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10 THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESUAX, OCTOBER 14, 1896-SIXTEEN PAGES. Wash. B. Williams, Furniture, ete., 7th and D PRICES IN SYMPATHY WITH THE TIES-- PANICKY. Never before in our long career of far- niture selling hve we offered such qualities at such shattered prices as now. Our stock of Housefurnishings is larger than ever—our assortments are mere varied. Some of the big specials: Parlor Suites. $62.50 $48.00 $47-50 $21.75 $2.25 $8.00 Special Drive in Solid Oak, $-picce Suite, $20.75 Overstuffed 5-piece Par- Jor Suite, upholstered im silk tnocatelle. Former- in satin damask. Form- erly $75. Now... Satin Damask 3-piece Suite, inlaid with white mahogany and Formerly $60. Now. Silk ‘Tapestry 6. Suite, solid birch frame. Formerly $30. Now... .. at. 50 ti Morris Chairs, —adjust- able, cushion "seat and covered in cordu- I colors, Formerly Wire springs and all-halr mattress. For. White Enamel 3- ees $29.85 White Enamel 3-plece Suite, Delf decorations. Formerly $45. Now...-- Cherry 3 natural finish, plate mirror on and__washstand. ci. Now . 534-75 $48.00 SE $40.75 Chiffoniers. $4.98 Md Onk Chiffon drawers, y md curved. At. x chiforters with I bevel glass. -Q) at - Solid coe $37 Formerly $50. > -50 Curly Birch Chiffonier, eee ceed $32.75 Formerly Now. $22.50 $20.98 Dining Room Suite Oak Sidcbou me ait for 20.25 A little be wuite: Ha edsome Siete Freneh plate glass, S-ft! Oak Table end 6 Cane- Oak Chairs. ¢ for... recet $28.95 $1.60 ons Kids of $3.98 China Closets. Solid Mahogany = plete Just ond better be at you want any. Priced at China ge Solid Quartered gor Fer $58.25 int Mahoxany “ya $37-50 Is lation Mahogany $ China Closet. Formerk: See P2375 Corner Closet. solid $ oak. Formerly $13. Tapestry Carpets, 65 cents a yd. About one hundred rolls, all new, de- sirable p ns—pretty colorings. Ingrain Carpets, 45 cents a yd. Fine extra quality Ingrains, entirely Rew patterns, and every bit as attructive as the higher-priced goods. Upholsteries and Draperies. Everything that f= good and attractive and desirable can be found in our newly stocked Upholstery Department. We've the Inrgest and most varfed aggregation of the newest and brightest productions in all the best quality goals. No one anywhere underquotes us. WASH. B. WILLIAMS, Furniture, &c., 7th& D Sts. Arrested Here. Albert Newton, a colored laborer, twenty- four years old, was arrested yesterday af- ternoon by Policeman Nauck and turned ever to the Maryland authorities. He 1s wanted in Montgomery county on a charge of assault with Intent to kill. The trouble occurred in May, and Newton will be tried at Rockville. see ee The Glass of Fifty Yea From the Lewiston (Me.) Journal. “The glazier of fifty years ago,” said a Maine man of experience in the business, “worked differently from what we do to- day. Glass was very costly then compared with present prices, and much of it was so warped and crooked it would be a curiosity fm these times. Owing to the cost we had to be very careful in setting it, and the glazier of that day had to be a wood car- ver as well as a man of putty. The warped panes had to be laid into the sash and their @hape ‘scribed on the wood underneath. This was then cut away so as to make hay = fit into place. Nowadays the glass tolerably true, and besides it is so cheap that we never stand for a fit. It is sprung into place, and if it breaks it is thrown aside. The old crooked glass was, some of it, of superior quality. This was known a crown glass, or Berkshire crystal it was clearer and more brilliant than most glass. Only the better quality of houses had this kind, but there are still Many residences throughout Maine tn which it may be found.” Ago. ADVICE TO POPULISTS Address Issued by the National Ex- ecutive Committee. UNION NECESSARY TO SUCCESS Voters Urged to Be on Their Guard Against Stratagem. NO AFFRONT TO WATSON Following is the address prepared by the national populist executive committee at Chicago yesterday for submission to the popuiist voters: To the people’s party voters of the United States—Your national committee indulged the hope that the patriotic action of the people’s party in national convention, in suburdinating the interests of the party to the success of the vital issues involved in this campaign, would be met by equally un- selfish devotion to a common interest on the part of the democratic party, and that all the friends of silver could present a solid front against the minions of greed by supporting one ticket, the truly co-opera- tive ticket, Bryan and Watson. But this hope being disappointed there were but two courses left, one of which must be adopted. First—To run a straight Bryan and Wat- son electoral ticket in every state, which, on account of the failure of the democratic party to support this ticket would have ef- fected the same result in this campaign that would have followed the nomination of a straight populist ticket at St. Louis, namely, the election of McKinley and the triumph of the gold standard. é It is true that the democratic party would be responsible even to a greater extent than ourselves for such a@ result, but to permit evil to triumph on such grounds would convict us as well as them of a lack of patriotism and narrow partisanship that would deserve to forfeit to us the confi- dence of the American people. Remember that two wrongs never make.a right. When