Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1900, Page 1

————— ae eS en a Or aes = ee 7 THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY. : Busiuess Office, ith Street and Pennsylvania Avenue The Evening Star Newspaper Company. S. HW. KAUFFMANN, Pres’t. New York Office: 126 Tribune Building. Chicago Office: Boyce Buliding. The Evening Star ta served to elty by enrrlers, on their per week nts per counter, Cop By mail—anywhere in the 2 ~ prepaid—o cents per month a Sheet Star, $1 per year; with ge added. §3.08. red at the Post Office at Washington, D. ©., Tse mall matter.) 1 subseriptio: st be paid in advanee. dvertising made known on application, = Che Fovening Star. No 14,869. WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1900-TWELVE PAGE ; TWO, CENTS. A DEMONSTRATED FACT, There is no business thaf, cannot be benefited by jx dici dus advert and sing, there is none that may not waste money by poor use of space or the use of poor space. ~ ARE NOT IN HARMONY | National and Local Democratic Spell- | binders Out of Tune, ~ IMPERIALISM NOTE IS 100 HIGH Small Fry Orators Have to Sing in a Lower Key. . * ANTI-CLIMAXES PRODUCED Sp Special From a Staff Correspondent. NEW YORK, October 24—Small + tell in a campaign. used to hearing each party say ugly things about the other. Al Iles are charged by one upon the other, and the voter is left m doubt as to which he ovght to believe or whether he might not things The average voter is | crimes and evil qual: | | lomatic a very wide range, covering in extenso the points which have been brought out |from time to ume. as the trouble pro- ceeded + o+__. COL, BLACK’S WORK IN HAVANA, Yellow Fever Not Tracable to Any Engi ering Operations. Colonel William M. Black, the chief of engineers on General Wood’s staff, has ar- rived in Washington on a brief leave of absence from Havana. He has been stead- | ily at work at the Cuban capital since the tion of a sewerage system in Havana, which are to be carried out by Michaei Dady, and | it is expected that werk will begin on that | wil! continue ten days sofely believe both. His best evidence is found in the testimony of a party against | itself, either as to its sincerity or as to its Policies, Perhaps one of the most injurtous things to Bryan's cause in this campaign has been £ the Way some of the minor local campaign orators have unconsciously discredited the | {ssue which the Kan: convention proclaimed to be paramount. It is obvious | that a contest involving the fundamental | . character of our government—the life of | the repr must be a ve ve matter. The man who feels that nting for | berty; that the | ms of Te= form’ of government is being 2s- % d that it will be overthrown if he a st have a lofty inspiration for | pvery Word and act. To fall short of being | very earnest is to excite suspicion of ‘n- & sincerity. A campaign with such an issye . n be pitched very high and mus. be | an intensely earnest character tu be susizined. | Men Would Risk Their Lives. | There are probably few mon who woukl = not risk their lives in defense of the govern- | ment if they were convinced that an effort | was being made to overturn it and to estab- | lish an imperialism or any new form ot ar- ~ bitrary government. The anti-imperialist _ orator musigexcite and alarm, not amuse hi lien He must make them {cel thar his soul is aflame with patriotic fire. Fis eloquence must have some of the “lib- erty or death” quality about St. Mr. Bryan and the democratic national mara this, and as far as it . can. be the men sent out by the . e to warn the people ye dangers of imperiallsa are have a proper sense of the grav- | issue which they are presenting. | for them average local ma es not rise ‘Any old issue will to for | $s well and promises to make | fs that there is the of sentiment at’ a | “ the democratic | tie: committe | ors come in contact with local man- | heart-rending to some of the | have themselves strung up to | ‘ h sstness. The local | r who get up political meetings in | r precincts want to make as good @ show as possible and have a lot of speak- ers. One or two of these speakers at the | Utmost will be men who are in the na- tional paign in its broader sense and imbued with tts spirit. The rest. will be + aval local talent and men who must partic account of their “influence s in the however ignorant they may 2 be. Then Comes the Local Spellbinder. Conse after the national orator | has ar audience to a high pitch | of excitement by depicting in glowing elo- quence the stealthy approach of tmper! ism guarded by militarism, and every man | in white terror ts holding himself tight in fear that his Mberties will be stolen from him: this orator ts then followed by + two or three or half a dozen local spell- binders, who tell storles that were thought to be funny twenty-five or thirty years ago, call the republican party name 1 make light of the whole situation. ; reminded that the ke the anti-impe- : and they get mad ig so Wrought up. arce-comedy fea- ture average nce that the trae 11, but ig a good piece of pl effect of hundreds of mee he purpose of arousing pe of making co vould not ordi- na party has < beer 1 by the duction ofa talkers to out the program, ous! about frighten Ss intluen to the national rs to be no way shave to : “tings. Some > apaign insi being follow: other speakers whom they do not know. ~ ax Inventicating Situation. nw of confidence made by Croker ~ an will carry this state and the « rations In the way to see Bryan was in this state have led the re- | na tom extra efforts to ascer- tain whether there is any condition here “ ¢ to McKinley which has been over- a i in this canvass. They have not i for favorable reports, but tor a true statement of the situation. The men in the various districts, counties and precincts on om the state committee relies for. In- ation are for the most part men whom y have got their reports as to conditions . from for many years, and are regarded as reliable. Acting under special instructions to be cautious in