Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1896, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. = PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, T THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 ‘Iwania Avenue, Cor. ar St, by The ing Star Ne x Company. 8. H. KAUPFMA: ite Prest New 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. | Copies at tho counter 2 cents each. By mail—anywhere in the United States or Canada—postage prepaid—50 cents per month. Saturday Quintuple Sheet Star, $1 per sear, with foreign postage added, $3.00. (Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., ag second-class mail matter.) ‘C7 All mail subscriptions must be paid In advance. Rates of advertising made known oa application. MR. ROSS REFUSES He Cannot Serve as Vice President of the Bryan Meeting. OPPOSED 10 CHICAGO PLATFORM Country's Best Interests Would Not Be Subserved. THE COMMISSIONER'S LETTER > District Commissioner Johu W. Ross has repudiated the Chicago platform. Today he wrote a letter to Col. Willtam Dickson notifying him of his decision. The letter follows: “Col. William Dickson, Democratic Na- tional Committee Headquarters. “Dear Sir: Upon my return from a visit to the west on the morning of the 15th I had the honor to read your esteemed favor of September 12 notifying me that at a recent meeting of the committee on organ- ization perfecting arrangements for the reception to the Hon. William J. Bryan and Arthur Sewall and ratification of their neminations for President and Vice Pres!- dent of the United States, I had been selected to act as on? of the vice presidents of the meeting to be held on the afternoon and eveni yn a personal acquaintance with him since he first became a member of Con- nd the personal friendship which grew cut of that acquaintance, and the fect that he is a native of Mlinois and a graduate of Illinois College, would induce me to join willingly aad gratefully with my old democratic associates of the Dis- trict in any movement tending to show re- spectful regard for him It has been my desire s : ecnvention to become convinced that my duty to the grand ol] organization with which I have been identified ever’ since I attained my majority required me to sup- pert the ticket named at Chicago, in spite of some of the declarations of the platform with which I could not coincide. I sought to persuade myself that Mr. Bryan's train- as a lawyer would render him con- ative and safer than the tenéencies a the advice of many of the extreme n who constructed that platform. My time during my recent visit to Illinois was largely give to the consideration of these questions and to the perusal of Mr. Bryan's speeches and the arguments of other able men on both sides of the financial ques- tion. a result of my deliberations I anot avoid the conclusion that, with all ef Mr. Bryan's strength of character and he would, If elect-d, b> dominated by cbjectionable doctrines of the Chi- cago platform and of the one promulgated by the populists at St. Louis, and that. as a result, the best interests of the entire ccuntry would not be subserved by his elec- tion, “While, therefore, if I were merely in- @ to join with other citizens of Wash- in showing respect to him as a mi 1 would dcem myself honored in participat- ing. yet much as the terms of the invi- tation contemplate that by my acceptan I must rse the Chicago platform—al- though I adhere strictly to the fundamental doctrines and all the old-time tenets of the democratic party—I cannot consistently see my way clear to accept the proffered enor of acting as a vice president of the meeting. I beg to assure you that I ap- preciate most highly the courtesy on the part of the committee which prompted the invitation, and that I hope that the recep- tion to the distirguished guest of the day may in every respect be worthy of the na- onal capital. I am, with great respec: very truly yours, (Signed) . ROSS.” NORTH CAROLINA. Informntion on Which Republicans Hope to Carry the State. Republican hopes in North Carolina and cther southern states are said to be based en information of a trustworthy character. ‘The information comes in letters from all ever the south. The republican committee d the following letter from rilliam R. Atkinson, at Saranac Lake, N. -. and give it as a sample of letters from ern men: “My home is now in Char- . N. C., and I Ived in North Carolina for fifteen years. Therefore, I know where- of I speak, when I, a life-long democrat and an old confederate soldier, say that McKinley can carry North Carolina. The regroes are for sound money; all business men there, democrats or republicans, are for sound money; many old democrats, like elf, who never voted the republican ticket in our lives before now, declare they will vote for McKinley. If the republicans » will put cut a straight republican na- 1 ticket. continuing their state alliance with the populists, they will carry the state a clear majority, and we sound money mocrats will help them do it. We are rot afraid of protection; it won't hurt us, ut Bryan will ruin us.” our 4 OURI. Democrats Expect to Curry 4 Two Congressional Districts. Reports have been received at democratic headquarters from the state democratic committee of Missorri as to the situation in that state. The reports, it ig said, are based on polis made in parts of the state and estimates made by county and town committees where polls had not been com- but pleted. The state committee figures out a majority of 55,000 for Bryan. Upon the same basis the congressfonal committee here has made computations as to the con- gressional districts and believes