Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1897, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1897-1 2 PAGES. “Wash. B. Williams, | &c., 7th and D Sts. White ron Beds, $3.85 Furniture Tr. cleanliness and fa White Enamet s neat bed sare al White “ $1.50 “© $5.50 the par- rock-bottom order to quarter putting ma to @ third the Ww hB. Williams, ure, etc., 7th & Dsts. as Men who follow fashion will wear Fancy Vests this spring. A very b coming style, too. Our line of Vest: of the most attractive ereabout Let us take} Fit—proper style— ings ts splayed your measure. satisfaction assured. G. WARFIELD SIMPSON, It Expert Tailor, 1208 F St. World’s Record For 14 Mile Won Ona le Fork makes ron the track, td at full speed. oof against all ‘Lyndhurst 2 ks. aml examine. ; END CYCLE CO., | E K. Von E : Mistaken idea some men have that cheap clot mean economical clothes. ©mly takes them a month vat the difference. 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Just Ret you eit as tasting and the al water in the @ mn bottle. Be. & @ 4 3 HERDLISKA & CO., “THE MINERAL WATER PEOPLE,” ‘Phone 135. “So many reasons” Why electric lght s better than Hight. -It ts safer—easier on the eyes. emits wo odor—does not dry up the Binosphcre in the room—and f# tea tims brighter than gas. Every mod- house" ought to be lighted by eles See us about supplying the No trouble to answer ques- current. ttone. U. S. Electric Lighting Co., 213 14th st. ow. "Phone 77. mb16-20d [ COULD NOT PRACTICE Ground at National Park Was Too Soft for Playing. ee NO WORD YET FROM KING OR MAUL First Game of the Georgetown University Nine. CURRENT SPORTING NOTES SS Last night’s rain softened the earth at National Park to such an extent that the usual morning’s practice could not be in- zed in today and will also knock out this afternoon's work. Groundkeeper Mil- ler was at work early with his rake this morning, and the grounds, as viewed from the grand stand, are a delight <o the eye. The grass inside the diamond has grown to the proper height, and around the base lines the brown earth forms a pretty con- trast between the green of the in and out- is. After going over the diamond, Mii- + immediately set to work digging out the earth of the foul lines, whi-h will be filled in with cinder, beaten hard and then coated with whitewash. This work will about finish up the diamond. Considerable work has yet to be done upon the stands and fences and the drain pipes. Practice being out of the question it was case of “come into school,” and all the 3 filed into the dressing room and had a be an hour's talk with Manager Schmelz over the playing rules, discipline and team work. Each man took the advice offered in com- mendable spirit, and many original sug- gestions in the way of tricks and-team work that have been thought out during the winter were offered by almost all the old players. The new men are naturally modest, and played the part of silent wit- nesses in a becoming fashion. After school a majority of the scholars mounted their wheels and secured a little exercise in that way. It is a bad thing to !et up in training for a single day, and as ail the players know this they took exercise of some kind. As there will be no practive this afternoon cycle runs and walks will be the program for everybody Hillary Swaim has become a general fav- orite with everybody, including the at- ches of the grounds. ' Being a big man, he is naturally good natured, and has a cheery word for all. Manager Schmelz excused Swaim from yesterday afternoon’s prac- tice, and the big fellow took the opportunity to renew an old-time acquaintance with Senator Mark Hanna at the Capitol. The senator greeted the new base ball senator in a cordial way, and quite a long conver- sation followed. The fact tnat Hillary was not after an office might have contributed wo a consijerable extent to the Chio sena- tor’s good nature. vaim was born and raised about thirty if from Canton, Ohio, and the Hanna and Swaim families are on quite intimate terms. The big pitcher is just twenty- ree years old, and last year saw his first professional service. The year previous he ook his first try at the national game while attending college. Fort Wayne signed him last year, and he was on the rubber fifty times, winning thirty-eight games, quite a remarkable record for a beginner, especially as the league that city was in was con- sidered more than ordinarily fas: players unite in predicting good the big Oh‘o boy. All reports te the