Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 28, 1900, Page 2

The Serali-—Beview. E. C. Kiley. “T, J, Austed, KILEY & AUSTED, Editors and Publishers, GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. Now that the name of a Michigan town has been changed to “Cronje” it becomes really imperative that Am- ericans should begin to practice on the correct pronunciation of the word. Queen Victoria went to London on the Sth of March for a few days’ stay at Buckingham Palace, and her ar- rival was made the occasion of a popu- lar demonstration of welcome and re- Joicing. Moved perhaps by the spec- fal bravery shown by the Irish regi- ments in South Africa, the Queen gave directions that the shamrock should be worn by the Irish regiments on St. Patrick’s day; and she has announced her purpose to make a visit to Ireland, for the first time since 1861. In the early part of the century the query, “Who buys an American book?” expressed English appreciation of Am- erican literature before Longfellow, Bryant, Emerson, Lowell, Hawthorne, and others won hearing and recogni- tion abroad. Until very recently a sim- ilar query might almost be made as to American art—“Who buys an Amer- ican picture?” Recent auctions in New York show that not only are there per- sons who buy American pictures, but they pay good prices for them. It is said that not less than $500,000 has been paid within the last twelve months for pictures by, American ar- tists at public and private sales. The Texas anti-trust law, which is generally recognized as one of the most stringent of its kind, has been sustained by the Supreme court of the United States, in the case of the Wa- ters-Pierce Oil company. This com- pany, which is alleged to be a member of the Standard Oil trust, was charged with violating the Texas laws against the restraint of trade. The court helé that the company in question, which was organized outside of Texas, ac- cepted the restrictive laws of that state as conditions of the permit by which it was admitted to do business, and was therefore bound by them. “Curbstone religion,” as exemplified by the Salvation Army, has recently observed its twentieth anniversary in In a marked degree this or- ganization b carried out the theory of practiici application. A Salvation Army |: will go into any home where her serv re needed and do the “next thing. One of them recently carried a hut child into its tenement home. Staying to help the mother, she offered to cook dinner. When the hun- gry man of the family returned to en- joy the novelty of a carefully prepared mez2l, he announced his approval by saying to his wife: “If that’s the kind of thing you learn at church, you may go to meeting all you want,” a per- mission hitherto persistently refused. The tenement house committee ot the Good Government clubs, having effected great improvements in the housing of the New York poor, now presents some figures which must ap- peal even to the greediest of capital- ists. Buildings erected on sanitary principles, with plenty of light and air, water, heating facilities and other conveniences, are paying dividends of from twelve to fifteen per cent., while the squalid and unhealthy dwellings beside them can hardly be forced to yield five and six per cent. In one tenement house the average rent of rooms is eighty-five cents a week, and the room has at least one window with clear sunlight. For every tenant there is running water and steam heat, together with free bath and laundry privileges in the basement. This building has never paid less than 10 per cent, while the dilapidated and un- comfortable houses which adjoin it pay only 7 per cent. Here is some- thing for the landlords to think about. A little boy in Ohio, cast adrift on the world by the sudden death of father and mother, was found by the wayside praying for protection from the hardships seemingly imposed upon his youth. The gentleman who thus discovered him, a millionaire brewer, took him home and installed him as one of his own. Though not a church- goer, he figured that there could not de much bad in a boy who would thus show his faith in Providence and final- ly he became convinced himself that hhe was simply an instrument of Provi- dence used in answer to a child’s faith. He lately sold out his business and is now devoting his life and fortune to the rescue of other orphaned ones. Little occurrences of this nature do not find much space for recital in the newspapers, but whenever they do get into print they present a convincing argument that the world is not so bad as might be judged from reading an issue of one of our metropolitan pa- pers. If newspapers would give pref- erence to the good deeds of mankind there would be little room left for criminal and stock gambling reports. The so-called “Spooner bill,” which has been reported to the senate by the committee on the Philippines, is a pro- visional measure which puts the ad- ministration of the islands wholly in the hands of