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MR. REED'S SPEECH ‘Full Text of His Address at Alfred, i Maine. ‘WELCOME 10 SOUND MONEY MEN Individuals Better Than the Plat- form of Their Party. BILVER CLAIMS ANALYZED ——-_-—_——_ Following is the full text of the speech delivered by Speaker Reed to the republl- cans at Alfred, Me., yesterday, an abstract of which was telegraphed to yesterday's Star: “If I were going to give good advice to the people of the whole United States, I should take tpis time to do it. “Just now there ts a great deal of froth and foam in the air and some time is really needful to disclose clearly to every eye how much of it is the result of the temporary breeze which stills at nightfall, and how little there is of that heavy ground swell which shows that great elementary forees gre at work. How very suddenly all this tush and stir has set itself into action. Two whonths ago no man of any standing would have risked his reputation as a prophet by hinting the slightest doubt of republican success. Four years of actual trial of the opposition under the guidance of its best and twice-trusted leader, had left no shadow of question as to public duty. “However far the republican party might have fallen short of perfection, nevertheless all men feit that It was the best purty, just new, to draw nigh to, for whatever Is to be Jeft to us of sound government, commercial success and business prosperity. On that we were all agreed, some of us who were democrats, regretfully, for we all hate to be classed with the unsuccessful, whose con- demnation is at hand, even if we gain by the change; others of us who were republicans, cheerfully, but without exultation; for we knew how hard the task must be to rebuild out uf “he ruins of the last four years the stately ae of ational ee: P ity and self-respect wherein our peo- ple ie pt ed until that unfortunate election of 82. “Two months have slipped away—hardly time to ripen a strawberry—and there are those who tell us that all things have changed, but these very men who are being arrayed for decent burial had burst the ecerements of the grave, and, transfigured by some new arrangement of crowns of thorns and crosses of gold, were to lead us to a new happiness, and even repair all the damage they themselves had wrought. Now this may be so, but to me it does not seem P able. Human experience in every walk of life teaches us that those who have blun- dered will blunder again, and that the wisest course is not to empioy a ship captain who has not yet emerged from his last ship- wreck, but the safe sailor who has never lost a ship, a passenger, or a letter, but who has sailed safe through every sea. He may have lost masts and sails, and even been rudderless for hours, but if he has every time come safe to shore, better have him than all the landsmen who are forever shouting what they ean do and never dare to tell of what they have done. Boastere are worth nothing. Deeds are facts, and er and ever. Talk dies on the empty air. Better a pound of performance than a shipload of languag: Democrats and Their Party. “But is it wise or Just to class all demo- erats together and to declare them all wrong, then announce they must be beaten because they are democrats? That would be very unwise, very unjust and senseless altogether. It would flout all history, and especially our own. Parties are one thing, their individual members may be another. Parties seldom follow their best men. They follow their average sense. In real action there can never be but two parties, the creating party and the retarding party. ‘The progressive party may be unwise in its progress, and the retarding party may be unwise in its conservatism, but both serve a good purpose, and between them both the world slowly ‘and safely moves ah Dreadfully slow sometimes, but It does al- Ways move ahead. “Perhaps some one will say here we have @ creative party, which has sprung up in a night like a mushroom and created a new Bystem of finance. My friends, you will find that that mushroom is not good to eat, and that that progress will land you in the ditch. Now all progress avoids ditches. “I have said that it would be unwise, un- just and senseless to confound the demo- cratic organization with individual demo- crats. I have said, also, that that would be flouting a part of our own history, and a glorious part of our history, too. Why, it is within the memory of a third, and per- haps half, of this very audience which lis- tens to me, that when the terrible war of the rebellion burst forth, tens of thousands of democrats, politicians, strong party men, sprang to their feet, representing hundreds of thousands, aye! millions, and thence- forth and always were part and parce) of the bone and sinew of the victorious re- public. What matter if the party had gone ‘wrong? They were right. One man among them—one man aione—by a single sentence, gave aid and succor to this government which outweighed a whole army corps of veterans, musket on shoulder. “When Stephen A. Douglass declared, after Sumter was fired on,that ‘thenceforth there could be but two parties—patriots and traitors,” he won the respect even of foes, and an imperishable place in history. “We shall certainly welcome all such men today, not that they are to be republicans, for they will not be, but because they are patriots, for that they must be. “Two months ago, as I have already sald, everybody conceded the election of the re- publican ticket. What has happened since then? Have the four*years of history been Dlotted out? Not one scrap of them. Is our condition any better? Rather worse. Has the party changed any which caused the most of our unhappiness? Yes, there has been 1 change, but it has been for the worse. Its best men are leaving it. If this patior. has thrice at the polls condemned this party when it was better, are we now going to place it In power when it has got worse? If they blundered on business with their best men present, are they going to be a success on finance with their