contrary, the players have yet to feel the ieast bit sore or out of Kelter over the practice already in- dulged in. In fact, the watchful eye of Manager Schmelz kept the younger mem- rs from overdoing themselves, and the alder players are far too foxy to be caught at that game. Complimenta: this morning, and Mr. was the lucky recipient. Earl Wagner's mail was heavy this morn- irg, but nothing came from either King or Maul, the majority of missives being from lady base ball enthusiasts requesting the usual privi of “ladies’ All the ‘ork from y book No. 1 was given out Michael B. Scanlon leges of last season in the way day” tickets. These letters will and as soon as the tickets be sent out to those who plications. ISLAND STAKES. Received to Some of Leading Contests. CONEY Entries the The following entries have been received by the Coney Island Jockey Club: Coney Island grand national steeplechase, 31,50, for four-year-olds and upwards, handi- cap, full steeplechase course-Lady Ray- mond,a: Glen Fallon.a; Duke of Ab Porn,a; Monace, Decapod, a: Kendal Foot, a Erie, 6; Lion Heart, 6; Mill Boy, 6; Rover, a: 6; Wood Pigeon, 4; Ingot, Athlete, Marcus, a; Eli Kindig, a; Pe- conic, 4 Tidman, 6; Hellas, 6; ton, 4. Wood Pigeon formerly Wood Faun. Bay Hurdle race, $1.40, for four- lds and upwards, handic two Kilkenny, a; Fugitive, 5; dig, a; Flushin, 4; Phoebu: Baron- 5 Waltzer, Brown Red, ; Alakuma, 4; Sir Arlington, 4. n Red formerly Red Cloud The Stirrup cup, $1,500, to be run Satur- day, June 26, 1897, for three-year-olds and upwards at welter-weights, to be riduen by gentlemen; one mile and a sixteenth; on turf—First Mate, 4; Sir Walter, a; Fer- rier, a; Formal, Halfling, Hawarden, Semper Ego, 4; Olindo, 5; Mingo I, 4; Rodman B., 5; St. Nicholas II, 3; Iranian, 3; Dr. Grimes, 4. Shikin 6; An- TOURNAMENT AT ELKWooD. Best Trap Shooters of the Country Participate. ‘The fifth annual live plgeon shooting tour- nament, under the auspices of the Inter- state Association, opened at E!kwood Park, Long Branch, erday. Fully 159 of the best trap shooters in the United States were on hand and first event Park intro 7 of them entered for the on the program, the Elkwood The conditions of this entrance, moneys, seven bir birds extra; », 30 and 20 not cl] hooting. x men tied, each They shot but after y divided $12.50 is the Price For an Honest Suit or Overcoat Made to Order. Pure Wool & Fast Color Guaranteed Bicycle Suit & Cap, $10. Call For Samples. SIX LITTLE TAILORS, 941 Pa. Ave. N. W. Open Evenings Until 9 o’Clock. DYSPEPSIA POSITIVELY CURED-—GR GRA- ham's Remedy 1s a specific. Instant rellef and per. manent cure guaranteed. ‘Thompson's Pha: 708 15th st. Write Grover Grahain Co, N. ¥.. for pamphlet. the money, which amounted to $35. The winners wre: Powers, Merrill, B. H. Dun- nell, W. Dunnell, Gilbert, Hamilton, Mc- Pherson, Messner, Dallas, May, Green, Fan- ning, Dubray, A. Glover, H. White, James, Hickey, Kelley and Strong. ‘PO MEET TONIGHT. George Dixon and Frank Erne Will Fight for the Championship. The championship contest between George Dixon and Frank Erne will take place at the Broadway Athletic Club, in New York, tonight. This is the sole topic of conver- sation among the sporting men of the city. The little fellows will undoubtedly put up a gceat battle. Dixon is anxious to re- cover the prestige he lost by having a de- cision given against him, end Erne wants to wipe out his defeat by Martin Flaherty. Erne is confident of winning tiis battle, and fs already planning for another meet- ing with Flaherty. The fight promises to be the best feather- weight battle that has taken place for seme time. The match is at twenty-five rounds in- stead of twenty, as on the previous occa- sion, and Erne makes no secret of the tact that he will try this time to knock his dusky rival out and thereby make his title to the championship clear. One preliminary battle of twelve rounds will precede the main event. The fighters will be George Byers of Boston and Lon Beckwith of Cleveland. GEORGETOWN’S FIRST GAME. The University Nine Will Play Johns Hopkins This Afternoon. The Georgetown University nine wiil be- gin its season this afternoon in a game on the cempus with the Johns Hopkins Uni- versity team. The Hopkins team will he nade up of the following players: Captain Nelson, Joyner, Clarke, Herrick, Haulen- beck, Swaine, Hodges, Williams; Goodrich and Owirgs, battery. Georgetown’s nine will consist of Malo- ney, catcher; Clancy, Walsh or Bach, pitch- er; Dawson, first