Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1896, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. sae eager a PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, AT THB STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor, 11th 8t., by Ne Company, bs a Sorruanh preset Hew York Office, 49 Potter Building. ‘The Evening Star is served to subscribers in the city by carriers, on their own account, at 10 cents per week, or 44 cents per month. jes at the counter 2 cents each. By mail—anywhere in the United States or Canada—postage prepaid—50 cents per month. Saturday Quinta apie Sheet Star, $1 per year. swith foreign postage added, $3.00. (Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter.) [7 All mail subscriptions must be paid in advance. Rates of advertising made known on application. Che Lvening Star. No. 13,581. WASHINGTON, D. ©, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1896—TWELVE PAGES. TWO CENTS. ooh ene ee ee, See ee ge wo oe | THE STAR BY MAIL, The Star will be mailed to any address in the United States or Canada if ordered at this office in person or by letter or postal cord. Persons leaving the city for any perfod should remember this. Terms: 13 ccnts per week: 25 cents for two weeks, or 86 cents per month. Invariably in advance. Subscribers changing their address from one Post-office to another should give the last address as well as the new one CANDIDATE WATSON|HUGH ODONNELL'S LETTER] MOVING ON DONGOLA|NON-FRANKABLE MATTERIA STRONG HANDISENATOR WILLS POSTIONIFAITH IN THE PEOPIE WATSON His Course Does Not Please the Pop- ulist Leaders Here. THE SITUATION OUT IN KANSAS Ex-Rep. Harris Says the Second Convention is a Mistake. SENATOR BUTLER’S POSITION Candidate Tom Watson's course in his western campaign is not suiting the popu- list managers here, and it is said that something sensational may drcp before long. Senator Butler is placed in an em- barrassing position about criticising the Georgian, but there are other leaders who are not so fixed, and who do not hesitate to talk. One of these leaders was at pop- ulist headquarters today and had a con- ference with Senatcr Butler. He fs ex- Representative Harris of Kansas, promi- nently spoken of for the Senate at the time of Senator Peffer’s election. The Kansas Situation. The news from Kansas of the calling of another populist convention was received at headquarters (ote t was in the nat- tre of a surprise to Stme. The convention 1s called to put out an electoral ticket for Bryan and Watson in opposition to the fusion ticket, which was agreed on some tims ago by ‘populists and democrats. By that fusion the populists got the state offices and the democrats the electors; the democrats agreeing to vote for whichever candidate for Vice President had the most votes in the electoral college. The fusion did not suit some of the populists and they took action yesterday on the arrival of Watson in that state. They Differ About It. Chairman Butler and Mr. Harris differ somewhat in their opinions about the sit- uation in Kansas, and the calling of a new convention. To a Star reporter to- day Mr. Hartis said: “This latest move- mene in Kansas is engineered by a Ict of disgruntled men, and will not amount to anything. The same set tried to get up an opposition ticket in 1894, but did not succeed. Whenever they ‘cannot have their own way they take a few matches and sulphur and start a factory of their own. Of course, such % movement tem- porarily checks enthusiasm, and might do a little harm. “How about the course of Candidate Watson?” “I am free to say that Mr. Watson is making a mistake personally, and ts hurt- ing his party. the western pdpulists are determined that Bryan shall be elected, and they do not want anything like discord brorght in their ranks. I also want to say that all combinations with gold standard democrats and republicans on electoral tickets or Congressmen is absolute destruction to the party. It is an abandonment of every principle of the party, and will result, if it Is done, in ruin.” Senator Butler's Position. Senator Butler said, in anawer to a ques- tion, that the national committze would mi sanction the calling of another state convention in Kansas, except as a last rescrt. He said there was much dissatis- facticn in Kansas over the fusion arrange- ments and that a change was demanded. He thought that the electoral ticket ought to be divided. He had been working the matter through the state committee, which he thought would be able to settle the trouble. He would not approve of another state convention. He did not see why the State offices could not be divided between populists and demecrats and the electoral ticket arranged the same way. The pop- ulist_neticral committee, he said, would insist on a fair division of the electors everywhere. No fusion where Watson hasn't the same show as Sewall would be countenanced. In His Own State. Senator Butler denied today that there had been any fusion in North Carolina between the republicans and populists on Congressmen, as was published in dis- patches today. He said the probability was that there would be a populist nominee in every district in North Carolina. If the republicans supported any of the populist nominees it would be because the popu- lists would support republicans for state or county offices. “We are determined,” said Senator But- ler, “that the democrats shall not get hold of the state administration, but at the same time we are determined that the state shall not go for McKinley. We are also determined that the democrats shall not control the legislature. Whatever may be said of the populists it can not be said that they will support McKinley.” Sa ae, A GARRISON FOR ALASKA. That Will Be Done if Congress In- creases the Army. There is a belief among army officers that if Congress makes provisions for an Increase of the army a garrison will be statloned in Alaska. When Alaska was ac- quired a garrison was stationed there, but withdrawn after a few years. It was ex- pensive to maintain and little use