that all but two of the democratic nominees for ‘ss will be elected. The report from ‘our! committee says: “The silver is not subsiding in this state, but is sing in volume. Daily defections are reported from the republican ranks. The gold ticket will not affect the result.” eo The Democratic Clubs’ Meeti J. Frank Snider, representing the Na- tional Association of Democratic Clubs, has returned to the city from St. Louis, where he went to make all arrangements for the meeting of the association in that city Oc- tober 3. Mr. Snider reports to Secretary Gardner that all will be in readiness when the hosts of club members reach St. Louis. Secretary Gardner is satisfied with every- thing but the railroad rates to the big con- vention. The railroads have offered a one and one-third rate for delegates from all over the country, but Mr. Gardner wants a one-fare rate. He is fighting to get it, and hopes to succeed. He says that the roads gave a one-fare rate to the Indianapolis gold convention and to the Young Men’s Republican League. He alleges that-a one- fare rate is also given to Canton. He is un- able to see why his association is not given the same privileges. He believes the at- tendance at St. Louis will be far greater than it was at Indinapolis, ————-o- —____. The Vice President to Preside. ‘Vice President Stevenson has informed Secretary Gardner of the Association of Bryan Clubs that he will accept the asso- ciation’s invitation to preside at the club convention at St. Louls on October 3. The club officials now count upon an attendance of 10,000 delegates. = Che Fveni Star. ~ No 13,587. WASHINGTON, D. ©, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1896-TWELVE PAGES. TWO CENTS. IN McKINLEY’S STATE ONE ISSUE FOREMOST Importance of the Result of the First Repub- lican Poll. What the Democratic Managers Have Been Persistently Claiming Now Answered—Effcct of Muine’s Vote. ‘The Star’s very interesting letter from Columbus, giving an outline of the first re- publican poll of Ohio, is an important con- tribution to the news of the day. The re- ports from the state have all been contra- dictory, and had ranged all the way from rosy estimates of a hundred thousand ma- Jority for Mr. McKinley to equally rosy es- timates of fifty thousand majority for Mr. Bryan. The Star's news is the first re- celved that bears with anything like au- thentic detail on the actual situation. Democratic Assertions. While there has never been a serious doubt in republican circles here that Ohio was safe for her own son, some of the re- publican leaders have felt that no doubt on the subject ought to be permitted to exist anywhere A sort of doubt has been created here and there by the very insis' ence of the democratic managers tiat they were gaining in Mr. McKinley's own bail- iwick. It has been felt, therefore, that the whole matter should be cleared up at once, and particularly because of the effect it would have in all the surrounding territory. The Bryan people have been counting on beneficial results from industriousty circu- lating stories in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa ard Kentucky that the republican candidate was weak right at home. Voters in those states have been asked to belleve that sil- ver was making astounding headway in Ohio, and could not in any circumstances be checked. Must Equal Maine. Then this great vote that Maine has thrown is taken into account. Mr. Reed's state, it is sald, must not be permitted to outstrip Mr. McKinley's state in the race. Mr. McKinley at St. Louis won hands down. The west, the south, the northwest and the middie states, all supported him, and they should give a good account of themselves at the polls. Mr. McKinley's friends do not relish the bare suggestion of Mr. Reed's constituents doing more for the ticket than Mr. McKinley's. Vermont and Maine have filled republican nearts with good cheer and confidence, and this should not be checked by permitting for long any doubts to hang over the condi- tion of affairs immediately under the eyes of the candidate himself. Submitted to Mr. This matter, it is said, has been sub- mitted to Mr. Hanna. It was not sup- posed that he was ignorant of affairs at home, or that he was neglecting them, but inasmuch as he has so much to consider it was thought not improper to suggesc the taking of steps to relieve at once any anxiety that may exist anywhere about republican prospects in the buckeye coun- try. + © YOSEMITE PARK. Poachers and Herders Are Still After Game and Grass. Lieut. Col. L. B. M. Young, superinten- dent of the Yosemite Park, has filed his annual report with Secretary Francis. He says trappers and hunters are stil! suc- cessfully destroying game in the park, in spite of all precautions. He will not allow any one to carry firearms into the park, and every trail of access to the park bound- aries is regularly visited and some of them patrolled; yet the poachers get in their work. Copies of the rules governing the park are posted conspicuously everywhere. Yet many hunting parties pretend inno- cently to be ignorant of them when over- taken by the soldiers. In some cases the muslin placards warning visitors against shooting game have been viciously torn down. Numerous fires occur from camping parties. Six were put out in July. Had they occurred, as they might have, twenty miles or more from Col. Young’s camp, ex- tensive destruction of forests would have occurred. Fishing permits are granted vis- itors simply for daily use. Fish weighing less than five ounces must be put back alive. Brown, rainbow and cutthroat trout eggs and fry have been planted in the waters of the