Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1896, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR? ‘FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,°1896-FWELVE PAGES.-= SPECIAL NOTICES , INDIANA REPUBLICAN CLUB. ‘A regular meeting of the ahove named clah wil be held on SATURDAY EVENING, Septem- ber 26, 1806, at 7:30 o'clock, at the law offices f Hop. John ©. Chanes, 1320 F st. nw. Ail Fepublicans who are members of the club and all present or former citizens of Indiana who now feside bere and interd to vote the republican ticket are Invited to become members and be at at the meeting. | By onder of, the presi Sent: at VM. M. BABS, Secretary. ~. WE DESIRE TO INFORM OUR PATRONS AND the public that Mr. Magruder has taken the management of our up-town store (cor. Conn. ave. and M st.) and Win. B. Hoover the management_ of N Y. ave). JOHN H. MAGRUDE! Pay Fine G k ind Liquors, Two Stores, 1417 New York ave. se25-8t ‘And cor. Coon. ave. and M st. JACKSON DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION. will be a meeting of this association on DAY EVENING, 26th inst., at Meyer's Hotel, Pa. ave. bet. 44 and 6th St. at 7 lock! ‘The public are invited. J. L.” NOW! N. SARDO, See. YF STLL WANT TO BE TRE J comes into your mind 'To My Friends, Patrons and the Public: r I have opened an office in the Mertz build -. Hth and F ats.,, for the sale of Diam Watches and fine Jewelry. No hea so can positively sell goods 2! shi keeper compete with. wD: maey MS. Thanking you for st patronage, {cordially solicit a continuance of the same. "Respectfully, H. DAVISON. We've ot patent proc aupli- cating typewriter letters so_ perfectly that ft's impossible to tell them from geruine typewriting. If you have any- thing to advertise let us suggest this se25-14d EOF BAL- ns. Hall, THIS IS To G! Grubb & Dodd, composed of J. Ernest I Pa. ave mutual Grubb and Le Dodd, doing a dairy business at I on dissolved b3 Dodd wit continue the business at the old stand, and fs authorized Was on September 21 onsent. Mr. of the late firm. E. L. DODD. to settle up all the transac se243t J. L. GRUBE orice Ww S tot BD Cc. one and one-half pe i clared by ee board of directors, 1, 1896, to stockholders ef recor’ Hooks closed from September 25 to Z CHAS. P. WILLIAMS, Cashier. D. HADGER WISHES TO 4 ‘CE TO HIS friends and patrons that he is now located at SIL Lith st. mw. Repairing a alty, se19-1W* = STILL REMAINS 4’ excellent furniture, consisting of sets, carpets, matting, d chairs, mantel crnaments, very ie pier glass pletcres, etc.; must be sold this week. House we RAILINGS, and grounds for or: IRON AMENTAL WROUGHT Grilles, Gates, Hinges and Escutcheons, Window Guards, ete. Protect your property. No charge for sketches ard estimates. Wrought Iron Gas Andirons, Fen‘: ete, ete. J. 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Kenner, dolug a drug business at 1429 Pa. ave. o.w., bus been this day dissolved by mutual consent! Mr. Albert E. Acker wi eontinne the bufiness at the old stand, and fs ‘ized to settle up all the trarsactions of ate firm. E. ACKER. SVELAND PARK? Cal! or send for booklet. OMce, G10 14th FOR HEALTH is best dope on the “Columbia’— the standard of the world for wheels. The greatness of the Columbia is evidenced by the fact that other makers strive to make their wheels “gust ss goed." POPE MFG. CO. J. Hart Brittulo, Manager, 452 Pa. ere. fe4-tt Any Kind Of Blank Books You newl we can furnish. All styles of Ledgers. Records, Journals, Day Books and Easton & Rupp, 421 1th St., Popular-Priced 8 se25-14d ——There 1s no “ale line’ to sue- cess in any business. It requires all the energy, enterprise and attention 2 man caa command to make his way nowadays. Painters who keep a Keen lookont for chances to prune should get our spectal spot- for Paints. The discounts afe well worth saving. Chas. E. Hodgkin, 913 7th. Paints, Oils, Varnish se24-16d SS. e as 7 We'll Make That Mantei —o- pleee of office or household furniture to on form ctly to your own Ideas. Our makers are the mest skillful—our are the finest h houts. Every ion is finished in the finest manner. are not at all high. Tr. W. Smith's Lumber Yd., Ist st. and Ind. ave. $y27-2m,12 We Preach “Purity” time for we know that Obl Re- 2 erkele: is pure to the very drop. That's the reasen ft has gained such lasting fame as a restorative-as a med. felue—es co stim nt. This is the season Fou eatch cold Ty—better have berke- Tey" “in the house. Only $1 at. Jas. Tharp, 812 F St. 2023-100 Not “Auction Bicycles,” BUT BICYCLES aT AUCTION PRICES. We have in stock some twenty-five or thirty men’s $65 Bicycles, 1896 patterns, new every wey, and fully up-to-date in all respects, that we are going to sell at the low price of THIRTY DOLLARS CASH. Fitted with efther G. & J. or M. & W. “Quick Repair” tires, and fully uaranteed by the makers. Bear in mind, these are not RAMBLERS, thoagh we have a very few slightly used Ladies’ Ramblers, "95 and ‘96 patterns, recently over- Bsuled and refinished, which we can give you bargains on. As said above, there ere not many of them, and the early buyer gets the bargain. Take a glance at the $30 Bicycles in our win- dow at 1325 14th nw. se4tf2S§ GORMULLY & JEFFERY MFG. 00. The Independent Ice Co.’s yellow wagons deliver pure Kennebec Ice to all parts of the eity and Mt. Pleasant—daily. Prompt service. Rea- sonable rates. OFFICES, 910 Pa. ave.