The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 12, 1896, Page 1

VOLUME LXXIX.—NO. 103. JOWA'S FAVORITE SON INDORSED, Senator Allison’s Race for the White House Is Begun. BACKED BY HIS STATE. Enthusiasm Marks the Formal Launching of His Boom at Des Moines. A MAN FOR THE MASSES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. never come, with an enthusiasm that indicates in the bosom of the Secretary a serene triumph of hope over experience. The Populist remedy, & remedy in which an influential group of other parties unite, is to close matters up by abandoning the present basis of American business, on which all existing contracts stand, aud taking refuge, from public and private creditors alike, in the unlimited issue of silver dollars gratuitously manufactured for the owner, out of material worth in the neighbor- hood of 50 cents. The Republican party, without concealing its desire to continue the largest practical use of silver short of introducing dangerous ele- ments of disturbance and fluctuation into our coinage, refuses to follow the counsel of either. The true remedy lies, not in perilous experi- ments in banking, currency and coinage, but in the prompt provision of an adequate Na- tional revenue. Thisis the first step, and it cannot be taken too soon. But the increase of revenue, in order to be useful, must be brought into the treasury in such a way as will protect the occupations of our own people. No' man has been proposed for the nomina- tion whose election would not bring honor to the chief office of the people, but among all the illustrious men who are presented for the favor of the party, in the year of nope and victory, not one outranks in ripened prepara- tion for1ts duties the unassuming leader of Republicanism in Iows, whose name is on the lips and in the hearts of all our people to-day, William B. Allison. The gathering of people at both sessions was perhaps the most representative of Has Been Foremost as a Conmstruc | tionist During His Career as a Statesman. | DES MOINES, Towa, March 11.—The| Republican State Convention met in this city to-day to select delegates to the Na- | tional Convention at St. Louis and to for- ly inaugurate the candidacy of Senator | am B. Allison of Iowa for President. The convention was one of the largest ever held in the State, and hundreds of | people were turned away from the Taber- | nacle, in which it was held. The forenoon session was called to order at 11 o’clock, and Coner liver was n s temy His speech served to aro the asm of Aliison’s supporters to the point, and it was cheered from fi last. He did not devote a great d time to the discy f Allison’s claims t devoted himself 1 nt of the Demo- mpetency. nent e account books e take in and what we 7| t now a busine: rev T the Custo! | of foreign factories in | Ido not hesitate tosay | lection of the revenues | go far toward | the receipts. 1 charge who can tell the | | Heim: | ination. the State ever seen at a State convention. Several members of Co s had come home to attend the gathering, and all of | them were given ovations by the conven- tion. The forenoon session did nothing but listen to the speech of Mr. Dolliver and nameé the committees on organization, resolutions and credentials. In the after- noon the serious work was done. A. B. Cummins of Des Moines was made perma- nent chairman. He made a brief speech, which added to the enthusiasm. J. N. Baldwin of Council Bluffs offered a lution .naming Senator John H. Gear, Congressman W. P. Hepburn and David B. Henderson and J. 8. C'arkson as dele- tes at large. There had been a move- ment to keep Clarkson off the delegation, but it was promptly squelched before the re: | convention came to order, and the resolu- ion carried unanimously. The following alternates at large were chos H. G. McMillan of Lyon, David heimer of Mills, Phil Schaller of Sacramento and J. E. Foster of Mahaska. The resolutions are, in a form, at vari- ance with the ordinary declarations of State conventions. They are in the na- ture of an address to the country on the claims of Allison for the Presidential nom- The platform, briefly, is the pub- lic record of Allison, with which alone the piatform deals. hey formally present him to the Nation as a candidate, and call attention to the part he has taken in Na- tional legislation. The important sections of the platform are as follows: as been a conspicuous fig- ure in th jcent work of the party throughout its whole existence. No otherman in the Nation more emphatically represents the ul capacity of Senator Allison ¥ in & pra ful way, t problems of administra- tion. He has been a ‘prominent and indefati- gable laborer in all the difficult problems con- nected with the wer end the means of susiain- ing it; reconstruction and the harmonizing of the sections; the abolition of slavery and the overthrow of polygamy; the enfranchisement, education and upbuilding of the negro, sup- vlementing in this