The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 23, 1895, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1%95. —_—_— the Colorado man, “the Govercment of the United States has been conducted on the principle of ‘The people be damned,’ and the present indications were that the people had been pretty well damned.” Tommy Morgan read letters from August McGrath, secretary of the American Fed- eration of Labor; J. S. Coxey, John Swin- ton, Rev. Herbert N. Casson of Lynn, Mass.; P. J. McGuire of Philadelphia; S8amuel Gompers, president of the Fed- eration of Labor; Ex-Congressman J.B. Weaver of Des Moines; B. O. Flour of Bos- ton, editor of Arena, and many others. Debs was greeted with tremendous ap- plause as he made his way to the front of the platform. The crowd had hardly al- lowed Chairman Woodbury to introduce the labor leacer before it again broke forth in tumultuous cheering, which continued for some time. Debs then delivered a re- markable address. The title of Mr. Debs’ speech was “Lib- erty,” Le addressing his hearers as ‘‘Lovers of liberty and despisers of despotism.” After terming the imprisonment of him- self and colleagues a “flagrant violation of the constitution and the total abrogation of law and the usurpation of judicial and despotic power,” the speaker voiced a de- mand for a trial by jury for conspiracy. He said: t the instigation of the railroad cor- porations centering here in Chicago I was indicted for canspiracy, and I insist upon being tried as to my innocence or guilt. It will be remembered that the trial last win- ter terminated very abruptly on account of a sick juror. 1t was currently reported at the time that this was merely a pretext to ab on the trial and thus defeat the ation of a orable verdict, which seemed inevitable, and which would have been in painfully embarrassing contrast with the sentence previously pronounced Judge Woods in substantially the same case. Whether this be true or not [do not know. I do know, however, that I have been denied a trial, and here and now 1 demand a hearing of my case. “I am charged with conspiracy, and, if guilty, Ishould go to the penitentiary. All I ask is a fair trial and no favor. If the counsel for the Government, alias the railroads, have been correctly quoted in the press, the case against me and my col- leagues is‘not to be pressed,’ as they ‘do not wish to appear in the light of perse- cuting the defendants.” I repel with scorn their professed mercy. Simple jus- tice is the demand. Iam not disposed to shrink from the fullest responsibility for my I have had time for meditation and reflection, ana I have no hesitan in declaring that, under the same circam- stances, I would pursue the same poli So far as my acts are concerned, 1 have neithor apology nor regrets.” Mr. Debs here came to the subject of the evening, and in this connection said: ‘Liberty’ is not a word of modern coinage. Liberty and slavery are primal good and evil, right and are opposites, and co- existent. There has been no liberty in the world since the gift, like sunshine and ra; came down from heaven, for the maintenance of which man has not been required to fight, and man’s complete degradation is secured only when subju- gation and slavery have sapped him of the last spark of the noblest attributes of his nature and reduced him to the inert- ness of a clod. ‘“The theme to-nigit is personal liberty; or giving it its full height, depth and breadth, American liberty, something that Americans have been accustomed to eulo- gize since the foundation of the Republic and multiplied thousands of them continue in the habit to this day, because they do not reco; e the truth that in the impris- onment of one man, in detiance of all con- stitutional guarantees, the liberties of all are invaded and pleced in peril. In saying this I conjecture I have struck the key- note of alarm that has convoked this vast audience. “For the first time in the record of all ages the inalienable rights of man, ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,’ were proclaimed July 4, 1776. It was then that crowns, ters, thrones and the divine right of kings to rule sank together and man expanded to glorious liberty and sov- ereignty. It was then that the genius of liberty, speaking to all men inthe com- manding voice of eternal truth, bade them assert their heaven decreed prerogatives and emancipate themselves from bond- age. 1t wasa proclamation signed by the Infinite—and man stood forth the coro- neted sovereign ot the world, free as the tides that flow, free as the winds that blow, and on that primal morning when tion was complete the morning stars and the sons of God, in anthem chorus, sang the song of liberty. “The Creator had surveyed his work and pronounced it good, but nothing can be called good in human affairs with liberty eliminated. It does not matter that the Creator has sown with stars the fields of ether and decked the earth with countless beauties for man’s enjoyment if liberty is ostracised, man is a slave and the world rolls in space and whirls around the sun a gilded prison and doomed dungeon, and, though painted in all the enchanting hues that infinite art could command, it must stand forth a blotch amidst the singing spheres of the real heavens, and those who cull from the vocabdlaries of nations, living or dead, whose flashing words with which to apostrophize liberty engaged in perpetuating the most stupendous delu- sion the ages have known. Strike down liberty, no matter by what subtle and in- fernal