Evening Star Newspaper, July 18, 1896, Page 10

10 ——— THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. + RAILROAD CIRCLES Progress of the Rate War to Southern Points. ELECTRICITY ON STEAM RAILROADS Pennsylvania Line Making Some Interesting Calculations. CHICAGO'S ELEVATED SYSTEM ee. == The Southern Railway Company has scored the first inning—and a very im- portant one at that—in the rate war be- tween the Seaboard Air Line and itself, and in consequence the Seabeard. has al- ready withdrawn its new schedule, which involved a reduction of 331-3 per cent In the rate from Boston, New York and Phil- adelphia to southern points. The combined action of the steamship Ines from the three eastern cities of the Atlantic seaboard defeated the Seaboard’s purpose by refusing to recognize the cut tariif or handle any freight under the Gecision was communicated to the Seabcard, and it decided to withdraw the New York, Boston and Philadelphia re- duced rates for the present. The reduced from Baltimore, which have already gone into effect, . however, prevail. it is stated by the Seaboard’ people that there will be no withdrawal of the new schedule of passenger fares from the east, Baltimore and this city to southern points, und the rates, which in many instances are Go per cent below the former rates, will be still further reduced if the new rates are t. ge what action the Southern will take fs as yet a question. The reason why the Water connections of the Seaboard refused to recognize their reduced tariff was that they were members of the Southern States Freight Association, and were bound by its fixed rates and rules. ed among railroad men that will become general, and that ion looking toward the Seaboard’s any ac cuts will have to be taken by the associa- tion. The Seaboard Air Line offictais say they are in the fight to remain, and that intend to make matters very inter- « for all parties concerned. Big Electric Roads. prominent official of the Pennsylvania Ratlroad Company has been estimating the 1 cost of installing the road with an 1 equipment, and he has arrived clusion that if the change were made it would result in a saving in operat- 's of 16.4 per cent annually. thods were used to determine the ot power required: First, by taking 1 r of miles run per year by i reducing to an hourly traffic, by the power required per € a_total of 140,250 horse power uired. Second, by taking the yearly movement of freight and passengers and reducing it to an hourly basis, with allowances. This method resulted horse power required. Third, by he number of locomotives and mul- by the average power developed ach. making proper allowance for en- gave a result of 134,- power required, and, fourth, by the coal consumption and assum- certain consi yer horse power 3 horse power . being the largest, and, sbably the most accurate, taken as a basi per cent w: w for ir ed traffic at cer asons of the year, and again 25 per cent to cover the heaviest demands during ay at such times. The grand total was this was the t estimated a5 required delivered on . It was considered necessary to *”) horse power in the stations. plan of estimate then divides the sixty sections of forty-five miles 1 gives each section a power plant » horse power. The total cost for Stations is given at $37,620,000. of 1.4") motors to take the place 1.500 engines was added, and the cost the entire electric equipment of the m amounts to $43,620,000, The cost for the operation of this plant Was given at $2,724,800, and subtracting this from the saving in operating expenses, which was given at $7,606,442.24, the net annual saving would be $4,851,642. more than 11 per cent on the total the installation. Continuing, the official said: “If the claims made, as the result of these experiments, are well founded, elec- tricity would prove cheaper and ‘safer, would increase the comfort of passengers and render more rapid transit possible. Such being the case, why should it not supersede steam? Jf railroad managers Were convinced that these claims are true @ transformation of their lines would at once be undertaken, but they are not con- vir and will not be until they learn the facts In thelr own way, and that may well be by going slowly’ and trying a branch road here and another there, until they have obtained a sufficient amount of a from actual experience to dispel all Dt. “When that point Is reached the trans- formation will be rapid and the complete invasion of the steam railway field will tak ce at a pace equal to if not greater t of the street railways. New York, New Haven and Pennsylvania are feeling their way experimenting in branch reads with light equipments. This work Will no doubt be followed up by the equtp- Ment of mere important branches with heavier rolling stock, until a sufficieft amount of practical data 1s obtained to Justify a change of entire systems. This Same course will, in all proability, be fol- lowed by other railroads, and@ if 20, clectric- ity may gain a strong foothold on trunk ¢ railways much sooner than {ts most uguine friends expect.” To Be Sold. Chicago's first elevated railway, the South Side Rapid Transit, better known us the Alley L, fs scon to be sold under forectos- ure to protect its bonds to the amount of Har |. which was opened at the time id's fair, has not proved profita- since th not having made the ex- pected Inroads Into the traffic of the Illinois Central and of the cable roads, which it parallels, and the holders of the $7,500,000 of capital stock, which ts now quoted at about 2 cents on the dollar, nave no show for any return on their Investment unless hey will submit to a heavy essessment for reorganization purposes, with no cer- ainty of getting their money back then. he fact is that this elevated road, like one or two others in Chicago, was built in ad- vance of the need and in a region well sup- lied with transportation facilities, and the *18,000,000 which the eight and one-half miles of road and its equipment have cost will have to wait some time for profitable results. Railway Postage. Referring to the recent order of Poat- master General Wilscn requiring raflroad companies to buy postage stamps Instead of using the letters “R. R. B."" for letters in transit, a prominent ratlway offictal said to a Star reporter: “This proposition of the Post Office Department to require railroad companies to pay postage on their own mail matter when carried over their own road ‘s net a new one. In 1883 a similar order was Issued by the postal authorities, but the railroad companies manifested so much opposition, claiming that such a rule could not be enforced legally, that in a few Weeks the matter was dropped and in- terest In the matter died out. “It is absurd to undertake to dictate toa Fallroad compary as to the manner of sending instructions to agents and others in the company’s business. But few peo- ple are cware of the amount of postage un- der present conditions the