Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1896, Page 11

SEVEN DAYS REMAIN During Which the Opportunity of the $3.00 Rate Open. Doctor McCoy Emphasizes the Time Limit So That There May Be No Oc- casion for Criticism After Novem- ber Ist—A Washington Doctor Tes- tifies Both as Patient and Doctor to the Verity of Doctor McCoy's Triumph Over Deafness. ALL NEW PATIENTS WHO APPLY BEFORE NOV. 1ST, AND ALL OLD PA- TIENTS WHO RENEW BEFORE Nov. 1ST, WILL BE ‘TREATED UNTIL CURED AT THE UNIFORM RATE OF 33 A MONTH, MEDICINES INCLUDED. THIS APPLIES TO ALL PATIENTS AND ALL DISEASES. WITH WHATEVER PROMINENCE AND EM- THESE COLUMNS ARE OAPABLE, DOC- Y HAS ENDEAVORED TO MAKE IT ) ALL THA PEOPLE THAT THIS OP- PORTUNITY ENDS NOVEMBER 1, THAT ONLY THOSE UNDER TREATMENT BEFORE THAT TIME WILL BE TREATED UNTIL CURED aT ‘THIS RATE HE DESIRES THAT, WHEN RE- SUMING HIS USUAL FEES IN NOVEMBER, HE SHALL NOT BE CALLED UPON TO ANSWER THE CRITICISM THAT HE IS SHOWING PAR- SOME PATIENTS $3 A HIS NOTICE, THERE OR RENEW TREATMENT ‘BEFORE NOVEW- BER 1 ARE ENTITLED TO THE RATE MONTH UNTIL CURED. THERE NDEED WHO WILL SAY THAT E NOT RECEIVED AMPLE NOTIFI- CATION OF THE EXPIRATION OF THE $3 PE- RIOD. THE REASON FOR THE OFFER HAS KEEN GIVEN. THE HUNDREDS WHO ARB THEMSELVES OF IT UNDERSTAND THOROUGHLY. IT CLOSES ‘NO- SEVEN DAYS REMAIN OF THE Joseph Hautzman, 85 Let xe THE DEAF HEARING. Joseph Hautzman, 3825 L st. s.e.1 Another In the long series of statements that is Proving dally again and again the truth of all Doctor McCoy claimed in his famous Monograph, that 1s proving daily that the world fs not misled ir. giving {ts attention to this discovery which has unlocked the imprisoned hearing is afforded in the remarkable case of Mr. Hautaman. He says: “I had been deaf many years. Tho last Seven or eight years the deafness had been increas- ing rapidly. It had grown so bad I Could Not Hear Any Ordinary Con- versation. I could not bear @ watch tick. People ‘vould have to shout at me to make me understand. I was constently distressed by nolses in the ears, ringing and buzzing sounds. Under Doctor McCoy's mar- velous treatment My Hearing Has Been Restored and I bave been relleved of the distressing notses 4m the ears." A DOCTOR TESTIFIES, BOTH A£ A PATIENT AND AS A DOCTOR. Doetor C. P. McEnheimer, 402 Sixth Street northwest, is a well-known practitioner of Virgina and a graduate of the University of Maryland in 1853. In this remarkable testimony he speaks of the wonderful value to humanity of Doctor McCoy's treatmeat from two standpoints. First, he speaks from Ms own experlence. He hed been hard of hearing for ten years; he took the treatment himself, and he Is now able to hear @ watch tlek and ordinary conversation. He Spenks os a Patient. ‘These are his words: “I had been hard of bearing for ten years. Tho functions of one of my ears were entirely gone. The disease of the membrane 1o my case had extented from the throat to the Eustachian ‘Tubes, causing deafness. Several friends of mine who were entirely deaf had been entirely cured by Doctor MeCoy, and, knowing of these remarkable results, I placed myself under his care. I remained under hls treatment for atx months, At last, :o my surprise, I found I could Lear a wateh tick and ear omiinary conversation without difficulty. I bad been deprived of the ability to continue conversation for years. The restoration of my hearing was entirely due to Doe- tor McCoy's treatment. He Speaks as a Doctor. Speaking from a pbystcian’s standpoint of this marvelous treatment, Dr. McBahelmer says: “One hes but to undergo this treatment to appreciate It. It reaches every diseascd spot of the membrane from the nasal passages to the deepest part of the Jungs and recesses of the midile ear. It soothes the membrane until the soreness in the eustachian tubes fs all gone. The air ts allowed to enter and escape from the throat as may be required. The morbid condition of the tympanum Js relieved and the ringing and cracking noises im the cars are all gone. It is truly a wouderful treatment.” CURING SERIOUS CATARRH. J. D. Robinson, 1720 34th st., West Washington: “For twelve years I had been an in- Yall from Disease of* the Stomach and Bowels, brought on by a Catarrhal condition. For twelve years I had been passing mucus and blood, growing Weaker sad more ‘ulserable all the time. Physt- fans and remedics failed to allay my distress. MY NERVOUS SYSTEM WAS ENTIRELY BROKEN DOWN, and I was indeed a sick man when I went to Doctor McCoy. He has made e new man of me. CURING ECZEMA. John B. Barker, 1310 12th st. m.w.: “The eczema from which I suffered for nearly three years extends! until it covered my entire bedy except my feet and my hands. No medicine or no treatment seemed to have the least effect upon it. THE SMARTING AND ITCHING WAS INTENSE. THERE WOULD BE A SCALING FROM MY BODY OF OVER A HAIF A PINT DURING THE DAY. One day I read Doctor Me- Coy’s explanation of how Skin Diseases resulted from polsons in the blood. I concluded to go to him at once. IS NOP MY CURE A MARVEL? In a comparatively short time he bas driven off my Dody all -c vs. I have no trace of the Eczema left.” CONSULTATION FREE. McCoySystemofMedicine Dr. J. Cresap McCoy, Dr. J. M. Cowden, Consulting Physicians. 715 13th Street Northwest. Omce Hours, 0 to 12 a.m, 1to5 pm. 6 to 8 p.m.,daily. Sunday, 10 a.m. te 4 p.m THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, OOTOBER: 24, 189¢-TWENTY-FOUR -PAGES. THE OLD DOMINION Review of the Situation in the State of Virginia. THE OUTLOOK FOR CONGRESSMEN Chances of Republicans and Sound Money Democrats. BASED ON A FAIR COUNT Correspondence of The Evening Star. RICHMOND, Va., October 24, 1896. From a careful and anpartisen estimate of the conditions from a political stand- point in the ten congressional districts in Virginia there is every reason to belleve that the free silver demccrats will carry three districts, the republicans three and that the sound money democrats will win in two. The remaining two districts are put down as doubtful, both the free silver democrats and the republicans having a fightirg chance. These estimates are based upon the probabilities of the republicans i. sound money democrats securing a fair count. The Star correspondent recently had a careful interview with the leaders at the state headquarters of each of the three parties in Virginia. The result of these interviews when proper allowances are made for certain conditions are em- bodied in the following estimates in the