making their canvas fe these men report to the state committe that there s no evidence of a trend of any sort against McKinley, and that seem- ingly he fs about us strong up the state as he was in ‘96. The reports come from some of the countles which gave McKinley pl nomenal majorities in "¥6 that {t looks as if these majorities would be increased. The < character of these reports cause the re- q publican managers to insist’ that. there can be nothing short of a landslide. Ap- arently the only thing that makes them feel “creepy” is the cynical smile of Croker when landslides are mentioned. J. P. M. ++ DEPARTURE OF OUR TROOPS. Soldiers in China Will Not Be De- . tained by the Tee. , Based on General Chaffee's advice, the War Department offi are of the opinion that all of the American troops included in the order of evacuation have not only left Pekin, but are now probably at Tien Tsin or nearby. The quartermaster’s depart- ~ ment has made all arrangements for taking them to the Philippines, so that there is no longer much danger of the troops being prevented by ice from leaving North China It is now said that in all probability Gen. James H. Wilson, the second in command in China, will soon be detached, and will not remain in Pekin, according to the orig- ‘ ™m There is some suggestion in this circumstance of the abandonment of the plan of having the negotiations for a “final settlement conducted through a fully organized commission in behalf of the United States government. Instead, it be- gins to appear that these will be conducted, if there are to be any formal negotiations, through the simple mechanism of the American legation at Pekin, proper creden- tials for the purpose being dispatched to Minister Conger. General Chaffee will re- main at Pekin in command of the legation -guard. o—-—____—__ NOT STAMPEDED BY BRYAN. A Straw Vote 1 en Among Commer- inl Travelers. Mr. Edward H. Strong, a commercial traveler of Indianapolis, Ind., was in the city today. Mr. Strong has been in seven- teen states since the Philadelphia conven- tion was held and has come in contact with thousands of drumme When seen by a Star reporter today, Mr. Strong declared that of all the men of his calling he has seen since the renomination of McKinley only two have been outspoken democrats. One of these democratic drummers he met in Michigan and the other in Ohio. At Lima, Ohio; tecently Mr. Strong took a poll of thirty-one drummers who were at h hotel and found twenty-nine McKinley men and two doubtful. He stated that there never was a time when there was a better demand for first-class traveling salesmen than today, and these salesmen feel that the election of Bryan would result in the stagnation of trade. ——+ e+ — CHINA WAS WARNED EARL Diplomatic Correspondence Revealed in the British Blue Book. Copies have been received here of the publication of the British blue book on the uprising in China. Although issued some time ago, It gives much of the dip- correspondence not _ heretofore made public up to the imperial edict ex- plaining the murder of Baron Von Kette- ler. The dispatches of the British min- ter at Pekin to Lord Salisbury show that naval demonstration was recommended as March 10, the American, a as far back French and other ministers joining in an {dentical recommendation. It _was not vorably received, however, and the po- tion of the United States is shown by a statement by the British ambassador at Paris to N. Deleasse to the effect that the United States was not likely to join in the demonstration. Later, in| May, another naval demonstration ‘was proposed, but Was not carried out. The British ambas- sador recites with great minuteness the details of his calls on the tsung H yamen, when he was accompanied by Mr. Conger, Faron Von Ketteler and the other min- isters, giving the earnest representations made by Mr. Conger at that time on the gravity of the situation, and the need for strong action by the Chinese authorities. At one point In the negotiations a British consul in China advised the foreign office that Li Hung Chang and the southern viceroys were ready to refuse further rec- ognition of the authority at Pekin, Con- trary to general impression, it appears from the correspondence that Russia gave her adherence to Japan's sending a large emergency force into China, and that the obstacle interposed came from Germany The exchanges between the powers take beg: of the i ext nning of the American occupation of and, having planned most of the very nsive system of sanitation, and engi- neering works, which have been establi in Havana and vicinity, and having executed the projects conceived by General Lvdiow and Governor General Brooke in the earlier days of the occupation. Colonel Black has been charged with the execution of the vast plans for the installa- the undertaking as soon as island next month, From the experience already ac him in cleaning up Ha on a great deal of public work in the na- ture of paving and dra . Colonel Bhiel is satisfied that there is no real bas’ for the apprehension which prevails in some quarters as to a formidable outbreak of yellow fever In Havana, in consequence of urns to uired by rrying the tearing up of its streets n infel- dent to the construction of sewers. careful attention, and the observance of sev sanitary measures, Colonel Black found it possible to carry forward all of his own work without any disastrous re- sults to the health of the community, and he is satisfied that by following the same plan the larger undertaking can also be effected without the anticipated outbreak of yellow fever, Colonel Black states pos!