Evening Star Newspaper, January 12, 1898, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1%, 1898-14 PAGES. shortly two birds—looking like pheasants a zm = = saw a prairie hen lumbpring her way along the election laws in this state operate | ; LAST OF AUTONOMY|IN THE WILD WEST |i utt*ssa'm head wos nai once: THTLL-CROKER PACT | esuscr tee itict ss cat | I Wear Gredtile Good? 4 that we had lett cur guns beaind. And . Sutifor the zack: tak the Both Low aaoce _TheCheapest Couch ; On Earth. © Weil made-=-- good springs hah. 2 =-uphoistered in fine French 05 : inch fringe, We have many other couch j bargains, but none greater ~ = than this. No greater bargain ‘@ was ever heard of to our i ; knowledge. And credit when- q ever you wish. BB LOUN DU) Furniture Co., SMOKING JACKETS Nearly Half Price! No man should be without a Smoking or Leunging Jacket when such values as these are waiting to be snapped up $5.00 Smoking Jackets.......$3.50 $6.00 Smoking Jackets.......$4.25 $8.00 Smoking Jackets Pee Robe, a? 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Nscal year the court jators the law, while rly-elght case: lela lar ast year only Wife Dead. rtha E, Turner, er of the A. M. E. in A Church, who ently anta, Ga., funeral 3 city tomorrow. Practice. ley, Edwin Re een admit 1 of Appeals of the ed to This is SSS SS SSS SSSRS remember it. It contains GOL WaAsHING PowDER that cleans everything quickly, cheaply and perfectly. rorcconomy buy 41 package THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, Chicago, Bt Louis, Boston, j councilors named (Continued from First Page.) rule to Cuba. Its powers, in connection with the authority vested in the governor general, are sufficient to nullify the policy which the chamber of representatives and the cabinet might want to follow. The by the crown are to hold their positions for life. The term of the elective ones is to be five years. That single provision of a life tenure may be the subject of future discussion. The system has not yet developed enough to make it of present interest. The same statement May be made with reference to the cus- toms duties, treaties of commerce and the distribution of the war debt between Spain and Cuba. Students of parliamen- tary government saw in these matters pos- sibilities of friction and irritating causes which might in the end again bring the peninsula and the island into collision. The causes of friction are there yet, but nobody seems concerned with them, be- cause nobody seems to be looking ahead so far. In a fortnight I have not heard half a dozen persons in talking about au- tonomy speak of this phase of the system. ey are not thinking of it. _ rhe understanding of autonomy in ef- fect in other than the executive branches of admiristration is quite vague. The Spanish constitution, by decree, was ex- tended to the Antilles. That was meant to lay the foundation for colonial home Tule and place Cuba on the same plane With Spain itself. I had heard of the pro- vision in Spain's laws which gave the judge the right to decide “according to the law and his own ccnscience.” Some hours of laborious study had confused my mind as to what the judicial processes in Cuba would be under autonomy and the guar- antees of the Spanish constitution. An eminent lawyer of Havana was sought out and enlightenment asked. He refused to take the inquiry seriously. “You want to know all about it?” he said. “Well, come and see me in a cou- ple of years. Hy that time I may know elf. There ts no hurr: Another member of the bar was more considerate. He explained that the de- crees would make possible some reforms ie legal procedure and would avold vexa- tious appeals to Madrid, “if autonomy ever prevailed.” He excused himself from going into details, because he had not studied the changes decreed carefully ana he did not knew any of his fellow-practi- tioners who had analyzed them. They ali felt they had plenty of time for that pur- pose befove their practice would be affect- ed by the adjustment of the judicial pro- cedure to autonomy. The Havana lawyers are giving themselves little concern over it. A Function Beyond Its Powers. _ Recurring again to the autonomist cab- inet, It has been called on by Madrid to exercise one function that is beyond its powe That is, to bring the insurgents from the field. The inability of the historic autonomist leaders to create a po- litical party I have explained in previous lett Their patrictism and their high sonal character have not been sufficient to draw to them a large following. As in- dividuals, Galvez, Montaro, Rodriguez and Zayas have sought to persuade the insur- gents that autonomy will in reality be the government of Cuba by Cubans and for Cuba. As a cabinet they can Their official px influence to do no more no magnetic fe the insurgent The little authority they exercise