respective districts throughout the state: In the first district the free silver demo- cratic candidate, W. Jones, will be elected by a safe though not an over- whelmingly majority. The district 1s more completely agricultural than any in the state, Fredericksburg being the only town of corsiderable size in the district. Bight or nine of the counties have no railroad facilities. The sentiment of the majority of the wkite people in the district is for free silver. There is a very strong sound money sentiment in Accomac county on the eastern shore, and in Fredericksburg, as well as throughout a large part of Caro- line county. The republican nominee, W. B. Tyler, will receive the voté of his party. Jones will not have so large a majority as the free silverites claim for him. There is still a large number of disaffected demo- crats in the district who will support Ty- ler for currency views. The district has been twice carried by the republicans. Hot Fight in the Second. In the second district there is a very hot fight on, and the result is hard to predict at this time. There are three strong candidates in the field. This is the only district in the state that sent a gold standard delegation to Chicago. There is @ very strong sound money sentiment in Norfolk and Portsmouth, and in the coun- ties in the district there are more sound money voters than will be found in any like number of counties in any district in the state. All three parties are well or- ganized, though W. A. Young, the free silver democratic candidate, has the avow- ed ermity ard systematic opposition of many preachers who claim that he is in league with the liquor element. Dr. R. A. Wise, the republican candidate, and brother of Capt. John S. Wise of New York, has some republican opposition on account of a split in the republican ranks which amounts almost to two separate factions. The free silver democrats claim that they will elect their man. Those best informed on the matter recognize that the contest will be a close one. The nomination of William M. Whaley by the sound money democrats makes the situation still more complicated. Whaley is one of the strongest men in the district. He will poll a heavy vote from the cities. The usual republican majority in the district is thought to be about 3,000. The republicans find a great difficulty in securing a fair count. For this reason and the fact that thelr di- vision will materially affect them it is thought their chances are by no means easy. In this district last year Borland disaffected the negro vote by refusing to march in a procession with them, and Tyler won by 3,500 majority. Whaley’ chances are strengthening daily, and it is not at all sure that Wise will not be taken down by the state committee. Another Stiff Contest. The fight in the third district is going to be one of the stiffest in the state. Cap- tain John Lamb, the free silver democratic candidate, is a confederate soldier, and will get some strength for this reason. He defeated Congressman Tazewell Ellett by a majority of only two. He is an orig- inal free silver man. The fight in the nominating convention was so close and engendered so much personal bitterness that it is thought some of the Ellett sup- porters will turn their backs upon Lamb on November 3. The district includes the city of Richmond, which is the stronghold in the state of the sound money democrats, who will poll their heaviest vote in the city. Ex-Judge L. L. Lewis, formerly president of the supreme court of appeals, is the republican candidate. Both sides are already claiming the victory. The most prominent and active men in Rich- mond are, many of them, proclaiming their purpose to vote for McKinley, and the vote of Richmond city will determine the re- sult in the district. Neither side is as yet willing to name any figures. The doubtful factor in the contest is the number of dem- ocratic voters who have declined to sup- port Bryan, but will vote for the demo- cratic nominee for Congress. Captain Lamb will run ahead of the presidential vote. An impartial estimate would prob- ably put Lamb’s chances in the district ahead of Lewis’. If the republicans stand by ‘wis en masse and they get a fair count Lewis may pull through. Im the Fourth. Sidney P. Epes, register of the land of- fice, is the free silver democratic nomi- nee in the fourth district, and Congress- man R. T. Thorp is making a yigorous fight for re-election on the republican ticket. The retirement of J. Thomas Goode in the fourth district, the populist nomi- nee, has thrown most of his strength for Epes. The union of the populists and free silver democrats will be offset by the jarge republican majority in the district. While the free silverites do not concede Mr. Thorp’s election they do acknowledge that he is a formidable competitor. Doubtful in the Fifth. _ The fight in the fifth district between Claude A. Swanson, the free silver demo- cratic nominee for re-election, and J. R. Brown, the republican candidate, will be close. Mr. Brown is the same who defeated the democratic candidate in 1886. Since G. W. B. Hale, the populist candidate, retired from the field, and went on the stump for the free silver democratic nominee, the free silver democrats claim the district by sev- eral thousand votes. The district is ordi- narily equally divided. There is great en- thusiasm and perfect harmony among the Poy Se The result is altogether doubt- ul. Otey and Radford. In the sixth district the free silver dem- ocrats have one of the recognized free silver leaders as their candidate in Pater J. Otey. He is running for re-election. Since J. Hampton Hoge, the republican candidate, has been taken down, Otey has @ stronger show to win. The sixth district was the populist stronghold of Virginia, having polled in 1892 3,800 populist votes. The practical fusion of the free silver. dem- ocrats and populists, and the fact that J. Haskins Hobson, chairman of the populist state committee, and other populist leaders will stump the district for Otey. will, per- haps, elect him by 2,000 majority. Lynch- burg, in this district, being the home of John W. Daniel, the great free silver lead- er of Virginia, will probably support Otey. Duval Radford, the sound money demo- cratic candidate, will poll a good vote among the white people. It is claimed that, his. advocation of the Separate car bill in the legislature will keep some of the negroes, who would have supported Hoge, from rallying to Radford. The lat- ter may be elected