our devotion to the welfare of the people falters because of any failure on the part of the democratic or any other party, then, indeed, will we have lowered our standard and proven ourselves false to our cwn teachings and repudiated our own mot- to of country first, and men and partisans second. The brave enlightened voters who ccntitute the rank and file of the people's party are incapable of such base betrayal of their country as would result from a division in the ranks of those opposing their machinations of the confederated money pewer of the-two continents against the homes and liberties of the American people, and would repudiate any action on the part of their leaders opposed to united effort at this time, as they repudiated the old parties for treachery to their interests. The other course left open to your com- mittee, that was consistent with the action of the convention in nominating Mr. Bryan, was to do everything in its power to unite the voters of the country against McKinley und to overcome the obstacles and embar- rassments which, if the democratic party had put the cause first and party second, we would not have encountered. This could be accomplished only by ar- ranging for a division of the electoral vote in every state possible, securing so many electors for Bryan and Watson, and con- ceding so many to Bryan and Sewall. At the opening of the campaign this, under the circumstances, seemed the wisest course for your committee and It is clearer today than ever that it was the only safe and wise course if our votes were to be cast oppressed and outraged people. Following this line of policy your com- mittee has arranged electoral tickets in three-fourths of the states and will do all in its power to make the same arrange~ ments in all of the states. By perfecting this arrangement, and every sincere oppo- nent of the gold standard giving loyal sup- port to these joint electoral tickets, the people's party will not only secure in the electoral coliege for Bryan and Watson several times as many votes as we couid have possibly secured by making a straight ticket, but we will secure the defeat of McKinley and the gold standard, which should now be the greatest desire of every citizen who believes in the principles of true democracy as taught by Jefferson, and of true republicanism as represented by Abraham Lincoln. ‘By this arrangement we can unite a large majority of the voters on our joint elec- toral tickets. Therefore the only hope of the money power and trusts is to divide and conquer. The republican managers and their democratic allies realize this and are putting forth every effort to accomplish this end. They have had their emissaries on hand everywhere trying to prevent joint electoral tickets from being arranged—failing in this, they try to find populists and silver democrats who can be induced, on one pre- text or another, to rebel against the joint electoral tickets. They either have secured, or will secure, the services of every man that money can command, to breed sersions and divisions. The danger lies :n the possibility of a certain portion of the rank and file of the people’s party being misled by so-called leaders, who, for rea- sons best known to themselves, or for want of reason, are advising. voters. to rebel against the joint electoral tickets and put up separate electoral tickets, or to sith- hold their support from the joint electoral tickets. Some of the democrats of the revenue stripe, who are not yet weaned from the flesh pots of Egypt, but are sticklers of regularity and are nominally supporters of Mr. Bryan, while secretly and in every un- derhand way trying to accomplish ais de- feat, are advising against the joint elec- toral tickets, and, failing in this, they ad- vise democrats to scratch people’s party electors, and already a few so-cailed popu- list leaders are advising the rank and file of our party to strike back by refusing to support the democratic electors on the joint electoral tickets. ‘This is a trap set by the gold bugs, who are rejoicing that a few honest men have fallen into it. These reports today are the only ones that buoy up the hopes of the republican managers, and the demo- crats and populists, who are thus en- leagued, are doing just what the gold men desire. Therefore, we appeal to every populist. who may have been misled by such mis- taken or false pleas of pretended loyalty to the people’s party, into refusing to sup- port such joint electoral tickets, to stop and consider the results of such conduct and refuse to be influenced by either mis- guided or corrupt men. There are but two sides in the conflict that is being waged in this country today, On the one side are the allied hosts of monopolies, the money power, great trusts and railway corporations, who seek the enactment of laws to benefit them and im- pcverish the people. On the other side are the farmers, laborers, merchants and al) others who produce wealth and bear the burden of taxation. The one represents the wealthy and powerful classes, who want the control of the government to plunder the people. The other represents the people, contending for equality before the law and the rights of man. Between these two there is no middle ground. ‘The one and onlv hope of the republican party to win ia this campaign and fasten the gold standard upon the country is the corrupt use of an unlimited supply of money for bribery, corruption