aps. along the lines of conciliation: governors of the provinces, who are unce tain whether they are acting under the cabinet or uader the governor general, in heir confusion somet apply to the cab- They are encouraged by it to proceed bh mild measures, and are supported in ir controve with the military au- thoritics. The revolutionists have been made to feel that what th of autono- will never acquiesce in a s barbarous methods of does uot induce them to tay down their arms and the cabinet views with uneasiness the expectat in Spain that it should find means for ending the in- surrection. Gen. Blanco and the troops must do that. Where the army pacifies 2 country and clears the path the auton- fst cabinet will follew with the of civil administration. Its p! h the reer corps rather than w nual ‘Wail The sies the government considers autono- my implanted sn in public ment. Havana is possibly less torpid n it was a few weeks ago, but it re- wains placid. In some of the larger towns I have found local committees of the au- tenomist party which had succeeded in awakening signs of life, but even here it je to keep up the animation. old officials and the put- ting in of new ones was usually the cause of the temporary awakening. It was the angible evidence that an old system was being supplanted by a fresh one, or at kcast that the powers of administration had changed hands. In Havana this passing impression has not been noticed. Partisans who want office are criticising the cabinet because it keeps so many Spanish employ- s. Nobod: cares. Autonomy as a act of government may develop automat- ically without the people knowing they are under a new regime. They show no pres- ent consciousness of it. Other subjects in- terest them more. The rumors of Consul General Lee going to the field with General Planco “to witness the military operation: excite Immediate attention. They all know hat that would mean. Its possibility is agerly discussed. The night this rumor set abroad the cafes showed an animation the like of which has not been witn since the visit of Mazzanti, the celeb bull fighter, several weeks ago. Reports irom Gomez's camp that he and his gen- erals are still willing to pay Spain for eeing to let go are credited, and the sof the proposition is analyzed as though it were under definite consideration. The probability of the insurgents in Calixto Garcia's command taking Manzanillo, and the troops entirely out of Santiago province, is dissected in the light of Gen- eral Pando’s unsuccessful campaign there. military operations form a live top ‘The turning ot sut in all the range of the gossip of the sand the : substantial talk of the little heard of the y I have tried to tell it in operation. The tale sevon told. The dim shadow of coming nts may make it unnecessary to com- ele the story. CHARLES M. PEPPER. Grant New Officers, w officers were installed last night by U.S. Grant Circle, No. 1, Ladies of the nd Army of the Republic. The cere- monies took place in Typographical Tem- where an informal reception was held. Nellie C. Royce, the tnstallation offi- cer ,and Mrs. Laura A. Lemon, the retir- ing president, introduced to their new lutles the following officers: Mrs. Fannie Calvert, president; Mrs. Emma Pettys, senior vice president; Mrs. Adah Greene, junior vice president; Mrs. Katharine Bol- linger, chaplain; Mrs. Florence C. George, secretary; Mrs. Sarah Thorne, treasurer: Mrs. Annie Laurle Power, conductress, and Mrs. Mary Engle, guard. Addresses were made by the the new presiding officer, the installation officer, and by Mrs. Lemon, and each of the two last-named received. handsome bouquets of An excellent program was ren- » of southern California now being harvi a id to be unusually fine. There was a slight fall of snow at Los Angeles, which did no harm, however. Jehu Baker, old-time republican, now a populist. Washington Boys Arrive at Pinon, Colorado, Colony Camp. THEIR EXPERIENCE AT PLACERVILLE Rapid Transit Dash Over a Moun- tain Range. PAPA SNOOK’S FRIENDSHIP Letters have recently been received here from Will Kent and Carl Julihn, who left here, as told by The Star, just before Christmas to seek their fortune with the co-operative colony at Pinon, Col. They are the sons, respectively, of Rev. Alexan- der Kent and Dr. Julihn. ‘The principal communication is postmark- ed “Placerville, Col., Dec. 30," though it tells of their arrival at the colony camp at Pinon. In his letter Mr. Julihn writes as follow: “We found Placerville a settlement of four or five houses and less than fifty in- habitants. We were told first thing that thirty votes had been cast by the men and women for the silver candidates at the last election. It is half a mile from the sta- tion, and occupies a narrow strip of land between the frowning mountains on the one hand and the turbulent San Miguel on