park this year, as usual. Grouse and quail are multiplying rapidly. This year’s young broods have been splen- didly protected and have thriven. Large game is not as plentiful as should be the case where effort is made systematically to protect it. Herders have, as usual, tried to graze their flocks in the park. One flock of 7,00 sheep early in the season was cap- tured, and while the two herders were held prisoners the sheep were scattered many miles in every direction. The superinten- dent asks that the park boundaries be sur- veyed and marked and some money spent on roads and trails. et SENATOR HILL’S POSITION. Why It is Said He Will Support the Chicago Ticket. It is reported in democratic circles that Senator Hill has written friends in this city of his intention soon to announce him- self in favor of the Chicago ticket. It is said that in the letters the Senator pro- claims himself a bimetallist, and as still opposed to the principles enunciated at Chicago. He puts his support of the ticket on the ground that it 1s regular, and th: between the Chicago ard Indianapolis tickets he believes the former to be the best. One is silver monometallism, he thinks, and the other is gold monomet- allism. When the Senator makes his announce- ment, he will, it 1s said, intimate that he couldn't go back on the state ticket nomi- nated at Buffalo, and that he can’t go back on the national ticket. He will gay that he believes the democracy of his views will eventually triumph. ge Personal Mention. Paymaster C. W. Littlefield, under orders to the Maine, fs on a-visit to this city. He is at the Ebbitt. Passed Assistant Surgeon W. F. Arnold has reported at the Navy Department for special duty. Mr. Cal. O'Laughlin of the Washington staff of the New York Herald, who was supposed to be recovering from an attack of typhold fever, has had a relapse, and his friends are apprehensive as to the re- sult. Lieut. Charles B. Satterlee, 3d Artillery, has been granted leave of absence for three months on account of disability. Mr. Octavius L. Pruden is passing his vacation at Niagara Falls. During his ab- sence Mr. Warren S. Young is acting as assistant secretary to the President. Fourth-Class Postmasters. There were fifteen fourth-class postmast- ers appointed today, of whom thirteen will fill vacancies caused by death or resigna- tion. —___+--». Iown Democrats Split. DES MOINES, Iowa, September 18.—The two factions of the democratic party in this state are engaged in a spirited con- test as to which shall be recognized as the democratic party on the official ballot. The attorney general holds-that the first come must be the first ‘served. Where there are no contests the courity auditor, clerk and attorney must . determine. looks as if it will lead ~to- cofsiderable confusion. Bryan Declares the Money Question Paramount, OTHER MATTERS DROPPED AT PRESENT Silverites Fighting Together Instead of Among Themselves. —_+—_—_. SECTIONALISM DENIED SS — GOLDSBORO’, N. C., September 18.—Wil- liam J. Bryan arrived here at 11:30 last night, when the private car he is traveling in was sidetracked until 9 o'clock this morning, at which hour he delivered an address from a platform to a large crowd, which had been waiting since early morn- ing. . Mr. Bryan was escorted by the Goldsboro’ Rifles, and at the conclusion of the speak- ing left for Rocky Mount. Mr. Bryan had the following to say to- day about the action of the Buffalo con- vention: “I am very much gratified to learn that the New York convention in- dorsed the platform as well as the ticket.” Necessity of Harmony. Mr. Bryan spoke as follows: “Ladies and Gentlemen: In this cam- paign we are fighting together, instead of fighting among ourselves. I remember, a few years ago, a populist in Congress said that down in South America there ran wild upon the prairies small burros, that, in time of danger, when attacked by wild animals, would get together, puttiig their heads together, and their feet on the out- side, so they formed a circle with their heels and kicked the enemy, but he said it was often the case that the advocates of various reforms would put their heads on the outside and kick each other. (Laugh- BS it has been too often the case that those who were fighting for reform, because they could not agree entirely, would interfere with each other, and each attempt to off- set the other's’ work. In this campaign those who believ the free coinage of silver have joined together, regardless of aifferences of opinion upon other subjects. Democrats who believe in tariff reform and republicans’ who believe in protection are able to get together when both recog- nize that the money question is superior to the tariff question. (Applause.) “A populist leader iu this state well ex- pressed the idea when he said that while believed in populist doctrines yet he willing to lay some of them aside un- til he could get others. For instance, he said, while he believed in the government ownership of railroads, he did not want the government to own the rallroads lcng as the Rothschilds owned the gov ment. (Great applause.) It is this willing- ness to lay aside mitor differ-nces in hours of danger that characterizes our people and gives the surest proof they are able to rise to the requirements of any emergency. Sectionalism, “Sometimes they accuse us of raising a sectional issue. One of the best evidence that the platform adopted at Chicago does not raise a sectional issue 1s found in the language of the platform adopted yester- day in New York. Let me read it to you. After unreservedly indorsing the platform and the candidates of the Chicago conven- tion, the New