose. Th have own convention and send a contesting delegation to the national convention. 1 primaries for this purpose are aire ied. The question is what will hap) after their delegates are thrown ou Franklin MacVeagh and others are arguine that sound money democrats Will have a county, state and national ticket of their own. Ex-Mayor Hopkins and ctkers cf practical experience in politics are not quite so sure about it. The present tendency among the sound mcney democrats is to support the repub- lican_ tick They are encouraged in this attitude by John R. Tanner, the republican cendidate for governor. Mr. Tanner is an out-and-out gold standard man. He be- eves that he can beat Governor Altgeld running on a free silver platform by 150,000 majority. Other republicans do not agree with him as to the size of the majority, but they are quite willing to join the support of gold standard democrats by making the issue as sharp as possible. The predominant sentiment among the Illinois republicans is so overwhelming for the restoration of the Mckinley tariff that they are quite willing to accept an extreme gold standard platform, provided only that the tari is kept in the foreground. With this feeling so strong the sound money democrats will be encouraged to support the republican ticket rather than to put up didates of their own. It will surpri no one if Franklin MacVeagh and his sociates at some stage of the campaign re- consider their purpose of naming a sound Troney ticket and simply advise gold demo- crats to vote for the republican ticket. aS Montana Democrats. The Montara democratic state conven- tion met at Butte Saturday. M. H. Parker of Jefferson county was chosen temporary chairman and Sydney Fox of Sweet Grass temporary secretary. The chairman in a speech said the one great issue before ihe people was free and unlim- ited coinage of silver at the ration of 16 to 1. Referring to the bolt of silver dele- gates at the St. Louis convention, he said: “This action of men who resented the at- tempi to saddle a gold standard on them will meet with approval of the people.” After appointing the committees, a re- cess was taken to 3 o'clock to give them time to do their work and to await the ar- rival of some delegates delayed by wash- outs on the railroads. ———= BALL'S HAIR RENEWER CURES DANDRUFF and sal Sy = 2 baldoese where the glands whic! roots of the hair are not closed up. AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN A Sad Drowning in the River Yesterday Evening. A Rod and Gun Club With a Hand« somely Fittted House Boat —Other Notes, Wilbert Handey, a young colored man, Was drowned yesterday evening about 7:30 o'clock in the Potomac river, off 30th sireet. He was one of a crowd of colored youths who were enjoying a swim, most of whom were under the influence of liquor. The party were swimming from Sims’ wharf, and at the time of the drowning Handey was some distance out in the river, with no ecmpanions around him. Those near the shore heard him shout for help, and some on the wharf saw him struggling, but before assistance arrived he went down for good. The water at the pla ing occurred is very de the bottom was difficult tempts to rec given police. Handey was about twenty-two years of age and an orphan, being reared by @ man named Murphy, who lives on Olive street, between Zith and 2th streets. He was emple one of the wagons of the Connecticut Pie Company, and was a hard-working lad. His clothes were pick- ed up by his friends and turned over to his foster fat Rod and Gun Clad. The West End Rod and home yesterday to its friends, the occasion being the occupancy of their new and splen- did floating club house, which was mvored at the foot of 82d street in the P. The club was organized in the fore part of Febru and designs made for a floating bh house, in which the club could take Sin quest of fishing or hunting, on the boat was comr ed, and the where the drown- Pp, and diving for After some at- ver the body the task was up, and the matter reported to the in Club was at nac, club as completed is very The exterior, though plain in ap- . s painted nicely, and the interior is fitted up in excellent design. The boat is ty feet long, with a beam of fourteen » and the main room is forty feet long, with a set of portieres running across, di- viding the space into two rooms. At one end is a kitchen, fitted out for service, and at the other end a cold storage room and a toilet room. The officers of the club are: John McKen- ha, president; John Cole treasurer, and Henry Weaver, sec: . The mem bership is limited to twelve, and is, in addi- tion to the above-name s "follow Messrs. Henry Haneke, Och hausen, E. W. Brown, Frank Ash, Walter Magruder, Harry Albrecht, Charles Hughes and John Franke. The club house will be towed in the canal during the week, and next Sunday the initial trip will be made te Great Falls, where the day will be spent ifs fishing. High Mass, The solemn Ligh mass yesterday at Trine ity Catholic Church was unusually well at- tended, the large church being crowded. The oocesion was the celebration of the first mass of the newly ordained priest, Rev. Martin O'Donnoghue, a Georgetown j Boy who has a host of fricnds. Rew Father O'Domucghue was the celebrangy Rev. Father William J. Scanian, S.J., dea- con; Rev. Father Frye of the Baltimore Seminary, subdeacon, and Rev. Father Gloyd, pastor of St. Patrick’s Church, as- sistant subdeacon. In addition to thest, there were on the altar Rev. Father O'Con- rell, assistant pastor of St. Stephen's Church; twenty young seminarians and a tull number of sanctuary boys, under Mr. Patrick Ford. The sermon was delivered by Rev. J. Havens Richards, rector of Georgetown University, and his address was excellent. His delive was good, is enunciation clear and his flow of words remarkable. The sical program, under Prof, A’ mance G aprechi, Was excellent. Gounod’ Was sung by an avemented with Mozart’s Kyrie, The solos were inity Church ry quiet manner. have been rnoon, at which there was Heretofore spe held in the afte ises a distribution of medals and premiums to the deserving scholars, but this year was an exception to the custom. The school commenced at the usual time yx and just before the ma | Father Scanlan maue a short address, the closing of the school for He ing stated that owing to the uon of affair: io: of Rev. Father Rocco! would be given this yea’ however, he stated’ awarded. The reopening of the will probably occur some time in Sepicm- ber. uns by tled condi- the tr 0 premiu Notes, Miss Victoria Yenney is visiting Miss Jennie Waddey of 3222 O street. Mr. Jesse A, Cornwell, a brother to Mr. Charles Cornwell, the well-known street grocer, died Friday evening at his residence near Great Falls, funeral was held yesterday afternoon. Miss Ann E. Probey, the daughter of the late Thomas Probey, died Saturday, after la shert filress. Her funeral was held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the 1 r brother, Mr. James K. being held at Trinity Church, —— To Locate Range Finders. Boards of officers have been appointed to meet at the several stations designated, for the purpose of selecting sites for the loca- tion of the Lewis range finders, viz: At Fort Adams, R. 1.: Colonel Richard Lodor, 2d Artillery; Major D. W. Lock- wood, Corps of Engineers, and Capt. Frank E. Hobbs, Ordnance Department. ‘At Fort Monroe, Va.: Coionel Royal ‘T. Frank, Ist Artillery; Coionel Peter Hains, Corps of Engineers, and Lieutenant Celonel William A. Marye, Ordnance De- partment. At the Presidio of San Francisco, Cal Colonel William M. Graham, Sth Artiller; Colonel Charies R. Suter, Corps of Engi eers, and First Lieutenant Ormond M. Li sak, Ordnance Department. ————2____ Butchers in Earnest. The butchers of Omaha, Kansas City and Sioux City held a competition match at Council Biuffs yesterday, at which several thousand persons attended. The affair cul- minated in a riot, and the entire police force was required to quell the affair. Thomas Brown was fatally stabbed, Frank Kane dangerously hurt, and probably twa Gozen more or less injured,