Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1896, Page 13

THE EVENING ‘STAR, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1896-SIXTEEN PAGES, , in Congress for years, have many warm admirers in the democratic party. Congressman Post of the tenth district will probably be succeeded by George W. Prince, another republican. The gold men outnumber the “silveriies two to ore in the district. and a republican nemination is equivalent to an election. Walter Reeves is a candidate for re- election in the eleventh, with a fair chance of success. Should Charles M. Golden, the fusion candidate, receive the full support of the two silver parties his vote would still be 3,000 short. Reeves is also receiv- ing the support of the gold standard demc- crats. c nm Has an y Time. Congressman Cannon believes that he has the easiest time before him in the twelfth district that he has ever had, and he is expected to beat George L. Vance, the fusionist, by 10,000 plurality. In the thirteenth, Vespasian Warner expects to be able to return with as great ase, and the democrats are almost willing to concede it. Congressman Graff will have a more ditficutt task in the fourteenth, as Nicholas Worthington of Peoria, his oppone one of the most popular men in the Peoria is, however, a strong sol: 5' town, more intense in its admtration for the existing monetary system than ary town in the state, end the total vote of is only 18597 jicans. the democrats and populis agaca ) for the repu The democrats helleve that the with- @rawal of Parker, tie populist candidate in the fifteenth, :nakes the election of Wil- . Neece certain. s of two years ago Nzece snould poll votes to 29.554 for Benjamin F. who is secking re-election. The dis- said to be strongly for silver, but with what truth will not be known until after election day. The Fight of Hinrichsen’s Life. W. H. Hinrichs: at present secretary of state of Illinois, is making the fight of his life against John I. Rinaker in the six- teenth district. The district is a strong fiver community, and Hinrichsen, who is rman of the state committee, has been On a basis of the ch: aiding is own canvass by every means in his power. The district has been flooded iterature and good silver speakers. An independent observer would pick Hin- richsen as the wonner, especially as the populist vote, which is supposed to hold of power, will be cast for him. man Connolly seems certafh of on in the seventeenth, although Caldwell, the democratic candidate, n making a hard fight. William F. iley of Edwardsvilie, another repub- iS expected to succeed Congressman -mann in the cigkteenth. : Wood's re-election in the nine- teenth is being contested by Andrew J. Hunter, former Congressman-at-large, who is very popular with his constituents. The strict used to be democratic, and is re- ted as very close. In 1804 Wood won by arrow margin, and he hopes to @win do Burrell’s re-election in the th is is doubt. James R. Campbell democratic and John C. Tanqueray vpulist candidate. If one withdraws Burrell may be beaten, otherwise he will return to Washington. ‘Taings look dark for Everett J. Murphy, a candidate for re-election in the first district. If the full silver vote i by Jehu Baker, his opponent, the latter will win. Murphy’s hope is that the friends of William R. Morrison will resent the candidacy of Baker, who defeated Mor- rison for Congress eight years ago. Ex- Congressman Forman, who lives in the dis- tric said to be aiding Murphy’s candi- twenty-second district will be car- ried by George W. Smith, republican, who is a candidate for re-election, and who is opposed by John H. Hall, wh ago. , two years the populist candidate, but has year been indorsed by the democrats. LICAN MONEY PLANKS. Mujor McKinley Declares the Party Has Made No New Departare. Major McKintey, the republican presiden- tial candidate, said in an address to a dele- sation of visiters yesterday afternoon at Canton, Ohio: “Some people seem to have the notion that the republican party has made a new departure; that it occupies a different po- sition today trom that which it ever occu- pied in the past. That is a mistake. We stand where we have always stood, not only upon the money question, but on the tariff question, and I want to call your at- tention to what may have escaped you. When the war closed the great problem before the American people after the re- construction of the Union was, what should be done with the great debt that had been occasioned by the war, and what should be done by way of maintaining a sound currency in the United States? In 1868 the great soldier of the war, who had led the mightiest armies that were ever engaged in sustaining a cause, Gen. Ulysses 8. Grant, was nominated for President. “Let me read you two planks of the plat- ferm upon which he stood, and you can see th whether the changed its pesition: We denounce all forms of repudiation as a national crime, and the national honor requires the payment of the public debt in the utmost gocd faith to all creditors at home and abroad, net only according to the letter, but the spirit of the law under which it was contracted.” “That was when we had that enormous war debt of cver two billions of dollars and the country seemed to be staggering under it, but the republican party stood up, as it always has, and insisted that every doliar of that debt must be paid in the best currency of the world, and under that policy we had paid off more than two- t s of that great national debt and paid every doilar_ef it with honor and in the best currency. Then let me read you an- other plank in that platform, which so well applies to cur situation today: “That the best policy to diminish our burdens of debt is to so improve our credit that the capitalist will seek to loan us money at lower rates of interest than we new pay and must continue to pay so long as repudiation, partial or total, covert, is threatened or suspected. “This is the republican way to restore confidence, and the way to get capital to republican party has open or invest at lower rates of interest Is to give confidence to the business of the country, n t by repudiating the debts of the coun- and by discrediting its currency, but ‘pf up both credit and currency, and commanding business world. “In that same year the democratic na- tional convention that nominated Horatio Seymour for President had this utterance on the money question, which was sound then and is today, and I commend it to all ‘ou: ‘One currency for the government and the people, the laborer, the office-holder, the pensioner and the soldier, the producer and_the bondholder.” “That's the «t_of money we have to- day, my fellow citizens, just as good in the the confidence of the hai of the poor as in the hands of the ri and we propese to pay the obligations of this government in the future just as we have paid the obligations of the govern- ment in the past—in the best inoney of the world.” res MAJESTY OF THE FLAG. Archbishop