York platform declares as its deliberate judgment that never in the history of the democratic party has a platform been written which embodies more completely the interests of the whole pecple as distinguished from those who seek legislation for private benefits than that given to the country by the national demceratic convention of 1896. (Applause.) “There within the shadow of Wall street, there against the combined opposition of thcse once leading democrats of New York whe have left the democratic party and either gone over entirely to the republi- cans or stopped for a moment, at the half- way house, the democracy of New York decleres the platform adopted at Chicago is the most democratic platform ever put befcre the country by a democratic con- vention. (Applause.) “In the state of Connecticut they have also irdorsed our platform and likewise in Pernsylvania and New Jersey. In thes and other eastern states the democracy 1s Leginning to realize that the Chicago platform presents to the American people those great issues around which the peo- ple must cluster If they are going to retain a gcvernment of, by and for the people. The Income Tax. “The Chicago platform contained a plank expressing a desire for an income tax, not saying that we are going to ignore the de- cision of the Supreme Court, but that an inceme tax should be retained and enforced so far as the decision of the court would permit, and that we would abide by the principle still if a future court, exercising the same right to reverse the decision re- cently given that the present court exer- cised in overthrowing the precedent of a hundred years, should go back to the doc- trine we used to have, and declare that under the Constitution it is possible to make those who have large incomes pay their share of the expenses of government. (Applause.) “In my judgment the income tax is jist. It 1s not war upon property, but it is a de- mand that those who have property and who demand the protection of that prop- erty by federal laws should be willing to support the government to which they look for that protection, and rot seek to use the instrumentalities of government for their own benefit and then throw the bur- den of supporting that government on the backs of those not able to bear it. (Ap- plause.) The Money Question First. “The three parties which have joined in my nomiration agree that, whHe there are other issues before the people aside from the money question, yet the money aves- tion rises paramount to them all, and must be settled first. Other questions can wait, the money question cannot. It has heen forced upon public attention. It has been brought before the people and we have to decide whether we shall continue to run the government or shall put the financial policy of the Americar people in the hands of the American people to be framed by them and for them from now on. (Ap- plause.) Waiting for Foreigners. “I never lose an opportunity to impress upon the people the importance of this question to every citizen. The republican platform declares we must maintain our present financial policy, not until we get tired of it, but until foreign nations get tired of it and consent for us to abandon it. To my mind no more infamous propo- sition was ever indorsed by any party, and I cannot believe as I look into the faces of tens of thousands of free Americans throughout all these states that they are willing to trust the destinies of the peo- ple in the hands of foreigners whom we can only reach by petition. (Applause.) “The republican party had a great op- portunity before it. Here was a democratic administration which was being opposed by a large part of the democratic party, and it is a much more difficult thing for a man to cppose wrong in his own party than in his opponents. Here were demo- crats willing to array themselves in op- position to the policy of the President, not because they loved the President less, but because they love the people infinitely more. (Applause.) When the republicans assembled in St. Louis, if they had op- posed the President's fina: policy and declared they would restore #he money of the Constitution, and the democratic party had indorsed the administratton, the repub- can party would have swept the demo- cratic party out of existence. But what did they do? “When they met they were controlled in their deliberation by the same people who had controlled the financlal policy of this administration, and they wrote a platform which would perpetuate the same financial policy from which we are now suffering. ‘These same influences after dominating the St. Louls convention, attempted to dominate the Chicago convention, and write a platform so much like the republican platform on the money question that if the two had been read to you you could not have picked out which was which. But at last we got an Issue. Begun With the Voters. “The democratic party by beginning at the ground and werking up, instead of com- mencing at the top and working down, by commencing with the voters instead of commencing with the bosses, secured a platform which breathes the spirit of the Declaration of Independence and gives in- spiration to the toiling millions of the United States. It is not strange that tens and hundreds of thousands have deserted the republican party. Not a day passes but I meet republicans who tell me they voted for Abraham Lincoln and voted the republican ticket ever since, but they found more of the republicanism of early days in the democratic platform than they can find in the republican platform of this year. CHAIRMAN JONES’ FIGURES € What the Chairman of the Republican