—3108 Water st. eet-1m,14 Telephone 591-2. = 2 Given Two Months. Frank M. Hall, a young white man, pre- senting every appearance of respectability, stood in the dock of the Police Court today and earnestly requested Judge Kimball that he be given a term in the work house. “I was here Monday last, your honor,” he said, in tones that indicated refine- ment, “and, although I swore to you that I would let whisky alone, and you took my personal bonds, I went direct from the court and got beastly drvnk. I can’t help it. My father and family have done all in their power for me, and if I am not put where I cannot obtain liquor I realiy don’t know what will become of me.” “Your story is, indeed, a sad one,” said the court. “I will give you two months, and trust you will conquer the habit.” EXTENDED | 1) speeches. THE BATTLE ~IN -KANSAS A Seeming Weakening in the Free Silver Sentiment Observable. Imterest Peffer Wants to Succeed Him- aself—Ingalls’ Chances. the Senatorial Contest— Correspondence of The Evening Star. INDEPENDENCE, Kan., September 23. With the passing of the heated term the political battle in Kansas grows in vigor and interest. Increased energy is every- where manifest. September and October weather here, so delightful every way, is especially pleasant for campaigning, and we make the most of It. While the state and national tickets are most discussed and talked about, great interest is being taken in the election of the legislature; which, in January, must, among other things, choose a successor to Mr. Peffer in the United tates Senate. . Peffer very naturally wants to succeed himself, and probably will, if his party— the popocrats—control the joint conven- tion, though he will have two or three ac- tive competitors among his party asso- 3 who are already lying in ambush ping to seize the prize in due time. Office secking, it is well to renfark, is frowned upon, according to the professed principles of populism—a rule more hon- ored in the breach than in the observance, however. Peffer's Early Career. By the way, Peffer lived in this (Mont- gomery) county in the seventies. Here ne published a country paper, dabbled some in politics, and, as a republican, represent- ed thig district in the state senate. As late as 1888 he supported the republican party, was a radical protectionist, published “Peffer’s Manual” on the tariff,.a very use- ful little work, much used by republican speakers, and still quoted to his discom- fiture since he espoused populism—free sil- ver and free trade. It is simple fact to state that the people here who know Pef- fer so well, irrespective of party, regard him as a thoroughly honest man, upright and honorsble in all the relations of life. Moreover, he is an industrious student of political ‘affairs, and whatever may be thought of some of his peculiar views, or lobbies, as most people probably regard them, and notwithstanding the jests and gibes and funny things perpetrated at his expense, it Is safe to say, as well as just, there are probably very few better inform- ed men in the Serate today than Peffer and his whiskers. Ingalls and Plumb Contrasted. John J. Ingalls hopes to secure Peffer's place, as he regards it as his old seat, from which he was swept by the mighty populist wave of 1890. Up to this time, this event or catastrophe, as Ingalls himself would call it, he had been in the Senate since 1872, when he succeeded Pomeroy, who was overthrown by the famous York exposure, involving charges of bribery and corrup- tion. A. M. York also lived in this county and preceded Peffer as state senator. Dur- ing Ingalls’ long experience in the Senate he was strong and popular to the last, and no man ventured to contest with him for the honor. He was, as a Senator, and per- sonally also, as unlike Plumb as it was possible to be. Plumb was a many-sided man. He was able and energetic in the performance of his public duties, and very attentive and industrious in looking after the wants of his constituents. At home he was a great mixer, a tireless campaigner, knew everybody, called thousands of men by their first names, and seemed equally at home whether talking finance, farming, stock raising or politics. Ingalls was very different. He did but little service at W: gton outside his | Strictly official duty. Yet the people never ; complained much about this. He tlckied their state pride by the high rank accorded i him in the Senate, and pleased them with his occasional exhibitions of spectacular oratory, peculiarly his own. There was but one Ingalls in the Senate, and he was from Kansas. That was enough to keep him there for eighteen years. Kansas, r gardless of party, admired his ability, hi brightness, though democrats drew the line sharply against him at election time, be- cause of the cruel things he had a habit of saying in