and intimi- dation. The patriotic action of the peo- ple’s party in forming and supporting these joint electoral tickets has shattered that ope. Already they are alarmed at the impotency of a boodle campaign, when al) of the great moral forces of the people are solidly united. in defense of American in- stitutions. The revulsion of the American people against this boodle campaign, during the last ten days, has so united them that vic- tery is now assured. The people’s party made this revolution ressible. Let every one do his duty and fail not. Let our boast be that we are American citizens, and that American cit- izens are more than partisans. This done, the cohorts of domestic and foreign greed will be driven from our leg- islative councils and the domination of American institutions; this done, and the betrayed republic will be redeemed and American prosperity restored. The men and the party that achieve such grand and patriotic results in this crisis will be the men and the party of the future. It has been left for the people’s party and the silver republicans to make the party sacri- fice, and to do the patriotic work necessary to accomplish this result. The people's par- ty must do it, for no other party will. The people’s party will do it. Therefore, the and made effective for th® relief of an Special 10 to 12 O'clock. From 10 to 12 o'clock we will sell our Delicious 39-cent Assortment of Chocolates, 20 different kinds, filled with Fruit, Nuts, Creams, etc., for.... “Hour Sal re a GS 17¢. Ib. i Bon Marche, 314 and 316 7th St OMOrrow AT BON MARCHE. : In addition to a special sale of Ladies’ Coats, Capes, Suits, Skirts, Waists and Wrappers we shall in- stitute an “‘hour’’ sale, offering extraordinary bargains in desirable and seasonable merchandise at a ridiculous The momejt the hour is up the prices will revert to their original figures. low price for one hour only. $10 CAPES, $6.63. Fine Astrakhan Cloth Capes, 30 in. in $6.63 Many other new arrivals in Capes, in cloth, plush and velour, in a wide range of prices, from $1.50 to §$40.-No charge for alterations. length, 150 in. in sweep, handsomely strapped with Kersey, pearl button trim- med. Fully worth $10. morrow. To- g to 10 o’clk. 8c. Eiderdown Dress’g Sacques.57c. 12$c. Rustle Percaline.... O4c. 25c. Ribbed Vests 14¢c. Special 3 to 5 o’clock. Between 3 and 5 o'clock we will sell Chocolate Cream Parelines TA SKIRTS, 4.08, Tomerrow we shall place on sale a beau- tifwl line of Skirts, in Black Satin, Bro- caded Silks, Diagonal and Rough Cloth Effects, in black, green, brown, navy and fancy mixtures, percaline lined, interlined and velvet bound. ‘Thes: skirts are fully worth §=6$5, $5.98 and $6.50. Cholee tomor. $ 68 en 4 We have rerson to believe tht ours ts the largest asscrtment of Skirts in this city. From $1.98 to $20. No charge for alterations. 10 tom o’clk. 12}c. Scalloped Emb’y Hdkfs. .. .7c. $1 and $1.25 Alpine Hats......79c. 12c. Bone Casing. ......++++++-7¢. COATS, $9.79. ‘Tomorrow we shall offer a large variety of Stylish Coats. ‘These are made of ker- seys, friezes, beavers, cheviots, astrakhan cloths, etc., in loose and tight fitting and shield apd reefer fronts, lincd and half lined, In plain, braid trimmed and fur- trimmed, in black, navy. tan, brown and green, Largest variety ever shown, and were $12.50, $13.) hotce. 11 to 12 o’clk. 25 and 35c. Laces, all kinds... ..13¢. 75¢. Coque Feather Boas... ...29c. $1.75 Black Ostrich Plumes. . .$1.19 SUITS, $9.03. Tomoriow we will offer an elegant line of New Stylish Suits, high cut shield front Jackets, gloria silk lined throughout, in brown, gray and fancy mixtures aud also Black and Navy Blue Cheviot Suits of the same style. None worth less than $12. Chole tomer: 6 Tow ... 3 . Superb line of Tulior-made Suits, in pat- terns and styles confined to us, from $7 to $25. Large variety of Bicycle Suits. 12 to 1 o’clk. 8 and toc. Jet and Silk Edgings. .5¢. 12}c. Men’s Handkerchiefs. .....7¢. Child’s 19c. Drawers.......... (These are of canton flannel, with worked button holes, im sizes 1 to 3 years.) |Waists, $4.83. Tomorrow we shall offer a superb line of Waists, comprising Changeables, Plain Black Taffetas and Surahs, Brocaded Changeables and Black Figured Taffetas, in the latest $4.83 ings. Regular prices, $6.50 t9 $7.50. Choice tomor- row. You will admit upon inspection that ours is the largest and handsomest line of Cloth and Silk Waists in the city, $1.75 to $15. 3 to 4 o’cik. New Scratch Felt Hats - 39¢- (The latest, all colors, velvet bound). 39 and 50c. Veilings 27¢. (Double width, all black and Diack and white). (These comprise Pocket Books, tion Cases. Chatclaine Bags, Shopping Bags, ete) CHILDREN’S REEFERS ABOUT HALF have secured a manufacturer's entire je line of 119 Children’s am’ Misses” r Jackets, more stylish effects than those shown for grown folks, finest qualittes and richly trimmed, hardly any two altke. Sizes 6 to 14 years, Worth from $5 to $15. Only $3 to $o. 4 tos o’clk. Our $1.50 Kid Gloves. (These are our famous $1.50 ~ Real Kid Gloves, with our own in all Shades. ) soc. Birds, Wings and Feathers. 11. roc. | $1.48 and $1.75 Umbrellas... .