The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 8, 1895, Page 1

v "VOLUME LXXIX.—NO. 8 SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8, 1895—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS. OLDWORLD POLITICS Harold Frederic Reviews Events in European Nations. FLIGHT OF SAID PASHA. It Has Given England a Chance to Reassert Herself in the Levant, MAY NOW BULLY THE SULTAN. Struggles of the Leaders of Cliques in France and Germany Vividly Portrayed. [CopyTight, 1895, by.the New York Times.] LONDON, Exc Dec. 7.—The pic- turesque episode of little Said’s fight from the Sultan’s reach to a refuge inside the British embassy gives a welcome dash of personal interest to a situation which had grown to become tiresome in its menacing gless strain upen every- Here atlastisa promise ible and definite. Those who describe Said as pro-Russian and urprise that he should turn to sh for safety are mistaken. In m White's time Said was his closest erid, and it was White who made him Grand Vizier. Since White’s death the British influence in Constantinople had gone to pieces, and possibly Said may have listened to Russian whisperings, but now that gland is disposed to reassert herself in the Levant, Said naturally flung himself under the shelter of the union, with h boy in arms. This pected sensational incident throws quite into the background now the nearly thres old demand for double dships off the Golden Horn, for Eng- 1d has isolated action thrust upon her ite independent of the so-called Euro- n concert. There is a report from a her doubtful source to-night that the an has conceded the firmans asked for presence in the English em- a far more interesting new There has been an enor- us increase this week of pro-Armenian ent here, due to Armenian ex- t and the publication of a set of | astly photographs of slaughtered heaps of victin;s, and the popular pressure for English action, independent if necessary, has becpme so powerful that Lord Salis- bury cah hardly disregard it. The episode Said’s protection gives him a chance to bully the Sultan on grounds admirably to tickle British fancy and generally e a line of his own, which will force her powers to acquiesce or show s orts of hurried Russian preparations | for action in the Black Sea continue to v until it is extremely likely that the coming week will disclose that Russia and France bave separated themselves from the other powers in their attitude toward the Sultan. Very probably it will be found, also, that Germany at least de- clines to say that she thinks they are wrong, but for the moment it is risky to predict what Germany's foreign policy will be on any given question. Growing ex- citement continues to be observable all over Germany. It is believed that the minor States have outvoted Prassia’s rep- resentatives in the Bundesrath on the estion of providing another socialist leg- ation for the whole empire with the re- sult that the subject was not mentioned at the opening of the Reichstag Tuesday. All sorts of rumors are afloat of impend- ine demonstrations by the Grand Duke of Baden and other important German princes of their disgust at what is going on'in Ber- lin. The Emperor’s speech to the Grena- dier officers at Breslau Tuesday, which has distanced all his vrevious exhibitions of how a constitutional monarch should not believe, has added acutely to the impres- sion of a crisis of some sort approaching. It is apparent thata tremendous struggle is going on behind the court curtain as to whether Von Koeller, Minister of the Interior,who is responsible for the amezing onslaught of the Social Democratic organ- ization, shall be dismissed or not. He is in a semi-suspended state now 1in obedi- ence to a demand said to have been made by Hohenlohe, backed by practically the entire Ministry, but the whole pack of court favorites, with the Eulenburg fam- 1ly at their head, are bringing to the Kaiser night and day appealsto keep von Koeller and defy and crusi all elements of oppo- sition as the Kings of Prussia were accus- tomed to do in the past. Truly, Wilham may be said to be at the turning of ways. The Parisians take it for granted that Hanotaux is to return to the French For- eign Office, the death of Berthelot’s daugh- ter giving to him a decent pretext for re- tiring. It wason the Madagascar treaty that Hanotaux retired, and here his ad- vice after being condemned, has been fol- lowed. Laroche, who is going out as a resident-general, is a Protestant and will be careful to avoid those entanglements with English and American missionaries which Hanotaux declared would follow if the Clericals and Chauvinists had theirown way, but in the Levant and the Far East he is anti-British, and if he resumes the for- eign portfolio it will bs remarked as of evil omen here. It is difficult to throw any fresh hght‘on the Venezuelan embroglio from this side of the water. A report was spread about Thursday evening that