the president until fur- ther action by congress. The authori- ty conveyed is practically the same as that under which the president has administered affairs in Hawaii, and the bill is closely modeled upon the act of 1803, which gave President Jefferson temporary authority over the territory included in the Louisiana purchase, FOURTH OF JULY FORECAST OF MINNESOTA’S PART IN THE COMING NATIONAL JUBILEE AT KANSAS CITY. &innesota Democratio Convention to Name Delegates—Points From the Meet- ing of the State Central Committee. Programme For Organization of the Lincoln Republican Party — “John Brown’s Body”—Points From National Headquarters at Chicago—What Chair- man Rosing Found There—State and Twin City Pointsand Pointers—Note and Comment of the Week. Reform Press Bureau, St. Paul, April 28, 1900. The first Democratic.gun for Minne- sota is fired in the calllng of the state sonvention to select delegates, called by the state central committee in its meet- ing of Thursday. There was a very full attendance of committeemen, and in the exchanges of members outside of the committee action, there was expres- sion of complete satisfaction at the situ- ation, state and national. Nota mur- mur of discord was to be heard at the meeting, and that spirit of harmony as well as enthusiasm prevailed which marks the forces of Democracy every- where this year. The date of the con- vention was fixed for June 20, the the county conventions for the 14th, as of greatest convenience to the people of the state. The state convention will be at the Exposition building, Minneapolis. The farm work will not hinder at that time, while it will not be too far from, nor too near to, the big Fourth of July celebration at Kansas City. Among sentiments prevailing, aside from har- mony and erthusiasm, is the absolute unanimity in support of Bryan. Itis certain that not even the suspicion of any other name lurked in the mind of any member present. Another thing is the absolutely solid ranks with which we come up to the battle, and in vain was the inquiry made, through all of the sections of the state represented, for information of the loss of a single man from our ranks of 1896, in the national, and 1898 in the state campaign. On the other hand numerors accessions to our ranks are reported. tion of how the Minnesota Democracy enters the fight of 1900. The apportionment gives a large con- vention, 1,183 delegates. These will select 18 delegates to Kansas City, two from each of the seven districts and four at large. Very important is deemed the com- mittee’s approval of the new plan for constituting the state contral ‘commit- tee, which’ will be chosen one from each county, instead of by judicial districts. Thus the counties obtain direct repre- sentation in the working organization. These committeemen are to be chosen at the county conventions, as wellasa county central committee. Thus the whole working machinery of the state is in order as soon as the county con- ventions are held, without, as before, waiting for the usual late fall conven- tions. A significant feature of the Conven- tion call is the broad invitation given all ‘conservative reform citizens of the state, irrespective of past political asso- ciations,’’ to unite for ‘‘pure economical and constitutional government,”’ as well as those who ‘favor the republic and oppose the empire,’’ to join in sending delegates. There was among the committeemen not alittle amountof talk concerning the Towne candidacy for the vice presi- dency. In substance it was that if such action should result from the canvass- ing that is being made-of the situation, none would be more delighted than Minnesota Democrats. More than one committeeman spoke of the lofty senti- ments expressed by Mr. Towne, so dif- ferent from many men when dazzling prospects of personal preferment are held out before them. All appreciate his ability, high character and the strength which he, if selected, would bring to Mr. Bryan’s ticket; and if that shall prove the wise determination of the national conventions, certain it is that none will be more pleased than the state Democratic organization. Did you plant a tree on Arbor Day? If not stop the press and do so now. State Chairman Rosing spent some time during the week with the manage- ment of the national campaign at Chi- cago, and brings good report of the work that is being done, and the pros- pects as viewed at headquarters. He commends in high terms the chairman of the executive committee, Hon. J. G. Johnson, and Secretary Walsh, for the thoroughness and executive ability shown and their wide grasp of the work in hand. A well-equipped force is rapidly extending the work to ali parts of the country. Mr. Resing also met Mr. Willis J. Abbot in charge of the national press work, and speaks quite as highly of the work of Mr. Abbot’s press bureau. Mr. Rosing heard from one and all the same reports of confidence in com- ing success. As was announced in this letter would be the case