ff he is given a fair show. A Triangalar Contest. James Hay is confident of his election by the free silver democrats in the sev- enth district by a handsome majority. A vigorous triangular fight is ‘on in that dis- | the potatoes, too, all righ’ trict. J. Samuel Harnsberger, the sound money democratic candidate, will poll a vote. If J. R, Walker, the repub- ican candidate, should retire from the contest, it is thought Harnsberger will win. He is making an effective canvass. With Walker in the race the chances are that Hay will be elected. Complicated in the Eighth. The prohibition element in the eighth district complicates matters. The cold- water people in that district are stronger than anywhere else in the state, though their work in this canvass has not been so vigorous heretofore. The sound money sentiment in Alexand: city is quite strong. The republicans seem hope- ful that they will put their candidate through. Pat McCaull is the republican candidate. He is opposed by John F. Rixey, free silver democrat, who has a very fair chance to win. Walker in the Ninth. The ninth district is the scene of a hot contest. Judge Samuel W. Williams, free silver democratic candidate, and General James A. Walker, republican candidate, seem to be contesting every inch of ground in the district. Both sides are already claiming the victory. General Walker was elected two-years ago on a free silver plat- form, but the free silver democrats are claiming that many republicans will vote for Williams on the ground that what was good enough for Walker then is good enough for them now. There is a strong sound money sentiment in this district. While the result appears now to be doubt- ful, the chances are tn favor of Walker by a small majority. Favorable to Yost. No estimates of majorities on either side have been given out as to the result in the tenth district. Here an exceedingly hot fight ts on, with the chances strongly in favor of Jacob Yost, the republican can- didate, against the free silver democratic nominee, H. D. Flood. This district is now represented by H. St. George Tucker. The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad runs through the district on both sides, and it is thought that the active part taken by Mr. M. E. Ingalls, president of the Chesapeake and Ohio system, for McKinley, and the fur- ther fact that the chairman of the na- tional democratic state committee 1s also a resident of this district, will tend to make the fight very close. The republican forces In the district are strongly united, and among the democrats there is a strong sound money sentiment. ALABAMA'S CONGRESSMEN Several Gold Men Likely to Be Elected. A Review of the Situation Made by Mr. Watkins—Gov. Oates and the Senate. R. H. Watkins, formerly a Washington correspondent, and during the past two years a writer on the Birmingham (Ala.) State Herald, is in the city for a short visit. “While thereis no doubt that Alabama will go for Bryar in November by a majority of from 50,000 upward, it is possible that that state will send several gold men io Congress,” he said to a Star reporter to- day. “In the third district, formerly rep- resented by Gov. Oates and now by Mr. Harrison, there is a sound money or gold candidate in the person of Mr. Comer, who will recetve the solid support of the repub- cans. This district has always been dem- cratic, but half the voters are ‘sound n-oney” voters, and they hope to elect their man over Henry D. Clayton, a nephew of Senator Pugh, but the chances are rather in Clayton's favor. The seventh district, represented by M. W. Howard, populist, is made doubtful by the tight being made by W. I. Bullock, a brainy young man, sup- portei by the democrats. Howard's distri> has been the stronghold of the pop- ulists in the state, but his book “If Christ Came to Congress” has dis- gusted a good many people who formerly supported him. Watson is now speaking in his district. Both candidates are free iver men. In the eighth district there is @ lively contest between General Wheeler, the present Congressman, and Oscar Hund- ley. Hundley is a recent convert to Mc- Kinleyism, but is still holding his place as state senator, to which he was elected as & free silver democrat. Only last sum- mer he made a trip to Europe, and sald, on his return, that after studying the financial question abroad he had become convinced in the efficacy of bimetallism as a means of placing this country on a proper footing. The ninth district is the Birmingham dis- trict, now represented by T. H. Aldrich, who obtained his seat in the Fifty-fourth Congress in a contest against Oscar Un- derwood. This year Aldrich, the republican can- didate, declined to run, and the republicans have made no nomination, but wiil support the sound money democratic candidate, Dr. A. Lawson. Underwood has been unani- mously nominated by the democrats. Both sides claim that they will elect their men. In the first district Mr. Taylor is the “sound money Bryan candidate.” He will be elected without much opposition. In the second district there is no considerable opposition to Jesse Stallings, the present Congressman. In the fifth, now represent- ed in Congress by A. T. Goodwyn, the popu- list, the fight is so close that it will proba- bly end in a contested election case. “Willis Brewer is the democratic candl- date, but both are free silver men. In the fourth district, represented by W. F. Al- drich, a brother of Congressman T. H. Al- drich is placed by the republicans against T. S. Plcwman, silver democrat. This is the Birmingham district, in which the cor- poration influence is very strong, and the result will probably be a contested election case, the decision to depend upon which party has a =e in the House of Rep- rescntatives. sixth district is now rep- resented by Mr. Bankhead, a silver man, and he will be returned without doubt, with very little opposition. “This condition makes possible the elec- tion of Comers in the third district, Lawson in the ninth, Hundley in the eighth and Aldrich in the fourth, all gold men. “The most lively contest we have had in Alabama for many years ts over the United States senatorship, the chief known aspir- ants for which are Senator Pugh, for re- election, Gov. Oates, Congressman Bank- head and Gen. Edmund W. Pettis. The legislature is overwhelmingly for free sil- ver, but Gov. Oates, it is generally believed, will have the lead on the first ballot in cau- cus. He has called himself a sound money man since 1893, but