roads pay to the government, but the companies’ way bills and that class of bulky matter are sent in @ satchel belonging to the company, and the Post Office Department might as well undertake to say what a man can carry in bis own satchel as to attempt to enforce the order just issved. Railroad Notes. President Ingalls of the Big Four and Chesapeake ard Ohio is quoted as say- ing: “In the twenty-five years that I have been managing a railroad I have never known such an adherence to the tariff as we have had for the past few months. The turden fs upon all to see that this improve- ment is made permanent, and unless it is the profession will be disgraced and con- scientious men will want to leave it and seek some other employment. If the rail- way business of this country is to be con- ducted in the future, as it was to an alarm- ing extent, for, we will say, the two years ending June 30, 1895, those of us engaged in the profession would lose the respect of ourselves and of our fellow citizens, and deservedly so. These, I know, are strong words and harsh ones, but they are true. “If, on the other hand, the business can be conducted with strict’ regard to law; if tariffs can be maintained and agreements enforced, it is a business that will de- mand the brightest and best minds of the country.’ The following are recent appointments by the management of the Southern Rail- way Company: C. W. Chears, superintend- ent; Clifton Jones, division and passenger agent; D. E. Williams, jr., commercial agent, and Gretchins & Chappell, division counsel of the Georgia Midland division; Edward Fitzgerald, general agent of the Southern; G. A. Warltcn, superintendent of telegraph of same, and James H. Barrett, division superintendent of the Southern, in charge also of the Atlanta terminals. Mr. Barrett has for some time been general superintendent of the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus and Ohio Southern roads, and he has had extended experience also as a superintendent on the Atlantic and Great Western, Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis, Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton, New York, Lake Erie and Western and Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg, and early in his career had the valuable training of an operator and train dispatcher. ——.—__ WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKER Price of Eggs Now Low, but Likely to Soon Advan ‘The decrease in the population of the city, owing to the departure of thousands of the visiting Christian Endeavorers early in the week, had no material effect upon the local wholesale produce market, prices con- tinuing practically the same as for several weeks past. Since last quoted there has been abso- lutely no change in butter. The product continues firm, and the market is not un- promising, the demand for fine goods being active all along the line. The prices pre- vailing today are: Fancy Elgin and west- ern extras, 17 cents a pound; choice, 16; firsts, 14; seconds, 13; choice bakers’ stock, 2; extra square print, 22 to 26; New York tubs, 12; dairy print, 14; western, 10; a ‘and and Virginia creamery, 14; dairy s 12. ‘Cheese remains stationary, with prices the same as last week. The figures are: New York state full cream, large, 9 cents a fats, 9, and ponys, 10. The quiet condition of the egg market has been succeeded by a drop. ear-by fresh stock last week brought from 11% to 12 cents a dozen, while today the quotation is lug to H. The excessively hot weather is responsible largely for the lowered prices. However, hens are due to soon begin moult- ing, and an appreciable rise in prices may be expected with the decreased supply of eugs. The receipts of poultry have not been large, and, therefore, quite an active de- mand has followed. The prices range: Live chickens, 10 to 11 cents; old stock, 8 to 9; ducks, 10 to 13, and geese, live, 5 to 6. The general supply of vegetables and fruits is large, with low prices ruling. Peaches are more plentiful and the demand good. Apples are scarce and berries seem to be negiected. Cucumbers, per box, Hadve.; carrots, per bbl, $1.00; cauliflower, per bbL, 4; kale, per bbl, 50a celery, ve squash, per vox, 75c.a$l; per bbl, $lasl25; aspacegus, per lettuce, per bbl., $2.0a$3; sket, $181.0; potat $la$l.50; choie. #lasl.20; new, per bush., 25ai0c.; culls, per bbl, W60e.; Maryland and aia, bus! -5ad0c.; culls, per bush., 2a: tomatoes, per crate, Flo ida, S0c.a$l; per crate, na- tive, 31 8g plant, per one-half-barrel beets, per 100 bunches, $1.50a + cabbage, new, per bbl, (5c.a$l; ontous, Bermuda, per crate, $1.40a$1.50; yel- low, per bbl. $1.25a$1.50; yellow, new, per bush., 40a50c.; turnips, per )bl, $la$1.25; eq. », Wh.te, per crate, #1.25a$1.50; beans, white, New York mediums, $1.10; New York pea, $1.05; marrow, $1.20; Virginia, white, Toe.; white, mixed, GUec.; colored, Sas fancy table, per bbl., $1.75a$2; per Watile.; choice, per bbl, $1.Wa$1.75; common, per box, 25240c.; oran nia, faney, bright, per po: sina, per box, %3.5a$5; cases, ¥a33.50; lemons, Sicily, per box, $2u$3: raspberries, red, per quart, 7a8c.; black, per quart, TaSc.; whortleberries, per quart, uacte.; blackber per quart, 3a4c. Beef and other meats remain aimost as last reported. Live cattle, from 1 to 4 cents a pound; lambs, 4to 5; sheep, 1 1-2 to 2 1-2; cows with calves, $20 to $35; calves, 8 to 4 1-2 certs a pound. es USED THEIR BAYONETS, Yesterday was another turbulent day in the vicinity of the Brown company’s works at Cleveland. There were several incipient ricts, and last evening there was an open conflict between the mob and militia, it being necessary to put a thousand men to flight at the point of the bayonet. The trouble began yesterday forenoon, when Patrolmen Guenther and Carey were surrounded by a mob of rioters and threat- ened with death. The officers held the mob at bay until help came,and one of the lead- ers was arrested. In the afternoon two militiamen on a street car on their way to do picket duty were set upon by a dozen men. The soldiers were unarmed at the time, but they used their fists to such good advantage that they drove their cssailants from the car. Subsequently three of the rioters were arrested. Last evening when the non-union men were taken from the works Capt. Zimmer- man, with a company of militia, cleared the street. Afterward the soldiers returned to the works, and a crowd of 1,000 men gathered in a vacant lot across the street. They assailed the militiamen with vile epithets, and finally somebody suggested that the soldiers be stoned. Capt. Zimmer- man said he was waiting for the stone- throwing to begin. Just then a rock grazed his cap. Then the order to charge was given, and the soldiers plunged forward. ‘The crowd broke and started to run, but all could not get away from the soldiers. At least a dozen men were bayoneted, and some of them were seriously hurt. The injured were hustled away so quickly