the other. “Having arrived at the railroad station, we took from our baggage our blankets and guns, and marched directly for the house which serves for an inn at Placer- le. Leaving our impediments there we ccrtinued a mile and a half of so down the valley to a certain ranch, where we hoped to secure a team to drive us to the colony on the morrow. We knew that it was very cold, for the snow crunched under our feet crisply and our breath froze on our coats. Yet it seemed warm to us. I took my gloves off and felt no discomfort there- from. lt was night before we arriveq at our inn, with the temperature five degrees below zero. And the stars vied with tie ycung moon in lighting our way through the mountain snow. Scented Savory Odors. “What was our joy, on entering the flag- ficored general room, to find a boy piling the hearth with Pinon logs. Not until we had rested long enough to scent the savory odors emanating from the kitchen did we enter on the actual delights of the feast. Such good, wholesome western faces you never saw, and such abundance of whole- scme food would have delighted the heart of Dickens. Afterward we sat before the roaring blaze and pleasantly drowsed till bedtime. “*Papa Snook,’ whom I seem to have known forever, occupied the post of honor, a huge armchair in the midst of our fire- lit circle, and we sat on either side of him. ‘The old mountain lion and his cubs,’ as one fellow jocularly remarked, referring to cur long hair and drowsy indolence. “One fellow there wa: ed _in most elaborate and expensive fashion. He much annoyed me at first with his perpetual ‘Sir.’ It was ‘Yes, sir; ‘No, sir,’ ‘Sir, will you have this newspaper to read? and such another array of ‘sirs’ as never was before. At first I thought he was some rich minc owner out for a visit and very conscious of his dignity, for though full of monosyllabic ‘sirs.” never a sentence did he utter that would indicate his education and breed- Ing. At length, however, when he had stared himself into a look of imbecility and me into a state of wrath, he sidled up to me and asked, in a confidential manner who I was. His evident respect for my military dress explained his previous be- havior. It was my cap, overcoat and boots that had so powerfully impressed him. He vas merely a miner dressed in his best. I veritably think he expected me to declare my identity with Caesar or Napoleon. “Thus far removed from the seat of gov- ernment, the people have little conception of Washington as it really {s. Every mili- tary overcoat is suspected of concealing general, and they inquire in the most guile- less manner how the son of old ‘Bill’ John- son, who was appointed 2 $0 clerk, do- irg; and they are disappointed and suspect you of being a mere pretender when you can't just remember whether this particu- lar Johnson still remains true in his af- fections for ‘Pap Clark's niece.’ Finds a Philosopher. “This fellow, though, was no fool. When understanding him aright, at length I put him at his ease in spite of his $50 suit. He proved to be an earnest philosopher. This is the substance of one remark he made: “‘Men long to get out in our western country in order to be freed from restric- tions; but while they leave behind them the frown of prying neighbors and the ever-present threat of police vigilance, they are not less responsible on the widest prairie or in the densest jungle. I hope, sir, that you will bear {n mind that law is present everywhere. If, from wantonness and lust of fe, you kill a single animal that enriches the land, you are guilty. If you like venison or pheasant, and you find opportunity to satisfy your hunger there- by ask no man if his fellows a hundred miles away have said these animals shall not be slain. Take in gratitude that which God has sent you. But should you chance upon a herd, and have opportunity to kill three, restrain yourself; for you would be wronging some hungry fellow of the future and perverting the care of Providence.’ “I was very much impressed by him, and, indeed, I think that It is such law as this that makes our lawless west great. The ranchmen never lock their doors. Passing along the roads (trails) one may enter any of the houses and use what he finds there, from the flour and bacon to the bed. But no one ever takes anything. A few miles from here is ‘Horse Thief Gulch,’ where hangs on a birch tree the whitened skele- ton of a man who four years ago walked off with a $10 horse. Only last year an tern tramp, having slept all night in a nt ranch house, was tempted to wear ay with him a pair of patent leather pumps he had been welcome to wear about the cabin while his feet were drying. When the cow punchers dropped in at noon they pursued and captured the man, tied a rope to each foct and dragged him on his back over the snow for five miles. Papa Snook is an intelligent