now he says he will go for free silver if elected to the Senate. Senator Pugh is very popular, and people Sy he aan kept his pledges to the people “Pettis is one of the old confederate brig- adiers who in the past might have had ny office he wanted, but never before sought one. He is a free silver man and that vote might unite on him. Congress- man Bankhead is very popular with the populists, and it is thought they may unite on him. If there is a deadlock tn the con- test there are some who believe a com- promise may be made on Jogeph F. John- son. There are rumors of all sorts of com- binations between the various candidates. “Gen. Charles M. Shelley, well known in this city, is chairman of the democratic state executive committee, and is con- ducting the campaign with characteristic tact and ability.” —_>—__. Why Not Stamps for the Farmer? From the Council Bluffs Nonperetl. Farmer—“Here’s half a bushel of pota- toes. I wish you would sack them up for me and stamp the bag as holding a bushel.” Uncle Sam—‘“‘Who will furnish the sack?” Farmer—‘You will, of course.” Uncle Sam—‘Well, you've got more gall than potatoes to ask me to play a fraud of that sort on the people, and to pay for the sacking myself.’ Farmer—“Why, that is what the fellow who has got a half dollar in silver expects you to do for him. He wants you to stamp his fifty cents as a dollar.” Uncle Sam—‘Well, you wait until I do it for him, won’t you?” Farmer—‘‘Well, I thought I'd better be in time, so when he wanted to buy potatoes with his fifty-cent dollar I'd have the sack fixed for him. Uncle Sam—“But he wouldn’t take your jshalf bushel for a bushel.” Farmer—“Well, then, I wouldn't take his helf-doliar for a doHar. If stamp en his silver doubles it up it ought to.double te | defeated. * Davis/is' FLORIDA | IN. . DOUBT Her Electoral Vote May Not Go to Sound Mone} y publicatis. ‘May Unite. shi Tes CLAIMS GF OHAIRMEN BS Correspondence of The Brening Star. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., October 22, 1896. Although the democrats were successful at the recent state election, it does not follow that Florida will cast her electoral vote for William Jennings Bryan. ‘The chances, apparently, are in Bryan’s favor, but there is sufficient doubt to make the situation most interesting and to cause the free silver: leaders considerable anx- fety. t At the! recent state election W. D. Blox- ham, the democratic candidate for gov- ernor, received @ majority of 13,612 votes over his republjcan and populist oppo- nents. Of course, political predictions are more or less guess work, but only the most sanguine of the silverites contend that, even if Bryan carries the state, he will carry it by any such majority as Blox- ham received. Conservative silver men, while cla:ming that Florida is safe for Bryan, admit privately that his majority will ndt exceed 8,000, and May fall con- siderably below. On the other hand, the sound money democrats and the republicans claim that Florida is very doubtful, and that with a perfectly fair election there is a chance for the defeat bf the Bryan electors. The sound money democrats and republicans assert that it is utterly misleading to sa: that the state is safe for the silver can- didate because of the result of the elec- tion on October & They say, and with truth, that several thousand sound money democrats voted for Bloxham for gov- ernor, and that every one of these votes will be cast against the Bryan electors. It 1s also cla'med that a great many re- publicans voted for Bloxham because of factional differences in their own party, and that, owing to the same factional differences, a great many other republi- cans did not vote at all. No such causes, however, will operate in the November election and the republican leaders clai that they will poll a full vote for the Mi Kinley electors. Sound Money Voters. The sourd money democratic managers have claimed all along that they repre- sent at least 6,000 voters. With this large number of votes subtracted from that given Blcxham, and the republican votes alleged to have been given him also taken away, it will be seen that Florida may be fairly considered, debatable ground. Be- sides the large number of antl-Bryan votes which Bloxham ‘received, it must also be taken into consideration that the drift for the last two weeks in this state has been unmistakably for sound money. The silver wave has hevér been very high in the state, and it fs apparent that it is now receding. Of course, there is no way of estimating the strength of this anti- silver drift, but that the drift exists can- not be disputed. Mdhy life-long democrais have expressed themselves to the corr spondent in the. foliowing language: “If I were not a southern man I would vote for McKinley. The policy for which Bryan stands will injure my business.” These men uxe representative of a large class, and it {s safe to say that when they 40 into the polling booths, despite the fact that they are southern born and bred, they will not vate far Bryan. The silver leadera-reallze that they may lose the state, and ;they” are canvassing with an energy never before known in Florida. A thorough canvass was made before the state election, and the free silver issue forced to the front, hut no enthusiasm was aroused, for the demo- cratic ;vote showed a large falling off as compared with 1882, Since the state elec- tion, the Bryan managers have again but their orators on the stump, but it is noticeabla that very little ts being said about sflver and a great: deal about the danger of the force bill, if McKinley is elected, with a republican Congress to back im. It should be remembered that the silver democrats must depend on their own votes to carry the state for Bryan. They will get no help from the populists. The popu- lists offered to fuse, agreeing to take down all thelr electoral and congressional candi- dates if they were granted one elector by the democrats. The silverites refused the terms in such a way as to cause anger, and it 1s safe to say that every populist vote in Florida will be cast for Bryan and Wat- son electors. On the other hand, while there has been:no open fusion between re- publicans and sound money democrats, it Seems to be generally understood that the sound money democrats will vote in a way to do the cause which they espous: the most good. They argue that in a crisis like the present no patriot has a right to throw his vote away. Claims of Chairmen. The claims of the chairmen of the