the work which he did in SENATOR ALLISON OF 10WA. difference between & dollar collected and a | dollar borrowed. For one, I went the exact equality of paper money with coin and of all existing coins of $he same denomination wiih each other in- violably preserved. That' man is & poor student of the National welfare who would | invite the gold gamblers to bring hack their tables to the centers of American business, that | thieves may again fatten on the fluctuations | of the money of the American people. Without disparaging other Republican leaders we are justified in_ the coaviction that the troubled interests of trade and commerce would find & welcome security in the momination of the | man who was generously commended to Gar- | fleld in the letter of Mr. Blaine, which is at once & tribute to Senator Allison’s profound | tnastery of the problems of National finance | end a memorial of the friendship which began | on the aay they entered the House of Repre- sentatives together, and ended only 1n the val- i the shadow of death. For months the maintenance of specie pay- ments has been difficnlt, not by any fear of | our own people that our paper money isnot good—that is to say, will not be paid on de- mand—but by & long-stamding shortage in the treasury, coupled with industrial conditions that have induced s steady drainage of gold out of the country, in addition to its usual movement, to pey for goods and merchandise bought abroad and no longer fully paid for by . sum total of current exports. The way out ur misfortunes lies in giving back fo the ingmen of the United States tie oppor- to do the work of the American people. | Democratic remedy entirely ignores the rees of ihe trouble. It proposes to keep on ! borrowing money, exposing the treasury on the ome hand to the approach of those | who seek the profits of taking gold out ind leaving it helpless on the. other hand suhinst tne thrift of those who seek the profits of putting gold in. It protests that there is money enough, or soon will be, and has kept pubishing estimates of receipts that have his own State; the raising of revenue to sus- tain the Government, pay pepsions and dis- | charge thousands of millions ot the public debt; the creation of our financial system and the return to specie payment; the creation of sound currency; the upbuilding of agencies for the development of the West; the reform of the civil service; the National control of railroads; the upbuilding of American indus- tries; the protection of dairy and agricultural products; the prevention of Chinese and pau- perand criminal immigration, and the crea- tion of & pension list unequaled in the grati- tude of nations. 1f the dominant issue 1s to be the tariff, then no man better represeuts it, for no man has been oftener placed in the leadership in the formation of Republican tariff than Senator Allison. For thirty-nine years he has been among the foremost in construction and dis- cussion, and always upon the line of that fair 2nd sufficient protection that is the strength ot the party policy. He was chairman of the sub-committee that, after many months of in- vestigation, drefted the administrative pro- visions of the customs laws accepted under all tariff bills since constructed as most efficient in their operation. He was chairman of the Senate committee that drafted the Senate sub- stitute for the Democratic bill of 1888, whicn substitute was largely the basis of the Repub- lican tariff of 1890, He had the Senate leader- ship again in the perfection of tne last Re- publican tariff, where it received many of its important provisions, notably that of reci- procity. He was again selected by the Senate Republicans to lead the discussion and assault upon the free-trade Wilson bill, and his skill and influence operated largely in saving what- ever measure of protection America n industry secured under that law. If the financial question is to be the issue ot the campaign, then Allison is the man first commended to the Nation by reason of his reputation for financial resourcefulness and constructiveness and soundness, a fact con- spicuously recognized by the pressure of Presi-’ ical and success- | Ul “Mr. Olney’s visit to Boston was of a personal nature.’*—Washington Dispatch. dents Garfield and Harrison upon him to take the portfolio of the treasury in their respect- ive administrations. He has been favorable to a true bimetallism. He has at all times labored to maintain an abundant currency of gold, silver and paper, made interconvertible and equal to the best currency of the commer- cial world. He has demanded for the business of the Nation a currency equitable and stable, free from the oscillations so dangerous to business interests and so unjust to the wage- earners of the Nation, whose $3,000,000,000 of insavings banks and other forms constitute them the great creditor class of the Nation. 