Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1896, Page 8

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One workman was killed and three others were perhaps fatally injured yesterday morning by the falling .of a pile of bricks at the site of the old Grand Pacific Hotel, Lasalle and Jackson streets, Chicago. The dead: John Nonan, crushed under the pile. The injured: Patrick Rush, head crushed and body badly bruised; John Monossa, badly bruised; Edward Baldwin, leg broken and badly bruised. The injured men were taken to the county hospital. A number of other laborers had narrow escapes. The accident was caused by the caving-in of one of the old brick founda- ticns of the hotel against which had been piled tons of loose brick. ——— +e-- Order as to Painting Vessels. In order to establish uniform practice in the matter of painting the bottoms of ves- sels of the navy, Acting Secretary McAdoo has issued the following general instruc- tions: “The bcttom is to be thoroughly cleaned and all blistered paint scraped, but no paint of any kind which adheres firmly and af- fords protection is to be removed. “The selection of the paint to be applied is te be gcverned by the following consid- erations: (a) “Efficiency as established by actual use on ships’ bottoms. (b) “The probability of finding it on hand in the ports of the world. (c) “The objecticn to changing from the paint already on the bottom, as good re- sults cannot be expected until several coats of one kind have been applied. (a) “Experience having shown that the protection for steel bottoms afforded by red lead, or by red lead and white zinc, is not generally reliable, their use, either for touching up spots or as a complete coat, will be discontinued, except for vessels un- der exceptional circumstances, which are to be specifically stated by the board. When any exception is made to this gen- eral rule such vessel is only to be painted with red lead and white zinc after the bot- tom has been carefully prepared and there is ample time for. allowing the paint to thoroughly dry.” eee ees A Massachusetts Politician’s Suicide. Herbert F. Piympton, chairman of the ex- ecutive committee of the republican state central committee, committed suicide yes- terday afternoon in his father’s house at Wellesley Hills, Mass., by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. Mr. Plympton was about thirty years old, and was a re- markably bright and energetic politician. He had been actively at work tn the inter- ests of the campaign for the last month, and yesterday morning appeared fully as bright as usual. His father, Col. Noah A. Flympton, had taken one of the children of his son to Andover, Mass., to place the child in school. When the report of a pistol was heard in a room in the second story of the house, usually occupied by a brother of the dead man, investigation was imme- Giately made, and Mr. Plympton was found lying on the floor with the smoking revol- ver in his hand. He died almost imme- diately. +00 Connecticut Democratic Ticket. The democratic state convention at New Haven, Conn., yesterday afternoon select- ed presidential electors and made the fol- lowing nominations for state offices: Gov- ernor, Joseph B. Sargent; lieutenant gov- ernor, S. A. Crandall; secretary of state, Homer 8S. Cummings; treasurer, Adrian P. Ross; controller, Edward M. Ripley. Greet- ings were telegraphed to the New York democratic state convention at Buffalo. Mr. Sargent is the head of the hardware manu- facturing firm of Sargent & Co. = = Ovation to Bourke Cockran. One of the largest political demonstra- tions ever witnessed in the northwest was that held at Minneapolis last night upon the occasion of Bourke Cockran’s address in that city. The parade, which took plaze before the meeting, was three miles long. At Exposition Hall, where the meeting took place, not one-third of the people who applied for admittance could be seated, although the capacity of the building is about 10,000. +e+—____ The First New Jersey District. The democratic congressional convention of the first New Jersey district met at Woodbury yesterday. About 500 delegates were present from every county in the district excepting Cape May, the delegates from the tatter county having declared unequivocably for the gold standard. John W. Wright of Camden, the nominee of the populists, was indorsed by the convention amid much enthusiasm and by a practi- cally unanimous vote. This virtually cre- ates a fusion between the democrats and populists against H. C. Loudenslager, the republican nominee. + e+ —____ Nominated for Congress. Clarence 8. Darrow was nominated for Congress yesterday by acclamation at the third Illinois district silver democratic con- vention. Democrats of the same congres- sional district also nominated Darrow. Two conventions were held yesterday by the republicans