$1.14 (These are Ladiex’ and Men's 26-inch Silk Gloria Umbrellas, steel or wood red, variety of handles.) E BON MARCHE, Double Stores, 314 and 316 7th St. people’s party will be the party of the future. The American people will recog- nize it as the agency that saved the day when their interests were at stake; the American people will rally around its ban- ner as the party to contend against the enemy of good government in the future. Every man to his post, and the victory is won. (Signed) MARION BUTLER, Chairman. - J. R. SOVEREIGN, H. W. REED. GEO. F. WASHBURN. JOHN W. BRIEDENTHAL. M. C. RANKIN. Cc. F. TAYLOR. J. A. EDGERTON, Treasurer. Not a Slap at Watson. Senator Marion C. Butler said to an Associated Press reporter after the meet- ing: “We ure very well pleased with the re- sult and have no doubt that it will bring many more voters to our ticket than we would have received under other circuum- stances. “There have been many small points of difference among the members of the com- mittee, and we wished to get them out cf the way and to present a solid front to our opponents. We have settled all these dif- ferences, and the committee was unani- mous in support of the statement we have issued. It the committee had been divided upon it we never should have issued it.” “It Is sald by some that the action | of the committee is a direct slap at Mr. Wat- SolWell,” sald the Senator, ‘if it is it is the kind of a slap he would like very well to have repeated. I have no doubt that with a slap of that kind sent on one cheek Mr. Watson would gladly turn the other’ cheek for a repetition of the blow. Seri- ously, though, {t is not a slap at Watson in any way, and it is not so considered by any member of the committee. Mr. Heed of Georgia, who is the personal friend of Mr, Watson, was present throughout the meeting and gave his consent to the state- ment. That does not lock as though he considered that Mr. Watson was being slapped to any great extent. E laphe whole thing is right here. We must support the electoral ticket which is opposed to McKinley, for if we do not McKinley might get the electoral vote, and then where would Watson and Sewall be? They would be nowhere, of course If we don’t get the electoral vote for the head of the ticket all questions as between Watson and Sewall end right there. It 1s a case of giving up minor considerations for the head of the ticket—nothing more, nothing less. Our only aim is to keep Mc- Kinley from getting the electoral votes, and with this end in view we have set- tled our differences and closed up our ines for the fight. the statement covers that ground plainly. Regarding the formation of fusion tick- ets in all the states Senator Butler said: “We hope to have fusion tickets In all of them, but there may be a few in which we will be unable to bring it around. We have fusion tickets in three-fourths of the states now.” ———_+e+ FOR THE FIELD MONUMENT. Bicycle Races to Swell the Fund Be- ing Raised for It. A series of bicycle races will be held at Columbia Field, 17th and C streets north- west, Saturday, the 81st instant, for the benefit of the Eugene Field monument fund. Outside of the object for which the meet is to be given, the affair will attract attention from a sporting point of view, as the prizes to be offered are costly and well worth competition, and nearly all the cracks of the city have signified thelr In- tention of entering the various events and lending their aid in every way possible toward making the meet a distinct success. A number of committees have been chosen, which will see the enterorise through, the bodies embracing some of the best-known business and newspaper men in the city. The press includes Dr. Frank T. Howe, Miss Lancaster, Mr. Page, Mr. Frank Pierce and Miss Stelle and Mrs. C. B. Brown. Another committee is that of the business men, which censists of Mr. Sam Steinmetz, Mr. W. A. Hungerford, Mr. Goldsmith, Mr. Chas. Cabrera, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Orrison, Mr. Kent, Mr. Gans, Mr. E. B. Hay, Dr. W. ‘A. Croffutt and Capt. James E. Bell. These two commit- tees will endeavor'by every means possible to make the meet”A sutcess in the line of sports as well as if the matter of finances. The editors of the principal newspapers of the city have consénted to“act as honorary members of the press committee. ‘A meéting of the‘two committees will be heldtomorrow evening at®6:30 o'clock in the parlors of the Riggs House, at which the first steps will be taken to insure the success of the meeting, and the thorough organization of the committees. All the members are expected to be present. Ea ae EMPLOYES DISCHARGED. Rumored Changes on the Eckington Lime by the Receiver. Considerable comment in railroad circles occurred today when i: was announced that Mr. W. Kesley Schoepf, receiver of the Eckington and Soldiers’ Home Railway Company, had ordered the discharge of a large number of the employes of the com- pany. Those whose services have been dis- pensed with, so it wag stated, include the vice president and general manager, Mr. ‘W. Stuart Symington, and several super- intendents and stable bosses. Few, if any, of the drivers, it is the understanding, have been disturbed. So far as can be learned, economy was the sole motive for the reported action of Recelver Schoepf. At the office of the ccmpany this afternoon absolutely no in- formation could be obtained in regard to the matter. A Star reporter was referred to Mr. Schcepf, and inquiry disclosed the fact that Mr. Schoepf is in Baltimore today on business. WORK IN OREGON! The Campaign Being Energetically Pushed All Over the State. aoe THE TWO STATE CHAIRMEN TALK Republicans Figure Out a Small Plurality