Con- gressional Committee Says of Them. Some Stwtes Are Included Which, There is No Doubt, Will Go for McKinley. The republican managers here are im- menscly tickled at the figures sent out frcm democratic headquarters at Chicago claiming big joritics in many states, and claiming thirty-six out of the forty-five states for the democratic ticket. ‘The figures are so ridiculous,” said Chairman Bebcock to a Star reporter,““that I hardly know what to say about them. Since I have been in charge of the work of this committee I have never gnade a boom- erang statement of that kimd. It doesn't pay any party to do it. Two years ago all our estimates were based on facts and on undoubted information, and what we give out this year will be of the same kind. “Chairman Jones might as well have claimed the whole thing. He left only a few states for the republicans, but I don't see why he did this. When Mr. Jones came here from New York a short time ago he claimed New York by a large majority. I notice now that New York Is not in- cluded in the estimate he gives out. That's funny. I don’t see how a.manager can say one thing one day ang another the xt. A number of states in the Chicago estimate are not even debatable ground, they are so surely republican. For instance, Wisconsin is claimed by the democrats by 30,090 majority. Not even the democrats in that s' aim that they will win. The lowest majority for the rep@blicans I have seen figured on in Wisconsin is 50,000, and we claim the state by 100,000, An indica- tion of the feeling in Wisconsin can be judged by the betting. Three weeks ago a prominent republican of the state offered to bet $1,000 to $500 that the state would give a republican plurality of 50,000, There have been no takers, and the offer is still open. “Indiana, Ilinots and’ Towa are republi- can past all question, and the only que tion ts the size of the majority the ticket will get In those states. The most pre- posterous thing of all is the claim that Ohio will go for Bryan by 25,000 majority. Our advices from Ohio are that the ma- jority for McKinley will be fully as large as the majority for Bushnell two years ago, and fn all probability it will be much greater. I have received trustworthy re- ports from fully half of the congressional districts of the state, and they show no falling off in the republican vote. I be- eve the reports from the other districts will show the same state of affairs.” o——_____ FATAL WRECK ON THE C., H. AND D. Four Men Killed and a Number of Others Injared. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., September 18.— Four men were killed and a number of others badly injured tals morning in a wreck on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad near Connersville, Ind., about forty miles east of here. The dead are Christ Sweetman, engineer, Dayton; —— Kinzey, fireman, Cincinnati; George House, conductor, Indiunapolis; — Hughes, fireman, Hamilton. Injured—Paymaster Janeseng, badly hurt; Assistant Paymaster Schallon, slightly in- jured; — Fishback, porter of pay car, badly hurt; E. Wysong, foreman of bridges and buildings, badly hurt; J. M. Rourke, rozdmaster, slightly injured; —— Conner, engineer, Hamilton, supposed to be fatally hurt. The accident was one of the worst that has happened in this part of the state for years. The pay car was following the regular freight train, No. 9, east-bound. Both were running as extra trains. Caused by a Broken Axle. LANCASTER, Pa, September 18.—A broken axle caused a bad freight wreck near the Conestoga bridge, a mile cast of this clty, today. Twenty-one cars were wrecked, some of them totally demolished, and both tracks blocked. Traffic will prob- ably not be resumed until late this after- neon. ‘The only persons injured were. a tramp, who had a foot masned, and a brakeman, whose foot was cut. —.=_ THREATENED BY INVINCIBLES. Tynan’s Release From French Au- thorities Demanded. BOULOGNE, France, September 18.—M. Bossu, the deputy public prosecutor in charge of the case against P, J. P. Tynan, the alleged Irish dynamiter, received a viclent letter today informing him, in the name of @ committee of Invincibles and the anarchist brotherhood, that unless Ty- ran is released within twenty-four hours, ne Ge Bossu) will be blown up with dyna- mite. The letter is written with @ red fluid, be- leved to be blood, is dated Thursday, Sep- tember 17, and was posted at Laon, cap- ital of the department of -Aisne, about eighty-six miles from Paris. eS The Scaffold Breke. NEW YORK, September 18—Four ship caulkers working on O'Neil's dry docks in Brooklyn were thrown twenty feet this morning by the breaking of a scaffold, all receiving injuries to the head, body and legs. One of the men will in all proba- bility die. The injured are: Andrew Paro- scandelt, fifty-five years old, skull frac- tured; Joseph Cottrelle, eighteen years cid, contusion of hip; Marcus Salvester, forty- one years old, cut on head, body and icgs; Michael Serist, twenty-nine years old, bruises about the bedy. ——~___ Ocean Steamships Arrived. NEW YORK, September 18.