art the deed is done, the spinal cord of humanity is sundered and the world is paralyzed by the indescribable crime. ‘‘As Americans we have boasted of our liberties and continue to beastof them. They were once the Nation’s glory, and if some have vanished it may be well fo re- member that a remnant still remains. Out of prison, beyond the limits of Rus- sian 1njunctions, out of reach of a deputy Marshal’s club, above the throttling clutch of corporations and the enslaving power of plutocracy, out of range of the Govern- ment’s machine guns, and knowing the location of traps and deadialls, Americans may still indulge in the exaltation of lib- erty, though pursued through every lane and avenue of life by the baying hounds of usurped and constitutional vower, glad when night lets down her sable curtains they are out of prison, though still the slaves of a plutocracy which were it in the celestial city would wreck every avenue leading up to the throne of the Infinite by stealing the gold by which they are paved and debauch heaven’s Supreme Court to obtain a decision that the command ‘Thou shalt not steal’ is unconstitutional. “Liberty, be it known, is for only those who dare strike the blow to secure and retain the priceless boon. It has been written that tbe ‘love of liberty with life is given,’ and that life itself is an inferior gift; that with liberty exiled life is a con- tinuous curse, and that ‘an hour of liberty is worth an eternity of bondage.’ It would be an easy task to link together gilded periods extolling liberty until the mind, weary with delight, becomes oblivious of the fact that, while dreaming of security, the blessings we magnified had one by one and little by little disappeared, em- phasizing the truth of the m-xixg: that | thought that he has taken Tiy, 5 Fevenge, ieserngl vigilanco s o price pt } If liberty is a birthright which bas been wrested from the weak by the strong, or has been placed in peril by those who were commissioned to guard it, as Gheber priests watch the sacred fires they worship, what is to be done? Leaving all other nations, kindred and tongues out of the question, what is the duty of Americans? Above all, what is the duty of American working- men, whose liverties have been placed in peril? They are mnot hereditary bondsmen. Their fathers were free born — their sovereignty nome denied, and their children yet have the baliot. It has been called ‘A weapon that executes a free man’s will as lightning does the will of God.” It is a metaphor pregnani with life and truth. There is nothing in our Government it cannot re- move or amend. It can make and un- make Presidents and Congresses and courts. It can abolish unjust laws and consign to eternal odium and oblivion un- just Judges, strip from them their robes and gowns and send them forth unclean as lepers *to bear the burden of merited obloguy, as Cain with the mark of a mur- derer. It can sweep away trusts, syndi- cates, corporations, monopolies and every other abnormal development of the money power designed to abridge the liberties of workingmen and enslave them by the degradation incident to poverty and en- forced idleness, as cyclones scatter the leaves of the forest. The ballot can do all this and more. It can give our civiliza- tion its crowning glory—the co-operative commonwealth.” The speaker then reverted to the incar- ceration of the A. K. U. men at Wood- stock as a subtle invasion of the liberties of the American people by the courts, sus tained by an administration equally dead to the guarantees of the constitution. He continued: “I am not here to assert the infallibility of the American Railway Union or its officials or to claim exemption from error. But I am here to declare to every friend of American toilers, regardless of banner, name or craft, that if the American Rail- | side of sympathy, mercy and humanity, zeal in a great cause and devotior to the spirit of brotherhood which knows no ar- tificial boundaries. It is in no spirit of laudation that I aver here to-night that it has fallen to the lot of the American Rail- way Union to arouse the workingmen to a sense of the verils that environ their liberties. “I have said that in the great battle of labor fought in 1894 between the American Railway Union and the corporations banded together under the name of ‘‘Gen- eral Managers’ Association” victory wonld bave perched upon the standards of labor if the battle had been left to these con- tending forces; and this statement, which has been verified and established beyond truthful contradiction, suggests the in- quiry, What other resources had the cor- porations aside from their money and the strength which their federation conferred ? “In replying to this question Iam far within the limits of accepted facts when I say the country stood amazed as the cor- porations put forth their latent powers to debauch such departments of the Govern- ment as were required to defeat labor in the greatest struggle for the right that was ever chronicled in the United States. “Defeated at every point, their plans all frustrated, outgeneraled 1n tactics and strategy, while the hopes of lahor were brightening and victory was in sight, the corporations, goaded to desperation, played {heir last card in the game of oppression by an appeal to the Federal judiciary and to the Federaladministra- tion. To this appeal the response came quick as lightning from a storm cloud. It was an exhibition of the debauching power of money which the country had never before beheld.” In