to nominate a candidate for member of Congress from the sixteenth New_York congressional district, compris- ing West Chester county and the thirty- fourth and thirty-fifth assembly districts of New York. At the White Plains con- vention, Wm. L. Ward of Rye was nomt- nated, and at the Yonkers convention Ben- jamin L. Fairchild was renominated. ——__+o+_____ Army of the Potomac. The annual reunion of the Society of the Army of the Potomac, which is being cele- brated at Burlington, Vt, is an unquali- fied success. The parade started yester- day afternoon under escort of state and United States troops was one of the fea- tures of the day. After the parade at a business meeting the following officers were elected: President, Gen. W. M. Hen- ry, Burlington; recording secretary, Gen. H. C. King, New York; treasurer, Gen. Samuel Truesdale, New: York; correspond- ing secretary, Dr. C. W. Scott, Boston; vice presidents were elected from the va- rious regiments. Last evening public ex- ercises were held at the opera house, where an addrees of welcome was made by Gov. U. A. Woodbury. The oration of the day was delivered by Major Orlando Smith of this city; Captain Jack Crawford, the poet scout, read @ poem and several ‘addresses were made by members of the socicty. Se FOR BRAIN-WORKERS Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. Dr. LEE W. BATTLE, _N, O., hee pelle oc pe ety Sd beet secistection in every iostance,” it They Commitigle. in‘ Earnest as for Perpetual Peace. WATIONAL HOROR THE’ SINGLE AIM eal x a Concluding..Exercises of the Blue “and Gray Reunion. ELOQUENT ADDRESSES “A gray and grizzled old man with a de- vout expression on his face leaned against the wall.in Central Hall last night and looked with moist eyes on the scene before him. Suddenly he turned to the strai ger next to him and ejaculate, fervently: “How Loncoln would have loved to see this.”” ‘There was vast inspiration In that excla- mation to those who heard it, and the little group in the vicinity thought of the hast of other brave and earnest and g00d men on both sides during that terrible confilet of the sixties who would have loved to see it, too. Side by side, in smiling intercourse, were some of the very men who had heen front to front at Manassas, Fredericksburg, South Mountain, Chancelloraville, Antle- tam, Gettysburg, and at last at Appomat- tox. Many of them, indeed, most of them, have scars on their bodies of woun‘ls ex- changed between them in the sharp clash of battle, but there were no mental scars re- maining of the anger and desperation which had once inspired them. ‘They exemplified the truth of the couplet that occurs in a Decoration dey poem: Oh, Peace! Thou sweet soother of hate! The kisses that fall from thy mouth “On the lips of the dominant North, Fall alike on the lips of the South! The Sentiment Given Substance. - Every one in the assemblage last night felt the truth of this, and every one went away with a feeling of gladness at having participated in such a significant gather- ing, especially so when the sentiment that inspired them all had been given tangible expression in the shape of a resolution adopted providing that the Philadelphia Brigade and Pickett’s Camp and Washing- ton Camp, No. 171, be authorized to get up such a reunion at such time and place as the three brganizations may agree upon. The preamble to this resolution declared that the reunion of the blue and the gray, held under the auspices of the Philadelphia Brigade, had been eminently successful, the tendency being to draw the people of the north and south nearer together, and that a reunion upon a grander scale would result in great and lasting good. The exercises of the evening were the accompaniments of a merry and enjoyable campfire, and were presided over by Col. John W. Frazier of the Philadelphia Bri- gade Association. Commissioner Truesdell, Gen. Beaver, Gen. Stanley of Soldiers’ Home, Justice..Harlan, ex-Gov. Fletcher of Missouri, Gen. Vincent, Mrs. Pickett, the widow of the hero of Gettysburg: Major Jeffries of Wilmington and a number of other distingitlshed people occupied seats upon the platform, while just in front of it were the members of the Pickett Camp. Commander Fragler opened the exercises by reading séverdl letters regretting the inability of the Writers to be present at and participate in the occasion, and ex- pressing in feeling words the sentiment in- dividualized by the gathering. Among these were letters from Mayor Richard M. ‘Taylor of Richmond,’Mavor Charles F. Warwick of Philadelphia and Gen. Ivan N. Walker of Indiana, formerly commander-in-chief of the G. A. R: ‘The first speaker of the evening was Mr. George Hawkes, chaffman of the commit- tee of the city cauncli, who ts represent- ing Phitadelphta in the monument exer- cises. He ‘pafé high tribute to his native city, tracing its history, which is