best men absent? Something Must Be Done. “But we are all in a bad way, and some- thing must be done. Yes, we are ip a bad way and something must be done, but don’t make the mistake of thinking that any something will do. A sick man in proper cases had better take medicine, but he had better be careful what medicine he takes. ‘There are some political orators who think if they can draw a rose-colored picture it ought to convert a continent. What a rosy picture we had painted for us in 1802! What millions we were to expect! We were to sell In the dearest and buy in the cheap- ket. We were to have both ends argain. We took thelr word for it, and here we are. And now the least credi- ble part of these same gentlemen are smearing the cenvas with another picture for which they want us to pay another four years, or perhaps ten, of this nation’s sife. Men deceived once are human; men deceived twice by the same men are fools. “There is another class of political or. tory which deserves reprobation—the 01 tory which paints the enemy in deep black. f anybody had curiosity to see what I said of our opponents in 1892 they will find that I did not venture any denunciation which depicts one-tenth of the evil which has happened. When I told you two years ago what we republicans would do if chosen, I drew no fine picture, but simply sald to you that all we could do would be to prevent evil. That we did, and it takes a good deal of sense sometimes to do no evil. We tried to do better, and had the democrats from the north risen above party for good, as the six silver Senators sank below party for evil, the revenues of this country would have been equal to its expenditures, and we should have been two years nearer prosperity. reeting you this time with the same frankness, I am bound to say that the evil which has come to us by an unwise revis- ion of the tariff has been greatly aggravat- ed by one of its consequences—our loss of revenue. Had there been no deficit then a hundred millions of borrowed id would have carried us through the c: safe and sound. As it was, the constant drain of the deficit continually confounded with the Fedemption of gold has so afflicted the im- agination of our people that confidence can- not commence to be restored until our rev- enues equal.our expenses. “Periods of depression are common to the human race. Doubtless you and I think that if we had the world to make we have had human arranged or & continuous up-grade, ten feet or better to the mile. But God knows human nature more perfectly and knows we could never common, they have their seqraveting causes, which must be removed. Then when confidence comes prosperity follows. How I think that can be reached I will tell yeu soon. “Meantime let us see what is proposed by those gentlemen who within the last two months have discovered a new cure for all the ills flesh ts heir to, and who proclaim, as they did four ysars ago, that they alone held prosperity in their grasp. Meaning of Free Coinage. “Their remedy is the coinage of silver at 16 to 1. What does that mean? “Heretofore, whenever gold and silver have stood together it has been at the mar- ket value. When we tried to make gold and silver circulate together we have al- ways married them according to their mar- ket value. Today we find them, not 16 to 1, but 31 to 1, and we are going, they say, to lift silver to twice its value, not by the universal sease of mankind, which alone makes values, but by the statute of the United States, single-handed against the civilized world. “Why should the United States try to do this alone? “If the demonetization of silver Is a dis- ecse at all, it is a world disease. I defy arybody to find a single argument which Proves that the remonetization of silver would be good for the whole world. If it is a world disease, how can it be reached except by a world remedy. International bimetallism I can understand, but this driv- ing out of gold and substitution of silver is only silver monometallism for the United States. It is not bimetallism for the world erd a stable currency, but the shifting from gold currency and civilized Europe and going over to silver and Mexico, Ja- pan, India and China. Oh, but China and Japan, India and Mexico are prosperous Just now. Yes, but what kind of prosper- ity? The prosperity of cheap labor grow- irg cheaper every day. ‘Manufacturers there may be prosperous and traders may be presperous, but the People are not prosperous at all. Up here in Maine and New Hampshire paper pulp is made cheap. How? Because the manu- facturer is close to cheap labor. In silver countries labor is cheap and kept cheap by the silver dollar, For my part, I do not want that kind of prosperity. I want a presperity which, by good wages to all, is shared by all. We want a broader life, broadening every day for all our people. “I won't discuss the question whether the free coinage of silver will raise it to par or net. Very few pecple claim that it will, and if they did I could not believe them. “I was told in 1990 by two of the most sincere as well as the ablest silver men that che purchase of 4,500,000 ounces a month would raise silver to par, and when we did buy it silver went down like lead. Silver men have not been good prophets in the past. Effect of 2 Cheap Dollar. “If then we are going to have a dollar in- ferlor to what we have today waa will be the effect of it? Higher prices, they say. Not for everything. If you have a hundred ¢ollars In the savings bank today you can get one hundred gold dollars from the bank. If this wild project succeeds and you are raid in stlver, you will get the one hundred dollars, but they will be 50 or 60 or 70-cent dollare. If you nave a pension, that must be scaled down. If you have a bond, that does down, too. Will the wage earner be any better off? What ycu buy will go up. And will your wages go up, too? There you have experience to guide you. Wages during greenback times measured in gold did not go up as other things did. They went part way, but not all the way