public speeches against democ- racy. At home he lacks Plumb’s popular habits. While he is sociable and even af- fable in habit and manner, he does not put himself out of the way to meet and culti- vate the people. To those familar with him in Washing- ton, it may seem Incredible, though true, that Ingalls is not a good campaigner. He can make great speeches, but he does not like crowds, and with all his ability and apparent delight in speech-making he does not like to do it, and so far from | seeking opportunities to speak, avoids them | BES he can. He is fertile in excuses, i | i i and probably has broken more appoint- ments than any other man in the state. ‘The managers of republican campaigns in the past have had to labor hard to keep Ingalls at work and get him to make He is and always has been a ‘awing card, attracting great crowds on all occasions. Yet he shrinks from the task, which seems so easy and simple to those who hear him and admire his won- derful gift in the use of the English lan- guage. Ingalls does not seem to realize his power in this direction. If he did and would go about the state more, meeting the people as Plumb used to do, he would hold the undisputed right of way in Kan- sas politics during life. As It 1s, and strange as it may seem, his strength lItes with the rank and file’ ragher than the local lead-rs. If he will cuffivate the ad- vantage he now holds with but reasonable industry, and the republicans carry the legislature, the attenuated form and tren- chant voice of Ingalls will likely be seen and heard once more in the Senate. The One Change Obsertable. As to the prospects and probabilities of the campaign in Kansas, it is still a mere matter of conjecture. The more zealous partisans on both sides are claiming the state. To an impartial observer, how- ever, there is but one change observable—- that Is, a seeming weakening in the free silver sentiment. The strength of free ‘silver here, as in the west generally, lies in the idea that it means more money, bet- ter prices and easier times. This idea is being antagonized with the argument that free coinage of silver would contract the currency, give less money and probably harder conditions; that sound money n.eans gold and silver and paper on the present standaré, good money and more of it in use through restered confidence and busi- ness. And the tariff question is being more discussed and considered than a month ago, when the money issue scemed to dominate everything clse. That is, re- publican speakers are arguing that a proper settlement of the tariff on the line of protection, with more revenue, wiil re- store former conditions, credit, confidence and prosperity and also settle the money question. And they are evidently making headway along that line as against the op- position speakers, who still preach most vigorously and vociferously that tree sil- ver coinage is the only hope, the one great panacea for all our ilis. ‘Meantime the voters are reading, thinking and discuss- ing the question among themselves on every corner. As a rule Kansas people are good readers. ——.+__ $25 oak china case for $1 annual furniture sale.—Advt. : —_——>———_ Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have been issued to Samuel W. Doberer and Mary D. Mackay, both of Baltimore, Md., and to Moses W. Reynolds and Bettie Johnson, colored. ——_ One Thousand Killed. CONSTANTINOPLE, September 24 (de- layed in transmission).—It now appears that 1,000 Armenians were killed during the recent massacre at Egin. in the Kharput district. It is reported that 100 Armenians — been killed at Divrig, in the same vil- aye’ 73, at Moses’ WATCHES, KNIV RAZORS, PICTU! PIPES and other valuable articles in exchange fot coupons with: (Sola by all dealers) ‘One coupon ta y ers. coupon in each 5-cent (2-ounce) package. COUPONS EXPLAIN HOW TO SECURE THE ABOVE. Packages (now on sale) containing no coupons will be accepted as coupons— “2-02.” empty bag as one coupon. Send for illus- trated catalogue giving complete list avd descrip- tion of all articles, also tells how to get them. ‘THE BLOCH BROS. TUBACCO CV., Wheeling, W. Va. iny25-m,w,f,tf THE OFFICIAL foi Seg i oe oes EXPLANA1ORY NOTE: bars, or lines cf equal air lines of equal temperature, snow has fallen during preceding twelve hours. WEATHER MAP,q Observations taken at 8 a.m., 75th meridian time. Solid lines are ts0- pressure, drawn for each tenth of an inch. Dotted lines are isotherms, or Grawn for each ten degrees. Shaded areas are regions Where rain or ‘The words “High and “Low’’ show location of areas of high and low barometer. Small arrows fly with the wind. GENERALL' FAIR, But There May Be a Slight Shower Tomorrow Afternoon, Forecast till 8 p.m. Saturday.