differ- ent parties are, of course, widely apart. Chairman W. A. Rawls of the silver demo- cratic executive committee says: ‘Florida is safe for Bryan. We will carry the state by 20,000 plurality.” Chairman Rawls, how- ever, has figured as a prophet before, and not with success. Prior to the state elec- tion he predicted that the largest vote in the history of the state would be polled, and that Bloxham, democrat for governor, would recelve 20,000 majority. As a mat- ter of fact, the democratic vote was one cf the smallest ever cast, and Bloxham’s ma- jority barely exceeded 13,000. Chairman John E. Stillman of the re- publican state committee says: “No one can tell how Florida will go in November. I consider the state doubtful, and would not be at all surprised to see it carried by McKinley. The republicans are in good shape, and will poll a much larger vote in November than in the state election. We expect, too, to be greatly alded by the sound money democrats, who place their country’s good above partisan feel- ing.” Chairman Arthur Meigs of the sound money democratic committee, while .nak- ing no claims, is very cheerful over ihe outlook. He says that the sound money tide is steadily rising, and that the silver democrats will be greatly surprised at the result of the Noyember election. The sound money democrats are in con- trol of the election machinery in several of the largest les {n the state, and this means much. [hey control the chinery: in Duvaj; eoynty, in which Jack- sonville is located, .and_ no one expects Duval to go for Bryan. The fact that the sound money democrats are in control in so many counties,hag, cheered the republi- can leaders, who knay that the voles will be counted as cagt jhe republican man- agers are making, exertions to teach thetr voters how to mark the Australian ballot, voting schools having been established in Many counties. } , Congres#ional Districts. The race for cgnerass in this (the second) district, is attrarting attention, and it seems likely: that Robert W. Davis, the free silver demotratt ‘candidate, will be posed by J. N. Strip- mbler (sound money democrat) and W. R. Peterson (pop.). The prediction is freely made that Davis will Ba defeated and that J. N. Stripling (rep.) will succeed C. M. Cooper, the sound money democrat, who now represents the district. In the first district it is conceded that M. Sparkman, the present democratic incumbent, will be chosen to succeed him- self over his republican and populist op- ponents. The sound money democrats have made no nomination ®. the first district, and this is considered-significant in view of the fact thet Mr. Sparkman’s congres- sional record is for gold, though he is now supporting Bryan and explaining his anti- silver record to his rura’ constituents. Involved in the result of the November election is also the Question whether United States Senator Call, whose term expires March 4, 1897, shall. be succeeded by a sil- verite or a@ sound money democrat. The legislature recently chosen will name Sen- ator I's successor.. The legislature is overwhelmingly democratic, but the sort of Ung (rep.), D. G. a@ democrat it will name to succeed Call largely depends on the result in November. Senator Call candidate for re-election, but in no event can he be chosen. ever, Bryan is elected, some man of Sena- tor Call's ilk, with populistie views about corporations and currency, .will probably be named as Senator, But if Bryan be overwhelmingly dcfeated, as now seems Probable, the chances are that a sound money democrat will be elected to. succeed Call. In the event of Bryan's defeat, it is predicted that the silverites in Florida would be utterly discredited and could not muster a corporal’s guard inthe leg- islature to vote for a free coinage man for Senator. It is considered significant that W. D. Chipley of Pensacola and C. 5 Cooper of Jackscnville, the only ‘avowed candidates to succeed Call, except himself, were both eound money men before the Chicago convention. Chipley and Cooper are evidently expecting Bryan's defeat, and @ consequent recession of the silver. wave which will render possible the election of a sound money democrat to succeed Wilkin- son Call in the United States Senate.. —_s—__ SECRETARY MORTON'S STATEMENT. Amount the Farmers Received by the Rise in Wheat. Secretary Morton has made a statement in regard to the wheat market, in which he a; “After a careful canvass of the situation the most conservative estimate of the amount received by the farmers for their wheat up to the 2ist instant, when wheat reached its highest point, is $28,688,000 over and above what they would have re- ceived at the prices ruling on September 1. “According to the most reliable advices ‘and the experience of good authorities en- joying special advantages for forming sound opinions, rot less than 45 per cent of this year’s crop is still in the farmers hands. “In view of the uncertainties of the merket it is difficult to estimate on the amount tnat will be received by producers for that portion of the crop still in their hands, but on the basis of yesterday's prices there would be a further gain cf nearly $30,000,000 over the value based on the prices ruling September 1. If, there- fore, the average price of wheat should not fall below the present figures, the pro- ceeds from the sale of this year’s wheat crop will net the farmers not less than $58,688,000 over and above the value of the crop on September 1. FARMERS AND FREE COINAGE Two Views of the Effect of Adopting the Silver Standard. Wheat and Cotton Prices Will Be Lowered Instead of Raised by This Measure. From the Baltimore Sun. No greater misfortune could happen to our cotton planters than the transfer of this country to the silver standard. Their product today commands gold in any mar- ket. If it is true, as Mr. Bryan says, that the gold dollar buys twice as much in the U ited States as it used to do, and as he thinks it ought to do, that state of things cuts more in favor than against our cot- ton planters. Th8y are buyers as well as sellers. and it is for their interest clearly to nol i on to the present standard of pay- ment, which, accepting Mr. Bryan's argu- ment, makes the dollars they receive from Europe for their cotton buy twice as much goods in this country as they formerly did. if we should go to the silver standard, the price of cotton would still be the gold price in London, but serious deductions would be made from that price because of the dis- turbance of