so inter- woven with that of the country, and re- marking that the record of the one was the record of the other. Comrade F. R. Cunningham of Pickett Camp, who has a tenor voice of remarkably fine quality, sang “The Sword of Bunker Hill,” and was repeatedly encored. Justice Harlan‘: Remarks, Justice Harlan of the United States Su- preme Court was given a rousing recep- tion, and congratulated the assemblage upon the absence of sectional feeling in the union. He believed the present year was the most appropriate in which such a re- union could be held, because it was the first year of a presidential campaign, when there was a total disappearance of a con- sideration of all questions dependent upon the issucs of the war for discussion. He called attention to the fact that there were ex-confederates in all branches of the gov- ernment service, and that the commercial men of the south filled the cities of the narth. He paid a high compliment to the ex-confederates for the manner in which they cared for their cemeteries, and said he believed those who were loyal to the government should agree that the govern- ment should now take charge of the graves of the confederate dead and beautify them, as it did those of the Union soldiers. ‘A poem by Mrs. Virginia Frazer Boyle of Tennessee, entitled “Song of the Patriot,” was read by Rev. J. I. Peterson of Philadelphia, and its touching character was illustrated in the effect it produc upon the veterans present. Gen. Beaver’s Striking Words. Gen. James A. Beaver then made one of his characteristic’ speeches. He congratu- lated the Cleveland administration upon its attitude in the recent Venezuelan trou- bles, and expressed the hope that :rbitra- tion would hereafter settle all our interna- ticnal difficulties, and that the Monroe doc- trine would be forever upheld. He de- clared it was time for the people of the United States to recognize themselves. They did not appear to realize what a place their country neld among nations, or that it had a right to hold. “It seems to be an appropriate moment,” he said, “that we together, north and south, shoulder to shoulder, should recog- nize what this nation is, and what it has become largely of the conflict whicn we fought out together. I believe that as a re- sult of that conflict we are to bave a spirlz of patriotism, loyalty and love for our in- stitutions and all its symbols such as was not developed even in the old days.” Col. Frazier announced that Col. A. K. McClure of Philadelphia, who intended to speak at the meeting, was very ill, being near death’s qoor,and upon his suggestion, it was decided to send a telegram of sym- pathy to the cglanel. E ‘The resolutions peferred to n the intro- duction to thi, acgount were then passed, and Gen. William 4, Latta of Pennsylvania paid a tribute to Col. McClure and a com- pliment to Col. Frazier for the success of the reunion, and ‘ifianed his remarks with Feme amusing’ re! tiniscences of the rebel- ae es 2 Professor B.’R. James of the University of Penrsylvasia an original poem composed for the éécasion, and Gen. W. R. Aylett of Vir#iniatand Mayor C. R. Jef- fries of ‘Wilrfington made pleasant ad- dresses. * wag closed with prayer by The meeting” Chaplain Sayre. Exercises Yesterday Afternoon. Archbishep °P. Ryan, chancellor of the Catholic ‘diocese of Philadelphia, was the next speaker,on the program at the blue and gray reunion exercises at Cen- tral Hall yesterday afternoon, after The Star’s report closed. He related his experi- ences in St. Louis during the war, where he was engaged in hospital work,and spoke about the war in the border states being more apparent in its effects than elsewhere. The north and the south were united in themselves, but out im Missouri it was family against family. The archbishop said that he had once beifeved" that the erection of monuments to the heroes of the rebellion om both sides was a mistake,. aa they might perpetuate the ueep enmities of the past, but when he had scen their own noble Philadeiphia brigade go down to Richmond to assist in the unveiling of the statue of the great Gen. Pickett, and when he saw the men of the-south com- Ling up here- to- stmitariy--honor “northern heroes, he concluded that it-would be well to have as many monumenis as possible. ’ VOICES| They are, he-said, monuments to the mag- nanimity of a great and reunited people. Necessity of Religious Faith. _ In conclusion Archbishop Ryan said; “I want to say-a word about certain Perils that confront the nation. We do not-want patriotic platitudes, but patriotic vigilance, if the Unicn is to be perpetuated. I do not fear strife again between the north and the south, and I do not fear any danger from without. Nor do I fear any- thing from the influx of people from with- out, gs suggested by my most worthy friend, Commander Frazier. This country could take the