was found for a military force. Since that time the mining industry of the territory has been developed, so that, according to its governor, it is now only second in wealth of that kind to the mining proper- ties of California at the time of the dis- covery of gold there. The fishery industry 4s aiso very large, and the growth of the various features of wealth of the terri- tory is such as to demand, it 1s thought by many army officers, the location of a military post there. The absence ¢f roads makes the handling of soldiers extreme- ly ditficult, and for that reason the chief military protection of the post has been provided by the revenue marine service, the U.S.S. Pinta also having long been kept in Alaskan waters. But it is believ- ed that the need of a military post in the northern territory will be urged at the ext session of Congress. ee CHILD LABOR IN FACTORIES. It is Opposed the British Labor Congress. EDINBURGH, Scotland, September 11.— At today’s session of the British trades union congress it was decided to send two delegates to the American labor congress, end it was a’so resolved that the British trades union congress meet at Birmingham in 189 A resolution was adopted that in the opinion of the congress the custom prevail- ing in the government deck yards of put- ting laborers to do mechanics’ work in the construction of her majesty’s ships ought to be discontinued, .it being inimical’ to trades union principles, as well as being an evasion and subversion of the fuir wage Fesolution passed by the house of commons on February 13, 1891, The National Union of Gas Wy orkers and General Laborers of Great Britain’ and Ire- land presented a resolution against the em- ployment of children -indér fifteen years of age in,factories and workshops. The representatives of the textile indus- tries opposed this motion on the ground that it would Inflict great hardships upon those least able to bear it. The motion, however, was adopted by a Vote of 118 to 105. - HUGH O’DONNELL’S LETTER MOVING ON DONGOLA NON - FRANKABLE MATTER A ST RO N G H AND What He Says About the Trip to Canton Tomorrow. Blair Lee a Visitor at Democratic Headquarters—He Will Make Stiff Fight for Election, ce R. Peyton of democratic headquarters has received a letter from Hugh O'Donnell, the labor leader of Homestead, Pa., relat- ing to the excursion which ts to be run from there to Canton tomorrow. The let- ter will be interesting in view of O’Don- rell's alleged connection with the Home- stead riots, his trial and acquittal of the charge of inciting to riot. O'Donnell is now town clerk of Homestead. His letter is as follows: “Your letter of the 7th to hand. In reply would say that I do not think the work- ingmen of Homestead have forgotten Juiy 6, "92, nor the cause which produced it, and when the votes of Homestead are counted a decided majority will be for Bryan and free silver. “As to the excursion to Canton on Satur- day, it was gotten up by the superintend- ents and besses. They held a meeting at one of the mill offices (there was not a workingman present), appointed commit- tees and telegraphed to Canton. The par- ties getting up the excursion may or may not have been prompted to such action by the firm. “The pay day has been changed from Sat- urday to Friday, and the entire plant will be closed down. This is something that they were never known to do before. I suppose a large number of democrats and republicans who will vote for Bryan and who are well aware that they might lose their jobs if they did not go to Canton will prefer to do so. You know they have no labor organizations here now. No doubt you are aware that Dr. Jno. Purman of this place is the democratic candidate for Congress, and, as he stood by the men in the conflict of '92, and has always been a friend and supporter in the cause of la- bor, and as everything points now to his election In this, the twenty-fourth dis- trict, this is an effort on the part of the firm or their superintendents to create the impression that he will be defeated. “You may rest assured that the number of people who will be on the excursion Saturday will not mean that McKinley will get that number of votes in Homestead. With the mills closed down and plenty of free tickets they cannot very well help having a crowd. Very truly yours, “H. J. O'DONNELL.” Some* of the Visitors. Attorney General W. A. Barber of South Carolina and Blair Lee were callers at democratic headquarters today. “There is no nzed to send silver litera- ture to South Carolina,” said Mr. Bar- ber; “we have received sufficient; nor is there any necessity of organizing campaign clubs. There is not the slightest ‘oubt about ithe state. It will poll a splendid majority for Bryan, and we will elect our entire delegation to Congress. The rural districts are all solid for free silver, and the gold democrats in the larger cities are rot numerous. Practically every journal in the state fs supporting Bryan. The de- fection will not reach 700 votes in the whole state.” Mr. Barber does not regard the defeat of Gov. Evans for the Senate as a blow at Tillman or the reform movement. Mr. Lee proposes to make a hard fight in the sixth Maryland district. He does not assert that he will be elected, but says the election shall not go by default. He be- lieves, however, that Maryland is safe for the democratic ticket. He believes Brya n will go to Baltimore city with a majority. ——— PANIC IN CONSTANTINOPLE. Fears of a Renewal of the Recent Disorders. CONSTANTINOPLE, September 10.—(De- loyed in transit.)—Fears are entertained here of a renewal of the recent disorders, and the reports have caused a panic among the general public. The shops at Galata and Stamboul were closed at an early hour today, owing to a rumor that fresh mani- festations were being organized. Trade ia almost at a standstill, and the lack of money in the Turkish treasury is responsi- ble for the situation. Fifteen army officers who went to the War office to claim their arrears of pay were informed that there were no funds with which to pay them. The officers there. upon resigned their commissions and were promptly arrested for so doing. LONDON, September 11.