the par of exchange. Those deductions would certainiy come out of the pockets of the planters. From the New York World. The free silver orators tell the farmers that the price of silver regulates the price of wheat and cotton. Yet during the last thirty days wheat and cotton have very greatly increased in price, while silver has steadily declined. The simple fact {s that the price of silver has no more to do with the price of farm products than have the changes of the moon. Silver is not the monetary standard in which prices are measured. Its price, therefore, has no furction whatever to per- form in regulating or even in measuring the price of other commodities. Wheat declined Yor a long time because of competition from Argentine, Russia and India, and because of heavy crops in this country. It was purely a question of sup- ply and demand. Now that the supply Is less in proportion to the demand, wheat has gone up nearly 13 cents a bushel within the last thirty days, and it will continue to go up and down under the law of supply and demand, uninfluenced either way by the price of silver—a commodity in no way related to it. The falsity of this plea to farmers for free silver support is exposed. This bubble has been pricked. ——__. MONEY AND PRICES ABROAD. An Interesting Collection of Statistics Insued by the State Department. The State Department has just published @ volume of topical interest, entitled “Money and Prices in Foreign Countries, Being a Series of Reports Upon the Cur- rency Systems of Various Nations in their Relation to Prices of Commodities, of Wages and Labor.” The reviews cover the ten-year period between 18936 and 1894, and the figures are official wherever Possible, The result is a volume of 274 pages, in which éach country is treated in detail. Annexed is a summary of the findings Prepared by Frederic Emory, chief of the bureau of statistics of the State Depart- ment, in which he says: Two important facts seem to be es- tablished, viz.: (1) That there has been a general decline in the prices of commod- ities, especially in certain ra wproducts, throughcut the world. It is claimed on one hand that this decline in prices is due to scarcity of money and on the other hand that it is to be attributed to progress in invention and increased production, both of raw materials and manufacture, causing keener competition with the in- evitable accompaniment of lower prices. It will be noted that in Mexico prices have been steadier for articles which could be most profitably exported for gold, and that sharp fluctuations, due to local scar- city of product, have occurred in such articles as wheat and ccrn, in which the prices have been generally downward in the markets of the world. (2) That there has Leen a general adverce in wages, es- peciaily marked in the leading industrial countries. all of which have either a sin- gle gold standard or a double standard with a gold reserve. These stateents are supported by a short table which is annexed, showing the fol- lowing facts: Great Britain, single gold, shows a gen- eral decline in prices of 9 per cent and an advance in wages, except farm wages, which are lower. Belgium, double standard, decline in prices, no change in wages. France, double standard, decline in prices, except beet sigar; slow, but regular advance in wages. Germany, single gold, decline in cereals, pork and certain raw products, increase in beef and many lines of manufactur goods; general advance in-wages. ~~ °° Austria, gold, limited silver, general de- cline In prices; advance in wages. Italy, double standard, general decline in prices, especially food products; gen- eral advance in wages, especiaily in the case of farm labor. 4 Mexico, nominally double, actually.,sll- ver, no change as to food products not ex- ported, advance in price of imported arti- cles and coffee, meat and sugar; unskilled labor unchanged, advance in skilled labor. Costa Rica and Colombia, silver, increase in prices; Increase in wages as measured in silver and paper. The United States, double standard, gen- eral decline in prices; general advance in wages up to 1892. The latter statement is based upon the Senate finance commit- tee report of the Fifty-second Congress. ee ee Repairs to the Newark. The Newark, which has arrived at Hamp- ton Roads, will be placed in thorough re- pair. It is believed nearly $100,000° must be expended upon her. . If, how- |. DANIEL WEBSTER’S WORDS A Speech by the Great Orator Applicable : to Present Conditions. How He Inveighed Against Unpatri- Mr. William Burke has written to The Star calling attention to the remarkable application to the present situation of a speech delivered by Danicl Webster over sixty years ago, during a discussion in Congress of the currency question. The debate was on the pclicy to be followed by the government respecting the withdrawal of the public deposilis from the Bank of the United States. Mr. Burke says that Mr. Webster's words “in their profound solemuity and prophetic spirit, as it were, may be regarded 2s a voice from the tomb.” He quotes Mr. Webster's intro- ductory and concluding remarks as fol- tows: Webster's Speech. “Sir:—I agree with those who think there is @ severe pressure in the money marxet and very serious embarrassment in all branches of industry. 1 think this is not local, but general; at least, over every part of the country where the cause has yet begun to operate, and sure to become not only general, but universal as the operation of the cause shall spread. “If evidence be wanting in addition to all told us by those who know, the high rate of interest—now at 12 per cent or higher— where it hardly brought 6 per cent last September; the depression of all stocks— some 10, some 20, some 30 per cent; the low price of commodities, are proofs abundantly sufficient to show the existence of pressure! “But, sir, labor, the most extensive of all interests—American manual labor—feels, or will feel, the shock more sensibly, far more sensibly, than capital or property of any kind! Public works have peen stopped or must stop! Great private undertakings employing many hands have ceased, and others must cease. A great lowering of the rates of wages, as well as a depression of property, is the inevitable consequence of causes now in full operation!” * * © ® As to the concluding paragraphs of the speech, which I am about to re-present, I desire to remark, incidentally, that they have been quoted “time and again,” but never with such Intensified