up, and were very slow about that. But wouldn't business be better for more money? It might be after a terrible crash with bad currency, and then we would have to get back again. Brandy may seem to strengthen, but plain bread and meat are ihe surest. What we want is not more money, but more capital; money always comes with capital. We have money now, more than we can vse, lying idle. We have just exported a lot of it. Money is the transferrer of capital, as a hayrack and horse Is a transferrer of hay. More hay- recks will never make more hay, but more hay will require more hayracks, and is sure to get them. “If I sell my house in Portland or mort- gage It for $5,000 and send the result to a Washington state coal mine and it 1s spent and comes back to Casco Bank my $5,000 worth of capital is in Washington just the same. What this whole country needs 1s capital from abroad, from the whole world. I expect some of you will be surprised, and ask whether the wealth of the United States 1s not immense and sufficient. Im- mense, yes; sufficient, no. - Capital Needed. “Our capital is great, but the United States is very much greater. There are millions of square miles, and 75,000,000 of People, and’ undeveloped riches without stint. But there fs not capital enough to keep 75,000,000 of people at work. When gre we the most prosperous? It is when the 75,000,000 are all at work, and when that happens we borrow of the rest of the world thousands of millions of dollars. “Let me give you one plain preof of the fact that money comes with capital. In 1890 we were prosperous. Our peopie were all at work. Consequently, there were go00d wages and wealth greatly increased. At that time the figures show that in that year we had $190,000,000 of gold more than in 1882—every bit of that had been im- ported or kept, the product of our own mines. We were busy transferring this vast capital we had borrowed and that which we owned ourzelves. “Now, just as scon as this election is ever and the future position of the United States is assured, both as to money and to the employment of our people, capital is ready to come to us from abroad and from our own people, and we shall again be pros- Perous. “I know this plain, temperate statement does not seem so high colored as will be given by speakers who are not really re- sponsible for what they say, but it has one advantage, it will be found to be true. Lessons of the Past. “God keeps the future for Himself. Only His eye can see in the fullness of truth the days to come, but He has left us soine glimpses of them in the past, and if men will only take guidance from experience, they will, as they can in no other way, show their superiority over the brutes which perish. “You and I, my friends, have been to- gether for twenty years; two-thirds the life of a generation of men.’ It would be singu- lar {f the past gave us no help in the crisis. of our affairs. But it can. We have been ‘through all this once before. The green- backers of 1878 were not bad men. They were sincere, and had a better case than the silver men of today. In fact, it was much the same case. We must have artl- ficial inflation and cheaper money, they said, or blackest ruin awaited us. it was a@ hard time. ‘Prices were low and work was scarce; taxes were high ard debts hard to pay, but we persevered and resumed specie ‘pay- ments. “From that moment the capital of the world was at our disposal. We had a good tariff, which made us do all our own work, and from 1879 to 1893 there were fourteen years of presperity, which placed the United States in a great position in the world. “If we do the like thing today, like things will follow. With revenues equal to our emergencies, undue export of gold will cease. With the certainty that the dollar paid will be equal to the dollar lent will come credit and confidence. With that other certainty that we are to do all cur own work will come the earning of wages steadily increasing, which is the basis of that prosperity which is alone worthy of this great nation, the prosperity of the whole people.” REPUBLICAN LEADERS CONFER. Chairman Hanna Consults Prominent Eastern Men. ‘The gentlemen invited to meet Mr. Hanna yesterday afternoon in New York met at his hotel and found his quarters too cramped, and adjourned to the new national headquarters. Those present were Chair- man Hanna of Ohio, Fred’k S. Gibbs of New York, Senator Matthew S. Quay of Penn- sylvania, N. E. Scott of West Virginia, Sen- ator Redfield Proctor of Vermont, Geo. H. Lyman of Massachusetts, Gen. R. C. Boyn- ton of Rhode Island, Gen. J. 8S. Wilson of Delaware, Senator Geo. L. Wellington of Maryland, P. C. Cheney of New Hampshire, Samuel Fessenden of Connecticut, George THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1996-TWELVE PAGES, E. Bowden of V! persons not on the nati ittee: John Wana- Pace of New Z ry of . G. Leng of Fioride, Garrett A. Hobart of New Se ES se! They went into session at 3 o’clock, and for over three hours t: Each stat spoke briefly fe represen ive Ba to the outlook in the state. Mr. Gibbs of New York said that active work had al- ready been begun, and there was fn his mind little doubt that the state would give the largest republican majority it had ever offered to any republican candidate. Mr. Fessenden of Connecticut said that the sil- ver sentiment in his state had no root, and was not considered dangerous in any way. ghey expected to peal Governor Cooke governor, and his general popularity would assist in carrying the state. Senator Proctor was confident that his state would give a majority for the republican ticket. Mr. Witherbee of New York spoke of making the tariff the paramount issue, but the debate drifted away from any decided expression of opinion upon thts point. Ex-Governor Cheney of New Hampshire said that he believed the common sense of the people of his state was asserting itself, and that the silver sentiment was already growing weaker. Powell Clayton, Chas. L. Kurtz of Ohio and Senator-elect Joseph B. Foraker were not present, as expected. When the meeting adjourned the mem- bers of the executive committee went into session. They were Chairman Hanna, Sen- ator Quay, N. B. Scott and Senator Proctor +Jjust a quorum. They talked over matters for a half hour and then adjourned. a response to inquiries, Mr. Hanna said: ‘We selected a Mr. Rodgers to represent Utah and made Mr. Bitss treasurer. After eh roll call of states that is all that was lone.’