for McKinley. DEMOCRATS . CLAIM BRYAN Correspondence of The Evening Star. PORTLAND, Ore., October 8, 1896. There is probably no state in the Union where the campaign Is more energetically pushed than right-here in Oregon. Every- body is talking politics,-and the newspapers have little more than reports of speeches made and méctings néla. Business is, has and will suffer toa great extent. There ts scarcely a corner'fn the business part of Portland where a trowd is not congregated discussing thé pofftical issiiés of the hour. Most of these ‘speakers are supporters of Bryan and his principles, though occasion- ally can be heard some one advancing rea- sons why McKinley and Hobart should be elected. Even the newsboys have caught the fever, and-one bright little fellow, a vender of campaign buttons, invariably at- tracts a crowd when he stops to talk of his wares and tells why every one—man, wo- man or child—should wear some emblem upon his coat or her dress to let every one know his or her choice for the highest gift at the bestowal of the people. Nor is this state of affairs confined to Oregon's metrop- olis, for out in the country men will leave their work for an hour or two each day to spread the teachings which they think must be followed to save the country from ruin and perdition. The result of all this will be the polling of a very large vote the 3d proximo. How the figures will tally no one can tell for a cer- tainty. The populists and democrats are positive in their claims of the state for Bryan; so are the republicans for McKinley. The former, if anything. are the more posi- tive. At least they claim the greater ma- jority. The republicans are very conserva- tive, and are very careful before making any statement for publication. Notwith- standing this, there {s an evident growth of the McKinley sentiment in Oregon. Fur- thermore, this growth continues each day, and it may be that the results November 3 will be a greater surprise to the leaders of the populists than they even in their most dispirited moment anticipated. No Let Up in the Campaign. From now on there will be no let up in the campaign work. Every speaker of any prominence in each party has received assignments which will keep him on the jump until the very last moment of the campaign. Nowhere in the state, no mat- ter how remote the spot, need a speaker want for an audience, no matter what his theme may be. The mere announcement that a speech on the political questions of the day is to be made is sufficient to at- tract a crowd of sufficient proportions to bring forth the speaker's best effort. Today ‘The Star correspondent visited the various headquarters in Portland for an expression of opinion as to the outlook in the state. At the McKinley headquar- ters they talked to him, personally, very freely, but would give him nothing for pub- lication. The several ollicers of the state central committee, while declining to be quoted themselves, other than to say that McKinley would carry the state by a safe majority, referred him to Judge Carey as the man most competent to talk of the situation throughout the state, and the one who would give the most conservative estimate. At the Bryan headquarters it was not such a difficult matter to obtain an estimate as to the fesult in Oregon. The statements given him follow: Chairman Carey's Statement. Charles H. Caréy, €hairman republican congressional comifnittee and president of the Republican League of Oregon, said: “Oregon has often: been. considered a silver state by those unfamiliar with her loca! political issues. ven many persons Mv- ing in Oregon, who take the vote in the state election of 1894’ or 1896 as a guide, and fail to consider various circumstarcés which have influence® the vote in those elections, or fail,to mete the very appar- ent drift of sentiment during the present campaign, may fall into the same error. There is no doubt whatever In the minds of those who areimanaging the politice of the republican party of the state that Ore- gon will cast her, electoral votes for Mc- Kinley and Hobart. There may have been a time, not long ago, when, upon the single issue of free coinage of silver or the gold standard, Oregon would have given a con- siderable majority for free coinage. If this were ever true, it is certainly not the case that now, in the issue between Bryan and McKinley and the platforms they repre- sent, Oregon will favor the election of Mc- Kinley. “The combined vote of the populists and democrats of the state, both in 1894 aad 1896, exceeded the republican vote. This was when there was no fusion between the former two parties, and it is plausibly argued that since they are now united and have one electoral ticket in common, and particularly as many republicans in the state are pronounced silver men, the silver ticket will win. But, in the first place, many democrats and not a few populists will vote for McKirley. The democratic state central committee has withdrawn the four electors nominated by the state con- vention of that party, and has, by agree- ment with the popuiists, named a new set of electors to vote for Bryan and Watson. Those composing the better clement in the democratic party, who are as radically op- posed to populism as the republicans are, resent this action and will not support the ticket. The ‘administration,’ or ‘Cleve- land,” democrats, and, indeed, most cf the prominent men of the party, cpenly