—Arrived— California, Legifrn; Columbia, Hamburg. QUEENSTOWN, September 18,—Arrived —Campania, New York for Liverpool. READY FOR BRYAN|THAT WESTERN TRIP What Mr. Babcock Says of the Tour of Arrangements for the Democratic Ratification Meeting Completed. PROGRAM OF THE PROCEEDINGS Distribution of Tickets and Their Apportionment. hae. ace eee LIST OF -OFFICERS ee The arrangements for the democratic ratification meeting, which Candidate Will- jam Jennings Bryan will address, at the old Capitol Base Ball Park tomorrow af- ternoon, have been completed, so far as the joint committee on organization is con- cerned. The meeting will be called to order promptly at 4 o'clock by Mr. Thomas LB. Kalbfus, chairman of the general com- mittee, who, after stating the purpose of the meeting, will recognize Mr. William Dickson of the committee on organization, who will name the presiding offic and other officers of the meeting. Colonel Jas. G. Lerret, the gentleman selected to pre- side, will then take the helm. The resolu- tions will then be reported by Mr. John A. Clarke, and after their adoption, the speechmaking will begin. On the arrival of Mr. Bryan he will at once and and address the people. will be made by Mr, Jeff. ©! ator Faulkner, Mr. Andrew Lipscomb, Mr. Bryan and Mr. Thomas F. Grady of New York. Officers of the Ocension. The corrected list of officers is as Presiding officer, James G. presidents, Lawrence Wilson, Hutchins, follo Berret; ardner, Wm. vice Stilson art, Ma Wm. Dickson, James Norris, John Boyle, Wm. Holmead, Geo. Killeen, 1. N. ns, L. Jord Frank P. Mo: Robert Frank Hume, Brook- shire, John F. Rixey, E. ‘Meredith, Har- ry Welles Hallet Kilbourn, Jo- seph A. Hc Bala BS. Fleming, CUlnton — Furbis John F Tryon, Edwin Forrest, Cu af r J. M. De , Blair Lee, R. E. Diffenderfe oO. b. Hallam, J. Moss, L. Irving Handy, William Simmons, John W. Haye Martin, J. B. Mc Tugh, Wil J. Hadle; Doy) dict, E. H. New! = E. a John A. Clarke, Wm. H. Selden, J. Fred Kelley, Arthur Small, Jackson Yates, Chas. A. Bowman, E. R. Kelly, James McCon- vine, D. William Oyster, C. W. Stan. V. Henckels, John H sen Johnson, F. W. Kahh ler, L. P. Kr rens, Jacob , Andrew Loeff- liler, Louis Beh- Beck, Alex. Kent, George A. Davidson, Kerr, Howard Mutchle: R. J. B Cranch McIntire, Alex. J. Wedderburn, George W. Bauer, Charles . Shelton, Wm. M. Edmunds, J. W. Drew, J. W. Thomas, J. C. Ergood, W. T. Whelan, J. Kelly Magnum, Charles L. Campbell, John T.+Moylan, E. -W. Ayers, Horn, John A. Rudd, Richard C. Lewi: Edward F. Buckley, Henry Darling, Ja: Reagan, Wm. McKendree Clayton, Dani Hannan, Henry O. Bannon, J. Alth Johnson, W. B. Smoot, W. J. Hendrick: Whit H. Hammet. Secretaries—Wm. Houghtaling, Marshall W. Wines, Charles Allen, Thomas F. Cook, J. F. Duhamel, B. F. Clayton, E. W. An- derson, Rober Harper. Press committee—John Boyle, Unite Press; H. L. Merrick, the Post; M. F. Tighe, the Times; Cluskey Cromvell, The Star; O'Brien Moore, St. Louis Republic; R. H. Wynne, New York Press. Distribution of Tickets. The distribution of tickets was commenc- ed this mornir.g. At the meeting last night of the jcint committee on organization it Was decitied to issue 1,000 additional tick- ets, which would entitle holders to seats in the clé grand stand, an investigation of this structure having proven that it was safe to use it. ‘The apportionment of the platform seats was as follows: Members of the central committee, five exch . Vice presidents, Press . Finance committee Members of general committee. Political ecmmittees, six each Messrs. Gardner and Berrett, s Those on the grand stand were ordered distributed among the various democratic associations represented on the joint _com- mittee in the follewing proportions: Inter- state, 160; Jackson, 131; Young Men's, 100 Virginia, 100; Columbia, 91; Maryland, §5 East Washington, St: Veterans’ Bryan’ anc Sewall, 73; South Washington, 60; Arkan- sas, 45; Indiana, 43, and Anacostia, 33. Mr. Michael Scanlon, as chairman of the committee on order, was authorized to ap- point a sufficient number of assistants to act with the police authorities and preserve order at the park during the meeting. It was decided to employ Weber's Band ex- clusively to provide the music. ‘There will be another meeting of the j committee tonight, and also of the recep- tion committee, of which Mr. J. Fred Kelley is chairman, at which assignments will be made of subcommittees to meet the various distinguished guests who have been invited to attend and to name six gentlemen who will go to Fredericksburg and accompany Mr. Bryan to this city. “ THE UNION PACIF 10 200 A Proposition to Pay the Govern- ment’s Claim. United States Commissioner of Railroads Gen. Wade Hampton and W. J. Coombs, government director of the Union Paciiic road, held a conference yesterday with Secretary Francis over the proposition to foreclose the government's claim of 00,000 on the Union Pacific and the Cen- tral branch in Kansas and Colorado. The syndicate is said to be willing to pay $% 000,006 for the government’s claim. Ti proposition is likely to be forwarded ‘to Congress next session. = eer Indians Arrested. Acting Governor Burdick of Wyoming has telegraphed the Indian office that the local authorities, acting under his direc- tions, have arrested a number of Indians for hunting at Jackson's Hole, in violation of state game laws. He urged the Indian bureau to prevent any further violations of the law and avoid conflict with the state authorities. Agent Teter has been in- structed by the Indian bureau to bring back all the Indians, and if they refuse to come under arresi by the Indian police to call for troops. Agent Teter has replied that the Indiun police have already been sent after the Indians, and that they will be brought back. There are from twenty to thirty Indians and their families in the hunting parties. It Is stated at the Indian office here that no trouble need be feared. —_—_-+ Pensions Allowed. District of Columbia—Original widows, ete. (special, September 10), Caroline A. Baker, Washington; Mary E. Nealy (mother), Washington. West Virginia—Original, Joseph H. Eads, Second Creek, Monroe. Maryland—Reissue, Salisbury, Wicomico. Virginia—Original, William