* To all other inquiries his r oa have nothing to say." saleiacnes A delegation from Virginia saw Mr. Han- na in his room. The delegation consisted of E. E. Bowden, J. G. Long and ex-Congress- and these man Waddill. It is understood that the: laid before Mr. Hanna the necessity for vigorous work in Virginia. Mr. Hanna’s information about the meet- ing of the afternoon being so meager, a dele- gation of newspaper men, through Secre- tary Perkins, later asked to see Mr. Hanna. The latter declined to be seen, and sent out Gen. Osborne, but he had no additional in- formation to give out. COLLEGE MEN IN POLITICS. Major McKinley Addresses a Com- mittee From Chicago University. A committee from the University of Chi- cago arrived at Canton, Ohio, yesterday to call on Major McKinley. They came as the representative of the republican club of that Institution to pay thetr respects te the republican candidate and to pre- sent to him a life-sized marble bust of him- self. The bust is finished tn American marble, mounted on a mahogany plaque. It was intended to send the bust by the republican club of the Chicago University, but it was found impracticable, and a com- mittee was chosen to bring the bust to Canton. The committee was composed of H. L. Ickes, president of the club; G. W. Axelson, managing editor of the Uni- versity of Chicago Weekly, and Wilber M. Kelso, alumni and lawyer. Mr. Ickes, in making the presentation, said: “We come as the representatives of the host of young republicans who are enrolled in our colleges today. We come because We are patriotic, because the modern col- lege man takes an especial interest in all ce pertains to the welfare of his coun- zy He then, in behalf of the republican club of the University of Chicago, presented the bust to Major McKinley. In respense Major McKinley sald: “Mr. Ickes and gentlemen: It gives me great pleasure to meet the committee from the republican club of the University of Chicago, and I cannot forbear to say that if the republican party is to continue its Progress of power and usefulness it must be one through the conscience and intelli- gence of the people. It is, indeed, a good omen to find the young gentlemen of the many colleges of the United States join- ing themselves in republican organizations to sustain republican principles, and there 1s no class of men more potent than those who go out of the college to every county and state of the Union. They wield a mighty power, and It is fortunate for the country that so many of them are enl{sted for the principles of good government, for which our party stands. I am glad to know that republican principles are such that they can be submitted with safety and confidence to the intelligence of the edu- cated men of the country. I am pleased, of course, with this bust which you have been pleased to bring me, and I accept it in the spirit in which it has been pre- sented to me. I beg that you convey to the artist and members of the republican club of the University of Chicago my sin- cere thanks for this remembrance.” GOLD STANDARD DEMOCRATS, They Will Hold a State Convention in Kentucky. The gold standard democrats of Kentucky will hold a state convention August 20 at Louisville to perfect @ thorough organiza- tion of their forces and select delegates to the national convention decided upon at the recent conference in Chicago. Mass meet- ings are to be held in the various counties of the state August 8 to select delegates to the state convention. This was decided upon at a well attend- ed conference at the board of trade hall Tuesday in Louisville, at which prominent democrats from all over the state were present. Chairman Geo. M. Davie in calling the meeting to order stated that in the opinion of “sound money” democrats of Kentucky, the real party had no organiza- tion, either in the state or in the country, and the pressing business before them lay in the formation of a thorough organization in Kentucky. Prior to the state convention the machinery of the party would be con- ducted by a committee appointed from the congressional districts. Charles R. Long, who until recently was chairman of the regular democratic central committee, was chosen chairman, and Judge J. O. Ward of Bourbon, secretary. A call of the congres- sional district showed that with the excep- tion of the second all were represented. The following executive committee was appointed to act until the convention of Au- gust 20: First district—R. I. Tyler of Fulton; sec- ond district, passed; third district, J. C. Sims of Warren; fourth district, John D. Wickliffe of Nelson; fifth district, Thomas W. Bullitt, Louisville; sixth district, R. H. Ellison of Grant; seventh district, John T. Shelby of Fayette; eighth district, W. W. Stephenson of Mercer; ninth district, Chas. Pearce of Mason; tenth district, Nelson Trimble of Montgomery; eleventh district, J. M. Unthank of Bell. George M. Davie of Louisville was, upon motion, made chairman of the executive committee. R. T. Tyler of Fulton was chosen national committeemen. After issuing a call for the state convention the conference ad- gourned. 