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10 " THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1896-SIXTEEN PAGES. CLARK’S 734-736 7th St. N.W. Cold Weather Goods At Bargain Prices When You Tomorrow will Need Them. indeed be Bargain Day for desirable and needful cold> weather garments. You will do well to examine them. Coats. LADIES’ BEAVER JACKETS, ALL WOOL, PERFECT FITTING. $5.50 GAR- ~ $3.48 LADIES’ KERSEY AND BOUCLE JACKETS, SILK LINED, LATEST STYLE S11 EVES, AND VERY STYLISH GARMENT. $9.50 VALUE $5.69. 2 SAMPLE GARMENTS, ONE-OF-A- KIND SORT, THE KIND THAT THB MANUFACTURER CANNOT DUPLICATE THE CLOTH. WORTH FROM $19 TO $9.98. Skirts. $3 BRILLIANTINE SKIRTS - = = = $5 NOVELTY AND BLACK: SKIRTS = $7 NOVELTY AND BLACK SKIRTS - S9 KOVELTY AND BLASK SKIRTS Underwear. 39C. LADIES’ RIBBED UNDERWEAR - = 50¢. LADIES’ RISBED UNDERWEAR - - $1.75 $2.89 $3.98 - $5.48 240. 316. Capes. 50 DIFFERENT STYLES. EVERY ONE AT REDUCED PRICE TOMOR- ROW. $6.00 BEAVER CAPE, SATIN TRIM- $3.48. $3.00 CLOTH CAPE, NICELY TRIM- MED. FOR A SATURDAY SPHCIAL, $1.69. - $7.00 PLUSH CAPE, SILK LINED AND TRIMMED WITH THIBET FUR. $3.08. Misses’ Jackets. $8.60 MISSES’ JACKETS, ALL SIZES, IN A NICE MIXTURE OF CLOTH, 2 IN ALL. TOMORROW, $1.98. $9.00 MISSES’ JACKETS, IN SEVERAL STYLES OF CLOTH, PLAIN AND $6.48. $6.00 MISSES’ JACKETS, VERY NOB- BY AND STYLISH. $3.48. S2BLACK UNDERWEAR - 98¢.| Men’s Underwear. $2.25 BLACK EQUES- TRIAN VIGHTS - - $1.19 Gloves. 29 D0Z. MORE OF THE.$ oA cD Graves | 756... RIBBE! AND $1.26 REAL Kip cLoves| 79. JP 49C. Glearing out to give up department. 696. RIBBED UNSER- WEAR - - - - = 896. UNDER- $1.25 PURE WOOL 73C. UNDERWEAR CLA RK’S, 734-736 7th St. N.W. [XERRRER SS ERESSEEESESEEESSE! : WILL YOU : EVER WANT ABOOK GASE? ( You had better get it NOW— while you can buy at less than cost. We have a pumber of them here, that are in our way—and we are selling them at a great sacri- fice, Some are in oak—sume are in_mahogany—single—double and a few with three dooce, Some have swell fronts—fitted with bent glass —all have neat brass triminings and are tastily carved. You can buy a beautiful Book Case for the price of an ordinary one. YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD! Not only for je, fi le, ° ci XXXRER MERE RARE EMRE REE RE the Book Case—but for all the Furniture and Carpets on need. Al Carpets made and aid EREE—no charge for waste in matebing figures. S-plece Solid Oak Chamber Suite, $25. -pound Hair Mattress, $6.50. G-foot Oak Extension Table, $3.50. Large Arm Rocker, 95c. Ingrain Carpet, per yard, 35c. Brussels Carpet, per yard, 50c. GROGAN’S MAMMOTH CRELIT HOUSE, S19—-821—823 Seventh street n.w. Bet. H and I sts, XxMRER EXE RRM RRR ¥ -} KY Teeeseveeevecesees x SOUTHERN WAR PRICES. Coffee at $1 a Pound and Tea at $20. From the Richmond Dispatch. For some reason, however, the farmers did not seem to be very prosperous. They are notorious grumblers, it is true, and alweys con:plaining about something, and this time it was the quality of the money. So far as quantity was concerned nothing was left to be asked for, for when they got cheap money they found that they did not like it. They began to see that money in itself was of no use to them except as they could buy things with it, and Mrs. Davis tells us what the farmers had to bay for what they bought. If they wanted coffee for breakfast they could get it in 1862 for $4 a pound; if they fancied a good cup of tea they could be accommodated at from $18 to $20 a pound; if a farmer drove to market he could have his horse fed for $5, or kept for 2 day for 5. A few months later ne could yet a pair of boots for from 3100 to $20) a pats ant if foe any reason he wished to economize he could get his ot boots tapped for $50. If on the other hand, he preferred to enjcy his money he could spend it like_a lord by setting a dinner at a restaurant, where « plate of soup ccat $1.50, roast beef $3.50, fried oysters, $5, a cup of coffee, 8; whisky, however being only §2 a drink. But every one knows that ‘tis cheaper to be peaciahle tn dining, and ninc confederate rs had a comfortable di ror ants rei dinner together lers, however, are notorious spend- thrifts, and probably it would do then ood if money were made as abund- ant as water. Such at least would appear TIVTI IT e oc8-S4d : Some Special Shoe Bargains. We're geing to clear out these shoes in a Jiffy now. Must have the shelf room soon “for the new stock. These special bargaius will be the sbce attractions for the next few da Bargains in Men's Shoes. Men's Fine it Kanzaron Shoes, b $6. Special pric: 2 Aa, — $1.68 Bargains in Women’s Shoes. Women's White Canvas Sitj splendid for wear. Were $4. To Women's Tatent Shoes, hand sewed, Were $4 and $5. Now........ ‘Misses’, Children’s and Infants’ Shoes at greatly reduced prices. Goods must be tu be appreciated. WILSON’S, 29 F St. N.W. house close out at.. oc! eee EES aad j-| | taken by Mrs. Davis from Colonel Miller js| | Owen’s “In Camp and Batti ls | Washington Artillery.”" wikis It} | Traveling expenses of an officer of artil- || ery en route from Richmond, Va. to 3] | Aususta, Ga, March and April, 1863: i$} | March 11, meal on the road $20.00 <| | March 17, cigars and Ditters 60 00 | | March 20, hair cutting and shave.. 1000 March 20, pair of eyeglasses. 135 00 March 20, candles........... 50 00 ‘arch 23, coat, vest and pants. March 27, one gallon whisky. "foo 00 March 30, one pair pants. 700 00 March 30, one pair of caval 450 00 April 12, ‘six yards of linen. 200 00 April 14, two weeks’ board “Tov 00 14, bought $60 gold. 000 00 24, one dozen Catawba wine.. 900 00 24, shad and sundries TS 00 April 34, matches. 25 00 pril 24, peuknife April tO 00 24, g & 060 Two Brothers of the Same Name. From the Chicago Chronicle. : Two Mark P. Carneys, full brothers, are in Chicago—one a visitor from Oregon and the other a resident at 1112 Diversey ave- nue. The Oregonian is fifty-one years old and the Chicagoan is twenty years his Juntor. Each was {; ignorant of the existence of the other untii il quite recently, when Mark P. Carney, the elder, long thought to be dead, visited his parents, at Guelph, On- tario, and, after an absence of thirty-five years, learned of the existence of Mark P. Carney, the Mount Forest. Ontario, the peyeieere Heft birth, when sixteen years old, and went among the gold diggers of California. Shortly afterward his parents m Mount Forest to Guelph, ‘mies oe @ few miles dis tant, in an adjoining county, and the ‘otters written by their son in the west failed to the town of his reach them. In the course of time the youth was mourned as dead, years later, when another son was born, he was named Mark P., in memory of the one thought to be dead.” A few weeks ago the elder Mark left his home, in Central Point, Oregon, for the purpose of gétting some trace of relatives in Canada. After much trouble he found his parents in @uelph and learned of the existence of the brother in Chicago. ———_+e-______ With = Personal Application. From the Chicago Tribune. : Mr. Meeker—“Did you know, my dear, that the scientists say it is the female mos- quito that bites?” Prosany tee ina have no doubt of it. Foits, Fire Brick and Clay, Asbestos, | Fro>a! y eectend te herself while Foe Material o™enh fwo and these: | olitica” BOTH GOOD LAWYERS Legal Acquirements of the Two Leading Presidential Candidates. WRINLEY AND BRYAN BEPORE THE BAR Some Cases in Which Each Has Won Distinction. THEIR EQUIPMENT COMPARED A. Oakey Hall in The Green Bag. Presid2nts Wushington, Harrison the first, Taylor and Andrew Johnson were the only ones who filled the national ex- €cutive chair who were not lawyers. Ten of these professionals—Jefferson, Van Bu- ren, Fillmore, Pierce, Lincoln, Hayes, Gar- field, Arthur, Cleveland and Harrison the second—attained legal eminence irrespec- live of political preferment. And whoso- ever of the nov contending candidates shall b2 elected, such legal succession will be-continued. Of the two contestants, Wm. McKinley has professional seniority with admission to the Ohio bar in 1867; while the other William did not reach the Illinois bar un- ul 1883. The one has always confined his law _offize to Ohio; but the other removed to Nebraska, where the greater part of his professional life has been passed. Coun- sellor McKinley had his early schooling at the academy in the village of Poland, in his native Ohio; and next 2ntered the Meadville College—also the while teaching school—from which institutions, tike hun- dreds of other collegians of the time (1861), his patriotism volunteered him to the tent- ed Union field as a private soldier before he had attained his majority. Pleasantly coincident with (his service it was that toth of the after President, Hayes and Garfield, were officers in the Ohio regi- ment to which he belonged, together wi:h Stanley Mathews, afterward judge of the federal Supreme Court. By successive pro- inotions he reached the rank of major; and was for a time staff officer with Major General Hancock, an afterward defeated candidate for the presidency. When peac2 ere.ed Major McKinley was press2d to remain in the regular army with promotion, but his yearning was toward legal science. H- therefore took private law studics