closing Mr. Debs said: “I have borne with such composure as I could command the imprisonment which deprived me of my liverty. Were I a criminal, were I guilty of crimes meriting a prison cell, had I ever lifted a hand against the life or the liberty of my fellow man, had I ever sought to filch their good name, I would not be here. 1 would have fled from the haunts of civilization and taken up my residence in some cave where the voice of my kin- dred is never heard. But I am standing here without a self accusation of crime or | criminal intent fostering in my conscience, in the sunlight once more, among my fellow men, contributing as best I can to make this ‘liberation day’ from Woodstock | Prison a memorial day, realizing that, as Lowell sang: i ‘He's true to God who's true to man; wherever | wrong is done, : To the humblest and the weakest 'neath the all- beholding sun, That wrong is aiso done to us, and they are slaves most base, Whose love of right is for themselves and not for all their race.’ After the meeting Mr. Debs said: “I will | now go home and Temain there engaged | in office work connected with the A. R. U. I will then start on a tour of the country, making public speeches, the first 1o be made in Milwaukee, the 19th of next February. Iam notgoing to lecture, but will make public spezches—partly in the interest of the A. R. U., but generally in the interest of labor.” BLEW UP K LARGE MILL Revenge of a Discharged Employe Led to the Use of Dynamite. An Unsuccessful Attempt to Kill One of the Members of the Firm. BIDDEFORD, ME., Nov. 22.—Last Sun- dsy night a big granite wall facing on the Saco Riyer fell with a loud crash and al- most simultaneously a big mill near by, belonging to the York Corporation, was blown up with dynamite by some un- known party. The State police at once took the case in hard, and as a result of their investigation to-day succeeded in cuEturing the supposed culprits. The damage by the explosion will amount to nearly $5000. At the time there w as no one in the mill with the exception of the watchmen and one of the members of the firm, Charles York. It is his cus- tom to visit the mill every Sunday night for the purpose of seeing how matters are getting along, and it is the opinion of the authorities that an attempt was made to kill him, the would-be assassin being cog- nizant of the fact that he made these visits. Several persons who work in the mill say thatthey had notiged a former employe of the miil by the name of Smith, who had been seen loitering around of late, and that he was also seen in a boat witha package on Saturday near the demolished mill. TItis thought ‘that the man who did the joblaid the mine and attached thelong fuse and then went down the river before the explosion, so the officials could find no suspicious parties in the vicinity after the explosion. Smith, when arrested to-day, denied all knowledge of the affair, but a number of persons have heard him state on various occasions that he would get even with Mr. York for discharging him, and it is this method of way Union-has erred it has been on the | FOR NEXT PRESIDENT, Prominent Men of the Old Parties State Their Preferences. ANIMATED SYMPOSIUM. Leaders of the North, South and West Give Their Views as to ‘Who Should Be Chosen. MANY MEN IN THE RACE the Dispassionate Discussion of Chances of Democrafic and Re- publican Candidates. | WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. | all-absorbing topic of the hour just at the present time is “Who is to be the next | President? Whom will the Republicans | and whom will the Democrats nominate in 18962” McKinley and Reed, Harrison and | Allison, Morton and Alger are the names | most frequently heard among the former, while Cleveland and Hill, Gorman and Pattison are the favorite shibboleths of the Democrats. With a view to ascertaining | *“What the signs of promiseare,” as a good old Methodist hymn says, letters were re- cently addressed to some of the most prominent politicians of the North, South, Jast and West, requesting them to state what candidates would most probably be | favored for the nomination of the two great political parties by the majority of | the voters belong 3 ;to each in their re- | spective States or districts. Of the replies | received several are published below and | will be found interesting reading, espe- cially those which incidentally givesas some of them do, their views on the sub- | ject of a third term, which is being strongly advocated in certain quarters in the interest of Grover Cleveland. Hints From Quay. The silent man from Pennsylvania—the | astute political manager who recently had | himself elected chairman of the Pennsyl- | vania State Republican Executive Com- mittee against the strongest combination that was ever formed to overthrow any leader of any political party in the history of the Nation, and whose wonderful energy and strategy put Harrison into the White House in 1888, sends the following: PHILADELPHIA, PA., Nov. 20.—McKinley and Reed are the names that unquestionably stand highest in the favor of the Republicans of Pennsylvania generally throughout the State. Ido not hesitate to say that personally I am for Thomas Brackett Reed for the Repub- lican Presidential nomination of 1896. Ido not say that he will be nominated. As second choice I am for McKinley or any other avail- able man. The question of the Democratic nomination isa hard one to solve. Notwithstanding the opposition to the third term idea Cleveland might prove & strong candidate. For my own part I am a third-term man. Iwasone of the +1306” who stood by General Grant so long in the convention of 1880, which finally nomi- nated General Garfield. Senator Gorman of Maryland séems to be uppermost in the thoughts of a large number of Democrats, and would probably be as avail- able a man as they could select. M. S. QuAY, Thoughts From Platt. Orville H. Platt, one of Connecticut’s Senators, thus expresses himself: NEW HAVEN, Cosy., Nov. 19.—Reed and | McKinley both have many admirers in Con- necticut. As Reed is notonly an Eastern buta New England man as well, perhaps that might have an influence with a large number of the Republicans of our State and cause them to favor his nomination. Cleveland, Hill and Gorman are the names most frequently heard among the Democrats. Whether the fact that Hill is now a United States Senator would militate against his chances and whether the opposition to the third-term idea would bea bar to Grover Cleveland’s nomination it is difficult to tell, 0. H. PLATT. Frye’s Opinion. Listen to the Hon. William P. Frye, junior United States Senator from Maine: AUGUSTA, ME., Nov. 19.—Who is to be our next President? Some Republicans will shout Harrison, others Reed and still others McKin- ley. The Republicans of Maine were undoubt- edly well satisfied with the administration of Benjamin Harrison and believe in the protec- tion policy of McKinley, but they are very loyal to their own son, Thomas Brackett Reed. WiLLIAN P. FRYE. A Voice From Oregon. | Let Joseph N. Dolph, long United States | Serator from Oregon, lift up his voice: PORTLAND, Or., Nov. 19.—William MecKin- ley and Thomas B. Reed are well liked on the | Pacific Coast, and either would command a large following if he were to come before the Presidential nominating convention of 18¢ David B. Hill of New York is greatly admired | by many Democrats in Oregon. J. N. DoLri. Michigan’s Favorite Son. The Hon. James McMillan, the junior { United States Senator from Michigan, | thinks that his State will continue loyal to her favorite son, General R. A. Alger, as will be seen from his letter: LANSING, Mich., Nov. 19.—In reply to your | letter inquiring as to the preferencesof the Republicans and Democrats of Michigan for the Presidential nomination of 1896, I would say that in the past the delegates from my State have given their most hearty and un- | qualified support to General Russell A. Alger, | and I believe they will continue to do so in the future. The delegates frgm Michigan to the Demo- cratic Presidential nominating conventions in the past have given their votes to the Hon. Grover Cleveland. Whether opposition to a tnird term would restrain them from doing so at the next one remains to be seen. JAMES MCMILLAN, The Bowie Knife State. From the good old State of Arkansas, to which we are indebted for that famous American institution, the bowie - knife, Senator James K. Jones, who has repre- sented it in the United Siates ever since 1885, writes as follows: LIITLE ROCK, ARrx., Nov. 19.—There are very few intelligent Republicans in the State of Arkansas, and the rank and flle of that party in our State have no opinion of their own, and could readily be induced to fol- low the banmer of either Reed or McKinley, both of whom are probably more talked of for the nomination than any other candidates, possible or probable. JamEs K. JONES. From Allison’s State. Hon. James F. Wilson, so long junior United States Senator from Iowa, writes rather non-committally as follows: DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 20.—Public senti- ment in Iowa seems divided at this time with reference to the Presidential nominations for 1896, and it is difficult to say just now who is in the lead as regards the popular favor of their respective parties. Allison, McKinley, Reed, Harrison, Cleveland, Hill and Gorman are the names most talked of in this connec- tion. Any one of these gentlemen could prop- ably cominand a large following. James F. WiLsoxN. Pennsylvania’s Governor. D, H, Hastings of Pennayl; | 1 Hon, vania, who has himself been talked of as a strong Presidential possibility in case a dark horse should be sadaled and led out of tke nominating stable to start in the race, and who would undoubtedly be a stro_ng candidate for many reasons, es- pecially in view of the very prominent and admirable part he played in relieving the sufferings of the terrible Johnstown flood ot 1389, when he showed executive ablity of the very highest order, and who was elected Governor of Pennsylvania last fall by the largest majority ever rolled up in that State, contributes the following: HARRISRURG, Pa., Nov. 20. — McKinley and Reed are both very popular in Pennsylvania, but the Republicans of the grand old Keystone State may be counted upon to roll up a magnificent majority for any candidates that may be chosen as the standard- bearers of the Republican party in the Presi- dential race of 1896, whether those candidates be prominent favorites or some s yet un- thought of dark horses. ‘Whom the Democrats may nominate is a very hard question to answer. A third Presi- dential term for any man is not in accordance with the true idea of ourinstitutions. Toelect the'same man President three times is repug- nant to the American people. The.underlying sentiment on this subject consists largely in the apprehension that a third term might be followed by a fourth or fitth, wherein the chief magistrate might so firmly entrench himself in his position as to assume a virtual