down-trodden and helpless of every nation and make freemen of them. We have our institutions, and can remold the people who come to our shores, if necessary, and they, or their children, would make this country thg stronger and better. There are perils of another kind. I have reason sometimes to fear that our marvelous prosperity and the wonders we have effected in a single century, unpar- alleled in the history of humanity, may cause us to become too self-reliant, an’ that the decrease of religious faith may weaken the great foundation of all na- tional prosperity. If we allow religious influence to wane, what is to be the future? “Every blow struck at religion is a blow at morality, and every blow at morality is a blow at the country, which cannot ex- ist without it. I would not have the two great powers, the church and the state, united. I would have them ever approach- ing, but s.cver meeting. The fact that the church is to be separate from the state does not lead to the fact that the state is to be separated from God.” In speaking of citizenship and its holy responsibilities the archishop said: “Frown down—I am almost tempted to say strike down—the man who would offer anything for your vcte as freemen.” Miss Loulse Henriette Orndorff of Balti- more sang “The New Rosette,” written by Comrade George M. Vickers of the G. A. R., music by Dr. T. Kimball of Balu- mcre. Her excellent rendition of the song, the sentiment of which is the blending of the blue and gray, won hearty applause. ‘The Future American. Gen. James A. Beaver took for his theme “The Army of the Potomac,” and made a speech that awakened much enthusiasm. What astonished the north during the war, he said, was the perseverance of the men of the south in standing for what they believed to be right. They had no doubt of the bravery and pluck of the southern soldiers. He said the time would come when the descendants of the southern sol- | diers would recognize that the prayers that went up to the same God in the time of the nation’s peril and plead- ed for the same thing—success—had been answered in the best way, and that in the end this blending of the blue and the gray, this bringing together of the Puritan and the Cavalier, this commingling of the north and the south, would resuit in what is to be the future American. Gen. William R. Aylett of Virginia, who served in Pickett’s division, was the next epeaker, and when he arcse he vis- ibly affected by Gen, Beaver’s remarks, and amid thunderous applause the two otd soidiers shouk hands. Both were touched, and when their inands fell apart Gen. Ay- lett. sald half humorously, hgif patheti- cally, to Gen, Beaver, “You have got a leg, sir, down there in Virginia, sir, and I cordially invite you to come and’ visit your own graveyard. Gen, Aylett’s spcech was a very inter- esting cne and full of graphic recitals of incider.ts and episodes during the late war. Of for Antietam. The two special trains which had been provided by the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road Company to take the Philadeiphia Brigade and its friends from the city of brotherly love to the battlefield of Antie- tam left the depot in this city this morning shortly after & o'clock, being preceded by the special train from Balumore bearing Gevernor Lowndes and his staff and a number of prominent Marylanders. Upon reaching Antietam station the Philadelphia visitcrs will proceed to the oid Dunker Church, where Governor Lowndes and his staff and a detachment of the National Guard of Maryland will be in waiting. Governor Lowndes will extend a welcome on behalf of the state to Governor Has- tings and his staff, a salute will be fired by the naval reserve battery and a proc sion will then be formed, which will march to the monument, where the unveiling cere- monies will take 1 The full program cf these exercises, together with a descrip- tion of the monument, was published in yesterday's issue of The Evening & FIELD OF ANTIETAM. The Scene of Lee's Great Fight to Flank the National Capital, Special Correspondence of The Evening Star, SHARPSBURG, Md., September 15, 1896. ‘Thirty*four years have elapsed since the deadly struggle at Antietam was fought, yet the history of the ccnflict, being a part of the national records, can never be for- gotten, and for ages to come the scene of its occurrence will be sought for and vi: ited with the same earnest curiosity as are the fields of Gettysburg and Chickamaug: It is well worthy of a visit, its vicinity to Washington end readiness of access mak- ing a journey there within the reach of ail. and the visitor will be amply repaid in viewing the historical scenes with which 1t abounds. Already the United States gov- ernment has begun to make it one of the marked fields of the war, and people gen- erally have but little idea of the amount of work that has been done here