assert their intention to support McKinley, and some of them have taken the stump in his behalf. The protest was feebly heard at first, but as the Chicago platform has be- come more generally understood, and the substantial and conservative men of the party have come to a full realization of the Canger which would attend the success of the lawless and revoluticnary in this cam- paign. the disapproval of the candidate end platform, and cf the unnatural alliance of the two parties, has been made manifest in no uncertain terms. It is noticeable that this is not alone on the ground of obj=stion to the money plank of the fusion platforms, but is most frequently pronounced against the provisions of the Chicago platform in relation to the power of the executive and the Supreme Court and against the men of the Tillman and Altgeld stripe who have been so preminent in the national conven- tion. . Figuring McKinley's Plarality. “It may be safely said, then, that fully cre-half of the old democratic party will not vote for the Bryan electors. Some of these say 4,000 will vote the Palmer and Buckner ticket, but a greater number, not lees than 6,000, will vote for McKinley, thus leaving as a democrats, with about 2,000 populists, to | vote for Bryan. The 34,000 votes thus ob- tained by him will be swelied by a few sil- ver republican votes, variously estimated at from 3,000 to 5,000, which will not be cast for McKinley. ‘This estimate gives Bryan and Watson a total of 39,000 votes, a lib- eral figure. On the other hand, after de- ducting 5,000 disaffected republican vot McKinley will still have an easy 36,000, and with the 6,4) democratic votes safely counted on should have a total of 42,000, or a plurality of 3,000. “This way of estimating the vote, how- ever, is necessarily uncertain and unrelia- ble. A safer plan is to take the state by counties, and after comparing local re- ports and estimates from each preciact determine the percentage of loss and gain. By this method the estimates exceed the figures above given. When the Bryan conventions adjourned the silver cause was much more vigorous than it has been at any time since. In the first place, a most thorough campaign of education has been carried on by the republican state central committee and the republican league of Oregon. The causes of the hard times have been thoroughly discussed by the best speakers who could be procured, and the state has been thoroughly covered with sound money and tariff literature. This work has been supplemented by the very effective campaign made by United States Senator John H. Mitchell and Gov- ernor McConnell cf Idaho and other silver republicans, who have had great influence in prevailing upon republicans who favor free coinage of silver to remain with their party. Another potent factor has been the heetile legislation of the present adminis- tration and the well-known views of Mr. Bryan against the protection of the wool- growing industry. Some sections of east- ern Oregon, for example, where wool grow ing is important and where democratic ma- jorities are generally expected, will vote solidly for McKinley for tariff reusons. The Counties Considered. “A few counties will give very large ma- jorities for Bryan, and will increase the normal majority to be overcome by the vote elsewhere. For example, in the Wil- lamette Valley, which is in the western part of the state, in certain farming sec- tions populism and free silver have taken deep root, and the vote cast against the republican ticket in the state election held last June will be exceeded by the vote for Bryan. This is probably true, also, but for different reasons, in two of the ex- treme eastern counties of the state. But this is more than offset by the gains for McKinley in other sectious. The growth of the republican cause in some parts of the state has been simply astonishing. The steady trend of sentiment has been toward McKinley, and ‘it ig not’ to be denied that the Bryan caus# hus rot gained since his first New York' spéech.? Every day which passes adds to thé corifidence of the Mc- Kinley supportérs.': 'Thi$ is not so much a matter of actual figures'as it is in the en- couragement réceived “from all quarters, and the very apparent fdct that throughout the state it is“how almost universally ad- mitted that McKinley ‘will not only carry Oregon by a safe majority, but will be the next President of the United States. -“Multnomah county, which includes the city of Portland, and is the most populous county of the state, is usually republican by from 2,500 to 3,000. It is probable that it will be carried for McKinley by as much as 4,000. His plurality in the state, in- cluding Multnomah county, it likely to be about equal to what he has to his credit in Multnemah county. In other words, the state outside of. that county will be a neu- tral factor, the McKinley counties about offsetting the Bryan counties. But as the Bryan forces are now retreating, and the enthusiasm for the republican standard bearer contirues to augment Itself, and there is still another four weeks of the campaign, it is not at all improbable that the figures will far excced this estimate. Gov. Lord carried the state in 1892 by a plurality of 15,016; Judge Bean, for su- preme judge, in 1896 by about 14,000; it is manifest that the democrats and populists combined cannot cast as great a vote in this election as they did separately in either of