undcr Judge Charles E. Glidden of the Ohio bar, and graduated from the celebrated Albany Law School. During tem- porary residence in the capital of New York state, he there enjoyed attendance upon the illustrious bar of the New York court of appeals. Armed with his legal degree he was attracted from his youthful surroundings of lecality to the city of Can- ton, because his sister was then a teacher there, and when formally admitted to the Ohio bar he there opened a law offie. His early cleverness as a lawyer can. be best proved by the fact that in two yeurs after admission he was elected prosecuting offt- cer of the county; and soon obtained part- nership with Geo. W. Belden, then federal district attorney for the Ohio disirict. The request: for alliance came from Mr. Belden, who one evening discovered an unexpected engagement for the following morning which would prevent his trying a jury case appointed for the same time. Young Mc- Kinley had already received Mr. Belden interested legal notice, and the latter there- fore in the emergency selected the young- ster to take his place at nisi prius for the occasion. Being much hurried, the elder lawyer brusquely entered the yoing man’s office, threw the papers of the coming case on the table, with the observations, “a case of mine for you to try, as I um called away; the papers will give you full in- structions,” and then left McKinley to his cogitations. The surprised young attorney instantly addressed himself to diligent Freparation well into the midnight; and cn the next morning arose -cefreshed by honest sleep to the task. The Belden en- gagement elsewhere, however, tapsed, and the old lawyer, returning to the court, took @ seat among the spectators in the rear and quietly watched the progress of his understudy and substitute. The result Proved so satisfactory that immedia‘ely the elder offered the junior partnership. While a prosecutcr, McKinley was the true judge advocate, never changing his Cfficial title into the private one of perse- cutor—that so often appertatas by tempta- tions to triumphs to the young prosecutor of the people’s pleas—and properly tem- pering the justice of the case with mercy. For the foregoing Belden anecdote I am indebted’ to the manuscript notes of Wm. R. Day, senior member of the great law firm in Canton of Day, Lynch & Day, who has prepared for publication a charming sketch of his legal and political neighbor. Also for the following incident: Yeung McKinley war defending a medi- cal client sued for alleged mubpractice in setting a broken leg. It was suspected, without means of proof being provided, that the claim was what in the legai slang of corporation damage suits is called ‘a fake snap.” The plaintiff's counsel had ocularly exposed the mis or mal-practiced leg to the jury and oraculerly showed the nodes which were the alleged palpable evi- dences of the want of medical skill, when McKinley—who has been many times re- marked for skillful use of the reductio ad absurdum, exclaimed as the plaintiff was restoring the clothing of the limb, “Now let us see your other leg.” Which, after very excusable objections to policy from his attorney, was exhibited. The new ex- hibit—which proved to have been duly marked with India ink—showed the same nodes that were upon the other leg; and proved that, as McKinley wittily remark- ed, it was Dame Nature and not the Sir John or surgeon—for McKinley does not disdain a pun—who had been guilty of mal- practice. The case came under what jur- ists term fraud, patent as well as latent, and McKinley won, to the applause of a crowded court room. It was early remark- ed of McKinley, the lawyer, that he never took things for granted, and always thor- oughly prepared his evidence, logieally marshaled his facts as well as the points of an argument in banco, and usually led to a climax. He never slurred “an easy case,” but gave to it the same attention that belcnged to difficult or desperate con- tentions. He erly excelled in oratory, and this excellence it was that attracted to him the attention of political leaders. His seven terms in Congress, beginning with the administration of President Hayes in 1876 and lasting over a dozen years, together with his election as governor of Ohio, have become matters of history easily to be conned elsewhere. While in the national legislature his legal attainments came into serviceable play as a meinber of the committees on the revision of laws of judiciary. While governor he was more addicted to being his own legal adviser than to depending upon his attor- ney general for counsel; and doubtless the latter