'TO BE NOTIFIED AUGUST 13. Bryan Will Shortly Start for New York to Receive the Committee. Upon receipt of intelligence from New York yesterday that the hall at Madison Square Garden could be secured for that date, Mr. Bryan announced that he would receive the notification committee of the democratic national convention there Au- gust 12. He was unable to say just when he will leave Lincoln for the east, over what route he will make the trip or how long he expects to be en route. It is known that Mr. Bryan is preparing his speech of acceptance of the nomination. He expects to lay in his New York speech the groundwork fer the campaign, and it is believed that up to the date of its delivery no man will learn from his lips just what he may be expected to do in relation to the populist nomination. Possibly he may not even then declare himself, but it is believed that he will then give some intimation of his plans in relation to the populistic nomi- nation. Further than the above announce- ment, there was nothing given out from the Bryan home for publication. There was an apparant lull in the tide of visitors at the Bryan home, and there has been something of a decrease in the size of Mr. Bryan's correspondence. Ever since his return from Chicago the greater por- tion of each day has been spent at his desk, dictating responses to letters and telegrams. A corps of five clerks and stenographers has aided him, and it was only yesterday that they began to see their way to the bot- tom of the great mass of mail before them. NORTH DAKOTA POPULISTS. In Fusion With the Democrats They Get the Head of the Ticket. The North Dakota populist state conven- tion assembled at Farga,yesterday morning. with a large and enthusiastic attendance. The platform indorsed the nominees of the Rational populist party, declared for the free and unlimited cotmgge of silver at a tatio of 16 to 1, and favored prohibition and Woman suffrage. sh ‘The fusion committee bt Ipitated a three hours’ fight by the tement that they could not agree with the democrats over who should head the ticket. Both sides wanted rnor. After near- ly every delegate had expressed himself on the subject, the ittee was sent back for another conference,-and authorized to toss for first choice. were lucky, and at the night's session reported so to the con- ference and stated that psy had chosen the offices of governor, sec! 'y of state, audi- tor, commissioner of agriculture, judge of the supreme court, th Presidential elec- tors and two of the three‘railroad commis- sioners. The democrats were allotted Con- gressman, lieutenant governor, attorney general, commissioner of insurance, super- intendent of public instruction and one rail- Toad commissioner. TAMMANY IS LOYAL. Overwhelming Sentiment in the Wig- wam to Ratify the Chicago Ticket. Now that the New York democratic state committee has met, without taking action, favorable or otherwise, to the Chicago tick- et, interest in New York is centered in the meeting of the Tammany executive com- mittee Friday. There is undeniably an overwhelming sentiment among the rank and file in the wigwam to ratify Bryan and Sewall at once. This feeling is report- ed by many of the assembly district lead- ers, who have tested their constituents, and it fs probable that a majority of the committee, notably Thomas J. Dunn, Jacob Seabold, John L. Shea, Senator Sullivan and Henry D. Purroy, will insist on in- dorsement Friday. The opposition to any action whatever being taken upon the ticket until after the state convention is represented by Chair- man Martin, John C. Sheehan, Hugh J. Grant, Jacob A. Cantor, Amos J. Cum- mings and Henry A. Allen. The majority of the braves favoring im- mediate ratification hold that the only hope of the wigwam lies in so-called regularity. “If Tammany don’t support the ticket,” said a member of the executive committee,” “the organization need hope to exert no in- fluence in the greater New York.” Vermont Populists. At the afternoon session of the Vermont Fopuhsts at Montpelier Tuesday the plat- form was adopted. It indorses that of the Populist party passed at St. Louis. The new idea embodied in the state platform is to declare that bribe-giving and bribe-taking should be made a felony. The ticket nominated is: Joseph Battelle of Middlebury, for governor; Wm. Dexter of Sheffield, lieutenant governor; Daniel Sal- lies of Montpelier, treasurer; Abel T. Way of Burlington, secretary of state; Colum- bus L. Clough, Waterbury, auditor; for presidential electors, O. C. Wilder, Dr. W. 8. Curtis, Randolph; Sam'l McAllister, Stowe. For member of Congress, first district, A. L. Bowen of Dorset; second district, T. J. Aldrich of Wheelock. The state committee organized with A. L. Bowen as chairman and A. J. Beebe sec- retary. The North Carolina Campaign. Cyrus B. Watson, democratic candidate for governor of North‘tafolina, made his opening campaign spebth’ at Wentworth, Rockingham county coyrt, house, yester- day. A large audience greeted him, He discussed the condition of the country and argued in favor of bijnetailism along the line of the democratic national platform. Mr. Watson will make his next speech at his nauve home, Kernersville, Saturday. Political Notes. At the request of the democrats of Au- gusta, Ga., who are getting‘up a ratification meeting for the 12th of August in that city, Governor Atkinson has,addressed a formal invitation to Nominees; Bryan and Sewall, asking them to be present to address the democrats of Georgia on that occasion. The, democratic convention for the fif- teenth Illinois congressional district was held at Quincy Tuesday, William H. Neece of Macomb was nominated for Con- gress on the second ballot. His rivals were Judge Wm. C. Norcross of Monmouth and James H. Richardson of Quincy. ‘The republican convention of the third Kentucky district has nominated Dr. W. G. Hunter for Congress without opposition. Complete returns from democratic pri- maries in the sixth Arkansas district show that Congressman Neal has been defeated for renomination by Judge H. S. Brund- ridge. The convention of democrats, populists and silver republicans of the eleventh Iowa district at Lemars yesterday nominated Judge A. VanWagenen of Sioux City for Congress. The executive committee of the Young Men's Democratic Club of Massachusetts met in Boston Tuesday afternoon and adopted resolutions rejecting the Chicago platform. The free coinage of silver was denounced, and the members declared the club would support only gold standard can- didates. The