those state elections. If they fall 3,000 under their combined vote in 1804, or 4,000 under their combined vote in 1896, they will lose the state, even if the re- publican vote does not increase. Looking at it In this way, if the silver republicans who vote for Bryan offset the democrats who will vote for McKinley ‘(and it ts not generally believed that this will be the liberal estimate 8,000 | case), the republicans will still win the state if the Palmer ticket receives as many as 4,000 democratic votes. “It is, therefore, safe to consider Ore- gon’s four electoral votes in the McKinley column.” | The Democratic Chairman’s Claim, John C. Young, chairman of tRe Bryan union campaign committee, said: “The po- litical outlook in Oregon at this date is that the state will go for Bryan and Wat- sen, to whom the Bryan electoral ticket is pledged. There are no Sewall electors in the field here, the democrats having with- drawn their ticket as the only means of securing the solid populist vote to ryan ‘The national democratic (gold) ticket, put in the field for the purpose of securing ? per cent of the vote, in order to establish under our law, a legal standing as a party, for the future, will fail of its object, be- cause the gold standard democrats who are behind this movement, and who are of the silk-stocking stripe, hate Bryan and the principles he represents more than they cherish the hope of holding to themselves the old party name, and will, therefore support McKinley. ‘Phe republicans, of course, claim the state, and are doing everything in their power to make the results tally with their claims. They are receiving reports from some parts of the state that many demo- crats and populists are flocking to the Me- Kinley standard, and our Bryan club re- ports show exactly the opposite. Never- theless a new alignment is taking place. For instance: In one precinct. where the June election there were cast 45. votes, of which number the populists and democrats combined polled we now | have a club of 374. Of this membershiy ferty-four were republicans and voted that party's ticket in June. In the same pre cinct three democrats who voted for the independent republican gold standard cam- didate for Congress will support Palmer and eleven democrats will vote for McKin- ey. by the signatures to the Bryan club rolls. “My judgment that the state will go for Bryan is based on the showings made in these reports, and cn the fact that the combined démocratic ane populist vote in June shows a clear majority of 4,300 over the republican: RISKY HOARDING. Old-Fashioned Methods of Hiding Valuables in the House. From the Boston Traveller, The stocking bank of our grandmothers is not yet obsolete in the country districts and the daily papers give frequent accounts of its insecurity. Safes are not burglar- proof, elther, and the occasional bank rob- beries and the failures, too, keep alive the fondness of women for searching for queer hiding places for their savings. Some of the old-time “banks” showed considerable in- genuity in their construction or covering. An old lady living in a New Hampshire town had a set of large stationary drawers topped by cupboards built into one of her huge closets. The lower drawer, instead of resting directly on the floor, ran on grooves perhaps two inches above it. She would pull out this lower drawer, place her jewel cases in the space left below, and then push in the drawer, which she kept filled with linen. Equally shrewd was an Ohio woman who, whenever she went out, put her meney and jewelry in the coal scuttle covering them up carefully with severa’ layers of coal. This might have proved a rather risky experiment in the winter ane deg ee fire had to be fed, but their owner felt that no burglar would ev: think of looking there. = aes A favorite hiding place for money, espe- cially for bills of large denominations, has always been the big family Bible and the unabridged dictionary. This is still com- mon in rural places. So is the practice of sticking money snugly away under a corner of a carpet, particularly under some large plece of furniture. This is a method that has much to commend it. Tea caddies and sugar bowls made ex- cellent’ temporary safes. Another hiding place is the old-fashioned country clock which is almost historic as a spot for tuck- ing away little bundles of valuables. It is safe to say that the number of wo- men who put away jewelry in pocket booke under a mattress for safe keeping, after- ward carefully smoothing the bed down can be numbered by the thousands. The pocket of an old dress that hangs in an unconcealed way in a closet is regarded by many women as one of the safest places imaginable for spare rings, brooches and bracelets, and even for a pocket book. Old shoes, standing in their proper place beside new ones, are likewise much esteemed, for a great deal can be put down in their ‘toes without giving the slightest evidence of the value therein. ss An Appointment. Charles A. Calhoun, formerly of Atlan-a, has been appointed private secretary to Gen. Wade Hampton, commissioner of rail- roads, at a salary of $1,400 per annum. Mr. Calhoun has been in Washington some time, taking a course at the Georgetown Law School. —— Mr. Emrich’s Condition, Fred W. Emrich, the owner of several stores, whose life was attempted on the night of September 19, while near the cor- ner of Indiana avenue and 34 street north- west, on his way