—For the District of Columbia and Maryland, gener- ally fair; but there may be a light shower Saturday afternoon; slightly warmer Sat- urday morning; southerly winds. For Virginia, fair tonight, with increasing cloudiness Saturday; warmer Saturday morning; southerly Weather conditions and general forecast: The barometer has risen in New England and in the northwest, and it has fallen throughout the central valleys, lake re- giuns and southern states. The barometer is highest off the New England coast, and it is lowest north of Lake Superior. The storm, which was central north of Minnesota yesterday morning, is moving to the eastward w.th decreased energy, and pressure increasing at the center of the dis- turbance. It 1s warmer in the central valleys and thence castward to the Atlantic coast. and cooler in the northwest and at Rocky mountain stations. The cloudiness has increased in the cen- tral valleys and lake regions, with local showers, but fair weather continues on the Atlantic coast. ‘The indications are that cloudiness will increase In the Atlantic coast districts, with light local showers from northern New England southwestward to the east gulf states. The following heavy precipitation (in inches) was reported: During the past twenty-four hours—Little Rock, 1.02, Condition of the Water, Temperature and condition of water at 8 a™.: Great Falls, temperature, 62; condi- tion, 36; receiving reservoir, temperature, 58; condition at north connection, 36; con- dition at south connection, 36; distributing reservoir, temperature, 58; condition at in- fluent gate house, 36; effluent gate house, 36. Tide Table. Today—Low tide, High ‘tide, ‘03 a.m. and 4:01 p.m. m. and 10:08 p.m, . a.m. and 4:37 High tide, 10:20 a.m. and 10:50 p.m. Sun rises, 5:50; sets, rises, 7.17 p.m. Tomorrow p.m, The City Lights, All gas lamps are lighted tonight by 6 extinguishing is begun at 5:15 a.n Public are lamps are lighted at and extinguished at 5:00 a.m. Range of the Thermometer. The following were the readings of the thermometer at the weather bureau today: 8 a.m., 54; 2 p.m., 73; maximum, 75; min- imum, POPULIST HAND BOOK One Chapter to Be Devoted to an Attack on Senator Sherman. Chairman Butler's Charge of Du- plicity — Senator Stewart's Answer Prepared. Chairman Butler of the populist national ccmmittee has decided to devote a chapter of his party's hand book to a vigorous at- tack on Senator Sherman, in answer to the jatter’s recent statement that there was nothing secret about the passage ®f the bill of 1873, and that nothing was done by any cne to obscure the real purposes of the bil. To a Star reporter this morning Senator Butler said that he believed he could prove that Senator Sherman did everything possi- ble to get the bill through the Senate with- out its purposes being known. He accuses the Ohio Senator of duplicity at the time of the passage of the bill. “On the 16th of January, 1 ator Butler, this morning, ‘Senator Sher man made a free silver spe The Co ional Globe of the Forty-second Con- third session, page (80, quotes Sena- tor Sherman as saying, and this was the day before the Senator called up the bill for passage: ‘Ir cne fact {s proven by the experience of mankind, it is that gold and silver are the best possible standards of value. They have been so recognized from the earliest period of recorded time. However much nations might differ in religion, habits, pro- duction or climate, they have not yet differ- ed in this primary axiom of exchange or barter. Experiments have been tried with other standards, from the iron of Lycurgus to the finest bank note engraving of mod- ern times, but all have resulted in the con- viction that goli and silver is the only true standard of value.” “On the next day, January 17, 1873, tor Sherman, in calling up for ac bill which demonetized silver, sai .” said Sen- ‘I rise for the purpose of moving that the Senate proceed to the consideration of the mint bill. I will state that this bill will not probably consume more time than the time consumed in reading It.’ “This shows that Senator Sherman not only tried to mislead the Senate by makl..g Senators believe that the bill was an un- important one, but his speech of the day before was intended io throw every Sena- tor off his guard by making every friend of bimetallism and the money of the Consti- tution believe that he, Sherman, was is strong a bimetallist as there was in the United States.” Senator Stewart's Reply. Senator Butler proposes to deal sharply with the Senator. In addition to what the Senator has to say on the subject will be the following, which Senator Stewart has prepared in answer to Senator Sherman: “John Sherman pleads not guilty to th2 crime of 1: and acts as his own attor- ney in discussing the evidence upon which he relies for acquittal, The Associated Press informs us that he has published a letter in which he says some very queer ard foolish things. For example, Senator Sherman says that ‘many pages of the Con- eressicnal Record show indisputable proof that the clause In the act of 1873 stopping the coinage of the silver dollar was not surreptitiovsly and clandestinely passed throi gh Congress.’ . “Mr. Sherman kuows this fs untrue, be- cause there is not a word said or an al- lusion made in the recorded proceedings of the Senate showing that even an allusion of any name or nature was made in aay debate in the Senate of the United States with regard to the demonetization of sil- ver. On the contrary it appears from the debate in the Senate on the codification of the inint laws that the bill which took from silver the right of coinage was a cod- ificaticn bill, and was not understood as @ change of the original law. He further says: ‘I have never been able to see what motive could exist for secrecy in the mat- ter.’ “Why, then, did he not, as chairman of the committee, tell the Senate of this all- important change in the law. He had charge of the bill and was silent from beginning to end on the subject. He can- not deny that it was a subject which he regarded of great importance, because he went to Paris and took an active part to get the Paris monetary convention of 1867 to recommend the single gold standard and wrote a letter to our commissioner, Mr. Ruggles, urging the adoption of the gold standard. He came back to America and introduced a bill in 1868, demonetizing silver and adopting the gold standard. The title of the bill was misleading. It simply read: ‘A bill in relation to the coin- age of gold and silver.” He reported the bill favorably from the finance committee, but E. D. Morgan filed a minority re- port exposing the fraud. He then dropped the whole matter and never brought it to the attention of the Senate or took any further action in it until Morgan had left the Senate. All these efforts on his part prove conclusively that the demonetiza- tion of silver was_a paramount consid- eration with him. If there was no neces- sity for secrecy why did he abandon the bill of 1868 with a harmless title after the Morgan report came in and before the bill had ever been read in the Senate? Why did he wait till Morgan’s term ex- pired? Why did he change his tactics and have the provision demonetizing silver buried in a codification bill, which he pre- sented to the Senate as such and never explained that his hobby was contained in the bill or mentioned the fact that he desired to demonetize silver. He says he knows no reason for concealing this im- portant measure: Is it not possible that he feared there were other Morgans in the Senate, if he mentioned the fact that he proposed to demonetize silver? Did he not know that secrecy was absolutely necessary to carry out his scheme in con- nection with the Rothschild, combination? If not, why did he present the scheme as a codificetion bill and nothing else? The Fall of Silver. “He further says: ‘On April 25, 1870, when the bill was sent to the Gommittee on finance by the Secretary of the Treasury, the silver dollar was worth $1.6312 in the markets of the world. Germany had not , yet sold her silver or adoptél. the gold standard. There was no inditation what- ever of the fall In silver, and po; one could foresce that It was destined to rapidly de- cline in price’ dun “Of course, there was no indication of the fall of silver. It had remained on a parity with gold for thousands of years while the mints were open. The reason why no one anticipated the fall of silver is that no one knew that John Sherman. h entered into a conspiracy with the Rot childs combination to demonetize silver and destroy its demand for cbinage. It is true that Germany had not!démonetized silver at that tme. but that Joh Sherman of Ohio was the leader in the! transaction and anticipated Germany and al®eontinen- tal Europe in the deadly. work. > “He further says: ‘No-one asked to have the (silver) dollar coined, and 6 one was opposed to its discontinuanee.”. This state- ment is untrue. The people of the Pacific coast Were at the t-me asking to-have silver coined by taking it to the mint for that purpose at the rate of more than two mil- lions a year, and.there had been more than two millions coined between 1471 and 1ST! at the request of citizens of the United States. He says again: ‘The silver dollar was out of circulation long before the law of 173 was enacted. It was a thing of the past.’ How can Mr. Sherman make such a statement in view of the faet. that the San Francisco mint was running full time on silver dollars the very day the bill passed? | He says again: “The silver dollar was con- ceived hy Hamilton in 1792 and superseded y Jefferson in 1806, and practically demon- etized by Benton and the men of 1834 un- der Andrew Jackson.’ “Nothing could be more false than this, Jefferson did not suspend the coinage of full legal tender silver money. ‘There was ro year from to 1873 when there wa: not full legal tender silver coined by the United States mint. Jefferson for a year or two suspended the coinage of silver dollar: | dor the reason that they were being expo fed, but continued to coin full legal tender half dollars and other subsidiary coin. The fourteenth section of the act of 1837, passed by Benton and signed by Jackson, reads as follows: “That gold and silver _ bullion Lrought to the mint for coinage shail be re- ceived and coined by the proper officers the benefit of the depositor.’ The Whole Controversy. “The whole controversy between the peo- ple fo the United States and the advocate of the English gold standard is to have the Paragraph above quoted re-enacted into law. No other legislation is necessary to restore silver to the place it occupied previous to the crime of 1873. How any man who has any regard for his veracity can assert over his own signature that the act of 1837 demonetized silver seems in- comprehensible. The man must be crazy. All the silver advocates ask is the re-enact- ment of that act. This is all they ever asked. This is al) that any free silver bill ever introduced in Congress proposed. The criginal Bland act of 1s re-enacted the Jackson law of 1837, and it passed the House in that shape and was voted for by both Carlisle and McKinley, as well as every other friend of the remonetization of silver. -. BRYAN’S VOTE FOR WEAVER. Senator Faulkner Says He Did It at the Democratic Committee's Request. Comment having been made upon the fact that Mr. Bryan supported General Weaver for the presidency in 1892, Senator Faulk- ner, after consultation with iSenator Gor- man, gave out the following statement on the subject: Poa “I have submitted the inquiias concern- ing Mr. Bryan’s vote for Weawer in 1892 to Senator Gorman, who was a member of the democratic campaign committée in that year. He says that the national ¢ommittee, of which Mr. William F. Harrity, was chair- man, with Mr. Don M. Dickinapn: chairman of the campaign committee, determined to request all the democrats in Neljraska and the states west thereof to unité with the Weaver people in carrying thesé states, so as to prevent Harrison from tecéiving elec- toral votes in Nebraska, Idahdé, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, Nevada atid California, and, as a rule, the democrats fdllowed the request of the democratic natforifl commit- tee. In addition to this thé New York World made an appeal for @ special sub- scription to carry out the pldn of campaign determined on by the democratic commit- tee; therefore, whatever Mr. Bryan or any cther democrat did in the support of ‘Weaver was at the reguest of the national democratic committee.” Fatal Gas Explosion. POTTSVILLE, Pa., September 25.—An ex- plosion of gas occurred last night in the Philadelphia and Reading Company’s Mid- dle Creek colliery, near Tremont, Pa. Five men who were In the shaft were burned and otherwise hurt, two of them—James Jasper Newton, .sr., and his son-in-law. John 8. Osgrave*so badly that they died a few hours later. Two others—Charles Schoffstall and James Norton—were so badly burned that their death is momen- tarily expected. Edward Dunmoyer of Tre- mont has a fractured arm énd collar bone. DOLLARS OF OUR FATHERS Some Remarks on the Money of the Oon- . stitution. A Correspondent Dissects Bryan's Ap- peal to the Great Charter of the Government. “X. Y. Z.," discussing the silver question, writes further to The Star as follows: In closing his letter of acceptance, Mr. Bryan appeals for “united attion among those who are determined that progress toward an universal gold standard shall be stayed, and the gold and silver coinage of the Constitution restored,” and in his address in this city on Saturday last he said: “I come as the nominee of three parties, who believe in the restoration of the money of the Constitution, who believe that the money of the Constitution is an honest money, honest enough for any man.” These are two of the many de- mands made by him and other advocates of the 16 to 1, free, unlimited, policy for the restoration of the “money of the Con- stitution.” This expression plays no small part in the addresses made by them to the people, and is, therefore, expected to have large influence in determining their action at the coming election. The fact that there is still cherished among the people at large such a sincere respect for the Con- stitution that politicians are constrained to appeal to it in support of their conten- tions is one of happiest augury. That that venerable instrument which more than a century ago set forth the fundamental principles upon which a nation was to be tablished and perpetuated should still mmand the universal approval and sup- port of 70,000,000 of people is of incal- culable significance. It means the preval- ence of a loyal devotion to those principles which will not tolerate any tampering with the instrument itself. It means that the people still regard the work of the fathers as wrought with unexampled wisdom and foresight, and that they will not look with indifference upon any effort or policy cal- culated to undo that beneficent work. It indicates a spirit that will resent with in- dignation any suggestion looking to the weakening of the bands that bind in one the several sections of the nation, and that will consign to eternal infamy the authors of such suggesitons should they unfortunately arise. Nothing more assur- ing for the present, nothing more au- spiclous for the future, could exist than this prevalent, profound regard and ven- tion for the Constitution, to which ap- peals are now so persistently made in be- half of “free silver.” Whatever tends to confirm and strengthen this loyalty to the Constitution among the people confirms also the stability and integrity of the ni tion. Whatever tends to weaken or unde