1f the foreign policy of the Nation is to be the issue Senator Allison has held rigidly to the teachings of Washington and the teach- ings of Monroe—opposing all entangling alli- ances with other countries, assaulting no established rights of nations upon this conti- nent, but firmly insisting that the political system of Europe shall not be enlarged and ex- tended in this hemisphere menacing alike the can goyernment of the continent. If experience and familiarity with every de- tail of governmental business is to be the test, Senator Allison has thirty-two yearsof inti- mate knowledge and experience gained as member of the great committees of Congress to emphasize his eminent fitness. The convention received the announcement of the twenty-two district delegates who had been named by the district caucus before the main convention and adjourned. THREE SHLVATION ORDERS The American Rescue Army the Latest to Spring Into Existence. Ballington and Maude Booth Will Not | Reply to the General’s Message. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 11.—Balling- ton and Maude Booth decided to-day that | they would not reply to the cable message | of General Booth to his American troops. It was intimated, however, that the ex- commanders will have something very pertinent to say in the near future. mission to the Defenders’ League, and | that branch of the organization promises to be an important and successful one. The number of soldiers who have volun- tarily resigned from the Salvation Army and been enrolled in the American army is now about 530, while nearly 1000 have | declared their intention of doing so. In addition to the English organization and that of the Ballington Booth revolters a third Salvation Army is in progress of formation. Itis headed by Captain Fred Rodgler, a we!l-known rescue mission worker in this gity, and will be known as | the American Rescue Army. The scheme | of this new army is broader than that of | the Booths’ organization, as it proposes not only to bring men and women under | them with food, shelter and work, 1f needed. Those at the head of this new Salvation Army movement say that with a fund of working organization. Sre BUNGLING BANK-ROBBERS. Wreck a Building by Using Too Large a Quantity of Powder. DAYTON, Onro, March 11.—An attempt was made this morning to rob the First National Bank at Germantown by the lib- eral use of giant powder. The robbers, who were evidently not professionals, used so much powder that the bankroom was wrecked. The peovie of the town were aroused and the criminals fled. The door of the vault, which weighed 800 pounds, was blown thirty feet. In the vault was $70,000 in cash, besides many securities. The bank officers are puzzled to know how the visitors escaped being blown to pieces. annual wages and many thousand miliions | integrity of the United States and the republi- | | tle were almost turned into a bloodthirsty Nearly 200 persons have asked for ad- | religious influences, but also to furnish | $10,000 they can inaugurate an effectu:@t L LAWMACERS BT AT FRANKFORT, |Knives and Pistols Drawn | in the Kentucky Legislature. |ARMED FACTIONS CLASH. | | Uproar Caused by the Unseating of Members in Senate and House. | BLOODSHED BARELY AVERTED. Republicans Oust a Democrat and Lose Two of Their Men as a Result. FRANKFORT, Kv., March 11.—All the conflicting elements in the Senatorial bat- mob of Senators, members of the House | and their adherents to-day. The com- batants fought far nearer the riotous preci- pice than they have done since the deads Jock. The House and the lobbies were the scene of excitement, which needed only an overt act on the part of a Republican to provoke the use of knives, revolvers and clubs. The Republican House had unseated Kaufman in spite of Dunlap’s withdrawal of his contest of the seat and refusal to qualify. Quick with their revengeful spirit, the Democratic Senators made good their threat to retaliate and unseated Wal- ton and James. The latter stepped into the House while he was being unseated in the Senate, but remained a silent spectator of the partisan battle. Walton refused to leave the Senate chamber when he saw the enraged mob rush toward the House. All of the indications then pointed to a stormy time of it to-day. Tne Republicans, though knocked off their feet temporar- ily by Dunlap’s withdrawal of his contest for the seat of Representative Kaufman (D.), quickly rallied, and decided to push the fight against Kauiman regardiess of Dunlap’s action. In anticipation of the excitement which would certainly follow the expected developments to-day Speaker Blanaford again enforced the rule exclud- ing from the lobbies and galleries all per- sons except the Jadies, and, i conse- quence, the crowd was kept outside. In the House there was a preliminary | scrimmage over the distillers’ private brand bill, and the previous question had aiready been ordered on the bill and amendments, when Mr. Howard (R.)of Butler County, rose and called up the Dunlap-Kaufman