Ireland's Address to a Grand Army Post. Archbishop Ireland visited the encamp- ment of Lafayette Post, G. A. R., in New York the other evening. General Butter- field escorted the archbishop to the meeting, to which he was introduced by Admiral Meade. The archbishop said, in part: “The flag which you preserved, and the love which you so zealously try to promote in the minds of youth and the whole of our citizens, derives its majesty from the bat- Ues through which you bore it to victory. it stands today the symbol of the truth that secession is a damnable heresy. Patri- ot!sm means the love of the whole country. So th» flag is the flag of all the states, not of one state. “You love the old flag today as warmly as you bled that it might still wave; and you will suffer no act of your ofn, no thought and no deed to bring discredit on that flag. “Veterans of the war, you have a mission today as great as that which called you to the ba-tlefields in 1861. ———_<os___ ‘To Help Missouri Democrats. Judge O. D. Jones, the populist candidate Yor governo- of Missouri, has given out a letter announcing his withdrawal from the race. He said he did so because he de- sired to ald in defeating the republican state ticket. He thought by throwing his suppert to Lon V. Stevens, the democratic nominee, he could de this. The democratic leaders are greatly pleased over the move and declare the democrats cannot fail to carry the state. BIG MEN GOING Training Guns for the Closing Fight in Kentucky. IMPOSING ARRAY OF CAMPAIGN TALENT Figures On Which Republicans Base Strong Hopes. a CONGRESSIONAL OUTLOOK —_—_+-- — Corresperdence of The Evening Star. LOUISVILLE, Ky., October 19, 1896. The closing days of the campaign in Ken- tucky will be fought with renewed vigor en all sides. The silver democrats, the repub- licans, the sound money democrats and even the prohibitionists intend massing their bigzest guns in the old commonwealth during the next two weeks, and the hills and valleys of Kentucky will echo and re- echo with the thunders of the cannonad- ing, to say nothing of the rattle of the guns of smaller caliber. The eyes of the nation will be upon Kentucky during the coming fortnight, when John G. Carlisle will leave his post at Washington, Col. John R. Fel- lows and Bourke Cockran of New York, John P. Irish of California and Secretary J. Sterling Morton, all stanch and eloquent supporters of the Palmer and Buckner tick- et, and come to do battle and meet Senator Money of Mississippi, Gov. Altgeld of Illi- nois, Congressman Joe Bailey of Texas, Gov. Stone of Missouri, Allen O. Myers of Ohio and Judge Thomas of Colorado, all strong free silver democrats with national reputations, in addition to Chauncey M. Depew of New York, M, E. Ingalls of Chi- cago, Senator Frye and Speaker Thomas B. Reed of Maine for the republicans. This is but a partial roster of the leaders who will come to Kentucky within the next fourteen days to do valiant service as champions of the principles of their re- spective parties. Dates have been made for the speakers just mentioned, and it is doubtful if in any other state in the Union there will be gathered as many men of na- tional renown. Even Mr. Levering. The state will be stumped from now until the close of the polls, and no advantage that can be gained by either side will be overlooked. In addition, the prohibition party’s nominee for President, Joshua Lev- ering of Baltimore, has announced that he would deliver several speeches in this state before the close of the campaign, and with the ieaders of the four parties actively in the field, turning loose oratory and facts and figures from every stump, the closing hours of the great struggle in Kentucky will be indeed memorable, This state has been the scene of many hard-fought political batties, and feeling has run at fever heat, but never before has excitement run so high as it is now. And the indications are that each day the fight will wax warmer, for there is no sign of a let-down on either side, and the vote of Kentucky in the electoral college is being fought for as if a kingdom depended on the result. With Carlisle, Altgeld and Depew, Money, Ingalls and Fellows, Frye, Stone and Cochran, and Irish, Reed and Bailey, to say nothing of lesser political lights, the close of ihe campaign will be dramatic in intensity. Carlisle will arrive October 22, and will make five speeches, and as Gov. Altgeld will reach Kentucky about the same time, the free silver democrats are anxious to have them meet, if not by act- ual appointment, by accident; and the friends of the Illinois man say that he will use every gentlemanly endeavor to secure a joint debate with the distinguished Sec- retary of the Treasury. Silver Hopes. As the campaign progresses the party Managers do not give out such slowing re- poris.-- All hands realize that there is to be a fight in Kentucky, and that it will not go by default for either candidate. This has been especially impressed upon the re- Dubiicans, for while the free silver men have developed no alarming strength, they have showed that they were at least for- midable, and as a result there has been more tall hustling about the republican state headquarters lately than there has been for weeks before. The silver men con- tmue to make their boasts about carrying the state by anything from 20,000 to 40,000— never less than 20,000—but their private opinions are different. National Committeeman Urey Woodson of the free silver democrats told your cor- respondent this morning that he felt con- fident that Bryan would carry Kentucky, but that it would be by a small majority. He feit that the Nebraska man would also be the next President, but that he would have no votes to spare in the electoral college. “It will be a close fight,” said Mr. Wood- son, “and while I feel assured of victory, I do rot think that we will have anything to spare when the winning post is reached. ‘There will be no landslide. That idea has been dissipated. Bryan and McKinley are running neck and reck ail over the coun- try, and if the latter should, by any un- foreseen combination of circumstances, get a majority,.it will be a bare majority. The victory will not be won until the last bal- lot flutters into the boxes on the afternoon cf November 3, and our committee récog- nizes this fact. We are not expecting a landslide, but we are expecting the triumph of free silver. “As to the local situation, I think that we have a shade the best of it, and, as we are gaining ground every day, I firmly be- lieve that Kentucky wiil land in the demo- cratic column in November.” Figuring Out McKinley's Strength. However, Mr. Woodson’s views are not accepted by the leaders of either the re- publican or national democratic parties, all of whom claim that McKinley will carry the state by at least 00. And they figures in this wise: Bradley, the republi- can nominee, carried the state for govern- or last year by about 8,500. Those who voted for Bradley.in 1895 will not desert