in marking positions, laying out roads and erecting fences, determining the positions of the Union and confederate troops and render- ing an idea of the several movements of this great and bleody battle intelJigible to the mind of the ordinary observer. In fact, I know of no place so eas reached that will repay the student of hi tory so amply as a visit to this hisior! field. Though over a third of a century has passed by since that September day, yet it is brought pretty close to us by such occurrences as the following: Last Frida: while a shallow gutter was being excavate in one of the roads forming the west edge of the Dunkard Church woods, the scene of a tremendous struggle during the bat- tle, a shallow grave was found, and in it the bodies of six confederate ‘soldiers. I should say the bones, tor that was all that was found, not a vestige of clothing re- maining, and in the skull of one was found a canister shot which could have killed an elephant. Some bullets ard some buttons were also found, and a little cap pouch, with some few of the copper caps contain- ed therein, black with rust—and that was all! The bones were gathered into two small boxes, end I saw them standing one above the other by the little excavation wherein they were found, awaiting trans- portation to the cenfederate cemetery at Hagerstown, Md. They had belonged to the Mississippi brigade of Gen. Barksdale, the position in which they were found ha ing been fought ovér by that command. In front of the Dunkard Church the earth was “covered thick with dead after the battle. This church, famous in the battle story of Antietam, was newly whitewashed outside and was being newly painted within. I thirk that the national government ought to own this church and preserve it intact forever, as it was filled with the wounded during and after the battle, and many a poor soul went to meet its Maker from its hard wooden benches and from around its tour plain brick walls. Further along the road the tall, graceful obelisk of the Philadelphia Brigade towers aloft, and is a conspicuous object from any part of the field. It is a fitting monument to a noble organization that suffered heavi- ly on this field, and great credit is due the survivors for their liberality and earnest- ness of purpose in erecting such a hand- some tribute to the memory of the heroic deeds of their former organization. The government is also building a large stone observation tower, standing at an an- gle of the Bloody Lane, near where Rich- ardson’s left rested during the fierce fight- ing in that famous yet gruesome locality. I- will be fifty-two feet high, with an iron staircase inside, and will afford a fair view of the whole field when finished. Near its site Graham's battery of the Ist Artillery stood and behaved so gallantly, as related by Porte Crayon in his sketch of the battle. Bloody Lane itself has been purchased by the government, fenced in and a road laid out along its winding length. Gen. E. A. Carman, member of the Antietam board, resides at Sharpsburg, and carefully super- vises the work undertaken by the govern- ment. Great credit is due to his watchful and economic care, there being but little money appropriated for the work. Great preparations have been made for the cele- bration Thursday. The national cemetery here is a beautiful one, and the heroic granite figure of a sol- dier standing guard over the graves is a remarkably fine work. It occupies the spot held by the Washington Artillery dur- ing the fight, and Gen. Lee is said to have | spent most of that anxjous day-there, over- looking the various and changing aspects of ‘the -fray. -It is on. the road that he selected fer his retreat, by way of Shep- herdstown, across.the Potomac, and his in ion of Maryland was a failure for tha’ time at least. A house in Sharpsburg is shown where he had a conference with Generals Longstreet and D. H. Hill. Sharps- burg suffered during the fight, it being a mark for the fire of the Union batteries. There is history all around you. Turner's Gap, Crampton’s Gap, South Mountain, Harper's Ferry, Shepherdstown Me within the compass: of a few miles, and af your feet lies the scene of the greatest single-day fight of the civil war. BRYAN’S TOUR. The Candidate Leaves Tennessee and Enters North Carolina. The first stop of the party of Mr. Bryan, the democratic presidential candidate, after leaving Knoxville was at the little hamlet of Mossy Creck, where the usual hand- shaking process was gone through, with a few hundred people gathered about the place. Then, at 10:45 o'clock, Morristown was reached, and here Mr. Bryan spoke a few minutes to the fifteen hundred people about the car. A pleasant little incident in the trip was @ presentation of a handsomely polished cane to the nominee from the local silver club. A large portrait of Mr. Bryan was conspicuously