base; Fleming, second base; Riordan, shortstop; McIntire, third base; Lamb, right field; Kelly, center field, and McCarthy, left field. Poughkeepsie and the Boat Races. ‘The Poughkeepsie committee, which has charge of the arrangement for the college boat races, held a meeting Monéay night to formulate an offer to offset the induce- ments made by New London to the col- leges to hold the contests at the latter place. Representatives of the board of trade, the Retail Merchants’ Assoctation and the two local boat clubs were present. A committee was appointed to confer with the representatives of the colleges in New York Saturday night and to make them an offer on the same basis as that of last year, with whatever advance the commit- tee may deem expedient. Knocked Out by Dan Creedon. Dan Creedon of Australia knocked out Charley Strong of Newark in the fourth round at the Arena Athletic Club in New York Monday night. The Australian was the more scientific of the two, and hit Strong whenever and wherever he liked with clever left leads, dodging Strong’s vicious counters with the greatest of ease. Cree- don delivered a left-hand swing in the stomach, which brought the Newark man to the floor, where he was counted out. Tom Carter of California defeated Chas. Peaker, colored, of Newark, in six rounds. Joe Murphy of Providence defeated Jack Hannigan of Pittsburg in a ten-round bout. The Ruste Case in Court. The Rusle case against the New York Base Ball Club came up in the United States circuit court at Trenton, N. J., yesterday. The argument was purely technical, and Was devoted to the demurrer raised by the National Exhibition Company to the effect that all of the clubs in the National League in 1895 should be made party defendants t> the suit. Argument did not enter into the merits of the dispute between Rusie and the New York club, nor did it have any bearing upon the reserve rule. At the cou- clusion of the argument Judge Acheson re- served his decision. Tommy Corcoran Holds Off. Tommy Corcoran, the former shortstop of the Brooklyns, who was traded to Cincin- nati last fal: for Smith of the Reds, is still at his home in New Haven, and, despite frequent telegrams from President Brush, will not report for duty. Corcoran says he will not join the team this season unless he gets pert of the money the Brooklyns rea!- ized from his sale to Cincinnat!. Thus far President Brush has been unable to get him to put his name to a contract, und it appears to be a stand-off between the two. Mr. Brush is so incensed at Corcoran that he has refused offers from other clubs for him. Bob Will Give Jim First Show. James J. Corbett yesterday afternoon se- cured his much-wanted interview with Fitzsimmons. The men met in the lobby of the hotel, at San Francisco, and greet- ed each other with the utmost cordiality. Corbett entreated Fitzsimmons to give him another chance to retrieve his reputation. Fitzsimmons reiterated his determination never to fight again, but finally promised if he ever re-entered the ring Corbett should have the first chance. Won the Hockey Championship. The New York Athletic Club team of hockey players won the amateur hockey championship of America last night in New York by defeating the St. Nicholas Skating Club team in the most exciting and scien- uific game of the season with a score of goals to 1. A Challenge From the West. CHICAGO, March 24.—The westerners who are to compete in the grand American handicap have challenged the wing shots of the east for a team race of ten men, each contestant to shoot at fifty first-class birds. An entrance fee of $50 will be charged for each man, the birds to be paid for by the loser. The match is likely to take place on Saturday next at Elkwood Park, N. J. The westerners are Charles imm, Clear Lake, Iowa; Dr. Carver, cago; Chauncey Powers, Decatur, Tl. Dick” Megrill and “Tom” Marshal, Mii- waukee; Charles Budd, Des Moines, low J. A. R. Elliott, Kansas City, Mo.; W. Cresby, Ch Towa, and Di 40; Fred. Gilbert, Spirit Lake. Williamson, Milwaukee, Wis. Showalter Lends Pillsbury. The thirteenth game of the chess match between Showalter and Pillsbury was fin- ished yesterday in Brooklyn. Showalter won after fifty-three moves. Score: Show- alter, 6; Pillsbury, 5. Drawn, seis seis ‘To Promote Lieut. Platt. Mr. Perkins has introduced in the Senate a bill for the promotion of Lieut. Rob- ert Platt, United States navy, to the rank of commander. A bill similar to the above passed the Senate at its last