the programme for the great movement of transforming the Silver Repnblican into the Lincoln Republican party has now been widely published. This is unquestionably one of the most importdnt movements that the present generation has seen, if ever it has been equalled for devotion to principle and probable comparative results. Not a| many ways which legal rate of day passes but some Republican is re- corded in Minneapolis or St. Panl as having decided to stand by his old party no longer. If the little incident of tax- ation without Perron teHat, as to Such is an indica- | Porto Rico, can so open the eyes what! will not happen when the tall tn iniquity of Hanna-MoKinleyism jayne G3 ova yaerpiysgina ria “Honest Old k pppecarsa a 1 “Honest Old “Abel” His name will bo the sign manual of this great move- ment for salvation of the republic. It will be the ‘tin hoc signo” of the allied conventions at Kansas City, and his pic- ture will adorn all of the large amount of campaign literature, which is already issuing from the League press. This feature of the coming campaign will re- mind many a Lincoln Republican of the days of the ‘‘Wide Awakes’’ and other features of the campaigning of abolition times. Speaking of abolition days, the col- cred people of Minneapolisare planning for a grand observance of the anniver- sary of John Brown of whose ‘‘soul’’ there will be so much of ‘marching on,’’ in this campaign for liberty for all men of all races, in all climes. The addresses which ex-Governor Altgeld of Illinois is delivering in dif- ferent sections of the country must be productive of great good. His Albany Jefferson banquet. speech is one of his greatest. And ahopeful sign of the times was that the ‘anarchist’ was cordially received by and made the guest of one David B, Hill. The latter is certain some day, and we believe in the near future, to step out into the new light and truly say, “Iam Nowa real Democrat.” Whenever a month passes that there is not some kind of a political banquet among the Minneapolis hosts of Bryan why then it is a very cold day for Ban- quet Baldwin, And so, he has been at it again, and the Bryan club remem- bered Jefferson’s birthday, with a feast, of both sorts (for soul and body), with that never tiring defender of the faith, C. D. O’Brien of St. Paul, as the princi- pal speaker. The Twin City commercial travelers applaud the course of Mr. Dowe, of New York, in resigning from the body which it was the apparent scheme of the Hannaites to make a Republican campaign tool. Apropos of the traveling salesmens’ views, the following from a Minnesota traveling man, in the American Arti- san, is right to the'point: “While the great trusts have felt the prosperity, and through control of the raw material and output, have paid rich flividends upon watered stocks, the con- sumer has not felt the first blush of even the newspaper prosperity. As a dealer put it a few days since, prosperity has not yet reached the masses, and long before it shall reach them I fear the great Hipogat will have sucked the orango dry, leaving only the dry crusted rind for the con- sumer and him who stands at his gate- way holding the supplies he may never call for; in short, while the trust owner seems well protected and fortified about, the bag holder (the retailer), seems to be at the mercy of fate.” The meager report given in the As- sociated Press of the speech of Senator Hoar on imperialism, indicates that it wasa great effort, marred only, per- haps, by the senator’s futile clinging to the hope that he will drive his party into the right action. It’s too late, sen- ator. Your idol is dead—its eyes is sot! And, speaking of Senator Hoar, sev- eral Twin City letters were written him in approval of the principal portion of his speech. The Minneapolis anti- imperialists will send a formal resolu- tion of thanks. Angus McKinnon, only son of Alex McKinnon of the state board of grain appeals, has just been elected editor-in- chief of The Gopher, the brilliant little organ of the University of Minnesota. The election of Mr. McKinnon is con- sidered a triumph by the very active anti-imperialists of the old ‘U,’’ and indeed, it is becoming more and more noticeable that the vigor and brain of the university, in quality as well as quantity, leans far away from the Mc- Kinley-Hanna policy of the aeeNeee ks tion. We have received the following: “Editor Reform Press Bulletin:—A national bank defender denies some of the points recently stated by you in the Bulletin, especially that, substantially, under new banking law, the govern- ment (the people) furnish the money gratis that the national banks loan to the people and make their interest upon. Will you repeat the facts briefly?