Maine democratic state committee has decided to hold another state conven- tion at Waterville, August 6, to choose a gubernatorial nominee in the place of Mr. Winslow, declined. The democrats of the eleventh Thinols district have nominated C. M. Golden of Minonk for Congress. The convention adopted resolutions pledging support to the Chicago platform and candidates, and in- dorsing Altgeld’s administration of state affairs. John Clark Ridpath of Greencastle, Ind., has been nominated for Congress by accla- mation by the democrats of the fifth Irdi- ana district. ———_+e ERRAZURIZ ELECTED. Result of the Electors’ Voting for President of Chile. The result of the election of a president of Chile to succeed Jorge Montt, whose term of five years in office expires on De- cember 26, is, so far as known, 145 electoral votes for Frederic Errazuriz and 187 elec- toral votes for Vincent Reyes. The returns from the provinces of Val- divia, Llanguthue and Chiloe have not yet been received, but they wili not alter the Majority of Errazuriz. Se ees A MILE IN ONE MINUTE. E. E. Anderson, a St. Louis Wheelman, Wilt Soon Make the Attempt. From the New York World. Charley Murphy's pet acheme,upon which there was much comment months ago, has been taken up by a St. Louis wheelman. It was the ambition of Murphy's life to ride a mile a minute, paced by a locomo- tive. He was as confident he could do it as many of his friends ‘fére that he would signally fall. But the tegt ‘gas never made. Upon learning from conffactors that a track such.as he desiredufor the trial would cost in the neighborhood of: $20,000 Murphy suddenly cooled down nd decided to let some other fast rider tatkfe the job. The man who has takgn up the thread of the scheme where Murphy left off is B. BE. Anderson, and he hag baoked himself to Icse a locomotive one week from Friday. The trial will be ma@e on a straight stretch of track two miles’ long rear Gran- ite City, Ill, on the 3t; Logis, Chicago and St. Paul railroad. The, spdce between the rails will be filled in with smoothly planed hard wood planks. ‘ Anderson will ride inva ghed, which will be constructed at the back’ of the tender. He is confident of coveyin# the mile in one minute and thinks that.a-half mile at each end will be sufficient for the srt amd fin- ish. He does not think that the trial will be attended by an accident. If Arderson should decide to bet a small fortune or a big one on himself, he would find no trouble in getting his money on in this city, and he might ask and receive generous odds. When John S. Johnson gets here on Saturday he may look Mr. Anderson up for the purpose of employ- ‘ng him as a pacemaker. Johnson, it is understood, needs one. He elso needs a manager, according to a current rumor, for ‘‘Tom” Elk has thrown up that job, so the story goe: ———_+2-____ ‘World’s First Love Letter. The oldest love letter in the world is in the British Museum. It is a proposal of marriage for the hand of an Egyptian princess, snd it was made 8,500 years ago. It is in the form of an inscribed brick, and is therefore not only the oldest but pnepmncet substantial love letter in exist- NOT WELL INFORMED What Mr. Apsley Says of Senator Faulkner's Statements. CASE OF EASTERN WORKINGMEN Silver Sentiment Not Spreading Among Them. OTHER POLITICAL NEWS Vice Chairman Apsley of the republican congressional committee takes issue with some statements made by Senator Faulkner in publishing an interview yesterday as to the rosy-hued prospects of democratic suc- cess next November in certain localities. Mr. Apsley does not doubt Senator Faulk- ner’s sincerity of belief in the prospect, but thinks the democratic leader has been mis- informed by his leutenants. “I noticed,” sald Mr. Apsley today, “tbat Senator Faulkner claimed the free silver sentiment to be sweeping through the labor- ing classes in the east like a prairie fire. I do not know where he gets information to that effect, but whatever the source it is certainly incorrect. I make this statement from persenal knowledge of the situation gained by my recent visits to New England as well as from the reports made to me by conservative and watchful men, who sre feeling the public pulse in that community. “Senator Faulkner also claims that 1 democrats will carry the congressional elec- tions in Michigan. He is wrong there, also. His informants in that state are certainly not in touch with the situation. They are leading him astray upon the political out- look in that state, as well as upon the Present condition of affairs. I am sorry to see the distinguished Senator from West Virginia being thus imposed upon by Ladly informed Meuterants, and led into the con- dition of making statements which will not be borne out by future events. “This .ccalls the fact that in the last congressional campaign, Senator Faulkner, at that time chairman of tfMe congressional committee, wes just as badly imposed upon by his informants. For instance, he pre- dicted that the republicans would only get one Congressman in Wisconsin. He was sincere in that belief because his informa- tion was to that effect. Election day, how- ever, as every one knows, demonstrated the absolute incorrectness of all the >eports made upon the situation in Wisconsin and throughout the country to the chairman of the democratic congressional committee. “I don’t want to get up a bragging match between the two congressional committee: but at the same time I do not want the pe ple to be misled as to the true situation in the country through the statements fur- nished the democratic chairman.” West Virginia to Go Republican. At republican congressional committee headquarters today the usual bustle pre- vailed. Documents and campaign literature are no longer calculated by thousands in distribution, but are figured in tons. One of the callers at committee headquarters was Representative Miller of West Virginia,who vehemently deniéd that free silver is get- ting any foothold in his state. He sald West Virginia will go republican, and that the ordinary