McKinley in 1896. In addition to this ma- jority to start with, they accept the esti- mate of the free silver men in regard to the sound money democratic ticket—about 14,000 votes. Taking these votes from the vote of Hasdin, the democratic nominee for governor last year, serves to make the re- publican majority fgot up about 22,000 votes. The democrats will get the 23,000 populist votes, but this will not effect the additional vote of McKinley nor the loss of the sound money vote. In addition, the republicans claim that the sound money democrats will get a much larger vote than is given them by the free silver men, and Chairman Davie of the national democratic committee places the Palmer and Buckner vote in Kentucky at between boo and 30,000. Thus it will be easily seen how and upon what arguments the republicans base their claims. The Congressmen. Well-posted republicans claim that the silver men will not have over three Con- gressmen this year, and that these will be from the first, second and third districts, where majorities for Bryan are admitted, as follows: First district, 5,000 majority for Charles K. Wheeler; second district, 000 majority for John D. Clardy; third trict, 1,500 majority for John S. Rhea. This foots up 9,300 majority for silver in the three districts. But in the fourth dis- trict it is estimated that John W. Lewis epublican) will receive a_ majority of 10; in the fifth district, Walter Evans (republican) will receive 8,000 majority; in the sixth district, Richard P. Ernst (re- publican) will receive 1,200 majority: in the seventh district, Col. W. C. P. Breckinridge (sound money democrat) will receive 1,500 majority: in the eighth district it will be so close that it is estimated to be a stand-off: in the ninth district Sam Pugh (republican) will receive at least 1,000 majority; in the tenth district John W. Langley (republican) will receive 3,000 majority, and in the eleventh district David G. Colson (republi- can) will receive fully 7,000 majority. These are conservative estimates, made by con- servative men, end come nearer the mark than any that have Reretofore been made. There is hardly a doubt but that the free silver men will carry the first, second and third districts, though with reduced ma- jorities. In the fourth district the silver men are divided badly on account of alleged fraud in the convention which nominated Dave Smith. It is probable that a session of the legis- lature will be called before tne first of the year to pass needed revenue bills. If so, the fight for the United States Senate will come up again, and, while, from all indica- tions, there will again be a tie vote, it is barely possible that the republicans and sound money democrats will enter into a combination and elect Secretary Carlisle. At least, this is being quietly rumored around, and it is known that several lead- ing republicans favor the scheme. The silver men declare, however, that they will be able to prevent any such combination going through. HEARTLESS POLITICS Strife for a Place in the Georgia Legisla- ture. Judge Crixp to Be Elected Senator— Silver Men Rule the Situntion, Special Correspondence of ‘The Evening Star. ATLANTA, Ga., October 17, 1896. The race for president of the state senate is doubly interesting and exciting, because of the belief among the politicians that the winner will be the next governor. Politics is a heartless game, and the men who are engarced in it in this state are discounting fate and administering on the estates of the living. Indelicate and cruel as it is, the politicians are calculating that ex- Speeker Crisp will not serve out his term in the United States Senate, to which he will be elected next month. Ih that event it is assumed that Gov. Atkinson would succeed to the Senate, and the president of the state senate would become governor. And this is why Harry Dunwoody of Brunswick and Robert L. Berner of Monroe county are so hot on the trail of the presi- dency. The general assembly mects in less than two weeks, October 28, when the mat- ter will be decided. Gov. Atkinson and his “Fidus Achates,” Attorney General Joe Terrell, are for Berner, because he has been loyal to the governor. Dunwoody has the support of a great many of the governor's most intimate friends, who are not tied to Berner, because the latter never helped them and because he was on the fence on the financial question. He was enough of a gold man to get an appointment from Secretary Hoke Smith, and that of itself was sufficient to arouse the opposition of the bulk of the free silverites. As the Chi- cago convention approached, Berner be- came more and more one of the men who had nothing against silver. Silver Rules, The silverites have control of things in the state, and are disposed to draw the line strictly. Dunwoody has never been enough of a silverite to hurt, but he played his bad hand well. Gold men get no quarter. Judge Marshall Clarke, one of the ablest jurists in the state, thought of announcing himself as a candidate for a place on the supreme bench, but he soon learned that he woud have no show, as he is a Palmer-Buckner democrat. Capt. W. A. Little. ex-assistant attorney general of the United States, will find that his connection with the federal adminisiration is hurting him. He Is in the race, and may win, but his association with the national administration at Wash- ington has unjustly prejudiced a great many people against him. He is strong, though, with the pecple except for that. W. C. Glenn has retired from the race. He had a very good showing to win, but he was influenced by personal reasons, the chief one being the objection of his partner to the dissolution of the firm. Glenn has an ambition to get on the Supreme bench of the United States. He is a brainy law- yer, too good a one, his friends say, to go on the bench. The populists talk of indors- ing Judge Sam Lumkin, the democratic justice, who is a candidate for re-election. If they do, they will probably put out three conservative men for the other va- eancies. Judge J. K. Hines, their nominee for governor two years ago, said to The Star correspondent today that he would not be a candidate. Watson Disabled. Tom Watson is still at his home in Thom- son, nursing his tonsilitis. His throat is not all that is sore about him, though. He is sore all over, and says that he has been outrageously treated bv his own party men las well as by Mr. Sewall and Chairman iJenes. Watson is going to make lots of \treuble in his party when the national election is over. If he does not break it wide open, it will be because he has lost | his grip with the populists. He is deter- mined to take his grievances before the masses of the party and ask for vindication at their hands. The real voting strength of the popuiists has not been figured out,and will not be until the legislature meets and opens the returns on the election for gov- jernor. The populists have gained two | Senators and a number of county officers, but lost