enthusiast of sixty-two. He has a kind, old face, framed by gray hair and beard. He ap- pears to have really spent his life working for others, and I have yet to see the slight- est trace of selfishness in him. Tramping Over the Snow. “As the ranchman at Placerville had charged us more than we could pay to be driven to the camp, we started out to walk it Sunday morning at 8 o'clock. Mr. Snook Was as spry as we were, and we started dewn the valley merrily enough, with our blankets strapped to our shoulders. Our way lay between great mountains rising on either hand, the red sandstone affording some sort of footing to innumerable cedars and pines. The sun fell upon the snowy peaks and filled the air with gladness. We Brosius (Pa.) Reads an indorsement of the civil service law by Senator Hoar, crossed our path in easy distance and searched for their morning meal under our very noses. 2 “The walking Was not easy. The snow ran from six to twelve inches in depth, but in the mid-track it was trodden somewhat, rendering the fooging slippery. Along the river bank, in thé’ bottom of a canon, we took our way, now uphill, now down, ever sliding and slipping, but in the best of spirits, Sometimes the track ran along a precipice edge, protected by a felled tree; Sometimes the nyuntgin crags impended over the road. Now wé admired the beau- uful stone whicly comstituted the moun- tain; anon examined a huge cave, where scratches were seen in the dirt, that pos- sibly indicated the place of hibernation of a bear. But we tirea Mm time. Then the sun Was obscured by snow clouds. We did not Gare rest for a moment, lest our feet, al- ready wet through and through, should be- come chilled. ‘Then about fourteen miles from Placer- ville, our consternation was compiete when we perceived the road to turn straight into the mountain side at the crossing of. the river and ascend away and away, climb- ing sull as fur as we could see. This mountain was the most appalling thing 1 ever saw; for fourteen mies hill-and-dale trail walking, with slippery footing, 13 equivalent to thirty miles of eastern road. The trail now went up about one foot ii live. We slipped back about one-half ef each step, and it required, despite our fre- quent rests, an exercise of will Lo raise the oot eaca step. it was lke setting a tired man to Walk up @ slippery staircase a mile or more in length. When we did at length attain the mesa at the top we just lay cown in the road with our blanket robes pushed up under our necks, and, while the snow fell softly upon us, looked over the cliff down to the river bed, twice as far below us as the Washington monument is high. It had taken us so long that we must necessarily give up hope of walking to Pinon that day. Typical Ranchman. “We stopped to dine at the first ranch out from Placerville, two miles that side of Norwood. lt was a great dinner, and we liked the people much. There was present a fine fellow, Severs by name, a cow Puncher, unwashed and uncombed. I had thought the eastern idea of the wild and woolly westerner to be overdrawn; but it is not, no, not a bit; that is, as to the ex- tern: But they know nothing of his heart. He is rough, and coarse, and wild, but he is not cruel nor wanton. He is ex- tremely just and plain spoken to a fault, if that were possible. This particular one is thirty-six years old, married and a fa- ther. He wears a broad white hat, a stubby, red beard, and speaks in oaths the most vulgar. He frankly declared at din- ner that if a banker asked him to swap horses, in order that he might catch a train he would be refused, while a bank robber under similar circumstances would be accommodated. He damned the money sharks black and blue, and seemed to wor- ship Bryan, as a dog does a master. But I could see beneath all his vile wrong-head- edness that it was the love of right within him that spoke, and that this merely lack- ed training. God help their enemies if a brave and able man ever leads these fel- lows in battle. The riff-raff of eastern cities must be ten to one to stand against them. 2 “At 4 o'clock it was remarked that we cculd not get to Pinon that night even by horse. To this Severs jokingly remarked that for $6 he could put us in, twenty miles away, before dark. ‘Done,’ cried Papa Snook, and-so it would have been, but for an accident. Severs rushed to the barn, harnessed a.team to a hay wagon he had to return to a farm near Norwoo To this he tied the tongue of a sleigh, and, as we jumped intq the wagon, the horses sprang away like forty devils. We quick- ly arrived at the place where we must leave the wagon,! but: to the chagrin of Severs the tongue of the sleigh had been broken off to the extent of a foot. He cursed and swore and finally started us off in the sleigh, but thé horses were reined in so close on account of the short tongue that their legs struck the swingle trees at each step. After about a half a mile of this our driver told us it would be all right as soon as we reached his house a short way ahead. But the horses kicked and r that the outer tug ed 50 much came off of cach swingle tree. - A Wild’ Ride, “Now, damn it,’ criéi Severs, ‘run if you must.’ And away we went half hitched. People got out of our way as we rushed into Norwood. The horses flung their heels high in the air, driving a stream of snow and Ice into our collars as they fled. Our teeth rattled enough to shake the fill- ings out. The landscape had the tremu- lous aspect of a kinetoscope view. “We lost an hour at Norwood nailing an extension to the tongue and we then cor- tinued our ride. It lay first through ten or twelve miles of prairie covered with sage brush. Then there was a descent from the mesa again to the valley. It was dark long before we struck Pinon. But as our delay was due to accident, we did not hold Severs to his agreement. As the sun set over thesnow-covered plain it glowed on La Salle range on one hand and the ‘Lone Cone’ on the other. It was a terrific ride we had taken, and it made me sick to think of it afterward.” A postscript adds that they have just come up in a four-horse wagon for their baggage, having been two days on the road. Kent's Letter. Will Kent, in a letter written about the same time, says: “Yesterday we looked over the colony and have been agreeably disappointed in most everything. The men are a fine set of fellows, generally, and while they may talk pretty rough at times, they are square and whole-hearted. At night the weather is very cold, but the houses are warm and comfortable. Our fare is plain and good. We don’t need to be told we are far away from Washington market. We have a fine Frenchman and several Germans in our company, so we will keep up our lan- guages. There are about a dozen buildings in the camp, and the colonists are now erecting a school house. We are writing at present in the printing office, and the printer is setting up an article of father's on ‘Equality,’ which some one has sent Today they started a cemetery, the first occasion they have had. It was the teach- er’s mother. She had pneumonia; had just come here. Her age and the altitude were too much for her to endure. It has helped to draw our hearts a little closer together.” ———— Will Make No Appointments, J. C. Ginraty, who applied for appoint- ment as assistant inspector of fuel, has been informed by the Dtstrict Commission- ers that no such additional appointments will be made, it being their incention to designate one of the employes of the Dis- trict government as an assistant to the fuel inspector. ** 4 set Additional Pritate Resigns. The Commissioners ihave accepted the resignation of A.“B. Sehuyler as an addi- tional private on the pallice force. ut Dera Representative Little (Va.) Sage of Wolfert’s Roost and Tam- many Boss in Alliance. Tt MEANS BELMONT FOR GOVERNOR —————— Combination is Also Inimical to W. J. Bryan’s Aspirations. . —_—_o—____ WILL SPLIT THE DEMOCRACY ——— eee Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. NEW YORK, January 11, 1898. The shadows of a coming event of na- ticnal importance are iengthening right here in Greater New York. Attention has Leen called in this correspondence to the Possibilities of an approaching conflict be- tween the followers of Richard Croker and the followers of William Jennings Bryan. Within the past week the New York papers rave been aroused to a realizing sense of the importance of this conflict by the in- fusion of new blood and new life into the Democratic Club; by the wholesale deser- tion of Tammany men from the exclusive Manhattan Club, which occupies the mag- nificent marble building once the home of the late A. T. Stewart; by the lease by the Democratic Club of the club house occu- pied by the New York Athletic Club, and by the urrangements to move into this club house next May, when the, Athictics re- move to their new home on Wth street. As is well known, the new Democratic Club is planned by Richard Croker as a home for democrats. which shall be of State and national importance. He has a ready succeeded in interesting in this club house Mayor Van Wyck and the organiza- tion democratic leaders of the greater city ex-Ambassador to France Eustis of Louis- iana, who is to be elevated to the rank of a Tammany leader of the first magnitude; Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago, who is to be groomed as the Tammany Hali can- didate for Vice President; Senator Gorman of Maryland, who is interested in security companies and other ventures in which Tammany is interested; ex-Gov. James W. Campbell, really the most popular of Ohio demecratic leaders; Norman E. Mack, who since the Bryan campaign is believed to hold the democratic vote of Buffalo