—A dispatch frem Athens to the Dafly Telegraph says: “In response to the note of the powers, the sultan has now ordered an irade to be published commanding a summary cessa- ticn of the expulsion of Armenians.” aes SHOT DOWN BY HIS son. A Drunken Farmer Near Centreville, Md., Attacks His Wite. WILMINGTON, Del., September 11.— John H. Mullikin, a farmer of near Cea. treville, Md., was shot and killed last night by his son Percival, aged seventeen years Yesterday he became intoxicated and was rebuked by his wife, whereupon he seized a knife and succeeded in gashing the wo- man in several places on the arm and hands. Assistance arrived and the man was dis- armed by his son and a man named John- son. He swore vengeance against both persons, but was quieted for a short time. Mullikin left the house, and, returning later, heard his wife and son talking in an upper room. He tried to go up, but was repulsed by the boy. He then got an ax and again started to go upstairs. The boy warned him to keep away, and when he re- fused the son shot him in the heart. Mul- likin dropped dead. The boy was permitted to remain with his mother, who is in a serious condition, pending an investigation by the coroner. ‘The family is very respectable and highly connected. ——__ IN NORTH CAROLINA. Populists Will Consider Democratic Propositions Concerning Electors. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. RALEIGH, N. C., September 11.—Popu- list congressional nominations for Congress are to be made at orce in the second, fifth and ninth districts. Nominations will be made in the second district next Thursday. J. B. Lloyd will be the nominee. Populists in these districts are under terms made yesterday with republicans givea the right to nominate in these dis- tricts. They cannot vote for democrats, and have either to nominate their own men or support republicans. The republican state chairman says if the populists sup- port the democrats in any districts they will not get republican support. He adds that the present arrangement insures them five Congressmen. The populist state chair- man says that the party’s central commit- tee meets within ten days to consider the democratic state comm:ttee’s proposition for electoral fusion, which is on the basis of a division of electors. ae In the First Tennessce. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. BRISTOL, Tenn., September 11.—The democrats of the first congressional dis- trict of Tennessee, in convention at Green- ville last night, nominated L. L. Law- rence for Congress. His republican op- ponent is Col. Walter P. Brownlow, a member of the republican national commit- tee. The republicans are divided in the dis- trict, and another nomination will be made. All the Troops in the Soudan Expe- dition on the March. ENEMY CONSTANTLY RETREATING Anglo-Egyptian Scouts Steadily Pushing On. REVIEW OF OPERATIONS (Copyright, 1896, by the Associated Press.) CAIRO, Egypt, September 11.—Dispatches just received from the front say that the North Staffordshire regiment, numbering about 900 men, arrived at Kosheh camp, the southernmost fortified post on the Nile, yesterday, and will be pushed forward to Absarrat today. The 3d brigade has reached Absarrat safcly and the main bedy of cavalry Is arriving there. The cavalry scouts report the Dervishes still in view south of Duglo, but the enemy retreats at the slightest sign of a forward movement. The Anglo-Egyptian scouts, feeling the way for the advance guard, are steadily pushing on to Kasbar, four- teen miles further south, which will be the next place oceupied. The troops, black and white, are full of enthusiasm and anxious for a brush with the enemy. The weather is hot in the extreme, but the soldiers are benefiting from being on the move. All the troops taking part In the expedi- tion are row on the march toward Don- gcla. Duglo, hitherto held by a small force of cavalry, is being fortified and added to the string of depots connecting the expedition with Wady Halfa, the real base of supplies. The intelligence department reports the Dervishes gathering in force north of Don- gola. Clashes between the Dervishes and the Anglo-Egyptian scouts are expected at any moment. Thus, the advance of the British-Egyptian expedition up the river Nile with Dongoia, if not Khartoum, as its objective point, is now in full swing, after months of struggling with terrific heat and cholera, during which the work of railroad pbuilding and passing gunboats in sections up the river and over the cata- racts has been carried on incessantly, un- der the direction of Rritish officers, a num- ber of whom have already given up their lives as a sacrifice to the task. Reviewing. the Work Done. The operations began in March last, when trocps were hurried up the Nile to Wady Halfa, the southernmost post, although the railroad ran to Sarras, about forty miles south from Wady Halfa. Since that time the railroad, a desert campaign line, has been extended to Akasheh, fifty miles from the latter place to Kosheh, and thence to Absarrat, about fifty-five miles. In the first seven days of the campaign over 4,000 men, in every way fully equipped, were moved southward, in spite of the great difficulties of transportation, and now some 15,000 men, not including natives occupied in the transport service, are mov- ing south with a flotiila of about fifteen stern-wheel gunboats, some of them tow- ing over 200 other boats and barges loaded with supplies, ammunition, etc. The Co-Operating Fleet. This fleet will keep up constant communi- cation with Absarrat, now the base frem which the army is operating. At every sta- tion between Absarrat and Wady Halfa hospitals for the care of the wounded and sick have been established. The sirdar, or commander, of the Anglo-Egyptian expe- dition, Sir Herbert H. Kitchener, has left nothing undone to promote the success of the campaign. It is looked upon as more than probable that