that it was impossible to learn the names of any of them. The situation was uglier last night than it has been at any time yet. A squad of four militiamen was return- ing home shortly after 6 o'clock In the evening, after having escorted men from the works, when one of them separated frcm the others rear East Madison avenue. He was noticed by the strikers, and a small crowd followed him, hooting and Jeering. By the time he reached Jaete's block, on Hamilton street, the mob had grown to four or five thouaand in number and stones were thrown. The soldier had only his side-arms, and ran into a grocery store to escape. The crowd threatened to tear down the building, and he came out. Special Policeman Murphy appeared and started to escort the militiaman to the pa- trol box, that police assistance might be summoned, but the mob encompassed them and attacked them with stones, sticks and fists. Meanwhile word of the trouble had been sent to the militia at the Brown works, and Company F hastened to the rescue. At double quick, with rifles at charge bayonets, they rushed at the crowd, clearing the street speedily. A number of men and boys were stabbed with bayonet but only two seriously, Thomus Gar- rity of Oxford street and Thomas McGlar- vey of St. Clair street. They ace wounded in the back, and McGlarvey may die. In the excitement the lone militiaman slipped away, and, though doubtless injur. is poobanly, not dangcrously hurt, Murphy, lowever, was so badly beaten that his re- covery 1s in doubt. Martial law will be en- forced in the disturbed district from now on. —___+e-—___ An Examination for Nautical Expert. The United States civil service commis. sion will hold an examination in Washing. ton and other large cittes, where there are applicants, commencing.at 9 a.m. on Au- gust 4, to fill a vancancy In the position of nautical expert in the hydrographic office, Navy Department, at a salary of: $1,000 per annum. The subjects of the examination will be letter writing, pure mathematics, physical geography, nautical definitions and navigation MR. BRYAN AT HOME An Enthusiastic Welcome Given Him at Lincoln, Neb. POPULISTIC SENTIMENT AT Sf. LOUIS Meeting of New York Democratic State Committee Called. CURRENT POLITICAL AFFAIRS Amidst an uproar of booming cannon, pealing church bells, screaming steam whistles and the shouts of 20,000 people, William J. Bryan, the democratic nominee for President, entered Lincoln, Neb., last evening. It was an ovation the like of which the people of that part of the coun- try never before witnessed. Half the popu- lation of the city, men, women and children, was at the depot to welcome him home. It was a non-partisan reception, for both democrats and republicans participated in it. The mayor of the city, the city council! and distinguished citizens of every political belief were at the train. As far as the eye could reach were thronged streets, crowded windows and enthusiastic shouters on the roofs of the houses. There were bands of music, men carrying banners with mottoes complimentary to the hero of the hour, flags and bunting hung from the fronts of the business houses and dwellings and thousands of people blew tin horns or rang cow bells. All day long ex- cursion trains brought in people from the surrounding country, and lazt night the whole town was in a turmoil of enthusiastic delight. From the time Mr. Bryan ana his family left Kansas City until they reached home there was a continuous ovation. As soon as Mr. Bryan and his family alighted from the train they were driven to their home, where friends and neighbors had prepared a feast for them. The house had been elaborately decorated with flags and bunting, and the lawn was hung with electric lights. From their home they were driven in @ carriage, escorted by Bryan marching clubs and military bands, to the state house, where they received the people. ‘The great corridor beneath the dome of the capitol was banked up with ferns and tropical plants. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan stood beneath the dome, and the thousands of enthusiastic citizens passed through from north to south, and were presented to them. When the reception was over Mr. Bryan went to a platform erected at the north end of the state house, where he addressed what is said to have been the largest congregation of people ever assembled in Lincoln. His speech was short, for there was a most unpleasant drizzle. He said he was proud of the reception that he and his wife had been accorded, and that he recognized that there was no politics in it. He de- clared that, if elected, he would return to Lincoln after he had ceased to be President, and make that city his home, as it is now. He thanked the mayor and the citizens for the honor contained tn their greeting, and said that he joined the Lincolnites in being glad that the prohibition party had also taken its candidate from that city, and had the republican party done so, he would have led the people in doing him honor, re- gardless of his opinions or politics. The Speech was received with great enthustasm. Upon their return home after the demon- stration, Mr. and Mrs. Bryan held a recep- tion in honor of the visiting members of the press. The Joyous uproar in the way of blowing of horns, ringing of bells and dis- charge of fireworks was kept up till long after midnight. Today Mr. and Mrs. Bryan will go to Omaha, where, in the evening, there wiil be a demonstration In their honor. ‘The candidate proposes to rest after that until it is time for him to start for New York. GEN. HAMPTON’S VIEW. He 1s Distressed at the Turn of Polit- feal Affai Gen. Wade Hampton of South Carolina, United States commissioner of railroads, has arrived at Denver on a tour of inspec- tion of the Union Pacific system. He said, regarding the political situation: “I am greatly distressed at the turn of political affairs, and I am afraid it will be productive of great suffering. The Chicago conven- tion declared against the issue of more bends, while the gold reserve is gradually being depleted. The administration may take the ground that it will not issue more bonds for the purpose of keeping up the reserve on account of this declaration of the Chicago convention. If it should, and the drain upon the gold in the treasury should continue, the result would be that the country would be placed upon a silver basis before the election.” Gen. Hampton says a gold democratic ticket would mean the election of McKinley. Nearly all the newspapers of the south favor ancther ticket, and strongly oppose the radi- cal measures set forth in the Chicago plat- form. He strongly condemns the violent abuse of the President in the western press, and predicts a financial crisis as a result of this campaign. REPUDIATES BRYAN. - Another New York Democratic Leader Holts the Ticket. Jacob A. Cantor, the democratic leader in the New York state senate, and one of the foremost candidates for the