and Erie county in the hollow of his hand, and a host of other prominent democrats in the city and out of the city. ‘Truce Between Croker and Hi and possibly a temporary offensiv fensive treaty, has been arranged between Richard .Croker and David B. Hill. As a result of this treaty it has been agreed that Perry Belmont is to be the next demo- (atic governor of the state of New York. Belmont, who headed the gold standard re- volt against Br: st year; Belmont, representative in this country of the gI Rothschild banking interests; Belmont, who among all of the “bolters” of the Chic platform is the best hated by the Bryan- Belmont is to be rammed down’ the ats of the free silver democrats and the followers of the Chicago platform, wil- y nilly. The coming of Belmont is a direct result of the treaty between Croker and Hill. Upon no other candidate can the y unite. A political writer in the las >si- dential campaign remarked, “Find the cord which unites the sage of Wolfert st and Belmont, and you will tind out what makes id. Hill keep quiet.” Hill has for rs been the attorney of the Belmont in- It is freely stated that it was Bel- ho induced Hill to champion the cause of Grover Cleveland. and from that nd date commenced the downfall of ew York senator. It was Belmont, it asserted, who pulied the strings and forced Hill to fight the income tax; it was Belmont who caused Hill to turn his back on the bimetallism of his Elmira speech and fight against his former friends in the south and west in the Chicago convention; it was Belmont who urged Hill to retire to nd sulk during the exciting days of the iast national campaign. It is not to be expected that a lawyer like Hill, who by a clever knowledge of situations. his superior methods of handling cau- cuses and conventions, would object to the nomination of his client for governor of New York state. Once Perry Belmont is in the governor's chair it is believed that Hill's masterly abilities would be given a fair play and he might recover much of his lost ground. Why Croker ix Complaisant. As for Richard Croker, who rules by brute force instead of brain power, the thing that has caused him to consent to the nomination of Belmont can possibly be summed in the one word, money. Tam- many Hall is again out for the “stuff.” Belmont is said to be willing to spend half a million dollars to secure a nomination and an election, and Tammany cannot, if it follows precedent, be unwilling to help spend some of this money. The disposition is to urge Belmont's nom- ination for governor on a non-committal Platform so far as the Chicago platform and free silver are concerned. The success of Tammany Hall in the last campaign on this kind of platform may be taken as an indication of what the state democratic machine may be expected to do next year. In spite of the fact that congressmen will be elected in all of the-districts of the state and a successor to Senator Murphy select- ed, free silver and William Jennings Bryan, according to the present program, will be eliminated from the planks of the plat- form. As for Perry Belmont, it is figured by his friends that he will prove an ideal candidate on this kind of a platform. The nomination will appeal to the “conserva- tive interests,” they say. Then, too, it is remembered that though Belmont gave freely from his purse and threw the weight of his influence against Bryan, he did not vote at his Long Island home. Hence he cannot be accused of voting against Bryan, when the “fierce white light which beats about the throne” forces him to the front in the heat of the canvass. This conversation occurred between mont and a newspaper man not long “Are you a candidate for any office?” it was asked. “There is only one office with- in the gift of the American people that I would accept at present—the office of gov- ernor of the state of New York.” “Would you not accept a nomination for the presi- dency?” was asked. “I said there was only one office that I would accept at the pres- ent time,” said Mr. Belmont, stroking his coat with a self-satisfied air. Democrats Will Split. The nomination of Belmont will mean that there will be two democratic candi- dates for governor in the field in this state this year. The followers of William Jen- nings Bryan are already organizing for the conflict. They do not propose to be caught napping. It is known that it requires a vast deal of time, energy and money to place an independent candidate in the field. The followers of Seth Low discovered that Bel- 02 ment was backed by mon influence and tens of thousan¢ ¥ . the Citizens’ Un‘on would have been tled at its birth. Lack of time; compelled Tom Johnsen and the Henry G cam- paign committee to consent to the nomina- tion of the Citizens’ Union candic on the Thomas Jefferson democracy ticket during the recent remarkable municipal canvass