reasons for their reiteration as exist at this very mo- ment: “Sir! There is another subject on which I wish to raise my voice. There is a topic which I perceive is to become the general war-cry of party, on which I take the iib- erty to warn the country against delusion. Sir, the cry is raised that this fs a question between the poor and the rich! “I know, sir, it has been proclaimed that one thing was certain, that there was al- ways a hatred cn the part of the poor to- ward the rich, and that this hatred would support the late measures and the putting down of the bank. “Sir, I will not be silent at the threat of such a detestable fraud on public opinion. If but ten men, or one man in the nation will hear my voice I will still warn them against this attempted imposition. “Mr. President, this is an eventful mo- ment. On the great questions which oc- cupy us, we all look for some decisive movement of public opinion, to be intelli- Bent and unbiased, the true manifestation of the public will. “I desire to prepare the country for an- other appeal, which I perceive is about to be made to popular prejudice; another at- tempt to obscure all distinct views of public good; all patriotism and all enlightened self-interest, by loud cries against false danger, and exciting one class against an- other. I am not mistaken in the omen. I see the magazine whence the weapons of this warfare are to be drawn. I hear al- ready the hammering of arms preparatory to the combat. They may be such arms, perhaps, as reason and justice and honest patriotism cannot resist. “Every effort at resistance may be feeble and powerless, but for one, I shall make an effort, to be begun now, and to be carried on and continued with untiring zeal till the end of the contest. Sir, I see in those vehicles which carry to the people sentiments from high places, plain -ieclarations that the present contro- versy is but strife between cne part of the community and another! I hear it boasted as the unfalling security; the solid ground— never to be shaken—on which recent meas- ures rest; that the poor, naturally, hate the rich. I know that under the cover of the roofs of the Capitol, within the last twenty-four hours, among men sent here to devise means for the public safety, and the public good, it has been vaunted forth as matter of boast and triumph that one cause exist- ed powerful enough to support everything and defend everything, and that was “the natural hatred of the poor to the rich.’ Sir! I pronounce the author of such senti- ments to be guilty of attempting a detest- able fraud on the community; a double fraud; a fraud to cheat men out of their property and out of the earnings of their labor, by first cheating them out of their understandings. The natural hatred of the poor to rich? Sir! It shall only be when I am drawn to the verge of oblivion; when I shall cease to have respect or affecticn for nything on earth, that I will believe the people of the United States capable of being deluded, cajoled and driven about in herds by such abominable frauds as this! if they sink to that point; if they so far cease to be men, thinking men, intelligent men, as to yield to such pretenses, and ciamor, they will be slaves already; slaves to their own passions, slaves to the fraud ana basmati ee friends. They will deserve to be blotted out of all « of_ freedom. ieee They ought not to dishonor the cause of self-government by attempting any longer fo exercise it. They ought to keep their un- worthy hands off from the cause of Tepub- lican liberty, if they are capable of being the victims of artifices so shallow, of tricks so stale, so threadbare, so often practiced, en nae . on serfs and slaves. e natu tred of the poor agait the rich! — “The danger of a moneyed aristocracy— &@ power as great and dangerous as that resisted by the revolution; a call to a new declaration of independence!” Sir, I admonish the peopie against out- cries like these! I admonish every indus- trious laborer in the country to be on his guard against such delusion. I tell him the attempt to play off his passions against his interests and to prevail en him in the name of liberty to destroy all the fruits of liberty in_ the name of patriotism; to injure and affitct his country, and in the name of his own independence to destroy that very in- dependence and make him a anda slave! Has he a dollar? He is advised to that which will destroy half its value! Has he hands to labor? Let him rather fold them and sit still than be pushed on by fraud and artifice to support measures which will render his labor useless and hopeless! Sir, the very man, of all others, who has the deepest interest in a sound cur- rency, and suffers the most from mischiev- ous legislation in money matters, is. the a who earns his daily bread by his daily toil. A depreciated currency, sudden changes of prices, paper money, falling between morning «nd noon, and falling still lower between noon and night; these things con- ‘stitute the very harvest time of specula- tors and the whole race of those who are at once idle and crafty. Of that race, too, the ‘Catalines’ of all times, marked, so as to be known. forever by one stroke of the historian’s pen, as those, greedy of other men’s property, and prodigal of their own! .,Cagitalists, too, may outlive such times. They may either prey on the earnings of labor or they may hoard. Preying on nobody, he becomes the prey of all. His property is in his hands. His fund, his productive freehold, his all, is shis- labor. ‘Whether he work on his own small capi- tal or another’s, his living is still earned by his industry, and when the money of the country becomes depreciated and de- based, whether it be adulterated coin or paper without credit, that industry is rob- bed of its reward. He then labors for a country whose laws cheat him out of his bread! I would say to every owner of every quarter section in the west; I would say to every man in the east who follows his own plo and to every mechanic, arti- gan and in every city in the coun- ty; I would say to every man who wishes 11 In one of his wonderful sermons very truthfully said, “My brother, your trouble is not with the heart; it is a gastric disorder or a rebel- Tious liver. It is not sin that blots out your hope of heaven, but bile that not only yellows your eye- balls and furs your tongue and makes your head ache but swoops upon your soul in dejection and forebodings,"—and Talmage is right! All this trouble can be removed ! You can