Downing, Na- tional Soldiers’ Home, Elizabeth City; Geo. C. Burton, Stover, Augusta. Leonard Parsons, Messrs. Apsley and McCall. Republica the Pacific Coast on Stirred Up and Good Results Confidently Expected. “The trip which Vice Chairman Apsley and Representative McCall of Massachu- setts have made through the west and the Pacific coast states,” said Chairman Bal cock of the republican congressional com mittee today, “has given a fresh impetus to the cause of protection and republican| in those states. The two gentlemen m: their tour of Inspection under the auspices of this committee. They are both men of practical business experience and keen po- litical observation, who are not misled t weather-cock indications, which sometimes betray political managers of unusually acute judgment. I have learned to attac the greatest significance to Mr. Apste opinion, and do not hesitate to place st absolute confidence in the hign esti- e he forms of republican prospects in ifornia, Washington and Oregon. Republican managers had grown to look upon the west and Pacific coast as sure r publican states, until the landslide of 1s awakened them to the fact that republicaa to 8 the The congressional committee in concluded to take a hand in the fight, the result. of our efforts soon became ent. The Dakotas, Wyoming and the cific coast practically returned a solit delegation to Congre I now feel cor dent that similarly gratifying resuits can be accomplished in November. Republicans Stirred Up. ‘Mr. Apsley found republicanism on the coast in a state of coma. At Spokane Falls the hall was crowded to suffocation, but half of the audience was for free er, and shouted Iike dervishes at the «nention of Bryan's nam The trouble with the people on the coast appeared to bs they had heard but one sic and under the influence of f ticn had partially forgot the prot ’s. plain ard ing tariff money discussions stirred them up. sult of their visit to Spokane Falls, ample, was the organization of a McKini and Hebart Club of 1,100 members. In Cal- ifornia Apsley exercised his functions peacemaker so admirably that before One he left he had the leaders of the warring re- publican factions at a dinner ‘The ball was set in motion work in the golden state is in a way to gladden the he with him. there, and the ving forward rts of republi- I over the countr: Wherever he went he spread the gospel of peace and pro- tection, und roused the old party de, which brooks no defeat novelty, ult in incalculable benefit. Aps- it has caused the national commit- tec to take an interest in the western situa- Uon such as was never known befor Un- ul IMM the west generally had te rely cn its own orators and party re:our Asa result of our inquiry into conditions there, the Rocky mountain and Pacific coast states will be better looked after this year than ever before. Senator Sherm-ai™ will cpen the speaking campaign in Moniana Gen, Ben. Butterworth is now en bis w west to deliver a es of sp nes, al others of equal note will follo s » The condi- tions on the Pacific coast warrant us standing firm by the conviction that we can rouse the people to a clear recognition of their own interests and giving their electoral vote to Maj. McKinley in Novem- ber. Apsley’s work has begun to tell al) along the line,” concluded Mr. Babcock, “and we are able to trace his movement by tffe demand for literature, which has in. creased enormously from ccuntry where he and Met ————_-e- HE FEARED EXP Suicide of a Young Man Wh. Personated a German Baro SAN FRANCISCO, September 18 Had With the identification of the body of an un- know youth who ccmmitted suicide under fous circurstances at Martinez on Sunday last the story of the eventful but briet career of an alleged German baron at Belmont, in San Mateo county, has just come to ght. . About a year ago a tramp was picked up on the highway between Redwood City and Belmont by a philanthropic resident of the latter place, who took him home and gav him employment. After working for most nine months, the y s known as Harry Moering, contided to the is employer's house that he was an impostor. Instead of being an ordinar. tramp he was Baron E. Von Zedwitz. eldest son of a German nobleman other incidents of his Ife he reli he had been an officer in the G but had deserted his ship for aginary grievance, when in South Afri and had worked his wa sponding with his father, and the latte who was a personal and intimate fric of the German emperor, had exercised his political pull, and that he not only been forgiven for deserting p, bat had been honored by an appointment as a first lieutenant. He also incidentally men- ticned that his dear mother had died Germany, and on her death bed had fo given him and tequeathed him a sum equal to about $35,000 in American money Recent letters, he stated, had been received by him’ announcing that an allow ance would soon be forwarded to him py his father, who was enxious for him to re- turn to his fatherland. As he produced let- ters to substantiate his story, his romance was credited by one member of the family at least, the yourgest daughter of his em- ployer’s, who astonished her relatives t announcing shortly afterward that plighted her troth to the baron. inquiry, the distinguished foreigner cease to work and lived as the honored guest of his benefactor, but just before a letter a rived from Germany denouncing him as impostor he disappeared. —— CHANUTE’S SOARI NE. Made a Short Flight, but Alightea Easily and Gracefally. CHICAGO, September 18.