mine this sentiment undermines also the very foundations of the government. Per- manence and security depend upon the per- petuation of this sentiment. If the time shall ever come when appeals to the Con- itution lose their force, and our citizens become indifferent to its provisions, dis- integration cannot be long deferred. It is therefore of the utmest importance that nothing be cone to diminish in. th least the popular respect entertained for the fatkers of the Constitution, nor the popuar confidence in their political wisdom, nor the popular recognition of the suprem: authority of this fundamental and all-em- bracing enactment. The man who attempts this or permits himself to do what in- directly may have this result, is nothing less than an enemy to his country. No censure too severe could be pronounced against such an one. One method by which this dirastrous effect may be wrought fs by false or illogical appeals to the Constitu- tion, appeals which are unwarranted by its sions, which are not sanctioned by its ge, which are based upon partial or perverted Interpretations, misleading the people, and in the end involving them in appointment or disaster. No political mbition, no stress of a political campaign should betray any public man into the use of such appeals. When in soliciting their suffrages the people are referred to the nstitution as an argument in support of any definite proposition, the very language of the Constitution should be placed before them-and a strictly fair and judicial in- terpretation given thereto, not incons’stent with that given by its authors themselves. It is neither honest nor safe to deal in glittering generalities, nor io make asser- tions,-@irect or by implication, which are not fully sustained by the Constitution it- self and its contemporaneous construction. However great the regard in which it is held by the common people. they are not familar with the details of its provisions. They have lived under its protection; they have experienced its safeguarding of their rights; they expect to find in it a defense against public oppression or injustice, but they can be deceived and misled for a time as to its provisions. Political leaders, pre- suming upon their ignorance or credulity, may persuade them to believe that it com- mands or sanctions certain legislative ac- tion, the refusal of which involves its vio- 2tion, when such is far from being the When, however, they have been un- ed, when by results or by more thor- and honest instructions they have ougin learned what the true import of the Con- stitution is, the consequences are likely to be, not simply resentment toward those by whom they have been misled, but a lessen- ing of their regard for the Constitution it- self. ‘hey find it is being used as a thing to conjure with, t it is being played “fast and loose’ with by their leadei employed merely to catch the!r votes, that they have not been told “the tru the whole truth and nothing but the truth,” as to its meaning. They have been disappoint- ed, and the most lamentable result of all this is I'kely to be a diminution In their loyalty to this ancient charter of their lib- erties. Woe to the party or the man whose vords or deeds have this effect. 's evil, wove, can he averted only trans- t honesty shall characterize ) to the Constitution, only as it shall be found that its name, which cught to be held but little less than sacred by every cin has not been used for merely selfish oy partisan purposes, that no str perverted or illogical construction has been ptt upon its provisions, but that it does ard unmistakably sustain the propositions to whose aid It has been sum- moned. Any use of the Constitution, especially in a political campaign, other- wise than in this manner and spirit de- serves the condemnation of all good citi- zens as unpatriotic and disloyal, tending to the breaking down of one of the best and surest defenses of the rights and liberties of the people. Let us examine for a moment the appeal now being made to the Constitution in be- half of “free silver, 16 to 1.° Mr. Bryan demands “ie restoration of the “coinage of the Constitution.” His associates and fol- lowers are crying cut all over the country for the “morey of the Constitution,” and some of the people, confiding in the integ- rity and wisdom of the leaders, are echoing the cry, “Give us the money of the Consti- tution,” not knowing what they say. What do the masses understard their leaders to mean by these phrases? When they are told that by supporting the 16 to 1 policy they are voting for the “coinage of the Constitution” and that the victory of this Policy will result in the restoration of the “money of the Constitution,” what must be their conclusions? It mvrst be borne in mind that most of thém are ignorant of the language of the Constitution, that very few indeed are familiar with its provisions, and #0 must rely upcn the leaders to instruct them. it is inevitable that the people should infer and believe that the Constitu- tion contains some definite prescription as to coinage and fixes the ratio of the metals and