session and was favorably reported to the House hy the committee on naval affairs, but was lest_in the iast hours of the Congress. Lieut. Platt has for many years been con- nected with the fish commission, and is well known in this city. —. It matters little what it is that you want —whether @ situation or a servant—a ‘want” ad. in The Star will reach the perscn who can fill your need. —-—___ The Vice President's Gavel. Vice President Hobart has been presented with a new gavel, made from the wood of the desk used by the first Vice President in the present Senate chamber. The handle is of yellow pine, taken from the staircase leading to the old Senate chamber, now used by the Supreme Court. A number of small pieces of historic wood are inserted in the handle. ——_—_-e-+_____ The Bermuda's Clearance Papers. As intimated by The Star would be the case, the Secretary of the Treasury has authorized the clearance of the alleged fill- buster Bermuda from Fernandina on con- dition that her master bind himself not to transfer any part of her cargo to any other vessel before reaching her destination in the West Indies nor take on board more men than actually necessary for the voyage. Tony King was fin ball for crying veget yesterday. $1 by Judge Kim- bles on the street GROSVENOR _ SPEAKS ean The Return of Prosperity and the Tariff, A PLEA FOR PROEUEN TO LABOR Benefits for Sugary Wool and Other Farm Products. RECIPROCITY FEATURES Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio began his speech on the Dingley bill today by referring to the necessity for speedy action in the mat- ter of tariff legislation. Going over the ground relating to the bankruptcy of tie treasury, the enormous expenditures in ex- cess of the receipts of the government and the undesirability of borrowing money in time of peace to carry on the government, he drew a parallel between the condition of the country on the Ist of November, 1892, and on the Ist of November, 1806. He referred to the reports of Dun and Bradstreet and the message of General Harrison to Congress in December, 159 and he declared that never in the history of this country nor yet of any other coun- try had the people been so happy and so prosperous as in November, 1892. He de- clared that there was not at that time one unemployed man in the United States who wanted to work. Work was plenty, wages remunerative and business prosperous. Coming to November, 189, he declared that never in the history of the United States was there so much of terror, fore- boding and doubt in the minds of men as on that date. The industries of the coun- try had been paralyzed and the vast body of laboring men idle, seeking employment, but finding none; property everywhere un- salable, enterprise at a standstill, doubt, fear, uncertainty everywhere. He declared that this great calamity had come upon the country substantially by reason of the single act of a democratic Congres the repeal of the McKinley law. The Issue of Protection. He declared that the issue of 1896, upon which the battle had been fought and the victory won, was the issue of protective tariff. He declared that he would not stop to analyze the figures of the election, but said that every intelligent man who par- ticipated in the campaign and went from one state to another was conscious now of the fact that more than a million voters who had been humbugged by the specious cry of the communists, of tax upon wealth, and enterprise, and the hope for the be ter times through a debased currency, nevertheless voted for William MeKinley because of his position on the tariff ques- ton. “It was the McKinley law misrepresented and misunderstood,” said Mr. Grosvenor, ‘that alded our overthrow in 1892; but it was the McKinley law, with the gs we received from it during its short lite, that became the talismanic word that swept McKinley into nomination and car- ried the country in 189%. From ocean to ocean and along the mountain tops and over the prairies, from the pine woods of Maine to the golden shores of the Pacific, the battle cry of protection, coupled with the promise of sound money, called Mc- Kinley from his home in Canton to be the leader of a new proclamation of an old doc- trine. Thus it was that the discarded Me- Kinley law of 1504 became the battle cry of a triumphant people in 1896, and the stone which the democratic leaders re- fused has become the head of the political and economical corner. Obeying the People. “We are here to execute the people's de- mands. We