—Otter Tail County Farmer. Reply:—Take the case of one of the new banks which may be organized in Otter Tail, under the Nelson amend- ment permitting banks with as small capital as $25,000. With this capital of $25,000 must be purchased $25,000 of the 2 per cent bonds, which must be sentto Washing- ton and placed on deposit there, where- upon the Department pripts and sends back to the bankers $25,000 in crisp new national bank notes. The bonds remain in Washington and draw their regular interest, and the new notes are ready to loan out. Of course there is some slight deduction, such as the premium on the bonds, and the charge of one-half of one per cent on circulation. Bus sub- stantially the capital has been doubled, has it not? Yes, doubled, and the capi- tal removed from all taxation of any kind! : This is the way the thing piles up for the bankers. Not only has their capital been doubled by law at one stroke, but instead of paying anything, either in interest or taxes, the people pay them one and. one-half per cent fcr the privilege of giving them 100 per cent more capital than they had raised to do business on! The one-half of the doubled capital they proceed to loan to the people at whatever rate of interest they may conclude to charge, under the interest can be exceeded without it being | found out or punished; the other half is doing business for them in W: regular interest eee. igr coupons, dawns on those LINCOLN REPUB- LIGAN PARTY. The Name Under Which The Silver Republicans Will Hereafter Act In Na- tional Politics. Nork of the Lincoln Republi- can League. Final Con- summation at Kansas City on July Fourth. "omprehensive Outline of this Last Great Move for the Redemption of the Republic. Sr. PAUL, MINN., April, 1990. For several months past national leaders of that great body of patriotic Americans known as Silver Repub- licans, have been assisting in the srystalization of a movement to broad- en the lines of that organization, so as to cover the newer issues and questions which have arisen since the silver men left the Republican party in 1896. In this work they have had the encouragement and assistance of many Republicans who remained in the party after 1896, clinging to the delusive hope that it would shake off the sinister influences and after all, in some way, be led oack to Lincoln- ism and its former position in the regard of the country, but who have at last come to the parting of the ways, and refuse to be completely Hanna-McKinleyized. The work, now extended to all sections of the country, has been performed for the most part by the Lincoln Republican League, by which those initiating the movement have been known. The League has been most numerous in the middle Western States, and the greater part of its work has been conducted in Minnesota, chiefly by E. S. Corser, of Minneapolis, and his associates of the Minnesota Silver Republican national committee, of which he is the aational committeeman for Minnesota, and of which national committee Mr. Corser is one of the executive officers. At the last meeting of that national executive committee this object and work of the League was approved, and since then the steps for organization of the Lincoln Republican Party have not only been rapid, but the work has been assisted in all parts of the country by Republicans leaving and making ready to leave the old hulk of Hannaism. The stage of open ac- tion having now been reached, the following outline of what has been done, and what is to be done is of great interest. The Lincoln Republican League was a natural growth, resulting from the cleavage from the Republican party of 1896, of a host of its best members, because of the final treachery of that party to its repeated national declara- tions of loyalty to bimetallism. The growth of the League was however greatly enlarged during 1899, by the adoption of an imperial policy by the McKinley administration, and by the appalling development of trusts. So marked was the growth of the Lincoln -Republican sentiment, as as- vertained by the League in a wide cor- respondence, that at Chicago, in No- vember, 1899, when the program of the League was presented and urged upon the silver republicans, it met with general faver, and it became evident that when the National convention of the Silver Republicans should meet in 1900, that its platform would be great- ly enlarged and nationalized, and that as a natural and easily comprehended distinction between Lincoln Repub- licanism and Hanna-McKinleyism, a new party called Lincoln Republican would absorb and replace the Silver. Republican organization. To that end the work has proceeded, with such results that it may now be announced as a certainty that when the Silver Republican National Convention shall meet in Kansas City, on July 4th, one of its earliest déterminations, will be the adoption of the name Lincoln Re- publican as its future distinctive party designation. This action was fore- cast in the call for the convention is- sued by the c Committee, Hon. Charles A. Towne, which call was made to include those who heretofore and in the past, hay- ing been members of the Republican party, refuse to approve of its present policies as announced and pursued by the McKinley administration. This first national convention of the Lincoln Republicans will be a large and very impressive body. It will have an attendance probably exceed- ing fifteen hundred delegates, and these will be impressive by their Be sonnel. The national efeties will be largely represented = their membership among the dele- ‘Gr Be Bons na Society of Colonial Wars; Aes Revolution rman of the National the Sons of the Revolution; the mem- bers of the Loyal Legion and of the Grand Army of the Republic, will be largely in evidence. The convention is to be held in the Auditorium Opera House, near the Auditorium Convention Hall, in which the Democratic National Convention meets. The Lincoln Republican Con- vention will be conspicuously marked by its adherence to Lincoln. The decorations of the hall will make this a main feature, and the display of Lincoln portraits, flags and devices will only be subordinate to the Amer- icanism which will dominate, in a pro- fuse display of the American colors. The delegates will wear badges bear- ing the legend “Lincoln Republican National Convention,” and a por- trait of Abraham Lincoln. It is prob- able that street parades of the mem- bers of the convention will add to its dramatic interest, while in the selec- tion of its presiding officer, and in the addresses delivered, the very highest type of American citizenship will find expression. As for the platform, judging from sentiments gathered from all sources, its general declarations may safely be forecast as follows: It will declare for bimetallism, and for the restoration of gold and silver as standard money, with equally un- restricted coinage, and debt-paying power. It will, however, recognize that the gold standard is fixed upon tho nation for a period, and that the financial question is, in the campaign of 1900, necessarily subordinated to another of paramount importance. It will declare againSt the policy of for- cible territorial aggrandizement, which has become the one corner Stone of the McKinley administration, despite the pledge of the President, and the purpose of the nation, con- demning “forcible annexation” as “criminal aggression.” It will demand independence for the Filipinos, with protection for the Philippine Republic, extended by this greatest American Republic. It will demand the restoration of the “Great Americanism” of Washington, Jef- ferson and Lincoln, with the old-time American independence, and the de- thronement of the “Little American- ism” of McKinley, Hanna and Roose- velt, existing under the protectorate of English Toryism. |; The platform will, it is believed, in dealing with the trusts, demand the removal cf protective duties from all products which enter into trust mon- opolies; and with a further purpose of protection for the people, and hos- tility to special privileges, it will favor public ownership in all instances where it shall be shown that the pub- lie can thereby be best protected from private monopolies. It will favor a graduated income tax, and the prin- ciple of the initative and referendum, and it will most emphatically declare against the financial legislation enact- ed by the McKinley administration, by which the sovereignty over the na- tion’s money has been surrendered to a banking syndicate. It will declare in favor of civil ser- vice reform, and denounce the treason of the McKinley administration to the past declarations of the Republican party against use of offices as party spoils, and the shameless use of the offices in the gift of this administra- tion to carry the elections by admin- istrative corruption. It will undoubtedly warn the nation against the surrender of the Republic to Commercialism; and against the supplanting of government “‘by, of and for the people” by a plutocratic oligar- chy. It is certain that in every line of its platform it will endeavor to recall this nation to the Americanism of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. As to candidates, it will with one voice declare for Wm. J. Bryan as its presidential nominee, and will proba- bly, with the same unanimity, present the name of Hon. Chas. A. Towne for the Vice Presidency, subject to the de- cision of a joint committee of con- ference, representing the Democratic, neoules and Lincoln Republican par- ies. That this is a movement of great significance, at the present juncture, needs no further proof than a mere knowledge of what there is behind it of patriotic determination and enthu- siastic purpose. Well id our great national leader Bryan say that the Hanna-McKinley imperialism would drive more men out of the Repub- lican party than any former policy of recreancy to public interest. The Lincoln Republican party will be one of the means by which they will come out. The organization is fully equip- ped for the further work before it. Its means are in hand for all the expenses of the Kansas City convention, and for commencing publication of the literature it will use. The latter will be a series of Lincoln Republican artes omg some numbers of which are fails Republicans in all parts of the State or country in sympathy with this movement can get in touch with the League by addressing EB. 8, Corser, Minneapolis. Minn, HAS A NET SPREAD LORD ROBERTS’ FORCES SsUR- ROUNDING THE BOERS. Only One Chance of Their Escape Without an Encounter — Success- Robert’ Plans British N’Cha ful Outcome of Depends on Whether Troops Can Reach Thaba and Ladybrand Before the Re- treating Commandoes — Report That the Siege of Wepener Was Practically Raised Was Prema- ture. London, April 25. — The report that the siege of Wepener had been practi- cally raised was apparently premature. The Boer attack upon Col. Dalgety’s northern described from Maseru was probably a final attempt to rush the garrison before safe retreat, and as Col. D cessfully repulsed the atts ther anxiety is felt on h securing a little fur- account. Lord Roberts has now spread a net with some 40,000 or more men with twelve guns, covering the whole west- ern semi- le to the district of Wepence The seventh di ion under Gen. Tuc isted by has made a demonstration from Karee Siding, the Boers showing some sition. At the me time a brigade moved out from Glen to take up a } sition on a range of hills Gen nale, north of the Modd The w ks were found unc eption of the remo of the pumping e can now only es risking an encounter Ladybrand, and the chance of cessful outcome of the plans of T« Roberis s ish troops can reach Thab: Ladybrand before the retre mandces from Dewetsdor, er. All the correspondents the rc which sunts for of the British columns, and if 2s well informed of the Br is as they hitherto have been are likely agai to esc hk within thre ed for the F a and, Ithough hy Dy gested in some @ und Wep: the it is not cer vance, entail a further halt a Depression at Matcki London, April endent of the wranday. April 9, count of the depr probability of the the end of May. and to accept Col. cheer the ORs by ‘optimi ie predic- tions in the absence of any sign of re- lief.” Severely Attacked by Boers. Maseru, Boers severe! northern po tien, under whose fire they mages a de- termined advance. ‘Che British m=in- tained a heavy fire, before which the Boers recoiled after extending across ining a continuous for some hou and main fusilad the flats long range Artillery can be heard in the direction of Dewetsderp, but there is no beliet that the British-relief column in that direction have advanced farther, The natives report that another British re- lief force has been detached from Bloemfontein. If so o the a of the BRITISH AD SLOWLY. Movement Toward Wepener Stub- bornly Resisted. London. Apr he war office ts- sues the following from Tord Roberts, dated Bloemfontein, April 24: “Generals Brabant 1 day turned the po: the enemy who tried to prev moving northward and got heliograph communication with Dalgety, commandan;é at the besie sed garrison at Wepener, who reported all well. At 11 p. m. yest Brabant and Hart were eight mi south of Wepener. ‘The Eleventh ¢ i der Gen. Pole-Carew, and French’s two brigades o? caval rived at 'Tweede Celuk yesterday 2 ternoon without having met serious op- position. Heliograph communication has been established with Gen. Rundle. A patrol of the Seventh Dragoons, un- der Lieut. Jenkins, whicb was report- ed missing yesterday, has Te. joined Gen French's camp with the exception of Corporal Taylor and Private Cook, who, are believed to be wounded and prisoners. Mounted infantry yester- day, under Gen. Ian Hamilton, occu- pied the waterwo; at Sannas Post. As the enemy are holding the neigh- boring hills in some strength, the Ninih divisions, consisting of Gen. Smith- Dorrien’s and Gen. MacDonald's brig- ades. has been dispatched to support Hamilton. Gen. Maxwell's _ brigade, formerly Gen. Chermside’s, of the Sev- enth division, yesterday moved cast- ward and seized the hills covering the wagon bridge over the Modder river at Kranz Kraal, an important communi- cation, much used by the Boers during the last three weeks. ‘Our only ¢2s- ualties was Private Brum, New South Walog mounted rifles, taken prisoner.” ‘Tornado in Nebraska. Omaha, April 25.—Rumors of a tor- nado in Southern Nebraska early last evening have not materialized. A spe- cial to the Bee from Wymore, Neb., describes the onsweep of a funnel- shaped clcud whose course was north- ward. It struck the ground at inter- vals, but did no great damage. A wind mill was carried over half a mile and minor buildings razed, but so far as can be learned no person was injured. Labor Will Ask an Injunction. Chicago, April 25.—Organized labor ~ wil! resort to injunction proceedings to stop the work on the Dewey review- ing stand which was started yesterday. (The action will be based on the fed- era] law which it is said forbids the building of structures intended for otker than government’ purposes upon federal property. The I say that the contractors who are b the stand hay h