nomination of governor at the hands of his party, has come out flat-footed in opposition to the Chicago platform and the ticket named at that convention. No one has ever been a more falthful adherent of Tammany Hall than Senator Cantor. Mr. Cantor said yesterday: “I will never consent to support the plat- form or the ticket nominated et Chicago. It makes no difference to me what action the regular democratic organization may take, I am fully resolved that it is the duty of every democrat who loves his coun- try to repudiate the action taken at Chica- go.” When asked how it would affect his can- didacy for governor, Mr. Cantor raplied: “I do not know who will be nominated. But I will state right here that if the or- ganization indorses the Chicago ticket I will not be the candidate. I would not ac- cept a nommation under such circum- stances.” BLISS AS TREASURER, The New York Republican Lender Will Handle the Funds of McKinley's Campaign. At the meeting of the executive commit- tee of the republican national committee at Cleveland, Thursday, Cornelius N. Bliss of New York was elected treasurer of the compaign funds. Mr. Bliss was at first Suggested as a member of the advisory committee, but it was decided to make him treasurer of the executive committee, an office for which it was supposed a Cleve- lander was slated. Mr. Bliss 1s understood to be acceptable to both the Platt and anti-Platt factions in New York, but as the treasurer is not, strictly speaking, a member of the execu- tive committee, his appointment {s not, in the strictest sense of the word, a recogni- tion of New York, NEW YORK DEMOCRACY. State Committee Meeting Called and Delay im Action Advised. Chairman Hinkley issued a call last night for a meeting of the New York democratic state committee, to be held at the Hoffman House in New York, Tuesday, July 28 At the same time, as chairman of the state committee, he issued this manifesto to the democracy of the state: “To the democracy of the state: “The fact cannot be disguised that the action of the Chicago convention was a serious disappointment to the democracy of New York, and has aroused widespread and increasing opposition. In this serious situation the attitude of the party in the state may with more propriety be deter- mined by its chosen representatives in council than dy individual initiative. “‘As it js important that the action deter- mined upon be wise and united, I desire to | suggest to you that the state convention will soon be called, z which the delegates from New York to the recent national con- vention are expected to make a report of their proceedings, with appropriate sugges- tions as to the duty of,the democracy of the state in the present ¢risis. “Meantime the utterances of the candi- dates and proffered intdéfretations of the platform, as well as theipbssible action of other political bodies with:which- the demo- cratic party is not in s: athy, will tend to bring the path of duty clearly into view. “Under the circumstarives I recommend (after consultation with many leading dem- ocrats of the state) that no definite polit- ical action be taken by democrats until the assembling of the state convention, which may be trusted to take such patriotic measures as the honor and interests of the party and the country, both for the present and the future, mcy demand. ‘JAMES W. HINKLEY, “Chairman Democratic State Committee.” A MONSTROUS PLATFORM. Hemry Watterson So Characterizes the Chicago Deliverance. A dispatch to the New York Herald from Geneva says: Colonel Henry Watterson, who is sojourning, with his family, at Gereva, was interviewed touching the dem- ocratic crisis in the United States. “For more than a year,” said Colonel Watter- son, “I have been out of active politics, and on that account I have declined to be drawn into the discussion of public mat- ters and into exposing myself to criti- cisms and responsibilitfes which could not be met. But the condition of affairs at home is too serious to justify the silence of any man whose opinions may be desired. “What is it you particularly wish me to speak of?” iFirst, the ticket nominated at Chicag: ersonally, it is an unexceptionable tick- et. Mr. Bryan is a most worthy and well- educated young man, with a talent for what passes for oratory. He is fervid, sincere, poor and honest. Mr. Sewall is a democrat of long standing and credit. He 1s @ millionaire from Maine, who, having nothing to lose politically, thinks he can afford to gratify caprice and amuse him- self by playing with populism. It is a tick- et that may be made to arouse a good deal cf enthusiasm, both real and artificial.” “And the platform?” “Monstrous. It not only means national repudiation and spoliation, but 1s an open oor to revolution. If the leaders of this movement could come into power those of them who have any sense of accounta- bility, any conception of orderly govern- ment, would be quickly set aside by the wild elements behind. In this way civil war, as foreshadowed by the Chicago out- breaks last year, could be precipitated upon the country. Then the strong hand of the federal power was interposed, but if this were withheld the reign of the mob would be easy enough.” FAVORABLE TO BRYAN. The Sentiment of the Populists at St. Louts Mostly One Way. The first banner of the populist cor-ven- tion was thrown to the breeze yesterday at St. Louls. It bears the legend: “Oklahoma Populist Convention for Bryan.’ Delegate Bailey, who 1s in charge, is the man who brought out Jerry Simpson. From that point will be directed the movement to unite all the forces which believe in free silver for Bryan and Sewall. Oklahoma fs not standing alone. The en- lire west and southwest will be for Bryan. Arkansas, which has been credited to the anti-Bryan wing, 13 going io line up for Bryan. Missouri has spoken in favor of him, though the machine wing of the party ie roaking) a futile endeavor to stem the tide. United States Senator ernor Holcomb head ihe N ka Ccele- gation, which will reach St. Jouls to- morrow. Its Bryan standard wili be placed alongside that of Oklahoma. Utah and Colorado, the-home of Senator Teller, will have their Bryan banners fiy- Ing as soon as they reach St. Louis The anti-Bryan shouters were 4 ayed as they began to see ciearly the drift to an indorsement of the Chicago nominees. The sentiment was nearly all one way. It became a positive as: nee that the members of the national executive commit- tee and of the national committee, who have been vainly trying to turn the con- vention into the pathway blazed by the popullsts in office, would be overwheiming- ly defeated. Allen and Goy- 'RUCTED FOR BRYAN. Kansans Silver Convention Largely Composed of Republicans, The Kansas silver convention got togeth- er at Topeka about 2 o'clock yesterday af- ternoon at Hamilton Hall. Among those present at least three-fourths have been prominently identified with the republican party. The preponderance of