- hat up to date not one case of f een traced to d by the ver ns tivel: has condu VIEWS INVITED. EX The Industrial Commission to Resume Meetings November 8. industrial commission will hold its meeting November 8, and the session It Is expected that a subcommission wit] visit Philadelphia dur- The next ing the week beginning November take testimony of rep different sections of the Manufacturers’ Club of that city, and of other persons in- terested in industrial questions. A number of experts on the various phases of the capital and labor question have been asked to appear during the November sesstons. Among them are the following: H W. Steinbiss, president National Build- ing Trades Council, St. Louis; Thomas P. 2ixey, commissioner of labor of Missourt L. M. MeCormack, member Indiana board of aibitration; Jno. P. Deo, president Build- ers’ League of New York; Prof. John R. Commons, bureau of economic research, New Yerk city; Prof. John Graham Brooks. Har- yard University; Bishop Henry C. Potter, New York city, and Dr. Isaac A. Hour- wich, Washington, D. C. Bishop Potter, tt is expected, will talk on arbitration and other subjects. eS a Army Orders. Maj. Wm. A. Stewart, 2d Artillery, has been assigned to temporary duty at Fort Menroe, Va. | tloneering Assistant Surgeon Milton Vaughan has been relieved from duty in the department of eastern Cuba and ordered to San Fran- ciseo for duty with troops destined for the Philippines. Assistant Surgeon H. J. Schlageter has been relieved from duty at Vancouver bar- racks, Washington, and ordered to report to Gen. Shafter at San Francisco for as- signment to duty. $s ‘Assistant Surgeon Richard Wilson has been relieved from duty in eastern Cuba and ordered to this city for instructions. — A New Treatment of Wood. Great reeults are expected from a new discovery of a Mr. De Gall, Inspector of forests at Lamur, France, according to a dispatch received at the State Department from Vice Consul General Hanauer at Frankfort, Germany. The new invention is a method of producing a wood impervious to water and acids alike, and a perfect electrical pon-conductor. “That is accom- plished by means of dry distillation and high pressure which prevents the escape of developing gases and reduces the wood to a hard body of the character of coal, yet without a trace of the organic struc- ture of that mineral. This new body, none hard, can be shaped and polished at wil Gov. Roosevelt Makes This Charge Against the Nebraskan. CITES ALLUSIONS 10 PORTO RICO He Reiterates the Statement to All of His Audiences. TOUR OF CENTRAL NEW YORK —__-- NORWICH, N. Y., October 24.—Gov. Roosevelt, the third day of his second elec- tour of New York state, arose o'clock and breakfasted at 9. He in good health, and suffered only a from hoarsen. The day's trip, which began at 10 o'clock, takes the vice presidential candidate to Utica, stops being at Earlville, Caseno’ Canastota, and Rome. There will be a stay of hours and a half at Utica in the after- noon, then a run to Herkimer, where a stop of twenty-five minutes will be made, after which Gov. Roosevelt will return to Utica for the big evening demonstration. At Earlville, where the first stop of the day was made, the governor took up the state- ment of Mr. Bryan that the people of Porto Rico, particularly the blacks, were disfran- chised. He sai Charges Bryan With Insincerity. “I challenge Mr. Bryan because of his absurd insincerity, as shown in this state by answers he made to certain questions and by statements he has made as to us. about made The other day Mr. Bryan sked how he reconciled the demand for self-govern- ment for Malay bandits with the denial of the denial of those who intend to give him electoral votes, of the right of self-government to our fellow-citizens of skin in North Carolina, and he an- red that every one was not allowed to vote in Porto Rico; that all men of color were not allowed to vote in Porto Rico. Now, I say that answer was utterly insin- cere; tha ig the word dishonest in its it was not an honest answer. a serious thing to say, and I would it if T could not prove it by docu- ment iry evidence. Mr. Biyan either knows or ought to know the qualifications of the in Porto Rico. There is not In Rico the slightest restriction on ac- ef color. Every man {s treated on his 4s a man. In North Carolina the black man fs disfrar Jas such by qual- tions that apply to him and not to the white man. In Porto Rico a man is allowed T have got her pers issued by of Porto Rico, setting forth ms of voters, nlifications of Voters, “If he either possess any property or can read and write, whether he is white or col- ored. In Massachusetts he has got to be able to read and write. That ts, there are men who cannot vote in Massachusetts, but who can vote in Porto Rico; but any man Who can vote In Massachusetts can vote in Porto Rico. In short, the present condi- tions of suffrage in Porto Rico represent @ stride toward enfranchisement.” Gov. Roosevelt took particular delight along the route today in asserting that Mr. Bryan was absolutely insincere, as was proven, he alleged, by the fact that the state of Nebraska had no labor laws, and that Mr, Bryan while in Congress never at- tacked a trust ——_~+<+<+___ ARMY TRANSPORT THE SERVIC! Proposition of Merchant Lines to Con- duct the Business Rejected. After a full discussion of the subject with Quartermaster General Ludington and Col. Bird of his office Secretary Root has re- Jected the proposition to have the miittary transportation business between this coun- try and Cuba and Porto Rico conducted by merchant lines of steamers on those routes, instead of by regular army transports, at present. It was found that the expense 1s pi ally the same under both systems, and that otherwise there would be no spe- clal advantage in transferring the work to private steamship companies. . There are now two lines of service be- tween New York and the West Indies, one running to San Juan, Santiago, Manzanillo, Gibara and Nuevitas and the other running to Matanzas, Havana and Cienfuegos. One result of the decision to continue the gov- ernment transport ser’ s the establis ment of a regular semi-monthly servi each of the two routes. The transport signed to the San Juan route are th lins and McClelian, and the transpor on the Havana route are the Crook, McPher- son and Sedgwick, Although the ve on each route will make semi-monthly the schedule has been arranged so vessel will