members of the lower house, so it is hard to size them up and tell whether they have really gained or increased in the last two years. They are getting over their soreness somewhat, and they will not vote for McKinley to such an extent as they threatened to do just after the state elec- tion, when they were mad at their de- feat. The populists do not know what to make of Sam Jones, who, in speaking of the result, said: “I never hit a cripple or a fcol.” He was supposed to be referring to the populist party, which he had helped in the campaign. Combative Prohibitionists. The prohibitionists are determined to force a fight in the legislature, and will bring up the Bush dispensary bill again. ‘The liquor forces are in shape now. They put up considerable money in the state campaign. In fact, they contribuied until they got tired, as one of them said to The Star representative on the eve of the state election. The anti-prohibitionists are against Berner for president of the senate, fearing that he would give them the worst of it in the composition of the committee. The railroad men are at work in advance of the meeting of the assembly, but they are mapping out a very poor plan of cani- paign. They are getting ready to distribute money liberally, but not wisely. There are signs which point to the coming session as one that will be quite profitable to members who have easy consciences. It is under- stood that Secretary Hoke Smith has been retained by the Southern railway to defend the constitutionality of its consolidations in case the purchases and leases are attacked. He has not taken any damage cases against the road since his return to Atlanta. Half the lawyers here were frightened lest he should re-enter his old practice. Mr. Smith had the cream of the damage suit practice before he entered the cabinet and made $30,000 a year out of it. He has said that kis life in Washington cut his fortune ex- actly half in two. He will, however, soon rebuild it, for he is sure to get back a large practice very soon. —— REGAINS HIS VOICE FOR A TIME. TIME. The Maine Stntesmnn Addresses a ‘Large Audience in Chicago. Speaker Thomas B. Reed spoke in the Auditorium, Chicago, yesterday afternoon to an audience which occupied every inch of standing room. Mr. Reed was. intro- duced by George R. Peck of Chicago, and was wildly cheered as he arose to speak. He spoke for about half an hour, dwelling particularly on the currency and tariff ! questions. Mr. Reed appeared last night in the big republican tent at 55th and Peoria strects, Chicago. The tent was filled, but the audi- { ence was doomed to a great disappoint- ment, for Mr. Reed was able to speak only a few minutes. His throat was troubling him seriously, and he could speak with great difficulty. —— Mr. Clayton’s Successor. Justice White of the United States Su- preme Court has appointed George 9, Moore, assistant United States district at- torney for the middle district of Alabama, to be acting district attorney, in place of Mr. Clayton of Alabama, removed. The ap- pointment lasts until the President fills the place by a regular appointment. LOUISIAN A'S FIGHT The Election Machinery in the Con- trol of the Democrats, REPUBLICAN FACTIONAL TROUBLES The Demccratic Campaign Gets Under Headway Tardily. FUTILE DIPLOMACY ———— oS Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. NEW ORLEANS, La., October 17, 1896. There have been several abortive at- tempts at fusion between the warring re- publican factions here during the past week cr two, but they have all ended like the first. Positive instructions were received from Mark Hanna to effect some kind of a combine, and Capt. Donnally and P. F. Herwig, the chairmen of the respective ex- ecutive committees, got together and hatch- ed up a scheme by which the new republi- cans were to have five men on the electoral ticket and the regulars three, the arrange- ment being that the regulars were to put their three men on the new republican tick- et. An arbitrator, Henry Lehman, author- ized by Mr. Hanna, assisted in the arrange- ment; but when it came to a show-down, Herwig was not authorized by his com- mittee to sign, and his committee would not agree. Then Capt. Wimberly, the na- tional committeeman, who Is affiliated with the regulars, went to Chicago and to Can- ton to see Major McKinley, and Mr. Hanna wired own instructions t6 Capt. Donnally to the effect that he Instruct the regulars to put five of the new republican electors on their ticket. This was a practical throw- down for the planters, for the reason that it enabled the regulars to keep their negro on the ticket, and it would have been suici- dal for the new republicans to have sur- rendered to any such proposition. And there it rests, and is likely to until election day. It is too late anyhow to effect any rd of fusion, because the names for the official ballot ‘have all been pyomulgated and cannot be withdrawn-under the law. Election Machinery, ‘The new republicans have received two very black eyes from the democratic elec- tion boards, both in the clty and the state. it has been intimated in this correspon- dence before that when it came to recog- nizing the factions, the regulars would be given the preference, first, because they are not so numerous, and then because there are a number of men in that faction who can be worked by the Gemocrats. The parish beard of electicn supervisors, com- posed of the regisirar of voters, the civil sheriff, and another democrat, who hap- pens to be in this case the active command- er of the state militia—Gen. John Glynn, ir.—positively denied to the new repubhi- cans any representation at tne polls wiat- There are supposed to be six com- hould be apper- tioned equally among the “various political parties or nominating, bodies, as far as practicable.” The new, republicans would have been content with only one commis- sioner, but the board did) not even give them a chance to be heard on the subject, rendering their decision-ta the effect thai the six commisstoners should be divided be- tween the regular republicans and the reg- ular democra' 2 taking for the latter the two clerk: Thus beth:the new repub- licans and the sound mcney democrats were shut out of representatéon at the polls It is true that the law provides that a watch- er is to be appointed for each “party or neminating body” that-has'a ticket on the official ballot; but this+watcher must re- main on the outside of the Box, and cannot interfere with any crooked -werk. Of course, when this deciion was’announced it called forth a vigoruts’ protest from the new republicans, for they Saw vanishing in the distance ali hopes of & fair election even ip, the city., -The.gepervisors claimed that they had followed the. strict’ létter of: the law, and that settled it as far as they were cencerned. Legal Action. Z The Howell state committee then held a meeting, and deelded to take the matter into court, and today a long petition was filed in the civil court. The case