are not here to haggle about it. We are not here to discuss principies. The men who argue against protection as the proper policy of this goverment of ours are not men to be criticised unkindly, not to be sneered at, but men to be pitied and sympathized with. They have been left stranded. The boat had left them and they are out on an island, and on the wrong side of the island, where ships nev pass, and they are waving a flag at an imaginary ship in the mirage of the ocean, and they can sing the song for all time of the ship that never came. Wh id Mr. Grosvenor, “the cry of the people, the demand of the intelligent, for a protective tariff system today comes not from partisan utterances. It comes from the men of all parties and from every section of the country. The fruit grower of California, robbed and ruined by the Wilson bill, cries loudly to republicans for assistance, and from Alabama and Georgia, and conspicuously from Louisiana, comes the earnest demand for the passage of this bill, If the members of the republican side of this House should see fit some fair morn- ing to publish in the Washington Post all the letters they have received from the democratic states of the south, the cotton growing states of the south, the hemp and tobacco growing states of the south in favor of this legislation, the capacity of that newspaper would have to be enlarged, and surprise and astonishment would be upon the faces of the men who, with their backs to the rising sun, are seeing nothing, hearing nothing, knowing nothing, but the inadequate Bourbon doctrine of bygone days. Non-Employment and Bankruptcy. “What, then, is the great necessity of this hour? Two deadly evils are upon us, unemployed labor and a bankrupt treasury. There can be no business confidence in this country when the treasury of the United States is without funds to meet its current obligations. Men may cry peace, but there will be no commercial peace in this country without an assurance of national solvency. “How idle the proposition that prosperity has not yet come! But McKinley was elected last November, and yet, says the cursory thinker, the imperfect student, the absurd partisan, where 1s prosperity? where is it? Gentlemen must bear in mind that a violation of law always merits and always receives punishment. A man can- not violate the law of his physical nature and not be punished, and the punishment will continue longer ‘or shorter in propor- tion to the degree of his excesses. A man cannot degrade his moral nature and drag it into the mire of crime and not be pun- ished for it, and the length of time nece: ry for him to emerge a clean man, with ran conscience, depends somewhat up- the debris to which he has subjected elf. The country that would turn its back upon the prosperity of 1892 and descend in- to the blunder of 1804 must expect punish- ment. It is sure to get it, and the degree of that punishment will depend largely upon the degree of degradation to which the country sank. ! Why Prosperity is Slow. “There is no better doctrine in all the range of human thought, no higher de- velopment of laws to govern human action, and the result of human Conduct, than the grand proposition that when a man or a people repent the blessings that follow re- Ppentance come only when, ‘works meet for repentance’ have been done. “There stands uponjthe siatute book of to- day the accursed law that was put there by the blindedness of Bourbon democracy. Whiie it stands there the curse will re- main. The curse is :ightened, however, by the prospect that ‘works ‘meet for repent- arce’ will be accomplished, and so from Maine to California there comes the cheer- ing sound of improved <conditions, but while this is being dope, while the shouts of anticipated emancipation are coming to us from all sources, while money 1s plenty and becoming active, while enormous contracts for production which will insure the em- ployment of enormous quantities of idle labor are coming to us, the democratic party on this floor, with its allfes, all alike are standing, holding on to the coat tails of the world and leaning back impeding the progress of that prosperity, they shout % whoa to the moving mass of American People. You have not only brought this curse upon the country, but you are tryirg to hold it there. You have no time, it is said, to prepare a substitute for this bill. It would have been a pleasant sight to have seen a substitute offered. The Wilson Bill. “Why do you not offer the Wilson