—The first free test of Octave Chanute’s Albatross soar- ing machine, invented and constructed* by William Paul, was made at Miller's, Ind., last evening, under favorable conditions. While the machine was heavily loaded with ballast, so as to prevent it from fly- ing any great distance, and was anchored by four ropes, each 200 feet long, the three points which the trial was to dccide— first, as to whether it would leave the chute evenly; second, whether it would right itself in the air, and, third, whether, when it comrnenced to descend, move downward slowly and ali were all determined In a manner gratify both to its inventor and owner. ‘The flight was less than 100 feet, but the descent and final alighting on the sand were as graceful and even as those of the bird from which the machine was patterned. Another test will be made today if the wind is favorable. ee eS Government Receipts. National bank notes received today for redemption, $233,637. Government receipts —From internal f€venue, $581,699; customs, $369,777; miscellaneous, $50,867. ne THE STAR BY MATL. 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 card. Persons leaving the city for any period should remember this. Terms: 13 ccnts per week; 25 cents for two weeks, or 50 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. FOR TORPEDO BOATS Eleven Bite for Building Them Open- ed at the Department. SOME SECTIONS NOT REPRESENTED —s Complicated Character of Some of the Proposals Submitted. = pee: EXPERTS TO GO OVER THEM > Bids for building a number of boats, authorized by the last session Congress, were opened at the Navy I ment today in the presence of a larg ber of intereste arti The provision for three thirty-knot as many smaller boats, not as could be obtained for the sum of $21#),000, In all eleven firms submitted but notwithstanding the fact gress had = lly prov! able consider of bic torpey of et 0 exce opus that i for Con- fa tion ir m coast, the Mississippi and Missouri valleys not a single proposal came from either section of the country. The northwest coast, however, was well represented. The bidding was very e¢ plicated, owing to the fact that many ¢ the bicders m: m proposals for from bert sume depa vans, one to the gre m- 0 any on test nv bul at can be all of the prope ment’s pl ant the al f bond, was f ft. vi require vartment and most eration by the the lowest ty pick out bids, and meanwhile it is not possible to -Knot Boats. For the thirty-knot boats the bids were Union iron works, $227,500 Tor foliows: 273-ton boat of the act of « y will rece Bath iron works of Maine, two, at $14,- pach, the being of 147 tons di ot or $189,009 each for three; for f thirty knot they offer mw each, hey will guar- -half knots in this ca W per knot d Manufacturing take Dialogue thirty-knot boat for ording to design, Boats. boats the bids ranged a Columbian Iron Works Balt not, G-ton boats, department's plans, $49,000 each for either one their own plans, $ and one-half-knot boats, various combin: ran Brothers & © or or three; “™) each. Twen J-knot, G-ton boats, £9Ni for onc, oF each according or their own plans, each for three * for nd and various com : Iron Work their own plans, for one, $80,000 each; for , for one, § They offer for an adv ch be: A Duplicate of the Cushing. Herreshoft knot ts $55,000; for thre “knot boats, their ow for three, $1 d the hull nee of from $1H, ing Company of : ats, $40,0KK) for one, “) each for three © for $81,000, and for three, sso. y offer an exact duplicate ot th knots, for $4 moditied in’ de duplicace, for on ewn pl exch for Prov thre jence for SN ©: n of . twenty one or two for Chas. Hillman Ship and Engine Building Company of Philadeiph: twenty-knot b one for $N.500, or two for S\o0 each, twen- Dialogue & Son of Camden, X. s of th ir design, or two: twenty- pians, $60,250 for jon Bont. . Lawley & Son of South Boston knot boats of s, one for $S for $80,000 each, artment’s pl: K two nd three for $78.00 each, th r own plans, for one, thr in they offer to On different plans one 20-knot boat fo 1.000, and one knot boat for $101 and make combinations of these bids. The department will proc at once to msider the for under the act of Con- awards must be made not later than October S next. ious +o THE WATCHME x at British Gov- « Buil ptember 18.—As a result cle to he de by the finding ef document: DE Taking Prec ernm, LONDON, the alleged dis r pe Bell of New York, who has | city from Glasgow on the charge being concerned in the dynamite of upon th Sdward 1 brougat to of conspira- cy, of polivemen on duty ii plain clethes at the houses of parli the mansion house, she royal exc hans: nationa British Mas: Cathedral, tmin public buildings, The war office hz precautions here, bes.des doubling the tore of police and sentineis who are guarding the powder magazines at Woolwich. pen The Prince Was Not Touched. LONDON, September 18.—A sensational story circulated the United States that the Prince of Wales had been injure out shooting at Tulchan Lodge, place, in the highlands of Scotland, cenard. The incident used to creat sensation occurred last week, whil Prince of Wales was the guest of Craw during the Doncaster racing. At that time while the prince was out shooting some pellets from his gun struck an fron railing, rebounded and hit a beat Nobody was injured, however, and the Prince of Wales was not touched by a single pellet. es T. M. Patterson in Indiana. CHICAGO, September 18.—Democratic national headquarters announce that Thom- as M. Patterson of Colorado will speak in Indiana on the following dates: Crawforde- ville, September 26; Indianapolis, Septem- ber 28; Lebanon, September 23; Lafay- ette, September 30; Greencastle, October 1; Terre Haute, October Rockville, Oc- tober 3; Meharry’s Grove, October 5.