majority will be swelled by the votes of democrats for McKinley and the gold standard, who cannot accept Bryan and free silver. Representative Willis of Delaware was one of the callers at congressional head- quarters yesterday. He came to arrange for an infusion of republican literature in that state. Republican campaign documents to the number of fifty thousand will form the first order, and these will be distributed without delay. In conversation with a Star reporter, Mr. Willis said that some free sil- ver sentiment prevails in the agricultural districts of his state, and efforts will be made at once to fight it through the edu- eational methods in use by the committee. He sald that free silver has not made any inroads upon the laboring classes, and t workingmen employed in the great V mingtcn shops, and good care will be taken to see that the minds of these people are not perverted by the insidious free silver documents, if the men will read the sound money literature furnished them. Mr. Willis admitted that the bitter fac- tional fight prevailing among republicans in the state is a source of weakness. Mr. Willis claimed that the Higgins men are forcing the contest, to the great detriment and possible danger of the national ticket. McCleary’s Sound Money Speech. Over 600,000 copies of McCleary’s sound money speech have already been ordered by the republican congressional committee,and it is likely that the number will run up into the millions before the end of the campaign. Never before in the history of the congres- sional committee, it is said, has there been such demand for any one document. The speech has brought Mr. McCleary into na- tional prominence, and made him one of the most active factors in the republican cam- paign. It is not a long speech, there is nothing brilliant in it, not a line of what might be called oratorical effect, and yet it has been accepted by the republicans as the corner stone of their sound money argu- ment. The man who has thus come so prom- inently into the public eye is an ex-college professor and a representative of an agri- cultural constituency in Minnesota. This is his second term in Congress, and he has never been conspicuous until ke took occasion to reply to the silver speech of his republican colleague, Representative Towne. When Mr. Towne made his fa- mous speech in the House, illustrated by charts and enhanced by the eloquence of the young orator, a decided impression was made not only upon the free silver people in the House, but upon others as well, who recognized the influence that such a speech might have. Mr. McCleary set himself to work to anewer it. At the time he delivered his reply no particular attention was paid to it ty the members, who presumed it would be merely a cut and dried sound money argument, but in a few days it began to be noised around among them that McCleary had made a great speech. Then they be- gan to read it, and it was immediately de- aed that it would be good campaign ma- terial. Mr. McCleary was a school teacher for a number of years in Wisconsin, and in 1881 became state institute conductor of Minnesota and professor of political science in the state normal school. He is the author of “Studies in Civics” and “The Manual of Civics,” which are in general use in schools throughout the country. In 1891 te was chosen president of the Mirnesota Educational Association. He is scholarly in appearance, rather shy in demeanor and has the face and air of a student and thinker. —____-e+_____ Found a Diamond on a Weed. From the Philadelphia Times. After having given up all thought of ever finding a valuable diamond ring which he lost in a eingular way four years ago, Rob- ert Groff, a chief clerk in the Pennsylvania railroad cffice in this city, living at Ber- ln, N. J., recovered the jewel on Thurs- lay. Mr. Groff was swinging Indian clubs on the lawn at his farm house on one Novem- ber evening in 1892, when the ring slipped frem his finger and was lost in the grass. Despite the careful search made by Mr. Groff and two farm hands the ring did not come to light. The next day the plot of grass was carefully raked off and after beirg carefully examined the grass and dirt was deposited on a compost heap in the barnyard. During the winter a por- tion of the compost was transferred to the farm of Mr. Peacock, two miles away. While playing in some weeds on the Pea- cock farm Thursday afternoon a twelve- year-old daughter of Farmer Morgan no- ticed a bright spark on a rank weed stalk about two feet from the ground. Upon making a closer examination of the weed she found it encircled by a gold ring in which was set the spark that dazzled her eyes. She realized that the ring was val- uable, and breaking the weed off she ran into the farm house with it. Everybody in the neighborhood had heard of Mr. Groff losing his ring four years ago, and owing to its value the incident was remembered by his neighbors. The little girl's parents recalled the loss, and upon Mr. Groff's return home from his office in the evening he was overjoyed at finding the long lost diamond again safe. Mr. Groff prized the ring as a gift from the head officials of the Pennsylvania Rallroad Company beyond its real -value, which is said to be $150. 