be cured! How? By using We can give you incontrovertible proof from men and women, former sufferers, But to-day well, and stay so. There is no doubt of this. Twenty years experience proves our words true. Write to-day for free treatment blank. Warner's afc Cure Co., Rochester, APE Des Aaa Ce a er en oT . ne by honest means to gain an honest living “Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing!” Whoever attempts, under whatever pop- ular cry, to shake the stability of the pub- Ne currency, bring distress in money mat- ters and drive the country into the use of paper money stabs your interest 10 the heart. The herd of hungry wolves who live on other men's earnings will rejoice in such a state of things. A system which absorbs into their pockets the fruits of other men's industry i; ihe very system for them, A gcvernment that produces fluctuations, vio- lent risings and fallings in prices, and finally, paper money, is a government ex- actly after their own heart. Hence, thi men are always for ehange. The let well enough alone. A condition of af- fairs in which property is saf ustry certain of its reward, and every man se- cure in his own hard-earned gains, is no paradise for them! Give them the reverse of this state of things—let it not be known today what will be the value of property tomorrow! Let no man be able to say that the money in his pockets at night will be money, or worthless rags, in the morning, and depress labor till double work shall earn but half a living! Give them this state of things, and you give them the consummation of their earthly bliss! Sir, The great interest in this great coun- try—the producing cause of all its prosperi- ty—is labor, labor, labor. We are a labor- ing community. A vast majority of us all live by industry and actual employment in some of their forms. The Constitution was made to protect this industry; to give it both encouragement and security, but, above all, security! To that very end, with that precise object in view, power was given to Congress over the currency, and over the money system of the country In forty years’ experience we have found nothing at all adequate to the beneficial execution of this trust but a well-conducted netional bank, that has been tried, return to, and tried again, and always found suc- cessful. If it be not the proper thing for us, let it be soberly argued against! Let something better be proposed! Let the country examine the matter coolly and decide for itself. But whoever shall attempt to carry a question of this kind by clamor and violence, or prejudice; whoever would rouse the people by false and fraudulent appeals to their love of in- dependence to resist the establishment of @ .vseful institution because it is a bank and deals in money, and who artfully urges these appeals wherever he thinks there is more honest feeling than enlightenmer.t, means nothing but decepticn; and who- ever has the wickedness to conceive and the hardihood to avow a purpose to break down what has been found in forty years’ experience essential to the protection of all interests by arraying one class against another, and by acting on such a principle as that the poor always hate the rich, shows himself the enemy of all! An ene- my to his whole counir; 'o all classes and every man in —__—_ A QUESTION OF ORTHOGRAPHY. pected a Was Resentfal. Pickaninny Jim came home from school with a knowing twinkle in his eye. Throw- ing his books into the wood box, he sat down on the edge of it, and, with the air of @ cross-examiner, began: “Mammy, whut’s de bes’ t'ing ter cat as is?” The old lady stopped with the corn-pone half way out of the oven and gazed at her son in amazement. ."" she exclaimed. “‘Da's de kin’ er ting dat goes ter show how yoh kin go ter schos] an’ go to school, an’ not hab*no mo’ common sense dan de day yoh wus bo'n. Mebbe,” she added, suspiciously, “yol been ‘so- ciatin’ wif w'ite chillun so much dat yoh’s done got yoh tas’e spiled an’ doan’ know whut is good ter eat no mo’.” “Yas, I does. I jess wants ter hyah you say it.” “Anybody knows dat de bes’ t'ing ter eat dat grows is ‘possi “Yah, mammy! Jim a “laughed Pickaninny “I knowed yoh wus gwineter say "Cohse, yoh knowed it. Dat’s de onlies’ answer dar is ter de question. Ef I warn’ so busy wif disshere pone, I'd reach ober an’ rap yer foh bein’ sassy. “Well, ‘’possum’ ain’ de right answer, nohow.’ “Whut de reason ‘tain’t?” “Case yoh musn’ say ‘possum.’ ” “I musn’! I's gwineter pay fo'h bits ter de mahket man foh 4e privilege 0° sayin’ it de fus’ chance I gits. Who done tol’ I musn’ say "possum?" “De teacher. We was talkin’ "bout ana- " she done tol’ us we mus’ say r “Looky yah, Hannibal. Doan’ yoh lemme hyah no mo’ sech talk ez dat, or I's gwin- ter nip yoh edjycation an’ gib yer er lam- min’ besides. Doan’ yoh nebber let me hyah yer sayin’ O'Possum no mo’. Dat's er cullud anamile, dat is, an’ teacher aw mo teacher, dar ain’ no ‘scuse foh nouncin’ "is name like he wus Ahrish.” ee Doubt of Sci belt's Death. From the Chicago Tribune. The friends of Rudolph Schnaubelt, who will go down in history as the man credited with throwing the bomb at the Haymarket, say they do not believe the report of his death which came yesterday from San Ber- nardino, Cal. While they have no positive knowledge about the matter they say for various reasons they think it more likely it was one of the other brothers, Henry or Adolph, both of whom have been living for some years on the coast. ‘This: skepticism seems to be based upon the faith that Rudolph Schnaubelt leads a sort of charmed life and is Jess likely to be dead than either of his brothers, who have suffered with consumption. Mrs. Mary Schwab, 734 Belmont avenue, the sister of the Schnaubelt boys, knew of the death last night only through the pam think it must be Henry who is dead,” said she, “because he has been ill for sev- eral years, and when I last heard from him several months ago he was getting weaker. Rudolph has been robust. I do not know where he is now, as I have not heard from him in a good while. But why is the public interested? Rudolph did not make that bomb, nor throw it, as they say. He hed nothing to do with i Thomas Grief expressed his faith that the anarchist still lived, because, he said, he-had heard reports of his death until he never would credit the announcement = THE “APENTA” HUNGARIAN BITTER WATER, from the UJ HUNYADI Springs: under the abso- lute eoutrol of the 1 Hungarian Chemical In- stitute Ollaistry of Buda-Pest. ° 8