bill? If you did not blunder in its pasage; if its passage was not a crime; if its passage was not a curse; if its introduction into the business affairs of the country did not ac on hii i asannee and condemn the business of the country, why do you not offer that as a specific doctrines, its ad valorem duties, its protection to special classes of industries, its abandonment of others, its uncertain- its bad English, and worse polit! cling to it? ‘We stdnd here indicting you for the passage of this bill. We stand here de- nouncing you for the passage of this bill; that is ovr complaint. Why do you not get rid of it? Why do you hang on to this dead body? While the people of the country are shouting ‘Who shal! deliver us from the body of this death? you are fastening the solid and wretched ropes to tie upon the shoulders of the victim of your blundering the dead body that is causing the body politic to fester and rol. So these two reat conditions are here. One I have al- ready referred to, and the other is the none employment of the labor of the country. It has been the purpose of the ways and means committee to present a measure ‘© that woule these direction: bring a change first an in both ployment of the labor of th Looking Backward. “We want to go back to 18 It was the battle cry upon which we carried the y, and we want to stand by that bat- and we have struggled with all the care and patriotism and devotion to duty that we are capable of to make it possible for the labor of this country to be employed profitably. We want to see what we have not seen since 1892, contented laborers, well-fed families, children going to school with good clothes, good houses, good books and good prasperity in the future. We be- lieve we have accomplished it. “We have provided in this bi!l for the ex- penditure in the United States ultimately of more than $00,000,000 per annum to the laborers of the country above that which has been derived heretofore. Under the operation of this bill we look for $125,000,- (#0 now sent abroad to buy sugar will every dollar of it be expended in the United States. We look for that time, and shortly, when under the operations of this wool schedule every spindie in the United States will turn and the enormous payments for labor, the end of which passed in 1892, shall again be a part of the heritage of the labor- ing man. We look forward to the time, not far distant, when a million woo! growers in the United States, a million men who voted, a million men who worke< mote the sheep industry of th will receive rich and permane and when the flocks of the country will in- crease in value directly by the operation of this bill $50,000,000 in a single year. Benefiting the Farmer. “We believe that the farmer on the mighty farms of the west and cn the al- luvial soil of the south, and everywhere, will be benefited by this bill. Ignorance comes and says ‘What good does it do to put a duty on farm produ I submit in this connection a table that will en- lighten those gentlemen who are thus talk- ing, and show them how much has been in- troduced into this cou y of farm products under the ruinous rates of Wilson bill and then I shall have one consolation. have been a successful te her in a politica Kindergarten. We propose to the men of the United States, engaged in farming, thi at proposition: Under this law you may Giversify your industry, you need not e: haust the soil of your farm by the endless repetition of cereals and vexet propose to build up the industry of growing, and thus devote to that gre dustry many tens of thousands of ac the rich land of the United Stat take that farm. We propose the same thing in th sheep industry and send pack again to thi production of wool and sheep and cattle the tens of thousands of acres of land that under the ruinous policy of the Wilson bill have been stripped of everything «nd back to competition with the oth lands of the country. Upon th question I shall have more to during the five-minute debate. Helping the Laborer. “The policy of this bill has been and is and will be if it should pass into law to give to the labor that degree of employ- ment in the United States which will cause to be expended in this country every dol- lar that is expended for such products of the soil, of the mine, of the shop and of the tactery that we can produce in the , and nd out of competition with the United States on equal terms with the for- eign producer. In no other way can v reach the markets of the world. Our