that that ratio 1s 16 to 1. They would see no propriety in demanding the restora- tion of the coinage or money of the Consti- tution unless the Constitution has some- thing definite to say as to what should be coined and in what ratio, and as to what money should be put in circulation, and, furthermore, that what it does say is wholly favorable to the 16 to 1 policy. They couid y-ot possibly have any cther understanding in the matter. The language they hear conveys no other suggestion. And it !s undoubtedly the purpose af the orators and teachers upon whose lips the people hang that their words shall be so understood. What, however, are the facts in the case? How do these bear out the implications, at least, if not the declarations, of the advo- cates of free silver? A careful examina- tion of the Constitution shows that it con- tains not one word as to what shall con. stitute the coinage or the money of the United States, not one word. Its only provisions regarding this subject are these: ‘The Congress shall have power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign ccin,” and “no state shall coin money, emit bills of credit, make any- thing but gold and silver coin a tender in pzyment of debts.” This is all. There coes not seem to be enough in this to justify the persisteat appeals made to the Consti- tution above referred to. It will be~ ob- served that it is not said“that Congress shall, but only “shall kave power to, coin If, however, these are regarded as synonymous expressions, it Is nevertheless true that Congress took no action providing for the coinage of money for three years after its first meeting, its functions being in the meantime limited to fixing the value of foreign coin. Nor was it until three years later that money was actually coined by the United States. During these six years the sole money of the country was of foreign origin, the currency of which as legal tender was authorized by Congress. This, if anything, was the money of the Constitution at that date, so Benton as- serted in his discussion of the “currency of the Constitution.” Arain, it !s not said that Congress shall coin gold and silver. What m2tals shall be used is not specified. While it would nat- vrally be expected that under the circum- stances then existing gold and silver would become the metals of coinage, it was fully ccmpetent for Corgress to select others. Even the prohibition imposed upon the states forbidding them to make anything but gold and silver coin a legal tender, was in no sense an injunction upon Congress censtraining it to the choice of these for its cwn mintage. It was designed to pro- tect the citizens of the United States against having imposed upon them a legal tender circulating medium, which did not have an intrinsic fixed and recognized val- ue, certified to by the United States. Again, not a word is uttered by the Constitution nor a hint given as to what shall be the ratio of any two or more metals, the coin- age of which might at any time be au- thorized, nor as to what shall constitute the unit of vaiue. The closest scrutiny falls to detect In its provisions even the fe'rtest suggestion in regard to these mat- ters. It does not lend itself it the remo- test degree to any 16 to 1, or silver unit theory. These phrases cannot be framed ovt of any language it employs. And yet intelligent men, leaders of the people, ora- tors of the platform, are found who plead with the multitude in behalf of “free sil- ve in the name of the Constitution and virtually assert that the policy they ad- Vocate is 2ot only sanctioned, but enjoined by its provisions. > Coming to Washington Barrack Light Battery K of the Ist Artillery, which has been ordered from Fort Hamil ton, N. Y., to Wasbington barracks, D. is commanded by the following officers: Capt. Jonn W. Adam Slaker and Second Lieuts. Wm. 1. siter and Harry E. Smith. As alread stated, Light Batt: tioned at the Washington barracks. has been ordered to the department of the Pa- clfic, Entertaining Reading Matte: Some of the features of tomorrow's en- larged Star will be as follows: WITH DOG AND GUN (iustrated). About the game laws of Virginia and Maryland, and some chat about shoot- ing quail, rabbits, ete. SONGS AND BUTTONS (Illustrated). Features of the political campaign, which are of more or less importance, as noted by an observer at the party head- quarters in this city. IN THE EARLY DAYS (illustrated). A visit to Jamestown, the first capital of Virginia, and Smithfield, where the old- est Protestant church edifice on this continent is still standing. PREVAILING STYLES (Illustrated). Fashions for women as seen on the streets and observed in the stores. STUDENTS OF MUSIC (ilustrated). Girls who go to Paris to cultivate their voices, and something about their life in the gay city. THE NEW SLEEVE (liustrated). How the transition is managed from the old to the new. Tea jackets and theater waists, THE REHEARSAL OF THE NEW PLAY illustrated). A story from the pen of the well-known author, Brander Matthews. CHILDRED rated). 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