republicans is so great that the delegation elected to attend the St. Louls silver convention on the 22d will be overwhelmingly republican. E, G. Little of Abilene was chosen tem- perary chairmen. Little was United States consul at Cairo, Egypt, under the Harrison administration. R. W. Turner, who was one of the secre- taries of the convention, was also United States consul under the same administra- tion at Cadiz. At the conclusion of Chairman Little's address the usual committees were appoint- ed, and the temporary. organization was made permanent. Sixty delegates ‘were elected to the St. Louis convention of bi- metallists. The delegation was instructed to ie, as a unit in favor of the indorsing of William J. Bryan for President. Sibley Made a Delegate. The Pennsylvania convention of the American silver party was held at Phila- delphia last night. Eighteen delegates-at- large were chosen to the national conven- tion to meet in St. Louis on July 22. Among those selected ts ex-Congressman Sibley. Fourteen of the delegates are from Philadelphia, two from Montgomery and one from Luzerne counties. Resolu- tions were adopted, congratulating the democratic party in making a stand for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at a 16 to 1 ratio. The delegates were instruct- ed to vote for Bryan and Sewall as the candidates of the American silver party. Wyoming Populists Not Instructed. The Wyoming populist convention met at Cheyenne yesterday and decided to send an uninstructed delegation to St. Louis. ‘The fcllowing are the delegates: William Brown, D. A. Kingsbury, James’ Scrivner, Henry 1. Breitenstein, D. H. Davis and Frank Ketchum. The convention named William Brown for Congress. Speaker Reed Not to Retire. A special dispatch from Portland, Me., announces that Thomas B. Reed has aban- doned his intention of retiring from public life and will be a candidate for re-election in the first Maine district. Mr. Reed intends to take an active part in the campaign. He has been asked to make his first speech in New York, and he will be heard with Senatcr-elect Foraker of Ohio in Cooper Union next Thursday night, if the arrangements which have been underiaken can be perfected. He will make his first speech in Maine in Alfred, York county, July 29, and will re- main on the stump until the campaign closes. - Sentence of Dismissal. The Secretary of the Navy is considering the report of the court-martial in the case of Passed Assistant Paymaster E. B, Web- ster, convened at Mare Island, Cal. The charge was that the paymaster took cash instead of a bond from a, clerk as a means of indemnity, and did not return the money when the clerk left the service. The court found Webster guilty and sentenced him to dismissal. OO To Inspect Pennsylvania Troops. Col. 8. 8. Sumner, 6th Cavalry, stationed at Fort Myer, Va., has been ordered to in- spect the Pennsylvania state troops dur- ing their encampment at Lewiston, Pa., next week. Compulsory form of cabinet photographs, owing to the latest style of dress.—Fliegen- de Blatter, THINGS ARE MIXED Political Situation in North Carolina HARD 10 SIZE UP THE PARTIES People Said to Be Overwhelmingly for Silver. POPULIST COURSE UNSETTLED Special Correspondence of ‘The Evening Star. RALEIGH, N. C., July 17, 1896. The political status in North Carolina is now most extraordinary. Not one of the three parties knows its own strength. Not one of the three state chairmen will ven- ture an estimate and claim that it is aught but the veriest guesswork. The populist leaders are fairly dazed at the action taken by the national demo- cratic convention, and the populist papers are filled with declarations that the demo- crats have stolen their platform, have treated them as the cuckoo treats other birds and occupied their nest. The popu- lists swear that the democratic platform is their very own, save that the plank as to government ownership of railways and tel- egraphs is left out. They assert that upon this general charge of theft which they make a jury would convict. A veteran populist Congressman said that the democratic state convention had terri- bly frightened the republicans. A republi- can now declares that it also scared the populists, but that what was done at Chi- cago scared them much worse. The silver democrats are as joyous as jay birds in North Carolina these piping July days. So far, rot a democratic newspaper has bolted the Chicago nominations. So far, only one democrat has made in print a pesitive declaration that he will not vote for Bryan or any free silver national noini- nee. Populist Quarrels. The North Carolina populist leaders evi- dently desire to co-operate (or is fuse a bet- ter word?) with the republicans. The ac- tion of the democrats at Chicago makes it a little harder to do, even for resourceful men, full of expedients, as they are. Pop- ulist imternal quarrels are, and have for some time been, numerous. First, there are those of the party who desire to get in Ine with the democrats. No one can guess the number of these. Perhaps it is not. great. Second, are those who want to fuse with the republicans; a far more numerous band it may be. Third, those who desire, as they term it, to “keep in the middie of the road;” in other words, nominate their own ticket. Fourth, those who want to trade and to join the party which makes the biggest offer. There were some populists who went about with hints that the democrats would later on take down some ef their state nominces and put on populists. No man can trace the origin of this absurd state- ment, utterly unfounded. One of the populist quarrels was regard- ing the selection of the delegates to St. Louis. This caused a sort of a breach b tween Senator Butler, who is state chair- man, and such populists as James M. Mew- borne and Cyrus Thompson. These are heart and soul in favor of fusion with re- publicans, and dislike Butler for his won- derful control of the party. They tried to force him to call a state convention in June. He declined. But now a sort of truce is declared, because an arrangement is made by which the counties will elect the delegates to the national convention—a very unusual proceeding indeed. Delegates are rapidly being selected in this manner, each congressional district being allowed nine, save the ninth, which has only four. North Carolira will have more delegates than any other state at the convention by Teason of its large populist vote. Yet no man can estimate this populist vote. Republicans put it down at 40,000, and say the recruits of which the populist army is entirely composed came almost equally from the democratic and republi- can parties. But anything like an estimate of the number is pure guess work. W. A. Guthrie, “slated” to be the populist nomi- nee for governor, can’t give the figures. The secretary of the populist state com- mittee says 67,000 populist votes were cast. Republicans 2re so rude as to assert that the populists