will be ptshed, and no matter which way it Is de- cided, it will be taken to the supreme ccurt. Apropos of this, it might be men- tioned that Senator-elect S. D. McEnery still holds his seat on the supreme bench, Lut for the past two ‘weeks he has been making campaign speeches for the silver democrats all over the city, and the tenor of his remarks is not such as make him a fit man to sit in judgment in the case. Republican speakers have alluded to this on the stump, but it seems to have no effect on him, and brings forth the reply from cemocratic speakers that the republicans are attacking the integrity of the judiciary. The next knock-down which the new re- publicans got was at the hands of the state board of election supervisors, composed of the secretary of state, auditor and treas- urer, who decided against their application to g0 on the official ballot as “republicans.”” The new republicans sent in a_ protest against the recognition of the regulars, for the reason that at the last election the lat- ter did not have any ticket before the peo- ple, and therefore under the strict con- struction of the law they were not a “po- lit‘cal party,” having simply indorsed the state ticket put out by the sugar planters and the populists. This protest was over- ruled by the board, on the ground that the national republican ccmmittee at the meet- ing in St. Louis recognized the regulars, and that settled that matter. The board, however, was not so exclusive as the Or- leans board. They decided to put the new republican electors on the official ballot, with the simple designation of “McKinley and Hobart electcrs,” while the regulars will have their electors under the title of “republican electors.” In the Country. Not only in the city, but in the country perishes as well, the democrats have ex- ciuded the republicans from representa- tion, or given a commissioner here and there to the regulars, where a pliant or submisséve negro will be appointed. In north Louisiana the populists were treated in the same way. They are run- ning two candidates for Congress, and when they effected their fusion with the democrats on the electoral ticket they had it specially stipulated in the agreement that there was to be a fair election, but when it came to fixing up the lists of elec- tion commissioners the unfortunate hay- seeds were left out in the cold, cold worid in most of the parishes. The populists have ertered protests against this, and in one or two instances the wrong has been righted, but it has nevertheless Jeft.the pops in a sore frame of mind, and many of them are even now sorry that they fused with their old enemy. 5 ‘ There are four electoral» tickets in the field. The democratic-populist fusion tick- et, the new republican aud the old republi- can tickets ard the sound money ticket. The sound money people did not put out any candidates for Congress, but will help the new republican cahdiqates wherever they can. pe Campaign Fonds. The democrats havg at last gotten enough money together tto start their cam- paign. It was their iftérition to hold a big meeting, and have Mr. Bryan here, and after falling to get amy, answers to let- ters written, they sent theirstwo city candi- dates for Congress—Meyeri and Davey—to Chicago, to plead with Chairman Jones, but ‘he would not consent,{‘and then they got Senator Blackburn's echsent to cole, but the fates interposed, and made him sick, so that put a spike in their enthu- slasm. They are conducting their cam- paign with local spellbinders, who have been pretty busy of late. |Mr. Meyer, through his committee, has declined the challenge of Senator Romain to a joint de- bate. Legendre of the second district has challenged Bob Davey, but Bob knows a good thing when he sees it, ard will steer clear of any such entanglements. The democrats are claiming the state by th2 usual democratic majority of 50,000 at least, and some of them say it will go free silver by 75,000. The republicans are mod- est in their cleims about the state, but are certain that they will succeed in elect- ing the Congressmen from the first three districts. They are pretty safe in their claims for Beattie, in the third district, for even in the last state election, when the most stupendous frauds were com- mitted, this district went republican on the face of the returns by 3,000, and it ts pretty safe again, for in several of the parishes there republican parish: offi- cers who will see that the republicans get a square deal, but in the first and second districts, unless they succeed in getting representation at the polls, they might as well quit now, for Meyer's ma- jority will be returned at about 8,000, and Davey’s at about 6,000. If the white republicans could only get some legal party standing, they might be able in the course of time to change all this, but as lorg as the negro bog-a-boo is held up before the people of this state so long will the republican party remain a nonentity. FREE COINAGE AND FARMERS Why the Agriculturists Would Suffer Under Such Conditions, They Would Share in the General Depression and Would Pro- fit Nothing. From the “A, B, C of Finance, by John Covert. A farmer writes me that some of his neighbors are afflicted with silverphobia; that they believe the free coinage of sil- ver would so inflate the money of the ha- tion that they could get more of it for their produce and could pay off their mort- gages more easily. When told that they would have to pay more for what they bought they answer that they raise their own vegetables and meat, poultry, eggs, &c., and only have to buy very little. He asks me to explain how free coinage would affect the farmer. His question is not difficult to answer. In the first place, a law which would per- mit a silver mine owner to take 54 cents worth of silver to the mint and have it coined into a piece that he could paim off for 100 cents would be a robbery of the American people, and no permanent good can come to the farmers, or any other class, from open, bare-faced robbery. The farmers could no more escape its conse- quences than they could escape their share of a tribute imposed upon the nation by a foreign conqueror. The First effect. The first effect of the triumph of free coinage at the polls would be to make money scurcer and not pientier. ‘The tri- umph of free ccinage would at once bring gold up to a premium, and the $600,000,000 of that metal now circulating the coun- try would be immediately hoarded by men who would expect to get a large premium on it. The farmers will remember that during the war, when excessive amounts of greenbacks were issued, men who had gold held it and sold it at a heavy pi mium. Now, if the people should on No- vember next vote in favor of free coinage. the résult would be the same, for it would in the end mean another form of fiat in- flation. Without the co-operation of other nations silver cannot be held at par under free ccinage. If the people should render a verdict for free silver next