never thought of applying to his gubernatorial superior the stale saying touching client and fool. “Confound the President,” once said At- torney General Bates, according to Wash- ington gossip in civil war time, “Lincoln fs so excellent a lawyer under the maxim eadem ratio ibidem lex, that he is apt to advise himself off-hand in matters that fool ae to the Department of Justice, and not call for my official opinion.” Which is a parallel case with that of Governor McKinley and the Ohio attorney general. While Lawyer McKinley was in Congress its now véherable librarian often found him in the section of the Congressional Library devoted to jurisprudence, consulting author- ities. It had been remarked by lawyers and judges of the Ohio courts that, “if Mc- Kinley stated a proposition it was difficult to gainsay It, so thorough had been his ex- aminations, and so ethically accurate were his comments.” He had several times in arguments quoted Edward Burke in his noted saying, “Law combines the prin- ciples of original justice with the infinite variety of human concerns.” In that quality of respecting original jus- tice in legal contentions, Mr. Bryan, accord- ing to the tectimony of his partner, Talbot, made tally with Major McKinley; and a favorite saying with Bryan was one quoted from the eminent Sergeant Hill of the old London bar, “‘Law that shocks equity is reason’s murder.” The friends of both com- petitors for the presidential chair agree that in respecting natural ethics and the traditional ethics of their profession nei- ther one can surpass the other. Although the acutest lawyers in the House of Rep- resentatives were his fellows on the judi- clary committee, Mr. McKinley's gal views, ‘except for perhaps political differ- ences, were never assail During the congressional recesses Major McKinley returned more or less to legal Fesctios, as some of the volumes of Critch- 's lo reports show. Unlike some Congressmen, he declinedjpractice in pen- ston cases and before the Court of Claims; as also did Congressman Bryan, because each was unwilling to incfir the suspicion of bartering subsequent votes as to claims through counsel fees. And jboth declined to follow the example of some other of their fellow members who would appear as pri- vate counsel before ci ittees-of the House or Senate, or among fhe departments of the government. Any shrewd outside observer of congressional life in Washing- ton knows that the feed Wbbyist is not a Ways, as the name strictly implies, a mem- ber of lobby or cloak room,only. ‘There was an appreciable difference be- tween the legal beginnings of the two po- litical competitors; for Mz! McKinley com- menced his studies and his practice in a locality where he was not,enly known, but had become more or less noted and popu- lar as a victorious soldier of the army. Although Mr. Bryan had bégun practice at Jacksonville, Ill., where he made an early marriage with an accomplished lady, who slso obtained a legal diploma, and became his legal helpmeet as well‘us maritally, he sought as a permanent home the growing city of Lincoln, where, an utter stranger, he joined the Nebraska bar. How well his associate students at the Unton College of Law of Chicago, where he had received an LL.B., remembered his scholarship will ap- Pear from the following testimonial, and congratulatory letter which within a few days after his nomination they addressed to him, and which bears the signatures of Frederick M. Williams, Frank A. Smith, Frank Hall Childs, A. E. Case, J. Willard Newman, Samuel J. Lombard, William J. Marka, W, H. Pope, Alfred E. Holt, Louis P. Holland, Thomas W. Prindeville, Morris P. Trainor, John H. Rollins, Grose Hall, O. P. Seward, J. H. Chamberlain and Tay- Jor E. Browne, who are all now Chicago Practitioners: “We, the undersigned members of the class of ’83, in the Union College of Law, who now reside at Chicago, prompted by a fraternal spirit, arising from our college associations with yourself and from a just pride in your splendid achievement, write —without regard to political affiliations or individual views on pending political issues —in this expression of our high apprecia- tion of your fidelity to your honest convic- tions, and the manly qualities that have en- abled you to so effectively carve out of the course of events the position before the American people you have the distinction to occupy. As a class recognizing—from the inception of our acquaintance and as- sociation with you to the termination of our college course—your transcendent quali- fications for public life; and as attentive ob- servers of your