11 NATURE'S SPECIFIC FOR MALARIA, A FAIR BONA FIDE PROPOSITION. Any sufferer from Chills and Fever, of however long standing, using these waters at the § under the advice of the Resident Physician for six weeks, without obtaining relief, have no bill to pay and the physician will be paid by the proprietor. THOS. F. GOODE, Proprietor, Buffalo Lithia Springs, Virginia, W.S. Thompson, Agent, 703 15th St. N. W. $y16-th&tu,1m HAILSTONES LIKE GOOSE EGGS. A Remarkable Storm Raged in In- @iann. Hall the like of which was never before seen there fell at Montpelier, Ind., Tues- day afternoon within a radius of ten miles. The damage to property and growing crops will foot into the thousands. No fatalities are reported, but a number of people were injured and small stock suffered to an alarming extent. The storm lasted twenty minutes and during the first half of it was terrific. Stones varying in size from a small pebble to a goose egg filled the air. Many people were struck by the tying missiles and felled to the ground before they could gain shelter. Scarc2ly a house in the cit yescaped damage. Every window on one side of the Baptist church was rid- dled. The electric light plant suffered, and the telephcne exchange was rendered less by the lightning. Leaves and bran were cut from trees as though wit knife. Fruit trees were stripp=d. The de- struction of small fruit is complete. The corn crop, it is feared, will amount to no- thing, as the blades were cut from the stalks, many fields iooking as if they were planted with sticks. At Five Points, three miles west, a piece of ice was found that welsned over two pounds and measured seventeen inches around. A number of stones weighing more than a pound were picked up. Gldest residents can recall nothing like it. A blinding rain accompanied the nail and for fuliy thirty minutes before ine storm it was nearly as dark as night. There was not a breath of air stirring and the mer- cury was at about the iundred mark. There was almost a panic, as it was feared that a cyclone was approacaing. An inch of water fell during the storm. Throughout Indiana. The Cincinratl Commercial-Tribune spe- cials repcrt great storms in the following six Indiana cities: Brownston, Ind—Charles Ewing, eight, and Frank Sloble, aged ten, drowned swimming in the swollen waters of White river. Frankfort,Ind.—A rain storm here flooled farm lands and damaged crops greatly. Also flooded streams, drowned cattle and sheep. There are bad washvuts on the Cloverleaf and Erie railway: Elwood, Ind.—Skiffs hav the principal streets all day. have been driven from their home bridges have been washed away inches of rain fell. : Fowler, Ind.—If the present rain lasts much longer there will not be a car load of grain or produce shipped from this part of the state. Newcastle, Ind.—There were three cloud- bursts in this section. All streams are clear oui of banks and oats and corn are threatened with total ruin. La Fayette, Ind.—The siorm caused great Gamage to bridges, culverts and crops. The estimated loss will reach $75,000. Wash- outs are reported on the Big Four, Lake Erle and Western and Wabssh railroads. The storm was the most severe ever cx- perienced in Tippecanoe county. eps aged were been plying in Many people Small Six Turple Was an Englishman. From the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, When Senator Turple, at Chicago, played the martyr to the cause of Matthews, and, lke Caesar, refused the crown offered him in the votes of the southern delegation for the presidential nomination, he acquired a great reputation for self-sacrificing loy ty. It developed, however, that the Sen- ator had a deeper and more cogent reason than mere loyalty to Matthews. In fact, he is ineligible to the presiden-y from the fact that he is not a native-born Ameri- can. Senator Turpie is the only member of Congress who does not give in the Con- gressional Directory the place and date of his birth, and none of his closest poli ical friends here know his secret. They have a vague impression that he was born either in Indiana or Ohio, but that is as far as their ideas go. Mr. Turple was bora in London, Eng., and was naturalized in White county, thi state. He came there in the early fifties, and married there. Milton Sills, an old resident of White county, recalls very dis- tinctly having challenged Turpie’s vote in 1860, on the ground that he was an un- If the heads- man’s block of medisval times were in use to-day man @ woman wouk e and lay her Sere ingly giving up her life for = the sake of hav- —S} : peculiar to her sex. If women could only be made to understand that aE is a positive, and speedy cure for all these ills the world would be infinitely brighter than itis yay. For thirty years Dr. R. V. Pierce, chief consulting yeas of the Invaligs’ Hotel and Surgi Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y., has made a specialty of the diseases of women. He isa sees fe graduate experienced and successful pecan an his “Favorite Prescription” has cureé more women than all the doctors. The story of the ‘Favorite Prescription” is told in thousands of testimonials similat to the one of J. F. Beverly, Esq., of Goliad, Goliad Co., Texas, who writes : “ My wife suffered from cold feet and fai Ils, heaviness and soreness in the lower pa in one county and two in an- other. None of them gave her relief. She suffered five years. aes ipleas—could not walk from the ais ie fire-place. The last & t complaint inflammation of the hte- claimed t! ive visits —— that if I naturalized foreigner, and in order that the future Senator might vote evideace of his naturalization was produced. Senator Turpie has never talked about the place of his birth, but he did make the statement at Chicago that he was sixty- four years old. Those who knew hira in the early days In White county figure him about twenty years older. coe The Slot M From Harper's Round The penny-in-the-slot machine can be found in the remotest portions of the back- and sometimes it is about the only thing to remind one of civilization that can be found there. A weary hunting party stopped at a small hotel off in the backwoods not long ago, and wishing to remove the evidences of their long tramp before supper, found after washing that to secure a towel they would be obliged to make use of a slot machine that stood next to the wash ba- sin. The sign read: “To obtain a « towel put a penny in the slot, ar drawer slowly cut.” One of tt somewhat of a wag, and the coppers he could gather he procec to abstract the towels one at a time. had reached the fifth towel, when th prietor entered to wash ‘his hands. gazed at the man with the five towels in astonishment. The wag laughing plimented the proprietor on his « in selling new towels for such money. 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