November the New York bankers would at once send their circulars out to the bankers and brokers in smaller towns offering a premium for gold coins. The tendercy of the premium would be to increase, for men would have to obtain gold to pay their debts abroad. It would cause such a contraction of the currency that a panic would ensue, thousands of persons would be rujned, usurers and gold brokers alone profiting by the general los Foreclosing Mortgages. Do you ask how this would affeet the farmer? In the first money stringency, prices would fall as is always the case when a sudden financial contraction occurs, and he would be forced to take what he could get for whatever he had to sell. Pos- sibly he has a mortgage on his farm which may fall due in one, two, three, or six months after election. But few loans have been made upon farm lands during the past fcur years. The mass of mortgages now outstanding are due; they are per- rmitted to continue by sufferance because ‘the debtor has promptly paid his interest. This is the condition of two-thirds, most probably three-fourths of the entire mort- gage indebtedness of the country. If the farmers vote for free coinage they will do it with the intention of making the lender take inflated silver money for his pay, and if the transaction runs on a year or two he may do it. But the lender hap- pens to be master of the situation. He has debts to pay himself, and he must have money; also he knows what kind of a game his debtor is trying to play upon him. No one could expect him to sit still and take n6 advantake of the golden op- portunity within his grasp to escape the trap which is soon to be sprung upor him. His natural course would be to call upon the farmer for payment, and if it is not j made, to foreclose. If the farmer has a mortgage on his place he would suffer great loss during the first six months that would follow the triumph of free coinage, for it would most probably be foreclosed. If his farm is not mort- gaged, he would gain nothing, but would suffer in common with the rest of the country from the perpetration of a mon- ster crime. Farmers’ Need of Money. ‘The second point tnat the farmer raises most of his own food and would buy little and wculd receive more for what he sold, is not a correct statement of fact. The farmer does and must buy something, and if he expects to sell at inflated prices he must buy at inflated prices. He will reap about what he sows. If the inflated vol- ume of silver comes, as he expects, and raises prices, he will have to pay more for everything that he buys; and he can- rot expect to live witnout buying some- thing. Clothing for himself and family, tea, coffee, sugar and other articles; hard- ware, furniture, harness, wagons and vari- ous kinds of implements are objects for which the farmer must spend money. He must help support his churen, pay taxes, perhaps send his children away to school, and if he receives inflated prices for his products, he must pay inflated prices for all he buys. The farmers cannot isolate themselves from society and form a class apart, like some of the distinct castes in India and China. They are a large, active part of the American public. Whatever af- fects the American people must exert ex- actly the same influence upon them. In- flation couid rot benefit them. They could not pay their mortgages in the inflated money because they would be foreclosed or they would be compelled to make a‘new mortgage, stipulating for gold payments, long before the inflation would come around. If they invested their money, they would do it at inflated prices. If they hoarded the money it would yield them no interest. The longer they kept it, provided the: dreams of inflation could be realized, the greater would be their loss, for it would go on increasing in volume and decreas- ing in value. They could not clothe them- selves and families in s.lver, and they could get nothing to wear, except by buy- ing at the same high prices for which they sold. Why are men going about the country trying to persuade the farmer to vote tor his own ruin? Some of these silverphobia orators are deceived; many of them are in Sheps Ya ote wosltny alae owners) Stays who cére nothing for the farmer and still less for the prosperity of the country, and who are willing to inaugurate a period of depression and want such as our people never saw, provided that they can win their cause. There is only one kind of nigh prices that can be of permanent advantage to the farmez> or any one else, and that is the kind that grows out of confidence. —_—_——_+e«____ ¥asting Eight Months. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. Letters from Michigan, where Mrs. Herry Ingram of Anderson, Ind., was taken during the summer, indicate that the end of her remarkable euforced fast is surely at hand She has become so weak that it is impossible for her to receive im- pressions of what is going on around ber, and has at last lost even the power to whisper. She now weighs less than sev- enty pounds, and ts a pitiful object. Her case is still puzzling the medical fraternity. The fast began in February, when she lost all desire for food. At the same time her stomach seemed to be paralyze, and she was unable to force anything upon it. She weighed over 2% pounds tnen. She has received practically no nourishment since then, and is now almost at the 250- day mark. 13 IN LITTLE DELAWARE| ARE YOU A BICYCLIST? A Close Fight for Her Three Elec- toral Votes. REPUBLICANS APPEAR 0 But the Democrats Will Probably Elect the Governor. THE SINGLE TAXERS oe Special Correspoadence of The Evening Star. WILMINGTON, Del., October 19, 1896. The great struggle between the two great parties at the polls on the 34 of November is pow fairly under way in this little state, and with the number and variety of tick- ets in the field it is impossible to accurate- ly forecast the result. The leaders of both the republican and democratic national parties have not altogether lost sight of Delaware, which this year will be as po- tent a factor in the choice of a President in the electoral college as perhaps any of the larger states. In this ‘state there are six national tiek- ets, five candidates for governor and five for Congress. The tickets are all now on file with the clerks of the Peace of the three counties, and are as follows: Umicn republican ticket—For governor, John Henry Hoffecker; for Congress, J. 5. Willis (present member); for electors, Jas. G. Shaw, D. M. Wilson and D. J. Fooks. Regular republican ticket—For governor, John C. Higgius; for Congress, Robert G. Houston; for electors, James G. Shaw, D. Wilson ané D. J. Fooks. emocratic ticket—For governor, Ebe W. Tunnell; for Ccngress, L. Irving Handy; for electors, J H. Rodney, John Harring- ton and Paynter C. Frame. Gold standard democratic ticket—For gov- error, Ebe W. Tunnel!; for Congress, Thus. F. Bayard, jr.; for electors, Levi A. Bertol- ette, Edward Ridgely and W. C. Stockley. ngle tax ticket—For