in Greater N yet the nom- ination of an tnd<jw candidate for governor is a f: larger proposition, be- cause petitions must be filed in every county in the state. And any irregularity may invalidate the ticket. The friends of Bryan will make a contest before the state convention. If Belmont ts | nominated the machinery will be set in | motion tn the shortest possible space of time. The adherents of the Chicago plat- form announce that they do not propose low Belmont to be elected governor by ene or two hundred thousand plu in this state. Sooner than do this the “stand up and be counted.” The election of Belmont by a large majority would un- doubtedly prove a serious blow to the pr dential aspirations of Bryan. Belmont might become a serious Gential possibility himself, or the vote of Tammany Hall and the state democratic machine might be concentrated on Juuge A. B. Parker, who was elected judge cf the state court of appeals last fall by $0,000 majority. Mayor Van Wyck might be used to hold the Tammany votes in Hine in case his popularity is not seriously impaired two years from now. Or young Carter Harrison, in case he can control the votes of Mlinvis as against Altgeld, who still dominates the rural districts of that state, be used by Richard Croker and prest- and with men like Gorman of Mary- land, Eustis of Louisiana, Campbell of Ohio, as a nucleus around which to rally, it is not certain that the Tammany delegation will be content to let the new democra of the south and west have platform a candidate. Undoubtedly Hili_ and Croker will want something besides the vice presi- dency. No Love Between Hill and Croker. By this it must not be inferred that Hill and Croker are on friendly terms. They hate each other cordially, personally, but the political necessities of the one and the pessible desire of the other to get money for himself and the “boys” have induced the two to join hands for the time being. It is only another exhibition of the “mas- ter policy” of ex-Senator Hill. In a pitched battle with Croker he would be defeated. Croker already con Brooklyn throug nt alliance with McLaughlin founded on p itles and not confidence or frien —Erie through his understanding with Mack and ‘Troy and other up-state 3 through his alliance with Senator Murphy. To tight a combina- tion like that would spell ruin for Hill, and he knows it. By consenting to the nom ticn of Belmont he obtains, in the ev the election of the b: friend in the new king; friends for Croker and his followers and he gains what he needs most of all—time. Jf Belmont is elected Hill can jus claim credit for the victory. H no desire to attempt the Mother n act of att se th a th pom, he falling Tammany tde -and Hill knows broom. But if he mus dame with apron and by erough to tackle that sooner or Jater the Tammany Hall 14 will recede. Then he will bat premacy with Croker, and as | brute almost lways wins over will win. om The Star. the Norfolk (Va.) Landmark. The Washington Star pays a strong trib- ute to the magnificent character of Colonel rom publ Star's editorial and appreciation. It is time- j ul the more valuable in that it comes from a journal which is - metrically opposed to some of the principal opinions with which Col. Morrison's name ntified. Mor! on ve ¢ read The William R. is conspicuously td Col. Morrison, as many persons may he forgotten, is probably entitled to be sidered as the father of tariff re When the tariff question was the le: issue he was one of the ablest advocates party pc a. He tent, and when he ibility for the dem- t the democratic s always been consi was ment ap ceratic presidential nomination in 1896, h wrote a letter declaring that he could not indors free coinage policy. He has acrificed his opinions to his inter- From the Nashville (Tenn.) American, The Washington Star “It s very difficult for any important question Congress to escape a profter of chaperonag from the sugar trust An old one like the sugar trust should not be allowed the company of such shy crea- tures as congressmen. It is not good form. From the Councii Bluffs (lowa) pareil. Washington Star says that Mrs. after looking over Jerry Simpson's career, sees no reason why the spring bon- net should not supplant the golf stocking as a national institution. There certainly are more brains in the bonnet than in the stocking. Frem the Sedalia (Mo.) Democrat. The republican party in Congress, says The Washington Star, nt divided on every important pon which action is expected by No ree- a by the President is unani- Does this argue a do- nothing s ry with them the si ghting? A do-notl and demoralized republic such results of bitter ar- n organization: in important states will inevitably lead to de- feat next yt Ar. From the San Francisco (Cal.) Chronicle. The Washington Star complains that the coal trust helps itself without