progress since the termina- tion of that course, we write in extending to you our hearty congratulations, believing you will prove the able and sincere ex- ponent of the principles of which you are now the chief representative.” Young Bryan's first case was at Jack- sonville before a justice of the peace, for the collection of an assumpsit debt of $44, with a ratio in interest and costs to his fee of sixteen dollars to one. His progress at the Lincoln bar was tedious, for it had meritorious and older members. His first case there was in the Christmas week of 1887, with a plaint for an {njunction. An- other svit of a similar chancery character in the ensuing spring brought him addi- tional notoriety, but it was not until 188) that he can be sald to have successfully attacked the bandaged vision of Themis. Then he championed a damage suit be- fore a jury for an injured client against the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy rail- road, wherein he succeeded against a strong array of counsel. His practice be- gan to be varied in character. He won suc- cessively a divorce suit, a mandamus ac- tion, and was chosen standing attorney for a local manufacturing corporation. His divorce suit became noted from the large alimony that he obtained for his client, Mrs. Mattie Herrick. He had now associated with himeelf A. R. Talbot, esq., and later the firm became Talbot, Bryan & Allen. How promising and profitable had been thetr businces ap- pears from a suit brought by it In 1891, to obtain $4,000 counsel es ‘from an un- grateful client. In the game year against odds he excited attention by: an action for insurance moneys against ‘the German- American Insurance Company; in which that corporation, without success, appeal- ed from the $2,000 verdict Mr. Bryan had obtained. He appears to have heen, as the calendars of the supreme court of Nebraska show, the favorite counsel, often employed against the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railway, and also the Chicago, Rock Is- land and Pacific Railroad Co., because he had become recognized as ‘a serviceably persuasive and oratorical advocate before juries, especially in cases where sympathy for an injured plaintiff existed. He had a Magnetic presence and addiess, like Mc- Kinley, nor did either disclaim a liberal use of tropes and figures. Your western jury cares more for oratory than an east- ern twelve. Like Lawyer McKinley,Lawyer Bryan goon attracted political attention, and was sent to Congress, where both crossed forensic swords—the one being, as may he sald, counsel for the plaintiff protective tariff, against the other as counsel for defendant revenue tariff, although Congressional Rec- erds show that on a currency question— wherein now they are retained by their parties against each other—their opinions sometimes retained them on the same side. Mr. McKinley equally with Mr. Bryan ex- called in oratory, although when at the bar Lawyer McKinley preferred logical force to floridity. Mr. McKinley had the advantage of age and experience, but Mr. Bryan held the confidence of youth, and if ever taunt- ed with being a boy orator, doubtless he thought of the celebrated speech of Lord Chancellor Thurlow, when taunted by the Duke of Grafton in the house of lords with his youthfulness. That speech began—a fa- yorite with schoolboys on speech days— “My lords, the atrocious crime of being a young man,” etc. Neither McKinley nor Bryan, as it has been remarked by their. associates, ever lost the pose and manner which every lawyer legislator seems to have whenever addressing House or Sen- ate, as being the pose and manner of ad- dressing a jury—the pose somewhat satir- ized by Dickens in the sentence, “Bar, with his jury droop and eyeglass,” and for which the late Roscoe Conkling was noted both in court room and Senate chamber. Beth orators were always in demand cn patriotic public celebrations, elther in the western or middle states. Notably among these was an oration delivered by Mr. McKinley at the Metropolitan Opera House on the evening of May 30, 1889, before a mass meeting of delegations of the Grand Army of the Republic, on the announced subject, the “American Volunteer,” and at which veterans of the New York bar large- ly sought admittance. Both Mr. McKin- ley and Mr. Bryan are noted for the utter- ance of clever epigrams and laconic sa ings even in legal arguments, and it would be difficult for an expert critic to decide on this head a superiority. What may be termed Mr. Bryan's star law case will be found in the 156th volume of United States reports at page 335, in Cornell vs. Smiley, a