are afraid to go it alone, as they do not wish the world to know how few are their numbers. To this Guthrie re- piles, with a confident air, that the popu- list party has control of the state and can poll a plurality of votes. Senator Butler's Prediction. Senator Butler says that the populists must and will put up their own ticket at St. Louis. He goes further and makes another slap at Senator Pritchard by say- ing that if the latter supports McKinley he will get no populist votes. Pritchard now makes the square announcement that he is for McKinley out and out. It is the understanding among well-in- formed people in this state that Senator Pritchard really managed the McKinley ante-nomination campaign. It is the cur- rent opinion, too, that he is slated for Mc- Kinley’s cabinet. But for free silver at Chicago there would have been, it is asserted, a more divided democracy in this state. There ts little question that 5,000 would not have voted for the nominee had he been a gold man on a golden platform. This is a per- fectly frank statement. An extreme silver democrat said the other day he was glad the gold democrats had to eat dog, hair, hide and all, and sweer they liked it. But the question whether had the nominee been a gold man he would have supported him would have absolutely knocked out this loud-talking silverite. What Silver Democrats Declare. But the silver democrats declare they represent the real heart and soul of their party. They say that nearly as many gold men will fail to vote the ticket as the number of silver men who would have jumped the game had gold carried the day at Chicago. One of them volunteered the estimate that 2,500 would not yote for Bryan. But of course all this is only guess- ing, for even at the last moment gold dem- might decide, all, or nearly all, to vote one way, that is, with the great ma- jority. Few of them have ever split a ticket or marked out the name of a presi- dential candidate put-up by their party. It is no doubt true that all populists are for free silver. A rural populist often thinks himself more than a match for, say, Car- lisle, in the discussion of the silver question. This is exactly the belief. In this state of affairs nobody convinces anybody else; peo- ple do not argue, but quarrel. Argument between democrats on this question has ceased, it may be said. In state matters the democrats are a unit. No one can give an estimate of the strength of the gold element in the party. It is not large, but it is earnest. Some democrats are now, perhaps, in the mood to vote for McKinley, not as a republican, but as the exponent of gold, and as a sort of rebuke to the silver element of their party. Other democrats can under no stress of circum- stances make up their mind to vote for any republican. This class may perhaps to a large degree not vote for electors at all. But the organ of the gold wing or element of the party declares for the nominee, and urges all of its followers to pattern after it. It is a paper of powerful influence, and is using it to get all in line. The populist lead- ers have made suggestions to democrats these many weeks, and some of these sug- gestions had almost the air of commands, Particularly as to Teller. Democrats in many cases never listened to or tolerated for an instant these suggestions; others did not care, while yet another faction courted the populists and made their sole inquiry, “What is the best thing to catch the popu- list vote?” A democratic paper having published an attack upon some leading populist, a demo- crat writes to another paper that in his opinion the other democratic papers should denounce the attack in question, because it might make the populists angry and keep them from voting w'th the democrats. Is It any wonder that the populists sneer at a fection of the democrats? “Middle of the Road” Populists. There are some extreme populists, who | say frankly that they do not want free sil- ver unless it comes through the populist party, even though, it is twenty years be- fore this end is attained. The editor of the paper founded by the late L. L. Polk, presi- dent of the National Farmers’ Soe | holds this view, and his paper is the offic organ of the national alliance now. Many pcpulists declare that this editor is like the rishman’s blackbird, and “flocks ty him- sel! but he must represent somebody's views. The republicans are keeping very quiet. Russell, their nominee for governor, is not seying a word. As to his withdrawing from the ticket there is only the statement. Some republicans, perhaps most of them, say there will be three state tickets. Most populists say they think there will be only two. There is a split in the negro vote, but perhaps Russell has discounted chis. The state convention of anti-Russell negroes was attended only by forty-nine delegates, but the claim Is made that the organization has a footing in sixty-five counties; that It is earnest end resolute, and will vote for Guthrie if the populists nominate him. Guthrie, whom these anti-Russellites in- dorse, was a republican; one of the ex- tremely few of marked promiience or ability who became a populist. Democrats here look for a populist bolt at St. Louis, The democratic state committee meets this week to elect a state chairman and to plan its campaign. The state nominees meet with it. No Color Line Drawn. It is said by the democretic nominee for governor that this year’s campaign will not be a bitter one. As yet there is no sign of drawing the color line. Negroes ask that It be not drawn. Some of the bitterest quar- rels are among the negro politicians them- selves—these bringing on the anti-Russell movement already alluded to. Things will remain rather at a standstill until after the populist national conven- ton on the 22d. Then the sky will clear. There are hints, more or less vague, of a surprise which the republicans have in store for the democrats. It appears, so far as can be judged, to have something to do with the state ticket. Much depends now, the populists say, vpon whether the silver element in the three parties will stand tcgether. Senator Butler and his state populist committee in- vite all free silver men to join with the populists at their state convention on the 13th day of August. But before that time comes, startling things may happen at St. Louis, which may cancel all calculations. Republican Nominee for Silver. Russell, the republican nominee is a sil- ver man. He said, recently, that 90 per cent of the voters of the state are for free silver. The silver democrats say, at the very least, nine-tenths of their party are for free silver. All the populists are for free silver. Such are. the assertions and the claims. The democrats declare that they offer a candidate and a platform to which no real silver man can take exception, and that if they do not support it, it will be a sign that they want silver only upon conditions. The republicans are seeking to get all