leave New York for one or the other every wetk, beginning erday, when the Crook iled The Rawlins will sail for e 29h, vice to the alternate points will be regularly maintained. The present sched- ule is fixed up to the 26th of December, when the Rawlins will sail for eastern Cuba and Porto Ric: Orders have been issued for the complete repair of the tre Wright and Ingalls, at New York, with a view to utilizing them in the interisland transport service in the Philippines. These vessels were purchased during the Spanish war and were used for the transportation of troops and freight be- tween the United States and the West In- dies, Lately their service has been con- fined to cruising In the waters of Cuba and Porto Rico. ‘The Ingalls was formerly tne place with for Ha- Porto and after that date the van Rico on merchant steamer Clear’ er. She has a tonnage of 1,147, and was purchas $150,000. ‘The Wright, former! chant steamer Bay State, has a tonnage ot 777 and cost the government orig:nally $100,000. These vessels are too small for use as regular troopships between the United States and the Philippines, but are well adapted for cruising in Philip- pine archipelago. ‘They will make the trp to Manila by way of the Mediterranean sea and the Suez canal. —-+- © +—_ BRINGING BACK VOLUNTEERS. The Movement Will Probably Begin November 15. It is said at the War Department that no plans have yet been made for bringing home the volunteer troops in the Philip- pines preparatory to their discharge June 80 next, in accordance with law, but that it 1s probable that the homeward move- ment will begin on the 15th proximo and be continued until all the volunteers have been landed in the United States. There are nearly 33,500 of these troops and their transportation across the Pacific will be an immense undertaking. —e International ‘Telephone System. Telephonic communication between Eng- land and Belgium is to be established and opened to the pubtic about February 1, 1901, according to United States Consul Roosevelt at Brusse!s in a dispatch to the Department of State. Months of experi- ments preceded the final decision to insii- tute the line. The Belgian terminus will be La Panne, near the French frontier. The line will be about seventy-four kilo- meters, or seventy-four miles in length. The tariff has been fixed at 10 francs $1.98) per three minutés, Mark L. Crawford Deserts the Dem- : ocratic Party, PROMINENT CHICAGO © LABORITE He is Not Afraid of Gold Standard Nor Imperialism. GIVES HIS REASONS Special Dispatch to The Evening Star, CHICAGO, October 24.—Mark L. Craw- ford, ex-president of the International Typographical Union, ex-president of the Chicago Trades Assembly and first secre- tary of the American Federation of Labor, is supporting the republican ticket this year and will vote for McKinley and Roose- velt. He has always voted the democratic ticket heretofore, and his reasons for not doing so this year are given by himself as follows: “I have voted the democratic ticket ever since I have had a vote. I have acted with the party that every four years since 1860 has in its platforms viewed with alarm the results of republican success at the polls and the tendency of republican rule toward imperialism. With much mental res- ervation I followed the party in its decla- ration that the civil war was a failure, its opposition to specie payment, its greenback- ism, its tariff for revenue ‘only and last, but not least, its 16 to 1 policy. But I must decline to tuke another dose of 16 to 1 and imperialism, and shall vote the republican ticket. On looking backward I am impress- ed with the feeling that the war was not a failure; that specie payment not only came, but came to stay; that greenbackism was only a result of Indigestion; that we tried tariff for revenue only to our sorrow thus closing our manufacturing industrie: paralyzing the business of the country and making paupers of millions of honest work- ingmen. Bryan a False Prophet. “We were told four years ago by the apostle of 16 to 1 that unless the govern- ment adopted the remedy he had discovered the country would go to the devil. The people decided that inasmuch as he could not show them where any of his prophecies had come true he was a false prophet and therefore indorsed the standard of money that the world has tried and not found wanting—gold. The result of such decision Was marvelous when we consider the depth of want and gloom into which a tariff for revenue only had sunk us. “Four years ago, when the, business of the country was paralyzed/when large armies of honest unemployed men were (ramping the country seeking work, when soup houses had to be established all over the country to prevent starvation, Mr. tryan said to these hungry people: “here no end to the gold standard. You think u have suffered enough; your suffering has just begun. You think there has been enough depression, but depression has but just commenced.’ "He failed to say that It was a democratic administration that had caused the suffering. If the last four years are the sample of the suffering we are to have under a gold standard, I for one am ready and willing to suffer. The gold standard {s still on deck and yet the na- tion has never experienced a more posi- tive improvement. Property nas increased in value, business has revived and the great army of unemployed has largely disap- peared. Not Frightened at Imperialism. “Imperialism does not frighten me in the least. I heard the imperialism cry against Abraham Linccln in the sixtfes, when those who are crying the loudest about it now were shooting holes through such grand Jeffersonian democrats as General John ©. Black. I have heard it every four years since, and yet the nearest approach to im- periailsm I now call to mind was the offi- cial act of a democratic President by the advice of a democratia Attorney General, who is now advocating the election of Mr. Bryan, in sending an army of soldiers into the state of Illinois against the protests of the local and state officials