governor, Dr. L. W. Slaughter; for Congress, L. Irving Handy; for electors, J. H. Rodney, John Harrington and Paynter C. Frame. Prohibition ticket—For governor, John Green; for Congress, William Faries: for Henry M. Silver, Jefferson Cooper and W. W. Vintent. As wiil be seen by the above list the union republicans and regular republicans are united on one electoral ticket, but as each faction will have its own ticket there will be practically two republican electoral tickets in the field, one being merely the indorsement of the other. ‘The same ap- plies to the indorsement by the gold stand- ard democrats of the candidacy of Ebe W. Tunnell for governor and the indorse- meat by the single tax party of the can- didacy of L. Irving Handy, the regular democratic nominee for Congress and the regular democratic electors. se, but Probably Republican. The situation as it looks two weeks be- fore election is extremely doubtful, though it Is generally believed that the republi- cans will elect their national and congres- sional ticket by small majorities. The re- publican managers of both factions do not indulge in much comment regarding the probable result. They ‘realize that the campaign is young yet and the old saw “that it takes but a minute to turn the tide cf victory to defeat” is indelibly im- Pressed upon their minds. The democratic Managers likewise observe the strictest silence and reticence, as they, too, realize that the situation is so doubtful that no reasonable prediction can be made of the result until the votes are counted. Delaware has for nearly ten years been reckoned by the leaders of the two great Parties as a dcubtful state in any election. Up until 1888, when the republicans suc- ceeded in sending Anthony Higgins to the United States Senate, Delaware had for more than twenty-five years been re- garded as safely democratic at all elec- tions. Their sudden success in 1888 moved the republicans to a greater effort each year at the polls, until in 1891 they suc~ ceeded. in electing their first governor in twenty-five years and their first Congress- man in nearly as long a period. In 1888 the vote for President by coun- ties was as follows: Harrison. Cleveland Marrixon, Cleveland. ‘Total vote. Cleveland's plurality ‘The vote for Congreseman in 1892 was as fcllows: Willis (rep). 18.013 Causey dem, 18.598 Causey's plurality. 583 In 1894 the vote for governor was as fol- lows: Marvin (rep.) Tunnel «dei In the 19,882 18,658 Marvin's majority. 1,258 ime year the vote for Congress- 19,802 18,543 Willis’ plurality. Steady Gains. By the above table it will be seen that the republicans have since 1888 been stead- ily bringing out a larger vote every year. 1t will also be seen that there is a differ- ence of nearly ten thousand votes betweea the total of 1888 and the total of 18% This difference, the republican managrs say, was due to success in bringing out a full colored vote in the lower couaties, where, they claim, the democrats disfran- chised their voters for many years. On the other hand, the democratic managers as- sert that the vote of 1894 was brought about by means of a corruption fund, which the republicans used with impunity in “he lower counties. To repeat the vote of 1894, especially on the national ticket, the repubiican man- agers are now working indefatigably. They have been devoting the greater part of their labor to Kent ‘county, where they looked for an attempt by the democrats to disfranchise a thousand republican vot- ers. No such action has, however, been taken by the democratic court, and they are now canvassing New Castle county. In Sussex county they have an iron-clad or- ganization, and in that county they expect to sweep everything in sight. With the aid of the gold standard demo- cratic vote In New Castle county, the re- publicans will undoubtedly be able to carry it by at least 1,000 on the electoral ticket. There are about 400 gold standard demo- crais in New Castle county, and whether they all vote their own electoral ticket or the republican electoral ticket, it would mean a loss of 800 votes to the Bryan and Sewall ticket. This would be ecuivalent to that majority for the republican ticket. In Kent and Sussex counties the vote is remarkably close at ail elections, and if the gold standard democrats in those coun- ties take the same stand as those in New Castle county there will be a stronz bility of the republicans carrying Kent and Sussex by small majorit'es. While the republicans are hard at work making their canvass, the democratic lead- ers are not wasting any time in presenting their side of the question to the voters. Though practically without funds and lit- erature, ammunition with which the publicans are well supplied, yet they have made and are again making a thorough canvass of the state, and are greatly en- couraged with the results of their work. While not willing to discuss the probable result of the battle, yet they hint that Bryan will show greater strength on etec- tion day than the most sanguine free silver democrat in the state anticipates. They claim that the gold standard movement does not amount to anything, and that the Bryan and Sewall electors will get enough republican votes in each county to offset the loss of democratic votes which the gold standard men will cause. The free sliver movement, they contend, has spread into the city of Wilmington and New Castle county to such an‘extent that merely upon the issue itself, without any further ef- forts on their part, their electoral ticket stands a big chance of winning. In the lower counties they feel sure that the farmers will vote solidly for free silver. In Kent and Sussex counties is the home of the free silver craze in Delaware, and in these two counties the democrats are bank- ing upon overwhelming majorities for their electoral ticket. Single Taxers. The single taxers are working in con- Bancroft (dem. 71.238 If So, You Should Not Fail to Pront by the Hints Given Below. ‘The @scussions which have been going on in the papers ering Past months as to whether bicycle riding is a ithful recreation naturally attrac LEAD wide attention, not only from bicyclists themselves, but from their vast army of friends, which includes: nearly everybody. That @ reaction does result from the vigorons, often violent, exercise in avhich bicyolists indulge, ‘there can be no doubt, but it would seem to rest almost entirely with the bicyclists themselves Whether this reaction shall be a bealthful one or other wise, If men or women allow their tensified muscles to relax too quickly it.4« 4njurions, If the the pores of the skin to close too sndde certainly tnjurious, often fate! There can be no doubt that a gentle stimulant, permit y it te both internally and externally, meets this requi ment better than any ity of pure whixkey tak little undiluted whixke act all possible #1 eftects, tiows it is gratifying to Know that so valu: article as Dufty’s Pare Matt can’ be readily and at such a reasonable pric number 