tne gold element in line with them. One of them made the statement that there will be McKinley democratic clubs, but upon in- ig aca there appears to be no truth in this. PARTY TIES TO BE BROKEN. There Will Be Much Bolting of Tickets in Michig Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., July 17, 1896. There will be more mixing in Michigan polities this year than ever before, and the financial question will be at the bottom of it all. Old party ties will be disregarded as they never have been in the past, and the bolters will be so numero is that bolt- ing will become quite respestable. The belters will be from the republican and democratic parties alike, and the losses and accessions to both parties from this exercised independence of the voters will be so numerous that it is now quite prob- lematic what the results will be. If the election were to be held today there is litle doubt that the silver cause would win a sweeping victory in this state, but four months of educational campaign irg, an unprecedented fruit crop in western Michigan and farm crops generally ebove the average may make a vast difference in the results. Nelther of the old parties has a oly of the silver sentiment. Most prominent of the republican states- men of Michigan have tied them to the white metal, and the fcrm goes hard with them. Although the Chicago platform declared unequivocally for silver, there are any number of promi- nent and influential democrats who do not subscribe to the faith and will not do so on election day, unless it is made to appear to them that free silver in the platform and on the ticket is the lesser of two evils, with McKinley and McKinleyism as the other alternative. monop- Some of the Where Silver Sentiment In Strongest. Among the republicans the silver senti- ment is strongest in the farming district and among the workingmen. The prolong- €d depression in business has undoabtedly had much to do with its growth and fifty- cent wheat has been an important factor in its promulgation. The -ilverites have for three or four years been working up this sentiment, while the hard money apos- tles have been silent, neither speaking for their faith nor spreading lterature of an improving nature. The silverites have, in fact, had things practically their own way for a long time past, but they will not have a clear field much longer. The St. Louis platform gives forth no un- certain sound on the financial question and it was solidly indorsed by the Michigan delegation to the republican national ¢ vention. The national platform, however, is at variance with the state platform adopted two years ago and four years ago. It is at variance, also, with the platform upon which half of the Michigan Congress- men went before the people two years agi and upon which they expected to stand this year. Congressman Milnes of the third district was elected as a stanch friend to silver. Thomas of the fourth stood on a silver platform. Smith of the-fifth declared himself in favor of silver wnen nominated two years ago and repeated it when nomi- nated this year, with the further declara- ticn that he was also in favor of sold and paper money, but he now announces hira- self on the republican platform. ‘The sixth district has been a silver district for four years, and before that was decidedly green- backish In its tendencies. The seventh di trict was long represented by a greenback Congressman, and the present incumbent two years ago was a silver advozate. The ninth district has a strong silver senti- ment, and so has the eleventh. Problem for Republicans. If the state convention follows the na- tional convention and declares uneqaivo- cally for the gold standard it may make the sledding very hard for several of the republican candidates for Congress who two years ago committed themselves to the silver cause and have since been p:eaching it. An open declaration for gold, also, would make the results in the state some- what problematic as sentiment exists to- day, and the framing of the state platform will not be the easiest and most pleasant operation to be performed when the breth- ren meet in this city on August 5 to nomi- nate a ticket. The various gubernatorial caniidates are finding it to their advantage, or think so, at least, to cultivate one or the other wings of the financial division. Mayor Pingree, although he accepts the nomination of Mc- Kinley in good faith and declares that he will vote for him, is a silver advocate. Col. Bliss is for gold. Conant ‘s for gold, while Aitken’s record in Congress as an earnest advocate of silver is well known. O'Donnell has a leaning toward silver, and Wheeler has not committed himself on either side. The strong silver sentiment and the necessity of doing something to hold the silver vote may result to the ma- terlal advantage of Pingree. He is looked upon as a vote catcher, and it is conceded that he would make the strongest run of any candidate whom the republicans could put up, and this, with the threaiened bolt among the farmers and workingmen, will help him. The republicans are beginning to concede that the strongest man they can get will be none too strong this year to carry them through, and, besides, if they turn Pingree down he is more likely than not to be taken up by the democrats, and this will mean a still further defiection of republican votes. The way things are shap- ing is favorable to the candidacy of De- troit’s picturesque mayor. The Coming Democratic Convention. The democratic nominating convention has not yet been called, but it will be held the second or third week in August, proba- bly in this city. The free silver element will inevitably have control of it in every way. The federal office holders will not in- terfere this time, as nothing pertaining to the interests of ihe administration is at —<—<—<—— stake. The platform will be a full indorse- ment of the national platform, but for candidates, none has appeared for any of the offices on the list. If Pingree should be turned down by the republican convention, he would probably be taken up by the dem- ocrats, and would be sure of the silver con- vention indorsement, and also of the popu- lists. Barring Pingree, the convention will meet without a candidate, and there will be as lively a combing of the te to find them as there was two years ago, when Spencer O. Fisher was finally prevalied upon to jump into the breach. With the exception possibly of the first, eighth, ninth and tenth districts, the demo- cratic congressional candidates will stand on silver platforms, and the ninth and tenth are more lable to do so than not. A large majority of the legislative and coun- ty conventions later in the season will adopt silver resolutions. Why Silver in Strong. It is easy to understand why the democ- racy in Michigan should be so thoroughly impregnated with the silver doctrine. Michigan was one of the banner states for greenbackism in the days of Peter