and during the great railroad strike of 1892. “With me, my patriotism stands first and my politics comes afterward.” +++ NO ME OLVED. ant de Quadt's Statement Regard- ing the Anglo-German Agreement. In view of the widespread comment that the Arglo-German alliance — concerning China was open to the possible construc- tion of an implied or indirect menace or threat against some other power interested in the Chinese question, the attention of Count de Quadt, the German charge Waffaires, was today drawn to the point which has aroused so much discussion. Count de Quadt said he did not wish to publicly discuss a matter of that character, yet in view of the misapprehension which had got about he was able to give a cate- gorical and very positive statement, on the highest authority, that the,agreement in- volved no menace whatever to any power concerned in China. Without going into details as to any par- ticular power, he said, that statement ap- plied to all the parties which had taken a hand in Chinese affairs. Moreover, Count de Quadt stated with equal positiveness that there was no foundation for reports that there was any further or additional features to the agreement beyond those transmitted to the various governments and made public, as that document covered the entire transaction, + 6 2 RATIONS FOR MARINES AT CAVITE. Can Be Purchased From the Baval Stores. According to an cpinion of the assistant controller of the treasury, Mr. Mitchell, the marines at Cavite have been having a hard time about getting rations. According to decisions heretofore made, the marines were allowed navy ratiens when serving on ipboard, but when on shore duty were on the same footing as a soldier of the army, and drew the supplies of a soldier. At Ca- vite, however, the commissary department of the army appears to have -been unable to supply the rations, leaving the marine corps to hustle as best it could. For a long time the corps bought supplies: from differ- ent places, sometimes from naval stores. The native contractors could not be de- pended on to furnish supplies, being worth- less. Mr. Mitchell comes to the rescue of he marine corps by a decision that it Is en- titled to purchase supplies from the naval stores, thereby relieving the situation at Cavite. They 7 Movements of Naval Vessels. The battle ship Kentucky has returned to Tompkinsville having tested her turrets and found them in proyjer working order. The Wilmington arriv at St. Vincents today. The Massaoit left Mayport for Key West yesterday. The Afethusa left Singa- pore today en route to €gvite. a Return of Secretary Lous. Secretary Long returned this afternoon from Martinsburg, W. Va., where he made an address in the interest of the republican ticket last night. | [BRYAN IS INSINCERE|OUT FOR M’KINLEY/BRYAN IN MARYLAND He is Making Speeches Today on the Eastern Shore, SEVERAL SMALL TOWNS. VISITED He Discusses the Trusts and the Philippine Question. SPEECH TO COLORED MEN EASTON, Md., October 24.=The demo- cratic presidential candidate last night abandoned railway coaches and other land carriages for a trip on the water. He came down Chesapeake bay from Baltimore to the hamlet of Claibourne, on the eastern shore of Maryland, and he has devoted the forenoon of today to canvassing that sec- tion of the state, speaking at the tawns of St. Michaels, Easton, Preston, Hurlock, Vi- enna, Salisbury and Berlin. He left the boat at Claibourne and from that point traveled by special train. At St. Michaels, the first stopping place of the day, Mr. Bryan spoke to a small number of people who had congregated there. Among those In the crowd were some colored people, and to them Mr. Bryan addressed himself to some extent. Before speaking to the colored people he referred to the question of trusts. He again charged that the repuvlican part suggesting no remedy for the tru and that the r n why this was so wa: that the republican campaign contributions came from the trusts. Takes Up Race Question. On the race question Mr. Bryan said: “It is one of the strange things we see in this campaign that the republican party goes to a black man and urges that man to say by his vote that the brown man in the Philippine Islands has not a right to a voice in this government. And it seems to me that before a black man votes to disfranchise a brown man he had better find out upon what basis his own right stands, for if we deny to the Fiupino the right to govern himself, what right have We to govern ourselves? It cost hundreds of thousands of uves and millions of money to give the black man the Declaration of Independence, and now we are spending hundreds and thousands, yes, millions, of dollars and wasting lives to take the Dec- laration of Independence away from the brown man. Before the black men of this country vote the republican. ticket they had better loon into the matter and find out what the chance of the black man is to be when we draw a race line and say that because a man in the Philippine Isiands is brown and not of our race we will send a carpet-bag government over there and hola we government of force over them by a standing army. We be- lieve in the Declaration of Independence, and if we have race problems to solve here we think it is better to solve them than to go 7,000 miles away from home to get another race problem and enter upon its solution, not here at home, but so far away from home as the Philippine Islands are.” Large Gathering at Easton. Easton was the scene of a large gather- ing. This is the county seat of Talbot county, an tmportant agricultural center, and here Mr. Bryan addressed himself especially to the farmers. Referring to the trusts, Mr. Bryan told his hearers that they were especially dangerous to the farming community. “You will find,” he said, “that it will take a great deal of falth for a republican to find any reason for voting the republican ticket this year. It is said that faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen, and the republican faith this year is much like that. It