Salisbury had writ- ten an exhaustive criticism of the Monroe doctrine pretensions, which appeared to have an authoritative source, but you will know before we do what he has said. So long as the matter remains in the discus- sion stage English opinion will be unani- mously against the idea of suffering any part of British Guiana as defined by the Schomberg line to be regarded as in dis- pute. That much is perfectly certain. At this time English politiciens are unable to believe that the American Government | Each day we hear of some new achieve- would tend to lessen the chances of friendly understanding. From the be- ginning Chamberlain has had special charge of the Venezuelan affair, and though this latest official pronouncement oun it comes from Salisbury, it is based on a brief prepared by the Colonial Secretary. His energy in other directionscontinces to attract admiring attention. He dwaris everybody else in the Cabinet, and seems 10 be the one to whom every vexed question naturally drifts for settlement, like Pier- pont Morgan in New York financial circles. inent to his credit. Now he is stirring up the Colonial Governors around the globe to systematic study of foreign imports which might be British; now he is decid- ing to help Canada to establish a 20-knot steamer line to England; now he is fixing up the Stckes affair with the King of the Belgians, or consolidating, by a stroke of his pen, the scattered states of the Malay peninsula. He and his wife have been ng the Queen twice in one week, which is an unprecedented show of royal favor; but it quite matches the popularity that he is evidently earning everywhere else. It issuch a novelty here to have an administrator who actually administers that it is not easy to set bounds to the reputation that he may not win if his luck continues and he does not bustle into some hornet’s nest which will alter the public feeling toward him. It is now said confidently that the ship- building deadlock will be brought to a conclusion next week. There are rumors that large Chinese orders have been placed in Germany, the difficulty about ready money being met by political compensa- tions in the Far East, not specified. I have it merely as a talk among the New- castle builders; impossible to verify. It is more certain that Argentine has placed orders here for a large number of torpedo- catchers, probably at Chiswick, but the ex- act location of the order 1s keot a profound secret. Ostensibly, one of the two seats of Southampton, won by the Tories in July, is vacated by the election judges, on the ground that a Tory agent gave a voter a hali-dollar railway fare, and the candidate in whose interest this was done permitted himself to be drawn about by a procession of drunken costers. The truth is, though, that the whole election there, as in a hun- dred other provincial towns, was made one colossal debauch by iree beer on the Tory side, and if the judges regarded the spirit instead of the letter of the corrupt prac- tice act the borough would be disfran- chised altogether. Itisnot known if Sir Francis Evans, whose American wife so distinguished herself in the previous bye election, will consent to be the Liberal candidate for the vacancy. He wight win, but as a rule constituents punish candi- dates who put them to the expenses of an election-petition trial. It is understood that when the French census is taken next year it will show, for the first time in the history of France, a smaller population than the British islands. There was only a difference of about 500,000 in 1891. And this has been made up nearly twice over by the superior British birth rate since. Economists have been pointing out to the French for years, without much effect, that their relatively diminishing population made it impossi- ble that they should go on spending vast sums to maintain a fighting equality with people getting so much bigger than them- selves. Perhaps this being overtaken by the British, who, with the beginning of the century, had only 16,000,000 to France's 27,000,000, will appeal to the French imagi- nation. No one understands here whether young Winston Churchill is with the Spaniards or with the rebels in Cuba, but in either case it is not seen how he can escape a wigging from the army officers here. His friends would not regard it asa misiortune if it led to his leaving the army, for they have high hopes that he will do remark- able things in politics. His excited speech to the midnight swell mob, who rioted in the Empire Theater last year to show their disgust for the County Couneil puritans, though hardly adapted for pub- lication, is still recalled fondly by them as revealing oratorical talents hardly inferior to those of his father at his best. Carlyle’s centenary has called forth a rather notable speech from.John Morley and a great flood of appropriate comment from lesser essayists, who differ stormily concerning the eventual rank that the sage of Chelsea is to receive in the British pantheon. The book-sellers report a con- siderable revival in the demand for his works, especially ‘‘Sartor Resartus’” and the essays, but whether this is a temporary flurry or a permanent sign it is hard to say. The decision in the Queen’s Bench that no trademark monopoly in “Trilby” aprons could be asserted by one manufac- turer against others is a solitary indication thus far of the tendency here to rebaptize things 1n honor of the new vogue, and per- haps it will go no further. The Pall Mall Gazette makes a final appeal to the self- respect and common-sense of the British nation not to go mad like the Americans over the “Trilby” craze, and this may stem the rising tide. Hall Caine’s report of his Canadian copy- right arrangements in a column and a half of the Times to-day has not yet been commented on here. The writers whom I have thaus far talkea with have come to no definite conclusions as yet, but lead to the notion that a compromise will not be accepted with enthusiasm here. William Morris is now putting through the Kelmscott press a vellum edition of Chaucer, which will cost the purchasers $600 per set, probably an unequaled price for a new book. All the 425 copies of the paper edition, at $100 each, have been sub- scribed for in advance. His own ‘“‘The U NCLE SAM — “TOUCH IT, IF YOU DARE!” T0 AVENGE WRONG, Armenians in America Very Anxious to Fight the Turks. WAS NOT EXAGGERATED. For Every Ten Persons Reported Massacred Many Times That Number Were Slain. STORIES TOLD BY SURVIVORS. “There Is a Sea of Blood All About Us” Wrote One Sufferer at Adena. HAVERHILL, Mass., Dec. 7.—The local Armenians are much interestsd in the proposed movement in this country to form a military organization and to go at once to their country and avenge the ter- rible wiongs to their countrymen, and will take action at once. George Kazanjian received from a friend at Harpoot a few days ago a letter giving particulars of the terrible condition of affairs. In this letter the friend states that the attrocities have not been exag- gerated as claimed, but alleges that for every ten persons reported to have been massacred there have been many times that number butchered of which nothing has been said. Makals Esperian received a few days ago a letter of similar import, and Martin Abedian received one from his father at Adena posted in the French Postoffice, stating that in order to send the letter he was obliged to risk his life, and that he knew not if he would ever write again. The father of Nisban Garabediad closes a letter to his son with the sensational state- ment: “There is a sea of blood all about us and we are in the center of it.” LONDON, Ex~a., Dec. 7.—Advices from Constantinople, under date of December 3, are that the American colony there is pre- paring to send a petition to the United States Government to send an American cruiser to the Bosphorus. The petition is entirely unofficial, and United States Min- ister Terrell has given no encouragement to the promoters of it, as he regards the proposal as fatile. It is stated in the same. dispatches that Minister Terrell believes that a United States dispatch boat could: be procured if the American colony senta petition to their Goyernment asking that_ such a ves-’ sel be sent to their assistance. T MASSACRE AT TREBI1ZOND. Miss Effie Chambers of Iowa Writes of Terrible Occurrences. COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, Dec. 7.—The following letter was- received in Council Bluffs this morning from Miss Effie Cham- bers, formerly of Tabor, Iowa, on the re- cent massacre of Armenians at Trebizond. The letter bears date of October 18. She says: - “For the past week our house has been filled to overflowing with refugees who have fled for their lives, frightened almost to death by the dreadful things that have occurred here lately. The massacre came Earthly Paradise’ is also to have a vellum edition, the price of the eight volumes being $275. Paris is much interested by the appear- ance of a new Cherbuliez novel, “Apres Fortune Faite,”” owing to the fact that when Mme. Cherbuliez died last year the author locked up the completed manu- seript in which she bad been exceptionally interested, and declared that he could never endure to see it printed. Like Ros- setti, however, time and the publishers have conquered his grief. The work is spoken of as quite the most remarkable product of his pen. Lady Eastlake’s ‘“‘Journals” have the monopoly for the moment of the review- ers’ attention. There is a good deal of pleasant rivalry to wade through, but there are also numterless smart, clear-cut glimpses of great people, which make the book extremely worth the while for read- ers of memoirs. intends seriously to press such a sug- gestion, and the better class of jouirnals refrain from comments which George Gissing has slowly won his way 3 [Oontinued on Third Page) about almost like a thunderbolt dropped out of aclear sky, and even now, though the house is filled with so many newly made widows and orphans, I can scarcely realize that a week ago these streets were filled with a clamorous mob of armed men, savagely hunting down and slaughtering their feliow-men in.the most fiendish man- ner. “The beginning of the excitement was this: Tuesday a discharged Turkish offi- cial from Van was 'stopping in the city, ostensibly waiting for a steamer to take him to Constantinople. He isa bad man and much disliked by both Turks and Armenians. This man in company with our own vali was walking in the streets when they were fired upon six times in succession by a young man in a coach- man's uniform. Of the six shots one struck the man fired at, wounding him in the leg, another hit our own vali in the hand, a third hit a Turkish boy' in the crowd of comers and goers, a fourth an Armenian boy, and the other two seemed not to have struck anybpody.- After the sixth attempt he turned and fled, rather | slowly, however, keeping the crowd back | with his weapon, which was not a very difficult matter, as the men in this coun- try are not fond of shooting-irons unless in their own hands. This happened near the police station, and although notice | | was immediately given those worthies there did not want to get hurt either, so they moved very slowly until confident the man was beyond their reach, or rather they were beyond reach of his revolver. Then they began to manifest a desire to find him, breaking into nouses and stir- ring up things generally, but they could not—or at least did not—find the offender. “Tuesday morning, with my assistant and the little ones gathered about me, I was thinking of nothing but' the work be- | fore me when I heard the report of a gun near by, and Dr. Parmalee and son burst into the room with blanched faces, saying in English: ‘Ithasbegun! Ithasbegun!’ At the same time the Armenian teacher, who had been upstairs, rushed into our school on the first floor, telling the same thing in Armenian, adding that they were killing Armenians in the streets, and that they would kill us all, too. “What are the results of this outbreak in Trebizond? Five hundred or more men are killed, which isabont a fourth of the Armenian population of the city. The business of the entire community is de- stroyed, their shops pillaged and their homes ruined. Many who were in com- fortable circumstances have absolutely nothing left, while the poor people who worked by the day for their daily bread are absolutely destitute. The outlook is dreadful. It was also cruelly done, too. “Thursday two women succeeded in carry- ing a letter to the Consul, aud two guards were sent to us. When these women ar- rived at the consulate, they found it sur- rounded by soldiers who demanded to know what they wanted. They replied, ‘Hots' (bread) and were allowed to pass. “If you could see the utter ruin and despair into which they are plunged it would make your heart ache. And yet they do not sit down with folded hanas, but many have already gone back to the shattered homes and others wiil soon do likewise and endeavor to repair home and fortune as soon as there is anything like safety. But they are hopeless. The Gov- ernment can make no promises they will trust. ‘“One man said to me, ‘I have no faith in the Turks; their promises are gooa for nothing.’ His wife said, ‘It seems as if the Lord had forgotten us too.” ‘No,’ said her husband, ‘don’t say that; he knows what we need.” I thought of Job. Surely his faith and patience are repeated again and again among these people.’ Miss Chambers closes her letter with the request that the friends in America will uphold them b{ prayers, and expressed the hope that relief may soon be -devised for those down-tredden and oppressed peop le. ST CHARGED WITH TREACHERY. . That Is Why the Sultan Wants to Get Said Pasha. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec.. 8.—The Her- ald’s special cable from Vienna says: In- formation has been received in regard to the incidents which led to the flight of Said Pasha as follows: A num ber of functionaries of the palace showed to the Sultan an anonymous letter add ressed to the president of the council, asking him to take certain steps in regard to the crisis. His Majesty believed that Said Pasha was really;in communication with certain persons outside the palace and ordered his arrest. His belief in the treachery of Said Pasha was increased by anonymous denuncia- tipns accusing him of being engaged ina gloz for the reinstatement of the deposed ultan, Marad V. Austria will take advantage of the com- plete accord among the powers to start en- ergetic measures with a view of simplify- ing the situation. s ispatches received here state that Govo rebels are surrounded by Turkish im- perial troops and their surrender is ex- Eecud. A form of fever, known in Tur- ey as hunger typhus, has broken out at Erzeroum, Recent heavy falls of snow in the upper Armenian districts, ravaged by the Kurds, are the reason that no dispatches have been received for some days past. Courtesy of France. PARIS, Fraxce, Dec. 7.