dictator- ship, and hold the reins of Government at will, At the close of nis first term, President Washington consulted Madison in regard to an address to the country declining a second election. Notonly Madison, but Jefferson and Hamilton, three men of widely different views, earnestly remonstrated against his retirement, ana be yielded to their importunities as to a second term. At the close of hissecond term, he again consulted Hamilton, and the result was his farewell address, which was prepared and published nearly six months before his official term had expired. Grant was the greatest of our military chief- tains. dency. He was idolized by the people, and his administration during both terms was in many ways acceptable. Nobody ever questioned his lovalty, his wisdom or his patriotism either on the field or in the Presidential chair. With all his marvelous record, with the am- bition to succeed himself for a third term, and withall the power at his back of a well- organized body of the most skillful political managers ever banded together, known as the old guard, the 306, he was unable to win even the nomination for a third term. It was not because the people did not trust him, love him and admire him, but the iea of a third term was one that the people could not even discuss calmly, and public sentiment beat Grant and his sturdy band of 306. D. H. HASTINGS, A Democratic Chairman Talks. Hon. William F. Harrity, chairman ot the State Democratic executive committee of Pennsylvania, when asked to give his views with regard to the advisability of the Democrats nominating a third-term candidate, replied as follows: PHILADELPHIA, PA., Nov. 20.—I do not know thatI have anything to say. Ido not know that anybody is a candidate for a third term, and until some such contingency arises 1 do not see any use in my expressing an opin- ion on the subject. When some one wants to be President of the United States for a third time, it wiil be time enough for me to express an opinion. Then if you will write me I will take pleasure in giving you my views. WiLLIAM F. HARRITY. Blackburn on Cleveland. Hon. Joseph C. 8. Blackburn -evidently thinks Cleveland is a back number, as will be seen from his appended letter: LOUISVILLE, KY., Nov. 20.—Setting aside all objections on the grouud of a thirg term I think that Mr. Cleveland is no longer a possi- bly successful candidate by reason of his well- known position on the silyer question, as ex- pressed in letters written by him some years 8go. JosepH C. S. BLACKBURN. Jolp Sherman Says McKinley. Hon. John Sherman, United States Sen- ator from Ohio, in answer to the lettér of inquiry, writes as follows: CLEVELAND, Omio, Nov. 20.—The recent elections have cleared the political sky and, 1 believe, fairly opened a wey for the nomina- tion of Major McKinley. He will be heartily supported from Ohio, and I trust he will be nominated and elected. . JOHN SHERMAN. A Financier’s Views. Russell Sage’s answer is deserving of special consideration, emanating as it does from one of the best-known and most suc- cessful financiers of Wall street: NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 19.—The result of | the recent elections settles beyond & doubt that the next President will be a Republican. It seems clear to me that McKinley is to be our next chief magistrate. The signs all seem to point that way. He is a clean, honest and able man, He is free from all combinations and secret cabals. The nominators will gather about him irresistibly, for they will see the sentiment of the people in his favor. McKinley is a sound-money man, and not an extremist. Te 15, in short, our next President. RUSSELL SAGE. Senator Hoar Closes. Let Hon. George F. Hoar of Massa- chusetts close this highly interesting sym- posium: BOSTON, MAss., Nov. 20.—Some of the Masss- chusetts agricultural papers have been invit- ing their readers to name their choice for the next President, and _the votes cast show the following figures: Reed, 40,108; Ki 33,078; Cleveland, 13,907; Hill, 19, tering, 9201. Thisis probably as good an an- swer as I could give to the difficult question you propose. GEORGE F. HOAR. T0 STOP THE SENTENCE Authorities Interfere in Behalf of an American in Mexico. William Paxton Ordered to Be Shot for Killing a Policéman in Self-Defense. OMAHA, Nepr. Nov. 22.—William A. Paxton received a letter from Mac Stuart, who for a number of years was foreman of Mr. Paxton’s Keystone ranch, near Ogal- lala. Stuart is under sentence to be shot and implored bis old employer to interest, the United States authorities in his behalf., Stuart says severai months ago he was passing through Hidalgo Del Parrell, when he was suddenly accosted by a policeman. He did not pay much attention to_the of- ficer’s command to stop at first, but con- tinued forward. When he glanced up a second time the man was scarcely six feet from him, and was in the act of pulling the trigger of a revolver aimed at his head. E%““ pulled his six-shooter and killed m. Stuart was hustled away in the center of an excited crowd of exicans, whom Stuart says are not over friendly to Ameri- cans, and was thrown into jail with no ceremony. In a short time he was taken before one of the lower Judees of the province of Chihuahua, and notwithstand- ing the fact that he insisted the shooting had been done merely -in_self-defense was found guilty and handed over to another court to be sentenced. After being imprisoned for many months Stuart says he was at length brought be- fore the higher court, given a sham trial and sentenced to be shot the early part of December. Mr. Paxton has written to J. Sterling Morton, acquainting him with the case, and the letter has been turned over to Sec- retary of State Olney, who, it 15 under- stood, has instructed the American Consul at Chihuahua to stop the execution of the sentence imposed on Stuart pending an investigation, I He was twice elected to the Presi- | | rival 1unners. TROUBLES IN HAWAIL Imported Chinese Refuse to Sign the Labor Contracts. DECEIVED BY AGENTS. British Commissioner Hawes Demands a Thorough In- vestigation. BRUTAL CRIME AT HONOLULT, Murder of a Mongol by a Fellow- Countryman Will. Cause the First Hanging in Years. HONOLULU, Hawair, Nov. 15.—A most atrocious murder was committed in this city last Sunday afternoon without any provocation whatever. About4 o’clock a Chinese boy named Chik Yok was ascend- ing a flight of stairsin a housein the Chi- nese quarter with a bucket of water in each hand, when he was met by a countryman named Wong Look, who, without a word of warning, plunged a big butcher-knife into his abdomen to the kLilt and then turred it round three or four times. The wounded man fell to the bottom of the stairs and died soon after being taken to the hopital. The murderer escaped, but was captured before midnight. There seems to have been no motive for the deed and the Chinese demand the prompt exe- cution of the murderer, who has already been committed for trial at the present term of the Circuit Court. The murderer has been playing the insanity dodge since his arrest and has made several attempts at suicide. He is now kept in irons and constantly watched by officers. There is little doubt that he will be haneed and his execution will be the first in many years 1n these islands. There has been more trouble with the Chinese laborers who arrived here on the Coptic and who should have been released from quarantine two days ago. Twenty- eight of them refuse to sign the labor con- tracts, now that they are here, claiming to have been grossly-deceived by the agents of the Hawaiian Government in Hong- kong and to have been lured here under false pretenses, The agent of the Planters’ Labor and Supply Company of Hawaii at Hongkong is Lau Chong, a member of the firm of Wing Wo Tai & Co., leading Chi- nese merchants here. This man’s reputa- tion stands very high here and the sugar men all say he is incapable of doing what he is charged with, and claim that the men are tampered with on the steamer by ‘Whatever may be the real truth of the matter there is sufficient in it for her Britannic Majesty’s Commis- sioner here, Mr. Hawes, to make a demand on the Hawaiian Minister of Foreign ‘Affairs for a prompt and searching inves- tigation. A special ageht of the Govern- ment was sent to the quarantine island to investigate, and his report to Minister Cooper was of sufficient importance to cause that official to make a personal in- vestigation, the result of which causes the planters some uneasiness in regard to future shipments. It is an open secret here that Japanese labor is to be substituted by Chinese, and that importations of the former are to cease. Of the eighteen Japanese arrested here for rioting on the Emperor’s birthday only one has been convicted and his case has been appealed and able counsel secared to fight his case in the higher court. The new Japanese Consul-General ar- rived here on the Coptic and brings with him the additional title of Diplomatic Agent, which puts him on equal rank with Great Britain's representative. Added to this the knowledge that a Japanese man- of-war is on its way here one can readily see that the Japanese are preparing to make an aggressive and disagreeable effort to obtain what they claim to be their rights under the ‘‘favored nation” clause of Hawaiian treaties with other powers. The reason that the Brntish Commis- sioner is now interfering is because the Chinese laborers come from Hongkong, an English settlement. After making all ar- rangements to substitute Chinese for Japanese labor it can readily be seen that the planters view any possible trouble which may put an end to the supply of Chinese with alarm. Another powerful objection to bringing more Japanese here is that they invariably go into business for themselves at the expiration of their con- tract seryice and compete with their for- mer employers, and hence are ruining business of all kinds. The Chinese don’t do this, buteither sign over again at the increased rate of wages offered for second term laborers or go home. It will be seen from the foregoing that the Hawaiian Government has much trouble in sight in addition to settling with foreigners who were wrongfully im- prisoned last January and raising funds to pay off its constantly increasing indebted- ness. President Dole has issued the following Thanksgiving proclamation: The past year has brought varied experi- ences to the republic. With abundant crops and fair business prosperity, both foreign and domestic, have come the critical incidents of lence, from both of which the country has been mercifully delivered with small loss of life through the blessing of Providence on the efforts of the Government and its citizens. Inview of these thingsand other countless benefits which have been vouchsafed to us, I, Sanford B. Dole, President of the republic of Hawaii, recommend that Thursday, the 28th day of this present month, November, be set apart as a day of national thanksgiving to Al- mighty God for the blessings of the past year and the promise of the future, and of prayer for the continuance of his favor. In connection with Thanksgiving day a movement is on foot to create sympathy for the remaining political prisoners, with a view to procuring their pardon by Presi- dent Dole on that day. The movement is indorsed by the independent press, and lpeti';ions to that effect are being circu- ated. STOPPE? ON THE FVERGE. Trolley-Cars at Cleveland Went Very Near the Open Draw. CLEVELAND, Omro, Nov. 22.