is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.” Conuruing his discussion of the trusts Mr. Bryan asked: “Why it is that the farmer who votes the republican ticket geis so little consideration from the republican party?” Replying to his own inquiry he said: “It is because they vote the ticket regardless of what the party does, while the trust magnates do not vote the ticket unless it suits them and unless the party does what they want. Therefore the party does all they want und neglects the farmer.” Charges Against Republicans. Mr. Bryan charged the republican party with many inconsistencies, saying: “You will find that the republicans today are hurrahing for things that they denounced a fev years ago, The republican party used to stand for bimetallism and all the republicans hurrahed for bimetallism. Now it stands for the gold standard, and they hurrah for the gold standard. ‘They used to hurrah for the greenbacks, now they hurrah for the national bank notes. They used te hurrah for the reduction of the na- tional debt, now they stand for the bank currency that can oniy be permanent when based on bonds. It is a long distance from paying off the debt to making it permanent, but they hurrah just the same. They used to hurrah in denunciation of the trusts, now they say there are good trusts and bad trusts, and that they cannot tell the difference between them In closing his speech at Easton, Mr. Bry- au made an appeal for the support of the entire democratic ticket, including both the ate and congressional branches of it. On point he said: “The President can do nothing without the help of Congress, and I do not know of a greater purgatory than to put a man in the White House and surround him with men who do not believe in the Decla- ration of Independence, and, therefore, if you are with us on these questions I want you to come out and help from now until election day. We have no money to buy you, we have no power to coerce you, but we appeal to your judgment and con- science, and we want you to roll up such a majority that money cannot buy away our victory, and.no coercion can intimidate those who want to go with us. And then, my friends, on the night of election we can all rejoice; you can rejoice out here as you think that the principles of- civil gov- ernment are safe and in Nebraska we can say ‘Maryland, My Maryland.’ Speech at Preston, Md. SALISBURY, Md., October 24.—In his speech at Preston, Md., Mr. Bryan made reference to the financial question in re- sponse to an inquiry. The question was: “How about 16 to 1?” Mr. Bryan saki: “If you want to know about 16 to 1 I will tell you. Sixteen to 1 was the paramount issue In 1896, but the republicans have done so many mean things since then that we gre kept busy on the new things. But if a republican disputes the 16 to 1 doctrine you tell him that we have a republican Presi- dent, a republican Senate and a republican House, and they have nevér attempted to change the 16 to 1 ratio, and Mr. McKinley is now coining silver dollars at the ratio of 16 to 1 without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth. Until the republican party proposes to change dhe ratio I object to their discussing the ratio. When they propowe to change it we ‘will discuss it with them.” In his Preston speech Mr. Bryan charged that ail persons contributed to the trusts. “I want to tell you,” he said, “that the) trouble with the republican party is that it makes all the republicans contribute to its campaign fund and makes all the demo- crats, coo, not by coming to each man and asking him, because the republican party collects a campaign fund from the corpora- tions, an@ then these corporations collect from you, and the trouble is that the cor- porations insist on collecting a great deal more from the people than they give to the party. We would much better con- tribute to the party ourselves than to con- tribute ten times as much to the trusts.” Speaks an Hour at Salisbury. SALISBURY, Md., October 24.—Mr. Bryan had a fine audience here and he made a speech of an hour's duration. Contrasting the republican and democratic platforms, Mr Bryan sald: “I want you to take the platforms, and you will find between the two platforms this marked difference, that the democratic platform expresses the position of the party on every question, while the republican Platform is capable of construction one way or the other. Now, this is the difference, and when you come to consider which party 4s honest, and which is earnest, I want you to apply a common sense rule. You know that if a man has something to present to the public as a merchant, something that he | believes has merit in it, he tells all he knows about it. But if it has not merit in it, he puts it out where you can see it. and he hopes you will buy it without ask- ing any questions. When people believe that they are standing for right principles they tell you what they believe, and they tell you why they believe; what they are going to do, and why they are going to do it. But When they are doubtful about it they use | language which can be construed one way in one place, and another way in another place.” Mr. Bryan charged the republican party with dealing with the people unfairly. He sald the republican party today only stands for one policy that republicans can defend, and it has only stood for that for less thazh six months. “The money question,” he said, “ts the only question upon which the repub- licans seem to have a position, and that ts diametrically opposed to the position the ed to have. Why, it is only a few years go since Mr. McKinley denounced Mr. ieveland, saying Mr. Cleveland w criminating against one of the money met- als, trying to make money scarcer, and therefore dearer; money the master and a things else the servant. While now che republican party stands for the same pol- fey and republicans who hurrahed for Mr. McKinley when he denounced Mr. Cleveland hurrah for him now when he follows in Mr. Cleveland's footstep: In his Salisbury speech Mr. Bryan ag: gave his definition of the difference be- tween a private monopoly and a govern- ment patent. ‘No man,” he said, “can mi: take what we mean when we say We are opposed to a private monopoly. We mean that we are opposed to that monopoly by which all the industry of a certain kind can be controlled by one man, so that one man tells you what you will have to pay; that you must pay a fixed price for the raw material that you sell, and fixed charges for labor. ‘That is the monopoly we ar SHERMAN OBSEQUIES Tribute Paid to His Memory by Washington Citizens, GATHERING OF DISTINGUISHED PEOPLE | Funeral Services Held at the Fam ily Residence. =e REMAINSSENTTOMANSFIELD oes The last tribute of respect to be rendered in this city to the memory of the late John Sherman was paid today when fun vices were held at the family residence, 1521 K street northwest, over the remains, prior to their removal to the railroad sta- tion for the journey to Mansfield, Ohio. was one of the most impressive priva neral services that has ever been held in this city, for while the deceased had ren- | dered distinguished services in positions of high public trust, yet at the tme of his | death he was a private citizen. It was a distinguished company that assembled in the parlors of the Sherman home at 1 o'clock, where the services were held. Pres- jident McKinley was absent, but that was only because of his being away from the city at his home in Canton. Tomo: however, his special car will be attached at Canion to the funeral train bearing th remains of the Ohio statesman, and Mr McKinley will accompany the funeral par 1 ser- ow, to Mansfield and be present at the intermenz in the family lot. All the members of the cabinet in the clty were present today, as well as members of the diplomatic corps and officers of the army and navy, many of the latter in full uniform. There were also present a large number of public officials and private zens. The spacious parlors and hall were filled at an early hour, The remains of the distinguished states- man rested in a heavy plain black cov- ered casket, with silver har plate on the top bore the insc Sherman, May 10, 182%; Oct« Floral tributes placed about the opposed to.” jthe rooms filled the house with fragr Hn his talk at Vienna, Md. Mr. Bryan | The company was quietly seated, and in ad- compared a government to ‘a composite | dition to those who came in their official photograph, and said that as in a photo- | Capacity and as personal friends were rep- graph of that character each is im- | esentatives of the military ef the pressed upon it, so in a government cach | Loyal Legion and the Sons of the American Revolution. Special, invitations had been individual should make himself felt in the | composition of his government. Berlin was Mr. Bryan's last stopping place in Maryland. There he was met by a Delaware escort committee, and he began his tour of that state. In the Berlin speech, which was atten- tively listened to by a’ good audience, Mr. Bryan dwelt especially upon the subject of taxation without representation, con- tending that {t was just as unfair for the United States to tax the Filipinos without giving them representation in our legisla- tive bodies as it was for England to tax the American colonies prior to the revoiu- tion without their being represented in the British parliament. 5 PRESENCE HAD LITTLE EFFECT. Baltimore Crowds Went to Hear Bryan Through Curiosity. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star, BALTIMORE, Md., Oetober 24.—Mr. Bry- an has come and gone like a whirlwind, and whatever effect this hasty tour of Maryland may have had on the voters {s not apparent at the present time. He was greeted by large crowds of enthusiastic democrats wherever he appeared, and although he jd nothing new his speeches were ap- plauded with force and vigor on all sides. If the free silver candidate changed any votes which would otherwise have been casi for McKinley there is no sign of such change apparent in the community. The republicans who heard him attended the meetings through curiosity, while the gold standard democrats who intend to vote tor McKiniey were unintluenced by what he sald, as he carefully avoided all allusion t the money question and devoted his speeches to other issues of the campaign. His admirers admit some disappointment at the fact that he said nothing new, but hope that his visit will have the effect ot stirring up all democrats to work hard from now on to election day. The meeting at Music Hall was no larger in point of numbers than that at which Mr. Bryan spoke here in 1896, and it will be re membered that in the election which fol- lowed in that year Ma nd gave 32,006 Chairman Golds- and other re- leaders of the ague say to- for McKinley Senator McComas publican’ leaders and_ the Honest Money Democratic I y that Mr, Bryan's visit will have no ap- effect on the contest, and that "s vote is safe for McKinley. ‘omorrow (Thursday). night the honest money democrats will hold a mass meeting at Music Hall, at which President Jonn K. Cowen of the BalUmore and Ohio railwa will be chairman and one of the chief speak ers. Judge Lyneh of Ohio and other prom!- nent democrats who are supporting McKin- so speak, and the meeting prom- one of the largest in the cam- majority ses to be paign. ——++>—__. CARCE IN SWEDEN. MON Y ™ Manufacturers and Business Complain of Stringen LONDON, October 24.—A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Stockholm, Sweden, sa “The extraordinary scarcity of money, which has been growing more acute for a month, is so seriously affecting commercial circles as to threaten a crisiss The balance | of foreign trade continues against Sweden and the repeated contraction of gold loans abroad fail to palliate the situation. In- dustries are daily launched, but adequate capital is not available, and the newspapers are filled with appeals from manufacturers in desperate straits for money. “Rural people attracted by the industrial activity are flocking to the towns and, con- sequently, the demand for houses is so great that rents have advanced 2) to 30 per cent. The civil servants have’ already been granted 20 per cent increase in pay to meet the hard times and it is expected em- ployers generally will have to follow suit.” +> HUI-CHOW STILL HOLDS OUT. Chinese Rebels Confine Their Atten- tion to the Small Towns. CANTON, October 24.