waiting for Santa Claus. But that is back east. Out this way the coal trust is getting to a point where it can neither help itself or get heip. w York Evening Sun. Mayor Strong retires with the ¢ s » only to a gentleman ston his laurel hington Star. fine cut? who and his tea leay And how about hi: From the Council Biuffs (iowa) Nonpareil. The Washington Star thinks that Secre- tary Gage in his currency plan may at t claim the approval which attaches to man too sensible to try to please every- body. He is wise enough to know that to attempt to tickle everybody ts too ticklish business. From the St. Louis (Mo.) Star. The Washington Star says: Johnson is a “Mr. Tom gentleman of rapid achie ments. He is already figuring as an old in- habitant of Greater New Yor! Why shouldn't he? He was in at the birth. ——_- + +e —___ Howard Avenue to Be Widenca. A. B. Chatfield has been informed by the District Commissioners that, according to the amended plans of section 1 of the pro- posed exte! nue, Mt. Pl feet between RESULTING FROM MEASLES Mias Mabel Rec: tt, 208 Banks st. O.w., eight years old. In speaking of ber her mother said: “It was in June two years ag that Mabel's deafness began. e bad just 6 covered from an attack ef mensles, Sh plained of her head burting ached. and that Within a week's time her left and diseh the rani A year. T nto e deaf in both ears in ber bh ach W. N. Newbold, Esq., 425G | st.n.w. Cured of deatness. | S90 restless a at night A nervous that she could net sleep make her understand. If she wax any distanee loo! in another direetion, we could her attention without stamping on th: ching Her deafness interfered with T learning, so that last year she attended school only half the tine. This fall ber hearing had ‘own so bad that we were obliged to t her from school altogether, doher treated by two phystehine, bat received no benefit, aud had abut become dis- couraged, when we met Mr. John A. m, 2313 Pennsyl- Me- took ber te them for treat She had net been under their care long before the dl Ke stopped. Now she everyt perfectly sald in an INDORSEMENT FROM A PROMINENT BUSINESS MAN, yrat-Law, 425 5 ESIDENT OF THE WASHING- TON BUSINE: REAU: “I WAS DEAF IN ROTH EAKS WHEN I WENT TO DOCTORS Me- COY AND COWDEN FOR TREATMENT, AND MY LOSS OF HAD BHC. VERY ANNOYING TO ME WAS NECESSARY FOR PERSONS SPEAKING TO ME TO USE A LOUD TONE TO MAKE ME UNDERSTAND, MY HEARING HAS BEEN PLETELY RE. FIRST—Recognizing the unwritten law Of the profession that pec who ave no mo! y are entitled y, to the best medical wkill, Doctors Mecey and Cowden will, they always have, treat absolutely free those who are unable to pay, + with COND—Dectors M: and Cow- m extend to all, as they always have, a cordial and kindly invitation to visit’ their and on their first visit to ree a trial trent- ment absolutely without cost, with- out pay, put expectation to pay. THIRD-ANL those people who have slight or trifling aliments, purely Catarrhal conditions, easily capable of a speedy cure under the new methods, will be charge miy a trifling fec, while those who have difficult, o mate or lin eases, requiring a spec! 2e- continued care and attention, will be charged a fee commensurate with he care and attention they require. McCoy System of Medicine, PERMANENT OFFICES DR. MeCOYW’S NATIONAL PRACTICE 715 13th Street Northwest. Office hours—9 to 12 a.m.; 1 to 5 p.m.; 6 to 8 p.m, daily: Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m, President Griswold of the Anacostia Potomac River Railroad Company today laid before the District Commissioners a statement of the trouble his road is alleged to have endured during the past ten days in connection with the operation by the Capital Railway Company of the Brown underground electric system. A number of affidavits were submitted by Mr. Griswold with his statement, to th ct that th Brown system has at hocked disabled his horses, and is a constant men- e to the successful operation of his roa the two companies jointly using tracks on certain sireets. He also denies that the Brown system is authorized by law. In his letter Mr. Griswold 5: of accumulating damages to this company, erd the fact that there are causes pe ing in the courts for payment of construc- tion and other matters, which may exhaust the resources of the Capital Railway Con pany, counsel advises, me it is my duty to notify you that unless the Brown system is such an underground system as is clear- ly authorized by law, the District of Cc tumbia will be Hable fer any damages un atistied by the railway company.” It is the Government Internal Revenue Stamp over the Cork and Cap- sule of every bottle of ROWand Certifying to the’Age and Purity of the Whisky. NOTE.—It is the Government's Guar- aentee that goes with this bottling. See that the name W. A. GAINES & CO. is printed on the stamp. ALL DEALERS SELL IT