6 who are using it successfully indicates that they have found it of unquestionable value, ly, will coumter- In this day of adult he Junction with the democrats for Bryan and Sewall. In their convention they indorsed Bryan and made free silver one of their leading issues. There are upwards of 4,1”) single taxers in the state, nine-tenths being democrats, - ‘The contest on the congressional ticket at present is more doubtful than the con- test on the electoral ticket. The republi- cans have two candidates in the field, J. 8. Willis and Robert G. Houston, the former being the nominee of the Addicks ot union republican faction, and the latter of the Higgins or regular republican fa tion. With but one candidate the republi+ cans might stand a good chance of win- ning, with the aid of the gold standard? democrats. There is now, however, no im- mediate prospect that they will have but one candidate, although it is reported that Houston will withdraw in favor 8f Willis before the polls open. L. Irving Handy, the democratic candidate, is sancuine of Kis own election. He regards the revolt of the gold standard democrats as insigniti- cant, and is confident that he will be elect €d on the sentiment among the vo ir favor of silver this year. The friends ot young Tom Bayard, the candidate of the gold standard democrats for Congr are confident that he will receive at least 60 Votes in the sf&te. Should this prove to be true, with one candidate, the republicans would elect the next Congressman by at least 1,000 majority. F The State Ticket. On the state ticket it is safe to say that the democrats will elect Tunnell governor by at least 2,000 majority. The republicans have two candidates in the field and each faction is determined to stay in the fight to the end. The Higgins republicans are cpposed to Addicks’ control of the state ad- ministration just as much as they are op- posei to his claim on the United States senatorship, and they propose to keep’ candidate for governor in the fiell even though they sacrifice the office for four John C. Higgins, their candidate for governor, will probably receive 7.000 out of «W republican votes. The remainder will ge to John Henry Hoffecker, the Addicks i With ‘this division Tunne!l can y win, ev single tax can: While opposed to the ular democratic state organization, it i lieved that a large majority of the sin taxers will vote for Tunnel! ia view of the split_on the republicaa ticket. ‘Che Mord democrats have swung in line and all are now for Tunnell. The election of a xove: ner this vear is necessary becaus* of t death of Governor Marvi! in April, 1 Governor Marvil was clected for four but died before he had served three months. Legixinture May Be Democratic, The contest for the legistature loc 3 very encouraging for the democrats. The next legislature will choose a United States Senator to fill the vacancy cused by the failure of the republicans to elect a su>- cessor to Anthony Higgins last year. The Higgins repubticans are fighting Addicks for the legislature, and have a ticket in the field against him in each county. The democrats are united, and notwithsiandiag the fact that the single taxers have a |) islative ticket in the field there is every dication that they will elect a majorit the legislature from each county. ald the democrats control the legisiature the next United States Senator from Dela- Ware will be a free silver man. On still another issue the republicans are divided, and that is the constitutional con- vention, which will be called in Decem- ber to frame a new constitution for the State. The Higgins people don’t want Ad- dicks to control the convention and they have taken a decided stand against him by fusing with the democrats of Sussex coun ty on an equal basis of five dele The Tonsuitutional at convention will co: of ten delegates from each covaty, In two counties, New Castle and the republicans will have separate tickets in the ficld. This has opensd road for the democrats err in- dication that they will clect a rsajority of their delegates in these two countics. I aware has not had a change in her con stitution for seventy-five rs, and the republicans have been anxious to have a constitutional convention in order te c tail the power of the governor in the a) pointment of the judges of the court and all the principal county offices, as well as to abolish the cld-time “blue laws” on the statute books. - NS TRIP THROUGH OHIO. BRYA Speechmaking Kept Him Up to a Late How . The largest audience of the day yelled ft- self hoarse when, shortly after 5 o'clock, Bryan, the democratic candidate, spoke at the fair grounds at Dayton, Ohi ester= day afternoon. The crowd was estimated away up in the thousands, and the streets were crowded by thousands of others. For many blocks the streets were tied with exultant humanity, and the trip clear out to the grounds was a continual ovation. His speech for the most part was along the same weil-beaten path followed by Mr. Bryan for the last few days. The crowd was wildly enthusiastic, and interrupted the speaker time and again with demon- strations of its hearty approval of the ideas advanced. At Hamilton an immense crowd mct the train, ex-Governor James E. Campbell, whose home is there, being at the head of the reception committee. Mr. Bryan was escorted through the town, which pro- fusely decorated, by a parade, in whic several hundred people took part, mos: of s uniformed. The can late spoke d erceted in the court wa of more than 10,00) He was introduced to the audience by Governor Campbell, who in this made his formal entry into the camy for the nominees of the Chicago con\« tion. Both the candidate and his spons: were received with tremendous applause. Ex-Governor Campbell introduced Mr. Bryan to the audience. There were short stops at Xenia and Jamestown, and good-sized crowds listened to five-minute speeches from the nominee. At the latter piace, while the crowd was erthusiastic, there were quite a number McKinley shoutérs and badges in the crowd. Washington Court House was given a ten-minute talk, and the large audience was apparently in sympathy with the stand in front of the court house in addressed a large audience for twenty minutes at Zanesville. His speech was a discussion of the silver question, such as he has given elsewhere. It was the same as during whole day, so far as enthusiasm was concerned, the audience applauding vigorously at the least provo- cation. Circleville came in for a five-minute talk from the platform of the car to a fair-sized audieme. There were short addresses at Lancaster and New Lexington to crowds as large as could be expected. By this time a drizzling rain had set in, and the outdoor speeches were conseque ly attended with inconvenience to the c didate. The train was two hours late, and Zanesville was not reached until after 11:30 o'clock. The train bearing the party left for Bell. aire at 1:05. People will hive Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup.