Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 18, 1900, Page 2

. Kiley T J. A KILEY & AUSTED, Editors and Publishers, ited, GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. —_——_—— Millions have been spent in civilizeu countries in futile efforts to preserve grapes. The Chinese have known the secret for many centuries and millions more have been vainly used in the ef- fort to drag from them the recipe, The king of Sweden and Norway is noted as an admirable linguist. When the Oriental congress met at Stock- holm some years ago, he addressed the assembled scholars in the lan- guages of the nationalities to which they respectively belonged, and spoke with equal fluency in English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Span- ish. The most perplexed man in Indiana is George Rogers of Richmond, who raises chickens for the market, and has over 300 of them. While feeding them the other day, one of the fowls nipped a $500 diamond from a ring on his finger, and then darted in among the other 299. George doesn’t know which of the chickens gobbled his cost- ly gem, and therefore he is deeply per- plexed. A trip from Berlin to Paris has been made by Herr Arthur Reuter, who started from Berlin on May 27, and reached Paris on June 5. The route followed included the cities of Magde- burg, Brunswick, Hanover and Co- logne; Aix-la-Chapelle and Liege; Na- mur, Givet and Reims, making a total distance of 715 miles, Herr Reuter stayed two days at Aix-la-Chapelle and at Liege; he covered the distance from Liege to Paris in twenty-one hours. Dr. William Elliot Griffis, in a re- cent article on Japan, speaks of the rapid, growth of its already over- crowded population, and adds that the Japanese, who have heretofore been largely vegetarians, are now beginning to eat a good deal of meat. A meat- eating population makes greater de- mands upon the land of a country than does a nation of vegetarians, A piece of beefsteak represents the growth of an animal during many months in which it has been eating grass and other crops from a wide range of ter- ritory; a dish of oatmeal is man’s di- rect use of a vegetable product. A Rome correspondent describes the Pope as particularly grieved at the de- struction of the new Roman Catholic cathedral in Pekin, toward the erec- tion of which he was a generous sub- scriber. It seems that the building was an object of offense to the em- -dowager, by reason of its spires opping those of the imperial res- idence. To satisfy her scruples, the archbishop of Pekin acquiesced in vari- ous architectural alterations, but ap- parently these were not sufficient to avert the antagonism of the lady and the Boxers. The Pope is said to be en- deavoring to arrange a coalition be- tween France, Austria, and Belgium for the active protection and promo- tion of Catholic interest in the Far East. While examining the contents of @ chest, part of the effects of an aged widow who died recently at Philadel- phia, an interesting item was discovered in the shape of the im- pression on a piece of brown wax of both sides of the gold medal that was voted by Congress to the renowned Paul Jones, in ac- knowledgment of his services while in charge of an expedition fitted out by the revolted colonists. With his: fieet, Jones crossed the Atlantic, and in 1778 captured a war vessel in Bel- fast Lough, and two others off Flam- borough Head. The gold medal was said to have been in Paul Jones’ pos- session when he died in Paris in 1792, but there is no record as to what be- came of it afterwards, Many experiments will soon be made by the German army with dif- ferent types of automobiles for mili- tary service; the railway brigade has: charge of the affair and is to make a series of trials in the open country,, in the neighborhood of Eberswalde, a small town, about twenty-five miles from Berlin; the trials will be made under the supervision of the lieuten- ant-general, nine officers of the gen- eral staff, eleven captains, two officers. of the engineering corps, a number of subordinate officers, artificers and privates. In France a series of grand maneuvers will take place this year in the eastern part of the country, in which a number of different types of automobile will be tried, such as pe- troleum and electric vehicles, moto- cycles, besides a number of heavy Scotte traction engines for the trans- portation of freight and baggage. The experiments are to be carried out on a large scale, and the organization has been for some time past engaged in the special study of applying the au- tomobile to military purposes. The humorist who declared himself grateful for three ways of disseminat- ing information—the telegram, tele- phone and tell a woman—was prob- ably ignorant of the case of Mrs. Glad- stone. Just after her marriage Mr. Gladstone put to her the question, “Shall I tell you nothing and you can say anything, or shall I tell you every- thing and you say nothing?” She those to know and to be silent, and furing almest sixty years of beautiful married life kept her part of the con- tract. The Herald--Beview, |ANOTHER MESSAGE WAS RECEIVED FROM MINISTER \ CONGER YESTERDAY. Its Contents, However, Were Not Made Public — It Was Given Out That Nothing Was Contained in the Message Which Would Cause Any Change in the Instructions to Gen. Chaffee—Russian Advices Say the Kelief Column Is Within Nine Miles of Peking. Washington, Aug. 15.—At the clos? of the official day at the state depart- ment the foliowing official announce- ment was bulietined: “The depart- ment of state announces that a mes- sage from Minister Conger has been re- ceived, but of uncertain date, and,not in reply to the telegram sent him on Aug. $. It will not be made public.” This came at the conclusion of a pe- riod of intense expectancy, and yet one devoid of any actual developments, save in the foregoing meager announc>- ment. Minister Conger’s message was received in Washington shortly before noon, coming first to the Chinese lega- tion, coming by the Usual Route through Chinese officials. It was in the American cipher, without date, and signed with the minister's name. It was at once transmitted to the state department and conferences began b2- tween Acting Secretary Adee and Sec- retary Root. Throughout the afternoon, however, the state department main- tained an unaccountable reticence con- cerning the subject, declining to admit that the message was in hand. The suspense. was cleared up about 4 o’clock by the above announcement. It was stated authoritatively that while the message was of a confidential charac. ter, and for that reason could not and would not be given out, yet as a means of allaying Possible Misinterpretation, it could be stated that the dispatch showed neither a better condition nor a worse condition on the part of the legatiqners at Peking. It did not in- dicate whether Minister Conger has or has not received any messages from this government. Nothing was con- tained in the message which would cause any change in the instructions to Gen. Chaffee. In fact, it was stated in this same authoritative quarter, that the only additional instructions sent to Gen. Chaffee sigce he left Washing- ton were those of a more specific and explicit nature which the developments in China and the information received by the war’ department necessitated. The Attitude of the United States concerning the landing of British troops ut Shanghai has been mude known to the foreign governments through their representa- tives here. This has had the effect of practically eliminating the United States from the question. Neither the French nor the German government is disposed to accept calmly the landing of British troops, and it is understood that strong protestations from both Francte-and Germany are now being made in London. As summed up by a well informed diplomat, these repre- sentations in effect are that for every British - marine landed at Shanghai, France and Germany Also Would Land amarine. It is felt, however, that the issue involved relates not only to Shanghai, but virtually to the control of the entire Yang-tse-Kiang valley, known as the paradise of China. Foreign governments have manifest- ed a desire also to learn the view of the United States concerning the instruc- tions of Russia to her minister at P_- king, M. de Giers. In response to in- quiries here it has been made known that this government looks upon the course of Russia as substantially the same as that of the United States, and that the powers are therefore act’ gz in substantial unanimity. NEARING PEKING. Russian Report Says Peking Is Only Nine Miles Away. London, Aug. 15.—The only news which takes the advance upon Peking farther than Ho Si Wu comes from Paris. The London morning papers contain nothing to confirm the French report that the allies are within six- teen miles of Peking, although a Chefu dispatch is printed saying that they were within twenty-seven miles of the goal on Saturday. Confirming the re- port of the arrival of the allied forces at Ho Si Wu, the -Daily Mail corre- spondent adds: “The Chinese offered little real. opposition. The arrival of the allies frustrated a determined at- tempt to divert the course of the river. The heat is intense, but the health of the,troops is good.” Fled in 2 Pantie. A St. Petersburg special says: ‘The latest news from Gen. Linevitch, com- manding the Russian troops in the province of Pe-chi-li, is that the allies, after the capture of Yang Tsun, took one day’s rest and then, on Aug. 7, a vanguard was formed consisting of one Siberian regiment, one regiment of Bothnia Cossacks, three battalions cf Japanese infantry, one Japanese sap- per company and an American mount- ed battery. In spite of the condition of the road this column proceeded by forced marches about.eleven and one- half versts toward Peking and encoun- tered at Nan Tuan, about nine miles from the capital, a Chinese detach- ment which fought for an hour and a half, Finally the Chingse threw down their arms and fled in a panic. When this news was sent back all the allies started forward in three columns, with the Cossacks in front and on the flanks.” A Port Arthur special announces that women and children have been officially notified to leave that place. Germany Sends Cruisers, The Chinese minister in London, Sir Chich Chen Lo Fung Luh, is quoted as saying that he hoped and believed that peace would be established between China and the powers within the next six weeks. Yesterday he transmitted to the British foreign office another message from the British minister in Peking, Sir Claude McDonald, the con- tents of which the officers have thus far refused to make public. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Chronicle says that the German gov- ernment has ordered two cruisers to Shanghai, that another is on the way, and a fourth will be sent. The corres spondent remarks that Germany segms determined that England shall not have a free hand in that locality. The Standard, after expressing the opinion that there is increasing ground for hope that the ministers will be rescued. by the arrival of the allies at Peking to-morrow, if the initial rate is kept on, goes on to deal with what will .follow the rescue; says that it may be taken for granted that the policy adop- ted by the Washington cabinet repre- sents the minimum demands of the combined powers. TO ASSASSINATE M’KINLEY. Anarchist Writes That President McKinley Will Be Next. New York, Aug. 15.—Lots were cast on May 1 by anarchists for the assas- sination of rulers. By the first lot, Gaetano Bresci was selected to kill King Humbert. By a second an un- known was selected to slay President McKinley. Men were also named to assassinate President Loubet of France, Emperor William of Germany and the emperor of Austria. The Italian con- sul in this city was informed on May 16 of a plot to kill King Humbert and the authorities at Washington of a con- spiracy to assassinate President Mc- Kiney. Such are the startling statements made in a letter signed by C. Luig Al- fieri, who says he is a member of the anarchist society of Paterson, and ad- dressed to Signor Barsoliti, editor of El Progresso Jtalia Americano. Alfieri de- clares that the anarchists are now seeking his life and he is in hiding in this city. Alfieri’s story is most re- markable. The fact that Chairman O'Dell of the Republican state commit- tee was warned of a plot to assassinate the president lends credence to his statements. i ° FERRELL ARRAIGNED, Plends Net Guilty, and, Waiving Ex- amination, Is Held to the Grand Jury. Marysville, Ohio, Aug. 15.—Ferrell was arraigned here before Mayor Ham- ilton, in the presence of hundreds of people. The mayor read the warrant charging Ferrell with the murder of Lane, and asked him if he was “guilty or not guilty.” The prisoner replied “not guilty,” and waived examination. He was held without bond to await the action of the grand jury and was at once returned to the jail. ou Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 14.—When Fer- rell and his fiancee, Miss Costlow, who visited him last night, were about to say good bye, possibly forever, they kissed and the young lady was led away. Ferrell collapsed after the in- terview and for a time was in a coma- tose state. Miss Costlow is prostrated and under the care of physicians. SOLDIERS’ HOME OFFICERS. Elected at the. Meeting Held at Min- nehaha, St. Paul, Aug. 15.—At the meeting of the soldiers’ home directors, held at the Minnehaha office, the following offi- cers were elected: Commandant, James Compton of Fergus Falls; president of the board of trustees, S. H. Fowler of Minneapolis, re-elected; vice president of the board, C. F. Macdonald of St. Cloud; secretary of the board, George N. Lamphere, St. Paul. AWARDS AT PARIS. Completed by the Exposition Jury. Paris, Aug. 15.—The final meeting of ithe superior jury of awards shows 42,- 790 to be the total number of awards made to exhibitors from all countrics at the Paris exposition. They are di- vided into 2,827 grand prizes, 8,166 gold medals, 12,244 silver medals, 11,615 bronze medals and 7,938 honorable men- tions. Work Has Been ELECTRIC STORM DAMAGE. Brookings and Neighborhood Suffer Various Kitds of Injury. Brookings, S. D., Aug. 15.—A heavy electrical storm accompanied by a high wind did considerable damage to trees, wires and buildings in this city. New buildings under construction were in some instances moved, overturned or wrecked. The damage to crops in the country must have been considerable. CANNOT ATTEND. 2 TE Mrs. U. S. Grant Will Not Be Present at G. A. R, Encampment. Saratoga, Aug. 15.—Col. O. P. Clark, custodian of the Gen. Grant cottage at Mt. McGregor, has received a telegram from Mrs. U. S. Grant at. Richfield Springs stating that she is unable to attend the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at Chicago, on Aug. 26. Certainly No Harm, London, Aug. 15.—Truth, Henry La- bouchere’s paper, replying to some of the criticisms upon the placing of a large portion of the exchequer loan in the United States, says: ‘‘We can s:e nothing derogatory in selling the bonds to America. S an indication of the enormous growth of wealth in the United States. Nor would we be sur- prised if, in view of their continued prosperity, our American cousins were to act as our bankers in the future in a good many instances. We can se no harm in such a relation.” Horrible Death by Ruaway. Maurice, Iowa, Aug. 15.—A twelve- year-old son of Mr. Emmeka, coming home from the field, was thrown from a horse and his foot*being caught in the harness he was dragged along the ground for about one hundred To?s, his head striking against fence posts and buildings. Death came within fifteen minutes. Mrs. Emmeka is also badly hurt, be- ing run over by the horse while at. tempting to stop it. “Liberty Congress.”/| Indianapolis, Aug. 15.—The conven. tion of the American League of Anti- imperialitss, or “liberty congress,” was called to order at 11 o’clock this morn- ing in Tomlinson hall. The speech of the temporary chairman, Edwin Bur- ritt Smith of Chicago, leaned toward the tacit indorsement of Bryan. One Will Prove Fatal, St. Joseph, Mo., ‘Aug. 15.—Twelve prostrations, with one that will prove fatal, was the record in this city yes, erday. The thermometer re; 101 degrees. nves Sse ida RAILWAY KiNG OIES)SECOND : BATTLE OF HEART FAILURE IN ADIRON- DACK MOUNTAINS. Collis P. Million- aire and Railroad Magnate of the Hantington, the West, Dies at His Summer Home— Mr. Huntington Began His Busi- ness Career at the Age of Four- teen as a Peddler of Tinware— Ex-United Sintes Senator John J. Ingalls Is Dangerously lil at Las Vegas, N. Mex. New York, Aug. 15.—Collis P. Hunt- ington, the Western railway magnate and millionaire, is dead. He died sud- denly at his summer home, Camp Pine Knot, in the Adirondack mountains. He was seized by a sudden illness, sup- posed to be heart disease, and lived but a few mini-es after being at- tacked. He was the founder cf the Central Pacific railway and built ‘he Southern Pacific and other railways. He was almost seventy-nine years old and his estate is estimated to be worth $100,- 000,000. His Early Life. Harwinton, Conn., Aug. 15. — The boyhood of Collis P. Huntington was spent in Harwingtoy, Litchfield coun- ty, where he was born Oct. 22, 1821, in an old-fashioned, dilapidated house in the Beverly Hill district. The old house has been unoccupied for many years and now is in the last stages of decay. The mother was a Christian woman, but the father was a man in whose makeup ambition had no part. He was a tinker, and traveled about the country mending umbrellas, sharp- ening razors, etc. The income of the elder Huntington was far too meager to supply the wants of his large family, and when Collis was ten years cf age his parents separated, Mrs, Huntington going to make her home with friends, and the children being placed with families in the town. Collis made his home with the family of Orson Barbier. Mrs. Barbier was an Unusually Intelligent woman, and to her training, as Mr. Huntington in the days of his success always admitted, was due the fire of ambition which early was kindled in his breast to make himself a success in the world. Young Huntington was not a par- ticularly bright student in his school days, and the last day he attended a school of any sort he had trouble with his teacher, Russell Wilson, and snatch- ing his cap from the rack made a bolt for the door, stopping on the threshold long enough to say good-bye to his schoolmates and to his teacher in a bit of verse -which furnished consid- erable amusement for the pupils and a good deal of discomfort for the teacher. This hasty leavetaking occurred just before Mr. Huntington was fourteen years of age, and almost immediately he started on the road as a peddler of tinware. He never again returned to Harwington to make his hone, but from time to time his successes in the Financial World reached the ears: of his old scnool- mates, and fifteen years ago he re- turned to his native town and erected a memorial to his mother, Elizabeth Vin- cent Huntington, which will serve to perpetuate his name and successes in Harwinton, The memorial was in the form f a massive granite chapel, erected at a cost of $50,000. When completed it was presented,to the Con- gregatpnal church of Harwinton, of which he was a member. | Seven INGALLS SINKING RAPIDLY. -United States Senator Very Low at Las Vegas. Atchison, Kan., Aug. 15.—Ex-United States/Senator John J. Ingalls, who is in Los Vegas, N. M., for his health, is sinking rapidly, and his son Sheffield Ingalli, has started for his father’s bedsi Ellsworth Ingalls, the e:dest son, Who is at Sioux Falls, S. D., has been rptitied and will start immediatelz for New Mexico. Ralph Ingalls, an- lok aa is now serving in the Phil- The ippiné as commissary of the Kansas regiment. ¢ Benton Ingalls ‘has suffered from throaf trouble since March, 1899, when on tht advice of physicians he ga-re up his vork at Washingtor and returned to Athison with his family. He vlaced himslf under the care of a speciatist, but grew no better and was acvised to South. He traveled through Arizjna and New Mexico. Two months e prepared to return home. Phy- siclms were consulted and advised aganst his leaving Las Vegas. Soon thereafter Mrs. Ingalls joined her hus- bani and bas remained constantly at his side. ago Spring Valley Tornado. String Valley, Minn., Aug. 15.—A de- structive cyclone passed through the northwestern part of this county Sun- day afternoon. Besides a large num- ber of windmills and shade trees, the Jarge barn on the farm of Hale Bros., together with machinery and eight head of horses, were totally destroyed. The) total loss is $5,000, with $1,800 in- surance. Rain in India. London, Aug. 15.—The following dis- patch has been received from the vice- roy of India: ‘The favorable condi- tions continue. Rain is falling gen- erally throughout the country. The total number sustained in all the fam- ine-stricken provinces is still large. Owing to the backwardness of the crops the restricted demand for labor in the fields, and high prices, continue. About 6,149,000 persons are receiving re- lief.” Move Buildings to New Towns. Kimball, $8. D., Aug. 15.—A great number of buildings are being moved from adjoining villages to the new towns on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul extension in Charles Mix county. This week the big general store of e Cool is to be moved from Ed- to the new town of Platte, three Te Re Troops for China. inginnati, Aug. 15.—The Second bat- of the Second regiment left for b sk Saeed 7 ancisco,; i ~ homas yesterday for China vie | BRYAN FIRES THE*® FIRST GUN IN HIS SECOND. BATTLE. His Great Speech at Indianap- olis— Republican Imperial Expansion and Asinine~ Contraction. Reform Press Bureau, St. Paul, Aug. 18, 1900, The most important political event of the past week was the grea; speech de- livered in Indianapolis by W. J. Bryan on the occasion when he was formally notified of his nomination for the presi- dency. It was a strong card for the re- form parties. Like all of Bryan’s speeches it was replete with the lofty sentiments of the highest patriotism. It illustrates as well as any of the many other great speeches by him the clear head and the big heart of the man. He never blunders. During these four years since he became the recognized leader he never has said anything for which he or his friends have had to apologize, or which they might have wished to have left unsaid. Some of the imperialist organs are finding fault with his Indianapolis speech, of course, but it is for what he did not say rather than for what he did say. They pre- tend to belittle it, but it is causing them much worry just the same. The leading Republican organ of Minnesota has been thrown into a fit by it, and de- votes several columns to an effort to show that the speech is of no impor- tance anyhow. The Sioux Falls Daily Press hit the nail squarely on the head i when it predicted some days in advance exactly how the speech would be re- ceived by the G. O. P. press. This is what the paper says: “The speech of acceptance of Mr. Bryan isdue inaday or two. Then will the distressed Republican editors have something to write about. Alas; it will not be fresh and new, for it is morally certain they will go over the same old story again, finding the same faults and making the same specious criticisms. “If Mr. Bryan says anything at all about finances these Republican editors wwill denounce him for “trying to de- base the currency” of the banks, etc. They willrave and storm and fume about “impending national disaster’ and the like stuff. “If Mr. Bryan hits the trusts some pretty hard blows these trust defend- ers will wriggle and squirm and say Bryan is insincere and that he didn’t before the trust era began that the trusts would now be in control of the government. They will say the trusts are a good thing, and that anyway the Republican party is the original trust- smashing party. “If Mr. Bryan bears down heavily on the principles of free government and reminds the people that ours is a nation in which the people are sovereigns, and that it is contrary to the spirit of our institutions for our government to be doing the very things that brought on the revolt which ended in American in- dependence—if Mr. Bryan hits impe- rialism a few body blows, the imperial- ist editors will shout in chorus that he has ‘“‘abandoned’’ free silver and is fighting a phantom. «‘We have no sort of expectation that Bryan will please any of the Hanna editors in his speech of acceptance. Neither will Mr. Stevenson.” On the one hand-we have expansion by means of a war of criminal aggres- sion and conquest, and on the other hand we have humiliating contraction for the benefit of Great Britain. The modus vivendi to which Mr. McKinley has consented in the Alaskan boundary dispute makes a magnificent land gift to England. The remarkable explana- tion offered for the administration by Senator Scott of West Virginia is this: “Instead of having ceded to Great Britain territory as large as the state of Rhode Island, not one inch has been surrendered to that country. On the other hand, England surrendered to us nineteen-twentieths of the land whose possession had been in dispute.” In plain language this means that the administration has done well by giving England only a part of the territory which she demanded, but to which she had no sort of valid pretension. Instead of complaining we should be grateful to the president for not allowing Eng- land to take more than she did. Governor John Lind is nothing if not prompt to act when occasion demands. There was no unnecessary delay in deal- ing with the Indian scare some time ago, and neither was there any now in taking measures to protect the people in the northern part of: the state who were being terrorized by a gang of law- less circus men. The governor is awake all the time. The people have come to understand thoroughly that he is to be trusted to do his duty without fear or favor, and in the fall they will be glad of the chance to record their wish that he shall serve for two years more. It was stated in this bulletin last week that Van Sant was a falsifier when in his Minneapolis speech he quoted Mr. Bryan as saying that this country would manufacture no goods for export in the event of McKinley’s election. Every person of sense knows without being told that Bryan never could have made sucha silly remark. To make assurance doubly sure, how- ever, a St. Paul friend of Mr. Bryan sent him the excerpt in question from ‘Van Sant’s speech and received an answer in which Mr. Bryan declares thet he has been misquoted by the Re- publican candidate for governor of this state. } By the way, is Theodore Roosevelt in a position to pose as a sbining light in the matter of honesty? He condemns some seven or eight miilion American voters as guilty of dishonesty because they do not believe in the 200-cent dol- lar which has been saddled on the peo- ple for the benefit of the bondholders. But how about the noisy candidate’s own record? The people will remember how he not long ago was caught in attempt to avoid payment of his taxes. When the assessor came around and wanted him to pay taxes on his per- sonal property in New York, Roosevelt made oath that he was a resident of the District of Columbia, where he was holding down a job as assistant secre- tary of war. Later he was nominated for governor of New York and some mischievous person made the point that the candidate was not eligible as he was not a resident of the state. Then Roosevelt discovered that he had been mistaken in claiming to have his home in Washington. He rushed around and paid his taxes in order that he might run for the governorship. It will hardly do for him to set himself up asthe one great representative of the honest people. “The expansion of Canadian traffic in the last four years is the greatest in any equal period in the history of the Dominion,”’ is the way the papers an- nounce it. Too bad that the Canadians are shut out from the privilege of en- dorsing the author of all this prosperity by voting for McKinley. Prosperity has broken out ina fresh spot in Iowa. Britt will entertain the convention of the ‘National Associa- tion of Tramps.’? Here is an oppor- tunity for your Uncle ‘‘Mark”’ to tapa barrel in exchange for an official en- dorsement of the ‘‘administration.”’ The Pioneer Press says, editorially, that the anarchist who assassinated King Humbert was only a student in’ the same school in which William J. Bryan isa professor. This is entirely: in harmony with its other position that) the assassin of Goebel is a patriot. Some simple minded people may not be: able to subscribe to either of these doc~ trines. However, there is no question, but that both are of the genuine Re- publican brand. Our Republican neighbors across the Wisconsin line have a dose of Hanna- ism on their hands, quite the equal of the forcing of Sherman out of public life in Ohio, to make room for the great. boss.’ Their well loved Senator Spooner, isthe victim in this case, and Hanna and McKinley have issued the ukase, that Spooner must go to his _ political graveyard. It is in order tomake room for Henry C. Payne. The whole chap- ter is a black one, and will be fully aired asthe time goeson. This impe~ roe oe ; Tialism which makes and unmakes sen- ve sense enough to know two years! ators as well as carries on wars of con- j quest, is of the real old-fashioned kind —Caesar’s kind. The schoolmasters this year are for Bryan, scores of able educationalists have declared for him, who bitterly op- posed us in 1896. In Indiana there is. said to be a regular stampede of faculty professors to the Bryan standard. Carry the news to Prexy Northrup. He should catch on, Wheat has been rising gradually in. the face of the disaster from drouth, and. so has silver, without drouth, to the highest point of years. But when nor- mal conditions return the raisers of wheat willcontinue to be in deadly competition with the wheat raisers of the silver countries. The fact all the; time remains that free coinage would) relieve our producers from such ruinous, competition—from the ‘‘50-cent wheat’’ thatis always with us under the Re- publican-English policy. There was joy among the Republi- cans some time ago when their papers were able to report the wonderful news that a ‘Democratic McKinley club’’ had been organized in the city of Ar- gentine, Kan. It was nothing but a hoax, of course, but some of the Repub- licans really took the matter seriously and were exceedingly glad. Here is. the story as told by the Argentine Re- public: “It was in the little town of Argen- tine, Kan., that some politicians got together in a sidewalk conference not long ago and did something which no- one else in allthe United States had thought of doing—organized a ‘‘Demo- cratic’? McKinley club. ‘“‘With an ex-constable that had been out of office for a year, an old negro ex-slave, who had once voted for a Democratic, justice of the peace, and four rank Republicans that were never identified with the party of Mr. Bryan, the ‘Democratic’ club was launched - with a great deal of noise and bluster by the Republican papers and amid a. great deal of mirth and laughter from. the people of the little city where the joke was perpetrated. “While the club was new the Repub- licans of the town rented ahall one night and gave it a christening, where free beer and cigars were dispensed and. the members were made to feel that. prosperity had really come to Kansas, but this did not last long. The beer ran out, no more cigars were to be had and the joke became stale. “‘An effort to get uy a second smoker has failed and the club has busted. Another keg of beer might revive it, but sofarno one in Argentine cares enough for the influence of its members to put up the amount for the refreshments, and the old negro, ex-constable ahd the McKinley “Demo- Seats. te tn.» deplorable state of dis- lon. “There is in each ward of Argentine a Free Silver Republican clab that has @ growing and respectable membership, composed of men who never before voted avything but the Republican ticket and who could not be influenced by any other motive than the knowl- edge that their convictions are right.’* : P. 8. |