—The Journal des Debats says that the French Govern- ment consents to communicate to the United States the contents of the docu- ments in the case of John L. Waller, ex- United Btates Consul to Madagascar, now serving a term of imprisonment in France. This action, the Journal says, is taken as a mark of courtesy to the United States. e The Bimetallic Congress. PARIS, France, Dec. 7.—The Inter- national Bimetallic League has received information that.British and German dele- fi:us will attend the Bimetallic Congress, m‘_dbemhe!d in Paris on December fo n HANDS OFF, THEY SAY. Britons Who Object to Any Interference by This Country. ATTITUDE OF SALISBURY May Deny the Right of Uncle Sam to Enter the Vene- zuelan Dispute. OPPOSITION TO ARBITRATION. Meanwhile the Little Southern Re- -~ -public-Is Preparing to Fight the English. LONDON, Ex6., Dec. 7.—In accordance | with unvarying precedent the reply of | Prime Minister Sclisburv to the note of the Hon. Richard Olney, the American Secretary of State, on the Venezuelan dis- pute, will not be issued by the Foreign Office until it is presented to Parliament. It will be a surprise to every one if Lord Salisbury in his reply has not firmly de- clined to admiv the right of the United States to interfere in the dispute between Great Britain ana Venezuela, and espe- cially to insist that the whole case shall be submitted to arbitration. The general public takes small interest in the dispute or the attitude of the United States in the matter. Not the remotest reference has been made on the political platform during the period that the Prime Minister has been wrestling with, Mr. Olney’s note and the reply thereto. The comments in the press also indicate the line of British opposition, which according to the news- papers is unanimously against any arbitra- tion coneerning the territory within the Schomberg line. The Statist says: *‘Neither for its own sake, nor ours, is it expedient for the United States Government to put forward a claim of right to dictate how we shall conduct a dispute with another country relative to territory that has long been held by the British. The United States Government is entitled to offer its good offices, but there is a wide distinction be- tween these and interventious based on the ground that the United States has the right to forbid, any Government in the world to enlarge the area under its juris- diction in a part of the American Conti- nent. - Still, there is no occasion for heroics. The bit of territory in dispute is of small value, while good relations with the United States are of the highest value to us and civilization.” The Spectator says: ‘President Cleve- land addresses Great Britain in the tone of a master in laying down principles so absolutely. His sentences read as if Great Britain had been ordered to choose ar- bitration or war. Negotiations will not be carried on in that tone unless the Presi- dent and the American people are seeking war, a crime of which we would not even mentally accuse them.”’ The Economist, treating of the same sub- ject, declares that Mt. Cleveland’s words mean that Great Britain must not defend what she considers her own soil against any Spanish-American State, under the penalty of the United States declaring war. It isimpossible for Lord Salisbury to yield to such pretensions, vet it is more difticult for him to deal with them so as to avoid exasperating American feeling. His only sensible course is to repudiate seeking for any extension of territory and do nothing, leaving on Venezuela or the United States the responsibility for aggression. e PREPARING FOR WAR. Venezuela Said to Be Backed by Four Southern Nations. CARACAS, VENEZUELA, Dec. 7.—After a council this morning it was decided posi- tively to refuse to accede to any further demands of England and prepare for the defense of natjonal territory against fur- ther incursions. Orders to that effect are already issued at La Guayra, Puerto and Cabello. The defenses were ordered in- creased -and troops concentrated -on the coasts and frontier. Leaders of the oppo- sition to Crespo are tendering their services in case.of war, which now appears un- avoidable. It isrumored that the -troops on the frontier will recapture the national territory now occupied by the English. It is semi-officially stated thatalready fo\}r nations have promised aid to Venezuela in case of war. ML o IN CLEVELAND’S ABSENCE. Congress to Make an Effort to Secure Salisbury’s Reply. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 7.