—There was a narrow escape early this morning from a repetition of the dreadful draw- bridge uecidentl:m occurred last Satur- day night. Shortly after 2 o’clock this morning the draw of the Superior-street viaduct was opened to allow the passage of a vessel. Three cars had stopped at the west side of the draw to wait until it should be closed. They contained alto- gether about thirty people. l The current was off, and the motorman domestic disturbance and dangerous pesti- | of the Woodland-avenue car, which was the furthest from the draw. carelessly left off hiscontroller. Suddenly the current was turned on and the rear car began to move forward, pushing the two other cars toward the still open draw. Instantly there was a great panic among the passengers, who made frantic efforts to escape from the cars. Luckily, however, the gates proved strong enough to resist the pressure and stopped the cars on the very edge of the abyss. Had they given way, as the gates did on Saturday might, the three cars would have fallen into the river. A woman was badly injured in the crush while trying to escape from one of the cars. PELie N DIVIDED BY TH E10 GRANDE. The Mexican Government Trying to Claim a Strip of the City of El Paso. EL PASO, Tex., Nov. 22.—For several days there has been great excitement among residents in the southern portion of this city over a rumor to the effect that the Rio Grande was no longer to be the dividing line between this country ana Mexico, especially at this point. The ru- mor originated from the fact that the Mex- ican engineers of the International Bound- ary Commission, now"in session here, have been surveying and placing monuments through the southern portion of the city, running their lines on Second street so as take in a strip of the city over a mile long and six blocks deep. The American Commissioner, Colonel Anson Mills, was called here to consider the claim from Mexico, and while that claim has not yet been submitted it is un- derstood that Mexico will claim territory on the north side of the river within the corporate limits of El Paso, on the ground that the original channel of the river runs almost through the center of this city, but that because of embankments the flocd waters shifted the main channel over on the Mexican shore. Mexicans living in the southern portion of the city are so confident their homes will soon be con- ceded to be on Mexican soil that they are flying the Mexican colors from their housetops, but under the Guadaloupe- Hidalgo treaty, the boundary line was fixed in 1852 where the river now runs. THE ALISKA BOUKDAR AFRAID OF “CRANKS." Cleveland Has Caused Some Extreme Precautions to Be Taken. MANY GUARDSEMPLOYED Continuous Patrol v Maintained by the Police at the White House. COLD FOR OUTSIDE SENTRIES. No Precaution Neglected to Insure the Safety of the President and His Family. WASHINGTON, D. C., No —Grover Cleveland, the President, is afraid of cranks. Several have called at the White House to see him recently on very import- ant business matters. The executive man- sion is well guarded by trusty men. A large force of watchmen, including police officers, is on duty inside the mansion at all hours night and day and a continuous patrol is maintained by locai police of the grounds immediately surrounding the mansion. The outside watches are so arranged that there are never less than six polices men on duty at any time, night or day. This force is distributed so as to command every avenue of approach to the build- ing—north, south, east and west—and it is hardly possible for any one toapproach the building at any time from any direction without detection. The patrol of the grounds entails special hardships in the bitter cold nights of winter, and it is to lessen these that sentry-boxes were erected. The policemen are not expected to occcupy Senator Mitchell Says the Claims of England Will Be Defeated. Field Notes of the American Engineers Have Not Yet Been Thor- oughly Computed. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 22.—Sen- ator Mitchell of Oregon is at Chamber- lain’s. He has been collecting data and information concerning the Alaska bound- ary dispute. ““The people on the Pacific Coast are much exercised over this question,” said he to THE CALL cor ondent, “and I be- lieve England is trying to grab some of our territory, but I don’t think her claims willamount to anything. They will not secure a foot of our ground.” The field notes of the American en- gineers who ran the lines of the 141st meridian, which forms the boundary be- tween Alaska and British Columbia, have not yet been reduced by the computing division of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, where the work bhas been prosecuted during the past month or six weeks. “It has so far progressed, however, said an official of the survey to-day, that we are able to say that the line run by Ogilvie, the British surveyor, in 1889, and marked by certain stones, 1s not far, if any at all, from the true line. Whether this line will bring the gold fields on Forty