r+ procity prcvisions will be of value. They will be more or } adequate to the re- sult which we seek, but after all if we would induce the nations of the earth to be anxious for our markets n be We We must ready to supply our own markets. propose that the United Si Am shall not be found disarmed and powe in the face of a foreign enemy in c: war. What do you think of a country with all its boundless possihi of sh ture which produces less than 300,000, pounds of weol per annum when sumption in time of peace must be 000 pounds? We propose that this shall put itself the purpose of pose that It upon a war footing aintaining itself. We p shall be in a position to pre duce its own sugar and {ts own wool an its own comma of every character that God in His wisdom has made it pos- sible to produce cn this continent. “My countrymen, the gentleman from Alabama, Mr. Wheeler, eulogizes the demo- cratic party and states that he proposes to witness the demise of the republican party, as he has that of the whig party and the greenback party and other parties, wh, have :prung up from time to time and cumbered the earth. My countrymen, was the democratic party that in 1b# it stood powerless and paralyzed in the presence of a great national crime, that failed to find in the Constitution any power to save the country, and stood for four iong years without a national utterance or protest against rebellion or secession. It was the democratic party thus impotent that brovght ruin and desolation and death upon our country. It was the democratic party that in the hour of reconstruction failed to conceive that great development that the war had brought; failed to see that there must be embodied in the Constitution three or f great principles that had been settled. The right of secession had been denounced; the equality of all the citi- zens before the law, the sacredness of the war debt, the tabooing of the rebel debt, the ccnferring upon all men_ political as well as civil rights, it stood paralyzed in the very presence of the momentous growth of lberty and the rights of manhood. It stood paralyzed while a mighty people moved forward across the chasm of war to stand upon the promised land of equal rights and equal conditions. It was the democratic party which denounced all these measures and made truction sub stantially impossible. the demo- cratic party that caused distress upon the money question in 1868 and out of it grew up the great heterodoxy of irredeem- able paper money. It was the democratic party that refused to place our currency at a par with gold. It was the democratic party that fought against resumption and fought against it and denounced it in the same language that we hear upon this floor today. It was the democratic party which in the hour of our struggle last year forsook the faith of its fathers, abandoned the landmarks of the ‘onstitution, fled from the teachings of Jefferson and Jack- son and the great ancestors of its politi- cal fame and went after the strange gcds of cheap money, broken credit and under- took to place the United States of America upon a par in its financial principles and its financial conduct with hina and the heathen rations of the world. And it is the democratic party here today repre- sented by a heterogeneous mass of con- flicting political opinions that prey upon each other, differ with each other, have no policies for the future, no pride of po- litical ancestry, no hope of political pos- terity, but a wandering mass committed to no course. “A wandering mass of shapeless flame A patbless comet and a curse.”” “My countrymen, it was the republican party that raised the Union Constitution to loyalty; that went to war to save the Union, and, aided by its democratic allies, as we have always been on these trying oc- cesions, it brought back the flag and Con- stitution and Union unimpaired. It was the republican party that put in the Con- stitution of the United States the clause that declared for liberty and honor, thi took the imperfect instrument of our f thers, made imperfect by the lapse of time and the change of conditions, and placed the capstone of liberty and freedom and equal rights on the beautiful temple that has stood so many years unfinished, and wrote upon the statute books of the coun- try the undying declarations that were em- bodied in the Declaration of Independence but had been without moral or political ef- fect in the country for all those years. “It was the republican party that tram- pied upon the heresy of irredeemable paper money and made every dollar of our money of equal value in all the markets of the world. It was the republican party that substitute here? 