—Great disappointment is expressed by members of the House to-day that the President should have left the city yesterday and thus have delayed laying before them the information contained in Lord Salisbury’s reply to Secretary Olney’s letter, which reached Washington last evening. Such of the representatives as feel a keen and patriotic interest in the Venezuelan boun- dary question—and these constitute prac- tically the whole House-—have expected that the British Premier’s answer would be immediately forwarded by the Presi- dent in a special message to Congress. The President’s absence will prevent the House for possibly ten days from 1eceiving thisinformation, unless some other method of procuring it is reached. Mr. Livingstone of Georgia, who is con- spicuously friendly to Venezuela, believes that he has evolved a plan which will get the Salisbury letter before the House by next week. This plan looks to the intro- duction of a resolution when the House reassembles on Monday, calling upon the Secretary of State for his letter to Lord Salisbury, written in July last, and the British Premier’s reply, received yester- day, if this be not incompatible with the public service. Mr. Livingstone will ask the immediate consideration of his resolu- tion, which, if it be adopted, may be fol- lowed by the correspondence within the next twenty-four or forty-eight hours. S SALISBURY'S COMMUNICATION. It Was Delivered to Olney by the British Embassador. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 7.—At 11 o’clock to-day Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Embassador, came to the State Department bearing one of the character- istic blue envelopes with the accorpany- ing red seal which form the distinguish- ing features of the British diplomatic cor- respondence, Lord Salisbury’s reply to Secretary Olney’s note in regard to the proposed Venezuelan boundary arbitration. The document was in print with the usual wide margin for notes, and printed in the customary legible type pertaining to such communications. The British Embassador was saved the necessity of going through the formula of reading to Secretary Olney the exceedingly lengthy and argumentative communication of which he was made the official bearer, by perceiving that Secretary Olney himself had a duplicate in his hands, which had been transmitted to him by Embassador Bayard by the same steamer, as that which conveyed Sir Julian Pauncefote’s missive, and which Rhad consequently reached him last night. This materially shortened the official ceremony. The presentation of the note barely occupied ten minutes. The reading of it would have consumed several hours. Sir Julian Pauncefote left the department before 11:15 o'clock. Secretary Olney himself shortly afterward disappeared and his confidential clerks declared with much emphasis for some hours afterward that the British Embassador had not been at the State Department that day and that the British note had not yet been received. IN'THE CAUSE OF CUBANS, Generals Maceo and Gomez Show Masterly Skill in Their Plans. They Raise the Blockade on Santiago de Cuba in Order to Guard Other Sections. BOSTON, Mass.,, Dec 7.—A dispatch to a morning paper from Santiago de Cuba states that the blockade to which that city has been subjected for nearly three months past has at last been raised. The blockade has, while not absolutely preventing the sending of troops out of the city, been very strictly kept by the insurgents’ army of the east under General Maceo, who has virtually overrun the whole east. The cause for this sudden action upon the part of the insurgents is the result of the campaign mapped out at the confer- ence between the leaders of the party held near Matanzas last week. At this confer- ence it was decided that as the east had practically been conquered the united patriot army should fortify the mountains on the direct approach from Havana, and thus prevent the regulars from making any further gains toward the east. In another manner both General Maceo and General Gomez have shown masterly skill. While they have practically raised their blockade of Santiago de Cuba, that city will in no wise coniribute to the Span- ish success. It will be imsossible for it to be reinforced without taking away the army lying between the insurgentsand the capital, such a proceeding almost to a surety entailing a severe repulse to the regulars and a very certain chance of the capture of the capital. General Campos needs his whole army io protect the road to the capital and in his aggressive cam- paign toward the east it would be an im- possibility for him to lessen his torces in any manner. ih The reports that have been circulated as to the destitute condition of the insurgents are denounced by both the patriot leaders as mere fabrications of the Spanish au- thorities. General Maceo in an interview stated that the patriots were 1n better con- dition than ever before for a long struggle, and that the most unbounded confidence in early success prevailed everywhere. e Emperor William Returns. BERLIN, Germaxy, Dec. 7.