Mile Creek within the jurisdiction of Great Britain or of the United States can- not be stated by any one at this distance from the territory involved. It is certain that the line crosses Forty Mile Creek some miles from its junction with the Yukon River. These gold mines are in that immediate vicinity. ' ‘There will probably be no disagreement over the determination of that part of the boundary line marked by the 141st degree of longitude. The difficulty will come when we try to settle the ten marine league line between the head of Portland canal and Mount Saint Elias in South- eastern Alaska. Besides the question whether the line shall run ten marine leagues from the coast of the main land or ten marine leagues from the outermost coast of the chain of islands lying along- side there will be a new claim recently ad- vanced by British officials to settle, viz: That the Portland canal or Portland chan- nel, as it is termed in the treaty, is not the body of water now known by that name, but the channel lying immediately along- side the eastern coast of Prince of Wales Island. The omission in the treaty to de- scribe an east-west line from the southern end of the water now known as the Port- land canal may cause some embarrass- ment in determining the meaning of that them unless the weather makes such action essential. Although the boxes ara not heated they will serve to protect the occupants from the chilling rain and snow and biting blasts of winter. @During the past two years the police sur- veillance has been maintained continu- onsly regardless of the long and frequent absence of the President and family. As an occasional safeguard automatic alarm signals are fixed in convenient places in different parts of the house, and a strong force of police could be secured almost a$ a moment’s notice. The mansion is also in direct telegraphic and telephonic com- munication with police headquarters, mil« itary posts at Washington Barracks and at Fort Myer, Va., and the marine barracks, and it would not take very long to secure a heavy detachment of men from each of the places named. The White House is better guarded than it has been hefore, except during the war, and no precaution has been neglected to instre the security of the President and his family from molestation. Cranksare a constant source of annoyance at the White House, but under the present sys« tem of espionage it is well nigh impossible for even the mildest specimen of that genus to get nearer the President than the outer portal of the building. It is un< likely that there will ever be a recurrence of the experience of afew years ago, when a man delirious with drink forced an en< trance through the back door into the blue parlor and made a desperate effort to inflict personal violence on President H: rison. Under the present system visita- tions of that kind even under the cover of darkness would be attended by extreme danger to the individual who should ate tempt 1t. TWO NEGRO WOMEN EXECUTED. “We'll Soon Be on the Way to Heaven' They Sang Until the Deadly Trap Was Sprung. WARRENTON, GaA., Nov. 22.—Florence English, 20 years of age, and Mandy Cody, both colored, were executed here to-day amid exciting scenes for the murder of the latter's husband. They died in the ecstacy of religious enthusiasm. Shortly before noon the prisoners marched from their celis to the scaffold. As they stepped on the platform both commenced singing an old negro campe meeting melody, “We’ll soon be on the way to heaven.”” While their hands and feet were being pinioned the murderers still continued the hymn. They refused to make a statement. The black caps were then drawn over their faces, tha hymn still being sung with renewed vigor. ‘Wheu the trap was sprung launching them both into eternity the were still singing. instrument. It is the settlement of the boundary in this part of the country which will determine whether Juneau and Douglass Island belouF to the United States or Great Britain." 7 e OF INTEREST TO THE COAST. Milpitas Is to Have a Change of Post- masters. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 22.—Mil- pitas is to have a change of postmasters. Edward Topham has been removed and A. F. Cunha was appointed to-day. Her- bert French was also appointed at Glen- dale, Los Angeles County, vice Elias Ayers resigned. 'he Secretary of the Interior to-day ap- ])roved the selection of 4881 acres of swamp ands in the Visalia (California) District, which inure to the State by act of 1850. William P. Veuve of San Jose and Michael Murphy of San Francisco have been permitted to practice before the In- terior Department. Pensions have been granted as follows: California, original—Jeremiah Kenniff, San Francisco; John McGowan, Colusa. Increase—Alexander Penrod, Pico Heights. Reissue—Cbarles P. Patterson, Pomona. Original widow—Mary J. Brown, Santa Barbara. Oregon, original—Samuel Wilcox, Ash- land, " Restoration and reissue—Hiram C. Drollinger (deceased), Roseburg, Mexican: ‘War widows—Mary F‘itzpntrick, Newport. — e KNIGHTS OF LABOR ADJOURNRg Conclusion of the Session of the General Assemdly. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 22. —The General Assembly of the Knights of Labor adjourned at 7:30 this evening, to meet in Rochester in 1896. The question of excluding the Japanese from this country was laid on the table, it being held that such action would not be consistent, inasmuch as the Knights of Labor believed in universal organization. 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