to his Indiana avenue store to get the week’s receipts, is by no means a well man, for the bullet is still in his neck. But he has so much improved that he ts able to be out, and tomorrow he will appear in the Police Court and tell about the deadly assault made on him. Charles Phillips, the colored man ar- rested by Precinct Detective Hartigan soon after the affair happened, will be brought up. from jail and given a preliminary hear- “This is a sample report, and is verified | CONTRACTOR SUSPENDED End of the Trouble Over Building the Stevens School. Orders Issued Today by the District Com: wsioners and Notes of In- terest to Taxpayers. Worn out by the constant delay of Con- tractor Cabell and the many contentions that have arisen over the contract for building the Stevens School building, In- spector Brady has decided to take drastic measures and suspend him from the work. It is understood that a twelve-hour notice has been issued the contractor, and afier its expiration the bondsmen will be directed to proceed et once with the work and prose- cute the same to a satisfactory completion. And this is not all, It is understood that there is rot enough money in the hands of the Commissioners upon this contract to pay the outstanding obligations, and once more it seems the poor laborers and ma- terial men will have to content themselves | with a small percentage of what is due them. The history of this contr: has been | markel by celays and contentions. Sev eral hearings have been had betore the Commissioners by striking workmen, who | have not been paid, and altogether it is | considered cre of the most unfortun. | bargairs the Commissioners ever entered | into. Building Inspector Brady has done every- thing in his power to hurry the work on, | but when he found it s impossible he -ecided to make a change and compel the | bondsiren to finish the work. Ample anu- | thority ts given him under the specifica- | tions and it is not anticipated that there will be any further trouble in the matter. This is another case, say District officials, which illustrates the fallacy of the law which requires the award of contracts to the lowest bidder without any ether con- sideration, and if the Commissioners de not succeed in getting authority from Con- gress to construct the public buildings of the District by day’s labor they will mak a strong effort tc get legislation touching the award of contracts so that they may use their judgment in the matter. Sweeping by Hand. from the figures and results attained by the experiment of hand-sweeping the Streets, there is every reason to believe the Commissioners are satisfied, and will ex- tend the work. The first day trial was satisfactory in every respect. The streets have been weil Swept, and the Commissioners have re- ceived several commendatory letters from merchants on the new system. Two streets were swept as an experiment —F street, from 5th to 15th street, and G street, from Sth to 15th. It cost the District to do this work exactly $11.85. Those fi ures include the employment of laborers and carts. To sweep them by machines would cost $10.26, or a difference of $1.59 in favor of machines. This experiment will likely be further tried before anything final is decided upon by the Commissioners. There is one feature of the work which commends itself, and which has the unqual- ified indorsement of the laborers. The Di trict can afford to pay $1.25 per day for their work, which is said to be considerably in advance of that paid by others who em- ploy this class of labor. Bids Opened. Bids were opened by the Commissivners today for building an eight-room bric school house at the northeast corner of Sth and K streets northeast. The bidders : J. M. Dunn, $28,000; Melton & Watts, $25,509; F. W. Bachus, ; Peter Me- Cartney, $27,675; C. Thomas & Son, and W. P. Beers & Co., $28, Owing to the fact that the representa~ tives of the new Dental College, which seeks a license to do business in the Dis- trict,have been given an audience before the committee appointed to in gate the matter, the Commissioners have extended the time for making the report onc week. More Pay for Excise Board. In their new estimates to Congress for the support of the District during the next fiscal year the Commissi rs will include an item of $1,000 each per annum for the members of the excise board. This board, it will be remembered, is composed of the members of the board of assistant asses- sors. The onerous duties of the excise | work, however, takes up a large portion of j their Lime, and often they are compelled to | Work after hours. The recommendation i for this increase will be supplemented by a personal appeat to Congress. >— Stole a Quilt, John Turley, an Irish Canadian, who ts said to have come here with Coxey’s army, Was arrested this afternoon on a charge of stealing a valuable quilt belonging to dirs, Watson Tolson, who lives at Terra Co.ta. The quilt was stolen from Mrs. Toiscn’s buggy on O street several days ago, and it is now charged that Turley sold the quilt to a High School Cadet for $1.50, while Mrs. Tolson values the piece of bedding at $ The prisoner denies the charge, but Detec: tives Horne and Weedon, who arrested him, ere holding him for identification. >. Eleven judgments, aggregating $90,220, were entered yesterday at New York by default against Erastus Wyman, in favor of Austin B. Fletcher on notes made be- tween 182 and 1895. .