displayed on the platform, frozen in a huge cake of ice. In his speech Mr. Bryan referred to it, saying he hoped it did not suggest a chilly reception in Ten- nessee. John T. Shields, who introduced Mr. Bryan to the audience, assured him that it was given him because of the cool- headedness which was one of his chief characteristics. The nominee spoke briefly and urged every one of his hearers to make a free silver speech on election day by putting a cross in the right place on the ballot. Four hundred people were in the crowd at Newport, the last stop of the special train in Tennessee. To them Mr. Bryan made a few remarks from a covered plat- form erected near the track. The trip from Knoxville to Asheville, C., was one of the pleasantest Mr. Bryan has had. The special car turned over to the nominee was that of Assistant Gen- eral Superintendent Vaughan of the South- ern railway, and everything that could be done for the party was done. Mr. Vaughan was personally in charge, and, with his assistant, J. F. Buger, superintendent of the fourth division, managed to keep the party with the nominee well cared for. The last stop before Asheville was reached was at Hot Springs, where sev- eral hundred persons gazed at Mr. Bryan for two minutes, and, as the train pulled out, cheered him loudly. The train whiz- zed by the little village of Marshall, and the 200 pecple on the pletform shouted as they caught a glimpse o! Mr. Bryan, who came to the back platform of the train. By the track alongside the mountains barefooted men grouped themselves in knots and yelled excitedly when they saw the banners displayed on the sides of the cars, which read: “We Carry the Next President, Willtam Jennings Bryan.” Bryan was given a most hearty welcome at Asheville. It was the first time sir 1844 that a presidential nominee had visited that section of the country, and the farmers for miles around gathered there by the thousands to pay homage and cheer the candidate. Mr. Bryan was driven to the Battery Park Hotel, where he and members of the democratic organizations there were given an elaborate dinner by E. P. McKissick, the manager of the famous resort. The party was then driven to a platform in a valley between the great hills which have helped to make this place so beautiful. There Mr. Bryan addressed a very large crowd. Mr. Bryan was introduced to the audience by Locke Craig in a few appro- priate remarks. The trip from Asheville to Hickory was but a repetition of the day ride. At nearly every station the train stopped a few min- utes, and Mr. Bryan said he was glad to see the crowds. At Hickory the arrival of the nominee was announced by the firing of guns and the loud hurrahs of the 4,00) | people assembled to see and hear a presi- dential nominee. Mr. Bryan made a short speech explaining the silver question along the general lines followed by him, but bringing out some new illustrations. ‘After the Hickory address the nominee went to Charlotte. Shortly after leaving Hickory he retired, but was disturbed for some time by the shouts of the people assembled at the different stations along the line. ae THE TEXAS SITUATION. It is Believed That Republicans and Populists Are Fusing. The political situation in Texas is grow- ing exceedingly Interesting. The republi- can state committee is rapidly perfecting an organization on a scale heretofore un- known in the south. The recent Fort Worth convention authorized the newly elected chairman of the state executive committee, E. H. R. Green, to appoint a committee of three, “with plenary powers, to direct the campaign, and it is generally understgod that the plenary. power clause has reference to the much-talked-of fusion with the populists and gold standard dem- ocrats, The committee consists of Chair- man Green, Charles W. Ogden of San An- tonio and ex-Chairman John Grant of Sher- man. At their session at Dallas yesterday six bureaus were established for the con- duct of the campaign, as follows: Organization, elections, literary and newspaper bureau, legal bureau, speakers’ bureau and finance committee. J. N. Huston of Indiana, ex-United States treasurer and chairman’ of the Indiana State committee in the campaign of Iss, pet was present at the meetings. in the state for the past ten di , and it is generally “thought he is the accredited agent of the republican national committee. Several important conferences between the populist and republican leaders have been held, and, jong after midnight, the repub- liean leaders were seen in conference with Col. J. N. Simpson, J.T. Trezevan and other members of the gold standard ex- ecutive committee. It is believed that an understanding has been reached whereby the republicans and populists and gold standard democrats of Texas will co- cperate. Color is given to the rumor that fusion has been agreed upon by the sud- den departure for