contest as a matter of the highest privilege. Mr. Carroll made the point that the contest had been ended by the withdrawal of the contestant. In a minute the wildest excitement pre- vailed all over the State House, Senators huddled together in the middle of the Senate chamber, while a mob crowded every entrance. A The Democratic Senators yelled their votes, unseating James and Walton (Re- publicans). Three minutes later a mob was at the door of the Housedeclaring that James and Walton should ‘never go in there. In the mub were several men with their pistols in their. pockets, stand- ng at the door daring the Republicans to 1 \ attempt to bring the two unseated Sena- tors through. Among them were ““Jack” Chinn, “Jim” Williams, Senator Bron- ston, Senator Martin, Walter Sharp and Senate Doorkeeper Tyler. Senator Black- burn was in the crowd counseling cool- ness. The crowd was mad when they learned that Dr. James had already slipved intc the House and had done so while they were unseating him in the Senate. Men and women rushed from the building when the yells told that the unseating in the Senate had been done, fearing a riot. The Chief of Police had a large body of patrolmen on hand, however. Dunlap, the newly seated Representative, attempted to enter the House but was kept back by the crowd at the door. The Repnblicans tried in vain to induce Dr. Walton, the un- seated Republican Senator, to brave the knives and pistols and force his way into the House, but he refused to leave the Sen- ate chamber. Lyons contended that the House still had control over the Dunlap case, and said the contestant coula not withdraw with- out leave of the House. The effect of the decision of the Speaker was to sustain this point, and the House, amid suppressed excitement proceeded to vote on the minerity report, which was in tavor of Dunlap. The minority report which seats Dunlap was adopted by a vote of 48 to 46, strictly partisan, except that Poor and FEdrington, Populists, voted with the Democrats. Tne Democrats then rushed from the hall in a wild stampede and into the rotunda to break a quorum on the vote on the report as amended. Fifty-one Repub- iicans, however, responded on the roll call, and Kaufman (D.) was unseated. Doorkeever Tyler (D.) and his deputies stood guard at the joint assembly door for a half hour bpefore that body met and pressed back the surging mob. A fight was nearly precipitated when Register of the Land Office Reynolds (R.) demanded admittance. He and Sergeant-at-Arms Sommers were about to lock horns when Senator Goebel and others stepped in and Reynolds was allowed to pass in. Pistols were brandished several times and almost a panic was created. The ro- tunda upstairs was filled with the mob, while downstairs and outside there was a big, but more orderly, crowd, among whom were many ladies. ‘When the Senate was announced at the door Speaker Blandford refused to recog- nize it, saying the doorkeepers usurpea the authority of the House in keeping out members entitled to vote. A hot cotloquy ensued between the Speaker and Bronsion. The Senator charged that the Speaker had or was at- tempting to usurp powers of the joint as- sembly and he was proceeding to more revolutionary methods by moving to or- ganize the joint assembly by electing Sen- ator Goebel President, when through Sen- ators Salyers and others order ‘was re- stored. The Senate filed in and Speaker Blandford gave way. There was a long wrange about whether the Democratic clerks of the Sen- ate or the Republican clerks of the House should call the roll, the point, of course, being that a fight might arise over the calling of the names of Senators James and Walton. The Democrats contended that the Senate clerk (Democrat) was chief clerk of the joint assembly and had the right to call the entire roll. Senator Bronston called attention to rule 2 of joint assembly, and made the point that the clerk of the Senate was the clerk of the joint assembly, and as such should call the roll of the entire joint assembly. The presiding officer ruled against Senator Bronston, and said that the clerk of the House would call the roll of the House, while the clerk of the Sen- ate would call the roll of the Senate. Bronston then arose and said that the presiding officer should divest himself of his partisanship and rule according to law. s +Kentucky’s honor is gone,” he shouted. It has been trampled under foot. I say not by whom, but there is yet a chance for you, sir, to rule fairly.” After more wrangling the chair ordered the call of theroll. The chiet clerk in caliing the names of the members of the Senate omitted to call those of James and Walton, the two Republican Senators who bad been unseated by the Senate majority a few minutes before going into the joint Assembly. The clerk of the House, in calling the roll of the House members, omitted to call the name of Kantman (D.), who had been unseated. The rollcall showed 130 members present, with two pairs. The roll was then called for a vote for Senator. The Republicats refused to vote. The ballot resulted: Blackburn 54; Car- lisle 10; Buckner 1. No quorum voting, the joint assembly adjourned until noon to-merrow. After the adjournment of the joint assembly, the crowd thinned out some- what, but many still remained, and to- night feeling is at a high tension. It is be- lieveg that Dunlap will refuse to qualify. PARDOX ¥OR DE FELICE. The Italian Deputy Is to Be Released From Prison. LONDON, Exc., March 11.