Cooper. The greenbackers polled a vote of over 70,000 in this state in 1878, and of 3°,000 im 1880. Then the democrats and greenbackers, both hopelessly in the minority running alone against the republicans, fused, and in 1882 elected Governor Begole and several Congressmen, The fusion came within 3,500 of defeating General Alger in i8S4, and within 7,000 of defeating Governor Luce two years later. The fusion of the two parties for the election of candidates, al- though maintaining distinct organizations, was continued until 1888, and then the greenback organization was allowed to lapse and disappear. A large proportion of the old greenbackers remained with the democratic party, and this element is the backbone of the silver sentiment in the democracy toda: Many of the green- backers drifted into the republican party, and they are the most earuest of the repub- lican stiverites now. The suver movement in this state is a legitimate successor to the old greenback movement, and Michigan used to be the banner greenback state. Bolt, Newspapers. The financial question is affecting the political organs in the state as well as the voters. The Detroit Tribune, long consid- red the republican organ of the state, still supports McKinley, but it has bolted the republican financial plank, and is advocat- ing silver. The Detroit Free Press, which for sixty years has been the democratic organ of the state, has bolted both the platform and ticket of its party, and announces that hereafter it will be independent in politics. The Grand Rapids Democrat, which was vociferously for gold up to two weeks ago, drops into line for silver and Bryan, al- though it laments that Cleveland was 80 emphatically turned down in the national ccnvention, The Lansing Journal bolts the democratic convention action, and the Grand Rapids Herald, republican, is singing low on firances, and keeping the tariff to the front as an Issue. The smaller republican papers through the state do not grow enthu in sup- port of the republican financial platform in deference to their country readers, but they are supporting the ticket, and declare the republican party, always right, can be depended present emergency if restored to po GEORGIA’S CAMPAL Spectal Corresponden: ATLANTA, 5a. 1806, The state democratic campaign is on, Chairman Stev having opened the party headquar e Kimball H All the party rs heard from that Mr. Bry invited to make one speech in the s Atlanta being a good news distributing point it would be widely scattered through the daily and weekly press over the south. Many Cleveland democrats say that they will not vote at ell next fall, So far there is only one paper in Georgia which openly bolts. This is the Thomasville terprise, published in Judge E ner’s district, the eleventh. Journal, Secretary Hoke Smith’s y given no editor.al express.on for or a the ticket or platform,but it is not bell that it wili bolt unless a third ticket is put out. All the democratic ress in the state are on the £0 plat form. Judge Bower, who was rezarded as the sound-money candidate in th cond district, declares that he is on the Chicago platform. The populists and the republicans will Probably name sirsightout state tickets. There is talk of fusion, but both parties want to name the governor. Tom Johnson of Savanneh is the leading republican can- didate for governor. He is for free coin- age. The populists are talking of Dr. Fel- ton, ex-Representative in Congress from the seventh Gccrgia district, and also of W. L. Peek, who was defeated four years ago by Wm. T. Northen. The republicans will have a fight over the control of the state convention when it meets, the whites and negroes being split and each side claiming to have been recognized at St. Louis. candidates for Con- DISAPPOINTMENT FOR SILVERITES, Special Correspondence of The Evening Star LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 17, 1896, The coming campaign in Kentucky prom- iscs to be as full of surprises as one of Wilkie Collins’ novels, and there is a deal of disappointment in store for the free sil- verites. If the expressions of democrats from the swamps of Lallard county to the hill tops of Pike county count for anything, the republicans will be a week counting their plurality after the November scramble at the polls. Every orator in the state who has any reputation as a spellbinder is to be brought out and sent to kindle the populist camp- fires on the hill tops, with a view to mak- ing a blaze of glory for the setting of the silver sun on the day of the final contest, In addition to this program of hurrahing, the silverites will establish new papers in one or two towns for the dissemination of populistic views. A plant has already been bargained for, it is said, for the publication of a daily paper in this city, and one of the leading silver editors in the south has been engaged to “enlighten the masses” on old matters that will be warmed over. But the sound money democratic papers will centinue to fight the silver men and their arguments. The Evening Post and the Courier-Journal refuses to support the ticket, and the Times will do likewise. The Evening Post last year refused to support Wat Hardin for governor, and to this more than to anything else Hardin attributes his defeat. Many Democrats Against Bryn: In over sixty counties the democrats have been interviewed since Saturday, and eight- tenths of the men spoken to say they can- hot and will not vote for the Chicago tick- €t. Various reasons are given for this, but the chief one is that they do not regard the platform as democratic nor the men chosen Tor candidates as democrats. The republicans are alert, and all their forces are being mustered for the battle. The democrats are continually in strife, and the differences bred by them are rarely ever forgotten, as they should be. The old currency fight that split the party in twain last year is still on, and it has made @ breach that time, and much time, will bé needed to heal. Bryan, the democratic nominee for the presidency, made two speeches in this state jast year, when the currency contest wag at its height, and some of his utterances then made him unpopular with the old-line or gold democrats. in his speeches he ma: the assertion more than once that he woul not support a gold democrat for any offic To this statement is due the antipathy the goldites for Mr. Bryan. Naval Orders. Ensign H. H. Hough has veen detache@ from the Adams ani granted three months’ leave; Assistant Constructor R. M. Watt, detached from Cramp’s and ordered to the New York uavy yard; Assisiant Surgeon A. Farenholt, detached from the Monterey and assigned to the Mare Island Naval Hospital. —--- +e Chief Engincer Melville’s Trip. Chief Engincer Melville of the navy left here today for a visit to the Westinghouse ele plant at Pittsburg and to the elec. tric power plant at Niagara Falls. He wij be joined by Nikela Tesla and other elee trical experts.