peculiar case, elu- eldated by the opinion of Chief Justice Fuller in favor of Mr. Bryan’s client as appellee. The Jatter had begun in the Nebraska state court an action to quiet title to land which had been antagonis- tically sold at private sale and also under execution. The defendants, of whom the present appellant Connell was cne, re- moved the cause into the federal circuit court, some intervenors residing in different states, although plaintiff aud the main defendant were citizens of Nebraska. The Bryan client obtained decree quteting title in himself, when the Connell party saw fit to advantage his own wrong—if it was a wrong—claiming erroneous jurisdiction as to parties in the federal court, and moved to remit the cause back to the state court. The former court declined to oust itself, and the Supreme Court at Washington af- firmed. The opinion largely based upon the Bryan brief fs valuable to the profes- sion as settling the theretofore much moot- ed question, “Can jurisdiction separate two Utigating citizens ‘of the same state from their state court into a‘federal court, be- cause intervenors are citizens of another state? Thus Counsellor Bryan was suc- cessful in all the tribunals.” At their home bars each competitor for the presidency stands primus inter pares, id whomsoever may be'chosen to succeed such legal incumbents of the White House 9s were Jefferson, Pierce and Arthur, the legal vcter can satisfactorily make his choice for ballot in consonatce with sym- pathy for a professional comrade. ee Two Theories. From the New York Weekly. Fond mother (in passenger car with her children).—‘‘It just scared me when I read— Johnny! Stop pulling flowers off the lady's bonnet—when I read in the papers—Rich- ard! You just keep your head in—the paper the other day that—George! If you put your sticky hands on that lady’s dress again I'll thrash you—the Other day that a woman went cragy—Richard! Don’t you dare slap that little giri—when I read that @ woman went crazy just from the discom- | forts of the—Johnny! Stop punching that tleman—of the journey in a railroad train. I wonder if she had children with her?” (quietly)—“‘Perhaps some other Lady ‘woman had.” MR. BLAINE’S RECORD He Did Not Favor Unlimited Silver A PROPHETIC LETTER WRITTEN IN 1891 Friendly Relations With Major Mc- Kinley Always Maintained. THE RECIPROCITY SCHEME Much has been said and written during the pending campaign concerning the atti- tude assumed by the late James G. Blaine teward silver as a money metal, and an at- tempt has been made by democratic writers and speakers to cauge it to appear that the Maine statesman was favorable to indepen- dent free coinage. This has bcen denied by those who were close to Mr. Blaine in his Ufetime, and in this ne were the utter- ances to a Star reporter today of Mr. Louis A. Dent, who was Mr. Blaine’s private sec- retary during the later years of his life. Mr. Dent, when asked if he knew of any facts that would warrant the assumption: of the democrats, said: “I have noticed that an effort has been made in the present campaign by democrats to make it appear that Mr. Blaine favored the unlimited coinage of silver, by using garbled extracts of some of his speeches. Mr. Blaine’s position on the monetary ques- uon is, without any explanation from hi» friends, plainly deducible from his public policies and his speeches and votes in Con- gress. In December, 1867, and again in 1876, he made vigorous speeches against the propositions then afloat in favor of green- beck and silver inflation, and his vote against the Bland bill should be conclusive on this point. But evidence of later years is still more convincing. The Reciprocity Scheme. “Mr. Blaine believed that the gold supply would fail tc answer the needs of the world’s coinage, and he was therefore in favor of introducing the double standard by international agreement, and for that purpose he maintained an agent in Europe during his last term as Secretary whose business it was to encourage, foster and watch, the development of the silver feel- ing. The final outcome was the Brussels cenference, wh‘ch failed through the oppo- sition of the British government. “Failing in an internaticral agreement, Mr. Blaine believed in a limited coimage of silver by the United States government, coupled with reorganized trade relations between the United States and the nations of the western hemisphere. His idea was that by the extension of our trade rela- tions with the American nations the silver dollar of the United States could be made to circulate as a monetary standard among them, taking the place of