—A dispatch to the Central News from Rome says the Cabinet has decided to pardon the prison- ers now in confinement under charge of participation in the Socialist riots in Among the convicts who will be released by this decision is Signor de Felice, who at the time of his conviction was a mem- ber of the Chamber of Deputies, and was twice re-elected while serving his sentence. His election was annulled, however, on | the ground that he was a convict. | TERESKS PLOT IS FOLED Lieutenants of the “Saint” Are| Placed Under Arrest at El Paso. They Are Accused:of Attempting to Incite a Revolution in Mexico. EL PASO, Tex.,, March 11.—Lauro | Aguirre of Batoplis, and Flores Chapa of Taumaulipas were arrested this morning | on the charge of attempting to incitea | Mexican revolution. They have been | bound over by United States Commissioner | Sexton for a hearing next Tuesday week. | In default of bail they are in jail. | The arrests were made on complaint of | Mexican Consul Malen. The Government | officers arrested Flores without opposition, but the attempt to arrest Aguirre was | resisted, and Deputy Marshal Scarborough | was wounded in the face by Aguirre, but | not seriously. | The presence of these two men here was with a view to starting a revolutionist -paper, Bl Independiente, but the Govern- ment authorities here have nipped this in the bud, Santa Teresa Urrea, the sensa- tional crazy saint who has in times past | been the occasion of bloodshed over the | line, was reported mixed up in this revolu- FORAKER'S MEN ROUTED IN OHIC, Their Nominees for State Offices Defeated at Columbus. MKINLEY TICKET WINS: No Friction Between the Fac tions in Choosing Delegates to St. Louis. ALL FOR THE PROTECTIONIST, His Name Is Greeted With Enthuse siastic Cheers in the Com- vention. COLUMBTUS, Onro, March 11.—The Re« publican State Convention to-day nomie nated- the following ticket: Secretary of State, Charles Kinney of Scioto County; Judge of the Supreme Court, Marshall J. Wilhams, the incumbent; Dairy and Food Commissioner, Joseph E. Blackburn of Belmont Countv; member of the Board of Public Works, Frank A. Huffman of Van Wert County; delegates-at-large to St. Louis—Senator-elect Foraker, Gove ernor Bushnell, Marcus A. Hanna and Congressman C. H. Grosvenor; alternates Dr. Joseph E. Lowes of Dayton, John P. Green of Cleveland and J. W. Taylor of East Liverpool. Presidential Electors-ate Large—I. F. Mack of Sandusky and Ale bert Douglas Jr. of Chillicothe. The programme arranged between the McKinley and Foraker leaders as to tha delegates-at-large to the St. Louis conven- tion was carried out without friction. Im the nomination of the State ticket there was a sharp ftight between the Foraker and McKinley factions, with the result that the Foraker faction was completely de- feated. The slate prepared by the Foraker leaders in the room of Senator-elect For- aker last midnight broke, extept as to the candidate for State Food Commissioner, The Foraker candidate for this position, Joseph E. Blackburn of Belmont County, was nominated. by the combined strength of the Foraker delegates and the influence of the wholesale grocers’ trade. The Foraker leaders evidently supposed that Charles Kinney and E. W. Doty, both of whom™ have been ideéntified with the McKinley faction, would divide the vote of that element of the convention and the Foraker strength uniting on Wickoff would nominate him. In this they were mistaken. Kinney’s adherents could not Seventy-six of the crew are still il1, EX - GOVERNOR McKINLEY OF OHIO. tionarv project. She is still in Solomon- ville, Ariz. EGYPT IS THREATENED. Raiding Parties of Dervishes Are Preparing for a Descent. The Fall of Kassala Would Result in a Revival of Mahdist Activity. LONDON, Exe., March 11.—The Daily News to-morrow will say it has received advices stating that raiding parties from Dongola are pseparing for a descent upon Egypt. The Times to-morrow will publish a dis- patch from its correspondent in Cairo, stat- ing that great interest is felt there in re- gard to the ultimate fate of Kassala. Two large forces of dervishes, one commanded by Osman Digna, are advancing upon Kassala, Should the Italians meet with disaster, the correspondent says, the Mahd- ist activity would be revived throughout the Sondan and especiatly in the vicinity of Suakim and Lokar. g = Fellow Fever Victims. NEW YORK, N. 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