—According to of- ficial reports, all the cities in the Hul-chow prefecture are still holding out, the rebels confining themselves to capturing villages and slaughtering isolated bodies of imperial troops. The rebels are also actively recruit- ing and are sow estimated to number 10,000. There has been no pitched battle. The Chinese gener&! commanding at Hul- chow is afraid to leave the city for fear of being cut off. +2» —_—__ DIED IN RAILWAY STATION. Mrs. Foulke of San Francisco Expires at Paris Exposition. PARIS, October 24.—Mrs. Magaret Foulke was found dead at the Champ de Mars railway station.in the grounds of the ex- position yesterday. Her body was identl- fled this morning by her brother-in-law, Mr. Freeman. Mrs. Foulke was traveling with Mr. Freeman and his daughter. She was a widow and resided in San Francisco. Her son is a lawyer of that city. tended to the fol tion to those to whe e owing friends, weld m personal and gen | Invitations were issued. These were Mrs. | Grant, Mrs. Sartoris. ex-Senator and Mrs. J. B. Henderson, Mrs. Robt. Anderson and the Misses Anderson, Mrs. Audenreid, Mrs. | Edward Parker Wood, Mr. and Mrs. J | Sherman, ex-Senator and Mrs. ex-Secretary and Mrs. John W. those named were present. Members of the family who were pr. were Mrs. James McCallum, Mrs. Thorn- dike, who was Miss Rachel Sherman, niece of the deceased: Capt. and Mrs. Reber, Mr. and Mrs. Colgate Hoyt of New York, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wiborg of Cincin nati, Mrs. William K. Otis of New York city, P. Tecumseh Skerman, son of the late Gen, W. T. Sherman; Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Sherman of Chicago, General and Mrs. Miles, ex-Senator J. D. Cameron, Mrs. Chas. H. Hoyt, Mr. Alfred W. Hoyt and Mr. John Hoyt of New York city. Among others present were Secreta Long, Chief Justice Fuller and the asso- | ciate justices of the Supreme Court, Gen- eral Longstreet, Geo. W. Wilson, commis- stoner of internal revenue; General Vincent, Colonel Gilmore, Captain Michier, M Foraker, | Judge Weldon, Commander Reamy, Thiebaut, the French charge @affaires; Count de Quadt, German charge @affaires; Mr. Kogoro Takahira, the Japa- nese minister; the Mexican ambassador Mme. Aspiroz, Minister Wu Ting Fa Mr. Vieuna, the Chilean ministers Mr. P: Quay a Poster, Aik. M. do the Venezuelan charge. Simplicity of Service. The funeral services were marked by ed of the form great simplicity, and cons preseribed for such occasions by the Epis- copal Church. Rev. Alexander M Kay- | Smith, the rector of St* John's Church, as- sisted by Rev. E. E. Paddock, officiated. ‘The only deviation from the prayer book form was when the clergymen repeated the closing verses from Tennyson's ode the death of Wellington, referring especially to | the duty of statesmen. The appropriate- ness of this beautiful tribute re nized by those pr The quartet choir of St. John’s Church, under the directi Mr. HH. Freeman, rendered with fine ef- fect “Rock of Ages.” r Perfect Peace” and “Lead, Kin Aight.” Upon the conclis' the services the casket wus borne by 1 of soldiers to the hearse, preceded by the following hon- orary pallbearers: Secretary of State John Hay, Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J | Gage, Associate Justice Harlan’ of the | United States Supreme Court, Associate | Justice A. B. Hagner of the Supreme Court lof the District. of Columbia, Admiral | Dewey, Gen. Miles, ex-Senator J. D. Came- s, John A nm av | ron, J. C. Bancroft I | and M. M. Parker. z While the services Were in progress in the | house, the troops that were to form the | military escort to the depot were being massed along the streets. The escort con- sisted of four troops of cavalry from Fort Myer, with the band ond the light battery, of the 24 Artillery from the Washington barracks, under command of Capt. Park- hurst. Col. Rafferty was in command of the escort, which constituted an unusual feature in ‘the funeral of a civilian. It was decided that on account Sherman’s long and distinguished services, and the fact that his brother had | been at the head of the army, this addi- tional mark of respect should be paid to his memory. Route of the Procession. The funeral procession moved down 12th strect to Pennsylvania avenue and thence to the 6th street depot, where the cars bearing the remains and those containing the rela- tives and friends were attached to the regular train leaving at 3:30 o'clock. At Pittsburg a special will be provided which will go directly through to Mansfield, where it is expected to arrive at 10 o'clock “to- morrow morning. The services in the church there Will be held at 2 o'clock to- morrow afternoon. Second Assistant Secretary of "State Adee accompanied the funeral party as the rep- resentative of the State Department. White House Closed. The White House, according to the Pres- ident’s proclamation, was closed today to visitors in honor of the memory of the late ex-Secretary Sherman. The employes of the State Department were excused from duty today so that they could have an opportunity to attend the funeral services. —_—_——=_—_ SHOT BY SENTRY. of Mr. public a CITIZEN He Was Mistaken for a Soldier at Fort Hancock. NEW YORK, October 24.—John Sollenson, a young Swede, was shot and killed iast night by one of the sentinels on guard duty at Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook. The Swede was walking along the beach near the fort, and was mistaken for a private who hed escaped from the fort. The Swede was challenged by the sentinel the second time, but refused to halt, and was shot down. —_-e___ Steamship Arrival: At New York—Oceanica, from Liverpool; Mesaba, from London.