the north of Chairman Green and Gen. Huston, accompanied by Cc. A. Lyon of the campaign committee. It is thought they are going direct to Chicago to confer with Chairman Hanna. se. has been AN NTHUSIAST. Testimony of One Who Schoolmate. Was Hi In the republican county convention at Kansas City yesterday one of the principal speakers was Judge Richard Yates of Illi- nois,who said that from his association with Mr. Bryan as schoolmate and townsman he knew him to be unfit for the office of Pres- ident. Later, when asked by a Star re- perter to explain his statement, Judge Yates said: “I mean that Bryan's disposition to be extremely and wildly radical and uncom- promising on any question would make him an unsafe President. He was the bitter champion of everything he believed in when 2 youth and could see no good in anything opposed to his theo: I mean that if he is elected and it should become evident that free coinage won’t do, Mr. Bryan will persist in having free coinage. He is an enthusiast who sticks to his enthusiasm.” —_+e+____ The Gunship Essex. The cruiser Egsex, which has been used for several yearpg past as a training ship for the naval apprentices, is about to be converted into a gunship to replace the Lancaster as a training ship for seamen gunners. She is ordered to New York to be fitted with @ spar deck for this purpose. —_____+e-+_______ Naval Orders. Commander R. E. Impey has been de- tached from the torpedo station and or- dered to the Plymouth, N. H., navy yard, relieving Commender W. C. Gibson, who is placed on waiting orders. Lieut. Com- mander C. C. Cornwell to the Wabash. Lieut. Commander E. W. Sturdy, from the Franklin to the Minnesota, tn place of Lieut. Commander E. H. Gheen, ordered home. Commander 8. W. Very to the Bos- ton navy yard. Lieut. EE. Wright to the Wabash. Lieuts. E. Lioyd and C. C. Rogers to the Naval Academy. Judge Cox, in the Probate Court, has ap- proved the first pro rata account of Wm. A. and J. Holdsworth Gordon, executors of the estate of the late Osceola C. Green. Nearly all women have hair, though many are gray, and few are Hail’s Hair wer 1estores ‘the natural color and thickens the growth of the hair. ! M'KINLEY IN OHIO Result of the. First Poll by the-Republican State Committee. 2 Belief That His Plurality Will Be About 40,000—Democratic Com- mittee Not Yet Known. Special Dispatch to The Bvening Star. COLUMBUS, Ohio, September 17.—Some- thing more reliable than mere estimates is“now at hand by which to judge of the result of the coming election in Ohio. The republican state executive committee has begun to receive its first polls. In two ™more weeks these will be in from eyery county. A month later, that is to say, just’ before the election, another report will be recelved from the chairmen of the counties giving the known changes that have taken place since the first polls were made. From these repcrts the state chair- man may know at an early date what the condition upon which he has to work ts, and later on what effect his campaign work has had, and the conditions under which his party goes into the actual election. What the First Poll Show: The contents of the poll books are usual- ly kept secret, but The Star correspondent has secured the information that so far as the polls have been returned they show 4 republican defection among the farmers of the state equal on the average to eigh- teen votes per precinct. This is not a net loss, but only actual voters who are known to have been in the habit of voting the republican ticket, and who are now known to be intending to vote for Bryan. It does not include the cities, in which the republi- cans are shown by the same polls to either hold their own, or make large republican gains. It confirms the prediction that the treuble in store for the republicans in this State lies in the country districts, There are about 3,000 precincts in the State, a third of which are in the rural districts. If this rate of republican loss indicated by the polls received is reliable, it means that the free silver plank in the democratic platform will draw about 15,000 straight republican voters from the re- publican ranks into the democratic party. This direct change is equivalent to a gain of just double that number of votes for the democrats—cr 36,000 votes. The popu- lists cast a little over 50,900 votes last year and by te fusion agreement practically all of these votes wiil be delivered to the Bryan electoral ticket. To this must be added about 5,000 probtbitionist votes which will come from the two branches of that party to the support of free silver. The um of these votes, representing the gross ins of the democratic vote in this state over that cast for Bushnell for governor last fall, is 91,00—exactly the plurality given Bushnell—wiping that plurality out. McKinley's Extimated ality. It has been generally