the gunboats will play a very tmport- ant part in the campaign. They are from 100 to 175 feet long, have 2) to 27 feet beam, only draw two feet of water when fully loaded, are able to make about fourteen miles an hour, carrying a large number of men, and tow barges, etc., carrying many more men. Each gunboat carries a 12- pounder quick-firing Maxim gun, able to discharge a shot every three seconds, mounted forward on an armored citadel deck. Amidships there is a conning tower and an electric search-light, another, light- er Maxim, from seven to twenty feet above the water line, and the armament of these deacly boats is completed with two quick- firing 6-pounders and six to eight more Maxims. Besides these guns, some of the larger gunboats carry 24-pounder Arm- strongs, capable of delivering a very effect- ive fire at long range. The hulls of the gunboats are constructed in sections, enabling them to be taken apart and to be put together again in a very short time. Finally the soldiers on beard stand in the shallow hull, well pro- tected by the hatches, which are capable of being folded, and which form an admira- ble portable breastwork. It will be seen from these preparations that the advice given to Hicks Pasha when he left for Khartoum in 1883 with 10,000 men, to “keep close to the Nile,” is to pe closely followed in the present cumpaizn. Hicks disregarded the recommendation and perished with his entire command in the Kordofan district. Hicks disregarded the recommendation and perished with his entire command in the Kordofan district. The Troops. The British troops taking part, in one way, or the other, in the operations are drawn from the North Staffordshire Regi- ment, the Surrey Regiment, the Gloucester Regiment and the 2d Dragoons, Royal Ar- tillery and Royal Engineers, Connaught Rangers, not counting the detachments of sailors manning the gunboats. The general upon whom the dervishes rely to defeat the Anglo-Egyptian troops is the famous Osman Digna, a thoroughly tried and able warrior, who was the great Mahdi’s most trusted lieutenant, and who was with the latter in all his campaigns. He has been almost constantly in the sad- dle for about twelve years, and is a com- mander thoroughly respected by the Brit- ish. The number of the Khalifa’s followers is rot known ard cannot be accurately esti- mated. It is variously placed at 40,000 to 50,000 men. ————e THE POPULIST NOMINEES, Bryan and Watson to Be Formally Notified by the 15th Instant. The time for the notification of Bryan and Watson of the populist nomination has been decided on. Chairman Butler of the populist national committee was asked this morning by a Star reporter if the time had been fixed. Ht said that he had been in correspondence with Senator Allen about the matter, and that the two had agreed that Senator Allen should send the letter of notification to Bryan on or before the 15th of this month, and that Watson should be notified by letter by Senator Butler at the same time. Sena- tor Butler will mail the letter of notifica- tion to Watson on the 15th. Candidate Bryan will be apprised of his nomination somewhere on the road, as he will not be in Lincoln at that time. Watson will also be caught on the road. ‘There is no idea when Candidate Bryan will act. As has been stated in The Star, only a short letter of acceptance is ex. pected from Mr. Bryan, as he has already discussed the issues in his other accept- ances. Mr. Watson will be expected to answer his notification more freely and ful- ly, and he will no doubt meet expectations. A Charge That the Postal Laws Are Being Violated. f ‘The Explanation Made at Republi- can Committee Hendquarters— Probably am Accident, A letter has been received in Washington charging the violation of postal laws in sending non-frankable matter in franked envelopes by the republican congressional committee. The letter incloses an envel- ope, under the frank of Representative Babcock, addressed to a man in Mt. Car- mel, Ill., which contains a speech of Car- ligsle and Representative McCleary’s speech, which are frankable, and in addition five other campaign documents which are nct frankable. The following is the letter of transmittal: “MT. CARMEL, IIL, September 7, 1896. “Dear Sir: I inclose you herewith a frank- ed envelope, together with the various doc- uments that came incicsed In the same. The envelope was sealed, and, as you see, has the frank of J. W. Babcock, M. C. In this state the republican managers are using franked envelopes (Babcock’s) to send out all Kinds of state campaign literature. Scme received here contained the ‘Life of John R. Tanner.’ “Is there not some way to put a stop to this stealing of postage from the govern- ment?” ‘The matter Is to be called to the attention of the Post Office Department. Mr. Shrader at repubtican headquarters, when asked about the matter, said that the com- mittee did not send out anything but frankable matter, excepting a few state- ments by democrats, which~ were sent in bulk by express. He said he supposed now and then some individual for whom the committee wes not responsible would stip non-frankable matter in a franked envelore. The attention of the committee had been called to some democratic docu- rrents sent in the same way, but nothing had been said by them about it, because they had assumed it was done by accident. The republican committee had had _ their attention called to the fact of non-frank- able matter being sent in {isolated cases under Mr. RBabcock’s frank. No one con- rected with the committee had done it, and great care was taken to warn people not to thus violate the law. BY THE CAR L@AD. How Documents Are Shipped by the Republican Committee. The republican congressional committee no longer computes by numbers the cam- paign documents sent out, but now figures the volume by car leads. One day this week the committee shipped out five tar loads. Yesterday two car loads of docu- ments were shipped. ‘To give an idea of the way business ts being done at republi- can headquarters, a letter was