—Emperor William, who was on a hunting expedi- tion in Hanover, suddenly returned to Berlin this afternoon. It was not expected that he would return until Tuesday next, when action would'be taken on the reten- tion or retirement of Herr von Koeller, Prussian Minister of the Interior. It is believed that his return is due to the fact that the minjsterial crisis has become graver. g Wreck of a German Bark. LONDON, Ex6., Dec. 7.—The German bark Libertas was wrecked off Callantsoog, Hollang, last evening by the heavy gale that has prevailed throughout Northern Europe for severs! days. Onli two of the bark’s ' crew were saved. our bodies from the wreek have been washed ashore. SPEAKS FOR ALLISON, General Clarkson’s Views on the Candidacy of the Senator. BELIEVES HE WILL WIN. Is Just the Kind of Republican Required for the Presi- dency. HIGH STANDARD OF PRINCIPLES Others Who Comment Favorably Upon Selecting Such a Man as the Iowan. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 7.—General Clarkson to-night gave Tue CaiL corre- spondent the following interview: “In reply to inquiries concerning the prospects and possibilities of Senator Alli- son’s candidacy for President I would say that I consider him to have a fortunate place in the Presidential field. He hasa great deal of affirmative strength, has the good will of all elements, is the second and third choice of a large proportion of the supporters of other candidates, and has a record without a flaw and a standing in the party without enemies. He is as strong affirmatively on the tariff and finance as any of the other candidates, and has some negative qualities that others do not hav ““He is a stanch Republican of the Abra« ham Lincoln sort, who believes in Repub- licans for every office, and that the Repub- lican party in power can serve the country best by carrying out Republican principles. This is a Republican Government based on party responsibility. We have had for many years & new theory in some quarters that the President must always be doubt~ ing the honesty of his own party and the soundness of its principles. In Towa we believe instead that the Republican party has no principles and no ambitions which are not conservative of the interests of the country and of the Government. We have Republicanism without apology, and we believe in men who hold offices at the gift of the Republican party, not forgetting their own party in thedays of their power. “It is a fortunate thing for the Repub- lican party and this contest that every candidate in the field is worthy to be President and would make a good Presi- dent. Itisto bea contest without bitter~ ness or acrimony. I do not believe any man will have votes enough to win at the start. The strongest man on the third or fourth or a later ballot will be the one who wins, and we in Iowa and many Repub- licans all over the country hope and be- lieve that this man will be Ailison. The people of the far West and of all portions of the West know that he understands the development of new States and their in- terests, and is always in sympathy with the people of such States and their aspira- tions. “The people of the East know that he ig sound on every public question, and trust him as fully as the people of the West. Otherwise he is strong in his National character, and he is not a sectional man in any sense. This was shown in his attitude in voting for and carrying through the sugar bounty last winter in Congress, for he believed in the National system of protection—one for the South and the West as well as the East. It is the breadth of Allison that makes him so strong. We ad- mire his competitors and believe in their Republicanism, and are proud of a party that can furnish so many strong candi- dates, but we believe in Allison and believe that he will win.”” The candidacy of Senator Allison for President is the subject for discussion throughout the East to-day. Many East- ern newspapers comment favorably, and around the hotel corridors to-night where the big representation of voliticians con- gregated his candidacy was most favor- ably regarded. Itis asserted that of all the Presidential possibilities suggested, in these discussions to-day, Mr. Allison is the most popular. He seems to be the first choice of many and the second choice of nearly all. The Star devotes a column of its first page to Mr. Allison, in course of which it says: “The announcement that Senator Allison is to become an active candidate for the Presidency and that his friends will push his claims to nomination is the subject of much -approving comment in political circles. It is regarded as an emi- nently wise and proper thing to be done. Mr. Allison, it is held, being leader, must make his play among the leaders. He is much too distinguished a veteran to make a successful play either on a compromise or mark his lines, and hence, if he is to win at all, it must be as an open and LEVISTRAUSS VERALLS ; AND SPRING BOTTOM PANTS. EVERY PAIR GUARANTEER. #OR SALE EVERYWHERE,