conceded that there Will be 210,000 democrats in this state who to vote for Bryan Of these will refus 0) will aving only lianapolis ticket. Dou go to McKinley to get adding them to the 20. lest from the democrat bling t their fi “) votes the full loss to the democratic in the state is made 40,06), This is fore, the plurality for the McKinley elec- toral ticket in this state. Few well-posted republicans expect that McKinley will carry the state by anything like 100,000, ‘The re- publican leaders have felt very confident of the State from the first, and are now con- firmed in their first estimates, but they are fearful of the result in other states with the same republican losses. In several States which it is m cannot stand an Ssary to carry such losses, Democratic Committee Not Known, they ‘The democratic state executive committee is still unknown. Before the fusion was ef- fected the state central committee met and chose Daniel McConville of Steubenville ex~ ecutive chairman and empowered him to choose his own committee. He has not made his ections yet, and will provab! not do so for a week or more 1s due to the fusion. The populists some voice on the executive committe it is to arrange for this that Mr. M ville is holding back his committee. The trouby spends most of his time In Chicago, and the committee rooms are for the most part in charge of Col. W. A. Taylor. A force of five or six clerks is employed in correspond- ence and mailing campaign literature. Of the latter there seems to be a great dearth. A candidate for a local office in Marion county arrived last evening and made a demand for a quantity of literature, which, he said, was urgently needed in his coun- ty. He said he had written repeatedly to Gen, A. J. Warner of the silver leagu to Chairman Faulkner of the congress committee, to National Chairman Jon: to John R. MeLean asking for lite all of whom acknowledged the receipt the letters and id the request had been fled, but no matter was sent . to indicate that the py peed of ‘th inews of war.” The repubtican state execut is announcing fifty or sixty new po meetings for prominent speakers, every « and intend to have the rural parts of state thoroughly covered before the cam- paign is ended. —_— PLOT AGAINST THE SULTAN. Turkish Officials Fear a Mussulman Movement. Owing to the Turkish government's com munication to the embassies of the powers in regard to rumors of another outbreak at Constantingple, the embassies have deputed the foreign consuls to authorize the police to enter foreign houses when necessary and arrest Armenians throwing bombs or shoot- ing therefrom. The offer of the Turkish government to furnish the embassies with guards has been declined, the foreign officials prefer- ring to rely upon the guards of blue jackets from the warships of the powers. Since the issuing of the Hynchakist cir- cular 3,000 Armenians have been arrested, nd the exodus of Armenians continues. The Turkish officials declare that they have discovered a quantity of bombs and dynamite in the Halidjisciou quarter. It is feared in high quarters that a Mus- sulman movement is afoot against the sul- tan, and military measures on an extensive scale have been adopted. soe ket Blank. After nine hours of exciting debate populis: state convention at Chicago Gay night tacitly indorsed Governor Alt- geld, by leaving the head of their ticket blank. ‘The following is the ticket as nominated: Lieutenant governor, Henry D. Lioyd; sec- retary of state, L. A. Quellmasz; auditor, Grant Dunbar; attorney general, E. 1. Rur- dick; state treasurer, John H. Schwerzgen; trustee state university, Mrs. Fannie Kav- anaugh; electors-at-large, A. Hi. Alien, Boone county; O. L. Bearss, Burcau county. The fight of the convention was over the question of a gubernatorial nomination, and once or twice police were called to eject disorderly delegates. A compromise was finally agreed upon, the head of the ticket being left vacant, and Henry D. Lioyd, slated for the nomination for gov- ernor, being nominated for lieutenant gov- ernor. The platform adopted indorses the St. Louls convention, and contaius the fol- lowing: “We do most heartily indorse the wisdom of the national convention in the nomina- tion of Thomas E. Watson for Vice Presi- dent of the United States, and most em- phaticatly denounce any action which jre- vents the — of any state from the privilege of casting their ballots for bir.” The remaining presidential electors will be presented to the state executive commit- tee by each congressional district. ——_+o+—__—_ Te Visit the President. Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle, who have been visiting Bar Harbor, left Tuesdey night on the John Rodgers for Buzzard’s Bay, where they will be guests of Presi- dent and Mrs. Cleveland. ———+o $25 oak china cases, $17.75, at Moses’ an- nual furniture sale.—Advt.