exhibited today, received in the morning mail from a Philadelphia printing firm, stating that a car load of Babcock’s “Three Evenings With Silver” had just been shipped. There were 132 bales, containing 231,000: copies of this one document alone, The printers slipped in, to fill up the’ odd spaces in the car, 16,000 copies of _ Silly er and the Farmétr. The highest record of one day's work yet attained by the congressional committee was made a few days ago, when 7,163 copies of campaign documents were pack- ed and shipped during the working hours of the day. The’ committee has ordered up to date 25,000,600 envelopes trom the gov- ernment prin-ing office suitable for incios- ing documents under ccngressional frank. Ex-Congressman George William Mur- ray, the colored represerftative of the sev- enth South Carolina in the Fifty-third Con- gress, Was a calier at republican headquar- ters today. Mr. Murray is a candidate for Congress this year and reported that he is making a vigorous fight in his district. He said the only question involved in his elec- tion was the matter of who should count the votes on election day. Mr. Murray claimed that there is a republican majority in his district, and that if the vote can be counted honestly he will be returned. to Congress. ——_—___-e+______ INTIMIDATION CHARGED. What the Secretary of the Silver Party National Committee Says. Secretary Difenderfer of the silver party national committee is red hot over what he thinks is an intimidation of the working- men in various states. “I am receiving let- pers every day, says Mr. Difenderfer, “which furnish conclusive proof that the workingmen in a number of states are be- ing forced to join McKinley clubs against their wishes. Many of the letters I am get- ting come from Ohio, and the proof has been furnished me in a number of in- stances. The laboring men-are being made te join these clubs, or they will be dis- crarged. The same coercion is being used on small merchants in towns where Mc- Kinley money controls things. One of these merchants has written me that for policy’s sake, and because he is afraid his business will be destroyed, he and his two sons heve joined a McKinley club. He writes, howeve:, that when the election takes place he doesn’t think McKinley will get as large @ vote as is found on the ctub roll. “This kind of business is worse than ante- bellum slavery. It.is the white man who is being enslaved. If this thing goes on there will be no freedom for the workingmen in this country, and the sooner they realize this and assert their independence the bet- ter it will be for them. I am afraid the time will come when all this will react on the country, and when the men who are gullty of it will rue the day they engaged in such work.”” Assistent Secretary Taylor of the silver Party was notified this morning by the Al- pha Bimetallic League of Baltimore to make out twenty-seven charters for silver clubs being formed in that city. Mr. ‘Tay- lor says that he has sent a charter to a club in Maryland which is compased wholly of republicans, —-e+______ GOLD IMPORTATION. Bank of Enginnd’s Actign Will Not Check It. Treasury officials are not igclined to the belief that the action of the bank of Eng- land in raising the discount rate one-half per cent will necessarily result in a prompt cessation of gold imports. Gold Is always paid by the Bank,of England,on demand in exchange for Bank of England notes, and the only effect on gotd impartations, it is sald, can be the indirect one of tightening the meney market. But even with this ad- vance, it is thought that Importers, in the present conditfan of the market, can af- ford to pay the half per cent and still make a profit! Nor are they confined to Londen for their supply, as $6 shown by the fact’ that-a eonsiderable proportion of the recent importations came4from France. Altcgether the officials do no€ regard the situation as at all serious, confidently expect gold importations to c minue. Personal Mention. Passed Assistart Paymaster. Thornton Arms of the navy is in the clty to settle his acccunts. Mr. C. J. Gilbert is on a visit to his brother in Roanoke, Va. Mr. J. Wm. Lowe of this city is on a three months’ visit to Des Moines, Iowa. Mr. Chas. Galliher of 107 5th street south- east has returned, after visiting numerous resorts on the Atlantic coast. _ Chairman Jones to Make His Author- ity Felt Hereafter. TROUBLE WITH STATE COMMITTEES The Machinery of the Democratic Organization Out of Order. VIGOROUS STEPS NECESSARY eee It is intimated that Chairman Jones is gcing to make use of his stronger hand hereafter, so as to make the authority of the democratic national committee felt by some of the local committees. It has be- come evident that the situation is such that if Mr. Jones’ committee dves not as- sert authority the Bryan forces will re- main in a disorganized condition through- cut the campaign. A campaign to be run by three distinct national committees, all with equal authority, is bad enough; but vhen added to this is the circumstance that state committees are insu ordinate and cme of them under suspicion of be- ing secretly organized in antagonism to the national ticket, a situation is present- ed which might puzzic a more experienced man than Mr. Jones. The spokesinen for the various branches of the Bryan organi- zation profess to have reports from differ- ent sections indicating that the people are wild for silver. At the same time they know that the machinery of their organiza- tion is out of order and creaky in many Piaces. The policy of persuasion has been follcwed until all its powers have been ex- hausted. Still there remain points where the triction cannot be overcome, and the serious feature of it is that these are vital points, isoroun Steps Necessary. It is understood that gow the example set by Gov. Matthews this week in forc- ing the chairman of the Indiana demo- cratic state committee is to be followed elsewhere if the chairmen do not cease thelr defiance of the national committee. Both the populist and the republican al- les in the combination are growing ex- tremely impatient of the treatment they are receiving in certain localitics, and the pcint has. about been reached where Mr. Jones’ committee must take vigorous steps to prevent the comb.nation from practi- cally going to pieces in some states. The three national committees have got to- Scther and are beautifuliy harmonized, but it is a different proposition to harmonize the several siate organizations. 