the Mexican dol- lar so necessary to the volume of their circulation, because being maintained at parity by the United States it would not be subject to the fluctuations of the Mex- ican dollar. “Mr. Blaine’s reciprocity scheme was a necessary part of this comprehensive plan. The extension of trade relations were es- sential to furnish the outlet for the silver coinage, and reciprocity was the only ap- parent method by which our trade on this hemtspkere could be enlarged. The success ef the latter meant the success of the coinage scheme, and the success of both meant the absorption of the trade south of us, and an international confederation, with the United States at the head, which could successfully dictate its own terms in large measure to the older civil:zation of Europe, in time of peace, and effectually bid defiance to them in case of wa Proposed an Inter fonal Do! “As a further development of this plan, ezpecially cognate to the coinage ques- tion, Mr. Blaine put forward in the International Conference his idea of an in- ternational silver coin for the nations of North, South and Central America. “Aa a matter of fact Mr. Blaine was op- posed to the unlimited coinage of silver by the United States. He held the irrevoca- ble opinion that this country could not force silver as a monetary standard alone and single handed against the world, any more than Mexico, which had become practically bankrupt in the operation. He did believe, however, that by concerted ac- tion on the part of American nations the principle of bimetallism could be promoted if not actually introduced into use the the world over. His position on the mone- tary question is proven by the propositions advanced and the measures supported by him in the International Conference, all tending to a great American confederation. An Interesting Letter. “Apropes to this subject I think your readers will find very interesting the fol- lowing letter written by Mr. Blaine to his friend, Col. Conger, during Mr. McKin- ley’s campaign in 1891. Mr. Blaine exhibited in this letter, as he has done on so many occasions, his great gift, the faculty which alone indicates the statesman—that fore- sight which places before the eye of his mind the imminence of a public question or the outcon:e of a policy long before it is apparent or even occurs to the general or the individual mind. In a prophetic vein he predicted in this letter the position which the democratic party has today as- sumed in favor of a depreciated currency. ‘Lhe letter follows: “ ‘STANWOOD, Bar Harbor, Me., “ ‘September 23, 1891. ‘ol. A. LL. Conger, Akron, Ohio: ‘My Dear Sir: Your favor received. I cannot take part in the Ohio campaign this year, for many reasons which I need not give. But I hope that no effort will be spared to elect McKinley. His victory at this time is very important to the country and to the republican party. He and Mr. Camp- bell represent the honest difference between the two parties at this time. There is no dodging and no evasion, and the voter need not be deceived. The election of McKinley means the policy of protection and honest money. The election of Campbell :means free trade and corruption of the currency. I believe Ohio will stand by McKinley. “Very sincerely yours, “JAMES G. BLAINE.” Relations With McKinley. “Mr. Blaine’s relations with Mr. McKin- ley,’ continued Mr. Dent, “were always of the mos: pleasant and friendly character. Much effort has been expended to make it appear that Mr. Blaine was inimical to Mr. McKinley because of his letter to Senator Frye in 1890, in which he complained that the McKinley bill would not give to the United States a market for a barrel of flour or a pound of pork. Mr. Blaine'’s ob- jection was not to the general features of the bill. His complaint was against the ab- surdity of throwing open a market for $50,- 090,000 of sugar, when it was possible to gain advantages by making that market the subject of bargain and trade. He was incensed at the panicky feeling which pre- vailed in Congress on the subject of free sugar, and which blinded so many to the advantages to be gained by reciprocal ar- rangements on the basis of free sugar. He made vigorous protests to both committees of Congress, and in personal interviews with his friends in Congress, and finally ap- pealed the subject to the public in his let- ters to Senator Frye, resulting in the adoption of his reciprocity idea in the com- promised form proposed by the President. No Personal Feeling. “But in all the discussion there was not the slightest personal feeling. Mr. Blaine could not have for a moment been so