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It was . the republican party that in hour ¢ to Build You Up, Try c.C.c, our great trouble in 1S! under the banner One of the ernndest over known’ of McKinley. aimede protection ax IC's espectally cHlective In helping to healt! sound money ne conditions of national couvalescents rople 0 tthe {circumstances and carried the flag to tri- or me or call for lar abo umph, placed it in the hands of that mag- ai eyigeke: nt leader upon the mountain tops of an enormous victory and saved the coun- try from ruin. Homeopathic Pharmacy, 1331 G St Near Jéth st. Convenient to transfers. 4 "Phone 104, Mr. Dingiecy’s Name and Fame. “My countrymen, in this hour the repub- lican party is called upon by voices that sound out of all the memories of the p: and out of all the teachings of today to and by the principles of its party and give to the country this enactment, give to the country this Dingley law. “I congratulate my distinguished leader that nis name is to be associated with 4 other act of redemption. Lincoin’s name has been forever linked with his emancip tion proclamation. McKinley's name ha: heen forever linked with the McKinley law, and Dingley’s name shall go sounding down the corridors of time as the champion of the law that after the great struggle in 1896 brought back the country to prosperity d_ peace. ‘It is cur duty and cur advantage, my republican friends, to participate in this great battle. Do not be misled by the at- tacks of the enemies of this law. Stand together. 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Gray and White Hatr reduced in some proportion Mme. Siccardi, ‘Til 11th st., next to Palais Royal. Private rooms for hairdressing. shainposing and It Was the Feature of Yesterday's Tariff Debate. Although several sharp passages at arms somewhat enlivened the tariff debate in the House yesterday the brilllant speech of Mr. Dolliver of Iowa was distinctiy overshadowing feature of the day. Dolliver is a finished orator and hi: was a masterpiece i” The Prettiest Chatelaine Bags «|? Shown in Town. of forensic eloquence. | = the ee And we pledge our word—that the Replete with wit glowing periods, it | 2 pat upon tiem are fac lower than ung ‘ath alternately aroused his republican col- | 2 jlvaler dare aosk th aril peda Degg | leagues to unbounded enthusiasm and con- | nla Lizard, &e. Sigs aia! vulsed the House with laughter. Mr. Dol- | 7 7 & CO., 497 Penna. Ave, | liver is quick and adroit in the use of the | s for the best—Coneord Harness.”” i foll, and the democrats refrained from in- 1 aS 4 terrupting him. Mr. McLaurin, a demo- ~ > —— cratic member of the ways and means com- | J i Pi i mittee from South Carolina, created a Popular Piano Musi miid sensation by boldly proclaiming him- | The Flatters « 10 cents; Joly self in favor of a duty on cotton, and it | Fellow Waltz, ‘by | Vollete cents: Willian was noticeable that when he repudiate ao aunt. 26 Soate; Bats Coming, tree raw material doctrines of Cle 1 wean” and Carlisle “and those who had prosti- tuted the name of democracy,” fully thre fourths of the democrats on the floor tained him with hand and voice. The other speakers during the day session were Messrs. Gibson (Tenn.), Dockery (Mo.), Newlands (Nev.), Lacey (lowa), Swanson (Va.) and Cochran (Mo.). Mr. Cochran (Mo.), the last speaker of the day, while denouncing the republican poli- cies, produced a burst of applause on the democratic side by referring to Mr. Cleve- land as “that great republican leader.” This bill, he argued, was an effort to evade the real issue before the country. At 5 o'clock the House, under the order, took a recess until 8 o'clock. ‘The night was given over to set speeches. There were not over forty members on the floor, but the galleries were crowded to the doors. Mr. Howard (Ala.) delivered a speech recking with denunciation of capi- tal and charges of corruption and jobbery against all branches of the government. Mr. Sperry (Conn.) in the course of his speech presented a petition from the pres- ident and faculty of Yale College in favor of placing books on the free lst. The other speakers were Messrs. Adamson (Ga.), Clardy (Ky.) and Kelly (8.D.). At 10:30 the House adjourned. —_—e+____ Senate Conffrmations. 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