1t appea: that there are local leaders on both ciges who are determined not to harmonize, and there is a very decided suspicion that in some quarters the local organizations are controlled by men whose purpose is to do the ticket as much harm as possibie. In some cases it is the populist local man- agers whe put impossible conditions in the way of an agreement in other cases it is the demoeratic leaders who throw ob- stecles in the way, and in some cases both the populists and democrats, with seem- ing willfulness, make themselves offensive to the silver republicans. In some in- starces there is so much method about the dispiay of stubbornress as to preclude the idea that there is any real desire to adjust differences. In some of these cases radical steps have got to be taken, and there is liable to be a lively time along the line before they are through with it. The chairmen of the national committees have got to get together and put their respective feet down. Mr. Jones, it Is said, has got to discipline the recalcitrant democrats; Mr. Butler has to do the same for the re- calcitrant populists. Jointly they have got to make war on those who have shown themselves to be active for nothing else than to make trouble. They are going to beat the bushes and shell the woods with the hope of driving cut their enemies who are under cover. This 1s apt to take up much of their time that might be occupied in fighting the Mc- Kinley forces. The Anxiety About New York. The presence of Jones in New York, his telegraphing Faulkner to meet him there, the declination of Hill to serve as a dele- gate to the Buffalo convention under in- structions to indorse Bryan and the Chi- cago platform, and a few other circum- stances all indicate trouble, and that con- siderable anxiety Is felt lest the plan to have the Chicago candidate and plat- form indorsed ts in danger of failure. Chairman Jones has had a theory that the national committee shculd not interfere with the management of affairs in the states by the regular state committees. It is said that he has had it abundantly demonstrated that this theory will not werk under the peculiar circumstances surrounding this campaign. Where the authorized state managers are opposed to Bryan the theory has received a shock, and when it is so difficult for Mr. Jones to tell his friends from his enemies repudia- tion of the plans and defiance of the wishes of the national committee it ts discovered must be accepted as evidence of hostility to the Bryan ticket. —_—___- -—____ MR. CLEVELAND'S LETTER. He Writes to Senator Caffery That He Will Vote for Palmer. Dispatches to the New York Herald from Canton, Ohio, state today that it is known there that President Cleveland has written a letter to Senator Donelson Caffery of Leuisiana indorsing the Indianapolis ticket and indicating that he will vote for Palmer and Buckner. It is said the letter will be made public this week, and that it will be a vigorous repudiation of the populistic tendency of the Chicago convention. The President is said to discuss the is- sues of the campaign in detail, and to use no uncertain language in condemnation of these who have forsaken the time-honored democratic party for the follies of pop- ulism. No tolerance is shown those who openly advocate the pulling down of the courts and the abandonment of all safe- guards of free American institutions. The some authority also says Mr. Cleveland re- fers at great length in his letter to the sil- ver issue. All doubt as to whether Mr. Cleveland would enter the campaign at all is set at rest by the letter. It is believed, says the Herald's dispatch, that the President's open avowal in favor of the ticket placed in nomination in In- dianapolis will be the means of reclaiming thousands of votes that would have other- wise been cast tor Bryan. ———____-e CHARGES AGAINST BELL. An Affidavit to Be Presented to the Secretary of the Interior. ‘It is reported in political circles | this afternoon that formal charges will ibe pre- ferred against Deputy Commissioner of Pensions Bell for abusing President: Cleve- land in political debate. The story is to the effect that the Rev. Robert Nourse, well known in religious circles in this city, stated in the presence uf a number of poli- ticlans that he had heard Mr. Bell make a speech at a political gathering, in which he assailed the President as bitterly as he did the republican party. It is understood that the Rev. Mr. Nourse was invited to put his statement into the form of an affidavit to be presented to the Secretary of the Interior, and that he agreed to do so. SENATOR HILL’S POSITION Democratic Leaders Tired of His Delay in Announcing Himself. Take No Interest in Him Here- after—A Special Representative to Look Out for New York. As intimated clsewhere in The Star, the visit of Chairman Jones to New York has nothing to do with Senator Hill. It is even asserted on the best of authority that if Senator Hill wants anything he will have to go to Senator Jones about it, and that Senator Jones, as well as all the lesser managers of the Bryan campaign, have become mighty tired of Senator Hill's position. They have reached a point where they no longer care whom the New York Senator supports or what he does. Many prominent democrats say that too much anxiety has been shown about the Senator’s position; that the party has been placed in a position of pleading for the support of a man who has held off haught- ily and given it to understand that he will do as he pleases. Can Do as He Pleascs. It is believed that Chairman Faulkner, who wont to New York last