prejudiced as to hold Major McKinley re- sponsible for the general opposition in Con- gress to his reciprocity plan. In order to dispel the rumors put forth of inimical feelings between them, Mr. Blaine spoke in the Ohio campaign that year at Canton, and again in 1891 he wrote to Colonel Conger, the above letter declining an invi- tation to speak in the campaign of Mr. Mc- ‘Kinley fer governor, a letter which should effectually repel the calumry that Mr. Blaine was personally hostile to Mr. Mc- Kinley and did not wish him success. In it he did not state the controlling reason for his declination, but it was generally well known to the condition of his health, which he was ever averse to having discussed in the public prints. He hed not then recovered from his long and’ serious illness of that summer, and was on the eve of departure to his Augusta home ‘in the hope that the bracing air of the hills would restore him the strength he wes so slow in regaining at the seas:de.” Chile? Be VOND AL EGE Dewy SELF - LAUDATION is not one of our weak- nesses. On the contrary—considering the sur- roundings—our utterances are entirely too mod- est. We hesitate to tell of our great facilities for securing the biggest bargains in the markets of the mertantile world. That when there is a spe- cially “GOOD THING” first to be apprised of it. to be had we are the That we take advan- tage of every such opportunity and plunge deep that our patrons may get the GREATEST VALUES at the LEAST COST. We hesitate, fearing lest you should say we exaggerate, and yet these things are trie. should know it, because in We know it, you these trying times every one should practice the most rigid econ- * omy—hence the display head line— Cheap Beyond All Precedent: And the following figures prove it: For fen. English Covert Cloth Top Coats-immaculate in style and finish. We invite the criticism of the most exacting trade. Fall and Winter Overcoats. Blue and Black Chev- iots, Serges, Cassimeres, Blue, Black, Tan and Drab Kerseys, Clay Wor- steds, Meltons and Chin- chillas, with and without velvet collars, silk sleeve linings, some with silk facings, others lined throughout with silk. Suits. If we went into detail a whole page of The Star would not afford space enough to enumerate the myriads of styles in this vast department. Single and Double-breasted Sack $7.50 $10.00 $12.50 $7.50 $10.00 $12.50 Coats, Cutaway Frock Coats, Prince Albert $6.50 Coats, Blue, Black and $7.50 Fancy Cheviots, Plain and $9.00 Fancy Cassimeres, Ox- $o o fords, Shetlands, Wor- “5 steds, Meltons, &c. A $10.00 grand aggregation of i" style, elegance, beauty and $i2 50 durability. Pantaloons. This department is the envy of every other cloth- ing man in town. It is the object of special care and our own watch- ful eye is ever upon it. It is one of those perfect things often spoken of, but rarely send. $1.50 $1.75 $2.00 $2.50 $3.00 $3-50 New Dept., No. 1. Men’s Furnishings. For thoroughness, completeness in every important detail, this de- partment stands without a_ rival. Towering above and_ laying over For Boys. $2.60 $2.98 $3.00 $4.00 $4.50 $5.00 $5.50 $6.00 Three- piece Suits— Coat, Vest and Long Pants, 14 to 19 years. All that a boy’s heart could desire in the shape of a suit of Clothes is here. Send or bring him. We'll do the rest. Two-Piece Suits, 5 to 15 years. Mothers —there’s no impropriety in urging you to make a critical survey of the really good and handsome things in this departinent. You will be pleased, de- lighted, jubilant, at the styles, quality, make and prices. $1.75 $2.00 $2.50 $2.75 $3.00 Overcoats. $1.50 $2.50 3350 3-50 $ $4.50 $5.00 These are important ad- juncts to your boys’ ward- robe just now. Keep the doctor away. The clothier is the least expensive. We will sell you an Overcoat for your boy for less than a single visit of the doctor will cost. Reefers. What looks neater, nicer or nobbier on a boy than one of these natty body protectors? We know of no garnient more comfortable or conver- ient. We have stacks of ‘em! $2.50 $2.98 $3.50 $4.00 $4.50 New Dept., No. 2. Hats & Caps. Here also you will find everything entirely new. Fashion's favorites, in anything of the kind ever before at- tempted in these parts. bosoms, Underwear, Neckwear, in all probability the largest and hand- somest display ever made in Wash- ington. “Night Robes, Pajamas, All-wool Sweaters, Men’s, 98c.; Boys’, 75¢. Handkerchiefs, Gloves. rich and elegant array. style, shape and color. The prices are govern- ed by the quality We charge nothing for Caps from..... WV CTOR E. ADLE OUTFITTER TO LEN, Corner Massachusetts Avenue.