night, went away with that feeling, and that he in- tends to tell Senator Jones today that he and all the other managers agree that Hill has ‘een given as much consideration as the party can afford to bestow, and vhit from now on he can walk the paths of politics just to please his own sweet will without any of the democratic managers feeling in the least offended even if he should take the path which leads toward Indianapolis. There is no doubt that the letter of Sena- tor Hill, made public yesterday, in regard to his election as a delegate to the state ccnvention has had much to do with the strong feeling which is mghifested against him today. He exhibited too much arro- gance in the letter to suit the managers. In fact, his position in every particular was displeasing and he will no doubt be maie aware of it, if he does not know it by this time. Chairman Jones’ Visit. As stated, Senator Jones did not go to New York for the purpose of seeing Sena- tor Hill. Neither has Chairman Faulkner gone there for that purpose. Senator Jones went there because he had received many letters from New York as to the sit- uation there. The New York democrats, it Is stated, want a representative of the national committee in that city with whom they can work and pull together. They Want a head, in other words, someth! around which’ they can rally and feel that that head is representative of the national democracy. Senator Jones is looking into these matters. There is a probability that Elliott Danforth will be named as the na- tional representative in New York and that he will be invested with powers almost as great as Senator Jones himself. His power, however, will apply to New York alone. Another complaint of the New York demo- crats is that they do not want to go to Chicago every time they have some state matter to confer about or settle. They want to have a man in New York whose advice will be taken. —— eo WON BY THE STRIKERS. Chicago Hod Carriers Fought Suac- ceasfally for Recognition. CHICAGO, September 11.—The strike of the 2,000 union hodcarriers has ended in an alznost complete victory for the men. Few words were wasted in the resolution adopted by the Masons and Builders’ As- sociation, which puts an end to the largest and most stubbornly fought strike in the building trades this year. By gaining recognition for their union from the bosses, the hodcarriers claim that they have won all they could have wished when they started the strike, over a month ago. The scale of wages has not } agreed upsn, but will probably be the rates paid by the biggest epatrantone, who capitulated some time ago, 20 and 22 cents an hour. All the men returned to work, pending the settlement of the working rules, ae ARMS FOR ZANZIBAR. Two German Vessels Said to Be Bound for There. PARIS, September 11.—A dispatch re- ceived here from Aiden says that the port officials there have received information that two German vessels, loaded with arms fcr Zanzibar, have entered the Red sea and that strict instructions cn the subject have been cabled to the officials referred to. > A Mysterious Disappearance. SAN FRANCISCO, September 12.— Bertini Humphrey, the prima donna 10 has been singing at Tivoli during the grand opera season, sued Wells, Fargo & Com- pany yesterday in the justice court for $20. On July 29 she sent $250 to the Union Dime Savings Institution in New York city. When the sealed bag arrived at the bank only $230 was found in it. The money was counted and put in the bag in the presence of a clerk in Wells, Fargo & Company office here, and by him the package sealed. The company denied that there had been any loss, and conducted a weighing experiment to show that the gold coin in the bag amounted to only $230. This test will be used as a proof on the part of the prima donna’s side, however, as beside the gold there was a $20 bill in the bag, and this weighed almost nothing. She has a receipt from the company’s clerk for $250). ——__ Guests at Chicago. CHICAGO, September 11.—The three Eng- lish scientists will be given the freedom of the University of Chicago today and a trip to the now nearly completed Yerkes Ob- servatory will form a part of the day's program. The visitors are W. H. M. Chris- tle, astronomer royal of Great Britain; H. H. Turner, professor of astronomy at Ox- ferd University, and Capt. Hills of London. The party is on its way home from Japan, where it went in the interest of the Eng- ish government to take observations on the solar eclipse. A special train has been placed at the disposal of the university by the Chicago and Northwestern officials for the run to Williams bay. —— Believed to Be Insane. LIVERPOOL, September 11.—-The Cunard line steamship Lucania, which sails for New York from this port tomorrow, and which will touch at Queenstown the fol- lowirg day, will embark Alfred George Whitehead, the American political prisoner, recently released from Fortland prison. whose disappearance after reaching his old home at Skibbereen caused much interest. He was eventually found wandering in the streets of Cork, and is believed to be of unscund mind. Caught at Troy. SARATOGA, N. ¥., September 11.—Sam- uel McClellan of Philadelphia was inter- cepted at Troy last night and taken back to Glen Falls today to answer to the charge of grand larceny. Se ES Transatlantic Steamers Ordered. LONDON, September 11.—The report that the Wilson-Leland line has ordered at Glas- gow and Belfast several new steamers of 10,000 tons for the New York service is confirmed. FAITH IN THE PEOPLE Maj. McKinley Declares‘ They Would Not Repudiate. WOULD PAY DEB? IN THE BEST MONEY Vermont Delegation Calls on the Republican Nominee. ENTHUSIASTIC GREETING —__.—— CANTON, Ohio, September 11.—The day's demonstration on the McKinley lawn open- ed early, with auspiciovs weather and the streets filled with people ready to partici- pate in what promises to be one of the lively days of the campaign. The Vermont delegation was the first to arrive. The members of the party were filled with enthusiasm, and they were greeted with great enthusiasm. The party came cn a special train on the Cleveland, Canton and Southern from Cleveland, reaching here shortly before ¥ o'clock. It is the party which left St. Al- bans Wednesday morning, and which has been attracting considerable attention along the route. It includes Gov. W. A. Woodbury, Lieut. Gov. Mansen, Representative Henry H. Powers, Senator Redfield Proctor, Gov- ernor-elect Jesiah Grout, Lieutenant Gov- ernor-elect M. W. Fish, Gen. J. G. McCul- lough, ex-Lieut. Gcv. . Stranian and, as a committee of arrangements, T. N. Deals, chairman; E. R. Morse, L. Hart and Charles 8. Forbes. There arc 10S men in the party. They telegraphed ahcad for Canton’s Grand Army band for service during the day. The band, a large troop of horsemen and the citizens’ reception com- mittee were at the depot to give them a warm reception. A parade was soon organized to march to the McKinley home, and just as the clocks were striking the hour of 9 the gathering reachod the house and cheered for the republican nominee. The Vermonters’ Greetin, When the rugged Vermont mountaineers lined up in front of the McKinley stoop there were cheers and waving of flags and band ra.sic and bazoos that sent their echoes for blocks about the city. The east- erners had not been expected so early, and Soon thousands gathered about the house. Maj. McKinley appeared at the north end of the porch. About him | :¢ grouped the Vermont committee and isv>t conspicuous officials. In a window back of him was Mrs. McKinley. The enthusiasm manifest- ed showed no signs of abatement on ac- count of the 680 miles’ trip. A giee club from St. Albans sang “We Want Yer, Mc- Kinley, Yes We which were these sample sentiment: The mills are a-stoppin’ an’ the markets are a- droppii An’ we wait yer, McKinley, yes, we de ‘The last four years of Grover, thauk the Lord, are ulmost over, An’ our hearts are a-turnin’, Mac, 10 you. We've been thinkin’ Ull we're sud Of tle good old Lines we had, ty ei! ninety-two; py see We dy Hot care if ber tariff, We want yer, u An’ “twas called @ “rob- ‘Kinley, yes, we do. Have you heard from the frost, way up in Ver- ont? e sugar anaple tt putter is pure grows lich; an’ the peaple can't be sold silver-plated Ii believe in protection, but got repudia- people are honest an’ true; They'll stand up for the right, with all ther awny inight, send, siz, their best regards to you. Chairman Merrill's Remarks. State Chairman Merrill began the speech- es, saying: “We come from a great and surprising victory. The battle was fought solely on national issues. Every man, republican or democrat, who helped by his vote to make the Vermont majority, cast his ballot with the deliberate purpose and full knowledge that in so doing he was voting for you and the platform upon which you stand. Every such ballot was intended as an em- Pphatic condemnation of the false doc- trines, which our people believe would bring disgrace and disaster upon our coun- try. The battle in our state was won be- cause the freemen of Vermont after a full hearing and consideration of both sides re- jected with unalterable determination the pernicious heresies of our opponents. In this action the republicans of Vermont were unanimous, and the sense of their in- dividual duty in this great crisis brought them all to the polls. We also had the di- rect and active aid of a large number of patrictic democrats, who placed love of cotniry above party affiliation: “The 39,000 plurality was by two thou- sand the largest plurality given any party within the history of the state in an elec- tion for governor. Coming the Ist of Sep- tember it made our campaign of necessity of less duration than any of our sister states.” Colonel George T. Childs, national com- mitteeman from Vermont, followel, say- ing among other things, aft referring to the important part Vermont played in the nomination: “Although the state conventions of both the two great political part had de- clared unequivocaliy m favor of the gold tandard of value, the action of the demo- cratic national coavention at Chicago in demanding the free and unlimi age ef silver and selecting as the standard bearer of the party en earnest vorate of that financial poliey foreed the repub- licans of Vermont to carry on their cam- paign alone, along unfamiliar line The party were confronted with frequent and constantly increasing reports of large de- fections from their ranks and larg of the financial issue. voters of Vermont were honest, favored the payment of every honest debt with an hon- est dollar, would follow the way where honor led, but the question at issue was comparatively new, the people dc manding a discussion of the currency to the exclu- sion of other matters of national import. They organized for victory and on the Ist day of September, by a majority double that given the republicaa gubernatorial candidate four years ago, a m: by 10,000 than cver before giv date for public office in the history of the staie, the voice of the good old s rings out cl emphatic, rever along her mourtain tops and_ resound through her valieys, echoing f to the golden gate, from the our northern borders to the gulf waters wash her southern shores. In William McKinley the first choice of the repu rmont for the presidency of this mighty nation. “We have journeyed from our homes in cur beloved state to bring to y ereet- ings of her republican voters be though the issue upon which called upon to ten days all question of personality, yet the won for the cause of honest fin: them Coes in some measure par victory ee by cofa personal character. As you were the first choice of a large majority of them, as you have declared the first choice of all of them, we bring to you something more than the tidings of a political triumph. Democrats Also Represented. “And rot alone are we permitted to speak in the name of the republicans of Vermont. We bring as well the cordial greetings of 5,000 frcemen of the state, who have fol- lowed proudly the standard of the demo- cratic party thrceugh more than a third of